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JAPS KILLED BY DOUGHBOY PAIR By Mae H. Johnson United Press War Correspondent With the 77th Army Division, Guam, July 22 (Delayed) (U.R) Two American soldiers last night killed three saber-swinging Jap officers who charged their fox hole, but only after several min utes of violent hand-to-hand com bat. Staff Sgt. Robert L. Living ston, 22, of Pensacola, Fla., and Pvt. Auguste B. McLees, 34, of Rutheford, N. J., emerged with saber cuts on their left hands, and , battered helmets which probably saved them from death. The enemy swords cut through the steel visors but neither sol dier had as much as a scratch from blows on the head. Livingston, a bazooka expert, and McLees, a rifleman, were awake in their foxhole before the attack. A third soldier was sleeping. "I heard a noise but it was pitch dark," said McLees. "I Priced From HATS We still have a few $1.00 hats left. These hats are on sale and are good buys. There Is still a good selection In colors and styles. Priced at $100 M. M. DEPARTMENT STORE Have . . . a way to be carefree in the Caribbean Between spells of duty at our southern outposts, the American soldier koows how to relax. Have a "Coke", says a thirsty Yank, and it's like a friendly invita tion to fun or a chin-fest 1 1 ; the same as when you serve Coca-Cola la your home. From the Caribbean to the Arctic, Coca-Cola stands for the pause that rejresbes, hts become the high-sign of friendliness many places overseas. lOTTltD UNDII AUIMOIITT Or INI COCA-COIA COflrAUT IT Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Medford didn't see anything but I hol lered, 'Halt!' Then I saw three Jap officers waving their swords, running toward the foxhole. They were only ten feet away when I saw them. I fired one shot from my Garand and knocked one down. He was so close I couldn't miss." Gun Jams Meantime Livingston fired with his carbine but his gun jammed. The two remaining Japs jumped into the foxhole, slash ing and seriously wounding the soldier who had been sleeping. Livingston and McLees grabbed the swinging blades with their bare hands and wres tled the Japs in the bottom of the foxhole. Said Livingston: "I pushed one Jap down atop my wounded buddy, then grabbed a carbine and started clubbing the Jap. who hollered 'No! No!' I also hit the Jap with whom McLees was wrestling, hitting him in the base of the neck and on his face". "Both Japs started crawling out of the foxhole so I grabbed the good carbine of my wounded buddy and McLees got his Gar and and we shot and killed them." The air sea rescue unit with headquarters at San Diego, Cal., has set a record of an average 16 minutes required to bring an assisting unit to the scene of a crash. BRASSIERES and GARTER BELTS NYLON Brassieres and Gaiter Belts are now in bur stock. Also Warners Brassieres in combination or solid satins, lace and net. These have adjustable backs and elastic gives. Wonderful uplifts or plain bras sieres. Brassieres are hard to get now so you won't want to miss seeing and buying some. All sizes in white and tearose. 75c - $250 Special Sale on SUITS and COATS See our two racks of Suits and Coats on sale at amazing prices. They are priced to go. We are trying to make room for our Fall merchandise. Get one of these Junior styles for the school girl this fall. Some large sizes. Values From $19.95 $26.95 PAY LESS & DRESS BETTER a "Coke" What's the hurry? 