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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1941)
MFPFORD MATL TKTTStTXR MEDFORD. CRFdOV. TUESDAY. .TUNT 3, Tf41. PACE THREE FAR WEST TROOPS LI 'STAGE MOCK WAR AT LIGGETT CAMP Over 35,000 Soldiers in Bat tie Positions Along Banks of San Antonio River Br Jack Beardwood Camp Hunter Liggett. Calif.. June 3. (Pi The army's first major far western war game of its most crucial year since World war days, got under way yester day as more than 35.000 troops rushed into battle positions along the banks of the San Antonio river. . The dusty roads of this sprawl ing military reservation were glutted with military traffic soon after dawn as 14,000 men of the 3rd division began moving into defense positions along the northwest bank of the river. After the 3rd division, com prising the Blue forces, cleared camp, 22.000 troops of the 41st division and IX corps, who com- pose the attacking Reds, started by truck and afoot for their positions near the southeast bank -. of the San Antonio. Two-Day Battla The two-day battle, realistic in every detail except for the blank ammunition the men will fire, started at 3 p. m., when reconnaissance troops of the 3rd division contacted advance Red units. The mock war, with the blues on defense against a superior force, will continue throughout the night until tomorrow noon Umpires attached to each bat- talion will compute casualties. check firing and judge strategy. All troops participating in the first mock war of the June-long concentration are from Fort Lewis, Wash. The major war game on the reservation will be fought late In June when 63,000 ' men battle for a week. Savad By Ring Woodburn, Ore., June 3. An irate bull knocked Roy Disney to the ground near here yesterday, but he saved himself by tugging on the bull's nose ring. He required hospitalization. Volunteer Too Old Portland, June 3. P Mili tary draft officials turned down a Salem volunteer for the second time yesterday. First a Salem and then a Portland board re fused him because he was 70 years old. That's being a GOOD SOLDIER MANY A military expert says the Axis has an Achilles heel oil shortage. The giant military machine can't get enough miles to the scarce gal lon. When the tank runs dry blooie! Exclusively as old oil hands, 'we can assure you that Uncle Sam has no such Achilles heel. Every eun, every airplane, every tank, every train, every truck, every American soldier depends on oil. There's enough. Every shipyard, every factory, every American workman de pends on oil There's plenty. Thanks to an up-and-doing oil industry, American production last year was 23 times that of the Axis nations. can't begin to list even Standard's own defense efforts ... a $4,500,000 plant to in crease production of high oc tane aviation gasoline by the deft Houdry process ... an agreement to supply the Navy with tanker tonnage... research expanding possibilities of toluol production . . . cooperative "fly ing laboratory'' experiments ac tually carried on in the skies. Similarly the entire oil in dustry has thrown itself into the collar. It's ready... now . . . today. Uncle Sam's No. 1 defense need is in the bag rut there by an industry which, far from getting a subsidy, ac tually produces $1. $00,000,000 a rear in taxis. That we call being a good soldier and no part of a heel, (Achilles type). THURSDAY, 1-9 P.M. 7) Jh WtEKLT STANDARD STMmONT Mutual-Don lee Network It-jv B!t: Orfrturt Jr.atfr'tMAa Sr-3PwofT No. Jf Unut (Stltetll MoTtOMBtt) Fi. Waltsrff Brihmt-tttrf AlMclaa trttitt ifmnK Kimahsiktr G;i. S1tu: Carttte af Btcchue....0tJja Standard Oil Company of California OF Medford Unit Given New Strength by Addition of 55 Selectees New Address By Sgt. George F. Llndley King City, Cal., June 1. (Spl) Quite a few of the boys who left from Jackson county with Co. A last September have been transferred to other units or have been discharged on completion of their enlistment. Company A has also received 53 selectees, assigned to bring the company up to strength. Most of these came from Mon tana and California with a few from Oregon. The company has also seen quite a few changes in officers since leaving. Only two of the original officers are with the unit now, they are Captain Weldon H. McBee, commander, and Lt. Donald W. Neilson. Other officers are 1st Lt. Ron ald L. Shebeck, 1st Lt. Kent B. White and Lt. Ben F. Thomas. The latter is a son of the late Charles M. Thomas, and formerly lived in Meaford and attended