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By Arthur Perry
The main cause of an Increase
in auto accidents Is speed, the
National Safety Council reports.
They are also due to autos and
pedestrians occupying the same
space at the game time.
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A brief will be filed against
the short state Income tax
blank. Briefly, It will be noth
ing of the kind.
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Thursday the 13th (yesterday)
was lucky. It might have been
today.
...
Jean Orr Is back from the
Pacific. He shows a lack of
home cooking.
...
Farmers report need of
what the windshield wipers
wipe, if they work.
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THIS IS AMERICA!
(Pendleton East Orcexonlan)
DESPERATELY NEEDED
Furn, apt. or house. Most
prized possessions 2 daugh
ters, 9 and 11. We love
them, our friends like them
and you might. Please call
2044 or 2104.
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A Chicago heiress who
through the war years struggled
long precariously on $250,000
per year, had It boosted legally
to $300,000. This will put her
partially back on her financial
feet. v
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Rita Hayworth, film beauty,
plans a divorce from Orson
Welles, actor, etc., etc., who
cared the living daylights out
of America, one Sunday night,
with a radio dramatization of an
invasion from Mars. Pertly com
ments, the esteemed Bend Bul
letin: "Going to let Welles
enough alone."
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The British House of Com
mons ratified the $4,400,000,000
loan from U. S. after some re
luctance about acceptance, but
Just enough to be polite,
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FINE DISTINCTION
(Siskiyou News)
'"This situation has been
well known for months to
high school and other reck
less drivers of more mature
years. It has been conducive
to more and more deliberate
ly reckless driving."
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The housing shortage reminds
the older natives of happier
days, when any time a man
drove down the Main Stem with
a 2x4 lashed to the fenders,
there were wild rumors of a
building boom.
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Whipping of two boys at the
State Industrial schools has caus
ed some uneasiness throughout
the state. It seems to have been
administered In the basement,
with a leather strap, on the
hands and feet. Instead of In the
woodshed, with a hair-brush,
where it would have done the
most good,
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SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
The other day Senator Wher
ry of Nebraska chided Senator
Connally of Texas for using the
word "damn" In some remarks
addressed to his colleagues. The
word, said the gentleman from
Nebraska. "Is beneath the dig
nity of the senate."
Senator Connally explained
that he was quoting someone
else when he used the horrid
word. Nevertheless he seems to
have been about as contrite as
a senator ever gets on his home
grounds. He withdrew the four
letter embellishment from his
discourse. (Albany Democrat
Herald) Cloelnff time for Sunday Too Late
to Clmaalfy 4 00 Saturday afternoon
Flea, remember.
Friday. Die. 14. 1945
Editorial Correspondence
Boston, Mass., Dec. 10 "If I regarded General Elsenhower
merely as a professional soldier I would not now be suggesting
him for the presidency. I regard him, however, as a statesman
executive of the highest type, with a military background and
with an acquaintance first-hand with the intricacies of world poli
tics." This, from the venerable Senator Capper of Kansas, In a
nation-wide broadcast.
We agree with everything In the statement except the pro
posal that General Elsenhower be the presidential nominee of the
Republican party.
General Eisenhower would make a good president, as has
been stated before in this department, VERY good.
But as the G.O.P. nominee he would never be elected; the
popular feeling against a professional soldier any professional
soldier in the White House, would defeat him before he could get
a start.
This goes for Generals MacArthur, Doolittle, Arnold and all
the other U. S. generals suggested by the Old Guard, to carry them
to victory In 1048, at least in our opinion.
Ex-Governor Stassen is the best bet for a Republican victory
at the present writing and we have an idea he will remain so up
to the time of the convention.
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Have to give the devil his due. A couple of beautiful days,
after a dozen terrible ones, bright, sunny, cool but not cold. At
least that Is the report of those who have been out. Thanks to
the "dirty dozen" Ye Editor was ordered to stay on the Inside
looking out, which Is quite In character with the general run of
luck on this unpremeditated lengthy absence from the valley.
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Governor Tobin has returned from London but the rest of the
Bostonian delegates are working overtime to get UNO permanent
headquarters on the banks of the Charles.
