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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur rerry.
A locomotive whistle at Al
bany, Ore., due to a balky valve,
kept the town awake for 35 min
utes the other night, before it
was hit a lick with a hammer
and silenced. Everything else
failed, including 40 autoists
tooting their horns at it.
"FIRST DAYS OF 1940 SEE
SOCIALITES MUCH ON GO;
TRAVELERS COME HOME"
(Hdline Oregoninn social page)
Egad! one might say.
A distinguished scientist re
ports the "smashing of two
atoms Is of more Importance to
the world than the war." Most
anybody can think of two atoms
in need of smashing to end the
war.
IS THIS RUSSIA?
(Lakeviow Examiner)
"Thfl plan Is to Install chock
In meters of delinquent accounts
permitting water to drip slowly
but not flow, tnktng about throe
minutes to get a gin hi of water
tnd probably the better part of a
week for a small tub bath.
The punishment, a most tan
talizing one at best, will eon
tlnue until the aocount Is paid
or a plan offered for settling up."
e e e
Prosperity Note: Citizen shin
ing up his specks with a new $20
bill in a lobby.
No less a personage than the
state chairman of Oregon De
mocracy has come forth with the
dark warning that unless holders
of federal pllums and pie pun
gle up more freely to the na
tional exchequer, they face the
grim spectre of a Republican
victory, come next November.
The state chairman notes dole
fully contributions "have not
been as generous as anticipated."
This Is a pretty howdy-do! Let
all good democrats, starry-eyed
and seething with fervor for
New Deal notions forthwith re
move the rubber-bands from
their bankrolls, and unlatch
their wallets and let the moths
therein fly where they will.
A PRINTER STUMBLES
"Cal-Ora hn. been the recip
ient of much favorable advertle
InK from those who have seen
nri enjoyed their frool .how
one needn't be afraid to
take one's most cherished frlenda
there. The management, while
It trlea to insure everyone's hap
piness, will not tolerate often
alvenesa or vuUsnrlty. The blues
are out at Cal-Ore. but one
must behave, that's why It's the
housing success that It la."
Chlloquln Review).
"Time" recently printed the
rather aged quip about the wo
man who had three sons "two
living in Seattle and one in
Portland." In this connection,
there Is the one about the Mcd
ford resident, "who recently
moved to Ashland, where he wiil
live In the hereafter."
IT'S STILL BALONEY
(True Screen Mag.)
"Every mornlnit Mrs. Taylor,
nee Bnrbnra Stanwyck, eats ap
plesauce for brenkfast, not grape
fruit, not peaches, not melon
nor raspberries with cream, but
applesauce -.lways, winter, sum
mer, aprlng and fall."
...
R. Mikschc, G. Humphries, et
al, compose a quartet who spend
their Sundays playing bridge,
after scolding their bettor i
for doing the same thing on Sat
urday. Hold Jewish Refugees
Haifa, Jan. 8. (A1) Five hun
dred and twenty Jewish refugees
seeking to enter Palestine with
out permits were arrested last
night within Palestine territorial
waters aboard a schooner and
brought to Haifa. Tliey were
from Germany and other parts
of central Europe.
Another War Casualty
"TO SOME it may be rather surprising to find the
American Federation of Labor opposing Secretary
Hull's trade treaties, and yet that is the traditional
policy of the A.F.L.
In the good old days of Samuel Gompers, one of
the strongest bulwarks of the Republican high tariff
policy, was organized labor on the ground that the
more prosperous American manufacturing the more
jobs for the workers and the higher the wages.
The picture has entirely changed since those gay
nineties but the tariff group of the A.F.L. doesn't
seem to realize it.
The members even favor returning the ratification
of the trade treaties to the Senate, which will return
them to politics, and the fat will be in the fire, as far
as any realistic, rational or constructive tariff policy
is concerned.
e e e e e
LJOWEVER, when the European war broke out, no
doubt the reciprocal trade treaties were doomed
anyway. They represent the only sane policy for a
peaceful world, and are indeed a strong force in the
maintenance of world peace. But with a European
war in progress, which threatens more and more to
develop into a genuine world war, the theory behind
them, sound as it is, becomes purely academic.
