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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1944)
i ON THE HOME FRONT MEDFORDrTEIBUNE News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services The Mail Frtbune suggests vou dtp and mail this nawi roundup to a relativa 01 friend in tor vice. Data, Dear- Biggest news of the week at home was that which came from across the two oceans news of the bombing of Japan In yester day's headlines and continuing news of the invasion of Europe. This is reflected in redoubled efforts on the part of everyone to put across the Fifth War Loan drive which opened Monday morning. Signal for the first bond purchases was a "noise pa rade", with every siren and whistle in town shrieking for several seconds. The county's quota, highest of any drive, is $2,262,000. Linked wtih the invasion news from both theaters of war this week are stories of many men and women from here. A dispatch from the southwest Pa cific tells of two battles on Biak island in which Capt. Richard Thierolf, tank commander, par ticipated, and a dispatch from the Marshalls, written by Dan Bowerman, is about the aerial activities of Lt. (Jg) Don Gilles pie. He was recently awarded the Air Medal for participating in .raids in various sections of the Pacific for the past year. From England a story told of a recent raid over Germany in which. Second Lt. Jack R. Kem nitzer participated, the raid, by coincidence, being on territory from which the lieutenant's an cestors, many generations re moved, once migrated to Amer ica. Lt.-Kemmtzer, who likes his golf, recently wrote his wife that he was hopefully carrying around with him triree golf balls which some kind person gave him and which he hopes to use one of these days. The lieuten ant wrote wistfully of the two quarts of fresh milk which' he consumed daily as a civilian and said he had had but two glasses HARDIE SPRAY RIGS NIAGARA DUSTERS O Sales . ; O Genuine Parts Dependable Service McCOY MACHINERY COMPANY 111 North Fir . Phone 3415 Medford " I of fresh milk since arriving fn England. Lt. Kemnitzer's small son, born May 18 at the Camp White hospital, is probably now the family's chief drinker-of-milk. Second Lt. Jack F. Keaveny, pilot of a 15th AAF Liberator in Italy, has also been awarded an Air Medal and from the 13th AAF in the South Pacific comes word that First Lt. Jack P. Mar tin, bombardier-navigator, had just returned to his bBse after a stay at a rest camp in New Zealand. Lt. Donald W. Applegate's relatives have received word that he is a prisoner of war of the Germans, having been taken by the enemy when his plane was shot down April 13 over Hungary. . Sharing the news this week are two Medford girls in the Army Nurse corps. They are Second Lt. Helen L. Bossier and Second Lt. Mary F. Hensler and both are stationed at the 46th General Hospital in North Afri ca. Pvt. Simon and Pvt. Arthur Johnson recently wrote to their mother describing how they met while walking on 'the ground of a,-South Pacific island army camp, neither dreaming that the other was even on the island. Two other brothers in service are Sgt. William Johnson in England and St. Carl Jensen in Staff . Sgt. Charles K. Cuth bertson has been awarded .the Purple Heart for wounds receiv ed in Corsica May 13 and Pvt. John E. Jacobs, serving, with a troop carrier squadron of the 13th AAF has. been presented the Good Conduct Medal. A letter from Pvt. Edward L. Walters of Central Point states that he has finally managed to l master uie aiihiimi ihuiicj ouu , to remember that the cars drive ! on the "wrong" side of the street. He said the English peo I pie were friendly, but hard to understand unless they taiK slowly. Another 13th AAF dispatch was about Second Lt. Raymond L. Proctor, recently promoted from warrant officer by a direct RELIABLE GROCERY CHET LEONARD PHIL WHITLOCK Free Delivery Service DIAL 2126 For FREE DELIV Conforming E R Y with new O Regulation!, D. T. H7i 5" WAR LOAN The 5th War Loan It the biggest, the most vitally important financial effort of 'this whole war! Back the Attack! .'. -BUY MORE THAN BEFORE Peach Preserves, Tru-Pak, 1 lb. jar Orange Marmalade, 2 lb. jar..... , Vinegar,. Royal Club, pint Capers, Imported, bottle .... 18 Pepperoni, Chateau Brand, 7 oz. jar. 19 Miracle Whip, pint. 29 Cheese Spread, Kraft's, 5 oz. glass 19 Oysters, 7 ounce can 47 .37 .14 For Your Convenience You can now pay your milk bill here at the Reliable Grocery. ; jjJ f J FINE RELIABLE PRODUCE Local Lettuce, large solid head . . . : 2 for 23c Salton Sea Grapefruit, 80 size ....... 