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yum mm m mm m m TEH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ,Medforiv2SvTribut Everyone in Southern Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday b; MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor ERNEST R GILS TRAP Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Edltot RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clan matter at Medford. Oregon, under A--t of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES . By Mail In Advance: Dailv and Sunday one year (12 00 Daily and Sunday six months 6 50 , Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 1 25 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $15 00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC Offices in New York, Chicago, De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASS O Cll-ATI ON I'M a NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. . 10 YEARS AGO July 11. 1942 (It was Saturday) Hollywood star Florence Rice buys Sams Valley ranch and plans erection of new home; the actress is a daughter of sports columnist Grantland Rice. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: There may be a shortage of gasoline for elec tioneering his year. Candidates may have to get from stump to stump, under their own steam. 20 YEARS AGO July 11. 1932 (It was Thursday) Many Medford backyards .re raided by vandals, and one citi zen reports that a thief broke into his barn to milk his cow and steal the milk before he got up. Lower fishing licenses are urged in the Rogue valley as an inducement to the tourist trade. 30 YEARS AGO July 11, 1922 . (It was Tuesday)" Vacationing autoists are ad vised to drive to Crater lake by way of the Derby road to avoid construction work on the main highway. England promises to pay her World War I debts but refuses to pay them in a lump sum. 40 YEARS AGO July 11. 1912 (It. was Thursday Cartoon characters "Mutt and : Jeff" are identified by local ; readers as having originated . from two Oregon men Tow Ste vens of Burns and Scotty Fergu son of Douglas county. The old Medford fire wagon is converted into a three-line noz ; zler to be used if any big build ings are endangered by fire. j'Give With Gas' Slogan Saturday Of Charity Plan "Give with gas" will be the slogan Saturday, July 12, at the r triple pump gasoline station at - Eleventh street and South Cen tral avenue. ' Prof its from the day's sales will be turned, over to .Rotana club of Medford for the benefit of the Oregon Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Local businessmen will fill gas tanks while Rotana members clean windshields. Balloons and lollipops, also donated by local people, will add to the festive atmosphere. Many business concerns with .fleets of trucks or delivery wag ons will 'gas up" at the station Saturday. in order to support the drive. J Mrs. C. B. Partch, Jackson county chairman- and district president of the Oregon society, states that this campaign is one of the few "painless" ones and that the worthiness of the work carried on by the society is be yond question. ;: Animal paddocks, aquarium. "Academy of Sciences, conserva tory, music concourse, Morrison . Planetarium, Strybing Arbore tum, and innumerable other at tractions are to be found in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. "W1 Editorial Correspondence Chicago. Julv 9 Whoever if anyone is should have his head examined. It is the most stupidly managed political gathering in the writer's memory. If the Republicans aren't beaten again in Nov ember it won't be this convention MANAGER'S fault. Everything that could be done from the standpoint of giving the GOP elephant another black eye has been dons. - And more is yet to come. Who, for example, selected General MacArthur for keynote speaker? Then followed him up with even an older isolationist, former President Hoover? And then for good measure, shoved in the unspeakable Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin? - If the convention manager, whoever he is, had gone out del iberately to ALIENATE the independent vote which the Republi cans MUST have to escape defeat he could not have done better. If the Democrats do win in November for the fifth consecutive-time, they should give this convention manager or man agers a testimonial banquet, and a formal vote of thanks. With out him they would never have had a Chinaman's chance. ' We apologize to both General MacArthur and ex-President Hoover for linking them with such a political reprobate as "Jump ing Jo," but we really can't be blamed for that the convention manager did it, FIRST. McCarthy, of course, did all his familiar, and discredited anti-communist tricks, brought in soldiers dying in Korea, Tru man and Acheson inviting Stalin to. take over the White House and rang the old familiar changes on Yalta, Potsdam and Teheran. We are ashamed to say half a dozen states marched and waved their banners in appreciation of this contemptible and discredited harangue, but we are pleased to note a great majority " of the states preserved