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The Seaforth News, 1962-07-26, Page 3Trying To Save Red's Right Arm The taxi was waiting at the rear exit of Boston's Massachu- setts General Hospital one morn- ing recently, Twelve -year-old Everett (Red) Knowles paused, turned, and waved his left arm at the small eluster of doctors in the doorway. Then, taking care not to bump his other arm, held in. a Cast in front a his body, he ducked into the cab and began the 4 -mile trip to his home in Somerville. It had been three weeks to the day since a fire- department ambulance had rush- ed the redheaded youngster to Massachusetts General's emer- gency entrance. Dazed with shock, theboy had been found clutching his right arm which had been torn completely oft' just below the shoulder In a train accident. Within six hours of his arrival, three waves of surgeons —aided by dozens a physicians and tee nicians--had sewn the arm back, a piece of medical derring-do seldom tried and so far never successful. First, the doctors carefully, rejoined the two major veins and single artery of the arm, watch- ing triumphantly as a pulse returned to the wrist and the fingertips flushed pink with life. Then orthopedists drove a 9 -inch stainless-steel rod into each end of broken bone, firmly reattach- ing the arm. Plastic surgeons joined the four main muscle groups and, in another operation five days later, covered the raw wound at arm and shoulder with skin from Everett's thigh. Despite the shock of the acci- dent and rapid succession of operations, the freckled youngs- ter was soon eating regular meals, playing electric football with his nurses ("But they didn't know anything at all about set- ting up their men"), and learn- ing to write with his left hand. While doctors worried about pos- sible infection which would re- quire immediate amputation, Ev- erett had only one concern: Would he ever be able to pitch again for his Little League team, the shoe - company - sponsored Stride - Rites? Encouragement came from some of the people who counted most. American League president roe Cronin sent Everett an autographed baseball. Yankee lefbhandor Bud Daley wired: "I'm a pitcher like you and you may not know it, my right arm is withered from polio, so don't lose all hope." "I just wanted to drop you a line," wrote Ted Williams, "and tell you to hurry up and get back into that baseball uniform." But doctors are in no hurry to put Everett back on the mound. The most critical operation of all —to reattach the nerves of Ev- erett's now useless arm—still lies ahead, "We have to wait for the bones to heal and the tissues to eaten," said Dr. Ronald A. Malt, who is in immediate charge of the case. Hopefully, in two to five months neurosurgeons will hook up the three main nerve branches, now held by temporary sutures to keep them from shri- veling. Whether the thousands of nerve fibers controlling the arm will grow together and re- store function will not be known fox a year or two. Everett, greeting fellow Little Leaguers in the living room of the Knowles' modest home, was confident about the next, most crucial operation, "i'm not the least bit worried," he said firm- ly. "Besides, if I can't pitch again, I'll switch to third base," ROUGH SPORT A skinny lad, weighing 150 pounds or less, turned out for the first football practice at one of the Big Ten colleges last fall, but soon thought better of his impulse. "I didn't mind a thing," he reported, "till one bruiser grabbed my left leg, another my right leg, and the first one said to the other, 'Make a with?'" CRA riNG A SPLASH — One way to solve C:hicugo'i traffic problem would seem to be to drive right into the lake You'd need an "Amphicar," however, which is what is being dem- onstrated above in Lake Michigan. The Amphicar is a two - dour, four -passenger convertible equipped with everything a car needs, plus navigation lights bilge pump and twin pro- pellers Built in Germany, it has a cruising speed of 70 m p:h. on land and about 14 ne.p,h in water. His Scarred Face Made Him A Crook The cashier was busy count- ing fivers when he heard the swing -door open. He looked up with an automatic can-I.help- you-sir smile, but the smile froze as he saw the man's face. With his right foot he sound- ed the electric alarm - bell by Pressing the button under the counter, Two minutes later, Charles Aram — as we shall call him— was being questioned by police officers, They knew him as a professional criminal. "1 wanted to cash a cheque," he said, and showed it to them, "True, he didn't try to rob the bank," the cashier admitted, "but I wasn't going to take chances on a bloke with