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Sunday, October 13, 1937
Hornbrook (Confessed Poisoner
Stud Mill Damaged By Fire! Dies in Prison Chair
By MRS. H. H. CHAPMAN , home of their sister, Mrs. Mary!
Hornbrook The C and R sinriiM", returned lo their own,
Montgomery. Ala. 'IP Mrs.
! Rhonda Bell Martin. 51, who
. ' " '(Confessed feeding lethal doses
of arsenic to - six memoers of
her family, died in the electric
chair at Alabama's Kilby prison
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to the mill, which j "m iui n--i, . d whito
in onoration onlv returned to Ft. Jones with them. 5hc , , ,u ,
m opcraiion oniy .... , , ! woman to be put to death in the
month, was estimated! The women s Society of the i , .
S- 50 per cent. There was re- Hornbrook Community church i" ' , , ,
ported to bo no insurance. ! met Thursday at Mrs. Bertha; .j , Vv. ". .
Cause of the fire was not , Bradley's. In the absence of the VI 7 .7. u i f Z, J5
known definitely, but it was : president, Mrs. Ernest Adams,
presumed to have bren started i the meeting was conducted by
when sparks from near-by I Mrs. Harry Chapman. Devotion-
mill, Inc.'ed just off the road home at Ft. Jones this weekend.
betwrn EarnunYs Ranch and ' Miss Kate came over on Labor
old H!ghiy 99 was partially day for a visit and suffered a,
destroyed by fire Thursday . slight stroke shortly thereafter.1
ftcrnrtB tbout 3:30 p.m. Mrs. Ernest Adams, who has
Darrtj
had r.
about or
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! of her fourth husband, Claude
smoldering sawdust were fanned als were led by Mrs. Minnie
into flames by the heavy winds ! Bloomingcamp. Present also
which have blown over the val- j were the Rev. Edward V. Har
lcy for the past 24 hours. greaves. Mrs. Clara Howard,
Owners of the mill are Harold ! Mrs. Mary Taegart and Mrs.
Brrwald of Mcriford. and Mr. lArdon Burns. Final plans were
g;nd Mrs. Cliff Barnes of Ccn- completed for the annual Har-
tral Point, Or
?.Irs. L. i. Rohrcr of Eagle
Point, Oi., and Will Hansen of
Brownsboro, Ore., visited their
sister, ."'.-a. Minnie Blooming
camp last eekend. They also
t!le n Mrs. Florence Grieve
grid Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Tyrer.
Sirs. Tyrer is sister of Han
pn late wife, Susie.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Burns
'Bad all four of their children
gnd their families together for
(3 reunion last weekend.
Home for the get-together
Sere Mr. and Mrs. Lester
Spearin and two sons of Ander
?nn. Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Herb
'S'ickney and two daughters of
Belmont. Calif., Mr. and Mrs.
Xrn Burns and son of San Ma
'ten. Calif., and Mr. and Mrs.
(inland Stickney of Medford.
The Spearins also visited his
arrnts, Mr. and Mrs. Jim
aearin, the Stickneys. their
pnrents, and Mr. and Mrs. Vic
ygn de Weghe of Hilts.
friends of long standing. Mr.
afrid Mrs. Mel Butterfield, of
Oakland. Calif., have been visit
the past ten days with Mrs.
CMary Cardoza.
Leonard and Ermin Bear visit
ed last weekend in Salem, Ore.,
ith their brother-in-law and
sister, Mr. and Mrs. James Men-denhall.
The Auction Bridge club was
entertained Wednesday after
noon by Mrs. John Griffin at
her home. Members playing,
following a dessert luncheon,
were Mrs. Bertha Bradley who
held high score, Mrs. Frank
Ohlund. Mrs. Grace Quigley,
Mrs. Will Rogers of Klamath
river, Mrs. Lester Nye, and Mrs.
Marshall Horn. Mrs. Griffin held
second high.
The Misses Kate and Maggie
Bailey, who ave been at the
Vessels Collide
h Panama Canal
Panama City UP Panama
Canal officials scheduled an in
quiry Friday into the collision of
British passenger liner and an
American freighter in the canal.
The 21,867-ton Rangitane,
bound for New Zealand with
315 persons aboard, and the
7.606-ton Hawaiian Tourist, col
lided near North Gamboa during
a blinding rain squall Thursday.
There were no reports of in
juries. The Hawaiian Tourist, owned
by the Matson Navigation Co. of
San Francisco, ran aground after
the collision but was refloatd
two hours later. She was en
route to Atlantic coast ports.
FIRES HIT AUSTRALIA
Sydney, Australia iIT All
open fires were banned in New
South WTales Friday in an effort
to stem the area's worst brush
fires in 35 years. One little girl
has been fatally burned, at least
17 homes, a factory and a school
destroyed, and more than 2.000
square miles of grazing land
scorched by the fires fanned
bv high winds.
Hillsboro OP Mrs. Emms
C. McKinney, co-publisher of the
Hillsboro Argus, is hospitalized
at Tuality Community hospital
here with a fractured hip.
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vest Bazaar to be held at the
church Oct. 24.
in town Thursday
were Mrs. Georgia
Visitors
afternoon
Lichens of Danville. Calif., and
Mrs. Jennie Mathews of Yreka.
