Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 08, 1945, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextLAST MEETING OF BIG THREE HELD IN TEHRAN, 1943 Washington, Feb. 8 U.R) The last meeting of the Big Three was in Tehran In 1943. President Roosevelt, Premier Josef Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill conferred there from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1. At the conclusion, they announc ed "completekagreement" in the Allied war against Germany "as to the scope and timing of oper ations which will be undertaken from the east, west, and south." This conference was preced' ed by a meeting in Cairo at which Mr. Roosevelt and Chur chill conferred with Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek from Nov. 22 to Nov. 26. These three agreed to keep on uncon ditional surrender for Japan. They also agreed to strip Japan of all her stolen empire and to shrink her territory to the frontiers of 189S. After talking with Stalin at Teheran. Churchill and the oresident returned to Cairo where they conferred with President Ismet Inonu of Tur key from Dec. 4 to Dec. 8. At this meeting Turkey wemuiea herself with the United Nations. Mr. Roosevelt left Washing ton to attend these conferences on Nov. 11 and was gone 35 days during which he traveled 25, 000 miles. Daily Weather Report Forecast Med ford and vicinity Cloudy with showers tonight and clearing Friday. Cooler Friday. Oregon Light showers tonight. Colder and clearing Friday. Loeal Data Temperature a year ago today: Highest 55 degrees, lowest 42. Total monthly precipitation 1 -33 inches. Excess for the month .83 inch. Total precipitation since September 1, 1944, 20 inches. Deficiency for the season .89 inch. Relative humidity at 4:30 p. m. yesterday 53, 4:30 today 94. -Tomorrow Sunrise 8:25 a. m., sunset 6:35 p. m. Past 34 noun: . High Low Prec. BOIBC ,- , 46 Boston Chicago ; 31 Denver 50 Eureka - 53 Havre 49 Los Angeles 62 Medferd 61 New York 37 Omaha ., 23 Phoenix 73 Portland - - 60 Reno 63 TOO MANY PURPLE HEARTS AWARDED, MISSOUREAN SAYS Rosebur. Salt Lak San Francisco . seam. ... Spokan. . Washington, O. C.. Yakima . 46 , 04 . 58 . 52 , 45 . ea 42 33 25 44 52 41 49 4T 31 14 40 53 49 50 33 51 53 48 32 47 .13 Trace .24 1-32 .19 J.04 .13 MEATLESS MEALS hump: traffic heavy - China Wing Air Transport Command Headquarters, Hum ming, Feb. 8 (U.R) Air trans port command planes, : flying over the China hump route "at the rate of one every two and a half minutes both day and night, delivered 44,000 tons of vital war materials to the CBI theater during January. . peiiew PASTEURIZED SKIM MILK ADDS TO ITS GOODNESS 3 TiBWUSWjS Washington, Feb. 8 U.R Reporting what the average housewife may have already suspected, the Department of Labor said today that American families had more meatless meals in mid-January than in mid-December. In its monthly report on re tail supplies, the- Department's Bureau of Labor statistics said more than one-third of the in dependent retail grocery stores in SB large cities had no beef lamb, mutton, pork loins or ham on Jan. 16. More than half were completely out of bacon and veal. . , . . Butter, shortening, canned mixed fruits and pineapple juice were also out of stock in more than a third jot the stores. Most staples continued to, be plenti ful. JAP WITHDRAWALS IN CHINA HINTED Chimffklnff Feb. 8 (U.R) War Minister Chen Cheng said today unconfirmed rumors have reached Chungking that the Jap anese were mafling preparations for a possible eventful withdraw al from south and central China, At a press conference Chen said the Japanese situation in the Philippines indicated that these rumors should not be ruled out. The reports reached here from occupied China. MHUTT PLAN WORKS Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R) War Manpower ' Commissioner Paul V. McNutt reported today that WMC placed more than 277,000 workers in top-priority war plants under its inter-re gional program in 1844. gesxw mms Washington, Feb. 8 U.R) Rep. Marion