VcTIH MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. June 20. 1948
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War new makes Door hot
weather reading, with battles
raging in temperatures more
fervid than our own. In many
past summers, when peace (so
called) prevailed, Polar explor
ers claimed the top headlines.
Then it was cooling to read, a
Norwegian scientist and six men,
headed for the top of the world,
had been caught in the ice, with
no rescue in less than a month.
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Word now comet from Europo,
the missing Adolf Hitler of Ger
many, may have had his face
lifted, by a plastic surgeon, in
stead of getting his neck caught
in the end of a rope.
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The valley corn is coming
long fine. In many fields it is
up as high as the weeds in the
fence corners.
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RUGGED SOCIAL WHIRL .
(Pendleton East Oregonlen)
"Early this week the town
of Adams came near haying a
tar and feather episode but
three young men from Walla
' Walla . vamoosed from the
town. Two women were in
. volved and were told that un-
' less their actions were circum
spect in the future, criminal
, prosecution would be com
menced against them." (50
Yrs.-Ago col.)
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Objections have been filed to
the public cussing of Gen. B.&G.
Patton by a Los Angeles cleric.
Outside of causing the General
to cuss some more, nothing wis
gained.
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A dozen or so Polish leaders
the London Poles were so excited-about
when Jailed by the
Russians, have confessed to con
spiracy and sabotage against the
Red army, and were not the pur
ported red-hot battlers for Polish
independence they were sup
posed to be. Their confessions
were a shock not alone to the
London Poles, but to the Lublin
Poles, the Pskov, Poles, the War
saw Poles, and the City Park
Poles, who currently are remain
ing in the shado in fear of Rus
sia, Much sympathy has been
lathered on the London Poles,
described by the esteemed S. F.
Chronicle, as "men we do not
know well enoiiRh to trust with
the loan of a lawnniowcr."
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"MEAT LOVERS RAPIDLY
TURNING TO RABUITS"
(Hdline Ashland, Ky., Indepen
dent.) Thle. is a better trick, than
the 1920 Kord drivers, who fre
quently "turned turtle."
COULD BEI
(Woman's Companion)
He stood holding her hand,
his check in her hair. In tho
silence they stood together,
while he waited, felt some
thing begin to beat In his
breast, faintly, uncertainly.
Was it his heart?"
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GIs recently home from the
Pacific, who have sweltered in
New Guinea, Borneo, Salpan.
and way points, view the locai
weather coolly. "What heat?"
they ask Inquiring kin and
natives.
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Watermelon patches have
started to adorn the rural scene
hereabouts. Owners warn Bny
person caught in them after sun
down In the early autumn, will
know the gun was loaded.
Upstate newspapers published
In or near heavily timbered
areas, have started to advice sub
scribers, a fuel shortage is likely
next winter.
Boxes of blood plasma can be
dropped without a parachute
from 10.000 feet, without break
age, thanks to a specially do
sighed wood box.
Tokyo Radio Propaganda Line
Stresses Disunity Ur Allies,
Plans To Keep
By Louis F. Keemla
United Press War Analyst
The busy Tokyo radio has three favorite themes these days
allied disunity, the imminence of an invasion of he Japanese
homeland"Snd Japan's ability to repel it by the prodigious efforts
now being undertaken.
Perusal of the Japanese output for a 24-hour period as recorded
by the federal communications commission, gives a fairly repre
sentative cross-section of the enemy propaganda lirte. Newsworthy
items in this material are made available to the press through
the office of war information but a study of the undigested mass
gives a more connected picture of Japanese thought and hopes.
24-HOUR FLOOD POURS OUT
Every hour of the 24, the stuff is poured out in Japanese,
Chinese, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and other languages.
Principal broadcasts include those to western North America; to
Brazil (In Portuguese) and to the rest of Latin-America In Spanish;
to greater East Asia; China and the South Seas; the Japanese home
and empire service; from Peiping and Shanghai in Mandarin; from
Batavia and Singapore in English and other languages.
The broadcasts include some objective straight news and a great
deal more that is slanted; some fairly smooth propaganda and a
lot that is vicious or stupid. An FCC analysis of the 24-hour period
in the Japanese language to greater East Asia, after dealing with
the broader aspects of the broadcasts, notes that the usual items
gleaned from the allied and neutral press, carefully chosen to high
iinht oiiini rficconsinn nnxietv concerning the future of the war,
bestiality and imperialistic greed,
the day.
ARRESTS IN U. a. Arte, uilu
Representative items picked almost at random from the volum
inous report include:
A Japanese version of the arrest in the United States on
p'sninnaife chariies of two government employes and two editors
of the magazine Amerasia. Tokyo reports, by way of Stockholm,
that 15 American communists have been rounded up for espionage,
two of them being state department officials, one a naval informa
tion officer and 12 writers "for the American communist paper
Amerasia." A Washington official is quoted as pointing to possible
grave effects on American-Soviet relations.
