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Evening star., 1954-10-03

Asians along the road to a
fuller life by making their ma
tional economies more diverse
and productive.
The Results
At the halfway mark, the
IA participating nations can
see substantial results: Food
production greatly increased,
power capacity increased by 80
per cent. industry advanced
and disease dealt a severe blow.
Moreover. the improvement
in economic conditions in Asia
can mean greater prosperity
for all, with Asia increasing
its production of important
basic materials for export to
the non-Asian world. and in
return buying goods and serv-
ices from the non-Asian world.
Thus economic, as well as.
humanitarian considerations,
lie behind the Colombo plan.
And there are political con-
siderations as well, IN view Of
the Importance of South and
Southeast Asia and lis multi
tude of people in the present
and future balance Of world
power.
A powerful incentive for
Western nations to give gen.
erously in this program is the
belief that the poverty of Asia
makes that part of the world
very susceptible to Comma
mist propaganda. If the West
can help the Asians toward a
better life, then, even though
they may not join our siGe in
the cold war, they presumably
won't be as likely to join the
other side. either.
AS one diplomat here put it.
"the maintenance of political
stability in that area" is a
prime objective Of the Co
lombo plan.
Evening star., 1954-10-03
Colombo Plan Nations Meet to Cho Mutual Aid Progress
By Gerold Wuring

T.
OTTAWA. - Representatives
of IA Colombo plan countries
will start a week long confer
er1ce here tomorrow to study
progress at the halfway mark
in the six-year program OF
economic aid for the countries
of South and Southeast Asia.
Ofhcials of those countries
have spent the last fortnight
here preparing a detailed prog
ress report for presentation to
this weeks ministerial level
meetings. 1t is expected to
show:
/. The equivalent Of more
than $4 billion has been spent
in the last three years on eco
nomic development projects in
Burma, Ceylon. India, Indo-
China, Indonesia. Nepal, PAX
istan, and in the British pro-
tectorates of Malaga, Singa-
pore. Sarawak, Brunei and
North Borneo.
2. At least an equal amount
must be spent In the remain
ing three years of the program
to achieve current objectives
of productivity and standards
of living for that areas 600
million people, who constitute
one-fourth of the worlds pop
ulation.
8. The results to date are
highly encouraging when
measured in terms of rice pro-
duction. acres brought under.
cultivation, land irrigated, riv-
ers controlled, electricity gen.
Grated and production in
creased for a wide range Of
goods including locomotives,
fertilizer. textiles. paper, ed
ible oils and telephones.
The Participants
The group meeting here to-
morrow is the Consultative
Committee of the Colombo
Plan for Cooperative Eco
nomic Development. 1t con-
sists of foreign ministers.
finance ministers and other
high representatives of the
recipient nations of Asia,
and of the Western "donor ma
tions." Australia, Canada, New
Zealand. the United Kingdom
and the United States.
In addition to reviewing
progress, they will consider
such questions as targets, ORR
entation and possible Develop
ment of the program along
broader lines. However, the
committee decisions are
merely recommendations to
the participant countries, for
the Colombo plan is no more
than an association of like
minded Western nations which
feel impelled to do more to
aid underdeveloped Asian
countries, and recipient coun-
tries which are willing to CO.
operate to help themselves.
The Western partners in the
plan provide capital aid and
technical know-how and train
ing to help implement the
national development plans
drawn UP by the Asian coun-
tries. Cooperation is direct,
between donor country and
recipient country. The donors
are free to choose the Asian
people they want to help, and
the recipients are free to put
their requests for aid to the
donor country or countries of
their choice.
When the program was
launched in 1850 it was es-
timated to cost SIS billion, of
which the Asian countries
would provide two-fifths. and
the Western world the re-
Evening star., 1954-10-03
Why Do So Many Persons Confess
To Murders They Did Not Commit?

