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Offtoaa In Naw Vora, Chlcafo, Datrolt, Baa Franc iaco, Loa Anialaa, Baattla, Partlaad, fit. Lou la, Atlaata, Vaacouar. a. a Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry NO SMUDGE POT Arthur Perry, skipper of "Ye Smudge Pot," It nursing a sprained leg and is therefor unable to take the helm of his column todny. - ' Secret Air Bases for Hop to Russia Finally Revealed Seattle, Aug. 2 (U.R) Hep. Warren G. Magnuson, D., Wash., today revealed existence of the longsecret RussijnwMrnned air bases in northwestern United States, Canada and Alaska from which Soviet pilots fly American-made planes in an almost endless stream. The congressman said hun dreds of fighter planes and short-range medium bombers have been delivered to the Rus sian government at Fairbanks, Alaska, after flying the route of the Alaska highway. "For nearly two years, In bne of the war's most closely guard ed operations, American ferry command pilots and Russian airmen have been doing a tre mendous Job," Magnuson said. He said American fighter planes are delivered to a modi fication center nt Great Falls, Mont., where Russian techni cians direct removal of certain equipment they consider "ex cess gadgets". At Fairbanks, he said, tha Russians operate a military air base with ground crews, trans port pilots, weather men, fight er pilots and interpreters. "The planes are armed, adorned with the red star, load ed with 'fly-away' equipment, and dispatched to Siberia with the regularity of commercial airline operations," Magnuson said. Foots Creek Foots Creek, Aug. 2. Club met with Mrs. R. L. Miller July 28. Present were Mesdames KUe, Lane, Ccrvany, Pickard, John Barnes, Garrison, and Mrs. Joy Mecde of Medford. Tho club presented Mrs. Pickard, who Is moving to Medford, with a gift. Club will not meet again until the last Wednesday in Septem ber. The club picnic will be held at the Foots creek store Sunday, August 201h at 1 p.m. Vance Wolgamott returned from Seattle July 31. Guests at the Wolgamott home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Elvan Wol gamott and family of Englc Point, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mershon of Medford. Mrs. Walt Mclssner of Glen dale, Ore., accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Henry Miller of Grants Phss, and her guest, Mrs. Don Buckley of Burbank, Calif., called on Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Miller and Mr. and Mrs. George Lance July 29. Mrs. Buckley, the former Agnes Dietrich, lived in Gold Hill and attended school there. She has been teaching In the Los Angeles high schools for several years. Gold Hill Gold Hill. Aug. 1 Kenneth Cook, of rortlnnd, has been visiting his pnrenls, Mr. and Airs, fcarl Cook. Miss Effie Couch and Mrs Amy Martin visited friends and relatives In Grants Pass July 31. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Densmore and daughter, Sandra, were Grants Tass visitors July 30. Mr. Densmore Is now employed In Grants Pass at the S. P. ticket office, having been transferred from Medford. Special Deputy Grand Master Norman Gnil made his official visit to the IO.O.F. lodge at Grants Pass last week. Mrs. John D. Kluchett of Ccn tral Point visited friends here last week. Mlfs Katherlne Hayes visited friends and relatives In Medford and Gold Hill last week, and has returned to spend part of the summer with her brother, Cecil Hayes, at Sacramento. Calif. Miss Margaret Moultoo from Wednesday, Aug. 1, lt4 Editorial Correspondence Chicago, July 29. This, our last day in Chicago, was profitably spent. Most of it at the military display down at the former worlds fair grounds, near Soldiers Field where the big pro and college star football game will be played the last of August. ..... This military display is hooked up with the wind-up of the war-bond drive. For a bond, or a war stamp (for children) you can get a ride in a "duck", one of the amphibian trucks which have revolutionized invasion warfare. The' "ducks" were doing a land-office business while we were there with a waiting line almost as long as those In front of railway diners these days. ..... They dress you up in a fancy up the gangplank, it is a sort of overcoat cut off at the waist and full of buoyant material, as well as air. It gives the contours of the average adult frame rather a bizarre appearance, like some thing out of H. Q. Wells or the "Gentleman from Mars." Much to our surprise this duck is no duck on the land. It Is more a rail-runner for it can speed over terra firma at 30 miles an hour when pressed. In the water it slows down to well Just about the speed of a swimming duck we should say, slow but sure. There Is a propeller in the rear shielded by the indented hull, so there is no mechanism to get out of order, as there might be II something similar to the landing gear or a plane, were used. Really we would call the things alligators Instead of ducks, or 'gators for short. They slide down the ramp into the water very like alligators we have seen in Florida, slide off a log, and then proceed