TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, Hot. 22. 1944
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10 SEE BROTHER
'. ON ITALY FRONT
: Pittsburgh U.R To the
. already abundant store of fan-
' tastie war tales, add the one
about the 21-year-old Pittsburgh
soldier who hitch-hiked from
. North Africa to Italy on a 5-day
pass to find his brother.
As he worked tn an' army
' radio shoo in North Africa, Mey-
er Reiss pondered' over the fact
that he hadn't seen his brother,
' Paul, 25, who was in the front
' line with an artillery unit some
: where in Italy, for more than,
two years.
He decided then and there that
they should get together, so,
with a five-day pass and the
American custom of hitch-hiking
he let neither war nor distance
stop him as he set out to find
Paul.
The first leg of the Journey
was easy a two-hour hop in an
army plane to Naples, whence
' he thumbed rides on military
vehicles to Rome, Once in the
' capital, he got the approximate
location of Paul's outfit and he
headed north, passing through
a town that Paul's battery had
' helped wreck. I
From there he went to Leg-!
horn, where be learned that
Paul's battery was near Pisa,'
and he hitch-hiked to within 35
miles of there. By then Meyer
was right up in the front lines.
' When he finally reached the
battery, he found that Paul was
; up forward on a scouting mis-.
' sion, so the two brothers talked
to one another on the military
radio, with Paul promising to I
see Meyer in the morning. Dur l
lng the night, Meyer, who had
' never been under fire, moved
, up with the battery and went
on an air raid.
Paul came in the next morn
ing and the brothers had a happy
reunion reminiscing about home
and friends In Pittsburgh all day.'
It was hard for Meyer to leave
having come so far but the
next day he departed and ar
rived back In North Africa 10
hours late.
When he explained where he
had been the AWOL charge was
erased.
KILLERTOFACE
T
V v Let Angeles, Nov. 82 (U.B
Otto Stephen Wilson, confessed
killer of two women, faced ar
raignment today before Superi
or Judge Clement D, Nye, after
a county grand Jury Indicted
the 34-year-old war-plant cook
on two counts of murder in
two-hour session yesterday.
. At the Inquest which pro
ceeded the indictment, police
and hotel attendants described
'the scene in the hotel rooms
where they found the bodies of
Mrs. Lillian Johnson, 42, and
Mrs. Vlrgie Lee Griffin, 26.
Mrs. Griffin's body was found
early Wednesday afternoon In
an untidy hotel room, a knife
slash extending from collar
bone to pelvis, a leg and an arm i
hacked off and both breasts
slashed away.
A few hours later Mrs. John
' son's body was found in an
other hotel, similarly butchered.
Wilson was arrested late that
day in a bar, where he sat
quietly sipping beer with a
third woman,
THE GRANGE
Upper Rogue Grange
Upper Roguo Granite will give
a dance Saturday nlRht, Novcm
' bcr 25, music by Gibson's or
chestro. Everyone welcome,
Come and have a good time.
Enollment of civilian students
In colleges and universities hod
dropped 44 per cent since 1939.
when 1.358.493 students were
enrolled, compared with 761,630 I
in the fall of 1943, accordlni to
the U. S. off lea nf airliiratlnn II
27 Shopping
'TIL CHRISTMAS
Greeting Cards - Seal - Wrappings
SHOP for GIFTS
AT
WEST SIDE
Shopping Center
The Rexall Store, Medford, Oregon
Wert Main and Grape Phone 3330
U.S.
SMS SALMON
Red Bluffs, Cal. (U.R De
spite war, irrigation and flood
control projects, the U. S. Fish
and Wildlife service in northern
California is -doing its Job of
saving the salmon runs that oc
cur In the Sacramento river in
both spring and fall by artificial
propagation.
The conservation program
was launched at the beginning
of construction of Shasta dam,
when fish that once were free
to ascend to the upper reaches
of the Sacramento, McCloud and
Pitt rivers were forced to con
fine their spawning to below the
dam.
Hauled In Trucks
From traps at Keswick dam
and Balls Ferry on the Sacra
mento river, some spring sal
mon are hauled in tank trucks
to Deer creek, where they are
allowed to spawn naturally, and
to Battle creek, where they are
artificially spawned in one of
the two largest fish hatcheries
in the world, completed last
year at a cost of more than $1,
000,000. Other fish are counted
through and allowed to ascend
the river for natural spawning.
