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c MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY. JULY 11. 1963 Bomb Extinguishes Flame at Memorial Brussels -IUPD- A bomb ex ploded early today at Bel gium's tomb of the unknown soldier, damaging the me morial and extinguishing its "sacred flame" for the first time since the end of World War I. -Windows in the area were shattered but authorities said there were no reports of casualties. The mysterious blast oc curred at 3 a.m., damaging stonework around the en trance to the 156-foot high monument, known as Con gress Column. Man's 19-Year Effort To Locate Killer of Father Produces Results C 9 Indianapolis, Ind. - HOT - It was raining in the rolling, Tennessee farm country that New Year's Eve 19 years ago. Newt Lee, 64, walked out of the barn and headed across the road in front of his farm near Moss, Tenn. A car lurched out of the night and for a brief moment its headlights rested on the the figure of the elderly far mer. Then the car knocked Lee into a rain-filled ditch. A 16-year-old girl watched frightened from the farm house porch. The car stopped. Two jnen got out, walked back and peered down at the dying man. They returned to the auto and drove away. Newt Lee was dead. The four-state, 70,000-mile search for bis killer started. "Had To Be Ma' "It had to be me," said Welby Lee Tuesday at his home in Thompkinsville, Ky. His mother was dead, his older brother was overseas with the Army, his younger brother was in another state at the time his father was killed. Lee, 50 years oH now, de voted nearly two decades of his life to tracking down the man who struck down h i s father. The trail led to a slight, baldish Indianapolis handy- man, Grover Jones, 54. Jones appeared Tuesday in Indian apolis Municipal Court charg ed with second degree murder. "I'm glad it's over," Lee said, certain he had found his man. "I felt it had to be done and I had to do it. I had the feeling I would finally find him even if I had to search forever." - He had little to go on. ' ' Three . Witnesses f There were only three wit nesses to 'what happened-the two men in the car and Welby Lee's cousin, now Mrs. Mildred Layton. Mrs. Laytdn, then 16, watched the two men through the driving rain that New Year's Eve 19 years ago. . The only clues were the girl's memory of the men's faces and a bumper guard found in the road. -' Lee traced ,, the bumper guard to a Thompkinsville garage, where the owners and two employes described the man who bought it. Their des cription tallied with the girl's memory of one of the men. In the years that followed, Lee checked out 18 suspects. He talked to each of them per sonally. His search took him through Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Ohio. Then, in Janary, 1962, he "hit the right trail." "An in-law of the man we wanted put us on it." Lee said."I had to spend the next 18 months away from my busi ness." i Relative Supplies Tip Authorities said Lee's tip came from a California in-law of Jones who was visiting back home, recalled..'the in cident and told him about it. Lee waited 18 months, gath ering facts and checking de tails. Then he walked into the office of Clay County, Tenn., authorities with a book h e said contained 153 pages of evidence. ' "After 18 years a half-job just would not do," Lee said. The Tennessee authorities swore out a warrant and Jones was arrested. He was charged with being tne ariver oi me car which killed Newt Lee. Jones' neighbors were stun ned by the arrest. They said Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In Medtord. phone 772-6141; Ai.fi land oll at 410 Bridge St., or phone 482-3002; Yreke, phone Victory 2-2898 before 6:45 p.m. dally and 1030 a.m. Sunday. 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"He lives in Ohio and he'll be ,, arrested shortly." VJ ft' " "'"jr ' Y LIGHT SHINES ON SUB-An unusual ray of light focuses on the USS Sam Houston as she returns to the Holy Loch, Scotland, from the first Polaris patrol In the Mediterran ean. (UPI) Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS (Reglit.r end Tribune Syndicate, ;6S) ' Birds Learned Exact Time 1 That Feed Was Available He had some leisure time and a desire to experiment. It might not prove a thing, but he had a plan. He built a bird feeder, a 12 inch square board, with cleats on all four sides to prevent spillage, and erected it on a short post in his backyard. At first he kept grain on it throughout the en tire day. By the end of the first week he had several reg ular customers. When he had birds of half a dozen varieties coming in J considerable numbers of each species, he allowed to food supply to become exhausted. The birds, failing to under stand what had happened to the feeding program sulked around the yard, occasionally coming lo the feeder. Some became indignant. The jays and sparrows screamed their heads off at this seemingly un necessary neglect. Next Step Now the man was ready for the next Step in the experi ment. Every morning at ex actly 9:00 he dumped a cupful of grain on the little platform. At 3:00 each afternoon he re peated the feeding. For the first few days some of the birds that came for breakfast remained until the afternoon lunch. But ' gradually, the early comers gobbled their breakfast and spent the inter vening hours elsewhere, show ins up again at 3:00. During the time between 9 and 3, there were no birds in the garden. They must have figured there was no point in hanging around when there was no chance of a handout. For a few days there were many birds near early In the morning. Some even came early and whiled away their time until breakfast was served. The man was very careful now never to put out a single grain until exactly 9 and 3. Seemed Confused For a few days many birds came and went; some early and some late. They seemed a little confused. Within a rel atively short time a rhythm was established and not a bird showed up in the yard before 9 or 3. At both of those times they would come wing ing In from all directions, and right on time. The feeding procedure con tinued for several weeks. The man could look at his clock, check the time, look out into the backyard and see them coming. Both the birds and the electric clock were right on the button. By some strange timing sense, or by some inner, biological clock, the birds were always on time. The man kept careful records as to weather condi' tions. It made no difference whether the weather was fair or stormy, cloudy or bright. The birds were aa accurate as the man-made time piece. The experiment wai contin ued throughout two complete season changes, but the re sults were always the same; . the biological clocks ticked " correctly. . men came the morninc wllltn the man mntl.4 .1 grain at 9, but not a single bird showed up. He checks the - time; It was 9:00. He recorded . the date in the notebook, the ' time and the arrival failure. At 9:16 the birds showed up. They ate the food and flew away. Later that day the man marls nnnttiM Idaaimh, Ik. .' electric power had been off . for IS minutes during the : night. The clock was off, but ' all the flights had been on " time. Kansas City Bus Agreement Reached Kansas City, Mo. - an - v Public buses rolled in greater . Kansas City today following a 7 last-minute "tentative agree-' m e n t" between transit offi- , ciali and the bus drivers union. Negotiators for the union and Kansas City Transit, Inc., announced the agreement at ; midnight Wednesday night - ' the time set by the union as an "absolute deadline1' for a set tlement of the 21-month-old . dispute. Union President Loren Har- ' gus said he would urge accep tance by union membership of ; the 11th hour offer by man agement. Transit President Donald Eyer termed the offer , "fair to both sides," and said he would recommend that the firm's board of directors ac- cept It. Terms of the settlement ; were not disclosed. CROWD BURNS FLAG Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika -lUPD-The Portuguese flag was torn down and burned before 13,000 persons Sunday at Mtwara in southern Tangan- yika, according to reports reaching here today. The in cident was in protest against roriugai s racial puutics. j -I J ifat'i OlJf cue j i tRIPPV j ITOPS IN QUALITY!! i P . a law. a I IjBEWA retCS j !IITATlOII$feC? I 1 1 s i! j I UTTU tCT a jLOW IN PRIClj
