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fOTTR MEDFORD MAIL THIBUNB Tuday, Bept. 12, 1944 . MEDFORDwTEIBUNE ?ar;an la Soothers Orry KaU th Mall Tritv Dmlir fcieept Batordajr Pubtlihid by uiDroni) pniNTiwo oa tt- North rir flL PaM t14t ROBEItT W ncnL, Editor. BILNE9T R. OIMTRAP. Utnanr. As lodipondtal Nwippr. SBtrd w oaoDd ! mattor at Mtd- ford, Oregon, under Act ( March ft, BUBtfCfUPTION RATES Bf Mali In Advaaett Duly and Bundaroaa ft. ... .fT.Bf Dally and flundr li month.,, 4.0 Dally and Sunday thr mocitha, 1.1 Dally and Sunday on month... .Tl By Carrlar la Advaoca Medford, Aih iaod. Central Potnt. Jackaonvllla, Gold . Hill. Phoonlx, TaJanL and mm motor rootaa: I Dally and Booday ooa rar Pally and Sunday .ono moath. .Tl All tarina eaah la advanoa. Uflr1aI Paper of tbo City of Modford Official I'apor of Jarkooa Couoty United Prtao Fnll Loaood Wtra MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Advrtlatng RapraaantatlTO WKBT'HOLI.IUAT COMPANY. WG. fffloaa la New York. Chlcayo, Detroit, Baa Franelico, I.oi Antalta, Baattla, ParUaad. BL Loula. AtUau, Vaaooavor, ; a. c that we have to try to be lfke other peoples nor does it mean that we expect them to follow our example. It is simply good sense to have as much knowl edge as possible about both our friends and our enemies. I AM going to attempt to send a newsletter from England, but this may not be possible. I will, however, make a report to you on my trip through the medium of this newsletter as soon as I ar- Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry No efforts has been made by either major party, a political writer observes, to corral the middle-aged woman vote. In a snowless region like this, a smart candidate would promise the Older Girls a "White Christmas". They spend most of the long, winter evenings hop ing for one and never getting it. Jno. Wilkinson, the Ins. agt. observed his 31st wedding anni versary yes. His boy John, In the army, looked a preacher In the eye on the same date five years ago. Before going to war he lived In Ashland. Mr. Willkie, though just why the vocal efforts of GOP candi dates for the presidency should be regarded as a felonious never been convincingly ex plained. It would be a fine howdy-do If the birds all sang the same song. The blackout in London will be abolished Septem ber 17th, thus ending five years of darkness and horror for Britons. They are rolling up the barbed wire on English beaches and the children can play on them again. The first real break in America's wartime rationing was announced on the same dav last week when War rive back in the United states. Mobilization Director Byrnes revealed that 17 food 1 1 .pcc' ' e gone B.tT "n ., ... , r, , . ., .. I weeks, which means that I shall items will be permanently removed from the ration be out in Oregon again shortly list. The "D" day for this removal is, like the "lights ' after the first of October. up date in London, on September 17th. The pattern for the demobilization of America's armed forces has been laid, and the G.I. Bill of Rights" is being studied by the new crop of war veterans with an eye to post-war planning. THESE are but a few of the recent encouraging in- dications that happier clays will soon be here again. But, lest we start the victory celebration too soon, we have the sobering reminder of Secretary of the Navy orrestal that our successes in the Pacific have given the Japanese a narrower theater of action and greater concentration of air power. The Japs have improved airplanes, too, and seem to be pro ducing them at a fast clip. THE favorable trend of the war in recent weeks 1 should spur the home front to greater effort than ever. Certainly, complacency at this stage of the war would only prolong it. The Japanese are banking a lot on the belief that the people of America will be come bored with the war when the conflict is won in Europe and will be unwilling to see the Pacific war through. The Jans will know how verv wronn- f hpv are whnn everything but the kitchen sink showers down on the ! whose n Mikado s little island from the bomb bay of B-29s. II. G. Observations Mass Evacuation Returns 1126 Allied Flyers i v , -, -i o .Mf. u r.tr tiff ! dive C1 -j Barber's I ' M I More Tin Needed August was the record month for waste paper col- uovernor uewcy inrea wen, i . , 4 , while he refrained from speech 'salvage program nearly a year ago, according to word making but he is talking nowfrom the State Salvage committee of the W.RR. Tho ZSmtwfwLwWwU'y 6l!ccfssful ?'