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Chessman Lawyers Set 16th Appeal Convict 'Virtually Certain' To Die San Francisco -WW- Attor neys for Caryl Chessman, 38, 1 planned to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court Friday (or the 18th time In 12 years In elforti to lave the convict -author from execution May 2. But the twice condemned Lot Angelea aex terrorist aaid he was "virtually certain" he will die In the San Quentln gas chamber on this, hli ninth execution date. Cheuman voiced hla petal mijm In an angry letter to his chief counsel, George T. Da vis, In which he asked him to withdraw from the case. A copy of the leter accompanied a California Supreme Court decision Wednesday denying a writ of habeas corpus to Chessman. Claims Reprieve Was Cruel ; In New York, A. L. Wlrln, another attorney for Chess man, said he would file for a writ of certiorari for review Ex-Valley Resident Transferred East - Charles Cummons, former valley resident and employee of the California Oregon .Pow er company, has assumed du ties as chief of operations at the New York state power authority's Niagara Falls de velopment, according to word received, here.'- Cummons, son of Mr., and Mrs. C' L. -Cummons,' J588 Pacific- rd.. Phoenix, was aup- erintendent of The Dalles dam powerhouse before moving to Niagara f ans. , -. v He was a. powerhouse .op erator for Copco at Klamath Falls and Prospect before starting work with the corps of engineers at Bonneville dam and McNary dam power houses. Cummons was graduated from Eagle Point High school, and studied electrical engi neering and radio for three years by correspondence.,The Niagara Falls development will be completed in 1961 and will have a power output of 2,190,000 kilowatts. In the U. S. Supreme Court of the California court decision Friday. ' Wirln, chief counsel for the American Civil Liberties Un ion' In Southern California, said he would ask for a stay of execution for Chessman. He said he would cite as grounds for the action that a reprieve by California Gov. Edmund G. Brown 10 hours before Chessman's last execu tion date Feb. 19 constituted cruel and unusual punish ment; also that one of the orlg- MEDFORDf Tribune Regional Edition Page 2A Stocks Increase On Routine Trading farm Organizations, Defense Officials Meet Salem-fllPD-Members of the Oregon civil defense agency met with officials of Oregon farm organizations here today to form an advisory commit tee for protection of farm crops and livestock from ra dioactive fallout in the event of nuclear attack'. . There are about 27,000 offi cers in the Salvation Army. . New York-ttlPD-Stocks gain ed on most fronts in general ly routine pre-holiday trad ing today. Treasury Secretary Ander son's statement that business this year coud be the most prosperlous in history was reason enough for the mar ket's Improved tone, brokers agreed. American Motors, which op ened up Vti extended the earlier gain to around a half in subsequent trades. The company reported that Ram bler sales during the first 10 days of April were the high est for any month-opening on record. Chrysler, General Mo tors and Ford held steady. industrials were up more than a point in their average chiefly on gains of more than a point in Eastman Kodak and a half or more in American-Telephone and American Tobacco. Gulf on Home-stake Mining Idaho Power I. B. M Int. Paner John ManviUe , .... 30i - 41 48 U 404 . 119'i D4g DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York-,ITI-Dow-Jonl final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 626.50, unchanged) 20 railroads 144.41, off O.BOl IS utilities 89.47, up O.OE. and 65 stocks 208.92, off 0.14. Bales Wednesday were about 2.730.000 shares com pared with 2,470,000 shares Tuesday, Wednesday's prices stocks: Allied Chemical Alum Co. Am American Can American Motorg .. A T T Anaconda coppar H Armco Steal Bendlx Aviation Bethlehem Steel - Boeing: Air Caterpillar Corp. Chryiler Corp Continental Can Crown Zcllorbach Curtiia Wridht Dow Chemical Du Pont Eastman Kodak Firestone General, Electric .. General Foods General Motors Georgia- Pacllic Graham' Paige Qreyhound .... on aelected 50!', ODU . 4 HI 28 !', 82 mi . 41"', - - "li 02 43 V, 43i 31 Tk ? 221 112"l 3B ? - Ul, 102)4 41 (, 'e 2, 2H. Kaiser Ind 12 Katy 4",S Kennocolt Copper 70!, Lockheed Aircraft 23 Montgomery Ward 4Mi Nafl Hlcuit . . 54 New York Central 24", Ga Q Elcc I13'i Penney,. J. C 125 ',, Penn nrt 14 Radio Corporation 74 Richfield Oil 75 Safeway 4(1 Sean 4B'i Shell Oil 35 Soconv Mohil Oil 3 Southern Co 44 Southern Pacific .: 20 Slandord California 43 Standard Indiana 41 ', Standard N. J 44 Sun Mlnei 8 Texaa Co. 73 Texas Gulf Sulfur 17 Texas Pac Land Trust 18 Transamerlc-a .. 27 Trans World Air 14 H Trl-Contlnental 34 i Union Carbide 13B'J Union Pacific . 