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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1942 PAGE THREES Q ON THE HOME FRONT News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services MECFOHTWt J&s.TRIBm Tli Mall Tribune suggests yea clip ud null thU news roundup to relative at friend la service. Date. Dear.. Santa Claua visited Medford thli morning and among the considerable number of men in the service who, thanks to fur loughs, were at home to greet the old fellow was Dan Ehr heart, technical sergeant in the U. S. army air forces and the city's most decorated soldier. Dan, who used to play plenty of tackle for Medford high, has received the Distinguished Fly ing Cross, the Silver Star and the Purple Heart for action in the southwest Pacific, Java, the Coral sea and the Philippines. He is a "belly gunner" in a Fly ing Fortress and, while modesty prevented him from saying so, has undoubtedly blasted a good ly number of Jap Zeros to King dom Come. He participated in the first COME Apostolic Faith Church Cor. N. Central and 3rd St. Christmas Musical Program Tonight - 7:45 ORGAN RECITAL Christmas Carols In A Monastery Garden- Violin Obligate Naomi Frost CHORUS-CHOIR Unfold Ye Portals Accompanied King All Glorious. ORCHESTRA Adoration LeRoy Meff Sunday Services Sabbath School, 8:30) Morning Worship, 11 Evening Evangelistic Service, 7:44. Mid-week Services Tuesday, Thursday k Friday Night, 8:00 NO COLLECTIONS. EVERYBODY WELCOME CANDLES OF THE YULETIDE May your Christmas can dles burn brightly with hap piness, and may your every wish come true. SEASON'S GREETINGS Swem's Gift Shop air battle over Buna In New Guinea, where our troops are right now giving the Sons of Heaven helL and it was in this action that ha suffered the wounds that won him the Pur ple Heart. In this battle IS Zeros attacked hi plane and eight of them never flew again. The Fortress returned safely to its base. We in Medford hava received word of the promotions of sev eral local boys, including Shelby Turtle, Jr, upped to a cadet lieutenant in the army air force: Paul Corwin, promoted to staff sergeant and now stationed with the glider forces at Stuttgart, Ark., flying school; Olaf Sever- son, advanced to corporal at the gunnery school in Jacksonville, Fla., and Clayton F. Martin, pro moted to corporal and stationed .Ketelber by Thelma Hunt organist -Gounod by the orchestra George M. VaU .Felix Borowskl Director . iiiSu m Wtiifc- StaiillilX erf X WWf THE KtooiiitaB t Nf MV WALI with a bomber squadron at Barksdale Field, La. Commissioned sin ensign In the U. S. naval reserve at Cor pus Christ!, Tex., recently was Robert E. (Bobby) Ettinger, like Sgt. Ehrheart an ex-Black Tor nado football player. Quite a number of local boys have joined the armed forces of late. Among them are Bob Leslie, a member of the state police force for a year and a half, who enlisted in the U. S. army reserve; Bob Leonard, for mer Medford chap now living in Sacramento, Calif., who en tered the army and Tod Tibbutt and Maurice J. Sample, who en listed in the air force and are stationed for training at Santa Ana Calif., air base. Pvt. Orval J. Thomas has been assiened to the AAF Basic Flying school at Pecos, Tex., Pvt. Herbert A. Pruitt is in the airplane mechanic department of the army air force at AJo, Ariz.; Rufus N. Younger is an electrician's mate, second class with the navy and stationed at Camo Peary. Williamsburg, Pa.; Edward L. Evanson is receiving training in the "Sea Bees" at Davlsville. R. I., and Roy Arthur Reed recently - reported for training in the navy at the Far- ragut, (Idaho) Naval Training station. Sgt. Albert Charles Andre, J-ICUTCNANTGCNtm sawn foSflflCIA-Of1E TtaSWAKS IVIflAllY TOHTACTtP WloH A French MitiryNoovrL OFF ICUUS TO OOMiT HtS HISSOHf who has been stationed in Alas ka for the past 21 months with an air squadron, is spending a furlough at his home in Jackson ville. Sports in Medford are picking up slightly. The high school bas ketball team last Friday defeat ed Weed, Calif., 29 to 20, with Cantain Don Fawcett scoring 13 points. But this week tne Doys were trimmed by an alumni team. 31 to IB. Walt Kresse scored 10 points and Henry Her man eight for thd grads. The ice hockey league got under way last Saturday night, with the USO Bombers defeat ing the 91st Infantry Division Artillery, 8 to 1. Second game of the schedule was played Tues day night, the 91st Snipers tie lng the 78th Field Hospital Clip pers, 3 to 3, People at the postomce reaiiy put in some overtime last night, Christmas eve, working until after midnight delivering Christ mas parcels. And they kept right on delivering gifts all day to day, Christmas. Frank DeSouza, postmaster, said it was the heav iest volume of Christmas mail in history. John Day, president of the Pacific Co, said recently that the concern would start mining chrome in the Briggs Creek area near Galice as soon as road con ditions improved sufficiently to ship the metal out for process ing. A new field recreation repre sentative of the federal govern ment has been appointed for Oregon, and he visited Medford the past week. He is Roger J. Folgate, former director of phy sical education and athletic di rector at Pacific university. Today, the streets of Medford are Jam-packed wltn soldiers from Camp Whije, enjoying passes and furloughs. You wouldn't recognize the old home town. Over 350 families in the city invited one or more Camp White boys to their homes for Christmas dinners, but we doubt if mv of them came up with a more elaborate spread than did those army cooks at the canton ment. To every" one of you boys In the army, navy, air force, ma rines and coast guard, the Mail THhnn. and all the people of Medford your relatives, friends and acauaintances wisn you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. TONY STUMPED Cleveland. O. flJ.B Federal Judge Paul Jones was question- in immigrants xor naiura na tion. One of them was 'Tony, -nustached steelworker, who has been In this country lor 40 The Judge asked who the head man down in Washington is. Tony