Second S.F. Man
Hit-Run Victim;
Hunt Intensified
San Francisco !U.R) Another
San Francisco man lost his life
today to a hit-run driver.
The latest victim was Urn
berto Medal, 64, a retired Nica
raguan businessman. He died in
Mission emergency hospital at
12:01 a.m. (PST), three hours
after an auto struck him down
in an intersection.
The accident took place at
23rd and Valencia sts. in the
Mission District, only six blocks
from the scene where a hit-run
driver dragged Lloyd Stephens,
68, to his death last month.
Police have been unable to
find Stephens' killer despite one
of the most intensive searches in
the department's history.
Scores Stopped
When officers learned of
Medal's death, they launched
an investigation equally as inten
sive. A squad of motorcycle po
licemen stopped scores of mo
torics in the area but none ap-pea-
d to have been involved in
the .ragedy.
Other officers learned from
witnesses that the death car ap
peared to be a dark grey Plym
outh, possibly a 1948 model.
Fred Moraga, 22, told police
he was standing 150 feet from
the intersection when he heard
a crash.
"I turned around in time to
nee a man rolling into the curb
vn the south side of the inter
' section," Moraga said.
Tne oeam car roarea auwn
Valencia st., turned right on
24th st., and disappeared from
view, Moraga said.
F. K. Tillman, 57, said he
heard the crash while in his
apartment. He said he heard a
car speed away with a rumbling
exhaust.
Police said the impact hurled
Medal 65 feet.
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
Editor" Note: Aline Mosby is on
vacation. In Her place, tough ruy
Richard Widmark tells of his trans
formation Into an effeminate charact
er for "Saint Joan."
SHAG RUGS
Washed & Dyed
BIG Y LAUNDROMAT
PHONE SP 3-3273
BY RICHARD WIDMARK
Written for the United Press
Hollywood ;U.R) When Otto
Preminger a p p roached me to
play the part of Charles, the
Dauphin, in his production of
Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," I
readily accepted, but with a
slight twinge of misgiving.
The role of Charles VII of
France was the exacting type of
role I had always wanted to
play, but my immediate thoughts
Heavy Rainfall
Dumped on Dallas
By UNITED PRESS
A lingering low pressure cen
ter in the South dumped torren
tial rains on flood - battered
Dallas, Tex., and a wave of cold
Canadian air overspread the
Northeast.'
Nearly two inches of rain
flooded Dallas in a six-hc jr pe
riod Wednesday night, : prcing
some 100 persons to fie : their
homes. A tornado v lipped
through a small town nea Paris,
Tex., about 100 miles nt itheast
of Dallas, causing mino i prop
erty damage but injur jig no
one.
The death count in the 14-day
onslaught of drenching ra ns and
tornadoes in Texas mou ted to
at least 19. The latest victim
was a young cowboy, )elmer
Lee Luke, 17, who was swept
to his death while trng to
ade his horse across a flooded
stream to get to a rodeo.
Cooler air put an end to
spring readings from the upper
Mississippi Valley through the
Great Lakes and into New Eng
land. A weather disturbance ap
proached the Pacific Coast, caus
ing rains from Central Cali
fornia into Idaho in advance of
the storm.
Forecasters predicted rain for
most of the Western states to
day, and partly cloudy skies for
the Great Lakes, most of the
Ohio Valley and the Atlantic
Coastal states from Virginia
northward.
concerned how my fans would
react to my portrayal of a week
ling king.
For 10 long years, ever since
I was called upon to shove a
sweet old lady down a flight of
stairs in "Kiss of Death," I've
always been the film tough guy
pushing people around. Maybe
this new picture was a form
of . retiribution, however, be
cause as Charles, the Dauphin,
I'm pushed around by every
body. Part Different
The part of the Dauphin was
entirely different from any of
the modern roles I was familiar
with, and this particular part re
quired extensive research.
Charles VII, although weak in
many respects, was not an idiot
or a fool, and to portray him as
he actually was, and also accord
ing to Shaw's graphic descrip
tion, required interpretation that
could not be garnered by just
reading the script.
I found myself in the actual
role of a history student again.
I perused volumes of books re
garding not only the Dauphin,
but the political problems that
confronted him in the pressing
pathetic times leading to Fran
ce's bloody war with England.
Rehearsal Extensive
Before we started shooting the
picture, there were many weeks
of rehearsal and my co-star Jean
Seberg (Joan of Arc), the mem
bers of the cast and everyone
concerned contributed greatly to
what success I have achieved as
Charles VII.
