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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1960)
O O WerfiUrlav. WaTrli 59 lOfif) 0 o HKRAI.P AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore PACK 2 A Old Skeleton In Closet Embarrasses Police Chief TEMPLIiTON', Mass. (API . veteran police officer who Inn: had reason lo believe he had lived down a crime uf his youth li thrown wide the duor tor all to view Ihc .skeleton in his closet. Police Chiel John L. Whipple. 55. was sicn indelinitc leave by the Board of Selectmen! of thi.-. town of 3.I.)U. pending investiga tion of undisclosed charges. Tuesday nisht Whipple issued a jlatenicnt which left little to in vestigate. Thirly-cijiht years auo. as a liny of 17, he said, he and a younger brother while employed on a Kludge, .VH., larm attempted a grocery store robbery. They were armed with pistols hut he "had no stomach (or it" Producer Back On Job HOLLYWOOD AP) H,, Huach Sr., a producer who s;no a help ing hand to ninny ol Hollywood's early-day slars. is returning to the film business al fitt. Roaih has been in semi-rctirc-mcnt since his Min, Hal Jr., boutt him out several years auo. Hut Tuesday he was hark in his own studio at nearby Culver City. He told newsmen he plans 80 one-hour Comedy TV shows and lour feature-length theatrical comedies in thp next year. The Roach Studio passed into receivership recently. Roach Sr. aid he had obtained financial backing and. subject to court ap proval, worked out a lease pur chase acrecment. HONOIt .MITCUKLL SOUTH Olt.WCK, N .1. U'HP -Seton Hall University Tuesday Awarded Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell an honuraiy doctor of laws dryree. ami threw down his weapon. Whipple said he pleaded uuilt to larceny nd was given a one to three years suspended sentence That wits in YM2. Whipple returned to Teinpleton. .1 niid-Masachiise(ts town, mar ried and brought up a family of six. "My fellow townspeople knew nl the holdup," he said, "and found it unimportant and forsot it," Subsequently he was nominated by 4:J friends and elected con stable, by a one-vote margin. Kor a time he was known as "Johnny One Vote." Whipple was a member of the police force 10 years, under fie different chiefs. In-fore he was ap pointed head of the eiht-man de partment seven years ayo. He won a reputation for unJer.landin treatment of childn n. Whipple's trouble besan March 11 when Ouane Leonard of the town advisory board called the selectmen's alien! ion to a law which bars service on the police force to anyone with a felony in bis record. While Whipple is on leave, .Jo seph U. Moullon. chairman of the Board of Selectmen, is serving as temporary chief. Townfolk and several WorceMer County ollicials have rallied to Whipple's support. They say their objective is lo ha e (iov. Wo ley Powell of New Hampshire per manently clear his name. "I was born and brought up in ibis town and 1 know ils people," Whipple said. "J have nothing lo fear," "DENNISTHE MENACE" Gee; I thought -vmoie some lemonade.' Life Snuffed By Doze Pills Rare Orchid Display NKW YORK '.r-Rocketeller;Pj'itc tl' Center will bloom Thursday with ;i,,t ' a M-day display of hundreds ol rare orchids. A 24-foot greenhouse will be st up for the orchids in the Center' anion area. GREGORY AVA PECK GARDNER FRED AHTHONY ASTAIRE PERKINS How! onN t.a ku. CF0i!H JMoh TIME! HOLLYWOOD UP, Death climaxed a long series of personal misfortunes Tuesday lor actress l.ynne Raggett. The .'(2 year-old blonde was found dead in her bed, clad in a pink shorty niglitgovvn and white panties. There was a quantity of pills nearby. Police attributed her death to an nerdose of medication pending an Hilopsy. Her nurse, Darlene Jones, told actress had asked her come to her Hullywood apartment until late luesday be cause "she wanted to get a lot of rtM." i Her death ended a career once1 considered promising hut marred hy a broken nuiiuige, uri it. bat tles, personal tragedy and illness. She came lo Hollywood as a 1!)