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MEDFORD MATL TRTBUNE. MEBFORT) OREGON. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1941.
PARE THREE
British -American Delegates in Russia
OFFICERS IN KEY
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Young Men In 1918 Cam
paign Would Direct Fight
If U. S. Entered War.
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By Jack Stinnett
Washington. If the United
States were to go to war tomor
row, it would be the young men
of World war I who would di
rect the military affairs of the
country in World war II.
Ask the war department for
list of top-ranking generals the
real brass hats from Gen.
George C. Marshall, chief of
staff, down. Thumb through the
list of 19 and you'll find that
every one of them served in
World war I 12 of them over
seas, and all of them with a tem
porary or permanent rank of
major or higher.
Their average age today is 58
years (the two Oldest are 62, the
two youngest 52), which gave
. them an average age of 35 when
the A. E. F. was pouring men
and stel into the western front.
Nine of these ranking generals
re graduates of West Point;
three an graduates of Virginia
Military institute (including Gen
eral Marshall); five first showed
up on the army rolls as second
lieutenants, without previous
army training; two came up
from the ranks.
Most Distinguished
But right about there all ef
forts at grouping must come to
an end. It's not hard to look at
the recoil' and pick out our two
most dirtinguished soldiers. They
would be General Marshall, who
as a colonel was in the thick of
the Meuse-Argonne and St.
Mihiel offensives and later was
aide-de-camp to Gen. John J.
Pershing- and Lt.-Gen. Douglas
MacA thur, who has just come
out of retirement to become
comman 'er of the armies in the
Far East'. General MacArthur
was formerly chief of staff, w
a brigadier general at 38, has
more citations for bravery and
distinguished service than any
other man in the army today.
He represents the best army tra
dition a West Point graduate
whose father was a lieutenant
General before him.
On the other hand, how about
Lt.-Gen. Leslie J. McNair, who
now is chief of the general head
quarters? General McNair went
to France with the "Fighting
First" and so distinguished him
self that he was moved up to
general headquarters of the A
E. F a origodier general at 35.
And how about Mai.-Gen. Hen
ry H. "Hap" Arnold, chief of
the army air force? His first
sew of the World war battle-
front camd on an inspection tour
after the armistice was signed. A
cccond lieutenant in 1911, Gen
eral Arnold was considered ny
some of his associates "crazy as
a loon" because he went into
that idiotic branch of the signal
corps, aviation.
Flew Crata
He whooped around in an old
Wright biplane crate that boasted
a 40-horse power engine with
two propellers driven by chains
and sprockets. He soared pearly
a mile and quarter into the blue
to leave the world gasping over
a new altitude record. He set
the signals corps quivering with
excite: iei t by using radio tele
graphy to report art 'ery fire
He organized the first air de
fense of ihe Panama canal and
from a swivel chair in Washing
ton was one of the key men to
"keep "em flying" through the
World war.
This could go on forever, but
I'd like to skip the rest and tell
about the two boys who came
up the hard way. First there's
Lt.-Gen. Ben Lear, Jr., now in
command of the second army
and the same who got himself in
print for "hastising his "yoo-hoo"
boys. Forty -three years ago, Ben
Lear. Jr.. was an 18-year-old
printer's devil on a Colorado
newspaper. His father was in
the composing room. Came the
Spanish American war. and
father and son erlisted. In less
than a year the "first Colorado
Infantry" had made proud his
tory in the Philippines and one
of its famous top sergeants was
Ben Lear, Jr., and favorite sol
dier in his platoon was Private
Ben Lear, Sr.
The other Is Lt.-Gen. Walter
Krueger, In command of the
third army, with headquarters
at San Antonio, Tex. Also a
veteran of the Spanish American
war. for which he enlisted while
student In Technical' high
school, Cincinnati, General
Members of the British and American delegations stand before a plane after they arrived in
Moscow to confar on aid to Russia. Left to right! Lord Beaverbrook. British supply minister) W.
Averell Harriman. head of the U. S. mission; C. A. Ourmansky, Russian ambassador to the U. S.,
and A. Y. Vrshinsky. deputy people's commissar for foreign affairs. Picture radioed from Moscow
to New York.
