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J MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1943 PAGE THREE! r v PAPER HAS .WIDE RANGE OF USES IN WAR EFFORT Water Resistant Map Is Developed, Also One that Glows Like Watch Dial. By A. P. Harrtion United Press Correspondent Washington U.PJ It's a fact that a map is worth no more than the paper it's printed on. On the battlefield or at sea a map or chart is exposed to rain, blood, grease, sea water, hu midity. If it s printed on or dinary map paper, it falls to pieces. I . Military authorities set about to find a solution to that prob- " lem. With the aid of the War Production Board and the paper industry, they succeeded. Maps for use in combat operations are now reproduced on paper that is treated to resist the worst that the elements or inherent battle conditions can offer. In the field now, if a map be comes soaked in a river cross ing or gets a ducking in landing operations: if it is stained by grease or dirt or blood, it can be washed, and kept as service able as the day is was Issued. Like Watch Dial The paper industry has dis covered a special process for treating paper so that maps and TRIAH QUICK COOKINO 10091 TOAST ID f Here'i in entirely different kind of hot . ' cereaL Triangle, special milling pro . cess civea you the entire wheat kernel nothing U added nothing U re moved. Toasting brings out its rich nut like flavor. Easy to prepare. Delicious in . cookies, muffins and puddings. I6LE WW1 WORTH HHNTNG- A Yes, you sometimes have to "go ' hunting' to 'bag a bottle of C-H-B . Pickles these doys. But, they're worth , the effort . . . because they're always to crisp and fresh, so zestfully flavor full Naturally, the men of our Armed Forces come first with C'H'B and wouldn't want It any other way. But, we're also supplying' your grocer as often as possible. So keep on looking for these quality pickles in the wide mouth ar, easy to get outl . 'Auf what More Yule Gifts For U.S. Soldiers Washington, Oct 14 (U.R) Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today that the volume of Christmas gifts for American soldiers overseas is three times greater than last year. More than 18,000,000 Christmas packages have been mailed to servicemen abroad since September' 15, representing an average of 500,000 packages a day for the past month, he said. Packages for soldiers over seas must be in postoff ices be fore midnight tomorrow to be assured of delivery by Christ mas. charts are impervious to time and the weather. Another wrinkle has produced a map that has been a blessing for officers on night . operations. The paper is treated to glow like a luminous watch dial when it is placed under the rays of a red flashlight during darkness. The WPB reports that the army has been very well pleased by both developments. In the Fisheries building on Constitution avenue in Washing ton, where, incidentally, not a fish is to be seen, the WPB has on exhibit several hundred items which show how the paper in dustry has been converted for war. Besides a sample of the water proof map are paper blankets, flying jackets, dishes, baking utensils, "tarpaulins," camou flaging, parachutes, ropes. twines, dust pans, shoes, paper clips and shell cases, as .well as a host of other items formerly made of metal. One of the most interesting articles is a humidity indicator which is placed inside the pack ing of articles shipped overseas and which registers the relative humidity inside the package. Airplane engines, for instance, have to be protected against moisture to a very high degree. The humidity indicator tells how well the engine wrapping is keeping out moisture. If the in dicator registers "danger," prop er steps are taken to correct the situation. Recently, a cello phane-like substance ' was de veloped to protect airplane engines in shipment and in stor age. Previously they had to be covered with cosmoline, an ex tremely greasy and' sticky prod uct that drove many an air corps maintenance man nearly out of his mind. It was practi cally impossible to remove it completely. : As a result of research, rifles and small arms and repair parts of all kinds have been shipped in specially-treated paper wrap- I pings. These, too, were ordin- you ji Buy ANOTHER War Bond Vast H,. H iff Mm IHtle Bettor a difference! llarily packed In the gooey cos moline. Parachutes for weather obser vations and for dropping sup plies to isolated troops and men lost at sea are now being tnr.de of paper. Formerly they were Japan silk products. Pacific coast weather stations, which used . silk parachutes marked "Made in Japan," were