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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. March 26, 1938 Deaf Mufe Holies! Witness in Death Of Chicago Boys Chicago U.P.) An illiter ate deaf mute was the hottest witness in the marathon man hunt for the killers of three young schoolboys today. The deaf mute, 52-year-old Herman Rohlfes, told of seeing two men fighting 10 feet from the forest preserve ditch where the -boys' naked, mutilated bodies were discovered a few hours later. He also told interpreters that he saw the murdered boys in the ditch when daylight broke over Robinson Woods on Chi cage's outskirts! Slept With Brother Rohlfes had slept with his brother, Edward, in a truck parked at the wood the night before the murdered boys were found last Oct. 18. Through sign language, he told of awakening during the night and seeing the fight. A man was striking someone else on the head and arms with a stick, he said. Then, he said, a man carry ing what looked like a knife came up to the truck, looked in, and then went away. Rohlfes' brother has been questioned repeatedly by police and told a different story. He said he did not see the bodies when he. awoke and did not see them when he returned to the spot later in the morning. The bodies of Robert Peter son, 13, John Schuessler, 13, and his brother, Anton, 11, were found at about noon by a pass ing motorist. The boys had been missing since they left their northwest side homes two days earlier to see a movie. Two experts in sign language who questioned Rohlfes over the weekend said they do not be lieve the deaf mute is making Ho his story. COMPLAINT OVERRULED Detroit (U.R) William Brown complained about mix ing hillbilly music and chop suey at the Ho Toy Chinese res taurant. Several men at the next table objected to his complaint and Brown ended up in a hos pital. The restaurant reported $250 damage. Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) Pasadena's two daily newspap ers, the Pasadena Star- News, and Pasadena Independent, have been sold to Ridder Pub lications, Inc. 4 A I pr&x ju Sup i STANDING OUTSIDE COURTHOUSE, Rev. Martm L.utner King and wife (left) discuss issues of his trial on charges of boycouing Montgomery, Ala., bus line. Negroes are refusing to patronize utility because they say seats are reserved for whites while Negroes are obliged, to stand. (International) High School News Notes By NELLIE RAWLINGS The spotlight shone on the junior class last week, as the nominations for the 1956-57 As sociated S t u dent Body of- Nellie Rawlings fices were an nounced: Pres ident, i n, Mike Stearns, Bruce West, Jay Mul len; Vice Pres ident, Dick Copple, Dick Swinney, Diana Getchell, Steve Wisely; Secretary, Jane Barker, Sue Donna Doolen, Sue Gray, Pat Leek; Treasurer, Dot Brick- American Mothers Should Raise Children By Instincts, British Authority Says By ROBERT. MUSEL United Press Correspondent London (U.R) Sir Basil Henriques believes American mother? should trust their own natural instincts in the rearing of children and pay less atten tion to books filled with "un digested psychology." "And maybe," he said, "they will begin to control the simply frightening juvenile delinquen cy problem in the United States." A largo and amiable man, Sir Basil is one of Britain's leading authorities on the subject. He has just returned from a tour that took him as far sourth as Miami, west to Salt Lake City and north into New England. "I saw juvenile delinquency much worse than anything I have ever seen in Britain," he said. "It is a staggering prob lem but 1 do not think it hope less and I reject the. excuses one hears for this state of affairs 'well, we have many races, you know' and so on." Figures Falling Sir Basil pointed out that ju venile delinquency figures have been falling steadily here and are almost back to prewar. "We still have many serious cases of course,-" he said, "but nothing like what I saw. in the United States. Gangs of boys 12 and 13 using knives and guns, stabbing and shooting." What's wrong with American kids? "Partly this belief of their mothers that they must not re press their children," he said. "They get their own way much more than is good for them There must be a framework of discipline and children must learn they cannot trespass it with impunity either at home or in school." Adult Treatment Sir Basil also is opposed to juvenile police bureaus. Over here any child over the age of seven or eight who commits an indictable offense comes before the court, the same as an adult. He learns that he is old enough to be held respon sible for his actions. He learns, more importantly, that he can