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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) omb Plotter Declared To Be ecuring Early Release From Jail Denver U.R John Gilbert "Graharrfs jailers reported today he appears supremely confident of securing release from the jail where he is held on murder charges for planting the explo sive which killed 44 persons aboard a United Air Lines plane Nov. 1. "He seems to feel he'll get out of the position he's in," said Capt. Neal Wright, the county jail training officer. "And he talks like he's quite hopeful of making his bond and getting out of jail." Wright said Graham eats well, sleeps soundly, and chatted once with a guard about explosives. He has adjusted to jail routine with almost unbelievable calm, his guards said. To Ask Death District Attorney Bert Keat ing announced he would demand death in the gas chamber for the 23-year-old explosives expert who planted the bomb in his mother's suitcase, kissed her goodbye, and sent her to her death. Graham's bond, set before the murder charge was drawn up by Keating Tuesday, is 100,000. United Air Lines President Wil liam Patterson signed the com plaint which charges Graham with the murder of his mother, Mrs. Daisie E. King, 54. He will be arraigned before Judee Edward J. Keating on Thursday, and probably will not be allowed bond. Graham's confession, made to the FBI Monday, has not been made public. Newsmen learned however that he confessed fash ioning a bomb with a timing de vice and 25 sticks of dynamite, hid it in his mother's suitcase arid took it to Stapleton Air Field with her the night of Nov. 1. The plane was 35 minutes late ' in leaving Denver. It was only eight minutes and 35 miles north of the city when, the dynamite blew the plane apart. Graham bombed the plane to collect a .share of his mother's S150.000 estate, and 537,500 worth of trip insurance he bought for $1-50 at the airport. But his mother did not sign tlje policy and it was worthless. Captain Wright said Graham would give "no trouble" at the jail, and apparently has no in dention of committing suicide. His shoe laces, his belt and his necktie have been' taken away from him, however, so he cannot hang himself. Cheaper Airline Transportation Seen Washington U.R) Ameri cans could look forward today to the possibility of more and cheaper scheduled airline trans portation in 1956. The nation's 49 non-scheduled airlines yesterday won a long fight to increase their competi tion against the nation's major airlines, those that provide reg ularly scheduled flights. The victory came when the Civil Aeronautics board agreed to permit the non-scheduled air lines for the first time to operate a limited number of scheduled flights and an unlimited number of charter flights. The CAB gave temporary blan ket authorization for each of the non-skeds to start Jan. 1 to op erate a maximum of 10 round trips a month between any two points in the United States on a regular basis. Italian Sailors Fight Flames on High Seas New York U.R) Some 35 crewmen are fighting fire for their lives aboard an Italian collier pitching in high seas and nearly hidden by snow flurries near the Grand Banks, some 1200 miles northeast of New York, the Coast Guard reported today. The collier Dea Mazzerla sail ed from Sidney, Nova Scotia, yesterday en route to Europe with her holds full of coal. At 5:52 a.m. (EST) its SOS cleared all ocean broadcast channels. The master reported explosions in No. 1 and No. 2 holds. Later messages, picked up and relayed from the Coast Guard cutter Coos Bay on mid-ocean weather station, reported the ship afire with its cargo. Prominent Artist, Author Dies in South Glendale (U.R) Funeral services will be held at Forest Lawn tomorrow for Anthony H. Euwer, nationally prominent artist, author and lecturer. Euwer. whose drawings ap peared in the New York Times and in Collier's, Punch and Harper's magazines, died at his home in La Jolla. Calif., Mon day after a short illness. He was 78. Euwer also was a staff artist with the Portland, Ore., Journal. MAIL TRIBUNE Chance Remark Led To Arrest of Man In Plane Bombing Denver (U.R) The Rocky Mountain News, in a copyright ed story, said today a chance remark about a Christmas gift led to the arrest of John Gilbert Graham,- 23, in the bomb crash Nov. 1 of a United Air Lines DC6B. carrying 44 persons. The News said FBI agents fo cused their attention on the young father of two after neigh bors reported that Graham told them he had placed a surprise gift in his mother's luggage be fore escorting her to the plane. Neighbors described Graham two days after the crash as be ing heartbroken because he had hidden the gift supposedly a jewelry making tool in her luggage. They said he was re morseful "for failing to make his mother's last hours happy by not giving her the present be fore she left Denver," the News said. The FBI went into action as soon as it learned Graham open ed his mother's packed suitcases in order to insert the surprise gift, the paper said. The paper said neighbors also became apprehensive of Graham when he claimed he had a "pre monition" of his mother's death before word of the explosion reached him and that the pre monition was accompanied by illness. France on Brink of National Crisis Paris (U.R) The Senate tossed Premier Edgar Faure's early election plans back to the National assembly today and France teetered on the brink of a government crisis. The assembly was