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TWO MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. June 20, 1944 1 TO CM L No special gasoline rations for travel to conventions will be given this year according to the local war price and ration board, the Office of Price Administra tion having ruled against the practice Last year special ra tions were granted If several per sons traveled in one car, but this year not even this provision is made. A release from the Office of Defense Transportation earlier tnis month asked for the imme diate cancellation of all non-war connected conventions, trade meetings and conferences as well as non essential civilian travel the demand being voiced by Di rector J. Monroe Johnson. "With the Invasion now actually under way, the demands on the trans rjortation facilities of the coun try are Increasing, not decreas- Olive Barber's wtu Observations Private Buck, from whose let ters I often quote, has been heard from again and the things he says about the Salvation Army might be quotes from let ters written by boys over seas during the first world war. Pri vate Buck is an army cook on an Island on the road to Japan. He writes: "One night this week two Sal vation Army ladles came to our day room and brought the big gest cake I've ever seen. Lots of hot coffee too. They stayed until nearly eleven. We had a real community sing. Songs both new and old were sung. The boys out here think more of the Salvation Army than we do other organizations for we get to see It and we only read about 'r;' t tAcm) Teleohoto) FIRST PHOTO OF "BLACK WIDOW Here Is the first picture released of the Army's new and deadly Northrop P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter plane. Despite Its extreme size and weight, the P-01 has speed and climb of most efficient pursuit planes, packs tremendous fire power with 20-mm cannon and 50 cal. machine guns. The plane carries two or three-man crew, markedly resembles Lockheed's famed P.38. ing," the director stated. "The! the others; never see them pressure of rail shipments of war material has not yet reached its peak. In this hour of the great est demands on every human and industrial resource of the na tion, I do not think it too great a sacrifice to ask that our trans portation system be reserved for the use of the military, sorely The Salvation Army doesn't get the publicity it deserves. Some of them come to us when we're on sentry duty at night. They come with doughnuts and coffee; and always they have a word of cheer. We like to think one reason they are so cheerful when with us Is because they needed tools oi victory ana es-lke u ,ort o speclaX but of scntial governmental business. course we mav be wron, Xoday ura agifo thorn nna rtt till Hnfl Cm Mall Tribune Want Ada, ALLIS-CHALMERS TRACTORS - LOGGING and ROAD . BUILDING MACHIHEHY FARM TRACTORS-HAStSTEIiS All Kinds of FARM MACHINERY and IMPLEMENTS "Carco", Isaacson, Baker, Gar Wood and other Makes of ROAD AND LOGGING MACHINERY A largo stock of GENUINE PARTS for all ALLIS-CHALMERS Machines EXPERIENCED MECHANICS McCOY MACHINERY COMPANY 311 No. Fir. Phono 3415 Medford Trixle's pups. They want It to give to a little boy." Private Buck Is a Catholic and further says, "There is no Catholic chaplain where we are located so we have to go to mass at W . Sometimes the chap lain holds services here In the day room. He is well liked and visits us often and is always ready to hear our troubles and help us if he can. "A lady gave us the heart of a coconut palm yesterday. This is a delicacy which Is hard to get as the trees are not cut down except when necessary. With this heart as the main ingredient I made what we call a million aire's salad and though I had to use some dehydrated vegetables and make my own mayonnaise, yet that salad turned out plenty good. The boys ate every bit of it. "Today was my day off and my pal and I went swimming and hunted sea shells. We didn't find many and those we did find weren't very good. But the swimming Is always fine here, so we didn't feel too cheated." Private Buck may think the Salvation Army doesn't get the publicity it deserves. But with its name lovingly engraved on the hearts of service men every where, bill boards and news paper headlines aren't needed to make it known. And may God continue to bless the Salvation Army. ALEXIS MARRIES Hollywood, June 20 (U.R) The war postponed their wed ding for over a year, but today Alexis Smith wus at last Mrs. Craig Stevens The couple met as minor players In an Errol Flynn picture "Dive Bomber," on the Warner Brothers lot three years ago. China, so you let the crack pass. After all, you're glad enough to see a movie, regardless of what it Is. "It'll probably get going about 9 or 9:30," you're told as you're handed a ticket. "De pends on the current." That's a difficulty you can s y m p a t h ize with readily enough, because you've already learned that during the early evening hours Chungking's 220 volt power falls so low it barely will illuminate a 110-volt light bulb. You kill the time until a bit after nine and then elbow your way In and find a place on one of the rows of crowded, wooden benches. And you figet in your seat while the operator blinks the lights off and on while at tempting to get the projector threaded and the sound work ing. The title "Riff-Raff" flashes on the screen In dim. Jumpy let ters which strike a responsive note somewhere In the back of your mind. You're pretty sure you saw the picture back about 1933 or 1934. There's another feeble fan fare of trumpets and you catch the blurred caption, "With Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy," be fore the film breaks again. Our- pjygWAR 10AH DRIVE ,' gg&ipa Thiitime, BUY MORE THAN BEFORE $gL MCpi, J Ancient Nickelodeons Had Nothing On Chunking Movies By Walter G. Rundle United Press Staff Correspondent Chungking (U.R) It's announced at dinner that there's a movie showing at the Chinese Ministry of Information build ing, and you innocently ask the name of the picture. "Listen to the guy," someone says, "It's a picture, ain't