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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, Dae. 27. 1844 MEDFORDfc.TBIBUNE pails" Sacepl "'"" " puhllihed by MIDrORU PRINTINO CO rt-M Norm fir st Phon "41- ROBERT W RUHU ltfltor. CRNEST R GH-STRAP. Manei HERB OKKY. AderUslnS " C rERtiURON. Mnln.5?'iJ ARTHUR PERRY. Sundaj d''?r, HRS OMVa STARCHER. W W CXRALP LATHAM ClrrulaU WT An Udependant Wewpapf. ntcred u seeond dm irutter 1 ttediord. oreaon, under Act af "" March 3. 17.. SUBSCRIPTION KATU Br Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday CM yaar JT-BO Bally and Sunday alx month! 4 00 Dally and Sunday thraa mo I.K Dally and Sunday ona monUi -78 By Carrier In Advonc Medford Ashland, Central P'n',J,c.k,0.n,; illa, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Talent and on motor route: gaily and Sunday ona rear.SSOO ally and Sunday one month .7c All lermi rath In advance. Official Paper af lb City Medferd Official Paper of Jack ton County CnlUd Praia raU Lean Wire MEMBER Of AUDIT BURTAU or CIRCULATIONS AdverUitn BepreeeptaU) WY8T-HOU.IDAV COMPANY. OJO Office In New York Oilcalo. De troll. ta rnmHeeo, Lpa Angela. e to. Portland. St Loula. Atlanta. m Vanrouver. B. C. Ye Smudge Pot Br Artnuf Perry Wnrrl nnw come the "Atlan tic Charter" Is not what It was cracked up to be, when foisted on the world in 1941, with great official whoop-la and hullaba loo. It was touted solemnly as a guide post for eternal peace, and document the world could tie to, like the Constitution, Holy Writ, the Magna Charter, the Oregonlan, the Declaration of Independence, end a mail order bouse catalog. It is now offici ally listed as "mere propagan da." It may develop the horse-in-the-middle-of-the-stream - that can't-be-changed, with a presi dential election in the offing, has been standing on the bank the past 12 years. ' Bracing weather now prevails, causing autoists to brace their feet against the fireplace as hard as they do against the foot accelerator of their vehicle. The same cold wave kept foolhardy, upstate violets from blooming on Christmas day for the glory of CofC climate publicity. HE WONT LAST (Salem Statesman) "He will say yes or no loud enough to hear, on any subject you wish, walks on both sides of the streets, and will tell any or all to go to hell, and more, at the slightest provo cation, if any. Folks, we've got a good fire chief and fir department. Amen." . a e Pre-New Year's resolutions are the order of the day. Sev eral have been mad and bro ken, Just to prove they could be. e a The OPA reports the Christ mas turkeys were too large to suit people. Another school of thought holds the appetite of the people was too small. e Epicureans of these parts are feasting on sausage and buck' wheat pancakes, and glowing reports of their merit are voiced It seems the sausage la not merged with soy beans, and the buckheat pancakes contain buck wheat. One of the best goose seasons In years Is now nearing an end the sport pages say. This goes for both tho feathered and pant ed species. e e e The discovery of nearly a ton of dynamite buried near the Athens, Greece hotel, where Premier Churchill of Britain Is stopping,, like any report with a Stockholm date line, should be taken with a grain, or more, of salt. The inference is, this was a Nazi trick, as the explosive was Nazi made. As nobody knew the premier was in Athens until after he had arrived, and nobody knew he was coming, the Nazi plotters were certainly up on their toes and hustling to have all details completed, and In place. Then a keen-eyed Brit ish patrol foiled the plot, If any. a e YE HAPPY HEATHEN "Some countries are so un civilized that the people are not even taxed by the government, and they don't have to fill out any forms or try to get priori tics for anvthina. A frlenH uihn has been on a Pacific island tells US It IS D tiful to aea tho nnlluo. They are so uncivilized that they don't build bigger houses than they need so' they can hire someone to help with the house keeping. They don't strive a great deal to ouido each othrr except that each one likes to have the prettiest collection of shells. This one weakness corre sponds with our struggle to accumulate more money than our neighbor. In lhl on. rmwi they are civilized and dissatls- nea, out in most things they are to benighted that they are hap py. (.Kansas City Times.) The germ of tetanus or lock jaw grows only in tha absence 01 oxygen. "30" For Jack Frankish Well a German bullet to the end of the career of young Jack Frankish, as a war correspondent Many of our readers must have noticed the Frank ish by-line at the