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Picture! of the top drawer
Nsiif on trial pu war criminals
make most of tha lot look like
their feet hurt.
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Many of the fair aex are
scouring the town looking for
home to scour, coma spring
housecleanlng time.
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The Dick Phair boy Dick has
written Santa Claus a letter. He
hopes ha gets here on time and
foxlly sends his love to Mrs.
Santa Claus.
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JOURNALISTIC SURGERY
(S. F. Chronicle)
"The Alabama student pa
per took him apart in four col
umns on Page One and a two
column editorial Inside. ' We
gathered the 'Impression the
Crimson Tide was pretty mad
t the Hyland fling."
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The rains left West Main St,
with a greater per second flow
of water than Bear Creek, but
with no bridges to run under,
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America proposes to the
British and Russians, that the
armed forces of all three na
tions withdraw from Iran by
January 1, Another good reso
lution would be for all three to
get out of China on the same
date.
A native, after what he calls
"a restful trip by plane to San
Francisco" returned by bus and
train.
Thanksgiving has come and
gone, and was uneventful. No
housewife panned $8 In gold
from a gravel and sand filled
craw of the turkey.
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"He was brought to the Hunn
Clinic, and had a hip broken
and was otherwise considerably
bruised up." (Koran (N. M.)
News.) Of all places.
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' Upstate Is scheduled to have
a special congressional election
January . 11. The threat there
would be more candidates than
voters Is rapidly disappearing.
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MOST EMBARRASSING
(Siskiyou News)
'There seemed nothing
wrong while she walked dig.
nifiedly back toward the
booth until she turned
around and revealed she'd ac
cidentally tucked the back
hems of her skirt and slip in
to the top of her panties,
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Criticism Is hurled In a cur
rent weekly magazine article
against some of the advisors of
President Truman, one of the
lot being accused of the ability
to tell a good story. Not a one
of them have cooked up a
scheme to "remake America",
"kill all the little pigs" or pro
vide the Hottentots with a quart
of milk per diem, without the
bother of keeping a cow of their
own. There is also a great luck
of political vaudeville.
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The wind and the rain have
stripped all the summer foliage
off the trees. They stand stark
and grim, and still shed leaves,
though there are none, on the
lawns.
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The Dock Green boy Sandy
has returned after four years in
the army and soon will be a Mr.
Civilian again.
WEATHER
Northern California: Rain to
day north and central portions
reaching south portion late to
night. Showers Thursday. Little
temperature change. Fresh sputh
erly wind on north coast becom
ing occasionally strong from
Point Arena northward. Gentle
variable wind on south coakl be
coming moderate southerly.
Editorial Correspondence
Boston, Mass., Nov. 22, Thanksgiving Day: Thanksgiving is
much more of a community festival here than on the coast, much
more of a DAY all around. Yesterday reminded a bit of Christ
mas, with so many people shopping, window and otherwise
such elaborate window displays, and messenger boys and wagons
scurrying about delivering messages, packages and flowers. (More
celebrating the day alcoholically also.) In town last night with
"the girls," Just arrived from New York, to see something In the
movies after much discussion spurned Paul Henreid (one of our
pet aversions anyway) in The Spanish Main and Mme. Crawford
in Mildred Pierce to see Charley Chaplin in the immortal Gold
Rush and the Marx Brothers in the not immortal, but very ex
cellent slop-stick "Horse Feathers."
Didn't regret It. Hollywood
enmeriv line these davs that can
Marx Brothers true cinema comedy other than shorts seems to
be a lost art.
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After writing the above we looked casually over the morning
paper and then stopped in our tracks with an empty feeling in
iha nit of the editorial tummy! Robert Benchley died in Scars-
dale, New York, lost night! A mere youngster, only 56! and his
life gives the lie to that statement about Hollywood comeay. for
hi The Treasurer's Report, and How to Sleep, will live as long
as The Gold Rush and for the same reason, for they were genuine
human comedy, typical of the period, original, side-splitting, intelligent.
