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
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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.
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