not evade things." One of the new villains of the American situation is tele vision, according to Sir Basil. WOFTNsWoWSi STEVENS The Night Shift News of the closing of the big timber mill at Westport on the Columbia, in favor of modem small -log operations, brought back many memories. I worked night shift there for close on to two years, 1920-1921. It was tough work on the green chain but I had a weak head and a Swede back. Usually I had plen ty of energy left, after the 3 a.m. "dinner" to sit around with the nightPshifters who stayed at the Westport hotel. Tall tales or bughouse argu ments would soon start wheel ing. I remember one that ran as a serial through a number of sessions in the hotel lobby after a night shift. "You take a drive wheel of a locomotive traveling 30 miles an hour," Bill Schwartz said, at the start of the debate. "Now lo6k does the top of the wheel go faster than the bottom of the wheel? Or don't it?" The argument got to a point at which men were rolling snoose boxes across the calk-pit- pH lohbv floor and staring at them like crazy trying to decide which really did go the faster, the top or the bottom of that imaeinarv locomotive drive wheel. Bill Schwartz, by trade an edaerman. had sawmilled in Alaska for vears. A most sol- emn-sDoken man, sad-eyed, tall. raw-boned, sort of Lincoln-look- rring, he had a fine stock of stor ies about his experience. Once, he said, he'd owned an Alaskan salmon mine. Another tale was of a long adventure on Iceworm glacier, where he'd had to fight Qf or his ife with an ice worm ; foot thick and seven feet long. Bill said, "That worm was so white I couldn't see the monster there on the glare of ice until it had leeched some of my blood. Don't Be Fat! The Ay ds Plan guar- antees mat uu wu sSjp l!v lose pounds with m T fir- l-r (2.98) or money back. Taken before meals as directed, A yds curbs your appetite. 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"Well, when I come up and the smoke had cleared away, found that the shot had killed all the quail, the busted bits of one barrel had flown upstream and slew a pair of Chiny pheas ants, the other barrel had bust ed downstream and killed a grouse, one hammer had conked a coyote between the eyes, the other had caved in the nigh ribs of a badger, while in my jump I'd tromped a rattlesnake to his doom, and the stock had torn off my huntin' coat and flung it over the head of a cougar that'd been on my track and dad- gummed if it didn't smother him to death! Just luck! I don't claim it was anything but plain, bull- headed luck . . ." Another long-drawn story of Coot Hill's was on his settling a dispute over wages with the North Bank railroad. Coot locat ed a lawyer, he said, who was shrewd and sharp enough to se cure an attachment on the rail road's entire supply of rolling stock. "Yep, I closed down the whole railroad solid for a full day," he said. "Not a solitary wheel moved on the North'Bank for a dozen hours." . One of Coot Hill's more mod est stories was a simple little brief on how he had moved steam - powered wheel tractor, ten tons in weight, three miles just by his own muscle. The trouble was a blown boiler tube, Coot had moved the cold ma chine just by turning the fly wheel around and around with his own brawny arms, for three rough miles. Golden nights at Westport alas, they are no more! He said there was too much of it, that it kept children from reading and studying and set the impressionable ones many bad examples in crime programs. Gov. Smith Tries New Cessna Plane Portland (U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith yesterday tried out the new Cessna 182 at the Portland Troutdale airport. The plane is a late model of the type owned by Gov. Smith. At the same time the govern or cleared up any question that has arisen from a remark he made when he became governor upon the sudden death of Gov. Paul Patterson. At that time Smith said that he would probably sell his own plane. Yesterday he- said, "I didn't mean to give private fly ing a black eye by saying I would let go of my plane. The real reason is that in this job won't have much time to fly, and there's no ploint in keeping a plane if you're not- going to fly, he explained. Gov. Smith is the first Ore gon governor to be a licensed pilot. Young Demos Deny Riff With Seniors Portland (U.R) State lead ers of the Young Democrats or ganization have denied reports tnat their is a rift between their group and the senior Democrats of the state. Vernon Cook, president of the Young Democrats, said that such reports were untrue and with out foundation. Cook pointed out that the scheduled appearance of Sen, Estes