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1 w E TO LABOR HARD 30,000 Americans,' British . , and Australians Building ' Railway Through Jungles. Chungking, Oct. 7 (U.R) Thirty thousand American, Brit ish and Australian war prison ers who were forced Into labor gangs by the Japanese to build a railway between Thailand and Burma suffered many hardships during the rainy season which Just ended, the United Press learned from Thailand sources today. Travelers along the Bangkok Singapore railway often saw the prisoners clad only in tattered shorts while working in steam ing jungles. A few had straw hats for protection against the burning tropical sun. Intervention by representa of the International Red Cross at Bangkok did little to Improve the prisoners' lot, although the Japanese were forced to allot a small quantity of medicines to them. Death Toll High Many prisoners suffered from dysentery, malaria and cholera and the death toll probably was very large, the sources reported. The Japanese prevented Thai philanthropic organizations from aiding the prisoners. Due to the low efficiency of the labor gang and the .difficult topography, the railway will not be completed for two or three years. The Japanese borrowed 40, 000,000 tlcals from the Thai gov ernment for construction pur poses because the Japanese were not allowed to circulate military tical notes in Thailand. CIO AGAINST EXTENSION INCENTIVE'PAY SYSTEM . Buffalo, Oct. 7-j(U.R After six hours of debate, delegates of the CIO United Automobile Workers convention voted ' to day to ban extension of the in centive pay system in the na tion's aviation, motor and agri cultural implement industry. NOW undtr-arm Cream Deodorant . - tafely Stops Perspiration 1 Dots net fot dresses or Bwn s hiro. Dots not irritar skin. 2, Nowaidegrodrv, Cut used right after shaving, t. Instandr stops perspiration fof 1 to 3 dsjs. Prevents odor, & 4. A pare, white, greaselessj stainless vanishing creami I. Awarded Approval Seal of . American insuiuieof iauhoct- inr for being harmless to riDrlc 39. j Al bios and 39 Ian nnniD SAFE tinnc HYPO-ALLERGENIC (.ftfts BECOMING SHADES RECOMMENDED BY DOCTORS FOR ALLERGIC (&p tntMt SKINS -TSlALSIZIBSe MQulAB SOS $1.00 Li kmo.alUifosile COSMETIC3 HEATH DRUG STORE, INC. THB PRESCRIPTION STORE ;; .. MtdfordCertterBlda. Phone 3531: Slide, Joe, wvmvrmmimtm- - i '7 jaaka-v Yank second baseman Joe Cordon, the World Series "goat" ol 1942, continued his role of "hero" In the Series' second game of 1943 as he slid safely into second ahead of St. Louis can ter fielder Harry Walker's throw to shortstop Slats Marlon, whose leg shows up in the duit cloud Gordon kicked up. The ump is Bill Stewart. Air Colonel Says Burma Is Ripe for .Allied Invasion By Walter L. Brlggs United Press Staff Correspondent New Delhi U.R) He's been on the march continually since a few weeks before Pearl Harbor. His itinerary - reads like a travel folder Honolulu, Clark Field, Australia, Java, India, China, the Middle East, then China and India again. He'd probably be leading a flight of B-24's over. Rangoon today if the army hadn't finally called him home. He's Col. Cecil E. Combs, lean, deep-eyed 30-year-old command ing officer of the 10th Air Force's India Air Task Force, former commander of the fam ous 19th Bombardment Group in Java, who has not been back to his San Antonio, Tex., home since - he took off from San Francisco on Oct. 21, 1941. Since he led the first mission of the war against the Japanese, a heavy bomber attack against landing forces at Vigan in North ern. Luzon on Dec. 10, 1941, Combs has been uninterruptedly fighting the war, largely against the Japanese but with a few weeks in the Middle East during the summer of 1942 against the Germans and Italians. Now the war department wants the benefit of his advice. He whisked to Washington re cently, but expects to return in about two months. And he wants to tell them there, among other important facts, that -"Burma is ripe now for invasion." As a result of the steady pounding India-based U. S. Army Air Force bombers' have deliver ed on Burma, Combs thinks, "the capacity of the communications system there now is not a lourtn of what it was when the British were forced to move out. We've hit' everything we could find, ships, docks, railway marshalling yards, bridges, and a lot of other things. "I believe that Burma Is ripe now for invasion.' The Japs have and. I want to see them chased out' of every damned one of them. Combs - said he hoped things would -be "moving" when he re turned. - . '. ' . "The kind of operations we are doing are the kind that will work only if we ' start moving. We knock out a lot of bridges and other objectives but this really doesn't do much good unless it is followed up by an attack. It s strategic bombing, pure and simple. m SENSITIVE SKINS y M tint A kjfa-Mtrttmm f eeemoet 1 imirt temfr' ! MEDFORD MAIL Slide! Yanks "The Japs were clearing be tween 23,000 and 30,000 tons of shipping a week at Rangoon Harbor until March, when we started bombing Rangoon in force. Today shipping there . is almost zero. This is largely at tributable to our bombing." . ', -Combs highly praised his crews. "The way