THURSDAY, JANUARY 12.1950 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Nine-year-old Doris Nash, her arms encased in splints, wears an impish smile even though she has suffered a severe attack of polio followed by surgery at a Baltimore hospital. While Doris and thousands of other little victims stricken in last year's record polio epidemic smile their way back to health, they need your help. For funds of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis are dangerously depleted. Future aid to patients depends on the March of Dimes (January 16-31). Give as much as you can!
Latest Jesse James Turns Up Tells Of $2,000,000 Loot
New York—(U.P.)—Jesse James, that is the latest man to claim he's the notorious outlaw, said today he has $2,000,000 in loot buried near Fort Sill, Okla.
He also said in passing that there never was a James gang.
known since 1882 as J. Frank Dalton. He came to New York from Missouri Monday to announce he had filed suit in Missouri to change his name from J. Frank Dalton back to "my christened name" of Jesse Woodson James, the celebrated outlaw.
He said he is 102 years old, that the alleged shooting of Jesse James by Bob Ford in St. Joseph in 1882 was a great hoax to permit his escape from the law, and that it act-
gibble a glimpse with gun
gunlet "in the back of the head"
from Ford's gun.
He brought along 6 "corroborating witnesses" who believe fervently that he is the real Jesse. There's no doubt that he knows Jesse's operating terrain thoroughly—and the history of the "operations."
"Let me tell you," he pointed his left index finger—a finger with the tip end shot off, "I'd usually maybe have two or three experienced men with me. But as the usual thing I'd go around to farmers before a robbery and I told 'em: 'If you want to go out and get a little piece of money—I don't know, say $50, $70, $100—you come with me
"There never was a James gang," the old man said as he lay in bed in his hotel room. 'Ain't a farmer in the country—in those days—that wouldn't try to make a little more money if he got the chance. And that was the James gang.
and I'll take you and we'll get it. Didn't tell 'em what we were going to do. And we went."
The latest Jesse lives at Meramec Caverns, Stanton, Mo., where Jesse James had a hideout during the Civil war. He suffered a hip fracture not long ago and is confined to bed. His right arm is paralyzed, from a stroke. He constantly fingers a bedside revolver with his left hand and says that as a boy he "used nearly a barrel of 'catridges learning to shoot left-handed."
"I got $2,000,000 buried in the Wichita mountains near Fort Sill," the old man said. "There's been people lookin' for it, but never found it. If anybody gets it, let 'em get it the way I did."
Dewitt Travis, 61, an oil man, of Longview, Tex., who is helping "Jesse's friends" pay for bringing him and the witnesses to New York and for the petition in Union, Mo., circuit court to change Dalton's name, back to James, said he was "positive" this was the real Jesse. He said he sat on Jesse's knee as a young boy when the hiding Jesse stayed at the Travis home and has been associated with hm for 30 years.
The limestone gallery quarry near Atchison is a natural cooler ranking as the world's largest single storage on one floor.
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Guided-missile Ship On Way To Alaska To Fire Rockets
Washington, Jan. 12—(U.P.)-T h e navy's experimental guided-missile ship, the Norton Sound, left Port Hueneme, Calif., Wednesday for the Gulf of Alaska to fire one or more high-alitude rockets in cosmic ray experiments.
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The navy said the Gulf of Alaska was selected as a launching area because there are believed to be "important" relations between the earth's magnetic field and activity of cosmic ray particles there.
Two aerobee rockets were launched the past March from the deck of the Norton Sound off the west coast of South America. These rockets reached an altitude of more than 65 miles.
The 21-day cruise to Alaskan waters also will provide data on
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cold weather aspects of guided missile firings. Dr J.A. Van Allen of the Johns Hopkins applied physics laboratory will be in charge of the scientific work.
Miami, —(U,P)— Husky patrolman L. F. Gracey, Jr., who weathered many a tough beat, required hospital attention after tangling a finger in the keys of a typewriter.
The aeobele rockets have complex instruments in their noses to record research data, and radio transmitters to send the data automatically and continuously to the Norton microcar rear radar cameras, and automatic tracking plotters also are trained on the rockets during flight.
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