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SIX MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordJTrdunb Everyone 1 Soother". Ore(oa Bteaaa we ----- except Saturday Published b MIDrORD PWOTINO CO ri.M North fir St Phone ROBMVT W BimU IVMtor. gKNEST B GI1-STRAP Manase. HIHB OKEY Advertuins lUr I C FERGUSON. Manaltna ARTHUR PERRY Sunday Mltor MRS OLIVE STARCHER. ttoc Editor GERALD LATHAM Circulation Mg An Independent Nowepapor. Entered u aecond elasa nutter t Mediord Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1879 SUBSCRIPTION BATES Br Mall In Advance ' tally and Sunday-one year .' Dally and Sunday-elx month. 4 00 Dally and Sunday-three moa l.ic Dally and Sunday-one nionth. TO By Carrier In Advance Medforo Ahiand. Central Point. Jackion. vine. Gold Hill. PhnenU. Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday one a";i P, Dally and Sunday-ne month .7t All lerme caah In advance. Official Paper of the City el MedJoTd Official Paper el Jackson Cennty United Preia roll Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising RepreaentatlT WEST-HOLUDAV COMPAN1 DJO Ofllcea In New York Chicago. De troit. San rrandeeo. Lee Angola;. Se attle. Portland. St Lou la .Atlanta. ; Vancouvel. B. C. MmU PUBll$MEju44$Jfi)titTI0ll Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry Tomorrow li the anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lin coln, former president of the nation. He was the possessor of many "homely virtues", more beautiful than the streamlined notions of today. e e Stockmen report there will be plenty of hay for the cows, and, 1 will not have to eat any of it themselves, as once feared. The fishing season comes on apace. C. Ingalls of the Corvallis Gazette-Times wonders It fish go home, and lie to tHelr wives bout the size of the bait they stole. ' , " ' The Dick Phatr boy Dick Is 'now equipped with an Indian suit, and Is a juvenile aborigine like J.Tannehlll (Jaybird) Walk er. The latter fooled around in open country Thurs. and barely got back to the parental wigwam In time for supper. , . , , . The pull 4c haul at the Arm ory Thurs. eve was well attend ed, and the Grey Mask all but got scrunched by the Weed Assassin. ', Epicureans report they have gathered the first mushrooms of the season, and none of them turned out to be toadstools. Gov. Dewey of-N.Y, late GOP presidential aspirant, spoke on the air Thurs. eve. and hit the nail on the head, with campaign vigor. He pointed an oratorical finger at FR. and warned htm not to let Mr. Stalin of Russia pull the political wool over his eyes. The coming week Is "Boy Scout" week. It is the first time in a lciig while, a week had extra duty, as a week. e e e . . The B. Tornado scrunched the powerful (at home) Pelicans Fri. eve, but were off form and cen . ter, and were unable to hit the bull's eye, or any other part of him in their shooting. e The Russians are driving for Berlin, the main roost of Nazism while Herr Hitler and crew plan to retire to a nice quiet spot where they can hide under the bed and yell "kings X". Italy, a former paramour of Germany, objects to the allied armistice terms. The Itallnns no longer yell "We want Tunisia", twist the British Uon's tall, or attack Ethiopia. A speed Idiot flew the high way, and rammed into what Is believed to be the only picket fence extant In this modern burg. e e A threat has been sounded, the men folks of the nation In order to be fashionable must produce whiskers with malice and aforethought. The OPA re . port no shortage of stuffing for i mattresses. With strikes galore, and war rampant, the world is not suffering enough. e e The S. elevens dog Twlrp, re mained home most of the week. He doggedly refused comment . on pooches with "A" flying pri orities, and "Purple Hearts." e e e The legislature has compro mised the truck bill, by meeting the truck situation halfway. The trucks are obliging, and will ' com on your side of the road, u necessary. Schools started last week on the last half of tholr imi Many kids were vaccinated, at uie ena ot me semester. a Ed Kubll, Applcgate cow man, Dirtiidayed Sat., his 43rd. Uae Mail Irmune Want Ads, Sunday. Feb. 11. 