Doctor Seeks To
Proe Strangulation
As Cause of Death
Minneapolis (U.R) A young
baby doctor returned to the
stand in the Dr. A. Arnold Axil
rod murder trial today to defend
his contention that pretty Mrs.
Elizabeth Mary Moonen was
killed by a strangler.
The baby specialist, 29-year-
T"1 : . T 1- ... . . .
ering heavy cross-examination
fire when the sensational first
degree murder trial recessed
Thursday.
Chief defense counsel Sidney
W. Goff indicated he would press
Brauti on whether Mrs. Moonen
could have died as a result of an
attempted abortion, a heart at
tack, or an air bubble.
Three-Months Pregnant
The body of Mrs. Moonen,
three months pregnant, was dis
covered in a driveway of the
fashionable Lake of the Isles
district last April 23. Brauti as
sisted at the post mortem.
He testified in place of the
chief pathologist, who is hos
pitalized, and insisted that his
observations led him to believe
(Mrs. Moonen, 21, died of manual
strangulation.
.The prosecution charges that
Axilrod, 50, drugged and se
duced Mrs. Moonen when she
came to his dental office. He
strangled her in his car when she
threatened to "tell the world"
that he was the father of her
unborn "baby, it is charged.
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' Your outdoor quiz. A score of
55 is fair; 7u is good; u is excel
lent; 90 super-excellent. Answers
follow questions.
1. As far as I know, all mam
mals and birds make sounds.
What do you call the sounds
these, animals make: 1. cocks, 2.
cows,' 3. crows, 4, donkeys, 5.
droves, 6. ducks, 7. elephants, 8.
frogs, 9. geese (tame), 10. geese
(wild), 11. hens, 12. lions, 13.
-owls, 14. pigs, 15. sheep. (Four
points for each right answer 60
if all are right.)
JI. What is the correct use of
these words: 1. If you were
shown a picture of a malamute,
you would think right away of:
arairplane, a dog team, an out
jigger canoe, a caterpillar trac
.tor, tlae Amazon jungle.
. 2. The words humus is used
correctly in one of the following
sentences: "My, but it was real
humus this past summer"; "A
few pounds of humus will do
wonders for a garden"; "Three
important bones in the leg are
tibia, fibular, and humus.".
3. You could be arrested if
caught selling one of the follow
ing in le U.S. today: saddle
soap, ' aigrettes, antimacassar? ,
hot-house spinach, platinum golf
tees. -
4. If you had a pilchard, you
would: drink out of it; eat it;
play a game with it; dance in it;
scratch it.
5. Kittens can't sleep comfort
ably in a cat's cradle because it
is: constantly rocking; too high
up on a mast; a child's game;
monopolized by the mother. cat.
(Eight points for each correct
answer 40 if all are right.)
ANSWERS: 1 Crow, 2. Moo,
low; 3. caw, croak, 4. bray, 5.
Gfcoo, 6. quack, 7. trumpet, 8.
' croak, 9. gaggle, gabble, cackle,
hiss; 10. honk, 11. cackle, cluck,
chuck; I?, roar, 13. hoot, screech;
14. squeal, grunt; 15. bleat.
II. 1. Dog team; 2. "a few
pounds . . . etc.; 3. aigrettes; 4.
eat it (it's s? sardine); 5 a child's
game, played with .string, re
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Portland Pedestrian
29th Traffic Fatality
I Portland U.R) A 78-year-bid
woman died Saturday night
jn a Portland hospital in Ore
jgon's only reported traffic death
jof the week end. .
J Mrs. Bertha Willey, Portland,
was injured fatally when struck
Jby- a car driven by Edward M.
Tombrowe,(31, Amboy, Wash. It
jwas Portland's 29th traffic fatal
ity of the year.
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Monday, October 17. 1955
WORLD'S FIRST GUIDED MISSILE CRUISER The USS Boston makes her way down
the Delaware River heading for drydock in the Philadelphia Naval Base prior to her
commissioning Nov. 1. She will be used primarily as a launching station for the Navy's
new needle-nosed anti-aircraft missiles (Terrier) seen just above the tug.
