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A Ninth Air Force Bomber
Base, Peronne, France For his
part in prosecuting the war
against Germany, First Sergeant
Ivan W. Harrington, 32, of Med
ford, Oregon, was recently
awarded the bronze star medal.
His wife, Mrs. Frances A. Har
rington, lives at Medford, gen
eral delivery.
A member of the 397th B-26
Marauder Bombardment group,
famed as the "Bridge Busters,"
Sgt. Harrington received the
bronze star for his excellent
work first as sergeant major,
then as first sergeant of one of
the squadrons. His work was
most outstanding when the 397th
moved from their base in Eng
land to a base in France. Admin
istrative officers crossed the
channel first with a small ad
vance party. Sgt. Harrington,
left in charge, accomplished the
move of the remainder of the
squadron with utmost dispatch,
so that there was no let-up in the
continued bombing of the enemy.
Bridges Knocked Out
His group, commanded by
Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie W.
Britt, earned the name of
"Bridge Busters " by KnocKing
out nine of the 14 bridges de
stroyed behind the invasion coast
of France in the single week be
fore D Day. They established a
new medium bombardment rec-
ord for th European Theater of
C?Sfatlons by flying 100 mis
sions in 119 days.
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The 397th recently received
the presidential unit citation for
conspicuous action against the
enemy on December 23, 1944, at
the height of the Ardennes coun
teroffensive. Clarence Bennett
On the Attack Transport USS
Mellette, Off Yokohama Clar
ence Marvin Bennett, quarter
master, third class, USN, Med
ford, Ore., and other crew mem
bers of this ship brought a battal
ion of marines to the beaches of
Japan for one of the strangest
military operations in history
a seaborne invasion of a nation
after its surrender.
The transport was passing
Guam at sea when Fleet Admiral
C. W. Nimitr ordered her to pre
pare hastily for the operation.
Soma 1,200 marines were
rushed aboard her under com
mand of Ma, Wilson E. Hunt,
USMC, of Seattle, Wash. Ten
American and British war corre
spondents followed. At the mo
ment Hirohito was broadcasting
news of Japan's defeat to her
people, combat cargo, was swung
into her holds.
Francis Widmer
On the Cruiser Louisville in
the Pacific Francis Widmer,
quartermaster, third class,
USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs,
Xavier Widmer, Medford, was at
his station on this ship when
news of the final capitulation of
the Japanese was announced
over the loud speaker in mid-afternoon.
Aug. 14.
It wasn't a riotous reception
which the crew greeted the news.
The feeling rather one of relief,
because the tension had been so
great in the closing days of the
war.
Elm.r Czech
Aboard the USS Intrepid in
ll, Pnrlfin Flmpr H. Czech of
Medford, Oregon, member of this
big aircraft carrier s crew has ad
vanced to chief gunners mate,
USN.
rrwh. son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Czech, Watertown, S. D.,
joined the navy in 1929 and
served one four-vear enlistment.
He re-enlisted in December, 1939
Before joining the mterpia ne
saw service with two destroyers,
the Snroston and the Barker, and
also served on the old uiss i-.ex-
Infrtnn. a hie carrier.
Czech is married and has four
children, Mildred Ellen, 10; Mar
garet Mavis, 9; Marilyn Joyce, o
onH RnnalH F.lmer. 19 months
His family live at 315 West 2nd
street, Medford.
Charles Robinson
r harlot Franklin Robinson
18, son of Mr. and Mrs. 'Elbert
F.. Rnhlnson. route 4. box 149,
has arrived at Camp Woltcrs,
Tex., to begin his infantry re
placement training, stressing
rifle, according to word received
from the camp.
Clarence Conner
Clarence J. Conner, water
tender, third class, USNR, son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Conner,
615 North Bartlett street, Med
ford, served aboard the famed
Pacific fleet aircraft carrier, En
terprise, the "fightingest carrier
in the fleet," now back in the
States for repairs after having
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BEAR CREEK ORCHARDS
Phont 2161 Sea Mrs- Birttlt
been hit by a Jap suicide plane
on May 14.
The Enterprise, whose record of
battles dates back to Pearl Har
bor, accounted for 911 Jap air
craft shot down by her plai.es
and guns, and 71 ships sunk and
19Z probably sunk by her planes
during her 275,000 miles of war
duty.
