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News From Jackson County for
Men in the Armed Services
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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
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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
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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
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Local Lettuce, large solid
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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
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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.
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01V3ERY WARD'S
STATEMENT.-.',.'
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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.