Bank, Financial Writers Take Look at
Tax Aspect of TV's $64,000 Question'
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington U.R) Ballyhoo
for television's $64,000 Question
program is turning up in the
strangest plac
es, such as the
monthly letter
of New York's
First National
City Bank.
There's a plug
for it, too, on
the editorial
page of the
current Satur
d a y Evening
Lyle C. Wilson Post.
The Wall Street Journal has
taken note of the program. Fi
nancial writers as a group are in
terested in it. The bankers are
interested because they and
many others believe The $64,000
Question is, an effective argu
ment against what they- regard
as a bad tax law.- i
The bank calculated that a
contestant who was single and
had an income of $4,000 annual
ly would have to win $448,711.11
to acquire $64,000 of actual,
take-home prize money.
Long, Last Step
Such single person attaining
the $32,000 rung of the prize
ladder would be assessed a tax
of $15,400, reducing 'the actual
prize money to $16,600. If the
contestant took the last, long
step and doubled the $32,000
into $64,000, the additional tax
bite would be $23,292. The take
home prize would be increased
by only $8,708. The foregoing
figures are from the bank's let
ter, which added:
"Thus he is risking an assured
$16,000 for a chance to win an
additional $8,708."
The program has been esti
mated -to reach up to 55,000,000
persons with a spectacular dem
onstration of the tax bite on
relatively high' income.
The bank argues that the same
tax situation which discourages
njunes
Result From Three
Accidents In Area
Three persons suffered minor
injuries in two of three acci
dents reported to state police
yesterday.
Dean Allen Akins, 24, of route
2, box 502, Medford, and Dale
Lero'y Smith, 19, of Butte Falls,
were injured. slightly when their
vehicles collided on Highway 62
about 2:32 a.m. State .police
said the Smith vehicle ran into
the rear of the Akins car dur
ing a heavy fog.
Max D, Zimmerman, 506 Al
len st., Medford, suffered a
sprained ankle when the car in
which he was riding collided
with one operated by Leonard
Burdahl, 54, of 528 Pearl st.,
Medford, at the 'intersection' of
Highway 62 and 401 Orchard
rd., about 2:35 p.m.
Police said the Burdahl vehi
cle stopped at a stop sign, then
pulled out onto Highway 62 in
the path of a vehicle operated
by William Stanley Avist, 25, of
506 Allen st., Medford. Damage
was slight. ,
Cars operated by William
Lyle Sutherlin, 32, of. 1041
South Third st., Jacksonville,
and - Mervin Wilmot Johnston,
route 1, box 27, Jacksonville,
collided at the Ruch intersection
on Highway 238 about 3:02 p.m.
yesterday. Police said there
were no injuries. .
contestants from reaching from
$32,000 toward $64,000 applies
to businessmen with venture
capital who refuse to risk it by
reason of tax limitations on their
possible return.
Magazine Editorializes
The Saturday Evening Post
editorialized:
"What high taxation is doing
to free enterprise is a- subject
which is about as interesting to
the average man as a treatise on
medieval metaphysics."
But the Post contended that
the famous ' TV show would
"cause millions of persons to
give some thought to the effect
of the tax laws on business."
"Perhaps," the Post suggested,
"TV could make the thing even
more dramatic by putting an in
dustrial tycoon on the screen
and letting him decide before
millions of people whether it's
worthwhile for him to go after
another million dollar's worth
of business or create 20,000 new
jobs by building a new plant."
Beaverton Welcomes
Visitors With Beef Feed
Beaverton, Ore. U.R) An
estimated 8000 persons ate 2060
pounds of barbecued beef yester
day as Beaverton held "Opera
tion Welcome." Visitors also in
spected schools and new homes
and were entertained with a
band concert and variety show.
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's discuss for a few minutes
today the subject of cotton. No
cotton is grown in Southern Ore
gon or far Northern California.
So we have no direct interest
in it other than as taxpayers.
But it offers an interesting exam
ple of what happens under a
system of guaranteed high prices
REGARDLESS OF SUPPLY
AND DEMAND.
