Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 29, 1955, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text! O wo MET3FOTTD (OHETOrTJ Seven Japanese Stragglers Believed on Pacific Islands; Don't Know War Over v. ' ' s '""TV'?' ' . " ' o O. , . 8 CROWDING RAILS OF LINER, passengers watch crew of Kungsholm man two lifeboats rescuing personnel aboard British freighter Argobeam in Atlantic off Scotland. Shat tered by explosion and. fire, freighter is wallowing in dis tance after being abandoned. (International Soundphoto) Fuse Containing Two Elements on Market Chicago U.R) Guts Ber thel, chairman of the fuse sec tion of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, said many fuses blow not just be cause there is a short circuit, but because motors of appliances draw a very heavy load when they start up. Berthel said a new fuse has been designed to help solve this problem. The fuse has two ele ments, one to cut the circuit In case of a "short" and the other to give the circuit a longer ! time to allow electric motors to start. - The starting load for motors is heavy, but this drops off once they begin to run, he explained. For modern appliances that demand a large amount of elec tricity to start, such as washers, driers,, and heating units, he recommended "the new time-lag type of fuse. He also suggested that wiring be checked to be sure it is adequate. Voolworih To Build r Largest Oregon Store Portland (U.R) The largest Woolworth store in Oregon will b9 . constructed as part of the $24,000,000 Lloyd shopping cen ter, here, according to H. G. - Draves, Woolworth store man ager in Portland, i Q Draves siid this week end the new store would cost more than $1,000,000 and would have the second largest display area among their Pacific Northwest stores. The development .has been scheduled for J 9 57 completion, Draves said, including parking space for 2500 cars. VA Members Attend Watermelon Picnic Camp White The annual pic nic and watermelon feast spon sored by the Veterans Adminis tration volunteers was held Sun day afternoon at Touvelle Park. More than 150 veteran mem- bers of the domiciliary here went to the picnic in shuttle buses of the VA. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Birch discussed plans for the Field Day event on the Labor Day holiday and urged a large participation to compete for the prizes offered by VFW posts and auxiliaries in Oregon. Meat Cutters Vote on Strike Against Swift . i Chicago U.R) Members of the AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Wprkmen will cast votes across the hat ion this week on whether to strike against St & Co. The strike vote was called yes terday bv delegates representing 2500 to 3000 workers in 32 lo cals. The union said it is seeking a "substantial" wage increase and a full week' work. 'FOUNDLING ON DOORSTEP Perth Amboy, N. J. (U.R) Allen Cheuse reported to police Sunday that someone left a foundling on his doorstep. The "foundling" was a big jack rab bit, enclosed in a sturdy cage. Police said they had.no idea why the owner didn't just turn the rabbit loose. SAXOPHONIST KILLED Hollywood (U.R) Robert Gordon, 27, listed by Downbeat Magazine, as the top saxophon ist of the year, was killed Sun day when his car collided with another vihicle at a blind inter section. Trumpeter Earl McCrea, 24, riding with Gordon, escaped injury. - - MAIL THIBTTNE ! 1 F ' ' is:) .... - b i 1 A .'" . ,23 Lady Bullfighter Has Narrow Escape Mexico City U.R) Lady bull fighter Bette Ford was tossed by a bull and narrowly escaped being gored in the Plaza ring here Sunday. Miss Ford, 24-year-old former New York? model, was caught and tossed high into the air when wind blew her cape around her as the bull charged. But she scrambled to her feet and continued fighting and drew cheers from the crowd, y She killed two bulls in her second big-time appearance here. Critics said her cape work on the second bull was "extraor dinary" and praised her sword work as "excellent." Control Tower Bid Revived at Salem Salem (U.R) Salem flying circles renewed efforts today to get the control tower at McNary field here re-opened, after an air collision that killed Gordon King, 39, of Salem Saturday. Comment was that the crash that killed King probably would not have occurred if a control tower had been in operation. The Civil Aeronautics author ity suspended operation of the field's tower about two years ago reportedly as an economy mea sure. King's light plane collided at the south edge of the airport with a plane piloted by Shelby F. Sullivan, 25, of Bellevue, Wash. Sullivan and his passeng er, Nancy M. Nordstrom, 21, of Seattle, escaped with minor in juries. Joan Bennett's Daughter Takes Overdose of Pills New York U.R) Actress model Melinda Markey, 21-year-old daughter of actress Joan Bennett, was recovering at home today from an overdose of sleep ing pills she took after a spat with her husband. 