EIGHT MEDfORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, May 27. 1953
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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-
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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. .
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Markets To Close
For Memorial Day
By UNITED PRESS
Financial and commodity mar
kets throughout the country will
be closed Monday in observance
of Memorial day.
British markets, too, will be
closed for Whit Monday but
Canadian markets will operate
as usual.
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
Editor's note: Aline Mosby is on
vacation. This is the second of a two
part series presenting the pay-TV con
troversy. Today, Alfred Starr. Ten
nessee theater owner and chairman
of the Theater Owners of America,
writes against subscription TV.
B7 ALFRED STARR
Written for the UNITED PRESS
Hollywood (U.R) A momen
tous decision is currently facing
the Federal Communications
Commission in Washington
and everyone in American who
owns a television set has a vital
stake in the outcome.
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. Palmer, reserva
tion superintendent, said anoth
er date will be set in the near
future.
Gresham Food Locker
Plant Leveled by Fire
Gresham, Ore. (U.R) The
Pleasant Home Food Lockers on
Proctor road east of here were
destroyed by fire today with loss
estimated at more than $10,000.
Firemen said the blaze started
near the electric motors of the
cooling plant. Firemen from
Gresham, Boring and rural dis
trict No. 9 were called.
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