The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994, September 02, 1949, Page 10, Image 10

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    10 Th Ntwi-Rtvitw, Roieburg, Ort. Frt., Sept. 2, 1949
Alleged Gl Deserter Says
He Was Abducted, Abused
By French Foreign Legion
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. f.W
A navy court-martial board today
weighed Jamet Patrick Ryan's
story that he didn't really desert
hit ihip in 1947 but was shang
haied into the French foreign le
gion. The court was expected to reach
a decision today after hearing ar
gument from young Ryan' attor
' ney, Lt. Cmdr. R. H. Kroetz, who
Is prosecuting the case.
Ryan, 24-year-old Huntingdon,
Pa., army combat veteran of the
last war, is a postwar navy en
listee who is charged with drsert
ing from the destroyer Dickson at
San Remo, Italy, July 3, 1947.
He gave a harrowing account
of miserable experiences endured
for 16 months as an unwilling
member of the fabled French for
eign legion.
Ryan said rfe missed his ship at
San Remo because he passed out
after having a few drinks too
many with Italian pickup ac
quaintances. When he started for
Nice, France, to rejoin the Dick
son, he related, he was kidnaped
by the legion. He said he endured
repeated beatings because he
wouldn't sign enlistment papers,
but was kept In the legion any
how. Flees From IndoChina
His long ordeal, Ryan testified,
took him in and out of several
French prisons and North African
legion posts and eventually Into
the Vlet-Namese war in Indo
china. He said officials told him
he was being shipped to Asia to
keep him out of the hands of
those trying to free him from the
loRion.
He said he escaped from Indo
China in October, 1948. Battered
and weary, Ryan finally reported
to naval authorities in Canton,
China, last February.
His story of being whipped with
a leather belt in North Africa was
supported by Walter G. Leathe,
23, of Maiden, Mass.
Leathe said he too was abduct
ed Into the legion while touring
France last year, but was finally
released after six months,
through the Intervention of Sena
tor Saltonstall iR.-Mass.).
Should Ryan be convicted, his
maximum sentence would be two
years confinement and a dishon
orable discharge.
But questions asked of Ryan by
the president of the court, Comdr.
Lloyd A. Straits, indicated that
the verdict would be either ac
quittal or a finding of guilty on
lesser charge "unauthorized
leave."
Conviction for unauthorized
leave carries a maximum sen
tence of six months plus the time
of the unauthorized leave in this
case three or four days.
Dttroit Dam Job Overcrowds Locality's Schools
DETROIT, Ore., Sept. 2. UP)
Construction of the new De
troit dam on the North Santiam
river is going alonp briskly
and that's a headache for school
teachers.
That's because the Influx of
population threatens to over
crowd the schools. Mill City,
which had 1,223 residents In 1947,
la estimated at 2.500 population
now. Detroit, Gates, and the sur
rounding areas have boomed,
too.
School officials said that even
the newly built schools may not
be enough to accommodate pu
pils easily. Mill City has a new
12-room grade school; Gates has
added new facilities; and Lyons
consolidated district plans to com
plete a building In October.
Meanwhile work continued
apace on the dam. The 1, 400-foot
diversion tunnel through the
mountain on the south bank will
be opened today. Crews reported
solid rock throughout, promising
a solid foundation for the dam.
Construction was also going
forward on the fish hatchery,
being built at Marion forks to
care for salmon and game trout
whose spawning grounds will be
cut off by Detroit dam.
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MANHATTAN PARACHUTIST Leonardo D'Attolica (left), who
described himself as a former paratrooper, munches on a sand
wich as he sits in a New York police station after being taken
into custody after making a parachute drop over midtown Man
hattan. In landing d'Attoliee's parachute draped over a chimney
atop a nine story apartment on East 38th street (right), D'At
tolica holds his camera with which ha made movies during his
drop. (AP Wir.photo)
Remains Of Primitive Group Who
Roamed Western America Many
Centuries Ago Found In Wyoming
NEW YORK, Sept. 2. UPV-Ex-tensive
remains of a primitive
group of hunters, who roamed the
American west thousands of years
before Christ's birth, have been
unearthed near Cody, Wyo., It was
disclosed here today.