The latest argument, as reported In the morning paper, Is that
if Europe should be selected in preference to the U. S. A., the
American people would be offended, suspicious and inclined to
return to the isolationism of the early '20's.
Oh, come gentlemen, that is putting it a bit strongl
If American devotion to a world league-of-peace is so tenuous
that the selection of any site outside of the U. S. A. would impair
It, Ihfn the effort is doomed to failure anyway. We can't believe
the situation is as bad, or half as bad, as that.
According to local comment, this effort to get UNO head
quarters here Is only part of a formal detailed drive originally
from the Boston Chamber of Commerce, looking toward making
Boston the premier convention city of the Atlantic seaboard
some declare of the entire country.
If this plan should go through we wonder where all the dele
gates would sleep? Certainly not in the hotels at present af
forded. Here, as in New York and apparently every other laree
city in the country, the hotels can't take care of the demand now,
and yet they are said to be 100 per cent behind Ihis effort. It
doesn't make sense, unless the present hotel boom is regarded as
short-lived and the need of drumming up hotel trade at a later
period, a strong probability.
It is nearly two weeks since
Rose Carlau of nearby Chelsea, was kidnaped, and fears are grow
ing It will never be recovered alive. An unusually strange case. The
parents are poor, the father a young sailor in the South Pacific,
the baby was stolen from Its cab when left but a few moments by
ine moiner ana in a place wnere It had never been left before, so
the kidnaping could hardly have been premeditated. For a week
there were no demands for ransom, now such demands are drib
bling In via poy-station phone, but they all appear to be faked Dy
those moronic cranks who usually spring up In the wake of un
usual and unsolved crimes. Originally it looked like another i
of frustrated "mother-love" but as
iv anas up more and more to the
and a six-months-old baby cared
live very longl R.W.R.
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On The Side-By e. v. During
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Grave authors aay, and witty poeti
alni,
That honett wedlock la a ilorlotia
thlni.
nut depth of Judgment moat in
htm apprara
Who wisely wedl In hit maturer
yeara.
Pope.
(In agreement with the above
was Aristotle who said: "The
age of 1R is the best time for
women to marry, and the age of
37 or a little less, for men.")
The trend Is for long-legged
girls. The demand for lengthy
ladies as models , and movie ac
tresses which has been great is
now reported terrific. Not only
that, the long-legged lasses ap
pear to be on the preferred list
for matrimonial companions. At
first, it was thought this latter
situation was due to the num
ber of tall young men having in
creased greatly. But it was
learned . that many short men
have a yearning for the tall and
long legged females too. That's
why the sale of height building
shoes for men has increased. In
Hollywood, where formerly the
limbs of candidates for stardom
were only looked at, now they
are also measured. If a young
woman's legs measure less than
33 Inches her chances for a film
Job are slim. The Hollywoodians
prefer girls whose underpin
nings are as long as those of
Lauren Bacnll and Alexis Smith
which measure 37 inches.
Briefly
That haunting tune the "St.
Louis Blues" has supported Its
composer, W. C. Handy, for 31
years. It still nets around $23,
000 annually In royalties. , , .
In St. Paul, a Bring Back Daddy
club has been formed by young
mothers whose husbands are
overseas with the armed forces.
These women plan to harass au
thorities In Washington until
something drastic is done about
the return of fathers In the
armed forces whose children
are crying to see them.
Mult, it M.n
In their attitude toward their
husbands wives should keep
their maternal Instinct under
control. If a wife treats her hus
band In too motherly a fashion
he often begins to treat her as
j if she was his mother. This
j causes his eyes to wander when
I other females are present. He
I becomes easy prey for predatory
brunettes and she-wolf brown
eyed honey blondes. Many wom
en are often heard to say "men
are Just grownup little boys."
Maybe so. But wise women treat
their husbands as adults. Such
is the opinion of our Mules &
Men department experts.
the six-month old babv of Mrs.
the days pass without a "break"
act of some demented person,
for by a maniac usually doesn't
Passing By
Frank O'Dwyer, brother of
the mayor elect of New York.
