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1 till i ii Ml 01 il nil I " V 6iX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. September S, 1944 Medford UNE mWtrmrron ta Aoutbara Orttom SUatU the MU TrtbW Dali, KxmpC Satirdv Publiihd tor uiuroRO phintino oa f-t Norlk rir Ot Phea 1141 ROBERT W RUHU 'lit or. RNEHT R. OIUTHAP. Mtvo&COT. A IndtpandtDl Nwppr. Bnttrsd m Meonfl Ium matter ftt ford. Oregon, under Act Uareb A, 1171. SUBSCRIPTION B A TICS f Mftil In Advancti Pklly fttid aunrUr IT.lt .Daily ud Sundr 1 month.., 4.0 d.iit .nd Buna., on. monib... . Bt Carrier In Advance Madford. Aah land. Central Point. Jacksonville, Oold Hill. Pboentx. Talent, end ea motor renteet Daily a4 Bandar Me rear li ft Dally and Sundav ene month. .11 All term cub la advance. Official Paper mt the City ef MmHv4 Official Paps ml Jftetuaa Conaty Clt4 rill, mil Uad Wlr miintii or audit burbao Or CIRCULATION! Advrtl.Inc R.pr.t.nlallT. WEST-IIOLMDAT COMPANY. INC. OffloM Id N.w York. Chlcaso, Dalrolt. Saa Pranelaoo, Loa Anialaa, Saattta. Partlud. ec Laula. Atluta, Tammm. B. C Monday Is Labor Day, of which there Is now too much, and in the days of the coming peace, It Is feared, there will not be enough. ... J. Tannchlll (The Jaybird) Walker has returned from Frisco, and the Older Girl next door with whom he has been feuding so long, entertained him and coterie of fellow-kids with a weiner roast. Both Republicans and Demo- crats are busy expressing horror at the thought their pavorite for president will be squashed. ... Leon Haskins, the pioneer plllist, Is In the throes of moving across the street. The Lcs Taylor boy Bob of Phoenix ia back In Colorado, as busy as a bee, ant, and one armed paperhanger. Picking of tomatoes starts the coming week. Nobody as yet is mad enough to throw any at a presidential candidate. A light rain fell the past week, but not enough to wash off an auto or causo same to skid at a corner, ' The Nazis are now iislnc an " 1 Ye Smudge Pot . Br Arthur Perry I XZy1 th.e himinff in Normandy was Reich and Berlin. Beef production In the nation fa at Its highest point In history, but the shortage thereof con tinues, nevertheless and not withstanding. "Maw-russ" Leonard, dynamic electrical wizard, posing on the 10th tee of the local golf club, and with the aid of his fnmlly pooch "Golden Bantam" demon strating something entirely new In the way of al fresco "tcte a tete" between master and hound. The frost was almost on the pumpkin Sat. am. and they were as cool as a cucumber Is sup posed to be. The New Deal nominee for vice-president was officially ad vised Thurs. eve he was It, and came out against a green-hand in me wnue House, even If he does know what It is all about. Miss Gladywssc (Eliza) Rnbln. engaged In the war effort In the south, is spending n furlough with her folks, the J, Cochran Robins, of the Vino Maple Apart ment. She warns against over optimism and, hard fighting ahead. Another leaf was yanked off calendars Frl. and the days are getting shorter on the morning end. Golfers flocked to the lynx X , j over the week end for the an nuai tournament. The greens were hnrhprcrl In thi. limit, hut contained more tares than thciand other anti-r ascist liberators, are allowincr the Baptist church lawn. Careful hunters rejoice they will have plenty of shells to whcn XZZXZ, tresspass signs thah hnve not been wounded since Pearl Har bor. The former 'Invincible grey green legions' of A. Hitler, and 'master-race' are skedaddling for Dor Third Reich with great gusto, without stopping to con quer any "little lands", and "helpless peoples" on the way. They would now listen to reason it able to .top running long'iq11") and also their very . . f Ot no C..wl. ....... .1 T enough to listen. POWELL CHILD HURT Hollywood, Sept. 2 (U.R) El len Powell, six-year-old daugh ter of Film Stars Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, tonight had 17 stitches taken In her face af-1 o .h. , , ...1 . r...nn linr .vi one n,i, in ,,vu . V. .v.