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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, 4,1943 PAGS THRE3 .4 : i ; i i Plane Identity Studied by Air Force Gunnery Students Panama City, Fla. OJ.R) High over the English Channel one afternoon, an RAF sergeant moved nil fighter plane Into posi tion in a squadron of other aircraft flying toward France. The sergeant blithely flew along for several miles when sud denly he noticed something odd about his companion planes. He looked back at nis own plane's tail surfaces, compared them with those of his neighbor ing fliers. ... ' And then he swooped under neath the formation, came tip from below to send a burst of machine-gun slugs into the lead er's aircraft.- He knocked off two more planes in the formation and then scurried back to his home field. ' - ' He had gotten in the middle of a German formation through error. ' That example is told to stu dents at the Army Air Forces Flexible Gunnery School at Tyn dall Field to impress upon them the importance of the aircraft recognition course which is . a part of their training. - Many hours are spent in class rooms learning how to tell en emy planes from friendly craft so that no American gunner will shoot down an allied plane by mistake. ...... And, outside of the classroom, plane silhouettes and models surround the student through out the five -week gunnery . course. ' Hanging in each squadron's dayroom are models and silhou ettes of Messerschmitts; Heki- kels. Junkers, Mitsubishls, Zeros. Fiats, Machis and other enemy aircraft, as well as Beaufighters, Hurricanes and other Allied planes, including American army and navy ships. When the student gunner goes to the mess hall for chow, he encounters more models. When he shaves in the morn ing, hanging down from the ceil ing of the washroom are accu rately built models of the air craft he will encounter when he becomes a member of the com bat crew of a United States bombing plane. Classroom instruction begins with stress on the fact that plane recognition is a vital fac tor in estimating range of the approaching aircraft . . Insignia painted on planes of the different belligerent nations are described and the WEFT sys tem identification is taught The WEFT initials refer to wings, engine, fuselage and tail the points at which the gunner looks to distinguish between the dif ferent planes. Also taught is a course In rec . ognitlon of ships of the various navies and of tanks used by belligerent countries. Senior instructor of the recog nition course is Lt. Don Hill of A ist m,. Tex. The latest confi dential intelligence reports are used to instruct the student gun ners in how to recognize newly introduced aircraft FLOCK! Oregon women in increasing numbers are answering thelr country's call to serve with the women's army auxiliary corps and are taking up interesting as signments both at home and abroad to release soldiers for combat duty, according to Colonel J. J. Fulmer, commander of the Oregon recruiting and in duction district. In explaining the upswing in WAAC enrollments, the colonel said, that expressions of enthus iasm for the corps and its work by Oregon WAACs to friends and relatives In their home com munities is one of the biggest factors contributing to the in creased enrollment in the corps. Complete Information about the women's army auxiliary corps and application forms may be optained at the army recruit ing office, post office building, Medford, or at the district head quarters, 323 main post office building, Portland. MANSFIELD TRIAL Kay Kermit Mansfield, held in the county jail on indictments charging assault and burglary, is scheduled to go to trial at an early date. Mansfield has been in custody since last September when he was arrested in Ash land. He is alleged to have staged a series of burglaries in this city and Ashland last spring and summer, in which local woman had her front teeth knocked out, and an Ashland man, in attempting to capture him, was shot in the leg. Delays in holding the trial has been largely due, according to the district attorney's office, to Mansfield changing attorneys and his own indecision as to plea. E St Louts, Mo, Jan. 4 (U.R) The $7,500,000 submarine Peto in its floating drydock, looking for all the world like a crated whale docked here today to begin one of the strangest trips ever to be made down the Mis sissippi river. The Peto and its crew of 15, hailing from Manitowoc, - Wis., where the craft was built, leaves today or tomorrow for the two- day trip to Memphis, Tenn., which will be the first , stop on the way to the Gulf of Mexico. The ship has ben en route from Chicago since Dec. 26, but has. been tied up at Morris, 111., for six days because the Illinois river was so high that the smokestack .on an escorting coast guard tug would