it? Whadda ya want in Chungking, the Music Hall Rockettes?" Entertainment is scarce in ing the next couple of breaks in the film you find yourself won dering if the "Platinum Blonde" was as terrific as you used to think. Finally, after half - a - dozen false starts, the film gets under way tl a wavering, discordant wail of music. The power still is low and the images appear upon the screen as nebulous, hazy out lines, gesticulating in slow- mo tion and uttering doom-like pronouncem ents from the depths of some great cavern. "Jaawaah eyee wloove youuh," Jean Harlow mutters in a mouth-filled-with-mush bass voice, "bawwt eyee cawwn't mawey mawey tewerrum eeiun thee woouyouuh woontil eyeev sewwrved awouut thee wreewst awuux meen's pewnnetewnshur ray." It continues like that for two or three reels. Then there's a surge of current. The screen be comes a white glare. The sound blasts your ears back against the wall. Now you're listening to Span cer Tracy saying, in a falsetto voice, "Maryur thbnly grl yver fit sway bout aniv vided can't do thoutya." Whereupon, he makos a fast pass at the lady, that looks like the start of a rabbit-punch, but turns out to be an embrace. ' All this might not prove too confusing If the operator could read English. But lacking that ability, he feeds In the reels on a strictly ad lib basis fifth aft er second, fourth before third. Somehow he manages to get the show started with reel one and ends it with the concluding one, but it would take a detective to follow what's going on between. The first time, you find this confused and confusing busi ness amusing. The second time you're annoyed, and by the third time you ve either adopt ed the "what-the-hell, it s a movie" attitude or you pass up the offer of a ticket in favor of a good, lively, year-old magazine. The biggest phase of the war Is on the most important phase of the war is on the most expensive phase of the war is on. To pay for it... the 5th War Loan Drive is on Your Job-the Job of every American who Isn't In uniform-Is to buy twice as many bonds as you did in the lost drive. And before you say "I can't afford It", ask yourself this : Which Is easier -buy an extra bond here at ' home or give your life abroad? Remember, men are dying each minute you stop to make up your mind whether to buy that extra bond. So don't wait. Do your job right away. And one thing more please don't travel un less it's absolutely necessary. Buy an extra bond instead. The friendly Southern Pacific Tin. In "THE MAIN LINE." Wtdn.toV, t p. m., KfkC Sardine Creek Sardine Creek, June 20 Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Welch and three children, and Mr. and Mrs. Snmuel Dahl of Grants Pass, visited Mr. and Mrs. Orel Dahl, June II. Vada Wright accompanied her aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. Wllmer Bailey of Gold Hill to Portland Saturday for a week's visit. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Fasel of Central Point called on Mrs. Nora Wait Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Du sen berry and Mrs. Mildred Wright attended the Midway auction last Thursday. Mrs. Nora Walt and Mrs. Roy Esken attended State Grange in Grants Pass Thursday. Mrs. Alice Wilde and Mrs. Iris Kendall of Hilton hopyard near Grants Pass called on rela tives here Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Bressel of Grants Pass were Sunday din ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Lowd. Trofessor Byland of Oregon State College and Claude Goff, field man of the Triangle Feed Co., were in this vicinity last week blood testing the poultry flocks of Mrs. Nora Wait, and Mrs. Glen Spurlin of Sams Valley. 8e Humphrey NOW1 Humphrey Sells More Humphrey Buys More CASH FOR USED CARS 33 So. Rirerside Dill 4980 MEDFORD POLICE JOIN EFFORT FOR SAFE 4TH OF JULY Police Chief Clatous McCredie today announced that a special enforcement campaign will be in effect over the Fourth of July holiday season. Thi cam paign, he said, is in cooperation with a nationwide drive being conducted by the National Safe ty Council to reduce the stag gering holiday death toll which occurs annually at this time. 'The police department is ask ing every citizen to enlist in this campaign to save lives and prop erty over this holiday season," Chief McCredie said. "This is no time for anyone to be wasting lives, property and time through needless acci dents. Yet, the traffic accident death toll is up 13 per cent for the first four months of the year. A little common sense, courtesy and care In driving wlU halt this mounting toll." "One of the best ways to help our boys of Medford who are out there fighting for us Is to stop accidents that waste man power here on the home front." Chief McCredie emphasized that violators of wartime traf fic driving restrictions not only are flirting with death, but exposing irreplaceable cars to destruction. Capt. Robert Crews Winner Of Second Oak Leaf Cluster Enough steel is produced by American mills every half hour during the day to build and equip a destroyer. An Eighth AAF Bomber Sta tion, England A second Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal has been awarded Capt. Robert W. Crews of Medford, pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress, for "meri torious achievement" on bomb ing attacks on enemy Europe. The citation accompanying the award read In part: "The cour age, coolness and skill displayed by this officer upon these occa sions reflect great credit upon himself and the armed forces of the United Stutes." Capt. Crews. 25 years old, vet eran of seventeen combat mis sions, is the son of Mrs. Lucy Crews, 737 West Fourteenth street. He was a salesman for the Bates Candy company before entering the service March 17, 1942. Do Mall Trlbuns Want Ads. SEN. JOHNSON BACK Washington, June 20 U.R Sen. Hiram Johnson, R., Cal, returned to the senate today if ter an absence of nearly six months. The 77-year-old legisla tor, who left the capitol last December for a protracted rest after a siege of Illness, looked tanned and fit. 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