out their sentence and they'd
like to 60 elsewhere. Facing IA
housebreaking charges in Flor.
ida in January, 1858. one Floyd
Gray let 1t be known that he
wished to clear UP the murder
Of O woman here. A check
showed that q certificate of
death from natural causes had
been issued but q police in
spector was sent down to in.
terview Gray. The inspector
came back with a report that
Gray had dreamed up the
murder. When Gray found
that didn't work. he told
Florida police he wanted to
confess to another killing. This
one happened to be an un-
solved n1urderahere and police
couldn't ignore a bet. Besides,
there was a chance he could
be linked to some house,
breakings here. So q police
lieutenant was sent to Florida.
Gray, it developed, knew
even less about the murder
than had appeared In the
papers. But Washington po.
lice got something out Of the
trip. Gray did admit q house.
breaking. told where he had
pawned the property and police
recovered it. They're waiting
for him to serve his Florida
sentences now.
Washington police went to
Philadelphia last May to bring
back Woodrow w. Brown after
he told fellow roomers and
then police that he had throt-
tied Florence Soriano, the
l7-year-old Chinese-American
mother murdered here on Hal
loween, 1852. Brown later
repudiated the confession but
was held for the grand jury.
The case has since been
dropped. Now police believe
he told the story to win SYM
pathy from his estranged wife.
TroveI-Free Cog
Police files across the coun-
try show some other strange
motives for confessing mur-
ders. For instance:
A man from North Carolina
confesses to a 20-year-old
murder every time he gets
drunk. When he confessed
here and Washington police
checked. the report come back:
~'That fellow has been using
that case to pay his travelling
expenses for years. We've al
ready disproved he had any
thing to do with the case. We
don't want him"
The Oklahoma life-termer
who concocted a confession
in the Staying Of the Penn
State coed finally admitted
he made it up in hopes Of
getting released from his SEN
tence for another murder.
The prize confessor was Jake
Bird, the Tacoma (Wash.)
ax-slayer who cheated the gal
lows for more than a year and
q half while confessing involve
ment in or knowledge Of A
slayings.
Posthumous Check
AS his execution neared, he
wanted to talk about two more
one in Iowa 20 years ear
lier and another In Chicago.
The weary warden told him
to put 1t on paper and the
document would be turned
over to the proper ofdcials
after the execution.
Jake lost his battle to es-
cape the moose In July, 1949.
The thing about Jake was that
some of his confessions checked
out.
It's because Of that sort of
thing that police have to lis
ten when a man walks in--as
one did in Syracuse not long
ago-and declares:
IT killed Buggy Siegel."
That man didn't. but some
body did. So the police still
pay attention.
Evening star., 1954-10-03

Every ONCE III b willie y HAL
walks into q police station and
announces:
II want to confess q MUIR
der"
Or q prisoner awaiting trial
In one State will claim he
killed somebody in another
State.
Or a long g-imprisoned con-
vict-knowing quite well that
his story will reach the ears
Of the warden--Will conflde to
fellow prisoners that he COM
mitted the unsolved murder
described in a detective maga-
zine.
Then begins the long chore
Of checking out the story. A
self-styled slayer describes in
detail where he buried the
body and police dig for a
corpse that isn't there. Or a
detective eager to clean up a
long-unsolved case will travel
half-way across the country
to~interview the man. Or po-
lice will wire a long series of
questions to be asked the con-
fessor. Then each detail of his
story has to be investigated.
In the end, police often find
the confessions to be phony.
Two Recent Examples
The past two weeks pro-
duced two such cases. A Cana
dian arrested here claimed he
killed q Clearwater. Fla, visi-
tor in Montreal. A lifeltermer
in Oklahoma told in lurid de-
tail how he beat to death
Penn State coed IA years ago
to recover a letter linking him
to a dope ring. Both were fakes.
Why do they do it? What
makes a man theoretically risk
death to confess a murder he
didn't commit?
Police and psychiatrists can
give you q dozen reasons. The
Los Angeles homicide detec-
,tives have become experts on
the subject. They've lost sleep
over nearly so confessions
since Elizabeth Short the
Black Dahlia"-waS hacked to
death in January, 1947.
Generally, phony confessions
are made by two types-the
psychologically twisted who
actually believe they COM
nlitted the crime and the ones
who know perfectly well they
didn't but have some reason
to claim they did.
Usually, police have found,
the ones who dream up con-
fessions Intentionally are try
ing to extricate themselves
from an unpleasant situation.
One man managed to stave off
his execution for more than
18 months by confessing an
other murder every time he
was due to hang. Another
thought he could get out of
the Army by claiming a mur-
der he didn't commit.
Sometimes prisoners figure
that if they are taken back to
another State and then repu-
diate their confession, they
have a good chance Of winning
a battle against being returned
to the State where they were
originally arrested.
Or they just want a free ride
back home.
Some Grove Attention
DR.. Winfred Overholser,
superintendent Of st. Eliza
beths Hospital. blames some
phony confessions on exhibi-
tionism-emotionally unstable
types looking for attention.
AS for the ones who really
believe they committed mur-
der, he said some mentally
i'll in the depressed stage suf-
fer from a feeling of guilt
and cast about for something
on which to pin their guilt.
It may be something they have
done or something they
thought about but didn't do
More often, he said, they fix
upon something outside them
Evening star., 1954-10-03
By Nision, Gutenberg

