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HERALD AND NEWS. Klanuth Falli. Orr.
Sunday, Mrch 24. 1K3
Score Oppose Oregon Death
Penalty At Senate Hearing
SALEM (UPD - The halting
quietly-spoken testimony ot a re
porter who had watched 16 execu
tions in Oregon's gas chamber
highlighted a hearing Friday be
fore the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee.
Almost a score of witnesses
during the 2'i hour h e a r i n
cited reasons why the death pen
alty should be abolished.
Rep. Philip Lang, D-Portland, a
former state policeman, was alone
in favor of capital punishment. He
said it was a deterrent to murder
Paul Harvey Jr., Salem corres
pondent or Associated Press for
26 years, was subpoenaed in a
rare action to appear before the
committee.
Harvey quietly answered ques
tions a.sked by committee chair
man Sen. Thomas Maboney. D
Portland. He said he had witness'
ed the executions "in the line of
duty, certainly not by choice."
He said all 16 had been repre
sented by court appointed attor
neys.
"Unconsciousness came about
five seconds after they took a
breath of the gas. It must have
been quite painful, judging by the
facial contortions. Some of those
executed did not wear masks. It
was difficult to witness."
At Mahoney's prodding, Harvey
related details of a mentally re
tarded 17-year-old Mexican who
was executed. The youth had kill
ed three members of an Oregon
farm family after escaping from
"a California institution out of fear
he would be identified and re
'turned to Hie institution.
He told of another case in which
the execution took place even aft
er the judge, district attorney and
jury petitioned the governor to
commute the sentence.
Harvey termed the death sen
fence "vindictive justice." He also
argued against arbitrary impost
tion of long sentences, and said
"I know of outstanding cases of
rehabilitation
Sen. Don Willner, D-Lake Os
wego, sponsor of tlie anti - death
penalty legislation, said he favor
ed the companion measures which
would fix the penalty for first de
gree murder as life imprisonment,
and prevent consideration for pa
role until after 15 years had been
served.
Both would be voted upon by
Die people
Thomas E. Caddis, author of
"The Bird Man of Alcatraz," said
it was more expensive to execute
a person because of legal pro
ceedings normally associated with
such a sentence than to keep him
in prison for life.
He cited the "Bird Man," Rob
ert Stroud, as an indication of po
tential loss to civilization by the
taking of human life. Stroud be
came recognized as a world au
thority on birds after serving
decades in solitary confinement
after his death sentence was com
muted.
Gaddis called for leadership on
the part of Gov. Mark Hatfield
to act, not hang back on this
issue."
Hatfield has stated publicly he
opposed capital punishment, but!
Dr. Hugo A. Bedout of Reed
College agreed with Harvey's
views on limiting parole and said
"I can document that parole
boards make few mistakes."
Bedout cited statistics which
showed that on the average of
once a year an innocent man is
sentenced to death, and presented
a list of 70 such cases over the
past 70 years.
Rabbi Emanuel Ruse, Portland,
presented a list of 50 persons who
had been wrongfully convicted of
murder, and called for public
viewing of executions.
'Put it in the newspapers, put
it on television so people can fully
realize what we permit," he said.
He called upon Hatfield to with.
hold all death penalties until the
people have another chance to
vote on the issue.
Warden Clarence Gladden said
'the facts indicate capital punish
ment should be abolished." and
said a murder Is committed each
hour, but that during mi only 42
persons were executed, 22 of whom
were Negroes.
This emphasized statements
made by several witnesses that
only members of minority groups
and indigents were executed.
He warned against eliminating
the possibility of parole because
'prisoners without hope are hard
er to handle.
Many witnesses had reserva
tions about restricting parole, but
some felt it was a worthwhile
selling point" to get the public
to vote against the death penalty.
In 1958 a vole to eliminate the
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would grant commutations only in death penalty in Oregon failed by
cases of judicial error. I only 12,053 votes.
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DIG FOR VICTIMS In San Jose, Calif, firemen diq through rubble in the J. C.
