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I Defense Names May 2, 1961 Nazi Witnesses named were convicted of war crimes after World War II. Another is in jail pending an investigation into his wartime activities. The fourth is a former Nazi foreign office official who the prosecution has announced would be arrested as a war crimes suspect the sets foot in Israel. Servatius said he would make applications for additional defense witnesses later. He indicated that all the witnesses want to testify in Germany.

Now German Lawyer Servatius named these men: Former SS Maj. Gen. Franz A. Six, one-time department head in the Nazi Reich security office. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Nuernberg war crimes trials for his role in the "Einsatzgruppen" extermination commandos-but the sentence was later commuted.

He is free in West Germany. Dr. Max Merten, former German military governor in Salonika, Greece, who was convicted by a Greek court and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The sentence was commuted shortly after his conviction. He now is a lawyer in West Berlin, Former Maj.

Hermann Krumey, a deputy of Eichmann in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Krumey now is under arrest in Frankfurt an investigation into Auschwitz Concentration Camp atrocities. Eberhard von Thadden, Jewish office. An investigation into Von Thadden's case was ordered sus. pended by a Cologne court for insufficient evidence.

Israeli Atty. Gen. Gideon Hausner immediately said that all four are regarded as offenders under the Israeli war crimes law and would be arrested if they come to Israel. Six, the defense counsel said, would testify on the setup of the Nazi security office. Merten, Sermann had to obtain the consent vatius added, will show that Eich; others before he could make any decision.

Krumey will testify that in Hungary that Eichmann could not act on his own authority, and Von Thadden will also testify that Eichmann had no authority deal the Jews his Servatius said he wanted," to have the witnesses now living In Germany testify before the Israeli court trying Eichmann, but he Acre Roseburg Pitcher Is Former Patient At Shriners' Hospital (See future Picture, Page looked 1), The probably pretty blet 1k for Arlan Foote, one of Rosebu rg High's ace senior pitchers, a few short years ago, Foote was struck down with polio in the right foot and leg at the age: of but thanks to the Shriner 's Crippled Children's hospital in Portland, he is now able to be as active or more 50 than many at his, teammates, Pitches No- Hit, No- Runner In fact he pitched a no-hit, norun game against Thurston a' few weeks al o. Rosebui Shriners are proud of Foote, far they were responsible for sending him to the hospital. Sunday marks the beginning of The News-Review, Roseburg, Eichmann's Four Former JERUSALEM (AP)-Four former Nazis were named today by Adolf Eichmann's lawyer to testify on his behalf. Robert Servatius said they would show Eichmann was just a cog in the Nazi machine to exterminate the Jews and could make no decisions by himself. Two Convicted Two of the witnesses Servatius Yarbrough To Face Grand Jury Action Claude Yarbrough, 56, Myrtle Creek, was bound over to the Grand Jury following a preliminary hearing in District Court of Gerald R.

Hayes Monday. Yarbrough is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, and accused of threatening to shoot Ernest Penry with a .22 rifle on April 21. James George Geater, 38, Wilmington, was fined $25 and sentenced to serve five days in the Douglas County jail on a charge of carrying an unlicensed concealed. weapon. Geater pleaded givilty in the Justice Court of Ward Watson mat Sutherlin Monday.

(Heater and Thomas Earl mo: ad, 13, of Bakersfield, wer arraigned in Judge Watson's court Monday on charges of assault! and robbery being armed with dangerous, weapon, but their cases until today. They' are accused of an alleged armed! robbery of Richard Norman Olney and Robert Lee Clum, both of Spit ngfield, Sunday evening. Tenn George Broughton, 21, Klamed Falls, has committed to the Douglas Counts, jail from Riddle Municipal to serve 5 days for driving autoall mobile with a suspended operator's license Otto Roscher Otto Roscher, 72, a resident of the Ha. ppy Valley area, died yesterday at a local hospital. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Wilson's Chapel of the Roses.

National Shrine Hospital Week. for treatments and stayed there Foote was first talen to Eugene about three months before he was sent to the Shriner'3 Crippled Children's hospital in Portland. He was kept under periodic observation and given therapy treatments un: til 1952 when he had the first of many operations to come. At present, his legs are almost normal. Several of the operations in the past were to make Both his legs equal in length.

