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Powers Declares
Defense Attorney
Hopes Admissions
Lead To Leniency
Acting on Orders,
U2 Pilot Asserts
Moscow - IUPI1 - Francis G.
Powers, 31, fighting for his
life, today repented his U2
flight over Russia as a "bad
service" to his country. His
defense attorney said he
"hoped for the court's leni
ency" because of the defend
ant's admissions.
Powers, speaking from the
prisoner's dock, emotionally
pleaded that he could not kill,
even in self -defense and
stressed again and again that
he was acting only on orders
and not of his own volition, in
making the flight over Russia
May 1.
Hopes for Leniency
The Tass news agency said
defense attorney Mikhail
Grinev told the Powers' fam
ily that, "Considering Powers'
behavior during the trial, his
repentance and regret about
the committed offense, he
(Grinev) hoped for the court's
leniency."
, The statement could be an
Inkling that the military tri
bunal would not mete out the
death penalty.
The pilot told the three
military judges hearing the
espionage trial in which he
has pleaded guilty that the
people who sent him over the
Soviet Union should have
thought of the consequences.
Friday is expected to be the
last day of the trial. , -''.
Right To Final Speech'''
The prosecution and de
fense are expected to make
their summation speeches.
Then Powers will have the
right to make a final speech
to the court.
The seemingly naive Vir
ginian clearly was trying to
avoid a Communist death sen
tence. If the trial ends Fri
day, the three-judge court is
expected to postpone the ver
dict and possible sentence un
til Saturday.
Mo Thought of Consequences
Powers told the packed
Courtroom he never even
thought of the fate of his May
1 flight, let alone that it might
wreck the Paris summit con
ference or even lead to mili
tary conflict.
Bad Service
"Do you think now you did
your country a good or bad
service?" asked Chief Judge
Viktor Borisoglebsky.
"I would say very bad,"
Powers replied.
"Did it occur to you that a
flight might provoke military
conflict?"
"The people who sent me
should have thought of that."
The prosecution had called
another technical expert, Lt.
Col. K. V. Voroshilov, at the
afternoon session when Pow
ers made his dramatic plea
of pacifism.
. Voroshilov identified a pis
tol equipped with a silencer
as part of .the gear found in
Powers' high -altitude plane
when it was downed over Si
beria. (Continued on Page 2) .
WEATHER
FORECAST: Fair and warm
through Friday. Low tonight 55.
High tomorrow 95.
Temp.
Hlghrst YMterday . 99
Lowest This Morning 59
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today 7:09 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow .... 5:22 a.m.
Moonrise tomorrow 2:55 a.m.
New Mnon Aug. 22
PROMINENT STAR
Arcturus, sets 11:26 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Venus, low in west 7:29 p.m.
Jupiter, due south .... 7:54 p.m.
Saturn, due south . .. 9:15 p.m.
Mars, rises at midnight
Smith Urges
United Legion for Peace
Portland-(liPD-Ex-Gov. Elmo
Smith today urged that the
United Nations "establish a
permanent United Legion for
peace."
Smith, Republican candidate
for the U.S. Senate, told a
business men's luncheon that
he visualized a permanent,
small army of soldiers for
peace, organized along the
same lines as the present U.N.
emergency force. It should be
made up, he said, of troops
from small, neutral nations
who would not fight except in
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POWERS ANSWERS QUESTIONS American pilot Francis
Gary Powers, his hand on a map, answers prosecution's
questions on the second day of his espionage trial in Moscow
today. The 31-year-old airman admitted he had flown over
neutral Afghanistan on his May 11 U2 trip and that he had
indeed been lift "by something" at a height of 68,000 feet
over Russian soil. , -
State Democratic
C h a i rman Accuses
Appling of
Portland-IUPI) -. Democratic
state chairman Robert w.
stranh accused Secretary ot
State Howell Appling Jr. Wed
nesday of making serious
blunder" in the admistration
of election laws for the elec
tion of county coroners.
Straub charged Appling
with failure to announce the
coming election of coroners in
21 counties until it was too
late for voters to nominate
candidates in the primary
election.
The Democratic chairman's
remarks came after a state
ment by Appling Tuesday that
coroners must be elected in 21
counties since the new law to
abolish elected county coron
ers does not become effective
until January.
