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H.gHT- MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. April It. 1948 MedfordJ$ITribune ""zssrJ: saw Dally B-eept Saturday Published by , MEDFORD PBINTWO CO. S7. North Fir St. Phon 1141. ROBfcHT W. RUHL. M'tor. BRiJeST B. CILSTHAP Manager. HERB GREY, Advertising Mar. B. C. FERGUSON, Managing M" ARTHUR PERRY, Sunday Editor UEKALU I'm"', An Independent Newspaper. Entered second class mrUer Medford Oregon, under Act March 3. 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance- ay and Sunday-one year JTJO Dally and Sunday-elx months 4 00 Dally and Sunday three mos. 1.10 Dally and Sunday one month. By Carrler-In Advance Mediord. 7Ahland Central Point vllle. Cold Hill. PhnenU. Talent, and on motor routes: nn Dally and Sunday one rear. 00 Daily and Sunday one month ?a All l arms cash In advance. Official Paper ol the City ol Medford Official Haper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WESTlHOlXIDAY,, COMPANY INC. Offices in Now York Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Se attle, Portland, St Louie. Atlanta. Vancouver. B. C. Osuo(Ols(MPri P U B L I S H E R "n-9-sioj)l A T 1 0 B Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry An argument Is underway In the "People"! Forum" of the metropolitan press on various phases and the authorship of the phrase, "Spare the rod, and spoil the child." In these times there Is a widespread view there has been too much of It. How ever, it was not always such. A local patriarch, 87, reports when he was 73 years younger, his folks "spared the rod" but were addicted to frequent use in the family of six, of the hair-brush and the razor-strop. The defend ant was always ordered to the kitchen and returned with cith er one or both of the weapons. Then what Is regarded today as an "atrocity" was committed, e e There were signs yes. the cur rent April was In a mood to re semble April. One of the Older Girls remarked she recalled some April days last December, but did not care for December days in April. ,.j Democrats throughout the na tion tomorrow night will hold Jefferson Day banquets, all profits above the actual cost of the vittles going to the demo cratic national committee for the 1946 campaign. There is some doubt if Jefferson had been a vice presidential candi date at the fourth term conven tion in Chicago, he would have been "cleared by Sidney." . e e Professional promoters are reported capitalizing on "anti Jap intolerance" in the North west. In the last outbreak of bigotry In the area, nightgowns sold at $16 each, and members met In the "Inner Circle" cow pasture to arrange for the bang ing of sinners. The OPA will probably put a foot down on sel ling klmonas at that price, e e e SOCIAL SHENNANIGANS (S.F. Chronicle) "A hush-hush investigation of alleged parties by occupa tion officers in the Army seized Montgomery Ward & Co. store in San Rafael, popped into the open yester day in Chicago." e e e The Commercial club build ing on the Espee right-of-way will soon be no more and a thing of the past. For nigh onto 40 years it was a hotbed of civic dreams where farsccing hum dingers predicted Gold Hill would have 50,000 population in 1930. Three railroads to San Francisco, via the Blue Ledge mine, were built In Its bock of fice. At one time it was such a popular gathering spot nails, business-end up, were driven in the window-sille to curb squat ting thereon by the natives. II began to peter out as a shrine after a stove-pipe, during a de pression winter, was stuck through a side window to save the cost of cutting another hole In the roof. In summer transi ents lolled in its shade. When farmers urged the sturdy loaf ers to be off to the hay-fiold they advised the tillers "to bring In the day, we'll talk about pitching It." This satire always made the farmer mad at Med ford and the wanderers. e e e Tomorrow Is Friday the 13th. It is believed sufficient bad luck Is left to make the day worth while. A black cat was run over by an autoist early today. This is notice to pedestrians if a cat can't get out of the road In time they should be geared to get a wiggle on. CAMPBELL'S MILK PASTEURIZED ei RAW Grada A at youi favorite Grocst, ot 'phont 4190 Wehrmacht Being Squeezed Between Giant Pinchers In Narrow Elbe, Oder Corridor By RALPH HEINZEN United Press War Correspondent A battle of annihilation Is fast shaping up in the narrowing corridor between the Elbe and the Oder rivers, wherein are massed at least 70 German combat divisions in the American sectors and 90 or more divisions on the Russian front. Against them, more than a million Americans and at least that many Rus sians are holding the two arms of the pincers in which the last remnants of the once-powerful wehrmacht Is being squeezed to extinction. ' ' The Elbe river, which the American 8th army reportedly crossed today, is not only the last water barrier