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MX MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNE Tuesday, Oct. t. 1943 MEDFORD$J&rTRIBUNE "vers-one la Southern Oregoa Read the MaU Tribune" Dally trail Saturday Published b MEDFOHD PRINTING CO. I7-M Korth Fir St Phon SMI. ROBERT W. RUHU Iditor. ERNEST R. CILSTRAP. Manatee. KERB GREY. Advertillns Mgr. I. C. FERGUSON, Manuring Mltor ARTHUR PERRY, Sunday Editor MRS. OLIVE STARCHER, Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mar. Aa Independent Newapaper. Editorial Correspondence Entered aa aecond elaaa matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act oc March 3, 1S7. SUBSCRIPTION RATES BT MaU In Advance' Bally and Sunday one year Dally and Sunday elx month 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moe. 1.10 Dally and Sunday one month.. 75 By Carrier In Advonce Medford, Aahland. Central Point, Jackeon villa. Cold Hill, Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routes: Ilfllly and Sunday one year.... 00 Dally and Sunday one month .78 All lerma cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackaon County United Preaa Fall Leaacd Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WTjrr.Hni.i.inAY COMPANY. INC. Offices In New York Chicago. De troit, San rranclaco. Loa Angeles, Se attle, Portland, St Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver. 3. C. Mtmit mm fopc)imioi Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry Japinese scientists worked five years, and spent a million yen producing a "death ray," but the best they could do with it was to kill a rabbit at 30 meters, in ten minutes. The American method is cheaper and faster. They blind the rabbit with glaring headlights, then run over bunny with an auto at 80 MPH. e e e Whatever became of the cur few whistle, that blew each night, between nine and ten, to tet parents know the kids would be home In due course of time, e e e The weather continues fine and varied. In the morning Its cold enough to think about (kiing. and In the afternoon warm enough to think about spading next spring's garden., e e e "We are still today In what we laughingly refer to as. busi ness. But It may not be for long. Now Is the time to subscribe." (Eldorado, Kan., Times) Jour nalistic hint. e e e Tho friendly Espee has put on another passenger train to the south, for autolsts to try and knock off the crossing,. e e , . . The scarcity of labor these days of so-called peace, bring back memories of darker times, vli: The time when 210 workers applied for one school janitor Job. e a e A shortage of pigs now pre vails hereabouts. Unless the situ ation Improves these will be no country sausage, In either city or country, and "hog-calllng" in the rural regions, will be to no avail. e MUFFLED COMPLIMENT (Astoria Astorlon-Budget) "As a membet of the old town'f big service club, The Kiwmls club, we want to pay our respects right here to Tonv Antonlch and the boys of the Gyro organization, even If we were unable to appear befoie them Tuesday noon in a scheduled address because Tony, forgot to tell us about the aMslgnment until five min utes niter the Gyros began to gather for their noonday luncheon session But Its al ways a pleasure to speak to the Gyro boys the less you renll-. say and we're an ex pert at this the better they like It." H. Haynes Writ ings) e e e Germany, under a U. S. army plan, at nn early date will be allowed to form their own gov ernment and run it. However, the A'lies will hold a whip hand over the late world conquerors and super-race and not forget to always have a whip in It, e e e The trial of P. Laval, the Frencn scailwwag and traitor, continues without his presence in covit. This may lead to some complications later If Mons. La val is found guilty, as likely, he may not be present with a brick wall In the background, when the firing squad lines up to shoot him. e e e Federal labor machinery has bogged down. In the face of a strike epidemic. Take John L. Lewis, the mine union boss. He fears a male secretary of labor in a $27 Stetson, less than he did a lady secretary underneath a three-cornered number. see Former President Hoover has come out for control and super vision of the atomic bomb The masses are not as mad at him as previously. Otherwise, they would demand every warlike nation be given the scientific secret, with the "have" nations financing their production. Use Mail Tribune Want Ada Washington, D. C, Oct. 5 "Isn't he sweet!" Thus gushed a girl reporter in the House Press Gallery this noon as Admiral Nimitz left the "podium" after delivering his war report to the Con gress of the United States and walked slowly and smilingly up the aisle. Imagine that sugary, girlish term for a salty old U. S. admiral and commander-in-chief of Allied forces in the Pacific who has just completed one of the most brilliant and successful campaigns in all military and naval history ! . Yet it was apt. For the admiral IS a sweet-looking, and acting person, no more like the traditional or conventional "old salt" than Van Johnson is like Wallace