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UN, MEN VICTIMS OF NAZI RULE INBELBUM 20 to 40 Pounds Loss In Weight Noted Young Stunted by Starvation. r"Chowrime in Normandy Finds U. S. celebration of the Mexican na tional holiday. Under plan worked out by employers In cooperation with the officials of the Farm Labor Supply camp and the Mexican national workers, the men will work until 4 p. m. Saturday and will confine the celebration to that evening. It was thought that many of the older men would not participate in the festivities lince they regard their work with great serious ness and are anxious that noth ing Interfere with the orderly and efficient harvesting of the fruit crop. About a third of the men usually work on Sunday as well as throughout the week Thursday. Sept. 14. 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Army Nurses Eating From Mess Kits and these will report as usual this Sunday, It was said. , Exact nature of the celebra tion li still in doubt, the supply camp officials said, since an ef fort was being made to meet the men's own wishes as far as pos sible and as yet no agreement had been reached as to how the celebration fund, contributed by employers, would be used. Two hundred fifty-five mil lion Hindus compose 65 per cent, and 94.000,000 Moslems 24 per cent, of the population of India. A MONTGOMERY WARD COMDIT3E SERVICEABILITY AND LOV PRICES..., i Wards Home Values ? i By John A. Parrii United Press Staff Correspondent Brussels. Sept. 14 (U.R) The Germans bled the Belgians white, physically and econom ically. Rehabilitation experts who kept charts of the country's de cline under German occupation estimated today that It would take at least 10 years to bring Belgium back up to its pre-war etandard Many Eelgian women have lost 20 lo 40 pounds, and the children have been stunted for lack of sufficient food and vita mins. The Nazis had the coun try on a starvation basis. No Pork or Fish , The dally ration If it could be had was seven and one-half ounces of bread, five ounces of flour, one-third of an ounce of butter, an ounce of sugar, two thirds of an ounce of meat and IS ounces of potatoes. Authorities told me after my arrival here with the Belgian government returning from Lon don after years of exile that the people of Brussels had not seen pork or fish since the Germans moved in. The bread was so bad dogs refused to eat it, they said It was made of ground beans and peas, with grass and a little real flour. The number of Belgians starv ing would have been great if the people had not resorted to the black market. The number who did starve is not known. And the black market was only for those with money. T. B., Rickets Common The Belgian women sacrifled their slender rations for the children, but still the youngsters were underfed. Tuberculosis and rickets were common. The birth rate is below the death rate for the first time in the country's fcistory. When the Allies came back to Belgium, the food shortage had reached such a state that eco nomic experts estimated one- fourth of the country's women and children would have suc cumbed In another year of such conditions. These members of (he U. S. Army Nuns Corpi, tolling llmt out for dinner an Ilia lite of a field hospital In Normandy, wero omong the first group of American women to land with tha vanguard of our troops in the invasion of France. The Army nuriei, shoring the hardships of tha fighting men, hove saved countless lives, but still mors) Burses are needed. Lakeport, Calif., Sept. 14 (U.R) Weary firefiRhters were reported last night to have gain ed the upper hand aeainst scores of forest and brush blazes which blackened more than 50,000 acres of timber and report land in Lake, Sonoma, Mendocino and Trinity counties, despite tarting of seven new fires. The Lake county fires, which blazed over 30,000 acres includ ing the unoccupied Houdd Gib aon Salvation Army camp and feveral summerl homes, were topped short of the major re fort areas and but one mile from Middletown. West of Wlllits In Mendocino county, another major fire raged, covering an estimated IP. 000 acres. Planes were flying food and supplies from Ukiah to 200 nldiers from Hamilton field and 80 San Quentin prison convicts fighting side bv side. One man, John Ellis cf Whiskey Springs, died of exhaustion and one con vice was injured by a falling tree. GIRL COMMANDOS OF KLAMATH TO DISBAND HUP Klamath Falls Sept. 14 (U.R) (Special) The Klamath Com mandos, girl organization which has operated a major part of the local service men's hospital it' program for two years, an nounced Wednesday they are disbanding service center pro gram as an organization, but will continue to help individual ly. The local military service committee said the center will continue without Interruption. This week the federal works agency alloted $13,700 for serv ice men's recreational activities here, and troop entertainment will benefit to the extent of $5000 from the Klamath com bined fund this year. president, In addressing the P.-T. A. leaders at their annual meeting h.ere, said the Town send measure was "class legisla tion of the highest degree." ROGUE RIVER MAN FATALLY BURNED MEXICANS AGREE TO CURTAILMENT OF CELEBRATION Grants Pass, Sept. 14 Alison C. Harmon, 81. resident of Rogue River, died at the Jose phine General hospital Tuesday evening as a result of accidental tlnrn ctiffnrpH lat TiiHa nf. ternoon. Mr. Harmon was a pas-," tle pressure of, work in or- senger in the car of J. E. Cop- Celcbratlon of the Mexican Independence Day will take place in Medford Saturday night instead of Friday, according to Meliton F. Otero, manager of the two Farm Labor Supply camps here. Mr. Otero stated that due pock of Rogue River, having been brought to Grants Pass to consult a physician. When they started home the two men had their mail. Includ ing several newspapers. In the car with them. When Mr. Cop pock returned to his car at Sev enth and H streets after trans acting some business at the grants Pass creamery, Mr. Har mon's clothing, as well as the Organized in the summer of , upholstery of the car, was ablaze. 1 chards, packing plants and warehouses the men here had agreed to forego any extensive 13.;, the commandos opened a service center here in Septem ber. They later inaugurated a wounded service men's project which brought them nationwide attention. When the marine barracks and naval air station were started here, the group dropped the wounded service men's project to concentrate on the local work, which has stead ily increased. There has been some discus sion of inviting the TJSO into Klamath Falls, but no action has been taken. Corporal Harris. Member of Cited B-25 Bomb Group At a 12th AAF 3-25 Base The veteran B-25 Mitchell bomb group to which Corporal John nie D. Harris, son of Ernest Har ris, Route No. 4, Box 389, Med ford, Ore., is assigned has been cited by the president of the United States for outstanding performance, of duty in action against the enemy. This official recognition by the commander-in-chief entitles the service man to wear a distinguished-unit badge over the right pocket of his uniform. Corpo-al Harris Is serving as aviation mechanic with the dis tinguished B-25 Mitchell unit. Ills group has flown more than 450 combat missions in the Med iterranean theater of operations and is now playing a major role in cutting communications be hind the German lines in Italy. CALIFORNIA P.-T.A. OPPOSES $60 PLAN Los Angeles, Sept. 14 OJ.R) The California Congress of Tar- were ents and Teachers' Board of Man 9 AIRMEN KILLED Mountain Home, Ida., Sept 1.4 .1101 Vino oirmpn werC killed yesterday In the cmsh of ( Sers today went on record a, a Liberator bomber on tne aesen 'Hi'"-" -i near Triangle. 50 miles south-1 send plan because it would In near ,, air; creas(. the tax burden and bene- f,eld the plane', base, Lt. Col. fit only 10 per cent of the Clarence D. Barnbill, comman-i people. dant announced today. 1 J- B"land. Congress Witnesses of the accident ex tinguished the fire and called the ambulance to take Mr. Har mon to the hospital, according to Mrs. D. McKinstry, bookkeeper at the creamery, who saw the accident. There has never been an acci dent to a child at any street crossing supervised by San Francisco's 21-year-old school safety patrol. 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