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SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday- August 3, 1644 jMDFORDiTllIBUNE J 'Vtwtmm to Bonthmrn Ore B4MMU th MftiJ Tribune Published by MJEDFOHD PRINTINO CO, ST-Bt North Fir L Pboat I HI RODBRT W. RUHU Kdltor. aWKNBST R. OILATRAP. Ma.ncor. A a tadapaatlMit NwipApr. KaUr4 m mood 1im mattar at Ud W4, Orfon, under Yot o( March a, 1111 fll INSCRIPTION RATES Sr Wail In Advaocat pajly and Bunrtar on yaar. T.H j Daily and Sunday six months. 4.M ! lally and Bunday thraa moot ha. S.lt Dally and Bunday na month... .T fry Carrlar la Advaoca Medford. Aih land, CantraJ point. Jaltaonvllla, Gold Hill. Phoenix. TaJaat. and m motor rootaat Dally and gundar na yar ff.lt I Daily and Sunday .ona month. .11 AU tarma aaa la advaaea. WHal Papar af tiie City mt Madfard OfflrlaJ Paper af Jackaoa Coaaty United Preae Toll Leaded Wlra HBUHER OP AUDIT BU&BAtT OP CIRCULATIONS Advert letnf RepraaeatatlT WMT-HOLM DAT COMPANY, INQ. Offleee tn New York. Chlaaco, Detroit, Sen Pranclaeo, Loe Anfetea, Seattle, f erUaJid, flu Louie, A U an la. Vaawaavac. B. C. Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry NO SMUDGE POT Arthur Perry, skipper of "Ye Smudge Pot." is nursing a ipralned leg and if therelor unable to take the helm of hit column today. COMMUNICATIONS Utun to tb. editor mutt seu th. nimi u,d addreaa of to. writ I tltoougb th. us. of . pD rum. x uiltl.n for publication u per mlulbl. Th. Mail Tribune i arm tb. rlgbt to adit all letun rlth a flaw to elanty and ooo 'laoaatloa. Like A Dead Mackerel To the editor: Now that Mr. Roosevelt has consented, with reluctance and doubtless some misgivings to allow himself to be drafted for a fourth term, that makes it open season on the New Deal. It would be an Insult to honest democrats to call it "democra tic." Mr. Roosevelt's desire to drop the title is understandable, but It will live to plague him like a dead mackerel in the moonlight. Their announcement that they Intend to stand upon their "rec ord" should bring comfort to the republicans, and nil, who have not become hopelessly bogged down In the mire of Roosevelt idolatry. The gravest fear fac ing a free people- today, is four more years of Roosevelt. His devotees profess to upprove his policies everything he has done if he moved the White House over to Moscow and set it up, alongside the Kremlin, they would not raise a whisper in protest. Let a republican fol low the same course and they would crucify him. They will doubtless want to delete several items from that "record," and display only the virtues not a difficult Job. The republicans should have a field day seeing to it that the entire record Is laid out for Inspection, in all of its stark, shameful nakedness. If that falls to awaken us to the grave dangers threatening our free institutions, we will know thnt we have reached that condition to much feared by Washington and Lincoln, and about which they recorded a solemn warning. We will know the time has come to write "Ichabod" over the halls of con gress, paint the dome of the White House a brilliant red; write "consummatum est" after those two great pillars of our Democracy Freedom of Speech and Press haul down Old Glory and place It, along with the Lib erty Bell, the Declaration of In dependence and our Constitu tion in the National Museum as relics of the "horse and buggy" days. In seeking a fourth term, Mr. Rosevelt has, win or lost, blast ed any hopes he mny have cherished of having his name placed at the head of the list in the Hall of Fame. Popularity Is a fragile foundation upTin which to build greatness and Hitler and Mussolini. With character istic ruthlcssncss, he has brush ed aside a time honored prece dent, one respected by his eminent predecessors, and one which should have been incor porated in our Constitution long ago, as a safeguard against Just such a situation as this. Alexander II. Smith, Copper Rt., Box 68 Jacksonville, Oregon. CORPORA L"sEE8lTAR3 Camp Roberts, Cal. (U.R A technician 6 c who checks offi cers' rations in a camp mess hall recently noticed a strange of ficer with a star on his collar. "Pardon me, sir," said the cor poral, "but is that a new insignia you are wearing and what does It stand for?" "I am a brigadier general," the officer replied. Farmers work for a penny an hour when they use muscles In stead of an