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' f Mr. J' BIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. July 9. 1944 MedfordWtribum; i la Smith r On iw tadi th Mall Trlbnn" ll n i. l r l I I H flitnuml I nvvninnnHnno 1 1 Dmllr Except A tar day PublUhtd br MIDFORD PUINTINO OCX. T- Worth rir l PbM tll BOB CRT W. IttTHU Editor. IlNSIT R- OIL TRAP. Uonaffor. Ao lBdpadt.at Newspaper, laUrtd oaoend oIbh matter at Hd Cord. OrOB, under Act of March I 1171. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advoacot Dally and Sunday1 ono roar. ..,.fT.M HaJly and Bundayoli month.,, 4 (1 Dally and Sunday thrao nontht. Lit Dally and Subdar na month... .71 fey Carrier In Advaoca Mad ford. Ath Jaad, Cantral Point, Jackaonvllla, Oald . SHI, Phoanls. Talent, aad as motor i rooteat I Dally aad Sncdar ona yaar Dally aad Sunday .ana month. .7 All terme aaab la adranc. 'AERIAL BLITZ OF JAPAN By SUPER F Official pmiw of tbo City of MadfarS Official Popor of Jarltana Coanty USURER OP AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advartlalnc Representative WIBT-HOLLIDAT COMPANY. I NO. fttfloea In Naw York. Chicago, Detroit, Bu Pranetaco, Loa An Seattle, Portland. SU loula, AtlaaU, Vaaeoovar. B. a Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry German robot planes continue to land in England. New Deal robot delegates have started landing In Chicago to nominate the Fourth Term candidate. , The F. Perl boy Blllle had a birthday Wed. He is not yet a teen-ager. Valley corn is now waist high, being activated by Old Sol the past week. Older Girls report plenty of flies to get in the ointment, If there was any ointment to get into. The Dick Phalr boy Dick, and girl Karlyn, were divorced from their tonsils in mid-week. . Capt. Weldon McBee, who has been in Australia and New Guinea (or 26 months, is back on a furlough, visiting old friends and vistas. Herr HI"er informed the Ger man people Wed. they are fight ing for their existence and his, in a speech. His remarks were devoid of any dramatic tan trums. J. R. Coleman, 10, of Portland In here visiting kin, and attend ing to business. Orchard Ists report the Boscs and Bartlctts are looking fine, and say the same thing about them. Motorcycles are again rampant on business arteries, causing pedestrians to jump for safety and from fear. . Thirty-three marriage licenses were Usucd in the county during June, without a "pep visitation" or shlvaree. An enraptured southern con gressman proposes the First I ady for president. It is believed if she ever gets used to the White House, she will like it. . Soma criticism of the local summer is heard. It comes chief ly from critics standing in the hade, and wearing Panama hats. No politician, as feared by the GOP convention, as yet has told Gen. Eisenhower how to run the war In Europe. If one does, he will be decorated with the Cross of the Red Face, with Burning En.- attached. Wild roses are In bloom in the iells and dales. They are Just as pretty, and have as many thorns as Caroline Tcstout, a leader of the Hose family, but seldom if ever pdorn a front-room vase. Outdoor enthusiasts report t Mh fish and mosquitoes are bit ing briskly in their habitats. ... Abe Kumling, 72, the Apple gate trapper is tossing liny for Ed Kubll, and is no sluuch with a pitchfork. Atty R. Moore found himself In the woods and unable to see a tree Fil., in a letter to the ed. He avers, asserts, and alleges the GOP has no campaign Issue. They only have enough issues to give every lawyer In the land four. The 4th of July passed quiet ly, with nothing stirring but a few rumors. In Salem, autolit weia caught with their wind shields cleaned, and no federal auto tax stamp thereon. A number of weather beaten motor vehicles, also whipped by phone poles, locomotives, con crete posts, and hay wagons, have been resuscitated, to run out of gas unexpectedly. JAILED FOR STILL Los Angeles, July 8 flJ.FD George Dalley, 44, had his own solution to the liquor shortage but today It led him to Jail on a felony charge of operating a still. Fall of Saipan Paves Way For Action Against Mik ado's Realm. Washington, July 8 (U.R) A tremendous sea and land-based aerial blitz In the near future against Japan's highly concen trated war industry was shap ing up tonight following the sec ond