THE department of agriculture
has just announced its latest
estimate of the 1955 cotton crop.
It indicates production this year
of 13,920,000 bales. When that
is added to our present surplus
of 11,121,000 bales it brings the
present supply up to just over
25,000,000 bales.
Domestic and export markets
are expected to take more than
13,000,000 bales. So we can
count up on our fingers that
when the 1955 cotton crop is
harvested we will have on hand
approximately two years supply.
SHELL YOUR OWN NUTS!
Murfreesboro, Tenn. U.R)
Sheriff George Sharpe warned
farmers today to stop paving
sections of rural roads with their
walnuts to get them hulled by
the wheels of passing cars. He
said it is against the law.
Detroit industries uses . more
than 10 per cent of the nation's
steel.
TTOW about acreage reduction
to hold down the surplus?
' That is an interesting subject
in itself. Under this year's pro
gram, cotton acreage was re
duced to the smallest level in
more than 75 years. The permit
ted acreage this year was 14 per
cent under the permitted acre
age last year.
But - -
The department of agricul
ture's estimate indicates in
spite of the 14 per cent reduc
tion in acreage that this year's
harvested cotton crop will be
two per cent ABOVE last year's
harvested crop.
TTOW come?
The answer lies in increas
ed efficiency on the part of the
cotton growers. This year's esti
mate indicates an average yield
per acre of 405 pounds. Last
year's cotton crop averaged 341
pounds per acre, and it broke
all previous records. Cotton
growers have been pouring on
the fertilizer. They have been
using better machinery. They
have been using better insect
control methods.
The result of all this has been
an average increase in produc
tion per acre that more than
offsets the 14 per cent reduction
in cotton acreage. The NET re
sult of it has, been another huge
addition to the cotton surplus.
IlfHERE is all this new cotton
" coming from?
Is it coming from the Old
South?
The answer, by and large, is
NO. A lot of it is coming from
new cotton lands in western
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and
California. Most of this new cot
ton land is IRRIGATED. It is
irrigated largely from wells.
These wells are drawing on UN
DERGROUND water storage,
which has been accumulating for
centuries.
This water to irrigate cotton
is being pumped out faster than
the underground reservoirs are
being replenished.
THAT is to say:
Tf this crnpe nn tho timo will
come when the underground res
ervoirs will be drained and when
water is no longer available for
them the land that has no other
source of water than wells that
tap the underground reservoirs
will go back to desert.
' All to produce a crop that is
being grown for sale to the gov
ernment at guaranteed high
prices IN THE FACE OF A
STEADILY ACCUMULAT I N G
SURPLUS.
T'HE big question:
When will it end?
And what will happen when
it does end? - ,
'Chimney Inspector
Turns Out To Be Thief
Portland U.R) A man pos
ing as a "chimney inspector"
who stole $95 from a dresser at
the home of William R. Scho
f ield was sought by police today.
Schofield said the man told
him to go outside and watch
the chimney while the phony in
spector checked it from the inside.
Incorporate Real Estate Firm Here
Salem U.R) Articles of in
corporation have been filed here
for Siskiyou Rental, Inc., Med
ford real estate firm. They were
signed by Richard V. Finch.
Randall M. Gifford and Allen D.
Sterton.
The firm was formed for the
purpose of purchasing a building
in Ashland which has been
leased to the Home Appliance
company for a new store there.
The two-story building is located
at 101-115 East Main st., and
also houses the Greyhound tav
ern. The new business will be lo
cated for the present in the sec
tion which is now vacant. Remod
eling work is under way in that
section and the new store is to
open in early November, officers'
stated.
Wedon Kline Named
To Logging Congress
Weldon Kline, 18 South
Groveland ave., has been named
a member of the board of di
rectors of the Pacific Logging
congress. He was named at the
46th session cf the congress in
Victoria, B.C., recently.
Kline is employed by the W.
H. Daugherty c o m pa n y at
White City. Seven other Ore
gonians were named as direc
tors of the 47th congress.
Honey bee's great contribution
to agriculture is the pollination
of 50 or more important crops
that are almost entirely depend
ent on bees for seed production.
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