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EIQHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNH Thursday. BP- MedfordJSHwTribune Everyone In Southern Orfon Heidi the MaU Tribune" Pally Except Saturday Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-ao North rtr St. Phone tin. ROBERT W. RWHL, Editor. ERNEST R. OH.STHAP. Manager. An Independent Newspaper. tntered ae eecond nT?tier"t Medford, Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1879. SUBSCHIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year , ' Pally and Sunday elx monthl 4 00 Bally and Sunday three mew. 3.10 Dally and Sunday one months . y Carrier In Advance Medford. shland. Central Point, Jackson ville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Talent, and on motor routes: Pally and Sunday one year....900 ' Daily and Sunday one month .10 All lerma cam i bifida! Paper of the City of Medforl Olllclal Paper of Jackson County L united Preii FuU leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU WESTAlvfr mc .nrNUcrCfj Uli Portland, St. Louis. Atlanta, ' Vancouver, la- C. 1 Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry The diver and sundry psuedo shortages now sweeping the land were unknown in "the good old days," an exchange obser"e. "In the good old days" the' nation never ran out of anything but cranberries three days before Thanksgiving, e The chairman of the demo cratic national committee de scribes Gov. Dewey's talk at Oklahoma City last Monday as " hysterical outburst." This . appears to be Just another case of Judging others by yourself. The Allies are still undecided ibout peace terms for Germany, including how that war-like na tion shall be whacked up. A line point Is how to brew a withoufhopTTeV'XuMbelof a devoted disciple, or the pot boiler-pulp opus of ievere enough to leave Ger-isome Hollywood hack who wants some easy money, many without any hope of start ing World War III, signs of which are already noted in the Teutonic craw. There is no way to let Germany write her own peace terms, so the argument rages on. The C. Pheasant Safety Coun cil convened back of the Oak Grove schoolhouse late yes. and took preliminary steps to pre vent becoming feather dusters this fall. "Have you made your post war plans? Have you picked the first ' clerk of whom you will ask: "Don't you know there's a peace on?" (S. F. Chronicle.) Better hurryl Gov. Dewey assures the tlon he Will eliminate from the'w Jf iKr rlnncn'r aa wto Washington, D. C, scene, H Hopkins, deputy president, who lingered approximately 11 years In the White House without be ing elected to anything by a vote of the people. As hereto fore, during a campaign the deputy president has not been In the public eye, ear and nose. He will exit closely followed by Madame Perkins and Secretary Ickcs, both also possessed of great nuisance value in their cabinet posts, but never sent to China. a LIFE'S IRRITATIONS (Cincinnati Post) "Dear Mrs. West: I am widow with two children. The woman next door is sep arated from her husband. She works all day and runs all night; her children have no supervision. When they do things they shouldn't, mine get the blame. Her children steal from my Victory garden, breaking down the high fence." The state high school football campaign is unfolding, with fcribes penning obituary no tices for defeats, and writing tip a victory like a society wed ding. Between the two the sad 3 the m ."TectTvV g? . workout. As in other years the worst trounced squads were de feated but not licked, and gain ed a moral victory if not enough touchdowns. e a "Miss Morris cautioned wo men to keep that "open look" that "men like" in their eyes but she did not explain Just what an "open look" was." (Press Dispatch.) S-s-s-hl Vam pire at large! a The former window sign "No Work Accepted this Week" is doing double duty. On the re verse side now appears, "Bring Your Work In Any Time." The Flctch Fish boy of Phoc - rtlx has been' named David Fletcher Fish and the first In fantile sqeals indicate he will be more of a Caruso than his r... -J ...ill .nH 1 1. - tenor traditions of the family, and be heard far. New York state's first state game farm was established In 1908 at Sherburne, Chenango j county, una is now me uiut-si continuously operated in the United State. Aimee Semple McPhersori RpmnlA MePherson has shouted her last "hallelujah!" may her ebullient spirit rest in peace. An extraordinary woman, Aimee a Mrs. Jekyl and Mrs. Hyde if there ever was one. she riiri orpnr. rrnnrl there is no doubt of that. Her Itvpe of crude evangelistic very practical sense ot tne and others reached and benefitted a certain cti-ata whiVVi t.hfi more formal and enlightened re ligions, passed by. Many will sincerely mourn her passing and often long for her return. CjHE called it "saving souls, for the Lord." It was not so much saving souls for the Lord, as It was making hundreds of human beings more con tented physically and spiritually than they had been, and saving their pennies for Aimee's strong box in the