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o 8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medforrf, Oregoa, Sun. ay, Junt 15, 1938 t S 0 , ll NAMED TOP OFFICERS The four offi cers above, all from the 1st battalion, 186th infantry division of the National Guard of Oregon, were the top four graduates out of a class of 135 of an infantry school recently completed at Ft. Benning, Ga. They are, left to right, 2nd Lt. Cecil W. Purcell and 2nd Lt. Robert Taylor, company B, Cottage Grove; 2nd Lt. Paul Blair, company A, Medford; and 1st Lt. Richard Greer, head quarters company, Medford. Ernst Report on Disappearance Of Eugene Flyer Sheds Jo Light - Vmi ri--'-' By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The 95-page document prepared by "New York Attorney Morris L "'x h.rnst roncprn. ' " - w - ;ing the myste- nous di s- 't appearance of Prof. Jesus de ' Galindez and Oregon Avia tor Gerry Mur phy is a dis i appoint m e n t because it A Robt Smitb sneas no new light, offers no critical new facts on this strange tase. Entitled "report and opin ion in the matter of Galin dez," the Ernst document turns out to be much more an opinion than a report. It turns out to be an attempt to tear down the most substantially documented account of Life magazine of how Murphy flew a plane for hire to the Dominican Republic with Ga lindez aboard after the profes sor had been kidnaped and drugged in New York. It ends up with an unsubstantiated theory that Galindez is still alive. The report is in the un usual,, yet appropriate, style of a letter to Sidney S. Baron, the New York public relations expert who hired Ernst for S50.000 and who represents the Dominican Republic in the somewhat difficult taslf of putting Dominican Dictator Raphael Trujillo's best foot forward. With an expense account provided by Trujillo through Baron, Ernst employed an ex cop from New York, Francis X. Grottano, who. scouted from New York to Eugene to Miami for clues. Inasmuch as the New York police and the FBI had worked the ground more thoroughly much earli er, it is little wonder Grot tano uncovered so little. For one thing, he found a woman who swore she saw Galindez alive over a year after Mar 13, 1956, the day young Murphy is presumed to have flown him to the Domin ican Republic with the aid of Trujillo's henchmen. He found her in the New York Federal Reformatory for Women. ' To one who has followed every development in the Murphy case since the disap pearance of the Eugene flier Dec. 3, 1956, the troublesome aspect of the Ernst report is that it is loaded with sugges tions, inuendo, about Murphy --all unsupported by facts which borders on libel. 'Enigmatic Characters' "Of all the enigmatic char acters in this entire situation there is none more pathetic than Gerald Lester Murphy. He was a lad born of a tender and well-motivated mother, well educated in public school with, later, some class es at college. He had a life- Father's J)k Day ' ,-fliP5H and r $&&mV 'Year (MMi smoothest of all . . . Faberge's new Creme Shave Extraordinaire creamy, fragrant, face-saving lather in a handsome and handy foam dispenser gift boxed, 1.50 together with matching Men's Lotion in the new Faberge Shave Kit 375 the set his choice of sports-loving Woodhue or man-about-town Aphrodisia We Give Northern Stamps Double Stamps en :' Prescription I DRUG CEMTRF 1 FIRST I Free Delivery Phone SP 2-7113 Open Weekdays 8:30 a.m. to time dream which must have been implanted in him when a child he wanted to be a flier. He attempted to enlist in our Army but was classi fied as 4F because of poor eye sight ... It is this gap be tween his ability and his am bition which we find, in sym pathetic terms, to be the ma trix of his odd life," it begins. Telling how he got into free-lance flying in Florida before the Galindez disap pearance, the report goes on to say: "Our research into the habits of Murphy naturally led us into the area of money. We knew that freelance pilots live lives of terrific tempta tion. It is profitable to smug gle nylon, drugs, guns, immi grants and people who want to enter or leave our shores illegally. We are inclined to believe that the border patrol of the U.S. government must have a substantial dossier on Murphy." Generalizations The late Sen. Joe McCarthy would have been hard put to smear a man more than Ernst did young Murphy with these generalizations about smug gling but with no evidence that Murphy engaged in such activities. Ernst explores up to a point the Dominican story that Murphy was murdered by a fellow pilot, following a quar rel, and that the pilot then committed suicide and left a note telling all. The State De partment has formally reject ed this story, charging that the suicide note was a for gery. The Dominicans brought from Spain a handwriting ex pert who said the note was genuine. The American Em bassy, using U.S. experts who studied.