3 for 23c Sunkist Oranges, 200 size, doz. 43c Sunkist Lemons, 360 size, doz. 29c Fancy Local Beets 2 for 17c Carrots, large bunches. .2 for 15c 1 commission In the field. Lt Proctor has been assigned to take charge of a camera main tenance section in a medium bomber group. Norris K. Porter, carpenetr's mate first class in the Seabees, "broke into print" May 27 whqn the Honolulu Star Bulletin published a poem which he had written.' The verse was an answer to a. young man eager to get into battle. Porter is now on one of the Marshall islands..' , Recent arrivals , In- England are Second Lt. Richard. Wright, with the AAF, .and Lt. . Louis Neil Iven, also with the air corps. Sgt. Guy Watkins, is now stationed, at an air service com mand depot in - England and Theodore A. Nave, with the .new IX 'Troop Carrier command in England, was recently made a captain. , . , ." Royal D. Cooley was commis sioned a second lieutenant June 10 at Carlsbad, N. M., after completing his bombardier training and Marc Jarmln, Jr., has been promoted to the rank 'ol sergeant in the' ski troops at Camp Halt, Colo. Pvt. Ralph C. Burgess is home for a few days, having graduated from the arm-1 ament school at' Lowry Field, i Denver, and' being en route to Ft. Meyers," Fla., where he will be . an armorer with the Third air force. Aviation Cadet Ken ton E. Robbins has reported to Courtland field, Ala., for the second stage of his flight train ing.. Jim Thurston has been pro moted to first ''class aviation machinist's mate. He and his brother, Kenneth, have both been stationed in the Hawaiian islands for severi months, Ken neth being a pharmacist's mate second class. Cpl. William M. Strode has been transferred from Camp Van Dorn to Ft. Meade, Md., Pvt. James E. Ab bott has been assigned to the radio training school at Sioux Falls, S. D., and Cecil L. Chase has been enrolled as an aviation cadet at Maxwell Field, Fla. Oswald W. Newland, machinist's mate second class, Seabees, is home from Port Hueneme, hav ing been recent sent there from Davisville, R. I. Home from two years of ser vice in the South Pacific is Lt. Ugj noDert vv. Murphy. Also home is Cpl. Maxwell S. Marvin from Camo Wolters and f!nl 1 Roy Pursel left the middle oi the week for Camp Cook, after a visit with his family. Pvt. Sid Brown recently graduated from the Ft. Crook Ordnance automo tive school in Nebraska. Cpl. John Court is here after hav ing been stationed at Ft. Meyers, Fla., and is to be assigned to a west coast base. The Leonard Mayfields left this week for their new .iome in Marshf ield; where Mayfield ! wui be superintendent of schools this coming year. Their host, nf friends regret their lea"ing Med-, ford very much Indeed. Announcement was mde Sun day of the engagement, of Julie Carpenter to Capt. Ga.iand W. Jones, 14th Cavalry Group, Camp Maxey, Tex., and the wed ding of Joan Edler, Trail, to Alva Wright, Prospect. Harry Young is the newly elected commander of the Amer ican Legion post here. The Le gion recently sponsored a pre- inductlon meeting for men and their families, with representa tives of groups and professions giving the men useful informa tion. Another project receiving much local interest is the cam paign of the health association to work up a list of blood don- i ors, with names and blood-types ! or prospective donors on file at hospitals and clinics. j Other tidbits of news are the sale of the well known Hanley ranch to the Christ Church of, the Golden Rule, California, j election of Dr. B. R. Elliott as 1 head of the V. M. C. A. head i here; purchase of the Officers' . Outpost, the old telephone build : ing, by Mrs. A. S. V. Carpenter and presentation of the center to the Jackson county recreation committee as a gift for public ! use,- installation of Jack Craw ford as master councilor of the DcMolays and announcement of the Medford boys who will at j tend the annual American Le gion Beaver Boys' State to be held soon. Leaders of the dele gation will be Harry NordwIcK, last year's governor, and Phi'lir. E. Gates, counselor and assistant. Trlday, June IS, 194 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE The governor of North Caro lina Is the only governor In the Union without the power of leg islative veto. Tender Aching Burning Feet In Juit FIt Minutet Thote Sort, Ttndfr, Aching Ft Gtt Amailng Relief Oo to Western Thrift Store or any other god druggist torts y and git an original bottle of Moone't Emerald Oil. The wry flrst'appllcation' will vn you relief and a few Jhort treatment! will thoroughly eonvlnc you that by stirltltuT faithfully to It for a ahort I white your foot-trouble may be a thins, of the- past. Ixn't expect a alngle bottle to do It I all at once but one bottle we know I will ahow you beyond all quesion j that you have at last found the way I to eolld foot comfort. Remember that Moone'a Emerald I Oil la a clean, powerful, penetrating i Antlneptlc Oil that does not (tain or leave a greanv widue and that it 1 rmut give complete natlifactlon or I money cheerfully refunded. MOITG 01V3ERY WARD'S STATEMENT.-.',.' t to the Special Investigating Committee of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "THE FACTS WARDS HAS RECITED SHOW 1. The Post Office aided the union during the strike at Wards and sought to excuse tt actions to this Committee by misrepresenting the facts. 