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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1942. UNCLE SAM NOT GOING 10 SEEK SMALL FACTORIES On thing wm made definite ly clear at the meeting of OPM men and (mall (hop and plant owner of Jackson and Josephine counties in the Hotel Medford Friday afternoon: Unci Sam la not going to seek out the small shops and plants that could assist In the vast pro gram of war production and If these small business places want government orders they will have to organize an association and pool their capital, plants and equipment. John G. Barnett, acting direc tor of the division of contract distribution, OPM, at the Port Ian'" office, made this point clear to about BO shop and plant own ers and managers. He asserted that time Is essential and there fore the government can't stop to fersjet out small shops capable of turning out war orders. His office, however, will help small business places perfect a pool so that It will meet government requirements and not run afoul the anti-trust laws provided the owners get together first and start the formation of an associ ation. At the request of the shop and plant owners, Mr. Barnett prom ised to send an organizing en lneer here Monday or Tuesday to help make a complete equip ment survey and show them how to get started. The owners then will meet at 4 pjn. Wednesday at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce to proceed with the forming of a pool and again at the same time and place Friday to confer further with Mr. Bar nett and a pool expert he will bring to Medford. Others from the OPM division of contract distribution office In Portland who spoke to the small shop and plant owners were M. H. Famsworth, chief engineer, and Joseph E. Yates, an engineer lent to the office by the firm em ploying him. Robert R. McKean, manager of Columbia Empire In dustries, Inc., served as chair nun after introductory remarks by Frank Hull, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Several of the shop owners told of the discouragement they have met In trying to serve the government by receiving Invita tions to bid on orders after the date for opening the bids, others told of the difficulties of trying to procure orders without know ing more about the procedure In volved and others emphasized that It was Impractical for small. Individual shops to ti to obtain war orders on their own hook though they could help In the vast program of production If some one In the government could guide them and tell them what to do. Mr. Barnett promised the full help and cooperation of his of fice In getting the small shops lined up and in bringing them very possible bit of war pro duction business. He declared that steps were being taken to streamline the whole war pro duction effort and to get every possible facility and equipment to work In turning out war ma terials. E SECOND AND EIR Plana for the eonstmrtlnn r a 100 by 100-foot concrete ware house on a lot at the southeast corner of Second and Fir streets which they purchased last week from the Southern Pacific com pany were announced Saturday by Harry B. Rubensteln and Harry Kaplon, owners of the Medford Bargain House. The transaction was handled by the Wahl agency. Construction of the ware house, to cost approximately $10,000, will be started as soon as material Is available, Ruben steln and Kaplon stated. It will be used for storage of scrap Iron and other equipment han dled by the Bagaln House, and will be modern in every respect. Size of the lot purchased from the railroad company Is 100 by 170 feet, with a 100 foot frontage on Fir street and 170 feet deep on Second street A railroad spur to the lot will provide excellent transportation facilities for the warehouse. TIDlRlID A third air raid warning siren has been purchased for use In the city and all three whistles will be tested at 10 a. m. and 1p.m. Monday, Fire Chief Roy Elliott announced yesterday. The chief said checkers in all parts of the city would report 00 the audibility of tha three sirens and ha asked the public also to keep an ear tuned to the blasts. Ha asked that no one get excited as blowing of the sirens at the hours specified will be only a test. One siren has been placed on the east side, one on North Cen tral avenue and one on top of the senior high school In the southwest part of town. AGE ASSISTANCE Cost of old age assistance rose to $19,2fl last month as com pared with $18,342 in Novem ber and $13,937 in December of 1940, It was shown In statis tical reports studied Friday at the regular monthly meeting of the Jackson county public wel fare commission In its offices at city hall. General assistance cost ,- 368.S8 last month as compared with $3,988.32 the previous month and $4,407.98 In Decem ber 1940. Statistical reports for the three months follow: December 1941 General Assistance Families 128 $3,230.71 Singles 60 1,137.87 188 $4,368.58 Old Age Assistance Cases 823 $10,020.00 Aid to Dependent Children Cases 80 $2,681.00 (Children 181) Blind Assistance Cases 13 $374.00 Total ..$24,049.98 November 1941 General Assistance Families 114 $2,638.82 Singles 64 1,349.50 178 $3,988.32 Old Age Assistance Cases .