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By Arthur Parry
A war correspondent reports:
"The allies will find nothing in
Berlin but ruin, rats, starvation,
and Death." Name the leading
Nazi rat. Then apologize to the
rat.
Seeley V. Hall, the air line
official of Oakland, made a fly
ing trip here the middle of the
week.
The Ninth army's Hell-on-
Wheels armored division crossed
the Elbe last week, in a helter
skelter dash. Some hell-on-
wheels are loose around here
and where they get gasoline
baffles both the police and the
public.
.
Joe Early lately had a birth
day, also Al Leighton and G
Carter, co. clerk. AU are hustlers
ana going like eu.
The Commercial Club build
lng is In a fine state of demolish-
ment, and, the civic water
trough alongside awaits the
same fate. The structure In Its
prime was the center of the 1910
boom, and community oratory.
The Frost & Fret season Is
half over.
H. Dunn, the C.Pt. district
planter has his onions In, and
will start on spuds the last of the
month. For many years these
two vital products would not
grow in this section, when not
planted.
Five tons of old clothes were
contributed last week to the
needy of Europe. One pair of
pants left in the receptacle, had
a pair of suspenders with rubber
in them. The discoverer of this
windfall will not have to go to
Europe to wear them.
The Jens Jensen boy John
writes from some place In Ger
many, he and cohorts captured a
Rhinelund pullet, and fried and
ate same.
.
Spring Is still dilatory about
arriving. Nothing is growing
like it should, but kids and
weeds.
The Specific Dicway from
Wolf Creek to Graves Creek will
be straightened. It was notorious
for Its crookedness, and left the
weary traveller feeling like the
letter S.
Farmers report cheat grass Is
showing up, and shows signs ol
cheating them worse than last
year. Bent grass is also plentiful,
and bending the right way.
SnOW th OIHaf fllrta mmtA
last Christmas appeared the past 1
week. They are afraid to ask foi
any next Christmas, for fear it
will come In late July. ,
V. Brophy, the Tolo stockman.
Is up north letting his new
grand-daughter get an eye-ful of
him. I
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A resident of south of the Rio
Grande flaunted the first straw
hat of the season on the Main 1
Stem In mid-week.
!
The discovery of 100 tons ol
gold bullion In a German sail
mine the past week, excited val
ley argonauts. Several miner,
have shafts started In the gen
eral direction of where the cache
was located, but the army beat
them to it. i
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Editorial Correspondence
sMexico City. April 12. (By
nation and the historical and political effect of the sudden death
of President Roosevelt can only be compared to the assassination
of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln died after the war, Roosevelt during
it, but we believe that in much the same sense that Lincoln had
completed his Job, history will show that Franklin Delano Roose
velt's lob that of liberalizing the politics of his country and
placing the United States at the head of world political liberaliza
tion and on the road t" sventual world peace has been done. !
Actually, military victory has
future will be, Just as the great task following the Civil War,
one of reconstruction world rather than national reconstruction
And, as millions of Americans lived to deeply deplore the loss
of the guiding hand of Abraham Lincoln, there will be similar
millions who will feel a deep personal loss in the death of their
Second World War president and will miss this great leader during
critical times ahead. R.W.R.
Mexico City, April 8. The delay In mall air and train has
been explained. It is very simple, war censorship. All mall from
here to the states Is collected in San Antonio, Texas (perhaps our
ex-star reporter Fox looks it over) and there is examined before
it is forwarded to its destination.
between Mexico City and Medford is regarded as .expeditious.
(We could get no report on train-mall.) In short if one wishes to
correspond promptly with Mexico City from the states, follow
the old Western Union "ad":
"Don't write, telegraph!"
For years we have heard of "Jal-Alal", an exciting Cuban
form of handball, (or is it Spanish?) Whatever it is, we went down
to the El Palaclo de La Poleta, in the Plaza de la Republics last
night to see it.
And it is an extremely fast, exciting and Interesting sport, a
REAL sport not a form of one-sided animal-baiting as is the bull
fight. In "Jal-Alai" or "Fronton Mex", the best man wins, you don't
know the result of the contest before It starts, as at the "Arena
May-hee-co torres hippodroma." ,
The place was crowded, as
street-cars to the movie theatres,
betting. At least none officially
betting resembled that in the big league baseball games in the
states today, unorganized and Informal.
