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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, August 17, 1955
Contractor Held
Is Robber of Bank
Cckerman, Miss. 4U.PJ FBI
men have arrested a local build
ing contractor as the lone
rsked bandit who robbed his
home town bank of 846,000 last
Wednesday.
(J"he suspect is Dual King, 43,
,g)-ho recently lost out in a nine
way race for election as sheriff.
He was picked up last night
while vacationing, with his fam
(Dy near Selmer, Tenn.
An FBI spokesman said some
money has been found. But he
wouldn't say whether it is part
of (She bank loot.
Fellow townspeople have ex
pressed surprise over the
charges against King. King in
sists he is innocent.
Fraud, Embezzlement
Bring Terms in Prison
Portland (U.R) Two Port
land men have been sentenced to
federal prison terms today by
U.S. District Judge Claude Mc
Colloch in separate cases.
Morton L. Vines, 38-year-old
former president of Vines Credit
Jewelers, Inc., was given con
current 18-month sentences on
four counts of mail fraud involv
ing fictionalization of some
S200.000 worth' of sales con
tracts. A 15-month prison term was
drawn by Murray Enz, 38, for
mer manager of the Pittock
Branch of Portland Trust Bank.
He was charged with embez
zling about $50,000 in -bank
funds.
Both sentences will be served
at McNeil Island federal penitentiary.
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Medford Ninth in
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Medford ranked ninth in Ore
gon in the value of building per
mits issued last month, accord
ing to figures compiled by Equit
able Savings & Loans associa
tion.
Medford. issuing $180,533 in
permits, dropped from the fifth
position it held in July of last
year and was 23 per cent short
of the total for June, 1954.
Statistics over the 47 largest
cities in Idaho, Oregon, Wash
ington and British Columbia
showed the combined total dol
lar volume as having risen .3
per cent higher in July, 1950
than the same month a year ago
The report pointed out that
the dwelling dollar volume, as
separated from the total volume,
showed a one per cent decline
from its comrjarative period last
year. Total valuation of permits
filed in July reached SJi.vio,
621. comDared to S3L573.114 in
July, 1954. By state and pro-
ince the figures show that Ore
eon volume is ud six per cent,
Washington down 14 per cent,
Idaho up 37 per cent and Bnusn
Columbia up 47 per cent.
Corvallis Man Dies
When Struck by Auto
Oakland, Ore. (U.R) A 66-
year-old Corvallis man was
killed instantly yesterday after
noon when he was struck while
crossing the highway about 10
miles north of Oakland in Doug
las county.-
State police said Merritt A.
Dilley had tire trouble while
driving with his daughter, Roxie
Ethel, and had pulled to the side
of the road near Rice Hill. He
was returning from a trip across
the road to get a bucket of
water when he was struck by a
car driven by Donald M. Cook,
Portland.
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north of the junction of Rice
valley road and U.S. Highway
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MOTHER-IN-LAW ON HIS SIDE Airman Daniel C.
Schmidt, who will seek custody of his 2 V2 -year-old son,
Danny, gets reassurance from his mother-in-law, Mrs. Wal
ter Ferguson at Sacramento, Cal. Schmidt, whose wife,
Una, 21, says she remarried while he was in a Chinese
Communist prison, will file for divorce. Mrs. Ferguson
could be his star witness if a court fight develops.
Una Hints Desire For Reconciliation
Sacramento, Calif. (U.R)
A copper-haired Una Schmidt,
who married a husky lumber
jack and set up housekeeping
in a trailer while her husband
sweated out a Chinese Commun
ist prisons, has hinted she'd like
a reconciliation.
But Husband Number One,
Airman Daniel C. Schmidt, says
no. Schmidt's Sacramento attor
ney, Howard P. Welch, said the
airman will file for a divorce
from Una and seek custody of
their two-year-old son, Daniel
Jr.
