LAST SHOT FIRED
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Relating how the Cruiser Con
cord, on which he has been sta
tioned for the past four years
had the honor of firing the last
shot coming from a major vessel
in shore bombardment in this
war, Phil E. Robinson, GMlc re
cently wrote to his parents in
Medford. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. F. Robinson, 836
Taylor street.
Robinson has been home on
leave but once in the past four
years. His duties have taken
him to many ports on both the
North and South American con
tinents and in the letter he re
called some of the highlights of
the cruiser's war experiences.
"It has been the Concord's job
to heip keep the pressure on the
northe-rn end of the Japanese em-
pire by making a total of eight
shore bombardments on the Ku-
rile chain and by harassing Jap
shipping around the Kuriles," he
wrote. "Two such strikes were
made into the Okhatak Sea. Our
last trip to the Kurile Chain was
made just previous to the end of
the war The Concord has the
honor of firing the last shot on a
shore bombardment by a major
vessel in this war.
"An interesting sidelight, and
a very interesting trip, too, was
the voyage on which we took
Adm. R. E. Byrd to a variety of
places in the Pacific, finally end
ing in the Society Islands. That
was in September, October and
November of 1943. It was for
his accomplishments on this trip
that Adm. Byrd was awarded the
Legion of Merit."
"The old Concord finally came
through. We thought it quite a
distinction to have been able to
fire tie last round on Jap held
territory " Robinson, whose ship
is now based in the Aleutian Is-
Was it a
Waltzing Whatsit?
A soldier in a military hospital
looked down at the food tray
his nurse had brought. There
was a quaint little stranger. A
comic figurine, you might call
it a thingummy. Or was it a
whatsit waltzing among the
dishes?
Because it appeared to wink
at him, the soldier felt certain
it was not a gadget. A gadget
is too sobcrsided for such shen
anigans. But he couldn't decide
whether it, was a thingamajig
or a hootcnannit. They're both
the playboy type.
Well, he commenced to laugh.
And that, sir, was very impor
tant. A laugh was just what the
doctor ordered but couldn't
provide. It released that inner
tension medicine couldn't get at.
Some Western woman
had fashioned that little life
saver. She is one of many, many
women who give up their leisure
time to make things for men in
military hospitals little things
even Uncle Sam can't buy . . .
tilings with the"woman's touch"
. , . tabic favors . . . scrap books
filled with chosen stories, art
icles, cartoons . . . ornaments
for Easter, the Fourth, Thanks
giving . . . homey "et ceteras".
Christmas will be a grander
day in the hospitals because
one group, for instance, spends
weeks fashioning tin cans -j-F's
of the metal drive into Christmas-tree
ornaments. They shear
out slick designs. They apply
shellac. They sprinkle on tinseL
Vet it's something else that makes
those trinkets shine.
That's something called
heart. That's what truly turns
those thingummies and whatsits,
those hootenannies and gadgets
into medicine quite beyond a
physician's magic. That's what
transmutes the hard work these
women put into their hospital
projects to something finer than
rubies.
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Picture shows the remains of the once proud capital city of Japan reduced to vast area ot rulible and destruc
tion by terrific pounding of U. S. Air Force. B-29's flew over Tokyo leaving a steady stream ot bombs that
flattened the city, and left only a comparativ e handful of buildings iu many city blocks.
lands, was at one time employed
by the Mail Tribune.
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COUNTY PICTURES
Jackson county's Industries
and scenic spots are being photo
graphed this week by Ray Atkin
son ol the National Geographic
magazine staff, the pictures to be
used in connection with a Geo
graphic article on Oregon, ac
cording to the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce.
Sunday Atkinson photo
graphed Crater and Diamond
Lakes. Monday he took scenes in
Ashland's Lithia Park and of his
toric Jacksonville spots. Yester
day the Dhotographcr visited or
chards and packing plants and
today he is taking pictures of cat
tle and cattle ranches in the
county.
It is understood that the pho
tographer will visit Josephine
countv next.
Newton A. F inkier
Passes In Fresno
News of the death of Newton
A. Finkler, former Medford res
ident, has been received here.
