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The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore -Fri. Aug. 16, 1957 Producer Claims Proposal To Pay To Hold Out Story LOS ANGELES (P Producer Paul Gregory testified in the Confidential trial Friday that he was told he could have kept a story out of the scandal magazine by paying between $800 and $1,000. Gregory said the offer was made to him by Mrs. Marjorie Meade, one of the operators of Hollywood Research and a defendant in the trial along with her husband, Fred, and Confidential and Whisper magazines.

He said Mrs. Meade told him an article had been written about Charles, Elsa Laughton, Lancaster. Robert said I could buy off the writer for $800 to $1,000," Gregory testified. "She said it was scandalously injurious and would put me out of business." Gregory had testified earlier that he and Laughton were sociated in theatrical ventures for five years. Gregory said he told Mrs.

Meade her offer was "blackbuy that, anybody and that he was mail," he wasn't going to going off. report the matter to authorities. He said his first contact with Mrs. Meade was Aug. 22, 1955.

Earlier Gregory told reporters that the Robert Mitchum story in Confidential, alleging the actor showed up nude at a party by Gregory, was entirely false. "There were 10 people at the party who are willing to come and so testify," Gregory said. Gregory was the prosecution witness. After hearing his testimony and reading to the jury two more articles from Confidential the prosecution rested its case. The defense when it takes over possibly could stall a parade of reluctant movie witnesses.

Olalla Man Killed In Upset Of Pickup (Continued from page one) was born March 2, 1909, at Springerville, and was a member of the Winslow Elks Lodge. He was a member of the Winston Christian Church and had been employed by Roseburg Lumber Co. He was a member of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers, AFL. Local 2949. Brady was active in Scouting and was a Scoutmaster and Explorer advisor to Troop and Post No.

126. He is survived by his wife, Frances; two sons, John, who is on a Boy Scout tour in Europe, and Joe of Olalla: his mother, Mrs. Lillie Mae Carduff of Winston, and a brother, Carl, of Winston. The body was removed to the Chapel of Roses. Funeral services will be announced later.

CHAIR LOST Loss of a platform rocker somewhere on Highway 99 between Grants Pass and Roseburg was reported to State Police Thursday by Fay Willard, Idleyld Park. He told officers he thought the chair had been lost on Sexton Mountain. EMERGENCY NUMBERS FIRE: OR 2-2644 Call POLICE: OR 3-0633 Call MONEY: OR 3-6668 664 S. E. Stephens, Roseburg PACIFIC of FINANCE Loans House May Break Civil Rights Bill Deadlock Shortly WASHINGTON The House Friday moved toward a break in the deadlock over the civil rights bill and Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex) predicted House passage, possibly next week.

That probably would clear the way for Congress to adjourn this month. Republican leader Martin (Mass.) announced after a stratsession of leaders that eave are open minded" about the form the disputed measure takes. "We want workable bill as quickly as possible," he said. With Republicans believed about from ready to their stage a all-or-nothing strategic retreat, the House Rules Committee was reported ready take up the matter early next week, perhaps Monday. The Rules Committee thus far has been blocking House action.

But with four Republican members and four Northern Democrats voting together on the 12- member committee, the bill could be sent to the floor. But Martin signified that the Republicans will not accept without a a modification of the bill contest, being proposed by House Democrats. That could mean the Democrats will have to give in some or there could still be no bill this session of Congress. After the House originally passed the bill, the Senate added a disputed jury, trial amendment with broad application. Rep.

Celler (D-NY) is pushing for House acceptance of the Senate bill with the jury trial amendment narrowed down just to cover voting rights cases. The Democrats say the Senate would go along with that but nothing more. Court Martial Board Acquits Young Officer FT. SILL, UP) An Army martial board Friday acquitted a 22-year-old second lieutenant of four charges of negligent homicide in the deaths four infantrymen June 22. The verdict was returned shortly after a.m.

after only about 20 minutes' deliberation by the ninemember board. The case went to the board after final defense and morning. The four soldiers were killed and 13 others injured when mortar shells fell among them a as they advanced up a hill during an attack demonstration on a Ft. Sill range before several hundred civilian and military onlookers. The defendant, Lt.

Rosser L. Moody, Toano, studious looking graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, spent only 10 minutes on the stand Thursday. Moody, one of two officers blamed for the tragedy, nervously clinched his hands as he admitted making mistake in transcribing firing data which caused six to nine rounds, of 4.2 inch mortar shells among the infantrymen. "I checked the data to make I had it right," Moody testified. "but unconciously I apparently picked up the wrong sheet He said the data was on two sheets.

