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Newspaper Page TextTEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, Aug. 31. 1945- Medford$Tribune "Ivaryona In Southern Oreioa Bead! tha Mall Trltmm" Dally Except Baturaay Puhlishad by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S7-J9 North Fir St. Phona 8141. ROBERT W. RUHU Editor. ERNEST R. OILSTRAP. Manafax. HERB CREV. Advertising Mr. E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Editor MRS. OLIVE STARCHER. Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MKT. An Independent Newspaper. Entered M second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1679. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance' Dally and Sunday m year . Dally and Sunday alx months 4 00 Dally and Sunday three mos. 3.10 Daily and Sunday one month.. .73 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Jackson ville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday ona year . H 00 Dally and Sunday one month .7S All terms cash in advance. Ofllrlsl Paper of ths city of Medford Offlolsl Paper of Jackson County United Press Fall Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC. Offices In New York Chicago, De. trolt, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Se attle, Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta. Vancouver, B. C. ! ORE OWN PubushIer PAP EK SOgiAIIOII Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry Again, under the stress of an emergency, the space below is turned over to Harold Hnynes, the competent columnist of the esteemed Astoria Astorian-Bud-gct, as follows: "The big 4-H club fair Is over for another year and It seems reasonably safe, at least, for us to say a few words here about the affair, probably the most suc cessful in the county's history. Purposely we've waited until the curtain woa rung down on tljo show before sounding off here about it. A couple of years ago, we spoke early and had to call for help when we found our selves stuck with very much oversize but fine beef animal, alive and on the hoof. We're not complaining, you understand Back of The Headlines By Ralph Heinzen (United Press War Analyst) .opened. The formal indictment of 24 1 During 15 months spent In high-ranking Nazis on a charge ' German prison caups in mid of conspiracy to wage aggressive ! war, I learned that the greatest war provides Jurisprudence un- party influence, in the latter der International law which may part of the war, was in reality in time be extended to those exercised by men who hid their minor minions in Japanese or j power well. Three of the most German prison camps who hung influential party leaders in the American prisoners by their j last year of the war are named thumbs or beat wounded and far down the list of the first helpless fliers with baseball ! batch of 24 for Nuernberg Dr. bats. (Albert Speer, Fritz Sauckeland The stories which are coming 1 Martin Bormann. back today from Omorl prison I Only one German in ten had camp and other black hellholes I ever heard of Martin Bormann where American prisoners, sick land yet, among the Nazis and and wounded, were kept naked 1 Gestapo who were our chief con- Our Men and Women in the Nation's Service MONTHLY PAY OF NORMAN MEEDS SHARES AWARD and starving, in violation of the Geneva convention, Indicate a deliberate policy of mii'reat mcnt of prisoners which will be punishable under the same juris- tacts in the prison camps, he was universally named as "Nazi No. 1." He deliberately hid his identity but to all others in the party he was the only one who prudence which is to be applied j dared to and did challenge Hein- eventually to thousands of Nazis, under the top 24, who tortured or killed civilians and military prisoners in German camps. In reality there was no Inter national law covering the case of conspiracy against peace or rich Himmler for the place at Hitler's side. From Stalingrad until the final collapse in Ber lin, Bormann was the one who exercised the greatest influence ot all Nazis on Hitler. In the final days, he was on conspiracy to wage aggressive j the radio all day long shouting war. There is an international orders, rallying defectives and law, however, protecting mill-: howling threats In the name of tary prisoners against physical ! Hitler. He was the one who mistreatment and providing for took charge of the Hitler youth minimum of food and shelter. lur,a tried to convert them into mat international law is con- "ciewuives. tie dreamed up mined in tne Geneva conven-l lr,e ea or the last redoubt in tlon which Japan and Germany I 'he Alps. He opposed with all both signed. Both can be held , his strength the idea of sur accountable for every inhuman j render. act against military prisoners. Fritz Sauckel was the Nazi Thorp wn nr. written Interna. wno w"' directly responsible for tlonal convention governing the ! 