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Klouse-by-lnlouse Search Launched for lues in Ohicago
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Police Seeking
Scene of Murders,
Victims' Clothing
Bus Driver, Waitress
Tell of Seeing Beys -
Chicago (U.R) Fifty police
men today launched a house-by-house,
foot-by-foot search of a
six-block area where they be
lieve three young boys were
strangled.
They hunted in garbage cans,
vacant lots and alleys for clues
to (fte wanton murder Sunday
night of Robert Peterson, 13,
John ScUfcessler, 13, and his 11-year-old
brother, Anton, Jr. j
Clothing Sought
The policemen hoped particu
larly to find the boys' clothing,
which had been ripped off them,
Jand the tape which was used to
"fiind their yes and mouths.
The boys' nude, mutilated
bodies were found Tuesday,
thrown into a forest preserve
ditch like sacks of potatoes.
The triple murder is one of
the most shocking crimes in Chi
cago's history, but authorities
are divided about the motive be
hind it.
TwoQDifferent Theories
County . officials, including
Sheriff Joseph Lohman and Cor
e oner Walter McCarron, believe
the boys were killed by one of
the teenaged gangs that roam the
northwest side. But city police
men leaned to the theory that
the murder was the work of one
or more sex perverts..
A bus driver and a waitress
O helped Oolice to .the conclusion
that the boys were murdered
some placO in the six-block area
Bus driver Bruno Mencarini,
44, was apparently the last per
son outside of the killers to see
the boys al.ve.
O Boys Boarded Bus
He told police Wednesday
night that the three boys
boarded his Milwaukee ave. bus
Sunday at 8:55 p.m. and got off
M few minutes later.
The waitress, Mrs. Elsie Weis-
berger, 26, said the boys ate a
hearty final meal between 5 and
6 p.m. at the C&L Restaurant, a
favorite teenaged hangout. They
impressed her with their polite
ness, she said.
County Officials
At Salem
Meeting
On Highway Plans
County Commissioner Chester
Wendt and County Engineer
Paul Rynning were in Salem to
day to confer with state highway
officials about the proposed new
road to Klamath Falls.
The route would run through
" the McAllister Soda Springs area
and by Lake of the Woods, fur
nishing an easy grade, all-weather
highway across the mountains
as a Supplement to the Green
Springs route. ,
Difficulties in getting the proj
ect iftder way are largely fi
nancial, and it was understood
that today's conference is being
held in an attempt to agree on
plans fox paying for the road.
Earlier plans called for federal
state financing, with Jackson
and Klamath counties to pro
vide the right of way and main
tenance. Both counties cooled on the
plan, however, when Highway
Engineer R. H. Baldock indicated
that the federal participation
ijl would have to come from county
-road monies provided regularly
by the federal government. Oth
er types of federal participation,
including the possibility of ob
taining forest road funds, are
being explored.
UN Assembly Picks
Greece and Brazil
United Nations, N.Y. (U.R)
The UN General Assembly, en
tangled inOits worst election
0narl in history, today elected
greece and Brazil to the remain
ing vacancies on the Economic
and Social council.
Hopelessly deadlocked after
nine ballots, the Assembly heed
ed American advice and sus
pended voting for the Security
Council late yesterday and pro
ceeded to the elections for the
" other two major' councils, Eco
nomic and Social, and Trustee
ship. .
The Philippines, backed by the
United States, held a slim lead
over Yugoslavia, supported by
Russia and Britain acting inde
pendently, but was nine votes
short of the required two-thirds
majority.
Adenauer Said Well
On Road To Recovery
Bonn, Germany U.R) Chan
cellor Kanrod Adenauer, strick
en two weeks ago by bronchial
pnuemonia, was up and about for i
two hours today and doctors
said he is "well on the road to
recovery."
VICTIMS IN BRUTAL SLAYING The node, mangled bodies of Robert Peterson, 13
(left); Anton Schuessler, 11 (center), and John Schuessler, 13 (right), were found in a
forest preserve near Chicago. The -Schuessler brothers had been strangled by hand.
Their friend, Robert, had been viciously beaten on the head and then strangled with a tie
or rope. Marks showed their eyes, mouths and hands had been taped. They were not
sexually assaulted. It was one of the worst crimes in Chicago's history and has touched
off a giant manhunt for a sex maniac or teen-aged hoodlums.
Skid Row Motel Fire
Dn Chicago Kills 2
Chicago (U.R) Fire swept
through a skid row hotel Wed
nesday night, burning two men
to death and injuring eight oth
ers. '
The dead men were trapped on
the upper two floors of the Ad
ams hotel, which is regarded as
a slight cut above the usual
brand of flop houses along taw
dry West Madison st.