In other words, not only do reciprocal trade agree
ments tend to promote peace, they can only flourish
and flower in an atmosphere of peace, for war auto
matically destroys the foundation of good will and co
operation upon which they rest.
This is no reason why the fight to maintain the
treaties should not continue, but it makes the cause
pretty hopeless, until world peace is restored again.
The Hore-Belisha Incident
ll'E DON'T KNOW what is really behind this resig
v" nation, or expulsion of War Minister Hore
Belisha probably no one on this side of the Atlantic
does, as yet.
But we like the way England is handling it, with
full publicity in the press, and various and sundry
more or less irate citizens talking out of turn.
IMAGINE what the procedure would have been in
Russia or Germany if a similar show-down had been
reached between the "All-Highest" and some subordi
nate official.
There wouldn't have been a word uttered, from
the first break to the final curtain. The friends and
family of M. Hore-Belisha would have suddenly
missed the Right Honorable gentleman, at his accus
tomed place at his dinner table and the club, and after
a week or ten days it would have been officially an
nounced that the War Minister had been killed while
visiting the western front, or shot himself in the head,
while in a fit of depression over certain unannounced
reverses.
Too bad, but the unfortunate gentleman was
"spurlos versenkt."
DUT old Johnny Bull just kicks the Right Honorable
"out on his ear, in broad daylight, lets him talk as he
does or doesn't wish, and promises to render a com
plete account of the incident or as complete as pub
lic policy in war time permits at the coming session
of Parliament. !
That sort of procedure mav have its drawbarks nn i
the basis of efficiency, but it is certainly heartening j
to all who still believe in freedom, liberty and general ;
human decency.
We trust we will not be
propensities for we really suffer none when we ex- i
press the hope that when the war is over, this demo-
Hunt; mtamm ui vnangmg me personnel 01 govern
ment will be sustained, rather than the totalitarian!
'The Mighty Have Fallen "
DUMANIA, a fourth class power in Europe, is perk
ing up and making mean snoots at big Russia.
Every Balkan country and every capital from Buda
pest, 10 uomDay is Dreaming deeper now that the
Finns have pulled the mask off the Russian bear, re
vealing him merely as a polecat, with some nuisance
value, but no great physical menace.
The Russian military collapse and thnt ia what it
amounts to is the result
wiuiuui recognizing tne value ol brains, that is, with
out giving brains their proper leadership and guaran
teeing to brains their proportional rpwaivla Thorn ia
the rotten core of the socialistic philosophy.
ut course, society should not confuse brains with
prcdatorv Powers and the aennisitivp instinct Rut
often brains are predatory
nauiraiiy acquisitive.
THE nice task for democracy is to give men of
brains their will and wnv ami still lmm timm tmm
taking too great a proportion of the gross income of
u,y cmi-iiuise, wni'uier u
business or what not. In
well. Of course, our "big shots" have been hogs often
umis, out ov giving tnem
loot away from them in
leadership of the world in
til IHIlllll'H.
But the Russians last, vpar and tho vnur ripfm-n chnt
their military leaders when the leaders began to step
out and threaten Stalin. 'So today Stalin is naked to
his enemies. And Rumania thumbs her nose at her
slavic overlord.
How the mighty have
Gazette.
accused of any Anglophile
of trying to run a country
and they are sometimes
is war, religion, politics,
tneir "Head and taking the
taxes we have maintained
commerce, and incidentally
fallen! Emporia (Kan.)
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THE SILVERY
The cause of psoriasis, a
chronic skin disease character
ized by dry rounded or oval
patches covered
with silvery
scales, is not
known.
