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SERVICEMEN HAVE DEFINITE IDEAS ON CISWGIFIS Wishes Vary According to .Where They Fight; OW1 Lists the Most Desired. Washington, Aug, 22 flJ.P.) The Office of War Information reported today that U. S. serv ice men have definite ideas about what they want to find in their Christmas boxes and that their wishes vary according to the part of the world in which they are fighting. A survey conducted by mili tary representatives revealed that, in general, Americans overseas would like gifts that are not bulky or perishable, that cannot be obtained where they are, and that remind them of home. Wanti Listed Gifts requested by soldiers in various combat areas: Eureopean: Photographs of family and home, candy, under wear and socks, American roast coffee, cameras and film, wrist watches, canned sandwich-making materials, Bibles, vacuum type coffee makers, and cruci fixes. ' South Pacific: Cigarette lighters, flashlights, sun glasses, cameras and film, candy (if packed for the tropics), highly seasoned snack foods for beer parties, wrist watches and radio sets. Middle East: American dollar bills, cameras and film, foun tain pens, pencils, home-town photographs, leather travel kits, brown civilian-type shoes, wrist watches, wool swimming trunks, book club subscriptions, Persian Gulf Command: Large size billfolds for large Iranian money, wrist watches, shaving kits", face lotion, mouth wash, hair oil, bottle openers, fountain pens, tobacco, identifi cation bracelets, stationery, flashlights, pens and mechanical pencils, pocket knives, and house shoes. War Bonds Wanted Panama: Cash and war bonds, golf and tennis balls, cameras, portable typewriters, playing cards, wallets, alarm clocks, pajamas, khaki color socks and neckties, and military Jewelery. The OWI said that interviews with naval personnel returning from overseas revealed that navy men wanted the following for Christmas: Sneakers for wear in show ers, bedroom slippers, playing cards, airmail stationery, tinned luxury foods, fruit cake, shav ing kits, fountain pens, steel mirrors, sun glasses, dice, poker chips, tobacco, and foot pow der. Sheer stockings, zippers and "good elastic girdles" are gifts Musical Stars ARMY WILL DROP 1 TO 2 MILLION WHEN KPT General Hershey Says Those With Dependents, Those in Longest First Out. Starting tomorrow at the Cra terian, with Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly and Constance: Moore, is "Show Business," a, gay musical comedy of troupers and tin pan alley. most desired by WACs on over seas duty. Army nurses want dainty lingerie, bobby pins and cosmetics, among other things, while navy nurses lean first to ward silk stockings, Christmas decorations, and "pretty under wear that is delicate and need not be durable," The OWI said the Christmas mail month for all service per sonnel overseas will comprise the 30-day period between Sept. 15 and Oct, 15 and requested that all packages be marked "Christmas parcel" and wrap ped properly. Honey-Haired Lana Gets Divorce From I rritable Husband Hollywood, Ang. 22 U.R Honey-haired Lana Turner, who had her first marriage to Actor Stephen Crane annulled when she discovered he was still the husband of another woman and then married him again later, to-j day received a divorce decree on grounds of cruelty. She also was granted custody of their year -old daughter, Cheryl. The actress told Judge Stanley Mosk that Crane and she had quarreled continuously. "He nagged and yelled at me all the time, and he was so sul len and Irritable I almost lost my health." Her mother, Mrs. Mildred Tur ner, tearfully corroborated her statements, wringing her hands and sobbing so violently her hat shook. "I don't like this at all," Mrs. Turner told reporters. Denver, Colo,, Aug. 22 (U.R) Maj, Gen. Lewis B, Hershey predicted today that the defeat of Germany would make it pos sible to release between one and two million men from the armed forces, "- The director of selective serv ice added, however, that "I am only guessing," When general demobilization begins, Hershey said, he be lieves that men with dependents and men who have been in the armed forces the longest should be the first to be released. Boards Praised Hershey 'isited Denver on a tour which is taking him to draft boards all over the nation. He said he wanted to thank the boards for the work they has-e done and also to get information about the way discharged sol diers and persons released from war industries are being ab sorbed into other work. "We've been demobilizing," he said, "almost from the day we started drafting," He said that reabsorbing sol diers and war workers is "one of the big problems" facing the United States. Refusing to comment on