Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 24, 1942, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1942 PAGE FIVE LOCAL and PERSONAL! LAVAL AGREES TO Herigstad Transferred Haak on Herigstad, attendant at the United Air Lines station, left Monday night by mainliner for Rock Springs, Wyoming, where he was transferred by the line. . V Ul ting Here Clarence Starcher of Caliee arrived in the city yesterday to spend the Christmas holidays with his son, Bren H. Starcher and fam ily. traumas In Mew York Lt. and Mrs. R. A. Naumes of 1001 S. Oakdale avenue, were regis tered at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City last week, ac cording to the hotel's press serv ice. Bikes Stolen Two stolen bi cycles were reported to city po lice yesterday. Marvin Doty of 1322 Locust street and Bob Gault of 115 Kenwood both re ported their wheels stolen from In front of a local theatre. Holloway Home Ensign Wm. A. Hollaway. Jr., U.S.N.R., a senior in the school of dentistry at the University of California, arrived in Medford yesterday morning to spend five days with bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Holloway, Sr.. 323 Mae street. To School Pvt. Mervyn R. Chastaln, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Chastaln of 704 North Central avenue, has been or dered to Ft. Knox, Ky., to at tend an advanced mechanical school, following three months of desert- maneuvers near Needles, Calif., according to word received by his parents. Pvt. Chastaln, a 192S graduate of Medford high school and an all-state basketball player, en tered the army last April from Grants Pass, where he was re siding at that time. Son Wounded A telegram was- received from the war de partment today by Wm. A. Hook er, Route 2, Medford, stating that his. son, Pvt. Alfred C. Hooker, infantryman, had been seriously wounded in action in the southwest Pacific area and that further information on his condition would be sent as soon as .possible. Pvt. Hooker, who graduated from. Medford high school and had been employed by the local office of the South ern Pacific railway, went Into the army last March and had been stationed in New Guinea. Police Arrest Five Five ar rests for traffic violations were made by state police yesterday. Howard Smith Waggener, Pros pect, was arrested for having an axle overload on his truck and will appear in court this after noon. David Wells Bradley, Talent, was arrested for having combination overload and is to appear in court December 28. Donald George Lilly of Lake Creek was arrested for having no P.U.C. declared weight re ceipt and is also booked to ap pear December 28. Also ar rested for an axle overload was Robert William Jones of Trail, and he Is booked for court De cember 28. Jess Delbert Forsch ler, Central Point, was picked up for having no operator's li cense and will come up in court on December 28. Men la Court Three men were in city police court this morning charged with being drunk in a public place. Leon ard E. Tucker, 48, was fined f 10 on the drunken ess charge; Al bert W. Calhoun. 88. was sen tenced to serve 10 days In the city Jail and Allen C. Reichel doerfer, 57, forfeited f 10 bail. Home From School K. Rob ert Allan, second-year student of architecture at the University of Oregon, Eugene, arrived In Medford Wednesday morning to spend the holidays with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. K. R. Allan, Pacific Highway south. Young Allan will return to Eugene for the opening of school on Decern ber 28. Report Money Loss Two re ports of theft of money were re ported to city police yesterday. Jewell Cox reported loss of bis billfold, containing $105 and numerous papers, from his room at the Crater Hotel, and Mrs. Lillian Gilham, Route 1, report ed that her purse had been snatched by two boys as she walked in the 700 block on East Main street. Mrs. Gilham stated the purse contained $12 and several receipted bills. TO HELP HITLER Ankara, Dec. 23 (U.B De layed) Well-informed neutral sources said today that Pierre Laval had agreed, subject to the approval of Marshal Henri Pe tain, to send four divisions of French "volunteers" to aid Adolf Hitler in Russia and to turn over the physical equipment of the French army and navy to the Germans Laval, bringing France Into ever-closer collaboration with the Axis, has conferred with Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano. Under the agreement, it was said, Germany after taking over the equipment of the French ar my and what Is left of the French navy will repay France for Its losses after the war. BADLY BUFFETED BY RAF. BOMBS London, Dec. 24 U.B Royal Air Force bombers In four heavy raids between Nov. 28 and Dec. 9 seriously damaged 70 Impor tant Italian industrial factories and workshops, including 10 Fiat airplane plant units at Turin, the air ministry announced today. The communique, the first of ficial British report detailing de struction by the RAF in a se ries of attacks on the "soft un derbelly" of the Axis, said about an acre of the state arsenal was destroyed. "Many Industrial plants were gutted completely and others were so seriously damaged that they seem to be out of commis sion, the communique said. The British bomber fleets, In cluding Lancasters, H u d s o n s, Sterlings and Halifaxes; blasted Turin six times between Nov. 18 and Dec. 9. Two and four-ton block-buster bombs were cred ited with inflicting the major damage. The raids covered in to day s communique were made the night of Nov. 28 and 29 and Dec. 8 and 9. TO FAVOR PAY HIKES Washington, Dec. 24. (U.R) Paul R. Porter, chairman of the War Production board wage stabilization committee, said to day he would submit recom mendations early next week to the War Labor board for wage increases at Boeing Aircraft Co., plants at Seattle and Renton, Wash. In India an "aircraft carrier" refers to the 60-foot salvage trucks dispatched to recover bombers and fighter planes that have crashed. , to our Friends & W 4 aWN 3& GEO. A. HUNT THEATRES, Inc. :V.. S Special Christmas MATINEES Tomorrow at Yovr MEDFORD THEATRES 3 BR1G.-GENERALS SUFFER WOUNDS Gen. MaeArthura Headauar- ters, Australia, Dec. 24 (U.PJ The situation of Japanese forces In Eastern New Guinea "must now be regarded as desperate," the allied high command an nounced today. Australian and American forces, led by light tanks, had further reduced the Japanese beachhead in the Buna Mission area, occupying more jungle be tween Sineml Creek and the sea. Further evidence of the close quarters at which the ground fighting has been carried on in New Guinea is the word that three American brigadier gen erals had been wounded in ac tion. The American brigadiers wounded were Hanford Mac Nider, by a grenade In the ab domen and head November 22, Albert Waldron, shot In the shoulder by a sniper at Buna December 3, and Clovls B. Byers, shot in the hand Decem ber 16. All are expected to recover. r 1 1 r I) . S Lv .rri -f ,trV ,f ,f-t I f ' ,nv .r1 I PAGING BILL CODS Buflilo Bill Cody wasnt around to handle the situation, so police and parW employes took over in subduing this buffalo which escaped from San Francisco zoo with Intent to see the town. It's being placed In van for return to zoo. Father Tom, HI, Separated From Eskimos After 8 Years By Russell Annabel United Press Staff Corespondent Nome, Alaska (U.R) Father Tom Cunningham, New Zealand born Jesuit priest famed in the North for his work among the Eskimos, was in a hospital bed this week, separated from hit flock for the first time In eight years. Stricken by pneumonia as hel " was about to embark in a walrus- departed on an extended hunting FOR SOLDIER BOYS More families are opening their homes to Camp White sol diers for Christmas entertain ment than for Thanksgiving, ac cording to officials of the USO and the Outpost who are act ing as a clearing house for home hospitality. The USO has han dled almost 200 requests for sol diers for Christmas day dinners and other entertainment, and the Outpost about 135, it was stat ed today. At the Outpost many of the boys were extended personal In vitations from people they have met at the center, and in addi tion a request for 60 boys was handled from Yreka and several from Gold Hill, Talent and other near-by towns. The USE stated that the majority of the Invita tions handled there were from Medford people. CONFIDENT CHRISTMAS Washington, Dec. 24 (U.R) Secretary of State Cordell Hull today wished the American peo ple "a Christmas of supreme confidence" and said that this Is a time "for all of us to rededi eate ourselves to a unity of pur pose" In the world struggle. hide oomiak from Cape Prince of Wales for his home on barren, storm-swept Diomede island. Father Tom was flown back to Nome by