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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.
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L. H. McDaniels, Turlock,
Calif., spent two days in Med
ford this week representing the
Animal Analysis Associates. He
was sponsored by Emmett Gott,
distributor for the Curtiss Im
proved Stud service in this area.
McDaniels, said to be one of
eight qualified men in the Uni
ted States authorized to prepare
such analyses, worked with a
number of dairy herds in the
valley.
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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.
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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.
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