fire-proof vault of the Four-Square temple. The last time we saw Aimee was in that Four square temple in Los Angeles. She had' pretty much lost her youth, and beauty, but she still had that amaz ing self-assertiveness and verve, and sheer animal power to arouse the emotions and enthusiasms of those about her. "THE note of avarice which had always been there, had become even more pronounced and less subtle. When the collection time came, Aimee strode to the front of the platform, and suddenly all business with strong forearms akimbo, said: "No small change today, brethren, make It paper money, Bless the Lord, Bless the Lord!" And as the plates passed it was apparent many of them had. "VES a very extraordinary person was Aimee Semple Tn PViorann oinrlo rrmtrT amnrol trot Innrllv generous, affectionate, charitable. And what a chance for the biographer now that her amazing career has ended. We hope someone worthy of the job is the first tn toflrlo it rnthor than oi'thpr tho "niirhnri'tfpH offnrt" and would over-stress the Mrs. Hyde phase of Aimee s fifty years. Properly done here certainly "The Strange Career ; of Aimee Semple MePherson would be a sure-fire best-seller 1 We Don 't With all due respect to Mr. John A. Paris of the United Press we just don't believe that Hitler ever made a serious attempt to invade England in 1940, and was driven back when bullets on the oil-covered waters of the channel. There may have been some sort of Nazi commando raid, or even a German naval reconnaisance in force, but any all-out invasion attempt as described in yes- na-.terdav's wire no it makes IN the first place the best authority we can find here abouts maintains that covering the English chan nel with oil would be a physical impossibility. That is sufficient oil to ignite, burst in flame and present a permanent wall of flame force. In the second place in 1940 Germany had marked : air superiority over England. Certainly the German j general staff would never have attempted any all-out invasion of England without establishing an air can opy over the channel, and preventing any such on slaught by the R A F as the story claims. IN the third place why would England have kept such a tremendous feat secret all these years and especially at that particular time, when things looked so dark on the tight little isle, and the crying need was for some cheering news, both for the boys at the front, and the people behind it. I7E don't doubt some sort of disaster overtook the Germans after the victory at Dunkirk. For there have been reports from many sources of dead Ger mans and wreckage found along the French coast, late in 1940. But rather than any all-out invasion crushed by the ' R A F with endiary bullets, we would think it more 'likely, that the Germans were rehearsing some in vasion program, that a severe storm overtook them, with fire as one of the results, and while a disaster did occur, and the nurses stories of treating German burned and wounded were correct, it was relatively speaking a minor one. In other words the tragic try-out, rather than any Lngland. He Gets It We have an idea that before the campaign is over Governor Dewey will have liaiirtintinn nf flwtntnrnl linvrlN hV th.Tt. liVPnt Homo , : U-.,;t I" ulc " It would we believe prove a iruunu suoieci. i rest dent Roosevelt constantly affirms and reaffirms his great faith in our democracy, his devotion to the rule :of the people, "Vox ropuli, His devotion then to representative government the only direct representatives the people have must be equally devout. game farm!RUT as Stanley High shows in the current "SErost" 'u President Roosevelt not only often disregards appeal, combined with a material Dom ior nerseu Believe It the R A F fired incendiary j a cood front naee storv. con it rmlri nr against any large invasion end of some preliminary all - out attempt to invade something to say about Il' ! . . . t, Vox Dei," etc., etc, the decrees of the peoples representatives, but 'In' many cases deliberately overrides them. The Congress for example a few years ago turned ; down a request for funds with which to build a large information bureau in Washington, and specifically j ordered the President not to transfer funds from any other source for such a purpose. j The President's answer was to issue a directive for ' more than half a million dollars and the Information Bureau was built. It is now functioning a monument , to the fact that when the President wants something . the people through their can't have he just goes Hellcat Tank Destroyers Wreck Nazi Tiger Tanks By Ralph Helmen United Press Staff Correspondent Flint, Mich. (U.R) I piloted across a Michigan landscape one of this country's newest weapons, the M-18 "Hellcat" tank destroyer, which is now killing off German armor in France. The War Department lifted I some of the secrecy which has surrounded construction and use of this tactical weapon de signed to end the dominance of tanks in modern warfare. I was a civilian Internee in Germany more than a year ago when the Nazis