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SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Auguii 24, 1944 MEDFORBtfWUlIBUNE "Xttom ! Southttra OrtcM Ud the Mall Tribuf Dull kiNpt SalartUr PubJUhttl br MBUiruRO PRINTINO CO. T-M North Fir St Pboaa till ROBERT W RUirL, Editor. RNEST R- OIL4TRAP. Uaaw. As (Bdapcadaot Hwppr. Bnttrvd twoaad tl&a mat lor at Mod ford. OrOKoa, under Act of March t, 1ITI. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mr Mall In Advaacoi Pally and Sundor ooa vm,,.,.T.I Xallr aad Suodajr n at oath... . tally aad 8u01r hr month. 1.19 Dally aad Sunday tnt nootta.,, .T Bj Carrier la AdraBco Mod ford. A oh- tand, Coatral Point. Jacksonville, Gold Mill, Phoonlz, Talent, aad oa motor ran too! IHr aad Suadar aoe roar It. 9 Daily and Sunday. on month.. .11 All tor mo caah la Official Pafxr of tho City mt Modford Official Paper of Jacaaoa Canal? TJalUd Pui rnll Loaaod Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advortlalng Representative WS.T-HOI,LIDAT COMPANT, IMC. Office la Now Tork. Calcaco. Detroit, Baa Pranclooo, Loo Amelia, Seattle, Portland. SU Lea I a. AUaala. TaaooaToa; a. a Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry A hill resident reports he split 617 sticks of cookstove wood from one cut of a giant fir he felled in his own back yard. This is a better record than established by the demo cratic party of Jackson county, or the state, in the years they split themselves. Historians will have to figure out which was most complete flop. The fainting and fall of France in 1940, or the skedad dling of the Hun therefrom, In 1944. Chairman Sidney Hillman. who kidnaped the boots and britches of New Deal party at the Chicago Hannegan-shenannl- gan, and is chairman of the CIO Political Action committee, pre dicts Maine and Vermont will be carried by the Fourth Term candidate. Predictions like this are enough to cause Alabama to go republican. They also probably cause the "Indispens able Man" to wish he had Jim Farley back as a campaign mouthpiece. To the majority of voters the CIO Is like unto a red rag to a bull, or a skunk In the kitchen to an Older Girl. "CLOSE" IS RIGHT (Woodlawn (Cal.) Democrat) "A reader writes to the Milwaukee Journal complain ing that a neighbor, com pletely nude, walked out on his front porch, picked up the morning paper, and walk ed nonchalantly back" into the house. Tho complaining witness signed the letter, "Close Observer." Dwellers of the residential areas complain dogs bark all night at the moon, (It no moon, no matter), and when weary of their own baying, roosters start crowing at the coming of the i fiawn. i "TRUMAN: NO SECRET WIFE IS ON PAYROLL." (Hdllna Nebraska Journal). Clad to hear it. The Nazi brats of Germany are so thoroughly slmoned with Nazism Der Fatherland will have to be watched for SO years to prevent any more world conquering attempts by the self-confessed master race. The security conference now In session is advised. The Rus sians have a fine cure for Teu tonic bullhcadedncss and ego tism. They make them rebuild the cities they have helped de stroy, and at all limes move faster, than the WPA In the boondoggling era. News photographs of German generals captured In France re veal a few to be human. At least If they are deeply disgust ed at such an accusation, it does not show on their faces. Hunters will be allowed shot gun shells in the fall for the elimination of birds that eat tip the farmer's crops before the bugs get around to It. Nimrodj are warned not to shoot indis criminately at "No Hunting" signs and not mistake a hired man stooping over In the barn yard for a Chinese pheasont. RIGHTEOUS WRATH IN "94" A letter written by an East ern stranger to a gentleman of this city contains a curt con demnation of The Dalles and nil it surroundings. The writer says he intended to locate here and expected to circulate whole lots of money, but now has chnnged his mind and wouldn't let go of a cent in Wasco coun ty, no sir, not if he got two back. The reason he gives for this sudden reversal of feelings Is that he was charged 23 cents for. a very poor 10-ccnt shave. He then concluded that we were thieves and robbers. So he took his dishes and doll babies, quit paddling in our rain barrel and sliding down our cellar door, vowed he would never again swing on our gate, and went way mad. (50 Yr. Ago col. in Tha Dalles Chronicle). Dm Hau Trunin Want Ads, Week of Decision! We predicted this would be a decisive week of the war, whether the war in Europe is to be a matter of days or of months, possibly years. Over "half the week is tainly has been sustained. followed another. MOW Paris has fallen, France, Marseille. The allies have made a and in the north are rushing unchecked toward the German border. Following the example Romania has broken off and like the former