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SIX MBDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDvTRIBUNE "Everyone to Southern Oreaon" Heads Th UaU Tribune" Dall; Except Saturday Published bj MEDFORD PRINTING CO. ST-ai North Fir St. Phone 8-1M1 ROBCRT W RUHU Wltor ERNEST II GILSTRAF Manaia HERB OREY iVdvertlalni Mat. C FERGUSON Menaflna MHO ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN. Teleirapn Editor HENRY L GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mr An Independent Newepapaa Entarad aa second claaa matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act 01 March I. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATE B Mall In AllvanM: Dally and Sunday one year... 00 Dally and Sunday el month! e.7 Dally and Sunday three moa !u Dally and Sunday one month 100 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Aahland. Central Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenim. Telent and on mntar routaa: Dally and Sunday one yaer. 113.00 Daily and Sunday one month t oo All Terma Cath In Advance Official Paper el the City ef Medford Official Paper al Jackson County United Preae Full Laaaad Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS ! Advertising Repreaentetlve: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY IffC Offlcea In New York Chicago De troit, San Franclaco Lot Angelai Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver, B C PUBLISH!. f ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL c5TQN AS Flight o' Time Medford anal Jacks County Hts tare from the filee al tha MaH Tribune 10. 20 anal 34 years at 10 YEARS AGO TODAY March 7. 1940 ' (It Wag Thursday) New British 85,000-ton liner Queen Elizabeth completes mild en voyage to New York through U-boat gauntlet. Credit rating course to open at senior high school Monday. E. H. Hedrlck, local school su- fierintendent, to preside at meet ng of superintendents in Salem next week. Water gap road building in Williams creek area progresses. Lewis Super service station to observe 13th anniversary, Mnn- ager Cliff Wheelock announces. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY March 7, 1910 (It Was Friday) Democrats plan "smear" cam paign against President Hoover. O. O. Alenderfer elected ex alted ruler of Elks lodge. Two Chinese pheasants stage fight In Table Rock district and combat hailed here as sign of spring. Petitions circulated In Port land for banning of cigarettes from itate. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY March 7, 1919 (It Was Tuesday) Miss Marie Seely, Medford. Is freshman at Oregon Agricultural college. Jack True and D. M. Lowe .appointed board to study new route for Pacific highway over Billings mil. Neighborhood Shakespeare chid to meet with Mrs. Roy B. Peebles Thursday evening. She Starts 'Em Young In Her Sunday School Berwick, Pa. (U.Rl Mrs. Ray mond Lex doesn't start her chil dren to Sunday school until they are two weeks old. But from then on. the Lex youngsters are expected to have perfect attendance. The family holds a record for attendance at the Holy Trinity Lutheran church here. The three youngest children. Doris, two; Jane, one and three-werksold Phyllis, haven't missed Sunday school since they were two weeks old. Ten-year-old Raymond and Donald, six, each has a five-year record. "We didn't start them off quite so young," explained Mrs. Lex apologetically. Business Prospect In Northwest Favorable Seattle, Mar UP Hubert J. Soher, San Francisco, savs business prospects in the Pacific Northwest appear favorable for at least three years. Sober, a research man in the ! investment field, said national prosperity will last at least three I years. But the best opportuni ties for any section of the conn try are to be found In the north west, he added. I Soher is connected with the 1 Hartley Rogers firm now estab lishing offices here. JAPS ACCEPT Tokyo, Mar. 7 (U.P.) The (iapanese government accepted today an invitation to take part In an International shortwave radio conference opening at Flor ence, Italy, April i. Editorial Correspondence New York. N. Y.. Mar. 3 Well, well! In a few seconds the Coplon-Gubitchev picture completely changed. The press-boys are as certain now there will be a conviction, as they were a week ago there would not be. The reason? To the surorise of everyone but the defense lawyers them. aelve the Copion attorneys offered no defense, ior practically none. Miss Coplon'i smart legal trio Abraham Pomerantz called only four witnesses, Including one of the government attorneys, Mr. Whearty, who was once Miss Coplon'i boss in the Justice department. The other three were also employees of the government, the purpose being to convince the Jury from their evidence mat it was not unusual lor employees in the department of justice to take documents home for overtime work, the department being so understaffed. This would explain why, when the defendant was arrested, she had so many govern ment papers in her handbag. Abraham did not get very far. The upshot was that to have as many documents as Miss Copion had