-ycar-old starlet from Wichita Kails, Tex. She never became a star although she appeared in sup porting roles in many films. Miss Maxell married producer Sam Spiegel in l!MH. Four years later, she filed suit for divorce and accused him of adultery. Spiegel countered with his own mt charging her with similar mis conduct. They were divorced alt er a bitter and costly court battle. She served a SU-dny county jail term in 'XA for hit-and-run driv ing alter her car hit a station wagon, killing a 9-year-old boy and injuring lour other young pas sengers. The actress narrowly escaped death last June 7 from what po lice described as an overdose of sleeping pills. Two months later she was found lying beside her bed too weak to gel up. A doctor said she was suffering from mal nutrition. She was admitted to a hospital psychiatric ward. Labor Chieftain Asks 'Summit' . NKW YORK (API Top management and labor leaden should hold a ".summit confer ence" to try lo improve under- slnndiny. says Secretary of Labor .James I'. Mitchell. Mitchell made the susjtoslion Tuesday nixhl al a dinner of the Industrial Relations Division of the Federation of Jewish Philan thropies of New York. He said that periodic summit meetings, held in times when hvi negotiations were not in progress, would have "real merit if only tried." ' I v1 f 3 I U I T I M Playboy Wity Racing Flair To Walk Slowly Down Aisle lTOLLYWOOD (API Marriasc n the best Hollywood tradition merging wealth and beauty be ;ins unpretentiously Thursday for lime store heir Lance Heventlow and actress Jill St. John. Heventlnw, 1!4, a playboy with a Hair lor auto racing, reputedly is heir lo more than 20 million dollars. This witt be his first mar riase. Miss SI. John, 19. a rcdhaired starlet who has been in the en tertainment business since the a of 6. was married at 18 to a linen supply company executive and di Jury Deliberating Fate Of Larry Lord Motherwell iii I - c-t:i r-T BRING YOUR DATE AND WATCH HER TINGLE! '013333 Ur3 VUJ Jr "sf ,00se in th ,1. break ! viiiuLiii rmur: -'-o"entV;;he"udie"AS; JUDITH EVELYN - DARRYL HICKMAN PATRICIA CUTTS 1:- E 1" Fcotur Timet: , 7:15 end 10:15 r"- y Li V Aa sf II A BOMI-SHEU OF PROVOCATIVE LOVE AND SIEDGE-HAMMER VIOLENCE! wtcmSHAW-CORBETT-SHIGETA STARTS - TONITE Doort Open 6:45 P.M. 2nd Feofure or 8:40 Only DOWMKVII.LK, Calif. (I'PIl I.arry Lord Motherwell is a tall curly-haired charmer who, in an adventurous past, was liked bv most men and loved by many women. But a jury Is deliberating to day to decide whether the 4:l-year old. former construction worker shall Ine his lile in prison or die in the San Quentin fias chamber The jurors' decision will be in fluenced by ariiumcnts so unusual the I,'. S. court system thai they maKe the Motherwell case one ol the year s most intriijuinfi murder stories. For one thing, the evidence was entirely circumstantial. Then, the jurors undoubtedly will consider suggestions that Motherwell has killed three other persons and tried to murder four more even though he has not been convicted of any of these charges. Murdered Widow Motherwell was found guilty ast week of killing Mrs. Pearl Putney, 72. Washington. I). C, widow, in !ft.i8, for her money. He was said lo have buried her near here on an isolated lumber road. I'nder C'alilornia law, the jury is now meeting in a separate trial lo decide Ihe penalty. It can cith er be life imprisonment or dealh The evidence was circumslan lial in that no one saw the kill . the prosecution never pro duced the weapon, and the slate admits it doesn't even know how .Mrs. Putney died. The slate's case, however, was built on testimony thai Mrs. Put ney was last seen in Marysvillc. Calif. and that he later pawned or gave Ihe widow's jewelry lo girl friends. Tells of More Murders In addition, the stale s case was strengthened by Ihe fact that Motherwell, an admitted chronic liar, conlradicted himself several times in his story and never came up with even a slightly impressive alibi. the suggestions ot previous murders by Motherwell were made Monday lo Ihe jury con sisting of nine housewives, a car penter, a laborer and a gold miner by prosecutor Lynn D. Plush Bus Is Comfort NKW YOliK (AP'-The smart Ihing lo do Ihese days, if you want In get your dinner guesis lo the theater without a lot of un pleasant cab-hunling, is lake a bus. .Not just an ordinary bus, of course, but a very posh uphol stered bus. with a bar and a while-coated waiter pouring the champagne. Some of them even have cater ing service and bridge tables. transportation company which is a big provider of limousines lor special occasions is now (out ing buses lor rent. Kngraved anniHinccmenls lo Ihe Social HegisItT