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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordXJWTbibune Everyoae la Sutasra Oreaes nil the alaU Xrlkaaa,' Dally Iwri Satareay PuhlUhsd b MXDrORD PBINTuti a co. Phone SMI. tr-n North tlx at ROBKRT W. BUHL. Editor. (RNEST R GILSTRAP Manager. HERB GKEY. Advertising ' Mgr. I C FERGUSON Muuilnl Editor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday dltor MRS OLIVE STARCHER. See. Editor GERALD LATHAM. ClroulaUoa Mgr. Phone 47 An Independent Newspaper. Entered as second olau matter al Medford. Oregon, under Act of March J, 1678. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advanca' Daily and Sunday ona roar .. ST30 Dally and Sunday al months 4 00 Dally and Sunday thraa moa S.1G Dally and Sunday ona month. 78 By Carrier In Advanca Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Jackson ville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday one Yesr . SS .Oc Dally and Sunday ona month lb All terms cash In advance. Official Paper af the City of MsdferS Official Paper af Jacsaoa'Ceunty . United Press Poll Leased Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLIDAV COMPANY. INC Offices in New York Chicago. De troit, San rrancleco. Loa Angel ee. Se attle. Portland. St Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver. B. C. ' Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry All bsttlefront reports Indi cate the German gooie is cooked, and the Japanese hash 'settled, and European statesmen have started to "fear" peace. e a Everybody is prepared for wintry weather, but due to typi cal meteorological contrariness, ' expect conditions to be as balmy as May. , Ranson Webster is home . on furlough from the navy. Right off, he accused his Paw - of smoking the old pipe he prom ised to throw away, but It was a Porto Rico cigar. ' The Hollywood Orchard pea cocks are themselves again, and no longer in danger of being shot for a C. Pheasant A large delegation of citizens Journeyed to the metropolis over the week-end to attend to busi ness, and sea the football game, as long as they were there. -. Farmers are feeling pessimis tic. Some are so depressed they feel nothing will grow, next year but the weeds, with their usual bountiful crop. eel 7 . Lyle (Old Codger) Fisher, 83, with Old Sol trying to beam, took some ozone on the hoof Frl, and reports he stepped off 10 miles give or take nine miles. . ;.i The Older Girls nave launch ed their annual campaign lor the "white Christmas": they never get. They were cheered no end by reports of snow in the Middle West, where most of them were girls in plg-talls and gingham. - , e e e A lonesome looking ' robin showed up on the cthse lawn Thurs. pm, and turned out to be Mrs. J. Cochran Robin.. She re ports she attended a frozen cull pear party in a Central Point district orchard, and got turned around when she started home. She has a good Joke on her old man. He reported to the police she was lost, and was lost him self. .;. a. a , e, The cigarette shortage ' con tinues, with no relief in sight. However, there are plenty of a certain mentholated brand, that can be purchased every place but a church basement rummage sale. e . a a .. - Only one month is left on the current calendars, and citizens havjs started to wonder where they will get one for next year. e e e H. Flewher, the former demon baker is still in India. His new building is all fixed and beds have been prepared to plant posies and bushes, in the spring. e e e John Cupp has bought 10 Tennessee walking horses for his ranch. Many are congratu lating John on getting these horses from Tennessee. They will eat Just as much hay as a Rogue River valley horse, never complimented for their walking, though they do n fair InK nf it The local horseflesh has long oeen umous for its walking, when supposed to be running At the county fairs. thv alurave ran too long in the same place. The small fry have started writing letters to S. Claus, a relic of Horse & Buggy days they enjoy. The G. Cleveland Corum'twln boys are now talklne- a hin and other colored streak, and nave reported several bright say ings of their Paw. see A survey of the November election results is planned to de termine the "Republican lack." They seemed to have had every thing but enough votes. Via Mall Tribune Want Ads, Sunday, Dae. 9, 1944 Hou) About the S.R? To the Editor: , Have you given up trying to get decent train service to San Francisco? Haven't seen anything