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lit s, N p rn ? . '.At i l t : f (MORE WAITING Framed by jail bars and bis jailors, ! Dr. Samuel Sheppard is led back to his cell after the jury ; failed to reach a verdict on whether he is guilty of the i murder of his wife, Marilyn. World Hews Briefs Tokyo (U.R) Red China an nounced Saturday the death of Wu Chuan Yu, its outstanding swimmer who had been sched tiled to comoete in the 1956 Olympics at Melbourne. Peiping Radio said Wu was killed in an airplane accident last Oct. 29 while en route to Hungary. No reason was given for the delay in announcing his death. - ISSUES WARNING Bonn, Germany (U.R) Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer warned Saturday that "this is a danger ous time for peace" and called on Germans to give thanks that peace was preserved in 1954. Adenauer spoke in a recorded broadcast to the German people Rifa Gets Custody Of Two Children; Care Said Proper White Plains, N. Y. (U.R) Film star Rita Hayworth was given formal custody of her two daughters Friday by a judge who declared the children were getting iproper care." : Judge George W. Myth, of the Westchester County Children's Court, made the formal an nouncement, on Christmas Eve that the court was relinquishing control of the custody of the chil drenn, Rebecca Welles, 9, and Princess Yasmin Khan, 4. Neglect Charged The court took technical con trol of the girls April 26, on a complaint from the Westchester Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The society ciaim ea me cnuaren were being neglected while Miss Hayworth and her husband Dick.Haymes were vacationing in Florida.- . The couple Is reported, spend ing the Christmas holidays "at Lake Tahoe, Nev., with the chil dren. .. 1 Judge Myth had ordered on April 26 that Miss Hayworth might .retain actual custody of the girls while the court retained technical custody. He said the girls had been neglected but that Miss Hayworth was not ta blame. At that time he ruled that Re becca must be sent to school and that neither of the children be taken from New York State for four months. Agricultural Classes Scheduled at Crater Central Point Two adult ag ricultural classes will be offered at Crater high school after the start of the new year, according to Leonard Kunzman, school ag riculture instructor. A farm shop course is sched uled to start Tuesday, Jan. 4. The three hour session, to start at 85p.m., will be the first of 10 weekly meetings. Fee for the shop class will be $10 for the 10-week period. A class in. animal veterinary medicine, sanitation and disease control, instructed by Dr. E. M. Hanawalt, will start Wednesday, Jan. 5, at 8 p.m.and will meet during a 10-week period. Fee for the course will be $4. Registration will be on the first night of the classes. i Examinations Slated On Campus at College Salem flJ.R) Examinations for state butter and cheese makers licenses will be held Jan. 20-21 in Withycombe hall on the Oregon State College campus at Corvallis, Kenneth E. Carl, as sistant chief of the state depart ment of agriculture division food and dairies, said Saturday. Carl said all applicants for admission to these examinations should apply before Jan. 10 to his office in the agriculture building here. Applicants will undergo a written test all morn ing and will be tested on butter or cheese judging and analysis in the afternoon. and reminded them of the plight of fellow countrymen under Communist rule in East Germany. CALLS FOR REPEAL Santiago, Chile (U.R) Chile's chamber of deputies called on the government Saturday to repeal a new decree which calls a or ra tioning of news print. Publishers and newsmen have opposed the decree, which sets up a newsprint rationing board as a step toward restricting free dom of the press. i GIFTS ARRIVE London (U.R) The Yugoslav radio announced Friday night the arrival of 147,000 gift pack ages in Belgrade. - The packages, sent by the World Union of Churches and the Lutheran World Aid Group, will be distributed through the Red Cross. PLAN LIBERATION Tokyo (U.R) Chinese Com munist propagandists claimed again Saturday the Communist regime will "liberate" Formosa and "eliminate" the Nationalist government. A Peiping propaganda broad cast monitored in Tokvo said "the Chinese people have full confidence as -well -as the strength to accomplish this sa cred tass. : LEADS ARMED FORCES Quito. Ecuador (U.R) Pedro Menendez Gilbert Saturday as sumed direction of the Ecuador- ean armed forces. Menendez, formerly mavor of Guayaquil, was appointed minis- A r t . . -. . ier oi aeiense naay in a move to crush a coup d'etat by military groups backing former Minister Reinaldo Varea Donoso. . Cotton Allotment Increase Planned Washington U.R) Rep; Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.) said Satur day he will sponsor legislation in January to give-larger cotton acreage allotments to farmers hit this year by the drought. Teague said his bill would apply to cotton