. In spite of Appling's ruling
this week, Straub said, "not a
single filing for coroner, was
accepted, nor was provision
for nomination ; of coroners
made" in the primary elec
tions in May 1
Voters Said Denied Rights
' Straub, accused Appling of
a "lapse ... in disregard of his
duties," which, .Straub said,
"has denied voters their right
to nominate coroners and has
placed an unecessary and in
some cases an impossible bur
den on both Republican and
Democratic county ' central
committees."
Salem - (UPll - Secretary of
State Howell Appling Jr. said
today that Democratic State
Chairman Robert W, Straub
had the facts a bit twisted
in accusing his office of a
"serious blunder" in admin-
Permanent
self defense, or to preserve
the peace. .
He said the U.N. provides
a theater for world diplomacy
"but it lacks a permanent tool
to put its diplomacy into
action."
Smith said that, when the
emergency force was first or
ganized in 1956, the United
States sponsored the principle
of limiting the force to troops
from small neutral nations. He
called this "a wise provision
to keep Soviet troops out of
the troubled area,
. y y (UPI Radiotelephoto)
Blunder
'istration of election laws for
the election of county coro
ners. But Appling said he had
no intention of getting into a
political dispute with Straub
on the subject.
Appling stated:
"The taxpayers are not pay
ing me to play political games
with Straub. It is obvious his
hysterical charges originate in
his ignorance of Oregon elec
tion procedures. I am sur
prised that as a state legisla
tor he does not know that it
is the local county clerks, not
the secretary of state, who
conduct the election of county
coroners.
Acted With Legal Advice ,
"I have acted in this matter
in complete accordance with
the legal advice of the Demo
cratic attorney general. My
only purpose is to insure that
the people are provided the
opportunity in November to
vote for county coroners. In
that I have succeeded.
"If Mr. Straub has any po
litically inspired speeches to
make I suggest he make them
to the attorney general and
to the member of Mr. Straub's
political party who wrote the
vaguely-worded coroner bill.
"In the meantime I have
work to do.'
Aircraft Search
On 'Reduced' Scale
The search for the missing
Cessna aircraft, which disap
peared Monday after refueling
at Medford, continued today
on a "greatly reduced scale,"
according to Brian Douglass,
local search and resuce chief
for southwest Oregon.
Only three Medford planes
were reported to be searching
in the area south of here this
morning.
Douglass stated that the
search will definitely be dis
countined tonight if the craft
is not found today.
The plane, with two Cali
fornia couples on board, was
on a flight from Bellingham,
Wash, to Modesto, Calif.
Salcm-WPD-Viesko Post of
Salem Wednesday was award
ed a contract to build a 240
unit men's dormintory on the
campus of Williametlc Uni
versity her.
Flight
Eisenhower Sees
No Evidence of
Brainwashing
Statement Puzzles
Some Officials
Washington-(UPl) - President
Eisenhower says he finds no
evidence that the Russians
have brainwashed Francis G.
Powers.
What is brainwashing?
The official U.S. Air Force
dictionary says to brainwash
is: "To manipulate various
psychological and moral fac
tors so as to induce a person
to reveal confidential informa
tion or to subscribe to false
statements."
On that basis, Eisenhower's
statement puzzled some other
officials who studied accounts
of the opening session of Pow
er's spy trial in Moscow.
Rep. George H. MeMahon
(D-Tex.), suggested Powers
may have been brainwashed,
on the strength of the pilot's
testimony that his U2 was
shot down at 68,000 feet. That
suited the Kremlin's desire to
show Russia could be defend
ed against air attack, but it
did not agree with belief here
that Powers had plane trouble
which brought him to much
lower altitude before the Rus
sians got him.
Barred From Commenting
Officials in the executive
branch of the government
were barred by a stern State
Department order from com
menting publicly on the trial
and Powers' conduct.
But authorities privately
noted subtle turns in the tes
timony which indicated the
kind of compliance with
prosecution wishes that char
acterizes a witness subjection
to brainwashing.
Powers, under prosecution
and defense examination, test
ified he was sorry for his part
in the U2 incident. He said he
came from a "strictly non
capitalist" family, flew under
military orders because he
had to and had been treated
"very nicely" in the Soviet
Union.
The effect of this testimony
appeared to some to bear our
advance predictions that Rus
sia was endeavoring to put
the .United States on trial and
that Powers would be pictur
ed as the pawn in Washing
ton's so-called war-like pol
ices. Total of 286 Pints
Of Blood Donated
A total of 286 pints of blood
was contributed by valley resi
dents during Wednesday's visit
of the Red Cross Bloodmobile
Delighted Red Cross officials
at t ie Medford chapter house
rep rted that 320 persons call
ed there between 1 and 6 p.m.