with their snouts sticking out like prows of an undersea craft. We rodo down the lagoon flame-throwing tug, the latter In fact we are wondering If this might not be one of the secret (Probably not or they would hardly exhibit it here on the Chicago lake front, but it is new to your correspondent and terrifying is a mild term for it.) When we reached the shore they put on a flame throwing demonstration. Imagine some giant smoking a cigar and blowing smoke-rings; only instead of rings make them small balloons of solid roaring, consuming fire, which advance pretty much on a straight horizontal line, depending of course upon how the ma chine is operated. That huge ball is solid flame mind you, it advances steadily, and unless It should be met by a huge wind machine, or a sudden tornado, there is nothing to stop it. It Just goes ahead until It burns out. Nothing alive can live if touched by HI Multiply that machine by say a hundred, and what have Messrs. Adolf and Hirohito?! Later the boys put on a sham battle, an Invasion attack against enemy defenses. What struck us even more forcibly than the superb equipment was the physical fitness of these soldiers, husky lads each in the pink and appearing to enjoy themselves like a bunch of kids playing football. Add to this a walk around the grounds showing by detailed exhibits, what the Yanks have to fight with and what the Germans and Japs have, and there is your answer to what has been hap pening now for over a year in the Far East and in Europe. Of course there may have been improvements in enemy equip ment since these weapons, food rations, uniforms, hospital units, etc., etc., were captured then again there may not, but striking an average on both sides making our own war tools a little less Imposing and the enemy's a little more so, and still Uncle Sam has it over Germany and Japan like a tent. No wonder the enemy Is llckedl Take It down to such minor equipment, shoes end the like. The U. S. ropes and the Jap ropes were given tests, the former standing ten times what the crude and the bedding and the rations, well it all added up to one JC'" Cl1 preparations, on me simple outstanding fact: the Germans and Japs as far as fighting i other hand, so far have been tools are concerned, are simply OUTCLASSED. methodical organization of his It is a case of the greatest industrial nation in the world, and 1 Pnrtv B 11 nas npvcr bcen or the nation that has not only led the world but Drecticallv sunnlled Knnized before while out of the it with modern articles of peace for four decades, suddenly being transformed into a nation of war, outdistancing the rest of the world in one department as completely ai it always has In the other. And It Is that superior equipment which adds uo to suDcrlor firing power and superior resistance, which is winning this war at such an accelerated pace. The enemy might scour Europe and the Far East and somehow match our MANpower; but they simply can't match our WEAPON our machine and machine product power. They haven't the machines, the raw materials or as far as the Japs are concerned the mechanical genius. Equally profitable but In a different way was a trip down to Washington Pork this afternoon, run lor $au,uuu added. What we don't know about horses would overflow the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, but going down lucky enough to sit with a gal (oh she may never see her 40th birthday again!) who had Just come up from the winter races in Mexico City, and was working out her card with the aid of Racing Form and a lot of shrewd sense. We knew enough, after slzina her un. to keen th editorial mouth shut and tho grandstand ... ...w.. Uv..wv Dim iuiv. favorites and long-shots. No one is going to believe this but It Is gospel nevertheless: In EVERY race but the first, which we missed anyway, she picked at least one horse that was In the money. In the handicap the big race of the day, she picked No. 1 and No. 2, Just as they came In, War Knight and Georgle Crum. If we had only followed the dope Just as she gave It, but wouldn't you know it? we couldn't believe anyone lived who was as smart, or as lucky as that! (Oh, that you Gene, how about a little sight-draft for SO bucks on August 1st?) ..... Yes this Is An Rcvolr to the Windy City after the longest consecutive stop here since the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, when we stayed three weeks. And In spite of the dirt, physical and moral, which Infests this midwest metropolis your correspondent has enjoyed it, and to repeat, wo believe profited by It. In about an hour we board the Milwaukee "Olympian" for Aber deen, S. D.. where we have been called on a business matter and then to Medfnrd by a somewhat circuitous but we trust depend able route. Hope the weather at home will be as It was when we left' R.W.R. Medford It visiting Eileen Frost. Mrs. Jack Cannon visited friends recently In Grants Pass. Mrs. Elsie Cook and children of Medford visited Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Densmore for several days. Arky Ward of Medford recent ly