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Flight o' Time
Mcdforel end Jackson Counry His
tory from the filet of the Mail
Tribune 10, 20 and 34 rears a(o
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 14. 1940
(It Was Thursday)
Irrigation supply for valley at
lowest In two years; snow still
below normal at high elevations.
Kenneth A. Wells, Portland,
named executive of Crater Lake
Boy Scout council.
S. M. Tuttle, Medford, named
to represent agriculture and
' orchard interests on state eco
nomic council.
PEO chapter BE elects
Miss
Annette Gray president.
Frank Rengstorfl, Roy Pruitt,
Floyd Savre. Eddie Stilwell and
Deb Day win bowling honors at
' district tournament.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 14. 1930
(It Was Friday)
Fire destroys Grange hall at
Eagle Point; damage high.
Japcnese and American dele
gates to naval disarmament con
ference reach agreement; three
power pact may be formed.
First ease of poison oak of year
reported and hailed as sign of
spring,
Espee heaviest taxpayer In
county with Copco second.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 14. 1916
(It Was Tuesday)
Clint Gallatin seeks demo
cratic nomination for assessor.
Amona class of Baptist church
to meet tomorrow with Mrs. E.
J. Stewart.
J. C. Alter takes over as frost
observer at weather bureau.
New York Bishop To
Address Meeting Here
Bishop Titus Lowe, New York
City will speak at the First
Methodist church, West Main and
Laurel streets, til 7:30 p.m.
Thursday.
Bishop Lowe Is director of
oversras relief for the Metho
dist church nnri his talk will
concern conditions in Europe,
from which area he has just re
turned. He will report on the
work being done through CARE
and the One Great Hour ot Shar
ing. The public is invited to the
meeting.
Formerly fti.'.hop of Singapore.
Portland and Indianapolis areas
of tiie church, the Methodist man
Is currently In a trip through
Oregon en route to California.
Shipment Of New K-F
Cars Due Here Soon
First shipment of new 1951
Kaisrr and Fraser automobiles
is expected here shortly after
the first of the month, with the
new, low-priced model a month
or two later, according to Os
car Lnrsen, proprietor of River
side Motors, agent for K-F cars.
Lprsen pointed out that the
new models are "1951 " ears, not
1950 as was erroneously slated in
a Mail Tribune advertisement
Sunday.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Early Portland Hop Urged .
With the advent of better flying weather the
Mail Tribune has been asked to urge upon the United
Air Lines the need for an early morning flight to
Portland. Only two planes leave here for the state
metropolis on the present U.A.L. schedule flight
159 departing at 1:20 p.m., and flight 175 at 6:15
p.m.
COUTHERN Oregonians having business to trans
act in Portland are usually unable to get much
done after arriving at 3:25 on flight 159, this mean
ing that they must stay overnight, spending the whole
afternoon and night away from home without accom
plishing anything except travel and lull time. The
later flight, 175, does not help matters particularly,
except that a smaller portion of the day is lost at this
end of the line.
AN EARLY morning flight, which got travelers to
Portland for nearly a full day of business, was
tried last year but with indifferent success as to pat
ronage, the lack of passengers on that flight was
probably clue to failure to fully acquaint people of
this area with its advantage, or so say those inter
ested, who hope to see the experiment tried again. .
E.C.F.
A Good Man
The recent appointment of Al Crose to succeed
Claude Murphy as real estate commissioner for Ore
gon meets with general approval throughout the state
i it-. i HT.ir i ...t ".
ana especially nere in xueuiuiu wnere wuse irameu
for a number of years before going to Salem in 1928.
THE new commissioner has a splendid background
for his position. He was engaged in the real estate
and insurance business here and upon going to Salem
served as property manager for the old World War
I veterans state aid commission for a time. Later he
was with the state land board when it handled the
winding up of the former agency and in later years
he has been in the state department of veterans' af
fairs where he has had charge of lending.
