' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1942.
PAGE THREB
Society and Clubs
by Betty Shoemaker
Mrs. Work
Reviews Book
At Guild Meeting
Mrs. R. A. Work reviewed,
"A Woman's Place" by Odium
at the meeting of Crater Lake
Guild of the First Presbyterian
church last evening at the home
of Helen Holt Wilson. The book
concerned the life of the author
and her husband, Floyd Odium,
" now in high government work.
OThe author pointed out that
women have something definite
I to do in thtir life and can ac
f complish it no matter - where
they are. She opened her book
with writings of her early child
I hood, led through her marriage
t and the rapid advancement of
i her husband and herself, now
i president of Bcnwit Teller De-
partment store in New York
City.
A white elephant sale was
also enjoyed with Mrs. Verl
Walker as auctioneer. Devotions
were led by Mrs. Robert Laus
mann. Hostesses were Mrs. By
ron Murdock, Mrs. Iva Murray
and Mrs. Maynard Putney.
Pinochle Club
Holds Meeting
Ed Gould entertained his pi
nochle club at the Gould home
i on West Jackson boulevard Sun
ilay evening. Husbands of club
members were in charge of the
dinner which preceded an eve
ning of pinochle. Mr and Mrs.
Ed Pease held high score and
Mrs. George Wimer and Louis
Bashaw scored low.
Attending were Mr and Mrs.
Ed Pease. Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Bashaw, Mr. and Mrs. George
Wimer, Mr. and Mrs. E. D.
Scripter, Mrs. Mabel Kitson,
Mrs. Katherine Satlerlee, Mrs.
Ed Gould and the host.
Arrives Here
By Train
Mrs. Alfred S. Wilcox of Port
land arrived here by train today
for a visit with her son-in-law
and daughter. Mr. and Mrs.
John H. Harris and two chil
dren. The Harris former residents
of Klamath Falls, arrived here
during the past week where
they plan to make their home.
Mr Harris is assistant manager
of the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company. They plan
to reside at 15 Corning court
but at present are staying at
Hotel Medford.
Local Girl
On Committee
Willamette University, Salem,
Ore., Feb. 3. Jacquelyn McBee
of Medford was appointed this
week to the decoration commit
tee for the Centennial ball
which will be held on February
14. The ball Is expected to be
one of the big events of Wil
lamette's 100th anniversary cel
ebration. Miss TOcBee graduated from
Medford high school in 1941.
She is a freshman in sociology
at Willamette and is the daugh
ter of G. W. McBee of 130 West
.Sixth street, Medford.
Thimble Club
At Wortman Home
Members of Chrysanthemum
Thimble club will hold a special
meeting at the home of Mrs.
Ella Wortman. 912 South Oak
dale avenue Thursday at 1 p. m.
Dessert luncheon will be served
followed by an afternoon of
sewing.
t
Jackson County .
Couple Weds
A license to wed was Issued
yesterday in Reno, Nev., to Jos
eph R. Arbogast of Central
Point and Phyllis Cook of this
city.
When your nostrils become red. tr.
ntaled. stuffy iue to colds er dust.
Just invert a tittle Mentholatum in
them. Note bow quickly it eootnea
the irritated membranes and re
lieves the stuffiness. It arm also
check sneezing. Once you enOT
aler.tholatum's comforting relter.
you'll alwsra want to keep thla
genua ointment bandy. In iara or
tube., see.
NEW LOCATION
Carl Y. Tengwald, Agency
Real Eitite and Insurance
Holly Theater Building
Travel Club
Continues Study
Of Pacific Islands
Continuing a study of the
vear's topic, "Our Island Posses
sions in the Pacific and Those
of Our 28 Allies" members of
the Travel Study club er.ioyed
an interesting session yesterday
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Archie Pierce on Pierce heights.
Miss Elizabeth Burr gave a
review of Miss Florence Horn's
book, "Orphans of the pacific."
This book is a recent publica
tion about the Philippines. Mrs.
A. J. Hanby conducted an illus
trated map study of this large
group of islands and also gave
excerpts from many publications
on the subject, "What Our Al
lies Say About Us."
By request Mrs. J. E. Cribble
closed the afternoon study group
by telling of her trip to the
Philippine Islands.
P.-T. A. Activities
Howard
Final plans for observance of
Founder's Day, Feb. 17 will be
made Thursday when Howard
P.-T. A. members gather at the
schoolhouse at 2:30 p. m. The
program will be held with Oak
Grove, Lone Pine and Griffin
Creek Parent-Teacher associa
tions as guests.