Stanley Jones
On the USS Panamint Off
Honshu Ens. Stanley C. Jones,
512 Penn avenue, Medford. Ore.,
serving on this flagship of Vice
Admiral Frank J. Fletcher,
moved through Tsugaru Straits
between Honshu and Hokkaido
to occupy Ominato naval base in
Mutsu Bay on Honshu. '
Sixty warships are participat
ing in tha first occupation of
Japan in Northern Honshu, near
ly 400 miles beyond Tokyo. The
Panamint moved in from the
Aleutians, after Jap emissaries
completed arrangements- aboard
her recently for the Americans
to take over the base.
Capt, Lewis Hedgpeth
Capt. Lewis F. Hedgpeth,
Medford, is "prexy" of the
army's education and informa
tion school with the 99th Infan
try Division in Germany, accord
ing io a dispatch from the schcol.
Arthur Hoffman
Arthur Albert Hoffman, avia
tion chief ordnanceman, route 4,
Medford, Ore., has returned to
the States after 10 months of
duty in the Aleutians with Pat
rol Bombing Squadron 131.
The squadron, flying Vega
Venture bombers, was the first
one based in the Aleutians to use
rockets against the Kurile
islands.
Members of 131, the first Vega
squadron to be transferred from
the Atlantic fleet to the North
Pacific fleet, wear two distin
guished flying crosses and 81 air
medals.
Paul Thomnson
Paul C. Thnmninn. HnlH Hill
will arrive in the United States
shortly with the 17th Airborn
Division when the unit returns
home for deactivation. He
served as a section sergeant in
the 517th Combat Team anrt (
a qualified parachutist. He par
ticipated in the Rome-Arno,
Southern France, Poe Valley,
Rhineland. Arriennp nnrt een.
tral Europe campaigns and wears
me comoai inianiry Daage, pur
ple heart with cluster, French
"Four De Giere," presidential
unit citation, English unit cita
tion and invasion arrowhead.
His wife Mm rViuMr-i
Thompson and parents, Mr. dnd
jur. r. i. inompson, reside at
uoia run.
SENTENCED TRIO GO
TO PRISON SATURDAY
Eugene Errol Bellows and
Vean A. Robertson, each 21
both sentenced to two-year state
prison terms and La Bern Frank
Keller sentenced to three years
at Salem, for contributing to
the dPlinquency of a minor girl,
will be taken to the state peni
tentiary tomorrow, the sheriff's
office reports. All entered pleas
of guilty. Keller to bringing t
15-yar old girl here from Eu
gene, and Bellows and Robert
son, to forgery. A Juvenile in
volved with Keller was turned
over to the Juvenile court.
Court House News
Divorce Complaints
Wendell T. Parrick vs. Ruth
Parrick.
Shirley Lorraine Lincbaugh
vs. William Clay Linebaugh.
Esther Walch vs. Louis Walch
Walter Clay John vs. Violet J,
John.
Divorce Decrees
Nellie S. Goss vs. Edwin L
I Goss.
The original draft of the
Declaration of Independence
was written by Thomas Jeffer
son in French.
Beast of
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ish military court in Luenrterg, Oermany, where they went on trial for war crimes and conspiracy to commit
mass murder. All defendants pleaded innocent. Radio-photo from NEA-ACME telcrjhoto.
AP RECOVERY TO
BE FASTER THAN
THAT OF STATES
Chicago U.R) Japan will re
cover from the war faster than
the United States, according to
Dr. John W. Stanton, North
western . University political
science professor.
History has shown that agri
cultural nations recover from
war f ister than industrial coun
tries. Stanton, former War De
partment consultant on Japan,
said.
Before the war, he said, two-
thirds of the Japanese people
were engaged In agriculture and
fishing and a third in industry
nd commerce, compared with
two-thirds in German industry
and -imilarly high proportions
in U. a. and British industry
'Employment of demobilized
Japanese soldiers will not be a
serious problem, as it will for
American veterans," Stanton ex
plained, "because the majority
are peasants who will return to
the land or to fishing . . .
Russia will lead the world In
recovery from the war, he said
largely because it is so vast and
so heavily agricultural.
