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Established 1873 ROSEBURG, OREGON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1952 if 265-52
Be ven Belie ved Dead In Fiery Crash
Washington
Region Air
Tragedy Spot
SHELTON, Wash. I A four-
engine Navy plane with 11 men
aboard crashed and burned on a
hillside on the rugged, heavily
timbered Olympic Peninsula
Wednesday night.
A farm family's report of seeing
flames about three hours after the
first mushrooming flames signaled
the wilderness disaster raised a
slim hope that some one may have
survived.
Navy officials said the plane car
ried signal flares, but they expres
sed doubt that the report flares
were sent up by any survivor 'of
the crash.
In the face of heavy night rain
and early morning fog, searchers
tried by land and air to find the
crashed plane
But in mid-morning Thursday
fog and snow in the crash area
northwest of Shelton grounded
search planes and helicopters.
Ground parties numbering 100
men were in the area, and SO
Army men from Fort Lewis pre
pared to join the search.
Slim Hop Offered
Reports of the flaming crash of
the low-flying Privateer from the
Sand Point Naval Air Station at
Seattle led to a belief overnight
that no one could have survived.
However, Mr. and Mrs. Don
Ragan raised a, slim hope today
with a report of having seen two
white flares shoot skyward about
three hours after the crash.
They sad they were sitting in a
car with Deputy Sheriff Dick Val
ley of Mason County when they
saw the flares beyond the ridge
that faces their home in the area
of the earlier flames.
Ragan said they all agreed that
it was too long after the original
fire and after-flashes to have been
the latter. They said there could
not have been any searchers in
the area at that time and the
flares1 upward courses eliminated
the chance of their having been
dropped by search planes.
Kaian reported early in the eve
ning having seen a large plane fly
ing low and "a big flash when she
hit."
BEVERLY, Mass. 11 Two
men died Thursday In the crash
nri exolosion of a Coast Guard
helicopter.
Although there were ne wit
nesses of the actual crash, resi
dents reported that just before the
explosion, the helicopter came over
at a low altitude, its engine sput
tering, and back-firing
Grandma Bandit Stages
Another Bank Holdup
LOS ANGELES OB Grandma
has struck again.
She got $1,212 in a Wilshire Bou
levard holdup Oct. 17, and yes
terday she held up the Union Bank
and Trust Company on South Hill
Street, getting $2,000.
The gray-haired woman of about
60 handed June North, 23-year-old
teller, a note reading: "Act natural,-
There are three guns on
you. Give me all your money
and give me three minutes to get
away.
In the Day's News
. By FRANK JENKINS
From Lexington, Kentucky:
A white crow, which scientists
' say is a bird in a million, is on
display at the University of Ken
tucky's department of zoology.
Farmer James W. . Savage shot
the bird after trying unsuccessfully
to trap it
r ... j. M. Edney. acting head
of the zoology department, says
it is the first white crow either
seen or killed . anywhere in the
United States for at least SO years.
D'ya reckon that means we're
in for a long, hard winter? .
In Suitland Manor, Maryland, an
apartment development suburb of
Washington, D. C, tenants have
won a round against a manage
ment edict banning dogs. With 23
dogs still in the 640 apartments,
the management withdrew a pro
tested order charging each dog
owner $25. There are hints of evic
tion proceedings later, but for the
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The Weather
Rain, becoming showery tonight
and Friday, partial cloaring Fri
day night.
Highest timp. (or any Nov. .7
Lowest timp. for any Nov. 14
Highoit tomp. last 14 hours ..... $1
Lowott ttmp. It it 24 hours 40
Prtcip. from Nov. 1 .17
Proeip. lait 24 hours M
Procip. From S.pt. 1 2.U
!Die. from Sept. 1 1.57
J Junior today, 4:51 p.m. PST
aunriso tomorrow, 7:05 a.m. PST
TRUCE NOT WANTED
Stalin, Chinese Stalling
For Time To Prop Reds'
Morale, Oriental Warns
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. Nationalist China's for
eign minister, George K. C. Yen, charged Thursday that
"Stalin and his Communist stooges do not really want a
truce" in Korea and called on the U. N. to declare Com
munism a threat to the world's peace and security.
