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Cpl. Hemmerling Gets Decoration On Corsica Wound Allied Invasion Ship Burns Off French Coast T75 Kenneth Hemmerling said in his last letter to his parents that he had arrived safely in London. The young men's mother left Wednesday evening for Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada, where she has been called by the serious illness of her mother. Thursday, June 22, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE FITS WOULD BAR CONSCHIES FROM MUSTER-OUT PAY Los Angeles, June 22 (U.R) Conscientious objectors in the army would be ineligible for mustering out pay, bonuses and other benefits for combat vet erans, under terms of proposal adopted today by tho California Veterans of Foreign Wars. The VFW in its twenty-fourth annual state meeting yesterday suggested that conscientious ob jectors get a "class B" honor able discharge. STRIKING PRISONERS ON BREAD AND WATER Worland, Wyo., June 22 (U.R) Ninety-four German prisoners of war from the camp near here were placed on bread and water diet today following their strike yesterday. The pris oners refused to work In the beet fields of the district, com plnining about the lack of benches In the trucks used to transport them to and from work. PUBLIC UTILITIES A Purple Heart medal has been presented to Cpl. Gifford Hemmerling of Medford for wounds received May 13 during an air raid on Corsica, where he is stationed. In a letter received yesterday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hemmerling, 238 South Holly street, the ser viceman told of receiving the medal. He is in a hospital recov ering from a leg fracture. Cpl. Hemmerling's brother. IZZY GOMEZ DIES San Francisco, June 22 (U.R) Isadore (Izzy) Gomez, colorful San Francisco tavern keeper who has operated "just a leetle place" since tho taming of the Barbary Coast, died today of uremic poisoning. Licensing, Regulating Trans portation, Rates, Services Of Utilities Supervised OF Salem, Ore. (U.R) One of the most important and least known Jobs in the state executive de partment is that of the public utilities commissioner, a post now neld by George H. Flagg, of The Dalles. Flagg, who is currently re covering from an automobile ac cident in a Salem hospital, was appointed to the position for a four-year term, beginning June 1 of last year. Many Dutln His Job includes any rumber of duties including the primarv one of licensing and regulating transportation, both rail and automotive, in the state, at which he is assisted by A. F. Harvey, superintendent of motor trans portation, and John H. Carkin, superintendent of rail transpor tation. The Oregon timber industry is very largely under the super vision of the commission, inas much as it is dependent upon both rail and truck transporta tion. Regulation and supervision of the rates, services, practices and regulations of all public utilities, including railroads, truck and bus companies, telephone com panies, water, gas, electric and steam heating companies, are among the jobs handled by the commission, which is granted ex tensive powers governing the reasonableness of fare, rates and service conditions. Represent Patrons As a matter of fact, the jobs and duties of the commission are smi-ng the most extensive of those of any state department. A partial list of additional duties Include . the representing of patrons, users of services and consumers of products of any public utility, and the public gen erally in all controversies re specting rates, charges, valua tion, service, and kindred mat ters; they are charged with classifying, governing and regu lating operations of motor vehicles engaged by carriers, the licensing and regulation of for warders engaged in assembling for compensation property to be transported by motor carriers, and brokers engaged in selling or arranging such transportation. Rates, fares, service, facilities, safety practices and accounts of such carriers are all under the commission's control. Flagg, 66, was in newspaper work for a number of years, and for a time was publisher of the St. Helens Mist and Elgin Re corder, was later owner and pub lisher of the Grant County Jour nal, Prairie City, the Condon NOW SHE SHOPS "CASH AND CARRf Without Painful Backache Many eulfemt relier. 