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Government To Ask
Supreme Court To
Overturn Ruling
O Washington (U.P.i The gov
ernment will ask the Supreme
Court to overturn a federal
judge's ruling that civilians are
noP subject to military court
marti.
U. S. Atty. Leo A. Rover filed
notice Friday in U. S. Federal
Districttourt here that the Jus
tice Department will appeal di
rectly to the Supreme Court
bypassing the federal appeals
courts.
RsVer will ask the high court
to overturn a ruling by Federal
jQdge Edward A. Tamm that
civilians are not subject to trial
by military courts.
Ta'ntr.i's decision was in the
case of Mrs. Clarice B. Covert,
convicted by Air Force court
martial and sentenced to life
imprisonment for the 1953 ax
slaying of hr husband, an Air
Force sergeant in England. The
court-martial was held under an
act of Congress authorizing mili
tary trials of civilians accom
panying the armed forces over
seas. Mrs. Covert was imprisoned
in the federal reformatory at
Alderson, W. Va. Later a new
courtmartial was ordered on
technical grounds. Tamm's rul
ing cancelled the proposed re
hearSigs and freed Mrs. Covert.
His ruling bears on the case
of Mrs. Dorothy Krueger Smith,
daughter of Gen. Walter Krue
ger, who was sentenced to life
imprisonment in the knife-slaying
of her husband, Col. Aubrey
D. Smith in Tokyo in 1953. Fed
eral Judge Ben Moore, Charles
ton, W. Va., has under advise
ment a plea to free Mrs. Smith
on a writ of habeas corpus,
similar to that under which
Tamm freed Mrs. Covert.
Eisenhower Accepts
Two Resignations
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower S aturday accepted
the resignation of Assistant Sec
retary of Agriculture James A.
McConnell and Securities and
Exchange Commissioner J. Jack
son Goodwin Jr. Both men re
signed for "personal reason."
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Around Hollywood
Hollywood (U.R) While
the mothers and fathers of
Hollywood rake in diamond
bracelets and
cars for Christ
mas, the small
fry of the cellu
loid city get
their share of
fabulous loot,
loot.
Zsa Zsa Ga-
bor's daughter,
Francesca Hil-
Aline Mosbr ton, will be
fully educated about the famous
Gabor beauties this Christmas.
Under her white Christmas tree
she'll find four dolls wigged
and dressed to resemble her
grandmother, mother and aunts
Jolie, Zsa Zsa. Eva and
Magda.
The dolls are wearing minia
ture copies of Zsa Zsa's ward
robe that was created by Chris
tian Dior in Paris.
Zsa Zsa Made Clothes
"I made the doll clothes my
self," said mother Zsa Zsa. "The
governess and I worked for two
nights and days to finish them.
We used satins and velvets. It
was hard work!"
Stars who want "slore
boughten" gifts jam Uncle Ber
nie's Toy Menagerie in Beverly
Hills, where this time of year
you'll see more celebrities than
at a premier. This huge s'op is
the Tiffany's of the younger set.
Such items as a $500 five-feet-tall
stuffed elephant and a $475
boat with foot pedals go fast to
Texas millionaires.
But the movie crowd is
settling for less staggering items.
Eleanor Parker bought a $69.95
phonograph for her child. The
front has a kaleidoscope-like
i gadget that changes colors as the
music plays. The Jack Bennys
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shelled out cash from his base
ment vault, for one for their
grandchild.
Start Buy Gifts
Jennifer Jones bought a
S39.95 stuffed tiger for her baby.
Debra Paget spent $95 on a toy
battleship and $180 on two
"Madam Pompadour" dolls with
powdered wigs. The daughter of
Edmund O'Brien and Olga San
Juan will find under her tree an
imported English doll's carriage
and a $100 doll-size replica of
Queen Anne's summer, house in
England.
Lana Turner and Lex Barker
wrapped up a $50 bridge-building
set for one of his sons. Stuff
ed tigers at $325, suits of armor
at $100 and $39.95 puppet shows
were popular items with other
customers, including the Hum
phrey Bogarts and Red Skelton.
The day I inspected Uncle Ber
nie's Christmas rush, Barbara
Stanwyck was loading up on
toys for her friends' children.
Nicky Hilton was buying a
$39.95 mechanical white cat that
meows and wags his tail, pos
sibly for some 21-year-old baby.
Farm Production Two
Per Cent Above '54
Portland -(U.R) Oregon
farmers produced a total of 4,
624,600 tons of crops valued at
an estimated $237,932,000 dur
ing 1955, the U. S. Department
of Agriculture's crop reporting
service said Saturday.
The service's annual summary
showed the 1955 production was
two per cent below that of 1954,
but was three per cent above the
1954-53 average.
