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.
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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
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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. It was believed
other Middle East nations would
sign similar paqts now that Iraqi
has acted. .
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