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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Psrry
As yet, little Interest has been
displayed by Juveniles In pre
Hallowe'en depredations, and
no disembowled pumpkins,
lighted internally by candles,
have appeared o' nights. This
indicates the devastation will
not be much worse, locally, than
sustained by Aachen from Al
lied artillery fire,
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The last flies of summer are
still unswatted Older Girls re
port, and are now at the peak i
of their pesiirerousness.
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A Portland hunter, on a trip
to eastern Oregon, by mistake
went to bed In the spare bed'
room of the Christian church
oarsonage at Heppner. Provl'
dence was kind and he was not
shot for a burglar.
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YE ED. WHACKS BACK
(Colfax (Wash.) Bulletin)
Prices on shaves and hair
cuts have risen In barber
shops from 39 and 65 cents
to 50 and 73.
So has the subscription
price on the Colfax Dally
Bulletin double price to bar
bers only."
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Gas rationing has caused one
ot the traditional customs of the
deer season to disappear. This
fall not a single auto, with a
deer lashed to the front fender,
has toured the business district,
The horns, always source of
pride to the mighty hunter,
were always admired though a
hazard for pedestrians at Inter
sections. The governor spoxe disparag
ingly at an official meeting, of
the quality of some of the whis
key sold in Oregon, The chief
executive doubts if it would
burn. However, at the current
prices, It causes the purchaser
to burn. One of the minor atro
cities of the war on the home
front was the Infliction of Im
ported mm on thirsty Oregoni
ans to ease a non-existent shortage.
"Lord Haw Haw", an alleged
Englishman, suspected of being
American-born, no longer spouts
over the Berlin radio. He
stopped as suddenly as New
Dealers addicted to calling the
Fourth Term candidate, "commander-in-chief."
a a a
"Eastern highway officers
stopped a small car containing
16 youngsters. It seems they
tvtre on their way to pick up
the rest of the gang." (Wichita
(Kan.) Eagle.) Oakdale Ave.
residents understands.
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A cltlien wearing a red hat
has been strolling dally through
the city park. He Is trying to
maka up his mind whether to be
shot for a deer or climb a tree
and be shot for a bear,
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Many of the fair sex are
gnrbed "in autumn outing
modes." Not as much of them
are out as In thalr regular duds,
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"A candidate In a western
state soys he will base his cam
paign upon truth and common
sense. If he has a loyal wife and
will vote for himself, he will re
ceive two votes." (Reno Ga
xette). It makes political sense.
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HICKORY-HEADED
"I.oula, a farmhand on the
Newaukrm prairie, became
tired of life one night last week
and determined to commit sui
cide. He placed a 32-callbcr re
volver at his forehead and
pulled the trigger. He was very
much surprised a moment later
to find himself on this side nf
the river Jordan, He tried
asaln and had no better luck.
This disgusted him and he de
cided to live. He took a razor
and rut out the two bnlls which
had flattened out between the
skin and the bonea nf the fore
head, went out and fed the cat
tle, and then went to a doctor."
(Pendleton East Oregonian, 50
Years Ago col).
Cm Mail Titf-mo Want Ada,
F. D. R. On the Defensive
Well, Governor Dewey has accomplished one thing
at least and it is something none of his predecessors
was able to put over. He has put the "shrewdest poli
tician of modern times" on the defensive.
Yes, for the first time since F. D. R. so easily kayoed
Herbert Hoover in the first round, President Koose-
velt has had to rely on his abilities, not as a whirlwind
offensive annihilator, but as a defensive counter-puncher.
No longer does he find the best defense an aggre-
sive offense. In fact, Mr. Roosevelt has only tried the
offensive once since the present ampaign opened, and
that was his appearance before the teamsters' union,
which most impartial observers agree was not a great
strategic nor tactical success.
Since then the President's chief political activities
have been confined almost entirely to White House
press releases, trying to parry the blows of Mr,
Dewey's speeches which, directly or indirectly, would
assign the Republican candidate to the Ananias club.
For example :
IN his speech on Monday night in St. Louis, the Re
publican candidate quoted a report made by the
President's uncle, Frederick A. Delano, head of a
postwar adjustment committee, as follows :
"Despite compelling reasons for rapid military demobili
zation, the prospects of economic and industrial dislocation
at the close of the war are so grave and the social con
sequences so far-reaching that a policy of orderly, gradual,
and if necessary delayed military demobilization has been
strongly advocated."
That, Governor Dewey maintained, sustained the
charge he had made that the administration's Selec
tive Service Director Major General Lewis B. Her
shey, had advocated keeping men in the army follow
ing the end of the war, for that would be cheaper
than supporting them in civilian life, where there
would probably not be sufficient jobs to take care of
them.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
J attack through the winter. That
is quite clearly our strategy,
j To say the war will not end
until spring Is to suppose this
i attack will nqt be fully success
1 ful. I would not bet on that yet
if I were you.