Pavlov Rites Set
Here Saturday
Funeral services for Alex Steph
en Pavlov, 30, local architect who
passed away Wednesday at a Lu-
gene hospital where he had been
admitted as a polio patient Nov.
3, will be held in the chapel of
Long and Orr Mortuary at 2 p.m.
Saturday.
Pavlov was born in New York
City Apr. 1, 1922, and attended
the University of Michigan, ma
joring in architecture.
He was married at Detroit,
Mich., on Feb 25. 1944. to Rose
Shalbot. He came to Oregon from
Detroit about six years ago and
came to Roseburg from Salem in
February. 1952. He was affiliated
with Iktinkos Chapter, architec
ture fraternity, and with the Rose
burg Chamber of Commerce.
He is survived by his widow
and two children. Ivan and Mara.
of Roseburg. and his parents.
Stephen Pavlov of Detroit, and
Mrs. Mary . Pavlov, Chicago.
Dr. Morris Roach of the First
Presbyterian church will officiate
at funeral services. Following the
services here his body will be
taken to Eugene for cremation
rites.
It is reauested that friends
please omit flowers and that in
lieu of these make donations to
either the lfbrarv fund or the
polio fund. Donations may be giv
en to these organizations directly
or left -at the Long & Orr Mortu
ary.
rwo-Way Migration Seen
In Vegetables, Melons
LOS ANGELES Wl City men
are being attracted to vegetable
and melon growing in California
and Arizona while many farmers
in this field are selling out and eo-
ing to the city, reports Mark Magee
oi .1 ceniro, president of the
Western Growers Association.
"There is a two-way migration."
said Magee -Tuesday at a press
conlerence preceding the onenine
of the association's 27th annual
meeting.
Magee said the migration has
developed to the point where city
men are sumying agricultural sub
jects at universities and buying
outlying vegetable and melon land
in large acreages. "The educated
city man is going to the country
wniie me oiacr vegetable and
melon producer, who feels he can
do so. is selling nut and eoinc to
the city," he said.
PROBATION GRANTED
Albert Wesley Balkema. 41. of
Reedsport, was placed on proba
tion Wednesday from a one year
penitentiary sentence after plead
ing guilty to non-support in Cir
cuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly's
court
MORSE MAY GET BID
Invitation To Democratic
Party Caucus Suggested
By Minnesota Senator
WASHINGTON Sen. Humphrey (D-Minn.) said to
day Democratic senators should welcome Sen. Wayne
Morse of Oregon into their party caucus if he wants to
come.
Morse, turning against President-elect Dwight D. Ei
senhower during the presidential campaign, quit the Re
publican party to support Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Il
linois, the Democratic nominee, and declared himself an
independent.
Whether Republican senators
will take reprisals against Morse
in the new Senate convening Jan.
3. possibly depriving him of his
present choice committee assign
ments, is uncertain. Morse now
holds places on the Armed Services
and Labor Committees.
Humphrey, a leader of th "New
Deal-Fair Deal' wing of the Demo
cratic party, told a reporter the
Democrats should throw open the
door to Morse.
On the other hand, Humphrey
said that Democratic senators who
"turn their backs on the national
party ticket also ought to receive
their reward" in less preferential
treatment.
The matter of reprisals against
Democrats who "supported the
opposition" should be considered
in connection with committee as
signments, Humphrey said, at the
Making his country s major pol
icy address to the U. N.'s 60
nation General Assembly, Yeh said
the Chinese Reds have suffered
such huge casualties that the Pei
ping government does not dare to
face its people "empty-handed."
Although it is commonly as
sumed that only the question of
sending home prisoners is holding
up a truce, Yeh declared, the
fundamental problem is that the
Reds do not want a truce unless
it will "solidify and strengthen the
ranks of world Communism."
Yeh pointed out that some dele
gations have sought to solve the
repatriation problem through trans
fer of prisoners to the care of neu
tral countries. But, he said, this
might turn out to be only a delayed
manner of forcibly sending home
those Communist prisoners who
have said they don't want to go.
