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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, Sept. 7. 1943 MEDFORD. UNE "Ivaryona In Btinthern orefoa Readi tha MU Trlbuna" Dallr Bxctpl Imtnrdmy Puhllahed by MEDFORD PRINTING J7-J9 North Fir St. CO. Phon SMI. ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor. ERNEST 1 KERB GREY, Advertlfini Mgr. E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Editor MRS OLIVE STARCHER, Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An independent Newapapar. Kntered as aecond alaii matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1878. SUBSCRIPTION RATES T Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday one year ..T SO Dally and Sunday elx montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moa. 10 Daily and Sunday one month.. 73 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Aahland. Central Point, Jackaon vi lo. Cold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routea: Dally and Sunday one year....l 00 Dally and Sunday one month 7 All terma caati In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackion County United Preii Full Leaaed Wlra MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advarttilnff Repreaeptatlve WEST-HOLLIDAY company, inc. Officea In New York Chicago, De. trolt, San Franclaco. Loa Angelea. Se attle. Portland. St. Loula, Atlanta. Vancouver, B. C, 0tcoHtis(pipf P u 1 1 1 $ h c ri 'h-sTc)i atiii Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry Congressmen are warning the nation "not to put all Its eggs In one basket." After more than 12 years of putting nil the nuts under the tree, this makes sense. Citizens have started talking about cutting down shade trees In their front yards. The trees are killing the grass, their wives have such a time persuad ing them they should run a lawnmower over It. Have To Wait For Sugar American housewives might just as well face the facts. America's sugar barrel is pretty empty right now and there is little prospect of relief for a long time to come. It will probably be 1947 before the family sugar bowl is heaping once more and un limited supplies will be available for home canning. The reasons are many. The government mis handled" the domestic sugar beet industry, which, added to labor shortages and other factors, resulted in production during 1944 of 40 per cent under nor mal. This year's production will be only 20 per cent over 1944. pLINTON ANDERSON'S forthright approach of the problem as secretary of agriculture has slashed bureaucratic red tape which has slowed the procure ment, allocation and distribution of all foods. In ad dition to OPA many agencies have been involved in the handling of sugar including the WPB, ODT, WSA, FEA, WMC, WLB, the Office of War Mobiliza tion and Reconversion, the Office of Economic Stabi lization, the Army and the Navy, the Bureau of the Budget, and the Departments of Agriculture, State and Treasury. Mishandling was the natural result. a e e e VUI UCH as we may resent the allocation of 60,000 tons to Franco's Spain, it is only fair to point out that this supply of precious sugar was used to help pay for quantities of tungsten ore purchased from the Spaniards so that the Nazis would not get it. It was a wartime commitment which was un doubtedly justified in the emergency. There's noth ing that the Department of Agriculture can do about it now. PHILIPPINE cane sugar supply, comprising 15 per cent of America's pre-war consumption, will not be back until 1947 when cane fields are reclaimed, factories and railroads rebuilt and water buffalo, the principal work animal, replenished. Cuba's dry spell this year will reduce the normal supply from that country: Hawaiian and Puerto Rico's crops are about normal but insufficient to solve the immediate problem. he believed he could place the. fleet in certain positions around the world and win the European j war. He got big appropriations ! for his pet department and is ' supposed to have been the god father of the fleet. It can now be related a large part of the navy did not like this. He ran things too much his own way, which was not the way of those admirals who retained inde denpent minds. ( He gave away destroyers to Britain, moved half the fleet into the Atlantic and left only half of it to face Jepan, thereby opening the opportunity for the Jap attack, e 'THESE criticisms have long been murmured off-stage In congress. Lately there has been another unconfirmed story in circulation that Mr. Roosevelt required the half fleet in the Pacific to remain largely bottled up in Pearl Harbor for fear of giving Japan an opportunity to start shooting. Adm. Richard son is said to have been relieved of Pearl Harbor command be cause he refused to set the ships up at anchor In that small space, without maneuverability, like ducks in a pond. e e A POWERFUL segment within a-l. Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson Co His tory from the filet of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO September 7, 1935 (It Was Saturday) Henry Ford, auto king, men tioned as opponent of Roosevelt for president next year. Fair and cooler. High 91, low 83 degrees. Pope sees peace prospect In Ethiopian fuss. Bill Bowerman takes over as high school coach, and lacks foot ball veterans. Coquille takes firm action to halt strike disturbances. The end of ga .i , ' THE needs of the military and naval forces will still sollne rationing I , , , , ,, i v ., l-i n Divnhln n f linnirn i-nf luirinTifl lin I no mqr a novo be sizable although reductions will be made here, It is interesting to note that per capita consumption of sugar in the Armed Forces is double the pre-war U. S. consumption. Here on the Pacific Coast, where normal supplies of raw cane sugar have been received from Hawaii, the sugar situation is better than in the East. Early this year many grocers on the Atlantic seaboard were completely out of sugar. CO, if the OPA seems a bit tough in dispensing sugar the real facts should be considered. The situation is about as bad as it can be now and can hardly do otherwise than improve. When it does, the housewife has been promised number one priority. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson under- has caused some congestion of auto traffic at railroad crossings. Vociferous horn-tooting as ypt has failed to uncouple a single freight train. e a JOYS OF JOURNALISM (Exchange) 'The Rs In our linotype have not been dropping too well. Just why, we haven't been able to figure it out. In rereading some of the society items In this newspaper, we were rather appalled that a great many hostesses have been entertaining groups of 'fiends.' " A dawn-to-dusk curfew has Deen imposed Dy we conquering , , ,, ' , . " , , . i ft army upon the residents of stands the problem, seems to know the remedy, it . , . , ... ,i i -ill , i i .1- l if ii i nwn ran nrtttnr Di'nr.i raiion, ' .ivnju. .u uwuuh juvenile violator will be from Yokohama, like all local kids are from Phoenix, under similar cir cumstances. a Fall hats for the women folks have appeared, causing the usual catty comment by male critics. An autolst "ticked" a boy on bicycle late yes. Everybody had a good scare, and the boy Is still ticking. Hunters are reported roaming the hills, armed with rifles, but not hunting. Of course, If a deer sneaks up, grabs the gun, and commits suicide, It wouldn't be right to let the meat spoil. A military expert predicts American troops will have to occupy Japan for 20 years. He has nothing to do with that other expert, who a few months aim predicted It would tnke until the lute full of 19(10 to bent the Mikado's forces Into submission. A COURAGEOUS CRAWL (Brandt (111.) News) "At a board of supervisors' meeting a member engaged In debute, declaring: 'This is what I think about it and I don't care who knows it!' But, In the same breath, he admon ished: 'Mr. Newspaper Report er, would you please put down your notebook while 1 talk.' " The first poem on autumn leaves has appeared In the Coat press, and more of them ran be expected, ere the last one falls, than autumn leaves. other bureaus will keep their hands out of the nation's sugar bowl this problem will be solved but not soon. It takes a long time to grow sugar beets and re-establish pre-war cane production. H.G. The Buckeroos Are Back Bronco-busters and bulkloggers will hold the spot light this week-end when the Jackson County Sheriff's Posse holds its annual rodeo at the Fairgrounds Satur day night and Sunday afternoon. Those who enjoy the ancient and honorable western sport of the old corral, with all the thrills of steer-roping and bull riding, will not miss this show. THE Sheriff Posse rodeo is fast becoming an insti- tution, here in the Rogue River Valley, and it is quite conceivable that Medford's yearly affair will some day reach the proportions of the Salinas and Pendleton roundups. THIS year, as an added attraction, the stars of "Can yon Passage," now in production at Diamond Lake, will be on hand to witness and participate in the Fairgrounds rodeo. The author of "Canyon Pass age," Ernest Haycox who holds a membership in the local Sheriff's Posse will also be present. With buckeroos and Hollywood stars teaming up, this rodeo should be the best yet. H.G. the navy would like to have these matters publicly explored to clear its name, and is quietly pushing the investigation idea along. In the face of this phalanx, the administration seems coming around to the view that