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PAGE FIVE GUNNERS LEARN t . DAIRY PRODUCTS West Coast Winds Give Fishing Craft a .B sating ; Til A M RFHI AND CANNED FRUIT WILL BE SCARCER 8th U. S. Air Force Dis Civilians Promised More covers Best Results From Actual Fighting Nazis. Meat, Eggs, Fresh Fruits And Vegetables by WFA. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1943 By Walter Cronkite ,( United Press Correspondent A U.S. Bomber Division Head quarters, Somewhere in England 0J.PJ The United States Eighth Air Force has come to the start ling conclusion that at least half the time the best way to shoot ' down enemy lighters is to shoot behind them. ' This deduction, calculated to tender a coupleof million Amer lean duck hunters insomniac, has come after long research by sf. ballistic experts, physicists and gunnery officers studying a theo ry long accepted by the RAF. The conclusion that Incoming nemy fighters should be trailed Instead of led by the defensive gunner has a fairly simple ex planation. ? Whereas a duck hunter shoot ing at a feathered target is sta tionery, a 21-year-old American gunner shooting at an alumi num, fabric, flesh-and-bone tar get is on a bomber moving some 800 to 250 miles per hour.- V This movement of the Ameri can gunner's "platform," as the gunner officers call a half-million-dollar airplane, imparts a certain catapult - action, the bullet leaving the 50-caliber V Muzzle. .' 1 To this cataput action the gun; Aery officers have given the name "fling." The line of flight of a load of buckshot from the hunter's gun It reasonably stright so that the hunter aiming at a duck on the Wing shoots ahead of the target If he's lucky, the line of flight of bis buckshot and the llue of flight of the duck will meet in mid-air somewhere, and his din- - tier guests that night will li'.l their cavities with tasty game and lead pellets. v. But he doesn't have to con tend with this "moving plat form" and "fling" business. If be did, he'd learn, as the Air Force has, that when you shoot from say, a 240-miles-per-hour bomber the bullets from your Vgun don t follow a straight line f flight but are flung forward far in advance of your target. Thus the way to hit an incom ing Focke-Wulf is not to aim head of him but actually to aim behind him. Then the bullets are flung forward enough to meet the enemy. - If that sounds complicated. ' hold onto your hat. Things get worse instead of better. Because there axe exceptions to the rule, i In the first place this all ap plies to aircraft attacking from somewhere in the rear. If the at. tacking plane is coming from - somewhere in front the gunner has to give him a little more than normal amount of lead again to compensate for that "fling." Also, If the attacking plane is coming in from dead level directly at the nose or tall, ' no lead or trail is necessary. Eighth Air Force now is try . ing to get all this across to their - Fortress and Liberator gunners with a simple, amply Illustrated t, booklet compiled by Dr. Edwin Hewitt (215 East Chestnut St.), : Chicago physicist and mathema- tician now working In a civilian : capacity with Eighth Bomber ; Command, and young Capt. Mer- , lin D. Larson of Swea City, la., ! gunnery officer of this division I "Our biggest problem in sell ;' lng this idea to the gunners is the fact that American boys 1 either by practice or just Inner- i ently, are marksmen," Larson ' says. "They've been hunting with 22's or 20-gauges all their i YICK SO CHINESE HERB. CO. Daily 10 A. M. to 6 P.M. Sundays 11 :30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. High winds, which buffeted the entire California coastline, struck with especk violence at small fishing craft at Monterey, where 70-mile-an-hour gales tossed these boats about like mato wood. The damage will soar Into mllloni of dollars. lives and all their lives they've been leading the target. 'It is pretty tough telling them not to, at least half the time in fact, to do just the op posite. We've got the answer though in a simple slogan that applies to every case except the dead level nose or tail attack. . "The slogan is 'always aim be tween the incoming fighter and your own tail.' Our boys are finding out it works. And so is Jerry. MORE PORK Chicago, Dec. 15 (U.R) The War Meat board said . today that pork production comprised about 60 per cent of last week's total output of meat. Pork pro duction Increased ' 1 per cent over the. previous week, the board said, but total meat pro duction remained the same 424,000,000 pounds. GRAVEL PIT FIRE Ontario, Ore., Dec. 15 (U.R) Fire caused by an overheated compressor yesterday destroyed $2,000 worth of equipment and buildings at the Lackey gravel pits outside the city limits. The fire department answered the call but returned to the station when noting the property was outside the city. More Farm Labor Needed Next Year Washington, Dec. 15 U.R) The house appropriations com mittee sent back to a subcom mittee for revision today a bill appropriating funds for the 1044 fcrm-labor program, after re leasing testimony by Food Ad ministrator Marvin H. Jones that an additional 287,000 farm workers would be needed to meet 1944 food production goals. The full committee was un able to agree on a proposal in the bill which would have . re moved all jurisdiction over the land army from the War Food Administration and placed it in the hands of the state agricul tural extension services. PEO BERVES WAFFLES Ashland, Dec. 15 The Friday