Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, September 22, 1942, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TexttAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MKDFORP OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1942 i Flying Marine Safe After j Seven-Day Adventure in Jap Infested Solomons Runyan Comedy Here Wednesday REGISTRY OPENS President Sees Souvenir of Makin Island Raid '..:' : V--T :;;" E Br Robert C. Millar United Press Staff Correspondent Marine Headquarters in the Solomon Islands, Sept. 0 (U.FO (Delayed) Lieut. Richard R. Amerine, 23, arrived at Marine headquarters today clad only in his shorts, after killing four Japanese with a rock and a captured pistol and trekking seven days through enemy-infested territory with almost no food. Amerine, of Lawrence, Kans. is a marine fighting plane pilot. He had ben missing since Aug. 31, when his plane failed to return from patrol. Having been treated for insect bites that covered every inch of his body and eaten his first meal with the exception of ants, snails and coconuts In a week, he told of his adventures. First Patrol Flight "It was on my first patrol flight when the thing began," he said. "Something evidently went wrong with my oxygen system and I began to feel woozy. I lost consciousness and when I came to the plane was in a spin and losing altitude fast. I still couldn't see, but I did manage to push the hood back, bail out and pull the ripcord before pass ing out again. "When I regained conscious ness again I was in the clouds floating earthwards beneath the opened chute. Amerine fell into the sea about three miles offshore and 25 miles from marine-occupied ter ritory on Guadalcanal. He got ashore late that afternoon, but fell exhausted on the beach. "Why the Japanese didn't spot ma then I II never know, he said, "for I must have lain right out In the open for nearly an hour. wnen I awoke, I could see group of about 10 men less than 100 yards down the beach. I was Just about to yell, thinking they were American marines, when one of them called out in Japa nese to some fellows in the co conut grove. Gets First Jap "I found a good trail In the coconut grove and hadn't follow ed it more than 13 minutes when I came across a Jap lying asleep under a tree. I sneaked past him You Need PAINTING DECORATING or PAPER HANGING DONE . . CALL PAINTERS' LOCAL UNION Phone 4942 i .i J at first and then came back again. He had on a pair of shoes that I needed badly as I was barefoot and practically naked. "I picked up a rock half as big as my chest and bashed In his head with one blow. I had to have those shoes. "After putting on his shoes and strapping on his pistol, I went on down the trail and stopped by a creek to get a drink. While bend ing over drinking. I was spot ted by a group of Japs. They opened fire and I hit for the woods and mighty fast." That night, next day and part of the next night he spent trying to find his way through the Jungle to the coast. Narrow Escape Amerine had his narrowest escaoe during the fifth night. "As I crawled along the beach, sometimes swimming and some times ducking In among the oalms that fringed the beach, came to a strip about 40 yards wide that was barren of cover and was moving along cautious ly when somebody hollered out the equivalent of 'halt' in Japa nese. "I froze to the spot. The sen try yelled again and I knew darn well he was challenging me. He was only about 100 yards away and I could see him In the moonlight silhouetted against the ocean. There was only one thing to do. That was to try to oluff him, so I yelled right back at him like a Jap with a mouth ful of hot potatoes and cussed hell out of him. To make it more emphatic. I waved my hand at him and then started walking leisurely toward the coconuts, figuring each step would be my last and that I'd get a bullet in my back. Every Japanese in the nelsh borhopd had been awakened and they poured out of their camps to see what the shouting was about. Four emerged from a grass hut near a clearing. Amer ine ducked behind a log. Two disappeared down the trail, but the other two sat on the log be- nina wmch Amerine was crouch ing. Decided To Act "That was Just about the last straw," he continued. "All I could do was lay there while these two sat on the log talking. It was getting close to dawn and I imagined I could see it get ting light in the east. I had to be away from there by sunup. "I rose up quietly and with one roundhouse swing clipped both Japs on the head with the butt of my revolver. One of A sudden change in booking brings Damon Runyons 'The Big Street," to the Craterian theatre tomorrow for a four-day run instead of "Here We -Go Again." Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball have starring roles with a host of favorite Runyon, comedy characters played by I Eugene Pallette, Barton Mae Lane, Sam Levine, Marion Mar tin and Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra. Two important short subjects make up the side-splitting program with Walt Disney's Donald Duck in a brand new cartoon and Pete Smith's new "Football Thrills of 1941." Employed Students May negisier wennesaay or Thursday Nights is Word, "Sundown Jim" Coming to Holly H JS OTmnmrnmHNMHa THERE'S HEALTH APLENTY IN EVERY SPOONFUL OF DELICIOUS ALBERS OATSh As fast on the draw as he was an the gridiron, "Joltin Jawn" KImbrought comes through as thriller by that name coming to the Holly theatre tomorrow for a four-day fun as the added fonfnr tarifk ' Vf 1. . 1 "Sundown Jim." in the Western Bobby Blake. " them stayed down, but the other tried to get up. I hit him again and could feel his skull cave in under the impact of the blow I must have lost my head tem porarily for I went back and hit the first fellow again to make sure." "The last encounter I had with the enemy was early today when I came along the trail and over took one going my way. I came across him so suddenly I didn't see him until he saw me. He took a hasty shot at me. but be fore he could shoot again I was in me brush. He didn't bother to chase me. A few hours later I stumbled into one of our out posts. Those marines were the best sight I ever hope to see." fnysicians said he would be as fit as ever, with a few days rest and a few solid meals. !noy tht new, Improved flavor o'Albefi Oars either Quick or Old Fashioned. Cooks up risky, ftillbodiej mmr mushy. Thrifty, too. Thit type of food is amort those recommended In tht Numtion Food Rules to nuke America strong. "II sure toitti iwtlll" Alhm n. slso bring! you the body-building, . ncrjty-giving nourishment of pun ' whole grain, u the belt lultrsl source of pep-up Viumin Bj. Keeps em qotnqfS'ti noon b ft IC FOR SUITS USE 0 MAIL TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED ADS! LIVESTOCK Portland Produce Portland Portland. Bept. 83 (VP) Cattle 200. calvee 200. Market alow, quality plain, asking steady. Common grass steers held around $9.60 to 10.50. Best grasaera Monday $13.50. fed steers to S14 35. Pew common hellers iield above 110. Canner and cutter cows $14.75 to SS.7S. Medium beet cowe 17.73 to S8.50. Good young cows Monday to $9.75. Medium to good bulls $9 90 to ill. Choice vealera SIS. Two loads range vealera unsold held around $13.60 to 14 or above Hogs: jso. Few sales steady with late Monday or weak 29 cents under early Monday. Good to choice 180-310 pound $i75. acme held huher Oood 439-833 pound sows IIS. Feed er pl;a quotable at 19. Sheep 200. Oood to choice spring lamha scarce, saleable steady or around 111 40 to 111 79. Monday's top mo. entrance lames, red food feeders 19 90. Oood ewes to 14 30. Portland. Sept. 22 (UP) Brans, sales 8-lOc lb generally, LI mas In shell around 11.90 lug. Lablsh onions 11.30-1 38 for SOs. Oreen onions mostly 90o dozen hun ches. Cauliflower mostly 11.30 crate. Cabbage scarce to 19 crate. ' Anjou pears to 11.23 box. a few Bartletts 11.301 ticket 11.10 peach box. Hale peaches to 11-35. Elbertaa 11.13 box. 81lclng cucumbers eoe box with sickling aorta 70e-i box. Some !cmon eucumbera 50c box. Concord grapes moved at 83c lug. Curly cabbage 75s cauliflower crate. Red Peppers to 11.50 box. Quinces II flat. Jonathan applet to $1.75 box, with some Gloria K.undsy 11.25. Tomatoes S0c-1 23 box, the latter for a few heavy packs. Erea Prl-e to producers: A large 45c; B large 40c; A medium 40c. Live poultry selling price by re ceivers: Light hena 20Sc: medium hena 