MEDFORD. MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1943
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MEDFORDIiwTBDUNE
News From Jackson County for
Men in the Armed Services
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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. In
calling attention to the ordin
ance, said the streets and roads
department was short of men
and equipment and that citizens
could keep the streets free of
leaves by their cooperation.
It Is not against the ordinance,
he said, to rake leaves from
parking strips onto the streets.
AIR INSTALLATION
Washington, Oct. 29 (U.R)
The War Department today an
nounced an air forces install
Won would be constructed in
Riverside Count j, Cal., to cost
$1,000,000.
CITRUS HEARING
Corpus Christi, Tex., Oct. 29
(U.R) Hearing on an Office
of Price Administration request
for an injunction to prevent cit
rus shippers from violating
OPA regulations will be held In
Houston, Nov. 4.
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