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Sunday, September II. I95S
Top Criminologist
Warns Lie Detector
Subject to Abuse
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Washington ftl.R) One of
the nation's top criminologists
warned Saturday that the lie de
tector must never be abused for
it could be employed as a terrible
weapon of "character assassina
tion" and to "sell justice."
John E. Reid, formerly of the
Chicago police crime detection
laboratory, said lie detector ex
aminers must be incorruptible
because they are in constant
danger of being offered bribes.
Head of Own Firm
Reid is now head of his own
lie detector examination firm
and a vice-president of the new
ly formed American Academy
of Polygraph Oie detector) Ex
aminers. One of the principle
functions of the organization is
to pfovide a "code of ethics"
and professional standards for
lie detector examiners.
The Academy wound up its
first annual meeting here Satur
.day. During the two-day confer
ence, members swapped "trade
secrets" and discussed means of
improving lie detector techv
niques and professional stand
ards. Need Competent Examiners
In an interview, Reid said the
increasing use of lie detectors
by police and courts has empha
sized the need for competent.
honest lie detector examiners.
He said he himself has been of
fered bribes by criminals.
He said a corrupt lie detector
examiner is "like a surgeon with
a blunt knife."
Q'He can sell justice pretty
cneaply," Reid said. "He can al
so ruin ' a man's reputation.
Character assassination with a
misused lie detector is very
easy."
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MUSICAL CLOWNS Clowns Rudy Docky, Lou Jacobs and
Charley Cheer are shown above trying" their skill as musicians.
They will be on hand Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 20 and 21,
with the fourth annual Shrine-Polack Brothers circus. Perform
ances will be at the Medford high school stadium.
Shrine Circus Tickets Go
On Sale; Performances Set
For Stadium Sept. 20-21
Tickets for Medford perfor
mances of the 1 9 5 5 Shrine
Polack Brothers circus, sched
ules for Tuesday and Wednes
day, Sept. 20 and 21, went on
sale yesterday at the Shrine cir
cus office in Crater Lake Motors,
West Main and Fir sts.
The circus will be sponsored
here by the , Josephine and Jack-
High Court Rules on
Joss Slaying Case
o Salem U.R) The surviv
ors of a woman murdered by
her husband may sue the hus
band's estate for damages, the
Oregon Supreme Court ruled
Saturday in the first case of its
kind in this state.
Forest G. Joss murdered his
wife, Esther C. Joss, and then
committed suicide.
The Jackson County Circuit
court dismissed the complaint
on the theory that the marital
.relationship effected immunity.
. The Supreme Court, in an op
inion by Justice James T. Brand,
said that when a husband in
flicts intentional harm upon his
wife, , the peace and harmony
of the home has been so dam
aged that there is no danger
that it will be further impaired
by permitting her to file action
against him. '
The court also held that the
Students
Demand
Request
Rejection
San Francisco (U.R) A
group of. 63 Chinese students
and professionals in the San
Francisco Bay Area have ap
pealed to President Eisenhower
to reject a Communist demand
that their status be investigated
by a third pqwer.
The Chinese Communist pro
posal was made at current talks
being held in Geneva, Switzer
land.
The appeal, dated Sept. 7,
stated that members of the
group would "refuse to go to
the Chinese mainland as long
a? the Cfcmmunist despotism
exists there" and chose to live
In America "to fight for the
o cause of a free China."
. They said the third power in
vestigation would only serve to
inform the Communists of their
identities and thus make their
G relatives in Red China subject
to persecution."
word "widower" shall not be
construed to include one whose
wife is dead at her husband's
hand, and therefore since the
wife did not leave a widower
surviving, her executor might
bring action for the benefit of
her estate.
Alfred C. Apitz, executor for
the estate of Mrs. Joss, brought
suit against the administration
of the husband's estate to re
cover $15,000 damages for
wrongful death.'
The Supreme Court reversed
the trial court decree and sent
the case back for trial.
The Supreme Court case In
volved the deaths of Forest
Glenn Joss, 59, and his wife, Es
ther C. Joss, 49, a Phoenix
school teacher.
Their bodies were found Dec.
10, 1951, in their Coleman
creek home by Charles Shull,
Medford real estate man.
Evidence indicated that Joss
had killed his wife about Dec.
7 and then committed suicide.
Mrs. Joss had filed divorce
proceedings against her husband
a few days earlier.
Japanese Refugees
Arrive in America
San Francisco (U.R) The
first Japansese to come to the
United States by ship under pro
visions of the refugee relief act
will arrive in San Francisco to
day aboard the S.S. President
Cleveland.
They are Mr. and Mrs. Zen-
saku Shishido and their three
children, Atsuko, Yoshinaga and
Hiroshi, all of Fukushima Pre
fecture, and Shosaku Saito, of
Yamagata Prefecture.
xne snismao family is en
route to San Martin, Calif., un
der the sponsorship of a relative.
Saito will proceed to Santa
Clara, Calif., where he will make
his home.
son Shrine clubs of Hiiian
temple. Performances will be
given each day at 3:30 and 8:15
p.m. at the Medford high school
stadium.
