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MEDFOTtD MATL TRTBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY. .TUNE 9. 1940. PAGE THREE LOCAL and Join Staff Miss Alice Met calfe ha i Joined the staff at Wineland't beauty shop. To Klamath Falls Miss Betty Vilm of 203 Genesee street and Miss Edna Shaver of Central Point made a business trip yes terday to Klamath Falls. They were accompanied by Miss Maxine Love of Grants Pass. At Conference Mrs. Mar Jorie Pearson, district deputy here of the Royal Neighbors of America, was a delegate to a central and southern Oregon conference of nine counties, at Bend. The conference was con cluded yesterday. Crass Fire The fire depart ment's chemical crew was called at 5:37 p. m. yesterday to put out a grass blaze near the city reservoir. The fire was started by a boy who dropped a match Into the dry grass, firemen re ported. The youngster was given a lecture on the danger of play ing with matches. On Vaeatloa Mr. and Mrs. George Harrington and baby of Ideal Court and Mrs. Harring ton's sister. Miss Patti Flynn, who had been visiting here, left by motorcar Friday for Tacoma, Wash., where the Harringtons will spend a vacation. Miss Flynn's home is in Tacoma, her mother residing there also. . Going 19 Conclave Postmas ter Frank DeSouza will be among the Jackson county dele gation of postmasters attending the annual convention of Ore gon chapter 11, National Asso ciation of Postmasters in Cor vallis next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Mr. DeSouza is a member of the resolutions committee. Gladys M. Heath, postmaster at Rogue River, is member of the attendance committee of which Postmaster C. H. Massie of Grants Pass is chairman. Postmaster - General James A. Farley is scheduled to address the convention Friday evening. Minor Accidents Anthony J. Morava of route 2 and Fred Stevens of 1009 West Ninth street drove cars colliding with slight damage on North Central avenue - Saturday morning, a report on file yesterday said. Sixth street at Riverside avenue was the scene of a minor mis hap Friday night between ma chines operated by George M. Estes of 505 North Central ave nue and Joseph R. Anlauf of Medford, according to a report on file yesterday. Leona R. Walther of 1028 Reddy avenue and E. L. Samuels of route 4 drove cars colliding with slight damage on South Central ave nue between 11th and 12th streets Friday morning, a re port on file yesterday said. To Operate Resort Repre sentatives of various civic or ganizations will meet In Klam ath Falls Monday to form a permanent committee for the operation of Rocky Point re sort on Upper Klamath lake, which the California Oregon Power company recently decid ed to turn over to the U. S. forest service, the Associated Press reported yesterday. Karl L. Janouch. supervisor of Rogue River national forest, has out lined forest service require T ments and expressed the hope that the resort can be used for promoting youth building and cheap recreation facilities, the report stated. Rocky Point has long been noted for fine fishing and boating. Plane Passengers H. Herr left by United Mainliner last evening for Oakland. Cal. A. Thurlow left by Mainliner yes terday afternoon for his home in Portland. Miss Lurlin Wil kins arrived from Seattle. Wash., yesterday forenoon and Paul Dahl departed on the same plane for Los Angeles. V. T. Crouch left for Portland early yesterday morning. Dr. E. W. Barnum returned from Port land on the midnight plane Fridav. The Misses Charity and Harriet Hart returned home from San Francisco Friday night and G. F. Beall left on the same plane for Portland. Ar rivals from Portland Friday evening were J. M. Fleishman, S. Friedman and Max Ruduck. R. G. Robbinson and E. P. Hart man left on the same plane for San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. W. Wood arrived from San Francisco by Mainliner Fri day afternoon and Mr. and Mrs. V. D. Brophy and D. T. Davies left on the same plane for Se attle. PLEASE YOUR DAD WITH A FATHER'S DAY CARD t'le-er dMJfns and better srnti mwntt rhsrsHertre our tarse thnning of rsther's Day cards. PERSONAL la Portland Mr. and Mrs Calvin Frances left yesterday for Portland to spend several days on business. : Bowerman Here Dan Bower man, business representative of the United Press Associations on the west coast with headquar ters in San Francisco, trans