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Newspaper Page TextrOUH MEDFOHD MAIL TSIBtJWB Monday Xvgxui it. 1844 IMEDFOI UNE PobIihI it MBDFORD PUXNTINQ CO. tt-W Kortk Fir au rtaes t1t ROBERT W, RUHU Kdltor. BltNSST R- OIUTRAP, Uca44r Entrd moob4 1m mttr tt M1 (rd, OrfuD, under Act of March &. 1171. SUBSCRfPTION RATE! Br MU In Advsei PtJly ul Buoditj m t. ' D4!t ud Budr ti Month.,. 4.01 . &Jt7 nd Sunder iir nonths. 1.11 Daily and Bundar month.. .Tl Br CarrUr In Advaoea Uadford Ath- jtvnd. CaatraJ Point, Jack ton villa. Gold Hilt. Paaaals, Talaat. ud w tnator i roataat Daily and BnnUr raw f.t J , Xailr and Sunday . moat a,, .71 AJ1 Urni eaak la ad van o. OfflrUJ Fapar af Ifaa Cltr W Hadfortf Official Vmpt at Jackaoa Conatj Dai Lad Priaa Vull Laaiad Wlra MCslBER OP AUDIT BUBBAO OP CIRCULATION! Advertising Rtprasealatlee WICST-HOIXIDAT COMPANY, INC. Offices In Nsw York. Chicago, Detroit, flu Praaelaoe, lom Antslaa, Seaina, fertUAd. fit. Lenls, Atlanta, vumm, b. a Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry Pacifists and the sentimental folks have started feeling sorry for 'poor Germany,' and old Marshal Pctaln of France, late of Vichy, now In hiding. Neither deserve sympathy. Both asked for what they are now receiving. The old Marshal Is listed as the hero of Verdun' In the First World War, but the records show It was because he had to be. He wanted to surrender, but the French leaders wouldn't let him. And, Germany wants to be handled with silk gloves, nd low bows, and, not as the hood lum nation she Is. There will be no parole, to get ready for World War III. "J. M. Kelsay, handsome blacksmith of Adams, Is a vis itor here today." (Pendleton cast Oregonlan) Journalistic puff and pat. A democratic candidate for XT. S. senator towned over the week-end, and caused no seoth Ing excitement by the announce ment he retained his 12-ycar-old grip on the cnattails of the "In dispensable Man" and Fourth Term candidate. The Older Girls now claim It Is Indian Summer. If It turns off hot again, they will give the summer back to the Indians. MOST OBLIGING CUSS (Independence Enterprise) "A wineo came to the Inde pendence hotel and offered to buy Guyon Blissctt a drink Wednesday evening. Later he returned and offered to buy him a cigar. At 4 o'clock Thursday morning he showed up again and said, "I can't buy you a drink and I can't buy you a cigar, how about coming around in the morning and taking you to Sunday School?" The head of the War Labor Board has been dispatched to China on a special mission reek ing with importance. It Is pre dicted he will be banished from his bureau, and upon his return, like Vice President Wallace, will find himself jabbed In the small of the back with a charm ing pitch-fork. The war department ruled the Bremerton talk of F.R. was 'political', and era the day was done, changed their minds. It will take no Gallup poll to dis cover the general public knows they were right the first time. "Mr. West and1 Mrs. Wright talking so low the editor's wife couldn't get a scrap for the paper." (Exchange) Exas perating no end. A few of the experts on Euro pean affairs surmise, Herr Hit ler, as a final flourish will com mit suicide by slashing his throat, a most messy way to de part this earth. Inasmuch as the seat of his britches were de stroyed In the alleged bomb at tempt on Der Fuehrer's life, non experts predict he will miss and cut the leg off his Sunday pants. v MOTHERLY JITTERS "Mother worries If daughter's beau laughs a lot. Mother knows this means he Isn't ready to pro pose. My wife fears our daugh ter Is wasting time with the happy young fellow who comes here so often. He sings, laughs and talks real loud, Indicating he Is in love with Ufa and not with daughter. When a young man Is anxious to marry he Is sad and he talks to daughter so low that mother can't hear him In spite of all her efforts. He has no appetite, Instead of the wonderful appetite our daugh ter's beau has. He likes to sit close to the girl Instead of going to the refrigerator for rationed food, as this young fellow does. So long as daughter'! beau Is full of life, mother has little chance to catch him for a son-in-law." (Claude Callan tn K. C. Times) Closing tint tor Sunday Too UU to Claaelft t 30 Saturate tftaUDOOgt ririse-ifcmemDar, i4J FW Paper .Drfae With Nazi armies Bmashed by victorious Allied drives on all fronts, and the Herrenvolk stunned by uninterrupted and unrelenting bombings from the skies, it seems difficult indeed to arouse enthusiasm for just another waste paper drive. And, with Japanese Premier Koiso announcing another "unprecedented grave