2. The National Labor Relations Board gerrymandered the bargaining units at Chicago to insure a union victory, and to force union representation upon the retail store employees who by remaining at work during the strike had clearly shown their rejection of the union. 3. The National Labor Relations Board has qiven a wholly false excuse for its action. 4. The Var Labor Board and the Attorney General, to distract attention from their own illegal acts, have untruthfully attacked Ward's labor policies. 5. The War Labor Board violated the law by granting a contract to the union when the union had refused to prove that it had any legal right to represent Ward's employees. 6. The War Labor Board, by ordering the retroactive reinstatement of maintenance of membershio, would have made impossible the ho'ding of a fair election among Ward's employees. Obedience to that order would have forced Wards, before the election was held, to discharge the many employees who had exercised their right to resign from the union. 7. The National Labor Relations Board and the War Labor Board conspired together to bring about the seizure of Ward's properties to enforce an order which they knew to be Illegal and unfair. 8. The War Labor Board and the Attorney General have sought to prevent Wards from obtaining a hearinq in the courts on the illegility of the Board's orders, while seeking to impose those orders upon Wards by force. These facts show that the Post Office, the Department of Justice, the National Labor Re lations Board, and the War Labor Board, with the approval of the President, have acted together to give illegal and unfair assistance to the CIO union at Chicago. Ward's experience ever since the passage of the Wagner Act has shown that the unfair ness and prejudice illustrated by these actions is the common method by which those agencies are usina the prestige of the government to force the surrender of the liberties of employers and employees everywhere. By their policies of givinq unfair and illegal assistance to labor unions, these bureaus hive destroyed the established prncedure of collective bargaining and have encouraged labor strife. Mr. William M. Leiscrson, Chairman of the National Mediation Board pointed this out in a recent address, saying: "The unions . . . have come to deoend on the government to give them what they could not gain by collective bargaining with employers. And now, when the giving must stop because of the burdens of war and the necessity to con trol inflation, they turn in resentment against the Government like children anainst over-indulgent parents ... "Government aqencics are oerhaps more responsible for the present labor situation than the unions and their leaders. The dependence of workers' organ izations on the Government is as much the result of their policies as of union policies." By seeking to force Wards to obey an illegal order while depriving Wards of a hearing in the courts, these aqencics have shown their lack of respect for our Constitution and tho funda mental rights which the Constitution guarantees. The Constitution is no longer the supreme law of the land if those whose rights are threatened are deprived of an opportunity to obtain the pro tection of the courts. From its experiences. Wards draws the conclusion that these many bureaus have formed I machine for purchasing political support from labor organizations. Wards has long believed that, when the public awakens to the degree of coercion used by the administrative aqencics of the government to force employers and employees to accept union restrictions in which they do not believe and which without such coercion they would avoid, it will rise in indignation . The public will demand that those appointed to office in these agencies act with simple fairness and obey the law or be removed from power. The facts Wards has recited, show finally, that the President, to force Wards to obey an order known to his advisers to be unfair and illegal, ordered Ward's property seized by force. The President's action in orderinq the plant seized was the usurpation of a power not granted him by Congress and denied him by tho Constitution ha was sworn to uphold and defend. .The seizure of Ward's plant developed a spontaneous and continuing public indignation which resulted In this investigation. This indignation is easily Interpreted. A free American peo- pie will not accept dictatorship." MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. SEWELL AVERY Chairman This is the concluding summary of the statement made by Wards June 6, 1944, to the Special Committee of the House of Representatives investigating the seizure of Ward's properties. The full statement will be gladly forwarded to any reader upon request.
