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KURILE ATTACK COSTLY EFFORT 4 Bombers Lost, 6 Others Missing And Damage Or Dead In Remaining 10. By Russell Annabel United Press Staff Correspondent Eleventh U. S. Airforce Head quarters, Alaska, Sept. 15 (U.R) Twenty American bombers that attacked tbe -north Kurile Island outposts defending Japan last Sunday ran into the hottest and costliest air fight of the war In the North Pacific, it was re vealed today. -They scored, hitting three size able enemy vessels and numer ous smaller ones and shooting down probably 13 of 25 inter cepting planes. Four Lost But the cost In a fierce 52- minute engagement was four bombers lost, six others missing and damage or dead and wound ed aboard most of the 10 which returned. Led by Ma). F. T. Gash of Fresno, Cal., the eight Libera tors and 12 Mitchells met heavy and accurate anti-aircraft fire from' shore batteries, warships and cargo vessels in the assault against the Paramushiro naval- air base in the northernmost end of the Kuril es, just off Russia's Kamchatka peninsula. Tbe fliers said the Japanese army staging base at Kash- awabara and the naval base at Kataoka on Shimushu island ap peared to be waiting for the at tack with at least one battleship In harbor sending up curtains After what they go through, and grin, it'i easy for us land lubbers to consider these iron men. Actually, the lads who sail our merchant ships are no-extraordinary people men with nerves, . . muscles that tire, , a desire to get home again. Yet, every day and every night, they stand Watch with Death. They bore in against every lash the elements may offer and prove that they can take itt . . And straight through the enemy's planned malice they (take IT tbi stuff to Mu mansk and Palermo, to Tulagi and Calcutta, to Bandar Shapur, Liverpool, and Kiskil With mora than a thousand of our own people among them, Standard of California warms naturally to these heroes in dungarees ... . Wa knew tbe magnificent job of the mariners is being turned in by men-of -flesh rather than by robots-of-iron. They deserve rest homes as a respite from torpedoes, life-rafts, and open boats. Extra clothing is one of those simple realities that help them battle cold and rain. Extra games and small diversions also help them lick loneliness, tedium and strain. You can help through the United Seamen's Service, one of the agencies of the National War Fund this year. Its work reaches from the tropics where it's hot to the Arctic where it's cold -. . from here to that far place where East meets West ... yet never far from danger. The lads of the merchant ships stand for one reason wby we're delivering the tools and why our fighting men will fin ish the job. (CM) n kmo4 fnary Wgffl C rat flcf il I aa. I "Back The of anti-aircraft fire. On the first run the attackers exploded a cargo ship with a 500-pound bomb, left a transport afire and sinking and hit a third cargo vessel plus several barges. The attack was at low level. Lieut. J. J.' Jones, a Liberator pilot, said that at the same time several buildings on land were blown up. , 25 Japs Attack "Seven minutes after we fin ished our deck-level run, ap proximately 25 enemy fighters hit us, Jones said. 'That was the beginning of a 52-minute aerial fight in which things hap pened so fast it was hard to keep track of them." Jones' plane was riddled by gunfire. His co-pilot was killed and two crewmen wounded. Jones saw one Liberator cut up a Zero in midair with its guns, then explode and dive into the water. Another, he said, cut a path through a mass of green- painted enemy planes and then rolled over and down into the water. IS WAVES RECRUIT Miss Mary Elinor Wilson " of Route 1, Medford, has enlisted In the WAVES, women's service of the U. S. Navy, and is await ing assignment to the WAVES training school at Hunter col lege of Columbia university, New York city, it was announced here yesterday by Recruiting Specialist Herbert W Cram, in charge of the V. S. recruiting rubstatlon at Medford, which handles applications for WAVES in this area. Miss Wilson was formally sworn into the WAVES at the Portland branch, Office of Naval Procurement, and completed her final tests with an outstanding record. In 1938 Miss Wilson graduat ed from Medford senior high school, where she was treasurer of the sophomore class, a mem ber of. Girls' league and Glee club, and was amateur ping-pong champion of the school. She at tended Northwestern School of Commerce in Portland in 1938 and '39. For the past three years, Miss Wilson has been a secretary and stenographer with the Pierce Auto Freight Lines, Inc., of Med ford. Previously she was a book keeper and stenographer with American Fruit Growers. Inc., of Medford, for five months. Miss Wilson has been active In war work here, serving as a USO hostess and as a volunteer worker for the Medford Control Service. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Wilson of Medford. YANKS STAY AT SPAS London (U.R) American sol diers on leave in Britain aren't doing badly. Four of the finest hotels at Bournemouth, famous seaside resort, have been turned over to Americans under lend lease agreements, and the rank ing hotels at two other seaside spas, Southport and Chelten ham, ss well as Bull Hotel in the university town of Cambridge have also been made available to the Yanks. ORDER Now mm Select Quality Red Fir Slabs Prompt Delivery - 12 or 16-in. 0 Big Double Load, 12 or 16-in. Tel. MEDFORD 1122 N. MEDFORD MAIL Attack!" Country Lot AaflM Enmit. Magician Promises Laughs and Chills In Two-Day Show Laughs, laughs and more laughs as well as spine chilling scenes of mystery and illusion are in store for the people of Medford when The Great Virgil and his company present a full evening mystery show at the senior high school auditorium The Great Virgil . Thursday and Friday at 8 p. m. The Great Virgil has spent a life-time developing his unusual attraction, and is rated as one of the world's greatest living ma gicians. Among the dozens of mys teries to be seen in The Great Virgil's performance will be The weird Execution of Mars' in which a steel bullet will be fired from a high powered gun through the body of a living girl, "Sawing a Woman in Half" In which a young lady, after being bound and held by members of the audience, will be sawed into two separate parts, 'The Strange Invention," in which The Great Virgil will demon strate his mysterious electrical ray by directing it toward a young lady's head and causing the head to vanish and float in it's invisible form above the au dience. Julie, Virgil's leading lady and America's sweetheart of magic will present two novel specialists:' one an act of beau tiful art work and the other a perplexing mental accomplish ment that has dumbfounded psy chologists and students of psy- cnic researcn. AWARD LATE Bangor, Me. (U.R) With mili tary orders for bravery being awarded almost daily to Ameri can soldiers, it wasn't unusual when the order of the Purple Heart was conferred upon Julian S. White. But the citation read "On ac count of wounds received In ac tion, July 22, 1918, while serv ing as a private first class, Com pany G, 103d infantry." - White received the order near ly 25 years after he had won it. NEIGHBORS WRONG Denver (U.R) When James E. Jackson, 18, eloped with 16-year-old Flora James, friends in their home town of Apollo, Md., said their marriage would never last. The couple have Just cele brated their 50th wedding anni versary in Denver. $650 3111 FUEL CO. Central r) J -' m i IS SB TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. TEACHING STAFF CITY'S SCHOOLS Teaching staffs for Medford public schools, which will open next Monday were announced today by Superintendent E. H. Hedrick. They are as follows: Senior high school: L. B. May field, principal; Josephine Kirt ley, Constance B. Andrews. Lome Arnold, George Milligan, Louise Basford, Mary Wiltrout, Mlrinn Burton, Elsie Butler, H. r. Cope, Olive Curry,. Jaunita Demmer, Gladys Herron, E. M. Hussong, Ocy Cook, E. M. Klrt ley, Jacquoise Kirtley, Alberta Loiland, J, C. Tucker, L. A. Mentzer, Marguerite Mills, Ethel Robbins, Laura Phillips, Mrs. Allen Karstron, Maxine Roberts, Ruth Sether, Jo Anne Smith, Johnnie Smith, Carol Snyder. Oliva - Claypool, Mrs. Curtis Allen, Sydney H. Bouck, and Delie Whisenant. Junior high school: Glenn L. Linn, principal; Ethel Scott, Bill Cooney, Lavon Darneille, Agnes Deaver, Robert H. Toft, Ruth Ella Dickerson, Annette Gray, Jean Wall, Elizabeth Hawkins, Thelma Render, Gertrude Holmes, Zoe Hubbs, Margaret Huson, May belle Klemm, Ber- nice Kunzman, Harriett Loomis Ruth MacCollister, Cecelia Mc Corkle, Florence Mosthof, Mabel Nitzel, Ursula Ogle, Maude Coy Robinson, Lois Borland, Edna Fehige, Virginia Wait, Ruth Woods, Leslie E. Grant, and Marvel Bliss Yung. Jackson school: H. W. Gustln, principal; Eunice Gray, Mar garet Blake, Ruth Stewart, Ivah D. Murray, Precia Medley, Nina Carlon, Ruth Bolton, and Delia Weber. Roosevelt school: Sara Van Meter, Principal; Lois Moen, Alliean Maxwell, Elizabeth Rice, Anna Carter, Flora Merriken, Mary Coffin, Ella Corbett, Esther Fliegel, and Eleanor Hamilton. Lincoln school: Ora Cox, prin cipal; Vivian Johnston, Ann Norvell, Norma Ebnother, Ethel Chastain, Verna Brake, Bertha Haskins, Thelma Jalvorsen, and Margaret Ruth Bolton. Washington school: Loye Mar shal, principal; Blanche Canode Marian Beeson, Dorothy Sneed, Leona Crane, Lysle Gregory, Grace Kirtley, Margaret Can trail, Elsie Gutke, Lillian King. Mary Maynard, Laura York, Gertrude Waltzling, and Eunice Smith. BRAIN TRUSTERS Washington, Sept. 15 (U.R) President Roosevelt'i defenses against wartime details were strengthened today by appoint ment of Judge Samuel I. Rosen man, New York state jurist, as his special counsel. v The appointment represented completion of a protective bul wark of top-flight administrators which Mr. Roosevelt began building shortly after Pearl Har bor in order to devote most of his attention to war. Rosenman leaves the New York supreme court bench and an annual salary of $25,000 at the end of this month to go to work full-time for the man he calls "the boss" at a salary of $10,000 or $12,000. Mr. Roosevelt, announcing the appointment of the 47-year-old judge, said Rosenman would handle most of his quasi-legal burdens. Actually, Rosenman's job .will be much wider in scope. As in the past, he will undertake administrative studies draft executive orders and re port different agency viewpoint for the president. COLLEEN HOPE DANCE STUDIO 0 Dancing of All Typei for Everyone . . , Evenings by Appointment SPARTA BLD(j. 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