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Woman Admits Dismembering Bodies of Men - . c ' Anniston, Ala. -fUPD- A stocky,., black-haired woman confessed today she shot her lover and his brother, dismem bered their bodieswith an ax, fossed the severecQimbs along a country ijroad and hid the torsos in .two abandoned houses. ; ,l " Police said Viola Hyatt, 30, led them to" the double-edged, blood -stained' ax allegedly used in the killing and also showed them the wheelbar row used to load the - limbs and torsos into her car. The woman ' was - charged with two murders. She and her mother and stepfather had been picked up for .question ing Thursday night, but her parents were later relased. ? . . Had 'Understanding' ' t No motive was given for the killings. Miss Hyatt said she and Lee Harper "had an un derstanding of an engage ment" and planned to be mar ried this summer. '. Sheriff Ray Snead said the two victims were Emmett Harper, 48, and his brother! Lee, 55. They were described as "bad drinking" brothers. Police said the chunky woman told them she ' alone killed the Harper brothers in their small trailer home with blasts from a. shotgun. j Jacobys Plan fo Move to Sandy . Mr. and Mrs. Mike Jacoby, Ashland, will move from the area Aug. 1, Mrs. Jacoby re ported today. The family, who have lived in the valley for the past three years, will move to Sandy, Ore. Mrs. Jacoby is known in the area for her work in rid ing clubs for teen-agers. She is president of the Ashland Sage Riders and director of their drill team. The Sage Riders have carried the mail through Jackson county dur ing the Pony Express, runs this summer. The Jacoby's daughter, Sha Ron, is a trick rider and has performed at many valley ac tivities with her horse. Jacoby, who has been su perintendent for the construe tion firnv of Cherf Sandkay and Birch on the Talent prbj ect while in 'the valley, will be . general .superintendent for the S3 million Bull Run dam5 project in northern' Ore gon for the firm. Bohlen Expected Be Offered High Post in Government Body of Rainier Dairyman Found Rainier, Ore. - (LTD - The body of William Linden Thompson, 54-year-old dairy man missing since June 8, was found Wednesday about half a mile from his home. Sheriff Spencer Younce said Thomp son apparently- took his own life with a .22 rifle. Beauties Greeted on Arrival For Miss Universe Contest 'Long Beach, Calif. - (OPD Shapely beauties gathered here from throughout the world seeking to win the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant spent today getting used to the ogling of American men The 76 girls from 34 for eign countries and most of the United States were slated for a day of shopping and sight seeing. Three more entrants - Miss Turkey, Miss Belgium and Miss Italy - are expected to join their 76 competitors here, tonight. Cheering Welcome Most of the beauties arrived in a plane from New York Thursday and were greeted by some 2,000 cheering, wide eyed aficiandos of the fem inine curve; The foreign entrants were attractively turned out in cos tumes native to their country and elicited their due volume of "ohs" and "ahs" from the appreciative crowd. One of the girls will be joining in the contest despite the threat of a Catholic Arch bishop that she and her family would be denied the sacra ments of the church if she ap pears in. public in a bathing suit. She is Sue Ingersoll, 20-year-old Miss New Mexico, She issued a "statement of conscious" Thursday night proclaiming her determina tion to take part in the seven day contest officially getting under way Saturday night. Miss Ingersoll's statement read in part: , "I do not feel that it is in any way immoral (to appear in the contest in a swim suit). I can dispel the dangerous no tion that Catholics cannot speak for themselves, or ifi they do, they are no longer Catholics. The Archbishop of Al buquerque earlier warned Miss Ingersoll that a decree issued by him four years ago forbidding Catholic girls from taking part in beauty con tests .clad in bathing suits still stood, but she retorted: ''This is an ancient ruling. After all,' it's 195ft-. . , Washington - (LTD- High ad ministration officials said to day Soviet affairs expert Charles E. Bohlen probably will be offered a high State Department post soon with President - Eisenhower's full approval despite recent indi- .cations to the contrary. They said the President be lieves Bohlen would be a very a very valuable aide to Secre tary of istate - Christian A. Herter at this critical stage in Soviet-American relations. Bohlen now is ambassador to the Philippines. Not Influenced Eisenhower has not been in fluenced against him by the opposition of Republican Sen ators Styles Bridges of New Hampshire and Everett Dirk sen of Illinois, these unim peachable sources claimed. The Senate Republicans' Delivered in Medford DARRELL MILLER CO. 415 South Riverside .. Medford Brush With Whale Possibly Cause Of Boat Sinking Newport, Ore. - (UPD The Donna B., commercial fishing boat out of Coos Bay, found ered and sank 20 miles south west of Newport early today, possibly the victim, the Coast Guard said, of a brush with a whale. Chief " Boatswain's Mate Arloy Jensen, executive of ficer of the Coast Guard Group here, said the Donna B sank about 2 a.m. while it was being towed toward Ya- quina Bay by a Coast Guard motor lifeboat from Newport. The operator of the Donna B., Don Truex of Netarts,'. Ore., said his " crewman, Le Roy Thompson, Portland, had been taken aboard the motor life boat about 6 p.m. Thursday Radioed for Help ".' The motor lifeboat