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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedforbUwTribuici "Everybody ia Southern Orejoo Reads Th Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W. RUHU Editor KERB GREY, Advertising Manafer Z. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editoi RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER- Society Editor JACK JACKSON, Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under . Act of March 3. 1897 ST7RSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Dailv and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 0.50 Daily and SundayThree mo, 3 JO Daily and Sunday One month US Sunday Only One year. 3 JO By Carrier In Advance 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 123 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy AH Terms cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medfor Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: - WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. DCC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPII rimiSHits ASSOCIATION !N ATIO N ALWE DITOEl AL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 14, 1944 (It was Thursday) J. Gene Losee, salesman for Cullen Motor and Implement company, wins second prize in national tractor sales letter con test. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The .Yule prospects are dark. There looms a lack of whiskey to drink and a lack of cigarettes to take the taste out of the swigger's mouth. 20 YEARS AGO ' : ' Dec. 14. 1934 (It was Friday) Jt P. G. Denson, manager ' of Medford hotel, returns from hotel association convention - in Seattle and reports hotel busin ess is improving. : Fred Waun, J. E. Gribble, and E. J. Halley, all of Medford, among prize winners in photo graphy contest sponsored by Shasta-Cascade Wonderland as sociation. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 14, 1924 (It "was Sunday) Internal revenue collector re ports that 754 residents of Med ford paid income taxes during 1924. Jackson county sheriff inves tigates reports that. some local residents are drinking rubbing alcohol. 40 YEARS AGO . ... Dec 14, 1914 (It was Monday) Ralph Cowgill to introduce measure in Oregon legislature to protect bears in Jackson county. Court Hall returns from Port land where he spent three days "studying traffic problems and the 1915 autos." What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial 'Research Report 1. The French-German agree ment on the Saar industrial area calls for it to be returned to Germany, annexed to France or internationalized? 2. More U.S. transit passengers travel by bus than by street-car, subway and elevated lines com bined; right or wrong? 3. Instalment . buying these days is relatively high or low, or about average? '4. First day of a month con taining a Friday the , 13th is al ways a Friday, a Sunday, a Sat urday or a Thursday? 5. President . Coolidge was a Harvard graduate; right or wrong? " ' ' 6. A "Mig" is a Russian , sub marine, aviator, type of atomic bomb, plane, or secret agent .within U. S. labor unions? - 7. Lady Godiva was a famous court beauty, , dressmaker, old English dance, Shakespearean character, or horseback rider? Answers: I. Internationalized. 2. Right. 3. Relatively high. 4. A Sunday. 5. Wrong. He was grad uated from Amherst. 6. Plane. 7. She made a famous ride on a horse. The longest straight stretch of railroad track in the United States is 78.86 miles between Wilmington and Hamlet, N.C MAIL TRIBUNE Is the Honeymoon Over? The new Premier of Japan says he favors a con tinuation of the pro-America policy of his predeces sor. He could hardly say the reverse. - But in all probability the post-war honeymoon between the USA and Japan is over, and while Ja pan's traditional enemy is Russia, there promises to be a gradual reapproachment between Tokio and Moscow, as well as Tokio and Pekin. The reason? Japan can't live economically without increased foreign trade, and particularly with Red China.. 1 But the American policy is to further restrict trade with Red China, not only from Japan, but from all countries east and west, north and south. - JAPAN under the new regime will want increased trade also with the United States, formerly her best customer. But this will be fought bitterly by American manu facturers of pottery and china, textiles, and fabrics, canned sea-food, fish and vegetables, makers . of electric-light bulbs and lamps, floor-coverings, em broideries and various cheap toys, gadgets, etc., etc. LIEARINGS opened in Washington yesterday on a "new reciprocal' trade treaty with Japan. The hearings promise to last a long time and to be super heated at times. - It is to be hoped, however, no matter how tempers and self-interests may flare, two important facts will not be overlooked namely: " ". 1. Japan MUST have greatly increased foreign trade to survive as a free and independent nation. 