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EIGHT MESrOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, Not. 20. 1(44 ALLIES PATROL Place to Keep Many Prison Vers Causes Big Problem For Yank Military Heads. By Cllnlon B. Conger" United Press Correspondent Strasbourg, Nov. 28 (U.R) By daylight Strasbourg was in Allied hands but tonight under frigid full moon it did not seem to belong to anyone. German snipers in civilian clothes prowled the city in such numbers that doughboys were ordered to "shoot first" at any thing that moved suspiciously. Americans with carbines ready patrolled the city in pairs. Clusters of French soldiers stood 1 at street intersections, stopping cars and occasionally shooting. 10.000 Prisoners The capital of Alsace was dark and silent except for spor- adic German shelling and the echo of small arms fire through the streets. The Allies already have taken 10,000 prisoners here 5,000 soldiers, 2,000 prominent Nazis ' and 3,000 German civilians. But patrolling doughboys, . their eyes searching in all direc tions and overhead, said: ' , "Snipers? This squad can get ' you a dozen within two blocks of here if we start smashing In ' bouses. They are in civvies now but they've got their uniforms hanging In closets. This town is lousy with blond Aryan '. cl ' vilians." Many mora prisoners could be taken, a veteran sergeant ' aaid. "But we . would . not know what to dp with them" ha add ed. "Nobody will take the pris oners off our hands. They just can't evacuate them." Trucks Overflow Earlier today I met one con- WASHING MACHINES REPAIRED Parts fc Service on nil makes B & B WASHER SHOP 4M E. Main Phone 5302 Fur Remodeling and Repairing ., Rellnlna. Cleaning and Glaalng Frances Oallaire Ph. 1326 Woodrow and Crater Lake Parties Interested la Christ raas Offer of Encyclopedia Brltaanlca or Brltennlca Jr.. tan obtain complete Informa tlea by writing the Oregon representative, Mr. V. P. DUkton. 1723 H. E. Multno mah St., Portland 12. Oregon. voy of 38 trucks each carrying 30 prisoners. Military police with machine guns rode in jeeps after every tenth truck. But the number of trucks available was limited and pris oners were piling up in forward zones. As a result German sol diers In civilian clothes and civilian snipers still prowled Strasbourg after dark. I just heard orders Issued to the 7th army soldiers: "If you see any lights show ing, take a little target prac tice." Large number of Russian la bor troops were found here wearing German uniforms dyed a bright green. A few manage to pile into prisoner trucks but no one in this whirlwind army wanted them. Many still roam ed freely around Strasbourg by day flashing broad grins at startled Allied soldiers. Where they went by night no one knew. Pvt. Crary Returns To U.S. After Duty In Pacific Theater Private Charles W. Crary, 23. son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Crary of 1124 W. 10th street, Medford, Ore., is back in the States after having served for the past 26 Vi months with the Infantry . in New Guinea and Australia.1 He is now at the Army Ground and Service Forces Redistribution station in Santa Barbara where he is being reassigned and re oriented. ' ' ; Wearing the Purple Heart award, earned by wounds re ceived while In actual combat with the enemy, the Medford youth has been in the army since September 16, 1940. He served as rifleman and auto- rifleman In his overseas unit. Private Crary was attending Salem high school in Salem, Ore., when he enlisted in the army.- He intends to complete his education after the war. Daily Weather Report Forecasts Medford end vlcintty: Cloudy with occaiional rain tonight and Wednes day; little change in temperature. Oregon: Cloudy west o( and partly cloudy cait of Caacadei, with light rain late today west of Cascades. Wed nesday, cloudy with occasional rain low levels and snow over mountains; slightly warmer eastern part. Local Data Temperature a year ago today; Highest, SB; lowest, 30. Total monthly precipitation, a 94 Inches. Excess for the month, .87 Inch. Total precipitation since September 1, 1944, S.38 Inches. Excess for the season, 1.15 inches. Relative humidity at 4:30 p. m. yes terday, 90; 4:30 today, 100. Tomorrow Sunrise 8:17 a. m.; sunset S:43 p. m. Past24hours! Hlah liu. Dh duih .nnH...HH.wm.H au Boston H Chicago Denver .. Eureka w Havre Los Angeles , ftiearora ..... New York umana Phoenix . Portland Reno Roseburtf Salt Lake . San rranolaco . Seattle ,-..-.......u. Spokane Washington, D. C. Yakima .................. , B4 . 39 , 42 07 as . 70 . 48 . 48 , as 88 , SI , 88 , 84 . 4a , 80 , 48 , 37 , 49 . 44 24 47 as 18 49 IS 39 31 44 28 38 32 20 39 38 st as 44 ao T lJia .01 .03 1.48 Olotln time rot Olaaaltled ads t a. m. Too Late to Classify. 12:80 p. ra. 'Every buy x bull?S eye l ll WaV-iH LOAN 5S W SOCK WITH A UOND 13 Fred L. Picker Brawler Editorial Cartoon; tr' EAGLE PUNCHES One of the most recent real estate transactions in the Eagle Point district was the sale of the Cooley ranch by Mrs. Jessie I. Cooley of Grants Pass to D. D. Dunlap, Long Beach, Calif. The ranch consists of about ISO acres, all cultivated and almost all under irrigation. Dunlap also purchased the stock and equip ment.. Mr. Dunlap was In the valley at the time of the transaction and made arrangements to lease the property to Claude E. Mc Intyre and his son-in-law, Myron D. Andrews, who recently bought the 230-acre ranch and stock of Roy Swan. Mclntyre and Andrews are operating the two properties as a dally ranch. The Mclntyre and Andrews fam ilies, also came here from Long Beach. Dunlap is reported to have ex tensive oil Interests in California. Both transactions were han dled by Carl Beebe of the Mark Goldy agency. .