Kefauver at the Young Democratic state convention next month "does not consti tute an endorsement of Ke- fauver's candidacy by Young Democrats. ! He said that a similar invita tion to speak also went to Adlai Stevenson but Stevenson found it necessary to decline due to previous commitments. too the McKay Returns to Nation's Capital Salem (II R) Interior Sec retary Douglas McKay left here to return to Washington, D.C., yesterday after spending three days laying groundwork for his campaign to capture the U. S. senatorial post now held by Democrat Wayne Morse. McKay conferred with his campaign manager, William L. Phillips, and other Republican leaders while in Oregon. Before departing the Secre tary indicated that his resigna tion from the cabinet post might come earlier than April 15. One of his chief rivals for the Republican nomination, Philip Hitchcock, already has started an extensive campaign of the state in a bid for votes in the May 18 primary. State GOP Committee Approves Recall Plan Portland (U.R) A proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recall of state cen tral committee members was approved here Saturday at an executive meeting of the Re publican State Central commit tee. Chairman Wendell Wyatt said the proposed amendment had "no particular objective" - but was intended to provide mach inery which might sometime be considered necessary. Wyatt urged members of the committee to "avoid undue par- tisansmp in primary cam paigns." His remarks were in terpreted ta be made with ref erence to the U. S. senatorial nomination now sought by In terior Secretary Douglas McKay and ex-state senator Philip Hitchcock. ley, Larry Perkins, Marge La- Fever, Marlene Barclay; Busi ness Manager, JNeii Plumley, Pete Kershaw, Jim Gordon, Meredith Huggins; Yell King, Charles Acker, Les Lingscheit, Bruce Thompson, Earl Knight: Yell Queen, Sally Ross, Pat Rec tor, Dee Cuthbertson, Denise Bruning. An award assembly was held in the gym Wednesday, and let ters were presented to the var sity and jayvee basketball play ers, and to the members of the wrestling team. The new trophy, won in Eu gene, was presented to the school by Bob Tisdel, team captain, and was accepted, on behalf of the student body, by Bruce Kelling- ton, A.S.B. president. A group of students serving on parliamentary procedure teams made the rounds of the sophomore homerooms on Tues day, and gave demonstrations on the order of procedure for a correctly conducted meeting. The teams were made up of Mike Hawkins, Ramona Baugh, Joanne Hult, Jim Martolin, Dale Mathews, Tom Boyd, Ed Rein- king, Clark Mears, Bob Taylor, Lanny Taylor, . Ron Warner, Dave Drummond, Wayne Zim- mers, Jim Hill, Ruth Hunter, Bruce Thompson, Les Lingscheit, David Eaton, Martha Campbell, Rosiland Wade, Jim Coleman, Cecile Carlton, Bob Tisdel, Helen DeCarlow, Bud Geren, Pete Kershaw, Michael Moore, Earl Knight, Johnny Foust, Larry Perkins, Connie Haynes, Mike Walker, and Bob Gould - The basketball team attended Rotarian luncheon Tuesday, with the following varsity players at tending: Bob Tisdel, Lloyd Cear- ley, John Foust, . Larry Gober, Ed Reinking, Dick Copple, Dick McLaughlin, Larry Perkins, Neil Plumley, Mike Stearns, Larry Slessler, Ken Kumasawa, and Ron Warner. Once again, students trouped into Miss Whisenant's room for a session of "remedial" this time, remedial math. Each stu dent feels glad that there is re medial only for the two basic classes, math and English. The YMCA' sport dance was held at the "Y" Friday night The proceeds went toward the trampoline drive. A material similar to coarse wool has been developed in parts of India from a base of the jute fiber. Write-in Campaign Set for Stevenson Salem, Ore. (U.R) A state wide write-in campaign for Adlai Stevenson in the May 18 Oregon primary was announced Saturday by Mrs. Marguerite Berg of Salem, co-chairman of the Stevenson for President Committee. Stevenson supporters 'said they hoped the campaign would help recoup the losses" suffered by their candidate in Minnesota this week. Announcement of the cam paign followed closely a Port land visit by Sen. Estes Kefauver who gave his blessing to a write in campaign. "Inasmuch as Kefauver has authorized his Oregon committee for a write-in campaign, we are obliged to make every effort on behalf of Mr. Stevenson," Mrs. Berg said. Oregon delegates to national political nominating conventions are bound to support successful primary election write-in candidates. long John Silver' Of Movie Film Dies Hollywood (U.R) Robert Newton, English stage and screen star who wan fame for his role of Long John Silver in the film "Treasure Island," died of a heart attack