agreed to fight with the allies against the now common Bulgaria is tottering. French patriots have recov ered half of the country. vancing and will soon German oil supply. Even within Germany rats are starting to desert If half a week of war were ever crowded with more startling and decisive events, we can't recall it. As this is written the war like DAYS, perhaps hours. VET we would advise none of the gamboleers who tnrJs tha Inner onH nf that Wall Kh-ppr. Wflrrpr tn bVyuIV Kilt O V r - - O pay over their hard-earned cash just yet. It is over a week until Labor Day and much can still happen. Germany is fatally wounded, but rigor mortis has not yet set in. And until it does, the dying Nazi snake still has life in its coils and poison in its fangs. Therefore the present is no time to lie back and relax, but to increase the punch and the pressure, which judging by reports from all over Europe, is exactly what General Eisenhower is doing. And here is honing it WILL be DAYS! For the sooner this war is over in Europe the sooner it will end in the Far East and the sooner our boys, and girls, can come home, and "we the people1' in this country and throughout the world can return to ways of sanity and peace again ! The Only Winner Speakmg of predictions, far be it from this depart ment to claim any prophetic And for two main reasons. No. 1 : nothing is more irritating to newspaper readers than twanging of the "I told you so" editorial string. And No. 2 : the skipper of this department knows durned well he possesses none ! But in the business of speculating about the future, this newspaper, as do other newspapers, now and then hits the nail on the head, and when this happens, to mention the fact is no capital offense. AT any rate we are going to call attention to the fact that when the present war started, exactly five years ago this Saturday week it was predicted in this column that in the Europe to profit from the war would be Soviet Russia. We did not.base this prediction so much upon the mil .'fa,.,, mirrlif nf Riiccin aa . , . as destructive as mis one fail to prepare a seed-bed would be the only country by revolution. fXE grant the unexpected military might of Russia ' proved to bo a far greater factor in the result than we ever anticipated, but we believe no one would deny that if the books were balanced at the present time, the only net credit as far as Europe is concerned would be in the Russian ledger. Great Britain it is true, was not shattered as antici pated and staged a come-back that will go down in history as one of the seven wonders of the world; but when the war ends nevertheless, Britain will be weak er than when it started, Russia infinitely stronger. This fact is not as evident now, as it will be, a few years after the treaty of peace is signed, and the final score, socially and economically can be more readily discerned. Will Michael be a Victor? The situation in Romania at this writing is too confused for one even to speculate on the exact situ ation or the final outcome. Whether youthful King Michael and his new mili tary premier will follow the course of King Victor of Italy and Marshall Badoglio, and Romania will become a new battlefield between Germany and the allies; or whether Germany hard pressed everywhere, will try to get her army out of the country while the getting is good, and abandon Romania along with the Balkans, remains to be seen. The latter course however would seem the more likely, for there is one extremely important difference between the Romanian and Italian situations, the Romanian armies are still reasonably intact and have the Russians to help them; whereas the Italian amies were scattered and demoralized, and at the time of the break the allied force in Italy could Jiot compare in striking power and with Stalin's legions, now liter ally knocking at the gates of Romania's economic heart, the Polcsti oil fields. So it looks very much as though King Michael would not follow the course of King Victor, but one of his own, and thanks to Germnnv's weakness and Russia's strength be returned to the Romanian throne I in a comparatively short time. gone. That prediction cer One big crashing event has so has the second city of third landing in the south of Italy and Turkey, relations with . Germany, enemy. The Russians are still ad control over 60 percent of according to grapevine, the the sinking Nazi ship. in Europe certainly looks powers. . end the only country in lmnn tho fnr-i thnt a war , - i. i j i. was sure 10 oe, coum nui for revolution, and Russia in Europe that could profit News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 24 More important people than C. E. Wilson, the vice chairman, have been after the war produc tlon board chairman, Don ald E. Nelson, to get him to China or even farther, all the way back to