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BIX MEDFORD HAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. March St, 1S4I Medford UNE HBO fc"" -" dii Ytp Saturday Puhltshed by MEDrORD PRINTING CO. -vNorlh fir St. Phona SKI. RORLRT W BUHU Editor. raSV gilstrap .Unas-. HMtB GREY. AdvrtUin Mjr. iothiir PERRY. Sunday Editor MBS LIVE STAHCHER. Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr. An Indapandant Nawapapar. Entared econd claaa " Medlord. Oregon, under Act ol March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mall In Advance . tally and Sunday-ona f,t-' Daily and Sunday-aix montha 4 00 Daily and Sunday-three moa. S.HJ Daily and Sunday ona nwnth 711 By. C.rrl.r-ln Advanc Madford. lent, and Dally and Sunday on mr.. 00 A.hi.n.i Central Point, villa. Gold Hill. Phoanix. Tel on motor rouies; 1 All 1 AfflH.I Dally and Sunday ona month All larma raab In advance. Official Paper ol the City el MedferS OJflciai i-ap.r IJniud Praia Full Leaaed Wlra MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advcrtiilna Repreaeptativa WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY . INC. Olflcea In Now York Chicago. De troit. San rranclaco, Lot Angelee. Se attle. Portland. St Louie. Atlanta. Vancouver. B. C. Munis OHClOOr PUIllJHltW Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry The War Food Administrator ' assures the nation there will be no famine, though they may have to pull . up their belts a notch, to help starving peoples. There were suspicions plans were to make America "a horn of plenty for the world," with Americans emerging from the little end of the horn. The food czar also booted at the purport ed meat shortage. Plenty of beefsteaks and roasts In the orig inal package' are mooing and bawling in the wide open spaces. As long as Americans retain their knives and forks they will have something for tooth and jaw exercises. Details of the plot last July to assassinate Herr Hitler are now revealed. It could not have been more bungled had the now seldom mentioned famed "intui tion" of Hitler been In charge. : e e Both Bend and Coos Bay re port "vandalism." It's too late to blame it' on the last Hal lowe'en, and too -parly to at tribute it to the next one, "After the quartet sang, the group turned to more pleasant things, and partook of dainty snacks." (Elder Items) Not knocking anybody. The Japanese cherry tree on the cthse. lawn has started to blossom, and : is coming along fine. The same can not be said of anything else of Japanese origin, all reports indicate, a a Mayor LaGuardla of New York City has learned a labor leader trick, and is defying, both the army and its commander-in-chief on the midnight ' curfew edict The Mayor controls too many votes to be packed down the city hall steps by soldiers, as was the president of the Mont gomery. Ward company. Nei ther will John L. Lewis be pack ed down into a coal bin, or the musicians' union chief be toted out of a dancehall by the same methods. The rain that fell Tues. was a winter rain. Then Spring came Wed. Therefore, the rain today is a spring rain. a a a A Jurisdictional dispute has arisen between J. Tannehlll Walker, six, and the Older Girl next door over feeding a Jointly owned dog, for which he re ceives a nickel per day. The lad claims the pay is Irregular, that the employer balks at changing a $1 bill to remuner ate) him, besides is blamed for pup tracks in the flower bed. e e The first salmon to be caught this year in this sector of the Rogue was hooked Monday. De spite the world-shaking slgnlft cance of the event, it is no time to cease the war effort, to try and catch another one, e a e .... "In planning your spring gar den be sure it's not too large if the wife tires easily." (Fort Scott, Kan., Tribune) Word to the wise. Editorial Correspondence Palm Springs, March 19: Well, the much-publicized Bing Crosby- Bob Hope golf match is now history. Bob won 4 and 3 shooting golf, and simply crushed poor little Bing shooting off his mouth. In fact in the latter direction It was no contest lor Bing re fused to talk while Bob did little else. He jabbered like a hopped ud mas-Die for the entire 18 holes, getting off some good cracks and some not so good. It made no difference to Bob, Just so he could keep his jaws working and when he ran out of wise cracks he took to bubble-gum. WHAT a man! We have seen better golf though Bob shot a 72 which is GOOD golf on any golfer's score-card but we have never seen half as good golf under the conditions existing, we still can't understand how any of the foursome could hit their hat but the medal scores were: Capt. Anderson, 71, (Hope s partner); Hope, 72; Sergeant