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TWO MEDfOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, Nor. IS. 1944 To Meet Bulldog Jackson t 4 if . ''i'iwlt. t tSJI'S - w i 7- 'v ,4T ftV I ill Above is pictured the Gray Mask, undefeated in the Medford ring, who will face Bulldog Jackson in a grudge match which topi Thursday night's stellar wrestling card. Other matches pit Ernie Piluso against Pete Belcastro and Pat (Rowdy) O'Doudy with Earl Malone. TRANSFER 10 BE DECIDED TODAY Washington, Nov, IS (U.R) The nation's football fans awaited an announcement from the White House .today on whether the great Army-Navy grid clas tic on December 2 would be transferred from the "bushel basket" privacy of Annapolis, Md., to Philadelphia or New York. - President Roosevelt revealed late yesterday that the -White House was considering the pro posed switch end told his press conference he would confer with Secretary of War Henry L, Stimson regarding the change. ' Prior to the President's an nouncement there had been talk none of it official that the White House was consulting with War, Navy and Treasury Department officials on the question of restoring the game DO YOU WANT TO SELL YCU3 GAR? See U Top Prices No Delay, Any Make or Model ' Skinner's Garage 143 S Riverside Ph 2740 to Its big time status, possibly by returning it to Philadelphia's mammoth municipal stadium and limiting ticket sales to the purchasers of war bonds. The stadium has a seating ca pacity of more than 104,000 and conservative estimates have placed the sale of war bonds from such a game at more than $200,000,000. New York's Yan kee Stadium also has been men tioned as1 a possible site. L TO .25 E FAST BALL CLUB FOR TITLE GAME Word comes from Coquille that the Red Devils will bring a fast football team to Medford for the district 2 championship game with the Black Tornado on the local turf Saturday night. beginning at 8 o clock. The Red Devils are a T-forma tion team with Hurst, a fast- charging fullback doing most of the ball carrying. They possess good pass offensive with Left End Porter doing most of the receiving. Also in the backfield are two fast halfbacks, billed es scatbacks" in the coast city. Their quarterback is an excellent and accurate passer. Coquille has scored an aver age of 31 points per game In seven contests while Medford has an average of 34 points. The Tornado has played the tougher schedule of the two teams. A band and drum corps from Coquille high school, as well as many grid fans, will accompany tne team to Medford. Medford Coach Al Simpson said-today that Cahill will be out for this game because of a crushed vertebra. His p!ace will be taken by Tingley. who .has shown up well in the guard posi tion. This necessary chance will reduce the weight at the guard position from 195 pounds to Tingley's 160. Reserve seat tickets will re main on sale at the high school office until Friday afternoon. Army Gives Irish Worst Defeat I L V ' -.."4 r " , v . i JlZ-r ' WjTL L Los Angeles, Nov. 1-8 (U.R) The Rose Bowl selection com mittee, banking on the five ma jor candidates to turn their oacKs on all other Bowl bait, revemea toaay it would hold off naming an eastern repre sentative until November 2S. That Is the day the Univers ity of Southern California tan gles with the University of Cal ifornia at Los Angeles for the right to uphold the west. - "There have been nn nnrll. tlonal Invitations extended." said Arnold Eddy. USC erad. uate manager and chairman of the committee. It was learned authorltaf VA. ly that the committee has nar rowed the choice to Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia Tech, Ten nessee and Mississippi. Blind Youth Gives Operetta Lloydoll, Pa. (U.R) A key board virtuoso at 13, Henry Evanclc blind since birth presented his own operetta. ''Slippery Nick, the Giant," at the annual graduation exercises at Western Pcnnsylvanian School for the Blind. The youth ful pianist, an honor student. Includes In his memorized rep ertoire the works of Bach, Mo zart, Beethoven, Liszt and Handel. USE Urgently Heeded! SEE US BEFORE YOU SELL CRATER LEE MOTORS Sixth and Ivy Phono 2297 GOLF TOURNEY By Buford Sommers United Press Correspondent Portland, Ore., Nov.