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PAGE TEN 1IEDF0RD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY. JUNE 11, 1942. LISTED AS CAUSE OF FLIERS DEATH Coroner's Jury Makes Offi cial Finding in Army Plane Disaster at Pilot Rock. A coroner'f Jury last night re turned findings that the crash of U. S. army photographic plane Into the side of Pilot Rock last January 6 caused the Instan taneous death of three army avi ators, whose bodies were dis covered near the shattered plane last Monday afternoon by George E. Miller of Ashland state forest patrol fire warden and Earl Hoadley, a member of the forest patrol's suppression crew. Official wording of the find lngs follows: "that First Lieuten ant Raymond Ansel Stockwell Technical Sergeant Randolph Jones and Technical Sergeant Paul W. Stone of the U. S. army air corps, while operating what Is known as a F-2 airplane on January 6, 1S42, came to their deaths on account of said air plane crashing into what Is known as Pilot Rock, approxi mately four miles east by trail of highway 99 at the summit of the Siskiyou mountains and about ltt miles north of the Oregon-California state line, said airplane crashing head-on into the rock about BO feet from me base at the northeasterly side of said rock, said plane being prac tically completely demolished and said aviators receiving crushed skulls and other injur ies from which they met Instant death while in transit from their home station at Gray field. Ft. Lewi?, Wash., to the Sacramen to, Cal., air depot while in the line of duty." Members of the coroner's Jury were Milton 11. Coulter, A. J. Hanby, Thomas Roseberry, A. G. Bishop, E. S. Hitzler and Walter W. Johnson. Testifying at the Inquest were Miller and Hoadley, who discov ered the wrecked plane while working on trail to Pilot Rock; Capt. Bert J. Staats of the state police and Master Sergeant Willie Daws of the army air corps here, who were among those investigating the discov ery and Dr. A. E. Merkel, coun ty Dhysician. The bodies will be shipped from the Conger funeral home tonight for burial in the home towns of the victims. Remains of Lieutenant Stockwell will be shipped to Spokane, Wash., Ser geant Jones' to Joplln, Mo., and Sgt. Stone's to Bayside, Tex. Prohibition Return 1 Urged by Methodist Bishop at Conclave Grand Rapids, Mich., June 11 (VP) Methodist I mop Edwin Holt Hughes, Washington, D. C. pleaded for a return of prohibi tion in a speech last night before the Michigan Methodist confer ence. "If we do not do something to stop the flow of liquor," Bishop Hughes said, "the Unit ed States in ten years will be come a nation of drunkards and the weakened wills that permit ted the return of liquor will let down the bars against other moral catastrophe." Bishop Hughes urged his fel low churchmen to "put the fear of God In the politicians of both parties who sidestep the liquor question." FAGS, TRAIN RIDES VOTES $500 GIFT Medford Roofers' Union, local 140, A.C.L., is going all the way In helping Uncle Sam finance the war effort. At a meeting last week, the union voted to make a direct donation of $500 toward purchase of a bomber. Earl Skeen is president of the local and Grant Taylor secre tary. Report of the gift to the gov ernment was made public by C. Y. Tengwald, chairman of the Industrial division of the county war bond sale committee. 0. S. G. Student in Battle at Midway Eugene, Ore., June 11 W Friends and relatives of Lt. D. K. Carpenter, 21, Monroe, who was co-pilot of an army B-17 bomber which scored hits on a Japanese aircraft carrier, were thrilled to hear of his exploit. Lt. Carpenter, son of Tom Carpenter, Corvallis, and Mrs Blanche Carpenter, Sacramento Calif., is a former Oregon State college student. He received his commission on October 31, 1941 and sailed a week later for a post In the Pacific war zone. Washtnfftnn. .Tun 11 iBA The house ways and means com mittee voted today to increase the federal excise taxes on ciga rettes, cigars and tobacco and to double the present five per cent tax on train fares. After agreeing tentatively to raise the cigarettes tax a half cent a pack, the members voted 10 raise ine. smoking tobacco tax from 18 to 24 cents a nnnnri and to make moderate Increases In the graduated scale of taxes Imposed on cigars. ExDerts estimated that the new cigarette tax would vield $63,300,000; other tobacco taxes $18,000,000: transDortatlon levies $33,000,000. The committee also aereed to make the tax on cigarette papers and tubes one-half cent for each Dackaae of 23 de signed to produce $7,800,000. DAIRYMEN UNIONIZING IS STARTED IN OREGON ' Portland. Ore.. Jnna 11 im Organization of dairymen in ! Oregon by the United Mine Workers has been started, Wil liam Dalrymple, Oregon direc tor, said todav on his return ' from a conference In Washing ton, D. C. Dalrvmnle said he nhnrtlv would name another organiza tional assistant. Arthur Richard son is already on the staff. Communications THANK YOU FROM DEFENSE COUNCIL To the Editor: With sincere appreciation we wish to thank you for the fine cooperation shown the Jackson County Council of Defense since its first inception. And particularly do we wish to commend you for the full page display showing the very important procedure In the case of an emergency. We also wish to thank the Kay Lithographing company for their conrtibutlon in furnishing the cut for this dis play. Jackson County Council of Defense, By Frank Hull, Coordinator. WEST POINT CHOICE Washington, June 11 F) Senator McNary (R-Ore) today announced annnlntment nf An drew L. Frahler of Portland to the U. S. military academy at West Point. First alternate was Philin Carroll Jr.. Portland second Grady D. Eepj, Jr., Cor vallls; third Carl J. McLeod, Ealcm. ! NAMED ON BOARD Salem, June 11 P) Gover nor Charles A. Sprague reap pointed Dr. Byron A. White, McMinnville, to the state board of chiropractic examiners for a three-year term. MCARTHUR SOUP East St. Louis (U.R An enter prising restaurant entrepreneur turned up with "General Mac arthtir Soup" on the menu short ly after the American hero was transferred to Australia. 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