Finkler passed away Sunday,
August 26, at his home in Fres
no, Calif., after having been in
ill health for several months.
Finkler, who left Medford a
few years ago after an extended
residence here, is survived by
his wife and a daughter, Mrs.
Curtis C. Darby, and two grand
sons, all of Fresno.
HOME HEGIRA GROWS
Kingman, Ariz., Sept. 5 (U.R)
Homewardbound war workers,
averaging eight to a car, passed
through the Kingman state high
way inspection station en route
to the east last month at twice
the rate for August, 1944, offic
ials said today. A total of 14,
380 cars were counted through
the station last month, compared
to 6,420 a year ago.
Daily Weather Report
FORF.CASTS
Medford and vicinity: Partly cloudy
to clou.-iy with occasional light show
ers tonifiht and Thursday. Warmer
Thursday.
Oreeon: Partly cloudy tonight and
Thursday with tew showers near
mountains, blichtly warmer inursday.
Gentle westerly wind off coast.
LOCAL, DATA
Temperature a year aro today:
Highest 103; Lowest 51.
Total monthly precipitation: 0
Deliciency for the month: .0 inches.
Tot.u precipitation since September
1. 1945 0 inches.
Deficiency for the season: .04 inches.
Relauve humidity at 5 30 p. m. yes
terday: 42 'b; 5.30 today: tt3'0.
Tomorrow
Sunrine 6:41 a. m. Sunset 7:37 p. m.
Obseivations Taken at 4:30 a. m.,
120 Meridian Time.
High Low Prec.
Boise ua 02
lioston .. ..... 08
Chicago
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Havre
Los Ar.eeles
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New l'ork
Phoenix
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103
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87
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71
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Salt Lone City
C-an t"i dncisco
Seattle
Spokane
Washington, D. C.
Vakima
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CONDITIONS -GOOD WAGES
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Col. Nicol Smith
(Acme TeJcphoto)
Lt. Col. Nicol Smith, Office of
Strategic Service, reveals In Wash
ington, D. C, that about 300 sur
vivors of cruiser Houston, sunk earlj
In war. are Interned In Jap prison
camp In Thailand. Col. Smith re
vealed that five of survivors escaped
from the camp to a guerrilla camp
In Thailand operated by representa
tive of the O. S. S., bringing first
word that, any of Houston's crew
had survived.
Final Rites For
Talent Resident
Scheduled Friday
Ashland, Sept. 5 Funeral
services for Edwin Deacon, re
tired Methodist clergyman and
resident of Talent for the past
18 years, will be hold at Litwil
ler Funeral Home Friday at 1:30
p.m., with interment in the
IOOF addition of Mountain View
cemetery.
Deacon passed away at the
Medford Osteopathic Clinic hos
pital Sept. 3 as result of a cere
bral hemorrhage suffered in a
fall.
He is survived by a niece in
Tacoma, Wash., and other rela
tives in the eastern states.
Court House News
Marriages
Raymond II. Chambers
Leola A. Edmondson.
Elwood Milton Clark
and
and
Louise Mae Fawver.
Bert Moore and Elizabeth
Anna Donnelly.
James Edwin Putman and
Rosa Esther Whaley.
Vernon Dale Gleaves and Vir
ginia Fay Hawley.
Zedor DeMello and Loma Ma
rie Waterhouse.
MODEL DIVORCE
Hollywood, Sept. 5 (U.R)
Model Muriel Kane's friends
said she always looked as if she
were about to burst into tears
during her eight-month marriage
to Lt. Cmdr. Walter Kane. To
day she held a divorce from the
former actor's agent. "Our tem
peraments clashed and he would
pick and nag at me constantly,"
she told Superior Judge Jess E.
Stephens.
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SHOWERS NOT TO
Showers that fell last night
over the Rogue River valley will
not delay more than half a day,
harvesting of the Bartlott pear
crop, now nearing an end, Assist
ant County Agent C. B. Cindy
reports. The precipitation was
not general, and reports indicate
it fell heaviest in the hills.
Growers hope to complete the
Bartielt harvest this week-end
and start picking and packing
Howeils and D'Anjous the first
of next week.
