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Bomber Victim's Body Is Located Tracy, Calif. OJ.R The body of Col. Patrick D. Fleming, who shot down 25 Japanese planes in World War II, was found Saturday four miles from the wreckage of a B-52 Strato f ortress which exploded and crashed Thursday. 1 The 38-year-old deputy com mander of the 93rd Bomb Wing was one of four men killed in the crash of the giant eight-jet atom bomb carrier. Four others parachuted to safety from ' the stratosphere. - The plane was based at nearby Castle Air Force base and base officials said that "all but es sential flights" of the B-52s have .J been cancelled pending a full investigation of Thursdays crash. ' Capt. Carl Rhodes, an Army helicopter pilot, spotted Flem ing's body on Roberts island, in the San Joaquin river delta area west of Stockton. - , Two of three bodies recovered from the wreckage were those of Maj. Albert K. drown, 39, an instructor-pilot, and Capt. James Frederickson, 32, a navigator. The third body was presumed to be Maj. Edward L. Stefanski, 35, the aircraft commander. " Air Force investigators, , in hopes of reconstructing the plane to determine the cause of the crash, broadcast an appeal to '. all residents in a 200 square mile farm area to look for fragments. HaroldDahMped" In Quebec Accident - Halifax, N. S. (U.R) A risky. Arctic flight in a war-sur plus plane has ended the career of pilot Harold (Whitey) Dahl, one of the last , of the thinning group of international soldiers of fortune. . r---r - Whitey 's luck ran out Tues day. Rescue parties removed his body Friday from the twisted wreckage of the DC3 which crashed in the frozen wilderness of northern Quebec. Killed with Dahl was W. Giv- ens of St: Jovite, Que. Eric Pear son, identified only as an Am erican from California and co owner of the DC3, survived. Pearson was found wander ing dazed and shocked through the wreckage when a ski-equipped Royal Canadian Air ' Force plane landed to take the bodies and Pearsoii to Goose Bay, Labrador. London Paper Throws Designers Into Tizzy London (U.R) A London newspaper threw fashion design ers into a tizzy Saturday by threatening to expose their cherished secret designs before they are ready. Lord' Beaverbrook's 4,000,000 circulation "Daily Express" said Friday it will no longer promise to observe the release-date re strictions improsed by the fash ion czars of London and Paris. The paper said it was acting in the name of freedom of the press. Korea Asks Return Of Abducted Sailors . Seoul -r- '(U.R) The Republic of Korea demanded Saturday the return of 15 Koreans it claims were abducted by "Jap anese pirates" in a seat battle this week. ; : ;"T 9 governmental spokesman charged that a Japanese crew had committed an "out right act of piracy on the high seas" Tuesday when a Korean boat crew clashed with the crew of two Japanese fishing boats in the Tsushima Straits between the two countries.-. ; - Korea demanded the . immed iate return of the Korean crew men and punishment of the Jap anese "Buccaneers." . Pamphlet Available For Vets With Homes :', Washington U.R) The Veterans administration Satur day made available a 22-page pamphlet designed to help vet- erans avoid some of the pitfalls of home ownership. The pamphlet, titled "Pointers For The Veteran : Homeowner," discusses the obligation of 'vet erans under the terms of the Gl mortgages, how to protect their investment and the importance of regular payments. Senator Defends Self About Trip Taking ' Washington (U.R) Sen. William . Langer (R-ND) Friday 'defended himself hotly, in the senate against charges that he takes too many trips .to his North Dakota home at govern- ment expenses. "I work 365 years for the peo ple of North Dakota," Langer shouted. ;' " "Days, Bill," corrected Sen ate Republican Leader William F. Knowland of: California. : -"Days, yeah," Langer agreed. "I thank my friend from Colo- . xado." , . ,-- : Portland (U.R) Sharon Kay 3Utchie, Miss America of 1955, arrived here Friday as part of a nationwide tour taken every year by the beauty contest win ner. She defeated Oregon's Dor othy Johnson for the Miss Am erica title. Reds Offer Proof Of Aerial Spying Moscow (U.R) Russia last night rejected United States re assurances that . only weather balloons had been sent aloft in Europe. The Russians offered, to exhibit in New York, Washing ton, .nd other western cities their proof that the U. S. had indulged in aerial spying. The Soviet rejection and of fer were contained in another of a series of diplomatic exchang es between the two nations aris ing from a Soviet charge that American authorities had sent "espionage" balloons equipped with automatic aerial cameras and radio sets over Russia. i The latest Soviet protest was delivered Feb. 4.. , The U. S. reply denied the Soviet charge, declaring that no balloons other than those launch ed for weather observations had been sent aloft in Europe. The U. S. Air Force announced it was suspending its European balloon .launching temporarily and the United States