But Benchlev's forte was in
gen in the monologue rather than the full length realm. So we
hold to the verdict as far as regular full length comedy films are
concerned. Take the Rltz Brothers and Abbot and Costello for
example they are no doubt recognized successors to Chaplin and
the Marx Brothers but not fit to clean the boots of the former
from any standpoint cheap, crude, loud, stupidl
Well it IS something to have
century and to have earned an epitaph such as Benchley has
earned the movie world will be a sadder and a duller place with
out hlml
Our special operative in Washington gives us the low-down
on the White House attitude toward the atomic bomb. Both army
and navy higher-ups fear war with Russia within five years, und
believe the U .S. secret of the bomb can be kept for that length
of time.
Now of course if that were
reason to fear war with Russia in
foolhardy to give away any of
But it ISN'T true it CAN'T
Russia certainly doesn't want
doesn't either, and what in Heaven's name would we fight for?
The vital policies of Great
vital policies of this country and Soviet Russia's do NOT. Only
this sort of Irresponsible war talk and continued efforts to keup
the atomic bomb secret, could lead to any serious trouble in the
near future a policy of frankness, mutual trust and placing the
entire problem in the hands of the
It is raining again coming down In buckets Just as If It had
never rained before. Well this should surprise no one. Yesterday
was a beautiful day, clear, sunny, Invigorating. Boston simply re
fuses to produce more than one nice
In Massachusetts.
No doubt the New York Chamber of Commerce If there Is
such a thing will denounce the undersigned and deny the truth
of this statement, but after close study and due deliberation we
unhesitatingly declare the most attractive young women in the
country live in Greater Boston.
We did not say the smartest, nor the most alluring. We said
the most ATTRACTIVE. That they are not stylishly dressed but
becomingly, and simply oodles of them without make-up, and for
a supremely good reason they don't NEED itl
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Some advocates of universal military training rest under the
misapprehension that those who oppose it do not believe In a
strong militarily strong country. That is not the case. They
oppose universal military training because they believe it isn't
necessary under modern conditions, and particularly since the
Invention of atomic weapons, rocket weapons, and similar revolu
tionary contrivances of wholesale destruction. Why do anything
that ISN'T essential?
Take the case of President Conant of Harvard for example.
We talked yesterday with an Intimate friend of his who lives
only a few doors from the president out in Cambridge.
Said the friend: "No one could be more devoted to the prin
ciple of proper military and naval preparedness, more opposed
to national unpreparedness and Isolationism and all they Involve,
than Mr. Conant. Moreover he probably knows as much as any
scientist In the country about the potentialities of atomic wea
pons he was active in the research which produced the atomic
bomb. But he opposes universal military training and has person
ally urged the House Military Affairs committee In Washington
to postpone action concerning it. And for one single reason and
one only: .
"Because he sincerely believes this country would be better
off without It and he Includes in being 'better off being as v ell
or better prepared to defend Itself in the event of any future con
flict." Years ago Thanksgiving was a great football day In New Eng.
land but no longer. Only the Boston secondary schools are piny
Ing here today, the big attraction being Boston Latin and Boston
English schools at the Harvard stadium, in something like their
50th annual encounter. Well, playing in this downpour should
keep the boys cool and work up a rugged appetite for turkey.
The game started at 10 a. m. and
wirtten.
A member of the family took
way last night and said it reminded him of the old scenic rail
way at Coney Island. As the dilapidated old street car rolled leis
urly along he was expecting to see a skeleton or some south seas
bathing beauties appear at any time around almost any of of the
many Illuminated curves.
That is a perfect description of Boston's underground as com
pared with that of any other American city. Like Boston's streets
it abhors a straight line as nature abhors a vacuum, and like a
scenic railway it has its populated and furnished bright spots.
R. W. R.
On The Side-By e. v. Duriing
(Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
Oh, tartly may I ma tha day
I fancied first the womankind.
For aver ilnre I ne'er ran have
A quiet thought or peace of mind.
They have plagued my heart
And pleate by eye
And teaird and flattered ma at
will,
Bnt, aye, for all their witchery
The pawky thlnii 1 love they
till.
Jamea Hogg
The Princess Theatre. New
York City, had less than 300
seats. ct It presented regular
attractions. As for example,
the musical hit 'The NiKht
Boat" by Bolton. Wodehnuse
and Kern. The stage was so
small only eight chorus girls
could be used. This reminis
cent train of thought Is inspir
ed by the question: "What was
the smallest theatre In New
York theatrical history?" 1 be
lieve It was the Pmlcess.