Several long dissertations on independence for the Indonesians
of the Dutch East Indies, who are represented as co-operating with
the Japanese and burning with enthusiasm to defend their home
land to win freedom from the Dutch.
U. S. LOSSES OFF OKINAWA DISTORTED'
Some fantastic figures on United States naval losses off Okinawa.
A naval commentary promising greater Kamikaze suicide efforts
and gloating over the prospect of sinking such great troop-laden
liners as the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth when they are
diverted from Europe.
A great deal of contrast (favorable to Russia) between Soviet
and Anglo-American methqds in occupied Germany. An article
telling how "British traditional
has been resumed.
Quotes from a talk by Subhas
British-American-Soviet disunity
Pieces about Soviet pressure on Chungking in favor of the Yenan
Communist regime.
A long and violent propaganda broadcast In Spanish to Latin-
America, dealing with "Yankee
toward defeated nations.
Probably the prize of the collection Is an hour-long broadcast to
the American forces In Australia and the South Pacific. Called
"Zero Hour", It offers "music as you like It, news from two fronts,
a little bit of this and that, and a thought forthe day."
Letter From Washington
By HARRIS ELLSWORTH
Member ot Congress From Oregon
OPA. The next problem to be
faced by the House is the consid
eration of the extension of the
Price Control Act (OPA). The
senate has already acted on this
legislation and incorporated in
the bill both of the cost of pro
duction amendments The Wher
ry Amendment prohibiting the
setting of prices on farm prod
ucts below the producers cost of
production, and a similar amend
ment authored by Senator Thom
as of Oklahoma, applying to
meat processing and oilier manu
factured food products.
I have attended some of the
hearings held by the House
Banking and Currency commit
tee on this legislation. The
stories of the abusive adminis
tration of the OPA act arc
enough to give the most hard
ened supporter of Chester
Bowles, the OPA administrator,
a severe chill.
As I have said before, the Con
gress faces an impossible situa
tion with reference to the OPA
problem. Price control Is neces
sary. The Price Control act is
basically a good law. The diffi
culties, shortages and persecu
tions that have resulted stem
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington. June 20. The
house committee hearing the
youth draft (misnamed "univers
al m il 1 1 a r y
t r a I n 1 n g")
reached the
highest alti
tude ever
known to leg
islation. It closed at
about 150000
feet, with the t
committee cn-j
terlng an oxy
gent cell to
write recom
mendat ions.
Paul Mallnn
presumably on an even higher
plane. No one connected with
the matter has yet got back to
earth, or even looked in that
direction. But more no one
cared or dared to bring up a fact.
The whole discussion was kept
exclusively in the realm of
ethereal theory. .
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THE military men, for In-
stance, closed with their star
kites Generals Marshall and
Eisenhower and Aihn. King.
These men made out clear case
I iinim iji .inn.
ill
Invaders Out
round out the radio output for
,
policy" against the Soviet Union
Chandra Bose, Indian Quisling, on
and a "march on Delhi."
imperialism" and inhuman policy
from executive orders and ad
ministrative practices. We can
Incorporate a few more checks
and safeguards against such mal
administration, but we cannot
write administrative details into
the law. The troubles with OPA
are troubles born In tho execu
tive department of the govern
ment, and must finally be cor
rected there. President Truman
will surely soon be compelled to
overhaul tho functioning of his
price control agency.
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SUMMER HEAT. Washington
has enjoyed an unusually cool
and delightful spring. Until this
week, the weather has been very
similar to the very best Oregon
spring and summer climate, but
the high temperature and high
humidity combination is going
full blast now. It is extremely
unpleasant.
Apparently most of the urgent
business of Congress can be fin
ished by the end of this month.
It is anticipated that a recess will
be declared shortly after July 1
until after Labor Day. I hope,
therefore, to be able to spend
half of July and all of August In
Oregon.
for a strong American defense
force and for military training
to provide it, but did not offer a
single fact or figure to bolster
their legislative proposition
(May bill) for drafting a million
17-year-old males or a million
and a half 18-year-old males
and 'or an equal number of
females for a year in the army
and navy. They never even ap
proached their proposition.
Indeed, they never mentioned
It except In the smooth, round
but well camouflaged phrase
"universal military training."
They did not define what they
want, whether boys and girls
what ages, what kind of training,
for how long, how, when, where
or at what cost.
Indeed, the ncarc.it any one
came to a fact or figure was
when a committeeman asked
Gen. Marshall how much of a
standing army we would need
to keep the peace, and he an
swered it would all depend on
the kind of pfacc that's all.