visited Mr. and Mrs. 11. A. Densmore. Mr. Ward is a former resident of Gold Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis McGuIre returned from Tygart to com plete plans for moving their house furnishings from Gold Hill. Mrs. Dorwln Maple Is now slaying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Moore. Mr. Mapre Is In the marine corps, now sta tioned overseas. Orpha Mlllspaugh, of Pros pect, Is visiting her cousin, Orpha Martin. Mrs. Sidney Baker Is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Martin. Wilbur Martin left for Idaho July 24 to look after business colorful name fans had a new ! chapters In relief activities fol Interests. j on(l ln ,-fturn when Pvt. Red ! lowing the April floods and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Robinson's J Fox was assigned to hradquar-1 hallytnrms which took five lives on, "Robbie," recently wasl ters here, land injured 10 persons. life preserver before they let you around a small transport, and a something entirely new to us. new flame-throwing apparatus U. S. weapons now talked about. details as ropes, drinking water Jap affairs would. The clothes i to see the Arlington Handicap on the I.C. race-train we were flogs were In sight far off on ul Bliu Sav. US lltr .CiCtllUIl . awarded the Air Medal and the Oak Leaf Cluster. Lt. Kelly Clements has reach ed his permanent station In India. Wr!!i'0r.0h0.m3''' lW'n fU during th. . , ; : ; " . mis. iiunn cirri. J. F. Smith, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith, Is home on leave. Joe Is a baker second class. Jill Martin, Ruth Lance, Mary Lou Tigart and Myrtle Thomp son drove to Ashland July 23 for a picnic and swim. Mr. fTi-iOvn f 41ni ai,t itntii-h.! ter, Barbara, spent the past two irr, iiaruara, spent inc past two weeks as guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Densmore. They are Join-' Ing Mr. Ledine. who is stationed, at Seaside In the Radar service. FOX TAKES OVER Camp Roberts, Cal. U.P. Tvt. Black Calf was discharged from the armv Inst work hut . News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 2 Govern or Dewey is going about his campaign In a novel way. His tactics seem to be to keep qui et and organize before he lets go. . He has gone about it with greater pains than any candidate i n my time. Ap parently he has spent every minute since his nomination at the task. ram Maiton Mr. Roosevelt's campaign has been indirect and, on the sur face, wholly involved with war and peace developments. His , r 0 j e 3 commander-in-chief. I When the Democratic conven- tlon was following directions, he was inspecting an aviation plant on the west coast. It Is Impossible to contend war events, which he is leading, have no campaign effect, because they may be a controlling factor In whether he wins or loses. If General MacArthur should hapDen to lead an Invasion force back Into Manila within the next three months, the reaction here would be favorable to Mr. Roose velt's chances. Victory in Eu rope, unless It. happened to be entirely a Russian breakthrough, also mliht have a profound cam paign effect. On the International political side, the Breton Woods confer ence has developed the contro versial financial bank measure, which Mr. Roosevelt apparently Is going to keep out of the cam paign by refraining from pre senting it to congress until the January session after election. Mr. Hull is arranging a prelim inary peace conference here of the big powers, and my guess has always been that this will prepare the way for the presi dent to go to Europe for a big peace conference before Novem ber. These developments alone may constitute his campaign, ex cept that designated spokesmen like Senator Wagner and others may make speeches carrying the purely political campaign prom ises, outlining what the presi dent Is doing, saying- what he proposes to do if elected. White House. The moment the convention was over, he started on the ground in Chicago with roundups of national committee men and women In groups of five or six. He not only con ferred with, but he listened to every state chairman as well. To them he said this campaign was a Joint venture. Indeed, he gavfc Brickcr more consideration then and later than a vice-presidential candidate usually gets. Returning to Albany, he start ed receiving state delegations of congressmen (without their state chairmen). He has heard Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas sachusetts. Connecticut separate ly, so far. Those who attended these meetings said they were like lodge meetings. Dewey did not make a speech, but simply devoted the meeting to under- standing and organization. His II 11113 HlWIj I1UVC KIVC1 IIIIII credit for exceptional skill in organization. On his trip west, he called In the Pennsylvania state delega tion at Pittsburgh, the Illinois delegation at Springfield, and is getting the 28 Republican gov ernors into his organizational ring with his planned two-day meeting at St. Louis. ... rVBVIOUSLY, Dewey's game Is to concentrate through his organization upon those 26 states which will give him the election hands down. If he can get them. During all this time, the usual campaign comments that daily emanate from a candidate have been avoided. Thus while neither candidate has spoken much for himself, their actions have bespoken the personal contrast which Is to be the basis of the campaign that will develop. PERILS OF OUTFIELD Boston vU.PJ Told that her bemedalled aviator-son. on leave Boston Red So pre-game prac tice session. Mrs. Fred Nason told Manager Joe Cronin: "Get him ,-iut of there quick. He'll be killed!" 