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Surgery on President Cleveland In 1893 Now Believed Not Cancer By DELOS SMITH Uniled Press Science Editor New York OP Out of profes sional curiosity, cancer special ists would like to know more about the al leged cancer which appear e d in the mouth of Grover Cleve land when he was President back in 1893 and. according to p o 1 i t i c al Delos Smith and economic historians, threatened the nation with first-class disaster. The little known event is eur renty revived by a popular mag azine with connotation of how times have changed, when only 64 years ago a President could undergo cancer surgery without political Washington or the coun try as a whole knowing anything about it. Cleveland kept the hap pening secret for nine years, un til he was out of office. But present-oay cancer ex perts wonder if it was really cancer, even though the three surgeons and one dentist who performed the secret surgery on a President aboard a yacht cruis ing off Long Island, certainly were convinced that it was. The doubt is based upon their surg ery having been superficial by present-day standards and by Cleveland having survived it for 19 years and then dying of another cause. Felt Secrecy Needed Cleveland felt secrecy was im perative because the country was in the throes of a depression and he was the embattled de fender of its gold standard which was being jeopardized by forced government purchase of newly mined silver at a ruinous price. If the news got around, the cause might be lost and, in his opinion, the country would be in worse trouble. So on June 30, 1893, he left the White House and went to New York and boarded the yacht without anyone but the few closest to him, being the wiser. Not even the vice presi dent knew. He was Adlai E. BRITISH OVERSEAS London 0? The state-owned British overseas airways corpor ation has given in to govern ment pressure and agree to re lease four of its ordered Britan nia airliners to American Trans World Airlines, aviation sources said today. The sources said, how ever, that BOAC wants up to three million pounds (S8.400, 000) in compensation for revenue it expects to lose by releasing the planes. 1 y 1 ' The Hollywood Scene Hollywood (Ut Eve Arden, returning to television after a year's hiatus, plays a chic wom- 1 a n of the j world in con- iiuai iu ntrr former plain Jane 'Our Miss Brooks" role and she is hoping that t e 1 e v i ewers s ,4 can mane me fxaz&M&M switch, too. Vernon Scott I's not easy to lose an identity after you've played a role for 10 years on radio and four years on TV." she sighed. "Hardly a day goes by but what someone calls me Con nie Brooks. "The problem is complicated by the fact that Connie hasn't been killed off. The returns are still going strong. Sophisticated Role "My new role as Liza Ham mond calls for a sophisticated author-lecturer. Her wardrobe is a terrific improvement over poor Connie's. And the characters are so completely different I don't think there will be any confu sion." Eve, between rehearsals, said she spent the past year search-j ing for the right series to re . f By VERNON SCOTT United Press Writer launch her video career. "I wanted to get away from the broad comedy of Miss Brooks," she explained. "This new show is about a working mother and that's exactly what I am. I have a career, and I also have four lovely children. So it shouldn't be too difficult for me to play the part. Hilarious Situations "Liza is a widow with twin girls (played by Karen Green and Rosemary Clooney's young er sister Gail Stone). Because she has written a best-selling novel, she decides to travel around the country on a lecture tour. We think this will lead to a whole bunch of hilarious situa tions." Decked out in green slacks with matching blouse, the long stemmed comedienne bears no resembles to the caustic movie roles she once played. Neither is she the wise-cracking Miss Brooks. She basically is a shy, introverted gal who likes to have her producer-husband, Brooks West, around during interviews. "I'll miss being a school marm," Eve concluded with a wry smile, "but even the teacher is allowed to graduate once in a while." 4nif if your heat goes YOUR FUEL ISUS GO urn QiatjisJl GAS HOME HEATERS put the healJ-jxgiL, AND YOUR ML BILLS GO Ordinary beaters p3e foe heat op on the ceffing rata some of 2 finally seeps down to the living leveL If yon own an ordinary beater, yoa know bow costly and uncomfortabie that system id Siegkr does just the opposite . . . your floors in every room get heated first. Heat is not wasted on the ceiling and out the chim ney. Dont dose off rooms this winter and pay high fuel balls to boot . . . eider your new Siegter now. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE SIEGLER GUARANTEES MORE AND HOTTER HEAT OVER YOUR FLOORS Come lo today. let crs provw 8 wrffc a hot demonstration SISKIYOU HARDWARE 225 West Main, Medford, Oregon PIONEER HARDWARE 742 S.W. 6th. Grants Pass, Oregon BAUDER HARDWARE & APPLIANCE 296 East Main, Ashland, Oregon j Stevenson and he was a silver I man. Nor did the cabinet know. The following day the surgeons operated, with their patient propped up in a chair. According to the account in '"The Reader's Digest," the Pres ident expected to be not only well within a month but to be able to speak vigorously and often with his normal speaking voice. It was an extraordinary assignment for surgeons treat ing a patient with mouth cancer, and it was even more extraord inary that the surgeons carried it out. Experts Dissatisfied But the present-day cancer ex perts were dissatisfied with available detail. The President had been aware of a "roughness" in his mouth for a couple of months. On June 18, a physician had found an ulcer covering one third of the mouth's roof. A tissue examination returned a verdict of cancer. The dentist pulled two teeth from the upper left jaw. The sur geons found '"much of the upper jawbone- diseased, the antrum filled with malignancy, and the soft palate of the roof of the mouth affected." Yet they re moved no bone and, evidently, not too much tissue. The opera tion took half an hour, although there was another and lesser one some 10 days later to remove "some further suspicious tissue. In those days before antibiotics and modern super-sterile surgi cal techniques, the surgery was completely healed and the Presi dent was dominating a special session of Congress six weeks latter. He