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JVfl ARSHALL also spoke of how
horrible it would be, taxa
tionally. tn have a large standing
army., but Adm. King did not
think it would be horrible to
have a large standing navy. King
wanted this undefined thing
called "universal military train
ing" to provide a large standing
navy, while Marshall wanted it
to avoid a large army standing.
The whole testimony reached
, the same stratosphere of giddy
I logic. Marshall said there could
not be a large standing army
because it would cost too much
but did not mention the cost of
keeping a new batch of a couple
of million 17 or 16-year-olds con
tinuously in an army, standing
or sitting. He Just kissed any
alternative but his own proposi
tion goobye with the definite
and wholly erroneous conclu
sion:
"No other practical solution
has been offered.
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PISENHOWER really proved
there must be citizens'
training system, and urged that
the training promote co-ordina
tion between- the land, sea and
air forces. But like Marshall he
did not even consider enlarging
the national guard, youth camps
for summer only, creation of a
larger and better officer reserve
system, quadrupling West Point
and Annapolis, injection of mili
tary courses in high schools and
colleges as compulsory subjects
or any of the other many ex
cellent alternatives to the youth
draft system, founded by Prussia
and adopted by both the nazis
and communists.
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"TO a conscientious reporter,
the conclusion was inescap
able that the military men had
decided to try to bull through a
youth draft as the answer to the
admitted need for military train
ing, without telling how they
propose to administer the mat
ter. As a result, the peace societies,
the women's clubs, labor, (both
C.I.O. and A.F.L.) and two of the
three farm organizations (Farm
ers' Union and National Grange)
and nearly all of education (77
per cent of the college presi
dents have risen up in wrath
against them.
On the military side In this
hearing they could count only
two large organizations, the
United States Chamber of Com
merce and the propaganda outfit
In New York where the draft-act
was WTltten. When military men
get bullheaded, arty one below
the grade of sergeant can tell
you, they can bull themselves
Into defeat.
If they had come out with
facts and figures showing what
Is necessary in the way of citi
zens' military training and laid
out any reasonable program to
attain it, they would have had
no formidable opposition what
ever. But they or their publicity
men or ghost writers or advisors
thought the only way to do it
is to take the kids away from
their homes for a year. They can
not prove it, or have not yet.
They have narrowed the propo
sition down to a take-it-or-lcave-
It basis.
As a result congress is likely
to leave It no matter what this
Woodrum committee recom
mends from its latest reported
altitude of 175,000 feet, and still
going up.
COMMUNICATIONS
Letter! to the Editor mnsl seel
the name and addreia el the writer
althnmh the oaa ol a pen-name or
InlUala for publication t permis
sible The Mall Tribune raiervee
the rlfhl to edll ell lattera with a
flaw to clarity end condensation
Burma Peril Seen
To the editor: From India
comes word that the war is about
over in Burma, 102,000 Japs are
cut off from supplies, left strandj
ed to "rot on the vine". From a
military point of view this writes
"finis" to Japan's "greater East
Asia co-prosperity in Burma.
But with World War II lost In
that region, the way Is left open
for World War III. Unless these
Jans are dug out, and isolated.
The Burmese women Just could
fall for the old time hat tipping
politeness which hides what goes
on underneath. And if Hirohlto
escapes as a war criminal, or
even if his spirit lives on, trie
ciuota of a Jap baby a year will
be lived up to, even if it takes
a little longer to fade out the
Burmese strain. A browner race
might not draw the color line as
do Caucasians, and in another
generation a brand new army is
ready on a Jap quota of a baby
year. And better equipped as
natives of the territory to restore
the Jap co-prosperity. Just as
Mussolini before his fall had
moved to restore the Roman
Empire. And don't forget, the
Japs are great "apers".
E. E. GRANT.
San Francisco, Calif.
Common Sens For Peace
To the editor: The Culbertson
"Total Peace" plan (you so heart
ily endorsed June 11) has some
glaring inconsistencies. It is
strictly a war plan, devised to
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place the balance of power in
the hands of the small nations,
to be used as the big powers
might need to settle their dis
putes. In other words a football
to take the kicks.
. He assumes the ablity to regu
late heavy armament to be
manufactured, giving the small
nations 22; each of the three
three, big powers 17; China
and France, each 6; Turkey,
Germany, and Japan, each 2.
He figures that any two big pow
ers, with the help of the football,
could put down any aggressor.
The only remedy ne proposes
for a nation increasing their
given quota is for all other na
tions to increase likewise, in
order to keep the same ratio.
While I agree with you ana
Culbertson regarding the "Peace
Conference" effectiveness, with
a veto power attached, the mere
fact of trying to think in uni
versal terms, can result in great
progress.
It Is Interesting to nonce, inai
the best broadminded and hu-
m a n 1 1 a rian suggestions come
from China, India, Mexico, and
South America. If the big five
could follow their lead, we could
have permanent peace now.