5"5cl7,iV"K foroin 've labor. treatment of civilians caught In , ?. "le lme OI aoor gau- thc zones of hostilities or In lcl,er outside of Germany; Hob zones of occupation. Jurlsprud-f ' Lr- cnlef ot the German ence hns been established, how- !?br 'ront kcPl ''Is title, inac cver, for those cases, and it is "vely. inside of Germany, based on the broadest humanl- waJ Sauckel, who held the tarian principles. mlnor 'unction of Gauleiter of ii., rranconia, who went to France No announcement ha, been for example, in Apr I 1942 and made of the Nuernberg court nPgotiat lho sal ac procedure but t Is reported in ! nrrf ,i,,i. r L,HV1 a- legal circles that the victorious ; " If,",? mb,1'zed Allies may conform to French ! L" a, Jhir vn, h PT and Russian procedure rather, " 11, !? "" thnn TlrltUh r,r Amerlean The I . ."'"J" Were 'hive labor result would be to speed-up and gh proPrtlon "ver re- harden the procedure j sauckel was therefore the Under the Busslnn and French gauleiter responsible for those procedure, the case Is really j 0,000,000 foreign labor slaves tried before It begins. This pie-1 who were recruited by force or trial Investigation by an exam- j blandishments and so mnnv e.f but we don't know yet just what j Ing magistrate is in reality the , whom died in the intorminatii would have happened to us had the publisher of this grent news paper not heard our distress sig nals and come to our rescue. "But even at that we Just can't slay away from those 4-H stock sales and so the other night we're right on hand to see the bidding fun. And are we glad wo wre. We wouldn't have miss ed seeing our old friend, Austin Osburn, all dressed up in his white suit, 10-gallon hat and rid ing boots, right out In the mid dle of things, for the world. It was Just the right touch to make the show a success. "Quite nobody can do a thing like this, like Austin can and if we're any Judge at all of the situation, he was easily the star of the production right along with the 4-H club boys and gals! and their prize winning animals. We can't believe that the 500 j or 600 people milling around the I auctioneer's stand would have showed all the interest they did In just a cattle sale. It was Aus tin they were watching, at least two-thirds of the time "There appears to be Just no end to what you can hear if you go around listening instead of talking all the time. We tried this idea out the other day and came up with this conversational gem, right out of an otherwise blue sky: "I'm glad they didn t drop another of those atomic bomb on Japan: I would have renounced my American citizen ship if they hud." It's cracks like this that make us believe maybe we've got something when we don't bother to think things through but just take them in stride. "No. girls, the movie-type Can tllian around town this week isn't Tyron Power, here on a fishing trip from Hollywood or somewhere. We've checked the story now and are in a position to my that this glnmor boy Is a member of the Mexican gang working on the railway down at the foot of Twelfth street." . trial itself. Once the trial be- or slave camps gins, the defense cannot Intro-1 Dr. Spcer, who had been ch'cf duce new evidence. It cun of German nrm.mt -j... uuii umu Aruuir Tortt s death, OF LEYTE UNIT With the 32nd Infantry Divis ion in Northern Luzon, P. I. SSgt. Norman A. Meeds, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne A. Meeds of Jacksonville, Oregon, shares a citation awarded Company "C" of the crack 127th Regi ment by Major General William H. 