The appointment by Governor McKay, which is
in the nature of a promotion, comes as well-merited
recognition of many years of efficient and conscienti
ous state, service. E.C.F.
Seaside Had Sea Monster Too
Final identification of DeLake's sea monster as
a badly beaten up portion of long defunct whale, re
calls to Harold Haynes, Astorian Budget columnist,
a somewhat similar Seaside visitor.
Back in 1920, says Haynes, the granddaddy of
all sea monsters came rolling in from the ocean's
deeps to uncoil its 35 feet of slithering tentacles on
the sands about 2000 feet south of the Turnaround.
"THE Seaside monster was unlike anything known
to local ichthyologists or mammalogists. It had a
cow-like head and its nightmarish body was covered
with tawny hair or fur.
Unlike the DeLake arrival, the Seaside monster
defied all efforts at identification and after being
viewed by thousands of townspeople and visitors
there was agreement on only one phase, the "whatzit"
was, beyond all doubt very, very dead. Acknowledg
ing the soundness of the latter finding, the mayor
called a city work crew and ordered the remains in
terred. ' E.C.F.
Biggest Flag-Burning Since 1912
Seen If Two New States Admitted
Washington, Mar. 1 4 (U.R)
The United States may be head
ed toward the biggest flag-burning
since Arizona joined in the
Union in 1012.
If the congress decides to grant
statehood to Hawaii and Alaska,
that means a new flag. A new
flag means that it's bad manners
to fly an old one any more.
Problems Posed
The only decent thinR to do is
to burn the old ones. It's against
the law to touch an old, Old
Cilory to the ground and it's con
sidered unpatriotic to pitch it on
an ash heap or sew it up into a
nightie.
All of which poses a lot of
problems.
I railed C. H. Board, a vice
president of Annul and Company
in New York. Anuin makes more
(lag than anybody.
Heard was in a great old tizzy.
"We don't know." said he,
"whether cither Hawaii or Alas
ka will be tacked onto the Un
ion But if one or the other or
both are, we've got a big Job
to do."
Heaven knows, he aid. how
many flags there are in the
country half a billion, maybe
He added Hint he wasn't too much
worried about the new business
that would come his company's
way if the flag takes on another
star, or two. Everybody would
have to have a new flag. Adding
a slur at a time would be loir
with Beard, because it would
add up to good business double
busint'sv
Looks Futuri In Eye
Heard is a man who looks the
future squarely in the eye. He's
already got up a couple of
samples
If only one new state Is added
it would be comparatively sim-
Kir, since any rolleite graduate
nnws that seven times seven
equal 4l. That would make sev
en rows of stars.
II both Hawaii and Alaska are
added to the Union at once.
Beard, apparently a math sharp,
has that all figured out. too.
"We'd have five rows of star
with 10 stars In each row. Both
of these Mhrs look mighty pret
tymighty pretty."
Tu.idir. Much 14. 1IS0
For The Job
Beard said that his company
has received all kinds of letters
since the matter came up. Some
people have suggested putting a
little extra space on top of the
flag and adding the stars one at
a time as we add ncv states.
Another person proposed that
' we leave the blue space the way
I it is and crowd in the extra stars.
I "We still don't know what
we're going to do. The last new
flags came out on executive or
der in 1912. after Arizona was
admitted to the Union on Febru
ary 14."
j Not Consulted
I Here in the capital Arthur E.
j Dubois, chief of the heraldic
i branch of the quartermaster gen
eral corps, might get the Job of
rc-dosigning a new flag. He said,
however, that nobodv yet has
consulted hiin about it. He said
the president could create a spe
'cial commission or assign the Job
I to the fine arts commission or
I congress could step in and take
over.
Other problems came up, too.
j For Instance, take St. Louis and
Chicago, Some newspapers in
(these cities alreadv refer to their
ureas as the "49th state."
licp. Frank M. Karstens, demo
crat, of St. Louis, spoke for his
i city.
