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C MAIL TRIBUNI, kk.4f.ri. Or. u Monday, July 27, 195 Fire in Boxing Promoter's Home Could Be Arson Northridge, Calif. (UPD - A "mail fire, possibly the work of arsonists, broke out Sun day night in the bedroom of boxing promoter Jackie Leonard. Leonard, 42, and his wife were watching television in the living room when the blaze started. Fire department and police arson investigators were sent to investigate early today when a window screen was found pulled out in Leonard's bedroom. The blaze was extinguished by firemen before is could spread beyond the bedroom. Leonard recently claimed he has been attacked and threatened by gangland hood lums since testifying in May before the California Athletic commission about underworld . attempts to muscle in on Wel terweight Don Jordan's ring profits. Leonard told United Press International it was the sec ond arson attempt at his home in two weeks. Gasoline Can Found "Two weeks ago Sunday," he said, "we found a half-gal lon gasoline can lying by the bedroom window. The gas had been splashed on the bed room wall outside, but never lighted. "I guess they heard us in side and got scared." Leonard, promoter at the Hollywood Legion Stadium, testified before the athletic commission that underworld figures Frankie Carbo and Frank (Blinky) Palermo tried to gain control of Jordan's contract. Leonard was found uncon scious outside his Los Angeles area home two weeks after his testimony. He claimed he was attacked from behind and beaten by two men. But police, after at first labelling the attack the work of "professionals," said a week later an investigation led them to believe Leonard suffered an "illusion." Severe head injuries which hospitalized Leonard for more than a week were said by po lice caused when he hit his head after collapsing from a stroke. Socialite Actress Of 20s Found Dead ' London - (UPD - Brenda Dean Paul, socialite actress who was queen of the .London Paris champagne set in the roaring twenties, was found dead today in the bed of her shabby third-floor flat. The one-time blonde beauty known once as "Britain's bright young thing" began her reign when she was 16. But at 21 she was a convicted drug addict. Doctors said she died of a heart attack. Near her bed, on a dresser, lay a supply of nar cotics. In 1953 Miss Paul wrote in a public letter: "To be forced for a whole lifetime, to appear in court on charges of unpaid debts, to go to prison, at times to starve, and at best to live on the grudging charity of a few loy al friends, is hell unimagin able." Grange Hews Upper Rogue Upper Rogue Grange serv ed a ham and hotcack break fast July 19th as one of their Centennial projects. More than 100 persons attended with members of other Granges well represented. There will be a drill prac tice at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 30, at the Grange Hall. Cake and coffee will be serv ed following the practice. Woman Accused Of Child Stealing Santa Ana, Calif.-flJPD-Mrs. Doris Efaw, 31, was accused today of leaving her husband and 14-year-old son in Arizona to run away for the second time with her 16-year-old boy friend. The attractive housewife, already facing child stealing charges resulting from a month-long idyll with the youth last April, was arrested at Costa Mesa Saturday with the boy and his 17-year-old cousin. Arizona authorities were to arrive today to take her in custody. When arrested, Mrs. Efaw said the boy was her son. She later changed her story and claimed he used a gun to force her from her Tucson home and make her accom pany him. Police, however, said they have evidence proving she left willingly. He testified after their spring affair that he lived with Mrs. Efaw and had been inti mate with her. Mrs. Efaw was free on $2,000 bail pending trial on the child stealing charge when she was arrested in Costa Mesa. "Look in my house," she told officers. "You can see I didn't plan on leaving. All my clothes are there." Her husband in Tucson said he believed her story and would stand behind her. - California Woman Killed in Crash Boise. Idaho-fiJPD-A woman flier from California was kill ed Sundav when a clane pi loted by her husband crashed on takeoff from an airstrip m a rugged Idaho area. Mrs. Betty Haynes. last year's California Flying Far mer queen and a Powder Puff Derby contestant this year, was the victim. Mrs. Haynes, Arbuckle, Calif., died from excessive bleeding from injuries suffer ed in the crash. Her husband, Joseph, and two other passen gers. Mr. and Mrs. Leo R. Howe, also of Arbuckle, es caped with minor injuries. The crash occurred early Sunday when the craft plunged to earth