Penifenle Sect Resumes Secret
Self-Torture Rites for Holy Week
Higbee, Colo., Apr. 6 (U.R)
Members of the Pcnitente sect
are participating once more in
, their secret 400-year-old rites,
expiating themselves of sin dur
ing the holy week through bru
tal self-torture, oldtime residents
believed today.
Laws intended to suppress the
barbaric ceremonies have forced
members of the deeply religious
Spanish-American sect to per
form the rites in secrecy.
Practice Persists
Nevertheless, the practice has
persisted throughout remote sec
tions of the southwest.
Activity at a long-abandoned
Penitente chapel near here led
residents to believe the ancient
rites were in progress once more.
The practice began early in
the 16th century. Wearing black
cowls and cotton shorts, the Pen
itentes carry rude crosses on
long journeys, beating them
selves constantly with yucca
whips. The custom varies in dif
ferent localities.
A long-time resident of this
rough mesa country said local
Penitentes crawl across a field
where crude wooden crosses
have been planted. At each sta
tion, the sinner chants a hymn
of contrition before going for
ward on his hands and knees.
Braided Yucca Used
He flogs himself rhythmically
with braided yucca strands as
he crawls, the observer said,
first wielding the whip over one
shoulder, then over the other.
Guards usually are posted at
the scene of the ceremonies, but
several residents of the area
have in the past been allowed
to watch from a distance.
They said that the shrill pip
ing of a flute-like instrument
called a "pito" accompanies the
rite, making a high, thin refrain
for the deep chant of the worshippers.
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Mexican President
Now Member of
Local Happy Club
E. C- "Jerry" .Jerome" one of
the multitude of vice-presidents
of Medford's Are You Happy
club, returned this week from a
trip to Louisville, Ky., 'with the
news that Miguel Aleman, presi
dent of the Republic of Mexico,
is one of the newest vice-presidents
in the far-flung member
ship of the club.
Jerome, who attended a
Shrine ceremonial in the Ken
tucky city, and who reported
favorably on the hospitality of
Louisville's citizens, said that
much of his time was 'devoted to
proselyting for the Medford
Happy organization. He brought
back with him an impressive list
of new members, including
Charles Farnsley, mayor of
Louisville, subject to a recent
article in Life magazine.
To Present Card
President Aleman's member
ship card was to be presented to
him by William Oldenburger, a
Shriner who resides in Mexico
City.
With the membership now
reaching for the 2,000 mark, and
with vice-presidents in the presi
dential palace in Mexico and in
both houses of the United States
congress, club enthusiasts are
now considering enlisting other
high government officials of the
North American continent and
possibly Europe.
Feelers have already been ex
tended, through the press, to the
unhappiest man of them all
Joseph Stalin.
Sun Given Top Billing As
Number One Power Source
Seattle, Apr. 6 (U.R) A har-l
nessed sun not atomic energy
may well become our number
one source of power, a Westing
house Electric Corp., engineer
ing executive said today
Frank R. Benedict, manager
of headquarters engineering for
the company at Pittsburgh, fa.,
added that heat from the depths
of the earth is another tremen
dous energy potential "If we
can learn how to get hold of it."
Given Top Billing
The sun was given top billing
over all other forms of energy,
including the atomic kind, by
Benedict in a speech before the
Seattle rotary club.
He said development of solar
energy as a continuous source
of power "will come anyway, so
we might as well lay a solid
groundwork for the coming
generations.
"When our dwindling supplies
of coal, oil, and gas are gone,
harnessed sunshine may well be
our number one source of
energy.
"Limited amounts of the two
fissionable elements uranium
and thorium will control the
broad scale applications of
atomic power. But it seems very
unlikely that atomic power will
ever supply any large proportion
of our total energy require
ment." Practical Way Cited
Benedict said one practical
way of capturing the energy now
lost when the sun's rays are re
flected off the earth's surface is
by optical means, ''the old mag
nifying glass principle."
"In this way, sunlight can be
concentrated about 50,000 times
to produce very high-tempera
ture furnaces. Russia is reported
to have a solar boiler operating
with super-heated steam at al
most 900 degrees fahrenheit "
He said direct conversion of
the sun's radiation Into electrical
henergy is the engineer's dream.
He added that intensive research
in photo-chemistry, thermo-electricity
and photo-electricity is
now under way in several of the
nation's universities.
He said the earth alone was
capable of supplying 10 times
our total annual energy require
ment. However, with the earth still
radiating more energy than it
receives from the sun, Benedict
said ideas for tapping the huge
heat reservoir have been
"absurdly expensive."
Benedict estimated that by im
proving utilizing devices and im
porting oil. we may struggle
along for about 200 years," per
haps a maximum of 600 years,"
on unrenewable fuels like coal,
oil and natural gas.
Central Oregon
Water Outlook
'Satisfactory'
Policeman's Son Admits Murdering
Sweetheart Because of 'Two-Timing'
Martinez, Cal., April 6 ftl.R)
The 19-year-old son of a police
man will be charged today with
strangling his sweetheart in a
lovers' lane "because she went
out with other guys."
