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Roseburg, Oregon.
Forecast tor Roicburg and vi
cinity: Occasional light rain to
night and Friday.
Highest iemp. for any Dec. 70
Lowest temp, for any Dec 5
Highest temp, yesterday 56
Lowest temp, last night 45
Precipitation yesterday 08
Precipitation from Dec. 1 ........ .93
Deficit from Dec. 1 2.27
Deficit from Sept. 1, 1944 4.17
i I THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENED
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whole allied world nervous. It,
too, was stopped In lime, and
thereafter the Germans retreated
steadily to their present lines on
the eastern front.
fITH this pattern possibly in
mind, ,;OUr - headquarters In
Paris says that the "allied com
mand is taking measures to deal
with the situation and there is
no cause for undue alarm."
Bilt until we know what the
Germans have in the bag this
time there Will be anxious days
ahead.
THE nazis have launched their
new V-3, and a bare announce
ment says they ure bombarding
our rear areas with It day and
night. Whether the mysterious
"ghostly silvery balls" mention
ed Reveral days ago are a part
of It we do not know.
yNTIL, events develop, we won't
know whether this is a nazi
Version of the Jap "banzai"
charge or something altogether
different. We DO know that we'd
like to see the Russians crash In
with the big offensive they are
supposed to have been preparing
fori months: "
We still have faith In the Rus
sians, .but our minds have been
unsettled by nil the diplomatic
mumbo-Jumbn in eonneclion with
the POLITICAL warfare in
Greece and elsewhere.
WE aren't eased on this point
by Secretary of State Stet
tinus' cryptic "announcement"
that the V. S. government "would
have no objection to an agree
ment on the future frontiers of
Poland if the United Nations
agreed upon them."
He adds: "It has been the V.
S. government's consistently held
policy that questions relating to
boundaries should be kept In
abeyance (delayed) until the ter
mination of hostilities."
KEEPING such things secret un
til It Is too late to do anything
about them Is the accepted diplo
matic way. In normal times, and
in strictly old-world mailers, this
method has something to recom
mend It.
Hut these aren't normal limes,
find these matters aren't now
slrictly old-world matters.
AMERICA Is coneernnl In them,
and we Americans are a differ
ent kind of people. We feel we
are competent to judge the poll
cies by which we are to be gov
erned In our foreign relations.
In a country such as ours, for
eign policy, if It Is to lie success
ful, must have public opinion
back of It. If American public
opinion is lo be back of American
foreign policy, we must he told
WHAT our foreign policy Is.
Thai Is something we haven't
ln-en told.
RESENT secrecy arouses the
suspicion that we HAVE NO
FOREIGN POLICY and are Just
drifting along from day to day.
That probably Isn't true, but BK
IJEF that it Is true will do ir
reparable cid'iiaK".
It la high time lor our State
flrjpai't mni to sprak up ,-tnrl tell
By Charles V. Stanton '
A CCIDENTS have a way of happening when you "least
expect them rrlbsjt.JV Afld sometimes they take the most1
unexpected turns. Witness' tiie annua roundup of freak
accidents as compiled by the National Safety council.
Paul Lewchick, of Coaldale, Pa., for instance, is one of
those people who lay in & supply of coal each year. But
few of them do it as literally as he did. He actually lay
in and under 13 tons of it when he and his car were
buried beneath the contents of a coal truck that upset in
a near collision. Dug out after hard work, Lewchick nursed
only minor cuts and bruises it was soft coal.
"So tdtigh but, Oh, so gentle," was the experience of 2-year-
old Margaret Morton of Groton, Conn. She lay sleeping
in her home one October night when a Navy plane tore the
roof off the house and whisked the blanket off the bed without
touching the sleeping child. The plane tore out the oppo
site wall of the bedroom and eventually crashed into a school-
house. Lt. W. J. McCarthy, Toledo, Ohio, pilot of the fighter
plane, and the blanket, were found undamaged in the
wreckage.