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To Attend Session In Law Day Observance Certifiate of Mores JOHN PATRICK BROWN, left, winner of the recent editorial contest for high school students on "Liberty Under the receives an award of merit from James McGinty. McGinty, president of the Douglas County Bar Association, presented it during a Law Day luncheon Monday at the Elks Club. (News-Review Photo) Teacher At Riddle Lawyers Host Students Dorothy Austin, Riddle High School French teacher, has been selected as a recipient of a national award to attend a Summer Language Institute, to be held at the University of Nevada, in Reno, DOROTHY AUSTIN to summer institute from June 19 to Aug. 12. Mrs.

Austin will be living in the dormitory with the French group, where only the French language will be spoken for eight weeks, Candidates for this award are selected on a national basis. Persons awarded this scholarship must have the necessary background and be meritorious teachers in field of foreign language. Mrs. Austin completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Montana and Southern Oregon College, and graduate studies at the University of Oregon. Chester Doane Funeral services for Chester Doane, 44, of Ash, Valley, will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m.

at the Unger Funeral Chapel in Reedsport. Doane. a selt-employed logger, was found dead at a logging site Saturday, apparently the victim of a heart attack. His body was discovered on Cougar Mountain near Loon Lake by his wife, Shirley, and friends, who went looking for him when he failed to return from work. Besides his wife, he is survived by two small children: two brothers, Douglas Doane of Reedsport and Clarence Doane of Lakeside; land his parents of Reedsport.

Newberus WEDNESDAY BLOCK BUSTER SPECIAL ONE DAY ONLY! VOLLEY BALL SET Includes official ball, taped net, metal poles, ground stakes and rope. $195 REG. 6.98 Several Races Tight For School Directors claimed Hausner was not able, to assure immunity, because the witnesses "political." Chief Justice Moshe Landau said that he wanted to make it clear to Servatius that Hausner is not the "sole authority" to decide this issue. A witness from New Jersey tesearlier that Nazi bestiality destroyed the will to live for thousands of Jews. 2 Blazes Threaten Areas On Weekend Roseburg experienced two fires which threatened to cause major damage during the past weekend, but the city fire department was able to contain both blazes with only relatively minor damage being recorded.

The second and, largest of the two came early Moncay morning when the partially-demolished Central Junior High building caught on fire, This fire offered a strong threat to commercial buildings on SE Jackson St. and SE Stephens only a half block away. The fire department, however. managed to keep the fire within the bounds of the former school building, now in the process of being torn down to make room for a city center shopping center. The first fire of the weekend occurred at 1:56 p.m.

Saturday when welding sparks ignited some rags in the Flegel Warehouse shop at 414 NE Casper St. Fire department officials said that if this blaze had managed to get into the main warehouse it could have caused thousands of dollars of damage to goods stored there. As it was, damage from the Flegel fire was estimated at $500, contained within the shop building annex to the warehouse. Runaway Automobile Strikes Parked Car A car parked on SE Giles St. rolled forward and struck a second vehicle about 3:10 p.m.

Saturday, according to Roseburg City Police. The car was registered to William Norman Kernan of 2735 NE Douglas Ave. It cut the corner on Booth Street and struck the other car, registered to David Barr, 1811 SE Giles, on the right rear fender, sliding the Barr car around. The car rolled about 72 feet from where it was parked to the point of impact, the report showed. The right front fender of the Kernan car was damaged.

Education Group Sets Lay Citizens' Banquet The annual lay citizens banquet of the Douglas County chapter of the Oregon Education Association (OEA) will be held in Lincoln Grade School in Oakland, Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Mathilda. Gilles, OEA, will Portland be speaker presifor the Retiring will be given pins. The outstanding Douglas County citizen associated with education during the past year will be named and honored at the banquet. Mrs.

Ruby Holloway, Sutherlin, president of the county chapter, is in charge of arrangements. HEARING AUTHORIZED A bill to set up a hearings procedure for applications for easements to build pipelines across ocean beaches was passed by the Senate and sent to the House. Such easements are frantider by the state Land Board a bill passed earlier in the session. Any aggrieved person could obtain a hearing. Directors were elected without unusual incidents in most school districts of the county Monday, but several races were tight.

In Sutherlin, for example, Henry Halverson Jr. was elected to the five year term on the district board, but me managed it by only two votes over Ivan Eggleston. In Gardiner, where dissension appears to be brewing the incumbent directors unopposed on the ballot ran into some tough competition. For the five-year term, Lincoln Stull won with 113 votes, but Earl Townsend received 65 write-ins. Kenneth Kent received 92 votes for the one year term, but again it was close.

Clyde DeWitt received 75 write-ins. Glide also found it was having trouble with the count. With the votes extremely close for the candidates, the School Board decided to recount the votes at a special meeting tonight. Up for grabs are two. five- Meanwhile, year termandidates for the rural school district had no trouble at all.

