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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MDFORDwTRaUNB Dsllj Bxel Saturday ChiKIUhMl h mmnroRD PRINTmO CO. 17-29 North rir St. Phone 1141. ROBERT W. RUHU Mltor. (RMEST R GIU8TRAP Manafer. HERB GREY, Adverttslni Mfr. E C. FERGUSON. Mnlnf EJllor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Wltor MRS OLIVE STARCHER. See. MltOf GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. Phone 474 An Independent Nwippr. Entered w second elu sutter al Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 187S. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Hall -In Advance' Daily and Sunday-one year ...'0 Dally and Sunday elx months 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moa. J.10 Daily and Sunday one monUv 73 By Carrier In Advance Medlord. Ashland Central Point. Jackson ville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year. 0( Daily and Sunday one month . .78 All terms cash In advance. Official Paper ol the City of Medferd Official Paper of Jackson County United Press roil Leased Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU , OP CIRCULATIONS Advortlaine. Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. CNC Offices In New York Chicago, Do. troit, 8an Pranclsco, Los Angeles, Se attle, Portland. St Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver. B. C. Pt Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Fury Due to io many turkeys be ing shipped to soldiers at home and overseas, the local supply was somewhat limited. This caused a shortage on the post ' Thanksgiving menus of Turkey Croquettes de la Cavalier and Turkey Hash, . both being one and the same thing. e e e Major Fred (Red). McDonald, who played end and forward on the P. Callison basketball and football state champion teams, (and HOW1) visited here last week and left Frl for s new post. He has been In England, North Africa, . Sicily and Italy. The Major attended the torso twist ing at the Armory, and said he would just as Soon be in a fox hole, as a participant in a battle royal, e ' The Black Tornado plays La Grande In the metropolis next Sat, for the state title, and bar ber shop clairvoyants ' have started peering into the future to determine the outcome, e e e The small fry have started an intensive drive for Santa Claus, and bigger stockings to hang up by the fireplace, 1 e . e e Indian summer quit Wed. night, and Squaw winter has taken over, causing smaller woodpiles in town, and hay stacks in the rural regions. Duck hunters who returned from Klamath county last Tues., all got thawed in fine shape by the end of the week, and re turned to the scene of their re frigeration, . Autolsts are warned by a fed eral agency, their engines and tires are wearing out. A model T driver reports he had to crank his veteran vehicle and was pretty well tuckered himself ere any results were obtained. a- e e J. Tannehill Walknr'' S. Frla, coed over the week-end, and will return in time to miss only one day of school, e e e The fair and sister city of Salem will vote on the establish merit of an electric power dis trict neb. 9. It is a highly con troversial issue, nobody's busi ness outside of Salem, and will neither win or lose the war. Bill Brown of the E. Pt. Browns towned Thurs. His bro. Royal is wintering in the south. e e e Valley golfers turned ' their eyes to the north the middle 'of the week, where the Portland open Is being held, and, golfers who could beat them with one hand tied behind them are vying, e . e . The cigarette shortage is eas ing around here. People who don't smoke them,, no longer demand them. e e e The Russians Frl. captured tho strategic railway junction of Cop, 150 miles ne, of Budapest. There is no sense In such brevity and pronounceaballty, when it could have been called Pollce manovitchkov. , e e Herr Hitler, the dynamic kraut who misled Germany Into a world conquering attempt is suffering from paranoia, coron ary thrombosis, paralysis of the right side, throat tumor, dam aged chords, earache, end brain concussion, doctors . report. Many hold his nose width mus tache is also an affliction, see The Elno Hemmlla boy Mlque sends word his name is spelled Mike, the same as what candi dates yell into, when on the air. and Mike Hanley the Lake Creek cowman, e The presidential cussing Issue is ended. Nothing was accom plished by bringing It up, except more cussing, pro et con, Sundaf, Not. it, IS44 Our Political Future True or false the P.A.C. of the C.I.O. believes that it won the recent election for President Roosevelt. Believing thus, it expects to receive certain favors from the President, among them a C.I.O. man for Madam Perkins' place, the new Secretary of Labor. What the other favors are have not been stated, but one of organized labor's publicity pals, writes in The Nation as follows: "It is not enough