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; BIX MEDFORD MAIL THIBUNE Medford RIBUNE "ETewyons tm South Orvgoa BmiU th UmU Tribune DsUJ lCzcpt Saturday Published by MBOrORO PIUNTINO CO. lfn Nortb rir St. Pbosa 1141 flOREHT W. BUHL, Editor. B UN EST R. OtXaTRAP. UnKr. Am lBdpodiit Nawapapr. BaUrd u aeond claM matter at Ald- ford. Oft on. undrr Act of March t, UTt. SUBSCRIPTION RATE r Mail In Advancoi Pally and Sundajr on raar IT.lt Dally ad Sunday oti mnalha... 4.00 Dally and Sunday thraa montho. S.10 Dally and Sunday ona month... .T 9T Carrlar Ib Advance Uidfard, Aah iaad, Cantral Point, Jaokaonvllla, Oold Hill. Phoanlz, Talant, and as motor roottai Dally and Snnday ana yaar II. 00 Dally and Sunday .on month. li All tar ma caah la advanea. tMflelal Paper af tba City af M mi for-1 Official Pa par af Jarkaoa County MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Adrartlaln Rtproaantatlva WEST-HOLLIDAT COMPANY, INC Offloaa In Now York. Chicago. Datrolt, aa Pranelaoe, Loa An Saalllo. '. Prtlaad, BU J-aula, AUaata. Vaacoavor. B. C. Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry ;i TaboT Day8triPTo &ng as its present management continues, it never woods normally full of candi ' dates at this stage of an election year, report not a one was en countered. Schools are getting ready to open. Statistics show this fall, "the whining schoolboy . . . ; with his shining morning face, creeping like a snail, unwilling ly to school," will do afoot In stead of the family auto of pre war times. "Ens. R. Powers Is back from ' leave In New York and wishing ! tt were 30 days Instead of 13. ' Don't we all?" (Farragut (Idaho) Navy News.) Ye muf fled knock. Miss Gladyswysse (Eliza) Rob- In of the Wings, home on a fur- lough addressed the Unruffled . Feather club Sun. Informally. She told many amusing Inci dents of her war experiences. Including the time she reported for work In her play-suit. She graciously failed to see Grand ma Sarah Wren, who Insisted on calling her "Lize!" Now that the mornings are chill with early fall nipplness, buckwheat panenkes are show ing up in tooth & Jaw gymnasi ums. As of yore, tho buckwheat pancake Is still shy of buck wheat, and the samo goes for the maple In the maple syrup, 1U proverbial lubricant. . In the East and Middle West, voters object and complain of the role essayed In national po litical afairs by Sidney Hillman, the CIO hot-shot. They figure there are already too many dep uty presidents like II. Hopkins, the star boarder, skylarking around the White House, doing nothing but look Important. ... CIVIC PRIDE FLARES (Del Norte (Cal.) Triplicate) "What Crescent Cily needs more than anything else right now Is a substantial elenn-up and palnt-up campaign. Such Is the advice of the many new ' residents who hnve come here In recent months to locate . . . some have even hinted a bon fire here and there at least a wrecking crew Is about the best solution." Hitch-hikers are once more adorning the highways. To date no Good Samnrilnn motorist has picked up a footsore wanderer, to be headsore. The Balkans, chiefly Bulgaria and Turkey are pulling no wool over the eyiv of Russia. The former Is advised to cense lining their alleged neutrality, to aid the Nazis, and the latter In formed the time "for petty ma nuevrrs of the Argentine (Good Nelghbaw!) type Is over." Mos- has puiied the wool over the i ryes of Uncle Sam. They blunt-. ly state his chin-whisker have been pulled out by the roots "Kyser, bespectacled, was born thirty-eight yours ago In Rocky Mountain, N .C. (Movie Mag.) Nice of the Stork wasn't it? Herr Hitler, as expected, did not unleash a speech to the sore beset Germans Sunday. How ever, Crooner Iling Crosby, on a European tour let fly at them, with a vocal blitz. ... Oregon motorists the first sev en months of this year, used 2, 109.026 gallons tit gasoline, more than year, ports, ln the same period lasllsuit ),,, .,ost 0f fhjj ivt,i;it ThirirmorTeruefand hv' human treatment of a shortage that does not exist. CIVILIANPLANE3 DUE Washington, Sept. 8 U.P The American public, anxiously awaiting the day when new fam ily autoa ara again available, may find airplanes for civilian use rolling off production lines soon nopncr than new car. Tuesday, Sept, 9. 