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IDLE TELLS DIES CRIMINAL STATUTE DOES NOT APPLY Government Employes Help ing CIO-PAC Untouchable by Justice Dept., Claim. Washington, Aug. 8 (U.R) Acknowledging receipt of a let ter calling for prosecution of fed eral employes alleged to have worked politically with the CIO political action committee, At A torney General Francis Biddle said today that the section of the Hatch act they were supposed to have violated Is not a criminal statute. Consequently, Biddle wrote Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex., of the house un-American activi ties Investigating committee, violations of the clause section 9 of the clean politics act would "not come within the in vestigation or prosecution juris diction" of the justice depart ment. Dies Accuser Biddle acknowledged receipt of a letter from Dies demanding prosecution under section 9 of the act of certain government of ficials whom Dies charged hafl engaged in political collusion with "the political arm of the New Deal" the CIO-PAC. (Section 9 of the Hatch act makes it "unlawful" for any fed eral employe to "use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or affecting the result thereof." It lists certain specific exemptions, including the presi dent and vice president; em ployes paid from funds appro priated for the office of the presi dent; heads and assistant heads of executive depratments, and of ficers appointed by the president Nc lapoleon would shake his head mystified. Julius Caesar, a four-star Roman, would grum ble, "Not ia my day!" Stone wall Jackson might say, "Per haps we started it the Rebel Veil was advertising." Yet every great general of the past would be amazed at the role played in this war by ad vertising. On the home-front itself vastly more important than ever before advertising bas become a full-scale instru ment of war. Look first at the work ad' vertising has done directly for Uncle Sam. With government agencies pointing the aims but with private sponsors meeting the bill advertising has helped Uncle Sam recruit his woman forces . . . helped Uncle Sam sell bonds . . . helped Uncle Sam find manpower for production. That's quite a job. Yet, on its own, independently, adver tising has done even more. It has helped Uncle Sam enlist all the people in this war by showing them constantly how they can take part. When you read the ads thesa days, you see the arms your money buys. Vou see the weap ons created through shortages . . . rationing . . . sacrifice. Along with MacArthur's men you travel the jungle in a jeep . . . help Clark's boys level a ba zooka on a Nazi tank . . . tramp the deck of a destroyer on Mur mansk convoy . . . rush a Jap held beach with the Marines in in alligator -boat. You're one more American working . . . giving . . . fighting. No wonder Napoleon or Caesar, or any of the old mas ters, would discover something new in warfare. They couldn't open a newspaper or a magazins without sensing it And they'd envy Uncle Sam a new fore toward victory. and confirmed by the senate to policy-making positions. Removal Provided (Section 9 contains no clause for criminal prosecutions, but provides that violators shall be removed from office immediate ly.) Biddle said that while punish ment for violations of section 9 is administrative and enforceable by the particular government agency involved, he nevertheless had instructed "the director of the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion immediately to obtain from you any evidence which you may have pertinent to . . . (The CIO PAC) inquiry." Dies charged In his letter to Btddle that the federal officials he named had used lesser em ployes and government funds to carry out PAC directives in vio lation of the Hatch act. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 8 (U.R) Terrors of new weapons of de struction conceived in this war hit the front pages dally. The robot bomb has now been doubled in size. Nazi b r e d rumors predict one eventually will cross the ocean and de scend on New York. The Sunday sup Paul Malloo plement dreams of warfare are supposed to have come true. By these and other new im plements, many of which we ourselves have alertly devel oped through necessity, the people have come to realize that weapons of the future will spread greater destruction. Sin gle implements will increasing ly kill more and more thou sands of persons. THE average run of comment holds, therefore, that we must rely heavily on our navy and our air force in the post war period. We have a navy now reputed at nearly 5 to 1 over Britain, and so many ships in the Pacific, it may prove dif ficult to assign them all an ef fective war task. As one naval authority has told me: "We have so many ships we do not know what to do with them." The American air force also will come out of this war the greatest in the world. Our army, they say, never again will be allowed to deteriorate. Thus we are preparing in the future to maintain ourselves in permanent peace. It seems to me that, in this instance again, we are fooling ourselves. NO weapon, no new device of destruction, ever assured se curity to a nation. The French built a Maginot line, which was impregnable to them. The an cient Chinese built the wall of China, which to them was the same thing to their people. Are we not