Asking
Queries from clients. O Whv
Is it the Chinese rarely suffer
from heart disease? A. That is
question for a medical expert.
nowever, it migni db partly due
to the fact the Chinese uiually
can't produce anytning in me
compare with Chaplin and the
the "shorts" medium, like Jier-
lived only a little over half a
true If there were any earthly
the NEAR future, it would be
our military or naval secrets.
be!
more war; this country certainly
Britain and Russia do clash; the
United Nations, could NOTi
day a week it Just isn't done
is no doubt over as this is being
his first ride on the Boston sub
have their emotions under con
trol and are possessed of phllo
soplv of life that inspires peace
of mind.
Passing By
Campbell McGavln. Possibly
the oldest active bellhop In the
country. Is over seventy years
of age but still responding
rapidly to call of "Front!" In his
youth McGavln was a well
known Jockey. He competed
with such saddle artists as Hen
ry Spencer (the original "ice
man"), Frank O'Neill. Tod
Sloan, Winnie O'Connor,
'Monk" Coburn, Tommy Burns,
Willie Shaw and George Moun
tain. He also rode In South
America.
Dogs Once More
"So you say black and white
Springer Spaniels are smarter
than Seottles. writes a Baldwin
Long Island, reader. "Hoot Mon!
You're plain daft. The excep
tional Intelligence of the Scotch
Terrier Is shown by his great
dignity and discrimination.
Springer Spaniels no matter
how old remain puppyish. I
know, an eleven-year-old Spring
er that plays with a shoe. That's
like a seventy-seven year old
man playing with a rubber doll.
Indicates arrested development.
A Scottie when a puppy acts
like a puppy and when he be
comes a grown dog acts like
one. This is a sign of Intelli
gence. A Spaniel wags its tail
at anybody. A Scottie will not
become familiar or permit fa
miliarity until he is properly in
troduced. Another sign of in
telligence." Mules Sr. Men
"Young Mules & Men experts
say if a woman wants to mould
a man's character she should
get him between the ages of
seventeen and t w e n t y-f ive,"
writes a Chicagoan. "Thirteen
years ago I married my present
husband who was then twenty
three. I thought I could make
him over to suit myself. What
happened? Why he made me
over to suit himself."
How to Sleep
San Franciscan recommends
sleeping flat on your stomach
with arms outstretched and us
ing no pillow Says it promotes
longevity. All I know Is that
Rabbit Maranville, famous
Major leaguer, once stated that
was the way he slept. Maran
ville was active in Major league
ball when in his middle forties
and played semi-pro ball when
well over fifty. So maybe that
Is a good way to sleep. That is,
if you can do it. I tried it and
couldn t.
Triple Wedding
In a recent Portland, Ore.,
triple wedding the brides were
a grandmother, motner ano
daughter. The grandmother,
Mrs. Anna Haines, is fifty-two.
The mother, Mrs. Ruth Mac
Lean, is thirty-five, and the
daughter, Beverly Hayes, seven
teen. "I know California can't
top that," writes my informant.
"And I doubt even Brooklyn
can.
Babies
rnlifnrnlnn boasts that her
one-year-old baby weighs thirty
Not belne a babv ex
pert I am unable to say how un
usual that is. However, l un
derstand the average baby
uipiitha nhnut seven and one
half pounds at birth, doubles its
weight at six months of age and
triples it at one year. That is.
of course, triples Its weignt at
birth. According to that the
average baby should at one year
of age weigh twenty-two and a
half pounds.
News Behind
The News
By Paul MalloD
Washington, Nov. 28 The di
plomacy of the world is falling
deeper daily Into what might
be called a fv.d-
mmm dule game.
jf fjfcw 1 It is a match
f ' " W 1 In which the
contes t a n t s
know very
well what is
being done,
but pretend of
ficially they do
not. Preposter
ous pretensions
are maintained
In the news of
raui Malum
the day. The
public Is left befuddled.
The transparency of the de
ception develops only when you
rub the soot of propaganda from
the news glass of this amazing
world hour and peer inside the
furnished facts.