New Acts
This year's edition of the cir
cus will feature newly imported
foreign acts and a wide variety
of trained animals, according to
L. C. Taylor, Medford, general
chairman of the joint circus com
ittee of the two Shrine clubs.
Appearing with the circus will
be Freya Josse, German aerial
artist, and the Pallamedes, with
their high trapeze balancing act.
Other featured performers in
clude the Cycling Chaludis, the
Merkys, comedy contortionists;
Harold Barnes, tight-wire
dancer, and the Sikorsges, teeth
suspensionists.
Animal Acts
' Animal acts include the Besa
lou baby elephants, trained by
Mac and Peggy MacDonald;
seven varieties of jungle cats,
trained by George J. Keller;
Klauser's bears, Tiebor's sea
lions, and Ostermaier's goats.
The clowns are headlined by
Loll Jacobs, Rudy Docky, Char
ley Cheer, and Chester and Joe
Sherman.
Danish Film Wins
Award at Venice
. Venice (U.R) A Danish
film won first prize at the 16th
International Film Festival here
Saturday night and an American
film, "The Big Knife," placed
third behind a Russian movie.
The Danish film, "Ordet" (the
word) won the coveted winged
golden lion of St. Mark. It was
directed by famed director Carl
Theodore Dryer.
Second prize went to a Rus
sian color film, "The Cicala,"
from a short story by Anton
Chekov, directed by S. Samso
nov. The U.S. film was the "Big
Knife," directed -by Robert Al
drich and starring Jack Palance
and Ida Lupino. It is based on
a play by Clifford Odets.
Fourth prize went to the Ital
ian film "Le Amiche," ("Girls
Alone") directed by Michelan
gelo Antonioni, with glamorous
Eleonora Rossi Drago in the lead
role.
. Critics were practically unani
mous in their approval of the
jury's choice of "Ordet." They
said it had an exceptionally high
artistic standard good photogra
pry and typical Dryer angles.
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Formosan Declares
Reds Will Attack
In Southwest Asia
Tokyo (U.R) The Chinese
Nationalist Ambassador to Japan
predicted Saturday that the Com
munists will attack in Asia soon,
with Singapore as their primary
target.
He added that capture of Sing
apore by the Reds would ser
iously upset the plan of the
democratic powers for the de
fense of Southeast Asia. ' r,
In an exclusive United Press
interview, Ambassador Holling-
ton K. Tong warned that "pnee
Singapore goes, Malaya is cer
tain to follow. With Malaya and
Singapore in Communist hands,
Indonesia becomes a Communist
state."
Showdown at Geneva
Tong said the showdown will
come at the Big Four foreign
ministers meeting in Geneva
next month.
He said that goodwill has been
built up to show the world
Russia's peaceful intentions, but
that "generalities" of the sum
mit leaders will collapse when
the foreign ministers '"come
down to details."
Tong said that when the Com
munist "bluff is called, the Reds
will become angry again and re
new assaults leading to their
domination of Singapore, Indo.
china and elsewhere which prove
to be weak spots."
Poker Players
Get The Bird
Portland (U.R) Mr. and
Mrs. Lyla Swadener of Port
land got up Saturday morn
' ing after a lale deuces-wild
poker game io find the game
had been changed to owls
wild. There on the poker table sat
a wild owl, which had appar
ently flown down the chim
ney during the night. The bird
was scrutinizing a crummy
hand of 4-7-8-jack-king.
Swadener said the bird sat
poker-faced until he dealt it
a hand of four 6's and a joker.
Thus stimulated, the feathery
creature took off and out a
deftly - opened front door to
join the other owls-wild.
Lebanon Youngster
Killed by Automobile
Lebanon
(U.R) Edwin
Wheeler, 8, died instantly Fri
as he darted across the highway
day when he was struck by a car
in front of his home two miles
northeast of her on the Cascade
B. line highway.
Edwin was with his younger
6-year-old Terry, and his moth
er, Mrs. Walter Wheeler, visiting
a neighbor across the highway
from his home when he saw his
home when he saw his father
returning from work.
He saw and avoided one car
on the highway, but was struck
and killed by a car driven by
Dallas E. Smith, Lacomb, as he
ran to meet his father.
The body was thrown 50 feet
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Police Investigate
Proposed Marriage
Portland U.R) Portland
and Vancouverj Wash., police
Saturday were investigating the
impending marriage of a 13-year-old
Portland girl and a 53-year-old
ex-convict and alleged
parole violator. ,
Roy Melvin Thurman, 53, fil
ed in Vancouver for the license
to wed the daughter of a fellow
Oregon state prison parolee, By
ron W. Bevelhymer, Portland.
Bevelhymer told police he
sanctioned the match and ad
mitted he had signed papers de
signed to show that his daughter
was 16 years old in order to
speed the marriage.
Thurman was arrested Friday
night on a warrant from Salem
charging parole violation. The
Portland women's protective di
vision said it would take steps
to prevent the marriage.
Thurman served 10 months of
a two-year forgery sentence and
was paroled this year.
Waiters and waitresses in 1953
received $450,000,000 in tips.
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