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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. August 31. 194 MedfordTribune Cryoa la Southern Oreroa BMdi the MaiJ TribaxW I1 feirtpt Stordar Published by UBUroRO PRINTINO CO. IT- Nortk rir St. Pbon 1141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor. RNEST R. OltifiTRAP. W&Di, Batr4 mooaA lu mttr At ktd- ford, Oro, tinder Act f March 1111. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Adi-ncat X-llr ad Bvprttr om ;w T.I Pftllr and Sundar ls month... 4.0 Dfllr and Sunday throo months. 1. It Dally and Sunday -ona month. .7a By Carrlar In Advance lladford. Aah land. CantraJ Point, Jaekaonvllla, Gold I Bill. Pboanlx. Talant. and motor routat I Dally and Sunday tt.Of Dally and Sunday .on month.. .Tt All tarma aab In adrano. (kfflcUJ Papar of lb City of Modfaftf Official Papar f Jackaoa Comitjr -roll Loaaad Wif- MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS AdTartlalni Rapraaanttlo WEST-HOLMDAT COMPANY. INa fflow In Now Torn. Cbteaco, Detroit, Saa rranclaoo, Loa An !. Saattla, PartUad. BU Loo it, A U an La. Vavr, b. a Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry REFLECTIONS Now that the Nazis are wob bling around on their last legs, but arrogantly, though too weak to do the "goose-step," the arm chair generals recall the hoots that greeted their prediction the war would be over by Labor .Day. The Germans could fold by then but not likely. He Is no farther off than the unnamed high Washington official who pessimistically but guardedly opined the world might be in for another 30-year war. The struggle has boiled down to where a citizen, if the weather justified, could carry an um brella in his travels afoot, with out being called "Mr. Chamber lain." Be it remembered now that after Herr Hitler lashed out after Munich and had bombed Rotterdam, Just to see how his "Stukas" worked, there was a great Jitterlness among the peo ple, with no sliver linings any place but on clouds. It was in the days of the "Danzig Corri dor" and the "Sudeten and the Finns were still lovely people. The Atlantic Ocean was painted as a creek across which the foes of America could hop, without using a foot-log. It was the period when Der Fuehrer at tended the meeting in the Mu nich beerhall, and left just in time to escape being involved in an explosion. History repeat ed itself neatly a few weeks ago. What Moscow calls "the outlaw general" has the seat of his britches removed by an other bomb, as completely and painfully as if he had backed into Plumber Bill Hammett's blow-torch. Mr. Hitler Is still around and about. Then came the fainting and folding of France and the phony , war, with the British dropping propaganda leaflets on Berlin, which accomplished S0tfewgtr,eUeCu "eo wmiTVev a few streets. En route they flew over munitions plants and people wondered why at least a lighted cigarette was not acci dentally dropped upon them. Bcrliners have since had an op portunity of viewing holes in the pavements made by some thing more than leaflets. Next, Mr. Hitler's "intuition" felt of its oats and Germany In vaded Russia, after Russia had mauled "poor Finland" and left behind on the field of battles, aged machinery of war. A few weeks before, the No. 2 Nazi, Rudolph Hess, flew to Scotland and was captured by a Scotch farmer at the point of a pitch fork. (By the way how is Ru dolph getting along? At the last reports lie was sequestered in a castle somewhere in England, Inn... ,.,-.. tl. .U CI.., l and Rumania tore their dipio-1 mutic shirts joining the Teutons in the dash for Moscow. This military venture was distlng- tiished by the address of an I American ambassador, who told the nation Germany would nev er Invade Hussia, while news boys yelled outside this very thing had come to pass. . All the while America was edging Into the strife, and there was a great wagging of chins, pro and con. Finally, it mine to pass, and in a few weeks, (he shortages of everything the na tion had too much of, appeared. We will skip many stirring events, and in the next discus sion of the subject, if any, will treat with the great Kogue Riv er Valley rumor epidemic and the unusual wet winter of 1042. S.O.SI (Nacogdoches (Tex.) Sentinel) "FOB SALE 1 pair white rabbits reason for selling: They are more trouble than they are worth. Call Skinny Garrison before he goes crazy." Christopher Columbus, a Geo nese sailing under the Spanish flag, discovered America in 1492. landing on Watling Island In the Bahamas. What to Do With Germany? As the letters of our correspondents reveal, the battle over the fate of Germany is becoming more and more strident. Some excellent and well meaning upholders of the Allied cause are insisting that easy terms must be imposed or a new war will be inevit able. The advocates of a harsh peace return the obvious retort, based on the last war. In our judgment both views lose sight of the correct