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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1942. PAGE FIVE PRICE CEILING ON New Formula Bases Selling Price on Current Costs Plus Last Fall's Margin Washington, June 11.' Price ceilings on women's fall and winter coats and dresses were revised from the top to bottom today. The order issued last month prohibited any price above the highest prevailing last fall, and provided that the garments must be of "substantially equal work' manship and qualitv.:' - The revised price formula. In general, bases the selling price on current costs pius me mark up or margin charged last fall on garments of the same class. War Production board offici als, commenting unofficially at the time the original order was Issued, had said that It appeared impractical to meet the price provisions without detracting in some way from the quality of , the garments, because of in creased labor and materials costs. Significantly, the new order makes allowance for increased labor costs after March 31 only if the increase resulted from col lective bargaining contracts or other wage agreements signed before April 27 which "uncon ditionally provided for the wage Increase in question." CThis provision, which has the Wfect of placing a March ceiling For Feet that Ache Burn and Perspire Do this: Oct a small bottle of Voone's Emerald Oil and apply as di rection advise. Men and women on their feet all dsy would give any t'nlnf for real ease and comfort. That's eiactly what you get with MOONBV8 EMERLD OIL. Deodorant and economical. All druggists. Wes tern Thrift Store. It's Full-Bodied . . . Rich, and Satisfying . . . and yet r ytw Selected Stock (although not a bond and bottled at 86 proof instead of 100 proof) has all the quality, all the aging of fine 4-year old bonded bourbon. That's what gives it smooth mellow flavor and distinctive character. Selected Stock is a M-I-L-D whiskey ... a whiskey that really tastes good straight, that keeps its rich flavor in highballs and mixed drinks. This grand whiskey is priced 54 per cent lower than the average of bonded whiskers sold in Oregon. G&rr 1 GOODERHAM ft I Jap Navy Trounced; Midway SOVIET RUSSIA f HINA' The six-month mark in the war C-ct J ? Hawaiian it. 'Zt -new01'"'1" "TaV- UlT USTRALIAlF' . "' . VjNEW ES force. The battered Japs fled! but official Washington foresaw a new attempt to break aeiense arcs eased on uuicn nsroor. rum war and Pearl Harbor, and along the Australian supply route. Diagonally shaded area indicates what Japan held when it stabbed at Pearl Harbor last December 7. Dotted area indicates how Nippon overran territory south since then. Dotted wedges are where Japs, by plane or submarine, have gotten past defense lines to hit at Dutch Harbor. Pearl Harbor and the California coast, Australia and Ceylon. But Allied Nations defenses hold Burma borders, and there has been forked lightning in A.lied attacks: Jimmy Doolittle and his fliers bombed Tokyoi Marcus Island was struck) the Nary smashed at the Gilbert and Marshall islands and turned back the Japs off northeast Australia. Allied fliers pound the Solo mons, Timor and Rangoon. on labor costs regardless of slid ing scale union wage agree ments, specifically excludes as a cost factor any periodic, auto matic increases, or increases based on living costs, the seller's price, or similar contingencies. I E Washington, June 11 (IP) The Sound Construction com pany of Seattle, Wash., has been awarded the contract of undis closed amount for construction of a lighter-than-air base at Til lamook, Ore, the navy depart ment announced last night. Work on the Tillamook proj ect, sixth largest base to be used by the navy, is scheduled to start soon. Further details were not revealed. Bonded Stock A distinguished bottled-in-bond straight bourbon whiskey .. . 