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PAGE THREE I eight times the former price, and many other commodities are 10 or 20 times as costly as they were. Owing to the virtual cessation of business, Chinese are flock ing to the public rice queues in mounting numbers, although the cheap stocks distributed are ut terly inadequate. 700 feet of electric wiring; a four-motored bomber need 000 feet, or about 2H miles, and a battleship requires 845,. 000 feet, or mora than ISO miles, of copper wire. Nazi Submarine Crew Is Buried E. An average house contains MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1942. rm"m ' 1 f. I 'V i 1 Conquer Fear, Grit Teeth and Do What is Expected Pioneer Spirit Helps. By Capt. Barney Oldfield (Wide World Features) Ft. Benning, Ga. We were 1,500 feet above Lawrence field when the jumpmaiter com manded: "Stand In the door!" First up was Lt. Leonard Anglin of Lumpkin, Ga. He planted his feet and let the prop blast roar into his face as he stuck his head out the door. We were all hooked up, our static lines fastened to the long cable in the roof of the trans port. It was graduation day for paratroopers. Then, the jumpmaster, swing ing the flat of his hand hard up against the underside of Anglin's leg, yelled: "Go!" As in an unfinished old-fashioned two-step, left foot In the lead, right coming up but never passing, we shuffled to the door. Pivot on the right foot, left to th oHoo a rjush and we hurtled through space, turning a quarter turn left and dropping unaer xne tail of the plane. Count Offl "1,000, 2,000, 3,000," we said. That's three seconds. If that snap of the chute open ing hadn't been felt by then, we were instructed to pull the rownrn rinpnrd on "4.000." Mine opened in the middle of "2,000. I said it someming lito "wrt.PTVTPH.thnusand." I looked up and the canopy was over me like a tent, suspen sion lines taut. Below me was the field, like a well kept lawn. There was no feeling of falling or height, but I was swinging a little, so grabbed the right front and left rear risers, chinning myself to check the oscillation. Tf Thai Could See Me We were about 800 feet up. Snmehodv veiled. It was Lt. PMiea. Monrinws of Akron. O. "Nobody in Akron would be lieve I'd ever do this," he said. Same goes for all of us in our home towns, 1 guess. An air current hit me at 100 t omhhprf the risers. rocked them hard to keep oscil lation from setting in again. Tuontv fpet ud. I looked down, prayed I'd land lightly on that week-old sprainea anicie, hpn suddenly realized I was coming in backwards. The ground. . . The Ankle Escapes T er.n icH hnckward. did a com clete roll, and never touched the ankle. The chute collapsed, and as I unsnapped the harness, I looked for the next groups al ready in descent. Meadows lit fairly easy. Lt TTnrv Rnrhanan. late of Ander son, S. C, came in on a slight knee bend and stood up with out a roll. There was a puddle off to the riKht. and Lt. Robert Carlson, Utica, N. Y., rjlowed it up like a motorDoai. We started rolling up our chutes to get off the field. Moa (hk Pnratroorjer And that, with accompanying post mortems, covered the first nf five iumos necessary to ntiaiifv ns ii erachute trooper It took the army four weeks to train us fnr this landing, which is about two per cent of what a parachutist has to do. ine other 98 per cent is fighting the enemy tooth and nan, wnen en mmtprpH. And winnins. What kind of a man does lt oV tn hpcome a oaratrooper? Fire without anv bouauets, I would say it takes a man who fan r-nnnupr his fears. BTit Ms teeth and do what's expected of him in nnv rjinch. Like no nthpr soldier, he Droves his courage every day of his train ing. Conn It talrPS mATl VhO IS original, individual, and who believes he can take command of his own destinv: Third, it takes a man who has V, p n irif of a ninneer. There is very little available In the field manual about paracnuusi tactics. He gets a mission, ana it's up to him to accomplish it. This Is No Picnic Jumping from a plane Is the