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2 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Mdoy. Aug. 17. HI! Alfred r. Hoffmeuier-, Aged Resident, Panel Alfred T. Hoffmeister, 88, resi dent of Roseburg for S5 years, died Thursday, Aug. 18. He was born July 20, 1863, In St. Charles, Mo., and was a resident of Eddy St at the time of his death. He was a member of the Firs Chrls lan church. Surviving ara ha widow, Tnla, Roseburg; four sons: Fred W. Hoffmeister, Winston; Charles Hoffmeister, Gold Beach; Alfred Hoffmeister, Sutherlln; Arnold Hoffmeister, Myrtle Point r two daughters: Mrs. Frances Clark, Fresno, Calif., and Mrs. Alma Peyton, Portage Des-Sioux, Mo.; a brother, Adolph Hoffmeister, St Louis, Mo.; 11 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be an nounced by the Roseburg Funeral home upon arrival of relatives. Husband Of Welfare Cheat Alia Accused SEATTLE UP) Andrew Clif ford Harmon, who posed as his wife's brother-in-law so she could obtain state aid for their five chil dren, was included in a joint grand larceny charge on an amended complaint here. His wife, Gladys, 47, was charged previously with bilking the state out of $8,067 in the past three years. She admitted in a signed statement the fraud extended back to 1942 and involved some 120,000. The smaller amount was all that could be Included in the charge under the statute of limitations. other surgeon started massaging the woman's heart a minute and a half after it stopped beating and continued for 27V4 minutes until the organ started functioning again. The woman was being prepared for a hernia operation when her heart stopped beating. She had suf fered a heart attack some time ago. The two doctors cut into the pa tient's chest, exposing the heart, and then began the massaging op eration. They also injected , stim ulants directly into the organ. Patient Revived After 29-Mlnuta Heart Stop GREENSBORO, N. C. UP) A 60-year-old woman was revived at a Greensboro hospital 29 min utes after her heart stopped beat ing, her physicians said. The attending physician and an- Kmc tut rlbkfU (WtwKPWXsJorw) RADIO 3 W KRNR . TIME 7:00 P.M. si. 1 1 ' Nil Buffer Zone Yield By Reds Indicated (Continued from Page 1) forces only along the eastern front. Elsewhere, patrol action was mi nor. Both sides avoided involve ment in extended engagements. The navy opened its seventh month of dally bombardment of Wonsan, east coast port through which Red supply lines run. Red batteries fired back Thursday, straddling the U. S. minesweeper Osprey with near misses. The navy said the Osprey was not damaged; nobody was hurt. Planes and de stroyers silenced the Red guns. Adm. Sherman's Widow To Get $75 Per Month WASHINGTON (JP) The gov ernment will provide $75 a month to the widow of Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, late chief of naval operations, according to Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosen berg. Mrs. Rosenberg mentioned the figure in testifying before the house armed services committee in sup port of proposed legislation to In crease annuities for survivors of members of the armed forces. She said she referred to Mrs. Sherman's case merely as an il lustration, adding that the admir al's widow happened not to be in need. Port Orford Fishing Boat Object Of Search SEATTLE UP) An aerial search for a missing Port Orford, Ore., 22-foot fishing boat went into Its second day today, coast guard headquarters reported. The small boat, the 29C-163, VI - 9 v 111 x'- At Ml -It" 1 -'II . i. . J l . ' 'J THIS IS HOW we do It in Roseburg, Jim, says nine-year-old Bobby Scott as he flings a short fast pass to Jim Aiken, former University of Oregon football coach, now working for Vmpqua Plywood corporation in Roseburg. rallt-il in return to Port Orford Wednesday night as scheduled. Aboard were the owner, Jess Rich mond, and an unidentified crew man. A small craft warning was posted for the area today by the weather bureau, for winds of 30 to 40 miles an hour. Bank President Facet $600,000 Looting Charge NEW KENSINGTON. Pa. UP) The FBI has arrested President L. R. Schlekat of the Parnassus National bank and charged him with looting the bank of $600,000 in the last 16 years. Schlekat, 40, had been an em ployee of the bank since his grad uation from high school in 1928. Schlekat, charged with the viola tion of the national banking laws, has been president since 1847. U.S. Balks China Offer For Opium-Cotton Swap WASHINGTON UrV-ObJection by the narcotics bureau balked a proposal by Red China to swap IS tons of opium for American cot ton, Congress has been told. The information was given a house appropriations subcommit tee by Deputy Narcotics Commis- PEERLESS PUMPS Cash, Terms or Rentals All Rentals Can Bt Applied on Purchase At Any Time. PLENTY OP PIPE FOR INSTALLATION DENN WHOLESALE CO. North Umpqua Road Phone 3-3502 sioner G. W. Cunningham. Cunning. ham said the Chinese Communists hold more than enough opium to suddIv the whole world for a year. And drug addiction in the United States is rising at such a rate, Cunningham said, that the bureau needs 57 additional enforcement agents and $130,000 more money for the purchase ol illicit drugs for evidence. Fire Situation Still Critical In Douglas The forest fire that charred 160 acres near the tunnel on the Drain Reedsport highway has nearly burned out, . the Douglas Forest Protective association reports. All DFPA personnel have been recalled from the area ana only a few men remain as a security