Washington, Oct. 19 The1
surees we made in Holland, at!
Aachen and at
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akok.L.ti
CO the White House counters, not with any
of the truth of the statements, or the authe
denial
authenticity
and accuracy of Mr. Dewey's quotations to support
them ; but quotes another extract from the same Del
ano report as follows :
"A general policy of speedy, but orderly and controlled,
military demobilization should be adopted, coupled with 'he
use of all reasonable plans and measures to Increase the
employment available to those being demobilized."
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THERE is one danger of the counter-punching
fnntini-mct Tf i-onaoia nrA ViorOT,nrn irtM-oacna tVto
force of the original blow; and it also gives ones'
opponent the probability of another opening a
counter to the counter-punch.
And here certainly is an opening.
For these two quotations from the same report
merely sustain what Governor Dewey has maintained
all along that, not only is the, present administration
full of confusion, indecision and dissension, between
departments; but within them so that the officials
of one department are often so bound up by red tape,
legalistic and alphabetical hocus-pocus, they don t
know whether they agree or disagree with other of
ficials of the same department.
Metz were but
limited at
tacks. They
did not ap
proach the
scale of assault
of which we
are capable In
manpower and
m u n 1 1 1 o n s
aval 1 a b 1 e to
that front. A
big fall push
is, therefore,
certain to de-
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Don't Vote For Roosevelt
To the editor: The law of
averages Indicates that Presi
dent Roosevelt should have less
than a 50-50 chance to live out
a fourth term.
Of our last eight deceased
Presidents, four died younger
than Mr. Roosevelt now is. The
velop within! average life of the whole eight
the next few days. It will decide' was about 64 years, 6 montns
the duration of the war In Eur
ope. What has prevented us from
getting it started sooner was the
suicidal nazl retention of the
channel ports and the complete
destruction they wrought before
surrendering. This effectively
tied up our troops by hindering
reinforcements and supplies.
TOR example what is the average layman to con-
elude after reading these two extracts from the
same government report; one plainly granting the
probable necessity of delaying military mobilization
because of unavoidable economic and industrial dis
locations; and the other opposing any such delay by
putting on a program of speedy demobilization made
possible by measures which would nullify those same
"unavoidable" dislocations.
Which is right, which is wrong? Both can't be.
The O. W. I Mystery
We have long since given up any effort to under
stand the basic theories of the OWI. Time after time,
what appeared to this department to be harmless or
desirable information, has been withheld; while in
formation which seemed of obvious benefit to the
enemy has been released.
It is all very confusing.
Why, for example, was that story from England
yesterday, quoting Congressman Compton.of Con
necticut, ever oked through the censorship
A FTER spending all of six days at the front, the
"Congressman proceeded to broadcast to the world
that because of difficulties in the system of supply,
General Patton has been held up indefinitely at Metz,
and any Allied victory in Europe this year is illusory.
In fact, the Allied High Command never contem
plated victory in Europe this year, continued the tour
ing Congressman, and the OWI is responsible for such
a false impression gaining ground !
rISREGARDING the fact that General Eisenhower
himself, not the OWI, was responsible for the
belief Germany would be defeated this year, could
anything boost Germany's fading morale more, or
encourage our soldiers at the front and the people at
home LESS, than to admit there is serious trouble
with the Allied Service of Supply?
How could broadcasting such a report do the Allied
cause the slightest good, or fail to do it real harm?
IT would be different if inadequacy of supply were
1 something publicity might remedy. Rut obviously
everything that CAN be done IS being done to get
needed supplies to our fighting men on ever- front.
Advertising the fact, the effort to date has not fullv
succeeded how could that fail to give a shot-in-the-arm
to Hitler, and make the tremendous back-breaking
task of General Eisenhower more difficult?
"TPHE whole city of Brest was
wrecked. Le Havre was
damaged beyond early use. Even
at Bordeaux we have been able
to use only the neck of the
peninsula.
A major campaign is still rag
ing around Antwerp, and while
enthusiastic dispatches have told
frequently of late that we have
cleared the Schelde estuary ap
proaching that port and com
manding it, we have Just madoJ
good progress on the south side
of the river and failed to do
much on the north side.
At Metz, Aachen and In Hol
land, the nazis have shown fair
ly good artillery, and some
tanks. They must have saved
these from earlier war years
when their production was full.
Their new recruits fighting
at these points were not as bad
as could have been expected.
The number of older men in
evidence has been offset by the
fanaticism of the boys.
