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WEATHER FORECAST: Moitly cloudy and ahowry today and Monday, ponlblUty of thunderstorms 1 this afternoon. Temp. Highest Testerday SS Lowest yesterday Morning 44 A rtory about aa Appltfate woman known ai the "Cat flrl" appear! on PI 14 M today's Mall Tribune. Unitad Pn Unltad Prass Full Laased Wlr 51st Year 32 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 6, 1956 Price 5c No. 39 Mum Ita Recommended MedfordTribune ki Full uascd Wira With Mmim of tmh i . YOUTH HUE. ID Grants Pass Girl Victim of Attack By Galice Cousin Murder Charges To Be Filed Monday, DA Says Grants Pass (U.R) District Attorney Max McMillin said Saturday a first degree murder charge would be filed against 17-year-old Lloyd Eugene Wahl In the rape-slaying of his six-yera-old cousin. State Police Sgt. C. R. Borg man said the Galice, Ore., youth had admitted striking his cousin, Cathie Lou Wahl, with his fists, raping her and putting her body in a stall of an abandoned barn Friday night about a mile from her home, six miles north of here. A search party of the girl's father, state police, sheriff's dep uties and neighbors found the boy hiding in the barn and later found the girl's body in a man ger. The search started after the girl's five-year-old brother, Mike, told his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Wahl, that Lloyd had taken his sister away on his bicycle about 7 p.m. Borgman said Lloyd told him the girl started to cry and he hit her with his fists, knocking her unconscious. When she came to, she started to cry again and he hit her again. The boy said he took her to a creek to wash the blood off her face and it was there he raped her. He said he didn't know whether she was dead at the time. "The boy was being held in Josephine county jail and Mc Millin said he would be ar raigned in justice court early this week. - An autopsy was performed on the girl's body yesterday but no findings were immediately released. John Graham Found Guilty of Murder Denver (U.R) John Gilbert Graham was condemned . to death Friday night by jury which found him guilty of time bombing a commercial airliner so he could collect his mothers insurance. Fortv-four persons, including his mother, Mrs. Daisie E. King, .14 werp killed in the crash. It occurred last Nov. 1, a few min utes after the United Air Lines DC6B took off from Denver and less than an houh after Graham took out $37,500 insurance on his mother's life at an airport vending machine. The 24-year-old Graham, pic tured by the prosecution during his trial as a "greedy, grasping" killer, made no outward show of emotion as the jury returned its verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Its failure to make any recommendation made death in the gas chamber mandatory. ' Highway Construction Approval Almost Sure Washington U.R) Con struction of 42,500 miles of sup erhighways at a cost of $27.5 billion appeared certain Satur day of getting congressional ap proval. The big network of interstate highways is the key feature of a 13-vear. $51.5 billion federal and state program recently ap proved by the House. The Senate Public Works com mittee vesterday voted 11 to 2 for a five-year $36.8 billion hiehwav building program also including the $27.5 billion inter state system. Sports Bulletins Vancouver. B. C. (U.R) The Los Angeles Angeli look the night gams 7 lo 6 and a clean sweep of the aerin against the Vancouver Moun lies last night in a Pacifie Coast League gama. Portland 'U.R) Seattla came from behind to score five runs in the fifth inning here last night and even its Pacific Coast League series with Portland in scoring a 7-S win. Reeder, Rode Level Attack Against DA District Attorney Walter Nunley, seeking reelection on the Republican ticket, was the target of vigorous and repeated attacks from his two opponents at the Meet Your Candidates pro gram sponsored Friday night by the League of Women Voters at Hedrick Junior High school. Thomas J. Reeder, Democrat, and George W. Rode, Republi can, both seeking the district at torney position, alternately threw at Nunley such charges as general incompetence, inability to retain key personnel, suppres sion of information and causing unnecessary expense to taxpay ers. Berate Court Record They berated his court record, challenged his knowledge in preparing indictments, censured him for engaging outside assist ance and repeatedly asked ques tions concerning identity and findings of a private investiga tor. Nunley strongly defended his record, replying to the points brought up by his : opponents when given the opportunity. He gave local personnel shortage as his main reason for hiring out side help, listed low salary as a major factor in personnel turn over, and explained background circumstances in several of his court cases. He also stated that the district attorney's office here is operat ing on a smaller budget than in soma other areas, yet . has been turning out f ar more work-in-creased "expenditures, he said, have permitted the office to give greater service to Jackson coun ty., ..