VI
selves. If they happen to read
about a murder. they pin
their guilt on that,
Washington police had q
case like that. In the routine
questioning Of hundreds Of
friends, fellow employees and
even remote acquairtances Of
q murdered man. they reached
a man who promptly broke
down and confessed the stab
bing.
It took a lot of checking to
determine that he couldn't
possibly have done it. Actually.
they found, the man had been
two-timing his wife, had
started drinking and was
cracking up under the strain.
Months later, the same man
suddenly leaped to his feet in
church during a Sunday night
service and shouted, II killed
a man" The beat policeman
was summoned and - not
knowing the background
took the man to police head
quarters. There, detectives
spent hours trying to con-
vince the man he didn't do it.
Block Dohlio CIoimonts
Los Angeles detectives told
The Star that some of their
confessors actually believe
they butchered the Black
Dahlia."
Some just want publicity
but some are very sincere" one
Los Angeles detective said.
Every time the Black Dahlia'
is mentioned in the papers, we
get more calls. We have to
spend more time proving they're
innocent than looking for the
real murderer. Once we worked
straight through Christmas
and New Years proving q man
didn't do it. They come in
with some awfully good stories.
They're still coming. We've got
one right now"
For quantity Of confessions
alone, the BLACK Dahlia" is
probably the classic among
modern cases. But every un-
solved murder is q challenge
to the would-be confessor.
Sometimes the murder has
been solved. And sometimes
there was no murder at all.
Strange Indiono Series
All this can lead to strange
complications. There was, for
instance, series of Indiana
.sex slayings. A factory worker
walked into a police station
and confessed to three Of them.
He got the death sentence.
Later, a drug clerk was tried
and sentenced to life imprison-
ment in one of the same cases.
And still later, a farm worker
caught in the act of strangling
a woman by the same method
as was used in the other cases
confessed to two Of the same
cases and one other.
Here's how that one was un-
scrambled: The third man was
electrocuted. The second man
won a new trial on appeal, was
never tried and was released.
The first man-who had vol
unteered his confeSsion-won
a reprieve from the death SEN
tence but he's still in prison as
a menace to society,""
Police frequently run into
a confessor simply trying to
beat q local rap. Thus it was
with the Canadian here
Louis Francouer. Washington
police had to check with Clear
water, Fla, and Montreal, and
Montreal police had to do some
shoveling before Francouer
finally admitted he had hoped
to escape a housebreaking
charge here by dreaming up a
murder that didn't happen.
Florida Fod
Washington police have got
ten wary of confessions stem
ming from Florida prisons. In
Florida, convicts have to work
Evening star., 1954-11-25
Colorado Triple Threat Wins
Buck-of-t f-the-Week Honors
--AP Wirephoto.

Had Kansas State turned back
Colorado, the Wildcats would
have tied with Nebraska for
second place in the Big Seven
behind Oklahoma. Since they
beat the Cornhuskers earlier in
the season. they would have got
ten the Orange Bowl nod because
Oklahoma was ineligible, having
played last January i.
Jerry Barger of Duke and Del
Shofner of Baylor ran Hardy a
close second In the balloting.
!. Barger directed the Blue Devils
to their 26-7 triumph over South
Carolina. The victory kept them
in the running for the Atlantic
Coast Conference title and the
Orange Bowl. He passed well
and made many saving tackles
on the muddy field.
Max Boydston, Oklahoma end,
was the AP lineman Of the week.
Evening star., 1954-11-25
BY the Associated Press

