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SAN BERNARDINO SUN-TELEGRAM D-7 if aTnAtc'a History in Iio Witnesses Tell About Skidoo AEC to Negotiate On Nuclear Power Plant in LA. Area RKF.KF-LKY il'PIi The Atom ic Kncrgy Commission announced it will negotiate with the Chalmers Manufacturing Co. frr Slayer Lynching con-truction of a Kiiowau nuclear power plant in the Los Angeles-Pasadena area. Allis Onlmers submitted a bid, one of many, of SlO.W.rO. -fT'Xfrt.

con- ins rmi vouiu ik-mh, struct and test operate the boil water tpe reactor. proton pe -f' ,1 ron kilowatt reactor. The firm would design, for the (This is the 47th article of the ninth historical series. The scene remains in the Death Valley region where two old timers teamed to tell of the famous April IPOS lynching at Skidoo. These articles appear Sundays in The Sun-Telegram.) By I- Bl KR Fifty-two years ago last April a saloon keeper in the Death Valley mining camp of Skidoo shot and killed one of the camp's leading citizens, a storekeeper named James Arnold who was manager of the camp's leading "department" store named the Skidoo Trading Co.

AKC said. A spokesman stid the nuclear power plant would serve as a pro-tots pe for one producing 300,000 kilowatts of power, aimed at reducing power coMs. When completed, in the 'plant will be operated for the ACE by Turbo generator acuities for a minimum period of fie years. Allis Chalmers will train personnel for the testing station. The site, in Haskell Canyon, would be by Los Angelej and Pasadena, the spokesman said.

fell -r The assailant, Joseph Simpson was co-owner of the Gold Seal down past Owens Lake, over the Saloon. His partner was Fred Argus Range at Darwin, down a Oakes. Simpson, habitual drinker most sketchy sort of a road by of his own wares, was lynched way of Modock, across the Pana-during the following night by a mint Valley and up to Skidoo via crowd of some 60 citizens. Wildrose Canyon. Sheriff and cor-.

Before slaying Arnold. Simpson onrr reached Skidoo to find both fid held up the cashier of the and Simpson dead. The Southern California Bank obtain- toner's jury returned a "muring from the cashier. Ralph domi hV drunken Joe Simpson" ft Dobhs. at the point of a gun.

in Arnold inquest. In the Following the holdup citirns had inquest the verdict was onrrd Simpson, taken his revolv- "riicd b-v strangulation, hanged by ir and given it to Oakes for safe parties." Cook recalls keeping. Oakes had hidden the Hrr was not hesitant pun in a stove where, unobserved, in "Pressing his approval of the t- till -'w' Managing Editors Name 10 Directors WILLIAMSBURG. Va. IAP)-Ted Durein of the Monterey.

Calif. Peninsula Herald is among 10 new directors named here by the Associated Press Managing Editors' Association. had located it and set 10u nave saved Inyo had located it Simpson lounty thousands of dollars, he is said to have stated. gt gunning for Arnold. PARTICIPANT THI.S TW.K Simpson's chances of livinj un On the night of Nov.

1(1, seated around a Death Valley F.n-cvnpment campfire at Stovepipe Wells two Death Valley old timers, now in their eighties, recalled til the sheriff reached SKirioo grew darker by the hour after the shooting of Arnold. The man already had a bad record. He had been put under peace bond some a sharply a though it had hap- pened last week "the story of ShnS UPt hotel They succeed men whose three-year terms expired. The other new directors are F.mniett Pedmon, Chicago Sun-Times; Kvcifst P. Derthick, Cleveland Plain Dealer; I.

William Hill, Washington Star; Edward T. Stone, Seattle Post -Intelligencer; Mason Walsh, Dallas Times-Herald; Richard L. Young Charlotte News; Charles P.owe, Fredericksburg, Free Lance-Star; W. William Churchill. Nashville Tenncssean, and Bob Eddy, St.

Paul Dispatch. in Independence. Peaceable enough when sober Simpson, unfortunately, was generally drunk and habitually mean when intoxicated. Because of his penchant for liquor he was universally called "Hootch" Simpson. DKATH BRINGS MLKNCE Simpson's lynching and one, after remarking he guessed the statin of limitations had long since passed, told of his personal part in the vigilante action in which he had been a leader.