in your paper for a long time. If the Mail Tribune can't help us who can? I was sent to San Francisco with my little boy a few weeks ago as my doctor wanted me to have some special examina tions. If the S. P. had had its way only an undertaker would have been interested in either of us, couldn't get a berth, had to sit up in the day coach, but after that 100 mile trip in the S. P.'s "covered wagon , we were too near dead to care much. Coming back they woke us up about 4 in the morning and we had to sit In an unheated hotel until we could get breakfast and be jolted back to Medford. Do you mean to say the traveling public has no rights at all these days, and the people of Southern Oregon have to take this treatment on and on through the years? Mrs. G. L. G., Medford, Nov. 30th. (Name on file) Feared so. At least we see little hope, although we have not given up trying. RUT after all there are paper, or any other small town newspaper can sinele handed do in a matter of this kind. Few people realize how T" f' I i. 1 1 raemc is not oniy iinanciany out jjuuucaiiy. There is now a suit pending in Federal Court seek ing to compel the S.P. to ger service over its bhasta and San Francisco, as per the government. But this department will be surprised if it ever comes up for hearing. Or if it does, if any relief is obtained. When you tackle the Southern Pacific corporation, boys and girls, with its 'time honored monopoly and its millions, you TACKLE something! So we ask our correspondent what can we do that we haven't already done? As we have maintained shippers of Medford could undoubtedly secure the desired passenger service over the S. P. anytime they would stand together, and DEMAND it. But even the ocal Traffic Association will take no action, drastic or concerted. their nlea retaliate and the fruit shippers MIGHT suffer ! wen if the chief patrons literally support it as far as concerned, don't care enough about improved service to insist upon it, what chance has one daily paper in that community in securing it? The answer is precious little. . . 117E grant, however, that is no excuse for not trying, " as a matter of public servfee, and that is what we have done and shall continue to do. For the con ditions regarding railroad able and we agree with Mrs. G.L.G. that it is incon ceivable the people of this section of the state should have to submit to such treatment from a common and a public carrier, on and on, through the years 1 cut to repeat what can. QRIGINALLY this department felt sure the "Office of Defense Transportation" would Brant relief. for it has full powers to do so glaring and so flagrant. bo the situation was brought before that bodv in Washington a long time ago, both in person ana'by letter and local popular petition. In each and every instance the O.D.T. in effect merely oked the objections advanced by the S. P., not in general but in detail, and in effect joined the cor poration against the public. "lhe ehief argument, of cause of the war the S. P. could not secure the neces sary equipment even if it wished to, without taking it irom other sections devoted to war service, in other words without impairing its vital war effort. a a a a i AND of course that was Tt11A -No one in Southern Oregon would ask for a sinele engine or car from the S.P., or from any other railroad or corporation, if such action would in any way seri ously impair that company's war effort. But it wasn't and ISN'T true I At least it isn't true unless the Southern Pacific is deliberately impairing its profits at the present time. H or, this holiday season, the S. P. is maintaining all the through service that has been asked, as far as essential equipment is con cerned, between Southern Oregon and Dunsmuir, California. Why? So it will not have to bear the extra expense of sending increased Christmas parcel post, 200 miles north to Eugene and 600 miles south to San Francisco, as its normal necessitates. So each day it train which for parcel THROUGH SERVICE between Medford and San Francisco. - Obviously if maintainine impair the S. P.'s war effort ber , and it does NOT, other month of the year. But that is the S.T.'s claim, that is the claim the O.D.T. accepts and upon which it refuses to give Med ford and Southern Oregon any relief. ao there is the reason why this paper s effort to get decent railroad service established between Southern Oregon and California, has not to date, been able to get to first base. The Rush To The