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By Arthur Parry
Every day Supreme Head
quarters, the radio, Tokyo, Ber
lin, Paris, Moscow, London,
Stockholm, the press, and valley
military leaders, are unable to
agree on just what happened
on the Western (rant.
"Country butchered pig-backbones
ara not above suspicion,"
federal bureau warns. Invari
ably the farmer forgets to
sandpaper all the meat off the
spinal column of the swine.
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New Years Day and the one
before, brought three new ba
bies and ration cards to homes
of this city.
. . e e
Allied diplomats to study
'Tar East problems" at an early
date. The general public feels
all 'Tar East problems" art not
far enough East.
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People are still writing 1044
on their checks, banks report,
and blame it on carelessness.
This is about the only thing
since Pearl Harbor that has not
been blamed, on the war.
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YE SLICKER SEX
(The Dalles Chronicle)
The ladles doling out the
" ' good eats, were Mrs. Peters,
Mrs. Maupin, Mrs. Earl Grif
fith and above all things,
man, Arthur Peters. They
kept him rushed making hot
dogs, to keep hint out of the
pies.
,. A metropolitan journal 1st as
serts eastern periodicals arrive
there by slow freight In be
nighted regions like this, they
come that way too, but west of
the Rockies, by l-mule team,
tee
The republican party boasts
It spent more money in the last
campaign than the New Deal,
who have had much more ex
perience in spending. Another
outstanding feat was finishing
just 52 cents under the maxi
mum allowed by the corrupt
practices act. All the money
the republicans spent was their
own. They lacked facilities to
rain government checks - on
farmers ten days before elec
tion. e
A Portland Grandmaw Is pic
tured as smoking cigars, to get
around the cigarette shortage.
Owing to the vileness of the war
time cigar, this is a feat com
parable to the pioneer women,
who (ought Indians all night
and chopped down oak trees all
day to keep a sick hubby from
-freezing.
e
The Japanese continue won
derful. Radio Tokyo reveals
their ability to extinguish B-29
raid fires before they are start-
WELL. THEY MAYI ,
(Los Angeles Times)
A good-looking girl
stopped before a clgaret
vending machine. Instantly a
line began to form behind her.
in a minute it extended
round the corner. Then the
girl took her comb out of her
bag, began prettying up her
hair by means of the mirror
n the vending machine, and
smyCWd behlnd her looked
A band of cattle went through
the western suburbs the first of
the week, with much pande-
Pi. !!m.,An honor ""Pi of
Flotch Fish of Phoenix school
of punning, called them "moos!
clans." e e
"Fred Rennlck moved his of
nee to his home and only went
to his office when necessary
(Buda (111.) Weekly)Where art
thou now, Frederick?
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"MAN RUNS A WAY; SHER
IFF HOLDS WIFE'WHdUne
Red Bluff News). Tha -law Is
Up behind him.
Cinema time for Classified Ada a
't bl Late to CUeaU U.30
Friday. January I, ISO
How About China?
Accbrding to the latest
hoped-for reapproachment between the Chinese (Jonr
munists and Chiang Kai-shek has fallen through be
cause, we quote :
"The Chungking government is In reality a pro-fascist -government,
fighting for the war lords and the big land
holders against the peasants, encouraging graft and corrup
tion, not even allowing a free press or free speech In the
areas it now controls."
Needless to say this
source! And it is the approved communist -line ,
almost identical with the "line" adopted by Com
munists throughout Europe- against their opponents,
wherever found. '
ONE might ask how much free press and free speech
are allowed in those parts of China where the
Chinese "Reds" are now m control?
The answer is NONE!
There is no more individual freedom there, no more
democracy, than there is in Russia, Germany, or in
any other totalitarian state.
But the wilv Communists never mention such facts,
reajizing they would not be popular in democratic
America and what these Chinese Communists, as
well as all other Communists, want today is Ameri
can moral and financial support.
"Send lend-lease to Communist China, not to the Chung- -king
government for the latter will turn the U. S. guns and
planes against the Communists in China, not the Japs."
THERE you are, brethern, it is the same theme
song all over the world. It is the red revolution
within the war.
Some rieoDle think this
tioned, it should be hushed-up until Germany and
Japan have been beaten.
China today is the best answer to that argument.
But for the Chinese Communists, who took advan-
tase of the attack by Japan,
against Chiang Kai-shek, and thus gain territory and
power to their own advantage, the Japanese would
never have won the great victories in China they have
won.
