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t 3 11 IX MEDrORD MAIL TRIB0WB afondar. Dee. II, 1144 Medfo: UNB averyoae la Sontksra Onm Cd Uit lull Trloae' Ball? Imp) aataraay PuhlUhad by HEDFORD PRINTDKI CO r?- North rii at pmma iui. ROBKRT W BUHL, Editor. ERNEST B GILS TRAP Manafor. mH tlMCV Arivartlalna Mar. Cdltar c FERGUSON. ManafUu iBTtnni pimRV Sunday I una OLIVC 8T ARCHER, KM Editor CEJlAUi LAinAM iirruiui - An Independent newspaper. kntered as second elaee inetter at , Medford Oreaon. under A el ' March J, IB7. SUBSCRIPTION RATES r iUll-In Advance DsUy and Sunday one raw ...T-M Dally and Sunday -alx montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday --three moa 1.10 Dally and Sunday on month 75 By Carrlar In Advance Madtord Ashland. Central Point, Jackson- rills. Gold Kill. Phoenix Talent and . on motor routaa: , Dally and Sunday on rear. J' Daily and Sunday on month 71 All larma cash to advanca. Official Paper al tha City at Madford Official Paper ef eaceeea C aunty Uejtad Prtaa roll Leased Wlra UEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlslna Represertatrre WTST-HOIXIDAY COMPANi BC Offices In Naw Yore. Chicago. Da trot t. San rrendeco. Lea Angeles. Se attle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta. Vaneouvar. B. C. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry , The plea is now for America to get behind Russia and Britain, and agree on a European policy. Putting a 1044 twist on a Civil War gag, America better get out In front, where she can watch the alleged pair of brotherly nations. r e e e ! Tha Columbia river gorge wind last week varied from 82 to 135 mph, according to the press of the region. In any event, it was a wind of insufficient force to flap the late Democratic candidate loose from the presi dential coat-tails, while playing seven-up on same. 1 The Older Girls have only this week left to demand snow for Christmas, and the right to command Junior to knock it off his shoes, before he dares come In the house. t a ' i "It was announced the place would be operated for tha bene fit of the public, and not for profit" (Exchange). - If lucky, they will Just break even. , a a I Willis Scott, the Little App. cowman towned Sat. He report ed he was having Indifferent success trapping wildcats, who were not languid about getting caught. a a a ' I HOMEBREW MEMORIES ; (Independence Enterprise) : "One evening recently while Dean Walker was attending meeting Mrs. Walker was home sicca. Early la tha eve ning she was startled by hear ing an explosion . from tha basement of their home which sounded like a time bomb. . Sha thought it might have been the hot water tank, but was too brightened to investi gate. A short time later six more explosions followed and she . was really frightened. When Mr. Walker arrived home he found that some Jars of sauerkraut in the basement . fruit closet had exploded and caused the trouble." a a Stockholm reports when allied planes appeared over Berchtes gaden, the hide-out of Herr Hit ler, his "personal batteries" drove them off. Coming from Stockholm this news should be taken with a sack of salt. In the past, their news has always been best when not confined to the truth. The idea, however, is a dandy, and why the allies have not appeared before, in fact or fancy, is not known. It is here Der fuehrer goes to paint, write poetry, chew rugs, and think up new cussedness. i . a a : "Needless to say, the Mexican was released, as he could not have killed his wife when he did not have one." tColiax, Cal Record). The perfect alibi. a . The government refused to allow i inland to pay her war debt installment last week. Nevertheless, the worst mauled of all the Baltic lands, despite the snub, put up a valiant though tutile tight to be honest i ... : J. Tannehill (Jaybird) Walker, B, mingled with the Sat. night crowd in his cowboy suit. He has everything a regulation, honest-to-gooaness cowboy . has but bow-legs. a a a The Japanese are losing ad mirals at toe rate of ten per cent per week, and are In danger of running short of this form of brass-hats. The Mikado, asserted to be a "divinity", has not yet kicked the imperial bucket j . . . Politicians of the world have messed the general situation al most beyond belief. On tha record to date, they should stay home and let tha generals make and sign the peace terms. Cloalni time- for 'classified Ada a a. m. Too Lata to Classify la JO p. m. That Hood River Incident The surprising thing is not the regrettable action of the Hood Kiver Lgion Post regarding its Japanese members, but that there has not been much- more of this sort of intolerance in World War No. IL In World War No. I there were all sorts of ridic ulous things done, in the name of patriotism, and as part of vertiable orgies of impotent race hatreds regarding the enemy, then the