2. If this is not possible because of American op position or anything else, Japan will be lost as an ally against the spread of communism in the Far East This is just one of many difficult and potentially dangerous problems, facing the present administra tion during the next two years, for which a satisfac tory solution must be found. R.W.R. The Truth About Wayne Morse "The US News and World Report" has issued a "special reprint" of its article "Wayne Morse tells his own story." We wish every voter would read it. . But of course every voter won't. In fact there are some Republicans who are so venomously prejudiced where Oregon's junior Senator is concerned, that they don't read about him, don't want the facts con cerning him, just want to enjoy undisturbed the lux ury, of hating. him.r - However these "haters" are fortunately in a de cided minority. And as the months pass, their num bers will decrease, as they always do after a heated campaign. MEANWHILE those who seek the truth, and don't allow their emotions to overcome their judg ments, should get a copy of this reprint and read it over carefully. , It is particularly valuable because the interview is conducted by an editorial conference hostile to Sen ator Morse and entirely in sympathy with those, who oppose him. There can therefore be no charge of a pro-Morse slant quite, the contrary in fact. Oregon's "Independent" Senator is, in other words, put on the spot. He is asked about every phase of his senatorial career, why he did this, why he did that, why he didn't do something else. No holds are barred, no punches pulled. Voters who are. seeking the facts of our political life, regardless of whether those facts please or dis please, will be interested in this story of one of the most controversial figures ever to enter American public life. We shall leave it up to those who DO read it, as to the verdict R.W.R. He Won't Like It Senator Knowland says he wants to read the terms of the new alliance between this country and Chiang Kai-shek before he passes judgment on it. And he doesn't intend to skip any of the "fine print." This is quite in character. California's senior Senator is a law unto himself, much as certain other anti - although few of them so make some more political self he will have no scruples about it. . Our prediction is he won't like this new arrange ment any better than he did the old one under Tru man. , For not only does Knowland want to get tough with Red China. He is a strong supporter of Chiang, Mrs. Chiang and the Nationalists. Contrary to popular belief this new treaty does not "unleash" Chiang. It merely pledges U.S. support to Chiang if he is attacked on Formosa or any nearby islands which are "strategic." . IN FACT Chiang is told, not directly but clearly by implication that if he should start any invasion of the mainland of China on his own, he would get no US support, not so much as a gun, a plane or a boat - . Whether the California Senator will consider the present, moment propitious from a political angle to openly oppose this alliance remains to be seen, but he can hardly be expected to wax enthusiastic over it R.W.R. ... . Tuesday December 14, 1954 Eisenhower senators are often admit it. If he can capital for 1956 for him SUGGESTED BIBLE READING The American Bible So ciety, the Medford Ministerial Association and the Medford Council of Church Women are cooperating in sponsoring daily Bible reading in the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas The suggested scripture reading for today is: John 14. !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The world's biggest warship, the atomic bomber carrier For restal, is floated and christened at Newport News, Va. The Forrestal is the biggest warship EVER built. Her flight deck (from which bombers carry ing atom bombs will take off) is 1036 feet long approximately a fifth of a mile. It is 262 feet wide at its widest point. That is to say: The Forrestal, when completed and ready for service, will be a floating .airfield that can be moved to any point in the world where we might need to launch bombers carrying atom bombs, A FEW more statistics on the big ship's size: From keel to masttop, she will be as tall as a 25-story skyscrap er. , So that she will be able to pass under bridges, her masts wUl fold. The power required to move and handle her will be somewhat over 200,000 horse power. Here's a comparison: That will be in the general neighborhood of a third of the power output of Bonneville dam. ANOTHER comparison: The Forrestal is big, but she isn't as big as the British Queens, the Elizabeth and the Mary. Her displacement, fully loaded with ammunition, stores and planes, will be about 75,000 tons. The Queen Elizabeth displaces 83,673 tons and the Queen Mary 81,235 tons. TITAYBE you're fuzzy about Displacement is the weight of water displaced by a floating body. The weight of the water (or other fluid) displaced by a floating' body, in this case a ship, is equal to that of the displacing body. That is how sh.ips are "weighed." They, can't be put on the scales. They're too big. THE Forrestal has been a con trnvprsial iceno cinro cTna tiroe first planned by the navy. The air force argued that was too much money to put into a float ing airfield that might be sunk by a single well-placed bomb. British Field Marshal Montgom ery recently asserted that the 'day of the aircraft carrier is ap proaching its end. At the big ship's launching, Navy Secretary Charles Thomas said, presumably in answer to these criticisms: "The Forrestal will be our most versatile and DISPERS ABLE weapon . .. . Such a car rier will be able to carry our air power to parts of the world where no comparable ' friendly force can be found or maintained . . . With its speed of up to 40 miles per hour, the Forrestal will be a phantom target for any enemy. THE big carrier, you see, is a gamble. . Here is an interesting thought: Back in the Civil War, the Monitor (our first ironclad war ship) was a gamble. AH kinds of fun was poked at her. Among other things, she was called a "cheesebox on a raft." But the Monitor arrived in Hampton Roads just in the nick of time to vanquish the Marri mac, an ironclad that had been built by the Confederates and which when the Monitor ar rived was sinking the wooden ships of the Union navy just about as fast as they could be got in the sights of the Merrimac's guns. Nobody ever knows in ad vance whether or not a gamble wiU pay off. r HOW big a gamble is the For restal? Her cost wUl