Schmidt returned to this coun
try last week with 10 other air
men who had been held prison
ers for 32 months after their
B-29 was shot down over Korea
to find his wife saying she had
married Alford D. Fine. After
a dramatic meeting in Nevada
City, Calif., Schmidt and Una
went their separate ways.
Now his attorney, Welch, said
that Una spoke to Schmidt's mo
ther in Portland, Ore., and hint
ed that she might want to go
back to Danny. Said Welch:
"I haven't advised Dan wheth
er he should take Una back.
That's his personal decision. But
he has flatly said he is not in
terested in reconciliation."
Both have been in hiding since
their Nevada, City meeting, ex
cept for a brief time yesterday
Massachusetts Polio
Outbreak To Continue
Boston, Mass. (U.R) Health
officials in Massachusetts pre
dict a continuation of the state's
polio epidemic.
They said there is little hope
of a letup, for several days.
The Health department said
136 new cases were reported
yesterday, bringing the total for
the year to 1,371.
Forty-four victims have died.
The Federal government is
taking action to make sure Salk
polio vaccines gets where it's
going.
The food and drug administra
tion soon will begin tracing ship
ments of the polio shots to guard
against any possible black
marketing.
The Administration will hire
48 investigators to track each lot
of vaccine released under the
government's voluntary distribu
tion program.
Something Wrong
At Walla Walla Prison
Olympia (U.R) Gov. Arthur
B. Langlie says there is some
thing wrong at the state prison
at Walla Walla but that he's
not prepared to say who is to
blame.
Two rebellions have broken
out within the past six weeks
at the Walla Walla institution.
Langlie said inadequate fi
nances and lack of maximum
security facilities pose the main
problems in maintaining order
at the prison.
Yakima County Sheriff Bert
Guns said he asked that 15 lead
ers of the July riots at the prison
be transferred from his jail be
cause as he put it "the State was
sitting on its hands" in provid
ing new quarters for the men at
Eastern State hospital.
Dead line Sunday Classified Is at
noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5 :30 previous day.
when Schmidt came out of se
clusion to pose for United Press
telephoto pictures.
Around
Hollywood
' By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
Editor's note: Aline Mosby is on
vacation. Guest columnist Anne Bax
ter writes about her makeup prob
lems in playing a queen of Egypt.
By ANNE BAXTER
Written for the United Press
Hollywood '(U.R) Ever since
Eve's pearly white teeth bit
into that apple, there's been a
booming market in femmes fa
tales (or reasonable facsimilies).
Partly because I'm an actress,
but chiefly because I'm a wo
man, I've been doing research
in the field of feminine allure
since I was about 10. Now my
knowledge of beauty secrets has
been greatly enlarged by playing
the role of Nefretiri,- the Queen
of Egypt, in Cecil B. DeMille's
"Ten Commandments."
Nefretiri ruled the glamour
arena, some 3,200 years ago, and
it's surprising how much the
ladies of that day knew about
the art of stalking a man.
The eye, someone said, is the
window of the soul and the
Egyptian beauties seemed to
know that it was an extremely
lethal weapon. They were ex
perts at dramatizing the eyes.
The big difference between
eyes then and now was in the
amount of paint applied. We
don't like obvious make-up in
1955. They had terrible mir
rors of burnished copper and I
wondered if the Egyptian glam
or girls overdid things a trifle
because they just plain couldn't
see enough to be subtle.
Wide, soft lines of kohl (soot
or charcoal in oil) outlined the
eyes in ravens wing curves.
Powdered malachite in salve, a
blue-green, glistened over and
just under the eye. Cheeks were
tinted with an ointment of red
claV.
Their lipstick was pure car
mine. Sounds a bit thick, doesn't
it? But their eyes were larger
and brighter, their mouths softer
and more challenging.
Nefretiri and her royal hench
women also thought feet were
glamorous. They made their toes,
heels and soles rosy with car
mine, and hennaed the nails;
adorned them with anklets and
toe rings. Might be an idea for
the beach this summer but gently
though, someone might .think
you'd stepped on an old pop bot
tle. Manicures? Yes, but what
agony. They soaked cloths in
henna, laid them across their
palms, clenched their little fists,
tied them and stayed that way
all night.
