EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, December 5, 19S5
Death of Convict
AtAlcafraz Starts
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FBI Investigation
San Francisco (U.R) FBI
agents quizzed hardened con
victs in Alcatraz Prison today in
an attempt to learn what lay be
hind the fatal stabbing of a con
victed rapist.
The victim was Sidney Moore,
31, "Washington, D. C. He died
in the prison hospital at 6 p.m.
yesterday of stab wounds in the
abdomen and chest. He had been
knifed eight hours earlier.
-Warden Paul J. Madigan said
I&We's assailant was James A.
Bullock, 35, of Louisiana, a con
victed murderer. ,
Word of the slaying in the na
tion's toughest prison got out
when prison authorities notified
the coroners office to meet the
prison launch at 8:30 p.m. and
pick up the body of the slain
man.
Madigan said Moore and Bul
lock got into a fight yesterday
morning while 175 prisoners
were taking their morning exer
cise. Four guards who were on
duty in the yard at the time
pulled theo men apart.
MaiQgan said none of the
guas knew what started the
iighiuor where Bullock got the
knifhe used. Presumably it was
one had fashioned in secret
arid hidden on his person or in
his celigno mean feat on the
security conscious "Rock."
Q The FBI began an immediate
investigation of the case, but
said "we cannot divulge any de
tails at this time."
Dulles1 Statement
On Goa Puts Envoy
On Carpet in India
New Delhi, India-(U.R) U- S.
Ambassador John Sherman Coo
per was summoned to the Indian
Foreign Office today amid a
new wave of anti-American feel
ing produced by Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles' state
ment on Goa.
Indian Foreign Secretary Su
bimal Dutt called Cooper to the
Indian External Affairs minis
try. It was generally believed
India would protest sharply over
the Dulles' statement but embas
sy sources said Cooper still had
not received the official text.
Observers here said Cooper
was placed in a "most embar
rassing position" by the state
ment which referred to the Por
tuguese possession of Goa as a
"Portuguese province," directly
New CAP Leader
Assumes Duty Here
Civil Air Patrol Lt. Robert
Thompson, former commandant
of cadets, will assume duties as
ohew commanding officer of the
'Medford squadron at the regu
lar 7:30 p.m. meeting of the
group tonight.
Lt. Thompson succeeds Capt.
Marella Luschen, who has been
Commanding officer for three
years. Capt. Luschen requested
to be transferred to another posi
tion in the CAP here. Oregon
"Wing headquarters of CAP at
Portland has approved the trans
fer. Lt. Thompson has a com
mercial pilots license and has
more than 2,00 hours flying
time. He is a member of the
403rd troop carrier command,
air force reserve unit at Port
land. 0 ,
He has taken an active part
in the CAP training program as
an instructor and senior officer.
Lt. Thompson also has attended
twoCAP regional conferences,
and "it was through his efforts
that a link trainer was put into
operation, for instruction in the
local grgup.
Also gat tonight's meeting,
there will be a film about the
new Air Force academy near
Denver, Colo. The meeting will
be held in the CAP building at
Medford airport.
Hitchcock Clears Up
'Disappearance'
. -Bangkok, Thailand OJ.R)
Film director Alfred Hitchcock
today cleared up the mystery
of his "disappearance" in a KLM
Dutch plane over Bengal Bay
Friday and Saturday.
The plane was delayed at Cal
cutta's airport because of a bad
engine and when it finally took
off Saturday night it was forced
tocjeturn there at night.
The passengers could not leave
without undergoing complicated
Indian customs procedure which
probably started the rumors that
he had disappeared over the bay,
Hitchcock explained.
"Let's put it this way," the
noted film director said. "It's
the strangest flight I have ever
been on."
Hitchcock, who is on a tour
of Asian capitals, said he would
remain here until Wednesday
meeting with film executives and
actors and leave for Hong Kong
and Tokyo for a five-day visit.
Kefauver Charges
Dixon-Yates
Perjury
Washington (U.R) Sen. Estes
Kefauver (D-Tenn.) charged to
day that some persons involved
in negotiations for the Dixon
Yates contract may have com
mitted perjury and conspired to
defraud the government.
He made the charges as his
special Senate Monopoly sub
committee resumed its investi
gation of the controversial pow
er contract which President Ei
senhower ordered canceled earl
ier this year. The contract would
have provided for construction
by private interests of an elec
tric power plant at West Mem
phis, Ark., to supply power to
Tennessee Valley Authority as
replacement for TVA electricity
fed to the Atomic Energy Commission.
Following cancellation, the
AEC decided that there was a
'"substantial question as to the
validity of the contract" because
of a possible conflict of interest
in the dual role played by
Adolph Wenzell, 'New York in
vestment banker, who advised
both the government and Dixon
Yates interests at the same time.
Trial Under Way in
Benton County Death
Corvallis '(U.R) The first de
gree murder trial of Martin B.
Reyes, Seattle, is scheduled to
begin here tomorrow.
Reyes is accused of fatally
wounding James R. Applegate,
39-year-old Benton county posse
man, in Corvallis Oct. 24, short
ly after Reyes and a companion
escaped from the Eugene jail.
Selection of a jury is expected
to take at least the first day.
Eighty-two persons are on the
venire list. A defense motion
for a change in venue, on the
grounds that prejudice would
hamper jury selection, was over
ruled earlier.
Presiding will be Circuit
Judge Fred McHenry. Sidney
B. Lewis Jr., district attorney, is
chief prosecutor. Defense attor
neys are John Fenner and Rob
ert Mix.
Snowfall Hampers
Portland Autoists
Portland (U.R) Rain turned
to snow which turned back to
rain again in Portland this morn
ing but enough white stuff fell
to cause some traffic snarls.
