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10 YEARS AGO
April 29, 1942
(It was Wednesday)
Total of between 3,500 and
4,000 Jackson county men be
tween ages of 45 and 64 register
for draft with local draft boards.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Bmudgc Pot column: No mention
can be made of the weather un
der wartime regulations, but
what It takes to make May flow
rs fell.
20 YEARS AGO
April 29, 1932
(It was Friday)
Registration figures show that
Medford Republicans lead Demo
crats; total of 17,302 persons reg
istered in county.
Rogue Valley Traffic associa
tion asks city council for patrol
of packing house district follow
ing $250,000 incendiary fire.
0 YEARS AGO
April 29. 1922
(It was Saturday)
George Neuner, Douglas coun
ty district attorney, appears here
to assist state attorneys in boot
legging trial.
Federal roads department and
Oregon state highway commis
sion appropriate $300,000 for
construction of Crater Lake
highway.
40 YEARS AGO
April 29. 1912
(It was Monday)
Medford named terminal of
Hill system railroad for propos
ed Oregon Trunk line connec
tion with Pacific and Eastern
railroad.
Medford realtor sends 1,000
postal cards throughout midwest
in effort to interest people In
moving to Rogue valley.
Farouk Assassination
Attempt Disclosed
New York (U.R) Radio news
correspondent Dan Kiirzmnn re
ported from Cyprus Monday
night that King Farouk of Egypt
was shot last month by an Army
officer who unsuccessfully tried
to assassinate the monarch.
Kurzman, a correspondent for
the National Broadcasting Co.,
said Farouk was wounded in the
thigh. He said the Army officer
was shot to death by the King's
guards and that details of the
attempted assassination were
being kept secret.
Short Tass Disatch
Tells Ridgway's Move
London (U.PJ The official
Soviet Tass news agency broad
east six-line Washington dis
patch Monday night reporting
without comment the new com
mands given Generals Matthew
B. Ridgway and Mark W. Clark.
The Daily Worker, organ of
the British Communist Party,
reported Ridgway's shift under
a banner headline saying, "Germ
General Takes Over." The Reds
have accused Ridgway's forces
tn Korea of using germ warfare.
WAGE INCREASE SOUGHT
Aberdeen (U.R) Four thou
sand CIO fish cannery workers
In Washington and Oregon
planned Tuesday to seek a 12
cent hourly wage Increase in
this year's contract negotiations.
Why We Like Wayne Morse
Every now and then we are asked why we are so
crazy about Wayne Morse?
"Crazy" is not the word we would choose.
But we do regard Senator Morse as the ablest rep
resentative Oregon has ever had in congress upper
or lower house and we also regard him as of defi
nitely presidential timber which we agree is a super
lative compliment,
JVOREOVER Morse has one quality which is ex
tremely rare in public life, and is greatly 'needed
at this period in our history, namely:
Unswerving devotion to certain fundamental
principles and the courage at all times, to place prin
ciple above party.
The record of Oregon's junior Senator is packed
full of examples of this quality, and none more strik
ing than the speech he delivered in the Senate April
17th, on the presidential seizure of the steel industry.
e
IXTITH practically all other members of his party in
' fully cry against President Truman, with David
Lawrence's (editor of U.S. News) demand for his im
peachment echoing through the halls, Wayne Morse
rose to his feet, and delivered what we regard as the
100 7o "perfect answer" to this hysterical outburst.
And it was no blanket no partisan endorse
ment of President Truman's action. In fact Senator
Morse disapproved of the "timing" of the seizure,
maintaining such drastic use of executive power could
have been avoided had the President entered the con
troversy earlier and consulted with the congress on
ways and means.
TN THE course of his remarks Senator Morse took
on all comers including the No. 1 legal luminary
of the GOP minority, Senator Ferguson of Michigan,
Senator Bridges, the minority leader; Senator Know
land of California and all the rest of them.
Here, for example, is Senator Morse's reply to
Senator Ferguson's claim that the President in his an
swer to a "loaded question" regarding the seizure of
newspapers and radios, declared in effect he could
seize them, whenever he felt impelled to do so.
