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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDrOP.D MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. Jun 21, 1(44 MDFORDyKTBISUNB MBDFORD i'aiNTINO CO. fT-n North Vlr at. ttM II4l ItUBRHT W. RUHU Bdltr. ' ERNEST R. OrLTRAP, Htiiitr, As lDdpDdnt Nwipp, Entered u moob4 eiua matter at Cr4. Oregon, under Act ef March I, IS 11, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Meii In Advance i La(ly euid Sunder m yur IT.Ii Dell end Sundejr elt monthe... Deity and Buodtr- thrM month. 1.1$ Del If end flundey one month... B7 Carrier In Advaoee Uedford, Ah- iand. Central Point, Jaokionvm. Gold Kill, Phvenis, Tel ant, and e meter routeit Del If and Bunder ewe rear !. Pally and Sunder .eae month,. ,T All term eaeh la advance. OMrtat Papcv mt the City ef Mod ford Official Paper ef Jark Coantr United Prwe Fall Leeeed Wire JklfiUOBR OP AUDIT BURBAD OP CIKOULATIONS Advertlilne; Repreeentetlve WBST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INtt Offlcei In New York, Chlcaio. Detroit. 6en Franolftoo, Los Anfelea, Seattle, PorUead, fit. Lsuli, Atlaou, VaMteuTe. B. a Commentators Blr and ink Jiave started their post-war frets over the future, and they are Very unhappy about it. They predict 87 varieties of Hcril will page, and peace will be a worse calamity than the war. There will be a shortage of paper hankies to dry all the tears, and riot enough double-bitted axes to cut the gloom. Misery will be the order of the day, and the nation will have to worry about Itself, instead of getting a quart of milk to the Hottentots. The granddaughter of the dis trict attorney arrived yesterday for a visit, and was royally wel comed by the official as an ex cuse to go to the circus. "Believe It or not I have some help. Let us have your work now. Wallpaper, kalsomine and Venetian blind cleaning. Floor waxing." (Bend Bulletin) Some silver shows up In the lin ing of a cloud. ' 'Td like to see some sum mer," reported Mrs. Sarah Quail, "So far there has been no dust In the roads for me and the kids to waller In. Mora auto travel Is also needed In the country to keep It stirred up," she said. CANINE DELINQUENCY (Pendleton East Oregonlan) "A gentleman who resides near Pendleton Is much con cerned for the morals of his old family dog. About once each month the dog runs away from home and comes to town, resorting immedi ately to a certain saloon. There his wants are well known and his credit good. The last time he came to the city to get drunk he con turned five schooners of beer and one glass of whiskey, and when taken to his owner's road cart for carrying home was so much Intoxicated that he could scarcely avoid fall ing from the vehlcle" (50 j-rj. ago col.) The weather, the rocket planes of the Nazis, Finland, and the Portland ball team, lead In the race to be the saddest flops of June. Either today or tomorrow ts the longest day of the year. Juit which astronomers disagree. Be that as it may, neither one Is runt Everything heretofore the matter with the Snles Tax still il, it appears from letters of Its opponents. The Sales Tax most prominent and unforgivable fault Is: Nobody can get out of paying It. One of these dnys, de fiance of common sense In Wash ington, D. C, will no longer be regarded as cute, and, a federal Bales Tax will be passed. Then the government, Instead of the state, will get the financial gravy This will cause great tearing of hair, gnashing of teeth, walling far into the night, and tall explaining, without get ting out of paying the Sales Tax. a "The grocer was a small, tlm Jd man, but his wife was large and bossy and drove a good deal from the back seat, which she filled completely." (Ex change) No such a thlngl a THIS IS WAR! "Did you ever hear the story about the Jerry who wanted to surrender but had a hard time doing so because his pants kept falling down? It happened when Pvt. Ernest Ross, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, was bringing In a group of prisoners. Suddenly one of them dropped his hands and grabbed his pants, "Get them hands up," yelled Ross, waving his tommy gun. Jerry did that right quick, but down plopped his pants again, His belt was busted. So the German shuffled along, stopping periodi cally to reach for his pants while Ross periodically threat ened him with his tommy