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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Firefighters move m to fight flames roaring down the
hills within 400 feet of a block of homes at Sunland, Calif. Two Southern California
fires destroyed over 1000 acres, moving perilously close to hundreds of homes. More
than 1000 firefighters fought the blazes.
British Underworld Doesn't Use Guns,
But Is Just as Tough as U.S. Gangland
By ROBERT MUSEL
United Press Correspondent
- London tU.R) I once told
a New York gangster that the
British underworld does not use
euns. except on rare occasions
and he laughed and said if he
could get a passport he'd fly
there and take over.
He's lucky he never got a
passport. Like several other am
bitious Americans, including
some Army deserters who
thought they were getting in on
a good thing, he would have
wound up as close to hamburger
as makes no difference.
Instead of guns thugs use
razors and knives here, or
lengths of bicycle chain wrapped
around the knuckle with a few
inches lashing loose to gouge
an eye or rip a cheek.
More than one hopeless crip
ple wishes they did use guns
then maybe he would be dead
and out of his misery instead
of being a hulk in a wheelchair,
his tendons slashed through by
razors.
The British public doesn't pay
too much attention to its under
world or hear much about it.
Two gangs will fight it out in
the early morriing and perhaps
there will be a paragraph in
the newspapers reporting that
an unidentified man was picked
no slashed from ear to ear.
No Killing
Not murdered, mind you. for
the gangs here do not kill. They
prefer to mark and maim. A
man walking around the streets
of Soho with a long scar on his
face and throat is a more ef
fective warning to other gangs
than a small stone in a ceme
tery in the suburbs.
Right now, however, Britons
are getting a look at what goes
on in their own backyard and
some are doubtless wishing they
hadn't been so virtuous about
American gangsterism.
Several weeks ago Jack Com
er, alias Jack Spot and Albert
Dimes, known as Italian Albert,
waged a bloody .struggle for a
knife in a fruit shop in the Soho
district which has been head
quarters for the London under
world for 250 years.
Spot is a bookmaker, reputed
to control the placing of book
makers at race tracks, one of
the most lucrative sources of
gang income here. At his trial,
a venerable clerk in holy orders,
Rev. Basil Andrews, 88, came
forth solemnly and swore the
bookmaker had not wielded the
knife.
Impressive Testimony
Spot was acquitted on this
impressive testimony, but then
it developed the star witness
had a most curious background
for a minister. He finally ad
mitted he had committed per
jury. Britons found to their chagrin
that they had their own color
ful collection of Damon Runyon
characters Sonny the Yank,
Moishe Blue Boy, Benny the
Kid, Flash Harry, Erny the Gent,
Monkey Johnny, Joey King
Cross.
. Demands arose and are still
Scientists Delve Into
Fingerling Fish Mystery
Seattle, Wash. (u.P.) Science
in its relentless probe of the mys
teries of physical nature, has de
termined the aerodynamic char
acteristics of fingerling fish.
This new knowledge, gained
in a wind tunnel at the Univer
sity of Washington, should save
the lives of thousands of young
salmon which plunge over the
spillways of Pacific Northwest
dams en route to the ocean.
The scientific interest in how
well a salmon can "fly" grew
out of observations that the
height of the dam apparently
wasn't the major factor in the
survival rate of fish taking a
spillway ride.
Elwha Dam, on the Elwha riv
er near Port Angeles, Wash., is
only 100 feet high, but 37 per
cent of the young fish plunging
over the spillway there were
dying in the pool below. Glinis
Dam on the same river is .twice
as high, but a spillway trip there
killed only seven per cent of the
salmon run.
The fisheries men also knew
that fingerling salmon could be
planted safely from airplanes
flying at 500 feet.
Plaslic Models
To find out the unknown fac
tor for fish deaths, Dr. Eugene
P. Richey of the University of
Washington made plastic models
of fingerlings in various attitudes
of swimming. These models went
into a wind tunnel and their co
efficients of "drag"' through the
air were determined. With these
coefficients, the professor deter
mined the ultimate speed a fish
would reach during a free fall
through the atmosphere.
The calculated results were
compared with the speeds of live
fish dropped from a 150-foot
tower. The live fish demonstrat
ed they knew enough to spread
their fins and twist their tails
as
coming in tnat bcotiand Kara
clean up Soho, which Scotland
Yard frankly is unwilling to do.
The Yard concedes that there
will always be criminals and
it is far better to have them
congregated where they can be
watched, in Soho, than to be dis
persed all over the biggest city
in the empire.
to increase "drag" and fall
slowly as possible.