a stony but eloquent silence and among them, thank the Lord! was OREGON. And we have to say this about former President Hoover. As we have so often remarked, he is probably the worst public speaker in the country and always has been. Give him one of Cicero's most eloquent orations to deliver and Herbert would kill it. And the audience who had to listen, also. But he IS absolutely HONEST. He does have what the other two gentlemen lack an unqualified and unassailable INTEGRITY. Ke is, as we see it, like so many OLD men looking back ward living in the past. He is in a dream-world. A realist in his profession, engineering; he is, politically and always has been a hopeless idealist. He honestly believes that the United States COULD return to the days of his youth, if it only had the will to do so the days of William McKinley and Horatio Alger, and the Rough Riders. As someone "has said what he really would like to do would be to repeal the Twentieth Century. And that is what his speech last night added up to, and what all his post-White House speeches have added up to. In a way it is pathetic. In another way it is tragic tragic for him and for his party. "The Old Man of the Sea" but a MAN for 'a that a man one can't politically agree with, but can't help but admire and Tespect. And the delegates in that convention last night demonstrated this fact. It was heartening to see and hear. But from a purely POLITICAL STANDPOINT from the standpoint of doing what would be smart from the angle of getting votes what COULD have been more stupid than in these three days of the Republican convention, placing before the people of this country particularly tne young people, this exhibit of THE BEST THE GRAND OLD PARTY HAS TO CFFER. HOOVER, MacARTHUR AND MCCARTHY! . - "Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us!" If after this "Bicuspid Bob," Rottert Alphonso Taft SHOULD be chosen as the nominee of the Republican party, what the Democrats ANY Democrat: will 'do -to him in November is too sanguinary a picture for anyone of sensibility to WISH to contemplate! R.W.R. Oil The Side By E. V. Durling (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Ine.) - Ah, darling that night when k We two clung so close. Our huiigry lips transfused into each Our hovering souls, Mortality's eclipse! Petronlus. To persons in the mail "order business, or those contemplating such a venture, a wide variety of address lists of prospective customers is available from nu merous compilers of such lists. One mailing list purveyor offers the names of 23,000 buyers of denicotinized cigars . and cigar ettes. Another offers the names and addresses of 9,500 women who have inquired about ma terial and methods of making their own hats. Still another of fers a list of 10,000 men who wear very large size clothes, hats and shoes. Also announced as available is a list of 5,000 mail order buyers of black night gowns. Mostly men who have purchased this lingerie for gifts. Asking Queries from clients: Q. Am a registered nurse. Although I have never really forgiven you for giving space to that letter from a United States Marine sergeant hi which he said nurses Were "chilly propositions" on moonlight walks, I -am still struggling through your column daily. Will you please quote that poem dealing with doctors being forgotten too quickly by their patients? A. Regret our marine subscriber's claim annoyed you. Of course, the opinions of our clients are not necessarily our own. However, it is only fair to state I am not qualified to enter into the discussion you refer to. I have never been on a moonlight walk . with a regis tered nurse. The poem you . re quest, by John Owen, is as fol lows: God and the doctor we alike adore. But only when in danger, not before, . The danger o'er, both are alike ' requited, - - God is forgotten and the doc tor slighted. Horses & Women The following is . an excerpt from a history of Egypt: "Among the means of seduction Cleopatra brought into play at her first meeting with Marc Antony -were some extremely provocative per fumes." Just shows you" how long designing females have been us ing provocative perfumes to get their way with men. It is also interesting to note that Celo patra, one of the greatest male charmers of .all time, did not depend entirely on her person ality and the infinite variety of her charms to capture Marc Friday July . 11. 