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Thursday. July 7, IMS
EVirs. veiross Tells off Keini MuirSler TTrtal
VFW Conventioneers
Hear Patterson Speak
Oceanlake U.PJ Gov. Paul
Patterson yesterday told the
state convention of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars meeting here
that devotion and service to
country were the continuing ob
ligations of all men, even after
they were out of uniform.
The governor spoke at the
opening session of the 34th an
nual state encampment.
Speakers yesterday included
Oregon State Treasurer Sig
Unander, the Rev. Thomas A.
Barton, Grand ' Island, Neb.,
national -VFW chaplain; H. C.
Saalfeld, director of the state
department of veteran affairs;
J. B. McDonald, , president of
the Oregon Federation of Labor,
and Dr. George L. Wadsworth,
director of the Roseburg veter
ans hospital.
Washington (U.R) The De
fense Department has announc
ed that 10,000 men will be draft
ed into the Army in September.
Jewish Foster-Father Would Rather Go
To Jail Than Give Up Catholic Child
Boston (U.R) A Jewish
foster-father said today "I am
prepared to go to jail" rather
than give up a Catholic . child
he and his wife have reared.
Melvin B. Ellis of Brookline
apparently had two weeks to
think over his statement. On a
motion by Atty. James Zisman,
the - Massachusetts Supreme
Court Wednesday continued - a
hearing on the legality of an ar
rest order until July 20. Supreme
Court Justice Raymond S. Wil
kins received Informal assur
ance that the arrest order would
not be carried out.
Legal. Moves Likely
However, new legal moves ap
peared likely today. Atty. John
F. McAuliff e, counsel for 4-year-old
Hildy McCoy's real mother,
said Wednesday night that he
would "continue activity in this
case until the order of the court
has been complied with."
McAuliffe and Atty. John Sul
livan met with Norfolk Probate
Judge James F.' Reynolds at his
home Wednesday night for more
than an hour. It was Reynolds
who ordered the Ellises to give
up Hildy or "go to jail."
The . Ellises had been hiding
somewhere in the state since the
arrest order was issued last Fri
day. But Wednesday night Ellis
returned to his Brookline home
and said "I may stay here."
Not Willing Hero
"I'm not a willing hero or
martyr," Ellis said, "but I'll do
anything that might help the
child."
"The best interests of the child
should be the prime concern,"
Ellis said. "The mother has no
feeling at all for the child."
The blue-eyed child has been
the pawn in a, legal battle for
more than two years. The Ellises
took custody of Hildy when she
was 10 days old.
of Hingham, the natural mother,
won custody in a decision by
Reynolds last fall. v
The mother was an unwed
nurse in training when Hildy
was born. She claimed she didn't
know the couple was Jewish
when she signed Hildy over for
adoption. Mrs. Doherty intends
to give the child to a Catholic
bureau for adoption by Catholic
parents. She refused to comment
on the case.
A 1991 state law requires fos
ter parents to be of the same
religion as the child "whenever
practical." During the long legal
battle, the Ellises offered to send
Hildy to a Catholic school, and
raise her in that faith.
Buenos Aires (U.PJ-The Na
tional Statistical Service report
ed today that women outnumber
men by 2,000 among native-born
Argentines. The total Argentine
population reached 19,101,788
Mrs. Marjorie McCoy Doherty as of July 1, the service said.
Expert Will Probe
Disappearance of Two
West Palm Beach Fla. U.PJ
Authorities said today they will
hire an outside expert to help
investigate the disappearance of
Judge and Mrs. C. E. Chilling
worth three weeks ago from
their summer cottage on a de
serted Atlantic beach.
, The Palm Beach County Com
mission agreed to set up a $10,
000 fund to employ the private
investigator, who has not yet
been selected.
'. The wealthy couple myster
iously disappeared from their
oceanfront home at Manalapan,
Fla., some 10 miles south of
West Palm Beach. State anrfJ
county investigators have con
ducted an intensive search for
the couple or their abductors
with no success.
Ellensburg (U.R) Archie Mc
Donald, Kittitas county welfare
administrator since April, 1953,
resigned yesterday to take the
same post in Kitsap county, ef
fective Aug. 1.