-v,,v 1 pet Collie from a warring Police dog. Uu Mall TTlbuua Want Ate Still In the Dark Well another week has gone by and still the future is not clear, at least to this typewriter strategist. The battle of France has been won, that is clear enough. All in all it probably ranks next to Stalingrad, as the most decisive battle of the war. The Russians have taken over Romania, Bulgaria has been lost to the Nazi cause, there seems little likelihood of Germany being able to check the steady crumbling of the eastern wall. So the complete destruction of Hitler Germany is ujf mm-f, oni-tain than it was two weeks atro But the actual date of the THE end, "tomorn as remarked Tt. uw. .11, majr I.UI mavbe months, For it all depends upon Germany, how long Ger many can hold together, how long fatally stricken it can maintain its will to live. There seems little chance that Hitler will volun tarily capitulate, as' long as he has any one to fight for him or fight with. Therefore barring some beneficent happening like Hitler's flight or death, as long as he has a corporal's guard with the will to resist, no doubt the conflict, even a ludicrously one-sided one, may go on, and on. IT is all in the lap of the Gods, no one can tell. At least no one in this bailiwick. And we doubt if anyone anywhere, not in the confi dence of those tragic fates, who are supposed to write the destiny of individuals and nations upon the im perishable stones of time. What Happened? Allied victory in France was certain, eventually. As long as the allies had complete control of the air a the sea 33 wel1 as ana lire-power, mere was no way uermany cuuiu repel an allied invasion, or after it permanently hold France. It just wasn't in the cards. But a far more successful resistance WAS in the cards, and a far more costly victory to the allies, as well as a far less sudden German collapse. At least that, again, is the belief of his type writer strategist. '"THERE is good reason to believe in fact, that the German general staff was confident the initial allied invasion would fail and probably result in such a wholesale slaughter for the allies, they would look at their hole card VERY carefully before they made any second attempt. BUT something happened! Tnuf nrli n 4" if- lima I-i n n 1-iinM nviilniMArl -.fflrtinllTf I u nob yy licit ib v ciO naa nut utcw cajjuwiuju uxjl incwij int. lpasf.. Thp most rnmmnn Invmnn vnlnnntinn is that merely a feint, the real attack would be nearer Calais, so the high command order to smash the Normandy invasion when issued came too late. That may be, or it may not. Like the end of the war the true answer is not available as yet. Let the People Rule Count Sforza says not only the King of Italy but all kings in Europe must go. Why? England has a king. So has Denmark, Norway and Sweden. What right has the Italian radical, or anyone else to tell the people of these countries they can't have their kings if they want them? . . AS for Italy, if Count Sforza wants to get rid of Kinp; Victor Emmanuel, he has, as an Italian citi zen the right to say so. And no one can complain if he wishes to agitate in that direction. But it is up to the Italian people not up to Count Sforza to decide the question. MOW that the defeat of Germany is certain, various and sundry participants in the allied victory are feeling their oats excessively. Victory is always pleas ant and stimulating but when victory has literally been snatched from defeat, it is doubly so. And allowances should therefore be made for old enemies of Fascism who, like the Italian revolutionist, at great sacrifice and tireless endeavor have at last been vindicated and have all but reached their long sought goal. DUT exhilaration is one another. And it is fairly sudden change in their political fortunes to go too much to their heads. After all. the vorv hp.trt nf thp jjnti-F.-isrist nmvn. is h"man f'lom. ufiMium, i rum a political standpoint, is uie ligm ot self government, the right of the people, any people, to have the type of government they wish. ' XfE are not so sure about the Italian people. Hut we are reasonably sure about the people of Eng-' mini, m-iimai k, ixorwav and owcden. If it were left to them would undoubtedly vote far as Sweden and Norway ments. Hut whether in such a plebiscite, they did so or not, the entire question is one for them to decide, not for Count Sforza or anv other individual or outsider. 