10 LT. Headquarters, XX Bomber Command, Somewhere in In dia Promotion of Major Ralph H. Norris of Medford, Ore., to the rank of lieutenant colonel has been announced at headquar ters of the XX Bomber Com mand, B-29 Superfortress organ ization which has been bombing strategic targets in the indus trial heart of Japan. A veteran of World War I and the Mexican Border campaign of 1916-17, Col. Norris enlisted in World War II in April, 1942. He was assigned to the produc tion division of the Materiel Command at Wright Field, Day ton, O., then headed by Briga dier General Kenneth B. Wolfe, who later took command of the XX Bomber Command. Colonel Norris served there until Janu ary, 1944, following which he was transferred to the technical staff of the XX Bomber Com mand, Salina, Kans., which was $1295 .Oiwtue-cc. Mm 1 r 1 ( 1 n let being readied for Its mission overseas. Leaving the States in Feb ruary, 1944, Colonel Norris ar rived at India headquarters of the Twentieth to assume the duties of Assistant chief of the engineering section. Later, the job of logistics faced by the command in the remote China-Burma-India theater involved procurement and transportation problems of such proportions, es pecially with relation to gasoline and oil, that appointment of a fuel control officer was neces sitated. Colonel Norris was assigned the job of procuring and trans porting the precious gas and oil over the Himalayan "Hump" to China bases of the command, far eastern springboard for bombing missions against the Japs A graduate of Medford high school and a former student of the University of Washington, Colonel Norris is an industrial engineer, formerly associated with the Standard Statistics com pany, New York City. He is married to the former Elizabeth Muse of Mason City, la. While Col. Norris is overseas, Mrs. Norris maintains her home at Mason City, la., and at Old Stage Road, Medford. iARYlJALKER CALLED BY DEATH Mrs. Mary L. Walker, 82, of Phoenix, passed away at a local hospital Tuesday. Mrs. Walker was born at Des MCnies, Iowa, January 30, 1862. She spent many years at Stur giss. S. D., before coming to South n Oregon. Her husband, James Walker, passed away in 1906. Besides a host of friends, she i leaves to mourn her passing two daughters and two sons, Mrs. Pearl Ann Chaney of Salt Lake City, Utah, Mrs. Ethel Twamley of Phoenix, James and Grant Walker, both of Phoenix, Ore., three brothers, Charles Brown of Iowa, Benjamin Brown of ! Utah, Mat Brown of California; two sisters, Mrs. Belle Simpson and Mrs. Ada Witt of Sac City, Iowa. Funeral arrangements are In charge of Perl Funeral Home I and will be announced later. S. F. ALUMINUM PLANT TO CLOSE THIS WEEK Washington, Aug. 2. (U.R) Donald M. Nelsqn, chairman of the war prodution board, has de cided to close down the Itiver bank aluminum plant in San Francisco because of the current surplus of the metal, it was learned on good authority today. It is understood that opera tions at the Riverbank plant will be brought to a halt before the end of the week. Details of the closure are now being worked out by WPB. Visitors Leave Ed. R. Walk er left today for Portland after I spending a vacation in Medford I at the home of his parents-in-i law, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Gilstrap, 35 Geneva street. Mrs. Walker j is remaining for a longer visit 1 with her parents. Mr. Walker is manager of the Playhouse the ater in Portland. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads MCoke" Coca-Cola It's namrat for popular names to acquire friendly abbrevia tions. That's why you heal Coca-Cola called "Cokt". T TRANSIT SYSTEM By United Press "Illness" continued to plague 5.800 Philadelphia Transporta tion company workers for the second day today as reports were circulated that U. S. troops were standing by ready to take over operation of the transit system, paralyzed by the walkout which started yesterday in protest against employment of Negroes as bus drivers and motorinen. Army officials refused to com ment on the possibility of troops taking over the PTC, but it was reported they were available and ready to assume operation on less than an hour's notice. The strike started at 4 a. m. yesterday when crews started turning in their vehicles, plead ing illness. The walkout quickly spread to all subway, surface and elevated lines, leaving hundreds of thousands of war workers stranded, curtailing production of vital war materials and "slow ing the buildings and repair of important units so badly needed by the fleet." Negro Question Despite pleas by the army, navy and union officials, the workers said they would remain