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Newspaper Page TextAS fo) MW HI IMl J Ml Ul H1B ,1,1.1111 u,.i I!)!,. .i. i?w,itlijwittnu i i jw ' 'fjf (Acme Telephoto) SANDERS JURY This newly-completed jury of nine Catholics and four Protestants includ ing an alternate, will decide the fate of Dr. Hermann N. Sander in his mercy murder trial in Man chester, N.H. The jury left to risht: (front row) Moise Z. Marcoux, Albert DcSfosses. Joseph McNeil, O. Jolfi Fortin, George A. Wingate and Harry Wright. Rear row. left to right: Earl Isham, Leo Harkeen, Arthur Edward Auger. Elexis Morin, Louis Cutter, Philemon D. Houde and Dana Clark. Jury foreman is Louis Cutter with Earl Isham as alternate. Body of Naval Attache Found In Austria; Vienna. Austria, Feb. 24 (U.R) The mutilated body of Capt. Eu gene F. Karpe, American naval attache in Romania, was found in a railroad tunnel near Salz burg yesterday and reliable U. S. Jury Exonerates 2 Talent Youths On Rape Charges A Jackson county grand jury yesterday fully exonerated two Talent youths of statutory rape charges. The jury declared the charges lodged against James Ernest Lewis, 21, and Dan Rol and Shugart, 19, on February 8, were "not true bills." In two other sex crimes cases, the grand jury returned indict ments against Rex joseph Coy, 28, of 839 Wabash avenue, and Earl Gorman Edison, 51, of 1180 Crater Lake avenue. Coy is charged with assault with intent to commit rape on an 11-year-old girl the evening of February 8. District Attorney George Neil snn said a conviction on that charge carries ' a possible sen tence of from one to 20 years or life in the penitentiary. Secret Bill The indictment against Edi son was a secret bill and the case had not been made public previously. Edison is charged with statutory rape which the indictment claims was commit ted July 17, 1949. The man was arrested last night after the sec ret indictment was returned. The grand jury wound up its work with an investigation of air and highway traffic fatalities and of suicides. A new jury is to be sworn in Monday and other criminal cases not considered by the old jury may go before it. Load Limits OH Two More Road Stretches Reduced load limits have been rvnoved to milcpost 42.58 on Tiller-Trail - highway, James Bromley, Grants Pass, resident highway engineer, announced to dav through state police. The point is 2.8 miles past the concrete bridge. . Bromley said that restrictions (n Crater lake highway will be lifted effective Monday. Febru ary 27 to milcpost 47.1, which is a mile above Prospect. Salem. Ore., Feb. 24 U.R) Gerald (Jerry) Wade of Newport today filed for reelection as slate representative from Lin coin county on the republican! ticket. GOP Committeewoman Gives $2000 to Democrats Denver, Colo.. Feb. 24 dl.R) Democratic leaders today were puzzled but pleased by a $2,000 gift from a republican commit teewoman who said she "doesn't understand about politics." "I don't know much about it." said Byron G. Rogers. Denver county democratic chairman, "but it sure was lovely." The gift was mnde by Mrs. David T. Chalmers. "I was just trying to help out." she explained. "I like to help people. I help the Red Cross. 1 help the Com munity chest. Why shouldn't I help the democrats and repub licans? "I didn't realize people took politics so seriously," she said. Mrs. Chalmers said shi had not even known that she was the GOP coir.mitteefoman. "I just took over some work to help Mrs. Edgar McComb, who k as the committeowoman." she explained, "and I guess they de cided I had replaced her " When she was asked if she were a republican, she replied; Murder Suspected army sources said today he ap peared to have been slain. Karpe, 50, of Washington, D. C., was a close friend of Rob ert A. Vogeler, the American businessman who was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by a Budapest court last Tuesday on spy charges. Identified By Papers Austrian police announced dis covery of the body this morn ing. They said it had been smashed beyond recognition Dut that it was identitied dv papers found in the pockets even though Karpe's diplomatic pass port was missing. U. S. army authorities later confirmed the identification and said that Karpe's death "looked like a planned job." Austrian police also said they suspected murder and were in vestigating on the theory that "a Klamath Negro Kills Self After Battle Klamath Falls. Ore., Feb. 24 (U.R) Robert Mclntire, 35. Klam ath Falls Negro, killed himself in a woodshed after a gun bat tle with police who sought him for a knife attack, authorities said today. Alma Day, 30, said Mclntire broke into her house by break ing windows with stovewood and then attacked her with a knife. She ran screaming