gun." (Stars and Stripes) Cm Hail Tribune Wul Ads, Ye Smudge Pot j By Arthur Perry . f Cherbourg Peninsula Rugged Pounding 8eas, periodic storms, and rushing tides through the ages have dented but failed to liquidate the plateau head ot the embattled uotentm (uier bourg) Peninsula. Granite masses running through it crop out in promontories at its exposed corners, giv- ing it the strengtn o: uiDrauar, says me iNauonai Geographic Society. The granite plateau head occupies nearly half of the portion of the peninsula that juts its 25'mile width northward 30 miles towfird England from the rest of the Normandy mainland. On the weatherbeaten west coast it extends from the 4u-toot tsez de jo bourtr. near low. sandv Can de la Hague, southward 20 miles past the granite bulk of Cap de Flamanville to the rocks of Cap de Carteret. t THE depth of the plateau head along the east coast is only seven miles southward from Pointe de Barfleur in a curving arc of granite rocks past Pointe de Saire to St. Vaast la Housrue, Cherbourg, with its naval base and commercial harbor, lies low in front of the plateau at the center of its sagging north coast. A trans-neninsula road joining Carteret with St. Vaast la Hougue extends in southern edge of the rolling through Bricquebec and Valogues, at each of which it is crossed by a highway and a railroad from Cher bourg. Occasional bare ridees the village-dotted meadows of the plateau. Roughly triangular in shape with a blunt apex to the east, its area is 400 square miles and its average altitude is a little over 300 feet. , . . . , SOUTH from the plateau, the Cotentin descends to low, rolling meadow land cut by stream valleys and covered with cider-apple orchards, bucKmeat, and grasses. The coasts are low and sandy. The only wooded patches are in a line inland from the west coast and southward from A line from battle-scarred tarentan, port on the River Taute inland from the Grand Vey bight on the east coast, to the estuary of the River Ay near Lessay on the west coast, passes through a wide central marshy region, and marks the southern limit of the jutting portion of the peninsula. Only a three-mile neck of rising land west of the marsh and east of Lessay stands as a barrier to construction of a near- sea-level canal across this Normandy shoulder. Ice Cream Dividend "Make mine vanilla 1" Declaration bv the War Food Administration of a 30.000.000-eallon extra dividend of ice cream to civil ians for this summer is based on bumper milk pro duction throughout the nation. Wartime commercial quotas will be raised substantially by the new ruling, and national yarly consumption will swing back toward its 1941 figure of about 3 gallons per person. Ice cream, as Americans (its greatest consumers) do not need to be told, is a frozen food containing cream or butter fat, flavoring, sweetening, and usual ly eggs- Two grades are characteristic in this country: Philadelphia, as it is known to the trade, made of cream and sugar, with flavoring; and French, made similarly, but with a heavy custard added. Ice cream has been knewn as one of the good things of American life since 17S6, says the National Geo graphic Society. In that year it was advertised in New York City. George Washington knew about it earlier. An entry regarding "a cream machine for ice ap pears in his expense ledger under date of May 17, 1784. THAT TOOK GUAD GLAD TOBE HOME San Francisco. June 21. (U.R) Twelve hundred men of tha marine first division, the outfit that stormed ashore at Guadal canal Aug. 7, 1942, In the first offensive land action by Ameri can troops in World War II, ar rived here yesterday aboard a U. S. coast guard transport, the marine corps disclosed today. Battle-worn from two cam paigns, the leathernecks laugh ed and yelled as the ship was warped into the pier. They waved captured Japanese flags and sabers, souvenirs of good hunting In the Jungles of the South Pacific. For a majority of the men, it was their first glimpse of Amer ican land In more than 25 months. The first sight of a woman marine waiting to greet them ashore evoked a noisy demon stration that never completely ceased until the ship was un loaded. Lean and Hard These young veterans looked old beyond their years, but their bodies were lean and hard. After winning at Guadalcanal the first division men landed Dec. 28, 1943, at Cape Glouces ter, New Britain Island, In the final phase of tha campaign to wrest control of the Solomon Islands area from the Japanese. Lt. Col. Frank R. Worthington, New Orleans, La., senior rank ing marine officer aboard the transport, offered high praise for the fiien. 