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BIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORD d$$ivTmWE "Vt7oo hi Southern Ornw Iwadi Ui Mall Tribune" Dally Kxcp Saturday PublUhtd by MBDfORD PRINTING CO. If-M North rir St. Pboaa S141 ROBERT W. RUHU Bdttar, BNS0T R. OILSTHAP. Macr. Am Iadppdat Hawapapar. BaUratt aa aacond eliu mattar al Med lard. Or on, under Act of March t, 1171, UUBSCH1PTION RATES Mr Mail In Ad vane a: Dally and Butnlay caa yaar. ... .T.lt Xwlr aad Snndor moatha... 4.90 Xaily and Sinrjr thraa month. i.l Dally aad Buaday ona month... .Tl fry Carrlor la Advanco Uodford. Aah and. Coatral Point, Jaehaoa villa. Gold Fill, phooolz. Talont, and aa motor root cat t!ly aad aaaday aaa yaar II. Daily and Sunday ,oaa month,. .11 AU Urmi caab la advanea. OCflrlaf Paper at tha Clly af Mod ford OfntlaJ Pa par ml Jackaaa Cooaty ValtatJ Priaa FnU Laaaad Wlr MJtMBBR OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Admrtlilnc Raprasantattva WrT-HOI,I,IUAT COMPANY. INC. Off I eta la K York. Chicago, Datrolt. Sa Fraorlaco, Lot Angalaa, Baattla, Partlaad. fit, LouU, Atlanta, Vancaavar, B, a The Republicans named Gov. Dewey of New York, and Gov. Bricker of Ohio as their standard-bearers In mid-week. The selections pleased Republicans, and some Democrats, but caused a few New Deal congressmen to quote Scripture, to prove they should be beaten in November. . . Bert Orr reported a birthday Fri. He further stated he is going I like 60. ... The Nipponese are being thumped three times per day. but It will take longer to crush them than the Nazis, who only get thumped twice daily, argue the military experts. ... The eagle will scream Tues. t Rogue River and Ashland, in observance of the 4th of July, Ye Smudge Pot i By Arthur Perry I ' It will be a quiet celebration throughout the nation, with no widespread whooping it up, due to the war effort. ... . It turned off warm during the week. Heat was needed to pro duce summer, put sugar in the pears, and make big potatoes out of the little ones. . .. H. Flewher, the late demon baker, is now some place in Africa, ensconced In a villa, currounded by a date orchard, with the dates not ripe enough to eat. ... Berlin reports American pris oners marched through Paris were threatened with lynching. LaFayette, Where's the rope?, is the new slogan, if true. ... Tip Davis, the drayman, will be married BO years come Tues., and proper observance will be made of the event. ... E. Ulrlch and Wallace CVay Big) Dlnkens, associate mt. wms. of the Prospect area towncd and traded Fri. ... Lady autolsts are getting their pre-war daring back. Two were caught in mid-week turning around in the middle of a Main Stem block, with charming non chalance. ... Prock Klum, former Ashland, Medford, and Hawaii U. coach, visited the valley from his Lake county ranch the past week. ... Hermy Offenbacher of the Applegate, celebrated his birth day on the 25th, with 103 in at tendance at his place. It was an historic event of the Applegate country, ... "Cherries are ripe. The birds will eat them all up Just like we did the straberries, I sup pose", supposed Mrs. J. Cochrun Robin, at a cthse liiwn assembly Thurs. "I wouldn't fly across the street to eat a cherry, unless I wanted to," she added. ... Haying was the order of the day in the rural regions all week with a great creaking of pitch forks Sat. in an effort to beat the rain to the burn, as clouds rolled in from the west. ... J. Tannehill Walker, 9. and the Older Girl with whom he has been fuedlng, are now full fledged collaborationists, like Germany and Finland, with Master Walker doing most of the collaborating. ... Valley Democrats during the week did some weeping for Wendell Wlllkie, and were dl appointed In the nomination ol Tom Dewey for president. They proclaimed him only a "gang guster." The country sure needs one. ... No bonus bottle will be award ed the thirsty during July, by the state, due to Inventory re ductions, and lurk of transporta tion. Demon Rum, and brandy, gin, and wine, also demoniac, will bo available, the customer being ruthlessly restricted to purchase of one case, per purchase. Sunday, July t. 1944 Buy a 4th of July Bond! TUESDAY will be Independence Day. To America, now at war, it will be a day for the renewal of faith faith in the doctrines of human liberty, faith in the principles by which we govern and are governed. It will be a day for remembering, with humble gratitude, the wisdom and courage and sacrifices of those who created this nation and those who made it great and good through the years. It was the vision and foresight of America's patriots on this day 168 years ago that provided the safe guards for our freedom today. We know today, more surely than ever before, that where the privileges and protections of free men decencv nor human respect Independence Day this. m-ide in the willinemess of so that our way of life may carry on, pride in the glim determination of our people to accept nothing less than full victory, wide in the "know how" and enterprise of America that have sent forth a flood of ships, planes, tanks and guns to overwhelm our foe. Yes, the Fourth of July too! WE'VE come a long way in the last few months. TYirlnv wo rmmmpr nf rhA Marianas find Kuriles. Our spearhead of attack Japan. Our target is Tokyo ! Today our beachhead is coast and our Roman campaign is sweeping the foe northward. But hard won victories must not instill a false feeling here on the home front that "it's all over but the shouting." Already our casualties have passed the quarter-million mark and bitterest and bloodiest battles are ahead. Nearly ten thousand men have been killed or wounded in conquering but half of the tiny island of Saipan, according to Admiral Nimitz's communique Saturday. There will be many Saipans and Tarawas before we can close the book on this costly conflict llE cannot share the dirt and grime and sweat and blood of war with our gallant fighting men but we CAN all of us back their attack with our money. We can all have a share in the greatest cru sade of all times. We can help to. shorten the long and bitter road to victory. Well have we learned that the price of battles has no ceiling that endless dol lars are needed to fight and win. Our job is to supply those dollars. , It's an easy one, compared with the sacrifices of those who do the fighting and the dying. All that we are asked to do is to LOAN our money to buy bonds and to HOLD THEM. There must be no shirk ers or slackers in the job of meeting the Fifth War Loan quota. . A GOODLY portion of Jackson County's $2,262,000 t.n.a rf fVia 41 (K h! lif r.n mint a in tho TfiffV. War OllCIl C VI HUM yiU UiiiiUII VjUVlt tit bilV J. 1.1.11 I! I a. Loan has already been subscribed. We may justly be proud of our record thus far in this and the four previous drives. But Jackson County's "E" bond quota is still far from "over the top" and the greatest emphasis in this campaign is placed upon the purchase of these smaller bonds. And so, to reach this highly important "E" bond goal, buy an added Independence Day war bond right now. Speed victory with the soundest in vestment you can make. j I 2ditoriaI Correspondence I i : i Chicago, 111., June 28. That old saying about generating more heat than light surely applies to this convention. There has certainly been more heat here to the square Inch for the past few days than we have ever encountered before, and now as the proceedings are over, or almost over, what does it all add up to? Where is the light if any? "Dewey and Bricker!" that's the ticket. And the more Important half a moral certainty before the convention opened. How did Bricker happen to get the second berth instead of Governor Warren of California who they say could have had it, had he so desired? Well as we see it, the answer to that question Is the answer to this convention, as far as the light, its real political signifi cance, is concerned. Bricker won the vlce-prrsldential nomination because by this decision the maximum party harmony was secured, and, in the Judgment of the GOP powers that be, the best chances of a Republican victory in the Fall were promoted. . That is the light. and that Is ALL the light, to this 23rd con vention as it now stands. "VICTORY", that was the one thing all the delegates to this convention wished for, the thing they put above all other con siderations as they assembled, and because the first thing thnt had to be done BEFORE there could be any chance of such a victory was to get the party together, (after the S1IOOT-THE-SHOOTS excursion with Mr. Wendell Wlllkie) party reintegration and harmony were. as previously stated, the real keynote of this convention. Keep that fact in mind, and this convention Is easy to under stand, from the opening welcome of Governor Green, to the final closing of the doors by Andy Frnln's ushers. . The party MUST get together, differences MUST be Ironed out and adjusted regardless of what they may be. or we might as well not name a candidate at all and let President Roosevelt stay where he Is for four years more. THAT, was the consensus as fur as the thousand-odd delegates here assembled were concerned, that was the one point upon which there was no disagreement. That also is why the final result is Dewey and Bricker. on a platform over which there is no enthusi asm, as there is no real enthusiasm for the ticket but, And here Is the milk in this particular cocoamit, against which nt least as fnr as the Republican party is concerned, THERE IS NO VIOLENT OITOSITION. Had the ticket been DEWEY AND WARREN. there would have been opposition. some at least. there would have been hurt feelings as far as Ohio and Governor Bricker are concerned. For Governor lirirkrr as Governor Is out. Had he been denied the vice presidency, he would have had nothing, hut a busted exchequer, and some strained vocal chords. Whereas Governor Warren hns two years as governor still to go. It is true that the California Governor was not crazy for the second berth In the first