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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Perry
A report reveuls autolsts drive
less recklessly on country roads,
than on city pavements, and the
highways. The explanation for
this is simple. There are more
people in town to watch them
turn a crowded corner on one
wheel, and narrowly miss
baby buggy loaded down with
twins, and groceries,
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Winston Churchill, former
British premier, has been offer
td a million dollars to write
his memoirs. Nevertheless, Win-
rite Is apathetic about it. His
pathy Is due to English taxes
taking all but approximately
150,000 of the swag.
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The Republican party has
been advised to lay out of a
labor relations program, that
will not lay out the Republican
party.
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Gen, (B. it Q.) Patton, for
tolerating Nazis in the Bavarian
government, gets his ears smack'
d down officially, and is ban
ished to command of a "phan
tom army. The news of the
"firing" of the swashbuckling
tioro adorns the front pages, that
tremlnd the gentle readers there
ere plenty of swashbuckling
loaders at home, whose ears
reed smacking down, but won't
ta.
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A FINE PROPORTION
(News Dispatch)
"New York, Oct. 2flJ.R)
Six hundred thousand bottles
of Scotch whisky arrived Tues
day aboard the Egldia, New
Anchor line ship, from Glas
gow. It also carried 12 pas
sengers." Four hunting fatolltles in 1
Jnost as many days in this slate,
has brought forth the annual de
mand for some curb upon trig
ger happy deer slnyers. It has
been suggested some test of fit
Jiess be given the hunter, before
le be allowed to run at large
in the timber with a high-powered
weapon. At present, tlie
only requirement is possession
cf the license fee In cash, and
rot mistaking tho counlv clurk
for a coyote, while getting It,
a a a
Millions of Americans retard
the atomic bomb lightly, though
it is the most potent force ever
created by man, for his own de
struction. It is getting mixed up
with politics. This puts it in a
class with the nth hour cam
paign canard, thut turni out to
be a bombshell.
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The world series and 14
Strikes are underway in Detioit
today.
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The Duke and Duchess of,
Windsor have shifted to Paris. I
rrencn who have suffered
much are bearing up well.
'To Pete's girl friend Will
turn him over to you soon. Hope
you have better luck with him
than I did. His wife." Ad in
Minneapolis Star-Journal.) For
Fetes sake.
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THAT BOYI
"Here we sit, looking at a
bigh school boy who's name we
don't know who dropped in to
"write a letter" on the type
writer across the room. Kis
pants are rolled up, giet
patches of sonic red are on the
back of his shirt, his belt doesn't
o through all the places mjic
for it. Ins shoe laces are too
short to go through all the holes
nd his hairy legs are dangling
cross the desk. The onlv sign
of his future state of civiliza
tion is that llis hsir )s beautl
Xiilly combed (with the prescrib
ed crossing of one side over the
ether between the ears) and from
rere, his ncek looks clean."
(Maxme Buren in Salem States-krtan.)
Voluntarily Idle
Gasoline stations are
unueu cuuen necause many oi tne reiinenes of th(
country are idle. A month aero Washington was hone
ful meat rationing could be discontinued entirely on
October 1, but rationing is to continue on a modified
scale because packing plants are unable to obtain
workers to process the great flood of beef that is be
ginning to flow in.
The outlook for new
ture is poor because of strikes and threatened strikes,
This dreary prospect for
broadened to include many commodities.
THE United States is in the grip of a great wave of
voluntary unemployment. Tens of thousands of
former workers are spending their savings on strikes
for higher wages and on a prolonged period of leisure
while their money lasts. In many cases their money
is being supplemented by unemployment insurance
benefits.
There are jobs everywhere, jobs at unprecedent-
edly high wages, but too
not having any. They are
position where a job is not
weal.
DUT those who strike at this time overlook a grave
menace to themselves. It is inflation. A trickle
of civilian goods is beginning to reach the markets.
Normally it would swell to a great flood in a few
monthB. But if goods do not materialize, people with
large stores of savings may begin bidding competi
tively for scarce items outside regular outlets. If the
workers destroy the value
wage rate increases will
rising prices. K. fc.
Inflation
In Mexico inflation is
Manuel Camacho, in a long
currency in Mexico stood at
of $157,000,000 in the last year.
The Mex prexy expects the situation to become
stabilized shortly. During the war years Mexico ac
cumulated $376,000,000 in gold and foreign ex
change through exports, mostly to the United States.
