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MEDFORD. MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1943 PAGE ELEVEN 4 Oil THE HOME FRONT MEDFORDIiwTBDUNE News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services The Mail Tribune suggests you clip and null this cm roundup to relative or Iri.ndtn service. Data, Dear- The county has been experien cing winterish weather, with a little rain every day tor a week. The weather hasn't dampened the spirits of the small dry, however, who are looking for ward to having fun on Hal lowe'en. Some of the older folk Will nlke merry, too, with lodges and clubs planning Hal- lowe'en dr.nces and parties. ' Medford high gridders re turned to the victory path last Friday, night with a 6 to 0 con quest of Grants Pass, created when Steve Dlppel raced 25 yards around his own right end for the lone touchdown of the wet contest. It was probably .. the best showing of the Tigeis I his season and brought their ' record to three wins, one loss and one tie. Tonight , they play Eureka. Calif., here, and it will be their, last .game under Coach Lome Arnoldrwho is leaving Monday . to return to Yankton college in Yankton, S. D., where he will teach physical education to navy cadets. No successor to. Arnold has yet been announced. Sgt. Joe Louis, world's heavy , weight boxing champion, will y appear at Camp White tonight Jin an exhibition match against his long-time sparring partner, George Nicholson. With Louis on his tour of the army camps are Sugar Ray Robinson, former welterweight title claimant and Jackie Wilson, ex-welter king. They'll also spar around for the soldiers. Medford schools are closed for the last two days of this week while teachers register citizens for Ration Book No. 4. Rural schools for the most part are carrying on the registration after school hours. ' . Medford's American Legion Auxiliary is currently carrying on a campaign to enroll IS wo men in the Women's Army corps. The campaign Is on a na tion-wide basis and would enlist a woman for every man listed as a casualty. Conjpanles are to be formed, with women from each state. More than 200 names have al ready been listed on the county's Roll of Honor of servicemen and women. This is considered but a small beginning in the cam paign to list all men and women in service. A recent dispatch from Lon don regarding the use of P-38 Lightnings in missions over Ger many were to the effect that Lt. John R. (Jack) Pruitt of Med ford was one of the pilots sta tioned there. He has been in the army three years, having trans ferred from the National Guard unit to the air corps. Gordon Warner, corporal In the signal corps, has written his parents from the European war theater the sequel to a story printed last summer about Fuhr man (Brick) Blaylock, who found two copies of the Mail Tribune while engaged in the Sicilian campaign. Warner had not seen an Oregonian' for months, he wrote, when one day he ran on to Blaylock. A day or so later Warner received some copies of the Tribune and read the story about Brick, which he saved to show the soldier. Cpl. Warner commented that "the old world la pretty small and coincidences still happen" and ended by saying that perhaps he would still run into "Adolf" yet. . . With the end of the first se mester's studies, students under the Navy V-12 who reported for college training the first of July, have been home this week on a brief leave. Home from University of Colorado were Charles Braley, Bill Bayliss, Bob Mitchell, Dan Winter, Elwood Hedberg, Jr., and Bob Holmes. Jim Elliott was home from Wil lamette University and Bob Bry ant from UCLA. A marine stu dent home also was Floyd Yar- nell from Adolphua Augustus college in Minnesota. j Another marine student home recently was Johnny Gitzen, from UCLA. Lt. and Mrs. Junes Donald Monteith left last week for El Paso, Tex., after few days in Medford and Sgt. Geo. Fredenburg is home from Gow en Field, Ida., where he is a member of a heavy bomber crew. T.Sft. Herbert Fitzgerald, who spent three years in Alaska with the army, is home for a visit before going to Florida where he will be stationed for the present. Sgt Fitzgerald's two brothers are also in the serv ice, Pfc. Jerome Fitzgerald be ing stationed in Astoria and Lt. Gerald A. Fitzgerald in Hawaii. Pvt. Darrell Leavens has re turned to his marine station at San Diego after leave at home and Cadet William A. Holloway, Jr., came up from the Univer sity of California for a long week-end with, his family. Ho graduates from the dental col lege in January and will be into active service at once. Sgt. Rob ert Daily, who has been servinK in Panama with an anti-aircrait unit, is here on furlough, the first during