PRISON 'LAWYER'
OBTAINS RELEASE
FOR 66 HATES
Jefferson City, Mo. (U.R)
While 66 ex-convicts enjoy their
legally won freedom, Clyde
Meeks, whose amateur law prac
tice showed them the way, still
fits behind the walls of the Mis
souri State Penitentiary seeking
the legal loophole that will set
him1 free.
The stooped, balding Meeks
has spent 18 of his 40 years he
hind bars, with two years of
freedom out of the last 20. Now
serving a sentence for forgery,
he was previously imprisoned on
charges of burglary and higli
' way robbery.
Meeks' legal lore was acquir
ed through a brief correspond
ence course in one of the "learn-law-by-mail"
schools. While he
skillfully avoids being charged
with practicing law without a
license, he has let it be noised
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Mo Fees, but 'Gifts'
Despite his statement that he
"had no desire to burden the
courts with useless litigation,"
the petitions flowing from
Meeks' ready fingers have aver
aged 15 to 20 a month. He said
at least 66 'ormer inmates have
been freed because of his legal
efforts since 1940.
Meeks said he charges no fee
because he has no law license
but accepts "gifts" from grate
ful clients. It is estimated that
he receives about $10 from each
"client" for his services. Those
who have read briefs prepared
by the convict-lawyer say they
are wordy, correct in detail,
legally styled, and expertly
typed.
Meeks' legal career got off to
a bad start. In 1939, during a pa
role from a 15-year term for
robbery, Meeks was charged
with forging a check in his home
town, Springfield, Mo. He was
convicted and sentenced to five
years. Fresh from the final les
son in the mail order law school,
he demanded and got a new trial
on the grounds that the man
whose name was alleged to have
been forged was not in court.
He was convicted again and
this time sentenced to seven
years instead of the ogirinal
five. He acted as his own law
yer at both trials.
Rule Change Frees 50
Back at the penitentiary in
November, 1939, Meeks began
serving the seven-year sentence
with the prospect of serving the
35 months remaining from the
15-year sentence too. Ordinarily,
the service of the incomplete
sentence would begin at the end
of the new sentence.
Through petitions which
Meeks said he prepared the Su
preme Court invalidated the pri-
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son policy. The new rule was
that prisoners must serve out
their original sentence under the
parole revocation, then serve the
new sentence.
The new regulations freed 50
convicts who had served their
second sentences and were fin
ishing their first. The releases
did net apply to Meeks, because
he was still serving the forgery
sentence and hadn't started on
the incomplete portion of the
other,
' Again, Meeks' love of the legal
left him in a spot. If he had
waited to file the petition after
completing the term for fqjgery,
he would have gone free with
the rest.
Meeks is now employed In the
prison auditor's office as a book
keeper and typist. ls primary
obiect is to eet his own release
from prison; then he wanta a
war job not a legal career.
SPEECTffiBLES
TO BE DISCUSSED
rti T.nn T.&ftsArs. sneech soec-
iallst from the state department
of education, arrived in jMetuora
Mnnrinv and will hold a meet
ing for Medford school pupils
who have- stuttering or omer
speech difficulties and their par
entis nnd teachers at the court
house auditorium tomorrow
from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
All Medford parents and chll
ftrsn IntnrpRtpH in sneech nrob-
lems are invited to attend, E. H.
Hedrick declared today. Dr.
work is a new service
offered by the state department,
Hedrick said. Locally it is unaer
the direction of Louise Basford,
elementary supervisor of special
education in Medford schools.
Dr. Lassers has been meeting
with teachers during the week
and will continue such confer
ences through Friday when he
returns to Salem.
Livestock.
Portland. Ore.. Feb. 14 (UP)
Livestock: Cattle 300. calves 50. Ac
tive, steady. Quality rather poor. Few
common steers 11.00-12.50: sizeable lot
medium heifers 13.00. Canner-cutter
cows 6.S0-9.00. Fat dairy type cows to
10.50. Medium-good bulls lo.oo-ia.ra,
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Using a fin hydrant as his protective "fort," this barefoot Filipino Guerilla fighter seta up his antiquated
mixhlnw gun on a Manila street and fights with the Yanks as they press on to. clean the city of remaining
Japs. Photo by Stanley Trouunan, NEA-A cms photographer for War Picture Pool.
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WHEN SUMMER COMES starlet Lynn Baggett will be ready to
get an almost even suntan In this brief two-piece bathing suit
brightly splashed with flowers. For protection from sharp shellj
on the beach she wears black non-rationed playshoes.
extreme ton ia.75. Good-choice veal
ers 14.00-13.00.
Hogs 200. Very active, stendy, Gnod
cholce ,170-270 lbs. 15.75. Good sows
14.00-14.50. Feeder pigs quotable
15.50-16.25.
Sheen 100. Ouotabte stearlv. Cood-
cholce trucked-ln lambs salable around
10.00. Fed carload quotable to 10.23
and above. Good srwea salable 7.00-
7J0.
