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Tribune 10. 20 and 34 rears ago
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
January 19, 1940
(It Was Friday)
County Commissioner Ralph
Billings and County Assessor
J. B. Coleman seek republican
nomination for judge.
Fern Valley community club
elects Miss Anne Kantor secre
tary. Fifteen passengers, largest
group to leave here at one time
by plane, .board United Main
liner here.
Dick Miller celebrates birth
day anniversary at party.
Home Garden club, Antelope
district, elects Mrs. Luther Haak
president.
George Heryford. county sani
tarian, to speak at public health
association meeting nere.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
January 19. 1930
Eugene high basketball team
defeats Medford high, 3B to za
in rough game.
Owen-Oregon mill to go on
ix-day week basis as lumber de
mand drops.
Jacksonville to be terminal
point for trucking ore from Blue
Ledge mine.
Upstate area fears "silver
thaw"; rains continue In valley.
39 YEARS AGO TODAY
January 19, 1919
(It Was Wednesday)
R. A. Johnson, local architect,
writes leading article In west
coast magazine describing local
residence.
E. W. Hunter and Roy R
Peebles accepting entries in
Southern Oregon Poultry associa
tion show here.
Snow at Crater Lake park re
ported at 10 feet 2 Inches, or
about 10 feet under usual depth
for this season of the year.
Father OfUdmits
Writing Bad Checks
State police yesterady arrested
Charles Earl Lane, Butte Falls,
and placed him in the county
jail on charges of writing no-account
checks. In a statement
made to city police, Lane said
he wanted to pleHd guilty to the
c h a r g e and that he would
"throw himself on the mercy of
the court. '
The 41-ycar old father of four
small children admitted writing
at least four worthless checks
last fall and passing them at
Rogue Service and Supply com
pany, the Coats Shoe Repair
shop, and the Western Auto
store. Police here have been
looking for him since then.
According to his signed state
ment. Lane had used the checks
to buy necessary staples for his
family. Ho said he has been out
of work for some time. Each of
the bad checks was signed with
Lane's correct name and address.
Eugene, Ore., Jan. 19 (U.R)
Sen. Wayne L. Morse is sched
uled to discuss the oleomargarine
tax fight in congress at the 56th
annual meeting of the Oregon
Dairymen's association here, on
January 23-25, President Arthur
Ireland of Forest Grove an
nounced today.
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Letter From Applegate
Dick Applegate, former Mail Tribune sports edi
tor and in more recent years a foreign correspondent
for the United Press, spent Christmas day watching
the flight oi Chinese nationalist troops across the
Indo China-China border. Applegate, in a letter just
received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Ap
plegate of Medford, tells of a trip which he made
from his office at Singapore, across the South China
sea to Saigon, French Indo-China, up to Hanoi and
thence to the nearby China border.
"It rained most of the time," wrote the corre
spondent, "and was miserable for the Chinese troops,
except that no one was shooting at them, borne ot
them were barefoot, poorly clad and miserably
housed in grass huts. They were accompanied by
little kids as young as four and five years, all refugees
from the communists. The moral : Don't lose a war if
you can help it."
DACK in Saigon, where his letter was written,
AnDleerate continues:
"On Monday I leave for Tonlee Sap, a wide lake
in the Mekong river. So far as I know, no American
correspondent has done a story on the lake, which
is so full of fish that when the seasonal drop in, the
water comes it is underway now the people take
the fish out of the shallows with pitchforks.
"I am making the tour with one Owen Richards,
a eeolorist from Pottsville Penn., whom I hired as a
special U.P. photographer. He went with me to the
Chinese border. Oddly enough although he was
equipped with a Leica, an Argus and a movie camera,
I got better pictures with a little old folding German
reflex camera, a Pilot, picked up in Malang, Java,
some three years ago. Maybe the reason was that I
know a news shot when I see it and he tries for the
artistic effect.
"From Tonlee Sap we go to Ankor Wat. I have
been kicking around this area for a long time now and
have never seen it. Expect ' to spend several days
there, then fly back here to Saigon, and then by sea to
.Bangkok and then again by sea back to bingapore.
"I've seen a lot of places lately I never heard of
before. Flew from here to Hanoi, and then tried to
fly to the border at Langson. The field was flooded
so went to Haiphong instead, then by French navy
launch to a place called Hongay, on the Bai d Along,
an incredible bay inclosed by the most peculiar rock
structures anyone ever saw. They stick up out of the
water by the thousands, looking like steep haystacks.
some of them 2000 feet high. It's a favorite hangout
for Chinese and lonkinese pirates, altnougn we saw
none. The boat we were in mounted two machine
guns, though, in case we did.
