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0 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1942. PAGE THREB SE AGEDJESTROYER Little, Old Craft Has Heroic Role in Bleak North Bat tle Planes Used Hard. By Keith Whtel.r (Copyright, 1942. by Chicago Times, Inc.) Aboard U. S. Seaplane Tender in the Aleutians, June 25 (De layed) The wind is a wild 70-knot gale hurling whitecaps across the bay, and tonight no planes will be in the air neither ours nor the Japanese. The battle of the Aleutians is not yet over. The Japs are still in Kiska. But tonight it's all right to relax a little and consider how things have been with this un glamorous little tub and her brood of lumbering PBY Cata Una flying boats. Old and Cramped She's a little ship, old and tramped. Once she was a four piper destroyer but they ripped out half her power plant and used the former firerooms to store extra food, aviation gas. bombs and men. Then they sent her out to nurse the Cats. Not even her most charitable friend could call her a warship. She's no more a fighting ship than are the 15-ton flying boats she serves. But the war has produced no more valorous chapter than the stubborn fight the Cats and the tender are making against the first inva sion of American soil since 1812. For Kiska, after all, is Amer ican soil. Bleak, remote, dreary and useless as it is, Kiska is still America. The little tender lay in Dutch Harbor on June 3, when the Mitsubishis first howled through the clouds mantling Mt. Bally hoo's frosty crown. It was there she received her baptism of fire, and when a Zero caught a Cat on the water and burned it up the tender's crew saw the first of her charges destroyed a heart-breaking sight, to be re peated more than once in the savage days that followed. (One paragraph censored at this point.) Three Japs Downed When the Jap planes went away, they left two Zeros and a Mitsubishi shot full of the tender's machinegun fire and burning on Mt. Ballyhoo's flanks. In the days that followed, the Catalinas flew ceaselessly up down the island chain in the eternal miasm ic fogs. And where the Cats went the tender fol lowed, lugging gasoline, fresh bombs, hot meals and a few hours shelter from one foggy danger cove to another. Once in her uncharted wan derings I am told she caught a Jap submarine on the surface. She isn't a fighting ship, as was said before, but she stopped long enough to drop four depth charges and saw the crushed undersea boat rise to the' sur face, roll over and sink. (One paragraph censored at this point.) Cats Overworked In time the PBY crews were haggard wrecks and their planes weren't much better. Some men flew 102 hours in two weeks and the planes were beached for repairs only when they would fly no longer. Whenever a plane cracked up in the surf, bleary eyed repair crews stripped off its usable parts to patch planes shot to tatters by the Japs. 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Open Range'', which comes to the Holly thea tre for tomorrow night and Sat urday as the added feature with "Escape from Hong Kong", star ring Leo Carrillo and Andy De-vine. elephantine craft. They were flying patrols and searches, fighting Zeros, carrying torpe does and using their clumsy crates as dive bombers. A PBY is as big as a bam, and maneu vers like a battleship. Wryly the pilots dubbed their outfit the "PBY Intercep tor Command' and designated Dutch Harbor "PBY Elimination Base." Registration closed Monday for the Girl Scout camp at Lake o' Woods, August 2 to 9 and 9 to 16. The Girl Scout office will be open next Thursday morning only for campers to secure health blanks and pay their complete camp fee. Reservations (or transportation to camp must be in the office by July 27 or campers will have to provide their own transportation, the office announced. Girls are urged to take their personal possessions to camp in their bed rolls or duffle bag to conserve transportation space. The Girl Scout office an nouncement stated that an ex cellent staff has been secured to direct the camp this year. Train ing of staff members will be held four morning periods at the home of Mrs. O. A. Eden. Mrs. Marjorie Pena, camp director, will be assisted by Miss Elise Older, Mesdames Richard Payne, Edwin R. Runtz, Ivah Murray Lina Wright, and Misses Wanda Burch, Mary Bruce Crane and Marjorie Jewett. E I By The Associated Press A shortage of meat was re ported today In several cities. Some stores in Akron, Ohio, announced they were out of meat. Beef deliveries to Boston were 75 to 80 per cent below normal and wholesale dealers there met to seek a solution to the problem. In Cincinnati, packers stated they were reducing hog slaugh ter by at least one third and beef by 25 to 35 per cent. A processor there said government fixed price ceilings had halted his output of orders for military purposes. Office of price administration officials in Washington acknowl edged the dearth of meat in Akron but expressed the opinion that the situation was "worse, if anything, along the eastern seaboard." 