threw into bat tle in North Africa, Russia and Italy their now famous "Tiger" tanks. I knew it to be a power ful weapon which took a heavy toll of less formidable tanks. I saw it in action In official Ger man war reels. I Judged it to be the outstanding weapon in-1 troduced into modern warfare ' in 1943. On a secret proving ground within the Buick factory here, I saw America's answer to the Tiger a faster, better armored. more powerful weapon which can smash an enemy strong point at 7V4 miles range but which is at its best in give-and-take battle at 1,000 yards. This weapon, which followed the Tiger into action by less than a year, has already ren dered the German tank obso lete. The Hellcat is officially in scribed on the bocks as the 76 millimeter gun motor carriage, M-18. It is a mobile gun in an open turret on a tank chassis. Its role is to race into battle against enemy tank formations and destroy them by means of 1 its far greater speed, mobility The government on Jan. 28, and fire power. In its baptism j 1943, ordered quantity produc of fire in France, it proved su- tion of the tank destroyers; the pcrior to even the latest Tigers, i first Hellcat rolled off the as With a crew of five, its anti- sembly line in July, 1943, and aircraft machine gun, and a full the production rate rose to sev- load of ammunition, it weighs approximately 19 tons. Yet it can travel 55 miles an hour. The fastest any Tiger has ever done in speed tests in this country is 35 miles an hour, although the Germans claim for it a top speed of 38 miles. I had never driven a tank be fore, yet the operation of the Hellcat is so simple that after a one-minute demonstration of its controls I was able to drive it across the proving ground at full speed. Not counting some tricky skids on the curves, it was easy to drive as an automo- bile. The bumps were absorbed ; brutally mistreating Italian dip by knee-nction devices. lomatic personnel and said "we The Hellcat is steered and braked by two simple levers. There are three speeds forward and one in reverse. Running at high speed forward, it can be J stopped practically within its ; own length, and can be put in to full speed backward at once. Stripped of cargo and crew, it weighs only 17V4 tons and can be carried In the largest British gliders. It can ford en emy water traps. The Hellcat fires three types of shells high explosive, smoke, and armor-piercing. The latter can knock out enemy strongpoints at 7V4 miles. At one mile range the gun can be imed like a rifle and fired Pyle Home 1 it &i3t jaV '. i Ernie rylf. Pullucr prlM-lnnin ocrlpiw-ilnward columnist and aj rorrr.sxwdent, enloys his first rr: brcukls'v urwn rrturn to Nrw Yuri t("-r !0 nn ni! of nrrvice in llai) aid Franca. representatives declare he out and gets it. point blank. The gun over hangs the chassis, yet I was able to take the destroyer up and down a 30-degree slope without trouble. Originally, the Tiger had an 88-mm. gun, but ' the Germans since have installed a 75-mm. gun for which they claim a muzzle velocity of 3,500 feet per second, using a Impound shell. Both the German and American guns have muzzle brakes to shorten the recoil. Both fire better from a stand- ing position but the American destroyer is fitted with a sta- bilizer which permits it to fight a running battle. The designing, construction and testing of the Hellcat set a new record for ordnance strat egy. When the Tigers first ap peared, the Allies had nothing to match it. The War Depart ment awarded a contract to Buick, who, working in co operation with the Ordnance Department, developed the de tails and completed the design. Buick engineers studied the Tiger then returned to their drawing boards. The same workmen who had made auto mobiles made the tank-killer. Edward T. Ragsdale, assistant chief engineer of Buick, proved the Hellcat's versatility by put ting it through the most thor- tests. eral hundred a month. All the Allies have put in requests for the Hellcats. JAP BRUTALITY Rome, Sept. 28 U.R) Count Giovanni Viconti Venosta, Ital ian foreign undersecretary, ac cused the .Tnnnnr.cn liulav nf consider nurwlvn ...in. Japi." He said there had been no lurmai Declaration of war against Japan because of the alleged brutality, but an actual state of war was regarded as In effect due to that and the Ital ian desire to "increase rather than limit our war co-operation with the Allies. ROTARY PRESIDENT IS VISITOR IN ENGLAND London, Sept. 28 (U.R) Rich ard Wells, Pocatello. Ida., resi dent of Rotary International, and r-nnip Lovejoy, Chicago, secre tary, nave arrived in England, it was disclosed today. DUROCHER RETAINED new York. Sent. 28 (U.P1 President Brahch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers announced to day that he had signed Manager Leo Durocher to direct the team again in 1945 and that he was satisfied despite the fact that the team will finish the current cam paign in the National league sec ond division. FOUR NEW FIRES Sacramento, Sept. 28 (U.R) Four new forest fires were re ported