Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 23, 1957 Page: 2 of 4
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Mad Bomber Always Felt Sick At
Stomach After Planting Explosive
By" CLAIRE COX
NEW YORK. J,<in. 21 The
16-year search for the "mail bomb-
er of Manhattan" ended Tuesday
with the arrest of a greying bach
'Hoi- sports ear enthusiast who said
he le.nned to make infernal ma-
chines in an electronics corre-
xpondence course.
George Metesky, 53, mild - man-
nered toohnftker,' was arrested in
his Wnterbury, Conn., homo, 75
mileg from New York' City as a
result of a 28-hour search of old
Consolidated Edison Company
files. Metesky. himself gave the
tip that ted to the search by writ-
inn a tell-tale letter to a news-
paper.
"Thi is the man," said Depu-
ty Police Commissioner Walter
Arm. "We know it through his own
admission - nd through analysis of
his handwritimr."
Materials for Bombs
Materials for two bombs much
more potent that the .11 Metesky
admitted planting were found in a
rmtry closet in his home, which
e has shared with two older
spinister sisters. The house was
run down, but Metesky's wor
rn ni was as neat as a pin and
his new $4,000 French sports car
was parked in the garage.
Metesky cheerfully admitted he
has been trying to booby tray New
Yorkers for 16 years. He said he
di£ it to"*get even" with Consoli-
dated Edison for injuiies her re-
ceded when he w/u a utility
worker 25 years ago.
The injuries ie«i to a battle
against "tuberculosis that still
ke<Mis hfim in bed for as long as
17..noui-s a day, he said. But he
did not fritter ,uway his time irt
hospitals, at home or during lunch
hnii-B when he has been able to
work, he said. All of his spare
time has gone into studying me-
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chanics and elctronies so he
could perfect his bombs, he said.
I made up my mind to keep
on doing this until they caught we
or I died," Metesky said.
Exploded 22 Bombs
Twenty-two of his pipe bombs,
all loaded with gunpowder drain-
ed from'bullets and triggered with
dime store watch mechanisms,
have exploded in theaters, bus ami
railroad terminals, telephone
booths and other public places. A
bomb planted by Metesky in a li-
' brary phone booth Christmas Eve
set off a two week nationwide
wave of bomb scares. More thin
250, of them were in New York
Citv alone.
Fifteen persons have been in-
jured, none seriously, in explo-
sions of Metesky's devices. No
one hag -beon killed. He told police
he never had intended anyone
should die.
"I always felt sick at my
stomach after leaving one of the
bombs," he said.
Metesky was chipper when he
was arrested and arraigned in a
pre-dawn court session in Water-
bury. He waived extradition to
New York and readily signed
pers allowing police to bring
•him here to face charges that
could put him in prison for the
rest of i his life.
"I guess you think I'm the mad
bomber," he told the detectives
who led the search of his home
shortly ^before midnight Monday
night.
Metesky's sisters immediately
came to his defense.
'Oh, no, he wouldn't think of
doinc anything like this," said sis-
ter May, 58.
' "He's one of the host fellows
you ever saw," added sister Anna,
fiO.
"My God," cried his sister-in-
I a w, Mrs. Gertrude Metesky,
"they have the wrong man."
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Family Career
WATERBURY, Conn.— —
Police work runs in the Dodds
family. Thomas J. Dodds, 24, was
sworn in as a supernumenrary, His
father, grandfather and great-
grandfather were policeman here.
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UP IN" SMOKE—Walls of a 10-story grain elevator crumble as spectacular blaze destroys the struc-
ture on the Calumet River in Chicago. Half the city's fire equipment fought blaze which for time
threatened other nearby elevators and a grain boat. The multi-million dollar fire destroyed OVL-million
bushels of grain. ,
Middle East Is Getting Doctrines
Of Various Kinds From Four Sides
By CHARLES M. .McCANN
United Pre** Staff Correspondent
The Middle East is certainly get-
ting plenty of "doctrines."
First ranie Eisenhower Doc-
trine, aimed at combatting any
Communist aggression in the Mid-
dle East. •
Soviet Russia anil Communist
China retorted with the Bultfanin-
Chou doctrine, the expressed pur-
pose of which is to prevent aggresr
sion or interference in the affairs
of Middle Eastern countries by the
United States.