Value of this year's crops,
based on prices received for
quantities sold up to Dec. 1, was
four per cent below the 1954
figure and one, per cent below
the 10-year average.
The crop reporting service
said the smaller total production
this year in comparison with
1954 was mainly the result of a
five per cent decline in field
crops and a four per cent drop
in vegetables.
Report Hubcap Thefts
To Medford Police
Possible theft of 19 hubcaps
from 18 new 1956 cars parked
on a lot at the rear of 1051 South
Riverside "ave., was reported to
city police Friday by Robert
Jesse Duane, 605 Park Place.
The cars were parked on the
lot Thursday by men who were
transporting them north from
California and had been forced
to stop here by the flood. The
drivers, who had returned to
L-amornia, naa not been con
tacted Friday, but it was . be
lieved that all hubcaps were on
the cars when they were parked
on the lot.
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2 Coos Bay Women
Are Shol To Death
Coos Bay (U.R) State po
lice said here Saturday that
Leon. Albert Bernier, 54, had
signed a statement admitting the
fatal shooting of his wife, May
Dream Mable Bernier, and her
sister, Marie Watkins, because
they nagged him.
Officers said the double slay
ing occurred about 8:30 a.m. Fri
day in the Bernier home at East
side, near Coos Bay.
Eastside and state police were
notified by Mrs. Bernier's em
ployer and relatives when the
two women were missed during
the day. Police saw the two bod
ies lying on the floor of the
house when they, investigated
with flashlights Friday night.
Bernier was found sleeping
soundly in the bedroom.
Died Instantly
Officers said Bernier told
them he had shot Mrs. Watkins
first when she started nagging
him Friday morning. He told
them she died instantly from
two bullet wounds.
Bernier told police he shot
his wife in the side and that she
told him to "let me say my
prayers" and then fell dead at
his feet.
Bernier said he left the bodies
lying in the bedroom and "put
tered around the house all day
while debating whether to shoot
himself. In the evening he went
to bed and was later awakened
by police.
Recess Called In
69-Day-Old Strike
Pittsburgh (U.R) Negotia
tors in the 69-day Westinghouse
Electric Corp. strike called
Christmas week end recess Sat
urday with bargaining sessions'
to resume Tuesday.
Federal Mediator John R. Mur
phy got both sides back to the
conference table Friday after a
two-day "break off" in talks
aimed at ending the 10-week
walkout of 44,000 International
Union of Electrical Workers
members at 30 company plants
across the nation.
The IUE and the United Elec
trical Workers (Ind.), which call
ed 11,000 Westinghouse employ
ees out on strike Oct. 25 at 10
other company installations,
were pressing for immediate 15
cent hourly wage boosts under
a one-year contract.
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Extends-
May this Christmas bring
added pleasure of
true health and happiness
to each and every
one of you.
November Cold
Cost Douglas Fir ,
Industry Thousands
Portland The mid-Novem
ber cold snap cost the Douglas
fir region's forest economy un
told millions of dollars in lost
and damaged young trees, desi
ccation of seed cones for next
year's seed crop and loss of food-
supplying fir needles to trees.
In explaining these losses, W.
D. Hagenstein, managing direc
tor of Industrial Forestry as
sociation, predicted that . 1956
may witness a seed cone failure
for Douglas fir because of the
cold damage to the pre-formed
flowers.
Foliage Damaged
Another loss, he explained, is
from the desiccation and prema
ture dropping of this year's fol
iage on Douglas fir and some
of the other coniferous trees.
Normally, Douglas fir needles
last five years, he said, and each
year . a new crop is added and
the one which grew five years
earlier then drops. However,
due to the drying out. of this
year's needles which was fol
lowed by severe wind and rain
storms, the forests of the region
are carpeted with hundreds or
thousands of tons of needles
which fell premateurely in No
vomber. This, will greatly in
crease the fire hazard next sum
mer, he said.
The loss of the needles will
also influence the food supply
of the trees, he said, and hence
slow up their rate of growth for
next year. This loss of needles
will reduce the amount of food
the trees can produce and store
which is essential for the produc
tion of wood fibre and cone
crops.
Seedlings Suffer
Another serious loss, the for
ester stated, - is the top killing
of most 1-year-old seedlings in
the region's nurseries including
that operated by the Industrial
Forestry association at Nisqual
ly. The frost killing there was so
bad that he has recommended
that no year-old trees be taken
from the nursery for planting
this year. A lot of them would
not survive if transplanted, he
believes. One bright spot, he
said, it that 2-year seedlings now
being planted are in good shape
and were not affected by the
freeze.
Young trees already in the
forests will be badly damaged
by the freeze. He termed the
mid-November cold spell a real
tragedy to forestry m the Doug
las fir region.
