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PAGE THREE U. P. Executive To Speak In Medford AFTER 3 WEEKS IN E MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1942 Pilot Makes Daring Landing on Floor of Canyon 3,000 Feet Deep For Couple. New Delhi, Dec. 13. (De layed) (U.R) Two American airmen who were lost for three weeki in the Himalayan wilder ness were recuperating today after a daring rescue pilot had managed two almost-impossible landings on the floor of a can yon 3,000 feet deep. Hospital authorities said Lieut. Cecil D. Williams, Union town, Pa., and Corp. Mathew J. Campabella, Hammonton, N. J., were "in reasonably good condi tion, but resting and fattening up" after an ordeal which started when they parachuted from an ice-heavy Douglas transport plane.' Ship Is Saved The pilot, Capt William S. Owens, Atlanta, Ga., ordered the two men to Jump, thinking the plane, far from its course and losing altitude rapidly, was doomed. Owens stuck to the controls and managed to bring the big ship home through a hole in the overcast. Pilots searched the area for three weeks, but to no avail. But on December 9 Tibetan arrived at U. S. army transport command headquarters with a letter from Williams asking for aid and giving their location deep in the poorly-charted wild erness of the Himalayan foot hills northeast of the Indian province of Assam. How the two men lived there for three weeks with only the Jungle kits strapped to their parachute packs was still unex plained. Camp Located A Douglas transport pilot lo cated their camp, but he was unable to land the big plane. The canyon where the men were marooned was surrounded by 3,000-foot walls rising straight up from a meadow which was only 300 yards long. . i i i an impossible undertaking, but MaJ. Paul C. Gror, Salt Lake tity, ; er of a fighter squadron, decided i . in ii PT-17 clane. UJ II1UJV13 a " J . , The marooned men and natives hacked away tree umDS on edge of the meadow to give mm every available inch of rm- i A a riAppmber 10. jl Lji iniiutu Campabella climbed into the .oo.r riane. Groi made ., - ... tm hsfnro he finally live buciufw" - , managed to get the plane into the air ana to pun iv u ,iiB in ntppn climb. Depositing Campabella, he re turned and rescued Williams similarly. FINAL EXAMINATIONS AT S0CE THIS WEEK Southern Oregon College of Education, Ashland, Dec. 15 (Spl. Final examinations win be held Thursday and Friday at 6Tne winter quarter will begin with registration on Tuesday, December 29. Beginning stu dents will find no trouble in registering for the winter team because beginning courses in aU subjects in the teacher educa tion curriculum are being pro vided. The following secretarial science subjects will be offered winter quarter: typing, short hand, accounting, office prac tice, business psychology and business law. iV V. S. Marine Colonel F. P. Malcahy. left, and Air Force Squadron Leader Lord Kinross, are shown above with United Press Executive Virgil Pinkler. In Libya. Pinkley will speak In Med ford next Saturday evening en his experiences en the war fronts and at the capitals of the world. Pinkley To Bring Message On Meaning of Total War The people of the United States and all the United Nations must awaken to the fact that they are Involved in a struggle of populations rather than a mere conflict between armed forces, in the opinion of United Press European Manager Virgil Pinkley, who will speak In Medford next Saturday in the high school auditorium at 8:30 p. m., under auspices of the League of Women Voters, the Rotary Club and the Mail Tribune. The young news service exec-l utive said that fact was impressed upon him during a ten months 'round-the-world newsgathering assignment from which he re cently returned home. "In the course of my travels," Pinkley said, "I talked to scores of outstanding Allied leaders. Most of them admitted frankly that their people in the main have not yet grasped the mean ing of total war, as it is executed by the dictators. Hard to Understand "People who for generations have enjoyed democratic gov ernment," Pinkley said, "find it most difficult to conceive of the complete regimentation which total war demands." Pinkley is personally familiar with what the Axis system of regimentation entails. He trav elled extensively in Italy and Germany before the United States entered the war, and has visited most of the fighting fronts on news assignments. "In spite of everything that has bee said and written about Axis ambitions, many of the peo ples of the United Nations still are unable to comprehend the enormity of the program of our enemies and the vastness of the task confronting us if the demo cratic way of life Is to