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Kidnaping, Murder of Polish Boy Remains Unsolved Crime Warsaw - (UPD - On Jan. 21, 1957, a tall, good-looking school-boy was met by two men as he left his classes, climbed into a t?xi with them, and was never seen alive again. Now more than three years later, despite rewards and such novel techniques as broadcasting tape - recordings of the kidnapers' voices, Pol ish police remain baffled by the country's most mysterious postwar crime. The boy was Bohdan Pia secki, 16-year-old son of Bole slaw Piasecki, "the richest man in Poland," who became wealthy running the Comrau nish puppet church organiza tion "Pax." The time was one of politi cal ferment in Poland. Only the previous day Roman Cath olic Poles, with the tacit ap proval of Stefan Cardinal Wys zynski, had elected a parlia ment with a strong majority for the Communists led by Wladyslaw Gomulka, who had returned to party leader ship in the peaceful revolution of October, 1956. The breath of freedom from the harsh shackles of Stalin ism was blowing strongly over the country and' the hated symbols of the era of terror were being swept away. One of these was "Pax" the organization reportedly set up by former Soviet security po lice chief Gen. Ivan Serov. When Piasecki's son dis appeared, the then-free-swinging Warsaw press was quick to draw political inferences. Some implied the boy had been spirited away to the So viet Union,or Canada, for pro tection and to build sympathy for Piasecki and the "Pax" organization. Others said -the motive was revenge for "Pax" activities, or for Piasecki's prewar anti-Semitic activities. Piasecki had been involved in pro-Axis Fascist organiza tions in Poland before World War II. But during the Nazi occupation of this country, he fought against the Germans. IIS Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins Here's a Look at The World of Germs It takes several generations for a man to live his lifetime; about 75 years, more or less A dog makes it in about 10 or 12; a common hen does it in five, and she has to be lucky at that. Fruit flies and a few other insects can ac complish this undesirable goal in a matter of a few days. Some insects, with more speed than good sense, live a life time in a single hour. But the smallest of living organisms, the germs and mi crobes, are gifted with speeds higher even than the very speedy supersonic variety, and can generate several gen erations in an hour. Some of these undesirable characters become great - great-great grandfathers before they are 10 minutes old. To them, ex treme old age seems to be a matter of seconds. Twist in Two They, accomplish this phe nomenal speed of reproduc tion by literally twisting themselves in two. Each mi crobe becomes a pair of iden tical twins in a few seconds. These twins grow, almost like an explosion, and redivide times without number. Here is a problem in multiplication that can be called division. These little demons are call ed micro-organisms, micro meaning small, and organisms signifying living beings-mean ing tiny living things. Most ly, people call them germs; it's the same thing. There are germs of two principal kinds -plant and animal. Those of the nature of plants we usu ally call bacteria. These are divided roughly into three kinds; round, rod-like and spi ral. They are the ones that cause decay. Up until scientists began prying into the private lives of these little demons, most people believed them to be microbes and that they just grew, like Topsy, in a sort of spontaneous way. First they "were not there, then they were." Of course, in this Lilli putian world there are many that seem to be pretty valu able and essential citizens, that do a great deal of good. They make possible the growth of plants, the diges tion of food in animals, and the elimination of waste ma terials. But, like automobiles when they get out of control, they can cause no end of trou ble. All the encouragement the microbes and the bacteria need is warmth and moisture, a little of the right kind of food, and they begin to divide. Away they go until the body CHARGE PLATE STORE MEMBER Use your Medford Charge Plate for a complete medical record for tax purposes. WE FILL ALL PRESCRIPTIONS with unfo'ling accuracy from fresK stocks of ouie, potent drugs. Open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Daily CLOSED SUNDAYS Green Stamps Main and Central FREE DELIVERY that harbors them becomes sick, and possibly dies if the numbers of the little demons cannot be controlled. They can always be depended on to over-do a good thing. Knocked for a Loop Medical science has been lit erally breathing down the backs of many of these tiny culprits for some time, and has forced some varieties of the most obnoxious ones to a standstill. Sooner or later many other varieties, will be knocked for the proverbial outside loop. No other living thing in the world thrives better in warm moist darkness than a mi crobe. Sunlight makes puny weaklings of them or kills them outright, but the trou ble is sunlight does not travel around corners or. shine brightly inside a pair or lungs, or a stomach or a throat. These inside dwellers have to be treated otherwise. Medi cal science has been onto some of the tricks and, in many in- j stances, has found where one microbe will battle another microbe to the finish; sort 6f like "sending a thief to catch a thief formula. So the men of science began "choosing up sides" by organizing teams of microbes known to be friend ly against opposing teams of enemy microbes. By placing them, in contact they can benefit by the silent struggle that takes place; us ing microbes to fight mi crobes, but doing this on our own terms and at the time and place of our own choosing. