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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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