1944 The "Patriotic S. Rl" Just as a side-light upon the Southern Pacific's con tinual boast of self-sacrificing patriotism, in this war, . Let it be noted that only two railroads ill the United States refused the request of the United States government to facilitate war ship-building on the Pacific coast by reducing freight rates on steel, the Southern Pacific and the Sante Fe. . The government made this request because it main tains the freight rates of the S. P. from the federal plant at Geneva, Utah, to the coast are "higher than for any other steel-producing point in the country, and if continued no Utah steel industry will be able to operate in the post-war period." BUT did the S. P. accede to this request, so that not only war industry but post-war industry in the Rocky Mountain area might be helped? Mnt fnr a minute! Tho S P.. AS usual, considered onlv One thing: the i i-i... ,iiil cllllllllt,y uunai . , Its rate of $10 per ton, twice the average rate for steel shipments for a similar haul elsewhere, was insisted upon and that is the rate the S. P. pulls down now, as it "sacrifices everything for the war effort." Hooev and nhooev ! The Southern Pacific has never sacrificed ANY THING, in time of war or riiVlin wolf tiro nv for- tho win. A ND now we have the President of the Southern "Pacific weeping and wailing because the United States government through its legal department is bringing action against the Southern Pacific (and some other western railroads) to COMPEL them to give the countiy in time of the west in time of peace a of the country can have (we quote) "an equal oppor tunity to compete with the rest of the country." And there is no doubt of the S. P. officials' sincerity in this direction. He actually believes the government is criminally wrong to intimate the S. P. isn't 100 right or he wouldn't hold the job he does. In the S. P.'s bright lexicon of business ethics, the fivat enmmandmnni is in chnrirp nil thp traffic will , , , , . oear urni 11:1 Jiuuimy, nui, even uie guvciiimeiii, ui uie United States in time of war, interfere with profits ! Will the War End Sept. 13? If history repeats itself, it seldom does, the war in Europe will end on the 13th of this month. We are indebted to the New Yorker for data to support this prediction. The New Yorker points I, the German generals were finally convinced they had lost the war on August loth, 191a. Said Gen Lundendorff in his memoirs: "That day was the black day of the German army .... It put the decline of our fighting power beyond all doubt .... The war must be ended." Not until three months and three days later, on November 11th, 1918, was the armistice signed. And as the New Yorker notes with some irony: "One bitter fact about the last war Is that It took three months and three days to get it stopped after the Gorman generals knew they were defeated, and another is that over U0 of the total American casualties of 243.HU7 came In that period," CO if history should repeat itself, the pres should end on or about September 13th, date is three months and three days after the time the present German generals undoubtedly realized they were beaten. For on June 10th, according to latest reports, the German general staff admitted the allied invasion was a success, that nothing they could do could throw it back or stop it. OOWEVER, this is not a tip for members of the False Friends club, and no one is advised to put up any hard cash on any such eventuality. For we believe the record will show that as far as wars are concerned, not once in a thousand times does history repeat itself. Which A northern California contemporary asks: "Is this a disorganized German rout In northern France or strategic retreat?" A very pertinent question as far as the end of the war is concerned, I) ut from f icillt to answer. Our guess is, it is more even more accurately is a strange, confused mixture of both. THERE is little doubt that around the time of the second allied landing in Fiance, the German High Command decided the jig was up, the only hope of avoiding COMPLETE and immediate disaster was to order a general retreat and boat it as fast as possible for the fatherland and the Siegfried line. From that standpoint, the present hare-and-hound chase might be termed a strategic retreat. similar to the German retreat ordered after the fall of Rome. Hut thanks to tho vigor and snood of the allied pitr- the Italian cost, and has nothing approaching the rela tive gooa order ot uie latter retirement. However, it is probably true that allies are not so much driving the Germans out of France, as the Ger mans are trying desperately to got out and save enough to continue some sort of resistance. Rock Springs, Wyo , Sept. S (U P.) A skeleton found In the Bitter Creek region of Swectwa at any other time, for the rnnnfrv's welfare, and as war, and the industry of square deal, so this portion ?. .....