Damage Suits Filed
In Circuit Court
Two damage suits were filed
in circuit court Friday against
John Walter Webber, Ashland
The suits are the result of a
traffic accident 'Dec. 31, 1953
in which Mrs. Lois Dee Wenaus,
25, Ashland, was killed and John
Edward Gettling Ashland, was
irfjured.
Kenneth T. Wenaus, Mrs. We
naus' husband, seeks $20,000, ac
cording to the complaint.
Gettling, who seeks $39,155.80
was sitting in a parked car which
was -struck by a bus which was
involved in an accident with
Webbjer's auto on Highway 99
at the Tolman creek road inter
section, it was stated.
Mrs. Wenaus was killed when
struck by the bus, the complaint
alleges. Sam B. Davis, Ashland,
represents Wenaus and Gettling.
WEATHER By United Press
Northern California: Variable
cloudiness with occasional show
ers likely through Sunday; snow
in mountains; variable wind 10
20 MPH near coast.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 Drevious day
Mirmmitn
Sunday, December 25, 1955
Newsmen Give Up Seat
For Cargo Of Bread
Areata, Calif. (U.R) A
group of newspapermen, radio
newsmen and newsreel and
still photographers gsre up
their airplane Saturday to a
cargo of bread.
When two airplanes carry
ing Got. Goodwin J. Knight
and reporters on an inspection
tour of flooded, Northern
California areas landed at
Areata, Capt. Charles Lauder
dale of the Air Force Air Res
cue squadron said:
"Men, we'd like to have one
of those fixed-wing airplanes
to get a load of bread into
Crescent City, Calif. They're
been cut off for days and we
have 16,000 pounds of bread
here ready to fly into there."
On a volunteer basis,
enough of the reporters agreed
to stay over at Areata airport
while the governor and 20
other passengers returned to
Sacramento in one airplane.
Estimated 100 Men
Stranded by Washouts
Homestead '(U.R) An esti
mated 100 construction work
ers were stranded at Homestead,
Ore., Friday when three bridges
in the area collapsed.
Another 90 employees of Mor-rison-Knudsen
Construction com
pany, who had been trapped
since Wednesday at the Oxbow
dam site on the Snake river,
hiked some 20 miles to safety
Friday.
The still marooned workers
spent Friday night at the post
office in the tiny northeast Ore
gon town of Homestead, on the
Idaho border.
The other workers were trap
ped when heavy,, four-day rains
blocked highways with rock and
mud slides. The men were in
no immediate danger, but hiked
out in order to spend Christmas
with their families. '
Workers at both .construction
camps were working on Idaho
Power company damsites on the
Snake. M-K officials estimated
slides had cut a 30-foot gash in
the Oxbow site access road, re
cently constructed.
RR High School Has
California Tests
Rogue River California tests
of mental maturity were given
freshmen, juniors and seniors at
Rogue River High school last
week, beginning a new testing
period.
Word was received by the
high school last week that it had
been accepted as a member of
the Northwest Association of
Secondary and Higher schools.
The association has more than
700. member schools in seven
states and is recognized as one
of the major accrediting agen
cies. 4-H Club News .
Applegate Club
Gwen Krouse was elected
president of the Applegate Sew
ing club when the group met
December 19 at the home of
their leader, Mrs. Krouse. Shir
ley Nielsen was elected vice
president; Sonja Smith, secre
tary; Mary Freemantle, song
leader, and Jean . Rowden, re
porter. -
The group made ' snow men
and Santa Claus pins from yarn.
Refreshments were served.
The next meeting will be held
at the home of Mary and Sally
Herriott, Jan. 9.
Jean Rowden.
Reporter, '
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HIT UT
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Robert L. Murphy
Appointed To ICC
Washington (U.R) Robert
L. Murphy, Georgia Democrat
and textile executive, Friday
succeeded former Chairman
Hugh W. Cross as a member of
the Interstate Commerce com
mission. Cross, a Republican, resigned
last month under fire.
President Eisenhower named
the 46-year-old Murphy to serve
out the remainder of Cross' term
which expires Dec. 31, 1957.
Cross, appointed to the FCC
by former President Truman, re
signed as chairman of the com
mission on Nov. 25 1 while the
Senate Investigating subcommit
tee was looking into a possible
conflict of interest. He left with
a blast at the "baseless" charges
against him.
Cross appeared before the
subcommittee in connection with
the award of a contract to a Chi
cago group to haul passengers
and baggage ' between railroad
stations in that city.
A native of Byronville, Ga.,
Murphy is traffic manager and
attorney - for the Georgia-Alabama
Textile Traffic Assn. of
Atlanta. He is a member of the
American Cotton Manufacturers
Inistitute.
Auto loans repaid in 1954 am
ounted to $12,500,000,000 a near
record. Outstanding loans last
January were $10,300,000,000.
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