3 "Wattfo-Tiftto,' mreH4 r H SfMl Ctm. Vm London, July 23 (P) A num ber of civilians were killed by a single German plane which came in low to drop a stick of bombs in the shopping center of an east coast town In day light today. One direct hit wiped out a family of six. Another bomb split a house squarely in two but its occupants escaped with out a scratch. Hotels and other establishments were smashed. Other enemy planes were over east England and the east midlands today. German raiders, striking at night against areas In East Aglia and southern England, caused a small number of casualties and some property damage. One German plane was shot down. Illegal Fishing Costa Pair $25 Eugene Gordon Helms and Wilbur W. Hodge of this city, charged with fishing in a pro hibited area of Rogue river were each fined $25 and costs in justice court yesterday on pleas of guilty. Hodge was given until . Saturday to start pay ments. The men, arrested by the state police, were fishing between the Gold Ray dam and the Gold Ray bridge. SHE IS A TH "NEIGHBOR" HTFUL PARTY LINE As-. I Jill EREST She answers her tel ephone bell prompt ly. ..places her own calls accurately, so that they do not have to be done over... does not monopolize the telephone at the inconvenience of others. ..teaches her children, too, the little telephone kindneses...and when her telephone is not in use, sees that it is hung up. Though the persons who fhare the party line with her have never met her face to face, they like her and are grateful to her. She is a thoughtful party Iine"neighbor." THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 14$ North Bartlttt. Phone 2101 The semi-annual report of County Treasurer Ralph E. Sweeney shows In the six months period of this year end ing July 1 Jackson county paid six cents Interest on county warrants. This was for a year old county warrant for $1. The records show in 1937-38 close to $3,000 in interest was paid on warrants. No warrants have been protested here in more than two years. The same report shows $18, 438.88 as Interest on delinquent taxes was collected for the same period. Cash on hand on July 1 to talled $820,367.10. RUEHLE REAPPOINTED Salem, July 23. (P) Dr. Ot to Ruehle, Portland, member of the State Veterinary Medical board, was reappointed by Gov ernor Sprague today to a four year term, effective today. BIRTHS WALL To Mr. and Mrs. Carol, Route 1, Central Point, July 19, a boy, 74 lbs., at Community hospital. GROVE To Mr. and Mrs Earl, Medford, July 19, a boy, 6 lbs., at Community hospital. OLSON To Mr. and Mrs Warren, 1430 Euclid avenue, July 21, a boy, 7 lbs., at Com munity hospital. HEDGEPATH To Mr. and Mrs. H. V., Central Point, July 22, a boy, 6 lbs., at Com munity hospital. SEDELL To Mr. and Mrs J. C. 22 Trlnn utrpot Jntv 17 a girl, 6 lbs., at Community hospital. SMITH To Mr. and Mrs, Emmitt, 199 McAndrews Road, July 18, a girl, 8 lbs., at Com munity hospital. SMITH To Mr. and Mrs. Clarence, route 1. July 18. a boy, 9 lbs., at Community hos pital. FRITZ To Mr. and Mrs. O R 23 Glen Oak Court, July 18, a boy, 8 lbs., at Community hospital. Wilson county, N- C. has don ated an accumulation of confis cated moonshine stills to the copper salvage drive. s J r 7. v rf.M-tX.rv : . V It! r-r. JW-, PeMignliB?t Top Quality OLD RIPY STRAIGHT Kentucky ItoinnoN .Fr anr than One Haadrr years the OLD RIPY Distillery has aiade fine whlkle.."rroM tmthrr f lorn time 18.11." 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Based on the information thus secured, the Bureau issue official A. B.C. Audit Reports. These reports tell how much circulation we have, where and how it is distributed, how much people paid (important because paid circulation proves reader interest) and many other facts that make it possible to invest in newspaper advertising on the basis of known values. For complete and verified information about the distribution of your advertising when it appears in this newspaper ask us for A. B. C. reports. Medford Mail Tribune This newspaper It a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Ash for a copy of our latest A. B. C. report tMnt audited facts and figures about our circulation. A. B. Co AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS FACTS AS A MEASURE OP ADVERTISING Army Air Hn
