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MAIMED GIRL TESTIFIES'
'Moral Weakling' Tag Put
On Boat Owner in Accident
Sacramento. Nov. 9 U.Phil Davis, wealthy Oakland, Calif.,
automobile dealer sentenced to six months imprisonment and
fined $1500 here Monday lor neglicenlly operating nis speeoooai
in a Lake Tahoe accident that severed the feet of 14-year-old
Imogene Wittsche, heard Federal Judge Dal M. Lcmmon charge
him with "moral weakness" ir
materialistic philosophy" in tjn
failing even to visit the girl or
her parents after the accident.
The evidence must be clear
to you that you are morally
guilty," Lemmon said. "Yet to
this date you have done noth
$100,000 Fire
Hits Lebanon
the Moty Van Dyke Industrial
Supply company, dealing in hea
vy logging equipment and auto
motive supplies.
Manager Marvin Clark esti
mated the loss at over $100,000.
The firm has headquarters
Nov. 8 P Fire Klamath Falls.
Capital Journal, Salem, Or., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1949 18
apartments. The residents mov
ed out.
An apartment wall and roof
caught fire briefly but suffer-
ed little damage as the volun
teer fire department poured wa
ter over them.
It was Lebanon's first mnjor
fire of the year.
Lebanon
wiped out a $100,000 automotive The fire in the sheet-mrtal-parls
building here early today, sheathed building, which covers
Firemen fought the early mor-1 a quarter of a block, was dis
ning blaze four and a half covered at 2:15 a.m. by a worn-
hours and for a time feared the'an passer-by. Marion The next meeting of
I nhannn rnmmnnilv hnvnitl al ',-: It f... :
ff the fiirls and then SDea j j . . . . rt inicnur roarra mm:
g ine gins mm uirii rpslHPnc ancl wo aoartmHiits In '...ill v.,amhAr in in qn
- , - V . lire, Daoies in me nospital su "" "c
away- . ., . l'' me block would be de",feet away were readied for in-l'-l Fa". Union
Trial of a $321.C00 civil suit stroyed evacualjon nail.
filed by Imogene's parents h.y."L, r 7 - no"er. Between the burning struc- Being the n-Rular meeting
against Davis has been set to ,.T ' . .J iture and the hospital were a re- late for the Farmer's Union
be held with a no host lunch at
noon.
Mrs. Joy Wetzler is chairman
of the F.U. Ladies club, and Vir
gil Baxter is chairman of the
Home Extension unit.
Miss Eleanor Trindle will
demonstrate unifying home furnishings.
Sentenced Phil Davis, Oakland, Calif., automobile dealer
(left) leaves the federal court at Sacramento, Calif., after he
had been fined $1,500 and sentenced to six months im
prisonment for negligence In the Lake Tahoe speedboat
accident which maimed 14-year-old Imogene Wittsche. U. S.
Marshal Hayden Saunders at right. (AP Wirephoto)
Polluted Water Held
Cause of Jaundice
Eugene, Nov. 9 W The Lane
county health officer warned the
Willamette City community last
night that an outbreak of jaun
dice was caused by polluted wa
ter.
Dr. A. Triolo reported eight
cases were diagnosed yesterday.
He said the entire population of
1000 was menaced by the dis
ease. The health officer said the wa
ter table for the community,
near Oakridge, Is polluted and
most wells and springs In the
area are unsafe. He said the
eight eases were In five differ
ent families. He said the danger
to the community would not
abate until a safe water supply
was assured.
Dairy Class Offered
Scio H. E. Foreman and C
A. Hindes, Linn county Smith-
Hughes instructors, will have
charge of classes in dairy feed
lng and permanent pastures at
the Riverview school Thursday
night. The class is sponsored by!
the Riverview Farmers Union. 1
Lemmon earlier had denied a
request for a new trial submit
ted without argument by Davis'
attorney, Leo Sullivan of Oak
land. Immediately after the sen
tencing, however, Sullivan Iilea
notice of appeal and Lemmon
delayed execution of the sen
tence until Sunday. Davis will
be imprisoned at that time, un
less there is a further stay of
execution by the U. S. court of
appeals in San Francisco, the
federal court clerk said.
The week-long trial of Davis
was highlighted Dy testimony
from the Roseville, Calif., high
school girl herself who appear
ed in a wheelchair and told the
jury that Davis was the opera
tor of the boat which struck
her and a swimming companion
down.
Davis admitted being out on
the lake on June 27, the date of
the accident, but denied he even
saw the girls in the path of his
boat. Prosecution witnesses tes
tified he circled back to the
scene of the accident after hit-
begin in El Dorado superior j flames leaping to the other struc-
court at Placerville, Calif., Feb-I!"re?. was endrd- At 8 'clock
the fire was in the mop-up stage,
ruary 20. The burned building housed
sidence and two attached small'Ladies club, a joint meeting will Cilwft I tT
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