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PAGE THREE Southern California Has Fourth Blackout; O Busses Haul Soldiers Los Angeles. May 25 For the fourth time since the United States entered the war southern California had a black out last night. The army fourth Interceptor command gave the warning and cities and towns in Los Angeles and Orange coun ties were In darkness for 43 minutes. The army order affected an area 50 miles north and SO miles south of Los Angeles and about 70 miles inland. The all clear signal sounded at 9:39 p.m. The military said the black out was ordered because of "an unidentified flight of planes" that later proved to be friendly. Lights were not extinguished promptly In some sections of Los Angeles and shortly before the blackout signal was flashed fire broke out in an oil refin ery In Signal Hill. Firemen said they believed it started from a gas main leak. An air raid warden. John H. Arnold, 57, of South Gate, was killed when struck by a hit-and-run driver he tried to flag down. Earlier yesterday the army asked three bus lines to supply busses for a troop movement. The request was met promptly, although it disrupted complete ly the schedules of the three Los Angeles and San Diego transportation concerns. HOW THEY? STAND (By the Associated Press) Pacific Coast W. Pet. .630 .553 I Los Angeles. 29 17 Sacramento .28 21 San Diego 28 24 .538 Seattle 23 22 Oakland 24 24 San Francisco 20 23 Hollywood 23 30 Portland 18 30 .532 .500 .444 .434 .375 American New York Cleveland Detroit Boston St. Louis.... Philadelphia Washington Chicago 23 ..22 ..22 .18 ..17 -17 14 -13 10 14 18 18 21 23 21 23 .697 .611 .550 .529 .447 .425 .400 .361 National Brooklyn 26 Boston 21 St. Louis 19 Pittsburgh 19 New York 18 11 17 17 20 20 19 20 26 .703 .553 .528 .487 .474 Cincinnati J Chicago Philadelphia -.17 .17 .13 .472 .459 .333 in other words ty JOHN CtNTON I'm handy around the house. I cin fix the refrig erator so that it takes a serv ice man only half a day to repair the damage. I do handy electric wiring that often lasts until the fire department arrives. Bv? whaneve I raise the hooel f the H I pa no-Plymouth, I sort f gfve itpl I knew there ere nHliMi mysterious ttilngi ensler there that era probably wearing wt or Madlng atwstmnt Svf me... I can't tell whlchl But then, I don't have to. on account of the Union Minute Men do it for me. And they'll do ft for you, too, if you Just utter the limple words, "Stop-Wear! Lubriqe tkm." Per tfeeWeer la ne rtftMry "grease lob." Per frem It. Par ne thine. It 'a fuerenteetf In writing 1000 ml lea against faulty chassis tverlcerlen. te Mm yea sten't have te fceeaj track ef year mileage, the Mitt ate Men rfe It far yea aran the 9000 an SOOO mile checkwae ere automatical hjr called te your attention e e And even though they use fac tory specification!, 9 different lubricants, and whole bench full of special tools, the big thing to me ts-they check all the mysterious things that worry me-fan beltt, battery cablei end terminals, spark plugs, wheel bearings, and that tort of thing. e Ak L tmmr " bw ajtjjpl l" one worry- t mm4 I It he Union Mlnete Mow give year ear tteevWeer UerlootteA, too. Par me Mtavt Mae give yea '! Ii The Specter that follows U. S. Ship Losses Discount Hope of Early End to War This daily feature, conducted by Dewltt MacKenzie, Wide World war analyst, is being written in his absence for a fort night by Fred Vanderschmidt. i The main reason that talk about a short war has a hollow ring is because ot tne gravity of the situation at sea, all around our own shores, where the axis submarines, with sinis ter exultancy, are still sinking many American ships. We cannot win the war with out fighting it many thousands of miles away; we cannot fight it without the ships to carry men, tanks, guns, supplies and some of the planes. Sinkings Faster Than Expected In great measure these ships, for both our allies and our selves, must come from the United States, and we are build ing them on a scale never known before. But the axis is also sinking the ships we al ready have in a fashion we were hardly prepared to expect. Americans know this Is true; it is making some important changes in their lives, and will make a great many more. For various reasons, however, they are not getting enough informa tion to realize the effect the present axis submarine cam paign is having on the day-today fighting on every front, from Kharkov to free China, and on the long-range prepara tion of the great offensives which must win the war for the united nations. The fact that a ship or ships are sunk, the number of men lost or missing, the number of survivors, are announced from day to day, but very little more. Official announcements for last week, for instance, said 19 U. S and allied ships