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Spotlight Long Gone From Trudi Ederle, First Woman to Swim English Channel EDITOR S NOTE: One th least ef the ailloa, Trudl Ederle rirtt woman to fwlm the Eng. liih channel - itlll likes tt take a nostalgic look bark at the g lit tering Id's. By BOB 8ONDERSK0V SEABRIGHT, N.J.. Oct. 6 11 -"1 was at the shore," the husky, middle-aged woman said. "I de cided to swim down to a point of land. I made the four miles in one hour and 19 minutes ... not bad. I'll tell you something, I won 5 on that race." Five dollars isn't much com pared with the $!0,000 she earned in the two years after becoming the first woman to swim the Eng lish Channel. For this was Ger trude i Trudi i Ederle speaking of a swim she made at this resort where she summers, and that long ajio splash to tame and fortune. Orce the toast of the nation, Trudi hasn't seen much of the limelight since 1928. Through the years she has appeared in a few commercial ventures. A Connec ticut resort invited some Olympic hopefuls for a match last summer. Trudi presented the awards. Decades of wars ml troubles have piled on the glittering 20's that saw Trudi accomplish her feat. Many men and women have swum the Channel since. In 1950 Florence Chadwic' hrokc Trudi's record of U hours and 11 minutes with a phenomenal 13 hour, 20 minute crossing Blaed Trail But Trudi's performance, on Aug. K. 1926. blazed the trail She enjoys recalling those days when the nation hummed a song in her honor "Trudi" when there U ere lirlrer Inn iWmprc nnH ,tin made nearly "a million' dollars" in two vears of vaudeville and sports touring Nostalgia perhaps but no re- urft i iJm fr'n,v, grci at laaing irom peoples minds "I'm comfortable says today "I'll always be happy if I have what I have now " It w.-is near Seabright that Trudi learned to swim in the Atlantic. The daughter of a Bronj butcher, she held 29 international and American records when she turned professional at 1R. At 19. Gertrude Ederle had come a long way from the West Side i shop of her father to the English channcl shore She h.id knock'-d on Ihr door the yepr before She a, 72 said she had hem taken from the King was married to Mrs Paul water !y her 'ratr-i and could h.v e f ":! "H 'V r . f (1 . Hut in i-.-jfi. ihe 2:rl won her UllOt I Of I YilCC (iie:l Fi'lv sinking newsmen did . f, -t , ,. . , their best to supplant the broken l'ill t I II I M IS llt'tl. phonograph that was to hae frmmwnmA Istt Ttssr Witnesses to Trudi's triumph were also familv. financial back-j err trainers and newsreei cam-i ramen Thev were all crammed 1 into a bobbing tug that churned, alongside Trudi as she fought the 1 stormy Channel The' newsmen cabled tens of thousands of words to the world on Trudi's progress The darkness at Kincsdown where she waded' ashore was broken by the flares and flashes of cameramen Trudi hit the front pases of virtually every Kuropean and American newspaper In IMS, just as she earned vot- Ing age. illness and hard luck ; toppled her from the pedestal. , In 1!?2h I developed ear trou- i Me, she said, '"""he doctors -I Frank Patchcll Services Held Siateiman News Service I.KBANOY Oct fi-Concluding rites for Frank Patcheil. M. who died at his home here, were held today at Belcrest Memorial Park, Salem Patcheil was a loe scaler and had lived in the Lebanon area since coming from Tacoma, Wash., in 1941. The Rev. G. Wdsley Turner officiated. Both the Ma-' sonic and Mks lodges also were in charge of rituals. The widow. reggy Patcheil. is a survivor. t a I 1 (m?M ASLEEP , . jfh to big selling opportunity! .Z2a 1 wk m thought I'd lose my hearing if I went into the water. I stayed out for eight months. We went to all the doctors. WhaL could I do, though? In those days there were no hearing aids." (she wean one American Tanks