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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1942. GYPSY OPERETTA World War Tanks To Be Reborn i-- :. 7T T AT CENTRAL PT. Open Friday and Saturday Evenings Until 8:30 (Ocmtlnueci from Page On) diers as they would like to have their own com treated. Solve Own Problems Lleut.-Col. Furch cautioned Jackson county citizens that "it Is the policy of the war depart ment to let each community straighten out Its problems of prices, rents, et cetera, but that the war department can and will step In and control such things if it Is forced to do so." Capt. Joseph P. Carson, U. S engineers, commander of the Oregon State American Legion, delivered a ringing pledge in behalf of the Legion that "we are going to emergo victorious, and never again will we let our selves become so weak that a barbarous and treacherous foe will attack us." Frank Hull, coordinator of the Jackson County Civilian War Council, acted as master of ceremonies and introduced Mayor Deuel, who said, "In this life and death struggle our na tion is in, nothing counts except victory." The mayor expressed his deepest appreciation to all who participated In the army day celebration. Ashland Dedicated Mayor Thornton Wiley of Ashland, introduced by Mayor Deuel, pledged "our community to be wholeheartedly behind America's armed forces In this war, and never was there a day when we all must dedicate our selves so completely to emerg ing victorious In the bitter struggle ahead." Also Introduced were MaJ. Bean, J. C. Boyle, chairman, Jackson County Civilian War council; W. A. Gates, Jackson county chairman, war stamps and bonds sales; R. G. Fowler, chairman Jackson county sal vage committee and Lieut. Rich ard Roberts of the U. S. navy. Mr. Hull personally thanked the many county air raid ob servers "who are giving of their time and effort every day, and every hour night and day week in and week out, all the time without pay" for their spirit of cooperation and sacri fice. Bombs Demonstrated Under the direction of Fire Chief Roy Elliott, a demonstra tion of the methods of control ling magnesium Incendiary bombs was given after the bombs were placed In a frame structure In front of the grand stand. Capt. S. M. Tuttle, command er of the air raid control center, announced the first aid demon strations given by three teams to victims supposedly Injured by bombs. Among the many local or ganizations participating In the parade was Company A of the First Battalion, First Regiment, Oregon State Guard, making their first public appearance since replacing the Oregon Na tional Guard as the official de fense unit for Mcdford. Prcfana Transient Assessed $10 Fine E'.mer S. Jones, transient, charged with disorderly con duct was fined $10 and costs In Justice court yesterday. Jones, upon a complaint signed by his wife, allegedly used profane language while intoxicated In a local hotel. Clyde S Evans of Sacramen to was fined $14 50 for having no PUC permit for his auto and $7 for having an overwldth load on his truck. Both fines carried 4.50 costs. For failure to stop at stop sign Kenneth L. Kindred, Med ford, was fined $1 and costs. Frank Clironinger was assessed $1.50 and costs for driving an uto with improper lights. Retail Sales Tax Seen Last Resort Washington, April 7. (P) Rep. Treadway (H.-Mass.) told the house today he had come to believe that congress might have to resort to a general re tail sales tax In order to raise the $7,000,000,000 in new rev enue President Roosevelt has re quested. Month-long hearings by the ways and mei.ns committee, he said, have produced witnesses who have opposed almost every recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury Morgcnthau to find the money. Salem Will Hire Air Raid Chief Salem, April 7 UT) The Sa lem city council approved last n:cht a $350 expenditure to pay a full-time air raid precautions supervisor for two months, and tentatively approved a proposed ordinance to forbid the sale of fireworks for the duration of the war. Cloalng time In Claeairied Ada a. m. Too lal to CUeelle 12 M B. B. -vrr 1 These tanks, built during the war industries. They are part of army by a Baltimore scrap dealer. Marvin T. Warlick, Bourbon Candidate, Is Medford Visitor Marvin T. Warlick of Eugene, Democratic