Left And now thfi new artvprnmpi-itln-pvilj nf Pnlnnrl is put in charge of a life-long revolutionist and avow ed socialist. So the constant and increasing rush to the lpft pops on and on in Europe. wnere it will stop nobody knows. But here is our prediction : When World Wnr Nn 2 5a no far in tho haiAr as World War No. 1 is now democracy, or a tnorough-going INorth cape to Vladivostok. limits to what this news powerful the southern 1. . I'L! lt provide continuous passen division between .Portland its original contract with from the outset, the fruit heinc the S. P. MIGHT of a railroad, those who this section of Oregon is transportation are deplor be done about it 7 so, and the abuses are x ' course, was the war. Be the complete answer, IF war effort to increase its ; as was true a year ago. service, or lack of it,, is sending a connecting post rrives direct and this service does NOT in the month of Decem it would not impair it any there won't be a genuine monarchy from the Softening Up For. Early In vasion Seen In Aerial Activity Chungking, Dec. 2 (U.R) With the date of an Ameripan landinff somewhere nn the Phlna coast drawing nearer, American air forces based in the China theater are intensifying? their soitenina ud nroeram alons the Coastal belt, desrjite Jananeae nr. cupation of seven former Ameri can air Dases .n souinern Uhlna. Giant B-29 Sunrfortresaee nnri 14th air force Llberatnm hnmh. ed Japanese-held points along the China coast not lesa than as times during November, a Unit- ea tress survey showed today. The American nlnne deliver. ed their heaviest roundlne- tn a new Japanese airdrome near Samah Bay on the southern tip of Hainan island. This enemy Dase was bombed 14 times dur ing November, an average of one raid every two days. Main targets of the American planes have been airdromes, power plants, radio stations, wharves, barracks, freiohtere cruisers, destroyers and junks. in iMovemoer the allied planes bombed d O C k a at ' Hnnolrmia and Kowloon 10 times, an air field On Weichmv ielnnri ' of Lluchow peninsula once, an airfield at Kiungshal on the northern tip of Hainan island Once. Fort Bavard nn Frenxh leased territory in Kangchow- wan Day six times, Sulkai in northwest Kwangchowwan bay once, a harbor at Pakhni of the Lluchow peninsula once, Port of Amoy once, Shanghai four times. JaDanese tarffetn In TnHn. China, and Thailand were raid. ea ai limes in November by the itn aaf in addition to the B-29 raid on Banekok Nnvemher vi American airmen aimed at air. fields, shipping facilities, rail road Driages, carbide mines and coastal shipping. The leading Jan airfield at Gialam, the northern suburb of Hanoi, was bombed three times. 10 LOPPED OFF JON HALL'S NOSE STILL A MYSTERY , Hollywood, Dec. 2 (U.R) The verbal battle of the Dorsey bal cony paused between rounds to- nleht Tnr a irar-inr1 mmh while handsome Screen Star Jon nan prepared to take the stand again to testify just who it was who lopped off the end of his nose. . Prosecutor Arthur Crum said Hall might have to explain to the jury hearing the assault charges why it was so difficult to stop in the middle of a fracas and identify the person who bonoed him with a bottle. Three key witnesses had visit ed the stand but no one, least of all Hall himself, was able to clear up the question of whether Dorsey, his beauteous wife Pat Dane, or Allan Smiley slashed the actor's classic profile August 5 at be luxurious Dorsey apart ment, or with what. Defense attorneys hinted they would call for a dismissal of charges when the state finishes its case next week. DEGUlElSITS PREMIER STALIN Moscow, Dec. 2 (U.R) Gen. Charles DeCaulle arrived in Moscow on a special train today and paid his first visit to Mar shal Josef Stalin at the Krem lin early in the evening. . There was no indication of the subjects discussed by the French and Soviet leaders, but it was believed that the subjects of French territorial demands against .Germany and clarifica tion of the Spanish question stand high on the agenda of pos sible discussions. EIGHT INJURED San Francisco, Dec. 2 (U.R) Elaht Demons were allohtlv In. jured today when a 13-foot high glass and steel tank in which the Seabees were demonstrating un derwater welding in front of a local theater burst and showered spectators. SOT. WHIFFED 240 St. Louis, Mo. U.R) Sgt. Clar ence (Hooks) lott, former St. Louis Browns left-handed pitch er, struck out 240 men out of a total 404 whiffed by the mound staff of the