farmers in coun ties officially declared disaster areas. It would gaurantee them an acreage allotment equal to that they received in the 1954 crop year.' Cotton allotments recently were cut for the crop year 1954. "I have" received many, many letters," said Teague, "from farmers in my district complain ing of their, notice of acreage allotment for 1955 and wanting to know if Congress was going to do anything about it." Teague. said he had tried and failed to get the Agriculture De partment to provide some ad ministrative relief for the drought-stricken farmers. His proposal is expected to be one of a number on the sub ject of cotton allotments. Con gressional experts on agriculture foresee a sharp fight on the issue but they do not expect the al lotments to be increased. One reason is that the cotton bloc itself is divided on the ques tion. . Only One Scrooge, So Carols Continue Long Beach. Calif. U.R) Police discovered Friday night there was only one "Scrooge" among the neighbors of ibe Clayton Boyer family, so per mission to continue singing Christmas carols over a loud speaker was granted. Officers did not identify the lone objector to the songs which Clayton Boyer. 42; his wife. Dorothy, 42 and son Robert. 14, have sung at Christmas for the last three years. They , merely joined neigh bors who had insisted the mus ic did mora good than harm.- Europe Celebrates Biggest Christmas Since War's End London (U.R) Europe cele brated its biggest and gayest Christmas since the war Satur day. ', Santa Clauses were every where. Mountains of turkey were washed down with millions of bottles of wine and cham pagne. In England a group of American Airmen decorated a jeep like a sleigh and scattered, gifts. The festive spirit ran so high that even Moscow took note. "Before I start," said a Mos cow radio commentator,; "I just want to wish a Merry Christmas to all who ' are celebrating the day, and to repeat that Christ mas wish, which is surely the wish of us all, peace on earth and good will toward men." American service men in Eu rope celebrated in a manner as close as possible to the home traditions. On the muddy North German lowlands, in the snowy Alps, in Turkey and under the Northern lights in Norway, the GI"s gorged themselves on tur key. , The menu included more than a pound of turkey per man, plus everything from shrimp cock tail to mincemeat pie a la mode. For this one day, soldiers and airmen recently told to cut down their weight were permitted to eat to their heart's content. . More than 40,000 service men Dr. Sam Has Quiet Christmas; Gets Gifts in Prison Cleveland (U.PJ Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, convicted of mur der in the second degree, spent a quiet Christmas day Saturday, in the Cuyahoga - County jail where he ate a dinner of "roast turkey with "all the trimmings." Chief , Jailer ' Mike ; Uccello said the holiday lare for all prisoners includes, besides the turkey, candied sweet potatoes, peas, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pie and coffee. Sheppard was convicted last Tuesday of the bludgeon-murder of his pregnant wife, Marilyn, 31, last July 4th. He was sen tenced to life imprisonment in the Ohio Penitentiary in Colum bus, the state capital. '. However, Chief Defense Counsel William J. Corrigan won a stay of execution of the sentence while he filed an ap peal for a new trial. Judge Edward Blythin will rule on that motion next Thurs day. Saturday was not a visiting day at the jail but Uccello said that "being as it's Christmas," they might allow one or two visitors to see him, "depending," he said, "on who they are." Had Visitors Friday, friends and relatives came to see Sheppard in his reg ular cell.: He had been moved from the . "observation" cell where convicted murderers are kept-, for awhile so they may not have an opportunity to try to take their own lives. Ucello said Dr. Sam had re ceived, "between 150 and 200" cards and letters as well as sev eral gifts." Tajpeh Chinese Rap U.N. Move Taipeh (U.R) The Chinese Nationalist Assembly publicly denounced Saturday U. N. Secretary-General Dag .Hammar skj old's forthcoming trip to Com munist China charging it smacked of appeasement. Assemblyman Gen. Ho Yin Ching said in a speech that Hammarskjold's visit to Pei ping would follow the pattern set at the Geneva Conference. He said there was evidence al ready that a compromising attir tude. was dangerous and ap peasing. . Earlier, Nationalist China's Vice-President Chen Cheng told the assembly the coming year would be the "beginning of darkness before dawn." He warned it will be the hardest year for Nationalist China in its bitter fight against the Commu nists. He called for redoubled efforts to resist the Communist menace. BEWARE of.. -,. ; IMITATIONS LOOK f OR THE HAPPY UTTUDOO TOPS IN QUALITY! louiuphicc spent " Christmas holidays with German families. - Some .50,000 German 1 orphans, aged . and needy children were guests of the occupation forces. Honorary