even had been fitted with a denture to fill out his facial contour. The experts inter viewed by this writer couldn't believe it had been cancer or if it was both Cleveland and the surgeons were lucky to have caught it in the very beginning, Three Men Saved By Coast Guard Depoe Bay, Ore. flP) Three elderly Salem men were rescued by the Coast Guard Monday af ter their 16-foot boat capsized as they tried to cross the bar at the mouth of the Siletz river. Coastguardsmen Wayne Gage and Jack Todter braved poor visibility and 15-foot breakers to effect the rescue after they saw the mishap while on patrol in the bay. They managed to pull Damery and Davidson from the Ocean while Hughes, clinging to the capsized boat, drifted to sea. Davidson and Damery were taken to Taft while two other Coast Guard men, Cliff Mootry and Rollin Knight, crossed the bar in a motor lifeboat and res cued Hughes. The latter was found holding onto the capsized 16-foot boat about an hour after the accident. Damery and Davidson were reported in good condition. Hughes was taken to Pacific Community hospital in Newport where his condition was de scribed as satisfactory. Judge Rules Against Local at Reedsporf Portland 0P A ruling against the Reedsport local of the International Wood workers of America was made Monday by U. S. Judge Gus Solomon. The ruling was made in a suit which arose from a 1954 dis pute between the union and Fir chau Brothers Logging company. The judge ruled that the union had violated the Taft-Hartley act in imposing a secondary boy cott on Firchau logs. The judge did not set amount of damages. In a suit against the union Firchau had asked $317,000. Fishing Vessel Gulled by Flames Port Townsend, Wash. (IP) A gasoline-fed blaze gutted the 30-foot fishing vessel Penney on Monday nigh in a little more than llz hours seven miles from here. The craft's only occupant own er Don E. Smith of Anacortes. escaped uninjured in a skiff to a nearby fishing vessel, the Hun gry Jack. Smith said he was preparing to set drift nets near Lagoon Point in Admiralty Inlet when the engine stopped. He said an explosion occurred as he open ed the cabin door and the en suing flames forced him to ab andon ship. Japanese Youth Again Jumps Ship; Back in Jail Astoria HP) Tsuruhama Hatsuposhi, alias Joe Oniru, 24, was back in jail today after jumping ship at Astoria on his way back to Japan. It was the fourth time the persistent lad from Japan had jumped ship attempting to stay in the United States. The first time Joe was found in the U.S. was in 1951 when he was found under some tar paper in the northwest district of Portland. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Sea Island. Ga. Air Force Gen. Nathan Twining, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, in saying the United States has the mili tary power to devastate Russia if it launches a surprise attack: "At the present time we have retaliatory striking forces de signed to deal the Soviet Union an immediate devastating blow should such retaliation be necessary." Marianna, PaP. Coal miner Michael Knizner. 45, on being res cued badly burned from a mine blast that killed five men and in jured six: "Someone hold me ... I can't hold onto anything." Hollywood Prosecutor William L. Ritzi, on the possibility of a hung jury in the lengthy Confidential magazine criminal libel trial: "If we get a hung jury this time we will try them again and again until we convict them." Miami Beach Outgoing Teamsters President Dave Beck, in a telegram lo George Meany refusing a second invitation lo explain corruption charges against his union by the AFL-CIO: "The Teamsters are the largest labor organization in the world. We have done a great job of organizing and we can damn well handle our own business, and we don't run." New York Carmen Basilio, following his split-decision mid dleweight title victory over Sugar Ray Robinson: "Sugar Ray Robinson is a great fighter, but I beat him. That makes me a great fighter doesn't it?" New York Sugar Ray Robinson: "I gotta take a few days off and decide whether I want to stay in boxing. There's too much intrigue." Pair Feared Drowned as Coos Bay, Ore. (IP! Two oil men from Bakersfield, Calif., were feared drowned shortly af ter noon Monday when their Cessna 182 plane crashed into Coos Bay after taking off from North Bend airport for Bakers field. D. W. Green, partner in the Plane Dives in Coos Bay Green and Heiser Drilling Co. of Bakersfield, was piloting the plane and had fileti a flight plan at North Bend. Believed with him was Elton Walker, driller, who was believed en route back to Bakersfield with Green. Read and Use Classified ftds The Low Cost Way to SeU Tuesday, September 24, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Dairy Farmer Ups TV Winnings to $110,500 New York 'IP! Harold Craig, 26, a dairy farmer from Granville, N.Y., ran into a tough opponent Monday night in his drive to become the top money winner on a television quiz show. Craig, who has won SI 10,500 so far on NBC's "Twenty-one" quiz program, tied twice with New York psychologist David Mayer in two-round questioning on world islands, musical shows, queens and political leaders. The questions were for S500 and S1.000 a point. When they return next week, Craig for his 15th appearance, the two will play for stakes of Sl,500 a point. And if Craig wins he will pass the winning mark of S129.000 set by Charles Van Doren. Collage Grove Man Named To Legislature Eugene (IP) Lane county commissioners Monday named Joe Crepeau of Cottage Grove to succeed Richard Eymann as state representative at the spec ial session of the Oregon legis lature called for Oct. 28. Crepeau is a former mayor of Cottage Grove. Eymann resign ed to become secretary for the State Tax commission. The commissioner's vote ap proving Crepeau was unanimous. Crepeau was recommended by the Lane County Democratic Central committee. FLOOD HIT MACAO Macao (IP At least two persons have died and 5,000 were left homeless in this Port uguese Southeast Asian enclave as a result of floods triggered by typhoon Gloria. Damage was es timated in the tens of thousands of dollars. FLY NOW . . . Chicago IF The sky is no longer the sovereign domain of angels, airline passengers and space men. United Airlines re ported today it is carrying such things as cut flowers, films and live animals in ever-increasing numbers. 'mm Hf FUN! 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