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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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