-ive in Portland and Multnomah uuin,y xaoi muiiui was rusjjuiisioie ior me line showing. Although the war is cointr well these da vs. the be regarded as a icioniousi ... , r - . . " . . breach of campaign manner has i critical shortage of paper still exists. It is encour aging, nowever, to see Uregomans increase their ef fort in this necessary wartime salvage program. While the current paper drive, here in Jackson Coun- - - , , . 11 i" ugitssuig mceiy, more ana more waste paper iem,TrcLi "f-. f PiU average of the people 6S Elite troops of Germany. wh0Of this county is still less than half the state s average, from the cradle have been in- We can't let that kind of a record stand on the doctrlnated with Nazism, and l)00kq I show signs of never getting over It. Hitler's brats taken prisoners by Russia are now rebuilding some of the destruction they wrought and are not receiving pay for their labors. Russians are a realistic lot, and do not pamper former foes. Moscow reports daily employment with wheelbarrow and shovel Is slow ly clearing their systems of world conquering notions. Sob aisters complain such rugged treatment "stunts their futuro." All the S3 Elite troops wanted to do was stunt everybody's fu ture and enslave the world. . HURLER OF $7 WORDS (Astoria Astorian-Rudget) "Our great, good friend El mer A. "The Duke" Swayre, whose family tree reportedly takes in both Rogct and Web ster, hove to In front of the Owl this week with the com ment that the Columbia river ,haV6 tin. A ND, despite current rumor to the contrary, there WILL be another tin collection and soon. The Japs captured about 70 per cent of the world's production of tin in the early stages of the war, and from that amount the U.S. received about 1)0 per cent of its supply. A little comes from Bolivia, Africa, Wales and other remote points but much more is needed for war necessities. That is why our recover able tin must be salvaged from used tin cans. That is why every housewife must save every single tin can for early collection. As this Is being written, mem bers of the family are getting ready to go to the county fair. 1 ve been ready for some time. It's the one event which retains the power to beget in me the snme high excitement year after year. I have to make the rounds of the fair alone unless I can find someone who has never ac companied me before. "Mother will lust stand and moon at a squash by the hour, while one good look at a squash is all I want. Of course, baked and still hot and with a big gob of but ter melting in it, well that would be different." This' from the son mind still has a tendency to dwell on his stomach. Displays of canned goods al ways arouse my lower emotions. I know this but I always make for that department just the same and am envious, chagrined and mad; mad at myself that I can't get string beans geomet rically arranged in jars in the manner of those on display. The knowledge that they'll be jum ixed up before serving Is no com fort to me. Unless taken to the fair, no one would see them ex cept myself. But I'd know how I they had looked and that's enough to upset me. So when I go to the fair, I just reach out my neck for a bout with my own ego. Toward the needlework de partment, I have a vast indif- fcrenre. If women want to sit! up nights and ruin their eyes making silly little stitches, that's all right by me. But they have a nerve when they grow a bet ter squash or lino up string brans in jars with military pre cision I find impossible to attain. What I should do is to go to fairs where I don't know the nrople putting on the exhibits. But in my home county I know the woman who grew tho squash and canned the regimented vege tables. What's she got that I haven't, I'd like to know, that she can outwit me year after year in these matters! The family can t understand why I don't look at something which pleases me Instead of spending my time at enraging myself. They go to the horse j 1 f Acme Telenhoto) Gen. Nathan p. Twining (right), commanding general of U. S. 15th Air Force, welcomes first of 1126 Ameri can and British airmen at Italy base after fleets of