100 proof, and aged four full years! TVTI Ol'AITS 140 2"3 WORTS, 1 1 M IT E D PEORIA, ILLINOIS WXWrt ftllLDkkl I SAN flUNCISCO ' I TASMANIA found a U. S. fleet, based on a E START SALE SOON The sheriffs office announced today that plans for establish ment of a state liquor store at I Jacksonville at an early date have been completed by the state liquor control board. It will be in the drug store there, with Ann Sullivan as manager The first consignment of bever ages has arrived but date of opening has not been set. The matter has been pending for some time. Law enforcement officers said backers of the liquor store felt too many resi dents of the Jacksonville area were coming to this city to pur a i JJ "PROOF J Defense Line at . l asss am a sa C. oaso. n if-inn JY aCfcALAlNU - - " strengthened Midway Island, smashing a strong Jaoanese naval chase their groceries and their liquor, at the same time. It was further explained the liquor store would put a curb on reported cases of bootlegging with a pint of liquor selling tor $2. It was argued a thirsty citi zen would not pay that amount, when he could buy it cheaper at a regulation place. Young women as well as young men between the ages of 17 and 23 are now enrolled for training and production experience in aviation sheet metal, radio, and machine shop at the NYA resi dent defense center at Eugene, Mr. Batterson, area No. 2 director announces. Training and production exper ience for 8 hours a day is given with one hour out of the 8 devot ed to war emergency practice which includes first aid and other related training. Trainees are now assembling radio equipment for the army and navy at the NYA Eugene resident center and are learning aviation sheet metal assembling at the Eugene voca tional school. A wage of 130 a month Is earned from which $21 Is deduct ed for dormitory living quarters, meals, recreation, and emergency hospital care. Mousing is provid ed in newly completed dormitor ies under the guidance of a house mother and the resident center superintendents. Young men and women that are training, now eat in a new modern dining hall. Young women and men inter ested in resident defense training should register for It at a United States Employment Service of fice, but, for further Information write to the NYA Resident Cen ter office, Camp Skinner Butte, Eugene, Oregon. Corvallis, June 11. CP Erection of a 4-H club building on th Oregon State college campus by the Klwanis clubs of Oregon to be named for H. C. Seymour, for 28 years state club leader, was proposed here wed nesday by Marshall Dana, of the Oregon Journal. Dana presented a check from the Portland club covering cost of 32 summer school scholar ships awarded to boys and girls attending this year's session. The 1900 youngsters ended this 28th annual session today and will leave for home tonight and Friday. IBi Proves Strong MlltS AT EQUATOR FIVE-YEAR TERM FOR FORGERIES Floyd M. Zimmerman, 29, was sentenced yesterday by Circuit Judge Herbert K. Hanna to serve not less than five years in state prison, on a plea of guilty to forgery. Zimmerman, a stove repairer, who operated under the name of C. R. Coleman, was a member of the California state guard. and wore the uniform of that organization when arrested, authorities stated. Zimmerman was specifically charged with uttering and cash ing forged school district war rants. According to the district attorney, he would do stove re pairing for a school district and by subterfuge, procure blank warrants. These he would fill out for various amounts, signing the names of the district clerk and chairman. He procured about $83 in this county on war rants procured from the Browns boro. Eagle Point, and Ashland districts. He is wanted at Lebanon, Ore., and in eastern Oregon on the same charge. According to the district attorney, Zimmer man has a prison record in California and Washington. Portland Apartment To Cost 4 Million Portland, June 11. (Pi Con struction may start next week on a $4,000,000 apartment hous ing project comprising 2,000 units in 63 buildings, the Port land housing authority said to day. A 83-acre site in North Port land was selectee yesterday. Harry D. Freeman, authority director, said that because of lack of school facilities, the apartments, of one and two rooms, probably would be re stricted to married couples with out children. WACE HIKE AGREED Portland, Ore., June 11. A wage Increase agreement which now goes to CIO locals with a membership of 6,000 and to 13 Oregon and Washington plywood mills for ratification was reached here yesterday Operators and union representa tives both said it increased minimum pay from 73 cents to 82 'i cent' an hour. HORSE, BUGGY, BACK Mt. Desert Island, Me. flj.B The horse and buggy days will return to this coastal commun