It is the third
most common
chronic skin
disease, acne
(blackheads and
pimples) being
the most com
mon, eczema
(salt rheum,
tetter, dermati
tis) next. It is
not contagious. It is generally
worse in winter than In sum
mer, in cold climate than in a
warm climate. From what I
gather the present consensus of
medical opinion favors the be
lief that psoriasis is due to a
fault of metabolism, slow com
bustion in the system, and this
state is probably dependent
upon nutritional deficiency. I
say probably and I mean prob
ably. Perhaps, too, there is a
hormone deficiency as well as
vitamin' deficiency, particuarly
underactivity of the thyroid
gland secretion. Again I say per
haps all this is only medical
theory.
So many remedies or meth
ods of treatment have been em
ployed and approved as bene
ficial for psoriasis that I would
blush to mention them if I did
not believe they all fit in with
the concept of psoriasis outlined
herein:
1. Sun bathing or daily ex
posure of naked skin to the light
from an ultraviolet lamp (not
"violet ray"), short of burning
yet sufficient to produce tan
ning of the uninvolved skin, in
the course of several weeks.
2. A diet largely or entirely
vegetarian, except that it should
include not less than a quart,
better two quarts of fresh milk
daily arid liberal quantities of
cheese, butter, and milk equiv
alents evaporated milk, pow
dered dried milk, skim milk,
cream, buttermilk, and bever
ages or dishes in which milk
is a main ingredient.
3. X-ray treatment seems par
ticularly valuable in combating
psoriasis of the nails and cases
where the more troublesome le
sions are on the soles or palms.
It Is satisfactory for small areas
on the skin anywhere.
4. Such agents as chrysarobln,
tar, ammoniated mercury, and
salicylic acid, applied in oint
ments or pastes, are valuable
In many cases, but may be safe
ly used only under the per
sonal supervision of the phy
sician. THE
CAPITAL
PARADE
By JOSEPH ALSOP and
ROBERT KINTNER
Released by tha North
American Nawtpapar
Allianca, Inc.
Washington, Jan. 8. In con
nection with James H. R. Crom
well's appointment to be min
ister to Canada, two anecdotes
spring to mind with the happy
lightness of a mating deer. The
first concerns a certain genial
chairman of the Democratic na
tional committee, and a polite
functionary with some know
ledge of foreign affairs. The
functionary was telling the
chairman that, by all accounts,
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, had
made a "grand" ambassador to
Poland, whereat the chairman
replied musingly:
"Uhmm a bout twenty-five
grand."
PVr Jimmy Cromwell, such a sum
Is mere chicken-feed. If the smile
on the usually dour fce of Boss
Frank Hague of Jersey city means
anything at all, Cromwell will be
a much "grander" minister to Cana
da than that. All of which explains
the second anecdote, concerning the
moment during Cromwell's Indian
honeymoon with hts bride. Mrs.
Doris Duke Cromwell, when the hap
py pair were struck by the beauty
of the Taj Maha.
The mogul's memorial to hla love
ly wife so charmed the Cromwells
that they rather wanted a Taj
Mahal of their own. Orders were
given for reconstruction of the Taj
In the pleasanter climate of Palm
Beach. Everything waa to be eiact,
down to the minarets and reflecting
pool, and the architect was Informed
that the garage and offices must
be In a suitably nlmllar architectural
style. This led the architect, pos.
albly after the order had been wise
ly countermanded, to refer rather
freely to the "Clam J -Mahal."
The truth about Jimmy Cromwell
is that he la an amiable, probably
rather hlih-mlnded young man. with
a rich mother, an Immensely rl"h
wife, and ft tremendous lot of money
which bt u willing to ftbeU out
..rl.JI
Brady, M. D.
SCALE DISEASE
S. In some cases if the phy
sician's examination elicits signs
of slow metabolism excellent re
sult may be obtained from the
carefully regulated use of thy
roid extract. This too is safe
only under the personal super
vision of the physician.
6. I believe optimal daily ra
tions of vitamin A and vitamin
D as a supplement to the pat
ient's usual diet the most satis
factory treatment say 50,000
U.S.P. XI units of D and 100,
000 international units of A
daily for the first month, and
after that from 5000 to 6000
units of D and 25,000 units of
A daily.