Medford schools. Barracks Likad It was quite a relief to the men of the company when they were moved to their barracks at Fort Lewis after spending the winter in tents at Camp Murray, listening to fhe rain drops patter on the tent roof and wading in the mud and shivering around in the fog that spread a wet blanket over everything. The warmth and comfort of the nice clean bar racks seemed like heaven. The 186th infantry, of which Co. A is a part, moved to its new quarters April 16. The company was assigned three barracks, a kitchen and dining hall, a supply room and orderly room. The barracks are two stories and accommodate 63 men each. The dining room seats 193 men. The kitchens are well equipped and handy. Mail Appreciated Parents and friends of the boys should be reminded not to neglect to write often as that is one of the things that keeps up the boys' morale. There is always a smile of contentment when there is a letter from home, and this is also true when "the" girl sends along a letter. When there is no letter perhaps for days at a time the boys get homesick and take on a look which seems to say "What's the use, no one thinks about me?" The boys appreciate the Mail Tribunes and the cry at mail time is always "did any Tri bunes come?" Letters should be addressed correctly In order to ensure de livery. The rddress for the next six weeks looks like this sam ple: Private John Doe, 29876542 (if serial number Is known) Company A 186th Inf., A.P.O. 41, King City, Calif. A plain return address should always be placed on the envel ope, also. GASOLINE PIE FUG BIGS FINES FOR TOO ,5 MADISON, Wis., June 3. P Two oil companies and five individuals were fined a total of $20,000 by Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley today on charges they conspired in 1935 and 1936 to raise and fix retail gasoline prices at artificial high levels in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The defendants, convicted at the close of a 16-week trial held in 1937-38, had been granted re trials. They changed their pleas of "not guilty" to no defense today. Charges against two individ uals were dismissed on recom mendation of Grant W. Kelle her, special U. S. district at torney. Fines were imposed as fol lows: Standard Oil Company of In diana. $5,000: Cities Service Oil Company, $5,000; Alexander Fraser. president of Shell On Co.. $2 500: A. G. Maguire. vice president of the Wadhams di vision of SoconyVacuum Oil Co.. $1,500: Edward J. Bullock, vice president of Standard Oil of Indiana. $2,500; Oscar J. Tuttle sales executive of Cities Service. $2,000; H. J. Kennedy, of the Continental Oil company, $1,500 Noted Painter Dies Rehoboth Beach. Del., June 3 i pi Robert Hinckley, distin guished American portrait paint er. died of a stroke at his home yesterday. He was 88 Hinckley tainted more than 350 portraits of prominent persons in the United States. ELECTS FRIDAY Townsend Harmony club will elect delegates to the national convention on Friday evening, the meeting to take up at 8:00 o'clock with a short council meeting at 7:30. Also booked for the meeting is Dr. L e V y n e, Townsend speaker from Chicago, III. Dr. LeVyne spoke before the clubs last Friday and so favorably impressed the members that he was invited to repeat his mes sage for the benefit of a larger attendance. Ladies are asked to bring along cakes or sand wiches to be served after the meeting. The public is invited. Cloetng time for Too Lata to clas sify Ada la 1 :90 p. m. ASK AFL CHARTER Employes of the Medford Cor poration were on record today as favoring an application to the American Federation of La bor for a charter as a Timber and Sawmill Workers union. The employes voted to apply for the charter at a meeting Saturday after they had voted for the dissolution of the I.E.U. chapter at the corporation's plant. The national labor rela tions board recently ruled that the I.E.U. might not act as bar gaining agency for employes. A meeting on the same mat ter is to be held by employes of Timber Products company at 7:30 tonight. DECLARED LEGAL Washington, June 3 (P) The supreme court held constitution al today federal construction of a dam intended to manufacture power for sale as well us to con trol floods. Justice Douglas delivered the decision, applying specifically t the $54,000,000 Dcnison dam across Red river in Texas and Oklahoma. No district was an. nounced. Construction of the Denlson dam was challenged by Governor Leon C. 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