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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1942.
Letter From France
Tells Hardships in
Conquored Country
A letter from an Hunt in un'-ccupied France recently re
ceived by Mr Robert C. Wright, Beck Apartments, reveals
the hardships which the people in that territory are undergoing
because of the war. The women, Mrs. Mary B. Barriquand is
n American who with her husband, Felix, went to the Riviera
section of France several years ago to retire from business.
They are now unable to leave tne country.
The letter follows:
"It has been such a long time I
rlnce I wrote you and since I
posted eight letters to the U. S.
the same day ana nave naa no
answers to them, I ha come to
the conclusion they did not
make port. I had an air mall
letter today from Seattle posted
December 10th. letter from
Minnesota two days before
Christmas and posted there Oc
tober 14th. -Usually we get so
many letters around Christmas
but not this year.
"The Minnesota letter brought
two small packages of gelatin,
the first I have seen in France.
I made one envelope (or Christ
mas and the other foi the New
Year; it was quite a treat for us.
We were able to buy two
oranges the day before Christ
mas and two the eve of New
Year. This year the nuts and
dried fruits are on the ration
card and are given only to those
in the cities. The pa pel has had
u little box notice several times
that all cards would be given
jam this year, this week the lit
tle notice said for those in the
cities. They also get more meat
than we do in the rural com
munities but they get almost no
potatoes and for weeks the only
vegetables they can buy is turn
ips. I am still able to get a little
milk.
' Suffer in Cold .
"We have had the most dread
fully cold winter. Oh how we
suffer from the cold, and being
badly nourished doesn't help us
to support the cold. We have re-
"We have a little wood left
that Felix cut but its green and
I am obliged to dry it in the
oven. Last summer we pulled a
two wheel cart about two miles
up In the hills, left the main
road for a cart track and finally
loft that for just a foot path al
most straight up. Felix cut and
rawed the limbs. I gathered
them In a gunny sack put them
on my back and skidded down
the trail to the cart. When it
was full Felix pulled the cart
and I pushed from the rear end.
I was all in by the time we got
home, with our clothes and skin
torn by the briars. I wonder if
Uncle Sam would give us a Job
as pack mules in his army?
Speaking of Uncle Sam, I won
der if the entrance of the U. S.
in the war has affected you. I
am so anxious to have news of
you. I pray that you over there
will never suffer as we do here.
1 hardly think that the U. S.
will ever find itself In the posi
tion in which France now finds
herself.
"It's Just Impossible to find
Is for the new born babies and
so little of it that I wonder they
live and the dark colors, it's
horrid. It is said in today's pa
cer when you ask for r ticket to
buy shoes, the inspector will
come to your house to see if you
have any old shoes that can do
vou for a longer time. I have
arked for the ticket and I can
show them my shoes with al
most all the sole gone. Life be-
ceived 100 pounds of coal so far! comes more and more impossl-
and that doesn't last long when ble. The daily paper five days
ft is 20 degrees below (centl- a week is on one single sheet,
grade).. the other two days two sheets.
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It Is the Lyons paper I speak of.
Paper la almost Impossible to
find now.
Soap Unrocolvod
"I wonder if this letter will
ever reach you. In October I re
ceived a letter posted January
Oth, 1941, in Spokane. It was
from Olive Ray Peterson. She
enclosed some darning cotton
wound on flat cardboard, it
came through okay. Mrs.
O'Conner sent thread the same
way. Olive sent some bars of
Ivory soap but I never received
that. When her letter came I
was darning a pair of brown
irtockings with some green em
broidery floss which I found in
my work basket. Sure a bit of
jreen is always dear to the heart
of an Irishman, be it on hat or
hose.
"Mending Felix' clothes Is the
bane of my life. He needs cov
eralls and finally found some in
Rive de Gier, but it took all his
tickets for clothes and some of
mine for one pair of trousers
and they are of rayon. Imagine
they will go to pieces at the first
washing.
"Poor Felix! Tobrcco U on
the ration cards since last spring
they get 40 grains every ten
days. Felix is a heavy smoker
and doing without just kills him.
He saved corn silk, dried it and
filled in with that but it is gone
now and he is very unhappy.
They smoke dried potato leaves,
tomato leaves and walnut leaves
also.