American super-fortress at tack on key enemy Industrial, naval and military targets in the homeland and in China. Conquest of Saipan island, now nearlng its conclusion, will place American bombers less than 1,500 miles from Japan on the Pacific side of the empire. This factor, together with the China-based B-29's and the powerful U. S. carrier task forces which have smashed at enemy targets barely 600 miles from Tokyo, presaged an un precedentedly devastating aer ial assault at the very vitals of the island empire. Although the -enemy's posi tion Is comparatively favorable In China, all in all, the war is Rockford, 111., July 4. O tempora, O mores! Can this really be the "4th" in dear old Rockford? Not even the sound of one torpedo or so much as the smell of one stick of punk. It's like Sunday, and when we lived here, the racket started when the sun came up, and never quit until the moon went DOWNI Well from the standpoint of one of the older boys it's a great Improvement; but wonder what the kids of the present generation think about it? . Perhaps they will be treated to some safe and sane fireworks tonight, unless, as Is more likely with the war on, all explosives are out. Rockford reminds us of Medford In one particular, Camp Grant near here Is much like Camp White, or as Camp White was a year ago. There are about 30,000 men out there, and several thousand German prisoners, as a result KocKlorq is having a tough time to keep up. After nearly two weeks we arrived here much In need of laundry and dry cleaning. Can't get either Inside of two weeks! And as a hotel guest too, the Nelson hotel which was a sort of "second home" for the undersigned for many years. But no longer, and to our MUTUAL satisfaction! This morning no breakfast, the girls decided not to work on the 4th! And two hand towels is the bathroom allowance, until the laundry comes back. Only one elevator is running and there are no bell-boys at all, nor room service. (We have an idea that great master of spoon-play Harry Watson will be Interested In noting all this.) And when Aunt A called by phone this morning she was informed no one was registered here under the name of tne undersigned! (Never heard of him!) It Is nearly a week since the Republican convention closed and we are gaining a better perspective no doubt. As we have often stated all values are comparative, depending largely upon what one expects. The plain fact is we expected nothing from Dewey, and as a result, the big sensations of the convention to us were the governor's acceptance speech and hi first cress conference. Both from our view-point were grand slams doubled and doubled back. Not because they were intrinsically i going vw bad for Jaoa n And so marvelous perhaps, but because they so far exceded our ex- ftrdestTned to growTorse "n This was particularly true of that press conference. In the first place it was the largest press conference we have ever attended, the place was packed, and with some of the sharpest and keenest newspaper reporters in the business. There were plenty of Roosevelt backers among them and at least one avowed Communist. In short It was by no means a hand-picked or even a friendly audience, several of the boys were out to get Dewey's goat, show him up if it was possible to do so. If ever a presidential candidate was on a spot when he walked Into that Journalistic lion's den, the New York Governor was, and of course he realized it, as did everyone present. Yet one would never have suspected it from his behaviour, not only when he came In but throughout the conference, and when he left. And it was nothing put on, you can't fake those things before a group of old-time newspaper men, and we talked with enough of them afterward to know that the impression we received was the general one. Dewey really was MASTER OF THE SITUATION THROUGH OUT, relaxed, perfectly at ease, ready for any question that might be presented, and If there was to be any heckling one felt ha was prepared for that. Now to give a couple of examples of the man's coolness and quick thinking. The Chicogo Sun and the Daily Worker had representatives there, the latter avowed Communistic, both papers bitterly, op posed to the Republican party and its candidate. The former with the manner of heaving a bomb shell inquired: "Governor, would you welcome the editorial support of the Chicago Tribune?" The entlro crowd broke out Into uproarious laughter, for the Chicago Tribune only a few months ago, had rend Dewey out of the party, had bitterly opposed Willkle and is the epitome .of uncompromising isolationism In this country. There was also a catch In the query, like "have you stopped beating your mother-in-law?" "yes" or "no" and you Bre trapped. Dewey laughed with the rest, then leaning back against the table, he waited until the room became quiet again, then came back pleasantly and directly: I haven t received it as yet, but I shall welcome the support of any and every good American newspaper In the country!" Now is that SMART or Isn't It? The Communist reporter fired a couple then, approximately as follows: "Would you modify the securities and exchange act?" Without a moment's hesltotlon Dewey declared that this act In his Judgment was one of the best things the Roosevelt administra tion had done, that what he would do if elected would be to improve both administration and quality of appointments, so there would be better protection for both investments and in vestors." Again, Is that smart, or isn't It? i The next question by the "Red" was as to whether or not Dewey would endorse the GOP platform favoring the return of the pro tective and high tariffs, and the general foreign trade plank. Dewey thought this over a moment, then very seriously and earnestly said, something like this (We are reporting from memory and can't claim exactitude): "The plank says nothing about high tariffs. It only mentions ADEQUATE tariffs, and was the result of compromise, therefore vague and subject to more exact Interpretation later on. But In my Judgment the heart of this whole matter Is contained In the pledge Hint under a Republican administration this country will work with all other countries to promote International trade and world prosperity, and throuRh them, world peace end security." . . . Isn't that what Mr. Hull has tried to do In his reciprocal trade agreements?" was then asked. "Yes," replied Mr. Dewey, a slight smile flitting over his face, he has THIED to do It! and might I point to a historical fact lhat the Idea of reciprocal tariffs is Republican doctrine. So I would sny that Secrelnry Hull has ably carried out a Republican principle and policy!" Well so one might go on, through the entlro conference, but this may give SOME idea of why the undersigned was so enthusiastic over Governor Dewey's first press conference. We could in fact not resist comparing it with President Harding s first conference some 23 years ago, Warren G., was so nervous and agitated he could senrccly aitlculnte, much less think things out on his feet. Wo don't rxpect Rnw-lecie Moore or Verne Canon to agree with us. but we believe the Impartial hand of political history will sustain our contention that Tom Dewey up to date, has happily surprised even his most ardent supporters, as to his coolness, clear thinking, resourcefulness and general all around evidence of being In the best sense of the term, of genuine presidential timber. R.W.U. Chinese Stand at Hengyang, Devastation Dealt by U.S. Air Force Encouraging. t was a ghost town. Only soldiers marched through tne streets. The battle for Hengyang is the most critical in the whole far eastern war situation. The loss of Hengyang might well mean the loss of other American air bases, which would severely curtail operations of the 14th AAF In aiding Chinese ground troops. The next few days should tell the story of whether the Jap anese drive will be stopped. (Official reports July 5 said the Chinese garrison still held the city against Japanese as saults.) the coming months. This is the way the American Pacific time table now logically appears for the near future: 1. Invasion of Rota and the former American base at Guam in the southern Marianas soon after Saipan is conquered. 2. New amphibious opera tions in the central Pacific, per haps in the Caroline islands, to straighten the American line for the anticipated jpush on the Philippines and uie Japanese homeland itself. 