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E FROM LONG TOUR OF PACIFIC DUTY Second Lt. Lowell W. Monroe, 319 Ashland avenue, arrived in Medford Monday night after having spent 30 months in the South Pacific as an infantry of ficer. He reports Nov. 1 to a California station for reassign ment. Lt. Monroe left Medford with the National Guard unit which became a part of the 41st Infan try division and went overseas with that division. He was on duty In Australia and later was in New Guinea for 16 months part of that time being on com bat duty. Lt. Monroe went into the army from school, having graduated from Medford senior high school with the class of 1941. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Monroe, Sr., and reside PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Part-Time Bookkeeping Systems Installed or Revised Income Tax and Social Security Real Estate Loans A. V. HARDY 20 Laurel St. Phone 4793 BEST PHOTOS REASONABLE PRICES E. HAYDEN JONES PHOTO STUDIO PHONE 33B4 607 W. 2nd Phone ntimbei under name Mrs Fred Ball PARTS and SERVICE for all Makes of WASHERS and REFRIGERATORS YOUNGER'S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. BartJett Phone 2419 Each Garment $2995 PRETTY SUITers! $295 to $450 u Hi -l The Blouse for your Fall Suit. It's lure to be one of these! The romantic print, the lace edged jabot model: the deep neckline blouse with ruffles and long sleeves; the tucked bosom blouse. All are beautifully made, and can be laundered. tat the Ashlana avenue address. Lt. Monroe reported that two other Medford servicemen re ported in at Ft. Lewis from over seas duty with him, the men be ing T Sgt. Ralph Carmichael and Cpl. Joe Dallaire and that both were due to arrive in Medford some time this week. Livestock Portland. Ore., Oct. 1 1 (UP) Live stock: CatUe, 350; calves. 100. Fairly ac tive, generaliy steady. Few common steers $9-10. Cutter-common heifers S6-9. Canner-cutter cows S4.50-6 23. Fat dairy type cows S7. Good teed cows S10.25. Cutter-medium bulls 1 $6.25-8. Good vcalers $13-13 50. Choice I quotable $14. Medium-good grass calves strong at $1U-1J; one lot cnoice $1350. Hogs. 300. Active, steady. Good choice 180-240 lbs. $15.75: 241-300 lbs. $14.50-15. Light lights $14-14 50; good sows $13-14. Sheep. 250. Active, steady, few good choice wooled lambs $11.25-11.50: one choice lot late Tuesday $12. Good ewes salable $3-3.25. South San Francisco, Oct. 11 (UP) (USDA Cattle, 600. Active, fully steady. Medium to good steers 513-14. Load good 857-lb heifers S12. Two cars 7l0-770-lb. feeder heifers $11.25 11.50. Five good grass weishty cows $11-11.35. Medium $9.50-10.25. Canners and cutters $6-8.50. Calves, none. Quotable top S14. Hogs, 800. Around 23c lower. Bulk good to choice 200-240-lb. barrows and gilts $15.50. Gdd good sows $14 steady. Sheep, 500. Choice lambs quoted nominal $14. Yesterdny around 1400 north coast feeding lambs $10-10.50. Culled good ewes quoted $1-4.50. Chicago, Oct 11 (UP) WFA) Livestock: Hoes. 8.000. Complete clearance ' early: good and choice 150-240 lbs. $14.75; heavier hogs and good and choice sows $14. Cattle. 11.000; calves. 1.000. Steer , top 518.35; best yearlings $18.10; heif l ers $17.25; vealers $16 down; bulk : stockers and feeders $10.50 to $13. I Sheep, 3.000. Small lot good and ! choice native slaughter lambs $14.50- 14.85; short load 82 lbs. medium and I good Montana lambs $13.85; 92-Ib. native and good yearlings $11.60 with No. 1 pelt. Portland Produce I Portland, Oct 11 (UP) Wholesale market: I' Cantaloupes Spear S2 50 crate. Cranberries Coos McFarlanes $7.25 7.50; early blacks $6.75-7.00 box. Peaches Grants Pass Salways $1.75 , box; Snake River Salways $2.65-2.75 half bushel hamper. Pears Hood River Bartletts, loose, $1.50-2.00 box. Melons Ice Cream, 2c lb. Kren shaws $2.00 per crate. Cabbage No. 1 round green type $3.00 per crate. Celery Hearts $2.25-2.50 per dozen bunches. Corn Northwest $1.75-2.00 sack. Cucumbers Pickling $1.00-1.25 flat box. With To Make a suit a wardrobe . . . With a companion coat. In