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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1952)
r mini Pickin' Pears News, Gossip, Comment From Camp White Bt SID HOLLINGSWORTH Chief Moneypenny of ,the Guard Force is the man every one knows at Camp White. He is an ex marine captain and was wounded severely in World War I, for which he was decorated with the Purple Heart With three stars. It is the one decoration he is proud to-possess. This much everyone knows about his service record, but not. many at the domiciliary know the story of how he retained his left arm when it bothered him after the war, and the doctors wanted to amputate. He wouldn't let them because an Army doctor in France said "never let anyone amputate that arm." When Captain Moneypenny was at the Naval supply depot at Velox, he was a member of the Spokane club. And the facts were told to the membership and published in the paper. 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Create, ink, cray ons . . . many other stains easily removed with sow and water! Qt. $1.26, Gal. $4.3 J. W. COPELAND YARDS - Medford RIVERSIDE and COURT 't'' PHONE 2.6644' fi - ' - ft. i T -4 ? fS1 VpMj gg ySt OPENS TONIGHT "Only an Orphan Girl," old-fashioned melodrama staged by Foothght ers will open tonight at the Jackson school. Cast members shown here are (left fo right) George Weir, Noreen Kelly, Gail Gatter, Bernie Kelly and Frank Buchter. Curtain time is 8:30 p.m. and "olio acts" will be presented between the acts of the play. In recent years melodramas have proven highly popular with audiences here and in other western cities. (Knackstedt photo) good left arm. "Subsequently, he was sent back to the United States. He was in 14 different hospitals in Zt years, and -14 different American doctors wanted to am putate his arm. He wouldn't let them. "He finally looked up the doc tor who had told him not to have it amputated. He was a society doctor in New York. The cap tain reminded the doctor of what he had told him in France, and the doctor said he could see what he could do. "The captain told the doctor he had $1,400 and was willing to give it all if his arm could be saved. The doctor treated him and saved the arm. He wouldn't let the captain pay him a cent. "The captain wanted to do something for the doctor so he went to a jewelry store and bought the finest wrist watch on the market at that time, and sent it to the doctor. "By the time he got back to his barracks, there was a check from the doctor for the full price of the watch." If anyone reading this miracle account would like to know the name of the doctor the only an swer consistent with the facts' is "the man nobody knows." Edward J. Moneypenny, to give his full name, is the father of four grown children, a son who is a "Junior" and a Marine with six years service, and three daughters. Mary, the eldest, is secretary to the dean at the University of California at Berkeley. Prescilla is with Mary at Berkeley for the summer and is debating whether to return to Oregon State or ma triculate at California. Joanne, the youngest, is working in Med ford and after finishing with top marks at Eagle Point high, hopes to win a scholarship, preferrably W9 the Customer is still ..at HOWARD-COOPER , til rv. "hi 1 f ft' Mai Aitkcn says: l.i tlmts of shortages, the cus tomer often loses his crown .'. but not at Howard-Cooper. it's our master poliey to keep s the customer's operation going, and every day we are offering someone a "special" service to help him out. Central Point, branch manager PerihtnJ Htadquarttn SS21 N. & Gkun$ St PORTLAND O I I O M arwac OfficM Alboayr C trail Pwiiri CexralH lini MwaU tj X - mf BOB SAVAGE . Singer Hangs Head Rita Squelches Torch Singer Who Hinted Marriage Hollywood (U.R) The Holly wood torch singer who said "Wow! This dame's got it" in reference to Rita Hayworth and hinted broadly that he might be her next husband, hung his head Wednesday. Unknown to Rita For the flame-haired movie queen, and still the wife of Mos lem Prince Aly Khan, said flatly she did not know the singer, Bob Savage, who stands six feet three inches and apparently tells tales just as tall. "I have no recollection of meeting Mr. Savage," .Miss Hay worth commented acidly. "In fact, I can't recall ever hearing of him."; . v. ..... " 'If "was quite a blow to Savage who said he met the star two and a half weeks ago at a dinner party given at a producer's home. Meanwhile, Aly attended the theater Tuesday night at Malibu Beach, but the wife who left him 13 months ago in Europe was not along. The Prince has reser vations to leave for Chicago Wednesday night , via American Airlines. He is going to Louis ville, Ky., for more horsetrading. Stevenson Vacations; Will Draft Speeches Minocqua. Wis. (UJ Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson ' loafed Wednesday on the wooded shores of Lake Minocqua where he was taking a brief holiday be fore returning to the exhausting routine of a presidential cam paign. But it was understood the Democratic nominee planned to draft some campaign speeches during the four-day holiday. For that purpose he carried a heavy file of material to Minocqua with him. He was quartered in a large summer home of natural pine logs as the guest of a friend, Df. Clark W.' Finnerud, who owns the home and 120" acres of virgin pine surrounding it. Reward Boosts Interest In Catching Rustlers - Hamilton, Tex. (U.R) Rust ling got so bad in these parts that Sheriff Woodie Young posted a $100 reward to "stimulate inter est" in catching the cattle thieves. at Stanford. Moneypenny spent 14 years in the Marine Corps. His son has a few decorations too, but dad beat' him in a showdown by one citation. Mrs. Moneypenny, the wife and mother, is averse to publicity, but it is a' safe bet that she has enough Navy trad i that she has enough Navy tradi tion and experience to. be able on? occasion to "tell it to the Marines." ...... Nude Body of Teenager Found On Desert Road ' Palm Springs, Calif. U.R) me nuae and bloody tody of a teen-age girl found on a desert road near here early Wednesday has been identified by Riverside Sheriff's- deputies as that of 16- year-old Cathryn Knodel of Red lands. The body, found lying in the middle of a road connecting this movieland resort city with Thou sand Palms, was, identified by the victim's, father, Erwin Kno del. Father Identifies Body . Knodel, who filed a missing persons report on his daughter after she failed to return home Tuesday night, hurried to Wie fels mortuary here when the re port of the murder reached him and sadly made the identifica tion. ' Deputies said they still were unable to ascertain whether the Victim had been criminally at tacked. They also added they are "checking a few leads" as to possible suspects, but refused to disclose what they were. The girl's mother, Mrs. Marie Knodel, said from the family home in Redlands that the slain girl had been out in the after noon!. Tuesday with other girl friends, but came home to eat dinner. Mother Absent Mrs. Knodel said she left the home late Tuesday with her oth er children, Irwin, 10; Edwin, 7, and Carolyn, 4, to attend a swim ming meet in Redlands, leaving the victim in the house watching television. The mother stated that when she returned home three hours later she found all the lights turned on in the house and the doors open. -The mother said her daughter wasn't wearing shoes when she left the house. 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