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SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1982 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Case Against Eichmann Will Be Concluded This Week Br ELIAV 8IMON United Prtu International Jerusalem, line 1-AIPD-In two days the State of Israel concludes its case against Adolf Eichmann, the mini it has accused and found guilty of being Hitler's willing tool in the slaughter of 6 million Europeon Jews. From April to August last year, Israel presented its case, heard Eichmann's defense -that he was a simple soldier following orders - and found him guilty. In December sen tence was passed that he be "hanged by the neck until dead." In March, for six days, five supreme court Judges heard defense counsel Dr. Robert Servaius argue that Israel had no legal right to try and carry out judgment on Eichmann. Now, on Tuesday, the high court is to give its decision, it will be the final Judicial decision in a case that began on May 11, 1960, when three young Jewish commandoes kidnaped Eichmann in Buenos Aires, where he had been hiding under an assumed name, and had him flown secretly to Israel. It is regarded as practically certain the supreme court Judges will uphold the ver dict and sentence by unan imous vote. If he loses the appeal as anticipated, Eichmann will have no further recourse in Israeli law except an appeal for clemency to President Itzhak Ben-Ziv. Servatius has announced such request will be made but no one expects the president to intervene. Then all that will remain, barring some unpredictable move by Servatius, will be announcement of the time and place for the hanging. The place is expected to be Ramie prison near Tel Aviv, where Eichmann has been held and the time within the next four to eight weeks. When he stands in his bullet-proof, half-glass cage to hear the appeal verdict Tues day morning, Eichmann may be making his last public ap pearance. Israel already has announced the execution will be private, with possibly one newsman present to confirm for the world that the sen tence had been carried out. Whatever happens Tuesday or thereafter, Eichmann is ex pected to accept his fate calmly. He has had no illu sions of what awaited him since the day in Buenos Aires when he confessed his ident ity to his commando captors, agreed to return to Israel and gave them a written satement saying "I want at last to achieve inner peace." After IS years, Adolf Eich mann was tired of running. The same geemgig acceptance was renectea in nis Denavior during his trial and has been his attitude in these last weeks and month of waiting for the final chapter. There is not a sign of the swagger that marked the uni formed Eichmann in the days of his authority in dealing with what the Nazis euphem istically termed "The Jewish Question." At 56, Eichmann looks older than his years. His Jailers claim his health is excellent. His manner is one of indifference. In his recent weeks of cap tivity, Eichmann has been visited frequently by the Rev. and Mrs. William Hull. They are Canadians. Hull attended all sessions of the Eichmann trial and the appeal as repre sentative of the Protestant clergy In Israel. It was Mr. Hull's idea that Eichmann should see a minis ter. Servatius carried the pro posal to his client and Just before the appeal was heard in March, Eichmann agreed to Mr. Hull's visits. Mrs. Hull speaks German and has been the interpreter at the meet ings, conducted by micro phones through a soundproof ed and bulletproofed glass partition. Although Mr. Hull has not said it in such words, he ob viously has been baffled by Bud's Tire Exchange Will Be CILS1ID Tuesday, May 29 3 p.m. in memory of MR. M. C. GORDON who was recent Manager of Buds Tire Exchange, INC. 1600 N. Riveriide - 773-7745 i'- . f t J' CASE NEARING END-In two days, the tool in the slaughter of 6 million European state of Israel concludes its case against Jews. Eichmann is shown bove at his desk Adolf Eichmann, the man it has accused in an Israeli prison cell in April, 1961. and found guilty of being Hitler's willing (UPI) Eichmann's impenetrability. "If we succeed In our objec tive of convincing the con demned man to accept Jesus as the Savior," the minister told UPI recently, "It should bring about a ' complete change in his life, or what there is left of it. "He knows there is not much hope tor him." The prisoner's only other visitor at Ramie prison has been his wife, Vera, whom he had not seen since he was abducted In Buenos Aires. This meeting on April 29, cov ering conversations of 90 min utes and IS minutes, also had its strange aspects according to accoums given UPI by prison informants. Eichmann