AS
TRUCK BED FALLS
Warren Fichtner, who resides
at the corner of Orange and 10th
streets, was injured yesterday
when a dump truck bed fell on
him as he was attempting to trip
the mechanism.
According to his brother, City
Patrolman Clyde Fichtner, the
injured man was hauling debris
from the Veterans of Foreign
Wars building on Front street
to the city dump grounds. After
dumping his load, Fichtner at
tempted to lower the bed but the
mechanism failed to work. He
crawled beneath the bed and
tripped it by hand but failed to
get out of the way of the falling
bed, it was learned. He was
pinned- between the cab of the
truck and the dump bed.
Fichtner called for help and
two boys, playing in the neigh
borhood, heard his cries. They
were unable to extricate him.
The boys called Lew Miles and
Dr. R. P. Mortenson, who live
nearby. They released the
mechanism and freed Fichtner.
He was taken to the Community
hospital in the Conger-Morris
ambulance and, after undergoing
examination, was transferred to
the Camp White hospital. No
bones appeared to be broken but
he suffered injuries to his chest,
his brother stated.
Fichtner is a veteran of World
War II.
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Company A, 1st battalion,
local rifle unit of the Oregon
state guard, the personnel of
which has been on holiday leave
of absence since Christmas, will
resume regular drill schedule
Tuesday evening, at the armory,
according to Capt. O. E. Sabin,
company commander.
Schedules for the training
program of the first quarter in
1946 will be given the company
personnel so they may arrange
civilian employment apgoint
ments accordingly, said Capt.
Sabin. Also a special service
squad will be selected that will
remain constantly alerted dur
ing the first quarter of the year,
for special escort duties, furnish
ing firing details for military fu
nerals, and general emergency
service, he said.
Girls Initiated In
Junior High Tri-Y
A group of girls were initiat
ed into the Junior High school
Tri-Y club at a recent meeting.
Initiated were Jean Kyle, Eliza
beth Larson, Sherry Antony,
Virginia Balch, Glenda Fields,
Lila Holt, Joyce Kirby, Eleanor
Meeker, Nancy Lageson, Cyn
thia Jackson, Pat Sether, Janis
Jorgenson, Janny Lou Hough
ton and Carol Lausmann.
During the holidays the club
sponsored a Christmas dance,
went caroling throughout the
community and helped at the
Junior Red Cross office.
News of 4-H
p CLUBS
Hoxy Ann 4-H Club
Members of the Roxy Ann 4-H
club and their parents are to
meet Jan. 10 at 8 p. m. in the
Lone Pine school with the Parent-Teacher
association.
Earle Jossy will show moving
pictures and present awards to
club members. Refreshments
will be served by club mothers.
FUGITIVE SOUGHT
Los Angeles, Jan. 7 (U.R)
Police today sought one of two
prisoners who escaped from the
Central jail by sawing a steel
bar from a window. Jacinto T.
Serna, 19. robbery suspect who
still bears a wound from a
policeman's bullet, was recap
tured a few minutes after he and
Joaquin A. Lopez, 21, held on a
narcotics charge, escaped.
Closing lime for Sunday Too Late
to Classify 4 00 Saturday afternoon
Please remember.
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See
Humphrey
First"
TO BUY OR
SELL YOUR
USED CAR
Humphrey Motors
Used Car Exchange
33 S. Riverside Ave.
Livestock
Portland, Ore., Jan. 7 (U -Pi-Livestock:
Cattle 2,700. calves 123.
Very slow, few early sales 25c lower
but most bids 50c lower. Good fed
steers $16 00-17,00; few loads good
choice $17.50; good heifers $15 00.
some held higher; common-medium
grades $10.00-14.00; canner-cutter
cows $6.00-8.50: medium-good beef
cows $11.50-13 00. odd head S!3 50;
bulls steady: good beef bulls $1150
12 50, some held higher: choice veal
ers steady. $15 00; odd head $15-50.
Hogs 300. Stead v. Barrows and
gilts up to 300 lbs. $1585: tows
SM.23-M75; feeder pigs above 90
lbs. mostly 815.00.
Sheep 1,000. Active, steady. Good
eholce lambs - $14 00-14 25, extreme
ton $14.50: common grades down to
$11.00: pood yearlings $11.50; good
ewes $4.50-5.00.
South San Francisco. Jan. 7 fU.P.)
(USDA) Cattle 1.400. Early trade
steers steady to 25c lower; around
12 loads offered. Load good 1013
steers $16 50; load 970 cuttery Hol
steins $13.75. She-stock active. About
six loads good ranee cows $13 00
13.50; few loads cutter to common
cows $9.00-1 1 .00; some unsold. Can
ners largely $6.50-8 00. Common to
good sausage bulls $10.00-12 00.
