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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1942. MEDFORDl&,TBIBUirc mm ft AAotboni Onm th Mall Tri ..- Pubi . br MEOPORD P1UNTIWO CO. tT.H North Fir . Phn 1141 ROBERT W RTJHU Editor. p:JBT R OfWTRAF, Wtnaiw. Ab lndpndiit Newspaper. Etr4 wtn din tnattvr mt M4 for. Or kas, ndr Aet mt Mcreb . t7i ftTPlTRIPTIOM RATES By Wall 1 A1ncai Pally and My yr tt.y and Bunrtay U month,.. I Dally and Sunday thra Won the l Daily and landay on month... .Tl By Cot-rUr- In Ad vane lUflfrd. Art Ian4. Tantral Palat. Jarkioartli. HUL RftBoa Rlr. Phoantx, T1U and t motor roatoo; Dally and RunJar T- M-JJ Dally and Rwndar mnth.a .Tl All Urmo caab ! adaBea. OftVI.I Papr mt thm City Mm41mr4 Official Papar f Jafb CWy MRMDP.R OP TUB ABtVMI ATttn PHKM Raralvlfit PnN tawd Wlra aWrUo Tha AoswUlot. Praaa la seloalvalF Miltlad la tha uaa for pubtleattea of all bivi aiapatrhea eraflltod lo II of othor. wta eradltad ta thU paaor. ""d tha loal nawa publtihod haraln. All r'Ma for puhllratlon of apatW Itapatehaa haral raaarvd. MEMBER OF UNITED PRE1E MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATION Advartlainc Rprwnt.Mr WE9T-HOM-IDAT COMPANY. INC Offtoa In Naw Tor. Chlcif San rnneiaeo, tM An Ye Smudge Pot Br Artbui Perry What' does it profit a patriotic, tire-saving motorist to drive 40 roph. and be passed 40 timet by 40 speed Idiots In 40 rods! Mohandas K, Gandhi, the sheet wearing leader of India, who Is making a nuisance of himself by threats to flirt with tha Axis powers. Is still unsuc cessful in his efforts to have the British throw him In a cala boose, where he belongs. FROZEN NORTH VIEW (Ketchikan (Alaska) News) "Way up here in Alaska, where Japanese have already landed on our shores 'the per spective we get of Washing ton, D. C, is that soma of tha politicians there are still a greater menace In winning this war than the Japanese.' " The airplane is the Inspiration for a fall hat model for the ladles the "winged beret." The wings are adjustable, and can be worn with the no-pompadour hair-fix. "If the material Is felt it gives the wearer an upswoop," an ad states. One Press Association, In its Nazi spy trial reports showed great respect for the libel laws. They called them "the eight al leged Nail saboteurs." They were good boys when young and minded their Maws. Lowell Stowe, a veteran war correspondent, who was in Nor way when the Nazis conquered Oslo with a brass band, knows his way around Europe battle fronts and what is going on. warns the Allies they may lose the war in 40 days unless some thing Is done about a Second Front without further palaver. It's not too late, Mr. Stowe states, but it's five minutes to midnight, and, tjp time left for a speech. It is time to worry about Hitler, instead of what the New York gubernatorial election is going to do to the New Deal In 1944. Politics can wait. Dor Fuehrer won't. MERE MAN'S MERENESS (M.-na (Ark ) Star) "60 WOMEN Wanted to work at State Snnatorlum, Booneville. Good wages, board, room and laundry. Al so a few men. Apply at Sana torium or see J. W. Middle ton, Jr. Phone 10S. The horse chestnut tree crop is coming along fine. In about two months the sheriff and Dad Lynch will have a fresh buck eye to keep their rheumatU at a low ebb, ana away. If none, "What we meant to say was not our detective farce not our detective force" (Birmingham Age Herald.) So goes the bottle we mean battle. SHANKS 'fc SACRIFICE "She has heard that It takes the silk used in one hundred pairs of Mocking to whip up a respectable parachute. What was the figure recently given out as Mndame's consumption per pair of legs per year six teen, wasn t it? Well, let's see she will have to go bare-icgged for only a little over six years then to sacrifice her share for national defense. We must re cognize the patriotic motivation here and not smile when we see her struggling to make an arti ficial seam up the back of her leg." (Flo McGehte In the Woodland (Calif.) Democrat.) . Scarcity of essential commod ities and Ineffective price con trol has caused an abnormal price advance in Finland cities. Clntlot time lor Classified AOS a. m. Too UK lo CiaasUr U JO p. m. Dress Up the "Main Stem91 Just a minute ! There is a war on and it's all important But that nn roasnn u-hv KVERYthinc else should be forerot- ten. Particularly when the connected wun iu So those in our midst who are backward about coming forward in the matter of street decorations for the 91st "homecoming" ten days hence, should wake up and hop to it This will be one of greatest, if not THE greatest military event in local history. From all over the onnnt nlH momhora of the fichtino "91st" will travel to Camp White to join in will be on the front page 01 the country in a military sense as never before. THERE is no need of a Christmas tree type of deco- ration, or Fourth of July either. But the business streets, particularly the Main Stem, should be APPROPRIATELY dressed up for the occasion, and nothing more appropriate than a fine profusion of flags and bunting. This will cost some money and take some time. But what occasion could be more worthy of both? e THE