The assistant county agent
said the estimate by packers of
the Bartlctt crop, at a million
boxes was a conservative figure.
The crop is rated as the largest in
the records of this section.
MERCHANTS URGED TO
WATCH CHECK CASHING
District Attorney George W.
Neilson has again issued a warn
ing to merchants and others to
use caution in cashing checks for
strangers His office has received
numerous complaints the past 10
days.
The district attorney states
with the first signs of fall, check
forgers start operating. He urg
es owners of check protectors to
keep them locked up as a popu
lar autumn criminal trick is to
break into some office and steal
the protector for use on bogus
paper.
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OBITUARY
CLARENCE W. ROSE
Clarence W. Rose, who moved
here two years ago from Eugene,
passed away Tuesday at a local
hospital. He was employed at
the Sugar Pine mill at Central
Point.
Mr. Rose was born July 29,
1899, at Alma, Kans., and was
urfitcd in marriage with Miss
Joyce Von der Hellen in 1927.
Survivors include the wife,
two children, William Clarence
and Nancy Joyce, his mother,
Mrs. Oscar Rose, of Medford;
three brothers. Oral Rose, Med
ford; George Rose, Tacoma, and
Roy Rose, Alma, Kans.
Funeral services will be con
ducted from the Perl Funeral
Home Friday at 4 p. m., with the
Rev. Father George Turney, rec
tor of Saint Mark's Episcopal
church officiating. Interment
will take place in Siskiyou Me
morial Park.
WIB CONNER
Wib Conner, Medford resi
dent for 23 years, and beloved by
a host of friends, passed away
Monday at the family residence,
532 North Grape street.
Mr. Conner was born at Wap
papello, Mo., June 2, 1861.
His wife, Mrs. Almedia Con
ner, passed away in March, 1944.
He is survived by the following
children; Clarence Conner and
Mrs. Alma Dye, of ' Medford;
Mrs. Ethel Bennett, St. Louis,
Mo.; Mrs. Lillian Hanscom, Cen
tral Point; Wilby and Warren
Conner, Merrill, Ore.; stepchil
dren, Joseph E. Hooper, Barns
dall, Okla.; Charles Hooper, Bak
ersfield, Cal.; Clyde Hooper,
Klamath Falls, Ore.; Harold
Smith, LaCrescenta, Cal., and
Mrs. Clara Perkins, Yellow
Jacket, Colo., and 43 grandchil
dren. Funeral services will be con
ducted from the Perl Funeral
Home Monday at 2 p. m., with
the Rev. Delbcrt Daniels officiat
ing. Interment will be in Siski
you Memorial Park.
JAMES B. RUSH
Joseph B. Rush passed awny
in a Portland hospital Sunday.
He was born in Pleasantvtlle,
Penn., March 5, 1879.
Mr. Rush leaves to mourn his
passing, his wife, Jessie M.
Rush, of Medford; three sons,
Frank L., San Francisco; Joseph
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Merle C. Rush, Fresno, Cal., and
five grandchildren.
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day at 10:30 a. m., the Rev.
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ANNA MAY WEBSTER
Anna May Webster passed
away at her home on East 12th
street Tuesday. Mrs. Webster
was born on April 16, 1893, at
Beaver Lake, Alberta, Canada,
On June 2, 1908, she was mar
ried to Arthur Webster at Cas
cade, B. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Webster came
to Jackson county in 1923.
Left to mourn her passing are
her husband, Arthur Webster,
and three children, Mrs. Ruth
Clark, Central Point; Mrs. Ruby
Munshaw, Medford, and FUgnt
Lt. Loren Webster, of the RCAF.
Several brothers and sisters in
Canada and two grandchildren
also survive.
Funeral services will be held
at the Perl Funeral Home Fri
day at 2 p. m. The Rev. Rolph
Hansen of the Federated church
in Central Point will officiate
and interment will be in Sis
kiyou Memorial Park.
An elaborate exhibition of
photographs, comparing Ameri
can and British railroad trains,
stations, bridges and equipment
propaied with the assistance of
the United States Office of War
Administration, was opened in
London and will make an ex
tended tour of English cities and
towns, according to British Rail
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