be about $197, 000,000. Assuming that our pres ent population is about 160,000, 000, the Forrestal will cost each American individual about $1.25. If the Forrestal should happen at some time in the future to arrive on a critical scene at a moment, as did the Monitor; and should perform as effectively as did the Monitor, the gamble in volved in her building would pay off in a big. way.. In a Southern Association baseball game with KnoxvUle on Aug. 27, 1940, the first 13 Memphis batters reached first base safely. ? YOU HAVE SEEN THEM ON TV SHEAFFER SNORKEL PARKER "51" JOTTER -PAPERMATE CAPRI You can buy them from a complete selection at Walt Young's MEDFORD STATIONERY 210 East Main Matter of Fact UNDERGROUND GOVERN MENT IN VIET NAM Saigon, Viet Nam For once in a way, there is some truth in Communist propaganda. The Viet Minn radio constant ly denounces the South Viet namese government here in Sai gon as a mere shadow of a shadow; and that, for the time being at least, is exact ly what - it is. If South Viet Nam can be said to have a government at all, at present, it is tht iinlor. Joseph Alsop ground gov ernment of the Viet Minh. In this rich, fantastically cor cupt city, where the same gangs ters who ran the gambling, the prostitution and the opium dens also wear the uniforms of the police, , you do not get many echoes of the real state of af fairs in the Vietnamese country side. Life goes on in Saigon as though the fate of Hanoi were something that had happened on another planet. Yet the really important poli tical process in Southern Indo china is not the dreary round of intrigue among the non-Communist Vietnamese political leaders in Saigon. It is, rather, the progressive take over of the rest of South Viet Nam by the Communists. Under the terms of the Gene va agreement, of course, the Viet Minh forces were to evacu ate South Viet Nam, just as the French forces were to evacuate the North. The Communists reg ulars, which formerly held four large areas here in the South, are indeed being moved out as promised. But Communist ca dres are being left behind. . More important still, the Ge neva agreement and the subse quent transfer of authority to the Vietnamese left an almost total power vacuum in huge areas which the Communists did not formerly hold. Because of its quarrel with the army, and be cause of its own inherent weak ness too, the government of President Ngo Dinh-diem has hardly attempted to govern. TTENCE it has been only too "easy for the Viet Min& to send their cadres out into the providences, and to establish themselves in village after .vil lage. "Committees to defend the peace ' are organized and be come, a real village governments. After these come "committees to defend the interests of the peas ants and workers," which are the Viet Minh disguised courts, ana innumerable women s or ganizations and the like which are instruments of propaganda The villagers see no other real authority that reaches down to them. Both vjUagers and townspeople have been deeply impressed by the Viet Minh vie tory at Dienbienphu and all its volcanic sequels. They would tend in any case to regard the Viet Minh as the wave of the future. And since there is no counter effort to balance the work of the Viet Minh cadres, village after village passes into Viet Minh control. . The estimates vary as to how far this process has gone al ready. But the examples cited plainly suggest that it has gone very far indeed. For instance, at Ben Tri.Col. Leroy, a French of ficer who is himself half Viet namese, formerly ruled a pro vince that- was celebrated for its immunity ; to Communist peneration. By imaginative re form and by organizing at the village level, Col. Leroy achiev ed positive, solid anti-Communist unity, among his people. Then Col. 1 Leroy was transfer red. Geneva left a vacuum at Ben Tri as elsewhere. And to day, among Ben Tri's hundreds of villages there are reported to be less than a score which still have the "Council of Notables" which is the Saigon govern ment's instrument of village ad ministration. In most of the rest, "Peace Committees" rule. A few days ago, this reporter visited the rubber planting re gion near the Cambodian bor der. Here the big plantations had fortified themselves, created small armies, and carried on rubber production right through the civil war. Immediately, after Geneva, '. however, Viet Minh organizers entered the villages of. the rubber workers. - rpODAY, one of the biggest A plantations is already under effective Viet Minh control, with the French manager run ning the plantation through the Viet Minh leader with excel lent production results, inciden tally. The other planters were not prepared to submit in this manner, but they frankly said it was only "a matter of weeks" before the Viet Minh would be deeply entranched as the real government of their region. There is no violence. On the Phone 2-6780 b7 Joseph ap surface, life goes on as usual, or rather better than usual, for the rubber planters and their fami lies no longer wear revolvers and carry submachine guns to their swimming pool on Sundays. But every day there is a new sign, such as the recent arrest of the father-in-law of the pres ent Foreign Minister of South Viet Nam for joining in found ing a peace committee here in Saigon. The signs aU point the same way, towards the creation of an effective though underground government of South Viet Nam by the Communists. The end is not yet. A strong and efficient non-Communist govern ment, working closely with the Viet namese army, re-establishing au thority in the countryside, carry ing out the needed reforms could still halt and roll back the process of Communist penetra tion. But there is very little time and as these words are written no such non-Communist govern ment is in sight. Copyright. 