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Newspaper Page TextSIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFO lUNE -everyone In Southern Oreioa BUOk uie mm- Dally ilMpI tawrter Published bj MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-M North fir St. Phone ROBERT W BUHL. ERNEST R GIUSTRAP Manaier. HEHB OHEV AdverUSlnS "fT. C rEROUSON. ManaSlna " ARTHUR PERRY Sunday sVMor An Uidpndnt Newepaper. Inured as Hcond inatter atedlord Oregon, unda Act March 4, l". . SUBSCRIPTION RATES R Mall In Advance' Dally and Sunday-one year Dally and Sunday-alx month! 4 00 Dally and Sunday-three moa S.10 Dally and Sunday one month vo By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. JacUaon Title. Cold Hill. Phoenix Talent and en motor routea: Dally and Sunday one Tear.W" Dally and Sunday one month .76 AU lerme caab to edvance. Official Paper of tha City el Mediate Official Paper ef eackw County Untied Press Toll Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU or CIRCULATIONS Advertlsint rtepreaentaUr WEST-HOUUDAY COMPANY INC Offlcee In New York Chleaio. De troit. San rranclaca Los Anaelee. Se attle. Portland. St Louie. Atlanta, Vancouver. B. C. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry The legislature convenes ear- ly In January, and there are signs it will be a lengthy ses sion. Hopes, however, are high the august body will be through by August. The post-war freight trucks will be heavier, higher, longer, and faster. They will be able to lick their weight in locomo tives at all crossings. The snow the Older Girls want ed so much for Christmas, now adorns the high hills in small and exclusive patches and is where it belongs. There will be four eclipses of the sun and moon in 194S. The one on July 8 is the most colossal. It will start at 7:08 a. m. (EWT). The most amazing thing about an eclipse is the mathematical accuracy , of the astronomers in figuring out the exact split second the event will occur. They have known this for 10 years and announce It six month In advance. i .,... e e v i ... Many burgs of the common wealth dispensed with Yule street decorations so there are none to stay up longer than a circus poster. Editors also re frained from printing their old favorite: "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," from the New York Sun of long ago. The tide of battle has turned on the Nazi gamble front 'Ber lin reported this offensive' was planned by Herr Hitler, and its beginning to look like it The United Nations by next week will be getting word of "mas terly retreats" back to ' the "sacred soil of the Reich.? e e e KIDS ARE SO FRANK , (Painesville (O.) News) "The class meeting planned , for in the home of Mrs. W. A. ' Warren will not be held. Mrs. Warren has a chance to visit her daughter in New Hamp shire, and the boys and girls are glad to see her go." e e e The situation in Athens, with b Greek civil war brewing, is reported a source of worry to official Washington. The situ ation in Detroit at home, also seems to be in need of some of ficial fretting. . e Wolves have started to howl nights back of Trail. They are cousins of the wolves who for merly rode on running boards of new autos, patrolled the Kitchen doors and rot after Uni versity of Oregon football coacnes this time of year, e o e BIG TOWN SNUB ' (Pendleton East Oregonlan) "Although between 600 and 700 eastern Oregon people visited Portland last week, going at one time, the Port land papers accorded but "one stick of type" each to a notice of their presence In the city." Hospitable people down there." (50 yrs. ago col.) e e e There has been some criti cism of General MacArthur for his somewhat boastful com munique reporting the victory over the Japanese on Leyte. It said: "The completeness of the destruction has seldom been paralleled in history," The Gen eral might as well toot his own horn. There is no deputy com- mander-ln-chief to do it for him, and there is no monopoly on personal crowing. e e "A senate committee Inquiry found last week that the cigar ette shortage is due to a short age in cigarettes." (Exchange.) There is no getting around this kind of logic. It gives hope the problem of post-war unem ployment can be solved with Jobs. Florida next year will cele brate the 100th anniversary of its admission to statehood. Friday. Dm. It. 144 Enough is Enough This Montgomery-Ward foolishness should stop. The Roosevelt administration claims one thing, Montgomery-Ward another. Whereupon the army is called out, a half dozen stores taken over and business then goes on as usual 1 WHAT is the big idea? Tha first: rmrtnrmanotk n Hhicapn was rather amusing, particularly when the venerable chairman of the M.W. board refused to leave his offices and was