assured Russia it would strive to prevent any. fu ture balloon flights -over; the Soviet Union. ' Last night's Soviet note, how ever, offered to prove by. exhi bitions in western capitals that the , balloons . were launched to carry out aerial photo-recon- 'naissance of Soviet territory. esffEighouse Maps Plans for Appeal Pittsburgh (U.R) Westing house Electric corp., which blast ed as "political" a decision grant ing 23,000 strikers about S3, 000,000 in unemployment com pensation, mapped plans Satur day to appeal the ruling. The State Department of La bor and Industry said Friday the 125-day Westinghouse strike was a company "lockout." The ruling made strikers eligible for approximately eight weeks com pensation for those who have al ready served a one-week wait ing period, and seven weeks for those who have not. .' . Westinghouse, which will meet with the International Un ion " of " - Electrical Workers in Washington Monday in another effort to end the bitter walkout, termed the lockout charge "pre posterous." -. ' " Time Element Noted "Even in the unlikely event the ruling were upheld, the earl iest that compensation could be paid under the state's procedur es is approximately two months from now," the company said. Appeal procedure from ' the ruling will take company attor neys before the unemployment compensation referee, and possi bly the Unemployment Compen sation Board of Review and the superior court. State Labor Department Sec retary John R. Torquato said that "while the current stop pages commenced as a strike, with some elements of lockout present the situation has chang ed and a lockout has existed in the ' Westin'ghouse plants in Pennsylvania since Dec. 19, 1955." . He said the state "considered the company rejection" of a pro posal by Gov. George M. Leader and other governors that the em ployees return to work at pre vailing wages "and start all ov er again in negotiations" was a "lockout." The union had" ac cepted Leader's proposal. The company said the propos al called for it and the IUE to submit the strike issues to "final al and binding arbitration." ' "Westinghouse was not will ing at that time, and is not now, to submit all the issues to arbi tration or to ; across-the-board fact-finding," the firm said. , If the labor department's com pensation ruling is based' on Leader's arbitration proposal, "it means that any proposal by the governor, no matter how fantas tic or unreasonable, automatic ally makes a strike a lockout if the proposal is rejected by . an employer," Westinghouse said. "It is especially unfortunate that this political move came on the eve of resumption of negotia tions in Washington Monday un der the auspices of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Ser vice," the company added. Brazilian Pig Iron . Enroute to US Firm Rio De Janeiro (U.R) The first shipment of Brazilian pig iron for the "American steel in dustry was in route to the United States Saturday aboard the Brazilian ship Siderurgica VII. , The 7,000-ton shipment was part of a 20,000-ton order for the United States Steel Corp. , President of MIT Takes Action After Freshman Drowning Cambridge, Mass. (U.R) Jam es R. Killian, president of Mas sachusetts Institute of Technol ogy, Saturday pledged his insti tution to eliminate "excesses as sociated with hazings," such as the initiation which led to the drowning 6'f an MIT freshman. The student, Thomas Clark, 18, was found drowned in: a Cambridge reservoir Friday by skin divers. ' Clark was let out of a cab dur ing a fraternity initiation last week and told to get home as best he could. He had. tried , to use the reservoir as a short. cut. ''The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will t use eyery means and powers at its disposal to eliminate those excesses . as sociated with hazing or initia tions which might possibly lead to accidents, which are' physi cally or mentally, hazardous, or which are unbecoming . to stud ents of maturity, and to an in stitution of this character," Kil lian said. Mates Innocent- , "His fraternity mates are com pletely innocent of any conscious negligence. They, too, -are vic tims of long-practiced traditions and. procedures which it is how clear cannot be condoned in this institution or any other, or in dormitories or in fraternities," he added. . .. 