Rumble in V t r . t i" -iP W i A , I-A - American-built tanks, manned by Japanese soldiers, roll single file in downtown Tokyo, Japan, as the Japanese celebrated Defense Forces Day on Oct. 1. Several thousand Japanese sol diers of the Ground Self Defense Force participated in the review. (AP Wirephoto) Eden Hospitalized With Sudden Fever LONDON, Oct w - Prime, Minister Kden. hospitalized with a sudden fever, was reported com- f"rt;,hle tonight "He had a restful day and his , j. ,u rpporlpr General King Marries at 72 SEA ISLAND. Ga . Oct. 6 , ine King Beutell of St. Simons Is Maj Gen. Edward T. King Jr. land. Ga.. at Christ Episcopal who commanded U S troops on church. St. Simons. Rataan in the Philippines when it surrendered to the Japanese in iw took his second wife todav Quoit'H Ike, Dulles nwmiMiiu. un -"nej State Department published today 8 35-page pamphlet called The! Quest Jor Peace" with this sub- 'itlf 1 "Quotations from President El-; senhower and Secretary of State j WASHINGTON. Oct. 6 i-The Dulles highlighting the major : steps in the search for peace ! through the security and unity of, the free world." The material in the pamphlet ! was prepared in the public sen- ices section of the Public Affairs Division of the State Department. This division customarily pub- lishes material useful for distrihu- tion abroad as part of the Amer- ican foreign propaganda program and for release within the I'mted States as a means of informing people on I'.S. foreign policy. ToHv nsmnhlel enver id lotlays pamphlet covers 19 sub- jects ranging from atoms tor peace to the Trcste settlement be tween Italy and Yugoslavia. l.'ith Yank Pilot Arrives at Suez PORT SAID. Oct. 6 ur The 13th American to join Kgvpt's StllP7 Canal anthnritv tic 3 mint .rri,.n i c.,j' nir : Olas'Uhren of 2383 Union St San ' Francisco, will begin training as' a canal pilot tomorrow. i w0W 13 American oilots and 15 Russians have joined the Eevo- . r. tjan company since the n.ass walk- out of foreign pilots last month This man is dreaming of customers thronging his store to buy his merchandise. 'Hate to dis turb him. But if he would only wake up to the profitable possibilities of advertising in this pa per, maybe we could help him make that dream come true. His ads here will reach the people who are LOOKING TO BUY. because . . . 'SHOPPIN STARTS IN THE PAGES OF THIS NEWSPAPER today.) The spotlight passed her by. She had to scrap plant for a European tour. Then, In 1933, ihe fell down a flight of stairs. Physicians feared she might not walk again, . oil I 9: The year-oid statesman was stricken with a sudden feverish chill'- while visiting his wife in I niversity College Hospital. She was there for a dental checkup, PL. u i i-r. ..j... u... j- i 1 cided to stay on until her husbend i A native of Atlanta, the retired officer spent 4t months in a pns- on camp after the surrender H took commandof Bataan troops alter (Icii Douglas MacArtliur and I!:- 'al- ; ti,n:iiii.-.h WamwriKiit irowd to t!ie Corredidor br.'tion. ! , ".-t Wile die . two years a .1 britje i a : vnrev He makes hi s home at Sea Island and. in .saiudaf n t : . i fiie bride Fasbeen "en?pToye3 in t the Sea Island post office. A native of Brunswick, she lived fof somp ,jme a( Tnomasvine Ga. I UgOSlaV, OOViet T J )H (r('IH'eS f()t Kesolvcdlat TilllvS ' ; BELGRADE. Oct. 6 W-Borba. ; Yugoslavia's major Communist ! newspaper, reported tonight that differences between Russia and Yugoslavia were not resolved at : the Yalta conference between president Tito and Soviet leaders. The newspaper, commenting on the talks between Tito and Soviet party boss Nikita Khushchcv, ,H lhnr romamoH curtain nnon 'questions concerning mutual rela- i," tions. DiffOfPnecs Still exist," said."llt "imi. ('ulul,ldl IMt lw,IKT5 Borba. 