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Of Ordeal in Alps
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By CLAUDIO CORTI
At Told To United Presi
Copyright 1957 by United Pren
Interlaken, Switzerland (W
-l have just lived through eight
days of snowy hell eight days
and nights on the Eiger north
wall In the Alps.
Few men, perhaps fortunately,
taste such adventure of climb
ing into the unknown, reaching
Girard Could Get
Fine of About $3
Honolulu Wl Army Spe
cialist William S. Girard, facing
trial for manslaughter in a Jap
anese court, can be found guilty
only of negligence and fined
about S3, a former U. S. chief
justice in Germany said Tues
day. William Clark, 66, outspoken
jurist who was fired b;' Ambas
sador James B. Conant over a
policy dispute, made the com
ment as he arrived here en route
to Tokyo for the Girard trial.
Clark said the Japanese may
charge the GI with intentional
killing but "I don't see how they
can prove it." He said the death
of a woman on an American
firing range was "a fluke" as
she was struck by an empty
cartridge case Girard shot from
a grenade launrfher and this
would not ordinarily prove fatal.
Clark, of Princeton, N. J., and
former judge of the Third U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in Phil
adelphia, quoted the Japanese
criminal code which states that
"persons who cause death of an
other through negligence shall
be punished with a fine of not
more than 1,000 yen (about $3)."
the point o fno return, sudden
realization that one is lost and
finally the agonizing happiness
of rescue.
But of all the memories, two
others mean th most.
Couldn't Speak
One is a strange one. It is that
I never got to speak to two of
the men with whom I shared
nearly a week on this wair of
death, and who now are dead.
They spoke only German and I
spoke only Italian.
We shared life and, almost,
death but only through sign
language.
The other memory is one of
vast sadness.
For five years I searched for
a partner to take with me on
the Eiger climb. But now he too
is dead, my friend Stefano
Longhi. My survival seems al
most unfair, for I am a bachelor
and Stefano left a wife and chil
dren. I am happy to have survived
without permanent injury be
cause it will be easier for me to
help care for them.
Loved the Mountains
Although' I am dictating this
from a hospital bed in Interlaken
I won't say that I'm through
with climbing. As far back as I
can remember I have loved the
mountains. But now I have had
enough for the time being.
I am a chauffeur by trade
from Lecco, in Como Province.
I have lived near the mountains
all my 29 years.
My biggest wish always was
to scale the north wall of Eiger.
I think I was well prepared to
try.
HOUSE OF DOORS
Romford, Englad (IP Philip
Tomkins, 53, began a month's
jail sentence today for stealing
423 door handles from the hard
ware store where he worked.
Tomkins confessed he stole the
handles because he thought they
would come in handy in his new
home.
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in the torture deaths of two cats
was picked up as a suspect in a
group, of juvenile burglaries.
Detective John Caldwell said
the youth and six others ranging
in age from 13 to 16 were being
questioned about burglaries at a
food store, a drug store, barber
shop, and a cabin, plus stolen
automobiles.
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to wonder if he isn't wasting his
time. Speck suspects that one of
the parolees who reported to
him on good behavior may have
stolen $146.55 in petty cash from
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Oregon Congressional
Delegation Asks ICC
To Reconsider Rates
Washington HP) The Inter
state Commerce Commission was
asked today to reconsider the
action of its suspension board in
refusing to suspend reduced
freight rates on fresh meats and
packing house products shipped
from the east to Portland, Ore.,
Seattle, Wash., and other West
Coast points.
The request was made by
Sens. Wayne Morse and Richard
L. Neuberger, and Reps. Edith
Green, Al Ullman and Charles
O. Porter, all Oregon Democrats.
They asked ICC Chairman
Owen Clarke for "immediate re
consideration" of the board's
action. The delegation said there
should be a suspension of the
proposed rate reduction in order
to provide time for public hear
ings on the matter.
"Unless the ICC appeals
board suspends the proposed
drastic rate reductions, irrepar
able harm will result to an ex
tremely important segment of
the economy of the West Coast,"
they said.
Washington Iff) The three
per cent federal freight tax danv
ages economic and ipdustrial de
velopment in the Pacific North
west more than in any other re
gion of the nation, Senator Rich
ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) de
clares in the August issue of
Railway Progress magazine.
Neuberger claims in an article
titled, "The Tax that Chokes the
West, that Oregon lumber, can
ned fruits and similar products
are placed at a serious competi
tive disadvantage by being
"saddled" with the levy. More
than half the entire population
of the countr yresides in a rela
tively small area around eastern
cities, he said, and yet the North
west must ship its products over
long freight hauls to be sold,
with all the transportation sub
ject to federal freight tax.
"To ship a carload of lumber
to Pittsburgh," Neuberger said
in the article, "the Oregon saw
mill must pay a 40 per cent
higher transportation tax than a
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Georgia or Alabama."
Wednesday, August 14, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
FBI Agenls Hunt
For Spy's Money
New York HU FBI agents
searched today for a large sum
of money supposedly buried in
the New York area by Russia
master spy Rudolf Ivanovich
Abel for use in financing his
espionage ring.