the cause of much consternation among civilians before paper para chutes with U. S. trademarks came into use. The first-aid kit which is part of every soldier's GI equipment and which was formerly packed in a small metal container sealed with a rubber gasket is now be ing issued in a paper-wrapped, cardboard-packed form which is much easier totopen and resists the . worst conditions experi enced by combat troops. . The army is finding paper bags particularly effective for packing V-mail; is using sensi tized paper instead of zinc and aluminum plates for its offset printing plants; is camouflaging its installations in the field with chicken wire interlaced with paper which is treated so that cannot be photographed by the enemy's reconnaissance cameras.' The navy is using oh ship board food trays, bowls, dishes a paper-plastic which is un breakable and unstainable a boon to the galley crew of many pitching destroyer. MILK DELIVERIES The Office of Defense Trans portation today announced a new milk delivery schedule to become, effective the . first of next week. On Sunday, Oct. 17, and on all . Sundays thereafter there will be no wholesale or retail deliveries of milk. Begin ning on Monday, Oct. 18, retail deliveries will be made to Med ford's West Side on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and to the East Side on Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays. Wholesale deliveries will be made once each week day. The additional restriction is in accordance with the provisions of Office of De fense Transportation order num- oer 17-3B. Wholesale and retail dairy men of Medford met last night, and unanimously agreed to limit deliveries to certain specified days for each delivery route instead of every other day as has been the practice for the past several months. Under the old system, the housewife re ceived dairy products on dif ferent days each week, while under the new setup she will receive supplies on the same days of each week. Present at the meeting were representatives of G r o v e r's Dairy, Perrydale Dairy, Camp bell's , Dairy, Snider s Dairy, Lost River Dairy, xGilman's Dairy, CloverhiU Dairy, Nan- sen's Dairy, Kingmere Dairy, Kershaw's Dairy, Madrona Dairy and Valley View Dairy. FREIGHT LOADS DROP Washington, Oct. 14. (U.R) Loadings of revenue freight on the nation's railroads for the week ended Oct. 9 totaled 906. 276 cars, a decrease of 4,376 cars from the two-year high establish ed in the preceding week, the As sociation of American Railroads reported today. MAJ. GEN. JACKSON KILLED Third Army Maneuver Head quarters in Louisiana, Oct. 14 (U.R) Injuries received in an airplane crash in the third army maneuver area on Oct. 4 proved latal last night to Maj. Gen Stonewall Jackson, 52, thin army public relations announced today. . Closing time lor Classlfled ade a. m. Too late to Claasliy 12:30 .LEARN HOME FIRST-AID. Be Prepared for Winter Colds and Illness NEW SHIPMENT OF HOT WATER BOTTLES $2.00 Bottles at $1.39 $1.50 Bottles at 98c Complete Line of Drags and Sundries HEATH DRUG STORE, INC. THE PRESCRIPTION STORE Medford Center Bldg. Phone 3551 13 VEGETABLES ECEILI OPA Announces Reductions Scaling to Fifty Per Cent Date Not Yet Given. Washington, Oct. 14 U.R) The Office of Prime Adminis tration today announced retail ceiling prices for 13 fresh vege- taoles, representing reductions of as much as 50 per cent. The OPA said the reductions were designed to prevent repeti tion of inflationary prices which forced the cost of living upward last winter. . Effective date of the new price . regulation will be an nounced later, but the OPA said it will be '."before the bulk of the winter crop reaches the market. Vegetables Listed The 13 vegetables for which maximums were set are: lima beans, snap beans, cabbage, car rots, cauliflower, celery, cucum bers, eggplant, lettuce, green peas, peppers, spinach and to matoes. Chester Bowles, OPA general manager, said that top prices for five more farm products Deets, asparagus, watermelons, cantaloupes and the 1944 crop of onions will be announced soon. Bowies said tnat the new prices will bring about reduc tions from last winter's ' hieh retail prices "of as much as 30 to 50 per cent for such items as lima beans, cabbage, tomatoes. cucumoers and cauliflower." He said that the increase in the cost of living from. Septem ber, z, to May, i43, was 8.2 per cent and that three-fifths of this was due to the soaring prices of fresh fruits and vege- lames aione. Would Nip Spiral we nope to bead off any such spiral before it gets started this season, he said. OPA announced-the following sample