not clear a bridge. , Belated motorists were still flocking to the sheriff's office today to procure their 1043 temporary stickers. There was a grand rush last Saturday, when the sheriffs remained open all day to accommodate auto owners. Many rural resi dents in the city on other busi ness procured stickers. At one time, the double line extended from the sheriffs office to the front sidewalk of the court' house. Sheriff Brown warned last week that autoists driving with out a temporary sticker were liable to arrest - . RAISIN PLAN UPHELD Washington, Jan. 4 (U.R) The supreme court today upheld California's raisin prorate pro gram for the 1940 crop, which had been challenged on consti tutional grounds by Porter L. Brown, a packer. Closing time for Classified sdi a. m. Too 1st to Classify 12:80 KPin i LIVESTOCK roniand - Portland. Jan. (UP) Cattl 1900, calves 123; slow: ateera steady; medium fed ataera $13-75-14.75: eowa and hellere alow; steady to 2 Ac or more lower; fed belters held above $14.00; medium-good beef eowa S8 00-11-25 and above; bulla aio.00-11.50; food-choice vealera 1440-1550. Hogs 1500; awady: good-eholea 180 aso Iba. (MAS-IS 00; feeder pigs S14.75-15.00: good aowa S13.SO. Sheep 1100: fed lambs as-aoe Min er; five deck at $15.00: good truck lna 114.00-14 28: few feeder $1100; good awes $7.00. Acm laJepftolo First WAAC officer believed to have lost ber life in service to her country Is Third Officer Eleanor C. Nate, missing with six other oHlcers on a Hinm bomber between Tampa, Fla., and San Antonio, Tex. With her Is har husband. Major Joseon C. Nata. fry r- i ' rtMMy STr mMMt,fiirt-otriiwai r1fcie iieitifci'r ei"rrii,'--.:.V-1''i'-, mnairan-'ft tESww. limit" ftonth San Francisco South San Francisco, Jan. 4 f UP) (U8DA) Cattle 300. Active. 25-SOc higher; two care medium to good 800-S&O-lb. ateera $1425-14.75. new recent high; desirable range ahe-atock scarce, mostly local dairy bred cow run. about two loads $9.25-0.35, odd cut ters $8.00-8.50. cannera $7.00; medium bulla $10.00-10.50, few head $11.00. Calves 15. Steady; choice vealera $14.00. Hogi 350. Around 15c higher: bulk ISO-335-lb. barrowa and gilts $18 00; new recent high top, half car medium 87-lb. feeder pig $1800, halt loads good 875-lb. aowa 114.00. Sheep 1500. Largely California med ium pelt lamb, aeveral decks $11.75: package wool ewes $7.00. ''So yen are only practicing a eo:omando ralaT Miss Breeding's Brother On Lost Navy PBY Patrol Lieut. James E. Breeding plane captain on the missing navy PBY patrol bomber which crashed in the ocean off Coos Bay, Ore., Thursday night is the brother of Miss Edna Breeding, commercial teacher at Medford senior high school. Lieut. Breed ing was a visitor in this city last October and is well-known also in Grants Pass -where the Breedings have relatives. Mrs. L. Breeding, of McMinn- vllle, Ore., mother of Lieut. Breeding, had Just returned from San Francisco where she had been visiting her son. He had been stationed in Alaska prior to his trip south and the plane was evidentally returning north when the accident oc curred. Miss Breeding has gone to McMInnvIlle to be with her mother and sister. Another brother is In the army in the east KITTY KNOWS WHArS GOOD! O Kitty knows that wartime meat ra-' tloninoj will mean mora milk in her diatl Milk In YOUR diet wlU keep YOUR hair glossy, your muscles supple, your nerves steady on the Job. We even pre dict you'll purrl GRADE "A" Pasteurized MILK JUST THE MAN Lemoore Army Flying School, Lemoore, Cal. (U.R) Elmer Da vidson, letter carrier and postal clerk for 26 years, is a bit mixed up as to just what the Army is all about Tired of his job, he enlisted as a ground crew me chanic in the Army Air Forces about two months ago. Within 19 minutes of his being sworn in he was appointed postmaster of the basic tr.inlng detach ment here, a position he still holds. Chicago Chicago, Jan: 4 (OP) (USDA) Livestock opening: - . Hoge. 13.000. Active, 15 to 50c high er. Good, and choice 100-800 lba. $1435-14.90; bulk good and choice 350-550-lb. aowa $13.75-14.10. Cattle, 15.000; calvea, 800; fed ateera and yearllnga steady to weak: good choice gradea ateady; top $16.80 on 1300-lb. averages; beet yearllnga $18.50: bulk $13.50-18.00: bulk belt, era $13.50-14.50; top $16.75. Sheep, 7.000; fat lamba opening ateady to weak with Thursday aver age: good to choice wooled lamba $15.40-15.75. ' Portland Produce Portland. Jan. 4 (UP) Whole sale price: Live poultry Selling prices by re ceiver: Pekln duck, cold, colored 35c lb. Pears Medford Bosc, $3.50; Cornice $3.50. Celery Southern celery, $5.00-6.00 crate. Lettuce Imperial. 4'a, $5.35 crate. Onlona Oregon dry. $1.68; Idaho Urge. $1.70: Yakima, $1.84 60-lb. baa Potatoes Cash and carry price Klamath. $3 03; Malln. fancy, $3.03 cental; Yakima, 12.97; Deschutes, 2.97 cental. Country meats Selling price to re tailer: vealera. good, heavy. 