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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL THIBUXS Sunday. Tb. II. 14I Medford&Teibunb Dalit (leapt aeraraar Published bj ureoroRD PRINTINO CO. tT- North fir St Phun 114.1. ROBERT W RW Mltor. BIHEST 8 OIUSTRAP M " HBKU UHEY Adeerttalns B CI TEROUSON Mnaln ARTHUR PERRY Sundwrj M'f MRS OLIVE STARCHES. SoJ WHyr GERALD LATHAM ClrrulaUna MB rle'nlenl Newspaper. Sn tared as second elasa matter at Medford undei Act af a 1R7B. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall -In Advanca Dally and Sunday-one raer -.ST.W Dall and Sunday -al month. 4 00 Dally and Sunday -thraa moa l.H ' Daily and Sunday-ona inonUl. 76 By Carrlar In Advonca Medford " AahUnd Central Point, j"?"": Ytlle. Gold Hill Phnanlx Talent and on motor routes: M(M nallv ana Bunnir- t Dally ajid Sunday-na monta All lermB caeh In advanca. Tt Official Paper af the City at Madfart Official Papar af aacasaa Caaaty Ualud Praaa TuU Leased Wire 7" MEMBER Of AODI1 BUrttAO OF CIRCULATIONS Advcrtlslnf nt KepreseptaiiTa WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPAni ote rn in Maw Vara ChlcafO. Da. troll. San Pranclaca Lya Anselea S attli Portland. St Lou Attanl lee. aa Vancouver, p. Pdiiiskeu44$jc)imim Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Orchardistj are getting ready to control insects with spray. No solution has been discovered that will put a qultus on hum bugs. They are also girding for the Frost As Fret season. . a a ' Next Thurs. is the birthday of G. Washington; the first pres ident, and Steve Nye, Jr., whose Paw is in France. . a a A man caught a fish In Rogue River the past week. It caused more conversation than if a whale had been harpooned. a a a The legislature is still grind ing away, and is exceedingly slow like the "mills of the Gods." a a a V. Brophy, the Tolo cowman! became a Grandpaw last week, and nearly got hit by an army plane flying on the 10,000 foot level. Dime Flynn is also aloft. A mate quartette, guarded against for years, was unleashed With lightning unexpectedness the past week. They should go far. a a a Squirrels were out in rural regions Wed. and Thurs. trying to remember where they hid a . peck of hickory nuts last tail. They limbered up on rail fences and trying to beat autos across tha road. The sheriff who has been un der the weather Is again out in it a a a A movement is afoot for a nation-wide fast for the inde pendence of India. If anybody around misses any meals, it should be for something nearer home and some of their busi ness, Jens Jensen had a birthday Thurs. He is 68 plus S. a a a Dewey Hill, the ace Prospect hired man, towned ten days ago, and reports not enough snow to shovel off a roof, so far this winter. a a The Grey Mash won again at the Armory Thurs. eve. before a large congregation, including many sopranoes, full of pier cing squeals. a a The Russians are now in the suburbs of Berlin. If they were in Los Angeles they .would be on top of the Slsklyous. ' a a . a The metropolis threatens to arrest pedestrians, due to a mounting number of same not getting out of the road of autoes in time. Either the speeders will have too slow down or the pe destrians Jump faster. a a The Elno Hemmila boy Mike (not Miquc) is soaking up Neva da sunshine and playing In the sands of the desert. He is a good boy. Tokyo was treated to a classi cal lambasting the oast week. while the Jap fleet declined an invitation to come and be sunk, a Gov. Dewey of N. Y., the late GOP presidential hope U still talking too much. He wants the inside dope on the Yaha.lt con flab revealed like Premier Churchill tells the British, ln stead of a fireplace chat . a a a The B. Tornado won Its 21st game of the season Fri. The victim was Ashland. CAPTAIt'S REWARDED Washington, Feb. 17 (U.B Two East Bay navy captains have been awarded tha gold star in lieu of -the third legion of merit for outstanding services during the Invasion or Italy In September, 1643, it was announc ed today, " Editorial Correspondence Los Angeles, Feb. 14: The natives call the weather cold and cloudy, after two weeks of sun-kissed summer. That always seems to be our bad luck. we arrive In California just AFTER and leave Just BEFORE "perfect weather", is "unusual . But aeriouslv there is no complaint. There hasn't been much sun as yet, but it has been very mild, none has fallen. Kain IS preaiciea ior me ween-ena nowever, ana there is this to be said for the L. A. weatherman, his batting average is far better than the WM in the valley, as far as predic tions are concerned. . The Russian ballet opened at the Philharmonic last night and all the local beauty and chivalry were there in their best bib-and-tucker. We saw a number of movie "bit actors", but no stars, that is we saw the lesser lights whose faces are familiar but whose names we can't recall. We got one of the last seats in the house, ok for seeing the