These old timers, George Cook, of Lone Pine, and Bill Keys 81, of Joshua Tree, were both Constable Sellers' tent had mining at Skidoo in the spring of clowd cf 60 mfn around it and I'VS. Kaeh of them spent moreJ-vnch talk was prevalent from the! than 10 years in the Death Valley Whpn ns of Arnold's1 region early in the current cen- doath "rived Cook recalls that yM' West Berlin Mayor tary, Cook arriving at Skidoo IU(Te was a sllfMrn nus" followed from Bullfrog soon after the boom hy whispers. Then most of the camp had been founded high in crowd Mt- that niht- Dip Kpv had Wn in piearran-ement. some 60 men jSS Willy Brandt yr.terday Death Vallev since coming up at the temporary from Manvrl in 1902, had located Jal1' Ccok and one otllor cnt and sold his Desert Hound Mine lnsldc and Simpson out ,5 SI ft- i8 KM 4w---- i '-T- PraisMrt rresident -elect jonn fc-, if -4 Kennedy for his stand on Berlin -i Jk Mt-V-' -V dent of the Vni.ed States. Kenne.

in the Black Mts to a Roston 1,1 lnat lne WJ I nere as no vnrl to anH uac in CUHnn fnm. vigilantes worked rtnrartlv vmttA in enmo nrnc- A noose was put around ha iris foctinrr in 4 Via fn poets lit ij iv-uu't ji i iic v.ui' and over Simpson neck JJSHS'tf I H'' I1 IMWW tWO I my also add that of A ix rXtVr 'TWftW'i. Paime-have been defended in fc I rW fej, ihrlped to exclude the possibility -l any doubt du. future tonwood Mts. MINI fiO YEARS Meeting each otlier for the first time in nearly a half century and wth an audirtice of several hundred listening to the stories they spoke into the microphones the crossarm of a telephone pole.

I There he died. In the morning the body was cut down and bur-iied. Constable Sellers went around jCamp and asked if anyone knew ho the vigilantes were. Of course nn Primitlod ha Hirf Tlio nnmn pair, Interviewed by this writer, Iwolintwl thp nf, THEY WERE THREE George Cook, upper left.f -'AO, told many details of affair that escaped the repot ts uith ronrral an- of proval." The little weekly news carried in the "Skidoo News" April 25. IOCS.

and Bill Keys, lower left, witnessed the hanging of Joe Simpson at Skidoo in April 1908. They told about the event at an evening campfire during the Death Valley Encampment. To the right are two recent photographs of paper concluded its detailed ac- i look was interviewed ursi. of the murdPr and er telling how he had spent nearly ln witn tne moraiiation: ISkidoo as it appears today. The Keys photo is of added i.i u.c iiiiumi; ui.ip; Loca' gunmen are already in 1 1 kyn Tonopah south to Death al- a chastened frame of mind.

Would interest as he is pointing to his name carved in 190.) on the side of an old borax wagon abandoned near Mcsqtiite Spring. Bonanza Air Lines Becomes First All-Jet Line in U.S. 'Sudden Death' of Red Pilot Reported lllt: he Dadmen, as they bowl HiOng County, he spoke of gravi- the road on their triumphal entry Citing to Skidoo from Bullfrog by 0 skidoo will note the number, rhp old trail that descended Day- the stoutness, the great convrn-light Pass and crossed the north jrnre 0-L the telephone poles, and tut of Death Valley by way of reflect thereon. It is a matter Vif sand dunes and the famous deep regret, but it was the will Jmer hole known as Stovepipe of the citizens." Vflls. At Skidoo Cook was en- mi) OVKR C.IKL Kgcd in mining and was, inci- It is possible Cook and Keys MOSCOW (AP The "sudden ing since Y.rh and had heen death" of one of the Soviet l'n- test pilot 17 ears.