were sunk on our side of the Atlan tic, In the Caribbean and in the Gulf of Mexico, with 286 dead or missing and 145 survivors. These are serious figures, but they are not very graphic; they do not convey to the reader very much of what the week's toll meant in fighting power lost and fighting time stolen. Boastful Claims Made Br Enemy To tell those things, the au thorities feci, would give infor mation to the- enemy which might aid him. Meanwhile, the enemy is grinding out boastful figures on the tonnages of U. S. and allied ships sunk by sub marines, and sending out sly fishing expeditions in the form of claims to the sinking of large U. S. warships. These claims are not answered for the same reason: lest the enemies be told something he does not know. Nobody has yet settled this problem; the British, with two years more of war and sea dis aster than we have had, have finally abandoned altogether the reporting of merchant ship sinkings at regular periods. LADIES PUN SLOGAN Boise. Idaho (U.RJ Members of the Boise Red Cross knitting club have adopted as a slogan for the duration: "Purl Harder." Cm Mail mount warn aim. him unless you give to CALENDAR Monday 6:30 p. m. Medford Grade Teachers, annual banquet, St. Mark's parish hall. 8:00 p. m. Pro America, home Mrs. C. M. Hurd, 906 West Main street. Honoring Mrs. Li. Li. Hfggs, state president. Tuesday 12:30 p. m. Executive com mittee of Adult Missionary soc iety of First Christian church, recreational hall. Luncheon. 1:00 p. m. Executive meet ing of W.S.C.S. at Methodist church, ladies parlor. 2:00 p. m. Baptist ladies auxiliary, .home Mrs. W. A. Dawes, 60 Ross Court. 2:00 p. m. Homecoming of W.S.C.S., of First Methodist church at church. 7:00 p. m. Birthday dinner for Ladies auxiliary of F.O.E. To honor members having birthdays during March, April. May. Eagles hall. Others bring salads. 7:30 p. m. Special Service Court of Awards for Girl Scouts, court house auditorium. 7:30 p. m. Medford Dupli cate Bridge club, Medford hotel 7:30 p. m. Study Groups of She's Working for the Navy rv Among the many women employed at the Mare Island. Calif., navy yard In defense work Is Bobbie Whiting. Here she Is busy at work on milling machine In the navy jazd machine shop. , Army Emergency Relief League of Women Voters, home Mrs. Justin Smith, 21 Geneva street. 8:00 p. m. D.A.V. auxiliary, Girls' Community clubhouse. 8:00 p. m. Nevita chapter. No. 93, O.E.S., Central Point Masonic hall. PASSES, AGED 65 Gertrude Bernum Doran, 65 passed away at a local hospital at 1:40 p. m. Sunday after a brief illness. Mrs. Doran was born at Wa terloo, Iowa, October 23, 1876 and moved to Minnesota with her parents when she was 18 years of age. She was united in marriage to Daniel Doran at Minneapolis, Minn., May 3, 1899. They lived in the east until 1905 when they moved to eastern Oregon. In 1920 they came to southern Oregon. Dur Ing their long residence in Med' ford they lived at 627 North Central avenue. Mrs. Doran was a fine Chris tian mother and wife and will be missed by a host of friends. Besides her husband, she is sur vived by one daughter, Mrs George McClung of Medford, two sons, Howard F. Doran of Redding, Calif., and Raymond D. Doran of Table Rock Or chard, one sister, Mrs. Maud Compton of Medford, and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be con- ducted from Perl funeral home Tuesday at 2 p. m.. Rev. Burch officiating. Interment will take place In Siskiyou Memorial Park. 0 Townstnd Official Slafed for Talks At Club Meetings (Contributed) Charles W. Wetterman, na tional representative of the Townsend movement for the state of Oregon, is spending this entire week in Jackson county, speaking at the Talent Town send club on Tuesday; Club No. 5. Medford, at Kurtz Studio, on Wednesday; Ashland, on Thurs day, and ending up with a monster rally of all Townsend clubs at the Medford Townsend hall, 123V4 W. Main, on Friday evening There will be no business I The Victory Trains come first! Mayb you've been on an S. P. train recently and the train was late. Or maybe our freight shipment wasn't delivered as early as our normal service war ranted. The reason in your case was probably that trains of troops and equipment or freights carrying vital war materials were given precedence. For the "limiteds" and the "hot shot" freights are queens of the rails no longer. War trains Victory Trains come first 1 Not that we're using the war as an alibi for short comings. We're only human and we do make errors. But the armed forces and war industries must have first call upon transportation. Not only mutt troop trains be given the right of way, but also the many freight trains carrying materials and supplies must be handled with the same dispatch as the forces themselves, so guns, tanks, ammunition and