-f,-. The output of training , planes has been cut IB per cent in the 1944 aircraft program, the war production board said.. i.j .S r- lIT Lake Creek Family Has Excellent War Record Of Service Friends and neighbors of the John Short family in Lake Creek believe that the family is quite outstanding as far as war service goes, for the five sons are all in the service, Mr. Short farms and Mrs. Short is a welder-cutter In a Portland shipyard. Of the five sons, Carl, sound mate second class in the navy, is now home on a S 0-day fur lough after spending two and one-half years in service here and overseas. The remaining four sons are all overseas at present. Johnnie Short is a gun ner's mate first class in the navy; Tommie is a radioman in the air corps, Jimmie is in New Guinea with the army medical corps and Blllie, youngest of the brothers, was recently wounded while serving with an infantry unit of the Fifth army and is now at a rest camp. Woman Seeks Help To Locate Missing Four Year Old Son ; Mrs. Sarah Edgmon. La Cres- centa, Calif., has appealed to the Medford Mall Tribune for help in finding her four-year-old son. Mrs. Edgmon claims her hus band, without any word, took the child and disappeared from their home. He Is reported to have been in Oregon since abducting the child on Sept. 21. Edgmon is de scribed as 63 years of age, 8 feet 4 ' inches tall, weighing 127 pounds, red hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, wearing heavy nnv med tortoise shell glasses and in poor physical condition. There Is a reward offered for information concerning the whereabouts of the two and any one with any such information is asked to contact Box 333, La Crescenta, Calif., or telephone CH 9-2958. BUTTE FALLS CHURCH HAS MUSIC PROGRAM Butte Falls, Nov. 28 A Thanksgiving musical program was presented Sunday night in the church here. Several piano selections were played by the Junior girls, under the leader ship of Mrs. Gustln. A quartet composed of Mrs. Casey, Mr Roble, Mr. O'Neal and Mr. Mac- Dougal played a hymn entitled "Fairest Lord Jesus. Mr. O'Neal played a solo, "Hold Thou My Hand," and Harold Arnold gave a short talk on American Heritage. TELLS RED GROSS DUTIES AT FRONT "The Red Cross woman at the front serves as combination Dorothy Dix, sweetheart and mother-confessor," Helen Schoe nl, former Medford girl and one of the two first Red Cross women t work with able bodied men at the front, said yesterday. "We listened to men's news from homo and their laments when they - re ceived no news, we managed a few matrimonial affairs and we even helped one fellow write a good love letter!" Miss Schoeni, who was the head of Red Cross theatrical productions in the South Pacific,: declared that this was only one small part of a Red Cross woman's day, which lasted from eight in the morning until eleven at night. Miss Schoeni Joined the Red Cross in 1942 and left for Aus tralia after a "quickie" orienta tion course. She and another woman were sent immediately to Port Moresby, where they set up headquarters, a ','USO at the front" for enlisted men of the Sth Air Force. The only avail able building was a grass shack that "leaked harder inside than it rained outside." . "Before we came the men had no place to read and were forced to sit on their beds in dark tents. They rushed at Once to their 'club' to read the five magazines we had, to view the movies we flashed on a hand' made screen, to talk, and just to stare at the white women whom they felt must be either crazy or wonderful. After we went through a few air raids with them they forgot the crazy part." - - One night the grass shack burned down and every man worked to save Its contents. The tragedy turned into a blessing because they hurried the con struction of a real clubhouse after that. At the opening of the club the Red Cross and the men presented their own show, "Hellzapapuan", which finally opened after numerous disas ters. A tree fell through the stage roof, a heavy rain forced them to rehearse kneedeep in water and on the . day of the dress rehearsal an air raid kept them from working until dawn. Somehow the show was success ful and Miss Schoeni was sent to New Caledonia with orders to specialize in theatre produc tions. Admiral Halsey saw the show she put on in New Caledonia and sent the entire GI troop on a 2Va year tour of the New Hebrides, Guadalcanal, ; Tulagi, Savo, Russell Islands and 'the Florida Islands.' They couldn't get into Bougainville because fighting was still in progress. Miss Sfchoenl returned from overseas this fall and is now visiting her aunt, Mrs. Lucy Lyman, 45 Ross Court, Med ford. Her brother,-Lt. Arthur Schoeni, former Medford news paper man and high school jour nalism instructor, is stationed with the navy in Washington, D. C. .. . v. Before Miss Schoeni arrived in Medford she spent a day in Los Angeles with Madame Ouspenskaya, famed actress whom she worked with at one time in New York. Miss Schoe ni had an extensive career in the theatre before joining the Red Cross, at one time serving as American guest director at the Kamerny Theatre in Russia. WEATHER Northern California Increas ing cloudiness today with light rain tonight and Wednesday; higher temperature tonight. 0 v 1 'ivsfifftp- r : " ?JI SYl e SfKCIALIST'a CHOICE! I'ii formnl ttnt u by Thornton A lit nor Clinic, BflltTM ptU pain, ItoblDK, MrtoNi QUICK I Tho tinda iw nriDK weitinc; BOiieni. ua l.UU tut Thornton A Minor's RctM Ointment. Or ft. Thornton A Minor Rectal SuppotttoiiM. only (aw cuts mort. Try DOCTOttS war TOP At At all stood druft ttoret, varywhere in Medford at Taylor's Penny -W'Ut uruit. For many years Lord Calvert has been America's most expensive blended whiskey. Jt is "Custom" Blended for those who can afford the finest. 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