least of all a combat trooper's worries. The two-mile runs. ,h half hours with Indian clubs the 30-font roDe climbs to build arms and shoulders, the train asium, tumbling until dizzy and chinning for hours in suspended parachute harness these were the easy things. I got my sprained ankle from the mock-up plane, a 30-foot elevated platform on which is mounted a simulated plane door. Every man is asked to Jump from it, fall free half the dis tance to the ground, then be yanked in the harness to get the feel of a chute opening. Then, there's the shock har- V .T- fir W t A j V-'-f f J L V I i S. r ; Tn An army guard carries the casket of a dead German submarine crewman to a grave In the Hampton, Vs., national cemetery, where he was buried along with 28 comrades after their U-boat was sunk in a running fight with a U. S. destroyer off the Virginia coast. UNDER JAP RULE Hongkong Chinese Starve to Wraithlike Appearance Nippos Speed Evacuation. FOR STORAGE Repairing and Restyling Arista Fur Shop Building Phone 4SE7 3rd Floor Medford Center Wf- kr o V vFS-i- iv -A jr,rjr w BOARD OFFICERS ALL RE-ELECTED COINC PLACE S tncllle Lambert, named "Miss Califor. ola," holds ber trophy aloft as site walks at a Los Am cles pool. ness, being hoisted SO feet in the air hanging head down, then later to 150 feet, each time pull ing a rip cord which sends you hurtling 15 feet before the har ness checks the fall. These are Just some of the things, which hour after hour, unfold before the amazed eyes of the paratrooper in the mak ing! The paratrooper has no illu sions about fear. He doesn't brag that he's never afraid of anything. He brags rather that he is often afraid, but he goes ahead and does what he's asked to do, no matter what it is. They're one proud bunch of fighting men, and I'm proud to be one of them. JOKE TRAVELS LONG Hanson, Mass. (UP) As a joke before she was married, Mrs. Susie Belcher wrote her name and address on some eggs she was packing at a poultry plant. Six years later after she had wed and become mother of two children, Mrs. Belcher re ceived a proposal of marriage from a man in Scotland. . An ordnance plant which turns out 1,000,000 pounds of war goods a day must haul in and out 18,000,0000 pounds of materials or enough to fill 500 freight cars. CALENDAR Wednesday 8:00 p. m. Third annual Fiesta, Jackson County League of Women Voters, Porter Neff gardens, Berkeley Way. Thursday 1:00 p. m. Daughters of Amer ican Revolution, Hotel Holland. 8:00 p, m. Crater Lake Aerie F. O. E. and Auxiliary, initiation and dance, Eagles hall, 42 North Front. Portland, July 29. AP All officers of the state board of higher education were re elected Tuesday. Willard L. Marks, Albany, was reelected president for his seventh full term; Mrs. Beatrice Walton Sackett, Marshfield, was named vice-president, and E. C. Sammons, Portland, renamed as third member of the executive committee. The old question of student fees vs. state support for meet ing financial requirements of the state system came up when a delegation of the State Tu berculosis association appeared to protest elimination of an X ray technician from the Uni versity of Oregon health service. The board approved a recom mendation by Chancellor F. M. Hunter that state budgets take over the physical plant upkeep and utility costs of the health service as a temporary measure, permitting restoration of the service for the coming year. Other action included: Authorized a request to the state emergency board of some $45,000 to cover 5 to 10 per cent pay increases for about 1000 system employees in wage, secretarial and low salaried classes receiving $175 per month or less; and for covering war damage insurance on system property. J'VILLE MISSIONARY' SOCIETY WILL PICNIC Jacksonville, July 29. (Spl.) Jacksonville Presbyterian Mis sionary Society will have its regular monthly meeting Thurs day beginning with a picnic at noon on the church lawn. Mrs James Edgar, Presbyterial presi dent, will be guest speaker and will tell about the