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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. February 22, 1955 Will Starts Legal Battle To Keep Money From Going to Soviet Bank New York OJ.P.) On June 28, 1948, a 76-y e a r-old machinist named Henry Von Der Heid dropped dead on a New York street. In his will he said he had no living relatives and wanted his estate of $70,000 to go to the State Bank of the Soviet Union. The will started a legal battle which has been going on for more than six years and has become a private "cold war" be tween the Soviet Union and a professional tracer of lost per sons, Theodore Roth. The State of New York con- Kapers Rehearsal Set; First Show Wednesday "Tel-A-Version," the 1955 Ki-j wanis. Kapers stage production of music, make-believe and mer riment, gets its final touches tonight before presentation to Medford audience. Dress rehearsal is scheduled tonight and on Wednesday the song, dance, gag and skit-filled show opens a four night run at the Medford senior high school auditorium. The production, in two acts and seven scenes, pre , sents hilarious versions of popu lar television shows. It features all-local talent with professional direction. Student Night Wednesday will be student night at the Kapers and the curtain time for that one night will be 7:30 o'clock. There will be a special price for students. ' Adults 'in the first night audi ence will pay the regular gen eral admission price and there will be no reserved seats. Reserved seats for the Thurs day, Friday and Saturday night presentations which start at 8:15 p.m., can be obtained at Barker's Men's store. Students attending the final three night showings will pay full adult admission. First act of "Televersion" pre sents a parade of popular Ty characters, a ballet, a space pa trol scene, a western movie loca tion scene, a "Dragnet" routine and a take-off on the "Hit Pa rade." Second act is a telecast review; "The ' Fred Herring Show." ': Cast Members . In one scene Ron Rice and Buss Jamison are mad scien tists, Russ Brown and Chet Guches are wrestlers," Clyde "Wheaton is a comic and Ray Johnson is a master of cere monies. J5m Ambler is the queen swan in the ballet. Dr. Abner '' Clark is Prince Siegfried and Stan Jones is Von Rothbart. Several Kiwanians are hunters and others are "beautiful" swans. Bob Rector as St. Medford and Hugh Bates as Junior are School Program Said Aid To Bankers Superior, Wis. U.R) The president of the American Fed eration of Teachers has called President Eisenhower's public- school building program a "fed eral aid to bankers." Carl J. Megel, Chicago, told the annual dinner meeting of the Superior Federation of Tea chers last night that he favored the school construction bill sponsored by . Sen." Lister Hill, (D-Ala.). He said the administration proposal wouia serve tne pe culiar administration point of view of the functions of the federal government and the in terests of bankers and other bond buyers." The bill sponsored by Hill, he said, "would provide a billion dollars in outright federal aid to the states for school construction over the next two years." featured in the space patrol scene. In the western number Tom Anderson is Tex Wyoming and Jack Walker is the abused stand-in. Mrs. Margaret Huson as Zircon Lil is a soloist. The scene is overrun with charac ters out of the old west and with movie studio personnel. In "Dragnet" Jones is Friday, Charles Champlin is Saturday and Anderson is Monday. John son, Jean Edson, Wheaton, Fred Morlan, Carol Clark, Margaret Dix and Dick Phair have roles in the "Hit or Miss Parade." Dance Routines Dance routines add to the col or of the show. Bijou girls are Carol Wilson Judy Lucas, Sylvia Teeter, Darlene Kroening, Kathy Guily, Marilyn Harper, Sharon Howard and Marie Sefarly. Can Can girls are Vona Rutherford, Sharon Zumwalt, Barbara Ed wards, Myrna Adams, Shirley Kenner and Barbara Johnson. Six Kiwanis ladies are "JaDa" girls and six Kiwanians are the Charleston boys. Frank Benesh has the rvole of SI. Gabriel in the show and Rector, as 'St. Medford, is the patron saint of this community. Randy LaFerr and Don Han sen of Lassen xneatncai pro duction's are directing the show. tested the will on the basis of a state law which forbids leavr ing all of one's money to char ity. In 1953, Roth was given the job of finding relatives who, by law, had an interest in the es tate. Everyone Has Relatives "If there's one thing I've learned in this business," Roth said, "it's that there is no' such thing as a person having no liv ing relatives. I' figured the way to beat the Soviet Union was to turn up someone, even a 60th cousin if necessary." Roth discovered that Von Der Heid had a sister named Barbara who 'had come to America and married a Carl Bamberg m 1899. Birth records dn New Jer sey revealed that Von Der Heid's sister had had three children, all girls. The trail was 50 years old Roth dug into marriage and death records, police records, census and voting lists, public school and college records. He interviewed dozens of people, made more than 100 long-distance phone calls and inserted many notices in local newspa pers. One of the newspaper no tices paid off. Found Daughters "I got a call from a girl who had known one of the nieces, Elsa," he said. "Elsa had mar ried and moved to Penns Point, Pa. I found her there, and learn ed that Frieda was living at Canton, 111., and Anna at Sar anac Lake, N.Y.." The case is still tied up in sur rogate