But if you WISH to make a bet and take your chances, you can
do it. The betting section in fact, was directly next to ours and
peso paper bills were flying about like paper-snow in an old
DeMille melodrama, toward the end of the final contest which
incidentally was won by'the "red" by one pointl (35 Is the game,
and in this star bout the two teams, red and black of two players
each, were never more than three points apart.
The essential difference between Jai Alai and handball is the
larger size of the court and the fact that the ball instead of bding
thrown by hand as Jim Corbett
STRAPPED to the hand and with
tating like a rifle-shot!
In fact several times during a
than the eye, one couldn't see it, at
the pellet (a sort of cross between a tennis and a polo bail) hit the
walls with a crack, and shot back. - .
As In bull fighting your correspondent cannot rate as an
expert, or even an intelligent commentator, but we can say
Jal-Alai is interesting to watch, and you must be In A-l physical
trim to play it.
As In tennis the players wear white flannels, and appear to be
of the literate class, some of the players last night might well
have qualified at the old Casino In Newport, as far as general looks
and bearing were concerned. There are Judges both at one side-line
and end of the court and the spectators are protected by a huge net
that falls from the roof of the "palace" to the floor. (If one of
those balls in full flight ever hit a human skull it would certainty
be "good nlghtl")
The behavior of the contestants formed the principal Interest for
your correspondent, It differed so entirely from the behavior
of Anglo-Saxons of the tennis players we saw at Palm Springs
for example a few weeks back. ,
Here there Is no dignity, no restraint. In the final match the
two "red" players, when one of them muffed a shot, and the score
was tied, flopped against the wall, one of them slipped to the
floor and lay prone as if mortally wounded, and there he lay
moaning and grieving for the entire length of the breathing spell
which apparently follows a brisk rally. In the second match of
the evening one of the players also a red, was particularly sour,
losing point after point. He did everything but cut his throat,
pulled off his hand baskets, Jumped on them, shook his shoes off,
had new shoes put on by one of the bus-boys, cursed, kicked
himself, did everything but keep his composure and play the
game like a good sport.
He was an extreme example, of course, but only one of the
players behaved as a normal American would have behaved. He
missed and muffed at times but took both In his stride and executed
no compensatory dramatics. He did not look like a Latin, in fact,
and of course may not have been. (Jack O'Brien of Massachusetts
for example is one of the local and popular bull-fighters.)
Strolled over to the Rvforma Plaza again for a bit of sunshine
and fresh air. An attractive girl, looking chic and French, was
exercising two large French poodles and a "puppy" Just a bunch
of thick curly fur, not clipped as
monkey.
A Mexican "senor" came along with a French bulldog, harness
and leash, let his dog loose and all four canines Joined In a say
romp on the grass. We feared for
dashing by on both sides, but the
for none crossed to the street,
hamburger "tout suite." The Senor
and chatted with the French looking mademoiselle, animatedly,
no doiiDt mends or long standing
dogs in the park.
Nearby the "enfants" played
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Telegraph). The shock to this
been won. The big Job of the
A week in transit for air-mail
everything In Mexico City from
are crowded. But there was no
with bookies and all that. The
threw it, Is thrown by a basket
a speed that is positively devas
brisk rally, the ball was faster
all, only hear the crisp smack as
yet, and as full of capers as a
the results as motor cars were
dogs must have been trained
where they would have been
sat down on a nearby bench
accustomed to meet with their
on the green attended by their
Grade A Truck Rubber only.
Your Tires Art Perfectly Balanced
13 Longer Mileage.
TIRE EXCHANGE
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FEAR-PROOF RECAPPING
Indian nurses, "Na-Nas" In white with huge blue ribbon bow
in the back and hair In braids
too, we should surmise after watching the care with which they
guarded their charges and the
An Indian bootblack strolled
well-dusted editorial "dogs" shined up a bit. The Indian character
istically saw an easy mark another "rich American", of course,
and boosted his price to "una peso" making a terrific fuss when
we refused to pay it. Incidentally the Mexican Indians here strike
us as being a pretty spirited and
cally all the menial tasks, but
not Broken as a result tar trom
EARLYDATE SEEN
Unofficial Advisors Like
Hopkins and Frankfurter
to Pack Soon.
