The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 11, 1954, Page 7

Friday, June 11, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Armed Kidnaper Is Sought In Arizona After Woman Is Freed PHOENIX, Ariz. @ —. Agreat manhunt spread around. the Super- atition Mountains today for an armed kidnaper with $75,000~ in tansom money. He kidnaped Mrs, Evelyn Ann ella Eb lag beauty peer ednesday and freed her in the mountains late yesterday. } ‘The 23-year-old wife of a wealthy Phoerix pipe and steel company executive was unharmed. Her ordeal ended when her hus- band Herbert struggled up a hill to her side after a masked man had fired at him with a rifle. i Smith, following instruction- con- tained in 2 notes, had taken $75,- 000 in $100, $50, $20 and $10 bills into the purple-tinted Superstitions Gat over the central Arizona a4 ‘Kidosper picked up the va- lise containing the ransom and vanished into the brush and cactus. He was carrying a rifle and. a revolver. With Mrs. Smith safe at home with her husband and two children, FBI agents and state and local officers circled the area where the ransom was collected. Roadblocks were thrown up. Desert-wise sher- FAMOUS jruggea tutu, 4 They were hunting a short man described as 35 to 40 years old, with light brown hair, muscular arms, large mouth and ears and clese-set eves. Mrs, Smith told officers that her kianaper had said he was dying of cancer and “pulled the job so I can have one last fling.” The kidnaping was- replete with bizarre elementu. The ransom note was placed in the side pocket of Smith’s golf bag, which was left at a desert service station. A note of instructions on payment of the ransom was delivered tc Smith’s home in a bouquet of roses. Two other notes were left under piles of rocks which designate mining claim boundaries. The ransom note warned one of these sites was mined with dynamite. Mrs. Smith, sunburned - and frightened but otherwise in good Sw eV Vv Ps July : Bs FIRESTONE DELUXE CHAMPIONS Used As Original Equipment )» On America’s Finest Cars $ Page { ithe deeutee: Geeeded: Gervagh the: condition, gave officers this state- .| ment upon reaching her home: When she came out of the beauty parlor at 1 p.m. Wednesday a strange man with a gun was hiding in her car. She-said she screamed, honked the horn and struggled but didn’t attract any attention. The man drove to the Salt River and put her ir the ear trunk. She was let out when they reached the mountains, Smith’s first information that his wife had been kidnaped came in 2 telephone call to his office at 4:40 p.m. Wednesday. A man’s voice told him: “Know where Apache Junction is? You can pick up your golf clubs at the Chevron service station. Ed’s Place,’ one-half mile from there. You will find a_ note.” Smith said his clubs had been in the trunk of his-~wife’s car. He telephoned home, learned his wife was not there and notified police. The ransom note told Smith to go to Apache Junction, 32 miles east of Phoenix, at 2 p.m. yester- day and telephone his home for instructions. When he called, the instructions in the bouquest note were given him. Smith told officers he drove as directed and found a note under a tock monument at the highway’s edge, 8% miles southeast of the junction. It directed him up a dirt road ¢o another piece of “rock. There he found another note which told him to get out and walk and take the money with him. Smith said that after walking about four miles he heard his wife scream. As he dropped the valise containing the money and started toward. his wife, a masked man jumped up. and sent a rifle shot whistling over his head. A little later the masked man permitted Smith to join his wife. Smith drove his wife home. Until word of Mrs. Smith’s safety |was received, newspapers, news services and radio stations had cooperated with a police and FBI request that they remain silent about the kidnaping for fear an alarmed abductor might kill his captive. “Sabre Jet” Is Based On News Story A newspaper article that came to the attention of an enterprising film producer a year ago is the <-. |Science Fiction Adventure Film | To Be At Monroe “Creature From The Black La- goon” Universal - International’s science «fiction adventure schedul- ed to open June 13 at the Monroe Theatre, set i Sparel i” underwa- ter photography by ming. 152 Scenes below the surface of the water. Co-starring Richard Carl- son and Julia Adams, this drama of the Amazon “Gil-Man” — last living link with the beginning of time — is considered the most am- bitious undertaking in the field of submarine picture production. Utilizing an ingenious underwat- er camera devised and operated by Charles C. Welbourne, a cam- era crew equipped with leaded belts, swim fins and aqua lungs worked underwater for 32 days — an actual clocking of 153 submerg- ed working hours — to complete! icult assignment. A dozen i “grips” and other technicians performed their jobs simultaneously below the surface of the water. Unusual preparations for filming “Creature-From The Black La- goon’’ were instituted by Producer William Alland and Director Jack Arnold. Special production units spent more than 30 days combing various submarine areas to pre- pare the shooting schedule. Alland, Arnold and Carlson were earlier teamed to bring “It Came From Outer Space’’ to the screen. TEST SHIP FINDS RADIOACTIVITY TOKYO (®—A. Japanese radioac- tivity test ship detected strong signs of contamination last. night south of the U. S. H-bomb test area at Bikini, Kyodo news agen- cy reported today. Radioactivity was found in the fish, rain and seawater tested by the Shunkotsu Maru nearly 500 miles due south of Bikini. A bull moose can weigh as much as 1,800 pounds. BOTH PARTIES |Signs CLAIM CREDIT By JOE HALL WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats alike today vied in claiming credit for a sweeping social security liberatlization plan which seems headed for over- whelming congressional approval. The measure broadening social security coverage and boosting benefits swept through the House for public hearings before the Sen- ate Finance Committee. An advance check of committee members today indicated Republi- cans and Democrats will try to out- do one another in eagerness to support it. Both sides agree that passage of the measure is one of the most politically popular moves Congress can make in this. election year. And Republicans say the chief ad- vantage will fall to them, because President Eisenhower put the bill jhigh on his 1954 legislative pro- gram and the GOP controls Con- gress. Eisenhower renewed his plea for the measure in a televised speech on his legislative program last night, declaring that the “goal for every American” includes ‘‘a rea- sonable assurance . . . against in- security in old age.” However, Sen, George of Georgia senior Democrat on the Finance Committee, said in an interview social security “is a Democratic party program.” He said Senate Democrats will back fully the 1954 liberalization of the system” just as we did in 1950 and other years.” Sen. Carlson (R-Kan), a mem- ber of the committee, said enact- ment of the measure will be a big talking point for his party in the fall elections. The bill as passed by the House would add 10 million persons to the 70 million already on the so- cial security rolls. It also would boost benefits by a minimum of $5 monthly for those already get- ting payments and as much as $31.25 a month for a family in the \ future, Overseas Transportation Company, Ine. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service 355-8 last week and comes up soon | Mislead US 1 Tourists RALEIGH, N. C. (—Unidenti- fied persons apparently want tour- ists to go through the town of | Rockingham. They manage this by signs at the intersection of ade-! tour route and a road leading to| erecting signs similar to official Rockingham. The signs herald the route as a shortcut ‘back to U. S. 1—but it just isn’t so. The result: over. The signs, which highway forces | placed just off the right-of-way. The State Highway Commission chairman says the can’t do a thing about it. signs aren’t on state property. DENVER TRIP FOR IKE DENVER ® — A Lowry has the last two years. tourists wander all | commission | The | Air | Force Base spokesman says Pres- ident Eisenhower will vacation in! Denver this summer, just as he! 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