They included 178 drop-ins,
Thirty-four were rejected for
medical reasons.
The total number of pints
was but four short of the 290
pint quota set for the Medford
visit. The Bloodmobile which
is in Grants Pass today, will
return here in October. .
"Of Course I Want To
Dag Will Request
Confidence Vote
In Congo Dispute
Secretary's Good
Faith Questioned
United Nations, N.Y. - IUPD -
Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold will ask the Secur
ity Council this Saturday-for
show of confidence in his
dispute with Congolese Pre
mier Patrice Lumumba, in
formed sources said today.
A delegation representing
Lumumba was due to arrive
from Leopoldville late today
to challenge Hammarskjold's
refusal to use the U.N. force
in the Congo to restore seces
sion-minded Katango Prov
ncei to the central govern
ment.
The Congolese premier has
seriously questioned Hammar
skjold's good faith, because of
this refusal. He warned
Wednesday he would send his
own troops into Katanga un
less "neutral observers" were
dispatched there immediately
by the United Nations.
Lumumba's position was
backed by Soviet Deputy For
eign Minister Vasily V. Kuz
netsov who conferred with
Hammarskjold privately for
70 minutes Wednesday. De
tails of the talk were kept se
cret1 and it was not known
whether the Russian would
carry his objections into the
Security Council session.
Hammarskjold o r l g i nally
had planned the council meet
ing for Friday. But the sources
said various African delega
tion learders persuaded him
in a two-hour conference
Wednesday night to make the
one day postponement.
The Africans wanted to af
ford a chance for Ghana to
try to mediate a settlement be
tween Lumumba and Katanga
President Moise Tshombe that
would obviate the need for
any decision on the disposi
tion of U.N. forces.
Fingerprints Show
Man Held Using
Assumed Name
Medford police disclosed to
day that Prentias Hubert
Alexander, arrested Saturday
on a muraer cnarge, is using
an assumed name. His actual
name is Leonard Eugene Nel
son. The identification was made
through fingerprinting re
ports submitted to the FBI
and crime bureaus in Oregon
and California.
When told of the findings,
Nelson told officers that he
had "wanted to tell the truth"
ever since he was arrested.
Nelson is being held pend
ing court action regarding the
fatal beating of William Car
ley Campbell early Saturday
in a downtown parking lot.
Seeking Witness
Local police are still look
ing for a possible witness de
scribed as a "well-dressed man
of stocky build" seen by both
another witness and Nelson.
Keith Duane Adams, 32,
Medford, was arraigned this
morning in circuit court on
a Jackson county grand jury
indictment of first degree mur
der, according to District At
torney Thomas J. Reeder.
Robert R. Dickey, Medford,
was appointed his attorney.
Adams is accused of stran
gling his ex-wife, Mrs. Hazel
jean Adams in her Medford
residence on Aug. 4.
Help The Aged. Here"
Regional Edition
Medford
40 PAGES MEDFORD,
HOME AGAIN Among more tnan 50 per- Medford merchants and a gold key to the
sons on hand to greet Miss Rosemary Doolen city was given to her by Medford Mayor
(Miss Oregon, 1960) when she arrived at John Snider. Miss boplen Is the daughter of
Medford airport this morning was Miss Mrs. Horace M. Doolen, 612 West Second st.,
Shirley Satterfield, Miss Jackson county, Medford. She will remain in Medford while
left. The bouquet of flowers was presented preparing for her trip to Atlantic City for
to Miss Doolen by Tony Manno on behalf of the Miss American pagoant in September.
Discoverer XIV Satellite
Launched; To Try Recovery
Vandenberg AFB, Calif. -WPD
Discoverer XIV satellite rum-
bled skyward today on an at
tempt to return the second
straight gold-plated capsule
from orbit,
An attempt to put up two
satellites within moments of
each other failed when a
Courier I-A communications
satellite rocket blew up about
two minutes after it was
launched at Cape Canaveral,
Fla.
If everything works as well
on Discovered XIV as it did
on No. 13, the 300-pound cap
sure should come spinning
back to the recovery area near
Hawaii Friday after the 19
foot satellite's 17th pass over
the poles. A capsule was re
covered last Thursday from
Discovered VIII, giving the
U.S. a notable space advance
ment. The Air Force hoped to
Money Taken From
Phoenix Laundry
Phoenix-A total of $157
was stolen from the Econ-O-Wash
laundry, Fourth and
North Main sts., early today,
stale police reported. The
money was taken from two
change-making machines, one
of which was also reported
missing.