20 United Aircraft 33 United Air Lines 29", U. S. Rubber 54 U. S. Sleel 80(5 Youngstown S & T 108 PGE Stockholders Lose Court Round Portland -HIPD- A group of stockholders opposing Port land General Electric Com pany's proposed Round Butte dam on the Deschutes river lost a round In court Wednesday. Circuit Judge Herbert Schwab granted PGE a de murrer and then gave the stockholders opposed to the dam 30 days In which to plead further. The action makes it virtually impossible for the stockholders to force a vote on the issue this year since the annual stockholder meet ing is April 20. The company has maintain ed that its board of directors, not stockholders, has authori ty to decide whether to build dams. inal charges against Chessman was faulty. Chessman received two death sentences in Los An geles in 1948 on convistion of kidnaping for the purpose of robbery accompanied by bod ily harm. The bodily harm. The bodily harm was a per verted sex attack on two women. Chessman's attorneys argued that the charges on which he was originally In dicted carried a maximum penalty of life Imprisonment. Other Appeals Possible If the U. S. Supreme Court rejects the latest appeal, Chessman's attorneys will be free to go into U.S. District Court in San Francisco and on up through the federal court system. Copies of Chessman's letter to Davis were sent to Cali fornia Chief Justice Phil S. Gibson and Governor Brown. Scaffolding for Manor Roof Placed Scaffolding to support the forms for the concrete roof slab of Rogue Valley Manor are going into place this week, it has been reported by Walt er Hlggins, executive direc tor of the retirement home or ganization. ' More than half of the top floor, the 10th, has been poured, he said. Plastering of the interior is under way on the first and second floors, and the porcelain enamel steel ex terior is now being put in place. Completion of the Manor Is scheduled for Nov. 28, he said, and construction is "about on schedule." The executive committee of the non-profit Manor organi zation this week awarded the landscaping commission t o Dale Coverstone, M e d f o r d landscape architect, who will prepare the plans and super vise their execution, following board approval, Higgins said. Two Infants Perish In Apartment Blaze New York-IUPD-Two Infants died in a fire that swept a basement apartment Wednes day. A third child was res cued by a neighbor who said he had felt he "owed some child a life" since his son was rescued from drowning. John Ilerko, 48, dashed in to the blazing apartment three times and rescued Douglas Billman, 4. He was unable to reach the victims, Helen Hill man, 2, and Richard Vanden berge, 1. Atlanta Negro's Home Bombed By United Press International A Negro home In a. white section of Atlanta was bomb ed Wednesday night in a fresh outburst of racial violence In the South. The Incident shattered an uneasy calm that prevailed over most of the South where Negro college students have been demonstartlng against segregated lunch counters. In Nashville, Tenn., police arrested seven Negroes Wed nesday night after a young white man was attacked on a midtown street. He told offi cers the Negroes ganged up on mm, cut his pants with a knife and hit him with a piece of hose. No one was In the house at the time the dynamite charge, Porter Loses in Passport Plea Washington - HIPD - A U.S Court of Appeal! today upheld a lower court decision deny ing a claim by Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) that he is entitled to visit Red China because he Is a member of Congress. The appeals court said that "although he is a member of Congrees, that status alone does not entitle him to be exempted" from the State De partment's blanket ban on travel to the Communist country. The court, in an unsigned opinion by a three-judge pan el, said the case presented no went off. A Negro family had moved In furniture and plan ned to occupy the house in the near future. conflict between the legisla tive and executive branches of the government. It found that Porter applied for the special permission to visit Red China only "in his individual capacity" as a con gressman. "Under such cir cumstances the individual con gressman must conform to the regulations pertaining to pass ports which apply to all citi zens," the court said. Last June 10, in asking the State Department for the ex emption, Porter asserted "a member of Congress has a right to go anywhere in the world to do his duty as a U.S. legislator as he sees it, except in time of war or emergency. Any other policy would seem to be an uncon stitutional breech of the sep aration of powers." After the Department de nied his application. Porter brought suit in the District Court here. He asserted the Department violated his rights under the constitution and un der the passport act of 1926. He asked the court for an order compelling Secretary of State Christian A. Herter to remove the limitation on Por ter's passport excluding travel to Red China. CHARACTER ACTOR DIES Van Nuys, Calif. - 0IPD -Character Actor Robert Reeves, 68, Wednesday filled out a form for unemployment compensation and then col lapsed and died in the State Department Employment office. Lawyers' Incomes Said To Be Lagging Memphis, Tenn.-mPD-John C. Satterfield, president-elect of the American Bar Associa tion, claims a lawyer must charge his clients at least $20 an hour to attain take-home pay of S15.000 a year. 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