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V 9 Libel-Conspiracy Trial Adjourns Until Monday; Jury Being Chosen By VERNON SCOTT United Prtti Correspondent Hollywood If) An all-star cast of Hollywood personalities waited in the wings Saturday for the resumption of the libel-conspiracy trial of Confidential and Whisper magazines which began with the hint that their testi monies might be spicy revela tions. The court action began Friday with actors Tab Hunter, Buddy and Allan Nixon a few of the some 100 top movie stars sub- penaea 10 testitly evident in the jam-packed Los Angeles Su perior courtroom. Others wer Mrs. Josephine Dillion Gable, drrma coach and Iirst wife of actor Clark Gable and Carol S. Hunt, who said she was the author of a Confidential story entitled, "I was one of father Devine's angels." The stars were put on a two hour call status while attorneys for the state and the defense be gan the job of selecting a jury irom a panel of 50. When the court adjourned un til Monday morning, 11 panelists had been excused from serving and 12 had been tentatively ac cepted, but the prosecution had yet to make its examination of the panel. Messy Testimony Defense Counsel Arthur J. Crowley repeatedly told pros pective jurors that "as part of our defense is based on truth, we may have to call a number eof movie stars. Much as anybody dislikps messy testimony, it may have to be done. Would you holdJ this against the defense?" v.rowiey saia that he repre- sertt-ed nly defendants, Fred and Maiorie Meade and their Hollywood Research, Inc., whole saler of alleged libellous and obscene matter that is published In the two magazines. Crowley in an opening argu ment on whether Confidential, Inc., and Whisper, Inc.,. are ac tually on trial under the grand jury Indictment along with the Meades, declared the corpora tions had "never been properly served." Corporations Absent Judge Herbert V. Walker re sponded: "The court is proceeding on the theory that all persons prop erly served are on trial before this court. It would seem to me a very strange law which would allow corporations to absent themselves and later take ad vantage of their own absence." Ha added, "The corporations apparently think they are not here." The Meades, Confidential Pub lisher Robert Harrison and eight other individuals actually were indicted on charges of conspir ary to commit criminal libel and print and circulate lewd liter ature. Five corporations also were named in the indictment. California Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen. Clarence A. Linn and Dep. Dist. Atty. William L. Ritzi said their prosecution would "make every effort to get a conviction of these filth peddlers." Linn said he did not intend to call any of the stars unless the defense attempted to prove ar ticles about them were true. But he added that even so he would contend that under California law the truth was not a proper defense. Disabled Workers Notified Of First Benefit Checks More than 100,000 disabled workers in the nation have been notified that they are entitled to social security disability in surance benefits and will receive their first benefit checks during August, W. V. Nusbaum, district manager of the Meilford social security office, has announced: Most of the checks will be de livered Aug. 3 and the remain ing ones will be mailed on fol lowing days. Nusbaum noted that action is being taken as speedily as pos sible on all disability applica tions and that many other dis abled workers, who may not yet have received notice of final ac tion jn their applications, will be receiving their first checks in coming monthj. No further ac tion is necessary on their part, he said. Applications Increase In the first six months of 1957, applications for these new dis ability insurance benefits in creased to a rate of about 12,000 a week throughout the nation. Although social security benefit checks for a particular month are ordinarily mailed for deliv ery on the third of the following month, the heavy load of disabil ity applications slowed up proc essing and made it impossible to get checks issued on Aug. 3 to all who are entitled to disability benefits for the month of July, Nusbaum said. All disabled workers who meet requirements of law, and whose applications have been filed with their social security offices before the end of Decem ber, 1957, will get benefit pay ments for the months of July through December, Nusbaum said. After December, payments cannot be made for any month before the month of application. In order to get disability insur ance benefits, a person must be between 50 and 65 years of age and must have a long-lasting dis ability so severe that he Is not able to engage in any substan tial gainful activity, Nusbaum explained. He must have work ed under social security for five out of the ten years before he became disabled, including one and one-half years out of the three years just before his dis ability began. Two-Year-Old Drowns After Fall in Well Brush Prairie, Wash (W. A two-year-old boy drowned Sat urday when he fell into a deep well near his home, firemen re ported. Dead is Michael Donaldson, of Brush Prairie. The youngster wandered into a small well house used by the Donaldson family to dump ref use. The well itself was usually covered but Friday it was not. He fell into the well and his cries were heard by his older brother and a friend. Both tried in vain to get the tot out of the well. His body was recovered Fri day afternoon b y grappling equipment that was lowered into the well. The well contained about 20 feet of water. Improved Stud Service Discussed With Farmers L. H. McDaniels, Turlock, Calif., spent two days in Med ford this week representing the Animal Analysis Associates. 