1 IA CVCI'V HatlOll ill the ' Li ... i , ., eminent the reonle a to have. That goes for a basis like England, a democracy like the U.S.A., or a finish is not. at that time, mav come f. c,.ol ,.nVc iw c.ua. practically unlimited man- thing; intoxication quite evident that Count Sforza, And the essence of human in a free plebiscite thev to retain their kincrs (andi liberal, even leftish as I - 1 I ... . " are concerned, govern world have tlu fvi)i of irnv- ' ' maioritv of them. wish kingdom on a democratic personal dictatorship on a socialist basis, like Russia. Only upon such a cornerstone of free self govern ment can tJ post-war world be built on solid political foundations. CHEST PLANS AREAS OTHER CITY AIRED Preliminary plans for conduct-1 Ing a campaign to raise fundsj for the annual War Chest in areas outside of the city of Med !ora were maele at a meeting ai ... ,. d ho(el Frjdav noon. J. E. Earley, who will serve as general chairman of the drive, presided. It was agreed that the quota assigned to Jackson county would be raised partially under the supervision of the Medford Community Chest, by the city of Ashland and in the outlying districts, as was done last year, and representatives of the Com munity Chest present further agreed that the Chest canvass would be limited to people who either work or live in Medford.; Mrs. Olive Floyd, who last year conducted a canvass of rural areas in connection with the War Chest drive, will assist with the drive again this year and was present at the meeting. It is hoped that by making early plans, confusion and duplication of effort will be eliminated this year. A The drive will officially start October 9, starting date of the nation-wide War Chest and Com munity Chest drives, but it is hoped to do some preliminary work on the campaign between Oct. 2 and Oct. 9. Present for the meeting were Mr. Earley, Frank Van Dyke and Frank Thompson of Ashland; John P. Moffat, Elwood Hed bcrg, Frank Hull, A. M. Cannon, Otto Frohnmayer, Ralph Sween ey, Herb Grey, Tony Manno and Lee Bishop. iRT FROM HOME HELD LURE FOR N1PPS Los Angeles, Sept. 2 U.R Fanatical Japanese who kill tnemselves rather than surren der to American forces might be induced to give up if prom ised a new life outside Japan, Vicente Villnmin, noted Filipino attorney and economist, suggest ed tonight. He proposed that the Allies as sign suitable islands among the I thousands In the Pacific where Japanese who surrender could live and build new communi ties after the war. supervised ns a mandate and free from moles tation from the Japanese gov ernment. "A rant tired live Japanese is a dead Japanese to his govern ment, people and family." Vil lamin said. "Mr is officially so reported, his funeral is held, the family goes in mourning, his rights are extinguished and death gratuities are paid off. "If he ever comes back he will find himself a man with out a country, family, friends and civil rights. Evervone in Japanese uniform realizes this awful fact. The thought that dominates him Is the expectancy of a life of disgrace and desue tude that awaits him in Japan after the war if he permits him self to he taken alive. "That's the reason he doesn't surrender. Thus n battle with the Japanese army does not end un til the very Inst soldier ex pires." E UP COMING WEEK Salt Lake City, Sept. 2 (U.R) Whether polygamy is relicion or lust plain sex still isn't decided but the government next week will try to prove the latter while three doren Fundamentalists re new their fi:M to keep their 400 children legitimate. Following the summer court recess, polygamy again will rear its plural head m the state courts here Tuesday when 34 Fundamentalists will armio mo- tlon ,0 uah information in a r.Tl.v.0 S the government claims is un moral. Arsiuvients will be heard by a nrw Judge. M. J. Bronson. PINS DEFACE POOL San Diego. I'al (U P' There's no scarcity o? hohhv pins here In one place, anyhow. San Diego club authorities sav one of the hardest parts of cleaning the club's swimming pool i the re moving of rust spots caused by bobby pins on the bottom. Transfer of the t'airutian post al system from the British to thc Pro incu.l goverrn-ent was ac- 'comnhshed on Apni . ism. PISA EVACUATED BY GOTHIC LINE Rome, Sept. 2 (U.R) Ameri- can troops of the Fifth army to-: night captured the city of Pisa, 14 miles northeast of Leghorn and continued on at least four miles to the Scrchio river, while, across the leg of Italy's boot, troops to the Eighth army