-. u out that in World War No. esent war for that Is It? this distance rather dif- of a rout than a retreat but ho(n f:ir in Pfiw of ' ter county was identified today Us that of Dewey L. Cook, 25. l former Lotfan, Utah, man. FOR LIBERATORS Fleeing Huns Set Fires In Brussels Secret Army Aids Allies. By Richard D. McMillan UP War Correspondent Brussels, Sept. 5. (U.R) The Belgians, confident for months that their ilberation was near, prepared a celebration that out did Paris in its welcome to the liberators. Before the last Germans fled the city, allied flags hidden four years were flying ail through I the capital. Welcoming banners on which patriots had been working for months, were stretched across the streets and the women donned dresses of the black, yellow and red national colors. As the British swept Into the capital, the cheers of the joyous inhabitants drowned out the shots being exchanged by the liberators and isolated pockets of Germans in various parts of the city. The liberation was a one-day miracle of the war. British ar mored forces crossed the Belgian border atj dawn, swept 70 miles across Flanders and by night had entered Brussels. As we reached Brussels, the skyline was ablaze. German rear guards had set fire to gestapo headquarters and the palace of thoy had blown up the telephone exchange and the radio station. Huge welcoming bonfires roar- ed in the center of the city. Crowds besieged the tanks and women and girls rushed up to embrace "les Tommies." But the armor had to forge on too quick ly for many embraces. There was one battle Just be fore the Germans quit at 6 p. m. The cheering crowds delayed British tanks which had been or dered to the scene of resistance, but they finally got through the friendly cordon to smash the last remaining Nazis. Wherever the tanks stopped crowds decorated them with flowers and allied flags. From the time the British rolled across the border, they were aided by Belgian forces of the interior. Men of the "secret army" rose up at every town and village and did the mopping up work for the troops. In some places they had swung :i"'o position before German units, taking them prisoners and handing them over to the Brit ish. The Germans did not have time -to destroy bridges but left obstructions in the roads. The Belgians cleared these out ahead of the fast-moving British armor. ALLIES MOVE TO Kandy, Ceylon, Sept. 5 U.R) Allied troops moved into Sit tnung on the Chindwin river in northwest Burma yesterday with out opposition and found many dead Japanese and much aban doned equipment, a communique announced today. Thirty miles upstream, patrols reached Thaungdut and found it also clear of the enemy. In the Chin hills west and south, troops of the 5th Indian division cleared out pockets of resistance on the Tiddim road and advanced 10 miles. RAF and 1AF fighters of the Eastern Air Command flew through unfavorable weather to attack enemy concentrations and positions. Boy Scout News Troop Eight By Roy Pylc, Ass't Scribe Tonight members of Troop Eight will meet with the Board of Review, as a number of boys are ready to pass their second and first classes and to receive merit badges at the next district Court of Honor. The meeting will be at the Episcopal parish hall as usual. Last Tuesday evening the troop worked on signaling, with Vic Kingla instructing. Tender- I foot Keith Hates was admitted to tho troop by transfer. There was a good attendance. Two weeks ago Mr. Mcrriman of Copco attended the meeting and passed several boys on their first aid test for first class. Olive Barber's Observations According to the last word reaching us, the 22-year-old lieu tenant has Just completed his ninth bombing mission over Eu rope. The citation accompanying the award' read In part, "The courage, coolness and skill dis played by this officer upon these occasions reflect great credit up on himself ... "I've known this lad all his life and for a time he lived with us. Even at the age of six, he had courage a-plenty and his skill at getting Into trouble often left ma a shattered woman by night fall. His coolness, however, Is something he ha acquired of late years. He certainly wasn't cool the time he crawled under the bed when in the first grade and declared his resolve to pur sue the paths of learning no longer. When reconverted to the Idea of getting an education, he was as intemperate in his efforts to learn as before he had been not to. At the time a contest was be ing conducted In his room, those not so good being classed as but terflies, those very good as fai ries. There was nothing cool in his attempt to get out of the butterfly class into the fairies. That fall I was teaching begin ners in a distant town. After a day's struggle with the butterfly brains of my own primaries, I was in no mood to come home at night and start all over again with another six-year-old who aspired to become a fairy. But this I had to do and when this end was finally accomplished, then indeed was the potential lieutenant least cool of all. He capered and made loud and varied sounds of unrcpressed glee. He played