Makes Own Soap
We went to Lyon last week to
see If they were still sending the
Americans back but the consul
said It was finished last Febru
ary, but if anything should turn
up we would be notified. He had
ust returned from the U. S. and
1 asked him how he had the
courage to leave a country
where they still had plenty of
soap.
"It's horrid when you can't
keep your person clean to say
nothing of your clothes and
house. I finally got hold of a
recipe for a kind of soap made
with ivy leaves, a box of soap
powder and a candle. You can't
get candles but I found in my
trunk 12 little ones that I used
for the illumination in the win
dows December 8th, 1938. You
know In that region of Lyons on
December 8th everyone puts
lights in the windows. Lyons is
a great sight on that night. The
entire city lighted; Ir Is quite
thrilling. The church Fouvlerre
its on a high hill overlooking
the city and the cardinal comes
out on the balcony and gives his
blessing to the city all the hill
side, the bridge and the Rohne.
'he streets and pavements are
crowded with kneeling people.
It's a sight I shall never forget.
The hill on which the church is
built is the hill where Ceasar
had his palace when the Romans
ruled France. i
"About 10 years ago there
was a dreadful landslide on this
hill and many people were bur
ied under the earth and falling
buildings. In digging out the
bodies they found an old Roman
city, theatre, all sorts of pottery.
mosaics still in ' perfect condi-;
tlon, etc. I saw many of the
monuments, etc.. In the museum, i
This church is the loveliest I have
ever seen, the walls have eight i
religious scenes done in tiny
mosaics. They look like paint-
Ings. There is the scene of Jean
d'Arc's life The vow of Louis ,
XIII, the Immaculate concep-1
tion, etc. Speaking of the im-'
maculate conception, it .was a
Lyons woman, Pauline Marie !
Jarirot who predicted that it
would be a dogma of the church.
She is the founder of the 'propa
gation of the faith'. I have seen
her house which Is near Fou
viere, and the little chapel she
built and where the body of
Saint Philomene is. We have
the bodv of Saint Victoria here
In St. Didier brought from the
catacomb by a former priest.
She is very pretty, a Roman
Virgin martyred at the age of
IS. About two years ago the
Driest had new clothes made for .
her, had her hair marcelled and
out her In a lovely glass casket.
The people here get many fa
vors through her.
"We get the news 'rom Lon
don every night and the Pacific
News Service every morning.
There Is a big fine if one Is
-aught listening to an English
broadcast. We can't believe all
we see In the paper.
I wonder if this will ever
reach you and we will get any .
letters now that the U. S. is up
to Its ears In war.
"I think you must live In an
especially lovely pa rt of the
West."
JAMES EDMISTON
Friends of James Edmlston,
former Medford youth, 'will be
sorry to hear that he is reported
missing in enemy territory in
Europe after participating in a
bombing raid out of London,
Eng. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. James E. Edmlston of San
Jose, Calif. His father was a
recent visitor in this city.
mliton, was a recent visitor in
this city and now resides in San
Jose, Calif.
Young Edmlston was a gradu
ate of Medford high school and
had many friends in Medford
and vicinity. He Joined the RAF
und was reported missing after
the bomber of which he was a
member failed to return after a
raid over some part of Europe.
It is not known whether he is
being held prisoner of war or if
he lost his life in line of duty.
His father was secretary-manager
of the C. and E. Fruit com
pany, while a resident of Med
ford, living at 922 South Oak-
dale avenue.
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A group of residents on North
Peach street were interested last
evening in a young albino robin
which was found hopping on the
lawn of Mrs. Nellie Wall, 117
North Peach street. The freak in
the robin family was entirely
covered with white feathers and
had red beadlike eyes and ac
cording to those who described
it was perfect in other ways.
The bird remained on the
grass for some time and Mrs.
Wall picked the bird up in her
hands while watering the lawn.
Mrs. Violet McKinney of North
Fir street also saw the bird.
Mrs. Wall said today that
while traveling in Pennsylvania
in December of 193S she saw
two albino deer which had been
shot by a man and bis wife in
that state.
An armored division may use
up as much as 600 tons of am
munition in a single day of
fighting an amount which.
loaded Into freight cars, would
require a train of 17 cars.
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