To Collect Iggt
John Pelnar, district super
visor, expected to collect at
least 2,500,000 spring salmon
eggs and 10,000,000 from the
fall run, considerably more than
last year's take. The young fish
are allowed to depart at will
from the holding ponds to the
Sacramento river.
A second spawning station on
Battle creek and a third on Mill
creek, both Sacramento tribu
taries, added to a total of abodt
20,000,000 flngerlings hatched
from about 22,000,000 eggs last
year.
Prominent Movie
, Stars Face Call
In Divorce Trial
Los Angeles, Nov. 22 (U.R)
Some prominent movie actors
today were facing the possibility
of being named b'y Sugar Heir
John D. Spreckels III as men
who were Intimate with his
wife, Mrs. Mary Lavinla Spreck
els, as their divorce fight stag
gered on.'
Yesterday S u p e r lor Judge
Alfred E. Paonessa sustained
Mrs. Spreckels demurreV to her
husband's cross complaint, and
gave Spreckel's attorney, Paul
R. Matthews, 90 days to be more
specific about the adultery
charges.
"If wa are required to name
one or more correspondents, it
shall be done," Matthews told
the court in answer to Judge
Paenessa's order that names,
dates and places regarding the
movie actors be given. Previ
ously Matthews had not men
tioned names, claiming they
were too prominent as movie
stars.
Spreckels Is now on sea duty
with the U. S. Navy.
More than 9,000,000 bushels
of this fall's apple crop will be
made into vinegar, while about
1,750.000 bushels will be used
for elder.
Parti, Interested in Christ
mas Offer of Encyclopedia
Brltannica or Brllannica Jr.,
can obtain complete Informa
tion by writing the Oregon
reoraientative. Mr. V. P.
Dickson. 1723 N. E. Multno
mah St.. Portland 12. Oregon.
ANNOUNCING
REOPENING
OF
HOLLY CAFE
Monday, Nov. 20
6:00 A. M. 8:00 P. M.
31 N. Hotly
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FATS. FOR HOSE
Many different types of synthetlo rubber are uied In making various
typea of hose, but used kitchen fat Is essential to each kind. Here Is
Lillian Kobylarz Inspecting the braid on hose made of buna S at th
United Statea Rubber Company plant at Paesale. N. J.
N RIOTOUS STRIKE
Seattle, Nov. 22 (U.R) Three
hundred chain taxi drivers were
forced Into idleness today by a
riotous wildcat strike of more
than 100 independent cab driv
ers which left only nine cabs
operating for emergencies for
the city's half-million popula
tion. The unauthorized walkout be
gan when independent drivers
abandoned their cabs In garages
after a long dispute with union
officials over the latters' alleged
favoritism to chain. (Yellow) taxi
operators. ' '
B. I. Bowen, secretary of the
Taxicab Drivers union, AFL
local 465, was slapped by sev
eral strikers after speaking at
a midnight meeting called to
seek a solution to the strike. He
was rescued by strike leaders.
From Nov. 1, 1940, to Jan. I.
1944, 8,238,600 persons entered
the army, including men induct
ed through selective service and
QUALITY IS ALWAYS
WORTH WAITING FOR
Blltz-Vi'einhard's outstanding
qualify makes it tops in enjoyment.
two-thirds of the national guard,
and separations from the serv
ice totaled 1,290,085.
P.-T. A: Activities
Oakgrove P-T. A.
Oakgrove Parent-Teacher as
sociation will hold its annual
dinner and teachers' reception
Friday night, Nov. 24, at 6:45
o'clock. Following dinner a pro-1
gram has been planned and main
speaker will be Ben Schmidt,!
executive secretary of the .
Y. M. C. A., who will talk onl
China. Mr. Schmidt made his!
home in that country for a num
ber of years. .
Everyone In the district Is In
vited to attend and those not
contacted are asked to bring
either a salad or a hot vegetable
dish. Each person is to bring his
own service.
