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TEN MEDFOBD MAIL-TRIBUNE Tuesday Oct. 16. 1343 DIES WHEN JAP SHIP GOES DOWN Lt. Gordon Benson, son of Mrs. Eve Benson 807 Alameda atroet, Klamath Falls, was killed while on a Japanese prison boat in Suliic Bay on Dec. IS, 1844 according to word received by his mother. Lt. Benson camt to Medford with his parents at the age of four tnd made his home here until his parents moved to Klanv Bth Fails in 1938. While attend .4 1 if' r1 1 ; tv 1 y . ; ' ; . :''.t ' !:..' ;- . limiiM II MUM Lt. Gordon Btnion InR the University of Oregon he entered the army air corps and took his training at San Diego, Calif., Hemct, Calif., Randolph Field and Kelly Field, Tex.; be fore going overseas April 21 1941. The last letter received by his parent; was written Nov. 30 1941, a few days before the Pa eific war broke out. Starting Jan. 12, 1942, radio messages were received once a month from the licutenunt for three months, after which followed long lipse of news. In August, 1942, word was received through War Corre apondent Frank Hewlett, who said Lt, Benson was with Gen. MacAr- thur's army when lt retreated to Ba'.oan, On May 11, 1043, wire was received by his par ents saying Lt. Benson was prisoner of the Japanese. Following announcement of the sinking of the prisoner boat In Sublc Bay, Mrs. Benson had a premonition that all was not well and wrote to the war ae nartmrnt and to her son, Lt. Col. Noel Benson, then In Florida, who made a special trip to Washington to find out the fate tit his brother. Hope was still held that he was yet a prisoner and telephone calls were receiv ed from men who had been fel low prisoners, all with encour rging news. But on the evening of July 23 rnme a message from the war department saying Lt. Benson had died when the prisoner boat was sunk. The purple heart posthumous ly awarded 1st Lt. Benson with citations, wus recently received by his parents. P.-T. A. Activities Washington P.-T.A. First meeting of the fall for Washington Parent -Teacher asso'.'iiition will be held Friday, Oct. 19, at 2:30 p. m. In the school auditorium. A program and entertainment have been planned and it is stated that Girl Scouts will rare for pre-school children of mothers attending the P.-T.A. gdlhering. Last Friday afternoon mem bers ol the executive committee of Mie association entertained teiielu-rs of the W s s hi n g t o n ii-hool at a reception and tea at the .n-'iool after classes were dis missed. Aboct 25 were present lor tin; ten. Mis. Hubert Church Is president ol the association. Freight Glider Brings Lobsters Teterboro, N. J., Oct. 18 (U.R) A glider carrying fresh lobster from New England was cut loose over Teterboro air terminal and landed without incident today, two hours and five minutes after it had been snatched by a tow plane from Allerton Beach, Hull, Mass. The flight was said to be the first successful commercial car go-glider experiment. HERSHOLT ELECTED Hollywood, Oct. 16 (U.R) Jean Hcrsholt, Danish-born char acter actor who has appeared In motion pictures for 3B years, to day was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Ilersholt, former vice president of the academy, succeeds Producer Walter Wan ger, president for the past six years. Competent Cast Will Present Little Theater 'Ghost Train' Rarely does there come into the r.talm of the theatre such spectre-like realism as is held In "The Ghost Train" the three act mvstcry-comcdy play that kept London and Broadway on its toes for over a year, and which promises to be another smash hit n southern Oregon when the Little Theatre pro duces Arnold Ridley's master piece of wit and horror in Med ford early In November. The piay opens In the waiting room of a small railway station ft Clear Vale Junction, Maine. Vernon F. Spencer, of Glcndive, Mont., plays the role of Saul Hodgkln, neurotic old station master who putters and worries his way through the play. Spen cer, a Journalism graduate from Montana State university, play ed th lead In "Mystery at Mid night" in Giendive several years 3go, and has also appeared in rcveral other plays. Th-5 action moves quickly as the ca.'t appear'. . . all passen gers who have unluckily missed a train connection and must stay in the haunted station all night. Alvin Grund, a pr?-mcd student from Drake University plays Richard Winthrop a ruined bus iness executive on the brink of divorc? with his wife Elsie, act ed by Charity Keeble of Atlanta. Ga. Miss Keeble studied Shake speare at Catherine Branson's school In San Francisco and has appeared in many stage produc tions including James Barry's "Mr. Pirn Passes By." The newly weds Charles and Pegiy Murdock, are enacted byj Arthur D. Cross and Margaret Ann Brown Cross, from Boul der, Colo., p.ayed Cncle Stanley, one ot the leads in "George Washington Slept Here" and also cppeard In Thornton Wil- dcr's Pulitzer prize winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," at University of Colorado. Mis Brown, who plays the part originally acted by Clau dctta Colbert, is from Medford. She is best remembered as part of the cast of "Deadlier Than The Male" last spring's Little Theatre production. The leading roles, those of a "oiiist.-r school teacher and a silly, fun-loving Englishman, are played by Laura Porter of Ko tliak, Alaska, and A. Robert Hamilton of District Heights, Maryland. Mis Porter had the role of Maxine in Deadlier Than The Male" and has had parts in sev eral other recent productions. Hamilton, besides doing niono logues played a dual role in his home town production of "One Wild Night " I Lea Rasmussen of Pasadena, Calif., plays the part of Julia Price, an attractive, blonde youni' woman who has been driven partially insane by her fear r' "The: Ghost Train." Miss Rasmussen has done much Lit tle Theatre work throughout California and Oregon. Eddie Gunger of Youngstown. Ohio, plays the role of John Sterling. Gunger, who Is a drum mer, will return tf his contract with Woody Herman's orchestra as soon as he is discharged from service. Jackson, the detective. Is giv en personality through the ef forts of James K. Johnson, -Spokane, Wash, who although new to the stage, has been an eastern Washington football and track :tar. ACTOR DIES Santa Maria, Calif., Oct. 18 (U.R) Thomas Brennan, S3 known on the stage as Thomas O'Brien, collapsed and died lasj night at the conclusion of a USO vaudeville act before thousands of soldiers at Camp Cooke. 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