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1 The Nwi-Rr.!w, Roseburg, Ora. Thurs., Sept. 14, 1950
Public Interest
Projects Okayed
By Toastmasters
Cooperation In two projects,
sponsor -d in the public interest,
waa voted Tuesday at a meeting
of the Roseburg Toastmasters
club.
Speaker!, drawn from the organ
ization memberahip, will record
a panel discussion on the topic,
"Register Then Vote," during the
Sept. 19 meeting. The recording
will be broadcast later this month
over station KRNR.
The aecond project, conducted
in cooperation vith the Oregon
State Employment aervice, will
irovide speakers to appear before
ocal organizations during National
Employ the Physically Handi
capped week In October. Speaking
on "Hire the Handicapped," Toast
mastera will talk to the Rotary,
Kiwanis, Active and Lions service
clubi and the Central Labor coun
cil. During the scheduled portion of
last Tuesday'a meeting, speeches
were given by Bob Harvie, Mike
Oilley and Pat Turner. Unan
imously voted into club member
ahip was Mel Battee, who recently
moved here from Longview, Wash.
James Duncan was a guest of the
club.
Toastmastei for the evening was
Lowell Hamm and Al Knudtson
waa topicmaster.
Locals
! Action Against
(Engineer Posed
Laurel Council la Matt Laurel
council of the Royal and Select
Masters will have a meeting Fri
day night, Sept. IS. at the Masonic
temple at 8 o'clock.
Youth Given Sentence,
Fine For Petty Larceny
Richard Adial Dubell, 18, was
g'ven a ten-day jail sentence and
fined $25 following a plea of guilty
I to a petty larceny charge, accord-
ing to Justice of Peace A. J. Gcd-Ides.
The youth pleaded guilty to tak
ing money from the office of a
Roseburg doctor. In addition to the
fine and sentence, Dubell will be
i placed on parole until he repays
ine uuviur i"i me muiiry lanrn
over a period of time, Geddea said.
14-Ytar-Old Tenmil
Youth Dies Wednesday
old son of Mrs. Lewis Mercy of 1 Du CC Official
Tenmile, died Sept. 13, following, I - "
1 long period of ilness. j PITTSBURGH ( The In-
He was born at Los Angeles ; erstate Commerce commission to-
Jan. 4, 1938. and came to Douglas j da weighed the. possibility of pun
county in 1944, and had made hi ; itive action against a 68-year-old
nome wun nis lamuy ai winsion i engineer who testified he ran His
and Olalla before moving to Ten- j passenger express through a stop
Second Son Of Family
Killed In Korea War
LOCK HAVEN Pa. (JPl Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Riggle, of
nearby Hyncr, Tuesday reported
their aycond aon had been killed
in the Korean fighting.
The Riggles said they had been
notified by the Defense department
of the death of their son, Gene.
On Aug. 22 they received word
that another son, Karl, had been
killed. The bnew enlisted together
tin January, 1949,
mile recently.
Surviving are his step-father
and mother, Mr. and Mra. -Lewis
Marcy, Tenmiie, and three sis
ters and one brother, Darlene May
Walls, Nancy Sue Walls, Wanda
Eileen Walls, and Michael Monroe
Marcy, all of Tenmile. He is also
survived by his maternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Burr
of Olalla.
Funeral services will be held in
the chapel of Long and Orr mort
uary Saturday, sail. 16. at 10 a
signal shortly before it struck a
stalled troop resin.
The Pennsylvania Railroad engi
neer, William E. Eller, told joint
inquiry yesterday that the crack
"Spirit of St. Louis" passed a stop
signal just before striking the troop
train lat Monday near CoshoSon,
0.
Eller also "guessed" his express
train was running at about 50 miles
per hour at the time of the crash
in which 33 members of Pennsyl
vania's recently-federalized 28th di-
m. The Rev, ' W. A. MacArthur I vis'on kl'lea
of the First Melhndist churh will
officiate. Concluding services and
interment will follow in the Ten
mile cemetery. ,
Albert E. Maiiow Dies.
Following Brief Illness
More than SO other soldiers on
the troop train were l.urt but no
one .nn the passenger express waa
injured.
B. W. Johnson, a road foreman
of engines, testified the recorded
tape taken from Eller'i smashed
diesel indicated the train was run
ning about 70 miles an hour
shortly before the mishap and
about SO miles an hour "immedi
ately before the crash."
let; commissioner w. J. Patter-
JOHN G. VERBERKMOES, M.D.
and
CLARENCE L. CODE, M.D.
Announce Their Association in
the Practice of Internal
Medicine.
230 Medical Arts Building
Roseburg, Oregon
Phone 1055
Albert Edward Marlow, 69, rcs
! ident of Myrtle Creek for the past
i two years and formerly of Pendle
I ton, died at his home in Myrtle
I Creek v Sept. If, following a short 1 son Declared:
illness. I "When we get the record a re-
He was born at Independence, port will be written and made
Mo., Feb. 14, 1881, and was mar-: public. If it turns out any law was
ried to Florence Edith Saunders j violated that is administered by the
at Kansaa City, Mo., in 19U6. He ! commission, then we win take pun-
was a member of the Baptist
church.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Florence E. Marlow, and four
children! Mrs. Ira (Mabel) Du
mont, William Edward Marlow,
James Arthur Marlow and Danie
Roscoe Marlow, all Myrtle Creek.