'GUI, commander of the vet eran 32nd (Red Arrow) Infantry Division, "for outstanding per formance of duty in action against the enemy on Leyte Is land." As a result of a wide flanking movement by our forces, a large Japanese pocket was trapped, The only supply or evacuation route open to the enemy was the Ormoc highway. Company "C" was ordered to establish a road block on the highway to prevent these troops from being supplied or reinforced. Although the Americans were subject to point-blank fire from enemy tanks, a hail of bullets from the numerically superior enemy ground troops, and direct fire from enemy artillery, they never ceased to face the chal lenge and return the fire to the foe. By the excellent coordina tion of small arms and bazookas and by the accuracy of their fire, men of Company "C" com pletely routed the enemy. The citation reads, in part: "This operation was a determin ing factor in the final successful break-through by our troops during the following days and played a vital role in the task of breaking all enemy resistance on Leyte." Veteran of three major en gagements in the Southwest Pa cific, Meeds holds the purple heart, the combat infantryman badge, the Asiatic-Pacific Rib bon and the Philippine libera tion medal. star, purple heart, good conduct ribbon, and ETO ribbon with five battle stars. merely sit there and listen to the report of the examining mag istrate being read. In the cases of the 24 top flight Nazis, that pre-trial inves tigation Is ended. If the Rus succeeded the latter as head of me ucrman paramilitary "Or ganization Todt," a sort of Ger man civilian "Sen bene " whinh did the engineering ivnri, fn slan and French proceriuro Is the Wchrmacht and built the finally used, there will be none I Westwall and Siegfried line, of the loopholes of Anglo-Saxon I Speer used slave labor, forced Justice through which the Nazis i to work under armed guards might escape. The recent Petain 1 "nd therefore shared with Sauc case was typical of that Euro- j ke the responsibility for the in pean procedure with the court human treatment and exterminn clearly convinced of the aged tion of millions of workers of all marshal's guilt when the trial ' nationalities. Nazis Had Secret Weapons Capable Of Great Range Chicago lU.PJ In examining German secret weapons, Army Ordnance experts have discover ed a new type of ammunition designed for ranges of 94 miles, according to Col. John Slezak, chief of the Chicago Ordnance District. Investigators have uncovered a German-developed gun about 32 inches in diameter and cap able of firing a five-ton shell. Ordnance officers, conducting their investigations at Hillersle ben and Bad Blenkenburg, large German research centers, have also found a projectile which, though fired from gun, be comes rocket-propelled after leaving the gun barrel. Soiled window shades need not be thrown away. Just turn them upside down, stitch a new hem. ond tack the old hem to the roller. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Paul Manna Washington, Aug. 31 The accounts say that when we land ed the Japanese met us with an Invitation to a cup of tea. The surrender has thus become known as "the teacup surren der." Not with swords ex changed, this time. Not with an Initial lay ing down of arms. But with two weeks of delay after terms were drawn, and a proffer of tea. This will make the end of the Pacific war unique for ever in history. The tea, in cidentally, was rejected. There has been some talk here, but no alarm, about the 14 days' grace Gen. MacArthur granted. The word was passed around through Washington that he thought they probably really needed that much time to adjust their people from the war propaganda lino which had con cealed from them even the news of the atomic bomb. Unless they had been granted time to change their home front to the facts of the situation. Mac Arthur thought there might be trouble in the occupation. His word has been accepted even in the quarters of congress .vherc you might expect suspicion. , suspect the Japs enough. What ; has proved true of Japan In the i past has always been beyond our worst suspicion (witness the I Pearl Harbor reports). Yet it is plain there should be no early cause for alarm. We I went in with enough power to j handle any traps. And Japan. now. nas suddenly become a small nation, a very small na tion. The single point in the surrender terms which limited Japan to her homeland was the greatest guarantee of peace in the impending future. She was never powerful at home, where she is short in raw materials and could not possibly build power. It was her east Asiatic expansion program which gave her the resources with which to make war against us. TPHE delay, nevertheless, gave the Jnp officials time to whip up more than a cup of tea in their own interests. Thev could destroy every record in the na tion of interest to foreigners. They could organize their under ground for what the emperor told all Asiatics was a "tempor ary condition" of defeat. They could plan their whole Inner campaign for the