For local patches of psoria
sis if a cosmetic cleanser or oil
is to be used, a solution of vita
min D in bland neutral oil is
praised by many, although I
doubt that vitamins applied to
the normal skin are absorbed
or have an effect at all com
parable with the effect of vita
mins taken as food or medicine.
QUESTIONS ANSWERS
Deafness Relieved
Ten yean ago specialists assured
me nothing could be done for my
deafness which had been coming
on gradually for many yeara. X gave
up all treatment. It remained about
the same. Then X saw your recom
mendation of the vitamin B treat
ment as helpful in some cases. X
tried It for twelve weeks, and my
hearing Improved wonderfully, so
that now I enjoy- conversation and
the movies and church, where X do
not forget to say a prayer for Dr.
Brady. (Mrs. T. D.)
Ans. At the movies? Well, wher
ever you say It, thank you for re
porting your experience. The vita
min B treatment Is not a cure for
deafness, but does help In some
cases. Send stamped envelope bear
ing your address and ask for mono
graph on Head Noises and Deafness.
Monographs
Please Rive a list of helpful health
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Ans. For any one of the follow
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your address.. For more than one,
inclose ten cents coin for each four
you want.
Chorea (St. Vltus's Dance)
Acne (pimples, blackheads)
Whooping Cough Ec7ma
Gaining WelRht Croup Psoriasis
Syphilis Asthma Hives Gonorrhea
Hay Fever Bolls Headache Diabetes
Pruritus (Itching without akin rash)
Piles Styes Hives Insomnia
Constipation Home Sanitation
Sweating Pocket First Aid Kit
Displacement Foot Itch
Leucorrhea Bed Wettng
Menstruation Menopause
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William Brady, M. D.. 265 El
Caraplno, Beverly Hills, Calif.
to powrful political personage. Very
likely he wants to go Into publlo
life from the highest motives, hav
ing already sponsored one strange
plan for saving the nation. But.
though personally slim, financially
he Is the fattest cat of his time, and
Ottawa la his reward for being so
fat.
He had been trying to get a Job
long before he was given Ottawa,
and he had been a thinker even be
fore he derided to become a states
man. Hia personal program Is con
tained In his two books. "The Voice
of Young America." and "In De
fense of Capitalism." The latter vol
ume is described on the fly-leaf as
an "explanation of the functioning
or our capitalist system of today and
of specific measures which would
correct Its defects." The most re
markable of these measures Is Crom
well's celebrated "negative interest"
plan, under which the government
would pay people handsomely for
borrowing money.
His books were hla misfortune,
however, for in the course of his
literary labors, he made the mistake
of indorsing birth control and the
sales tax. In 1038. he and Hague
had made their connection, and
Hague waa all aet to run Cromwell
for the senate when he heard that
his candidate was ft writing man.
This news, plus the information
about what Cromwell had written,
so upset the Jersey City boss that
he changed his plans.
Possblly Cromwell was expressing
his dlftappotntment when he visited
New York's mayor. Morello La Ouar
dia, along with Prank Murphy, then
lame-duck governor of Michigan, and
Ohio's lame-duck senator. Bob Bulk
ier, to dlscuu the formation of a
progressive third party. The party
was to be financed by the Duke
Cromwell wealth, to whose more
equable distribution It wk alxo to
be dedicated.
On the face of It. there la noth
ing wrong with Jimmy Cromwell ex
cept that he la a nice young man
with a lot of money who doesn't
mind being generous to politicians.
He can do no harm n Canada, for
American-Canadian relations are too
aoundly based to be damaged by any
one. They have already survived
Uncle Dan Roper, which waa a pretty
severe t-.'st.
There Is even an off-chance that
Cromwell may turn out to be a
good diplomat, untrained though he
Is. Tli. functionary waa perfectly
sincere and thoroughly well-Informed
1 In hts remark to Jim Farley about
j Tony Btddle, who obtained hla em
bassy In the same way that Crom-
i well got his legation. Despite the I
I fact that he parts hts hair down !
i the oilcKUe in ba-k aa well aa In 1
front, Biddle has proved an excel
lent reporter on foreign affairs.
