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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19; 1943. To Overseas Duty I SEATTLE TO HONOLULU service between Seattle and Honolulu as an extension of Its transcontinental route. Filing of the application was announced by R. O. Bullwinkel. assistant to the president of the company. OREGON WEATHER Occasional light rains over Cascades westward today and tonight, not quite so cool east of Cascades. AIR PERMIT SOUGHT Seattle. Oct 19 01K North. E west Airlines today asked the civil aeronautics board for au thority to establish direct air Soccer was the first kind of football played in the U. S. TO IN SHEET METAL DECLARES SOLON Rep. Brown Says Some Government Messages on Air Distorting Truth. Washington, Oct. 19. (U.R) Rep. Clarence Brown, R., O., to duy charged that some radio pro grams carrying government mes sages about home front war prob lems have distorted the truth to smear congress. He made the accusation before the Boren newsprint investigat ing committee during the ques tioning of Elmer Davis, director of the office of war information. He did not Identify the programs. "Does your office pass upon these radio programs conveying government messages about ra tioning and other wartime pro jects?" Brown asked. "Some of f-em," Davis replied. Truth Twisted "On several of these programs the truth has been twisted delib erately to smear or besmirch congress," Brown continued. , "Dir your agency pass on these?". "You wouldn't think an agen cy whose life depends upon con gressional apropriations would try to smear congress, would you?" Davis answered. Ee estimated that at the pres ent rate of consumption OWI would use about 18,000 tons of all kinds of paper a year. News releases cleared by OWI during September, he said, totalled 1,140 and consumed 23 tons of paper. Of this number, he said, OWI originated 222 releases, the Of fice of Price Administration 3zz, and the war production board 189. The OWI's overseas branch, Davis testified, shipping news print to its foreign outposts, in eluding Cairo, Algiers and India, Paper Waste Cited ' Chairman Lyle Boren, D Okla., questioned Davis about material sent by the office of war information to weekly news papers. He said many country editors are writing him' protests against the waste of paper in sending them stuff which they throw away." Davis replied that most letters to OWI from the editors of small dailies were complimentary. "Some of this material sent out from Washington is an insult to the Intelligence of these editors,1 Boren volunteered. Davis testified that sinoe OWI was created with power to cur tail government publications, 42, 317,959 copies of releases, pam phlets, and other publications re leased annually have been dis continued. Davis was interrogated about reports that 6,000.000 coDlei of pamphlet entitled "You and the War" released by the office of civilian defense never were dis tributed, and now are In ware houses "on which the govern ment is paying storage." Brown aid 7,000,000 of the pamphlets were printed, but only 1,000,000 were used. "That is a frightful waste of paper and showed very poor judgment on the part of someone," he said. Davis said he was not familiar with the incident. The committee went Into ex ecutive session after the conclu sion of Davis' testimony and will meet again tomorrow. WOBBLY DRIVING E Wendell J. Tolle, charged with driving an auto while under the Influence of intoxicating liquor, was fined $100 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in the county Jail by Justice of the Peace W. R. Coleman today. Upon payment of the fine and DESOTO PARTS HUMPHREY MOTORS 33 So. Riverside Dial 4980 Ifyouneedto oo i tou? 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Biehler. new officer in charge, who was nora ma n.i.na, mom., recruiting station. Lieut. Biehler will visit the Madford substation soon on his first Inspec tion tour, according to Recruiting Officer H. W. Crain here. costs in full the jail sentence was suspended pending good be havior. The defendant's liquor license was also taken. He drove slow but wobbly on North Riverside avenue, the evidence explained. . George W. Goodman, charged with violation of the basic rule was fined $5 and costs. He was accused of traveling SO miles per hour at North Central avenue and Jackson street. Cedrlc Elmer Davis, charged with unlawful use of a Wash ington auto license, was fined $2.50 and costs. He was also- assessed the same sum for per mitting an unlicensed person to operate an auto. William A. Hood, Rt. 