In Culbertson's plan he does
not mention right, liberty, equal
ity, or Justice, there can be no
peace without all of them. Neith
er docs the San Francisco con
ference pass any resolutions on
human rights.
If Culbertson can regulate
heavy armament and maintain a
quota, why not ban It' altogether,
we do not need it in total peace?
, They both ignore the .inflex
ible law, of "cause and 'effect",
if we would stop war, we must
first remove the cause. That can
be done only by economic regu
lations. We all realize that force Is
the only language aggressors
heed. The same force -necessary
to prevent war, and keep the
peace with arms placed in stra
tegic positions to direct and con
trol all transportation and a
universal exchange could make
any preparations for war im
possible and remove most all
causes of war. How could you
start a war if this force said no?
The safest way to handle a bull,
is by a ring in his nose. That
does not hinder kind treatment
and good care, but he has no
veto power and is ready for total
peace without heavy armament,
and no Injury to the bull. Why
not use common sense?
IRA JONES.
GIVES ROBBER ASSIST
Worcester, Mass. (U.R) Mrs.
Pctronclla Bacinskas confessed
to police that when a youthful
holdup man was unable to open
the cash register of her meat
market, she gave him a hand and
even made him take 16 pennies,
which were left after he had
helped himself to $50.
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HAS' NOTHING 10
Eugene, Ore., (U.R) The slant
of the new moon is practically
the same for any certain month
year after year. Therefore the
slant indicates the time of year.
It doesn't, however, have any
thing to do with wet or dry
weather, according to J. Hugh
Pruett, astronomer of the Uni
versity of Oregon s extension di
vision. "Some Indian tribes are said
to have considered the tilt of the
new moon in this way: 'When
the points of the crescent extend
upward, then if the string of the
powder horn is placed over one
of them, the horn will hang se
curely. Leave It there, for the
moon is holding water and it win
be too dry in the forests for hunt
ing. But when the points are so
inclined that the powder norn
will slide off, take it and go, for
the woods will be wet enough to
permit successful stalking of the
game, Pruett said.
It is doubtful if any believer
in his moon lore has ever kept
monthly records of new-moon
tilts for a few successive years,
commented the astronomer. He
pointed out that, in late winter
and early spring, the crescent is
almost above the setting sun so
the points extend upward. Six
months later the moon Is well to
the left of the sun, with its points
In general toward the south.
CO-ED BREAKS TRADITION
Missoula, Mont. (U.R) At
Montana State university where
women students outnumber the
men six to one, Jane Jeffers of
Entile.. Mont., became the first
woman ever to be elected pres
ident of the student body, she
was elected at the annual spring
election this year.
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Mediord and Jackson Co. His
tory from the files of the Mail
Tribune 10. 20 and 34 rears
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
June 20, 1935
Ot was Thursday)
Roosevelt plan to tax great
wealth hits snag.
Price of butter, drops as supply
increases.
Married women on state pay
rolls may be forced to quit.
Gold dredge starts operation
near Rogue River.
Harmon Waley, one of kid
napers of Weyerhaueser boy giv
en 45 years.
Freight rate on pears reduced.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
June 20, 1925
(It was Saturday)
Folev & Burke carnival here
all next week.
New bridge being built in
Sams Valley near Mary Duggan
plaee.
Five hundred autos. carrying
2000 soldiers make trip to Crater
Lake.
Fair and continued warm.
High 99, low 55 5 degrees.
E. H. Hedrick, .new superin
tendent of schools arrives.
tfotlnnnl nuardsmen from
Portland and coast points com
plain ol valley neai.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS
AGO TODAY
June 20. 1911
(It was Tuesday)
Fats -and leans to play ball
game for benefit of concert band.
Posse closing in on Drain mail
car robbers.
Coffeeln Brothers plumbing
shop Horse runs away at noon.
' President Taft sends message
to Congress. s .
Jail Breaker Gets
Stuck Between Bars
Russell, Kan., (U.R) Prospects
didn t look very good to one
Russell county prisoner recent
ly when he was confined to close
quarters, during an attempt to
break jail.
His "close confinement" was
his own fault, though, authori
ties said. He was wedged in a
nine-inch opening so tight that it
took a blow-torch to free him,
For four hours, the 175-pound
prisoner was stuck between the
bars of the jail door, alternately
burned by the blow-torch and
chilled by ice water, thrown on
him to counteract the heat.
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Oregon's present facilities are Inadequate to provide the higher
educational opportunities which have been promised to returning
service men. A special election has been called for June 22 to
enable the citizens to approve a $10,000,000 State Building Fund
to provide these facilities as well as adequate State Hospital and
Houses of Correction improvements that are badly needed.
Normal progress of Oregon as a State demands that the
$10,000,000 State Building Fund be voted. It; will not mean
increased tax rates. The money already is on hand, and requires
only authorization from the voters to be used.
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