Private First Class Charles Smith of Claudell, Kansas,
participated in three South Pacific invasions and Came
home for a rest and recuperation frorrt shrapnel wounds. He
was intrigued by a power lawn mower at work in his front
yard and approached the machine for a closer examination.
Rut the whirling blades picked up an old spoon and hurled
it with such power and accuracy that it penetrated the calf
of Private Smith's leg. .After the operation, recalling the
shrapnel he almost dodged in the Pacific, he glumly re
marked, "it's the same wherever you go."
And then there was the case of 13-year-old Gregory
Stingel of Chicago, who simply tingled with excitement as
he prepared for the afternoon's football game in which he
was to carry the ball for dear old Public School No. 00. In
his excitement he put his jersey on backwards and, when he
tugged fiercely to get it off, he broke his neck.
But Mrs. James Gallagher of West Hazelton, Pa., ac
complished a similar result with much less effort and ex
citement. She was brushing her teeth when she dislocated
a vertebra in her neck.
Pvt. HaHcy Paul Collins gave a preview of what may hap
pen when the boys come home and start telling of what hap
pened "over there." For Private Collins, home on furlough,
was showing his wife how booby traps tire made. He
hooked up a shell, a board, a nail and a piece of wire. Then
he tripped, and the home-made contraption went off and
shot him in the leg.
And, speaking of legs, Betty Rowland, Hollywood strip
teaser, was just starting the "take-off" part of her act
when one of her swivel-hips bumped the wall and she took
off for the hospital suffering from partial paralysis.
In Chicago, Mrs. Rita Hatfield ran to answer the phone.
Sjlie stumbled over the dog, fell through a glass-topped
coffee table, suffered bad cuts on her arms and legs. Dog
gedly answering the phone, Mrs. Hatfield found the call was
from an accident insurance company making a survey. Was
she, they wanted to know, covered against accidents in her
home? She wasn't.
C. C. Hardy had better luck when he stepped out of his
truck in Sidney, Texas. He was struck by a passing car
and was tossed high in the air. Just before his head struck
the concrete pavement, his pocket caught on the high truck
door handle and held him suspended in air.
St. Louis has always been a "hot" baseball town, but few
fans got as hot as Clarence Drown, Jr., of that city. Watch
ing a sandlot game this summer, Clarence was struck by a
line drive and promptly burst into flames. The batter had
scored a bull's-eye on a pocketful of stick matches. Both
the blaze and the batter were soon put out.
Perhaps the fact the National Safety council is located
on Wacker drive in Chicago explains why it is able to come
up each year with so many "wacky" accidents.
Beaver Damage to
Ranches is Eyed
REEDSPORT Fred Sankey,
Inspector for the state game com
mission, and their expert on the
handling of beaver, spent Friday
ana baturaay in mis vicinity ana,
in company with State Officer
Dick Miles, visited different sec
tions of the lower Umpqua in
vestigating complaints of: danv
jige done by beaver families.
The beaver population Is grow
ing quite fast in this section and
the little animal builders have
fallen many small trees and .car
ried their stumps and branches
into flood-gate, openings on
ranches along the tidewater of
the Umpqua, Smith and Schol
field rivers, blocking the gates
so that the tide floods the bottom
land and the gates are useless.
The little animals have also built
a number of dams that, have
j flooded valuable fields. Officer
Sankey states that arrangements
are neing made to move a num
ber ot colonies into sections
where they will do less, damage.
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THURSDAY
::trt Music You Remember.
7::i() Somethlnr for (lit Girls, ,
7:l"i Bones of flood Cheer.
K:00 "Winced Victory."
8 :.(0 Keyboard Kapers with noli i
Voty. ,
FRIDAY j
fCKO Roue Bcltonl Caral Slnrrr.
J 1:0(1 Wheel of Fortune Stiff Tarty.
2:15 Junior HLjh Cbrjittnas Pro
tram. .1:00 Sam Hayes. 1
(l::J0 Double or Nothing-. '
7:1.1 Lowell Thomas.