was considered unusual by all concerned. In refusing to put up any defense, Miss Coplon's lawyers again followed the procedure pattern adopted by the lawyers who de fended the 11 communists in the same courtroom last summer, namely: They practically gave up any idea of securing an acquittal and put all their chips on the hope of a reversal in a higher court. The essence of the communist defense was to so badger and pester the court that Judge Medina would lose his head and make reversible decisions. They did not seem to get very far, Just how far will only be known, however, when there is a superior court ruling on the appeal. The same with the Copion defense. Samuel Neuburgcr, head of the defense, made no explanation to the court when he stated "Miss Copion rests," but later to re porter! outside he said: "The court has made so many errors In denying the motions for a mistrial that her interests would best be served by resting." So that's that. Just how smart the defense has been only the future can de termine. This department's own belief is that there is more chance of a reversal In this case, than in the communist trial, unless, of course, the supreme court should rule the statute under which the latter conviction was secured, unconstitutional. This is, needless to say. entirely a layman's viewpoint. And as before stated the sudden discharge of Archibald Palmer was un doubtedly a slick trick. Nevertheless it seemed to us, that the three smart attorneys played their cards pretty skillfully and all in all, built up a pretty strong case along the line that called sud denly into the trial when it was sufficient time to read up the record and give Miss Copion the sort of defense to which she was constitutionally entitled. Well, we shall see what we shall see. Meanwhile there Is little doubt, in the Judgment of the under signed, that the general strategy in both the communist trial and the second and final chapter in this Coplon-Gubitchev case, was determined by Moscow. The similarity in procedure renders any other conclusion difficult if not impossible. No matter how far away or relatively obscure the defendant, if communism or com munists are involved apparently the Kremlin takes over. Other nations, the U.S.A. particularly, might take a leaf out of the Polit buro book in thii direction. The obvious difficulty is however, that were a citizen of this country involved In Russia as Gubitchev has been over here, no proper defense would be allowed. This young Communist Novikov, attache of the Russian em bassy and Gubitchcv's adviser, interests this department. He looks no more like a Russian communist than Alger Hiss. In fact like Hiss he is young, personable, attractive with an engaging smile and good sense of humor. He speaks excellent English, dresses in "collegiate" fashion, is very attentive and keen, never appears to be worried, might pass anvwhere as a graduate of some approved Ivy League college, a young doctor or attorney, perhaps a career man with a bright future in the United States diplomatic1 service It ii impossible to associate him with a foreign police state, or having the Iron will and moral ruthlcssness essential to anyone In his position. It must be as In the ense of Alijer Hiss, another example of how little one can tell by APPEARANCES. Not so very long ago a trip to Europe by air was a most hazard ous undertaking. We haven't the statistics at hand but we recall there were at least a dozen fatalities at the time Lindbergh thrilled the world by his solo flight. Had not "Lady Luck" perched on the shoulder of the "lone eagle" he would never have reached Paris. But today! Took a hurried subway trip to Idlewild Field, and as many planes are hopping off for Europe and returning from there. as are arriving and departing at include private planes of course.) In fact the casualty percentage is incredibly low, one official de claring Atlantic ocean hops far safer than long air trips over land. However, this mav be. there the trans-Atlantic passenger service now that, the same authority declares many lines are losing money and consolidations are in order. Not long ago a young man by the name of Paul Alexander Chrlstoffel willem Brnndenburg van den Gronrion JR. (think of tacking a cognomen like that on your baby son!! arrived by plane from Paris only to find at the customs he had forgotten his "stu dent visa." What did he do? In 20 minutes he was on a plane bound back for Paris and 4R hours later he was back here via air al the Riverdale country school in the Bronx! If you want the latest news, visit your dentist. We don't know why it is but dentists always or almost al ways. not only are well-informed but have the most positive opinions about all sorts of things, particularly polities. We have been having some dental work done here and this morning His Excellency "Simon Legree" informed us the Mail Tribune of Med ford. Oregon, was featured here on an ABC hookup the other night when a reporter told his story of a thrilling airplane rescue in which he took a leading part. "That's your paper