'CHUTE PAJAMAS "Mount Vernon, 111. iU.P. Lt. George Reece Grissom, station- cA In Itnlv hn ?mit,,-l . m for a camouflage 'chute. He. tor a camouflage chute. 1 wrote home that he's going have a pair of silk pajam to pair of silk pajamas made from one and he predicted' that they flashy." would "really be Thirty-six national Red Cross representatives arrived in Kan- a t, ait Irw.l fr.ic F Fliers Healthier Than They Were at Home; Week's Leave Aids Nerves. By Francis L. McCarthy United Press Correspondent Northwestern Area, South west Pacific (U.R) American airmen of air group "X," who live In pyramidal tents on the edge of airfields hacked out of the Australian bush, are enjoy ing better health on the whole than they did at home, Flight Surgeon MaJ. Levon K. Garron of (2355 Jones St.) San Francis co, reported today. Flying fatigue is "Doc" Gar ron's biggest problem to date. Because personnel of the group fly some of the war's longest overwater missions their aver age strike lasts from 10 to 15 hours they begin to show sign's of strain after 150 hours of com bat flying, he believes. A week's leave for every three months of combat flying eases pilots' mental strain, but "Doc" doesn't think it should end there. He believes instead in a "rest cure" policy In three phases. Big City First The rest cure starts with a week's leave in a big city, where flying crews can let off steam. Then comes another week of rest in quiet surroundings with plenty . of fresh air and fresh eggs, butter and milk. After this phase comes the third when the crows are gradually "rebroken" into combat flight. With the rest cure plus the current replacement policy for combat personnel, problems of flight fatigue in group "X" have eased up recently, Garron said. Topography of this American camp area, deep In the heart of Australia's wilderness, is gener ally flat. Tents nestle in heavily wooded bivouac areas among low, rolling hills. Humidity is at a minimum during warm days and cool nights. Sanitation Good Good sanitation prevails throughout the camp. There are no fly or mosquito breeding sites of any importance. The water supply for the camp is through a deep-bore well. Housing conditions are gener ally excellent. All buildings are of semi-permanent construction with concrete floors, and tin sides and roofs. Buildings are screened where possible. Very little dysentery or fun gus infection has occurred. This was believed due to careful supervision of the area and per sonal sanitation. Only malaria to appear in this area came several months ago after several of the heavy bomb er crews were operating from New Guinea bases for a few weeks. ENEMY. BLIND, IS LENIEN By Dennis Dalton United Press Correspondent Cleveland (U.R) The story of a crime career that started with the wrong gang of kids and earned Charles Bird the name of the nation's public enemy No. 2 had a happy ending In federal court. Bird, whose bank robberies and daylight holdups were climaxed by Cleveland's worst Jailbreak, could not hold back the tears when Judge Robert N. Wilkin pronounced sentence. 'This man apparently has ac quired spiritual Insight," the Judge said. "He really wants a chance to find a place of useful ness, and I'm willing to give him that chance." Judge Wilkin permitted Bird to withdraw a plea of guilty to a kidnaping charge and then Im posed five five-year suspended sentences on robbery counts. The court's leniency was mo tivated by Bird's loss of sight through an operation and his subsequent change of mental outlook while serving a term in Maryland state prison, Balti more, Md. In court In his behalf was a Baltimore attorney who came here at his own expense and read a number of letters of rec-j ommendation from the Mary land prison warden, clergymen, various societies and private citizens. v Bird, who a one time was termed by an accomplice as "the IS EPILEPSY INHERITED 1 WHAT CAUSES IT? A booilel contamifie Kse oeialoni of fo ewos doctors on this tftfraHf nbied will be seel Rtt, while itiav let!, syr rMdw writing to I. Uutdtienel DMkh S3S 'if Ae..Ns Tors. N T. Peot 1166 'Historic" Meeting's East and West iLi 'JZL . JZ L V at .xK., .vg ' ON FRANCE FRONT After bitter 6htinJ, tho 6rtt British troops enter Caen and greet tho two chief French patriota who auyed in the city's ruins. fit wm ON BURMA FRONT A few daya before the Caen meeting, this lower pic ture waa taken when Indian toldiera driving north from Imphal met British troops battering their way south from Kohima. Thus, after much hard hgbtiog, in which Indian and British troops killed more than 15,500 Japs, the whole ef the Imphal-Kohima road was freed for traffic. toughest man I have ever seen," had a Job in Baltimore await ing him so he could support his wife and two children there, the attorney said. The Cleveland jailbreak oc curred In Sentember. 