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-
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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
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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..
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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
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rain tonight and Wednesday;
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