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R. R. Hodgkinson, Newport Beach police chief, planned to question them further today regarding the deaths of Walter E. Overell, 62, Los Angeles loan company executive, and his wife, Beulah, 57. They died in the explosion of their cruiser, Mary E., in Newport Harbor Sunday. The blast originally was blamed on ignition of leaking gasoline, But

gation uncovered 30 sticks of dyna- |Our help.” mite, some unexploded dynamite This country, Mr. Acheson said, caps and a time clock distributed |MUst in its own interests help

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debris of the 47-foot cruiser. .

Evidence Is Secret : Both Chief Hodgkinson and Sheriff Musick, co-operating in the investigation, declined to disclose defails of their evidence linking the girl and Gollum with the blast.

wouldn't have put them in-jail if we didn’t think we had some evidence against them,” Chief Hodgkinson said.

that Gollum and two mechanics had worked all day Saturday on the cruiser and that he and Miss Overell Were ashore when the boat exploded. Gollum said he knew of no dynamite on board. “I have no idea how it happened. Bo far as I know, Mr. Overell had no enemies,” he said. " Operated by Clock Sheriff Musick later said the time bomb mechanism was operated by

thin an hour before the blast. He also said he had been In-

, nts | it was said, and approved it. formed that Miss. Overell's pare The final draft of the Korean riage, although the girl and Gol- |8id program was discussed late yes- |

terday by Mr. Acheson, Secretary | Jum insisted their romance had the| War Robert P. Patterson and til such a time as the juvenile court ing them as murderers.”

Secretary of Navy James Forrestal. | will call him for hearing.

were bitterly opposed to her mar-

Overells' blessing. Mechanics. who worked on the Mary E. left the craft some three hours before the blast. They saw no sign of any explosives, the sherAff said. District Attorney James L. Davis said he would issue a murder complaint Former Radioman “I can't think, I can't think” Miss Overell, a freshman at the University of Southern California, | wept in her jail cell. “Oh, how oould' anyone say we did such a thing. My own parents.” The young couple were arrested when they went to Newport beach yesterday to complete funeral ar-| rangements and pick up the girl's car, impounded after the blast. The funeral was to have been this afternoon. | Gollum, 8 former navy radioman now taking a pre-medical - gourse at Los Angeles City college, is the son of Frederick L. Gollum, a former Los Angeles police commissioner. Gollum said he bad known Miss Overell , since he was nine years old and was on friendly terms with the Overells, close friends of his mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Stomel. Mrs. Stomel said the arrest of her son was “ridiculous.”

Crowds Line Shore

The Mary E. blew up early Sunday morning, a few minutes after Miss Overell and Gollum had gone ashore In a skiff to get hamburgers. They came back from a cafe to | find crowds lining the shore and Joined in the search for the Overells’ bodies. The cruiser sank by the bow, its | eabin section demolished. Overell was impaled on a section of plank. | His wife died of multiple skull fractures. . ; Mr. Overell was head of the Washington Finance Co. Los Angeles, and formerly owned a large furniture store there. His daugh-. ter was his sole heir.

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#8 Killing Her Parents *§ With Time Bomb

Couple Dies When Power Cruiser Blows Up; 30 Sticks of Dynamite Found in Debris :

SANTA ANA, Cal, March 20 (U, P.).—A 17-year-old coed and her flance denied today that they murdered her wealthy parents by blowing up the family power cruiser with a dynamite time bomb. The girl, Beulah Louise Overell, and George Rector Gollum, 21-year-old ex-sailor whom she was scheduled to marry April 30, were booked and held at the county jail last nigh}

Denies Risk of War In Aid to Greece

key, he sald, “are striving toward democracy and they have asked

those weakened and beleaguered countries to choose the path of freedom.

More Men's Suits

WASHINGTON, March 20 (U.P.), torney for the boy, said he will seek | _The American Red Cross today —The census bureau said today to have Juvenile court retain juris- announced a $1,750,000 emergency that men's suit cutting oe : nearly 500,000 a week in January. if Hodgkinson Yeqyesied it. This was 32 per cent higher than jurisdiction in cases where the de-|clothing, medical equipment and the rate in January of last year.

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Coed, Fiance Deny

FIVE: There for any other nation or the United Nations to ald either Greece or Turkey. +p Mr. Acheson said the proposal sthat this country go singly to the “It should be obvious that we aid of Greece and Turkey di reflect on the United Nations! said the United Natirns lacked funds to aid distressed countries, “If Greece had applied to the United Nations or any of its related organizations,” he added, “the essential element of time would have been lost, and the end result, if any, would have been the same.”-

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vealed the administration soon may | propose to congress a Korean i | = - program even larger than the $400| mel [ase Action million plan to assist Greece dnd Turkey. | . | The Korean project was said to the minute hand of an alarm clock contemplate from $500 million to! should: hive founds in the wreckage. This indi-|$600 million in economic and. mil-| itary aid over a three-year period. | Secretary of State George C. Mar- (211 of its facilities in an endeavor shall reviewed the plan in Moscow, to co-operate.”

on suspicion of murder,

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Denies Slap at U. N. is no possibility

