Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 18, 1944, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextJ m i TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, Anguit IB, 1944 MEDFORDvTRIBUNE "X try an la ftouttiara Orgom Bmi thm UaiJ Tribune" Daily kiMpt Aatarday Pabllabad by HIUroRD PKINTIMO OOu n-tf North rtr 0C Pbona 1141 HUBERT W RUHL, Editor. UN 1ST R- OriJiTRAP. ftlanacar. A Indapandant Nawapapar. Batr4 a aaooad alaaa matter at Mad- Card. Oraffon. under Aol of Uarcb S, II 7 IV SUBSCRIPTION RATES Btr Hail la Ad vane .- Daily ud Sunday on yaax $M Dally aAd Sunday an mootha... 4.0tt Dally and Sunday thraa mootha. I.U Dally and Sunday on month... .71 By Cariiar la Advanca if ad ford. Ath Und, Cantral point, Jaokaoovllla, Oold Bill. Phoaels. TalanL Ml oa motor rontaai Dally aad Sunday oa yaar l.0 Daily and Sunday .ooa month.. .11 All Urmi caah la ad vane. Official Paper mt tfaa City af UadforS OfMelaJ Papar af Jarkaoa Coaaty CaJtad Pitaa FaU UtMd Wlra UKUUER OF ADDIT BUREAU OF1 CIRCULATIONS Advertising RtpraDUtlr WEST-HOM.IDAT COMPANY. INa Offloaa la Naw Vork. Chicago, Da t roll. rranrlaoo, Loa Angalaa. Baa 1 1 la. Partlud, SL Lou! a. Atlanta, Vaoeaavar, Conditional Surrender Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Ptrry The state saloons will close. the day Germany folds, in Ore gon cities where other retail stores shut up to celebrate. This is a precautionary measure lest hilarious citizens kick over the civic traces. If there is going to be a curb on Demon Rum, one on Demon Gasoline, also Is In order. The two fluids won't mix any better in the postwar perl. od, than they did In the pre war days. Horse flies, bumble bees, fancy-winged butterflies, and rattlesnakes are now quite plen tiful with none of last named as yet, reported in the city limits. Germans In south France on the Fourth Front have started yelling "Kamerad", like their Dads did In 1918, but with more feeling, and louder. And the meekest of the lot are the Nazi youths, trained from babyhood to be fierce and warlike, and filled full of the fool notion they are super-men . They were mean propositions raging through weaker nations, and ex ecuting aged non-combatants. They now whimper better than they whoop. RUFFLED DIGNITY ITEM (Avalon Resort News) "Avalon It was erroneous ly stated In last week's Issue that Harold E. Texter, mas ter of ceremonies at the Ava lon Marine Ballroom this summer, was also caretaker of this resort's rest rooms. Mr. Texter Informs us that he Is definitely not caretaker of the rest rooms." The President and his run ning mate confer today on cam paign strategy. They will not adjourn to an armored tank, and Inspect the strike front, with great secrecy. Neither will the seizure of the democratic party, boots and britches, by the CIO political win be encir cled, or Sidney Hillman, Its leader, be court-martialed. The department of agricul ture reports the weed eradica tion program this year Is "a pronounced success". This will be news to the weeds that have flourished on every hand, and every place but on bald heads. BEST INSULT OF THE WEEK: British Foreign Secre tary Anthony Eden said. "Does any one think that Hitler is something that has been forced upon the German people from without? I say that Hitler is symptomatic of the dominant German mentnllty." The cigar shortage continues, and will grow worse, despite no lack of oak loaves for 11a vanna filler. It looks like this neck of the woods would return to a peace basis faster than exprctcd. Al ready the preliminary frets over the fish In , Rogue River have started. GAY 1890 EDITOR "If there Is a city In the whole broad land with as villainous a lot of sidewalks as we have we would like to know where it Is. The walks themselves are all right but down each and every one run three or four rows of nails, that have their heads sticking out of the wood from half an Inch to two inches. This state of affairs should not be allowed to exist, for not only are these projecting nails a nui sance, but they are actually dangerous. Now lot the proper ty owners follow the example of this article and hit the nail on the head." (50 Yrs. Ago Col. The Dalles Chronicle). LENIENCY ASKED Salt Lake City, Aug. 1 8 tU.R) Fourteen-yeai-old Edith Jessop today urged a Salt Lake City police court Judge to be lenient with three boys who yelled at Edith's mower team, frightened the horses and caused a runaway that resulted In serious Injury to tea gir Washington, Aug. 17. (U.R) President