isn't it?" he asked. We had to admit It was. We have often listened to this ex cellent "Gentlemen of the Press" broadcast, but happened to be out on the night in question. Tried to get some of the details from ABC here In New York but thev told us to contact L.A. or wait for the M.T. of that date. We decided on the lntter, and can the story in question in general, pardonable pride, congratulate the Speaking of "heroes" a small picture in the New York papers a about how he cornered a wild fox with the aid of his faithful rocker-spaniel "Boots." and strangled the animal with his hare hands. The facts were essentially correct. Only the pay-off wasn't so noi or so neroic. The boy, "Teddy" by name, not only expected a S3 bounty from the county, hut a good price for the pelt. He failed to get the latter and has not to date received the former. The Hoard of Health cut off Reynard's head for a rabies Inspection, and sent the re mainder of the carcass to the Morristown civic incinerator. But I he worst was yet to come. When Teddy returned to his home with "Boots" a woman came up in a car. spied the dog and debarking called to the pup in a friendly authoritative tone: "Come to mother, MUSTARD, come to mother'" The dog leaped with Joy and went. "If you wish to see Mustard." the strange woman railed bark "his home is at 222 Lincoln street." Teddy Insisted he did not steal the dog. the dog fust picked him up. but that did not help things much. Instead of being the town hero now Teddy is merely a heartbroken kid, without his pet dog and minus the proreeds from his heroic fox hunt. R.W.R. February Unemployed Jumps To 4,684,000 Washington. Mar. 7 (UPi The number of unemployed In February Jumped to 4.884 Olio the highest since August. 1941 the census bureau reported to day. The striking soft coal miners were not included In the esti mate. The February figure com pared with 4,480,000 in January and 3,221,000 a year ago. The February total was the highest since August, 1941, when there were 5.620,000 unem ployed. Kern countv. Calif, was named for Edward Kern, topog rapher of Gen. John Fremont.' party of explorers. Tuesday. March 7, 18 JO rested without calling a witness. a nearly over, one week was not the Medford airport. (We don't And nothing is thought of it. are so manv airlines encaged in hardlv wait though we recall and herewith with, we hope, "hero." bov in Morristown. N.J.. got his week ago. with a laudatory tale EVERTHING SHARED Manchester, N. H. (U.R Mrs Mary Crannan and Mre, Nora Crannan, 73-year-old twin sisters who have been Inseparable all their lives, went to the hospital together after being hit by the same automobile. J Monuments GRAVE MARKERS Granite - Marble Mirrolitt ORDER NOW for LESS Jkc Coffman Jacksonville, Ore. Box 495 Phone 262 Crossfown ! Ij!X " "Any of these new-fangled soaps that get you clean without wsshin'?" IIIMilMIIIIIIMIIIIiltiiiiMlliisat On the Side"8 v- Dur,in , (Distributed by Kin Features Syndicate. lacj He said: "She has a lovely face, God In his mercy lend hpr erace." TENNYSON. (If you have a beautiful young daughter you should give the above lines careful considera tion. Sea that your good looking offspring is taught how to carry herself, how to walk with ease and grace. A round-shouldered beauty who shuffles along in stead of walking gracefully ii a pathetic sight. Because they lack grace many girls who are really ! beautiful are actually unattrac tive). On a visit to New York he saw in the Metropolitan Museum of Art a statue of King Lear and a dog.- This mystified him be cause, as he understood it, King Lear had no dog, and in fact, though Shakespeare had men tioned horses forty-eight times in his plays he hod never writ ten about a dog. That's what a resident of Aberdeen, Washing ton, wrole to the editor of a British magazine asking for some clarification on the matter. The editor said he could be of no assistance. The editor's answer is what mystifies me. Anyway, it is not a fact that Shakespeare ('id not mention dogs in any of his ploys. He mentioned those noble animals in several of his plays, one of which was King Lear. Alfalfa Hay Prices Unchanged To Lower Alfalfa hay urices at Portland and the Piigot Sound area are unchanged to a dollar lower than a week ago, according to the Oregon Slate college extension service. The main supply is from southern Idaho. Hay at Portland is quoted this week at $35 to $35.50 a ton in carlots, while at the Pugct Sound area it is $40 to $41. Alfalfa hay in the producing centers of Ore gon and Washington Is too high priced to be moved in compari son to southern Idaho, the exten sion service declared. Oregon growers are now holding at $29 to $32 a ton baled at the ranch. There is still good'demand from local feeders in most of these areas, and stocks are reported limited to short. Alfalfa meal prices are lower at main markets. At Portland, sunciired meal is now quoted fll $38.50 to $30 a ton, down 50 cents to a dollar from last week. Dehydrated almlfa meal is $84. down $3 to $4 compared to a week ago. News of 4-H Q CLUBS Central Point