All were unopposed. With 18. districts counted, Eugene Fisher of Elkton was certain to be returned to office for the threeyear at large term. He had 2,809 votes. For Zone.

George WilCOX of Oakland had 448 votes with no opposition; and Guy McGee of Canyonville had 543 votes for Zone director. All are threeyear terms. Days Creek Tiller Wayne Peterman 184. votes for five-year term (81 at Tiller, 103 at Days Creek); Oral Jones 213 for fiveyear term (63 at Tiller, 150 at Days Creek); Eugene Fisher 182 for rural director at large; Guy McGee 236 for rural director for Zone E. Oakland Ernest Sanderson elected to five year term with 30 votes; Leo Sparks 2 write-ins; Eugene Fisher 27 votes for rural school director at large; George Wilcox 29 for director from Zone B.

Dillard George Marsh elected to five-year term with 137, Alvin Green Chi. Ted Benedict elected to one-year term with 195 (unopposed). Fisher 190 votes for rural school director at large. Canyonville Charles Dowd 35 votes for four-year term (unopposed); Clarence Gunst elected to five year term with 24 votes, Norman Olson 15; Fisher 32 votes for rural director at large; Guy Gee 31 for rural director from Zone E. Gunter Robert Carpenter reelected to five-year term with 21 votes, Lloyd McKinley Fisher 23 votes for rural director ar large.

Curtin Lloyd Black unopposed for five- year term; Charlotte Booher unopposed for three term; Fisher unopposed rural director at large. Gardiner Lincoln Stull reelected for five years with 113, Earl Townsend 65 write-in votes: Ken Kent elected to term with 92 votes, Clyde DeWitt 72 write-in votes; Fisher 112 votes for rural district director at large. elected to five year term with 56 Camas Valley Victor Stanley votes; Marion Rentz 36 write-in votes; Fisher 74, votes for rural district director at large. Riddle Don Holcomb elected to five-year term with 82 votes; Fisher 89 votes for rural director at large; Guy McGee 103 votes for rural director from Zone E. Elkton Norman Compton with 102 votes and Henry Beckley with 90 votes elected to five-year terms, Mrs.

Norman House 69 write-in votes; Fisher 119, votes for rural district director at large. Yoncalla Elementary James L. Lhamon elected to five-year a term with 49 votes, Paul Allen 37. Ben Emery 29; Fisher 94 votes for rural district director at large. Yoncalla Union High Frederick Applegate (unopposed) 95 votes for five-year term.

Scotts Valley Harold R. Boucock elected to five year term with 12 write-in votes, Dan Russell 10 write-in votes; Fisher 15 votes for rural director at large. Glendale Ronald Miller elected to five-year term from Cow Creek precinct with 147 votes, Mrs. Arthur Gaedecke 64: Harold Cooley elected to five term from Glendale precinct with 112 votes, Martin Brooks 91; Fisher 172 votes for rural director at large and Guy McGee, 173 votes for rural director Zone E. Myrtle Creek Burton Holt votes, John Meier Jr.

121; Fishelected to five term with 222 er 289 votes for rural director at large. Drain Elementary Stacy Johnson five year term with 80 votes, Leroy Darnell 64; Fisher 124 for rural director at large. Drain Union High Grant Levins elected to five term with 94. votes, Richard Lucas 78; Roy Hehn 126 for three term. Glide Directorships awaiting recount tonight; Fisher 190 votes for rural director at large and George Wilcox 196 for rural director from Zone B.

Sutherlin Mrs. Chester Paynter (unopposed) 205 votes for the one-year term; Henry Halverson Jr. elected to five-year term with Ivan Eggleston 112; Hisherisi votes for rural director at large; George Wilcox 223 for rural director from Zone B. Umpqua Laverne Murphy won the one-year term with 44 votes, Ted Roadman 41, Clara Jean Long 6 write-ins; George Hughes won the five-year term with 41 votes, Roger Iverson 22, Clara Jean Long 29 write-ins; Fisher approved for at-large rural directorship; George Wilcox approved for Zone rural directorship. By JERRY CORNELL News- Review Staff Writer Almost 30 high school students from throughout the county, were hosted Monday by the Douglas County Bar Association in observance of Law Day.

