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SIX MEDrORD MAIL THIB0HB Wednesday. Auguit 88, 1844 MEDFORDvWTRIBUNE Vttm la Southani Ore BmiU lh Mll Tribal muruRD paiNTiMO oa tt-W North Fir BU Fhoa tll ROBERT W. RUHI Edltw. BRNEHT R. OIIT RAP. Uintrw. As IadpadBl Hwb BaUr4 moobA tlug mattw t af4 lard, Ortfon. under Act f Mreh I 1ST 8U BSC Jt I PTIOH RATES Br MaJI In Adanci Pallr BJtd Sunrtar Tr Pal If aad Bundajr aW noatba. 4.t Dally and Similar thr nootba. I, la Dally aad Bund a i ana month.,. .Ta Br Carrttr !a Advaaea Uadford, Ath iand. CaatraJ Pot at, jBckaoovllla, Oald BUI. PbmbIi, Taiasl, aad aa Bitter roataai Pall 7 aal nadaraoa raw li.tt Pally aad auadar .ana aiaata,. .11 All Urmi caaa la MfMal Pacw m thm City mt Madfavd Official Pa par mi Jmckm OniV AtCMDRR Or AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS' AdvartlalBir Rapraaaatatlv WB8T-HOLLIUAT COMPANY. IHOL ftfttoH Ib Nw Tork. Chi era, D trait. Baa rraoclaoo, Lorn An (!. aaattla. b. a Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Ptrry Won 't Be Long Now For nearly five years the German people have been told victory was certain. Only about a month ago Hitler declared Germany would never capitulate and only perseverance was needed to bring the final triumph. Now with the German armies beating it for the fatherland on all fronts General Kurt Dittmar, spokes man for the German High Command, admits victory is impossible, unexpected defeats have been suffered, and if the allies will only drop their demand for unconditional surrender, the Third Reich will quit. At least that is the sense or the London report of the broadcast, as interpreted by most of the allied commentators. PAN the German people TAKE it? After being bouyed up all this time by assurances of their invincibility and ultimate world mastery, can either the people back of the front or the common soldiers at it, continue to fight, not for victory, That is officially out, But for, the difference between surrender without condi tions, and surrender with them? That is the question to answer now, for those who are still trying to catch the elusive date for the end of the war in Europe. HTHE skipper of this department doesn't KNOW the answer. But our guess is neither the German people nor the soldiers at the front, can, or will "take it." It is one thing for a nation, or an individual, badly battered and gasping for breath, to make a final supreme effort to snatch victory from defeat, putting everything on a chance, a last all-out punch, It is quite another thing to gather all one s energies and resources for a final do-or-die smash, when it is known the jig is up, victory can t be attained, the A nice old lady wearing an old fashioned unbonnet, starch ed stiffer than a board showed up on the Main Stem yes., and created more excitement than If he wore a bustle. The Invincible hordes of Herr Hitler, breaking their military necks to get back to Der Father land, pursued by Gen. (B. it G.) Patton beyond where their dads first yelled "Kamerad" In the wwmper." Z ony gain to be the difference between one type of for an easy one, and that as a .surrender ana anotner. nation they will not be classified as "publicans and sinners", by its terms. Now is the time for the allies tohow "the Indomit able will" of which Mr. Schickel burger boasted when at his gabbiest PRETTY MUCH HUMAN (Salem Statesman) "The armory was Jompack ed Friday night, the queue to gain admission reaching near-' ly across Liberty street to Crystal Gardens. The attrac tion was the weekly "grunt and groan" act and more par ticularly the facial ugliness of one of the grapplers. The same night a Walt Disney film of fantasy filled one of the the atres after running for several days to packed houses." The government announces there will be ample shotgun shells this fall for hunters to hoot birds, each other, their own big toe, trespass signs, country cats, and sudden, In formal nuptials. Only another August (Gus). day left In "From hamlet and from dale; from the hilltops and from the valleys; from city and from country comes the same cry: We are governed to death'." (Editorial, Pendleton East Ore gonian, 50 yrs. ago.) How things don't change item. The Poles at home in Poland, are having a time, not wanting to be governed by anybody, in cluding themselves. They say meaner things about each other, than they do the Germans. IT'S FAST ENOUGH (Press Dispatch) The British Press unanlm ously hailed the good military news In Prime Minister Churchill's speech In the house of commons today especially the