1S32 is. Antony. At times, bachelor sub scribers . have asked our Horses & Women experts to suggest a defense against the provocative scents used by scheming females. It is a baffling situation. All we can think cZ is -to wear a gas mask. And, of course, a man would look silly wearing a gas mask when calling on a girl. Dance Enthusiast Lily Lahgtry, the "Jersey Lily," was an enthusiastic ball room dancer. In 1916 Mrs. Lang try met Somerset Maugham in New York, and in the course of a conversation told him she was having "a simply wonderful time" going to public dance halls in Manhattan and dancing all pfternoon with paid dance part ners. At that time Mrs. Langtry was 64. Reincarnation Among the distinguished be-J lievers in reincarnation was the poet and painter, Dante Gabriel Rosetti. This belief is indicated in his poem titled, "Sudden Light," which begins: "I have. been here before, but when and how I cannot -tell." Speaking of reincarnation, permit me to once more remind you that experts on this subject state a human being is always reincarnated as such. Never as an insect, animal or vegetable. So if you have been worrying about being a horse, a mosquito or a tomato in your next reincarnation, forget it. Ice Cream A book listing 470 recipes for ice cream desserts. That's what Louis P. De Gouy has written. A brilliant coverage of the sub ject. Yet Mr. De G o u y has omitted one . highly delicious dessert. That is black raspberry sherbert. I know of only one place in Manhattan where this is expertly made. Trail Woman Escapes Injury in Accident A car driven by Winifred June Swanson, Box 6, -Trail, was destroyed last night when it went in a ditch and turned over in an attempt to avoid hitting a log truck, according to the state police.- The accident occurred a mile south of Shady Cove. ' The truck had stopped for a horse in the road, according to the -police, and the -Swanson car went in the ditch when it came over . a. rise in the road and the truck was sighted. Police said there were no, injuries'. , . The first sawmill in Mendo cino county, California, was es tablished in 1851. Crosstown "Gee, no wonder you were able month for practically nothing. Matter of Fact THE HARSH REALITIES Chicago As these words are written, it is lull before the storm, or rather the lull before the decisive Taft - Eisenhower test. Maybe this is not a bad time to reflect on the peculiar factors which influence -such great decisions as the choice of American presidential nominee. Take, for example, patronage. Senator Robert A. Taft has said that one of his worst handicaps was the opposition of the Repub lican governors. What he meant was that the Republican gover nors control the Republican jobs in their states, and that they would use this control against him. The soundness of the sena tor's judgment has never been better demonstrated than in the state of New York. There was a substantial senti ment for Senator Taft among some elements in the New York delegation, particularly in New York City, which is not an ap panage of the Dewey machine. The Taft forces hoped to pick up as many as twenty votes in New York. But even from New York City, many Republicans are appointed to the important, civil-service-free jobs on the New York State payroll. AT THE first Chicago meeting -of the state delegation, Gov ernor Dewey contented himself with reminding the delegates that he would be governor for two and a half more years, and that he had a "long memory." His method was somewhat blunter when he talked private ly with the dissidents. He pointed out to them ex actly Jiow many jobs had been allocated to each of their dis tricts. He did not. trouble to point out that these jobs were mainly occupied by their friends, co-workers or even relatives,-because they knew this already. He just told them, in plain terms, that there would be new job-holders in those jobs within two days after his return to Albany, if the dissident delegates went on being dissident. That way, he held New York as an almost ' monolithic solid front against Senator Taft. A GAIN, there is the case of Governor John S. Fine of Pennsylvania. Here the problem was more complex. ' Senator James Duff, . who was John Fine's friend and is now his ene my, was almost the first man on the firing line for General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Normal ly, that would entitle Senator Duff to a great influence over Federal appointments in Penn sylvania, which Senators con ventionally possess in any case. Governor Fine is a man who wants, above all, to rule in his bailiwick. The influence of Sena tor Duff, which is already con siderable, would obviously be reinforced by control of Pennsyl vania appointments. ' It was therefore urgently a problem to accomodate Duff and Fine. The problem was solved when Duff, with great singleminded- ness in the cause he has- fought for so sturdily, agreed to forego his normal power over Pennsyl vania . appointments. Thus Gen eral Eisenhower was enabled to assure Governor Fine that the Governor was the man he would regularly consult about Pennsyl vania, appointees. And so the way was opened for the Pennsylvan ia governor's all-important de cision in Eisenhower's favor. OR AGAIN, there is theicase of Michigan. Here the battle, curiously enough, seems to have been fought between three great industrial corporations. The chief executives of the Chrysler com pany were for Taft; the 'leaders of the Ford company- and Gen eral Eisenhower. All. three com panies have vast - influence on the Republican party in their state. Both national committee man. Arthur. Summerfield and Senator Homer' Ferguson were caught in an unhappy crossfire. In the end, Summerfield became an important Eisenhower leader, j By Roland Coe to get this place