place Hut had the powers-that be NOT suggested that he step out In favor of the Middlewest, Governor Bricker and the great state of Ohio; them uj little doubt that because of are denied, neitner numan can survive. year is a day for pnae, our sons to fight and die is a day lor buying Donos, is aimed at the heart of firmly fixed on the Norman H.G. Ms personal popularity, his success as a key-note speaker, and the desirability of getting the electoral votes of sunny California, the personable Earl Warren of California would have been Dewey's running mate, not "Honest John." Oh well, it's great game this political onel And while from a sporting least interesting in a couple of cal and human interest angle it was interesting, as for that matter all conventions are. Which is one reason why the undersigned atteds them. And so how about Dewey? It is the same answer. There will be a big build-up terated whangdoodle, and this is written over two hours before Dewey Is due to arrive in Chicago on the plane direct from Albany this and that about the But the plain unadulterated enthusiasm in this convention either on the floor, or in the gallery, for Governor Dewey of New York. He Just doesn't happen to be the type to arouse enthusiasm. But, with that fundamental was the man, and the ONLY man (after the elimination of Wlllkie) who COULD win. Bricker, Stassen, John Doe or what you will, they couldn t reach . . The Republicans at best are starting with a terrific handicap, they have to give over a hundred electoral votes to the South before they get to the polls, and then of course, there Is the war, Even with New York state they may lose. But WITHOUT New York state they SIMPLY CANNOT win, Governor Dewey is the one can carry the state of New York How COULD there be any Tom Dewey? The answer is there lar choice, it was tl)e logical, and No one especially LIKES Tom fight and die for him. But everyone, at least everyone in this Republican convention wants to be done and Dewey and Bricker doing it.. So there you are boys and girls. LIGHT in this convention. And They may not win. But put this in your meerschaum pipe and smoke it: they will come closer to it than anv other ! have been chosen. And in this sense, and this convention just about to close complete success. R.W.R. TOE ON 4TH OF JULY Camp White July 4 will be "Just another day" at Camp White, according to an announce ment yesterday by Post Head quarters. This conforms with establish ed policies which are, and have been, in effect at all U. S. army installations In the United States and in overseas theaters. However, the WPRC plans have been completed for various forms of entertainment for its casuals. Chance to Ride Durirjg the day WPRC eques trians will ride horseuacK witn mounts from Dodge's Riding Academy at Medford. A swim' mlng party is being planned for the afternoon at the Twin riunges al Ashland. A trip to Crater Lake is also on the day's bill. Out there the GIs will enjoy chow the way they dreamed of doing it while they were eating out of mess kits. Chow will be served sizzling hot from open-hearth barbecue pits in the midst of Crater Lake scenic beauty. Outdoor Party Highlighting WPRC's Inde pendence Day entertainment will be an outdoor party in the I evening at me American ischium grounds at Asniana. Thirty-five overseas veterans will be guests of the Ashland American Legion Tost and its Women's Auxiliary. This will be followed by a dance at the Ahland USO, to w.ilch all men In uniform are in vited. 26 OF STATE Portland. Ore.. July 1 UK Twenty-six Oregon communities and many parts of the nation have adopted the labor control measures developed in the Portland-Vancouver area last fall, L. C. Stoll, war manpower director for the state, said here today. Agriculture, however, has been excluded from the labor stabilization system and the log ging and lumbering Industries operate under a moauien pro- gram which allows men to change Jobs within the Industry without "priority referral. Priority referral .Stoll said. Is a voluntary labor-management-government agreement In which no worker Is hired unless he was sent to fill that Job by the United States employment service or some other designated referral agency. Although hiring men In the logging and lumbering Industry for work in a different industry remains under the priority re ferral system, the workers may move from one Job to another with'.i the industry with a spec-' la! release from their last em ployer. Under England's Henry II. one penny every Tuesday was the iron ore miner's tax. Oh Mail rnoua. Wast AOm. standpoint this convention was the decades or more, from a psychologl- of course and all sorts of unadul office seeking the man, etc., etc. truth is, there is, and has been, no purpose of victory in mind, here first base. . man in the Republican party who so, candidate in this convention but could not be. It was not a popu therefore inevitable one. , no one wishes particularly to beat Roosevelt if it can possibly present the one best chance