Jacksonville
Founder's Day is to be ob
served Wednesday by Jackson
ville P.-T. A. at the schooihouse
at 3 p. m. Mrs. James K. Hoev
of Medford will be guest speak
er Also planned are additional
speakers and a silver tea.
Auxiliary Sewing
Club Will Meat
Auxiliary sewing club of the
D.A.V. will meet Thursday with
Mrs. Luther Tingley, 816 South
Central avenue, for potluck
luncheon at 12 noon and an aft
ernoon of sewing.
Sewing Group Plans
Organisation of Social Club
Reames chapter, O.E.S., sew
ing group will meet at 11 a. m
at the Masonic hall Wednesday
Those attending are asked to
bring their own service, sand
wiches or dessert. It was an
nounced at the last meeting that
the sewing group will be form
ed into a social club,
Missionary Society
To Discuss Topic
The topic, "What's Right With
the World," will be discussed
Thursday by members of the
Adult Missionary society of the
First Christian church in the
social hall at 2 p. m. Mrs
Estella Hopkins and group are
in charge of the discussion. Mrs
Ethel Troxell and group are to
arrange the social hour.
CALENDAR
Tuesday
7.30 p. m. A.A.U.W. art
study group, home Mrs. Ken
neth Wells, 604 West Fourth
street.
7:30 p. m. Medford Dupli
cate Bridge club, Medford hotel
7:30 p. m. Beta Sigma Phi
sorority, 1315 East Main street.
8:00 p. m. Pythian Sisters, K.
of P. hall.
8:00 p. m. Degree of Honor
lodge meeting, Townsend hall,
123,. West Main street.
8:00 p. m. Chapter BE, PEO,
home Mrs. Edith Thompson.
Phoenix.
8:00 p. m. Crater Lake Post,
1833, V.F.W., court house aux
iliary, home Teresa Norton, 718
Palm street.
8:00 p. m. Public card party
Eagles auxiliary. Eagles hall.
42 North Front street.
' Wednesday
10:00 a. m. Applegate exten
sion unit, home Mrs. Helen
Davis.
1:00 p. m. Lady Lions, home
Mr$. Henry Zacharlsen, 714
Beekman 3treet.
1:00 p. m Women cf Rotary,
Hotel Holland.
2 00 p. m. Contemp o r a r y
!Vok club, home Mrs. Harry
Holmes, Modoc avenue.
2:00 p. m. Phoenix Health
Rroup. home Mrs. Dollie Stev
ens, South Pacific highway.
2:30 p. m. Wednesday Study
club. Girls' Community club
house, 229 North Bartlett street.
6:30 p. m U. S. W. V pol
itick dinner for post and aux
iliary, K. of P. hall.
8 00 p. m. U. S. W. V. post,
auxiliary, meeting K. of P hall.
i Mrs. Young To Ba
Corps Hostess
I Mrs. Carrie Young will enter
tain members of the Women's
Relief Corps at her home, IS
; Rose avenue, Thursday at 2 p.m.
Mrs. Irving To Be
Sorority Hostess
Mrs. David Irving will be
hostess to Beta Sigma Phi mem
bers tonight at 7:30 o'clock at
1313 East Main street.
Medford Residents
Home From Fort Lewis
Mrs. J. H. Nielson. 502 Park
avenue, and Mrs. Howard'
Schrecengost, route 2, returned
here Sunday by motor after a
three weeks' stay at Fort Lewis
where they visited their hus
bands who are in the U. S.
army.
Wtnonah Club
To Do Red Cross Work
An all-day session of Red
Cross sewing is planned by
members of Wenonah club at
the Redman hall on Apple street
Thursday. Covered dish lunch
eon will be served at noon and
the regular business meeting
conducted. In charge of the
meeting are Mrs. Charles Hobbs.
Mrs. H. K. Burnham, Mrs. R.
E. Wicker and Mrs. Hans Ram
min. LIVESTOCK
Portland. Feb. 3. OF)-(USDA)
Cattle 60, eft 1 vet 25; around 200 cat
tle held over; few sales about steady
with Monday's close; Monday's late
market 60-76 lower on ateers; she
stock mostly 26-60 off; bulk medium
good fed steers Monday $10,60 9 1160;
few loada $11.75912.25, top SI 3 SO;
common beef steers down to 8.00;
common-medium heifers 7.509.76;
canner and cutter cows 5.00is0 25;
medium-good beef cows salable
7.503 8. 60 or above; good beef bulls
salable around I9.507 10.00: common
medium vealers 10.00i3 13.00, choice
quotable to 914.50.
