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O O 6 6 THURSDAY. MAY 24. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Death Brings End To Love Triangle Of Korean War San Francisco - DPI) - Death has slowed the final curtain on the drama of Daniel and Una Schmidt - a story of an airman who returned from the Korean war to find his wife, ' believing him dead, married ' to another man. ; An isolated paragraph in a logger's magazine reported - that Daniel C. Schmidt, 31, " died on the operating table at Fort Miley Veterans Hospital May 9 while undergoing open : heart surgery. The hospiftl ' confirmed his death. Bomber Shot Down Schmidt went to Korea as -.an Air Force gunner, leaving - behind his wife, Una, who : gave birth to their son, Danny - Jr., five'weeks later. In 1952 - his B-29 was shot down over . North Korea. He spent 32 months in a .'Red Chinese prison. When ''m o s t imprisoned American l-sorvicemen were released in ,-"Operation Big Switch," Robber, Hostage Killed During 'Holdup Escape "' Belzoni, Miss. fUPrt A store- keeper and the slender ex " convict who held him as a --hostage were killed Wednes day and the gunman's teen - age wife was critically wound :'cd in a running gun battle -'wilh police. '. Sammy Jack Robertson, 21, 1-of Houston, Miss., and C. L. ,-Chattick, held as a hostage by Robertson, were fatally -wounded in a hail of bullets. Robertson's wife, Sue, 19, was critically wounded dur ing the firing. The pretty brunette drove the getaway car in which the couple fled with Chatlick as a hostage after holding up his store. Robertson, who hod served a prison term for auto theft, and his wife walked into the country grocery Wednesday afternoon. Robertson pulled a gun on Chattick's wife, who was attending the store, and demanded money. Mrs. Chattlck said "the girl emptied the cash drawer into a hat" and the couple took her husband as a hostage when a customer appeared on the scene. The customer saw the gun in Robertson's hand and telephoned the police. The getaway car crashed through three roadblocks in a hail of bullets. When the car was finally halted by state highway patrolmen Mrs. Rob ertson fell from behind the wheel. She had been shot four or five times. Robertson and Cattick were dead in the back seat. Officers said they did not know if Robertson killed Chattick or if he was killed by a police bullet. Mrs. Rob ertson was rushed to a hos pital where her chances of re covery were reported (o be slim. Boa! Check Is Planned in Area A courtesy motorboat ex amination will be given by the U.S. Coast Guard auxil iary in cooperation with the Jackson county sheriff's office at Howard prairie, Emigrant lake and Savage Rapids dam, according to Cmdr. Bob Fos ter, U.S. Coast Guard auxil iary. Eugene. The check will cover all rc quired and recommended equipment. The boats passing the examination will receive a U.S. Coast Guard auxiliary i decal. The decal is recognized by most law enforcement offi cers as being attached to only safe boats with all required equipment aboard. No citation will be issued ' during the courtesy check, i the sheriff'., office said. acmmai was noi amuug uicm. His wife believed he had been i killed, and she married Al fred Fine, a Shastacounty log ger Nearly 20 months later Schmidt and his fellow crew members were released and he canfc home, Una met him at San Fran cisco airport but their meeting had another son and it appear ed that their marital mixSfcj was solved. was brier, bhe had to have time, she told him, to make up her mind between her two husbands. o Married Again She finally decided to leave j But Veterans Hospital r ine ana reiu'0 10 acnmiai. They were reunited in Port land, Ore. The Schmidts and their Enoch Arden loye Jlory then diopped out of the news. They rec ords showed that Schmidt di vorced Una in 1960 and mar ried h'in. He and his wife had been living in Shasta county, and were the parents of a 7-month-old boy. From Schmidt'i relatives in Montgomeiaj Creek, Calif., came still another twist to the strange story - Una, too had remarried. Schmidt's death was given one lonely paragraph in the Shasta Spotlite, a logging magazine published in Red ding, where he worked for a plywood mill. Fishing Industry Assistance Asked Washington -WPB- Sen. Ben jamin A. Smith (D-Mass.) to day called for a federal aid for fisheries program as ex tensive as that given agricul ture. Smith said the industry is suffering from a "backward ness of technology" and needs to modernize to help the United States catch up with Russia in world fishery production. Smith said "the march of technology, which has trans formed agriculture and so many other industries, as haftly brushed ur fisheries." In a prepared senate speech, Smith said "American fish eries desperately need, to nodernize and this moderniza tion can not take place with out the help of the federal government." Portland fe Host I Presbyterian Parley i Derive) -(UPU- Portland was selected here Wednesday as the site for the 1967 General Assembly of the Unitd Pres byterian Church of the United States. The selection was made at the church's 1962 General As-1 sembly. Porland was picked ! over San Francisco. ! HILLS BROS. COFFEE 1 H 59c 2 lb,$1'7 Instant "Q 6-oz. Jor "C M & M MARKET Griffin Creek Rd. Child Abandoned At Medical School Portland -HOT- A blue-eyed baby girl was abandoned in 1 classroom at the University ; of Oregon Mcdirn! Srhnnl Tuesday night, the school dis closed. The child, weighing about i 10 DOUnds. was rennrlfd in good condition and to have already gained a pound. 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