' One of the victims was identi
fied Jby a rent receipt found in
his pocket as Egbert Lonergan,
60. The other man was burned
beyond recognition.
Marjorie Smith Case
Under Way in Yamhill
McMinnville (U.R) The
stat disclosed today that it
will ask the death penalty for
Mrs. Marjorie Smith, Port
land widow, accused of com
plicity in the slaying of her
attorney husband last April.
McMinnville (U.R) Marjorie
Smith; a pretty young Portland.
widow, went on trial for her
life today in" Yamhill county
courthouse. ;
The first degree murder trial
resulted from the death, almost
six months ago, of Portland at
torney Oliver Kermit Smith.
Smith was blown to bits by
dynamite attached to the starter
of his car. '
Selection of a jury was ex
pected to occupy the rest of this
week.
Dynamite Plant Admitted
. Last April 22, 45-year-old Vic
tor Laurence Wolf admitted to
police that he planted the dyna
mite in Smith's car. He said he
did it at Mrs. Smith's instigation
because he was her "love slave."
But Mrs. Smith has stoutly
denied that she was in love with
Wolf or that she planned to use
him to kill her attorney-husband
whom she divorced in JL954 and
remarried in 1955.
Marjorie Smith was trans
ferred from Portland to the new
jail here last week to prepare
for trial.
Wolf, who invoked a little
known law to plead ' guilty to
the murder, is awaiting a hear-
Old Golf Crony
Visits Eisenhower
Denver (U.R) President
Eisenhower today had a visit
from one of his old-time golfing
cronies, New York investment
banker Clifford J. Roberts, who
was the first caller other than of
ficials and family members since
the chief executive entered "the
hospital. , '
Roberts, who also is chairman
of ' the Executive committee of
the Augusta National Country
club, spent about 15 or 20 min
utes with the President at Fitz
simons Army hospital where Mr.
Eisenhower is recovering, from a
heart attack.
Mr. Eisenhower ' sat up for
about 40 minutes in an easy
chair in his room; He also con
tinued work on an oil painting
of the majestic Rocky Mountain
landscape visible from his win
dow. Salk Polio Vaccine
Said 'Safe as Aspirin
Pocatello, Idaho (U.R) The
independent doctor who dis
covered live polio virus in Cut
ter vaciine used in Idaho last
spring said today vaccine cur
rently being distributed - was
"safe as aspirin."
"The safety tests used on each
batch of polio vaccine manu
factured now makes it safe as
the vaccines for smallpox,
whooping cough, diphtheria and
tetanus that are so universally
accepted," said Dr. John -G.
Bachtold, Salt Lake City,
Firemen swarmed up metal
fire escapes to carry out the in
jured. Most of the injuries were
minor, consisting of burns and
smoke 'inhalation.
The two deaths brought to 54
the total persons killed in "flop
house" fires in Chicago this year.
Officials -said the death toll
was cut down Wednesday night
because many of the guests had
not returned to their rooms. In
previous skid row blazes, many
of the victims have been killed
while, they were sunk in drunk
en stupors.
ing to determine whether he
shall be executed or sentenced
to prison for his crime.
Veteran Hearing Case
The case is being heard by
Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walker,
a veteran of 29 years on the
circuit bench. Trial was moved
here on the application of Mrs.
Smith's ' attorneys "who ' claim
that publicity in Portland papers
might have prejudiced the trial's
outcome.
Preparations For
Hearings Slated ,
A Congressional committee
staff council will visit Medford
Oct. 28, 29 and 30 to make ar
rangements for hearings here in
November on federal timber
sale procedures.
William Coburn, of the joint
committee on federal timber,
will be. here to interview those
interested in the hearings, and
to advise them of plans for the
hearings, which will be held in
Oregon, Washington and Cali
fornia Nov: 14 to 30.
He also will visit other cities
where hearings will be held, in
cluding Klamath Falls, Rose
burg, Eugene, Salem and Port
land. '
Sen. James D. Murray (D
Mont.) is chairman of the com
mittee. He said matters of major
concern are out-of-date inven
tories of timber, the need to. re
vise allowable cuts, the necess
ity for development of better
timber sales programing, sal
vage of timber which is unnec
essarily lost, and more'efforts to
build access roods ,
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
(D - Ore.) is the only Oregon
member of Congress on the com
mittee. Verdict of Guilty
In Malfeasance Case
McMinnville U.R) A Yam
hill county Circuit court jury
late yesterday returned a ver
dict of guilty against Edgar O.
