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t SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tearful Seaman Held Under Heavy Guard For Murder of Girl Johnstown, Pa. (U.R) A 39-year-old merchant seaman, who taid his tearful confession to the suffocation of a Hallo weening six-year-old girl was the first time he had "cried in 20 years," was held here under heavy guard today. Authorities said feeling was Tunning real high" in Cone maugh, a steel town of 8,000 persons, in the wake of the kill ing which police labeled the crime of a sex deviate. Police said Harry Gossard, twice married neighbor of his first-grade pupil victim, made a written statement detailing how he killed Karen Mauk last Thursday night as she was on a "trick or treat" tour of Cone maugh. Hearing Tonight The 6-foot, 200-pound sailor, who was arrested Saturday when he returned from visiting a sis ter in Philadelphia, will be given a hearing before Squire Stephen McGanka tonight. A heavy guard was posted around Gossard when he was taken Tuesday to the cemetery hillside, about two miles from Ccnemaugh, where Karen's nude body was found. Asked if it was the place where he had killed Karen, the bespectacled sailor, who has a SAVE UP TO 50 On Coffee Costs Diller Coffee Extender is a pure food product that has no flavor that is not in the Best Grades of coffee already. Dillers contains no Caffine, no Chicory. .' It is not a coffee substitute, not a coffee con centrate. It is an extender of the desirable part of coffee while it cuts the objectionable parts in half. Until Diller Cof fee Extender is available in your favorite store you may send 35c for 1 pkg., or send $1.00 for 3 pkgs., and get started cutting your food bud get while doubling your coffee pleasure. Mail to, or call in person at Walker Big., 417 E. Main, Medford, Ore. On A Rental-Sales Plan You may rent a new Baldwin or Wurlitzer Piano or a Hammond Chord or Spinet Organ for as long as six months and have the rental apply on the purchase of the instrument if you so desire. PURUCKER PIANO HOUSE 111 North Central 117 S. Central record of at least five arrests, including two of a sex nature, replied, "Yes." He then was whisked to Johns town jail before crowds with a minister before making a signed statement. He wept throughout. Confronted By Evidence Gossard, who lived with his mother in Conemaugh since his second divorce, first made an oral admission when confronted by evidence which was gathered by police even before his arrest. Officers said he had been a sus pect since the slaying was dis covered. A 14-year-old girl identified him as the man who attempted to molest her in Conemaugh shortly before Karen disappear ed. Officers - also showed him casts made of tire tracks found on the hillside and scientific proof they were made by the de fendant's automobile. Another Murder Karen was killed just 36 hours before the body of another school girl was found at Ali quippa, Pa., about 70 miles west of Conemaugh. The victim, Helen Jean Bryant, 16, had been killed as she walked down a path to catch a schoolbus the previous Monday. Beaver County Dist. Atty. Richard P. Stewart said Elijah Thompson, 22, unemplo yed Negro laborer who lived near the victim, has admitted bludgeoning the Aliquippa High school sophomore to death with a rock. Alegrian Troops Combat Terrorism Algiers (U.R) Troops and police turned out in force today from the Sahara to the sea to combat the upsurge of terrorism that has claimed nine lives in Algeria this week. The bloody clashes, incited by propaganda broadcasts from Egypt, mark the .first serious out break of mass terror in France's Algerian provinces since World War II. Two French armored columns converged on the terrorist-held village of Arris, in the bandit ridden Aures Mountains, while strong patrols of troops and po lice maintained order in the key cities of Algiers, Oran, Constan tine. Batna and Setif. RENT A New PIANO or ORGAN Phone 2-5702 Regular 29.98 Fashion-New Coats $23 O Buy Now, Save Nearly 7 During This Sale Event o Choice of Fashion-Important Woolens Every One a New-Season Fashion Silhouette Words cut their low pries still lower, save you even more. Imagine smart, wearable 100 wool fleeces, tweeds, zrbelines, suedes, plushes, 10 cash-mere-90 woolsfor just $231 Some with Milium linings. All top values. Wednesday, November 3, 1954 Bob Hope Receives Forgotten Passport Paris (U.R) Bob Hope's U.S. passport arrived from London today, in time to save the ski nosed comedian from threatened confinement in a French jail. Hope absent mindedly left the travel document behind when he flew here from the British capi tal yesterday to appear with Maurice Chevalier in a televi sion show. French authorities admitted him to the country, but said they would lock him up unless the passport arrived in short order. The comedian advised friends in London of his predicament by telephone, and the director of the TV show brought the pass port with him when he arrived today. Spruce Budworm Still Big Forest Threat Portland U.R) The spruce budworm still is a big threat in eastern Oregon despite wide spread action to control it, the Northwest Forest Pest Action committee was told here yester day. Miles Compton, in