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BIX MSSFORD MAIL THIBUlfZ Thursday. Jin. II. IUS MEDFO UNE -Iveryom to St"" Oregoa Keaoa mm -- " DallTieest Published by MEDrORD PRINTING CO. iT-MNnrtti Fir St. Phone IW. ROBERT W RUHU Wit". ERNEST R OILS TRAP Mnr. HEKU Ortev" Advertltlns (lit. e : rEROusdN. taanurina jMitat ARTHUR PERRV Sunday MRS OLIVl ST ARCHER, See tit GERALD LATHAM ClrrulUon fcUT An Independent Newipaper. Bnterad u Mcond elasa Medford. Oregon, under Art 01 March 3. 187S. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail -In Advance tally end Sunday-one year ...'; Dally and Sunday el raontha 4 00 Dally and Sunday three mos 1.1C Dally and Sunday on month 7S By Carrier In Advance Medford . Ashland, Central Point, Jackson vllle. Gold Hill. Pboenl. Telent end on motor routea: Dally and Sunday on rear.,.$S.0 Daily and Sunday me month .76 All lerme uuh In advance. Official Paper of the City el Medford Olllclal Paper el Jackson Comity United Press Tall Lassie Wire - MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU t)F CIRCULATIONS Advertising RepresenUtlve WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANK INC Office! In New York Chicago. De troit, San rrandeco. Los Angeles. Se. Mo. Portland. St Louie. Atlanta, Vancouver. B. C. Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry The British press continues to heckle Gen. Eisenhower for the German "breakthrough" on the Belgian front. A nation whose representative in the .Munich appeasement tried to tame "Der Fuehrer" with an umbrella has no heckle coming about any thing. Most of yesterday was as bright as a Christmas necktie, several of which were heard in the business district long be fore they turned corner, e e Ed Kubli, the Applegate cow man, as yet bas not found his lost wallet. He has looked ev ery place Including on the piano and In his Sunday pants, i e I Nations bordering on the Pa cific have agreed the Mikado of Japan, regarded by the Jap anese as "a divinity" should be humbled following the - defeat of his country, made to person ally sign the terms' of surren der and be exiled.. This would convince his subjects he is Just another Jap, no different from them except he owns more kl monas. Exiling Hlrohito to Ger many would be fit punishment for all concerned. Extra torture could be Imposed upon the "master race" by compelling them to assemble once week in what is left of the Berlin "Sportsplatz" and listen to the "Son of Heaven" Inflict on of his own poems. - ...... ' DIFFERENT NOW! (Jefferson (Ore.) Review) . . ' "The card has picture printed on it of Mrs. Morri son and her brother, taken in Salem in 1863, when she1 was four years old and her broth er was three. It shows Mrs. Morrison all dolled up in the fashion of the day, including panties with white embroid ered ruffles showing beneath her dress. A note to Melissa says that little girls in that day did NOT run around with bare knees." - , e ' The Governor in his message to the .legislature demanded a probe of the purchase of two Kentucky distilleries by the sister states of Oregon and Washington, and other matters appertaining thereto. "I want no cursory examination," clar- ioned the chief executive, as mild cussing started in the dark corners of the legislative halls. Ear doctors of the land warn people to cease the habit of poking toothpicks and matches in their $1,000,000 ears, as its one of the leading ecauses of deafness. It is argued the ear ' owners, with a $11 watch would not think of Jabbing its vitals with either object. Money and War Veterans Yes the science of money if it IS a science Is too much for the cerebration facilities of this depart ment. And what would be true in normal times is super latively true in war times. . There was a time when people talked of hundreds of THOUSANDS of dollars, then it was hundreds of MILLIONS which caused a gasp But now its hundreds of BILLIONS I Whew what is a billion anyway! Before this war is over mere interest on the federal debt will exceed all federal expenditures (4 billion) of only a decade ago; while Budget Director Harold Smith estimates that war veterans costs alone, when this war ends, will range between $3,500,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 a year one-tenth of our population or about 13,000,000 being then ranked as war vet erans! ' . WHERE is it all going to end? We don't know. We doubt if anyone does, even the wise money boys. But we do know this when the boys who have fought this war do come home the American peo ple are going to give them everything they can pos sibly AFFORD to give them, and then feel their debt has not been and cant be adequately repaid! Peace In Greece? There is little news from Greece these days. The excitement of two weeks ago has entirely died down. The last report we have seen however, indicates the E.A.M. forces are being driven steadily back by the British troops and are about ready to call it a day and come to British terms. 