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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1955)
rOXTRTTEK 'MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, November 30, 1953 ! For Kidnap-Molester Of Hollywood Child West Hollywood, Calif. -UP) ; of clothing and driven the un Sheriffs deputies said today a I usually colored automobile ae , , . , ! hberatelv to throw detectives man wanted for kidnapping and ; off hjs p-ath fey discarding them lexually molesting an 8-year-old j after commiuing the crime, girl wa last seen wearing oddj jhe sex deviate lured the girl clothe and driving a pink-col- j from school by saying that her mother was ill ana ne was iu take her home. Good Description ored station wagon. Police believed he may havei worn the strange combination Broadway Aciress in Tumble Injured New York OJ.P' Actress Julie Harris, Broadway's new est Joan of Arc, bowed to a thunderous ovation last night with blood streaming down her chin from a deep cut on her lip. Misr, Harris, starring in "The Lark," struck her lip on a stool during a fall which she is re quired to take in the play. The curtain was lowered and for 10 suspenseful minutes, the worried audience did not know Deputies said the victim, Yvonne Backsdale, gave a good description of her kidnaper. "If the child's description is accu rate" one deputy said, her kidnaper should be easily recog nized." The deputy added, how ever, the kidnaper probably would discard the clothing. The girl told deputies her kid naper was about five feet, 11 inches tall, with dark hair and wearing eyeglasses, a yellow hat, red. tee shirt, gray trousers and black shoes. She said he drove the late model pink-colored station wagon which had pink and black upholstery. "It's quite easy to spot a pink colored station wagon," the dep uty said. "A car like that and the weird colored clothing is ! even odd for Hollywood." doctor finished treat- I Girl Found Weeping up and The fcirl was found weeping whether the show $'ould con tinue. After a ment, the curtain went Miss Harris finished" her role in j yesterday near a Santa Monica the old tradition. Members or blvd. market where her kidnap er left her several hours after abducting her. A passerby no ticed the girl and she was rush ed to an emergency hospital where doctors said she had been badly abused by a sex deviate. From the child's story, depu ties said it was apparent that the kidnaper bound the girl with wire, slapped her repeatedly and molested her many times. The kidnaper, after about two hours of the ordeal, untied the girl and drove her to a market parking lot where he told her to get out. the audience in the front row said her lip was bleeding for the remaining half-hour of the play. Sackeii Wished Success by Truman San Francisco (U.R Former D President Harry Truman wished ' tremendous success" yesterday to the proposed Democratic, lib eral tabloid newspaper "The World," to be published in Portland in March, 1956. Mr. Truman, here for a speak ing engagement, was met at the airport by Sheldon F. Sackett, editor and publisher of the new tabloid. Sackett, who publishes the Coos Bay, Ore., Times ac companied Mr. Tnjman to his suite at the Fairmont hotel. During a press conference at the hotel, Helen Johnson, wom en's editoiof the Coos Bay pa per, asked on the establishment of a liberal Democratic newspa per in the Pacific Northwest. "I wish this paper or any pa- Churchill Marks 81st Birthday . London (U.R) The grand old rnan of Great Britain turn ed 81 quietly today in the after glow of bright and hectic by gone years. Gray and nearly bald now, Sir Winston Churchill gathered his wife and children around him for a private family lunch eon. That was all he had in the way of formal plans. He felt it fitting to observe his birthday without fuss now that the noise of the combat that called him to greatness is past. He told family and friends that he felt such a "minor mile stone" as his 81st birthday de served only quiet observance. He felt this especially in view of the honors heaped on him on his 80th birthday and the subse quent homage paid to him on his retirement as Prime Minis ter in April of this year. He still smokes 10 to 12 cigars a day and still gives his famous "V" for victory sign at all op portunities while whipping around town in a limousine. Worker Hurt in Mishap At The Dalles Dam Job The Dalles U.R) William Fitzmaurice, 36, Portland, was reported in critical condition to day after being struck by a truck crane boom which col lapsed while he was working on The Dalles dam. Fitzmaurice was working on a truck crane stripping turbine forms in main unit five of the nowerhouse when the arcirient per with a liberal editorial view j occurred. Ted Leon, 43, The tremendous success," Truman Dalles, was slightly hurt in the - I Settlement Reached In Fire Negligence Portland IU.R) An out-of-court settlement for S100.000 in a SI, 000. 