on strike as long as the company planned to train and use Negro operators. The transit walkout was the blackest spot in the nation's labor picture which showed a total of approximately 23,000 workers out on strike. The biggest strike was report-1 ed in Detroit where 7,000 work- i ers at the Chevrolet gear and axel division of the General Motors Corp. continued their week-long walkout in protest against new production speed-i ups. The strike halted production of engine parts for Pratt-Whitney Aircraft engines in five plants. There was, however, one bright spot in the labor picture at Detroit. The walkout of 2,300 employes of Montgomery Ward and Co. was settled yesterday and the 250 workers, who the union said were fired because they refused to work overtime without pay, were reinstated. In another dispute at Detroit, the WLB directed nearly 300 work ers at the Bull Dog Electrical Production Co. to end a walkout that flared up yesterday morning when employes halted produc tion of electrical equipment for war machines. The walkout was in protest against a WLB delay in negotiating wage increases. BERLIfUllTS London, Aug. 2 (U.R) Berlin admitted today that Field Mar shal Erwin Rommel was serious ly injured when an allied plane bombed and strafed his stuff car in Normandy on July 17, but asserted that the erstwhile "desert fox" is out of danger and recovering "satisfactorily." The official Nazi DNB news agency said Rommel suffered a brain crmcussion and other un disclosed injuries In an "acci dent" that followed the strafing attack. DNB's account tacitly con firmed reports relayed by cap tured German soldiers in Nor mandy that Rommel's car over turned when it was hit by gun fire .'rom the strafing plane. It was the first official word from Berlin on the fate of Rom mel, who had variously been re ported critically Injured and dead as a result of the "acci dent." Livestock Portland, Ore, Aug. 3 (UP)- Live- stock: Cattle, 125: calves, 65. Steady. Few common atfers, $8.50r 0.60: medium ftrassera to $12.50; medium urass heif ers, $11.60; csnner and cutter cows, $4 005.60; common beef cows, $7.00; common to medium bulls, $7.oom 8 50; good to choice venlera, $13.50r 14 50. Hogs, 75U. Market active at renina, price. Oood to choice 180-240 lbs., $16 .75; 241-370 lbs., $16 00; good sows. $10 OOcJ 11.00; feeder plKs, $12.00$ 12 50. 6heep, 800. Market fairly active, atendy. Oood to choice spring lambs largely $13.00, few $13.35; raiiKS feed ers. $9.60; local feeders, $800rrf8.&o; culls down to $0 00; good ewes, $3,50; culla and common, $1,001? 3.60. South Ban Francisco, Aug. 3 (UP) Livestock: Cattle. 300. Oood steers absent, quofd steady, package medium steers, l.T.oo: medium to good heifers sal able $13.004 13 00; good cowa steady up to $13 00; lower grade cows, 60c lower, uneven: largely clean-up sales; W aw- " Be ura Ifi IH Hf INHY.f ACKID CONTAIN I tf. Lavaww. fen1 packages eommoti to medium. S9.0Oy 10.50; cnttera. 7.008.00; can tiers, S5. 50t4 7.00; common bulls, 19.00, few H0.25. Calves, S. Few choice vealers, $14.00. Hogs, 150. Around 35o hlpher. About load good and choice 180-240-lb. barrows and gilts, $15.25; lew 250 lb., $15.00; sows. 25c higher; packages good 400-lb., $10.00. Sheep. 700. Quality plain; desirable lambs hardly ollered. Slow, about steady. Package medium to good 84 lb. shorn yearlings. $9,50; cull to good shorn ewes, quoted $1.003 4 00. Chicago, Aug. J (UP) (WFA) Llvastock : Hors, 13,000. Active. 240 and down, $14.75: heavier hops. $14.00; bulk rood and choice 300-660-lb. sows, $13 65, 14.00. Cuttle. 9500; calves. 800. Largely steer and heller run. Top, $17.90; bulk fat steers. $14.50ij 17.50; most grnas ers, a 12.00 r 14.50; most grass hellers. ew.oudt n.ou: oulk grain ted, $14,503 1 16 50; cutter cows, $7.75 down; can- I nera. $5.756.50; good beet cows,! $14.00; weighty fat grass cowa up to $13.00: bulk grass bulls, $7.5039.50; vealers, $15.00 down. Sheep, 1000. Cloori and choice na tlve springers. $14.50sM5.00; medium I and good, $12"50r 14.35; common.! SlO.OOu! 12.00; medium to choice j shorn native ewes barely steady, I Portland Produce Portland. Aug. 3 (UP) Cantaloupes California Jumbos, $4.50; standards, $3.50tt 3,.75; Yakima standards, S3.75fl4.00 crate. Grapes Thompson seedless. $6.50 lug; black seedless, 80c lb.; Rebier, 35o lb.; Red Malaga. 