1 New York (U.R) The Na tional Council of Delta. Kappa Epsilon has ordered all its chap ters to halt off -campus initiation activities. ; i , William M. Henderson, execu- Sunday, February 19, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Police fo Use New Courtesy System Seymour, Conn. (U.R) Begin ning Monday,' traffic officers will insert nickels in overtime parking meters and place court esy tags on the automobiles. . The tag will advise the viol ator to pay back the nickel at police headquarters or face a $1 fine. . . Police Commissioner Charles F. Clark said -the - system had proved successful at Mt. Joy, Pa. :, : : ." .. "It gives shopping - motorists a break and the ' merchants do more business," Clark said. African Trip Reveals Elephantine Delicacy . Cincinnati; Ohio UJiR) Menu note . .. for Cincinnati - zoo ele phants: Chopped banana stalks. ; Dr. Byron W. Bernard, zoo veterinarian,: discovered the ele phantine delicacy on a recent trip to Africa. j '.'i Washington ttJ.R) Rep". Sam : Coon (R-Ore.), said Satur day the Farmers. Home adminis tration has made Umatilla coun ty fruit growers who suffered severe freeze damage last Nov ember eligible .for. production emergency loans. tive secretary, said the national, headquarters of the . fraternity Friday mailed out letters to its 51 chapters with orders to stop at once all off -campus initiation activities. . The action was a direct out growth of the death of Thomas L. Clark, a student at the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, whose body was found in . Cam-' bridge reservoir at " Waltham," Mass , Friday. pp i 'HAD IT COMING' Mrs. June Joy Milton, 26, con fessed shooting- Walter : A. Siebert, 59, poUtically-promi-nent Republican leader in St Louis, and then setting fire to his bed in hope of destroy ing evidence. Charged with first-degree murder and ar son, she said, Tm not sorry, he had it coming." Police Order Bathhouse Closed For . Violation ; , Utsunomiya City, Japan (U.R) Police Saturday ordered a public bathhouse here closed for 21 days.- ' They saidit permitted mixed bathing by males and females over 12 years of age. Shubert Theater ' Chain Broken Up . New ; York . (U.R) Show man Jacob' J. Shubert said Sat-, urday he doughts-whether some of the provisions of federal court decree breaking up the Shubert theaters chain will benefit the legitimate theater business in America. ; " Shubert, the last survivor of the three f abulous' Shubert brothers, and the government : agreed Friday to a consent judg ment by which Shubert' must dispose of 12 theaters here and in several other cities : and dis pose of his interest in the United Booking office.-. . ; . ;The agreement ended the gov ernment's ' six-year-old anti-trust suit against the Shubert - inter ests without a trial. ..Shubert said "only time will, tell" if the theaters he must sell will continue as playhouses or become - television . studios. The decree compels Shubert to sell within two years four of his eight New York theaters, two theaters each in Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia, and one the ater in both Cincinnati and De troit., .., Norway, Russia To Exchange Visits Olso (U.R) Norway and Rus sia, recently at odds over fishing rights, will exchange visits by naval units next summer, the foreign ministry revealed. . . ' It said a group of Soviet ves sel will visit Oslo while a de tachment of Norweigian ships will travel to Leningrad during the months of June, July and August.' . . . , s to Question Tass Help Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Internal .Securtiy Subcom mittee will ' summon American employes of Tass, the official Soviet : agency . for 'questioning at a public hearing next Tues day. : ; Chairman James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) said Friday the first witness will be Harry Freeman, assistant, manager of Tass m New York. ' Eastland said the hearing will be part of a series "to determine the score of Soviet activities in; the ' United State's." ' Lt. Col. Yuri Rastvorov, form ed chief of Soviet military in telligence in Tokyo, testified last week tnat 85 to 90 per; cent of Tass employes belong to the Soviet military or political in telligence service, Eastland said. List Reasons for ; Refusing New Offer Los Angeles '(U.R) The striking Brotherhood of Rail way clerks disclosed its reasons Friday night for "refusing a new wage offer that would help, set tie a six-week walkout against Western Airlines. ' : :, The brotherhood informed the 850 striking clerks that the com pany's $25-$35 monthly wage of fer was turned down earlier in the : week, because; . -; :j ; X. Retroactive pay back to last July 1 is only at the fate of $12.50 monthly. The of fered pay boost is r 'penurious and would freeze wages until 1958." xj i-ii s :-.7 ;i: 2. The company continues to reject a union shop which the brotherhood now. deems "more necessary than ever.!' t . ; c 3. Cancellation: of the walk out on company terms would not insure that all workers would be returned to work." Meanwhile,- further negotia tions to reach settlement were scheduled for next week upon the return from Washington of national mediator Leverette Ed wards. Contracts also must be signed with the Air Lines Pilots Assn., and IAM mechanics be fore the air - lines can resume operations in 12 western states and Canada. APPOINTED DIRECTOR Pendleton (U.R) Florence Sweet, local high school journ alism . instructor, ; has been ap pointed - Pacific regional direc tor for the National association of Journalism directors. , Miss Sweet for .24 years has been ad visor ; to The Lantern, school paperj which has won several national awards. CONCRETE Phone 2-5336 or 2-5397 LPnimcc - . 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