head of recent dispatches from the western front He was one of the United Press service's younger stars, and a very promising one. Only a little over a decade ago he was kid editor of his High School paper at Ontario, California. Now his work is finished. ALWAYS in the thick of it, Jack got too close to the advancing Germans last Saturday and now the war department "regrets to inform , etc., etc. Well that is war, and that is war-reporting these days. What a change since the theatrical junketing of the Richard Harding Davis era, when being a war correspondent was about as dangerous as riding to the hounds, and even more romantic. Frankish gets the 49th "star" in the Western Union fatality list. Who will be the 50th? No safety-zone or ringside seat at this war, it is playing for keeps for anyone who gets near itl Will Hitler Reach Paris? Many are asking if Hitler will get to Paris? Well, what this department doesn't know about the future of this war would fill the bottomless pit. But regardless, we always find it hard to resist the temptation of sticking the editorial neck out, when a direct question like that is asked. So our answer is an emphatic "no 1" HITLER will not only anunt foof.flrof Via or in all probability to much of the soil of France. More than that we seriously doubt if he planned to. For as we view it this German counter-offensive, amazingly successful as it was and still is, was defin itely a DEFENSIVE rather than an OFFENSIVE measure. We mean by that, the German armies had reached a point where they could retreat no further, at least without accepting defeat. The allies had been slowed down, the Germans were fighting desperately line: but they were slowly BACK. And as we stated at the artillery range of the Ruhr and Saar industrial cen ters, the Third Reich's vital HEART. CO-O-O-O Hitler, or the German High Command, or whoever is really running things in the Third Reich now, had only two alternatives, to-wit: I: Either continue the rear action, contesting every foot until the inevitable "coup de grace," or, H: Make a last desperate effort to drive the enemy from Germany's heart, and get relief a breathing spell. The latter was decided upon and ten days ago the blow was struck. 17E grant it was far more successful than anyone " on this side of the Atlantic believed possible. We have an idea the German High Command was pleasantly surprised as well. But in our judgment this offensive will go down in military history as something that delayed Ger many's defeat, did not prevent it A Man Sized Job What is power politics anyway? In a few days now .there will be an important meeting of U. S. Senators to devise ways and means of ridding the peace conference of "power politics." before the elfort gets into full swing we believe there should be a more definite definition of the term than has thus far been revealed in any public discussions. IOES, for example, the trip of Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Minister Eden to Greece represent the "power politics" that the senatorial group believes must be eliminated if the allies are to win the peace?" If so, then the elimination process is eoine to be a man-sized job. For unless are willing to do what the iNkVkK ao, "preside at the liquidation of the Brit ish empire" this sort of "power politics" must, and win, go on. We mean what is eenerallv known as establishing "spheres of influence." For with India to retain in that empire, as well as Near Last, Britain can't afford to have a hostile but a friendly one, in Turkey or in Greece. lurKey is pro-British. government in Greece is overthrown by the Com munists, their successors won't be; and the British Empire, at least as represented by the Conservative party now in power, can't stand for anything like that MORE than that T What is true in London is also true in Moscow. Stalin will insist upon a government in Poland friend ly to him, and eventually in Manchuria no doubt Yes MORE power politics, MORE spheres of in fluence! All of which may be as wicked as the U. S. sena torial crusaders maintain, but let them have no illu sions as to SIZE of the job, when they set out to extirpate either or both! has written the fatal "30" never get back to Paris will newer cor. tn th Mnm. and skillfully all along the but surely being forced time the allies were within the people of Great Britain Churchill government will all British interests in the afford or believes it can't eovemment or anything But if the recently formed PUBLIC TO SKIMP Washington, Dee. 27 (UK The Red Cross urged tha public today to ration itself on nursing services and