Now Mexico expects the United States to begin send
ing machinery and materials which that country will
use to increase its manufactures. As Mexico turns out
more goods, inflation will tend to disappear. Thus
thinks Camacho, who apparently has not read history.
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THE Mexican president said Mexico is now produc-
ing 38,574,000 ban-els of oil per year out of the
known reserves in the country of 870,000,000 bar
rels. Most of this oil was formerly owned by Ameri
can, British and Dutch companies. Mexico expropri
ated it. The American owners, deserted by Wash
ington, settled their accounts with Mexico on Mexi
can terms.
But neither Britain nor
confiscation. President Camacho says that conversa
tions with these two countries are continuing. K. b.
Nimitz
Fleet Admiral Chester
hero of World War II to receive the plaudits of a
grateful nation. He will arrive in Washington on Oc
tober 5, to be officially welcomed by the President
and to be honored by that city. After a week-end rest
he will go to New York on October 9, where it is
promised he will be given a reception more enthusias
tic than that accorded Admiral Dewey after his con
quest of Manila Bay.
His visit to New York
for that city's first real parade since the war's end.
The line of march will extend from the Battery to
City Hall on Broadway, and on Fifth Avenue from
Fourteenth to Futv-seventh
eception at City Hall and
Waldorf-Astoria.
TRAVELING with Admiral Nimitz will be twelve
M.iiFir nion nil lin.rl.ire nf iho PATlOTPCCinnfil
lltl y (lil llWltiVIH .' Vita.. V a tfc, ft . -
Medal of Honor. Receptions for the Admiral and his
party in other cities are being planned. After Admiral
Nimitz has been welcomed
all the nation's top-ranking war leaders will have
been honored on their return from their great ex
ploits save one General Douglas MaeArthur. R. S.
Westbrook Pegler
Copyright 1943. by King Features Syndicate
Washington, D. C, Oct. 3 A
Semite document, hitherto Ap
parently overlooked, reveals El
liott Itoosevilt in the role of
Inbby-st for a private electric
power corporation In Texas
whose Interests were threatened
by the- rural electrification ad
ministration. Eillott addressed an appeal, in
behalf of the Texas Power and
Light Company, to some one in
the White lloiue whom he ad
dressed as "Steve," apparently
Steve Fitrly. then his father's
principal secretary and a man
of ereat power of influence and
decision.
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THE LETTER, written on the
stationary of Elliott's Texas
state network his radio chain.
wa dated Forth Worth, Murch
1. 1041.
It was placed on record on
Feb. U 1944. by Carroll L.
Heedy, counsel to i sub-committee
cf the senate committee on
closed in many parts of the
automobiles in the near fu
new consumer goods may be
many American workers are
at the moment in that rare
necessary to their economic
of their dollar, no basic
help them in the spiral of
In Mexico
increasing also. President
report to the nation, paid
$772,700,000, an increase
Holland has agreed to the
Coming
W. Nimitz will be the next
will provide the occasion
streets, mere will Lie a
a brilliant dinner at Hotel
home in fitting manner,
agriculture which was investi
gnllr.g the administration of the
R E.A. with particular interest
in misfeasance, malfeasance and
maladministration.
The witness was Claude Wick
ard. secretary of agriculture and
director and supervisor of the
RE A. by Roosevelt's appoint
ment. Beedy asked Wlckard if he
had told the late Senator Norris,
of Nebraska, "the story of Alleg
ed maladministration that had
occurred under Secretary Wat
lace, before you came in that
had been reported to you."
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W I C K A R D COULDN'T re
member and his memory failed
him as to several more ques
tions. Then Beedy asked him. 'Did
vou have any ideas at the time
about what vou were going to
do about if"
"Yes," Wiekard said. "But I
don't think it would be in the
'pubfle interests fi rfrseuss Tries'
at the present time
"We (the committee) are try
ing to find out what has been
dona by you to remedy alleged
maladministration, to Investi
gate charges of wrong-doing,"
Beedy continued.
As a public servant, Wlckard
Insisted, nevertheless, that the
public had no right to an ans
wer. NOW BEEDY came to the
Brazos transmission line in Tex
as. The Texas Power and Light
Company, a private concern,
"didn't want this R E. A. project
to be built," he said. Mr. Wlck
ard did condescend to say that
he had discussed this case "with
some people down In Texas."
But to a direct question he re
fused to name these people.
Q "Did you discuss it with
Elliott Roosevelt?"
A. "No, sir."
Beedy then presented Elliott's
letter to "Steve". It was three
pages long and a plea to "Steve"
on behalf of Texas Power and
Light.