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Sixth & Central Medford's Bargain Corner Complete Variety Department Store Man Arrested for Torture-Rape of Student Nurse San Francisco IW Police announced early Saturday that a 21-year-old unemployed ware houseman has admitted the sad istic torture-rape of a young stu dent nurse in Golden Gate park. The suspect was identified as Melvin N. Bakkerud, a stocky, 5-foot 3-inch admitted drug ad dict. The sudden announcement eliminated from suspicion en tirely John Alvin Rexinger, a 23-year-old ex-convict who had been held in jail, for 10 days while police sought clues in the brutal case. The victim had iden tified him as the attacker. Police Captain Daniel McKlem said Bakkerud was arrested Wednesday night with a number of narcotics tablets in his pos session. In his room, police found the wristwatch stolen from the nurse's escort on the night of the attack. Clothing Specimens They immediately sent speci mens of Bakkerud's clothing to Oakland criminologist John Dav is, who discovered fibers from the girl's dress on his shoes and socks. Police said Bakkerud admit ted climbing into the young couple's car on the night of July 20 armed with a "torture kit" and a 10-inch knife. He forced them to drive to Golden Gate park, where he bound and gagged the girl's es cort with adhesive tape. He stripped the 19-year-old nurse, burned her with cigarettes, beat her with a belt, cut off most of her hair, and raped her twice. Bakkerud told police he got the idea from a story in a de tective magazine "about a guy who chains up a girl." He said he had taken a "fix" on the morning of the attack and took some more narcotics after read ing the magazine. The suspect said he was ar rested for stealing the narcotics from a drug store. Fire Damages Farm In Portland Area Portland (IPI Fire which au thorities said might . be arson swept through a large combina tion hay storage barn and loaf ing shed at the Alpenrose Dairy here early Saturday causing damage estimated at more than 550,000. About a dozen head of the Al penrose dairy herd were lost. -, Henry Cadonau, owner-operator of the dairy expressed belief the fire was caused by an arson ist. He said that four days ago two burned books of matches were found on a bale of hay in the barn. He said the matches had scorched the hay and he had reported the incident to his in surance company. Cadonau also said that two boys believed in their early teens had been seen sneaking away from the barn area early Friday night. Battalion Chief H. L. Sur baugh of district No. 1 In Port land said the city fire depart ment "most certainly will inves tigate the possibility of arson." A spokesman for Alpenrose said that the fire would not in terrupt normal delivery of milk. Umatilla Indians Cast Confidence Vote Pendleton (TP) Members of the confederated Umatilla Indi an tribes in a special election here Friday cast a 125 to 24 vote of confidence in their four-member board of trustees, including its under -fire chairman," Elias Quaempts. A petition asking for their re call for not approving total cash per capita payments of The Dal les dam settlement was the issue, a tribe official said. The result of the vote means the Indians will retain the same board of trustees to work on the per capita adjustment program, which exceeds four million dol "If the petition had gone through," Quaempts said, it would set back the progress of the Umatilla tribes at least 10 years." Quaempts said the board will "stick together," and work harder and closer to do "a good job." Bids Called for Improving Highway Bids for improving a section r ni staBP rd. from Jackson ville to Ross lane will be re 8 at the next regu- i lar meeting of the Oregon State Highway commission. .Bias were rejected as too high last month. Plans call for 2.35 miles of grading and asphaltic concrete paving. The new roadbed will generally follow the alignment of the existing road with minor changes to eliminate sharp curves, according to the state highway department. The project, when completed next summer, will provide a 20 foot wide paved road construct ed to the latest standards and will be financed jointly by the federal, state and county government. Sunday, August 4. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MXtt. TRIBUNE NINE Teamsters' Line Up Support for Attack On Meany's Prestige By WILLIAM J. EATON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The Team sters' Union began lining up sup port Saturday for an apparent at tack on the presige and leader ship of AFL-CIO President George Meany. Back of the move was Team ster Vice President James R. Hoffa, next in line for the presi dency of the 1,500,000-member trucking union. The Teamsters Friday threat ened to pull out of the AFL-CIO unless there are major changes in Meany's program to end ju risdictional disputes between the building trades unions and the industrial unions. The Hoffa-led drive to discred it Meany's efforts will come at a convention of the AFL-CIO Building Trades Department opening Monday in Atlantic City, N.J. Hoffa, one of five Teamster delegates, will appeal to the old AFL building trades leaders to join the Teamster s' revolt against the peace agreement for settling inter-union disputes. The agreement was