Frank, who Is over six feet tall
and weighs 207 Is a California
farmer. He Is a very genial and
even tempered fellow; the only
time he gets angry is when
somebody suggests that Texas
grapefruit is better than either
Florida or California grapefruit.
. . . Janet Gaynor. Film star of
yesteryear. She Is given to the
wearing of very high hats. Don't
know the technical name of this
type of chnpeau but it looks like
a ..arrow, oversized stovepipe
hat to me. Janet is said to wear
these hats in an effort to make
herself appear toller. They
don't. Anyway, why should any
cute little trick try to moke her
self look taller. Has being pe
tite rcolly lost its advantages?
Food
According to many physicians
the best time to consume the
largest meal Is the middle of the
day. They moy be right but 1
still prefer my dinner in the
evening. Gives you something
to look forword to. Thot fellow
I know who has his big meal In
the morning, thot is his dinner
for breakfast, is still enjoying
his quaint system. Says he feels
fine. Yesterday for breakfast he
had vegetable soup, roast beef,
mushed potatoes with grnvy,
succotash, creamed onions, Wal
dorf salad, apple pie a la mode
and five cups of coffee.
Scouting Peggy
To try to find out why Teggy
Hopkins Joyce has achieved so
much success with men a cer
tain young woman of Manhattan
made a study of her. This wom
an says she noticed that Peggy
always gives her mole escort her
undivided attention. She listens
intently to what the man has to
sny and responds with many ap
proving smiles and exclamations
of interest. The young woman
who ...fesses she scouted Peggy
says she has herself tried the
celebrr.ted charmer's system
with excellent results.
Sid.llghts
Mrs. Billy "Ma" Sunday, now
77, is still very active "as an
evangelist. She preached In over
a hundred cities this year and
about the same number In 1944.
. . . Will Rogers had his auto
brakes tested every night. The
brakes on some of the Jalopies
now on streets and highways
should be tested every morning,
noon and night.
All 48 states have set up agen
cies to aid in reconversion, ac
cording to the Council of State
Governments.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon'
Washington, Dec. 14 Sec
retary of State Byrnes goes to
Moscow he says the Iranian
gove r n m e n t
will make the
trek also. So
both Moham
med and the
mountain go to
Moscow.
The senate,
as are all
knowing indi
viduals here, is
worried. Real
izing this, be
ram aiaiino
fore his de
parture, the
state secretary took both the
senators and the press into his
confidence In off - the - record
meetings.
The attitude of the worried
senators and individuals is
this:
We have not established much,
except our position in China;
we have lost In Iran; the Rus
sians are in the process of con
quering that country.
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OUT at least we have not lost
" abjectly. We have won and
lost, by defending our position
the Roosevelt Atlantic charter
against make-believe freedom
for peoples and world-democ
racy.
We ceased our losing because
we had an adamant attitude for
what we believed was right.
Does Mr. Byrnes' trip to Moscow
mean we have abandoned that
attitude?
Frankly, the senators think
it may. They think generally
appeasement of Britain (with
money) is to be followed by ap
peasement of Russia (with atom
bombs, concessions, eye-blink
ing regarding Iran, China, and
similar pretensions that con
quest of Europe and Asia by
Russia is unthinkable).
Their understanding is re
inforced by two facts, which
I think have been unpublished,
certainly have not been men
tioned prominently:
(A) Mr. Byrnes dropped his
adviser, Jimmy Dunn, for the
Moscow trip (Dunn had been
charged by Moscow enthusiasts
as being fascist, Catholic and
otherwise unsympathetic with
Moscow causes) and Mr. Byrnes
is taking in Dunn's place Free
man Mathews, a butterfly dip
lomat, who was skipped around
the world in his assignments
yet never got the reputation of
being against Russian Interests.
Mr. Byrnes Is also taking
John Carter Vincent, head of the
far eastern division, which Pat
Hurley said was sabotaging
American foreign policy (the
democrats sure stopped Hurley,
didn't they, Senator Connolly?).
In answer and apology to this
line of thought, Mr. Byrnes'
people explain a crisis of the
United Nations organization is
now at hand, due to Russian
lock of co-operation. If UNO
Is to be saved, Mr. Byrnes must
save it at Moscow, they say.
