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Some of the editorial alibis In
defense of the official bungling
at Pearl Harbor, are the poorest
Job! of whitewashing fence,
hen-house, or politician ever
perprctrated, a casual review of
the Oregon press reveals,
a
A returned Gl from the Paci
fic theater, steadfastly balked at
going fishing In the classic
Itogue, his favorite , pastime In
pre-war days. The veteran ex
plained after 18 months of bat
tling In Jungle swamps, and
overflow rice fields, he had been
Mp-deep In mud and water, more
than his share.
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The Army will rule Japan
with 'gloved hand'. Gen. Mac
Arthur announces. However, a
copper-toed boot will be handy
lor use, if needed.
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Geese have started heading
south If the hind tlrea hold out.
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Ths Older Girls are In the
midst of canning peaches, a task
they tackle with as much gusto
us spring housccloanlng. They
nre assisted in many Instances
by the bread winner, who will
pat most of them next winter.
Jit peels the poaches In the kit
chen sink, in which he is not
Mowed to clean what he kills
lind catches In field or stream.
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LIVE 8t LEARN ITEM
(Salem Statesman)
"The council also has the
answer bs to who is the safest
person In the United States
she Is girl between 8 and 14
she lives In Wisconsin. The
survey shows that Wisconsin
has the lowest accident rale of
any state, and that the age
(roup of girls from 5 to 14
hat the lowest accident rate
on record."
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The nation will return to
Iionest time by October 1, and
the chances are good the people
will have no surplus Thanksgiv
ing Day.
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The 'oi'f brand' whiskey ped
rlled the public, is cluily causing
more cussing than the late Axis
nations. Some of It is so terrlble
Jt almost requires a snake bite,
si a remedy for a drink of It.
a
B. Oit, the furniture man, has
Iiealers on display In his win
dows. They are quite appealing
In the brisk and nippy mornings,
but about 3 p.m. each day. an
Jre cream frccicr would be Just
ss much so.
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STATE OF THE UNION
(Roseburg News Review)
"After looking around Rose
burg and observing the gro
cery stores, restaurants and
meat markets that have been
closed since the war, and talk
ing to friends who have cither
quit business, or are on the
verge of doing so, to escape
becoming candidates for the
booby hutch, we can commend
the lady on the price panel
who has a spark of human
sympathy for those in
trouble."
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The meat situation has lm-
nrnvarl locally. Family dogs are
once more digging fox holes for
surplus of bones, upon which
the diner left a goodly portion of
meat.
Lt. Col. II. Klcwher, the late
demon bBker, recently of Naples.
It , is now In Vienna, until snow
flies. Vienna is the home of the
Vienna roll, the Vienna waltz,
and many famous fiddlers.
A commentator declares the
republican party is 'self-defeating'.
It gave itself almost as bad
a walloping as the financial lick
ing America gave itself, in the
recent war.
CloHnit time tot Clanttled Ada 8 .10
a. nlvu Let U Uil 12.1 p. 01.
Editorial Correspondence
En route "City of San Francisco" to Chicago, Sept. 9:
The last time we rode this train was with "General" Jack
son when we went to Washington to get, if possible, an army camp
for Medford. The day, three weeks later, when we returned to Port
land without the camp at least no official confirmation, the
Japs bombed Pearl Harbor! That did what we were unable to
do. though perhaps what we did, did no harm.
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In sharp contrast with the S. P. train we caught at Dunsmulr
last night known as No. 19, this train is one of the finest and
fastest west of Chicago. It shows what the S". P. CAN do when
it really WANTS to, Just as No. 19 shows what lt can do, when
lt DOESN'T. ... a a
Then No. 19 was unlucky on Friday the 8th. a date unlucky
for travelers according to certain superstitious folk, anyway.
It ran into a bulldozer up near the Indian school north of
Salem, killed no one but scared the B. D. driver so he Jumped off,
turned a somersault, arose and was last seen beating it over the
hill In the direction of Silverton at a mile a minute. A few hours
later south of Klamath the example of that train en route to
Mexico City last April was followed. No. 19 was too heavy to
make the grade so the train was split into two parts, like the
lowly worm, and the hill negotiated in two operations. Such
maneuvers take time. The "Klamath" was due to reach Duns
muir at 11:30 last night. It finally reached there at 2 a. m. this
(Saturday) morning!