planes may be available where needed. As Donald Nelson, head of the War Production Board, has said: "T bos boys em 't slop plants and tanks with their bar hands. They can't get uibm they ban to go without what it lakes to gel iber." Transportation It a vital factor in our war effort, and the railroads have the biggest part of this big transportation job. How are they doing? "In all the world no job is being better done today than by the American railroads,' says the Hon. Clarence F. Lea, Chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Among the railroads who share this basic trans portation task in national defense, none is more strategically situated than Southern Pacific, partic ularly with respect to the Pacific Coast. Take a look at the map of our lines and you'll see why. Conse quently, we have an extraordinary responsibility. Commendations we have received indicate we are meeting that responsibility. And when a general says "Good work" to us, we feel just the same as a soldier who gets the D.S.M. T PL meeting on Trlday as It Is the 5th Friday of the month. At these rallies a good time is al ways had, good program, good eats and a good dance to finish the evening. The ladies are ask ed to bring a basket lunch for a basket social on Friday eve ning. Everyone Is welcome at all Townsend gatherings. Mutt and Jeff Fort Ord, Calif. W.rTt Mont erey peninsula civilians take a second look when they see Priv ates Francis B. Zimmer, 27, and Abe Rothkowitz. 27, both of New York, together. Zimmer is 6 feet 9 Inches; Rotkowitz Is 5 feet 3 Inches. Both are in the same outfit and pal around to- gether. SOUTHERN PACIFIC tm si ln't 'not Uss tie Watt Ceatt u. W,-. The Friendly Southern Pacific 80 Miles Per Hour 'Pendleton Celebrates Brings $10 Penalty Glenn Howard, 50, of Route 3, Eagle Point, pleaded guilty to i violation cf the basic rule, and was fined $10 and costs by Justice of the Peace W. R. Cole man over the week-end. Howard, employed In the Greensprings district, travelled 80 miles per hour near the Jackson Hot Springs, the arrest ing officer informed the court. Two logging truck operators, charged with driving with over loads on the Crater Lake high way, were cited for appearance by weight inspectors. Cat Mail Trlbuna warn ada. It's taken t lot of locomotives and ears and men to do this first-class job for Uncle Sam. We've had to conserve equipment and manpower, and a number of passenger trains, some popular and profitable ones, have been discontinued for this reason, and to clear the tracks for war traffic. The public attitude In these cases and where regular passenger or freight service his been delayed has, for the most part, been friendly and understanding. We of Southern Pacific appreciate this. So thanks to all of yon I cfo war trail There it one factor in our present situation and our ability to do a good job in time of war that deserves some comment. In the ten years from 1932 to 1941, many of them years of depression and low earnings, we spent $145,000,000 for equipment additions and betterments to our properties. In the two years end ing with Pearl Harbor, we ordered over $64,000,000 worth of cars and locomotives. Any business man, whether he be a garage man, a grocer or a manufac turer, will admit that to go ahead borrowing and spending money for improvements when operat ing at a loss Involves difficult problems and takes courage. The tremendous sums we have spent for improvements and equipment now stand Southern Pacific and the Pacific Coast in good stead, when locomotives and cars and trackage are so important in the successful prosecution of the war. Tm fUJ thwy ipnt til tnyoMO The growing tide of traffic on Southern Pacific is fine evidence that our country's war production is in high gear. There will be still greater production and still greater increases in the load we must handle, particularly on the Pacific Coast, the springboard for our offensive in the Pacific. But ... the Victory Trains are rolling, and you may be sure we railroaders will do our very best to "keep 'em rolling.' We promise you that we will continue to do every thing in our power to give prompt, efficient and courteous service to our regular freight and pas senger customers. A.T. MERdER, President Southern Pacific Company ijo) Success of Doolitile Pendleton. May 25 (S The army air base here should be named Doolittle field in honor of Brig.-Gen. James H. Doolittle, who led 79 Pondleton-trained fliers on the April 18 bombing of Japan. Thnt sr.-Tfttlon was made by Lowell Stockman, Pendleton, Saturday nisht as a crowd of 1O.OU0 turned out In celebration of the raid. Indians from the UmatiUa reservation, many of whom have sons in the army, participated in a typical western parade. Osa Ma.ll Trlbuna waat ada. laldVlmmdimilmf fro-
