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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1955)
two Mzsrono (oreooh) mail tribunc i4v M cnj FIRST STEEL SETTLEMENT David J. McDonald, president of CIO United Steel Work ers Union, is carried on shoulders of union members at Pittsburgh after the policy making committee accepted a wage offer averaging more than 15c an hour. Agreement came less than 12 hours after 600,000 USW members shut down the nation's steel mills. Mystery Surrounds Gravediggers Who Removed Casket Of Sir Arthur C. Doyle Crowborough, England (U.R) Millions of British Watsons learned Saturday that grave diggers working by candlelight had dug up the body of Sir Art hur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. v tv, laari.linprf caskets of tv.-1-Ip and his wife were taken before dawn Tuesday from the weed-grown garden 01 winaies fcnm mansion where so many Holmes adventures were con ceived. ' ' - But for an early-bird milkman who saw the exhumation the story still might not be known. And there still was a quiet lack of explanation about the affair that somehow carried the ghost ly impact of a Holmes calmly re lating some such dreadful find ing as "they were the footprints of a gigantic hound." The banner headline question in the London press was "why?' The only available answer was that it was a family affair. The bodies of Doyle and his wife were being moved to an unannounced new resting place, the family said. But much was Controversial Plan For USAF Academy Being Revamped q Denver u.PJ The contro versial architect's plans for the chapel at the Air Force Academy 11 miles north of Colorado Springs, Colo., are being re vamped, the Academy aisciosea Friday. The public was to get its first look at the "preliminary archi tectural conceDts" tor the school over the holiday weekend but the earlier model of the chapel, which has drawn fire from a number of officials, veterans groups and religious leaders, won't be shown. In its place will be what the Academy said is a "symbolic model . . . simply to indicate the commanding posi tion nn which the chapel as finally designed will be erected and to illustrate its approximate The architectural .models for "the Academy were shown earlier this year to congressmen and the nress. The academy information office said the design for the chapel at the earlier display 'caused much comment. - The information office said the Academv has droDDed or is radically revising the earlier plan for the chapel with a root resembling an accordion bellows. The construction of the chapel is "not planned until 1958," the Academy said. ".Many months are available, therefore, for the study and development which the desisn will acauire. "Cadets will worship else where while the chapel is being UUUb Kansas Woman Dies In Trinity Air Crash Eureka. Calif. MJ.PJ Mrs. George E. Thompson of Atchi son, Kan., was killed and her husband critically injured Sat urday in the second successive light plane crash within 24 hours in northern California. The Trinity county sheriffs office said the couple's plane crashed into a mountainside in the southwest part of the county. George Thompson, 25, was flown to St. Joseph's hospital by ambu lance plane. Friday, Lewis Eckman, an adventure-seeking pilot from Petaluma, Calif., crash-landed his stripped down Piper Cub on a rough 600-yard opening near the summit of Snow mountain in northern Colusa county, while attempting to duplicate a com panion's feat of 20 yean ago. , left to deduction which might, in the long run, be elementary. Mot Long. Planned Group Officer Jean . Conan Doyle, daughter of . Sir Arthur and currently serving with the WRAF, lifted the curtain of mystery a bit Saturday after- Gromyko Interested In U.S. Quakers' Peace Blueprints Moscow (U.PJ A group of American Quakers reported Sat urday they had got Acting Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko interested in their own blueprint for peace. Clarence E. Pickett of Plula, delphia, secretary emeritus of the American Friends Service Committee, presented the pro posal to Gromyko in an inter view at the Soviet Foreign Of fice Friday night. Pickett said Gromyko had studied the plan and "evinced interest." Pickett said the Quakers' pro posal for peace and checking armaments is based on the In ternational Labor Organization's (ILO) scheme for Inspection of factories by its inspectors for spot checks on labor conditions. He said the ILO constitution provides for inspectors to have free access to factories at any time and to have permission to question workers without in forming the management. - The ILO' inspectors, Pickett said, also can examine the books of any factory they choose, with out giving prior warning. "Mr. Gromyko didn't seem to be aware that this system is al ready in use, and he appeared interested," Pickett reported. . Mat Gromyko at U.N. Pickett, who said he previous ly met Gromyko at U.N., sessions in New York and Paris, said he told him the ILO pattern might be used by an international dis armament commission. Gromyko