Calves:, salable 25. Steady. Choice
absent; medium to good $11.00-13 00.
Hogs 100. Steady. Few good to
choice 200-300 barrows and gilts
$15.80 ceiling. Odd good sows S1505.
Week-end clearance pigs $1.00-2 00
lower; mostly 51600.
Sheep 25. Nominal. Good to choice
lambs quoted $14 00-14.75. Medium
to good wooled ewes quoted $5.50
6 25.
Chicago, Jan. 7 (UP.) (WFA)
Livestock:
Hogs: 9,000. Active. 35 to 60 cents
higher than last week-end. Most
advance on weights over 250 lbs.; all
good and choice 100 to 300 lb. hoes
now at $14.83 celling; sows 35 to 50
cents higher, mostlv $13 85 to $14 00.
Cattle: 13,000. Calves: 1.000. Fed
steers and vearlir.es and vearline
heifers 25 to 50 cents higher; mostly
SO cents up with good and low-grades
snowing most advance; cows strong
to 25 cents higher mostly strong;
bulls and vealers scarce, firm; large
ly steer and heifer run; bulk steers
$15.50 to $18.00; about 40 loads at
$18.00: two loads 900 lb. choice heif
ers $18.00; bulk heifers $13.50 to
;i .uu.
Sheep: 5,000. No early action on
slaughter lambs, asking- fully steady
or ud to $15.00 for Eood and choice
wool-skin; scattered early bids as
mucn as 23 cents lower; mature
sheep fully steady; load choice fed
western ewes held above $7.63.
Portland Produce
Portland, Jan. 7 (U.P.) Whole
sale marKei prices:
Cabbage Oswego $3.75 crate.
Cauliflower Local $1.75 crate.
California $1.65 crate.
S. F. DAIRY PRICES
San Francisco, Jan. 7 (U.R)
Dairy market:
Butter: 93 score 48V4, 92 score
48, 90 score 47.
Cheese: Loafs 28.2, triplets
27.2.
Eggs: Large grade A 50V,
medium grade A 45V4, small
grade A 41 ',4, large grade B
45V4.
Wall Street
New York, Jan. 7 flJ.PJ A
runup in rail shares helped the
full list of stocks today after a
hesitant start. Shortly before the
close gains ranged to more than
a point.
Carrier shares had advances
of a point or more in such lead
ers as Santa Fe, Baltimore &
Ohio common and preferred,
Illinois Central and Chicago &
Eastern Illinois. Atlantic Coast
Line had a 2-point rise.
Late In the session bullish
sentiment was bolstered by ru
mors in Wall Street that the
pending Jan. 14 steel walkout
may be averted through new and
successful collective bargaining.
Steel shares were firm.
Specialties were in day-long
demand. Gains in such issues
ranged to 8 points in American
Woolen preferred. American
Woolen common was up nearly
2 points. Food Fair Stores gain
ed more than 3 points. Hiram
Walker rose more than 2 points
in the liquors.
Air Line shares had a small
response to a Washington report
tnat all first-class mail soon may
be transported by air.
Preliminary closing Dow
Jones stock averages: Industrials
191.77, up 0.30; Rails 63.12, up
0.31; Utilities 38.38, up 0.03; 65
Stocks 72.01, up 0.17.
Sales totaled 1,230,000 shares
compared with 1,070,000 Friday.
Today's closing prices on se
lected stocks:
American Tel 4 Tel 189
Anaconda 4334
Chrysler 134
Curtiss Wright , 734
General Electric 4634
General Motors 74'4
Montgomery Ward 72 '2
Penn. R. R 42
Phillips Petroleum
J. C. Penney .
Radio ,
. 564
.1494
19 '4
Southern Pacific
Standard Oil of Calif.
Texas Gulf Sulphur
587's
47'8
48
Transamenca
20
United Aircrafts
U. S. Rubber .
U. S. Steel
34 '4
66 ii
80 ?i
THE GRANGE
Jacksonville Grange
Jacksonville Grange will meet
Jan. 8 at 8 p. m. in the hall,
with new officers in the chair
for this first meeting of 1946.
All officers not previously in
stalled are urged to attend tha
meeting.
GRUESOME FIND
San Bernardino, Jan. 7 (U.R)
Blood-spatfered women's cloth
ing found in a suitcase at a local
hotel was analyzed by sheriff's ,
deputies today for a possible
connection with the nude, mutil
ated body of a woman found
near Arrowhead Springs Jan. 1.
Sheriff Emmett Shay said the
suitcase was left by a man who
visited the hotel Jan. 4.