Sears Roe buck, whence he came. The preside nt's strong right Paul Malloo arm (though somewhat limp and sore now himself), James F. Byrnes, long has been aligned against him. Also Harry Hopkins' man, Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, long has hoped and planned the worst for Mr. Nelson. The latest Inside cause for renewed anger was a report on army production made by two of Nelson's assistants, seeming to show Somervell all wrong in his figures on army short ages. This report Mr. Nelson is supposed to have sent to the chief of staff. Gen. Oenrm. C. t! ; Marshall, with an invitation to!velt and 245 for Dewey was look it over. It claims Somer vell was able to arrive at his shortages only by transferring title of equipment and supplies from his own department to army transportation, or the bu reau of ordnance or some army subdivision. Mere mention of such a re port sends official tempers fly ing and the sub-officials whis per, "it has been suppressed." AT first Mr. Nelson under- "wn iic wuuiu ue in inina for only two or three weeks at the most. But since then, he has read in the papers that he is to be there 60 to 90 days the so called crucial period for Nel sons piecemeal return to peace time production or the Wilson Somervell idea of waiting for mass reconversion. But when the president said the Nelson mission to China Is most pressing," the congress men remembered Vice - Presi dent Wallace was the last to undertake a pressing mission in that direction, onlv to lose his Job, even with Mr. Roose velt's support. The president also said there would be no change in WPB policy (he mentioned nothing about chairmen), but the earlier White House announcement had specifically designated Mr. Nel son's enemy on this issue, Mr. Wilson, to be acting chairman. In which seat he will have many opportunities to act with and without Mr. Roosevelt's notice. Therefore, Mr. Roosevelt has not been able to dispel entirely the common supposition among the business elements within WPB that the army got rid of I Mr. Nelson for the coming 60 to 90 days at least, and nos- sibly for longer. pIVILIANS tend to sympa thlze with the Nelson case, but there Is an untold side to the army stand also. For in stance. It can now be related Gen. Elsenhower two or three weeks ago, suddenly ordered 80,000 trucks to be shipped Im mediately. Apparently he de cided to move his armv forward Into Germany on trucks entire ly, disregarding railroad repair. Now 80.000 is a sensational number of trucks (and the army has been claiming a shortage in this line), but they were found stored around the country. The army and navy feel they must produce twice as much as they think they will need, in order to have enough. In battle you cannot afford to be caught short. Atop this. Pacific coast sena tors say 8000 war workers have been leaving California each month since the end of the Eur opean war became evident. The army and navy fear that when the European war ends, the workers will not sustain their Interest for Japan. The military will start drumming congress for an industrial draft act again, unless they get the production they want. There should be some rea sonable common grovind for starting much civilian produc tion immediately, as Mr. Nelson ..... . ,,.ifl,n,,, nAn.in. the army and navy, to which his adversaries object, but no one seems to have found It. WEATHER Northern California Clear today, tonight and Friday, ex cept fog on the coast south of San Francisco this morning and entire coast Friday morning. Slightly warmer In interior to day. NYLONS FIRST Hollywood, Aug. 24. (UP1 Frances M. McCaughy today sued a Hollywood cafe for $10. 000, 'charging she tripped over a rope near the cashier's desk and In order of Importance ; ruined her nylon hose and sus tained personal Injury. n uiniim ti i-.nNiti imn was established at Montreal in 1878. P POLSEFEELING GOP's Brownell Says Re ports from Across Coun try Indicate Victory. Washington, Aug. 24 (U.R) Herbert Brownell, Jr.,' republi can National chairman, said to day polls of public opinion and reports from the republican leaders across the country show a marked trend toward election of the Dewey-Bricker ticket in November. In Washington to coordinate republican senatorial and con gressional campaign plans with activities of the National com mittee headquarters in New York, Brownell told a press con ference that "when Gov. Dewey and Gov. Bricker' begin their speaking campaign the trend toward the republican party will be accelerated." Gallup Questioned Brownell contended a gallup poll report showing 286 elec- toral votes for President Koose- based on figures taken over period of time and fails to re flect the trend which would be evident if a nationwide simul taneous check were possible. Up-to-the-minute figures would show a slight edge for the GOP