2 (Sec. ' I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Tues., Aug. 7, "56
Witness Says Fanning Sane
On Day Wife Was Murdered
(Mar? Im te Page 1)
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DALLAS. Ore. A gray-haired Portland piychlalrltt testified here
Monday that Bayliat Gilbert Fanning was tan when ha shot, and
killed his wila oa the hack porch o( th couple's beautiful country
borne.
Faiuilnf. charged with firtt-degree murder, made a tero-hour plea
af niiltv here Monday morning ai bis trial opened.
ninety prospective jurors were
Chosen
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AURORA l iKille Gregory, IS,
of the Woodbum Hubbard
area, wh wa cheeen queen
forth Avnra Junior Redww;
North Marion
Girl Chosen
Rodeo Queen
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AURORA Lucille Gregory, U,
of the Woodbura-Hubbard area.
Monday night wai named queea of
Aurora i unique Junior Rodeo,
scheduled this weekend.
Brown-haired,- blue-eyed Lucille
woa out over three other can
didate! in a race decided by aum
ber of rodeo ticket sold. Tht
princesse who will comprise the
remainder of the royal court t
cluda Virginia Dfell, ' Aurora.'
Linda Lawrence. Salem; and Pat
Gatnifard, Woodbum. -
Queea Lucille, a ttudent at North
Marion High School and a horse
woman since she was five, was
sponsored in the contest by the
Night Riders, 4 H riding club. She
will be crowned Just prior ta the
11 a.m. parade which opens the
rodeo program oa Saturday. The
coronation ceremony wilt Jake
place at Aurora City Park.
Rodeo performance,'1 featuring
outstanding competitor from ta
II years from ever the state, will
be held at 1 p.m. both Saturday
and Sunday.
Veterans Coihmiitee
Suggest by Mora
'PORTLAND OPh- Sea. Wayne
Mors (D-Ore ), speaking ia
Portland at a Veterans of For
eign Wars meeting Hoaday night.
said that a 'special Senate com
mittee should be created to
handle legiilation concerning vet
eran problem!.
Worse told tht gathering that
such a committee was necessary
if veterans' hills were not t be
buried in ether committees.
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dismissed before selection of a Jury
get underway and Judge William
Weill will determine the degree of
Fanning guilt.
Three Verdlrta
Judge Wells hss three verdict to
consider.
They are first degree murder,
which could mcs a sentence of
death or life imprisonment; sec
ond-degree, murder, lite imprison
ment; and manslaughter, IS years
imprisonment.
The psychiatrist who found Fan
ning sane was Dr. 0. C. Burkes,
a defense witness who further
testified that be did not believe
Fanning "tsyas thinking" at the
time the fatal ibots were fired.
The mind specialist -said be
thought Fanning was se distraught
at the moment of shooting that he
could not remember what hap
pened. He likened it to temporary
amnesia.
Fester Prosecutes
In closing pless. Defense Attor
ney Francis Marsh argued that
the stale, had failed to ihow pre
meditation, and that there wai no
basis for a first-degree murder
verdict.
Marsh 'also argued that no
malice bad been proved to sustain
a second-degree charge.
District Attorney Walter Foster,
who prosecuted the case alone in
a last-minute change, summed up
his case against Fanning by stat
ins that "(Fanning and his wife)
had a fight; his wife was going
way from aim; she wa shot,
four times."
Fanning' motive, the district
attorney argued, wa ".a problem
he couldn't solve".
Tells ef Treaties
The latter was a reference to
episodes from the Fanning' rocky
marriage a the story unfolded at
the swift-moving trial.
Fanning, 17, and Margaret
Hampton, 41, were married ia
1M2, some two year after Fan
ning first wile died of csncer.
The defendant pictured his sec
ond wife a a neurotic and some
times morose woman who twice
had threatened to shoot him.
Fanning said the marital sparks
started to fly few months after
their marriage whea his wife be
gan to sjuarrel with bis grows oa
and daughter by a previou mar
riage. Fanning said word spread ia the
community that his wife had made
a hideous accusation about one of
hi children. t
On one occasion, the defendant
testified;- fthr ' wife phone hJrrrat
the McMinaville Kfkt Club and said !
she was going to "do away with
hi! relatives. He said be called
state police but that hi wife left
home before tht authorities arriv
ed.