push ed from four to five miles Inside the vaunted Gothic defense sys tem along a 20-mlle front. American forces found Pisa evacuated by the Germans. The continued northward advance was aimed at Lucca, 11 miles to the northeast, and Viareggio, sea coast city 15 miles to the north west, both on modern highways leading from Pisa. The assault on the city was not aimed on a direct line, which, with opposing lines drawn along the wide Arno river, would have meant bitter street fighting. In stead, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark sent fast-moving and powerful flank ing forces east of the city against and around the Pisano hill mass. The Germans at first offered bit ter resistance with considerable fire from self-propelled guns and UlllCr Brunei y. J.UC UUVailW, nowevei, was so ,wJft that the Germans were forced to leave the city. Allied headquarters here had not determined whether the famous Leaning Tower had been damaged. NAZIS DEPORTED T OF By Edward W. Beattie United Press War Correspondent n : o , o m D in 'onnnn H i . TT" .!, Kcnco and the natural reluc 90,000 Jews nine-tenths of the!. n0 . ..... . . Jewish population in the third, fourth and fifth arrondissements of Paris were deported by the Nnzis to Germany or Poland during the last four years, ac cording to residents who man aged to save themselves by go ing into hiding. There was not one person to whom I talked in this district of mean little streets and dingy old buildings who did not have at least one relative or friend who disanoeared into the limbo i Adolf Hitler created for the peonlc he hated. When the Nazis entered Paris the first thing they did was to obliterate the possibility of Jews earning a livelihood They did this by forbidding them to Imvn thntr hnncne nv.nnt tnf nna 1 . .. . . ., , hour between 11 a. m. and noon. : -1.U , 1 ' tt. T. .. t I In the afternoons, so the Jews could not get any food They were forced to rely on the kind ness of non-Jewish friends who could bring them some brown bread, a few vegetables and a little meat to keep them alive. There were literally dozens of other restrictions. And to en force them, the Nazis enrolled French thugs. The Gestapo systematically terrorized the Jews by repeated searches of their houses Often they were accompanied by men dressed in French police uni forms who took everything of value during the search and pre sumably split with the Nazis later. When these men occasion ally were uncovered oy the French police and arrested, the Germans always obtained their release. T Moscow. Sept. 2 01 R) Heavy fighting between Czecho slovakian partisans and German forces In Slovakia was reported today by Gen. Rudolf Viest. deputy chief of the Czcehoslo- Vak governmental commission waiting here to follow the Rus sian army into the tiny repub-) lie. j Viest said the partisans had ' been Joined by local Slovak j army gendarmerie and police and that thc patriots, with ad vance information of a concen I tration of six German divisions along the southern and western borders of Slovakia, had at tacked and gained control of strategically important towns and communications centers. The Germans started their in vasion Aug. 27, he said, and fighting spread quickly to the Trenehin area, center of war industries. Trinre of Wales college at Charlottetown was founded in 1860. YINi SOUTH FRANCE IS AHEADNEW$ Unofficially Italian Line Crossed Last Thursday; Not Confirmed. Rome, Sept. 2 (U.R) The U. S. Seventh army tonight has V-nntni-oH rt many towns SO many miles ahead of the front line as it is publicly known, that the final collapse of the German armies in southern France would appear to be a fact if the real front line were disclosed. Allied spearheads for the past week or 10 days constantly have been dozens of hours and doz ens of miles ahead of the official accounts. There have been times when their positions even have cancelled out the normal routine under which each morn ing's communique represents the situation as it was the pre ceding afternoon. Even in the Allied press room here, you will find correspond ents who are willing to wager that the forces driving up the Rhone valley already are well beyond Lyon. Tonight's com munique placed the Americans 14 miles to the south. T ic nuito nnnihln that tha sn..rt wi1h whirh