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.
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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.
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Tiitii a quarter or more of my
blood showed in the transparent
critter, so I was able to make
him out, and to aim and shoot."
A sagebrusher from eastern
Washington had just gone to
work on the night shift, and he
had joined in the hotel lobby
gathering just in time-, to hear
the hunting story.
"I don't claim to be much Of
a hunter," he drawled, "but just
to interduce myself name is
Coot Hill I'll say Mr. Schwartz
has reminded me how I was
down once on the Umatilla
river bottom and I sighted some
quail." I lost my wits and let go
with both barrels at once. Well,
sirs, they both blowed into flind
ers, even the stock. I jumped
and fell back quick enough to
save my face but hit so hard it
dazed me.
"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
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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
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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.
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Caribbean Social club imposed
a new rule on its members to
day which forbids carrying of
bottles, drugs, firearms, knives
or razors. An official of the West
Indian Negro club explained:
"The rule is an admission that
West Indians do carry these
things. But we are trying to do
what London people do behave
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