Sewing club met March 4 at Faber's Market in Central Point. From there the 4-H'ers and guest went to the Rialto Theatre for a movie par ty. They were taken in the cars of Mrs. W. T. Parsons and Mrs. W. L. Cliilders. Esther Snook. Reporter. John and Frank Perl FUNERAL DIRECTORS 40 Years, of Continuous Service Experience Counts . . . Ves indeed! Experience means that e KNOW exactly how you wish to plan the final tribute ... it means that you will be relieved of every detail forty years of friendly, neighborly serv ice and the finest facilities assure satisfaction and yet you pay no more. Rogue River Valley's Oldest AMBULANCE SERVICE Always At Your Service PERL FUNERAL HOME 624 West Sixth Street Telephone Day or Night 2-6675 John A. Perl - Frank Perl by Roland Co MtMMOIMUIIMIMMtiMHMHM The following quotation Is from King Lear, act three, scene six, line sixtv-five: "The little dogs and all. Tray, -Blanche and Sweetheart, Sea thay bark at me." Asides Wine is not the most popular drink in California, as has been alleged. Beer is. In 1949 the av erage consumption of beer in the Golden State was twenty two gallons per adult. The aver age consumption of wine was three gallons per adult . . . Are you acquainted with a dog show expert? Ask him: "What is the best dog in the world?" The British say the canine rating this title is a four and a half year old cocker spaniel named "Trac ery Witchof Ware," who bas twice been named best in show at Cruft's Dog show at The Olympia, London. In England there is an organi zation called the Married Men's association. Its president, one Fred Wormull, recently stated his organization was launching a campaign to see if something can not be done to have British young women better prepared to enter a state of matrimony. That is, have them taught how to cook, manage a home and understand and appreciate a husband. In short, Mr. Wormull said his Idea was to have an effort made to improve the breed of wives. Truly a noble experiment. Other Matters Sheik Abdulla Al-Salim. Al-Su-bah, ruler of Kuwait, where all those oil fields are. has an in come of $25,000 a day. tax free! . . . Los Angeles lawyer, Thomas R. Lynch, has been reading this column eighteen years. Guess that makes him dean of Durl:ng readers ... A Brooklynite in forms me that on Nostrand ave nue, in the beautiful borough across the bridge, there is a tail or named I. Press. Old Custom Presenting feminine applicants for marriage license with a cook book is certainly an old San Francisco custom. One subscrib er says she was presented with ! a cookbook when applying for a marriage license in the town by the Golden Gate in 1910 An other subscriber-says they gave her a cookbook at the San Fran cisco Marriage License bureau in 1911. Both ladies say it is n very good cookbook and they have been using it ever since. Wonder what San Franciscan originated the idea of giving the prospec tive brides cook books and when? Briefly Codfish cakes, tomato sauce, spaghetti, butter, rolls, ice cream and coffee. That is the lunch of fered at a first class eatery in Manhattan for fifty cents. Not bad. what? . . . Note the Polo Grounds, home of the New York Giants, referred to as "Home Run Heaven" because more home runs are made there than at any other park in the National league. Why not? The distance from the home plate to the right field stands at the Polo Grounds is ridiculously short. Why. sir. I once saw Ivy Olscn hit a home run there. And if you remember Ivy you know his hitting a home run was something to report to Ripley. A Nichols' Worth of Comment On By HARMAN United Press Washington, Mar. 7 UP.) It was a blister, that summer day in Philadelphia in 1876. Inven tors arouna me country had bought floor space at the Centennial ex position: Alex ander Graham Bell among them. Bell had a lot of gear on hand to prove that man could "talk over wire." He was nervous. In a Barman Nichols sweat, in fact The people were Ignoring his ex hibit in droves, rrinauy, tne judges came along, including one Dom Pedro, the emperor ol bra zil. Young Alex, rabbit-eared heard one of the umpires men tion that they were about through for the day and would complete the Judging on the morrow. Bell, a professor at college in east Boston, on the morrow would be back in Bean town grading examination pa pers. He sweat some more. At that point Dom Pedro rec ognized the young man in the Jet black beard. "How do you do, Mr. Ben, the emperor said. The judges kept on melting their collars. They could not walk away from their imperial guest. They had to have a look at the first telephone, which be came U.S. patent No. 174,465 Just 74 years ago today. Judges Talked The judges forgot their soggy collars and one at a time talked into the thing, which was strung all the way from one end of the building to the other. The catch phrase on the origi nal transmission was "To be or not to be that is the Question. One of the witnesses was Sir William Thomson of England (later Lord Kelvin). He returned to the isles all steamed up about the new gimmick and made a lot of speeches, paraphrasing