MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
Tuesday, May 5, 1959
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O T..A, M 5. 1959 I I
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DECLARING THAT HE'D be a favorite son candidate
for President in the California primary election, Governor
Edmund G. Brown (R) confers with Senator John F.
Kennedy (D-Mass.) in Sacramento. Senator Kennedy
hinted to newsmen he would not oppose the Californian.
Boys' Curiosity of
Contents in Trunk
Reveals Mystery
By JACK V. FOX
UPI Correspondent
Hastings-On-Hudson, N. Y.
-fCPD-On a sunny afternoon
three weeks ago, Edward
Hennessey, 14, and Paul Ka-
zura, 16, were, walking down
a hilly road a few miles from
Sleepy Hollow where Ichabod
Crane was chased by the
"Headless Horseman."
They had been watching a
baseball game at the Graham
School, a home for boys of
wealthy divorced parents, and
were heading back to their
own homes in Hastings.
Suddenly Paul spotted a
shiny black trunk with brass
fittings glistening in the yet
leafless underbrush about 20
feet off the narrow macadam
private road leading to the
school.
The boys tugged the trunk
to the road and tried in vain
to pry open the locked
clasps. Then they put a tree
branch through its handle,
and, with one on either side,
lugged it to a nearby stone
aqueduct and heaved it over
to the rocks 60 feet below.
Found Soft Object
The top sprung open and
the boys clambered down to
the little brook where the
trunk had come to rest. But
instead of the treasure they
might have expected, they
found a "soft" object wrap
ped in a blanket giving off a
nauseaus odor. They ran to
the nearby home of Mrs. De
cilia Vickery and called the
police.
Thus began the baffling
ease of the "trunk torso"
which has set police of West
chester county, one of Ameri
ca's wealthiest and most so
cially prominent, searching
for clues and following leads
through New England and to
West Virginia and Washing
ton, D.C.
Inside the trunk was the
torso of an adult white male.
His arms had been severed
above the wrists, the legs cut
off at the groin and the head
and neck cut out down to
the collar bone. A butcher's
taw or a hacksaw and a knife
were used in performing the
amputations.
District Attorney Joseph F.
Gagliardi, Assistant District
Attorney Leonard Rubenfeld,
Sheriff John E. Hoy and Hast
ings Police Chief Joseph Tro
jac launched a murder hunt
that so far has left them right
where they started.
Called in Anthropologist
Identifying the victim was
the first, obvious taks.
Gagliardi called in the na
tion's top anthropologist, Dr.
Wilton Marion Krogman,
professor at the University of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
From medical reports and his
studies, Krogman came up
with amazingly detailed infor
mation. The victim, said Krogman,
was:
About 50 years old; five
feet, five inches; 150-160
pounds; reddish brown hair
touched with grey and reced
ing at the temples; broad face
and florid complexion; round
head with high prominent
forehead; heavy thighs and
walked with feet swung out.
Krogman also deduced:
Probably of middle Euro
pean stock, possibly Alpine;
probably had grey-blue eyes;
a strong man, clean-living,
didn't drink much.
Brand New Trunk
The trunk was the only
other tangible clue. It was
brand new and of a type
manufactured only since last
July by the Seward Mfg. Co.
of Petersburg, Va. It is an in
expensive model sold in hun
dreds of luggage stores across
the nation.
Medical Examiner Victoria
Bradess said the victim had
been dead about 48 hours.
Dozens of followups on
missing persons have been the
main work of more than 60
men assigned to the case. One
long-shot guess is that the
victim might be Jack Drucker,
53, one-time mmber of Mur
der, Inc., who has been miss
ing from his Brooklyn home
for almost four weeks.
But that is only a guess.
"The only thing we have
ruled out so far," says Chief
Trojac, "is suicide. He never
could have climbed in there
and closed the lid."
Cantor's Daughter
In Fair Condition
Los Angeles -l!PB- Marjorie
Cantor, comedian Eddie Can
tor's eldest daughter, was re
ported in fair condition today
at Cedars of Lebanon Hospi
tal where she was undergoing
treatment for an undisclosed
ailment.
Eisenhower Seen Victorious in
Fight With Demo Spending
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Washington Correspondent
Washington-It is beginning
to look like President Eisen
hower has won his battle with
c o ngressional
Democrats
over the issue
of spending
unless there is
some signifi
cant switch in
public opinion
in coming
weeks. This
will likely re-
a Rebt Smitfe strict the ef
forts of western lawmakers
in trying to get increases in
the federal budget for the
coming year for projects in
their states which the admin
istration has not favored with
funds this year.