to insist that nurses who are classified "available" for military duty answer the army's call for "10,000 nurses now." With the overseas nurse short age growing more acute as bat tles intensify, the army for the first time Is sending hospital units abroad without nurses. Of the 41,000 nurses now in service, 75 ner cent are overseas. Miss Gertrude Bsnflelrt, assist ant director of tha Red Cross nursing service In charge of re cruiting, said plenty of nurses were available to fill the army's quota of 10,000 but that they are reluctant to enlist. Sha urg ed that: 1. Civilians boycott nurses who could be spared from home front hospitals by refusing to hire any who have been classi fied as "available" by the war manpower commission. 2. Civilians overcome their own "unwillingness to curtail luxury services." Livestock Portland, Or.. Dae. . f P') Livestock: Cattle, 250; calvea, 35. Ap. live, Heady. Steer, acarca. cuy jood fed steer Tueaday SIS 160. Common-medium baiter today lid 12. Fat dairy typa cow $SA10. Me. dlum beef cowl $11. Bull acarca; beat beef buna Tuesday iiju.wooa-wc vealera $13 50914.50. , Hobs.. 300. AcUv. ataady. Oood- eholce leo-250-lb. $18.75; 255-SOO-lb. 114.50(913. Good aowa S13.25013.7S', lightweight to S U. Good-choice faed- 'rsh2D. 100. Steady. Qood-cholc wooled iambi aalabla tlSJOal. or above. CuU wooled Iambi SS. Light horn culls down to SS. Good -choice ewea aalabla 5.808. South San Francisco. Deo. 17 UPt 1 1 i i I rn I I inin oov. oiuw. win? ateady in ipoti. Good iters and heifers aDScnt. uue -ruesaay one iuao mo- llum to good ateer Today, two oeds feeder teer $12.30. On load medium to good range eowa $12. weighty dairy-bred cow ga.sovio.ot, cutters S7.50A8.SO. eannera $937, Bulla quoted steady, good $111140, medium $10 o 10.50. Calvea, none. Nominal. Hogi. 3S0. Active, steady. Fad lead good to chole 300-270-lb. barrow nd gnu aio.a, rneaium aie.jo. uoa gooa owi $14. w Sheep, 600. No arly action, quoted steady. Good to choice full-wooled Iambi $14.50!13, common to medium $9 11. Chicago, Dec. 27 (UP) (WFA) Livestock Hogs, 13,000. Good and choice 130 lbs. and ud 14.85 14.75. Most aowa $14; complete clearance. catue, lu.oou; calvea, l,uuu. uirgeiy ateer run; bulk $13.739 18 JOi top $17.40, paid for yearling; choice heavy iter $17; bulk heifers $13919; cows and bulla 25 cent higher, veal era S1S.SO down. Sheep, 6,000, Load food and choice fed wooled western lamba $1S, num- eroua loads held at $15.29 9 15.33: thra decks medium and good lamba 1. Portland Produce Portland, Dec. 37 (UP) Whole sale produce markets: Cauliflower No. 1 local $2.50 entr, California $240. Spinach Local $1 erug ken, Texas $1.82 2 par hamper. Chicago Wheat Chleaen. Deo. 27 UP1 Wheat! upen Hign IjOW uioae ,$1.64ty S1.S4U $1,631,4 $1.6411 May July Sept. , 1.5511 1.34 i 1J4I 143H 1.54 R S. F. DAIRY PRICES San Francisco, Dec. 27 (U.R) Dairy market: Butter: 93 score 43, 02 score 42V4, 90 score 42V. 89 score 4P4. Cheese: Wholesale prices loafs 27.2, triplets 26.2. Eggs: Large grade A 57 V4 large grade B 44Vi, medium grade A 52 V4, small grade A 44 Vi. Wall Street New York, Dec. 27 (U.R) Long postponed tax selling broke out on the stock market today when Washington reports gave a clue to a bleak future for tax reductions. Prices broke 1 to more than 3 points when selling was at its height at mid-session and for a time the tickers were unable to keep pace with the market. Traders who had anticipated doing their selling to establish profits for the income tax ac count next year to profit by a reduced tax dumped part of their holdings on a market un willing to absorb stock except at reduced prices. However, the recession final ly attracted new buyers and prices came back substantially from the lows in many in stances. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American Tel. & Teleg...163Vi Anaconda 27 Tj Chrysler 89 Vi Curtlss Wright General Electric General Motors General Motors . . S7?4 . 374 . 621.4, . 5014 . 32H . 42ft .109 Montgomery Ward Penn. R. R Phillips Petroleum J. C. Penney. Radio 10 Southern Pacific 40s! Standard OH of California 37H Texas Gulf Sulphur 354 Transamcrica 10s United Alrcrafti 29Vi U. S. Rubber.... . 58H U. 8. Steel 58H The greatest annual produc tion of automobiles in the Unit ed States occurred In 1929 when 4,300,000 were produced. Winter Style .''. .,''.'