before Berlin, but it is also the chief water system of the central reich and spreads down to the Prague region in the Bohemian mountains. It does not pre sent the difficulties of the Rhine, however, because it lacks the Rhine's swift current and width. The Elbe is no more difficult to cross than were the Loire or the Seine in France. Neither held the German Invaders more than a few hours in 1940 in a swift raid which greatly parallels the present situation. eeeee The terrain between the Elbe and Berlin Is flat, vast plain cut by the looping curves of the Elbe and the Havel rivers and many lakes. It is excellent tank country and would be extremely difficult to defend. .' The possibilities of a Juncture with the red armies appear best south of Berlin. The autobahn down which Simpson's 9th army tanks now are racing cuts straight across the Brandenburg plains, south of Berlin, linking the Elbe and the Oder between Madgeburg and Frankfurt. Military strategists agree that a Junction of the Americans and Russians In the Berlin area would trap only a portion of the enemy forces and would not in itself be decisive. Many weeks ago, Dr. Ley, Nazi minister of labor, warned the German people that mili tary necessity might easily oblige the abandonment of the capital. A second squeeze, at the level of Leipzig, would be far more effective, but would also not be conclusive. A Juncture of the American 3rd or 7th armies with the red Ukrainian armies advanc ing from Vienna would be the most beneficial, although the longest and most difficult operation. The any more men or materials reaching the Berchtesgaden redoubt, but a Bavarian Junction anywhere in the Danube valley, would really put the squeeze on the Nazi die-hards if they do try to resist in the Alps. There may have been any number of reasons for the Russian weeks-long pause on the Oder river spring thaws, regrouping of armies or a general allied strategy plan to allow the western allies to close in on Berlin. I None of those reasons is sufficient, however, to prevent the red armies making a 30-mile shove to reach Berlin if and when that becomes necessary. The operations in Italy are clearly part of over-all allied strategy. The threat of a sweeping raid Into the Po valley,' which might force a general German retreat to the Alps, has forced the enemy high command to keep at least 23 firstline combat divisions on that once forjotten front. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, April 12 (U.R) If you pull the curtains behind Sen. Vandenberg, you will find a republican par ty concealed in a haze from which there emanates v a r 1 c olored, timid, bright lights. The Michigan senator is earnestly a 1 1 e m p ting to present co operatlve Paul Mali and construc tive Improve ments to the administration world peace program. The prom inence he has attained doing It has elevated him to the pedestal of front-page spokesman of the minority party on this subject. But the news behind the news of It is, he is not. There has been no agreement among the party leaders on a course of action. COR example, the points of the Vandenberg program of amendments are similar to two of the seven points made by ex President Hoover. But my in formation insists Vandenberg did not get them from Hoover, who Indeed wants to go much further and create a regional subdivision of nc world order Sen. Taft Is an old League of Nations man who appears not creatlv Impressed by anything that Is now happening In the postwar peace line. Ex Gov. Stasscn, who Is being Broomed for the next republican presidential candidacy by the new dealers at least, has talked with some of the other Republi can big men, but he. left them m FREE 3 NEW ROSE DAWN PLANTS Pleas enclose 2S cents to help cover packing, postage, handling and advertising expense. TO advertise our unique method of telling direct from nursery to you through the mail, we'll send you three well-rooted Rose Down perennial flower plants, ready to set out In your yard. These are the new flowers you have been hearing about through radio stations and the garden maga tines ol the country They grow two to three feet high and bear loads of silver pink (lowers from April to August. Fine for cutting or foi yard decoration. Ideal planting time now. We Want yOU to have three of these plants to transplant In your yard, so you can see what strong, healthy flowers we raise. Current catalog value 60 cents Now you may have three selected, hardy specimens, shipped postpaid for 25 cents Incidental expense as above. Offer QOOd during brief shipping period only. Send your request, enclosing 23 cents, to: CLARK GARDNER Til American Bldg. Leipzig squeeze would prevent with the Impression that he has an ideal rather than a program. Dewey is keeping as quiet an a hidden cat in a field of mice. His man, John Foster Dulles, refused or failed to go to San Francisco as Vandenberg'i as sistant, but