The Communists, Yeh said, could
be expected to put "direct and in
direct pressure" on the prisoners
once they were temporarily in
their neutral refuges.
Yeh charged that Soviet Russia
has substituted "satcllization" for
the imperialism of the past and
asserted that the Communist re
gime in Peiping "is as completely
a Soviet puppet as the Communist
regime in North Korea."
He charged mat the Chinese
Reds had kept themselves In power
by executing 14 million persons
during the past five years, and
that millions more have been con
demned to a "living death."
Oregon Prison Guard
Fired For Rule Breaking
SALEM lift State Prison War
den Virgil O'Mallcy said Wednes
day ne nad urea Guard nennetn
Johansen. 24. for acting as a go-
between in an attempt by a con
vict to get money from a state
hospital patient.
O Malley said Jonansen admit
ted taking a note from Robert J.
Unrine, convict who runs the pris
on barber shop, to John Evans
Winn, lormer convict who is a vol
untary patient at the Oregon State
Hospital.
The note. O'Malley said, asked
for payment of some money.
O'Mallcy said no charges would
be filed against Johansen because
no law was violated. Only a pris
on law was broken, he said.
Woman's Third Attempt
At Suicide Is Success
PORTLAND tm A woman who
made a spectacular, but unsuccess
ful, suicide attempt earlier finally
killed herself Wednesday.
Mrs. Beatrice Irene French, 34,
did it with sleeping pills. She died
in a hospital.
Actually it was her third try.
Once she attempted to jump with
her new-born daughter from the
seventh floor of a hotel here. A
clerk stopped her.
Shortly after, she leaped from
the Burn side Bridge into the Wil
lamette River. That was last April.
The crew of a passing tug rescued
her and the baby then.
caucus of Democratic senators
early next year.
In a separate interview, Sen.
Hunt (D.-Wyo.), said anyone who
used the Democratic party to get
nominated and then support the
Republicans "doesn't belong in the
Democratic caucus."
Neither Hunt nor Humprey call
ed any names.
Senator-elect Price Daniel of
Texas, a Democrat who had Re
publican endorsement, campaigned
openly for Eisenhower. Sen. Harry
F. Byrd, Virginia Democrat lead
er, stopped short of urging Eisen
hower's election but he disavowed
the Stevenson Sparkman ticket.
In Nevada Sen. Pat McCarran,
another veteran Democrat, work
ed for the re-election of Republican
Sen. George Malone and also ex
changed barbed remarks with
Stevenson.
No Promises
At Truman
Conference
Eisenhower To Avoid
Commitments When
He Visits White House
AUGUSTA, Ga. Wt President
elect Dwight D. Elsenhower re
portedly will steer clear of any
Dolicv commitment tn Prncirlont
Truman when they confer at the
wniie nouse.
Eisenhower flssnrintoe vjhn act
ed not to be named said his role at
the conference will be mainly that
of a listener, although they em-
pnmzeo. uiai ne agrees with the
President that the session will
amount to a rimrwitrai,n nt
American unity.
The White House announced yes
terday that the Eisenhower-Truman
meeting has been set for
Tuesday, Nov. 17.
In proposing the meeting last
week, the President said it would
helo achieve an nrriprlv trancitinn
from the old administration to the
new. ne mentioned a need for
discussion of world problems.
Eisenhower rAnliarf thot hn k..
ed Truman's hope "that we may
pieseni 10 me wona an American
unity in Dasic issues."
Clear Statamant Made '
Over th waatfnnH 41, Dm.I
dent-elect's headquarters put out
a statement which said in effect
that anv Dre-inantiirntinn nnntp.
ences with Truman administration
otnciais would in no way bind the
President-elect as to Republican
policy.
The statement was intended to
make it clear, the general's associ.
ales said, that any policy decisions
before inauguration day Jan. 20
Would be the recnnncihilitv nt tha
out-going administration. , .
ciscnnower reportedly feels
strongly that It would be a mistake
for him to deal in any other way
at Tuesday's meeting in either
the international or the domestic
fields.
Eisenhower, meanwhile, is seek
ing a cross sertinn nf Rmihlian
leaders' views on the Korean War
situation in advance of his trip
to the war lone.