a face like that," Aram had a boxer's broken nose, a wrestler's folded right ear and a scar from the chin through the lips up to the eye. "Isn't that enough to ring the alarm for?" asked the cashier. a N k In a smart office in the City of London a tall, handsome man with shining dark hair, grey temples and bushy black eye- brows greeted me with a warm senile. "Yes, I'm Charles Aram," he said, "I used to be a criminal a professional screwsman, I don't make a secret of why I turned to crime. It was because of my face." • I looked again at the smooth, well-groomed skin, the straight, almost aquiline nose, the bold, thick -set eyes. "Not this face. Once, it was quite different" • Charles was s eve n. He was playing with other kids in a nar- row alley near the London docks. He was the cop chasing a couple of robbers who had escaped through a warehouse door. He looked far them outside through a low-silled window, overbalanced and toppled head- first twenty feet on to a heap of scrap acetal. He regained consciousness in hospital. "I had a broken leg, my face was badly cut and I was lucky that they could save my eye," Charles said. As a result of the accident he had a scar right across his cheek. Soon kids were calling him "Scarface" all over the dis- trict, Other boys provoked him. "Let's see how tough you are, Scarface," they taunted him. He was always getting involved in fights and was often beaten up — because he was not as tough as he looked, To learn to de- fend himself better, he took up wrestling, When he was eleven, two bro- thers of his own age in his class jeered him till 13e punched one of them in the face. The other one began to cry. Next day their father, Fred Kelsey, waited for Charles to come out of school. Then he grabbed him and beat him with a stick. Charlie ran home with a bleeding and broken nose. That night Charlie's father, a docker, swore to kill the men who had beaten up his son But Charlie wouldn't tell who it was. He would get revenge himself he decided. In order to gain more strength and fighting skill, Charlie- train- ed hard as a wrestler at a club. His coach made him turn pro —and soon he had his lips per- manently twisted and his. right ear smashed, Having lost his father soon af- ter leaving school, Charlie — his face cow hideously deform- ed — applied for a job al a fac- tory, They turned him away. A local newsagent laughed at him when he wanted to become a paperboy. At a dairy, the foreman told him bluntly: "You'd never sell any milk with your face. No, my boy. Housewives wouldn't dare open the door to you." Next night Charlie broke into bhe newsagent's shop, stole 300 cigarettes and £2 17s, cash, He was caught within twenty-four hours. Borstal was no help to him. "There I learned the value of my face," Charles said, "The boys accepted nee as a leader at once—just on face -value. Now, all I needed was more experi- ence. And I was determined to get it." Soon after he got out of Bors- tal, he did a small job which ' earned him three months in pri- son. He found jail a real uni- versity of crime. He knew he would have to go back—tp. grad- uate. The Long-delayed revenge on bhe Kelseys seemed to be a good opportunity to achieve that. When he first broke into Kel- sey's house the boys and their mother saw him stealing a radio, some cash and a suit. They were so`terrified by his face that they did not dare stop him—even when he smashed the, windows and furniture, For that he got another six months. The prison governor wanted him to learn a craft. Charlie was' good at figures, so they let him study accountancy. Charles told me: "Of course, they didn't know my idea was to become boss of a big gang," With his cuts from the "pro- fits" he could get liis suits from Savile Row, wear handmade shoes, dine at the best places and win any girl, To attract girls—perhaps that was one of Charles Aram's strongest motives for turning to crime. In his teens no good-looking girl wanted to tallc to him or dance with him. Once he had fallen in love with a girl called. Sheila. But she would have no- thing to do with him. "I want to be proud of the boy I go out BECK GOES TO PRISON -- Former Teamsters Union President Dave Beck (left) follows a U S marshal Is they leave for McNeil Island federal prison in Tacoma, Wash, Beck puid a $20,000 fine and entered prison to begin serving a five•year term. Beck was found guilty of incur" tax violations three years ago. -•ho told him, Charles knew that if he was rich he would have plenty et girl friends. But be could never make enough money in a job. So crime became the mein source of income to him. The underworld was the only place which would accept