-15 (U.R) As a food merchant turned golf promoter, Robert A. Hudson knows his onions. His latest dish, right off the front burner, was to cook 'up a scheme whereby the forthcoming $15,500 Port land Open tournament would have o battery of caddies in times when caddies just aren't to be found. ' As promoter of the richest tournament in Pacific northwest golf history to be staged No vember 23-26 Hudson knew he would run into trouble in the caddy department. "We'll develop our own cad dlees," he said. Accordingly, the sports editors from all the Portland high school papers were rounded up at dinner and given the problem. Each editor agreed to comb his student body for prospects. Last night, more than 100 high t J;urTTrr-3 IV . -IK I miani John Minor (No. 25), Army back, starts on a 25-yard run lo score Army's second touchdown against Metre 'Dame, a procedure that became almost monotonous before the New York gam was over. After 18 long years of trying lo overcome Notre Dame, the Army made up for all those vain attempts by oivina the Irish the worst beatina in their aria are Dewltt Coulter (No. 79), Army, and William Chandler (No. 45) and Frank Skymanski (No. 65), i l$XSSZ3S!! ORTIZ RETAINS BANTAM TITLE AT LOS ANGELES Los Angeles, Nov. 15 (U.R) Manuel Ortiz, El Centro, Cal., farmer and . world's bantam weight champion, today was looking around for a new chal lenger after pounding out a technical knockout over Luis Castillo, the Mexico City Bull, in the ninth round of their scheduled 15-round title bout last night at Olympic auditor ium. Castillo started like a whirl wind, but the champion's ex perience, superior strength and reach and brilliant infighting enabled him to weather the rush and hammer Castillo at will in the last three rounds. Complat Factory Approves SAFETY SERVICE Chrvsler Pee. tor Engineer. ed and Inspect ec Parts for Chrnlet Dodge PLYMOUTH Dodge Trucks L C. TAYLOR CO. 112 So. Riverside Phone Z8B CioataR tlm for C1uifle4 mdt t m. Too Ut to Classify. 12.30 PARTS and SERVICE tor all Makes ot WASHERS and REFRIGERATORS YOUNGER S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. Rartlatt Phono 2418 EI I IV OLD H0MPS0M . BRAND E RELATE JAPANESE RULE escape from the labor gangs were shot. After -a . contingent of the Japanese army's Korean '.prostitutes were shipped in the soldiers did most of their cele brating in their barracks area. Few Turn Traitor A Japanese political officer came to each village and called the inhabitants out into the mar- Iket place and lectured them on the advantages of cooperation with Jnnaii A ton, n .1, rkl ese, they said, turned traitor and ary Force At Tengchung, Sal-1 worked wholeheartedly with the ween mver ront lu.rj in tne . enemy hut most lived sullenlv in icngcnung vaney nrst large ineir nouses and hid when they communuy in mna uoeraiea i saw a Japanese approaching. from the Japanese the enemy has been ruthless to the point whef Chinese farmers. con- When the drive by American trained and supplied Chinese troops began on the Salween scripted to build fortifications, river the Japanese laughed and were shot in groups when the i told the local people the Chinese defense works were finished to 'armies would never be able to prevent them from escaping and possibly giving information to the Chinese army. But the Japanese during their more than two years of occupa cross the 11,000-foot Kaoli moun tains. As the Chinese armies pushed closer the Japanese sent soldiers around with new and larger lists of supplies and food tion have also been calculating,0 be aupplled by the local vil- and at times far-sighted in their dealings with the local peoples of this once one of the world's greatest jade markets and larg est trade center between China and Burma lagers. "The enemy never received the last 12,000 pounds 01 rice they demanded from my vil lage," the stately old magistrate said with a smile as he got