3. Invasion of the southern Philippines, perhaps in the late fall when the monsoon season ends In that area, with prepar a 1 1 o n a 1 operations by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces in the western New Guinea area. 4. Coordinated aerial assaults on Japan proper from bases in China and in the western Pa cific, together with an acceler ated air and submarine cam paign against the main sea ar teries of enemy supply and com munications. It was also possible that di versionary moves, designed to spread Japan's sea and air forces still thinner, would be made against the Kurile islands in the north Pacific; against en emy military bases on the China coast and in the interior; and In the Dutch Eas t Indies by Lord Louis Mountbatten's naval-air elements. Portland, Ore., July 8 (U.R) The 54th meeting of the Pres byterian Synod of Oregon will discuss Christian education at its first session here Wednesday.1 (Editor's note United Press War Co-respondent John Hlava cek has completed a two-week tour of the China battlefront. He reports in the following delayed dispatch that pessimism over the military situation there Is chang ing to guarded optimism.) By John Hlavacek United Press War Correspondent 14th U. S. Air Force Base in China, June 30 (U.R) The en couraging stand of the Chinese army at Hengyang and the dev astation heaped upon Japanese troop and supply columns by 14th U. S. army air force fight ers and bombers has given a brighter outlook to the military situation In central China, it was apparent today. I have traveled for two weeks by jeep, airplane, boat and foot, along the front battle lines. J found a more optimistic attitude toward the wor, as contrasted to the extreme pessimism previ ously prevalent. Hengyang Base Lost During the past two weeks the Hangyang air base in Hunan Province has been lost to the use of the 14th air force. Nevertheless American fight ers and bombers have been fly ing from dawn to night, in all kinds of weather, in an effort to halt the Japanese advance. This aerial onslaught by the 14th is partly responsible for the chang ed picture. I was present at Hengyang during the last days that the Americans held the air field. I left June 22 after the field was destroyed. While at Hengyang, I saw all the preparations for the battle now being fought there. All the civilian population had been evacuated from the city and Chinese soldiers were building pill boxes, trenches, road blocks and emplacements to halt the Japanese advance. The Hengyang railway station was crowded with refugees. Everywhere I saw the same pic-1 ture people uprooted from their homes, trying to get to a place of safety. Trains Crowded Trains in Hengyang station were unbelievably crowded with humanity. People occupied every available space. Coaches were so jammed that windows were used as exits. Evacuees even clung to the cow catchers on locomotives, and some cars had baggage boards slung on the underside. rods WHISKEY, LETTERS BY Portland, Ore., July 8 (U.R) Soldiers and marines on Guadal canal listed whiskey and mail as the things they wanted most, Col. Wyman Fiske Marshall, new commander of the marine air base at Corvallls, told postmast ers here at the annual state postmasters conference. Col. Marshall was assigned to transport on Guadalcanal, bring ing in supplies from bases 800 or 900 miles oway and evacuat ing the wounded. Describing some of his ex periences, he said, "the second time I landed It waa pitiful. They came running from all directions out of the coconut groves to see whether we were bringing gas, bombs and oxygen or word from their families." Japanese are tough in the jungle and tricky, Marshall said. And their pilots In the air were good fighters. But he also told of Jap stupidity when forma tions or plans were broken up, citing a time when 1800 were mowed down in a funnel trap and 1800 more came single file into the trap an hour later. TROOP SHIP, LOST ON PACIFIC REEF Storms Beset Luxury Liner; Entire Crew Back In the States. ready to abandon ship, but when daylight came It was determined the vessel was not going to sink. Then began the battle that lasted for over three months. The crewmen called the episode "100 days on a reel." San Francisco, July 8 (U.R) The famed President Grant troop convoy and former round- the world luxury liner, broke up in a South Pacific storm after her crewmen fought for 100 days to get the huge vessel off a reef, the War Shipping