candidate for con gress from the newly created fourth Oregon district, was a visitor In Mcdford yesterday and last night and attended the American Legion meeting. Warlick, whose slogan is "a practical business man to hardle the business of a busy practical people," lists the following four planks In his platform: (1) Demand an end to excess profits and strikes: (2) no party politics at the expense of our country; (3) support the presi dent; do something to win the peace, and (4) think of the next generation and not of the next election. Warlick, who expressed his pleasure at the reception he received here, left for the north this morning. LIVESTOCK Portland Portland. April 1iP)- (USD A ) Cattle 100; calvea 88; market steady; odd medium-good beef ateera 11.7ft; fed steers Monday til. 00 9 12.40; few choice nelfers today 8.00(99.00; bet beef heifers Monday $11.60: canner and cutter eowa mostly .3.70 7.00; shelly cows $5.00 down to $4.00: fat dairy type cowa $7.506 00: medium to fairly good beef eowa $8.50rD2S; medium-good bulls $9.00 and $10.00; strictly good beef bulls quotable $10 50; (food -choice venlrra ateady at $13.00t 10.00; odd head $10 00; com mon vealers down to $9.00. Hogs 300; market slow, mostly 10- 15 cents betow Monday's best time; good-choice 170-310 lb. weight $14 00-lft; 230-3R0 lbs. $13 00-00; light llghU $ia.70t133fl; good 300-660 lb owe $1000All.OO; good-choice feed er pigs $12 0013 00. Sheep 100; market steady with Monday's weak to 33 cents lower close; few good weighty lambs $11 00; good shorn yearlings $8 00; older wethers $4 500 00; good wooled ewes $8 00; shorn ewes $3 50 down; best fed wooled lambs Monday $11.23. Chicago Chicago, April 7 (JPMUBDA, Hogs 17.500; 10-13 higher than Mon day's average on all weights snd sows; good and choice 1R0-360 lb. $14 00-30: top $14 35; 160-180 lb. $13 05 and $14 15; good 400-000 lb. sows $13.70 and $14 10. Cattle 8 000; calves 1,500; top $16 40 psid for 1.713 lb. averages; next high est prices $16 33; bent yearling $10 75; largely $11.7414 75 steer and yearling grade; heifers, good to choice offerings $14 00; cutters $8 SO down: moat beef cows $9 00, 10 30: weighty sausage bull offerings to $10 60; veal era $14 00 down; stock cattle firm at $10 7013 50. Sheep 13.000; practically no early action on fat lambs; some Interests blddin $13 10 on good and choice offerings held at $13 50 and better. Renin San Fmnrlem South San Francleco. April 7 (V (Ped.-Stata Mkt. Newel Cattle 63 largely nominal: rowa ss 00; medium to good bulls 99 30 a 10 so. Monday: About dorrn loada ateera SI 1.73 and 12 73, ateady. Civet: salable 23. Nom inal: good to choir realera quoted 12 5013 50; package 300 lb. med ium calvea $1100. Hoga 400. AcUre. fully 33 higher: bulk good and choice 1B3-338 lb. bar rowa and gllta S13 00, new recent huh. good sows 312 00. Sheep none. Nominal: good to choice aprlng lambe quotable gtl.50 and 312 00. Portland Produce Portland. Ore.. April 7 ,n But ter Print. A grade. 40o In parch ment wrappera, 41 e In cartona; B grade. 40c In parchment wrapper.. 41 e In caruma. Other produce unchanged. Portland Wheat Portland, April 7 Oratn: Wheat: Open Hlsh low cioe May JW , , Sh) Cash grain: oats No. 3-38 lb. whit first World War. are to be reduced to scrap for use In current a group of 178 at Fort George Meade, Md., purchased from the $40.50; barley Wo. 1-46 lb. b.w. $30-50; corn unquoted; No. 1 flai $2.68'. Cash wheat (bid): soft white $1.00; uft white excluding rex $103; white club $1.03; western red $1.03. Hard red winter: ordinary 08c; 10 pet. 91.01 11 pet. $1-07; 13 pet. 1.11. Hard white baart: 10 pet. 1.10: 11 pet. 1.10; 13 pet. $1,204. Today's car receipts: wheat 41; flour 4; corn 7; hay 1; mUlfeed. 1. Chicago Wheat Chicago, April lip) Wheat : Open High Low CloM Mar July Sept. 1.23V. 1.33 1.25 1.28 1.25H 1.25 1.27 1.28'j 1.27 1.27 ',4 San Franrl.ro Butler Ban Francisco. April 7 P)-(C8DA) Butter 32 acore 3714c; 31-37c; B0-37C; 89-300. Sacramento, April 7 ift Churn ing cream butterfat; tint grade 41c; second grade 390. Wall St. Report New York, April 7 P) An assortment of specialties managed to keep Monday's stock market rally going today but many leaders showed a no table lack of follow-through stamina. Dealings were around 300, 000 shares. Today's cloalng prices for 14 se lected atocka follow; Al. Chem. & Dje unqtd Am. Can 'J A. T. & T. 118 Anaconda unqtd Atch. T. tt S. P. 37 '4 Brndtl Avis. 35 Beth. Steel BB1. Caterpillar Tract. . 