T. Bennett, R., Mo., today criticized the "reckless abandon" with which the Pur ple Heart medal has been dis tributed in this war and intro duced legislation which would limit the award to armed forces personnel wounded by enemy action. "I have been shocked to find that the Military Order of the Purple Heart . . . has been dis tributed with such reckless abandon in this war that dogs and blues singers are receiving j it, he said in an address pre pared for delivery on the house floor. - The medal created by Gen. George Washington, be re called, for award to military personnel "for unusual gallant ry and singularly meritorious acts of extraordinary fidelity and essential service." That distinction is not borne, he contended by Singer Jane Froman, who received the med al after being injured in an air plane crash in .Lisbon after en tertaining troops abroad, nor by the dog "Cljips," which he said received the award in Sicily. . . Livestock . Sotith Saa rranelico South San Franciaco. Feb. I (UP) (USDA1 Cattle, aalabl.. 150. Active, fully steady. She-atock demand broad; yesterday package 950-lb. Idaho steers 816; few heifers $15; food cows quot ed $13 913.50. rew medium beef cows $12 12 JO weighty dairy oows J'0.73 e 11.25. canners and cutters $8 a 9 JO. odd sausage bulls $11313. Calves, salable, none. Nominal. Hogs, salable, J 50. Load good 263 1b. barrows and gilts $15.73; package good 114-lb. slaughter pigs $13.73. Odd good sows $15. Sheep, salable, 800. Undertone firm; good and choice wooled lambs quoted $16318.50. Good ewes $8 down. , Chicago Chicago. Feb. 8 (UP) (WTA) Livestock Hogs, . 8,000. Complete clearance; good and choice 160 lbs. and up $14.75. celling; 140-lso ids. j "w ""' '"J $14.25 a 14.75, .good and ehoic. sows motion for a new trial, which Cattle. 5.300: calves. 800. Too $18.73. his attorneys had sought on For mixed steers and heifers: bulk I grounds the youth's court Y DESERTER DOOMED TO DEATH Reno, Nev., Feb. 8 U.R) Ladell McKay, 24-year-old army deserter, today was under sen tence of death in Nevada's gas chamber for the fatal beating of Robert Flindt in Reno Novem ber 28. Judge William McKnight late yesterday also denied McKay's JURY TOLD SHOT Redding, Cal., Feb. Harry A. Paxton, on 8 (U.R) trial for $13.79013.75; vealers $15.50 down: I weiffhtv unuw hulls in SIS 50. heitw ' fat bulls to $14.50: feeders $11,508 13 mostly; fleshy feeders to $13.50. Sheep, 5,000. Two and one-half loads medium and good fed western lambs $16. mixed common to good around 75 lbs. $14.75, native ewes $8.30 down. Van Francisco ' San Francisco, Feb. 8 (UP) Dairy market; Butter 83 score 43c, 82 score 42 iie, 90 score 42V4C, 89 score 4194c. Cheese Wholesale ' prices, ' loafs 27.9c. triplets 27.2. . Eggs Large grade A 44 tie. large grade B 40",ic, medium grade A 41 lie, small grade A 37jc. Central California eggs Large grade A 47c, medium- grade A 43c, small grade A 39c. large grade B 39c. Portland Produce Eggs To retailers AA extra large 49c. AA large 47c; A large 43 c; A me diums 41c, small (pullet) 38c Onions. Green 75 80c dozen bunches. Tomatoes Mexican, as Is, $3 a lug. Chicago Wheat Chicago, Feb. 8 (UP) Grain range: Open High Low Close May ..$1.63W fl.83 $1.61 $1.61 July 1.551,4 1.554 l.SJTt 1.53V. ocpc. 1.341k USfc 1.014 1.921a l',s 1.541, 1.32, 1.521, ap pearance in manacles may have prejudiced a Jury. He was con victed of first degree murder January 25. McKay, a parolee, from Utah state prison, escaped from an army camp at LeMoore, Calif., where he was serving a 20 year sentence for desertion. Dec. . Stockholm, Feb. '8 U.R) The Free German Press Bureau said today that 300 German housewives clamored for food in front of the mayor's office in Steglitz, a supurb of Berlin. A policeman was knocked down in the demonstration, the Bureau said, quoting a traveler from Berlin. "We want food," the women were quoted as shouting. "Give us something to eat." The newspaper Dagens Nyhe ter reported from Berlin that Roland Freisler, president of the so-called German People's Court. was killed in the American air raid on the German capital Sat- murder, today told a superior "Tonn,: " ivlJhluJi ".u'.' "May. Freisler was said to have court jury he fired a rifle bul- u.