Which la one reason why y editor hopes to get to bed early
tonight!
We don't need as much sleep aa we used to, but we do need
SOME.
Last night the S. P., like Macbeth did murder sleep.
In fact if there is ever a national contest for the worst train
in America we would like to enter the S. P. No. 19, running from
Portland to San Francisco over the Natron cut-off. If last night's
engineer could be provided the victory would be pretty certain
and we wouldn't exclude the Kenosha division of the C. N. & W.
in the competition either!
The engineer, no doubt, was a bull-dogger In his youth. That
is why he ran into that bull-dozer, the inevitable hatred of the
cowboy for purely mechanical transportation. Also such a back
ground might explain why aforesaid engineer could not resist
roping the Pullman car in which we had a lower, and throwing
It, In a cloud of cinders, tieing its feet In a half-hitch, then jump
ing off and going to the next Pullman, in six seconds flat! (A
new record for W. L.'s rodeo).
If the engineer of No. 19 lives long enough to have television
in his cab he's going to have even a better time.
Imagine what a kick he will get out of the breakfast tableaux
In the diner next morning around Davis, when, wilh hit eye on
the screen, he will see the cup of coffee roll off into "the old
dame's ample Ibp" and the hot cakes and syrup lubricate "Mr.
Gotrock's" checkered vest, while Baby Snooks In "Mumu's" arms,
bumps her head on the water bottle and suffers a two-inch gash!
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What a circus!
We can hear him as he leans over toward the fireman and
shouts, "Hey Pete, look at this look what THAT Jolt did to the
poor saps back there In No. 2 diner practically a "strike" if the
"con" hadn't been set fer it! "Brush up your screen, Pete, and
have a look at the next one it oughter ba a riot!"
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But this train la different, perhaps ona reason being It takes
an extra fare from the passenger, and believe you me, brother,
after last night's experience it is worth It'
This Is being .written as we are approaching Reno, Nov..
where the Ft. Lewis soldier we picked up at Ashland Inst night
was going. He was a fresh guy and breezily maintained that Reno
waa ona of the few "hot-spots" on the globe he had never visited
but waa aoon to have that pleasure with a 30-day leave and trans
portation via the hitch-hiking and free gratis route! We dropped
him and his navy buddy at Dunsmuir and he said "thanks."
R.W.R.
Westbrook Pegler
Copyright, 1945, by King Features Syndicate
New York, Sept. 11 When
President Truman broadly In
dicted the American people In
the Pearl Harbor disaster he
merely fortified the Indictment
against the Roosevelt govern
ment, Mr. Truman la a true be
liever In democracy which means
majority rule. Mr. Roosevelt
gloried In his mandate from
his majority and no other gov
ernment In our recent history
showed such exclusive Interest
In Its own following or such
sneering Indifference to the peti
tions and criticisms of the min
ority.
Having no authority, this min
ority of the American people
could have had no responsibility
so, as to them the indictment
must fail.
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NOW IT IS TRUE that there
were Republicans in America
first and some Republicans did
call Mr. Roosevelt a warmonger.
But Senator Burt Wheeler, of
Montana, a Democrat, also was
an mgrv isolationist and con
gressman Hatton Summers, of
Dall.is. a Democrat, remarked
concerning the Roosevelt policies
In the late pre-war days that a
mBn v.'ho tickles the heels of a
mule and Is kicked Into the mid
dle of next week shouldn't blame
the tiitile.
But the most effective oppon
ents of preparation for war were
not mere publicists and opera
tors nut Communists In the
Roosevelt political party who
controlled certain unions of his
prob ge. the CIO.
Among them Is the American
Newspaper Guild.
In (he summer of 1940, the
national convention of the
Guild killed a resolution which
would have bracketed Commun
ism with Nazism and Fascism.
Stalin and Mussolini were war
partners at the time and the
American Communists. who
domiruted the Guild, were damn
ing th- war as a war of conquest
by imperialist Britain and
France. The Americans in the
Guild were no match for the
Communists of New York and
California. Many ostensible
Americans were undercover
Communists who pretended to be
"Liberals" and condemned as
"lied baiting" and "Fascist reac
tion" any opiiosition to the Com
munist treachery.