toward the door as Mclntire fired at her twice but missed, she said. Police called to the scene chased him into a woodshed and riddled the frail structure with bullets after Mclntyre shot through the door. Sgt. Odcl Ol son of the Klamath Falls force said they apparently missed. A tear gas bomb was fired in to the shack. Police said when they went in after Mclntire he shot himself. A .38 calibre police revolver was found by his side. Radio Highlights Radio Station KYJC (1230 kc) will broadcast the Paddy Young-Tuio Portugues boxing match from Madison Square Garden tonight, starting at 7 o'clock. At 8 p.m. KWIN (1400 kc) will broadcast the Oregon Oregon State basketball game from Corvallis and at 9:30 p.m., by delayed broadcast, will air the Medford-Eagle Point game from Eagle Point. Saturday at 8 p.m. KWIN will broadcast the Oregon Oregon State game from Eu gene and at 9:30 p.m., by de layed broadcast, will carry ih Medford-Granti Pais game, to ba played at Grants Pass. "Maybe I am. I don't under stand all these things about poli tics." As for the S2.000 contribution to the democrats. Mrs. Chalmers said she didn't feel that it neces sarily made her a democrat. "I give contributions to Boys' Town, a Catholic institution." she said, "but that doesn't make me a Catholic "I also bought tickets to a Pi, I'm dinner and attended, but 1 m not a Hi Phi. I Just like to help people out." Contribution Urgtd David Chalmers said he "urged'' his mother to contrib ute the money to the democrats. "I knew she was doing some work for the GOP." he said, "but I didn't know what it was. Count v Renuhliean Chairman John H. Winchell said both Mrs. was Dr0Knj . Chalmers and David are listed ' VIDEO REQUEST DENIED as republicans on the party rcc- Washington, Feb. 24 (U.R) ords. and that Mrs. Chalmer. j T h e federal communications officially is a party committee- commission has rejected the ap woman. j plication of Clatsop Video broad- ' She has not submitted a res-1 casters for an experimental tele ignalion to me," Winchell said. 'vision station at Astoria, Ore. crime has been committed. They said they had "no definite clues." ' Karpe was on his way home to Washington for reassignment aft er spending more than three years in Bucharest. He arrived in Vienna from Bucharest early this. month and spent 15 days here before leaving for Paris yester day morning. His mutilated body was found by trackwalkers on the Arlberg Orient express line in a tunnel near Salzberg later in the day. After identification it was taken to the ninth U. S. army station hospital in Salzburg. Visited With Vogeler Karpe visited Vogeler s home; many times during Vogeler's! quick four-day trial in Budapest. Mis. Vogeler, who lives here with ; her two sons and her f.iter, said ? Karpe and her husband had been close friends since they attend- ed the U. S. naval academy at Annapolis together. Last Wednes day night Karpe escorted Mrs. Vogeler's sister, Pia Eykens, to . the opera and returned to his I quarters at the Bristol hotel ; about midnight to pack for his 1 journey to Fans. He leu eany yesterday. Astoria Drenched By Record Rainfall Astoria, Ore., Feb. 24 (U.R) Astoria was soaking today in heaviest rainfall in the past 17 years and clom.s that hung low over the lower Columbia river threatened move rain. Official weather records showed that 4.41 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period from 6 p. m. Wednesday to 6 p. m. Thursday. Heavy rains continued to fall Thursday night and this morning. In the last 48 hours 5.43 inches of rain fell on Astoria. At th. Astor experiment station 5.73 inches of rain iell during the past 29 hours. No i eports of damage from the heavy rains had been re ceived at noon today but some basements were flooded. Coast guardsmen said there were no ship distress calls. Mormon Missionaries Ousted By Czechs Prague, Feb. 24 (U.R) Two young American Mormon mis sionaries were released from prison and expelled from Czecho slovakia today, the U. S. em bassy announced. Stanley E. Abbott, 23. of Le hl, Utah, and C. Aldon Johnson, 22, of Idaho Falls, Ida., were re leased at noon and an hour and a half later were on a pi me to Geneva, Switzerland. An embassy spokesman laid the Czech foreign office in formed the embassy of the action by telephone. The two men had disappeared early this month in the vicinity of Olomouc, Moravia, while mak ing regular visits to Mormon converts in the area. Power Toofs Stolen From East Side Jobs City police said today that contractors have reported Dower operated tools were stolen from two construction locations on the east side last night. They said that the window of a house under construction at 2217 Hillcrest road was forced open and a Skill