evening waffle supper "at the Ashland USO was served by members of AC chapter of PEO, Mrs. Dom Provost, Mrs. Mabel Kinney and Mrs. Ann Le Bounty in charge. Hostesses dressed the table with lace cloth and decora tions of candles and Oregon holly In the manner of a pre-Cbrist-mas party. Osa Mail tribune Want Ada. Morton Downey la Night Club Champ New York, Dec. 15 (U.R) The Broadway night club box ing season was officially open today. , Addison (jack) Randall, cow boy star, nursed a stitched head and Morton Downey, singer. was acclaimed the winner of a night club slugging match in El Morocco with no holds barred. It Is no secret that the feud be tween Randall, present husband of Actress Barbara Bennett, and Downey, ex-husband of Miss Bennett, was one of long stand ing. Downey divorced Barbara in June, 1941 and gained cus tody of the children. - Barbara was married to Randall soon after. . ' NORWEGIANS FIGHT . Stockholm, Dec. 15 (U.R) The Scandinavian Telegraph bu reau said today that a member of the German Gestapo was shot and killed when two of the Ger man police raided a house in Oslo and tried to arrest two Nor wegians. A regular battle en sued before the Norwegians, one of them wounded, were arrested, the report said. Oaa Mall moiin Want Ads. Chicago, Dec. 15 (U.R) Roy F. Hendrickson, director of food distribution for the War Food Administration, said today that civilians will have more meat,; eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables during the next year, but leas! butter and other dairy products- and canned fruits. I He addressed the 3 5th annual - convention of the Vegetable! Growers' Association of Amer ica, attended by approximately 2,000 delegates representing the! nation s 670,000 vegetable grow- j ers. Control Necessary "To accomplish the Job of food distribution," Hendrickson said, "government-instituted con trols are necessary. The success of the program will release greater quantities of meat, poul try and some fruits and vege tables for civilian consumption. However, tighter controls must be placed on certain dairy pro ducts and canned goods." Hendrickson, reviewing war food goals, said: "Nineteen fourty-four calls for the largest food production we have ever attained five per cent more than the over-all record produc tion of this year." "Victory gardens," he said, 'can help materially to meet the demand for fresh vegetables. Next year we must have 22, 000,000 gardens to meet the quota." To Get Machinery Tha WFA, Hendrickson said, will provide price supports through purchases of farm pro duce In addition to providing other assistance where neces sary, both in production and dis tribution. He said the outlook for farm machinery "is relatively good" 1944 manufacturers' quotas "are about double" those of last year. V i - Population in the Eastern Ore gon State Hospital April 1, 1943. was 1,242 with 696 men and 546 women. ;i4aK4 i. H. Leong. Herbalst Jackson Co. Bank Bldg. STOMACH ULCERS Heart RbeumaHsm. Asthma. Catarrh. Plies. Prostate Gland. Ectema. and all disorders ot Liver. Kidney Trouble Jaundice, and other complaints dis apoear alter using CHINESE HERBS Mo Boys Stdu ffp Mb , j LiL'l 0A d&ii ' Worn of Alr-kald, IWuc Smok. Scr.ens I fight Firo$ ty'y JJ Movt Corgoei IsKjaaLaSl 7? nm-rmm -rJt j f " fiH(WlB' Props fank$ aCaiWw&W- ' i-J.r'.i v t ' Power Ambvfonces 0ril T....L. It . -J , Supply Automotive Horsepower of War American soldiers know these Chrysler Corporation engines. They have sat behind them, driven them, and serviced them in the cities, villages and on the farms at home. Now, In the war, the boys who grew up with these engines show their knowledge of them, and their affection for them. They are the direct descendents of the famed, original Chrysler "Red Head" engines of twenty years ago . . . the ones that established new high standards of performance among American cars and trucks. Like the soldiers who man them, Chrysler Corporation engines are, today, doing a military job . . . Defense and Attack, reflect their power and efficiency. Tm la Mw aw amy ThrWy, CS, ?., LW.t, BACK THE ATTACK BUY WAR BONDS Chrysler Corporation t ' -", i ,,0 v " ' ' " I" " ' I V - -1 jf-. . V,. - . " L ' Tt,.v How many more days; Mummy? "Tell me. How many more days before Daddy can come home?" Will he be home . THIS Christmas? r And mother doesn't know. So she answer the same way she's answered a hundred times .... "Not so many days . . . we' hope. Daddy can't come home to us until the war is over. Until we win, you ' know." Nobody can tell the thousands of bewildered little hearts wheu their Daddies will come home. Nor the millions of other Americans when their husbands, or sons, or sweethearts will be back. The tragic truth is that many of them will never see their loved ones again. Never. ' But this we do know .. - Every minute by which the war can be shortened means fewer lives lost fewer white crosses on a lonely hillside. YOUR job is to put every dollar you can possibly dig up into War Bonds. , The fighting equipment bought by your dollars will hasten the day of Victory . . , the day when the boys come march ing home. DIG DOWN DEEPER. Buy EXTRA War Bonds. Give them this Christmas! Help shorten the war by those vital minutes or day's, or months which mean American lives saved ! Give WAR BQfiDS THE GIFT. WITH A FUTURE! Theatres Inc. CRATEEIAN o RIALTO HOLLY oROXY You May Conveniently Purchase Your Christmas War Bonds Any Afternoon at tha Cratarlan Theatre nmtiti imt it itit iMirtut