replied, "George Wash ington." "He was the first president,' Judge Jones Informed him and then re-asked the question. This time Tony answered heft- fly. "Christopher Columbus." judge Jones changed his tac tics and asked him if he had ever heard o! Franklin D. Roosevelt. He hadn't. He also thought Abraham Lincoln was a laborer, didn't know who was governor of Ohio or who was mayor of Cleevland. Tony doesn't speak English, although he'f been her 39 years. Neediest to say, his request for citizenship was denied. GLASSES Dr. R. M. Hood, Optometrist Sparta Bids. Mala tat llmmu. Mtdrore, Of Skllltol tn ills ImmW ftlest U. S. EXPEDITION IN LIBERIA KEPT Troops Thece Used as De coys to Make North Afri can Occupation Effective. By Donald Coa United Press Staff Correspondent Headquarters, United States Forces in Liberia (Delayed) (U.R) United States forces in sev eral West African locations, in cluding this technically neutral republic, apparently were de coys to make the surprise occu pation of North Africa more ef fective. How well they succeeded In drawing Axis and Vichy French attention toward Dakar was in dicated in the announcement that the French had evacuated four shiploads of women and chil. dren from Dkar to Casablanca only weeks before the Allied forces struck at Casablanca and other North African ports. These decoys were not de fenseless wooden ducks, either. Had there been occasion the forces in a half-dozen coastal places could have protected their establishments effectively Meanwhile they were actively fighting the battle of supply to keep materials rolling to China. India, the Middle East and Egypt. Now the occupation of North Africa has effectively neutralized any threat Dakar and the French Ivory coast could have been toward the United Nations Instal lations, for all French West Af rica was dependent on supplies from the northern area now in Allied control. Planned Far Back The planting of the decoys was planned far back, at least weeks before a force arrived in FORD MERCURY LINCOLN-ZEPHYR Ht J? ( May the Spirit of Christmas ik( K ( A crV Live Forever! rJ ' j S, Chrlttmat thlt year represents. In the mott tlC f ij . 1 real and tamest sense, the very things wt art) 'J .JL now fighting for en far flung battle front . . V CX ' ' I & J It represents tplritual freedom, the right to assemble, wjt'sjr v J f ) y tanetlty of tho homo . . . Yet, today w sacrifice tjw: I i) 1 1 for tho freedom to work, to play, to onjoy our lifo vJft-iL' j ) r jT on this earth, to dream and to make our dreamt como JCr'- 'A wA i ' truo. The love, the friendship, the iplrit of magle v"' V J v Chrittmattido thoto aro our priceless heritage. Our 'S i- A hopes, our praytrt, our greater sacrifices mutt keep JfJ V ' f Chrlttmat allv for yeart and generation! to coma. r'lr' ' V r4 V' I Let tho Yulatldo thlt yetr givo greater strength and JtV ' r rttolutlon to achieve tho goal of victory! ' K ' ART WINETROUT f '' Jf XK and the "GANG'' i &,iuia. wjnaiwuuwii wuv companied the force were told they probably could not write a thing about it for several months. Axis radio broadcasts made it plain that Germany knew of the troops' presence. And the Ger man consul still was living In Monrovia, capital of Liberia, al though other Germans had been evacuated. Similarly no announcement was made that American forces were in British colonies. Viscount Swlnton, British rest dent minister for the West Af rican colonies, said on July 28 that "Americans are here with us. as they are everywhere In this world-wide conflict." No Official Comment American authorities were not exactly pleased about the state ment. Nor were they when an other of the United Nations let it slip that American forces were elsewhere In West Africa. The value of the decoys would be less unless the Axis were led to think that Dakar was In dan ger of another Allied assault. Even when a British news agency revealed the presence of troops In Liberia in mid-October there was no confirmation. American correspondents thought they saw the story on which they had been sent In late May vanish before their eyes. Again on Oct. 30 more details of the force were revealed. Whether the details were true Is another matter, but neither correction, confirmation nor denial came from Washington. Then the North African cam paign was announced. That Is when the pieces began to fit to gether. I remembered a high ranking officer's attempt to steer me on the right tract: several months ago. He was trying to answer the question dominant In my thoughts for weeks: "Why are newsmen sent out with this force and forbidden to write! about it?" We had a long discussion and finally, apparently roused by my refusal to accept any of the rea sons he had advanced, he said: "Maybe this is Just a feint that's possible, you know." "Were Just Staging" I didn't think so then, but I do now. The confirmation came a few day after the North Af rican campaign opened. I asked visiting officer about the ac tivities of a detachment of our troops in his home base. "Oh, they've gone on, he re plied. "They were Just staging." Staging to keep the Axis guessing. American troops In Liberia. mostly Negroes, have worked hard since their arrival. They had a difficult task in unload ing cargo ships and moving thou sands of tons of cargo across treacherous sandbars. They had difficult Job setting up camps in the Jungles. The disease dan gers were great Maintenance work proceeded on existing air ports and additional facilities were created. Roads, bridges and dams were built. Vast areas had to be drained to get rid of mos quitoes which carried malaria. Here's Wishing You a Happy Holiday And die Best in the New Year WESTERN THRIFT Native populations had to be re settled to get them away from military areas. In the British colonies troops occupied existing or enlarged, garrisons, principally to maintain the flow of supplies. Ctostnf time tor Cluttflad sds a. m. Too 1st to Classify U:SO p. m. Office Closed Dr. Jouell P. Bray hat closed hit office until about February 1st while he it in Portland taking post graduate work.
