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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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British Swimmer Sets Unofficial Mark
For Channel Swim to Prove Courage
official record for swimming the
channel between England and
i France.
Husky Bill Pickering made
the difficult swim from Dover
to Calais through choppy waters
in 14 hours and six minutes. If
the time is recognized officially,
it will beat the mark of 14 hours,
42 minutes ' set by American
Sec. Wilson Orders
Rejection of Low
Bids from British
Washington (U.R) Defense
Secretary Charles E. 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.
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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.- .
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Others Postponed
Six other would-be channel
swimmers had postponed their
tries because of a heavy swell
in mid-channel.
Pickering, however, stroked
strongly across, munching choc
olate bars and raw sugar.
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. '
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