Ed Landis, Grants Pass, is
owner of . the laundry and
Fred Weishaupl, Phoenix, is
manager.
Report of the burglary was
made to stale police about 3:50
a.m. by a motorist wno saia
he law a man in the building.
Foreign Experts
To Study Forestry
Los Angeles IUPD A group
of 109 forestry experts from
37 nations today were en
route to northern California
and Yosemite Park to study
U.S. forestry operations.
Represented in the group
were forestry men from Swe
den, Norway, Denmark, Eng
land, Australia,-New Zealand,
Japan, Ireland, Venzuela,
Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, Bel
gium, and several other na
tions.
The foresters will go to
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 28 for a
10-day meeting, part of the
Fifth World Forestry Con
gress. Southampton, England - IUPD
-The Queen Elizabeth sailed
today for New York packed
with cheering American tour
ists. The vessel's departure
broke the stranglehold of
woldcat strike that disrupted
the Queen- Mary's schedulf
last JveeK.
OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1960 No. 129
I snag the p'ara'chutingina cap
sule with snare-trailing air
planes this ; time instead of
having the navy pluck it from
the water, but a program offi
cer cautioned: . 1 -
"Just because we, got ft
back last time doesn't auto
matically mean we'll succeed
every time from here on out."
The Lockheed-built Agena
satellite made up the second!
Demurrer Filed
In Escrow Case
A demurrer to test the suf
ficiency of the indictment
against O.H. Bengtson, Med
ford lawyer, in the Medford
Escrow case, was filed in cir
cuit court yesterday.
According to Bengtson s
lawyer, Robert A. Boyer, the
demurrer is based on the fact
that the indictment does not
conform to the requirements
of the Oregon code since it
does not contain a statement
of facts constituting an of
fense in ordinary and con
cise language.
The district attorney will
now file an answering memo.
This will be followed by a
reply memo from the defense
counsel and the demurrer will
be' heard in. court on Aug. 30,
according to Boyer.,
Locating Suitable
Logs Delays Detour
Construction of . a . detour
bridge over Evans creek on
the Evans Creek, rd. is pro
gressing as rapidly as pos
sible according to Bob Car
stensen, county engineer.
It was hoped, he said, that
the detour could be completed
by the : week end, . but con
struction cannot get underway
until suitable' logs for the
bridge have . been cut and
hauled- to the site. - ,
The -bridge - was collapsed
last Friday when a log truck
attempted to cross lt.
The bridge is located about
V4 miles west of the junction
of Evans creek and Ramsey
Canyon rds.
Bottle With 25,000
Pennies Said Stolen
Porlland-IUPD-A giant glass
bottle was reported stolen
from the Jack I. Russell home
here while the family was
away, police said Wednesday.
Police said ' the burglars
must have had some difficulty
carrying the bottle off, since
it contained an estimated
25,000" pennies which the fam
ily had saved.
Salem-(UPI)-All fires on state
protected forest land are un
der control, the State Forestry
Department laid today.
Price 10 Cents
Tribune
- istage of the 78-foot long Dls'
- coverer rocket which blasted
off at 11:58 p.m. (PST).
It normally takes about two
hours for officers to determine
if the satellite is in, orbit,
In Florida, the rocket ap
peared to be traveling normal
ly when it suddenly exploded
into a ball of smoke and fire
to the northeast high oyer, the
Atlantic.
There was no immediate ah-
nounccment from the Air
Force as to what caused the
failure of the satellite
launcher f 1 r s t setback for
fhe Thor-Able'-Star which had
sent two transit navigational
satellites into orbit earlier this
year. . .
The shot at Cape Canaveral
left the pad exactly one min
ute after- the Discovered was
fired at the California base.
Maurine Neuberger
To Arrive Tonight
Mrs. Maurine' Neuberger,
Democratic candidate for the
United States senate, will
speak at a no-host luncheon
at noon Friday at the Medford
hotel. She will be honored at
reception at 10 a.m. tomor
row at the home of Mrs. Sid
ney Ainsworth, 1135 Fern St.,
Ashland.
The candidate, who opposes
Republican Elmo Smith in the
wovemDer election, is 10 ar
rive In Medford this evening.