This of course was not what the President said or
implied, and Senator Morse continued as follows:
quote :
'Just imagine there developed In this country a nation
al crisis in connection with which some action or conduct on
the part of a radio station, or newspaper, WAS endangering
the security of the United States. (I hasten to state I cannot
Imagine what kind of a situation that would be.) However
as I interpret the President's remarks he said that under
SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES in other words under cir
cumstances that did jeopardize the safety and security of
the nation he would have to take such action as he deemed
necessary to protect the nation.
, "So my reply to the Senator from Michigan Is that if
there developed such circumstances those circumstances
would support (until the Supreme Court ruled differently)
the Inherent right and power of the President of the United
States to proceed to protect the security and safety of the
nation, until the Congress acted. I think that is what the
President meant. Incidentally that is what the newspaper
editors to whom I talked last evening clearly thought the
President meant."
I7QUALLY effective and convincing was Senator
Morse's rejoinder to the cry for impeachement,
quote:
"I do not think members of Congress should talk about
about impeachment unless they are ready and willing to try
to make good on their threat of impeachment. Frankly I
think all this talk of impeachment is a lot of campaign ora
tory in an election year. It Is silly stuff, because everyone
deep down In his heart should know that Harry Truman is
trying to keep the production of steel going and has no
more intention of violating the Constitution than have his
critics who are beating the political war-drums over this
matter!" 1
Utterly and completely true! and judging by
the silence that followed, even the senatorial opposi
tion, sitting there beside their "ropes and tar buckets"
KNEW it was true ! It. W.K.
Genuine Statesmanship
Another admirable trait possessed by Senator
Morse is the quality of his criticism. He is often criti
cal, but practically never is his criticism purely de
structive. When he would like to tear something down
lie also would like to build something better in its
place.
This criticism above of
President Truman's seizure
good illustration.
lie considered that attack silly and vicious m its
blind partisanship. On the other hand he condemned
the president's action, as TOO extreme, and offered
a bill which would clearly outline the chief executive's
future legal powers in this direction.
THUS measure would of course retain the executive
power to take drastic action to protect the safety
and security of the country, but it would have to be
action justified by the circumstances "reasonable
and necessary action" and the congress would be
given authority to determine the conditions under
which the private industry would be returned.
TN OTHER words Oregon's Junior Senator would
clear up the moot question of just how far the
President's implied and inherent powers extend, he
would give definite control over them to the congress,
md he would have this measure checked by the Su
preme Court on constitutional grounds as quickly as
that could be done.
He is the only member of congress, senate or
house, in this crisis, to come forward with" a clear-cut
and practical solution to the problem. This again jus
tified the verdict of practically every non-partisan poll
of the Upper House, placing Oregon's Junior Senator
time after time among the first half-dozen "best"
Senators in the country. R.W.R.
Tuetday. April 29, 1952
the Republican attack on
of steel for example is a
Crosstown
"Now let's tee what
Matter of Fact
THE INCONVENIENT
SEVENTY THOUSAND
Washington In Korea, the
easy way out has proved, as us
ual, to be a dead end. The great
stickling point in the peace ne
gotiations has been the Ameri
can objection to forcible repatri
tion of our prisoners of war.
Until rather recently, however,
it has been hoped that only a few
of the Communists, prisoners in
our hands would refuse to go
home 2,500 was the official
estimate.
The further hope was that
some system of jiggery-pokery
would conceal or condone the
failure to return this small num
ber of prisoners. Instead, when a
census was. taken in the prison
camps, it was found that out of
170,000 prisoners in our hands,
no less than 100,000 all but pre
ferred death to repatriation. And
so the negotiations in Korea have
broken down, or all but broken
down again.
There has been a sort of grim
irony in this episode. The very
fact that should make us jubil
ant the enormous proportion of
these Communist prisoners who
wish to change sides has in
stead profoundly upset and de
pressed our policy makers. But
the irony pales, unfortunately,
when compared to the episode's
possible implications. In plain
terms, governmental leaders here
in Britain and in France are be
ginning to wonder just how long
the present situation in Korea
can be kept going. The prisoner
problem has proven to be a good
deal more than 20-times as big as
was thought. At the same time,
the Soviet peace offensive which
mired slender hopes of a Korean
settlement, has also been rebuff
ed by Secretary of Slate Dean G.