Oliver, 72; Bing, 77. (The par on this 9-hole course is 84 that is par 68 for the 18). a A "great golf match and even a greater match of wits" was the way the contest was publicized. But the press-agents were wrong on both counts. The first nine was a reasonably close contest, but on the second, things went sour for Bing and Oliver Bing three-putted at least four greens and all day had a yen for hitting the sand traps. So the match was really over on the 14th green, although with 3500 people in the gallery, the boys couldn't very well quit so played through to the finish. Bing looked almost as yellow as his canary sweater when the match ended, and throughout he never smiled and.at least as far as we could hear never attempted a wise-crack. The nearest he came to banter was on the 7th hole of the second round when his tee-shot went out of bounds, and he turned to his caddy with a sad grimance and asked "Have you got another ball Pancho or is this where we quit?" We have an Idea that Is one reason why "Bing" is so popular. He IS a good sportl This match was for the benefit of the aviators at the Palm Springs Ferry Command and as a result of it their recreation fund will be around $3000 richer. That, we are sure, is why Bing agreed to do it. Bing doesn't like the local layout it is an old man's course, while he Is one of the best amateurs on the coast and we can't believe he felt well, or under any conditions would CHOOSE to play against Hope. But he dldn t consider his personal pleasure, or desires for the week-end. He was asked to "put on a show" for the aviators' benefit, and glad to help them, or the war effort In any way. he agreed to do it. We have never been Bing Crosby fan. but we can see now why he is so popular personally. He is really a swell guy quiet, unassuming, conscientious a "good egg" as the saying goes, and that is the way the crowd following the match felt about it. a a , e a A golf gallery of 3500 is a record, as far as our experience goes. In a national tournament there are more spectators than that, but they are divided up among ten or a dozen interesting. contests this crowd was all concentrated on ONE. It meani driving off a tee through a narrow lane of men and women (yes also boys and babies!) which extended at least 300 feet to ward the hole. Trying enough under the best circumstances. But when there were also babies squalling, dogs barkine (a babv cocker inithe arms of a gal next to your correspondent let out a terriDie yelp lust as Capt. Anderson was winding ud for his first tee-shot) tourists asking for autographs, and children playing in me sana oi a nearrjy trap (this Isn't fiction it is fact). How this group ever shot the golf they did, still remains a major mystery oi uie sports world, as far as the understated is con cerned. And as Bing and Bob walked from the tee. the autoeranh- pests started up in earnest. Bob Hodb didn't mind so much. h feels toward a celebrity-hunting mob more or less as a fire horse I t. . 1 - . Mi.. T iccjb iuwu.ru b vuiHrm lire But Bing little Bins he can't be much over s feet A didn't like it at all, and made no bones about showing it. Not that he was rude about it, but he did try hard in a quiet way to avoid the pests, and when they grabbed hold of him. ahnnfc them off, and time after time tried to set his caddv htwr. hi'muir and the. mob. Poor Bingl As ona of the aals In the llerv rmnrirH- nh Bob Hope he's just a smart aleck but dear little Bing look at him isn't he DARLING?" That is hardly fair to Bob Hope however. He isn't a smart- aleck, he is merely an extremely vital, exuberant, extroverted and articulate young person badly In need of a hair-cut! He is ONE type. Bing Is decidedly another and a very dif ferent one. They have played together in the movies and are Intimate friends no doubt and we may be entirely wrong In our diagno sis. But we have a very definite conviction, that if It were not for various things that have thrown them together, Bob and Bing would never choose to spend a palsy-walzy week-end within 3000 miles of each otherl They are we repeat entirely different tvnes and types that simply do NOT click. Well, to give some idea of Hope's constant patter. - When he got up to drive on the first tee he surveyed the long line of faces like a Comanche gauntlet through which his ball had to pass and with a characteristic flourish waved them back. "These Sunday tourists," he remarked, "have apparently never seen me play. Why I might put them all out with ONE shot. That s an idea but hey you (again a wave of the arm) get BACK! As the crowd moved slowly back amid titters (that is one advantage of having a reputation as