for a whole Pop! The floor's caved in!" By Joseph and Stewart Alsop while Senator Ferguson, normal ly inclined, to Taft, kept unhap pily silent. These .little realities of con vention politics have been chos en from the Eisenhower side, and since these reporters were the first to ventilate and empha size the Texas steal attempted by the Taft forces it is only fair to note that both sides can be tough, although the Eisenhower people have tried nothing like the steal in Texas. And it might be added that the hypocrisy of the Taft cry about "real Repub licanism" has never been better demonstrated than by the Taft sponsorship of the Roscoe Pick ett delegation from Georgia. The truth is that this peculiar little gaggle of so-called Repub licans largely owes its existence to an alliance between Pickett and Governor Eugene Talmadge. Talmadge Republicans, surely, are an odd brand of "real Re-, publicans." In its details, in short, the pro cess by which Presidential nomi nees are chosen in America often seems to have very little to do with the democratic pro cess. The curious thing is how much of real Republican convic tion, and even of real idealism, creeps into this queer convention process." And the other curious thing is, how often it produces an excellent result. '" (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Babson Discusses Forecasts By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. For over forty years, I have devoted most of my time to forecasting busi ness, employment, and invest ment conditions. I started with five employees and now have over one hundred and seventy on the job. Our record has been gooa. And turtnermore, all we have said and done is recorded in public libraries. Great Chances Since 30's Up to the time in the Roose velt Administration when we went off gold onto paper cur rency, we had a yardstick by which we could measure. More over, there was a ceiling above wnicn Dusiness could not go ex cept at great risk; and a floor below which it could not go without disaster. For ' instance, when in 1928 we loudly forecast the panic, of 1929, it was neces sary to pay 8 interest in order to borrow on the best collateral. Today, with prices actually high er, these Money Rates are slight ly above 2. Statistics on Failures, which were one of the best barometers of impending changes, are anoth er illustration. In 1928 failures were 24,000, with liabilities of $500 million. Yet, today, with nearly twice the volume of busi ness, failures are running at the annual rate of 8,000, with liabili ties of $300 nyllion. This, of course, is due to the fact that the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration,, the Federal Mortgage Banks and the various other Government aids make it un necessary for a concern to faiL Therefore, statistics on failures are now of little use when mak ing forecasts. . Managed Currency Dangerous The fact is that today there are no economic ceilings and no floors. Three-quarters of the subjects upon which we used to depend in making forecasts are now of little account. Of course, Washington cannot continue in definitely the present practice of extending unlimited aid to all groups. The Law of Action and Reaction is fundamental, like the Law tof Gravity, and must someday result in an economic crash. On the other hand, the Government can postpone such a readjustment for some years more by printing more money or more bonds. Furthermore, it will be a great temptation for any Administration to da this Republican or Democratic. ' This next - economic smash will probably be brought about In the Day's By FRANK JENKINS As these words are written (just before noon on Wednesday) the eyes of the nation are mo mentarily OFF the convention auditorium and are fixed on a smoke-filled room in a dowtown Chicago hotel where the Taft- dominated GOP credentials com mittee is wrestling with the dyna mite-laden problem of what to do with contested delegations from three key SOUTHERN states none of which can be expected to give its electoral vote to ANY Republican candi date. THIS IS THE committee's di- - lemma: "Knowing that whatever we do will be appealed to the con vention floor (which yesterday approved 658 to 548 an Eisen hower-backed motion) shall we risk arousing the wrath of the floor by bulling it through and giving all the delegates to Taft who will need them badly on the " all-important first ballot? "Or shall we play it cagey and give a reasonable share of the contested delegates to Eisen hower, thus making it appear to the floor that we are going all out to be fair? In that event, we MIGHT get a better break in the voting." A FEW MINUTES later: The committee decides play it cagey. It gives the solid Georgia delegation of 17 votes to Taft. Then it gives Louisi ana's contested 13 votes to Eisenhower. As this is written, it is considering a proposal to split Texas' 38 . votes even-Ste phen 19 to Taft and 19 to Eisen hower. rpHE DEADLINE is creeping up on me, and I won't be able to cover in this piece what they decided to do about Texas. But it is obvious that yesterday's floor vote shook the solid Taft phalanx in the credentials com mittee. They'd like to bull it through, but fear the effect when their action is appealed to the floor and ALL the delegates vote.