Acheson. And the Kremlin has
gone out of its way to indicate
that there really wasn't any
peace offensive after all, by de
nying the previous reports of
Stalin's alleged advocacy of Big
Four negotiations to the retiring
Indian ambassador.
MAYBE the UN effort to break
the Korean deadlock may get
somewhere, but it hardly seems
likely. It is much more probable
that the armies in Korea will
continue to confront each other,
while at Panmunjom, the nego
tiators will continue their empty
haggling.
Can this situation be indefi
nitely prolonged? In theory, of
course, it can. The morale and
training of the American and
United Nations' forces are con
sidered excellent. Their equip
ment is ample. Gen. Matthew
Ridgway not long ago invited
the enemy to attack, and prom
ised to make him resjret it. But
if the enemy does not attack,
how long can we afford to have
the bulk of the American Army
stranded on this distant penin
sula? By the same token, the Chi
nese Communists and Korean
forces have been able, during
the long lull, to build up their
forward and intermediate stock
piles and supplies to unprece
dented levels, thus making pos
sible a more sustained offensive
than they have ever previously
put on. The build-up of their air
power has continued, although
at a more gradual rate. Of their
strength there is no doubt. But
they have suffered fearfully
from plague and other diseases
through this winter. And where
lies their advantage in prolong
ing this curious stalemate, with
all its Inherent risks?
It is worth asking these ques
tions to point up what increas
ingly seems to be the central
fact in this Korean situation. The
plain truth is that American and
Allied policy has not been able
to devise any satisfactory answer
to any of these questions, which
are now so insistent. The positive
courses withdrawing from Ko
rea, or resuming the offensive
with enough power to make the
Communists want a pence are
too repellent. Hence the basic
questions have never been ans
wered, and we have gone drifting
along in the vain hope that the
Panmunjom talks would some
how, someday, produce an agreed
settlement
By Roland Co
can we use for a tent?"
By Joseph ans)
Stewart Also
PERHAPS it is right to bide
time in this manner, although
if this is the aim, the American
people ought to be told about it
in plain terms. But it is certainly
dangerous to assume, in the way
that is now fashionable in Wash
ington, that this drifting involves
no risks of its own.
The degree to which this as
sumption was current until re
cently is proven, in turn, by the
proposal to transfer Gen. Ridg
way from the theater he knows
and has commanded so bril
liantly. President Truman want
ed to honor Gen. Ridgway, be
cause of his fine job in Korea,
by giving him Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower's command in Eu
rope. Gen. Omar Bradley, who
was Gen. Ridgway's World War
time chief, was his strong sup
porter for this promotion. The
joint chiefs of staff recommend
either Gen. Ridgway or Gen.
Eisenhower's chief of staff, Gen
Albert C. Gruenther.
Meanwhile, the new break
down of the Korean talks has
also caused a new wave of ap
prehension about a renewal of
serious hostilities there. Yet it
is still extraordinary that with
the Korean task so obviously
unfinished, the end of danger in
Korea should ever have been
taken for granted for a moment.
While the drift goes on, the dan
ger will also.
(Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Meet the
Candidates
Editor's note: This Is one of
a series of statements furnish
ed by candidates for local of
fice In the primary election
May 16. They are being pub
lished by The Mail Tribune
at a free service to the candi
dates, and for the information
of readers wishing to inform
themselves of candidate!' po
sitions relative to their candi
dacy. WALTER NUNLEY
By WALT NUNLEY
Republican, for District Attorney
I am asking you to elect me
as your DA. Who am I? What do
I stand for? I'm "Walt" Nunlcy.
I'm married and have a small
son. We live on Park street. Like
most fellows my age I was In the
service for almost five years, 35
months overseas. After the war,
I studied Forestry and Law un
der the GI bill at Montana State
university. I'm a member of the
bars of Oregon and Montana,
and have practiced in Medford
since 1950. We attend the Lu
theran church. I'm Service Offi
cer for VFW Post 1833 and a
member of the Legion.