Ferguson, State Highway de
partment employee charged with
malfeasance in office;
, Ferguson, who was suspended
by the department, was speci
fically accused of accepting $228
from .Wallace . Wright, McMinn
ville contractor, while Ferguson
was the state's representative on
a paving job at Carlton. .
Ferguson had contended he
earned the money by operating
Wright's paving machine for 114
hours.
Circuit Judge Val Sloper of
Salem set Friday at 1 p.m. as
time for sentencing on the con
viction. MEETING DELAYED ' .
A city council meeting sched
uled for noon today was ad
journed until 7:30 p.m. Annexa
tion of block six as an extension
of the Siskiyou heights addition;
and a petition for the annexa
tion of an area adjacent to South
east Medford will be considered
at the meeting.
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Price Controls
On Items Farmers
Purchase Urged
Washington (U.R) A Repub
lican congressman wants the ad
ministration to begin an emer
gency program of price controls
on items farmers must purchase.
Rep. Phil Weaver (R-Neb.)
made the suggestion yesterday
in a telegram to Agriculture
Secretary Ezra T. Benson.
Weaver also invited Benson
to accompany him on a tour
of Nebraska farms for a first
hand look at the "sagging eco
nomic position" of farmers
Shivers Blames Democrats' '
Meantime, Texas Gov. Allan
Shivers, a Democrat, said the
battle over fram price supports
was probably made inevitable
by Democratic-sponsored legisla
tion. Shivers said the farm issue
has become "a contest between
the two parties, not to solve the
problem, but to see who's going
to offer more.
"I would like to see us get
politics out of the farm prob
lems and really go to .work to
solve it," he said at 'the .annua
Southern Governors' Conference
at Point Clear, Ala.
Immediate Steps Urged
Weaver said the government
"must take immediate steps to
strengthen and bolster" the
farm economy.
He proposed a "temporary
and emergency program to es
tablish maximum prices ... on
essential items for farming op
erations." . He suggested that they be
"pegged to a previous date when
the parity rate was reasonably
fair to the farmer."
Sears Roebuck To
Open Catalog Store
Opening activities will be con
ducted Friday and Saturday at
the new catalog and service
store of the Sears Roebuck and
company. It is in the former lo
cation of the Brainerd studios on
South Central ave. ,
L. M. George, Portland, is tem
porarily assigned as manager of
the new store and Margaret
Gail is assistant manager. Jim
Craig is a field representative.
The store will feature shop
ping by catalog either at the
store or by telephone, a local
credit department, and a local
service department, George
said. , .
Evan Petcoff, here from Seat
tle branch office, is the, credit
manager.
Donald Swank ' and Wilfred
Friesen are service men and oth
ers on the staff include Margaret
McGuire, Clara Hyland, Betty
Payne and Dessie Evalyne Tay
lor. On display at the store are
samples of Sears' merchandise.
Red China Frees Two
Not on American List
Geneva, Switzerland (U.R)
Communist China today announ
ed the release of two more Am
erican "nationals" but United
States officials said they are not
on the list of detained Americans
whose freedom is being negoti
ated here. '
U. S. Envoy U. Alexis John
son is expected to ask for in
formation on the two Americans
during the 22nd session of the
Sino- American ambassadorial
talks. The session opened short
ly after Peiping Radio announc
ed that two "American" civil
ians had been granted permis
sion to leave Communist China.
The broadcast, monitored in
London, identified the couple as
"Louis Henkel and his wife, Mrs.
L. A. Henkel ... two nationals
of the United States living in
Shanghai."
Medford
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50th Year 28 Pages
Statement Made
In Bristling Reply
To Defense Report
Said Not Consulted
Before Yalta Meeting
Washington (U.R) Gen. Doug
las MacArthur admitted today
he urged Russia's entry into the
fight against Japan in World
War II, but vigorously denied
he ever supported concessions
made to the Russians at the
Yalta conference.
The famed former Pacific
commander made the statements
in a bristling reply to a 107
page Defense Department report
on long secret wartime decisions
which showed that MacArthur
had strongly favored Russia as
an 11th hour ally in the fight
against Japan.
But he said he had not been
consulted before the Yalta con
ference in February, 1945, exer
cised . no influence on it, and
knew nothing about its secret
agreements. '
Fantastic Agreement
"I repeat," MacArthur said,
"had my views been requested
concerning the secret agree
ments bearing upon Russia's
entry into the Pacific war I
would have opposed them as
fantastic."