him, crime was his only refuge, the only way he could earn the money that, with his brain, he should be getting. When a girl who refused to talk to him mar- ried one of the Kelsey boys'. Charles brake into their house for a second time, Then, only the old man, Fred, was at home. Charlie robbed the house and beat up Fred. The charges brought against him failed, He made up a false alibi which convinced the jury. But a few months later he was sent to jail—for two years. He was found guilty of fraudulent eonverejoe. Ile was thirty-two. He had nine convictions and served seven years in jail. It was the prison chaplain who really saved Charles Aram—and CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING OABY CHIC Its ei11JNl1'l shipment from Bray on dual purpose Ames. Also broilers. Reduest list, advising your requirements, See local agent, tchery,10JNoh,Hamilon. On BOATS A I AMARAi*1S UN:IVIUNS'3RAr0l0S AND. 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Wiu remodel t0 suit tenant, Situated be• LO turn to crime, As•a good ac- fside rom! sI IG,4esupermcross. s the street eolmtant he could earn much lnformetlon, eontes1 Ted ROh0'ts Far• more. est ICA. Ont, .__ Charles laughed ag him: "With BUSINESS PROPERTIES FOR SALE my face? An office job? I'm not pretty enough to make a milk- man. housewives wouldn't trust me with their money. So why should businessmen?" Next day, the chaplain return- ed with another man, "He's a plastic surgeon," the chaplain explained. "Perhaps one of the best in the country. If you agree, he'll operate on you and you won't have to worry about your looks any more," "Who'll pay for it? Doesn't it cost a lot of money? I haven't got a penny," Charles snapped. "It'll be done through the Health Service," the chaplain said, Aram had three operations. After the third—he could not. recognize himself. When released from the hospi- tal be walked straight down to the docks where most of his friends—and enemies—lived. No one greeted him. No one recognized him, Pie was "just a stranger. He saw a girl walking towards hint. There was something Pam - Mar about her. Then he remem- I bered. It was Sheila. He stopped. her. The girl did not remember him. He had to tell someone — so he told her all about himself. To his amazement, she listened and agreed to meet him in the evening. It was Charlie's first proper date—at the age of thirty-four. And Shelia did not stand him up. A few days later a probation officer introduced him to a big filen of accountants in the City. The partners knew of his criminal record but—in view of the circumstances—agreed to em- ploy him under a different name. Ho got a job of minor importance. Two years later he became a partner—with a luxurious office to himself, When I met him he looked and behaved like a bus- iness tycoon—and leader among men as he had always wanted to he, There was a baby boy's picture in a metal frame on the huge kidney -shaped desk. "My son, though a bit older now," Charles said. He took a photograph el a pretty blonde out of his pocket. "And that's Sheila—my wife," "And that's Sheila—my wife."— by Stephen Barley in "Tit -Bits." Still The Boy Who Never Grew Up 1.1 hardly seemed plausible that actor Mickey Rooney could be on his uppers. Bouncy as ever at 41, he was stepping from one featur- ed role in "Requiem for a Heavy- weight" into another in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." His current wife (No. 5) sported a $4,300 leopard -skin coat. And in a generation as a Hollywood star—going back to 1935, when he enchanted moviegoers as Puck in "A Mid -summer Ni g h is Dream" — the pug-nosed little trouper has earned •about $15 million. Yet last month Rooney pleaded bankruptcy, listing lia- bilities of $484,914 and assets of $500, and told newsmen: "I'm going to concentrate on getting back in the blue;" Declaring himself hamstrung by unpaid taxes and other debts, race -track losses, and alimony and child sttpport claimed by three of his ex-wives, Rooney noted in his petition that even the leopard- skin coat wasn't paid for in full. What made him buy it, if things were so tough? Rooney's lawyer explained: "Mickey's career wasn't going so urea, the baby was sick , you know, when feelings run low, you buy some- thing expensive to brighten the clay." Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. •--Georrle W. Goethnls ISSUE 21 196e RESTAURANT & independent Service Station Bleck building, 2 bay garage, Hying quarters, 21,5 acres on Trans- Canada Highway. Excellent potential. Opportunity for right people, Mort. gage arranged, J. Tfnight, Beverleys Restaurant. 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