ballet but n.g. for seeing the audience, so the stars may well have been there, but we Just missed them, and they missed us. Well, frankly, the performance bored us to tears. Formal ballet always has for it is to us, neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. It is supposed to tell some sort of story, as well as exemplify poetry in motion, but we would prefer to read the story, and take our poetry, as our food, without music or acrobatics. The cerformers were mostly young and beautiful and the men especi ally amazing physical specimens figure that ballet develops). But we wisn now we naa gone to the "box-fight" at the Olympic instead. For according to the morning papers the 10 rounds between two colored lads, "Bobcat" Montgomery, former lightweight champion (he still IS in N. Y.) and a local black hope named Cecil Hudson, rang up a new record for action, mayhem and thrills. . ' And we have always had a business there, no conflicts In media, sheer drama in terms that anyone any male at least, can enjoy and understand. And it is a most exciting and exhilarating sport when on the level, and Olympic bouts they say usually are. : We neglected to state our' "Daylight" partner from Camp White is the man who drove an F.B.I.' agent from Medford to San Fran cisco the other day in seven hours flat, well over an average of B0 miles an hour. One of the Golden State motor cops rounded the car couple into the curb, somewhere down the line, and wanted to know where the fire was. An FBI star quieted him down, and brought forth humble apologies. The state police along the highway had been properly Informed, but this boy for some reason missed the message. The speedometer registered between 80 and 100 on the straight stretches, but until Redding was reached, of course, there was none, except between Yreka and Mt. Shasta. However when we get enough cisco if we'ever do, we don't Yes Pershing Square Is really depending upon the point of view. There are more "nuts" over there than ever before, which is going some), and more agita tion. The change in temper is very interesting, due we believe entirely to the war. Now and then In the old days and those unfamiliar with the Pershing Square psychology would iear maynem u not manslaughter. But it all came under the general heading then of blowing off steam, the bark being far worse than the bite. In fact it was all "bark". But the police have had to arrived, and actual blood was shed in one encounter. Only a bloody nose but it might have been worse it the law had not stepped in. nussia was me topic unaer discussion, and the critic of the Com munist Utopia suffered the lacerated proboscis, as one might expect in Pershing Square. "Buffalo Bill," Patter Pete the Hollywood "lion-tamer", "Slap Happy Sal" have all gone, or at least have not been there when your correspondent has been on an L. A. edition of Father strip-tease star now devoted to nas no teem ana won't see ner three-score and ten birthday again! and an ex-bartender with both teeth and a luxuriant set of red whiskers, from San Antonio, Texas, who is ardent for "Ham and eggs" on imirsdays. And the place is packed as never before with auditors, and orators, the craziest assortment of human beings Old Sol has ever looked down upon. We were on a bench listening gospel when a rather nicely dressed little woman, her arms full of packages, sank down beside us, with a sigh, and proceeded to piace au ner snopping impedimenta In a neat pile between us, with her fur trimmed coat carefully folded and one of those large leather bags; on top. Whereupon she turned to us and in the most casual, matter-of-fact, and friendly fashion remarked that she didn't believe she would EVER try the Hill Street public market again, it was just, loo uringi We nodded but could think of However she needed' no encouragement but proceeded to relate a.fairly comprehensive history of her life, from the time she left, and here is the amusing point, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, 15 years ago and came with her deceased husband to live in L. A. she CALLED it "L.A." incidentally. Well Rockford, 111., having been the writer's old home town. where he was born and lived established what might be termed Mrs. K had lived on the east side the west, so although contemporaries, we could dig up few friends in common. In fact the only Rockford citizen we both knew well was the late and sincerely lamented chlef-of-police Bargren. What our "vis-a-vis' " relationship to the "chief had been we did not learn; but ours is one of those fixed and vtvtd memories of far-off youth, a certain Hallowe'en and lecture from Chief Bargren, who North Main street patrol. One surprising feature of Mrs. for L.A., her desire to get out one daughter married to a Hollywood actor, not knowing where to go. You Just can t trust anyone or your next door neighbor. There isn't a nice or honest person