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Ability To .Do More in Missile Field Unquestioned by MiDitary Experts IHy - 1 rnn 1 iiinni mi i iiin inn mi i u mi llwLI" U1""" n" "HWimi"i"JJ"Ui'iWJ"" '. ' 1111 1 11 1 " "-r-.irwoew;-: BODIES OF AIRMEN FOUND-The bodies of five men identified as U.S. airmen from ' the World War II B-24 Liberator bomber "Lady Be Good" have been found 440 miles southeast of Benghazi, Libya, it was dis closed Saturday. The plane, shown in lower photo, was found in the Libyan desert . where it had lain undiscovered since it crashed during the war. All but one of the 17-Year Mystery of Bomber Crew Solved in Libyan Desert Tripoli, Libya - IUPD - There may have been wisecracks at first and. typical GI jokes about cold beer before the desert heat parched and si lenced the lips of the nine crew members of the bomber "Lady Be Good." It was April, 1943, and the Liberator bomber had made it - safely - back across the Mediterranean from a mission against Naples harbor. But the whale-bodied B-24 with the slim tapering wings was lost and unable to find the home base of Benghasi. Then their misgivings set tled into a fear that knotted the stomachs of the nine men. Fuel was running low and be low there was only the -endless reaches of the sun-baked treachery known as the Saha ra desert. Details Pieced Together The crew calmly - waited the order to bail out, knowing that the Air Force the Army Air Corps then -had taught them the rudiments of survi val under all sorts of condi tions. But the Sahara is a man-eater and they must have known that. Details of the last days of the men of the "Lady Be Good" were pieced together by Air Force experts - their probable thoughts and last ac tions reconstructed as they I," 4 'A 1 , .5M I For safe, sure, warm, comfortable and eco nomical travel... on the Domeliner "CITY of PORTLAND" Call your Union Pacific Travel Agent for infor mation and reservations. : L; J. Ziesmer General -Traffic Agent 207 Medical Center Bldg. Medford, Ore. SP 3-5388 i i i i i i i made their death march that was to end 85 miles from the downed plane. The bodies of five of the men were discovered last Thursday by an American-oil exploration worker, James Backhaus of Burge, Wyo., af ter 17 years of mystery. The fate of the four other crew members may never be known. Five Joined Forces Their bomber, only slightly damaged by impact, was found last May in. the desert At first there was no trace of the nine men and no graves were found nearby to indicate they may have been killed in combat or died near the plane. Probably, Air Force obser Carole Tregoff May Take Witness Stand Los - Angeles -&TD- Carole Tregoff. is expected to take the witness stand today to tell of her part in the "accidental" slaying of the wife of her lov er, Dr. R. Bernard Finch. ' Lawyers for the 23-year-old redhead were playing it cagy up to the lagt minute on defi nite word whether Miss Tre goff would testify in this trial that started with jury selec tion last Dec. 8. Appearance Indicated But the fact that Carole came twice from her jail cell to the court-house over the three-day week end layoff for long conferences with her lawyers indicated strongly she was being briefed for her appearance. The law states that a defen dant's decision not to testify Over-the-Counfer Western Stocks The following bid and ask ed quotations, from the Na tional Association of Securi ties Dealers, Inc., do not rep resent actual transactions. They are a guide to the range within which these securities could have been sold (indi cated by the "bid") or bought (indicated by the "asked") at the time of compilation. Common Stocks Bank of America . Calif.-Pacific Utilities Cascades Plywood Cons. Freightwavs Bid Asked 46- 492 32 i 34T 18'. 20 Copco : , 33 ! 3S, Cyprus Mines t-orp. First National Bank 27'4 59"! 56 Morrison-Knudsen Northwest Nat. Gas Pacific Pwr. & Lt. 31 'j 33 "i 18U 19. 36 38" Permanente Cement 224 30U 70', 39 i 25 42 Portland Gen. Elec. U. S. National Bank United Utilities West Coast Tel Weyerhaeuser 21 28 'a 66 'j 37 24 39 i missing crew are shown in the photo at top. Left to right, they, are 1st Lt. William J. Hatton, pilot; 2nd Lt. Robert F. Toner; 2nd Lt. D. P. Hays, 2nd Lt. John S. Woravka, TSgt. Harold S. Ripslinger, TSgt. Robert E. Lamotte, SSgt. Guy E. Shelley, Sgt. Robert Moore, and Sgt. R. Adams. (UPI Telephoto) vers believe, the crew bailed out into the desert minutes before the "Lady Be Good" thudded into the sand. ,-At least five of the crew joined forces, pooled their food and water and set out on an im possible trek to salvation. The end came after a he roic trek of 85 miles. Five men remained together till the end. The other four, may have died first and been bur ied somewhere under the des ert "sand. Last Friday, Col. William Woods of Oakland, Calif., chaplain at the U.S. Wheelus Air Force base near Tripoli, said a prayer over the bodies of the men from the "Lady Be Good." Their 