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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Barbara Shot By Own Gun,
Claims Dr. Finch Defense
revolver in the right hand, gripped
firmly, and another individual
pulled the gun from the right
hand could this abrasion be
reasonably caused?"
After several question!,
admitted;
"Yes, that is true."
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' ANOTHER $204 wai added to the Hospital Survey Fund recently when a cheek was pre
sented on behalf of the officer's wives and the officers at Kingsley Field. Shown here,
left to right, are Greer Drew, chairman of the Hospital Survey Board; Col. Jack W. Wil
liams, base commander; Mrs. Lillian LeMay, chairman for the Wives Club Hospital
-Fund Fafhion Show, and 1st Lt. Frederick R. Potter, Kingsley Field club officer.
The fund is still several hundred dollars short of its goal of $8,750 but a contract has
been entered into for the hospital survey with the Stanford Research Institute.
Photo by M. Sgt. Charles Bennett
OBITUARY
RUTHERFORD
; Charles Edward Rutherford, 23,
died here January 7. He was a na
tive of Joplin. Missouri, and resi
dent of Lomita, California. Sur
vivors include the widow, Gloria;
daughter, Cherie, and son, Shawn
of Lomita. Funeral arrangements
will be announced by Ward s
Klamath Funeral Home.
HUMPHREY
ALTURAS Funeral services for
Mrs. Mollie E. Humphrey, 92,
were held in Sacramento Wednes
day, January 6. She was
the mother of Francis R. Hum
phrey of Klamath Falls. Mrs.
Humphrey is survived by a sis
ter, Mrs. Effie Lalhrop of Berke
ley; two grandchildren and one
great-grandchild. Burial was in the
East Lawn Cemetery.
ROGERS
.' Anna M. : Rogers, 74, a native
of Jacksonville, Oregon, and a res
ident of this city since 1906 died
here January 8. She is survived
by three children Jams Rogers,
Chiloquin; Mrs. Scott Warren, Al
Soma and Mrs. Harry Ravizza of
Portland. Two sisters Elizabeth
Golden, Medford, Emma Hopkins,
Salem; also seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will he in O'llair's
Memorial Chapel Monday, Janu-
' ary 11, at 2 p.m. Interment will
be made in the Linkvllle Cemetery
Friends may call at O'Hair's until
1 p.m. Monday. Contributions may
lie made to the Memorial Fund of
tlia First Presbyterian Church.
SHAH TO BELGIUM
BRUSSELS (UPI) - The Shah
of Iran has accepted King Bail
doin's invitation to pay a state
Visit to Belgium beginning May
11, lt was announced Friday. The
duration of the visit will be de
cided later, officials said.
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GUTTENBERG. Iowa (AP)
"Operation Ghost" was conducted
at the William Meyers farm house
near Guttenberg Friday night but
failed to turn up any explanation
for the strange goings-on that
forced the family to move out,
Two university professors and 10
students stayed in the house all
night armed with Geiger count
ers, oscilloscopes, an ionization
chamber, and an electrometer.
Prof. Jack Lorenz of Upper
Iowa University, in charge of the
group, said the investigation indi
cated everything was normal.
About 15 newsmen also were in
the house during the night. Some
of them took turns lying on the
bed from which a 265-pound Gut
tenberg man reported he had been
thrown mysteriously Wednesday
night. Nothing happened while the
newsmen were on the bed.
The Meyers family moved out
last month because they said ob
jects were being tossed around for
no apparent reason.
New iJjark Eyed
By Bathyscaph
GUAM (AP)i-Scientists said to
day the U.S.y Navy's bathyscaph
Trieste whicH dived to a' record
depth of 24, WO feet Friday soon
will try for. 30,000, more than 5',i
miles under! the sea.
The cigar-shaped craft with its
underslung, gondola-like ball, sank
to the record depth in the Mari
anas Tref ch 50 miles southeast of
this western Pacific island.
It ee-ipsed the 18,600 feet
reached by the Trieste in the
same area Nov. 16, by Dr. Andre
as B. Rcchnitzer, head of the un
derwater research team, and Dr.
