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Philip Kennamer TULSA, Okla., Dec. 2il.—Oklahomans are beginning- to realize the import of the assertion that truth is stranger than fiction. Right in their midst has developed a strange story with true-life characters that equals the imagination of the weirdest of fiction pens. The story is that of murder—murder of one youth which led to the death of another, also believed by some the victim of an assassin. The characters are handsome young members of prominent families a yin of a federal judge, a son of a college professor, a son and a daughter) of a wealthy oil operator, and othens of equally renown parentage. \ The bacfkground involves the social life of a jpunger set against the settings of g Imbling houses, beer establishments >nd college campuses. And the plot ? That, Tulsa authorities are a ttempting to unravel. Before it is Finally worked out, if it is worked cut. the plot may include planned extortion, moral turpitude, wild partrcs and other factors around which many fiction stories have been written. Heading the cast of characters in this real life drama is Philip Kennamer. 19 year old son of stem faced Kranklin E. Kennamer, judge in the Tulsa federal court. By an ironic twist of fate, young Kennamer must face the bar of justice opposite the bench that represents the profession of his father. He must face trial for the murder of his friend. Jehn Gorrell, 211 year old student at Kansas City Western Dental college and the son of a Tulsa physician. The trial begins Jan. 15. Claiming self-defense, young Kennamer confessed the crime. And as a result of his confession and other factors, several other young people have been injected into'the drama. Among them was Sidney Born, Jr., son of a research professor in the University of Tulsa, who was found shot to death in his car a few days after Gorrell had been killed. Police described it as ‘'suicide,” hut the youth s father, Sheriff Charles Price and others contend it was “murder.” And besides Born, there are others who have been importantly involved. Honur Wilcox is one. His sister, Miss Virginia Wilcox, has been described as a sweetheart of Kennamer from the moment that (Gorrell’s body was found last Thanksgiving queer angles have been popI'ing up in the investigation of the <as< Even the killer was possessed to do a stra .ge thing. Lorreii, found dead in his automod on a street in an exclusive sec1 n of the city, had been shot with a ' a Cit| ibor pistol he had borrowed f ' r, ' n u roommate for protection. The lustoi, with two empty cartridges, •'is found on the seat of the machine ln its holster! This fact dashed theories that Gorrell might have hilled himself. Kichard Oliver, Tulsa youth who Coined with Gorrell in Kansas City, dd police that "John was mur- " He explained that Gorrell ,a ' 1 toW him that "if anything hapI’l'ne! to him, it would be Bob Wilson w ho did it." one knew a Bob Wilson, but 11 days later, Kennamer walked ‘fto the prosecutor's office with his a niney and confessed, saying be "•I’ the Boh Wilson” wanted. Ken- ' ‘i i added he had shot Gorrell in S ( 0lf defense, when Gorrell had drawn !!•’ d' 1 on Mm. Kennamer asserted 1,1 1 '’led to prevent Gorrell from

GOVERNOR ‘MEsST A FAN”

COLUMBIA, Mo. (UP)—Gov. Guy B. Park of Missouri was “just another customer” to an R. O. T. C. student usher at a recent football game here. The executive, entering the stadium late, had forgotten his ticket stubs The governor smiled as an usher he knew came to his rescue.

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Bogolyub Yevtich Resignation of Foreign Minister Bogolyub Yevtich, of Yugoslavia, above, after his political rivals failed to accord a more enthusiastic reception to his settlement at Geneva of the recent crisis with Hungary, brought the resignation of the entire Yugoslavia cabinet, headed by Premier Nikola Uzonovich.