17-year mystery was at an end. should not be taken as any evidence of guilt. That may be the theory but the jury is bound to wonder at silence by Carole after the seven -day narrative told by the 42-year-old doctor. Finch's testimony on the actual killing of Mrs. Barbara Jean Finch on July 18 impli cated Carole only to the ex tent that she carried an at tache case up the driveway, to the West Covina, Calif., home. Involved in Second There are two counts in the indictment against Finch and Miss Tregoff 7- murder and conspiracy to murder. The girl is far more in volved in the second since Finch testified that it was she who made the initial contact and paid $1,350 to ex-convict John Patrick Cody to trail Mrs. Finch. The doctor said it was to get divorce evidence; Cody said it was to commit a mur der he had no intention of carrying out. Morse To Enter Maryland Primary Washington (CPD S e n. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) says he will enter the Maryland pres idential primary because he doesn't think Sen. JohnF. Kennedy (D-Mass.) should get the state's delegates "on a sil ver platter." : Morse, who has a farm in Maryland, said Sunday he would be ""an adopted favor ite son" in his quest for the state's 24 votes at the Demo cratic convention in Los An geles next July; Kennedy is the only an nounced candidate in the May 17 Maryland contest Dispute Rages Over Adequacy Of Defense Plans ' (Continued from page 1) Nowhere was there any question about this country's ability to .do more m the space-missile field. - The question raging in Washington and being debat ed across the country is whether what is being done now is adequate in view of Russian progress. , Election year political con troversy and new .Russian rocket triumphs have com bined to raise a huge question mark over .the adequacy of all U.S. defense plans. Mortal Peril Seen - - Democrats vociferously picture - the nation -as facing a period of mortal peril in the years immediately ahead. They and other critics foresee a "eaD" between U.S. and Soviet missile strength that could threaten American sur vival. Republicans just as aggres sively picture the United States "second to none" in military power. Whether there is a "missile gap" or not. the Eisenhower adminis tration says, there will be no gap in this country's varied and versatile overall power to deter Russian attack. New Evaluation Method The debate got under way in mid-January when Pres ident Eisenhower sent Con gress his new $41 billion de fense spending budget for fis cal 1961. This represents an increase, of $50 million over this vear's fieure. The argu ment could be made that, be cause of rising weapons, per sonnel and maintenance costs, it will buv somewhat less de fense than this year's budget. The new budget was 101- lowed by administration dis finsur of new intelligence estimates revising downward the numbers of ballistic mis siles Russia is expected to have in the next three years. Defense Secretary Thomas Oat.es Jr. testified the es timates were based on "more refined and better evaluated" data on Russian missile pro gress than was available last year. ' Democrats, led by Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), an unavowed candidate for the presidential nomination, ac cused , the administration of "juggling" the intelligence books. Ahead in Striking Power The great defense debate in Congress already has de veloped these conclusions: - Rebublicans and Demo crat s aeree that, right now, the United States is ahead of Russia in strategic striking power and can deter Russia from global war. Roth sides aeree itussia will have more intercontin ental hallistic missiles than this country over the next three years. Republicans con tend it will be a "moderate" superiority. The . Democrats contend it will be far worse than pictured by the adminis tration. Varistv of Forces Republicans . contend me "missile eaD" will not create any "deterrent gap" because America has a great variety of other strategic forces in beine and soon to enter serv ice. These include Strategic Air Command bombers, Po laris-missile submarines and Navy carrier-based attack Dlanes. Rather than increasing production of current ballis tic missiles beyond already- olanned numbers, the aamin- istration is taking the calcu lated risk that it will get over the missile gap period secure ly and will bring in the aa vanced. rapid-firing Minute man ballistic in large nunv bers starting in 1963. Next: Should there be a "crash" program for military space vehicles? Complete Atomic Test Ban Proposed Chicago - (UPD - The United States was urged by the Fed eration of American. Scien: tists Sunday night to press for a complete ban on atomic weapons testing. - ; Dr. David R. Inglis, chair man of the 2,000-member or ganization of nuclear physi cists and engineers and a physicist at Argonne National laboratory at Lemont, I1L, said that such a ban was ur gently needed ' because- of France's entry Saturday into the "nuclear club." - Inglis said the spread of nu clear weapons to many other countries could be stopped if Russia, Britain and America agree on a complete test ban at the current Geneva talks. MEDF0RD Rogue Valley Edition Blue Chip Issues Favor Downside -New York (UPD - Stocks moved irregularly today. . Blue chip industrials fa vored the downside while other issues registered some good gains in response to in dividual developments. . v P2 2 col insert blue .. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - (CPD - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 617.58, off 4.65; 20 railroads 150.25. off 0.95: 15 utilities 85.34, off 0.13, and ,65 slocks 204.92, off 1.25 Sales today were about 2,780,000 shares com-' pared with 2.230,000 shares Friday. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical 49 Alum Co. Am. ". 93 V2 American Can 40;!8 American Motors - 73 ? AT&T 84 Anaconda Copper 59',' 62 69 ; 48 ','2 28 Vi 291,4 Armco cteel Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Boeing Air Caterpillar Corp. Chrysler corp. BO 43 47 Continental Can Crown Zellerbach Mystery Submarine Believed Escaped Puerto Madryn, Argentina-(DPD- High naval sources said today they feared a mysteri ous foreign submarine believ ed trapped in the Golfo Nuevo for two weeks now has es caped because it has been un detected for 24 hours. The pessimism was express ed even as another all-out sea and air attack was in prepa ration against the mysterious interloper and a second sub marine reported in the gulf waters 650 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. Mysterious Radio Heard Another confusing element was injected into the situation today when the newspaper Jornada reported that a mys terious radio station had been heard transmitting in code in Rehearsals for Kapers Start Rehearsals for the annual Medford Kiwanis "Kapers, a variety show full of songs, dances, skits and gags, are now in full swing. The production, "Around the Town," will be presented on Wednesday, Thursday, Fri day and Saturday nights, Feb. 24 through "27, at the Medford High school auditorium. Rehearsals for the various scenes will be conducted af ternoons and evenings through this week. Put together prac tices will be conducted next Sunday and Monday and dress rehearsal is set for Tuesday, Feb. 23. First act of the show con cerns a trip to Washington, D. C, which a Tenessee cou ple won as prize in a quiz show. Second act will be a minstrel presentation with South American - type back ground and scenery. "Around the Town" includes original music and fast-moving "family-type" humor. Dance chorus groups for the Cherry Blossom, Hip Parade, Bali Bali and Night Club scenes are having afternoon rehearsals each day this week under supervision of Carl Hawley, professional director for John B. Rogers company. White Collar Girls, Meet the President and Bend the Bank scenes and Bali Bali men drill Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings and other groups this evening and Wednesday and Friday nights. Proceeds from the show are largely earmarked for the Ki-wanis-sponsored county - wide dental clinic. MATERNITY FASHIONS SKIRTS CAPRI PANTS TOPS DRESSES 'LINGERIE A Fine Selection At .- Very Low Prices Tribune Page 2A Dew Chemical Du Pont Eastman- Kodak 89 .230 Firestone 121 ;: 86-2 101 U General Electric General Foods General Motors 46 Georgia Pacific , . 44 Greyhound 20', Gulf Oil : 30' Homes take Mining 42 Ts Idaho Power - 46 I. B. M 419ii Int. Paper 112 Johns Manville 46 "A Kaiser Ind 12 Katy :. . 3 Kennecott Copper 87 '2 Lockheed Aircraft 27 Montana Power 23 V4 Montgomery Ward 487, Nafl Biscuit 53 New York Central 27,i Pac Gas & Elec 62 Penney. J. C 115 'i Penn RH 15 Radio Corporation . 62 Richfield Oil (xd) 75 Safeway -1 37 ',4 Sears 44 Shell Oil 36 Socony Mobil Oil 39 Southern Co . 41 Southern Pacific 21 Standard Indiana .. 43 Standard NJ. 45 Texas Co :. 754 Trans World Air 16 Tri-Continental 36 Union Carbide .;..133 United Aircraft 37 United Air Lines 30 U. S. Rubber 58 U. S. Steel 85 Youngstown S & T 112 the Gulfo Nuevo region in rer cent months. . The navy cancelled officers' leaves in southern Argentina as the hunt was stepped up for the elusive sub, or subs, which already have been the object of depth-bombing at tacks. Newsmen watching the scene from the shoreline of the last presumed site of the submarine said the area was littered with dead fish and penguins. Two Argentine warships were reported to have . fired on - but not hit - one of the two subs when it surfaced 10 miles west of here Sunday night. The U-boat is believed to have been damaged in a previous attack. Unofficial reports published in Buenos Aires Sunday said the navy has recovered the body of a frogman, apparent ly killed by a depth charge from the waters of the gulf. Observers speculated that he might have been trying to re pair damage to the submarine when he was killed. Pre-Legislative