and the Coast Guard Cutter Mallow sped to the aid of the Donna B, whose skipper had radioed that the boat was taking on water fast. Jensen said the Donna B, drifting while ap proaching a tuna bank, was struck about 12:25 p.m. Thurs day about 70 miles southwest of Newport. Jensen said the fishing boat was struck by an unidentified object, probably a whale. ' The blow forward caused the Donna B to take on water prompting the call for help. Band Camp to Open on Monday Ashland - Siskiyou Band Camp 'will open for its third season Monday morning, July 20, in Churchill hall on the Southern Oregon college campus, according to Dr. Her bert Cecil,- camp secretary, who reported : that advance registrations were running far ahead of previous years. - Guest conductor of the camp is Clarence Sawhill, authority in the band field and director of bands at the University of California at Los Angeles. Founder-coordinator for the annual event is Glenn T. Mat thews, SOC music staff member. Students may either live on campus in a dormitory, or at home and come to the campus tor the camp sessions which will be in operation daily from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 pan., closing Friday, July 31. Anyone interested in at tending the Siskiyou Band Camp is requested to report to Churchill hall at 8:30 a.m., July 20, Dr. Cecil said. complaint is that Bohlen was too closely identified with previous Democratic admin istrations as - an adviser at Yalta and Teheran Bohlen has defended these long-disputed agreements with Russia and contended . the only trouble was that Russia failed to live "up to them. Administration officials said the President's remarks on Bohlen at his Wednesday news conference were misinterpret ed as meaning that there was no idea of bringing Bohlen into the State Department in a highly responsible post. Actually, these sources, said, the administration still hopes to persuade Bohlen to take a ' $19,250 spot on the State Department's policy planning staff if he can be persuaded to postpone his re tirement. Soviet Relations Involved A major portion of this staffs work involves relations with the Soviet Union. Administration officials said a final decision on bringing Bohlen into the State Depart ment would be made as soon as Herter returns from the Geneva foreign ministers con ference. The President said Wednes day that he had a "complete ly negative" report from Her ter on Bohlen's prospects. But high sources said today ' he meant only that the secretary told him no progress was be ing made on the matter at that time. . . Oregon Projects Said Authorized Washington - (OPD - Rep. Walter Norblad Thursday said the House passed and sent to the Senate a bill to authorize $90 million worth of construction to assure con tinuation of Army- Engineer's projects in the Columbia and Willamette river basins-' The bill would authorize $657,310,500 of water proj ects. Major projects included in the work are: Ice Harbor, Snake river, John Day Dam, The Dalles Dam, Hills Creek and Cougar reservoir, along with, work on critical loca tions on the Willamette river. Rogue river harbor, Gold Beach and Interstate bridge. The appropriation would also make funds available for deepening of the Columbia river channel between "Van couver and The Dalles. What's Happened to Leopold in Puerto Ricp?" by Arthur Massolo I Though he's "free" within the confines of a Puerto Rico missionary hospital, where he works for mankind, parolee Leopold remains a prisoner of his elusive search for inner peace. Read this account of Leopold's ''new" life in an isolated, back-country hospital in the July 19 Family:' magazine. ' s. . ' WmmJcIjr A Regular Weekly Feature of MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Watch for the July 26 Family Weekly for details of the $60,000.00 "Name the Stars of Tomorrow" Contest. Prison Escapee Nabbed in Portland Portland (UPD -Thomas Franklin Spalinger, 26-year-old escapee from the Georgia State prison, was apprehended here' Thursday by agents of the FBI, according to James Milnes, special agent in charge of the Portland office. Milnes said Spalinger was apprehended at a new car agency here where he had been working as a salesman. He is . wanted by Georgia authorities for unlawful flight to avoid confinement for the crime of burglary. Milnes said he escaped about a year ago by sawing bars on the windows of the Georgia institution's . Rich mond public work camp, i Spalinger was married last May in Tillamook,' Ore., and since has resided in Portland. Billie Holiday, Blues Singer, Dies New York - UPD - Blues singer Billie Holiday died early today in Metropolitan hospital after a long illness. She was 44. Miss 'Holiday entered the hospital May 31 in serious condition with several ail ments. Death, which came at 3:20 a.m. (EST), today, was caused by "congestion of the lungs, complicated by failure of the heart," .an associate said. Her husband, Louis McKay, had been with her until a few moments before her death, the hospital said. The Negro singer, who had hit the top of her profession, then fell to the depths in the throes of marcotics addiction, was said to have licked the habit and to have been on her way back when, in the words of her booking agent, "her motor just wore put." UNREADY FOR SUB, WAR Washington (OPD Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover has said the United States isin no better position today to fight the Russian submarine "menace" than it was to de feat the German submarine threat in 1941. "The great danger we face from Russian submarines is an attack