just as it was getting airborne at the Fly insr B Dude Ranch on the Mid dle Fork of the Salmon river. Onlv access to . the area is by plane or horseback. A Fly ing Fanner group from Cali fornia, including tnose from Arbuckle, flew into the ranch last Friday for a week end fishing holiday. , Mrs. Hayes finished 2otn m this year's Powder Puff Derby. Winemakers Should Notify Government Persons planning to pro duce wine for family use are reminded that they must no tify the government at least five days before beginning production, officials of the al cohol and tobacco tax divis ion of the internal revenue service said today. If the government is not notified in advance the wine is subject to tax and seizure and the maker is liable to criminal action. Up to 200 gallons of wine may be produced annually for family use without pay ment of tax, it was reported, if the winemaker is the head of a family. Forms for giving notice of home wine production may be obtained from the alcohol and tobacco tax division, U.S. Treasury Department, room 8, post office building, Eugene. VACATION DROWNING The Dalles - (DPD - Roger Freeman Roberts, 4, The Dalles, drowned Saturday while vacationing at S.toney Lake in Ontario, Canada, ac cording to word received by relatives here. Theyll Do It Every Time l, By Jimmy Hatlo VcAH -WE'VE GOT ALL-ELECTRIC THE BEAUTIFUL 6ALS DEMONSTRATE-" ,c, 195?. K:" r':ui' World rights resened- iI But somehow our kitch never looks like those commercials and rs.neither does our frau- I SAID VOUR lrS?lf I JZ I "4 SREAKFAST IS Ir j READY.' COME jjg UC? A, -wFS ESS-, XSt v-ip nag 'J5 HUH AMD AWT TIP H M 1b B.E.WATSON, BOX iss. J.UAHU Overseas Plants Financed by Americans Stiff Competition Gold was first discovered in Colorado at Engelwood in 1859. PATENT granted on improved process for making GORDON'S VODKA! This is the first and only pat ent granted a vodka distiller on this improved process! Now you can enjoy Gordon's Vodka smoothest and dearest of all Vodkas absolutely neutral! Next time you buy Vodka, try GORDON'S VODKA . . . the new standard of Vodka quality 10 AND 100 PROOF IISTIUED FBOM GRAIN . CORDON'S IIT SIN CO. 1TB., LINDEN, N.L Distributors! Porrott & Co, Son Frondico, Lot Angel, Portland, Seattle U. S. Pmt. No. 1,S7?.1 By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor . New York -(UPD- Those new plants which America helped build and finance abroad are now running stiff competi tion for Amer ican products not only in markets out side the U. S. but right here. Amer i c a n exports have been falling off while imports of foreign goods have been rising. The steel industry has been hit hard by imports and it is get ting a new slap right now Elmer Wmlzer with its mills idled by a strike The big advantage the for eigners have on us is the low wages they pay for factory production. Thanks to us they have the latest in factories and in knowledge of engineer ing and operation of them. Industry's magazine, "Mill Sc Factory" takes a very dim view of this situation. 'Shouldn't Happen To Dog' Its editor Carl C. Harring ton holds that "what is hap pening to American industry shouldn't happen to a dog.- It is being run out of world mar kets and is rapidly being run ragged in our own domestic markets." The leading article in "Mill & Factory" entitled "The Case Voters in Hawaii To Elect Officials Of Newest State Honolulu-(DPD-Voters Tues day elect the men to repre sent Hawaii in her new role as the 50th state. They will elect two sen ators, one member of the House of Representatives, a governor, and 62 members of the Legislature. Of the six candidates run ning for the two Senate and one House seats, three are Orientals and two are heavily favored in their contests. The race for the governor ship is the only contest in which both candidates are Caucasian. Appointed Republican Ter ritorial Gov. William F. Quinn is opposed by Demo crat delegate to Congress, John A. Burns. Both sides are predicting victory, and both admit it will be close. In the race for Senate seat "A," Democrat Frank Fasi is opposing millionaire Chinese American Hiram Fong in what is rated the closest contest in the election. Fasi is a Connecticut-born businessman. Contest for Scat B Former Gov. Oren Long is opposing Japanese -. American Wil-C Ysukiyama, 62, a terri torial legislator, for Senate seat "B." The Democrats are so confident that Long will Local Guardsman High in Rifle Match Clackamas, Ore.