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I JNLESS Molotov shows up at
the January 7 meeting of
the assembly In London. It will
mean Russia has turned thumbs
down on the Roosevelt formula
for world peace.
The meeting has been adver
tised as a routine assemblage
of the foreign ministers, as
promised bv Stalin to Roose
velt and Churchill at Yalta. My
Inside information Is that Mr.
Byrnes went to his office on
a recent Sunday and began
reading the Yalta agreements.
They say he found the agree
ments calling for meetings of
the foreign ministers every
three months. (They also called
for independence of Iian). These
meetings had not been held.
The publicity men may claim
thot the San Francisco confer
ence came In April (against
Yolta's January) and Potsdam
come In July, and London in
September but these were not
meetings of the foreign min
isters as prescribed. The only
one which was what was pre
scribed was the London gather
ing In September, and It broke
up In complete failure, due to
Russian opposition.
Mr. Byrnes thought, my de
partmental Informants tell me:
How about another foreign
minister meeting? He got Rus
sian consent first (he needed it
after the straight Moscow re
buff of his Iranian note re
questing early Russian with
drawal of troops from Iran) and
in spite of the fact that Mr.
Truman had. Just the day be
fore, announced he expected
no meetings of the Big Three,
but thought the UNO could take
core of everything.
In the face of the president.
Mr. Byrnes asserted the White
House had confused the dis
tinction between colossal Big
Threes (Truman, Attlee and
Stalin) and ordinary Big Threes
(Molotov. Bevin and Byrnes).
The latter meeting, he thought
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WHAT the senators think is
that the Roosevelt people
in this country (Mrs. Roosevelt's
promotionists, C. I. O., the auto
workers, etc.) raised such a
publicity opposing Byrnes, even
causing communist pickets to
demand his ousting in front of
his state department one day,
that he became frightened of
the domestic political conse
quences of his non-losing policy
and decided to embark upon
appeasement which is what
the Roosevelt radicals want.
For the present only, they will
keep quiet in hopes that the
agreements at Moscow will be
fair and valid.
Flight o Time
M.diord and Jackson Co His
tory from the iil.t oi the Mai)
Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years
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TEN YEARS AGO
Dec. 14. 1935
(It was Saturday)
Gov. Martin flays "carping
critics of Oregon progress."
British attempt to force Ethi
opia to accept peace revealed.
Dr. Townsend boasts "political
power to rule nation."
Cloudy. High 59, low 30.
Five members of Black Tor-
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uregon team. iney uic duu
Smith, Dick Lewis, Stan Kun
zleman, Baker and Dickinson.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Dec. 14. 1925
(It was Monday)
No diptheria or menigitis epi
demic here as rumored.
High school basketball season
to start Jan. 16.
William J. Warner Is nomin
ated in senate for postmaster
ship here.
Battling Sikl, Senaglese pug
ilist, killed in New York City
alley.
Unsettled. High 46, low 35.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
Dec. 14, 1911
(It was Thursday)
Christmas rush starts in local
stores.
Cloudy. High 47, low 34.
Daily Weather Report
FORECASTS
Medford and vicinity: Fair tonlBM.
Increasing cloudiness Saturday. Con
tinued cold, becoming warmer Satur
day night.
rynn- Tnrrennlne cloudiness to
night with morning fog in valleys.
Cloudy SHturuay. uonunueci coia.
Gentle southerly winds off coast.
LOCAL DATA
Temperature a year ago today:
Highest SO: lowest 26.
Total monthly precipitation .64
Inch.
Deficiency for the month .33 inch.
Total precipitation since September
1, 10-15. 7 00 Inches.
Excess for the season 2 31 inches.
Relative humidity at 4:30 p. m. yes
terday S6; 4 30 today 02.
Tomorrow
... Sunrise T:32 a.m.; Sunset 4:41 p.m.
Observations Taken at 4:30 A.M.,
120 Meridian Time
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Boston
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Reno
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Roseburg 42
Salt Lake 27
San Francisco 33
Seattle 38
Spokane 24
Washington, D. C 28
Yoklma 33
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