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TWELVE VEDFORB (OBEOOW) MAIL THIBUNE Thunday. March 7. 1957 Body of Little Boy in Morgue Mystifies Police Authorities Philadelphia U.P Some where in this country a little boy is missing from his home. He is a nice looking child be tween four and six years old. He has blue eyes and brown hair. He weighs between 35 and 40 pounds. He's slender and thin faced. He's dead. men, park guards and detectives are making a foot-by-foot search of the neighborhood, questioning residents and looking for some tiny clue which may have been overlooked. Everything else in the quest of his identity has failed. Thou sands of persons have viewed the UA1.. 4 l - I d. Mi. t..tt j u .11 ' uvjuj mc muigur, oui none His body, battered brutally, knew him was found eight days ago in a I cardboard box in the Fox Chase 'T1' titon still remains: section of this city. Police have hose boy 18 tnls?" tried every method at their com-! mand to learn his identity but have run up against a blank i wall. No one knows who he is. fl 1 J And no one has reported a little1 rlaliS AMIOUIICCQ ooy iiKe mm missing. Home Improvement H Two ThaorUs Police have two theories. They believe he was murdered by his parents or guardians or he was taken from some other part of the country and his body was dumped here. The city's chief medical exam iner. Dr. Joseph W. Spelman, who conducted an autopsy, said the fty definitely was murdered. He said there were bruises all over the body, particularly on the head, leg and arms. O The police laboratory learned a lot about the boy. Their inves tigations showed he apparently came from a good home because he had been well cared for. He was 41 inches tall. He might have had a defect in his left eye but he did not wear glasses. He had injured his chin at one time, leaving an "L" shaped scar un der his ciQn. When found, his body was wrapped in a cheap cotton flan nel blanket which had been rip ped in half. The blanket was a green plaid with diamonds and blocks in rust, brown and white. All the colors were faded. Crude Haircut His hair had been crudely cut short, possible to conceal his Identity. If that was the motive for the amateur haircut, it has succeeded thus far. But. his identity is still a mys tery. Policf mf they are stump-4- Thy onr kov the disap (jRrnr t ft little, aoy can be gnc!t D veil. Jbdi, or thta 00 police- Inauguration of "Southern Oregon Home Improvement . . . 1957." was announced at a din ner of about 100 Rogue valley home builders this week. More than $9 million in Ore gon will be available through banks and lending institutions for both FHA loans, and private loan plans, according to Frank Crosby, director of public rela tions for the Kaiser Gypsum company. Crosby based his sta tistics, accounting for a 47.3 per cent increase over 1956, on a February, 1957, survey of more than 1,600 western banks and savings and loan associations. Executive committee members named at the meeting include Steward Orr, general chairman, and Robert Neilson, Grants Pass; Jack Raapke. Norton Smith. Bert Thierold and Jennings Pierce, Medford; and Alan Monroe, Ash land. The finance committee will be headed bv Alan Perry, of the Medford Branch, U.S. National bank, assisted by Al Monroe, Ashland, and Ted Paul us, Grants Pass. Copco Asks Permit ? Siskiyou Project Wahkijl.on The California rQrpgoa foer company has ayi;ed tie federal power com Q mission for iuthority to con struct a p posed $7,001,110 q .droelectric development call Iron Gate on the Klamath Tif$er in Siskiyou county, Calif Copco technically asked the jmmission to amend an order it issued in January, 1954. grant ing the company a license for fti proposed Big Bend No. 2 development on the Klamath river in Klamath county. Ore., so as to make that license cover six existing and two proposed velopments. Last June Copco filed for au- thority to build its proposed Big Bend No. 1 and Big Bend No. 2 developments as a single unit to be known as Big Bend; the pro posed Jron Gate development, and six existing developments known as East Side. West Side, Keno regulating dam. Keno, Copco No. 1 and Copco No. 2. Legislature Briefs Red Hen Lays Turquoise Green Eggs; Agriculture Men Puzzled New Albany. Ind. (U.P.: A little red hen is tuning up for St. Patrick's Day. It lays a green egg almost every day. John Hubbuch, "7, and his wife, Florence, 72, owners of the ''New Hampshire Red" hen, -said today the chicken never has laid anything but '"turquoise green" eggs. The green eggs have agri cultural experts puzzled. Gary East, the Hubbuch's county azent, thought it might be something the bird ate. But Mrs. Hubbuch said she fed her entire flock the same diet "mash, cracked corn and whole corn." Poultrymen at Purdue uni versity said the only explana tion they could give was the hen may have had a South American ancestor. They said the araucana. a wild latin chicken, lays green eess. but Mrs. Rubbuch said her chicken "looks-like New Hampshire Red." Mrs. Hubbuch said the green eggs look like any others in the frying pan and "taste just like an ordinary egg-" The problem of coloring Easter eggs also has been solved, Mrs. Hubbuch said. 