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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."
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Victor A Hellenbraud, Oross'Plams. Wis., watcnes a Jerry captured near
Chartres, France, remove a boooy trap trum a dixirwav. sienal Corps
radio-teleDOor
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" 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
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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
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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.
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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-
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feet condition and weighing 13
pounds. The ax was 19 Inches I
in circumference and 13 inches
long.
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Wash., has introduced a bill pro
viding for a permanent federal
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