occupation. Perhaps I am overly suspicious in believing this was their pri mary objective, but I do believe it. My defense is that my fault, and the fault of this nation up to now, has been that we did not AS far as I can learn she has no uranium and no atomic bomb formula. If she developed these things she could cause trouble and no doubt she will cause as much trouble as her limited perimeter permits. This thought may well have lain un spoken in President Truman's mind when he excused his .pro posed 1B-25 draft with the sug gestion that, of course, we might have trouble In the Pacific. Now Japan hns become our responsibility. China and Rus sia have settled their Asiatic mainland differences, at least to the extent of a presently peace able working agreement. The Pacific peace is, therefore, on an entirely different plane than the settlement in Europe. We have nothing on the Asiatic continent, but have taken the Islands of the Pacific and the Japanese home land, presumably intending to withdraw eventually when peace is restored, but keeping island bases we consider essential to our military safety, either under the trusteeship system through the I'nited Nations, or by actual direct control as recently recom mended by a house committee.- Cpl. Harris Janes Cpl. Harris B. Janes, son of Mrs. H. B. Janes, 1827 Capital avenue, Medford, is now at the LcHavre port of embarkation staging area in France, awaiting shipment to the United States under the army redeployment program. Cpl. Janes participat ed in the central Germany cam paign and served overseas six months. Pvt. Robert Campbell Pvt. Robert G. Campbell is now at the LeHavre port of em barkation staging area in France, awaiting shipment to the United States under the army redeployment program. He served overseas six months and took part in the central Ger many campaign. Pvt. Camp bell, whose home Is in Medford, is the - husband of Mrs. R. G. Campbell, route 1, box 132, Carlsbad, Calif. Cpl.'willir.m Klme Santa Barba.a, Calif., Aug. 9 Cpl. Willlan N. Kime, 26; son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Kime of Hertford, Oregon, RFD No. 1, has reported to the Army Ground and Service Forces Re distribution Station here for as signment to new duties based on skills and experience gained during eight months' duty in a tank destroyer unit in Germany. Capt. Dean Ford Lt. Cecil Reich Air Transport Command Base, India 2nd Lt. Cecil F. Reich, pilot, of Route No. 1, Box 278, Medford, Oregon; and Capt. Dean W. Ford, pilot, of Box 120, J. Star Route, Medford, Oregon,! have both been awarded the Air Medal for 250 hours and 150 hours, respectively, of operation al flight in transport aircraft over the dangerous and difficult India China air routes, where enemy interception and attack was probable and expected. i The citations accompanying the awards add: "Flying at night as well as by day, at high altitudes over im passable, mountainous terrain through areas characterized by extremely treacherous weather, conditions necessitating long periods of operation on instru ments . . . requiring courage ous and superior performance of his duties to overcome, he ac complished his mission with dis-' tinction . . ." I Washington, Aug. 31 (U.PJ The War Labor Board today or dered the basic monthly wage of tha nation's 100,000 able-bodied seamen increased from 5100 to $143. The wage increase, which has already been approved by Stabil ization Director William H. Davis, goes into effect Oct. 1 when present war-risk voyage bonuses will be eliminated by order of the maritime war emergency board. Hospital, Battle Creek, Mich. The tools were donated by the Automotive Tool and Die Manu factures Assn. of Detroit. The products made by the wounded and handicapped veterans are used by other patients or by the hospital staff in their rehabilita tion programs. Instruction Is given !n 1hm shop in the morning and after noon during which specific pro jects are worked out by t!N!s patients. There are now only 376,000. 