H:00 Harold Green vk. Rocky Gri
zlino. :M Fre-rdoin of Opportunity.
J(l;O0 Fulton Lewis, Jr.
REMAINING flUURS TODAY
1:00 Full on Lewi. Jr.. Mouth therhl-
cal Co.
4:15 Tune Tabloid.
4:30 -Boy's Town.
icon xam Hayes, S. A tV. Pine Foodi.
5:15 Superman.
Z:3ti Tom Mix, nalttun'a Purina.
&:IJ Night Ne Wire, Htudcbaker.
6:00 Oabrlel Header, Forhun'a Tooth-
Baste,
r. Edwards,
H;:f0 Miinlc You Remember, Doug-las
Supply Co.
Tim Male quartet, (1. it. Young
A Son.
7:00 State and Loral News, Keel Molor
Co.
7:05 --Mimtrnl rntrrlurfe.
7:1.1 Lowell Tlmmat., Standard Oil Co,
7:30-Something for the Girls.
7:1;. Sours oT Good Cheer, Copco.
B:00 WinKcd Victory.
8:30 Keyboard Kapers with Bob Doty.
8:45 - Oregon State Grange.
0:00 Alka Neltxer News.
Ite Milter, Wildrnot.
0:30 Carmen Cnvallaro's Orcheslro.
JIMill Full. hi Lewis, Jr., Kamprer'a 8av-
Mor.
10:15- -Music for the Night.
10:30-Sign off.
1944
us what tl is nil about.
IN the Philippines, we're cttiHK
new iilrfirUh whipped into
shape on Mlndoro facing the
SOO-mlle holtleneck of the .South
China sea through which ALL
Jap sea communication with the
East Indies, Malaya, Burma, etc.
must pass.
Asahl, big Jap newspaper, says:
"U. S. victory on Minduro will
give the Americans FULL CON
THOL OK TOMORROW'S MILI
TARY SltUATlON."
DOME1, .lap news agency, mut
ters nervously of ANOTHER
U. S. FLEET sighted in the
SULl' SEA.
Our navy can be expected to
hit hard and often in these day.s
when the Japs ure REPAIRING
thrtr ships that were battered In
the naval battles of Leytr. We
AREN' T going to wait until they
get them all repaired and ready
tor business again.
0 ihc home front, the W ar de
partment revokes the order
under which the Japanese were
evacuated from the Pacific
Coast thus opening wide the
Pandora's box that we've known
had to be opened sooner or later.
What are we going to do wllh
these Amei iran lm n Japanese
when they start coming hack to
their homes?
DANIEL MCPAPE. immediate
past Oregon department com
mander and a national vlce-com-miinder
of the American Legion,
offers the best answer that is
Immediately forthcoming. He
says In Portland today:
"Sooner or later, we have to
learn to LIVE "1th lir Jjpanrse
If we're going to solve the Pa
cific problem."
EITHER that or we'll have to
fall back on the INSANE
European hatreds of "enemy"
peoples -hatreds that for cen
turies have kept Europe bathed
in blood.
If we can't find a better solu
tion of this problem than Europe
has found, may God help us.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 10
iAP Joe Hardy, legless news
vendor, was horrified when a pa
irolman shouted "come on! You
're headed lor jail!"
Later, back at his stand, he was
a happier and warmer man. Po
ller chief had sent for Hardy to
give him a new leather Jacket, a
Christmas, gift from the department.
FHIDAY, DECEMBER 22,
fl: Yawn Patrol.
Srhrlrker Auction. V
t:Mt News, J. A. Folder Co. ,
7:I,-i lliitr and Shine, Smith Brothers. .
7::t."i Judd Furniture.
7:40 Rhnioly In Wa.x.
8:0(1 Dr. Louis Talbot, Lo Anerles
Bible Institute (AllC-KiHi.m. I-
ft:30 WiiUy Townscnd Orchestra.
l:ptl The News and Clnbrfel Header,
K Kreml. :,
0:1.1 Man About Town. - ,
0:30 Roue School Carol Singers.