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CONSIDER, for instance, the
revolution In Iran. The rev
olution was started by a crowd
calling itself the democratic
party. All the news guff ema
nating from the revolution is
that which the occupying Rus
sians care to let out. And the
picture they let out Is that great
patriots of liberty are fighting,
bleeding and dying for the cause
of freedom of their province
sort of like our struggle for
freedom from Britain.
This is laughable, grotesque
ly untrue. The democratic party
is the old communist party un
der a new name. They used to
call It the party of the masses.
but when the Moslems, who
monopolize all Iran with tneir
devout ideas of God, worked up
a sweeping animus against the
agnostic or atheist communists,
the communists broke off and
called themselves democrats,
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KTOW these great democrats of
' Stalin, if successful, would
break their province off from
Iran and establish the pretense
of separate sovereignty while
being subject to adjoining Rus
sia. Stalin could thus work his
way further toward the oil. ex
pand his hegemony and push
back the Moslems. This ts the
only freedom they want to
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wrest the people from Iran and
put them under the thumb of
Moscow.
But the revolution is even
funnier than that. The Russiuns
occupied this territory during
the war to protect a line or sup
plies from us so nazi saboteurs
could not destroy it. For a 'ong
time, it was the only land route
we had through which to help
Russia. Americans and British
occupied the southern half of the
route.
All agreed not only to get out
at the war end, but (at the spe
cific insistence of Mr. Roose
velt) composed a treaty guaran
teeing the independence of Iran
(meaning its protection against
Russia, because Russian domi
nation is what the Moslems
feared from a United Nations
victory).
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WE got our combat force out
sometime back, leaving only
service military, and the Brit
ish, I hear, also removed tneir
fighting men.
The Russians raised some dis
pute as to when the end of 'be
war officially wouia De, out
finally agreed to March 2 for
their withdrawal, which this
government in its new note has
attempted to move up to Jan
uary 1. The world is thus pre
sented with this ludicrous sit
uation: A communist revolution has
been going on in a Russian oc
cupied zone. Presented to the
world as a serious revolution,
it is actually about the same as
if an American revolution broke
out in the American occupied
zone of Germany, and we pre
tended aloofness, bottled up the
territory from the British and
Russians, censored and propa
gandized the movement to let
it succeed.
You see, only a few Irtnian
troops were in the province to
fight the communists. With the
Russians keeping the bulk of
other Iranian forces out, the
local comunists were permitted
to gain foothold. That is the only
way they could possibly have
made a revolution.
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THESE are the subleties be-
aV ki.j u A . : ... ,
may recall advance dispatches
indicated Mr. Byrnes would ask
Moscow for information about
the revolution. That would have
been ironical.
We have a consul in th mvn.
lution area. The Russians iso
lated him from communications
With Otir lpentinn In Tahnrun
We could get nothing from him,
aitnougn this most suspicious
fact was not mentioned in our
note.
The note then represents our
first and vprv mild offer tr,
drop the whole false front with
wnicn tne world is confronted
(conditions in Manchuria snri
Europe are in every way sim
ilar;, ii u sounaea vague and
its "troop-withdrawal plan ex
cessively mild, it nevertht-loct:
represented the beginning of an
enort to create the fuddle game.
Unless this beeinnino la rar.
ried forward effectively, gen
uine understandings of any kind
can hardly be anticipated in
such a way as to restore the
world either to peace or sanity.
Surely it is evident by now that
agreements in a fuddle game are
not worth making.
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Chickens Come Home To Roost
To the Editor: Several years
ago Klamath Falls had a fairly
good football team. It was
good enough to reach the state
finals where it was beaten by
Grant High School 6-0.
Following the defeat your
columnist, Arthur "Smudgepot"
Perry wrote a short Item that
received some publicity in the
Klamath Falls paper. Part of
it sticks In my mind as being
particularly pertinent in regard
to this years Medford team.
May I quote it to you now with
"Medford" substituted for
"Klamath Falls' 'and vice-versa.
"Most grid fans knew it was
not the strength of the Black
Tornado, but the weakness of
their competition, that lifted
them to gloryland. What a nor
mally manned Bend, Eugene,
Ashland, or Pelican squad would
have done to the current Med
ford team would have been the
usual massacre."
