6 The News-Review, Roseburg, Or. Thun., Aug. 21, 1952
Wilsons Set New Record
For Number Of Reprieves
By LEROY HITTLE
OLYMl'lA Turman and Utah
Wilson set an unenviable record
last week when their date with
death was postponed for the fourth
time.
The previous record in Washing
ton was held by the late Jake
Bird who obtained hice reprieves
before he was finally hanged for
the ax slaying of a Tacoma
woman.
The Wilson brothers, sentenced
to death Aug. 9.1050, for the kid-nap-slaying
of Jo Ann Dew.'y at
Vancouver, have dodged the hang
man's noose for 24 months.
Bird, burlcy Negro who often
argued his own case in court, was
able to evade the gallows for only
J9 months after ha was first
sentenced.
The 48 year-old Negro confessed
knowing about or taking part in
44 murders during his crjss-coun-try
roaming, lie was hanged July
15, 1949 for the murder of Mrs.
Bertha Kludt in Tacoma on Oct.
30, 1947.
His craftiness and legal know
how enabled him to carry his case
through the state supreme court,
the federal district court, the fed
eral circuit court of appeals and to
the United States supreme court
which refused three different times
to review his case.
The Wilson brothers were
found guilty June 2d, 1930 by a
Clark County jury of the kidnap
murder of 18-year-old Jo Ann
Dewey. The state said 20-year-old
Utah and 24-year-old Turman
grabbed the girl from a Vancouver
street the night of March 19, 1950
and carried her off in an automo
bile. Seven persons testified they
heard her scream as she was beat
en before being shoved into the
car.
A week's intensive search fol
lowed before her body, nude and
violated sexually, was found in the
Wind river east of Vancouver. She
had died of carbon monoxide poi
soning, possible from car exhaust
fumes.
The brothers maintained throupn
out the trial and since that they
were in a Portland theater at the
time the girl was abducted.
Through their attorneys the Wil
son brothers carried their case to
the state supreme court, the fed
eral district court at Spokane and
Walla Walla, the federal circuit
court of appeals at San Francisco
and to the United States supremo
court. The latter refused on two
different occasions to review the
case.
Their last hope of escaping the
gallows now lies with an inves'i
gation to be made by a special
committee of the American Bar As
sociation. The study was requested by Gov
ernor Langlie to determine whelh
er his office should take any furth
er action on the case.
If the report is favorable to the
brothers, Governor Langlie may
extend their present 80-day stay
of execution or commute their
death sentence to life imprison
ment. If the report is not favoranle,
Clark County Superior Judge Eu
gene G. Cushing probably will be
asked to set a ncw-and fifth-execution
date for the brothers.
Mme. Chiang's Physician
Promises Betterment
SAN FHANC1SCO UH A skin
specialist said today it is "just a
question of time" before Mme.
Chiang Kai-shek's skin ailment re
sponds to treatment.
Dr. Edwin I.. Bruck of the Uni
versity of California Medical Cen
ter examined the 54-year-old first
lady of Nationalist China yester
day. He said the inflammation
"may respond in four or five days
or may take two or three weeks."
Mme. Chiang arrived late Satur
day on a plane fuom Hawaii, where
doctors had recommended she pro
ceed to San Francisco for treat
ment of the ailment, believed
caused by nerves.
Greyhound Bus Upsets,
Nobody Seriously Hurt
COOS BAY Wl A Greyhound
bus carrying 25 passengers north
ward from Eureka, Calif., over
turned on U. S. Highway 101 three
miles south of Bandon early Wed
nesday without serious injury to
any aboard.
One passenger, Mrs. Margaret
Kotzman of Canby, was hospital
ized here for observation. Others
were only badly shaken.
Cause of the accident was not
immediately determined.
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AID PROMISED The family of John Hvasta, 25-year-old American
citizen held prisoner by Hed Czechoslovakia and now reported
"missing," confer with their congressman, Rep. Peter W. Rodino,
in his Washington office. Hep. Rodino has promised to assist in
their efforts to learn of John's fate. Left to right: Rep. Rodino;
Stephen Hvasta and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hvasta.
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SIGNING OFF William Ball and his daughter look at a sign
by a Minneapolis park lake that used to read: "Danger. No Swim
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On Dunkin Discounted
, MEDFORD Wl State Police
Captain Paul Parson said Tues
day the search is continuing for
George Dunkin, elderly prospec
tor accused of killing i state police
man June 24.
Parson discounted a report that
Dunkin was in the Diamond Lake
area, where cabins have been
broken into recently. The search
has centered around Dunkin'!
mountain cabin, about 35 miles
from the lake.