to elect a President or even a congress. It is necessary to maintain public understanding and the Eublic pressure without which the men elected tend to slip ack into the orbit of the powerful moneyed forces that by and large govern the country despite elections . . . ..So now is the time to organize when the bandwagon is crowded, the PAC's prestige at its peak, the nucleus of an organization ready at hand, intra-left quarrels at a minimum, and many persons in the country eager to go on with political action. IN other words, instead of resting on their laurels, ft!o nnlitiVol fellow-traveler, urp-es the P.A.C. to bmo ' o - . keep their organization intact, form a large and vigor nhhr in WnBhinonn. Atirl keen constant rjressure on the representatives of assemoiea, to see inai mey ao as we um organized labor, wish them to do. NOT only is pressure on the Congress advocated but pressure on the President himself, for the writer aDDarently doesn't quite trust F.D.R. e-::ept at election time. We quote : "In organizing It would be well to keep away from White House influences including the progressives In the President's own official entourage. Mr. Roosevelt wants labor's support every four years, but If I read his mind rightly, he is not too anxious to have labor operate as a going concern in politics. For we will be pressuring him and upsetting some of his compromises with the right. The (Roosevelt) liberals with official jobs who have to check with the "Skipper" (Roosevelt) for clearance are good people in their place, but dubious allies in this particular Job." And what IS this "particular job?" Tt- ta naanni'olltr lira KolidirO 9 Wol LnPCSini 7.pA . wiflP.- JLV ID CODCJlllCfclljr tt w anroaA mnomonf hv lahnr la going concern, but enlarge it, .and ultimately take over control 01 tne uemocrauc party. e a BEFORE some of our conservative friends shake an accusing finger and cry "We told you so I" we would like to remark that, if this effort does succeed it will not mean "the end ol tne woriar nor, in our opinion at least, the end of the capitalistic profit system.; . Rather it will mean, at a rrnnninolv T.iriArnl nnrtv have been formed many years ago, and a genuinely conservative party to oppose it. , It might even come to mean the end of the Solid South. noliticallvsDeakinor. certainly a consumma tion devoutly to be wished. IN short, instead of viewing such a movement with o1oim tVna rlfinoimonf rotntir1 wplrnmpfl it.. , UlULIU) Va.Akl UVK V.M V"W1 ,, waw.w -. f Let the P.A.C. take over the Democratic party, and as this writer advises "break down barriers of hostility and misunderstanding between labor and the farmer and other (liberal) elements of the com munity" if they can. . Then instead of having two old political parties, each composed of two utterly conflicting elements, there would automatically be two , new political parties, each united within, by common beliefs and common aims. The old party titles might however, they would.no longer be meaningless, the Democratic party would be the liberal (radical) party; the Republican-party would BE the conserva tive one. A presidential election a conflict between two hybrid groups, but a conflict between two homogeneous power, but seeking also to administer the affairs of this country on the basis of certain, clearly defined principles. FINALLY, why be frightened at the idea of a Labor iMsf t in fV rt TTrsif a A Cf of aaf Cim innoino o ni'rton the Atlantic have not only decades, but had the party take over the government, after the last war, and it might well do the same after this one. And what happened there would probably happen here. British labor was not power as when denied it. With the Anglo-Saxon race responsibility is a great "soberer". Our prediction is the more political responsibility placed on the should ers of American labor the more conservative labor would become. Election Polls , Speaking of elections, the recent one unquestion ably sustains the value of national polls, as far as popular votes are concerned. ' Tq date President Roosevelt s popular vote adds up to approximately 62.5 which this paper used, Gallup poll, 51.5 percent, and Roper 53.6 percent. All very close to the bullseye, Crossley practically in it AS to states however the . tiuiic ji cuii;i,Mig cuijr oui;ii laiiuoiiuc 111 1.11c? elec toral college as Roosevelt got iwo however did maintain the outcome probabil ities ranged from a very close Dewey victoiy, to an overwhelming one for Koosevelt The Wall Street "bookies" also came out with prestige unimpaired. Their odds started at 2 to one against Governor Dewey, and never wavered ending at 3-1-2 to one. Many political prognosticates near the end couldn't understand such odds with almost everyone certain the race The bookies quite obviously knew what they were talking and, wagering the people in Congress t w - ; - - t.n tint, onlv keen the P.A.C. . .... long last tne. lormation 01 in this MMintrV ' that should even be retained. If so, would then represent, not ones not merely seeking , had a Labor party for half as radical when given percent. The Crossley poll, predicted 52 percent. The the N.O.R.C., 61.7 percent, polls were pretty far off, would be nip and tuck. about. YULE CHEER FOR ALL SERVICEMEN A two-fold program, to bring holiday cheer to servicemen Is being worked out at present by the Jackson County Camp and Hospital committee. One is for men confined to the Station hos pital at Camp White and the other Is to aid with an all west coast project to assure every serviceman spending Christmas on the high seas a gift remem brance from home, according to Mrs. S. E. Philips, chairman of the committee. With much of the planning for the hospital project already com pleted, attention is being turned now to the second, which Is un der the supervision of Mrs. Mark Goldy. Present plans are to ask everyone in the county to con tribute gifts and these will be taken to the courthouse on Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, for wrapping and packing in preparation for shipment to ports of embarkation. Pearl Harbor Day is to be observed with a special open house by-the county Red Cross chapter between 10 a. m. and 6 p. m. at the court house. A suggested list of gifts which may be bought for the men at sea on Christmas Day has been prepared by the Red Cross. It In cludes shaving cream or lotion, combs and nail file sets, razor blades, cards paper-back books, handkerchiefs, G.I. ties, small games, address books, eversharp pencils, writing pads and pencils, soap, cigarettes, cigarette cases, oilskin waterproof pouch, snap shot case and billfolds. It is said that this is the first time permission has been ob tained to send gifts on ships em barking just before holidays and it is thought presentation of the gifts on Christmas Day will do much to bring cheer to the men at sea. . Plans for the men at the Camp White hospital are extensive and Include a party, decorating of the rooms with wreaths and gar lands, singing of Christmas carols and presentation of a pag- eni. uuis are being selected through organizations of Ash land and Medford and are to be ready by December 1. , SGT. PlTTSllTES Staff Sgt. Houston Pitts, who arrived in India for duty with the army air forces, remarked In - his first letter home about the dirt, squalor and poverty of the native people and added that the ""weather is worse than Texas." Sgt. Pitts, liason pilos is the son of Mrs. Jennie Pitts, 019 Queen Anne avenue, and has been In the army more than two years. The sergeant's three brothers are all in the air corps. Staff sgt. Milton Pitts Is now In Eng land and has ben wounded for the second time. He is an aerial gunner and served ..iany months in the south Pacific, was home for a few months and then as signed to duty In the European theater. He has been In service three years. Lt. Lanse Pitts, B-24 pilot, is now In Hawaii and Sgt, Champ Pitts, bomber crew chief, is in New Jersey. Mrs. Lanse Pitts resides in Central Point. L I Portland. Ore.. Nov. 23 OJ.P.) Another phase of shipbuilding activities in the Portland area will come to an end Monday when the Oregon Shipbuilding corporation launches the last of the 30 AP-S . attack transports assigned to it last spring by the U. S. maritime commission. Only the outfitting of the few remaining ships In the outfitting basin is left before the AP-5 program, here is finished. The yard already has returned to the construction of victory ships, which is expected to carry it through 1945. Oregonship launched the 900th vessel built In the Portland area last Thursday when the U. S. S. Lauderdale slid down the way. LT. PEART A PRISONER. Second Lt. Donald L. Peart is a prisoner of war of the Gcr man army, Information received Friday by his mother, Mrs. Ger trude E. Peart, 707 West Main street, states. Lt. Peart was lift ed as missing In action October 17, after a raid over Austria. The officer was piloting a B-17 on his last flight. He had been overseas since last August. CURB FORESTRY MEET Portland, Ore., Nov. 2! U.R) Only key men among western logging and lumber firms and associations will attend the an nual forestry conference in Portland December 7 to 8. WAR LABOR BOARD STEEL DECISION Washington, Nov. 23 U.R Four War Labor Board Industry members and two U. S. Steel Corp. executives tonight took issue with the WLB's basic steel decision. I Industry members said night shift differential would be "dis ruptive" for the steel Industry, charging the board was, In ef fect, changing a policy of long standing. John A. Stephenson, a U. S. steel vice-president who is chair man of the steel case research committee, said that the action allowed "a series of wage in creases" under various guises