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SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFOfiDttlWrSUUNE wtoim tm Soutkmi oruaa udi tlx Mill Irlbua r Dl!f luifl Sttry Published by MEDFORD PBINTINI a CO. FhOM 1141. 17.28 North Wit St. ' ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor. ERNEST R. CILSTBAF, An Ipdpnflnt Htmntm. Cnter4 u ucond IM IMtMr Medlord. Oreion. undw Act m Much J, H7. SUBSCRIPTION BATES . By Vll In Advuiea: ' 0.(1 nd luiuUjr one r JT.Se Dallr nd Sunday l month! 4 00 Dally nd Sunday thru ma. 1.10 Dally and Sunday ona month-. .75 ky Carrier In Advanca Med ford, Aihland, Central Point. Jacluon. wile. Gold H1U. Phoenix Talent, and on motor route: Dally and Sunday on yaar... JO Dally and Sunday ona month .71 All tenna caah In advance. Official Paper o the City el Medlor OfllcUl Paper el Jackaea Ceoaty United Preea Pull Leawd Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BLUSAU OF CIRCULATIONS AdvertUln RwreMntaUve B7EST-UOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC Oflcc. in New York. Chlcaeo. De troit, Ban Pranclaco. toe Angela!. Se attle! PorUand, St Louli. Atlanta, Vnrnvcr, B. C. Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthus P"T The cigarette famine con tinues but nobody is famished. Even Juveniles, with one eye cocked for the police, and the other for their Paw, buy and puff them. ' . e e . e Benton county was the banner Republican county of the state in the election Tues. This caused Ralph Watson, a metropolitan political scribbler to brand them "the Vermont of Oregon". By the same token, and a majority for the. permanent president, Multnomah (Portland) county Is the Alabama of Oregon. Yes, suhl we-all sho' did po' out of the shipyo'ds fo' a f'oth terml" e O. (Peepity-peep-peep) Averill, the B. Fails sea-dog, is still In the hospital, but is coming along fine, and will soon be shipshape. e e Rain fell during the week. It stopped farmers from plowing, and those with no shotgun shells from going duck hunting. e e e Other than for president, Democrats emerged from - the little end of the horn in the mandate, the first of the week, In this commonwealth, i e a e The wind Wed. blew the leaves on the neighbor's lawn, and vice versa, ' e e e , The Grey Mask Is still un horsed and persona non grata around here. At the weekly Armory ruckus Thurs. eve, his foe rendered himself defunct, by cruel mlscue. e e F. Luy, the Phoenix-Antelope cowhand, has been wearing his range boots all week. When . compelled to walk a block, he makes more noise than a high school girl in wooden shoes. The Older Girls have stowed away their electric fans for the year, but keep their trusty fly swatters handy, for the liquids. tion of a few remaining itinerant pests. e e 'e J. Tannehlll Walker, S. is very proud of his cousin, Sandra' Hubbard, who got an A for the first six weeks of school. So did Mlque Hemmlla's sister, Geor gia. . e e Rural residents are dining again on pig backbones and turnip tops. As far as city dwel lers are concerned, pigs have discontinued having backbones for the duration of the war. e e e Grocery ads in Portland pa pers praised the valley pears and climate, with more high-toned adjectives than ever unleashed by a local CofC. secretary, In the memory of the oldest booster. . e Jens Jensen and J. Wesley Bates both hsve wedding anni versaries this week. The latter also has a birthday. e e ', . Snow adorned the local hills, the tail-end of the week. The womenfolks have made their annual demand for a white Christmas, and never get It, e e Citizens have started getting over their disgust or Joy over the election results, with both sloes hoping for the best. e e The past week saw several in conclusive arguments between Espee moguls and speed Idiots at the leading crossings. For the most part the driver after deter mining to knock locomotives off the track thought better of It. The council prohibited Jaywalk ing and Ignoring redllghts. e e New pictures of Premier Stalin, reveal a new contour to his late handle-bar mustache. Several observers surmlscQ he had trimmel it himself. MEDALS AWARDED Washington, Nov. 1 1 (0.PJ Two Caltfornians, Capt. Henry J. Homo, Jr., Red land j, and Corp Arthur L. Davis, St. Luis Obispo. today were awarded the bronze star medal. Sunday Wot. 12, 1(44 War Casualty Claims The Russians are marvellous fighters, but we doubt if they are equally good at arithmetic. At least the latest Russian report on German casual ties has this department deeply puzzled. . A few days ago the Kremlin announced that Rus sian armies on the eastern front have since the Ger man invasion, June 22, 1941, killed and captured 8,590,000 Germans. From the same source (Stalin) July 3rd, 1942, the German casualties were placed at 10,000,000 distrib uted as follows: Killed Captured Permanently disabled Wounded BUT certainly German casualties from the start of flin TTiflor invaainn no. far na HpnH nnrl Pflntlired are concerned. especially the far greater AFTER July 3rd, 1942, than before. For during the latter period the Germans were constantly being routed and driven back, at terrific losses. Yet