Homer Wilcox going through with an extortion plot. Prior to that, authorities had been given some evidence tending to link Kennamer with the slaying, but not enough to issue a warrant for his arrest. This came from a story told by Floyd Huff, an airplane pilot, who said he had heard Kennamer threaten to kill Gorrell, Huff declared Kennamer had shown him a note which allegedly threatened Miss Wilcox unless her father, wealthy oil man, paid tne writer $10,000. Kennamer, Huff said, contended that Gorrell wrote the note, and planned to ‘‘get’’ him. Alter lodging Kennamer in jail, police went on a search for Miss Wilcox's biother, Homer, whom they accused of driving Kennamer from the scene of the slaying. For a week, young Wilcox could not be found. He was said to have gone on an eastern shopping tour. When he did turn up, two young gills provided him with an alibi for the nieht of the murder. Police, however, arrested him and he was found guilty and fined $75 on charges of breaking street lights in the vicinity where Gorrell was found. About the same time, Wade Thomas, proprietor of a drinking resort, was jailed only to be freed while later. Thomas assertedly had been intimate with Kennamer, Gorrell and the others, and they are said to have visited his resort where he allegedly had kept gambling devices. After that the case began to die down. Then young Born’s body was found, providing still further mystery. Born, Kennamer said, was “my best friend.” Shortly before his body was discovered in his automobile, Born attempted to telephone Kennamer at the county jail from a drug store. Failing to reach the suspect by phone. Born left the store hurriedly. accor ding to statements of the store’s proprietor. Another unexplainable angle to Born's death was the discovery of woman's bloody handkerchief at his body. It obviously had been used to wipe the blood from his wounds. No one was seen near the body, however, when it was found. Giving the whole case another odd twist, Sheriff Price is trying to prove that someone besides Kennamer killed Gorrell, and then slew Born. This despite the fact that Kennamer ins nts he did the slaying and offers to prove it. Day after day, new names enter the tangle, and each new development brings a new fear to Tulsa’s younger set. Anonymous threats have sent several young witnesses into hiding. Others fear there may be more deaths like Born’s. And while Tulsa wonders what will come next in its stranger-than-ficlion story, its citizenry speculates over the questions put to Kennamer by comely Doris Rogers, Gorrell’s sweetheart, when she confronted him in th.' Tulsa jail. "Phil,” she pleaded, ' why did you do it? You loved John as much I did. Whom are you trying to shield ?”

REPORTS ON SLEEP HABITS ATLANTA, Ga., <UPI—Dr. Glenville Giddings says it's time for the world to wake up about sleep. Dr. Giddings is a recognized authority on sleeping habits, and has written several books about it. Recently he completed more than 150.000 hours of spying on children’s sleep not personally, but by means of an electric gadget which automatically keeps an eye on the sleeper. Here are some of his findings: The worst part of the night’s sleep for a child is the first half hour, which is marked by much tossing around and adjusting. The best part of the night's sleep, when repose is at a maximum, is the 90 minutes following the first half hour of adjustment. Females are much better sleepers than males. They go to sleep more quickly and sleep more soundly. Under-eating before retiring has virtually nc effect upon the night's repose. Over-eating, however, has a very marked effect, interfering with sleep and making the child restless. There is no truth in the old saying that a hot bath before bed will make you sleep. A hot bath has virtually no effect. The same is true of a cold bath. Physical exercise has little or no effect upon sleep. BANNER WANT (JET RESULTS

l tahans Urged To Try Out Elk Rranehes SI I t ESS IN UNIQUE EXPERI-i MINT RELATED By PIONEER

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MARTINS!) ALE, Mont. (UP) ! There may come a time when thous- | ! amis of acres of Montana grazing | lurid now devoted to cattle raising j j will be turned into commercial elk

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Such is the belief of Courtland E.

| DuRand, rancher near here. DuKand has attracted national attention because of the success of his unique

experiment with oik raising. Interviewed in "Outdoor Life,”

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l DuRand described bin five-year-old j oik farm, characterized it as an un- ) qualiiied success and urged other Montana ranchers to start riniilar

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j "Here in Montana arc more than | five million acres of excess governj ment region, part of which is suiti able for privately owned elk ranches. "The yearly tragedy of starving elk and the yearly sums spent by the government in an attempt to nave them could he done away with if this land would be made to produce. "1 have found out that there is 50 per cent more profit in the wapiti deer business than there is in the cattle business, and I feel strongly that the time is not far off when we will hear of elk ranches just as we hear of other kind of stock ranches

today."

DuRand's was a unique venture. He was faced with the task of capturing alive a foundation herd of elk and then the even harder job of segregating the cows and bulls. He succeeded in doing both. Then it was necessary to provide a ranch on which the elk would be happy and healthful. DuRand solved that by devoting 1,500 acres of semiwilderness to his herd.

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BIG DIPPER TO BE SOUP SPOON IN 50,000 YEARS PHILADELPHIA. <UP> The big dipper, in another 50,000 years will be the same shape as a common ordinary soup spoon, according to Wagner Schlesinger, assistant director of the astronomy department of Franklin museum. During these next 50,000 years one will be able to watch the wandering stars in the tip of the handle move to the left and the rest to the right, thereby changing the shape of the dipper considerably. The star making machinery in the planetarium can switch then around in the most amazing ways. The universe can be turned back to 50,000 years ago, showing the asiral positions at that time, and ther can be turned forward to show how the dipper will appear in the year 51,934 A. D.

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The ‘‘beat dressed woman in the world," Mrs. Harrison Williams, New York socialite, arrives from a Paris after another shopping tour. I She has twice been voted the honor l by Parisian designers.