was calm throughout. If he felt any emotion, he showed none. Mrs. Eichmann was outward ly calm until it was time to leave, when she broke into tears and, UPI was told, "Eichmann calmed her." It was at this meeting that Eichmann was reported to have told his wife he had come to the decision "that anti-semltism is wrong, and one must diverge from it." And that "anti-semitism was the fatal mistake and the great error of the third Reich . . . A great catastrophe hap pened to the Jewish people and I greatly doubt if this can ever be remedied." In the months between the end of his trial and the ap peal, Eichmann spent most of his time in his cell writing his memoirs. Jailers have said he covered hundreds of pages in longhand. But in the last weeks he has done little ex cept read, mostly novels, ac cording to Mr. Hull. The minister gave him a German Bible. Eichmann had previously refused a Bible offered by the prison author ities. When he accepted Mr. Hull's Bible, according to the minister, he simply put it aside on the tabic with other books, without comment. But Mr. Hull believes Eichmann has been reading it. "I mark ed some passages for him," the minister said, "concerned with the Christian's ap proach to salvation." The minister agrees with prison authorities that Eich mann is healthy. "He is pale but looks hearty," Mr. Hull told UPI. 'There is no indica tion he has been ill." During his trial Eichmann suffered some seizures that were de scribed as mild heart attacks but prison doctors have said right along they have found nothing wrong with his heart. What Eichmann is thinking as the final hours tick away toward Israel's final Judg ment of him, no one knows. Perhaps he is still looking for the "inner peace" that eluded him so long. Park, Shop Lot Site Purchased; To House 50Cars A purchase which will clear the way for expansion of a Park and Shop lot, making It capable of accomodating an other 50 vehicles, was an nounced Friday by Fred Rob inson, downtown Medford merchant. The key purchase, which cul minated years of planning, in volved the building housing Otto's Tavern, 39 South Front st. Details of the sale were completed earlier last week, Robinson said. The total lot when complet ed will extend 100 feet along Eighth st. and 22S feet along Front st. A building on' the corner of Eighth and Front sts., own ed by a local corporation is expected to be renovated and remodeled. Plans call for razing the building in which the Fourth Wheel club is located. 31 South Front st sometime this sum mer, Robinson said, probably within 30 to 45 days. The Otto's Tavern building will be torn down approxi- Gold Hill Cars Are Involved in Accident Gold Hill Cars operated by Miss Marion C. Payne, route 1, box 42, Gold Hill, and Horace C. Beck, 54, of route 1, box 502, Gold Hill, were involved in an accident on Second ave. here last week. Mrs. Sidney Payne, route 1, box 42, Gold Hill, a passenger in Miss Payne's car, was taken to Rogue Valley hospi tal for treatment of injuries, according to Police Chief Earl Cox. Cox said Miss Payne was cited for following too close. Memorial Day Plans For Phoenix Noted mately one year from this coming November. Another addition to the ex panded parking facilities was Injuries Reported In Highway Mishap Two persons were injured Thursday when tire blew out on the car in which they were riding, according to po lice. Treated for injuries at the Rogue Valley hospital were Dianne Mare Delorme, 19, of 1012 Niantic St., Medford, driver, and Grant D. Maurer, 585 Roca St., Ashland, a pas senger. The blow-out caused the Delorme car to go out of con trol, cross highway 99 and go into a ditch south of Medford. They were taken to Rogue Valley by Medford Ambu lance Service. A pickup truck driven by Berwyn Alynne Ellison, 48, of 1284 Kings highway, Med ford, and a car driven by Eth mer Howard Boen, 42, of Gold Hill, collided at the intersec tion of Crater Lake highway and Vilas rd. Thursday, state police said. made within the last 30 days when the building on an ad Joining 54 by 50-foot lot fac ing on Eighth st. was torn down. This lot contains space for about 10 cars. "We feel this is one of the biggest things that has hap pened to downtown Medford In years," Robinson said, "for with the removal of these two buildings, the old Front street problem will finally have been cleaned up." BUCKHORN MINERAL SPRINGS Ashland, Ore. EiIdt health. rllL comfort. and hospitality amidst pleaa ' ant urn-undines. HOT MINERAL BATHS for RheumaUsm, Arthritis, Neu rltts and Nervousness. CARBON DIOXIDE VAPOR BATHS for High and Low Blood Pressure, Sinui, and Skin Eruptions. 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