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SIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, Jan. 18. 1149 MEDF01 UNB gxesei Saturday wop 'pnfhiT&o co .... tl-W North fit 8t ROBERT W BUHL, Editor ntNBST R GIL8TRAP HIKB UKIY A4vertisln artkur perry 8"jrfa di,S,,- MRS OUVS 8T ARC HER OERAJJO LATHAM Clrr.ll.Uon W As Independent Newspaper. Illtnd M escond nana undel Act Of SUBSCRIPTION By Hall -In Advanca ball and Sunday -one .. ."T? Dally and Sunday -al montha 00 Dally and Sunday -three moa l.H Dally and Sunday ona month If By Carrier In Advanca Medlord Ashland Central Point, Jackson villa. Gold Hill Phoenix Talent and on motoi route: Dally and sunaay one tsm. month All larma i la advance Official Paper f the city Hedford Official Paper of satkaoa Ceuaty UnlUd Press Full Leased mln MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advertlslnf Mpraaentatly WIST-HOLUDAY COMPANi OfC Offloaa In New York Chlcalo Da. trolt. tan rrancaKo Ue Anjtlae Se attle. Portland. St Loula Atlanta. ancouvelBC Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry The human nose Is over worked these days. The ap pointment of H. Wallace as sec retary of commerce smelled so much of politics, nation-wide holding of the proboscus en- sued, while the colds of winter bring extensive . "blowing" of same. Due to the Russians ram ming the Germans to the Oder, millions sniff an early Nazi col lapse. And all the while the nose maintains Its normal func tions along with getting into "other people's business," r& attaining on the economic grind stone and not getting so red other women will notice it 0 0 Autolsts returning from the south report they made good time, except for Icy stretches and a considerable portion of the alleged beet shortage on the highway. "Among the current com panions of the $345 compacts and $230 shoehorns are lobster meat at $3.20 a pound and oys ters at $1.70 a quart." (Chris tian .Science Monitor.) Add home front sacrifices. Residential area sleepers re port the past four nights they have been kept awake by hon est but noisy watch-dogs bark ing at the moon. They hoped when the dog-catcher comes along the offending canine has a 1B4S license tag on nil collar. e e BrTOUOH tJ ENOUGH (The Dalles Chronicle) There Is no apparent rea son why we should have more now, yet the weather clerk sent down several Inches of the white nuisance last night There was enough before, there is more than enough now and we hope there will be no more. Rather welcome the warm breath of the mild Chinook, that shall again . make visible the good old earth." (80 Yrs. Ago Col.) e .Piscatorial e n t b u a 1 asts are busy these, days re-wlnding and varnishing fishing poles with an eye to maintaining the "cor rect balance." The hoe handle, chewed on by termites since Oc tober, also needs repainting and' a cork hand-grip on the short end. A social worker reports, "any boy or girl of S should know which side of their bread Is buttered," If they are lucky enough In these days of ration ing to have butter. However its quite a trick for a slice of bread to land buttered side down, if it has no butter on it. e e The Nazis are now battling on the "sacred soil" of Der Fatherland, and making a sorry spectacle on the run. German cities fall to the Russian ad vance but the Hitler hordes nave lost the wanton ruthless ness In retreat they showed in little lands thev conniinrl. They no longer burn and bomb what they can't steal. No Reich city Is made a target for Stuka planes Just to see how they work. There are signs the Teu tons have enough of a losing war, also Herr Hitler and fellow criminals. Citizens report' the soy-bean, the great "food stretcher" is now stretching ltaelt in the gen uine buckwheat pancake flour, and has liquidated the original atom of buckwheat a e e The nation Is assured of four years more of Madam Perkins. secretary of labor, an estimable lady, with few if any qualifica tions for the high post she oc cupies. In a general election on her fitness big town democratic bosses, with all their political slickness, admit with Herbert Hoover as an opponent, she could not carry Alabama, that boasted only 11,000 republican vote in the last election. Why Fight In Italy? We have received the following query (unsigned) on a post-card: , We have a boy In Italy who has been fighting for over a year. Perhaps you can tell us, why we are fighting in Italy when Italy has surrendered and the Italians them selves are at peace? What is the big idea anyway? The Roosevelt administration claims we need more men and ammunition in Europe so there must be universal conscrip tion. Why don't we send our men and guns in Italy where they are needed, instead of keeping them In Italy where they aren't? But of course they ARE. If American troops were withdrawn from Italy, Germany would soon over-run the country, and