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) 4-H Club News Table Rock Pack Rais During the course of the first two meetings of the Ta ble Rock Pack Rats 4-H club, w e elected officers and planned our projects. I he first meeting was at Mary Myers, our assistant leader's home. Officers were elected-as follows: president, fat Stnphn; vice president. Aletta Myers; secretary, Carol Myers; and reporter, Glenna Brown. , The second meeting was neid at the home of Pat Strip lin. Miss Norma Hague was in attendance and helped us with some of our problems. Glenna Brown, Reporter. Phoenix Saddle-liles The Phoenix Saddle - lites held their regular meeting re cently at the home of Bonnie Holmes. Final plans for the forthcoming horse exhibition at the Crater Lions' Sports- fair were decided upon. A committee was appointed to put a display, advertising the horse exhibition, in Walt Young's stationery store. Signs were also placed in Lam port's Sporting goods and Gib son's Saddlery. The commit tee members were Edna Welch, Marty Graham, Janet Young, Susan Griffin and Sharon O'Connors. A swimming party was planned Sunday, March 20, at Twin Plunges. Tentative plans j for a ride after the Sportsfair were discussed. Refreshments were served by Bonnie and Mrs. Holmes. . Sharon O'Connors. Reporter. EXPAND JET SERVICE London-(CPD-Moscow radio announced that expanded summer airline schedules will put Soviet jets in service to Iff national capitals April 1. East Meadows, N.Y. - (UPD -Abraham Ornstein, 105, a can tor in New York City who retired in 1933, died Sunday. He was captured by Soviet troops in 1944, but was re leased' within a few months and began profitable publish ing operations. . Nationwide Search The kidnaping set off a na tionwide search. Telephone calls which police recorded on tape demanded a ransom of 300,000 zlotys (S12,000 at tourist rate) and 4,000 U.S. dollars in cash. Piasecki agreed to pay but the kidnap pers failed to pick up the money. Police found the taxi driver, who told them his two passen gers had identified themselves to the boy as "secret police" agents. He said the boy accom panied them willingly and all three were driven to the Cen tral Courts building and en tered it. The taxi driver was held for questioning, released, and then taken into custody again about 18 months later, on un disclosed charges, at a time when he was planning to emi grate to Israel. There the trail ended. For nearly two years, the "Pax" newspaper Slowo Powszech ne ran a picture of the boy daily, with a plea for infor mation and offers of reward. Body Discovered But on Dec. 8, 1958, the pictures abruptly stopped. The next day police announced the body of Bohdan Piascki, his school books beside him, had been found in a disused base ment locker under a grocery shop 200 yards from the Cen tral Courts. The knife with which he had been stabbed to death was still in his body. Medical ex perts believed he had been killed within a few hours of the kidnaping. The tragic discovery con vinced most doubters that the boy's disappearance had been a simple, brutal case of kid naping for money, without political implications. But it failed to move the mystery nearer a solution. In the more than a year that has passed since the body was found, police arrested a Pol ish laborer and accused him of sending ransom notes to the elder Piasecki. But after weeks of interrogation, police said, they became convinced the man knew nothing of the crime and had only been seek ing money. The police also broadcast the tape-recordings of the telephoned demands for ran som, which they believe were the voices of the real kidnapers. Numbers Supplied Regional stations all Over the country carried the re cordings of the harsh voice putting out the terms for the boy's safe return. The public prosecutor's of fice supplied telephone num bers where any Pole who be lieved " he recognized the threatening voice could pass on the identification to de tectives. But the dramatic bid for public help failed. All leads given by helpful listeners proved futile. Recently, as the third anni versary of the kidnaping passed, police said grimly the file remained open on the country's " greatest unsolved crime. MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford, Or. Wednesday, Mar. 1 6. 1 960 A3 Conductors Air Strike Vote Cedar Rapids, Iowa-dlPD-J. A. Paddock, president of the j Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, said Tuesday that . the union's executive committee later this week will decide whether to call a strike vote against the railroads. Paddock, Cedar Rapids, said "chances are" a strike vote will be called, but there were a number of other things being considered. He indicated that the fact the engineers union has ar ranged for arbitration of its dispute with the railroads will have an effect on whether his union would vote on a strike. "The conductors and" en gineers have been tied closely on wages and it seems logical that a decision in that field will have an effect on our dis pute," he said. He said he thought his un ion and the railroads were making progress last week in face-to-face negotiations, but he wasn't sure now. He said it is possible they may begin negotiations again soon. Nixon Urged To Start Campaign Washington (UPD Senate GOP campaign chairman Bar ry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) said to day he has urged Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon to "get out and campaign" against attacks by Democratic presi dential candidates. "I don't think the vice presi dent can , wait until after the Republican convention to start his c a m p a i g n," Goldwater said in an interview. He said he would like Nixon to speak at some state Republican con ventions. . Goldwater said that Nixon has not given a final answer to his request for more direct campaign a c t iv i t y between now and the July 25 GOP con vention in Chicago. But Nixon's office told United Press International there has been no change in his announced intention to participate in none of the presidential primary cam paigns and to stick mainly to his job in Washington. 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