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Newspaper Page TextBIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, June 18, 1845 BLACK MARKETING GRIPS CALIFORNIA Averaae Consumer Unable To Buy Chickens at Legal Ceilina Prices Is Claim Sacramento, June 28 (U.R) The story of California black market In poultry ao extensive and efficient that the average consumer finds it almost impossi ble to buy chickens at legal ceil ing prices was told here today by Poultry Dealers, opa ana State Department of Agriculture officials. A. A. Brock, State Director of Agriculture, in his report to. the Governor's Council earlier in the week, attributed the record crease in the number of chicks hatched this spring to a black market so efficient that poultry production was once more pro fitable m spue oi Depressive OPA ceilings. ' Mark-up General E R Vauahn. district enforce ment attorney of the Office of Price Administration, admitted the black market is "very evi dent." and said that reports lndl' cated a two cents per pound mark-uo is generally present, Poultry dealers testified to more flagrant violations, from eight to twelve cents a pound over ceilings in the Sacramento area and as high as 20 cents per nound in the Bay area. Legitimate dealers and produc ers find it almost Impossible to niwrate at nrosent ceiling prices, the protesters said. Many produc ers have been forced either to move into the black market or go out of business an associa tion manager reported. One dealer complained that a S250 a week business had dwin died to nothing simply because he couldn't buy poultry in legl timate channels. "The farmers laugh at you when you expect them to observe ceilings," he said. Hjalmer Edwards Home From War With Decorations Pfc. Hjalmer Edwards, who weara seven campaign stars, the Purple Heart. Croix de Guerre and the Combat Infantryman's badge, was honorably discharged from the service at Ft. Lewis, June 17. He returned to this country shortly before VE day and at that time was given a to dav furlouih. Edwards served 30 months In the European theater and saw action in . Africa, Sicily. Italy, France and Germany and says the Anrio beachhead campaign was the toughest he experienced Hla discharge was on the basis of the point system, Edwards having 120 nolnts. The discharged soldier and his wife reside at Talent. Junior Red Cross Sends Game Kits Sixteen game kits made by the Junior Red Cross were sent to the hospital ship "Comfort," a victim of a tragic bombing by a Jap suicide pilot, recently, ac cording to a chapter official. Junior Red Cross members will start making 100 more of the game kits In the summer work shop to start July 2nd, at 8 a. m. Junior high school boys are especially asked to work on these kits which are made of wood. OMNIBUS FUNDS BILL IS VOTED BY HOUSE 'Vashington, June 28 (U.R) The house passed a $3,634,404, 236 omnibus appropriation bill today, the last of its docket be fore the beginning oi the new fiscal year. The measure was approved by vote of 317 to 14 and sent to the senate where it will add to other appropriation bills await ing final action before the cur rent fiscal year ends at midnight Saturday. Livestock Portland, Juna 28 (UP) Uva itock: Cattla 300, eatvaf 25, market fairly active, steady, vealeri stronger com mon steers 11.50-13,00: few stockers 13.50: common to medium heifers 10 14 00; manner and cutter cows 8 50- 8,50; good beef cows up to 12.50; good beef bulls 12.50: medium to Rood sau sage bulls, 0.50-11.50; good to choice veaiers mostly is-i3.au, lew io.uu. Hobs 25. Market Quotable steady, barrows and gilts, 13.73; sows and stags 15.00; good-choice feeder pigs quoiea zu-zsu. Sheen 650. market !esa active, but about steady, few good to choice mrinr limhi auoted to 8.00: one se lected lot 14.25; common grades down to 10.00; medium to good shorn old crop lambs 10 50; good ewes salable to S.uo; cuts to meaium ewes ii-o.su. South San Francisco, June 