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FOUR Society and Clubs By LOTUS WOMEN OF COUNTY COMPLETE RED CROSS SEWING ON HAND All sewing for the Red Cross for the present time has been completed by Douglas county women, according to Mrs. C. E. Roberts, production chairman, who has expressed her apprecia tion to the workers tor their splendid response to her call for help several weeks ago. Two new quotas have been or dered and are on the way, ac cording to Mrs. Roberts, who states that as soon as they are received, a call will be made for women to sow and work again to complete the quotas. However, Mrs. Roberts reports there still considerable knitting to do and anyone interested In this work, may obtain yarns and in structlons at the Red Cross rooms at tlio Perkins building, MERRY-CO-ROUND CLUB TO MEET WEDNESDAY The Merry Go Round club mern bcrs are most cordially invited to enjoy a one oclock luncheon Wednesday to be given by Mrs Mable P. Taylor and her daugh ter, Mrs. H. D. Kleist, at the for mers home on Roberts street. The luncheon will be served promptly ut one o'clock and the afternoon will be spent In doing Kco uross work. ART AND EMBROIDERY CLUB TO HOLD MEETING The Roseburg Art and Embroi dcry club will meet Wednesday aiternoon at the Miller home at 240 East First Avenue North with Mrs. Minnie Cox acting as host ess. A special feature sale will be held In the afternoon and the pro ceeds raised will go to the Red Cross. All members arc urged to be present. FINAL ARRANGEMENT FOR CONCERT MADE All arrangements have been completed for the second concert of the Community Concert asso ciation, which will be enjoyed by members of the association Wed nesday evening, March 15, at 8:15 UMPQUA SAVINGS ANP LOAN ASSOCIATION Real Estate, Loans Phone 87 LOGGERS' CAFE Horns Cooked Meali Breakfatt-Lunoh-Dlnner. Short Orders. 111 Wott Cast Street. GEO. W. DIMMICK AGENCY REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Can Street. Phone 484-L farm, took ranohee tlmbe lands 125 RUSSELL'S Typewriter Service Office Maohlne Service and Supplies 335 N. Jackson Phone 320 H.C.STEARNS Funeral Director Phone 472 OAKLAND, ORE. Lloeneed Lady Auletant Any Distance, Any Time Our eervlce It for ALL, and meets EVERY NEED MAIL YOUR ENTRY NOW CONTEST CLOSES MARCH 20 This is how the decision will be made: A committee of three udges will be appointed, the names of whom will be unknown to everyone except the contest chairman, (even unknown to Mr. Rhoden). Your entry letters will be read by this committee and the person guessing nearest the exact time of the opening of the door of Lowell's new store at 114 North Jackson will be awarded the prize. The actual time of the opening will be checked by a re sponsible party to the second. In case of a tie the letter showing the earliest postmark will be awarded the prize. THE PRIZE: Your choice of any $35 suit or coat. THE QUESTION: The actual time of the opening of Lowell's new store at 114 North Jackson. Send your entry to L QltfCThHome of Beautiful Styles (Be sure to mark your KNIGHT PORTER o'clock at the junior high school, when Miss Patricia Travel's will be the guest artist. Miss Travers is reported by critics to be one of the very fin est young violinists of the time. She has made one motion picture and has appeared as soloist with the largest philharmonic orches tras In the United States. Hendrick Endt will act as ac companist, according to word just received here by the association president, Miss Gladys H. Strong. The building will be open at 7: 43 o'clock and the concert will be gin promptly at 8:15 o'clock. HOME NURSING CLASS HAS INTERESTING SESSION TILLER A very Interesting meeting of the Home Nursing ciass was neld Wednesday. The proper method of giving a bed tram was demonstrated by Mrs E. Littler, Instructor, and dry shampoo demonstrations were given by Mrs. Maber. The ladles are learning to make many im provised articles for use In the sick room. Several assignments were giv en for next Wednesday's mcetine. including that each member is to think up or invent some means of a "bell" for the use ol a pa tient in the home. Along with the nursing class, several ladies attended In the morning to sew. and knit for the Red Cross. Two other important topics were discussed during the day, namely, a service flag for Tiller and the giving of a box social in the near future for the benefit