Flying Fortresses made spectacular mass evacuation ol the airmen, who had been shot down and Interned In Romania during the last year. Most of the men sur vivors ol the 3000 Allied airmen shot down over the Ploesti oilfields. Flack Towers Guarded Germnn Marine Barracks I Acme Hmlia-Teletihutot These are two ot the nuge tlaK towers wmcn guarded the German Marine Darraclts outside ol French village Df Angers. Allied aerial attacks blasted most ot the lowers which guarded the base, headquarters tor Nad Marines ot the entire Atlantic coast, beture lis capture iy Allied troops Photo by KEA-Acme stall Dhotog rapner Bert Brand tor War Picture Pom. E QUIZ NEW SUSPECTS IN I Mattoon, 111., Sept. 12 OJ.R) Police turned up two new suspects today In their search for the "madman of Mattoon" while other authorities sought to cure the severe case of mass jitters the phantom prowler has spread among nearly all the city's 15,001) residents. Coles County State's Attor- Embezzler Facing Prison Sentence Chicago, Sept. 12 (U.R) An drew K. Johnson, 31, charged with embezzling $11,000 from a Chicago clothing store, will be "rT udgrPhLJ BEDFORD OFFICE CLOSED Sullivan said today after he RY U. S. CIVIL SERVICE er of the pro-Roosevelt Texas delegation to the national con vention in Chicago, said his group would not accept propos als that two slates of democratic electors be listed on the Texas ballot in November. hoard Johnson confess and promise to make restitution. Johnson and Mrs. Mary Jean ette Wassenger, 29, who was a cashier at the store, and who accompanied him on a cross country tour while he spent the stolen money, were arrested this summer at Oakland. Calif.. where Johnson was working as manager of a night club r ,rT ? n!eniVJ I'TT T 1 W' K' Klw;11 he WaS iTEXAS DEMOCRATS sort -f mental anesthesia which ,, i,ciBn. . makes them blind to the accom plishments of other men's horses so that they say, "Now If we'd is certainly revealing a pau city of piscatorial denizens. Freely Interpreted (which Is essential If one Is to avoid mental bankruptcy when talk ing to the Duke) this means: "No fish." Pre school shodding and shear ing of kids, Is the order of the day. This annual refurbishing of both ends of Juveniles Is a long established custom. Get ting a shirt on Junior after run ning around all summer with out one, promises to be a next Monday problem In many homes. Gen. (BiCi) Tatton, whose ac tivities aro of more public Inter est than the slick tricks of ace high politicians, has opened a new offensive. He in person and TIN is used for everything from containers for small individual morphine hypodermic syringes and covering for foods to torpedoes, airplanes and battle- i bTm"-' Jerry! Not a horse here ships. Every battleship contains 7ti tons of it, every . toZXL,Z bomber 48 pounds. The new Radar "magic eye" j can delude themselves. detector for encmv nirnlnnps mul siilminrmns ninsM . V". they're ready and so I'm . 1 rf fnr rni, nnniml HrtcA r t nlnnm Love isn't the only thing which ran he both pain and pleasure. The same is true of county fairs. Moreover, ninety-nine per cent of every tin can is STEELi and that, too, is salvaged for the making of war weapons. Yes, there will be a lot of fighting before this war is finally won. Tin is a fighting metal, and every pound we can reclaim is going to count! II. (1. Letter From Washington By HARRIS ELLSWORTH Member ot Congress From Oregon Washington, D. C, Sept. 9 ber of a formal committee mak Special Correspondence) It is ing such a visit, 1 am ncverthe obvtous now that there will be. less making the trip fur the pur no further business transacted by pose of conversing with mem congress until nfter the Nnvcm- bers of the British 'parliament in ber 7th election. Immediately , order to become more familiar after election, however, active j with the operation of the Brit work In congress will be resum- Kh civrrnni. ni ,,,! i t.i- . t. - . . Ua ... mi uums lire siiuuiiR up "- ea in order to winti up tiie pen-j them with our pi oceilure "sacred soil'' of Germany. jng business for the year. Two, A mimber of ,,,oml,or, of itidf cvt Trt vrrti nn. . .... , Kress LICE." (liilllne Siskiyou News) No way to treat the limb of the law. Madame Chiang In New York Hospital New Yqrk, Sept. 12J.R1 Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of