21c; colored hena 2314 c Registration for new pupils at senior and junior high schools will be held tomorrow and Thursday form 2 to S d. m. and e:30 until 10 p. m. at the schools students not working should re port during the afternoon period ana mote wno are employed may register during the evening pen -ki, a. it. nedrlck, city school superintendent announced to- oay. , Senior and Junior high schools open Monday and a genera meeting for faculty members will be held at Junior high school Saturday at 9 a. m. with oupi. Hedrick presiding. Prin cipals' meetings with teachers of me respective schools will fol low Immediately. Urged to Aid Harvest supt. Hedrick said, "Although it seems advisable that we open " aviiuois at mis time to gel the required number of dav. in the school year, I strongly urge an Doys ana gins who are em ployed In the fruit harvest and other necessary employment In this community to remain at meir jobs a week or two after scnools open if necessary. The teachers will so shape their in struction mat they may eaten up the work after thev come in . "There are two good reasons for this. Wages are high and work is plentiful. Boys and girls have a chance now to lay up a little money for themselves which they may not have again very soon. Second, with the la bor situation as critical as it is. it is a patriotic duty to stay on the Job until the peak of the la bor need Is over." . Pre-Flight Course A course that is entirely new in high school and one that is being offered In the larger high schools over the nation at the suggestion of the government is pre-flight aeronautics. This is a full year course, open to both boys and girls of the senior class who can qualify for it. It is be ing taught by Miss Mary Jean Barnes, who is a graduate of Southern Oregon College of Ed ucation and is licensed DlloL Two other classes that also re flect the present emergency and wnicn win oe offered If there is sufficient demand are vocational cooking for boys and a nutrition course for girls. The cooking class will be intense and practi cal and designed to enable those who complete it to accept posi tions in civilian capacities or en able them to gain better ratings should they enlist in the army and navy. The girls' course will also have both its civil and military implications and will conform v' vr i v I j Pt - V ri i - I'M" " , . (Acm TtlephMo) Ueut. Gen. Thomas Holcomb. commandant of the Marine Corps, offers President Roosevelt, right, a Japanese nag which Major Jamss Reorevelt helped capture during 0:3 recent raid on the Jap-h;ld Makin Island in the Pacific Tht President, however, refused the flag, suggesting that it be placed in the Marine Corps archives. Roxy Romancing Dorothy Lamour gives Wil liam Holden a lot of attention in "The Fleet's In," rousing musical comedy opening a three- night run tonight at the Roxy meaire. "Treat 'Em Roueh." featurlne Eddie Albert, plays as the com panion picture. 4-I E Portland Wheat Portland,' Ore. Wheat range: Open High Sept. 1.10A 1.10 Dec 1.12A 1 12 Cash grain: Wheat: Sept. 22 (UP) Low Close 1.10 1.10A 1.12 1.12A 8. white (hd. wm. app. MS: 8. white (hd. wh. no Rext I.1S: White club 1.18: West ern Red, t.18: hard red winter, ordi nary. 1.11; hard whlte-Baart, ordinary, no quote. Oata: No. 2-48 lb. white. SO 30. Barley: No. 2-43 lb. west, 23.73. Corn: No 2-B. T. ship., no quote. Aouth Ran rranrlseo South San Pranelaco. Sept. 22 iUPi iUsdai cattle loo. . ruliy ; steady: medium to good fed steers ! absent, quoted 13 00-13 30; package I range cowa a 30-B.73. few heavy dairy i cows 8 00. cannrrs and cutters 8 30- 7 23: medium taueage bulls 130-10 00 calves: None, nominal. i nis fum:na aoc higher, one loan Oregon 13 33. extreme top; bulk j 1S9-333 lb barrows and gllta 13 23. one heavy load 14 83; good sows 25c nivner. top 13 50. Sheep 830. holdovers 20000 Slow, weax: good t- choice lam&e scarce numerous decgt medium to good lamoa enable 11 00-12 00. lower grades sharply discounted; medium to choice twee 4 23-5 00. Chicago Chleeeo. Sept. 22 (PPI (CSDA) Livestock: Hogs JIOOO; fairly ac tive; mostly 18 to 23 o-nts hither lulk pood and choice 200-300 lbs. 4 90-14 00 Sows 14 30-14 83. Sheep 8 000; op.