-u , , t handed out more death sentences Wall Street New York, Feb. 8 (U.R) Stocks' advanced today for the eighth . consecutive session on expanded volume. The market rise was based on technical factors. However. Wall Street analysts ran up dan- STAGE FOOD RIOT let Into the air only for the pur pose of frightening away what he thought was a trespassing hunter last November 28. The prosecution claims Pax ton fired the bullet, which struck and killed Albert J. Diehl, de liberately. Paxton testified that hunters frequently fired into his field in the Ono district where he kept running to nearly 4 points, Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American Tel. & Tel. ..182M livestock. On the day Diehl was injured fatally, Paxton said, he heard a shot and fired his rifle into the air. He said he did not other , judge in Ger- high level of stock prices might soon be given a selling test. - Many stocks made new highs or equalled their highs. The leaders moved narrowly. Gains of 1 to 2 points were noted in special stocks. Superior Oil of California, the star performer in recent sessions, ran up more than 8 points to a new high. Preferred stocks in the xail and utility divisions naa aavances homes and farm. from H.ml,- than any many. SPEEDY LEVEE REPAIR Fresno, Calif., Feb. 8 (U.R) Immediate repair work oh broken levees of San Joaquin valley rivers was promised flood area residents today as an army representative advocated forma- , tion of levee districts to protect BOBBY SOX GALS ASSAIL SINATRA Newark, Feb. 8 U.R Frank Sinatra was mobbed by squeal ing bobby sox girls today when he reported at the Newark armory for a pre-induction phy sical examination. Military, po lice helped rescue him. The skinny, $1,000,000 croon er arrived at the armory in a coupe with his press agent, George Evans. More than 100 teen-age girls rushed him, push ed him against a fence and tore his coat. The girls had been wait ing for hours in the ice and snow. Police and MP's charged to the rescue and helped him in side. . Thursday, Feb. I, 1143 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBTJrTE THRZ1 'UGLY EPITHETS' Washington, Feb. 8 U.E Secretary of Interior Harold L, Ickes believes the new house committee on Un-American ac tivities should smoke out "at tempts to foist" communism and fascism cn America but hopes It can teach folks not to use loosely "the ugly epithets of 'communist' and 'fascist . Ickes made known his views in response to a letter from Rep. Karl E. Mundt, (R., S. D.) a committee member who has asked 100 "counselors of Ameri can opinion" to give their defi nition of un-American activities. E IS GIVEN TO MRS. Lot Angeles, Feb. I U.R) Signs of the times: Mr.' and Mrs. George Mayon appeared In court yesterday for a pre-dlvorce fight custody of the family refrig erator and washing machine. After hearing arguments from both sides, the court awarded Mayon the refrigerator and his wife the washing machine. Ear lier, custody of their two chil dren wai awarded Mrs. Mayon without contest. Os. Mall Tribune Want Ada. pt&t. i learn that Diehl had been killed ! until that night. Paxton was a former assistant farm adviser and school teacher in Butte county. ' Anaconda 31 Friday and Saturday Special Danish Pastry! Bear Paws! Lemon & Jelly Filled Rings! Cherry Fruit Nougats 6 for 33c For Your Sweetheart Valentine's Day Sweetheart Cake The ideal gift for your wife, mother or sweet heart Heart shaped add iced a sparkling . white. Featured every day until Valentine's Day. Place your order early. 