Had Seven Drlaks
' Fanning, a longtime member of
the Yahmill County Sheriff Posse.
said hi wife frequently "worked
herself Into a rage" and that his
nerves finally went ta pieces and he
sougnt medical care for himself.
"She was a regular wildcat," he
testified at one point, "but I could
not hold a grudge. The next day It
(would alwaya be) over."
Under questioning by his awn at
torneys. Fanning testified that he
had consumed "seven drinks" on
tht, day he ahot his wile. The shoot
ing occurred late at night.
Fanning also gave testimony that
he bought a caie of beer for hit
wile, at her request, on the day of
the shooting.
Other testifying at the seven-
hour murder trial included rela
tival of Fanning, state ballistics
expert Ralph Prouty, Deputy Cor
oner Earl Thomson and State Po-
Ike Sgt. Joe Fore.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. A mother' love for ksr son wa evidenced Monday by Mr. Glayds
Lloyd Robinson, 59, a she embraced her only boy, Edward G. Robinson Jr., after he pleaded
innocent on a felony drunk driving charge. Mrs. Robinson also Monday obtained . a
divorce from Robinson Sr., the actor. (AP Wirephoro)
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"I'LL CRY TOMORROW": T:O0,
"COURT ;ESTE1"! 1:54.
Craig's Wife Big Problem
For Craig, Pentode's Cast
Stocks Sag
InSue&Issue
NEW YORK Ift Stocks were
hammered down peraiatently Mon
day in the wake of increased ner
vousness over the Sues Cans)
Muabolc,tnernattonrotf - issues
took the -worst beafinf white ' a
long list of domestic blue chips
fell back siisble amounts.
The quoted value of all stocks
listed oa the New York exchange
dropped an estimated two and a
half billion dollars.
iAdd. details page 10
Oregon City
Crash Fatal
. OREGON CITY I - A head-on
colliiion of two automobiles near
here early Monday killed a young
mother and hospitalized her hus
band, a daughter, and the other
driver.
Dead is Mrs. Joyce Ann Harrel,
Pendleton, believed to be in her
late 20k. Her husband, Melburn.
suffered broken legs, internal In
juries and ruti, and their daugh
ter, I.inda, S, suffered head inju
ries.' The second driver, Gerald
Ray Dunn, 20, Oregon City, suf
fered a broken leg and internal
injuries.
Dunn was booked on ( charge
of negligent homicide. '
By CALVIN D. JOHNSON
Staff Writer, The Statesman
One of the best methods of test
ing the acting and directing quali
ties of any theater group is its
ability to make an acceptable pro
duction out of an Inferior play. (
Pentacle Theater opened its
fourth production of the season
Monday night with "Craig's Wife"
i by George Krlly a test if there
! ever was one.
Pentacle flunked.
Dramatist Kelly attempted to
present a full-length portrait of
a pathologically selfish woman.
"Craig's Wife" echoes of Ibsen'i
"A Doll's House" only inside
out. In this case, however, it'i
the man (Mr. Craig) who- finds
himself instead of the woman.
What it adds up to is: A house
is not always a home.
The outstanding weakness of
Pentacle'! effort appeared to be in
bill direction of Robert M. Putnam.
jLven kuul .inc.. relatively mexprn-
iwfdoolrr"hwBfini
(this was the first Pentacle per
formance for three of the cast).
he could have instilled some sense
of characterization into the leading
roles.
Thank goodness for John Bell
amy, OSC literature professor,
who played Walter Craig, and
who generally indicated through
delivery of lines and a degree of
animation that he understood the
part. Then, too, thanki for wel
come breaks in the monotonous
pace ' by Althea Ferri!, who
played Mrs. Harold the house
keeper, Caroline Matter as Mazie
the maid, Irene Fussier ss Mrs.
Frazier the neighbor, and George
Harding (The lead in Death of
a Salesman), who played Billy
Birkmire, a non-essential role.
It was through the strain ex
erted by these person! that
"Craig't Wie" would be momen
tarily illuininated, like, in the
words ofL'raig to his wife, "a
landscape at midnight by a flash
of lighting."
The cast included Mary Miller
as Misi Austin an aunt to Mr.