saw, jointer, sniwter and set of bits valued at J194 were taken. On Crown ave nue a Skill saw and blades valued at S169 were taken from " " ""' lnc 5" uuur ""'I' Medford 44th Year 16 Pages Doctor Realized Law Being Broken, Nurse Testifies Hospital Librarian On Witness Stand Manchester, N. H., Feb. 24 (U.R) A nurse testified today that Dr. Hermann N. Sander had said in her presence "he did realize he was breaking the law but he thought the law should be changed." The witness was Miss Jo sephine Connor, record librarian at Hillsboro County hospital. Dr. Sander is accused of mur dering a cancer patient, Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto, 59, as she lay dying in the hospital Decem ber 4. No Particular Answer Miss Connor, testifying for the second day as a state witness at Dr. Sander's mercy murder trial, said County Medical Referee Robert E. Biron said: "Why didn't you change it (the law) first before you did this?" "Did Dr. Sander answer?" asked Atty. Gen. William L. Phinney. Miss. Connor said there was no particular answer that she re membered. She said that in the records room of the hospital last De cember 29 were Dr. Sander, Dr. Biron, Miss Anita Ducharme, as sistant record librarian, and her self. Shortly before, Miss Connor said, she had been going through hospital records and had called the attention of Dr. Harold I. L. Loverud, President of the hos pital staff, to Dr. Sander's nota tion about Mrs. Borrolo's death. Statement Dictated Dr. Sander had dictated for the record the statement that he had given Mrs. Borroto. 10 cubic centimeters of air four times and that "she expired within 10 min utes after this started." However, Miss Connor said, the cause of death was listed on that same record as cancer. The librarian said she typed in the cause herself because Dr. San der had listed cancer as the death cause on the official death certificate. The official death certificate had been made out by Dr. San der December 5. the day after Mrs. Borroto died, but he wait ed a week to dictate the nota tion about the air for the hos pital records. United States Expects East Asia Cold War Washington. Feb. 24 (U.R) The United States is expecting a major Soviet cold war offen sive designed to bring rich and strategic southeast Ascia under Moscow's sway, it was -learned today. The United Press was told on highest authority that the pos sibility of any genuine Soviet "peace talks" with the United States has been ruled out by the administration, at least until this test of strength is decided. Any "peace feelers" now, if was said, would be only propa ganda maneuvers designed to create confusion and mask the kremlin's real designs. President Truman has rebuff ed congressional demands for a "bold new approach" to break the east-west deadlock over atomic controls and other prob lems. He told his news confer ence vesterdav the United States is doing its 'best to reach an atomic agreement, but that Rus sia has shown no change of heart. New Traffic Light Being Installed Today The overhead traffic light be-1 ing Installed it Central avenue ; and Jackson street should be j ready for operation today but j completion of the walk-wait , lights has been delayed because ; the wrong brackets were sent j here, according to J. A. Wolfe, I citv electrical inspector. He said that the overhead light at Jackson and Riverside avenue should be ready early next week. Guides on the Cen tral and Jackson signal will be left off temporarily so that it may be seen by pedestrians. Griffin Creek, Oak Grove Win Hoop Tilts Griffin Creek defeated Elk Trail 18 to 6 and Oak Grove downed Wagner Creek 28 to 12 in basketball games of the Oak Gruve school invitational tour nament played this morning. Hollywood, Feb. 24 (U.R) Former "Dead End" Kid Leo Gorcey and Evalene Bankston received a final divorce decree yesterday. She won the divorce a year a so on testimony he was still putting on his tough kid act. MEDFORD, OREGON, UMmmi FACE COURT MONDAY Washington, Feb. 24 (U.R) Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech ruled' today that the United Mine Workers union had failed to "purge" itself of con tempt charges by not getting striking miners back to work, and ordered the union tried Monday on the contempt charges. The government charges the union with both civil and crim inal contempt for defying a court order to end the strike of 372,000 soft coal miners. Motion Turned Down The judge turned down As sistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison's motion to hold the trial tomorrow because of the nation's critical coal situa tion. Reports Given Of Persons Seeking Entry To Homes Certain unidentified persons are apparently going about the county representing themselves