Finch To Attempt
To Convince Jury
Of Accidental Shot
- Los Angeles -flJPD Dr. R
Bernard Finch today was to
face his biggest test when he
tries to convince a jury that
his wife was shot in the back
accidentally when he "threw'
the murder weapon away.
The suave socialite - physi-
cian also must explain why
he broke his hippocratic oath
by failing to assist his mortal-
$50,000 Sought
For Reserve Unit
Money for a Medford Naval
reserve center is included in
the defense department's milf
tary construction bill sent to
Congress today.
The department is asking
Congress for $50,000 to build
the facility.
Lt. R. A. Schuchard, com
manding officer of the local
reserve unit, said the money
would probably go toward a
Naval reserve addition to the
Armv "reserve center now
under construction at the in
tersection of McAndrews rd.
and Jackson st.
The addition would house
office facilities and a radio
communications room for the
Navy unit, making a joint
Army-Navy facility out of the
center, he said.
' However, if the local unit,
now comprised of approxi
mately 70 men, continues to
grow as it has been, Lt. Schu
chard said, there is a chance
the money would be used for
a separate building.
The Medford unit has the
largest electronics division in
the 13th Naval district which
encompasses Washing ton,
Oregon, Montana and Idaho,
and was the only unit in the
district at full strength last
year, he pointed out.
TRUMANS TO FLORIDA
Miami - IUPB - Former Presi
dent and Mrs. Truman arrive
here Feb. 16 for a two-week
vacation mixed with political
events. Truman plans to inter
rupt a vacation at Key West
Feb. 27 to speak at a Demo
cratic fund-raising dinner in
Miami.
ly wounded wife and left her
to die in the driveway of their
West Covina, Calif., home
- The defense has stated that
Finch threw the death gun
away after a struggle with his
wife, Barbara, last July 18 and
it - accidentally discharged a
bullet into her back.
Tells of Gigolo
-. It also has stated that Finch
fled the-scene in "sheer pan
ic, fright and desperation"
after kneeling over his wife
in a last-gasped conversation.
The 42-year-old surgeon was
calm Thursday when he des
cribed the precarious balanc
ing of his life in West Covina
and in' various love nests with
his mistress and co-defendant,
Carole Tregoff, 23.
When his illicit love affair
was discovered and threatened
to shatter his country-club life
and the financial credit of his
hospital, he decided on this
course of action:
-He would continue to see
his mistress and at the same
time stall his wife's divorce
action until after he had
swung a S500,000 hospital
loan.
-He would arrange to try
to "get something" on his wife
even if he had to hire a
"gigolo" to do it.
Says Carole Helped
Under the guidance of his
attorney, Grant Cooper, Finch
testified he discussed frankly
with Miss Tregoff the possi
bility of getting his wife in
volved with a gigolo. He said
he spoke to his mistress about
it bv telephone last June
when Miss Tregoff was in Las
Vegas, Nev.
She said she would be glad
to helD and on July 1 "she
called me on the phone and
said, 'Honey, I've got good
news for you. . We've got a
man to do the job'," Finch
testified.
The man turned out to be
Jack Cody who already has
testified that he was hired to
murder Mrs. Finch. The state
charges that when Cody failed
to follow through, Finch did
the job himself.
Finch testified that Cody
guaranteed the job would be
done within 30 days "if he had
to sleep with her himself and
report and go to court and
testify to that."
j.fyy-j WAOjWlr&tfft . ywpCQWKcfr.? WJ39?.?p,vp.'. '-TC?V. W.Z'yx rjl; V-: -??Vit
MIKOYAN IN CUBA Soviet Deputy Pre
mier Anastas Mikoyan, right, chats with
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, left, and Maj.
Ernesto Guevara, the Argentine-born leftist
who heads Cuba's national bank. Castro
and other Cuban leaders are expected to be
on hand when Mikoyan opens a Russian
industrial exposition in Havana Saturday.
(UPI Telephoto)
MEDFORDeJIflfeTRIBUNE
Regional Edition
Page 2
Stocks Decline as
Sellers Hold Sway
f !. -,dAifHP
CROSBY TO WED Lindsay Crosby, 21, and Las Vegas
showgirl Diane Fredrickson, 22, look over an application
when they obtained their marriage license at Santa Monica,
Calif. They plan to be married Saturday afternoon with
Crosby's brother, Philip, as best man. The couple will honey
moon at Palm Springs and then rejoin his brothers for their
Las Vegas night club act. (UPI Telephoto)
New York - (UPD - Sellers
held sway in the initial trad
ing today and stocks fell as
much as a point below their
previous close.