1848 The Answer to Ernie Pyle A brieht young man, eager to become a "famous war correspondent," asks Pyle has got that he hasn t got t Well the answer to that is Ernie Pyle has what no other war correspondent in the world has, to an equal degree at least, the warm, simple, , kindly, HUMAN interest and approach. Ernie Pvle. in fact, has revolutionized the business of war reporting, simply because of that fact. That and the man's uncompromising integrity, his refusal at all times and under all thing but himself. UNTIL Ernie Pyle came nf vaar ronnrtirtor wna a exclusive profession, occupied largely by'well known and highly paid writers writing field. 1 But the stuff most of them turned out, while often extremely well done from a literary standpoint, had no more of the personal, intimate HUMAN touch, than Caesar's Commentaries, .or a play-by-play de scription of the Big Game. Now and then perhaps a searchings came into the script, but as a general prac tice, only those with at least two stars on their shoul der straps were mentioned, uals but as actors in the masters of strategy, tactics the grim chess game of human conflict. 'RNIE Pyle canned all that. He had nothing against 1 the military big-shots or the dollar-a-word corre spondents, particularly; but he did prefer the plain G-I in the ranks, the slugging and slogging "Non Corns", or the homesick boy from Westfield Comers, Arkansas, who about to go over the top found it hard work to keep the tears back or his breakfast down ! There in the ranks, Pyle but felt that the real essence, the soul of the war could be found. And needless to add he found it! "THERE are many better winters in the profession than Ernie Pyle, men who know far more about the fine points of military science and syntax, but none who know the plain G.I. as he does, or has a deeper sympathy for him, or more earnest desire, someway to help him. It is fundamentally a matter of feeling, it is the HEART this kindly and un assuming newsman, puts in has plaped him at the top of spondents in this conflict, and the correspondents of any other country for that matter. IT is amusing now to see so many of his fellow rtrv)ODnnni4fjnfa f mr iwiHafri Vtim "Rnf arrr 0V1 rr they just lack the knack, the thing, whatever it is that makes every reader of Pyle's column feel the deep sincerity and simplicity of the man, and the complete authenticity of the pic ture he draws of this war, and the boys, most of them just overgrown kids, who are doing most, of the fighting and dying in it. : e e SO we told our young friend that most of the success ful njtip tnrvaanrtnrlarird liavovi'f rrnfr omrfVnrtrr Vn hasn't got except the opportunity, for he is a smart, literate and enterprising young chap. But Ernie Pyle, we fear has. For Ernie is line, and like most geniuses, but very few equals. Why Did Manila Fall? We have yet to see a convincing explanation of the swift and comparatively bloodless capture of Manila. How come? The only explanations we add up to the claim that General MacArthur is a military superman, who by sheer strategic brilliancy, made such monkeys out of the Japs, that he was able to execute practically a dress-parade into the capital oi tne rninppines. Mebbe so, mebbe sol DUT even if that is correct IJ the Japanese made no constructed no fortifications, no underground shelters or concrete pill-boxes, laid no mines, quartered no large body of troops there, but when the Yanks came in, the few Nipponese who were there, walked out. We have an idea it is true the American campaign was a brilliant one, and General MacArthur may be n i v. - . l i. . i j i . .i ... an ma menus say iie ia as au liven so, that would not anese from preparing defenses, distributing forces, and at least making the allies pay dearly for Manila and that portion of the Philippines which is generally aamiuea to be, not only the key to the island s de fense, but extremely important in the defense of .the South China coast, the China sea, and therefore Japan itself. ..." IT is all very mysterious to this department The only explanation we can conjure up is, that without either air or sea control Japan decided some time back no successful defense of, the Philippines could be made. So only a holding operation and guerrilla warfare were planned, Japan's real defense lines then being drawn from Singapore to Shanghai. To sustain the latter hypothesis are reports from Chinese sources that for over a year now Japan has been concentrating upon air fields, improving high ways and reconstructing