Pilot Sig Wein and hos pitalized. His wild Diomede isl anders, the most primitive peo ple in the North, regretfully set out across Bering Strait without him after Father Tom had com manded them to do so. If they had waited the Arctic ice pack would have marooned them on the mainland uuntil spring. Lying on his hospital cot, the rangy, curiy-heaaea, 37-year-oia priest recalled the years he has spent among the Diomeae tsKi- mos. He spoke of his difficulties with the tribal medicine men. and especially of one Issak Kys sak, a venerable charlatan who claimed to be able to thrust knives Into his body and to pos sess the power to will people to death. Father Tom first chal lenged him to demonstrate the knife trick, and when the medi cine man refused to do so In the Jesuit's presence, Father Tom proclaimed him a fake. The priest next matched wills with Issak Kyssak when the lat ter informed an Eskimo girl who had Incurred his displeasure that she would die within six days. Father Tom admits that in nor mal circumstances the girl prob ably would have died within the stated time, a victim of fear of the supernatural. But the priest promised her protection from the curse, and In carrying out his promise he visited the medicine man's mvm Hrh evenlne? anil artl- that another day had passed and Vn3 rS iumtm uiav me gill waa ami uvv. On the morning of the seventh day, observing that the girl actu ally was alive and apparently In excellent health, Issak Kyssak .urn Jims tTTIi: Niguu uniy i.4&-u.tw iJv (tie- ! Kiildles lie Ine Tai Tomorrow . k SatI oil r"i, 5 Companion Westemt TIM HOLT f trip. Father Tom also recalled ine difficulties he experienced aa a result of the curious burial cus toms of the Diomede Eskimos. When an islander was about to die he would select the site of his burial, and almost Invariably would choose some spot on the wildly mountainous island so difficult of access that lt would take days to carry the body there. The climax to this came when an aged Eskimo, an espe cial friend of Father Tom's, re quested on his death bed that he be burled on the summit of a certain crag in the most inac cessible part of the island. Father Tom asked the old man if he didn't think he was being pretty unreasonable about the matter, and suggested another crag a short distance behind the hut which served as the church. The Eskimo thought lt over and finally admitted that, inasmuch as It probably would require ten days to carry him to the spot he had chosen, he perhaps was a bit unreasonable. So, when the old man had died. Father Tom had the body sewn Into a walrus- hide sack and carried to the place near the church. Since then the Islanders have all re quested that they be buried at the same place, "Of course, by "burial' I dont mean placed In the ground," Fa ther Tom explained. "There's no soil on Diomede. We simply place the dead In a box or skin bag and leave them on the rocks." While recovering from pneu monia. Father Tom Is employing his leisure tn putting the finish ing touches on an unbelievably long and complicated Eskimo dic tionary. His intention, as soon as the doctors pronounce him well enough to travel, Is to per suade an airplane pilot to fly him to Diomede and land on the shelf ice. He says he has a lot of work to do there and that the hurry and bustle of such a civi lized city as Nome is too much even for a hospitalized man. DEATH WINS RACE die. held his hand, he told her: I think I'm going to mother. 'It's just your imagination. son, she said. Ten minutes later he died. U. P. TRAFFIC RESUMES Pendleton, Ore., Dec. 24 (U.R) Traffic over the main line of the Union Pacific railroad moved uninterrupted here today following a 10-hour delay yester day when a dining car on a pas senger train was derailed at a switch Inside the city limits. Too Late to Classify FOR 'SALE riactrte Ptm SS1T. wtfi Ism star. FOR SALS Bulck special 1SSS 4 -door BMW. Excellent urn. Paon UlT. FOR BALK Ice bos. like new: rock. era; two dnora suitable for barn or tarece, 4x8 ft. each: window acreena. Call Saturday before 10 a- m. 117 Nona Peach. WANTED Position on dairy farm. Experienced. Tribune Bos 4SS1. FOR BALE Walnut dlnlnf room tame, a eaattm, buffet; twin spool bed with springs and mattress and dresser: two 9x13 ruga; Western wood ranee: davenport and chair kitchen table, a chairs: drapes and euruuna. as west ath. ONE YOUNO RED BOAR: one beet cow. one heary Teal. Phone SS1S. NEXT LIVESTOCK AUCTION at 1 TlUan win be Jan. 1. Southern Oregon ureetock Auction Co. 8INOLB alAN. 0 Tears old, food health and actlTe: wants job as earecuer. unaemanas milking and (eneral care. Pair carpenter. Phone aoua. FOR SALE Chickens. Henry Nleder- me7Br. rnone eoe jackeonTlue. FOR fl ALB 6-year red spotted oow. jieaa in au oaTa; i-Tear neuer, bred: H-month heifer oalf; aooata. wt. about fto a house north on nrst road north of none fine school. DunniTent. Want housekeeper, am widower, no In cumbrances, wages. ISA Gold K1U. LOST Brown and white fos terrier. 