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Murder Complaint Due
Against Student for
Slaying of Socialite
Lot Angeles !U.R Detectives indicated today that black
mail and net unrequited love led to the slaying of a socialite 'di
vorcee by her former houseboy.
The detectives said police have possession of letters in which
John B. Crooker Jr. threatened to bare alleged intimate relations
with the socialite. Mrs. Norma T. McCauley.
"I wonder what your husband and parents would think if they
knew." one of the letters was quoted. Detectives said this letter
was dated shortly before Crooker stabbed Mrs. McCauley to
death in her fashionable Bel Air home.
Police said Crooker admitted the 33-year-old divorcee had
given him $300 three weeks ago and had been generous with lesser
sums over a period of time.
Crooker denied blackmail or extortion had anything to do
with driving him to slay Mrs. McCauley.
Lo Angeles (U.R) District
Attorney S. Ernest Roll said a
formal murder complaint would
Coos Bay Union Files
Suit for Employees
- Portland (U.R) An officer
of the Coos Bay local of the
CIO Woodworkers union has fil
ed suit in Federal Court, here
for $15,936 in back wages alleg
edly owed 330 employees of the
Coos Bay Lumber company.
The suit, filed by local bus
iness agent Dave Rice, arose out
of last year's three-month-long
lumber strike.
Rice claimed the lumber com
pany had refused to honor an
agreement to make the 7V-cent
hourly wage increase granted in
the industry-wide strike retro
active to the date employees re
turned to work.
Rice said the employees re
sumed work Sept. 13, 1954, while
the so-called governors' fact
finding board investigated strike
issues but were granted the wage
hike effective Jan. 1, 1955.
FOX AND GOOSE
Narragansett, R.I. (U.R) A
fox in search of dinner made a
dash for a goose standing with
soma colleagues on a frozen
pond. The fox drowned. The
gees were standing around a
hole in the ice.
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Soon
Monc
be issued today against law stu
dent John R. Crooker Jr., 34,
confessed murderer of Mrs. Nor
ma T. McCauley, 38-year-old
socialite divorcee.
Roll said the nearby Santa
Monica district attorney's office
would issue the complaint and
that the confessed slayer would
be arraigned in West Los Ange
les Municipal Court.
Killing Confessed
Crooker, after 14 hours of in
tense questioning by relays of
detectives broke down Wednes
day and confessed he killed the
society matron in a fit of rage
because she spurned his love.
The law student, a former
house boy at Mrs. McCauley's
home, said he became infuriated
early Tuesday when the attrac
tive woman fell asleep while he
pleaded with her in her fashion
able Bel-Air home to resume
their alleged love affair.
Screamed Before Death
He said he grabbed a kitchen
knife he pieviously had picked
up and stabbed her five times.
Then, the Maine-born former
sailor said, he took her white
lace stole and twisted it around
her neck until he was sure she
was dead. He said she tried to
fight for her life, bit him,
scatched him and screamed be
fore she died.
Mrs.- McCauley was divorced
last March from Frank E. Mc
Cauley, a former Air Force ma
jor. They were the parents of
three children. She was the
daughter of J. Arthur Thompson,
millionaire electrical contractor.
SLAYING ADMITTED Los Angeles police say John R.
Crooker, left, a houseboy and law student, stabbed and
strangled, Mrs. Norma McCauley, right, Bel Air socialite,
to death. A broken romance was assertedly the cause.
In and Around Jacksonville
Jacksonville On Friday, July
1, the regular potluck dinner
was held at the Rebekah and
Odd Fellows hall. Twenty-six
members were present.
Guests from Medford lodges
included Mr. and Mrs. Bill Dyer,
Mr.: and Mrs. Floyd Murry and
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Scriptner.
Two old time members, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Hawkins, were also
present, having returned from
Portland after , two years ab
sence from Jacksonville, They
will reside at their former home
on Bishop creek. .
The Rebekahs announced that
a rummage sale will be held at
the hall on July 14.
Miss Donna Whiteley, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Church
man, 105 Winema Way, Medford,
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was married on June 24 at Mid
land, Nev., to Richard Leon Teal,
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Teal,
409 Sterling rd., Jacksonville,
The newlyweds are temporarily
residing at Stokes Auto court on
South Riverside, Medford.
Miss Joyce Sandell, Oakland,
Calif., daughter of Emil Sandell,
formerly of Jacksonville, return
ed here for a visit with Miss Rita
McBeth and Miss Clara Mae
Anderson after they had spent
a week's visit in Oakland with
Miss Sandell.