Along with involved costum
ing, this picture also required
extensive use of make-up, and
I had to report to the studio
every morning at 4 for two
weeks to enable the make-up art
ists to age me, as the dauphin
from 26 to 51 years.
I firmly believe that this un
usual type of role is excellent
background for any actor, re
gardless of how he has been
typed or to what parts he feels
he is best suited.
Habit of Mosquito
Seen Key To Control
Miami Beach (U.P.) If you
think mosquitoes get more blood
thirsty at night, you're right.
Newly hatched salt marsh
mosquitoes begin their hunt for
blood 10 minutes after sunset,
Dr. Maurice W. Provost, director
of the Entomological Research
Center at Vero Beach, said Wed
nesday. This knowledge, he told the
convention of the Florida Anti
Mosquito and American Mos
quito Control Associations, may
be the key to much more effec
tive control. '
WATER CRITIC
Augusta, Me. (U.R) Asked
by a legislator for his opinion
of the pollution problem in the
Penobscot river, a Bangor resi
dent described the water as fol
lows: "It's too thick to drink
and too thin to plow."
itish Air Crash
Takes 32 Lives;
Three Survive
Blackbushe, England flJ.R)
The three survivors of a plane
crash that killed 32 persons here
Wednesday night were listed in
critical condition today.
A chartered Viking airliner
loaded with British servicemen
for the Middle East crashed and
burned when one engine failed
shortly after it took off for Trip
oli, Libya.
Four servicemen were thrown
clear of the blazing wreck but
one died later.
The 32 victims included a
serviceman's wife and her two
children and the plane's stew
ardess. The rest were men.
Plane Reports Crash
A U.S. plane belonging to the
200th Fleet Aircraft Service
Squadron based at this military
airfield was over the field and
reported the crash when the
plane went down two miles from
the runway.
Airman Franklin P. Keyser
of Boswell, Pa., said, "We saw
it take off and as we circled the
field waiting for it to clear we
saw it dive into the ground and
explode.
U.S. Navy men led by Lt. Cur
tis Churston of Atlanta reached
the wreck with a firetruck al
most simultaneously with the
airport firefighters.
Sept. 4, 1896 was the birth
date of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Sen. Morse Favors
Foreign Aid on
Basis of Loan
Washington, D. C. Senator
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) today
called on the State Department
to negotiate an exchange of com
modities with the government
of Poland as "a means of mak
ing good on our promise to the
new Polish leaders that we
would lend them an economic
helping hand."
The Oregon Senator pointed
out that last summer, when anti
Russian elements were strug
gling for control of the Polish
government, the U. S. offered
them economic assistance.
Should Raise Sight
"However," he said, "Secre
tary Dulles does not feel as 1
generous now as he did when j
we wanted to influence the se
lection of a government in Po-i
land. The Secretary should j
raise his sights in his bargain-!
ing with the Polish delegation j
uun ait uiio tiuuu;.
Morse asked: "Why should
not the grain from the wheat
fields of Eastern Oregon and
the Great Plains be used to as
sure the people of Poland a de
gree of freedom, and a little bet
ter standard of living, particu
larly when it is not offered as a
gift, but in trade?"
"We have a great opportun
ity," he declared, "to use our
food surpluses to help maintain
a government that is not the
servant of -Moscow, and I think
that is a very good trade, in
deed." Morse said that many mis
statements have been made
about foreign aid during the
current economy drive, and
opined that "history will show
that American intervention with
financial help in Eastern Eu
rope and the Middle East after
World War II was decisive in
halting Communist expansion
into those poverty-ridden areas."
Iran Recent Example
He pointed to the Marshall
Plan, the Truman Doctrine and
American contributions to
NATO as important factors, and
cited Iran as a more recent ex
ample of a country in which
American aid has been of vital
influence.
Morse expressed pleasure that
"almost 80 per cent of the
money for economic develop
ment is now loaned, rather than
granted." He- called for in
creased support of the Special
United Nations Fund for Eco
nomic Development (SUNFED)
which helps underdeveloped
countries in public works,
school and agriculture projects.
BIG JOB
Visalia, Calif. (U.R) O. L.
Kelch of Pasadena asked Tulare
County Sheriff Sandy Robinson
to find a missing house. His j
three-room house at Allensworth
disappeared from its foundation.
Thursday, May 2. 195.7
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
TELEPHONE CALLS
London (U.R) An average of
4,200 telephone calls a week has
been placed between-the United
States and Britain since the open
ing of the first transatlantic tele
phone cable last September, the
General Post Office said today.
This is nearly double the weekly
average of radio telephone calls
placed before the cable was installed.
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