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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE " MfmJi mm wf" " if y&r li r VISITING DEER SHOT A young spiked buck got lost in the "wilderness" of west Medford last week, and two Medford police officers at tempted to rope it, to return it to its natural habitat. First corraling it in a garage, they were reluctantly forced to shoot it after it Multnomah Jury Indicts Two for Coercing Women Portland (U.PJ The Multno mah county grand jury late Mon day indicted a deputy sheriff and a former deputy district at torney for conspiracy to com mit subornation of perjury by coercing two women to give false testimony. The grand jury also returned three other secret indictments, and listed a total of six persons in the conspiracy indictments. Lonergan Indicted Indicted for the first time in the current probe was How;ard R. Lonergan, former chief crim inal deputy district attorney who is now in private practice. Also surrendering late Monday was George E. Minielly, deputy jfheriff who was indicted previ ously on other charges. Named as conspirators by the grand jury were Minielly, Loner gan, Mayor Terry Schrunk, Dis trict Attorney William Langley, Deputy District Attorney Oscar Howlett and Clyde Crosby, Teamster organizer for Oregon. The indictments charge that a conspiracy was made to "soli cit, induce, coerce, influence and suborn" Kathleen Lucille Weeks, 35, and Mary Childress, 30, to swear and give evidence falsely before notaries public, juries and the Congress of the United States. Last week the two women ap peared before a special session of "the Senate Rackets Commit tee in Washington, D.C. They testified that Minielly threaten ed them with jail unless they made false statements attacking the reputation of James B. El kins, Portland racketeer. Minielly called their testi mony a "hoax" and denied he threatened them or paid them money. The grand jury, in a 16-page Indictment, alleged 24 overt acts. Four Hurt as Auto Strikes Freight Train Portland (U.R) A car struck a freight train here late Monday, seriously injuring the four occupants of the automo bile. Most seriously hurt was the driver, Daniel Jones, 44. Also injured were Hczekiah Jones, 33; S. A. Randle. 45, and M r s. Dorothy Easter Jr., 28. Choose from hundreds of gifts for your whole family when you save valuable Sego Coupons. Always buy double-rich Sego Milk.. .the coupon on the label is your gift certificate. Write for your Address SEGO San Francisco, jumped through a window, severely injuring itself, and posing a threat to nearby children. Answering the deer alarm were Officers Mil ton Hanson and Jack Sanders, (above).i (Kenn Knackstedjt photo) Bewildered Deer Wanders Into Medford A bewildered little deer a spiked buck wandered into town yesterday, and paid with his life for his unfamiliarity with the ways of man. He was spotted on Park St., and Medford police officers were called. They managed to "cor ral" him in a garage at 901 Park st., planned to tie him, then re lease him in 9 less populated en vironment. Where he came from is not known, although he could have arrived from the Griffin creek area southwest of town. The panicky deer, however, jumped through the window of the garage, breaking the glass, and cutting himself badly in the process. He dashed down the street, endangering a group' of children who had gathered to watch. Teamsters May Have New Thought About Objections Washington (U.R) Teamsters Union leaders indicated today they may have a second thought about their objections to AFL CIO action against the union and teamsters President Dave Beck, Beck and five vice presidents decided late Monday to call the union's 13 -member Executive Board to a meeting here "within a week or 10 days." . The decision was made at a' four-hour meeting at which they discussed AFL-CIO President George Meany's rebuff of the objections raised by the team sters Executive Board in mid April. Charge Rejected Meany Monday: Again rejected the charge that the March 29 suspension of Beck as an AFL-CIO vice presi dent was unconstitutional. Declared the AFL-CIO in vestigation of the union on cor ruption charges will proceed whether or not the union attends a hearing to be held next Mon day. The charges are based on Beck's use of the Fifth Amend ment to avoid answering Senate Rackets Committee accusations that he took $320,000 in union funds for his personal use and on his own admission that he "borrowed" between $300,000 and $400,000 of union money without interest. I'm showing off the new electric percolator I got with Sego Milk Coupons SOGO ? ORATE9 FREE Gift Catalog MILK 350 Mission Street California co Dept. C-16 Tuesday, April 30, 19S7 Saturday Reluctantly, an officer decided the children's safety ca me before the deer's freedom -and any way, it was already "cut and bleeding in half a dozen places. He shot it. The carcass was taten to the Salvation Army, where it will become steaks and chops for the itinerants who come there for a meal. Chicago Airport Busiest in Natign Washington (U.R); Chica go's Midway Airport ; -was the busiest in the nation i last year, the Civil Aeronautics Admin istration reported Monday. Midway handled 372,177 land ings and takeoffs during the year. Second was Miami Airport with 336,228 operations. Los Angeles . Internationrtl Airport was third with . 