Beery. And the speech he delivered and the tone of voice were in character, modest, restrained, even-temper ed, kindly, not a flourish or a punch-line or a spark of fire from start to finish. Yet the applause was considerable and a feeling of great friendliness and respect prevailed. "11' AIT 'till MacArthur comes," mumbled the news- " paper man by our side. "He has EVERY THING, color, punch, glamour, style, he'll panic these old boys right out in the aisles and probably ne carried over and put in the White House while they throw Harry the Haberdasher out! A tvnical "Park Row" crack and some truth in it. perhaps. For General MacArthur is definitely the theatri cal, picturesque, dramatic type, Admiral Nimitz, just as definitely, is WU 1. But as a TACTICIAN on sea, the boys really in the know here, put Nimitz among the greatest of all time, at least as far as this country is concerned, ana a classic example of that well-known characterization the iron hand in a velvet glove. e e e e WE were lucky to get in to see the show. For we only arrived in mid-morning and as usual it took some time to get into a hotel. It was nearly noon before we reached the House entrance of the Canitol where two of Washington's "best" barred our entrance and we had no ticket, special tickets for to day were required. The genial "cop" suggested we phone up to Bill Donaldson in the press gallery, which we did, and after a wait of 15 minutes or so, a House page came down out of breath, but all was well. e e e WHILE waiting at the switch a long line of cele hrities came in. Admiral King. General Mar shall, General (Happy) Arnold, Secretary ot the Navy Porrestal. Senator Barklev of Kentucky, who head ed the reception committee, Senator Walsh of Mas sachusetts (smoking a frayed cigar) and a group of vmmir sn Id i era war heroes due to De decoraieu with the rare and coveted Congressional Medal. THE Senate, of course, adjourned and joined the .House, apparently every member who had any offspring bringing at least a portion to the "historic nnrjisinn. " One of the offsprintr. a cute little girl about four, with dark curls, got loose and started to go on a sight-seeing tour "tout suite." Senators La Follette of Wisconsin and Vandenberg of Michigan headed her off and the last we saw of the little mop pet she was sitting on the latter's lap having a wonder ful time. (The Michigan senator, we opine, has a way with children and with the older gals as well). J e e e e LATER we sat on the House steps and saw the "big parade" form and start off. It was an inspiring scene, particularly when the entire membership from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, drawn' up on the Plaza in formation in front of the Capitol greeted the admiral's party as they came out with the long "hey yeh" yell, ending with a Nimitz. (Most of them will be leaving tonight to yell some more at me mvy Duke game at Durham, N. C, tomorrow). e e e a e BY the time this sees the light of day the speech by A-lmi-ol MirMifT KitV'is tVo m'floa will Va on old story. There were some interesting facta in it, demonstrating that the defeat of Japan was essenti ally a naval victory. But the admiral, like practically all the leaders in THIS war, failed utterly to sense the significance of the atomic bomb. The leaders in the next war if there is one we venture to say, won't. And President Truman, thank Heaven, doesn't, not entirely at least, as his recent message indicates. TTIIE big feature of the parade was the air-show 1,000 planes flying in clean-cut formation over the Capitol dome a sight (and sound) never to be forgotten. One group spelled out "N-I-M-I-T-Z in formation. "That's a German name ain't it?" one of the girls on the steps asked of her soldier escort, as the parade was forgotten and everyone looked aloft. "Naw ! was the supercilious reply, That s the same as Eisenhower it's DUTCH !" R.W.R. to dissolve the debt, but to gett I Hani tha 1 -,,.-- 1 TTa ,n , 1 i .1 , of course, and, to serve his pur I pose, relied on the fact that Jones, too, was a powerful man In the government. The recovery of the collateral by representations which have been flatly impugned by the minority report of the House Ways and Means Committee, ts the action upon which I base my statement that the effect of that course was a swindle. Had he been content with the liquidation of the debt, that, In deed, would have been a suffi- cient abuse of his office to in dict -him before the bar of his torical judgment. But that would have been enough to relieve his son of worry over his debt. News Behind The News .By Paul Mallon Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files ef the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 fears aoo. WHY DID Mr. Roosevelt want also to recover the 2,000 shares as well as the notes signed Joint ly by Elliott and his wife of that time? If the stock was worth less why wasn't he- willing to let Hartford keep It? Why did he ask Jones to recover, also, the stock held as collateral by Da vid G. Balrd, Maxwell Bilofsky ana Lnnries Harwood, the gov