expected to begin debate on an election bill approved by the advisory upper house calling for elections in two stages with district trimmed sharply and with only one depu ty representing each constituen cy. The Senate rejected by a vote of 231-50 Faure's plan for single- stage elections on the basis of proportional representation with voters casting their ballots for party lists rather than individ ual candidates. Faure admitted in advance that his drive to hold elections in December was dead. He told the startled senators he would agree to a vote after the new year. Firemen Applicants To Receive Exams Examinations for fireman ap plicants will be conducted by the Medford Civil service com mission at the Central Fire sta tion, Third and Front sts. Dec. 3. Thosa successfully completing the examination will be placed on the eligible list in order of their standings. Future appoint ments to the Medford fire de partment will be made from the list. Salaries range from $300 per month for starting firemen to more than $315, depending on ability of the individual. Application blanks are avail able at the fire chief's office. Ap plications must be filed in Chief Gordon Barker's office prior to 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28. Use Tribune Want Ads FINANCE YOUR PUR CHASE THRU THE A. B.C. PLAN 3 Years To Pay! Wednesday, November 16, 1955 The Polio Vaccine: Questions, The following is the first m a series of five articles on ques tions and answers regarding the Salk anti-polio vaccine. The in formation has been prepared by the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis and is released through the Jackson county chapter. What assurance do we have that the Salk vaccine is safe? A. Every possible assurance. The report given by Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. last April showed lhat the vaccine used in the 1954 field trials neither caused polio nor other major reactions and was 60 to 90 per cent effective for paralytic polio. It was 60 to 70 per cent effective for Type I virus, bout 90 per cent for Types II and III. There is reason to be lieve the Type I part of the vac cine will be more effective this year than last. New and more stringent tests for safety also now are required by the U. S. Public Health Service on every lot of vaccine released. Q. Isn't there a risk to vacci nation? A. There is soma statistical risk to every immunizing proce dure, but the risk in polio vacci nation is less than for many widely used vaccines and drugs, and is much less than allowing a child to remain unvaccinaled. Q. How long does it take for the vaccine to protect? A. Three injections are neces sary for full protection. The first shot begins to take effect from seven to 10 days later; at that time, detectable antibodies are present in the blood stream. The second shot, two to four weeks after the first, brings a sharper rise in antibodies. With these two injections, a child should be protected against paralytic polio for the current polio season. Long-lasting immunization de- velopes only after a third or booster shot seven months to a year later. Q. Can the vaccine cause someone to become a carrier? A. No. Inactivated virus, such as used in the Salk vaccine, can not multiply in the body and be excreted, which is how polio is spread. Q. Can a vaccinated child be come a polio carrier? A. Yes, but not because he is vaccinated. Anyone, vaccinated or unvaccinated, may harbor the Dolio virus and pass it on to someone else. The vaccine pro tects against paralytic polio: it does not, and is not, intended to prevent the virus from entering the human body. Q. What is meant by "provo cation"? A. It has been found that cer tain kinds of injections during the polio season have a slight tendency to provoke paralytic Women's Clubs Aim At Smut Magazines Washington (U.R) The General Federation of Women's clubs has asked its 1,000,000 members to start a nationwide campaign against "salacious and indecent" magazines, including the "gossip-blackmail type." A four-point "blueprint for ac tion" against the publications is spelled out in the current issue of GFWC's "Clubwoman" mag azine. The "blueprint for action" against smut magazines recom mends adoption of a national code of ethics by magazine ed itors, now in the discussion stage and enaction of federal legisla tion prohibiting the shipment of pornographic material "not only by mail and common carrier,.but by any means." OPEN EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT e FREE ESTIMATES Confiden Answers polio, with paralysis occuring in the arm injected if the individual concerned is already incubating the disease. The nature of this phenomenon is not wholly understood. Q. Should the vaccine be given during a period of rising polio incidence? A. Yes, because the protection it affords is greater than the pos sible risk of provocation. This was the decision of 26 physi cians, health officers and virus experts who met with the Na tional Foundation medical advis ers. The benefit to be gained by polio immunization increases as polio incidence rises, they said, since under such conditions a larger number of paralytic cases can be prevented. How long does it take polio to incubate? A. From three to 35 days, but generally about two weeks. When a person is vaccinated, his body begins to develop polio antibodies. If he is vaccinated after he has been infected by the polfc virus, however, one cannot expect protection