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.
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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
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WeII Be CLOSED
MEMORIAL DAY
FRIDAY, MAY 30th
Shop TONIGHT and THURSDAY
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OPEN AGAIN SATURDAY
A MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE
TO OUR HONORED HEROES!
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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
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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. Taylor, labor editor of The
Oregonian, died Sunday in a
local hospital. Her death fol
lowed by a year that of her
husband.
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