the boys have been flying during monsoon weather has amazed all of us. It's really rough over the Bay of Bengal and the Chin Hills during the summer, but. we've hardly slackened our pace. And our missions are long ones the average at least 2,000 miles in missions south of Rangoon." The youthful colonel empha sized that although 100 per cent of the missions have been flown without fighter cover, only about 10 planes have been shot down in combat since operations started one and a half years ago over Burma, Thailand and the Andaman and Nicobar islands. He praised the cooperation given him by the RAF s Bengal com mand and said that the RAF's work in Burma had been large ly tactical, his outfits largely strategic. Combs said that when the Japanese smashed the Philip pines "we were pretty impressed by their air. power. But now things are going the' other way and we're making them loott like bush leaguers." ' -' Combs was co-pilot of Brig Gen. Lewis Breretoh on the first American mission out of India, an attack on Andaman April 2, 1942. Brereton,- now a major general, Is chief of the 9th Air Force In Cairo. The following night Combs led the first attack on Rangoon. . Others of Combs bosses In this theater have been variously Maj.-Gen. Clayton Bissell, for mer head of the 10th Air Force: Maj.-Gen. George E. Strate meyer. China Burma - India air chief; Brig.-Gen. Caleb V, Haynes, former chief of the In dia Air . Task Force, recently-appointed commanding general of the 10th Air Force. As operations officer, Combs planned the first American raid in China, a B-25 attack on Han kow in July, 1942, and the first heavy bomber mission In China, a 2,300-mile round trip to hit the Linsi coal mines near Tient sin in October, 1942. For his var ious firsts, during a combat life of from 230 to 300 hours, he has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with oak-leaf clus ter, silver star and air medal. Combs' wife and 2V4-year-old daughter live In San Antonio. He has a brother who Is an air cadet and his mother, Mrs. N. A. Combs, and sister. Miss Leila Combs, both of Dallas, Tex., work in a North American fac tory which produces the same B-24's he has been flying In the Far East. . - STORK SCHEDULED Hollywood, Oct. 7 (U.R) Actress Jean Rogers announced today that she expects a baby in April. Miss Rogers Is the wife of Film Agent -Danny Winkler. Married in 1939 and later di vorced, they remarried last July. 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Soldiers who have visited many such centers report to staff mem bers that nowhere else have they found a ' place like the MarKade. The men stated that they es pecially enjoy the homelike at mosphere created by the fire place and comfortable furniture. Also enjoyed are the game room and the completely equipped kitchen, the latter being a the disposal of servicemen and their wives at all times. Thursday and Saturday nights dances are given and on other week nights the servicemen and their wives play games, sing and enjoy coffee and cake or other refreshments. Sunday finds many gathered around the fire place listening to selected re cordings or group singings. The MarKade is open every day from 12:30 until 10:30 p. m and the closing .hour Is extend ed until 11 p. m. on Thursday and Saturday nights. Sundays the opening hour is 12 noon. The center is located at Fifth and Oakdale streets. OCTOBER 7, 1943. What's Doing at U.S.O.V Riverside USO Fourteen army wives left Riverside USO yesterday after a pot-luck luncheon, to. spend an unusual afternoon In Jack sonville, visiting historic spots. The first Protestant church built west of . the Rockies, located there, provided an Interesting study, as well as the Southern Oregon Museum. Just outside Jacksonville, the ladies took gold pans and tried the old creek bed for nuggets. however, no gold was found. Each returned with a large piece of quartz as a. souvenir. GAS RATION COUPONS - MUST BE ENDORSED Instructions showing motorists how to endorse their gasoline ra tion coupons were released to day by the Office of Price Ad ministration, - Motorists are advised that they must endorse every coupon in their ration books immediate ly. They are not to wait until they buy gas. 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Purchase by the Associated Press of wide world photos from the New York Times was held to be . legal as was the right of the Associated Press member ship to pass upon the admission of applicants for membership in the organization. MOUNTBATTEN ARRIVES New Delhi, Oct. 7 U.R) Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat- ten, newly-appointed command er of allied forces in southwest Asia, arrived at New Delhi in a converted Liberator bomber to day. Mountbatten will make New Delhi his headquarters for an expected offensive to recon quer Burma. DM Mall Triourw Want Ada THREjj JAPANESE CLAIM By United Pren - i The Tokyo radio claimed Thursday that a Jananesa nibV marine sunk two of three Britj ish destroyers which it attaeked! in South Pacific waters Octoat ber 3. APPLES FOR SALE RED DELICIOUS and WINTER BANANAS "C" Grade Bring your own containers $2.00 and $2.50 Box WIHG Orchards - Old Stage Road T PAGE in J!