By Lyle C. Wilson
United "resi Staff
Correspondent
Washington, April 14 (U.R)
The dawning of a new political
era was marked here today as
this capital said a sorrowful
farewell to Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
Despite President Truman's
Invitation to Roosevelt cabinet
members to "stay on," the time
is near after more than 12 years
for new faces in high places.
Political Washington is asking
"what next," and is telling itself
"plenty." Mr. Roosevelt's inli-
mates predict a clean or almost
clean sweep of top White
House personnel.
A cabinet shake-up within a
very few months is almost in
evitable. The so-called Roose
velt palace guard the unoffic
ial advisers variously on and off
the government payroll is ex
pected to be packing shortly
Or, if they have significant and
permanent positions here, they
will spend more time on their
official duties and considerably
less, if any, giving the president
advice. There is, for instance.
Asrociate Suoreme Court Justice
Felix Frankfurter.
For the time being, however,
Mr. Truman will carry on about
as is. His first formal declara
tion of policy comes Monday
when he addresses a joint ses
sion of the conTest in the house
chamber. On Tuesday the pres
ident will address the armed
forces. His associates siy that
he has decided not to attend the
United Nations Conference in
San Francisco. His ooeninx ad
dress will be broadcast from
here.
Senators and representatives
may expect to be consulted and
already high on the list of ad
visors is James F. Byrnes, who
this month resigned as director
of the office of war mobilization
Byrnes has been Invited to
accompany Mr. Truman to tne
Hyde Park funeral. For the
moment, at least, he seems to be
the Harry L. Hopkins of the
Truman administration. Whether
he will continue in that role
cannot at once be determined.
Hopkins Is being counted out
hereabouts. He was the closest
of Mr. Roosevelt's advisors, who
was bitterly mistrusted and of
ten disliked by the regular Dem
ocrats who gave the president
grudging support. He is ill and
will return to the Mayo Clinic
in Minnesota after the Roosevelt
funeral. Today Mr. Trumon con
ferred with Hopkins. Chances
are he asked Harry to "stay on,"
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twined with ribbon. Good nurses.
restraint and kindness shown them
along and we decided to have the
enterprising lot, they do practi
our impression is their spirits are
It in fact. R.W.R.
too. If so it scarcely can be for
long.
If Byrnes takes over Hopkins
duties as chief councillor, he
may well succeed in time to the
secretaryship of state.. That
speculation could be unfair to
Secretary Edward R. Stettinius,
except for one explosive fact.
The 44-year-old ' personable
Stettinius is next in line for the
White House should anything
happen to Mr. Truman. One of
the things that endears Mr. Tru
man to regular democrats is
that he is a regular democrat,
too, and a strict organization
man in the sense that Jim Far
ley Is a strict organization man.
Stettinius is not an organization
man. The regulars have had
enough of non-organization ir
regularity under Mr. Roosevelt
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Praises Closing
To the Editor:
Again this great city of Med
ford has gone over the top 100
in the voluntary closing of all
business nouse3, places of amuse
ment and calling off the Track
and Field meet of the Southern
Oregon Athletic Association in
paying their respects to our be
loved President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
In my 24 years as a resident of
this city Medford has always
been over the top in all her
strides Charity, Red Cross,
Bond drives, home building, the
best of water and good paved
streets.
Great credit should be given
to the men who have and are
creating this fortunate condition
and to the Medford Mail Tri
bune which has always been and
Is now one of the. most enter
prising papers of this country.
To Mayor Meeker, the Cham
ber of Commerce and Its presi
dent. Herb Grey and Supt. E. H.
Hedrlck I want to express my
appreciation of the efforts you
all are putting e'erth to make
this a still better place to live
Walter E. Rowley
311 N. Bartlett St.
Memorial Services
Camp White Today
Camp White. Memorial ser
vices for President Franklin D
Roosevelt will be held in War
Department Theater No. 1, to
day for military personnel ol
the camp. The services at 10 a
m., mourning the passing of the
army's commander-in-chief, will
be conducted by Post Chaplal:.
John V. Rlchert.
New York, April 14. U.R)
Atley Donald, a veteran right
hander who won 13 games while
losing 10 in 1944, was selected
by Yankee Manager Joe McCar
thy tonight to pitch the opening
game of the 1945 major league
season against the Senators at
Washington Monday.
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Washington, April 14. (U.R)
The White House announced to
night that Soviet Foreign Com
missar V. M. Molotov will attend
the San Francisco conference.