Had gone to Hongay with the intention ot going
by road convoy up the line to Muong Djoung, where
23,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians were in an in
ternment camp. Richards and I were prepared to
spend Christmas eve out in the open, or at best in a
tent, only to have the French resident, Marcel Senac,
meet us at the boat, which beached right in front of
his house. He invited us to stay with him and I was
in the process of declining with thanks on grounds I
wanted to push on to get a Christmas story at the
camp, when he told me that 27 (count 'em, twenty
seven.) Chinese generals were in a French villa on Vat
Chai island, within spitting distance across the bay.
He even gave us a jeep, a driver, an interpreter, and
the use of the government ferry (which he sum
moned from the island with three shots from an army
rifle) and within two hours of hitting Hongay I was
talking with the generals. Consequently we spent
Christmas eve snugly warm in front of a coal tire,
and with venison and three kinds of French wines,
including champagne, for dinner. I never saw such
hospitality. Roughing it, indeed 1
ifrom Hongay we went on up by convoy to the
camp, got a lot of pictures, and then back again by
convoy to Hongay. That is a big coal region, with the
only good coal in southeast Asia, and proved fairly
interesting to Richards, who comes from the Ameri
can coal belt, albeit it left me fairly cold. My conten
tion is that when you've seen one lump of coal, you've
seen them all.
"Our host, Senac, one of the most inate gentlemen
I ever met, volunteered his Citroen sedan from Hon
gay back to Haiphong. I drove the car back .the 80
miles, behind a slow-moving convoy.
ihey sent out French and Algerian troops to de
ploy along the worst parts of the road the Viet
Minh nationalists have developed a disconcerting
habit of shooting up the French convoys in those parts
lately. We were also held up at four ferries. One of
the ferries was poled across what seemed to be a lake;
by two anemic looking little Tonkinese whom you
wouldn't think could pole a canoe, although they had
the Citroen, a jeep and a loaded truck aboard. All
very interesting, and all very slow.
We also drove from Haiphong back to Hanoi,
with French outposts every few miles along the road.
For miles telephone and power poles were down, dyn
amited by the Viet Minh. Looked like something out
of Beau Geste, including those French hats that look
like they were sawed off of stovepipes.
"Flew from Haiphong back to Saigon and have
been here several days with me interviewing the local
big shots and Richards dashinir niadlv around town
on a French bicycle he has bought.
Saigon is a much more pleasant place than when
I first came here in 1947. Then. I came down with i
my first bout of malaria while at the same time en
joying a spot of dengue (which has the interesting!
and informative name of 'bone break fever' in the
West Indies) and the town was being shot up by Viet i
Minh practically every night. Then all the jeeps had j
wire-cutters mounted in front, and everybody packed '
a gun. Now the wire-cutters are gone and only patrols ,
go armed, and although a few grenades were tossed i
around on New Year's eve there was a 24-hour truce i
on Christmas I have heard only a few scattered
shots.
"baigon is the most westernized of the Far East-
Crosstown
by Roland Cos
"Think that will calm him down sufficiently, or shall we try
someimng Heavier.
ern cities I have seen, including Manila. The shops
are all French, and on the main boulevards vou ac
tually see more French men and women than you do
Annamites. The city isn't very big I would place
it at under lUU.UUU, although the French say it is 500,
000 but adjoining it is the biggest unknown city I
ever heard of, Cholon. Cholon is practically all Chi
nese, nearly a million of them. That's where most of
the gambling and night spots are, probably because
the Chinese pay off to the Viet Minh and are allowed
to operate at night, whereas the French do not, and
are not.
"The food here is wonderful, though expensive. I
have been stuffing myself with pate de foi au truffs
(goose liver pate with truffles) and camembert and
rocquefort cheese, along with an occasional dollop of
snails. The snails are magnifique, and not so revolt
ing under the name of escargots. They are so drench
ed with drawn butter, garlic and other condiments
that I haven't the faintest idea of what a naked snail
might taste like, and am not so sure that I care."
E.C.F.
Washington Report
By Bob Dickey
' Washington, Jan. IB Ore- to that 148 platform,
gon's Senator Wayne Morse has Not Elected
turned his verbal guns on the "Furthermore," he added, the
newlv - formed republican national comnmire
Bob Dickey
known, Guy
Tali commit
tee" and the
republican na
tional commit
tee. He is at
tacking them
for "assuming
authority t o
formulate a re
statement o f
the republican
party's policy."
As i s well
Gabrielson, the
ADVICE OFF RECORD
Spokane, Wash. (U.R) Louis R.
Greenlee was on his way home
with a stack of phonograph rec
ords when he lost control of his
car. Although the car was de
molished, Greenlee suffered only
slight bruises. Every record was
smashed except on titled "I'll
Never Slip Around Again."