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Testimony Injects
Triangle in Case
Of Kaser Slaying
Salem (U.R) The last meet
ing of Ethel Oveross and Ervin
Kaser before he was killed Feb.
17 was related yesterday by Mrs.
Oveross in the murder trial of
her former husband,' Casper A.
Oveross,- accused of shooting
Kaser to death.
Mrs.' Oveross said she met
Kaser about 7:45 p.m. Feb. 17
north of Silverton. She said they
drove on the Monitor highway,
in Kaser 'a car and parked on a
side road for about an hour and,
a half. , ' ;', .-; ;-;
She said they returned to their
homes near Silverton about
10:40 p.m. She said she never
saw Kaser again after they drove
away in their separate cars from
their meeting place. -
Attempts by the defense to
ask several questions about fam
ily relationship of Casper and
Ethel Oveross were parried suc
cessfully for the most part in
objection by the prosecution.
However, Mrs. Oveross answer
ed defense questions a couple of
times' before the prosecution
made its objections, which led
Circuit Judge George Duncan to
suggest to District Attorney Ken
neth Brown that he make his ob
jections more promptly if he
didn't want Mrs. Oveross to
answer. ' -,
Mrs. Ervin Kaser testified that
she had separated from her. hus
band and had filed suit, for di
vorce. Her case was to have
come up March 17. Kaser was
shot to death just one month be
fore that, about 10:45 p.m. Feb
17, as he sat in his car on 'the
driveway of his home near Sil
verton.
Other Witnesses . ;
Several other witnesses ap
peared during yesterday's . ses
sions, including Betty Hollin.
who' lives across the street from
Harvey Kaser, Ervin's brother,
and not far from the Ervin
Kaser residence. SJiesaid she
heard two shots shortly after re
tiring about 10:30 p.m. Feb.-17,
and moments later she heard a
car or two apparently heading
from the vicinity of Ervin Ka
ser's home toward Stayton. She
said from the sound, the car or
cars were going fast.
, Other witnesses testified to
seeing Oveross before the shoot
ing. Mrs. Hose Mary Teglund of
Silverton said she saw. Oveross
at Frank's grocery store in Sil-
verton about 8:15 p.m. on the
night of the shooting. Denny Le
gard, . who operates Legard's
Union service station in Silver
ton, testified Oveross bought $2
worth of gasoline at his station
about 8:30 p.m. that night. .
Cause of General's
Death: Still Mystery
. Colorado Springs, Colo UJ9
The Air Force may not know
for. several days, what .caused
the death of brilliant young
Brig.- Gen-. -Clinton -D. Casey)
Vincent..
Vincent,- only 40 years old,
was found dead in his bed Tues
day at the bachelor officers
quarters of Continental Air De
fense' command here. He had
reported last Friday from Hamil
ton "AFB, California, to become
deputy chief of staff of operation
at CONAD.
One of the "boy generals" of
World War 'li, " Vincent was a
flying officer and had been sup
posed to be in excellent health.
A. routine autopsy. failed. to dis
close the reason for his death,
so. .extensive . laboratory . tests
were ordered. , .
A CONAD spokesman -said
late yesterday it would be sever
al' days and perhaps a week or
more before , the results of ; the
tests, to be made here "and else
where" are reported to CONAD.
27. Cases of Illness
Reported' Last Week '
; "Twenty-seven cases of com
municable disease were reported
to the Jackson county health de
partment for the week ending
July 1.' - - , -
Breakdown of the report .re
vealed measles totaled 15: strep
thrqat, three; trench mouth, two;
and scarlet fever, poliomylitis,
sink .eye. . infectious, hepatitis.
German measles, mumps, and!
influenze, -one- each. .
A single case of polio was a
California -boy treated -in Med
ford, according to Dr. A Erin
! Merkel.- public-health physician
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Russia Bars British- -
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London. (U.R) Russia has
barred. -British fishermen from
Soviet coastal waters. .Ship
owners radioed messages to their
vessels warning of the danger of
capture. . ". : ' ' ' . "
The Soviet government re
fused at the last moment to re
new a 25-year-old treaty which
allowed British trawlers to oper
ate, up to three miles from the
Russian coast. The treaty ended
at midnight Tuesday.1
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