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RUNT PAIR WINS FOR VALPARAISO, TALLEST PTE! ency crews In the woods, co ordinated with radio. The annual conference ended today with more than 200 dele gates agreeing that individual political units, including states, counties and communities, should take an active part in forestry programs rather than to depend on the federal gov ernment with its distantly-managed controls. VOTE UPON FLOOD Sunday. Pec. 18, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREX CONTROL ACT DUE NEXT WEDNESDAY IRKS LADY HELP New York, Dee. 9 (U.B Valparaiso University, billed as the tallest basketball team in the world, relied on a pair of Jockey fized forwards tonight to score 64 to 39 victory over Long Is land University in a game which saw the lead change 14 times during the second half. Some 16,422 Madison Square Garden fans saw Squatty Red Mack and Alvin Schmidt score goals in the final two minutes of play for the Hoosier team as Long Island failed to break up a stalling play by Valparaiso during the final minute. The Indiana, team, -featuring a pair of centers over six feet nine inches tall, fell before the blinding fast speed of Long Is land breaks in the first half and the Blackbirds left the court with a 37 to 32 lead. In the first of the two games played on the Garden court, Western Michigan moved to an early lead over Brooklyn Col lege and held it through the second half to win, 58 to 52. FIRE CREWS, AIM Portland, Ore., Dec. 9 (U.PJ The Western Forestry associa tion announced here today that the federal communications com mission will be asked to assign a frequency band for radio equipped forest fire fighters. Fire fiehters nrA iicinp air planes, parachutists and emerg- FREE ESTIMATE Body and Fender Repairs Complete Car Painting We repair thoia fenders and make your car LOOK LIKE NEW Good Work 3ood Service Let Us Do It Now Jackson St. Garage 120 E. Jackson Street IN STOCK NOW! READV FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY f.o.b. Medford 4 TRUCKS On Ton to Forty-Five Tons HUMPHREY MOTORS 33 S. Riverside Dial 4980 Phone 2119 for Towing or Wrecker Service Anywhere Anytime Lewis Super Service SGT. GIEGER IS L FOR GALLANTRY Headquarters - 41st Division, Southwest Pacific Staff Sgt. Bob R. Geiger has been award ed the bronze star medal for con splcious gallantry and extreme devotion to duty on the field of combat. The decoration was bestowed upon the machinegun section leader by Ma).. Gen. Jens A. Doe, commander of the famed 41st infantry division, at a cere mony held here. -. . During most recent operations against the Japs, Geiger, on the first night after the beachhead had been established, had his section -dig in in a defensive perimeter. Booby traps were sown out front and the men waited. When the enemy commenced infiltration tactics about mid night, Geiger kept his men from firing. All waited until the Japs had come into the open and were . nearly upon them; then, when they opened up with their automatic weapons, they de stroyed all the attackers. The wisdom of Geiger's strat egy was that by his plan of waiting he got all the enemy be fore giving away the positions of his guns. Had he ordered the pieces into action at the initial sign of enemy presence, his unit would have suffered casualties and perhaps never have succeed ed in killing all the onrushers. Mrs. Beadie Geiger, mother of the bemedaled section - leader, has long been a resident on route 3, Medford. x CHRYSLERESTATE OVER 9 MILLIONS i Mineola, L. I., DeDc. 9 (U.R) A $9,844,384.81 gross estate was left by Walter P. Chrysler automobile manufacturer who died in 1940, according to a transfer tax appraisal filed to day with Surrogate Loen D. Howell. After deducting funeral ex pense's, administration costs, and debts, the net estate was listed at 18,854,761.20. In Chrysler's will, made In 1935, his wife was to receive $200,000 annually. She died in 1938 and her share reverted to the residuary estate, shared equally by her four children, who also received the bulk of her $$1,247,956.19 personal estate. TO FAENZA EDGES Rome, Dec. 9 (U.PJ Infantry men of the British 8th army supported by armor and heavy artrilery, have pushed to the ap proaches of Faenza, Rimini-Bo logna highway stronghold, with the capture of San Prospero, one mile . to ' the southwest, allied headquarters announced today (Berlin, in its broadcast of the daily German communique, ad mitted an even more serious re verse, by conceding that allied troops "succeeded In pressing back .German - troops to the western fringes" of Faenza. Heavy Fir Slab Wood H($inch Immediate Delivery Immediate Delivery Date to Be the Week of Dec. 11-17 BIG DOUBLE LOAD $7.50 SOUTHERN OREGON FUEL CO. Phone 5166, Medford 75, Central Point Detroit, Dee.