Stanton said that tax reduc
tions for the Japanese, who no
longe- need billions for arma
ments. also will hasten their re
covery. This burden will be
shifted to the American tax
payer, who will pay for the oc
cupation forces, he added.
If occupation forces are
mainlained for 10 or 20 years
to insure against militarists re
gaining a foothold, such a fast
JaDanc-se recovery should be re
assuring rather than a cause tor
worry, because It will allay
economic discontent and war
hatreds," he concluded.
Thousand Dollar
Bills Found Hard
To Cash in South
New Orleans (U.R) J. O. Fer
nandez. Louisiana collector of
internal revenue, says that In
his state people have a hard time
cashing $1,000 bills, and mere
a reason.
He points out that a lot of big
money is Deing mane uiegaiiy
these days, and that though it
mav sound unreasonable, some
people are "selling" $1,000 bills
for great discounts.
The reason: Uncle Sam and an
his nephews immediately report
to Internal revenue whenever
anyone attempts to cash tha big
bills, Just to make sure the bill
owner has an income resembling
the one he posted on his income
tax return.
DEAD TURTLE NIPS FINOER
Ada, O. (U.PJ While the rest
of him was dressed for a turtle
supper, the head of a 20-pound
turtle, chopped off and put to
one side, bit off the fingertop of
four-year-old Bobby Wyss. When
the boy picked up the head for
close examination, reflex action
caused the turtle's Jaws to snap
shut.
BIRTHS
BRITT SON To Mr. and Mrs,
Ronald, 718 Victory street. Oct
5, 1945, M girl, five pounds, at
Sacred Heart hospital.
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IVE ACCIDENTS
ON POLICE BOOK
Five minor accidents were re
ported to city police yesterday.
Two Medford high school stud
ents, Audree Andrews and Janis
Duncan, were slightly injured
yesterday in an accident at the
intersection of Main street and
Vancouver avenue when cars
operated by Rex Jerrold Igo,
route 1, and Clement M. Parker,
307 Vancouver avenue, .collided
causing considerable damage to
both vehicles, according to city
police.
Police were called to an acci
dent at the Third and Front
street intersection this morning
when a car driven by Loren
Carter, route 1, was in collision
with a sedan operated by Wayne
E. Johnston, 719 Clark street,
officers reported. Carter was
cited to appear in police court
charged with being without an
operator's license.
An auto driven by H. C.
Thompson, route 4, was reported
damaged yesterday in a collision
on South Central avenue with a
truck driven by Lewis Loner,
route 2, and considerable dam
age was caused to cars driven
by F. W. Nelson, route 4, and
Howard, West Jackson street,
in a mishap Thursday morning
on Dry Creek road.
Also reported to police was
an accident which occurred
early today on highway 99 after i
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cars driven by Peter B. Waidnt
sky, of Los Angeles, and Leslie
E. Hnmmett, route 4, collided
near a bridge. Both cars were
damaged, according to reports
filed with police.
NON-SUPPORT CHARGED
James Shaw, Medford, was re
leased on $250 bail yesterday
following appearance in Justice
court charged with non-support.
Preliminary hearing was con
tinued until Oct. 12.
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LOCAL HUNTERS
FINO PORTION OF
E
A party of Medford hunters
returned from Lake county yes
terday with their "booty" two
fine four-point deer and one
used Japanese incendiary bomb.
Since the bomb had obviously
exploded and burned, the men
brought the remains home.
The three men. Joe Rlnard,
J. E. McDonald and J. W.
Teague, found the remains of
the bomb on the ground under
a large fir tree high In the Lake
county mountains. The bomb
was a steel cylinder about one
nnd one-half feet long and about
five inches across, and made in
two seclons. The firing mech
anism was very similar to that
used on booby traps of the
American army, one of the party
declared, and the contraption
had the remains of chains on the
side, this evidently having been
the way the bomb was fastened
to the parachute carrier.
In descending to the ground
the bomb tore its way through
the branches of the tree and
then buried itself several Inches
in the ground. It had burned
fiercely enough to partly melt
the bcttom of the cylinder and
to fuse rocks in with the meitlng
metal, but the fire had spread
but a few inches around the
bomb. The men are of the
opinion that the bomb fell quite
some time ago, probably as
much as two years ago, from
exam' nation of the broken tree
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Tha men reported the find to
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