79c ea. ' Specially Decorated $1.75 For Fine Bread and Pastries ORDERS TANGLED Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R) Sens. Millard E. Tydings, (D., Md.) Clyde H. Reed (R., Kans.) and Kenneth S. Wherry (R., Neb.) today introduced a resolu tion to require local draft boards to abide by the so-called Tydings amendment calling for defer ment of essential agricultural workers until replacements are found. Tydings and Reed charged that Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey recently ad vised draft boards to ignore the amendment He said that" if Hershey con tinues to disregard the amend ment, "other legislation more severe and restrictive" may be introduced. WOULD LIFT BAN Hollywood, Feb. 8 (U.R) Producer Lester Cowan today sought Congressional support in his fight against the Office of I War Information's ban of the film "Tomorrow the World" for distribution in newly liberated European countries. OLD MURDER TOLD Oroville, Calif., Feb. 8 (U.R) James Jennings Beck, 71 year old prospector who has lived here quietly for the past 12 years, last night told authorities he shot and killed Grank Garrett during a quarrel nearly 24 years ago in Mariposa, Calif. CRUELTY CHARGED Hollywood, Feb. 8 (U.R) Film Actress Mary Lane today charged her husband with cruel ty in filing a divorce suit against Elbert W. Franklin, theater executive. Chrysler 98V4 Curtiss Wright 6. General Electric 303-4 General Motors.' .... 65V& Montgomery Ward 50 Penn. R. R. .. 35 Phillips Petroleum 47V J. C. Penney : ,...110 Radio U . . 12V4 Southern Pacific 4074 Standard Oil of California Texas Gulf Sulphur Transamerlca ... United Aircrafts U. S. Rubber U. S. Steel XD caused by storms such as last week s. WATER 'APPEASEMENT' Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R The proposed Mexican , water treaty represents "appeasement of Mexico" and "an attempt to give away part of our sovereign ty," a California witness told the senate foreign relations commit tee at a late afternoon -hearing yesterday. Bright Boy Nabbed In Radio Mystery Burbank, Cal., Feb. 8 (U.R) Jittery federal' agents who for weeks had been tracing mystery broadcasts In fluent German and Spanish emanating from an un registered shortwave radio sta tion near the Lockheed radio tower today took into custody John R. Walker, age 15. Walker, an accomplished lin guist as well as ' expert radio operator, had another talent. federal communications agents said, charging he broke into gov ernment broadcasts with whist' ling solos. MAJOR CONFESSES San Francisco, Feb. 8 (U.R) Police today guarded the hos pital room of Maj. Stanley Dun can, 46, who lapsed again into a drug-induced coma after con fessing he stabbed his sweetheart-secretary, Mrs. Dorothy Vivell, who was found dead at his apartment last Monday. "When lMyeoffee'.I nwan'FOLCERS GREEN- fir 12 INCH OR 16 INCH LENGTHS 300 CU. FT. LOAD DIAL 2123 Timber P mm Sg75 DIAL 2123 Company aseon 41V& 38 HVi! 30U 56 " 60V4, Multi-Vitamin Candy ! Bar Gets Disapproval Chicago, Feb. 8-4U.R) The American Medical association's council on foods and nutrition has refused to grant its seal of approval to a multi-vitamin choc olate 'coated candy bar, the cur rent issue of the AMA journal said today. "Evidence can be cited that the consumption by the Ameri can people of such a highly puri fied carbohydrate as cane sugar, the customary candy ingredient, is so high as to be of some pub lic health concern," the article said in part. VATICAN ACCUSED ' Moscow, Feb. 8 (U.R) Kon stantin Gofmann, political com mentalbr of Red Star, the Red army newspaper, charged to day that the Vatican "long be fore the war conducted pro Nazi policy" despite the perse cution of Catholics In Germany. FEAR BATTERY SHORTAGE Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R) Government officials are seri ously concerned today over a threatened shortage of automo bile storage batteries which may force cars and trucks off the highways at a- progressively higher rate in the months ahead. The Friant-Kern Canal,' when completed, will carry water 160 miles from Friant Dam to the Kern River Basin. Schilling Mustard addi thai "juit right" flavor and tang mm THEY'R BETTER RESERVE YOUR NEV 3 V o . A Limited Number Ave Undet? 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