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NOTED ENGINEER
Very few Medford people are
ware that Major William Mar
tin Johnson, one of America'!
outstanding military consulting
engineers, was formerly Mea
ford boy and received his early
duration in the Roosevnlt school
of this city. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Johnson
the elder Mr. Johnson coming
here .from Phoenix, Ariz., in
1911, to accept the foremanship
of the Mail Tribune job depart
ment. He and A. F. Stennett
were old friends In Phoenix and
it was through Mr, Stennett's
solicitation that Mr. Johnson's
ervices were engaged by the
Mail Tribune, a position he held
for several years before finally
returning to his old borne in
Lvnchburg. Va.
Alter returning to Virginia
young Martin completed his
education in the Lynchburg
schools and in 1928 graduated
from Virginia Tech.
Many Big Jobs
His first big engineering Job
for the government was the
building of Camp Pickett, then
Camp Lee. He did four million
dollars worth of work at Camp
Rlchey, Md and when he en
listed in armed service In May,
1943, had a four-mllllon-dollar
housing project surveyed and
blue printed for another job.
From October, 1940, till he went
Into service ha had completed
fifty-eight million dollars worth
of 'work, and had done it all
under government estimates and
ahead of schedule without the
least labor trouble, graft or
scandal.
Among other Jobs young Mar
tin Johnson has done was the
engineering work for the Wil
liamsburg restoration for John
D. Rockefeller at cost of forty
five million.
To Mexico City
Now for the second time the
government has deferred Major
Johnson's active army service
to become chief engineer of the
division of health nd sanitation
of the office of coordinator of
lnter-Amerlcan affairs at Mexico
City, a project costing millions
of dollars. Jointly financed by
the United States and the Mexi
can government. He "will also
have charge of the sanitation,
water supply and sewerage for
tho Pan-American highway from
Mexico City to Guatemala.
Major Johnson Is now In Mex
ico City In charge of the work.
Watson Johnson, a brother,
who also attended Roosevelt
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school, Is district manager for
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Raleigh, N. C. Watson, unfor
tunately, Is incapacitated for
armed service due to the loss
of an eye in Infancy.
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TAKEN BY DEATH
Mary Melvlna Pahl, a native
of southern Oregon, having been
born near Gold Hill, on the Old
Stage road, on July 13, 1886,
passed away at a local hospital
Friday evening.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert F. Yocom were pioneers
of this section, coming by cov
ered wagon from Illinois.
Mary Melvina Yocom was
united In marrtage to William
Pahl at McMlnnville. Ore., on
March 18, 1909. Two daughters
were born to this union, Mrs.
Alice Daws of Vacaville, Calif.,
and Mrs. Alta Denman of San
Francisco. Other survivors are
her mother, Mrs. M. E. Yocom,
of Alsea, Ore., four brothers, T.
Yocom, Williams, Ore., G. S.
Yocom, Lebanon, Ore., R. M.
and P. R. Yocom, of Medford;
two sisters, Mrs. Susie Stouder,
of Alsea, and Mrs. Yada Mc
Clanahan, of Medford.
Funeral services will be con
ducted from Perl Funeral home
Tuesday at 1:30 p. m., the Rev.
Fred Weatherford officiating.
Interment will be In Siskiyou
Memorial park.
Glenn L. Jackson, who Is In
England with the Eighth Army
Air Force, has been promoted
to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
The news of his advancement
was received by Mrs. Jackson in
a cablegram delivered over the
week-end.
Lt. Col. Jackson, who before
going into the army was vice
president of the California-Oregon
Power company, has been
in the army since September of
1942 and was sent to England
last August. The exact nature of
his work with the air force is not
divulged.
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American Diplomacy Faces
Biggest Job: Winning Peace
By John A. Relchmann
United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Japanese bombs two years ago drove
American diplomacy to face the greatest task of history, that of
winning the peace and making
The task received its first Im
plementation in the recent four
Dower Pact of Moscow., which is
expected to provide the frame
work for future diplomatic plan
ning. Since Secretary of State Cor-
dell Hull angrily denounced the
two Japanese envoys who called
on him an hour after bombs had
already fallen on Pearl Harbor,
he has kept In mind a single
purpose to win the war.
All his diplomacy has been
directed to aiding the military
forces to whip the axis with the
smallest expenditure of man
power. No criticism of "appease
ment" or lack of policy has
veered him from his first prin
ciple that the lives of Ameri
can soldiers must not be wasted.
That criticism was most acute
In this country's dealings with
Vichy, before total German oc
cupation of France, and with
Admiral Jean Darlan In Africa.