Voters' Pamphlets Not
Enough; Money Lacking
SAf.EM Wl There will not be
Voters' Pamphlets for everyone
unless the Stale Emergency Board
novides for a S40.636 deficit be
,.re the November election. Secre
tary of State Earl Newbry said
Tuesday.
Hp rnnnrlpH lio ovnerlnti a Ant.
icit of that amount in the cost of
priming the pamphlet, lie blamed
increased costs of printing and
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Highwoy 99 North
Russia Adopts New
Government System
MOSCOW I The Soviet Un
ion s ruling Communist party an
nounced Wednesday that it will
hold its first party Congress in 13
years on Oct. i to giv? the party
a sweeping reorganization and set
up a fifth five Year Plan to in
crease Soviet industrial output 70
per cent by the end of 1955.
A decree of the party's Central
Commiliee, published in all Mos
cow papers, said the party's top
control body, its Politburo, would
be replaced by a Traesidium
which would have the function -of
"guiding the work of the (party)
central committee between sessions."
Another Animal In Zoo
Falls Victim To Vandal
DALLAS, Tex. I Vi, female
vicuna in ine Dallas zoo, is dead,
fifth victim in recent years of a
rifleman who apparently shoots
just to kill.
Vi was killed Saturday night.
Pieces of the ,22-caliber bullet
were found in her liver.
Ray Hubbard, president of the
Park Board, offered a $250 reward
for the vandal responsible. In the
past, one llama, one zebra and two
deer have been shot, all by a 22
rifle.
A vicuna is allied to the llama
and alpaca families.
Milk Producers Seek
End Of Price Controls
CHICAGO I A drive to end
government price controls on dairy
products has been started by the
National Milk Producers Federa
tion. A special decontrol committee of
representatives of five dairy pro
ducers associations was appointed
Thursday to meet with members
of dairy groups throughout the
country.
The federation says it represents
farmers in 46 states who produce
more than one fifth of the nation's
milk and cream.
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STORYBOOK ROMANCE Gwyn Daniel, 22-year-old service
station operator from Ardmore, Okla., and Carolyn Bigham, the
girl he courted by mail, gaze fondly at each other. They were
married in Charlotte, N. C. on Friday. A serious illness wiped
Carolyn's memory clean and the story of her re-education irom
first grade up was printed by Life Magazine on her graduation.
Gwyn saw the story, wrote to Carolyn and the romance that fol
lowed ended in marriage and this domestic scene.
New 'Resident' Shines r
Along Park Avenue
NEW YORK. vP Park Ave
nue has a new "resident" i
29-story glass and stainless steel
office building on "stilts".
It's the six million dollar "Lev
er House", headquarters of Lev
er Brothers. The building appears
to rise on stainless steel columns.
There are 1,404 green and blue
tinted windows.
The ground floor features an
outdoor terrace garden and a
soundproof theater.
CAMAS VALLEY TEACHER
The name of Mrs. Eleanor Moody
was omitted from a story on the
Camas Valley School faculty in
Tuesday's paper. Mrs. Moody will
handle English, typing and home
making in her fifth year at Cam
as Valley this fall. .
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Ram Sale Prices Far
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SALE LAKE CITY I Prices
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licharl tact nir a e tha ?7th .-.1
national ram sale opened here
aionaay.
stud rams was $188 a head, com
pared with the $438 average of
Officials at (hp amo lima Unm.
art g rlrnrt in ,.nl nriin, nmir t TC
cents a pound compared with the
ji.ou oi last year ana xne iaci
that many growers have not yet
sum ineir hocks ana so no not nave
ready cash for new purchases.
PEACH 4 time
Peach Crop Declines,
New Trees Needed
CENTRALIA, III., i - Big Mid
west peach crops of recent years
can not be brougnt back until new
trees are grown, the Illinois Fruit
Council reports.
The semi-official agency blames
the ihsu-51 winter kill of peach
trees for declining harvests. In Il
linois 19.11 yielded an all-time big
crop of four million bushels and its
latest big year was more than two
million bushels in 1949. The 1952
crop has been estimated at less
than one million bushels.
Sailor From Roseburg
On 'Round-World Trip j
Sonarman 3c Theron S. Harris, '
USN, husband of Mrs. Patricia R.
Harris, 724 Pine St., is serving
aboard the destroyer UUS Laffey,
which is on its way around the
world with three other destroyers
after a tour of duty in Korean
waters. i
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plete its world cruise this month. 1
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