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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1942 PAGE SEVEN PINKLEY TO GIVE E United Press Executive Speaks Here 9 P. M. Sat . urday Mayfield Presides Just back from 68,000-mile, round-the-world tour of fighting and diplomatic fronts, Virgil Pinkley, United Press European manager, will speak at the Med ford senior high school auditori um at 9 p. m. Saturday, under sponsorship of the Medford Mail Tribune, Rotary club and League of Women Voters. The public is cordially invited to hear the not ed newsman report on his many thrilling experiences and give an "inside" picture of the world at war. Pinkley, who knows well the barren desert areas of Libya, one of the vital battlefields of current operations will be introduced by Leonard B. Mayfield, Medford high principal. A special section has been reserved for officers and their wives of the 6 1st infan try division and the Service Com mand Unit of Camp Wfiite. H.dg.-Hopplng Flight "Just imagine flying at 300 miles an hour, barely 15 or 20 feet off the ground, with winds whipping your plane about and swirls of desert sand clouding your vision," Pinkley said. "Well that's the sort of thing the RAF fliers are doing out there In I North Africa every day. Those hedge-hopping flying tactics are one of the new developments of! desert fighting." j Pinkley made one such flight! over German and Italian posi tions in Libya while directing' United Press coverage on that! front. "I was at one of the advance air fields, which the British have titled "perching grounds,' when an opportunity was offered me to fly in a Beau Fighter in actual, combat," Pinkley said. "I ac cepted the assignment, with only a vague notion of the kind of ac tion I was letting myself in for. Enemy Hates 'Em "These Beau Fighters are one of Britain's finest planes and are hated by the Germans and Ital ians In North Africa because they've learned to fear them as much or more than any other single item of British equip ment." Pinkley said the plane roared Into the air but lifted only about 20 feet above the ground. "I asked the pilot why we were flying so low. He explained that planes flying just above the ground are almost impossible to spot until they're directly over their target and come over at such close range and at such speed that the enemy hasn't time to bring anti-aircraft or machine guns into action. Loos Deadly Hall "Soon I had an opportunity to see the British fighting tactics in actual application. Our pilot spotted a concentration of about 75 Italian trucks. We caught them unaware and the gunner opened up. Beau Fighters mount four air cannon and six machine guns. That concentration of fire power enables them to pour out a deadly hail of 8,00 rounds of ammunition minute.1 Flying low and at high speed, Pinkley said, it was almost im possible to check the effects of that destructive fire. "But as we zoomed away," he added, "we could see men scram bling for cover in panic and counted about 20 of the 75 trucks afire. Other Beau Fight ers following us on each wing completed the job." That was but one of many In teresting and exciting experi ences of this youthful, globe trotting, newsgatherer. An ac complished lecturer as well as a reporter, he will bring his au dience colorful first-hand ac counts from 22 countries which he has visited during the past ten months. BIRTHS American Secret Weapon Rips Panzer Divisions in El Alamein Front Battle By Richard D. McMillan United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1942 by United Press) New York, Dec. 18 U.R The biggest surprise of the war came to the Germans one diy along the El Alamein front, when there was a series of terrific flashes and big armor-piercing shells ripped and withered the Nazi panzer divisions. An American secret weapon, destined to turn the tide of battle ROY To Mr. and Mrs. E. J., Merrick's Auto camp, Medford, December 18, a girl, seven pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. PINKHAM To Mr. and Mrs. Arden, Central Point, December 17, a girl, seven pounds, at Sac red Heart hospital. TOMPKINS To Mr. and Mrs. O. L., 537 Mae street, Medford, December 18, a girl, eight pounds, at Sacred- Heart hos pital. 8. F. DAIRY PRICES San Francisco, Dec. 18. (U.R) Dairy market Butter: 92 score, 49; 91 score, 47 89 score, 45. Cheese: Wholesale flats, 26V4; triplets, 26. Eggs: Large extras, 50',4; large standards; 45V4: small, 31 V4; medium. 45V4. 