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Jury Selection Moves Slowly In Death Trial MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (LPI) Is the female of the species more deadly than the male? Take a case o( murder. Pre sume yourself to be the defen dant. You're innocent. That's what you keep telling yourself the defendant is clothed by the law with the presumption of innocence. Then you watch the jury se lection. If your name is Tilmer Eu gene Thompson, you sit in a courtroom to which your case has been moved in a change of venue. The slaying of Mrs. Car ol Thompson, 34, the defendant's wife, took place in St. Paul March 6. But it was moved out of there when the defense won its contention that the publicity there might lend to bias pros pective jurors. Young Man Confesses To Murder MIDLAND. Tex. (LTD - A muscular young man sat som berly in his jail cell today fac ing murder charges in the bludgeon-slaying of the socialite wife of a Texas millionaire oilman-sportsman. Police said James Lee Mar lon. 22. a Negro, confessed he dragged Mrs. Fred Turner Jr. screaming from a balcony into her bedroom and beat her to death with his fists and pistols she had w ielded. Marion, a shortordcr cook, said Mrs. Turner, fifi, surprised him while he was burglarizing her $500,000 home. He quoted her as saying. "I'm going to kill you." and said he attacked her after she fired a .38 auto matic pistol wildly. "I was looking for money." Marion said. The 5-foot-4, 158 pound man said he had been drinking heavily. Two officers said he waved a pistol at them menacingly when he fled the victim's home. Turner, whose horse Tomy Lee won the 1959 Kentucky Der by, learned of the slaying when he returned home from a trip to his Las Vegas. N. M., ranch. The couple's daughter, Mrs. Clarence Scharbauer Jr., was knocked unconscious by the at tacker when he fled the man sion. Marion was arrested Tues day cowering in the attic of a nearby garage. Surgeon Discusses 'Absurd' Form Of Cancer Likely Carried By Insect SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-Dr. Denis Burkitt, an outspoken Irishman who is now the top surgeon in Uganda, came to town today to talk about a "bi zarre, totally absurd" form of cancer which he believes Is carried by mosquitos. The best thing about It, he said, is that it can often be cured. Burkitt discussed the disease which others call "Burkitt's Tumor," and which he calls "an absurd lymphoma" in a press briefing at the 40th annual clinical congress of the Ameri can College of Surgeons. . The congress has drawn near y 12.000 fellows of the college, including more than 7.500 sur geons, to a week-long series of lectures, discussions and exhi bits that amount to a post-graduate course in surgery. Burkitt, who went to Uganda in 1MB with the British Colonial Service and is now chief gov ernment surgeon for the newly independent nation, said the tu mor named for him is the most overwhelmingly common form of cancer found in children in tropical Africa. Prevalent In Africa It Is almost nonexistent in the Western World, he said, but in certain areas of Central Africa it's found in children of every race and every circumstance. Burkitt said he has been able to gather certain data about the disease despite rather severe limitations on the research re sources available "I worked three and a half yean on a $75 grant." He spent seven years, he said documenting the geographical distribution of the disease, and this and other factors convinced him that it was caused by a virus and probably was carried by mosquitos. Factors of elevation and dis tance from the equator combine he said, to indicate that the dis ease cannot occur where the minimum temperature ever drops below so degrees. This i the minimum, he said, below which most mosquitos (ail to propagate and it also provides the heavy rainfall and vegeta tion ;iecessary for them. "There is no doubt at all." he said, "that this is an environ mental cancer." So the trial was moved to the twin city of Minneapolis to a courthouse about 10 miles from the one in which it would have been held in St. Paul. But people in Minneapolis had been reading about the case, too. Question 45 Persons In two days of jury picking, 45 persons were questioned. Twenty-five of them were ex cused because they indicated they had formed an opinion In the case. Thompson. 35. a Minnesota farm boy who worked his way through law school, graduated second in his class, had a ris ing law career well in hand as a highly respected criminal at torney. He was an elder in a St. Paul Presbyterian Church. His wife, mother of four, and a church worker and choir sing er, was killed by bludgeon and knife in as brutal a fashion as can he imagined. The state con tends Thompson masterminded a plot which involved his form er college mate Nortnan J. Mastrian as middle-man and a hard - drinking salesman, Dick V. C. Anderson, as the execu tioner. Anderson Confessed Anderson has confessed he did it and has said it was mur-der-for-hire. He is reported to have confessed he botched the job, to have said the plan was to rap Carol on the back of the head and knock her out, then dump her nude body in a bath tub to make it seem she fell in the bathroom and drowned. At the time of her death there was Sl.Ofil.ono in life and acci dental death insurance in force on Mrs. Thompson, with her husband as beneficiary. Mediators Try Again PITTSBURGH IUPP Fed eral mediators, who helped set tle Westinghouse Electric Cor poration's contract dispute with the International Electrical Workers Union UUE, have moved