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TWO MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. See. 24. 194S NO TURKEYS BUT Bhanghal. Dec. 24 (UFO There will be no Christmas tur key for American troops In Shanghai. Before the war, turkeys were Imported by Europeans from Chusan island, but that source was eliminated when the Jap anese built an air base there. None has been shipped from the United States. More than 1,000 night clubs and cabarets In Shanghai were preparing to reap big profits unci local (tills stepped up produc tion of brand new "four year old" whiskey. TAME CCEAN STORMS Washington, Dec. 24 (U.R) The army signal corps has de veloped a meons of locating ocean storms up to 2,000 miles away by recording the static they emit on radio direction finders. MAJOR HUGHES SELLS FINE BELLVIEW PLACE Ashland, Dec. 24 Major J. E. Hughes, retired army officer, who bought the Wm. Iiriggs place In Ecllvicw, has sold the fine place to R. C. McGuIre, who has lived in this area for severnl months. Major Hughes and Mrs. Hughes will leave today for Cal ifornia, where they will pur chase a trailer house and then leave for Texas to visit relatives before going to Florida and then back to Mexico before re turning to Ashland next sum mrT. Major Hughes stated he had never lived In a place which suited him as much- as the Ashland area. KAISER AUTO PLANS Detroit, Dec. 24 (U.R) Joseph W. Frazcr, president of the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation announced today that the firm has completed plans to produce the medium priced Frazcr and the low-priced Kaiser cars In a California plant. Cloilnl time lor Classified Ads 0 3(1 am Too Lata to Classify 12:15 p m CiVIL WAR NURSE NOW AT ASHLAND Ashland, Dec. 24 Ashland has the distinction of having the only surviving Civil War nurse as a resident. She is Mrs. Sue Clayton, 85, who when a girl of 14 administered to the wounded of the Union army. Mrs. Clay ton, who for some time made her home at Talent, is now re covering from a broken hip at the Parkview Convalescent Home here. Mrs. Clayton said she has seen four presidents Abraham Lin coln, -heodore Roosevelt, Wood row Wilson and Benjamin Har rison. "As a young girl I knew General Harrison well. He was 'Uncle Ben' to us," Mrs. Clayton said. Lost Everything The pioneer nurse said she has been in a big flood, a cyclone which blew everything the fam ily had away, was in a big prairie fire and went through the "grasshopper year" when they took everything clear "We lost everything." Mrs. Clayton was also in the big land race in Oklahoma. She, with her family, camped on the prairie and the chief of the Arapahoe Indians and his squaw took sup per with them at the site where they hoped to see a city grow. Mrs. Clayton's nursing train ing began at home where her mother was a nurse and much in demand throughout the area. With the assistance of General Benjamin Harrison, who took her to Camp Carrington, Indian apolis, she was called upon to nurse boys of the 100 days' en listment, many of them school mates. Only Sewing Machine After the war, the family moved to Kansas where Mis. Clayton, who had learned some thing of millinery and sewing in her girlhood, set up a shop. She had the only sewing ma chine in the state, a Wheeler and Wilson. A young soldier, Tom Clayton, came into the shop one day and asked the proprie tor to make him a shirt. "We fell in love," Mrs, Clayton said, "a.id In the fall of I860, when I was 18, we were married. 1 made him many shirts after that." The newlyweds moved to Se dan, Kans., where they helped Eisenhower Charts Merge Advantages E 5 - r , 1 i if w . jT if Vjtfli jv ! ' ..... . -I -; ."" tAcme Telephotot Oen. Dnight D. Elsenhower points out on a chart advantages of merging Army and Navy as he testifies before Senate Military Affairs committee "Unleaa we have unity of command for all arms of defenss, we may lose the ptuce we have paid for so dearly," he declared, adding that it was only A'hcu actual lives were at stake that complete co-operation among lorcef was achieved. to build the new town and where Mrs. Clayton organized the first Wjmen's Relief Corp- In 1873. The Claytons came to Oregon in 1005 and moved to Talent in 