of fixing up a room in the school to be designated for Red Cross work. Mrs. Corbett loaned her sewing machine for the first meeting and yarns and woolen materials wore donated by the ladles. All ladles Interested In helping out may donate scraps of any kind of wool, yarns and as much of her time as Is possible. W. C. T. U. HAS ENJOYABLE MEETING The Roseburg W. C. T. U. was delightfully entertained by Mrs. J. B. Ncedham and Mrs. A. J. Starmer at the former's lovely home on South Jackson street Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. An nie L. Russell, president, conduct ed the meeting and Mrs. Otto Olson presented the Inspiration al devotions. Plans were outlined for the medal contest to be held Anril 23. Continuation of the review of the study book was given by Mrs. Mablo P. Taylor. A pleasant so cial hour followed and tea was served from a table beautifully appointed In a motif of while, sil ver and blue, while colorful spring flowers were attractively arranged about the rooms. Mrs. Otto Olson poured. The next meeting will be held April 12, the place of which will be announced later. ROSE SCHOOL CARNIVAL TO BE HELD FRIDAY The Rose school carnival has been dated for Friday evening, March 17, ut 7:30 o'clock at the schoolhouse and the nubile is cor dially Invited to attend. The evening's entertainment includes: school chorus; noil shop by children from Mrs. Me sick's first grade; skit by fifth grade. "Good Health Is What Hoes it;" musical score by fourth grade; dances by second and third grades; play, "PoMyanna" by sixth grade; flag drill by Miss Carol hers" first graders, and song "God Hless America." I PATCH AND CHAT CLUB TO MEET WEONESDAY The Patch and Chat club will meet Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. E. II. Verrell. All members are cordially invited to Ix present. envelope "Contest". I ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, J Humor, Grim Reality Joined in South Pacific War Experiences Related by PFC. D. N. Coble, Graduate of R. H. S. The censor in this outfit fin ally broke down and will let us tell a few of the things we have been doing," writes PFC. Duane N. Coble, son of Mrs. Edna M. Parker, Rt. 1, Roseburg. Private Coble is a graduate of Roseburg high school and was a member of Co. D, 162nd Infantry, Oregon National Guard, when that unit was called Into service. Ho has since been transferred to anoth er infantry company. "We went through the New Georgia and Munda campaigns," he writes. His letter details one day's battle as follows: "We had dug in for the night and our artillery was laying down a barrage out in front of us all night. The Munda airfield was about 2,000 yards to our front, and we were to push off the next morning to take the air field. But we didn't know that then. "At the break of day, our plan es put on a little show for us. First the dive-bombers, then the heavier bombers. They dropped I ineir nomas out m front of us, knocking out antiaircraft posi tions and paving the way for us. The concussion from the bombs was pretty strong, even where wo were. It was really pretty. Our pianes just seemed to dron straight down out of nowhere and lay their eggs. Dud Shell Throws Scare , "As soon as the planes were gone we started to movo up. We were going fine, not meeting much resistance, when all of a sudden all hell broke loose. We ran right into some small Jan artillery pieces. Our of fleers call ed for mortar fire, which broke up the Jap battery and we kept on moving up. One shell lit about ten feet in front of me and kick ed up dirt. Lucky fo.' me, again, it was a dud. Hut you should have seen me hunt a hole. You would have died laughing. "We weren't far from the beach and all of us were anxious to get there and clean up, as we had been in dense jungles for about three weeks. We had,, on one-piece camouflage suits we call them zoot suits and I think my suit would stand up alone, it was so stiff with mud and dirt. "Well, wo were held up again by Jap sniper fire. They had us pinned down for a while so a couple of us crawled into a big shell hole and waited for orders to move forward again. We saw a bunch of Jap planes maneuver ing above us and, sure enough, it was R good old dog fight. I guess the Japs were putting up their last flight of planes. I saw two Zeros go down and one dive- bomber. Two Jap dive-bombers flew real low over us and one of our little