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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, WdneJay, May 28, 1938 Attempted Assassination Charges Dropped by Jury New York (IP) Al all- male jury Tuesday night ac quitted Vincent (Chin) Gi gante of the attempted assas ination of gambler Frank Cos tello. The blue ribbon panel de liberated 6',i hours before de ciding that Gigante, a former heavyweight boxer, was not the fat, waddling gunman who creased Costello s scalp with a bullet as the gambler entered the foyer of his ap artment building May 2, 1957. If convicted of the attemp ted murder charge, Gigante, 30, could have received a maximum prison sentence of 25 years. Repudiates Testimony The jury's verdict, returned shortly before midnight, in effect repudiated the testi mony of the prosecution's star witness, Norval Keith, the doorman in Costello's apartmentbuilding. The only writness to the shooting, he had identified Gigante as the gunman who followed Costel lo into the foyer,, snapped, "This is for you Frank," and fired one shot at close range. Defense counsel Maurice Edelbaum stressed to the jury, however, that Keith has i BIG PICKLE TOUR Chicago (UPI) Thorn Koutsoukos, 27, who had his name changed to Johnny Pickleseed. has covered In diana and Illinois on a pickle planting spree. ' I've always had an ambi tion to be a deliverer of dills," extremely poor vision in one eye and that the sight in his other eye was impaired. Costello, testifying for the prosecution, maintained he did not see his assailant and had no idea why anyone would want to kill him. California School Sels New Program Salinas. Calif. (UPI) Many critics of the United States education system feel that the more capable students are not given enough to do. Salinas has formulated a new program in an attempt to meet this challenge. Special classes in separate rooms have been set up for rapid learners in the fifth and sixth grades. The pupils at tend these classes for half a day each. The remainder of the day is spent in the regu lar classroom. "The atmosphere of the room is charged with scholar ship," according to Mrs. Bea trice Schoenwisner, who teaches one special class. "The pupils know why they come here. They feel a responsibil ity and" I must say that they live up to it." Science, mathematics and social studies form the core of the special program. The highest waterfall in the world is ,Tuegla in Natal in the Union of South Africa. Its height is 2.810 feet. 2 Days Left To SAVE at the Big "Change of Ownership" Sale at Lucas & Howard With National Brands YOU Know Furniture Barn Hiway 99 South of Centra! Point North of Medford-Phone NO 4-2243 LISTENING TO MESSAGE of congratulation are the Wisconsin triplets, on their 83rd birthdate. Reading the congratulations is their sister, Miss Barbara Schlegel. Others, left to right are Julia Schlegel, Mrs. Mary Sichler, and Mrs. Helen Sholes. They are believed to be second oldest triplets in U. S. Party was at Alma Center, Wisconsin. (UPI Telephoto) Alfred Hitchcock Claimed Best Cocktail Entertainer By DOC QUIGG New York (UPI) I've had cocktails, through the years, with such enchanting personalities as Polly Adler, Winston Churchill, Ataturk's favorite dancing girl, Prin cess Grace of Monaco, Frank Costello, and other names top fancy to drop, but let me tell you this there's no cocktail host like Alfred Hitchcock. When Hitchcock throws a cocktail party, whimsy breaks out in great dollops and spreads all over the place. His latests drinkery for the press was in an unfinished room near the top of an un finished skyscraper and was reached by taking an unfin ished elevator. The elevator had no lights. It was draped inside with funereal black cloth. But enough light came . through the black lining, as you were borne skyward, to disclose a skeleton standing in the cor ner. It was not a naked skele ton. It wore a black brassiere with red trimmings, and a sprouting red-feather head dress. As you entered the party room, a place of bare, unfin ished concrete and plaster, a couple of zombie ladies with scraggly-hanging black hair dos handed you a Hitchcock insurance policy. It provided indemnity for loss of life, limb, sight or time by acci dental means. The bartenders were dress ed as surgeons, with white masks. An oxygen tank, la beled "just in case," stood by. The room was dressed with two coffins and a scat tering of skeletons in various poses. Two nurses were coming and going, but their going ap pearance was a vast change from their approaching one. Their uniforms were stand ard in front. But in the back they opened wide in an up side down V. The top of the opening was at about mid-spine. Didn't Look Like Nurse One of the nurses wore special panties, tiered with lace ruffles and tiny black bows. "Made 'em myself," she said. The other apparent ly had not got the word be forehand about the new-style uniform she would be wear ing. She wore nothing spe cial. I "asked her what was the name of the new style. "Peek-a-boo," she replied. The affair was called a "vertigo party." Guests got worker's plastic helmets with "vertigo room" printed on them. A platform outside a window was marked "get your vertigo here," and sure enough, it did afford a rather dizzying view of third avenue. Maybe you think the whole thing was just too cute, but everybody had a nice time, and Hitchcock got in some nice plugs for his hair-raising movie. "Vertigo," as if you didn't know. (GMdDCCIE 83 WeII Be CLOSED MEMORIAL DAY FRIDAY, MAY 30th Shop TONIGHT and THURSDAY For Your Holiday Food Needs! OPEN AGAIN SATURDAY A MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE TO OUR HONORED HEROES! O let us all pause and redicate ourselves to the caues for which these men died . . . Liberty. May it be preserved forever as the honored heritage of Every American! Your Groceteria is closed tomorrow Memorial Day so that members of our staff may observe this traditional American holiday BONUS BIG JUMBO 3 PACK N ALLEY POTATO CHIPS Regular 59c Package WITH EACH ORDER OF $10.00 OR MORE PURCHASED IN ONE DAY Limit One to a Family OFFER ENDS TOMORROW NIGHT Depressed Flat Car To Haul Transformer Chicago (UPI) Ten new depressed flat cars, recently delivered to the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, will be used mainly for transport ing transformers and heavy industrial equipment. David O. Mathews, C.&E.I. president, said the deep-well cars are the first equipment of its type ever ordered by the railroad. Total cost of the new cars was about S350,000. Each car has a 21-foot deep well center, which allows clearance under bridges with loads of machinery and other bulky cargoes. The deep-well centers are only 24 inches above the rails. House Built in 1791 Still Stands Windsor, Va. (UPI) The Green House, built in 1791 and still standing here, was once a girls' school which was attended by one boy Salmon P. Chase. Chase, who was born across the Connecticut river in Corn ish, obtained special permis sion as a little boy to attend the school with his older sisters. The curriculum must have been effective. Because Chase grew up to become Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and a Chief Justice of the United States. And today his face ap pears on the $10,000 bill. The United States postal savings system with deposits of more than $2,341 millions, is said to be the largest sav ings bank, in the world, ac cording to financial experts estimates. 1 Medford Gets Award In Traffic Safety Chicago (UPI) The east ern Oregon city of Baker has received the National Safety Council's second highest hon or, the award of merit, for the second year in a row-. Five other Oregon cities got certificate of achie v e m e n t awards for outstanding work in one or more fields of traffic safety. They were Bend, Cor vallis, Medford, Portland and The Dalles. Foresters Plan to Replace Redwoods Berkeley, Calif. (UPI) California foresters are giving some thought to replacing the redwood forests that grew along the coast hundreds of years ago and have supplied lumber for "generations. Young stands of redwoods are growing up where the venerable giants were cut down. Some of these "young" trees now 50 to 60 years old are ready to cut. Forestry experts have undertaken a program to manage the new crop of redwoods "most ef ficiently." The project of research on red-wood foresting is being conducted by the University of California, with the aid of a grant from the Foundation for American Resource. Management. Oregonan Editor's Widow Dies in Portland Portland (UPI) Mrs. Alice Taylor, widow of Fred G. 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