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TEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thundiy, August 29, 1957 vv- m tititks mill i s I r UNPRECEDENTED MOVE The U. S., in an unprece dented move, approved0 a Soviet request to land iwo Russian TU-104 twin-jet airliners in New York early next month. The jets, one of which is shown above at a Paris, France airport last May, will bring members of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations from Moscow. jiTiMiti W i I ir nnimmi in i I iiiiS nwimni , i. t mwninii.i. i 1 "WOULD MELT.AWAY"-Great Britain has unveiled details of a new rocket-and-jet-powered fighter that would just "melt away" if it flew at top speed. The Saunders Roe S-R53, a single seat interceptor, shown here in a test , flight, is said to fly at more than three times the speed of sound about 2000 miles per hour. HORNBROOK Two Return From Hospital Br MRS. H. H. CHAPMAN s Hornbrook Guests at . the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Shinar are her hister, Mrs. Don nis McDowell and son, Milan and Mr and Mrs. William Ku der, son-in-law and daughter of Mrs. McDowell, and Miss Katherine Swan, all of San Lor enzo, Calif. Miss Hellen Whitten, younger daughter of Mrs. Pauline Whit ten, returned home last week end from the hospital later on for further surgery on her foot. Miss Whitten '.caught it in the spokes of a bicycle several weeks ago! Mrs. Bill (Ethel) Farmer has been released from the Mercy licspital in Redding where she underwent major surgery two weeks ago. She is convalescing at the home of her sister in Red ding before returning to her home in Yreka. The Farmers lived in Hornbrook for several years before moving to Yreka a short time ago. Farmer is an inspector at the local California State Quarantine station. Wiretapping Is Favored in Cases San Francisco IP The Na tional Association of County and Prosecuting Attorneys believes the courts should let law offi cers tap telephones in certain cases just as they now let them .enter homes with a search war rant. A resolution urging telephone taps as a tool in the war on crime won approval of the asso- ciation Wednesday at the final j session of a three-day convene tion. Victor Blanc, 'Philadelphia district attorney, was the spon ping should be-outlawed," Blanc i said. "By that, I mean telephone taps by blackmailers,, private detectives in marital cases and so on. ' "But when 'syndicated crime is using the telephone, I thiiK wire-tapping should be permit ted law. enforcement officers, under supervision of the courts." The association also adopted a resolution urging mandatory -eatment of narcotics addicts. The sponsor was George H. Sco..t, county attorney -at Min neapolis. Minn. Scott urged that present crim inal laws against addiction be maintained and that addicts re leased from institutions be kept under strict parole supervision. The delegates reelected Frank E. Moss, county attorney of Salt Lake City, as president. Edward S. Silver, district attorney of Brooklyn, was reelected treas urer, and H. Russell Morse Jr., county prosecutor at Elizabeth, N.J., was renamed historian. Mrs. Paul Greene and her two granddaughters, Linda and Lydia Green, returned Sunday evening after spending two weeks at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Heflick and three sons of Riverside, Calif. They also visited - Mrs.' Greene's mother, Mrs. John Potter, at S a n Jacinto, Calif. Mrs. Greene's music classes will resume- .Tuesday, Sept; 3, for the fall term. Mrs. Marge Snyder and chil dren, Karen and Victor,, of Med ford, spent the week end at the home of her mother, Mrs. Min nie Bloomingcamp and her brother, Charles.' On Sunday, the family were dinner guests at the home of an aunt, Miss Elsie, Bloomingcamp, in the Bogus district. ... Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Cum mins and daughter Shirley, and Mrs. Cummins father, Charles Spearin, drove to Crater Lake Sunday. En rote home they slopped in Klamath Falls for a visit ' with- Mr. and Mrs. Ray King and daughter. Mrs. King is a sister of Cummins. To Heavy' June Havoc suggests "lot weight wifc AYOS. No starvation AYDS taken tta directed .curbs your appetite, you eat less, lose weight. A clinic tested four differ- enl reducine methods and proved the AYDS P'.an safe and best. AYDS users lost the most weight njcly! Guaranteed. Only $3.00.. Wainscott's Pharmacy 322 E. MAIN - MEDFORD Mrs. Bertha Bradley drove to Ashland Tuesday, taking Mrs. Clara Howard over to send a fews days with her son and doughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Howard, while she recuper ates from injuries sustained last week, in a fall. Miss ' Charlotte Hufford of Yreka is a guest of Miss Sharee Walsh at her home. Little Joe Appears In Federal Court Portland (IPl Joe Oniru, better known as Little Joe the stowaway, was back in a feder al court here Wednesday, once again facing deportation charges to his native Japan. Little Joe is now 25. While still in his teens he was arrest ed at Eugene on a mail theft charge but made prosecution difficult by pretending not to understand any language that was spoken to him.- He is now accused of entering the country illegally at San Francisco. When Joe appeared in court before Federal Judge Gus Solo mon, the Judge asked, "Haven't I seen you" .before?" Joe replied proudly, ' "Oh, sure thing. Judge. Many time I come here." , The little immigrant also ex pressed delight that the attorn ey who represented him in .past difficulties with the law would be appointed to handle his latest case. When Judge Solomon appoint ed Floyd Frederickson. Joe said "That is very good. He is a very nice man." Chicago Police Are Investigating 'Good' Suspects in Slaying By ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN United Press Correspondent Chicago IW Police today in vestigated a number of "good suspects" in the gruesome slay ing of . 15-year-old Judith Mae Andersen, who butchered body was found stuffed in oil drums. "This is one slaying that is going to be solved definitely," said Lt. Michael Spiotto, head of the detective bureau. The names of the suspects, which were not disclosed, were obtained Wednesday night dur ing lie detector tests on Elena Abbatacola, 15, the victims clos est friend, and four of Elena's brothers. Last Visit Elena is the last known per son to have seen Judith Mae alive. The two girls had spent the evening of Aug. 16 watch ing television until about 11:15 p.m. at the Abbatacola apart ment when Judith Mae left ior home and disappeared. , The victim's torso was found last Thursday in an oil drum floating in Lake Michigan. Her arms,, hands and head were found in a second oil container in the lake three days later. Authorities said Elena and her brothers took the lie' tests voluntarily to clear up discrep ancies and to establish they were not hiding any information about the case. The tests "cleared" Elena and three of her brothers, Nrckolas, 18; John, 26, and Leo, 30, police said. The results on the fourth Drotner, josepn, za, were in conclusive," but police empha sized he was not a suspect. Joseph will be given another test today, they said. Sgt. Thomas Mulvey, head of a special investigating unit, said the persons named by Elena were under surveillance and did not know they are being watched. "These persons are being put in the category of good sus pects," Chief of Detectives Pat rick J. Deeley announced. Deeley said one pf the ques tions cleared up by the lie tests was that the Abbatacolas had no knowledge of the gun used i in the slaying. Judith Mae had been shot in the head four times before her body was .-dismem bered. Mystery Writer, Craig Rice, Dies In Her Apartment Los Angeles IP) Mystery writer Craig Rice died unexpect edly Wednesday night in her apartment of what police listed as apparently natural causes. She ! was 49. r Officers said Miss Rice, one of the best known 'contemporary "whodunit" authors, was strick en while entertaining several friends. The writer, a native of Chicago, fell to the floor and was dead when police arrived. An autopsy was to be perform ed today to determine'the exact: cause of death. Although Miss Rice had attempted suicide twice in 1949, her friends said she had been in good spirits and believed she might have suffered a fatal heart attack. Full Career Miss Rice's career had been filled with ups and downs.. She bad been married and divorced five times and was the mother af three. At one time she was committed to a state hospital for treatment of alcoholisnj- In 1949 she threatened suicide and was placed in the Los- An geles County, General hospital. That same 'year, she tried to take her life again with sleeping pills and was rushed to a Santa