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(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.
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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. '
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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. ' ' '; . , ;
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-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-