DUTCH HARBOR AGAIN i:\TKRN \ \\ %L PICTURE WASHINGTON (UP) Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands looms again on the strategical horizon i the result of difficulties in the London naval parleys and the plans of the United States fleet to maneuvei in Alaskan waters next spring. This deep, large and partially land locked hay in the Island of Unalaska almost has been forgotten, in a political sense, since the Washington Arms Limitation Conference eliminated the poasibility of the United States to establish a base there. Geographically, however, it has maintained its significance as splendid harbor almost directly on the Great Circle line from Seattle to Yokohama, located on the trading route to the Bering Sea and North Alaska, and not far distant from direct trans-Pacific steamer route. Toward the end of the 19th Century, Dutch Harbor generally w'as regarded as likely to become a nerve center for the United States defensive eaU blishmi nt in the northern Pacific. Alaskan coal was not far distant Probably the increased use of petroleum instead of coal as navy fuel was one factor that later discouraged the development of a base. At the Washington armament conference, the possibility of a base at Dutch Harboi was one of the diplomatic "pawns*’ traded by the United States to facilitate an agreement with Japan on the treaty provisions limiting fortifications in the western

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At the present time, only a few experts could appraise the potential naval importance of Dutch Harbor. Aircraft crossing oceans like to foli low approximately direct routes proximate to land where possible. Offsetting this fact, la the notor-

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Sues Bridge Stars

Vincent Boland, of Cleveland, top, has announced his intention to file suit against Ely Culbertson, inset, P. Hal Sims and the American Bridge league for $200,000 because the Boland bridge system did not appear on the approved list of systems st a New York t tournament. Boland charged the players conspired Vith the league to throttle his system.

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V //1V UU O.V H/TII THE STORY Kurt stamped noisily into t|jp "’em Marion regarded him stonily. s<-rn-’ of his soif-eonfUlenee van-i-i <-d before her sombre, lev-1 guz"Urn sorry l lost my temper," he »aid diffidently. "but Kinnteoll makes me see red." That isn’t what troubles mo." She sighed deeply "I’m afraid our difference is deeper than that " "Not If you love me." Kurt said

uncertainly.

"Sit down, Dickie," Marlon said •IMtetly, "and be very patient and rrmember ttiat I do love you" He started to Interrupt, but she hurried on "Hear me out for once Try to understand my point of view. It isn't your anger that troubles me It's ourselves — the difference between us. Your hates frighten me, Dickie Those people—poor Bunny, that ridiculous fellow Kinnicott—to you these blundering people stand for tin- forces that have hurt you and you hate them But I don't hate them I can't hale them." His voice was expressionless. "I

see."

"And my biography, Dickie—it Is a destructive thing It will, I believe. destroy us if we don't destroy if It seems U> symbolize the great gulf between us." "And you'd destroy the book, because it might hurt somebody "

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“Because you're afraid of it.” "Yes.” He rose unsteadily. "I see now why everything is this way." lie said In a queer, wracked voice. "Which way?'

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Goodbye!"

lb i last glimpse of him was as be : ti>od there rigid, surrounded by the si altered pages of the manu-

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She rushed to her bedroom. Minnie was seated under a lamp, placidly sewing. "Minnie! Back everytolng up. We're leaving right away!

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She pulled out a suitcase. "We’re going to California—to see Feydle,” she -aid. a tiny break in her voice. “Fine, Marion." Minnie gave her unqualified approval to Feydak. "End dot crazy Kurt goes vlt us?" Marion fumbled blindly for the catch on the suitcase. "No, Minnie." she said, a stabbing pain at her hean-t, “we travel alone!" A sound stage In Hollywood is a Bedlam that no words can describe. Particularly one on which a musical number is being rehearsed at full

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Marion, however, was undisturbed by the noise as she sat in Tympt Wilson's portable dressingroom deftly sketching in Ills outline. He Stood, posed to one side, In the garb of Hamlet. Feydak walked in "Marlon dear" he said with a proprietory air, "you're wanted on the telephone." “Oli hello darling. I’ll be right back” she told Wilson, don't move." He froze into his pose. As they walked to the telephone. Feydak said will/ a mysterious air, "Know what 1 ve been doing tins morning?" "What?” He exhibited a legal paper for her inspection. "Looking over a lease on a house—witli a garden and

Why, the injustice and the cru- swimming pool and a studio with a "You're not only going through with that liogtuphg, but you're going to put the

whole truth into it," he said.