- 9 (U.PJ Battle of the sexes waxed hot tonight at the first national women's conference of the United Auto mobile Workers (CIO) whan a mere man had the temerity to suggest that if women wanted equal wages they must do equal work. ' Thomas A. Johnstone, acting director of the UAW General Motors department, . remarked that if women want to draw pay on par with their male compan ions they must be willing to make concessions, not at present demanded of them. "If women get rest periods not now available to men," Johnstone ' said, "then women should accept pay deductions in proportion, or the men will raise hell. Equality means the same quality and quantity of work produced,' the same conduct ob served." One woman after another leaped to her feet to get in heat ed objections. 2 LARGEST QUADS FAIL TO SURVIVE Warrington, Lancashire, Eng land, Sunday, Dec. 10 (U.PJ The two largest of the Warring ton quads died a few hours apart late . yesterday leaving only two of the four baby girls still alive and doing "as well as can be expected." Annie, . who weighed three pounds, ten ounces at birth and had difficulty breathing from the first, succumbed late yester day despite -treatmen. by whiffs of oxygen and milk donated by mothers in the maternity ward of Warrington General hospital. DEATHASKED FOR Paris, Dec. 9 (U.R) Twelve alleged French gestapo ring leaders sat with bowed heads in a densely packed court room here today and heard Public Prosecutor Paul Reboul demand their deaths "in the name of hundreds of thousands of tor tured, murdered and reported Frenchmen." Reboul, in a two-hour summa tion, charged the men with serv ing as officers in the German army; betraying underground members, black . marketeering and leading attacks against maquis. . SCREEN IDOL OUT Paris, Dec. 9 (U.R) Jean Gabin, number one screen idol of France, returned here today after being demobilized from the French navy at the age of 45. Washington, Dec. 9 (U.PJ Final congressional action on the $945,000,000 postwar flood con trol bill was scheduled for this week, probably by Wednesday, qfter a joint conference commit tee completed work on the bill today. The conferees accepted vir tually all of the senate recom mendations written into the bill before its passage by the upper4 house December 1; house . ap proval was expected Tuesday with final senate action Wed nesday. Also approved were senate amendments to: 1. Authorize the secretary of the Interior to dispose of power generated from federal projects on .terms encouraging wide spread use at the lowest possible cost. 2. Provide for Missouri river basin development by army en gineers and the interior depart ment's bureau of reclamation and appropriations of $200,000, 000 for e,ach group to undertake "partial accomplishment" of the Missouri river valley project. . 3. Authorize appropriation of a $500,000 emergency fund for the engineers to build flood pro tection works for highways, bridge approaches and public works. DRIVE LAUNCHED Washington, Dec. 9 (U.PJ American Federation of Labor members of the War Labor Board said tonight they will try to obtain through the WLB what congress thus far has re fused to grant in the way of unemployment Insurance for workers in the reconversion and post-war periods. George Meany and Matthew Woll, AFL members of the board, said they will fight to apply the WLB award of dis missal pay to the United Steel Workers (CIO) two weeks ago to all other workers "in the ab sence pf comprehensive congres sional action" on the subject. Howard Pupils In t Play, Music Events ' Pupils of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the Howard school presented three one-act plays at the school build ing Friday night. The plays were "Wild Cat Willie Takes a Tum ble," "Be Home by Midnight" and "Paul Ducks the Dentist." Preceding the plays a musical program was given by the Lone Pine and Howard school com bined orchestras under the direction of E. C. Root. A large audience was in attendance. Closing time for Classified Ads 0 i. m. Too Lata, to Classify 12:30 Use Mail Tribune Want Ads. mm T3D (hdIt ocuz hi 3 1 3JXOCUV TIMILY DODGE PLYMOUTH ' SMCIAlll Winter service, Lubrication check dif ferential lubricant, check transmission lubricant, check cooling system. Fill with anti freeze, check spark plugs and set points. Check distributor and points. 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