1 XE hope so. For British terms would mean disarming of the E.A.M., restoration of law and order and eventu ally a general election to determine the sort of gov ernment the people of Greece really want. This would not please Moscow, or Mr. Browder, but we believe it would please world opinion in gen eral, and be decidedly in the interest of restoring world peace in the Near East. COR the refusal of the E.A.M. to disarm, caused all the trouble in the first place and was based essentially upon the determination of the Greek Com munists to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat y force. That is all there was to the so called Greek revolt. The "national liberation front" claimed of course that this demand their members disarm, was merely a ruse to auow a fascist coup d etat, for the latter were not asked to do so. But there was no armed Fascist uarty in Greece to disarm. There was only the provisional government witn armed force to oppose the red revolters. 'THE demand from E.A.M. that.the government dis- arm first would therefore be rather like Al Ca- pone if he had agreed to throw away his gun, if the cop on the corner would do likewise and do it FIRST. Once let the E.A.M. be disarmed, and we nredict miinVi T.nKliniTn1 ''ni-ml won" in flvmn will vav U1UVU UWelVle.&U 1T11 TV OL lit UlCGtC Will OUUII subside, and another victory for determination de cisive action and sound good common sense, can be cnaiKea up to Mr. Winston Churchill's credit. . Weather A ids Germans News Behind The News By Paul Malloo .St "Just before election they made it easier to cash war bonds. No political significance, of course! Prior to election they eased up orr point rationing, and many gained the lmnresslon that the War was about in the bag. Prior to election, Ward was taken over, only to be dropped again when the action looked like it might become a political boomerang," (Oregon lan: better to ed.) A patriot wakes up as the campaign soft- soap comes home to roost. e e ine nrsi mention in some time of Mons. Laval and Petaln. the cream of French cussedness, comes from Berne, revealing the people of France, via a poll, are heartily In favor of terminating the earthly activity of M. Laval, known as the "Viper of Vichy." A kinder feeling is shown for M. Petaln. He is looking through the portals of B0 years and time is expected to soon take its toll, though he dealt plenty of misery to his native land and democ racy when the Nazis were going full steam. Nothing is revealed ot the whereabouts of either. Both are quiet enough to be in Argentina. Long, dark winter nights, as well as bad winter weather, are fighting on the side of the enemy along the Belgian-German-French battlefront. Few observers here realize how short the days and how long the nights are in west central Europe at this season of the year. Aachen, largest German city yet taken by American forces, and typical battle line marker, lies near the 51st degree of North Latitude. Although in that zone in late December and early January about eight hours elapse between sunrise ana sunset, effective daylight usually is cut sharply at both ends of the day by heavy fog. Since the sun is low; in the south its rays are dimmer than those of the high summer sun even when fog is absent IN Peacetime, city dwellers in central Europe often kept lights burning until after 10 o'clock in the morning and frequently turned them on again as early as 2 p. m. Even on the clearest mid-winter days twilight is of little use to Allied fivers, so that for a penoa oi 14 to lb nours they find the battle area blacked out. It was doubtless during these lornr hours of dark- ness says the National Geographic that the Germans made their elaborate preparations to break through the Allies' line. Under nature's blackout, the enemy torn fill .:i.t- . 1 . . - v mi iiiuiiwuvb wiui marcninc' men and lone nrn. cessions of tanks and tracks, and can shift trainloads ana Doauoaas of supplies fully protected by the dark ness. Washington, Jan. 11 Mr, Roosevelt's- announced program for the fourth term proposes compulsion as the answer to the most prom inent pending war and post war questions. Not enough 4-Fs are going into war work. Compel them, Not enough nurses are vol unteerlng, Draft them. Labor short ages exist in some few but im portant war lines. Give the presi dent power to draft everyone for war work. For future defense of the country, draft the. youths for a year of training in army camps. For 60,000,000 postwar jobs, let private enterprise be encouraged to furnish them, but let the gov ernment also furnish many by great public works (airfields, roads, new TVAs). e e e THE congressional reacUon to these ideas was hesitant. The president was fresh from a suc cessful election to a fourth term, with increased majorities in con gress, yet the common