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LOCAL and Bushiest Meeting Members of tne r irsi oapust cnurcn 01 Medford are to meet at the church Sunday immediately fol. iKirinif thl mnrninff vrvioet fnr . i. n i . - Building Applications Apply ing yesterday at the city super intendent's office for building permits were the Lawton Con struction company. Central Point, to erect a residence and garage at 825 West Second street, $6,500; I. J. Cherry, 333 North Holly street, remodel re sidence at 1716 East Main street, $1,000; V. B. Hawley, 619 North Riverside avenue, erect motel at 615 North Riverside avenue, $15,000. and L. G. Harper, 544 Palm street, residence and gar age at 31 Washington, $6,000. DANCE SAMS VALLEY GRANGE Saturday, Feb. 8th 9 'Till 2 VALENTINES FOR EVERYONE Thousands to select from friendly, humorous and sentimental. SWEM'S Greeting Cards "See Humphrey First TO BUY OR SELL YOUR USED CAR Humphrey Motors Used Car Exchange 33 S. Riverside Ave. 'TIL y, . :Jr:. new rMODERN '?iY TUNES at DREAMLAND Old Time Music - PERSONAL CALENDAR Friday ' 6:30 p. m. Shipmates Bible class, Methodist church, St Val entine's potluck dinner. 9:00 p. m. Pocahontas lodge, "Hobo" box social at Redmen hall following lodge session. Saturday 2:00 p. m. Zuleima Temple, Daughters of the Nile, stated ses sion at Medford Masonic tem ple. 2:00 p. m. College Women's club of Rogue River Valley, Girls' Community club. 9:30 p. m. Pocahontas lodge, dance at Redmen hall for mem bers and invited guests. Moore To Speak Prof. George Moore of Pacific college, Newberg, Ore., will be guest speaker for both the morning and evening services Sunday at the Friends' church, "corner of DeBarr avenue and Merriman road. The morning service is at 11 a. m. and the evening at 7:30 p. m. Pitts Discharged Houston Pitts, son of Mrs. H. R. Pitts, 915 Queen Anne avenue, has return ed home following an honorable discharge from the army air force. Pitts spent three years, seven months in the service, in cluding 15 months in the China, Burma, India theater where he was a pilot of small observation planes. He held the rank of technical sergeant. Minger Here Pvt. Raymond E. Minger of the army air corps, who has been at Sheppard Field, Tex., left Tuesday for Kearns, Utah, after a short visit in Med ! ford. Pvt. Minger has two broth- ers in Japan. Alton at Tokyo. ' and Earl, on the USS St. George J Sasebo, Japan. The latter re cently was advanced to chief gunner's mate. Two additional brothers have recently been dis charged from the service. The men are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Minger, 2117 Capital ave nue. Veteran Home George L. Meadows, veteran of 39 months in the army, has returned to his home on Griffin Creek, having received an honorable discharge from the service at Camp Chaf fee, Ark., Jan. 24. Meadows, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Meadows, spent 30 months with the medical corps, including seven months in the European theater, and received the victory medal, good conduct medal, and ribbons for the American and European, African, Middle-East ern theaters, with one bronze star. Meadows is now employed at the Webster orchard. SAT. KITE DANCE at MERRICK'S BALLROOM Bay's O New PIECE BAND BOTH Merrick's and Dreamland Dances L 1 ONE II a-tffC,---fSjw ' DANCE SAT. NITE Everyone Invited Hon From If iry Conrad Waite, who received an honor able discharge this week from the navy at Bremerton, Wash., arrived yesterday at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waite, route 2, box 294. Waite served almost six months with a navy repair unit in Japan. Report To Boards Recently discharged service veterans re porting to county selective serv ice boards yesterday ' and today were Arthur E. Carlson, Glen M. Cattron, Amil J. ErII, Wayne L. Knapp, Ernest M. Lytle, Woodrow W. Owings, Victory D. Quigley and Francis X. Widmer. VFW To Meet Members of Crater Lake Post No. 1833, Vet erans of Foreign Wars, are re quested to meet at the new Veterans' building, 38-40 Front St., Sunday morning, Feb. 10. at 9 o'clock for work on the building. Lunch will be served to the workers at noon by a committee from the Ladies Aux iliary. e To Give Dance Plans for a benefit dance to be given at the Griffin Creek school tomorrow evening. Feb. 9, have been com pleted. Proceeds from the dance, sponsored by the Mothers' club, will go for the school hot lunch fund. Music will be provided by the Griffin Creek Grange and the public is cordially invited to attend. ' Violinist T-. Play Richard D Werner, violinist who recently came to Medford from New York, will entertain members of the College Women's club of the Rogue River valley at the meet ing set for 2 p. m. Saturday at the Girls' Community club. Mr. Werner has appeared in a num ber of programs since arriving In. the valley and has been re ceived with much praise. He will be accompanied by Bruno Prlligrin, also a ' former New York resident. Accidents Reported Cars driven by James R. Lathrop, 124 North Columbus .avenue, and Donald R. Davis, 513 Beatty