prediction that Japan might fall sooner than xzvbRkqJ the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog's back." That just isn't human nature, and especially isn't German nature, as we see it. TX7HY Hitler abandoned a policy of 10 years at this critical stage of the game and after deluding the people all that time, should now tell them the awful truth, is a mystery to this department. We had an idea the old reprobate, would stick to the Nazi line to the end, sink or swim with it, as long as he, or his followers, had a spark of life left. ism certainly JJittmar did not speak without Der Reichsfuchrer's OK. So for some unexplainable reason it was decided, up at Berchtesgaten, with everything starting to crumble about their ears, to at long last tell the German people the truth. flfELL, we shall see what we shall see ! " But it is this .department's prediction "it won't be long now." The Nazi zealots may continue the struggle, for they can lose nothing by so doing; but not the people of the Third Reich as a whole. After being fed on lies and false hopes for a decade, to suddenly drop the line and feed them on the bitter disillusioning truth, will simply be too much of a shock I The Teutonic stomach won't be able to stand it. Better Keep Still The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse. After being in secret session for half the week, and in answer to various and sundry demands from high places to ease up on the rigid censorship the three power conference at Dumbarton Oaks called a press conference and announced the following achieve ments to date : 1. An assembly composed of representatives of all peace-loving nations based on the principle of sovereign equality. 2. A council composed of a smaller number of members in which the principal states will be Joined by a number of other states to be elected periodically. 3. Effective means for the peaceful settlement of disputes, including an international court of justice for the adjudication of questions and also the application of such other means as may bo necessary for maintenance of peace and security. SECRECY OF KIN AIDS BOY 15, AS BATTLE-VETERAN Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 30 (U.R) His parents' ability to keep a secret is credited with placing 15-year-old Pvt. Robert Hall of Tacoma among the nation' youngest veterans holding battle starred campaign ribbons from the American and European African theaters. Today, Private Hall, honor ably discharged from the army has returned home after two years in the service, including action on the Anzio beachhead and at Cassino. The boy left his Tacoma home at the age of 13 after penning a note to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hall, that he was going to enter the service. Shortly after wards, they received a phone call from their son in which he said that he had joined the army as a radio operator. Last November he was ship ped to north Africa and subse quently landed at Anzio in Janu ary. He was transferred to the Infantry and after six weeks in front-line foxholes on the beach head, was shipped to the moun tain battlegrounds around Cassino. Hall finally acquired a case of frozen feet and was hospital-1 Izcd. j The hospital was bombed con-1 stantly, and he was transferred ' to "safety" in Naples. But Ger man planes penetrated to the city, and the hospital once more became a target for German bombers, which killed three of his nurses. It was at this time that his mother saw a news reel in Taco ma that pictured her son in a foxhole. "That was too much for me," she explained. "The front lines are no place for a boy of 15. I sent the war department his birth certificate." Booby Trao Removed by Nazi If t t V I sJr '-i pfe - Wl t i$i.t: i i , few. 3 4? wV "'if Acme lindtiyt cleftholot The safest and fastest way to remove German booby traps is to capture the Nazi wtio set them and make Mm do the dirty wurK. Here Pic. Victor A Hellenbraud, Oross'Plams. Wis., watcnes a Jerry captured near Chartres, France, remove a boooy trap trum a dixirwav. sienal Corps radio-teleDOor FOR INCOME TAX ALLIED BOMBERS t -v . - . " ueaiers to arise and pull up the seats. In their idolatry NO NEWS IS NO NEWS "If somebody would hnve a fight or do something it mat ters not what, he would win our everlasting gralitude. The Item market is bare, the demand ex ceeding the supply by 100 per cent. There are no drunks, no fights, no weddings, no births no deaths, no tidal wave, no earthquake, no anything except nothing. We don't like to be compelled to apologize for aearth of local news, but can t afford to hire to stir up trouble, not lime to do it ourselves." 