at his home yesterday. He was 50. Newton began his theatrical career as a scene painter and stage hand in the Birmingham Repertory theater in ' England, He came to the United States in 1948 aftei achieving major stage and film stardom in England, His wife, Vera, said her actor husband suddenly collapsed while they were in the living room of their Benedict Canyon home. NOISY FIRECRACKER Chicago (U.R) Safecrack ers scared theinselves away when they tried to blast their way into a currency exchange with a giant firecracker. The firecracker, containing black powder, made so much noise it aroused the whole ' neighbor hood. When police arrived, the yeggs were gone. Sweetland Enters Row Over Approach Tracks . Milwaukie, Ore. (U.R) State Sen. Monroe Sweetland said today he had asked Attorn ey General Robert Y. Thornton to investigate possibility of an injunction to prevent elimina tion of interurban tracks from new approaches to Portland's Hawthorne bridge. Sweetland contends elimina- ation of tracks would damage service to Oregon City and Bell- rose and would place the Port land Traction company in a po sition to again demand that the service be abandoned. He said he had written Thornton asking that the problem be investigated and a legal opinion given. Grange Shady Cove Grange A potluck dinner at 6:30 pjn, will precede the Shady Cove Grange social meeting Wednes day, March 28. Ladies are asked to bring a main dish and a salad or desert, and their own table service. Visiting Grangers are invited Use Tribune Want Ads Backstairs: Dual Role of President By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Writer White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. U.R) Backstairs at the traveling White House: President Eisenhower's visit here with the President of Mex ico and Canada's Prime Minis ter, plus his own statement, raise a question of whether he is likely to make a foreign trip between now and the election. The President has said he would like to visit other parts of the world. There are two schools of thought on a pre-election trip. One believes a major journey outside the country would hurt the President with the voters. The other holds to the theory that a presidential inspection of American installations overseas might dramatize the Chief Ex ecutive's dual role as commander-in-chief of the armed forces and the civilian government. The late president Franklin D. Roosevelt made such a trip in 1944. He accepted his nomination by the Democratic convention in Chicago via radio without even telling the delegates where . he was. Actually he spoke from San Diego, Calif., just before continuing to Hawaii for a meet ing with Gen. Douglas MacAr thur and Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. The Republicans bitterly complained that FDR was dram atizing his role for political pur poses and that his presence in the Pacific was not" necessary. The mere suggestion of a po litical implication in his trip prompted Mr. Roosevelt to a burst of press conference fury, If Mr. Eisenhower wants to curtail actual campaign travel this fall to preserve his health and the dignity of the office, there seems little likelihood of his leaving the country before the election. There was a recent report in Washington that the President might visit India before the year was out. Some of his advisers were distinctly puzzled. In some of his more recent con versations, the President pri vately has rejected the idea of long trips at this time. But Mr. Eisenhower does look with increasing favor on meeting his foreign contempor aries in such relatively quiet places as the Greenbrier hotel here. Mr. Eisenhower feels that too many times unecessary formal ity and ceremonies in Washing ton really interefere with the visit of foreign dignitaries. The visit of the Mexican and Canadian chiefs of state did one thing for White House travel. It put the presidential special train back on the rails again. Mr. Eisenhower almost never uses railroad transportation. But the flying weather here is so changeable at this time of the year that the trip was mada by train. The President doesn't have anything against rail travel. But he learned about the speed of air travel as an army general and carried this preference with him when he went into the White House. PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATED Is your picture tuba dull ana weak? Most picture tubes can be restored to original brightness at only a fraction of the cost of replacement. For further information CALL . Electronic Service 18 N. GRAPE PH. 3-197) Pasfesf service fo SAN FRANCISCO wh s. 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