ernor of the Virgin Islands, who got that job, and a terrible job it Is, by Mr. Roosevelt's execu tive appointment after Harwood loaned $25,000 to either Elliott or his radio company? Incidentally, Harwood was expecting an appointment to the United States district court or the court of appeals and the Virgin Islands job was supposed to De just a temporary thing Not receiving a place on the bench he refused to do business with Jones and the President was still so intent on getting DacK the 250 shares which Hart ford still holds that he sent an other powerful member of the administration after him. Harwood held the best cards, however, and he knew it. He didn't get his judgship so Mr. Roosevelt didn't get his stock and today it is said to be worth more than Harwood says he loaned for It. e e BUT, TO GET BACK to the question: Why? The answer is found In the minority report which says, "when the Texas State Network did begin to show earnings. In 1042, the President of the United States stepped into the picture lo asK Jesse Jones to settle the indebtedness and reacquire the stock, even though only half of the indebtedness was then due and payable. As a result of this. Elliott's indebtedness was set tled for about two cents on the dollar, on or about March 17. 1942. Reliance was placed on self-serving representations that the stock was worthless. "There Is also evidence to show that in Sentember, 1941 350 shares of T. S. N. were sold at $17 a share and that it was re-sold the next January for $17.50 a share." A stock that brought $17.50 In January was "worthless" in March when Jones bought it back. e e e ELLIOTT, himself. In a Hol lywood interview published re cently, was quoted as having said that "beginning in 1P42." the year, mind you, that Hart ford gave up, "the corporation tarted to show n profit." Is the stock of a profitable company worthless? The Hartford stock, which I here isolate for discussion, was delivered by Jones to President Roosevelt. And, on Nov. 19 1943. the President, himself, by personal letter to Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt, since di vorced from Elliott, delivered the 2.000 shares to her. President's letter did not say this stock was acquired in settle ment of a loan or debt. It said specifically that Jones had told him he bought it. Jones also told him the notes had been de stroyed. Thnt destruction oblit erated the debt but Mr. Roose velt was not content to put his son even with the board. He wanted the stock, too. Jones statement to the Bu reau of Internal Revenue said the President asked him as personal favor, to him, to look into Elliott's financial difficul ties "and see if anything could be done about them." Showing that Mr. Roosevelt knew Jones was not only bailing Elliott out of debt but picking up the col lateral for Its potential value, a value firmly recognized bv the Treasury. Jones also told inter nal revenue he reported back to Mr. Roosevelt that Hartford was willing to take $4,000 for the collateral. "He asked me to conclude the arrangements with Mr. Hart ford," Jones said. mil mun..iM'unH Westbrook Pegler ' Copyright 1945, by King Features Syndicate Washington, Oct. 9 Fully appreciating the gravity of a charge that the Into President Roosevelt was a chlscler in the part he played in the settlement of the loan by John Hartford to his son, Elliott, I deliberately make that charge now. The crux of the matter Is the fact that he initiated the plan to buy back Elliott's collateral. 2,000 shares of the Texas State Network, at the paltriest possi ble price by representing to Hartford that It was worthless, knowing that Hartford was con tent to keep the stock, regard less of Its worth or worthless ness. That was the situation when. In December, 1941. he abused the influence of the presidential office by procuring Jesse Jone. his secretary of commerce and chairman of Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation, not merely German Officers To Replace Americans In Occupation Zone Berlin. Oct. 9 (UP.' Ameri can military government units will be withdrawn from all city and county administrative posts in the U. S. occupational one by Nov. 15 and replaced by Ger man officials, it was announced today. The move will restore a meas ure of local autonomy In the American occupation areas. An official announcement said the changed policy had been de cided upon because enough naiis have been ousted in the Ameri can lone to permit placing addi tionr.1 governmental responsibil ities on the German people. Wellington, Oct. 9 The atoms: bomb news increasingly concerns what to do with it. Mr. Truman's idea of com mission de-velopment struck con gress as Just about right, if a little late for the domes tic end. But the President tried to solve the verbose fu rore of scien tists and sel fish politicians about interna tional disposal by saying he wanted to negotiate with foreign nations. The socialists want it to be socialized, and the world with it. One-worlders want to make one world state again be cause of it. The communists, and pven some Americans, including