Germans only. Not only was German oDera kicked out of the country and the teaching of German barred in the colleges and schools, but no grocers in this country dared handle sauer kraut without labelling it "Liberty uaDoager, IN this war, however, the American people have mitfar nrall lfaf fViAiM tianila XT ahIh , m n 1 Kiwt'jr itsii ncub men jicauoi nub uuiv ait? ocvciai thousand Japanese wearing the U. S. uniform, and bringing honor and glory to it; but literally hundreds of thousands of boys of German ancestry, are fighting and dying lor their country, both in the J ar East and abroad. They are doing a good job, too t The enemy is as heartily hated and distrusted as was true quarter of a century aeo. more so Derhans. but little if any war hysteria is indulged in. This war is.taken with far more seriousness, determination and dignity this time. Which is all to the good. m m m m 9 ""THIS is not to belittle or condone the undemocratic action of the Hood River Post in any way. For as Secretary of War Stimson well said, erasing the names of American war veterans in good standing and with good war records, who had demonstrated their loyalty in actual combat, simply because their skins are yellow and subsequently their native country ueuiuue uivuiveu in mis war, is to renounce and out rage the very ideals and principles for which this country and the democracies of the world are now fighting. The wave of condemnation that has swept the country as a result, emanating not only from high government officials but from other American Legion posts, is entirely deserved and extremely heartening. RUT we repeat, the striking thing is NOT that one Legion post in the country lost its head, or one small group of American citizens yielded to the primi tive mob spirit that is such a natural nart. nf n hittor war; but that all in all there has been so little of wiis son oi tning, since JPearl Harbor. In fact this Hood River incident brings into sharp relief the comparative freedom in this pnnnfrv fmm emotional excesses and vindictive bigotry in this war, and how the American people as a whole have sobered and matured, between two wars and a matter of a comparatively few years. " A War Of Surprises The only certain thine nhnnf. this Tirol ia if a nr. . tamty. This has been true from the outset It seems like ancient history now, but only a little over three years aeo Hitler with trumpets proclaimed that all organized resistance in Russia had been destraved tha ha ff la AH fVt A onofnim m , - , a WT umvmv V WIO CadbCI li irdK had been won. And he believed it. So did Janan. An fr an that DC' believed it" College exPerts at Washington, More than that QN paper, the Germans had killed enough Russians, taken a sufficient number of Russian prisoners and occupied enough Russian territory, to sustain such a statement, as far as the principles of a tradi tional military science were concerned. ine organized Russian resistance that Stalin had been able to get toeether that first summer of thn war, HAD been destroyed. Petrograd had been isolat ed. Moscow WAS tottering on the abyss. The Soviet government and practically all industrial Russia in fear of disaster had been moved a thousand miles easi saieiy oeyond the Urals. m m m m yHEN something happened. Secure beyond those mountains, Stalin proceeded to raise new armies, establish new war industries, in short replace the original system of organized resistance that had gone, with an entirely new one, making Stalingrad a Water loo for the Nazi Napoleon, and driving the disorgan ized and humiliated "Teutonic Kniirhts" hack tn thB land they came from. I AST August this department received word not for publication but from a high and reliable source in Washington, D. C., that the war definitely would be over in Europe "sometime in October." inis was not just another "shot-in-the-dark." It was "official", the war might well end BEFORE October, but it would certainly not extend BEYOND that month. As the clinching point it was stated that the WPB had issued orders to reduce production and even dis mantle certain munition factories which with Ger many out of the war would no longer be needed. THEN once more quite obviously SOMETHING Precisely what we don't know. But ther n nn Aemht of this : the war in Europe did not end in October, and it is still going at this writing, and not as well from an allied standpoint as expected. So what? Nothing except what we remarked above, name ly: the only CERTAIN thing about this war, is its uncertainty. SMOKES BOOM BUSINESS Chicago U.R Something new has been added to the menu of Mrs. Lou Clark's coffee shop. And she's dolnrt a land- office business, Mrs. Clarke's success Is the precious cigarette. She gives' awsy one smoke with each meaU Cloalnj tlma tor ClanlflM Ada S a. m. Too Lata to Claaalfy 12:30 a w. 12 MILES