'regarding forces and elc - mcnts influencing developments toward socialism in the world. two ,ii(t.,rn,...c nrimar,i f . . . - v J ideological nature " The paper hailed the "free and open exchanges'' between top Rus sian and Yugoslav leaders, saying they "confirmed that mutual re lations between the two nations are developing along democratic Principles. (;n- Merrill B. Twining, bro- 'her of U.S. Air Force Chief of ci-rr f .1 ! rr...:. '" wn. Nathan r . Twining, is now Commandant of Marine Corps Schools at Quantico, Va. j 3 i' r. f but she was able to sprint across Billy Rose's Aquacade I'ool on the anniversary of the channel crossing in 1939. . Trudi, who never married, lives In New York. , Japan Again is fH again. . During the afternoon .den dealt with some Cabinet papers, aides said. Tncy reported' him comfort- able and "very cheerful" and said l. ..j l. i i. . ,..b earlv next week. Captured Con Charged With Vehicle Theft COOS BAY. Od. fi W-Coos r,i,.u :,:n hunt .ulfliii n new charge yesterday to the record of Ernc-t l.cio' Giliso.:, 29. who.-,e capture. .cndejl one of the most ex tensW?" manhunts in this area in . vears. He was surprised by police early yesterday morning while trying to nap in a car on a Coos Bay street. That was after he had evaded cap ture for 72 hours in the brush-covered hills of Cape Arago and the nearby Seven Devils area. Gibson was arraigned here yes- 1 1 - . . r i , , , 0""""uu, "" " " " t fwT Md Z Vm J 1""TL , ,n Eugene meanwhile, Lane Co"n,y authorities filed to hold " , Prlson" A Bend taxicab driver, Loyal j . :KV "d!, a-lU!,ru ,u' son of kidnapping him in Eugene and forcing him to drive on to the coast, after hiring the cab in j t Bpn1- ' Gibson already was facing a life "iiieuir dll iid.ljiudl ll ildl . J V.' hrn he broke out of the Linn David Engstro-m, Salem; Mrs Stan- County jail in Albany Sept. 7, Wlth'lfy H. Sherman. Portland and Mary ' ,tii ,if Engstrom. Salem. Services will be ! rCtSnor( , . 1 tarl -'umor Bonnie, ji, suv- 1 erton' plains at large One was ;captured near Los Angeles and the i nll,ir ilrnUn.J in IU It'll I t I other drowned in the Willamette River near Salem. Honesty Pars For Worker rinrnrrt nt c t i ,,;i j CHICAGO. Oct. 6 i-A railroad . officer this week commended an i ;,;. ... u ... . .. 'hJ d Zu'cmZ of 1 Swork "r-.l'SU luit aglinst ' the road. Gordon K. Archie, 29, of East St. Louis, admitted he was partly ' tn hl.ime for a hraH iniurv if. ' lo Diame lor a neaa injury sui-, leieu iviiiy n, iMm wiiin uif nan-1 die of a brake slipped from his hands. Joseph H. Wright, vice president and chief counsel of the Illinois Central Railroad, praised Archie for his admission and said: "Archie honestly stated he was partly responsible. We are glad to'mnrial Mausoleum Friends if they mni. , w wih inav contribute in lieu of flow- i , . , j tlemcnt. I Wish all were as honrst manc lhimiiih ciiiu I rcl.iilltli'.l M l- as Archie has been." Wright told the switchman his job is waiting when he is able to 1 Jeffrey Alan Ross resume work. The settlement was i Late resident w xm s.e Dr , Port reached at a pre-trial ennfererce 'n,d 1?jurvlv'd0 hy pDr"J,"ir' Ind ,, . , l Mrs Whiam Ross, Portland. An- m the COiirt Ot Circuit JlKhe 1 nnuncement nf services later OT Frank Leonard. Demo (vovrrnor Slightly Alters Eisenhower Day DtWtn. Oct i Colorado's governor. Democrat Ed C. John son, has joined in a get-out-the-vote drive Oct 13 in connection with President Eisenhower's birth day, but he proclaimed the occa sion "Decision to Vote Day" rath er than "Ike Day" as national sponsors suggested. Johnson drew the proclamation, urging all citizens to vote at the Nov. 6 election, at the request of Charles H. Percy, national chair man ot the Ike Day Committee. who emphasized that the plan was intended as a nonpartisan move. Oceanographers in Canada are ompleXini wodel