crisis" on the heels of America's latest stab at the Bonin islands, almost any appeal for waste paper would seem needless, irrele vant and immaterial. As a matter of fact, many Amer icans consider the war won and further civilian effort and sacrifice entirely uncalled for. THERE'S a vast difference between confidence and ! any surplus war property dlspos onmnlonra Wo npprl mnfh nf t.Vifi former we I al agencies exist and Mayor La . . . . . . ... can do entirely without the this is no time for a cocky, "it's-in-the-bag" attitude. For such an attitude impairs the prosecution of the war. There is every reason to expect that we are ap proaching the home-stretch in Europe, but none for slackening in effort either at home or at the front. In fact every reason for hitting harder and doing more thus hastening the end and thus saving Ameri can lives and treasure. So, it behooves Jackson county people to take this job of collecting scrap paper seriously. For waste paper when front maps, and for containers for war foods, ammu nition, medicine and blood plasma. There are, in fact, .JO.OOO articles used by the army and navy wrapped or boxed in paper. Two million tons are urgently needed right now for immediate military use. THE current paper drive opens Wednesday, with 1 the S.P. -building at Main and Front streets as official collection depot. Valuable assistance will be given by Jackson County Boy Scouts. In the past there has been no means of gathering salvage materials in country areas. Fortunately, this problem has been solved for this drive with the patri otic offer of rural and star route postal carriers to collect bundles of paper and haul them to the collec tion depot. If Jackson county's 4,700 families reached bv these mail routes contribute but 20 pounds each a carload of waste paper will be secured from this single source I Bundles should be placed on or along side rural mail boxes. TXE repeat the simple instructions for preparing ' bundles of waste paper for this drive: Flatten card board boxes or cartons and tie in bundles about 12 inches high; tie magazines and books in bundles about 18 inches high, lay newspapers flat and tie in bundles, 12 inches high; put waste basket paper, such as old envelopes or wrappers in cartons or boxes and pack down tightly to conserve space. Now, as you read this, to dig out those old newspapers and magazines and tie them into bundles for the paper drive Wednesday. It is a mighty important part of the war effort. H.G. Not Jelled Yet The "week of decision" is over. But as far as this department is concerned it will take another week to know exactly what is going on in Europe. The Germans are getting a terrific beating. That is certain. Their card-board fascist "empire" is falling and falling fast. But whether this all adds up to a final knock-out blow or merely a softening extend over a number of is not vet clear. ..... IT is doubtful if ANYone really KNOWS. TKa a Iliad nr.mrnaT.r1 krmwa wlinf. la hannnnmir tf their forces and precisely where they are. The Gere man high command, undoubtedly knows what is hap pening to their armies as well as what is going on behind their front But there is no evidence to support the assumption either side knows much about the exact situation within the enemy ranks. Yes, it is all pretty much confusion worse con founded. Rather like a log iam that has broken, with one side trying to escape to nigh ground and the other side trying to prevent it, and a mix-up of men, logs, water-spouts and what have you. ..... DUT before the week is out it should be apparent whether this is the end or merely the beginning of the end ; whether the Nazi serpent is in its death throes, or merely beating it for home as fast as it can go, there to make a last ditch stand, with the swastika nailed to the mast, as the once proud ship now a bullet-riddled hulk, goes down. But certainly the past week was a thrilling one. and the present week promises to be even more of a "Big Parade" toward the German frontiers. It is doubtful if those Wall Street brokers win their Labor Dav wagers, but it should be known on Labor Day, PRECISELY what the score is. Great To Be Crazy! Yes at times it IS "great to be crazy". Take Herr Hitler for example. If he were not a mental case, he would have blown his brains out long ago after a period of intense mental and spiritual anguish. But paranoia saves him. His delusions of persecu tion and of grandeur turn his diseased ego from intro spection to searching for another scapegoat. He is not to blame for Germany's tragedy I IMPOSSIBLE! His persecutors are and they are legion, not only