30o lb.; Lacly flnpers. 80c lb. Peaches Oregon packed Early Van ities, $1.603 1.75: Rochesters, $1.75 box. Beans Oregon green. 810o lb.; yellow, SiiMOc lb.; Younts, 10, j 13c lb. OnrlUj No. 1, 28 35c lb. Onions Yaklmas, $2.00 per 60-lb. bag. Lettuce 3s. No. 1, $3.75 u 4.00 crate. Peas No. 1 local, 90 lb,; coast, $3.25 a 4.00 box. Radishes Local, $1.10 1.20 dozen bunches. Chicago Wheat Chicago. Aug. 3 (UP) Wheat: Open High Low Close Sept. ..$1.55' $1.55 $1.55'i $1.65i; Dec. 158IJ 156', 1.55I 1.55i! May 1.56', 1.56', 1.55;, Im S. F. DAIHY PRICES San Francisco, Aug. 2. (U.R) Dairy market: Butter: 93 score 43c; 92 score, 42'4c; 90 score, 42V4c; 90 score 4134c. Cheese: Wholesale prices, loaf 27.9c; triplets, 27.2c. Eggs: Large grade A, 46fi47c; medium grade A, 3Di2t404c; small grade A, 241,425'.!c; large grade B, 33 34c. Wall Street New York, Aug. 2 (U.R) Prime Minister Churchill's inti mation that the European war soon may end brought demand today into such "peace" stocks as low-priced motors, farm equip ments, and building shares and lifted the general stock list frac tions to more than a point. Trad ing was slow, however. Graham-Paige, the most active Issue on the board, made a new 1944 peak at 3'4 on a gain of ?s. It was rumored in financial cir cles that a change In the com pany's ownership is contemplat ed. General Motors responded to 1 a favorable earnings report and chalked up a fractional gain. The report showed that GM shipped more than $2,000,000,000 in war materials in the first half of the year. Chrysler firmed. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American Tel. & Tel 183-ls Anaconda . 2(1 '4 Chrysler 93 V4 Curtiss Wright 5'4 General Electric 37 Ki General Motors 62s Montgomery Ward 47 '-4 Pcnn. R. R 29H Phillips Petroleum 45 J. C. Penney 104'4 Radio . 10 Southern Pacific 30a Standard Oil Cal .Wi Texas Gulf Sulphur. 35 Tansameriea : BMj United Aircrafts 2fl'4 U. S. Rubber .. 52 '4 U. S. Steel 59 TO BERLIN By United Press ' The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: Russia 328 miles. Italy 607 miles. France 623 miles. WATER"! MADE 8AFE Washington (U.R) A seaman stranded in a life boat without fresh water or a flier forced to take to his life raft now can get a drink from the sea with two chemical compounds com pressed to the size of a bar of soap and four plastic bags hav ing a total capacity of one quart. By dissolving one of the compounds in the first bag of sea water the impotable ele ments are eliminated. Pouring the water into a second bag containing a filter removes the salt. The second compound In a third bag takes away the al kali, and a filter In the fourth big makes the water palatable. Six of the seven basic food groups require refrigeration to keep them In prime condition. CANE SUGAR Wednesday, Aug. 2, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE HOLD TWO BOYS WHO ADMIT STEALING CAR Two youths from Alameda, Cal., were arrested in Grants Pass last night by state police, who said they admitted stealing the 1940 Pontiac sedan in their possession from Richmond, Cal., on July 31. The pair, being held in the Jo sephine county jail for Califor nia authorities, gave their names as Leslie Noble Gray, 18, and Eugene Alvin Gurley, 17. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads. V5 mm and up, Eichana Per Ail (2 Whatlt) Firestone Itedi-LintMl Ilrnk Shoe.) Exchange your old braks shoes for Firestone factory fitted, Eedl-Llned shoai feqnlppsd with highest qruO. ltr rtreitons iafetr Block Lininai MAKI iStai I Trumpet Hojj! CAR mm P SHINE lll B ..'irS Reg. J Moeuted MaxJa Bulb I Only 33 22f) Cleans and waxes in one Ify 1 operation! Restores original J Kj V finish. i Ik Blx-lncb. 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