'These civilians who entered general along the uneven plateau. The road passes and wooded patches vary Bricquebec. the marina corps three years ago proved what they could do. the are superior to the best of the Imperial Japanese forces. When the chips are down, these boys really play for keeps," said Col. Worthington. Lake Creek Lake Creek, June 21. Mrs. Arthur Burrell called recently on Mrs. Joyce Householder. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hanson and little daughter of Browns- boro were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Welch. Mrs. Amy Grissom was an over-night guest Monday ot Mrs. J. R. Tyrrell and Mrs. Julia Dow, Mrs. Beth Zundel spent Tues day with her mother, Mrs. Allie Farlow. Mrs. A. L. Pech and little daughter arc both doing nicely at the Community hospital, Cpl. Fred Banta, who is with the 96th division. In California, is spending his furlough at- the A. L. Pech home. Late report from Donald Grlgsby, who Is with tha A.A.F. in England, was that he had completed his missions over enemy territory, but expected to be retained In England as an Instructor. He has recently been promoted to 1st lieutenant. NEGROES FOR DEWEY Albany. N. Y., June 21 U.R) Sidney P. Dones, negro mem ber of California's Republican state central committee, Indicat ed during a visit to Governor Thomas E. Dewey that there will be a definite drive "to swing negro votes" to whom ever the Republicans nominate for president in Chicago next week. On the average, each of the 68,000,000 life insurance policy holders haj an Indirect invest ment in business and Industry ot 9iau, through the policy re- rrv l.mH it-ilratar a4 In Ki ii n a mm , - -'' lecuriuea ) News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, June 21 Mr. Churchill must have been In a good humor when he hopefully predicted the end of the war In Europe this summer. The most respected military a u thorlties here share the hope that the Euro pean end is a matter of months, but they are not predicting. To them this is Paul Mellon just the beginning of the final military operations These are the early stages of the planned crushing blows. Look at the front pages, The operations which formerly were reported In two or three differ ent headlines now monopolize Dractleallv all tha pnlumni ar, f a"k And they will grow more. AS DARINO as the European invasion, was the attack up on Saipan. Up to that point, we had been merely on the outer fringes of the Jap defensive line. With that thrust, we plunged into tne very heart of it. by passing all the naval strongholds dotted out southward and east ward in the Pacific (Truk, Palau, Trap. etc.). There was not the usual Isl and hopping, but an enlightened and brilliant stratagem designed to put our bombers within easier range of Tokyo and over all the Jap shipping through which she sustalm her war empire It was feasible only because we have been dominating the sea lanes and thus could supply such an advanced force, or at least we have the right to suspect we can, because we put warships and transports safely into action there with the Invading force. Unless the Jap fleet comes out of hidlr.g to fight a decisive bat tle, that condition will continue. The details of the fighting were at first held back, prob ably because this Is only one knife thrust In a general scheme of attack, just one phase upon which further developments rest. Consequently, t must be as sumed the authorities wisely awaited a decisive break In the fighting. 