600 block N. Hi Teniae. Kama Sally. Child's pet. Reward. IU. a. Bos US. FOR SALE. In JackaonTUIe one wal nut and white bedroom eat. R. L Tarlor, aS North slain, ash land LOST or strayed Boston bull about a months old. dark with one white eye. Anewera to nam or "Tiny. Reward offered. Call LUlle-s Cafe, US3 Court St. or phone 4W29. LOST Brown purse containing plo ture. cnecs book, licence and fee rationing book. Reward. SM Fine, WArrrEO Man i camp boarding d wife, helpers, house at Trail. Phone I7SS Medford. FOR SALE O round grains for your dairy, hog and poultry feeds. Home grown ox quality Burseii. grains, victor WANTED To wish all our patrons and frlenda that hare helped to make 1943 a successful yi-ar a eery Merry Chrletmae and a Happy Near Year. Mr. and Mrs. Jamea LUUe, Prop, of mile's Place. FOR SALE Registered Cocker Span let pups, red. Sll So. Riverside, across from Parkers. FOR SALE Owner going to army 37th. 39 Nash coupe. 6 nearly new 8:40 k SO" tires, ell ply. Motor ex cellent. May be seen at 1334 If. Rlrerslde. DOCBLB RED, fancy Delleloua applet. Standard slat boxes 12.10; smaller boxes tl 35 and Sl.TS. Newtowns SOc, Tto. SI OS and SI SO. Fay Leas Market, 333 So. RlTerslde. TRAPPERS I The market Is good. Sell your furs to Bagl Point Fox RAW FURS WANTED Eastern prices paid for Muakrata, Mink. Skunk, Bob Cata, etc. Deer, Elk. Beef and Pelta Osme traps for sale. Medford Bargain House, 37 N. Orapa St. Buy War stamps and Ph. 8744. Bonds. OtRLS AND WOMEN II to 4S years, poaitlona with good waajea and ex cellent opportunity for adraacs merna In both our cafe and mer chandise departmenta. Apply weak days between 10 a. tn. and I p. se at Camp White Exchange Employ ment Office. Chamber of commerce Bldg, I East Main. Old? Get Pep, Vim with iron, Calcium, ViUmln MEN, WOMEN StSE, Ill butd Tu J,trn. CoatalM Uiai Muskegon, Mich., Dee. 24. (U.R) Nine-year-old Melvin Gol den, Who wanted to live through Christmas, died today while nurses wept In the corridor out side his hospital room. They had taken care of him for 14 months while he fought to tnrow off a heart disease. Doctors who had praised his courage swallowed hard and said nothing. ' "He put up a good fight and was always smiling," a nurse said. Melvin, bright-eyed young iter for whom Christmas meant as much as any boy, called for his mother this morning. As she stood by his bed and CHRISTMAS NIGHT... FRIDAY -DEC. 25 A GRAND CLIMAX TO t A HAPPY CHRISTMAS WITH YOUR FRIENDS AT DANCE WALKER'S DREAHLAIID Popular Prices - New and Old Tims Kasie End th big da with fun at Drumlind . PUnty of boIm maktri . . Fin mutle and floor, and a awall crowd. f i i 1 Deaf bt CaTTS-OUt. 4B- tonlrav tllniu. onie Tabitrta TODAY. lU.-Nt-T (n rearulstt At all good drug atore verywfcx In MrMirord at Chi, etra&c Drug and Wet Urn Thrift Storea. Shows Daily 1:4 5-8:4 5- Kltes Only weekdays Harts at 4:41 toe-tse-lle Inc. Tai Ends Saturday Nitel a Great Christmas Hitsl Tom Tyler Bob Steele Jimmy Dodd Ends Saturday lfitel Our Fannies! Yel! CtAUDlTTI JOIl COLBERT -MeCREA w. MARY ASTORRUOY VALltfl Added Color Treatt Disney's "THI GOOF" In "How to Fish" Glee Bonds for Chrlstmasl Give War Bonds for Xmasl SUNDAY . for 1 Days! f last AM Sunday 3 Days! ' ArWSATION.. at one, lira For Christinas .... the Biggest . Action Adventure in 1942 Years! A beautiful girl who wouldn't say dial . a . A Yank with a heart full of fight! Tomorrow-One Week ij I i v I W 1 Continuous Shows Doors Open at 1:45 Cralerian - Rial!. and Roxy Theatre Two Complete Shows at 1:45 and 5:30 Holly Theatre nTiil'H'M'H.W.mTliYJ Ends Tonite: Alice Faye in "In Old Chicago" Companion Comedy! fW v,l" Last Tunes Toaitel 550 MATS at MS 40c-15e-llc IncL tax EVES . :45-l:00 0c-JSc-lle lacLtaa DIAL 4 f O O Plus "BATTLE MIDWAY"