on our country, particularly our. coastal cities, by Russian sub marines that carry missiles," he said. Recorded Voice Describes Slaying Of Young Boys San Diego-(UPD-The record ed .voice of an accused mur derer told a packed courtroom Thursday how two small boys were taken to a lonely moun tain area by their mother and her lover and strangled. Kenneth Merriam, 38, sat pale-faced as he listened to his own voice coming from a tape recorder sitting on a ta ble near the jury of six men and six women. The trial started the beginning of the week. It was recessed Thurs day until Monday. , Took Virgil First "I took my hands like this and held down," said the thick-tongued voice. "I took Virgil (3) out first and then came back for David (5)." Then in a sobbing tone the voice said: "I told her it would be better- for her and the kids to go back to Illinois. But she didn't want to go back there." ' Merriam was explaining in the recording about killing the two sons of his mistress, Mrs. Wanda Brogdon, 33, last May 2 shortly after they came here from Rockford, 111. Sheriffs deputies made the recording several days after Merriam, a house painter, and Mrs. Brogdon were arrested. Lt. Tom Isbell gently led Mer riam to tell of the crime, proddmg him with questions. "Why did you do it?" ask ed Isbell. Wouldn't Mind' ' "They wouldn't mind or anything else," said Merriam. He explained the boys caused he and Mrs. Brogdon trouble, once by releasing the emer gency brake on his car which ran into another auto. He accused Mrs. Brogdon of telling him to "get rid" of the boys. "She told me, ' 'Honey, if we are going to do 'it, let's get it over with,"' said the voice. The discussion on how to kill the boys was carried on all night until they finally decided to strangle them in the mountains, he said. Merriam and Mrs. Brogdon both have pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity to the charges. They already have been found sane in a sanity hearing. Argentine Navy Secretary Stays Buenos Aires (UPD Vice Adm. Adolfo Estevez had a half hour talk with President Arturo Frondizi Thursday night and then denied "cate gorically" that he had resign ed as secretary of the navy in Argentina. The denial came in the face of persistent reports by a number of informed sources that Estevez - would - be out within 48 hours. Rebellious naval officers have been seeking his resigna tion or dismissal on grounds he does not reflect their view point and is too lenient to ward officers who supported ousted Dictator Juan D. Peron. Buenos . Aires newspapers appeared with. banner head lines on the naval dissension and the navy secretariat fin ally issued a communique de ploring reports of a crisis. The communique said the navy "will keep its disci pline." It criticized some re ports as untruthful and asked the press to cooperate for "a better solution of the prob lems of the navy." Judy Garland's Counlersuit Denied Los Angeles - (UPD An at tempt by actress Judy Gar land and her husband, Sid Luft, to file a $16 million countersuit against Warner Bros., over the movie "A Star Is Born" was turned down Thursday by Superior Judge H. Eugene Breitenbach. He ruled the deadline had passed for filing a countersuit, despite arguments by the couple's attorneys that the de lay has been necessary to col lect photostatic copies of xiocu ments. Producer Jack Warner filed a $30,000 suit against the couple last Dec. 18 to collect a note signed by them in 1954. The couple charged the money was advanced them for use in a combined European vacation and promotion of "A Star Is Born" in which Miss Garland starred. CLOGSTON'S Metal Weather Stripping and Screens Estimates Gladly Phone SP 3-1014 Evenings Paralytic Polio on Increase; Not Too Late for Salic Shots Washington (HPD Surgeon general Leroy E. Burney warned today that crippling polio is on the upward march this summer particularly among the unvaccinated. The nation's health chief said that about nine out of 10 of the cases have been report ed .among persons who have not had anti-polio shots. More Than Double . Burney also told United Press International the num ber of cases of paralytic polio this year is more than double the total at this time last year. The -Public Health Service said there were 681 cases of paralytic polio reported dur ing the first 26 weeks of 1959. This compares with 329 vic tims during the same period last year and "reflects the consistently upward trend of polio cases since April.? Dr. Burney said preliminary figures to be made public later today - show the polio rate rise continued this week. Kansas City, Kan.; Des Moines, Iowa; Little Rock Ark.; and Oklahoma City, Okla. were the hard-hit areas which have reported a "sub stantially greater" number of cases this year. , "I cannot urge too strong ly," Burney said, "the need for pushing ahead with the drive to vaccinate the unvac cinated. It is hot too late either to start or complete the Salk shot series." - Dr. Burney described as "highly encouraging" the in tensive community drives which have been conducted in recent months with the- re sulting inoculation of hun dreds of thousands of per sons. As a result of these "get vaccinated" campaigns, D r. Burney said, there has been a drain on the vaccine supply and there may be "occasional delays" during the next few weeks, in obtaining vaccine in some areas. There are about 70 million persons who have had one or more of the three-shot series. The PHS considers Salk vaccine 75 per cent to 80 per cent effective against the virus. 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