PAGE EIGHT
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LOSSES
Half Million Casualties With
, in Next 90 Days Belief
, of Government Officials.
Washington, Dee. 23. (UR)
Top government officials, alarm
ed by public complacency and
wishful thinking about the war,
today predicted 800,000 new
American casualties In the next
VO -days.
If borne out by future events,
this estimate presumably based
on plans for a major invasion of
Europe would mean almost the
quadrupling of casualties to
date.
Thus far the army, navy and
marine corps have suffered 131,
SS5 casualties and the full scale
assault upon Hitler's European
fortress Is yet to come.
Dark Days Ahead
The prophesy of heavy losses
In the next three months was
made while government officials
from President itoosevelt down
were attempting to get across to
the public the idea that dark
and costly days lie ahead.
To wishful thinkers who may
be banking on an early German
collapse, the nation's war lead
ers have this message: Victory
is still far away, and in the next
three months American fighting
men will die, suffer wounds or
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Primo Fernandez sent the
remains of his family's $110
Christmas savings e box of
powder-fine ashes to the
treasury department today
and hoped the government
would recognize them.
Fernandez' three year - old
daughter, Virginia, who
"likes bright things and didn't
know any better," took the
money from purse and
threw it into the family's
stove.
be captured in unprecedented
numbers.
The thing that looms large in
the minds of many of the high
est officials. It was said, is the
fear that only a military disas
ter at least a severe military
setback will shock the nation
Into acceptance of the hard fact
that victory is not in sight for
the near future.
Nasi Collapse Doubted
The men burdened with direc
tion of the American war effort
warned that there is no reason
to expect repetition of the 1918
pattern of German collapse.
Nazi party discipline is behind
the Germany of today, and Uer
man morale generally is much
stronger than it was in 1918,
they said. In this connection
they pointed to official belief
that bombing alone will not
knock Germany out of the war,
and that only a full-fledged mill'
tary defeat in Europe can accom
plish that objective.
The big problem worrying
President Roosevelt and his top
most officials, it was said, is how
to convince , the public that,
though victory Is predictably
sure, it la a long way off and
this country's greatest sacrifices
are yet to be made.
To Shock Public
In the next few weeks, it was
understood, the public will be
given unpleasant but factual
evidence of what war means
and will continue to mean evi
dence including pictures of shell-
torn Americans on the field of
combat.
These photographs will not be
like those the public has been
permitted to see of the fight for
the Gilberts, where casualties In
cluded 4,000 men killed, wound
ed or missing. Pictures released
so far have been a glossed-over
version of what really happened.
BROKE BUT HONEST
Los Angeles, Dec. 23. (U.R)
George Kirk, 70-year-old penni
less laborer who found a wallet
containing $948, gave it to pol
ice to return to the owner. Of
ficers said the loss had not been
reported. The water-soaked wal
let was believed to belong to
Raymond Scott of Roanoke, Va.
Tiny fish, scarcely an inch
long, live in salt pools In Death
Valley, survivors of the days
when the valley was a huge lake.
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delicious, refreshing drlnki or use it to sup
plement the food value of other dishes.
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for the Holiday Table!
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LIFE OF ANOTHER
Burbank, Cal., Dee. 23. (U.R)
Lt. Col. William E. Dyess, a
gallant air fighter on Bataan
and one of the first air heroes
of the war, died last night in
the tradition which won him a
half-dozen decorations.
Dyess, 27, of Albany, Tex.',
who survived the savage strug
gle in the Philippines and
escaped from a Japanese prison
camp, was killed in a country
back yard when he crashed his
plane to save the life of an ap
proaching motorist.
With both motors falling,
Dyess was setting the speedy
craft down on a paved street.
He saw a car coming toward
him, pulled the nose of the ship
up, fell off on one wing, clipped
the top off a church and plunged
to the ground in a roaring mass
of flame.
He wore the Distinguished
Service Cross with Oak Leaf
Cluster, the Legion of Merit,
Silver Star and two cluster
group citations.
I
SHOW FOR KIDS
- Again this year, the George
A. Hunt Theaters, Inc., and Med
ford Mail Tribune are sponsor
ing a free Christmas matinee at
the Craterian theater for local
children, it was announced to
day. The Christmas show has
been traditional for several
years..
Scheduled to begin at 10 a. m.
Friday, Dec. 24, the show will
feature Gene Autry In "Sierra
Sue" and two Walt Disney car
toons in technicolor. An added
comedy with the "Three
Stooges will also be shown.
AH children of southern Ore
gon are Invited.
Paralysis Patient
From Camp White
Succumbs in Lung
Eugene, Dec. 23. Robert
Struck, 24, suffering with paraly
sis of the breathing muscles, was
rushed to an Iron lung In a local
hospital Monday night from
Camp White, but he died Tues
day, three hours after his ar
rival. The soldier was accom
panied by his wife on the trip
from Medford.
Military authorities arrived
Tuesday to take charge of the
body. The attending physician
said the paralysis was "a rapid
ly progressing thing, sometimes
amenable to treatment, some
times not." The iron lung used
was that belonging to the Lane
Foundation for Infantile Paraly
sis and located at the Sacred
Heart general hospital here.
Sunday School to
Give Yule Program
Tomorrow Evening
The Sunday school and teach
ers of St. Peter's Lutheran
church will give a Christmas
program Friday at 8 p. m. in
the auditorium of Lincoln school
on North Bartlett and Maple
streets. The program will be a
presentation of the Savior's
birth, In recitation and song.