elty go on—year after year—century after century—" his hands clenched, "—because as they grow older people t/ef-ome tolerant 1 It's cowardice!" "You hate me at this moment, don't you 7 " Marion asked simply T hate your tolerance 1 always did " ‘That's Just It." she said sorrowfully, “you hate my essential quality You want me drained of the very thing that Is me." Kurt looked at lo r suspiciously as If she were repeating someone elses words. “You've been discussing me with Nolan haven't you?" Marions eyes showed her hurt ‘‘Oh no, Dickie 1 haven't ’ His Jealousy took form. “Yes it was I saw him come back before He talked to you about me. didn't he?” He gripped her wrist. "Didn't luf" “No. Dickie He came to tell me he hoped i d go ahead with my book." Kurt dropped her hand savagely "That* pi city UUly, isn't it?" he sneered "But It's true You see. Bunny wanted everything to go to smash He wanted to marry me." "Bo! He asked you to marry him! The double-crossing " He broke off and looked at Marion almost fearfully "What did you tell him?" She made a small, hopeless gesture "Thai I was in love witli you “I see" tie waited a fraction of a moment, then took hold of her possessively "Look here. Marlon I ve had enough of words and detachment and quibbling You’re going to do what l say!" He emphasized lus last words by shaking liei roughly. “Dick la!” "You're not only going through with that biography but you're going to put the whole truth lnto.lt!" be ground out. Marion frowned with honest perplexity "What truth?” she asked "Nolan" Kurt said with revengeful purpose in his eyes "That em-l-leni of purity, double-crossing Ins fiancee and tier pompous father and making undercover love to you! Why. you can put enough poison Into it to make Lcander Nolan sick to his stomach tor the test of his natural life." Marion fumbled weakly for the support of the chair "But 1 wouldn't know how to go about writing such a thing. Dickie,” she said in a small, chilled voice. Kurt, mistaking her quiet words for •consent, plunged foolhardily oil ’’That's okay,” he said, as if the whole matter were settled, "J'll do ,t for yvul" The room was desperately still "All right." Marion said, while her mind raced feverishly. All that hud happened- Kinnicott, Nolan, Piads, bad formed into a sort of composite photograph. With all their bluster and quarrelsomeness, she knew somewhere deep within her that they trusted * her — trusted her as simply and guilelessly as children. And Kurt was asking tier — commanding her to plunge a cruel knife mto their unsuspecting backs. She

north light JusT in case a certain lady decides to take pity on poor old Feydie—' tie shook the lease." — I'm going to sign this. Marlon patted his arm oftcctionately. They were at the telephone ‘Hellp” Marion said "yes—this Is Miss Forsythe What s that?" New Yorkf Feydak started. Miss Forsythe said a deep has* voice In her ear, ’this Is the Daily News We'd like to check on a report that you re married to Melchior Feydak." "I'm afraid that report is unfounded" Marlon replied puzzlod, “I’m not.” "Marlon!" Kurt's voice changed to Ins own well—remembered one. "1 knew you wouldn tl lie said exultantly She thrilled with recognition. "Dickie! Dickie, where are you?" "I'm in the ottice of Every Week. I've Just been handed un assignment to go to Hollywood and do a series of stories "Dickie!" Marlon was ecstatic. "You're coining to Hollywoodt" "Yes They want you to illustrate my articles Will you do It*" "Why yes—but—but Dickie—when is Hie book coining out?" There was an expensive pause "It isn't coming out " Kurt said, ”1 burned up the manuscript." "You burned it? uh Dickie' I knew you would' ' Feydak looked down at the lease quizzically "Guess I kidded myself about il" Kurt said airily It wusnt so hot ** But Merlon had to know "That s nut the reason you destroyed It. Tell me why Dickie she insisted Intently "Yes It is Kurt stalled, "I decided it wouldn t make any money "Go on Marion said inexorably, "tell me. Its very Important I’ve got to know " "Well—it was because I—because I—" he cast caution to the wiudst “because / lute you I" "Dickie Oh Dickie.” Site clung to the telephone "You've gettiiqf to be a regular human being." "You said it' I’ve learned my lewson Marlon. 1 m kind to old ladles, I aid helpless little kittens to cross flit- street—" "When are you coming out here” Marion cut in excitedly. There was a slight sound beside her as of paper being torn slowly across. "1 leave by plane in the morning" Kurt shouted, "it's a marvelous assignment dear. I'm going to rip right into Hollywood—.strip the hide off of every moron in the whole half-witted moving picture racket." "Oli Dickie " Morton shook with laughter us she realized that Kurt’s metamorphosis was not so complete after all But it didn t matter. Nothing but Kurt mattered now. she knew Her laughter trilled up high again. "Oh Dickie." Feydak't hands slowly opened te release the torn bits of the lease. He watched them as a gust of ahf blew them out the window. the; end