thp s.VPnth armv thmetintf " J'I tentacles, all over wedges, and pincers southern France has even the authors of the communiques confused. Either that, or it take time to insure that the towns have been consolidated and are held in force instead of having been entered and left behind by flying columns. On the right flank, Italian newspapers have been getting reports from the resistance front saying the Americans crossed into Italy last Thursday or earlier. Officially, however, our troops still are only seven or eight miles from the frontier. The most probable explana tion of the huge time lag be- j tween the situation as it actual ly exists and the communiques arises from the complete col lapse of the Germ;n Intelli- tance of the Allied High Com mand to give the enemy any information he may not know. A n Missoula. Mont., Sent. 2 (U.R) Tall, white-haired Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for prcsdient, strode about a Missou la hotel room in his shirtsleeves today, declaring that the "tug o Lonc)on between Moscow and is "really another invi- tation to war. S,ntinK ,hat nis appearance In western Montana was a ' straight aopeal for the Socialist party," the oft-defeated presidential can didate said the "winning of the peace" was proceeding much slower thar. the winning of the war. The United States, he said, is getting ready to underwrite the supremacy of the white race in the east. Thomas said he believed It still nnssihle tn mnk a lstlnp peace. but that peace could not be built by "conscriptive meth ods." The Socialist candidate to night will address western Mon tanans on the campus of the state university here on "Will Democracy Prevail In the Post war Period " He said he would try to persuade his audience that it ought to want what "we So cialists" want, and that if it agrees with the Socialists. It will be throwing its vote away unless it votes Socialist. SHOWGOOD "NOSE". Topeka. Kan. (U.R) That well-known "nose" that lour- 'nalists are reported to use In ! their profession seems to be I needed in other types of work. too. Police officers here were recently called to a home to help locate a peculiar odor. The officers sniffed until they dis-, ; covered a leak In thc coil of an electric ice box. Sacramento. Sept. 2 iU.R) Ameradada Petroleum Corp.'s gs well near Dixon, 22 miles southwest of Sacramento, has been brought in ith a "heavy flow" of gas, Carl Schmeiser I reported today. Wt (till have few, each size Orchard Ladders left Our Advice, Protect Your self BUY NOW! American Fruil Growers, Inc. 214 S. Fir Phone 5214 ITALY CLAIM OF Bv Aldo Forte United Press Correspondent Chiasso. Italo-Swiss Frontier,, Sept. 2 (U.R) A partisan leader who crossed the frontier late to day said that the Germans,, giv ing every sign of evacuating northern Italy, were shipping heavy artillery through the Brenner Pass to Germany and , that the German command had ordered all heavy aruiiery, j tanks and ammunition depots moved out. I The partisan leader was a for mer caDtain of the Italian A1-, pini and has been fighting in the north Italian country since the German occupation follow ing the armistice last Septem ber. He told this correspondent that the movement of heavy ar tillery through the Brenner Pass had been going on since Thurs day. The day before, he said, Ger man commanders in north Italy held a conference in Cosmo un der the leadership of the SS General Rauf. At this confer ence, after lengthy discussion, Rauf ordered the rest of the heavy artillery and the few re maining heavy tanks, gasoline and ammunition depots in north ern Italy be cleared and sent to Germay. The partisan leader under stood that Rauf gave his gen erals a secret meeting point, "somewhere in Lombard y," where all German detachments were to gather on 24 hours' no tice if the situation in Italy j should become untenable I I was told that German gen erals already have shipped per sonal belongings and a large amount of loot from Italian art galleries to Germany. The par tisan leader said that at Milan two German officers had so much loot that, lacking baggage space, they used newly-built cof fins to carry paintings and statues. LIFE OF NORRiS BY WHITE HOUSE Washington, Sept. 2 (U.R) President Roosevelt tonight de scribed the death of Former Senator George Norrls