Man Found Innocent After 16 Years in Illinois Penitentiary
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Rock Island, 111. 'U P.; Roy
E. Easton. a man jailed almost
18 years for a crime he never
committed, hurried from Illi
nois today to build a new life
for himself.
Eaton, 52, had never given up
his battle to get out of Illinois'
Stateville Penitentiary. He won
the battle Wednesday in the
same Rock Island court where
he was given a one year to life
sentence for robbery on June 23,
1940.
State's Attorney Bernard J.
Moran, who became a leader in
the fight to free Eaton, asked
that the writ of error be granted
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HAPPY CONVERSATION is carried on by Supreme Court
Justice Tom C. Clark with son, William R. Clark, Dallas,
Tex., after latter was admitted to practice before court
during session in Washington. (International Soundphoto)
admitting the state of Illinois
was wrong.
Was Miles Away
Eaton was 1.700 miles from
Rock Island when the robbery
was committed, Moran said. And
one of the men who actually
pulled the robbery has con
fessed. The end came just as Eaton
wanted it. He could have won
freedom on a parole or even a
pardon as far back as 1954. But
he wanted an absolutely clean
record and he got it.
The mild, spectacle - wearing
ex - convict tearfully thanked
Moran and his own attorney,
Robert Gorman.
He left the courtroom a free
man and was on a train to Chi
cago within a few hours. From
there, Moran said, he wants to go
back to New Mexico, where he
has two married daughters.
Eaton was a mining company
watchman at Lordsburg, N. M.,
in 1940 when a freakish combi
nation of aliases, mistaken ident
ity, and pure confusion linked
him to the Rock Island robbery.
Eaton Using Aliases
Eaton was going under the
name of Carl Rogers. Police in
Rock Island, investigating the
1938 robbery of a soap salesman,
believed Carl Rogers was the
name of one of the two holdup
men.
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Washington Democratic Chairman Paul M. Butler on the
Wisconsin primary:
"The myth of Eisenhower's invincibility, which has been care
fully cultivated by the Republican press for three years, is now
being exposed by actual tests."
Washington Republican Chaiiman Leonard W. Hall on the
Wisconsin primary:
"It seems to be a fad with Democrats to claim a 'victory' every
lime they are clobbered at the polls."
New York Actress Grace Kelly on sailing for Monaco to
marry Prince Rainier:
"I hope I will be coming back to America very often. My
family is here. My friends are here. Naturally I have a very great
affection for my country but, like any girl, I am very excited.
This is a big step and I'm very happy."
Washington President Eisenhower on sending American
troops to war in the Middle East or elsewhere without con
gressional approval:
"Congress alone has power to declare war and I am going to
observe it."
Wanted circulars for "Carl
Rogers" went out all over the
country. A short time later,
Eaton was arrested on a drunk
enness charge in Phoenix, Ariz.
He was taken to Rock Island and
the holdup victim Identified him.
At his bench trial, Eaton had
only his claim of innocence for
a defense. It wasn't enough and
he went to Stateville. He prompt
ly set to work to get out again.
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Press Feature Writer
Washington OJ.R) City folks
look at a bunch of channels and
find no quarrel with TV.
The folks in
the woods buy
a set and find
themselves be-
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channel
ing the
Stuff
wash boards
bumping over
washboards, a
chan
One fight
other, like
Yukon blizzard, and something
that resembles rolling Venetian
blinds.
It's enough to make a man
mad enough to turn in his set
for a second hand lawn-mower.
A friend of mine, one S. D.
Wooten, an inventor man from
Memphis, thinks he has all of
this business solved.
He has dreamed up a gimmick
which will eliminate the jitters
in your set if you happen to live
in betwixt and between out
there u. the hills.
Secret Box
Wooten has invented a little
box, for which a patent has been
filed, which he says will clean
up the fuzz. The box has three
buttons but Wooten won't tell
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how they work. Things like that
are an inventor's secret.
A trial run was made on the
invention. Wooten says it work
ed fine.