wartime" we offer you only practical, sensible clothes. And for all their gay femi ninity, these suits ARE practical . . . sensible 1 . with months of wear in any style you choose. They're beautifully detailed, strongly teamed; lined in durable rayon crepet and satins. All 100 ?o wool. Come in now and choose from our outstanding collection of suits and coats that are styled to answer every call. Low in cost but high in value. ffty- Jib potatoes Deaetnrte rm. l woe- ai itiamaun ram s3.00-3.2s cental. Chicago Wheat Chicago, Oct 11 ftlPl Wheat: Dec S163H 1 64'i fl63', l.J4't May ....1.3H'j l.tin, l.pw, l.:.'.'. July . 1.48'S 1.49, 1.48 1 48', Sept. . 1.47), 1.48', 1.47 U 1.47), Wall Street New York, Oct. 11 (U.R) Stocks rose quietly in pre-holi-day trading today as demand develop ed in merchandising shares and spread throughout the list. Tomorrow, Columbus Day," the New York Stock Exchange and all other leading stock ex changes and commodity mar kets in the United States will be closed. Dealings will be re sumed Friday. Strength in mercantiles re flected announcement overnight that R. H. Macy & Co.'s sales in the latest fiscal year rose to a record high and that its net in come for the period was nearly 50 cents a share higher than in the previous 12 months. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American Tel. & Teleg 16354 Anaconda 2734 Chrysler 93 V4 Curtiss Wright 6 General Electric . 383,-4 General Motors 64 Montgomery Ward . 53 Penn. R. R 297s Phillips Petroleum 44 J. C. Penney 109V4 Radio 11 Southern Pacific 307 s Standard Oil of California 364 Texas Gulf Sulphur. 34' i Transamerica ..... 9'4 United Aircrafts 31 U. S. Rubber 50 U. S. Steel 5914 Camp White Dance Schedule Thursday' Regular informal dance at Service Club No. 2. Closing time for Classified ada 9 a. m. Too Lata to Classify. 13:30 TOPPER Match Havoc for Japs I 1 fv O (Anna Tettphoto) An A-20 Havoc of U. S. Army Fifth Air Force flies away from havoa it has Just wrought on oil storage tanks at Boela, Ceram Island, Nether lands East Indies. Refineries and wells were blasted at vital Jap oil cen ter which produces more than a fifth of the Nips' petroleum needs. Army Air Force photo. TAX STRIKER SUES San Francisco, Oct. 11 (U.R) Miss Vivian Kellems, 47-year-old Connecticut business woman who went on a tax strike and whose correspondence with an alleged German agent in Argentina was read in the house of representa tives, asked $500,000 damages from the San Francisco Labor Herald and 17 persons associat ed with the CIO in a suit on file today in federal district court. Miss Kellems charged her character was defamed by an article in the Labor Herald which appeared April 14 describ ing her brother, State Assembly man Jesse Randolph Kellems, who is a candidate for congress from the California 18th district, as a "reactionary Republican" and referring to "the treasonable operations of Jesse's sister, Viv ian." Miss Kellems asks $250,000 actual damages and $250,000 exemplary damages for the ar ticle which she asserts has ex posed her to "hatred, contempt, ridicule and obloquy." Drop Kitchen Sink On Japanese Base With 5th Air Force, Southwest Pacific, Oct. 11 (U.R) The "Air Apaches," a Mitchell bomber outfit, finally did it. They hit the Japanese with everything including the kitchen sink. On a recent mission In the southwest Pacific, the crew of "Rita's Wagon" took the sink along as a gag. But when the B-25 reached the designated spot, the bombardier, S'Sgt. Ncal H. (Little Iron Man) Ryan, Watson town, Pa., with 101 combat mis sions, lined up his sights and let go with the homestead hardware right on the target. Sorry Nazi Spy Given 29 Years New York, Oct. 11 (U.R) Wilhelm Albrecht Von Rauttcr, former German count convicted of conspiring to spy for the nazis. was sentenced today to 29 years in federal prison, after pleading for leniency on the grounds he was sorry. The 44-year-old ex-noblcman and naturalized American citizen pleaded guilty on September 28 of sending vital Information to Germany on the U. S. defenses. GIVES SCHOLARSHIP Lebanon, Tenn. (U.R) Cum berland University has received a $5,000 gift for the establish ment of a scholarship In the school of law. The scholarship gift of Sara Frazicr Hillman. Pittsburgh, Pa. is to be given annually to a woman student in the law school. OLIVER TRACTORS O Future orders are now being taken for models 60 70 - 80 tractors. We have several coming if you need a tractor ORDER NOW! AMERICAN From HayocT . 