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JFIQHT MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNE WednetcUr. Sept. 19, 1945 TO COAST AREAS IN F000SEARCH Self-Survival Only Thought Of Hungry Japs As Thou sands Strive For Living By Earneit Hoberecht (United Press Correspondent) Tokyo, Sept. 19 (U.RJ Thous ands of Tokyo's remaining 2, 000,000 inhabitants swarmed across the city's coastal mud flats today, searching for enough shell fish to provide another meal. The cry is for food. Sclf-sur- Complcta Factory Approved SAFETY SERVICE Chryiler Fac- fiZoenrael tory Engineer Chrysler Dodge Plymouth Dodge Trucki L. C. TAYLOR GO. 112 So. Rive.Plde Phone 2965 Piano Instruction Modern Improved Methods Studio, 318 Liberty Bldg. Fred Alton Haight Have Your Montag Furnace and Oil Burner Checked Now by Leonard Electric Go. Ph. 4427 309 E. Main vival is the only thought for these hungry Japanese. As far as the eye can see, countless thousands of men, women and children tirelessly .splash through the shallow water. Each pays approximate ly five cents to the man holding the government shell-fishirg concession. For that they arc entitled to all they can catch in a day usually a water bucket full per person. This is a scene repeated day after day. Thousands of others line the city's canals and riveis, creating a forest of bamboo fish ing poles from dawn to dusk as Tokyo's populace desperately tries to Increase its food supply. Hunger Everywhere Hunger is evident every wheie. War gardens in small, neat typi cally Japanese fashion dot every available area of land. The average man prays that his gar den will supply enough food to stall off starvation one more winter a hope Bgainst odd3 that "something" will be done by the Japanese or American govern ments to keep food in the mouths of those still dwelling in this city or dismal makeshift homes. Food lines are everywhere. Before the shopper can stand in the long line outside the food store he must stand in on equally long line to get ration certificates. For his certificates the Japa nese can purchase a small quan tity of black beans a substitute for rice which is scarce these days. With his vegetables, beans or fish the Japanese can return home at dusk to the squalid shacks erected in the ruin of this once-grent metropolis. Homes Small Home is usually a 12-foot by 12-foot frame structure, covered by pieces of scrap sheet metal. The shanties pre Jammed close together windowless, without sanitation, usually one-room af fairs floored with fire-blackened bricks. There is no furniture and only a minimum of neces sary household items. In some huts soldiers have hung their helmets on the walls and put aside their boots for CAR QUCKIES-oH How to Keep 'Em Rollln' and Shinln' CLEANERS SIMONIZ Skuol 49a POLISHES SIMONfZ roiiih 4e wax-nip g lp & "'wAX r-TH JOHNSON'S Cj Mpl. acting Hw CARNU B. r. Goodrich Silveitown Tha Tire That's 3 Years Aheadl WASHIN MITT a CHAMOIS POLISHING) CLOTH 12. .4. p . . Soodrich SPARK MUSS.. 15c m. k i.M moiL-Gr.d. A, Jo. je Srada I, IJ.ot. ....0e w L J I mm Lewis' Super Service 8th and Front Phone 2119 r Milton 39 sandals. There is little clothing except that worn by the in habitants. Fire bombs brought Tokyo to this. Flames eating away at tne city left it in ruins. The Tokyo fire department never had a chance against the holocaust. Conditions Near Chaos Today the Japanese can com pare their 25-year-old fire equip ment and their ox-drawn carts with the huge convoys of gigan tic American trucks rolling by day end by night in a never-ending line a parade of vehicles watched with awe by these dazed, bewildered masses. Today conditions are ap proaching the chaotic. Millions of Japanese roam the country homeless and hungry. Millions just wait to