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SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAfL TRIBUNE Monday, November I, 1934 'Marginal' Districts To Determine Result Of Tuesday Election Washington (U.R) The de cision voters make in what poli ticians call "marginal" or bal ance of power-districts will de termine largely whether the Re publicans or Democrats win con trol of the House of Representa tives in Tuesday's balloting. : The "marginal districts" are those that sometimes go Repub lican and sometimes Democratic. 'Cop Killer' Slain By Chicago Police Ending Wide Hunt , : Chicago U.R) "Cop killer" Agostino Gus Amedeo,' his body riddled by 18 bullets, lay in county morgue today. He died in a gutter Friday night to end one of the greatest manhunts in Chicago history. ' Amedeo lost his personal war with the Chicago Police Depart ment only eight days after he killed a policeman while shoot ing his way out of a trap. Fifty-eight grimly revengeful 'officers cornered the 26-year-old fugitive on a North Side in tersection. Amedeo got in the first shots two of them. Then he staggered crazily across the street under a rain of bullets and fell dead. - Detective Lt. , Frank Pape, leader of the police detail and one of the most feared policemen in Chicago, called up central headquarters and said with quiet satisfaction: "I got him." Biggest Manhunt - Amedeo became the object of Chicago's, biggest manhunt in re cent years when, on Oct. 21. he killed Police Officer Charles An lerino. Annerino and two other officers had trapped Amedeo, an escaped convict, in a tavern, r Ironically, he was lured to his Vieath by the sister-in-law of the woman who smuggled a gun to iim in the Criminal Courts -Building last June, enabling him :to escape. Nixon's Food Found f 'cl To Be Poisoned ' Seattle, Wash. : (U.R) A "laboratory analysis of a supper -which Vice-President Richard M. Nixon ordered in his hotel room here Saturday night showed to day that it contained no poison. An anonymous caller tele phoned Nixon Saturday evening and warned him his supper had been poisoned. When the meal arrived at his room in the Benja min Franklin Hotel, Secret Serv ice agents took it away to be analyzed. Nixon said before his depart ure for Denver yesterday on his campaign tour that he believed the warning was the wprk of a Halloween prankster. "Author ities were unable to trace the call which came from outside the hotel. Secret Service agents, who su pervised preparation of a second supper for Nixon Saturday night, questioned several hotel em ployees, but no one was held. Surplus Farm Crops Scheduled for Sale "Washington (U.R) The Agriculture department will sell $60,000,000 worth of surplus farm crops to Yugoslavia and Pakistan under a new surplus disposal program. . The department has announc ed that Pakistan will buy $47,000,000 worth of surpluses and Yugoslavia, $13,000,000. Of ficials have not given a break down by commodities, but wheat and cotton were said to be the chief crops involved. There are 75 or 80 of these scattered across the country from Massachusetts to California. A sweep of these toss-up dis tricts an extremely unlikely occurrence would give the vic torious party a healthy majority in the 435-member House. A bare mjaority of the House is 218 which is exactly what the Re publicans had when the last Congress quit two months ago. The real battlegrounds, as far as House control is concerned, are Jhe populous states of Cal ifornia, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohia, Massachusetts, Illinois and Michigan. Other Close Fights But there are districts closely divided between Democratic and Republican voters in other states too Washington, New Jersey Indiana, Missouri, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, Utah and Wisconsin. Following are a few which might normally be expected to provide clues on the trend of the voting: New York: Several close dis tricts switch frequently from one side to the other. Among those which . are considered close in this election are the 5th, 6th, 12th, 21st, 25th, 41st and, 42nd. AH of these except the 6th are now held . by Republicans. Pennsylvania: A dozen dis tricts, most of them now held by Republicans, appear to be close ly contested this year. These in clude the 5th, 6th, 10th, 11th, 14, 19th, 22nd and 25th. All but the 5th and 14th are now held by Republicans. California: The 6th 12th, 18th and 21st districts of California are among those which might switch from one party to the other. The 5th district is now represented by Rep. Robert L. Condon, a Democrat who was denied national party support after he failed to get a security clearance from the Atomic En ergy Commissioner. The other three districts are currently repr sented by Republicans. Ohio Campaigns Lively Ohio: The 2nd, 3rd, 15th and 16th have seen lively campaigns. All except the 15th were repre sented by Republicans, in the last Congress. . Indiana: Republicans seek to maintain their House delegation at its present strength of 10 Re publicans, one Democrat. How ever, Democrats have made a strong pitch to oust Republi cans in the 3rd and 8th districts. Virginia: Democarts hope to unseat the three Republicans elected to Congress from Vir ginia in 1952. They represent the 6th, 9th and 10th districts. ' Washington: Democrats have their eyes on seats now held by Republicans in the 1st, 2nd and 5th districts. Batista Sure To Win Election in Cuba Havana (U.R) Fulgencio Batista will be confirmed as President of Cuba today in an election whose outcome is cer tain because his only opponent has quit the race. Ex-President Ramon Grau San Martin, the opposition candidate, withdrew his name from the bal lot Saturday and urged his sup porters to stay away from the polls unless the voting was post poned a week or 10 days. . The light balloting was marred this morning when a group of unknown persons in a speeding car enchanged shots with soldiers in front of the naval staff head quarters. - There were no - casualties. The Supreme Electoral Court rejected Grau's postponement petition yesterday, ruling he had failed to produce sufficient proof of his charge the government is intimidating opposition voters. ELECT Richard L. NEUBERGER United States SENATOR OREGON Needs His Potent Voice s in Washington STOP THE GIVEAWAY! Pd. Adv. Jackson County Democratic Central Committee Wife, Son Murdered By California Man Lancaster, Calif. U.R) A mailman shot and killed his es tranged wife and 16-year-old stepson and critically wounded his stepdaughter Saturday be cause he blamed the children for breaking up the marriage, the sheriff's office reported. Oscar Hugo Brust, 45, a Lan caster postman, admitted the shootings and then calmly told sheriff s deputies: "I have no regrets." Killed were Brust's wife, Mil dred Jean, 40, and her son, Curtis Charles Johnson, 16. Critically wounded and not ex pected to live was the woman's daughter, Kay Marie Johnson, 15. Hamlet Hopes To Be First To Cast Ballots Hart's Lo cation, N.H. (U.R) This tiny White mountain hamlet tonight hopes to become the first in the nation to cast ballots in the 1954 general elec tions. The- mountain folk will gath er around an oval table in the parlor of selectman Cornelius Griffin's newly painted home. At the stroke of midnight they plan to vote, by the light of flick ering kerosene lamps. "We're all set. We plan to finish voting at one minute past 12," Griffin said and was sure has community would win mo mentary fame as it did in the 1948 presidential election. The town has 11 eligible voters. Carnegie Award Go To 31 Across U.S. Pittsburgh (U.R) The Carne giejHero Fund Commission Sat urday cited 31 women, men, and teenaged boys and girls who risked their lives to save others with the top award going to a Florida trucker who dived into a canal among alligators and poisonous snaxes to save a drowning girt. The commission, whose agents roam the country throughout the year to verify acts of brav ery, gave its infrequently award ed Silver Medal to Theodore Henderson Sr., 39, Tampa, Fla., for rescuing Carol Baisden, 19, from her automobile which over turned into 12 feet of water at Yeehaw, Fla., Aug. 17, 1953. MADE IT TOO EASY Lynn, Mass. (U.R) A 16-year old automobile thief decided it was just his lack of judgment that made police see red. 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