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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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future use of sports lighting, due
to the emphasis that war, has
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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.
Police Chief Robert Tracy as
signed two inspectors to direct
a search for the purported
bombs.
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