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News From Jackson County for
Men in the Armed Services
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After a month of beautiful
October weather, the fall rains
atarted In time to somewhat
dampen the Hallowe'en enthus
iasm of the younger generation.
Pranksters here mostly didn't
do anything worse than soap a
few windows, but one group
drove to Ashland and fell into
trouble with the law for throw-
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Electioneering is going into
the home stretch this week with
interest at fever pitch for the
presidential campaign. Judge J.
B. Coleman has predicted a 75
per cent vote if the weather Is
good and a 65 per cent vote if it
rains. Many absentee ballots
have already been returned to
the county clerk.
Two or three unseasonable
forest fires ha"e been reported
on the Rogue river district re
cently, one in the Applegate dis
trict, one on Dutch creek and
one in the Klamath district.
Joanna W'y a 1 1 has been se
lected "Miss Jackson County"
and will go to Portland in the
near future to enter the contest
for "Miss Oregon." The contest
is being conducted in connec
tion with war bond sales.
'Junior Red Cross youngsters
have been busy in recent weeks
making recreation articles for
hospitals and covalescent cen
ters and the last shipment con
tained 1248 of these articles.
From the mailbag this week
came a letter written by Pfc.
Frederick E. Kruggel, Jr., who
wrote to thank a friend for some
jerkey. Kruggel declared that
after eating the jerkey he
packed a machlr.egun up an
Italian mountain like It was a
toy. Around on the other side of
the world, Frank W. Hull wrote
to say that he was now a "Shell
back" a "Dragon Back" and had
been promoted to yeoman first
class. His brother, Sgt. Dan
Hull, Is now In France.
On the week's casualty list
are Lt. Donald Peart, B-29 pilot,
listed as missing over Austria;
Lt. Don Younger, killed in
France on September 29, and
Cpl. BUI Thorndike, slightly
wounded October 15 In G e r-
many.
Lt. Chester L. Robertson has
been awarded a commendation
ribbon for flight operations in
the South Pacific and Ma)
Floyd H. Hart has been awarded
the bronse star, The major's
star was awarded for "select
lng,. planning and constructing
camp sites at Tarawa and Mak-
in atolls for the 41st bombard
ment group."
Several men with the 12th
AAF In Italy have been in the
news. S. Sgt. Robert James Car
ney, who holds an air medal and
one oak leaf cluster, recently
flew with his group on the his
toric 550th combat mission. S,
Sgt. Kenneth M. Barnes, with
12th AAF Thunderbolt unit was
given a presidential unit clta
tion. Cpl. John D. Harris, also
with the 12th, is a member of a
unit which recently set a record
for bombing accuracy during
attacks made in support of the
allied drive ' in northern Italy.
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William T. Sheets, with the
15th AAF as a photographer,
has been promoted to technical
sergeant.. Steven S. Senkavlch,
doing surveying for an engi-!
neer'a unit at a south Factllc
base, has also been promoted
and is now a staff sergeant.
Bert J. Marshall is now cor
poral in the marine corps and
serving in the south Pacific.
Among those newly arrived
In England are Lt. John Sauls
berry and Lt. Delbert Cooley.
bombardiers; Orvllle Burnette
and Charles W. Klrkpatrlck, the
latter with the American Red
Cross. Burnette's brother, Laur
ence, is now a naval petty of
ficer and another brother, How
ard, who has been in New Gui
nea for 20 months, recently was
in Australia on furlough.
Ma, Lyle Wilcox Is now with
the 8th AAF attached to Gen.
Patton's 3d army in France and
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promoted to junior grade lieu
tenant, Cpl. DeLoss Gilbert is home
after spending 30 months in Ha
waii and various south Pacific
Islands and T. Sgt. Franklin
Fanger has gone to Santa Moni
ca for reassignment after a fur
lough here. Fanger recently re
turned after serving in Italy
with the 15th AAF. Floyd C.
Kinsey, veteran of 14 months'
duty In the south Pacific with
the navy, is now a naval R. O.
T. C. student at the University
of California after a leave spent
here. Also home from the south
Pacific is Leslie H. Snyder,
S 2c where he participated in
six major operations during 26
months of duty.
Here at home Stuart T. Whar
ton and Robert Lee Scott both
were recently commissioned at
Ft. Benning, Joe Miller Beach
was commissioned an ensign at
Corpus Christl and Paul L. Cor
wln was promoted to first lieu
tenant at San Francisco where
he is on duty with the transpor
tation corps. Sgt. Dick Roberts,
back in this country after AAF
duty in England, Is now at Ard-
more, Okla.
Capt. Dwight Flndley, Med-!
ford physician, has been assign
ed to overseas duty and Wallace
G. Iverson is now a first lieu
tenant serving at Will Rogers
field In Oklahoma. Marine Pvt.
