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EIGHT MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE frldar. Oct. 27. 1944 MEDFORDvWTRIBUNE 'Everyona In Southern Oregon Head thm Mail Trlbursa" Dally Except aaturdar Published by MEDFOHD PKINTXNO 17-29 North Fir St. CO. Phono 3141. RJDERT W. ftUHL, Editor. ERNEST R. CILSTRAP, Manager. An Independent Newspaper. Entered as second class matter mi Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year ..7.50 Dally and Sunday elx monthi J 00 Dally and Sunday three moa. a.10 Dally and Sunday one month.. .m fey Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point, Jackson ville, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday ona year....l.M Dally and Sunday one month .70 All terms cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medforl Official Paper of Jackson Coupty United Press Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WEST-HOLL1DAY COMPANY, INC Offices In New York. Chicago, De troit. Snn Francisco, I-oa Angeles, Se attle, Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver, BJJ; . Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Pmr An irked and irate "independ ent" voter called yes. He was too "independent" to register when he bought a hunting li cense at the cthse last spring, so he was irked and irate. "The name of the town Is pronounced 'Sir' - togggaen-bos' with the 'g' gargled." (Press Dispatch.) Something to try on your gargler. Mother Nature Is viewing the autumn scene with alarm. Due to the absenteeism of her favor ite decorator, Jackson Frost, of red and purple tints. Mr. Frost Is an artist and his dell' cate touch is needed to' produce the traditional riot of color in the woodlands and put a quietus on geraniums in the backyards. - He usually snows up around October 10. And Today is Navy Day! Today is Navy Day. For the past 22 years October 27th has been observ ed as an annual day of tribute to America s lighting fleet. In the light of history-making events today, Americans will feel an added glow of pride and a deener sense of eratitude than ever to the 3,700,000 sailors, marines and coast guardsmen who nave made the invasions of Europe and the Philippines possible and are slashing today at the very heart of the Ja panese empire. .OCTOBER 27th, in the days before the war, was s oratory, pomp and ceremony. A decade ago this tleet, that mirhr. conceivablv have nreserved loeace. was scuttled at the peace tables. The second crippling blow was dealt the American Navy by the Japanese on that auiet Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. And the gallant way that America's pitifully small sea forces battled against overwhelm' ing odds down through the South Pacific, from Ma' nila to Port Moresby and on the Atlantic sea lanes, will ever be a chapter of high courage, unswerving resolution and supreme sacrifice I THEN came the Coral Sea and Midway victories On through the Gilberts and the Marshalls smash ed the fleet, with sailors, marines, coast guardsmen and soldiers showing real All- American" teamwork on to Guam, Saipan and to the Ryukyu Islands at the very doorstep of Japan itself. On and up went American production too, building nine million tons of naval craft 65,000 vessels, 32,400 combat ships, 9,152 landing craft the greatest fleet in the history of the world ! NO PLEASING 1M (Chicago Tribune) "Now comes Fall, when ev ery girl's ambition changes from wanting bare legs that look like they're stockinged to wanting stockinged legs that look bare." A ND today the Navy is celebrating its day in fitting " style, pursuing a defeated enemy toward the seagates of Japan herself. Yes, today, Halsey's bone-crushing Third Fleet is leaves in these parts are mostly jpummeling and hammering Japanese Imperial Fleet yeiiow, and there is a shortage jir) a naVal victory of unprecedented magnitude. Only last week the greatest ocean-going amphibious ar mada in history" the Third and Seventh Fleets, umbrellaed by Ceneral Kenney's Far Eastern Air Force took General MacArthur and a quarter-million fighting men back to the Philippines landed them neatly on Leyte with little loss of life and equip ment. The great naval battle of the Philippines is still raging and action like this is the kind of Navy Day celebration seafareing men really like. It is a pretty safe bet that John Paul Jones, Law rence, Farragut and Dewey would like to be riding the China Seas tomorrow with Halsey's hard hitting cruisers or Marc Mitscher s swift and deadly flattops; sending Nipponese to their honorable ancestors! H.G. "Donald Duck" is Slipping One of the minor benefits of a change in Wash ington would be the elimination of Secretary of the Interior Ickes. We have never shared the dislike of "Honest Har old" that has proceeded from his disregard of the amenities