in the whole city, oh plenty who want to make up to you particu larly if they think you have some money, but only for what they can get out of you. If It wasn't Laurel Canyon, I would but well, where would I go, and It was a very pathetic story we are quite sure Mrs. K certainly did not impress us at least as being the inking kind. Just who wanted to talk to someone and when she found that "some one" had come from her home town in the Middle West rather let herself Bo. We have an Idea there are but fascinating Babylon, transplantees who have never taken root Our parting shot was Intended do have a wonderful climate here Mrs. K and the country is beautiful I am sure many of your friends in Rockford envy you." It didn't work, however. She save us a sad smile and you know I have had the most since I camel" R. W. R. BY BAD WEATHER Portland. Ore., Feb. 17 (U.R) Bad weather and shortage of and have to endure weather that and while rain has threatened (we have never liked the feminine yen for box-fights, no half-way gas for a motor trio to San Fran want to get there in seven hours. better than ever. -or worse arguments would become heated. "break 'em un" twice since we hand. But there are new recruits, Divine, "Red Mary" a reformed New Jerusalem (she like "Papa" to Father Divine nrnrfnlm hl no appropriate comment to make. for 30 years there was at once a conversational bond although of the river and yours truly on a firm but essentially kindly was then merely a cop on tho K's story was her Intense hatred of the place but now alone, her here, not even your best friend for my daughter she lives out in sub-lease my apartment and get out when one s all alone, I" and there was no fake about it a tired, lonely, harassed widow many line ner in mis crazy cruae to cheer and hearten "But you sighed again, "i suppose so out terrible arthritis In my neck ever ' enumerators have slowed the farm census in eastern and cen tral Oregon, after two-thirds cf the work in western Oregon has been completed, Director John Kallak reported today. Cloaln. time tor Sunday Toa tat to Classtf SO Saturday afternoon Pleas remember UM Hail Trunin Waal Ada, BIG TRUCK BILL GETS TWO YEARS E E Snell Sure to Sign Com promise Made on New Veto Bureau. Salem, Ore., Feb. 17 U.R) "Big Truck" legislation was giv en a wartime two-year extension today by unanimous approval of tha house of representatives today as a compromise was an nounced among veteran orga nizations on the makeup of the new veterans affairs department The big truck bill will now go to the governor for almost certain signature. Trucks up to 60 feet in length and 71,250 pounds in weight will be per mitted. The extension goes to 1947. A move by a minority group to -make these regulations permanent was quashed In the senate. Rep. Harvey Wells of Port land, chairman of the house committee on military affairs, announced he would ask a spec ial order of business next Wed nesday on a revamped veterans bill which was given "do pass" recommendation by his commit tee and returned to the desk today. . The new measure, a survivors of four stormy hearings, calls for a $5,000 a year director of veterans affairs, and an advis ory commission of seven, includ ing a representative each from the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled Amer ican Veterans, Purple Heart, United Spanish War Veterans and two others named by the governor. These would presum ably include one from World War II and possibly one from the service women's group. Each veterans group would submit three names for the gov ernor to choose from for the un salaried posts. The department would administer the varied aid programs , being set up for vet erans including two measures passed by the electorate, educa tional aid for veterans and a state loan bill which will be Introduced Tuesday. A new senate bill Introduced would remove the three day wait on marriaffps Secondary bills were on the Saturday calendars as both houses closed the sixth week. , Milk bills to provide stricter standards were under considera tion of Joint legislative commit tees. A bill to require comoulsorv pasteurization except in disease free herds drew criticism that It would put out of business for eight months any dairyman with only one reactor. This led to a proposed amendment that up to four tests, one each 30 days, would be permitted before milk selling was prohibited from an infected herd. There was more agreement on a. bill to bring every dairy cow unaer testing for Bang's disease. A compromise ODtion was nrn. vided giving a dairyman two years to remove reactors. Women s groups opposed the legislation as trying to drive the small producer "out of business ana giving the department of agriculture too much control. FAT COLLECTIONS IN STAPWER Portland, Ore., Feb. 17 flJ.R) A total of 2,241,528 pounds of used household fats were turn ed in to meat dealers last year, but collections have declined considerably since May, when a high point of 227,172 pounds was reached. Mrs. Ethel Keck, chairman of women's activities for the Ore gon Salvage committee, said that housewives are apparently becoming less careful of the quality of fat they turn in, but explained that black fat is not necessarily of poor quality. The War Food Administration describes the present fat situa tion as acute, and warns that an immediate and Intensive in crease in collections is necessary to meet essential war and civil ian needs. 