I "K both go In. we'll just call
1 St. l.ooey the 51st state, he said.
I Pope Pius Observes
Uth Year Of Reign
I Vatican Citv. Mar. 14 iU.R
Pope Pius MI celebrated the
I 11th anniversary of his reign
yesterday In a solemn ceremonv
, attended by thousands of Holy
I Year pilgrims and the highest
I church aristocracy,
j The anniversary of the pon
tiffs coronation fell Sunday, but
j the ceremonies were postponed
until yesterday because thev
I never are held on the Sahbatii
, during the holy season of Lent.
! The pope entered St. Peter s
j basilica at the head of a proces
sion that included the college of
i cardinals, the general of the
various religious ordcrg and
scores at clcrica.
Crosstown
"Any tlmo my lister's boy
he goes
In the Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
This is from Washington:
"Dr. Karl Fuchs, confessed
Russian spy, may have stripped
the United Slates scientific cup
board bare of all its latest atomic
secrets."
The dispatch adds that it is
considered likely among those in
the know that he could have
passed on to Moscow some "high
ly educated guesses" as to the
rate of U. S. A-bomb production
and the size of our stockpile of
bombs.
THE atom bomb was the most
elabnratelv "kent" eovcrn-
. . r , , i
mem setrei imix uic wunu c-
out.
Secrets are hard to keep.
DID you by any chance read
that tale in the Saturday Eve-
Arizona Youngsters
Return To Schools
Phoenix. Ariz., Mar. 14 (U.R)
Truant officers went back to
chasing the occasional straying
student today as nearly 100 chil
dren, saved from starvation by
the warm-hearted generosity of
a nation, filled nearby Avon
dale and Tolleson schools.
Unscuffcd shoes, warm sweat
ers and newly creased slacks and
skirts were spotted among stu
dents in each classroom, marking
the children found near starva
tion in farm labor camps.
Arid while the grateful chil
dren looked forward to a noon
meal from a full lunch pail, the
Arizona legislature began con
sideration of the condition s
which brought the mass desti
tution. A special senate committee
checked the camps this morning
and announced it would have a
report to make to the legislature
soon.
Boundary Changes
Asked By Indians
Portland, Ore., Mar. 14 (U.R)
E. A. Towner, of Portland newly
elected chairman of the To-Ncy
Indians, today called for bound
ary changes in his tribe's land!
before apportionment of Slfl,
500,000 among the four Silet?
tribes begins.
Congress voted recently to re
pay the Indians for lands seized
in' 1855. The Too-Too-To-Neys
contend their ancestral lands ex
tended further north than the
present boundary. Revision
would give descendants of the
original tribe a larger slice ol
the appropriation,
Towner is also chairman of
the general council of the con
federated Siletz Indian tribes.
Each of the four tribes is draw
ing up rolls of bona fide descend
ants who will share in the pay
ments. Salvation Army Board
To Meet Tomorrow
The annual meeting and din
ner of the advisory board to the
Salvation Army will be held at
6:30 p. m. tomorrow, it was an
nounced today by E. B. DcVoe,
chairman.
Ma). G. Roderic Durham, di
visional commander for the Sal
vation Army corps in Oregon
and southern Idaho, will be
speaker at the meeting, at which
advisory board members, their
wives and other guests will be
present.
DeVoe will preside.
Cub Scouts Visit
Mail Tribune Plant
Cub scouts of Den 2. Tack 6.
accompanied by their den moth
er, Mrs. Einar Larson, visited the
news, business, advertising and
production offices of The Mail
Tribune yesterday afternoon.
The boys were Clavton Cop
sey, Dick Allen. Donald Har
rison. Bobby Degman, Marvin
Owsley, Donald Clarno. Steven
Banta, David Newman. David
Gifford. Larry Slessler, Bobby
Plankenhorn and Hoger Johnson.