- -; . Most of the written questions submitted by the audience jiear the end of the program were di rected at district attorney candi dates. Several of these questions were typed on office file cards. Substantial Disagreement There was also substantial dis agreement between Robert A. Boyer, Democratic candidate for state representative, and E; H. Mann. Republican incumbent representative seeking , reelec tion.. Boyer denounced 1955 le gislation requiring voters to sign their names twice m poll boons "The only reason this is required is to make it more difficult to vote," Boyer declared. Mann, chairman ' of the 1955 house elections and privileges committee, denied Boyers' state ment. "It is not a case of signing one book twice," he said, "but of signing two books." He explain ed the double signature plan was designed primarily for the pur pose of maintaining more than one record. "In case an attempt is made to destroy one record, another would be retained," he said. Mann then mentioned the time in the 1930s when an at tempt was made in Jackson county to destroy voter records. Most of the other candidates limited their four-minute talks to a listing of their qualifications, and a solicitation of votes. How ever, Melvin J. Lattie, candidate for the Republican nomination for county commissioner, alleg ed that $100,000 had been "wast ed" in the construction of the courthouse annex, and declared that the creation of sinking funds in the county has imposed undue taxes on the residents. Speaks for Morthland Medford Attorney Stan Jones, speaking on behalf of L. G Morthland. Republican county commissioner and a candidate for reelection, who could not at tend, stated that, to the contrary, the county had gotten more than its money's worth in the annex, and that "this is the first time I've heard office-holders criticiz ed for creating savings funds Other candidates addressing the large crowd Friday night were, for state representative, Robert B. Duncan, Democrat, and E. A. Littrell, Republican; coun ty school superintendent, Alf B Mekvold, non-partisan, incumb ent; county assessor, Ray J, Schumacher and Andrew Haw- ver, Democrats, and Allen D Curry and John H. Tizekker, Republicans; county commission er, Ralph A. James, Democrat: county treasurer, Anna R. Scott. Republican, and Karl " Janouch. Democrat, incumbent; justice of the peace, Ashland district, L, IN SLAYING Peers Wilmeth, non-partisan; and delegates to the Republican national convention, 4th congres sional district, Kathleen N. Bash, Robert R. Dickey and Rodney Keating. Candidates Not Present Candidates not present for the program included Rawles Moore, non-partisanr incumbent district judge; Paul B. Rynning, Repub lican, incumbent county survey or; Ida B. George, non-partisan, justice of the peace, Ashland dis trict; Nelle W. Burns, non-partisan incumbent justice of the peace, Ashland district; and Ro bert A. Elliott and William M. McAllister, delegates to the Re publican national convention, st j at large. Speaking in behalf of the ab sent candidates were Sen. Phil Lowry for Rawles Moore; Stan Jones, city councilman, for L. G. Morthland; and Rodney Keating, county judge, for William McAl lister. Mrs. I. S. Thomas, voters ser vice chairman for the League of Women Voters, was in charge of the program and James Dunlevy, manager of radio station KYJC, was master of ceremonies. A clarinet quartet and woodwind quintet from. Medford High school performed at the opening of the program under the direc tion of I. A. Mirick, instrumen tal music supervisor for Medford schools. During the evening a telegram was read from Gov. Elmo Smith, who was unable to accept the league's invitation to attend , the program. - . Disarmament Talks End in Deadlock London , (U.R) U. S. Dis armament Chief Harold E. Stas sen said today the East and West were roughly half-way along the road to agreement on dis armament. But Stassen, preparing to leave for home after five weeks of un successful five-power disarma ment talks, warned'that the last half of the road will be the hard est. Stassen said both Russia and the West realize that pressure is building to solve some or all of the disarmament problems with in the next year. Both sides remained deadlock ed after the London talks which ended Friday on the issues of in spection programs. The Russians have refused to accept complete