Hull firmly believes, however,
that his policy not enly saved
the lives of soldiers in Africa,
where dlolomatic spadework by
Consul Robert D. Murphy pre
pared the wa$ for invasion, but
that lt also kept the French fleet
from axis hands.
Since Pearl Harbor, the United
Nations have also bequn to reap
tr.e fruits of his "Good Neigh
bor" policy. The resources of the
20 American Republics have
served the Allied war effort In
greater or less degree. Only one
Latin-American country Ar
gentina has failed to break
relations with the axis, and 12
Latin-American powers are at
war against the ax.Is.
Only recently has Hull been
willing to talk of postwar plans,
and then only In general terms.
But substantial progress has been
made In seeking to reduce broad
policies to concrete terms. .
Postwar discussions are gen
erally regarded as having start
ed at the Quebec conference be
tween President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Winston Church-
Ill, in which Hull and British
External Affairs Secretary An
thony Eden subsequently parti
cipated.
While their presence was pri
marily for discussing some form
of arrangements with the Soviet
Union for closer contacts among
the major European war leaders.
The discussions finally resulted
In the Moscow meeting of foreign
ministers.
The resulting tour-power pact.
bringing China into the agree
ment, pledged these powers to
prosecution of the war to un
conditional surrender, a com'
mon policy of surrender and dis
armament tot the enemy, the
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future wars impossible.
creation of a world organization
to maintain peace and to bring
about a general agreement on
disarmament after the war.
Hull's hand was believed
greatly strengthened by the
pledges of Moscow, but equally
significant was the action of the
senate in passing a resolution
endorsing postwar collaboration
into which was written whole
sections of the Moscow agree
ment. The senate, ' which failed to
give a needed two-thirds vote to
the League of Nations after
World War I, produced only five
dissenting votes against a major
ity of 85. Earlier the house'had
passed a less Important oostwar
resolution by a vote of 380 to 29.
Prior to Moscow, the state de
partment had been under violent
attack for Its asserted failure to
develop a foreign policy. Numer
ous demands were made for a
reorganization of the depart
ment. The attacks were heightened
with the resignation of Sumner
Wells, who had been Hull's un-der-secretary
ever since he as
sumed office in 1933. No thor
ough explanation of' Wells' ac
tion was given. Some critics as
serted that it was caused by a
breach over foreign policy, par
ticularly toward Russia. Some
blamed lt on differences of per
sonality. Wells was succeeded by Ed
ward R. Stettlnius, Jr., who prev
iously had been lend-lease ad
ministrator, after the reorganiza
tion had placed lend-lease In a
slnitle agency together with the
Office of Economic Warfare and
the Office of Foreign Relief and
Rehabilitation. These agencies
continued under state depart
ment policy directives but be
came co-ordinated by Leo T.
Crowley, previously head of
OEW.
The state department also has
been active in preparing plans
for relief and rehabilitation
culminating in the 44-power At
lantic Cjty conference postwar
food distribution plans, and with
co-ordinating postwar planning
for international aviation and
shipping.
WEATHER
Northern California Cloudy
today, tonight and Tuesday with
light rain beginning on coast
this afternoon and spreading
over interior tonight; occasional
showers Tuesday morning;
warmer interior tonight; little
change in temperature else
where. Clotlng Urn for ButkIbj Toe Lata
to CIssiltY t so Saturday afternouo
Pie remembar
OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1943
I0LIDAY CRIME
AT LOWEST EBB
IN LOCAL AREA
The Christmas week-end, so
far as the police were concerned,
was one of the quietest and most
peaceful in years, state, county
and city authorities said today.
City police reported only one
case of drunkenness and no seri
ous motor accidents, state police
made but three citations, all for
minor traffic violations and the
sheriffs office said the usual hol
iday disturbances were entirely
missing throughout the county
this year.-
. About the only activity en
gaged in by the sheriffs office
was to round up some horses
which were reported trampling
lawns In the Siskiyou Heights
district. The sheriff s office said
numerous complaints of horses
loose in the district had been re
ceived night and day the past
week and that when the owners
were known they were told to
keep the nags from roaming.
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It Is believed that the Influ
enza epidemic declined some
what In intensity this past week
according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel,
county health officer. Although
the cases formally reported to
the department were almost the
same as the preceding week, 48
as compared to 52, Dr. Merkel
states indications are that the
disease is on the decline.
The week's report of com
municable diseases shows seven
new cases of scarlet fever, two
of ' which are in Medford and
five at Camp White and there
was a marked increase of chick
en pox, 21 cases, In all parts of
the county, being reported. But
seven cases were reported the
preceding week.
Other diseases listed are one
case of measles, seven cases of
pneumonia, two of mumps, one
of infantile paralysis, seven
cases of recurrent malaria and
Iwo of gonorrhea.
