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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
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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
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BIG TRUCK BILL
GETS TWO YEARS
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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.
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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.
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Three of the seats ta tha
Massachusetts Legislature this
year are occupied by blind men.
Use Mall Tribune Want Ada.
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people of this community
In their hour of great loss.
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have passed on, and kindly
sympathy for those left
behind. That Is why Mr.
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Wheeler personally handle
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