They didn't have to worry
about hairdos because Egyptian
belles were all as bald as bil
liard balls. Wigs were high fash
ion for cleanliness and comfort.
The climate along the Nile was
scorching and wigs were a bless
ing they could always take
them off en boudoir.
Perfume didn't exist. But the
gals aroused their swains with
oils, ointments and unguents.
This was achieved by soaking
flower petals in oils.
One trick was to set a gorg
eously perfumed candle on the
noggin, light it and wait. Must
have smelled divine but can
you imagine scraping melted
wax out of last night's wig or
eyebrows?
Wheat Men Protest
Corn From Midwest
Spokane, Wash. (U.R) Wash
ington wheat growers have
charged that moving mid-west
surplus corn supplies into the
Pacific Northwest could knock
down the prices of local feed
grains.
The Washington association of
wheat growers is protesting
against government plans for
bringing the surplus corn into
the region. Association Presi
dent John Stephenson, Benge,
said the Northwest already has
a grain surplus carryover of
100,000,000 bushels. He added
that Washington grain growers
fear the corn from the midwest
might be released to replace
northwest wheat and barley as
feed.
Earl Corey, the Commodity
Credit Corporation's regional di
rector at Portland, said the first
of some nine-million bushels of
midwest corn already is on its
way to the Pacific Northwest.
He says four-million bushels of
Montana wheat also will be
moved into the Pacific North
west for storage.
Hillsboro Child
With Foster Folks
Hillsboro, Ore. (U.R) Nine
months-old David Martin Casteel
is back with his foster parents
today, at least for the time be
ing. The Washington County Wel
fare commission decided that Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Remington
should keep the chubby child
until a final court decision is
forthcoming. Circuit Judge R.
Frank 'Peters earlier yesterday
had placed the baby in tempor
ary custody of the Welfare com
mission. A court decision is due the last
of the month on whether the
child will remain with the Rem
ingtons or be returned to his
real parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arn
old Casteel. A few days after
his birth the Casteels signed pre
liminary adoption papers. Later
they changed their minds and
asked the court to return cus
tody of the boy to them.
Weather Bureau
Needs Old Records
Washington (U.R) Maybe
you have some old diaries, let
ters or newspapers the Weather
Bureau would like to see.
They have to date back to
1870 or earlier, and they have
to mention weather.
The' Weather Bureau already
has detailed daily records of our
climate since 1870 when the
Army Signal Corps established
a weather service which later
became the present Weather Bur
eau. Now, scientists feel that they
may be able to compile a reason
ably accurate record of weather
conditions that prevailed in var
ious parts of the country before
1870, from information gleaned
from the attics of America . . .
in old diaries, letters, newspap
ers or Farmers Almanacs.
If you have any such material
in your possession and want to
help out with the project, get
in touch with the nearest U. S.
Weather Bureau. The bureau
will microfilm your documents
and return them to you.
Kidnaping Suspect
Enters Guilty Plea
Portland (U.R) Jesse W.
Moore, 63, yesterday changed
his plea from innocent to guilty
on an attempted kidnaping
charge and Circuit Judge Wil
liam Dickson ordered a pre
sentence investigation.
Moore first confessed attempt
ing to kidnap one of the twin
sons of Mrs. Lillian Weinstein
in Portland June 6, but when ar
raigned last month he entered
a plea of innocent. He is being
held in Multnomah county jail
under $20,000 bail.
HOT BEES
Columbus, Ind. (U.R) A
swarm of bees on the Ira Crane
farm got a hot foot when light
ning struck an ash tree where
they stored their honey. The tree
caught fire, and the flames fed
on honeycombs the bees had
made in hollow parts of the tree!
Firemen doused bees, honey and
tree with 500 gallons of water.
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