Craig whose lines provided Mon
day's night's first glimpse into
Mr. Craig'i personality. There
also was Michelle Edward! ai
Ethel Landreth. a niece; Peter
Herman and Jim O'Conaelt as a
couple of cops, ind the director
himself as Eugene Fredericks,
fiance of the niece. It wai evi
dent that director Putnam knew
his own part far better than he
did the others.
The title role was played by
Harriet Bush. .. -
PORTLAND i The Oregonian
said Monday night that a Portland
policeman who provided the new
paper with information regarding
vice payoffs had tried unsuccess
fully to resign from the force.
The policeman. Jack F. Olsen
said the resignation was submit'
ted to Capt. David H. Johnson
Saturday night. The Oregonian
quoted Olsen as saying:
He (Johnson) said it wouldn t
be fair to myself or the force if
I quit at this time. And he asked
me to think it over for a couple
or days. J have, and I have de
cided to Kick it oft?'
In earlier stories The Oregonian
has said Olsen came to a police
reporter with information of other
policemen accepting money from
after-hours establishments. , .
Meanwhile, a woman surren
dered Monday oa a warrant charg
ing her with keeping and setting
up a house of prostitution. Booked
as Marie E. Rogers, SO, she was
the 30th person arrested in the
wake of a grand jury probe of
vice and corruption here. She was
released after posting f 1.000-bait.
Othen under indictment Include
Dist. Atty. William M. Langley
ana Lniw oi rotice James Purcell
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today, tonight and Wednesday; rat
tered early morning cloudlneaa. Little
change In temperature; high today.
12: low tonight, SO.
Willamette River: -1.4 feet.
Temp. 1101 a.m. today ia.
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Hurt Cyclist
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- Consciousness returned to a Sa-f
lem man Monday some 40 hours
after his motorcycle collided with
a car.
Wallace Emil Hoffman. S2IS
Swegle Rd., was reported in "fair"
condition by attendants at Salem i day night with the car at Columbia
Memorial Hospital. He suffered and Front Streets.
Brunch Slated
For Visitors
To Air Show
The Salem chapter of the Sports
men Pilots of Oregon voted Mon
day night to hold a brunch for
visiting airmen as feature of
this Sunday's annual Air Fair and
fly-in at McNary Field. The (air
is sponsored by the Salem Opti
mists Club. ..
The brunch will be held from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the chapter
also plans to serve coffee and
donuts to visiting pilots at the
lounge at the field.
Plans also were made to make
lhechap(erT"CbartrTrr-Mr-atr-'
able to airmen flying in. Chapter
members will hold a "lounge
warming at the field following
close of the Air Fair.
Feature of the Monday . night
meeting of the . Salem group was
showing of aviation films provided
by the State Aeronautical Associa
tion.
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Escapee From
Salem Jail-
Duty Returned
TRAINS derails
ST. LOUIS (1 The New York
Central's Knickerbocker passenger
train en route here from New
York "derailed Monday at nearby
Mitchell, 111., and 14 persons re
ported minor Injuries. "k
A man who escaped from Salem
city jail trusty duty two yean ago
was brought back Monday from
Portland, where ht wai apprehend
ed by city police.
Listed as James Franklin Reams
of Portland, he was-lodged this'
ilune.-in. Marion Couhtv jail on an to pav fines of $25S for driving
escape cnarge wim Dan set at wnne m ireen a uiemiTO
500. He is to make his plea 9:30 and violation of the city noise ordi-
DRIVER DIES IN CRASH
KLAMATH FALLS uru-Uonard
Weber, Malm, died Monday whea
his auto and a lumber truck col-
tided on Poe Valley Road between
Malin and Bonanza, east of here.
a m. Wednesday in Marion County
District fourt.
Reams was jailed for inability
nance when he disappeared from
the police station while on a work
detail Aug. 28, 1954, police said.
numerous head bruises and abra
sions and a possible concussion
when his vehicle collided Satur-
- City police listed driver of the
car as Sharon L. Schaffran, Port-,
land. -
CAS TANKS TAKEN
Theft of two gasoline tanks
valued at $24 each from a boat
parked on a trailer in the .1200
block Broadway Street was re
ported to Salem police Monday by
Lee Dugger, Brooks Route I. The
tanks were reported taken between
Thursday and Saturday, police
said.
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