; Penney store to find one of the victims of the blast that wrecked the building and an
adjoining drug store. UPI Telephoto
FinoS Curtain Near For Sol Estes
$150 Million Farm Fraud Empire
" EL PASO, Tex. (UP11 - The!
;Jate of Billie Sol Esles, who par-!
Jayed a silver tongue and worth
Jess paper into a $150 million
farm empire, will be decided this
week.
' The results of Estes" trial on
lederal fraud charges could come
Slonday or Tuesday. Both sides
liavc rested and all that remains
leforc the jury begins delibera
Jions are final arguments and the
fudge's charge to the jury.
; Estes. now 38, is being tried on
;12 counts of mail fraud, one count
yf interstate transportation of
fraudulent documents and one
Tount of conspiracy to defraud.
; The government claims Estes
cheated farmers and finance com
panies out of some C2 million in
a complicated credit purchase
leaseback scheme on anhydrous
-'ammonia I fertilizer i tanks that
"never existed.
Estes- lawyers admit the equip
inent did not exist, but claim
Jraud could not be involved be
cause all parties to the deals knew.
It did not exist.
; Testimony in Die trial lasted two
.weeks. Both sides rested Friday.
Each side will spend about lhi
and a half hours on closing argu-
Court Record
Report Errs
An announcement in the On The
Itecord column Friday incorrect
ly staled that Claudia Ann Lane.
U8, and David Stippich had filed
3ur a marriage license. Miss Lane
nd Nkky D. Savage, 23. had
iled the application in the pres
ence of Stippich. who appeared
with the couple at the county
clerk's olfice as a witness.
menls Monday. U. S. Dist. Judge
R. Ewing Thomason, who is hear
ing the case, indicated he might
not read his chargo to the jury
until Tuesday.
Estes was originally brought to
trial on 14 counts of mail fraud,
plus the interstate transportation
and conspiracy count. But the gov
ernment dropped two of the mail
fraud counts Friday because they
had presented no evidence con
cerning those two counts.
Should he be convicted, Estes
could be given a maximum sen
tence of five years In prison on
each of the mail fraud counts,
five years on Die conspiracy count
and 10 years on the Interstate
transportation count.
Persistent rumors have it that
another federal grand jury will
he convened ni (he end of the
trial regardless of its outcome
to press or perjury indictments
against some witnesses in the
case. Much of the testimony has
been conflicting.
Estes already is under an 8
year prison sentence given him
last Nov. 7 in a stale court for
swindling a farmer.
Estes was arrested by the FBI
a year ago Friday. Prior to his
arrest, he owned 20 businesses
made $4 million annually in grain
storage and ran a multi-million
dollar fertilizer distributorship.
But since his arrest, his empire
has collapsed amid talcs of non
existent equipment, altered serial
numbers and Inflated financial
statements.
The government claims Estes
got farmers to purchase the fer
tilizer equipment on credit, leased
it back from tliem (or the exact
amounts of tltcir payments, tlien
discounted their notes to finance
companies. The catch, the gov
ernment claims, is that the equip
ment never existed.
"DENNIS THE MENACE" fPC Slates
Snake River
Dam Hearing
WASHLSGTON t UPI "-The Fed
eral Power Commission 'FPCi
will investigate whether Idaho
Power Co. has lived up the pro
visions of its license to build three
Snake River dams.
The FPC late Friday scheduled
a public hearing to begin at Port-
land June 4.
Simultaneously, the commission
dismissed a complaint by the Ore
gon Attorney General requesting
that damages be assessed against
IP. Commissioner Howard Morgan
emphasized the complaint was
dismissed only because the FPC
has no authority to handle the
claim, and the opinion noted the
federal district court would be the
proper "forum."
IP won its license in August,
1955, to build three dams in Idaho
and Oregon on the Hells Canyon
reach of the Snake River. The li
cense spelled out the company's
responsibilities for protecting fish.