Degree In Masonic Order Won by Local Man John R.'Pond, 703 Kehyon st.J has been awarded the Masonic designation of Knight of the York Cross of Honour, it was re ported last week. This honorary degree, highest in the. York rite of Freemasonry,, is confrred only on those . who have held the highest office in each of the four bodies of the rite. Pond becomes the 5,239th man to have received this award in the past 25 years in North America, although there are nearly 4,000,000 members of the fraternity. His offices have included mas ter of Warren lodge of Masons in 1954 (Jacksonville); high priest of Oregon chapter, Royal Arch Masons, (Jacksonville) in 1948; master of Table Rock council, Royal and Select Masters, (Med ford) in 1952; commander of Mal ta commandery, Knights Temp lar, (Ashland) in 1954-5. In 1953 he served as district deputy grand high priest of Dis trict 3. He was elected to mem bership in Oregon priory and his election confirmed by convent general of the order on Dec. 15. A certificate of membership has been mailed him. There are 51 priories of the order in North America with a present membership of 4,400. Body of Battered Woman Discovered Los Angeles (U.R) The battered, half-nude body of Lou ise (Mar y) Morgan, . 49, was iound early Saturday in a Los Angeles parking lot. Detectives said the woman, nude from the waist down, ap parently had been raped. Investigation showed that the woman had been arrested 67 tirns, principally on ' drunk charges, detectives said. They said they were "trying to track down her activities since Sep tember, the last time she was arrested." Officers believed they would be able to determine the Morgan woman's assailant once they dis covered where she had been liv ing. One detective said it looked as though she had been strap ped by the wrist to a truck in the lot but had broken free. ; The coroner's officer said the woman, whose hair was dyed red, had been beaten severely about the head. Her purse was missing, detec tives added, but the contents ex cept for -identification, were strewn about the murder scene. The Army had 1,461 chaplains on duty as of March of this year. Of this total, 255 were Regular Army. The remainder were Reserve officers. ' WHO CAN HELP YOUR HEARING? I AM A TRAINED SONOTONE HEARING AID' CONSULTANT BY TOAINING and long experience, I have helped hundreds to better hearing. Now I have a wonder ful new hearing aid to help you break through that iron curtain of deafness, and bring back conversa tion, music the laughter of life. This is the brilliant, new Sonotone "1200." Here, for the first time, Sonotone has put not three but FOUR transistors in. a hearing aid to bring you DOUBLE hearing help- ' 1. MORE POWER than ever before, for easier hearing NOW. 2, RESERVE POWER, so you can use this Sono . tone for years to come. - If your present hearing aid is unsatisfactory or if ou hear but don't understand-you owe it to your self to investigate just how valuable this splendid new Sonotone can be for YOU. And remember, if hearing help is possible, I can bring it to you. Come in and let me prove it. There', no obligation. C. R. ADAMSON, District Manager 839 East Jackson Blvd. SONOTONE Part Time Pastor Kills Husband of Ex-Wife for Irk' Watsonville Calif. U.R) A self-ordained minister - shot and killed his ex-wife's ; husband early Saturday because "he said something that vexed and irked me.", - vC - .. Booked on a murder charge by Watsoriville police was Henry Herman Webb, 46, of Seagraves, Tex., who police identified as a part-time . minister : of ; the Church of God of Texas and a full-time farmer. Declines Explanation He declined to say what "vexed him", into whipping out a .22 caliber target pistol in the midst of an argument and pump ing two shots into the head and three into the body of Steven Bradley Kirkendoll, 44, Watson ville. : However, police said they be lieved the argument was over the paternity of Mrs. Kirken doll's four months old child. She was diVorced early . this year from Webb. Surrenders to Police After the shooting, Webb walked to the sheriff's office and surrendered to two deputies who were reporting for-work with the statement: "I'm the man you want for the shooting' i Police said Webb arrived in Watsonville Friday night from Texas and called on his former wife Erma, 37, also a self-or daihed minister. The argument ensued. 1 j : . $100,000 Blaze Los Angeles (U.R) Offic ials termed a. $100,000 fire at the Biltmore hotel the only ma jor,; fire !to disrupt" Christmas day festivities in Los Angeles county. , . The fire broke out early Sat urday in the Galeria' room , of the Biltmore and menaced some $1,000,000 worth of paintings. Hotel spokesmen said there was some smoke damage. , Arson investigators said they had not determined the cause of the blaze. Only one Christmas - tree light fire was reported (at 6229 Mosley ave.) today: The county fire department said they had responded only to "minor" calls one a rib roast that went up in smoke. Bartender Arrested For Assault With Bat :Los Angeles (U.R). George W. Redston, 52,' a ' bartender, was held on suspicion of assault with intent to commit murder Saturday after he allegedly beat two customers with a baseball bat.' ':..'