quadrennial meeting held recently In the east which she attended. All newcomers to the com munity are invited to meet with the group. A regular business meeting will follow the picnic and those unable to attend the picnic are urged to attend the business. By Vaughn Metaling i Lourenco Marques, Portuguese , East Africa, July 25. (Delayed) j () Hongkong, once the "opulent pearl of the Orient" j has been reduced to a ghost town ' in the months since the Pacific explosion of last December, j Some 1,000,000 Chines have : been starved to such point that the whole town has a wraithlike appearance. j The Four Horsemen have rid-1 den rough shod over the once smiling Riviera of the Far East, and now famine, pestilence and destruction of physical and mor al values stalk the former Brit ish crown colony. The Japanese conquerors, realizing the increasing gravity of the internal situation, are doing their utmost to evacuate poorer Chinese residents to country districts of Kwangtung. Kwangsi and Fukien province, but are unable to remove suf ficiently large numbers in time to cheat death. Million Remain It is estimated that thus far 500,000 have left of their own volition or by compulsion, but 1,000,000 who remain face an increasingly bitter struggle for life. Isolation of Hongkong island through rupture of all former trade routes, including those supplying fruits and vegetables from the mainland, has caused famine-like conditions. Rice costs YOU WOMEN WHO SUFFER-v HOT HASHES If you Buffer hot fluh, dlaslneM, dUtrew of "UTeguUrttle", vr weak, nervoua due to tha function. "mlddlo-Me" period la ft woman' life try Lydl E. PlnkhanVa Vege table Compound. It'i helped thou sands upon thousand of women to relieve such annoying aymptom. Follow label directions. Plnkham's , Compound la worth trying! Bl.Bl. Dept. Store MOTHERS, here is a Slack bargain for your boyt. Faded denims (light blue) made by one of the best manufactur ers on the coast. These are irregulars, but every garment will give the tame wear and look just ' regulars. Boys' Pleated Slacks Boys' In-or-Out Shirts Denim. Age 6 to 16 yean. Regular price $1.45. M. M. Department Store) ipacial price 79c Young Men's Slacks Lock zipper on pockets, sites 8 to 16 years. Regular price $2.45. M, M. Department Store special price SI .48 Boys' Sport Jackets pockets. Regular Department Store Denim with price $2.45. price upper M. M SI .79 Pleated. 28 to 34. Regular price $2.95. Store price zipper fastener. M. M. Department SI .98 This special purchase Is Just one of the many outstanding buys made on my last buying trip to Los Angeles. Mothers, don't wait. See these goods tomorrow for when this lot is gone, there will be no more at these low prices. Yet, they all will make excellent "back to school" garments for they will stand all the hard knocks and launder perfectly. M, M Department Store, Inci Open Every Night Until 8 P. M. Sal. 8:30 P. U. fMJ BUYj V7l united 1, STATES MfTf SAVINGS I If tAftON Dft CATCH UP WITH HIM Keesler Field, Miss. (UP) Harold B. Harrington thought he had seen the lest of two pianos when he sold them to Keesler Field. Several weeks later he was Inducted at his home in Laurel and sent here for basic training. Now Private Harrington is regularly tuning and servicing the same pianos as part of his work detail. KILLS BIO BATTLER Red Bluff, Cal. (UP) The grandfather of all rattlesnakes was killed on the Greer ranch near here when it was run over by a power mower operated by William Micke. The reptile had IS rattles. COW HAS TRIPLETS Hot Springs, Ark. (UP) Triplet bull calves, each weigh ing approximately 40 pounds at birth, have been born to a cow belonging to R. W. Alford. Vet erinarians said the birth of trip lets to a cow is comparable In rarity to birth of quadruplet humans. WHEEL GOODS Wagons, Tricycles Scoolers DULIEN'S AT HANSEN HARDWARE 35 North Bartlett Dutch Boy Paints YOUNGER k LANCE 31 No. Bartlett Ue tUU Trtbun want !. i o II III MEMO TO ADVERTISERS A.B.C. 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