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
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. . . 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.
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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
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$26.95
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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
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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.
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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.
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