The White House revealed tha,t
Soviet Premier Josef V. Stalin
decided to send Molbtov after
President Truman had advised
Stalin that such a move would
be welcomed "as an expression
of earnest cooperation in carry
ing forward plans for formulat
ing the new International organi
zation." There had been great disap
pointment over Stalin's original
decision not to send Molotov to
San Francisco. Soviet Ambassa
dor Andrei A. Gromyko had
been named head of the Russian
delegation.
Disclosure that Molotov will
attend the conference gives it
added Importance. Forty-eight
hours ago President Roosevelt's
death made it questionable
whether the conference would
even be held. Now, with Presi
dent Truman pledged to carry on
Mr. Roosevelt's objective of a
durable peace and with Eden al
ready here, the conference's
chances of success seemed much
improved.
Nordhausen, Germany, April
15 (U.R) It was a day of
reckoning today for protesting
German civilians who - began
part payment for their country's
sins.
The German civilians buried
the dead 2,700 Allied political
prisoners who had died after
months of starvation and torture
while imprisoned in this indus
trial city.
It probably was the first time
that the American military gov
ernment had forced the German
people to pay personally for their
mis-deeds. They didn t like it
Some became violently ill. One
husky young man collapsed with
a heart attack.
Cattle raising is the oldest
Tevns Inrlnclrv. Miceinn ropnrrtc
show the number of cattle short
ly after 1718.
GERMANS FORCED
BY ARMY TO BURY
TORTURE VICTIMS
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A tense moment in "Circum
stantial Evidence," opening Wed
nesday at the r.ialto theatre, as
Michael O'Shea fights off the
pleading of Lloyd Nolan and
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Medford and Jackson Co. His
tory from the files of the Mail
Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
April 15, 1935
(It was Saturday)
Drought in mid-west states
worse than a year ago.
Mushrooms make seven Ap
plegate people ill.
CCC camp to be installed on
Roxy Ann to create park.
Unsettled with showers. High
71, low 49 degrees.
Gene Childers wins President's
cup In golf club tournament.
Moore Hamilton gives Kiwan
ians resume of last session ol
legislature.
Rain again delays resurfacing
of No.fT. Riverside avenue.
Polish mobs break windows of
German residents in Gydnia.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
April 15. 1925
(It was Wednesday)
Two new mail carriers added
to local postoffice delivery force
Opening ball game of season
In Portland next Tuesday.
American fleet sails for Ha
waii waters for winter maneu
vers.
Unsettled with showers. High
75, low 41 degrees.
Thieves ransack local churches
and Salvation Army hall.
Record crop of pears predicted
for coming season. Estimate
2,500 cars.
Holly street and P. & E. 'sites
favored for new high school.
Marshal von Hindenburg ol
Germany announces fiftn stand
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Company
eateott
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Trudy Marshall and give himself
up to the police for a murder he
didn't commit. The companion
feature on the same program
will be Joe E. Brown in "Polo
Joe."
against Naziism.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
TODAY
April 15. 1912
(It was Saturday)
Smudge pots put frost to rout
in valley orchards.
Elks to install new officers to
night. Salem mad at Medford Com
mercial club.
Gov. West names Ben Olcott
secretary of state.
American hospital ships carry
8,000 quarts of frozen vitamin D
milk in adition to SOO quarts of
fluid milk and 600 to 700 gal
lons of ice cream.
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intrigue and crime while still in
her 'teens. Literary Guild selec
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FURY IN THE EARTH
by Harry Harrison Kroll
The earthquake that hit thsj
town of New Madrid, Tennes
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brought all its evil to the sur
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few Spanish and pioneer Amer
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YANKEE WOMAN
by Eric Baume
A dramatic novel of Califor
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a woman who managed to build
an incredible empire on all the
evils the Barbary Coast had to
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The child and
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A legend of the meeting of
the Child Jesus and the Em
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the underlying theme of spirit
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BREAKFAST AT THE
HERMITAGE
by Alfred Leland Crabb
A notable love story that
centers around the Hermitage,
the home Andrew Jackson
planned for his beloved Rachel.
$2.75
THE UPSTART
A NEW NOVEL BY
EDISON MARSHALL
Love and high adventure In
the exciting England of Ceorqe
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THE POWER HOUSE
by Alex Comfort
The drama of a machine work
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$3.00
TELL SPARTA
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