THE BODY" BACK
Hollywood, Calif., Feb. 23
U.R) Marie McDonald, film ac
tress sometimes nick-named "the
body," was back today from a
two-month cross country tour of
army and navy hospitals and
camps. In Chicago, canteen host
esses objected to the shapely,
blonde actress's kissing service
men In posing for pictures, be
cause regulations prohibit them
(the hostesses) from kissing the
boys. ' 4
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On The Home Front
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News From Jackson County for
Men in the Armed Services
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Date..
Dear..
This week seems to have been
pretty routine, with nothing
very exciting happening to the
home folk. Basketball fans are
looking forward to the tourna
ment this week-end in Ashland
and a group of little theater
workers are rehearsing daily on
a new play "Deadlier Than the
Male". For obvious reasons, the
play has an all-woman cast. It
is to be a Red Cross benefit.
Many readers of this column
will be saddened to learn of the
death of "Auntie"' Clara Belle
Purucker, for whom funeral
.services were held Monday.
Auntie Purucker was probably
one of the best known nurses
this district ever had for during
18 years of conducting a mater
nity home she cared for some
1800 babies born at the home.
County and city offices and
banks closed yesterday for
Washington's birthday and the
Mail Tribune, trying to stay
within a diminishing newsprint
quota, did not publish.
Medford's Black Tornado
wound up their regular basket
ball season last week-end with
55 to 49 and 55 to 33 victories
over Ashland to stretch their
NUTRITIOUS 01
eimicti&-of
CD U list JUn ,
winning streak to it fames, 13
of them .In the Southern Oregon
conference.
Friday and Saturday nights
will be the district 3 tourna
ment, In the SOCE gym at Ash
land. Competing teams will be
Grants Pass, holders of third
place in the conference, second
place Klamath Falls, Ashland,
in last place and Medford, con
ference champions. Winner of
the. tournament will play win
ner of the district 4 tourney for
the right to enter the state tour
nament at Salem In March.
Searches of latest lists of re
leased prisoners in the Phllip
ines failed ' to find any local
names but a message from New
York last week was to the ef
fect that Sgt.- Ernest T. Archer
was being returned on the ex
change ship Gripsholm, which
docked this week. Sgt. Archer
was shot down over German
occupied territory In October
of 1943, suffering a leg wound,
and was taken prisoner.
Sgt. James L. Worden, sta
tioned at a 19th air force depot
in Italy, has been awarded a
battle star and personal cita
tion. His brother, Pfc. Weston
A. Worden, fleet marine, has
been on overseas duty for the
past two years and Is now in
the Philippine area. M. Sgt.
Keith J. Denman, stationed at
an ATC base at Casablanca, has
completed 23 months overseas
duty,
A bronze star medal was re
cently awarded to Lt. Com.
George Morris Winne for his
services as a navigator on an
aircraft carrier. He is on the
same carrier as Lt. Com. Rich
ard Roberts.
Sgt. Everett Chapman of Gold
Hill has been awarded a citation
for his services with an A-20
Havoc bomber group In Italy.
Sgt. George Fredenburg, also
of Gold Hill, has been promoted
to staff sergeant at a southwest
Pacific base of the 13th AAF.
Cpl. Lewis R. Sharp, with the
Third, army in Germany, has
been awarded a bronze star.
Lester Scott of Central Point
was recently promoted to first
lieutenant and has been award
ed the purple heart and silver
cross. '
T. Sgt. Hubert Santo was seri
ously wounded during the bat
tle of Luzon. Sgt. Santo, who
has been overseas since shortly
after the bombing of Pearl Har
bor, was decorated by the army
for heroic action in New Guinea
in the early stages of the war.
Donald Foose, Sic on an es
cort destroyer, writes his par
ents that he wishes he had some
thing besides Japs to shoot at.
He participated in the Luzon
landing. Lt. (jg) O. P. Taylor,
after a month's silence, wrote
to say that ' he had been busy
along the coast ot French Indo
China sinking Jap ships.
Donald Fredericks has been
promoted to aerographer's mate
second class at a Hawaiian na-
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and what values they are at this special low price!
Skirt Values from g q
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val station and Ralph B. Seeley,
QM2c In the coast guard, is cur
rently serving on a troop ship
in the Pacific war theater.
Standlee Morgan has been pro
moted to private first class with
an army medical corps In the
South Pacific. He was wounded
several months ago and wears
the purple heart. .
Theodore Earl Yorton, Sic,
has been reported killed in ac
tion. Yorton. was a crew mem
ber of an ammunition carrier
ship. The date of death was
given as Nov. 10, 1944.
Home this week from the
South Pacific are Lt. (Jg) Donald
C. Wimer, navy fighter pilot
and Capt. Robert Young, marine
transport pilot. Lt. Wimer
spent seven months overseas
and Capt. Young -14 months.
Sgt. Roy Huson has reported to
Santa Barbara for reassignment
after three weeks at home. He
served 34 months with the 41st
Division. William Philip Orlow
spent a week at home recently
after a year's service In the
navy, Including several months
at sea.