10-200 in.; rough, 17c; heavy fancy, 30c: lamba, 23c lb.: ewes, good, 12-lsc lb. Rods Contract aeedlesa 70c lb., seed 65c lb. I New Product Bom When Kettle Boils Over During Experiment in Laboratory APPROVED LIST OF I.S. Chicago Wheat Chicago. Jan. 4 (UP) Wheat: Open High Low Close May .1.394 1.39 1.S8H 1JB July -1.39'4 1.39 1J$ 1-38 Sep. 1.40 I.40H 1-39H -9K Washington, Jan. 4 (U.R) The navy has added another warship to the list of vessels that have made history in the Pacific war. An unidentified battleship apparently a new one designed for the aerial-sea warfare of the Pacific; now Joins the cruis ers Boise and San Francisco which already have been cited for distinguished service in the Solomons. The battleship shot down 32 enemy planes and sank four enemy warships three cruisers and a destroyer in two great sea battles off Guadalcanal. The air attack, according to the navy, was the heaviest yet made on a battleship. Skipper of the battleship, Capt. Thomas Leigh Catch, An napolis, Md., was wounded dur ing the first battle but was back on the bridge for the second one three weeks later. The navy released the story yesterday. i Wall St. Report New York, Jan. 4 (U.R) Stocks advanced In the first full session of the new year today, while volume fell off from last week's pace. The industrial average reached a new high since Oct. 29, 1941, and the average for 65 stocks 30 Industrials, 20 railroads, and IS utilities made a new top since Nov. 8, 1941. The utility average rose for the seventh consecutive session and was within a small fraction of the 1942 high made on January 7. The rail average moved up but was belo wits 1942 top. INSTRUCTS FLIERS Oxnard, Cal. (U.R) Miss Doris Williams, feminine pilot, a for mer student of Compton Junior and Whittler College, is the first woman on the West Coast to be accepted as a flight instructor for the Army and the second one in the United States. She Is a product of the Vega Aircraft school and already has served as instructor to civilian pilots. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada. Portland, Ore., Jan. 4 (U.R) The Democratic state central committee today had summoned all Oregon party officials to meet here next Saturday for a strategy conference. Results of a questionnaire on the recent election, sent to 270 key Democrats, will be disclosed confidentially to those attending the session, officials said. The annual Jackson day din ner will follow the conference. Mayor Harry P. Cain, Tacoma. will be the principal speaker. MAC'S FISH FRY 213 West Main St. CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS IN FAMILY WILL RE-OPEN ABOUT FRIDAY - JANUARY 15 By William McMenamin United Press Correspondent Chicago (U.R) Because a kettle boiled over accidentally, a surgical dressings manufac turing company announced to day, the nation has a new sub stitute for sponge rubber that can be. produced from waste farm products and used in tanks. airplane and other war equip ment. Two chemists in the labora tories of Bauer and Black, surgi cal dressing manufacturing company, were seeking a sub stitute for rubber as an adhesive in adhesive tape. They combined a resin developed by the North ern Regional Laboratory for the U. S. department of agriculture. ' . Kettle Foams Up Upon combining the resin with an acid and attempting to vul canize it in a kettle with other chemicals, the contents foamed up out of control. They succeeded in controlling the foam and the new rubber substitute was the result, the company disclosed today. ' R. A. Whidden, company presi dent, said he believed the new product would do much to re lieve the drain on the nation's dwindling rubber stock pile. Whidden said the new sponge rubber substitute, as yet un named, can be used to line tanks, pad airplane cockpits, pad helmets, fill seat cushions, and make deicers for airplane wings and mattresses for hospitals. After the war the product will be used for general civilian pro duction replacing the natural sponge rubber. - wniaaen presented the pro duct to trie war production board In Washington and announced it could be used by any company manufacturing for the war effort free of .royalties. Peace-time use in the post-war era was reserved by Bauer and Black. Beans and Cora Used ine discoverers of the new product, Dr. Marguerite Naps, za, red-haired --chemist from Milwaukee, Wis., and Dr. H. M. Strong, said, the resin was de rived from soybean and corn oil, They said by controlling the foam they can control the den sity and resilience of the sub stitute rubber. P. F. Ziegler, director of the company a research department, said tests indicated the new ma terial looked and reacted almost exactly like natural rubber. It is slightly' inferior to rubber in flexibility