today being Just as short sighted in our thinking on de fense and our preparations for our future securityas were the French, tne ancient ninese, and, in fact all defenses of every nation in the history of the world? What is security, If it Is not walls, navies, planes, armies? , What can make a people se- . curct Only their own ingenu- j ity, in my opinion. Only in the mind of man can he find the stones for impregnable fortifi cations. Only by constant alert ness and wise leadership can he provide for his safety. Wis dom, in my opinion, is more im portant today than navies, planes and armies, because what good if they are not put to superior use? To be static is to be weak, no matter what the size of the defending force. The minds of the generals of France, like their people, were confident in their security and, therefore, unalert to their danger. They had the best wall ever built up to that time. W,will have the best defend ing force. But it will be useless unless the psychological attitudes of our leaders and our people changes. There must be a new doctrine of realism pro pounded. It must say: "You are never secure. There Is no security In the very na ture of things. There never has been. There never will be. That nation maintains itself longest which Is alert, wise, and, there fore, realistic." So also with weapons. There never was a weapon made In the history of the world for which there was no adequate or superior answer. These ro bots might spread greater de struction than shells, and they 1 may grow larger and larger, j but an answer will be found Swore at PILES!' But Now He SMILES! j TOU mtt tm. T'm 4ttr formut ft I SicrMi nf (;!. o-d d J uB-t tT prMalltit it 0M1 cllnt", B imiH j ft In, leti, "revet. rt Q! If K r!W! ' lit II 00 ts IbTCi A Ulr.r Ii.-tl i fit b "(.Mi lolsy. r fl !N iy-t mtplf ' Tt-r.'rv k Mia' . I i:T1"'r:. -J tew ctttU Br. Irr 1uCTuES' 70LAT. M all nod dni(t MmM MrnwhfT ; In ldford at T?IW rennj-Wifj XAI :I 'I "Gung Ho" Shows Wednesday i VS. , " Grace McDonald and David Bruce in a scene from "Gung Ho." starring Randolph Scott, with J. Carrol Naish and Alan for them. The only lesson of science in this war is that meth ods of destruction are rapidly now amplifying their field of operations. Is the answer not then plain? Ships, planes and guns we may need aplenty. Pacts, di visions of territory, splitting of Europe into small separate parts may be devised. But what good are any or all of these things if they are not wisely conceived on a basis of realism, and con stantly, alertly administered. Olive ( Barber's Observations Even as the piling-laden truck turned over, I saw the boy atop the load leap into the canyon skirting the left side of the road. If I hadn't been in the car fol lowing the truck and hadn't seen the accident, I would not have believed it could happen so quickly. One second the truck was going along in the smooth est possible manner, the next and it had flipped over with a rend ing sound of smashing cab and grinding poles. Frank's thought paralleled my own we both cried out to the boy who had been standing erect on the load but who now went hurtling into the canyon below. And though my husband's first act was to rush to the cab-Imprisoned driver, I made for the canyon, calling the boy's name. From the green depths rame his reassuring cry, 'I'm okay!" I'd met the boy just a few hours before as he, with several other loggers, had eaten lunch about the camp table under the trees. Without being able to say ! why, I'd instantly liked him. He ; was 18, he said, and shortly go- j Ing into the marines. He was keyed to fever pitch in his anxi-1 ety to be off about the business I IT'S WARDS FOR 1 bill A 1 PlVC ADULT ARCHERY SET . . . Made by Ben Pearson famous for fine orchery tackle) 5'i-ft. lemonwood target bow; 6 cedar ar rows; leather arm guard and finger tab, target face, YOUTH'S ARCHERY SET . . . Everything the teen-age archer needil 5-ft. hickory bow; four 24" orrows; arm-guard; tab; torget face. Child's (6-12-yeart) Archery Sef .........1.95 TARGET QUIVER JUIVtK L tr. Strop Tin fi arrows. I IU it 20 I V Imitation leather, loop. Holdi 6 Birch Arrow MONTGOMERY WARD 117 So. Central Phone 3930 Curtis. The film starts tomor row for a four-day showing at the Craterain. of killing Japs. Eating hugely, he was scornful of my amaze ment at his eagerness to go out and get himself shot at Plying his fork most energetically, he told me between bites how he felt about the matter and had the philosophy of all soldiers, that he woud die only when his time came. Yet I'd heard It said this youngster had been in trouble at different times There always is such a one in every neighbor hood; one whom it is prophesied will come to no good end. But now I brushed 'his aside. I re membered with what gallantry he had offered me his seat as we loitered after dinner, and though this seat had been only a box, he made the gesture with so fine a grace that the box became a fine chair. Later he'd hunted for, and found, my purse among the rocks up the creek where I'd lost it on one of my rambles. Then I'd watched him at work as the piling was being loaded: had pleasured in the flowing muscles under the brown skin of his torso, for he worked stripped to the waist. There had been real beauty in the smooth coordination of that young body And often have I found that