acted business here yesterday. He formerly resided here. He was to return south this morn ing. Home for Week Don Krous. former Mail Tribune circulation department employe, returned to hit home at 423 King street yesterday to spend a week's vacation. He is a student at Heald's Business college in San Francisco. Mrs. Powall Home Mrs. H. D. Powell returned to her home on Capitol hill yesterday from Salem where she spent two weeks visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Gilstrap and their infant son, Philip Robert. Honor Court Court of honor and tenderfoot Investiture will be held by troops 1, S and 7. Boy Scouts, in the Medford armory at 7:30 p. m Tuesday. Boy Scout officials particularly urge mothers and fathers of the boys to attend. The public also is Invited. On Visit Here Miss Donna E. Stevens, student nurse at St Vincent's hospital in Portland is spending a vacation at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stevens of 1009 West Ninth street. Miss Stevens, who recently completed the first three-month term of the four- year course In nursing, will re sume her studies a week from tomorrow. Returns North George E. Griffith, education and infor mation assistant at the U. S regional forester's office in Portland, left here yesterday afternoon by car for Deschutes national forest headquarters in Bend whence he was to con tinue later to Portland. He had attended the Carberry training camp on the Rogue River national forest. - Represents Class The Rev. L. F. Belknap of the south Pa cific highway left yesterday morn'.ng for Salem to represent his class of half a century ago at the annual banquet of the Alumni association of Willam ette university. The banquet was held last night, with the Rev. Mr. Balknap as program med speaker for his class. Mr. Belknap was to return home tonight. Visitors Leave Mr. and Mrs. ' John Ainsworth Morgan and ! their children. Johnny and Joan, and nurse left yesterday after visiting at the Rogue River lodge near Trail for sev eral days. Mr. Morgan is an author and owner of the Cock n' Bull cafe in Los Angeles. He and Mrs. Morgan caught a large strelhead and salmon while fishing in the Rogue river during their stay. They expect to return to the lodge again in the fall. . Return from North Carl Y. Tengwald of Kings highway re turned by motorcar yesterdav with his daughter Natalie, who has completed her first year at the University of Oregon in Eugene, and Clyde Olmscheid. young son of Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter J. Olmscheid, former Med-, ford residents who now reside i in Roseburg. Clyde will be a I guest at the Tengwald home j for a week. Mr. Tengwald went north early in the week 1 to assist the Oregon state real estate board, of which he is member, conduct examinations in Salem and Portland. He also i attended a regional meeting of realtors in Portland Thursday and Friday.. Miss Natalie Join ed him at Eugene on the re turn trip. Mrs. Tengwald was in charge of the Tengwald real estate agency during her hus band's absence. GREEN PINE FACTORY BLOCKS BUNDLED KINDLING Or fill your car or trailer at our fuel yard on the corner of North Central Ave and McAndrews Road. Lake o' Woods Open Lake o the Woods resort is now open for the season following con siderable modernizing of cabins ana general improvement. A completely stocked grocery store is located at the resort along with a coffee shop, gasoline station, boats and cabins. Music for dacing is provided by a Klamath Falls orchestra each Saturday and Sunday night. Folgsrs Here Distinguished visitors in the valley are Mr. and Mrs. Peter Folger of San Mateo, Cal. Mr. Folger is one of the owners of the Folger Coffee company. The couple are spending several days at Diamond lake enjoying the fish ing and other recreational pas times. They were accompanied here by O. E. Blackington. man ger of the Folger Estate com pany in Woodside, Cal. The three will return south the mid dle of the week. Mother Dies Joseph W. Scobey, staff officer at Med ford CCC district headquarters. received word yesterday morn ing of the death of his mother. Mrs. James E. Scobey. in Nash ville. Tenn , where she had re sided. Mrs. Scobey, who was in her 83rd year, had been in declining health for a year, but noi until recently did her con dition become critical. Other surviving children are Lieut.