1937. when his wife, Barbara, smuggled in guns. Up to mat lime nis rec ord included 26 daylight truck holdups, several bank - rob beries, a previous Jan DreaK and the death of a woman under the wheels of an automobile he had stolen. After his escape Bird was ,-nr.liirnH in Mnrvlnnd and then. in a reformatory, his personal ity changed, was nis reiorm worth the loss of his eyesight? "Look, since I have been in prison I lost my sight," he said. "I have been blind for several years. I am living in a world of darkness. Perhaps someone s prayers were answered and this is the result. But if giving up my eyesight was necessary to bring me to my senses, then it was well worth it. Rirri now 32. said his crime career started with "the wrong gang of kids who stole liwc thines at first and then moved up the lawless scale. "If parents had a ocuer un derstanding of their children and maintained n Rtrnnecr hand over them, problems like mine would not arise, ne saia. His wife is working in a Bam more war plant and caring for their two children. One of the children, a daughter, Bird has never seen. 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 August 2. 1934 (It was Thursday) Field Marshal von Hlnden burg, president of Germany and war hero dies. Adolf Hitler takes plae. Oregon broke and In need of leadership, Gen. Martin, Demo cratic nominee for governor de clares. New Communist drive pected In California. ex- Fair, with occasional cloudi ness. High 89, low 56 degrees. Mrs. Roosevelt visits Bend on way north by auto. President Roosevelt aboard cruiser Houston enters Colum bia river. To visit Bonneville dam Friday. Mrs. Royal Brown of Eagle Point leaves for Portland for a three weeks visit. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 2, 1924 (It was Saturday) Butte Falls high school to Highest Prices Paid for Clean USED CARS We See Itt We Do If! AUTOMOBILE MARKET 6th and Bartfctt Sts. Phone 3919 have a music course coming school year. An Eden valley hen lays a perfect egg, wrapped in a paper like substance. Work starts on Central Point school gymnasium. Hot weather hits water sup ply in the Elks Creek district. Fog balks dash of army planes from Orkneys to Iceland. President Coolldge, his first year in the White House, work ing on speech of acceptance. Cloudy. High 84, low 50 de grees. Gov. Pierce proposes law to increase gasoline tax a cent. No deer hunting In forests un less it rains is state game board edict. PYTHON IMPROVING Evansville, 111. (U.R) The ail ing python at Mesker Park zoo is showing signs of improve ment, and Fred Marks, doctor for the reptile, intimated that if improvement continues an at tempt might be made to feed it. Marks said the snake would have to be removed from its box In order to be treated, and to remove the snake would require a crew of eight or 10 men. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada. people .iana to' ice man to W wolfeng haid thiouo. h eT. Busiest wl0"i.baya them U .ennceuten Missionary Will Speak Sunday in J'ville Church Jacksonville, Aug. 2. (Spl.) Miss Irene Forsythe, who spent many years in China as a Pres byterian missionary, will speak Sunday, Aug. 6, in the Jackson ville Presbyterian church here under the auspices of the Jack sonville Presbyterian Missionary society. Miss Forsythe, who re mained' in a Japanese-occupied section of China after the start of the war until arrangements were made for her return on the Gripsholm, is said to be a most interesting speaker. The general public is invited to hear Miss Forsythe. The speaker is well known in Oregon through her missionary work and is a sister of Mrs. Ray Achor of Oregon City. She is to be in the valley for a week and is to fill speaking engage ments for other Presbyterian congregations. A reception will be held at the church in her honor following the lecture and the public is also invited to this affair. Mrs. Hilda Nygren Funeral Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Hilda Nygren, who passed away Tuesday, will be conducted from the Perl Funeral home Saturday at 2 p. m., the Rev. Harry Han sen officiating. Interment will be in the family plot. 60 MILLION CROP Austin, Tex. (U.R) Wheat farmers of Texas' North Pan handle region can expect an av erage cash return from their crop this year of $5,000 a farm, the University of Texas, Bureau of Business Research has estim ated. Total cash income from wheat for the area is expected to be $60,000,000. POLICE SHOOT SNAKE Topeka, Kan. (U.R) Police officers shot a four-foot black snake out of a tree here recently after residents phoned and re ported the snake was preying on young birds. PROMPT O " i REASONABLE RATES MOVING VAN SERVICE - a -VI It A MCKING, CKAUNu LSTORAGE DISTRIBUTION LOCAL CARTAGE CALL US WHEN YOU NEED ANY OF THESE SERVICES 703 North Central PHONE 7104 "ST M-T-eaf
