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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. Whether we have
either situation needs to be
determined."
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