1 CO, ALSO, with France to some extent The bulk of our army has been held out of Normandy, in a similarly threatening man ner. In Italy, the Nazis are at tempting from time to time to stiffen their resistance at a few strong points, but at other times, they are soft. Thus it is impossible to guess accurately on the end of tha war. So much depends on factors con cerning which we may have an opinion, but which are not facts, such things as German military and civilian morale on which there arc oscillating signs, the missing Luftwaffe, etc. And in the Pacific, the 'eal attack has Just started. IF THE robot plane assault on England is the dummy Luft waffe Herr Goerlng was ad dressing with a plea to fight to the death and there Is no other, the robot attack Itself is a sign of German desperation It is a silly method of warfare, for which the only excuse Is a desire to spread consternation with indis criminate killing and destruc tion. The British were so upset about It because It is psycholog ically disturbing even to the Im perturbable to see those aimless plane loads of explosive flying overhead, uncontrolled, at a rate of about 19 or more an hour, day and night. But from a mili tary standpoint, it Is only an at tack upon Impregnable British courage. The rocket planes are con structed cheaply but must use much material which goes Into planes, and every one shot falls to come back. Therefore, intrin sically It is Just a very expen sive, aimless expenditure of ma terial by a nation already on the verse of defeat for that very reason, and so short of air material that it hat not been able to put up an air force. Manpower Lack Is Paper Bottleneck Washington, June 21 URW The manpower shortage is the chief cause for the shortage of newsprint and the bottleneck In the production of wood pulp, Harold Boeschensteln. acting di rector of the War Production Board's forest products bureau, told the senate's Truman com mittee yesterday. He said that "prospects are not good" for the wood pulp Industry to recruit the 35,000 to oO.OOO men it needs for fall cut ting. Pe Mall Tribune Want Ada. Gas on Stomach RtwW ft mnrw ft 4vM rr wmmt Ifi tes't tltnaflt trul nfjM.i.'- (Wt.-fi Mini. l,r" 1 TtVH latin R,;i r.t Mir-n n- n t iu nwi fetw nnh mo. fat MP Letter From Washington By HARRIS ELLSWORTH Member of Congress From Oregon! . Washington, D. C June 17 (Special Correspondence) Thls week the House finished its more than seven days of discus sion of the Price Control Bill (OPA). A few amendments were put In on the floor of the House, but most of those offered on the Floor were rejected. The bill is now in conference. The conference committee made up of both senators and representa tives will doubtless make a re port early next week, and the bill will probably be passed and go to the President. There has been some rumor to the effect that the President might veto the bill, because of some of the provisions. However, in view Of the fact that no great sweep ing changes were made, It seems to me he should find it acceptable. The debate on the bill repre sented an outpouring of the grievances of our 140,000,000 people against what has appar ently been poor administration of a fairly good law. The reci tation of the troubles followed a general pattern. Regulations forced manufacturers out of business with low price ceilings, but permitted new manufactur ing In the same line to begin business and sell their products at much higher prices. This re sulted In scarcity of goods and ultimately in much higher prices to the consumer for many items. One typical example was the pancake flour situation which developed about a year ago. Many producers of non-branded pancake flour in packages were forced to quit business when de nied a lc increase in price from 6c to 7c per package. Where upon, some new firms went in to the business of producing pancake flour of the same kind and in the same size packages, but they were permitted to sell at celling prices as high as 18c per package. NUMEROUS small retail stores were forced out of busi ness because the prices they were compelled to pay for mer chandise were -higher than their retail ceiling price line, but new stores appeared next door or across the street, selling similar merchandise at higher prices. The new stores, of course, were permitted ceiling prices in line with their current merchandise cost prices. In my own district, I have known several Instances of tons of. farm produce being left un harvested for the reason that OPA delayed too long In telling the processors what the ceiling price on the canned, botUed or preserved product would be. Since the processors did not know what they could sell their pack for, they were afaid to buy the produce from the grow ers. These are but a few examples. There were hundreds recited on the floor. a OUT of sheer desperation, many Members of Congress sought to remedy administra tive abuses