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r SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE E"' vjfa f f!V V- (Aemn 7 pipfihoto) CHICAGO INFERNO Firemen snooi mrcom of waier over cnarrca trolley into a Blazing Duiming, one ; of the seven destroyed or damaged after the trolley crashed Into a truck-trailer loaded with gasoline ! In Chicago. The explosion and fire killed 33 persons and Injured 50 others. Ten of the Injured are near death. Japanese Singer, Born in America, Yearns lo Return Tokyo U R) An American ?lrl of Japanese parentage has oregone a stage career here, ' which is the envy of thousands of Nipponese bobby soxers, to re turn to the United States. Peggy Noriko Matsuda, born in Salt Lake City and the only Nisei ?irl ever to become a member of he famed Takarazuka girls' opera show, said she is planning a stage career in America. "My present ability is too poor to appear immediately on the American stage but I am willing to work hard and I am going to begin at the beginning, Peggy aid. Peggy arrived In Japan eight years ago with her mother and aister, Rose, after her father, Tanesuke Matsuda. a merchant, died In Salt Lake City. After at tending elementary and high schools in Ashiya, near Kobe, ihe enrolled in April, 184(1, in the Takarazuka Girls' Opera school. The opera achool Is unique. It trains its students to sing, dance and to act and puts on an oper etta show. Its repertory Includes Japanese and Shakespearean dra mas and many others featuring "make believe" kingdoms almost always based on romance be tween a beautiful princess and a prince charming. The male parts are portrayed by girls. The foreigner finds it difficult to understand but Jap anese girl teen-agers are almost fanatic in their admiration of the how's members. Entrance requirements to the school arc strict but Peggy made the grade and she made her de but in April, 1047. under the atage name of Midori Wakasa. Power to Evans Creek, Wmer, To Be Cut; 'Phone Service Slated Electric power service to the Evani Creek area above Rogue T;ivi.-, including the Wimer area, wii1 r"S interrupted from 9 a.m. to ) 2 nooii and from 1 to 4 p.m. Sumiay, jiie 4, it was announc ed today bv the California Ore gon Power company. The interruption will be for the purpose of changing power line wires to permit the con struction of telephone lines into the Wimer area. Wimer was served by tele phones prior to 1911). But the heavy snow that year carried them out and they have never been restored. A total of 14 Inches of snow was on the ground In Meriford that winter, and the temperature dropped to four de grees below zero. MEAT CENTER 231 E. 6th Street SLICED BACON .lb. 39c PORK SAUSAGE ...lb. 39c HAMBURGER lb. 39c GROUND ROUND STEAK lb. 59c MUTTON SHOULDIR ROAST lb. 35c MUTTON CHOPS lb. 45c MUTTON STEW lb. 19c i ,. . ,4 All 46 states are represented in the 19th Infantry Regiment now in Japan, the range being from one Nevadan to nearly 200 New Yorkers. Friday. Juno 2. I9S0 Amphibious training of U. S. armed forces army, navy and air forces began in Japan on May 15 and will continue through August 15. Vv 11 f t v; -M) ( I ' -" Vh -U i . . . . AROUND , ft VIRGINIA Uaitod PrtM Hollywood, June 2 (U.R) Looks like Hollywood's not kid ding about cutting cornors. Now they've got Red skelton play ing three roles in one movie. "With one navrhpplr vt SJSr'Vfl But we re tak" T7"i ' ing it up with P:4J the guild next week," quips t h e irrepressi ble Red. If you like Skelton and there aren't very many who don't you'll like "Watch the Birdie" three times as much. He plays himself, his pop, and his grandpa. And at last reports, Red was so mad at those other two char acters he wasn't speaking to eith er of 'em. Says they both got bet ter lines than he has. MGM's going along with the gag. They've got three dressing rooms fixed up on the set. If Red's playing pop he uses pop's; when he's grandpa he uses gramp's. And when he's himself he goes into his own and locks the door so "those other guys" can't snoop on how he's gonna play the next scene. "I've got it all figured out," Skelton grins. "I'm gonna over play pop and upstage grain pa so that bum in the middle can't steal a scene." Switches Scripts The script department pro duces three scripts every morn ing and Red laboriously switches over when he changes his make up. "I'm working on the casting X V MEDFORD MOTORS 6th & Ivy Phone 2-6157 H0SLYW00D MjcPHERSON ' Carmpoadent boys now," he says." I want three dames, too." Director Jack Donohue, Skel ton's personal pal, drew the back-breaking job of handling three Skelton.s "One was bad enough before," he groaned. "Now God alone knows what's gonna happen. "I get up with dread every morning. It's taking 20 years off my life. The worst part is early in the morning just before we unchain him." As far as Donohue can remem ber, this is the first time any body ever played three different roles in one movie. It's also the first time any studio tried to split the screen three ways. Old Stuff Double screens are old stuff now, but in "Watch the Birdie" Red cuts up in the same scene with pop and grandpa. Grandpa even smokes a long, black cigar (which made Red sick) and it took all the studio's wizardy to keep the smoke from getting out of hand. Donohue's biggest problem is shushing up the crew while Red's cavorting in front of the camera. They practically double up and bust their seams trying to keep from laughing out loud. "Don't encourage him," Dono hue yells. "He'll wanta produce the next one!" Nobody ever knows what Skelton's gonna do next. Dono hue just sends him into a scene, mutters: "God help us all." and says: "If he manages to say it in English, write it down and we'll use it.'" Red's even working on a sur prise ending. 