there must be an investigation, and in tends to do the next best thing about it run it themselves. Signs are visible that they in tend to take the issue out of the hands of the republicans and carefully choose the investigat ing committee, not only to pro tect the fair name of Mr. Roose velt, but themselves politically. Such is the probable culmina tion of the current controversy, but in my personal opinion, the administration is making a mistake. e a THE Truman government Is now in no discernible politi cal danger. The fair name of Mr. Rosevelt in history will be what ever it will be, whether the Pearl Harbor facts reach full daylight or not. His name is in no danger I can see. But the morale of the navy and the army is In danger from this sit uation. A sickening condition has been caused in the services by the manner in which the whole Pearl Harbor blunder was covered all these years, and those deemed responsible were allowed to occupy the most prominent war jobs, or get re tirement pay and otherwise were protected. I understand, for Instance, that the two lieutenant colonels at Pearl Harbor, shown in the army board report to have been alert to the danger and wanting to do something about it, have never been promoted through out this war. A condition has resulted, harmful to initiative, alertness and efficiency. An in vestigation could act like a democratic purge to cleanse this condition, and establish a sound er navy and army morale. I think the Truman adminis tration is running a great poli tical risk in trying to sit on the lid of this internal deterioration, but might gain great prestige by lotting the facts fall where they should in a fully free, nonpoliti cal inquiry. Packing plants of city swamp ed by crop to work tomorrow. TWENTY YEARS AGO September 7. 1925 (It Was Monday) William Green assails Com munism and "Big Business" in Labor Day speech. Col William Mitchell wants court martial for criticism of army and navy air policy. Rene Viviani former premier, and g'eatest French orator of a generation, dies in Paris. Stores of city closed for Labor Day. THIKTY-FOUR YEARS AGO September 7, 1911 (It Was Thursday) "Alfred E", famous southern Oregon racer, sprains ankle, and racing days are over. but Rain falls over valley, more is needed. War panic hits Germany over Morocco with France. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Among the Nazi supermen, In ' Washington, Sept. 7 The the lower brackets, scheduled to ! Poarl Harbor matter has devolv- be tried for war crimes Is Ar- ed into a semi-subtle political maneuver o f the new deal ers to prevent ex p o s u r e of Mr. R o o s e velt's responsi bility. T heir commentHto r s and congress thur Seyss-Inquart, former gau lelter of Holland. A Paris dis patch states he has "a bubbling personality,' as his name suggests. Inventions and scientific dis coveries have caused the world, as a result f the war to shrink, It is claimed. It was not gener ally suspected a laundry bornb had been produced to keep the atomic bomb company, a "To the suddenly reformed clerk, falling all over himself to be agreeable, a customer crack ed this morning, "Little man, I didn't know you cared." (Sen. Soapcr In Oregonlan) The war Is over, and the customer is right again. CJoalm time foi Claaalfled Adi ( SO ft. m. Too Late to Claaalfy 11:16 p. ra. 1MB men. since the reports, have dead) as If the worst of all blows to American arms was now a matter of etiquette. Hence also, Mr. Truman did what he could for his old chief by blaming the public and con gress for the disaster, as the whole departmental administra tion below Mr. Truman had blamed one another. This drew the blnme over everyone In the country except Mr. Roosevelt (as Mr. T. was then serving in congress.) eaui ataiu.o it would bo useless to rake those cooled coals further and sully proud, official names (rarely mentioning Mr. Roose velt's.) Why not let bygones be bygones and get on with recon version or whatever it is we are doing? Among themselves, they say: "De mortuls nil nisi bonom" (say nothing but good of the A LL this, of course, repre '"sented genuine inner fear of what a full inquiry might do not only to the president, but politi cally to the party. Seeing this, the republicans started champ ioning in congress the cause of ii n Investigation. They have suf ficient strength alone to force dally raised lone, but they are getting quiet the theme that ; helping hands from some min now-dealing democrats who want Justice done. Deeper in side, an invisible Impetus for ex posure is coming from o f all places the navy department and to a lesser extent the army. KltR. ROOSEVELT, you will re- call, recognized his talent for naval strategy. He once told a friend of mine, before our