as appraisers for the county as sessor's office but Assessor C. A. Myers says he has no idea what their "racket," if any, could be. There have been several re ports of persons gaining admit tance to homes or businesses, asking questions about valua tions, furnishings, equipment and buildings. Bellaire addiiton in Ashland has been plagued by men claiming they are "tax sur veyors," and similar instances have been reported in Medford. Appraisers Identified Myers pointed out that all au thorized appraisers carry iden tification cards from the asses sor's office which they are will ing to show at any time there is a question whether they should be allowed on the premises. Their work consists mainly of placing valuations for assessment purposes on new buildings and on some old buildings for which there is no record. They do not make lists of furniture or equip ment nor do they ask personal questions. Myers asked that anyone both ered by so-called appraisers or surveyors without authorization from his office notify him so that the nuisance can be stopped. He also asked the public to cooper ate with the official appraisers and to give them the information they need to make a fair and just appraisal. It was also pointed out that while the federal decennial cen sus is to be taken this year, it has not yet started. Other per sons who have reason to enter homes in their business, arc al most invariably provided with adequate identification. Pear Marketing Order Aired In California Sacramento. Feb. 24 (U.R) Producers and distributors of fresh bartlctt pears were polled today on the question of contin uing the present state marketing order governing the crop. The state department of agri culture said March 18 has been set as the closing date for the filing of ballots. Should a major ity of those voting favor contin uation, the marketing order would remain in force for two more years. The order as it now stands authorizes an advisory board to recommend the establishment of minimum grade and size regula tions for bartlctt pears market ed for fresh consumption within the state. It was first made effec tive Aug. 9. 1939, and was reac tivated April 18, 1947 after a five year lapse. Australian Flight Booked When Travel Agent Recovers Poise George Lewis, manager of the Rogue Travel service, usu ally hat to conduct quite a selling campaign before he suc ceeds in booking passengers for long overseas flights. But there are surprises in every business like yesterday when Lyle Pettit of Jacksonville dropped in and laid, "Give me a one-way ticket to Melbourne, Australia, please." Lewis didn't believe it for a moment, but was soon con vinced it wai not a gag. Then the reservations were cleared and a few hours later Pettit was aboard a plane from Med ford en route to the ijnd "down under." He is going to Auitralia under the common wealth's arsisted passage plan for American Git interested in becoming Australian citiieos. -- -r "v F , FEBRUARY 24, Morison noted that there has been no increase in soft coal pro duction since Keech signed the original back-to-work order Feb ruary 11. He said newspaper reports show that many states tiave initiated "emergency measures" and "virtually all major cities are confronted with a critical problem." He said the government want ed court action "immediately" to get the miners back to work and "extricate the nation from the tragedy that stalks it." Union Objects The union objected to the re quest to speed up the trial on the grounds that the justice de partment had asked that the union be cited for both civil and criminal contempt. A civil contempt charge is brought to compel obedience of a court order. A criminal charge seeks punishment for disobedi ence of a court order. The union will be tried on both charges. On the criminal charges, the union may ask for a jury trial. There is no jury on the civil charges. Welly K. Hopkins, UMW at torney, said he would "weigh full aspects" of the case before de ciding whether to ask for jury trial of the criminal contempt charge. Strike Individually Before ordered by Keech to stand trial, the union told him that its 372,000 coal miners are striking "individually and of their own volition." It main tained that the miners indivi dually had disobeyed two orders by John L. Lewis and top UMW officials to return to work. Lewis, himself, was not named in the.ordcr today to show cause why the union should not be tried for contempt, and he will not be tried. Board Created To Stave Off Rail Strike Washington, Feb. 24 (U.R) President Truman today created an emergency board to stave off a strike threatened Monday by the Brotherhoods of Railway Conductors and Railroad Train men on the nation's major rail roads. The president's