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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1944)
BGttlefrent Jive for Marines 4. yttmUt S -,. . Vv 4 -I ;u a i 'V.v! V cj Is t)nsu!.heI Servfea Cross for killed three of the enemy and. heroism in ltalv on November 11, 1943. The citation explained that Lt. j Heudon, facing an enemy coun- j tor-attack, passed through heavy tire to within 20 yards of a hos- Mnttoon's crank chemist In- ti!e machine gun position, then I of deadly fire. forced the others to flee. Later, he used hand grenades and a carbine to dispose of nine Ger-j creased his list of victims to 31 mans after rallying his men tonight, as police still scurried against an attack In the midst in vain after the elusive figure, CHANK ELUSIVE . j eap, trmed with vials of a weird Mattoon, 111., Sept. 9. (U.P. j concoction to which he apparent- who prowls the night in a skull- ly is immune. The Nile river is the longest river in Africa, with a length of 4,000 miles. Dil Mall Trlbuua Want Ada. Sunday. Sept. 10, 1944 MEDf ORD MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN PRO LEAGUE GROWS San Francisco, Sept. 9. (U R) The American Professional Football league, with growing pains that aro particularly no ticeable at the box office, swings into action again tomorrow for its second Sunday of 1944 play with four teams taking the field. Use Mali I n Dune Want Ada. (Acme llndithl elf photo) While other LcnthornecRs await their turn, this Marine cuts a m?an rui with pretty Patty Thomas, dancing star with Bob Hope's unit on enter tainment tour of South Pacific bases. Winner of contest was rewardec with big kiss, much to envy of thousands of service men who formed audience. Marine Corps photo. PGLYGAMDUS LIFE 10 "BE A WITNESS AT M, FIRES OTHER GEN. SMITH Washington, Sept. fl (U.B A war mystery with all the ear Salt Lake City, Sept. 9 (U.R) Mrs. Mary Fory Petty took her marks of something congress: two children and left a poly might want to look into develop-1 gamous life to become star wit ed tonight with the disclosure ness in the prosecution of 32 that the marine corps general ; fundamentalists because, while who bossed the conquest of Sai- women members believe in it as pan had fired his army colleague a religion, "with the men I think during the operation for rearons' it's just plain aust," she told the which no .official sourse would ' United Press in an exclusive in reveal. I terview today. Lt. Gen. Holland M. Smith of Seated at her sewing machine in a battered shack, the crippled, prematurely gray woman, ex plained why she at last would rpeak to the press on the eve of the sensational trials that begin here in district court next week. "They tried to threaten me with eternal hellfire, and bribe me with money, but I will talk to save hundreds of young girls from ruining their lives like 1 did. "The sect Is actually growing the marines, commanding gener al during the costly bailie for the Marianas outpost, told re porters at news conference here that "circumstances forced" him to relieve army Maj. Gen. Ralph Smith from his post as com mander of army ground forces on Saipan. That was as far as the marine general would go. For details, he said, "I must refer you to the war department. The war de partment, however, referred in-; stronger, attracting the women onirics right back to the navy. "Since the decision of the change in the command was properly his (Holland Smith's." a war department spokesman raid, "the reasons for that change ehould be properly given by him. with all this publicity. And it's the young girls they're after. Many's the time I've heard them preach how they had to get the young g'irls, so they could raise families." Mrs. Petty related how, as a youn? Sunday school teacher in Meanwhile the office of war; Poratello. Ida., in 1933, she met Information executed a sidestep. Director Elmer Davis' office in dicated it was an army-navy af fair and that the OWI wouldn't butt into it. Congressional sourc es indicated curiosity but pro- Follis and Ivy Petty, then spected community and church leaders. She said her new acquain tances worked around to funda mentalist teachings gradually fessed to have no knowledge of. with "Ivy finally telling me that the matter. Follis had had a vision that I There had been rumors of a 'must marry into their family: falling out between the two they kept after me 'till I gave Smiths, but there had been nojin." At lirst, she sa.rt, she would spend only evenings at the cPtty home, while Ivy and her 19-year-nld daughter went to the movies. Mary maintained her residence at her mother's home until she became pregnant and had to leave. "I heL'an to figure there was something wrong when, instead of taking me into his own house, Follis sent me to Salt Lake City to live a life of poverty. He only came to see me about twiro a month," even after her first official announcement about it until today's press conference. ALL'SEMTOID TILT West Point, Jf. Y.. Sent. 9 (U.R) Col. Lawrence (Biffi Jones. ; nrarfnato m.irnTr nf athletics announced todav that all seats ! daughter was bnm. had been sold for the annual I :V"niiIary ,I'f0)!;tl ,""np!a'nod to Armv-Notre Dame football game; tl,c m 1M7 b' " , i v n was taken. Aimoiicn inn pame aniiuituv Is a sell-out. this is the firt time tnat Itio ucKris nave neen f 1 1 J 1 IlLIlDul snin oui hs eariy as nine wltr before the game. Jones said the ticket office here could handle no more applications. IT. Closing time fr C.?:;! art 9 i. m. Too LaU to C.asslly, U 30 p m. C?t Mall Trltnins Want Ads. 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