at least one of Mr. Truman's cabinet members, want to give it to Russia. Everyone wants to do with it what he has already decided Is best for the world anyway. The Republicans made it known through their sena torial objections they may even suspect Truman wanted to keep control of the legislation too much in the hands of Democrats. Ear'ier Director Eichelberger of some group called "The American Organization of the United States" wanted to pass it on to the United Nations coun cil, which Mr. Truman rather hinted he wanted to do later throueh consultation with the powers. ""HE disputants all have one 1 thing in common. They as sume we have a secret which will soon get awav from us, and they nil seem to feel the situa tion is rather desnerate so they want to do something desoerate ibout it. This is the premise noon which we are prorjosine to act. but I cannot for the life of me understand the idea. It tust does not seem reasonable to do something desneratelv defi nite about a new scientific th""rv which is still Indefinite The best military authoritie I know and there are none bet ter tell me no military es tablishment anywhere In the world Is yet assuming the next war will be fonrht with atom bombs alone. All can see defi nite limitations on its use. In deed the scientist' who discov ered it do not vet know its lim itations, possible defenses or anything exceot its possibilities Why should we do somethlnf desnerate about a possibility? Clearly the possibility must be emote because the naw and nrmv expenditure? are all pro nosed on the same basis for the future as now exists, and neces sarily so. because they, for one. are not enine: to act drastically cn possibilities. e e TTHE next war may be fought nlnne bv directed missiles. wVi'eh would make nlanes, fleets and even armies obsolete. Mr. Trumi-n is not planning a scrap ping of these but strong main tenance. Indeed, we have not vet demobilized which seems a i a t h e r sensible precaution in view of the state of the world. 'Servicemen who naturally want to get home should- read the in ternational news, following In wak of the failure to get peace trentiee at London.) Mv point Is we should not be culdod politically by scientific advice But more than this, why should we surrender our hard won advantage merely through fear someone will get It In three or five years as Churchill says? We bjve a head start. Our In tentions are honorable We know what we w'll do with it We do not know what others mav do. But since we have con lured all these desperate possi bilities Is It not Just plain sense to find out scientifically what we ire going to do about them before we do anvthlng other wise e e , WE need to know the de fenses for It first. This Is a truly desperate need all can nlalnlv see. No weapon has ever been discovered for which there was no answer an adequate an swer. No scientific discovery has ever remained static. Science is a continuously expanding con cept. Consider what has been done with radio since Marconi, wireless, the crystal set, new loudspeaklng. and Just ahead television. It has been the same with all scientific discoveries rlect-ic lights, telephones, air- pin nee gunpowder. Vie have a head start on It Why do we not pursue our ad vantage Into the constructive phase and solve the desperately needed constructive things about it, befnre we even think of let ting anyone have It? TEN YEARS AGO October 9, 1935 Ot Was Wednesday) Austria and Hungary balk at LofN plan to punish Itaiy for declaring war on Ethiopia. Klamath Falls war on gambling. mayor starts Assessed value of property in county declines. Chamber of Commerce enter tains football team at noon lunch eon. Fair. High 84, low 43 degrees. Portland firm low bidder on grading Ashland-Neil Creek of new Pacific Highway. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY October 9, 1925 (It Was Friday) September rain was above nor mal and the mercury below. Water bonds pass by 3 to 1 majority, at special city election. Cloudy. grees. High 76, low 38 dev store observes 15th Mann's birthday. Drinker of vanilla extract is given 60 days' sentence by Judge Taylor. Real estate south of city enjoys boom. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO October 9, 1911 (It Was Monday) Teddy Roosevelt and Bill Bry an, lead as presidential choices of both major parties. State convention opens here. of WCTU King Street property owners hopeful they will get street paved. District fair at north end of Central avenue closes with big crowd and fair was a success. COMMUNICATIONS Letter to the Kdtuir muat beat the name and addreaa at the writer although the use nt e pen-name or initial tnr publication I perml flble The Mall rrlbune reserve the right ui edit all letter frith a view to elarlty end eondensaUon I es, sun-bonnets, shawls and fun- I ny little coats to match the hoop I skirts. I I am convinced that they all i got a kick out ot wearing the garments in style nearly one hun dred years ago. All children were decked out in clothes of the pe riod and enjoyed it Immensely. Around 10 o'clock