TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1954
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE THREE
Professor Hailed For TV
Lectures On Shakespeare
Hu IlJln rr ..... . .
HOLLYWOOD WV-Until a few
months eo, Dr. Prank c. Baxter
led a qulttly professorial life at
Uie University of Southern Call
tenia. Then lie started giving
Shakespeare lectures on TV.
Egad and. zounds! The profes
sor's whole life changed.
As many as 400,000 viewers were
estimated to be watching the Sat
urday morning program. The
show's rating passed that of Ed
ward Murrow and even approached
"I Love Lucy." Baxter was hailed
to New York to receive the Syl
vania Award as the best local ed-
Marilyn Big
Hit On Trip
To Korea
WESTERN FRONT Korea Un
Marilyn Monroe's purple dress
cut down to here was really in
tended for "a cocktail party or
sometning like that ' but there
wasn't a gripe from the 13,000 Ma
rines who saw her in it today.
The blonde actress had arrived
at Seoul a few hours earlier In
drab combat boots, pants and
shirt the top two buttons open.
I She swung down the ramp from
a cargo plane that brought her
" from Japan for her four-day tour
and met hundreds of cheering sol
diers, airmen and Marines, almost
all of them firing cameras furiously-
-.
"I've never seen so many men
' in my life," she said. "I am Just
, sorry Joe couldn't come along."
Husband Joe DiMaggio, ox-New
York Yank, Is in Japan coaching
Japanese baseball teams.
The plush young actress was
flown by helicopter from Seoul to
the 1st Marine Division for the
first of 10 scheduled shows.
While airmen staged a variety
show, Marilyn changed into the
purple dress.
She said she'll have to wear it
in all 10 shows, explaining it is
Uie only suitable one she brought.
"I thought I might wear it to a
cocktail party," she said. "I really
didn't know I was coming to
Korea." :
.Her trip to Japan was scheduled
. as a honeymoon. Then she accept
ed the military's invitation to
Korea.
"We've had them all," one Ma
rine officer said "but this crowd
outdraws the best ever, she's out
drawn Cardinal Spcllman 2 to 1."
Marily sang three songs for the
Marines "Diamonds Are a Girl s
Best Friend," "Do It Again" and
".Bye. Bye, Baby."
Alter the Marine show, a heli
copter took Jicr to the 7th Infantry
Division, where she received the
same, warm reception.
A soldier looked, sighed and
taid:
"I sure hope sho outlives Joe."
ucatlon TV program. He appeared
on Omnibus and was written up
in national magazines.
Last week he won two Emmys
In the TV Academy awards and
stole the show. He received fan
mall from actors like Brian Aherne
who wrote: "The show was beau-
tllully staged and delivered with
an ease and charm which must
make any actor green with envy."
Baxter received other praise from
his butcher, a taxlcab driver, un
elevator man and people who see
him on the street. A retired ad
miral sent him a painting "f naval
flags that spelled out "Operation
Well performed."
His desk is a mountain of mail.
Until recently he was doing the
TV program as well as conducting
four English classes, a. routine
which he confessed was "bed on
wheels." But the big, bald, jolly
man doesn't seem to complain
about his new life.
As his wife commented dver the
dinner table: "It doesn't befall
many men of your vintage to be
accorded so much attention.
The comfortably middle - aged
prolessor is begmning his second
Shakespeare course over the local
CBS outlet, KNXT. The first se
ries drew 332 students who took
the one-unit course for credit by
paying $12 and taking a final ex
amination. There were also 886
others who paid $5 to audit the
course with a special study guide.
Plans tor the future might in
clude a coast-to-coast show, and
no one could be more enthusiasias
tlc about it than Dr. Baxter.
"Looking at it from a cold-blood
ed standpoint, I feel there is A real
market in commercial TV for this
kind of program," he observed.
It appeals to a large, middle-
classed group which could be val
uable to an advertiser. I don't go
along with the fallacy that TV
must appeal to the mythical 12-year-old
mentality. The audience
is not comprised of those wno
watch TV from the one-armed
chairs of a lunch room.
' Tile mall we get is from solid
citizens. Their letters are literate;
the sentences have verbs in them.
