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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1955)
MMEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TrUSTlTS TIT, iympatby, Condemnation Waiting Turncoats on Reiurn to United SMes Monday, July II. IMS Being ( Federal Action Considered; Trio 'Ready To Pay' By UNITED PRESS Sympathy, and some condem nation, from their "families and neighbors today awaited the three turncoat GIs who decided the risk of imprisonment in America was preferable to hell" under the Communists. The general attitude was best summed up by Elbert Bell, fath er of turncoat Otho Bell, who said his son should be "given a fair chance" but added: "If the Communistic tenden cies still are part of his life, then the government should step in and do something." The government is considering stiff legal action against the former Korean war prisoners who stepped to freedom yester day in Hong Kong after allying themselves with the Reds for 18 months. The GIs, William A. Cowart, 22, Da It on, Ga.; Lewis W Griggs, 22, Neches, Tex., and Bell, 24, Hillsboro, Miss., told newsmen they were willing to . go to jail to pay for their "mis takes." Promised Old Job But their greatest trial may be the reaction of. the families and friends they grew up with. Some rallied to their sides when the news of their release was announced. .. In Dalton, Cowart was prom ised his old job back by J. F. Calloway Jr., part owner of the garment plant where he worked before he quit high school. In Olympia, Wash., where she has lived since Bell became a prisoner, Mrs. Jewell Bell anx iously awaited her husband's re turn. "I still love him," Mrs. Bell said. In Jacksonville, Tex., Griggs' mother, widowed since he be came a prisoner, said the family farm is waiting unplowed for him to wdrk. Mrs. Griggs, a nurse who works at a hospital in Jackson ville, wrote to her son while he was held captive to tell him she planned to sell the farm. He wrote back, asking her to keep it for him. Deplores Publicity - On the other side, the. com mander of the Mississippi Amer ican Legion called on members to turn their backs on Bell. "Bell made his bed," said Commander Woodley Carr. "Let him sleep in it." Carr said he deplored the "publicity that is being given" Bell and said "let us glorify the heroes rather than the turn coats." Meanwhile, Bell's 4-year-old daughter, Paula, was jumping with joy at the prospect of see ing her father for the first time. And his wife has engaged Smith Troy, former Washington state attorney general, to defend him against any charges that may be brought against him. Mother in Court To Test (OonstiMioifiialliify off Selective Service Act Brattleboro, Vt. U.R) A Ver mont mother, accused of advis ing youths to dodge the draft, went on trial in U. S. District Court today, determined to make a test case of the selective serv ice act. Missing Magazine Editor Located Safe in Montana Chicago (U.R) Howard Rush more, former film editor of the Communist Oaily Worker and now editor of Confidential mag azine, has been found safe in Butte, Mont., after he disappear ed for three days from his hotel room here. Rushmore, who left the party in the 1930's and has since testi fied for congressional commit tees, reportedly was seeking an alleged - Communist leader. But the man he was reputedly seeking said he was in New York, Rushmore's home, all the time. ' ' Chicago police began looking for Rushmore after he kept an appointment and tailed to re turn to his swank hotel here Thursday. An anonymous tele phone call started a query to Butte where Rushmore was found registered in a hotel as H. Roberts." Sources at Butte said Rush- more made the trip to contact a man identified as William Lazarovich, .alias William Law rence, who was reported to be a Communist party leader. In New York, however, Wil liam Lazar said he was the man Rushmore sought. , But Rushmore told Butte au thorities he made the. trip to Investigate possible Communist influence in a labor dispute in volving copper workers. Newly Ved Couple Hurt in Accident Mr. and Mrs. Gary James Fsee, whose wedding was an event of Sunday, July 3, at First Methodist church, and who were en route to Victoria, B.C., on their wedding trip, were in jured In a one-car accident near Seattle, Wash., early Sunday morning, friends reported here today. The bridal couple suffered many cuts about their faces and other Injuries but were not hurt critically, according to the re port. The car was badly wrecked. . : They now are at the home of '"Tils mother, Mrs. D. N. Sanders, Seattle Tho hriria ic the fnnrm Miss Eleanor Dale Davis, daugh ter oi dot. ana Mrs. Artnur