Tickets for the luncheon
may be purchased at the door.
Further information may be
obtained by calling Demo
cratic headquarters, SPring
3-4777. -
Washington-iUPD - President
Eisenhower has ' nominated
Gen. George Henry Decker as
Chief of staff of the Army.
New Cave Junction Park
Approved by Commission
Salem - IUPD
Survey of the
cost of moving Cove Palisades
Slate Park to a new location
and the creation of a 160-acre
park near Cave Junction were
approved today by the Slate
Highway Commission. 1
After a study of the result
of borings taken on potential
sites for the Cove Palisades
Park which will be put under
water by the construction of
Round Butte dam. State Parks
Director. Chester Armstrong
recommended a location be
tween the Deschutes and
Crooked rivers on a slope to
ward the Deschutes.: .
$350,000 Oifarad
Portland General Electric
Co., which is building the dam
has offered the state $350,000
to pay for the relocation of
the park, but the commission
Men Apparently
Mistaken For
Belgian Troops
Incident Occurs
During Inspection
Leopoldville, The Congo-dlPD
-Native Congolese troops dis
armed three Canadian soldiers
of the United Nations emer
gency force and beat them
with rifle butts at nearby
Ndjili Airport today.
The three men were taken
to hospitals but were not re- -ported
in serious condition.
They were identified at Capt.
C. A. Taschereau, Quebec;
Cpl. R. T. Conroy, Kingston,
and Signalman Andre Ma-
thieu, Montreal.
Forced To Lie on Ground
The men were forced to lie
on the ground after they were
disarmed, tnen were beaten.
Taschereau was reported to
have suffered a concussion.
The Congolese were inspect-
ng luggage and identity cards
a search for Belgian spies V
and disguised paratroopers
when they overhead some of
the Canadians speaking
French. This apparently mis
led the Congolese into believ
ing they were French-speaking
elgians.
The Canadians were board
ing a piano to take their unit
Coquilhatville in Equatorial
Province and Luluabourg in
Kasai, where they were to set
U.N. communications.
Delegation En Route
UAnn,..kiU ..-1
delegation flew toward New
York abqard a Soviet airliner
warn the U.N. Security
Council against turning The
Congo Into a "second Korea."
The delegation was author
ized by Premier Patrice Lu
mumba to deliver a three part
ultimatum bringing grace ac
tion should the council refuse
to send "neutral observers" to
the Congo-a direct slap at the
good faith of Secretary Gen
eral Dag Hammarskjold.
Lumumba threatened to
rush troops of his central gov
ernment into secession-minded
Katanga Province.
He said he would renounce
all United Nations aid and
Four Color Ad for
Local Firm Printed
The first advertisement to
be published in black and
three colors by a Medford
firm appears in today's' edi
tion of the Mail Tribune.
The colorful ad has been
placed by the Big Y Super
Markets and features a spec
ial autumn sale of Del Monta
canned foods.
The layout and arrange
ment of the Big Y Markets'
Del Monte color- advertise
ment were made by William
A. Gifford, general manager
of the Big Y group of stores,
and by Ersel Hallsted of this
city,' representative for the
California Packing Corpora
tion. Color plates were pro
duced by the ROP Color Serv
ice of the Milwaukee journal,
Milwaukee, Wise-
The use of four colors In
local advertisements was
made possible by the Mail
Tribune's recently - installed
new press equipment.
Divers Recover
Bod of Youth
The body of 17-year-old
Gary L. Strum, Portland, was
recovered today from Dia
mond lake, according to state .
police. ' ' '
Skin divers and police have
been dragging the lake since
Strum drowned Saturday
while diving from a boat op
erated by his mother.
Vancouver, Wash.-UPD-The
Clark County Fair opened to
day for a four-day run.
today decided to have an en-
ginecring survey of the de
velopment to determine the .
actual cost of the facilities
needed before accepting the
company offer.
The new park in Josephine
county will be located on the
east and west forks of the Illi
nois river and its entrance
will be from U.S. Highway
199, one-half mile from the
Oregon Caves junction.
Camping Extended
Because of increased de
mand for overnight camping
at state parks, the commis
sion voted to allow it for the
first - time at the following
parks: Farewell Bend, Owy
hee, Chandler, Booth, Collier,
Kimball, Loeb, Lewis and
Clark, Ben and Kay Dorris,
Shelton and the Thomas Condon-John
Day fossil beds.
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