That is one nf th mninr mirnneA,
of a series of conferences the gen
eral wiu noio, starting with a ses-
aiim ii nn vacation retreat nere
tomorrow with cinv Thnma tr
Dewey of New York.
Young GOP Unit Names
Convention Delegates
Fred Bernau, Roseburg, countv
chairman, and Ernest Sealon and
Mr. and Mrs .lamni W Klw,n
Drain, were selected as delegates'
nuin me uougias bounty young
Republicans to the annual conven
tion of Youne Rpnuhlirnn in Fit-
gene this Friday, Saturday and
ouuuuy. .
I he county is authorized 10 dele
gates, but the nfhpr have nnt hflun
designated. Important convention
business will be election of the
next state chairman.
The group discussed post elec
tion plans and activities and set
the next meetinff fnr snmfttim in
January at Roseburg. Motion pic-
iuic were gnown ny jonn reu,
and refreshments were served.
$35,000 Damages Asked
For Injury From Truck
Williams Bakery of Eugene and
Vernon N. Pouncey are named
defendants in a $35,000 personal
injury suit filed in Circuit Court
by Raoul D. Seybold.
Seybold alleges he was struck by
a truck operated by the defend
ants as he tried to warn the truck
of an accident on the highway
some five miles north of Drain.
In another suit, Brix Co. sued
Elmo M. Summers to foreclose a
mortgage offered to secure a $1,000
promissory note.
Timber Sales Revenues
Credited To Road Fund
The County Court has filed an
order crediting the bulk of a mil
lion and a half dollars in O. & C.
and f orest Service timber sale
revenues to the road fund with the
remainder going to the general
county funds.
A total of $1,26,181.3S is going
to the county's road fund. The
balance, $383,386.03 goes to the
general fund.
FOUR JOIN NAVY
Four recent naval enlistees were
reported today by the naval re
cruiter, three of them from Rose
burg. Emery Shelton Hunt, Roseburg
enlisted Wednesday. Friday enlis
tees were Charles Richard Pole
and George Wallace Johnson nf
Roseburg and Waller James Smith
of Sutnerlin.
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WANTED Front and side views are shown obove of John
W. Coffield of Vancouver, Wash., sought on a warrant
charging first degree murder in the death of Georgia Lu
cille Lang.
Pleas Scheduled Saturday
In 2nd Degree Murder Cases
Lesser Charges Filed Against
7 Persons, 11 Others Go Free
Four persons charged with murder will be brought be
fore Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly Saturday morning,
District Attorney Robert M. Stults reports.
They are Thomas S. Bouse,
der, and Charley J. Lemmons, Ezra J. Staggs and Mary J,
Gilpin, all accused of second degree murder.
Planes, Troops
Hammer Chinese
SEOUL un U. S. warplanes
today poured flaming jellied gaso
line, bombs and machine gun fire
on entrenched Chinese Reds in the
Sniper Ridge-Triangle Hill area
on Korea's bleak Central Front.
Victorious South Korean infan
trymen, meanwhile, mopped up
Red remnants around Pinpoint
Hill, dominant height on blood-
soaked Sniper, The Republic of
Korea (ROK). troops recaptured
Pinpoint Wednesday in a Heroic
artillery-supported charge.
Allied mortar and tank fire
chopped un three small Red Infan
try probes against Allied positions
at Jackson Heights, south of Iron-
horse Mountains on the Central
Front.
Pilots reported about SS buildings
were leveled. Shooting Star jets
bombed another troop-concentra
tion in tne same area, destroying
about 15 ouudings.
B-2S bombers renorted destruc
tion of 65 trucks on North Korean
roads Wednesday night.
Child Accepts Fire Dare,
Emerges Human Torch
NEW YORK lifl A playmate's
dare sent 3-year-old Joseph Sena
walking through a bonfire and
emerging as a human torch.
The youngster was playing
Wednesday with chums near his
home in the Red Hook section of
Brooklyn when he calmly toddled
into and through the blaze,
Charles La Rocco, 40, a city
employed bus driver, saw what
had happened and dashed over to
tne boy. La Kncco beat out tne
flames with his hands, then
wrapped Joseph in blankets and
drove him to a hospital.
