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20 to 40 Pounds Loss In
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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.
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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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