the so-called "bad ones" are the first on deck in rase of trouble, resourceful, reliable. Also, any mother will tell you that it is to her wayward son she goes rather than to one with an impeccable reputation when she's in trouble. And perhaps it is the "bad boys" in the marines who will keep you and me a free people. FINLAND FIGHTS ON By United Press The federal communications commission said tonight that the Finnish radio had broadcast an order of the day from President Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Manncrheim calling upon Fin land's army to continue the war against Russia. Fur Remodeling and Repairing Rclining, Cleaning and Glaxing Frances Dallaire Ph. 2S2S Woodrow and Crater Lake -MONTGOMERY WARD 0 mery: 695 395 LEMONWOOD BOW ber backed. Inlaid or- J row plate. J'j-ft. length. Wound leather handle. KIWIS GAGSTER IAKES BOISE GAL STAR FOR A DAY By E. G. Valans United Press Correspondent Boise, Ida., Aug. 8. (U.R) Orchids every hour on the hour, a hundred phone calls for break fast, holding down two hotel suites and a private plane the devil with that. So says Mrs. Betty Bolden boge, Cleveland, O., aircraft plant secretary, alias "the gorgeous Carol Adair," who was a movie star for a day here, with all the trimmings. Who's Who Crisis Betty came clean today with the details of a Kiwanis club gag last week that nearly pre cipitated a crisis in the editorial offices of "Who's Who." One day was enough. Betty doesn't want to be a movie star. Her one-jump to stardom be gan when she came here several weeks ago from Cleveland and started work in the office of Postmaster Harry Yost. Slim, bespectacled Yost decided the city needed a bit of a "shake up," formally invited all the ladies to attend a special Kiwanis dinner and dressed Betty up in a black gown, orch ids and long eyelashes. Yost wrote a "luscious" speech to the effect that no won der divorces were higher in Boise than in Hollywood be cause women here wouldn't worry about glamour. Newsmen "Tipped" Telegraphed reservations for the best suite at each of Boise's two top hotels, an inside "tip" to the newspapers and a hush- hush campaign did the rest. "I held down a suite at both hotels," Betty said today. "Flow ers and phone calls poured In orchids on the hour, regular. The newspaper had a reporter in the hall all day trying to find out who I was. "They finally 'revealed that I was "movie star Carol Adair.' I breezed through a 'press con ference' in fine style, although M 117 So. Central I FOE? THE EIK9CT HAV U7DtV rAUAUC k Jl &ACK AT SCHOOL Yost and Kiwanis Club Presi dent Robert Newell, also in on the secret, were sure nervous. "I was rushed Into a private elevator they spared no ex pense and ushered me into the meeting with great ceremony. The press was there and the women flocked up with menus for me to autograph. Glamour Sore Spot "My 'sophistication' kept them happy but they didn't like my reference to their supposed lack of glamour. I kept looking at my watch and escaped with out having to face embarrassing questions from the audience when Mr. Yost announced 'Zim merly's holding your plane for Lewiston." I was whisked out of the hall and back into welcome anonimity." After newspapers had carried a full, factual account of "Miss Adair's" visit they couldn't seem to find background mater ial in their morgues Yost fin ally explained the affair. But the "star s name was not known until today. "I've had hundreds of calls since, asking me to appear at functions all over the state, Betty said. But once was enough. I never want to be a movie star. It's too much like work." One New Tire For "Each 50 Wheels Is Outlook On Trucks Estimating that there will probably be not more than one new tire available for each 50 running wheels on trucks, prior ity classifications which will be followed in an effort to fairly allot the quota of heavy-duty tires for this district were out lined last week by the OPA emergency truck tire panel at its first meeting In Portland. O. R. Hegness, chairman of the panel, stated that it will prob arly be necessary for every truck operator to lay up part of his equipment to utilize the tires to keep other units rolling. High on the list of priority classifications set up by the panel are city fire equipment, busses on regular schedules, sanitary services, farmers, over-the-road trucks and the lumber industry. Trucks stalled along the road will be an Increasingly common sight," Hegness declared, and he : cv j 4.98 to 6.98 A drets to give you a running stort on the "moit popular girfln cloii" title I You want It young, becoming, of course like the checked wool-royon sketched. You'll find l, too, omong the many bright school Ideas Wards have collected for you. In ploidi or solids. 9 to 20. Ask about Wards Time Payment Plan ontgoniery Phone 3930 Ward Tuesday, August 8, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THRIK urged truckers against starting out with a load on questionable tires. MELTING SNOW BARES CRASH ON ML RAINIER McChord Field, Wash., Aug. 7 U.R) The body of 2nd. Lt. Noland L. ONeal has been brought to McChord Field at Tacoma from the snow-covered slopes of Mt. Rainier where Lieutenant O'Neal met his death in an airplane crash on 'Me. . . Hike things -with AND THIS LOVER of jt a good sound punch should know. 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