electric motor to pedal a grldstone, run a corn aheller or pump water. Editorial Correspondence Aberdeen, S. D., July 30. Tit for tat. We hava been following conventions around these many years; now the conventions are following us. No sooner arrived here and settled In a hotel than the state Democratic convention followed us up, and took every other room in the place. A nice, neat little hotel by the way and Aberdeen we find la exactly the size of Medford, at least the M. T. estimate of 17,000. But the place is far less "citified" in appearance, both the Main stem and the inhabitants. This is the center of the dry-farming hard wheat belt. But there Is nothing dry about It this year and wasn't last. In fact the agent who met us at the informed us it hasn't rained for a for 1944. Ten years ago there was no rain at all, nor a blade of grass throughout this section of the state. No wheat was harvest ed, the stock died of thirst, everyone went broke. The agent gives us all the gory details, to prepare us for a bear market as far as the "family farm" is concerned, or rent. However to return to Aberdeen. Had dinner this evening late after a trip over to Groton (pronounced with a long "o" not short as In the case of F.D.R.'s boarding school, but that Is where it got its name, via one of the Vice Presidents of the Milwaukee railroad j who lived In Massachusetts.) There was only one other lone, lean pilgrim in the dining room, and to his table to save, presumably, on steps, cutlery and linen. He proved to be a delegate from Wakpala, which is a strange name, but no stranger than where Tom Dewey was born, and Brlckcr also. (Apparently politically the small rural town is coming back!) Our vis-a-vis proved to be far from a talkative person, at least while securing his evening nourishment. He failed to respond even when we casually referred to the fact we had attended the DEMOCRATIC convention in Chicago and the last few hours closely resembled a cat and dog fight. We don't know how far Wakapala may be from Aberdeen of that community are, but the famished. I His technique was new to us, i use the knife before as a conveyor observed it used with ONE hand and the fork used with the OTHER for the same purpose, eating on what might be termed a double shift or tandem basis. The delegate was of the cadaver ously lean and wiry type but how he did stoke his alimentary furnace! I When he finished we expected to have a little converse on the i political situation but he rose, took the napkin out of his collar, Jerked his head in what we took to be a Wakpala salutation of farewell and beat it. Perhaps he thought he smelled a mouse, or suspected your correspondent of being a G.O.P. slicker from Minneapolis on mischief bent. Whatever it was he obviously did not believe we had a vote in HIS precinct. On the other hand the poor devil may have Just been late for an Important committee meeting or a poker game. Surprised to find out there Is a split hers among the S. D. Democrats, all samee as in Texas. There is the regular and what is called the "rump" group, the former being 102 for F.D.R., the others not so hot. Just what the ruction is about we haven't been able to find out, but it is some sort of outgrowth of the late and lamented Non-Partisan League. If our "agent" is correct and he has lived In Groton for nearly half a century, the Democrats have only carried the state once in the past 30 years and that was in 1936, the Republicans won four years ago and (he claims) are a cinch to win this year. We tried to find out his reasons but couldn't. He isn't a student of politics. Finally found the farm near Groton which Grandpappy B. bought back in the early BO's when returning from a mining venture in tho Black Hills. It had a house and barn on it then but they havo gone where the woodbine twincth, a tornado assls'ed in the process the agent thinks, but can't be sure of it. Probably it was wise not to rebuild, he believes, for a tornado went through the east end of the farm only two weeks ago and destroyed two out of the four trees on the place. No member of tho family has ever lived on the farm, but for certain sentimental reasons (according to the agent), he has always been told not to sell it. We don't doubt the agent's suspect he Is an incorrigible romantic. . . The place is now operated on on either sldo of it, roughly