Now we have the Egyptian-Saudi
Arabian Syrian - Jordanian doc-
trine, which says that these Aiirtj
countries will not permit them-
selves "to become a "sphere of in-
fluence" for any foreign power.
It looks, too, as if the four Mos-
lem members of the so —called
Baghdad ;dlianCe may work a doc-
trine of their own, fitting in with
the Eisenhower Doctrine. .
The Eisenhower Doctrine, which
Congress now is considering, was
worked out hastily as the result of
the recent unsuccessful British-
French invasion of the Suez Canal
Zone.
Fear Russian Interference
It actually stems, however, from
Russia's interference in Middle
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.Eastern affairs, which started in a
big way when President G a m a 1
Abdel Nasser of Egypt decided to
turn to the Communist countries
for arms.
Under the Eisenhower Doctrine,
the United States woujd use force
if necessary to combat Communist
aggression in the Middle East and
would put some money into the
countries concerncd to make them
less likely victims of Soviet ambi-
tions.
What the doctrine really comes
down to, as regards the use of
American forces, is the theoretical
situation in which one of the Arab
countries—not any Middle East-
ern country—came under Commu-
nist rule antl attacked another
Arab country. The country which
came under attack would then
have to ask the United States for
help.
- Reds Formulate Doctrine
In Moscow last week Soviet
Premier Nikolai A. Bultranin and
Chinese Red Premier ChouEn-lai
came i*p with their own doctrine.
Bulganin and Chou denounced
the Eisenhower Doctrine as a plot
to "suppress the movement for
national independence" in the Mid-
dle East-
Soviet Russia and Red China,
under their doctrine, arc "ready to
continue rendeering- the necessary^
support to -the peoples of the Near'
and Middle East so-as to prevent
aggression and interference Jto the
affair* of the countries of1 this
area." \
Finally, Nasser, King Sajud of
Saudi Arabia, Premier Sab|-i El-
assali of Syria and King Hussein
and Premier Suleiman Nabulsi of
Jordan met. in Carlo to adopt their
own doctrine.
Support Ike Doctrine
They announced Saturday night
that the Arab countries , under
their doctrine, were perfectly able
to take care of their own affairs
•without the interference of any big
; power.
Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan
announced Monday in Ankara, the
-Turkish capita! ~ that they fully
support the Eisenhower Doctrine.
They indicated that they are likely
•to come up with some ideas of
'their own which would constitute
a fourth doctrine.
, It may well happen that these
Baghdad alliance countries will be
•brought into direct and active sup-
port of the Eisenhower Doctrnie
before long—and the United States
■itself may jinn the alliance.
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Tractor Milking
LANCASTER, N. H. — <UJ!> —
Gardner P. Smith, county agricul-
ture agent, says tractors can be
substituted for electrical power ill
emergencies to operate milking
'machines. You simply connect the
intake manifuul and the vacuum
iine; with a lieay duty hose. The
'tractor will need a slightly richer
fuel mixture.
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The so-called white rhinoceros
'is not really white but a dull gray.
.Their most conspicuous feature is
'the remarkable length of their two
.horns, which in "the female attain
ja length of more than GO inches.
iWhile those of the male exceed 40
Jnehes.
Gerald J. Tubbs; '57 Olds. 2/d
so(C; C. C. Robinson, -57 Ply. 2/d
club seil.; Ned Mabery, '57 Chev.
pu.; C. A. Corley. '57 Chev. 4/d
sed.; A. L' Greun. Alb;my '57 Chev.
4/d sed.; J. R-. Shackelford, '57
Ford Sta. Wag. 4/d Chas. E.
Taylor, Graham, '57 Ford 2/d sed.;'
Gl.idney R. Maxey, '57 Ford 2/d
sed.; Fer-rell Dist. Co., *57 Ford
4/d sed.; R. E. Padgett, Winnie
Padgett'57 Ford 4/d sed.; A. C.
B'and, Jr. '57 Chev. pu.; John W.
Mullen, '57 Ford 2/d sed.; Barry
Kendrick, '57 FiiKt 4/d sed.; Mrs.