Roosevelt return ed to the White House today after a 5-week, 15,000-mile trip to the Pacific war areas more firmly determined than ever of the necessity of demanding from both Germany and Japan complete and unconditional surrender." The above dispatch came over the ticker early yesterday morning. A few hours later it was changed slightly by the elimination of "unconditional surrender" and the substitution of the following: "... more firmly determined than ever before that Ger many and Japan must not be allowed to quit the war until the allies have completely occupied their homelands." THERE is an interesting demonstration of the fact, often commented upon in this department, that unconditional surrender is a misnomer, for there aint no sich animule". And the President himself clearly emphasized this truth, bv first declaring he returned home more con vinced of the necessity of unconditional surrender than ever, and then rroceedine to name conditions under which the surrender of the Axis wuuloj oe aeppnted. ' Just how can there be conditions of a surrender that is UNconditional? Obviously the answer is there can't be. THERE can be, of course, as in this case, a sur render in which the conditions are imposed arbi trarily by the victors, and the vanquished have noth ing at all to sav about them. But that doesn't mean there are no conditions, it only means the conditions are unilateral, as the diplo mats like to say, and severe. Then why not say so THAT we submit is one of the major mysteries of f Viia war Instead of bandying about this misleading and meaningless term, "unconditional surrender year after year, why did not Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill at the outset name the conditions, i.e.: declare that anytime either Germany or Japan would lay down their arms and allow the allies to occupy their capitols and countries the fighting would stop? The fighting would not have stopped or course. But it would at least have given the anti-war elements in both countries SOMETHING to rally about, instead of nothing at all ! It might never have impaired enemy morale but at least it would not have strengthened it as the re fusal to formally offer any conditions at ALL, has done. How Dumb Is the Axis? , President Roosevelt's explanation of the above is this: "If we fall to drive right on until we have completely captured the whole of Germany, the next German genera tion will be told that their nation actually had won the war. The same goes for Japan." In other words if Germany and Japan should capitulate tomorrow and allow the allies to take over their countries lock, stock and barrel, establishing allied military dictatorships as long as might be desired, 20 years from now the German and Japanese people would be told they had actually won the war. And presumably with that glorious victory in mind, the next generation would believe it and prepare to fight a Third world war. t t a XELL if the German and Japanese people have as short memories as that and can be deluded by completely insane propaganda as easily as that, then what can be done with them anyway; If after a decade or more under allied military con trol, with the losses already sustained, the Second World war that brought on that condition can be presented to them and accepted by them as a great triumph of German and Japanese amis, then won't the remnants, left after a more complete conquest, believe the same thing? What can be done with people as dumb as that7 "Will killing them off and destroying their towns and cities do any good? Mebbe so but we doubt it LIOWEVER the question is all pretty much academ- ic, for we grant that is what is going to be done anyway, and well, history may show the wisdom and necessity of such a course. Only when one views the cost of "NOT allowing the enemy to quit" when it might want to, well it does mount up brethren and sistern, it does mount up I War Versus Politics The strategy of the Democratic party in this cam paign was pretty clearly revealed by Senator Con nolly yesterday when he accused Governor Dewey of impairing the war effort by questioning the wisdom of the Big Four post-war security set-up. "Let us not inject partisan polities into such a seri ous matter at such a serious time as this," observed the senior senator from Texas. As few things done or said bv the Roosevelt ad ministration from now until election day will not have some bearing upon the war, directly or indirectly, few criticisms can therefore be