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IN THE FALL OF 1940. the
New York Local Organization of
the Guild, always a favored sub
division of the new deal, parsed
a resolution condemning con
scription. Had this attitude pre
vailed tluoughuut the' nation, the
United Stales would have been
helpless after Pearl Harbor.
However, Stalin was then col
laborating with Hitler and Guild
Communists wanted this country
to remain helpless so that vic
torious Russia and Germany
could, partition the United States
8A they had Poland.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has
been member of the Guild
since Its beginning, although she
never has been eligible. She, too,
recently blamed "the people"
and the Isolationists for Pearl
Harbor.
On another occasion. In New
York, a general membership
meeting of the Guild adopted a
resolution In favor of the notor
ious strike of the United Auto
Workers of the CIO at the North
American Aviation plant in In
glewood. Calif., which Mr.
Roosevelt put riewn by arms, em
ploying a regiment of the regular
armv to dispel rioters.
This strike was sabotage to
prevent the manufacture of
planes for Britain and Fiance
end the development of airplane
production for our own ideas.
Mr. Roosevelt called it an insur
rection and pointedly identified
its Communist inspiration.
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THE UNITED AUTO WORK
ERS, the National Maritime Un
ion and the Guild were conspicu
ous among the unions dominated
by Communists which, in those
days, wore "unaware" of and
"apathetic'- toward the peril
from Japan and the coming
necessity to supply the American
mar:': of tools and fighting
powei which Inter saved Russia
from Hitler.
At I he Guild meeting, which
protested against the army's sup
pression of the Inglewood ' in
surrection." a resolution con
demning "Communist and Nail"
maneuvering in the American
Union Movement was voted
down overwhelmingly.
IN JULY. 1!40. William L.
Laurence, of the New York
Times, recently hailed as one of
the greatest American journal
sts in recognition of his scien
tific knowledge of the atomic
nomb, resigned from the Guild
He riatd it had been kidnapped
by Communists and that its lend
ers were "enemies of those very
things that are to me the mo.-t
precious of mankind."
The Guild said he could not
resign, warning him that he was
exposing himself to sevt re dis
cipline The inexperienced
AincMCan ra:ik and file had en
tered a man-trap union like the
Comnmniit paitv, itself, livm
which there was no resignation'
but only explusion, with penal
ties. e e
ALL THESE ara Mr. Tru
man's own people by political in
heritance and the United Auto
Workers bring to his adherence
the worst record of strikes and
subtle sabotage in the entire dis
graceful story of political union
ism I'.i the war.
Nevertheless, Roosevelt, Henry
Wallace, Harold Ickcs, Mrs.
Roosevelt and others have hon
ored and patronized them, indi
cating beyond question that they
had no serious objections to their
guilt in the Pearl Harbor affair.
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Editor's Query Answered
To the editor. Probably you
don't often receive communica
tions from as far away as Miami,
Fla., but my daughter, now a
resident of Eagle Point, sent me
a clipping from the editorial
page of the Mail-Tribune of Aug.
26 last, covering the editorials
"The Meek Inherit the Earth"
and "Right Is Might;" and I am
moved to call your attention to
what I believe is a clear and
correct answer to your query.
"Why?" Why was the secret of
releasing atomic energy discov
ered by the United States and
not by Germany or Japan?
Can we suppose that avoid
ance of so immeasurable a dis
aster to mankind as prior pos
session of the atomic bomb by
Germany or Japan would have
been, turned upon mere chance?
Germany led the world in chemi
cal research. If it just happened
that we got ahead of Germany in
the race to get this bomb, then
that Is infinitely the most for
tunate happening that ever oc
curred In human history.
But can anyone who believes
in a supreme Being who rules
the universe, believe that chance
decided the matter? I think not.
There is a God in Heaven, the
true and rightful Sovereign of
this world, who If not always on
the side of the heavy battalions,
is always on the side of right.
At the height of Hitler's vic
torious march through Europe,
students of Bible prophecy did
not hesitate to predict that his
ambitious drenm of putting Ger
many on top of the world, would
never come to realization. They
knew that before this could be
done, a few words of inspired
prophecy would have to be
proved false. These words are,
"The kingdom shall be divided"
and "They shall not cleave one
to another," spoken by the pro
phet Daniel with reference to
the broken parts of the Roman
empire, as he stood before King
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to
interpret the monarch's dream
of the manlike image, described
in Daniel 2. In the days of the
Caesars the Roman empire
"filled the world," as Gibbon ob
serves; but by the year 476 A.
