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8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medforrf, Oregoa, Sun. ay, Junt 15, 1938
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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
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By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The 95-page
document prepared by "New
York Attorney Morris L
"'x h.rnst roncprn.
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;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-
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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.
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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.
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