drawn up by a committee of building trade and industrial union leaders with Meany acting as chairman. It provides that new construc tion work should be done by the American Debates In Red Square Moscow Wl An American Harvard student held out against more' than 100 young Russians Saturday in an im promptu East-West "disarma ment conference" that was ad journed efter failure to reach agreement. ; It was after 1 a.m. Saturday when Richard Medalie of Minne apolis broke away from a some times heated exchange in Red Square with the promise to take up the arms cuts argument again last night. Medalie, 28, a Harvard law student here for the World' Youth Festival, took his place at what has become a favorite debating stage for Americans at the meeting-in front of the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum where Russians gather nightly. More than 100 young Russians eagerly pressed into the "con ference," bombarding Medalie with sometimes indignant ques tions. It was an eye-opening session for both sides, with Medalie soon learning that the young Russians were thoroughly famil iar with the official Russian line which makes cessation of nu clear tests the- end-all of dis armament. . The Russians were somewhat puzzled to hear Medalie empha tically insist that "the problem isn't suspension itself but how to successfully control it." One tall Muscovite apparently lost control at this. "Have you ever fought a war? How old are you," he demanded, "What do" you know about all this?" ' Medalie replied calmly that he never fought a war but that he shared the same aspirations for peace as the Russians. Finally an exhausted Medalie tore himself away from the Red Square stand to catch a bus home, promising to continue the debate later Saturday. Coast Guard Gives Up Tugboat Search San TTranriKf-n (W - Thu Coast Guard said Friday it has called off a search for the tugDoax " reDorted missing July 28 with two men aboard on a voyage from San Francisco to Portland, Ore. "fliir search failed to turn up any-sign of the tug," a spokes man said. "All we can oo now is and alert ev erybody 'to watch for it." The tug, registered out of Port land, left here July 19 on what is normally a three-day voyage. Aboard were Capt. John Cone, 51, and crewman "aui wooiens, 17, both of Portland. The Coast Guard said the craft ehnnlfl not have exoerienced any difficulty from weather or sea conditions. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport craft-type building, unions while production and maintenance jobs should fall to unions organized on plant-wide lines. Roving peace teams would settle dis putes on the spot. The Teamsters contend the agreement favors industrial un ions. They will offer a resolu tion at the convention prepared by the Teamster Euilding Coun cil in Detroit Hoffa's strong hold. The resolution says the Teamsters support, the AFL-CIO merger hut adds: "We are not prepared to pay the high price tag that the ulti mate product apparently now carries." Decline "Lambs" Role The Teamsters will ask the buildiqg trades department to advise Meany that construction unions do not intend to become "sacrificial lambs" because of the labor merger. "We are not going to voluntari ly urge our memberships to com mit job suicide without a clear understanding on jurisdiction with those contesting for his self same jurisdiction patently within our traditional rights,", the pro posed resolution says. Labor sources view the Team sters move as a power play by Hoffa, an attempt to force a wedge between Meany and the building trade leaders. These sources also said the Teamsters, under fire from AFL-CIO on corruption charges, may use the jurisdiction issue as an excuse to leave the federation instead cf facing expulsion for failure to clean house. Hoffa Proposes to Centralize Unions San Francisco (IPI James Hoffa, heir apparent to Dave Beck as president of the Team sters Union, met some still op position during a closed meet ing Friday on his proposal to centralize control of the giant union's four divisions. . Frank Brewster, head of the teamsters' Western Division, told newsmen he firmly opposed Hoffa's recommendation and would seek support in his oppo sition from the executive board and policy committee of the Western conference later this month. "We reached agreement on some changes . I recommended," Hoffa said. "There was some op position, but we will see what the delegates think" at the com ing national convention ih Mi ami. Hoffa's proposal that all trans portation unions merge into one nationwide organization re ceived little support from the other unions involved. Heads of the Locomotive En gineers, Railway Conductors and the Airlines Pilots associ ation said they were not inter ested in Hoffa's plan to form a council to create closer working alliance between teamsters, longshoremen, rail and airlines workers. . William Bradley, head of the Eas.t and Gulf Coast longshore-, men, came up with the only fav orable reaction to Hoffa's plan. He said his union1 would get to gether with the teamsters to forge an amalgamated transpor tation union. ALL IN THE EAR What you see m this girl's ear is Sonotone's new hear ing aid complete. IT'S WORN ENTIRELY IN THE EAR - no cord, no extra "button." Weighs only half an ounce. Women's hairdos hide it1 completely.' On ' men, this amazing hearing aid is barely noticeable from any angle. COMf IN, PHONf OK WRITE. FUf OEMONSttUnON-NO OBUGATIOH S0N0T0NE C. R. Adamson, Dist. 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