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5 COkN PRODUCTION UPPED' IN LATEST CROP PREDiGTION Present Outlook For 3,196, 977 Bushels; Wheat Out look In Slight Reduction. Washington, Oct. 11 U.R) The agriculture department to day predicted that the 1944 corn j crop will total 3,196,977,000 bushels as compared with 3,101, 319,000 bushels forecast a month ago and a 1943 harvest of 3,076,159,000 bushels. The report was based on con ditions as of Oct. 1. The crop reporting board estimated an average acre yield of 38.2 bush- elw, compared Kh 81.8 Bien els indicated a month ago and the 1943 average of 32.5 bushels.- Less Wheat The overall 1944 wheat crop i now Indicated at 1,108,881 bushels, compared with 1,115, 402,000 bushels Indicated a month ago and a harvest of 836, 298,000 bushels in 1943, the board said. The wheat total Included the unchanged estimate of a 786,-124,000-bushel winter wheat harvest plus a spring wheat crop of 322,757,000 bushels, compared with 329,278,000 bushels estimated on Sept. 1 and 306,692,000 bushels in 1943. "If the weather does not un duly interfere with the tremend ous harvesting job that lies ahead, this year's crops may rank with those of 1942 as the greatest ever produced in' this country," the board said. ' More Oats The oat crop is now placed at 1,192,254,000 bushels as com pared with 1,190,540,000 indi cated on Sept. 1 and 1943 pro duction of 1,143,867,000 bushels. The board made these other' predictions, listing the indicat ed October production, the Sept. 1 indicated production, and the 1943 harvest respectively: Barley 187,091,000 bushels, 290,036,000, 322,187,000. Grain sorghums, 151,551,000; 149,962,000; 103,168,000. Soybeans 185,070,000; 179, 024,000; 195,762,000. ' Sugar Cane 6,303,000 tons; 6,166,000; 6,510,000. Sugar beet 7,239,000 tons; 7, 204,000; 6,522,000. Hops 47,250,000 pounds; 46, 765,000; 42,297,000. Rice 70,010,000 bushels; 67, 95,0,000; 70,025,000. Commercial apples, 21,687, 000 bushels; 22,633,000; 89,050, 000. Peaches, 29.536,000; 29,225, 000; 24,585,000. Successful Farming magazine suggests that if you send Just one box to your serviceman that you include several smaller, in dividually wrapped packages inside the larger one. Five small packages are more fun than just one. Gales Will Lead F e r u m At War Food Conference W. A. Gates of the Medford Groceterias will go to Portland this week-end where he is sched uled to conduct a forum discus sion for the third annual con vention and war food conference of the Oregon Food Merchants' association being held there Sun day. Gates Is a past president of the association. "Solving Your Problems" will be the title of the forum and ac cording to a release from the Portland office of the associa tion, is scheduled to answer any knotty problems which the dele pates may have. Gates Is a na tional committeeman for the as sociation and has served in Washington. D. C, on numerous food committees. It is understood that other local food merchants plan to at-, tend the conference which, ac cording to the state secretary, will have a program touching on all phases of the food distribu tive industry, with special stress eh the practical matters of mer chandising and operating. Two of the main speakers will be E. H. Whitaker, Pacific coast district manager of Swift and company, and A. J. Falk, presi dent of the San Francisco Cham ber of Commerce and general manager of S and W Fine Foods, Inc. Jap Home Front Told To Whip Up By United Press Premier Kuniakl Koiso as sured the Japanefe today that Japan's armed forces were waiting the opportunity "to crush the enemy forces with a single 'stroke" but he warned this blow might be impossible unless the home front speeded up production of war goods, par ticularly aircraft. Koiso, speaking on a Japa nese home broadcast recorded by FCC, said war production had "just reached a point where one can harbor hopes and it certainly can not be said that this is sufficient." Barbara 'K. Stone' To Nev Station ' In Navy Service Mrs. Barbara K. Stone, seaman second class in the WAVES, has just been assigned to her first active duty station, the U. S. Naval Air Station, Seattle, yes terday reported Recruiting Spec ialist Herbert W. Crain, re-cruiter-in-charge of the Medford U. S. Navy Recruiting Substa tion which handles WAVE ap plications in this area. Seaman Stone Is a daughter of Mrs. B. K. Bevan, 9 King street, Med ford. Seaman Stone has Just com pleted basic training and Indoc trination at the U. S. S. Hunter, U. S. Naval Training School for WAVES, New York City. Previous to enlisting In the Wednesday, Ort. 11, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL THIBUKE TYTt Ds Mall m buiio Want Ads. L.J II III LJUl Relieve misery, as most mothers do. Rub. the throat, chest tlme-tostea W VAPORUB WAVES Seaman Stone was a reservation clerk with the South ern Pacific Railway here. She Is i graduate of St. Mary Rose high school In Portland. Seaman Stone is now wearing the uniform of the armed serv ices along with her husband, Donald R. Stone, now serving with the Third Air Forces over seas. He has just been awarded the Air Medal and Seven Onk Leaf Clusters for outstanding service. ! Dr. John Jeffries of Boston financed the first balloon flight across the English Channel in 1785. He also accompanied the pilot, Jean Pierre Francois Blan chard, on the historic crossing. MONEY TO LOAN! On JEWELRY. CAMERAS end MUSICAL INSTRU MENTS. 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But nowhere will you find mention about how many of those men landed alive and are now in enemy prison camps. There Is no way of knowing. Actually, about 60 per cent of all American air men shot down over enemy territory survive as prisoners of war. Some prison camps are 'devoted exclusively to airmen. But these camps are little different from the others. In all, the men behind the barbed wire live the same empty life. There Is nothing to do but wait wait and try to hold on to your sanity while you wait That's why War Prisoners" Aid was formed. It provides the wherewithal to buy for prisoners of war the things that will help them hold on to their sanity during those empty days of waiting. Books. Games. Athletic equipment Make-up kits for am ateur theatricals. Musical instruments. It takes money to buy these things. More and more money as more and more of our men wind up in prison camps. The only way War Prisoners' Aid can get that money is through your contribu tion to your local community drive. Your gift is also shared by war refugees, the U.S.O., Merchant Seamen, welfare services here at home. Give once for all these. Give generously. Give HOW - Give GENEEOUSLY to the $mm mATlm Ah WAM FPK This message In behalf el the Mediord Community Chest and the National War Fund publish ed by the bikers ol . . , 4 0 and QAEt
