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! t EIGHT ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1942. "Surgeon" Exposed As Ex-Con Lacking Medical License Many Successful Operations Performed by Impostor Who Practiced In Four States CHICO, Calif., May 27. (AP) An ex-convict who never stud ied at a medical school for two months has been assistant chief surgeon of the largest, hospital In this section of California where he successfully performed a scries of major operations. Today he was In the county Jail because he signed his prescrip tions with his initials instead of his full name, as required by the California law. Joseph W. Williams, special agent for the state board of medi cal examiners, said Arthur Os borne Phillips, 47, alias Dr. James Herman Phillips, signed a 14-pngo statement admitting that he had served eight prison and Jail terms and practiced medicine In four states. Williams said Phillips fooled his patients, his superior, most of the doctors In Chico, and army offi cers with whom he went fishing. Phillips Invariably wore a mili tary uniform with the Insignia of the medical corps, and sometimes captains' bare on his shoulder. His operations included abdo minal, appendectomies and ton sllectomics. "How he was able to perform them all successfully Is what has us all baffled," Williams said. "Apparently his only medical training Was working in peniten tiary hospitals, where he may have watched surgeons operate." Phillips advanced schooling. according to his own story, Includ ed onlv brief studies at night In bacteriology and biology at the University of Buffalo and a cor respondence course in farming and home economics. California requires four years of study in medical school and a year of in terneshlp at a recognized hospital before a man Is permitted to prac tice surgery. Inveterate Law Breaker. Phillips medical schooling came out of medical books and prison terms at Atlanta federal peniten tiary, where he was sent twice for narcotics vlolutlon; Alabama state prison at Montgomery for practic ing medicine without a license; 18 months in the Maryland peni tentiary; three years in the Idaho ' state prison for posing as a physi cian. He also served terms at the Toombs, N. Y., and the county jails at Baltimore, Md., and Pitts burgh, Pa. Sentences included terms for writing worthless -checks and narcotics violations. . Williams said that since Phil lips was released fnom the Idaho penitentiary, where he was sent for practicing medicine In Boise, -Ida., he established himself at 'Corner, Mont., as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist and then came to California six months ago. 4"Llked to Operate" The Investigator said Williams pot a $3,500 a year job with the ,CCC camp at Brush creek, where he was known as "an operating fool" because he removed tonsils without any anesthetic. The C'CC bovs said he liked to qperale. '. Ho left the CCC camp two months ago to go to work as chief assistant for Dr. N. T. En loc, operator of the Enloe hos pllul In Chico, at S250 a month wit hj the privilege of engaging In private practice on the side. He wrote some 200 prescrip tions, "mostly stock prescriptions he could copy from medical books," Williams said. Williams began Investigating ftoo weeks ago when he noticed the wrong signature on a prescription and discovered that the real Dr. James Herman Phillips, an army sur geon In the first world war, was in a hospital in Tennessee. Phillips wife, whom he married In Livingston, Mont., after get ting out of the Idaho penitentiary, said she learned for the first time that her husband wasn't a doctor and that he had a prison record after his arrest. Where Ten Per Cent Is Little ICrf i i &J dVK&. Y'Wm for Victors- 4 . ?! ! - "ii't0w Citm Stir Youth Freed Of Charge That He Slew Sister KANSAS CITY, May 28. (AP) George W. Welsh, Jr., was freed today of a first degree mur der charge brought against him by the state In the brutal hammer and butcher slaying of his pretty 24-year old sister, Leila, March 9, 1941. The charge was dismissed bv J. J. Dougherty, justice of the peace. County Prosecutor Mi chael W. O'Hern asked that the defendant be held briefly to give him time to file a new action against him. O'Hern did not im mediately disclose the nature of the charge he had in mind. , Three grand juries have Invest igated the case since the former University of Kansas City beauty queen's multilatcd body was I found In her bed by her mother, I Mrs. Marie Welsh. Two juries took no action. The third indicted the 28-year-old brother. Its indictment was quash ed on a plea in abatement sus tained by Circuit Judge Emory H. Wright on the grounds of il legal conduct by the Jurors. Im mediately after that Indictment was set aside O'Hern refiled a murder charge. After reaching a peak of $29, 000,000 In 1916, copper mining in Alaska has declined to about $30,000 annually Former Chief Forester Of Oregon, Allen, Dies PORTLAND, Ore., May 