charge of insect work for the Oregon Board of Forestry, said more than 1,000,000 acres still are badly infested. Some 3,218,660 acres have been sprayed during the six-year program. Compton said timber most needed spraying included Ocho co, 210,000 acres; Malheur 235, 000; Powder river-Baker water shed, 76,000, and Eagle Creek Catherine creek area, 48,000. About two-thirds of the area is in national forests. McLeod McLeod Mr. and Mrs. Herb ert Schroeder from San An slemo, Calif., have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Young on Rogue river. The Schroders had gone to Detroit, Mich., to pick up a car and then drove through Canada before returning home. . Roy Vaughn is in the Com munity hospital and his friends wish him a speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harding Jr. and four daughters from Oakland have been guests of the former's sister, and family, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hume. On Octo ber 26 the Hardings were din ner guests at the home of an other sister and family at Pros pect, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Vaughn. Mrs. Henry Schuder has re turned to her home here after two weeks in Temple City, Calif. Mrs. Shirley Wilson of Val Iejo, Calif., is visiting her mother Mrs. Audrey Collier here. Mrs. Ralph Young has return ed to her home here after a visit with relatives in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Koher nik of Roseburg were recent guests of Mrs. Kohernik's par ents Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hard ing Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Wyles Berry have been called to 29 Palms, Calif., by the serious illness of his mother. The Hardings are taking care of the motel during their absence. Cm 3-DAY SALE 100 WOOLS HAPPY VOTER Former President Harry Truman is all smiles as he leaves voting booth after casting ballots at Independence, Mo. He re fused to make vote predic ' tions. Truman Well Pleased With Election Results Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) For mer President Harry S. Truman received election news with a wide smile today and said the results "suit me very well." But he said returns were not "overwhelmingly enough" in fa vor of Democrats. He listed two Democratic vic tories as "particularly pleasing," Alben W. Barkley's senatorial triumph in Kentucky and George Christopher's defeat of Jeffrey P. Hillelson, Republican incumb ent, in the Fourth Missouri Con gressional district. That is Mr. Truman's home district. The former President was asked if he thought the Demo cratic trend in the election ex pressed more than casual dissat isfaction with the Eisenhower administration. "Yes," he said. "I think it does." , Japanese Tuna Threat in California Los Angeles U.R) The direc tor of the Tuna Research Foun dation said today a "rising flood" of imported Japanese tuna threatens the livelihood of 18, 000 southern California fishery workers. Edwin L. Morris told the Ad club the Japanese portion of the American tuna market had ris en from 15 per cent before World War II to 35 per cent at the present time. He said the imports posed a "grave threat" to Cali fornia's "fourth largest indus try." Morris warned that large in ventories of Japanese canned and frozen tuna would be shipped to the American market as soon as Japan is granted full membership in the general agree ment on tariff and trades, now meeting in Geneva. Phone 2-6241 West Coast Ship Tieup Expanded San Francisco (U.R) A tacti cal walkout by AFL sailors tied up another ship here yesterday, bringing the total of vessels af fected on the Pacific Coast to more than a dozen. The tieup came about as a re sult of the sailors refusing to work overtime in port. Election day is an overtime pay day under waterfront union con tracts, and the sailors do not have to accept overtime. The no overtime went into ef fect last week end at Pacific Coast ports as an outgrowth of a jurisdictional dispute between the sailors and the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse men's Union over the unloading of ships. Latest vessel to be affected was the Matson Line freighter Hawaiian Planter. The squabble began over which union had the right to un load at a specific hatch on the coastwise freighter Pacificus in Long Beach. The ship was de serted by both factions Wednes day. It was still idle today. Oth er vessels were idled in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, and San Pedro. Chairman To Ask End Of Un-American Group Washington U.R) Rep. Fran cis E. Walters (D.-Pa.) who is in line to become chairman of the House Un-American Activities committee in the next Congress, announced today he will ask the House in January to abolish that controversial committee. Walter said he would ask the new Democratic controlled House to transfer the functions of the Un-American Activities committee to the Judiciary com mittee, of which he is second ranking Democratic member. The Un-American Activities committee, headed during the last Congress by Rep. Harold H. Velde (R.-IU.) has been one of the most controversial groups in Congress.- Scientists Study Armadillo Births Houston, Tex. 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