to In the Chinese -vorslnn n o.hls feet and made a short bow town hall, wherefrom groups of of 'arewell. "Several times a coolies were continually being day tne Japanese soldiers came dispatched to the various Chin- to my PIace wlth angry notes de- ese divisions to carry wounded and ammunition, a bearded old magistrate and his associates told of their sufferings under enemy rule. As they, talked they ges tured with their long stemmed pipes and sometimes a work man who had paused to listen would interrupt with a few of his experiences... . ,vl Burn Empty Houses One day in all -the market places the enemy posted notices: all houses found empty two weeks hence would be burned. A school stiirientu n ,,,do f I weejts neni Hudson at another dinner at Vf "it women Temalned be which thpv tt..nrtrf hi,. hlnd in tne mountains but the class In caddy culture. Meanwhile, more famous names are signing up for the manding immediate delivery. ra Time mere was some rea son why we couldn't deliver un til tomorrow. Now we have sold the rice to the Chinese division that has its headquarters in our village." POLICE HELP GI WEDDING Toledo, O. (U.R) When Lt. Richard Palmer of Cleveland was two hours late for his wed ding to Catherine Simpson he was met at the railroad station by a police escort, rushed to the courthouse for the license, thence to the bride's home and flnnllv tn' thA Mnnrno etroAf res.t had to return or lose all. Methodist church for the cere- 10 eacn village neaamani ine Japanese authorities sent a list I mony. . . . " Zr "K . . " I of the number of workmen and Cliwlng tlm. fot ClaMilletf ads S Hudson has said, "The Portland tournament now has practically every top-notch professional in tne nation." foo Lat to Classlf) 13 30 FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By United Press Hartford, Conn. Willie Pep. 126V4, Hartford, declsioned Charles (Cabey) Lewis, 126?4, New York, (10). New York Sheik Rangel, 147V4, Fresno, Cal., declsioned Ernest Robinson, 148, Jamlca. N. Y., (8). White Plains, N. Y. Pete Deruzza, 156, Mamaroneck, N. Y., technically knocked out Bal lessandro Cabubla, lSHi, As toria, N. Y (4). Jersey City, N. J. Clyde English, 127, New York, drew with Mario Colon. 128, Puerto Rico, (8). New Bedford, Mass. Jean Burrlere, 130V4, Montreal, de clsioned Pat Demars, 131V4, Brockton, Mass., (10). United States railroads ran 85 billion passenger miles in 1943, compared to 43 billion miles in 1018. Ashland Foundry BOILER GRATES and SPROGXETS FOUNDRY WORK OF ALL KINDS Phcne 2-1601 Ashland, Oregon and vegetables that must be de livered . to their, depots. None of thi villagers was paid for this though some farmers were paid in Japanese military currency, rupee notes printed in English, for other services. Several villages failed to pro duce the demanded quota and Japanese soldiers searched the houses and took everything they found. , When the Japanese army first arrived the magistrates said en emy soldiers in groups of three or four up to 40 or 50 had come Into their villages at night and token their women. In the small village of Huang Po a drunken Japanese corporal one evening killed a young woman and her child. They saw him sent under military guard towards Burma After six months of enemy oc cupation a Japanese political director arrived and the soldiers no longer molested their women though they were required to furnish larger and larger num bers of laborers for the building of enemy fortifications and roads. Peasants who tried to HOLIDAY Headquarters, Leyte, Philip pines, Nov. 15 (U.R) President Sergio Osmena today announced that tomorrow, the ninth anni versary of this establishment of the commonwealth of the Phil ippines, will be observed as a national holiday throughout the A BETTER BLEND FOR BETTER DRINKS GLENUORB D1STIIXEIIES COMPANY Incorporated LOUISVILLE. CBMTUCIt Blended Whiskey 88.8 proof 65 Grain Neutral Spirits Om Mall mbuiie TOnnt Ada. 4 Ml HE tUUM ARMORY DF0RD THURSDAY NIGHT BOUTS STARTS 8:30 P.M. o THRILLS! oSPILLS! 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