Red Star said ion's top test pilots, Col. Alexan- he had pioneered 20 types of i i fj The ending of its last DC-3 stop flights between Thoenix and der G. Vaselchenko, was report- planes. Vitally, a friend of the respected are the onlv two remaining Skidoo srrv'ca mis momn estauusn co- eo i.pip jfMnu-j, imp limes Arnold He was close about residents of 1308 who witnessed nanza Air Lines as the First All egas and Reno. It also makes nouneement in Red Star, organ of First English dictionary was Simoon the drunken man.

the Knchin-. Cook, the Airline in America, possible speedy short range sorv- the Red Army, gave no details of compiled by Nathan Bailey in 1721; Samuel Johnson's dictionary appeared in 1775. fctd held up the bank and later old miner in that year, kept well announced by the firms ice on the intermediate stop how or when he died. Vien th oven dnmker secret of his nart as a leader 'officers. Ontario International Air- flights, and the short non-stops i Vaselchenko, 49.

has been fly waved back with his gun of the vigilantes. of line'f, lke shot the storekeeper in the Keys, in his campfire Less then hvo years ago a stun-Las egas to Thoenix. in k. knort aHHed some Hetail ihnt hav-P nev. nmg new silhouette' in the west-, "Most of the cities Bonanza 'Arnold received immediate er been printed.

He brought sklps- th first slpck- new sen-es now have comparable or1 radical attention from Dr. R. EM motive for Simpson's grudge F-27A Jetprop Silver Dart airliner, superior airline service to that en- Lnil5 JZZi i iraedonald who earlier had been against Arnold. "Both men were wa mirouuceu vy Duiwiud ah joyea cy ciues many umes men of the men to disarm Simp-i crazy about the same girl," Keys Lines on its routes. states Edward Converre, 'ih.

The plivsician staved at Arn-1 recalled. Keys does not recall the ih 'president Bonanza. It a sir- oDd's side most of the afternoon gin name. I lw, flihtin" to save the wounded' Also when Simpson had found h- J-powered Silver Dart on Air Lines, for the cities and area, Ss life Arnold however died his hidden gun and weaved his Bonanza flights marks a new it serves, and for the airline in-j Srlv in t'h evenin" way into the Skidoo Trading standard of operational capaoihty pastry generally. What will nap-i 'tuvrmt iiairw itiKiF store ne accostea Arnoia asKing, -w.

"li'uicJ-'Jim. have vou eot anvthinei Throughout the progress.ve con- retired? They're being sold." WM. ROGERS SILVER SERVING i TRAY Frit for Mm savingi of $1000 or mof 1 'against me." Arnold answered in version to M0 per cent operation "Nn Toe I Rolls-Royce-powered jot tpebhs but had turned because tlie negative saying, i nron ver uan. tionan.a im.s ELECTRIC SPACE HEATING S.1FER AS SAFE AND OUIET AS AN ELECTRIC UGHT. NO PILOT UGHT OF ANY KIND.

made a noise behind realized record-breaking traffic Simpson grappled wUh an enviable record of depend- 'T 'down" Sersat, From passenger to pilot. having been knocked down. He the F.2TA Sllvrr Dart has become Truck-Car Crash In Mississippi Takes Five Lives BLUE CHIP STAMPS In his ugly but hazy mood PPlllar-son seemed to fancv himself a Dlie ,0 3,10 m-P-h-hero, bvstanders recalled. in'-ht timcs have bcrn cut 'ine' DRUNKARD FLKKS The Passenger capacity 4 humnmnc ciHeii-M if has Bon.uiza to handle in- 'thihle and several others. Dr.

had his rifle out and 'itiuld have killed Simpson hut for fV fact a drunk, Cordon McBain. 152 i Miss. (AP Five persons were killed Friday in a TRAVEL isinn of an automobile kn. niaM in 1, anA a creased demand. A pressurized head-on co fof im winit of f.OO or mor; liil limif 1050 SUmpj.

Limit on i't ptr customtf. and a pickup truck west of ih cabin gives the comfort passen Fre lor uvii-p of $500 or mwi getting in the line of fire. 'During the scuffle one of Simp-mm's bullets passed through the shirt of Constable Henry Sellers. Simpson had been disarmed 'tile second time he was hand- the dnTnken' miner who had got'- Kers hr.ve become accustomed to Brandon. ten hetueen Dr anrl on the trunklines.

