Jury Hear Completion for Trial
In Blowing Up of United Airliner
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ham on charges that he blew up
an airliner in order to kill his
mother for insurance may be
completed today.
The widely publicized crime
o shocked the nation that court
observers thought it might take
weeks to select a jury acceptable
to both prosecution and defense.
But by late yesterday,' both
ides had agreed tentatively on
a panel ef 13 jurors eight men
and five women. But both sides
are allowed 15 peremptory chal
lenges, and each had 14 left af
ter yesterday.
Could Discharge All
Thus, without explanation or
argument, either side could dis
charge all 13 of the jurors ten
tatively selected.
Forty-four persons died last
Nov. 1 when a United Air Lines
DC6B exploded in the air near
Longmont, Colo., 11 minutes af
ter taking off from Denver, and
fell on frigid beet fields. The
shattered plane was painstaking
ly re-constructed, and experts
found clear evidence that a bomb
had been planted in a luggage
compartment.
The Federal Bureau of Invest
igation accused Graham, a 24-year-old
Denver restaurant op
erator and father of two, of the
crime. The FBI claimed he con
fessed that he fashioned a bomb
with a cheap kitchen timing de
vice and 25 sticks of dynamite.
and hid the bomb in his moth
er's luggage before she boarded
the doomed plane for Portland,
Ore.
The FBI said Graham wanted
to collect trip insurance on his
mother, and that she paid for
some of the policies he bought at
the airport while the bomb was
ticking away.
The trial began Monday. Six
hundred prospective jurors were
summoned to court.
Seventy-four of these had
been questioned and excused for
various reasons by adjournment
yesterday. One was an expectant
father. Another said he was a
fidgeter, and could not sit still
during long court sessions. One
man was challenged for cause by
the defense because he is a Unit
ed Air Lines mechanic.
Eleven persons were excused
yesterday because they do not
believe in the death penalty,
which the state will demand for
Graham.
U.S. Becomes Full
Member of Baghdad
Economic Committee
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Tehran, Iran (U.R) The
United States has become a full
member of the Baghdad Pact ec
onomic committee, it was an
nounced today.
This was a step short of full
American adherence to the Bagb
dad pact as asked by the mem
ber nations. But it indicated
clearly American backing for
the pact as a whole.
U. S. membership in the econ
omic committee was announced
by a spokesman for the Baghdad
Pact council, meeting here to
study economic aspects of the al
liance.
Refrains from Joining
The United States, one of the
prime movers of the "northern
tier" defense alliance, has re
frained from joining the pact
which links Britain, Turkey,-Ir
an, Iraq and Pakistan.
But the United States sent an
observer-delegation to the cur
rent meeting of the five-nation
economic committee. The dele
gation is headed by Loy Hender
son, deputy under-secretary of
state.
The pact members urged the
United States to become a full-
Delta Park Again
Rejected in Portland
Portland (U.R) Delta Park,
selected, rejected and then re
considered as a site for Port
land's $8,000,000 recreation cen
ter, has been rejected again.
A local firm of architects has
limited the site choice to three
locations South Auditorium,
Buckman Field and Broadway
Steel Bridge. The firm was hired
by the E-R commission which
said its recommendations would
be accepted.
The report discarded the Delta
Park, or Vanport, site along
with the Inverness Golf Course
and Oaks-East Bank sites. It said
Delta Park would continue to be
a potential flood area.
Originally, Delta Park was
picked for the site but later
turned down. The E-R commis
sion named the South Auditor
ium site but it, too, has been
challenged.
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time member of, the alliance
when they opened their meeting
here but Henderson pledged
only "full American support."
Already Supplies Aid
The United States already sup
plies much of the military and
economic aid for the pact mem
bers. The pact began as a defense
treaty between Iraq and Turkey,
signed in Baghdad on Feb. 24,
last year In November, the two
countries were joined by Brit
ain, Iran and Pakistan to form
the Baghdad pact itself. The
United States sent an observer to
the inaugural.
The pact nations stretch across
the southern borders of Russia,
and the Soviet has attacked it as
a threat to peace. The Arab non
members led by Egypt, Syria
and Saudi Arabia have denounc
ed it as a blow, to Arab unity.
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Musicians To Be
Requestioned
Los Angeles (U.R) A
committee of the House
American Activities committee
has ordered several Hollywood
musicians to be requestioned to
morrow about possible Commu
nist affiliations.
The investigators yesterday
temporarily recessed a week-long
hearing to fly to Washington to
vote on a proposal to override
President Eisenhower's veto of
the farm bill.
Rep. Morgan M. Moulder CD
Mo.) ordered all subpoenaed
witnesses to be on hand when
the session resumes tomorrow.
Many witnesses in the two pre
vious days of the hearing have
hidden behind the First and
Fifth amendments in refusing
to disclose any Communist ac
tivities in local music circles.