from paralysis. Hallway Fuses Adjoining Homes Concord, Calif. (U.R) Most men would be content just to add a room or two when their families started outgrowing the old homestead, but Arthur Har rison doesn't believe in half-way measures. He's contributing a whole new house in addition to the old one to care for his clan's rapid ex pansion. The two-abode plan for his family of seven first struck Har rison when he noticed the house and property adjoining his front yard going up for sale. He thought how easy it would be to fuse the two addresses by .con structing a connecting hallway and dining room between them. This he found, would give his wife and six children 11 rooms instead of only five to wander in, and would provide twice as much outdoor recreational space. His spouse, Norma, also of a creative nature, agreed with the building scheme wholeheartedly. In fact, she soon began adding ideas of her own. She thought it would be a real help if an electric speaker system were run between the two homes. If and when the older children, who would sleep in the "other place," cried out in their beds they could easily be heard and helped, she decided. All the little ones, ranging in ages from seven to two, and in cluding a set of twins were de- A Dentist Honored For Research Milwaukee (U.R) Dr. Edgar Bruder, a local dentist who spends part of his time digging for prehistoric relics, was hon ored recently for his "distin guished anthropological re search." He received the Lapham medal, the highest award of the Wisconsin Archeological Society. Bruder sets aside every Wednesday for digging, and has turned up remnants of 5,000-year-old civilizations. He has never studied anthro pology, and has done most of his research in the Mayville, Wis. area. Bruder was raised near the Horicon Marsh, the so-called breadbasket of prehistoric peo ple. The marsh has relics that predate the pyramids, according to Bruder. His wife, Vera, serves as his assistant on field trips. He says she holds his stadia rod while he surveys. Bruder has spent every Wednesday for years toting a transit through the woods, and walking through the fields and marshes. He claims he took up archeology as a hobby, to get outdoors. Bruder is still attempting to prove a theory he uncovered after his days as a navigator in World War I. He is convinced that prehistoric peoples knew about astronomy, since their mounds are laid out in a definite pattern, related to the stars. He knows this theory is radi cal among archeologists, but he is going to attempt to prove it. Farm friends in southeastern Wisconsin have given him the run of the land to examine burial Thus far he has uncovered effigy mounds, cremation urns, Devil's Lake relics, and many remnants of the Copper Are. Bela Lugosi Tells Of Narcotics Use Los Angeles '(U.R) Actor Bela Lugosi, who relived the horror of some of his film roles as a drug addict in real life, has testified before a U.S. Sen ate subcommittee that use of narcotics was "just plain hell." The 73 - year - old Hungarian born actor, who won fame with the horror film and stage play, "Dracula," told the one-man subcommittee of Sen. Price Dan iels (D.-Tex.) yesterday of the horrors of drug addiction. Lugosi said he had been tak ing, narcotics for years, but vol untarily committed himself to an institution and' believes he is cured of the habit. lighted with their father's idea. A city ordinance says only one of the kitchens may be put to use, but Mrs. Harrison came up with a ready answer. "The second cooking area," she said, "will make an excellent storeroom." Arthur, an industrial special ist, has come to an agreement on the second home's price and has found it to be much more eco nomical to join the houses than to build a large new one. vou are making" the best buy new truck is an important investment. If you want to be sure you're getting the best buy, you've got to consider a lot of things: price, power, operating economy, good appearance to mention only a few. Take price, for instance. Wouldn't it help you to know that you can buy a Dodge for surprisingly Little money? Could be you didn't know Dodge trucks cost less than most other makes. Wouldn't it help you, too, to get the whole picture on truck power? The fact that Dodge Power Dome V-8's outpower every other leading truck in the low- and medium-tonnage fields surely is important to your decision. 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Mrs. Cobb, 46, the former Frances Cass, filed yesterday a motion seeking $500 monthly temporary alimony and prelim inary counsel fees of $50,000. She estimated Cobb was worth more than $3,000,000. Her attorney, Harlan Howard of Reno, also filed on her be half a 24-page bill of particulars in which she listed instances in which the 69-year-old Cobb al legedly drank to excess, used profane language and exhibited violent behavior. Cobb's attorney, Clark Guild Jr. of Reno, said Cobb will file a bill of particulars against his wife in reply. Cobb will insist that tht case be tried in open court, instead of closed court as is usually the case with divorce suits involving prominent per sons. The Cobbs were married Sept. 24, 1949, at Buffalo, N. Y. She filed a divorce action on Sept. 7, 1955. He filed a cross-complaint later, charging her with extreme cruelty. Cobb is defending a $50,000 civil suit filed against him in Oroville, Calif., by wealthy rice rancher Elbert D. 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