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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
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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."
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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.
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