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Walter E. Overell

Mrs. Overell

IN TRAGEDY—Here are the four principals in the Santa Ana, Cal, cruiser bombing which killed Mr. and Mrs. Walter Overell The Overell's daughter, Beulah, and her fiance, George Gollum, are booked on suspicion-of murder

Korean Aid Discussed

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jurisdiction this court will extend to the criminal court

The boy is now staging with his aunt, Mrs. Hubert Bailey, near | Eminence, in Morgan county, un-

Statement of Attorney

Meanwhile, Sherwood Blue, at-

“Jupdge Hoffmann cannot waive

|fendants are under 16 years of age

unless a first degree murder charge is filed,” he said. Mr. Blue blamed conditions of society generally for the boy's plight.

crime in movies, on the radio and the press and government-fostered moral disintergration seems hellbent on ruining the youth of the nation,

|of youngsters who have been taught

{that life is cheap instead of brand-! |

Aid for Hungary

WASHINGTON, March 20 (U.P).

relief program for Hungary. Supplies to be sent include shoes,

bed clothes.

“Society, through its emphasis on| |

“It is time to let character build-|| ing agencies like juvenile court, do}! |the work of making useful citizens| |

Detective Denies {Teens Threatened

2: |ficer told them this was a serious Eg (matter, not a laughing one,” Mr.

had observed Price's physical condition and admitted the youth appeared subdued, but not groggy.

Asserts No Handcuffs Used at Confession (Continued From Page One)

Cox said. “There were some civilians there and I don't know whether one of them or a policeman said ‘they'll laugh out of the other side of their mouths when somebody burns for this,"” Mr. Cox said. Youth Looked ‘Subdued’

On cross-examination he said he

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reduced. them to writing,” Mr. Cox said. vod : : Five Reporters Testify Yesterday five Indianapolis newspapermen, who questioned the youths on Dec. 5 at Indianapolis, testified for the state. All said they saw no blows struck. One reported a statement which he said might be considered a threat, The reporters identified pictures of the youths and said the boys looked as though: they had been beaten. : Attempting to disprove defense allegations of fright, the state called Mrs. Fred Courtney, wife of the former Shelby county sheriff. The defendants. were held in the Shelby county jail until their removal to the Bartholomew county jail here. ! Defense Closed

THe day after the killing, Mrs. Courtney said, the youths sang

“Why I've been in worse shape

than Price was and stayed on my feet to win a fight,” the ex-prize fighter said.

He said so far as he knew none

|of the defendants were told that |anything they said could be used against. them in court,

" Jury Still Absent The case currently is being ar-

gued in the jury’s absence whiled the court decides whether. the con- | fessions of guilt shall be aamitted.

Mr. Cox was placed in charge of

the case after the youths were brought to Indianapolis. not present at the capture.

He was

“Both Johnson and. Price spoke

voluntarily and freely. They gave

|rational answers and did not men- | tion being beaten,” Mr. Cox said.

“I see you're mussed up, but there { will be no more of that. You're in {my ‘custody now,” he said he told

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popular songs in their cells, Included were “Pistol Packin’' Mama” and “Don’t Fence Me In.” She also said the four used profanity and obscene language as they talked among themselves. “They laughed and cut up a lot except when visitors were with them. Then they acted depressed,” Mrs. Courtney said. Earlier yesterday the defense closed its part of the argument with statements by Miss Ward,

Braden Condemns Totalitarianism NEW YORK, March 20 (U, P.),— Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden said last night that civilization could progress “only . when totalitarianism of every color has been exterminated.” . “The greatest barriers to maf's progress are those raised by the red and black Fascists,” Mr. Braden told the 75th anniversary banquet meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. “Call them Communists, Nazis or by any other name,” he said. “All are of the same totalitarian stripe and all are equally dangerous.”

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Factional Lines Drawn for Battle: (Continued From Page One)

liquor board, and John MeNelis, former municipal cotirt judge. However, Mr, would not be a candidate representing any one faction. . “I intend to be a candidate representing all Democrats in Indianapolis,” he said, 3 i But . the lines appeared to be drawn between the two factions, the regulars getting behind Mr. Wood and the others backing Mr, Dailey,

Mentioned for Weeks

The regular organization leaders are regarded as Frank McKinney, former county treasurer and former county chairman; David M. Lewis, former prosecutor; Henry O. Goett, former superior court judge; Arthur J. Sullivan, prosecutor candidate last year, and Walter Boetcher, county chairman, Mr. Goett had been mentioned for several weeks as the probable regular organization candidate. But he declined to run, explaining that his _ law practice prevented his entrance in a political campaign.

_ . Feerey “Still in Running’ A third candidate in the Democratic contest loomed as a possibility today. - Al Feeney, twice elected sheriff at the top of the Democratic ticket in 1938 and 1940, has been mentioned as “still in the running” as a prospective candidate for mayor. He. would draw support from both factions of the Democratic organization, : 2 Mr. Wood insisted that he is not a “factional” candidate, i “I have not been asked to pledge or promise anything to anybody except to strive for honcst, clean and efficient government for all the people in all walks of life,” he said. “I have many definite and af-

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