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William Frederick Cody, nicknamed
"Buffalo Bill", in Ml day a noted
Amtrlcan iceut, guide end frapp,
wwAmtrlco'smoit famous wild wort
thowman. Buffalo Bill's great show
was always worth waiting for.
Because of its unvarying
goodness, it's always worth
waiting for . . . this beer so good
it's guaranteed satisfying!
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AH SOLDIERS
TO HAVE FEAST
ON TURKEY DAY
Kansas City, Mo. (U.R)
American soldiers, the world
around, will eat turkey again
Thanksgiving day, officers at
the Kansas City quartermaster
depot report.
Even American prisoners of
war in German prison camps
will share in the national feast.
For this purpose, turkey already
has been processed and packed
into 12-ounce cans, which will
be shipped to the prisoners by
way of Switzerland and distrib
uted, with other good things, by
the Red Cross.
Efforts will be made to make
the same provision for Ameri
cans in Japanese prison camps
via Vladivostok, but as Japan
is not a signatory to the Geneva
convention, there is no assur
ance that it will be possible.
The quartermaster corps be
gan working on plans for the
army's Thanksgiving last June.
The first and most important
task was to make sure there
would be enough to go around.
This was accomplished through
a war food administration set
aside order, restricting sale of
turkeys until the quartermaster
corps has filled its requirements.
Officers estimate the 1044
slaughter will reach 480 million
pounds, 14 million pounds more!
tnan that of last year. That fig
ure would assure more turkey
per capita for civilian consump
tion, after needs of service men
are met, than was produced dur
ing the pre-war period of 1935
to 1939.
Listed on the menu which will
be served In every mess of the
armed forces in the United
States Thanksgiving day, and
The Number One Thanksgiving Dessert!
For the convenience of '
. our patrons. Hunt's will be
open Thursday. Thanksgiv
ing Day, from 10 a. m. to
2 p. m. .
stands out
Inl f . 1 I
NAM!
which will be followed as close
ly as possible in messes in every
overseas theater, are grapefruit
Juice, roast turkey with glblet
sauce, sage dressing, mashed po
tatoes, string beans, corn, cran
berry sauce, celery, olives,
pickles, hot rolls, butter, pump
kin pie, apples, tangerines, can
dy, cuts, coffee.
9th Corps Area Hot
To Observe Holiday
Fort Douglas, Utah, Nov. 22
(U.R) The only difference be
tween tomorrow and any other
day for all personnel at Ninth
Service command installations
throughout the west is that the
noontime menu will feature tur
key. '
Ma). Gen. William E. Shedd
announced today that work will
continue as usual.
BIRTHS
BERGNER To Mr. and Mrs.
Robert C, 611 W. 10th, Nov. 21,
1944, a girl, 8V4 lbs., at Sacred
Heart hospital.
WEATHER
Northern California Clear
today, . tonight, and Thursday,
but local morning fogs and light
frosts in the valleys. Slightly
warmer afternoons.
BIG DAY FOR GRANDMA
Newburyport, Mass. (U.R)
Mrs. Jennie Fowler became .a
grandmother again and also a
great-grandmother on the same
day when her daughter and
granddaughter gave birth to
girls. Mrs. Fowler is 57 years
old.
' CHEESY CHAF.D
Cameron, Mo. (U.R) T h e
News-Observer, daily newspaper
here, reported recently that one
of the city gardeners, after last
year's attempt, says he has given
all of his chard seeds back to the
Swiss.
Average altitude In Wyoming
Is 6,700 feet, ranging from a
2,100-foot low in northeastern
Wyoming to a 13,785-foot high
on Gannett peak. .
OUT'S
LUSOIOUS-
Wildcat Strike At
Steel Plant Ends
Gary, Ind., Nov. 22. (U.R)
Steel production at the Gary
works of the Camegie-Illtnois
Steel company was resumed to
day after striking crane oper
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27 Branches In Oregon
MIMIII MtllM eirOtlf INIVIANCI COIFOtrlON
ators returned to work.
The two-day wildcat t strike,
which had tied up steel produc
tion at the world's largest steel
plant for, 24 hours, ended when
the first two shifts of 13 crane
men each reported to their Jobs
at midnight and 8 a. m.
could be
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