calm con gressional comment suggested only the 4-F draft would be authorized, probably a nurses draft would be included (if this scare does not work), but cer tainly a work draft would not be voted soon and the youth draft for peace might wait until peace for decision. The postwar business program was rather generally approved and will, no doubt, be provided by congress as it comes along. Why this resistance, largely silent and unexplained, to vital points of a program which is not new in any respect, the president having proclaimed himself for most of these things before? The answer is the average congress man is scared. Opposition was crushed po litically in the election, but the general .reaction here even to that result was somewhat the seme hesitancy, silence, fear (of elements prominent in the re election campaign). . IT IS NOT a partisan matter, and it is not being pushed for political effect. No one is much interested in such things now. It is a recognized genuine state of public affairs, .v. The president looks upon his work draft suggestion, no doubt, as a reasonable and democratic solution. England has a much milder counterpart of the same thing, being empowered to draft men for the army, and then to assign them to industry. They have put draftees into the mines to work. . ' The president says he Intends to use the power only sparingly to meet emergencies (although there are few powers the ad ministration has not used, some more fully than anticipated), He counsels, now (he did not before) safeguards which would not draft a man to work for a lower salary than he has been getting. What is certainly also behind the Idea, but not mentioned, is the power such legislation would give the president over strikes and nonconformist labor union leaders or workers. They could be drafted to work (aU union leaders have been against it), e e e JUDGING not only from these government compulsory powers but also the steps taken recently closing all race tracks, tighten ing rationing and the other war compulsory decrees, it is impos- sime to retrain from the con clusion that this government is moving further and further to the compulsory theory. Its ideal of a perfect form of government seems to be a new kind ot democratic statelsm pre serving free enterprise, contra dictory as those terms may sound. This may be the fourth new deal. Actually the only factor hold ing congress back is that the need for these steps has not bcerf proved conclusively. If, in the future, anytime, a major setback in the war, a wave of strikes, or a critical shortage of labor which cannot .otherwise be met, de velops a crisis, the congressional attitude could then be swung easily in favor of such form of action. W99fdm' i stile-A Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tore from the files ot the Mall Tribune 10. 20. and 34 rears ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY - January 11, 1935 Ot was Friday) t Mary Plckford, film queen to seek divorce from Douglas Fairbanks on grounds of "in difference." - Gen. Charles H. Martin to be inaugurated as governor of Ore gon next Monday. Roosevelt outlines social se curity plans to congress. Premier Mussolini and For eign Minister Laval of Franco hold conference. . Heavy snow mountains. falls In high El THE MIDDLE AND HOW! The guy holding his head in the center of this seething mass c-1 ulchritude is William Nicholas, chairman of the Tournament, of Roses. The bevy of beauteous gals gathering around in mob-scene manner are aspirants for Rose Queen title, and the place Is the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Calif. rant such a departure from our traditions. - For the long run, I would guess the odds favorv the pro jected administration outline, which events could swiftly pop ularize and justify. - ' ONE BiraSES IN FIRST 3 DAYS OF LEGISLATURE Salem, Ore., Jan. 11 U.F9 With only one bill passed dur ing the first three days of the session, Oregon's 1945 legislators began- to be restive, asking "where are the bills?", and to day looked forward to some thing to do more work on. Only minor or non-controver sial legislation was on the floor yesterday, with contentious sub jects, such as the "Big-truck" bill not yet up for debate. Only flareup yesterday was competition'between two senate groups to have adopted a joint resolution of their own, each Drovidins for a lesislative in- vestigating ' committee to look into the liquor control situation in the state, as demanded by Gov. Earl Snell. One resolution grants broader powers to the proposed commit tee than the other, the only difference. $50 Month Old Age Pension is Passed By California Body Sacramento, Calif., Jan. 11 (U.PJ The state assembly yester day passed and sent to the sen ate a bill continuing indefinitely the $50 month rate for old age pensions a 1 1 e r defeating an amendment to make the rate seo a month. The vote on passage