street, suffered dented fenders yesterday when they collided at the Intersection of Fourth and Holly street, according to acci dent reports filed with city po lice. Also damaged yesterday in a traffic mishap was a car oper ated by Lee E. Bechtold, route 3, which was struck while parked at Grape and Sixth streets by a panel truck driven by W. A. Whitelaw, 31 North Grape street, according to other acci dent reports at police headquar ters. Woods Here Melvln B. Woods, former staff sergeant with the 96th infantry division, has arrived in Medford and is a guest of his fiancee, Miss Mil dred Bowers, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Bowers, 20 Laurel street. Woods, who was in the army four and one-half years, received the purple heart medal for being wounded during the Leyte campaign and also re ceived the Philippine liberatior ribbon with two bronze stars, good conduct and victory rib bons, the Asiatic-Pacific and American theater campaign rib bons, the bronze service arrow head and four battle stars. He received his honorable discharge from the army at Jefferson Bar racks, Mo., last month. Daughter Is Born To Deanna Durbin Hollywood, Feb. 8 (U.R) Screen Singer-actress Deanna Durbin, 23, gave birth yesterday to her first child, a six pound five ounce girl named Jessica Louise. Miss Durbin and Producer Felix Jackson eloped to Las Vegas, Nev., last June 13. The actress was divorced in Decem ber, 1944, from Vaughn Paul. Jackson also was marrltd previously. 5 nrir f rr r GGQQGr3G TO PEACETIME FLEET Airpower to Be Backbone of Immediate Postwar Navy, Forrestal Says in Report. Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R) The "cutting edge" of the navy's peacetime fleets will be big, fast carriers, with battle ships relegated to auxiliary roles. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal said today. In an annual report to Presi dent Truman, Forrestal said air- power will be the backbone of the "immediate postwar navy." ' Nowhere in his report did Forr-stal mention the atomic bomb or its possible effect on fleet composition and ship de sign. The navy and the army air forces will test the bomb on siirface .ships in experiments next Mav and July In the Mar shall Islands. A third, under water, test will be made some time next vear. Carrier Spearhead "The rarrler is today the soearhead of the modern flee lust as the battleship Was 25 vear ao," Forrestal told the pree'dent. "But 3ust as the batt'.oshln hart to hove fleet complements and auxiliaries ... so the car rier the modern cutting edee of the naw must have It? auxiliaries: the at bs'le'hln the moriern cruisers, the long 'anee rtestrovers, the submar ines and all the vast complex of auxil'arv vessels that constitute a tri'W effective raw. To Hve 3.627 Planes Fn'restal disclosed that U. S "aeific and Atlnntle active fleets wl" be built, around a to tal of 13 lsne carriers, aug mented by 13 escort carriers. nd only four battleships. The carriers will have 3.627 planes In addition. Forrestal said the navy will retain 18 more carriers. 62 escort carriers and seven battleships in its ready reserve fleet. The balance of the wartime force wM' be plac ed In the raw' so-called "lald up" reserve fleet. "If at any time world condi tions reoulre an Increase In the naval strength of the United States, vessels can be with drawn from the reserve fleets and added to the active fleets, Forrestal said. "The nation, therefore, will be able, if it Is willing to do so. to keep its naval strength in realistic relation to its inter national commitments. "America's ability to win wars and to preserve peace en compasses the seas and the skies above them. "Control of those seas and skins is the responsibility of a modern sea-sir navy." Oregonian's Frey Succeeds Ep Hoyt Portland, Ore., Feb. 8 flJ.R) Michael J. Frey was appointed publisher of the Oregonian to day, succeeding Palmer Hoyt, who resigned to become publish er of the Denver Post Arden X. Pangborn, general manager of Portland Radio Sta tion KGW, replaced Frey as business manager of the news paper, and H. Q. Cox succeeded to the managership of the newspaper-owned broadcasting sta tion. Frey has been connected with the Oregonian since 1915. STATE CONTROLLER Sacramento, Feb. 8 (U.R) State Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel, R., Anaheim, today was designated state controller to succeed the late Harry B. Riley. SO GOOD FOR VOU (EDO mum 5 House Of Mystery Subject Of Topic In Facts Magazine Wonders of the House of Mys tery, located on Sardine Creek near Gold Hill, are described in the February issue of Facts magazine in an article written by Howard Harris. A copy of the magazine was presented to the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce by John Litster, own er of the House of Mystery. Harris explains how a strange geophysical phenomena in the area prevents a person from standing upright, rolls objects uphill and makes it possible to stand a cane or umbrella up without a visible means of sup port. Stones thrown over the fence come back, like a bom