Thursday Joseph was described
as in fair condition by a hospital
spokesman.
Horsemeat-ln-Sausage
Charges Fail In 2 Cases
PORTLAND Am A district
court jury cleared two PortlanderS
Wednesday of a charge of putting
horsemeat in sausage.
One of the accused men, Law
rence Ramsby, operator of the
Parkrose Meat Co., admitted there
was horsemeat in some of his beef.
He said, however, that it was not
for public sale, but was a special
order for one customer. He said he
could not remember the customer's
name.
Ramsby and Harold Sies, oper
ator of the Montavilla Distributing
Co., had been arrested in a raid by
city health officials in August.
JUDGE DENIES GAMBLING
Acquits Self, 5 Others,
Arrested By Sheriff, But
2nd Court Orders Probe
DAYTON, Tenn. An investigation was scheduled
today in connection with a verdict of innocent which Ses
sions Judge Harold Duncan gave himself and five others
on caminir chnrces.
The investigation was ordered yesterday by Circuit:
Judge Alan S. Kelly of South Pittsburgh, Tenn., who said I
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lie atnu imu icvuacu mi uiuci
machines to the owners.
Sheriff Mack Thurman of Rhea
County reported yesterday that
Duncan was arrested at a poker
game by his chief deputy when the
deputy was sent to get a warrant
for three men charged in the slot
machine seizure.
Duncan had been seen at the
game earlier, Thurman said. The
judge said he was "only told to
come in" and was not arrested.
He admitted he signed a $250 ap
pearance bond.
"I presided at tha hearing and
charge against all six cited, in
cluding myself, were dismissed. .
The other five testified they were;
accused of first degree mur
At that time the three accused
in the second degree will enter
pleas to the Grand Jury indict
ments returned Wednesday. If they
plead innocent, trials will be dock
eted for the present term ol court.
By law. a trial must be held in
tne Mate s case against Bouse, be
cause a defendant is not allowed
to plead to first degree murder.
In addition to the homicide
cases, the Grand Jury returned
three secret indictments, seven
other true bills and is not true
bills.
Charges of armed assault aris
ing out of a family free-for-all
near the South Douglas garbage
dump, were dismissed when the
Grand Jury returned not true bills
against four MyrUe Creek men.
the melee reportedly occurred
last Sept. 9 and the four men later
tiled charges against each other,
They are Louie Calenzanl. John
Calenzani, Joe Chipanno and Les
ter wnite.
Seven Others Indicted
Others-indictments returned ' -by
the Grand Jury Wednesday include
tne following:
TRUE BILLS Robert Traver-
ra, operator of a Roseburg clean
ing establishment, accused of rape
involving a 13-year-old girl. Police
are presently seeking Traverra,
who left the area while under bail
on the charge.
Charles Betts Glenn, 17. of Win
ston, accused of rape, involving a
33 -'year - old woman, allegedly
threatening her at knife point.
Donald Munn, 18. Canyonville,
accused of grand larceny of per
sonal property lrom James w.
Reed.
Harold H. Clemens, accused of
assault and battery in connection
with an alleged assault on James
Wesley Lang.
Edward Nicholas, 24, Sutherlin,
accused of non-support of three mi
nor children.
William Earl Wilshire. 55, a
Roseburg rancher, accused of lar
cenv of livestock in the alleged
theft of five ewes from Worth
Davis.
Charles Albert Hall, 34. Eugene,
accused of non-support of two chil
dren. Eleven Rolaatod
The jury returned Ihe following
not true bills, releasing the follow
ing defendants:
Larry Edward Hunter, 22, Sutherlin;-
Robert L. Dagc, Mclvin
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DAY'S BIGGEST BEEF
WASHINGTON W Beef of the
day:
A dealer complained to police
a truck loaded with $10,000 worth
of meat more than 8,000 pounds
of assorted cuts had been
stolen from a warehouse.
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not playing poker but were playing
rummy. They also said I was not
playing. , ." he added.