Hogs 750; market steady; good
ehotce 175-215 lb. trucks-Ins mostly
12.75; medium grade" kinds down
to 112 50: 230-270 lb. 111.7312.25:
few light lights ll.SOi 12.25; sows
600 lbs. downward to 99.00-75; heavi
er weights downward to 98.25; few
good feeder plga 910.75 a 11.00.
Sheep 100, lambs steady; common
medium wooled lambs $9 00 10.60;
good-choice 911.75; carloads quot
able 913.35; tat ewes salable 95.60
6.00. Routh San Franc!co
South San Francisco. Feb. 8. (IP)
(Fed. -8Ute Mtct. News) -Cattle 60.
Largely nominal; few head medium
steers 91100-60; about half load
1.026 lb. range cows 98.60. Monday:
steers steady to weak. 7 loads 913 .25
13.25; fed heifers 911.00-50; canners
and cutters mostly 95.50 6.75; light
sausage bulls 97.508.50. Calves:
ratable none. Nominal; good to cfcoloe
vealers quoted 9 1 3.00 1 1 3.00.
Hogs 450. Around 20-25 higher; 4
decks good to choice 165-235 lb. bar
rows and gilts 913.10-15; most good
sows 910.00-25.
Sheep 450. Steady: 3 decks choice
85 lb. lambs 911.75. carrying 8
months' wool growth: medium to
choice ewes quoted 96.00 a 7.00.
Chiraeo
Chlcato. Feb. 3. (JPMUSDA)
Hogs 23.000; moderately active, steady
to 10 lower: top 913.40.
Sheep 6.000: practically no early
sales fat lambs; bidding around 35
lower or 9 1 3 00 down on good to
choice native and fed range lambs.
Cattle 8.000, calves 1,000; good And
choice yearlings and choice weighty
steers strong: all others slow, steady;
largely $11.00.313.75 trade.
Portland Produce
Portland, Ore, Feb. 3. (IP) Pota
toes, old white, locals. $2 60 per cen
tal; Deschutes perns. $3.90-3 cental;
Yakima. No. 1. gems. $250 cental;
Klamath $2.90-3.16 cental; Idaho
gems, $2.86-3.26 cental.
Other produce unchanged.
Portland Wheat
Portland, Ore., b. 8. '!Pt Grain:
Wheat: Open H!h Low Cloae
May 1.0S 105 1 05 1.08
Cash grain: oats, barley and corn
unquoted. No. 1 flax $2.20.
Cah wheel (bid): aolt white
$1,021: sort whit excluding rex
1.031,: white club $105i,; western
red $103.
Hard red winter: ordinary $l.024;
10 pet. $1.00; 11 pet. $1.13; 13 pet.
$1.17.
Hard whlw-baart: 10 pet. $1.17; 11
pet. $1.33; 13 pet. $137.
Today'a car receipt: wheat IB:
barley 3; flour 3; corn 4; oata 1; hay
8: mlllleed 1: flaxaeed 1.
Chicago Wheat
Chlcajo, Feb. 8. Pi Wheat:
Open Hlfth Low ClOM
W7 1.29'i l-W'i 1 39 1-29H
July 130S 1.30 131
fVpt. 131 132S 1-3'H 132t
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for Schilling Coffee ii wailing 10
bring delicious, bracing good
tftCtUtll.
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Wall St. Report
New York, Feb. 3
Stocks again took the offensive
in a mild and restricted way
today and assorted market lead
ers managed to regain some of
the ground lost last week.
It was hardly a runaway
sortie although transfers of ap
proximately 400.000 shares
were considerably in excess of
yesterday's lowest turnover
since last June.
Today's closing prices for M se-
lected eto-s follow
Al. Chcm. as Iy
Am. Can ,,,
A. T. T.
Anaconda
Atch. T. 8. T
Bcndlx Aria.
Beth. Steel
Caterpillar Tract.
Chrysler
CurtlM-Wright
Douglas AcXt. ,
DiiPont
..1894
- 3
.139
- 17S
- 84-4
. 35
- 64
- 99
48H
- a
.. 3
-.137
- 37S
88
- 834
60S
87
- 84S
38H
69Vi
- 38
- 40
8
13
- 4
- 31H
- 40 H
4S
66
81H
- 114
684
Gen. Elec.
Gen. Poods
Oen. Mot.
Int. Harvest
Johns-Man.
Kennecott
Monty Ward
No. Amn. Av'n
North Amer. -Penney
J. C.)
Penna. R. R,
Phillips Pet
Radio
Sou. Pac. .
