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PAGE SIX PRAYER AND GULL IE (Conttmwd from Tf Om) pie to realize that," he said. As for himself and the men with him. "we couldn't have lasted another 48 hours" If res cue hadn't come when it did. Rirkenbacker arrived at Bol line Field here this momltif and was immediately escorted to the war department to report to Stimson. Later Stlmson called reporters In and turned over Ms chair to the captain. "He's back and I think there's more of him here than went away, Stimson said. Rlckenbacker started speak' lng slowly but quickly warmed up. At times he grinned. At times he spoke softly. Occasion ally he was reverent. On the second day after their big B IT went down, "we or ganized prayer meetings in the morning and In the evening. he said. "Frankly and humbly we prayed for our deliverance, Rlckenbacker had one story to tell which, apparently, he feared would be met with skep ticism. "If It wasn't for the fact that I had seven witnesses," he said, "I wouldn't dare tell it." The story was that "one hour after the prayer meeting" one day, when starvation was at hand and the men had asked God for food, "a seagull landed on my shoulder." Rlckenbacker's tense face re laxed into smile at he con tinued. "You can imagine my ner vousness as I reached around to Cet it," he said. "But I caught it, and we wrung its neck. We feathered it and stripped its Innards, which we used, for bait." The seagull kept them alive. But when, on the next day, an other gull landed on his shoul der, "I didn't have the heart to wring Its neck and I let him go," Rlckenbacker said. San Diego, Cal. U.R Field Marshal Erwln Rommel, who now is abandoning his battered tanks on the Egyptian desert, ac quired his careless habits in World War I, according to Char les A. McDougall, aircraft work er. McDougall has an aluminum butter dist which he picked up in an abandoned German offi cers' lean-to on the Argonne front in September 1918, when he was signalman with the 28th Division. On it is engraved the name and address of If -year-old Lieutenant Rommell, now the field marshal. lo ALL of Our Customers Who Havs So Generously Patronized Us This Past Year We Will Be Closed Christmas Day Saturday and Sunday Plan your food and meat needs for three days Pleas plac your order for Delivery early, QUALITY MARKET 217 West Main FOR WINTER COMFORT CLASS IN YOUR SERVICE PORCH INSTALL STORM WINDOWS THE COST IS MODERATE PADGHAM PLANING MILL TZT COALS AT NEWCASTLE The Here's an example above as a scrap pile at Pittsburgh FOOL WITH POOR COLLEGE STUDENT Los Angeles. Dec. 19 (U.B War Is no time to bother with poor students Dr. Joseph Kap lan, chief of the physics and meteorology department of Uni versity of California at Los Angeles told the Western Col lege Association conference here today. There is no need to abandon traditional academic values," he said, "but will have to have teacher training courses of a new kind soon." He added that 80 per cent of the meteorology students who graduated November 30 already were overseas. Dr. Auella Relnhardt, presi dent of Mills .College, told the meeting that "war has exposed a certain feebleness in colleges." 'A girl could go through col lege, have a delightful time, get degree and then forget all about It," she said. "Thia is go ing to pass." Educators were assured by President E. Wilson Lyon of Pomona College that the army and navy are not taking over colleges. He said a sort of dual system will prevail, and normal programs would continue as usual. He said It was a mistake to change the education of women too much, as the need for teach ers, nurses, social welfare and similar workers was great. The manpower commission will shortly announce specific regulations for training men needed for science, medicine and technology. Dr. Balwln Woods, head of the extension division of University of California in formed the session. San Francisco, Dec. 19 U.B The light cruiser USS Reno will be launched about 11 a. m. Dec. 23, the navy announced to night. Phone 47S AND w -i yv.'Snw. uJt 1,'t.x:" . fid MEDFORD MAIL steel Industry It doing its bit, too. burner dismantles an obsolete narrow gauge engine boiler for I district plant of the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporation. Chinese-English