Monica, Calif., hospital.. She. was near death in a coma for several days. . . . - ,. .. i The prolific author, who used such pen names as Michael Ven ning and Daphne Sanders, began her writing career as a newspap-' er cub reporter in 1925 Her books included . "The Corpse Steps Out," "Trial by Jury," "Murder Through The Looking Glass," and "To Catch a Thief." Many of her best sellers were made into movies. She collab orated on the screen plays of such films as "Home Sweet Homicide," and "The tinder world Story." ine-YearrOld Is Mother of Boy Little Rock, Ark TO A 9-year-old mother rested quiet ly today, but her 2V4-pound boy struggled for his life in an in cubator. The child was born about a month and a half prematurely, officials at University of Ar kansas Medical Center said Wed nesday. Dr. Eva Dodge, who deliver ed the baby, said the child's Negro mother was verified through a birth certificate to have been born in another state in March, 1948. Dr. Willis E. Brown, head of the center's Department of Ob stetrics and Gynecology, said the mother is the youngest on his department's records, nosing out by two years an 11-year-old girl -who gave birth to a baby in the hospital about three weeks ago. - Hospital .officials -refused to reveal further details. They would not give the girl's name, hom- town or whether she was married. William W. Hughes, news director for "the center, said, "Doctors have decided to protect such cases as this as far as publicity is concerned." The baby was placed in an incubator and doctors said he had a good chance to live. The 9-year-old mother was re ported in good condition today. Court Rules in Favor Of General Motors Seattle (IP) A U.S. District Court Wednesday night return ed a verdict in favor of General Motors in a damage suit brought by Anderson Buick company, a former Seattle distributor, for Buick Motor Division of Gen eral Motors. M. O. Anderson asked for damages of S4.164,290.84. He claimed he had expanded his business at the urging of GM and suffered severe losses when his distributorship was termin ated by GM June 30, 1954. The company claimed Ander son's distributor franchise and four other distributorships in the Pacific Northwest expired in June of 1953. Buick offered the five distributors contracts at that time. Anderson did not ac cept a dealer 'franchise while, the other four continued as Buick dealers, the firm said. Anderson's suit was based on the claim he was entitled to have his distributorship fran chise continued indefinitely. J. Paul Coie, Seattle attorney for GM, contended successfully that Buick dealerships were awarded on a one-year renew able basis and that Anderson understood the status of GM contracts. Iowa Girl Reigns As Mi ftm fjy jy. tffa Chicago (IPl Florence Krohn, Prairie City, Iowa, Wednesday night reigned as queen of the Flying Farmers association con vention here. Mrs. Krohn, a novice pilot, said she had recently learned to land a plane. The convention ended Wednesday night arid some 400 plane loads of delegates- were scheduled to begin flying back to their homes today. Kirkland Lake, Ont. -OPI A 38-year-old gold miner died in a pile of rocks at the- 4,000-foot level on the Teck-Hughes' mine Wednesday night a few hours after asking rescuers to tell his wife: "I'll be a little late for supper." j Fellow miners lifted out the body of Jean Morrissette, father of nine children, after working for 12 hours to save him and Farm Laborer, Dog Killed in Indiana . Crown Point, Ind. API A shabbily-dressed farm laborer and his dog were dead today, one the victim of an automobile, the other a victim of a police man's bullet. Anton Petrovich and his dog were walking along U.S. 30 near here Wednesday when a car struck Petrovich down. His loyal dog crouched pro tectively .before Petrovich's crumpled form, warding off po lice who sought to determine Petrovich's condition. Police finally had to shoot the dog. When they examined Petrovich, he was dead also. shift boss James Maxwell Par kers, -65. ' Parker was taken to Kirkland hospital where doctors warned that both feet might have to be amputated. The slide of shale and rock occurred at 10 a.m., pinning the men as they worked on the 4.000-foot level. The Teck Hughes mine was considered one of the safest gold mines in Canada. ON r You will be, too! 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