Thurman said he testified he saw
all the defendants plaving. Judge
attorney general's office to inves
tigate both matters,
Duncan charged the raid was
"political" and stemmed from his
statement to the County Court that
he was "going to stop the sheriff
from drawing fees from the Gener
al Sessions Court.
Thurman denied both charges.
There is very little truth in it,"
he said,
Authorities Launch Hunt
For John Vm. Coffield;
Murder Warrant Issued
Missing Vancouver, Wash., Man,
Reported Chum Of C. D. Crabb,
Bears Long Record Of Crimes
Oregon police are seeking a Vancouver, Wash., man
in their investigation of the death of Georgia Lucille Lang,
19, whose nude body was found in an open field Oct. SO.
Sgt. Holly Holcomb of the state police said here a first
degree murder warrant had been issued for John William
Logger Killed
By Tree's Blow
A 23-ytar-old logger was killed
instantly Wednesday near Dia
mond Laka whan small tro
slappad him along the face,
breaking his neck, the ihtriff's
office reported thia morning.
Ha was idtntifitd as John A.
Roush, from Arkansas, working
for the R. A. Briggs and Sons
Logging Co., some sovtn miles
west of Diamond Lake,
Sheriff's deputies said the acci
dent happened like this:
A small tree was protruding
from a cold deck. Workmen lifted
a log from the pile which allowed
the tree to be lowered alongside
Roush's face. The log suddenly
was lowered again, flipping the
tree across his face and knocking
his logger's tin helmet 50 feet into
the air.
The accident occurred about
11:45 yesterday. The body was re
moved late Wednesday to Long
and Orr Mortuary.
He was born in Arkansas on
Jan. 4. 1929 and was a veteran
of World War II.
Surviving are bis widow, Mrs
Martha Rousch, Chcmault, and
two children. Michael and Paula
He Is also survived by his par
ents. Mr. and Airs. Marcus Koucn
of Sheridan, Ark., two brothers
and two sisters.
His body will be forwarded bv
Long & Orr Mortuary tn Sheridan,
Ark., tor services and interment
Roseburg Schools
Set Open House
Roscbnrg schools are holding
open houses this week in conjunc
tion with American EducaUon
Week, as well as welcoming par
ents to visit classes anytime dur
ing the day,- Dr. Marvin Smith,
assistant superintendent, - reports.
Tonight the Junior High, Rose
and Fullerton will stage open
house, starting at 7:30 with Wilbur
opening its doors at 8. Visitors will
have a chance to view students'
work, see textbooks and other
teaching material and meet teach
ers following a short program.
Friday night Riverside School
will hold open house at 7, and Ben
son will hold a 5:30 to 7 chill sup-
j per, sponsored by the PTA.
Tho Senior High, Melrose and
Benson, held their open houses
Monday night.
County School Superintendent
Kenneth Barneburg reports that
schools throughout Douglas County
are welcoming visitors during the
school day. lie says some nave
planned open houses also.
No Tax Cuts Before '54,
Senator Bridges Says
CLEVELAND W Sen. Bridges
(R.-N.H.). ranking minority mem
ber of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, says tax reductions
are not likely before 1954.
In an interview Wednesday
night, he said the new Republican
Congress should be able to balance
the budget next year, but tax cuts
will not come until the following
year.
Stealer Of Boys Town
Funds Gets Prison Term
PORTLAND 1H A postal work
er convicted of stealing donations
mailed to Father Flanagan Boy's
Town was sentenced Wednesday to
three years in prison,
Federal Judge Gus J. Solomon
also fined Mancel H. Kinney, Port
land, $400. The judge said Kinney,
a railway mail clerk, admitted tak
ing 400 letters containing about
$400.
Filipino Killed After
Slaying 12 Persons
MANILA im A crazed Filipino
hacked 12 persons to death before
he was killed Thursday.
Four persons were seriously
wounded.
The Philippine News Service
said Salvador Ruhlico, armed with
a huge bolo knife, entered five
homes in a Central Panay Island
village and cut down every person
in sight before he was shot,
Body Of Angler Found
Near Umnnui Jettv
I ' '
FLORENCE, Ore. un The body
of a man who drowned on a fish
ing trip here Oct. 4 was recovered
near the south jetty of the Uxipqua
River Wednesday.