1 m gonna play my own motn- j he hollers. "With laisies: If it's gas economy you want in a big car, here's the husky 3600-pound traveler that picked up the Grand Canyon Economy Sweepstakes at 26.5 miles to the gallon. If flashing pick-up and performance are your desire, touch your foot to on eight cylinder Hi-power Compression" engine thai is setting new track records everywhere. For luxury, take a tip from Detroit automotive engineers who ore calling Mercury the perfect combination of luxury ond performance for 1950. And if comfort sounds inviting, relax in Mercury's Fiberglos-quieted, "Customized . two tone interiors in deep foam rubber seat cushions with effortfess "Stedi -Line steering at your fingertips. Lots of Westerners are driving this style leader for as little as $49 a month. Why not you? ONLY Nude Africans Use Panls for Church Services, Prayer Cairo (U.R) A naked Negro stopped outside a Christian church, unwrapped a parcel, put on a pair of khaki shorts and en tered to pray. A while later he emerged, took off the shorts, and took his seven foot frame, clad only in skin and muscle, towards the thick near by forest. The man was one of a tribe of giants, the D i n k a s. inhabiting Southern Sudan. With the Shil luks and Nuweras. there are about 2.000.000 Negroes living in blissful ignorance in Southern Sudan. A Franciscan missionary, re cently returned from that area, described the missionary efforts, both Catholic and Protestant, in that jungle, animal-infested southern part of the Anglo Egyptian Sudan. Missionary work has convert ed thousands of these heathens to Christianity, he said, although there were still dense jungles where no preacher has yet been able to penetrate. The Southern Sudan tribes in clude some remarkable physical specimens, with the Dinkas aver aging a height of seven feet. Most of these tribal Negroes wander throughout their area naked. The missionary added that many who attend church walk up to the place of worship naked, carrying their shorts under their arm. They slip them on, and once the service has ended, they take them off. The women attend with little but a few leaves dangling from their waists. Dead line on Claislfled Ad.: 9:30 p.m for following day: 10 a.m Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. SWfEfSTAKtS WINNtt, OUNO CANYON ERQOT Atomic Tests Dale Ancient Remains, Scientists Find Chicago (U.R)-Atomic research now is making it possible to place relics of ancient civiliza tions in their proper dates in history more accurately than ever before. The University of Chicago In stitute for Nuclear Studies will undertake ten major projects to date archeological finds from all over t h e world by analyzing samples of wood, charcoal or plant life remains for radioactive carbon 14. ' The institute already has start ed studies of remains from an cient Mexico. The radioactive carbon created when cosmic rays bombarded particles of nitrogen at high al titudes, originally was taken into the bodies of the organisms as carbon dioxide gas. When the or ganisms died, the radiocarbon began to decay. Learn About Radiocarbon Scientists have learned how long it takes for radiocarbon to break down and by finding out how much is left in plant and animal remains, they can learn the approximate time the organ ism lived. The method will determine the age within two centuries. Pre viously archaeologists could only guess at the age of ancient re mains Scientists hope to learn more about t lit- Tcpcxpan Man, whose remains were found in a pro-historic lake bed in Mexico in 1947. Tepexpan man is believed now to be at least 10.OT0 years old. The scientists also will study the pro-Aztec Zapotec civiliza tion and the pyramids of the sun and moon near Mexico City, Dead line Sunday Classified la ai Noon Saturday. I ICONOMY IUN POWER M0WIRS Nw law prlctt mek it pottibU for tviry ham owner to hava on of thetft labor tdvmg mowtM thai turn a job Into a noooy. inrta nut to cnocna trom ... on factory Quorantatd. LAWN MOWERS (HAND or POWER) SHARPENED On Our MODERN PRECISION GRINDER FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY I Two Models available: R-9 E with a 18 inch cut, 1 H.P.E engine. T-9 with a 21 inch I ut, 1 'A H.P. engine. (Simple to operate finger tip controls sturdy con- I struction. Compact, efficient I I Briggj & Stratlon engine. 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