carried out, sternly but impotently protesting, by a couple of soldiers. But there is nothing so amusing about this repeat performance; and in the judgment of this department it makes both sides look rather ridiculous. . - e e P VER since this country was founded it has been the established custom when two parties can't agree upon what the law is for the courts to decide it Why isn't the traditional practice followed out in this case? Turn the controversy over to the proper court. If the government is right let the court sustain it; if the company is right, let the company be sustained. And then let both parties acquiesce in the court decision, whatever it may be. But don't continue this "opera bouff e" business any longer. ' What About the Negro? Another war correspondent has returned from the South Pacific with the report that Japan is working night and day to, if possible, make this war a race war a fight to the death between the colored races and the white. One of the principal arguments used by Japan in India, China and the Malayas is said to be the time-honored one of discrimination in the United States against colored people, not only the blacks, but the yellows and browns. IS the United States a real democracy or only a 1 WHITE democracy where all residents of color are treated as inferior and denied equality, but particu- arly the black race I If two articles under the Problem Reaches a Crisis" in the December "Mer cury" state the situation correctly( then there is no doubt 01 the answer: The United States IS a white democracy, not a racial one. For the first article by known southern planter and presses the accepted view of the American South; while the second one by George S. Schuyler, Negro editor oi the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Courier, must be rep resentative of the colored sentiment, at least in the north. And they agree 1 , ' " The colored writer declares there IS discrimina tion against the Negro socially and economically in this country, and the white man, with great literary charm' and convincing candor incidentally, proceeds to justify it . , . , , IN FACT this Rutledge article is the best argument sustaining the accepted ward the .colored race the present writer has ever seen, ror it is so temperate, so animus, and if one accepts the truth of the quotation from Abraham Lincoln which heads it, so logical. For, according to the said this: "I would say, moreover, that there Is a physical dif ference between these races which will forever prevent the negro and the white man living on a basis of social and political equality." If that is true, then Mr. Rutledee's somewhat startling conclusion is a perfectly natural sequence. we quote: "There has been :o much foggy talk about democracy that we appear completely to have forgotten that this coun try is a republic; and if a democracy a very limited one: Nor would it hurt us to recall Bismarck's saying, 'Democracy is government by the kindergarten,' and those wise words of Elmund Burke, surely as great a friend of America, and jurely as great a people's champion as ever lived: 'Pure Democracy would be a wicked and criminal thinil" "To one who has the true Negros' welfare deeply at heart, who has no axe to grind, who has long loved and respected him, it is exceedingly painful for me to jee him misled sly politicians and by either designing or ignorant agitators; by misguided altruists often in high places, who are always dangerous tampercrs; by the incendiary press of his own race. I say it is pitiful to see this man who is a friend I love and admire, who has in him so many fine human qualities now being excitedly taught: To follow sorry phantoms to and fro, And let a Kingdom Go." ' (There is little doubt as to the person referred to as a misguided altruist in high places, none other than Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt!) But is the author right? Has he correctly quoted the great president who Emancipation Proclamation, and if so, was Abraham Lincoln right? Or is the average colored man, given similar en vironment education and bpportunity, the equal of the white man and therefore in this democracy en titled to equal social and economic treatment? "THE answer of Author Rutledge Is the Negro is not inferior; in many jvays he is superior to the white man, and some of these superiorities are named, but he is DIFFERENT, not only different on the out side, but inside, and must in any workable modern predominantly white civilization, form a different and segregated caste. Well, whether this Southern view is right or wrong- some day the question will have to be decided if the Constitution of this country is to be preserved. If the Southern view is right the Constitution