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XTEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1942. PAGE FIVE .on COMES TO HEAD 91STARJILLERY Officer Wounded in Argonne Decorated For Gallan try, Merit In World War I. Brigadier General Edward Stanley Ott, transferred from the war department general staff In Washington. D. C, ar rived at Camp White Monday to assume command of tht 91st Infantry Division artillery units. Immediately upon outbreak of World War I General Ott, then a senior at Louisiana State university, entered officers' training school and received the commission of second lieuten ant. He went overseas with the 10th Field Artillery, Third Divi sion, as communications officer, and served under the division's commander. "Fighting Joe" Dickinson. Wounded In Argons General Ott was wounded at Champagne-Marn and In the Argonne, and in recognition of his exploits was awarded the ilver star for gallantry in ac tion and the Order of the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster, for military merit. In 1921-23 General Ott served as an artillery brigade commu nications officer in Hawaii. In 192S he was graduated from the field artillery school at rt. Sill, Okla., and remained there as an instructor until 1929. From then until 1933, at the time a captain, he was R.O T C. Instructor at Alabama Polytech nic Institute in Auburn, Ala., where he combined various civic activities with his college duties, being commander of the Auburn American Legion post in 1931-33, chairman of the dis trict Boy Scout committee and president of the Auburn Rotary club in 1932-33. General Ott attended the command and general staff school at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. from 1933 to' 1935, and after graduation remained as an In structor until 1937, when he was selected to attend the army war college In Washington. D. C. He was promoted to the rank of major in 1933 and to lieutenant colonel in 1940. t For the past three yeari Gen eral Ott has served on the war department general staff In Washington as chief of the oper ations branch. In March of this year hie was given charge of the operations division, army ground forces, on the staff of Lieutenant General Leslie Mc Nair. Born December 30, 1893 at ML Herman, La., General Ott comes of a long linr of fighting men. Two of bis most treasured possession! are the commissions of his grandfather, John Gaff Legget, as a captain in the Con federate army, and of his great grandfather, Benjamin W. Leg get, as a captain In the Seminole wars. Prior to enrolling in the school of Journalism at Louisi ana State university. Gen. Ott attended the University of Illi nois for one year. At L.S.U. his scholastic career was outstand ing. He edited the university newspaper and acted as an as sociate editor of the university annual. He is member of Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Phi. Scabbard and Blade, Omi cron Delta Kappa, Sigma Delta Chi and Mu Sigma Rho, the lat ter an honorary scholastic and historical society. General and Mrs. Ott have two sons, both of whom are ca dets in the U. S. Military acad emy at West Point One of them is fifth in his class, which rates him as "distinguished cadet." DISTURBS HATCHING Alexandria. Ind. (U.B It's been a futile spring for hens near the National Gypsum plant here. Blasting in progress at the plant apparently kills the egg germ upon which the hens ara hope fully sitting, and baby chick production is almost down to xero. CONVENTION AT TOKYO Oakland, Cal. u.R The Fra ternal .Orders of Condors, com posed of glider pilots who are in training for tha armed ser vices, have chosen the meeting place for their first annual con vention .It is Tokyo. Only the data has been left open. Clonus time for Clind Ads t a, m. Too lata to ClaaaUy 1140 YMJ ,r fff 1 r. " & nn.& ' n-7 f 1' rrL,il 3-' ear w'iatamk.Lf ,.W4&,h-,, - HARNESS INC A RIVE R Leokinr upstream Uireuih a center spillway section la Shuts Dim near Sacraments Calif div. sion of the Sacrament river into the ooncrate-waiied channel at left UH hff an. At rirht avxavdlnH n.iin.... 4-1 CLUBS SELL Through efforts of th 4-H clubs In Jackson county a total of $10,089.70 in war bonds and stamps were sold during June. Of this amount $9.R30 was in war bonds and the remaining $239.70 In war stamps, L. E. Francis, 4-H club leader for Jackson county, said today The sales were the result of a contest sponsored for 4-H club mem bers with the winner to receive a $J5 bond, second winner $10 in war stamps and third winner $3 in war stamps. Joan Doran, of tha Table Rock club won first prire; Bev erly Force, of Eagle Point sec ond prire and Loree Brcnnes- holtz of Table Rock third prize The Table Rock 4-H club also won a U. S treasury department minute man flag for selling the largest amount of war stamps and bonds, their club total being $7,775 in bonds and $108.10 in stamps. Members of the Table Rock club working on the war bond and stamp project were Loree Brennesholtx, Wayne Smith, Er nest Smith, Albert Allen, Jr., Jean Hamilton, Ernest Hamilton, Lucille Smith, Glenn Torry. Joyce Russell. Neil Glenn, Lyle Glenn, Margaret Reed, Joan Doran and tha club leader, Mrs. Frank Myers. Mr. Francis said that although the contest occurred at a time when many of the club members were participating in harvesting the showing made by the clubs vAs very good. The Minute Man flag will be presented to Table Rock 4-H club at an appropriate ceremony by W. A. Gates, Jack son county war bond and stamp sales chairman. Cm Mali Trlbuna want ads. OF TURNS SLEUTH TO Phoenix. Ariz. (U.R An old sea-dog. who refused to take his losses quietly and let the law take its course, can sit back in the sunshine again, smoke his pipe and smile with the satis faction of keeping a promts to himself. Louis Van Rlllaer, a retired sea captain from San Francisco, was swindled out of $7,700 in a horse race bunco game on Nov. 28, 1939, while he was vacationing in Phoenix. He vowed he would never rest until he had put the swindlers behind bars. - r- ..... He became an amateur Sher lock Holmes and began a long and sometimes discouraging search, but he always remem bered his vow that he would locate and prosecute the confi dence men if it took him to the ends of the earth and the re maining days of his life.' Searched Vs Years His perseverance won out. As the result of his determina tion, all three members of the bunco gang who fleeced him out of his hard-saved cash are now serving sentences In the Arizona state prison. The amazing story oi sieuuv ing and tracking down members of the gang covers a zwyear period of travelling throughout the United States. Van Rillaer located one of the trio. Max Kaplan, in Florida after a year of searching and caused his arrest. Kaplan was returned to Phoenix for trial. A Jury found him guilty after five minutes deliberation and Kaplan was sentenced to from five to 10 years Imprisonment. - The retired sea captain-detective then took up the trail of Edward Price and finally caused his arrest in Portland, Ore. Price, who also used the name Phelan as an alias, pleaded guilty after being returned to Phoenix and was sentenced to from two to five years in prison. "Good Faith" Scham The third man, whom author ities said was the "payoff" or head man of the trio, still con tinued to elude Van Rillaer. Finally, through the efforts of Sheriff Lon Jordan of Phoenix, Florida officers apprehended Harry Lewis, 58. a man with 11 aliases, and he was brought here for trial. 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