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;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.
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"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 - . ....
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Phone 3147
AMBULANCE SERVICE
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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
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