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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.
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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
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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
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