court in New York, but Roth is confident the three heirs will get the lion's share of the $70,000. Attorneys representing the Soviet Bank are still fight ing, and at a recent juncture it appeared they might emerge with about $12,000 of the estate "I don't think they'll even get that," Roth said. "In fact, I'll be willing to bet the Soviet Union never gets a dime European Storm Leaves 37 Known Dead London '.R) Thirty-seven persons were Known dead to day in storm-battered Europe and weathermen predicted more snow and cold. Heavy snows, whipped into blizzards by 70 mile an hour winds, have battered the British Isles and much of the continent since the week end. Experts of the Air Ministry weather bu reau in London said there was no indication of an early break in the weather. Former Skid Row Character Continues To Make Good Chicago U.R) William G. Wood, a distinguished law pro fessor who became a skid row bum, had encouraging news to day for the men who had faith in him. He's stayed sober for a month and he thinks he can keep it up. Wood, a toothless, 65-year-old vagrant, shambled into Judge Hyman Feldman's municipal court exactly four weks ago yes terday. Defended Pals Feldman took a look at Wood's record and saw that he was once a professor of law at the Kent College of Law here. He asked Wood to defend one of his skid row pals. Wood did so, ; successfully. Then Feldman offered to pay Wood $5 a day for helping him with skid row cases, provided the former professor could stay sober. Feldman and Chief Justice Raymond P. Drynalski of 'the municipal court held a sort of birthday party yesterday to commemorate the first month of Wood's new life. , They gave him a birthday cake and told him it looked to them as if he was making good. It was indeed a new Wood who received their congratula tions. He had a set of false teeth, a new hearing aid, and was decked out in a new suit and homburg. Thinks He's 'Made It' - He didn't talk much about whether he thinks he can stay on the comeback trail, but he indi cated he thinks he has . "made it." . - , , Last week end, jhe revealed, a cousin tried to talk him into going back to . his skid row haunts. - r, - "I kept going rthe other way," Wood said. "In fact, I tried to persuade him to go the other way." Meanwhile, he hopes to start work at a steady job soon and move back into the neighbor hood where he lived before fam ily troubles led him to start hit ting the bottle. 4-H Club The Griffin Creek school "But tons and Bows" sewing club held a business meeting Satur day, Feb. 19, in the cafeteria with 11 girls present. Mrs. Walk er's group, the second year girls were best represented "with 5 of their 6 girls present. They are doing very well on their aprons and pot holders. . Most of the girls are showing excellent progress on their pro jects. In spite of heavy respon sibilities of helping to build a home, Mrs. Meyers has worked faithfully with the third year girls. The first year girls have progressed rapidly with the help of Mrs. Otis Foreman. Judith Foreman is already on . her last project. Our acting leader, Mrs. Rose Eskew, gave us a talk on care of the hair, how to wear it most becomingly and to be individ ualists in hair style if it best suits of personalities. She also touched briefly on making decisions. It is how we make decisions on little things with the help of our teachers, parents, churches, 4-H and( other worthwhile influences, that will prepare us to meet the big de cisions in life. We adjourned until the next business meeting to be held in March 26. Smaller units will meet for sewing as scheduled. The refreshment committee ser ved 'cookies, and kool-aid. Elise Eskew, , Reporter. COW ON QUEUE Richmond, Ky. (U.R) A ticket seller, Mrs. Elizabeth Mc Kinney, was- surprised to hear someone ask. "How much does a ticket for a cow cost?" S H e looked up and saw a cow second in line. But the cow decided she rdidn't want to see the movie and strolled away, causing a traffic jam on Main street moments la ter. Bossie had wandered away from the farm of J. B. Arnett. Thermometer Taken From Man After 33 Years Waynesburg, Pa. U.PJ Law rence Mylan was improving "by degrees" today after an opera tion at Greene County Memor ial hospital. , Mylan, 66, complained of pains in the abdomen recently and underwent surgery Mon day. Doctors removed a clinical thermometer which Mylan be lieves he swallowed 33 years ago while delirious from the ef fects of blood poisoning. Actor Robert Cummings Father of Daughter ; Hollywood (U.R) Actor Rob ert Cummings today was the father of a six-pound, 10-ounce daughter, but hadn't decided on a name for her. His wife, Mary, gave birth to the child at nearby Santa Moni ca Hospital last night. Their other children are Robert, 9, i dent, said the dispute was partly Student Newspaper Members Suspended Chicago (U.R) Five staff members of the Illinois Institute of Technology's student news paper have been suspended from the publication on grounds that they published off-color humor. A faculty disciplinary commit tee yesterday announced the sus pension of the technology news' editor and four assistants. Clarence E. Deakins, dean of students, said the staff had been told several times to stop print ing a controversial humor, col umn and-to delete jokes objec tionable to some readers. Henry C. Curcio, 20, assoc iate editor and senior class presi- Melinda, 7, and Patricia, 3. a staff misunderstanding. 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