The other accused officer, Lt. Col. Walter P. Berger of Philadelphia, will face trial on four counts of negligent homicide and dereliction of duty in a week to 10 days. Three Roseburg Boys Released To Parents Three young Roseburg boys were released to their parents Thursday following arrest for allegedly tampering, with a collapsible The boys, two of them 10 years old and the other 9, were arrested warrant based on a complaint filed by Jack O.

Hausotter. Their parents are to appear in municipal court this afternoon. According to police, the boys allegedly let the air out of the pool. FOR SALE Restaurant business with a family income. Suitable operator can buy this with rental type payments.

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Lacey applied the words "fraud and deception" to the chartering without his knowledge of seven hoodlum-led Teamsters locals. These locals helped vote Lacey out of the presidency of New York Teamsters Council No. 16 in 1956 and put in John O'Rourke, backed by Midwest Teamsters boss James R. Hoffa. Lacey said his protests to Beck and Einar O.

Mohn, the union's against seating the locals administrative vice president, fell on deaf ears. The picturesque old union leader seemed unaware of the tears streaming down, his cheeks until they splashed witness table of the Senate Rackets investigating committee. showed other indication of emotional upon set. Vigorously, Lacey denied that convicted bribe taker Sam Goldstein, an alleged lieutenant of racketeer Johnny Dio, or anyone else had offered him $10,000 to Harris Whitaker Sues To Recover Tavern Payment Harris Whitaker filed suit last week in circuit court to recover $21,247.50 which he claims he paid to Leonard S. Zacher for his interest in Lennie's Friendly Tavern and Elbow Room in Roseburg on March 22.

The plaintiff claims that Zacher misrepresented the expenses of operation of the business. He alleges that Zacher and his wife did more the work at the than they told him, that earning and expense statements they gave him not show then cost of hiring weekend cooks, that an income and expense memorandum for January 1957 was not on an accrual basis and did not show some normal operating costs. Whitaker asks to have the contract rescinded and to recover his payments plus fair value for improvements put in the tavern before July 1. He estimates the value at $1,500 for tase improvements. The complaint claims that the plaintiff asked to rescind the contract on July 1 and that the defendant refused.

It states that Whitaker has continued operation of the business in the meantime. Florida Judge Will Keep Seat TALLAHASSEE, Fla. UP Circuit Judge George E. jubilant over his acquittal on impeachment charges and with back pay in his pocket, left for Miami today to reclaim his seat on the bench. The Senate, winding up the first impeachment trial in Florida's history, restored Holt to office yesterday when 14 members voted to acquit and 20 to convict.

The articles of impeachment charged that Holt accepted gifts ing before him, friendand favors from attorneys, practicship to improperly influence his judicial appointments and the allowance of fees, borrowed money from an attorney practicing before him, awarded excessive and unnecessary fees and flagrantly violated the code of ethics for judges. Confidential Defense Says Stars To Testify LOS ANGELES (P The defense expects to start tossing its promised shock-filled grenades today in the libel trial of Confidential and Whisper magazines. Defense Attorney Arthur J. Crowley says he is going to bring movie stars into, court to testify whether stories about them in the magazines are true. The magazines and their alleged Hollywood agents, Fred and Marjorie Meade, are being tried on charges of conspiracy to commit libel and publish lewd and obscene matter.

The defense has scattered 117 subpoenas among Hollywood celebrities and is trying to slip 40 more into the hands of unwilling stars. Two Roseburg Marines Take Part In Maneuvers Two Roseburg Marines landed recently on Kauai, T.H. with the First Marine Brigade which was participating in a five-day amphibious sea and air assault. The two Marine Pfc. Charles L.

Hayman, are, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Hayman, 1749 NE Sunset Lane, Roseburg, and Marine Pvt. David A.

Bishop, son of Mr. and Mrs. Neale J. Bishop, 841 SE Jackson Roseburg. TALKING ABOUT A HOME Many people do nothing but talk about it.

It you really want to own your home, sult me now. Personal attention, economical terms. LOANS--INSURANCE--BONDS Ralph L. Russell Loan Representative Equitable Savings Loan Ass'n Mildred Hornschuch, Associate H. C.

DUNCAN, Associate 725 S. E. Rose St. OR 3-4311 Lutherans Report Major Strides Toward Stronger Partnership In Churches get out of the race and leave the field to O'Rourke. the hell is Sam Goldstein to buy me?" Lacey demanded of the committee when asked about that.