290,44 opera tions. . t , Following the top j three air ports in handling la ndings and takeoffs were La Cfuardia at New York 281,964: Denver 280, 293; Atlanta 273,708t Charles ton, S.C., 268.930; Etellas 258,- 972;- Washington 25i7,762 and Phoenix 252,348. Mysterious Object Sighted Oyer Channel London (U.R) A Eoyal Air Force radar station Monday night spotted ' an "i-jnidentified object" streaking ovifr the Eng lish Channel so swiftly that two of Britain's fastest ;et fighters could not intercept at. It was the second unexplained sighting in three weeks. A Lon don newspaper suggested the object might be a new type Rus sian bomber opacatiog in west ern skies. The earlier mystery sighting occurred at noon April 4, during the time when the Soviet Union was distributing a rash of warn ings to European nations about guided missiles and atomic weapons. Ex-Philcmath Officer Gets Suspended Term Corvallis (U.R) - James A. Steadman, 28, former Philomath police officer, has received a one-year suspended fjentence in county jail here on conviction of a charge of assaulting Benton County Sheriff C. N. Lilly. Circuit Judge Fred McHenry ordered Steadman plared on pro bation pending good 'behavior. The assault occurred ,New Year's day as Sheriff Lilly at tempted to jail Steadman on 'a charge of drunkenness. Shortly after the assault Lilly suffered a heart attack and was hospital ized for several weeks. The sheriff expects to return to his office May 1 on a part time basis. Portland Area Scanned For MacLaren Escapee Portland (U.R) . Police searched the southwest district of Portland today for an escapee from the MacLaren school for ooys at Woodburn who was termed "dangerous" Iby a depu ty sheriff. The youth. 16, esfcaped from the school Monday night, and was believed armed with a knife. '; Huge Stone Bocrfc Falls At Feet of Young- Girl Raleigh, N. C. (U.R) A huge block of stone and mason ry, weakened by a bilt of light ning, fell from a six-ttory office building Monday, landing at the feet of Judith Gay, L8, Youngs- viae, in.l. She suiiered a minor Desperadoes Slain As Kidnap, Holdup Plans Go Askew Fort Worth, Tex. (U.R) Two desperados who were cut down by a massive barrage of lawmen's bullets Monday had planned a kidnap and holdup of a half-million dollar Air Force payroll, authorities said today. The dead men were identified as Gene Paul Morris, the South west's most notorious bad man, and William Carl Humph rey, his ex-convict partner. They were hit by so many bullets in a gunfight with three carloads of police, Texas Rangers and FBI men that undertakers could not count all the holes. Planned To Grab Hostage Acting Texas Ranger Capt. Jay Banks of Dallas said Morris and Humphrey had planned the daring daylight holdup today of the payroll at nearby Carswell Air Force base. The two had planned to. kidnap a worker at the base's branch bank and hold his 11-year-old son as hostage. Banks said Rangers and FBI men had been on to the plans for two weeks on a tip. Three carloads of officers, in cluding police from Houston and Athens, Tex., in addition to the FBI men and Rangers, had ueen maintaining a stakeout since Saturday at Lake Worth, a northern suburb of Fort Worth. Monday the two bad men showed up and officers called on them to surrender. High Speed Chase The gunman sped pff in their 1946 model car, pumping shots at the pursuing officers. The chase hurtled out of Lake Worth ind through the little commun ity of Azle at high speeds. The bandits turned off onto a dirt road but failed to make the next turn and their car rolled into a ditch. Apparently unhurt, ihey jumped out and ran into a thicket, still shooting. A fusillade of bullets from of ficers' guns cut both men down. Blast in Truck Fatal To Driver Sulphur Springs, Tenn. W.R) A truck driver for a strike bound glass company was killed today when a 'dynamite charge exploded as he stepped on tliej starter of his car. . i Chief Deputy Sheriff Bill Taylor said the charge of dyna mite that had been placed direct ly beneath the driver's seat killed Everett Jenkins, 35, and injured a fellow employee who. was sitting . beside Jenkins. . The deputy said the blast was set off by an electric cap wired to the ignition switch on Jen kins' car. Jenkins' companion, Charles Greene, also of Surph'ur 'Springs, suffered lacerations of the head and other injuries. Both men were employees of the Blue Ridge Glass Corp. of Kingsport, Tenn, which has been involved in labor troubles for some 16 months. Production Workers Have Little Change Salem (U.R) Total employ ment and earnings of production workers showed little change last month in the Portland-Vancouver area, but gains and losses were distributed among groups reporting to the State Unem ployment Compensation Com mission. An increase of 1,700 in non farm jobs from the previous month and about the. same amount from last year was ascribed