what the government might do to handle the problem or on whether he thought a new works project administration might be set up, he said: "It's cheaper to keep men in the army than it is to set up an agency to care for them when they're released." Depend On Congress He said that a slowing down in the rate of inductions "de pends on the will of congress." He said he was opposed, in demobilizing, to letting out the man that is nearest home, "as we did in the last war." He said he also was opposed to releas ing men because of their occu pations. "That goes for agricultural workers, too," he added. "The man entitled to go home first," he said, "is the man with the longest service and combat experience," certainty be put on the credit side of the ledger. Wherever I've been, I've found the social gatherings of these people to have a clean and tem perate joyousness about them, so wholly in keeping with our best American traditions of harmless nd restorative fun, I've thought other organiza tions which aspire to berfefit mankind might well learn from them. The human race is, by nature, gregarious We love to meet in crowds and throw aside for a time all thought of practical matters. These social times can be as constructive as good food or a night's rest so that the par ticipants go back to their homes and their jobs with no regrets, with increased zest for the prac tical business of living. Or these social times can be destructive orgies, leaving one feeling apologetic to oneself that so poor a return had been ob tained at so great a price. So I respect these people for the manner in which they've met this common need for rec reation. At their picnics, par ties, banquets and dances they have a good time with all the abandonment of children couplfd with the restrain of people who know they have to live with themselves the next day. So far, I've neither seen nor heard, nor have I had reports of others seeing or wearing, of conduct at such affairs which would later shame them to recall. Having visited some of the so called "hot spots" of amusement it has amazed me in some places to see how hard the people worked at having a good time; how they labored in their effort to grasp at joy. One might well think they had no inner re sources for happiness; that gaiety was not native to them and must be artificially produced. Which is not as it should be for man was made to have his lighter moments as naturally, as freely as do othei animals. To have fun should be Instinctive and not a job to be worked at. So it has pleased me to find that the Townsend clubs attract those who have retained this natural behavior; that they at tract both young and old and that their affairs have none of the "dive" atmosphere about them. And whether their eco nomic plan is sound or not, their social plan surely is,, For this, I salute them. Mother To A Star Through courtesy of Esquire, Inc., publishers of Coronet magaiine. the Mail Tribune publishes today the final installment ef "Mother To a Star," Sidney Carroll personality sketch of Lela Bogers, mother of the glamorous film star. Ginger Rogers, The article, which appeared in the July issue oi Coronet, is of particular interest to Mail Tribune readers as the Rogers Rogue Hirer ranch is located only a tew miles from Medford. Tuesday, August 12. 1944 MEDFORD HAIL T BIB HUE TKBl'S Copyright, 1844, by Esquire, Inc. I 819 K,. Michigan Ave- f Chicago, III. (Coronet, July 1944) (Continued from Monday) SHIP SALE PLAN Washington, Aug. 22 (U.R) i Chairman Schuyler O. Bland, D., Va., of the house merchant 1 marine committee today intro-j duced a bill to set up special 1 machinery to dispose of the na tion's vast merchant marine to private ownership. Oae Malt Tri&une Want Ads. Be sure it's PURE CANE SUGAR insist on IN REFINERY. PACK ED CONTAINERS LZuZSZlJ oiive iy Barber's f l j Observations j i SUGAR fCANEl Still shying away from the Townsend economic plan, yet I've grown to see the group fills a real social need in a delightful and wholesome manner, though because my thinking processes are slow, it has taken me sev eral years and the visible evi dence gleaned in a number of towns. "By their fruits ve shall know them" can be applied to the results of almost any form of human behavior. The fruits of the Townsend followers can Carnage Terrific When Nazis Fire Into Own Group On the edge of the Trun Pocket, Aug. 22 (U.R) A mad dened German commander, hem med into a tightening pocket near the village of Magny, as sembled a group of armored cars and half-tracks last night and sent them tearing along the road firing in all directions in an ef fort to rip a gap in the British Canadian lines. On the outskirts of Trun they opened with all their guns into a field jarn packed with men. The carnage was terrific and sur vivors ran screaming through the night in panic. About 1,000 Ger man prisoners had been bivou acked In that field. A Bofors gun ended the mad dash of the armored cars. Supplies Dropped For Free French Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Aug. 21 U.R) Flying Fort resses of the 8th air force have been dropping thousands o( tons of arms and ammunition to French partisan forces in day light missions for the last few months, it was announced today. 