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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.
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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
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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. Phillips of Oklahoma on
the ground that it violated state
rights, would inundate approxi
mately 100.000 acres of Okla
noma land and destroy highways
and bridges.
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