MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY,
4,1943
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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.
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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
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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.
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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, $3.03
cental; Yakima, 12.97; Deschutes,
2.97 cental.
Country meats Selling price to re
tailer: vealera. good, heavy. 10-200 in.;
rough, 17c; heavy fancy, 30c: lamba,
23c lb.: ewes, good, 12-lsc lb.
Rods Contract aeedlesa 70c lb.,
seed 65c lb.
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New Product Bom When
Kettle Boils Over During
Experiment in Laboratory
APPROVED LIST OF
I.S.
Chicago Wheat
Chicago. Jan. 4 (UP) Wheat:
Open High Low Close
May .1.394 1.39 1.S8H 1JB
July -1.39'4 1.39 1J$ 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. , ' '
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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.
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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. For this, our
all-out adjustment to war is
keeping us in training.
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