solution, which is neither soft nor hard save as Germany makes it so. It is based on the lessons learned by modem penology, which centers around the inde terminate sentence. The admirers and defenders of Germany assume that the peace terms must determine her ultimate fate forthwith and in complete detail. We see no reason for such finality. We see every reason for an indeterminate sentence which would correspond to the indeterminate sentence of modern punishment. CERTAIN obvious blunders of the last peace must, of course, not be repeated. Financial reparations are to be excluded, for example. Un the other hand there must be a complete restoration of stolen proper ty. There must be the severest punishment of guilty individuals, no punishment of the German people as a whole, save as the security of the world compels their restraint as a nation from recommitting the crime of war. How lone should that continue? It is precisely here, .we suggest, that pre cision is impossible if justice is to be served justice for the world and for Germany. The restraint of the German people should continue until their spirit has changed and the will to war has been destroyed. That is the same rough test by which a parole board makes its decisions. It is not easy to apply, agreed. But it is the one test that is both effective and fair to both sides. IT would be difficult to define precisely all the changes which would be needed to qualify the German people for freedom. Some are obvious. The Prussian caste must sacrifice its leadership. The edu cation of the German youth must be radically altered voluntarily from within, not by force from without. Treatment accorded to minorities would be a prime indication. The form of government erected would by no means be decisive; there can be peace-loving monarchies and warlike republics. But unmistakably a new faith in popular rule would be a strong indica tion that the Germany of the future would not again seek to dominate the world. "llE return to the word "spirit." That is what must be changed, however slow the process and com plicated the tests. Until it is' changed we cannot be lieve that the rest of the world could or should turn loose this savage criminal. Yet, in our view, the time required might not be so long, after all. The sentence imposed and the tests set up would point irrevocably to the road up which the German people must travel if they would return to the family of free nations. Could pride in the past long resist so inviting and fair a route? We do not believe so. Tlfe fate of the German people would be in their own hands. In that sense they would be free men the day the peace terms were uttered. What could be more just or more generous? 'THE above is an editorial taken from the New York Herald-Tribune. It is far and awav the best soln- tion for the Pt-war German problem we have seen. Une great advantage of the proposal is its flexi bility, its adaptability, the exact procedure will change as the conditions change. The great weakness of other proposals has been inflexibility, hard and fast rules and regulations im posed in an atmosphere of war and hate and violence which would almost certainly break down, in an atmosphere of peace and quiet and relatively speak ing international good will, an atmosphere almost certainly to follow the end of this war, as has been true of all wars. FINALLY the assumption of German criminality, as far as Hitler Germany is concerned we believe is entirely sound. Just what the 'process of moral de cline has been, we don't know, but it dates back many generations and is no doubt as complicated and in volved as the moral decline of an individual, the James boys, or Dillingcr, example, whoso environments and inheritances wert normal enough, but who deliberately decided to lfve ljvpq nf primo m'u ' i i j- i , i i ne parole system has cured individual criminals and returned them to civilized societv. nerhans an international parole system could cure Germany, and return her to the civilized society of nations. At least as we see it, with capital punishment out of the picture as far as nations are concerned, it is the thing to try. A Welcome Rain A rain, even a sprinkle, on the last day of August is very welcome. For the forest fire season has opened and the woods are extremely dry. With the mercury hoverinp; around j 100 and the humidity barely perceptible, everything j was set for some serious conflagrations, which with j the labor situation what it is, might have proved ' calamitous. ! Of course this little shower does'not mean an end j to the danger. Itut it probably does mean an end to the hot dry spell, which will' be a tremendous help, j So more power to the weather man and all his ' assistants. We would like to see the skies clear for the annual golf tournament ami Labor Day. but if that can't be done without materially reducing the present precipitation, let her rain! restraint, that