Calvin J. Kohn was recently
graduated from the infantry
school at Camp Pendleton in
California and Florence Run-
nlon of the Wac has been award
ed the motor vehicle drivers'
badge.
Pfc. Philip Henselman re
cently completed another army
mural, this one for the main
service club at Camp Ellis in
Illinois.
Several weddings have been
announced in the last few days.
Included were the wedding of
Helen M. Lawrence to Ens.
Wallace R. Ludwig; Elizabeth
Icken of New York to Doris
Raymond Bellows, U. S. N.;
Christine Huntley of Corning,
Cal., to Edwin Hodgkins of Med-
ford: Lu Etta Chase of Friend,
Neb., to TSgt. Leo. M. Wagrier;
Mable Azevedo to Cpl. Duane
Rutherford; Marjorle Squires of
Hanford, Cel., .to Pvt. Dwight
Moore of Prospect; Nellie Rae
Tucker of Klamath Falls to Lee
Arlet Hickson of Eagle Point;
Ann Bernlce Peck of Columbus,
O., to Lt. Thomas A. Helman.
Dick Alford and Lawrence
Wilson have gone back to their
navy V-12 studies at Carroll col
lege In Montana after leave at
home, and Jerry McDougau,
V-12 student at Colorado col
lege. Is also home. Seaman Jack
Cate has been here to visit
friends and Seaman Elmer
Bashaw was home to see his par
ents. Pvt. Rollin Rosenberger Is
here from Camp Edison, N. J.;
Pvt. Donald E. Fredenberg from
Camp Wolters in Texas and
Aviation Cadet Kenneth H.
Jones Is here on leave from ad'
vanced navigation school at El
lington field, Tex.
Second Lt. Cloyd Porter Is
home for a time and then goes
to Roswell, N. M., to start
pilot's training on B-17s. Pvt.
Tom Reames Is home and Dar-
ral Payant, signalman third
class, has returned from duty
In the south Pacific. Cpl. L. S.
Neff Is home briefly from the
army air field at Ephrata, Wash.,
and reports next in Seattle. Lt.
L. K. Morris has returned to
Camp Rucker, Ala., after leave
here. Keith and Thomas Estes,
both In the navy, were called
home by the illness of their fa
ther, Thomas coming from the
Panama canal zone. A third son,
John Estes. Is overseas.
S Sat. Alvin L. Tllton ha
been home from Camp Berk
eley, Tex., and Pvt. Harlow Car
penter is here from Corvallls
where he is with an ASTRP
unit.
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40 PER CENT OF MEDICS
NOW IN ARMED FORCES
Chicago, Nov. 3 U.R) Paul
V. McNutt, war manpower com
mission chairman, writing in the
Journal of the American Medi
cal association, said today that
40 per cent of the nation's phy
sicians now are serving with the
armed forces and the veterans'
administration.
Although recruitment of civil
ian physicians for the army has
stopped, McNutt said, the navy
MCUf unUK COD Ol n Although not the familiar homeland, these shelters give Yugoslav
nBW numw rwn W'nlotees opportunity to slop ind rat nd plan their future. United
Yugoslav Relief, member agency of the National War Fund, supports programs of medical aid, food,
clothing and personal services to rehabilitate them. .
Last, but not least, comes
word of the newest arrivals. A
son was born October 27 to Staff
Sgt, and Mrs. John Snider at
Camp Carson, Colo.; a daughter
was born October 29 to Lt. and
Mrs. R. E. Watson at Oakland,
Cal.; a daughter to Sgt. and
Mrs. John F. O'Hara, October
23, at the Camp White hospital;
a daughter to Pfc. and Mrs.
Charles R. Turner, October 26,
at Camp White.
GERMAN P.O.W. KILLED
ATTEMPTING ESCAPE
Camp Carson, Colo., Nov. 3
(U.R) Authorities at Camp Car
son announced that a German
prisoner of war was killed by a
guard today when he attempted
to escape from a branch prison
camp at Fort Morgan, Colo.
The German was Identified as
Obergefreiter Karl Haefner.
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CASUALTIES NEAR
Washington, Nov. 3 U.R)
Casualties in the U. S. armed
forces in world war II ap
proached the half -million mark
today.
The war department an
nounced that through October
31 the army had suffered 417,
121 casualties, including 80,666
killed, 229,212 wounded, 53,622
missing and 53,621 prisoners of
war.
Navy, marine and coastguard
casualties through November 1
totaled 70,571, including 28,231
dead, 28,441 wounded, 9,421
missing and 4,478 prisoners of
war.
This gave an overall total cas
ualty list of 487,692, an Increase
of 14,893 over the 472,799 fig
ure reported a week ago.
The war department said that
105,499, or nearly half, of the
army wounded, have returned
to duty.
Dominique Anel was a French
oculist and surgeon.
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