ticket, he said. Brownell said the outcome of primaries since the National convention in Chicago are indi cative of the republican trend. "The results of the democrat ic primary in Missouri with the candidates supported by Sen. Truman repudiated by demo cratic voters and the selection of a strong senatorial candidate by the republican party show well for a republican victory in Missouri in November," Brown ell said. New Publicity Director He announced the appoint ment of Godfrey Hammond, president of Popular Science Publishing Co. of New York, as publicity director for the Dewey Bricker campaign. Brownell lunched with a group of republican senators and received a report from the republican senatorial campaign Committee on every state where there is a senatorial contest this fall. 21 INFANTRYMEN IN FAST ACTION With the American Division Somewhere- in the Southwest Pacific, Aug. 24. (U.R For fast and furious patrol activity, take the action of the 21 infantrymen under 1st Lt. Raymond H. Ross, of Salem, Ore., who wiped out a force of approximately 40 Japs in 15 minutes. i By actual count, 26 Japs were killed and a dozen more badly wounded. One U. S. infantry man was wounded slightly. Six of the Japanese were killed by Sgt. Bernard Kowitz, of St. Paul, Minn. The action occurred deep in side enemy lines, where Ross, with a reconnaissance squad of only six men, spotted a native village in the jungle, Japs At Eaia "Japs were sitting around, lounging and eating," Ross said. He sent a runner back for a 15 man reinforcement detail, armed mostly with Browning auto matic rifles. When they arrived. Ross tossed a hand-grenade and ordered the men to fire. Twenty Japs were killed In stantly and from a number of huts screams arose as the patrol poured a hail of fire into the small dwellings, keeping their shots a foot above ground. Six more Japs, approaching a native garden 400 yards away, also were killed by a picked trio of snipers. The patrol withdrew after a larger body of Nips opened up with machine gun fire from a ridge. 'CALVIN P. THOMPSON FUNERAL IS FRIDAY Services for Calvin P. Thom ason. Central Point, who passed away in a local hospital Wed nesday at the age of 72. will be held In the Conger-Morris chapel at 10:30 a. m. Friday with the Rev. D. E. Millard officiating Interment will be In the family plot In Central Point cemetery. NO. SDlvbrfCESNO. 2 Hollywood. Aug. 34. tU.P.i Blonde Bonnie Edwards. 28. number five on Tommy Man vlllc's list of ex-wives, today held a divorce from Algernon K. Barbee millionaire bottling executive, on grounds he pre ferred champagne to his own anft rtrlnW rrivtiirt. , . . I Yenisei river in Asia is 2800 'miles long. (Acme Telephoto) Marines hit the dirt as Japanese snipers, still holding out In Isolated sections of Salpan. open up on tnis small mopMlng-up force. The Marine in foreground doubles up and pitches forward as snioer bullet bits him. Marine Corns photo. I Russ Armies Launch New Offensive P Olt AND J JJf. lBb' citing uclyxy . , i , i-j Unlet Jionomiri J tmrnit jrMlj'''m''j' TRANSYLVANIA I mu . c' f ' Ce'jMi$ (Acme Telephoto) Two Soviet Armies, launcning a new offensive to RnocK rtumania dui ot war and deprive Germany ot ner last major source ol ou. racea across BessaraDtan and Moldavian plains witmn 10 miles or tess ol cne Gaiati Gap, gateway to Bucharest and Ploesu Puncning out gams ol up tc 43 miles In first three days ot offensive, the Second ana Thira Ukrainian Armies captured Iasl, Rumania's second largest city, and 350 other locau-tles. COMMUNICATIONS Letter! to the Bdllui mun oeai che name m.d address l the writei ilthuiigh the use ot a pen mmi ir ttiitlaif lot publication is oi nl&slble rtie Mnll rtlbune re erves the right to edit all lettan lth a view to clarity and con tensatlon Associated Employers Endorse Dewey To the editor: Attached ydu will find a reso lution which was referred to the membership of the Associated Employers of Oregon by refer endum and has been approved by 95 of our membership in Oregon. May we request that if you see fit to publish this that you quote the resolution in its entirety. Thanking you for your co operation, ASSOCIATED EMPLOYERS OF OREGON, INC. Portland, Aug. 23. RESOLUTION Believing that the time has come in national affairs that em ployer organizations should ex press publicly as an "organiza tion" their viewpoints in the na tional scene, the directors, by this resolution, refer the mem bership of the Associated Em-' plovers of Oregon, Inc., a refer endum vote on the following: WHEREAS, The Republican platform, adopted by the nation al Republican convention re cently held in Chicago, has clear ly outlined a constructive policy of security for business and in dustry, for agriculture, for la bor: that this platform deserves the study and careful considera tion of the citizens of