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Gunners Trained - That night they were moved quickly up to the front lines. British and New Zealand gun ners had been especially trained to operate the guns at stations miles in the rear of the front lines. That night, as they rode up to the front through the dust of the desert tracks, one of the gunners said to me: I "It's the best gun we have ever handled." j I watched the guns wheel Into position and open fire. The shells ripped through the armor of all types of Axis tanks German Ills, Mark IVs and the new Ital ian Semoventes. The panzer di visions crumpled under the fire, their lines dissolved and they retreated. But they reformed in 1 the rear and came back for more, hardly believing that any weap- J on could be so destructive. ! They got another dose of the same medicine. It was mystify ing to the Germans, probably as great a surprise as they re ceived when the first tanks lum-; bered toward their lines in the World War. Enemy Outranged The more the British Eighth armyused the American gun, the more devastating became the ef fect on the enemy. The Germans brought up heavy cannon of their own In an attempt to silence the new. weapon, but they found to their dismay that the American gun outranged them and that their own shells were falling short of British positions. One great asset the American guns have is that they can move rapidly. Throughout the duels they deployed continually, blaz ing away all the time. Even the appearance of the new gun Is terrifying, particu larly during night fighting. It gives off a vivid and impressive flash as It fires and it has an unusual shape that in night shad ows makes it look like a mon ster waddling over the desert sands. I am not permitted to describe details of the gun, but I can tell something about how it was con ceived. An American army offi cer was sent on a mission to the middle east to report to Wash ington on the type of modern weapons which the British forces needed to stem Rommel's drive for Suez and then counterattack. R.medy Prescribed During the retreat from the Gazala line last July I traveled over hundreds of miles of desert with this officer. "The weapon which we need out here," he told me, "Is a self propelling anti-tank gun. It. must have speed so that it can dash in and fight the enemy panzers and then dash away again. It Is the obvious successor to the tank Itself. The gun is more impor tant In modern war than the tank. If you can use a tractored vehicle to propel under its own power a hard-hitting, all-purpose artillery piece, you have the ene my at your mercy." interpreted by Attorney General Piddle to mean things that the congress never contemplated. The Democrats do not consider this cricket. . ONE retired congressman who is not soliciting the White House for a lame duck Job is Walter M. Pierce. After three months at Palo Alto, Pierce will settle down at Eugene and deliver a course of lectures on congression al procedure to students of the University of Oregon. Over in another pert of the university, Cornelia Marvin Pierce, his sec retary, will be indexing the let ters, bills and papers which Pierce has accumulated in 10 years In congress and which he has shipped to the university. One of Pierce's final speeches "for the Record" is burning criticism of the war production blocked every attempt to locate an industrial development in the Washington-Oregon territory that will survive after the war. THIS year National Youth Ad ministration is spending more than $61,000,000 in training young people. Latest figures show there is an average of 53. 000 of these trainees. NYA Is conducted by Aubrey Williams, who, when attached to WPA. urged the reliefers to work and vote for the administration in order to secure continuation of the flow of relief. NYA was un der fire when the war came along and it then became an in strument to train youth to take Jobs in aircraft factories ship yards, etc., training which was already being done by the in dustrial plants at their own ex pense. Before this transformation. students in high schools, colleges and universities in the north west were receiving pay from NYA to the number of several thousand. If the economists can abolish NYA or transfer it to the bureau of education, which also has training courses In schools, the present set-up will be wiped out completely and save taxpayers a substantial sum. It Is expected, however, that the schools will assist NYA in the struggle to continue. LOOKS as though the house wife will have to prepare berries. vegetables and fish herself next of these articles on the table. And about the time she starts with the berries the sugar ra tioning will Interfere. The prin cipal critical material In can ning is tin, and that Is now- precious. To obtain tin for caps on beer bottles the brewers are now buying 10-gallon tin buck ets from restaurants and stamp ing the caps out of this material. "Victory" gardens, which were frowned upon this year because, it was argued, few people with such gardens knew how to work them and therefore wasted seed and fertilizer, will be advocat ed by the department of agri culture next spring and it is expected more effective effort will be made to encourage home canning. Rome, Dec. 18. (U.R) (Italian Broadcast Recorded by United Press in New York) Italian movements west in the region of the Gulf of Sirte are con tinuing, the high command said board which, he charges, has season if she expects to have any FUR Restyling, Repairing, Cleaning, Glazing Frances D.ll.lr. 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