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a a a a a a a a a a Wisconsin State Society Insin COLUMN By MURRAY M. MOLER United Press Correspondent Editor's Note: Why does 19 year old go berserk and kill? Until Charles Starkweather, 19, went on a rampage that left 10 and possibly 11 persons dead, he had been in trouble only for minor traffic violations. Starkweather claims he killed in self-defense. A criminologist says he wanted public recognition. The youth's father said Starkweather was going blind and had received a head injury a few years ago.

In the following dispatch, a veteran United Press correspondent. examines the evidence and opinion on Starkweather's mass slaughter. LINCOLN, Neb. (P) A noted criminologist suggested today that a "compulsive drive for dominance and public recognition" caused red-haired Charles Starkweather to embark on his bloody trail of killings. But the parents of the 19- year old Lincoln youth claimed he went "berserk" because he faced blindness.

Lincoin authorities, trying to determine a motive for the bloodiest crime spree in Nebraska history, contended the grade school graduate had impulsively killed a service station attendant for money, then murdered 10 other persons to hide the guilt of his original crime. After his arrest late Wednesday in Wyoming, Starkweather signed a confession, but' authorities refused to divulge its contents. Dr. James M. Reinhardt, 1 for'mer head of the University of Nebraska department of SOciology and anthropology and consultent to the Nebraska prison and the FBI, said he had followed the fast-breaking case with "interest." "Here was a totally defeated ego who had no satisfactory anchorage in the social life," Reinhardt said.

"Socially, he was simply an empty man. The only way he could be important' was by killing." "Killing gives you a command of the situation," the expert said. "The surest way to become dominant is to render the other fellow powerless. "A person like Starkweather says to himself, in effect, 'I never would amount to anything hauling garbage. I ask for permission to drive a car and they tell me to go to hell.

I can't do it. I determine to make myself important and want to make the newspapers. I want to push United Nations and Sputnik off the front pages'." of course, Reinhardt said, such a person does not sit down and analyze his own situation in so many words. But numerous studies have shown, he said, that such persons seem to reason in that manner because their urge to become important becomes so powerful "it is compulsive and he cannot think about the consequences." The killer's father, Guy Starkweather, unemployed cold carpenter and the father, of six other children, said his son had been warned he had a form of astigmatism that would cause blindness within a year, and this had been worrying him. The father said Charles was also worried because he had been fired from several jobs, and had recently suffered illness that caused him to lose 30 pounds.

IN TODAY'S WANT ADS Sax-clarinet men wanted Will do ironing in my own home Two bedroom home for sale Four bedroom home for rent Phone 2-7707 for Miss Adtaker "My husband is a dentist, but he's not going to tell me when to open and shut my mouth." City News-Record TO 2-7707 PHONE Wisconsin Thursday, January 30, 1958 Murder Orgy Ends; Slayer Of Ten Jailed in Wyoming How Does a City React When Mad Gunman Runs Amuck in Streets? When Captured? LINCOLN, Neb. (UP) How does a city act when a "maddog" gunman is running amuck in its streets? How does it relax when the crisis is over? This normally placid state capital city of 129,000 learned Wednesday. Its residents haunted with fear when they were told that Charles Starkweather, 19- tough guy on a murder rampage, was "loose in the city." They unlocked their doors and began to think of beer, business and a good night's sleep when they learned that Starkweather had been captur. ed 525 miles west of here in Wyoming. sort of like everyone was holding his breath," said George Kaiser, a parking lot attendant "Now, they've let it out." The city.

alarmed since Monday when three victims of the murder rampage were found, organized for an all-out emergency Wednesday when C. Lauer Ward, his wife and their maid were found shot to death the Ward's fashionable home in the country club disrict. Mayor Bennett Martin Sr. Fordered the city sealed off and with neighboring cities and towns to send every policeman and police cruiser they could spare for a "house-to-house, block-to-block search." Nervous houseowners locked their doors. Mothers took their children out of school.

Jumpy citizens jammed telephone lines and forced authorities to Robot Pilot Takes Over; Humans Win LONDON (P) Investigators said today the crash of a British Britannia prop airliner last November may have been caused by a runaway "robot" pilot which took control from the plane's human crew. The crash killed 15 persons and caused Britannias to be grounded for a brief period. Investigators trying to determine the cause of the crash said the runaway robot possibility was raised by reports of a second Britannia crew which had the same trouble. The first crash occurred as the long- range airliner came in for a landing near Bristol, England. All the crew, along with technicians who had been checking the plane's performance, were killed.