28 A long time authority on forest vax- I ation and legislation, Edward Ty son Allen, 66, died yesterday at his home at Cascade Head, Ore. From 1907 to 1909 he was U. S. forester for Oregon, Washington and Alaska, following a two-year term as California State forester From 1909 to his retirement in 1932 he was manager of the West ern Forestry Conservation associ ation. He was a director of the Na tional Lumber Manufacturers' as sociation for many years and in the last war was a member of the national defense council. The American Legion now has an enrollment of 1,107,075. The increase In the last year was more than 28,000. Ill at Home Mrs. W. D. Harris has been ill at her home In this city for the last few days. BB55"u","pT o"- If 9 i ill Pepal Cola Bottling Co. of Roseburg No More Monkey Business! ... . CourttMf King FialurMM SyadiCMt Storm Damage Huge in Days Creek District DAYS CREEK, May 28. The damage caused by the terrific hall pick proportions, and the bit of the tool had all the appearance of having been heated for welding- :' . '! ,.' Blow From Discus Kills High School Coach HATBORO, Pa., May 28 (AP) Hatboro's high school track coach, James H. Beidler, Jr., was killed yesterday by a discus hurled by one of his pupils prac ticing on the school's athletic field. Beidler was standing In the center of the field, discussing with Doylestown high coaches their Impending dual track meet when the three pound, nine-ounce discus struck him on the skull. Germans Pouring Into French North Africa MOSCOW, May 28 (AP) Tass reported today from Lisbon that there had been a steady flow of Germans into French North Africa, especially Morocco, where the Vichy government was said ;o have issued more thnn y OlH) nn. i try visas to Germans within three I 5.00-50, common ewes down to LIVESTOCK PORTLAND, Ore., May 27. (AP) (U. S. Dept. Agr.) CAT TLE: Market active, fully steady; scattered lots medium to good steers 11.50-13.00, Including grass fat steers up to 12.00, common steers downward to 10:50 and be low; common to medium heifers 9.00-11.25; canner and cutter cows 6.00 7.50; fat dairy type cows 8.00 75; medium to good beef cows 9.00-10.25; medium to good bulls 9.50-11.00, odd head 11.25; good to choice vealors mostly 13.50 14.50, few head 15.00, common grades down to 9.00. HOGS: Market mostly steady: good to choice driveins 170-215 lbs. 14.10-25, medium grades 14.00 down; 230-300 lbs. 13.25-65; light lights 13.00-50; good sows 350 550 lbs. 9.75-10.50; smooth light sows up to 11 00; good to choice feeder pigs 12.75-13.25. SHEEP: Market steady; good to choice spring lambs 13.50-75, medium to good grades 12.00 13.00; old crop lambs slow; few shorn yearlings 8.50; good ewes months, Tass said that word reaching Lisbon from North Africa indi cated that the number of Ger mans already In Morocco exceed ed 5,000. Alfred G. Vanderbilt Joins United States Navy NEW YORK, May 28 (AP)- st rm o a week ago w I run Into I A,fred Cwynne Vanderbilt, weal many thousands of do Mars, no- 1y young sportsm an wl ,o r esigiv cording to a survey of injury to ed from ,he presidencies of the chards an buildings. Many roofs, particularly those of the tar paper variety were al most completely ruined. Many car owners will be forced to re cover their fabric-roofed automo biles, while even some metal top ped cars were dented by the huge hailstones. Some prune orchards were nearly stripped. Alfalfa, which would have been cut soon, was battered to the ground. Corn fields, where the crop had just obtained a good start, were de vastated. Gardens, just coming Into bearing were completely de stroyed. The lightning did many odd things, such as completely strip ping the bark from nn oak tree in a pasture. In another spot the lightning struck a tree against which a peeling "spud" had been leaned by a member of a piling 1 crew. The tree and spud handle j were shattered, the latter to tooth-1 i... or Belmont and Pimlico race tracks last month, has Joined the navy. It was understood he would be made a boatswain. The 28-year-old heir to the Van derbilt fortune enlisted on Mon day and left Immediately 'or Washington. NOTICE All wool growers contracted to Pacific Wool Growers Co-op call at the Roseburg Grange Supply, 222 Spruce street, for your sucks and twine. (adv.) POWELL'S FOR FISHING TACKLE 24S N. Jackson St., Roseburg 3.75. PRODUCE PORTLAND. Ore.. Mav 28. ( AP) - ONIONS - Oregon $2.50 2.75 M-r 50-11). sack; green, 30. Tv dozen bunches; Texas Bermudas 50s, $2,352.50 sack; California sweet type, $3. POTATOES, NEW (Cal.) White Rose, cental. Other produce unchanged. - Shatter $2.!H) 3.25 WHEAT PORTLAND, Ore., May 28. ( AP) Open High Low Close July '.Hi !H 9-1 S IMS CAN'T KEEP GRANDMA IN HER CHAIR She's at Lively aa a Youngster Now her Backache ia better Mimy iuffcrrrt rrlirr tingcing barkafhe quickly, once ihoy discover llmt ilia rtal canto of I ho it tftml'lo tuny bn timl kilrtey. 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