Dictionary Is Now Half -Way Completed By Anne Thomas United Press Staff Correspondent Cambridge, Mass. U.B The task of compiling a Chinese English dictionary with a Yankee slant a project destined to consume more time than did the building on the Panama Canal Is nearing the half-way mark. War slowed down but did not stop the Harvard-Yenching In stitute's tremendous undertaking of the American lexicographer's dream. When the first issue rolls off the presses it will hold be tween its covers close to 500,000 man-hours of labor in a period of 19 years. More than seven-and-a-half years of labor have already gone into the project and according to Prof. Serge Ellsseeff, head of the Institute, at least eight years' work lies ahead. The Chinese English dictionary now in wide use is far behind modern stand ards. It was written in 1892 by Herbert Giles, an Englishman, and contains too many Anglic isms for the American liking. The new dictionary will incor porate modern, classical and new war terms in a more solid lin guistic method. No Slang Included Prof. Ellsseeff says although there will be biological and ana tomical terms hitherto foreign to most Chinese dictionaries, there won't be any slang or Chinese translations for words of Ameri can vintage such as "Jitter bugging" it's not considered' good taste in China. Workers point out it took 80 years to complete the Oxford English dictionary which treats of one language with an alpha bet and IS years on a bi-lingual dictionary is pretty good con sidering there is no Chinese al phabet and lexicographers work with 40,000 characters. The work was begun as a purely academic proposition by the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 1033 under the general super vision of Prof. Serge Ellsseeff. world-famed authority on Far Eastern languages. Prof. William Hung began the preliminary work In Peking when he direct ed a corps of Chinese students In cutting up and pasting 17 Chinese dictionaries on cards. By 1938. the last of a million-and-a-half cards had reached Cambridge. Included in the 17 basic Chinese dictionaries were the first and last to be written the Shuo Wen brought out in 121 A. D.. and the Tz'u Hal com pleted In 1937, the 26th year of the Chinese republic. Use 423 Filing Cases The Institute l at ln.t ki. i lift its head from the prelimin ary chaos of shuttling the cards across the ocean, weeding out a quarter million duplicates, fil ing and refiling them In 423 cases, and clearing up the ted ious ground-work. Prof. Yeun-Chao. In charge of phonetics of the dictionary, and me jour luii-ume and many part time workers under his direc tion, have completed one-fifth of the dictionary. The new diction ary will be valuable to the rapid ly growing number jf Americans taking up the study of Chinese I as it contains In one volume all me material now scattered through several. No Chinese words will be coined and the new English war-te'rms will betranslated Into established Chinese. For In TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. In the way of steel salvage stance, anti-aircraft will be a "high-shooting gun." The dic tionary will use the North Pe kingese pronunciation as a standard, but will Include the Fukien and Canton dialect pro nunciations. T IS ENDED WITH LEAD Washington, Dec. 19 (U.R A Japanese patrol got by the first sentry on the Solomons by giving the formal password In fluent English, according to Pvt. August R. Montgomery, 23, of Terre Haute, Ind., but the patrol ran into difficulty and a hall of lead in trying to get a Uttle more conversational with the second sentry. Montgomery, now recuperat ing in a San Diego, Cel., hos pital, recalled in a story re leased by the navy tonight how the over-confident Japanese ap proached the second marine, who was guarding the American en campment of sleeping troops. 