made by the Republi can presidential candidate or any member of his party, which can't be twisted into being unpatriotic, and an effort to impair the war effort. Governor Dewey's criticism of any four-power security pact with the four victorious powers dom inating its decrees if not actually dictating them was entirely proper and pertinent. Secretary Hull's rejoinder was dignified and to the point; Senator Connelly's was not. i News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Flight Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from th files of the Mail Tribune 10 and 20 years ago Paul MaUon Washington, Aug. 18 The military experts are writing off four German armies in France, but they are paying an un deserved com pliment to three. The big gest and best, if not the only real enemy army on the western front Is north of the Seine and Somme rivers, guarding the lowlands gate way into Ger many and determined to cling to the robot launching platforms (upon which Hitler has built a false and desperate last-ditch faith among his people at home, causing them to expect this wan ton destruction will weaken the allies' will to do battle, where as it only speeds and strength ens it). IIS for the other "armies," none APtliallv rl.rvM iha mam. The Nazi 7th army has been con siderably used up fighting its way out of the Falaise entrap ment. We may never feel dis appointed, that we did not com pletely crush and capture it. But tne Ucrmans have been similarly trapped, possibly 10 or 12 times in this' war, as deeply as at Fal aise Only once, at Stalingrad, did they faU to escape with the bulk of their forces from the vigilant and swift Russians. They got considerable portions of their forces out this time, by bitterly holding their strong cen ter on the Caen front so long. In three weeks there, the Brit ish and Canadians were not able to advance more than a few miles. Our delay there gave time to the Germans to prepare in the rear against the brilliant flank circuiting of our armored divis ions. The Nazis put the bulk of their remaining force between Falaise and Argcntan, on both sides of the mouth of the baa. We could not get enough power far around to Argentan to close it from the south, and the Nazi positions on the north side of the bag were full battle line de fenses which could not be pen etrated readily. The Germans slipped their men out of the bag at night moving mem across fields, us ing the roads for light vehicles. leaving behind on the outer line of the bag fairly strong rear guard pockets with good artil lery centers, expecting these to be gobbled up as our line was able to advance. On the southern side of the bag, there was not a strong bat tle line the first few days, but on a thin front presented by our armored force. Thus, the Nazis escaped a complete kill, but their army was so weak ened Its future fighting power Is questionable. (As a matter of complete truth, this Nazi 7th army was technically two, being made up of the major elements of the two armies.) TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August IS, 1934 (It was Saturday) Names of four screen stars mentioned as members of Com munist party. Michael F. Sannon, grand ex alted ruler of Elks, visits local lodge. Long assumes Louisiana by WAR SPENDING IS DOWN TO $282,900,000 PER DAY Washington, Aug. 18 (U.R) United States daily war expen ditures in July averaged $282, 800,000, the lowest daily aver age for any month this year, the War Production Board reported today. The July war outlay amount ed to $7,355,000,000, and brought total U. S. war expendi tures since July 1, 1940, to $207,200,000,000. The July ex penditures represented a drop of 7.6 per spending. cent below Juna Before Pearl Harbor 17,000 long distance telephone calls or iginated in Washington daily. The number now exceeds 35,000 each day. Sen. Huey P. 'dictatorship' of legislative act. Somewhat wanner. High 82, low 60 degrees. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson Is or dered to reorganize NRA and head it by president. Southern Oregon sailors and; soldiers reunion set for August 30. 14 rMi-Vijia:-3fcS4J:s i cn au l TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 18, 1924 (It was Moaiay) Steady rain in valley develops Into downpour, and delays pear picking. Danger of forest fires, however, is lessened. Extensive rains throughout state ends long dry spell. Henry Ford predicts republi cans will win national election. Austrian colonel charges that forged telegram" started World War. It was Seres had killed 400 Austrians. Unsettled with probable rain. High 64. low 54 degrees. Precip. 