28 (tiPi firsnAi rattle ion. Active, fully steady. Few good 1310 lb. grass steers 115.50, package fleshy feeder steers S13.00-14.00, common grass heifers ill .00; hall load good ioio id. grass cows 813.50, canners and cutters $7.00-0 00; common to good sausage bulls $10.50-13.50. Calves: none; nomi nal. Hogs 200. Firm: about two loads good to choice 200-325 lb. barrows and gilts 815.75. Odd good sows 813.00. Sheeo 2000. Good and choice s $ idy. Double good 80 lb. Dorset lambs 14.00 straight. Packages feeder lambs Sl2.oo-12.50. Cull to common awes 83 23-4.30. Good quoted 87.00. Chicago, June 28 (UP) (WFA) r.lvMtm-k; Hnc:'5000. Active, fully stendy; good and choice barrows and si ts lu ids. ana up at i.; ceiunji, good and choice bows at 14.00. Came: ;i:uu. t,mvea: ouv, uuira nuu rhnlrm mpriium-weifiht and weighty steers 13 to 23 cents higher; top 17.85; best yearlings 17.50; common and me-; dium grade dressed steers all weights, weak at 13.00 downwards; mostly i 13.50 to 14.50: neiiers steaay, uem ia.7rv eenerally steady trade on cows. msit hf rows 0 50 to 12.50. shMn- tnnn Market mostly steady:- good and choice spring lambs 16.00 to lB.aa; ducks i.uii teas: nwuiwm good 14 30 to 13 50. Portland Produce Portland. June 28 (UP) Whole- at Murkl PrlMI! Ec to retailers, aa extra ibi-rc 4Bc: A extra large 48c: A large oc; maHliim 42c- iml fDUllet) 4QC Asparagus YaKima ounnysiae; io- 17c. lh Local S3 pyramid. Musnrooms -nominal nouioue Tomatoes Local hothouse 32 -35c lb. Canadian hothouse. 22 '' lb. Turnioa -ixce4 ei.io-i.o per bunches. Chicago Wheat Chicaio. Jun 2S (UP). Wheat Open Hogh Low July 167 1674 165i Sept. 165',. IflS'i lnsi Deo. . 1641a 164V, 162,i Mar l4V. I6n 162 "Nazi Sub Surrenders to U. S. Ravy tuamssnw.' juninuwiMi iwjwtwmi", )"-' mini hip fifBwm&y'm'-'lmem''f'" , 1 t -ifffli't-)-- i i in i i (Acme Iclcphoto) The American flag (Just at oi conning tower) files over the German submarine U-858, llrat enemy warship to surrender to U. S. naval forces since V-E Day. In coastal waters ofl Cape" May, American bluejackets from escort vessels prepare to remove the crew, some oi whom have their arms In air while submitting to search. Close 166 163V, 163 162 M S. F. DAIRY PRICES San Francisco, June 28 (U.R) Dairy Market: Butter: 93 score 43V4, 90 score 423-4. Cheese: Loafs 28.2, triplet? 27 2. Eggs: Large grade A 43V6, me dium grade A 40V4, small grade A 36 large grade B 40V2. Wall Street New York, June 28 U.R The Stock Market had its widest break of the year today in the heaviest trading since April 16. The selling movement began shortly before noon in the Rails and spread throughout the mar ket. Losses ranged to more than points volume was so heavy that the tape ran a minute or two behind the market. Washington heard that recom mendations for higher stock margins and a rise In the capital gains tax were on President Truman's desk for approval. The Street anticipated a margin rise but a higher capital gains levy was seen as a bearish possibility. me list steadied In early aft ernoon but encountered new realizing later. Around the close it was at the lows of the day. Preliminary closing Dow- Jones averages: Industrial 188.30, off 2.48; Rail. 80.56. off 2.31; Utility, 33.04, off 0.39; and 65 stocks, 64.16, off 1.37. Sales rose to 2.940.000 shares. the most since May 21, 1940, when volume was 3.939.610. gainst 1,690,000 yesterday. Today's closing prices on se- lected stocks: American Tel. & Telcg 174's Anaconda 3454 Chrysler 1 1 0 4 SWIM AWARDS 10 BE MADE FRIDAY XEEPS GOING FOR 29 YEARS Portland, Me., (U.R) Mrs. Kunlce Dunn sought a divorce from her husband Joseph be cause she said he left their home 29 years ago. saying, "I'm going down street. Sec you later." She hasn't seen him since. Bobby Jones electrified the golfing world by winning the world's four major champion fhips In one season of play, 1930. No other golfer has duplicated the feat. Curtiss Wright . 7 General Electric .. 