GREENSBORO, N. c., Nov
25.--Jim Nelson of Duke lost his
perfect extra point kicking rec
ord and Carl Brazell of South
Carolina was on the losing team
but last Saturday the Duke
South Carolina game produced
a pair of new Atlantic Coast
Conference records.
Nelson, 16 for 16 in extra
points before the game. made
good only two for four. but his
Is scored breaks the ACC sea-
son record of IT set by Ralph
FELTON, of Maryland last fall.
Brazell, his efforts failing to
bring his Gamecocks victory
nevertheless caught five PASSES
to run his season pass-receiving
total to "a, one better than the
ACC record of % set last fall by
Clyde Bennett, South Carolina
end.
Nelson, No. ! in the Nation
before last week, now will have
to beware lest he lose his ACC
leadership, according to con-
ference Service Bureau figures
His 18 for 20 record Is good foi
d 300 accuracy percentage, but
close behind are Stan Knowles
Of Virginia at IL for IA and .857
and Ken Keller of North Caro-
lima with nine for II and .818
Brazell's only receiving chal-
Evening star., 1954-11-25
By the Assoeiased Press

Carroll Hardy, the battering
tailback of the University OF
Colorado, who isn't too popular
right now at Manhattan, Kans.,
was selected today as the AS
sociated Press Back of the Week,
A real ple-threater in this
area of specialists, Hardy was the
main instrument in knocking
Kansas State from a chance to
play in the Orange Bowl. His
Buffaloes whipped Kansas State
Saturday, 1914, and Hardy did
the following:
CD Scored three thouchdo downs.
ca Carried 10 times for 238
yards, better than his three-sea-
son average of 81.
(3) Kicked one extra point.
(4) Got of runs OF 70 and SO
yards for two of his scores and
40 yards, which set up his third.
Evening star., 1954-11-25
Duke Aces 78 Extra Points
Break Felton's S ACC Record

lenger is Wake Forests Ed
Showers, who has caught 20
passes for 247 yards and three
touchdowns. He still leads Bra
zell in receiving yardage, how
ever, 247 to 1874, and has caught
two more scoring aerials.
Joe Pagliei of Clemson, 36.7
on 26 kicks, and Henry Strem-
pek of Virginia, 36.5. on 38 kicks,
are one-two among ACC punt
ers.
Meantime, Mackie Prickett OF
South Carolina and Sonny Jur-
genson of Duke. both sopho-
more quarterbacks, are tied for
the ACC pass interception lead
with five each. just one of the
conference record. George Ma
rinkov of North Carolina State
! still leads in kickoff returns with
440 yards on IL returns, and
Ronnie Waller Of Maryland
continues to pace punt returns
with 199 yards on Is returns.
Evening star., 1954-11-25
Arizona Star Needs 10 Points
For Highest Total in "a Years

Luppino has taken care Of the
kickoff return category neatly.
He has 574 yards and one game
to play. ALI the other leaders
are finished and the closest one
is North Carolina States George
Marinkov, with 465.
New Mexico Wicker Leads.
Like Luppino. New Mexico's
A. Z. Terpening has shown his
rivals little mercy In punting.
Going into his last game against
San Jose State, he has an aver
age OF 45.6 yards a kick for 35
punts. In the last IL years,
only two players have reached
the 45-yard level and both Of
them did 1t in 1850, when zack
Jordan Of Colorado set the all
time record at 49, and Nevada's
Pat Brady was runnerup with
46.9. Behind Terpening now is
Ted Rohde Of Kansas. his sea-.
son complete. averaging 43.8.
In pass receiving. Don Hol-
leder Of. Army has the most in
teresting statistic going. He's
shooting for an all-time record
for yards gained per catch. His
average is 29.1 yards tl7 caught
for 495) yards. The record is
29.6. set by ellery Williams of
Santa Clara in 1s48, when he
caught 81 for 62l yards.
The real pass receiving race
seems all settled. California's s
Jim Hanifan finished up with
A caught, Stanford's John
Stewart with SO, California's
Jim Carmichael with SO and
brakes Jerry Mertens with %.
Still active Is Auburn's Jim
Pyburn with ~. but he's too far.
back to do much about 1t in the
one game he has left.
Evening star., 1954-11-25
Police Boys Club Football
| Winds Up This Week

The Police Boys Club Football
Leagues wind up their seasons
tomorrow and Saturday with
games at Fairlawn Field in which
league champions meet all-star
elevens.
Club No. 10, the 1O0-pound
winner, plays at 2::3o pm. to-
morrow. and No. II, the 30
pound winner. goes at Z pm.
Saturdays games involve No. los
120-pounders at II am. and No.
lis 140-pounders at 2:30 pm.
Evening star., 1954-11-25
I sy shs Associates Press