committee in charge is reported to be having hard sledding. This is comparatively a small de tail but it is an important one, and the complete suc cess of this "homecoming" from a local host stand point, is even more important So let's make the proper start and see that Main Street looks as it should look, when the "Powder River" veterans march in from the north and south. And NOW is the time to start 1 Time to A a Viast heen frenuentlv ment of the two extremes, it is better to regard the war situation, as worse than it is, than as BETTER. For in the first instance maximum efforts will be extended to overcome the crisis; whereas in the second, there will be a tendency to ease up because of the false sense of security created. CO we have no quarrel with Leland Stowe's front oaee spread in this morning's Oregonian, declar ing if a second allied front the "allies may lose the war THE Chicago News correspondent even intimates, if an all-out allied smash somewhere in the west, isn't launched in the NEXT FEW DAYS, the Russians may QUIT! We don t believe that We believe Russia will are intact and she is able may happen elsewhere. OWEVER the situation thinir ISN'T done, and Hitler march in the Caucasus, a major allied disaster may result Therefore Leland Stowe exaggerating the situation, "SOS to awaken the allied world ana to destroy once and for all any allied complacency that may exist Far better we repeat in this direction to paint the picture darker than it is, than not dark enough. AS to the immediate establishment of a second t-rn Viof im annlhar moifor Tf ia Tint a niinetinn for Mr. Stowe or any other newspaper correspondent to decide, but for the military experts. The imperative need of sive in Russia, if that is would deny. And as we would justify not making the Second Front attempt AT ONCE, and with every resource the United Nations can command. That ONE condition would be : Practically UNANIMOUS agreement, as far as the allied military command is concerned, that it "CAN'T BE DONE", that it would be catastrophic for the United Nations, under present conditions, even to make the attempt Unless that condition DOES exist, then certainly the time has come for the allies to take a chance. The time has come for the United Nations to strike out REGARDLESS OF THE IMMEDIATE COST, and not turn back until Hitler has been forced into the one spot he most dreads, a division of his forces and a fight to the death on TWO fronts! Decayed! There is only one answer to the East Indian situation we can see and that is decadence. The term has been used very carelessly the past two decades but when Messrs. Gandhi and Pandit Nehru enter. the picture, the shoe fits. Yes that is the only alibi we can see for these spinners, vegetarians and civil disobedients, who according to the latter, will start on a campaign of non-resistance in two weeks which will be "short, swift and effective." EFFECTIVE for whom? Why effective for Japan of course. How could it be otherwise with the Japs on the Burma border just waiting for the monsoon season to pass, so they can start the plane, tank and elephant march on Calcutta and Bombay. Yes as the Pandit piously adds: "The rampaign should be over In 3 months and decide the country's fate!" It should. And decide the fate of the All-India congress party and P. Nehru and M. Gandhi as well! matter concerned is closely the reunion and Medford Strike! remarked in this depart is not established at once in the next 40 days." fight as long as her armies to fight, regardless of what IS serious. And if some- done SOON to halt the is entirely justified in and broadcasting this stopping the Hitler offen humanly possible, no one see it only one condition Personal Health Service By WUUm Signed letters pertaining ta personal health and hygiene, not to disease dlagnotle or treatment, will ha answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped sell addressed en ? elope It enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink Owing to the larie number of letters received only a few can be answered here. No reply can be made to q aeries not aonformtnf to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady tU El Cam I no, Beverly HI lit, Calif. 8AIREY CA One allusion in your column has always puzzled me some, says a medical colleague. Altho I understand precisely what you mean by it I wonder whether you i n v e nted the term "Sairey gamp" or "Sal reygamping". It is reassur ing to find that there are some people with more claim to Dr. Brady literary con versance than I shall ever have who do not know the origin of Sairey Gamp. Shake, Doctor, It was only by chance that I stum bled on her one day when I could find nothing worth read ing and had to content myself with a dip into Martin Chuzzle wlt by an insufferably longwlnd ed fellow named Dickens. In his time Dickens ground out dozens of interminable stories and, it would seem, had a following of readers large enough to pay for publication. Today he'd be out of luck, for hU style of humor and his narrative technique could get nowhere in 2,300 words. In the early days of my prac tice In the country I encountered Sairey In