by attempting to write administrative detail Into the law. The members proposed the hundred or more amend ments because there seemed to be no other way of getting re lief for the people. The orieinal price control law gave the peo ple no appeal from OPA to the courts. It was recognized, how ever, by a majority of the mem bers of the house that it is im possible to write administrative detail into any statute. The best mat could be done. therefnr in addition to throwing certain omer sareguards around the ad ministration of the law was to provide a system of appeal through the courts from OPA rulings. It is true that some minor groups sought the passage of amendments that would give their Interests special advan tage. The house was well aware of those moves, and all such amendments were killed. There were a few also who sought to wreck the functioning of the law, but these attempts were also voted down by large ma jorities. a a a WHAT happened during the past two years of administra tion of the price control law is very similar to the type of ad ministration that has been given Public Warning! BEWARE 0 PIN-WORMS Wrtlm lMnff eonittlern fnty to the (, i-f prtHo Pin-Worm 'nffctliu frintina rrrta In many fnimiimtl hv tvirn it l,t enr-lhlrd of" Ih InMnr,! rMMrn nd fTwn-ar tt N tlma of rin-Yorii--o(tii vrilhoul know- witoh out far Ui wimltif ilfffl" that WAT mnn Tin-Worm In y"ir rhiVI or Toti lth. th onM,r itomnch, bp,l-wt-tip, norrous fldxotinx, AnU-ky arret!? ftr entur!! of H1r- oanvrf pt P'n Worm, a " ,j tfftr rv to tlwtl with this tutN,rn r-t hw rntlr htn di-oo.l. Ttu ?intifl diwrry, fci!nl bf wfd!i! mth'ntle. ! rma-l-bl rirujr Untian Wt). It l tho tiul lront In P-W. th nw Pln.Womt trrjt- Ftr.t dml.Ttd by th lNratorl- of Pr . JayHi Son. Amoriv-a, !a.ltn arocial bta in worm miielnpa. P-W taKau ar mall and raar to talta. anil thpr act la a, .racial w? t aVa'.roT tt-a ermfar-a. So don't tata rhaneaa with Fm.Worma. At tlia first warnfna aim, aV yivja dnia r it (or P-W. ann fculow tha diraatfcioa. r-W Baaia Pla-Woia rallall other acts by congress. It hap pened that the OPA administra tion was more in the public eye and has received the most at tention, However, similar ad' ministratlve abuses of other laws are occurring. The Wag ner Labor Relations Act Is a reasonable statute, but the ad ministration of it has caused strikes, confusion, and bad rela Hons. There are numerous other minor examples. Since the courts as presently constituted generally uphold the administration, we are danger ously near, under the adminis' tration, a change in the form of our republic from a three-branch government, namely legislative, administrative and Judicial, to a government of only two branches, namely administra' tive and legislative. Since the congress cannot write adminis trative detail into law, we are placed in a very difficult, not to say impossible, situation. As I see it, the only way of re establishing the republic under the constitution Is to go back to the three-branch system of gov ernment. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune id and 20 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY June 21, 1934 (It was Thursday) New labor act is invoked by labor secretary to end longshore men's strike on Pacific coast. French society called the "Judges of Hell create reign of terror by mailing bombs to prominent leaders. New Deal declares war pn monopolies and big business. Republican leader in congress asks, "Just how brainy is the brain trust?" Fair and cooler. High 80, low 44 degrees, Gold Hill district to get fed eral eld on irrigation debt. N Sportsmen to attend Idyl wyld Park salmon bake Sunday. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY June 21. 