+
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.Ten
points against Wyoming Satur-
day will make Arizona's Art
Luppino the highest scorer
major college football has pro-
duced In "a years.
The hard-running sophomore.
who has the national rushing
and kickoff return titles also all
wrapped up. has scored l48
points so far this season and
completely wrecked all COMPETE
ton in that department, the Ma
tional Collegiate Athletic Associ-
atoms service bureau reported
today. He has 81 touchdoWrs
and % extra points.
In 1850. Bobby. Reynolds OF
Nebraska scored 157 points. No
one else has scored that many
since Jim Leech OF vMI set the
major-c college standard Of 2l0
back In 1920. so, If Luppino
matches his lO-point perform
ance of last Saturday, he'll move
ahead OF Reynolds total. Right
now he ranks ninth on the all-
time list and Reynolds is sixth.
Moore Second With 78.
Luppino hasn't quite doubled
the score on his rivals, but he's
close. The second man is Penn
States Lenny Moore, who has
13 touchdowns for Is points. His
season is over. But Oklahoma's
Buddy Leake. whose IS points
have come on nine touchdowns
and % conversions, and Army's
Tom Bell. whose 70 are the re-
suit of II touchdowns. each have
q game to play Saturday.
Birthplace Carroll Hardy of
Colorado is through with So
points, but Denver'S Rusy Fairly
Is very much in the running for
runnerup honors. He has 81
points with one to play. Five
players finished the season with
IL touchdowns and 66 points
Bob Davenport of UCLA. John
Bayuk of Colorado, Bob Nc
Namara Of Minnesota, Dick
James of Oregon and Earl Smith
of Iowa.
Smith also Is the leader In
punt returns. winding up with
Bob Davenport Of UCLA, John
Brown. Minnesota's Dick Me-
Namara totaled 252, and also is
through for the year. So the
ones who have the best chance
to head on Smith as champion
are Detroit's Leon Riley with
223 yards and Miami's Gordon
Malloy with 217, each with one
game to play.
Evening star., 1954-11-25
Arizin Puts Warriors
Out in Front Again;
CeIiics Drop knicks
BY the Associated Press

II the Philadelphia Warriors
are looking around for some
thing to be thankful for today.
they can offer a few hallelujahS
for the return of Paul Arizin
from the Marines.
One of the outstanding scor-
ers Of the National Basketball
Association, Arizin entered the
service in 1852 but completed his
tour in time to open the present
season with the Warriors. He
got right back in the groove,
leading Philadelphia with 113
points and a 22.6 average in the
first five games.
He added % points to that
total last night and lifted the
Warriors back into first place in
the Eastern Division with a 91-
87 comback victory over the Fort
Wayne Pistons. The defeat
dumped the Pistons into a first
place tie with idle Minneapolis
In the Western Division.
In other games, Boston's Celtics
toppled the New York Knicker-
bockers out Of second place in
the Eastern Division with a 108-
103 triumph, while Rochester
went into overtime to defeat
Milwaukee, 90-87.
The Warriors trailed by IL
points midway in the third
period, but with Arizin supplying
the spark they rallied and moved
10 points ahead in the final quar-
ter. The Pistons closed it to
88-87 before another Warrior
surge wrapped it UP. Danny Finn
stole a Fort Wayne pass with 10
seconds left and scored to put
1t on ice.
Bob Cousy and Ed Macauley
again led the Celtics, who trailed.
55-54, at the half, but staged a
third period attack that carried
them in. Cousy hit for 20 points.
Macauley for 27. Sweetwater
Clifton. sinking 10 of IA shots
from the field, led the Knicks
with %.
Milwaukee and Rochester were
tied, 1892, at the end Of regula-
tion time, despite a six-point
Milwaukee lead with 212 minutes
left. Bobby Wamzer scored %
to top Rochester, which had lost
five straight.
Evening star., 1954-11-25
OlympicsIopAgendai
Al AAU Convention
BY shs A.soeiaisd pr.s.

MIAMI BEACH. Fla. Nov. IS.
The Amateur Athletic Union
opens It's convention here today
with plans for the coming Pan
American and Olympic Games
high on the ,agenda.
An all-day executive session Is
scheduled. with committee meet
ings tomorrow and general ses-
sions Saturday and Sunday.
Several olympic committees
are expected to report during the
meeting on their arrangements
for tryouts and team selections.
National Championships will
be awarded in is sports and sew
eral performances In track and
field. swimming, weight-litfing
and gymnastics which bettereGs