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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
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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
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