MacArthur's views on Rus
sia's entry into the war against
Japan have been the center of
a swirling political-controversy
for years. -
The Democrats have claimed
the pressure of MacArthur and
other U. S. military leaders to
get Russia into the war was
the main reason the late Presi
dent Roosevelt agreed at Yalta
to postwar territorial conces
sions for Russia in the Far East.
The Republicans have claimed
just as vigorously that Roosevelt
sold out the country at Yalta.
And as late as last spring Mac
Arthur said he would have op
posed Russia's entry into the
war at the time of Yalta if he
had been consulted.
Was Not Consulted
In his 350-word statement is-'
sued from his Waldorf-Astoria
headquarters in New York, Mac
Arthur declared any attempt to
associate him with the conces
sions made at Yalta would be
"wholly unwarranted" and "pre
varicate the truth and the
record."
He declared the Defense De
partment documents released
last night "confirm I was never
consulted concerning the Yalta
conference, that I exercised no
influence whatsoever thereon
and knew nothing about its se
cret agreements."
MacArthur said the contro
versy never was over whether
Russia should have entered the
war. He said this "should clearly
have' been done at the very be
ginning." The real point at issue, he
said, was whether "we should
have made vital territorial con
cessions at the expense of Chi
nese sovereignty to induce Rus
sia to come in at the end."
United's Pilots Will
Continue Despite Strike '
Chicago (U.R) The Air Lines
Pilots Association said today
that United Air Lines pilots will
continue to fly even if the Flight
Engineers International Associa
tion calls its threatened strike
against the company Oct. 22.
DEB
Swedish Scientist Winner
Of Nobel Medicine Prize
Stockholm (U.R) A Swe
dish scientist won the 1955 No
bel prize for medicine today over
five famed American candidates.
Prof. Axel Hugo Theorell won
the coveted plaque and the cash
prize of $36,720 for his 20-year-old
research into the secrets of
enzymes, the complex organic
bits that cause chemical trans
formations of material in plants
and animals.
Californians Considered "
It was the first year since
1950 that an American failed to
win a share of the Nobel prize
for medicine.
Two California scientist who
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1955
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jlng,
ber Under Way in County
Moij than 400 acres of burned-
over forest area have been re
seeded to grass to protect soils
from erosion, it was reported to
day by the Medford district of
fice of the bureau of land
management.
n the Skyes creek fire site in
the northern part of the county,
some 280 acres has been re
seeded by BLM personnel, and
on the Timber mountain fire
northwest of Jacksonville 260
acres have been seeded in a co
operative project involving the
BLM, the city of Jacksonville,
and private owners. Grass re
seeding on Blackwell hill is
planned soon.
The bureau had hoped to be
able to do reforestation work at
the same time as the grass seed
ing, but adequate supplies of the
proper types of tree seeds were
not available. This planting will
be done when seeds are avail
SEEKING VARIETY OF
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title in London. From left: Jennifer Chines, Miss Britain; Margaret Anne Haywood Mis
U. S. A.; Anita Oestrand, Miss Sweden; Karin Rasmussen, Miss Denmark and Mirva Ar
vinen, Miss Finland. Winner gets sports car, $1,400 and silver rose bowL (International)
George H. Jackson,
Attorney, Passes
George H. Jackson, 74, of 202
West Third st., died unexpected
ly in Grants Pass late Tuesday
afternoon. He was visiting there
to check on property he owned.
Mr. Jackson, an attorney, has
lived in Medford since 1944, and
has been active in practice here.
Before that he had lived and
practiced law in Grants Pass
since 1923, moving there from
Detroit, Mich.
Christian Science services
will be read in the Conger-Morris
chapel at 9:30 a.m. Friday.
Committal will follow in Siski
you Memorial park.
He leaves his widow, the fort
mer Juliet Larkin, whom he
married in Illinois in 1915; three
sons, George H. Jackson Jr.,
Portland; Robert A. Jackson,
Manhattan Beach, Calif., and
Philip L. Jackson, Ann Arbor,
Mich.; a sister, Mrs. Violet Pow
ers, Grants Pass, and two grand
children. He was born in Canada on
May 3, 1881, and moved to Mich
igan as a small child. He was
graduated from the University of
Michigan law school in 1908, and
practiced in South Dakota and
Michigan until moving to Grants
Pass. He also was active in real
estate and insurance business in
Grants Pass. He was a member
of the Oregon Bar association.
have studied mushroom- muta
tions to determine how genes af
fect the metabolism of cells in
human heredity were unofficial
ly reported to be runners-up.
They are George W. Beadle,
52, genetics professor at Pasa
dena's California Institute" of
Technology, and Edward L. Ta
tum, 46, biology professor of
Stanford university.