Kearns, Utah, over seas replacement depot during the past season. FULLDRESS QUIZ OF PEARL HARBOR DISASTER SOUGHT Firing of Littell Also Eyed By Congress Sen.1 John son Asks Probe Washington, Dec. 2 (U.R) Congressional interest tonight centered more on proposed 'in vestigations than an legislative matters, with new demands be ing voiced for full-dress in quiries into the Pearl Harbor disaster and the firing of For mer Assistant Attorney General Norman H. Littell. Best guesses were that neither of the proposed investigations actually would be undertaken, but neither of them could be definitely written off. There was a chance that congress, might decide to undertake either or both. ' Newest demand for an in quiry into the circumstances sur rounding the Pearl Harbor dis aster came from Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, D., Colo., who said dif ferences between the Roberts commission . report submitted two months after the attack and the army-navy statements of Friday make "a congressional investigation absolutely neces sary." Secretary of .Navy Forrestal and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced on Friday that on the basis of testimony. taken by special boards of in quiry they found no warrant for court martial proceedings against any officers in connec tion with the Pearl Harbor dis- acter. Their statements wiped out the proposed court martial trials of Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short, who were in command in Hawaii at the time of the at tack. Developments in connection with the fued between Littell and his ex-boss, Attorney Gen eral Francis Blddle, were mostly in the house. The house . rules committee had before it a res olution by Rep. . Jerry Voorhis, D., Cal., calling for a full in quiry into the affairs and sev eral committeemen were under stood to favor approving it. The committee is control.ed by a coalition of Republicans and anti-New Deal - Democrats and there appeared to be at least an even chance that they would ask the house to okay the pro posed inquiry. ' SEALS ON SALE With the Girl Scouts presid ing, the booth sale of Christmas seals opened in Medford Satur day morning at Mann's depart ment store, the post office sub station and Montgomery Ward's. The sale will continue for ten days under the leadership of Mrs. Dwight Findley and Mrs. C. I. Drummond of the Junior group of the Jackson County Public Health association, which sponsors the annual drive to raise funds to combat tubercu losis. Booths in the three places will be in charge of B. E. chapter of P. E. O. Monday. Tht women selling seals that day will be Maude Holmes, Frances Cocn ran. Doris Taylor, Anna Mc- Pherson, Luola Bengtson, Grace Welch and Carrie Brown. M-18U Regarded As 'Hottest Tank Destroyer In Use Lima, O. (U.R) The army's new tank destroyer the . M-18 is regarded by the armyvord1 nance department officials here as "the hottest thing in today's armored warfare." Capt. Charles R. Adkins, Co lumbus Grove, O., an army auto motive expert of 16 years' ex perience, who saw the M-18 In operation In France, said the ve hicle is a streamlined speed demon that put a streak of lightning in our drive across France into Germany." The M-18, he said, has a me chanical system which permits complete installation of a new engine in less than two hours. Capt. Adkins asserted that the tank destroyer's ten bogy wheels operate independently, "thus one broken wheel will not Incapaci tate the vehicle, which mounts a 78 mm. cannon." Successful Ml .1 Yes. all aver America, successful poultrymen follow this plan; keep only well-bred, healthy -birds . . . then give them good car and plenty of larro Egg Mash. MONARCH SEED & FEED CO. Sixth and IN MIRACLE FEAT WILL GET COURSE With the U. S. Fifth Division Near Metz, Dec. 2 U.R) The "foxhole surgeon," who per formed a delicate throat opera tion with a rusty jacknife and fountain pen while under fire, sat down quickly, as if weak in the knees, when told today that he had been offered a free medi cal education at Western Re serve university. The news just about floored T4 Duane N. Kinman, a former truck driver and auto mechanic from College Place, Wash., wnose Battlefield operation as tounded medical men. He had saved a choking soldier whose windpipe was gashed by shrap nel Dy making an incision, held open by the fountain pen, which permuted him to breath again, "Golly, that's just what 1 wanted to do all my life," Kin man said after the shock of the