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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 27, 1941 PAGE FIV1 CALIFORNIA EYES AFTER EFFECT OF Prime Minister Churchill Visits Iceland j LOST Industry Boom Under Way With Nearly Two Million Non-Farm Tasks. San Francisco, Aug. 27. HP) Industrialization of California has gone into high gear under pressure of defense production. It HninB sll riuht even be fore the defense program came - along Dut now 11 is Diazing uuwu highway with government funds. Snhor.mlnded observers are beginning to give thought to what sort of problems this growth of factories will raise after the boom is over, some voices have already been raised, demanding lone-ranee planning. Latest official estimates of California's non-agricultural em nlnvment broueht the industri alization trend into focus today. M. I. Gershenson, chief statis tician of the state division of labor statistics estimated there were 1.965,000 employes in non aoriellltlirol 1nhs in Julv. That was an increase of 230,- 000 from the 1,735,000 indus trial workers a year ago. An other increase this month, such as normally takes place in Aug ust, and the total may hit the 2,000,000 mark. The increase in this army of workers this year had been more than triple the 1940 advance wover 1939. While far from a new trend, the speed of the state's factory growth has increased to a point where it is changing the Indus trial complexion once more. Just as in the gold rush, grain era and the periods of oil and diver- cified farming. Through the last decade, Cali fornia industry pushed ahead as establishment of branch factories brought a quicker recovery from depression depths than in the country as a whole. By 1940, California factory employ ment had sons about 42 ter cent ahead of 1925 figures. In the same 15 years. United States fac tory employment gained a shade under 8 per cent. Over those years, while United States manufacturing wages in creased some 4 per cent, Cali fornia wages rose more than 45 per cent in total amount. FEBllON v. Accompanied by a U. S. marinas officer (left). British Prima Minister Winston Churchill (knea-Ungth coat) and Ensign Franklin D. Rooievelt. Jr. (center) salute tha United States flag as they inspected U. S. marines during a recent visit to Iceland on Churchill's return trip to England from his meeting with President Roosevelt. E Gruelling Hike, Rain, And No To Thrills. Trestles, Food Add HIE SHIRTS UP New York, Aug. 27 (IP) Haberdashery shops around New York today were preparing new price tags on white shirts, the result of a jump of 25 cents on staple garments announced by the Manhattan Shirt Co., a lead ing manufacturer. A spokesman for the Manhat tan company said its advance In price which will apply in the retail market, was based on in creased manufacturing costs and higher raw material charges. POYER COW WINS L The purebred Jersey cow, Sybil Delia, in the herd owned by E. B. Poyer, of Ashland, has qualified for the gold medal award of the American Jersey Cattle club with her exceptional butterfat yield. In her recently completed of ficial test, the medal winner pro duced 725.64 pounds of butter fat, 11,858 pounds of milk in 365 days, milked twice daily. She GREEN FIE SLABS EARLY DELIVERY. 12 or 16 Inch. BUY NOW AND SAVE. BIG DOUBLE LOAD COMPARE OUR QUALITY. TEL. 3111 MEDFORD FU2L CO. 1122 N. CENTRAL was 5 years and 3 months old when started on test. The pro duction record Is authenticated in a certificate issued by the club, national organization of Jersey cattle breeders. Rep. Angell To Talk Salem, Aug. 26. (IP) Rep. Homer D. Angell (R-Ore) will speak on the Townsend club day program at the state fair Sep tember 2, state fair officials said today. Closing time tot Cluslfled Adl 9 a. m. Too Law to ClawUy 12:30 p. Centralia, Wash., Aug. 27. (P) With the west coast's great est war maneuvers over, an epic of a "lost battalion" bid today for the No. 1 dramatic niche in the accounting of the week-long action through the timberland of western Washington. The most foot-sore and weary unit among the nearly 100,000 troops probably was the 2d bat talion of the 185th infantry, 40th division. Cold, drenched, hungry and exhausted, they came out of the limber of Southern Pacific coun ty yesterday alter harrowing ex periences that included, a mem ber of the marching detachment said, eating of wild berries and an occasional crawfish from a meandering gully stream. At 40th division headquarters, officers available last nicht said the battalion never was lost but only overdue after running blind and then retracing its course to get out of the wilds. The member of the party who told of the grueling hike, close to 72 hours in all with only food rations for 48, declined to give his name, but he told the story with drooping eyelids to a group of listeners here. The unit had been sent out on n flanking movement up the Deep river acainst a force of the mythical Pacific coast inva der. It never found the enemy and that was what some of the soldiers griped about as they found their way to food and warming fires after two nights and day In intermittent, but always drenching, rain. The