8td. Brands
St. Oil Cal. ,
St. Oil N. J. .
Trans. Amer. .
Union Carb.
Unit. Aircraft
United Airline
U. S. Steel
San Franrttro Butter
San Pranclaco. Feb. 3. OPl-(USDA)
Butter. 93 score 36c; fll-SAlc; 90
36c; 89-34 Uc.
Sacramento, Feb. 8- (IP) Churn
lng cream butterf at : first grade
41 Vic; second grade 890.
Pear Market
Yesterday
Chicago. Feb. a. (P)-(C8DA)
Pears: 0 cars on track: S Oregon. 3
Washington arrived: Oregon Anjous
294 boxes extra fancy 3 83-3.80, st
era,7e S3.82: 448 botes fancy $3.30
3 65. average 2.5: Boaca. S94 boxes
U. 8. No. 1. S.85-1SO, average S1.15;
338 boxea fancy, $85-1.60, average
He York. Feb. . (ff)-(USDA)
Pears: 24 cars err ed: 1 California.
15 Oregon, 6 Washington unloaded:
28 on track; Oregon Anjous 241S
boxea extra fancj, S3.05-S.18, aver
age $2.86; 1990 boxea fancy. $1.05
2.75, average $2.30; 1385 boxes extra
fancy. $3.10-3.75. average $3.33: 720
boxea fancy, $1.90-2.40, few $3.80, av.
erage $3.09; Cornice, 390 boxea extra
fancy. $3.10-3.85. average $3.51: 3980
boxea fancy, $1.70-3 45, average, $3.12;
Boaca, 980 boxea fancy, 81.35-1.50, av
erage $1.48: 1735 boxea U. 8. No. 1,
$135-295, average $14: 240 boxea
U. 8. No. 3. $1.60-2 68. average $1.87:
Kellla, 100 boxea U. 8. No. 1, $1 80
1.85, average $1.71.
Frank Rows Eligible
For ROTC in Spring
Eugene, Feb. 3. (IP) Frank
A. Rowe, Medford, will be one
of four University of Oregon
students eligible to receive an
R.O.T.C. commission at the end
of the school year through a
war department order lowering
the minimum officer age from
21 to 18 years, Col. R. M. Lyon
said today.
Frank A. Rowe, Jr., Is the
son of Frank A. Rowe, Hotel
Grand. The latter Is a member
of the milk control board for
southern Oregon.
FINGER FOR MARINES
Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 3. P)
Sebastian B. Boring, Jr., 22,
an Akron university athlete,
sought to enlist in the marine
corps four weekaago, but was
rejected because of a crooked
middle finger. Yesterday he re
applied and was accepted. Bor
ing had a surgeon amputate the
finger.
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IE QUOTA CUT
FIFTY PER CENT
February Allowance Includes
40 Passenger Tires, 34
Tubes 78 Truck Tires.
February quota of tires and
tubes for Jackson county is
about half that of January, the
rationing board stated today.
The February quota is 40 pas
senger lire and 34 tubes and 78
truck tires and 132 tubes, the
board said. The totals are divid
ed as follows: 32 rjassencor tires
and 27 tubes and 63 truck tires i
and 106 tubes for the Medford
or north half of the county; 8
passenger tires and 7 tubes and
15 truck tires and 26 tubes for
the Ashland or south half. Ash
land has a sub-board for ration
ing. The board here announced the
following allotments for the
past week:
Truck tires and tubes Robert
D. Chamberlain, Trail, 4 tires, 4
tubes; Lester C. Gordon, 724 Cra
ter Lake avenue, 2 tires, 2 tubes;
F. E. Samson Co., 4th and Front
streets, 5 tires, 5 tubes; Clarence
C. Ingram, 1120 Niantic street, 1
tire; Mabel Herndon, route 4, box
67, 1 tire; Gilman P. Stauffer.
route 4, 3 tires. 2 tubes; McGraw
& Collins Lumber Co.. North Fir
street, 4 tires, 3 tubes; Lost River
Dairy, North Riverside avenue,
2 tires, 1 tube; Fred J. McPhcr
son. Shady Cove, 2 tires, 1 tube;
Medford Fuel Co., 1122 North
Central avenue, 1 tube; Percy D.
Lofland, Central Point. 2 tires.
Passenger Albert Young,
Route 2, Box 23 I B, 2 tires, 2
tubes; and Jesse Walker, Sams
Valley, 2 tires, 2 tubes.
Obsolete Edmund A. Peile,
Eagle Point, 2 tires, 1 tube; J. D.