the Chinese generalissimo, ar rived here early today and en tered Columbia Presbyterian medical center for treatment. Madame Chiang has been un-1 dor a doctor's care in Rio de .I.iiu iro since arriving there July 13 by plane from China. At the time she left China it was n ported she was suffering from nervous exhaustion, in somnia and chronic urticaria, an inflammation of the skin. making n "thorough investiga tion'' to determine if cither of the suspects is the ambling anes thetist who sprays his victims with "gardenia gas," leaving them nauseated and partially paralyzed. He declined to elab orate on who the suspects might be or how they got to be sus pects. Hysteria Worries Authorities were as worried by the mass hysteria that has gripped the community as they were by the boogie man, who may be real or perhaps tne product of overworked imagi nations. Police Commissioner Thomas Wright appealed to the city's men and boys to lay down their arms "before someone gets shot." State police moved into town to help with the search, and Kidwell said they had given "substantial aid'' in the search. The phantom, however, was still at large perhaps in his weird home laboratory concoct ing a new supply of the gas to spray on sleeping women and children. IN UNCOMPROMISING MOOD Dallas, Tex. Sept. 12 (U.PJ Texas democrats favoring fourth term for President Roose velt announced late today they would accept no compromise in their battle to force democratic presidential electors to vote for the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. Herman Jones of Austin, lead- Eugene Liljenquist, civil serv ice representative formerly sta tioned in Medford, has been transferred to Klamath Falls and the commission office in Med ford has been closed it was an nounced today. The office had been maintained here by the Eleventh U. S. Civil Service Re gion for the past two years. Mr. Liljenquist states that he may be contacted in Klamath Falls at the U. S. Employment Service office. TAMMANYITE PAROLED Ossining, N. Y., Sept. 12. (U.R) James J. (Jimmy) Hines, one-time Tammany district lead er, was paroled from Sing Sing prison today after serving al most four years for his part in protecting the policy racket of the New York underworld. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10 and 20 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 12, 1934 (It was Wednesday) Huey Long candidates win New Orleans election and King fish Is now virtual dictator of Louisiana. Three new CCC signed this area. camps as- 'Mining congress to meet her September 22. Gov. Meier decides not to run as Independent. Unsettled with rain. High 74, low 44 degrees; Parade to open Gold Hill fair Saturday. Tourist travel Increase noted here. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 12, 1924 (It was Friday) "Hell 'n' Maria" Dawej, GOP vice-presidential nominee, 1 n Milwaukee speech flays Sen. La Follette, third party nominee, as "master demagogue." Jackie Coogan, boy movie act or, arrives in France and Paris is thrilled. Seventy-four Oregon towns celebrate National Defense day. Fire nearly destroys Sisters, Ore. Fair. High 94, low 44 degrees. Fast races thrill crowd of 3500 at county fair. Harry Wills, colored pugilist, defeats Luis Firpo of Argentine in New York city bout.- Los Angeles Area Slowly Sinking, Is Geologist's Claim Los Angeles, Sept. 12 (U.R) The Los Angeles harbor area, Beverly Hills, Westwood, Playa ya Del Rey and the southern rgeion of Watts are slowly sink ing according to Dr. U. S. Grant, professor of geology at the Uni versity of California at Los An geles. But It's nothing to become alarmed about, Dr. Grant said today in an article in science and tho university, which ex plained the sinking of part of Terminal Island in 1941, though for a different reason. Gradual settling of the earth has resulted in the sinking of the harbor area, he said, ex plaining that an area west of Inglewood and parts of Verdes were rising. Closing time for Ounlay Too t.at to Classify 5.30 Saturday afternoon Pleitsa remember. v-rfa f K-l 'i- mm Hr JO0 olhtr MONARCH FOODS-all Inlt n Goodl con- liHi-i, ,,,it, I., i.;,o .r !.;.. yet to be enacted the Rivers ' kin,i ,iri,, n,;, .';,..,. ...,' A team of horses on the Main Stem early today caused some excitement hv threatening to stage a runaway, of