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B. MEDFOHD, MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. MONDAT. WNE li. 160 r .rr f m "'HMMJtL jjLT- ''L. CONVOY Part of a 44-man, seven-truck convoy of Com pany E, Second Battle Group, 186th Infantry, Medford's Oregon National Guard unit, is shown preparing to leave en route to summer encampment at Ft. Lewis, Wash. The group which left Friday morning, met other units along the way to finally total about 87 local men. First Lt. Lyle R. Brown is convoy commander for the entire battle group. Training this year will be at squad and section level, and the units will be evaluated by Army officers on the same basis as the regular Army troops. The Medford con voy will return to the Armory Saturday, June 25, follow ing the two-week training period. CLOGSTON'S Metal Weather Stripping and Screens Estimate! Gladly Phone SP 1-1014 Evenings Spot of Old Japan Still Preserved in Taiwan City Taipei, Formosa - (UPD - A spot of old Japan is still pre served in this former Japan ese colony. Yang Ming Shan (Grass Mountain) park, built by the Japanese on the outskirts of Taipei, is one of Formosa's most popular scer.c attractions. The park's preservation al most as Japan built it is sym bolic of a unique cultural re lationship between Tokyo and its former colony. Unlike South Korea and the Philippines, Formosa harbors few resentments against its ex-occupiers. Trade with Japan Is one of Your blood is precious whether you need it in the form of a transfusion ... or whether you are a donor Your RED CROSS distributes blood to everyone ... AT NO CHARGE Won't you help us to keep ample supplies of blood on hand? The Bloodmobile will be at the RED CROSS BUILDING 60 Hawthorne St. TUESDAY June 14 -1:00 Till 6:00 P.M. Ptiora SP 3 3813 ' Mak g "date" nowl Formosa's major businesses. Table reservations at the Friends of China club are sold out days in advance when Japanese floor show is book ed. Japanese basketball teams which play in the annual President Chiang Kai-shek In ternational tournament gen erally lose but invariably win the highest praises for sports manship. Japan air lines added Taipei to its international schedules last year on the hunch that Formosans would like to fly with Japanese. The air line was right. The Nationalist government, controlled largely by the 2 million mainland Chinese who followed Chiang into exile 11 years ago, has done little to discourage Formosan interest in things Japanese. Japan's import film quota assigned by the Nationalist government is second only to the U.S. quota. Many Japanese athletes and musicians are invited to Formosa. Japanese technicians have performed a variety of jobs, including installation of radio photo equipment for the Kuo- mintang's largest newspaper and operation of television equipment for the Broadcast ing Corporation of China. But the Chinese government has taken some steps to dis courage use of the Japanese language, which nearly all native-born Formosans above the age of 25 speak. Foreign missionaries com plained recently that the gov ernment ordered them to stop using Bibles printed in Japan ese. A private club asked a For mosan decorator to remodel its lobby. Mainland Chinese members were startled when the decorator unveiled a fish pond complete with a Japan ese stone lantern. The lantern was quietly re moved. But these were exceptions. During his long rule, Presi dent Syngman Rhee of South Korea refused to repair or oc cupy the capitol built in Seoul by the Japanese. But President Chiang s of fice is located in the building from which Japanese gover nors once ruled Formosa. The Victorian mansion built by the Japanese for their gov ernors residence is Nationalist China's number one guest house, its Japanese-style gar den unchanged. CLIFFORD D. BAILEY announces the opening of BAILEY'S CABINET SHOP 1872 Taylor Road Central Point NO 4-1711 Custom Mad Cabinet! (Formerly with Central Point Cabinet Shop) Mrs. Duncan and Two Hired Killers to Die on June 27 San Quentin, Calif -IUPD-, Unlcss California's Governor or the U.S. Supreme court in tervene, the lives of Elizabeth Duncan, 56, and two hired killers - Luis Moya and Au gustine Baldonado - 'will be taken in San Quentin's gas chamber June 27 in settle ment of their bargain for death. Their victim was comely, Canadian-born Nurse Olga Kupcyzk Duncan, 30-year-old pregnant wife of mother Dun can's attorney-son, Frank, 31. The time of the killing: Nov. 17, 1958. The price: A $175 down payment and a promise of $6,000. The Reason? The people's prosecutor -District Attorney Roy Gustaf son of Ventura county - pic tured it as Elizabth Duncan's distorted mother "love," so in tense it sheltered her son like a banyan tree, allowing no room for Frank's wife. All Sentenced Mother Duncan was convic ted March 20, 1959, of first degree murder. Both Moya, 21, and Baldonado, 26, confes sed, lost their pleas of inno cent by reason of insanity and were condemned to die with Mrs. Duncan in California's second triple execution. Early this month the three lost an appeal for a stay of execu tion. However, the originally scheduled execution date of Friday, June 17, was moved back to June 27 last week by Supreme Court Justice Wil liam O. Douglas. The stay