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Medford United Press full Leased Wire Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Section Two MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1955 Pages 1-8 Lalf imore Count Reinstatement Asked Washington (U.R; The gov ernment has urged the U. S. Court of Appeals to reinstate two key counts in its perjury in dictment against Owen Latti more. Federal Judge Luther W. Youngdahl threw out the core of the government's ' case against the Far East expert last Janu ary. The two counts charged that Lattimore lied when he denied he followed the Communist line and promoted Communist inter ests in testimony before the Sen ate Internal Security Subcom mittee in 1952. In a 55-page brief, U. S. Atty. Leo A. Rover said Youngdahl failed to apply the proper legal principles in dismissing the two counts. He said the indictments were sufficient and adequate to present to a jury. Springfield, Ore. CU.R) The new $600,000 McKenzie-Willam-ette hospital is slated to open May 1 at ceremonies featuring speeches by Gov. Paul Patter son and Rep. Harris Ellsworth. FIREMEN RESCUE TEENAGERS Fireman Louis Marsh of Franklin, N. H., (left) rescues Alfred Paine Jr. (white shirt) from the car in which he was trapped for 36 hours in the midst of flood-swollen Smith River with his girl friend, Nancy Willis, 14. Nancy had been taken from the car before Alfred. Hood of the car, forced open by the torrent, diverted water from the car's interior. The youngsters told jokes and prayed until searchers found their car in the river. x BEA UTIFUL Ip Black Coloramic I gw ft I x A 1 Iff MUM till XI SW I MSI W HI I I M I If ViJ S VV i i Beautiful new pattern Lifetime finish on all metal parts Can't chip, peel or rust Famous Daystrom name t' JJ NOW ONLY $7i)95 WHEN YOU BUY THIS FINE SET! 32 PIECE SET OF DINNER WARE LIMITED TIME! LIMITED QUANTITY! ACT NOW! M FAST FREE DELIVERY SIXTH AND BARRETT PHONE 2-4848 or 2-4740 Ship Saved by Converting Boilers In Mid-Atlantic St. Vincent, Cape Verde Is lands (U.R) A white-haired Scottish engineer told here how he and his men saved their crip pled ship by converting her boil ers from oil to coal in mid-Atlantic. Bound from Norfolk, Va., to Portugese West Africa, the 7,000 ton British oil-burning freighter, Mulberry Hill, suddenly devel oped a leak in her oil tanks and lost her fuel. Stranded 800 miles from the nearest port, St. Vincent, she ironically, had a cargo of coal. The problem was to find a way to use the coal in the oil burners. The vessel had been built as an oil-burner, so there was no ves tige of coal-burning equipment, as might have been the case in a vessel converted - from " coal to oil. She had neither machine shop, oxygen acetylene cutting gear nor spare metal aboard. But working four days around the clock, Chief Engineer W. R. Whyte of Glasglow and his staff did the "impossible." One day the Mulberry Hill was lying stranded, heavy seas smashing at her decks. Four days later she was on her way again toward these islands. Metal Problem To help his engineers, Capt. A. C. Gillanders of London, steered his ship southerly to reduce her pitching. Although a deck offi cer, Chief Officer Archibald Mitchell of Glasglow went down into the boiler rooms, working 18 hours a day and even helping to fire the furnaces. The engineers said the tough est thing was to find metal to make the conversion. They had to hand-cut pieces, including heavy angle iron to us for fire bar bearers, out of other parts of the ship. But they had to be careful they didn't cut anything vital, to the ship's efficiency. Second Engineer L. A. Price of Manchester received special com mendation for having done most of the internal boiler construc tion. Thirty-three and a half hours after work started, the port boil er was under coal steam and the Mulberry Hill was under con trol again. Within another 32 hours, the center boiler was afire, and the Mulberry Hill was limping toward St. Vincent. Starting "off with a speed of three knots, she was doing five and a half when she reached port. The ship was then re-converted to oil. Artie Show's Seventh Wife Plans Divorce Hollywood (U.R) Artie Shaw's seventh wife Doris, plans to divorce the musician on grounds of incompatibility, a relative of the couple reported. Mrs. Ivan Tors, sister of Mrs. Shaw, said the couple had sep arated and that her sister would file for divorce in Los Angeles or Las Vegas. Mrs. Shaw is liv ing here with her son, Jonathan, 1, while Shaw was reported at his home near New York. Composer of Immortal Blues Classics, In Sick Bed, Has No Fear of End