- That's the situation at the mo ment of writing this. WATCH THE FLOOR when " the appeal on delegate con tests-gets there. That will be the high dramatic hour of this historic convention. While the . politicians battle in the smoke-filled downtown hotel room (from which the public is barred) the spectators at the con vention auditorium down in the stockyards section mark time. I expect their state of excited puzzlement will be augmented by a fact that is inherent in the auditorium's location. It is not unlikely that from time to time the great -hall's air conditioning system will fail to function for 1 by an ultimate showdown be tween Congress and the labor leaders. If each side should re fuse to "give in," with a large number of industries being struck at the same time, we could have a real depression. Al most within sight of my office one' of the largest bus systems in the world has been shut down for 120 days, inconveniencing hundreds of thousands of people and costing the employees and the company a million dollars a week. What would happen if a' dozen of the country's largest transportation system." should so strike at the same time? The steel strike, which has thrown 650,000 steel workers out of employment, has affected so many other businesses that the whole U.S. production of all goods has fallen 10 during the past few weeks. What if the employees of our ten largest in dustries, doing 70 of the na tion's business, should strike at once! How Can We Forecast? By a study of new subjects, such as dividends and wages re ceived, selling and advertising expenditures, and various con fidence indices, "it is possible to make accurate forecasts for per haps four to six months. When, however, "experts" attempt to tell you what the business, em ployment or stock market con ditions will be for more than a year ahead, this is" nonsense. No facts now exist to give proper basis for any such long-term forecasts. Some will say, "It is in the hands of the gods." I even deny this and say, "It is in the hands of Congress." If Congress should . get fed up with labor leaders and demand a show down, and the labor leader? should refuse to be reasonable, a depression could come next year. The probabilities, how ever, are that Congress will al low matters to drift for some years. But the longer the cancer runs its course before a surgi cal operation, the more danger ous the operation will be when it finally takes place. If buns, coffee cake or dough nuts get slightly stale, try slic ing them in two and .putting them in a pan under the broiler of the gas range. Spread with butter, peanut butter, cinnamon or jam and serve hot. . The California Midwinter In ternational Exposition in San Francisco opened January 1, 1892. ' News ja moment or so and nauseating odors will creep in. '. The delegates won't know whether these disgusting smells come from the adjacent stock yards or FROM THE SMOKE FILLED ROOM DOWN TOWN where the politicians are stirring their witches brew. It could be either way. WHILE THEY WAIT, they lis- ."" ten to political oratory. One of the speeches is made by Penn sylvania's Governor Fine, who tells them the Republican party must UNITE if it is te be vic torious. The eyes of the Demo crats, he says, are upon us and they're HOPING for us to pull a boner such as winding up in a Donnybrook Fair, with every body using his shillallegh on ev erybody else. Personally, I haven't much use for this guy Fine. It looks to me like he's waiting around for the psychological moment to use the Pennsylvania delegates he is sup posed to hold in the hollow of his hand TO GET HIM WHAT HE WANTS. That's one of the big things wrong with the convention system. LET'S FLASH BACK for a sec ond to last night. Last night and 77-year-old Hoover. Herbert Hoover- and his hard-hitting, no-punches-pulled speech. Men who keep the faith and fight the good fight, through brutal unpopularity as well as admiring acclaim, through the bad days as well as the good. Men like that are the kind of men to tie to. In the long, long pull, they're far better for all of us than the demagogues. They bring us fewer headaches. That 15 minutes of wild, cheer ing, heart-warming demonstra tion they gave Hoover last night was something. There on the spot, he shed some tears and out here 2,000 miles away I felt like it. His head may be bloody, but last night it was still unbowed. TN CLOSING, let me quote a paragraph or so from 'the non convention news of this a.m. At Castle Dale, Utah, yester day the army engineers set off 160 tons of TNT and blew the side of a mountain out. The pur pose of the blast was to gather information to help determine HOW FAR DOWN. MAN MUST BURROW AND IN WHAT KIND OF TERRAIN TO BE SAEE FROM ATOM BOMBS. ( THERE IS A close connection between that experimental blast and what is happening in Chicago this week. That TNT explosion to find out what is best