Is now going on his own as an observer. Dulles sees Vandenberg frequently, but I do not believe there Is an agree ment between them on a pro gram or a party position. THE Vandenberg leadership. therefore, only reflects his own skilled Initiative toward the establishment of a position for the party. Frankly, a great many Repub licans think the Roosevelt proj ect Is In the shoals already, will nave to be changed, or may run aground. Safely they are await ing a clearer opportunity to com mit themselves. They have heard, for instance, that Stalin's direct quotes repeatedly offered at the Llvadla conference were: "I am not going to consult Albina and Ecuador" about what Is to be done or have them inter fere with Russian purposes. Also, they have heard rumors that Manchuria was given to Stalin at Llvadla (personally. I do not believe this to be true, but the rumors have created a clamor in Chungking). AS a result most Republican spokesmen are now rising' to defend the American position in favor of the rights of small powers, and searching to ascer tain If there are any more secret understandings such as the agreement to give Russia three votes In the assembly to one each for the smaller powers. Most of the top Republicans are Internationalists, yet there are a few Isolationist senators left. These, too, are biding their time, expecting that develop Ing events will say what they would like to say now on the ad ministration program. This search Into the Republi can position certainly has de veloped further evidence, urg Seattle 4. Wash. ing the administration to delay further peace action (and the San Francisco meeting) until conditions have settled. There is no reason why the administration, too, should not wait until they see what tne postwar condition in Europe is and what its troubles are in Asia before attempting to sign. seal and deliver an unamenable formula for handling both. In the strictest truth, their formula now proposes to guarantee, for ever and without change the unknown. EONS SLATE PLANS TO FORM MEDFORD CAMP Plans for a banquet to be held in the First Methodist Church Monday at 7 p. m., were an nounced today by G. A. Hack ing, field secretary for Gideons of Oregon. Hacking, with Harry Mitchell, vice president, of Port land, has been In Medford for the past week holding meetings in various churches to recruit new members for what Hacking believes will be one of the larg est camps In the state and will include most of the prominent Christian laymen from Medford and Ashland. It is planned to have many outside speakers and guests at the banquet, including repre sentatives of the Gideon Wom en's auxiliary who will present that phase of the work to Med ford women. Delegates are ex pected from Eugene, Roseburg. Grants Pass and Ashland. A program of songs, music and speaking Is being arranged and reservations should be made with Mrs. Louis Kirby of the First Methodist church. After the banquet a business session will be held at which time the Gideon camp In Med ford will be organized and cab inet officers will be elected to carry on the work of Bible tes tament placement in this dis trict. PAUL BRADY AWARDED $1228 FOR INJURIES A compromise settlement in the auto accident claim of Paul R. Brady, 19, was announced yesterday and Mrs. Elsie Brady of Ashland was named as guar dlan by Circuit Judge Herbert K. Hanna. Brady was Injured at Klam ath Falls when hit by an auto driven by Novell N. Welman The settlement awards Brady $1228.54 for loss of earnings for a six months period, $542.83 foi hospital and medical care and $73 for further care. Attorney Frank Van Dyke of Ashland is counsel for the Brady estate. Daily Weather Report -i L. '? u vicinuy: ciouav to night and Friday. Continued cool to night with frost Friday morning Warmer Friday. uregon: clearing tonight and frl- .r ," ""' iie rnaay. vool with local frost tonight. Local nam Temperature a year ago today: Highest 36 degrees, lowest 39. Total monthly precipitation .23 Inch Deficiency for the monlh 32 Inch. 1 lOdl 11 I1Q inch, c. . . Relative humidity at 4:30 p. m yesterday 38, 4:30 today 84. Tomorrow Sunrise 8 33 a. m., sunset 7:49 p m Past 34 hours: Hleh Low her Boise 44 30 .IS Boston 73 54 S3 36 34 46 S3 41 41 37 39 38 39 43 37 33 60 38 Chicago . 81 '. Bl . SO . 07 . SI . 67 . 60 . 70 . 54 . SO . 49 . 45 . sa . 81 . 48 . 