Mr. and Mrs. George Christ,
Santa Rosa, Calif., left Tuesday
after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Pence and Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Rhoten of Jacksonville Hill. Mrs
Christ is a cousin to Mrs. Pence
and Mrs. Rhoten.
Mrs. Lizzy Hodson has return
ed to her home here after a two
month visit with her son and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hod-
son, Spokane, Wash. Lee Hodson,
another son, also returned this
week from visiting his son Jack
and family at Westminster, Calif,
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Rock and
son, Joe,; 01cVStagerd., Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Christean, and Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Legg and son.
Charlie, returned the evening of
July 4 after a four-day deep sea
fishing trip . at Crescent City,
Joe Rock was reportedly best
fisherman of the crew. '
Mrs. H. C. Penick, Medford,
spent July Fourth weekend at
the home of Mrs'. Ida Wright. ,
1 Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Fretwell
and daughter, Bennie, and Mr.
and Mrs. R. G. Simon, Portland,
were weekend guests at the
home of Mrs. James Fretwell
and daughter, Joan.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bradley
and two sons, Linn and Eddie,
and daughter, Mary, Cottage
Grove, were week end visitors
at the home of Mrs. Bradley's
mother, Mrs. Yinn Rumley. Linn
Bradley will remain with his
grandmother for the remainder
pf school vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lee Jr.,
and son are visiting Mrs. Lee's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Serry, Jacksonville,' and Lee's
father and family on the Apple-
gate. The Lees are from La
Grande, Ore.
Recent guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hewlett were
his sister, Mary Rehr, Wasco,
Ore., and her nephew, Loren
Mitchell, Troutdale, Ore.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hackert
visited over July 4 with their
son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Don
ald Hackert, Albany, Ore. While
there they attended the Timber
carnival.
' Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Jcrdon
and two sons, David and Harold,
left last week for a month's
vacation trip to Hanna, N.D. In
their absence Richard Gravelle
is taking charge of their service
station.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Groves
are the new owners of a 15 foot
trailer, house in which they had
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Allied War Prisoners ThursdayJuly, t. 195s
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Moved To China Province
Taipei, Formosa (U.PJ Some
50 Allied war prisoners, includ
ing "a number of American and
Canadian officers, : have been
moved from Manchuria to the
Fukien Province on the South
China coast last month, accord
ing to the Nationalist Tatao
News Agency.
The agency, organ of the Min
istry of Interior, said the pris
oners had served with the Chi
nese Communist artillery for
"quite a long time." It did not
elaborate.
a camping trip at Union Creek
over the July, 4 week end. They
were joined there by Mr. and
Mrs. Ted Hewlett, Jacksonville.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Jones have
returned from a two week visit
with relatives in New Meadow,
St. Marie and Boise, Ida.
Miss Grace Hamaker, Horse
Creek, Calif., daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. V. Hamaker, visited
last week in Jacksonville at the
home of her grandmother, Mrs.
J. B. Noble, and also at the
homes of her aunts, Mrs. Carl S.
Hoskins and Mrs. Milton James.
She returned to" Horse Creek
Saturday with another aunt, Mrs.
C. M. Smith, 215 North Colum
bus ave., Medford.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sharp
and sons, Jerry and Gary, In
dependence, Mo.; were recent
guests at the Carl Hoskins home.
Mrs. Sharp" is Mr. Hoskins' sis
ter whom he hadnt' seen for 20
years. '
PI Uninterested
In Downtown Center
Portland U.R) The Pacific
International Livestock Exposi
tion.told Portland's exposition
recreation commission yesterday
it wouldn't , be interested in a
downtown site for the proposed
civic center.
Officials of the PI said that
the Delta Park, or East Vanport,
site would be preferable.
The commission received a re
port in six of eight proposed
sites for the center with con
clusions and recommendations
delayed pending study of the
other sites.
Lost Fishermen -,;
Walk To Safety
Vancouver, Wash. U.R)
Paul Schemchek, 26, and Ralph
Conway, 15, both of Vancouver,
were safe today after being re
ported missing on a fishing trip.
They had gone fishing Tues
day on Swift creek, in rugged
country about 30 miles north
east of here. They were reported
missing after two other fisher
men said they failed to keep a
rendezvous Tuesday night.
Relatives notified the Lewis
river ranger station late yester
day that Schemchek and Con
way, had. walked .out to a high
way. ; . . .
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