Some of the tell-tale signs
are that Democratic leader
Sen. Lyndon B. "Johnson has
now said Congress will trim
the president's budget even
below the figures presented
by the administration.
Another is that despite the
most favorable conditions for
it, the Democrats in the House
failed to muster enough vot
ing strength to override a
presidential veto. The REA
bill, vetoed by the president,
was a natural for Congress
to override-mainly because it
afforded the Democrats a way
to take a perfect slap at Agri-1 Early in the current session,
culture Secretary Ezra Taf t. there was talk of Congress
Nevertheless, they failed by I quickly sending Eisenhower
four votes to swing the neces
sary two-thirds margin to
override. Only six Republi
cans deserted GOP ranks to
side with the Democrats
against the administration, one
of them being Rep. Walt
Horan (R-Wash.); . while four
Democrats voted with Repub
licans to sustain the veto.
It now appears unlikely
that the Democrats, for all
their wide margin in both
houses, can count on being
able to override any vetoes
on more controversial bills
that involve spending directly
The housing bill is a good
illustration. Passed earlier by
the Senate, it has been stalled
for weeks in the House Rules
Committee and may come out
shortly. The airport aid bill,
another Democratic thrust at
the low spending levels re
quested by the president, has
passed both Houses in differ
ent forms and a compromise
version has not yet been work
ed out.
It now appears that the Dem
ocratic " proponents of these
and still further public works
bills will have to tailor very
delicately the dollar levels of
these bills if they mean to
get them past the president
onto the law books. A veto
will surely kill them.
ARRIVING IN WASHINGTON, Secretary of State Chris
tian A. Herter (L) is greeted by C. Douglas Dillon who
was nominated by President Eisenhower to succeed
Herter as undersecretary of state. Herter just arrived
from Paris and the Big Four foreign minister talks.
Quotes From the News
BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Washington-Sir Winston Churchill, on being welcomed to
the United States by President Eisenhower:
"I am most happy once again to visit in the United States
which is my mother's country."
Miami. Fla.-Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris, commander of the
Army Ordnance Missile Command, on plans to fire a live
animal into space within 60 days:
"We can progress only so far on the basis of theory and
laboratory work. Then the issue has to be put to the proof."
Tallahassee, Fla.-Students at Florida A&M Negro univer
sity in calling off their classroom strike called to focus world
attention on the alleged rape of a Negro coed by four white
men:
"We think we have achieved victory. The officials now
are saying the guilty will be punished."
Hollywood-Comedienne Lucille Ball, explaining why she
refused to perform at a youth rally in Oklahoma City because
the crowd was too small:
"I could have performed. Perhaps I should have. I have
for less people. But I felt that if they continually ask Holly
wood people to do benefits then they should care enough to
publicise the event."
Heyworth, Hl.-Ronnie Bradley, after standing on a river
bank and watching his mother and father, three sisters and
a brother drown when their flat-bottomed boat capsized:
"Kow would you feel if you were standing there and you
couldn't do anything?"
airport aid and other legisla
tion and challenging him to
veto them. Fresh from the
Democratic sweep of the elec
tions, members of Congress
were confident they could at
least override any vetoes he
might apply to such higher
spending legislation.
Now the mood is much
changed. Members of Con
gress have apparently become
convinced that the country is
in no mood for vastly larger
programs, or at least the presi
dent has won considerable
support on the theme of bal
ancing the budget.
May Be Significant
This may prove ; significant
in the coming months when
the various appropriations
bills will be coming up for
votes in committees and on
the floor of both chambers.
Western congressmen are now
going before the House com
mittee on public works appro
priations to urge substantial
increases over the president's
budget. But there is talk that
the committee will be very
frugal when it draws up the
final bills.
Usually the Senate is count
ed on to up the amount pass
ed by the House, which is why
some people call it the upper
house. But Senator Johnson's
declaration that the Congress
is going to out-do the admin
istration in cutting the budget
offers little hope now for
western backers of more funds
for roads, dams, airports,
schools and housing.
England To Bomb
Secret Equipment
London - (UPD - The Royal
Air Force announced it would
bomb a Turkish mountain
top near the Soviet border
today to demolish secret rock
et equipment lost in a Diane
crash.
The equipment was scatter
ed near the too of 14.000-foot
Mount Subhan Dag, about 100
miles from the Soviet border,
when a British troop trans
port crashed 13 days ago.
The secret missile equip
ment aboard was en route to
the Woomera rocket range
in Australia when the Diane
smashed into the peak, killing
12 men.