without the Reich but now within. So undoubtedly Adolf is now searching for them, and woe to them when he finds them. Unless a beneficent turn of fate, allows them to find him, FIRST 1 . it latter, as a matter 01 xact salvaged is used for battle- make a date with yourself - up process, which may weeks, or even months TREASURY CHIEF DENIES CHARGES Washington, Aug. 28 U.RJ E. L. Olrich, assistant to the sec retary of the treasury, defended the treasury's surplus property disposal program today and de nied charges of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York that surplus property was now being sold "at Junkie prices." ..XT. I..AH..U.II!U I m fliinrrlln'e ctntmint nrn a rna Guardia's statements are a gross Injustice, he told the house com mittee on postwar military pol icy. In testimony before the Mead committee of the senate, La Guardia recently charged that 400,000 battle dressings, 10,000 dozen pairs of hospital rubber gloves, 200 cases of evaporated milk and 400 motorcycles were being sold at junk dealer prices. The price for the motorcycles, the mayor said, "would knock you over." The battle dressings were re jected as unusable by military authorities and the manufacturer then reoffered them at his own financial loss, Olrich said. "They were selling their own rejected property and no surplus war property agency nor govern mental agency was in any way Involved. 6 GOVERNORS 10 OPEN GOP RADIO TALKS TOMORROW New York, Aug. 28 (U.R) A coast-to-coast republican radio campaign for the election of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey gets un- der way tomorrow when bix'SVS r""J cwltlje. joV governors broadcast In his be half, National Republican Chair man Herbert Brownell, Jr., an nounced today. "The series of speeches will be an impressive example of re publican team work," he said. Other ' republican governors will speak at later dates. Scheduled for tomorrow are: Gov. Earl Warren of California;, Gov. Dwlght H. Green of II llnots, and Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut, who will speak over the Blue net work at 10:15 p. m. (EWT). Gov. Edward Martin of Pennsylvania; Gov. Andrew Schoepel of Kan sas, and Gov. Edward J. Thye of Minnesota will broadcast over the National Broadcasting com pany network at 10:30 p. m. (EWT). DAIRYROBBED OF 1 CASES OF BEER Seven cases of beer In pints were stolen from the Lost River Dairy warehouse on North Riv erside avenue Sunday night by thirsty culprits who tossed a k l...,mh o nto.. In th frnnt door and opened the door from the inside, City police, who with state po- lice and the sheriff's office in vcstlgated the burglary, said that nothing else was disturbed. Berlin Claim Film Comic Shot Doubted London, Aug. 28 (U.R) French headquarters in London said today It had received no confirmation of a Berlin radio report that the French maquls have killed Maurice Chevalier, French comedian, for collab orating with the Germans. The German DNB News Agency broadcast the report under an Amsterdam date. A headquarters spokesman doubted the story because French Interior foices had been ordered to nold collaboration ists for trial and not to shoot them arbitrarily. ADMIRAL'S EYE SAVED Southeast Asia Headquarters, Kandy, Ceylon, Aug. 28. (U.R) Admiral Lord Louts MountbaMMc ten, head of the southeast Asia command, credited young Amert can doctors today with saving his left eye which he injured during an inspection of the north Burma front early In March. LAMB rOROPA Bandon, Ore., Aug. 18. (U.R) Ralph Chrlstlanson, president. nnounced today 'that the Coos' Livestock Marketing association! "mllnns"- v,1m ' U hud crated a live lmb and ship-1 altlnmcli above the meager Fri ped It to the Washington head-1 d:,v ,p,a1- quarters of OFA Chief Chester1 Howies. In order to "acquaint j "ous In placing new commit him with tha lost market value." : ments. there was no rush to sell -. ,M -- HEARING SLATED Detroit, Aug. 28 iU.R) A trt-; pnruie panel oi me national war Decca Records which made a labor board will begin hearings j ntw high at 35' j here Wednesday on Issues In-! TodaVs closing prices on se volvlng 40,000 workers in seven: Potit stocks lorals ot the United Automobile Workers (CIO and the Bendix i Avlstlon Corp in five states. j VORLD SECURITY PARLEY 10 HOLO PRESS SESSIONS Washington, Aug. 28 flJ.R) Chairmen of the American, Brit ish and Russian delegations to the Dumbarton Oaks world se curity talks will hold a joint press conference tomorrow, It was announced today. The announcement, made by Chairman Edward R. Stettinlus, Jr., of the American delegation, indicated a possible partial lift ing of the secrecy that has pre vailed since the conference con vened a week ago. The conference will take place at 10:30 a. m., In the mansion of the . Dumbarton Oaks estate, which has been out of bounds for reporters since the opening plenary session of the Interna, tional meetings. Decision to hold a press con ference followed a protest meet ing bv the state department cor respondents association last Thursday asking for a more lib eral policy on dissemination of information about the confer ence. Stettinlus promised then that the chairmen would try to work something out which would sat isfy them. Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H., assailed administration propos als for an International organiza tion and said its proposed council-assembly setup would be "the basis for big-power politics with less powerful nations on the out side looking in." The American proposal calls for creation of an international assembly, with a higher council on which the big four nations the United States, Britain, Rus sia and China would have per manent membership along with seven other nations elected from time to time. Livestock Portland Or... Aug. 38 (UP) erata oilering o: eieera. uivo, " ly active, etendv. Several lots good to choice uoo-uaa-lb. steers 50. Several loads od f-rassers S14.00; common to medium, $11.00 a 13. 00; medium heifer. $10,73611.00; com mon, $9.00 at 10.00; canner and cutter cows, $4.30 f3 6.30; common to rcledl urn, $7.00- 8.50; medium to good bulls, $8.30 4 9.50; good to choice venlcrs, $13 30 4 15 50 common, $10.00 A 12.00. Hogs, 200. Active. Top, $15.75 on good to choice 180-240-lb. butchers; 241-270 lbs., largely "$15.00; heavier iv.Ai.fiii. rvwiatlv Kl.l 50 (t 14.00: lttlht lights. i3.soi4.3p; sows only $1200 $12.75 13 00; few feeder pigs, $12 00 it-13.00; aUtgs mostly $10.00. Sheep, 3000. Market slow. Tew Rtrictiv choice lots. Spring lambs toady and $12.50; plainer graders up sold; bids weak; odd medium year lings, $8.00. South San Fmnrlsco. Aug. 88 (UP) (USDA) Livestock: Cattle, salable, 1000. Fairly steady. Ted (iters salable, $14 30 15.00; com mon to medium feeder steers, $11.00 t? 12 00; she-stock active; two cars medium rango heifers, $12.00; about 5 cars good range cows, $1 1,30 A 12 00; sorted medium $10 00' 11.00: com mon. $9.0O(jl 9.30; cutters. $7.0058 00; canners. $3 00 -f 7.0U; medium sausage bulls, $10.00t 10.30. Calves, salable. 100. Steady. Pack age good heavy calves, $13.50. Hogs, salable, 300. Fully steady. Few loads good to chotca 180-240-lb. barrows ana gilts, $15.75; bulk good sows, $13.00; odd head, $13 23. Sheep, salable. 3000. Choice over fiO-lb. woolcd lambs absent, mostly medium to good lambs. Slow, nothing scaled early. Shorn ewes quoted Chicago. Aug. 38 (UP) (WFA) Livestock: Hogs, 9000. Complete clearance ear ly. Good and choice 150-240 lbs., $14.75; heavier hogs and all good and choice row. $14 00. Cattle. 13.000; calves. 1000. Moder ately active. Early top, $18 33; bulk fin' a and choice frd steers and year is. $13 30 318 00: medium grass and shortfed steers, $12 50 514.83; f0od beef cows'. $11 so'i 13 .10; bulk common-medium cows, sh.uu vx u.uo; eanners-cuttera. S3 50 7 23: few good sausage bulls, $11.0031130; vealers, $13 00 down. Sheep. 2000. Good and choice ra tlve springers, $14 50f 14.73; medl urn and rood Lr.elv S13.00A14 2S cull and common. St5.no 10.0; shorn native ewea mostly $4.79 down. Portland Produce Portland. Orr, Auc. 28 (UP) Cantaloupes Mid-Columbia Jumbo standarda, $3 30.3 3.73; yakima. S3 23 4 3M73. Baans Orciron green, ?lfc48c lb. Carrota Oregon, 73 80c dozen bunches. Celery Oregon, $3 00T3WT crate. Corn Northwest. $1732 13 sack, implant Local. SI 30 flat. Squash Danish, 1.50 lug; Hvibbard. tSc lb. Tomatoes The Dalles, field, 11.00 box; Yakima, SOctSl OO box. SAN FRANCISCO OAIHV San Kranctsco. Aug. 28 tuT) Dairy market: Mutter sis score. 43c; 93 score. 42'jc. ll score. 42i4c; P0 score, 4114C. Cheese Wholesale prices: Loaf, 37 lo. triplets. 27 2c E -targe grade A, 43&43the: medium graJe A 4l,41i9e: small Srade A. 22J23ac; large grade B. 2 13.1',c. Central California Grade A. 47c; medium grade A, 43c; small grade A. m:JZ7 " Vm.uV.d'. ' Wall Street New York. Aug. IS (U.R) Stocks sagged slightly In the early afternoon trading, after a ; steady nr?t two hours dtirine !whi.fh ,he. Seneral average was "hile traders were very cau- stocks in any section. A few spe- cjal ,u,, bid p , much ;.t. ,,,, n American Tel. Anaconda Chrj'sler Tel.. lflt P2H Curtlss Wright 84 General Electric ..... 38'4 General Motors 61H Montgomery Ward 9Vt Penn. R. R , 29 Phillips Petroleum 44 J. C. Penney .. ... 