Appeals Requested for Saving Life of Kansan
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UFI) — Americans have been called upon to send "a flood of letters" to save the life of a Kansan sentenced to die for the murder of two Greek sailors.
Cris Gugas, a Los Angeles criminologist, said he presented an appeal containing more than 2,000 signatures recently to the Greek ministry of justice asking a new trial for Roger Ramney, 26, Chanute, Kan. He asked for more appeals as soon as possible.
Raney was convicted on circumstantial evidence. Greek officials have refused to allow a lie detector test by an American group on the grounds that Greece has a law forbidding any experiments on prisoners condemned to die.
RANNEY WAS CONDEMNED to death after a trial at Pireaus, Greece, the port for Athens, some months ago. He is being held at Aegina Island Prison nearby and conferred with Gugas for several hours on two separate occasions.
Gugas arrived here yesterday enroute to Chanute, Kan., where he will meet with the Roger Ranney Defense Committee. He leaves today via Omaha for his home.
"The kid is innocent, there's no doubt about it," Gugas told United Press International. "If anybody lost the kid's trial, it was the attorney. There really was no defense at all for Ranney. He really got a royal 'rookin.'"
AN APPEAL FOR A NEW TRIAL comes before the Greek Supreme Court Jan. 20. Gugas asked for letters from "all over the United States" addressed to the Greek Prime Minister, Athens, asking that Ranney be given another chance.
The 2,000 signatures presented were from residents of Chanute, Wichita and Topeka. Kan.
Ranney was presented in the trial by Andreas Vacliotis, the lawyer to whom Gugas was referring.
Vachlioti was discharged recently and replaced by another lawyer, Andreas Pouleas. Gugas said Pouleas is one of the "brightest criminal attorneys in Greece." He assisted in the Ranney defense during the trial, although Vachlioti did all the investigating, Gugas said.
VACHLIOTIS WAS ACCUSED of squandering some $3,500 Ranney's mother sent for her son's defense. Vachliotis said he spent the money for food and other help for Ranney.
Vachliotis also claimed he spent $1,500 on the press so that Ranney would get "favorable publicity in the newspapers," Gugas said. He added that he talked with top newsmen of Greece who were infuriated at Vachliotis' statement and volunteered to take lie detector tests.
Gugas spent almost a month in Greece on the case.
"I want to flood the Greek government with appeals for Roger," Gugas said. "This guy Vachliotis really put the kid in jail—by not doing a thing.
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"A report that Roger is faking a hunger strike, simply is not true. He has lost a lot of weight."
time for appeals to be sent. The hearing for a new trilix is coming up soon. I think the trial was highly prejudicial in that area (Pireaus).
Ranney has been reported to be fasting because of his protest over Vachliotis.
Max Reiter toured unsuccessfully through the eastern United States, finding that area devoid of possibilities to build an orchestra. Too many well-known European musicians were already there.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — (UPI)—The San Antonio symphony orchestra, ranked now as one of the 10 leading U.S. symphonies, started as the dream of a war refugee when he fled Europe in the 1930s.
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Librarians Raise Student Aid Grant
The Kansas Library Association has increased the amount of its Grant for Study in Librarianship from $600 to $1,000 for 1962.
The application deadline for the 1962 award is Feb. 1. Applicants will be judged on the basis of scholarship-a grade average of B or better for the last two years of undergraduate study is required and interest in the profession, emotional maturity and personality.
The grant, awarded annually to the applicant "most likely to make the greatest contribution to librarianship," is designed to encourage persons to enter the library profession.
Gugas said people in Greece were surprised that there were no defense witnesses for Ranney during the trial, while the prosecution had 40 witnesses. Gugas said there wasn't even a letter from Ranney's mother and others in Chanute because Vachliotis had told them not to say anything.
The recipient may use the scholarship in attending the library school of his choice.
Applicants are judged by a three-man scholarship committee including at least one college and one public librarian. The winning applicant will be announced by March 15. Application forms are available in the Watson Library office of John L. Glinka, chairman of the Kansas Library Association Scholarship Committee.
Finally Reiter found reception in San Antonio, and began the task of building a successful symphony. He died in 1950.
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Comeback in Comics
NEW YORK — (UPI)—The comic book publishing business has scored an enormous comeback from the setback it received in the Congressional juvenile delinquency investigations of 1953 and 1954. Two-thirds of the publishers disappeared in a shakeout. But in 1961, sales jumped to about 300 million copies, up 50 million from 1960.
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WASHINGTON — (UPI) The House by a party-line vote has elected Rep. John W. McCormack its Speaker. He promptly warned that the world is in crisis, but said a strong Congress and a strong President, working together, guarantee the survival of freedom.
McCormack Elected Speaker Flaming Time
NEW YORK - (UPI)—A gas clock which strikes the hours with bursts of flame will top the gas industry's building at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
Time will be indicated by the number of spokes of the clock which are lighted.
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