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An Allied Invasion ship bums off beach of Prance as first wave of assault troops rd ashore Picture was made by Bert Brandt. NEA-Acme staff photographer tor War Picture Pool, who landed with the troops and re turned on first boat loaded with wounded, rushed his pictures to London, where they were radioed to the United States. L ; ' I (Acme) Teltnhoto) 30 TEARS Captain Morrison J. Wilkinson Jr, 28-year-old veteran fighting pilot, faces 30 years at hard labor and dishonorable dis charge from Army after Santa Ana, Cal, courtmartial board tound him guilty of four sex, of fenses, bigamy and thelb Globe-Times, Condon, the Cen tral Oregonian, Prineville, and The Dalles Optimist, The Dalles. He was chief deputy secretary of state for several years prior to his appointment to the public utilities commission. FAILS TO LAUGH Chicago (U.R) Tp his peti tion for a writ of habea3 corpus, Harry Meyers, 39, a Stateville penitentiary inmate, attached six cartoons portraying Injustice he claimed to have suffered from the parole board. Federal Judge Michael L. Igoe was un impressed. The plea was denied. Meyers has been in prison since 1929 for a $30 robbery. NO END Boston (UP) The new 30 per cent carbaret tax doesn't worry one Boston night-club manager who philosophizes that "the more the customers drink, the more the tax hits, them,. and the more the tax hits them the more they. drink to forget. about it." Electrical manufacturers ex pect a marked expansion in the future use of sports lighting, due to the emphasis that war, has placed on physical fitness. Rose Dawn FREE St. Mary's College Given Many Early Dante Editions By Lois Owens United Press Staff Correspondent South Bend, Ind. (U.R) St. Mary's College now possesses an authentic library of early Dante editions which took more than 75 years to collect by an anonymous donor, Sister M. Madeleva, C.S.C., president of the college, has announced. She said the editions were the gift of one of St. Mary's oldest friends who wished to observe the centennial year of the school. The collection is made up of 550 volumes and is expect ed to attract many research stu dents to the institution. The collection was considered especially rare since it includes copies of all editions of Dante's "Divine Comedy" and his other works in several languages as well as books on the Florentine world and its surrounding prin cipalities. Accompanying the library was a framed embroidery on linen' from Canto L of 'The In ferno" in its original Italian transcription. The English trans lation reads, "In the midway of this, our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood astray, gone from the path direct." Sister Madeleva attached great value to the embroidery. A figure of Dante holding a copy of his "Divine Comedy" and facing a path barred by the leopard, lion and wolf repre senting luxury, power and greed completes the linen work. The embroidery was designed by Bume-Jones and executed by Walter Crane. She said the outstanding vol ume of the collection was one which contained engravings and original letters and bulls from Pope Innocent IV to Pope Pius X. These were contained in a large, leather-bound volume. The collection deludes a copy of the manuscript of the "Vita Nuova" reproduced in 1921, the 300th anniversary of Dante's death. The sale of this book was used to purchase the original manuscript which was donated to the Vatican library. It was Illustrated in color by Vitorio Grassi. A group of miniature edtlions includes two Pickerings, a copy of the Lord Vernon edition in scribed to the dean of St. Paul's cathedral, and a Longfellow edi tion autographed by him. As a setting, the volumes will be placed eventually in a medi eval room which will reflect the atmosphere of the collection. Other volumes of the period also will be housed there. How ever, the room will not be fin ished until construction condi tions permit. In the meantime, the collection will remain in the seminar room of St. Mary's library. Mother Rose Elizabeth, moth er general of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Plants (Acme Radio-Telepholo) said, "It seems especially oppor tune at that hour when Italy Is being invaded and her many treasures placed in jeopardy, these great master works of Ital ian thought and culture should find a home at St. Mary's." Sister Madeleva said the col lection placed St. Marys' on a par with Cornell university, Harvard, Notre Dame and the Universtiy of Pennsylvania, all of which claim outstanding medieval libraries. Peril Of Postwar Hegira to Farms Seen by Planners Washington, June 22 (U.R) An agricultural department post war planning committee warned today that a widespread post war back-to-the-land movement of veterans and war workers might jeopardize total agricul tural prosperity. The committee said after a study of the subject that it would be "contrary to the public in terest" to crowd more families onto farms than they can be made to support at an adequate level of living. Therefore, it said, specific plans are necessary at an early date in order to afford best opportunities to veterans and other potential new farmers. Homemade Bombs Placed in Sewers Oakland, Calif., June 22 (U.R) Attorney Leo Sullivan informed Police Judge Joseph Kennedy to day that his client, James R. Gilkerson, 21, had confessed placing a "large number" of homemade bombs in Oakland sewers, and that they would ex plode when they became wet. 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