. v ....... y " V ' . ' '"..M v - - . ' ; ' . ? r ' - " ft This Is th new cape being used by wrapped around rids lessens visibility, Los Angeles, Dec. 27. (U.R) Seventeen stewards and three welters charged with juggling meal checks on the Union Pa cific challenger today sought new employment ordered by a federal court which fined the stewards $500 each and the wait ers $250 each. The stewards also received one year prison sentences which were suspended on condition that they do not work In their old profession for 17 months. The waiters were put on 18 months' probation on the same condition. The group was the first of 135 Indicted on charges of conspir acy to commit theft in interstate commerce to enter pleas. They admitted the charges, but denied any criminal Intent. The remainder of the group will enter pleas Tuesday. Alaskans Sending Cigarettes Away Ketchikan, Alaska, Dec. 27. (U.R) The cigarette shortage has hit ration-free Alaska. Stores here today announced they would sell a maximum of two packs a day to a customer. Reason: Too many have been buying too much to send to the United States. CARQUINEZ, ANTIOCH SPANS TO BE FREE Sacramento, Dec. 27. (U.R) The Carquinez and Antioch bridges will be toll free after Sept. 1, next year, C. H. Purcell, director of public works, esti mated today. ' The bridges were acquired by the state toll bridge authority Sept. 16, 1940, from the Ameri can Toll Bridge Co., at a cost of approximately $5,500,000. McGUIREGETS 38th Allied Headquarters, Philip pines, Dec. 27. (U.R) America's No. 2 all-time ace, Mn). Thomas B. McGuire, Jr., of Ridgewood, N. J., shot down four more enemy planes today to boost his personal bag to 38 just two fewer than the mark set by Mai Richard I. Bong of Poplar, Wis. Visits Here AC William R. Stout, who has been training at Guhter Field, Ala., stopped , to spend a day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stout, 23 Al mond street, while en route to Columbus, Miss., for advanced training. He arrived Christmas night and left Tuesday night. IJl : 'as! Var4 I , . ? let 'w -.v--f .:Mi I " I'M , ' . .' -'.- - . A- : 1 i ...Will,.,, ,.. ..al.'.JLVJ PENSIONER PREFERS TO BE PRESENTEE David Stear, (left) for many mcnths has waived his pension rights to stay on job st rubber factory. Vice-president Graham congratulates him for not missing, a day since Pearl Harbor,. Note for Yank Fighting Men American Infantrymen In snow-covered figt. Marvin O. Earn Jr. oi Owsnsboro, Ey. models the outfit at Washington demonstration. Jap Dead V lSaPJ!BJj(,lt(ai- if ' L 'WiaA, l lRWl.i (Acm Tclephoto) This dead Japanese soldier, victim of American naval lire In the assault on the Ormoo sector of Leyte Island, has scattered equipment about Dut still wears glasses over r.is sigutleu eyes. Americans tool: heavy toll of Japanese in Leyte corridor. Paris, Dec. 27 U.R) A bomb dropped by a German plane in the first air raid on Paris in two months collapsed a service men's club filled with 200 wounded American soldiers "like a house of cards" last night, killing and further wound ing a number of them. Only two planes were believ ed to have participated in tne raid, the first since Hallowe'en. Paris was ablaze with lights at the time, the blackout having been lifted 10 days ago in the belief that all danger of such attacks had passed. According to, war manpower commission. S.000 Mavalo ! dians never before separated from their normal surroundings were recruited in New Mexico last year for railroad and sheep herding lobs in Colorado and Wyoming. fAcmt lelephote areas of Belgium. White cloth at Ormoc 4 Neel Newland Of Seabees Returns For Home Visit Neel Newland, chief MM, of the Seabees, arrived recently in Medford from overseas after an absence from the States of 28 months, one year of which was served in the South Pacific. A short time before leaving for the States he, by chance, met his brother Oswald West Newland MMM 23, of the Seabees, whom he had not seen since some time before leaving the States, After spending most of Christ mas day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Newland, 851 East 9th St., Newland left for Klamath Falls where he meets his wife and daughter from Bend. . Together they will visit another brother and family, re turning to Medford about Dec. 30. Mrs. Anna Turrill Taken By Death Mrs. Anna Turrill, 75, wife of Herman Turrill, passed away at her home in the Meadows dis trict early Wednesday. She had been in ill health for about a year. Besides her husband she leaves a niece, Mrs. E. A. Hicks, Medford. Services will be held In the Conger-Morris chapel at 2 p. m. Friday with the Rev, Louis C. Kirby officiating. In terment will be in Central Point cemetery. FREDERIC FLESHMAN TO TAKE AIR TESTS Keesler Field, 'Biloxi. Miss. Pvt. Frederick Carl Fleshman, son of Mrs. J. C. Fleshman, 112 Genessee street, Medford, Ore. has reported to Keesler field to take the