1, Cen tral Point, charged with speed ing a truck was fined $7.50 and costs. Om Mall Tribune Want Ada. Army of 125,000 Men Keep Germans Busy on Balkan Front Tito at Front. London, Oct 19 (U.R) Al banian patriot troops were re- DOrted tnHav tn hau. 4ntnu4 n.UU the Jugoslav partisan army of Jio.uuu men in a coordinated of fensive harassing the Germans on a wide Balkan front The Albanians have forced the Nazis to dispatch 35,000 tmnnn from MnrfHnri1a tn with attacks In the Volona dis trict, front reports said. Gen. Jnsln VTifM T-,A.,ini. Jugoslav partisan leader, was said to have Bona tn tha fmnt himself to order a counteroffen- sive against enemy forces from LJublyana to Zagreb, where Ger man attempts to cross the Sava river had been stopped., Axis Lines Suffer The partisans were slashing at Axis lines from the Albanian frontier to northeastern Italy. They already claimed control of 33.000 ftrmarn miles nf .ThitabIdif territory, more than third of the country. OH BROTHER! Boston. Oct. 19 (U.R) Georee C. Halkett. ODDOsins his wife' petition for separate support, told the court he had surprised her with another man. bu 'didn't do-anvthlnff abnut it" because the man "was a lodge brother." Closing time 101 Classified ada 9 am. Too late to Classify 13:30 p m. War production classes In both aviation sheet metal and general sheet metal are now available at the Medford high school shop to both men and women from 18 to 60 years of age. School Superintendent E. H. Hedrick said today, - The aviation sheet metal classes prepare trainees for serv ice in the airplane factories where there is a large call for workers. Beginning wages are at present about 88 cents per hour with good chances for pro motion. The general sheet metal classes prepare trainees for serv ice In and around shipyards and government building projects. Wages begin at 95 cents per hour and extend upward accord ing to the training. According to Hedrick; a new class is being opened In the high school shop for adults, 7-10 D. m. five days per week. Two 90 minute classes are already in operation, general sheet metal at 1-2:30 and aviation sheet metal 2:30-4 p. m. A few addi tional trainees can be handled in these two-day time classes. There is no charge of any kind for the courses and no costs with the exception of a pair of coveralls. Classes are conducted by Har old Van Hoosen who has had wide experience in- sheet metal work before the beginning of the war and since then as a government instructor. Persons interested in enrolling in either of these classes should call the city school superintendent in the city hall, phone 2157. Ose Mall rrlbuna Want Ada. How IVW is Yourlknks WoM THANR9...to the Chinese, who never had much, but who at least had the guts to stand up to the Japs for seven long years. . Thanks... to the Norwegians, who lost their , country but never' surrendered themselves, ' Thanlouto the Russians, who gave their lives and homes and burned their factories and fields to turn, Hitler's dream of conquest into a night mare of defeat Thanks to the British, who might have given up but didn't...to the Yugoslavs, who still fight In the hills.. .thanks to ail the freedom-loving people in the world who save us time to gather our strength, , ' Make your thanks to all of these really mean iomething...by giving generously to the National .War Fund through our own community war fund. Seventeen war relief agencies have banded to gether in this great work to make the thanks of America mean something both abroad and at home and wherever our men fight on land or sea. For we owe thanks, too, to. the young men of America who gave up careers and good jobs to do the job that has to be done-and to those who cheerfully saw their lives turned upside down so that their men. could fight and build ships and turn out tanks and planes and guns, all day and all night Because the National War Fund is combined with our local united campaign, you are being asked to give only once, this year, for all the agencies represented by it' So add up all you would have given to each, and then double tb total! There's no better way to show your gratitude. Give ONCE for ALL these ' Medford Community Chest uso United Seamen's Service ' Wax Prisoners Aid Belgian War Relief Society -British War Relief Society French Relief Fund Friends of Luxembourg . Greek Wat Relief Association Norwegian Relief Polish War Relief Queen Wilhrlmina Fund Russian War Relief United Chin Relief ' - United Czechoslovak Relief United Yugoslav Relief Fund . 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