Instead of a hush-hush
of Japan, therefore, it has
delayed it.
The way to hasten the defeat of Japan today, as far
as China is concerned- is:
(1) Persuade, if possible,
to abandon their revolution, place the welfare of
their country above their selfish political advantage,
and join Chiang Kai-shek
latter have been driven out
(2) If that can't be done, because of the Com
munists' ruthless "will to power", then give all possible
allied aid in arms, ammunition, tanks and planes to
Chiang and the Chungking government, no aid,
material or moral to the Communists, in short, join
the former in theory and in fact AGAINST the latter!
Why Stop Sports?
England is only a stone's throw from the battle
front When the wind comes in from the East, the
guns in Holland can be heard. '
Yet- ever since the war
Britishers are Duttintr on
games very much as they did
no one over there suggests
In this country with the
away, no more danger of
of a one-legged bullfrog lumping over the moon, all
horse racing is suddenly prohibited and it is suggested
from high quarters that all 4-H s be put into war work,
which would automatically stop professional golf and
football.
How come?
If England has found certain outdoor sports good
for national morale in war why should similar sports
not be good for this country? Certainly over there
as over here the war does
IT IS all very puzzling and frankly we don't know the
answer but our guess is: the fact that England is so
near the war and this country so far away has some
thing to do with it.
In sound of the guns and with casualties coming
across the channel in every boat, the English people
need nothing to arouse them to the fact a war, and
a horrible war, is on.
With the Atlantic ocean
ful Pacific on the other, the plain truth is that in spite
of the casualty lists and the daily newspaper head
lines, It has been hard for
whole, to realize such a war
This order from Assistant President Byrnes- was
therefore designed primarily to wake them up to the
fact, rather than to answer any crying need for 4-H's
in war service, farm workers at the front, or the
abandonment of football and horse racing.
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ANOTHER angle. There is the matter of war
"policy in the two countries, and resulting war
psychology. ,v
from the start of this
thanks to Winston Churchill, have been told the truth
about it
QUITE the reverse in this country.
From the time of Pearl Harbor to now. the-
powers-that-be in this country have gone on the theory
the American people can't "take" it So when the
news is bad, it has to be suppressed or delayed until
it can be mixed with good news, and when there is a
mixture of good and bad news in the dailv report
the latter has to be played down, and the former
piayed up.
When peopWany people have the FACTS of
this war, regardless of their
j . ."! i .
neeu any arunciai sumiims
don t have them, they do.
report from China, the
comes from a Communist
fact should never be men
to virtually join the Japs
policy hastening the defeat
materially and tragically
.
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the Chinese Communists
against the Japs until the
of the country.
started, and today, the
horse races and football
in the days of peace, and
their abandonment.
war thousands of miles
invasion East or West than
come FIRST.
on one side, and the peace
the American people, as a
IS on and they are in it
war., the British people.
proximitv to it. thev don't
. . " .
to wane tnem. When they
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Jan. S The
thinking Mr. Byrnes, assistant
president, came out straight (or
honest, equal
treatment of
't h e Averys
and Petrillos
alike" in the
public interest.
Advocacy of
equal justice
for unions as
well as man
agement start
ed an immedi
Paul Mallon .
ate controver
sy within the
administration,
Mr. Byrnes had
said one way to accomplish like
justice was through congression
al enactment of a law opening
the courts to both parties.
At once war labor board
Davis (who let the Petrillos get
away with defiance of his board
but got the troops In upon the
Averys) said such a law would
tie enforcement up in the courts
and hinder his purpose of ad
justing labor disputes.
Thus the ' old political game
of rag-ma-tag proceeds into a
new phase.
AT the time Petrillo was de
fvlno WT.R anA nnlnl.lnl.a
his victorious strike against its
order, Mr. Roosevelt claimed
there was no - law to make
Petrillo obey. Thus the public
must pay a few cents tribute on
every record it buys forever to
Mr. Petrillo, for no service
whatever in its interest.
But there was a law which
would have brought him to
terms -i this very war labor
board act. True enough, con
gress did not intend the, act
should be used to "seize" labor
unions as Montgomery Ward
has been seized.
Yet the administration stretch
ed the intent of congress to a
rather far-fetched interpreta
tion to get the army Into Mont
gomery Ward. Congress said
the seizure power should not be
used except In "a war indus
try." The retail stores of Mont
gomery Ward would hardly
seem to be war Industries.
