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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
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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.
Medical school authorities
said it was the first time a
baby has been abandoned
there. The bnby was found
wrapped in two blankets on
the floor of an unoccupied
classroom behind the scats in
the last row.
Its cries were heard hy
visitors passing from the
eighth floor classroom
en route to visit patients. At
tendants said if visitors had
not heard the child she might
not have been found until
Wcdnesda morning.
RUSK ToVpEAK
Washington - HPti - Secre
tary of State Dean Rusk plans
to leave here late this after
noon for Seattle where he will
deliver a sprr9h Friday at the
freezer I dryer
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