navy planes sneaked around from behind a cloud and drilled on dead center. It was really pretty as long as we were not on the receiving end. Deadly Surprise For Japs "Finally we moved on up and hit the beach and ran Into a lot of Jap pillboxes. I guess the Japs evacuated as fast as they could. We dug in that afternoon and were eating hot chow, not oxnect- Ir.g any Japs In the vicinity, when one of my buddies looked up and i Canyonville j CANYONV1L1.E Waiter S. I Cormitt died Tuesday, March (i, 1 after a long Illness in While Sal : mon. Wash., where he had been i living Willi lilS daughter for the! last three years. He was born in Kiddle and was a resident of ) Canyonville for 30 years. Kiincr :.l services were hold ill Metho dist church Friday at 10:30 a. in. j Mrs. Alice Nagel was' taken in an ambulance to the Myrtle Creek hospital Tuesday afternoon j after contracting pneumonia. ! Mrs. John I'oid of Ford's Auto camp returned last Monday from I. ns Angeles where she luis been for several weeks nn business. 1 .Mrs. Marjorie Heals and her two daughters, Marjoric and Uu olhy. have returned from Caliloi ' nia to make their homo here ; again. Jack Garey fell Monday morn i ing near his home, while curry- I lug a piece of lumber, and broke a i ll). Mr. and Mrs. A M. Shatter. Robert and Esther Shatter ami II. It. llaymes went to Roseburi; ,011 business Wednesday and visit- eil Mrs. llaymes and baby I,aw renro at the Mercy hospital. Mrs. Harry Winst on. from near Roseburg. is substituting for the ; sixth, seventh and eighth grade-' In the public school until a per ! mancnt teacher takes the place j i ef Mrs. Ernest Steuer who rr. ceiitly resigned the position he-I cause of her husband's sudden ill ness. A banquet was given Tuesd.iv j evening In Ihe reception room of I the Hible academy for all the stu i dents having attained to the lion- or society and honor roll tor thel first school semester. The! long - table was beautifully decorated with small Individual randies and I 'larger candles in the center. Aft ! lor dinner speeches iK;rtinins to the honor society ere given. j asked, "Are those our men over there?" We all looked up and there were about 30 Japs coming our way. I guess they didn't see us. You should have seen us move. fit PFC. Duane Coble We set up two light machine guns and took our rifles and slip ped into cover behind some trees. We opened up on them and those poor Japs never had a chance. After we' quit firing and things (iiiictcd down, we darned near broke our necks getting over there to get souvenirs. "There were 2G dead Japs in that bunch. I think four or five got away. Everyone in the platoon got his fingers in the pot that day. "Well, I guess that's enough of the war, except that it's great fun if your lucky enough and do enough powerful playing. I sure did my share of it that time." N So dig deep , If VOUR heart commends V....7V to tfts coupon! THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT YOUR SOLICITOR MIGHT HAVE MISSED CONTACTING YOU. .IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN VISITED YET.. ..USE THIS COUPON TODAYI OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1944. Champs of Eight Districts Set for State Title Series (By the Associated Press) Oregon's select group of bas ketball teams the district cham pionslooked today to the state high school tournament where the glory will be apportioned on merit by next Saturday night. The district titllsts, minus some of the perennial big names, line up this way for the state meet. starting Thursday: fendleton, district 1. Ashland, 2. Springfield, 3. Corvallis, 4. St. Helens, 5. Washington of Portland, 6. Oregon City, 7. Bend, 8. Bend's Lava Bears were the latest arrivals in the champion ship fraternity. They made the grade on their home floor Sat urday night by edging Hood Riv er, 26-22, In the finals of the dis trict a piayofls. It was a great year for the "little fellers," particularly the Springfield Millers, who made the state playoffs by upsetting the al ways strong Eugene Axemen in district 3. The Millers thus be came the dark horses of the Sa lem meet and to them will go much of the support that auto matically is passed out to the un known small fry maWng its first appearance in the big time. The state tourney will be with. out a defending champion this year. Klamath's Pelicans, who roared through the 1943 play offs, were