a comedian, people are in clined to laugh at anything you may say regardless.) Bob ad libbed: "Oh if the New York Life were only herel" "What a sight, what sight! And probably not a paid-up policy In the bunchl" ' Then he drove a nice long hook and the far end of the line scampered out of danger, with a great cackle and clatter, and good naturcd mix-up. Well it was like that all the 18 holes not a dull moment as far as Bumptious Bob was concerned. And as before stated he played excellent golf. And how he did strut the man walks be tween holes as If he were doing the old-fashioned cake-walk. It Isn t that he is such a show-off or smart-aleck that is just the way he is BUILT. He could no more play 9 holes of golt and keep his mouth shut and cut-out clowning than he could listen to "Thanks for the Memories" and not join in. it is the way again we repeat he is bulltl (To be continued). R. W. R. News Behind The News By Paul Mailon 3 'I 1 v7 Paul Mallei WASHINGTON, March 22 Mr. Roosevelt read the Byrnes order for a critical Inquiry into food exports to his press con ference as if it were fresh news, although It had been In the papers five days. Then he pro ceeded to say what sounded precisely the opposite namely, that the "decent' thing to do was to continue ex ports for the hungry in Europe, As a result some of the news papers carried followup stories that Mr. Byrnes was really go ing to find out whether Britain had surplus stores of foods and would surely limit future ex ports, while in an adjoining col umn came Mr. Roosevelt's pro nouncement implying that what Byrnes was up to was not de cent. This thrust the question of food exports high in the air with ceiling zero. PIE Lehman crowd in UNRRA 0nf in ho nrpolffunt flnrl pnn. vinced him it would be unwise to limit exports of foods or even investigate the subject very thoroughly, In view of all the promises made about feeding Europe. Now Byrnes had started his Investigation of food exports be cause he knew meet shortages here were becoming critical and obvious to the public, at a time when congressmen were learn ing the British, if no other na tion, had accumulated stores. His announcement of an In vestigation" (by the government itself) appeared designed to soothe the public, even if it did not result in cutting down ex ports. Most experts here thought Byrnes was right. He did not write the order. It was prepared for him by the war food admin istration (Marvin Jones, admin istrator), and was less than WFA demanded. WFA really wanted not only to cut exports (rather than "Investigate" them) but even wanted the army to re trench buy'ng. WFA waj greatly alarmed. and Incidentally if its policies had been follo-ved all througn In the food situation, there now would be no shortages. But the foreign feeding organizations and the army were too much for WFA this time, as former stabilizer Vinson had been too rruch for it in the past. e : i MOW that Mr. Roosevelt has 1 1 spoken thus, few people ex pect anything from the Byrnes lnvestlgat.on." Nor can mucn be anticipated from both the house and senate investigations Into food, as both committees are In the hands of men who will follow the administration policy more eagerly than annoying facts if they can find out what administration policy is on this subject. I cannot. The way I figure it, Mr. Roosevelt liked the feed Europe policy for publicity pur poses, and his own food authori ties would rather appease the public In this country. The con flict Is mainly over what is the best publicity, rather than where to get more food. This conclusion is inevitable, because no one can get more food, either here or in Europe, e e THE h.g producers asked for 1 an increased quota from the government, and got a decrease, The floor price Is to be run down from $13.50 to $12.50 July 1, because the war food admin istration was overruled by Byrnes, who chose the Bowles OPA policy Instead, thus limit ing the price to the consumer, but dlscourkging production. The ceiling price on cattle is to be run down from $18 to $17. discouraging beef production by similar government direction To beat this, cattle growers at first rushed their product to market underfed, and with less than normal amount of meat on the steers. Now the feed cribs are bulg ing full and the cattle feeding lots are empty, while the num ber of cattle in the ceuntry is greater than last year, tha gov ernment has discouraged feed ing, and there will be less meat from the greater crop. This being the case, you would think some government official would conclude the void should be taken up by a big release of fish. But fish are also scarcer, and more expensive