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WITH this artillery, the tanks
" and the young zealots, they
have formed a cohesive line
from Switzerland to the Baltic,
although the final power of this
line has not yet been tested by
full attack.
Their morale, however, Is sur
prising, especially In the face
of two great defects. They are
pinched for oil and they have a
great air inferiority.
Their game is to hold on
through the winter in hope of
a miracle by spring. In Poland
and Italy, it Is the same story.
We pierced their vaunted
Gothic Sine both In the center
and on the Adriatic. Now they
hold the last line of hills in
front of the Po valley, hut they
hold these natural obstacles
well.
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'THE Russians have had great
success on both flanks. They
have just about mopped up the
Baltic states and severed con
nections with Finland. (A great
many Germans escaped.)
In the south they will soon
get Budapest, and Belgrade will
fall. Greece is ours (British) and
the only escape for the Ger
mans left on Crete Is by air.
But In the center, on the east
Prussia - Vistula river - Warsaw
line through Poland there has
been a lull of weeks if not
months and this Is the only
suitable military route to Berlin.
The Russians are taking the Bal
tics before trving for Berlin.
Mr. Roosevelt would be 68 at
the end of a fourth term.'
The nub to this fact is that In
electing Mr. Roosevelt there
would be over a 50-50 chance
of 'getting only Mr. Truman for
much of a fourth term; and
that Mr. Truman was given his
start by Boss Pendergast of
Kansas City, who was convicted
of a felony connected with ma
chine politics, and served time
in prison. Nor has Mr. Truman
ever held any high executive
post, or in any way proved his
fitness to deal with reconver
sion here, or with the world
wide settlement which are to
come at the war's end.
With Dewey and Bricker on
one side and over a 50-50 chance
that only Mr. Truman is to be
on the other side, it obviously
would be a daring gamble to
elect the Democratic National
ticket.
Another angle that should ap
peal to the many who love Mr.
Roosevelt personally, Is that a
fourth term would surely short
en his life, because of the killing
duties that are to be Imposed
upon the Presidential office dur
ing the ensuing four years.
CHARLES P. STRAIN,
1619 West Third St.,
Santa Ana, California.
Oct. 17, 1944.
flight Time
Medford and Jackson Co. His
tory from the files of the Mail
Tribune 10, 20. and 34 years
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
October 19, 1934.
Ot .Was Friday)
Portland docks are swept by
huge fire, at high loss.
Red Cross Congress opens in
Tokyo.
ttion" with new ana" mere e8-
ly weapons of destruction."
! Dirigible Shendoah arrives at
Camp Lewis, but unable to land
! because of fog and warm air.
Kmu era nf farm nrosDerlty
seen by Jackson county by mar
keting expert from Portland. .
During the past summer, 81,
427 tourists visited forest camps
of country. ,
67,
Yugoslav troops reported on
Hungarian border. Eleven-year-old
King Peter assumes Yugo
slavian throne.
Fair and warmer. High
low 34 degrees.
THTrtTT-rOTJIt TEARS Ad
October IS, 1910
Ot Was Wednesday)
Espee depot is dedicated be
fore huge crowd.
Commercial club moves II
new quarters In Nat
More than 800 voters In coun
ty fall to register.
Foxes show progressively lar
ger ears as they inhabit progres
sively warmer regions, from
Arcitc tundra, to forests, and
finally to deserts.
Cloudy with probable rain.
High 67, low 33 degrees.
"On to California"
Arizona jobless.
Is cry of
Eastern Oregon hunter fires
at "horns" in brush, and wounds
friend.
President Roosevelt warns
veterans "cash for bonus is nci
available."
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY j
October 19, 1924
Ot Was Saturday) ,
Coffee Jumps to 50 cents per j
pouna on .Portland market.
Japanese clash with China
imminent. Gen. Wu orders all
suspicious Japs held as spies. '
Famous scientist declares
world is "marching to annihila-
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Navy Commander
Arrives Here For
Mother's Funeral
yUE nazis anticipate that wln-
ter weather will soon grant
them the same respite In the
west. They are mistaken. It Is
true, mud may Impede our pro
gress (the ground does not freeze
In Germany or offer good win
ter fighting conditions for me
chanical equipment) but our at
tack hns heen delayed. We have
been awaiting the arrival of
power.
The published estimates that
we have 70 divisions on the
front against 40 nazis are unwise
because no one knows how much
we hnve. Yet, everyone knows
It is sufficient to start a full
grand scale assault within a
Salt Ijike
San Francisco SS
Si-allle 69
Spokane .. 71
, . wn.iilngton, D. C. .... 71
short time and keep pushing thclyakima 73
Commander F. F. Ageus,
United States Navy, has arrived
in Medford from Boston, Mass.,
to attend the funeral of his moth
er, Mrs. Jeanette M. Ageus, who
passed away October 16. Com
mander Ageus Is staying with
his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs.