four years' army service. Other navy men home recent ly were Stanley D. Smith, avia tion machinist's mate second class from Boca Chica, Fla.; wimam Ulenme Barber, car penter's mate third class in the Seabees; Herbert Newton Ellis, shipfitter third class; N.. Keith Lehman, seaman second class, from Farragut; Herbert Mires, seaman first class, from Treas ure Island, where he has been in a navy hospital for many months; Raniome W. Webster, ship's cook second class, from Mills Field, Calif. Bernard Gunn, seaman second class, ' has returned from the south Pacific where he spent many months and took part in four major engagements, and Raymond E. West, ship's cook third class, is also back from tho south Pacific area where his ship engaged in five major bat tles. Robert Hubbard has been as signed to the University of Ne braska for AAF instruction. Re cently commissioned was Lowell W. Monroe, who received his second lieutenant's bars at his station somewhere in New Guinea. Monroe has been in the army three years, leaving Med- forrd with the National Guard unit. - - Pfc. Wesley Bressle is on duty at Dutch Harbor with the ma rine corps. Aviation Student Al len Smith has finished his train' ing at Utah Stat Agricultural college and Lloyd Nordquist has completed his course at the naval air training center at Memphis, Tenn., for aviation ra dioman. Kenneth Hensiey nas been advanced to aviation radio man second class at Corpus Christi. Robert Frank Marquess has completed a course for elec trician's mates at' Farragut and Lee C. Brown, who is in Alaska at a naval base, has been made a chief commissary steward. Donald Dal Coblelgh is en rolled in the pre-radio naval school at Michigan City, Ind., and Pvt. Maxwell Marvin 'has been assigned to a battalion at Camp Wolters for training in the infantry. Pvt. Donald Edler has completed basic training at Ft. Knox. Lloyd Allen Womack and Ver non LeRoy Penland have both enlisted in the navy and Eldora Roberts has joined the WAVES Several interesting weddings and engagements were an nounced last week. Lt. John L. Applegate has taken as his bride Miss Joan Murphy of New York and the couple will come to the west coast where Lt. Applegate is to report November 4 at the Santa Ana air base. The engage ment of Lorraine Evelyn Ude of Great Neck, Long. Island, to Lt James Henry, USN, was recent ly announced. Lt. Henry is sta tioned at Oakland, Calif. Jeanne McKay was married October 2 to Ensign Arthur Charles Racine of Salt Lake City and they are living at Miami, Fla.,, where the ensign is on duty. Dr. Max George Carter, who recently was married to Dr. Bar bara Ford of Boston, will report to the navy November 1. Both the Drs. Carter have been on the staff of the Boston City hospital. The engagement of Betty Hughes to Pfc Ernest Squires of Camp White has also been an nounced. Ruth Edge, officially recog nized as Oregon's champion ice skater, has gone to Berkeley, Calif., where she will train as a professional skater. Japanese Fascist Stages Hara Kiri Chungking, Oct 29 (U.R) A Tokyo radio broadcast heard here said today that Seigoh Nakano, editor of the Tokyo newspaper Ashai and a leading Japanese exponent of Fascism, committed hara kiri Wednesday after attending the opening ses sion of the diet (parliament). - Chinese quarters took Naka no's act as indicative of bis objection to the new policy of Premier Hidekl Tojo of defen sive Instead of offensive war. BELIEVED NEARER Chicago, Oct. 29. (U.R) Hope for the long-awaited cure and control of the common cold was held out today by medical re searchers reporting in the Amer ican Medical. Association Journal. Steps toward the solution of medicine's most tantalizing prob lem were reported by physicians conducting independent experi ments in California and at Johns Hopkins hospital at Balti more, Md. Five California physicians told of experiments promising an eventual cure. Four Bait! more doctors described progress toward curoing complications. The California group used a solution of sodium sulfathiazole combined with desoxyephedrlne hydrochloride. "Experiments on 103 cases of nose, throat and ear infections showed that it this is used early enough colds may be halted and the pressure pains caused by blocked sinuses relieved," they said. "The hydrochloride compound provides a shrinkage of swollen tissues and enables the sulfa solution to reach the deeper layers of the mucous membranes." Don't Dump Leaves On City's Streets Is Plea of Rogers City Superintendent Frank Rogers today asked the public's cooperation in abiding by an ordinance which prohibits the raking of leaves from lawns on to city streets. The city superintendent. 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