"Take Memphis, where my
brother B c y t Wooten runs
WREC-AM-TV," he said. "It is
190 miles from Jackson, Miss."
Memphis has Channel 3, which
is CBS Jackson has Channel 3,
also, but it's NBC. In the coun
try between, a lot of the time
all the folks are getting is a
bunch of shutters, going up and
down between the two networks."
He said both networks are
getting fan mail.
Wooten, who flunked out in
engineering, is no stranger to
the patent office here. Already
he has- on the market many lit
tle gadgets.
One is something called "Mu-
sic-Kom," a wired-in, do-it-all
conglomeration of AM-FM com
munications for the home.
Very Handy
Wooten says it will answer the
back door, the front door and
even the side door, will warn
of fires and even baby sit. It
can also be used to corrmiuni-
cate between rooms or to pipe
music all over the house.
It can be rigged so, when ba
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And If mamma is taking a
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Thursday, April 5. 1956
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE NINE
Bill To Seek Equal Shipbuilding Work
San Francisc (U.R) Rep.
William S. Mailliard (R-Calif.)
plans to introduce a bill designed
to let the Federal Maritime
Board distribute shipbuilding
work more fairly between East
and West Coast shipyards.
Mailliard disclosed his pro
posed bill yesterday at the first
meeting of Mayor George Chris
topher's committee on shipbuild
ing. Since the end of the war, West
Coast yards have had a hard
time underbidding eastern ship
yards, which are closer to supply
sources.
Mailliard said his bill would
require the maritime board to
survey the nation's shipyards
every year to make sure of hav
ing enough in case of war.
The bill would empower the
maritime board to negotiate ship
contracts "at a fair and reason
able price" with idle yards.
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Largest Oakland
Hotel Changes Hands
Oakland, Calif. (U.P.) Oak
land's largest hotel, the Leaming
ton, was sold for $2,000,000 yes
terday to a group of investors
from Seattle, Canada and the
Bay Area.
The buyers, headed by Ray
Lemery of Seattle, immediately
announced plans for its expan
sion. Lemery declined to identi
fy others in the group, but said
the syndicate owns other proper
ties in the Bay Area and the Pa
cific Northwest, including the
New Washington Hotel in Seat
tle. Lemery said his group plans
to spend more than $1,000,000 ac
quiring additional land and add
ing about 200 rooms to the hotel,
which already has 275 rooms.
The hotel was sold by Penin
sula realtor William Greenbach,
who bought the 20-year-old struc
ture for 51,250,000 in 1947. Its
original cost was $1,500,000.
Reuther Points To
Power Overemphasis
New Delhi, India (U.R)
Labor leader Walter Reuther
said today U. S. "overemphasis
on military power in Asia has
tended to trade reliable demo
cratic friends for doubtful mil
itary allies."
Reuther told the Council on
World Affairs he believes the
American people support India's
aspiration to annex Portuguese
Goa, even if the U.S. govern
ment is inclined to side with its
ally Portugal.
He said also that "racial dis
crimination and bigotry" con
tinue to exist in the United
States despite the American Rev
olution's "noble promise of
equality and justice for all."
Not all of Reuther's criticism
was reserved for the United
States, however. The CIO leader,
who once worked in a Soviet
automobile factory and traveled
extensively in Russia, said the
Russians under Communism have
"won more bread but not more
freedom."
Offer Made lo Buy
C&CO Railroad at GP
Grants Pass (U.R) An offer to
buy the California and Oregon
Coast railroad for $35,000 was
made here yesterday as op
ponents of the city's proposal to
abandon the line presented their
case before an Interstate Com
merce Commission investigator.
The city seeks to abandon the
line which has not run for nearly
a year and a half, claiming that
the line loses money and the
roadbed is needed for highway
construction.
Yesterday's hearings heard ar
guments by shippers who con
tend that a rail line is needed.
The S35,000 offer made by ship
pers, who used the line before it
was closed, is equal to the
amount the city says it can get
by salvaging the steel involved.
Both sides were given until
May 14 to file briefs.
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