smiled and said "dis armament is a very difficult problem, he reported. "Mr. Gromyko said the Soviet delegation would be interested in any thinking about the prob lem of governmental or non gov ernmental bodies and encour aged us tosendalongsomefurther ideas," Pickett said. "The inter view was very satisfactory for me." Pickett said Gromyko was "extremely friendly" while they discussed other matters and gave permission to Pickett to take rolls of undeveloped film out of the country. Yeh Refuses Comment On Douglas Statement Honolulu, T. H. (U.R) Na tionalist China, Foreign Minister K. C. Yeh arrived here Friday night after his Pan American Airways pilot was forced to feather one engine of the plane and land with emergency equip ment standing by. Yeh, who recently- attended the UN 10th commemorative ses sion in San Francisco, refused to comment on a statement made in Tokyo by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas that Red China should be admitted to the world organization. ' ' " The foreign minister, who was met by Admiral Felix Stump and Chinese dignitaries, said only: "I never comment on state ments by private Americans, but my position on Reds is known. I opposed strenuously any at tempt to recognize Red. China or seat them at the United Nations. Yeh left Saturday for Tokyo, while Admiral Stump will de part tomorrow for a SEATO mili tary meeting in Bangkok, Bandar, July 9, 1SSS noon. She said the family had planned for years to move the bodies of her parents from Windlesham. J. Greaves, an official of the Abbey National Building So ciety which occupies the Baker street site that might be num bered 221B in the ordinary se quence of things, accepts the Holmes fan mail and replies politely to many of the letters. Most of the mail comes from America, much of it from chil dren. Wants Autograph Recently Christopher Mauney, Los Angeles, wrote Sherlock "I would like to have your auto graph and picture. Please put me in your fan club. I am eight years old. . Eight-year-old Betsy Rosasco of Indianapolis wrote "My sit ter who is 10 and I play your cases. But I have to be Watson. We have two long-haired Dachshunds and we pretend they are bloodhounds." Back went Greaves' kindly reply. On behalf of 221B Baker street he says "I am sure Mr. Holmes would have been most interested to hear about your games." Body of Former Cop Found Near Washington Town Walla Walla U.R) The body of William Barry Turner, former Walla Walla policeman charged, with obtaining .money under false pretenses and im personating an officer in Salt Lake City, was found alongside Mill Creek 12 miles from here Saturday. - Sheriff's deputies listed the death as a suicide. Disappeared Friday Deputy Leonard Krika said Turner disappeared from his home here Friday after taking an overdose of insulin. Krika said the former policeman ap parently had proceeded up Mill Creek where he then shot him self with a rifle. Turner was arrested by Walla Walla police Thursday after telegraphic warrants of the charges were received from Salt Lake City police. He refused to waive extradition and was freed on $5,000 bond Thursday eve ning. The ex-officer was wanted In connection with a kidnap-ran som hoax reported to police May 24 by an elderly Salt Lake City woman, Mrs. Simon Rosenblatt Said Son Kidnapped Mrs. Rosenblatt, 65, said she had given . $9,000 to an armed man with a policeman's badge who told her that her son Ber nard, 33, . had been kidnaped. The man said kidnapers de manded $50,000, but that police were preparing a fake bundle of cash and only $10,000 of her money was needed. -' She drew $9,000 from the bank and gave it to him. A few hours later she learned her son was at work and it was all a hoax. Turner's attorney . said Mrs. Turner told him ' her husband, dad only in yellow and black striped pajamas, disappeared early Friday morning. He said that Turner had no .money or transportation. , A diabetic. Turner reportedly left without taking supplies of insulin with him. Detroit About 27,000,000 cars and trucks ft the U. S. are now equipped with - radio re ceiving sets, according to recent surveys by the automobile in dustry. Spokane Wood cut in sum fmer deteriorates much faster Uutn wood cut in cold woather. DCce Bkciared deadly To Cancel Contract Witt GDBxon-Yates By JOHN A. GOLDSMITH 1 United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower is ready to can cel the controversial Dixon Yates contract if the "new look" which he has ordered shows that Memphis, Tenn., really will build a power plant of its own, informed sources said Saturday. These sources, who have been close to recent developments in the year-long Dixon-Yates con troversy, said a decision on the matter should come next week. President Eisenhower and his aides, according to these infor mants want to be absolutely 'sure that opponents of the con tract have not proaaed wiempu is into announcing plans for its own plant as a subterfuge to head off the Dixon-Yates ar rangement. Sam Position Taken The same position was taken on Friday by the benate. Appro