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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. ' .
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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"
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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.
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Rain fell during the week. It
stopped farmers from plowing,
and those with no shotgun shells
from going duck hunting.
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Other than for president,
Democrats emerged from - the
little end of the horn in the
mandate, the first of the week,
In this commonwealth,
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The wind Wed. blew the
leaves on the neighbor's lawn,
and vice versa,
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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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. .
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Jens Jensen and J. Wesley
Bates both hsve wedding anni
versaries this week. The latter
also has a birthday.
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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,
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Citizens have started getting
over their disgust or Joy over
the election results, with both
sloes hoping for the best.
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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.
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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.
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SO what?
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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.
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CO don't take your own or other ,enemy casualty
claims SPvinnalv horooftoi- nnrl talrn thn Pliaaian
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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.
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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.
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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.
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