occupation, or Baby Face Nelson for POLL SHOWS 80 PC. EXPECT DEFEAT Little Chance For Revolt On Home Front Is Seen By Observers. By Jack Fleischer Unoted Press Correspondent Stockholm, Aug. 31 4U.R) A neutral poll of 250 Germans em bracing 18 categories including housewives, businessmen, teach ers, Hitler youth, SS men and railway employes living primar ily in Stettin and Berlin indi cates that at least 80 per cent of the Germans are now con vinced Germany will suffer complete military defeat. Fifteen per cent still cling to the hope of a compromise peace while a five per cent of incor rigible Nazis claim -to believe in eventual German victory. This information also indi cates that close to 90 per cent of the Germans don't believe that "unconditional surrender" would entail the destruction of the German people. Fifteen per cent believe it would destroy German economy. My informants returned to Stockholm convinced that while the vast majority of Germans now see the futility of continu ing the war, there is little chance of an effective uprising within Germany. The. Nazi terror honeycomb forces and there is no possibil- ity of organizing opposition, they said. The home front is al most completely without arms and the armed forces are in the paralyzing hold of the SS and the Gestapo. BRIDGES FLOUTS DUMBARTON OAKS PARLEY SECRECY Washington, Aug. 31 U.R The closed nature of the Dum barton Oaks World Security conference drew new republi can fire today as Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H., denounced the policy of "Oriental secrecy" and said he may discuss it next week with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the GOP presidential nominee. In his second blast of the week aqainst the confidential character of the conversations between American, British and Russian delegates, Bridges be littled the press conferences held at the Dumbarton Oaks es tate on Tuesday to report, in general terms, the progress made toward outlining a new world peace organization. Styling it "a so-called press conference," Bridges said In a statement that reporters came away "stinking their heads des pairingly," hnd that ''one re porter voiced the true sentiment when he said they got 'a diplo-1 neCessary once the Allied armies; the maneuver grounds of Issyl whicn permitted solid fuel deal mn'i'C "S . it""1 burst out of thcir original le Moulineux In the suburbs of;ers to deliver a full 12-months The most revealing statement to date on the trend of the talks came at the Tuesday press con ference when the three delega tions announced their agree ment on three general areas of the discussions. Other than that, information has come from brief communiques which de scribe nothing but mechanical details. American officials, backed by President Roosevelt, are de termined to prevent publication of details of proposed world se curity plans at this time on grounds that premature dis closure would only prompt par tisan bickering. SULFA DRUGS NO VALUE FOR POLIO Chlcago, Aug. 31 UR) The sulfonamide drrnss are of no val ue in treating infantile paraly sis and physicians should be warned against their use for this purpose. Dr. John A. Toomey, Cleveland, said today in an ar ticle In the Journal of the Amer ican Medical association. Toomey wrote that in a re cent "explosive epMiMiiie" of poliomyelitis in a small northern Ohio town. Hie number of pa tients that developed severe par alysis seemed out of proportion to the normal expectancy. "Most of these paticuts had receive! sulfonamide drugs," the doctor said hi was told. Advising that the sulfa drugs have no value in poliomyelitis. Toomey added "nor does peni-1 cillin help much in our experi ence, althouiih we have not no ticed that it does harm." First meeting of the League of Nations Assembly beem at Geneva, Switzerland, on Novem ber IS, 1920. Brush, Forest i : i Flames and smoke lick Santa Monica i a- ' y4K V ' K-mm fmmfmlwM las " wr38381 m. wanaevuio canyon, bub ol scurea ui movie luminaries- nomes. More tnan 700 lirenghters battle to bring tne hritth tire under control, latest in series of Southern California brush and forest fires that have devastated hundreds of thousands of mountain and timberland. ALLIED ARMS IN FRANCE DIVIDED Gen. Bradley Gets Equal Rank With Montgomery In Mew Set-Up. London, Aug. 31. (U.R) Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of the British and ' Joe E. Dunne, republican can Canadian forces in northern didate for governor, to visit France, has been elevated to the valley soon. rank of field marshal, effective Sept. 1, the British war office announced today. Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Aug. 31 (U.R) Field command of the Allied armies in northern France has been divided, with Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley get ting equal rank with Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme Allied commander, announced today. Montgomery, originally com mander of all ground forces in northern France, now directs only the 21st army group, com prising the British 2nd and Cana dian 1st armies, while Bradley commands the American 1st and 3rd armies, comprising the 12th armv group. Eisenhower, In announcing the change, said it originally had1 been approved last January j live montns before JJ- hnd been known to all concern ed since that time. The new nlignment definitely was not a demotion for Mont-1 gomcry or a slap at anyone. Eisenhower said at a press con ference on his return to supreme headquarters in London from Normandy. . Rather, he Indicated, the di vided field command became Normandy beachhead and spread ! out over thousands miles of France. wiuoic Under this plan, the Allied set-up in France would be: 1 Eisenhower supreme commander of all Allied forces in France, would direct opera tional headquarters in France. 2 Bradley would continue as commander of the 12th army group, comprising Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges' First Ameri can anf and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third American army. 3 Montgomery would bei only commander of the 21st army group, comprising Lt. Gen Miles C Dempsev's Second itish army and the First! Sir Brit j Canadian army. 4 Ma). Gen. Alexander Patch, commander of the 7th American army, in the south, would be raised to an army group commander. E OF CIGARETTES Wanhlngton. Aug. 51 U.P l ne i'. pairni piiutj itn.t-m:j disclosed today that James Chris- tensen. Englcwood. Colo., has been granted a patent on a cig arette holder, which he claimed would conceal the glow of a burning cigarette, enabling sol diers to smoke without detec tion at front lines and civilians to smoke during blackouts. BIRTHS WFIDE To Mr. and Mrs. H. ', J.. Rt. 1, Box 489. Central; Point. Aug 31. 1944. boy, seven 1 pounds, at Osteopathic Clinic. Cl.islr.K t:m l.r Caw.t'.frt a,.s m. Too UU to Cla ll, li 30 , ip. Fires Sweeo Southern California - -yragjfrefrayf '.Mi " ' : I vgr wr'J y "V agWlii mountain on outskirts of Hollywood, Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co His tory from the files oi the Mail Tribune 10 and 20 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 31. '1934 (It Was Friday) Threatening note to President sends writer to asylum. Progressive party of Oregon to throw support to old line party with "right ideas." Fair, grecs. High 95, low 54 de- Dizzy Dean wins 23rd game of year against Chicago Cubs. Business of nation expected to speed up after Labor Day. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 31, 1924 (It Was Sunday) Girdling of globe by airplane is completed by army flyers. Hcrrin race war is blamed on sheriff. Scores of local residents de part for two day holidays in hills and at coast. Queen of the county fair con test starts with nine entrants. War in China heavy rain. is halted by GERMAN CHARNEL SSlUSE IS LOCATED PARIS SUBURB Paris, Aug. 31 (U.R) Charles Do Gaulle's orsnn, "Combat," today announced discovery of a new German charnel house at; Paris where four bodies of uirca rrmenmen aircaay nave been disinterred from the dirt floors of the big military build-1 ings in which the Germans used chained men for live target practice. Human beines were lashed by the nock to wooden stumps on I the practice range of the 108 I yard-long drill hall, then shot with explosive, bullets. Combat ! charged. The newspaper saidj I the stumps bear the splintered ; evidence of such ammunition. ! Rpfnro belnff killed the naner said, the prisoners were stripped and tied to electrically-charged K"Hworks. The current made ,npm firi-'k and hurl themselves! uk.iiiim un- wiii in an ciiuiv iu; include a talk by tl. fc. Longer : "'" army Dauanons had Join escape but the Germans whipped j OI Jacksonville on "History of pd revolting partisans and said them back, the story continued.; the Hereford." Other interesting 'hat it had been forced to ask There were said to have been features are planned, and a ' a1 forces to "march in and two halls used by the Germans large attendance is urged byPacifv the country." ior loruires ana executions, unc; was used ior me Duriai ot vie- tims and the stench of decay was overpowering, Combat said. Near the torture grills a wom an's comb, a crucifix and a tri color rosette were found, indi cating women as well as men had been tortured. McGitl college received their I charter in 1821, and opened in ' 1029. (., Mall mtuina Hnt Ada. Highest Prices Paid fcr Clean USED CARS We See It! W Do It! AUTOMOBILE MARKET 6th and Barttctt St$. Phone 3919 a Arma Tnlenhntn) threatening to sweep down into IN FRANCE 3,000, SUPPLYUSE HIGH Washington, Aug. 31 (U.R)- ine u. o. air lorce nas iosi ouuu, airplanes in support of the northern France campaign, Gen.i Dwight D. Eisenhower reported loaay in a caule 10 ""' Brehon Somervell, commander' of army service forces, which emphasized the tremendous con sumption of war materials in France. Ifl addition to actual losses ofj"ve are getting ready to under planes, Eisenhower told Somer-write an imperialist peace." Ha veil, the U. S. air force has con- criticized the attitude of the sumed in replacement parts and allies m guaranteeing the Kore spares the equivalent of zzo more planes and has dropped "more than R5.000 tons of bombs and used 44.000,000 gallons of aviation gasoline." During the first 70 days of ooerations, Eisenhower report ed, U. S. ground forces required more than 900 tanks to replace battle casualties. Other losses replaced includ ed 2.400 automatic rifles, 1.750 quarter-ton trucks. 