.. In critical condition at gener al hospital were Louis Car Roeckle, 30, and Danny B. "Vin cente, 25. - , .. , ; "These guys had . been giving me a bad time all night," Red ston - told police! Officers i said Redston had a prior murder con viction against, him". : I ' ''': The Women's Auxiliary Army corps began its training at Fort Des Moines, .. Iowa, July . 20, 1954 ,,: .'" . . C. R. Adamtee Disrupts Holiday Sunday, December 28. 1954 Pope Pius Appears a t Window To Bless 50,000 Pilgrims in St. Peter's Square Vatican City (U.R) Pope Pius XII appeared at the window of his sickroom. Saturday to bless 50,000-. pilgrims thronging St. Peters Square below. A huge cry welled from the throng as the frail pontiff stood with arms raised to heaven in front of the open window. The 78-year-old Pope has been "confined to his quarters much of the time since he collapsed Dec. 2 with a severe attack of gastri tis and hernia of the diaphragm. Spaki to Happy Crowd The . Pope climbed the small step in front of his window at 6:02 a.m. EST and remained in full view for two minutes. His papal benediction was relayed by loudspeakers to : the happy crowd in the square. t "Here is the Holy Father," the loudspeaker announced. ; Then the shutters of the win dow on the third floor of the papal palace opened. A flock of doves startled by the unfamiliar creak of the shutters wheeled off the roof above the window. ! Pope Pius stepped 'on to the dais It appeared that two per sons standing behind him had as sisted him'to the pedestal. " ' By chance the sun which had' been beating brightly down on Rome since dawn happened to duck behind a cloud just before the Pope as due to appear. It was not shining as. he stood at the window, warmly wrapped in a thick white cloak. The ; ; whole crowd : in ' the square, including American sail ors arid other servicemen, drop ped to their knees on the hard cobblestones. . , ' ' : . -; ; Crowd Cheers Pope ' ' Only after the shutters closed did the pilgrims rise arid loudly Easy to Serve -Easy t ll&eep om Mamd for Ev ery Becasmm -Everyj Emergemctg shout: "Viva il Papa"; "Long live the Pope." - Millions of Catholics all over the world prayed that, the Pope would appear in person to give his personal blessing rather than record it. They knew it was his most earnest desire to overcome what yesterday he called "the loneli ness of suffering" and resume again his full activity as 'spirit ual leader of the worlds 425, 000,000 Roman Catholics. . Bells of Rome's 446 churches Nationalist Troops Attack Red Posts Taipei U.R) . Nationalist Chinese forces staged their first joint air and. sea assault in three months Saturday against Con munist positions off the South China coast. ;.. . , .' . The Defense Ministry said in an official communique that Na tionalist air ; force , and naval units hit Red Chinese installa tions at Chikueshan Island in the Tachen group north of For mosa. : - It said Saturday's attack close ly followed recent Nationalist aerial raids against St. Toumen Island and commando attacks at Tvidely scattered points, i The. . report ; said Nationalist warships shelled the island for about 'an hour while Nationalist planes dropped about a dozen bombs.', ., . There were no other reports of activity along the 300 mile island front. ' ' '; . , ; 1 ' Have IPEM -NOW AT YOUR FAVORITE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUN& THILZX resounded : shortly before and after the Pope made his appear ance. . . . .-" The joyful pealing of the bells made the faithful' recall words spoken over the Vatican radio Friday by the ailing Pope. "O, if only men knew how to live out their, whole, lives in that atmosphere of joy, with those feelings of goodness and peace which Christmas pours forth-on all sides. How different, how . much happier, the earth would be." - v; A group of American pilgrims crossed into Jordon to attend Friday night's midnight . mass here, last night. ; They included Rose Cramer, San Francisco, Calif., and Wini-. fred Hines, Redondo Beach, Calif. ' - Masons Will Observe Festival of Sf. John The annual observance of the Festival of St. John the Evangel ist will be held today at 3 p.m. at the Medford Masonic hall, with Medford Lodge 103 AF& AM as host. Music will be furnished by . John Lusk and Fred Graten. . Robert Brewer, will lead com- t munity singing. Master of cere- . monies will be Chester L. Fra-, ker, recently elected worshipful master of the Medford lodge. , Refreshments will be served in the dining room following the service. All Masons, their lam- ilies and their friends are invited to attend. . . .. . - -. , , ' ' Dead line Sunday Classified 1m at noon Saturday: 10 a . Monday lor Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. GROCER-