British DaratrooDers and
rescue squads reached the
wreckage and buried the bod
ies of the victims but is was
considered too hazardous to
try to bring down the equip
ment and too dangerous to
leave it where it mieht h
found. .,
Titan Missile
Test Successful
Cane Canaveral. Fla - uTPD -
A Titan missile, rapidly de
veloping as the nation's most
powerful war rocket, jetti
soned its lower stage in flight
Monday , to notch its fourth
straight success.
Two minutes and 10 sec
onds after the first stace
burned out high over the
ovean, two small solid-fuel
rockets fired to achieve sep
aration of the Titan's two
sections. It was the first sep
aration attempt.
The second stage of the Ti
tan was not fired. Informed
sources said this would be at
tempted when the next Titan
is launched.
Planting, Seeding
Operations Ended
On 4,306 BLM Acres
Planting and seeding opera
tions were completed on 4,306
acres of bureau of land man
agement lands in the Medford
district during the 1958-59 re
forestation season.
Under terms of timber sale
contracts, 10 purchasers of
bureau timber planted 575,
000 seedlings on 789 acres
and seeded 27 acres with
douglas fir and 120 acres with
sugar pine.
Reforestation con tractors
have' planted 1,233,000 seed
lings on 2,539 acres and seed
ed 829 acres. Boy and Girl
Scouts planted approximately
2,000 seedlings on two acres
of bureau lands in conjunc
tion with Scouting activities.
Seedlings in Projects
A total of 1,585,000 ponde
rosa pine seedlings and 225,
000 douglas fir seedlings were
3& Wr 3g
TAKING over No. 2 spot, C.
Douglas Dillon has been
named Undersecretary of
State by President.
Science Building
To Be Dedicated
Ashland-Area residents are
invited to inspect the new
Southern Oregon college sci-
ence building Wednesday,
May 6, from 3 to 5 p.m., and
from 8:30 to 10 p.m., accord
ing to Dr. Elliott B. McCracfc
en, chairman of the science-
mathematics division, and
general chairman of the Open
House and dedication.
At 6 p.m. Wednesday, in
the Commons dining hall, a
dedication - dinner and pro
gram will be held with Dr.
F. A. Gilf illan, dean of the
Oregon State college school
of science speaking.
After the invocation by Dr.
Loren E. Messenger, profes
sor of psychology, and brief
addresses of welcome by Dr.
Elmo N. Stevenson, college
president, and Richard Clark,
student body president, Doug
las McKean, member of the
Oregon state board of higher
education will give greetings.
Following McKean, a brief
address will be given by Dr.
John R. Richards, chancellor
of the Oregon state system of
higher education.
Dr. Gilfillan's address will
follow the recognition of ar
chitectural and contracting
firms who completed the
$445,773 structure.
Dr. MacCracken will serve
as master of ceremonies, and
the closing prayer will be giv
en by Dr. Clifford R. Miller,
associate professor of social
science. Miss Seraphme Scan-
Ion is in charge of the dining
arrangements.
(for that "SpecoaP Mom!
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used in planting projects. All
seedlings, except for 529,000
pine seedlings which were
grown by the forest service
nursery at Bend for the bu
reau were grown by the John
B. Woods and Son Forest Tree
nursery of Salem.
This is the second year the
Medford district has conduct
ed an expanded reforestation
program aimed toward the
prompt reforestation of bu
reau lands from which mature
timber is being harvested as
well as lands denuded in past
years by fire or harvesting
operations and on which na
tural regeneration has not
been adequate.
At the present time, plans
are being formulated for site
preparation work on 500
acres in the Medford district
so that these acres may be
reforested next f alL This acre
age will be in addition to that
on which harvesting opera
tions of mature timber will
have been completed by this
fall.
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Mediator Enters
Tillamook Dispute
Tillamook-UPD-The Federal
Mediation Service has entered
a labor dispute at the Tilla
mook County Creamery asso
ciation plant.
A federal mediator talked
Monday with members of the
Tillamook local of the strik
ing Teamsters union, and a
committee from the board of
directors of the association.
The employer committtee
scheduled a meeting today to
consider a union proposal.
The strike started last
Thursday over wages for 18
fluid milk plant employees.
About 150 persons have been
idled.
A management spokesman
said the plant was operating
in all departments. Milk pro
ducers who supply the plant
have been working there.
FIVE MINERS KILLED
Kotalahti, Finland - (UPD -Authorities,
said today five
miners were killed when an
elevator fell at a copper mine
near here Monday.
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