County lawyers and jurists explained the workings of law and actual cases were tried in Circuit and District Courts with the students in attendance. A highlight during the day. was a luncheon sponsored by the bar association at the Elks Club. Portland Attorney Talks Nicholas Jaureguy, Portland law. yer, spoke to the students, barristers and guest city and county officials on "Personal Liberties Under Law." Jaureguy, a member of the last board of governors of old state bar association and a member of time the new board of governors after Etta Shaw Services for Mrs.

Etta Loena Shaw of Medford, who died Sunday will be held at the Methodist Church in Canyonville Thursday at 1 p.m. The Rev. Alice Wooley of the Days Creek Methodist Church will officiate. Committal will be in the Canyonville Cemetery with Conger-Morris Funeral directors of Medford in charge. Mrs.

Shaw was born July 10, 1892, at Days Creek and had lived in Southern Oregon all her life. She had lived most of her life in Canyonville where she and her husband operated Shaw's Grocery from 1930-1946. She was a member Oregon Chapter No. 57, Order of Eastern Star and of Bertha Rebekah Lodge No. 188, both in Canyon1916, in Canyonville Victor ville.

She was vileried June 4. Wright Shaw who survives her. Other survivors include a a son, Shaw, of Tucson, a daughter, Mrs. Marilyn Wynter, of Mesa, a foster son, Abraham Schroeder, of Medford; an a foster daughter, Faith R. Teague, of Medford, a brother, Hubert E.

Graham of Roseburg; three granddaughters, and four grandsons. the bar's reorganization, has authored a book on probate under Oregon law. Virtue Mixed With Problem sugrotine the Court federal decisions and Constitution, dissenting opinions, Jaureguy told of the individual protections each citizen has. He noted how the free. doms of speech, religion, press and assembly are protected in the "Bill of Rights" of the Constitution.

The same protections given us, he said, "also protect those whose cus. toms and beliefs we detest and hate." As an example he told of a Japanese Shinto Shrine in Hawaii during World War 11 was not allowed to be confiscated by this government. It was protected under freedom of religion provisions of the First Amendment. Noting freedom of speech and press he said: "That liberty, like others, is not unlimited." Speech, Press Penalized Penalties for its misuse come in the form of suits for slander and libel, he explained. Paul Geddes, past president of the Oregon State Bar Association, who acted as master of ceremonles day observance, told the students: "It's an occasion that means as much to us as it does to you." Riddle Student Honored John Patrick Brown, of Riddle High School, was presented a certificate of merit for submitting the winning editorial on Law Day.

It was printed last week by The NewsReview on its Editorial Page. James McGinty, county bar association president, made the award. Attorney Tom Garrison was chairman of the observance. Law Day was instituted under former President Dwight Eisenhow er, Locally it has been celebrated for the past three years. Students represented Sutherlin, Riddle, Glide, Roseburg, Myrtle Creek, Yoncalla, Douglas, Canyonville, Days Creek, Elkton, Glendale and Oakland high schools, They observed court procedures during the afternoon.

May 1 also is celebrated as Elks National Youth Day. HURLEY, Wis. (AP) An Air Force B47, a six-engine jet bomber, which looked like "a ball of fire falling from the sky" crashed in a swampy, northwoods area today but at least two members of the four-man crew survived. The plane, from Forbes Air Force Base at Topeka, was on a simulated bombing run when it went down in an area where another Air Force plane crashed a little over two months ago. Two survivors were taken to Grand View Hospital at nearby Ironwood, Mich.

They were Capt. Frank Meade III, 32, of Orange, and Capt. John Hill. Meade apparently, was uninjured but was admitted to the hospital for a checkup. Hill suffered a broken leg and was taken mediately to the X-ray room.

Meade walked out 4th graf walked out with bers of a rescue party about hours after the wreckage was spotted by search plane. The ground party was led to the survivors by radio messages relayed by one of the survivors to the rescue planes. The ground party was directed to the crash scene by the Iron County sheriff's department. The plane went. down in an area known as Giles Flowage in extreme northern Wisconsin.

Deputy Angelo Baldovin said the plane crashed at 2:45 a.m., the hour the ball of fire was reported to police at nearby Ironwood, Mich. How can a lady get out of a gracefully? Bomber Crashes In Wisconsin EVIDENTLY SHE HASN'T TRIED THE I COULD GET OUT I MIGHT TRY NO AWKWARD STOOP -SQUAT- YOUR NEW RAMBLER RAMBLER RAMBLER THIS WAY. THIS WAY. MY X-RAY BEND OR CRAWL IN SURE LOOKS GOOD TO GET OR ON LETS YOU CLASSIC SHOW THE OUT OF RAMBLER YOU, MAM. LEAVE LIKE EASIEST WAY.

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