ity this summer. Officials have ordered automobiles barred from the great network of scenic highways that traverse the Is land. Dody Lice Oi Chicken aid Birds Pimr' sprinsls th ehlrhtms wits RIM U II, sifting ttw pow.Uf throucs their fMthr as murb jn ran, TUn wstrb tht li roll ff. Uprmhls this sftsgie protwrtlvs powdf daily is onr coops and ba bout. 1'rotsd birds this fhp NT vlorlss way. In HsimIf fMftsr Cans t& dp ifrvf, pmats ana rat nnofjs. NEW LEADER OF LEGI0NP0ST15 Ed Leach Elected 1st and Walter Reinklng 2nd Vice Commanders For Term. Virgil Ballantyne was elected commander of Medford Post of the American Legion last night tu succeed Ray Wright, and Ed Leach was named first vice commander and Walter J. Rein king second vice-commander. Reelected were Alfred J. An derson, chaplain, and Fritz Nis sen, adjutant. All will serve one year. - Elected to the executive com mittee were Frank Ray, Elbert Lennor. Walter Looker, Joseph Fliegel and Ed Russell. The committee wi'.l also include Ray Wright, past Junior commander, and the present commander, first and second vice-commanders and Hie adjutant. Three delegates to the state convention in Portland July 24 and 23 were named, they being Elbert Lennox, Robert Kyle and Walter Looker. Incoming com mander and the adjutant auto matically became delegates. Al ternates named were Herman Purucker. -Frank Ray. Ed Rus sell, Orin Schenck and Lester Mathes. The Medford Post voted In favor of the state department of the American Legion peti tioning congress to change the Legion charter in order to ad mit to membership veterans of World War II. Following the meeting a dutch lunch was held. Name New Officers For Eastern Star Portland, June 11. (IP) The Grand Chapter of Oregon, Order of Eastern Star, elevated Mrs. Marjorie Simpson of Portland tb grand worthy matron yesterday. David O'Dell Bennett of St. Helens became worthy grand patron. Other new officers: Dr. June Martin, Marshfield, associate grand matron; Lloyd McRae, Helix, associated grand patron. PLAN LABOR CAMP Portland, June 11. (IP) Plans to construct a ISO-family permanent farm labor camp near Nyssa were announced by the Farm Security administra tion today. Closlne tlm for Clwslfled Ads . m. Too late to Classify 13:80 p. m. SA7U To keep rellbtf longer, you're probably font them aver Wr. Thai's why ye shewM drlvlna ressl Tow trips are shorter, but yew sm your Rlchftahl Be) toeay bout Sum. stop more for troffk and tlgools. 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V k Pilot Officer Jackson Barrett Mahon (above), 21, of Santa Bar bara, Calif., was one of two American Eagle Squadron pilots who accounted for three of four German planes shot down in RAF offensive action against Northern France and Belgium. Mahon got one plane. CALENDAR Thursday 7:30 p. m. Graduate Nurses annual picnic, home Mary Blood. 833 East Ninth street. 8:00 p. m. Past Noble Grand club, Olive Rebekah lodge. Girls Community clubhouse. 8:00 p. m. Eagles auxiliary initiation, Eagles hall. Friday 1.00 p. m. Friendly Friday club, home Mrs. Joe Cave, 108 Elm street. Lunchr-,i; bring own service. , 7:43 p. m. Golden Links Bible class of First Baptist church for choir members and families, home Mrs., Harrold, 1222 West Main. 8:00 p. m. Elta Deuel Hubbs tent. No. 11, Daughters of Union Veterans of Civil war, 1881-63, armory. 8:00 p. m. F. L. club, home Mrs. Pete Bateman, 1232 North Riverside avenue. "SUB" BABY SEAL Boston (U.R) Reports that an enemy two-man submarine was trapped under the Neponset river bridge brought 30 police men to the scene to find a baby seal caught In the bridge piling. The animal freed itself and headed to sea before anyone could reach It. Use Mall Trit ma want ads. Yiyj2 0 ALLIES DESTROY JAP SUB, PLANES Allied Headquarters, Austra lia, June 11 (VP) Allied air men listed a Japanese subma rine and a number of grounded planes today as fresh victims of their southwest Pacific opera tions, but Australians were warned that another attack waa probable. Army Minister Francis Ford expressed belief in Melbourne that "we must be even stronger" defensively. "No one knowing Japan's naval and military atrength will be fooled into believing that she will accept the Coral sea and Midway reverses without hitting back," he said. 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