-821 $16,542.00 Aid to Dependent Children Cases 80 $2,654.00 (Children 181) Blind Assistance Cases 13 $374.00 Total $23,558.32 December 1940 General Assistance Families 174 $3,211.30 Singles .101 1,256.68 278 U4A7 OB Old Age Assistance Cases 707 gia.e37.on Aid to Dependent Children (Children 182) Blind Assistance Cases 9 251.00 Total $21,194.98 aaalnit J. N. Aiknu riroult Judge H. K. Hanna denied the motion for new trial filed some time . ago by the defendant inrougn nis attorney, Charles W. RelmH. Tha mntlnn ua. argued last week by defend ants attorney and Dy Don R. Newbury for the plaintiff. On November 2A a rfri,U court Jury returned a verdict in iavor or ine plaintiff, for $11,000 for a hrnV.n l.s Tk. defendant in his motion for new trial naa claimed that the judg ment was excessive, that he has since the trial ril evidence, and that errors in law were committed In the trial of the Case thnt WM nralnHII.I to the defendant. The court tound no merit In these objec tions. Obituary JOHN MOODY John Moodv a rMnt Rogue River, Ore., passed away i a tocai nospital early Thurs day morning. Funeral arrange ments win do announced later through the Perl funeral home. Clotlni Urn lor CUulttd Ads a. m. Too Late to CUMlfj 11:90 p. m. DENY NEW TRIAL IN DAMAGE SUIT O GREEN HIE SLfilS LARGE 300 CUBIC FOOT LOAD Fill your car or McAndrews Road, Timber Pri Phone 2123 . WHEAT QUOTA FOR COMING YEAR MAY GET CURTAILING Washlntgon, Jan, 24. UPy With ample wheat supplies In prospect. Secretary of Agricul ture Wickard will issue an order soon, aides said today, calling for a nation-wide referendum about the middle of May on marketing quotas designed to keep part of the 1942 crop off the market. Crop authorities said that despite the need for a record output of food this year to meet demands arising from the war, the United States faced prob lem of "too much" wheat for the available markets. They said the country had a two-year supply at the beginning of the current marketing season. Present conditions of the win ter wheat crop and prospective plantings of spring wheat point to a possible production of 800,000,000 bushels. While this would be about 150,001.000 less than the 1941 crop, officials had hoped to hold production to about 650,000,000 bushels. A big crop, officials said. would add to already heavily burdened transportation and grain storage facilities. Conse quently the department hopes to keep as much of the crop on the farm as possible. Should Russia and China need large quantities of American grain, wheat held on farms could be released later to meet the de mand. BONNEVILLE CZAR EYES POWER DEAL New York, Jan. 24. AP Dr. Paul J. Raver, administra tor of the Bonneville power ad ministration, said today he is vis iting New York to negotiate a series of deals aimed at utilizing to the utmost, through public ownership, the power facilities of the Pacific northwest. Dr. Raver said his ultimate aim was to have the Bonneville adminltration and other public agencies acquire ownership of many privately owned utility systems and link them with the great power reservoirs of the Bonneville and Grand Coulee hydro-electric developments. Present plans, said Dr. Raver, call for federal ownership of the principal power pools of the northwest. Distribution systems reaching to consumption outlets would be taken over by local publicly-owned p o w a r com panies. E San Francisco, Jan. 84. VP) A "definite pause" in the Jap anese drive on the Burmese port of Moulmein was reported by the Singapore radio today in a broadcast picked up here by IBS. The announcer, commenting on this report from Rangoon, expressed belief the Japanese would be forced to reorganize their forces and rush up consid erable reinforcements to meet stiffened British and native re sistance. "The air force Is giving sden did support to the land forces," he said, "and Is already raiding Thai airplane bases close to the Burma border." PLANE PLUNGE Norfolk, Va.. Jan. 24. (AP) The fifth naval district announc ed last night the deaths of eight men In the plunge of a navy plane Into the Atlantic ocean near Oregon Inlet, N. C. early yesterday. No details ot the crash were disclosed. Vt MaU Tribune want ads. trailer at our yard en West of tha S. P. Tracks Company eaaeon End North Central ODtX Archbishop Resigns P 1 : ( ( I . ' ... V I ' V fu -: Zhe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang (center),, 77. announced to a church convocation in London that he would resign March man. (Picture cabled from London E FOX OF T. PL PASSES George E. Fox, 78, a resident of Central Point, Ore., for the past 49 years, passed away there Saturday morning after a lengthy illness. Mr. Fox was born at Oskaloosa, Iowa, on May 14, 1863. He spent his early life in Iowa, and was united in marriage to Miss Stella Rawllngs at Clarinda, Iowa on October 30, 1890, they moved to Oregon two years after marriage. He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He leaves to mourn his depar ture his wife, Mrs. Stella B. Fox, and one daughter, Mrs. Geraldine Hogan of Central Point, Ore.; one grandson. Jo seph Hogan. Funeral services will be con ducted from the Perl funeral home on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o clock. Rev. L. F. Belknap officiating. Interment will take piace in tne Siskiyou Memorial Park. 1 - ( SCENE OF BLAZE Richmond, Va., Jan. 24. lP) Fire broke out at the state penitentiary in Richmond today and two alarms in rapid succes sion sent apparatus screaming to the scene. The prison switchboard opera tor said only "it's pretty bad" before he broke the connection. Approximately 1,100 prison ers are held in the institution. PLEDGE CAMPAIGN ENPS Portland, Jan. 24. (AP The house-to-house canvass for de fense saving bond purchase pledges was virtually completed L. Multnomah county today, Lar- rj Hilalre, chairman, reported. Roseburg, Jan. 24 (AP) The D uglas County Taxpayers' Lea gue urged