the flesh long before I found her throwing her weight about In Mariin Churzlewit. She came bouncing In Just as I was severing the umbilical cord. She tried to push her way right into the environment, but by dint of constant weaving about I man aged to keep her behind me, so she cautioned me "Be sure to leave me lots of cord. Doctor", and I took particular pains to letve none at all. Two or three days later Sairey and I came to closr quarters across the pa tient's bed. Sairey had in her kit a breast pump which she an nounced she alius used for the first few days. I ordered that the baby be put to the breast every two hours and that noth ing else be done without "iy ex press permission and I made It cleat to every one that the slightest infraction of this would compel me to withdraw from any further attendance. Well, that time, for once, I got away with it, but four times out of five Sairey beat me badly In such set-tos. I was young then as I grew older and more experi enced I d'.dn't clash with Sairey If I could possibly avoid open News Behind The News by Paul Mallon (Continued from Page One) saboteurs and spies imperils the national safety Just as much as warfare by tanks and subma rines." e e e THE limited presidential pow er rtrntectinff civilians from trial by military courts have stood for about 80 years, since the MilliRan decision, which was one of the two great legal land marks of the supreme court, rivaling the famous Marbury vs. Madison. In "Ex parte MilliRan". an In diana citizen. Lambdin P. Millt- gan, was Charged with having conspired to free Confederate prisoners In his state. These pris oners were to attack arsenals and seek to obtain guns and am munition. A military commission was named to try him. (President Lincoln had suspended the writ of habeas corpus). Milllgan was found guilty, sentenced to death and came to the supreme court. The court ruled no civilian could be tried by a military commission as long as the civil courts were open, and said fur thermore, the courts could not be closed except whire martial law had been declared, based on an actual invasion, making it impossible for the courts to function fairly. As Indiana had not been in vaded, the court ordered Milll gan tried by his civilian peers e BOTH new deal Justices Robert H. Jackson and Hugo Plack betrayed alarm at Mr. Biddie s effort to change this celebrated law. Their questions sugscsted they envisioned the possibility of the president gaining power to order some offending news paper editor tried by a military court. Mr. Riddle did not want to go that far In argument. He volun teered that persons, such as Edi tor William Grtfftn. of the New York Sunday Enquirer, charged with seditious utterances could not be tried by a military court. He wanted a l ne drawn some where, but did not say where. Brdy, M. P. RRIES ON conflict. Being the family's choice nurse, not mine, Sairey had an advantage, you so. Because it is so much easier for a doctor to attend a confine ment in a well equipped hospi tal than it is to attend the pa tient in her own home, a great many babies who should be born at home are subjected to the haz ard of being born and nursed for a week or two in a hospital these days. Of course many "homes" are hardly suitable for such an event, especially the abodes of apartment dwellers, but In any case the baby, not to mention the mother. Is subjected to fewer risks at home, in my opinion. A reader who has tried having babies at home and In the hospi tal says she prefers the hospital because: 1. One gets a rest for ten days after the birth. 2. Not knowing which baby Is squalling one can shut her ears and let the nurse worry. 3. Pleasant surroundings and new ideas. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Claustrophobia Tt will please many readers tike myself, no doubt, tr you would write an crt! le on clolstropbobla some time. (Miss J. W.) Answer Claustrum la Latin for a oonflned plaoe. Phobia Is Greek for a morbid fear or dread of something. Not natural or reasonable fear, but Irrational fear, such as fear of being In an open space (agoraphobia) or of empty roome (cenophobla) or fear of height (acrophobia). We'll talk about natural and morbid fear some day soon. Quinine for Vertigo I want to thank you for the sug gestion of quinine tor vertigo. Began taking the treatment as you de scribed last fall and the results were wonderful. I go everywhere alone now and do not have the slightest dlsey feeling any more. (Mrs. R. M. C. W.) Answer The quinine treatment was suggested for Meniere's syn drome (deafness wltli attacks of vertigo). It was Introduced by the famous Charcot, French neurologist, many years avto. Hearing Aids My husband uses a (electrical hearing aid) with great satisfaction This company does not guarantee anything but we think deals very fairly with a deaf person who wishes to try the Instrument before he agrees to purchase. (Mrs. C. P. W.) Answer Any firm ought to do so. (Copyright 1843, John r. Dills Co.) Ed. Vote: Pereona wishing to commmnnlrare with rr. nrarty should send letter direct to nr. William Brady. M. P.. tS El ramlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. If