divided by Mud Creek which runs 1 through it. We talked to them and got precisely what we expected the greatest line of pessim istic talk since Aunt A. lost a thousand dollars on her white-face feeders back in '36. It seems all the good soil on our portion of the "section" was "blowed off" by a dust storm three years ago and a farmer to the east now has it, and is making a good thing out of itl Oh there is wheat growing there on the '80 and now being cut, but it won't run over six bushels to the acre at most. When we remarked we were going to see the COUNTY agent at Aberdeen and sec what was really wrong with the place, both the old boys showed signs of perplexity and Black Annual " Coming over from Minneapolis an acquaintance with a Capt. R. but got off at Aberdeen to see his girl, after nearly two years in tho signal corps in Iceland. When he heard we came from Medford he said he had a message for the family and friends of Major O. W. Miller of Medford who is in Iceland, an officer in the U. S. air force and wished all to know like lo get buck to houthern Oregon. He wanted his special good wishes to go to the B. Lowerys of Bear Creek. The Captain may stop In the valley enroute to Santa Monica, his next post. he doesn't regret leaving Iceland. It Is raining great guns now. lightning, thunder and what have you. Bet a silver cent to a million dollars, this rain will ruin what there is left of the '44 wheat crop on the old homestead, accord lug to the 3 Fatcsl Here It Is nearly August first when the Dakotas are usually as dry and brown as a Florida bathing beauty, but now as far as the eye can see, and there are no trees or mountains in South Dakota, it is as green as the Medford golf course In MARCH! R.W.R. PROVES TOO MUCH Lawrence, Kas. IU.R) After Bobbie Thlcle, freshman at the University of Kansni here, had harbored three rats and two stray dogs and had been nurse maid to three small turtles In her room all in three weeks, she Just couldn t say no when she met a sobbing lad who asked her to take a six-weeks-old pup py that his mother would not let him keep. Hobble fed the puppy, fixed tne pet comfort ably In a box, and thought the "matter" would rest until morn ing, but the co-ed was culled at 1, 3 and 8 a. m. to comfort the whining new addition. Next morning, hagmird-ved Bobble announced: "lt isfl't puppy love any longer: he and I are i through.' S000 TRAINED State College. Pa, (U.tt Mili tary and naval training programs at Pennsylvania State college have trained more than 5000 of ficers and men slue January, 1941. station (this is a business stop) week which is almost a drought which we would like to sell V one waitress so we were escorted or what the dietetic resources delegate from there was obviously we have seen the genus homo of sustenance but never before honesty, not yet, but we do shares by two old-timers living about buying or leasing the place the agent didn't like it either, " i," L" ' "IT" "le.c JU51 , A vniinonr ffnnpnllnn ha. n r! . on the Olympian we struck up J. Dore who lives in Stillwater he is fit and frisky but would 8TEAMBOATIN' DAYS Columbus, Miss. (U.PJ Steamboating on the Mississippi! river at the clo.-e of the Civil '. War is recalled in two bills of of the situation requires the con lndlng discovered by Mrs. Frank . elusion that doubts about post Drake here among papers which ' war at home may be exaeger- had belonged to her grandfather. One was for shipment of 17 bales of cotton from Jones' Landing, Dec. 21. 18t5, consigned to La cey, Terry St Co., at Vleksburg. for reshlpment to Now Orleans. They were carried by the steam er Eddie Capt. John King, mas ter, and E. V. McElroy. clerk. The freight charges were $85. The other hill of lading was for j T. pales taken board at a Mis- sisslppl plantation and taken to ; Vlckshura bv the steamer Bierce. ! Oct. 14, 188.1. ALBINO ROBIN Shelblna. Mo. tUP An albl-'off no robin has been observed nest-j tually returned the groom and lng here, according to the Mis-1 explained that tt was an "Amer sourl conservation commission, j lean Joke." The bride's reaction The solid white bird is a female , to American humor was most ex and is mated with normal male, i plosive. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 3 From the Pacific Governor Stassen came back with the message that the home front is optimistic about the via of the war and over defeatist about the peace. Public opinion is s o eager to grasp every s 1 g n of hope for the end that the resisting pow er of our ene mies may have been underestimated. Guessing about that by the most respon sible authorities here fluctuates naturally with events. A man who thinks Germany , w ast beyond the election Is considered an extremist, but bets are being made to that effect. The constant daily news of diplo macy (or lack of It) involving Russian aims, but particularly the news of the colossal domestic tasks ahead (employment, debts, peace economics) unquestionably have caused a public fear which may be pessimistic if not defeat ist. THE reams of statistics that are are daily being presented in the news by all the government al and lobbying promotional ven tures seems to me too much warped by economic facts. As usual, statistics never measure the human clement. In my opin Ion the bands will start playing again at the armistice. Immedi ately there will be a different nubile spirit. All the pent-up fears of war will be released. The very occasion will be a sig nal for renewed hope. Everyone who has someone in the service knows what that means. To the public also, It will be an ! end of rationing (or most of it) and similar restrictions of dis comfort Imposed on civilian life. Those overlooked factors of eco nomics and their Inspiration on business will be imoortant. The GI bill of rights provides $25 a week unemployment in surance to service men for any 52 weeks of two years after dis charge. (Incidentally, the CIO did not gain In popular favor I ny prnmiMUK oca a ween iui Industrlnl workers, but Demo cratic Senator Murray has hast- . encd to cover his and their em barrassment at wanting more I thnn the soldier by introducing a bill to raise the service maxi mum to $35.) Some special classes of war workers will suffer a reduction In Income by returning to nor mal work, but any "over defeat Ism" on the home front In gen eral seems to me to lie In finan cial considerations of the years ahead. But, behind all the news from Europe, apprehensions for the peace are glaring. The fanati cism of the young German offi cers In resisting the guidance of their elders (recounted In this column published July 26) car ries the implication that they may resist reason In the peace. It asks the question: Will the peace bring peace? Or will Germany, Austria, Po Innd. the Balkans, after the war, be France In reverse? Will the Nazis go underground and fight like the manuls? Can revolution De pre entecu en In Europe since Mussolini and Hitler, a generation which does not know reason, only force. Can we avoid street fight ing, revolutions, assassinations on the same old or larger Euro pean scale? ... JUF.WS of the day Itself asks ' ' these questions, not In de featism, but In search of an an swer. Just now State Secretary Hull Is preparing to call a new secur ity conference of the large pow ers to consider the political set tlement in Europe. Up to now. all conferences have dealt with generalities and not with the difficulties which lie In specific application. So you have the Polish com mittee of national liberation an nouncing from Moscow Its com petition with the Polish govern ment in London. The same sit uation Is present in some de gree throughout Europe. Thus any reasonable analysis ated. but doubts about the peace In Europe are not ARREST' BRIDEGROOM Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) It was Just an old American custom, but the bride was horrified. U. S. Army Cpl. Baincy Lofton of Memphis who wed an English bride In Wales, missed the recep- ,ll,n "l'r the cremony and al- j Paul Mallon "n"1 m-.isru nis nnm io nvr.umprt for the Communist con-'"H.v nervous prostrations throush n fault of his own. As the GI groom and his new wife left the I church, two army MPs took him ! by the arm and marched him to a waiting leeo. They even STAATS RESIGNS ! AS STATE POLICE T Bert J. Staats, captain of the Oregon Department of State Police in the Medford district. today announced his resignation effective Sept. 1 to become re ceiving and shipping supervisor and Inventory control clerk of the A-l Brewing company. His successor as head of the state police here was not immediately known. Staats, who has been stationed In Medford since June of 1939, will leave his present position on August 17, take