into company talks with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers MBEVV). Joseph Piconke of Washington and Arthur Wellman of Pitts burgh joined the IBEW-West-inghouse talks Tuesday in hopes of negotiating a settlement be fore the union's contract ex pires midnight, Oct. 31. The firm, which meets today with the IBEW, also is conduct, ing negotiations with the Unit ed Electrical Workers (UE). It is not found on the islands of Zanzibar and Penba 30 miles off the African coast. This means, Burkitt said, "that the cause cannot cross 30 miles of sea." The most bizarre and "ab surd" aspect of the cancer, he said, is the manner in which it may settle almost anywhere in the body jaw, genitals, thyroid and so on except the spleen, which ordinarily should be a prime target. Ninety per cent of the cases STAR -Br CLAY M, Your Daily Activity Guid. M r According to rh Start. 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UPI Telephoto France Urges PARIS (UPI) - French For eign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville called today for a sweeping reorganisation of the Atlantic Alliance. He asserted that the present North Atlantic Treaty Organ ization (NATO) is out-of-date. But he said a major reorgan ization will not be possible un til other European members pull their full weight. . Couve de Murville delivered a broad foreign policy review to the National Assembly as (t debated the foreign ministry's 19S4 budget. "France," he said, "has de cided to play her own role in defense." That, he said, is why she has decided to pull the bulk of her land, sea and air forces out of NATO. "The day when the other Eu ropean members of the alliance show the same will, reor ganization of the Atlantic Alli ance on a durable basis will be possible," he asserted. BARUCH GETS HONOR ATLANTA, Ga. (UPD Ber nard M. Baruch, a leading American financier since the turn of the century, was named by the editors of Dixie Business magazine as their "Great Amer. ican" for 1963. Hubert F. Lee, editor of the magazine since 1928, also said Rep. Carl Vinson, D-Ga., was chosen for next year's honor. Lee said Vinson will have served a half century In the U. S. Congress as of next year. are in children, and the peak age is five to seven. Burkitt treats the cancer with the chemicals ncthotrexate and cytoxin. "I know of no cancer which Is so responsive to treatment," he said. "I've treated about AO patients, and although it's diffi cult to follow up because most of them disappear back into the bush, I know at least 20 are still alive four months to three years after treatment. 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The pickets, who said they were members of "the move ment to impeach Earl Warren," also booed Gov. Nelson Rocke feller, who attended the dinner but left the building separately from the Warrens. Neither Warren nor Rockefel ler was hurt, and police moved in quickly to keep the pickets from the men. Walter Zaleski, who said he was the leader of the organiza tion which is based in Summit, N.J., told newsmen the Supreme Court's decisions "have helped to erode our freedoms." He said the group was not connected with the John Birch Society. The approximately 75 pickets were waiting for Warren when he arrived at the building with his wife and daughter, Mrs. John Daly. Ideal Location DOWNTOWN Business or Office Inquire GUN STORE INCLUDE THESE it Concealed Cushion Compartment Easy Action Instant Bed fm 2405 SOUTH SIXTH tM- Ph. TU 4-4510 gg-j HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Space Adviser Believes Russians Attempting To Slow U.S. Moon Shot WASHINGTON (UPD - A leading space adviser to Presi dent Kennedy believes Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's recent space statement was an attempt to slow down the U.S. lunar project, rather than a Soviet withdrawal from the space race. Dr. Edward C. Welsh said Tuesday that the Russians have a "strong space program and are concentrating on it. There is nothing in this (Khrushchev's remarks) to indicate otherwise and no reason to believe they are slackening." Welsh is executive secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council which advises President Kennedy on U.S. space programs. In an inter view with United Press Inter national he commented on Khrushchev's weekend review of future Soviet space pro grams. Encourage U.S. Reduction Welsh said Khrushchev's com ments were an attempt to en- WILL SOON MAKE BIG NEWS IN KLAMATH FALLS mm mm mm t -m-mm FEATURES: 9VM AII Steel Bed Unit ic Full 5-Year Guarantee Perfect Balance Tilt 'N' Sweep Back Falls. Oraf on Wednesday, courage a reduction In U.S. space efforts so that Russia might maintain any competitive edge it believes it may have. "He would maintain this advan tage on the basis of a slowdown on our part rather than a speedup on his." He added that Khrushchev's remarks were made when Con gress was considering the ap propriation bill for the National Aeronautics and Space Admin istration (NASAL Rep. Olin E. Teague, second ranking Democrat on the House Space Committee, said that IS A S! THI There Are 100's of people to serve your needs in MHBK KLAMATH FALLS MANY STYLES TO CHOOSE FROM IN THE FOLLOWING SIZES 54" LOVE SEAT TO THE 86" QUEEN SIZE ic Reversible Foam Seat Cushions ir Expert Tailoring Jim JjuMjiiWie October SO. 1963 PAGE-7A Khrushchev's remarks ought to be ignored, and that the U-f. space program should not 'be changed. The Texas congressman add ed, "I wouldn't trust Khru shchev, even if he swore on a stack of Bibles as high as the Kremlin." RED CARPET J OUT J