1.500 mor tars and 83,000 miles of field wire. "At our present strength, and on the basis of strict rationing, we are using 150.000 tons of am munition per month," the cable said. "This includes 40.000,000 rounds of .30 caliber, 800,000 rounds of morlar, and 900.000 rounds of 105 mm. ammunition." THEST.FUEL E Portland, Ore., Aug. 31 (U.R) The winter storage program tor-'sppy to consumers in Oregon, Washington and northern Idaho iias been suspended, the OPA announccd today. The action has been taken be cause of current prospects for firewood and coal shortages, OPA officials said. Deliveries beginning today will be limited to priority order based on a signed statement fur- nished by the consumer. THE GRANGE Sams Valley Grange Regular meeting of Sams Val ley grange will be held Satur- day, Sept. 2. The men will pre- sent the program, which will grange officials. Pi:- From where KrM .: TVe and Jane Cuppers celo brated their Golden Wedding Anniversary last Saturday. Having so m.mv friends, it seerr.ed like half the town stopped In that evening to pav liicir respects. Little Ida Moffat bmnght a nomc-m.nlr norm to read, called l.ove Emtnring. Ilrrt Chillier flildled "Mirer Threads Among the Cold." Will Dndlry made a speech and proposed a toast. Ar.d as I watched that toast Tee with his piss., of beer. .Tare .with her bi:-;prmi;k-l thoucht to myself: There's a recipe for i A'a. 92 c a Sent! BY I f.r:s to Socialist Leader Thinks 'Unconditional Surrender' Talk a Fake. Portland, Ore., Aug. 31 U.R) Norman Thomas, socialist can didate for president, today ob jected to the way President Roosevelt "knuckles down to Churchill" and said he believed that unconditional surrender is a fake. He based his latter statement on the unconditional surrender of Italy and "our subsequent negotiations with the wrong king of the people namely, King Vittorio Emmanuel and Marshal Pietro Badoglio." "Our demands for uncondi tional surrender only prolong the war and lack of unity grows among the allies, and American boys continue to die and French villages are destroyed," Thomas asserted. He suggested that as a guar antee of good faith and a condi tion of armistice, the Germans and Japanese must replace gov ernments guilty of gross deceit and cruel aggression by govern ments in whose good faith reasonable confidence may bo reposed; that they withdraw military forces from all occu pied territory and rapidly dis arm. Remaining pessimistic about the worlcrs future he declared that it is "practically certain" that the world is headed for a depression far worse than ever beore and predicted that tha .. h.,ji. n,,r. world was heading towards , another world war. It will make practically no difference whether Dewey or Roosevelt is elected." he said. ans independence while saying nothing about the Burmese un der the British. s Reims, France, Aiig. 31. (U.R) The world famous cathedral of Notre Dame stood undamaged, and serene in the late afternoon sun today as American armor streamed past in pursuit of the fleeing Germans. Many of the city's inhabitants tld me they had expected their way 10 oe mrnea into naming ruins and their ancient cathe. orai crummea as they were in World War I. But the Germans pulled out ahead of the advanc ing Americans. The relieved Frenchmen gath- ! ered in groups to stare silently j at the cathedral which is in the I heart of the city. They had dono their best to protect by it by stacking sandbags half way up the front. HITLER PUPPETS GET PEACE TERMS London. Aug. 11 (U.R) Bui- ffaria onA Pnmnfn .ny..:...i i . n ..ui'iania iLkUVm Al lied peace terms in Cairo nnrf Moscow today and probably will sign them before the week-end, collapsing Germany's Balkan front. Revolution broke out in a third Nazi satellite countrv. Th government of the Nazi puppet ! state of Slovakia admitted that Vst Mall rriDune Wart Ads. T sir A T iu.-f y iiarsn Recipe for a Perfect Marriage happy marriage. Tiro folks with rii.lerent tastes-no doubt an honest fault or two-who through the years have learned to live in tolerance and under, standing. From where 1 sit. Pre and Jane are a mighly good cxamrle lo young married people of today-an example of how mod eratlon, tolerance and under, standing can build lasting happiness and solid homes. fa ltu CV)Tfu, 1944, fvitT fo-i-