The engagement of Betty
Whittle, Ashland, to Elwood
Hedberg, RT3c, was announced
Sunday. Betty was down from
the university where she is a
freshman and her fiance, who
has Just completed training at
Treasure Island, was home on
leave. Also announced was the
engagement of Lorraine Wood
burn to M. Sgt. Prentiss C.
Petty and the wedding of Cpl.
Jack V. Groves and Miss Jean
ette Bryant of Atlanta, Ga., also
the wedding of Lt. Alfred E.
Sheehan to Kathleen Matlock
of Charlotte, Tenn. Lt. and
Mrs. Sheehan are in Medford,
the officer having been placed
on inactive duty with the air
corps.
Five Medford youths have
been inducted into the navy.
They are John Bullock, Charles
Bradfish, -Bill Virgin, George
Hogstrom and Bill Broedlow.
Bullock and Bradfish are to at
tend the Eddy school In Chicago
soon and the other three are
awaiting assignment to "boot"
camp. Both Bullock and Broed
low are sons of army colonels.
'Pfc. Howard Clinton Capp of
the marine corps, who partici
pated in many marine engage
ments In the Pacific, has been
discharged and returned to his
Ashland home. Orlando Mac
Kinnon, formerly a captain with
the marine corps, has been dis
charged and has returned to the
state police force here.
Sons were born this week to
Mr. . and Mrs. Donald Ross
(Dorothy Flynn) at Seattle, and
to Mr. and Mrs. J. Boyce Kel
logg, Medford. Mr. Kellogg,
petty officer first class in the
navy, is now serving In the
South Pacific.
Visiting here are Sat. Eldre'd
Vf. Peyton, Orlando, Fla.; Rob
ert c. Weisenburger, Sic, who
has been in Chicago and now re
ports to Mare Island: Charles
E. Hinkle, S2c, home before re
porting for embarkation; Staff
Sgt. Arwood K. Morse, from
Douglas, Ariz.; Frank Dixon,
home from Treasiure Island and
reporting next to Shoemaker,
Calif.; Pfc. Charles D. Craig
from Luke Field, Ariz.; Lt. Jack
Langston, here from Boca
Raton, Fla., and reporting next
to Fresno;. Herman St. Clair,
S2c, from Farragut, and Thomas
N. Billings, Amlc, San Fran
cisco. .
Walter R. Neel,- AS, has re-'
turned to Texas after a visit
here. James E. Walker, SK2c,
is temporarily stationed at Wil
liamsburg, Va., and Major Al
bert C. Gaddls, recently at Rqs
well, N. M., has been given an
overseas assignment.
- -.Tung bll for use in manufac
ture, of linoleums, paints, var
nishes and like products is one
of the newest Florida industries.
RED CROSS DRIVE
Friday. Feb. 13, 143 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THRE8
from the largest B-29 raid yet
on Japan.
SUES BEAUTY SHOP
Hollywood, Feb. 23 (U.F9
It isn't even safe to get your hair
fixed anymore, Character Ac
tress Curtis B. Railing claimed
today. She filed suit for $50,.
000 damages against Burnett
Guidi, owner of a Beauty Shop,
saying she was hurt as the result
of a fall from a chair.
Closing tim. tot Sunday Toe Late
to Cliulfy 5 30 Saturday sfUrnoon
Pleaia remember
Trail, Feb. 23 Mrs. EVa
Segessenman, chairman of the
Red Cross Fund drive, for the
Trail Shady Cove area, announc
es the following sub-chairmen.
Trail, Mrs. Staples, Trail Creek,
Mrs. Swingle Upper Elk Creek,
Howard Ash, Lower Elk Creek,
Mrs. Axtell, McCloud, Mrs.
Vaughn, Rogue Elk, Mrs. Cham
berlain, Shady Cove, Mrs. San
ford, Shady Cove to Dodge
bridge, Mrs. Burgess and Mrs
Weltman.
They will meet with Mrs.
Segessenman, Tuesday at 1 p. m
at Rogue River lodge for lunch
eon and to receive their supplies
and instructions.
Mrs. Segessenman urges all
in these communities to help
these ladies and their assistants
who are giving their time, to
put this drive over the top,
which does so much towards
bringing a "Little Home" to our
boys and girls over there.
Mrs. Segessenman also wishes
to Inform those who may not
knew that she has charge of
home service for the Red Cross
in this district and that she will
be happy at any time to help
anyone with matters pertaining
to their relatives in army camps
or prisoner of war camps.
JAPS TOLD TO EXPECT
INVASION OF HOMELAND
Washington, Feb. 23 OJ.PJ
Radio Tokyo told the Japanese
people today that they must ex
pect an American invasion of
their homeland.
The warning came as the Jap
anese High Command formally
acknowledged that American
troops were ashore on Iwo
island, 750 miles south of Tokyo,
and the capital itself smouldered
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