-photostatic copies of the note and the pilot's hand writing, rejected it as phoney. Ernst hired an expert who preceded to undermine the State Department's petition by claiming that only an ex amination of the original doc uments, which Spanish ex pert had studied, would per mit a fair evaluation. But as to whether the in dependent expert himself thought the suicide note to be genuine, Ernst didn't say. He dismissed the matter by say ing: "At about this point, since we had found that the Galindez disappearance was divorced from Mumhy's acti vities, we went no further tr wards determining the valid ity of the opinion of the Span ish handwriting expert." Rep. Charles O. Porter CD Ore .), whose insistence on government investigation of the Murphy case has already brought conviction of one Trujillo agent, - John Frank, found the Ernst report "fan tastic." But the editor of the Washington Daily News, John T. O'Rourke, who is president of the Inter-American Press association, didn't find it so fantastic. The editor said: "It simply proves there are a lot of ways of making a living." Portland Prisoner Dies in Hospital Portland (UPI) A Port land city jail prisoner, Carl Logsdon, 60, died in a hos pital Friday after he was found seriously ill in his cell, police reported. Officers said Logsdon was in jail on a drunkenness charge. The Multnomah coun ty coroner's office said an au topsy would be performed. BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized , and Copper Fabrication 2237 West tain PHONE SP 2-4440 L Diary of a Bird Watcher Saturday, June 7 Over near KBES-TV I finally saw my first nighthawks. A half dozen of them were flying around in their skillful and somewhat erratic manner catching insects in the air. I told my wife about seeing them and she said she had been hearing them over our own place during the day. Monday, June 9 J. H. and I got away just before 5 a.m. for a trip to Tule lake. Once in a while it is fun to get away from our home territory and see the many different birds that are in this nearby area. I think the Klamath Basin must be one of the finest water bird territories in the country. The part I enjoyed the most was the drive along the Stateline road from Dorris toward Tulelake. This was the place we got our first close-up views of many of the pretty water birds that we kept seeing later. I think a person would have to have a dull soul not to enjoy seeing these birds in their fine feathers at the nesting season. Two of the common ones, ruddy ducks and eared grebes, I have seen mostly 'in their drab winter plumage. But now, the ruddys were all aglow with their reddish bodies and contrasting black and white heads and light blue bills. The grebes have dainty buff facial tufts and reddish feathers on the flanks. Some of the other birds are pretty at all seasons. I don't think I'll ever tire of seeing the big white egrets or the smaller snowy egrets. White pelicans, in spite of their big bills are most graceful either on the water or in flight. The black and white western grebes are always the epitome of grace. Incidentally, we saw one of them sitting on its float ing nest quite close to the road. We were surprised to see a .number of non-breeding birds not yet gone to their nesting territories in the north. These included a few big, white snow geese, swans, and several kinds of ducks. We drove around Tule lake and into the Lava Beds Na tional Monument. By the time we stopped for lunch in the town of Tulelake about 11:30 we had checked in 80 species of birds. At that time we had visions of grandeur; we thought maybe we would get, 100 species or more in the day. How ever, in the afternoon our unfamiliarity with the territory slowed us up a lot and we failed to find some of the desert land birds we were looking for. We made a few stops coming back across the mountains to add to our list but by this time we were feeling hurried and didn't do so well. We got home about 5:30 and after scratching a couple of doubtful ones, ended with with 89. We agreed with each other that if we had not both had evening engagements we could have brought our list up to 100 by hunting out a few of the familiar birds of our own valley. It is just as well the way it was, though, because we were getting a little tired. Besides, even this was probably the largest number I ever personally identified in one day. The memory that remains, though, is of those beautiful water birds that we saw so clearly. Wednesday. June 11 I saw a curious thing in the morning. A sparrow hawk,, an oriole and a hummingbird came and landed near together on a wire all at the same time. I'm not sure whether they were all friends or which might have been chasing which. Anyhow, the smaller birds seemed to feel safe near the sparrow hawk, and the oriole actually moved over closer after alighting. After the sparrow hawk flew away, the oriole flew down to our red-hot poker plant and stuck its beak in a blossom. This is not a typographical error; the oriole did this, not the hummingbird. I saw it doing that .once before, too, and I read in a book that they are fond of nectar. Friday, June 13 The May-June number of the Audubon Magazine came. It has in it the article about hawks which I already read in the Readers Digest, only the Audubon Magazine article is better because of its fine illustrations. I am strongly in sym pathy with the points made by the author in favor of giving them more adequate protection. I hope that Oregon will soon follow the example of other states in protecting all hawks excepthose known to be invading chicken flocks or the like. Even the less common species of hawks that feed on other birds perform a useful function in taking the weaker ones