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G 0 0 0 Oklahoma Town Observes 'Sucker Day1 Wetumka, Okla. (U.R) The 200 once-gullible citizens here Saturday celebrated "Sucker Day" their fifth annual laugh at themselves hoping" the day would be high-lighted by the return of the man who started it all. F. Bam Morrison was his name, he said, and circuses were his game. It turned out the whole town was fair came for the slicker with the Southern col onel air and non-existent circus Conned the Town Morrison billed himself as ad vance man for the approaching hippodrome, and conned the town businessmen into buying hundreds of dollars in ads, sit ting up supplies, and paying his hotel bill. Nobody noticed Morrison dis appear with the advanced ad money. They started taking not ice though when no circus ap peared to devour the tons of hay for elephants, and hot dogs and peanuts for spectators. A promoter who passed through the town that bleak week told businessmen "You ought to declare a "Sucker Day." Biggtr Each Year Sucker Day has grown bigger ach year. This outing features a a : " Canopy Rips Off Diving Jet Plane; Pilot Lands Safely London (U.R) The canopy -blew off the pressurized cockpit of Wing Cmdr. Roland Beau Omont's top-secret jet fighter when he crashed through the sound barrier Friday night but tfce World War II ace and test -'puoi lanaea saieiy. O The blast was so terrific when the 1,000 mile-per-hour plane bleer its top" that Beaumont's fateel safety helmet was ripped from his head. n The plane was. the. top-secret (riPl swept-wing fighter built by . English Electric. No details have been released on its performance, but it has been described as the Honly British plane capable of breaking through the sound bar rier in level flight. Heard Tearing Sound Beaumont took the plane up Tor a practice flight over north east Lancashire, but while diving irough the sound barrier over the resort town of Morecambe at a speed in excess of 600 miles an hour he heard a tearing (Sound. "Suddenly the cockpit tore (Srway all around me and I felt as though a giant hand had snat- (jphed my helmet from my head," he said. "I was gasping for breath, but I managed to pull out of the dive. The ride home as a bit drafty." The canopy shattered paving Hones on a Morecambe sidewalk outside the home of 86-year-old Mrs. Anna Chadwick who was uninjured. The helmet buried itself in a nearby garden. Wilms available q The navy recruiting office in ine post office here has several ravy films available for service clubs, granges and other organ ' izatlons, the recruiting officer lias announced. Monday; other dam 5:30 previoui day. Dead Una Sunday Classified U at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday (or THISWEEKONLY! r0 ON ANY PAINTING NEEDS Look ahead to Colorful Living with PADCO paint Here's the most colorful paint you can. buy. Only Pabco brings you true Western colors smarter, brighter, fresher looking. Pabco Paint gives you wonderful protection, too. Lasts far longer. Urn Decorating Counsel 619 EAST Anniversary Congressman Tom Steed of Ok lahoma, Lt. Gov. cowboy Pink Williams, and a delegation from Wetumpka, Ala., to enjoy the fun. "And I wouldn't Jbe surprised if F. Bam Morrision himself dosn't show up," said Chief J'Sucker" Armand Gibson wist fully. The town is even willing io give Morrison a tailor-made suit to show all is forgiven but not forgotton. Archbishop Raps NEA in Speech at St. Paul Meeting St. Paul, Minn. U.R) The Archbishop of Los Angeles charged Saturday that powerful pressure groups are waging a campaign to drive private schools out of existence . and force all children into state-controlled schools. Oregon Decision Cited His eminence James Frances Cardinal Mclntyre specifically named the National Education Association and its affiliates as a leader in a move to override the 1925 Oregon school decision of the U.S. Supreme court. The decision held that Amer ican children could not be com pelled to attend public schobls only. The Cardinal told delegates to the 20th annual convention of the international federation of Catholic alumnae meeting here that the NEA has "a positively declared policy to eliminate pri vate education . . . and to sub stitute compulsory education in sates and federal schools." Charges Restraint of Freedom He said such a policy is in restraint of the freedom of American parents and then- chil dren, violates the spirit of the Sherman anti-trust laws, and can bring on evils found in Europe's totalitarian states. "Regimentation in education quickly leads to tyranny," he de clared. Services Tuesday For Ralph L. York Rogue River Funeral ser vices will be held Tuesday for Ralph Leon York, 60, of route one, box 44D, Rogue