Coming Yonkers, N.Y. (U.R) W. C Handy, at 81 and on a sick bed where his light-coffee face smiles up from a sky blue pillowcase, has no fear to see that evening sun go down. He knows that for him it will never go down. His works will go shining on wherever folks sing songs, or hear them, as an other poet once said, "in the deep heart's core." His father was a preacher and his grandfather was a preacher, but William Christopher Handy got sidetracked from studying for the clergy when one day, as hf) says, "somehow I got hold of an old cornet." His school teacher told him music would take him to the gutter. One day, in St. Louis, he did. reach the gutter, the year was 1893 and he was so down and out he had to sleep on the cobblestones of the Levee. But he figures it was there that he got something of the spirit of the people. The Immortal Blues This is Handy's 82nd year, and it's the 41st year of his most fa mous creation, "The St. Louis Blues." There seems little doubt that the creation is immortal, its fame is world wide. A radio station recently decided to play a whole hour of recordings of that one song. They wrote Handy they found they had 800 differ ent arrangements to pick from. Handy is given credit by the encyclopedias with bringing the blues to the public, starting with "Memphis Blues" in 1909. Re cently he got word that his na tive town, Florence, Ala., plans to place a marker at his birth place. "You just go ahead and do your work and live your life," he said, "and if somebody wants to give you a reward, that's all right." A Dirty Tramp Sixty-two years ago when Handy arrived in St. Louis, he said, "I had been beat out of my money. I was a tramp and lousy. I threw my shirt and Dart of my clothing off the Eads Bridge, and that night I slept in a horse's stall at the race track. "I went to live on the levee and slept on the cobblestones. If I could get hold of an occa sional nickel or dime, I could get a loaf of bread and molasses to dip the bread in. I'd split the loaf three was pieces for breakfast, noon, and night. "But from the man far down, suffering as he suffered, I got a purer poetry than you could write. It was right out of the heart they talked. "In St. Louis I heard a woman say: 'A man's got a heart like a rock cast in the sea.' " Handy swung the words out in rhythm- "I asked another woman: 'What's she mean about the heart?' The other woman said: 'Law, honey, she means it's hard. It's gone far from her and she'll never reach it.' Put Pieces Together "I maybe heard a plantation Negro say, 'I hate to see that evening sun go down.' And I heard the songs on the boats at the levee. Those things and pic tures stayed in my mind, and 21 years later, in 1914, they all went into one piece of music in one night." Handy said he wrote St. Louis Blues in a rooming house on 2nd Street in Memphis ("Rented a piano and had a nice little bottle of liquor"). The next day he orchestrated it on a cigar counter in Pee-Wee's Saloon on Beale Street. The old composer hasn't been in his office at the Handy Bros. Music Co. in New York for seven months because of illness. Two weeks ago he had a slight stroke. But every day he gets up into a wheelchair. "I took out my trumpet the other day," he said, "and just made a note on it just to show I could." tuTie in TVs bright new HIT SHOW. UllS IS Your Music rv f Byron Palmer Joan W tu. T5: ) n Weldon The Pied P.pers Musical Director Nelson Riddle Tonight. 9:00 . KBES-TV Channel 5 .. probably the best musical show ever done either live or on film for television." Billboard Amusement Industry's leading news weekly. Brought to yon by Pacific Telephaaa Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday Scoff Firm Separates Sections of Business Articles of incorporation were filed Saturday at Salem for the Scott Logging Co., and the Scott Lumber Co., both of Medford. Articles for each corporation were signed by A. Merle, Wes ton, Theodore M. and Marilyn S. Scott. The incorporation is a segrega tion of the logging operations rom the ' lumber business. Ar Merle Scott said today." The Scott firm has been organized since about August, 1954. The family previously was in the same type business m the Roseburg area. The logging operations and mill are in the Tiller area. They also operate yards at White City. The A. Merle and Theodore M. Scotts live in Medford and Wes ton Scott, in charge of the opera tions at Trail, lives there. Portland U.R) Oregon Young Democrats will hold their 24th annual convention at Pen dleton May 6 and 7. -Adri lenne s Don't Miss Our... 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