He was William Nral Paxton, 21,
! lHr .1,0 drowned
Spnnslield Ingger. A companion,
His body was recovered earlier.
VICTIM NO. 39
PORTLAND Ml The traffic
toll for the year increased to 39
in Portland Wedncday with the
death of Donald A. Brown, 19, who
was injured four days earlier as
his motorcycle skidded out of control.
1 tonield, 24, Vancouver.
District Attorney Rohert Slnlla
said earlier that Crabb told of be
ing with another man and the girl
the day she disappeared from
Roseburg April 9. Stults said Crabb
remembered driving with them lo
a road north of Oakland, Ore., near
here. He also quoted Crabb as say-
' u gin oia not return with
them, but Crabb insisted he had
not killed the girl.
The girl's nude. rfiimmnMi
body was found north of Oakland
by a hunter. Her clothes wer
nearby.
Holcomb said the slrl r. ...
seen in Roseburg talkinir to
sailor and another man. He said
Crabb was in the Navy at the
time, but since has been discharg
ed. .
He also said Coffield had driven
a truck to this area from Coos
County at the time, and was seen
at an auction April 9 with a sai
lor. He described Coffield as 150
pounds in weight, 5 feet 8V4 inchea
in height, with blue eyes, dark
brown hair and a fair skin.
Has Long Record
Authorities at Vancouver, Wash,,
are quoted as saying they ,ire seek
ing Coffield, ex-service man and
truck driver, on a first degree mur
der warrant. Coffield has been
gone from the Vancouver area lor
about a week.
Coffield has a juvenile police rec
ord, as well as a more recent
record of arrests, according to po
lice files. These files show arrests
from 1947 to 1952 on charges rang
ing from driving under the influ
ence of liquor to arrests for rape
lice in i4 ana grand larceny war
rent by the Clark County sheriff'!
unite mis momn.
Coffield's record shows he wat
born in Vancouver In 1929. At var
ious times be gave police rural
route home addresses, and at on
Urn, the record Indicates, ht llvetf '
in the Amboy, Wash., area.
Coffield is said to have a pug
nacious nature, aid ia frequently
seen in beer taverns.
SINGS, OR DOES HE?
14 Hours Daily
Irks Neighbors;
Court Sets Ban
NEW YORK IM YounK Mortoa
Bloom thinks nothing of singing H
hours a day and his neighbors
think even less of it.
In no dulcet tones it all earn
out in Magistrate's Court Wednes
day, with 10 Queens residents liv
ing within a block of 17-year-old
Bloom complaining that he sang
almost every day from 7:30 a.m.
to 9:30 at night I
"If he could sing," one com
plainant told Magistrate Charles
E. Murphy, "I wouldn't mind. He
yells and it cuts through you like
a saw."
Bloom said he sang one song for
vocal teacher three years ago
and was told "I had possibilities."
Murphy, learning that Bloom often
stayed home from high school
classes just to sing, told the youth:
"There's a talent scout looking
for you the truant officer."
Murphy decreed that Bloom sing
only in the school auditorium or in
the nearly-soundproof basement of
his apartment house and not for
14 hours.
Killer Of Ex-Sweetheart
Draws 150-Year Term
LAWRENCEVILLE, 111. ( An
unemployed insurance salesman
was sentenced to 150 years in prison-
yesterday after pleading guilty
to the slaying of his former sweet
heart in a Lawrenceville High
School class room.
A "blasted romance" was th
, only explanation offered by Charles
Petrach, 23, of Gary. Ind.. for fat-
ally shooting Miss Georgine Lyon,
25, high school librarian, Sept. 3.
In imposing sentence, Circuit
Judge Ben. W. Eovaldi stipulated
that Petrach should spend every
Sept. 3 in solitary confinement.
RED CROSS TO MEET
There will be a regular board
meeting of the Roseburg chapter
of the American Red Cross at the
Armory at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Relzenstcln
To meet expectations of
tomt of his landslide legions,
Ge-n. Eisenhower will have to
prove himself a combination
of Nopolcon, Daniel Web
ster, Alexander Hamilton,
Dick Tracy and Harry Hou-dinl.