see what will hap pen. They watch intensely as smoke comes from the chimneys still standing beside small, ob scure establishments in the sur viving fringe around this ash pile of a city. Some have work to do. Others have volunteered to help clear away the wreckage. Wom en and children Join with shovels In the gigantic task work that only increases appe tites for food they cannot get. Father Accused In Hammer Slaying Of Daughter Aged Five Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 19 (U.fi) Joseph B. Wessel, lumber mill workar, was charged with first degree murder today after his 5-year-old daughter Mary Ann died nt Tacoma general hospital last night from blows received in a vicious hammer beating. Prosecutor Thor G. Toliefson accused Wessel of fatally beating Mary Ann in a hammer attack on his estranged wife and family. Mrs. Wessel, mother of four chil dren, still was in serious condi tion. Toliefson revealed that at the time of yesterday's beating, Wes sel was free on $1,000 bond for a similar attack on his wife In June which necessitated a deli cate operation to remove a sliver of skull bone from her brain. Child Delinquency Conference Slated The Oregon Juvenile Council will hold a conference in Mult nomah county courthouse, Port land, Sept. 21 and 22, County Juvenile Officer Robert M. Elder said today. Elder is pres ident of tho council. The program will open at 10 a. m. Friday with registration. At 10 a. m. Saturday there will be an address by members of the interim committee of the House and Senate on child de linquency. O. H. Bcnetson of Medford, Jackson county repre sentative, is chairman of tne committee. CIVIL SERVICE OFFICE IS DISCONTINUED HERE Office of the IlniteH stntoe civil service representative, lo cated in the Holland Hotel, will do closed after today. Eugene Liliennuist. civil snrvir rnnro. sentative, announced. Liljc.-nq.uist, In charge of the local office since June, has been instrumental in engaging civil inn employes for Camp White. Ho is to enjoy a vacation before resuming his work at a new station. CAHD OF THANKS Wa wish to thank our many frltnrfa and nrlKhhon (or their kind rxprex. xionx of kvmmithv nnd hentitiful flow. era during our recent bereavement. Mm. J. w. Dye. Mn. I.lovd Han-si-om, Clarence Conner. Wllby Con- pep, vtnrren (.onner, ana other relatives. COMING UP! ."ALTHOUGH all Government restrictions on civilian train travel have not been lifted, the green light is coming up. Transportation of military traffic will, of course, continue to be an important Great Northern Railway responsibility in the months ahead. However, the decrease in troop movementa now is making available more space on the Empire Builder and other Great Northern trains for civilian travelers. Pullman reservations now may be made 14 days in advance usually sufficient time to obtain desired accommodations. Not far away, we hope, is the day when remaining restric tions become history when the mighty driving wheels of Great Northern locomotives can roll up miles of pleasant travel on the scenic Route of the Empire Builder. ? vour local ngrnt or wrilr lot C. U HIX IMtl K, I rav. Pa.Vr .gl. JJU Aim-rii-nn Hunk Bldg,, IlKm-ou I'ortlaml 5, Oregon route of the EMPIRE BUILDER Between: PORTLAND e TACOM A e SEATTLE SrOrVNE MINNEAPOLIS e ST. TALL CHICAUO LT. TO SPEAK IRE Lt. James C. Whittakrr, co pilot for Capt. Eddie liicken backer at the time of the epic crash at sea after which Lt. Whittaker, Capt. Rickenbacker rrn.' ." ' g!'