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six years he spent most of the time at his
ranch in Nevada, although he still inter·
ested himself in the activities of the Rowe
companies.
In his early years he worked as a
printer on a daily paper and eventually
established his own printing company. At
one time he was clerk of the Los Angeles
police court and while in that post in
1926, he used parts of a confiscated moon·
shine whisky still imd a cigar box to
invent an automatic vending machine for
cigarettes.
Rowe belonged to the Southgate Chapter
of the Masonic Lodge, the Golden West
Commandery of the Knights Tempiar, The
Scottish Rite, and Al Malaikah Shrine.
Surviving is his widow, Mrs. Marjorie
Rowe.
Funeral services were held July 26th
:at the Church of the Recessional in beauti·
iul Forest Lawn, Glendale, Calif., for
'William H. Rowe, pioneer in the cigarette
.and candy vending machine industry who
passed away at his home in Del Mar,
Calif., on July 22nd. He was 61 years of
.age.
Born in Virgil, Ontario, Canada, in 1884,
:Rowe was the inventor of the first auto·
matic vending machine. He invented the
:first cigarette vending machine in 1926
and two years later founded the Rowe
Mfg. Co., with Robert Z. Greene, in Los
Angeles, the first company in' the United
States to make these machines. The Rowe
(;igarette Service Co., New York and
Los Angeles, was also formed shortly ' Home-Grown Turkish
W ASHINGTON-U. S. cigarette manu-
thereafter to operate and service these
facturers import 50 to 75 million pounds
machines in restricted territory.
of Turkish tobacco a year. If experiments
Rowe retired from active participation
work out, Southern farmers soon may be
in the company in 1939. During the past
growing all the Turkish tobacco the
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cigarette makers can use.
Scientists already have proved the stuff
can be grown on U. S. soil and now have
crops on 55 small farms in Virginia, North
Carolina and South Carolina to find out
if it will pay here.
The Turkish plant is small, brings a
higher price than domestic tobacco and
can be grown in poor soil. Main hitch
is the cost problem. Growth and curing
of Turkish tobacco need a large amount
of hand labor. The plants are grown 5
to 6 inches apart, in rows 20 inches apart.
Musicmen Picnic
CLEVELAND, D.-The Annual Outing
of the Phonograph Merchants' Associa·
tion is slated for Wednesday, August 29th
at the Richmond Country Club. Festivities
are to get underway at 1 :30 p. m. with
baseball and varied games scheduled for
the afternoon and dinner at 6:30 to be
followed by dancing. Jack Cohen is chair-
man of the Picnic Committee and event is
seventh annual outing of the group.
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