tricks on all of us and for at least a week there after was completely out of hand. Social in the extreme, he would invite a flock of his con temporareis in after school. By the time I arrived home the place was a shambles and the cupboard bare. Once they ate a whole box of apples the grocery man had delivered during the day. Mothers all over the neigh borhood exclaimed over their children's lethargy toward sup per that night. Well, the wings he wears now are silver and the fruit he deals out Is not apples to friends, but bombs to enemies. If he hides, it Is not under a bed, but under a blanket of clouds. May God keep him safe and bring him back to usl E Los Angeles, Sept. 5 (U,R) Despite a manpower shortage in this area, out-of-state workers are returning home at a rate estimated between 6,000 and 12.000 a month, Louis M. Drevcs, head of the War Production Board here, said today. ' "This area," he said, "will be a critical labor shortage zone for a long, long time and there will continue to be good jobs for ap plicants to select from." Workers returning east are getting Into areas where labor Is more plentiful, he said, and com petition for Jobs is strong. MILES TO BERLIN The shortest distances to Berlin from Allied lines to day: Western Front 370 miles (from point east of Ant werp. Gain of 80 miles In week.) Southern France 540 miles (from point near Ma con. Gain of 43 miles in week.) Italy 555 miles (from , point near Rimini. Gain of 28 miles In week.) Russia 328 miles (from point east of Warsaw. Un changed for week.) FILIPINO UNITY NEEDED Washington, Sept. 5 (U.R) Unification of the Filipino peo ple behind a program of demo ratic Ideals and cooperation with the United States will be the first major task of the Philippine commonwealth government after the Japanese invaders have been driven from the islands, Presi dent Commissioner Col. Carlos P. Romula declared today. Safe... Sure Rplipf frnrti A IWIIUI II Will.. Sunburn .- Sanborn can be ttrloutl Cere for tt with Vlln' Pf Irolrom Jelly . . . the Aral aid Uralmtnl for burnt ad ob ear betilefroalet "SUBTERFUGE' LAID ;Tfl ROOSEVELT IN BREMERTON TALK Washington, Sept. 5 (U.R) Rep. Raymond S. Springer, R., Ind., charged today that Presi dent Roosevelt was using "cun ning phrases and disgusting subterfuge" in an effort to blame congress for the govern ment's failure to fortify Guam. He said in a speech prepared for delivery in the House that Mr. Roosevelt,, by declaring in his Bremerton, Wash., report that "we were not permitted to fortify the island of Guam," made it appear that congress "had failed to do what was necessary." Springer said that congress never had been asked to consid er legislation to fortify Guam, which American forces took back from Japan last month, but was asked only to appropri ate $5,000,000 for "cleaning out and dredging" the island's har bor. The appropriation was de nied. "If the President wanted to fortify Guam, or if he gave that matter and consideration, why didn't he ask for it," Springer said. "During the prewar pe riod he had a great majority in the House and could have ob tained an appropriation for that purpose without doubt." The President's Bremerton statement was "merely a cun ning method of attempting to play politics with the American people," he said, adding that "all the adroit statements made and the misleading assertions uttered . . . are confusing, en tirely misleading, and purely disgusting." CHURCHES TO AIO SEPTEMBER DRIVE FOR 0L0 CLOTHES i . Washington, Sept. 5 (U.R) A campaign to collect at least 15.000,000 pounds of used cloth ing for the people of liberated areas of Europe will be carried on with the aid of churches and synagogues throughout the na tion during the week of Sept. 24. It will be conducted In co operation with the United Na tions Relief and Rehabilitation administration, which will han dle shipment and distribution of the clothing in Europe. UNRRA Director General Her bert L. Lehman said Catholic, Jewish and Protestant leaders had responded wholeheartedly to his plea for the collection. He said substantial clothing, new and used, for both summer and winter wear was needed. Most important types are infants' garments, men's and boys' over coats, topcoats, suits, shirts, and all types of work clothes, wom en's and girls' outer and under wear, and bedding. Giovanni Verrazano, sailing under the French flag, discov-j cred New York in 1524. I Cat Mull Trtbuns Want AHa. Since a - ' f--- - - r- r - . .... CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL PARLORS Sixth and West Main St. Office of the County Coroner Phone 3147 AMBULANCE SERVICE M. W. Conger Carlos W. Morris JOBS PROMISE IS TRUMAN'S PLEDGE IN DETROIT TALK Detroit, Sept. 5 flJ.FB A Labor Day series of speeches