What It distinctly wrong, however,
la the system under which fat cats
are rewarded by belnf permitted to
represent their country abroad. It
if all very well to make ambassadors
or ministers of men of Important
standing, high In the president's
confidence, like William C. Bullitt
and Joseph P. Kennedy. Every na
tion does that. But why we should
flaunt the rather sordid financing
of our political parties before the
world at Urge, heaven alone knowa.
AT THE
National Capitol
WITH
John W. Kelly
(Continued from Parfs On,-)
he would not attend the open
ing of congress and listen to
the message unless the docu
ment dealt with his pet sub
ject. Secretary of Agriculture Hen
ry A. Wallace was less fortun
ate. He wanted the president to
say something favorable for his
"certificate" plan for a process
ing tax. Secretary of the Treas
ury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., who
doesn't like the plan nor his
fellow cabineteer, prevailed on
the president to ignore the pro
posal. The official family is not har
monious. His fellows think little
of the secretary of war, even
less of the secretary of labor.
The secretary of the interior's
intimates are the little group
who are sniping at the postmaster-general.
Mr. Roosevelt
has his own troubles trying to
mollify the heads of his depart
ments and if he displays the
slightest special attention to one
the others are jealous.
HAVING to kill 16 minutes before
his cue to appear and address
congress, the president Jollied the
committee of escorts In the reading
room behind the desk of th speak
er of the house. Picking on Ore
iron'a McNary. republican leader, he
kidded him for refusing an Invita
tion to listen to the president's
speech at the Jackson day dinner;
ofered to reserve a room In the
Mayflower and put tn a radio where
the senator and his republican
friends could gather and listen with
out having to associate with the
celebrating democrats.
McNary said he would like to
propound a question to the presi
dent and the latter replied he would
be delighted to answer, and In
quired what It was. Of course, there
Is Just one question everyone Is
anxious to make and only Mr.
Roosevelt knows the answer.
"You know what I wish to ask,"
said the republican, "because you
arc clairvoyant. You can guess what
Is In my mind."
"I may," pause, "reserve that room
for you." ,
Which la as much aatlsfactlon aa
anyone has about whether Mr.
Roosevelt will seek a third term.
(Note McNary attended a Jack
son dy dinner several yeara ago as
a gueat of Senator Pat Harrison
and heard the president apeak. It
was not an election year and cat.aed
no comment).
JOSEPH F. Singer, known to every
politico In Oregon, as an assis
tant doorkeeper of the United States
senate, marched to the house with
the togamen and managed to ease
himself to within a few feet of
the president. Then aa Mr. Roose
velt made a speech which was lis
tened to by millions In all parte
of the world. Joe folded his hands,
closed his eyes and slept through
the important address.
Joe had Juat arrived from Ore
gon after four days and nights on
a train and waa tired. Oregon's Rufu.
Holman and Congressman Jim Mott.
who also made the trip, were wide
awake ready to pick flaws In the
speech.
NAZIS CONTRIBUTE
FOR NEW GRAF SPEE
Berlin, Jan. 8. fP) Public
funds are being raised for the
construction of a new warship
Admiral Graf Spee, It became
known today.
The original Admiral Graf
Spee, one of three 10,000-ton
pocket battleships built by Ger
many to meet naval restrictions
after the World war, was de
stroyed In Montevideo harbor
December 17 after a battle with
British fighting craft.
Public contributions and re
ceipts from concerts and enter
tainments are being used to raise
funds for the new ship.
JACKSONVILLE P.-T. A. '
MEETING WEDNESDAY
Jacksonville, Jan. 8. (Spl)
Jacksonville P.-T.A. will meet
Wednesday in the high school
gymnasium at 8 p. m. The home
economics department will have
charge of the program.