Industrials were off well
over a point in their average
during the first hour, while
the rails held firm.
Electronics favored the up
side with gains of a point or
more in Texas Instruments
and Zenith.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York - (UPD - Dow
Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 631.14, up
0.17; 20 railroads 151.74.
up 0.40; 15 utilities 85.87,
up 0.05, and 65 stocks 208.
27, up 0.17. Sales Thursday
were about 2.600,000 shares
compared with 3,020.000
shares Wednesday.
Thursday's prices on selected
stocks:
Allied Chemical
Alum Co. Am.
American Can
American Motors
AT&T
Anaconda Copper
Armco Steel
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing Ai':
Caterpillar Corp.
Chrysler Corp.
Continental Can .
Crown Zellerbach
Curtiss Wright
Dow Chemical
Du Pont -
Eastman Kodak .
Firestone .
General Electric .
General Foods
General Motors
Georeia Pacific
Graham Paige
Greyhound
Gulf Oil
Homes take Mining
Idaho Power 47
B. M 422
Int. Paper , ,,
Johns Manville
Katy
Kennecott Copper
Lockheed Aircraft
Montana Power Co.
Montgomery Ward
isafl Biscuit ...
New York Central
Pac Gas & Elec 62
Penney. J. C 118 b
Penn RR 153i
Radio Corporation 60
Richfield Oil 80
Safeway . 367k
Sears 46'i
Shell Oil 37 'i
Socony Mobil Oil 39 'i
Southern Co 41 'i
Southern Pacific 211
Standard California 46
Standard Indiana
Standard N. J . 46i
Sun Mines 6i
Texas Co 76
Texas Gulf Sulfur . 173i
Tex Pac Land Trust 15','
Transamerica 27 'i
Trans World Air . 13Vu
Tri-Continental 363,i
Union Carbide 138
Union Pacific 29 li
United Aircraft 38,
United Air Lines 29 'i
515'8
0411.
41
83'2
82 Si
60
. 65
72
50''a
298
30'a
63
. 427.
48
264
92 la
236
98
125 't
90g
101 U
48 'I
46
2",
208
31?8
41 1.
117'i
45-
5",
90
28 "a
224
47'8
53 'a
28'i
U. S. Rubber 558
U. S. steel 90
Youngstown S & T 121
Federal Building
Favored by Group
The public building sub
committee of the Senate pub
lic works committee has un
animously approved plans to
construct a new federal build
ing in Medford.
The announcement was
made today in a telegram to
the Mail Tribune by Sen.
Richard L. Neuberger. The
approval was given Wednes
day to the project. Neuberger
is chairman of the public
buildings subcommittee.
Approval of the project by
the House public works com
mittee is still needed, it was
reported, before the building
will become a reality. The
estimated cost of the structure
to house the post office and
federal offices here is $2,365,-
000, to contain 81,700 square
feet.
The plan for the building
was presented to congress un
der the public buildings act
of 1959.
The strucvire will replace
the present federal office
building at 33 North River
side ave.
Once congressional commit
tees have approved the proj
ect, the general service admin
istration will proceed with
the acquisition ot a. site the
preparation of plans for the
proposed building, it has been
announced.
Bolivia Airliner
Crash Reported
La Paz, Bolivia - (LTD - Re
ports reaching here said that
a Bolivian commercial air
liner crashed at Cochabamba
early today killing an esti
mated 60 passengers and crew
members.
Confirmation of the death
toll wou'i make the crash the
worst air disaster in the his
tory of Bolivian commercial
aviation. .
Cochabamba is approxi
mately 160 miles southeast of
La Paz, the Bolivian capital.
DICK KNIGHT CO.
Plymouth - DeSoto - Valiant
33 So. Riverside at 8th St.
VALIANT-
brilliant new car
Dependable dealer
m
IGHI
TRAPPED!
Ijebu Ode, Nigeria-OIPD-You
can't beat city hall, even in
Ijebu Ode. Nosiru Adebambo
testified in court Thursday he
saw the tax collector heading
toward his village and took
off for the bush. In his haste
he ran into one of his own
game traps and had to call
the tax man to free him. Ade
bambo was let off with a stern
lecture and told" not to try
again to escape the taxman.
Air Force Officer
Resents Charges
Of Missi!e Mess1
Washington -(UPD- Lt. Gen. . Democrats on the committee
Bernard A. Schriever, Air
Force research chief, told
congressmen today he resents
charges that there is a "mis
sile mess." He insisted that a
"remarkable job" has been
done.
Schriever told the House
Space Committee that Russia
will pose the greatest threat
ever faced by the U. S. once
ballistic missiles are in full
production. But he said "very
great" work has been done
in the U. S. missile program.
