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With the 313th Troop Carrier
Group, France Personnel Offi
cer Theodore A. Nave of this
group has recently been promot
ed to the rank of major, and
continues to play an important
part in the successful operation
of this all-important unit of the
army air force. Major Nave,
whose father, Clemens D. Nave,
resides in Crete, Nebr., attended
school there, graduating from
Crete high school in 1937. From
there he moved to Medford, Ore.,
where he lived with his uncle,
the late George A. Hunt. While
in Medford, he worked at First
National bank.
When the war emergency be
gan to threaten the peace of the
U. S., Nave was one of the earli
est volunteers. He joined the
army air force in the patter part
of 1940 and in 1942 was assigned
to the 313th group. Since then,
in this unit, he has earned one
promotion after another until at
present he is one of the main
administrative officers of his
unit.
Major Nave wears a uniform
with the Eureopean-African-Mid-dle
Eastern campaign ribbon
with seven bronze battle stars,
and the distinguished unit cita
tion with oak leaf cluster award
ed to the 313th group for two
outstanding performances as a
unit in combat. Major Nave has
a brother who is also in the army,
SSgt. Edward C. Nave who has
served with the Signal Corps in
the Italian campaign.
Lyle Jarmin
A IX Engineer Command Bat
talion, Germany Lyle E. Jar
min, of Medford, Ore., has been
promoted to staff sergeant in the
846th engineer aviation bat
talion, now building and recon
structing airfields in Germany.
Sergeant Jarmin is a platoon
sergeant, serving in the battalion
which is engaged in the 9th en
gineer command's huge air
drome construction program to
base airfields on the continent.
Mr. and Mrs. Marie Webster
Jarmin, his parents, reside at
823 Sherman street, Medford,
Oregon.
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Cpl. Edgar Edwards
Geiger Field, Wash. Cpl. Ed
gar A. Edwards, son of Mr.
Frank Edwards of Medford, Ore.,
has begun training as an aviation
engineer of the air forces at
Geiger Field, Spokane, Wash.,
according to word received re
cently from Colonel James W.
Park, commanding officer of this
base.
Sgt. Norman Meeds
With the 32nd Infantry Divi
sion in Northern Luzon, P. I.
Staff Sergeant Norman A.
Meeds of Jacksonville, Ore., led
his eight man patrol against a
Jap pillbox and knocked out a
heavy machine gun position dur
ing the bitter fighting along the
twisting Villa Verde Trail on
Luzon.
Entering the army in July,
1943, Meeds trained at Camp
Roberts, Calif., before coming
overseas in May, 1944. Veteran
of three major campaigns, he
holds the Purple Heart with an
oak leaf cluster, the combat in
fantryman badge, the good con
duct medal, the Asiatic-Pacific
ribbon and the Philippine liber
ation medal. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Wayne A. Meeds, who
live in Jacksonville.
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i Sgt. William Skou
At An Air Service Command
Depot In Italy Sgt. William
Carlsen Skou, husband of Mrs.
Amy Skou, 18 South Peach
street, Medford, Ore., and for
merly of Oakland, Calif., a mem
ber of the 84th depot supply
squadron, is on his way home
after 18 months at an air force
general depot in Naples, Italy.
Sgt. Skou came overseas in De-
j cember, 1943, landing in Naples,
I Italy, the following month, and
has been stationed in Naples
I ever since.
Frank J. Richey
Aboard the USS Gregory in
the Western Pacific (Delayed)
Frank J. Richey, 21, torpedo
man's mate, second class, USNR,
son of Mrs. i. A. Richey, 518
Haven street, Medford, Ore.,
serves aboard this destroyer
which already has shot down
six enemy planes and taken part
in two major engagements, al
though she h:is been fighting in
the Pacific theater only since last
October.
Pvt. Earl Barnhart
Camp Wolters, Texas Pvt.
Earl H. Barnhart of Medford,
Ore., now stationed at this infan
try replacement training center,
has been awarded the expert in
fantryman's badge after success
fully completing a series of rigid
tests and courses for eligibility.
Pvt. Betty Garrels
New Orleans, La. Pvt. Betty
M. Garrels, Gold Hill, is a mem
ber of the transportation corps
school Wac detachment, which
has been designated a meritori
ous service unit by Major Gener
al Charles P. Gross, chief of
transportation.
The award is a rare honor for
Wac service detachments and en
titles members of the unit to
wear a special golden wreath in
signia. The citation was for out
standing devotion to duty in the
performance of exceptionally dif
ficult tasks, achievement and
maintenance of a high standard
of discipline, a low punishment
rate, appearance of personnel,
installations and equipment, and
enthusiastic execution of orders.
Private Garrels is the daugh
ter of Mrs. Ethel A. Hancock,
Gold Hill. She enlisted in Port
land December 22, 1944.