watch, the spokesman said. The fire condition in Douglas county remains critical; the humidity plunged to 19 percent Thursday. A 14-man crew from the North Umpqua camp and eight supervi sors from th elocal forest service headquarters have been called to combat the blaze in the Rogue Ri ver national forest above the Trad on the Crater lake highway. House Commitee Uses Knife On Defense Fund WASHINGTON -UP-The house appropriations committee has stripped all but $65,255,000 out of the $535,000,000 fund which Presi dent Truman requested for the civil defense administration. The committee refused to ap prove any civil defense funds for bomb shelters and other protec tive facilities and cut $150,000,000 from the $200,000,000 requested for the purchase of medical supplies and equipment. The committee said testimony failed to disclose "either a need for a shelter program as contem plated by the estimates or ade quate plans for the expenditure of the fund." Another Plane Missing In Alaska Flight ANCHORAGE, Alaska -OP) Another plane was missing today in Alaska the fourth in less than a month. The wreckage of one, a navy patrol bomber with a crew of 12, has been found. The latest search was for a plane flown by veteran Alaska bush pi lot Glen Hudson. It failed to re turn from a flight Wednesday night to a lake near Dead Man moun tain, about 170 miles northeast of Anchorage. Among the three passengers was a 10-year-old boy. Their names have not been learned. The party was due back in a few hours. State Employes Assn. To Ask Pay Increase SALEM UP) The State Em ployes association will ask the siaie emergency board for a pay increase for iU members soon. rorrest Stewart, executive secre. tary of the association. n nnnnpprl He said the request will be based on me rising cost of living and recent pay Increases granted to comparable employes in private industry. Those affected would be civil service workers between the junior and highly technical em ployes classifications. Any recommendation of th m. ergency board would have to be "W"weo oy me governor. Former Oakland Teacher Passes In Springfield Word was received early today of the death of Miss Mildred Kruse born in Douglas county and lived in Oakland until moving to Spring field where she taught school. Fun eral services wm be held 1 nOak land and the time will be an nounced later. The Russians have drilled wells and built a small oil refinery in Sinkiang province In western China.. . - ACT I MercO-Molic Drive. . . the revolutionary new automatic transmission that Is smoother, simpler, more efficient you can drive all day without shifting. 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Search Launched By Threat Guards reported that recent comments from the convicts that they would "burn this place up" led to the search for gasoline. Nearly 1,400 inmates have gone without food since Thursday's breakfast. There are 1,455 inmates within the prison walls. Fifty-five of these are in the hospital and are being fed, as are the 13 cooks and waiters who prepare the hospital and guards' meals. The rest of the inmates aren't eating. There are 121 inmates in the pen itentiary annex, located several miles from the main buildings. Thejare mostly trusties who do farm work. They are not affected by the strike. Normally, only about 700 of the Inmates of the prison are em ployed. The strike started Tuesday afternoon following a fight be tween two convicts. The convicts said that Lt. Morris Race used unnecessary violence In subduing one of the fighters. Race denied the charge. The convicts say they will not return to work until Race is givn a job outside the prison walls. Warden Alexander has rejected their demands. As a disciplinary measure, the warden also abolished the con vict!' eight-man grievance com mittee. He also caused prisoners John Edward Ralph and Gordon Little to be placed in isolation cells, describbing the two as "ring leaders of the demonstration." nT i in ii a II ithimimu. J 4- Log Comes Back For Swim Event This is the story of a log which came back to Douglas county. Many logs are being cut in this county and being shipped else where for processing, much to the chagrin of local civic leaders. But one log has come back, after be ing specially tooled. This morning about 9:30, the log was unloaded by P 4 B Wreckers at the Roseburg municipal swim ming pool for use in a special log rolling contest during the Junior chamber of commerce sponsored Southern .Oregon Invitational swimming meet and water car nival this Saturday and Sunday nights. The log will be rolled into the water at the pool tonight. The log is exactly 12 feet long and tooled to 19 inches in dia meter, which is standard for log rolling contests. According to Jaycee President Gordon Carlson, there was no lathe In Douglas county large enough to tool the log. A 12-foot lathe was necessay. The log had to be taken to the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. plant at Springfield, tooled and shipped back. It was brought to Sutherlln by train this morning and trucked to Roseburg by P at B Wreckers. PEDDLERS' MUSIC TABOO MIAMI, Fla. (JP) No longer will the ice cream wagon playing nursery tunes roll through residen tial sections of Miami. Paul F. Parsons, 44, and William C. Rewak, 45, who used musio boxes to let the kids know the ice hibiting sound trucks, cream man was coming, were ar- They were fined $25 each and rested under a city ordinance pro-costs. 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