railroads in this area, the eastern shore of South and Central China. ' There the big decisive battle may well be lost, and won t this department what Ernie circumstances to be any 1 ' ; . on the scene the business hitrrilv riep.ira.hle hut rather already established in the ' " ' cjoioners name ana neart and then not as individ great drama as remote and what-not, pawns in not only felt more at home, his correspondence that the American war corre or the flair, or the feel of a genius in his particular there are many imitators . have seen to date merely it would not explain why effort to defend Manila, a legist ana leaaer. have prevented the Jap DE GAULLE JOINS BIG 3 POLITICAL TALKS SAYS PARIS London, Feb. 10 (U.R) The Paris radio said tonight that Gen.. Charles De Gaulle, leader of France, will participate in the political talks of the "big three" allied leaders, President Roose velt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier - Marshal Josef Stalin. - Meetings of the big three are proceeding somewhere in the Black sea area, according to last official announcements.' Radio Paris said the . talks had "ex hausted purely military mat ters,' 'and are going to deal with political problems. N The French broadcast,' not confirmed by authoritiative sources here, said that with the inclusion of De Gaulle, the big three conference "will become a conference of the big four." Whether De Gaulle already is at the conference was not dis closed. Confirmation of the De Gaulle report would indicate that France had achieved her demand for recognition as one of t h e leading allied powers. Usually well-informed sources said tonight that President Roosevelt was believed to be planning a state visit with King George VI of, England sometime In the, late summer or early fall. These sources understood that the big three meeting originally was scheduled for London or western Europe. Then 'the conference scene was changed to the Black sea area and Mr. Roosevelt's visit with the king was postponed, al though preparations already had been started. The president is be lieved to have informed the king of his Intention of 'accepting the Invitation. . Churchill was believed to have carried a verbal message from the king to Roosevelt at the Black sea meeting, suggesting that the president make the visit i at his own convenience. The I president's reply reportedly said that it was more convenient lor him to come to London at a later 'date. ! Confirmation of the De Gaulle report would Indicate -that France had achieved her de mand for recognition as one of the leading allied powers. A Pars broadcast said the report was "great news for all French men." CHICKENS LISTED L Salem, Ore., Feb. 10 (U.R) Chickens are now livestock and dogs, even those with priorites, had better watch out in Oregon. The house today concurred n senate amendments and sent to the governor the bill (HB61) pro tecting owners of chickens from the depredations of dogs, the same way in which cattle, sheep and other livestock owners are protected. P. S. To dog haters (f any) It's still illegal to shoot a dog on a public road or In a city even if he is chasing a chicken. 0PA0lRl.31 ES A PUZZLE Atlanta, Ga Feb. 10 U,R When.s an embrace a statistical approach and not an amorous maneuver? Regional war labor board of ficials had this question to de cide when a southern business man wrote requesting that "you authorize me to embrace all my stenographers at their various lo cations, under general order 31." WLB officials, admitting that general order 31 covers a multi tude of sills under its wage sta bilization program anyway, granted the request. LADY TO PRISON San Francisco, Feb. 10 (U.R) Marguerite Pritchard, 28, of Glaidale, Cal., today was sen tenced to three years In federal penitentiary after being con victed of posing as a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent. If You Order That PATIO and BARBEQUE GRILL built new you can get your gardening done and take full advantage oi the growing sea son. I specialise in firtt-cUis con crete and maionry. Fireplaces, Bird Baths. Fountains, Patios, etc.. Driveways and Walks. FRANCIS "RED" BRISBINE 114 E. Jackson St Ph. JS5I E TO SHIP ARMED London, Feb. 10 (U.R) De tailed blueprints already have been drawn for a mass transfer of British land, sea and air pow er to the Far East the