will allow the Supreme Court to act on already filed appeals. The trio's second hope lies in an executive clemency hearing which Gov. Edmund G. Brown has scheduled for today. The execution cate in the state's apple-green gas cham ber was set against arguments over the death penalty. In May, California executed Caryl Chessman after nearly 12 years on death row. Opponents of the death pen alty might ask: What mortal can say where the Duncan case began? Was it a product of Mrs. Duncan's 10 to 20 marriages and separation from perhaps a half dozen children, leaving her with her only son, Frank? Is the defi nition of legal sanity - know ledge of right and wrong -sufficient? Is the death of Mrs. Duncan, Moya and Baldonado justice, retribution or re venge? What does society gain by executing the three? But proponents of capital punishment can point to the prosecutor's case - a case con vincing enough to lead 12 persons to convict the three. Hires Killers The facts as presented by the prosecution: On Nov. 13, 1958, Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan struck her bargain with Moya and Bal donado in a tavern in rich, sedate Santa Barbara, Calif. Mother Duncan offered thou sands for her daughter-in-law's death but had no money of her own. Four nights later - quite late - Olga Duncan - clad in a nightgown - was lured from her apartment with a story that her husband, Frank, was hurt or drunk outside in a car. Moya and Baldonado seized the nurse, forced her into an old, rented car and began the killing. Olga did not die easily. The nurse was choked, bat tered on the head with a bor rowed pistol and driven to the Casitas Pass area north of Ventura, Calif. She was not dead, yet. The killers dragged her from the car. Baldonado choked her while Moya dug i a grave with his hands in a soft highway fill. They changed places and Baldon ado dug while Moya strangled the nurse. At last, Olga was still. One of the killers placed his head over her heart to listen. No heart beat, but the killers were not certain she was dead. They covered her with dirt, left and returned the blood-stained car to its owner. Mrs. Duncan accused the killers of trying to blackmail her, apparently to stop the two from trying to get their full payment for murder. Moya and Baldonado were ar rested. Baldonado confessed and led authorities to the body Dec. 21, 1998. Many Crimes At her trial, the prosecution dug into Mrs. Duncan's life. Gustafson accused the gray ing defendant of murder, fraud, soliciting for prostitu tion, adultery, aiding and abetting sexual perversion, incest, soliciting and abortion, defrauding a landlord, obtain ing money by false pretenses, perjury, extortion, soliciting mayhem, kidnaping conspir acy, bribery, forgery, grand theft and bigamy. Gustafson pictured Frank Duncan as "spineless," with out enough courage to make room in his life for his wife, Olga. He called Duncan "Frankie," and accussed him of having no real love for Olga. The District Attorney said Elizabeth Duncan hated any one who tried to take away her son - hated enough to kill. Mercy Asked In their closing arguments, the attorneys for the defense and prosecution argued' the fundamental question of life- for-life punishment. Mother Duncan's attorney, S. Ward Sullivan of Los An geles, appealed to emotion, religion, forgiveness and the Bible. ". . .. some 2,000 years ago Christianity was born with a doctrine of mercy and for. giveness. Christianity that has changed the ancient laws of Biblical times did away with the law of life-for-a-life, an eye-for-an-eye and a tooth-for-a-tooth, and installed one of charity and mercy and love and forgiveness. "Nothing you can do can bring back Olga. Olga has gone to her eternal reward. Perhaps where Olga is now where all is forgiveness-if she could raise her hand to di rect you in your deliberations, she would say to you, 'Don't take the life of Elizabeth Duncan. Spare her life but put her where she belongs, away from society in prison.' " District Attorney Gustafson, cold and methodical in his prosecution, said: "The brutal, calculated re volting killing for hire of Olga Duncan is one of a num ber of horrible crimes which have recently been committed in California. "I simply cannot under stand bow some of our lead ers, in the face of these events, can seriously contend that the death penalty is not appropri ate punishment for the perpet ration of such a crime. "Many persons contend that the death penalty does not deter crime. Frankly, I am . sick of this illogical argument. Of course penalties do not completely deter crimes. Jail sentences do not completely deter drunk drivers or any other criminals, and death penalties do not completely deter murderers but there is no reason to dispense with penalties. "Retaliation is a basic in stinct of the human race. Ia civilized societies, the govern ment takes over from the in dividual the job of retaliating against a wrongdoer. From Biblical times a life for a life has been recognized as Just and fair." Gustafson said: "The reason for punishment is to inflict a penatly and, of course, taking a person's life is the supreme penalty." fJIG SAVINGS I smoothie Brand I ind Thrifty j No. 1 Calif. 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