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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1944)
f Mm I Tom Gerety Spends Leave With Parents Aviation Ordnanceman, 3c, Thomas Gerety, from the naval air station at Miami, Fla., is spending a leave at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Gerety, 126 South Newtown street He will report December 8 to San Diego where he will take up duties as aerial gunner on a TBF. Gerety entered the service In July, 1943, and is a gradutte ol Medford high school, class of 43. " . It Is easy to have breakfast In Japan and dinner In Canada on the same day. Both are small communities In western North Carolina. 64' WARDS FAMOUS SABLE-DYED COATS REDUCED FOR 4 DAYS ONLY n n 41:4- plut20 excise tax Even at me regular price, you canea mem f k 4 "America's greatest fur value." And NOW we've slashed the price sensationally for 4 days only. Choose from rippling yoke back or slim plain back styles, both with stunning turn-back ' cuffs. Sizes to 441 But get here early! Li fi r i ii i1 u9 risit tnr M mi W7-?X I It1 OAjV 111 PM'h. r -111" Pm i ill i ylT) convenient Tone AS Mllli Payme -in rr IV lontgomery 117 So. Central Phone 3930 Ward BIG SHELLS RIP TO DESTROYER IN NAVYBATTLE One-Ship Task Forces Sur vives Clash With Japanese Fleet Off Philippines. , Br Roger A. Johnson United Press Staff Correspondent Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal.. Nov. 30 (U.R) Fourteen-lnch shells shrieked through her rig ging., and Japanese shrapnel splattered her decks, but the tiny destroyer, the U. S. S. "Un mentionable," a one-ship tasK force, steamed head on into a column of four enemy battle ships and four cruisers and lived to fight another day. The incident, which occurred daring the battle of the Philip pines October 25, was reported with navy permission today with the arrival of the gallant little, 2,100-ton craft in port for repairs. Skipper's Story The saga of this heroic "small boy" of Vice Adm. Thomas C. Klnkald's 7th fleet and how it helped to save the American beachhead at Leyte was told by the skipper, Cmdr. Amos Hath away. 30 U. 5. N., Chevy Chase, Md., and Bakersfield, Cal. For security reasons, the name of the ship must remain anomy- mous. She was part of a force of three destroyers and four de stroyer-escorts screening six es cort carriers in the decisive bat tie of San Bernardino straits. Two other destroyers, the Hoel and Johnston, and the de stroyer escorts, Samuel B. Rob erts and escort carriers St. Lo and Gambier were sunk, but this gallant little task force chal lenged and perhaps foiled Japan's biggest naval threat to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's inva sion of the Philippines. Japs Open Fir 'The "Unmentionable" began her three hour fight at 6:45 a. m when the Japanese dreadnaughts and cruisers suddenly opened fire on the baby flattops 60 miles off Samar island, north east of Leyte. The enemy was drawing a bead on the slow- moving St. Lo, Gambler Bay. Fanshaw Bay. White Plains. Kit- kun Bay and Calinin Bay when the screen commander ordered an attack. "We threaded our way through the formation," Hathaway re called, "and headed toward the enemy. The Hoel was ahead of us. When we were 15,000 yards away, the four battleships broke out or tne enemy battle line. fired seven of my ten torpedoes at tne neavy cruisers at the head of the line, then made for the battleships." - At 8.500 yards, the battleships opened up with 14-inchers, but tne gallant little destroyer bored in and fired her tiny five-inchers derisively. Jap Destroyers Yellow "The Jap destroyer screen was yellow as hell," Hathaway said "We thought we were going to have fo fight our way through it. But when we got there, the destroyers were gone." Then Hathaway launched his last three torpedoes, sending ohe exploding against the side of the lead Kongo-class battleship. She ceased firing momentarily, but her three companion dread naughts maintained a steady barrage against the entire task force. Shrapnel bursts swept the deck of the "Unmentionable," but she kept boring in to within 4,000 yards of the lead battle-1 ship before she retired to permit the DEs to make their David-like runs against the Goliaths. "Do you want us to go in with you?" the senior DE skipper ra dioed to the screen commander. "Line up your little boys and come in after us,", was the reply. DEs were never designed- to attack heavy cruisers, but the little ships charged in point blank. Turning from the battleships, the "Unmentionable" attacked the leader of the cruiser squad ron, a heavy cruiser, and in a 20-minute slugging match, set fire to the enemy's superstruc ture. The other three cruisers opened up on the tiny "Unmen tionable," inflicting the great est damage. The Japs broke off the fight for some unexplainable reason. but the "Unmentionable," with three of her crewmen killed, re pulsed Japanese air raid, shot down an enemy dive bomber and pickd up 80 survivors from the St. Lo. This kept Shin's Sureeon Lt. Edwin C. Bebb, Wichita Falls, Tex., busy for the next two days. 