Brown, Route 1, Box 470, 1 tire;
J. K. Scrivner, Phoenix, 1 tire;
Medford Meat Co., 1 tire, 1 tube;
John Leadon, Shady Cove, 1 tire.
1 tube; Crescent Pacific Mining
" Don 't Know Much About
Priorities and Those .
Things, Mrs. Murphy,
But I Do Know That You
Can Still Get a Fine
QCERTIFIED PERFORMANCE
Or an Automatic Gas Water
Co., 1308 West Main street. 1
tube: Seldon N. Hill, Central
Point, 2 tires, 1 tube; Ray L.
Bowen, Beagle, 2 tubes; Mrs. C.
R. Moore, Lake Creek, 1 tire:
and Leonard A. Warren, Jackson
ville, I tires, 2 tubes.
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Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 3. W
Wilh employers reporting
back-to-work move under way,
idle welders of the Puget sound
area announced today they
would pursue an undisclosed
new course in their rebellion
against compulsory membership
in AFL unions.
The change in tactics, which
Shelly Knutson, new welders'
leader at Seattle said he could
not reveal yet, followed a sting
ing indictment by war leaders of
the welders' walkout In Seattle
and Tacoma shipyards,
EGYPT FACES INVASION
Carol, Egypt, Feb. 3. 4JP)
Egypt is threatened by invasion.
Swarms of locusts have been
seen in the vicinity of the Red
sea and authorities have appeal
ed to the British and Egyptian
air forces to cooperate in re
porting any of the Insects over
Egyptian territory.
W. U. REGISTRY LOWER
Salem, Feb. 3. JP) First
day registrations yesterday for
Willamette university's second
semester totaled 71S, a decrease
of 94 from the same day last
year. Many students are be
lieved to have quit school to
enter the army.
ON SALEM COUNCIL
Salem, Feb. 3. JP) Howard
Maple, buiiness manager of the
Salem baseball club and basket
ball coach at Willamette uni
versity, last night was elected
by the Salem city council as
alderman to succeed Bert Ford,
who resigned to accept a gov
ernment job.
"Kindly save this for war ef
fort" is being imprinted on all
paperboard containers manu
factured in Canada.
BATAN DEFENDERS
BEAT OFF FRESH
JAP ONSLAUGHTS
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ed barges, some burning, others
adrift, were found along the
coast.
High-reaching flames, destruc
tion and some casualties were re
ported in Singapore as Japanese
bombers pounded the city with
its 750 000 population and outly
ing sections.
Singapore's big defense guns,
ranged along the mile-wide Jo
hore strait, thundered intermit
tently above the scream o! air
raid sirens at Japanese troops in
the jungles on the onnosite ahnrr
of the Malay peninsula.
RAF scouting planes reporter
a heavy movement of Japanese
troops southward, indicating tha
the Invaders were massing in full
strength on the lower tip of the
peninsula before launching a di
rect assault on the $400,000,000
island fortress.
With American flvln? fner
bombers now helping in the de
fense of Singapore, smashing at
Japanese airfields on the Malay
peninsula, the atmosphere in the
beleaguered island citadel was
lar irom pessimistic.
Strike at Java
Japanese warplanes struck for
the first time at Java, heart of
the Dutch East Indies, raiding
the big Soerabaja naval base.
Java is the headquarters of
Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell's
supreme united nations com
mand in the far Pacific.
Besides attacking Soerabaja,
the Indies' chief naval base, a
formation of 26 Japanese bomb
ers, strongly escorted by fighters,
also pounded towns in eastern
Java in what may have been the
prelude to an Invasion drive. A
communique reported "consider
able damage" and casualties.
Meanwhile, General Wavell's
headquarters announced heavy
new blows Inflicted on th bat
tered Japanese Invasion armada
in Macassar strait, between
Heater'
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with automatic telf-lighting top burners, oven
thermostat, and genuine SMOKELESS broiler
Automatic GAS water heater too the kind
that assure plenty of instant hot water all
you can usel Yes, your GAS company still ha
a full stock of both ranges and automatic wa
ter heaters. LIBERAL TERMS and GENER
OUS ALLOWANCE on your old equipment,
tool"
More People Cook With Gat
Than Any Other Fuel!
"The Choice of Experience91
Dutch East Borneo and Celebes
island.
United States warplanes twice)
attacked the enemy convoy yes
terday off Baik Papan, Gen.
Wavell's command reported,
sinking two transports and prob
ably another.
Combined Dutch and United
States air and naval attacks are
now credited with sinking a
total of 46 ships In the shark-infested
Macassar strait.
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