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LI. FRED C. SHERE REPORTED KILLED News of the death of Lt. Fred C. Shere, Jr., oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Shere; 212 South Ivt street, has been received by his parents. Official notice of the flier's death came from the American Red Cross and was sent to his wife, who lives in Seminole, Tex. Lt. Shere had been on about five missions and it was during one of the heaviest raids over Germany, on the 29th of April, that he was shot down Lt. Shere's navigator has been reported a German prisoner. Lt. Shere was first reported missing in action and it was hoped he had joined the underground. Lt. Shere left Ashland, where the family formerly resided with the National Guard 249th Coast Artillery and was station' ed at Ft. Stevens and Canby for over a year. From there he en tered the air corps, making high grades in all his tests and studies at seven different air bases where he trained. He received his wings at Mather Field, Calif. The young man vas a graduate of the 1940 class of Ashland high school, having been popular with his classmates. He was active in school athletics. The flier was married to Miss Katherine I. Price on Sept. 27, 1943, at the Gowon Field chapel Boise, Ida. Survivors, in addition to his wife and parents, are a younger brother. Bill, who has Just entered the air corps two weeks ago, and a sister, Barbara. He was a member of the Catholic church. Lt. Shere's father is a veteran of the first Warld War and serv ed as commander of the Ashland American Legion post at one time. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads, Let's call bim John Jones. Our John Jones has a fighting heart to match another of that name John Paul Jones. But John hasn't a chance at a uni form. The doctors would laugh. The draft board would tell him to run along home. For John 'is 67. )' Yet John Jones is fighting ' In this war. At 67, willing and skillful, he is doing a bang-up Job in one of our company's war plants. He is one of many senior Standard Oilers who have earned retirement but are back on duty because there's a war on. Since they, were young, these oldsters have worked to ward independence. What's more, they already bad achieved it. They had an assured income. Iach was his own boss. Yet, voluntarily, they've gone back into harness to help along the uar. Now, youth gives the most to war. But youth gives from morning of life. These others are giving the precious sunset hours. Such was the .very spirit of the John Jones who signaled the enemy, "I have not yet be gun to fight!" He didn't mean he hadn't started. He meant that, under fire, he would never quit! To our own John Joneses special mention is due for their sacrifices to help on our vast war job Years ego, when this Com pany set up its retirement sys tem, it was natural to think of it as something special for its people which, of course, was 'true. But so many of our retired employees have elected to serve instead of enjoying the relaxa tion and pleasures they had earned that we thought you would like to heat about it. This is the real American spirit that wt'l rin the war. ' f no,. mm 2 im Mimim Livestock Portland, Ore., J una 36 (UP) Livestock : Cattle, 3400; calve, 600. Few loads fed steers sharply higher at $16.65 4 17.00; top, 18.00, an all-time high; other cattle steady but lower grades low; led grass steers. $14.50; bulk, 10.00 14.00; grass belters, 12.50 down; medium grass cows, ay .00 13 10.60; good cows held to $11.90; cau uers and cutters, $5.00 6.00; common to medium bulls, $7.00 & 8.50; good to choice vealers, $14.0015.00; range vealers to $15.50. Hogs, 3200. Active, steady. Good to choice 180-370 lbs., $13.75; light lights, 10.003 11.00; SOd sows, $8.0OS.5O; choice .feeaer pigs, $10.50. Sheep, 1500. Steady. Good to choice spring lambs, $13.50; tew, $13.75; good ewes, $4-00. South San Francisco. June 26 (UP) (U8DA) Livestock: Cattle, 1300. Largest run of the year, mostly range offerings. Active. Desir able grade steady. Early two loads medium feeder steers, S12.50( 13.60; half load medium 950-lb. heifers, 13.00; two loads good 970-1080-lb. range cows, 113.25 13.75; numerous loads aged medium cows, S10.00; sort ed, 1 1.00; canners and cutters weak, mostly $6.00 w 7.50; common to me dium bulls, 19.50 3 10.25. Calves, 100. Steady. Few