Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.,
Page 4 Fri., Dec. 21, 1151
Actors Agent
Gels Subpena
' Lang to Appear
At Wanger Trial
HOLLYWOOD (U.B Actors
Agent Jennings Lang was expect
ed to go home Friday or Saturday
from a hospital where he was
treated for a bullet wound al
legedly inflicted by Walter
Wanger in a fight over the pro
ducer's wife, Joan Bennett.
District Attorney S. Ernest Roll
lubpenaed the agent Thursday to
appear at Wanger's superior court
arraignment next Wednesday on
a charge of assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to commit
murder.
Here Formality
The subpena was issued after
chief Los Angeies County jail
physician Dr. Marcus Graham re.
ported that Lang was improving
rapidly and was expected to leave
Midway Hospital Friday or Satur
day. Roll said the subpena was
merely a formality to place Lang
under legal jurisdiction, and the
agent probably would not be forc
ed to attend the arraignment.
"I want to establish without
question the jurisdiction of this
office in the case," Roll said.
Admits Shooting
Lang at first appeared reluctant
to tell the story of the shooting,
but his attorney, Jake Ehrlich,
later told the district attorney the
agent would cooperate "fully' with
authorities.
Lang was shot in the groin in a
parking lot across the street from
the Beverly Hills police station as
he stood talking with Miss Ben
nett. Wanger allegedly admitted
the shooting to police and said he
believed the agent was "threaten
ing my home."
Oxford Scholars Beaten
By Convicts in Debate
NORFOLK, Mass. (U.PJ Two fast-talking American con
victs defeated a touring debating team from England's anclertt
Oxford University Thursday night at the Massachusetts State
Prison Colony.
It was the first judged debate lost on their American tour
by Dick Taverne and William Rees-Mogg, both 23, of Ox
ford's Balliol College.
However, the English students bore no ill will toward
their conquerors, two convicts who could be identified only
as Bill, 35, and Murdo, 29.
"It's one of the nicest things that has happened to us in
the United States and we shall always treasude it," Rees
Mogg said as he thanked the audience of some COO prisoners
for their friendly welcome arid applause.
The Englishmen had no reason to feel ashamed of their
defeat since it was the 35th victory for the prison colony's
debating team in 49 collegiate engagements.
The subject of Thursday's debate, believed the first in
ternational event of its kind ever held behind prison walls,
was the desirability of a "Free National Health Service." The
English team took the affirmative.
Young Bride Confused
Due to Red POW List
Cusiom Roasting
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Eugene Bakery
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ATLANTA (VP) The pris
oner of war list which brought
joy to many homes across the
nation left one young bride in
a state of tearful confusion
Friday.
Twenty-two - year-old Agnes
Sasser was reading the POW list
Wednesday when her eyes fell
on the name of her first hus
band, Pfc. Walter B. Dixon.
Dixon had been reported
killed in Korea in May, 1951.
In September, Agnes married
Pfc. William C. Sasser at Fort
McPherson, near Atlanta.
Then Wednesday, word of her
first husband ...
The first thing Mrs. Sasser
did after spotting the name was
call her present husband, Bill,
who was so stunned he couldn't
say anything.
Later, walking up and down
and wringing her hands, Mrs.
Sasser told reporters. "I just
don't know what to do. I haven't
been able to think it through.
You have no idea how I feel."
Mrs. Sasser said she's sure
the Dixon carried on. the POW
list Is her first husband because
"the serial numbers match."
And yet, "The Defense De
partment told me Walter was
wounded by bomb fragments at
the front and died the same
day."
Also, she continued, Dixon's
$10,000 insurance policy was
paid in a lump sum by the gov
ernment. .
The Defense Department says
the discrepancy has been sent
to Gen. Matthew Ridgway for
investigation.
The Sassers left Fort Mc
Pherson Thursday for a two
week vacation at an undisclosed
spot.
Before they left she was
asked which husband she'll
stick by.
"I don't know," she answer
ed. "Bill and I may not even
be married. Oh, I just don't
know what to do."
Drinking Spree
Leads fo Death
'Left Wife in Snow
Husband Declares
JACKSON, Mich. (P) The
state studied a possible man
slaughter charge Friday against
business executive Edward G.
Spencer, whose 21-year-old wife
froze to death after a drinking
spree.