Some of the senators had drawn an inference of a intent from the playing Thursday recording of a -tapped telephone conversation between Goldstein and Tony (Ducks) Corallo, described as the secret boss of several hoodlum-run New York locals of various unions. Lacy blocked O'Rourke's election temporarily in court proceedings but ultimately bowed out to him. O'Rourke now council president and titular New York City Teamsters head, invoked the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer committee questions Thursday. Chairman McClellan -Ark) said Leonard Geiger, the New York council's recording secretary, is "now on the lam" and can't be found at his New York home or office to be served with a subpoena to testify. The committee says creation of the paper locals-so dubbed on contention they existed only on paper -were part of a scheme by Hoffa to gain a stranglehold on labor affairs on the East Coast.

And, it contends, Hoffa had an alliance to with Dio, who it says helped set up the locals. Hoffa is the on candidate now to succeed Beck when the Teamsters elect a president next month to replace their discredited chieftain. Lacey, a big, gravel-voiced Irishman, told the senators that Geiger has refused to give him the minutes of a Jan. 26, 1956, meeting of the New York council's executive Board. At the meeting, Lacey said, five of seven board members suddenly switched their stand and decided to vote to seat the phony seven locals.

The committee says New York goons and hoodlums were officers of the memberless locals, and they ultimately, sent voting delegates council to vote out Lacey and put in Hoffa's man, O'Rourke. Cave Explorers Trapped 1,500 Feet Underground SAINT GAUDENS, France (P- French cave explorers remained isolated 1,500 feet underground Friday. They were cut off Thursday by a sudden rush of water while attempting to trace the routes of suberranean rivers. Searchers who shouted to them across the water wall reported Friday they were safe in a huge dry cavern and had enough food to 48 hours. They also had lighting There was equipmentossibility frogmen would be employed to make contact with them.

A group of eight speleologists (cave explorers) were investigating border the here caves when near Jean the Spanish, Andre Nunzi and Pierre Weidert were trapped by the sudden surge of water. Joseph Delteil, who set aid or join them and whose long, absence gave rise to fears for his safety too. returned Friday to the camp, 1,150 feet below the surface, and reported by telephone that the isolated men were in no immediate danger. Delteil and his' four companions at the base camp said that they, too. were having difficulty because of water spilling into their cave.

More Arrests, Executions Mark Hungarian Scene BUDAPEST (P Another wave of arrests and trials and some executions of persons charged with opposing the Communist regime is sweeping Hungary. Two men were executed yesterday on a charge of killing a Hungarian Communist police major during the uprising last fall. A village priest was sentenced to death on a charge of hiding arms and serving on a revolutionary committee. Executions are carried out by hanging. From all over the country official reports are coming in of mass arrests and trials of "counterrevolutionaries," mostly arising from the autumn revolt.

Many more trials than are officially reported are known here to be taking place. FAT DANGERS CHALLENGED NEW YORK (P--The Nutrition Committe of the American Heart Assn. has challenged the assumption that too much fat in the diet is a major factor in heart attacks. The five-man committee reported yesterday that hardening of the arteries of heart disease and strokes could result not only primarily from diet but from heredity, blood pressure and body chemistry. 5 SAM J.

SHOEMAKER, formerly of Roseburg, a special agent with the FBI at Los Angeles, is pictured above with his perfect score, shot on the range of the Pasadena Police Department. A perfect score reportedly is a rarity, even with the FBI. Shoemaker was the only contestant to make such a score in the match in which he participated. Requirements consist of 50 rounds of which 10 are fired from the hip at seven yards and in 25 seconds; the next 40 in five minutes, five prone at 60 yards; five each from prone and sitting positions, and five each with left and right hands, all from behind a barricade at 50 yards; five kneeling and five each from left behind a barricande at 25 yards. are vacationing at the North his mother, Mrs.

S. J. Shoemaker, with the FBI since completing his service in World War II. Salem Visitor Dies In Local Hospital Berle Aaron Sparnon, 63, Salem, died at a Roseburg hospital early Friday. He had been visiting in Roseburg at the home of his sonin Thomas and D.

daughter, McWilliams. Mr. and Mrs. He was born at Logan, Ohio, Jan. 24, 1894, and was marrieds to Eva Warren at Bellingham, in 1916.