ly President Eisenhower's "Open Sky" aerial inspection program NATO Confab Sets Up 'Brain Trust' Paris (U.R) The 15-nation NATO conference agreed Satur day to set up a three-man "Brain Trust" to map a Western 10-year plan aimed at modernizing and etxending the scope of the Atlan tic Alliance to meet changing Soviet tactics. British Foreign Secretary Sel- wyn Lloyd suggested the three- man planning group should com prise Canadian External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson of Canada, Gaetano Martin of Italy and Halvard Lange of Norway Scouf Troop To Start in Circulation Totem of One-Eyed Eagle Boy Scout Troop 41, Griffin Creek, will travel to Dunsmuir, Calif., Wednesday, May 9, to start in circulation again the Totem of the One-eye Eagle of the Crater Lake Area council. The Totem has been in Duns muir for about two years, ac cording to Donald Bryan, Troop 41 scoutmaster, who located the trophy after three months' search. Bryan said the troop decided to get the Eagle back in circulation. . Members will pre sent a skit for ' the Dunsmuir troop Wednesday to get the Totem. Bryan said between 20 and 25 scouts and scout leaders have indicated they will make the Court Martial Is Set for Instructor At Parris Island Sergeant Led Six to Deaths In Training Washington U.R) Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon, Marine Corps drill instructor who led six of his men to death during a night training march, will face a general court martial trial for involuntary manslaugh ter later this month. Secretary of the Navy Charles S. Thomas Saturday set the trial date for May 14 or as soon thereafter as practicable. A Marine spokesman at Parris Island, S.C., where the trial will be held, said the date will be put back because the 68 surviv ing members of the death march will be on 10 days boot leave at that time. They return May 20. Many of the recruits are ex pected to' recount the night of April 8 when McKeon led Training Platoon 71 into coastal swamps on an unauthorized dis ciplinary march. Recruits Drown Six of the recruits drowned in Ribbon Creek into which Mc Keon led them with the warn ing, the Marine Corps said, that "those who cannot swim will drown and those who can will be eaten by sharks." A Marine court of inquiry charged, in findings made pub lic Tuesday, that the assistant drill instructor was "under the influence" of vodka' when he took the platoon on the unauth orized disciplinary march. In addition to manslaughter,. McKeon is charged with cruelty to recruits, drinking in his bar racks, and drinking while on duty and in the presence of a recruit. If convicted on all the charg es and specifications, he could receive up to 10 years in prison. McKay Says Savings Proves Qualifications Tillamook (U.R) Douglas McKay says savings made in the operation of the Interior depart ment when he was secretary proved his qualifications for the office of U. S. senator. The former Interior secretary, carrying his campaign to the Oregon coast, noted that under the Eisenhower administration, the largest tax cut in history was enacted. He said that of its $7,400,000,000 in benefits nearly two out of every three dollars "went directly to individuals. McKav. speaking at a lunch eon sponsored by the McKay for Senator committee here Friday, said that under the Eisenhower administration govern ment spending has been cut by $10,- 000.000,000. "Inflation has Deen halted and the dollar stabilized, he said. . Young Republicans to Have Candidates Night The Jackson County Young Republican club will sponsor a "Republican Candidates Night" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, at the Medford ,YMCA. - Among candidates present will be Phil Hitchcock, candidate for U. S. senator. Candidates for county and state offices also will be present to present views and answer questions. ; 41 Will Travel 200-mile round trip. And Squad ron 14, sponsored by the Ameri can Legion post, has already served notice that once the To tem is back in circulation, the squadron will keep it in circula tion. The One-eyed Eagle is a tro phy originally presented - to Troop 7 by the Medford post of the American Legion and was released Feb. 14, 1939. It cir culates only in the Crater Lake Area council. Purpose of the Totem is four fold. It was originated to pro mote stronger friendship be tween troops, scouts and scout ers; greater cooperation between scouts and scouters; creation oi fe4isf ;f ' " -. 