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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
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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. The
company said mail will be car
ried on a regular basis 10 times
a week between Chicago and
New York and Washington.
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DARtlELL MILLER COMPANY
Valsetz Lumber
Buys Elgin Firm
Portland , (U.R) Valsetz
lumber company has announced
the purchase of the Heppner
Lumber company, Elgin, Ore.,
and 100 million board feet of
timber for a price in excess of
$1,000,000.
Purchase of the Heppner com
pany followed a complete liq
uidation plan followed by stock
holders last week. 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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