One high official said the So
viet intelligence officer had hid
den an estimated $50,000 in
New York City and in parts of
Long Island. A search for addi
tional money also was reported
in Poughkeepsie, 75 miles north
of New York, where Abel al
legedly had sought to set up a
short wave radio station for
espionage purposes.
The search for the money was
disclosed " shortly after FBI
agents Tuesday found $15,000 in
cash in a safe deposit box Abel
had rented in a branch of the
Manufacturers Trust Company
under the name of Alan Wins-
Five Measles Cases
Reported in Medford
Measles cases in the county
returned to the list of communi
cable diseases reported during
the week of Aug. 9 after being
absent from the report the pre
vious week. Five cases were re
ported in Medford according to
the Jackson county department
of health.
Other diseases' reported last
week include pneumonia, four
in Medford and one each in Ash
land and Jacksonville; one in
fectious mononucleosis in Med
ford; two strep throats, one each
in Central Point and Eagle Point;
one impetigo in Medford; and
one case each in Central Point
and Eagle Point of whooping
cough.
ton. When arrested June 21 at
his hotel room here, Abel had
S6.000 in cash, according to the
FBI. Authorities have speculated
that Abel was aware he was
under FBI surveillance and had
planned to use the money to flee
the country.
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Upper Applegaie Grange
Danger that the National
Grange Headquarters in Wash
ington, D.C., will be swallowed
up in a proposed federal build
ing project has been averted for
the present, Sister Anna Scott;
legislative chairman, reported
when Upper Applegate Grange
met in regular session Aug. 9.
No funds were appropriated
by Congress for erection of the
proposed building during the
fiscal year 1958, and although
the matter may be revived in
January, if is believed the
Grange site may be omitted
from any "future legislation due
to the storm of protest from
Grangers all over the country.
Sister Scott also called attention
to the National Grange Monthly
which she recommended as a
non-partisan publication.
Agriculture Chairman James
Corson reported one bright spot
in the farm picture in the pres
ent abundance of feed and rea
sonable prices for hay which
have resulted in better returns
to the producer for beef cattle.
Since the subject is one of
vital interest to everyone in the
area, the agriculture committee
plans to present a speaker on
the Rogue Basin development
program during the lecture hour
?i the next Grange meeting Aug.
23, Brother Corson announced.
Chaplain Kathleen Scovell, re
porting for the relief committee,
stated Brother Wilfred Pearson,
who recently underwent suf
gery at Sacred Heart hospital
in Medford, is convalescing at
home, and Sister Grace Pearson
is recovering from a sprained
leg and foot sustained in a fall.
The young daughter of the Har
lan Cantralls, who fractured her
collar-bone in a fall from a bi
cycle, is also convalescing at
home, it was stated.
Chairman Edna Sawyer of the
home economics committee pre
sented an estimate of $60 as the
cost of drapery materials and
rods for the meeting room, the
drapes to be made by members
of the Home Economics club.
Since the committee had a $15
cash balance on hand, and the
remaining $45 required was
pledged from among those pres
ent at the meeting, the commit
tee was authorized, to proceed
with the project.
Two new songs were intro
duced by the music committee
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for use in Grange meetings, and
were well received by the group.
Tentative plans for having the
remainder of the chairs for the
meeting room brought down
from Portland where they are
now in storage, were discussed.
The matter' of weatherproof
ing the exterior of the Grange
hall was also discussed and
Worthy Master Menno Bachman
agreed to secure comparative
prices on standard weather
proofing solution used on this
type of structure, and on paint,
and to bring this report to the
next meeting.
Sister Betty Nicholsen was
presented and brought greetings
from Tualatin Grange of which
she is a member. She has been
visiting at the home of her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Willis Scott on Little
Applegate.
Gratitude was expressed on
behalf of Upper Applegate
Grange to Brother Menno Bach
mann and Sister Maude Bach
mann for their gift of an elec
tric sign for the Grange hall.
At the conclusion of the busi
ness session, some time was de
voted to practicing floor work
in lieu of a lecturer's program.
During the refreshment hour,
Sister Stella Winningham, a
charter member, was presented
with a birthday cake and the
felicitations of all present. Sister
Winningham, one of whose hob
bies is knitting, recently com
pleted a beautiful knitted lace
altar cloth which she presented
to the Grange and which is now
in use in the meeting room.
Ladies of the Home Economics
club composed the hostess com
mittee for the evening, serving
refreshments of ice cream, cakes
and coffee. They were somewhat
inconvenienced by the lack of
dishes and silver occasioned by
the rifling of locked kitchen
cupboards by burglars sometime
during the preceding week, but
refusing to be daunted by the
situation, which had not been
discovered until they were ready
to serve, they dispensed coffee
in water glasses, and offered
forks in place of spoons for the
ice cream.
All members are reminded
that the display table for the
next meeting on Aug. 23, will
feature interesting objects, pic
tures, or other items pertaining
to Oregon. Each individual is
expected to bring something to
add to the display and be pre
pared to tell about it.
AD EXECUTIVE DIES
New York Wl Gilbert H.
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manager of the Staten Island
Advance and who served as an
advertising executive on news
papers in Lexington, Ky., Sioux
Falls, S.D., Sioux City, Iowa,
and Miridan, Miss., died, Monday.
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