action will have the effect of delaying the strike for at least 60 days. The board was ordered to re port back to the president on the dispute within 30 days. Mr Truman's executive order speci fied that management and labor must continue to operate under current rules and contracts. The president has this power under the railway labor act. He acted on recommendation of the national mediation board which said the dispute threatened to deprive the country of essential transportation service. The White .House probably will announce the names of the three board members late today or early tomorrow. The unions are seeking a 40 hour work - week and other changes in their work rules. Fresh Snowstorm Moves Across North Chicago, Feb. 24 (U.R) A fresh snowstorm, followed close ly by a cold front, moved across the north today in the wake of a wintry storm that claimed at least 53 lives In the midwest and northwest. The new storm dumped snow on streets and highways still hazardous from the layer of ice, sleet and snow with which they were plastered earlier this week. Early today the storm belt ex tended about 200 miles in each direction from Chicago, a U. S. weather forecaster said. Behind the snowstorm, a cold wave pushed out of southern Canada and across the great plains. It was expected to shove eastward across the Great Lakes region and on into the North Atlantic states by tomorrow. Armour Scion Tells Of Kidnap Threats Chicago. Frb. 24 UR Phil ip D. Armo'ir Jr., member of the wealthy meat packing fam ily, notified i.olice today that he had received a series of tele phoned threats to kidnap his three young children. A heavy police guard was posted by Dputy Chief of De tectives William Touhy at the Armour apartment on Chicago s Laki.- Shore drive, and roving squads cruised the neighborhood scrutinizing any strangers who sought entrance to the building in wnich Armour's apa'T.ient is located. The Armours live on the 22nd floor. Tribune 1950 NO. 284 Four Men Killed As Speeder Dives Through Trestle Weyerhaeuser Camp Workers Victims Longview, Wash , Feb. 24 (U.R) Four men were killed and six others injured today when a speeder carrying (hem to the Weyerhaeuser Lumber com pany's logging camp 9 plunged about 75 feet through a rain weakened trestle into the Toutle river. The accident occurred in the Weyerhaeuser woods operation area, about 18 miles north of here. Coroner Gordon Quarnstrom identiifed the dead as Don Stew art, 45, Castle Rock, Weyer haeuser logging foreman; Al Berg of Oregon; Levi Orman and B. B. Grant. Four ambulances, accompan ied by Dr. C. V. Allen, were sent to the scene. One returned short ly before noon with four of the injured. They were Chester Bow ers. Rainier, Ore.; Robert Han sen, Longview; B. W. Moorse, Longview, and Donald Tollefson, Castle Rock. Bowers said the speeder was taking the men to their work when it suddenly plunged through the trestle which had been weakened by heavy rains. Bowers could not estimate how high the span was, but he said none of the men fell into the river. 3-Year-0ld Survives Midnight Hike In Rain Forest Grove, Ore., Feb. 24 (U.R) Three-year-old Rodney "Butch" Pentico today was back with his family apparently none the worse for wear by his mid night walk during a steady downpour last night. Butch, the son of Mr. and Mrs Kenneth Pentico, was left Thurs day night in the care of his sister Barbara, 14, and a friend, Norecn O'Rielly, 15, while his father went to a lodge meeting. His mother had been taken to the Jones hospital Thursday morning. The girls put him to bed and checked on him when they re tired at 11 p.m. Police Notified When his father returned shortly after midnight Butch was missing from his room. Pentico immediately called police. City, county and state police and even the Forest Grove volun teer fire department joined in the search. About 1:30 a.m. Butch was returned by Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Townsend. He had wandered in bare feet and pajamas nearly a mile from his home finally curl ing tin on the doorstep of Bob Mitchell, a neighbor of Towns end's. Mitchell brought him to them thinking they might know where he belonged. Brother Of Lewis Victim Of Suicide Springfield, 111.. Feb. 24 (U.R) Thomas Lewis. 