if the first figures Germans killed and captured on the Russian front from July 3rd, 1942 to the over two years and four months would be the dir ference between 8,590,000 and 6,100,000 or only 2,490,000. Of these 1,200,000 were permanently dis abled, leaving a net total of 1,290,000 only! An absurd figure of course. IN other words in the first year and 10 days of the war with Germany, Russia claims the Germans were killed and captured at the rate of approximately 15,000 per day, while in the remaining two years and four months, the rate was only 3,000 per day one fifth as much. , Obviously, either the figures of the first year must have been greatly exaggerated, or the figures for the last two years and four months greatly under-estimated. As neither Russia, nor any other nation, is dis posed to underestimate any losses inflicted on the enemy, those first year figures must be placed under the heading of "arithmetical errata". OOWEVER they are all we have. So accepting the present and smaller estimate as correct that of 8,590,000 Germans killed and captured since June 22, 1941, and adding to this claims of German losses by governments dunng their the following total : . Russian claims British claims . U. S. claims....... 8,590,000 2,100,000 900,000 ' Total.........ll 890,000 (in killed and captured alone) Now estimating the wounded nothing but esti mates are available, and be increased by at least 4,000,000, or a grand total of German casualties in the World War No. 2 of approx imately 15,590,000. Deducting from this total new military classes available in Germany since 1939, also the wounded that have been able to return to the front, and a total of at least 12,000,000 Germans put permanently out of the war is reached. ' But at the start of the war Germany's population was less than 80,000,000 with only 38,000,000 males and only 10,000,000 of military age with less than 7,000,000 fit for combat service. So this is the arithme tical result: .We have over twice as many German casualties since the start of the war as Germany has had soldiers available for combat service, if we accept the Russian and allied claims as correct. e e e e SO what? Wo 1 1 nnttllMfV rP mttn imnni4nMAA Tm m .1 ....... vniiii yi giccii uiifjui tame, ail iiiuueiu w ai casualty claims by all nations are a combination of guesses and propaganda, they vary only in degree not in essential character. On September 27th. 1942. of war for example Germany claimed she had killed, wounded and captured 14,000,000 Russians. Assuming she did only length of time, AFTER that date; and the Russian casualties on the 27th of September 1943 would have totalled 21,000,000! Since how many, but following would oe at least e,uuu,uuu. e a e e CO don't take your own or other ,enemy casualty claims SPvinnalv horooftoi- nnrl talrn thn Pliaaian ........ - " J .. III. .1 j .11 V .1 IV AUO0.CI. and German casualty claims with an especially large supply or salt! No Bonus for Veterans We have been asked when the "veterans bonus just passed will be paid and how bat service?" No veterans "bonus" HAS been passed. The bill passed at Tuesday's election provides for a loan to Oregon service (we quote) secured payment thereof shall be and is a prerequisite to the advancement of money from such fund." State bonds to a maximum of about $30,000,000 are authorized and also Z mills, or about $2,000,000 a year, to finance the bonds. That is all that has been be worked out by the legislature. As in the case of the measure, the federal G-l and will in all likelihood gon ex-servicemen than to take a loan from their own state. However, Vox Populi Vox Dei. A large major ity of the voters wanted this bill, now they have itl ..3,500,000 ..2,600,000 1,200,000 ..2,700,001 latter, must have been are correct then the total present time, a matter of figure tn e approximate the American and British participation and we get . - this total would probably - , the estimated number of a vear and three months HALF as well in the same then, Heaven only knows the same graph line and it much for 26 months com' men only, and a loan where a state tax, not to exceed done. Other details must state veterans educationa bill, makes better provisions, be more popular with Ore- . FACE MANY VITAL DECISIONS. BILLS Tax And Peace Problems In Taxes And Jobs Flood . Act First Washington, Nov. 11 U.R) The -election Is over but there remains a war to be won, a peace to be negotiated, a civilian economy to be restored and a lame duck session of congress to be got out of the way. That was the situation tonight as the administration settled down . to work, happy in its triumph at the polls but taking its cue, apparenUy, from the Armistice Day message to the nation of Acting Director James F. Byrnes of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. In a broadcast speech (NBC) at Columbia, S. C, Byrnes said: The election Is over, but the war is not over." The new, 79th congress will face difficult decisions of un precedented nature. It appears likely that the senate in the next two years will be called on to ratify peace arrangements with Germany while this