EIGHT MEDfORD MAIL TBIBUNE Wednesday. Sept. 8, 1944
FIRST STAMP IN
IEI
A three-cent postage stamp
commenoratlng the final resis
tance of the United States and
Philippine defenders on Corregi
dor, will be first placed on sale
Sept. 27 at Washington, D. J
according to an announcement
received by Frank DeSouza
Medford postmaster. This will
be the first commemorative
stamp dealing with this coun
try's participation In the present
war.
The stamp, which It Is thought
will be much sought after by
collectors, is .84 by 1.44 inches
in dimension. The central sub
Ject is a view of Corrcgidor,
with the connecting islands jn
the background on which were
located Ft. Drum, Ft. Frank and
Ft. Hughes.
Stamp collectors dteslrlng first
day covers may send a limited
number of addressed envelopes,
not in excess of 10, to the Post
master, Washington 13, D. C,
with cash or money order remit
tance to cover cost of the
stamps, the announcement
states. Covers should be of ordi
nary letter size and each envel
ope must be properly addressed
and have an enclosure. For the
benefit of collectors desiring
stamps of selected quality for
philatelic use, the Philippines
commemorative stamp will be
placed on sale at the Philatelic
Agency of the Post Office De
partment in Washington on the
same day, the announcement
states.
Additional Information about
the special stamp may be ob
tained from the postmaster.
LI ROSSTOlOS
CHEAP JAP CLUB
ATTENTION
Mill Owners Lumbermen
1 60 acres timberland for sale
Josephine County, Oregon.
NEVi of NWV4, So.'i of
NWVi, NEV4 of SW'4, See.
12, T. 39, R. 7W.
Approximately 75 Sugar
Pine. Make offer to
W. J. LONGMIER,
P. O. Box 737
Grate Valley, California
Somewhere In the Southwest
Pacific, Sept. 6 U.R The
"Dime-fl-Dozen Club, Inc.," of
the America Infantry division,
is now ready to declare its first
dividend, 1st Lt. Raymond Ross
of Medford, Ore., president and
founder, declared today.
To the other five members of
the club, Lt. Ross has contracted
to pay 10 cents a dozen for all
Nipps killed. He figures this to
be about their par value.
On a patrol far out from their
own lines, the club members ran
into a Japanese-held village
which they shot up In true west
ern style. It was in this action
that they got their 48th Nipp,
which will cost Ross 40 cents of
his own money.
CHINESE FORCES
TAKE INITIATIVE
SALWEEN SECTOR
Lt. Ross attended the Med
ford schools for three years,
making his home here with the
Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Knott
when thn Rev. Knott was pastor
of the Medford Methodist
church. The lieutenant left here
In 1039 and later completed high
school In San Francisco.
Catholic Scouts Set
Paper Salvage Mark
Boy Scouts of Medford Troop
No. 1, sponsored by the Catholic
church, have turned in 10.854
pounds of scrap paper for the
present salvage drive it was an
nounced yesterday by Wayne
y imison, salvage chairman. Mr.
Jamison stated that other troops
and Scouts were also aiding in
the drive, but that so fur the
efforts of Troop I had been the
most substantial.
Father Hamilton acts as
Scoutmaster for the troop and
has been working with his :
troop members on the drive. I
Chungking, Sept. 6. (U.R)
Resurgent Chinese forces have
recovered the initiative from re
inforced Japanese troops along
the entire Salweon front and
have cleared the main ridge on
Sungshan mountain, principal
Japanese roadblock on the Bur
ma road between the Salween
and Lungling, a communique
said today.
The Chinese repulsed three
I attacks by a force of 300 to 400
Japanese on the Snuangpo road
block, two and. one-half miles
east of Lungling, Sept. 3 and 4
and drove back a column of 400
Japanese attacking the Tengkuo-
yen roadblock, four miles north
of Mangshih.
The Chinese killed 80 Jap
anese In the counterattacks.
More than 1,000 Japanese
were killed by U. S. 14th air
force units, supporting the Chi
nese ground forces, in continu
ous bombing and straing mis
sions in the Yengyang area.
