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SIX MEDFORD (OREGOlf) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuwday. Augui 14, 1938 Sullivan To Miss Several Programs Southbury, Conn (U.R) TV celebrity Ed Sullivan was con valescing at his larm today, and a CBS network spokesman said he won't be able to appear on his Sunday program for three or four weeks. Sullivan and his son-in-law, Robert H. Precht Jr., were dis charged from Griffin hospital at Derby Monday, seven days after they and two other persons were injured in a two-car accident at Seymour. The others remained in the hospital. No special announcement was made of Sullivan's departure from the hospital but a crowd of admirers was on hand in the parking lot as Sullivan, who slip ped out a rear door, waved to the crowd and signed autographs before he got in a new automo bile for the 21-mile ride here. Precht was brought to the Sul livan farm by ambulance. AA ANNIVERSARY Jackson, Mich. (U.R) The Southern Michigan Prison chap ter of Alcoholics Anonymous, one of the largest AA groups in Michigan, observed its 10th anni versary recently. Several former inmates who were members re turned to address the anniver sary meeting. Use Tribune Want Ads For Action, ! Ij FIRE BLOCKS MINE EXIT Firefighters battle blaze at entrance to the Amercouer Coal Mine in Marcinelle, Bel gium after a pit fire destroyed an elevator cable trapping 277 miners. Only 22 of the 277 were brought to the surface. Nine of these were dead leaving only 13 known to have escaped tile disaster. Rescue teams poured tons of water down the main shaft despite the fact the water might drown the trapped men. Arctic Ice Continues To Hold Mastery Over Ingenuity of Man London (U.R) Again the ele ments have humbled man. He has tried and failed to con quer the killer ice that encases ships in costal coffins and drags them under the sea It has been more than a year since ice sank the British trawl ers Lorella and Roderigo. Forty men died with those ships in one of the most frightening and least known of postwar sea disasters. But a scientific campaign trig gered by that catastrophe has failed to check the killer. Invisi ble ice waits in the wind of the Arctic Circle to strike again. De-icing paste and liquid, steam and hot water jets, elec trically heated rigging and shifts in the superstructure all were thought up and faulted. Man's triumphant technology that can crack ice off aircraft with inflatable rubber wing boots and warming ducts and liquid sprays cannot offer a shield to sailors caught like those last year. They must die,- and this is how ice kills: It was Jan. 25, 1955. Skipper S. 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Thicker and Thicker But they could not win their fight that night against the arith metic of the killer, for sea tem perature dropped to 34 and air temperature to 23. Sea water freezes at 28.6. So they started taking ice. They couldn't turn away and run from the weather. It was head to wind or die, and full speed ahead it had to be, or be swallowed by the troughs. They dropped the wheelhouse windows and found ice six inches thick. They beat at it with mar linspikes and fought to get on deck. But they couldn't get around to use steam jets without being blown away. They chopped what they could with axes but the waves broke over the bridge. Ice swelled the forestay eight feet thick and webbed, then walled the handrails. Rigging was a gortesque ice tent. The whaleback thickened to a bulge. At dawn both ships were weighted down by 60-ton shells of ice. At 9 a.m. on Jan. 26 the Lo rella radioed "We are badly iced up top so cannot get much joy out of wireless set. Position not known." Ten minutes later the Roderigo replied "Been full speed in night to keep her up. Been trying to get her round but no go." Five minutes later, 9:15, Lo rella reporting again: "Boat deck solid with frozen snow. Had been digging it out since breakfast. Terrible lot on bridge top and they are going up there at day light if possible." "Same here, George," Rod erigo replied, "and the whale back is a solid mass." Last Message At 2:35 p.m. the next message from the Lorella drifted dimly through the tempest. It was the last message she ever sent. "May day," she called. "Heeling right over and cannot get back." "Think Lorella was astern of us somewhere," the Roderigo flashed to shipping at 3:05. She had a little more than two hours left herself to live. "We are also taking heavy wa ter now," the Roderigo radioed at 3:31. At 4:50 she sent a futile call to faraway ships for mercy. "We are listing badly to star board and would like you to come to us." At 5:05 p.m. "She's going over and can't get back." At 5:10 she sent her SOS. "Heeling right over heeling right over heeling right over Resources Greatest Asset, McKay Says Salem (U.R) Development of natural resources is the North west's greatest asset, Douglas McKay, Republican candidate for U.S. Senator, told delegates to the state Kiwanis convention here yesterday. "Our recreation and industry both depend on wise use of these resources," the former Interior Secretary said. In speaking of free enterprise he said, "some people criticize big business. I was taught that anyone who starts a business is to be respected as long as he is honest. Some people frown on a man who succeeds." McKay told his audience two things were necessary for the preservation of freedom. He list ed them as public education and a place in the hearts of the peo ple to continue our way of life. Coon Will Step Up Tempo of Campaign Baker (U.P.) Rep. Sam Coon will step up the tempo of his campaign for reelection this week before leaving Sunday for the Republican national con vention in San Francisco. The Oregon Republican will be principal speaker in a school dedication ceremony in Fort Rock Friday night. Coon spon sored a bill in the 84th Congress to permit the school district to purchase federal land on which to build the school. The Congressman and Mrs. Coon will attend meetings this week at Baker, Fort Rock, John Day, Redmond, Bend, and Lake-view. Polk County Farmer Resigned To Highway Salem (U.R) A Polk coun ty farmer whose protests against j the construction of a state high way across his property reached the state Supreme Court earlier this year, apparently has resign ed himself to the fact that the highway will be built. Time for filing a petition for a rehearing passed yesterday with no action being taken by the farmer, Joseph Harland. The Polk County Circuit Court had dismissed the case before the Supreme Court step affirm ed the lower court's decision. please acknowledge." Then, "Go ing over, going over" and a long morse dash that stopped at pre cisely 12 minutes after 5. Two Vain Passes American planes from Iceland made two vain passes overhead. The Roderigo's inflatable rubber dinghy was the only remnant found of the two ice-strangled ships and the 20-man crews they carried. Marine insurance firms and fishermen's guilds, shipowners and Admiralty launched an ef fort to conquer the ice menace that widowed or orphaned 70 odd women and children at Hull that January day. They wanted to lower the bridge but then they couldn't see over the whaleback. They ex perimented with de-icing by elec tricity and it helped on flat sur faces such as the front of the bridge, but it wasn't very work able on whaleback handrails and boat deck. Paste and steam had limita tions The idea for tripodmasts to replace rigging had snags when applied to trawlers. The researchers admit they haven't found the answer. Nevada Convention Delegate Breaks Hip Chicago (U.R) A Demo cratic national committeewoman from Las Vegas, Kcv., and a member of her state's delegation was in the Coloumbus hospital today suffering a fractured hip. Mrs. Perle Brown, 66. report edly fell Monday night when she missed a step leading from the lobby into the Coral Lounge of the Sheraton hotel where she was staying while in Chicago for the convention. Authorities at the hospital said Mrs. Brown was "resting com fortably." They described her1 condition as "good." CASH 1 for "Back-to-School Expense"? SEE Stark Finance Go. 2739 No. 99 Phons 3-1817 When You See GEORGE LEWIS ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE A FREE SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline and Steamship Tickets PHONE 2-6779 LOBBY HOTEL JACKSON SEE OUR SUPER SUMMER 8 Cu. Ft. 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