43H General Motors 68'H Montgomery Ward ..... 62 Penn. R. R 39 Phillips Petroleum 4914 C. Penney 11a Radio Southern Pacific 531 4 Standard Oil of Calif 43 Texas Gulf Sulphur 43 Transamerlca 13s, United Alrcrafts ......!...' 30-1, U. S. Rubber 59 U. S. Steel " 69' i TELLS THE STORY FOR GI Ithaca, N. Y. (U.R) fnl Ernest Llnde. Cleveland. O.. bp- llcves stationery, at times, speaks louder than words. When he wrote to his former Instructor at Cornell university, Cpl. Llnde chore raptured official stationery of the Nazis bearing the heading "National Socialist German Working Party, Headquarters, Baden." Said Llnde, "1 have chosen the stationery deliber ately because it tells better than words the long road I have traveled." Clnclni tim. tor Sunday Too t.et. to cl.Milv B'30 Saturday afternoon Pleat. r.memb.r mm Word a n your future! There's a Friday will be Swim Award Day in the two weeks Red Cross training course and Merrick's pool in Medford and Twin Plunges in Ashland. Because of the many pupils and lack of space the committee has asked parents to attend the class in which their children are taking part, at the proper hour, watch the class work, see the awards given for that 'class, then clear the building lor the next group of parents and children. Awards will be made for polliwog, begin ner and intermediate classes. Demonstrations of life saving will be given at Merrick's pool at 7:30 p.m. by the junior and senior life saving class. A dem onstration of combat or function al swimming will be given at 8 p. m. The evening demonstra tions will be open to the public and Robert Dodge, Red Cross water safety chairman, will pre side. General Marshall Visits Vancouver Portland, Ore., June 28 U.R) George C. Marshall, general of the army of the United States, made a surprise visit to Barnes hospital in Vancouver yesterday, it was learned today. He also called upon General and Mrs. Charles H. Martin, Portland, a retired army officer and former governor. As a brigadier general, Mar shall was commander of the 5th Infantry brigade at Vancouver Barracks from October, 1936, to July, 1938. Pendleton Bishop Ponders Proffer Portland, Ore.. June 28 U.R) The Rt. Rev. William P. Rem ington, of Pendleton, missionary bishop of eastern Oregon who has been offered the position of suffragan bishop of the Episco pal diocese of Pennsylvania, said today he Is still undecided about accepting the post. Bishop Remington's original diocese is Pennsylvania where he was ordained 40 years ago. He has been in Oregon since 1922. FARMS MODERNIZED Lafnyette, lnd., (U.R) About 130,000 Hoosicr farms now re ceive electric power service, rep resenting 70 per cent of the state's total. The Rural Electri fication Administration reports that more than 106 000 of the In diana farms have been electrified In the past 10 years, compared with 23,400 receiving service in 1935. St . ' A . . . mad. with CINCH WAFFLE MIX. Each pacing, tonloini All n.e.iiary ingredients. Juit odd wal.r, mix end bak. H.t.'i a litall Crisp CINCH waffles drenched with syrup and top ped witK chop, ped walnuts. Try Cinch Corn (read and Cinch Hot Cakes, Tool Hii Unemployment To Reach Million In 1946, WMC Claims Washington, June 28. (U.R) The war manpower commission predicted today that 1,800,000 will be unemployed by July 1, 1946. Actually, about 7,700,000 peo ple will lose their jobs or be discharged from the armed forces during the next 12 months but 6,300,000 of them will be reemployed in an expanding economy, WMC said. By Jan. I, 1946, WMC said unemployment will rise from the general wartime' level of 700,000 to 1,300,000. The addi tional unemployment of 500,000 will follow after that. In a forecast which approxim ated an earlier estimate by the war production board, Manpow er Chief Paul V. McNutt pointed out that while unemployment increases in some areas there will continue to be critical man power shortages in others. CASUALTIES UP T0 1, 5 