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EIGHT MEDfORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, May 27. 1953 -2r J , - ACCOMPANIED BY prison guard, reporters. Gen. Pang Tsu Mow walks toward freedom from Mexico City prison after 34 months' detention in row over Nationalist China charge he embezzled 16,000,000. Mexico refused to extradite him. (International) Long Imprisoned Man Believed Innocent Jackson, Mich. (U.R) A 64-year-old man who has spent "more than a quarter of a cen- THE PERFECT GRADUATION GIFT! -a Smith-Corona PORTABLE TYPEWRITER It's the gift for a lifetime ... the portable that gives big. ffice-machine performance. Full-size keyboard of course. 39 features for smooth, fast, dependable typing. Smith-Coropa is the world's f rst and fastest portable type, writer. Come in, see and try It. So easy to buy ... Hedford Office Equipment Co. 41 South Grape tury in prison for murder had high hopes today of gaining his freedom because a lie detector test indicated he was innocent James Shannon, convicted at the age of 23 of poisoning a 13-year-old Lansing, Mich., boy, was given a 2Vz hour lie detec tor test yesterday by an investi gator for the Leonard Keeler crime laboratory. After the examination, inves tigator Stephen Schutt said the test showed Shannon was tell ing "substantially the truth" on all questionable points in the case in maintaining his inno cence. - Shannon's attorney, Paul Thurlow of Joliet, 111., said he would file a "delayed motion for a new trial" in Lansing, probably within the next several weeks. Killed Near Albany Albany, Ore. (U.R) A Port land, Ore., woman was killed and her sister injured south of here yesterday when their car skidded off the highway and overturned. Pronounced dead on arrival at Albany General hospital was Mrs. William P. Turnham, 55, Hospitalized was Mrs. Jack H. Van Duyn, 46, also of Portland. State police said the car skid ded on wet pavement, lurched over the opposite side of the road, and stopped upside down in about two feet of water. Cleanest Air Found In Atomic Laboratory Schenectady, N.Y. (U.R) The cleanest air in the world may be found in certain areas of the Knolls Atomic Power Lab oratories near here. It has to be that way, because outside air sometimes carries a normal background of radiation found in nature. Particles so small it would take 10,000 of them placed side by side to equal the thickness of a human hair and constantly be ing removed from the air that enters certain areas of the A labs. As a result the air is cleaner than that of the surrounding countryside. Radiation experts also say that residents in the area are well protected from any radia tion particles because filters are used to cleanse the air being ex hausted from the laboratory. Garden Crops Harmed By Nematode Pest Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) A pesky critter called the nematode is doing considerable harm to sugar beets, garden crops and house plants in Nebraska. M. L. Schuster, associate plant pathologist at the Nebraska ex periment station, said a combi nation of crop rotation, weed control and sanitation will help protect plants from "root-knot disease" caused by the nematode. The nematode, often called an eelworm because of its long, thin shape, is difficult to see with the naked eye. It has no legs, is not jointed' and moves by swim ming in moisture in an eel-like manner. The young nematode enters roots of plants by puncturing them with a mouth spear, feed ing on plant juices. When the female reaches maturity it se cretes substances which cause roots to grow abnormally, thus damaging and decreasing value of the crop. Schuster said recent research has revealed at least two species of root-knot nematode. notation helps protect sugar beets, as well as control of weeds. Fumigation of soil is a good control measure for small plots of ground. CALF ODDITY Gresham, Neb. (U.R) An eight-legged calf was born dead on a farm near here. The ani mal had three ears, two tails and a tiny, broad head. It was the offspring of a black Aberdeen Angus. DEFEATING male opponent, Mrs. Rollin Brown, Los Angeles, wins presidency of National Congress of Parents and Teach ers at Chicago. (International) Dancer Arrested for Las Vegas Slaying Las Vegas U.R) A 29-year-old nightclub dancer was arrest ed last night for questioning in the slaying of jazz saxophonist Wardell Carl Gray. Gray, who was playing with Benny Carter's band at the opening of the new inter-racial Moulin. Rouge hotel, was found dead of a broken neck lying in a weedpatch four miles north of Las Vegas yesterday. He appar ently had been killed the night before. The dancer, Theodore Homer Haley,, who also appeared at the Moulin Rouge, was jailed for investigation of murder. Police said both Gray and Haley failed to appear for the second act at the hotel Wednesday night. Gray, 34, a well-liked end mild mannered exponent of progressive jazz, was one of the foremost "sidemen" in the busi ness, and played with Benny Goodman, Count Basie and other top bands during the past six years. ADD MEANEST THIEVES Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.R) Mrs. Donald