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o SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAJL TRIBUNE Thuriday. February 7, 1957 Alleged Brutalities At Marine Corps Base Under Investigation Parris Island. S C. (U.P.) The O Marine Corps today beean a pre-trial investigation of re ported brutality of drill instruc tors toward "several" recruits at this big training center. Capt James Mahoney, public lniormauore omcer, said me "boots" do not claim they were struck by a "steel bar" as a fa ther who touhced off the investi gation charged in a letter to Marine officials. Nelson R. Porter of Hartford, Vt., who said his 18-year-old son wrote of being struck with the bar, left for Parris Island late Wednesday, saying his son pleaded in a letter for him to come "as soon as possible." Porter said Maj. Gen. H. L. Greyhound Drivers Receive Awards at Dinner Meeting Clifford M. Aldrich received a 16-year safe driving award, and Virgil L. Moon received an eight-year award Tuesday eve ning at the regular quarterly PatW.c Greyhound safety meet ing for drivers of the Medford area. A total of 31 drivers and sup ervisory personnel attended the meeting, which was held in the Rogue room of the Medford h'el. o J)rivj;r irgil L. Moon, mem ber of tte safety committee, was in charge of the meeting. He distributed cards to drivers who participaterPin a safety test at CamoWtitfe about two weeks io. v Acodent-Frea Milei Q Q (J waannounced that drivers of division T optrated 841,000 accident-free miles during the f? noith of November. The aver- age for the year 1956 was 179, (fi9 accident-free miles. Estab lished rate for Pacific Grey hound Lines is 93,644 miles. Division 7 won the Pacific Greyhound President's trophy for the last quarter of 1956. D. E. Tuckley made sound motion pictures of the awards presenta tions. Short talks were given during the meetingby Howard C. Bee ler, Medford area superintend ent; S. D. Koehler, past regional manager of division 7, who is now retired; J. A. Tomjack, Med ford depot agent, and Al Dem mel. safety scpervisor for divis ion 7. ter the meeting Demmel sjinwed a sound motion picture cf U.S. submarine service after Pearl Harbor. Members of the safety com mittee elected at the la$ meet ing to serve for 1957 were L. P. Bell, V. L. Moon and L. F. Linton. o For Boys and Girls Litzenburg, commanding officer of the recruit center, admitted in a letter that the son. Pvt. David Lee Porter, had under gone brutal treatment. No Pip Ustd Mahoney said that some six weeks of checking thus far re vealed there had been other cases, but said the recruits "do not allege they were struck by a steel pipe we have not found out just how they were struck." Porter quoted one letter from his son dated Dec. 9 which stated: "I walked into the drill in structor's office yesterday with my hat on. I got hit over the head twice with a steel bar. I would have got hit a third time, but there was already too much blood." Porter said his son begged him not to try to intervene, saying "they will only make it rougher on me," but he nevertheless wrote to Litzenburg. Mahoney said there was some delay in tracing the letter so the Marine Corps could reply, be cause it was unsigned. Porter ex plained later that he mailed an unsigned cppy by mistake. Recalls McKeon Trial Mahoney said Lt. Col. Oscar F. featross, commanding offi cer of the First Recruit Training Battalion which included young Porter's platoon late Wednes day ordered an inquiry which will determine whether to call for court martial trials. The investigation was the sec ond to be conducted at this Ma rine recruit training center, one of the nation's largest, since a publicized' recruit "death march" of less than a year ago. An investigation of a series of similar incidents late last sum mer and last fall resulted in disciplining of a number of drill instructors. The trial of former S'Sgt. Mat thew C. McKeon of Worcester, Mass., in connection with the "death march" became the forum of a nationwide contro versy over recruit training methods. 4 BIG FREE PARKING LOTS IN BACK OF STORE (KITOCCIETriEffilM SIXTH AND GRAPE STREETS OPEN 7 DAYS A gl WEEK UNTIL p.m. For the Brands You Can Depend On Shop The So. Oregon's FAVORITE FOOD STORE SINCE 1920 GROCETERIA! Sunny days ahoy! This cool 'n' cute set is perfect for baby's playtime easy sewing for you! Gay balloons on boy's jacket: dolly with yarn hair for girls! Pattern 7396: sizes for 6-njonths, 1-year. 18-months all included. Pattern, transfer, directions. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept.. P. O. Box 168. Old Chel sea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainlv NAME. ADDRESS, AND PATTERN NUMBER. 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