INLAND ON MINDORO ISLE Allied Headquarters, Philip pines, i-ec. in ui.PJ The libera. tiop of the Philippines gained momentum today with American forces driving 12 miles inland on newly-Invaded Mindoro with in 130 miles of Manila and split ting the Yamashlta line on Leyte Into three disorganized segments m a powerful offensive. Otadio Tokyo said an Amerl- can fleet of "considerable strength" had been sighted In the Sulu sea south of Mindoro and speculated that another am phibious landing was in pros pect, pernaps on Luzon, site of Manna and Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's ultimate obiectlva in the Philippines.) Repair Airfields American and Australian en gineers on Mindoro, already were rushing repairs to captur es, san Jose airfield and build ing new air strips on what Gen, Douglas MacArthur called "ex cellent sites" to cover the next phase of the Philippines campaign. Japanese resistance, both In ine air and on the ground, con tinued negligible. Apparently paralyzed by the day and night raids on their Philippines air dromes by American carrier and land-based planes, the Japanese were able to get few aircraft off the ground and most of those were shot down. American patrol planes strafed and set afire a coastal vessel and two small freighters off the northeast coast and damaged a third freighter off the east coast, but there was no official indica tion whether these were engag ed in reinforcing the Mindoro garrison. . . Leyte End Near On Leyte, some 300 miles southeast of Mindoro, American forces brought the final annihi lation of 20,000 to 25,000 Japa nese trapped in the northwest corner of the island within sight with a series of surprise attacks from the south and east. The increasing enemy casual ties, coupled with the double breaching of the Yamashita line. Indicated that the Japanese were becoming disorganized and were cracking under constant Ameri can pressure. Cut off from supplies and re inforcements by the American invasion of Mindoro, the remain ing Japanese on Leyte appeared doomed to death or capture. There was evidence that some enemy troops already were suf fering from hunger. - i ex I iS 'Itsr v&k5i,,,; k"- - t,-w , t' i t . fc4 ' r ii-irt. mart t t- rf i My-r;' m.iiniiWii.Y . .'i ,,,iff.nfn .i.i. .! T it - - - .-'Afc a.j.. ITIE GUY9 THEY LEFT BEHIND After putting planes in ship-shape order, these ground crew mea sent B-29's off from Saipan for raid on Tokyo with a cheery "Good Luck." These fellows love theis : ships and worry like mothers when they're "out there.1 SHORTAGES ON TO Faces Trial E FOREIGN POLICY Fifth Army Headquarters' in Italy, Dec. 18 (U.R) Hep. J Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, ranking Republican member of the house military affairs com mittee, told the United Press to day he plans to lesd an investi gation into what he described as six Imminently critical shortages on the western front. Following a tour of the Italian war front with other junketing congressmen, Thomas said two of these shortages directly af fected the progress of the war, two were threatening increased casualties, and the other two af fected morale. . Under the first classification he listed what he said was a growing shortage of heavy am munition and rubber tires. In sufficient hospital ships and whole blood for transfusions, Thomas said, were threatening Increased casualties, while short ages of cigarets, chaplains andj supplies were classified as ma jor morale factors. Thomas said there was plenty of blood plasma, but that whole blood was scarce because It lasts only four to five days and must be transported by plane. The Italian theater, he added, was not suffering from these short ages anywhere near the same de gree as the western front. The congressmen agreed that the home front had no concep tion of the difficulties encount ered by American forces in Italy, particularly the mountainous terrain. Washington, Dec. 18 U.R) Sens. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich , and Claude Pepper, D., Fla., agreed today that the time has come for President Roose velt to enunciate American for eign policy in the light of recent European political developments and their effect on the four free doms and the Atlantic charter. Their agreement came during senate debate on confirmation of six high state department nom inations, endorsed by Vanden berg but opposed by Pepper. Senate Also Pepper agreed with Vanden berg that President Roosevelt should make a foreign policy declaration, but he contended that the senate at the same time should make known its own sentiments by Its action on the six nominations. Pepper said confirmation of the nominations would place the state department under domina tion by "conservatives rather than men with "liberal views." He asked the senate to delay ac tion and request President