You will find that the rest of
Perry's Item also has some
points that hold true today.
Lawson McNulty
Klamath Falls, Ore.
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Hull Testifies
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F-ormcr Secretary of State Cordell
Hull testifies before Joint Pearl Har
bor Investigating Committee denying
that the U. S. had sent any pre
Pearl Harbor ultimatum to Japan.
Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson Co His
ory from the files of the Mai)
Tribune 10 20 and 34 years
aao.
TEN YEARS AGO
November 28. 1935
(It Was Wednesday)
Medford National Bank sold
to United States National Bank
of Portland.
Fog is forecast for Thanks
giving. High 39, low 32 de
grees. Pear shipments for season
nearly 2000 cars.
Herbert Hoover In San Fran
cisco speech urges "return to
American ideals and traditions."
Old Age Pension plan up to
Oregon voters, January 30.
Heavy carry-over of valley
turkeys for Christmas seen.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
November 28, 1925
(It Was Friday)
Wall Street now dictates pol
icies of Belgium, premier
admits.
Unsettled with probably rain.
High 52, low 34.
Burglary epidemic continues
in city.
Walnuts now a commercial
crop in Talent district.
Tickets for Medford-Salem
game sell fast.
Vacant house in city is burn
ed to ground.
THIRTY FOUR YEARS AGO
November 28, 1911
(It Was Monday)
Vanderbilt cup race is won
by Ralph Murford, who travel
ed 222 miles in three hours.
Turki y s for Thanksgiving
sell at 22 cents per pound.
"TWi't lio n Ynnr Wife" at
opera house Friday night.
President Taft's message to
Congress only 6,000 words long
The only remaining house In
the west occupied by Konert
Louis Stevenson Is the old
'French Hotel" at Monterey
now known as the "RLS House."
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APPLEGATE BAND
OF WILD HORSES
EXTINCT
- All but four or five In the
wild horse band of the Apple
gate have disappeared, accord
ing to Ranger Lee Port of the
station. There is no official
word on what happened to the
outlaw band but is generally re
ported on the Applegate they
died of "lead poisoning." Some
of them might have reached
the horse meat markets which
prevailed during the early days
of the beef shortage, rumor says.
The band in 1936 numbered
close to 100 head and destroyed
alfalfa patches, kicked calves to
death and raised equine "ned"
in general. Some staid Apple
gate nags went native and join
ed the band.
In Anril. 1936. a roundun nf
the wild horses was staged with
a oano, tne Grants Pass Cave
men in their skins, movie news
reel cameras, and about snn nan.
pie around the specially built
corral in a sterling district can
yon. Cowboys spent three days
drifting the horses towards the
corral and as the herd neared
the pen, Jhe cameras started
clicking, the band playing, the
Cavemen whooninff nnH th
crowd cheering. This frightened
tne wild norses which, led by a
beautiful stallion, raced up the
side of the canyon and were
gone.
Ranger Port, in charge of the
roundup afterwards annniinroH
there would be another one, but
witnout any publicity.
For 'the past three or four
years stockmen hava rennrtpH
the wild horses were thinning
out.
Ideal Restaurant
Customer Doesn't
Mark Tablecloth
New Orleans, La. (U.PJ Don't
smoke on a dance floor. Don't
draw caricatures on the table
cloth. Don't whistle or wave a knife
at the waiter. Don't write phone
numbers on the powder room
wall, and don't order a zombie
when you should be drinking
something with less sting.
Don't do any of that if you
want to be Maurice Martelle's
"ideal restaurant customer."
Martelle, a local headwaiter,
has been knocking around the
world as caterer and maitre d'
hotel for years. And now he
has pigeoned neatly in a little
black notebook his experiences,
Impressions, do's and don'ts for
diners.
"You'd be surprised if you
knew what the waiter knows
about you by the time you've
finished your demi-tasse," said
Martelle.
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IS TO COURT DEATH!
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The average cost per year at
Veterans' education course un
der Public Law 346 (G.I. Bill of
Rights) is more than $1,250. Re
turns from Victory Bonds will
have to pay for the continued
education of those youngsters
who were forced to leave their
studies to fight for peace.
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