nation is still at -war, with Japan. That done, it subsequently will have to take up the problem of peace in the Pacific. Both houses, with democrats in the saddle, will have gigantic new problems in the fields of taxation, reconversion and jobs for 11.000.000 war veterans and some 20 000,000 war workers. The- last session of the 78th congress starts next Tuesday with nearly 80 members of the two houses, in the category of lame ducks. This session will face a docket plied high with important meas ures which must be passed be fore January 3 when the new congress convenes. Extension of vast presidential war powers, passage of three ma jor postwar project bills, the Pearl. Harbor issue, and major changes in social security laws are among tasks on the schedule In the postwar fields, the sen ate will begin immediate debate on the flood control bill, which would authorize an estimated $992,000,000 worth of postwar projects. The measure, already passed by the house, will be fol lowed In the senate by the house- approved rivers and harbors bill, carrying projects totalling $498.- 000,000. In the house, the senate-passed postwar highway bill Is expected to come up for action first. The bill would authorize an appro priation of $1.350 000.000 to be distributed at the rate of $450.- 000,000 a year for each of three successive postwar years. High way construction would be fi nanced on a 50-50 basis with the states, bringing the total jbint outlay to $2,750,000,000. Following passage of the h ah- way bill the house is expected to lane up crop insurance a meas ure which may not reach the sen ate before the end of the session. T Rome, Nov. 1 1 (U.PJ Eighth army forces today battled Ger man dug-in positions along a canal forming the western boundary of Forll, attempting to effect a crossing which would enable continuation of the march up the broad via Emilia and the Po Valley towards Bologna. Fifth army forces south of Bo logna, meanwhile, were forced to confine their activities to pa trolling. Nine Inches of snow covered the roads and rocky de files of the mountain passes in this sector and the temperature dropped below the freezing mark. Other 8th army units along the Adriatic coast advanced to Gambellara, six and a quarter miles southwest of Ravenna. CALLED COOS BAY Coos Bay, Nov. 12 (U.R) The. old city of Marshfield has changed its name to Coos Bay a change that some citizens have been advocating since the early part of the century. The name change and a char ter providing for a council man ager form of government were approved by the city's voters in this week's election. WANTS TO BE DIFFERENT. Rock Island, III. (U.R) Mem bers of the Rock Island police force nave signed a petition ask- ing Patrolman Larry G. Bain to shave off his moustache. Bain, who is ignoring the petition, is the only member of the force with a moustache. Um Mui mouiw ftaai Ms, ON V-2 BOMBING"; London, Nov. 11 U.R) The roar of bursting robot bombs punctuated a grim Armistice Day observance throughout southern England today, but censors suddenly forbade aU further speculation on whether the Germans still were firing their new V-2 rockets against Britain. Barely 24 hours after Prime Minister Winston Churchill con firmed that the stratospheric rocket bombs had been shower ing down on British soil for sev eral weeks, Berlin declared that the Belgian Port of Antwerp also was being bombarded heavily by the new weapon and that a great area of the city was in ruins. They angrily countered Churchill's statement that V-2 had proved largely ineffective. and promised increasingly heavy attacks' on London. "London's surprise will be still greater in the not distant fu ture," one Berlin military spokesman was quoted as say ing. Salvoes of V-one flying bombs crashed into southern England, last night and today, but fighter planes and coastal anti-aircraft batteries took a heavy toll of the blind raiders and some of their "pick-a-belly" launching planes were believed to have been shot down into the North sea. German propagandists, mean while v ridiculed Churchill's as sertion that their V-2 rockets contain only one ton of explo sives and have only about one sixth the effect of the British six-ton blockbusters. They boasted that large sec tions of Antwerp's dock areas have been smashed and many of the city's residents have been evacuated as result of V-l and V-2 bombing. Experts who have been exam ining the . mass of tangled wire and chunks of steel scattered by the V-2 rockets have deduced a few certainties, principally that this missile climbs higher into space than anything every used in this or any other war. T Paris, Nov. 11 (U.R) Prime Minister Winston Churchill re ceived perhaps the most uproar ious triumphal? welcome of his career today from an estimated 1,000,000 Parisians openly com memorating Armistice Day for the first time in five years and the friendly atmosphere prevail ing at his visit was heightened by announcement that France has been asked to join the Eu ropean advisory commission. With U. S. Troops In Beilgium; Nov. 11 (U.R) Amid the sounds of war, American soldiers and Belgian soldiers