be in a position to make serious trouble for the allies in the Mediterranean and tnrougnout tne tsaiKans, per haps even in Africa. More than that Germany would then be in a posi tion to hold Italy with one or two divisions and send all the rest of her forces, perhaps 10 or 12 divisions of well trained and well equipped troops to bolster her eastern or western fronts. o a o TTHERE are military experts of standing who do 1 maintain the entire Italian campaign, from an allied standpoint, was a strategic mistake. That may be true. But it is also true, as we in Italy, the allied troops can not be withdrawn until the German armies have been driven out A more pertinent question hard-pressed as she is, Germany doesn't abandon Italy, rush her Italians armies to her eastern and western fronts? The answer to that, in all determination to hang on as possible because practically all of the Italian muni tion factories are concentrated there, a source of valuable supply to her forces Silly Business A copy of House Bill 13 a request for editorial comment. The bill approved by the the use of mobile registration booths in Multnomah county. Final action is now up to a e e 1X7ELL we hope the Senate uses some horse-sense, and gives this effort to restrict registration in Portland and environs, a the most good! We know the argument it is to spike the New Deal and P. A.C. effort to register migrant workers in Portland shipyards, and thus defeat the. popular will Old Party! But that is a lot of unadulterated whang-doodle. This mobile registration is for REGISTRATION not for voting, and assuming the procedure is properly regulated according to the election laws, and no one claims otherwise such a movement should be encour aged not prohibited. ( The Republicans have a large majority in the Senate and if partisan lines are drawn can easily pass the measure. We trust enough Republicans will see the ultimate folly of such a course to defeat it War Casualties To the Editor I am told some country newspaper editor in New York state has taken the Russian daily war reports as printed in the Times and added up the German casualties since June 1941, as officially reported and they show a total of 24,000, 000 Germans killed, 32,000,000 wounded and 40,000,000 prisoners, a total of nearly 100,000,000, when Germany has total population of only around 70,000,000. Do you know whether .this is true or not, and if so could you get me the name of the newspaper? It has always seemed to me the casualties claimed by Russia have been outlandish, but never supposed they could be as crazy as this. D. A. Adams, Applegate, Oregon, Jan. 24. Never heard of it and can't believe it is time. The new World Almanac out information regarding war ciear up tne matter. As has often been remarked in this denartment however, enemy claims of at their face value regardless We believe the United States claims are nearer the truth than those of any other belligerent with the possible exception of England, but our own reports oi enemy casualties can oy tne nature of things only be guesses, for the very simple reason the enemy dead and wounded are seldom if ever available for any 1 -i J - if i i iuim vi accurate count. DUSSIA is among the least reliable of the belliger 1V ents in casualty claims, but no worse than Ger many, and not as bad as Japan. Hitler not only claimed to have inflicted 10,000,000 casualties on Russia the first year, but invasion of that country, stated officially that Russia nad Deen defeated, knocked out of the war, as far as any further effective resistance was concerned. As for 'Nefarious Nippon" been wiped off the face aozen times according to Tokyo communiques. QUR advice to Mr. Adams, or anyone else interested in the matter is to disregard all casualty claims made by any country of its enemy, for they deal with facta that can't be known, or even estimated with any thing approaching factual accuracy. ST. MARY'S QUINTET TO OPPOSE J'VILLE FRIDAY St Mary's high Wildcats will travel to Jacksonville tomorrow night for an eastern division county "B" league game slated see it, that once committed in fact might be : WHY likelihood, is Germany's to northern Italy as long everywhere. has come to this desk, with House, would make illegal the State Senate. e e . . swift kick where it will do in favor of the measure, as represented by Grand next month mieht contain casualties, which would . casualties can not be taken of the source. less than 90 davs after the the American fleet has of the map at least half a to start at 7:30. The lineup for St. Mary's will probably see Howard and Harold Rickman at the forward spots, Jim Miller at center, and Dick Iven and either Bob Fascl or Bob Messer at the guard posts, News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington. Jan. 25 Mr, Roosevelt has been edged up to his