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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, February 27, 1955 Sailor Acquitted Of Slaying Wife After Long Trial Memphis, Tenn. U.R) Sailor Eugene Haas, 26-year-old Frazee, Minn., sailor, was aquit ted Saturday of murdering his ailing 84-pound wife. The verdict was reached in the 20-day trial Friday night but the verdict was not an nounced until Saturday morn ing. Criminal Judge Sam Camp bell had already retired when he was notified a decision, was ready. He ordered the decision kept secret until the morning session. Denied Charge The prosecution had sought to convince the jury that Haas, stationed at nearby Millington, Tenn., Navy base, shot his wife, dismembered her body and scattered the remains. He de nied it. Mrs. Haas disappeared, last fall and about a month later, on Nov. 28, hunters found a skull which medical witnesses iden tified as that of the missing wo man. No other remains were found. The defense argued that wild dogs could have attacked the sickly woman and mutilated her body when she strolled through the field in a daze brought on by her illness. Radio, TV Exemption From Libel Sought Washington U.R) Radio and television stations , would be exempt from libel actions for statements made by political candidates under a bill offered in the Senate Friday by Sen. John Marshall Butler (R-Md). Butler said present law "places the radio and television industry at a distinct disadvan tage." "In effect," Butler said, "it al so places the broadcasters in the unpleasant and Un - Ameri can role of censor. They are not qualified to censor political broadcasts." Armed Forces Pass 3,200,000-Man Mark Washington (U.R) The size of the armed services jumped to 3,200,575 in January as the re sult of an enlistment boom touched off by President Eisen hower's order to end GI War time benefits. The new total represented a rise of 19,978 over, the previous month. Defense Department officials said the combined military forces took in 116,102 men in January, including 68,103 vol unteers, 23,898 draftees and 24, 101 reenlistments. The increased enlistment came in the face of administration or ders to cut military manpower to 2,940,000 by next June 30. Trial Coverage Discussion Ends In Divided Vote Miami U.R) The question of whether the press should be limited in the coverage of crim inal cases and court proceedings has received a split vote from a panel of leading attorneys and newspapermen. The panel debated the subject, "Fair Trial versus Free Press" before the Legal Ethics institute here Friday. Real Problem Louis Waldman, president of the Brooklyn Bar association, was among a group terming the subject a "real problem." Wald man called for adoption of two legal canons that would limit press coverage. Waldman charged that mem bers of the press have promoted a "false conceit" that "the people are entitled to know." But a trial "is not a political, economic or social event,'' he said. In response, V. M. Newton, managing editor of the Tampa, Fla., Morning Tribune, said that both the bar and the press have been found at fault. But, he ad ded, "the people, not the law yer or the editor, will make the rules for the administration of the people's justice and freed-om. For Your Added Convenience YOUR FAVORITE X ::w S o o o With 10 MORE Food Value IS NOW AVAILABLE IN NEW CONVENIENT V szi n n e a liner: AT YOUR FAVORITE GROCERY STORE if T" r rv ?i 5ft, '.Ts..4ra- pip If : WINNING SCREEN role in Rudolf Friml's "The Vagabond King," without help of grandpa, who composed operetta, Dian Friml, 19, surprised family when it was announced in Hollywood. Here Friml Is presenting granddaughter with roses. Dian visited set, was seen by director, who signed her lip. (International) Japanese Kidnaping Plot Attempt To Get Wife in '56 Tokyo (U.R) Kidnapings are rare in Japan, and when they happen they are usually not very, successful. Like the one Friday afternoon. The kidnaper was Yukio Tak asu, a methodical but over-confident young man of 19. He carried a briefcase with a book entitled, "how to make money," magazines on stocks and investments, and a diary headed: "projects for 1955." Upon their success depended his happiness in 1956. Wanted Big Money One of these was the kidnap ing, and after the entry he had written: "I will carry out the plan during February. Object: Five million yen." So Takasu picked out a like ly victim, 9-year-old Tadashi Hayakawa, and hired a private detective agency to check on the financial status of the boy's father, a merchant. The detective agency said the father was well fixed so Takasu went to work. He took young Tadashi from his school and escorted him to the sunny roof garden of Toky's biggest de partment store. There the boy was forced to write: "Honorable mother and fa ther, please hand over eight million yen. $22,222. If you notify the police and other I'll be killed." Ignored Attendants Takasu left the frightened boy on the roof and, disguised by dark glasses, hunted up the boy's mother at the family store. He ignored the attendants as he outlined the situation to the mother, so one of the attendants called police. A constable seized the young criminal while he was still waiting for the mother to write out a check. The constable opened the briefcase and read about the kidnaping as one of the main "projects for 1955. At the end was the item: "Thus I shall get myself a wife in 1956." Pickin' Pears News and Notes From Camp White Northern Idaho College Scheduled To Reopen Boise U.PJ Gov. Robert E. Smylie Saturday sisned into law the bill to reopen Northern Idaho college of Education. . Alton B. Jones, secretary of the State Board of Education, told reporters he could not say what action the board has taken with regard to opening . the school. But Sen. Howard Hechtner (D-Nez Pearce), sponsor of the bill, said he was confident of the school would be ready to open, with the next fall term. Physics Professor