In February, 1958, the FPC pre
scribed the "fish facilities" for
the Brownlee and Oxbow dams,
and in November, 1960, directed
the company to cooperate with the
Interior Department and state
agencies of Washington, Oregon,
and Idaho in a program to evalu
ate these facilities.
Last Jan. 25 IP asked the com
mission to amend the water re
lease requirements prescribed by
the November, 1960, order.
The purpose of the scheduled
hearing, FPC said, is to deter
mine what IP has done, what if
any changes are needed at Brown
lee and Oxbow, already in opera
tion, and what installations should
be made at the Hells Canyon de
velopment.
Morgan filed a 12-page concur
ring opinion to emphasize his at
titude. He noted that on Aug. 31,
1958, the Snake River went com
pletely dry for a 60-mile stretch
between Oxbow and the Imnaha
River and said it appeared cer-
tain the stream "was completely
blocked in violation of license
terms for an undetermined but
lengthy period."
He said there could be little
doubt that changes, which appar
ently had some bearing on the
emergency and did not conform
with the approved plan filed with
the FPC, were made in the pre
scribed trapping facility.
The "disaster" from which Ore
gon s claim stemmed created
deep issues, Morgan said, and the
FPC must Investigate the facts.
Central American Unity
Encourages Fulbright
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sen. J.
William Fulbright, D-Ark.. said
Saturday he was greatly encour
aged by the unity of six Central
American nations at the recent
Costa Rican conference, both in
their plans for common economic
development and their stand
against Cuba's Fidel Castro.
Fulbright, chairman of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee,
said the conference had raised
hopes for the success of President
Kennedy's Latin American "Alli
ance for Progress" program.
"It is well worth our continued
interested and effort" he added.
Fulbright was one of six key
foreign policy lawmakers who ac
companied the President to the
San Jose meeting. He took sharp
issue with Senate Republican
leader Everett M. Duksen,
NY Printers
Reconsider
Bt-rike Vote
Fatal Fire Set
By Youngsters
for "writing off" the alliance
Dirksen told a press conference
Thursday that the development
program had in effect "run out
of steam," despite seven - nation
agreement in Costa Rica.
Fulbright said he thought Dirk
sen s remarks were very un
fortunate" because "this thing is
just getting started." He said
that success cannot come over
night because "this is a 10 or 20-
year haul. But the prospects are
good enough to make the effort."
The senator said he was par
licularly impressed by the "com
mon market" development pro
gram already underway with Cos
ta Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras and Nicaragua as part
ncrs and Panama as an associate
member.
"They have done far more than
I had expected and 1 think that is,
encouraging," he said. "The Cen
tral American leaders appear
very determined to improve con
ciditons in their countries."
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HONORS O'HARE President Kennedy places wreath at foot of plaque honoring
Lt. Cmdr. Edward O'Hare, flier hero of World War II, during dedication ceremonies
of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Friday. UPI Telephoto
U.S. Denies Blocking Gas
Pipe Shipments To Russia
WASHINGTON (UPI - The diameter pipe was "of major mili-
NEW YORK (UPD - Negolia
linns permitting eight shut down
newspapers to return to Hie stands
Monday or Tuesday were expect
ed to be completed Saturday.
The 106-day-old dispute came a
step closer to settlement when
Local I of the Paper Handlers
and Sheet Straightencrs Union
came to terms early Saturday
with publishers. 1
All necossary negotiations to re
turn the papers early this week
were completed Saturday in par
leys with the striking photoengrav
ers and the pressmen, a non
striking union. Bolli met with
publishers until early Saturday,
then recessed until 1 p.m. EST.
Mayor Robert F. Wagner pledg
ed In tie up loose ends in the
dispute Saturday. "It is ous sin
cere hope that we can have the
newspapers back on the stands by
very early in the beginning of
this week, he said.
"The only stumbling block" in
negotiations with the photoengrav-
ers, according to that union's
president, is the issue of a work
week reduction to 35 hours.