moment Germany has been defeated, it was learned tonight. , - - The transfer of sea power al ready has reached the point where most of the Royal navy's newest and most powerful strik ing units aside from those re tained to guard the convoy route to Murmansk have joined eith er the East Indies fleet com manded by Adm. Sir A. J. Power or the newly-formed eastern fleet under Adm. Sir Bruce Fra ser. The fall of Germany will be the starting signal for what one informed source called "The biggest removal job in military history. It was learned that Britain's military planners already have figured the exatt number of di visions they will be able to use against Japan, the number of heavy bomber plane squadrons to be sent, and even where the bombers will be based. The RAF so far has used only Wellington and Liberator heavy bombers in the Burma area but recent reports suggest the famed Lancaster may soon make its debut there. The Lancaster is Britain's best heavy bomber. Some indication of the RAF plans for the Far East might be drawn from a recent statement that Germany's collapse would release for the Pacific all British planes except those necessary to maintain a "policing" air force in Europe. J 'S Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 10 (U.R) Mrs. Wesley Halliburton,' moth er of World Adventurer Rich ard Halliburton, today said she "was certain" that the wreck- aee of" 150-foot hnnf ashore at Pacific Beach, Cal., was not the remains of her son's ill-fated Sea Dragon. . Mrs. Halliburton said she had never seen the Dragon but she believed that descriptions of the boat in the adventurer-author's letters- did not seren with reports of the wreckage. - nauiDurton was believed to have perished at sea March 24, 1839. in mid-Paeifie on i-r.nl. to San Francisco, Cal.,- from nongKong. A possibility that the wreck age which smashed against the Pacific Beach pier last week may have been Halliburton's was sounded by K. M. Walker, marine surveyor and an'tuthor lty on Halliburton's travels. Noted Dead New York, Feb. 10 U.R) Alice Foote MacDougall, 71, who built a $2,000,000 tea room busi ness from a tiny coffee stand, died today at her home. y Mrs. MacDougall's first tea shop where she ground and brewed her own coffee,' was in the Grand Central terminal in 1919. She built it into a chain of shops but the business- fell a victim of the depression of the '30's. One of her specialties was serving waffles free with each cup of coffee. 1 I i i R.iTrri.nrJYMeJ 8 r i 1 Jackson County Federal savings & loan association . 125 East Main Flight o'Time Mediord aad Jackson Co His tory f torn the files ot the Mail Tribune 10. 20. and 34 yaan ago. ' ' 'TEN YEARS AGO TODAY -February 11. 193a (It Was Monday) Gold Hill cement plant to op erate Grants Pass railroad. . Black Tornado defeats Grants Pass 84 to 17. JJnlon labor girds for fight on relief wages. Townsend Pension meeting at high school draws crowd of 1100, with collection amounting to $103. President sent tele gram. 5 - I Gov. Martin tells Linn county democrats no group will dictate his - appointments to state offi cers. . Y " Mann's store closed to clear dust caused by falling wall. Cloudy with rain. -. High 94, low 34 degrees.: Defense . counsel for Bruno Hauptmann In closing argument says kidnaping of Col. Lind bergh's , baby was "an inside Job. . - TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY February 11. 1925 (It Was Wednesday) ' . Legislature still wrestling with normal school and fish bills, with chances both will pass. . - ' Unsettled with probable rain. High 49, .low 37 degrees. Coyotes menacing Sams Val ley sheep bands. . , , ' Cigarette smoking among women gains by . leaps and bounds, both at home and in public. . . Attempt to be made to drive to Crater Lake rim next week, if weather right. , . THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO . TODAY February 11. 