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Up to 1934, during which time Ginger's career was strictly in the making, Lela was on the set with her every day watching, measuring, making notes. Since 1934, at which time Ginger came into her own, Lela has not gone in for such intimate kibitz ing. In a manner of speaking, she has gone into business for herself. She is assistant to Charles Koemer, the boss of the RKO studios. Now that Ginger is firmly established in busi ness and doing rather well, Lela is going to do for RKO what she did for her daughter. Naturally, she still takes a proprietary interest in Ginger's affairs, both officially and un cffieially. Whenever Ginger makes a picture at RKO, Lela okays the script, picks the writ ers for it and does a great deal of writing on it herself. When Ginger makes a picture for another studio, Mama can not act in any such inside capacity. But there is no law which pre vents - Ginger from asking Mama's advice after working hours. It is still good advice. Ginger still takes it. Ginger owns a ranch In Ore gon, in the lush Rogue river country, The ranch is a going concern now, producing veget ables, salmon and sundries for a certain profit, but when it was first acquired it was nothing but open country. The land had just one shack on it, without water, light, heat or plumbing. Lela Rogers went up there in the middle of winter, when the place was in that primitive state. She lived in the shack, hauled her own water up a precipice, cut her own logs for a stove on which to do her own cooking while she supervised the build ing of a suitable home for Gin ger. The home, one that docs justice to a glamorous star of the stage and screen, was fin ished In due time. For the past few years, always around Christmas time. Ginger and Lela and their friends go up and gambol in the Oregon snows. Somebody once asked small, blonde. Immaculately groomed, and frail-seeming Lela Rogers how she had ever man aged to summon up cnouqh strength and courage to live by herself in, such a hovel all winter long, Lela made a char acteristic reply. "Courage?" she asked. "That didn't take courage. It was sim ply a job that had to be done. You see," she smiled brightly, "Ginger likes a white Christ mas!" CThe End) MACHINISTS BACK 10 NORMAL DUTY San Francisco, Aug. 22 Slit Work at 104 government-seized machine shops returned virtu ally to normal today after more than 2500 members of Machin ists' Union, Lodge 68, AFL, vot ed not to penalize machinists who chose to work overtime de spite a union ban. At a meeting last night at tended by approximately one sixth of the organization's mem bership of 18,000, the machin ists voed down a motion for mally ta rescind the no-overtime rule. However, the near-unanimous vote fallowed announce ment that individual members would be allowed to exercise their own judgment whether or not to work in excess of 48 hours a week. FIHD BEDROCK National City, Calif., Aug. 22 IUJ9 Pouring of concrete for the f 1,200,000 second Sweet water River dam begins today, delayed nearly four months by trouble In finding bedrock. KOTICE TO CREDITORS In the County Court of the State - of Oregon for Jackson County. In the Matter of the Estate of JOHN RONALD PATRICK, deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned was on August IB, 1944, appointed Administratrix of the above entitled estate, by ordpr of the County Court for Jackson County, Oregon. All persons having claims agair'. said estate are required to pre sent them to the undersigned at the office of G. A. Codding, At torney at Law, 212 Liberty Building, Medlord. Oregon, with in sis months from August 22, 1944, the date of the first publi cation of this notice. DOKIS MAY E1TZPATRICK, Administratrix. G, A. CODDIXG, Attorney for Administratrix. the above named court the lime and place for hearme obtee- I Mans to said final account awl (or r.e examination and allow ance thereof. Dstedr August 15, 1944. SARA ELIZABETH SWIFT, Administratrfi, NEPF t FROHN MAYER, Attorneys for Administratrix. Wotfes of Final Settlement In the County Court of the State of Greeon for Jackson Countv, In the Matter of the Estate of RONALD KEITH PATTER SON, deceased. 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