groups were assembled and scenes shot under the supervision of the director and numerous assistants. The entire staff was very democratic, including the stars, who never hesitated to sign autographs, answer questions and make themselves agreeable. The lunch truck came at noon and when the assistant director and paymaster, Joe Kenny, mounted the truck and shouted, "come and get it," there was a real scramble. It was just a big picnic for everybody. . The Sheriff's Posse officers, including a group of the mem bers of same, were present for the first three days of filming and donated their services for the publicity which Jackson county will derive from this technicolor picture. All other mounted men participating, as well as extras, were paid by Uni versal and I am quite sure that all extras were delighted with the experience and enjoyed the friendly treatment received from the Universal staff. . A Mounted Extra, G. H. YOUNG. Colvig, former residents of Jack sonville and Medford, has for years had one of the outstanding bands in northern California in his Weed, Calif., high school band. Pinto Colvig, while not a band director, but a former mem ber of two of Capt. Beard's Ore gon State bands, was for seven years ace cartoonist and in charge of sound for Walt Dis ney's Hollywood movie studios. From some of the band direct ors named who began their band careers in Capt. Beard's Oregon State college band, the reader can readily draw his own con clusion that Capt. H. L. Beard's service of 40 years as band di rector at Corvallis effected and stimulated not only band music in the state of Oregon. It had its own part in raising the standard of band music in many different sections of the United States. FRED L. STRANG. Dr. John Jeffries of Boston financed the first flight of a bal loon across the English Channel on Jan. 7, 1783. Amateur Actors To the, editor: As one of a group of around one hundred or more Medfordites and valley res idents selected to take the part of extras in the filming of "Can yon Passage" by Universal Pic ture company, in the Diamond lake region, I am confident that I am voicing the opinion of every one participating in the filming in technicolor of this thrilling drama of pioneer life in what is today the village of Jacksonville. The story deals with events transpiring 90 years ago when gold was discovered on Jackson creek and thousands of miners, adventurers, gamblers and gun men flocked in. The extras included a group of mounted men as well as men, women and children on foot, also a score or more of Indians deck ed out in war paint and feathers. Universal secured use of the lodge and cottages at the lake and moved in over one hundred ot its staff .from Hollywood, in cluding stars, both men and women, directors, artists, tech nicians, make-up men and ex perts in every division of the pic ture industry. These, together with the one hundred or more extras, a large collection of horses, dogs, cows, pack mules and poultry, made a lively community in that usually peaceful region. The company ' provided bus transportation for the extras from Medford daily, a two-hour trip up the valley of the Rogue. Make-up men transformed the extras into miners, with side burns, full beards, handle-bar mustaches and goatees; wearing clothes in keeping with the pe riod. The ladies wore long dress- Capt. Beard Lauded To the editor: Last week, Ore gon State College announced that Capt. Harry L. Beard had re signed after 40 years' service as band director. To the many southern Oregonians who in past years had the privilege and pleas ure as band members to play under his baton, as well as that of the late Wilson Wait, it brought a mixture of feelings that was similar in some detail to Wilson Wait's passing as a band director a few years ago. We looked upon Capt. Beard as band director a '"fixture" at Oregon State College, just as we did Wilson Wait as band director at Medford High School. in tneir respective fields, as band leader at Oregon State Col lege and at Medford high school it seems that Capt. Beard and Wilson Wait fulfilled to a high degree the real mission of a suc cessful instructor or teacher. Wilson Wait and the writer were fellow members of the Med ford school band organized in 1901, and along with "Pinto1 Colvig in 1911 were Medford members of Capt. Beard's Ore gon State college band. Besides being a member of the last named band, Wilson Wait re ceived private lessons from Capt. Beard on the cornet, and in band conducting. No doubt if Wilson Wait was living at this time he would eulo gize Capt. Beard as a man and band director, so that it would not be my lot to attempt to add to the praise for Capt. Beard coming from all parts of the state of Oregon, and from different sections of the United States. Some of the other successful band directors who began their careers by playing in Capt. Beard's Oregon State college band are Capt. Thomas d'Arcy, Everett Allen Moses and Don Colvig. Capt. Thomas d'Arcy has for many years been director of the U. 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