Arthur Eldon Prindle was held
under a suicide guard at Contra
Costa County hospital, recover
ing from an overdose of sleep
ing pills and loss of blood suf
fered when he slashed his wrists
in a suicide attempt.
Body Found in Car
His victim was Sally Ann
Humphreys, 18-year-old daugh
ter of a Berkeley, Cal., and San
Francisco lawyer. Her battered
body was found in the front seat
of a convertible yesterday. Prin
dle lay unconscious in the back
seat.
The youth awoke last night
and mumbled out a confession to
his father. Lester Prindle, a
member of the Oakland police
force. His mother, Melba, also
was in the hospital room, a
handkerchief held to her eyes.
"Tell us what happened, Art,"
said the father.
"I killed Sally," the youth
mumbled. "I choked her to
death."
"I'll find a way to get rid of
myself," he added. His father
rushed out of the room, sobbing.
Formal Statement
Later, the boy made a formal
statement to Deputy District At
torney Wakefield Taylor.
"I had it planned for months,"
Prindle said.
He said he called for Miss
Humphreys and two other young
friends Tuesday night after dark.
After driving the friends home,
he drove up the lonely Fish
Ranch road, high in the hills be
hind Berkeley, over Miss Hum
phreys' protests.
"I didn't want to hit her, I
just wanted to strangle her," he
said. "I hit her like I was nuts
and I strangled her and I stran
gled her.
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tied it around her neck and held
it there.
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"I pulled the car up a little
way, took the pills and got into
the back seat ... I thought
someone might come before the
sleeping pills worked, so I took
Sally's mirror and cut my
wrists with the sharp corner.
"I couldn't feel anything, but
I bled a lot. I must have passed
out."
Heart Attack Fatal to
Prominent Bend Man
Sacramento ,Apr. 6 (U.R)
Harry Keyes Brooks, 73, a
orominent manufacturing lum
berman from Bend, Ore.,
dropped dead of a heart attack
as he registered at a hotel here
last night, coroner's deputies re
ported today.
Brooks, a widower, had spent
the winter at Palm Springs, Cal.,
with Louis Weber, also of Bend.
They were returning to Bend
when they stopped here for the
night. Survivors include a son,
Thomas Brooks, now managing
the lumber firm.
Rayon for draperies and furni
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Thursday, April I. 1950
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Council Opposed to
Daylight Saving Time
Canby, Ore., Apr, 6 (U.R)
City fathers here said they
would adopt daylight saving
time beginning April 30, but
they let Portlanders know they
did not like being kicked around
by the big city.
The sharply-worded resolution
addressed to Portland's mayor
and city commissioners and to
the League of Oregon Cities
cried:
"Whereas the city of Portland
has adopted so-called daylight
saving time effective April 30
without regard to the wishes
or convenience of neighboring
cities or of rural residents; and
"Whereas a council of the city
of Canby, Ore., regards so-called
daylight saving time as a public
nuisance and an unnecessary
subterfuge; and
"Whereas an even greater
nuisance to the people of the
Canby community would result
from any attempt to maintain
two standards of time;
"Now, therefore, be it re
solved that the council hereby
reluctuiV directs the adoption
of daylight saving time , . .
On the first Arbor day Ne
braskans planted over one mil
lion trees.
Portland Defenders of Bridges Send Money
Portland. Ore., Apr. 6 (U.R)
A $1600 check has been sent to
the San Francisco headquarters
of the Bridges, Robertson and
Schmidt defense committee by
the Portland branch of the or
ganization "as an indication of
our determination to finance
this case to the highest courts."
Francis J. Murnane, secretary
treasurer of the Portland branch,
said Portland unionists and oth
er International Longshoremen
and Warehousemen's union
friends contributed to the fund.
Property Owners Meet Mem
bers of the Jackson County
Property Owners association will
meet at the Girls' Community
club today at 7:30 p.m. The pub
lic is invited to hear discussioni
of soot and smoke control, the
Medford school system, and oth-
er matters of interest to property
owners, omcers saia.
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Prineville, Ore., Apr. 6 (U'.R)
This summer's water supply for
central Oregon ranchers and
farmers was termed as "satis
factory to good" by William T.
Frost yesterday as he met with
12 representatives here from
Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson
counties.
Frost is in charge of snow
surveys in Medford, Ore., for
the soil conservation service at
the Oregon State college experi
mental station.
He said irrigation water in
the three counties would reach
recora or near-recora ngures wiis j
season.
Frost pointed out that water
still stored in mountain snow
is so far above the average that
stream flows will be 120 to 200
per cent above the 1938-48 ten
year average, with indications
that even ditches serving the
land will have satisfactory water
supplies this year.
He said this is especially true
of the Plainview ditch in north
west Deschutes county' where
water ordinarily peters out and
crops are limited in growing
time and volume.
Ray Schee, Crook county wat
er master, said the Crooked river
is expected to provide enough
water this year, although the
stream nearly ran dry during
last year's drought.
The Ochoco reservoir, emptied
during the latter part of 1949
for repair work, now has 20,480
acre feet of water. Laselle Coles,
manager of the Ochoco irriga
tion district, said more water is
coming. Coles reported that indi
cations from the snow run show
ed that 30,000 more acre feet of
water will fill the reservoir to
overflowing.
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