.VV: WW- LT. JAMES WHITTAKEH and three other survivors drift ed 21 days at sea, will speak at the First Baptist church of Med ford, Thursday at 8 p. m. Lt. Whittaker's address, which will tell of the flight and crash in the Pacific ocean and of the days spent on the life raft, will be open to the public. It is being sponsored by the United States Christian commission, a group seeking to minister to the wounded and disabled veterans of the war. The offering,' which will be taken, will go directly to this work. Lt. Whittaker, only member of the Rickenbacker party who kept a diary of the ordeal, will give a full account of their days adrift. His lecture has bi-en given commendation from mini sters, editors and leaders in every field for its value to the morale of the home front. Books Listed New books received at the jacK.son County Library in: elude: Fiction Abbot, Mary Patten's Daugh ters; Bassett, Silver Moon Cot tage; Burnet, The Pool: Colver Homecoming; Dark, The Little Company; Escragnolle. Inocen- cla; Forester, Commodore Horn- blower; Gorman: The Wine of San Lorenzo; Hartley, The Way; Hilton, So Well Remembered; Lawrence, Let Us Consider One Another; Locwenstein, The Child and The Emperor; Lothar, The Prisoner; McLean, A Mo ment of Time; Maclennan, Two Solitudes; Neumann, Now Vhat April's There; Osborne, They Change Their Skies; Sedges, The Townsman; Shurtleff, Short Leash; Slaughter, X Touch of Glory; Wickenden, The Way farers. Non-Fiction H a r r 1 m a n. Psychology In Nursing Practice; Wilson, How to Live Beyond Your Means: Lewis, Beyond Personality; Van Diisen, They Found the Church There; Bontemps, Thev Seek A City: Beals. What the South Americans Think Of Us; White leather, Main Street's New Neighbors: Garrett, A Time Is Born; Pink, Freedom From Fear; Neuschutz, Jobs For The Physically Handicapped; Young, Angel In The Forest; Barzun, Teacher In America: Evans, How to Make Historic American Costumes; Wells. Raffles; Orr. Here Comes The Elephants; Hudson, An Introduction to Electronics:' Harrington, Mill and Factory Book of Tool Care; Paust, Fighting Wings; Ott, Transport Aircraft; Sticrl, Air craft Engines; Stierl, Aircraft Instruments; Stleri, Aircraft Welding; Biegelcisen, Careers in Commercial Art; Aronson, The Book of Furniture and Decora tion; McKinncy, The Challenge of Listening: Corwln, On a Note of Triumph; Silvers, The Editor Accepts; Carmer, Taps Is Not Enough; Dickinson,' Bolts of Melody: Habeiiy, Silent Fame and other poems; Nathan. The Darkening Meadows; Shap iro, V-Lctter and Other Poems; Lnuterbach, These Are The Rus sians: Muir, This Is India: Kau. Home To India; GattI, Killers All; Robeson, African Journey; Peat, Canada; Webster, Tcwn Meeting Country; Kane, Deep Delta Country; Thorp, Pardner of the Wind; Fisher, The Salin as; Briccno, Cocks and Bulls In Caracas; Gessler, The Leaning Wind; Stefansson, Within The Circle; Deford. They Were San Franciscans; Borden, Francesca Cabrini; Norris, Fighting Liber al; Nye, George Bancroft; May nard, Too Small a World; Pry or, Reminiscences of Peace and War; Teale, Dune Boy; Trott, Campus Shadows; Surmelian, I Ask You, Ladies and Gentle men; Wright, Black Boy; Stew art, Names On The Land; Bai wnnrnw Wiknn and the Great Betrayal; Bonsai, Unfin ished Business; Pyle, Ernie Pylc in England; Romulo, My Broth er Americans; Wolfert, Ameri can Guerrilla in the Philippines; Miller, The Far Shore; Kaitcr born, Europe Now; Altrocchi, Miller, The Far Shore; Kalten ton, Golden Gate Country. TOKYOROSEFREE Tokyo, Sept. 1 9 (U.R) Iva Toguri, Los Angeles-born Tokyo Rose of the Japanese air waves, was released into the custody of her Portuguese husband today. A Nisei, she had been arrested by the American eighth army for possible trial as a war crim inal. Final disposition of her case awaits determination of her citi zenship status by the U. S. state department. She may be recalled at any time by the eighth army. Another alleged war criminal, Shigenori Togo, Japanese for eign minister at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, was