nromised . meeting . with Stalin ana Churchill by a series of . for eign affairs speeches which seemed to set a new Ameri ca n back ground for the discu s s I o n s. Rising courag eously with new ideas have Paul Halloa come Senators Vanden berg, Wheeler and Connally, and George Foster Dulles, the Dewey advisor. These may have appeared somewhat confusing to the pub lic, but together they constitut ed a format affording Mr. Roose velt knowledge of what is want ed in various quarters and there fore how far he can go. e a e FOR Instance, the Vandenberg opus was confusedly inter preted as a conversion of an isolationist to the international 1st viewpoint. The gleeful inter nationalists hailed the speech from that standpoint, and so did the somewhat disappointed na tionalists who seemed to fear Its import. Actually it was only a Vandenberg plan which did not join either side. His pro gram, which Is even at this late date being confusingly reported In magazines, seemed to me to be simply this: Russia and Britain are divid Ing .Europe Into spheres of in fluence, while our Ideals and our policy languish. We want freedom for all peoples, appar ently real democratic freedom, not Just deliverance of Europe from the bonds of fascism into the chains of communism. Vandenberg, therefore, pro posed to pledge free future' use by the president of our armed forces In the postwar world to prevent remilitarization by Ger many and Japan only. He did not pledge their free use or any kind of use, to perpetuate forever the Conquests Russia is making in Poland, or the Balkans or a British sphere of Influence In Greece, indeed, he mentioned the possibility - that more might be an unjust peace and he obviously did not want our armies backing that kind of a proposition. That was the essence of Vandenberg's idea MOW Wheeler, also, I think, was not clearly understood He said he favored the Connally plan for an interim council of nations, and this was hailed as his conversion. But Wheeler did not want free use of our troops in any future war for any purpose. His main point was that the next war threat Is not likely to arise from Germany or Japan out trom Russia, France. China Britain or us the big five with the arms, whereas Germany and Japan are to be completely crushed. e a IT IS clesr, therefore, that both Vandenberg and Wheeler have said only they wish to co-operate in a .Just peace, Similarly the speech of the Dewey internationalist advisor, Mr. Dulles, was reported as an attack on American aloofness In foreign policy and was mis understood as an assault upon isolationists What Mr. Dulles said was that current condi tions in Europe are due to Rus sian and British policies. Rus sia, he put it, has been assigned responsibility In Europe "in large part" and Britain "in small part." For this he held the administration responsible Wheeler Is the only one who came right out and plainly im plied he did not expect Russia and the others to agree to any thing that would be acceptable to him, but the same thought was not absent from the care fully framed Vandenberg plan or from the Dulles speech. Mr. Roosevelt is thus being sent forth with what appears to be a popular mandate to break power politics in Europe nothing more. To whatever extent he (ails In that, the plan he brings home will be in pub lic jeopardy (Judging from the popular reaction to tnese taiKsr BIRTHS rnMOWn; Tn Mr anH Mm. Lawrence, Rt. 2, box 218, Janu ary 25, 1943, girl, 7 lbs., at Com munity hospital. JONES To Pvt. and Mrs. Otis, 230 Wabash, January 25. 1943. boy, 6 lbs., at Community hospital. Prescription Filled Over 15 Million Times Recommended to do just two thinrs: relieve constipation and fss on the stomach. This successful prescription Is now put up under the nam of ADLER1KA. Get a bottle ol Adlerilta next time vou atop at your druggist's and are lor yourself now quickly gas ia re lieved and gentle but thorough bowel action follows. Good for old and young. C'autinn, use only as directed. CM Adlwiltm from aVa((M Supplies Unloaded Under Fire - - m t: oar f-,"- er a Nosing ashore on Luzon as Jap artillery shells still explode en the Un gayen Gulf beachnead, this LST disgorges Its vital cargo of trucks and ammunition. Troops, armor and supplies have poured ashore to Luzon in Quantities unequaled In any previous Pacific operation. . Letter From Washington By HARRIS ELLSWORTH Member oi Congress From Oregon Washington, D. C. (Special Correspondence.) Inauguration. This Is Inaugur ation week here at the nation's capital, but there seems to be only passing interest in the oc casion. Reasons for the routine nature of the event are several: Most interest is centered on the war and problems connected with it; the Inauguration Is the fourth consecutive time for the same man; and the ceremony it self has been planned with the least possible