The Absinthe House Bar in
New Orleans' French Quarter
is known to have been a haunt
of Andrew Jackson and Jean
Lafitte In days of yore. 1
BODIES OF YANK
FLIERS EATEN BY
Washington (U.R) A corrobor
ating account of Japanese canni
balism in New Guinea is told by
the Indian Information service
here.
The report came from a Gur
kha s u b e d a r (commissioned
junior officer) and a lance-naik
(corporal) who are now recuper
ating in Ceylon from months
spent as Japanese prisoners of
war in New Guinea.
This was the account related
by the two, Subedar Chhunba
dur and LN Rangin Singh:
At a time when food supplies
were short on the island, an
American plane was shot down.
The crew of five were shot and
bayoneted. The skull of one man
was split from behind.
When the bodies were given to
the prisoners for burial It was
noticed that fleshy parts of the
bodies had been cut off.
"Our comrades In the cook
house told us afterwards that
this flesh had been given to
them for boiling and had been
eaten with rice by the Japs," the
subedar said.
"After that they regularly
killed off men for the same pur
pose. Sometimes they would
strike down an Indian soldier as
he returned from his day's work,
and sometimes they took a man
to the cookhouse, pretending
that they were going to feed
him, only to kill him when he
arrived. I myself saw 10 men
in my own section killed like
this, and when the bodies were
handed to us to bury, the same
parts were always missing."
Fisherman Catches
2-Pound Bass Atop
Rural Light Pole
Myrtle Beach, S. C. (U.R)
Lane L. Bonner, clerk of the
South Carolina state senate, re
ported that he bagged a two-
pound bass atop an electric light
pole while vacationing at Myrtle
Beach.
Bonner spotted a hawk diving
into the water near his beach
house. By the time he grabbed
his rifle to take a shot at the
bird, it had flown to the top of
a nearby light pole.
Ho shot and missed the hawk
but the bird was so frightened
it dropped the two-pound bass
it held In its talons right in Bon
ner s front yard.
Nude Drawings On
Forearms of Boys
Disgusts Parents
Elkhart, Ind., (U.R) Jess
O Banion recently was fined $35
by police court for "embellish
ing the forearms" of 16 youtljs
with forms of nude women.
The charge was assault and
battery for permanently mark
ing minors without the consent
of their parents.
One of the mothers of a
decorated youth forced her son
to return to O'Banlon to clothe
the indelible. figure with a dress,
the probation officer said.
SOLD TO CHINESE
Shanghai, Jan. 7 (U.R) Amer
ican headquarters announced to
day that most of the U. S. army
stocks and fixed installations in
West China had been sold to the
Chinese for $25,000,000 in U. S.
money and 6,160,000,000 Chinese
dollars.
TRANSPORTS DUE
Los Angeles, Jan. 7 (U.R)
Two transports were due at the
Los Angeles port of embarkation
today with 5.188 Pacific veter
ans, port officials announced.
The USS Fayette sailed from
Saipan with 1,974 veterans and
the USS Marine Tiger from
Leyte with 3,212 army men
aboard.
L C. TAYLOR CO.
pays the
HIGHEST MARKET PRICES
It you have a CAR or TRUCK
to tell, we advise telling It
now.
Call or Phone
Dodge-Plymouth Dealer
L. C. TAYLOR CO.
Phone 2963
63rd Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Vroman of -122 Tripp street celebrated
their 63rd wedding anniversary Christmas day with a family din
ner at the home of a son, Clinton Vroman, near Phoenix. Twenty
five children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were present.
The Vromani were married in Mankato, Minn., coming to Medford
in 1910 where they have since resided.
Four Mayo Patients
- Suffocate In Fire
Rochester, Minn., Jan. 7 (U.R)
An inquest was scheduled today
in the deaths of four persons,
all patients at Mayo clinic, who
died of suffocation when flames
swept a two - story Rochester
boarding house.
The dead were:
Salvation Army Major and
Mrs. E. Frederick Giles, San
Francisco; W. H. Carrothers,
Glenboro, Manitoba; Charles
Flenn, Maiden Rdck, Wis.
TURKEY CROP GOING
TO MARKET EARLIER
Turkey" shippers of tlie valley
report that the 1945 crop will
be killed and on their way to
market by January 15, a month
earlier than last year. A consid
erable portion of the birds will
go into storage and some will be
sold to the January and Febru
ary trade on eastern and Cali
fornia markets. There is also
quite a smoked turkey demand,
a business that was suspended
during the war, and is now be
ing resumed.
Use Mall Tribune Want Ads.
Captain
W. L. (Swance) Swanson
AMERICAN AIRLINES
American Airlines flier
4'
Anniversary
THIRTY DAYS METED
FOR STEALING SIGHT
Floyd Kinney of Medford is
serving a 30-day jail sentence in
the county jail following convic
tion in justice court Saturday on
a petty larceny charge.
