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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
FRIDAY. AUGUST 5, I960
State AFL-CIO
Delegates Vote
On Resolutions
: Pendleton-dlPD-Delegates to
the AFL-CIO state 'convention
came out for development of
power resources by public
agencies in action on two reso
lutions here Thursday.
i Delegates ; turned down a
resolution that would have fa
vored granting a license to the
..private Pacific Northwest
Power Company to build High
Mountain Sheep Dam.
A resolution supporting a
license for the Washington
Public Power Supply System
to build Nez Perce Dam, on
the other hand, was approved
by the union delegates.
A group of resolutions deal-
. ing with the Portland news
paper strike, and a resolution
calling for repeal of the Lan-drum-Griffln
labor reform act
: were slated to come before the
convention for action today.
The convention was also
scheduled to decide, before
adjournment late today,
where the 1961 convention
will be held. Three cities
Eugene, Coos Bay, and Salem
have put in bids for the
1961 gathering.
During the- convention's
Thursday session State Sen.
Monroe Sweetland presented
Janet Baumhover of Portland
with a special service award
on behalf of the Multnomah
County Employees Local 88
Congo Problem Dangerous Challenge
Facing System of Free Enterprise
Doctor Says Signs
Cost Him Business
Tunbrldge Wells, England -MP!)
- Dr. Eric St. John Ly
burn said Thursday he plans
to sue the town council be
cause of a group of municipally-erected
signs that point
straight at his house.
The signs read. "Cemetery
Kent and Sussex Crematori
um." "People take one look at
them and say 'I'll steer clear
of that doctor,'" Lyburn
sair. He claimed the'' signs
have cost him $14,000 in lost
business. .
By LEROY POPE
New York - (UPD - The prob
lem of the Congo is the most
dangerous challenge the free
enterpise system has faced
since World War II, United
Nations circles said today.
If the United States govern
ment and American business
leaders are outwitted by the
Communists in the new Afri
can republic, U.N. circles said
privately, then much of Africa
and Latin America will slide
behind the Iron Curtain as
has East Europe and Red
China.
They point out that the Bel
gians built a modern indus
trial state in the Congo but
failed to train the Congolese
to run it before the tidal wave
of African nationalism forced
them to grant the Congo po
litical independence. Belgian,
American and U.N. experts
say it will cost $1 billion to
$2 billion and five to 20 years
of tireless work to train the
Congolese. ,
Soviets Willing
The Soviets are willing and
eager to spend that much time
and money - plus providing
the technical manpower to do
the job.
The Reds stand to win vir
tual control of the world if
they succeed in the Congo,
some U.N. experts are convinced.
So the question arises - is
the free world, led by the
United States, willing to spend
the money and time and pro
vide the manpower to save
the Congo in the only way it
can be saved?
U.N. officials say it must be
done only through the U.N.
Any effort to do the job any
other way only would give
the Communists, the excuse
and opportunity to muscle
their way in and grab the ball
- as they have come so close
to doing in Cuba.
Castro Sought U.S. Help
Premier Fidel Castro came
to the United States soon
after his rise to power in Cuba
to seek American understand
ing and help. Neither Castro
nor his program aroused
American enthusiasm.
In the light of subsequent
events it's by no means cer
tain his radical brother, Raul,
and "Che" Guevarra, his Argentine-born
chief lieutenant,
would have permitted Castro
to follow a policy friendly to
the United States even if the
Eisenhower administra t i o n
had romanced the Cuban
revolutionaries.
But the significant thing is
that neither the U.S. govern
ment nor the American peo
ple have succeeded in identi
fying themselves with the fer
vent revolutionary hopes of
most of the Cubans.
The Communists have suc
ceeded and are trying to do
the same in the Congo.
Atks U.N. Aid '
Congo Prime Minister Pa
trice Lumumba came to the
United States as Castro did -only
he was asking United
Nations help primarily, U.S.
help secondarily. But if Lu
enthusiasm, he did get prompt
and substantial help. How
ever, Lumumba seems to be a
mercurial man with only one
fixed policy - to get the Bel
gian army out of all the Con
go, including metal-rich Ka
tango, which is trying to se
cede from Lumumba's re
public. Lumumba says he wants
the Belgian civilians to re
turn. But in spite of their $8
billion stake in the Congo, the
Belgian civilians seem fearful
of returning unless the Bel
gian army slays on.
Two Choices
This raises the need of
either making the U.N. police
force and the U.N. aid pro
gram so strong the Belgian
civilians will come back, or
else the U.N. must take over
the long and costly burden of
training the Congolese to run
their country and its complex
industry.
U.N. circles say t lat other
wise, the Communists will be
in a position to move in and
fill the vacuum. They point
out that, as in Cuba, there are
Red sympathizers in some im
portant posts in the Congolese
government.
Disappearance of Judge Crater
Still Mystery After 30 Years
By DOC QUIGG
New York- IUPII- Have you
seen this man?