should be changed; if it isn't right, the Constitution should remain as it is, and be enforced I heading of "The Negro Archibald Rutledge, well writer, undoubtedly ex attitude of the South to sympathetic, so free from author, President Lincoln. authored and signed the S P. 1944 LOADS San Francisco, Dec. 29 (U.R) A year-end statement by Southern Pacific officials today showed that freight and passen ger loads for 1944 exceeded all past records of the railroad's activities. Net ton miles of freight car ried this year was nearly three times the load carried in 1939. Passenger miles were nearly five times those of 1940, a fair ly normal year. Net income for the company, however, will be approximately 35 per cent behind 1942 due to higher wages, increased ma terial costs and mounting tax payments, A. T. Mercler, presi dent, said. Livestock Portland, Ore., Dec. 39 (UP) Livestock: Cattle, 79; calves, 10. Two loads arrived late not shown. Bulls and canner-common cows A0a lower (or two days. Other grades and classes quotable steady. Light mixed dairy type steers and heifers I7O8.50. Can-ner-cutter cows f3$7. Shells down ward to 3. Cutter bulls $7. Common medium calves $8 ( 12. Good-choice vealers salable $13.50 14.50. Hogs, 100. Active, steady. Good choice 180-240 lbs. $19.75; 250-320 lbs. 14 13. Good sows $13.25 13.75. Good-choice feeder pigs quotable to $14 or above. Sheep, none. Nominal. Good-choice wooled lambs salable $13.50 14. Com mon grades down to $10, Good-choice ewes quotable $5.50 6. Chicago, Dec. 29 (UP) (WFA) Livestock Hogs, 9,000. Good and choice 180 lbs. and up $14.79 celling: 150-180 lbs. $14.25 14.75; good and choice sows $14. Cattle, 2,000- calves 700. Receipts largely cows. Steers $12(915.90; best $16.15; best heifers $14.25; weighty cutter cows to $8.50, most canners and cutters $7(38. Sheep, 3,000. Load good and choice fed wooled westerns and part load native lambs $15.23; 1 or 2 loads held slightly higher; aged slaughter ewes $7.29 down. Portland Produce Portland, Dec. 29 (UP) Wholesale produce market: Onions Green S 1 9 1.10 dozen bunchea. Peppers California 2025e lb. Chicago Wheat Chicago. Dec. 29 (UP) Wheat: Open High Low Close May .1.64 11.64 S1.63 July .. 1.5S 1.S5 , 1.54ft 1.54", aepi... i4 1.04 1.335', 1.5314 S. F. DAIRY PRICES San Francisco, Dec. 29 (U.PJ Dairy market: Butter: 93 score 43c, 92 score 42V2C, 90 score 42V4c, 89 score '4134c. Cheese: Wholesale prices; loats JS7.H, triplets 27.2. Eggs: Large grade A 53V4c. large grade B 42V4c, medium grade A 48V4C, small grade A 4ZV4C. Wall Street; New York, Dec 29. (U.R)- Stocks added fractions to more than 4 points to yesterday's gains in an active session today, lift ing the general average to a new nigh since September 4. 1937. Today's closing prices, on se lected stocks: - American Tel. & Tel. ......183?4 Anaconda 28 Chrysler . ...... 9514 Curtiss Wright 5'a General Electric ... 3 9' General Motors 84 Montgomery Ward 51 V4 Penn. R. Bi. .... .. .. 33Vfe Phillips Petroleum 43? J. C. Penney ..... . 109 Radio s. 10 Vi Southern Pacific 42 Standard Oil of Calif 38 Texas Gulf Sulphur ..... 36 Transamerica .u HVfc United Aircrafts 29n U. S. Rubber 51 U. S. Steel 60 V. Daily Weather Report x Forecasts Medford and vicinity: Showers to night. Clearing and colder Saturday. Oreeon: Showera early tonlaht. 8now (lurries east of Cascades. Colder and clearing Saturday. Local Data Temperature a year ago today Hlnhest 46: lowest 24 decrees. Total monthly preclpttauon .49 inches. Deficiency for the month 2.19 Inches. Total precipitation since September 1, 1944, 5.03 inches. Deficiency for the season 1.11 incnes. Relative humidity at 4:30 p. m. yea- leroay fa; e:au loaay wft Tomorrow Sunrise 8:39 a. m.; sunset 5:49 p. m. Boise . 40 32 .09 Boston . Chicago Denver H Eureka - 22 20 49 , 47 . 27 10 13 28 41 8 49 38 18 1.01 Havre . Los Angeles , . 01 , 411 , 38 . 28 .17 Medford New York . Omaha .07 26 Trace Phoen x .64 42 Portland . 45 , 43 . 48 , 41 . 84 . 90 . 43 . 38 . 38 33 . 10 39 30 28 39 33 28 21 33 Reno . .09 Roseburg Salt Lake San Francisco . 