be pre served. The talk by the United Press executive, a world traveler, war correspondent and accomplished lecturer, will be free and the public is Invited. Long Observation Pinkley's keen analysis of war developments is based on 13 years of trained observation and objective reporting of news for the United Press on four conti nents. It is based also on recent interviews and talks with such key figures in the world struggle as General Sir Claude Auchin- leck, commander of British forces in the Middle East; Mahatma Gandhi; the Shah of Persia; the Viceroy of India; Prime Minis ter General Jan Christian Smuts, of the Union of South Africa; the Archbishop of Canterbury; Dr. Benes, president of Czechoslovak- ia; Premier General Sikorsky of Poland; British Minister of Pro duction Lyttleton, and Minister of Labor Bevin; Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, and many others. Said Pinkley: "It is the opin ion of most Allied leaders with whom I have talked that Russia of all the United Nations has best glared its civil population to to tal war. China, in many respects, has done the next best Job. Brit ain and the United States still are a long way from the goal." Pinkley contrasted the attitude of citizens in the democracies with that of civilians in Ger many, Japan and to a lesser ex tent, Italy. "The German people, Nazis and non-party members alike, he said, "have staked everything on winning the war. I recall that one of them told me In a typical conversation some months ago: " 'It is not a question of whether or not we favor Nazi methods. The fact is that Ger many is at war. And being at war, we must win. Every Ger man knows that he Is fighting to preserve the Fatherland and that the Germans will be destroyed if we lose. Every German from 6 to 72 is bending every effort to that end." Pinkley said that the Amer icans and civilians of other Unit ed Nations must recognize that they and their ways of life are Just as surely at stake that they will be destroyed if we lose. Just as certainly as Germany will be destroyed if she loses. .7 Washington. Dee. 15. (U.R) The 77th congress will adjourn the middle of this week and President Roosevelt will deliver his annual address to the new congress January 7, under a ten tative agreement reached at a White House conference Mon day. Speaker Sam Rayburn. D., Tex., said after the meeting be tween the .president and con gressional leaders that a resolu tion probably would be pre sented today for sine die ad Joumment of this congress Wed nesday or Thursday and for con vening of the new one Janu ary 6. S.O.C.E. CLASS ELECTS Ashland, Dec. 15 (Spl.) Pa tricia Anderson of Ashland who was vice president of the fresh man class at the Southern Ore gon College of Education has been elected to fill the vacancy left by Robert Hollenbeck who has enlisted in the United States Army. Richard Ormond also of Ashland was elected vice presi dent of the freshman class at the regular class meeting De cember 9. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 15 (U.R) The army's seventh service com mand officers and civilian de fense observers reported today that the nation s most extensive blackout, covering an area of 712,604 square miles in nine states, was successful beyond expectations. Observers In each of the par ticipating states Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Ne braska, Colorado, Wyoming. North and South Dakota re ported the blackout orders, with a few minor exceptions, had been obeyed to the letter. One death was reported direct ly caused by the test. Air raid warden Charles H. Graby, about 60, was killed when struck by a police car at Creston, Iowa. In St. Louis, Mo., a three-alarm fire in the mid-town area was ob servable from the air and caused a flurry of excitement. Seven firemen were overcome by smoke. Brig. Gen. U. S. Grant, III national commander of the citi zens defense corps and grandson of the Civil War general, said the results of the test exceeded his expectations. Capt. R. J. Joyce, army flier who piloted the plane in which Grant and other officials observed the blackout, said it was the best he had ever seen. "Nothing on the Pacific coast even approached It," Joyce said Vandenberg Denies He'll Be Candidate Washington, Dec. 15. (U.R) Senator Arthur U. Vandenberg, R Mich., said today that he is not and will "not be a candidate for president" in 1944. In a letter to Jay G. Hayden, Washington representative of the Detroit News, Vandenberg said he believed the Republicans would pick a candidate from "the new timber which is richly available for this leadership and which will become more so as the war progresses." 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