1, 1 if i Wot f 1 H I " HELD FOR MURDER Billy Junior Nunn, 28, Klamath Falls millworker, arrived in Jackson county Friday night to face charges of first degree murder. The suspect was escorted here by State Police Sgt. Tom Eaton, Medford (left) and Chief Deputy Sheriff Joe Walsh, Jackson En iwetbk Tests May Result In New Uses of Hvdroaeri Weapons Aboard the USS Mt. McKin- ley at Eniwetok (U.R) A high task force official indicated Saturday that new hydrogen weapons will emerge from tests underway at this Pacific proving ground. Dr. William E. Ogle oi tne Atomic Energy commission said the 1954 H-bomb tests proved the feasibility of some big weapon principles and "opened the way for further develop ment" in the H-bomb field. Theoretical scientists have ex plored . new , possibilities as far as they can in the laboratory, Ogle said, and now their find ings "must be checked by actual detonation of devices." , Workmen Repairing Burned SP Trestle Ogdens U.R) Three-hun dred workmen were busy Sat urday on Southern Pacific's wooden-trestle Lucin cutoff to repair damage caused by a fire which knocked out 645 feet of rails Friday. A spokesman for the company said men from SP and Morrison Knudsen Construction Co. were working in two 12-hour shifts of 150 men each. The fire was reported early Friday. It occurred in the cen ter of the 12-mile long 50-year- old trestle which spans the northern end of the bfirty great Salt Lake. Cause of the blaze was blamed on an overheated rail car axel or "hotbox" shunt ed off to a siding and left there Thursday night. to Dunsmuir Wednesday more active interest in scouting; and the exchange of progressive ideas between troops. To obtain the Totem, the troop seeking possession must provide some form of a 10 to 20 minute demonstration for the " host troop. Demonstrations may in clude scoutcraft, a scout pro gram, musical numbers and various other scout stunts and entertainment. Each troop receiving the To tem carves its numeral, in relief, in a square provided. Numeral registration is done each time the troop receives the Eagle. However, one troop can not take from the same troop more than once during the year, nor from Ogle, acting deputy command er of the test task force for scientific matters, "said the cur rent tests have a dual purpose. One is to speed H-bomb de velopment. The .other is to test small atomic warheads for de fense against enemy H-bombers. Tests alsp will . increase . the knowledge of nuclear blast, heat, radiation, and fallout, he said. - Kefauver Plans Medford Visit Sen. Estes Kefauver, one of the two leading Democratic can didates for the presidential nom ination, will visit Medford, and Ashland on Tuesday, May 15, it was announced Saturday. ' His principal opponent ih the race, Ex-Gov. Adlai Stevenson, was here last week. The Tennessee senator is scheduled to arrive at the Med ford airport at 9:45 a.m. that day, and will be met by a cara van of cars of his supporters, and taken to Ashland for a talk at the Plaza at 10 a.m. ' By 10:30 a.m., he is scheduled to be back in Medford for a talk from the courthouse steps, and is to be in Grants Pass for a luncheon engagement : at 11:45 a jn. before leaving for Coos Bay. Clyde Fichtner and Russell DeForest are cochairmen of the committee of supporters making arrangements for his visit. Miss Kay, Carrara is heading a group of Young Democrats who are assisting. the troop to which the Totem is surrendered. James K. Hoey, Medford pro fessional engineer, originated the Eagle in 1939. He was a member of a committee of Troop 7 which included Cole Holmes, chairman. Harry Olsen, H. J. Meiring, and Roy Elliott.. Robert R. Ebel was commander of Am erican Legion Post 15, sponsors of Troon 7. at the time. The trophy was taken to the regional. scout executive confer ence in Glacier National park at the Many Glacier's hotel in 194B. and its was taken to the national iamboree at Valley Force in 1950, and the Santa Ana jamboree in 1953. county (right). Inset shows Curtis Vernon, Al ' turas policeman, who made the arrest. Nunn confessed the murder Thursday night. Prelim ' inary hearing will be held here at 10:30 a.m. Monday. (Klamath . Falls Herald and News photO). A perfected H-bomb is sched uled to be dropped from a B-52 jet bomber. Tuesday (Monday, U. S. time), weather permitting. It was' made possible by the giant tests of 1954. Unofficial , news and civil defense observers will witness it from a ship 32 miles away. It will be exploded at least 10,000 feet over Namu island of the Bikini atol. the Bikini atoll, alent of 5.000,000 to 10,000,000 tons of TNT in contrast with the test opener's 5,000 to 10,000. The range between the high and low power shots was plan ned Weather must be just right because of the danger from fallout. . Riots Start After Candidate's Death Seoul, Korea 0J.R) The death of President Syngman Rhee's major political opponent Saturday touched off riotous at tempts by mobs to storm the presidential mansion. Police and army troops fired