30 .08 .56 .12 Seattle Spokane Washington. D. c WILL BE CLOSED DEC. 28 - JAN. 2 FOR INVENTORY Barber's ' Observations Seasonal wildlife notes: Con servation and even restoration of the migratory ducks of North America is proving that it is possible for the public, especial ly the hunting public to "eat its cake and have it too," according to the latest report of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Wartime conditions, such as fewer hunt ers and a shortage of ammuni tion and transportation facilities have been helps toward this much wished for goal. Some items in this report which should be of interest to every sportsman is that the threatened extinction of the blue winged teal is not so threat ening as it war. Now I've never seen a blue winged teal in my life and this news increases the chances that some day I may. , ve been very much interested in this small colorful duck ever since learning in my beginning years as observer for the Bio logic Survey, now the Fish and Wildlife Service, that the little tyke was being shot out of ex istence. He was so small, the odds against him so great. Quite a few years ago the same adverse report went out about the wood duck yet this year, so greatly had wood duck population increased, each hunt er was allowed to bag one. This species still is being carefully watched however lest the good work done by conservation be undone by over shooting. . Wild fowl have other enemies than hunters, not the least of these being botulism. Outbreaks of this occurred in several western localities, the worst be ing on the Bear River marshes in Utah and at Klamath Lake in Oregon. Salvage crews were put to work and many of the ailing ducks treated, cured and liberated so that losses were not high. Though this disease is still one of the major problems of many breeding grounds both in Canada and the United States. Every sportsman should get and read this annual report on tne state of our North Ameri' can wildfowl. Wildfowl ' recog nize no political lines, so Can ada and the United States must consider the preservation of these as their mutual problem most earnestly urge that all those interested in wild life con servation write to the Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior at Washington, D, C, and ask for Wildlife leaflet 261. Pyle, En Route to Pacific War Front Visits Movie Site Hollywood, Dec. 29 (U.R) Columnist Ernie Pyle, en route to the Pacific war fronts after a three months respite from the fighting, today took a look at ?The Story of G. I. Joe," the movie being made from his book "Here Is Your War." "I couldn't tell much about It," he said. "It was all in pieces Dut it looked like they were try' ing to do it right." Pyle who came home from the fighting in France for a rest, said he hadn't had two hours to himself since he got back and actually wasn t rested at all. Cows 34 Germans ' With Empty Gun With American 7th Army, Western Front, Dec. 29 (U.R) First Lt. James Tower, Grand Is land, N. Y., pointed his carbine down into a German machine gun nest and forced 34 Germans to emerge with their hands up. All alone, he was marching his prisoners down the road to ward a collecting point when a fellow officer joined him on the double. "Don't look now, Jim," the other officer whispered, "but you haven't got any magazine in your carbine." WEATHER Northern California partly cloudy today with showers over north portion and snow flurries in mountains. Mostly clear Sat urday. Cooler tonight. Closing time for Sunday Too Late to Classify 9:30 Saturda afternoon Please remember. CAMP WHITE MAN Pvt. JoseDh B. Kaser, Los An geles, was awarded the Purple Heart at a retreat ceremony held last night at Camp White. Pvt Kaser was given the medal for grenade wounds In the abdomen and right knee suffered while manning a machine gun In re pulsing a Japanese attack at im press Augusta Bay in the Solo mon Islands, last March 9. Col. John R. Young, post com mander at the prisoner of war camp, made the presentation in the presence of all officers and enlisted men of the prisoner of war section. Pvt. Kaser is now stationed in that department at Camp White. When off duty, Pvt. Kaser makes his home with his wife at 344 South Central Avenue, Medford. Housewives Gypped On Ration Stamps, Claim Of Senator Washington, Dee. 29 (U.R) Accusing the administration of using rationing powers for poli tical purposes. Rep. August H. Andersen,. R., Minn., asserted today that millions of house wives had been "swindled" by the sudden cancellation of un used ration stamps. He said in a statement that while he wanted the armed forces to have abundant food, he did not want to "see my govern ment deliberately cheat patri otic Americans." And that, he added, is what happened when the Office of Price Administra tion announced the drastic new rationing changes earlier this week. OPA officials concede that the initial reaction of the public had been "indignation, confusion, be wilderment and irritation," but expressed confidence that the people "won't stay sore long." THE GRANGE Griffin Creek Grange Annual New Year's party for grangers and guests will be held Saturday night, Dec. 30, at Grif fin Creek grange hall. Ladies are asked to bring a few sandwiches. Cards, dancing and games have been planned. Roxy Ann Grange There will be a covered dish supper and watch party at Roxy Ann Grange hall Sunday. The 4-H club of the district will present a program and re ceive its awards. There will be games for all and 4-H and Grange families are cordially in vited. Ladies are asked to bring cov ered dishes for the supper, which begins at 7 o'clock. BAGLIEN TO SPEAK AT ZI0N CHURCH SUNDAY John Baglien, Medford high school graduate, now a student at Western Seminary, Fremont, Neb., will deliver the sermon at the Zion English Lutheran church Sunday at the 11 a. m. service. GLORIA DeHAVEN WEDS Hollywood, Dec. 29 (U.PJ Film stars Gloria DeHaven and John Payne today began a week's honeymoon following their marriage yesterday in Beverly Vista Community church, Beverly Hills, Calif. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada. fe3e BrnraarfiR lisraiii iTrifcrnnr, ensftp And Anderson Thrift Market - Hitler Bowed by ' Map Reading, Is Goebbels' Word London, Dec. 29 U.R) Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Jos eph Goebbels pictured Adolf Hitler today as a "German mir acle" whose will basically changed the entire German na tion, and claimed "there is no other human being who pos sesses the way he does the art of waiting for the right mo ment. Goebbels' characterization of Hitler was contained in an ar ticle in Das Reich and broad cast by the Nazi Tr'ansocean News Service. Portraying the Fuehrer as a man standing "in the icy lone liness of genius," Gobbels ad mitted that a grey streak has appeared in Hitler's hair be cause of "uncounted days full of labor and nights spent sleep- lessly and lonely." "It would be silly to claim that five years of war left the Fuehrer without mark,' Goeb bels said. "He bears his head slightly bent, which Is the con sequence of everlasting map reading." OBITUARY OWEN F. REDDY Owen F. Reddy, 64, of 723 W. 13th, passed away Wednesday afternoon following several years of illness. Arrangements are in care of the Conger-Morris Chapel. ISSIE McCULLY Miss Issie McCully, a pioneer of Jacksonville, passed away in Salem Thursday morning. Serv ices will be held in the Conger- Morris Chapel at 1 p. m. Tues day with the Rev. Lawrence Mitchelmoore officiating. A com plete obituary will be in Sun day's paper. ALICE M. FOLEY Mrs. Alice M. Foley passed away unexpectedly at her home in Gold Hill Thursday night. She had been a resident of southern Oregon for about 70 years. Arrangements are in care of Conger-Morris Chapel, BIRTHS CRAWFORD To Capt. and Mrs. John, 815 East Main. Dec. 28, 1944, a girl, six pounds, at Community hospital. TAYLOR To Mr. and Mrs. Mark, 55 No. Peach, Dec. 28, 1944, a boy, seven pounds, at Community hospital. GREEN mi im 12 INCH OR 16 INCH LENGTHS 300 CU. FT. LOAD DIAL 2123 Timber P CLOSED MONDAY for Inventory Shop Tomorrow for Both Sunday and Monday Let Us Strive to this the Victorious There are many good things we wish for many good resolutions to make. But first in the heart of every Amer ican it the wish for Victory and Peace. Let us, then, make our first resolution on this first day of the New Year to work, save, buy Bonds and do everything in our power to make this a Victorious 1945 to make this the hap piest New Year we have ever known. New Year Greetings to All Our Southern Oregon Friends Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson Co Hi lor; ff am the files ot the Mail Tribune 10. 20. and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 29. 1934 Ot Was Saturday) National WCTU to resum crusade against alcohol. Plot to kidnap FDR and estab lish fascist dictatorship told house committee. Pal of "Baby Face" Nelson, slain public enemy, held In Mt. Shasta jail. Portion of Salem residential area flooded by heavy rain. Japan's plea for naval equal ity is denied by America, fol lowing Tokyo denunciation of naval limitation treaty. Sudden snows. High 47, low 38 degrees. Rain 4.14 inches. - Liquor store to close at 8 p.m. hereafter. , 1935 automobiles arrive here and are on display. Snow falling over mountains of southern Oregon. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 29, 1924 (It Was Monday) Pedestrians slip and autos skid as rain freezes as it. falls. National Guard muster to be held next Tuesday. Rapid thaw upstate causes heavy damage, with ice jams in Willamette. State Teachers Association recommends free school books. Rain, grees. ' High 44, low 38 de- Miss Louise Williamson re turns to Salem after spending Christmas here. Cattle and hog prices jump on Portland market. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY . December 29, 1910 (It Was Thursday) Union Meat Company plant new warehouse here. Work to start soon on new hospitals here. Masons start ex cavating for new building on Main street. Timber tract between Ash land and Klamath Falls sold for $3,500,000 to eastern syndicate. $75 DIAL 2123 Company ORieON Make Year u Central Point