to do IF THE ATOM BOMBS j BEGIN TO FALL is the grim backdrop against which the ex citing drama in the Chicago con vention hall is being played out. The atom bomb is the sword of Damocles that hangs over us, suspended by a slim thread. Will it fall? Put is this way. It will be LESS LIKELY TO FALL if we have the right kind of leadership. In Chicago, we're struggling to GET the right kind of leadership. The right kind of leadership is the most important element in the conduct of human affairs. Medford Soldier Requests Letters From Friends Here Private First Class Charles Dall, whose 'parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dall, live at 421 Benson street,. is now in Korea serving with B battery of the 780th F. A. battalion. He recently sent his parents a 100 won note and some propa ganda leaflets from overseas. Pfc. Dall wrote that he would like to hear from some of his friends and former school mates in Medford. About eight months ago he left Medford high school to join the Army. His address is Pfc. Charles Dall, RA 19367868, B battery 780th F. A. Bn., APO 301, co P.M., San Francisco, Calif. ORANGE ON DISPLAY Convention Hall, Chicago Eisenhower's Florida boosters and Warrens California faithful vied for the brightest . colored placards' during Thursday night's nomination demonstra tions. Their colors orange. . Be a Good Scout Help the Program at Low Echo Girl Scout VANILLA COOKIES Will Be Available in the Lobby of the J. C. PENNEY STORE Tomorrow! 35c, Box They are idea! te serve with ice cream. So good for the kiddies, too! Do try them for those very popu lar vanilla wafer pie crusts. Liner's Fast Run" Highlights Good News During Week By HOMER JENKS UP Staff Correspondent Balance sheet for the week between good and bad news in the hot and cold wars: GOOD NEWS 1. The. 53,000-ton S. S. Unit ed States captured the blue rib bon on its maiden voyage for the fastest crossing of the Atlantia in history three days, 10 hours and 40 minutes. The record run gave this country the speediest liner afloat as a luxury passen ger ship in peacetime and an un paralleled troop carrier in any future war. It was built to U. S. Navy specifications to- insure its quick conversion to transport a full division of soldiers. Pinay Government Wins 2. Premier Antoine Pinay 's government won' a 267 to 216 confidence vote in the National Assembly, assuring France of a stable government for at least the next three months. The Na tional Assembly recessed until October after the vote. This will permit Pinay to concentrate on bolstering French economy and tightening France's ties with her Western Allies without worrying over the hitherto constant threat of a parliamentary defeat that would force his resignation. Crisis Appears Over 3. The South Korean politi cal crisis appeared to be over. The National Assembly at Pu san adopted a compromise bill granting President Syngman Rhee's demands for popular in stead of Assembly election of the president and establishment of a two-house instead of a uni cameral Congress. The compro mise bill also gave the Assembly control over the Cabinet, which previously derived its power from the president rather than the legislature. BAD NEWS 1. Denmark turned over s 13,000-ton tanker to Russia des pite a U. S. warning that it might cost the Scandinavian country further American mili tary and economic aid. - The Danes rejected the protest on grounds that the contract for the tanker had been signed be fore the U. S.-Danish aid agree ment barring "the delivery of. strategic goods to Russia. POW Violence 2. Violence erupted again among Communist war prison ers held by the Allies on Ko rea's Koje Island, giving the Reds more propaganda fuel at a crucial point in the deadlock ed truce negotiations. United Nations guards shot and killed two prisoners who tried to es cape by climbing over barbed wire fences. Twenty-eight other prisoners did escape from other componds, but 17 were recap tured. Anti-Red Kidnaped 3. East German Communists, with apparent Soviet conniv ance kidnaped a West German anti-Red underground move ment leader from his West Ber lin home and escaped with him into the Soviet Zone of Ger many, Maj. Gen. Lemuel Math ewson, American commandant in Berlin, sent a sharp note to the Russians demanding the re turn' of the kidnap victim. He called the incident "outrageous" 8nd "intolerable" and called for prosecution of the kindapenrs, believed to be East German Communist agents. Editorial Comment With Medford facing a vote battle on whether cloud-seeding is legal to entice rain, and with an umpty-ump number of cam paign cigars likely to be brought back from Chicago by our na tional party delegates, the weather for the next few months may be quite topical Oregon (Salem) Statesman. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 EAST 6TH Just Off Central For Complete Prescription. Service 9 AM - 10 30 PM. NIGHT Call 2-6253 At No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt "Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals Gordon Hudson Medford's Own Modern Ph.- -iacy ancfY