1. IS YOUR ' CAR FOR SALE? SEI HUMPHREY NOW for a HlhH CASH PRICE HUMPHREY MOTORS USED CAR EXCHANGE 33 S. Riverside Ave- X X KRUG IN APPEAL FOR PASSAGE OF WORK-JAIL BILL Washington, Feb. 17 (U.F9 War Production Chief J. A. Krug tonight opened a last-ditch administration campaign to cave the "work or else" bill. But general opinion was that chances for passage of the meas ure were slim. Krug said in a radio (CBS) speech that production of war materials must increase 10 per cent between now and June 1 to meet requirements of imme diate campaigns planned by the army and navy. Voluntary methods of con trolling manpower, he said, "worked well in the past when our manpower shortage was not as general as it is today," But the manpower problem now, he added, "has got beyond the pro cedures of voluntary coopera tion." . , Krug 'a appeal - came amid growth of a widespread belief that the work-or-else bill would not be passed, at least in its present form. Some congressional observers even doubted that a modified version of the measure, such as Is contemplated by the senate military affairs committee, could pass. Many senators agreed that current good news from the fighting fronts was di minishing the bill's chances for passage. The bill as. passed by the house provided penalties for men 18 to 45 who refused to stay in, or take, war Industry Jobs as ordered by local draft boards. The senate committee, however, has made no secret of its dislike for the measure and in three weeks of consideration has done nothing except hear repetitious testimony and report a failure to reach agreement. DEFERMENT PLAN Washington, Feb. 17 OJ.R) A new. deferment-recommendation plan was announced tonight whereby government procure ment agencies will certify to local draft boards the names of men 18 through 29twho should remain In war Industries. It is designed to assure that vital workers will remain on their Jobs instead of going into uni form. The new system replaces the old one under which employers requested occupational defer ments for men iir the 18 to 26 age group. Under the old pro cedure, local boards could not act on the requests until they had been approved by the state director of selective service. Under the new system, local boards will retain the right to grant deferments or not, as they choose. The certifications of the government agencies will mean simply that the agency feels the man involved should be eiven highest consideration for defer ment. The new plan was announced by the war manpower and the selective, service system. It was recommended by a special inter departmental committee appoint ed last Jan. 17 by War Mobiliza tion Director James F. Byrnes. Byrnes has approved the plan and administrative details are now being worked out flo Renewal Charges Easy monthly payments S DETAILS and ASSISTANCE will ha given wTJH Jackson County Federal savings & loan association 125 East Main FEAR SCORE DIE WHEN FIRE HITS APART Tenants Trapped In Tacoma Building After Explosion and Fire. Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 17 U.R) Firemen and volunteer search ers tonight probed the smoul dering ruins of the flame-swept Maefair apartment house for the bodies of an estimated score -of tenants who' were trapped In upper floors when fire destroy ed the building early today. Three bodies already had been recovered from tha col lapsed five-story building and two other persons died in the hospital, bringing the probable death toll to five. Thirty-one of the 73 known tenants of the buildings still were missing. Authorities be lieved that some 'of them had gone to the homes of relatives or friends. Cause of the blaze, which fol lowed an explosion like "an earthquake," remained unde termined, but some said the blast came from a candy factory in the basement. Bodies of two men also were found but were not immediate ly identified. The body of one drooped grotesquely from a top story window. The apartment registry book was destroyed but Manager Jo seph Arras, who was burned critically, could recall names of 73 tenants. Estimates given by tenants ranged from 35 to 83 persons in the building, including guests and unregistered persons, when flames drove them, scantily-clad to Jammed windows and the only fire escape amid screaming and panic. COMMUNICATIONS letters to the editor mutt boat the name and address ot the writer althnush iha