a week vaca tion and assume his new post on August 24. Joining the old traffic division In December of 1928, Staats was stationed at Oregon City. He re mained there when the state police was organized on August 1, 1931 until 1932, when he was promoted to sergeant and trans ferred to Pendleton. In 1936 he was advanced to lieutenant and sent to Baker, j where he remained until coming to Medford In June of 1939. He took charge of the local office In September of 1940 when Capt. Lee M. Bown left to become deputy superintendent of state police under Charles P. Pray. In April of the following year he was promoted to captain. Bill Chrysler, general man ager of the brewing company, said he considered himself ex tremely fortunate to obtain the services of a man of Staats calibre, while the latter ex pressed his pleasure at being able to make connections with the brewing concern. Salem. Ore., Aug. 3 (U.R) Lt. Paul Parson of the Oregon state police will be promoted to captain and placed in charge of the Medford district, Charles Pray, head of the force, an nounced today. Parson, now stationed at Baker, will replace Bert J. Staats, who has resigned. The promotion and transfer become effective about the middle of August, Pray said. 49 Sales Centers Planned For Sale Of Surplus Planes Washington. Aug. 3. (U.R) Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones announced today that ar rangements have been made by the defense plant corporation for a network of 49 sales cen ters and storage depots where surplus planes will be sent for sale to the public. He said Interested persons :an write to the civil aeronautics ad ministration office in their re gions and receive "invitations to bid, details about planes of fered for sale, OPA ceiling prices and the date of sale. Jones said there would un doubtedly be a large number of planes declared surplus "over a period of time" by the armed forces, but that only a small fraction would be usable as "personal aircraft." He said there were a few light 65 horse power trainer planes now avail able, and a larger number of army and navy primary trt'n ers all "economical for private operators." Polish Riflemen Pot Nazi Troops as Warsaw Burns London, Aug. 3 (U.R Polish riflemen of a secret under ground army swarmed through the streets of burning Warsaw today, shooting down Nazi troopers In a desperate bid to aid the Russian armies battling In the city's suburbs on the east bank of the Vistula river. A dramatic radio message, flashed to the Polish High Com mand in London from the un derground headquarters Inside Warsaw shortly after noon to day, said the patriot troops had launched a heavy attack against the enemy rear and that hard fighting was raging In four dis tricts of the city. The ill-equipped Toles were reported sniping at Nazi sol diers from hundreds of build ings and engaging enemy units in savage hand-to-hand fighting. Isolationist Says CIO Defeated Him St. Louis. Mo.. Aug. 4 U.R Democratic Sen. Bennett Champ Clark, pre-war isolationist and New Deal critic, today blamed the 1 Communist controlled CIO" for his defeat for rcnomination for a tnird term in the U. S. senate in Tuesday's primary elec tion in Missouri. In a statement Issued last night, Clark obviously conceded the nomination to State Attor ney General Roy McKittrlck and branded his defeat "a notable tri-1 trolled CIO in Its efforts to take! work was rural evangelism in control of the Democratic party." j 'be villages out of Tsingtao. " j China. She was repatriated on MUSIC TRUCK LOST the Gripsholm In 1942, but ex Kansas City. Mo. lUR) A i pects to so back to Free China salesman who lost a truck filled with sheet music valued at $175 1 here recently hopes that one of, the song titles knows what it's , talking about The piece asi "I'll Be Seing You." . Miss Scribulus inw .iiiii w i ' .. ' - --v L (Acma Telephoto) Beverly Felt, 18, uesnmau stuuent at Weoer College, Ogdeu, Utah.Vaf chosen "Mlia ScriDulus 1U44" by pop ular acclaim alter campus Deauij contest Judges caught a glimpse o) this DhOtn. By United Press American forces met increas ing resistance today in a drive to pocket Japanese on the north ern tip of Guam while on New Guinea other U. S. troops Inflict ed heavy casualties in advancing an annihilation drive against 45,000 trapped enemy soldiers. The Americans on Guam slug ged through mud and dense undergrowth for more than a mile yesterday to capture Tiyan airstrip, the sixth plane base taken during the Marianas cam paign. All of the bases are with in bomber range of Japan's inner defenses. 