000 domage suit brought against the E. K. Wood Lumber company by the govern ment for alleged negligence in controlling a 1951 forest fire was reported here today. U.S. District Judge William East dismissed the government complaint on stipulation of both litigants after which Manley B. Strayer, attorney for the lumber company, handed a check for S100.000 to U.S. Attorney C. E. Luckey. In another consideration of the settlement, the company conveyed to the government half of a section of timber in Douglas county, roughly equivalent to the O&C timber destroyed in the fire. O said 1 same mishap. 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The visiting Soviet premier was reported to have asked for a parrot when he visited a farm in the state last week. Executive Order Returns La Prensa Buenos Aires (U.R) A gov ernment decree-law today order ed that the newspaper La Pren sa and all its assets be turned over to its rightful owners, the family of Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz. Undersecretary of the Interior Carlos Muniz released the text of the decree-law abolishing a law passed by ousted President Juan D. Peron on April 4, 1951. That statute ordered the expro priation of La Prensa. Dr. Gainza Paz said he had not been paid for the newspaper and described the action as confis cation. The new decree-law orders the solicitor general of the Treasury to drop immediately the suits Peron brought against the Paz family. It then ordered the present government-appointed Interven er, placed in charge of the paper last week, to hand over its as sets in their entirety to the Paz family as the rightful owners. Police Chief Gives Quick Service on Theft Report Camden, Me. (U.R) Police Chief John Rainfrette gave a service station operator, Ollie Dore, fast service after Dore re ported three car mufflers stolen from in front of his station. Rainfrette took down the com plaint and went out to a patrol car to start searching for leads on the missing mufflers. He was startled to find them in the rear seat of the patrol car. Seems the night police crew had found the mufflers lying in front of the gas station and took them to headquarters for safe keeping but forgot to tell the chief. Klamath Car Crash Victim Klamath Falls (U.R) Ed ward Reeves, 24, Klamath Falls, died today from injuries suffer ed last night when his pickup truck went out of control result ing in a seven-vehicle accident, police reported. Two other persons were in jured. The mishap occurred on slick pavement just outside the city limits. Officers said the pickup struck two parked cars after passing a car, knocking them into two other parked cars, then swerved back into the road and struck the car it had passed. Then the pickup, according to police, swerved right into a parking lot and hit another car. Injured were David Hamilton, 24, Klamath Falls, who was rid ing with Reeves and Edna Lu cille Clawson, 21, Klamath Falls, who was sitting in a car parked in front of a theater. Adlai Raps Handling Of Housing Program Miami, Fla. (U.R) Adlai Stevenson accused the Eisen hower administration today of conducting the public housing program with '"slogans" and a "lukewarm attitude" while spreading city slums were exact ing a mounting toll in human misery. The candidate for the Demo cratic presidential nomination delivered a "non-political" ad dress to 1,300 city officials and said there is an urgent need for a "combination of government activity and private enterprise which alone can solve" slum clearance problems. "Even the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, when he sponsored the housing act of 1949, called for the construction of 810,000 pub lic housing units within the next six years," Stevenson said. "Those six years have gone by now, with only 190,000 units built, and another authorized. The current program is only 45,000 units for this fiscal year, and even this congressional de cision is 10,000 units higher than the administration's recom- I mendation." Shrine Hospital Named Beneficiary of Bequest Portland (U.R) Shrine hos pital for crippled children in Portland yesterday was named beneficiary of a S3000 bequest in the will of Mrs. Angeline Mc Gill, widow of a former Port land nurseryman. Others named in the will were Central Presbyterian church of Portland, S1500, the First Pres byterian church of Salem, S500. Balance of the $40,000 estate went to relatives. Abbott Case Moving Toward Crucial Point Oakland, Calif. (U.R) The trial of Burton W. 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