price ranges: lilma beans and snao beans: Lima beans from May through October will be from 13 to 16 cents a pound, about 10 per cent Deiow this summers prices, Snap beans will sell for 14 to 16 cents a pound in May and June, 12 to 15 cents in July and August, and 14 to 17 cents up to jnecember. Cabbage: Six to seven cents a pound from December through April, or 35 per cent lower than last March and April. lettuce: Maximum range irom 1U to 13 cents a pound (last winter 10 to 20 cents.) . Carrots: About seven to 10 cerlts a bunch, slightly below last winter. Tomatoes 18-21 ' Tomatoes: 18 to 21 cents pound from. January through March, as against 25 cents last winter: 17 to 20 cents in April and 16 to 19 cents in May and June. In July from 10 to 13 cents a pound, about 50 per cent under last July's level. The price will go down to six to nine cents during the usual summer harvest period. October through December prices will run from 16 to 19 cents a pound. Bowles said that the OPA is now revising the citrus fruits regulations "to provide greater simplicity, greater enforcibility and to set flat cents-per-pound prices on a zone basis so that the housewife may know just what she should pay for oranges, grapefruit and lemons." Bowles also said that the OPA is planning to bring under con trol, "well in advance of next season's crops," all remaining fresh fruits. San Francisco is second only to New York in the fine publishing field. Be Ready If the Doctor Can't Come! "CLAY PIGEONS" THROW OFF JINX; FLY JANS LOSS Squadron Of B-17's Suffers ' Terrible Losses At First Due To Experiments. 1 By Collie Small United Press Correspondent A USAFF - Bomber Station, Somewhere in England (U.R) The eerie curse that tormented the Clay Pigeon squadron with unfathomable death and destruc tion has flown. As this is written, the famous squadron of Flying Fortresses that once was consistently dec imated by the terrible losses un accountably singled out for it is shooting for its 10th consecutive mission without loss. The Clay Pigeon squadron still is a long way from the rec ords oi some squadrons. But not many months ago, it seemed headed for complete destruction. I he squadron once was re duced to a single battered Fort, Still it flew on, replacing losses as fast as possible, meanwhile tagging along in "Purple Heart Corner ' in the formations of other squadrons until it was strong enough again to fly alone. 1 Out of 10 Ten Clay Pigeons went to Bremen one limped home. Over St. Nazaire, France, the pilot of a Fortress in the leading element asked his tail-gunner: Second element okay?" "Sir," came the answer, "there Is no second element. It was typical Clay Pigeon luck. Three times one whole bar racks was wiped out in a single raid except for one lucky crew the same In each Instance. A magazine article appeared in the united states and caused a fur ore here. The. Clay Pigeon curse was not to be mentioned. Retain Motto - Much of the squadron's bad luck stemmed from its participa tion in disastrous experiments in the early stages of the war. But it was felt there was another, mysterious force toying with the fate of the squadron. - Now the Clay Pigeons are re writing their dismal history with new success. Their motto, "Death and Destruction, ' once nearly discarded, has been re tained. Capt. K. A. Reecher, 24 (7 Magnolia) Hagerstown, Md., an operations officer who brought the- only Fortress home from Bremen, points to the squadron insignia, a skull in a flying hel met, and says, "We finally got him laughing." First Lt. Stanley L. Jarrow, 23, (1317 E'. 52d) Chicago, en gineering officer, just nods con tentedly. It took a long time. . ' Closing time, for Classified ads 0 a m. Too la to to Clustlj 1340 p. m. Persian WAC f f 3 Pvt. Ihmldeh Khanom Nabll, daughter of the chief representa tive of the Persian Government daring the Taft and Wilson Ad ministrations, Mined tne wius because she believes the D. 8. is a country of "spiritual salvation for all peoples." GIRLS Over the For work in Camp White Exchange . Cafes. Excellent working conditions. Experience unnecessary. Good salaries. PAID VACATIONS APPLY . CAMP WHITE EXCHANGE EMPLOYMENT OFFICE Week Days Between the hours el I A. M. and 13 (Noon) Seabees and Engineers Turn Jungle Islands Into Bases By Frank Tramalne , United Press Staff Correspondent Headquarters, U. S. South Pacific Forces (U.R) American engineering genius backed by the courage, hard work and eft clency of the navy's volunteer construction battalions the Sea bees and the army engineers is transforming jungle Islands of the Pacific into big bases to suppport continued