7.419 Dead on Guam Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced that 7,419 enemy dead had been counted on Guam while on Tinian, where marines were mopping up last isolated stragglers, 3,075 enemy dead were buried. American losses on Guam through Tuesday were set at 1,022 dead, 4,941 wounded, and 305 missing. On Tinian the U. S. losses were announced at 208 dead, 1,121 wounded and 32 missing. Almost daily aerial attacks continue against Truk, Nauru, and in the Marshalls, Nimitz said. On British New Guinea American forces cleared a coast al sector a mile east of the Drl nlumor river and advanced on a two and a half mile front against "the encircled Japanese 18th army. .. Jap Ship Sunk A communique by Gen. Doug las MacArthur said an undeter mined number of Japanese were killed when they attempted to turn the American flank in the area below Aitape. MacArthur reported that a navy Catalina bomber sank a 5,000 ton enemy vessel in the Soela Islands off Halmahera I Monday night. U. S. ground forces at Sansa por were expanding and strengthening their position four days after landing and construc tion of a new air base was pro gressing In the newly won area only 600 miles from the Philip pines. Mustachioed Pilot Leading U. S. Ace Allied Headquarters, South west Paclife, Aug. 3. lU.R) Major Thomas B. McGuIre, Jr., of Ridgcwood, N. J., dapper, mustachioed Lightning pilot, be came the leading American ace currently fighting in the south west Pacific when he shot down his 21st Jap plane during a sur prise raid recently on Halma hera, It was disclosed here todav. McGuire, who admits lie would like to beat MaJ. Richard I. Bong's theater record of 27 Jap planes downed, Is known as one of the best shots In this area. MISSIONARY TO SPEAK, PRESBYTERIAN SUNDAY j Miss Irene Forsythe, a native of Oregon and a missionary to China for the past 18 years un der the Board of Foreign Mis s 1 o n s of the Presbvterian church, will speak at the Med- ,orc! Presbyterian church Sun- " a. m. Miss Forsvthe s next year. The missionary will speak at the Jacksonville Presbyterian church Sunday at 8 p. m.. and before the Phoenix Women's Society at 2 30 p. m. August 9. E Portland, Ore., Aug. 3 U.R) A real, honest-to-goodness treas ure hunt Is going on in Portland, and searchers have discovered unnrnximatelv $6000 so far and are still hunting in an old house once Inhabited by a pair of el derly bachelor brothers who evi rtentlv collected eold coins. The treasure hunt is perfectly above-board, and under the di rection of the attorney for the estate of the two eccentrics, both of whom died within The last two years. Going by maps found in the personal effects of the owners, various caches have been dis covered, Including a Mason "Economy" Jar full of $20 gold pieces with a few insignificant $10 and $5 pieces. $3000 In Stove An old stove in the basement yielded around $3000 and an estimated $2000 in silver coins was found in money bags in bu reau drawers. All the coins were wrapped by dates and in good condition, further corroborating the theory that the men were com collect ors. Oldest coin found is an 1852 dime. The searchers are just begin ning to turn to the most roman tic part digging in the back yard for anywhere from $7000 to $10,000 buried somewhere on the premises, according to the map. , Identity of the brothers and address of the house are being kept sesret to protect the prem ises agiinst "volunteer" treas ure hunters who might wish to help. BAiiTSSlP UP 112,000 IN BILLS Salem, Ore., Aug. 3. (U.R) State police are searching today for two holdup men who made off with $12,000 in small bills after holding up J. C. Berry, cashier of the Bank of Grande Ronde, about 35 miles from here. The two men, armed with pistols, entered the bank just before closing time Wednesday, one of them shoved his weapon through the wicket at Berry, who was alone In the bank, and told him to "get your hands down don't be funny." They then forced him to open a vault, took all the money in sight, mostly in 20, 10 and five dollar bills, and then left, after tying his hands and instructing him not to call for help for half an nour. Berry rushed out a