Prosecutor' George Campbell
said he was not decided on the
exact charge. But he said it would
involve "some form of man
slaughter." Spencer, 44 years old and the
father of three children by a pre
vious marriage, changed his story
to the prosecutor Thursday morn
ing after first maintaining he was
not with his wife the night before
she died.
Patronise Taverns
He said he and the attractive
Mrs. Spencer, the former Loretta
Naylor, had spent Tuesday eve
ning making a round of taverns.
When they headed home their car
stuck in a ditch.
Spencer told the prosecutor they
left the car for a wrecker to pick
up and got a ride home to the en
trance of their property.
Spencer said his wife was "too
drunk" to walk the 200 yards
home, so he tried to drag her.
'Tried to Drag Her1
"She fell in the snow," the
prosecutor quoted him as saying.
"I tried to drag her but my fing
ers were too cold.
I left my wife lying in the
snow."
Spencer said he went into the
house and fell asleep.
At 8 a.m. the next day an em
ploye of Spencer, called to drive
him to the office, found Mrs.
Spencer lying in the driveway.
Jury Awards $333,000
To Injured Youth
SANTA ANA An Orange
County jury has awarded 18-year-old
Richard Ferris $333,000 against
the City of Huntington Beach for
injuries he suffered in a dive
from that city's pier.
Ferris sued for $400,000, plus
medical and hospital expenses. He
dived from the pier Into shallow
water Sept. 10, 1950, and suf
fered a broken neck and severed
spine.
The jury also awarded his
mother, Mrs. Madeline Ferris Mad
son of nearby Rosemead, $25,000
for expenses in caring for him un
til he is 21.
Vandals Plague
Soviet Embassy
wieuiBr.TnM mm Thond incident, but this was not
State Department has expressedlconfirmed by the poUce who re
its "regrets" to the Russian em
bassy over two Incidents of van
dalism now under investigation
by District of Columbia police.
The incidents at the Soviet
headquarters and recent, vandal-
ism at the Romanian legation
nave prompted renewed oiaie
Department efforts to get 24-hour
guards posted at most embassies
and legations here.
The department's apology, it
was learned, was made to a Soviet
embassy official who called at the
department Thursday to protest
that the fancy seal near the em
bassy's main door on fashionable
16th St. had been stolen Wednesr
day night.
The protest followed delivery of
a Soviet note Monday which
called on the United States to "ap
prehend and punish . . . unknown
holligans" who removed a sign
Sunday night from the embassy
chancery building attached to the
embassy.
Romania, in another protest
note, told the department Wednes
day that a bronze plate had been
torn off the legation chancery. The
legation protest complained against
"this act of hooliganism" directed
against "the security and normal
activity of the legation." The "ap
prehension and punishment of the
hoodlums responsible for this
action" was requested of the State
Department.
State Department protocol of
ficials promised an investigation
and turned the problem over to
District of Columbia police. There
was one report that the police had
a "license number" of an auto
mobile seen near the Soviet em
bassy about the time of the sec-
fused to say anything about their
investigation,
U. S. diplomats sre openly
worried about the vandalism be
cause it gives the Communists new
anti-American propaganda claims.
They also pointed out that retali
ation might be forthcoming against
U. S. diplomatic missions in Mos
cow, Bucharest and other Iron
Curtain capitals.
Springfield Kiwanis
Hears School Chorus
Thirty Springfield High School
students sane Christmas music
Thursday noon for Kiwanis Club
In Springfield Memorial Bidg.
The boys and girls chorus, un
der direction of David Van Zandt,
SHS music instructor, received
hearty ovations from Kiwanians.
President Dean Stevens reminded
members of the officers' initia
tion banquet to be held in Spring
field Legion Hall the evening of
Dec. 27.
First National i
Boosts Interest
Savings Accounts
To Pay 2 Per Cent
The First National Bank of Eu
gene Thursday increased the in
terest rate which it will pay on
savings accounts to 2 per cent an
nually, effective Jan. 1.
President Lynn S. McCready
made the announcement following
a meeting of the board of di
rectors Thursday afternoon.
The rate has been 1 per cent
on savings accounts up to and in
cluding $10,000 and 1 per cent on
any amount over this. The new
rate applies to accounts of any
size, McCready said.
He estimated tnat tne new
rate will mean $50,000 more an
nually to the holders of the $11,
600,000 in savings accounts at the
First National Bank of Eugene.
The increase in interest rates
followed similar action Wednes
day by the directors of the First
National Bank of Portland.
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