The public knows what kind
of goods it buys from those mail
order and department store
houses garden implements,
clothes, practically everything
saleable, except war industry
products. Yet Attorney-General
Biddle legalized the seizure by
ruling the stores as war indus
tries. . j .-,
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PCONOMIC stabilizer Vinson
" established exactly the same
government position on the
Petrillo strike. He publicly de
nounced the musician's walk
out as impeding the war effort
Mr. Roosevelt thus could have
seized a station by stretching
the law no further than In the
Montgomery Ward case.
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If he had, Petrillo and his
unions would have been subject
to penalties, fines and jail for
not working. .- Army officers
could have moved in upon
Petrlllo's office", demanding his
books, issued orders to him to
send his men back to work. It
could operate his union or any
other striking union in the same
loose way Montgomery Ward Is
being directed.
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WHAT the government needs
" Is not a law, but the desire
to act, which has not been ab
sent so far.
Some outward signs imply
Byrnes was merely allowed to
speak his personal mind 'in ex
pectation that the labor board
would block him in congress
or otherwise.
I do not think so. The govern
ment had got itself into such an
unreasonable and dangerous la
bor situation, something will
have to be done.
Take the "Monkey Ward"
case, as it should be called,
because it has, without doubt,
resembled from the beginning a
drama in a monkey house more
than adult human action.
The reason the government
went in there this time was to
give the workers a raise. That
is the main physical change
discernible In the initial action.
But the government's excuse
ior moving was that a strike
there was impeding the war ef-
ion, or threatening to. Yet it
did not move against strikers.
It seized the management. The
worriers cheered when the gov
ernment came in.
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THUS the government has got
itself into a position where
it must serve the unions, more
than the public. If "Monkey
Ward" had cheated the public
on prices, it would be taken to
court. But If it "cheats" the
union (not saying it did) the
government seizes it.
The unions thus have more
power than either the govern
ment or the public. They can
not lose. If the WLB decision
goes against them, they can do
what Petrillo did hang on un
til the companies are forced to
D8V. If thrtv u-l n . urr n -
cision. me
cision. the army will enforce
the decision
I Even a labor government like
mi
Test Plane
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A test pilot and a B-month-ola oaDy girl were dead m t his wreckage of a Long Beach. Calif, home atur a
twin-engined Douglas A-28 plane, piloted by chief teat pilot Ronald F. Bollinger, exploded in mid-air. pinnae
to earth in heart of the thickly-populated, residential district.
this one will not long care to
play second fiddle to union
leaders. The unions are clearly
getting out of its hand and
power, beyond its legal reach,
with a wave of strikes expected
by everyone as soon as V-E day.
Therefore, I look for Mr.
Roosevelt, one way or another,
to seek and get more power, or
at least more of legal excise
from congress, to keep the
unions in line his line. He is
now a prisoner in theirs.
Home Town Girls
Are Selected For
Army Pin-Up Club
Stevens Point. Wis. (U.PJ--An
anti-aircraft gun crew in the
Southwest Pacific is tired of
the usual Hollywood paint,
grease and glamor" and is now
out to build up a new kind of
pinup-girl club "second to none
in size and originality."
JPVt. Chester L. Drewa, Knowl-
ton, near here, explained In a
letter to hometown folks that he
wanted his sectidn of Wisconsin
represented on the billboard and
asked for pictures of "Eight Ball
Pinups."
"Our pinups are the plain, ev
eryday, ordinary : home - town
girls," Pvt. Drewa wrote. ''To
date we have more than 300 pic
tures.'.'
Fugitive German
Nabbed a t Border
San Pedro, Cal., Jan. 8 (U.R)
Rolf Gustaf Julius Zeischang,
22, former Arlfa Korps corpor
al, today was held at San Pedro
detention station, after his ar
rest by FBI agents as he tried
to cross the Mexican border.
Zeischang, who escaped from
Ft. Lewis, Wash., May 28, posed
as a "Frenchman" named Al
bert Puschmann, during his at
tempts to leave the country, the
FBI said.
LOCKHEED REPORTS
Burbank, Calif., Jan. 5 (U.R)
Lockheed Aircraft Corp., to
day reported a backlog of 6,
632 military planes, totaling ap
proximately $1,000,000,000, aft
er meeting all 1944 production
schedules. President Robert E.
Gross revealed that the aircraft
firm had achieved its produc
tion demands for P-38 fighters
and B-17 bombers and started
development of a , new secret
army fighter.