Randall K. Watson
Randall Kellogg Watson re
cently completed studies at Na
val Air Technical Training Cen
ter at Norman, Okla., and grad
uated with the rank of seaman,
second class. He specialized in
aviation ordnance. Kellogg will
be transferred to a naval unit
afloat or will be sent to another
shore station for further instruc
tion and work. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Watson,
King's Highway.
Pfc. Upton Laporte x
Pfc. Upton S. Laporte, Phoe
nix, was one of the United States
soldiers who took part in flag
raising ceremonies at Fort Ehr-
enbreitstein, Germany, in ob
servance, of Army Day, accord
ing to a dispatch received from
Headquarters, Com municatlon
Zone, ETO. Men of Co. E, 110th
Infantry Regiment, 28th "Bloody
Bucket" division, stood as guard
of honr as the same flag which
was lowered in the last war was
again raised over the fortress.
San Francisco, Aug. 7 U.R)
Building costs in Australia have
risen 30 per cent since the be
ginning of the war, Melbourne
radio said today in a broadcast
recorded by United Press.
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Atom Bomb May Shake Japs'
Determination To Fight On
By Ralph Heinien
United Press War Analyst
The unloosening of the basic
powers of the universe contained
in the first atomic bomb may
shake the alleged determination
of the Japanese people to fight
on rather than reject the Pots
dam ultimatum.
Overnight the whole potency
of war has been increased a
thousand fold. Japan's vulnera
bility, an isolated island now
completely blockaded by air and
sea surface forces and by under
water mines, is such that con
tinued resistance can only bring
irreparable devastation.
Militarists Hold Power
No one knows that better, to
day, than Japan's industrialists
and, perhaps, the imperial court.
But war remains the prerogative
of the Japanese military caste.
There are no indications thus far
that the military caste will sur
render the authority and power
they hold to the Japanese gov
ernment. Talk about the imminence of
Japanese surrender will continue
to be "loose talk" until the civil
industrial and financial caste
can dispossess the military caste
of their power within the cab
inet. The next cabinet shakeup
will indicate clearly whether Ja
pan wants peace.
There may have been many
in Japan who discounted as
"Yankee bluff" our warning in
the Potsdam communique that
"utter destruction" would follow
Japanese rejection of the peace
program. When the catastrophic
consequences of a single "atomic
bomb" are known to the Japan
ese themselves, however, that
vision of utter destruction takes
on an entirely new significance.
Open for Invasion
At this crucial point in the
war today, the Japanese home
islands are, in the words of Ad
miral Nimitz and many officers
of his staff, wide open for in
vasion. Yet the Japanese army
is to all intents and purposes in
tact and undefeated.
The Japanese navy has lost so
many warships that it no longer
can present a balanced force.
The enemy submarine fleet, how
ever, is still a menace.
The Japanese air force is esti
mated at 750,000 men. Produc
tion which was 1200 planes a
month until early this year is un
deniably smaller now.
Japan no longer is master of
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Orljjlnatcd by Nelson E. Bo
hall, former chief engineer of the
Oregon Gas and Electric, com
pany and the Southern Oregon
Gas company in Medford, a new
and revolutionary technique of
drafting is now speeding produc
tion in western war plants ac
cording to an article appearing
in the August issue of "Western
Industry" published today.
Known as isogonic drafting,
the technique evolved from a
new system of gcometery, devel
oped in California during the
war, and permits three dimen
sional drawing to scale for the
first time in history.
Bohall lived in Medford about
five years, leaving here around
IS years ago, according to local
friends. He and his wife made
their home on the South Pacific
highway, and Bohall was active
in the American Legion. California-Pacific
Utilities has since
taken over the Southern Oregon
Gas company,
Through the superimpositlon
of eacn transparent piece of ma
terial on which separate draw
ings are made, each worker
handling the overlay has a clear
idea of where the particular in
stallation goes in relation to
others in the compartment.
Use of the new technique is
expected to extend into all fields
in which drafting is used. An
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industrial production drawing
department, of the war produc
tion training school of the San
Francisco unified school district,
has been set up under Bohall's
direction, and similar organiza
tions have been set up at Mare
Island navy training school,
Alameda, Berkeley high school,
and at Oakland.
ACTOR ROBBED .
Hollywood, Aug. 7 (U.R)
Movie Actor Louis Adlon today
reported to police he was held
up by four bandits who robbed
him of a $2300 sapphire and
diamond ring and $180 cash after
slugging him,
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your crispy green
salads taste better
made with
half her home waters and more
than half her home skies.
But British sources estimated:
today that Japan has 4,000.000
men in its active ground forces,;
plus a Japanese home guard of
unknown value but estimated at
at another 2,500,000 to 3,000,000. i
The front-line or active army is,
believed to be distributed rough-,
ly as follows: j
Jap Home islands 1,700,000
Manchuria ..... 750,000
China 650.000
Malaya and bypassed 1
islands 600.000 1
Kuriles and northern
peninsulas 300,000
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