Jacques Piccard,
Funerals
HOBRS
Funeral services for James
Fredrick Hobbs will take place
from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Church in Chiloquin on Tuesday,
January 12, when a Requiem Mass
will be celebrated for the repose
of his soul commencing at 9:30
a.m. Recitation of the Holy Rosary
will take place from the chapel
of Ward's Klamath Funeral Home
Monday evening, January 11, at 8
p.m. The Rev. Patrick Lunham is
in charge of the services. Conclud
ing services and interment in
Klamath Memorial Park.
ACKERMAN
YREKA Funeral services were
held for Irene Hattie Ackerman,
ri .lannarv 4. in Girdner's Funer
al Chapel, with Father John
M.irlin nf St. Marks ErjISCODa
Church as officiant. Members of
Stella Chanter 39. Order of the
Eastern Star, also conducted serv
ices in the chapel and interment
which was in the family plot of
the Evergreen Cemetery. Miss
Ackerman died on December 31.
She had been a member of Stella
Chapter for over 54 years. Survi-
v nB in addition to her sis
ter, Ethel, is a brother, Frank
Buffum Ackerman, also of Yreka.
McCURDY
YREKA Funeral services were
held here for Richard Eugene Mc-
Pill" rlv in in Girdner's Funeral
Chanel on Thursday afternoon,
January 7, with the Rev. Harold
Coleman of the Yreka Methodist
Church officiating. Interment was
in the Evergreen Cemetery with
military rites. Mr. McCurdy died
in a drowning accident bunaay,
.(nnnrv 3. in San Dieeo. where
he was stationed with the Navy.
lie is survived by the widow, Kar
ole; two sons, Richard and Mi
chael; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Richard McCurdy sr.; a sisier, i-ai
McCurdy and a brother, Floyd Mc
Curdy, all of Yreka.
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LOS ANGELES (AP)-Was the
pistol that killed Barbara Jean
Finch snatched from her own
hand?
An expert witness for the pro
secution admits it's possible.
The autopsy surgeon who de
scribed how a pistol shot killed
Mrs. Finch acknowledged Friday
Under cross-examination that a
small wound on her right hand
could have been caused when a
pistol was wrenched from her
grasp.
Dr. R. Bernard Finch's attorney
borrowed an unloaded revolver
from a sheriff's deputy to show
the court how he thought one of a
score of wounds on her body could
have been caused.
Dr. Finch and his 23-year-old
mistress, pretty Carole Tregoff,
are charged with murder and con
spiracy in the death of the 36-year-old
socialite last July 18.
The trial is in recess for the
weekend.
The handsome physician hasn't
yet told his version of what hap
pened the night his wife was
killed.
Does his attorney's contention
about the pistol mean Dr. Finch
will say he grabbed the pistol
from his wife and that her death
was accidental?
Defense Attorney Grant Cooper
ordered like other counsel not to
tell the press of his plans would
say only:
"We have a lot more questions
for Dr. Ridge."
It was Dr. Gerald K. Ridge who
testified what his autopsy on Mrs
Finch showed.
Ho said she suffered more than
20 wounds ranging from the fatal
pistol shot' to two skull fractures
and an assortment of lacerations,
bruises and abrasions.
The state contends Dr. Finch
and Miss Tregoff came to the
$65,000-Finch home in suburban
West Covina last summer to carry
out a plot to slay Mrs. Finch so
the doctor and Miss Tregoff
wouldn't have to share an esti
mated $750,000 in community
property with her.
Dr. Ridge said he believed Mrs,
Finch suffered a skull fracture in
the family garage where blood
was found on her car and the
garage floor.
He said she apparently was shot
after she fled from the garage
possibly she ran down a flight
of steps to a neighbor's lawn.
He said that the bullet passed
through her body and severed the
pulmonary artery, causing death
from a massive hemorrhage.
As she fell, he said, she ap
parently struck her head on an
iron pipe buried in the lawn as
a tree support, suffering a sec
ond fracture.