news had worn off. "I wanted to go to college and learn to be a surgeon but I always told my- sen, -it's no use, Duane, you'll never get together enough money. Now it looks like I've got the chance I've always want ed." The offer was made to Kinman elevated from a Drivate in the medical corps to technician, fourth grade, for his feat by the president of Western Re serve provided he could pass the pre-meaicai course examinations. AMERICANS TOLD TO LEAVE THREE Chungking. Dec. 2 (U.R) The United States embassy today ad vised American nationalists to evacuate portions of three cen tral Chinese provinces, includ ing the Kunming area, as Japa nese forces continued their rapid drive on the communications center and airbase city of Kwei yang, between Kunming and Chungking. ' About SO American nationals remain in the three provinces affected, the embassy said. The provinces are northern Yunnan, on the Burma border; western Kwangsi, now-almost complete ly overrun by the Japanese, and eastern . Kweichow, . penetrated in at least two places by twin drives on Kweiyang. Today s Chinese communique said enemy attacks east of Liu chal on the ' Kwangsi-Kwel- chow border were repulsed yesterday morning, but admitted that fighting continued in an area northeast of Liuchai to ward: the Kwangsi - Kweichow railroad. Rome, Dec. 2 (U.R) Indian troops of the British 8th army, in a swift jab at enemy forces defending the' approaches to Faenza, have captured Albereto, five miles northeast- of the Rimini-Bologna highway strong hold, Allied headquarters an nounced The tactical Importance of hereto, a village situated on the Lamone river,, was demonstrated by the stiff resistance put up by the Germans through a week of. sharply contested engagements. Meanwhile on the Sth army front the Germans maintained the initiative for the third suc cessive day, the only announced Allied success being the capture of Mt. Giornetto, 11 miles south west of Faenza, by units operat ing on the right flank of the main body. NAVY WIVES PROTEST ' Berkeley, Calif., Dec. 2 (U.R) Five hundred navy and civil ian wives whose families have been ordered by the navy to va cate federal housing projects in Berkeley and Albany today tele graphed protects to the secretary of the navy. POISON OAK? Try a bottle oi ZEMACOL Too must be satlrfletf as rout mane) cheerfully refunded Ort a buttle t day at WtSTkHN THKIrl. Poultrymcn Bartlett Phone 3460 VET INFORMATION CENTER TO OFFER SERVICEMEN HELP ' A veteran's Information cen ter has been opened in Selective Service headquarters, City Han, where all information on prob lems which may beset an ex- serviceman or woman returning to civilian life is pooled. Vet erans visiting the center may have their questions answered there or be referred by special appointment to the agency which can best serve them. Helen Thompson, long- con nected with Selective Service office, will be in charge of the new center. Appointment of the local Vet erans Service committee to assist Selective Service in car rying out the provisions of the law for the benefit of all ex- servicemen and women, was made by Colonel George E. Sandy of state Selective Service headquarters on his visit to Med ford last week. Representatives of Selective Service boards, U. S. Employ. ment Service, War Manpower Commission, Railroad Retire ment board. Civil Service com mission, Public Welfare commis sion. County Agent's office and American Red Cross will be in cluded on the service committee. Also to be Included is an ad visory committee from the Chamber of Commerce compos ed of business and professional men to advise the veteran should he desire information regarding a business venture or a profes sion. KILLERS FOILED IN ESCAPE TRY Oregon City. Ore.. Dec. 2 (U.R) A desperate escape at tempt was made by Henrv W. Merton and Walter Lome Wil soni convicted killers, while be ing taken to the death house in Salem Friday after being sen tenced to die in the lethal gas chamber at the state prison. une two men tried to wreck the car in which they were rid ing by kicking Deputy Sheriff Joe Shope, the driver, in the neaa. Although the car swerved, the two men were pinned Quick ly after a furious struggle by the snerurs outcers In the car. Merton and Wilson were tried In Oregon City last February and convicted of killing Ralph Dan- ien, a -year-old baker in a tavern holdup. They were taken to Oregon City Friday for re sentencing after their appeal had been denied. Editorial