Charged in Death
PII1H
Mrs. Emma -Tyree (above), 52,
of Sacramento, Calif., went on
trial In Minneapolis, Minn.,
charged with second degree
murder in connection with the
mysterious death 18 years ago
of the Rev. Knute Birkeland.
Krueger has a record that Is rare
for high officers, in this man's
army.
Not only did he cover hjmself
with blood and glory in the
World war (ending it as chief of
the A. E. F. infant tank corps in
the thick of things at Chaumont),
but if the United States were to
go to war tomorrow and that
war should be against Germany
General Krueger would be
Carrying the American flag for
a second time against his native
land. He was born in West
Prussia. January 26, 1881, and
was eight years old before he
set foot in the country for which
he was to distinguish himself as
a great soldier.
SUFFERS INITIAL
Cock Robin's Death
Explained at Last;
It Was Honeysuckle
Cheney. Wash.. Oct. 2 P)
At last, after all these years we
know "who killed Cock Robin?"
It was the honeysuckle vine.
And on no less authority than
Prof. J. W. Hungate of the
eastern Washington biology de
partment, we discover that Cock
Robin died of acute alcoholism.
The question and its answer
these days are no bits of nursery
verse foolery, but serious busi-1
ness on the E. W. C. campus
where scores of cock robins are i
lying cold in death and dozens I
of others are staggering drunk-
enly on the lawns. j
After days of watching and a i
few scientific tests, Professor I
Hungate came up with the
answer.
"The red berries of the honey
suckle vines," he explained. ,
"contain a fermented Juice after
the frosts, and the robins eat j
the berries and get drunk. Some
that get too drunk die you
might say of acute alcoholism." j
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extra fancy 3.23-8.60, average 3.83.
porations has been upped from
a range of 8 to 60 per cent to
a bracket of 35 to 60 per cent.
Estates were taxed then at
2 to 25 per cent and now are
3 to 77 per cent.
Changing times have altered
many of the methods and sources
of taxation. Now important rev
enue comes from radios, me
chanical refrigerators, electrical
j appliances. These things either
- didn't exist or were not rated
New Excise Levies Effective ffc
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ginning Huge Total Aim : player pianos, siik shirts and
other expensive clothing, candy,
- patent medicine, and riding
Washington, Oct, 2 m The academies.
heaviest taxes in American his-1
double those of the world war
era took their first big handful j
of cash from the public's pocket-1
book Wednesday, and it was
only the beginning.
The new excise levies which
became effective at midnight
gave consumers their Initial if
incomplete idea of what the
recently passed defense revenue
tax bill is going to mean in dol
lars and cents.
Although the treasury depart
ment is counting on the excise
taxes for the pretty penny of
$3,000,000 a day, they represent
only a small part of the whole
revenue program which is ex
pected to raise about $13,000,
000,000 a year.
Yet to come Is the day of
reckoning on the new income
and excess profits taxes, already
in effe ctand applying to 1941
returns. These levies are of the
delayed-action variety, with the
pay-off to Uncle Sam deferred
until next March 15.
The new order of taxes con
trasted with the supposedly bur
densome levies of the world war
era, which yielded only $6,694,
000,000 In their banner year.
However, the nation now has
about thirty million more in
habitants to share the burden.
In 1918, Income tax exemp
tions were $2,000 for a family
head and $1,000 for a single
person. The new figures are
$1,500 and $750. However, in
1918 dependents were $200 cred
its and now are $400 apiece.
The tax rates In both cases
range up to 77 per cent, but the
new law sets heavier levies in
the lower and medium brackets
than the 1918 statute.
Corporation Tax Up
The corporation Income tax
in 1918 was 6 per cent, and now
is 21 to 31 per cent.
The excess profits tax on cor-
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Pears: 13 cars arrived, 1 California, 8
Oregon unloaded, 31 cart on track;
Oregon Partletts 139 extra fancy
3.S0-3.60, average 3.00; 75 fancy 3 40-
3.90, average 3.63.
Attendance at the recent Canadian
National Exhibition broke alt previ
ous recordt.
Crude rubber cultivation la 1
basic, economlv activity ol Liberia, the
Department of Commerce reported.
Existing ehortagea will not serious
ly affect the wood Industry, the De
partment of Commerce reports.
The 1041 com crop of Argentina Is
estimated at 6 million tons. -
China has a three-year plan for In
creasing foodstuffs production.
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