D. the empire had become
broken into 10 parts, seven of
which still remain In the nations
of modern Europe; and these
parts, the prophet declared,
would never be united again
under one government. Neither
force or arms or intermarriage
has been able to make these
separate political divisions
cleave together. Hitler didn't
know it, but he was fighting
against a decree of the Almighty
and his cause was hopeless from
the start.
What a pity that the Bible is
today the neglected volume. In
the prophetic Scriptures is to be
found the cause and significance
of the present world crisis, and
the knowledge of what Is to
follow.
Seldom Indeed does an editor
put before his readers more food
for thought than you gave them
in these two editorials. If you
could do that right along you
would be getting out the best
newspaper in the U. S.
LEON A. SMITH.
Hi: N. W. 32 Court,
Miami 35. Fla.
More than 700 farm and home
research projects to meet both
wartime and peacetime needs
are underway at Cornell Univer
sity experiment stations at Itha
ca and Geneva, N. Y.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Vashington, Sept. 11 Won
ders never cease , The left-leaning
new deal program for post
war, submitted
laJ!" b y President
Truman, h i t
the conserva
tives as just
about right.
The stock mar
ket went glee
fully up. In
deed, it went
up about as
much as left
wing prestige
here. The mil
lennium there
arrived for a
Paul Mailoo
fore definitely
day or two at least.
The phenomenon Is not diffi
cult to understand and explain,
if you study the program and
add it up.
Fundamentally the new pres
ident promised to provide all
those rights Mr. Roosevelt used
to talk about by encouraging
private business to provide full
employment at decent wages.
This is just what the country
wants, and he offered his prom
ise without a word of bitterness
against anyone, or bestirring a
single class hate.
But, conversely, he asked for
an Increased appropriation for
everything, except war more
free (without (axes) unemploy
ment compensation for civilians
and soldiers, more public works,
housing, farm-price stabilization,
research science, veterans,
health, social security, foreign
relief, FEPC, even more salaries
for congressmen. For 18,000
words he continued enumerating
necessities for increased govern
ment appropriations, but in 250
words he said there could be no
cessation of wartime tax rates
and that his spending budget for
this fiscal year Involving less
than two months of war activity
would run $66,000,000,000
which would continue about two
thirds of the war expenditures
rale until next July 1.
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A NYONE can see and under
stand these propositions, but
economists may have difficulty
reconciling them. If full em
ployment is to be furnished
through greatly expanded and
encouraged private production,
why does the government avoid
the point of greatest encourage
ment to private initiative (tax re
duction) and plan spending all
that money six times as much
as Mr. Roosevelt ever spent?
Where is the need for it in what
is officially proclaimed a tem
porary unemployment condition
in some industries.
The contradiction adoes not
stop there. Mr. Truman's own
director of economic stabiliza
tion, William Davis, announced,
just before the message, a great
prosperity is ahead for the next
fow years, whicla would lift liv
ing standards for the people 50
per cent without increasing
prices. He figured on doing it
apparently by increasing wages
only in places where these
would not force prjee increases.
which in my opinion, would be
a spectacular feat, if it could be
done. The low-wage industries
are those like canning and farm
help and If the minimum wage
can be jumped In those without
Increasing the price of food. I
would like to sec it done, before
believing.
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DUT Mr. Truman's treasury
" secretary, the new-dealing
Mr. Vinson, says that the perma
nent budget beginning next July
1 (Mr. Truman did not mention
this) would be at least $25,000,
000,000 a year or nearly three
times as much as Mr. Roosevelt
ever spent in peacetime.
Here again is vital contradic
tion. If we are entering a great
ly higher sphere of prosperity,
making all these autos. radios
and washing machines we need
(and the stock market confirms
Mr. Davisi, why have a perma
nent budget of $'.'5,000,000,000?
Why spend three times more
than Mr. Roosevelt in a coming
prosperous period? Would it not
be simple prudence to hold back
all these proposed government
expenditures until the pent-up
war demand wears off in a few
years and an economic justifica
tion for them exists? Docs not
government spending now com
pete with private enterprise and
add to inflation hs:ards. which
t lie government economists all
consider so dire?