Aviation sources said the second Britannia was flying at 3,000 feet over Britain when it into trouble with the "deran mon robot." The automatic pilot, which normally is kept turned off except when needed on long ating. Because it had not been flights, suddenly started operadjusted to steer a specific course, it sent the big plane into steep dives and climbs. The flight engineer cut off just power in time and the human to the automatic pilot pilots regained control. Royalty to Minnesota OSLO, Norway (P) Princess Astrid will attend the celebration of Minnesota's centennial this summer, it was announced today. The foreign ministry, said 26-year-old princess will be accompanied by Premier Einar Gerhardsen and eral other officials.

p. WANT ADS 76th Year Police Neubauer Menasha police captain Edward A. Neubauer, 48, a ber of the department for 22 years, died of a heart attack at his home at 7:30 Wednesday night. He was taken to Theda Clark hospital but pronounced dead on arrival. Capt.

Neubauer, who lived at 820 Manitowoc started on the police force in 1936 as a patrolman, and later became a motorcycle rider. In 1948 he was promoted to captain. He was a familiar figure to Menasha school children because of the many safety talks he deliveded at all schools, public and parochial. He was born Jan. 9, 1910, in the Town of Lind, Waupaca county, and was a Menasha resident for 29 years.

He was a member of the Menasha Police Protective Association and the Germania Society, He is survived by his widow, his father, Albert, Menasha; four sons, Richard and Fred, at home and James, Ridgewood, N. Y. and Robert, St. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee; six brothers, Harold, Bernard, Howard and Leland of Men-13 asha, Donald of Neenah, and Instrument Landing at Port Urged MADISON (P) Director Tom Jordan of the state Aeronautics Commission said today he is urging the CAA to install instrument landing systems at Oshkosh and Wausau airports. The electronic system is paid for, owned, operated and maintained by the federal government.

It consists of a sloping electronic beam sent up at one end of a runway, which airplanes follow in for landings. Jordan said the air traffic rate at Oshkosh and Wausau warrants installation of the' electronic systems there. The CAA already has approved a control tower for Oshkosh, for which the federal government will pay 50 per cent of the cost. Green Bay has been approved for an electronic landing system and construction will begin this year on extension of the runway and construction of a control tower there, Jordan said. Runways must be at least 5,000.

feet in length for the system. Jupiter Still On the Ground CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (P) -Winds up to 210 miles an in the upper air threatened today to delay further any efforts to launch the Army's Jupiter satellite missile. No other major missile launchings would be feasible, either, if the high air currents continued--and forecasters expected them to last well into Friday morning. Truly 'Milk and Honey' MADISON Wisconsin truly can be called the land (No.

188) Captain Dies Edward A. Neubauer Loyal, Larsen, and one sister, Mrs. Albert Chady, Waupaca. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 8:30 from the Laemmrich Funeral home and at 9 from St. John's Catholic.

church. Burial will be in St. John's cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after p. m.

Friday. The rosary will be recited at 8 p. m. Friday. GIRL, 10, BREAKS ARM AT ICE RINK, IS HOSPITALIZED A 10-year-old Menasha girl, Lynda Beck, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Wilfred H. Beck, 629 Second is in Clark hospital with broken arm she suffered Sunday. afternoon while skating at the Racine st. ice rink.

Lynda, who is a fifth grade student at Jefferson school. will be out of class for several weeks, but is expected to come home from the hospital Saturday, her mother reported. Lynda was taken to the hospital by her parents after some companions helped her home from the rink. She told her mother that she reported her arm injury to the attendant at the rink, but that he did nothing about it and told her to forget about it. Scaffold Snaps, 4 Workers Dead PORT ARTHUR, Tex.

(P) Four men were killed and seven injured Wednesday when one end of a construction scaffold snapped loose, hurling the men and equipment 123 feet to the ground. The men were employes of the M. W. Kellogg Construction Co. They were building a cracking unit tower for the exas Co.

refinery. The workers fell from height equal to about a 11- story building when bolts holding the 20-foot long scaffold sheared off without any warning. of "milk and honey." The state Agriculture Department said today Wisconsin produced $2,728,00 worth of honey in 1957 to rank fourth among the states. Minnesota was second Russian Missile Ready by July, Army Belief WASHINGTON (P The Army said in testimony published today that Russia may have a ballistic sile in operation by July. The Army added that Russia would have "a very limited" capability at that time.