blows against Japan. This correspondent recently I visited a number of American bases in the Solomons which less than' a year ago were disputed tropical islands. The Seabees and engineers, often working under air attack and within range of front-line fire, have done an unprecedented Job In construction of these bases. On New Georgia, Seabee out fits and engineers, . operating with bulldozers, tractors, cater pillars and other modern heavy equipment, tore into the mud and jungle to build roads and instal lations long before the positions were secured by the fighting forces and despite heavy Jap air attacks. American methods offer a striking contrast to those used by the Japanese. In the year that the enemy occupied New Geor gia, they did little actual con struction work with the excep tion of heavy log-and-coral pill boxes and Munda airfield, which appeared to have been built largely by hand. Where the Americans now are building roads to accommodate heavy trucks, the Japs had only foot trails. Ten days after American forces landed at Segi, on the southern end of New Georgia, in the opening phases of the cam paign, a plane made an emer gency landing on an airfield constructed there by Seabees Nineteen days after the -occuna- tion the field was ready for op erational use. Shell and bomb-ravaged Mun da airfield was in operation on the eighth day . after its cap ture, although the Japs had been unable to operate from it for several months. While fighters and cargo planes use the field constantly, Seabees are at work lengthening and improving it. The installation built in the Russell islands was constructed under fairly favorable conditions after an unopposed occupation It is a field which many Amer ican municipalities would be glad to have, although lt was carved out of a cocoanut planta tion with equipment brought thousands of miles across the Pa cific. . Incidentally, the Russells base boasts the only hamburger stand in the south Pacific-i-joe's South Pacific Pilots' club, which ca ters to hungry pilots with ham burgers and eeenogs, Guadalcanal is almost unbe lievable, even in the eyes of those who have seen other large military bases. Less than a year ago, Guadalcanal was a tropical island of jungles and cocoanut plantations, with a partially com pleted Jap airfield over which a bitter, bloody battle was be ing waged. Today it is a teem ing beehive of military activ ityan advance base for the support of air, naval and am phibious operations. The field which the Japs had started when American Marines poured ashore on Aug. 7, 1942, was- being operated by. the Americans within a few weeks, Today the traffic in heavy, me dium and light bombers, fighters. observation and cargo planes op erating from Henderson Field probably Is greater than that handled by any commercial field in the United States. 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Supporting the forward bases, large bases for supply and maintenance must operate rear areas and supply lines must be kept open between the advance bases, rear bases and the United States, where supplies and equipment for this and oth er war fronts pour out of fac tories. SHAM INDEPENDENCE GIVEN PHILIPPINES (By United Press) The conquered Philippines got their "independence" Japa nese style today but Tokyo radio broadcasts left little doubt that it was a token grant and that - the islands were to be welded tightly to Japan and her war effort. Japan officially "dissolved1 the occupying military admin istration of the islands but gave no sign that she would with draw her troops. HOTEL GUESTS UNDER SMALLPOX QUARANTINE Washington, Pa., Oct. 14. (U.R) A case of smallpox today converted the George Washing ton hotel, this community s lead ing hostelry, into a big isola tion ward. , When the Illness of a 17-year- old permanent guest was diag nosed last night as smallpox, City Health Officer C. E. Hous ton slaooed a quarantine on the entire building, isolating 200 guests and 180 employes. AUSTRALIAN AIR. LOSSES NOW TOTAL 7,021 MEN Canberra, Oct. 14 (U.R) Air Minister Arthur S. Drakef ord reported today that Australian air force casualties now total T.021. He listed 3,483 dead. To tOp Off 0y your favorite sports outfit . . . FUZZY FELTS in 14 of the brightest colors you ever saw! Big W I 1V1 1,377 missing, 512 prisoner! of war, and 1,640 wounded. Alt force men have won 809 deo orations for valor, he said. Cloalng tun r- Cluuiutd A m. Too late to ClaaaUr U'JSJ p. m. NOW uudtr-arm Cream Deodorant Stops Perspiration ' shim. Does not iiriatt skin. 2. NowtitingtodiT. 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