Here, finally, was proof that
a fish falls much slower than
does water. That meant that a
fish should have a better chance
to stay alive in a spillway plunge
if it gets separated from the wa
ter and falls freely into the
downstream pool.
Spillway Extensions
The fisheries men now have
passed the problem on to hydrau
lic engineers, who will design
spillway extensions which will
flip the fingerlings free of the
water rushing over a dam.
One of these new spillway "ski
slides" will be installed at the
Mount Baker Dam. The 240-foot
structure on Washington's Ska
git river has killed 67.5 per cent
of the fish which took its spill
way ride.
Milo Bell, technical coordina
tor for the Washington State
Fisheries Department, says spill
way design is only one part of
the fish survival problem at the
dams. The fisheries men suspect
that turbulence in the pools be
low the dams may take its toll
of fingerling lives.
The wind tunnel studies were
a portion of a seven-year re
search program authorized by
the Washington legislature to in
crease the life expectancy of
fish. That program is only two
years along. If science was able
to determine how well a salmon
can "fly" there should be re
markable progress on the mys
teries of fish survival during the
program's remaining five years.
Advisory Board of
BLM Here Slates
Heeling Nov. 18
A meeting of the advisory
board for the Medford district
of the Bureau of Land Manage
ment will be held on Friday,
Nov. 18, according to District
Forester E. K. Peterson.
Scheduled for discussion are
(1) the plan prepared by the dis
trict for offering O&C and pub
lic domain timber for sale in
calendar year 1956, (2) discussion
of possible changes in marketing
area boundaries, (3) consider
ation of the advisibility of var
ious possible grazing improve
ment projects, (4) priority for
construction of various possible
timber access road projects. Also
there will be an election of of
ficers. L. L. Simpson is chair
man and B. L. Nutting vice
chairman. New Members:
Two new members have been
appointed to the local board by
Area Administrator James
Doyle. They are A. C. Smith,
Grants Pass, owner of a saw
mill on Wolf Creek, and Ted
Wood, Murphy, a partner in the
Conifer Woods Products Co.
Members of the board reap
pointed for another year are,
from Klamath Falls, O. K.
Puckett and Tim Sullivan; from
Medford, Eric Allen Jr.; George
Flanagan, Glenn Jackson, B. L.
Nutting, L. L. Simpson, Gene
Tedrick, and W. B. Tucker; from
Grants Pass, F. I. Bristol, Cliff
Coleman, and Raymond A. Lath
rop; and from Glendale, Tom
Mehl Jr.
The Medford school board this
week voted to employ an acous
tic engineer to see what can be
done about the problem of
echoes in the auditorium of the
new Hedrick Junior High school.
Since opening of the school,
the accoustical problem there
has plagued school administra
tors, students and the public at
tending functions in the audi
torium. It was hoped for a time
the addition of stage draperies
would solve the problem, but
the improvement after they were
put in was not sufficient, the
board decided.
To Ask Band Trip
The board also authorized
School Superintendent Leonard
Mayfield to get in touch with
the state High School Activities
association to request permis
sion for the high school band to
attend the annual East-West
Shrine football game in San
Francisco in December. The band
recently was invited to make its
fifth appearance there in five
years, but a recent ruling of the
association would prohibit the
band's attendance.
The board adopted a policy
under which school facilities
will not be rented for private
commercial use. They will still
be . available for use by bona
fide organizations, trie board
stated.
Audit Approved
In other action, the board ap
proved a recent audit of school
district finances, and discussed
the future needs and problems
of the district, including such
matters as possible annexation,
district consolidation, building
needs and sites, curriculum,
maintenance and siorage, and
bus storage.
The board inspected the phys
ical facilities of Washington
school, and, under a regular pro
gram of inspections, will check
on Roosevelt school next week.
Explosion of a hydrogen bomb
is as mild as the falling of, a
feather compared to energy re
leased by an exploding star, says
the National Geographic Society.
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Santa Barbara, Calif. (U.R)
Actor Rock Hudson, 29, and Miss
Phyllis Gates, 26, his agent's
pretty brunette secretary honey
mooned in secret today.
The actor and his bride drove
to an undisclosed locale for
their honeymoon . shortly after
they were married here last
night by the Rev. N. B. Thorpe
of the Trinity Lutheran church.
The couple eloped from Hol
lywood to wed. They had been
dating for a year and gossip
columnists frequently had pre
dicted their marriage.
The actor frequently was
quoted as saying he wouldn't
think of marriage until he was
30. His 30th birthday is next
week. The actor's picture re
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