SAN ANTONIO PURIFIED
San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 5
(U.R) Those nude cuties that
smile unblushlngly from calen
dars, blotters and other adver
tising matter were taboo in San
Antonio today. Police Commis
sioner P. L. Anderson ordered
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Hits Hom e; Pilot
all such advertising matter
"picked up" after the Catholic
Legion of Decency reported the
city was "flooded with indecent
calendars and blotters."
Flight o' Time
Medlord and Jackson Co His
lory fiora tha files ot the Mail
Xribuns 10. 20 and 34 rears
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
January 5. 1935
(It was Saturday)
President Roosevelt asks fqur
billions for relief. Says balan
cing of budget to await on unem
ployment. Unsettled with occasional rain.
High 47, low 39 degrees.
Italy and France sign accord
pact that may be basis of peace
in Europe.
i
Supreme court rules NRA or
der limiting production of oil
and gasoline is invalid.
Earl Snell to take oath as sec
retary of state at Salem Monday.
Oaths of office to be adminis
tered to Sheriff Syd Brown,
Commissioner Otto Caster and
constable also.
Snow plows busy keeping
Klamath county roads open fol
lowing storm.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
January S, 192S
(It was Monday)
Allies ask United States to
join in war debt settlement dis
cussion. Federal help sought for Ore
gon coast ports.
President Coolldge upheld by
senate In veto of postal bill.
Probable lighTrains. High 83,
low 31 degrees.
Rep. John H. Carkin addresses
Kiwanis club at noon luncheon.
Nineteen new members have
been received into the Presby
terian church in two weeks.
Medford high defeats New
berg 25 to 8 in poor game at
Nat.
THIRTY FOUR YEARS AGO
TODAY
January 5, 1911
(It was Thursday) ( .
Longer deer season to be
urged before legislature,
sStart planting 19,000 pear
trees in Coker Butte district.
County tape levy to be 22 mills
for coming year.
Uae Mall Trlbun Want Ada.
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Baby Die
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BodytTuards Cease
Petrillo Patrol
Chicago. Jan. 8 (U.R) A 13-
detectives to serve as body
guards to James C. Petrillo,
president of the American Fed
eration of Musicians, was aban
doned today on the order of
Police Commissioner James All
man. .
Detectives were given the as
signment at a time when Chi
cago gangsters were waging a
war against union leaders in an
effort to get control, of organ
ized labor.
Coast Guard Vet
Turns 17th Year
Hingham, Mass., Jan. S (U.R)
Charles J. Robison, Jr., of Hing
ham, enlisted in the' coast guard
almost two years ago. Since
then, he has: fought in five cam
paigns, received a citation for
bravery from Adm. Chester W.
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National Forest Timber for Sal
Sealed bids will be received
by the Forest Supervisor, Med
ford, Oregon, up to and not later
than 2:00 P. M., January IS,
1945, for all the live timber
marked or designated for cutting
and all merchantable dead tim
ber located on an area embrac
ing about 300 acres within Sec
tion 17, T. 31 S., R. 3 E., W. M.
Rogue River National Forest,
Oregon, estimated to be 3,500,
000 feet B. M more or less, of
Douglas-fir, and an unestimated
amount of other species of saw
timber. No bid of less than $4.70
per. M feet for Douglas-fir, $8.60
per M feet for white pine, $5.60
per M feet for ponderosa pine,
$9.60 per M feet for sugar pine
and $2.10 per M feet for white
fir, western hemlock, and other
species will be considered. In de
termining the high bid, the rate
for Douglas-fir only will be con
sidered. Bids with rates in ex
cess of those permissible under
MFK 460 will be reduced to the
allowable maximum in making
the award, in addition to the
prices bid for the stumpage, a
coooerative deDosit of $0.50 ,er
M feet B. M. to be used by the
Forest Service for paying' the
cost of slash disposal, and a co-
operative deposit of $0.25 per M
feet B. M. to cover the cost of
tree planting, seed sowing and
timber stand improvement work
on the area cut over, for the
total cut of timber under the
terms of the agreement, will be
required. $4,000.00 must accom
cany each bid, to be aoplied on
the purchase price, refunded or
retained in part as liquidated
damages, according to conditions
of sale. The right to reject any
and all bids is reserved. Before
bids are submitted, full Informa
tion concerning the timber, the
conditions of sale and submis
sion of bids should be obtained
from the Forest Supervisor, Med
ford, Oregon,
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