than last year. Why? Because the govern men has curtailed the fish fleets and equipment and raised the wages of fishermen a a POULTRY cannot fill the void because last year the govern ment discouraged the hatcheries (although there may be a some what better supply of spring broilers than the chicken mar ket was able to furnish for many months). . The Byrnes investigation can not d r o d u c e much meat or poultry, even if It reverses the government policy, as for ex ports, 240,000,000 bushels of wheat were moved to eastern storage recently hy the govern ment, and 40,000,000 bushels more were added later, either for shipment abroad or to clear midwest storage for the winter crop. It looks to me as If Mr. Koose- velt has stuck himself with a food shortage by following a consumer price-limitation pol icy, and cannot fulfill either his promises abroad or domestic de mand, and therefore has liberal ly sprinkled the situation with confusion. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from tha files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 yars ago. ' TEN YEARS AGO TODAY March 22, 1935 at was Friday) Pa tman bonus bill passes sen ate. ' Jefferson high of Portland de feats Ashland 29 to 26 in state tournament game at Salem. Gov. Martin and state road commission visit city. France Insists on public air ing of Germany's violation of Versailles treaty. Russia accuses England of diplomatic trickery, Roosevelt asks for control over food prices, in special message to Congress. . Unsettled with high 46, low 31 degrees. Oregon quiz on relief In state launched at Portland. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY March 22, 192S at was Saturday) Fair with heavy frost predict ed. High 67, lovv 30 degrees. President may clip drill pay of National Guard. Less dress and more leg to be spring style for women's clothes, Paris decrees. U. S. court In decision re bukes zeal for dry law enforce ment, and overrules conviction of Manx with package. Harding stamps in heavy de mand as they go on sale. Medford and Modoc orchard baseball team play practice game at Holly street field. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY March 22. 1911 flt was Wednesday) Australia now fears seizure by Japan. City council frames model liquor ordinance. Plans to annul franchise for trolley line in city. Rogue River cannery interests to defy will of fisnermen. , BUYS FAIRMONT SHARE San Francisco. March 22 (U.R) A. M. Rosenstlrn, San Francisco broker, today an nounced sale of a controlling Interest In the world-famed Fair mont hotel to Benjamin Swig of Boston for a reported $2,000, 000. Swig, who bought the St Francis hotel last year for $9, 000,000, acquired 53 per cent of the Fairmont s stock. BOEING DIVIDEND . Seattle, March 22 (U.R) The Boeing Airplane Company today declared a dividend of $1 L share on outstanding capital stock, payable April 19 to stock holders of record April 4. A similar dividend was declared a year ago and another last fall. fyES $aft makes Grapefruit I Sz-llzSmH'S SMT GRAPEFRUIT 1 , .wmm ' AT YOUR GROCER'S N0WI SAVE ON YOUR LIGHT BILL! TURN OUT YOUR LIGHTS AND COME TO HEAR NEWMAN and BAKER GOSPEL PREACHING, SINGING, INSTRUMENTAL IIUSI0 EVERY EVENING 745 FEDERATED CHURCH of CENTRAL POINT REV. ROLF H. HANSEN, Pastor Thursdays "Relatives" Night Saturday: Young People t Nigh. Letter From Washington By HARRIS ELLSWORTH Member at Congreee f rem Oregon vtnn no A ft BIT L Thai House passed the bill to draft nurses for service in the armed forces, which was In effect re quested by the President. Al- thniisH th mil call VOlB OTi the bill was overwhelmingly in fa vor of lia passage, i Know i most Members voted for it re- luMantlii Wm antra farftd with the very compelling statement that nurses must be obtained im mediately, and that the only sure and ctrtaln way is to induct them Into service. The debate on the bill seemed tn nvnl that the situation had been badly handled in the past, but errors having been made, the only answer was to pass the bill The armed forces rousi nave nurses.- LEGISLATION. During the flnrt two months of this session of Congress, bills have been in troduced at the rate of nearly 2500 a month. These bills covir a wide variety of subjects and range in size from single page amendments and private bills to complicated measures of more than 100 pages. Of all the bills that will be introduced during this session, only a small per centage will be enacted into law Most bills will die in committee and many on the House and Sen ate Calendars. Dnrinff 1944. armroximately a nnn kliu tnpra Introduced, a rnmnaratKelv small number for a session of congress, ui mai number. 