last night that draft deferment be given men trained in farm work. Our mala ambition Is kind of food they like you will find quality attractively. Friendly watchword. FOOD AS YOU LIKE IT MEDFORD'S NEWEST RESTAURANT Opening Tomorrow Dixie Cafe 6th Street - Just Off Central Sibyl Rodger Stambaugh Charles Bateman Proprietors 31 to make way for a rounder to New York). BOARD SELECTED New York, Jan. 24. fTV-The CIO executive council today ap pointed a three-man committee headed by Philip Murray, CIO president, to confer with a like committee from the American Federation of Labor on a labor war board suggested by the White House. Named to serve with Murray were R. J. Thomas of the United Automobile Workers and Julius Emspak of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. Murray suggested that the committee be called "labor's vic tory board." President Roosevelt would be the seventh member of the board, which was suggested to settle jurisdictional disputes be tween the rival labor organiza tions for the duration of the PETITIONS SEEK Petitions to the mayor and city council were signed by merchants yesterday asking that arrangements be made for the Installation of parking meters as one means ot controlling parking and traffic in the busi ness area, an Increase tn traffic being foreseen when the army camp for this section la con structed. HAMBURG TOILERS New York. Jan. 24. ") German factory workers In Ham burg have a new slogan, the BBC said tonight, quoting reports smuggled out of the reich. It is: "We are winning ourselves to .1 u , 0 uniu. to feed hungry folks the at moderate prices. Here food served quickly and service will always be our 1 TITANIC BATTLE IN MALAY JUNGLE Singapore, Jan. 24. (ff) A mighty battle raged indecisively In the greatest of confusion along the 80-mile breadth of the Malay peninsula approximately 70 miles north of Singapore tonight. ' Australian gunners poured fire Into massed tank, truck and in fantry columns and RAF squad rons roamed the battlefront straf ing and bombing troop con centrations and supply columns to the rear. Australian lines in general were contracting, faced with the difficult problems of Insufficient men and material. Said one correspondent with the Australians at the front to night: "Singapore Is now being well- guarded, but the troops are not much better off than earlier in this campaign, and no better off than their brothers in other theaters earlier In this war. Our fighters are over the front, but still everyone instinctively seeks cover when planes are heard over head." In the western and eastern sectors the battle was a melee of Japanese who had infiltrated through jungles and rubber groves and Australian detach ments sent out to track down and eliminate them. In some cases, front line dis patches made plain, it was diffi cult to tell who was the hunted and who the hunter. From the western coastal sector in particular, where the imperial forces have been ord ered into a counter-attack, small parties of Indians and Aus tralians trickled back to their headquarters all day long with stories of heroism. Not until no more of these parties are returning, it was said, can the situation be clari fied. Dm MaU Tribune want ads. Keep Lova And Friendship Glowing Send Valentines to friends and family to express your true feelings. SWEM'S GIFT SHOP !Xm i.7 iSmm vkm mm, mwo ' Vt "earn J neTwp 3 I r BEGINS THURSDAY MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE LAID TO ROBBERY Baltimore, Jan. 24. OP) A shipyard worker accused of the gun and knife slaying of two married sisters and a night club musician today told police he had killed the trio In self de fense after they had attempted to rob him. The man, booked as William B. Gilliam, 32-year old crane operator in a fairfield shipyard, was charged on the Baltimore county police docket with mur der, and State's Attorney Law rence E. Ensor said he was be ing held without bail. Pocketbooks identified by po lice as belonging to the three victims were found in a sewer near Gilliam's home by three boys. Officers said the pocketbooks, emptied of money, "will give the case an entirely new angle." They added that Gilliam had $105 when he was arrested. MORE TAX LIMIT Cleveland, Jan. 24. (ff) Pleading - that remaining tax loopholes be plugged. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau declared today "we have no more right to fall short" of the president's goal of nine billion dollars in new revenue than in his goal of TRUCKS FOR HIRE Local and Long Distance Hauling Small and Large Van Equipment Rates $1.50 to $2.75 per hour SAMSON STORAGE . FURNITURE MOVING AND STORAGE Phone 3756. 4th and Front S7fflD3ffl -IN THE- 60,000 planes and 45,000 tanks this year. Attacking tax-empt securities as and other "glaring examples," v Morgenthau asserted almost a billion dollars of taxes must be passed "onto the shoulders of the rest of us" each year because a few thousand individuals es cape their fair share of the bur den. He continued: How can the war efforts of our people reach their peak level until such a situation baa been remedied?" North Dakota has a tow named Snow and Arkansas baa a town named Snowball. On MaU Tribune want ada. HQMEDEFEN5E Time To ACT! f Real "detail" of tha Rome demands an end to OTer-conM-denes when joor realty Tltto Is concerned. The time to make snre that Title Flam nerer can ehallenra jour OWNenhlp, Is now. Our charge tor Title Iiunranoe Is most moderate! SOUTHERN OREGON , TITLE CO. Branch ot COMMONWEALTH, Ine. of Portland. 127 W. Main. Phone 4450 j JAN. 29th O