1921. Mr. Clayton died several years ago. An only son, Fay, re sides ut Talent. EXECUTION DATE London, Dec. 24 (U.R) The British home office announced Saturday that William Joyce, Lord Haw Haw of the German radio, will be executed at W:iidsworth prison in southwest London on Jan. 3 for treason. The dale of Joyce's death was set after the British house of lords rejected his appeal from the deat.i sentence imposed S ;pt. 19 at conclusion of a three day trial. A snake does not coil, but drops its body in loops. If coil ed, its head would spin like a top in attempting to strike. r jPieaiant lnietide iJliouaLh To Our Rogue River Valley Friends immk loir CHE Yultide season brings with It pleasant thoughts of cherished friendships. It makes us realize that friendly associations with our follow men are In valuable In both public and private life and are above all things material, It it significant of the season, than, that we pause to say "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year", and for your friendship we are truly grateful. HUBBARD BROS. Lee Allen Wilbur Arnold Dean Barker Arthur Bosrock Bill Dyer Mike Herman Roy Hoover Chester Hubbard Mary Hubbard Roland Hubbard Sara Kingsley Ella Parks Hollis Parks Fred Royse John Russell Joe Sullivan William Tell Buell Thompson Evelyn Tice Mary Waite Ray Young HUBBARD WRAY CO. Medford and Grants Past M. T. Wray Art Marsh John Laird Dee Newton Charlie Atteberry Claude Guntcr Cliff White Ben Newman Rera Tippin T CRUDE RUBBER ARRIVES Washington, Dec. 24 (U.R) The flow of crude rubber from the plantations of the Far East to the tire factories of the Unit ed States has been resumed, four years after it was choked off by war. The Reconstruction Finance Corp. Saturday announced the arrival in New York harbor of the S. S. Canton Victory with 8,060 tons of crude rubber load ed in Malay and Java. It was the first shipment to reach this country since shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. YULE DECORATION TAKEN BY TKIEF Tie "meanest thief In Med ford" was at work Saturday night. The culprit, not appre hended, had little of the holiday spirit as ne stole a beautiful and expensive wreath from the porch of a J street home, accord ing to a report made to city police. Owner of the wreath said he had spent many years in adding to the ornament, which contain ed several large pine cones and other decorations alrnost impos sible to replace at the present time. The wreath had been placed as a Christmas decoration on the front door from where it was stolen. 11am J. McLean, secretary;, HOAX BABY BURIED board of directors, Walter Free- CheJa. Mai.., Dec 24-AJ.R) man C R (Bud) Baker, M. C.IMrs. Rose Carlan attended a Athe'y Hal Moore, and Harold burial service today for the six Bowerman. The Chamber's most Import ant activities for the coming year are the proposed irrigation of the valley and the new road to Happy Camp, Calif. The For est Service airport also will come in for the Chamber's sup port and improvement. kept hidden in her bedroom while pretending he was kidnap ed. At .her side, her husband wept. Petaluma has the only silk mill west of the Mississippi. Use Mail Tribune Want Adl. GI's British Brides Coming in January London, Dec. 24 (U.R) British wives of American soldiers got the big news today their mass movement to the United States will begin early In January and probably will reach ! a peak of 12,000 a month in February. I Lt. Commander Lonnie Gar-! vin of Aiken, S. C, said the wives would begin reporting at five army ar.d navy reception stations in Britain on Jan. 5 for physical examination, inocula tion and orientation. ILLINOIS VALLEY C-C ELECTS NEW OFFICERS Cave Junction, Dec. 24 : Jerry Medcalf was chosen presi dent of the Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting held here Tues-1 day evening. Other officers elected are W. S. Sherman, vice-president; i Mrs. Lois Baker, treasurer; Wil- Closing time rnr Classified Ads 8:30 a.m. Too Late to Classify 12:15 p m HAL of Hal's Camera Shop wants a furnished or unfurnished house or apartment. . Phone 2597 V be GL! UTZ MEN'S WEAR r r t 1 "i" t Tl VIM -SMIT-W , '!'" .i'TSyf. i I r v: ' iff'. 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