11:1.1 Hhiippers Guide.
):53--MuslC.
10:011 -Alka Sell.er News. 1
U:l.l Musical Clock, Modern Furniture.
I(l::t Luiirlieon With Lopes. Van Cam lis
10:45 Musical Market Basket.
11:11(1 Wheel of Fortune.
11:45 - Morning Melodies.
12:00 -Musical Interlude.
iMO SnorU Revtcdw. Dunham Transfer
12:15 -Treasury Song for Today.
i;:iO rarkinon's Information Exrhance
12:25 -Rhythm nt Itandom. -
I'Mil Stale News. Han-ten Motors.
12:45- News-Review of the Air,
r;.1,1 Terminal Market Reports, Sir Felt
1:00 Miniature Concerts.
I ts -Sentimental Serenade.
l;:tO- Headlines in Harrnonv.
2:0O-Musteal Hi-Jinks.
2:15 Jr. IUkIi Christmas Prorom.
2:4.r Western Serenade.
3-011 Prayer.
3:01 --(Jriffin Reporting.
:1.v Dusly Records, llennlneers Marts.
3 4.1 -Johnson Faniilv.
I:im fill l on Lewis, Jr
cul i'n.
Washington News From an Inside View
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Atgumetitf Sentiment) Comment
By HARRIS ELLSWORTH
Congressman, Fourfh Oregon District
: WASHINGTON, Doc. 16 Most
everyone thought at mid-week
this congress would adjourn not
later than tonight. Then the sen
ate began kicking the slate de
partment appointments around.
The house has worked rapidly
and smoothly this week. Every
thing previously scheduled has
been acted upon. More than a
week ago; the rules' cdmrnlttob,
which determines what measures
shall come to the floor for de
bate (and .who'll), ended its. busi
ness for the session. Rules com
mittee Chairman Sabath an
nounced . that the committee
would not meet again. This action
shut of f any possibility of getting
the O. & C. bill onto the floor. As
the result of having no new busi
ness coming up, it was easy for
the house to clear up pending and
previously scheduled legislation.
The journey of a piece ot legis
lation through the nouse to fin
al passage Is usually a long and
complicated one. Any member
may introduce the bill. The bill
is immediately referred to a com
mittee. The choice of the commit
tee is determined by the subject
dealt with in the bill. Before a
committee considers a bill, it is
the general practice to send lt
down to the administrative de
naitment or sometimes to two
or more departments and get an
opinion as to what effect the pro
posed law would have so far as
the administrative departments
are concerned.
When the reports from (he de
partments are At hand, the com
mittee may take the bill up for
consideration. Minor bills are us
ually handled rather quickly.
But, If a bill Is at all controver
sial or if it involves large and Im
portant matters, it is customary
to have committee hearings,
sometimes last months. Then the
entire record of the hearings.
generally including tne depart
mental reports on the legislation,
is printed.
7:n9 Musical Interlude.
7:1.1 Lowell Tbomaa, Standard Oil Co.
7:.'I0 Lone Ranger.
ft:iiO Rnxihir Boala. Gillette, wllh Roxy
Grailano and ITarold Green.
ti:iin Alka Seltter News.
ll:lfr 111 Neighbor, Carstpn Fornilure
Store.
ft::lO Freedom ot Opportunity, Mutual
Benefit nealth and Arc. Asfc'n. of
Omaha.,
1(1:00 Fulton Lewla, Jr., Kampfera Sav
Mor. 10:13 Music for the Night.
10::10-Slgn off.
At long last, the bill Is consid
ered In a committee executive
Session and, if it In approved by
a-majority of the committee, is
"reported out" and placed on the
calendar for action. The "report"
of the committee is a brief anal
ysis of the bill and an explanation
of what it will do when it be
comes a law. The committees us
flally recite lit their reports the
reasons why they think the bill
Is good and should pass.