000 acres of land in federal own ership as compared to 650,000, 000 in 1940. Automotive Shop Help to Wounded Detroit (U.R) An exact copy : of an automombile tool shop complete with thousands of dol lars worth of precision equip-: ment is now in use by wounded ' veterans at Percy Jones General DO YOU WANT A PERMANENT JOB? If So See Chas. S. Adair At the M. M. Dept. Store POSITIONS NOW OPEN in the , READY TO WEAR DEPT. MEN'S DEFT. DRY GOODS DEPT. O SHOE DEPT. MM DEPT. STORE F. C. Clark F. C. Clark, Electrician's Mate, third class, USNR, of 1017 West 10th Stret, Medford, was one of a group of officers and enlisted men commended for outstanding action aboard the USS California when she was hit by a Jap suicide plane on January 9 during pre-invasion bombardment of shore installa tions in Lingayen Gulf. Cpl. William LaComb With the Fifth Army, Italy Cpl. William J. LaComb, Mod ford, Oregon, recently was awarded the first Oak Leaf Clus ter to the Bronze Star mpdal for heroic achievement in action in Italy. Ho served on the Fifth Army front in the 316th Combat En gineers of the 91st "Powder River" Division. His mother, Mrs Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years aqo. TEN YEARS AGO August 30, 1935 (It was Friday) Federal aid cut in 31 states to end relief doles. LaBrune. lives at 1 street, Medford. France ponders actions to lliwnrt Hfnccnlinl'. fittar-lr rn ,i0S.PM? Ethiopia. 15 West 13th Fair, but cloudy at times. Pfc. Herbert Keaton 1 Santa Barbara. Calif., August Fifty-eight cars of pears 9 Pfc. Herbert Keaton. 30, of shipped from valley yesterday. 1112 Mantle fatreet, ftledlord Oregon, has reported to the Army Ground and Service Forc es Redistribution Station here for assignment to new duties based on skills' and experience gained during seven months' duty in an infantry unit in the Philippine Islands. Medford armory improvement authorized. Hands off policy by America in Europe urged. S Sgt. Kenneth Williams P r e s q u e Isle. Me. S Sgt. Kenneth R. Williams, 23. veter an of 30 months service as a Radio Operator in the European; manager Theatre of Operations, has arriv ed at the Presque Isle Army Air Field aboard an Air Transport Command plane of the North Atlantic Division's SNOWBALL fleet. He has been awarded the Soldiers Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon, Pre-Pcarl .Harbor Rib bon and Good Conduct Medal. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Williams, Box 171, Central Point, Oregon. TWENTY YEARS AGO August 30, 1925 (It was Sunday) Coal miners scheduled start strike tomorrow. to Babe Ruth, "home run king," fined and sent home by Yankee Portland golfers defeat local players in meet. Medford defeats Eagle Point 11 to 4. Bids for Ashland normal school to be opened soon. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO August 30, 1911 (It was Wednesday) First cars of Bartletts selling in New York at $1.50 per box. Central Point to pave streets at once. Cpl. Jack Blckler With the 30th Infantry Divis ion in Assembly Area Command. Francc Cpl. Jack Bicklcr of 12 Ashland Ave., Medford. Ore-; Wolves kill many cattle In gon, en route home from Ei.rope Crater Lake forest and special with the "Old Hickory" Divis- hunter is sent into the field. Ion, which broke up Germany's! . supreme counter-offensive in lclr Burscll of Hanley Normandv, is now being proces- aMC' harvests record' crop of sed at Camp Oklahoma Citv. an na-v and Srai" 'rem small tract. infantry redeployment center! operated by the Assembly Area Command. I the mainland are only Russia and China, as major Influences there on the ground. Through Singapore, India and IndoChina, the absentee British and French are present to a les ser extent. Thus the problems of Europe here take a different form. Russia Is rising in Asia as a major power, as in Europe. but C hina will be a more formid- j build herself into able offset to her than any local j ocratlc influence. DRAWS THE LINE Detroit (URiThe wife didn't mind ti-it mnV n.1..- i. l. Cpl. Bick er is the husband of band brought his cronies home ? ,f ?'C 12 Ash'amlAVe-in the middl 'he night, but Medford. He wears the bronze wnen lcy went ,Q bedKc; I clean sheets with their shoes on. power In Europe if China can that was too much. So testify, piece her broken country to- j ing in court the woman wis gether and become a strong ; granted a divorce. ' nation. For the present there is great er stability in a way in Asia than in Europe because of China's position In victory, her area and her raw materials now restored to her in V-MAIL ROMANCE East New Portland, Mo. U.f When Miss Shirley Howes of this town and Edward l4e Grande of Worcester, Mas. Manchuria ! w'ere married recently, it -li- Hcr opportunities ahead are '""xed a two-year engagement greater than the Ftirotwan n.i-!whlcn wa aranged by Vmai! tions. Wisely led. she can really niajur dem-1 n,ct- ' when the principals had never Since MOUSY doesKl: qrow on. 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