the original with "to be or not to be that is the rub." Anyhow, Alexander Graham Bell had no bed of roses. One Philipp Reis, a German, claimed to have invented "a telephone," but it didn't turn out to be "the telephone." The thing went to the supreme court of the United States and Chief Justice Waite ruled that "Reis . . . had an in strument that was capable of speaking if he (Reis) had known how." Pelted with Ridicule At first only the judges had heard Bell's invention. The news papers commented by hearsay, you might say, and Bell was pelt ed with a "hailstorm of ridicule." One paper called him an "im poster a ventriloquist, a crank who says he can talk through a wire." The London Times, editorial ly, used the observation, "latest American humbug. The idea of talking at a piece of sheet iron!" The New York Herald said: "The effect is weird and al most supernatural." The Boston Times of that day commented: Irresponsible Power "A fellow can now court his girl in China as well as in east Boston. But the most serious as pect of this invention is the aw 1 Mf ' SPEND Less Time in that dishpan. Get your dishes really clean and bright with less effort, put a table spoon of Arm & Hammer Powdered Washing Soda in the dishpan. This new cleanser with the famous old name Rives you water soft as rain. It quickly dissolves grease, makes your glassware and china sparkle. It Is free from grit, free from lye, free from acids, contains no animal or vegetable fats. It will not clog drains or traps It's the cleanser that's kind to your plumbing. Ask for this better Washing Soda today at your grocer's; look for the blue box with the red circle. saves soap saves work saves time ARM & HAMMER CHURCH A DW1GIIT CO., INC., It CEDAR ST., This and That W. NICHOLS Feature Write ful and Irresponsible power it will give to the average mother--in-law, who will be able to send er voice around the habitable globe." The Boston Times was looking ahead of its time and knew not what It saw. The telephone now can get you around the world as fast as sound travels. Happy anniversary, Mr. Bell! And will you please have one of your heirs drop around to the Hyattsville, Md., telephone office and pay my current bill? Use Of Trees For Farm Purposes In Area Told Vets Advantages of planting trees for live fences and shelter belts and methods of making unused and brushy hillside land pay cash returns were outlined by Loren Cooper, Applegate dis trict ranger of the Rogue River National forest, at the recent monthly meeting of the Veterans Agriculture association of South ern Oregon. Cooper demonstrated methods of planting various types of seedlings and advised the group that seedling stock is available to farmers at low cost through cooperation of state and federal agencies. 75 Present About 75 members and pros pective members attended the meeting at the association head quarters at White City. Officers said every community of this area was represented. Louis Kula of Coker Butte dis trict spoke on the proposed soil conservation district for Jackson county. Kula is an association past president and has been nominated for a board post in the conservation district. It was pointed out that all veterans of World War II en gaged in farming activities are eligible to join the association. Young Boy Safe After 48 Hours In Woods Portland, Ore., Mar. 7 OJ.R) Harold Blue, 12, was safely home in bed today after being lost 48 hours with two young companions in Portland's west side hills below St. Johns. Police found young Blue, chilled and hungry yesterday. He said he and the other boys, Barry Moore, 12, and his broth er, Douglas, 11, had discussed trying to catch a freight train to Montana. The Moore brothers and young Blue came out of the hills to gether but ' the Mooret disap peared. The trio left home Saturday morning for a hike but at night fall realized they were lost. Blue told police. The wandered aim lessly Sunday and Monday morn ing found familiar land marks. They made shelter at night of fir boughs and cut firewood with a jackknife. A can of meat and another of pork and beans was their only food. Pi i f ij sr a am a A Bel aSi Officer Commissioned For Local ONG Post Salem, Ore., Mar. 7 iU.R) MaJ. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, ad jutant general of Oregon, today announced the commissioning of Merton W. LeRoy as first lieu tenant, headquarters company, 1st battalion, 186th infantry, Medford, Ore. IN LOS ANGELES, TOOI Los Angeles, Mar. 7 (U.B The west is still wild. While shoppers scattered for cover, a coyote strolled down fashionable wilshire boulevard, yesterday. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. 10 30 P.M. For Complete Prescription Service 2-6253 If No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals JIM GORDON Bidgood Hudson Medford'i Own Modern Pharmacy MIRACLE WALL RNISN ONLY $369 ALIO! Acme HARDWARE CO. "Specialists in Heme Wares" 3 Wast Sixth Phone 2-3201 Washes clothes with less soaking, less rubbing. Cleans pots, pans, waste cans. 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