Is there not a natural, funda
mental, unconceivable contra
diction in this program which
needs resolving?
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DUT contradictions do not end
LJ there, cither. Within details
of the program there are con
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flicts ef purpose. The major
man power reconversion task is
to induct the returning low-salaried
soldier and the high-salaried
war worker back Into their
old jobs. Neither wants very
much to go. The veteran has
discharge pay and allowances
enabling him to lay off for a rest,
at least, and then seek a better
Job or unemployment compensa
tion, while the war worker
naturally does not in full unan
imity want to do his old work on
the farm or in consumer services.
Will an increase in the govern
ment allowances aid this transi
tion or further accelerate natur
al individual inclinations? This
and continued high taxes on pri
vate initiative would seem to me
to work to discourage the basic
Tntman policy.
My point about the program,
therefore, is that the specific
recommendations go contrary to
the very popular and laudible
basic purpose. While the aim is
sound, the program Is no more
sound than when congress al
ways rejected it, as proposed by
Mr. Roosevelt and Indorsed by
C.I.O. Mr. Truman just makes
it sound nice.
Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson Co. His
tory from the (ilea of the Mail
Tribune 10. 20 and 34 yean
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO
Sept. 11. 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Britain gives Italy warning
she will back LofN to enforce
peace In world.
Herr Hitler ridicules Wood
row Wilson's 14 points in Ver
sailles treaty in speech, and de
clares "Nazis intend to live in
peace with neighbors."
Fair. High 90, low 52 de
grees. Pear shipments to date total
886 cars; attendance at schools
cut by many pupils working In
harvest.
Relief work for 47,384 per
sons in state sought.
Radio show opens In Sparta
building tonight.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Sept. 11, 1925
(It was Friday)
Missing navy seaplane and
crew rescued.
Syndicate of local business
men buy walls of fire gutted
Page theater for $25,000.
Cloudy. High 85, low 43 de
grees. Deer plentiful. Many bucks
killed by local hunters at open
ing of season.
Lightning hits oak tree at
Riverside, and one man is
stunned.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
Sept. 11. 1911
(It was Monday)
Campaign for Good Roads
bonds to open Wednesday in
county.
Swedish expert arrives to
study valley fruit conditions.
Peaches for canning selling at
24 cents per pound in stores.
LYLE THURMAN
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Lyle Thurman, 722 West Four
teenth street, Medford, was
named a director of the Oregon
division, Izaak Walton league of
America, at the state session in
Salem which closed SundHy.
Lloyd Reinhold of Salem was
named president, succeeding
Clark Bachman of Silverton.
Other officers selected were
Elmer Church, Salem, secretary
James Loder. Salem. Merle
Brown. Portland. John Ebinger.
Klamath Falls and Jack Dunphy,
Grants Pass, vice-presidents.
The Oregon council became a
full-fledged division of the na
tional organization during the
1945 session and a new constitu
tion and by-laws were adopted.
There are now chapters in Port
land. Salem. Medford. Grants
Pass. Silverton. Coos Bay. Tilla
mook. Klamath Falls. Prine
ville and Lakeview. Another is
being organized at Burns.
MAN ARRESTED HERE IS
WASHINGTON FUGITIVE
Theodore Vogel, arrested on
highway 99 Sept. 3 by state po
lice, charged with vagrancy in
Justice court, was being held in
the county jail today for author
ities of the Washington state
hospital. Word from the institu
tion received here yesterday
stated that Vogel was an "scapec
from the mental hospital.
1845 EXPECTED
Temperatures and Moisture
Reserves Seen Cause For
Net Gain In All Crops
Washington. Sept. 11-JU.P
The Agriculture Department to
day forecast a 1945 corn crop
of" 3.069,055.000 bushels com
pared with 2,844.478,000 bush
els estimated a month ago and
a 1944 production of 3.228.361,
000. The estimate was based on
Sept. 1 conditions. A crop of this
size has been exceeded only in
1920. 1942. and 1944.
The yield per acre is now es
timated at 33.3 bushels com
pared with 33.2 bushels a year
ago.