Cooper gave his first indica
tion of what may be a key in
his defense by quizzing Ridge
about the abrasion on Mrs,
Finch's hand, between her fore
finger and thumb. He asked
Ridge:
"Assuming an individual held a
.1, .1
HANS NORLAND, right, is shown receiving a plaque com
memorating 25 years continuous representation of the North
western Mutual Insurance Company from Philip E. Beau
champ, left, who came from the Portland regional head
quarters of the Oregon department of the company for the
presentation. Of his 25 years with the company, Norland
has operated his own agency in Kla'rnath Falls for the last
21 years. He is currently serving as president of the Klam
ath County Association of Insurance Agents.
Basin Relics
(Continued from Page 1)
used for a time in a side show
where it was exhibited for 10 cents
a look. It is impossible to deter
mine the truth of this charge.
"Side show or not, eventually
the remains were taken to the
museum of the surgeon general's
office in Washington, reduced to
a skeleton and for many years
was displayed as a specimen of
Indian anatomy:
"Jack's body arrived at Yreka
only about one jump behind news
of his execution. An ambitious re
porter had hired relays of horses
between Fort Klamath and Jack
sonville. "AS SOON as the Indians were
dead, he started riding for the
nearest telegraph station. Whea
ton (an Army officer) had pre
pared his reports in advance and
the reporter took the official no
tices along with his newspaper
story.
"By half past seven on Friday
night', this 1873 - model pony ex
press rode into Jacksonville and
sent the story to the Army and
the waiting public in Yreka and
over the entire country."
The book was published last
year. It was written by Keith A.
Murray, formerly a ranger at
Lava Pods National Monument,
scene of the bloodiest portion of
the Modoc War.
Murray is an instructor at West
ern Washington, College of Educa
tion at Bellingham.
Even high and scholarly author
ity can't verify any story's authen
ticity. Here is the text of a letter
sent to Kenneth McLeod Jr. of
Klamath Falls, dated January 26,
10-19, from F. N. Setzlcr, head cur-
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TUaedo 4-SI11 before T P M. After
T P M.. phone Maurice Millar. Clr-
culaUoe) Uaaaiat at TUnde 4-4732.
ator, Department of Anthropology,
Smithsonian Institute in the capi
tal: "Your inquiry of January 9 con
cerning the final resting place of
the bodies of four Indian leaders
executed at Fort Klamath in 1873
has been referred to Dr. M. T.
Newman of our division of physi
cal anthropology.
"DR. NEWMAN states that al
though there is no mention of
the disposition of the bodies in the
biographies published in 'The
Handbook of American Indians'
(page and volume references
followed) it Is probable that the
skulls of these four Indians are now
in the national museum.
"An old catalogue of specimens
in the Army Medical Museum lists
seven Modoc crania. Four of these
were received from Surgeon H,
McElderry, U.S. Army, Fort
Klamath, in 1873.
"The names of the Indians are
not mentioned in the records,
so that their skulls can't be iden
tified. But the circumstantial evi
dence points to their being the
skulls of Captain Jack, Schonchin
John, Black Jim and Boston
Charlie."
' The letter also stated that the
Army Medical museum made no
mention of skeletons from local
Indians preserved there.
It continued: "In all probabil
ity, the bodies were buried, pos
sibly at the fort after the execu
tion, and only the skulls sent to
the museum."
THE DISPLAY, arranged by
Benjamin Swartz, curator, also
contains the last flag to fly over
the old fort, donated by the local
American Legion post; links al
legedly from manacles which held
the condemned chief, lent from the
Harry H. Van Valkenburg collec
tion of Ashland; other photos from
the Ogle collection and some from
the Lawrence C. Miriam collection
of Salem.
One photo also triggered another
controversy. Most authorities iden
tify the three captives pictured
as Jack, Schonchin and Boston
Charlie.
But Jeff C. Riddle, in a book
published in 1914, "Indian History
of the Modoc War," says the
ragged-looking trio Is Curly-Haired
Jack, William Faithful and Buck
skin Doctor.
Riddle was the son of Frank
Riddle, husband of Winema, In
dian heroine of the Modoc War,
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prime minister of India for 12
years, ever since the Asian nation
gained its independence in 1947.
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