good to choice vealers, 614.00 14.50. Hcgs. 600. Steady. Bulk good to choice 180-270-lb. barrows and gilts, 15.00; sows steady to weak, medium to good, 19.009.50: few choice, S9.75. Sheep, 6000. Choice lambs scarce, undertone steady, largely medium to good north coast and Oregon offer ings, nothing scaled early. Shorn ewes quoted S3.50g5.50. Chicago, June 26 (UP) Livestock: Hogs, 21,000. Moderately active, steady to 15c higher. Prospects good clearance. Good and choice 150-330 lbs., Sll.65al3.75; 350-550-lb. sows, $10.65 19 10.90. Cattle, 15,000: calves, 1500. Fed steers and yearlings fully steady. Largely steer and heifer run. Top steers, $17.40; bulk, $14.00 16.85; choice to prime heifers, $17.35; bulk, $13.60(9 16.00; cutter cows, $8.00 down; most fat offerings, $8.5011.50. Sheep, 3000. Scattered early sales and most bids on slaughter lambs weak to 25c lower. Good and choice natives held above $15.25; few me dium and good old crop wooled lambs sold $14.00. Portland Produce Portland, June 26 (UP) whole sale market prices: ' Eggs To producers: Nominal prices, case count, 30 g 33c; select henneries, 33i.jc; mediums, 27c. Apples New crab, $6.00 for 80-lb. box. Cherries Fancy H. R., 24&C lb. Grapes Seedless, 35c lb. Asparagus Northwest 30-32C. $4.28. Corn California Golden Bantam, $4.50. Lettuce Local Ss, S2.00q2.50. Onions Texas Wax Conchella Was. $2.75; California red, $2.50; Walla Walla. $2 25. Peas No. 1 Oregon local, 10 11c. Tomatoes California Coactiella, $4.00 a 6.00. Chicago Wheat Chicago. June 26 (UP) Wheat: Open High Low Close July ..$1.55; $1.57!, $1.65H 81.56 Sept. .155'; 1.57 1.55S, 1.56'i Dec. 1. 57 14 1.58i 1.57 1 i 1.58'; May . 169S4 1.6014 t-S87a 1.60, S. F. DAIRY PRICES San Francisco, June 26.(U.R) Dairy market: Butter 93 score, 43c; D2 score, 42'ic; 90 score, 4214c; 89 score, 43. Cheese Wholesale prices, loaf, 27.9c; triplets, 27.2c. Eggs Large grade A, 36-37c; medium grade A 30-21Vsc; small grade A 21-23 Vic; large grade B, 29-30c. Wall Street New York, June 26. (U.R) Stocks advanced fractions to more than a point over a broad front today and lifted the gen eral average to within touching distance of its best level since Sept. 22, 1937, on active turn over. Rising tendencies were preva lent from the time of the open ing. They were induced by the ability of the market to hold steady last week during a period of profit-taking and by further favorable war news. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American Tel. Sc Tel. 160H Anaconda 264' Chrysler 963i Curtiss Wright 5H General Electric 38H General Motors .... 64Ti Montgomery Ward .. 48" 4 Penn. R. R 30Vt Phillips Petroleum . 44 J. C. Penney ..102V4 Radio 1114 Southern Pacific 3134 Standard Oil Cal. 37Ts Texas Gulf Sulphur 35 '4 Transamerica - 10H United Aircrafts ....... U. S. Rubber U. S. Steel 57V4 BIRTHS HOGUE To Mr. and Mrs. Russell, 1028 N. Central, June 25, 1944, boy, eight pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. LAMB To. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W 818 King, June 24, 1944, girl, eight and one-half pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. MUSE To Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur, 103 Mistletoe, June 25, 1944, girl, four and one-half pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada. NOTICE The Following Transfer Will Be Closed JULY 2-3-4 City Transfer and Storage Co. Davis Transfer and Storage Co. Eads Transfer and Storage Co. BIRTHDAY PARTY Close to 100 people. Including many from this city, but chiefly from the Applegate section, at tended the birthday party held yesterday at the home of Her man Offenbacher. It was the social event of the year on the Applegate, and is held every year when the birthday falls on Sunday. Neighbors started gathering early and at 1 o'clock a sumptuous lunch was served. Before and after the lunch, ice cream and soft drinks were served a regiment of children and the older generation. The lunch saw the cutting of a huge birthday cake and the presentation to Mr. Offenbacher of a beautiful Elks lodge ring. The host has been a member of the order for 25 years. "Maw" Wilcox, a widely known Applegate district pio neer, was the oldest person pres ent! County Judge J. B. Cole man, and County Commissioners William Perry and Arthur E. Powell also attended. LIEUT. BELLAMY LISTED MISSING