The DA has the duty of up
holding and enforcing the crimi
nal laws of the state. If you elect
me, I have every intention of
enforcing those laws equally. I
shall personally file complaints
against offenders discovered
through my own investigations
or otherwise, and shall prosecute
them without regard to v.o they
are. This goes for the gambling
laws of the state especially, since
the law makes their enforcement
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ID
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's talk about Democrats to
day. First let's talk about Sen
ator Paul Douglas, of Illinois.
Senator Douglas thinks our
federal government is TERRI
BLY wasteful. In that opinion,
he includes the military. He in
cludes even the VETERANS AD
MINISTRATION. Most of us are
inclined to look upon these as
sacred cows, upon which no
breath of criticism must ever be
blown.
SENATOR Douglas TALKS
OUT. He talked out in a
speech to the American Philoso
phical society, in Philadelphia.
Of the military, he said with
biting sarcasm:
"Over-specification is one ex
ample of waste by the military.
Army specifications for PING
PONG BALLS require five and
a half closely-typed pages. Think
of the time spent in the Penta
gon by the generals, the colo
nels, the captains and others
preparing these specifications."
SUPPOSE YOU think of it, just
for a minute.
Imagine men in uniform, with
bars and leaves and eagles and
even stars on their shoulders,
sitting around and drawing up
five and a half closely-typed
pages of specifications for PING
PONG BALLS!
Are we going to fight the
Russians with ping pong balls?
OF THE veterans administra
tion, Senator Douglas says:
"VA has 32,000 employees
working on Insurance functions
whereas insurance experts say
8,000 would be sufficient."
He takes this crack at the
state department:
"I think the state department
would be less administratively
MUSCLE-BOUND with fewer
employees."
THEN he swings a haymaker
at the postoffice department,
which, he says, has a 750 million
dollar deficit, mostly occurring
in the case of second, third and
fourth class maiL
"Government receipts for sec
ond class mail (newspapers and
magazines)," he said, "are 46
million dollars annually and it
costs the government 240 mil
lion dollars to service it."
In other words, the govern
ment loses about 200 million
dollars a year on second class
mail. A lot of people, especially
critics of the newspapers, call
this a SUBSIDY. Some of them
say to us, when we criticize
other subsidies: "What of the
subsidy the government give
YOU in the form of second class
mail?"
I donf call it a subsidy, I
call it just plain POOR BUSI
NESS on the part of the govern
ment. THIS newspaper is a minor
nspr nf second class mail. We
deliver the bulk of our papers
by our own carriers. We don't
want the government to lose
money on us. If, with sound
business methods, it costs tne
government more to deliver the
eomnarativelv few papers we
send by mail than it gets from
us why, in that event, raise tne
nrice. We want NO HANDOUTS
from government.
I suspect that wasteful metn
ods. such as Senator Douglas is
criticizing, account for a lot of
the second class mail loss.
NOW for another Democrat
Senator Russell, who formal-'
ly launched his campaign for
the Democratic nomination for
President at Atlanta, Georgia.
Among other things, he said:
"We must preserve our con
stitutional government and we
must PROTECT THE SOVER
EIGN STATES AGAINST OVER
CONCENTRATION OF POW
ERS IN THE FEDERAL GOV
ERNMENT." Elsewhere he has said:
"Among the dangers to our
continued freedom is any un
checked trend toward the con
centration of all the powers of
the government in the national
capital. The Founding Fathers,
who had suffered the tyrannies
of overcentralized government,
wisely sought to define and
LIMIT the federal power.
"I am a Jefferson Democrat
who believes in the greatest
practicable degree of local self
government. The maintenance of
the RIGHTS OF THE STATES
in an indissolube union is our
protection against that LOSS
of individual rights and liberties
which has always followed un
due centralization of authority."
To that, I say AMEN I
JISTEN to this:
Federal Judge David A. Pine,
after hearing the government's
contention that the Presidnet has
power to seize the steel Industry
without specific authorization of
law and regardless of the due
process clause of our constitu
tion, asked this: "DOES THE
GOVERNMENT CONTEND
THAT IT.CANNOT FUNCTION
the SPECIAL DUTY of the DA.