77 of inch. Large grist of autolsts fined In Justice court speeding on -Main street. mtmmmm Do Your Shopping At Anderson's Thrift Mar ket Regularly . . . Save The Difference For War Bonds For Your Future. SHOWFLAKE CRACKERS Mb. hml&c J HOTHING like an army and not much of a fighting force re mains in southwest France, the grouping of a few divisions there has been drained for rein forcements the past ten days. The 4th and so-called south ern army, facing our new in vasion of the Riviera aimed up the Rhone valley contains no more than eight to ten divisions scattered along the river. Then the Germans have some troops a'. Vichy, and others, in central France before Paris. This distribution of their forces does not suggest that they Intend to retire to the Maginot line or the Siegfried, but rather plan to hold the north bank of the Scine-Marne or Selne-Oise-Aisne and perhaps later the Somme - Oise - Aisne, their major remaining army be ing within those river lines al ready. The Maginot would not be of much use to them, as Its rear is presented to us, and the Sieg fried is within Germany, too close to home for them. Excel lent defensive positions are available to the Nazis through out eastern France in the hills and mountains, there being only a few gateways Into Germany, the southern one around Belfort near the Swiss border, the Lor raine gate in the center and In the north the Ardenne. through which the Germans moved west to conquer France. IF the Nazis run back to these hills arid the defense of these gateways, they could conceiv ably hold strong positions with their weakened forces and try to fight us off until winter. But our intentions are to use up their remaining fighting forces so thoroughly as to end their power of resistance and conclude the war on French lowland soil. When our two Invasions de velop in the coming days to the points where our full strength of armored columns can manou ver throuRh France, the way Patton did in Normandy, Ger man power In the west is apt to be finally crushed. Six tons washed each ago farm wifi Democratic candidate for vice president comes out for govern ment ownership. teen-agooys TALL CANS CASE 48 Only 3'" Boston. Aug. 18 U.B Five teen-age Roxbury boys confessed todav to the murder and robbery of Marine Sgt. John F. Prunty of the south end whose body was found beside a bridle path in Fenway Sunday. Police Lt. John J. Walklns re vealed the confessions after the boys had been questioned sep arately for hours. He said all would be arraigned in Roxbury district court on murder and rob- berv charges. j The boys, one of them 16 and j the others 15, confessed that they j tackled Pruntv, a husky marine j veteran of two wars, as he strolled along the bridle path. battered him unconscious, and then strangled-him with his own belt. They admitted that they rob bed him of $128 money which he had received a few days earlier when he was honorably discharged from the marines be cause of his age 40. It was the free spending of the loot in Rox bury stores which directed sus pectlon to the quintet. ELECTRIC FLATIRONS . AT PRE WAR PRICES Washington, Aug. 18 (U.R) Price Administrator Chester Bowles said today that the 20 manufacturers authorized to produce nearly 2.000,000 elec tric flatirons have agreed to market them at the March 1942 prices. The producers had been ex pected to request up to a 25 per cent increase above pre war price. The Irons, which wiU be available later this year, will retail at $5.30 to $11.70, Bowles said. Daily Weather Report I Format I Medford and vicinity: Talr tonight and Saturday. Warmer Saturday. Oregon: Clear tonight and Saturday. but morninc overcast near coast and i In Willamette Valley. Warmer Satur- i f day, i Loral Hat Temperature a year ajo today: ' Hlfhrst, 84; lowest. ftO. Total monthly precipitation. .11 Inches. Execs (or the month, .06 Inches. Total precipitation alnce September 1. 1943. 1604 inches. Deficiency for the season, .67 Inches. Relative humidity at 4 30 p. m, yea ' terday. 25; 4 30 today. 87 W Tomorrow Sunr1e. 6 3.1 a. m. Sunset H Ofl p. m Fast 24 hours Poise ...... Boston Chicago . .Li....... Penvrr Furrka Havre 1 os Angeles Mrdfnrd New York . Omaha rhoniT Portland Reno . . .,. .. , Rose burg Salt L-ake Sfln Francisco Seattle High P7 FRUIT JARS - 81.49 MASON JAR UBS-.... pkg. 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