69, brother of United Mine Worker President John L. Lewis, shot and killed himself at his home here today, Deputy Coroner Catherine Ruth erford reported. She said there was "no ques tion" 'that he had shot himself. She said his wife, Lenora, found him fully clothed, except for his shoes, sprawled in the bathtub. Lewis was a retired immigra tion service employe. His wife told police and the coroner's of fice that he had suffered a severe heart attack late yesterday and was seriously ill through the night. . Lewis was the second eldest of eight children of Thomas and Ann Louisa Lewis. The United Mine Worker president is the oldest of the children. GM Workers Get Pay Cut Prices of New Cars Lower Detroit. Feb. 24 (U.R) Gen eral Motors cut wages of its 290.000 production workers two cents an hour today and simul taneously reduced prices of Its cars $10 to $40. It was the third time GM has cut car prices and reduced pay of its employees under a history making cost-of-living contract signed with the CIO United Auto Workers and Electrical Workers unions 21 months ago. Savings Passed Along GM President C. E. Wilson said the price reducnVjns passed along to consumers "the savings resulting from both the down ward adjustment of wage and salary payments and the lowered cost of certain items, notwith standing the increased prices now being paid for steel and some other commodities." Ten dollars was lopped from all Chevroicl models, SIS to $22 Skimpy Majority Of Parliamentary Seats Captured Trend In Voting Swung Toward Right London, Feb. 24 (U.R) .The labor party tonight won a skim py majority of parliamentary seats in a general election that swung the British voting trend toward the right. With a few districts outstand ing, labor hud won 313 seats, a majority in the 625-seat house. Winston Churchill's conserva tives pounded hard on the heels of the socialists, and the collaps ing liberal patty won only a handful of the more than 400 seats fought for. Keds Beaten Badly The standing of the parties this evening when, just before 8:30 p. m. (11:30 a. m. PST) when the laboritcs achieved their tech nical majority, was: Labor 313. Conservatives 288. Liberals seven. Other parties (speaker) one. The communists and fellow travelers were beaten badly all around. The only two communists in the old house lost their seats, and none was elected to take their places. Labor's thin margin could hardly be boosted enough by the final returns to underwrite the further socialization of the Unit ed Kingdom. A reasonably safe labor working majority in com mons say 50 or 60 seats would be required for that. The laborites were flabber gasted by the returns. Only a dozen hours before they eked out their narrow victory, they thought they had the election won hands down. As it was. it turned out to be close to a dead heat. The first reaction among political sages was that this might mean another general election in the near fu ture. Some quarters believed labor might try to go it alone or make a coalition deal with the liberals. But they would have to abandon some of the keystones of their nationalization program If they took the liberals in. Still another possibility was a caretaker government with a representation of all three major parties. That could last only a few months at most, possibly only until a budget had been presented in April. Then it could be turned out by a vote of misconfidence, which the precarious working majority would make possible at any time. Truman Considering 'Whistle Stop' Trip Washington, Feb. 24 (U.R) President Truman may make another trans continental "whistle stop" train trip this spring. He told his news conference yesterday he is considering a west coast trip to dedicate the Grand Coulee dam in Washing ton. If he goes, he said, he would make speeches both on the way out and on the way back. Although Mr. Truman has said the trip would be non political, it was understood he would leave the capital well be fore the end of May. This would mean he would be passing through states before democratic nominees are chosen in pri maries. Mr. Truman long has insisted that he would keep hands off all primaries except in his own state of Missouri. But politicians wondered how he could make many "whistle stops" without becoming involved to some ex tent in intraparty races. WEATHER FORECAST: Shower! tnnllht nlsht and Saturday. Contin ued mild. Temp. Hllhfit Yrittrdajr 4J LoweU thia Morning . 41 Prec. to 4:30 A.M. Today II on Buicks. $15 to $20 on Olds mobiles, $25 to $40 on Cadillacs and $15 on Pontiacs. Today's quarterly adjustment in pay will be the final one un der the life of the union contract which expires May 29, 1950. Under terms of the agreement, 290.000 hourly-rated GM work ers will receive a two-cent cut and the corporation's 72,000 eli gible salaried employees will get a $10 quarterly reduction on March 1. Reqular Adjustment Wages of GM employees are adjusted every three months in line with the rise and fall of the consumer price index of the U.S. bureau of labor statistics. The BLS index for January 15. announced today, is 168 9, compared with an index of 188 5 for October 15. when the cost-of- ! living allowance last was re t viewed.