survivors said there were between 500 and 700 men in the detachment and "they made a mighty long line through the woods." He related that apparently faulty maps caused complica tions, while compasses were of slight value because of the rough country There were myriad branches of old abandoned log ging railroad tracks, many lead ing to blind ends or rickety trestles over steep-sloped ra vines. On a compass course, the column would have to turn back or aside repeatedly because of ihe rough terrain. The men, bearing machine gun and mortar burdens, struggled up and down slopes and across the trestles, even where tires were missing and they had to brave the dizry height of the longitudinal beams. After sandwiches ran out, the men turned to berries and any thing else that seemed edible. They got drinking water at times by scooping out a drink ing pool in a hillside rivulet. Before the trek's end, a cigar et was a rare treat broken in half for self and a comrade's pleasure. gust 28, at 7:45. Rev. Wlese will be accompanied by his wife and four of their five children, all of whom were born In China. Rev. and Mrs. Wiese were college associates of the local! pastor. Rev. Fred M. Weather- ford. They have spent 17 years of ministry in China. They were 11 years In China before being furloughed the last time, In 1940. Rev. Wiese, In addition to speaking to the audience, will show pictures, revealing the large crowds that gather. He will show the picture of a Bible girl who memorized the entire New Testament. He will show some of the active war exper iences with both loaded and ex- WORKER TO TALK Rev. H. A. Wiese, district sup erintendent of the Chinese work, representing the Church of the Nazarene in China, will speak in the Medford Church of the Nazarene, Holly at First street, Thursday evening, Au- ploded shells. He will also show pictures depicting native Chi nese life. Rev. Wiese was tha only one of the staff who remained at the mission quarters when tha Chinese-Japanese war prevailed in that area. The other mission, aries had all gone to the coast for protection. Do Good Deed Salt Lake City, Utah UP) Lloyd Poore, 13, of Salt Lake City was walking with hit collie along the Jordan river near here) when he saw a second dog, in the water, floundering. Lloyd and his own dog dived In and pulled the other canine to shore and found it had been beaten and a weight tied on Its neck. OLD OSCAR SAY -WHAT 5 THE BEST WHISKEY fSL VALUE 7 ettSfV SJs$ Old Oscar Pepper im WhUk.y Mm 86(nx-Jl ttrsigbt k ubukitt,49grmmtutTltpirih frni. Lb J S1,0Qp,NT S195QT. Jlf t trv e Washington, Aug. 7 (JP) The dream of every small boy a bicycle decked with all kinds of gleaming gadgets Is to be come just a mail order catalogue dream. The office of production man agement disclosed today that 12 leading bicycle manufacturers had agreed at a meeting with parts suppliers, retailers and de fense officials to cut the weight of bicycles about 10 per cent, make fewer models, and elimi nate unneeded metal decorations In order to save vital materials for defense production. Juvenile and racing models ' probably will be cut out entirely it was decided, and each manu facturer will produce only 10 models Instead of the 20 to 40 offered. Thus machine tools, skilled workmen and materials will be freed for more urgent work. A saving of about 20 per cent In the rubber used by the indus try is contemplated by the elim ination of white sidewall tires, which automobile manufactur ers already have agreed to discontinue. ae I ' W II r,m 1 V ." 3-' 1 "" "" fT'!"'P'," "If 1 '$ ' 1 ty n ., X-ji'it " l).BJMeM,,tiMti i-il if' " i Tlilt J .j l . .-TT1j...-! ..--jiiMfajiaiMiiMM -aatjiuaaMiiiit Uitm m i w!aMiaasaaaMa FLOCK TO DAKAR Dakar, French West Africa. Aug. 27 LP) The government general of French West Africa today issued an official denial that there was any German infil tration Into Senegal territory. This denial preceded an offi cial assertion In Vichy that "there is not a single German in 11 French West Africa, not even an armistice commission." Senegal is one of the eight governmental divisions o) French Wert Africa, of which another is Dakar and dependencies. Coast Survey Asked Washington, Aug. 27 JP A survey of the gasoline situa tion on the Pacific coast was asked yesterday by Senator Mc Nary (R-Ore.) Boston, Aug. 2" ', (U. S Dept. Agr 1 Business was rather slow on the Boston wool market today "God grant liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it ... " Liberty is something that we give too little thought to. We're apt to take Liberty for granted. We often forget that the privilege of reading and writing and saying and thing and doing as we please is a God-given right one that is ineffably valuable one that we should love and be always ready to guard and defend. The Mail Tribune and the Free Press of a Free America are as much guardians of our Liberty as are those boys who are training for the guardianship of it in camps throughout our country , As long as America's News papers print the words and thoughts of America's free people, just so long will America's people BE free. 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