The letter granted that it was
a good idea to extend electric
service in west and central Tex-
cuse whatever" to establish "ex
cuse whatever1 'to establish "ex
perimental plants" or "yard
sticks" In the eastern area.
"I AM GENUINELY and per
sonally Interested in this thing,"
Elliott wrote "Steve". "1 know
that it Involves a major policy
but a policy which has not so
far received the sanction of the
president. It Is new and untried
I know these people down here
and I know they, will do any
thing necessary to a full coop
eration with any federal agency
and still stav in business."
If vou need any tacts, fci-
liott wrote, "call me and I will
get them or tell you who to get
in touch with. Please do every
thing you can to see to It that
nothing Is decided until 1 can see
you in wasnington pruunuij
next Wednesday evening n
are available "
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THESE MATTERS, be it re
membered. Wlckard believed to
be none of the public's business.
The nature of Elliotts own
'genuine" and "personal" Inter
est, as to whether he might gain
monev, was not brought out.
There was no statement . as to
whether his friends paid him a
fee for by-passing the appropri
ate authorities to appeal straiRht
to his father's chief secretary
and occasional vicar.
COMMUNICATIONS
Letter! to the Kdllor mutt beat
the name and addreaa ol the writer
allhmiEh the ute nt a pen-name or
tnlttali tor puhlicatlnn la permia
utile rhe Mall Tribune ranervea
the riant to edit ail leltera with a
view to olarlty and enodertiatlon
The City Drama
To the editor: Given Super
man's "X-ray" vision, as well
as "X-ray" hearing, what could
one not find at any instant in a
big city?
In one place there is a cry.
In another, there is a death
rattle. In another, silence. In an
other, a scream. The cry is the
first sound from a new-born
babe. The death-rattle is the lost
from an old man. The silence
is from the operating room uf a
hospital, where a skilled surgeon
labors with all his delicacy to
save the life of a brain tumor
patient. The scream is from a
man being beaten and robbed by
thug.
Life In all Its fullness. People
doing trivial things, unusual
things things their ancestors
have done in this city for genera
tions past. A young man slips
an engagement ring on the fin
ger of his betrothed. In a pawn
shop the proprietor appraises
nother ring while its owner
fidgets. An old lady waters a
potted geranium. A young wom-
n, alone and discouraged, takes
an overdose of sleeping powders.
in a penitentiary the guards ar
rive at the cell of a condemned
prisoner to lead him to his ex
ecution. A rat scurries across
the floor ready to take posses
sion of the cell as soon as its
human occupant is gone.
Ihc condemned man is -n-U
titled to the last laugh. Because
In the very next instant all
obliterated the condemned
man and his executioners ihe
thug and his victim the new
born child with onlv one cry
uttered. Nothing is' left save
smoking rubble.
What city is this? It could
have been Hiroshima or Naga
saki not long ago. It might be
almost any city of the future.
The atomic age is here.
ALMl'S PRU1TT.
ZHUKOVILL
Washington. Oct. 3 01 Pi
Russian Marshal Gcorgi Zhu
kovs visit to this country has
been postponed because of his
illness, the White House an
nounced today. Zhukov. famed
l general and now the Russian
member of the Allied Control
commission in Germany, had
been scheduled to arrive in New
York on Thursday.
Wood that won't burn has been
developed, reports ria5t.es, mag.
urine of the industry.
Many Hard of Hearing
Can Hear Tomorrow
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UiKvui
I'turnuc
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon '
Wasnington, Oct. 3 A naval
carrier fighter pilot who fought
in the Pacific from the begin
ning and
' little before
returned home
appalled at the
lnt e n s 1 1 y of
It IV o i
the people and
issues he
m ten
found after
long absence
What this
mm
country needs,
he says is
some fun. His
fauj 61 aim o
comrades, h e
reported, had
the fame idea.
Not many smiles can be
found around here, and more ex
pletives than anecdotes are
available in official sanctums.
Yet the precise condition be
hind most of the glumness and
high nerves noticeable in the
news actually falls considerably
short of justifying or inducing
morbidity,
TO tell it to you straight, with
a primary instance, there has
been less excitement over the
London conference in congress
or the state department than
hat you could expect. State
Secretary Byrnes had almost
free rein from Mr Truman to
make his own decisions, passed
little inside information to
Washington. And what he did
pass rather suggested the con
ference table talk was really
worse than publicly conceded.
Yet gossip that this was the be
ginning of war with Russia was
not here taken seriously.