of There is your answer as to the there you have the ticket. available candidate that could sense alone, the 23rd Republican has, in spite of the heat, been a ALLIES SPEED UP ATTACK ON JAPS Southeast Asia Command, Kandy, Ceylon, July 1 (U.R) Victorious Allied Jungle troops have accelerated mopping up op erations In both northern Burma and Manipur state, a communi que said today, killing 352 Japa nese soldiers, capturing 200 and seizing two more of the enemy's powerful 150 mm. anti-tank can non. In the 45tn day of fighting for embattled Myltkyina on the up per Irrawaddy, Lt. Gen Joseph W. Stilwell's American-trained Chinese troops were reported to have "gained new positions" near the Waingmaw Ferry road directly below the city and to be approaching the dry-weather landing fifld Just to the west. In the Mogaung valley, the Allied communique said, Chi nese units pressed the annihila tion of isolated remnants of the Japanese 18th division, shattered In the Allied storming of Kama lng and Mogaung. Eighty surviv ors were killed at Soton. five miles below Kamalng, and 110 east of Parentu, four miles be low Mogaung In the Manipur hills some 150 miles southeast of the Mogaung valley, 162 Japanese were kil'ed late this week by British and In dian troops clearing strategic heights overlooking the Palel Tamu road below Imphal, the Allied communique reported. PETITIONS FILED Salem. Ore., July 1 (U.R) A petition calling for nearly twice the amount now appro priated for support of Oregon public schools was on file with the election division of the sec retary of state's office today. The petition, filed by the Ore gon Slate Teachers' association, carried double the necessary number of signatures. It provides for a fund equal to 45 cents a I day of attendance per student. amounting to nearly $13,000,000 in comparison with the current stale support of $7,300,000. The measure will be placed on the November ballot if the peti tion la found in order. Sut. C. E. Johnson recently scored a record of 40 consecu tive bulls eves with an Armv I pr(jn,nce carbine Adair, Ore. -'- at C a m p I Atu Vir .-v Eddie and Bath 's HIWAY STEAK AND CHOP HOUSE 16 North Riverside Ave. OPEN NIGHT and DAY Eddie and Ruth Long, Owners HOBBY FLEES TO Lawyer Says Count Scented Plot to Take'Boy to Spain By Heiress. Hollywood, July 1 (U.R) Count Kurt Haugwitz-Revent- low said in a statement issued by his attorney tonight that he had fled into Canada with his nine-year-old son, Lance, because he feared a plot by his ex-wife. m u 1 1 i millionaire Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, to spirit the boy away to a hideout in Spain. Her attorney, A. B. Landa, partner of ex-Ambassador Jo seph Davies, is reported to have influential connections in Spain," the uanlsh nobleman said through his lawyer. Joseph L. Lewinson. "It seems obvious that Count ess Barbara intended there to de fy the British court decree giv ing me custody of Lance and the right to guide his education." The dapper count who recent ly renounced his title to become an American citizen, crossed the international boundary into Van couver, B. C, today, after elud ing a staff of Miss Hutton's pri vate detectives and checking out of the swank Huntington hotel in Pasadena. Landa said the Reventlow cnarge that Miss Hutton was seeking to go to Spain was ridio ulous and Invited the count, who is now a naturalized Amer ican citizen, to return to Amer ica and present his charges in the American courts." The fragile Miss Hutton was reported ill and distraught over her son's disappearance and un able to confer with her legal ad visers over further legal steps, Including possibility that she will seek a kidnap warrant for he former husband. "The count is strictly within his legal right in going to Can ada with the boy," Lewinson said. "Miss Hutton under the British consent decree agreed that custody of the child be longed to the count. There was no question of joint custody. She merely had the privilege of hav ing the child with her for cer tain periods." T Washington, July 1 (U.Ri The State Department tonight followed up the United States break in relations with Finland by adding the names of 69 Fin nish business concerns and in dividuals to its economic black list. The blacklisting action is lit tle more than a gesture at this stage since the treasury depart ment yesterday declared all of Finland "enemy territory" sub ject to the terms of trading-with-the-enemy act. Officials said, however, that the regular addition to the blacklist, issued the first Sat urday of c. ery month, had been prepared before the severance of relations. But the names added today represent firms which aided the enemy while the United States still classified Finland as a neutral. But the action will be a se vere blow to most of the com panies when, after the war ends, they try to resume peace-time trade with the world. The State Department has warned that the blacklisted companies iri neutral nations will be the last to come off the list, thus delay ing whatever start toward re covery they are able to make Finnish firms were placed on the blacklist for the first time a month ago tonight. Then 84 names were blacklisted. To night's list brings the total to 153. ROGERS IN LONDON London, June 30. (U.R) Lt. Will Rogers. Jr., former mem ber of congress from California, has arrived in London and hopes to proceed to the fighting front soon, it was disclosed today. -r-,:-.