today by state division of forestry officials to be rag ing In brush and timber lands In Calaveras county east of San Andreas. "A few" new fires were reported In Shasta county, but officials hoped to control them today. P-38 PILOT KILLED Moses Lake, Wash., Sept. 28 (l).P. Second Lieut. Robert D. Calvin, of Chicago, was kilted yesterday when his P-38 fighter plane crashed near the Moses Lake army air base. Galvln was on a combat training mission. Cloalng tuna for Classified adi a . m. Too Late to tlajaili. U.3U Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do fale teeth drop, allp or wabble when vou talk. eat. lauah or aneere? IHn t be annoyed and embarraMed by uch handlrapa. FASTKKTH. an alka line mon-acldi powder to aprmkle on vour pUe. kerp fal.e telh more firmlv eel Oivm continent (eellna of j ,e-uritT and added eomfort 7o sum. 1 mv. ev pa.tv taate or feelinl tie! HASltllU tcda at aojr diuf atore. Which Shall It Be? CUT OUT AND SIGN THIS STRAW BALLOT AND RETURN IT TO THE MAIL TRIBUNE I Intend to Vols For Governor Dewey President Roosevelt Address News Behind The News By ' Paul Mallon Washington, Sept. 28 The inner debate on the Morgen thau peace proposal has been advertised as '"v a harsh ver sus a soft peace, but it was hardly that. The plan of the treas ury secretary to deindustri alize Germany as well as de militarize her was harsh Paul Mallon enough. It is i true the purpose was to crush i her completely so she could never rise again. But no one around the cabi net circle in which the fight revolved wants to be particu larly light on the nazis. The plan was resisted by State Sec retary Hull and War Secretary Stimson for another reason. It was a reason good enough to warrant them fighting even the Roosevelt okey which Morgen- thau secured before presenting the Idea. THE fact Is this nation may .VinvA Dittfan lis wnr nrnnn- ganda too much mixed up with its permanent peace hopes. The thought which has been con- stanUy before us is that the nazis must be exterminated and the German people held in check forever to keep the peace of the world. This is enough of a goal to win this war, but not enough to prevent the next one or win it if it comes to us. How much more may be needed is evident behind the final reports of the Dumbarton Oaks deliberations before pub lication of the agreement. Our people, and presumably also Britain, wanted to prevent any of the big five United Nations (France is eventually to come into the big four) which be comes involved in a war-threat- cning controversy from voting on whether to take action against an aggressor. They wanted an objective and Judi cial decision by uninterested parties. But Russia objected. e a a THE mere fact that this con- trovcrsy arose, bringing the extensive ramifications which have been aired in news ac counts of the conference, points to the possibility that the fu ture peace of the world does not rest alone on keeping Ger many on her back or Japan. If there are now no ambitious men among the United Nations, who can say when one will not arise? Who can say when na tional policies will not change? There may be far more post war trouble from this possible source of internal dissension among present war friends, who will wind up this war with the powers of the world, than from Germany and Japan, flat on their backs, and to be kept thefe by continuing our resolu tion to keep them there, as well as by any dismemberment for mula. ' These are the real considera tions, the inner reasons, behind the rejection of the Morgenthau formula and the trouble at Dum barton. e e e "THE crushing of Germany and 1 Japan is one objective. The keeping of the future peace of the world is another. It be speaks the fact that many offi cial authorities here are com- Men, Women! Old or Young! Need Pep? Want New Vim and Vitality? TV..-. mt V. e 9. n fMt ..k -!-... s IK.n !-,, ...r.. fc.vl. la... ir.- fr O.tr-t. jt l-.prtfw tir. & pg.-rf M p. p. t. rro.fr, lMtt- A -.p"v vrv Ak9 't.-i 't Bl. r , fn.r w. Ml ..-..' f-;,-f .-.,t. ,-tri.t.r mm , ...f u.i u.u-t Iiw liteata MOr t all drilf tore. err?ri-lr In Medford at ihn. Mran Drug and j Hut HO Thrift atorta. I LL&L3 LaJLL. lng around to c broader and more realistic attitude. For a time some months back it look ed as if the foresight of most of the cabinet toward the future world was limited to the pres ent circumstance of the war, and a lot .of peace formula mak ers obviously have been merely falling for current propaganda, their own, and others, good and bad. The maintenance of a real istic foreign policy thus will do more to keep the peace than anything that has been or can be done. COMMUNICATIONS Lettra to tne Editor must oaai the name aud address ol erje arrlcej tltbuugb the use ol a pea name n Uiitlaia roi puollcatloD la per miasiole rhe Mall mtjune re ervea tne right to edit all letter, ltb a view to clarity and coo lensatlon. Big Business Started War To the editor: Why not vote for the man who knows his busi ness? Why those silly socialist speeches by Dewey when he knows he does