mainly 1o trade, serv ice and governmntal lines. Set backs were reported by lumber and wood products, ship repair ing, machinery manufacturing and construction. Estimates showed 247,600 employed in the four-county area, compared with 245,900 in February and 245,000 in March, 1956. Dairy Industry Investigation Starts Portland (U.R) A federal grand jury investigation of the Oregon dairy industry was under way today. ' Lyle L. Jones, chief of the San Francisco office of the anti-trust division, said he expected the preliminary phase of the probe would take three or four days. The jury will then take up oth er matters before resuming the milk investigation which he said might last for several weeks. Jones said 20 Oregon dealers in milk products have been sub poenaed to bring in records of their businesses. START NOW Save Jpdge Orders Girl To Stand; She Was Newcastle. England IU.R) "Stand up when you speak lo me," Magistrate T. H. Bates told 23-year-old Mary tain in court Monday. "She is standing up," re plied the clerk. "She is jui four feet tall, and that's her trouble. She can't get a job because of her size." Mary pleaded guilty to steal ing a postal order and forging it to get the money. Elkins-Clark Trial May Be Held at Night Portland (U.R) Federal Judge William East indicated to day that the wiretap trial of Tames B. Elkins and Raymond Clark may see night sessions in sn effort to speed it along. . Mayor Terry Schrunk spent Monday as the only government witness. He testified about tape recordings seized May 17, 1956, in a raid on Clark's' home. - Schrunk, who was Multnomah county sheriff at the time, testi fied he made copies of the re cordings .because they seemed "important." The tapes were seized at Clark's home in a raid later de clared illegal 6y tate courts. Schrunk qualified many of his answers by saying "to the best of my knowledge" and "as far as 1 know." This drew sharp re marks from William Crawford, a defense attorney, who said he would like yes or no answers. SANFORD NAMED Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) The Kansas City Athletics have hired Jack Sanford of Birmingham, Ala., to replace Elmer Riddle on their roster of scouts. Riddle is leaving baseball to enter private business. WEST INDIES MISSIONARIES Rev. and Mrs. Forrest Damron and Rev. and Mrs. Melvin Frost These Missionaries spent 4 months visiting churches and mission stations throughout the West Indies They will report on this trip and show color pictures of what they saw and did there. , TONIGHT TUESDAY 8 P.M. APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH North Central Abbott Named Head Of Life Underwriters C. W. (Bill) Abbott. West Coast Life Insurance company, was elected president of the Rogue Valley Association Of Life Underwriters at a meeting held Monday noon in the Medford hotel. Other officers elected for 1957-58 are William A. Salade, Phoenix Mutual Life, vice presi dent; Donald Carlon, Standard Insurance cocmpany, secretary treasurer; and Glenn McCul lough, Provident Life, national committeeman. Directors include Curt 'Hopkins, Aetna , Life; Charles Jones, Sun Life of Can ada;' and, Cliff Curl, Business Men's Assurance company. Out going president is Donald L. Arant, Standard Insurance com pany. . Announcement was made that five life - underwriters in this area have won the national quality award for 1947. They are Bill Abbott, Glenn McCul lough artd Jack Burpee of Med ford and Joe Crick and Frank Gordon of Grants Pass. Encampment Set For VFW, Auxiliary Oregon department district 7 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and auxiliary will meet at Rogue River Sunday .for their annual encampments. : The meetings, called for 1:30 p.m., will be preceded by a pot luck dinner starting at noon tfnd served by the auxiliary to Rogue River , post 4116, VFW. District 7 is composed of 10 posts and nine auxiliaries in southwest Oregon. Election and obligation of of ficers will be held as well as other business: at 3rd, Medford ....... - ' 1 1 ajajajajBaaHaaj unocr uonat y national Baktn unricn, im, CMcto HBBBB FJeitffaci? could tfly bufl Qhov soloed tfo fooedom These two leaped but 70 million others re main captive behind the Iron Curtain. 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Navy scientists were figuring the exact altitude. But the Aero-bee-Hi smashed the old altitude record of 164 miles set last sum-i mer by another Aerobee. Navy officials- said the rocket fired today was a "new and im proved" version of the Aerobee which held the record for more than a year. You'll find pert Randy Stuart, co-starring in "The Incredible Shrinking Man," up to expectations. She's scrumptious! Up to your expectations, too, is famous Hollywood Special Formula Bread. A secret blend of 16 grain and vege 5- k Baked without shortening 7K& ks&h Hj OKfidtMO IHMUJLu eM wcfativily FLUHRER I Under Ucmim ty National Thty had never flown bofore. But early one morning Zdnek Machilner, 19, and Karel Kucera, 20, tied up a Czech guard and wobbled to the safety of West Germany in a stolen plana. 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