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FOURTEEN MEDFCRD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. July 17. 19SS Lane County Group Aims at Recall Of District Attorney Eugene Venn EuzT.e Lane county cit;zpns yesterday announced the formation of an oraniza';on aimed at the re call of District Attorney Eugene Venn. The recall movement is an outgrowth of the running legal battle between the district at tornev and Circuit Judge Frank B. Reid. Fred J. Bartels. Springfield, foreman of the controversial grand jury that figured in Venn's charges, is one of the or- A group "of : ganizers of the recall movement. "What has the DA to gain by foolishly 5 pending the taxpapers money to try to duplicate an in vestigation that has been carried out and completed at his insist ence by seven people selected by lot and their decision made after hearing all the evidence and tes timony submitted to them?" Bar tels asked. Stayton Mental Parolee Shot by Arresting Police Stayton. Ore. UP A 260 pound knife-wielding state hospi tal parolee was arrested here to day after being shot in the leg in a melee that also saw a police officer wounded by an explod ing 'cartas bomb. The parolee, 8-year-old Neal Crabtree of Stayton. was re turned to Oregon State hospital were his wound was described as not serious. Chief in Hospital Taken to Santiam Memorial hospital for treatment of powder burns and cuts was Stayton Po lice Chief Everett Norfleet. Nor fleet was injured when the tear gas bomb exploded in his hand as he tried to pitch it into a house where Cabtree had holed up. His first throw into the house went wild and the chief lunged to recover the bomb when it exploded. Norfleet said the incident started when he tried to appre hend the six-foot Crabtree in downtown Stayton for slashing up window displays with a six inch switchblade knife. Crabtree slashed at the officer, who then called for help from Marion County Sheriff Denver Young and a deputy. Before the officers arrived, Crabtree had holed up in his house. Both officers were spattered with teargas when the attempt to drive the parolee out of his house with the bomb failed. Sheriff Young was not hospital ized, however. Officers said Crabtree then emerged from his house carry ing a knife. He lunged at Sheriff Young with the weapon and the sheriff shot him in the leg and subdued him after telling him the next shot would be in his head. Crabtree was paroled from Oregon State hospital Dec. 23, 1955. It was his second parole since becoming a patient Sept. 23, 1951. Russia Accused of Illegally Holding American Fliers Washington ;U.R) The Unit ed States has accused Russia of illegally holding some American fliers who have disappeared dur ing cold war air skirmishes in recent years. A note delivered in Moscow Monday demanded immediately information about them and any other U.S. military personnel who may have been detained in the Soviet Union since Jan. 1, 1943. While the United States was making its protest, it also re ceived one. Polish Ambassador Romuald Spasowski lodged with the State department an oral complaint that American jet planes violated Polish territory during the past month. The Polish protest echoed similar charges filed bv Russia last week claiming that Ameri can military planes recently penetrated as deep as 200 miles into Soviet territory. Spasowski claimed that some of the Ameri can planes which flew over Po land were the same ones men tioned in the Russian protest. Reports that some American airmen are in Soviet hands have been drifting into the State de partment for years. Monday's U.S. note said the re ts "have now become so persistent and detailed, and so credible'' that the demand for information was being made. Search for Missing Airplane Continues Yakima. Wash. ;U.R) An aerial search continued today for four persons missing since Sat urday when their light plane vanished while on a flight from Yakima over the Grand Coulee dam. About 6i planes from several Eastern Washington airfields combed the area Tuesday but reported no signs of the missing plane. Piloting the missing Piper tri pacer was Max Wall. 39. Yakima, a well-known Eastern Washing ton contractor. The passengers were Jesse N'oblitt. 57. Hay ward. Calif.. James Noblitt, 27, Seattle, and Lindy Pecht, 28, Yakima. No Indictments Returned Venn had charged that Bar tels' name was privately submit ted for inclusion on the grand jurv list. The grand jury probe. dirceted bv Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton, failed to return any indictments in the jury tamper ing charges. The grand jury of which Bar : teis was foreman was dismissed ; from hearing the district attor i ney's charges by Coos County ! Circuit Judge Dal King upon the i request of Judge Reid's at torneys. Venn has continued his criti- cism of Judge Reid and the jury ! selection procedures and since the grand jury finished its in ! vestigation. issued a public state ment, cri'ical of the probe and 1 Judge Reid. ' Pleads for Return I Meanwhile, in Portland yes i terday. Venn met with Gov. Elmo Smith and Thornton, to plead for Thornton's return to Lane county to ' finish the job" of investigating the charges the district attorney has made. Venn said that he told Gov. Smith that if he did not wish to i send Thornton back into the i probe, he suggested the disquali fication banning his office from prosecuting the case be lifted. Smith indicated that he might have an answer to Venn's re quest soon. Eugene Attorney Charles O. Porter said he planned to sub mit a resolution to the Lane County Bar Association today, asking Judge Reid and Venn to submit the dispute to arbitra tion. Porter stated: "If Frank Reid intends to con : tinue in office as judge, it is his RAT GROUNDS AIRCRAFT Nairobi, Kenya (U.P.) A single rat boarded a London bound passenger plane and caused a 24-hour delay in its scheduled takeoff, it was report ed today. The hostess found the rat in a cupboard and chased it through a small opening in the wing. The plane was grounded while exterminators got rid of the umvelcomed passenger to keep it from damaging control cables. clear duty to satisfy the Bar and the public that his conduct in visiting Moses Boody (Oregon penitentory convict); in dismiss ing the March grand jury: in the formation of the jury panel, and in other ways is indeed above reproach." Porter, a member of the American Bar association advis ory committee on public rela tions added: "It seems we either have a dis trict attorney who is irrespon sible andor a judge who is shockingly unjudicial in his ac tions in respect to the formation of juries. 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