He moved to Tillamook from Blaine, in 1918 and was enployed Tillamook as a lumber grader until about three years ago when he moved to Salem. Sparnon was a member of the First Christian Church at Tillamook and the Lumber and Saw. mill Workers, at Tillamook. Surviving are: His wife, Mrs. Eva Sparnon of Salem; three daughters, Mrs.

(Doris) McWilliams of Roseburg, Mrs. Darrel (Dorothy) Persons of Salem, Mrs. (Victoria) Babb of Mountain View, and nine grandchildren. His body has been removed to Long and Orr Mortuary and funeral arrangements will be nounced later. Campbell Fails To Break Own World Water Mark CANANDAIGUA.

N.Y. (P Britain's Donald Campbell gunned his jet-powered hydroplane to 220.83 miles an hour on Canandaigua Lake Friday but failed to break his own world water marl: of 225.63. His Bluebird struck a pleasure boat's swell on the second run and sailed 200 feet out of the about two feet above the surface. Minor damage was done boat. It was the speedboat king's final attempt here to break the record he set last year at Lake Coniston, England.

Campbell reached 220.83 on the 1a first two runs necessary a record attempt. The return trip over the one-kilomteter course was cut to 198 miles an hour by the pleasure boat incident. Four Men Plucked From Water As Boat Capsizes TAFT, Ore. (P Four Portland men were plucked from the water when a 14-foot boat in which they were riding capsized Thursday at the mouth of Siletz River. The men were rescued by Ricky McKinne, an employe of the Bailey Moorage here.

Rescued from the water were Charles Krofft, 40: Dale Lansbary, 31; William Denfeld, 65; and Fred Denfeld, 35. VAGRANT JAILED VAGRANT JAILED Elbert Curtis, 69, Camp White, was lodged in the Roseburg city jail Thursday when he was unable to pay a $25 fine levied after he pleaded guilty to a vagrancy charge. REDWOOD LUMBER NEW SHIPMENT GOOD COLOR SIZES Picnic Tables 2x12 1x6 Fences 1x10 4x4 Trellises DO IT YOURSELF GERRETSEN Building Supply Co. 538 S. E.

Oak Ave. Phone OR 2-2636 MINNEAPOLIS UP Major strides toward a stronger partnership among the world's Lutheran churches were reported Friday at the first business session of the Lutheran World Federation's third assembly. "There is a closer bond of feilowship and understanding among our churches than at any previous time in Dr. Carl E. Lundquist, executive secretary of the federation, told delegates representing some 50 million Closer, association has been achieved, he said, partly through exchange of church leaders, scholarships, conferences and visitations by church staff officers.

His report covered five years of meetings by federation's executive committee. It cited these other major developments in Luththought 5 and activity: "Church leaders, pastors and congregations are becoming more keenly aware of the "urgency and necessity of a clear proclamation of the gospel and careful, of the Christian The federation is actively en- Rock Slide Burries Two EUGENE UP Bulldozers re. sumed digging at daybreak Friday for two men buried in a huge rockslide that swept down a mountainside near Westfir. southeast of here. Trapped in the 30,000 yards of rock that slid from the face of Buckhead Mountain about noon Thursday were Robert V.

Anderson, 33, Oakridge, and Burley Isaacs, about 40, Willamette City. Theron Hagler, Oakridge, Two others, Robert, Roach and managed to run to safety. The four were working on a rock crushing eperation for a timber road project when a huge boulder snapped loose on the mountain, 1,500 feet above them. The slide followed, sweeping some equipment into a canyon and burying other. Digging crews were pulled back late Thursday on orders of George Wright of the Industrial Accident Commission because of the danger slides.

A bloodhound was taken to the scene in an unsuccessful attempt to locate the beneath the slide. Both Anderson and Isaacs were married. Anderson had two children and Isaacs one. Transportation Study Group Slates Meeting SALEM (P The 15-member state Emergency Transportation Committee, which met here Wednesday to try to end the box car shortage, decided to hold its next meeting here Aug. 26.

The committee asked Public Utilities Commissioner Howard Morgan to put Western Oregon lumber shippers on quotas as long as the shortage continues. Morgan expected to issue the order Thursday. The committee also appealed to Southern Pacific railroad officials to increase the supply of cars at lumber loading points. At the next meeting, the committee will hear results of a PUC investigation of the car situation in Washington and California. This was ordered to find out if study, shortage is peculiar to Oregon.