"As yet, no one is making any
money lrom the show. It is a co
operative effort by the university
and CBS. The university feels that
it is repaid if perhaps some peo
ple are induced to think of It when
sending their children to college.
We had one letter from a woman
Former Lifer
Leaves For
New Start
Germ Warfare Confessor Faces Board Of Inquiry
cemttt.e im Herbert Spring,
ia ,..,, nf nrisnn life behind him,
tdav headed toward new life
In Alaska. ,
He was due to leave here by
plane on Uie last leg of a Journey
from stateville penitentiary, Jollet,
111., to Fnirbanks.
Spring, 67, sentenced to spend
the rest of his life in prison for
the slaying of a woman at Free
port, 111., in a drunken spree when
he was 20. walked out of the Illi
nois prison a free man yesterday.
"Bov, there's a lot of cars," he
exclaimed. "The country must
have thousands and thousands."
He was escorted to a waiting car
by Warden Joseph E. Ragen who
asked him who would- take care
of the prison's flower beds now.
"There'll be somebody. . Sure,"
Spring replied. "I started from
scratch." -
Paradoxically, the Job Spring
learned so well after being sent
tn nrlsnn. that of tending the peni
tentiary's flower gardens, is the
one which eventually led to his
release.
Once, long ago, Ross E. Kimball
operator of the Interior Equipment
Co. of Fairbanks, read an article
about Spring and his work on the
flowers at stateville.
The article also mentioned that
Spring's porents had died, that he
never heard from his brothers.
The Rtory moved Kimball so
much that he decided to help
Spring and he became the first
and only person to visit the con
victed slayer when he talked to
him at Stateville last year.
The Fairbanks businessmen as
sured parole authorities he would
help Spring start anew, that he
would be ready with help and a
Job for Uie life-termer If he were
released.'
The parole board, which had pre
viously turned down petitions for
parole bv Spring granted him a
parole when Kimball entered the
picture.
WASHINGTON I A panel of
high-ranking officers set out, to
day to try to decide wneuicr to
recommend a court-martial fur
Marine Col. Frank W. Schwable,
who made a false germ warfare
confession while a war prisoner
of the Communists In Korea,
Three Marine generals und an
admiral, sitting as a court of In
quiry, began takmg testimony 10
help them determine ' why
Schwable, the senior. Maruie oi-
ficer taken by the Reds m Korea,
told his captors the United Nations
used germ warfare weapons,
bcnwablc. who lives in nearby
Arlington, Va., repudiated that
confession after he was freed last,
year In a prisoner exchange. He
said in a statement he signed the
confession only after the Reds de
graded and humiliated him and
wore him out both physically and
mentally.
The inquiry court is not author
ized to make any finding of guilt
or innocence. It Is charged-wlth
making a report, on the basis of
which the Marine uorps ,wni qe
ctde whether to court - martial
Schwable. . ' iv .
It was not known in advance
whether the hearing i would bo
opened to the press and - public.
That decision rested with the court.
Since Schwable and the Mantles
are generally agreed on Uie basic
lacts. the court's recommenda
tions may be based on what It
learns about Uie physical aim i
psychological torture mulcted on
the colonel.
Gen, Lemuel B. Shepherd, Mar-
Ine Corps commandant, made this I
clear when he. said me court is i
to give full consideration to the !
unique psychological and mental i
actors Incident to the Communist ;
oevico of phvsical torture ac- i
coirpanied by mental torture." i
Schwable Is one of 35 Americans
who signed germ warfare confes-1
sions whilo in Red captivity, i
Thirty-three were In the Air Force
and two were Marines: Schwable
and MaJ. Roy H. Bley of Cabool,
Mo.
The court of Inquiry also Is look
ing Into Bley's case. Ho piloted
the plane in which Schwable was
a passenger when it was shot down
behind enemy lines July 8, 1832.
Kiev has said they were on a
routine, noncombat mission and in
advertently flew behind enemy
lines. Schwable, who was chief of
staff for Uie 1st Marine Air Wing,
was not supposed to have crossed
Into enemy territory.
The Air Force Is conducting Its
own examination of Uie cases of
flyers who
tesslons, ...
signed similar coup
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