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SIX MEDFORD (OREGOW) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday. August 10. 1955
Officers Take Legal
Look at Marriages
Of Mrs. Schmidt-Fine
Nevada City, Calif. U.R
Law officers took official notice
tday of Mrs. Una Schmidt
Fine's two marriages.
Sheriff Wayne Brown of Ne
vada County said he will investi
gate to determine whether Mrs.
Schmidt committed bigamy
when she married Alford Fine,
21. in the belief her airman hus
band, Daniel Scnmidt, 22 was
killed in Korea.
"If a prosecution is in order,
we certainly will do our duty,"
Erown said.
Brown decided to take action
after receiving "a few crank let-tr-ra
from throuahout the coun-
try" from persons wondering
twhat he planned to do in the
Case.
"Wo will investigate it thor
" cughly," he said. "I probably
will visit her personally.
T Meanwhile, the 20-year-old
- TTna and her 2-year-old son by
! Schmidt were living in a house
trailer near here. She still re-
" lused to discuss her marital prob
lems with anyone. '
.. "I can tell you that I like liv
ing in a trailer," she said. "You
... can change one view for anotner
: w henever you want. And I can
Deputies Seek
To Recover Body
Al Crescent Cily
Crescent City, Calif. OI.R)
Searchers early loday re-
trieved Ihe body of Dr. Fred
W,. Holmes from the base of a
'2000-foot cliff overlooking ihe
choppy Pacific waters that
claimed four members of ih
; prominent Phoenix family.
Positive identification of the
body was made by Dr. How
ard Holmes, the victim'
brother.
Crescent City, Calif. (U.R)
Sheriff's deputies turned to the
"sea today in their efforts to re-cover
the body of a Phoenix,
Ariz., doctor from an almost in
s accessible California beach,
p For the past four days all at
ig, tempts at recovery including by
o horseback and helicopter have
cObeen frustrated by the rugged
terrain of the area.
Del Norte County Sheriff
Harold Scott said he would try
g to take a skiff into the isolated
beach at low tide today in an
r. effort to recover the body, ten
i tatively identified as that of
1- Dr. Fred W, Holmes.
G Sheriff's parties have shied
vaway from attempting a sea
landing because 'the beach and
shoreline is strewn with boul
ders. Holmes was one of four mem
bers of his family to be drowned
in a fishing accident on Sunday.
Still missing are the bodies of
2' his father, Dr. Fred G. Holmes,
and his two sons, Fred Jr., 10,
and Stephen, 8.
An attempt to recover the
body by helicopter failed yester-
-v day when the 32-foot span of the
craft's blades proved too wide
j for the narrow, cliff-surrounded
inlet.
-J Late yesterday a test tube was
,, washed ashore near the body
V) It contained an unsigned note
which read: "Boat is drifting
toward shore three quarter
c? miles north of Wilson Creek."
(The missing man's brother, Dr.
T T 1 TT : J 41 1 J
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Qwriting was that of his brother.
g Meanwhile, the sheriff's of
0 fice said it plans to continue its
q search for the three missing
bodies. Hunt said the search was
being conducted by boat, beach
patrols and a private plane
y whenever weather permits. .
SAVED BY REFUSE PILE
Op Bayonne, N.J. (U.R) James
O'Neil, 22, of Jersey City, fell
'60 feet from the rooftop of the
(Inctory where he works but es
caped injury Tuesday because
is fee landed on a refuse pile, po-
ovj lice said. O'Neil works at the
is Maidenform brassiere factory.
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j tell you I prefer being called
"But I will not tell any re-
"But I wil lnot tell any re-
porter anything about my per
sonal problems, except that I ve
turned down offers to write the
story myself."
She was referring to the story
that began in May, 1952, when
she married Schmidt, a young
B-29 crewman, just five weeks
before he was sent overseas.
Son Born
In January, 1953, she heard
from the Air Force that her hus
band's plane had been shot down
over North Korea. Their son,
Danny Walter, was born the fol
lowing March.
In June, 1954, the Air Force
notified Mrs. Schmidt that her
husband was probably alive and
a prisoner in China.
She married Fine, a strapping
Sierra Nevada lumberjack, in
September 1954. She has said
the wedding took place "in
Mexico."
In November, 1954, the Chin
ese Communists reported that
Schmidt had been sentenced to
four years' imprisonment for
'spying." At that time, Mrs.
Schmidt told reporters she had
received the Air Force notifica
tion in June and that she had
written Schmidt twice daily
since then.
She did not mention the fact
that she had remarried two
months before.
Schmidt left Tokyo today for
the United States. He arrives in
California Friday morning.
ffiJaM t" .III.
MARRIAGE MIXUP Mrs. Una Schmidt talks with her at
torney, Harold Berliner, at Nevada City, Cal., with her 2V2-year-old
son, Danny, on her lap. She married Alford Fine,
a logger, in belief that her airman husband, Daniel Schmidt,
was dead. Schmidt, who has never seen his son, Danny, is
on his way home after 2Y2 years as a prisoner of the
Chinese Communists.
LOOT NOT ENOUGH
Marseille, France (U.R)
Taxi driver Manuel Guerpillon
reported today that two de
serters from the Foreign Legion
robbed him of his wallet, saw it
contained only about 3,000
francs (about $7.40) and re
turned it to him because "it
wasn't enough."
Portuguese-Style
Bullfight Success
San Francisco (U.R) A cur
ious crowd of 8,000 turned out
last night at the Cow Palace to
watch Portugese-style bull-fight
ing make its first appearance in
the United States.
The crowd ' was enthusiastic
at the spectacle, even if it wasn't
exactly according to Hemingway.
The show opened with three
convertibles full of pretty girls
driving around the bull ring. Be
hind the convertibles walked the
picadores, banderilleros and mat
adors dressed in their formal cos
tumes.
After the parade, the bulls ap
peared, accompanied by an
SPCA ambulance.
Manolo Navorro, famed Span
ish matador, drew shouts of ap
proval for his fancy capework
Juanita Aparicio, pretty 19-year-
old Mexican torera, had trouble
with a "bad bull" which refused
to perform properly.
The bulls were of Andalasian
fighting stock imported from
Mexico., Their horns were tipped
so they could not hurt the bull
fighters, who in turn were not
allowed to kill the animals.
Promoter Jes Cortes of Ma
nila said the opening was a suc
cess. He will move the show to
Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit
and New York after its six-day
stand here.
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