There was no elaboration in the published testimony, but this presumably meant that the Russians would not have very many of the missiles at the Neenah-Menasha, WHEELCHAIR RACE FRIDAY EVENING FOR DIMES MARCH The Disabled American War Veterans and the Nicolet Veterans of Foreign Wars post will have charge of the annual wheelchair race for the March of Dimes in the Twin Cities Friday evening. The race, which will start between 6:30 and 7 p.m., will be held on Wisconsin Neenah, and Main Menasha. Chairs are moved one foot for each dime contributed. Tovar Home is Stymied Need Trained Help Work on the Allenville home of David, Tovar and his 12 moth erless children was stymied this week due to a need for trained workers to apply tape to the interior drywall. Construction chief Howard Angermeyer of the Twin City Dutch Uncles Club, said today that occupation had been aimed for this weekend, but has now been set back at least a week.

All that remains to be done on the donated home is taping of the drywall, laying of the finish flooring and finish work, and interior painting. He issued a plea to anyone trained in the drywall work to contact him at once. Asks $25,000 In Boat Crash MILWAUKEE (P A per sonal injury suit arising from the collision of two boats was filed in Circuit Court here Wednesday. John D. Britzke, Menasha, sued William Krause, Milwaukee, for $25,000.

He alleged he was injured when an outboard driven by Krause overran his craft on Beaver Dam Lake in Dodge County in July, 1955. Marries 2nd Wife, Passes Bad Checks: 2 Years at Waupun RICHLAND CENTER, Wis. (IP- Ed Casper, 33, was sentenced to two years in Waupun State Prison Wednesday on charges of bigamy and passing wonthless checks. Casper, who was a truck driver here when arrested, was sentenced by Circuit Judge Richard Orgon. Authorities said Casper, originally from Mukwonago, has a wife and three children there and married a Richland Center divorcee here in December.

UNFAYZED -Joey Fay, onetime strong man of the Operating Engineers union, who has been on probation for two years after nine years in prison for extortion, calmly wipes his glasses on the Senate labor rackets witness stand in Washington. Fay was the Newark, N. local's business. agent from 1919 to 1945, and said the union pays him what he called a pension of $10,015 year, and paid his wife $125- $175 a week while he was in prison. He also said he had "no knowledge" of some two million dollars reportedly as sessed Philadelphia members in 1935-40.

(International) Nicked in Ear, Afraid of Own Blood, Gives Up appeal that people use their phones only in emergencies, Many residents called to search their homes. Police with riot guns, shotguns and rifles patrolled the streets and all roads out of the city. Private citizens carried rifles and shotguns on the streets. In the rolling farm country southeast of Lincoln, hundreds of searchers continued a houseby. house check of the area where three other victims two men and a girl were round slain Tuesday.

George Strashein Jr. a liquor store clerk, said: "There were parking places standing idle for hours in downtown Lincoln for the first time I can Then came news of the capture. Grinning pedestrians waved and shouted, "I hear they got him." A woman patron in a tavern ordered glass of beer and said: "Now maybe this joint will liven up Everyone can relax." CHICKENCOOP SLAYER CAPTURED -A 110-mile-an-hour highway chase, punctuated by an exchange of gunfire, ended seven- search for Charles Starkweather, 19, killer of at least 10 and possibly 11 persons. Starkweather, (right), was arrested with Caril Fugate, 14, (left), who babbled that he had held her captive since the murder rampage began last Saturday. (International Soundphoto) Richards, V-P Of Paper Union, Dies at Rapids Raymond -A.

Richards, 66, international vice president the Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Workers the past 24 years, died unexpectedby of a heart attack Wednesday evening at his home in Wisconsin Rapids. Born Jan. 28, 1892, in the of Wood county. Richards. had been a resident of Wisconsin Rapids since his youth.

He had represented the international union in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota and served as a member of the University of Wisconsin board of regents, being elected to the term in 1942. Richards was a former member of the Wisconsin Rapids city council and former secretary of the Wisconsin Rapids central labor union, Survivors include the wife: one daughter, Mrs. Leonard Roraff, La Crosse, and one son, Leland, Wisconsin Rapids. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 10 a.m. at St.