Cents Pound Top For Sour Cherries Portland, Ore., June 28 (U.R) The average grower price of eight cents a pound for red sour cherries will be used by OPA in setting processors' ceiling prices for the 1945 pack, the OPA and war food administration an nounced today. The eight cent price applies to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Montana. HUNT FOR HARD-TO-GET Shenandoah, la. (U.R) Sher iff Ed Hipsley conducted a treasure hunt near here recently. The treasure was 16,000 cigar ettes .which fell off a .grocery truck. And the search was for five passing motorists who help ed themselves to the hard-to-get fags. Washington, June 28 U.R) U. S. combat casualties, climb ing gradually, reached 1,030,679 today, an increase of 7,226 in a week. The total, of which 236,735 were killed, includes sua.uza army and 122,654 navy, marine corps, and coast guard casual ties. Meanwhile, Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, commander of U. S. forces in the Mediterranean theater, reported at a press con ference that American casual ties in this theater totaled 186, 616. He said this figure included 30,910 killed, 108,271 'wounded and 47,435 missing. McNarney said the best esti mate of German casualties in the Mediterranean theater was 1,341,000 killed, wounded or captured. Butcher-Slayer Is Judged Sane Los Angeles, June 28. U.R Otto Stephen Wilson, 32, con fessed butcher-slayer, today was found sane when he mutilated two women In downtown hotels last Nov. 15, and the jury's ver dict recommended death in the state's gas chamber. Superior Judge Edward R. Brand tomorrow is to sentence Wilson to death in the gas cham ber. Wilson admitted to police the sadistic slaylngs of Mrs. Virginia Lee Griffin, 26, and Mrs. Lillian Johnson, 35. He lured both wom en to hotel rooms for interludes of love, then killed and dismem bered their bodies because of an "urge" that he could not control. PAPER AND I SALVAGE DRIVE STARTS JULY 21 Preliminary- plans for a salv age paper and tin drive, with the Shriners' Hospital for crippled children In Portland as the ben eficiary, were made at a meeting of the local Shrine club Tuesday night. Robert Duff, county salv age chairman, attended. Jack Rolston was named chairman of a Shrine committee to handle the campaign plans and a meeting will be held early next week to further organize the committee, Rolston states. The campaign is to be a state wide affair from July 21 to 29. Entertainment was furnished by Mrs. H. M. Browning who sang a group of songs with her mother, Mrs. R. E. Bowden, accompanying, DELAY PETAIN TRIAL Paris, June 28 (U.R) The trial of former Vichy Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain as a traitor has been post poned indefinitely because of the illness of both the prosecutor and the presiding justice, it was announced today. The trial had been scheduled to start July 5. Closlne tun. for Sunday Too Lata to Classify 5:30 Saturday afternoon fleas, rememoer ASHLAND BAND CONCERT SEASON STARTS TONIGHT Ashland, June 28 First muni cipal band concert of the sum mer season will be held in Llthia Park tonight, beginning at 8 p.m, under direction of I. A. Mirick. Fred Strang and Virginia Loom is, both of Medford, are playing with this year's 36-piece band. Concerts will be held every Thursday night during the sea son, with exception of next Thursday. Next week's- concert was called off because the band will play several limes Wednej. day, July 4. . The Texas capitol at Austin is second only to the capitol at Washington, D. C, in size. Don't .Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do false teeth drop, slip or wobbla when you talk, eat, laugh or sneeze? Don t be annoyed, and embarrassed hy such handicaps. FASTEETH, an alkt II ne (non-acid) powder to sprinkle on your plates, keeps walse teeth mora firmly set. Gives confident feeling of security and added comfort. 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