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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. :
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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.
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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.
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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,
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"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).
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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REV. ROLF H. HANSEN, Pastor
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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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Frldayt Children's Night
Sunday: Great Evangelistic Rally
THE OLD JUDGE SAYS...
"Adding another War Bond to your
collection, eh, Judge?"
"Yes, Josh, I've always looked upon
buying Bonds as one of the best ways older
folks like me here at home can help our
fighting men overseas. For the past couple
of years I've put every extra cent I had
into them ... not only during the War
Bond drives. ..but on a regular basis. Of
course, when there's a drive on I always
try to buy an ertra one or two."
t6 ve done the same in our family, too,
Judge. 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."
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