-a i J 1 3 FRENCH EXECUTE NAZI Policy of Kindness Fails and Reprisals Follow Bul gars Busy. London, July 1 (U.R) A French communique tonight an nounced that French torces oi the interior had captured a number of German mountain troops and a customs agent along the Franco-Swiss border and would execute them in reprisal if the Germans kill FFI prison ers. (A United Press dispatch from Algiers said Free French quar ters there announced execution had already begun. "The French forces of the Interior have al ready suffered severe losses, to which must be added the execu tions of captured prisoners and also the large scale murdering of civilians by the Wehrmacht, the announcement at Algiers said. "In agreement with the French command, the local FFI commands are proceeding with legitimate measures of reprisal. In the south, six German pris oners have been shot in accord ance with the laws tf warfare." Such executions would mark a decarture from previous ei- forts to assure reciprocal kind treatment by Germans and mem bers of the French underground army who have fallen into their ! hands. French quarters here said German prisoners had been giv en every consideration and many of them had been turned free to report on their treatment to their officers. The French adopted this pro cedure when Germans encoun tered in early engagements told them, they fought to the last ditch because their officers had painted a fearsome picture of their fate if they were to fall into the hands of the Maquis. Reports reaching Sweden said the German occupation author ities at Beliegarde on the Franco Swiss fontier had posted bills threatening to raze the town if the slightest sabotage occurred. Bellegarde with a present popu lation of 5000, was said to be ruled by 3000 Cossacks serving in the German army. Partisan activity was reported elsewhere in occupied Europe. Travelers at Ankara reported that Bulgarian partisans had cap tured the Balkan mountain rail center of Cernabreg, between Sofia and Varna. Flight Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from tha fil.i of the Mail Tribune 10 and 20 y.ari ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY July 2, 1934 (It was Sunday) Longshoremen strike in Port land irks Oregon farmers. Strike leaders say Portland police to be forced to show "colors." Hitler crushes bloody revolts in Germany with iron hand, and high Germans who opposed him killed. , Roosevelt to visit Bonneville Dam August 1 and state demo-, crats are cheered. Fair and warm. High 9S, low 61 degrees. Zero hour set for breaking of San Francisco dock strike. East swelters In record heat. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July 2. 1924 (It was Wednesday) Plea of William J. Bryan for McAdoo as democratic choice for presidency brings boos at con vention. John VV. Davis of West Virginia looms as dark horse. 24 ballots taken. Rigid economy policy of Presi dent Cooltdge cuts nublic debt billion dollars in year. New revenue bill effective at midnight eliminates all wartime nuisance taxes. Fair and warm. High 103, low 61 degrees. ON SWISS BORDER FOR NEXT WINTER Buy Now GREEN PINE SLABS In 1 2" or 1 8" Lengths.. 300 cu. ft. $4.50 FOR IMMEDIATE USE FACTORY CO. ft. 200 DIAL 2123 Timber p Mi'oa taw enforcement film to be shown at Presbyterian church tonight. Flint car climbs grade be tween Government Camp and Crater Lake rim in high. Captain Shearin Of Eagle Point Gains Air Medal Headquarters 13th A A F, Southwest Pacific Presenta tion of the Air Medal and two Oak Leaf Clusters to Captain Thomas H. Shearin of Eagle Point, Ore., has been announced here The decorations were awarded for meritorious achievements in hazardous com bat flights. r4oln CVionHn. ollot of a l ..pi.ji, .... , - 13tn AAr D-.1 er, has participated in numer ous combat missions against Jap strongholds in the south, south west and central Pacific thea ters, as the 13th AAF carried its offensive launched in the battle of Guadalcanal to far flung enemy bases on Truk and New Guinea. Captain Shearin Is the son of Mrs. Jim H. Shearin. He at tended Los Angeles City Col lege and worked in West Coast- j ajrcraft plants before entering the AAF. Uao Mall TrlbUBo Want Ada. BAHCE Upper Applegate GRANGE HALL TUES. KITE JULY 4ih im"t M it LOW WEEKLY RATES AT- Across From Craterian Theatre Phone 4174 SINGLE $4.50 to $6. DOUBLE $7.50 to $12 New Simmons Inner Spring Mattresses Free Showers. Clean Roomsl Kftiri-TwrStorfrt rtW ft tYi inirl YICK SO CHINESE HERB CO. Daily 10 AM. to 6 PM. Sundays 1 1 AM. to 1 PM. Phone 5817 J. H. 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