Chicago, Feb. 14 (UP) (WFA)
Livestock:
Hogs 9,000. Complete clearance.
Bulk good and choice 140 lbs., and up
14.75, celling. Sows 14.00.
CatUe 14.000. Calves: BOO. Largely
teer run, bulk 14.50-16.25; early top
16.65, with choice to prime held above
ir.ou; top neiiers lo.eu; DulK 13.50
15.25; weighty cutter cows to 6.00;
good beef cowa to 15.25; heavy sau
sage bulls to 13.50.
Sheep:8.000. Holding load lot good
and choice fed wooled western lambs
at 16.75; three loads sold 16.65 with
most bids 16.50-16.00.
Portland Produce
Portlend. Feb. 14 (UP) Whole
sale produce market:
Cauliflower No. 1, Roseburg, S.25
2.50 crate.
Onions Green, 75 -85c doi. bunches.
Chicago Wheat
Chicago, Feb. 14 (UP) !
Open High Low Close
May .1023, 1621, 102 1621.
July .154', 154!, 1.14 It 154'.i
Sept. 153',, 153i 1531, 1531,
Dec. 154 li 154',', 153 4 154
S. F. DAIRY PRICES
San Francisco, Feb. 14 (U.R)
Dairy market:.
Butter: 93 score 43, 91 score
42Vs, 90 score 42V., 89 score
41.
Cheese: Wholesale prices
loafs 27.9, triplets 27.2.
Eggs: Large grade A 43 V4,
medium grade A 40Vi, small
grade A 37VS; large grade B
40 V4. "rlSjlCl
A tribute
always
latriotlcally giving their time and ability without
pay, the volunteer members of local Ration Boards
are daily handling many difficult problems with
fairness, tact and efficiency. They deserve an Award
of Merit for doing a tough Job . . . and doing it well I
Guerrilla Fighter and His
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Wall Street
New York. Feb. 14 (U.R)
Wall Street turned bullish today
and bid stocks up fractions to
more than point to a further
new high for more than seven
years. Trading was at the most
active early clip since January
is.
Bullishness was prompted by
Lthe statement of Undersecretary
of War Patterson that competent
military men can foresee no im
mediate end to the war In
Europe and by the assertion of
Secretary of the Treasury Mor-
genthau that he favors post-war
tax cuts to aid expansion of bust
ness.
Today's closing prices on se
lected stocks:
American Tel. Si Tel. 161
Anaconda . 32
Chrysler 99 VS
Curtiss Wright 6
General Electric 40V6
General Motors (XD) 6634
Montgomery Ward 52
Penn. R. R 38 '4
Phillips Petroleum 47
J. C. Penney 111
Radio 1214
Southern Pacific . 42
Standard Oil of Calif 41
Texas Gulf Sulphur (XD) 38
Transamerica 11
United Alrcrafts 31
U. S. Rubber 57
U. S. Steel 62
The Black Panther, a heavy
field artillery piece, weighs 34
tons when In firing position.
to wthe man who is
wrong"!
'Fort
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KILLED
Pfc. Maurice W. Wlckman, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wlckman,
16 South Newtown street, was
killed In action January 24 in
the Philippine Islands. Word of
the death of their son was re
ceived by the Wickmans from
Gordon Lee Hayes, Medford, a
former classmate of Pfc. Wlck
man at Medford high school and
in the same overseas unit with
young Wickman.
Hayes wrote that he waa with
Pfc. Wickman at the time of his
death and that the soldier had
been burled In a military ceme
tery in the islands Jan. 25.
Pfc. Wickman graduated with
the class of 1043 and had been
with an infantry division since
November of that year. He is
survived by his parents and a
younger brother, Robert Wlck
man. Hunter Bags First
Deer in 13 Years
Cabot, Ark.. (U.R) After
hunting deer for 13 consecutive
years without scoring a single
Kill, Clem Poole, rural mail car
rier of Austin, Ark., has finally
nit pay dirt.
.For 13 straight years Poole
Kept going on deer hunts with
the "bunch." And for 13 straight
years he returned home with
nothing to show for his efforts
but a frost-bitten nose. In fact,
Poole in all those years of
hunting didn't even get a
glimpse of a live deer. -So
this year when the "gang1
came around, Poole gave out a
couple of bucks to help defray
camp expenses and decided to
try again.
He steered his ear out to a
road near here, parked it on a
dry spot and started walking to
a blind. And believe it or not
along came real deer.
Poole pointed his rifle at the
animal pulled the trigger and
the deer fell dead.
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SMALL-TOWN' GOVERNOR
Indianapolis, (U.R) Ralph F.
Gates, newly-inauguarated Gov
ernor, stepped across a street
against the traffic light. Stopped
by a policewoman, the flustered
Hoosier chief executive explain
ed he was "from a small town
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BILLIONTH LOAF OF BREAD
Boston, (U.R) Hathaway Bak
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