1 ..... 1 -w R T IN FLYING START Workers In the annual Med ford Community Chest drive are off to a fine start, it was stated this morning by A. M Cannon, president of the Chest board, who said that solicitation of business firms of the city is well underway. The annual drive for funds for local and national wel fare agencies started Monday in all sections of the nation. r Mr. Cannon stated that as soon as the campaign in the business district was nearly completed a house-to-house canvass would be made in the residential district since many persons are not con tacted through business firms. Anyone able to help with the residential canvass is asked to call at Chest headquarters at the Chamber of Commerce, br to phone 5588, Cannon said. Coast States Need War Plant Workers Los Angeles, Oct. 11 (U.PJ California. Oregon and Washing ton need 66,000 workers in ship yards and aircraft plants now and 10,000 to 12,000 workers are leaving California alone each month, War Manpower Commis sion officials said today at a re conversion hearing before Sen. Sheridan Downey. F. W. Hunter, regional direc tor, said the present labor short age assures work for all avail able manpower during the per iod between Germany's fall and the end of the far eastern war. MEXICANS ENTERTAIN COUNTY SHRINE CLUB A musical program presented by Mexican Nationals was the feature of the monthly banquet of the Jackson County Shrine club Tuesday night at the Hotel Holland. A record attendance of Shriners enjoyed a social hour, dinner and entertainment. O. L. Overmycr, president of the Shrine club, presided at the meeting. WEATHER Northern California Partly cloudy today and tonight with scattered showers In mountains; Thursday sunny; cooler San Joa quin valley today. 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Interment will be In Siskiyou Memorial Park. LAST RITES HELD FOR W. W. WELCH Services for Wm. N. Welch, age 84, a resident of Medford for the past 35 years, who passed away suddenly in a local hotel Sunday, were held at the grave side in the IOOF cemetery Wed nesday with the Rev. Delbert W. Daniels officiating. , Arrange ments were in care of the Conger-Morris Chapel. He was survived by two sons, B. W. Welch, Sweet II f ne, Ore., L. M. Welch, Lodi, Calif.; two grandchildren, one great-grandson; and a sister, Mrs. Mary Gib son, Washington. OFFICESTCLOSE L Tn keeping with previous ob servance of Columbus day, Oct. 12, a number of offices in the cley will be closed. The banks, offices In the county court house and several offices In the city hall are to be closed all day. AFL Will Finance Foreign Unions Ntw York, Oct. 11 (U.R) A campaign to raise $1,000,000 among American Federation, of Labor members to "aid in re establishing Independent trade unions in Europe and South America" was announced today by Matthew Woll, vice-president of the AFL. Woll, president of the free trade union committee of the Labor League for Human Rights, relief arm of the AFL, which will raise the fund, said the com mittee is an outgrowth of the AFL conviction that "without a free trade union movement it will be Impossible to rebuild a democratic Europe." RESUMES WAYS Woodbury, Vt. (U.R) Back in the heydcy of Woodbury as a granite center, the president of the nine-mile railroad connecting the town and quarries offered to exchange passes wilh the presi dent of the New York Central, admitting that his line was short er, but insisting that "it's Just as wide." Stop Perspiration 1. Doei not Irrinw iltin. Do not roc dretttt of men's thirtt, 2. PrTfnti nnr-irm odor. 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