He is also survived by his mother,
Mrs. Julia Ann Marlow, Pendle
ton, and two sisters and two broth
ers, Mrs. W. J. Thurman, Pendle
ton; Mrs. Nora Pansier, Board
man, Ore.; Frank Marlow, Board
man, and Roy Marlow, Umatilla.
His body is to be taken to Pendle
ton for funeral services and inter
ment. Funeral arrangements are
in care of the Long and Orr mort
uary. '
The Connecticut Agricultural Ex
periment Station is experiment
ing with wood chips to add organic
matter to the soil.
itive action
As the hearing ended, the army
made ready to take home its sol
dier dead. Bodies of the 33 vie
times, all from the Wilkes-Barre
(Pa.) area, were placed aboard a
special train which left West La
fayette, Ind., early today.
Mother, 13, Says She's
Thrilled By Girl's Birth
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (. How
does it feel to be a mother (at 13?
"I'm thrilled to death," a a id
Mrs. Charles Ray Parker, who
gave birth to a daughter Tuesday
night a few hours after reaching
her 13th birthday.
The father, employe of an elec
trical company, is 18. He met his
wife when he performed with a
hillbilly band at a school where
she was a six grader, a classmate
of his sister.
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PHOr?E 348
Poland Thrtattns Action I Man's Body Idtntifled
Ovtt Lintr Batory Status' PEndleton
WASHINGTON UP The Po
lish government says it may have
to "take appropriate measures"
against what it calls discrimination
against the liner Batory by United
States officials.
In a protest, Polish Ambassador
Jozef Winiewics said the ship's
crew Is not permitted ashore and
that immigration officials have
used "chicanery" in questioning
crrw members.
Tbe ambassador asserted also
that U. S. officials encouraged
longshoremen who recently re
fused to unload the liner's cargo.
It was on the Batory that Com
munist Gerhart Eisler fled to Eu
rope last year while free on bond
following his conviction for con-
tempt of Congress.
PenlandLast
GAR Chief, Dies
VANCOUVER. Wash. - (.f)
Theodore A. Penland, 101, last
commander of the Grand Army of
the Republic, died here Wednes
day, the veterans hospital re
ported. The Civil war veteran, full of
chucklea and spry until very re
cent years, attended a Los Ange
les convention of the affiliated or
ders of the GAR last week.
He entered the hospital Tuesday
and died of a failing heart at 11
a. m. Wednesday.
He had been troubled with his
heart for several months and was
in the hospital for a time last
spring.
Penland was elected com
mander of the GAR at the 1948
encampment at Grand Rapids.
Mich. It was decided then that the
handful of veterans would meet
just once more their 83rd meet
ing and then call it quits. That
last convention was held in Indian
apolis where the first waa held.
Six of the 16 veterans remaining
at that time, attended the last encampment.
Officer Says N. Koreans
Prevent Visits To POWs
TOKYO - UP -A U. S. army
public information officer said
Thursday North Korea won't let
the International Red Cross visit
prisoner-of-war camps to observe
the treatment of prisoners.
The North Koreans have noti
fied the United Nations they will
abide by the 1949 Geneva conven
tion calling for humane treatment
ot POWS.
Frederick Berl of Geneva, dele
gate of the Red Cross, has ob
served United Nations treatment
of prisonera and pronounced it
excellent.
CP) A man
found burned to death in a shed
was identified last night as Jay
Forrest Bird, 36, of Joseph, Ore.
Police Chief Charlea Lemons
said a charred wallet found near
the unrecognizable body had a
fishing license with Bird's name.
He reported Bird had been in the
vicinity yesterday and twice in
recent years had been arrested
here for vagrancy.
Firemen were called to the fire
at 1:20 a.m. yesterday. The body
was discovered in the debris.
Voice Of America'
Boosts Programming O
BILL PASS IS SENATI
WASHINGTON - UP) -A bill
permitting the coast guard to
freeze enlistments for one year,
to call up reservists or retired
personnel for 21 months of active
duty, and to take in draftees, waa
passed by the Senate yesterday.
It goes now to the House.
NEW YORK 1 OP Spurred
by prospects of - new appropria
tions, the "Voice nf America" has
scheduled an expanded broadcast
ing program.
Officiala sa'd yesterday that by
the end of the fiscal year next
June, the atate department rafljio
will be beaming abroad M hours
of programs daily, instead of the
current 34 hours.
Several of the programs sent
to different areas art on the air
simultaneously.
It was reported that the "voice"
would receive S48.000.000 of the
$97,212,000 fund which the senate
appropriations committee ap
proved for the atate department's
trutli campaign. The House voted
S19.344.U0 less. The two cham
bers still .must work out the final
figures.
LIGHTNING KILLS WOMAN
WELLSBURG. W. Va., (.
Mrs. Jeff Soles, 68, waa killed
yesterday when lightning struck a
wire clothes line at her home.
tcrs. Soles was hurrying to take
a wash off the line before an ap
proaching storm broke. Witnesses
said lightning struck a tree and
traveled along the clothca line,
knocking the woman to the ground.
She js survived by her husband
and five children.
Soles Of Perfumed
Hair Oil Boom In Africa
LONDON (Pi Sales of per
fumed British hair oil for inter,
nal use are booming in Africa.
Releasing this, the United Af
rica company said in its monthly
trade review: "The nativea of the
Gold Coast spread the hair dres
sing on bread and eat it with
great relish. The reason for this
is unknown."
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