use nt a pen-name or inluala tor publication la permis sible rhe Mall Tribune reserves the rtshl to edit all letters with a slew to elartty and coodensaUna . Keep Oregon Green To the Editor: I want you to know how much we appreciate your help In this last years KEEP OREGON GREEN pro gram. Your splendid co-opera tion made it possible for us to have one of the most outstanding programs in the state and the Jackson county committee is most grateful. , Thank you very much. Sincerely, Robert E. Dodge, Chairman, Jackson County Keep Ore gon Green Committee. As Other. See Ui To the Editor: In view of your editorial on Feb. 15, I was won dering if a few people of Med ford ever saw themselves as others see them. The trio on the bus may have come from back country, but I believe that was where Lincoln also came from. Also a great many of our great and kindest men. A few years ago while on a deer-liunting trip we met two old, funny-looking people. They had an old shack (dog and chick ens running in and out of the shack), which was set back in the tall timber. We passed them by, for what Is called "local color.". When to our surprise we found she was at one time the head of an eastern finishing scnool for girls and he was a language and math, professor at one of the larger eastern col leges. It was true, as we saw NO OBLIGATION MOUSE their framed degrees. So lets not Judge the funny-looking and frowzy-headed and cripples. We may look a lot worse to them. And as far as the S. P. and Greyhound are concerned, I hope and pray, we can break their monopoly and try for a better, democratic way of doing business In southern Oregon. Mrs. G. P. Spring, Kt. 4, Medford. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory iom the tiles oi the Mall Tribune 10. 20. and 34 ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY February 18. Ot Was Monday) . Supreme court decision sweeps away any obligation of the gov ernment for private payment of gold bonds in goVl. Gov. Martin vetoes county funding measure, and bill for creation of post of lieutenant governor dies In committee. Germany beheads two women found guilty of spying. Italy moves troops toward North Africa. Unsettled with rain. High 62, low 35 degrees. Attorney Joe F. Fllegel, new member of city council addresses Kiwanis club. Active club instituted at Ash land. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY February 18, 1925 (It Was Wednesday) Legislature unable to agree on re-establishment Of normal school at Ashland. President Coolidge launches move for world disarmament conference. Cloudy. High 60, low 25 de grees. Chris Sorenson and Ralph Hand to wrestle at Gold Hill tonight. Big crowd to attend from here. Miss Lottie Howard returns from trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco where she has been buying spring millinery. Copco Forum to stage a min- istrel show. George Nuener is named U. S. attorney for Oregon. Anti-cigarette bill is defeated by state senate. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY February 18. 1911 (It Was Saturday) Two young Medforites enam orated of same girl stage bloody fight near city hall. Ashland to vote on new arm ory March 4. Army of IWWs camped near Ashland, after being thrown off freight train. Senate In test vote on Rogue river fish bill "riefica tho rum- pie's will." STEEL CONTRACT SIGNED Pittsburgh, Feb. 17 (U.R) United States Steel Corp. and the United Steelwnrltpra nf America (CIO) tonieht ed completion of a new contract in a paiiern laia down by the National War Labor Board In its directive of last Nov. 36. i t ui r ; ; OA l thai't thrilltd x S! I millions on viWr Jy the RADIO fl i ...STAGE... X nd SCREEN! f SgjfsT ComBO' J Conductor Sjf M Wi TD 3 I FIO-WTO 1 If and his ORCHESTRA lo 11 Th. Dance Treat of the Entire Ig TUES. FEB. 27 MERRICKS BALLROOM! Three of the seats ta tha Massachusetts Legislature this year are occupied by blind men. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada. RESPECT FOR THE DEPARTED ...... Through many year, of ex perience in serving the people of this community In their hour of great loss. Perl's have the deepest re spect for loved ones who have passed on, and kindly sympathy for those left behind. That Is why Mr. Perl, Mr. Davis or Mr. Wheeler personally handle 11 details; that is why Perl's up-to-the-minute fa cilities are devoted to the very important task of pro viding the finest of tributes to loved ones. o PHONE 2675 Ambulance Service Lady Attendant FUNERAL HOME 426 WEST SIXTH ST. Lots of FUN Lots of WORK Yes. it IS lots of fun with baby . . . but it means lots of extra - work, too. Laun dering is one of the hardest tasks of all and we can lighten that added burden o easily and so cheaply. It will mean more hours of pleasure with baby, too, and more energy for moth er to enjoy the little tot to the utmoitl , Buy. War Bonds Admission SI. 20 Per Person Including Tax' 'k ami . " -i-