not intend to try to adopt them into law. Al most as silly as your editorial that "Big Business Won This War." I thought probably the soldiers had a hand in winning tnis war too. Big Business coined more cash in this war than anything in .his- j tory. Big Business is the Dad of all wars. It controls most of the press, radio and pulpit. Probably you know what John Swinton said about the average newspa per writer years ago. Well, the lepord has not changed his spot, and in this line anyway, "them's my sentiments." Wall Street would not take a dime for either of these old poli tical parties. One has the Job the other wants the Job, is all the difference there is in them. C. C. Harper, Box 213, Talent. Ore. New Resident Wants Chang To the editor: I Just want to send a few words of praise to the editor of "Dewey Hits Back." It is terrific and as satisfying with its punch and sincerity as uewey s own speechs. Being a new resident of vour Ini'nl it fit ,,,UU lt iil . 7'Vhi i, u7 1 ; hunt.,n' fishinS.and often wondered who the people ucaukuui jiiuuuittin scenery, nave df Medford favored in the cam- paign. I guess the Tribune knows the pulse of its city and should be proud of this well written edi torial. I Am jEPnri incr cntrAml - Portland friends and ardent ad - mirers of Dewey, and I am sure were as embarrassed as I Sat urday nite, lest our enemies hear such childish prattle. . Mrs. Max Luschner 908 West 4th, Medford WEATHER Northern California Clear to day, tonight and Friday except fnff fllnnff enact nn4 In Inum. coastal valleys mornings. Cooler i R11' ?' !,he Hlc?,cl at time m.en central interior today with tlKMSHl,, ing extending inland Friday. Cloalnn time for Sunday Too Late to Claasify 6 30 Saturday afternoon Please remember. here m wJ Read the other day where some folks have put up $100,000 to es tablish a bureau to combat in tolerance and prejudice. Rerfcon we all agree that that's a mighty worthy ranse. Rot I wonder if tolerance, like so many other things, doesn't begin at home. You take a family where Ma objects to hubby's smoking in the parlor; and Ta can't stand his wife's hats: and they both yell at Sis for liking to listen to swing music -and you've got the seeds of trouble! Trouble A. 96 of a Seri' Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20. and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 28, 1934 (It was .Friday) Bruno Hauptmann, Lindbergh kidnap suspect, fashions knife from Jail spoon. Unified effort urged by peo. pie to end depression urged by president. Primary relief up to communities, Is word. Merchants plan Harvest Days displays October 5, 6 and 8. Fair. High 81, low 30 degrees. , Butter price advances to 27 per pound. France, Italy and Britain warn Germany they will stand for no meddling with independence of Austria. Building in city shows in crease. "Leaping Leo" Ghelardl, half back, to call signals for Black Tornado In first .game of year tomorrow against SONS frosh. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 28. 1924 (It was Sunday) Washington defeats Boston . Red Sox to win its first Amer ican league pennant. Government starts suit against wholesale grocers for price fix ing in state. Fair. High 88, low 39 degrees. Japan issues ultimatum to League of Nations she will quit unless amendment is made to ar bitration protocol. Quail season to open next Wednesday. Chinese pheasant season to open October 15. Ashland and Klamath Falls play 7-7 tie in annual game. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY September 28. 1910 (It was Friday) Society vaudeville for benefit of the public library tonight at the Medford theater. Portland makes plans for mu nicipal bcautification. Wright Bros, student will at tempt plane flight from Chicago to Springfield, a distance of 170 miles, in a straight line for $10,- " 000 prize, President Taft now seeks friendship of Progressives. AUTHORITY ON DEAFNESS HERE S. C. MITCHELL Mr. S. C. Mitchell with lon ' exPericnce on hard of hearing Pr0Dlems. win conduct a free Clinic for the hard of hearing at the Medford Hotel, Medford, on I Satu!;ar S,cpt- N1' from 1:00 w v.vv t . iii. Being hard of hearing himself. 1 Mr. Mitchell takes an under- standing interest in helping the hard of hearing, and i well qualified to make scientifically correct fittings of buiie and air conduction instruments. The new Acousticon Speech Hearing Test will be given free as well as a private demonstra tion of the aid which is based on U. S. Government findings, and made by America's oldest nearing aid manufacturer. Sim- pwn home may be had by phon ing me jioiei, on aoove date. Adv. I sit ... li Joe Marsh f L-it' rfrnt-y1 tali irY, Trouble Often Starts at Home that spreads to Intolerance! among neighbors, and Intoler ance among nations. ' From where I sit, yon can prrl J-onr faith in the family that liTes and lets live-where Pa en joys bis smoke and maybe a mellow glass of beer or two; and Sla wear fanny looking tints and likes 'em; and Sis grows np as healthfully full of spirits as a child should be. -