President Eisenhower mean
time met for more than an
hour with his top defense and
scientific advisers on "securi
ty matters." The session had
not been listed on the White
House schedule for today.
Gen. Nathan F. Twining,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, told newsmen after
the 75-minute conference that
it was "routine" and "ordi
nary." Secretary of State
Christian A. Herter declined
comment.
Schriever was the first wit
ness at the opening of House
hearings on the missile pro
gram. The general's comments fol
lowed an exchange- between
and Rep. James Fulton (R-Pa.)
who said the Army's Nike-
Zeus missile defense system
had become a "political foot
ball." Fulton said this was
true particularly in the Senate
were "there are trial balloons
for the presidency going up."
House Democratic Leader
John W. McCormack (Mass.)
said Fulton was treading on
dangerous ground in "im
pugning the motives of any
American who has his own
view about national defense."
Oregonian Enters
Hundredth Year
Portland -(UPD- The Oregon
ian Thursday began its 100th
year as a daily newspaper.
The first daily issue of the
Oregonian was published by
Henry Pittock on Feb. 4, 1861.
Previously it had appeared
for about 10 years as a
weekly.
The newspaper now is pub
lishing combined editions with
the rival Oregon Journal be
cause of a strike which start
ed last Nov. 10.
fi jfr t
mm -r r -mm- x m 'mam m -.
POL
DOT
KA
Shop
Mondays and
. Fridays
12 Noon Till 9
Polka dots splashed on fabulous Cu
pioni! Dashing short cropped jackets
to top perfect sleeveless . dresses.
Floating full skirts. White polka dots
on beige, mint, pale blue or navy.
Dress and jacket exceptional at
$11198
J0
m
IT'S A WONPERFUL J TORI
Saturday
Check
List
OF GOOD VALUES
Shadow checked sheath dresses
Only $15.95 . . . should be $17.95.
3A sleeved sheath dresses with small
McMullen collar, clever gold mono
grammed buttons down front, leather
detail on belt. 2 pockets, colorful scarf.
In handwashable, crease resistant col
orama. Ombre shadow check in blue
or beige multi color.
Polka dot jacket dresses
Only $14.98 ... a wonderful value. Full skirt
ed sleeveless dresses with their own petticoats, .
topped by perky jackets. Double breasted, big
pearl buttons on jacket, new large collar, in
miracle copioni a wonderful fabric. 2 styles
to choose from, white polka dots on mint,
blue or beige. See our ad in tonight's paper.
Sheath jacket dresses
Only $15.95 . . . should be $18.95.
Beautifully fitted sheath dresses with
short sleeves and white dickey jabow,
topped by a short chanel jacket with
flap pockets, and white cuffs on Va
sleeves. The silk-like miracle blend nev
er wrinkles. Navy or black.
Maternity pants or skirts
Only $3.79 ... advertised in the big cities
at $4.50. Carefree cotton chino weave. In
black, skipper blue or red. They have helanc
stretch fronts for extra fine fit. Slim jim slacks,
skirts or pedal pushers, also tops to mix and
match, all at this one low LaPointe's price.
Designer's suits
Famous name suits for spring. Try them
in LaPointe's instead of San Francisco
and save enough for an extra day of
fun in the big city.
Baby doll pj's
Only $3.49 . . .a money-saving price. Dry-dry
dacron and cotton. Sweetheart neckline with
red and white embroidery. Small puff cap
sleeves, perky bow at neckline. White em
broidery with lace on bottom.
Coat sale
Now only 29.00 - 35.00. Were up
to Twice as Much. This is our clean
sweep fashion clearance. Newest
styles. Famous names and fabrics. All
sizes. Shop tonight (Friday) till 9.
Car coat clearance
Only $8.99 and $9.99 . . . regularly $12.98
and $14.98. All-weather poplin coats, plain or
corded. Trimmed with wool knit rib. Quilted
lining. Light all-year-round shades.
New helanca sweaters
Short sleeve pullover only $3.29 ...
nationally $3.98. Cardigans only $4.98'
. . . instead of $5.98. Newest spring and
summer colors: mauve, clay green,
hyacinth, beige, white sand, black,
white, many others. See the washable
linen-like skirts to match.
Popover pj's
Only $3.49 . . . darling design with calf length
trousers, trimmed with lace and slit on sides.
Nice valentine gift.
Robes
Only $3.49 . . . instead of $5.98. Clus
ters of flowers on white background.
Short sleeves, small shirt-type . collar.
Drip-dry cotton. Very nice.