by Democratic Vice- Presidential Candidate Sen. Harry S. Truman brought assurances to Michigan voters that his party would "not be resigned to huge unemploy ment after the war" as the sena tor prepared today to continue his fourth-term campaign for Roosevelt. Weary from two labor rallies here, a third at Pontiac and a press conference and reception, Truman returned to Washington where he will survey plans for more public appearances in be half of the president. He ad dressed a group of American Federation of Labor leaders fol lowing a Congress of Industrial Organization rally In Detroit last night. The two major addresses came on the heels of a brief ap pearance before combined labor groups at Pontiac, and a press conference and reception at De troit's Book-Cadillac hotel. The Missouri senator stressed at all his appearances that if President Roosevelt is re-elected the nation's armament plants will be converted to postwar peacetime goods production, but that if he is defeated they prob ably will be junked. "We can raise our own stan dards ever higher and bring to American industry and labor the greatest era of prosperity in our history," he said. "We have built the plants and facilities with which all of this can be accom plished. Now let us see to it that they are operated." ERMANS SUPPER AVILY AT IONS Mons, Belgium, Sept. 4 (U.R) The American 1st army deci mated at least two German di visions in taking Mons. Ten thousand prisoners, in cluding one major general and two brigadier generals, already were in the bag and thousands were coming in with indications that the total of captured would pass 20,000. One infantry battalion, out numbered 10 to 1 In the fighting south of the city before the oc cupation, took 5,000 prisoners, including crack paratroops, SS men, and panzerites well equip ped with tanks, armored cars, and dual purpose guns. Hollywood, Sept. 5. (U.R) Film Actor Alan Ladd's sched uled second induction into the army has been stayed by national selective service headquarters, army officials disclosed today. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co His tory from the files of the Mai) Tribune 10 and 20 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 5, 1934 (It was Wednesday) Forest fire In Applcgate burns over 5000 acres before brought 1888 under control. Absence of wbid is boon. Harvesting of big tomato crop of valley gets underway. Socialist revolution In Ger many ends with all hopes real ized, declares Dictator Adolf Hitler. Many evasions of state truck law claimed for this section. California coast raked by tidal wave. Damage heavy. Fair. High 95, low 55 degrees. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 5, 1924 (It was Friday) American women missionaries prove heroines in Chinese civil war. Premier MacDonald of Eng land, at opening session of League of Nations, makes strong plea for peace, support of the League, and inclusion of Ger many in it. Fair. High 82, low 50 degrees. Madras, Ore nearly wiped out by fire. Pear shipments to date total 756 cars. Leon Offenbacher, fire guard, seriously burned when flaming tree falls on him on Red Moun tain. He crawled three miles to the Yellowjacket lookout sta tion. August was the wettest of any August in local records, as .97 of an inch of rain fell. LIKE TO HELP RUN TRAINS AT $220 BASE PAY? Work for a company whose biggest job is still ahead. This is a job for a man who wants not only a good salary, but really interesting work . . . for a man who's sincere and re liable. The job: Brakeman with S. P. No experience needed to start: we train vou in short order. i Vou help operate trains . . . make a team with the Conductor and Engineer. You get around, keep the war trains rolling through. You work with a comnany whose biggest war job is still ahead, carrying the tremendous war load for the stepped-up push against Japan. Frankly, this is a job that gets In your blood . . . makes you feel that railroading is different from anything else. Fine pension plan. Railroad nass privileges. Medical service. Good people to work with. Investigate today. Student switchmen (to switch cars) needed also. S220 per month after short training. Sea or write S. P. EMPLOYMENT REPR& SENTATIE AT RAILROAD RE TIREMENT BOARD 219 S. W. 9th St., Portland, Ore. or Your nearest S. P Agent We still have a few, each size Orchard Ladders left Our Advice, Protect Your self BUY NOW! American Fruit Growers, inc. 214 S. Fir Phone 5214 A One Purpose Memorial Deiigned and planned by Mr. and Mri. Conger, thi building wai com. pleted in 1928. Every thought in planning the comtruction and ap. pointmenti was one tin gle purpose a itruc lure for the exclusive uie of thoie bereaved with the lofi of i loved one. Diitinctlre But Not Expensive v