-fllPD-Marks-men of the Oregon National Guard held their two major high-power rifles matches dur ing the week end with Silver ton, Pendleton and Clackamas guardsmen capturing honors. The top three teams in the Adjutant General's match were Co. B, 1st Battle Group, 186th Infantry Regiment, Pendleton; 3670th Ordnance Co., Clackamas, and Head quarters Co., 82nd Armored Battalion, Silverton, in that order. In the Governor's 'match, the Silverton group was first followed by Clackamas and Pendleton. High individual scorers in the Adjutant General's match were Lt. Dave Borneman, Medford; MSgt. Robert Knotts, Milton-Freewater, and MSgt. Gale Stephens, Silver ton. High individuals in the Governor's match were Knotts, Capt. Fred Podhora, Portland, and Stephens. Moscow-fUPD-Vice President Richard M. Nixon will pay a two-day visit to Poland en route home from his tour of Russia, it was announced Saturday. win, they allowed the former school teacher to attend a convention in New York in the middle of the campaign. Figured to win a seat in the House of Representatives is one-armed war hero Daniel K. Inouye, 33, a lawyer-legislator cf Japanese ancestry. Democrat Inouye has been en dorsed by the majority of the nonpartisan groups who favor him over Republican Charles H. Silva. . Orientals representing all four major Asian countries Japan, China, Korea and the Philippines, are candidates for the state offices. ' Eleven of the candidates for the Legislature are of Chinese ancestry, 53 are Americans of Japanese ancestry, three are Koreans, and -two are Filipinos. Drug Receives Addiction Test Washington -(Science Service)- The, long ami of the Nar cotics Bureau is encircling a synthetic drug even before it hits the. market. Whether or not the drug proves to be useful as a pain killer is incidental to narcot ics investigators - they want to be sure that it is not mass produced for indiscriminate distribution to the public. The drug is 3-Hydroxy-N-phenacylmorphian. It has been produced to kill pain. It may do the job. It may not. Clinical studies are being conducted by the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington, Ky. Previous stud ies revealed to scientists that the drug, supplied by Hoffman-La Roche, Inc., Nutley, N. J., can cause addiction. Now they want to determine if it can kill pain. of America's Vanishing Mar kets" holds that American standarjl of living is being threatened by a growing flood of imported products. "Foreign economies, large ly rebuilt with U. S. dollars (75 billion of them) are turn ing out increasing quantities of quality goods," says Mill & Factory. "Lower foreign wage rates make such wares attractive, to domestic markets. Trouble spots are machine tools, ap pliances, and mining." The magazine holds that "It's time we all took a long, hard look at Italian silk suits, Japanese cameras, French sport cars, and German hand tools. - Let's stop kidding our selves - these aren't bargains They are deadly poison, and all of us are committing eco nomic suicide when we buy them." Righ now with the steel in dustry on strike; this nation is importing many steel items and more are being processed by foreign producers. Among these steel products are barbed wire, nails, rein forcing bars and -many other steel products. "Take a look at a keg of nails being used on nearly any building project," says Harrington. "Nine out of ten times they will have come from overseas. You will find foreign steel reinforcing rods being used as far west ai Chi cago. Ana even government agencies are not averse to buy ing less costly turbine gener ators from abroad." "Mill & Factory" has sug gested for combatting the for eign competition problem. It urges ultimate reorganization of all possible production be cause "If labor costs are out of control, then eliminate' as tnuch of labor as possible.' Increased tariffs might help but this seems out of the ques tion the magazine admits. Failing in this, it advocates a movement of Buy American. Branch Factories Abroad Also it would establish branch factories in foreign lands, a move that has been in progress for a long time and is growing right now. k It urges firming up oar patent laws since "We can out-design and out-invent any competing country, but we must have protection for the ideas we develop." It urges pouring more money into research and de velopment. And finally it holds that "Unless wage rises are based on increased pro ductivity, they are self-defeating by their inflationary influence." Portland (UPD-The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled a hearing Aug. 4 on charges that the Teamsters union ronducted a secondary "boycott in connection with the Tillamook Cheese striKe. Fresno, Calif. -(DPD- Sey mour Snaer of the San Fran cisco Examiner has been nam ed News Photographer of the Year by the California Press Photographers association. To Those SUFFERING FROM LOSS OF HEARING! In order to serve the hard