Oregon; That business, industry, labor, and the farmer must choose at the polls in November of 1944 which way the ship of nation shall sail; That a national publication. News Week , in a recent issue, stated that the state of Oregon was a doubtful state as to which way the voters would swing for either ticket in the 1944 general election; , That the Issue, as the direct ors see It. In the national presi dential campaign of 1944, is either the continuation of the "law of directive" as advanced by the candidates of the Demo cratic party, or the return to the "law of constitutional govern ment" as advanced by the candi dates of the Republican party. Now. therefore, be It resolved: That the Associated Employers of Oregon, Incorporated, recom mend to the organization's mem bership the association's endorse SoothM omf pnottKti boby'i wxit IrrftoKd ifctn, SprtnU 0 frbf afHr vry cfong. MEXSANA SQQH!SJ utP'CAMD roMi Jap Snioer Bullet Fells Fji'vi Marine ment of the candidacy of the Republican nominees, the Honor able Thomas E. Dewey of New York for the presidency of the United States of America, and the Honorable John W. Bricker of Ohio for the candidacy of vice-president of the United States of America. Passed and adopted August 1. 1944. THE MEMBERSHIP, Associated i Employers of Oregon, Inc. Livestock Ills Claimed Spread By Game Animals Chicago, Aug. 24. (U.R) A reservoir of dangerous livestock diseases Is being maintained in national parks and game pre-! serves by the interior depart-! ir.ent and at the same time the department of agriculture is try ing to stamp out the same dis eases in domestic animals, the American Veterinary Medical association was told today. "Recent findings indicate that increasing numbers of wild spe cies serve as reservoirs of infec tions transmissible to domestic livestock and human beings," the association's committee on diseases of wild animals report ed to the organization's annual convention. Diseased buffalo from govern ment preserves "are moved across the country without re gard to sanitary laws governing the transportation of diseased animals and without regard to the spread of brucellosis (conta gious abortion) in clean areas." the committee's report charged. GAS TRUCK BLAZES Santa Monica, Cal., Aug. 24. (U.R) Traffic several hours early today by a I roaring fire that starter! u-Vinni a large gasoline truck and trail er overturned and exploded on Roosevelt highway near here. Flaming gasoline was sprayed for several hundred yards, com pletely gutting a restaurant and damaging a filling station and other small buildings. I 9. ---nS: Drinks spar kit out I :,h r a 3K mmmtr I tion" insures livelineu 1J iTjBSSi 1 " ,ip' Wu CANADA DRY 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 24. 1934 -(It was Friday) Homer Van Meter, bandit and pal of Dillinger, slain In ambush. FDR. starts re-organization of NRA. Fair. High 99, low 59 degrees. Prospect and Conco plant I threatened by forest fire. Oregon farmers due to get coin for hogs they did not raise. Gov. Meier to decide on Inde pendent candidacy within com ing week. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 24, 1924 (It was Sunday) Italian aviator on flight from Rome, missing three days, res cued in Atlantic. Tom Murray, one of the Flor ence bank robbers, escapes from state prison. J. Logan of Astoria reports he saw Ray DeAutremont, Siskiyou bandit suspect, on highway be tween this city and Ashland yes terday. Fair and warmer, low 53 degres. High 100, Local deer hunter reported missing In Mt. Pitt district. Near East Relief conference opened In Prospect today. Fancy Bartletts sell In Port land for $3.25 per box. Phoenix hunters, Louis Col ver, Aubrey Furry, and W. S. Stancliffe kill the largest deer ever bagged in Dead Indian. It weighed 275 pounds. Elmhirst Host At Barbecue Dinner At Country Home About 80 persons were guests last night of J. A. Elmhirst who was host for a barbeque dinner and entertainment at his home on the Old, Stage Road. Dinner was served from tables arranged on the lawn. Jerry Jerome acted as master of ceremonies and entertainment was furnished by Eve Prentice and a group of accordion play ers. During the evening Mr. Elmhirst's young daughters,' Janie and Elizabeth exhibited beef animals which they are raising. Guests were introduced as a feature of the program. The elaborate barbecue menu had been prepared by Paul Bui kin and a staff of assistants and a corps of waitresses served un der the direction of Mr. Bulkin. Camp White Dance Schedule Thursday Regular informal dance of Service Club No. 2. Busses leav ing Riverside L'SO at 8 p.m. for transportation. . Saturday Cabaret dance at Service club No. 2. BIRTHS UNRUH To Mr. and Mrs. Abe, Lake Creek, Aug. 23, 1944, girl, 6 lbs., at Sacred Ueart hos pital. 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