I shall deal with juvenile of
fenders with liking and under
standing 1 intend to help set up
a program for the prevention of
juvenile difficulties. I expect to
be pretty busy and won't have
much time left for private practice.
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Letter to the Governor
To the Editor: Here is what I
wrote to Governor McKay:
"No matter what you do about
the time. It's going to make some
people mad. You just can't please
all of them, and it seems to me
the ones who prefer standard
time are entitled to our innings
since we had to accent davlieht
saving time last summer.
me object of the law was to
make time uniform throughout
the state bv nrnclnmntinn nf thA
governor; but it looks like most
or tne Dusmess houses in the cit
ies are not good enough sports
to cooperate with your decision.
Here in Jackson county a ma
jority of voters passed a law ap
proving standard time, vet n
number of merchants are going
to keep daylight saving hours
in spite of the preference of the
majority Of their rnctnmnrc
who, after all, are what keeps
tnem in business.
"I have worked in the city a
number of years, too; but I can't
frankly see what harm standard
time does to the city dweller.
He can still est tin nn hnnr pwrlv
to work in his garden if he
wisnes. Daylight saving time
works a real hardship on the
farmer. His havina protu nan't
start work, the baler can't bale
until tne dew is off the hay; the
orchard crew can't pick while
the fruit is damp; chickens roost
bv the sun. not hv thp Mnrlr-
children who have to catch the
school bus early enough as it is,
will not go to bed while it is
still daylight. Oregon is pre
dominately a rural state.
"DST is a real harrlshin in tha
drive-in theaters, who depend for
mucn ot tneir patronage on peo
ple with children, as no one
wants to keep youngsters up till
midnight because the show
can't start till it gets dark at 9
o'clock.
"I hODe some of the npnnl
who complained last year about
DST wil write to thank you, as
it is not easv to make a derision
of this type. It seems to be hu
man nature to squawk' about
what we don't like, and forgot tn
say 'thank you' for what we do
appreciate.
Lucille Hayes Scott
Rt. 3, Box 240-C
Medford, Oregon
Would Thank McKay
To the Editor: Everyone who
appreciates the decision of Gov.
McKay to keep the state on
standard time should write to
him and express their gratitude
that he has the courage of his
convictions. It is no small mat
ter to defy the wishes of the busi
ness men, the white collar work
ers and their pressure groups
that prefer the fast time.
Every effort will be made by
them to persuade him to rescind
his decision and the working
ing people also must show a unit
ed front if they are to win out
in this battle for battle it real
ly is.
Just write to Gov. McKay,
UNDER THE CONSTITU
TION?" TF THE government does con
tend that it cannot function
under the constitution, and
tnerefore must function by
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE, it's
high time for a change in our
government.
Otherwise our liberties will
soon be gone where the wood
bine twineth.
T'VE been quoting these able,
clear-thinking Democrats to
point up the fact that this cam
paign isn't just one in which the
Republicans seek for themselves
the power the Democrats have
held for the past 20 years.
We stand at a crossroad. We
face the hard fact that too much
power has been held in too few
hands too long. As a result, our
solvency is threatened by reck
less extravagance and our liber
ties are threatened by the grow
ing concentration of federal
power.
Able and patriotic Democrats.
as well as Republicans, see that
clearly and are beginning to
speak out.
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Ridgway Selection A
Wins Approval of
Gen. Eisenhower
Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
OJ.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow
er said Monday night that the
appointment of Gen. Matthew B,
Ridgway as Allied supreme com
mander in Europe and the re
tention of Gen. Alfred M. Gruen
ther as chief of staff will give
"the finest contribution the
American services could produce
to take over."
Finest Combination
Speaking to correspondents at
an officers club at British Army
headquarters Eisenhower said:
"This is what I should say:
You've got the finest combina
tion the American services could
produce. . . .
"You have General Gruenther,
great experience and fine brain
and great skill as chief of staff,
and General Ridgway, one of our
splendid leaders proved in sev
eral campaigns in the second
world war and Korea,"
State House, Salem, Oregon, and
tell him to keep up the good
work. Do it today as tomorrow
may be too late.
Leila Morrow
531 N. Bartlett St,
Medford, Ore. 1
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