army air forces train ing command examinations to determine his qualifications as a pre-aviation cadet. As an applicant for training mat win make him a flying of iicer, ne win De given a series of medical and psychological tests at Keesler field which will Indicate the type of air crew training for which he Is best suited by aptitude and personal characteristics. A superior type of "water proof match has been developed by manufacturers especially for use by servicemen under condi tions of unusual humidity and dampness, war production board reported. ROLLING PIN WILL BE CLOSED DEC. 23 JAN. 2 FOR REMODELING 'I tMIWWli 'If i v i. Hai . -m Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files oi the Mail Tribune 10. 20. end 34 ratrs ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 27, 1934 (It was Thursday) "Nazis deny new blood puree underway in Germany. Snow plows keep southern Oregon highways open. Sheriff says 2000 county auto ists have not procured 1935 licenses. Price fixing code of NRA is declared illegal by federal court decision. Alabama to play Stanford in Rose Bowl game January 1. Blight is active in local or chards, county agent reports. Police nip plot to hold up local liquor store. Christmas mail sett new post- office record. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 27, 1824 (It Was Saturday) Geologists claim at present rate of use there will be no gaso line in 12 years. Middle west shivers In coldest weather of winter. Dry raid at Jacksonville thrills citizens. Community Christmas tree at Rogue River well attended. Local Army store changes hands. Heavy downpour floods Brit ish isles, t Backbone of Oregon cold spell is broken by a heavy rain. Sil ver thaw hits Willamette valley. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY December 27, 1910 (It was Tuesday) Gen. Leonard Wood say na tion Is "unprepared" for war. T. R. will not support Presi dent Taft in 1912. Managing editor of the Ore gonian visits city and is amazed by its growth. COMMUNICATIONS Letter to the Editor nun bear the oame and address of the writer, althoush the uie of a pen-name or Initials for publication la permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserve the rliht to edit aU letters with view to clarity and condensation. Why Not Roll Your Own? To the editor: All this excite ment about the cigarette short age I am sure is amusing to some of the old timers, especi ally the old cow pokes and the hobo. I would like to see some of the movie cow boys roll a clg with one hand on the deck of a bucking bronc. It was not so difficult for the hobo to roll one on top of a box car going 50 miles per hour. I am reminded of the fact that most of tha bid timers used a brand of tobacco that could be considerably dis turbed by the sneeze of a mos quito. . Now in view of the apparent shortage of tailor-made cigar ettes, why not put on a contest of Roll-Your-Own and get some of those old timers to demon strate just how it is done. Of course I doubt if any of the mak ers of the standard brands would offer any prizes to roll your own clubs. Why not the slogan: Roll your own and buy war stamps with the money you save? ELWOOD HUSSEY Cave City, Dec. 23. Truck Overloads To the editor: I wish you would enlighten the state highway department, loggers and police, through your valuable paper on the everlast ing squabble of overloading of logging trucks. State police and loggers are both in a bad spot; neither is right and they both do what they think is right. In place of letting them haul by weight, let them haul by board feet. They are doing that now and presumably getting their pay by hauling board feet. We have estimated weight of logs that carry any number of board feet. Just have the trucker carry a bill of lading or mark on each log what it contains in board feet. I think that is being done already. If the police mis trust the driver he can check them any place, no scales needed. If someone knows better, please speak up, but please stop this nonsense. PROF C. ENGELHARDT, "Rainbow House" is a small dwelling built of petrified wood in the petrified forest by some long-forgotten Indian. Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulslon relieves promptly be cause it goes right-to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel 7erm laden phlegm, and aid nature co soothe and heal raw. tender. In lamed bronchial mucous mem-Jt-anes. Tell your druggist to sell you bottle of Creomu'.sion with the un '.erstABdtng you must like the way It ulckly allays the cough or you art 0 have your money back. CREOMULSION or CouEhi. Chest Colds, Bronchiri