Relatives of Second Lt. Boyd P. Bellamy, Jr., have received word from the war department that he has been reported miss ing in action. The young man, bombardier in the AAF, failed to return from a raid over Ger many May 29, hs third mission since arriving in England a few weeks before. Lt. Bellamy's wife and six-year-old son are residing with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Prince, Rt. 4, Box 345. The of ficer had been in the army since April of 1942 and before that was chief finance officer for WPA in the North Bend, Ore. district and resided in North Bend. ' HOPKINS APPOINTED S. P. DIVISION CHIEF Appointment of L. P. Hopkins as superintendent of the South ern Pacific railway's Portland division, with headquarters in Portland, was announced last week by J. W. Corbett, general manager for the company. Hop kins now heads the railroad's Salt Lake division. M. L. Jen nings, whom he succeeds, has been promoted to the superin tendency of the Sacramento di vision. Hopkins, who started with the firm as a car repairer, has had nearly 38 years service with the Southern Pacific. Boy Scout News By Scribe Roland Glass Notice to all members of troop 2, a regular meeting will be held on the lawn of the Lin coln school June 27. No meeting will be held on July 4 but will be on July 3. June 20 a regular meeting was held in the Lincoln school gym nasiums. There were nearly fif teen memDers present at mat time. Four Camp McLoughlin badges were awarded. Cold drinks were served that had been won on the' Commander game with troop 8 previously. The patrols held short meetings, then the main meeting was ad journed. ' CAT MARKS OFF 2 Newark, O. (U.R) Cats may not have the legendary number of nine lives, but a feline be longing to a city street foreman proved that she had at least two. She was trapped in a burning warehouse and wasn't found un til four days, crouched under a beam beneath the building's ruins. She had been imprisoned in the building throughout the fire. 234 Awards in 2 contests for writing 30 -word statements about Fisher's Biskit Mix DOUBLE - QUICK Cake, a revolutionary New Cake, and ZOOM "HAPPIES," a Super delicious Cooky confection. Far inlatmaUaa hem t aet.r a Brf ta t.t 2 Mnlldontf B-w t.cip., M.ai a pan card with jam aim tat arf irtu ta DOIBI.F.-IIKAOF.R CONTEST Department 266 riiHtu houhiho mills Siattla 4, Wihln!on I rm J!JLAJi I Locals Leaving Pfc. Eldon Tolle, in Medford the past few days visit ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tolle, Stewart avenue, and other relatives, leaves to night to return to Camp Davis, N. C, where he is now stationed. Stark Here Pvt. Stanley Stark is in Medford from Camp Fannin, Tex., to visit his wife at the family home on Route 2. He leaves tonight to visit his parents in Portland. Before en tering the army. Pvt. Stark was employed by the Oregon Fi nance company. Promoted Theodore L. Tay lor, in the southwest Pacific for the past 26 months, has been promoted to first lieutenant, ac cording to word received by relatives. He left Medford with the National Guard unit in 1940. Lt. Taylor graduated with the class from" Medford high school. Lt. Taylor's wife resides at 710 Park street here. He is the son of Mrs. Blanche M. Taylor, Port land, and L. C. Taylor, Medford. MRS. JAMES FARLEY TO CAST REPUBLICAN VOTE Convention Headquarters, Chi cago, June 26 (U.R) Mrs. James A. Farley, wife of the former democratic national com mittee chairman and campaign manager for President Roosevelt, has bolted the democratic party and will cast a republican ballot in November. Mrs. Farley revealed her plans soon after arriving here yester day to attend the republican na tional convention. We're not telling ourselves that the war is practically over. There's still a tre mendous job to do. Put even so, as lmsy United Mainlinors speed along the Pacifio Coast, we're ecing the lights start to come on again. It is the beginning of the brighter tomorrow which lies ahead. United has always had implicit confidence in the future of the 'rst. From a modest beginning, Unitcd's famous Main Line Air' way today links 17 Pacific Coast cities with Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, AVach ington and many other of the nation's East Coast cities. A record of more than 260 million miles of flying experience bas been established. The men and