Knapp reported to police that someone broke into her home and made off with two piggy banks containing $27. Mrs. Knapp, an expectant mother, had been saving the money to start a bank account for her child. Fruitless Search For Girl Continues Kalamazoo, Mich. (U.R) Police, wearied by several days of intensive but fruitless search ing for eight-year-old Jeanie Sin gleton, said today they believed the lame little girl's body may be hidden in the trunk of a sex maniac's car. The girl, who limps as a re sult of an attack of rheumatic fever four years ago, has been the object of a widespread search by thousands of police, National Guardsmen, volunteers and Civil Air Patrol planes since she disappeared on her way home from school Monday. Searchers marched almost shoulder-to-shoulder forming "human rakes" yesterday to scour rolling Kalamazoo county in a last ditch attempt to find some trace of the missing girl. He Knew Where To Look for His Money Galveston, Tex. '(U.R) A sea man walked into police head quarters Thursday night and de manded to know where all the "houses" and gambling joints were. He said two of his fellow sea men stole $970 from him aboard Ship and he was trying to locate them. Mayor George Roy Clouth started a hot local controversy recently by proposing that the town be opened up to "super vised prostitution and gambling." McKays Leave for Europe For Petroleum Congress Washington '(U.R) Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Doug las McKay left by plane yester day for Europe, where the sec retary will participate in the World Petroleum Congress in Rome. En route he will attend the Industrial World fair in Barce lona. From Paris, McKay will visit the Meuse - Argonne region where as a young officer in the 91st division he was wounded in World War I. . OVERLOOKING SAN FRANCISCO'S UNION SQUARE HOTEL DRAKE WILTSHIRE Be our guest FREE the first night if you are not pleased with your accommodations! I 11-23 31 31 3 3Efl fl flU TC EPF "FFFF FF F g ff ff &ffff ff ff ff ff ffff "ff ff ff i 1 1 ii it ii - F- 51 i ti a --r b flf ' 4 -ft New Charcoal Room Restaurant it Cameo Cocktail Lounge New Lobby 100 TV Rooms (No extra charge) it Redecorated Rooms it 2 New Otis Elevators it 250 Rooms With Bath IFrom $5. 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The commission must decide whether it is in the public inte rest to license pay-to-see-TV to operate on the hitherto free air waves. I am pleased to have this op portunity to answer the rnost vociferous proponents the gentlemen who own the coin-box patents in terms of their own arguments. The first and most enticing claim of the coin-box gentlemen is that they intend to present to the American public for the first time Broadway opening nights of legitimate plays. We have personally talked with many of New York's top play producers and asked -them can didly if they would be willing to put up with four to eight TV cameras telecasting while ner vous actors attempt to impress a fickle first - night audience. Tough Enough The answer was unanimous "Of course not it would be suicide! It's bad enough getting good reviews under the best con ditions without having to cope with TV lights, cameras and techniques." The second argument: The general public will be able 'to see a vast new aura of sports attractions in their own homes and will not have to leave home to pay money to see them on big screen theater TV. I cannot imagine a wider scope of sporting activities on pay-TV than there are presently on free TV. Today you can see baseball games, boxing matches, football games, Indianapolis speedway events, the Kentucky Derby. A third argument of pay-TVers has been that the American peo ple are keenly disappointed with current TV fare and especially commercials. Is this true Seem ingly not. In fact every poll ever taken has shown that the Amer ican public likes television. Why, then, force the public to spend more money at this time in order to pay for hitherto free entertainment. A fourth argument claims that pay-TV can co-exist with present TV without hurting it in any way. Do you think there is any possibility that "I Love Lucy," the Jackie Gleason Show and other top favorites would re main free to the public if they could be sold? In closine I would like to quote from David Sarnoff . chair man of RCA-National Broad casting Co. "I sincerely believe pay-as-you-see TV will prove to be a snare and a delusion. I have no faith personally in the practic ability of the establishment of that kind of service on a nation al basis. "It would be a negation of the philosophy on which radio broadcasting has been establish ed freedom to listen, and in TV, freedom to look." Klamath Indian Vote Results in No Election Klamath Falls XU.R) Ballot ing this week by members of the Klamath Indian tribe to name a tribal committee to work with management specialists in the termination of the reservation resulted in no election. The large number of candi dates, 43, resulted in a majority vote for five candidates instead of the required committee of three persons. Wendell W. 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