at m wirw of the Pacific Ocean, holding thou sands of gallons or water, to give them quick information on tidal movement. SgtMcKeon Sees Lighter Term as 'Fair' - PARRIS ISLAND, S.C., Oct. ( UN-Matthew C, McKeon, calm and relieved after a reduction in his pu-'shment for leading a march on which six Marines drowned, predicted sadly today that, "I'll never command troops again." The former drill sergeant from Worcester, Mass., said he consid ered his revised sentence of a month in the brig and reduction to private "very just and verj fair." His lawyer at the sensational court-martial here in July and Avust, Emile Zola Berman of New York City, said, 'This sen tence meets the needs of the case." The Marine Corps League sent McKeon "sincere best wishes for the future." "Not Satisfied" But the mother of one of the drowned recruits was "not a bit satisfied" with Secretary of the Navy Thomas' decision to let Mc Keon, 31, stay in the Corps. And the mother of another said it leaves "the door open for the same thing to happen again." Thomas overuled the bad con duct discharge ordered by the court-martial Aug. 3. He reduced the confinement period from nine months to three and set aside a $270 fine. Thomas noted that Mc Keon's reduction in rank to pri vate would cost him much more than the fine. Only Month McKe . will be In the brig only one month because he has been 'in the status of arrest ' since he was convicted of negligent homi cide and drinking on duty. A bitter complaint about the out come of the case came from Mrs. Maggie Lucile Meks of Savannah, Ga. She is the mother of Thomas Curtis Hardeman, one of the 74 recruits McKeon led into a tidal stream the night of April I. Lt. Gen. Randolph McC, Pate, commandant of the Corps, and Maj. Gen. Joseph C. Burger, for mer commander at Parris Island, 'handed us mothers a pretty dirty d' 1," Mrs. Meks said. "They promised to see that new orders for safer recruit training at Par ris Island were started, but you know as well as I that it hasn't been done." "No Legal Rights" The six recruits 'are gon but ne-Mcieon goi nis semence re- duccd. she declared, we . men- can citizens. nae goi. no legal ri"hts." . Mrs. Alma 1. I'ougnun 01 Aicx- andr,a. ?, said knew they never realty intended 10 ao any-rrmg-4tr-Mm. It was a mock trial if there ever was one." Mrs. Coughlin, whose 17-year-old son. Jerry Lamont Thomas, died in the march said of McKeon: I "If that's ihe kind of trash the Marine Corps wants, I guess they are full of them from the top right on down." Salem Obitiinries 2nd Lt Charles Victor Btaner I.alt resident of Aihley Courts, in !he "V Bald.sta. Georgia. Octo- her 41n. A(e 21 years. Husband ot F.Ua Doris Benner of Baldasta. Ceor- H' Son of Byron Benner, Rosalia. vasningion ana Airs, neien n. cng- strom. Salem. Brother of Carl and held Thursday. October 11, at 1:30 WWlSS Memory Gardens. ' Gale Lowell rox Ijte resident of 2B45 Portland Bd . at a local hospital October 6th. Sur ( vived by wife. Mrs. Kate Fox. Sa ' lem: son. Lowell Fox. Saiem: sister, Jessie Gray. Portland Services at I Virgil T Golden Chapel. Tuesday, October i. at 10:30 a m. Interment I Restlawn Memory Gardens. John William Hunt Lite resident of 2610 Hollywood Dr . in this city, Oct. 9. at the age nf 89 Father ot Mrs. Ralph Jackson, Salem and Mrs Foy Cole. Castor, Can,d,; Kenneth J. Hunt of Salem, also grandchildren, and 4 great- .r.ndchfldren Services Monday. Trn "Z i'" vieJ cXZy in the chapel of erment at City Knaffle H. Pickens r,dent of lis Juniper St.. Coos Bay. Ore . at a Portland hoa- P"l. Oct. Suruved by wife, Mrs. H , Plrk,n Co, Bav, ore. Daughter Mrs. Lola Dale Mills, uooa Bav Son. Robert C. Pickens, Port land. Sisters. Mrs Jessie Taylor, Salem; Mrs. Marie Travis. McMlnn ville. Brother, Ivan Pickens, Rose, burg. Ore. Also seven grandchil dren