'Hy, buddy, what outfit is this," askd the first Japanese. "Yeh, what's the dope?" a sec ond one Inquired. This time, however, they were confronted by a marine who had seen service In China and could detect a Jap accent a mile away. His part of the conversation was carried on by his Garand rifle. NEW PLANE GLASS RESISTS BULLETS New York (U.R) Pilots and gun crews of today's pursuit snips and high flying bombers are depending on a new type of armor for protection against enemy bullets a plate glass armor. Although transparent as your windows at home, this new war plane armor, developed by the LiDDey-uwens-Ford Co., la cap able of resisting the Imp-', of high calibre bullets while at the same time it allows pilata and gun crews -'nhampered vision. YICK SO CHINESE HERB CO. Jackson Co. Bank Bldg. the) J. H. Leong, Herbalist RHEUMATISM kidney. heart, stomach ulc.rs. sinus, asthma, ca ecs.ma. and ether core and all disorder, oi liver, t.rrh. piles, prostate gland, plaints disappear after using CHIS HERBS OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1942 TO ARMY FLIERS ON AERICA FRONT Allied Headquarters. North Africa, Dee. 17 U.R (Delayed) MaJ. Gen. James H. Doollttle today announced the award of three distinguished flying crosses and 81 other decorations to members of the 12th U. S. air force for heroic and meritor ious service In the North African theater. The DFC was awarded to Col. Paul L. Williams, of (2303 Wel lington Rd.) Los Angeles, Cel.: Col. John Hawkins, of San An tonio, Tex., and Capt. Robert M. Ritchie, of Morrison. 111. Williams was cited for organi zation of a troop carrying com mand and dropping paratroops "on an extremely dangerous mission" over the extreme for ward area on November 29. Hawkins was honored for commanding a tighter group from an airport near Oran and "for meritorious achievements while participating in an aerial flight and for exceptionally mer itorious service In position of great responsibility. Ritchie was cited for piloting a photographic mission 8,000 feet over Bizerte and Tunis de spite heavy anti-aircraft fire. On the return trip, he eluded a Ger man Messerschmltt fighter de spite one disabled engine. The Oak Leaf cluster award went to : 1st Lt. Charles C. Ken worthy, Jr., of Shenandoah, Iowa. (Kenworthy since has been promoted to captain.) j JEWS TO REGISTER 1 London, Dec. 19 (U.PJ Radio , Paris reported today that all Jews in Greece between 18 and 43 years old have been ordered to register with military authori ties. Ceo. L Jantser Cm MU Trlbun Want Ads. 1 1 J I r i n a H--",,.!, f V ,-, ;f faTil all .ttioBf h Old Sheriffs V Now Gives Light For Fires; Cost Is $10 Philadelphia U.B-r Capt. Join J. King, head of the Fire Bureau's emergency crew, and his mechanics have turned night into day for $10. It cost them that much to con v rt an old sheriff's van Into floodlight wagon, thereby sav ing the city 817.090. "It's a beauty," said King. "It's something I've dreamed of for years." King contended that dark ness caused more Injuries than fires and that what the city need ed was a floodlight wagon to illuminate night fires. Three months ago King was given an old sheriff's van and told he might use lt for an emer gency truck. It seemed top heavy, so King removed tp i old steel box down to the chassis. He obtained - from William Caldwell, Pennsylvania railroad fire marshal, two old 1,300-watt generators, some old searchlights and oldds and ends from a motor training school. "Does it work?" exulted King. "Why, you should have seen It turn night into day at its first Silver Fox Scarfs Collart Capet For Christmas ' NOW ON DISPLAY SNOWLINE Silver Fox Farm 4 Milea From Talent oa Wagner Creek Road -bT3t of WEST COAST WOOD! When you read headlines "UNITED NATIONS INVADE EUROPE" . . . "BA TAAN FALLS TO ATTACKING AMERI CANS" back of them you will tee picture of endless invasion barges carrying thousands of fighting troops, and swarms of tanks, gun and fighting machines I Vou'll know that just a few months before, thousands of those invasion barges were Alley Bros. Lumber Company McGraw-ColIIns Lumber Compter I". C. Coets Lumber Company Medford Corporation Hermann Bro. Lumber Company Mt. 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Yeal "They need BARGES". ..and yo t for est front army la delivering 'em fasti The men of lumber march forward I Mill k Lumber Compenr Closing time for Claalflsd ml a a. m. Too late to Cluslff is So p. m. With tire and gasoline rationing it won't be so easy to drive into the mountains for your Christ mas tree and greens this year . . . Why not bring the Christmaa atmosphere to your home with-. ml INC. mm 13031309 COURT ST. PHONE 47S0