Davis, 384 O'Gara st. The Davises left early Sunday for Seattle. Pree's father is James Pree, 2612 -Howard st. The couple planned to return home the end of this week from their wedding trip. Dead tin Sunday Classified to at noon Saturday: 10 a m Monday tor Monday: other day 9:30 orevioua day GOP Dinner Expected To Draw Portland Crowd Portland (U.R) Paul H. Hebb, chairman of a $100-a-plate Re publican dinner scheduled here for July 22, said today he ex pected attendance would surpass the 400 who showed up for a sim ilar function in 1953. Gov. Paul H. Patterson of Ore gon-, Robert Smylie of Idaho and Arthur B. Langlie of Washing ton will speak at the dinner. Hebbs said 273 reservations al ready had been made. NOT FOR SUICIDES Chicago (U.R) A stairway from the pedestrian walk to the Monroe Street bridge leads no where but city authorities said it was not for the convenience of people who want to jump into the river. Workmen just haven't gotten around to removing the structure since they finished bridge repairs, the officials said. , Uaa Mali Tribune Want Ada Federal Judge Ernest A. Gib son presided at the trial of Mrs. Lucille S. Miller, 44, mother of three children, who claims peacetime military conscription is unconstitutional. Mrs. Miller and her husband, Manuel, 46, held off federal mar shals who wanted to remove Mrs. Miller to a mental hospital Police Hold Man, 63, For Death of Wife New York (U.R) Police held a 63-year-old man without bail today and charged him with strangling his "nagging" 56-year- old bride to death while she screamed for help in a telephone call to his sister. Monte J. Samuels was ar raigned Sunday before Felony Court Magistrate Edward Chap man. Police said Samuels became enraged when his wife, Mary, ordered him to leave their apart ment. Samuels, who had been married once before, became her third husband last January. ' Police charged that Samuels' a power press operator, choked his wife to death as she tele phoned his sister in Brooklyn and screamed for help. COULDN'T WAIT Seattle, Wash. (U.R) John W Mullin was not at home yes terday when officials of Seat tle's North City festival called to inform him his 50-cent raffle ticket had won a free vacation for two to Juneau, Alaska. Mul lin had just left on a vacation SHOT BY 'BEST FRIEND Wesley Springstan, 35, grits teeth and winces .as doctors begin to remove bullet from bis back in emergency room of Chicago's Ravenswood hos pital. He was found stagger ing in front of the hospital. He told police his "best friend" shot him in a tavern several blocks away. " - ft Fill jP M. '1 Mi? & ADMITTING THEY PUSHED two boys into river, watched , them drown, then stole their bicycles, Theodore Armpriester, 12, and Joseph Ryan, 12, accompanied by mothers, are be ing taken to court by Philadelphia police. (International) - r, 1P6 THRU W TRAIL VJA YS IE JE M (B HB. IE IE H ROUTE SAN DIIGO SACRAMENTO SEATTLE f 3.95 " 1.60 ' . 7.55 Y SAN DIEGO . ; - 12.40 EUGENE . TACOMA FRESNO . pin fta. tmm J CONTINENTAL TRAIIWAYSZ5 2 148 No. Front Phone 3-1853 V". " last May. Declared San Tear gas was used to route the rifle-slinging Millers from their Bethel home in which they had barricaded themselves for 12 hours. . . - Mrs. Miller was taken to St. Elizabeth's hospital, Washington, D. C., placed under observation for 10 days, and released. She was declared sane and capable of defending herself against the draft charge. ; Last Wednesday, Judge Gib son denied a motion to return the rifle to Miller who was ac cused of obstructing justice. He is free in $10,000 bail pending trial. Mrs. Miller told a newsman she would fight to the U. S. Supreme Court, . if necessary, her belief that the selective serv ice act is unconstitutional. "The original object of all this is make it a test case," she said. Mrs. Miller said she believes in a well paid volunteer army in time of peace. She said that, if asked to, she would readily acknowledge in court that she urged young men to ignore the draft. "My stand' on the subject is a matter of frank and open record," Mrs. Miller said. She pleaded innocent to the charge at an earlier court ap pearance because "I have com mitted no crime. I don't recog nize the draft act as being con stitutional in the first place." Mrs. Miller said she hoped her trial also would give her a chance "to disclose the shocking conditions," at St. Elizabeth's. "It's nothing but a booby hatch for political prisoners," she said. . sir Jf - SEIZING NINE HOSTAGES, rioting convicts take over half of Washington State Peniten tiary, Walla Walla, make demands for improved conditions. 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