Al- ministration disclosed here to day. The crewmen of the 13,050 dead weight ton vessel, the for mer Dollar Line SS President Adams, were celebrating their return to their home port of San Francisco today from five months at sea. Their feet had not touched land since they sail ed from here last January. For most of them it was their first trip to sea. No lives were lost when the huge vessel went aground on a reef within ten miles of its des tination. Recurring storms foiled every attempt of the sweating crewmen to get the great ship afloat. No enemy action was involved. Finally, 100 days after the ship grounded, rescue vessels nearly had the ship free when the heavy seas of a sudden tropi cal storm broke the back of the vessel. The merchant seamen told a story of a heroic three months' long struggle to save their crippled vessel. While weathering a heavy storm the big ship struck a reef at 5:10 a. m. when only 10 miles from port. All hands were held Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10 and 20 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY July 9, 1934 (It was Monday) Military rule for San Francls m in nrosneet as teamsters threaten to strike and tie up city business. Cannery Bartlett prices fixed at $35 and $32.50 per ton for valley. President Roosevelt aboard cruiser headed for Colombia. Wheat reduction and process tax to be continued. Valley spud growers and grocers to meet and discuss marketing prices. Fair. High 84, low 53 degrees. Boy Scout camp opens at Lake 'o Woods. First republican picnic at Portland attracts 4,000 people. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July 9, 1924 (It was Wednesday) John W. Davis of West Vir ginia nominated by democrats for presidency on 103rd ballot. "Peerless Leader" Bryan irked by choice. Fair and warm. High 102.5, low 61 degrees. Carl Y. Tengwald and family leave on auto trip to Washington state. Myron Root orchard in Fern Valley sold to James Bushong. Cities of valley urged to unite by Portland speaker at noon forum. L SWOONS AT $5,000 BOND SALE Phoenix, Ariz., July 8 (U.R) A department store salesgirl In ! the 3rd army of the Fifth War I Loan got one of the fastest pro-i motions in history today, buti the wear and tear on her nerves was something else. ' : The girl, a corporal, needed i one more bond sale to become! a sergeant. When she asked a male customer to buy the bond, he said: "I'll take a $5000 one," and pulled out a roll of thousand dollar bills. The salesgirl fainted. When she was revived she found she was a four-star general. Clofttng time for ClftMltltd ids 0 ' a tn TYWI T tn r'l.I, TV 1 J .411 When I left Hengyang the city p.' m.' OPEII TODAY -and Every Day 10:30 A.M. 9:30pTm. BUY WAR HUNT'S Specialty ICECREAM X w- SHOP Us he favorite place for ' U "' ""M ' "tv fountain good- - ."., V i lei. Where SERVICE Y . . s: and QUALITY meet Sjfc-?3rj at Main and Bart-iett. WALLACE ON WAY Great Falls, Mont., July 8 (UP.) Vice-President Henry A. Wallace was here today rn route from China to Washington, D. C, where he will make a confiden tial report to President Roose velt, Public Relations Officer Edward F. Carr of the Great Fills army air base announced. "Mr. Wallace is here and is en route to Seattle, Wash., where he plans to make radio ad dress Sunday afternoon," Lt. Carr said. The vice-president, who has completed an extensive tour of Siberia and China, will make no statement concerning his trip until he reports to the president, Cnrr said. Wallace arrived In Great Falls aboard an army bomber from Edmonton, Alia., last night. FACES SLAY1NG1 CHARGE Santa Rosa, Calif., July 8 01 R William Ashton Riley, 84, will face a preliminary hearing July 15 on charges he murdered his wealthy employer, Mrs. Jessie Brassill, Calistoga road rancher. i Another Unsolicited Tribute- TO DAVIS TRANSFER SERVICE READ LEONARD MAYFIELD'S FINE LETTER Transfer & Storage Co. 40 SO FIR PHONE 28S8 MARSHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS MARSHFIELD, OREGON JULY 1, 1944 MR. FRED ROBINSON co DAVIS TRANSFER COMPANY MEDFORD, OREGON DEAR FRED: I WANT TO EXPRESS APPRE CIATION TO YOU AND YOUR MEN FOR THE FINE JOB OF MOVING YOU DID FOR US. YOUR MEN WERE PLEASANT, COURTEOUS, AND CAREFUL AT ALL TIMES. SINCERELY YOURS, Leonard L. B. MAYFIELD SUPERINTENDENT LBM:FB