of hearing persons in the Rogue River Valley better, I am at tending a series of lectures on hearing loss' and its correction, speech, audiology, and electronics at Stanford University. Will re turn Thursday, July 30th. . The office will be open for the sale of bat teries and accessories. GEORGE E. WHITE 38 South Central TONEMASTER & ZENITH HEARING AIDS A Model for Every Type of Hearing Loss K!5 Small Worlds Wi Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins Did You Evtr St a 'Walking Stick?' Being unusual is nothing to get excited about when we consider some of the insects, for in this populous field of living things the unusual ac tually is commonplace. The majority of insects are odd, others are downright queer. Let's look at the so-called "walking stick." This character is not only ridiculous, he is grotesque. Or rather she is, for the female of this strange class of insects is several times larger than her husband. She always oc cupies the limelight and re ceives the lion's share of the attention. Nature intended this insect to closely resemble a twig of a tree, thereby escaping the eves of hungrv enemies. The female walking stick always knows 1 just where her hus band is, for she keeps him with her all the time. Six Legs The body of the female may be four or five inches long and as large around as a lead pencil. She has six long legs that hold her long body par allel with the ground or to a tree twig. : ' She is lazy," seldom walk ing if she can avoid it. Riding along on her back, her con stant and unnoticed compan ion, is her husband. He is an insignificant little squirt, barely as large around as a kitchen match but nowhere near as long. He's a model husband. He is perfectly hap py to just go along without a protest. Often in a fleeting moment of generosity she moves to a Servicemen Two Central Point sailors recently took part in a full- scale naval review and visit to San Francisco, Calif., after completing a major exercise held off the California coast. , The valley men were Walt ea L. Brenner, commissary man third class, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Brenner, 1971 Scenic ave., and husband of the former Miss Linda L. Baer, 6369 Ponderosa st., and Dowl G. Boles, fireman ap prentice, of route 1, Central Point. The two men are serving aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Midway. position where he can reach out and grab a small mouthful of food but she carefully gaug es his meals and never al lows him to indulge too well. Change Colors The walking-stick insects also have the ability to change colors to match their sur roundings, displaying a star tling shrewdness by moving around on a branch to get out of sight if they think they have been discovered. There are 600 known varieties of these insects, 16 of which are found in the U.S. Some of the southern varieties have wings. All are leaf-eaters but for some unknown reason they never become so numer ous as to be a problem. The female carelessly drops her egs on the ground, wher ever she happens to be. The eggs look like little glass beads, each with a tiny white dot on one side. The insect's legs are very long, brittle as thin glass and easily broken. But even if damaged the insect seems barely conscious of the fact, growing a new leg. The new leg will be shorter but it works nicely. Perhaps this gift ' from Nature is a small compensation for looking like a stick. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) MAY RECONSIDER President Dorticos of Cuba, tp pearing on television in Havana with ex-prime minister Fidel Castro (right), told the Cuban people he did not think Castro would long resist their demands for him to return to the post of prime minister. Castro recently resigned, in a move to force out former President Ur rutia. House, Grass Fires Fought by Firemen Two Medford fire depart ment trucks responded to a house fire Friday evening, 1116 West Second st., fire men said. The fire occurred in a va cant house in which furni ture was stored. Interior of the building was destroyed. Cause of the fire was un known although evidence in dicated someone' unknown to the owner had been inside the house. Two trucks were also called to a grass fire at 3340 North Pacific highway Sat day which scorched some dis play cases, burned four feet up a power pole and 15 feet of fence. An area of grass 30 feet square was also burned. Cause of the fire is not known. Synthetic mink is being made from a mixture of dynel and nylon. It's said to be in distinguishable from the nat ural fur. ... living standards are maintained and improved through consumer credit services... 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