he had won his argument, apparently he would have drawn the line anywhere he chose. Colonel Royall needled Biddle on the point that his contention would allow a military court to try union strikers, but Biddle only agreed this would be possi ble if the strike was proved to have been promoted by a foreign enemy. e e e THE court seemed to step on Mr. Biddle gently in Its de cision memo. It did not go into detail, but significantly restrain itself to holding that In this par ticular case, the president had not exceeded his power in order ing a military trial. It did not overthrow "Ex parte Milllgan." The full written opinion, of course, is yet to be handed down. The vital aspect of the case is therefore still hanging in the air. But if the court follows the Implication of its preliminary memo, it will tell Mr. Bidd'.e that only military cases can be tried in military courts and civil ians must have the right of trial by Jury, even though this is total war and civilians are more deep ly involved than ever before. i Democracy is what we are fighting far. Former Medford Boy Among Airmen Lost In Midway Conflict Word has been received In this city of the death of Ensign Warner Abercrombie, 27, in the Midway battle, as a member of an airplane squadron that par ticipated In that action. Ensign Abercrombie was born in this city, the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. VV. Abercrombie. who lived for a number of years on Kings highway and are well known to a number of people here. Ensign Abercrombie before l entering the air service was a i member of the University of ! Kansas football team and active ! in the campus affairs of that in stitution. He was trained at j Pensacola. Fla., and received his commission last August. His j parents now reside in Johnson 1 county, Kansas. A member of the air squadron that attacked the Japanese at , Midway. Ensign Abercrombie 'was among the 40 flier? out of 47 who failed to return from the I action. Kelly's ' Comment From Washington. D. C Northwest Steel Plant Sidetracked Kaiaer Proposals Coldshouldered Bombing Ranges Bring Up Claims Sr Job W. Kelly - Washington, D. C, Aug. 8. Ten months ago the office of production management (since abolished and succeeded by war production board) announced that it would take immediate steps to increase by 10,000,000 tons the capacity of the steel in dustry. It particularized, said 80,000 tons would be produced in the state of Washington and 60,000 tons in Oregon. Califor nia was to be given a capacity of 1,725,000 tons, a total of 1, 865,000 tons annually in the three Pacific coast states. That was the plan two months before Pearl Harbor. OPM has been junked; WPB- Is now in com mand, and nothing has been done in the Pacific northwest where demand for steel is ap proaching the serious stage. W. A. Hauck, OPM steel con sultant, in his report said: "Our defense effort should be consid ered as of long duration rattler than a short term." The ten million tons expansion was to meet specific existing needs, and Hauck suggested another five million tons might be neces sary later. Estimated cost, to be carried by the federal gov ernment, would be $1,250,000, 000 and for the additional five million tons another $750,000, 000. For strategic reasons, said Hauck, the Pacific coast should be substantially independent of eastern mills for its steel supply. To supply pig iron for west coast facilities three blast furn ace were suggested for Provo, Utah. Additional capacity on the Pacific coast could be ob tained, said the report, if the necessary raw materials, such as iron ore and coking coal, were available. According to Ivan Bloch, chief of Bonneville market develop ment section, one of the prin cipal arguments advanced in op position to the location of new iron and steel capacity in the Pacific northwest has been the contention that there is a pau city of good coking coal In that region. A thorough investiga tion by federal and private agen cies has determined that coking coal in the state of Washington will produce satisfactory metal lurgical coke suitable for blast furnace operation. Iron ore is found in the two states, particu larly in Columbia county, Ore gon, where there is an estimated half million tons. . e THREE of the proposed steel plants were to be in Seattle and one at Portland, and of the four establishments two were to use Bonneville and Grand Coulee government-owned power. The Portland plant was blueprinted and construction started at a cost of about $400,000, then the plant site committee stepped in, asserted there was no power, no labor and, finally, that the steel development In California needs all the steel scrap and iron scrap that can be hustled up in the northwest. Henry J. Kaiser had a pro position which he put up to OPM and which received the same treatment as his sugges tion of turning his shipyards In to aircraft factories the cold shoulder. Kaiser offered to pro vide ingot capacity of between 500,000 and 1.500,000 tons at an overall cost of $150,000,000; he would obtain coke and iron ore from Utah, process them either on Columbia river or Puget sound. OPM said details