After the "screening" by de
partrnents and by the committee,
it it Is believed there can be no
objection to its passage, a bill is
generally brought up for passage
by unanimous consent. If lt can
not be passed by consent, the
rules committee mast give what
Is called a rule on the bill which
brings it up for debate on the
.floor. The procedure of the sen
ate is somewhat Similar. All bills
must be acted upon by both
houses and signed by the presi
dent before they become law.
. The 73th congress will convene
January 3 (constitutional date),
or such date immediately there
after as may be named. The offi
cial count of the membership of
the new congress by parties is as
follows: Democrats, 243; republi
cans, 190; progressive, 1; American-labor,
1,
This is my last letter for this
year. I wish you all the very best
Christmas and holiday season
possible under the circumstances.
Perhaps next year We can cel
ebrate Christmas in a world at
peace and enjoy a truly Merry
Christmas.
Deferment Riiles On
Farm Draft Unchanged
There has been no change In
the procedure for consideration
of the agricultural selective serv
ice deferments. Recommenda
tions as to eligibility for agricul
tural deferments are made to lo
cal selective service boards by
county USDA war boards. The
standards used are those provid
ed by the Tydings amendment.
Because of the armed forces'
need for younger men, defer
ments for registrants In the 18
26 age group usually can be ap
nroved only in exceptional cases.
DIAL-LOG
By SUSAN
. Wliat with special programs be
ing scheduled the rush and ex
citement of the holiday season
and a little Christmas shopping
on the side we're fast approach
ing that slap-happy feeling that
alw ays means "Merry Christmas"
to us. For tonight we have a spe-f-i.il
rer-nrdinc made bv the cast
ol "Winged Victory," scheduled
between 8 and 8:30, and at 8:30
you'll hear a new feature and you
may ask for special numbers If
you like. It will be Christmas and
no foolin' around here to mor
rowbeginning with the 9:30
broadcast from the Indian thea
tre. The Rose School chorus (and
they're exceptionally good) will
sing Christmas carols. We know
you'll enjoy them, so be sure to
listen In. Then at 11 It's the staff
party on the Wheel of Fortune,
with everyone on hand to bring
you our Christmas greetings and
the traditional reading of "Why
the Chimes Rang". From 2:15 to
2:45 the Junior High school will
present their annual Christmas
program, and along about 6:30 in
the evening Santa1 Claus will take
over the quiz-master's chore on
Double or Nothing to hand out
gifts. We hope you'll all have
your Christmas shopping out of
the way by tomorrow so that
you'll be able to be with us for
all of these once-a-year programs.
We always enjoy them, and we
hope you will too.
No-Pollo Week Noted
PORTLAND. Dec. 20 (AP)
The state health board said today
that for the .first time since July
a week had ended without a new
case of poliomylitis being re
ported. .
UMPQUA SAVINGS AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION
Real Estate Loans
Phon 608
GIFTS FOR XMAS
Myrtlewood Priced Right
Candy All Kinds
Come in and get acquainted
with "Edith" and "AV Dotson,
new owners. You'll find things
here you wouldn't expect to
find in a small country store.
We truly appreciate and need
your patronage.
Milo Store Milo, Oregon
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OPERATORS
We are always in the
market for
Pine Cedar Douglas Fir
or other lumber.
Quick Cash Return
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Wholesale Lumber
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Now Is a good time to redecorate, the dufl days of
winter are coming. Retint those drab walls and bring light
and cheerfulness into your home.
Price: Gals. $2.10 Quarts 65c
LUMINALL
The Contractors and Home Owners Friend
Sold only by the
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We wish you a Merry, Merry Christmas. We hope the season
will bring you great joy, good health, good friends and happi
ness. Red & White wishes to thank Its many friends for their
friendship and support. We hope to continue to deserve it and
will strive even harder to give you the kind of store you want
to trade in at prices which reflect genuine savings and full
value.
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