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)
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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
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tion's vast merchant marine to
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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.
The undersigned has filed In
the County Court of Jackson
County, Oregon, the final ac
count of her administration of
the estate of Ronald Keith Pat
terson, deceased, and said Court
has fixed Saturday, September
23, 1844, at the hour of 10:00
A, M,, of sold day, at the Court
Room ot said Court, at the Court
House tn Medford, Jackson
County, Oregon, ns the time and
place for the settlement of said
estate
AH persons interested in said
estate are hereby notified and
required to make or file their
objections to said final account,
if any they have, on or before
the time aforesaid, fixed for the
hearing and MUemenl thereof.
Dated and first published this
22iid day of August, 1944.
Nellie Harpole Patterson,
Administratrix of Said Estate,
Glenn O. Taylor,
Atlorney for Estate.
12B East Main St,
Medford, Oregon.
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of Oregon, for Jackson County.
In the Matter of the Estate ot
CHARLES HENRY SWIFT,
Deceased,
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that the undersigned, as admin
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