- Col. William P. Sccbey, U. S army, Washington, D. C, and J. E. and Herndon S. Scobey of Nashville. WEYGAND CENTER (Continued from Page One.) The advance guards had fallen back yesterday under General Maxima Weygand's orders and the movement continued tonight after French frontline positions had been swamped under the uttack waves. More Barriers But still ahead of the Ger mans stretched a field of bar riers all the way to Paris. In his night communique, General Weygand singled out two artillery units for special praise for the destruction they wrought among German panzer units. 'The artil'.sry group of Com mandant Pouyat destroyed 38 German tanks," he said. "One battery of this group com manded by Captain Vandelle By HALE WHEELER DEFINTNQ ths word "Incongru ous", a schoolboy said, "There are many Senators Incongruous" Right now many Senators In Coo jresa are In ths Incongruous posi tion of not knowing whether to o horns or stay In session. Durlnjj election year, ths congressmen usually dash home to build politi cal fences snd to osculate s few babies. However, with war and de fense plans cooking, ths Washing ton gentlemen are afraid of being accused of desertion If they ad journ. The congressmen an sun 3f only one thing a real hot time either from a Washington sum mer or from overheated voters. An Australian battalion baa adopted a rabbit for a mascot. In thta war even the mascots have to be able to move at top speed. For thorough cleaning, careful workmanship, bring your clothes to Hale Wheeler where every gar ment la under the personal super vision of skilled workers. Your clothes an returned to you ready to wear with all minor hps, tears carefully mended. Medford Clean ers, 30 So. Central. Phone 99. too CUBIC FOOT LOAD iiiiiiF.l W destroyed alone 19. "Another artillery group com manded by Commandant Ou- r.en, attacked at a a. stance or 100 meters by tanks, destroyed 17 The allied air forces, out-1 lumbered since the start of the campaign, stayed in the battle with one squadron of more than 130 bombers protected by both British and French pursuit planes and raining explosives on the German lines. Some planes swooped down to an altitude of only 90 feet to bomb and machine-gun enemy tanks and troops. Barlin Raided An air ministry communique announced German pontoon bridges over the Somme were destroyed last night and that reichswehr reinforcements were dirpersed. while navy bombers raided factories in the Berlin outskirts. One pursuit squadron was reported to have attacked a German tank park and to have destroyed a "considerable num ber" of machines. 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Without giving details, the admiralty announced that a squadron of naval planes had raided factories in the outskirts of Berlin last night, and had returned without losing a ship. Speculation arose that some of tne raiders might have been American-made, but the ad miralty spokesman said he thought not. General Changes The supreme effort ot the Germans had created this gen eraal change In the front: It had fallen back from the Somme to the Bresle in the west, from Ham to the region of Noyon in the center and from the Ailette to the Aisne in the east. Much ot the slow German advance was attributed by the French to general strategic withdrawals to avoid being out flanked by the two-headed Ger man thrust pushing down di rectly toward Paris on the one hand and toward Rouen in the west. But the bulk of the French infantry and world-famous ar tillery still stood Intact against the pounding of German tanks and dive bombers. loo. It was disclosed for the first time that Polish artillery had joined the defenders. On the French right flank, where some Germans crossed the Aisne yesterday east of Sois sons only to be annihilated by French fire, counterattacks were reported to have cleaned up the entire south bank, reestablish ing a solid front. In Paris, fiom which thou sands were In orderly flight, the authorities asked racing motorcyclists to enlist in a special corps of parachutist chasers already formed by the city's motorcycle police. POISON OAK? Try bottle of ZEMACOL Ton mart be Mtliftre ef your money C err null iriunumi ur today at WESTERN THHIIT. Modern Noah Sighted Ketchikan, Alaska, June 8. OP) Paul Satko, and his not-so-blundering ark were sighted yesterday 180 miles south of here. 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