Fighter bombers struck three
times Sept. 4 in the Changning
area, about 30' miles south of
Hengyang and bombed and
strafed Lingwanticn, Hengyang
and Lungling, killing about 300
cavalry troops and 125 horses.
Other fighters operating south
west of Lungling killed 75
horses and an uncstimated num
ber of troops.
"Man From Frisco" Sunday Hit
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Starting Sunday for a tiirce
day program at the Cratcrian,
Michael O'Shea plays the lead
ing role in Man from Frisco,
with Anne Shirley, Gene Lock-
hart and Ray Walker. 'Man
from Frisco" is a thrilling and
dramatic story of men and wom
en who build the cargo ships for
the nation at war.
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Communicable Ills
For Week Total 15
But 15 cases of communicable
diseases were reported to the
Jackson County Health Depart
ment during the week ending
Aug. 31, the weekly report
shews. Nine of these were cases
of recurrent malaria at Camp
White. The previous week's re
port showed 10 cases of the ma
laria at the camp. Other dis
eases listed were three cases of
measles, one of tuberculosis and
two ores of pneumonia.
By Joseph Laltln
United Press Correspondent
Washington, Sept. 6 U.R)
Donald M. Nelson, now oh a se
cret White House mission to
China, is believed laying the
groundwork for industrializing
China as a means of stripping
Japan of her foreign markets
and providing the United States
with a huge backlog of peace
time orders for heavy machin
ery. ,
President Roosevelt said he
was sending the War Production
Board chairman as his personal
emissary to Generalissimi Chi
ang Kai-shek to discuss "eco
nomic" problems but 'did not
disclose the exact nature of the
discussions.
Mrs. Girton To Give
Talks Valley Points
Rev. and Mrs. Chas. R. Gir
ton, who are missionaries to the
Indians in Arizona, will be
spending a few days here. Mrs.
Girton is the former Miss Iris
Swartz, who has visited here
before. Tonight at 7:30 Mrs.
Girton will speak in the First
Baptist Church, Medford. Mr.
Girton will be speaking in the
Federated Church at Central
Point at 8 p. m. tomorrow.
Thursday, they will both be at
the church at Eagle Point.
BOY SCOOT AIDE
ASSUMES DUTIES
Harold J. Ylvisaker has ar
rived in Medford and today took
up his duties as the newly ap
pointed assistant executive for
the Medford Boy Scouni Coun
cil. The new assistant, formerly
a teacher in Minnesota schools
and an Ashland teacher last
year, this summer took a spe
cial course for Scout executives
at Mendham, N. J.
Ylvisaker was accompanied
to Medford by his wife and
three sons.
Gordon D. Gilmore, execu
tive, and Ylvisaker, returned
Monday from Missoula, Mont.,
tvhere they attended the north
west regional conference of ex
ecutives held there. '
It is stated that the new as
sistant's unusual name Is of
Norwegian origin.
tuta and the public school were
declared unsafe and their open
ings scheduled for today were
postponed.
Damage to the collegiate Insti
tute alone was placed at be
tween $40,000 and $50,000.
Lt
length and breadth f TttgWTs.
via, including the areas of Si.
beria, Croatia, Slovenia, Monte
negro, Dalmatia and Macedonia,
The attacks were described as
a systematic program to render
vital communications useless to
the Nazi high command, already
bogged down by battered trans,
port routes in western Europe
and Germany Itself.
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LIME TOWN IS HIGH
Cornwall, Ont.,, Sept. 6. (U.R)
Hardly a residence in this bor
der city had a chimney intact
today as mounting damage esti
mates from yesterday's earth
quake neared $500,000.
Schools, churches, public
buildings and private dwellings
all were damaged. The Cornwall
Collegiate and Vocational Insti-
London, Sept. 6 U.R) Mar
shal Tito's Yugoslav partisans
launched an all-out drive against
the German network of commun
ications in Yugoslavia, and first
official reports indicated today
that the patriots were cutting
rail lines to pieces.
A communique received at
Yugoslav quarters said the parti
sans had severed rail lines the
We have been very fortunate
in securing 6 and 3M Rex
Centrifugal
Self-Priming Pumps
We will be unable to secure
any more of these pumps this
year. See us now while they
last.
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Since the Wartime Package is not vacuum
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