River. El der R. F. Bresee of the Seventh Day Adventist church will of ficiate at the 2 p.m. services at Hull and Hull Chapel in Grants Pass. Interment will be at Haw thorne Memorial. Gardens, at Grants Pass. Mr. York died suddenly Thursday of a heart attack while on a fishing trip to Millers lake near Klamath Falls. The deceased was born Sept. 9, 1894 in Marion, InL, and had lived on Evans creek since 1950. He was a member of the Rogue Gem Geology club and made a hobby of rock collecting. He was a veteran of World War I. Mr. York is "survived by his wife, Ina, Rogue River; a daugh ter, Betty May Hruby, Port land; and a , brother, Everett York, Bremerton, Wash. Resolute, on Cornwallis Island is the northernmost part of the Royal Canadian Air Force. It lies 560 miles north of the Arc tic Circle. ALWAYS ROOM TO PARK DISCOUNT OF YOUR WE GIVE S & H GREEN STAMPS PAINT & ROOF STORE JACKSON Freed Flyer Denies Statement Given by Red Chinese Radio Tokyo (U.R) Second Lt. Guy H. Bumpas, who returned to freedom Tuesday after six days of captivity in Communist North Korea, Saturday denied telling the Reds before his release 'how fictitious American propaganda" was. The Jackson, Miss., pilot said, "I deny the entire statement as being words of mine." Moved To Japan Bumpas was evacuated to Ja pan Saturday and was immedi ately taken to an Air Force hospital near Tokyo. There he will undergo examination and treatment for a severe compound skull fracture suffered when the Communists shot down his light, unarmed training plane over the Korean truce zone on Aug. 17. The North Korean Radio on Wednesday claimed that Bumpas allegedly told "newsmen" prior to his release that he "had heard through American propaganda . . . of the so called barbarism of the North Korean side. "But as the days passed I learned how fictitious American propaganda was and I realized how ignorant I was," Pyongyang Radio claimed Bumpas said. ' Bumpas said the "statement attributed to me by Radio Pyong yang is ... a complete untruth. I was scared but I didn't feel my life was in danger. They didn't offer to cut my nails or pull them off." Denies Entire Statement , "I deny the entire statement as being words of mine," Bum pas said. . The body of Army Capt. Charles W. Brown, killed in the crash of the trainer, was sent to the Army mortuary in Yoka hama. - An Army spokesman in Seoul said that an autopsy on Brown's body confirmed the Communist claim that he had died from in juries received in the crash, and not as a result of Red fire itself. The Far East Air Forces said it expected Lt. Bumpas will be sufficiently recovered by next Tuesday to be interviewed by the "press. No definite time for the press interview was an nounced, however. Chrysler; Union Open New Round Of Negotiations Detroit (U.R) Chrysler Corp. and CIO United Auto Workers Union negotiators be gan a round of week end bar gaining sessions Saturday with the union threatening to pull 139,000 workers off their jobs at midnight Wednesday. Company and union officials said Saturday's talks would be gin at 11 a.m. and another ses sion would be held Sunday. The union declared it would call its 139,000 Chrysler Corp. workers, most of them employed in the Detroit area, out on strike un less a new contract settlement to replace the current 5- year pact is reached by Wednesday. Says Offer Liberal Robert W. Gouder, Chrysler vice-president, replied to the no tice of a strike deadline by as serting that the company's pro posal made three weeks ago "is very liberal and meets the ec onomic pattern 'established . . . by the union and our major com petitors." UAW Vice-President Norman Matthews said the union would "exert tvery effort to resolve the issues without the necessity of a strike." But Emil Mazey, secretary-treasurer of the UAW, said "We still have a long way to go" after talks broke up late Friday. He predicted talks would go "right down to the wire" and Matthews called all Chrysler lo cal presidents to attend a meet ing at union headquarters Wed nesday morning. Matthews said they would be given a last-minute progress report and would map strike action if a settlement did not appear imminent. Over 125 Meetings Company and union bargain ing teams have met more than 125 times since last June 27 in an effort to reach an agreement. Both beginning on a basic guar anteed pay contract similar to those granted in June by Ford and General Motors. But the company charged the union with seeking "much great er" benefits from Chrysler than those granted by the other two members of the auto industry's "big three." Us Mail Tribune Want Ad se REAIOT-MIIX CONCRETE Phone 2-5336 or 2-5897 M. C. LININGER & SONS Pilot Misses Field, . Lands on Back of Moving Truck-Trailer