reveal ed to have suffered a relapse at his home. Togo, 111 with a heart ailment, was reported "resting" today aft er his condition began to worsen at 3 p. m. yesterday. New buses made of aluminum weigh from one and one-half to two tons less than previous models. (Jia Mall Tribune Want Ada. NOTICE Notice of Dissolution of Part nership. To whom it may concern: NOTICE is hereby given that Garner Phillips Allred Company, a partnership, has been dissolved as of September 19th, 1945. by mutual agreement of the part ners. S. A. GARNER. R. W. PHILLIPS, J. D. ALLRED. Poor Digestion? 35 Headachy? Scar or Upset? Tired-Listless? Vn you r.vl JiMcUfriv upaot Hii to piMrl' tfiiuttNi (ivmI? To f.-l chtrfu a-M h;ippv Msn jour fovU must b KiM:v Nturtmit protIufMihout to mtv of n vuhI riiirofTivF ray to h"lp iict vour (ihmI. tl Viturv (ails your fivvi iruy tvnuiin un,ln;MrU Ira vin you hcatLn-hv unit irntnt'lo. Tlii'rWorv, you must uutchm' xhe flow ct this thgituivt uui I'uru-rs Lit t to lavor I'll! im'tv;ist tli-s flow quukly often tn tu little) 30 nunutrtt. And, jvu'w on tht rosd to iWlir.ji tvitw. iVn t tU'iM-nd on rii::ri.il aii to cotintrrji-'f iP'i.vt ion Nn (rirr Liitti- Liver Y .'. h .i .. i;ciMin f tor N ltr' ott or-i.-r. TitWi Ofcr n Li'tl" I M.-r I'll1- n. -M-tv-tr-i, At 10JT L. C. TAYLOR GO. pays the HIGHEST MARKET PRICES If you have a CAR or TRUCK to sell, we advise telling it now. Call or Phono Dodge-Plymouth Dealer L. G. TAYLOR GO. Phone 2965 Big Steel Denies . Gigantic Profits Washington, Sept. 19 U.R The United States Steel Corp. denied today that it had taken more than S2. 000. 000.000 in open and hidden profits from war contracts as asserted by President Philip Murray of the United Steelworkers (CIO). Murray, who also heads the entire CIO, made the assertion in support cf the steel union's contention that the steel indus try is able to pay a $2-a-day wage increase without a price increase. The new wage de mand will be served on the in dustry at Pittsburgh next Tues day. BINS TO HOSPITAL Hollywood, Sept. 19 (U.R) Bing Crosby's physicians today nrdpred the crooner to a hospi tal bed for a week in "a routine checkup." Crosby will register at St. John's, Santa Monica within the week, on completion of his role In Paramount'! "Blue Skies ' He was out of the frin for two days with back pains caused by kidney trouble, hii doctors said. W9 O CHECKE WANTE GOOD PERMANENT POSITIONS PLEASANT WORKING CONDITIONS GOOD WAGES Apply in person at either Safeway Store in Medford for BUSINESS Operation Many Oregon businesses large and small Have increased their volume, expanded their quarters or added valuable new lines as a result of credit established at this bank. You will find our officers eager to discuss your business problems with a view toward making business-building credit available to you. Why not come in and get acquainted ? GEORGE T. FREY, Manager ROBERT A. SCHENCK, Asst. Manager ALLAN F. PERRY, Asst. Manager. Medford Branch Office of The United States National 28 BRANCH OFFICES IN OREGON MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION There's the whistle... Have a Coca-Cola wmp mm mmm - iiii 5U-V SSL . . . hmchtime h friendly time in the plant Everybody likes company when lunchtime rolls around. It's always a sociable spot in the busy day a chance to talk, to laugh, be friendly and refreshed. And the big 'red cooler is the place to meet for it. At the words Have a Cot things pick up and good-fellowship begins. OlUtO UNDEI AUIHOtltT Of IHI COCA-COIA COAfANT IT Coca-Cc!a Bottling Gompany of Medford . Hear Morton Downey KMED 2:30 P.M. . uSVifl Von naturally hear Coci'CoIa i cautti cry us irienaiy acDrevution 1 Yoke". Both mean th quality prat uct of Tne Coca-Cola Compisy. -O 19U TIm C-CC-