868 were enacted into public laws and 589 into private Imvr thk latter belne claims nanlnat the government bv nar- tlcular individuals or iirms. e cently, the greatest number of hilts introducer! . In a sinele ses sion was rearly. 25.000. Before the turn of the century, tne to tal was as hi eh as 40.000. Hprt Is a hrief summarv of the grist of legislation introduced in a single day. January dutn Bills were introduced having to dn with th fnllnwine sublects: Retirement of Spanlsn war officers; posthumous awards: two bills having to do with the nnV nt Naval nfflpprs: hills re garding land utilization; branch banking; four having to do witn income tax; one to repeal the us tax nn mntoi venicies ana boats; three regarding veterans; one to provide for certain prop erty to be returned to original owners: nr to increase the num ber of cadets in the Military Academy, and seventeen private bills. This hannena tn he a summary of House bills introduced on a very light day, but it serves to give an example of the wide range nf sublects In bills intro duced by the 435 Members of the House. . OREGON FARM . PRODUC TION GOALS. I have Just re ceived a letter from the Depart ment of Igriculture which gives the production goals set for Ore gon farmers and the production figures for last year. I note that production goals for 1945 are very nearly the same as tnose for -1044, and that goals were exceeded in most instances. The report reveals that Ore gon production of cover crop seeds is a major contribution. Goals for these crops have been revised with reductions in vetches, and increases for Aus trian winter peas and common ryegrass. Goals for alfalfa, red and alslku clover have been doubled. Mr. G. F. Gelssler, Director of the Western Division of AAA, states that ha attended a meet ing of Oregon farmer-commit-toemen In January. In comment ing on thl mooting, he said: "I was very impressed by the de termination among farmers to battle their way through the production obstacles to attain ment of th goals, These farmer committeemen will be assisting farmers throughout the entire production period in meeting problems that would seem Im possible it they were being faced at a time when the need was not so great. If courage, Ingenuity and extra effort will get the Job done, I an- confident after meet ing with your farmer-committee- men that Oregon will turn in another fine farm production Job in 1945. . The Coast Guard Is charged with regulating and enforcing all safety precautions in the nation's shipping industry, from blueprinting to scrapping. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby aiven that I have been appointed by the County Court of Jackson Coun ty. Oregon, Executrix of the Will of Nellie McGowan. deceased. and have qualified. All persons having claims against said estate are nereoy notified to present them, with ororjer vouchers, and duly verified, to me at the office of Harry C. Skvrman. attornev for said estate, at room 409 Med ford Center Buildins in Medford. uregon, within six months from tne date of this notice. Dated and first published March 22, GERTRUDE E. WEEKS Executrix. Harry C. Skyrman, attorney for Executrix NOTICE OF ALLEY VACATION Notice is hereby given that the council of the City of Med ford did, on the 20th day of March, 1945, by Resolution initi ate proceedings to vacate the al- ley In the City of Medford, Ore gon, aescriDea as follows: The alley in Block Three (3) of the amended plat of Euclid Park Addition as the same is designated and de lineated on the-official plat of record and did provide for a public hearing to be held at the hour of 7:30 o'clock P. M. on the 1st day of May, 1945, at the Council Chamber in the City Hall of said City of Medford, for thq purpose of considering a vacation of and adoption of an ordinance vacat ing said alley as hereinbefore described, and for the further purpose of hearing and consider ing any objection or remon strance thereto, which may be made in writing and filed with the Recorder of the City of Medford prior to the date of such hearing; By order of the Council of the City of Medford. J. R. WOODFORD, Recorder. 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Wa figure the more we buy... the better we equip our men... the quicker they U finish their big job and come march, ing home again." " That's the spirit. Josh. And let's be sure of one more thing. Let's be sure that they come back to the same kindofplace they left While they are away and can't express their opinions, let s not make any decisions on things that are going to concern them in years to come." : II ruj atnaM ibwamU i. r, . y Bring a Friend! ' , ; i i ' ii