According to city police, who
arrested Kinney Saturday, a tele
scope sight was taken by Kinney
from a footlockcr belonging to
George J. Moore, G i 1 hi a n's
Dairy, route 2.
MEDFORD MEN OPEN
NEW ASHLAND STORE
Ashland, Jan. 7 O. E. Sabin,
for the past 12 years manager
of the Colyear Motor Sales Co.
in Medford, today opened the
Ashland Auto Parts store here.
R. B. Hooper, who operates a
radiator service in Medford and
Grants Pass, is a partner in the
new enterprise.
In the early days of World
War I, airplane pilots of enemy
countries threw bricks at one
another, hoping to hit the pro
peller of the other's plane. Some
were actually brought down this
way.
No wonder airline captains get accustomed to effort
less power, the smoothest motors in the world ride the
nation's skyways. And Captain W. L. (Swance) Swan
son of American Airlines has found how to get that kind
of performance on the road. Says Captain Swanson
During the- war we found new ways of rearranging
petroleum molecules to make gasoline blending agents
that unleashed extra speed, range, power for the sky
ways. Now, tailored for cars in Chevron Supreme, they
put the same kind of plus performance on the highway.
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AT CHEVRON GAS STATIONS, GARAGES, AND STANDARD
WATER NEAR RIM
Emigrant dam, in the low
Siskiyous, chief source of Irri
gation water supply for the Tal
ent irrigation district, is now
within three or four feet of full,
due to the recent melting snows
and heavy rain, Watermaster
Clinton' Smith reports. It will be
kept at this level. The dam is
now being used as a flood con
trol medium for Bear creek, the
watermaster further explained.
At the height of the storm, the
spillways were opened.
Measurement of the water in
Four Mile lake will be taken
soon. Fish lake now has 700
more acre feet than at this time
last year. It is anticipated that
the late winter snows in the high
hills will deposit sufficient snow
to fill all Irrigation reservoirs for
the coming growing season.
Snow survey measurements
by Arch Work of the soil con
servation department and other
cooperating agencies will be
made this month, some of them
with the Tucker Sno-cat.
P.-T. A. Activities
Eagle Point P.-T.A.
Eagle Point Parent Teacher
association will hold its regular
meeting Jan. 9 at 8 p. m. This
meeting is being held In the
evening, since it is to be Father's
Night, and all fathers are urged
to attend. Refreshments will be
served.
The P.-T.A. study group Is to
meet at 1:30 p. m. Jan. 9 in the
band room at the school.
Lone Pine P.-T.A.
A meeting of the Lone Pine
Parent-Teacher association will
be held Jan. 10 at 8 p. m. Pre
sentation of awards to Roxy Ann
4-H club members will be made
and moving pictures will be
shown by Earle Jossy, county
4-H leader. Club mothers will
serve refreshments.
The term "lynch law" Is be
lieved to have originated when
residents of Franklin County,
N. C, hanged Major Lynch, a
royal tax collector in 1767
after a summary trial.
learns a highway trick two
. . . born
Monday, Jan. 7, 1946
BIRTHS
PAGEL To Mr. and Mrs.
Erwln H., Rt. 1, Box 454, Cen
tral Point, Jan. 7, 1946, a girl,
eight pounds, at Osteopathic
clinic.
O'DELL To Pfc. and Mrs.
Ralph, 329 Beach St., Ashland.
Jan. 6, 1946, a boy, 7 pounds,
at community hospital.
ANDERSON To Mr. and
Mrs. Donald, Rt. 3, box 480,
Jan. 6, 1946, a boy, 7 pounds, at
Community hospital.
JOHNSON To Capt. and
Mrs. F. L.. 32 Ashland Ave.
Jan. 6. 1946 n firl 7 rtnnnHc
at Community hospital.
DAVIDSON To Mr. and Mrs.
Harry, Rt. 1, box 152H, Jan. 7,
1946, a boy, 7 pounds, at Sacred
Heart hospital.
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Medford R. C. Woodruff
Airline ace thinks
Chevron Supreme
sets the pace
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"When I tried Chevron Supreme Gasoline in my car,
I found I got the same dependable power, the easy get
away and freedom from knocking that Chevron Avia
don Gasoline gives aircraft." Right, because Chevron
Supreme's a highway version of this great flying fuel.
GASOLINE
on the skyways . . . tailored to the highway!
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Ohio artist Mn. R. D. Ogles
by says Mexican Indian art la
a combination ot primitive
Indian with Spanish and Euro
pean elements. The Indian
artist, she says, does not imitate
"he transforms."
I0M0KHOW AllleHI
4-VIOITAIU
tAXATIVI
V00d and Coal Combination
HEATERS
Younger's Appliance
31 N. Bart left
miles
STATIONS
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