of official and civil life, his gruff arrogance or his caustic speech. The man we believe has been honest and reason ably competent, and his rough salty language, com bined with a stubborn integrity, have rather endeared old Donald Duck" to this department rather than the reverse. DUT now we have had enough of him and believe u the American people, as a whole, feel the same way about it. For the plain truth is the man has outlived his use fulness. Like many of his associates in Washington he has been on the job the same job too long. Ihere is a crying need for new blood and a new out look in the Department of the Interior as there is throughout the present government and as long as Ickes remains it will never be obtained. Not only are the people tired of "Honest Harold" but there are many indications "Honest Harold" is tired of the people at least tired of public life and would like to retire to that country place in the woods," and like his chief compose his "memoirs" panning his many enemies in seclusion where they could not fight back. THIS sign of old age was quite apparent at the Town Meeting of the Air last night, when Sec retary Ickes and Senator Ferguson of Michigan en gaged in a rather heated debate as to the respective merits of their party leaders, President Roosevelt and Governor Dewey. In fact it was pathetic. Donald Duck had no come back ! At one point in fact he just quit and admitted that had he been President in those pre war years he would never have permitted the shipments of tras- oline and scrap iron to Japan, as did President Roose velt. AT another time, instead of answering an extreme ly pertinent question regarding the fitness of Governor Dewey for high office, the veteran cabi net member ran for cover, and proceeded to lambast the interrogator for asking a question that was "un fair" adopting the well known subterfuge of the shyster lawyer who having no case spends his time abusing the attorney for the other side. Yes, all in all, it was a very sad performance. It demonstrated that not only would his retirement from high office be best for the country but would be best ior me Honorable Harold Ickes I J. Tannehlll Walker. 8, has staggered the Older Girl down- the-street with whom he has been feuding for many moons. He says she is "the queen of battles", recently mentioned by Gen. (B St G.) Patton In a com pliment to the American Infan tryman in France. , ... The Japanese navy that has scored mythical victories In the Pacific for two years, has come forth In battle array. Hence forth, a goodly number of war ships will no longer plough the waves for the Mikadoo, as there was nothing mythical about their sinking. ... No gasoline will be permitted to tnke voters to the polls on election the OPA rules. This may nip a number of plans to get there by way of a fishing hole or golf links. ... PERILS OF THE TIMES (Holt (Mo.) Sentinel) "By the time a person counts his exemptions and de ductible items, he finds that his contemplated Thanksgiv ing prayer easily is contain, able in one sentence. Any wny, counting blessings aloud there days Is likely to attract attention from the Treasury Department." . . Spain, a moth-eaten land whose dictator, Gen. Franco, for many weeks successfully played both ends against the middle by accepting favors from the Allies while extending them to the Axis, is in the throes of a near-revolt, long overdue. Frnnco was and is as able a strutter as Hcrr Hitler or Senor Mussolini but a slicker propo sition than cither. Ho Is not on the United Nations' list of Eur opean gents awaiting a firing smind. It is now rumored Frai.' co will make himself scarce at home and reappear In Argen tina, the good neighbor nation, as long as It was profitable, TAKE BACK YOUR COLD" "During a playing of a num ber on the pinno by one of the performers at Fletcher's1 Opera house Inst night a gentleman sent up by an usher a $20 gold piece. The money was laid on the piano by the boy and the performer evidently thinking It was a "good for one drink" piece, knocked it off on the floor. It was then returned to tho liberal gentleman In the au dience, who dropped It into his pocket where it fell with a dull thud which sounded much as though It felt rather Insulted at being thus spurned by the theat rical man." (Pendleton East Oregonlan, 80 Yrs. ago col.) Cinema, tin-. a (or Sundae Too lM to Ciaaalfy 6 so Saturday atwiuooo Pieaaa remember. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Oct. 27 Gov ernor Dewey is confident; Mr. Roosevelt Is scared. This may not mean much. k'wMji'.ij'i"j The president always gets scared Just be fore election. Two weeks before the vote on the third term he gross ly undere s 1 1 - mated his own victory. This, time he has been fright ened into cam paign touring and speech mak ing, which are trying to his magnificent endurance. The touring may be doing him some good, but each word he adds to the debate Is proving to be fuel on Dewey's fire. There is riot much in the record of the last few years to make sensation al democratic vote-getting ma terial, and no grand promises could sound plausible in the con fused state of the world. Silence worked his way better than his later public utterance. .... WOULD not vouch for any story about. Mr. R.'s health in campaign time unless it carried affidavits from a disinterested group of physicians who made an examination. The following one, borne around Washington by authoritative tongues, is worth relating only as "interest ing, if true:" 'Tis said the president's blood count Is not high enough to war rant exertion and his advisors informed him they would not be responsible if he persisted in tak ing, his current restricted cam paign tour. His supposed reply is the interesting part of the story, something to the courage ous effort that "if I have to go I would rather go that way than any other." (This is not a health story in the usual partisan sense and did not come from partisan sources.) . . . rT'HE Dewey people are gen- uine In their conviction that they will get at least five per' cent more than the polls show as their vote which would mean a republican landslide. They reason that at least that average number of votes are concealed by fears C. I. O. men fearing Hillman, businessmen fearing income tax or labor re taliation, sailors fearing the ad mirals, etc. Only a count of the secret bal lots will disclose this inner bal ance of electoral power, they figure. Their estimate does not seem to be unreasonable. ... I DO have definite Information that Mr. Roosevelt will have grave trouble with his electors In some of the southern states If the vote count offers any opportun ity for them to bolt. If he gets an overwhelming vote, they can not do anything, but If the re sults are anywhere near close, there will be votes for Senator Byrd cast by some soutlern electors. . I know one southern state In which two-thirds of the Roose velt electors today are antl Roosevelt and awaiting an op portunity to express themselves. This election could become a more serious national melee than the Hnyes-Tilden contest If the outcome Is close enough to make each electoral vote of consequence. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20. and 34 years ago. OPA HEAD SAYS TEN YEARS AGO TODAY October 27, 1934 (It was SaturdayC Crater lake has banner season with 118,699 visitors and large amount of improvement work started. President Roosevelt urged by business and industry to give definite and clear statement on his money and domestic policies. Discontent rife in Austria and Slam. Community Chest drive to start next Thursday. Cloudy and continued mild. High 69, low 40 degrees. Medford high defeats Klamath Falls, 20 to 0. "Leaping Leo" Ghleardi at start of half takes kick off for first touchdown. Pelicans outclassed after slow start. Oregon defeats Utah, 8 to 7, Washington State tramples Oregon State, 31 to 0, and Ash land beats Grants Pass, 25 to 0. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY October 27, 1924 (It was Monday) Declaring that "America must remain a 'land of opportunity,' " McDannell Brown, district head of OPA from Portland, speaking at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce last night, ex plained that price control must continue for a period after the war in order to curb inflation. Brown drew nn nhler-t lesson from thp last wnr urhon nil ttfn. nomic controls were abandoned. Then corporate reserves and personal savings were nothing to what they are today,' yet prices rose until this country was plunged into depression. "Today's Dicture is loaded with even more dynamite." Heavy rain falls all over state with high wind at Roseburg. Prosperity is vital Issue in presidential election, with Presi dent Coolidge predicted an over whelming winner. Test case of federal Income tax law to be made before su preme court. Rain. High 61, low 46 degrees; precipitation .71 of an inch. County LaFollette club to hold rally in Rialto theater this week. Gasoline price drops 3 cents in northwest. Republicans to hold torch light parade November 3. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS TODAY October 27, 1910 (It was Thursday) AGO Car of Hillcrest Orchard Corn- mice average $10 per box in London. Oswald West, Democratic can didate for governor, In speech here says Oregonian report on West's mileage to Washington, D. C, a "lying bit of libelous slander." THERE are electors who think they and their areas have been dictatorilv shanghaied to support Mr. R., and they are capable of action which would throw the eleotlon into the courts, house confusion or the republican column, feeling as they do that they have aggrieved Justification for nearly any step. The extent to which the cheap er grade of politicians deceive themselves and their people In their frantic search for any kind of argument to win an ejection c6ntest Is less noticeable this year than usual but not en tirely absent. Both sides have behaved rather well as a whole. Worst falsification on cither side to date has been the left wing democratic claim that Dewey was trying to keep the soldiers from voting. Sttckup Artist Leaves Receipt After Robbery Portland. Ore., Oct. 27 U.R Police are wondering If this stickup artist was accommorat- Ing or capricious. The maurnufler entered the downtown Commodore Hotel here early Thursday, threatened Night Clerk William C. Colt- grave by keeping his right hand in his pocket a. If holding a gun, and ordered Holtgrave to fork over the money from the till. Then the assailant obligingly scribbled out this receipt: "Received of Hotel Commo dore: $63.84 (signed) Thief". Cloaiiit time tot Sundae Too lata to Classify S 30 Aaturdav afternoon- Please rememoer x Cat Mall TTIDuna Waul Ada, Movie opens in the Nat with three reels of pictures and il lustrated songs. CAL-OREGON SALE OF H E REFORDS AT K. F. OCT. 29-30TH With the sale dates set for October 29-30, the Cal.-Oregon Hereford Breeders' association show and sale this year will fea ture 150 bulls and 50 females, these being fixed as the limit for the sale to be held at Klam ath Falls 'air grounds. Last year this sale set a Pa cific coast record, according to John S. Day of Medford, mem-; ber of the sales committee. The annual show and sale brings many of the best Here fords of the . Picific coast to Klamath Falls and this year promises to offer greater oppor tunities to obtain top Herefords than ever before. Auctioneer Freddie Chandler of Chariton, la., will again handle the sale. Ray Husted. western representative of O. M. Franklin Blackleg Serum com pany, will Judge the show. Show manager is Mitchell Tillotson of Klamath Falls. Bob Fowler of Medford is secretary of the association. There will be a large banquet held at the Willnrd hotel in Klamath Falls at 7:30 on Octo ber 29 at which place the lead ing livestock raisers and buy ers throughout the country will have an opportunity to again get acquainted. TAX FlDSlID Salem, Ore., Oct. 27 0J.P A total of $230,000 with 40 per cent to counties and 60 per cent to the State Tublic Assisting fund, was distributed on Sept. 30, from revenue accruing from the state amusement tax, Secre tary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., reported today. Of tho amount $92,000 went to the 36 counties, and $138,000 to the state assistance fund. The allottment to each county was based on the money expend ed by it for old ace assistance for the year ending June 30. 1944. Included In the amounts re ceived by the counties was Jackson, $3,474.87. Brown said. "In this war we have more savings and more, need for commodities now off I the market. Farmers are paying their mortgage debts. There is a vast amount of potential pur chasing power waiting to buy after V-day." If the person who pays the most is permitted to buy the first automobiles and the first radios, the only result will be I innation. ine only prevention I for Inflation, said Brown, is ef i fective economic control. The Job of OPA will be to maintain a national economy which will keep production to a maximum. Mr. Brown warned against rising "V-day psychology." If we abandon "disagreeable regula tions" too soon, we may face a worse depression than in the 20ties. "The OPA must be the 'army of occupation' oh the home front," Brown said. 8STH YEAR FOR COLLEGE Chicago (U.R) The College of Pharmacy of the University of Illinois is celebrating its 85th anniversary. Founded on Sept. 5, 1859, the college is the oldest professional school In Illinois and the third oldest institution of its kind west of the Alleghany mountains. It Is older than the University of Illinois itself with which it has been affiliated for the past 80 years. Sacramento, Oct. 27 (U.R) More than 108.000 persons, most of them servicemen, have al ready voted in the Nov. 7 elec tion, Socretary of State Frank M. Jordan disclosed today. .... to relieve stuffiness, tnvita Sleep. if note fills up Tonight It's wonderful how a little Va-tro-nol up each nostril relieves stuffy transient congestion. Also relieves distress of head colds! Follow directions in folder. VICK$A-fMl mil nonci Maks Breathlnf I Easter I HHOT.anaaj ji.ms, sjm ill iM larfaritiifiaiai ajasysjaj sis OCTOBER IS OPPORTUNITY NTH AT ANDERSON'S. TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF IT. BUY THE THINGS YOU WANT HERE NOW! APPLE CIDER GAL. JUG SATURDAY ONLY No 212 casis-ea. 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