Dr. Wayne Wells, of South
ern Oregon College of Educa
tion, will be principal speaker.
WILLE BUSINESSMEN
WILL ELECT TONIGHT
Jacksonville, Jan. 8. (Spl)
The Business Men's association
of Jacksonville will meet to
night at 8 o'clock at The Nug
get. Election of officers will be
held and other important busi
ness disposed oL
, , 1
In The
Day's
. News '
By FRANK JENKINS
STRAWS in the wind:
1. King Carol, reviewing his
troops, planes and tanks at Chis
inau, capital of Bessarabia, 12
miles from the Russian border,
I says: "Bessarabia will ALWAYS
REMAIN RUMANIAN BY
FORCE OF OUR ARMS. (Bes
sarabia was taken from Russia
by the peace treaty and given
to Rumania.)
2. The commander of the
troops reviewed by Carol re
sponds: "Our whole army, from
the first man to the last, is ready
to defend our EASTERN (Rus
sian) border."
3. Russian, Ukranian and Ger
man minority leaders publicly
swear allegiance, for themselves
and their followers, to King
Carol and Rumania.
WHAT these straws indicate is
this:
Rumania, watching Stalin's
bogged-down Finnish campaign,
is saying: "Stalin isn't so hot. If
he can't take back Finland, he
CAN'T TAKE BACK BESSA
RABIA." QLIVER CROMWELL, build-
ing an army of commoners to
oppose King Charles and his cav
aliers, said to parliament: "I'd
rather have a captain in plain
russet who knows what he is
fighting for and LOVES WHAT
HE KNOWS than a cavalier and
a gentleman who is nothing
else."
Because they knew what they
were fighting for and LOVED
WHAT THEY KNEW, Crom
well's captains in russet defeated
the cavaliers of King Charles
and established parliamentary
government as definitely su
preme in England.
LJERE'S a tip to Carol, watch-
ing mighty Russia's poor
showing against little Finland
and trying to draw conclusions
from what he sees:
These Finns know what they
are fighting for and, like Crom
well's Ironsides, love what they
know. They are fighting for
freedom, and they LOVE THEIR
FREEDOM.
Before Carol opposes his rela
tively slender army to Russia's
vast hordes, he d better be very
sure his people know what they
are fighting for and LOVE
WHAT THEY KNOW.
pAROL, too, is a dictator
considerably more limited
than Stalin, but still a dictator.
If history proves anything at
all, it proves that there's ALL
THE DIFFERENCE IN THE
WORLD between a people fight
ing for their homes and their
liberties and a people fighting
merely against a CHANGE OF
DICTATORS.
ELDERLY MULCTED BY
SHORT CHANGE ARTIST
Portland. Ore., Jan. 8. IIP)
George O'Day, 29, confessed to
Detective A. L. Eichenberger
yesterday that he had mulcted
more than 60 persons of approx
imately $500 within the last
year.
He was arrested last Friday
and was held in lieu of $5000
bail.
He said he frequently mas
queraded as an old age pension
investigator and bilked elderly
people under the guise of mak
ing change for bills.
EX-KAISER HAS COLD;
HALTS WOOD CHOPPING
Doom, The Netherlands, Jan.
8. P) Former Kaiser Wil
helm, 80, remained in his room
today under treatment for a
cold, but his household ex
pressed no alarm over his condi
tion. The former kaiser, who will
be 81 Jan. 27, is vigorous for his
advanced age. Until his illness,
he braved the winter weather
for strolls throuch his carHons
and engaging in his favorite ex
ercise of woodchopplng.
Crossing Crash Fatal
Salem, Jan. 8. HP) An au
tomobile driven by Georgetta
Ames, 18, collided with a South
ern Pacific switch engine Sat
urday night, killing Mrs. Clara
Haydn Knowles, 43, Salem. The
driver escaped with minor cuts.
The crash occurred riitrintf n
heavy fog.
