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5 Medford Tribune United Press ruU Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1955 Pages 1-6 Kidnaping Told By Missionary Clark AFB, Philippines U.R) Dr. Homer Bradshaw, Ameri can medical missionary from Pennsylvania held for nearly five years by the Communist Chinese, said yesterday he and hii wife were "kidnaped" by the Reds. The Bradshaws were released from Red China earlier this week. They crossed the border to freedom at Hong Kong and were flown here in a U. S. Air Force hospital plane. Both were in pitiable physical condition when freed. They are being treated for malnutrition and beri beri in the 6208th U.S. Air Force hospital here. In ad dition, Mrs. Bradshaw is emo tionally upset and only occasion ally realizes where she, is and that she is free. However, Air Force doctors said the two Presbyterian medi cal missionaries may be strong enough to travel to the United States in two weeks. "We were kidnaped," Brad shaw said0 flatly when he de scribed the arrest of him and his wife by the Chinese Commu nists on March 2, 1951. "We were separated and the conditions were abominable. I don't want to talk about what happened there. It was there that Mrs. Bradshaw was driven into her mental depression." A Nichol' Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Pn FejHiM Wim h - r i Washington (U.R) My friend Norman C. Consterdine of De troit is the only man I know who looks upon failure as a compliment. Norman has invented a lot of things. All of them to m im ! hslo Deonle. Like how to wash a win d o w without leaning out Herman Nichols some and risk ing life and limb. How to swat a fly without moving off the couch. .Things like that. None of these ever have been patented. But, according to my Detriot friend, some of his ideas have been picked up, patented and put on the market. Instead of be ing sore and running for a law yer he says. "I find this situation most heartening. It serves to cast a certain favorable reflection on the basic soundness of the ideas themselves. It gives me a great lift." Moves One Finger A great lift is what Conster dine needs. It's something he never has had in his life, except from the daily confession his Get Your entfsjma earas o o CD flltDniRD,ORKDHl parish priest hears at his bedside. The man is 39 years old. He never has walked, or moved a muscle, hardly, except his one typing finger. He's been a bed ridden victim of cerebral palsy since boyhood. His speech comes with hesitation. He can't even feed himself. He depends on his mother for everything. That in cludes lifting his movable fing er atop a typewriter, which Mrs. Consterdine props in front of him on a couple of pillows. It takes the man three days to write a letter such as he wrote me. But Norman isn't complaining, The guy knows that the patent laws are tricky. It is hard, in deed to protect your brain chil dren if you don't have a patent lawyer. Norman never could af ford one. Wants To Help Norman's father died when he was young. His stepfather died not long ago. His mother- has been his nurse and has taken care of his every need. For 39 years. He wants to do something for her, to take some of the load off." So, if he can swing it somehow, Norman hopes to go into some kind of business, which he can handle from his bed. A business that might help well people. And what is best of all, at the yule tide, he thinks maybe he could get handicapped people to work for him as salesman. It's folks like Norman who make us thankful we can be up and kicking. Whatever he has in mind, let's wish the man luck. Of the world's total supply of sugar, about two-thirds comes from sugar cane. The other third is derived from sugar beets which can be grown successful ly in cooler climates. Ordinary steel is iron with a small amount of carbon and manganese. Other types of steel, however, may contain nickel, chromium, molybdenum, vana dium or wolfram. Use of automobiles by women shows 24 per cent of trips driv ing to work, 28 per cent for shop ping and about 48 per cent for miscellaneous purposes. Less than 18 per cent of Ari zona is privately-owned. Thefts, Burglaries Reported to Officers Burglary of the Tabu Dinner house, 305 South Riverside ave., and the Phoenix High school were reported to law enforce ment officials Wednesday and yesterday. Mrs. Mary Lappin, co-owner of the Tabu, told police approxi mately $50 in nickles were stolen early yesterday from a pinball machine. Entry was made through a window, it was said. Ernest R. James, principal of the Phoenix school, reported to sheriff's officers that the build ing had been entered Monday night. Burglars entered the main office, but officials said they could find nothing missing. Also reported to police was the theft of $65 from a purse owned by, Sally Mary Olson, 405 Earhart st., and theft of a $14.95 aluminum whellbarrow from the home of Obert C. Han son, 705 Palm st. Chile Labor Group Halts General Strike Santiago, Chile (U.R) Chile's United Labor Central has called for a general strike in sup port of .an outlawed strike by 14,000 copper miners now in its second week. Some 256 workers at the Du Pont explosives factory at Cal ama walked out in sympathy with the copper workers. Labor Central announced that a membership vote on a general strike would be taken next Wednesday. It also demanded release of 33 copper strikers held for trial on charges of vio lating the law for the defense of democracy. Workers at the huge American-owned mines at Chuquica mata, Potererillos and El Teni ente went on strike. Resolution Condemning Israel Being Prepared United Nations, N. Y. i(U.R) The United States, Britain and France are preparing a strongly worded resolution condemning Israel for its attack last week on Syrian positions near the Sea of Galilee, informed sources said yesterday. The Western Big Three were expected to present the resolu tion at this afternoon's session of the Security Council when Syria announced it would de mand economic sanctions against the Jewish state. Alexander fir Brown k Wk WISH ALL OUR POLICY HOLDERS V ' 1 ga AND FRIENDS A VERY V' ;; - . E'ov Merry Christmas ;ftf ' i - $ i m mm mmmmmwm i .-m fxmiiimi nwUaffgMSgE fiyfl ALEXANDER & BROWN INSURE THE TOWN 128 E. MAIN MEDFORD PHONE 2-6139 At Least 13 As Result o Br UNITED PRESS Fires yesterday killed at least 13 persons, and destroyed the storied Wayside Inn at Sudbury, Mass. At Davenport, la., three chil dren were killed and six persons injured when fire broke out in a two-story frame house, touched off by an explosion that severely damaged the structure. Two downtown stores were destroyed and a third damaged at Herrin, 111., despite the 'ef forts of firemen from seven Southern Illinois cities. The own er of a music store suffered a heart attack as he watched the blaze destroy his establishment. Girls Burn To Death Two little girls burned to death at Nashville, Tenn., when one of the children apparently started a fire with kerosene. Their mother and two brothers were injured. Three children, four years old and under, died at Indianapolis when fire swept their tarpaper home while their 20-year-old mother was making a brief visit at a neighbor's home with two older children. The 269-year-old Wayside Inn, a landmark of American history, went up in a column of smoke and flame. Firemen tried to save the venerable building, but 10 degree below zero cold and sparse water supplies made the fight impossible'. Oil Refinery Burns Another blaze burned through two tenement houses in New York, killing two little girls, their mother, and an aged woman. At Warren,Pa., fire blazed at the United Oil Refinery Co. plant, and Fire Chief Hartwell Willey, 45, was killed when an explosion blew out the walls of a building. Perish f Fires The Wayside Inn was immort alized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Tales of a Way side Inn" and the grandfather clock of which Longfellow wrote was among the priceless antiques which were destroyed. In the centuries past, such famous men as George Washington and Gen. Lafayette had stayed at the inn, located outside Boston. Bitter Winter Storm London (U.R) Bitter winter storms swirling over Europe downed a plane at sea yesterday off Scotland and caused a train crash in Northern England. Two ships were reported in distress in heavy seas in the Baltic. Portland (U.R) The office of Sen. 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