'Til leave them just like they are." Public Roads Bureau y Schedules Work Bid 3 Portland (U.R) The Bureau of Public Roads has scheduled bids for the next six months for highway construction in Oregon amounting to a total of $9,485, 000. The total includes 53,150,000 for forest highways, SI. 100,000 for forest development roads and S5.235.000 for bureau of land management projects. Ex-Multnomah Sheriff Paid Off By Gamblers, Investigators Told Washington (U.R) Senate investigators were told today that a Portland gambler gave a $500 pay off to former sheriff, now Mayor Terry D. Schrunk. They slapped an immediate con tempt citation on the gambler for refusing to testify on the in cident. In rapid fire developments be fore the special committee in vestigating labor - management racketeering: Self-confessed racketeer James B. Elkins testified that Clifford O. (Jimmy) Bennett, his partner in Portland's 8212 Club, re ported that he made the S500 payment to Schrunk when the sheriff threatened to arrest all club customers on a raid. Bennett, in one of the most stubborn refusals seen recently before a congressional commit tee, refused to answer all ques tions about the incident. Re solving itself into an immediate '"executive" session, the commit tee voted to cite him for con tempt of Congress by a 5 to 0 roll call vote. Refuses Explanations Elkins testified that his book keeper told him after the raid that S500 was missing from the $1,500 regularly advanced as "bankroll" for the club's gam bling operations. He said he does not believe Bennett pocket ed the money. Bennett, a slick-haired young ish man, told the committee little other than that he now lives in Great Falls, Mont. He did not even state the grounds for his refusal to testify, al though Chairman John L. Mc Clellan (D-Ark.) referred to the constitutional protection of the Fifth Amendment. Bennett even declined to say whether he had been in the room to hear Elkins' testify earlier about the $500 payment. In an unusual move, McClellan quickly called Capitol Police man Lawrence Godall as a wit ness to swear that Bennett was, indeed, in the hearing room. Elkins' story of the raid was corroborated in some respects by Mrs. Virginia Jenkins, the witness who followed Bennett. Mrs. Jenkins said she is now a '"bartender" in Contact, Nev. Raided Without Warning ' A dark-haired, shapely young ish woman in a sleek black dress, Mrs. Jenkins said she formerly was the hat check girl at the 8212 Club. She said the sheriffs raid came' without warning while after hours gam bling was in progress at the club. Elkins said the raid was "stirred up" by Thomas E. Ma loney, a Seattle gambler who Adlai Doubts Talks To Restore Relations Hamilton, Bermuda (U.R) Democratic Party Leader Adlai Stevenson said Wednesday night he doubted that the forthcom ing Bermuda conference between President Eisenhower and Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Mao millan would restore Anglo-American friendship. "I am afraid it will take much more than words, but I hope the increasing confidence will be fol lowed by mutual concern for the opinions and interests of one another," Stevenson said. The defeated Democratic pres- identiaL candidate in the 1956 election stopped here briefly en route to Barbados for a vacation. has figured in previous testi mony as a crony of Teamster Union officials who was sent to Portland at their direction to move in on vice and rackets there. ' Gaston Floux Awarded, PT&T Service Emblem Gaston L. Floux was presented a 35-year service emblem by J. William Johnson, general plant manager of the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company, ; at a dinner meeting at the Med ford hotel recently. L. E. Derington, division plant manager (toll), and R. S. Crane, ' supervising toll .wire chief in charge of the western Oregon district, both, of Portland, were present. Four members of the toll group in Itoseburg as well as 11 members of the toll group in Medford attended. Floux joined the telephone company as a switchboard re pairman Jan. 12. 1922. at Sa linas, Calif., and later trans ferred to San Jose where he worked as a repeaterman. He was transferred to Medford July 12, 1944. He has worked as a transmisionman in the toll main tenance department since that date. He was awarded the Vail Bronze Medal in July, 1932, for saving a man's life following a gasoline explosion. - AGREEABLE JUDGE Chicago (U.R) David J. Brosier, 23, charged with imper sonating an Air Force officer, ; admitted Wednesday he should spend some time in jail, "maybe six months. '"Excellent judgment," said District Court Judge John P. Barnes. "Six months it is." Salem (U.R) A physician would be appointed coroner by the county board of health un der terms of a bill introduced in the House today by Rep. Rich ard Groener, Milwaukie Demo crat. The bill would repeal the present coroner's inquest code and call for investigation of all deaths by external force, occu pational or contagious disease, or under sudden or unknown circumstances. Salem (U.R) All employees, including those of state and local government agencies, would be brought under the workmen's compensation law if a bill intro A,rA in th House today at the request of the Oregon State La bor Council passes. Salem (U.R) Legislation di recting the return to counties of SO per cent of the state excise tx collections from utilities on the basis of percentage of utility properties within the various counties was introduced today by Democratic Sens. Harry D. Boivin of Klamath Falls and Jean Lewis of Portland. Salem (U.R) Establishing a local administrative agency to see requirements are met to make federal funds available for renewal of blighted urban areas was called for in a bill intro duced in the House today. Sponsors' of the measure were Rep. Richard Eyeman. Mohawk Democrat, and Sen. Dan Dim mick. Roseburg Democrat, and others. Salem (U.R) A bill increas ing personal liability car insur ance requirements from 55,000 , to 510.000 per individual and from S10.000 to $20,000 for two ' or more persons involved in an accident was introduced in the House today. The bill, sponsored bv Rep. Berkeley Lent, Portland, in-! increases judgments that could be obtained from S2.000 to $5,000 1 on both property damage and personal injury. i r o TRIM-DOWN TIME Spring "cut-down" on foods it the easy way to "slim-down" your figure. The secret of reducing is calorie counting while eating those food high est in energy. Wheat foods contribute energy vitamins and minerals. Oregon Wheat products keep you healthyhappy end slim. Include at least mree portions OT wnear toooi in your daily diet. It t not what yew eat... but how much. Oragoa WKm CiwtMi SOS f. W. 10th, PandUtaii, OragM u r-niic nnc nnuc ami Willi. VIII. UVIlll. 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