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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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The Talk
of
Medford!
ENDS SAT.
HOD
CAHERDI m&ME
Plus
EDWARD G. ROBINSON
In
TIGER SHARK
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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
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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!
Terrific!
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Dick POWELL
Claire TREVOR
Anne SHIRLEY
Dougla WALTON
Coming SUNDAY!
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