1 Miss Markey, wife of televis ion actor Donald Hayden, was released from Bellevue Hospital Sunday after overnight treat ment. She was found unconscious Saturday night in the partment of a friend. Police said the friend, Beverly Salie, was not at home. FREEZE Your Foods in an AM AN A Home Freezer Every shelf fast freez ing plate. -Additional freezing coils in top & bottom. The "Sror-Mor" door. fa Low temperature in sulation in door also. fa Powerpact freezing unit. fa An X frame type steel construction. AT couevs sar 321 E. 6th St., Medford - In the Littrell Parts Building Phone 3-5433 Open Wednesday Until 9 P.M. Monday, August 29, 1955 BY ROBERT C. MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent Koror, Palau, Caroline Islands (U.R) Trust territory officials estimated Saturday there are at least seven Japanese military stragglers still in the Western Carolines and probably more on other islands of the South Pa' cific. One Korean member of a Jap anese army labor battalion was captured a few - weeks ago by natives of the neighboring island of Peleiiu. He was amazed to learn of Japan's surrender 10 years ago. District Commander Donald Heron said seven Japanese stragglers were known to be on the adjoining island of Babel- thaup two years ago. "We have every reason to be lieve they are still there," Heron said. ''A Palauan woman claim ed she saw a Japanese recently and there have been no reports of any of them dying or leaving the island." Stragglers On Guam Police officials on Guam said three Japanese stragglers were lcported in the rugged south eastern section of the island several months ago and were be lieved to be living in the dense jungle and "remote valleys of Guam. Heron said there was no way of knowing whether the Babel- thaup stragglers were from the Japanese army or one of the labor battalions recruited .in Korea and Okinawa. Only two islands in the Palau group were occupied during the war Peleiiu and adjoining An guar, the phosphate island. Armj' troops captured the 3.5 square mile island of Anguar and the Marines took Peleiiu after a bitter fight and heavy casualties. The rest of the Palaus, includ ing the islands of Koror and Ba belthaup, were by-passed and the Japanese occupation forces were supposedly all removed by American naval foraes at the end of World War II. Heron said the stragglers probably deserted from the Jap anese army and have now fused themselves so completely with the natives that it would be ex tremely difficult to track them down. Travel Freely A police official on Guam said any of the three Japanese still believed to be on the island could easily travel about with out being detected. "They not only can move about freely," he said, "but they undoubtedly do." Heron explained that no at tempts were being made to cap ture the stragglers on Babel thaup. "They never give anyone any trouble," he said, "and it would be impossible to smoke them out of the hills and jungles on Eabelthaup unless we had hund reds of men to do the job. '"From what we have been able to find out," he continued. "the men seem content to live in the jungle. They should know after 10 years that the war is over, ' but then maybe they never got the word." Vancouver Man Shot On Portland Street Portland (U.R) A Van couver, Wash., man was in criti cal condition from a gunshot wound in a hospital here- today after being shot on a Portland street Saturday . night. J. D. Hammick, 33, of Van couver was the victim of a bul let apparently fired by Willie Smith, 33, whose address was unknown to police. Emma Elliott, 33-, of Portland, told police the two men became involved in an argument over her in front of a tavern. She said she ran away and heard several shots as she fled. She looked back to see Hammick was down, lie was shot in the stomach. ROCKING CHAIR VACATION Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson relaxes at his ranch near Johnson City, Texas after flight from Washington, D. C. Recovering from a recent heart ailment, Senator Johnson said, "I'm just going to sit here and rest." The next few months will de termine whether he will continue as majority leader or just jplain senator.. -Hating Wife To Check Return To Chicago (U.R) Strike-hat ing