They called on Mrs. Mary Kurt
and on Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bear.
Mrs. Lichens, now retired,
taught school in Hornbrook a
number of years ago and their
home was the present Bear
ranch.
Martin, who died in April of
1951. But she also admitted tak
ing the lives of her second hus
band, her mother and her three
daughters?
Eight months after Martin's
death she married his son, Ron
ald Martin, 28 who now is a
hopeless cripple from arsenic
she administered in an effort to
kill him also.
The red-haired Mrs. Martin
died clutching a Bible in her
left hand.
FARM ANIMALS
Chicago HP Cattle are
grown on almost five million of
the more than six million farms
in the United States, according
to the American Meat Institute.
Hogs are grown on nearly four
million farms, sheep on about
600,000 farms.
Hollywood V Movieland
was at its shining best last week
when Jerry Lewis rounded up
j a group of TV
siars to peip
celebrate the
ninth birthday
of '"Little Boy
Blue," who is
dying of mus
cular dystro
phy in a Mas
sachusetts sanatorium.
Vernon Scott But the story
behind Lewis' attempt to cheer
the stricken youngster on his
last birthday is as heartwarming
as the show he put on.
It goes like this:
UP Story Has Reaction
United Press set off a chain
reaction when it ran a story
from Boston last week telling
about the lonesome boy who, for
four monts, had no visitors or
mail. ''Francis X.," as he is call
ed by the nurses, was alone in
the world. His father is in prison
for killing his mother.
The story came to Jerry's at
tention. The comedian decided
to put together a closed circuit
TV program for Francis. Lewis
heads the muscular dystrophy
campaign each year.
First he called David Sarnoff,
boss man of NBC-TV and RCA
in New York. Sarnoff agreed to
provide the cable time for the
project. Next Jerry began lining
for the 45-minute
up talent
show.
In less than 12 hours he cor
raled Eddie Fisher and George
Gobel both of whom were re
hearsing for their own network
shows.
The word went out. Dinah
Shore, also busy getting together
a show of her own, volunteered
to sing a song, as did Mary Cos
ta. Eddie Cantor joined the rush,
and Jerry had a major produc
tion on his hands.
Gets More Time
He asked Sarnoff for another
half-hour of time and got it.
Then Hugh O'Brian (TV's
Wyatt Earp) agreed to say hello
to Francis and demonstrate his
fancy gun twirling.
Talullah Bankhead, sophisti
cated and blase, asked if she
could help, too. Jerry thanked
her, but said Francis was a little
young for her brand of enter
taining. Talullah, near tears, de
parted. Disney Chips in
The show's success was in
sured when Disney's Mouseke
teers rushed over before their
own shows to entertain young
Francis.
Pinky Lee, an old trouper at
entertaining small fry, donned
his crazy cap and checked coat
to dance and prance for "Little
Boy Blue" and his friends and
the sanatorium. An 18-piece
Gideons Set Medford 'Magicians Plan Two Performances in Ciiy
As Convention City
Roseburg Medford was se
lected as the site for the 1953
convention of the Oregon Gid
eons at the climax of the 1957
convention here last week.
The 1957 convention, which
listed about 150 registered rep
resentatives selected Ralph
Arensmeicr, who was vice presi
dent last year, succeeds William
B. McCallum of Medford. Don
Myers, Roseburg, was named
secretary.
Mrs. F. A. Monroe of Med
ford was reelected president of
the auxiliary at the convention.
The final convention meeting
was held with a no-host lunch
eon. Mrs. Clarene Haan, Gid
eons international auxiliary
president, spoke at the final
meeting. Mrs. Clarence Hold
ridge of Medford presented a
solo at the luncheon.
band provided the music.
Unions, management, techni
cians, producers, big shots and
"little people" donated time and
money to the "party." And it
was a pip.
After it was over Lewis, per
spiring from his efforts, thanked
his co-workers. He said "It's aw
fully difficult to be funny with
a lump in your throat. But it's a
birthday party none of us will
ever forget."
The "Great Virgil and Julie,
Sweetheart of Magic" will pre
sent a performance in the Med
ford High school auditorium
Nov. 4 under the sponsorship of
FARM WAGES RISE
Washington OP Wages of
fa rm laborers rose to an average
of 75.7 cents an hour Oct. 1, the
Agriculture Department report
ed Thursday. It was a record
high for the date and 2.1 cents
above the average for Oct. 1,
1956. A department farm labor
report indicated wages of hired
farm hands since the 1910-14
period have risen more than
twice as much as the prices
farmers received for crops and
livestock.
London 'IP Arthur L. Cran
field, 65, editor of the London
Star, died Wednesday.
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The show, "Evening of En
chantment," has been presented
on a world tour by the couple.
A five-year wold tour was re
cently completed.
Julie, Virgil's lady, takes part
in all important scenes and also
presents her "Mysteries of the
Mind." In the act she demon
strates the possibilty of telepa
thy by calling members of the
audience by initials or names
and reading thoughts.
In addition to the Monday
evening performance the couple
plans a matinee for high school
students. Tickets are available
from Jaycee members and will
be sold at the box office.
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