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Adenauer Expects To Visit Moscow Around September Bonn. U. Chancellor Xonrad Adenauer expects to go to Moscow in September provid ing the Russians clear up a few points first, according to Bonn government sources. The Bonn government be lieves the Russians are gen uinely anxious to get Adenauer to Moscow and feel and the next move is up to them, the sources said. Propose Talks In a note to the Soviets on Thursday, the chancellor agreed to discuss setting up normal re lations with Moscow. He did not mention the Soviet invitation to him personally to visit Mos cow. Instead, he proposed "infor mal" talks between the West German and Russian ambassa dors in Paris to "clarify" a number of questions before hand. Officials here said it now is up to the Russians to accept or reject the idea for such pre liminary talks. The West German government took the line that any sign of servility in Adenauer's reply would have been fatal and that his starchy, non-committal re ply was the only possible one. Issues Not Listed Andenauer's reply did not spell out the issues he wanted "clarified" before he commits himself. It was known, how ever, he wants the Soviets to agree: 1. To announce release of thousands of German war pris oners and civilian internees from Soviet slave labor camps during his Moscow stay. 2. Not to insist on West Ger man recognition of the Soviet sponsored East German Com munist regime. -. 3. Not to insist on recogni tion of the Oder-Niesse line as Germany's eastern frontier. ' Washington More than 20, 000,000 visitors have gone to the top of the Washington monument. MEDF0RD united fre -Full ideated wire TRIBUNE united fre iuil Leased wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1955 Six Pages Dr. Sam Sheppard Claimed Changed an as Conviction Appeal Awaited Editor's Note: One year has passed since the strange and brutal murder or Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard's young wife. Marilyn, at the couple's com fortable lakeside home at Bay Vil lage, O. During that year Dr.Sbep pard has been arrested, tried, and convicted. His family, his career and his way of life have disintegrated. The story of the events of that year are told in the following dispatch by Richard Fales of the Cleveland bureau of United Press who has covered the case since its beginning. By RICHARD FALES ' United Press Correspondent Cleveland, O. (U.R) It was the evening before July 4. A midwestern family gathered in the living room of their comfor table lakeside home. They had planned an outing for the com ing holiday. " ' ' . This night the young couple entertained visitors . . . neigh bors from a few doors away. Upstairs their young son slept. There was a bounteous meal, casual conversation, mention of future plans ... a baby due in a few months. Then the visitors left. Within a few hours the lives of the family were shattered. The date was July 3, 1954. The couple was Dr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Sheppard. The wife, Mrs. Marilyn Shep pard, was beaten to death in her bedroom. The case became one of the most notorious in the history of crime. 1 Many events followed: Dr. Shepard, a promising young brain surgeon, was arrested. He was tried and convicted of sec ond degree murder. The son, Sam Jr.,' (Chip) was separated from his father and sent to live with an uncle. Mother and Father Die Sheppard's mother, Mrs. Ethel Sheppard, committed suicide shortly after her son's convic tion. She left a note saying she "couldn't go on." The young surgeon's father, Dr.' Richard A. Sheppard, died. He had "lost the will to live." Today, a year later, Sheppard is a prisoner at Cuyahoga county jail still hoping for freedom on an appeal that is part of a $100, 000 legal fight to prove him in nocent. "It was a hard year for Dr. Sam," said William J. Corrigan, his chief legal counsel. But the attorney remained optimistic. "I believe the killer will someV day be caught. Dr. Sam has faith in his eventual vindication," he said.. Friends of the handsome, 31- year-old surgeon-osteopath say he has changed little physically since his arrest. But his once carefree attitude and easy man ner have left him. Hes much quieter, a friend said. "He is very devout now. He reads religious pham phlets and the Bible." ' His pastor, the Rev. Alfred C, Kreke, is primarily responsible for Dr. Sam's renewed religious interest. New Outlook on Life "I hope I have helped him,1 he said. "At one time he was sub ject, to periods of great despond ency. I think he has overcome the feeling by his readings, and by a new outlook on life." His only regular visitors are his two brothers, their wives, the Rev. Kreke and another min ister, the Rev. Robert Drews, and Corrigan, his attorney. Sheppard will remain in jail here until he is acquitted or un til his appeals have been denied . x fk$Jf Extension telephones have a new look 'VSt1 " these days. They have color. Color to , pT- Wf blend with the interiors of your home. ""' Vfel Clor "H vour furniture or your 5v vL VJl ' drapes. Color to make them as decora ! ZLr j)ffpPi tive as they're useful in any room in your I T lor Pnones 001X16 rc Wue Sreen - ' i A Vtaf yellow...beige, brown, gray or ivory. Or 1. Jf Jim in smart "two-tone" combinations of jet YS ' S A 'ik klack with red, green, ivory or gray. Call jfjl f your telephone business office today or .5 V. i tomorrow. Talc Mm asv. eh xtension phone) costs less than a nickel a day and he is sent to the Ohio pen ientiary in Columbus to serve his life sentence. He will be elig ible for parole after 10 years but time spent in jail here dqes not count toward parole require ments. He probably will know within three weeks whether he wins an other trial or goes to the peni tentiary. "Even if he wins an acquittal," a friend said, "Dr. Sam will nev er be the same again. He has lost more in the past year than he could win back the rest of his life." Policeman Beaten In Chicago Brawl Chicago U.R) A Fourth of July picnic erupted into a wild brawl in which a college stu dent was shot and policemen were "beaten with their own night sticks. Six policemen were injured, one with a fractured skull and two with broken jaws, when they tried to break up a fight between two men at Trumbull Park on the Southwest Side yes terday. Some members of the crowd of 2500 persons turned on the officers. They grabbed their night sticks and beat the police men with them. Fifty-one police squads broke up the brawl. Search Continues For Marine Fliers Tokyo (U.R) Scores of Amer ican planes searched isolated beaches and mountains today in a final effort to find some trace of two Marine fliers who crash ed nine days ago. The huge sea hunt was called off yesterday after ships and planes scoured some 85,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean. But another aerial sur vey of mountains,' islands and the coastline south of Tokyo was ordered on the slim possi bility the fliers may have crash ed on land or been washed ashore. The missing men, whom U. S. officers believe crashed into the sea June 26 in their F3D Sky Knight jet, are Capt. Hodgen P. Montague, 26, Jackson, Miss., UNDERWORLD FASHIONS Chicago (U.R) Even the un derworld is getting fashion'' con scious. Tough Tony Accardo, reputed crime syndicate king pin, startled 300 "business asso ciates" by wearing blue bermuda shorts to the annual lawn party and barbecue Monday. and 2nd Lt. David Bell, 24, Way zata, Minn. . 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