Mrs. Esther Quigley, suspic ious to the last, said she would go to her husband's plant today and see if he really deserves to be taken back off the street. The strike at the Harrison Sheet Steel Co., which prompted Mrs. Quigley to lock her hus band, Andrew, out of their apart ment, was over. But Mrs. Quigley, much as she loves Andrew, wanted to make sure that he's back on the job. "I don't trust those union leaders," the 35-year-old house wife said. "The union leaders ought to be women." If union leader Quigley is back at work, his wife said he can return to her arms and his apartment. - If not, she implied Andrew can get lost. Even his return won't mean Andrew's favorite dishes on the dinner table tonight, she said. . "He can make himself a sand wich," Mrs. Quigley said. "The icebox is empty." . That empty icebox and the lack of a weekly paycheck com bined to break up the Quigley loVe nest. When Quigley, a CIO United Auto Workers shop steward, and QG0tfO(36 WW C?GQC?GGff9 w , :sl trOm. NLVr JpWeddmg Ring Schade fl Not a Doubt in the World when it's a... KEEPSAKE! Urtrj Keepsake center dia mond is a PERFECT gem, sttiranteed by Good House- kecninc and our signature ! on the famous Keepsake ficate . . . your assurance the best choice. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OU? CONVENIENT ! CBEDtT TBtMS tyrry Schade . FINE DIAMONDS SINCE. 1918 - 9 SOUTH CENTRAL Husband's His Job 425 other employees walked out at the steel plant last Aug. 16 his spouse told him he could walk out of her apartment also, The place wasn't big enough for him so long as he stayed on the picket line and away from the pay window, she told him last Tuesday. Ripped off Shirt Mrs. Quigley even took her one-woman war to the picket line, tangling with the UAW local's president and ripping off his shirt. She still faces a date with a judge on a disorderly conduct charge for that epi sode. But clouds appeared to part for the Quigleys Saturuday when federal mediators announced that they had reached a settlement. The union members were sched uled to ' vote on the agreement today. Quigley telephoned his wife the good: news. . She said she told him to get back to work before coming back home. . But as the battle smoke clear ed, Mrs.. Quigley admitted she still has ' a warm place in her heart for Andrew. ; "It's been lonely in this ap artment all week," she said sad VISTA $250.00 Also $100 to 2475 Wedding Ring $12.50 Cer - f of MARILYN $125.00 Wedding Ring $42.50 FLUHRER BLDG. 1 Background Sure Way To iew xorK ku.k) it you can sleep at nigh maybe what you need is some background music and a soft feminine voice coax ing you off to the land of dreams. This formula, for better or for worse, is being packaged by an 1 A ou-oeai record company on a new LP, and Miss Verta O'Dell, a sleep therapist, came all the way from Royal Oak, Mich., to lend her soft feminine voice to its success. 1 "Get as comfortable as pos sible now," she cooed into a mi crophone. "Very slowly stretch and yawn . . . take a deep breath and release it slowly . . . slowly." Director Slumbers Elsewhere in the studio an organist rambled through Brahms' Lullaby, and on a cot in front of Miss O'Dell the ar tists and repertoire director of Jubillee Records, Herb Dexter, yielded himself to Morpheus. Miss O'Dell had said she couldn't make a sleen record un less there was someone there to go to sleep. "Relax your feet . . . relax your ankles," Miss O'Dell whis pered. She went on relaxing Dexter right up to his chin, and finally his eyelids. 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'And vou - nicture yourself drifting gently and lazily on this soft fluffv tloud out over the country-side to a peaceful valley where the trees are old and tall Woman Jailed Alter - Male Fatally Stabbed Portland (U.P.) Mazie L. English. 42. Portland, was in jail today after admitting to po lice Saturday night she inflicted a fatal stab wound on her 52-year-old husband, Ernest, when he came home drunk and threat ened her. Mrs. Enelish said Jier husband nullpd her from bed and threat ened to throw her 2V-year-old daughter across the room. "I reached for something to hit him with and found a knife on the sink," she said. -"! just hit him with it, and it turned out to bp a butcher knife. She said when she realized what had happened she helped her husband lay down, tried to stop the blood with a pillow and ran for aid. English died shortly after be ing admitted to Good Samaritan hospital. The legislatures of 34 states meet every other year. 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