fanfare. The in auguration will not be held on the capitol steps as Is customary. There will be no seating capac ity for a large guest list, and there will be no parade from the White House to the capitol. The inauguration will take place on the "back porch" of the White House. The list of those invited to stand in the White House yard is limited to mem bers of congress and their wives. top government officials, vari ous dignitaries, and members of the "One Thousand club." e e PRESIDENT'S HEALTH. Ru mors to the effect that the presi dent Is a sick man were rampant during the campaign and have been rather prevalent since. Last week, I had an opportunity to observe the president at rather close range. I attended a ban quet at which he was present. 1 can report to you that his color was good the color and com plexion of a healthy man, he was obviously vigorous, he sat at the table three hours, enjoyed the entertainment, laughed fre quently, chatted with those seat ed near him, and although he did not make a formal speech, he twice took the microphone at the speaker's table and made amusing comments. His voice was the same strong voice that has always charmed radio lis teners. MANPOWER. Selective Serv ice head, General Hershey, this week appeared before a rather large unofficial committee of house members and was ques tioned regarding the new order to induct young men from farms. I sat through most of the meet ing. A summary of the Informa tion obtained can be briefly stat ed as follows: The armed services have noti fied selective service that more men are needed. Available sources for the requirement are limited. Under the selective service law, local draft boards have wide authority. Selective service officials request local boards to emake inductions and reclassifications that are' not re quired by law, but with the wide latitude given local boards in the law, such requests from selective service headquarters may be complied with. Accord ingly, local boards may use their best Judgment In reclassifying DIXIE CAFE Q We're featuring Boyd't w coffee made with the lat .est coffee-making equip ment at the Dixie Cafe. 127 E. 6th St., Medford I .eV' (Aemm TUohoto) and Inducting farm labor or any other deferred men, subject, of course, to the provisions of the Tydings amendment, designed to protect essential agricultural workers. Under this amendment, farm workers under 26 are to be kept on the farm, if: (1) They are necessary to agricultural production; (2) They are regular ly engaged in it; (3) Their occu pations are essential to the war effort that is, that they are en gaged in producing fQod that -is marketed; (4) That they cannot be replaced on the farms. e FLAGS. Parents or next of kin of men in the service who were killed in action on foreign soil, and are buried there, are entitled to receive a large Amer ican flag (the flag is a'xSW in size) from the government. Such parents or next of kin who have not yef received a flag may have one by making proper applica tion and presenting proof of death. Application blanks (Veterans Administration Form 2008) may be obtained from any Veterans Administration ' facility, from any county seat post office, and. in the fourth congressional dis trict, in addition to the county seat post offices, from post of fices - at Ashland, Brownsville, Cottage Grove, Coos Bay, North Bend, Port Orford and Reeds port. These flags are now avail able at, the post offices and may be obtained when the applica tion Is filed. I shall be glad to mail anyone an application blank upon request. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Kditoi must beai the name and address ot the writer sllhiiush the use of a pen-name or initials fur publication Is permis sible 1'he Mall Tribune reserves the rlahl to edit all letters with a view lo clarity and condensauon Status of Community Property uw in Oregon . To the editor: It has been brought to my attention that a subscriber has requested an ar ticle from one of the Jackson county representatives relative to the effect ot the recent decis ion of the supreme court of the United States on the Oregon community property law. Since the supreme court of Oregon has not passed on the subject, it might be deemed pre sumptious foi me to express my views; but your subscriber is en titled to an answer which re flects the opinion of the writer and this opinion may, or may not, be fully accepted, ratified and approved by my fellow members of the bar. The decision of the supreme court was restricted to the ef fect of an Oklahoma community property law (upon which Ore gon law was based) on Individ ual federal Income tax returns filed by husband and wife trom a" that state. It wai held tne law. was invalid insofar as it attempt ed to provide a means whereby husband and wife could level their Income, file individual re