ot the bill was 79 to 0. The amendment to increase the amount to $60 a month was supported almost en tirely by Democratic members Letter From Washington By HARRIS ELLSWORTH Member, ot Congress From Oregon Salem, Ore., Jan. 11 (U.B- Bills Introduced yesterday in the 1945 Oregon legislature includ ed those which provided; ' an the house): Limitation of financial respon sibility for. auto owners who have had an accident, to three years, instead of perpetually, and permitted self insurance in certain cases. " ' Extension of drivers' licenses until June 30, 1947. Invalidating of all tax refund invoices for gasolines used off the highway if any. invoice was found to be fraudulent. A refund of registration fees for trucks which are destroyed by accident before 50 per cent of the registration period is up. Registration of trucks and trailers, used exclusively as resi dences, for a flat $5 instead of by weight. . (Passed in the house): Bill validating use of stickers on autos in lieu of license plates. (Introduced in the senate): Establishment of standards and weights for containers for wheat, corn and flour. Probate of veterans estates. Audits for the accounts of municipal corporations. and was defeated by a 31 to 46 vote. The present S30 a month nen- sion rate is to expire July I. P. W. KILLED BY TRAIN Phoenix: Ariz.. Jan. 11 U.PJ Rudolph Tranmueller, German prisoner of war, escaped Mon day lrom a cotton-picking detail near Casa Grande, Ariz. Tran mueller's body was found beside Southern Pacific railroad tracks between Tusron and Yuma, his body mangled almost beyond recognition, the FBI said. Clotlne lime (or Sunday loo Late iw nattiiy e.au fieiuroajr mernoon Pleue) remembt. pONSEQUENTLY any sound analysis must conclude that the plotted march of the fourth term is definitely headed to ward extension of compulsion methods, completely for war, and to a new undetermined ex tent for peace, that the end- ideal seems to be a state in which individuals are subjected to extended authoritarian con trol by federal authorities. This trend may be arrested by victory, but Its course is largely in the hands of events to come. The position of con- greys seems to be only that it dors not understand conditions to be bad enough yet to war- REACTION to news, espe cially war news, here in Wash ington is always swift and some times drastic. If the trend of news is good, there immediately follows a spirit of optimism and optimisic prediction. Last sum mer when the war was running heavily in our favor, discussions had to do with post-war plans, reconversion , and re - employ ment Lately the news has been dis couraging. Not only has the news from the European war front been bad, but the develop ment of our relations with our Allies has been disturbing. Even the civilian front here has taken some minor beatings, what with very little gasoline, few cigar ettes, and the cancellation of carefully saved ration points. Consequently, this has been the gloomiest Christmas season in Washington, D. C, since the Civil War. Perhaps the greatest shock here apparently even a greater shock than the news of the Ger man offensive was the state ment by the President that the Atlantic Charter does not exist that it was just some "scraps of paper." Noticeable evidence of shock was in the Senate de bate on the confirmation of new assistants for the Secretary of State. Former stalwart New Dealers and Administration "yes men" were heard to ques tion the President's foreign pol icy and even voice criticism of it, or to be more specific, criti cism because our foreign policy is not defined. rom - the bad war news comes a noticeable trend to give the War Department almost complete control of the War Production Board. Previous de cisions regarding increased pro duction 'of civilian goods have Deen voided. . e e THE organization of the House of Representatives is al most the same for this Congress as for the one just ended (78th). The principal difference is that democrat control is more def inite. During the 78th Congress, the majority of the democrats was so thin that their control of the House was never certain. During the last six months, the margin of difference was less than half a dozen. Now, how ever, the margin is 40 which appears to be ample for the purpose of giving the adminis tration whatever legislation 1' desires. ' DURING 1945 Oregon's $42, 000,000 road program for the first three post-war years will be one of the state's most im portant planning activities. Un der Federal Highway Aid legis lation passed late in the last Congress, the apportionment for Oregon, soon to be made, wiU be $7,085,900 for each of the three years, or a total of $21, 255,000. The state matches fed eral funds on a 50-50 basis. The annual apportionment of federal funds provides $3,729, 000 for federal aid highways, $2,545,000 for secondary and farm to market roads, and $811,000 for highway