QUAKE RECORDED
New ork. Mar. 14 ,UR)
Fordham university seismolo
gists reported today they record
ed two earth shocks last night,
occurring 3,200 miles south ol
New York, probably near the
border ol Ecuador and Peru.
by Roland Co
' .j
friend has the prieo of a movie
HIMSELF1"
News
ning Post a while back about the
butler in the British embassy in
Ankara (capital of Turkey) who
looted the ambassadors safe
every night and peddled all the
allies top secrets to the uermans
for a good stiff price?
He gave our enemies the low-
down- on about everything we
were doing and were going to
do. The way he did it was good.
Pressing the ambassador's pants
one night, he found a key and
made a duplicate of it. It turned
out to be the kev to the legation's
MOST SECRET SAFE.
The foxy butler rifled it every
mm: iiiv ii;iiia were i
time the lights were turned off
ad kept the krauts rjght up tQ
the minute on everything we had
up our sleeves.
HOW did he keep on getting
away with it?
Well, it seems that British am
bassador HAD ABSOLUTE CON
FIDENCE IN THE BUTLER'S
INTEGRITY. Whenever he'd put
two and two together it would
look to him and to everybody
around him like there MUST BE
A LEAK, but he just couldn't
bring himself to believe that his
butler was off color.
That created the PERFECT
atmosphere for the butler to
work in.
THIS screed today isn't polit
ical. It is intended to be
philosophical and reflective. So I
hope 1 won't be accused of seek
ing to blacken Mr. Truman's ad
ministration when I suggest that
State Secretary Acheson's su
preme confidence in Alger Hiss
falls into the same class as the
British ambassador's supreme
confidence in his butler.
We admire men who have su
preme confidence in their
friends. That is the way human
relations ought to work. When
we have confidence in a man,
we ought to be willing to go the
whole road for him.
The British ambassador went
the whole road for his butler.
As a result the Germans kept
right on getting the lowdown on
our inside secrets. The British
had supreme confidence in Dr.
Fuchs. They trusted him with
all the inside stuff on the atom
bomb and sent him over here
with their stamp of approval and
we gave him the lowdown on
our stuff.
But he turned out to be a spy.
just like the butler in Britain's
embassy at Ankara. Secrets are
just hard to keep.
H
ERE'S a thought:
In spite of the butler who was
tipping the Germans off to all
our top drawer in the-privnte-
cupboard stuff WE LICKED
THEM IN THE END.
We did it by out-producing
them.
"iNE can't help wondering if we
wouldn't have been better off
in the long run if we had been
less elaborately secretive about
the atom bomb and had devoted
the energy we spent on SECRET-
IVENESS to building up our ca
pacity to make the bombs faster
and better than anybody else on
earth, including the Russians.
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in our recent sorrow. For the beautiful
service, floral offerings, and other
kindnesses, we are deeply grateful
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Mr. and Mrs Wendell Cook,
and Mr. and Mrs. Mylo Cook.
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World Communist Party Organization Is
Subject of Anti-Red Leader
I (m InnitA
The communist party is
world organization, despite open
claims to the contrary, and the
ultimate aim of communists in
this country is overthrow of the
present government by force and
violence, Capt. William D.
Browne, chief of Portland police
detectives, emphasized to armed
forces, organized reservists, na
tional guardsmen and other resi
dents of the vicinity in a talk at
the junior high school last night.
In his lecture on "Truth About
Communism," and in a later
question and answer period,
Browne said that there are 275
"professional -revolutionists" in
Oregon by a party leader's own
admission. He said that commun
ists in Oregon are scattered
among 60 to 65 communities and
that he would not be surprised if
there are communists in Med
ford. "General Staff"
The cominform is a "general
staff" for world revolution and
the communist party of the Unit
ed States is a part of the world
oreanization. Browne said. He
said American communist' would
like to have the public believe
they have no connection with
the cominform and the Soviet
union but he pointed to Red pub
lications that show the lie.