Southwest Canyon road was
blocked about 6 a.m. for a short
time by slipping cars and there
were a few minor collisions un
til police required chains on all
cars trying the hill to Sylvan.
Another traffic jam was report
ed near Washington park and
hill streets remained slippery.
Snow was reported as far
north as Tacoma,.with rain south
of here. The weather bureau
predicted no more snow for low
areas in western Oregon, but
there will be rain and wind.
Storm warnings were flying
along the coast for gusts of wind
up to 45 miles per hour.
contrary to the official Indian
government viewpoint.
Unpopular Position
American officials said the
United States had been gaining
from the statements made by the
visiting Soviet leaders which
embarrassed the Indian govern'
ment. Now they said only a
statement by President Eisen
hower could retrieve the situa
tion.
The sources said Cooper had
worked tirelessly during the
past year to better U.S.-Indian
relations but that the joint state
ment had linked the United
States up squarely with the un
popular "colonial powers."
There had been a vast flood of
emotion in India over Portugal
and its refusal to give up the
400-year-old settlement of Goa.
Some officials here said the
United States had lost out not
only in India but in all of Asia.
Diplomtic Blunder
Indian newspapers accused
Dulles of committing a major
diplomatic blunder in issuing
the joint statement.
It was learned that Cooper
had been advising the State de
partment all week long not to
make any statement, no matter
what the Russians said.
Observers said this was be
cause there was a general feel
ing the Indians were becoming
embarrassed over the Russian
outbursts. There was a feeling
that the west had a chance to
make gains by remaining digni
fiedly quiet.
Friends close to Cooper said
he feels he was put in the worst
position possible because no In
dian will believe him in the
future.
It also was learned that the
ambassador was not advised
ahead of time and learned of the
Dulles statement only when he
read of it in the newspaper.
Multnomah Group
Fights Racing Site
Portland (U.R) A battle to
prevent Multnomah county from
exercising options on 170 acres
of land proposed for a county
tair and dog racing site was
promised today by residents of
Wood Village near here.
Mayor Paul G. Sherman of
Wood Village said choice of the
site came as a "complete sur
prise" to residents. "First we
knew of it was when he read it
m the Saturday morning pa
per," he said.
Sherman said almost half the
proposed site was within the
corporate limits of Wood Village
and that the area has been plan
ned and zoned for residential
expansion. Wood Village has
about 1200 population.
McNary Field Building
To Start This Week
Salem (U.R) Construction , of
an office building at McNary
Field here for the State Board
of Aeronautics will get under
way this week.
The State Emergency Board
authorized the Board of Aeronau
tics to spend $32,500 on the
project. The 1955 Legislature
has approved $25,000 for the
building, but low bid proved to
be $27,823.
Mills Construction Co. of Sa
lem, low bidder on the building,
agreed to continue with the proj
ect at the original offer.
Aeronautics Director Earl Sny
der said the building probably
would be completed about April
Slafe Young GOP
Plans Drive To
Put Ike on Ballot
Portland (U.R) The Young
Republican Federation of Ore
gon today announced plans to
circulate petitions to place Pres
ident Eisenhower's name on the
ballot in Oregon's preferential
primary election next May.
A resolution adopted . by
Young Republicans at their
week-end convention here said
in part, "although the final de
cision must be his alone, we be
lieve the people of Oregon will
welcome an opportunity to
demonstrate their active desire
that the president run again."
In Oregon a candidate's per
mission is not needed to place
his name on the ballot. Only
1000 signatures are required.
signatures are required.
Mors Defeat Eyed
Two leading Oregon Republi
cans warned the convention not
to forget . about keeping the
state Legislature Republican
controlled in efforts to defeat
Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) Elmo
Smith, state Senate president,
said Democrats would like noth
ing better than to have the Re
publicans absorbed in Morse's
senatorial race. House Speaker
Ed Geary defended the Repub
lican record in the state and said
"it would be tragic if control of
the Legislature went over to the
other party."
The Oregon College League of
Young Republicans urged that
Oregon voters be given a chance
to decide whether to give 18-year-olds
the right to vote. They
also went on record in favor of
establishing junior colleges in
Oregon.
I . BUILT AND
Sackeff Asks Probe
01 North Bend Aifairs
San Francisco '(U.R) Publish
er Sheldon S. Sackett asked top
Oregon state officials what must
be done to prod the Coos county
grand jury into investigating
public affairs in North Bend,
Ore.
Sackett. editor and publisher
of the Coos Bay Times, made the
request in a 1,500-word tele
gram to Gov. Paul Patterson,
Chief Justice Harold J. Warner
of the State Supreme court, At
torney General Robert Thornton
and Judge Dal M. King of Co
qiulle, Ore.
Copies of the telegram were
sent to 36 other U.S'. and Oregon
state officials, judges, business
men and publishers.
He said attempts to discuss
the matter with Coos County
District Attorney John Pickett
have proved fruitless.
He asked whether the district
attorney can be forced to call
the grand jury; or whether it
can be called by an individual,
a . circuit judge, the attorney
general, the governor or the
chief justice.
Sackett asked that replies be
wired him collect at the Fair
mont hotel here. He said that he
would be here on business for
an indefinite period.
Wall, Ceiling Damaged
In House Fire Sunday
A wall and ceiling near the
flue were slightly damaged yes
terd. in a house fire shortly
after noon at 610 Elm st.
Firemen said that workmen
remodeling the vacant house,
owned by Robert West, Central
Point, had started a fire in a
stove leading to an old bracket
flue on the wall. Two pumpers
were sent to the scene.
No damage resulted from a
flue fire at the Ray W. Turpin
home, 1024 South Holly st., Sun
day, firemen reported.
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