Comment New York Sun "Overwhelmine maloritv of citizens will be satisfied with the unqualified statement of all the responsible officials involved that It 'would be highly pre judicial , to successful prosecu tion of war' to publish the full record now," and "while errors of judgment occurred both in Washington and Pearl Harbor. no officer is now accused of re sponsibility for our defeat. It will Be found ultimately that "major responsibility for Jig victory at Pearl Harbor rests with the Japs." Washington. Dec. 1 (U.R) Marine corps headquarters -announced tnHnv that lVTol Al-iulian C. Smith has been nam ed commanding general, depart ment of the Pacific, with head quarters in San Francisco, Calif. He will assume his new com mand on December 8, relieving Maj. Gen. J. C. Fegan, now in the Naval hospital at Mare Is land, Calif. TYPISTS ATTENTION We need additional typists to help in our Christmas Mail Order Dept. Work is available in the day or evening crews. You can eam that extra money for Christmas, or for that extra War Bond. We have our own Bus service and Cafeteria. Call Mrs. Bartelt at 2161, Or. Call in person at Bear Creek Orchards. BEAR CREEK ORCHARDS South Pacific Highway Medford Flight o' Time Madiord eud Jackson Co His lory ftom the files ot the Mail Tribune 10. 20. and 34 rears age. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 3, 1934 (It was Monday) France and Germany sign pact and end Saar dispute. Germany wil pay 60 million and furnish 11 million tons of coal. Polls In sewage disposal bond election will open at one p. m. Fair and frosty.. Hige 46, low 29 degrees. County and city taxes both slightly lower than last year. Fluhrer's bakery introduces new bread called "Sesame." Parade and displays open Christmas season in local stores. . Billion dollar-subsidy to spur housing program talked. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ' i December 3, 1824 (It was Tuesday) - Charlie Chaplin marries Llta Grey, 16. The bride will con tinue to go to school. ' Secretary of Interior Work lists Crater Lake as a major at; traction. Bears, are praised and insect menace deplored in re port. Ireland ready for new clash over boundry line. President Coolidge on trip to Chicago this week will use no special train or private car. Chief executlye "to practice economy I have been preaching." Fair. High 51, low 37 degrees. Buffalo meat to be served at Masonic banquet-this week. Entries pour in for Ashland winter fair next Monday. Crater club feasts and makes merry at Rogue Elk. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY December 3, 1910 Jackson county population 28, 746. Entire state 672,765, census shows. - Plan new bank for city. "The Dpulicity of Poi-fland" subject of double column editorial.-' TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice Is hereby given that Antelope Stock Men's AssoeTattnn. j vntuntnrv association, has leased from the United amies 01 America lor grazing purposes the following described lands in Jack son County, Oregon, and a part of the Camp White Military Reservation, to-wlt: -.Al1 tSi.- portion of the Camp White Military Reservation lying east and south of the east line of the west half of the east half of the east half of Sections 16 and 21 in Township 36 South, Range 1 West of the Willamette Meridian In Jack son County, Oregon. ..Also approximately 1,080 acres In the Incinerator Area being all that ftortlon of the military reservation ying west of the north and south center Una of Sections 13 and 24 In 7vOWSfl P 39 South. Range 3 West of the Willamette Meridian in Jackson County, Oregon, save and except the southeast quarter of the southwest I1""" anS tot 3 of Section 14 of aald township and range. , !5l 'JS'.ni being that portion of Uie military reservation lying west of the east line of the west half of '"'i0' Section 8, Township Willamette Meridian, east of the east half of Sections 12 and 13. ?LthW1."an15t, Meridian In Jack. ISh f?.u.nt?r' 0.rW"ii nd ""utherly nAV la fffie'S'of VrVSS WUhln S The nhnvj. ,ntBi. . . . 22,488 acres. -M.maieiy aI,li' Prnnot members of the Antelope association are hereby notl. tothVm '-?"" OT "hecP belonging to them and now on said lensrf premises therefrom and not to .rale jr Permit any such cattle f' heec- to ge brazed upon said lands during the term of said lease! By P. H. McCurley. Secretary. PARTS and SERVICE for all Makes oi WASHERS and REFRIGERATORS YOUNGER'S APPLIANCE . SERVICE CO. 31 N. Bartlett Phone 2419