Its radar equip- The highway patrol identified Simpson when the' phvsieian was ment find higher cruising altitude the dead, passengers in the trvin thnAt tho "WW also guarantee ma-imum comfort automobile, as Mrs. (javther t. DETECTO BATH SCALE HOSTESS I I serving mmlr Ft for Mar laving J1000 or nor NO FUMES OR SOOT BECAUSE FLAMELES1 ELECTRICITY JUST CANT MAKE DIRT. MORE CMTML NO WASTE, JUST THE HEAT YOU WANT WHEN AND WHERE YOU WANT IT. COSTS LESS THIS YOU THINK OVER A MILLION FAMILIES ARE NOW ENJOYING ELECTRIC HEATING.

and taken to Sellers' tent. made the miners and safety. Cole, 32. and her two constable then deputized four mad ct Simpson deserved he eNtra large windows and Cathy, 3. and Barbara.

1: Mrs. timers to serve in relays as t0 be shot and McBain had, in a hih vinS of the Silver Dart give V. Q. Cole 34. of Rankin for the prisoner pending srnse thwarted justice.

He was, cvcry Passenger an un-obstructed County: and Minerva Magee of Srrival of the sheriff and coroner w-i anmh view at all times. Because the Puckett, their maid. Fre for mw uinn of $1000 or mom T. F-27 has a fast climb-out and re-! Sherrv Jean Cole, 2, a daughter Independence. tent.

That night when he had so- 1 SS There was no direct connection je'd friends told him Simpson fIuires n0 run-up of engines be- of Mrs. W. Q. Cole; and Luther B. between the mininz camD and ynn a fore takeoff, elapsed times on all Shows.

43, and George Holloway, TWO TV TABLES ttn tf pa i idunty seat. Sellers telephoned; (McRain) was next flights are reduced even more. 74. of Mendenhall were injured IDEM call to Independence over the, MrRain fled from ramn hittinel The Dart ls ideally suited critically. Free lor nw of $500 or mrt Saip in trj 9t IWi ftm lrf.

for Bonanza's medium range non-j Investigating officers said the telephone line which term-(he traii for Bullfrog and Rhyo- HISHEST lK.iSSNSL'ED CONVEN EHT LOCATiON-FSEE PA'KINO hen Shows, tpjek, at- collision occurred miners Pvhnmed Simnson's driving the pickup ELECTRIC HOUSE HEATING ENHANCES THI VAIUI OF YOUR HOME BECAUSE IT'S MODERN TODAY AND WILL BE MODERN TOMORROW. pvited at Rhyolite. Ttirre it was rltP Camp jokesters reported Mc- 'Slaved to Coldfield and on to a still nmninc uhen he had litrin EEOWB SEE YOUR LOCAL ELECTRIC APPLIANCE DEALER it if 1 k9W fewer station near Tonopah reached Stovepipe Wells and body for a second hanging which temptea io pass iao ouw lnjmed Divide. From Divide a glancing back to make certain made the newspapers. The pflwer company telephone carried pursuit was not too close.

Actual- hangings were repeated several wi Vnfo the message by telegraph to Ow-ly the miners just wanted McBain times for the benefit of various i MOW WOmen VOic Valley. Sellers' message got to do what he did and leave men ith cameras, both Cook hnd ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. UPI) Ith'rough in a matter of hours, camp.

He was just a nuisance. Keys recall. Those miners want- Gov. Lrroy Collins said the rea-Jiftwever. When Simpson was buried Sun- ed to assist the press, particular- son women voters are so interest- fMTK'KIW ARRIVK jday morning it was j' the start iy when a fellow had lugged a ed in the wives of political candi- pt was another three days lie-'of some five or six burials.

On camera all the way across Death dates is because "there are few fie the county officials traveling Monday a reporter reached Valley's sand dunes to record an men who have higher standards rj horse drawn rigs had drivenamp with camera and the oboutstanoUng historical event. ithan their wives." 0 LOH AtSOCIATIOH Mill. if IV' 301 Wot HifMn1 Anu Swi ttrntrdina 144 SoutH Ktvflitf Avtnu Witltt wmm.