3"t Chrysler M 8-1 Curtlm-WrlRht 7 Douglas Aclt. 61 DuPont 113 Oen. Elec. 24 Gen. Pooda 29 Orn. Mot. 34 Int. Harvest . 43 . 60 . 32 . 26 , 12 Johns-Man. Kennecott Monty Ward No. Amn. Av'n North Amer. Penney J. C.) . Penna. R. R. Phtlllpa Pet Radio .. 7 .unqtd 21 33 - 2 .123, S 19 34 4 60 81 W Sou. Pao. Std. Brands St. Oil Cal. St. Oil N. J. Trana. Amer. Union Carb. Unit. Aircraft United Airline U. 8. Steel Pear Market Yesterday Chicago. April 8 vV(U8DAI Peara: 3 care on track: 1 Oregon ar rived; three dlrerted: Oregon Anjoua. 720 boiea fancy 32.30-8.18, average 3 06. New York. April -(USDAI-Peara: 3 care on track, 13 arrived: California 1. Oretton 1, Washington 1 unloaded; Oregon Anloua 3378 boiea t ettra fancy 32 70-3 63. average 33 02; 2603 boxes fancy 82 30-3 10. average 3 70; 80 boiea extra fancy 32 30 3 80. average 82 69: 463 boxee fancy 3 40-3 SO. average 32 47; Exeter Burrrea. 730 boiea U. S. No. 1. 8183 3 30. average 32 16: Nrllra. 103 boxee U. S. No. 1. 32 83-3 03. average 83 93: 120 boxes fancy 82 73-3 S3, average 33 , average 32 83: Anjoua, 130 half boxee extra fancy 31 40-1 90, av erage 31-77. 1 TRUSTEE RESIGNS Snlem, April 7. (API Paul B. Wallace resigned yesterday as head of the Willamette Uni versity board of trustees, and a successor will be elected in June. Wallace, a Salem automobile dealer, said he was forced to re sign because of 111 health. rtKIl Of TIMNK4 We with to exprvna our alncere thank, to our many friend, for their .mtwtnr and klndnta. during our rereiit berr.vemfnt AI.O for the beautiful (Urr.. Mrs. BM:e B !.. TiMTiniy and Oarretl Dewe, Ida . May Joimeua. Ballots Mailed for Election of 8 New Chamber Directors Ballots were being mailed to day to all members of the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce for the election of eight new directors for the 1942-43 year. The ballot box is located in the chamber building and all must be deposited by noon Wednesday, April 15. Seventeen candidates for the eight new directors posts were named In the preliminary elec tion which closed at noon yes terday, and from this list the new directors will be chosen. There are nine holdover diiec- tors whose terms do not expire. Named in the preliminary election were O. M. Anderson, Charles S. Adair, Lee P. Bishop. C. B. Collins, Charles Clay, C. C. Furnas, George Frey, W. A. Gates, B. E. Harder, Floyd Hart, Glenn L. Jackson, Karl L. Ja nouch, D. D. Kay, H. B. Murphy, A. C. Pierce, Eugene Thornd'ke and Capt. S. M. Tuttle. ANII-ClflCT Vain males, smarting under the War Production board's edict banning cuffs on pants, have at tempted to circumvent the wool conservation measure by buying pants too long and taking them to a tailor to be finished with cuffs, the board has discovered. Although custom tailors and made-to-measure clothiers may finish suits previously ordered with cuffs and other furbelows, until May 30, it is unlawful for anyone to put cuffs on pants purchased from ready-to-wear stock, according to local Inter pretations of the WPB orders. Construct Mill Pond . For Plywood Plant Work of constructing a mill pond Is now underway at the plywood plant of the Timber Products company, under con struction near the mill. The work of installing a "barker" is also underway. The "barker" strips the bark from logs. Manager Floyd H. Hart said completion of the plant was indefinite due to delay In re ceiving machinery and equip ment ana lacK ol labor. j China and Vatican Will Swap Envoys Chunking. April 7 (fl An exchange of diplomatic repre sentatives between China and the Vatican has been arranged, A government spokesman an nounced today. He said the Chinese govern ment soon would send an en voy as yet undesignated to the Holy See. (A similar exchange was ar ranged recently between Tokyo and the Vatican.) BANK CALL Washington. April 7 (PV The comptroller of the currency today Issued a rail for a state ment of the condition of all na tional banks at the close of business Saturday, April 4. THEATER ROBBED Portland, April 7. .V) A poorly dressed patron forced his way into the balcony office of the Music Box theatre last night snd robbed