war, Naval Academy Is California's Hope Washington. Sept. 7 (U.R) Sen. Sheridan Downey, D., Cal., said today ho was "very hope ful" that the Navy department Minnesota farmers Irked by President Taft's stand on tariff. Navy Drops Plan Monterey Hospital San Francisco Sept. 7 (U.R) The navy announced today It has abandoned plans to buy Ho tel Del Monte near Monterey and convert It into a hospital. The announcement was made by Vice Adm Ross T. Mclntire, medical corps USN, chief of the bureau of meAicine and surgery. Preliminary negotiations already had begun when the navy de cided against purchase. CONVICTS RETURN Canon City Colo., Sept. 7 (U.R) Three long term convicts were in solitary confinement to day after shooting their way to freedom with tear gas only to sneak back lo their cells a few hours before roll call. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, E. L. Peterson, Di rector of agriculture of the State of Oregon, will conduct a public hearing at the Chamber of Com merce, Medford. Oregon, on Sep tember 13, 1945, at 1:30 p. m. to receive evidence and testi mony pertaining to the minimum Drices paid by distributors and consumers for fluid milk in the Jackson Countv Marketing Arera No. 2 and No. 3 and Canro White Marketing Area: to nooling reg ulations regulating the purchase of milk from producers: to reg ulations riertaining to fair trade Dractices relating to the distri-1 bution and sale of fluid milk: and all other -matters pertaining to the nroduction and distribution of fluid milk in the Jackson County Marketing Areas No. 2 and No. 3 and Camp White Mar keting Area, and to repeal all orders now in effect in said mar keting areas. E. L. PETERSON would formulate a training Director State Department of policy providing for the estab lishment of a naval academy on the west coast. His senate committee to In vestigate the proposal still is at work, he said. Hero Wainwright To Lead Parade San Francisco, Sept. 7 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Corregidor, will lead a Victory parade here Sunday, army officials Informed Mayor Roger Lapham today. Wainwright will ride at the head of a parade of 20,000 serv ice men and war workers, MaJ. W. C. Powers, army liaison of ficer said. Agriculture. INVESTORS MUTUAL, INC. INVESTORS SELECTIVE FUND, INC. INVESTORS STOCK FUND, INC. INVESTORS SYNDICATE HINatATOLIS. MINNESOTA Frederick W. Snook 1104 Queen Anna Tel. 2S12. Madford. Ora. From where I sit ... 6y Joe Marsh, Jeb Wilkins loses the wanderlust Jeb Wilkins was always a great one for traveling. Two weeks a year he used to cover more ground than a Pullman conductor. I'sed to come back from vacations tuckered out Hut the war has rhangrd all that. t;;i-olinp (.nonages and raving spare on trains for serv ice men-has got Jrb spending his vacations horn . . . anj lik ing It! "Never knew staying homa could be such fun," says Jeb. "Outdoor barbecues . . . silting around and chatting with tha kids and family . . . basking in the sunshine with a glass of cold beer . . . that's living," Jeb says. From where I sit, Jeb's dis covered what millions of other Americans have learnrd through the war. Whether jronr choice is berr or buttermilk . . . horse shoes or checkers... a quiet book or a bit of friendly conversation . . . there's no place like home . . . where we grumble the most and get treated the brstt Oct QlLut TOURIST TRAVEL DISCUSSED HERE Executives of the Grants Pass and Josephine County, Ashland and Jackson County chambers of commerce met here Thursday night to discuss tourist travel promotion and matters of mutual interest to the southwestern Oregon area. The meeting was held at the Jackson County chamber of commerce building, the business session following a social hour and dinner. In attendance at the inter-city meeting were Senator and Mrs. Earl T. Newbry of Ashland, Don McGregor, president of the Jose phine County chamber and Mrs. McGregor, Warren Whitlock, manager of the Grants Pass or ganization and Mrs. Whitlock, Mr. and Mrs. Herb Grey and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hull, represent ing the Jackson County chamber of commerce. Senator Newbry Is president of the Ashland chamber of commerce. tobacconist Joseph Stephen Crane, was expected today to marry Turkish Actor Turhan Bey before the end of the month. The curvaceous actress received her final decree yesterday. She charged cruelty. Closing time tor Sunday Too Late to Classify 4:00 Saturday afternoon SOCIALITES PART Reno, Nev Sept. 7 (U.R) Mrs. Margaret Mason Colt was divorced yesterday from Samuel Sloan Colt, New York banker, on grounds of cruelty. Both social rcgisterites, they were married in 1918 and have sev eral children. 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