Services will be held Monday, October B at 11 a m. In the Clough Barnck Chapel. Rev. W. Berkeley Ormond officiating Private con rltirimv .frvires at Portland Me- ers to the Meoicai Heaearcn touncu f o,eii mierlious Diseases. Care ' nf Dr John Raaf. Medical Dental B'"ln,n' rtland. Ore 1 Cltimh-Flarrirk Funeral Home. Arllr K. Slmklni Ai a local hospital. October S. late resident of R! I. Salem. Survived i tiv mother. ' Mrs Belle Slmkins of Silem. sisters. Mrs Ruth Kirkwood, Mvrtle Crerk. Ore.; Mrs. Jennie I Smith. Seattle. Wash ; Mrs. Beatrice Henry of Portland; Mrs. Reva Dav idson. Salem: Mrs Pauline Kirk. San f rancisoo; Mrs. Haiel Ray, Salem. Frothers. T J. Simktns. Salem. Dr. C S Simkins. Chicago. Several! : niecrs and nephews. Services at lr ; gll T. Golden Chapel, Tuesday. Oc- tnher d. at 2 p m. Interment Hcp. well Cemetery. j Nellie Bartlett White At the residence, 4943 Delight. Sa- , lrm. October S. Survived by thre daughters, Mrs Vera L. Davlet, Sa ' lem. Mrs Ora Janes, Salem; Mra. William Arnti. Benton Harbor. Mich. ; Son. J D. White Seventeen grand ' children; 46 great-grandchildren, 1 one great-great-grandehlid. Service i Mrmdav. Oct I at the St. Joaepn ICaiholIc church ft TO a.m. Reclta lion of Rosary. Virgil T Golden ' Chanel. Sundav Ort 7 at S 15 pm. Interment Belcrest Memorial Park. r RESTLAWN, MemoryOardcn$ "Sacred fardtm ( Eternal leairrf" SALEM'S NEWEST MOST MODERN MEMORIAL PARK 677 N. Cottage Ph. 4-4123 Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sunday, Oct. 7, '50 (Sec. l)-7; $ ; Battleship Visits Big City; l m i V i. n .j e. . I Ua CmIIa NEW YORK, Od. 4 - Th 45,. ome Is the bailor t0B hMlnhlp u$$ ,ow, passes tho lowcf Manhattan skylint at she ttcami up Hudson : I rtrntvir I M 7a4a """PUEBLO, Colo., Oel. 6 - San. Estos Drums Up Votes KtfW took , ,urn poundJnfl lustily on tho big bass drum with a band which greeted him horo last night. Tho Democratic vie. presidential candidate flow to Pueblo from Phoenix, Ariz., winding up a 19-hour campaign day by appearing at a party dinner and rally. (AP Wirephoto). fvr ni-. imi L. . . ,. af , ,.. I I ... I W jT II -SJII ' Jt S. T . TaTitiifijitt-: l ff- i Pot fteyrtf iMwaky PtfVfee Pow Htfft Teexferetvww Ctill rlonr Mo' 'he dll 1 1 VjeOT t0, lUtM peratures will be cooler in and Plains; warmer in middle Atlantic states. (AP Wirephoto). nrv;pi a a . DENVER. Oct. 6 - Jimmie ProverLionirTame wiikintolTwliiver in the Rockies at Buena Vista, Colo., brings his pet Tawney.tto prove to skeptical watchers 4 PI II r . 'i.:v.: J,i .'Vi-i 1 1 .lti-; S i v 1. , - j ', ., m 4 I; country should have clear weather Sunday except for Atlantic ,nd mounin, 0f Arizona, New Mexico and southern Utah. Tern- Lakes, and Ohio, Tennessee r.-jr J 1 III 3 : -v.r. . I i J t I - k ft. i... j i.. .. . or. i un- a f ' i ' ' " f ' 1 v": ' ' wx" ' I SM ,v ' " ! Uw : ; .V i i I : 1 - s.:..i ; :;r i S I r t Rivar today, In port from ioa Khodultd to tail Monday for Wirophoto). , V v : v tr I.-, CfnJonf Rnrlr llrA HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 6 Group of Son of 11, standing j behind police barrier, greeted Democratic Presidential Can j didate Adlai Stevenson hero last night with dissenting . placards reading let US keep well with Ike." (AP Wirephoto). ' tilt ::. - mm 2 . -.r-A 'tj and mid-Mississippi River Valley i an month-old mountain lion, rim " I ' ; -. ' . . ' .. '" " ..- " -A-'v '-- t ' t 1.1 , ,; '"' t I , L- - - . - . -j .' - A for wookond visit. Ship It.,;, hor bato at Norfolk, Va. (Af'; Vi ''.' ''''t 1: f - r mA-' ChargecT0;o;frJ Mrs. Helen Davenport, 76, prominent clubwoman, wat charged yesterday with corv spiring to violate fraud lawt covering mail and securities, one of nine person M ar- rested. (AP Wirephoto). Denver, to see tho tights. Pas- Bon it really tame. AP Wirephoto) i i -.1 . .4 i i