'Contrary to reports.' said Hathaway, "the war is not over." Sidewalk Santas Scarce This Year New York, Nov. 30 (U.R) A wartime shortage of street-cor ner Santa Clauses was revealed today by the , Volunteers of America, which sent out an ur gent call for older men and women to fill their depleted ranks. i Col. Charles Brandon Booth national field secretary, said Santa shortages t ere reported fro mmost of the cities where the organization has costs, in eluding San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland. KUNG DENIES CHIANG'S PLANNING SEPARATION Washington. Nov. 30 U.R) Dr. H. H. Kung, vice-premier of China, denied through the Chin ese- embassy today . that Mme Chiang Kai-shek intends to es tablish a permanent residence in Miami Beach. Fla. He called a London Daily Mall story asserting that Mme. Chiang was unlikely to return to China "an unmitigated falsehood." She is in the United States for medl. cal treatment. P.-T. A. Activities Phoenix P.-T. A. Phoenix Parent-Teacher asso ciation will meet Friday, Decem ber 1 at 2:30 p. m. in the home economics room of the school Seventh grade pupils will pre sent a program and mothers of seventh grade pupils will serve refreshments. The association president urges a large attend ance. STRING OF FAMED ThurtdtT. Hot. 30, 1S44 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBTJKS FTTH On Mill Trunin Want Ada. Of Interest to valley horse men. John Cupp, owner ol Snowy Butte ranch, at Central Point, announces the purchase of ten registered Tennessee walking horses from the estate of the late Col. Manning, Santa Barbara. Cal. The horses arrived in the valley this week and are now stabled at the Snowy Butte ranch. The purchase consists of one 6-year-old stallion and seven brood mares and two young horses. All these horses were purchased In Tennessee by the late Col. Manning and were very carefully selected for blood lines and quality. The stallion "Chocolate Sol dier," was awarded first place for the outstanding stallion when 18 months old at the Lewisburg, Tenn., show. Choc olate Soldier will stand at stud at the Snowy Butte ranch this coming season and all horsemen are invited to Inspect him and the rest of the string of horses These horses are under the supervision and management of C. A. McCrab, well-known horse trainer and showman who has trained and shown horses for the late Col. Manning. Mr. Cupp also announced that' there will arrive in about ten days, six registered quarter-type Palomino brood mares from the Palomino farm of C. R. Upham of Palisades. Cal. These brood mares are all in foal to El Tovar, the register ed Palomino quarter-horse re cently sold by Mr. Upham for $4,000 to a Texas breeder of Palomino quarter-horses. Phoenix Navy Man Home On Furlough Phoenix, Nov. 30 Clifford Lee Blrk, Slc and former mem ber of the crew of the U, S. S. Card, Is In Phoenix on leave from the navy for the first time in two years. Crew members of the Card received the presiden tial citation for sinking more enemy submarines than any other boat in naval history, the seaman reports. Birk, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Birk of Phoenix, will report December 21 at Cor pus Christi. Tex., for shore duty Birk's brother, Staff Sgt. Eugene Birk, is in the south Pacific with the army. In 1044 there were 1,065 schools of nursing In the United States' whish offered wartime nursing courses to candidates for the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps, the U. S. Public Health Service reported. 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Now.. 33o 12 price 4.09 I-OEB3 CUE WM 3.15 METAL BED LAMPS Arms fit bedstead for reading, etc., In brown or ivory ........ 5.98 FLOOR LAMP SHADES Also table lamp sizes . . . pleated rayon fabric .................................... 2.49 3.98 M ontgomery Ward ZSZ credit nextyearl 117 So. Central Phone 3930