Russia has no air force. She
used ours during the war her
self developing only one plane,
the Stromovik and she has no
navy No one can see any pos
sibility of her getting either In
the visible future, and the
atom I? bomb does not yet enter
this- picture. But Russia is in
tense, not only to Slavic nature
but by political preferment.
Even her army thinks politically
on all occasions, with the domi
nating interest of a nation now
with great new-found power,
but again with mainly political
power, attained by a victorious
position, as distinct from a
world martial power or even a
superior industrial power.
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I THINK it is entirely accurate
to report the official position
here as fearing Russia political
ly, not otherwise. Indeed, the
only common criticism heard of
Byrnes is that he gave ground
on some points. How could he
otherwise when the British
labor party (Attlee and Bevln
particularly) won their recent
election victory on the claim
they could deal with Russia in
a more friendly way than
Churchill, and therefore better.
Theirs proved no better than
any other way.
This is a world condition now.
If anyone Is going to keep
tense about it, his diet will be
off f)i a long time as it will be
a continuing condition.
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"THEN there was the fuss over
Gen. MacArthur's admlnis
tratloi of Japan. As I glean It,
acting State Secretary Acheson
did actually speak for Mr. Tru
man (also incidentally Moscow)
when he flung a few volatile
words across the Pacific to
Tokyo. He was at the White
House the day before. But a day
or so later, he entered a press
conference, asking:
"How does everyone feel now
that the storm is over?"
Actually there is now no dis
satisfaction with MacArthur's
adm:nstration In official quar
ters, and I believe the general
sentiment is he is doing a su
perior Job. I am sure the war
and navy departments Jlhink he
will do a complete job, if left
alone.
The trouble on this score, I
.n,..,hoi iitinnl
no'ftirt and communist) although
not Intense. The most Important
tatement MaeArthur has made
as far as Washington is con
cerned: was the one tersely
men'ir.ncd in dispatches, that he
considers his position his last
f-ssigiimcnt. That was what
FULL OR PART TIME
WORKERS NEEDED
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN
HAY QUIET 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Rain or
I jnirl shine Inside work, can
ning pears.
EVENINGSHIFT " rz?."?
p- m. to 1 1 p. m.
PEAR CANNING season is now on at your local can
nerv. Front and 13th streets. GOOD WAGES GOOD
WORKING HOURS GOOD WORKING CONDITIONS!
Piece Work for Women with
GUARANTEED HOURLY MINIMUM!
ROGUE RIVER PACKING CORP.
Telephone 3982
Automobile containing six trolley car operators Is upset t carbarn tn new outbreak of disorder In strike at
Lancaster. Pa., of 300 employes of Coneatoga Transport Co. Occupant of car were bruised, machine was
righted and entered carbarn under police protection.
many an administration author-'
ity wanted to hear. ,
For many a year the suspicion ;
has absorbed some democratic
quarters that MaeArthur might
want to run for a higher office
next. His several denials, and
the belief of his friends that he
is without political ambitions
has failed to extirpate this sus
picion
The domestic strike intensity,
of course concerns the economic
future of the country, and as in
the "ase of Russia, will be a con
tinuing proposition. We are in
what we call "a controlled in
flation " The administration
wants it. It is working for a
high-wage and high-price econ
omy. The only question is
whether the inflation is to be
controlled by the government or
the unions. If wages are to go
up 30 per cent this year under
one or two-year contracts the
same oressure for shoving every
thing 20 or 30 notches higher
again will exist in a year or two.
If the government succeeds in
limiting the advance to 10 or 15
per c?nt now it cuts its problem
that much. Most authorities
seem now to think this inten
tion will be carried through.
So while it Is impossible to
find behind the news much glee
for my flying friend from the
Pacific, which he and the nation
deserve, I am able to report that
Washington soup is seldom
eaten as hot as some people
cook it.
8 AND S IN JAPAN
Tokyo, Oct. 3-XU.R) The first
issue of the Japanese edition of
the Stars and Stripes, U. S. army
newspaper, will roll off the
presses here tomorrow and will
be flown to all American forces
In Japan and Korea. The news
paper's soldier staff has estab
lished offices in the Radio Tokyo
building and the paper will be
printed by Asahl with type set
at the Nippon Times plant.
Servicemen who visit Chica
go Service Men Centers con
sumed 41,208 hot dogs, 50,220
sandwiches, 68,800 pieces of
cake, 33.400 cups of hot coffee.
9 920 glasses of milk, and 4.670
cups of hot soup in one week.