70 - 66 .03 Denver Eureka Havre Los Angeles Medford . New York Omaha Phoenix , Portland Reno Roseburg Suit Lake San Francisco Saftl is Spokane tVashlngtoru'D. cT Yakima .10 Closing time for Clansirted Ada V a m. Too late to classify i:au p m THEY KISSED WHILE HISTORY WAITED! SUNDAY niii f r j ILL CARETAKER Tucker Invention' Used for Emergency Trip to Lake; Bucks Two Feet of Snow. Making an emergency run with E. M. Tucker's new "sno cat", a party of Medford men brought Robert Shampine, Dia mond Lake resort caretaker, to Medford early this morning for medical treatment. The men started for the lake yesterday afternoon after a message from Mrs. Shampine to George How ard, manager of the resort, had been received stating that her husband was ill. The party, composed of Mr. Howard, his son, Bill, who drove the sno-cat, Dr. W. W. Howard and C. C. Haggard, arrived at the lake at 3:45. First 32 miles of the trip was by truck and the last 28 to the lake was made with the cat. The men reported two feet of new snow slowed pt ogress. Aftr a brief rest the men loaded Shampine on one of the H-M folding stretchers and be gan the return trip, arriving In Medford Sjt 1:15 a.m. today. The caretaker was taken to the George Howard home from where it was said this morning that he was not believed sen ously ill. Mrs. Shampine had feared at first that her husband was threatened with appendi citis. Arrival of the men at the lake was reported in Medford to C. E. Huston, hydro-engineer of the soil conservation service who received the message by short wave radio. Feedsack Dresses Endanger Supply Washington. April 12 (U.R) Lady, lady, save that feedsack. The second-hand bag industry advisory committee today rec ommended that the war produc tion board prohibit the use of shipping bags for dress prints. Too many women, the com mittee said, cut them up for dresses instead of returning them for re-use as shipping con tainers. 4 . WEATHER Northern California: Clear to day, tonight and Friday. Warm er afternoons but cooler tonight with local light frosts. Brisk winds north portion today. Use .all Tribune Want Ads. IY1 M DEPT STORE Pay Less and Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY April 12, 193S ' (It was Friday) Germany ready to sign peace agreement, as result oi Diresa conference. Peace parade in Chicago re sults in free-for-all street iignt. First Lady proposes woman vice-president. Huge expansion of CCC to start within 60 days. Couldy. High 72, low 44 de grees. Rli-harrl Sleieht. high school artist sells work to Hershey company State liquor stores to sell whiskey at .50 cents per pint. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY April 12, 1825 (It was Sunday) vv-.a- orrivA from Univer sity of Oregon to Inspect aites for new high school. ma lpaaiie teams to start sea son tomorrow in east. Supreme Court holds hours of labor and compulsory arbitra tion of strikes by states invalid. Prince of Wales reaches Gold Coast of Africa. Fair. High 74, low 43 degrees. Two local residents fined for speeding on Crater 'Lake road Trout season to start Wednes day. Fflctpi la nhcerved In church es of city with special services. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY ' April 12. 1911 (It was Wednesday) Heavy frost is predicted for tomorrow morning. Carrie Nation, famed anti liquor crusader is near death. Espee to be.utify right of way through city. Ashland to have deer park. GETS HOME-TOWN TANK Indianapolis (U.R) Here Is another wartime coincidence. A tank presented to the army by students of Indianapolis Broad Ripple high school was turned over to the command of an In diananolls sergeant Robert L. Davis on Luzon island in the Philippines. In an average year, about 43 per cent of the world's forest pro duction comes from the United States. Super comfortable end buill for long, rugged wear, that Jarman moccasin type ttylei can be worn Indoors and outl Ask for the Jarman "Cawel-Craft" fattert tail ing styles of the season. Dress Better LAST RITES FOR LAURA E. WHITE SET FOR F Funeral services for Laura E. White, 89, pioneer Oregon resi dent who passed away at the home of her daughter, Esther E Sullivan, Central Point Road, early Wednesday, will be held Friday at the Litwiller funeral home in Ashland at 2 p. m. Mrs White had lived in this state for 55 years. Mrs. White, the former Laura Chew, was born in Selbyville, 111., in 1855. She came to Ore gorl with her husband, Saunders E. White, and resided in Klam ath county until about 18 years ago when they came to the Rogue River valley. Mr. White died soon after. For the past two years Mrs. White had lived with her daughter. The elderly woman was con sidered a remarkable personage among her friends, leading an active aVd Interesting life until her death in spite of advancing years and delighting friends and relatives with vivid stories of pioneer life in Klamath county. ssurvivors Include her daugh ter, Mrs. Sullivan, and a son, Earl R. White of Sacramento, Calif., five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Two grandsons, M. Sgt. Gilford White and Sgt. Wayne White, are in the service, the latter re cently returned home from overseas duty in Europe. Closing time for Sunday Too Late to classify 5 30 Saturday afternoon neaso. rememDer. fevfTIME TO jl FxWZP! m 1 'f win "Since time to re-tire comes under 'postwar planning' for most of us, a IpisK is today's best bet by a wide margin. 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