Refuses To Speak At Washington U. Seattle (U.R) Dr. Victor A. Weisskopf, professor of phy sics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has refused to ipeak at the University of Wash ington because of the Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer case, it was reported Saturday. Attacks Decision Dr. Weisskopf, a Walker Ames lecturer at the university two years ago, said in a letter of refusal received by the school that no "self-respecting" physi cist could go to the university after its refusal to invite the atomic scientist. -Will Never Accept , "As long as this refusal stands," Dr. Weisskopf said, "I myself would never accept any invitation to Seattle and I don't think that any self-respecting physicist should do it." ' University President Dr. Hen ry Schmitz cancelled a sched uled lecture by Dr. Oppenhimer after the physicist had been pro posed as a Walker-Ames lectur er in physics by the university's physics department. Second Vicitm of Shooting Dies; Slayer in Custody Wichita Falls, Tex. U.R) Capt. Marvin L. Marchesi, 34, the second officer shot by Wil liam F. Sink, a civilian instruc tor at Sheppard Air Force base, died Saturdy in the 3750th Air Force . hospital. The other officer, Lt. Col. Carl G. Carlson, 43, of Spokane, was killed outright Wednesday when Sink shot seven times from two pistols at them while they were sitting in Carlson's office. Underwent Optration ' Marchesi was from Los An geles. He was shot in the head and an operation was performed on him Thursday in an effort to save him. Both officers were fliers and veterans of World War H and the Korean war. Sink, 38, father of two sons, was charged with Carlson's mur der and is expected to be charg ed shortly with Marchesi's. Since the shooting, he has acted as though he were in a daze and eaten only a biscuit and drunk only a few sips of milk. Dr. Kenneth Dets, Wichita county health officer, had decid ed Thursday to transfer Sink from the county jail to a mental hospital, but he cancelled the transfer Friday. Bremerton Escapees Captured by Police Bremerton, Wash. - U.P.) Two inmates who escaped through a tunnel under the Kit sap county jail Wednesday night were recaptured Friday night in a Bremerton suburb when one of the men tried to contact his wife to get money for a trip out of the state. The captured men are John son Kennedy, 47, and Rosswell Edenshaw, 32. . Another inmate of the Kit sap county jail, John J. Wilcox, 22, Bainbridge island, used the same tunnel, but only long enough to make a quick trip to Bainbridge island to see his wife and week-old baby. Wilcox returned to the jail before officers discovered the jail break. HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Station Sundays KWIN - 10:15 1400 K.C. A M- By SID HOLLINGSWORTH Thelma Williams, hospital rep resentative of the American Le gion and auxiliary, takes things in stride and few are aware to day that she was the busiest individual at Camp White all of last week. Her first task was to distrib ute $1,575 in poppy checks to about 90 men who participated in this undertaking, since the arrival of the first poppy ma terial in November. The checks were handed out on Washing ton's birthday. This brings the total disbursement for making poppies to $4,410. Thursday, the post office com pleted the job of loading 100 boxes of finished poppies on the mail truck for shipment to posts throughout the entire state. The work of packing, addressing and moving the boxes and checking them before being placed in the mail sacks was a large order. Two full days were required to finish the job and Acting Man ager Denning, Mrs.' Williams and Dorothy Giff ord, auxiliary pres ident, Tom Ginn, hospital chair man, and Col. H. V. Meiring, of Post 15, were on hand to place the last mail sacks on the truck. The "Gifts to Yanks" commis sion of the American Legion ar ranged another event for last week in the distribution of ciga rettes, king size, to 815 domi ciliary members. There were 21 cases of them to handle in this phase of the week's program. They were handed out in each company Thursday morning. Mrs. Williams still has 32 or ders to complete the 1955 quota. The men brought in 70,000 com pleted poppies, and 6,000 remain to be finished before the poppy job is finished. The first shipment of 35,000, she said, was sent to Alaska. There were 13 boxes in this order. Lloyd Pereau is one member who appreciated the showing of logging activities in the Maine woods in U. S. Forest Service films offered by the Red Cross last Wednesday evening. Pereau is from "down east" and knows the country intimately having worked in a sawmill at Bath, when he lived in Maine. "I didn't do much logging on ac count of my asthma," he says. Edith Braley presented the pic ture for the ARC. Father Lawrence Eskay eats his meals in the personnel din ing room, and this being the Lenten season, he made arrange ments for a side order of salmon to be left at his place at the table. He was late in arriving, and when he asked what became of his fish, he learned that an early comer had discovered the entree and assumed it to be salad. Thee former Home members have returned for admission aft er varying experiences, making their way in the world outside in spite of their disabilities. They are former Sergeant Don Cirkot, who was at his home in Reno; Evan Griffith, who held the job as clerk in. the Holland hotel in Medford during the past year, and Arthur Hancock, the salesman, who tried numerous od4 jobs around town for several months. Iraq Deputies Okay Turkish-Iraq Pact Baghdad, Iraq (U.R) The Iraqi Chamber of Deputies ap proved the Turkish-Iraqi defen se pact by a vote ofs116 to 4 Saturday after three hours of debate. The Senate took up the mea sure in the afternoon. The pact, signed Thursday night by Turkey and Iraq, ex tended the Western Defense line into the Arab League nations for the first time. 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