which there I has been none hereabouts since the spring of 1RD4. The state defense administra tor has come out for whole aoulcd whooping by the popu lace, when the war with Ger and Harbors bill and the Post- War Highway bill. In addition to these two major pieces of legislation are a number of bills on which long and extensive I iirHrings nave neen ncui ami wnirn are now ready for consid eration on tho floor. These bills will be acted upon in November pleted hy the end of this session automatically dies with the end of the "Hth congress. All of the work done on such legislation many ends. He also favors the '"r',1R this year would have to : are regarded lis beneficial to both governments simply because they tend to promote a better under standing between the two coun tries. These informal visits to Kng I land by members of congress are in lieu of a proposal discu.-isod also. Pending legislation not com j ' V, " ....in un- ei'itiiiess io iit p.u iiiunent and to receive a ,ele- releaso of Joy from confinement and be allowed to run at large, unrestricted. This Is In direct opposition to he theory a wet and official blanket should smother any celebrations. The general Idea has. been for the people to show no gleeful emo tions on the historic occasion, but Instead retire to their back yards and drink a glass of spring be reviewed next vear bv newlv organized committees. It Is far belter to finish such Jobs before adjournment. - gaticm from the p.u li.imei ! to visit the congress. Such a plan was considered too forma! and I uinvielilly and apparenily was abandoned for that rea-on. I It would bo a good thing if n I similar exchange of vmn could , be made Willi Hum.i ml! w ,'. I AM leaving this week for a China fur the reason that t ie short trip to the British Isles. I ! more we understand our a'hes an hopeful of being able toJBIU' 'he better understanding mike a trip Into France also. A1-: tllpV ''live of us, the better pos though my visit to the United ' sibility there is of perfecting a Kinctttm ! an ,.n.,ff ...... ti..n,,ln.. l!..-li,,., HUGE SUM CONTRIBUTED FOR WAR AGAINST POLIO New Vork, Sept. 12 (U.R) Americans have contributed $2!),-.riJ,7-12 to the fight against in fantile paralysis during tho past! 11 years, Hasil O'Connor, prcsi dent of the National Foundation lor Infantile Paralysis, an nounced today. j O'Connor made the announce-' ment at the annual meeting here j of the medical advisory commit-1 tees of the foundation. j The nearly $;hl.00rt.t)00 has1 be.-n raised through celebration! of President Roosevelt's birthday and thioti;;h tile march of dunes. In ul each January since 1!K4. JAP LOSSES 3 TO 1 OVER ALLIES, SHOWN Chungking, Sept. 12. (U.R1 A recapitulation of casualties on the north llurma and Sal ween fronts up to Aug. 13 show ed today that more than three Japanese were killed for ever allied soldier lost. The total Japanese killed was 21.140, while tho allied dead dead was placed nt 6.147, in cluding 4.1UU) Chinese, and the remainder Pritish and American. in iiiiiibw iriwrmnwir Blue ffi Goose Js ' 4flM? yimjfc B5faW"ars REFINING READY York Sept. 12 iU.R'- Tl e P, iro Chemical Engineering j' I i:n of M. W. Kellogg company to,, ay completed installation of '.viuu ry tqutpmont at Wilming ton, Calif., for the Texas com I a:-y, t. bring to $.i00. 000000 its three-year total of such con tiuotion for the oil industry. TO I.0AH! On JEWELRY. CAMERAS nd MUSICAL INSTHU MENTS. Us-d and unti dmcd (ewelry at grat savings FEOPLES LCAN CO. 229' i E. Main Street Stat Licn P 137 We Have in Stock Six New FRIEND TRACTOR -TRAILER , SFEAY RIGS These good-looking rigs are now on the floor, complete, ready to drive away. If you can satisfy our local Ration Board as to your need for a new rig, securing proper priority, you can count one of these yours. Don't delay another day, but make your priority application NOW. With the present high pear prices you can't afford not to have full and efficient spray coverage. We still have left a few Rex Centrifugal Self-Priming Pumps, and, we repeat, to ice one of these pumps it to own one. Visit Our South Fir Street Supply Depot AMERICAN FRUIT GROWERS, Inc. MEQFCKD OREGON 1 tb sense that 1 ain not a mem-1 This does not mean, of tout sc. I'm M-iu ruBuut Waal AUa. l! writer, lolsleiQtuly. - . lIoAui, irf-T-7 f M torn Mi i