into rioters and drove them away from the President's home. Seoul newspapers said five Koreans were wounded when police and troops opened fire with automatic weapons on the rock-hurling rioters. One uncon firmed report' said one Korean was killed. But police denied anyone was hurt in the biggest anti-Rhee demonstrations since the Korean war. Thirty persons were reported arrested. P. H. Shinicky, leader of the opposition Democratic party and Rhee's major foe in the May la Presidential elections, died Sat urday morning of a heart attack while on a "campaign tour. Milk Prices Expected To Climb Here Soon Price of milk in , Jackson county is expected to climb ap proximately one cent per quart in the near future, according to John Snider of Smder's dairy. The price ' increase is already in effect in most areas of Ore gon. It is the result of a new statewide contract designed to meet rising costs of labor, he exolained. Snider said he could not de termine just when the increase would go into affect her.. Klamath Falls Man Arraigned in Court Here On Saturday Preliminary Hearing Set Monday Morning Preliminary hearing will be held Monday at 10:30 a.m. for Billy Junior Nunn, 28-year-old Klamath Falls millworker, who has. confessed the April 9 sex slaying of Alvin William Eacret, 14, Klamath Falls. Nunn arrived in Medford from Alturas, Calif., about 5 p.m. Fri day with Joe Walsh, Jackson county chief criminal deputy, and State Police Sgt. Tom Eaton, Medford. Sgts. Earle Tichenor and Byron D. Winning ham, both Klamath Falls, ac companied them part way. A district attorney's informa tion charging first degree mur der was filed Saturday morning and Nunn was arraigned in dis trict court at 11:45 a.m. yester day. Stated in Writing Nunn stated in writing Thurs day in the Modoc county jail at Alturas that he had sexually at tacked and strangled the Eacret boy, whose nude body was found by two teen-age girls April 29 under a bush near Tub Springs State park. A belt had been tightly fas tened around the victim's neck and a cloth gag placed in his mouth. Nunn reportedly picked up the boy in his car the day of the murder as Eacret was en route to work at a Klamath Falls barber shop. District Attorney Walter Nun ley said the written confession was the first statement of any kind Nunn had made concerning: the crime. Officers had been in termittently questioning him for several hours. Nunn finally re quested a pencil and psper, then wrote an account of the incident, the district attorney said. Nunn was later quoted as say ing his treatment in Alturas at the hands of the officers had been "very good." Praises Officers Nunley praised the investi gating officers for their work on the case. He added that all worked with "practically no sleep" until Friday night. The district attorney also commended law enforcement officers in sur rounding areas as well as a num ber of private citizens 'for their cooperation in the case . He said that over a three-day period the officers canvassed "hundreds" of Klamath Falls merchants, motel operators and other individuals with pictures of the murder victim. Intensive investigation finally revealed that the Eacret boy had been seen with a man having one leg shorter than the other and wear ing a built-up shoe. Other details of the descrip tion fitted Nunn, the district at- tornev said, but the name was not known at that time. The de scription was sent to Oregon and California law enforcement agen cies who were asked to be on the look-out for such an individuaL Pick up Lead Meanwhile, the district at torney said, oficers picked up the lead that Nunn might be hitchiking to Alturas. Police of ficers in that city arrested Nunn late Wednesday night. He had obtained a job there and as sumed a fictitious name, Nunley explained. Nunn agreed to waive extra diction and return to Jackson county. Prior to his arrival in Medford, the suspect asked the officers to stop in Klamath Falls so he could talk with his wife. Mrs. Nunn, however, had al ready left for Medford. The couple has a two-year-old child and is expecting another. Legal Adric Nunn has not yet obtained the services of an attorney, although Medford Attorney Robert Dun can has consented to give him legal advice until he can obtain a lawyer to defend him. The district attorney com mented that Nunn has appeared "extremely controlled" at all times. In March, 1951. he was sentenced to a five-year term in the state penitentiary for a sodomy offense involving a 10-year-old Portland boy. He was paroled on Nov. 26, 1952. . Eugene U.R) Angus L. Gib son, a prominent businessman in junction City and former mem ber of both the State House of Representatives and the State Senate, died here Saturday of a heart attack.