set described the bus service, al prices which ranee from sj.i for a i'8-passcnger bus in S'tn for a 41-passrnger hus lor 2'j hours. This includes tax. Negotiations Resume Thursday HOLLYWOOD iAP The strik ing Screen Actors Guild resumes negotiations Thursday with the Assn. of Motion Picture Produ cers. At issue is the actors' demand for a share of prolits from the ale of post-IMS movies lo tele vision. The producers otlercd to revive talks Tuesday after the Guild ac cused them of stalling negotiations in the 17-day old strike. Klamith rail. Ortfnn Servini Snutharn Oregon and Northern California Published dmlv incept Saturday ttt Southern iliffon Publishing Company Main at Knplanari Pnone TUxpdo 4-8111 FHANK JENKINS. Editor PILL JENKINS. Managing Editor FLOYD WYNNE. Cltv Editor Brttrrd at trcond claa mitttr at tha pott olflf at Klamath Falls, Oregon, on Auguat 30. 1906. undar act of Congrra. March 3. lft? Sfs-ond-f la4 postaga paid at Klamath Falls. Oregon, and at additional malllno offices. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier 1 MonlM I 50 fl Montha I og 1 Year tlSM Complon. Complon called Motherwell's lirsl wife as a witness. She uttid she believed Motherwell killed their infant child in 1!H5. She also charged that Mother well once gave her sleeping pills, closed the windows, turned on the gas, and left her and their other two children asleep. Witness Didn't Tell Name The wile, appearing under her maiden name of Dorothy Sum mers, further asserted that he once hit her on the head with an iron bar while they and two children were out for a Sunday boat ride. She was saved from the gas by a chance visit of her mother, she said, and from drowning hy the appearance of another boat. Suggestions of other murders w ere made by police oil it ers from Washington, D. C. and Freder ick. Md Frederick Police Chiel Charles V. Main told the jurors that Motherwell had admitted burying his mongoloid child. Heather, in 11154 in a pet cemetery. Mother well previously had claimed he was burying a dog which "saved my life during the war." Impersonated Admirals Detective, Kmmett Waters of Washington told how Motherwell's second wife. Sarah, drowned in a tub while her husband was sup posedly away. A Grand Jury refused to indict him in lite baby case, and police never sought an indictment in the case of Sarah. Defense attorney John Keges told Ihc jury that he thinks his client is everything dastardly except a murderer. Motherwell is known lo have impersonated doctors, admirals. FRI agents and scientists in a lifetime of amorous exploits with women most of whom gave him money. He was always rpiiel and pleas ant. And as the jury pondered its decision today, Larry Lord Moth erwell was just as calm as ever. voiced at. 18. Her press agents say she has an IQ of 12 i genius ratingi. The voung couple say they will be wed in a civil ceremony hut won't say where. They got a mar riage license at Riverside Tuesday. The small group attending the wedding will include llevenilow's mother, heiress Barbara Hutton, and Jill's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Kdward Oppenheim of Beverly 11:11s. Jill said her wedding ring will be a plain platinum band. "Anything more elaborate wouldn't look good because ol the size of my diamond engagement ring." she said. "I don't know how many carats it is 1 never asked Lance, but it looks big. It goes almost from knuckle lo knuckle." It will be a single ring cere mony. "Lame can't wear a ring be. cause he works around his racing cars so much." Jill explained. "I think people will know anyway that he is married." She said her husband-to-be is so enthusiastic about car racing that he had lo make him change out ol his racing overalls "when they :ot their marriage license. Honeymoon plans are indefinite because Jill has In return to work on a movie il the actors' strike ends. "As a mailer of fact," Jill said, 'I don't even know where we'll spend our wedding night. 1 guess I'll leave that up to Lance." HAFTER'S and the MILL GIVE YOU A 10 YEAR GUARANTEE ON HEAVYWEIGHT DUPONT Nylon Carpet 10 Year Written Guarantee Several Colors to Choose from Our Special Low Price El M H SQ. YD. 100 Virgin Nylon CARPET With $ 88 Pad fa sq. Only... Vyd. SAVE $3 A YD. VISCOSE CARPET $ While It Lasts 3 88 sq. yd. 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