Candidate List Secret
Also considered in the run
ning, although the list of candi
dates was secret, were New York
heart specialists Andre Courn
and and Dickinson W. Richards,
and brain specialist Vincent Du
Vigneaud of Cornell university.
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Salvage of
able, a bureau spokesman said.
Work is under way preparing
large stands of fire-damaged
timber for salvage sales, mostly
in the Sykes creek area, and
similar work will be started
soon in the Timber mountain
burn. The work involves survey
ing lines and assembling access
road information. It is hoped
the sales can be held in the
spring before the heat of sum
mer starts damaging the timber.
Plan Small Sales
It may be possible .to have ar
few small salvage sales within
the next few months, it was re-;
ported, possibly including some
in the Blackwell hill fire area.
Several hundred acres of Na
tional Forest land burned over
in the same Labor Day week
end fires are being surveyed for
salvage possibilities, according
to Jack Wood, supervisor of the
Rogue River National forest.
PRIZES. tTlPCfl. tnrla ara -riiW OO
Special Planes To Be
Sent for Senators
T r a y e I i n g i
Washington (U.R) The De
fense Department said today it is
sending two 66-passenger trans
port planes to Europe, at a cost
of $20,000, to pick up three
senators and their wives and
return them to this country.. .
The department said it is do
ing so at senatorial request and
that has "no alternative." But
aides to the three senators said
they did not believe special
flights were necessary.
The Defense Department said
it has a "duty" under law "to
provide without question trans
portation to members of Con
gress who are traveling" on offi-
Faure Shakes Cabinet;
Hints New Elections
Paris (U.R) Premier Edgar
Faure shook up his Cabinet to
day amid reports that Jie will
dissolve the National Assembly
and call for new general elec
tions before the end of the year.
Later, . Faure disclosed that
he has summoned his Cabinet
to meet tomorrow to decide on
whether to call a general elec
tion, probably in December.
. The government reshuffle
started plugging the holes left
when four Gaullist party mem
bers walked out on Faure two
weeks ago in a bitter dispute
over his plans for moderate re
forms in Morocco and Algeria.
Highland Grocery
Victim of Burglary
Several hundred dollars worth
of groceries were taken from the
Highland grocery, 458 South
Highland ave., Tuesday night, ac
cording to city police.
Niles B. Smith,. 316 South
Highland ave., owner of the store
reported that several items, in
cluding bacon, lunch meats,
beer, eggs, 20 cartons of cigar
ettes, soda, sugar and canned
foods were missing.
Entry was gained through a
rear entrance to the store.
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Burned
Most of the salvage operations
will be carried on in Klamath
county, he indicated. .
UPPRf
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To Plant 700 Acres
Yreka Plans to reseed 700
acres of the Haystack burn area
to grasses have been announced
by R. W. Bower, supervisor of
the Klamath National forest
Bower stated that when mora
money becomes available for
est service plans call for reseed
ing of 8,000 to 10,000 additional
acres of non-timber producing
lands. . .
Congressman Clair Engle (D
Calif .), has wired . Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra T. Benson a re
quest to allocate $80,000 from
emergency funds to complete re
seeding of the burn. area. . . G
It is considered important that
the reseeding be done bsjfore
heavy rains ruin the natural
seedbed left by the fire.
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n E u rope
cjal committee business.:
One plane will go to Madrid
Sunday to pick , up Sens. John
McClellan (D-Ark.) and John
Stennis (D-Miss.) and their
wives. The other plane wl go
to, Paris to pick up Sen. Dennis
Chavez (D-N.M.) and his wif
Nov. 3.
All three senators are mem
bers of the senate Appropria
tions Committee. They have
been touring Europe and lit
Near East to check on defense
spending.
The cost, of sending the planes,
four-engine Constellations, will
be about $10,000 for each round
trip.
The Defense Department state
ment was prompted by inquiries
about a story from Berlin by
Jim Lucas of the Scripps-How- .
ard Newspapers reporting that
the Air Force was flying two
big transport planes to Europe
to pick up the three senators
and their wives.
Other Planes Available
The department said previ
ously scheduled military planes
could have picked up McClellan
and Stennis in Madrid on Oct.
25 and Chavez in Paris on Nov.
6, two and three days respec
tively after the specially dis
patched planes are scheduled
to pick up the senators.
Aides to the three senators
said the Air Force knew well
in advance that all three had
firm commitments which made
it necessary for them to return
to the United States on speci
fied dates. They said schedules
had been worked out last month
and special trips should not have
been made necessary.
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Friday 72.
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