Daily Weather Report
FORECASTS
Medford and vicinity: 'Cloudv to
partly cloudy tonight and Thursday;
cooler.
Oregon: Increasing cloudiness to
night and partly cloudy Thursday.
Gentle northwest winds off coast.
LOCAL DATA
Temperature a year ago today:
Higrwst 77; lowest 42.
Total monthly precipitation .48
inches
Deficiency for the month .06 inches.
Totfll precipitation since September
I, 194S. ,4H inches
Deficiency for the season .25 inches.
Relative humiditv at 4 30 p.m. yes
terday 23fv; 4 30 today 78 "i.
Tomorrow
Sunrise 6:11 a m. Sunset 3 48 p.m.
Observations taken at 4:30 a.m., 120
Merid.sn time:
Hich Lmv Prec.
BoiFe
Boston .,
Chicago
Denver .
7.1
61
77
94
01
4?.
33
43
Eureka
Havre
Los Angeles
..100
6.1
45
.Med fori 89
New Vork ..............
Omahn -. 67
Phoenix 97
PortUna
-Jl T.7-.JT 8.?
78
48
36
47
46
Reno
Rusebure
fait Lake
San Francisco 80
Seattle 63
Spokane 7!)
Washington. DC "O
Yakima 79
SO
41
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Flight o Time
Medford and Jsckion Co. His
tory from the files of the Mai)
Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years
ago. '
TEN YEARS AGO
October 3, 1935
(It Was Thursday)
Local irrigation season ends.
Sen. Pope of Idaho says Eu
ropean war unlikely, Italian
planes bomb Ethiopian towns.
Detroit defeats Chicago Cubs,
8 to 3 in second game of world
series.
Unsettled with showers.
77, low 53 degrees.
High
Prof. Reimer reports war on
tomato disease in valley make
progress.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
October 3. 1925
(It Was Saturday)
All doubts to city's rights to
Big Springs water supply fade.
Fair. High 70, low 36 degrees.
Service stations of citv start
sale of new brands of winter
gasoline.
President Coolidge leaves on
special train for Omaha, where
he will make talk before Legion
national convention.
Federal
court to open here
Tuesday.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
October 3, 1911
(It Was Tuesday)
Fair weather promises for rest
of fair, after showers.
New York Giants wins Na
tional pennant, with Christy
Matthewson hurling.
Tomorrow to be Old Settlers
Day at fair, with a balloon as
cension as the feature event.
Court House News
Marriage!
Albert Colabella and Edythe
Grace Dusenbury.
James Ernest Porter and
Katherine Kukes.
Tracy Eugene Long and Edna
mae Harger.
Buster Harvey Meservey and
Betty Lou Mclrvin.
Fred Albert Allen and Loretta
Marie Orr.
Lawrence George Kolkemo
and Margaret Jean Galbraith.
Orrin Alfonso Oppengaard and
Angeline Lctta Willey.
Randolph W. Hugdahl and
Beverly Joyce Pearson.
Divorce Decrees
Jean Simmons vs. Bert F. Sim
mons. Earl W. Yaryan vs. Lois
Yaryan. .
Cloain lima ,r Sunaay T u
Cla,(y -4 00 Setiuday .fXnS-
Plaate remember
The Power of the Atom
Keeps our sun aglow. It can evaporate Medford and
all its inhabitants in a twinkle of an eye. Man can be
come extinct in an eye wink of time.
The dinosaurs that lived in Lake Lahontan, Nevada,
three hundred million years ago were the acme of
creation but became extinct sixty million years ago,
when warm blooded animals appeared. The forty-ton
tyrantosaur was the greatest mountain of flesh that
ever stalked the earth. He stood 27 feet tall and 75
feet long. He could open his six-foot jaws four feet,
showing rows of piercing teeth.
In those days the law of tooth and claw was supreme. .
Man has been upon this planet some million and a
half years. Yesterday, so to speak, the Great Physic
ian came- The ethics of Christianity is the foundation
of our nation. Christ taught that he who loses his life
shall find it.
Business men know that the best selfishness is to be
unselfish. Doctors who use other people's hcspitals
to serve their selfish ends to drive out other surgeons
and attempt to control the practice of medicine, will
learn that it doesn't pay.
The world by Eugenics, Christian ethics, and the
atomic bomb; will discard the law of fang and claw.
The dinosaur with hi, 4-ox. brain became extinct.
What will man do with his 50 to 80-ox. brain????
Paid adv. No. 3.
DR. A. A. SOUL. M.D.
(Acm Telephoto)
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