Skater Drowns
Juneau, Alaska. Jan. 8. (P)
Hundreds of skaters who braved
the danger of thin ice to enjoy a
long delayed outing on Mendcn
hall lake, rushed to the safety of
the shore yesterday when, the ice
began to crack. But one skater
did not escape. Herbert McLean.
22, drowned when he fell
through the cracking ice into the
lake.
Closing tun. for Too Lt to Claa
Iff Ada la 1.30 p. m.
Flight 0' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of the
Mall Tribune 10 and SO years
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
January 8, 1929
(It was Wednesday)
City council votes to enforce
city dance ordinance providing
for the presence of a matron
at all public dances. Contro
versy rages over the matron
issue.
Cold weather hits th Pacific
coast from San Diego to Seattle
and smudge-pots are lighted in
the citrus belt.
Marie of Belgium and Hum
bert, heir to the Italian throne,
are wed amid pomp and cere
mony at Rome.
Rush for auto licenses ends
at the sheriff's office.
Countv court nlnna a r.rnilM
of county timber.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
January 8, 1930
(It was Thursday)
San Francisco named as seen
of Democratic national conven
tion to be held June 28.
Labor Joins farmers in fight
hig:i cost of living.
nogue river fish bill caus
furore in legislature, and valley
sportsmen aroused.
Cold wave sweeps the valley,
and the mercury drops to 24 de
grees.
Editorial urges that Herbert
Hoover be "drafted" as Repub
lican candidate for president
Ershal H. Hedrick, superin
tendent of the Central Point
schools, spent the holidays with
relatives at Drain.
BAY CONFAB
AT EUGENE JAN. 15
Eugene, Jan 8 P) Highway
minded and tourist - conscious
Oregonians from Portland to
Ashland will gather here Jan
uary 15 for the annual session
of the Oregon Pacific Highway
association, it was announced
today by Manager Carl Ry
nearson. Among out-of-state speakers,
prominent in the vacation in
dustry field, who are expected
to attend are Clyde Edmondson,
San Francisco, general manager
of the Redwood Empire asso
ciation, and George I. Warren,
Victoria, B. C, manager of the
Victoria and Island Publicity
bureau. Harold B. Say, Salem,
director of the travel and in
formation of the Oregon state
highway commission, will speak
on new tourist fields for the
state.
The association, reorganized
a year ago for the promotion
of highway modernization and
tourist travel, has been sup
ported during 1939 by chambers
at Ashland, Medford, Grants
Pass, Cottage Grove, Roseburg,
Eugene and Salem, and Lane,
Douglas, Josephine and Jackson
counties.
GERMANY BALKS
HELP FOR FINNS
Berlin, Jan. 8. (VP) Author
ized Nazi sources today con
firmed reports that Germany
had refused to permit Italian
planes destined for Finland to
pass through the reich.
These sources said no nation
under international law was
obliged to accept war material
as transit goods. Each such case
must be decided on its merits,
they neld.
Russia, they asserted, would
have objected violently if the
planes had been allowed to pass,
and Germany deemed it expedi
ent to refuse such transit as a
means of preventing extension
of the war area.
Hood Climbers Ssfa
Portland. Ore .In a
Just as a group of searchers
were aoout to start a hunt for
them on the stormy slopes of
Mount Hoort lat night, Bill
Wood, 34, and Herbert Rasor,
27, reached safety. The two
Portland mountaineers left at
5:30 a. m. Sunrlav tn -i;,k iv,
peak, Oregon's highest.
For Once
St, Clairsville, O., Jan. 8.
(P) Asked if there were anv
reason he couldn't
jury, F. D. Kirkpatrick said his
wife was in the panel. "Well,"
smnea junge (j. L. Belt, "you
two could agree for once,
COUldn't VOU?" Sn Kirl,r.trilr
joined his wife In the box.
Reiulli With Venqeanc.
Columbia. Mo. - (fl News
paper advertising certainly
brings results. Dr. C M SnH
lost a sow and advertised the
fact in the Columbia Tribune.
Back came the sow plus
litter of nine pig.
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