for which there was no justification, while in New York, Irving . S. Olds, chairman of the board of directors of U. S. steel, said the decision "seriously affects gov ernment wage stabilization policy." Of the differential decision, the industry members said, "not only has the board changed its policy but it has made this change retrocative,", The state ment was signed by Clarence Skinner, Vincent Ahearn, Lee Hill and James Tanham. They said shift diferentials would mean more pay for no more work and disrupt certain age relationships in the plants where men earn by seniority the right to work on the day shift. TO BE INSPECTED Annual federal inspection of the two local State Guard com panies will be held at the Arm ory Tuesday at 8 p. m.. the In specting officer being Major Wal ter JS. Groth of the 9th Corps Area. Company A, 1st Battalion, 1st Regt. Is commanded by Cap tain James W. Grigsby and Head quarters Detachment, 1st Battal ion, 1st Regt., is commanded by 1st Lieut Moore Hamilton. Ac companying Major Groth will be Brigadier General Ralph P. Cowgill, commanding officer of the Oregon State Guard. Major Carl Y. Tengwald is in com mand of the 1st Battalion, which comprises all southern Oregon units 'of the State Guard. The State Guard was or ganized when war was declared, principally for the purpose of furnished local security for the state and Is immediately avail able for any emergencies that may arise. s SDCIALfTFACES AS Redwood City, Nov. 23 U,R) San Francisco socialite Gerald Melone, who quit playing polo" to become a merchant marine carpenter's mate, and his two seamen pals, Ralph Duggar and Siperone Balenzuela, will be sentenced Monday after a San Mateo county jury found them guilty yesterday of stealing $18,000 worth of jewels and furs from the home of Mrs. Dorothie Heller Kok at Ills borough, Calif. They were charged with first degree burglary and grand theft. Conviction carries a prison term of from one to 10 years for grand theft and a minimum of five years for burglary, THE GRANGE Gold Hill Grange Vice Chairman Lucy Edlng ton presided over the Home Economics meeting November 22 in absence of Chairman Floi ence Howes. It was decided to hold the H.E.C. Christmas meet ing December 13 at 1 p. m. when Flora friends will be revealed and names drawn for next year. Each lady Is asked to bring two 25 Shoiiping 'TIL CHRISTMAS - Greeting Cards - Seals - Wrappings SHOP for GIFTS AT WEST SIDE Shopping Center The Rexall Store, Medford, Oregofi Wett Main and Grape phone 3330 Inexpensive gifts, also - eaady, popcorn, nuts or what-have-you for the treat. The Grange dinner, bazaar and dance November 18 was a big success. - Ben Schmidt, Y.M.C.A. secre tary at Medford, gave a lecture on "Home Life in China." , The Grange quilt went to Mrs. T. J. Sullivan, route 1, Gold HIU. , r MILITARY DRILL FOR YOUTH SEEN Washington, Noy. The house committee on postwar military policy tonight urged early consideration of compul sory military training by the new congress which convenes January 3. Chairman Clifton A. Wood rum, D., Va., reported to the house that the committee will be unable to complete hearings this year on several important items on its agenda "including the Sub ject of universal military train ing," but that "this important subject should be carefully ex plored at an early date." The question of compulsory training originally was sched uled for consideration when .con gress reconvened November 14 after its election recess, but it was quietly laid aside when members began receiving num erous letters of protest. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Edltui mual Dear che name si.d eddreea ol the wrltei ilthuugh the use at pen natm ir lultlais for publtoatlnu it Der ntMlble rhe Mall lYlbuue re wrvet the right to edit ill letters ltb a rlen to clarity end eon lensatlon " The Water-Tight Problem To the Editor: Governor Snell deserves commendation for ad vising members of the coming legislature and others concerned to get their bills ready and be prepared to facilitate business when the assembly meets, mak ing it as short as possible.- , One thing, let us hope, will be done legislative extension of requirements for the im provement and use of water rights which are held by many farmers, war workers, men in the armed services and citizens generally who, for various good reasons, have been unable to fulfill the requirements and cannot do so- until peace is re stored. For this reason, the gov ernor and legislators will be just and wise in extending the Improvement period, as the fed eral government has done, giv ing water-right holders a chance to obtain materials and man power and time to do the work, This is a matter of grave im portance to many citizens . who are working hard for victory and haven't time for anything else. Cornelius O'Donovan 210 Postal BIHg. Portland, Nov. 22, 