C. M. Kidd, of 1820 Crown Hill
road.
Commander Ageus Is well
known in the Rogue River val
ley. He Is a graduate of the U. S.
Naval Academy at Annapolis,
class of 1927, and received a
Master of Science degree at the
University of California In 1937.
He is a member of the American
Society of Naval Engineers, the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers and is an associate
member of Sigma XI.
Commander Ageus spent three
years In China and the Philip
pines prior to the war. For the
past two years he has served in
the South and Central Pacific on
two large aircraft carriers of
the Essex class. He has Just re
cently returned to the states.
Daily Weather Report
Medford and vicinity Clenr to prt
ty cloudy toninht and Friday.
Oregon: Clear tonight, becomlnf
partly clouded rrtday morning, fog
near ocean, little change In tem
perature. Local Data
Temperature n year ago today:
Highest, AO; lowest, 34.
Total monthly precipitation. .T8
Inch. Excess for the month, .09 Inch.
Total precipitation since September
1, 1944, 1 38 Inches. Excess for the
season. 2 4 Inches. 1
Relative humidity at 4:30 p. m. yes
terday. 33; 4 30 toady, 61.
Tomorrow
Sunrloe 7:29 a. m.; sunset 6 23 p. m.
Past 24 hours: llttrh Low Free.
Boise 74 4fl
Boston 77 fl8
Chicago 78
Denver P8
Eureka 54
Havre 63
I.os Anreles 83
Mr.H.ud t
New York 77
Omaha 72
Phoenix PO
Portland 78
Reno 74
Hoseburjf 82
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r. From where I sit ...ly Joe Marsh
As American as
Huckleberry Finn
About the best-read books In our
town are the works of Mark
Twaln-who wrote rum Sauyer
and lluck Finn and all those
other lovable, undying 6torics.
And I think It's beranse he's
the most American of all our
writers. He understood his tel.
low men-and loved them as ho
love d all humanity.
You may remember what ha
raid of Tolerance and Freedom
-those principles so Kislc to our
way of life. MarkTwaln believed
In them. of course. He fought for
them. Put he cautioned: "Never
let tolerance become Indiffer
ence, never let freedom become
license."
From where I sit. that's timely
wisdom for a troubled world -whether
It applies to Interna
tional polltlcs.or to a man's right
to enjoy a friendly glass of beer
occasionally.
For tolerance-respect for the
other fellow's rights -Is Impor.
ant not Jnst In the Mg things.
hnt In the little human everyday
things, too.
Vo. 99 of a Strict
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PHONE 4321
OTHAR RICHEY, Managers
FRESH FISH
No Points
Do your canning now!
Salmon Trout
2 to 5 lbs 25e lb
Oysters 6Se pt
Salmon Cheeks 20c lb
- Red Snapper 39c lb
File Solo 43e lb
Black Cod
LING - CATFISH
LOBSTER SALT COD FISH
A GOOD AA CHOICE
Round Steak 38c lb
Sirloin 31c lb
Rib :..31elb
Swiss 30c lb
Pork Steak 33c lb.
Pork Roast ...29c lb.
Pork Chops 38c lb.
Pork Hocks 15c lb.
Pork Spare Ribs.... 25c lb.
Side Pork 29c lb.
Bacon Jowls 19c lb.
No Points
Veal A - Good - AA - Choice
Veal Shoulder Shldr.
Steak 29e lb.
Veal Roasts 27e lb.
Veal Short Ribs 21c lb.
Ground Beef 27c lb.
Pure Pork Sausage....27c lb.
4 fws
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(iS j
Her audience is carried in!
NO standing room-for her audience
cannot stand. In cots, in wheel
chairs, on crutches they come. Eager,
hopeful, mending men.
She plays the hospital circuit
She Is one of hundreds of entertainers
provided by U.S.O. Camp Shows. Others
play the "Fox-hole Circuit" in the South
Seas ... or the snowy wastes of Alaska
end Iceland.
VOU are one of the Important "backers"
of this vast playbill. Your dollars given
through your local Community War Fund
make it all possible. Part of your gift goes
to the U.S.O., part to merchant seamen
through United Seamen's Service, part to
War Prisoners' Aid. And part of your gift
Let's Fill The
Chest How!
o
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
must stsy here at home to fight Juvenile
delinquency, sickness and poverty on the
home front through our own local
agencies.
A lot of needs for your dollars to covert
How much shall you give? Turn the mat
ter over to your heart-today)
You Support the
U. S. O.
When You Give to
The
MEDFORD
Community
Chest
and
National
War Fund