turns and thereby lessen their federal income tax liability. The decision doe not invali date the law with reference to other matters The answer to the question of your subscriber is that the decision has no ef fect on the law in its applica tion to any other situation aris ta B under It except those relat ing to federal income taxes. For Instance, for state tax purposes, the attorney general has ruled the law la still effective In Ore gon. This community property law we find is very generally mis understood, and I would recom mend that Interested persons consult their lawyer with re ference to it. Frank J. Van Dyke, Representative, 19th District of Oregon. To the editor: Do you suppose you could do anything to help educate the ad-answering pub lic? Time after time we've run ads in your paper usually the answers pour in but what do we get? Often ' times nothing more than a name, when we are drastically in need of help. Now, If they only could use a little salesmanship talk tell their age, experience, present position, habits, family (if any), etc., it would give a' busy man something to go on we do not have time to investigate 20-30 applicants personally, and no doubt miss contacting the one man for the job. Yours for more intelligent an swers, EVELYN HAMILTON, Medford, Oregon, -AIR CRASH TAKES IB LIVES VDyersburg, Tenn., Jan. 2S (U.R) Sixteen men were killed Wednesday night when two Fly ing Fortresses collided near here officials of the Dyersburg army air base, where the planes were based, announced today. - Four other members of the crews parachuted to safety. The planes reportedly were flying in formation when the accident occurred. A wing on one of the big four-engined bombers was said to have sheared off when it struck the other plane, which also went down out of control. Both aircraft burned. ' CARD OP THANKS Wa wlah to thank our friends and neighbors for their kindness and sym pathy during our bereavement and for the floral offerings. The Andersen family. Closlnt time for Sunday Too Lau io i;iaaai! o:au eiuraa afternoon i-iease rememoer NOTICE TO CREDITORS No. 7394 In the County Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Jackson. Probate Department, Notice, is hereby given that the undersigned has been duly appointed administratrix of the estate of elecite Dieu, deceased, and has qualified. Any and all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present said claims duly veri fied, at the office of the county clerk In Jackson County, Ore gon, within six months from date of this notice. Date of first publication Thursday, January 25, 1945. Date of last publication. Thursday, February 22, 1945. MARGARET LUTHKE Administratrix Charles Coston 517 Davis Building, Attorney for administratrix, Portland, Oregon. mcu SEAT, DON'T DRINK WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING!! IDUCATIONAl ADVIlOtY COMMITTII fa Ik Ortgoe liquor Central Cemmltileil Flight o' Time MeoUord aud Jackson Co His tory 'ions the files ot the Mall Tribune 10. 20. and 34 fears age. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY January 25, 1939 ' (It was Saturday) Legislature with one-third of session over, passes only three bills, none of any importance. Congress plans early vote on bonus bill despite presidential opposition. Cloudy and unsettled. High 38, low 30 degrees. O.S.C. defeats Washington twice in row to strengthen con ference. "Red" McDonald among players on State squad. Jacksonville mining opera tlons cause main street to drop six feet Farm enumerators for county namedj Mrs. Roosevelt pleads for America to join world court' Frank DeSouza nominated In senate for postmaster here. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY January 25. 1923 (It was Monday) State prohibition enforcement officer under fire at legislative hearing. ' . Jackson County Protective Sportsmen association at meet ing opposes any change in fish laws at present time. Rain. High 46, low 36 degrees. Emigrant dam near Ashland is now filling and large number of motorists visit it. - Attorney Arthur I. Moulton of Portland to deliver annual Lin coln banquet address. Local radio - fans incorporate and will wage war - on static. Among the incorporators are W. A. Gates, Ralph Bardwell, T. E. Daniels and Frank De Souza. Coast business shows gain In December. , THIRYT-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY - January 23, 1911 (It was Wednesday) ' ' Progressives to oppose second term for President Taft. Prospects bright for federal experiment station in valley. Rogue-River Electric company to build new plant this summer. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada. 10 EASE UBSERY OF CHILD'S COLO RUBON WICKS V VAPOR GREEN FIR SLABS ' $7.50 GREEN PINE SLABS -$6.00 300 Cu. Foot Load -For Immediate Delivery Phone 731 Central Point SOUTHERN OREGON FUEL GO. r