women of United continue to plan ahead. They know that as soon as aircraft plants can turn from building bombers to producing commercial planes, you will travel in great, ncw,4-cngine Main' DOUGLAS TO FISH IN WALLOWA AREA Portland, Ore., June 26. (U.R) Associate Justice William O. Douglas of the supreme court of the United States planned to leave Portland tonight for Lostine in the Wallowa moun tains of eastern Oregon for a summer of fishing and work. He arrived last night from San Francisco, vhere he pre sided over a meeting of district and circuit court judges of the ninth district. He will take back to Washngton, D. C, the views of the western judges on a pro posed new criminal code pro cedure. He will Intersperse fishing with consideration of cases com ing up for decision when the fall .court term opens. The court clerk will send hiirl an average of 25 cases a week. RELIEF GROUPS BUSY ' IN TORNADO SECTION Pittsburgh, June 26 (U.R) Rehabilitation was underway to day throughout a 220-mile sec tion of Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia which at dusk Friday was struck with winds of tornadic velocity, causing 152 deaths, 1,000 injured, and $3,000,000 damage. The Red Cross, Salvation Army, police, soldiers and civil ian defense workers joined with hundreds of volunteers to house; and feed hundreds of homeless: families and begin reconstruc tion in the tri-state area. I e'ir seebg the laighSs cone on agaan , rMk&mmmm,. U. S. NAVY SHIP REPORTED LOST Washington, June 26. U.R) The 1,000-ton U. S. destroyer escort Fechteler was sunk last month as a result of enemy ac tion in the Mediterranean, the navy announced today. The Fechteler is the second destroyer escort lost so far in this war and brings to 161- the number of American naval ves sels sent to the bottom since Pearl Harbor. The communique announcing the loss did not indicate how many of the crew were lost. The normal complement of a de stroyer escort is about 150. The vessel, which was about a year old, was commanded by Lt. Calvert B. Gill, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who is reported a survi vor. Gov. Dewey Enjoys Quiet Day on Farm Albany, N. Y., Juno 26. U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey re turned to his executive duties today after a quiet week-end at his 300-acre Pawling, N. Y., farm. The governor spent the pre Republican convention week end advising farmers on potato plantings and talking with workmen about a new driveway on the farm. James C. Hagerty, Dewey's assistant, said the governor play ed a round of golf Sunday on a nine-hole course near Pawling. liners that will servo the Pacific Coast : I planes that will cruise at 300 miles an hour. There will be luxurious flight accommo dations for 52 passengers ; ; : details of service and cuisine that will be even finer than Unitcd's present high standards ... at fares that will be consistently lowered. Rrgnrtlle.a nJ uhern ynu iron e to no, call us for enmplete air travel information. Hit. vol wear with meeting imrlimat traffic demand, tee' 11 do all ire ran to help you. f.'ivn if your destination i on a route) other than Vnited'e, ice leant In err as your travel Information headquarter: FLIGHT TIMI FROM MEDFORD TOt LOS ANOELES .' HOUKJ SAN FRANCISCO , . . 2" HOURS PORTLAND 1 H HOURS SEATTLE 3M HOURS Monday, June 28, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THRSI NELSON HOSPITALIZED ACCOUNT CHEST COLD Washington, June 26 (U.R) War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson was in Doctor's hospital today as the result of "consider able strain, due chiefly from overwork," his office reported. Nelson has been under pres sure for some time, according to WPB Information Chief Bruce Catton, and went to the hospital Friday after contracting a chest cold. tJss Mall TTlbuno Want Ads. ALUS-CHALMERS TRACTORS - LOOffiG and ROAD BUBLDSNG MACHINERY FARM TRACTORS-HARVESTERS All Kinds of FARM MACHBY and "Carco", Isaacson, Baker, Gar Wood and other Makes of ROAD AND LOGGING MACHINERY A large stock of GENUINE PARTS for all ALLIS-CHALMERS Machines EXPERIENCED MECHANICS McCOY MACHINERY COMPANY 311 No. Fir. Phone 3415 Medford Municipal Alrpart T.I.phon. 7111 A fAKTNH IN TNI SKOOSIH OF fHI PACINC COAST Highest Prices Paid for Glean USED GARS We See It! We Do It! AUTOMOBILE MARKET 6th and Bartlett Sts. Phone 3919