Less Acreage
The estimated yield was on
92.229,000 acres expected to be
harvested. This was 5.1 per cent
less than the acreage harvested
in 1944.
More seasonable tempera
tures and generally favorable
moisture reserves brought a net
gain for all crop prospects dur
ing August, the crop reporting
board said.
It was estimated that the vol
ume of all crops harvested in
1945 would equal the produc
tion of the two banner war
years 1942 and 1944 and
would be 24 per cent above the
1923-32 average.
The board put this year's out
put in the "bumper class. It
warned, however, that many
crops, especially corn, are still
in danger of an early killing
frost.
Biggest Wheat Crop
The biggest wheat crop in his
torv still was predicted on Sept.
1-Ja production of 1.152.270,000
bushels. This comoared with the
Aug. 1, forecast of 1,146,283.000
bushels and a 1944 yield of 1,
078.647,000 bushels.
Winter wheat production,
placed at 836,969,000, remained
unchanged from last month.
This compared with 764,073,000
bushels in 1944.
Spring wheat production was
placed at 315.301.000 bushels
compared with 314,574.000 bush
els in 1944. The estimate last
month was 309.314.000 bushels.
The board made these esti
mates on other crops compared
with 1944 production:
Oats, 1.575,356.000 bushels,
compared with 1.166.392.00C.
Barley, 277,697,000 and 284,
426.000. Grain sorghums. 116,348.000
and 181.756.000.
Soy beans, 202.589,000 and
192.863.000.
Flaxseed, S5.345.000 and 23,
527,000. Potatoes. 432,895,000 bushels
and 379,436.000.
Hops, 55,751,000 pounds and
47.695.000.
All tame hay, 90.639,000 tons
and 83.845.000.
Beans. 15.370.000 100 pound
bags and 16.128.000.
Peas. 5.793.000 100 pound
bags and 8.873.000.
Apples. 68.260,000 bushels
and 124.754,000.
Peaches. 82.420.000 bushels
and 75.963.000.
Pears. 32,831,000 bushels and
31,956,000.
dLQCALS
Sojourners To Meet Regular
meeting of Medford Sojourners
club will be held Thursday at
the Girls' Community club at
one o'clock. Reservations are to
be made with Mrs. Morris Mar
tin, phone 51 44.
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Prisoner Writes Word from
Pvt. Herbert Mitchel. who has
been a prisoner of the Japanese
since the fall of Corregidor in
1942. was received yesterday by
his brother, Herman Mitchel,
824 West 13th street, and mother,
Mrs. Anna Mitchel, now visiting
in Portland. The letter, written
in January, stated that Pvt. Mit
chel was in fair health and was
in a prisoner of war camp In
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dreamy eyes
She uses her long tail
to switch the flies
She gives her quota
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word has been received as yet
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Porter Leaves Robert Porter,
Si c, left this morning to report
back to the Great Lakes naval
base at Chicago after visiting the
past three days with his parents.
Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Porter, Jacksonville-Phoenix
road. Porter
entered the service in July.
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Visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Turpin of Bremerton,
Wash., are visiting in the city at
the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Van
Gilbert, 135 North Holly street,
and Mr. and Mrs. Archie Tur
pin, 228 South Holly street. Mr.
Turpin is fire chief at Bremer
ton. e e e
Car Damaged Considerable
damage was caused last night to
an auto operated by Fred B.
Grigsby, Medford, when it col
lided with the back end of a
lumber truck parked on the right
side of the 700 block of Nor'h
Riverside avenue, city police re
ported today. Grigsby was
taken to the police station for
first aid treatment.
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Apply For Permits Thomas
F. Liken. 25 Portland avenue,
applied for a building permit
yesterday at the office of the
city superintendent for general
repair to a dwelling and garage
at a cost of S300. Another per
mit was filed for the Medford
Center building, 60 North Cen
tral avenue, for general repair
and alteration costing $1,500.
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Student Here James H. El
liott is spending a 15-day leave
in Medford with relatives before
reporting to the University of
Nebraska medical school. Young
Elliott, who is in the navy V-12
program, is a graduate of Med
ford high school, attended the
University of Oregon and then
completed pre-meclical training
at Willamette university. Ho
later spent 10 months studying
at the Bremerton naval hospital
in Washington.
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