A formidable obstacle looms
Sunday, however, when the print
ers meet to reconsider a contract
proposal they rejected hy a slim s
64 votes last Sunday.
Bertrnm Powers, president of
Printer's Local 6. has recom
mended that the membership ac
cept the pact this time. Elmer
Brown, International president of
the union, has threatened with,
drawal of strike benefits if the
local docs not end the dispute.
llus was lc situation of the
other unions as the blackout en
tered its 16th week:
Mailers and mail deliverers:
Both unions hold ratification meet
ings Sunday on contract offers
Both are expected to approve their
pacts.
HAINES (UPI) - A fire which
claimed the life of Arthur C.
f Uatt, 87. Here Thursday was
started by two boys, aged 7 and
8, Baker County Sheriff Dclmar
Dixon said today.
Dixon said the youngsters were
playing with matches in a garage
adjoining Hiatt's home. They
started a small fire, but thought
they had put it out.
The sparks apparently smolder
ed for several hours and then
burst into flame. The house was
engulfed within minutes and
neighbors who tried to rescue
Hiatt were driven back by the
flames.
. Dixon said no action will be
taken against the boys because of
their ages.
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Only important river in the
United States to flow in a north
erly direction is the St. Johns
River in Florida.
United Stales declared Saturday
that West Germany and other Al
ics have blocked shipments of
strategic oil and natural gas pipe
to Russia on "their own rcsponsi
bility" and not as a result of
intervention by Washington,
The State Department formally
denied a new Soviet charge that
the United States, at the behest
of "powerful oil monopolies," had
pressured Germany and other
free world countries into blocking
shipments by private companies.
The statement said that actions
such as that taken earlier this
week by West Germany, simply
showed that the Allies agreed
with the U. S. position that large
Heider Tax
Trial Rests
PORTLAND (UPl)-Both sides'
rested their cases Thursday in the
federal income tax trial of Otto
Heider Sr., Sheridan.
The case was heard without a
jury. Federal Judge Gus Solomon
will receive written briefs in the
next 140 days. A final decision
is not expected for more than six
months. The charge involved in
come laxes in 1953 and 1954.
Pair" is properly applied to
two tilings which correspond or
complete each other; "couple"
can mean any two.
tary and strategic significance to
the Soviet bloc."
I lie denial, read to newsmen
by press officer Robert McClos
kcy, seemed unlikely to quiet de
bate in West Germany, where op
position Socialists have said the
U.S. Embassy made strenuous ef
forts to keep the Bonn govern
ment in line.
Nor did it clarify the situation
w ith regard to Britain where the
Board of Trade has refused to ac
cept a NATO resolution of last
year which recommended that the
sale of slecl pipe to Russia be
banned.
German businessmen and poli
ticians fear the British will sim
ply pick up orders the German
companies were preparing to fill.
The U. S. statement was in re
sponse to an oral protest made
Saturday in Moscow by Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister Vassily
Kuznetsov to the minister of the
American Embassy there, John
McSweeney. Kuznetsov. in addi
tion to claiming the U.S. was try
ing to protect Western oil mono
polies, said it was obvious the
United States had directly pres
sured West Germany and Japan.
Officials of those countries, ac
cording to the Soviet version,
raised no objections to the deals
at the time they were made but
only after the U.S. had inter
vened. ,
The German flareup came when '
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer last
Tuesday, by ordering his Chris
tian Democratic deputies in par
liament to abstain from voting,
succeeded in preventing the lift
ing of his government's ban on
steel pipe shipments. The United
States contends that the pipe,
which Russia is trying to buy in
the West or from Japan, is obvi
ously of military and strategic
importance because the Commu
nists themselves have said it will
help complete a 4,000 kilometer
petroleum network linking the
Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia,
Communist East Germany. Po
land and Hungary.
Officials cited a January article
in the East Berlin military maga
zine Sport and the Technic
which said the proposed petrole
um artery would be of greatest
value "in case of war" because
it would make supplies for mecha
nized armies much less vulner
able to enemy attack.
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