and compressibility at normal temperatures, he said but at lower temperatures Is su perior to the natural product. Zelgler said the product ab sorbs more water than sponge rubber and can be easily vul canized to metals, plastics, or wood. .It doesn't age as rapidly as natural rubber and resists acids and gasoline better, he said. Despite depleted staffs, cur toiled supplies. Increased ex penses and heavy demands for service, hospitals of the United States and Canada have ac cepted war conditions' as a chal lenge and are as a whole main taining high standards accord ing to Dr. Irvin Abell of Louis ville, Ky., chairman of the board of regents of the America Col lege of Surgeons, in announc ing that the 25th annual list of hospitals approved by the or ganization Includes 2,989 insti tutions, an increase of 118 over 1941. Out of this number were 29 Oregon hospitals and clinics, in cluding Sacred Heart hospitals in Medford. Fifteen of the ap proved institutions are in Port land. Dr. Abell declared in his re port that "great shifts of popu lation due to new and relocated war industries, and establish ment of large military encamp ments, have caused excessive demands for hospital service in some communities and there is increasing danger of lowered standards in the effort to care for more patients than the de pleted staffs can properly serve. . Alleviation factors list ed were the volunteer groups, such as the nurses' aides, dis couragement of hospitalization for minor illnesses and increas ing disease and accident preven tion efforts. WS.C.To Dedicate Memorial Volume to . Miss Ida L.Anderson An announcement has bean mad by officials of the Stata college of Washington at Pull man that a memorial volume la to be published by the institu tion "commemorating the teach- lng greatness of the lata Misa Ida Lou Anderson." Miss And erson, who for many years waa one of the college's most popu lar teachers of speech, for a time made her home in Medford with her sister, Mrs. Melvin R. Plaskett of 11 Highland drive. and her death occurred in Med ford in September of 1941. Misa Anderson's mother, Mrs. May K. Anderson, divides her time be tween Medford and the family's former home at Colfax, Wash. Miss Anderson will be re membered by many former State college students now living in this district The Trick is to ENJOY The Beans FOR GIRL SCOUT LEADERS SLATED Girl Scout council has . an nounced the schedule for train ing classes for volunteer Girl Scout and Brownie leaders in the community. - The classes, which will be held during the coming two weeks, are open to all - women in. the community who are Interested in offering their service to Girl Scouting. The meetings will be held at the Girl Scout house on East Main street and women who wish to attend and have pre-scheol chll dren may make arrangements for having their children cared for by telephoning S912. . The training class schedule In cludes the following: Wednes day, January 6, 2-4 p. m., lead era and Brownie leaders, assist ant leaders and troop committee members; Friday, January 8, 10 a. m.-3:00 p. m.; bring lunch, coffee and tea to be served at noon. Saturday, January 9, 10 a. m, 12 noon, arts and crafts; Wednes day, January 13, 10 a. m.-3 p.m. bring lunch, Brownies in morn ing; intermediate leaders in aft ernoon; Friday, January 15, 10 a. m.-3 p. m., follow-up of Inter mediate work in morning and senior program in afternoon. Closing time for Claaslfled ada a. m. Too late to Classify 13:30 p. ra. HIGH-DOMED philoso phers smart enough to make Solomon look like a per manent pupil of the third grade say the gist of human wis dom is to eat beans if you can't have beefsteak . . . and like 'em. In four-bit words, they call this "adjusting to environment" It promotes a sound mind In a healthy body. , ' ' '.,' ; , -- ; '.. In these hectic war-times, "adjusting to environment" is the best way to maintain that muscle-tone and keep the old brain on an even keeL So relish jour rations ... work like the dcuca ... and roll with tha ' punches. It's body-building. It's character-building, too. And if s . the philosophy Standard of CaL : ifornia 1$ going on. ; , . ... , We don't have to-tell yon. how fantastically our environ : ment has changed. But we want : you to know that into Standard '. of California's new job of screw , lng tanks Instead of pleasure - cars, soldiers instead of tour ists, war instead of peace, we're putting more enthusiasm, mora drive, than'we ever knew before. Standard foresees the doty, of having a sound mind in a healthy body sane policy im plemented by firm organization when peace' returns. Even aa It needs them now, the country will then need business Institu tions able to re-adjust without getting the flutters or the n err out collywobbles. 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