Browne, an army reserve lieut
enant colonel who has been fight
ing subversive elements for 30
years, used communist textbooks
and literature to illustrate the
strategy, tactics and ultimate
aim of party members.
He outlined methods by which
the communists plan .to create
demoralization among leaders of
the country and insurrection
among the "masses," leading to
union of the woritcrs ana sol
diers, the arrest of the officers of
the government ana me setung
up of a new regime.
Get Training
Communists are trained to live
and breathe the science of Marx
ism, he exDlained. They are
taught the necesesity of revolu
tion to destroy the Bourgeois
state. To them reform is only
product of revolution, accord
ing to Brownes intormation.
Members of the party arc in
structed to use the elements of
surprise, and they pledge them
selves in case of war to rally the
masses to defend the Soviet
union, he stressed.
In event of war against the
Soviet the task of communists
The Grange
Griffin Creek Grange
Griffin Creek Grange met
March 9. with large attendance.
Several guests were present es
pecially to see the drill team
confer first and second degrees
upon Mr. and Mrs. Larson, Mr.
and Mrs. Purdy, and Mr. and
Mrs. Ecktel.
Griffin Creek Grange will
furnish the program entertain
ment for Roxy Ann Grange on
Friday, March 17. ,
H.E.C. wHl meet Thursday,
March 16, for a 1 o'clock dessert
luncheon. This meeting' wall be
held at the home of Mrs. Ralph
Dillon on Sunset Drive instead
of the Grange hall as previously
announced. Don't forget your
18-inch square-quilt blocks'!
Ways and Means committee
announces another dance Satur
day, March 18. All grangers and
friends are urged to come and
"swing your partners."
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SLAIN WITNESS -Abe Davidian
(above), key witness in a Federal
narcotics case against Joe Slca,
was 'iund stain In his home In
Fresno, Calif. Davidian, once an
associate of Mickey Cohen, recently
left Cohen to Join the Drngna
"pang." Slca, an associate of mob
ster Jack: Drngna, was Indicted by
the Grand Jury as the leader of a
Southern California narcotics ring
and is to go on trial In April.
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in the enemy country Is to Incite
strikes, to urge workers to pre
vent government use of trans
portation facilities and to do
revolutionary work in the armed
forces.
Communists in this country to
day are entering politics heav
ily, according to Browne. He
said names in the progressive
party are associated with some
of the topflight leaders of the
communist party. Reds are en
couraged to run their candidates
for election as a means of getting
larger audiences, the speaker re
vealed. Not Peaceful
Do not believe it when the
communists tell that they are a
peaceful organization, Browne
said. He pointed out that they
have one story for the people
and one for the comrads. The
Soviet union seems bent on con
vincing the world that the Unit
ed States wants war and the So
viet is trying to preserve peace,
Browne declared. The commun
ists preach United States dis
armament when actually the So
viet has more divisions.
Browne outlined the program
of youth training and indoctrina
tion and mentioned a communist
axiom that "who controls youth
controls the future of the world."
The communist organization of
central committees, district com
mittees, sections and clubs was
told. In each club, according to
Browne, members convene to dis
cuss the jobs of each during a
few days in meeting small groups
and stirring up people. Com
munists, he said, have a practi
cal and realistic program for
every day in their ultimate plan
to destroy capitalism by force.
Cites Fear Force
A dictatorship of the proletar
iat is rule by fear, force and
violence, Browne warned, stat
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i Iri0 that thA nmtY,
ing that the communists of th
Soviet are not a majority and
that the majority have no say in
government.
Browne advocated support of
the Mundt-Ferguson bill as a
means of making communists
show how they get their money,
where they spend it and who the
members are. He stated that
there is no law against being a
communist party member, that
to publish names of members in
vades the privacy of the indivi
dual, but that the names are
known by the right people.
Browne's Medford appearance
was sponsored by units of the
armed forces organized reserve.
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