108 Radio 10H Southern Pacific Z8 Standard Oil Cal 36H Texas Gulf Sulphur 35 '.i Transamerica SV United Aircrafts 28U U. S. Rubber 505s U. S. Steel 58 EAGLES BIRTHDAY PARTY ATTENDED BY GOO PERSONS Nearly 600 persons attended the 18th annual celebration o the Institution of Medford lodge No. 2093, F.O.E., held yesterday afternoon and evening at the hall on West Main street. The program Included special Initi ation, ceremonies honoring char ter members, a dinner, show and dance. Charter members able to at tend the ceremonies were G. T. Dynge, Frank Shafer, Phillip Gearhardt and Aurele Meunler. Dynge and Shafer are past wor thy presidents. First worthy president of the order was S. S. Poague and holding the office now is Shannon O. White. The four charter members present all spoke, outlining the progress of the aerie. The motion picture presented had South America as a subject and brought out the advantages to be gained by better relations between North and South Amer ican peoples. A musical program was given by a group of Mrs. Eve Prentice's accordion pupils. Many Eagles from towns near Medford were present for the celebration. ERA Chicago, Aug. 28 (U.R) Con tracts for the construction of ex perimental models of a postwar super bus, which will offer pas sengers sleeper accommodations and buffet and smoking lounge facilities, have been let to Con solidated Vultee Aircraft Cor poration and General Motors, O. S. Cacser, Greyhound vice-president, announced today. The new busses will be com pleted for road tests early next year if the program, which is dependent on wartime priorities, goes through on schedule, he said. AWARD HONOR MEDAL Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R) The Medal of Honor has been awarded to 1st Lt. Arnold L. Bjorklund, 26, Seattle, Wash., the war department announced last night. SOLDIER DEAD, 1728 Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R). The war department today made public names of 1728 u. S. sol diers killed in action in various theaters of combat. Included in the list were: LONG-FELT NEED New York, Aug. 28 (U.R) Ben Yost, who used to be a movie stunt man, went to work today at a new )ob with the National Broadcasting company. He Intends to bring some kind of order to the group vocaliz ing that pours from radio sets.. TULE 'SOLITARY' VACANT Newell, Calif., Aug. 28 (U.R) An Isolation area at the Tule Lake Japanese segregation cen ter for separating "troublemak ers" from other camp Inmates Is empty for the first time since its establishment 1 a a t November, the War Relocation Authority announced today. ENGINEERS HONORED " United States "Y" force head quarters, Sahveen river front, Aug. 28 (U.R) Three American engineers have been awarded the soldier's medal for rescuing a Chinese soldier from the tor rential Sahveen river during the mass crossing which opened the Yunnan campaign last May, it was announced today. MASS MEDAL BESTOWING Headquarters. Fifth Air Force, Southwest Pacific. Aug. 28-U.R Sixteen nurses and three med ical officers, members of a troop carrier command air evacuation unit which has flown more than 45.000 sick and wounded out of combat areas, have been dee- orated by Brig Gen. Warren R Carter, troop carrier command er, U was reported today. PLAiTTlElNzTpTANT Berkeley Cal. Aug. 28 OI.R) R. G. Shinabarser. Pittsburgh, a director of the H. J Heinz Co., and In charge of its manu facturing operations, announced today that another Heinz facto ry wll be built In California at an undisclosed site and said the property would be purchased before he returned east i assenger cars consume onlv bout 15 r-r cent of the nation's' petroleum under wartime condi tions, i TO FOR Washington, Aug. 28 (U.B The state ana justice depart ments have Informea congress their opposition to legislation a. .in mnnnnnlv airline represent the United States (war commercial air transport, it was learned to day. The two departments were said to have advised the senate commerce committee that, in their opinions, a so-called chosen Jn.lTnimont wnllM not be in the national Interest and nrobably , would run afoul the anti-trust laws. I The onlnions were requested In connection with a bill by Sen. Pat McCarran, D Nev., to es tablish an All-American Flag Line, Inc., with a working capi tt in npm nf SI. 000. 