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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
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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.
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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.)
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.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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Nosing ashore on Luzon as Jap artillery shells still explode en the Un
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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