The audience will also be asked
to Join In singing many old
familiar Christmas carols. The
public is cordially Invited.
Festival services will be con
ducted Christmas morning at
1 1 o clock In the chapel on
Portland avenue with special
Christmas music. Chaplain Van
Husen of Camp White will occu
py the pulpit.
WEATHER
Northern California Partly
cloudy southern, cloudy north
ern part today, tonight and Fri
day; occasional light rains be
ginning late tonight extreme
north part; little temperature
change.
MEDFORD. ORE-
WILL
BE
CLOSED
MONDAY
DECEMBER 27
TODAY
JANUARY 3, 1944
TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
WHO'S WHO LISTS
F(
Earl Rogers, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Uther Rogers, formerly
residents of Medford, who will
receive his A. B. degree from
Northwest Nazarene college in
June, will be listed in the 1043
44 issue of Who's Who Among
Students in American Univer
sities and Colleges, according to
an announcement from the pub
lishers. The book twill be re
leased In April.
Several students from ac1
credited colleges are selected
each year by a committee, and
their biographies published in
the book, placed in the hands of
companies which annually re
cruit outstanding students for
employment.
Rogers graduated from Med
ford high school in 1940. The
family made their home in Med
ford for several years before
moving to Klamath Falls a year
ago. Their last Medford address
was 304 Boardman avenue, ac
cording to' high school records.
The Rev. Fred M. Weatherford,
pastor of the local Nazarene
church where Mr. Rogers was a
member, reports that the young
man visited here during his vaca
tion from college in the summer
of 1942, and was employed at
that time by Myron-Root Pack
ing Co.
Rogers Is a member of Alpha
Delta Phi athletic literary
society, and has served as presi
dent of the Christian Worker's
Band, vice-president of the Mis
sionary Society, chaplain of the
Men's Club and the Alpha Delta
Phi, president of the Oregon
State Band and assistant dean in
the men's dormitory.
Giant New Bomber
, Being Readied to
War On Japanese
Washington, Dec. 23 (U.R)
Rep. John J. Sparkman D.. Ala.,
declared today that the aviation
industry was turning out a giant
new bomber something better
even than the heralded B-28 su
per-bomber that would "sur
prise and hurt" the enemy.
Sparkman, chairman of a
house military affairs sub-com
mittee that recently toured air
craft factories, said in an inter-1
view that combat crews were
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now being trained for the new
aerial weapon, and indicated that
it was designed for operation
pecially against the Japanese.
He said most of the informa
tion gathered by his six-man com
mittee must remain secret, but
added. "I wish everybody in the
country could have seen what
we did."
BAY AREA FACES
MEATLESS YULE
San Francisco, Dec. 23 (U.B
A meatless holiday season save
for turkeys and chickens was
the prospect for San Francisco
bay area residents today, as
skilled packing house workers
left their Jobs for what one union
leader described aa a "prayer
meeting."
The work stoppage In San
Francisco and Oakland slaughter
houses, called to protest the War
Labor Board's denial of an 8V4-cent-per-hour
wage .increase,
prompted instructions to grow
ers and feeders to hold their
livestock because processors
would be unable to handle them.
YOUR CHRISTMAS STORE
OPEN
TONIGHT
UNTIL 8.30
Close FRIDAY
NIGHT At 6 P. M.
GENE AUTRY
in
"SIERRA
SUE"
A GRAND FEATURE!
Donald Duck in "CHEF DONALD" PLUTO in
"THE ARMY MASCOT" Plus 20 Minutes of Fun
THREE STOOGES in "EVEN AS 1 0,1) "
. ... ,
Every Kiddie In Southern Oregon Is Invited!
Malta Pommanderr No. 4.
Knights Templar,' will hold the
annual Christmas ODservance
Saturday, Dec. 25, at 9 a. m., at
the Masonic Temple in Ashland
n-finrHina to an announcement
today by H. H. May berry, emi-
anrfor. This service is
held by Knights Templar all
over the world at exactly me
same hour.
a nmmm nt Phrlstmas car
ols and toasts will be followed
by breakfast served in the din-
(n winm. 'nf tfiA tpmtlle. All Sir
Knights and their ladies are in
vited to attend.
It is stated that the program
will begin promptly at 9 o'clock.
SULLIVAN RESIGNS
Washington, Dec. 22 U.B
Matthew G. Sullivan, Rochester,
N. Y., has resigned as assistant
director of the war production
boards printing and publishing
division, chief of the division's
newspaper section, and adminis
trator of the newsprint limita-
CRATERIAN THEATRE
tlon order, it wai announced to
day. EDITOR HARP DIES
Richmond, Cal., Dec. 23. (U.R)
Charles Ellington Harp, 65,
veteran newspaperman and tele
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN
ANYONE?
Mom Your Best Girl - Grandma
Or Good Friends?.
FLOWERS O CUT, POTTED
OR CORSAGES : . . . :
Speak your Christmas Message to women of all ages.
And ... if it I a ported plant, it will remind them all
through the year, that you are thinking of them..
MEDFORD GREENHOUSE
1005 E. Main Phone 4840
Just Off Crater Lake Highway
OPEN CHRISTMAS EYE AND
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CHRISTMAS
MATINEE
FRIDAY MORNING
DEC. 24 -
WALT DISNEY CARTOONS
IN TECHNICOLOR
graph editor of the Richmond
Independent, died of pneumonia
last night Harp waa employed
by the Medford News, Medford
Ore., during the early days of
L. A. Banks' ownership of that
paper.
Say
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
With
IOA.r.l.