Roosevelt to withdraw the list. He said the senate could thus serve notice on the world that it intends to follow a progressive and liberal policy in foreign af fairs. The wrangle over the nomina tions threatened to upset plans for Christmas adjournment of congress on Wednesday. Virtual ly all other business of the ses sion was finished and house members already were starting home In large numbers. OFFICERS GIVE BLOOD AS CHRISTMAS PRESENT San Francisco, Dec. 18 (U.R) Five hundred army officers headed by Brig. Gen. G. H. Kelts, commander of the San Francisco port of embarkation, gave their blood today in a mass donation at the Jones street blood bank. It was their Christmas gift to GIs on the battlefronts. Five million motor vehicles will be registered In California by 1B55, it Is estimated; there are about 3,000,000,000 regis tered now. ON WIDE FRONT London, Dec. 18 (U.R) Ar mored Soviet forces smashed through to the southern Czecho slovak border on a 68-mile front today, a Moscow communique announced tonight as the battle for Budapest flared with renew ed violence after red army troops rammed a narrow edge through one of tne main de fense lines five miles northeast of the city. Driving north from the Mis kolc area, the Russians captured more than 30 inhabited places and cleared the entire 20-mile long area between Sateraljauj hely and the Hernad river. The advance, in which a total of 1,850 prisoners were taken, brought the soviet lines within 14 miles south of the big rail and highway junction of Kassa. The multi-pronged drive, which brought red army columns thun dering toward the Slovak rail way center of Kassa trapped thousands of Germans in the Bukka mountains. Med ford Airmen Get Home Leave Due to arrive in the United States soon on furlough from the European theater of opera tions where they served in the 8th Air Force are Capt Robert W. Crews, son of Mrs. Lucy Crews, 737 W. 14th St., and First Lt Donald R. Grigsby, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Grigsby, Rt 4, box 191-A, according to announcement from their head quarters. Capt Crews has served 19 months as a B-17 pilot, complet ing 31 missions, totaling 240 combat flying hours. Lt. Grigsby has served 12 months as a B-24 bombardier, completing 30 mis sions, totaling 249 combat flying hours. (flit'' (Acme Telepholo) Charles Chaplalu presents a typical Uuapmietuiua pose in Los Aii&elea uuuu as as Hears superior juqpe aeury M. wiius ruie tuat a jury uiuab Uecei'uuiie wneuier ne is laiti ui Joru tourrjr s cuuouy oaoy uuum1 tcr. Carol Aim. JURY SELECTION E Hollywood, Dec. 18. The tedious process of picking out jurors to head Joan Barry's claims that Charlie Chaplin fathered -er, child droned smoothly on today after a brief flurry in which, four possibilities decided they already had made up their minds. By mid-afternoon 24 prospec tive jurors had been questioned and a tentative panel of five elderly men, five elderly house wives and two young women sat in the jury box. The plaintiff's attorney had used three and the defense two of the six peremptory challenges each had at the start. Defense Attorney Charles E. (Pat) Millikan 'precipitated the break in routine by excusing middle-aged Mrs. Margaret Ste phenson for reasons o this own. Next up was Mrs. Harriet B. Affeld, who stalked through the gate and ' announced: "Your honor, I read the papers, and I already have formed an opin ion.'' Mrs. Jessie G. Ragland, called next, sat down before speaking her mind. "I've read about it," she said, "and I'm in sympathy with Miss Barry, and I think that would disqualify me. The defendant would have to do a lot of prov ing." I OF PARTNER'S BULLET TART T E Eugene, Dec. 18 Miss Gladys Turley, 38, in Lane county Jail here charged with shooting and wounding, her friend and farm partner, Miss Pauline Conradt, 32, is to be ararlgned In circuit court here today. Miss Turley, a newspaper re porter, remained in Jail In lieu of $10,000 bond, . while Miss Conradt, an interior decorator, was In serious condition at a hosnltal here. The shooting occurred at the home of friends in Eugene, where Miss Conradt had gone as a dinner guest Friday night, and was believed due to jeal ously oaer the interior decora tor's soldier-boy friend having caused a rift in the relations between the two closely-linked women. The women have been oprating a small farm Jointly on the Willamette highway. Both Express Grief -' Miss Conradt suffered a wound Jusi below the chest and has two bullet holes In the back. Saturday night, Miss Turley sent word to her erstwhile friend via Interviewers saying I want Pauline to know that I am sorry and .that I have waived Indictment and want to take my punishment." Miss Conradt's" comment was "I am terribly sorry for Gladys. It will be much worse for her than for me." Pauline Conradt, 32, who was