-nlng tales on all daughter elasee around tteady; bulk wod and choice ranee and nauve spring lambs 14 23-14 30; few choice natives held upward to 14 78 Several decks good to choice slaughter ewes 3 7S-8 0O. small lot lightweight natives 0 25 Cattle 000: calvet I 200; fed steers and yearltn.-t top 18 90: bulk 15 00 18 50; hetfert 14 75-15 30; cutter eowa to 8 00; heavy s.una?t bulls 12 25: vealera mainly 115 down: close ly sorted. Stock cstt;e mainly 1100- 13 50. with good to choice calves Chicago Wheat NEW WASHABLE PAINT lx A 1 closely to the needs dictated by the national effort in this field Enrollees in this course should be girls of good personality, of some maturity anjd purpose. Both junior and senior high schools will continue to give in struction in first aid, air raid de fense and other war work, Hed rick stated. Use Mall Tribune Waut ads. Kenneth A. McKenzIe, new 4-H Club agent for Jackson coun ty has arrived and is taking over the position vacated by L. E. Francis, August IS. Mr. Me Kenzie has a good background in this type of work, graduating! from Washington State College in 1MZ7 and taking graduate work in that institution in 1930 and 1931. He served as assist ant county agent and club agent in Yakima county, Washington and in Wasco county, Oregon, before coming to Jackson coun ty. The Importance of 4-H club work makes It necessary that no serious break be made in the continuity of the program, and the arrival of Mr. McKenzie in the county Just before the an nual 4-H club fair will give him a chance to get acquainted with the club leaders and members. Closing time for Classified ads 8 a. m. To late to Classify 12:30 P. m. CRASH KILLS PILOT Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 22 (U.R) The pilot of an army pursuit plane was burned to death to day when his disabled ship crashed and burned near tha Middletown, Pa., air corpi de pot. One body, burned beyond recognition, was removed from the wreckage. Colorado Is seven times larger than Switzerland and its moun tain area is six times as great 34 YEARS OP COMPLETI INSURANCE SERVICE PA'jRolmes Vgengv INCS I90O MEDFORD BUILDINQ PHONE 4444 No one would like a highball- Chicago, Sept. 22 (UP) Oram rane: Wheat: Open High- Sept 1.24 125H Dec 1.27 128 May..... UOi, ISIVj Low 1 24 i 1 27 1.30H Close 1J3H 1 :27', U0H GOES ON RIGHT OVER WALLPAPER! I m.llitl.'I'l.'Hli-lilg J Wall St. Report New York. Sept. - 22. (U R) Selected issues, particularly rails, led the stock market for ward today to the best genera) level since JJuly 9 and trading volume also expanded to the beat total since that date. There were few features In the main stock list, but relative ly heavy demand came into many lowest priced Issues and a targe number set new 1942 peaks. Reorganization rails at tracted main attention on the outlook for favorable treatment for those companies under the proposed tax bill. S. F. DAIRY PRICES San Francisco, Sept. 22. AJ.R' Butter prices were Irreeular today on an otherwise firm dairy prouucis market. Butter: 92 score. 47; 91 score, 46; 89 score. 4Hi. Cheese: Wholesale flats. 24ti: triplets, 24. E.uks: Large extras. 48'4: medium. 45; large standards. 42: llailVfHIMiM This new, scientifically develop ed resin paint makes painting quicker, easier, more economi cal, than ever before. Let us demonstrate I SNCetWfr.-rVfLf.MM Sta QQ GALLON Mia 1 gallon with water and make IVs gallons paint. your coat, ready SIM NfVVfSr fASTtL C010M HUBBARD BROS. Main k Riv. Phone 2119 that's why Imperial "veieted" is V33223 VP L Nee. en ft pels seem! isefa Case. Its! Mm (mm a Sm fat, SI 30 PINT $950 QlJtRT IMPERIAL "Velr-atad" for extra smoothness! Like) Imperial's rare base whiskies, its choice) spirits are made in the world's largest distillery-then "velveted" by a method similar to the softening of spirits used in making fine Scotch. Tlavor-peakexr (or extra richness 1 Thit uperb American blend has that expensive, Imported-whiskey" flavor because its foun dation whiskies are specially distilled to give them individual qualities-then blended to gether to a delicate "flavor peak." Today try the whiskey that's "inat-foT two big reasons.1" IMPERIAL 12 Q0 14 00. Cat Mall Tribune Waal ads. Ismail, 31. I V -tall Tribune Want ads, t