were lacking and when they were i supplied "official action can be taken." That was a year ago. and nothing has happened, upm was dismantled before ita "im mediate" program for the north west could get under way. ARMY has taken for such items as bombing targets sec tions of public land In the north west on which there are mining claims. The general landoffice is now trying to weed out the owners and has filed contests Many of the claims are con- ! sidered Invalid but there are hundreds which will stand up. Sheepmen and cattlemen have , lost their range by the encroach 1 ment of the army but congress I has authorized the war depart ment to compensate the stock 1 men for being deprived of the grass. Adjustment of mining I claims is another matter and it ' ',vr M .lees aawxw. sawawwj em.ssiiai awar is expected that a number of cases will go to trial before the claim owners can be disposed of. Hundreds of thousands of acres of public land in the northwest have been withdrawn ' for the army, with other with drawal! in prospect. e e e ANOTHER reason why boys of 18 and 19 years are headed for the army: John Edgar Hoover issued his report last week and stressed the large per centage of boys of those ages who have become Involved in crime. Next come the 20 and 21 year classes. These are the offenders who steal automobiles, indulge In burglary and rob bery. The boys represent the largest class of offenders and from this it is argued that the young fellows of these ages are full of recklessness and adven ture and would make ideal sol diers. Within a few months the boys will be taken into the army, despite pre-election assur ances that they are not needed. Men Who Lead The 91st Division (Editor's note: Tha Mail Tri bune publishes herewith the third in a series of brief sketches concerning officers of the 91st Infantry Division sta tioned at Camp White). Having always desired to be stationed in the northwest be cause of the fine hunting and fishing available in this section, Colonel Paul Murray, command er of the 363 infantry regiment and combat team, welcomed with open arms his assignment to Camp White. Colonel Murray was born In Concord, Mass., February 12. 1891, and received his army commission "November 30, 1912. He was first stationed at Platts burg barracks with the 5th in fantry, later being transferred to Panama with his unit, where he served from 1914 to 1917. He served in France from July, 1917, to March, 1919, and from 1919 to 1922 was attached to various organized reserve, R.O.T.C. and National Guard units. He attended and was graduated from the command and general staff school in 1923. From 1927 to 1937 Colonel Murray was with the 8th corps area on the staff of the 2nd division, and from 1937 to 1939 was executive officer of the 31st infantry and commanding of ficer of Camp John Hay in the Philippines. He was command ing officer of Camp Edwards, Mass., from 1940 to his Camp White assignment. Closing time tor Classified Ads a a. m. Too late to Classify 13 40 p. m. WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE- With oat Cslonel And Too'Il Jtanp Out of Bed in the Morning Ruin' te Ge The 11T should poor 1 plats of Mo raloi Int. your bowels every dir. If this bils Is not flowing troolr. roar food mar not di rest. It mar Just decay In the bowels. Thra l bloats up your sumach. Yoq get con stipated. Yoo feel soar, sunk and the worle looks punk. It tehee those rood, eld Carter's little Lrrer Fills to set these 1 pints of bile flow, ins freer to make yon feel "up and up. Krt a packets todey. Teke as directed. Etrectl-e la making bfle flow freely. All for Carter s Little Llrer Fills. 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Rise in stock market cheers nation. Petitions for the nomination of A. W. Pipes for county Judge on an independent ticket in cir culation. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 5. 122 (It was Saturday) Potato crop in Eden valley looks fine. Most of the grain in valley now in stack and ready for threshing. Medford Center building near ly ready for big opening. Fair and warm. High 92, low 59 degrees. France warns Germany first ' steps for collection of war repa rations ready for enforcement. Prof. Einstein, originator of the theory of evolution flees Germany pursued by assassin. Typhoon kills 5000 in China sea. July was the hottest month in many years here, with a high of 108 on the second. , Many valley communities will have exhibits at the county fair. Exports of newsprint from Canada to the United States were valued at $155,000,000 during 1941. BARGAINS! WHY PAY RENT? 3-room cabin, new stove, table, benches, Med- ford city water, lights, sink and Hush toilet. Lot 50x150 front ing good St. and Little Butte Creek. Rich soil, deeded water right. Located in Eagle Point. Price $550, $150 down. Balance monthly, like rent. Immediate possession. EXCEPTIONAL BUY. 8 rooms and bath. Beautiful corner lot, close in, Medford. Garage, wood shed, shade trees. Streets paved. It's a real buy at $3,000. Only $650 down. But hurry. STROUT REALTY 714 So. Oakdala. Phone 5619 ON SOME OF A SOFT OMEN INO TAtll A tUNNT YiUOW tllAKSAST IOOM lit Phone 21S9