000, 000. All transport agencies would be invited to purcnase siock. The state department report, covered by a letter from Secre taw ftf Rtot Cordell Hull, was itnriarctnnri tn have taken par ticular excerjtion to a section which would prohibit the secre tary of state from negotiating agreements for the beneni oi any other airline. PARIS HOODLUMS CONTROL PUT DP TO GEN DE GAULLE Distributed by United Press) Paris. Au. 28 (U.R) Paris wants food that her allies can and will give her. But. rid of the Germans, she now also wants disorderly ele ments of the maquis and the French forces of the Interior kent in check. The allies are determined that Gen. Charles de Gaulle must solve that problem. Today some 72 hours after Paris was liberated the city is still in an uproar. Wild-eyed youths waving rifles and machine guns In one hand, and driving careening automo biles with the other, still roam the streets. There still are sporadic out bursts of rifle fire and fist fights among the French themselves. The streets present no semblance of order. "Paris was not like this even with the Germans," the city's old Inhabitants say. With a shudder, however, they assure one that Paris was bad enough under the Germans. For De Gaulle, It was a chance to prove to the world and par ticularly to those antagonists in states which opposed him as titu lar head of the French that the confidence and power which Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower placed in him were justified. KOREA ASKS HELP Chungking, Aug. 28 (U.R) Control of the ' Korean restora tion army," organization by young Korean soldiers and pa triots, has passed from Chinese military headquarters to the Korean provisional government whose American representatives are attempting to obtain lend lease supplies to Improve the training and equipment of the force, it was reported today. FIRST HAND JUDO Los Angeles,Aug. 28 (U.R) A group of men and women studying the art of Judo, the na tional Japanese style of wrest ling, make periodic trips to the Manzanar, Calif., relocation cen ter for bouts with Interned Jap anese, Police Sgt. Jack Sergei said today. AMBULANCE SERVICE The Distinctive Black and White Ambulance Sine 1888 CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL PARLORS Sixth and West Main St. Offi of the County Coroner Phone 3147 H. W. Conger Cirloi W. Morris Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files oi the Mail Tribune 10 and 20 yw '9 TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 28. 1934 (It was Tuesday) Primary election In Callfor nit brings out -heavy vote with Upton Sinclair, novelist, run. ning for governor. Cloudy. High 98, low 8i de grees. Many Oregon industries drop workers. Irrigation season ends In Med ford district. Miss Vera Kershaw of tho Antelope is bitten by small rattlesnake and is In no danger. Loss of Cornice in windstorm Monday late is heavy. Western Oregon eyed a new home of mid-west drouth vic tims. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 28, 1924 (It was Thursday) Prince of Wales on board liner for America is pestered by girlf and women aboard. Dry enforcement officer's car riddled with bullets In local booze raid. Fair and cooler. High 08, low 55 degrees. Work started on office addi tion to Copco building. President Coolidge to end va cation on Vermont farm today. Free admission to county fair for tourists planned. PRODUCTION LAGS 1 3 KEY WAR NEEDS Washington, Aug. 28. U.R The Office of War Information reported today that production is lagging critically In 13 key war industries and said that near ly 400,000 more workers wer needed to bring the output up to the level set by demand of the armed forces. Drawing on information from the War Production Board and the War Manpower Commission, the OWI report said that overall production In the 13 categories was close to originally-established goals but that it was lagging badly in the light of revised re quirements, based largely on combat experience In France and Italy. MILES TO BERLIN By United Press The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced Al lied fronts today: Northern France 450 miles (from point near Vit ry en Francois. Gain of 88 miles In week.) Southern France 890 miles (from point near Gren oble. Gain of 88 miles tn week.) Italy 583 miles (from point near Pesaro. Gain of 18 miles in week ) Russia 328 miles (from point near Warsaw. Un changed for week.) CHINESE GENERAL SHOT Chungking, Aug. 28 (U.R) The commander of the Fourth Chinese army, Chang Teh Neng, was executed Friday for neglect In duty which resulted In the loss of Changsha last June, the Central News Agency reported today. ' DECISION TONIGHT San Francisco. Am 2R flip) Pone AHm UarAt n ........ naval officer in charge of" 104 macnine shops seized by the gov ernment earlier this month an nounced he will decide tonight whether to recommend con tinued federal operation of the seized plants or return of them to their owners.