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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
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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
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he was "friendly . . . kind . . .
wouldn't hurt a fly."
Indianapolis police said
Jones had taken three lie tests
and each showed "discrepan
cies." Jones himself, described by
an attorney as illiterate, kept
his silence. He entered no plea
to the charge against him and
waived extradition to Tennes
see. But Welby Lee's long man-
hunt was not quite over.
"We know who the other
man in the car was," he said. .
"He lives in Ohio and he'll be ,,
arrested shortly."
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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.
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