1924 (It was Saturday) Cool weather is highly bene ficial to grain in Sams Valley district. Eden precinct and Phoenix residents have started buying wood for next winter from local dealers. William Wright barn at south end of Central Point destroyed by flames, and at the height of the fire the burglar alarm at the bank starts ringing, causing a bandit scare. Fair and continued High 92, low 43 degrees. warm. Score die from heat In middle west. Stend on Klan frets Demo cratic convention. Al Smith fa vored to defeat McAdoo for the namlnation. Radio photos held practical and nearly ready for use. Boston-born Benjamin Frank lin was the youngest son among 17 children, and the youngest son of five generations of young est sons. MEDFORD LastTimesTONIGHT S. CENTRAL ST. at RIVERSIDE AVE. CIRCUS GROUNDS AMERICA'S NEWEST NOW WELDED INTO ONE GIGANTIC SHOW with CIvde ERS0N C&i? IN PERSON BATTIINO 'JtT 40 SAV'.GI, CRUEL, BIOOD. THIRSTY HONS AND TIOIRS IN MAMMOTH STfll ARINA HatuJraali al paapla anal aalmali " taaa al parfanalnt llapSaati arai al ManlfMaat Maraat e Clawni Oalar British Minister Apologizes For Statement On U.S., Japan London, June 21 U.F9 Capt, Oliver Lyttelton, British minis ter of production, apologized in commons today for extempora neous remarks which yesterday aroused official indignation in the United States and asked the house "to believe that the fault was one ot expression and not of intention." Explaining his remark that tha United States provoked Ja pan into war, Lyttelton said he only was trying parenthetically to make clear Britain's grati tude for the help given her in the war against Germany be fore Japan attacked the United States. He sad the words he used seemed to suggest that the help provoked Japan to attack the United States. "This is manifestly untrue," he declared. "I want to make it clear I do not complain of Cotton Goods For Low Cost Clothing Will Be Available Washington, June 21. flJ.R) Government agencies, In their drive to return low-cost cloth ing to the market, today an nounced a program for the man ufacture and sale of fhen's shirts, shorts, women's house dresses and women's slips at rock-bottom dollars and cents ceiling prices. Under the plan, the War Pro duction Board has allocated some 17,000,000 yards of cot ton goods for the production in July, August, and September of 178,000 dozen men's white and colored shirts, 416,000 dozen pairs of men's shorts, 85,000 doz en women's and misses slips, and 133,000 dozen women's house dresses. Prices at retail have been set simultaneously by the Office of Price Administration. Cotton dresses under the program will sell for $1.49. Cotton slips will retail at 65 cents. Men's white and colored shirts will sell at $1.39, and men's shorts at 39 cents. Extra sizes of dresses will be sold at $1.69 and slips at 73 cents. IDAHO LEAD GAINS BQise, Ida., June 21 U.R) With Glen H. Taylor 175 votes ahead and primary election re turns received from all but five of the state's 848 precincts, in cumbent Sen. D. Worth Clerk today appeared to be headed for certain defeat In the Idaho sena torial race. THIS Just Arrived From The Beachhead Battlefrontl COMPLETE COMBAT SCENES of the LAND, SEA and AIR ATTACK . . . filmed under fire by cameramen of U. S., British and Canadian armies and all newsreel companies! Actual Invasion Pictures! Daring Cameramen Faced Death To Bring You These Startling Scene! SEE! SEE! SEE! The greatest armada In history! Bombarf smashing Nail dafemesl Strafing attacks on Nail ihipplngl Beachhead on Normandy coast selsedl Grim scenes as men fall on beaches and wounded are remoredl Nail prisoners . tsken by tha thouiandil ' STARTS TODAY! CRATERIAN & RIALTO Theatres being mlsreported and that any misunderstanding Is entirely my own fault. "I ask the house to believe that the fault was one of ex pression and not of intention and I hope this apology won't do the harm which the original words may have caused here or in the Unlttfd States." Washington, June 21 (U.B Secretary of State Cordell Hull's Indignant denunciation of a careless British statement that the United States provoked Ja pan into war was certain today to bring quick apologies from the highest British officials. Lord Halifax, the British am bassador, was expected to call on Hull soon to try to make amends for the colossal diplo matic blunder made by his col league, Capt. Oliver Lyttelton, British minister of production. FRENCH FASCIST HEAD ASSASSINATION VICTIM London, June 21. (U.R) Colonel Caslmir de la Rocque, chief of the French Fascist Croix de Feu Organization, has been assassinated, according to a Vichy radio broadcast today. De la Rocque was also the political director of the reaction ary Parisian newspaper, La Petit Journal. Highest Prices Paid for Clean USED GARS We Se. It! We Do It! AUTOMOBILE MARKET 6th and Bartlett Sta. Phone 3919 DEPENDABLE REPAIR SERVICE For Your CAR-TRUCK. TRACTOR EATHERTON'S FARM STORE 808 So. Riverside Ph. 3148 IS IT!