"Description - born in the
United States -age, 41 years;
height, 6 feet; weight, 185
pounds; mixed grey hair, orig
inally dark brown, thin at
top, parted in middle 'slicked'
down; complexion, medium
dark, considerably tanned;
brown eyes; false teeth, upper
and lower jaw. . .
This is a New York police
circular, offering $5,000 for
information leading to his lo
cation. But don t get excited.
The reward period expired
long ago. If alive, Judge Cra
ter, the missing man, would
be 71. He disappeared 30
years ago Saturday.
To the police missing per
sons bureau, the Crater dis
appearance is still an "open
case." The bureau has check
ed about 3,000 leads over the
three decades; they're still
coming in at a rate of five
or six a year.
The latest, only a few
weeks old, is from an inform
ant who said he had known
a man, now dead, who had
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Still an 'Open Case'
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a farm in Canada and who
kept in his house a picture
of himself as a youth. The
informant claims that six or
seven years later, he saw in
a detective magazine what ap
peared to him to be an iden
tical picture-of Crater as a
youth.
. "The stuff is still coming
in saying Judge Carter Is here
or there, and we check out
all leads," said Lt. John Cron
in, missing persons bureau
head. "And so far, nobody
can say whether it was hom
icide, suicide, or voluntary
absence. We just don't know.
There isn't any concrete evi
dence to support any of the
theories. You can speculate
from now to doomsday."
Joseph Force Crater, New
York Supreme Court justice,
stepped out of Billy Haas' res
taurant on West 45th st. about
9:15 p.m. Aug. 6, 1930, after
dining with friends. A hot,
12-mile breeze was curling
over the brownstones; it had
been a 94-degree day with
three deaths due to heat.
Vanishes Into Night
Judge Crater wore a brown
suit with a light stripe. He
had left the vest at home.
He hailed a cab, stepped in,
and vanished westbound into
the night and into one of the
classic mysteries of American
history.
The theories and reports
are many and complicated.
Did he flee an investigation
of Tammany corruption? One
was under way, which pro
gressed finally to the resigna
tion of Mayor James J. Walk
er. Crater's name was not
brought into the hearings
Was he blackmailed, or
killed, because of affairs with
women? One woman to whom
he allegedly had been giving
money, Connie Marcus, naa
expected to dine with him
the night he disappeared and
was mystified, she said, when
he didn't show up.
His former wife, Stella, now
Mrs. Carl Kunz, white-haired
and in her 60's, is still insist
ing 30 years later that he was
an honest, honorable man who
had absolutely nothing to do
with any other women-that
if he had, it was purely busi
ness. Declared Legally Dead
Judge Crater was declared
legally dead in 1937. Mrs.
Crater and her long-time at
torney, Emil K. Ellis, remain
firmly convinced he was mur
dered. Ellis in the 1930s de
cided one June Brice had
proof of the murder. When
he found her, she was in a
mental institution, too con
fused to make a statement.
Stella Crater has a book,
"The Empty Robe," scheduled
for fall publication by Dou
bleday. In it she will disclose
that Crater kept his business
and home life completely sep-arated-so
much so that on the
day he was sworn in as a
Supreme Court justice she
didn't know anything about
it until she picked up the
paper, the phone began ring
ing, and flowers arrived from
Al Smith and Jimmy Walker.
The new judge came home
and said-well, this was busi
ness; at no time would he
involve her in his business'
life.
She couldn't tell the police
much when he vanished,
President Gets
Full Relaxation
Newport, R. I. -iUPD- Presi
dent Eisenhower today was
getting some of the complete
relaxation he came here for
on July 7.
With his scheduled depar
ture just two days away, he
made no official appointments
and was confining the rou
tine of White House paper
work to a minimum.
On most days since his ar
rival July 7 the President has
mixed work with his play. He
faces a busy schedule on his
return to Washington Sunday,
and is hoping to go back fully
rested.
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Washington - (UPD - Congres
sional auditors have accused
the defense department of
wasting over $147 million in
its long-term program to build
housing for enlisted men and
officers;
, The General Accounting Of
fice, which checks on federal
spending for Congress, said
it had found ' that the three
services had built or pro
g r a m m e d for construction
5,900 houses at 15 different
installations which were in
"excess of actual or apparent
need."
Many Prefer Rented Homes
The auditors said the pri
mary reason for the overbuild
ing was the "failure of the
departments to realize that
many members of the service
prefer to live in personally
owned or rented homes."
But Assistant Secretary of
Defense Floyd S. Bryant said
in a letter included in the
report that the defense de
partment "cannot agree with
the major findings" of the
GAO.
The GAO report, singled
out Hawaii as a prime exam
ple cf unjustified construc
tion. It said there was an
"urgent need for coordina
tion" of the three services'
building programs in the 50lh
state.
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nated a Naval aviator at the
Naval Air Basic Training com
mand, Naval Air station, Pen-
sacola, Fla. Before entering
the service in December, 1958,
he attended Southern Oregon
college.
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