Kenneth W. Hughes, manager, of $200 from the office safe. Hughes told detectives the man had a revolver and forced Hughes and Frances Carlon. an usher, to lie on the floor while he robbed the open safe. Central Point, April T pl.) "White Gypsy," an operetta In two acts, will be presented by students of Central Point grade school Thursday at 8 p. m. The operetta is a thrilling tale of the adventures of a white princess among the Gypsies of the forest. The entire produc tion is colorful, highly humorous and abounding in melodies and characterizations true to Gypsy tradition. The following students -are taking leading parts: Jean Kin caid, princess; Delbert Royer, Gypsy prince; Lois Ann Fields, Romany Rose; Ruth Keizur, Jola; Clifford Luther, Zingan: Ted Anderson, Miklo; Jack Mil hoan, Maffeo; Jimmy Anders, Gyro king; Tom Col ley, Gypsy king; Helen Blumenstein, Guinn; Barbara Anders, Carmen. These are assisted by a chorus of 40 voices. Miss Leah Etta Evans Is di recting the presentation with the aid of Miss Ruth Foster as dance instructor. In addition to the operetta which is chiefly an upper grade project, the lower grade children and teachers have prepared sev eral short preparatory numbers for the program. The primary rhythm band will make its first appearance of the year in inter pretations of "March Winds" and "Amaryllis." A third and fourth grade chorus will sing several songs. The public is cordially invited to attend. The program will be held in the Central Point High school gymnasium. SETH BDlIiSJR. Portland, April 7. (P) Mar ine corps enlistments reported here today included Seth M. Bullis, Jr., Medford. Bullis, the son of Seth M. Bui lis, IS Florence street, has been employed by the state police at Roseburg. Mrs. Seth Bullis, Jr., has taken up her duties at the local Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, having been transferred here from Roseburg. She is residing at the Bullis home. George Harold Best Listed Among Lost George Harold Best, son of Marie Best of Ashland and a former Medford youth, presum ably was lost in the sinking of the U. S. Aircraft-Tender La:ig ley recently according to a tele gram received by his mother from the navy department. George, who attended Wash ington grade school in Medford and has many friends here, enlisted in the navy in June of 1939 and was a coxswain aboard the Langley, his mother said. The navy department telegram informed Mrs. Best that her son was among those missing from the Langley. 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Budget priced at MAIN FLOOR F01 DEFENSE DU I I srVCI STA.TM aWttaJMI To see these new Doris Dodsoa Jr. Frocks are to love them. Here they are in adorable 9 to 17 year styles of Bamberg sheers, dainty piques and cool spun rayons. One and two piece styles, featuring lovely summer prints and solid tones. Some of these new Dodsons hava matching or contrasting jackets. The frock at the left is of striped Erika Bayon Sheer. NEW SUITS Junior and Regular Sizes Suit Yourself this Spring and Summer with one of our Junior or Regular siied models. New ar rivals in plaids, pastels and of course navy blue are now on display in the Suit Shop on the sec ond floor. Another thing about these smart suits worth considering, they are 100 wool. 249.5to$299.5 NEW COATS The Coat Shop calls your attention to these new coats at $19.95 to 129.95. New wool tweeds, plaids, twills and fleeces in fashionable navy blue and pastels. Coats in the popular fitted and cas ual boxy types. Regular and Junior sites. Each nicely lined with long wearing rayon taffeta or niceiy unaa wun long N crepe. XT Beldings Rayon Shantung Shantungs loom high in the Spring and Sum mer fabric picture. Here at $1.00 per yard are Beldings, Rayon Shantungs in lolid color tones for suits and blouses, as well as coin dots and monotone florals of large design. A beau tiful material that always looks fresh and cool. Full 39 in. wide. Butterick, Vogue and Simplicity Patterns Special 4 Regular 55 Wonders heen in the 700-yard Skeins for In 49c 39 ART DEPT. BALCONY TiiitiAAilht M''.IJ lot Jmo wearing rayon xaxieia or Sewing at home comes under the heading of national war effort these days. So sew with will this Spring. yd. Sale! m "noney-saving pricel Regular 49c Petite Wondersheeni 700 - yard Skeini