improve ments within urban areas. The funds allocated for secondary roads may be used for improve ment of such roads in towns and villages of 5000 population or less. A maximum of 10 per cent of any of the three alloca tions may be used for grade crossing elimination. City, county, and state offi cials will work together in for mulating the' program for the state. State officials will sub mit the plans to the Federal Bu reau of Public Roads for final approval. State highway offi cials have been unable to plan any broad program for the post-war period in the past. The new law makes possible a com plete program which can be started immediately when the war ends ..... e- e . ALL unremarried widows of World War I veterans may now apply for $35 per month pen sion under law, passed late in the last session . of , Congress, Previously, pensions were paid only to those widows showing mat the veteran had service in curred disability. , , To qualify, the widow must show that she is unremarried, that the veteran had not less than 90 days service with hon- I urauie aiscnarge, and mat ner income is less than $1000) per year if she has no children, and less man $2500 if there are chil dren. To the base pension of $35 is added $10 for the first child and $5 for each additional child. I will be glad to send ap plication forms and information to any person on request. Cold, vunsettld with rain or snow. High 36, low 30 degrees. January 11, 1925 Ot was Sunday) Dense fog covers France and England. Gov. Pierce comes out for state income tax and oleo in message to legislature. Jackson county members ot legislature named on six committees. Iff & Cloudy and colder. High 48, low 36 degrees. . . Owem-Oregon company mill to start double shift next week. Eggs sell for 47 cents per doz en on Portland market due to light receipts. Italy "first Premier Mussolini of names New York lady as fascist of America." THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY January 11, 1911 Ot was Wednesday) W. H. Canon is re-elected mayor. Trolley franchise to be asked of city council, for valley inter urban line. First snow of year falls In city and street department kept on jump. Daily Weather Report Forecast! . Mfnurl am1 HMnitV ClotldV tOto night and Friday with occasional light rain toiugnt or eariy Tiaay. nwraw tonight. . , Oregon: Cloudy with occasional light rain In northwest portion! spreading to west portion tonight and Friday with light rain or snow at times beginning tonight east of Local Data Temperature a year ago today) tuenesT, 44; lowest, ai. Total monthly precipitation. JJi inch. Deficiency for the month inch. Total precipitation tine Septembef 1, 1944. 4.80 Inches. Deficiency lor tea season, 1.28 inches. . Relative humidity at 4:30 p. m. y terday, 71; 4:30 today, 100. Tomorrow Sunrise, 8:38 a. m. Sunset, 6:01 p. m. PYLE GOING TO T San Francisco, Jan. 11 U.R) -Ernie Pyle, famed columnist and war correspondent, said to day that he is going out to cover the Pacific war "Not because I want to, but just because some thing Inside me says I've got to." He added: "I don't relish one bit going out In range of Japa nese Dombs and shells. They'll be just as hellish and terrifying as the German bombs. But the men fighting the war don't like the shooting either.". The 112-pound correspondent asserted that although friends think he looks very well, he was unable to rest during the three and a half months he spent at his Albuquerque, N. M., hortie after covering the war in Africa, Italy and France. "It was no rest not even a total of a half day sunning my self alone on the front porch," Pyle said. , AIRLINE CUTS RATES Los Angeles, Jan 11 (U.R) The American airlines today an nounced a 6 Mi per cent cut in passenger rates effective about March 1. The saving was made possible through more efficient operating methods and greater utilization of aircraft. President A. N. Kemp announced. ouium, (i xi Past 24 houra: Boiae Boston ' Chicago Denver , Eureka Havre Los Angeles , Medford New York omana Phoenix Portland . Reno Rosebure . Salt Lake . High . 37 . 14 . IS . 83 , 57 40 96 , 51 , 38 57 4S ss 48 56 56 no Washington, D. C. 25 Yakima 80 San Francisco . Seattle sookane . Low 34 4 -2 31 44 31 50 32 ' 16 27 48 45 2 39 27 49 48 37 30 ..OS .1 .il BTJRMA TREATMENT Natives benefit as American Infantrymen force way Into Burma. Here local Inhabitant visits Yank medical corpsman at aid station set up on grounds of adjoining Buddhist Monastery. (U.SL Signal Corps Photo J - --' REPLACE your old oil burner with a new MONTAG Leonard Electric Co. 309 E. Main Phone 4427 SERVICE Im-T Tit In your time of sorrow you will find that Perl's kindly, experien. ced service will meet all details that will arise and will assure a service that is both dignified and beautiful a fitting tribute to a loved one. Lady Attendant FUNERAL HOME 426 WEST SIXTH ST. TELEPHONE 2675 AMBULANCE SERVICE