James F. Kendrick, '57 Ford 2/d
sed.; James W. Robertson, Dorthy
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Civil Cases Filed In District Court
Pico Drilling Co. vs. R. H. Mur-
ray, Trustee, et al. Suit for debt.
Warrantee Deeds
A. H. Miller to M. W. Rinard
I & W >>2 2 Ltlk. 5. East Breck. Add.
Chemical Process Co. to B. J.
Service Inc.-All Blk. •'! Cochran.
W. D. Blackerby to R. D. Jones.
Block 3 of E. E. Fortune Subd. of
N 057.71' of Block 5. W.Walker.
Chemical Process Co, to B. J.
Sen-ice. N 18ft! of E% Blk. 1 Orig.
Town. „ _ T
Chemical Process Co. to B. J.
Service, Inc., I50'xl50' out NE Cor.
Hlk. 39. Orig. Town. All Blk. 01.
Orig, Town.
Oil And Can Leases
A. B. Manning to E. JL Xeiither
SW'/i Sec. 1 Blk. 4 T&P. N'A of
NW'/. 18. Blk. 4 T&P 5 yrs.
li. B. Hudspeth et al to E. «.
Gaither Same 123.
Jessie I. I'olk et al to E. H.
Gaither. Sam6 12S.
Beulah S. Charlesworth et al to
E. H. Gaither. SW •/, See. 7. Blk.
4 T&P. N'/j of N. W. Hv 18. ltlk. 1
T&P 5 years.
Beulah S. Charleswirth et al to-
E. H.-Gaither. Same. .
Alvarine C. Evans to E. H. Gai-
ther. Same 127.
Ross Sloan et ux. to Big "D'
Oil Co. T. E. & L 1105:
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But Feature Champagne^ Music
showers since time began. Even
the custom of whoever-sent-the-
75th-gift-iB-the-next - mother was
followed with much cheering Olga
San Juan "won".
But whetie else but in Hollywood
would it baby ubower have glam-
our? Champagne flowed like gin-
ger ale for two hours before the
"girls" even got around to lunch.
An entertainer was hired to p'ay
soft piano music. Huge white pa-
per storks decorated the lawn out-
side and the ceiling inside.
The guest-of-honor arrived with
tiny white French poodle deco-
rated with pink and blue ribbons
to mutch her mistress" white silk
maternity dress. On the luncheon
tables the matches were decora t-
with toy babies and the mi|i-
ns were in the shape of mono-
Mi pink diapers. A huge
wn-«j) ^photograph showed the
dark-haired Lita vHth a bah y
(wearing a superimposed head «f
husband -ltory Calhoun.
"I'm finally having a baby aft-
er nine years -of marriage," said
the beaming Lita. "I've lost two,
so this means a lot to Rory and
me."
Seventy-five guests milled about
the Orsatti home for the "lie.n
party." Eighty-nine gifts in fancy
wrappings overflowed from a
white crib and a huge bahy's play
pen/tlso gilts. Calhoun hail to s.-ml
around a station wagon to haul
home Lita's loot.
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD (IJ.H)— The ex-
WHO'S AFRAID?—Any wolf
would have a' tough time de-
vouring this grandma. The
face under that night cap be-
longs to the old specialist in
horror, Boris Karloff, dressed
UP for bis role in a television
production of "Little Red Rid-
ing Hood."
pectant movie star -mother is just
as excited at her first baby show-
er here as anybody in Hot Stove,
Ark., but in Hollywood touch-
cbampagne ,music antl photog-
raphers.
A chance to find out what a
Hollywood baby. shower is like
arose when singer Lita Baron
Mrs. ltory Calhoun was feted for
her expected heir.
Four of Litu's -friends—Debbie
Reynolds Fisher, columnist Edith
Gwynn, Mrs. Vic Orsatti wife of
an agent and Mrs. John Payne
decided to toss, a suj>ereolossal
luncheon in her honor at the Or-
satti home.
In some ways this glamorous
baby shower could have been for
any housewife. Only the guests
who were babbling about their
children and homes just as wom-
en do the world over were such
beauties as Ann Blyth, June Ha-
ver, Laini Turner, Benay Venuta,
Mrs. Dean Martin, Nancy Davis,
Mrs. John Wayne and Olga San
Juan. ,
The film mieens were also just
as excited about the
women have been
presents as
at baby
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