Orofino, Idaho U.R) The pilot of a small plane missed the airport here Friday and instead landed on a fast mov ing truck-trailer for a 150 yard piggy back ride which left everyone concerned sur prised but unhurt. Pilot Merel S. Bowler, Orofino, said his view of the narrow airport was obscured by trees. ' Instead of hitting the land ing field, the wheels of the Cessna 190 single engine plane touched down on a truck trailer being driven by Lloyd Coons Jr. along the . highway beside the airport. The truck was moving in the same direc tion as the plane and at about the same speed. The wheels struck in the metal body of the trailer 13V4 feet from the ground and the plane rode level for some dis tance before a wing dipped ' and touched the 'ground. Coons said he didn't even know there was anything on the trailer until he saw the shadow of the wing. "I thought I'd just hit a chuck hole," he said. Bowler and his passenger, R. E. Yates, Clarkston, Wash., received a few minor face scratches. The wings, ailerons and. undercarriage of the plane were damaged. New TV Tube Picture on Wall of Room, San Francisco (U.R) That "old style" picture tube televi sion set that you have in your home will soon be replaced- by the type that will project the picture on your living room wall. Dr. E. W. Engstrom of the Ra dio Corporation of America put- lined new advances in the TV field here before delegates of the Western Electronics show and convention. He said that through develop ment of what scientists call "electroluminiscent materials," electronics engineers expect to make radical changes in TV receivers. "It appears now that our bulky picture tube, in which an elec tron gun and phosphor screen are segregated at either end, will give way to a thin layer of elec troluminiscent material within which the same functions are performed," Engstrom said. "This development will give us mural television its form will be that of a thin screen decora ting a wall and controlled re motely from a small box beside the viewer elsewhere in the room." A paper prepared by Albert J. Morris and Joseph P. Swanson of Levinthal Electronic Products, Inc., of Redwood City, Calif., outlined the new part that TV is playing in the medical profes sion. The paper explained the opera tion of the electrocardiophone, a new surgical tool which allows continuous visual and audible monitoring of the activity of the heart during an operation. The electrocardiophone re cords the electrical activity of the heart visually on an oscil loscope as well as audibly through a loudspeaker or ear phones. Heart Recorded Another paper described an Mrs. Quiqley to Appear in Court For Tossing Milk Chicago U.R) Mrs. Esther Quigley will make the next pitch in her one-woman war to end a steel strike from court. Her last pitch got her tossed into jail Friday. Mrs. Quigley, who locked her husband cut of their apartment because he was a leader in the strike against the Harrison Sheet Steel Co., was arrested after throwing milk into the face of a picketing union official and then wrestling with him. The union official, Nicholas Prete, 29, president of 'Striking Local 1214 of the CIO United Auto Workers, also was jailed. Both were charged with dis orderly conduct and released on j $10 bond for a hearing in wom en's court on Sept. 1. Mrs. - Quigley, 35 - year - old mother and housewife, had marched to the picket line to show the strikers letters she said she received from outsiders en dorsing her stand against the walkout. She was greeted with jeers and taunts. . Eggleston Said 'Taken for Ride' Fort Worth, Tex. (U.R) An investigator for the district at torney said Saturday that Leroy (Tincy) Eggleston, the alleged triggerman in a murder-for-hire case, almost certainly was taken for a gangland ride after a 15 minute interlude with a beauti ful blonde. - "I think he went the way Cec il went," investigator Dusty Rhodes said, after a minute ex amination of the 49-year-old Eg gleston's blood-smeared car. A pickax, spade and shovel were in the trunk, a shotgun shell on the floor. "Cecil" was Cecil Green, 38, Eggleston's close friend and an other member of the gang that was indicted on a charge of mur dering millionaire oilman Wil liam P. Clark in May, 1953. Clark's widow, Mary, was ac cused of guaranteeing them $10,000, if they could not steal that much off the body. Eggleston, Green and Harry Huggins Huggins informed on the other two because of his "conscience" were all indict ed -but released from- jail in bond. Green was assisinated last April while sitting in Eggle ston's air-conditioned Cadillac. Eggleston escaped with scratch es. Will Project improved system for recording heart sounds using a magnetic tape recorder. By operating the recorder in conjunction with a television system, the sounds are transformed to appear on a TV type screen. The paper, prepared by George N. Webb of the Johns Hopkins University school of medicine, said the televised pictures are photographed for use as educa tional aids. Similar television adaptions are being made to telescopes, permitting magnified specimens on a television screen rather than straining their eyes peer ing into their scopes. This is Your Chance To Buy at WHOLESALE! 