as "a na tional bereavement" and said that "a grand old champion of popular rights has made his journey." Text of the president's state ment: "To sum up one's feeling In the face of a national bereave ment like the death of Georce Norris is not pasy. Steadfast in the faith of liberalism to the end of his 83 years, he was an uncompromising foe of special privilege who never waivered! in this belief that the welfare of the majority is the responsibil ity and the duty of government. "Father of the 20th amend ment to the Constitution which ended the anachronism of the I "lame duck session o' the con gress, he also has left a lasting monument in the Tennessee val- ! 'e amnonty which he created i bod.v ul. Few of his re- actionary critics in or out of the congress, who maligned andj calumnated him for his spon-j sorship of the Muscle Shoals' act. would have the temerity to challenge the wisdom of that, legislation today. I "So, it is that a pillar of state! has fallen, a tower of strength has been laid low, and a grand old champion of popular rights has made his Journey. HANKYB AITS BASS Brainerd. Minn ;U R) Mrs. Ray Eckerly lost her hanky to a I fish. While stnr.ding beside i "fix Pond at Absarben on Bay Lake. Mr- Eckerly waved her hanky ahout 10 incnes ahovp the j water. Up leaped a bass, who grabbed the hanky and devoured J it. : : , ! Thc hio T'ver " 1:83 mlles lons- The Red river is 1.275 miles long. LOW WEEKLY RATES CRATER H0TFL Across From Crafcrian Theatr Phone 4174 SINGLE S4 50 to $6 OOUBLE .. $7 50 to $1? S i tr ii s di Inner Spnno Mtrs- Frt "Sowars Cifan Roomsl Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co Hit tory from the files of the Mai) Tribune 10 and 20 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 3, 1934 (It was Monday) Labor Day sees greatest strik in nation's history underway. Fair and warm. High 104, low 62 degrees. Warmest day of year. Labor urges 30-hour week to provide more jobs. Five million on relief by Feb ruary is prediction. City is deserted on Labor Day as hundreds motor to hills and lakes. Building in city 75 per cent higher than last year. Rural schools of county open ed yesterday for new term. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 3, 1924 (It was Wednesday) More American warships sent to China as civil war nears, with heavy fighting in Shanghai. France starts to prevent sec ond disarmament conference. Fair and warmer. High 97, low 57 degrees. Texas democrats start anti Klan drive Hundreds of deer found dead near Klamath Falls, probe start ed. Ticket sale for county fair opens. Football practice under Coach , Pring Callison starts at high school. Among players report ing are Clare (Tule) Williams, Gilbert Knips, Harlcy Dressier, Mervyn Chastain, Bernard Sena and Raymond Singler. CHANDLRTLAYS Washington, Sept. 2 (U.R) Sen. A. B. Chandler, D., Ky., in a dramatic reply to a blister ing statement by British Am bassador Lord Halifax, made public today what he said was a cablegram written by a Brit ish official In India declaring former Ambassador William Phillips persona non grata be cause nis views favoring Indian independence "are not what we are entitled to expect from a pro fessedly friendly envoy." The cablegram, addressed to the secretary of state for India in London, said "we feel strong ly that the British embassy should be supported in carrying this matter further with the (U. S.) state department " Chandler this week on the senate floor demanded a Whito House explanation of Phillips' recall from London as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's polit ical adviser. In releasing the ca blegram, he said it was docu mentary proof of his charges that the envoy was recalled be cause he had advised President Roosevelt in a memorandum that the Allied war effort in Asia was being jeopardized by Great Britain's refusal to guarantee Indian independence. LOG CHUTE DAMAGED Portland, Ore., Sept. 2 (U.R) Fire which struck the log chute of the Ostrander Railway and Timber company Friday night did between SB. 000 and S10.000 worth of damage, Verne Cos well, office manager of the firm, said today. Watertown, Mass. (U.R) War Worker Robert Bennett supports his wife and nine children and still manages to set aside 17.5 per cent of his pay each week for war bunds. fj 6.00-16