merang, Harris relates, and smoke or a scrap of paper spiral around with increasing velocity. The phenomena, unexplained by science, has attracted count less visitors over a period of many years. Farmers Strike To Cease Industrial Walkouts Planned Mansfield, O., Feb. 8 (U.R) H. H. Fackler, Plymouth, O., chairman of the Ohio Marketing Protest association, today said he would visit three western states next week to discuss plans for a possible farmers strike to end "industrial strikes." Fackler said he would visit farm groups in Oklahoma, Kan sas and Nebraska in an effort to map a 'program of coopera tion in withholding farm pro ducts from the market", unless industrial strikes are settled soon. "Strikes are causing a delay in the return of badly needed farm machinery," he said. "As a protest against this condition, farmers in general are prepar ing to force some action by with holding products from the mar ket," Fackler said. London Criticizes President's Policy Of Food To Europe Topeka, Kans., Feb. 8 (U.R) Alf M. Landon directed criticism at President Truman's food pro gram today, charging that "we are reaping the results of the In iquitous Morgenthau plan for de feated Germany." "The point is that the Amer Ir people are now, for the first time, being given an insight into what the Morgenthau plan will cost," the Republican spokesman said In an interview. "And the tragedy of It Is that raiding our national pantry to soften the adverse effects of al lied policy in Europe will not cure the situation." ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION PLANS SUNDAY MEETING Board of directors of the Med ford Athletic association will meet in the office of the Cham ber of Commerce on West Main street at 11 a. m. Sunday, Pres ident Cliff Proctor fcald today. Annual election of officers will take place as will a discus sion of the coming baseball sea- -son. All members are urged to attend. Proctor said. FRISCO WARNING San Francisco, Feb. 8 (U.R) Warning to San Francisco visit' ors: After Feb. 15, It's going to cost you $5 If you don't curb your wheels when you park your car on the hills. The pres ent fine of $1 will be raised be cause, Judge Twin Michelsen said, "Insufficient curbing has caused many serious accidents or damage to property." There were 8,897,000 horses and 3,408,000 mules on U. S. farms Jan. 1, 1945. Onl Canada Dr Water baa "Pm-Poiirr CAaoNATion"-tn Insure lonear-laatint tperkle. And e tpecial formula to point up fiaror. Alwaya ine tnaaa Dry Water, CANADA PRY WATER FLAT DRINKS ARE WASHOUTS . Kit? YOURS WITH W vbL WATER Comrade Browder To Get Boot From Communist Party New York, Feb. 8 U.R) Earl Browder, former communist leader, faced expulsion from the party today on the grounds that he had become an adviser to big business. The national board of the communist party recommended his expulsion last night in a statement which will be sud mitted to the party's national committee Feb. 12 for final ac tion. The statement said Brow der "cynically refused to reply to charges" at a hearing yester day. Browder did not obtain party permission to publish "Distribit tors' Guide, Inc.," which was de scribed as an information service for retailers on hard to get ma terials, the statement said. British Buy Five Planes to Hop Sea Burbank, Cal., Feb. 8 flJ.R) British Overseas Aircraft Corp. today purchased five huge Con stellation transports for use in trans-Atlantic service starting next summer, Lockheed Aircraft General Sales Manager Leonard DANCE Saturday Nighl REDMAN HALL - Apple Street For Members and Invited Guests ATTENTION Eagles and Auxiliary' FREE DANCE SAT. NITE !i:m. February 9 EAGLES' HALL 219 W Main Fine Music S The Talk of Medford! ENDS SAT. HOD CAHERDI m&ME Plus EDWARD G. ROBINSON In TIGER SHARK I STARTS SUN. f NOW! 1 IUBB RRLITOn 1 19 BREnnRfl I I lonn ImI - Plus 7 Friday. Feb. 8. 1948 Schwartz announced. The planes, costing more than $3,500,000, will be delivered in May, Schwartz said. The Con stellations, carrying 39 passen gers and a crew of seven, will cruise the Atlantic at 300 miles ROGUE RIVER LODGE On Crater Lake Highway Near Trail Open Saturdays and Sundays Open week days for private parties only. Telephone Trail 1404 for Reservations. DELICIOUS FOODS LOUNGE Enjoy Rogue River Lodge's Hospitality on the Banks of Beautiful Rogue River MA 7:30 to 1030 THURS " FRI" SAT-and SUN- N,GHTS SKATING PARTIES by SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT ENDS TONITE ABBOTT and C0STELL0 In Naughty Nineties . . butting the stays in the Good Old Daiel .HHIM.' 2fc 171" ?. i mm 1 fr i ' x ' It J - v 7 -v Ann I RAY ir Zane Grey's "NEVADA" Plus HARRY CAREY In "CHINA'S LITTLE DEVILS" MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE NINE an nour at altitudes up to 20, 000 feet. The U. S. Department of Agriculture reports that sUort ages In materials for packaging food will continue during 1046. Let's Go ROLLER SKATING MEDFORD ARMORY Haunted by a Lovely Face . . , Hunted for Another's Crime! Two - Fistcdt Hard Boiled! 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