00 Yrs. Ago Col. The Dalles Chronicle.) "PERFECT" INDIAN AX Kingston, Mo. (U.R) D. E. Robinson, farmer near here, dis covered one of the finest speci mens of Indian relics found in this section recently. The far- Well isn't that just dandy! It adds up to exactly zero. In fact those three achievements represent nothing rehashed and wanned UVU tl'lftlVSU VL bilV KUV iHIW lUlllVlllVU AJV ItV Nations, FOE IN PACIFIC By United Press ' Allied bombers, continuing Intensive raids through the Pa cific, were revealpd today to have dumped a peak load of 188 tons of explosives on Ambaina, former Dutch naval center in the East Indies, and to have struck new blows at a dozen other scattered enemy bases. ihc Amboina raid was car ried out Monday by more than 75 bombers and fighters which concentrated on the major port of Ambon and left it in flames. The enemy offered no resist ance. , Air patrols auain blasted Kace village on Halmahera in the scries of neutralization raids on the enemy base 250 miles south cf the Philippines. Other airmen attacked the port of Davao on Mindano in the south ern Philippines. Fighter bombers struck the Knimana and McCluer gulf area at the western end of Dutch New Guinea and destroy ed or damaged six coastal ves sels barges. Other bases attacked includ ed: Yap and Palau in the west ern Carolines: Pnramushlro in the Kurilcs; Iwo Jima in the Volcanos; Pagan and Alamagan in the Marianas; and enemy po sitions in the Marshalls. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co His tory from the files of the Mai) Tribune 10 and 20 years ago of thousands of buttons on dis play many of them more than three centuries old and others from the clothing of famous persons. Washington, Aug. 30 (U.R) The treasury announced today that it has completed plans for putting into effect the new tax simDlification law which will spare some 30,000,000 income taxpayers the trouble of figur ing out their 1944 income taxes. Joseph D. Nunan, Jr., com missioner of internal revenue, said the government is now dis tributing to employers with holding tax receipts which, when filled out, can be used by most employes in place of regu lar tax returns. Under the new procedure, he explained, all taxpayers receiv ing less than S5.000 a year in come, on which they paid with holding taxes, will receive from their employers by Jan. 31 a receipt showing their wages for the year and the total amount of taxes withheld from their paychecks. On the receipt will be a few simple questions, together with brief instructions explaining just who is eligible to use the receipt instead of a return. The estimated 30,000,000 who will be eligible will simply forward the receipt to the treasury be fore March 15, 1945, where ex perts will figure whether or not the correct amount of taxes has been withheld. If they find a difference, the taxpayer will get either a bill or a refund. SENDS 5-LEAF :LOVER Chicago (U.R) Sgt. James Weible, 20, an aerial gunner with the American Army in Italy, will soon receive a five leaf clover which his mother, Mrs. Catherine Weible, found growing beneath a neighbor hood plaque bearing his name. She previously mailed him a four-leaf clover, emblem of good luck. In the manufacture of electric lamps every bulbnust be free) from the slightest trace of moisture. I0HEY .8 On JEWELRY. CAMERAS and MUS1UAL. inoinu MENTS. Used and unre deemed jewelry at great savings PEOPLES LOAN GO. 229'2 E. Main Street State License P-137 We have been very fortunate in securing 6 and 3M Rex Centrifugal Sslf-Priming Pumps We will be unable to secure any more of these pumps this year. See us now while they last. AMERICAN FRUIT GROWERS, INC. 214 S. Fir Phone 214 TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 30. 1934 (It was Thursday) Textile mill strike called. President urged to act. Coming week to show trend of autumn business. Continued cloudiness. High 96, low 60 degrees. Oregon labor unions endorse Peter Zimmeiman for governor. Government eyes rise in price of food throughout nation. Democratic Nominee Upton Sinclair for California governor granted audience with president. Martial law is declared in New Orleans as violence greets inva sion of Hucy Long forces. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 30, 1924 (It was Saturday) Willow Springs Bartletts are shipped to California cannery. Allies sign agreement to en force Dawes plan on Germany. Klan riot at Herrln, 111., re- ' suits In nine deaths. I Fair and cool. High 92. low 44 degrees All stores to be closed next Monday, Labor Day. Army fliers complete flight to Laborador. Upstate hunter packing flash light is mistaken for cougar and killed. BUTTONS EXHIBITED Springfield, Mass. (U.R) The first display of button collec tions ever held took place here recently as 800 collectors gath ered in convention. The more than 1,000 visitors saw hundreds THE OLD JUDGE SAYS. " The more I read about it. Judge, the more I realize the tactics and requirements cj this war are as (liferent Jrom the one I Jought in 25 years ago as night is Jrom day." "Yes, and I can give you an example of how true that is, Fred. In World War I the chiel uses ol alcohol produced lor war pur poses were found in smokeless powder, medi cal supplies and chemical warfare materials. In this war the need lor this product is far more vital because it is also used as a fuel to propel torpedoes, to make shatterproof glass for airplane windshields and instrument cov ers, to make lacquers used in camouflaging equipment and as a base lot synthetic rubber needed for tiresas masks, paralroop equip ment and ddzens ol othet things. "Every time I think ol it, Fred. I realize how fortunate we were in having a beverage distilling industry in existence when war broke out . . . ready and eager to convert 100 to the production ol this critically needed war product. I'm mighty sure boot leggers wouldn't have been oi much help.". Tku dftjttimtnl tponsoild by Contnmti AUtlltt Bnttalt tndvuitn, tne. The political pot Is far from seeming, at this stage of the but a slifhtlv VPl'V sliirhtlv campaign. The picture of the 1,1 fl 81 U . J ),( M1Mlll i-resioent In the movie news reels does not Inspire enraptured we someone and we have That too had an assembly, a council, and of course a world or international court, with such "other means as may be necessary for maintenance of peace and security." All of this could have been announced ,in fact before the conference met. We hold no special brief for secrecy. Iut as lone; as the conference has really accomplished NOTHING we see no point in making: anv public announce ments of that disappointing fact! SUICIDE PLOTTED DEATH OF WIDOW Peotone, 111., Aug. .10 0J Ri Charles Citersonke tried re peatedly to kill his family, his wife said today, and he nearly rner dug up an Indian ax In per- succeeded after his death. Citersonke, 46, a grocer and j civic leader, killed himself with a 12 gauge shotgun Sunday. The and Ciltersonke's brother and sister-in-law became 111. Pr. William MoNally, toxl cnlogist for the Cook county coroner's office. Investigated l and found that coffee which i they had been drinking had been poisoned with arsenic. The widow said her husband had i poisoned their food four other times In the past two months. SHIPS IN 5 YEARS ! Washington, Aug. 30. (U.R) The navy has added almost 63.000 vessels aggregating 9.000, 000 tons to the fleet since the outbreak of hostilities In Europe five years ago, Secretary of the Navy James Korrestal announc ed today. lie said that nearly 39 per cent of the total were combatant ships. 22 per cent landing craft and the rest naval craft of other types. Korrestal Issued the statement to a press conference and called attention to the fact thnt it came two days before the fifth anni versary of the start of World War II on Sept. 1, 1039. Franklin's overland Arctic expedition was made in 1819- - - - - " " in h" 1 , feet condition and weighing 13 pounds. The ax was 19 Inches I in circumference and 13 inches long. Dm MM Trlbuui Wuit Ads, BOUNTY FOR SAILORS Washington, Aug. 30 IU.R1 Rep. Henry M. Jaokson, D , Wash., has introduced a bill pro viding for a permanent federal unemployment insurance pro- next day. his widow, Anna, her , "rnm I- r merenam M-..n,..n. sons, Jack 13, and Joseph 13, f u1( mu wduu v. ui Ad. Lord f-elkirk s Red River set- la tlement was founded on land J erante.-t hv IttiHc.i,,' n.. pany In 1811. Stock Ranches Farms Country Monies Our Specialty THOMAS J. HIGHT Broker :CO Tllrjlrt Hide Put SIM lie We Were Notified Thursday By The War Production Board That Our LOW PRICED Lumber Has Been RELEASED ANY AMOUNT 2nd for ANY FUHPCSE wi!h NO PRIORITY NEEDED! PLACE YOUR ORDER RIGHT NOV and WE'LL DELIVER AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN REPLACE STOCK. Effective NCW! No priority necessary in buying Paint, Plaster Board, Fir-Tex, Roofing Paper. Shingles, etc. R. 0. S Low Priced Lumber Oar Specialty Other Building Materials COURT STREET AND McANDREWS ROAD PHONE 2000 P.O.BOX 1C83
