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. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1063 g iritish Mail Jobbery Still Mystifies Scotland Yard Bv HARRV I tT. . .. By HARRY J. STATHftc Uiniress '"'"national LONDON (UPI) Three months ago this week a gang operating with the efficiency of commandos robbed a British royal mail train and escaped with the largest cash haul in history. Despite Scotland Yard's best efforts the case remains large ly a mystery. Although 19 persons have been arrested and charged in connection with the sensational robbery, the gang's leaders ap parently are still at large and most of the 2,631,748-pound ($7, jw.aaaj loot is still missing.. Scotland Yard's famed "Fly ing Squad" detectives have chipped away at the crime that startled the world last Aug. 8 when the Royal Mail train from Glasgow to London was held up near Cheddington, northwest of London. Working day and night, sift ing clues from the scene of the underworld "stool - pigeons seeking a share of a record of fer of 260,000-pounds ($728,000) reward money, Scotland Yard made the first arrests only one week after the robbery. Since then so far as the pub lic knows the case has been bogged down in an on - again, off-again pre - trial roaring at Aylesbury, not far. !rom the scene of the crime, where the government has been present- Public Prefers To Use Own Cars DENVER, Colo., (UPI)-Den.-ver University traffic engineers say monorail or other types of rapid transit will not become a reality in Denver until the cost of driving becomes prohibitive. The engineers said the public refuses to leave cars at home and use mass transit. The Den ver Tramway Corp. carries only about one-third as many pas sengers as it did in World War Today's automobiles may have a dozen electric motors. ks1UWlT Cords for Thursday, Nov. 28 SWEM'S 217 E. MAIN Merford, Oregon Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- "yOUNG SHAMUS OTOOLE, born and raised in the deep -- South, got tired of being called "That so-and-so Irish- He said, "I'm going back to man by various townspeople. the land of my fore fatherswhere EVERY BODY is Irish, and I won't be called 'That Irishman any longer.' " He moved to County Cork, Ireland. And he was right. In Ireland they called him "That so-and-so American." Mrs. Wilson was de-' lighted last week when hoi teen - aged daughter L I z hung up the phone after only twenty minutes only one-third the time of one of her average calls. "Your friend must have had a date she couldn't keep waiting," observed Mrs. Wilson sarcastically. "That wasn't a friend," said Liz. "It was a wrong number." - PUNS WORTH REMEMBERING: F.P.A.'s "She was suffering from falling archness." Addison Mizner's "Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder." Carolyn Wells' "Every dogma must have its day" and "One man's fish is another man's poisson." ' O 1563, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate ing charges against the 16 men and three women so far ac cused. Describes Robbery The prosecution opened its case by describing how on the night of Wednesday, Aug. 7, at 6:50 p.m., 70 sorters locked themselves in two 60-foot-long robbers. post ottice coacnes at Glasgow for the 401-mile trip to London. At 3:02 o'clock the next morn ing, Jack Mills, 57, driver of the mail train, slackened his speed from 80 miles an hour to obey an amber signal rigged by the The Family Council Editor's nnle: t'he t'amllr Cuuncil consists of a Juage, a fhy'hltrlst. three clergymen, three edlturs ana a women's editor, ach article Is a summary of a family disagreement presented to th Cr.uncll the Council d?als with problems, major and minor, 'iitounteied by guidance counselor,, and sortal workers. Edited by Mrs. Alma Denny. fCopyrlcht by General Features Curb.) T.-She Travel should would improve Ina along her. Naomi E. I know many well traveled bores. come slides, and collections of straw Ina T. Our club is signing up for a 3-week charter flight to Europe over Christmas and New Year's. I've talked myself hoarse trying to get my cousin to join us. She's a retired teach er, living alone, .and too much of a homebody for her own good. She can well afford the bargain rates, and the trip would perk her up for years to come. Naomi E. I'm not aware that I need perking up. And if I did, 1 wouldn't turn to travel to do the trick. That's just run ning away, killing time, rubber necking in towns that may not be more interesting than my own. Why hand them my Amer ican dollars? I'll spend them here. As for improvement, if a person's a dud, travel won't change him. The Council: We agree that once a bore always a bore, re gardless of snapshots, color baskets. Because a bore by definition is someone who wearies, or in Ambrose Bierce's Dictionary, "a person who talks when you wish him to listen. In other words, a bore becomes oblivious of his audience's wishes and moods, merely cater ing to his own. So Ina can't promise that travel will auto matically make Naomi (or any one) more interesting. It can only do so tor an open-minded, open-hearted tourist who not only sees what meets the eye, but appreciates the traditions breathing beneath the surface. . . .Believe it or not, Ina, there are people who can travel who don t and won t. They re In good health, have the money, can get away from job or family re sponsibility, but insist, like Na omi, that they're quite content at home. A recent survey says 1 out of 10 Americans feels this way and wonders why the other 9 are so "restless, rne trutn is Naomi, travel can be broaden ing, and not only in the beam The narrow-minded can become less so, while the broadmindcd can return full of new light. 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Two men were picked up at the seaside resort of Bournemouth and one man and two women were arrested at their homes in London. Within the next few days police recov ered 274,297 pounds ($768,131) apparently dumped or hidden in panic. Among the top suspects still hunted were a 28-year-old rac ing driver, Roy John James, called "The Weasel, and two antique dealers, John Thomas Daly, 32, and Bruce Richard Reynolds, 41. Almost from the beginning it has been rumored that the man in charge of the great mail rob bery was a onetime commando officer known as "The Major." So far as is known, "The Major" is still among the miss ing. Under British law the state must show at a pre-trial hearing that it has enough evidence to warrant putting the suspects on trial. The prosecution said 15 men took part in the train robbery and then holed up at Leathers lade Farm, where they whiled away the first hours after the robbery playing "monopoly" and drinking beer. 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