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GUNNERS LEARN
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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
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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.
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Population in the Eastern Ore
gon State Hospital April 1, 1943.
was 1,242 with 696 men and 546
women.
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Prostate Gland. Ectema.
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Kidney Trouble Jaundice,
and other complaints dis
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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.
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hasten the day of Victory . . , the day when the boys come march
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