1911 (It Was Saturday). California Diana thr' Ipo-te. lature bills against Japanese. .North county resident faces arrest for squirting tobacco juice in eye of neighbor's wife. Good Roads bill placed be fore legislature.. PFC. ClSTURTIS Details of the death of their son, Pfc, Charles L. Curtis, in England, have been received by Mr. and Mrs. E. Curtis of Butte Falls. The young man was in jured In an automobile accident which occurred during a black out and he passed away No. 11 an an arm vhriRnitjil in Rrierrkl according to information receiv-j ed recently. i ' ; Pfc. Curtis came to the coun ty with his parents from Berke ley, Calif., during the construc tion of Camp White, Mr. Curtis being a civilian employee of the army engineers, and the family purchased a ranch in the. Butte Falls district. The young man enrolled in the Butte Falls high school and was graduated with the class of 1943, leaving school in March before the ceremonies, to enter the service. He was sent, over-. seas in Juiy ot mat year alter training at Camp Claiborne, La., and had been stationed in Eng land since. He held a permanent civil service rating with then army engineers, having been lldtVal $f JaaLl Isaacs kon hrii our ffloJrn, low-cost H loin p!in. ill llalflal employed while- still - In high school. PfcCurtli was born Oct. 25, 1924, in DcQueen, Ark., and was an only child. . ALLIEDWNCS Chunking, Geb. 10 (U.R) War-weary Chinese are fleeing the China coast cities of Shan ghai and Nanking, anticipating military operations in those areas In the near future, Chinese re ports received here said today. Chinese city dwellers are mov ing to the countryside to "escape disaster" which they expect in the form of Japanese resistance National Forest Timber for Sale y . . Sealed bids will be received by the Forest Supervisor, Mediord, Oregon, up to and not later than 2:00 P. M., February 21, 1945, for all the live timber marked or designated for cutting and all merchantable dead timber locat ed on an area embracing about 40 acres within Section 33, T. 31 S.. R. 3 E.: and Section 33. T. 32 S., R. 3 E., W. M Rogue River National Forest, Oregon,' esti mated to be 400,000 feet B.M. of Douglas-fir, and 100,000 feet B.M. of ponderosa pine, more or less, and an unestlmated amount of other species. No bid of less than $4.25 per M feet B.M. for Douglas-fir, ' $5.60 per M feet B.M. for ponderosa pine, $9.60 per M feet B.M. for sugar pine, $8.60 per M feet B. M. for white pine, and. $2. 10 per M feet B.M. for white fir, western hemlock and incense cedar, will be con sidered. In determining the highest -bidder, the rate for Douglas-fir and ponderosa only will be considered. In addition to the prices bid for the stump age, a cooperative deposit of $.50 per M feet B.M. to be used by the Forest' Service for paying the cost of slash disposal, and a cooperative 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 to tal cut of timber under the terms of the agreement, will be re quired. Bids with rates in excess jof those permissible under MPR , 460 will be reduced to the allow able maximum' in making the award. $1500.00 must accom pany each bid, to be applied 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 concernlne the timber, the conditions of sale and submis sion of bids should be obtained from the Forest Supervisor, meaiora, uregon. G. A. A, Announces permission for limited civi I tan flying on the west coast, effective Feb. 10 , o ' Med ford's Oldest Exclusive Insurance Agency 7. Announces the establishment of a COMPLETE AVIATION : INSURANCE DEPARTMENT Making available every form of Insurance coverage applicable to aircraft, air. ports; pilots and passengers. Representing A m e r I i a's largest and oldest group ot Aviation Insurance Corn, panles. AjHolmes W5P MEOF6RO CENTER BUELDINCJ ' PHONE 4444 to an aHled landing on the China coast. , , - The report said Shanghai resW dents were migrating to Nan J king, thinking It a better refuge, while Nanking citizens are evac uating to small villages. Portland, Ore., Feb. 10 (U.R) August J. Strange, president of the Mt. Emily Lumber com pany of La Grande, has been elected president of the West, ern Pine Association for 1949, it was announced today. CARD OP THANKS ' Wi wish to thank our frlendi ana neiahbora tor their many acta of kind neia and thoughttulneia during our re cent bereavement and for the beauti ful flower. Mrs. P. U. IJamea and Family; Ralph IJamea. . 30 COMING TUESDAY FEB. 27 'S BALLROOM The Dante Treat of the Year! TED FIORITO And His Famous Band DC 3 0 WITH NESTLE . BABY HAIR TREATMENT Give your baby. teA curb end. . adorable ringlets with Nettle tab Hair Treatment. Ute I regularly. Manage Into baby's Kalp when x Mcand growth of hair b about one Inch long. 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