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alMWUitjaumi, n i iyji Sa Utah Convict Dies Tomorrow Before Firing Squad Guns Point of the Mountain, Utah (U.R) Don Jesse Neal, hand some convict who chose bullets instead of a noose, will die at sunrise here tomorrow for the murder of a Salt Lake City de tective. Neal was convicted of killing a police sergeant with a. hidden gun held in hands manacled be hind his back. Chose Shooting Utah is the only state in the nation still using a firing squad. In wild-west fashion, a con demned killer may take his choice of hanging or shooting. The 35-year-old native of Nashville, Tenn., who painted houses in San Francisco be tween terms in San Quentin prison, was sentenced to die for the slaying of Police Sergeant 1951. t Arrested With Woman Farley had arrested Neal and an attractive blonde woman panion, Wilma Tully, on a busy downtown street for investiga tion of car theft. Neal was search and his hand shackled behind him. Farley was mys teriously shot to death as he drove the pair in the stolen car toward the police station. Mrs. Tully, who became 'he state's chief witness, testified her lover pulled a hidden pistol from between the seat cushions and killed the officer. Neal claimed she shot the policeman with a gun she had in her purse. .Mrs. Tully went free. Southern Pacific Set To Acquire Box Cars Portland (U.R) Southern Pa cific railroad announced today it planned to acquire 950 addition al box cars, at a cost of about $8,250,000. D. J. Russell, SP president, said 750 of the cars would be constructed at Southern Pacific's freight car assembly line at Sac ramento, Calif. The remainder would be ordered from Pullman Standard Manufacturing Com pany. Russell said the railroad's freight car fleet had been in creased by about 44,000 since the end of .World War II. The com pany has spent or authorized the spending of $568,000,000 on freight cars and diesels in the post war period. In addition to the 950 cars, 765 new freight cars had already been delivered to SP this year as of June 1, and "another ; 1,744 were on order. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for Monday: other days 3:30 orevious day Inn i iimhiiii in Ja muni SUPERVISOR Thomas B. Laird, above, executive vice president of the Laughlin Alloy Steel company, has arrived to supervise construction for the firm at the White City location. Work is to begin next month with production to begin in Aug ust. First job will be an exten sion of the company's main buil ding. All electric furnace, aux iliary steel making and foundry equipment has been ordered or is en route, Laird said. The steel fabricating firm is headed by J. N. Laughlin, Medford and Los Angeles. Air, Ground Search For Smith Continues Eugene U.R) An air and ground search continued today for the body of a California busi nessman believed to have drowned in a McKenzie river boating mishap that cost the lives of two other persons. The missing man was Earl Smith, 62-year-old auto dealer from Sacramento, Calif. Smith was a member of a fishing party which included Milo Thomson, 62, veteran river guide, and Arem Adams, 48, Bakersfield, Calif. The bodies of Adams and Thomson were recovered from the McKenzie early Tuesday. An Air Force amphibian plane from McChord left the scene yesterday after it turned out the craft was too large to operate effectively in the area. First Mail Carried By Air-Freight Plane Burbank, Calif. (U.R) A slick Airways C46 transport plane today flew from Chicago to Washington with a cargo of mail to become the first air freight plane to carry the U.S. mail, the company- announced. Previously, all mail has been carried by passenger planes. 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Principal stockholders were Mr. and Mrs. Orville Smith of East Sound, Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Mahoney of Heppner. Valsetz, controlled by Herbert A. Templeton Lumber company of Portland, also owns Mt. Em ily Lumber company, and has plants at La Grande and Enter prise. It also holds timber adja cent to the Heppner company's holdings. Other companies owned by the Valsetz-Templeton group in clude Lincoln Lumber at Lin coln, Wash., and Western Pine manufacturing at Spokane. Difficulties Forecast Over British Convoys Taipeh, Formosa U.R) Authoritative sources in this Na tionalist Chinese stronghold to day predicted "difficulties" if British warships try to escort "illegal" shipping into Commun ist Chinese ports. The sources said the National ist government will not lift its blockade of the Red China coast. The British government re ported yesterday it has warned Nationalist China that British Warships will be used, if nec essary, to protect British mer chant ships engaged in trade with Red China. Collaborator Hopes Case Will Be Example ,-New York U.R) The first former Korean War prisoner to plead guilty to collaborating with the enemy said today he hoped men who are taken prison er in the future would remem ber his case and learn from the mistake he made. Cpl. Harold M. Dunn, 26-year-old Brooklyn soldier, was sen- i numasy, June 30, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUHE ZLXYXSI Sound of Marilyn's Name Sends Writer Into Tizzy Sheffield, England (U.R) Dame Edith Sitwell, Britain's top lady of letters, said today her life had been "absolute hell"' since she met Marilyn Monroe last year in Hollywood. "If I hear that young woman's name again I shall shriek," she declared. Dame Edith took the occasion of receiving an honorary degree from Sheffield University to re veal a personal feud with the film actress but explained it is not Marilyn's fault at all. Are Not Friends She is tired, she said, of being asked why she is a friend of Miss Monroe. She is not, she stated firmly, a friend of the blonde actress. tenced to eight years at hard la bor yesterday. He entered the guilty plea 22 minutes after the start of his court martial trial at First Army headquarters on Governor's Island. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previoua day. It's absolute hell," she added, which was a firm statement com ing from the best-known of Brit ain's lady writers. Miss Sitwell is a poetess and a lecturer of considerable re nown and as such travels con siderably. That is what took her to Hollywood when she met Miss Monroe. "Some magazine photogra phers brought Miss Monroe to see me," she explained. "I don't know why. She seemed a nice, quiet girl. j "Being polite and. , I hope, chivalrous woman, I said to her as I would to any other lady that I hoped if she came to Lon don she would let me know and have tea with me. Absolute Hell "That is all there was to it and that doesn't seem to me such a phenomenon of nature. But since then my life has been made absolute hell. "Some tiresome people will not let me have any peace. They even send me letters addressed to her. Newspapers all over the world commented about our meeting. "But you must not think by this that I imply anything against the girl. I liked her, and certainly do not wish to be horrid to her. I should be very pleated to see her again il she comes to London. Miss Sitwell is a dame of the British Empire, a sort of female knight, and her title is the fem inine equivalent of "Sir. 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