Peter and Paul Catholic church, Wisconsin Rapids, by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. C. W.

Gille. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at the Higgins funeral home this evening. Worker Hit by Brick Lawrence G. Stumpf, 44, of Rt.

2, Menasha, received bruises to his back when he was, struck by a falling brick while at work on the Neenah-Menasha Sewage Disposal plant project on Garfield Menasha. He was treated at Theda Clark hospital where he was taken by the Neenah ambulance at 2:28 m. Wednesday. By JACK BACON United Press Correspondent DOUGLAS. Wyo.

(P- Charles Starkweather, 19, "mad dog" killer of 10 and possibly 11 persons, was charged with first degree murder here today as a legal tug-of-war developed over his prosecution. Meanwhile, the young marksman's only expressed concern was about his personal appearance. Converse County Sheriff Earl Heflin served Starkweather with a murder warrant, signed by Justice of the Peace Harry Wise. It accused Starkweather of murdering Merle Collison, 34, a Great Falls, shoe salesman. Lt.

E. R. Henninger of the Lincoln, police department then questioned Starkweather. Henninger said he wanted to find out if the young man had committed more murders of which authorities were not aware. Asks for Boots Starkweather was roused shortly after 7 a.m.

in the Converse County jail by Heflin, one of two law officers who ran the short andk cocky young marksman to earth Wednesday in a bullet-smeared chase along a highway, "How about my cowboy boots back?" asked Starkweather, who is wanted for a murder of the shoe salesman here and 9 or 10 killings in and around Lincoln, Neb. Then in succession he asked for and got a breakfast of bacon and eggs, juice, toast and milk; his fancy black and white cowboy boots; and a bar of soapto wash from his red hair the black shoe polish which he had used as a dye in a futile attempt at disguise. Starkweather's bravada seemed to be returning. It had vanished for a time Wednesday after officials shot holes in his stolen Packard automobile during the wild chase through Douglas. Calls for Dead Mother Upstairs in another jail cell, Caril Fugate, his 14-year-old companion during his two-state rampage with rifle and shotgun, emerged from the influence of sedatives given her after she was brought in yesterday.

But her state of shock seemed giving way to hysteria. She repeatedly called "Mom, Mom!" from her jail cell. County Attorney Dixon said he would file charges accusing Starkweather of the murder of Merle Collison, 34, a Great Falls, shoe salesman found slain in his car about 10 miles from, here. Starkweather, who had dyed his bright red hair black with (Continued on Page 6) Switch Ads From TV to Newspapers NEW YORK (P) The Wall Street Jeurnal said Wednesday that a number of big American firms are 'switching advertising from television to newspapers in order to check downturns in sales. Goodyear Tire Rubber Co.

has cut its TV time in half. "The money will be pumped into newspapers and magazines," said Goodyear advertis-1 ing director K. C. Zonisius. General Electric, Eversharp W.

P. Fuller a large San Francisco paint firm, a number of big power and light firms. and many other panies said they were turning from TV to newspapers. Eversharp advertising manager Joe Buffum said "with newspapers you can concentrate on areas that need work to get the greatest sales potential." And a Chicago utility ad manager said the TV 13-week contract called for too heavy expenditures over too long a period--that newspaper advertising is more flexible. Bulletins WASHINGTON (IP) Victor Purse, former deputy chief of State Department protocol who made headlines late last year for accepting an automobile from King Saud, was found unconscious in his gasfilled kitchen today.

NEW YORK (P Allan P. Kirby, long-time business associate of the late Robert R. Young, I has been named chairman of the Alleghany succeeding Young. Cloudy and Light Snow Mostly cloudy with little change in temperature tonight and Friday. Occasional light snow.

Low tonight 15-22, highs Friday in 20s. Outlook for SaturdayMostly cloudy and little colder, some light snow likely. sile start. The testimony was given by Maj. Gen.

Dwight E. Beach, Army deputy chief of staff, to the House Armed Services committee. The United States has been test-firing both ICBMs and IRBMs. The first IRBMs are expected to be put into operation next- December, but the ICBMs are not as far advanced. Gasoline Spilled Neenah firement were called to flush gasoline from the street at Columbian ave.

and Church st. when a truck hit the rear of a gasoline tanker there at 11:33 Wednesday morning..