CAPT. JACK M. R0UTH
FUNERAL TOMORROW
Salem, Ore., Dec. 2T. (U.R)
Funeral services for Capt. Jack
M. Routh, Oregon Selective
Service staff member will be
held tomorrow.
Routh died suddenly of a
heart attack Friday at his home.
He was a native of Salem and
was a reporter on the staff of
the Astorian Budget at Astoria
before joining the state military
department six years ago.
GRAND JURY CALL IS
PLANNED NEXT WEEK
' District Attorney George W.
Neilson said the grand Jury, Earl
C. Gaddls, - Medford foreman,
would be called next week, to
make its report and consider any
criminal matters coming before
it. The grand jury recessed sev
eral weeks ago. The district at
torney said the criminal matters
in the county were well cleaned
up. , '
SENATE CANDIDATE
Idaho Falls, Ida., Dec. 27.
(U.R) Hoyt Ray, Idaho Falls,
former U. S. district attorney
for Idaho, predicted today that
Gov. C. A. Bottolfsen would be
Idaho's next republican candi
date for the U. S. senate.
More than 10,000 covered
wagons came to California over
the Emigrant trail in the gold
rush year of 1849.
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President's Son
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Lt. Col. James Roosevelt, tj. 8. Marine Corps, ylMtcd Camp San Lais
Obispo this week as foes 0f MaJ. Gen. Paul 1. Mueller, eommaadinf
general. Slit Infantry Division, which is stationed here. During his
brief star, Colonel Roosevelt recounted rome of bis exneriencea In
the South Pacific , .
AUTOS AND FIRE
LEAD DEATH LIST
By United Press
Accidents and violence claim
ed at least 266 lives during the
long Christmas holiday week
end, the notion's first full holi
day since the war began, a
United Press survey showed, to
day. New York led all states In the
total number of deaths with 39.
California was next with 30.
Traffic accidents accounted
for 147 deaths.
California headed the list of
states with 22 traffic fatalities.
Ohio was next with 14. Illinois
and Michigan each had 13, and
New York recorded 11 deaths in
atomobile accidents.
Fire took 52 lives including 18
killed in a New York rooming
house and three in a Minneap
olis rooming house.
Miscellaneous a c c 1 d ents ac
counted for 87 deaths. In Cali
fornia seven army fliers were
killed in airplane crashes. .
BIRTHS N
RTOWTflHOCKER - To Mr.
and Mrs. M. E.,tRt. 2, Box 406,
Medford, Dec. 25, a girl, eight
pounds,, at Community hos
pital. .
Hvnr Tn Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley, 730' West 14th, Med
ford, Dec. . 25, -, a , ooy, , eigni
pounds, at Community hos
pital.
DODGE To Mr. and Mrs
Thayer, 505 Edwards, Medford,
Dec. 27, a girl, 4V4 pounds, at
Community hospital.
P-38 PILOT KILLED
Los Angeles, Dec. 27 (U.R)
2nd Lt. Eldin R. Alvin, 20, of
Rockford, 111., was killed when
his P-38 fighter plane. crashed
in a lemon grove two miles
north of Camarlllo, Calif., the
Los Angeles fighter wing head
quarters announced today. Lt.
Alvin's next of kin was listed as
Mrs. Loretta B. Eicholtz of
Rockford.
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Home Again
Mayor and Bride
Home From Brief
Wedding Journey
Mayor and Mrs. Clarence A.
Meeker have returned to Med
ford from a brief wedding trip
and will be at home to their
friends after January 1. Mayor
and Mrs. Meeker were married
Wednesday at 5 p. m. in the
First Methodist church by the
pastor, the Rev. Louis A." Kirby.
Mrs. Meeker, the former Miss
Ruth Esther Wheaton of Che-
boygan, Mich., for -the past three
years has been field worker for
the Women s Society of Chris
tian Service of the Methodist
church and her work took her
to all parts of the country.
Head offiaes of the society are
in New York. Prior to the
field work Miss Wheaton edited
a missionary journal for the
church and was situated in Cin
cinnati, O. She relinquished
her work with the church Dec.
15.
The -mayor Is one of the
town's best known citizens, hav
ing resided here since boyhood
and being in business for many
years.
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eastern highways with Ice last
night and early today resulted
in hundreds of automobile acci
dents, disrupted bus service and
added to the burden of railroads
already taxed with heavy holi.
day travel. - 1
As sections of Virginia, Mary
land, the District of Columbia,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New
York and southern New England
counted hundreds of injured
from accidents and falls. The
weather bureau warned that the
freezing rain would make travel
hazardous today.
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