1944; Thanks f on Forest Fir Aid To the Editor: The Jackson county "Keep Oregon Green Committee" wishes to express appreciation to all who so cheer fully and effectively co-operated with fire prevention and forest protection work during the hot, dry summer. Especially to be commended In the vicinity of Medford for bringing to the attention of the reading public the real need for protecting our forest against waste and destruction are the Medford Mail Tribune and the Medford News; and KMED for giving out daily warnings to be alert for fires all the time. - The Boy Scouts were exceed ingly helpful In their valuable assistance in distributing posters to business houses, hotels and hospitals. Some of the scouts did fine work in putting forest protection and fire prevention displays in the .Chamber of Commerce, Hubbard Bros, and Penney stores. We-wish to also mention that stores and other places of busi ness throughout tho county and innumerable homes added im mensely to the program of for THE DOTS est protection and fire preven tion by their earnest co-operation. Tt nrAiartlnn nnrl fire prevention practice ir almost entirely a matter ol eaucauon, so as we all become more and mAM fni-eat - nrotectlon minded our God-given- forests will- in creasingly respond to our coun try's needs. R. E. Dodge, -: Jackson County Chairman, John E. Gribble, '' Medford Co-ordinator. GO TO PORTLAND Drs. A. F. Walter Kresse and R. W. Clancy, both found guilty last month in federal court here on charges of violating the Har rison narcotics' act, were taken to Portland today by Jack Cau field, United States marshal, and George Vranizan, deputy, from Portland.- Both doctors have been in the Jackson county jail since their conviction, Dr. Clan cy since Oct. 20 and Dr. Kresse since Oct. 27. The men are to appear before Judge James Alger Fee in Port land tor sentence but date of the appearance has not been an nounced. I SHOWS IN STATE Portland, Ore., Nov. 25 (U.R) In spite of the fact that war department orders have cancel led two war bond shows design ed to spur Oregon's sixth war loan drive, state committee heads still maintain that Ore gon will keep its place as a na tional leader in bond sales. Army officers said the army personnel from taking part in such shows is to prevent any Interruption in the training of the soldiers concerned. TOHONOR41ST ' Portland, Ore., Nov. 25 (U.R) The northwest's own division, the Fighting 41st, will be honor ed here January 10 with the launching of the S. S. Sunset. The Sunset division is made up almost entirely of Oregon men and has been overseas for three years. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co His tor from the files ot the Mall Tribune 10. 20. and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY November 24, 1934 at Was Saturday) Medford high defeats Hood River 19 to, 0, and accepts game with Washington high of Port land for mythical state title. Kindred's punting and Bob Smith's passing were features of the game. OSC defeated 25 to 7 by UCLANs; - Stanford down Bears 9 to 7, BUY WAR BONDS and let us help yon keep, your ear rolling for the duration! m, W!f . ' ... i CRATER LAKE MOTORS Sixth and Ivy' Phone 2297 Samuel Intull, .power mag nate, charged with mail fraud by government 'is acquitted by federal Jury. Rain. High 44, low 30 de grees. Best Christmas trade sine 1931 predicted. -.. Italy quick to back Hungary in Balkan turmoil. Jerry Jerome is natned chair man of CofC tourist committee. TWENTY YEAhVaGO TODAY November 24, 1924 ' ..... .. . (it was Monday) Trans-Atlantic is not success. Edinburgh only city to hear broadcast. Chicago swindler who bun coed friends out of million ar rested in Nova Scotia. This was the coldest day of the winter, with the mercury dropping to 26.S degrees, a heavy fog. . Derailment of two sleepers In local yards delay 2:30 a. m. pas senger train. .Prof. Vlning of Ashland tells Kiwanis club of his eastern trip. Budget, plan of President Coolidge calls for cutting of na tion's expenses. . THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO November 24, 1910 ' , (It Was Thursday) Thanksaivine Dav snnwrnrm puts telephone lines in valley out of commission. Medford hieh defeats A eh. land 12 to 5, on slushy field. Official census shnwa Pnrt. land has 207,914 people. Bat Nelson knocked out in 11th by Owen Moran. Dse Mall ITlbuno Want Ada. REGISTERED NURSES Urgently Needed to replace Army "Nurses al Camp White, Oregon. Salary $182.50 a month. Subsistence and quarters furnished if desired. Any registered nurse interest ed in obtaining these well paid essential - positions are requested to contact the Civilian Personnel Branch at Camp White Phone 5221 Extension 3196 or 3213. MONEY TO LOAN! On JEWELRY CAMERAS and MUSICAL INSTRU MENTS Used and unto deemed lewelry at great sa-'ngs PEOPLES LOAN CO. 229 Mi E. Main Street State License P 137