Conference Held Fifty youth from Medford, Ashland, and Klamath Falls gathered - Saturday in the Ashland High school for the Young Men's Christian Asso ciation's youth and govern ment pre - legislative confer ence. Southern Oregon is the state's district 3 in the state wide program. During the day the youth elected officers to represent them in Salem on April 1 and 2 in the State YMCA Youth and Government. Elected chaplain of the senate was Pat Bigham, Medford. Donna Mills, Ashland, was elected clerk of the senate. The group also elected two legislative committee chairmen, Bob Baker, Medford, and Pat An derson, Klamath Falls. The youth met at 9:30 a.m. to hear the Rev. B. J. Holland of the First Presbyterian church speak on "You and America's. Destiny.'.' -Harry Skerry, district chairman of the program, discussed what to expect in Salem. After lunch they assembled to hear Robert Duncan, speak er of the house of representa tives, talk on house, senate and committee procedures. Later in the afternoon the group discussed the bills they will take to the Salem confer ence. PEDAL PUSHERS Senate Officially Begins Feud Over Civil Rights Washington - (UPD - The Sen ate officially-begins its election-year civil rights feud to day. No civil rights is on the Sen ate calendar for today, but un der an agreement reached last year, Democratic Leader Lyn don B. Johnson (Tex.) might call up a minor House-approved measure as a vehicle to which civil rights legislation could be attached. First, however, the cham ber was scheduled to consider a tobacco bill and a House Senate compromise measure to boost federal spending to prevent water pollution. Lines Formed Battle lines for the civil rights skirmish were formed over the week end. Southern ers served notice they would fight the proposals at every turn and northerners stepped up their drive for new legisla tion. The senate was expected to pass the water pollution .bill but it appeared certain to be vetoed by President Eisen hower. The measure would provide for a $400 million in crease to $900 million in fed eral contributions for a long- range aid to localities for building disposal plants. Wants Program Scrapped Eisenhower's budget called for only $20 million in fiscal 1961 and none the following j year. He has been trying, without success, for the past several years to scrap the pro gram. Other congressional news: Defense: The Senate Mili- j tary Appropriations subcom mittee called Air Force Sec retary Dudley C. Sharp and flen Thnmac Tl WViitn Air rorte ciuei ui Man. soui faced likely questioning on comparative U.S.-Russian mis sile strength and dispersal of B-47 bombers to frustrate any enemy attack. The House Space Committee summoned Navy brass for a missile quiz. Boy Travels Long Route to School Sacramento, Calif.-(UPD-Otis Johnson, 13, is a Tulsa, Okla., boys who wants to attend a military' prep school at West Point, N.Y. Three days ago his mother, Mrs. Matt Johnson, kissed her son goodbye in Tulsa, put him on a bus. for West Point and wished him well. The next thing poor Otisi knew, he was in Sacramento, Calif., at the Greyhound pus j terminal where police found him wandering around, with a j rather perplexed, expression on his boyish face. It seems that the ticket agent in Tulsa sold hin. the wrong ticket. Otis was head ed for West Point, Calif., in stead of West Point, N.Y., when he hopped off here. An aunt from Richmond, I Calif., picked him up Sunday and promised to put him on the right bus. SUPPORT HUMPHREY A.-. r Cm Tr. .1- T T TT. I wa "A och. liuua I 11. X1U1I1- : phrey (D"-Minn.), claimed to- j day that 88 per cent of the of ficers of the United Packing house Workers Union support Humphrey s presidential bid. The most publicized dis eases in the U. S. are tubercu losis, polio, cancer and heart trouble. the best chicken deserves the finest noodles MlS$10n egg noodles i L J., mS-f .-.".o ',' X PLEASU A pleasure to look at, to drive, to own. And it's fun for everyone. The whole family gets a kick out of a new car. Pop feels like the skipper of a super-linerand Mom is as proud as a queen in a coronation carriage. The kids are so excited that they don't know just how they feel. They just feel goodl It's a pleasure also, to know that when you purchase your new car, you're getting one of the engineering masterpieces of the twentieth century. Years of research and years of experience have been incorporated in the 1960 models built by the automotive industry. You get more value than ever before! ns rav I Especially right now during Medford's DEALER DAYS! You'll find a bigger selection than ever . . . and you'll get more for your trade-in! Buy now, make no payments till April! Investigate . . . you'll be delighted at the bargain deal you can arrange! DON'T WAIT Visit your dealer now rake advantage of the big savings during J3)AYS rw--jf v- 'f-JikT' -! " h A - - 4 MEDFORD AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION a m. -v x s . 1 MY