In serious condition Sunday from wounds inflicted by her business partner at a dinner party In Eugene Friday night, taught art at Medford high school during 1938-39 and super vised art in Medford grade schools part of that same period, according to E, H. Hedrlck, Med ford school superintendent. NEW SECRET WEAPON IN USE BY GERMANS U. S. Ninth Army Headquar ters, Western Front, Dec. 18. (U.R) The Germans are using a new type secret weapon along the western front, it can be re- veaiea toaay. The weapon ap pears to be a small rocket pro- 'jectile, but the details still can not be disclosed. California fishermen of trawl ing purse seiners work on shares:: the owner of the boat gets one third of the haul, and the skipper gets a small percent age above that of the rest of the crew, which share the remaining two-thirds equally. Flight o' Time Medioid and Jackson Co His lory ftom tha files oi tha Mall Tribune 10. 20. and 34 r" ago. ' TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December IB, 1834 - (It Was Tuesday) Nazis deny rumor Adolf Hit ler shot by Silesian girl, when her father dismissed from gov ernment post. Dr. Townsend threatens "to whip the hide off congress, and keep them home for good" un less $200 per month pension bill passed. Governor-elect Martin an nounces he will oppose any at tempt of legislature to repeal gas tax. Cloudy. High 47, low 32 de grees. . Business chiefs of nation fav or peace with New Deal administration. More gasoline used last year, despite depression, than ever be fore in state. Old age pension plan drafted for next legislature. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 18, 1924 - (It Was Jhursday) Medford the warmest spot In state, while zero and freezing weather prevails In other sections. Gov. Pierce charges member of state game commission with purchase of bottle of whiskey. Republican candidate for gov ernor in Connecticut defeata Democrat by huge majority. Presbyterian Men's club en Joy venison dinner. Continued cold. 23 degrees. Bomb Rail Yards in Western Reich London, Dec. 18 (U.R) Five hundred American heavy bomb ers attacked rail yards at Co logne, Coblenz, Mainz, and else where In western Germany to day and many other large for matlons of Allied bombers flew out over the channel apparently for new assaults on the Nazi communication lines behind the front. The raids folowed a heavy three-pronged night assault by more than 1,300 RAF heavy bombers which crashed an estl mated 8.750 tons of explosives on Duisburg, Munich and Ulm. ail high priority transport cen ters supplying the German armies on the western front The Dead Sea valley is more than 1200 feet below the level of the Mediterranean sea. Gripmcn on San Francisco's cable cars never fall to call out "Hang on for the curve!" when the car approaches a 90 degree turn. Open 8 A. M. to 9 P. M. THE ROLLING PIN Steaks, Chops, Short Orders prepared as you like them! 509 So. Riverside Ave. A Comforting Assurance . . . In time of bereavement EVERY detail of a Conger-Morris Mem orial Service it handled by experi enced people either Mr. Conger or Mr. Morris personally! Sine 1888 CONGER - MORRIS FUNERAL PARLORS Sixth and West Main St. Office of tha County Coroner AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 3147 H. W. Conger Carlos W. Morris Greatest need in Ashland now held to be water supply. Many from here to attend opening of Yreka Inn. High 32, low THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY Dacambar 18, 1910 (It Was Saturday) - J. A. Perry returns from trip to Chicago, and reports "thou sands are headed for the Rogue River valley." Portland's interference In freight rate case - roils local merchants. Studebaker auto donated for benefit of Crater Lake road to be. raffled off next Friday. Screen Star Gives ., Birth To Daughter Hollywood, Dec. 18. (U.R) Screen stars Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles today were the parents of a six-pound, six-ounce daughter, whom they will name Rebecca. The girl was born last night at St. John's hospital to the glam orous actress, who married Welles famed combination act. or-direc tor-producer - radio star- magician in October, 1943. SHIP DRINKING BAN CONTINUES IN FORCE Washington, Dee. 18 U.R . It is all right now for naval ves sels to carry beer and ale for their crews provided the men take the stuff ashore to dispose of it. Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal, who used to be a sai lor himself, was revealed today to have relaxed the quarter-century regulation under which no alcoholic beverages could be. "admitted or used" on naval ves sels except for medicinal pur poses. Forestall order allows beer and ale to be "admitted" to the ships but the ban on drinking aboard still stands. Cloatna rJma tnr Ritnii iM f jit to Classify 5:30 Saturday aftarnoon Pleasa remember
