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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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als will be retained here for an
other week or ten days to work
on the new Murphy dam proj
ect. Labor for shoveling cement
and pushing wheelbarrows was
Impossible to obtain locally, so
arrangements were made to em
ploy the Mexican workers.
Ben Hilton, chairman of the
hop growers, expressed satisfac
tion with the work done by the
Mexicans here this month.
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