and keeping the population in line with the food supply. I am sure that if men with guns would only watch and study hawks they would find them to be among the noblest of birds. T.M. Typing includes! in Classes cheduled This Summer Summer academic and rec reational classes of the Med ford Public schools have been announced by school officials. Regular academic classwork with emphasis on skill sub jects in the elementary and required subjects for gradua tion iri the secondary program is being offered. Glenn L. Linn, McLoughlin Junior High school principal, is sum mer school principal. For the first time, a class in personal typing will be of fered to senior high school students and to other stud ents who have completed ninth grade. Elemeniary Program Students accepted in the elementary program in grades one through six are those who have not quite made a passing minimum grade because of ill ness, absence, or other reas ons and those who barely met promotion minimums and need summer school for "strengthening." , Students in grades 7th through 12 are recommended to summer school to make up academic credits. Some stud ents in grades 9 through 12 take a new subject for credit in order to increase their pro gram of elective subjects the next school year. A recommendation from the student's teacher and princi pal is needed for summer school attendance at the ele mentary level and the stud ent's own grade status de termines his attendance from junior and senior high schools. All At McLoughlin Elementary classes will be held June 16-July 18 from 8:30 a.m. to non and junior and senior high classes June 16-July 25. All classes will be conducted at McLoughlin Jun ior High school. Registration will be at 8:30 a.m. Monday, June 16, at Mc Loughlin. No tuition fee will be charged for residents of school district 549C. A $50 tuition will be charged for others. The arts and crafts work shop, which is operated con currently with the academic Second Logging Death Reported Myrtle Point (UPI) Coos county recorded its second logging fatality in four days Thursday with the death of Lawrence Ice, 47, Camas Val ley, who was killed by a roll ing log about 20 miles east of here. Deputy County Coroner Harold Rushing said the acci dent occurred at the C.L. and C. Logging company opera tion near Bridge. Ice was em ployed as a choker setter for the Powers firm. Another logger, 22-year-old Melvin Packard of Roseburg, was killed on nearby Bone Mountain Tuesday when a log slipped, crushing him. Pack ard was a choker setter for Georgia-Pacific Corporation. summer school, will include wood - working, braiding, weaving, cooper tooling, tex tile painting and other proj ects. Mrs. Hazeldean Hohen see, Lincoln school staff mem ber, is instructor. The workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon Mon day through Friday in the woodshop building at Mc Loughlin. ,A registration fee of $1 is charged to pay partial cost of materials. Clasi Is Filled A driver training class for high school students is already filled for the summer session. Classes are scheduled at Medford High school for in strumental music students and baton twirlers, with I. A. Mirick, instructor in band, in charge of the project; John Drysdale as orchestra instruc tor; and Miss Sandra Lamg, baton instructor. Music classes, all of which are neia m tne nign scnooi band and orchestra rooms, in clude band, first session June 10-20 and second session, July 7-25; baton twirling, June 10-18and orchestra, first ses sion, June 10-20, and second session, July 21-Aug. 8. A separate program for ad vanced high school students will provide classes in Eng lish, mathematics and science. All will be in room 28, at Medford High school from 7 to 9 p.m. each Monday. Summer classes in English will start Monday, June 16; mathematics, June 23; and sci ence, June 30. They will con tinue in that order until the first week in September. About 30 top students are expected to take part in the classes out of 60-70 who are eligible, according to officals. English classes will provide opportunty to increase vo cabularies by studying roots, stems and prefixes and ap plying them to word analysis. Math Problems Classes in math' will work problems in arithmetic, alge bra, and geometry to improve quantitative thinking. Science classes will study interpreta tion of scientific literature. This is the third year the school system has offered the special program to keep top' students academically active during the summer. Those eligible have already been notified. ' 0 Other programs alfeilable to the area's youngsters dur ing the summer include ac tivities at the YMCA and in Boy and Girl Scouts. DIG GLEAN Rid Fir Slabs IjQ load PHELP S FUEL SP 3-5878 Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport MID -SEASON Boat 14' Performer Skipper wSS $37900 15' Performer Sportsman w-'SSS $82900 14'CAL-B0AT Was $497.50 How $43900 14' Champion Sabre w5!So s58900 0 14' Champion Sabre 3 &,eL $529 12' Fisherman wa,l222.5o flow 19900 14' Rockholf Standard w 85.oo ' 349 0 10' Mosquito Speed Boat w $,0.oo $119 SPECIAL! Hew 1957 Motors o 5H.P. $185.00 o 71 2 II.P $210,00 U o 16 ll.P. $240.00 Subject1 to Stock on Hand! A Few Used Motors 06l,.2H:p: $1475 0 ,7:......... S5500 O l-iq H.P. 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