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Wilson has ordered the Army to reject the low bids of a British firm for electrical equipment for the giant Chief Joseph dam in Washington state. Rejection of British low bids for similar equipment for the Chief Joseph dam two years ago brought protests in the British Parliament and elsewhere that the. Eisenhower administration was not following its professed policy, of "trade-not-aid." Later a number of contracts' for power equipment went to British firms. . ' ,r To U. S. Firms V The new contracts will be awarded to Westinghouse Elec tric Corp., and Pennsylvania Transformer company.' English Electric Export and Trading company, Ltd., offered to provide three transformers for $470,965. The winning bidder, Pennsylvama Transformer, will charge $556,868. English Electric offered six generators for $5, 460,351. Westinghouse Electric Corp., which gets the job, bid $6,338,491. Wilson said that President Eisenhower's executive order last December easing "Buy Am erica" policies gave authority to favor domestic bidders in unem ployment areas. Pittsburgh is classed as having more than six per cent unemployed. TTh Mail Tribune Want Ada Our Wholesale Distributor's Seattle Warehouse -is cleaning out their stock of odds and ends of CARPET! This is all cur rent goods and perfect carpet . . but remember . . . Washing ton and Oregon retailers are also selling from this list . . . so-o .FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED! Listed below are just a few of the many items bh All Wool Tweed Nylon Tufton Carved Wilton 1 All Wool Tweed Phone 3-5182 i v i v m Calais, France (U.R) A 306- pound British bathhouse super intendent, determined to show hometown backers he was no coward, Saturday set a new un swimmer Florence Chadwick in 1953. Miss Chadwick, who failed in a round trip channel try a week ago, was on hand to cheer Pick ering when he entered the water at Dover Friday night despite unfavorable weather forecasts. Residents of Pickering's home town, Bloxwich, had staked the swimmer to 400 pounds ($1,120) for the. swim. But they became impatient when Pickering de layed the swim for a month on the advice of his pilot. A group of Bloxwich residents finally went to Dover to ask Pickering what was holding things up. He explained it was the bad weather. But Friday night Pickering de cided he would make a do-or-die attempt to prove he wasn't shirk ing, "even if it's blowing a ruddy Passengers Injured When Cars Collide Central Point Two persons were slightly injured in a two car accident on Highway 99 at Pine st. here about 8 p.m. last night. Treated and released from Community hospital in Medford were Izaac , Osborne, 24, and Robert L. Maddero, 20, both of Klamath Falls. They were taken to Community hospital by Med ford ambulance. Both were passengers in a car driven by Chester R, Cook, post office box 278, Bly, Ore., which collided with a car driven by Fred Gerald Herrington, route 1, box 89, Gold Hill, which was stopped at a stop light. Herrington's 'wife, Gwendolyn and their children, Richard, age 7, and Roberta, age 3, and two other passengers, James McKib ben, 12, and Michael Manches ter, 11, were not injured.- . Vehicles were removed by wrecker. sale. 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He waded ashore on the French side smiling and seeming far from exhausted after his struggle with waves and tides. He shook hands with news men and local inhabitants. Then he waved away a row boat, plunged back into the water and swam out to board his accom panying boat for the trip back home. 170fh Polio Case Reported in Idaho Boise (U.R) The State Board of Health Saturday re corded Idaho's 170th polio case, of the year that of an 18-year-old girl in Idaho Falls. She was the 39th victim re-y ported this month, compared to 24 cases for all of August last year. There were a total of 132 cases in Idaho in 1954. Six new cases including a vaccinated child and an associa tion case were reported Fri day. ' SUCCESSFUL LIVING starts with saving. Have the things yen want through sys tematic saving. Don't just dream ... or wish, but have the things you want in life by saving for them. 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