The congressmen yesterday
heard five hours of testimony
from a former Soviet spy, Nik
olai Khokhlov, 34. He described
how the Communist party tries
to control the minds of its citi
zens through the arts.
Committee counsel Frank S.
Tavenner said he had the Rus
sian appear to show how the
Communists use the arts to pro
mote their own interests. Testi
mony in the hearing so far has
revealed that 70 to 75 Holly
wood musicians were under Com
munist influence as late as 1949.
Lincoln Interested
In Weapons of War
New York (U.R) Abraham
Lincoln's curiosity and mechan
ical turn of mind made him
deeply interested in new and im
proved war weapons.
In the Civil war the North was
experimenting with rockets, and,
at a trial Of the Hyde rocket on
Nov. 15, 1862, Lincoln's life
could have been snuffed out.
The President drove to the
Navy Yard with Secretary of
State Seward and Secretary of
the Treasury Chase to see the
new weapon. Rear Adm. John
A. Dahlgren was with them.
Down by the river the eminent
visitors gathered around the
perforated-ironylinder launch
ing tube at which Lt. Cmdr.
Mitchell was setting up the test.
When the rocket was ready
the onlookers stepped a few
paces, prepared to see the new
weapon zoom up over the river
and burst, pocking the water's
surface with fragments.
Instead came a blast and a
puff of fire the rocket had ex
ploded in its stand.
Not a word of the incident ap
peared in any public print, pos
sibly due to censorship. The
story is brought to light in "Lin
coln and the Tools of War," a
new book by Robert V. Bruce
(Bcbbs-Merrill).
Dr. Bruce found mention of it
in a laconic official report and
an undated, unsigned memo in
advertently left between the
pages of a Navy Ordnance bu
reau manuscript volume entitled
"Examination of Inventions."
HIGH SCORER
Conncord, N. H. (U.R) New
Hampshire's 1956 "Queen of the
Fari's also reigned over a basket
ball court. Patty Buteau, 17, a
Lancaster High School senior,
scored 1,004 points in four years
on the girls' basketball team.
South .Dakota ranked among
the top 10 beef producing states
with over 2,500,00 million head
produced in 1955.
Two Central Oregon
Projects Vin Support
Washington (U.R) Two cen
tral Oregon reclamation projects,
the Crooked river and Wapinitia,
received support yesterday be
fore a Senate irrigation subcom
mittee. Residents of the Prineville,
Ore., area said the proposed $6
600,000 Crooked river project
was needed for irrigation pur
poses. Solons also were told the
Juniper division of the Wapinitia
project in Wasco county would
provide needed water for irriga
tion. The subcommittee also heard
a request for a measure to au
thorize a survey for possible
fencing of a government-owned
Scientists Probe
Chemical Blast
Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) Sci
entists today began an investi
gation into a chemical explo
sion that injured a student and
rocked the chemistry building at
the California Institute of Tech
nology. School officials said Marc Sil
ver, 22, student from New Ro
chelle, N.Y., was conducting a
"highly dangerous" experiment
yesterday when the explosion
Tipped through the third floor
of the building. The student
canal at Klamath Falls where
several persons have drowned.
Wednesday, April 18, 1998
MEDFORD fOREOOlf) MAIL TRIBTTKB S5TEX
miraculously escaped injury and
was treated at Huntington Me
morial Hospital for cuts on the
head, face, arms and hands.
Physicians removed a small
piece of glass lodged in one of
his eyes. Doctors" believed that
his eyesight may have been
saved by the fact that he was
wearing glasses when a flask
containing chemicals exploded.
Cal Tech is a center of highly
secret work in atomic and jet
propulsion research. The school,
however, reported that the blast
did not involve any materials
used in atomic research. Dam
age was limited to the experi
ment room, where windows
were shattered and bottles
broken.
Siskiyou Jail Escapee
Identified by Boots
Yreka Fred A. Smith, an es
capee from the Siskiyou county
jail since April 10 was identified
as the owner of a pair of cowboy
boots left yesterday in a Hunt
er's Gulch cabin.
Clothing, a shotgun, and food
were taken from the cabin own
ed by Lester E. Black, Yreka.
Smith is believed to have stol
en the clothing to prevent iden
tification, and is described as
wearing a gray hat, glasses,
laced boots, and carrying a pack
sack.
About 90 per cent of the
world rice crop comes from
Asia.
Inmate of Stockade
Lays Trail Too Well
Bartow. Fla (U.R) There"
one stockade inmate the Polk
county sheriff will never call
on again to help train his
bloodhounds.
Henry Thomas Lolt, 32,
serving 60 days in the county
stockade, was asked lo lay
trail for trainer Carl Andrews'
bloodhounds io follow. Lett
was told to lay the trail, then
climb a tree and wait for the
hounds to find him.
The prisoner did as he was
told, except for one thing. In
stead of climbing the tree, Lott
hitched a ride and headed for
parts unknown.
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