Dr. Loren Eiseley of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania said the
Wyoming camp aitc probably
dates back to between 5.000 and
12,000 years before Christ.
He called the find one of the
most important evei made in
connection with the culture of the
Yuma, the Nomadic group who
disappeared centuries ago as a
cultural unit. They were among
the earliest known inhabitants of
the new world.
Dr. Eiseley estimated that the
ancient camp site covered about
600 square feet of a terrace over
hanging Sage creek, five miles
northeast of Cody,
The valuable deposit of tools,
weapons and food remains were
preserved through the centuries
by dusty desert sands, now cover
ing the camp site to a depth of
about 10 inches.
The Yuma were foot hunters
who roved the high plains of the
American west in search of bison.
Evidences of their existence have
been found before, Dr. Eiseley
said, but never so extensively or
In a deposit that may enable
scientists to fix more accurately
the period In which they lived
For example, he said, from the
bison bones on the site It may be
possible to determine whether the
Yuma lived before certain types
of bison became extinct late n the
Ice age.
No human bones were 'ound,
Dr. Eiseley said.
He expects to take another
year to evaluate the findings on
the site, although the excavating
is expected to end before winter
sets In.
VITAL STATISTICS
Marriage License
HALSTEAO-MILLEN Ben-
nle LeRoy Halstead. Myrtle
Creek, and Cleone Gertrude Mil
ler, Roseburg.
Divorce Suits Filed
STORA Suzanne E.. vs. Fred
M. Stora. Married at Salem Feb.
9, 1929. Gruel and inhuman treat
ment charged. Property settle
ment asked.
FIELDS Mary Jacqueline vs.
Marvin Roscoe Fields. Married
at Crescent City, Calif., May 28,
1947. Custody of their one child,
$25 a month support and property
settlement asked. Cruel and in
human treatment charged.
milking machines until a new
light plant can be secured and In
stalled. But lt is proving "rug
ged" in the home, which was en
tirely equipped with electrical appliances.
For
ops
en Oralnboarde
Soo Phil Durnom
Linoleum Laying and
Venetian Blinds
920 S. Main 1336 J
August Jobless Payments Post Summer Record
SALEM, Sept. 2.-JF Ore
con's unemployed received more
jobless benefits during August
than in any other summer month
in history, the State Unemploy
ment Compensation commission
reports.
The August payments totaled
$1,266,764 to covered workers,
plus $267,120 to war veterans who
couldn't find Jobs.
The August total was 27.7 per
cent more than In July, and was
163 percent mora than In August
1CUO
Tha previous summer high
mark was in July, v.iib, nut the
August total was $100,000 more
than that one.
Heavy Industry accounts for
more than half of the unemploy
ment. Last week, 30 percent of
the Jobless were In the logging
and lumber Industry, 20 per cent
in construction and food process
ing industries, and 16 percent In
other manufacturing.
If homemade doughnuts are
greasy after they nave been
deep-fat fried, the chances are
that the fat In which they were
cooked was not hot enough.
Power House On
Milk Ranch Burns
The power house on the Wal
lace Townsend ranch, near Reeds
port, burned to the ground late
Sunday night, with an estimated
loss of about $2,000.
The family was retiring for the
night at (bout 10 p. m., when an
explosion occurred in the power
house as they shut off the last
light in the house, which was sup
posed to close down the automatic
light plant.
By the time they could reach
the scene of the explosion, the
fire was burning fiercely and
could not be put out, so all ef
forts were expended to save the
family residence and the dairy
barn, located at about equal dis
tances from the burning building.
Besides the light plant, other
equipment stored in the burned
building all of which was lost
included an extra milking ma
chine unit, separator, about $60
worth of tools and a $250 saddle,
none of which was Insured.
Luckily, Townsend had a small
motor In a different location,
from which he can operate his
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