priations commute in voting on a $6,500,000 aDnronriation for a transmission line to link the nronosed Dixon-Yates clant with the government - owned Ten nessee Valley authority. The committee provided that if the Citv of Memphis matces a definite commitment within 90 days to build its own plant, the S6.500.000 nower line money mav not be snent. If the city does not act in 90 days, the money still may not be spent until the financing of the Dixon Yates plant is approved and con struction begun. . Significantly, it was Sen. Wil liam F. Knowland, who as GOP leader is the administration's ton spokesman, who sueeested the language of the committee's de cision. The Dixon-Yates nrivatelv-fi- nanced slant would be built at West Memphis, Ark., across the Mississippi river from Memphis and would feed power into the TV A system at the Tennessee city. Memphis has said that ra Auto Workers Vote For Acceptance of Ford Co. Contract Detroit (U.R) Members of the CIO United Auto Workers have overwhelmingly ratified the new three-year Ford Motor Co. contract. Ken Bannon, director of the UAW's national Ford depart ment, said 43 union locals repre senting 123,283 of 140,026 Ford employees approved the agree ment, which becomes effective last June 1. The union notified General Motors last Tuesday that their new contract had been approved by the company's 350,000 work ers.. ' . Retroactive to June 1 Wage increases won in the Ford contract range from six cents an hour upwards and are retroactive to June 1. Bannon said the company also will begin contributing five cents an hour into a trust fund for laid-off workers as a supplement to state unemployment compensation. Formal notice of approval of the Ford contract was given 10 days in advance of the July . 11 deadline so that members could begin enjoying benefits as soon as possible, Bannon said. The pact was negotiated June 6. u3W ACME HARDWARE Mai jh IMPROVE tr REPAIR MT MM M EAST CREDIT TERMS! Ka CASH DOWN! UP TO 24 MONTHS TO PAY! SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS -that lit YOUR ladfttl H jn'rt a lit skirt if caik . . . Mi arnotm if this CONVENIENT PAYMENT PLAN, lay ANYTHINI yia ant . . . Hi pay fir It at nljr POtNKS A RAY! STAHT NOW! It Costi LESS Than You Think ! Wast Sixth Street Wodford, ' Oroflon ther than receive Dixon-Yates power, it would build its own plant to supply its needs. Controversy Will Continue It was clear, however, that cancellation .of the contract if that is done will not end the Dixon-Yates controversy nor stop the investigation currently being conducted by a Senate anti-monopoly subcommittee. Clin ton P. Anderson, Chairman (D N.M.), of the Congressional At omic Energy committee said there are ' "interesting" revela tions still to come on the gen esis of the contract. White House Press Secretary James Hagerty said Friday that Budget Director Rowland Hugh es will consult with the Atomic Energy Commission, the ' Ten nessee Valley Authority and Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell over the holiday weekend in the course of the "new look" ordered by Mr. Eisenhower Thursday. , .' y v"! -7 A - j ON THE RAILROAD P- Jones never had it like this in the form of Jeannine Bur ns aboard this 80-year-old locomotive. She's packing that silver spike maul to drive home the last gold spike for Western Pacific's new lino tn 1 Burney, CaL Actress Succumbs While Performing Hollywood (U.PJ An autopsy conducted Saturday indicated Broadway actress Isabel Bonner succumbed of a brain hemorr hage when, she fell dead before 900 shocked playgoers during a performance of the prize-winning play, "The Shrike." The 47-year-old actress slump ed forward onto co-star Dane Clark , at Cathay Circle theater Friday night while speaking her lines in the first act of the play which was written by her hus band, Joseph Kramm. It first was believed she died of a heart ailment. Harry L. Deutsch, assistant chief county autopsy surgeon, said an artery in Miss Bonner's brain, "weakened, thinned and blew out." Death came to the actress as she was seated on the .edge of a bed occupied by Clark, she was playing a hospital ward scene and had just told Clark, her sick husband in the play, "You look much better today, dar ling," when she collapsed. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 1 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day n5r Search Continues r : : For Missing Trio Kalispell, Mont. (U.R Search went on Saturday for three .Ta coma, Wash., men missing since their light plane vanished Tues day while on a uranium hunting expedition. . '-- The three missing men, phot Phil . MeVers, . Clarence Hebbel and Harvey Preszler were be lieved to have had provisions for a three-day stay if they decided to land on one of the remote air strips. - - Temperatures dipped to eight degrees above freezing Friday and search efforts were hamp ered when the mountains where the trio was believed to have dis appeared were shrouded in tlouds. HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Station KWIN 1400 K.C. Sunday 10:15 AJA.