shoved out in district 2 to be succeeded by Ashland, an other more or less unknown quan tity. Pairings for the opening round pits Washington of Portland f.gainst Pendleton, Ashland against St. Helens, Springfield against Corvallis and Oregon City against Bend. Hal Turpin Again With Seattle Baseball Club YONCALLA left Thursday - Harold Turpin for Bakersfield, malnutrition . . . yes, more thousands of brave men would have their motalc beaten down by w orry about the problems of their loved ones with no Red Cross Held Directors at their side to investigate and remedy the family condition. Surely, war would be a hundred times the Hell it is now without the Red Cross. Remember, the Red Cross is work without one penny of money . deeper than ever before . . 3 Ait wmni bdj htm prtptrci tnA ttltttti h FUTZ 'W, IINHARD COMPANY, uilh ih, .ff-m j ol AIWihowj Couuly Cbjpn ibc AmetitM R.4 trots. Calif., where he will start train ing with the Seattle baseball club, with whom he has signed for an other season. I, SSV BOWLING Team w. L. Rainbow Grill 21 9 Deer Creek Dairy 15 15 G. W. Young & Son 12 18 Sandy's .. 12 18 Games March 9. Rainbow Grill 2, Deer Creek Dairy 1; G. W. Youn" & Son 2. Sandy's 1. High individual game score R. Lehrbach 197. High individual series score B. Ferguson 474. G. W. Youna & Son. 7..tar , Ml W0 90 90 90 270 , V. Kershner ... 1G4 123 161 418 1 G. Hilliard 125 103 121 349 ! D. Bell 135 107 100 342 M. Stephens ..1C7 126 123 416 681 549 593 1825 Sandy's Place. 77 77 77 231 V. Whitlateh .122 122 126 370 1 M. Hess 104 131 96 331 1 G. Beck 107 111 130 348 N. Partin 178 149 1,32 459 588 590, 561 1739 Rainbow Grill. 61 61 61 183 U. Vroomun ...156 127 187 470 G. Freadman 104 123 127 354 1 R. Porter 122 187 130 439 Ferguson 149 150 175 470 592 648 680 1920 Oeer Creek Dairy 49 49 49 147 R. Lehrbach 197 103 126 426 L. Pounds 136 105 145 386 B. Elliott 133 127 153 413 V. Blessing ...165 112 159 436 680 496 632 18081 Lowell D. McBurney, 19, Lob-1 anon, was killed when his motor cycle plunged down a 50-foot em bankment near Sweet Home. tmm wgees1 isJ. the IRed (geoss THERE IS, thank God, a way that you here at Home can reach out and comfort your boy thousands of miles away in battle. Tor the Red Cross is at his side . . . and the Red Cross is youl It-;, you making a home away from home for him . it's you comforting him when he's exhausted . . . it's you giving him real American food, coffee and doughnuts, cigarettes . . . it's you giving him companionship and tender; care when he is ill or injured. Think what this war would be without the Red Cross. Think of the thousands who would have died where they fell had it not been for life-saving Plasma . . i the thousands and more prisoners of war in Germany and Japan who would be forgotten and suffer far more from loneliness, discomforts and entirely financed by your contributions from any other source. . and be glad that you can keep which is Signed Address H. E. Kissling Appointed Mayor of Yoncalla YONCALLA At the regular meeting of the Yoncalla city coun cil Tuesday evening, H. W. Kiss ling was appointed mayor of Yon calla, to tako the place of the late Walter Boak. The dog ordinance was revived and will be enforced. No dog will be allowed to run at large. Notices wil be posted and the ordinance will be strictly en forced. Several farmers are com plaining of dogs killing lambs. GIVE YOUR CAR OR TRUCK A NEW MOTOR We have available factory built motors for Dodge and Plymouth passenger cars and Dodge trucks. These are not re built machines. They are engines exactly duplicating those originally in your car. They will save operating costs and will conserve fuel. They cost little more than a complete overhaul job. We are headquarters for dependable service body work painting standard replacement parts. EXPERT ELECTRIC WELDING SI D9LLARD Main and Douglas Sts. eari it carries on its great the Red Cross at his side. Douglas County Red Cross 1944 War Fund Committee , 136 South Stephens St. Itnsrhurg, Oregon I nidi die Anirriian Kcil Cron lo continue ill ill merciful Wii Services ami tu represent me . . . .it his side . . . nn the war fronts, during die year of 1914. I herewith subscribe fur that service, the sum nf enclosed widl this cuupon. (MUt chtckt payable lo tSt American LOANS- Personal & Automobile UMPQUA FINANCE 33S North Jackson Phone 320 SERVE CAR MOTOR CO. Phone 700 Red Croai)
