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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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Schedule Elections
Three Jackson county rural
fire protection districts will
elect directors on Dec. 5. The
three formally organized dis
tricts in the county are at Rogue
River, Central Point, and Med
ford. Petitions are now being circu
lated in th Medford rural dis
trict for Harper Hamilton Sr.,
the incumbent, according to Mrs.
Charlotte Fogelquist, secretary.
Petitions for other candidates
may be circulated by residents
of the district, according to Mrs.
Fogelquist. They must be filed
with the district by Nov. 20.
Court Fight Seen ?
!n Ty Cobb Divorce
Minden, Nev. (U.R) An im
pending divorce between base
ball immortal Ty Cobb and his
estranged wife appeared likely
today to end in a stormy court
battle.
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. Felts, who
claimed Cobb struck him in a
fight over a dinner check.
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Boston (U.R) Sen, William
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removal of Russian troops from
satellite states should be a con
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agreement between the United
Slates and the Soviet Union.
The California Republican
told the National Metal Trades
convention that if the people of
Russia really fear aggression
from a unified Germany or the
free world, "The Western pow-
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