side door after they left and called police The holdup men were de scribed as being 35 or 40 years of age and clean shaven. Berry said one was red haired and the other dark. Stale police, who were noti fied Immediately, believe the men escaped in a 1939 gray Ford. They said they believed the first three numbers on the license were 203. Quinine Sub May Rid Nations Of Malaria Threat Chicago. Aug. 3 (U.R) De velopment of Atabrine, the quinine substitute, should make it possible to eliminate malaria from every civilized nation after the war and the large scale pro duction of quinine or totaquine is not considered necessary for army and navy needs, the Jour nal of the American Medical as soclan said today. The report, published by the National Research Council's board for the coordination of malarial studies, said that there is "convincing evidence" that atabrine cures falciparum malar ia, the type which is responsible for practically a 1 1 malaria deaths, but "the evidence of a similar curative effect of qui nine Is not conclusive." The National Inventors Coun cil reports that robot planes were Invented In the United States as long ago as the last war. and in 1927 and 1928 Charles Kettering, of General Motors Research Corp.. and Lawrence B. Sperrv. of Soerrv Gyrioscope Co.. were granted robot plane patents. YICK SO CHINESE HERB CO. REMEDIES FOR STOMACH ULCERS Heart. Rheumatism, Asthma. Catarrh. Piles, Prostate Gland. Eeiema. and all disorders of Liver. Kidney Trouble, and other com plaints disappear after using CHINESE HERBS Removed J. H. Leong, Herbalist Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 3, 1934 at was Friday) Portland welcomes President Roosevelt with ovation by thou sands and parades through city, before going to Bonneville Dam to make brief speech. Retail trade on Pacific coast bright spot of nation's business. Apple crop of valley to run 400 to 450 cars. Unsettled with rising tempera ture. High 78, low 55 degrees. Europe Jittery as Hitler takes over presidency of Germany. Detour at Ashland, underpass ready for travel. M. M. Department store ob serves 40th birthday. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 3, 1924 (It was Sunday) Jackson county fair premium booklet issued. Army plane is forced down In Atlantic, but crew is saved. Rankin Estes, local resident, resists holdup and is badly beat-, en in struggle on King's high way; saves $900. Continued cloudiness. 84, low 50 degrees. High Success of Dawes reparation plan now up to Germany. Groceteria offers watermelons at 17 cents each; is swamped with business. Ashland eager to attract tour ists with better water supply. Ten millionth Ford car to be here next Wednesday. BIG SKY FLEETS JOIN TO PLASTER London, Aug. 3. (U.R) Two great sky fleets numbering some 1,500 American heavy bombers converged from Britain and Italy today for a shattering at tack on a chain of Nazi aircraft, railway and oil targets along the Franco-German and Swiss German frontiers, while RAF heavies unloaded their block busters on two robot bomb de pots north of Paris. An estimated 750 U. S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators launched the daylight offensive, thundering up from the Italian bases to blast the big aircraft manufacturing center of Fried richshafen, on the northern shores of Lake Constance. North Italy Hit Railway targets and highways in northern Italy also were bombed. There were no Immediate de tails on the effect of the Fried richshafen attack, but Zurich reports said heavy explosions rocked towns on the Swiss side of the frontier for fully 25 min utes. Hours later, an equally great armada of Forts and Liberators swung out over the continent from Britain under a strong fighter escort to bomb, railway yards at Saarbrucken, Germany, and Mulhouse and Strasbourg, on the French side of the bor der, and an oil dump at Merk ville. Unidentified German target In France also came under the bombsights of the big American raiders. Special electric lamps dry paint on aircraft instruments in nine minutes. The conventional ovens require two hours per coat. ANNOUNCING The opening under private management' of LINCOLN'S Service, 201 N. Riverside. "Prewar" Service, Courtesy and Speed Lubrication, Washing, Tire Repair, Brake Adjusting LINCOLN SERVICE 201 N. Riverside Ph. 9022 "76" Gasoline and Triton Oil lo Sparta BIdg. Phone 5817