The committee also will recommend legislation to solve the problem that recurs almost every year. SHOTS PROVE FATAL FORT WORTH, Tex. (P -Clyde Grayson, 17, was shot to death yesterday while rabbit hunting with two friends, but Sheriff Harlon Wright said no effort will be made to determine which boy fired the fatal shot. boys are torn up enough about it now and if we find out now it would just make the one that did it feel worse," Wright said. couraging its member churches to take part in the toward a world-wide "fellowship of churcheederation has "learned the lesson of sharing," contributing 150 million dollars through its members churches since 1945 to meet spiritual and physical needs.

The also proposed setting up a research institute on Roman Catholic theology, partly in response, Dr. Lundquist said, to similar studies of Protestantism undertaken by Catholic leaders. another talk, the president of "the federation urged Lutherans around the world to face up realistically and boldly to world problems, including "the possibility of universal annihilation." Fishermen Rescue Navy Blimp Crew Following Crash and right hands from Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker Umpqua summer home of Roseburg.

He has been studies after military Bloodhounds Search For Boy In Washington STEVENSON, (P) Bloodhounds today took up the search for a boy missing 24 hours in the timber -dotted Cascade Mountain foothills. Forest rangers said the two hounds had tracked two miles, apparently on the trace of Rickie Craig who became separated from his parents at 10 Thursday on a huckleberry picking expedition. This was in the Surprise Lake area on the lower slopes of Mount Adams some 65 miles northeast of here, where bears and cougars abound. About 65 sheriff's officers, forest workers, loggers and berry pickers were in the hunt this morning. A helicopter from the Portland Base and sheriff's plane from Yakima, were expected to join the search when a fog bank over the region cleared away.

Sheriff Jim Reid of Skamania County said the boy was lightly dressed and "by this time must be pretty hungry." But the overnight temperature was well above freezing. Weather forecasters placed it at about 45 degrees. Sheriff Earl Hilton of Lewis County reported a posse headed into the region by horseback from another direction at daybreak. The boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Craig of Harrah, Wash. Military Manpower May Feel Economy Move Ax WASHINGTON -Current military planning calls for further manpower cuts to offset the rising cost of weapons. Secretary of Defense Wilson told his news conference Thursday a force of million men, 300,000 below the present level, is a possibility by July 1959. He called that a minimum planning figure. But he said limited drafting of men will have to be continued to maintain a force of that size.

Wilson, resigning the post he has held for vears, will be SucElroy, Gamble Co. ceeded in October, by Neil H. Mcpresident, whose nomination was approved yesterday by the Senate Armed Services Committee. Senate confirmation is expected next week. DRUNK JAILED DRUNK JAILED Pleading guilty to being drunk on a public highway, Clyde Mark Smith, 45, Sutherlin, was fined $25 in district court Thursday.

He was committed to the county jail in lieu of the fine. NORFOLK, Va. (P) A fishing boat Friday rescued the 16 crew members of a Navy blimp which creashed during the night in Coastal North Carolina's Pamlico Sound. The Coast Guard said the crew of naval reservists on a summer training cruise apparently escaped injury. The fishing boat took the survivors' rafts in tow and headed for Wanchese Coast Guard station, near Manteo, N.

C. A Navy search plane spotted the blimp survivors and wreckage. A distress message intercepted shortly before midnight by an Air Force B25 stating the blimp was being ditched led to the start of a massive search at dawn by planes and surface craft which already were standing by to search for a missing Navy jet pilot. The planes and three Coast Guard cutters were diverted, to blimp hunt, when the merchant tanker Western Sun reported the rescue of of Lt. Cmdr.

A. Atkins, 33, of Virginia Beach, from a raft in the Atlantic Ocean at 5:30 a.m. Search for Atkins was launched Thursday afternoon when the Navy reported his F3H-2 missing on a routine training mission at sethe blimp was on the Glynco, to Lakehurst, N.J., leg of a cruise from Cuba to South Weymouth, Mass. Train Hits Two Men On Trestle JUNCTION CITY UP Two men ran frantically along railroad trestle near here Thursday as a train sped toward them. The men weren't able to run fast enough, and the train, traveling 79 miles an hour, hit them both.

One man was killed outright. The other suffered rib fractures and a broken arm and leg. Lane County sheriff's deputies identified the dead man as WaltCallames Pullin, 56, Big Bend, The other was Charles Arthur Weatherby, 60, Vancouver, who was reported in fair condition in a Eugene hospital, deputies said. A Southern Pacific Railroad Engineer, Tom C. Ward, reported that the train was going 79 miles an hour when it started over the trestle two miles south of here, deputies reported.

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