and civilians joined in homage to the dead of World War I and II today at a ceremony held little more than an hour's drive from the front lines. - London, Nov. 11 (U.R) Lon don marked the 26th anniver sary of the end of the first World War with a few simple cere monies today in Weestminster Abbey and at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. MULTNOMAH DATA DELAYING FINALS Portland, Ore., Nov. 11 (U.R) Oregon vote counting was stalled tonight with one slow precinct in Vanport and four sol dier boards in Multnomah hold ing - up a complete count, but President Roosevelt maintained a 22,000 vote lead over Gov. Thomas Dewey. The latest totals from 1828 out of the state's 1829 precincts were: President Roosevelt 248,828. Dewey 224,385, Thomas 3837 Watson 2233. Fourth District Congress Ells worth (R ), 57,155; Dover (D.)( 29,676. fyedfVJe Have Rooms FOR OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS Who Give Us Advance Notice! iih. Oi. m" ''" NiHa. mow WASHINGTON STREET at S. nd to MM. I illl-IJ'A NAVY PILOT LOST COASTAL WATERS Marshfield, Ore., Nov. 11 0J.R) Calmer seas today allowed coast guard patrol boats to search the coastal waters more thoroughly for a navy flier who last was seen floating in a life jacket Thursday south of Cape Arago. After his plane went into the ocean blankets and a rubber liferaft were dropped to the pilot, but, owing to a heavy surf, it was believed he was unable to reach the raft. The navy did not disclose the identity of the missing pilot. . North Bend, Ore Nov. 11 (U.R) The coast guard announced toriy that it had abandoned hope of finding John Hiliar, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. HiUar of Empire, Ore., who was last seen clinging to an overturned boat in Coos Bay. The boy had been duck hunt ing with his brother, James, 16, when the accident occurred last Saturday. The boat was found drifting near the air base Tues day. Washington, Nov. 11 (U.R) The United States, Great Brit ain and Soviet Russia today opened the doors of high Allied councils to France by inviting Gen. Charles de, Gaulle's gov ernment to "full membership in the European advisory com. mission. ' The action was interpreted here as an indication that De Gaulle may be invited to par ticipate in at least some phases of the forthcoming Roosevelt- Stalin-Churchill conference. It was assumed that hence forth France will participate on an equal basis with the big pow ers in discussions of a world security organization on which she has been assured a perma nent council seat "in due course." For aU practical purposes, to day's action expands the big three to a big four, restoring France to her position as a great world power. " CRASH AVERTED Los Angeles, Nov. 11 (U.R) Crash of the southbound South ern Pacific Sunset Limited was narrowly averted today by two alert sheriffs deputies who nag ged the train to a stop 25 yards in front of an automobile lodged in its path. Forty-three mountain peaks in North Carolina reach an ele vation of over 6,000 feet: 82 others exceed 5,000 feet.. Flight o Time Mediord and Jackson Co His tory fiom the files of the Mai) Tribune 10. 20. and 34 rears ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY November 12. 1934 (It was Monday) Citv observes Armistice Day with parade and football game. All stores closed. Gov. Meier going to Cali fornia for a two weeks vaca tion and Fred E. Kiddle, presi dent of the state senate, will act as governor. U. S. supreme court directs California to show cause why review of Tom Mooney case should not be granted. Quality turkeys in demand at 20c per pound in Portland and is top price. Unsettled with occasional showers, high 66, low 34 de grees. Political factions of France stage street fights on Armistice Day. Pear shipments to date total 1645 cars. Special city election for vot ing $100,000 bonds to build new w at ones W. 12th PORTLAND sewer system called for Decem ber 4. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY November 12. 18Z4 (It was Wednesday) ureclrient in Armistice Day npfh navi honor to war dead. Minute of silence held through out nation. Parade is largest ever held here with Red Cross winning first prize for patriotic float. ' .'. Medford High defeats Ash land, 14 to 12, in close game be fore large crowd. Conrad and Senn were the chief ground gainers for the locals. Premier Mussolini of Italy says fascist regime is gaining ground. - Cloudy. High 48, low 32 de grees. Walter Johnson, pitching star of big leagues, buys Oakland team in coast league. Emma Goldman, exiled an archist, disgusted with life in Russia under bolshevikism. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO November 12, 1910 . (It was Saturday) Japanese porter on way to work saves Medford laundry from flames. Rogue river fish bill carries by big majority. Mexican situation improves. Starts TUESDAY -4 Days ' ' 1 - J0f MORE THAN ff,pV EVER YOU'LL THRILL I f TO THE PICTURE j LJL - r HAILED EVERY-rA-tf J WHERE AS "HOLLY 4 :yL, jf WOOD'S GREATEST" . if r jf 41v Li.' i c" J f if4 FRANZ VYERFEL'S J- I THE SOU! 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