SEARCH SUCCEEDS
Boston (U.R) When an elder
ly neighbor reported she had
just lost $281 in Christmas sav
ings, Mrs. James Quinlan assign
ed her 14 children to the search.
Each child was given a street to
search and soon 14-year-old Jo
seph recovered the bag, its con
tents intact.
chairman of the republican na
tional committee, recently
formed a committee of various
republican national committee
men to help him formulate a new
credo for the republican party.
Oregon's reDubiican national
committeeman, Ralph Cake of
Portland, is among the group.
Gabrielson also called on the
republican members of the house
and senate to form similar com
mittees to help in the policy reformulation.
The republican members of
congress responded and in the
senate a committee was formed
with Taft at the helm. Sen. Cor
don of Oregon was selected as
one of the members but the move
to get Sen. Morse on the com
mittee was aborted by his own
dissension.
In the house of representa
tives, a similar committee was
formed. Here again Oregon has
representation, for Rep. Harris
Ellsworth was tapped as a member.
This action by both the na
tional committee and the repub
lican members of congress was
assailed by ben. Morse. He main
tained that neither of them has
any authority to say what the
principles of the republican par
ty are or shall be.
Convention Sets Policy
"It is the delegates of the reg
istered republican voters select
ed to attend the national con
vention, acting through their
platform committees, who deter
mine the republican policy,"
Morse declared.
In regard to the national com
mittee, he tabbed it as "an ar
rangement committee," and said,
"It never has been, and in my
opinion, never should be given
the power to declare what the
principles of the republican par
ty are or should be."
According to Morse, "the re
publican convention in 148
adopted one of the strongest plat
forms that it has had in years
and he for one would like to
know what is wrong with it."
ine Oregon solon said, "I do
not think the republican na
tional committee or any other
group of republicans can right
fully assume unto themselves
the jurisdiction to reject or add
men do not have to meet the test
of a statewide election except in
a few states such as Oregon.
As a consequence, he main
tains they have no business de
termining the political policies
on which republican candidates
must run for re-election.
Apparently Morse is not alone
in this belief. Even Sen. Taft,
who is now heading up the sen
ate policy re-statement commit
tee, refused to go along with the
idea at first. Finally, he did con
sent, but then only because he
felt that there had been so much
publicity about the issue that
their failure to cooperate would
hurt the party.
Others supporting the Morse
view are Senators Lodge of Mas
sachusetts, Milliken of Colo
rado, Hickenlooper of Iowa and
Aiken of Vermont.
It has also leaked out that a
anno maioritv of the republican
senators, who met In caucus to
determine if they should form
the Taft committee, were against
the idea. But the consensus of
opinion was: Such action will
not do any narm Decause an we
will do is re-state the party plat
form adopted in 148.
Morse still refused to have any
thine to do with the policy re
statement gesture. He sam, r or
my part, I am going to run for
re-election on my record in the
senate and on basic principles of
the republican party's platform
laid down in the convention in
148."
The Grange
nulla Falls Granae
Master Ted Fredenburg call
ed Butte Falls Grange to order
January 16 with ten staunch
Grangers present who had brav
ed the snow and cold. The mem
bers voted to donate $10 to the
polio fund and $5 to the local
church project.
John Hoist reported on road
conditions. The chaplain report
ed that Bessie Heryford is im
proving but still unable to re
turn to her home. "Get well"
cards were sent, and it was stat
ed that friends may call or
write. The address is 520 Penn
sylvania avenue, Medford.
Disolav table was arranged by
Jean Hoist with Indian baskets,
hand-made dolls dressed in
Navajo costumes, rugs with sand
painting designs and a Chimoyo
pocketbook.
Lecture was aevotea to rants.
by members on by-gone days.
Anticioatine the absence of the
serving committee due to bad
roads, Mrs. Bob Meeman surpris
ed those present by serving
refreshments.
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Japanese Mine Fire
Claims Lives Of Six
Sendai, Honshu, Jan. 19 (U.R)
Six miners were killed, 21 in
jured and one was reported miss
ing in a pre-dawn .'ire 148 meters
underground in a mine operated
by the Matsuo Mining Industry
company today.
The fire occurred at 3 o'clock
in the morning in Iwategun,
Iwate prefecture. National rural
police said an investigation was
underway to determine the
cause of the fire.
BULLET KILLS TWO
Acniirt Wash (U.P) A sillPlft
bullet kiiled two hunters during
.. , urin: T-
tne elK season nere. yiuicum i.
Nolan and William E. Hamilton
umro cirur-W while stnndine hark
to back. James Jones told author-
tiies he shot at what he thought
was an elk.
Los Angeles, Jan. 19 (U.R) A
minor earth tremor awakened
residents in several suburbs ear
ly today but no damage was reported.
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