1954. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Interior Employee Given Medal for Rescue of Three Washington U.R) Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay to day presented the department's distinguished service award to an employee who risked his life to rescue a child, and her moth er, and another woman from drowning in the Colorado river at Needles, Calif. Raleigh J. Sanderson, Needles, was erven the award at an awards convocation. It consisted of a citation, certificate, gold medal, and lapel pin. . ; Swept Into Stream Sanderson, an employee of th Bureau of Reclamation, per formed the triple rescue on July 16, 1953. A child had waded beyond her depth and was swept mto midstream. Her motner and a. woman compan ion, neither of whom could swim, attempted to rescue her and were swept into the swift current. . , ; Sanderson, working on a boat nearby, plunged into the water and reached the child. As he was carrying her to shore, he passed close to the two women. They grabbed him . about . the body, pulling him under. After a struggle, he succeeded in bringing them to the shore. Alabama Attorney To Fight Extradition . Galveston, Tex. U.R) A lawyer said today that Alabama Atty.. Gen. Silas Garrett, who is charged with murdering the man elected to succeed him, wiU fight any effort to make, him leave a Galveston mental hospital until doctors say he is able. . Garrett was served yesterday in his hospital room with the indictment charging he "unlaw fully and with malice afore thought killed Albert L. Patter son by shooting him with a gun." Patterson was . the crusader murdered last ; June in Phenix City, Ala.; the city he had prom ised to clean up because it had become so infamous for its com mercialized vice. HEIRESS TO FLY Mexico "City (U.R) Dimestore heiress Barbara Hutton, using the name of a husband she dis carded several years ago, was scheduled to fly to Los Angeles today: She has been visiting friends, at the nearby resort of Cuernavaca, where she has an estate, for more than a month. Jersey Unlimited In Our Millinery Department Mail and Phone Orders Filled Railroad Will Link China and Mongolia With Soviet Russia By CHARLES M. MeCANN United Press Foreign Analyst A brief broadcast from Peip ing reported Monday that the first train on a new railroad which is .to link Commun ist China, Out er Mongolia and Soviet Russia had reached the Mongolian bor der. It was not a very exciting announcement. But in its po- Chain- Mctaan wpuauues lor the future it was real news. The dispatch is a reminder that Communist China and Rus sia are building, with the sweat of countless thousands of slave laborers, a vast rail network that will open up aU of that part of East Asia. It has been long known that that network was under con struction. In fact,' parts of it were started, on the Chinese side by the. Nationalists long be. fore the Communists overran the mainland five years ago. i But construction has b e en speeded since then, and any re port of progress is not good news for the West. Expects Completion in '56 Nationalist Generalissi mo Chiang Kai-shek estimated last October, on the basis of his intelligence reports, that the net work wUl be completed in 1956. Then Russia will be in con trol of the great Eurasian land mass and clearly wUl be in a strong position to match the power of the United States and Great Britain, . unafraid of any air power which may be thrown against it," Chiang said. He predicted that by 1956 Red China would be prepared, with Stepfather Held In Girl's Death San Bruno U.R) Police to day, held for questioning the stepfather of a young; Negro woman, who died shortly after she was found in a roadside ditch with her throat slashed and her clothes afire. The victim was" Dorothy M. Cheeks, 18, a June graduate of a San Francisco high school. She was raped and beaten before her body was drenched with gaso line and set afire, police said. Her stepfather is S. J. Curry, 41, a longshoreman. On Remote Road Dorothy, nude from the waist down, was found writhing last night beside a remote Peninsula road leading to the San Francisco County Jail just off Skyline Boulevard. She died at Peninsula Hospital in nearby Burlingame at 9:16 p.m. Police said they found Curry evasive, expressing no curious- ity after they told him Dorothy was dead about how she had been killed. Blood-Stained Slacks Found Rummaging through, two ash cans outside Curry's apartment police found a pair of gray slacks and a suede sports jacket, blood stained and ripped into shreds. In Curry's apartment was found a pair of blood-tained shoes. Through all questioning, the stepfather remained silent, say ing only he had not seen Dorothy since she left the apartment yes terday to go shopping. For Questioning (A) Beautime . (B) Two-toned Turban. - - -j " (C) Fringed Clip Cap. completion of the network, fo a war m the Pacific. He predict ed also that Russia would start a general war. A lot of things could happen before 1956, and Chiang's pre dictions may have been a little on the pessimistic side. But the railroads will link sol idly two vast Communist-ruled countries and give them com munications which for the first time wUl r permit a swift, big scale movement of men and sup plies. Also Link With Indochina The railroads also will link with Chinese Red lines that run southward to the Indochina iron tier. - : - The network which the Peip- ing broadcast mentioned is to extend from Tsining, about 200 miles west-northwest of Peiping, to Ulan Bator, capital of the Soviet-satellite state of Outer Mongolia. , .-, Peiping said that the line had reached, on the Chinese side,, a frontier whistle-stop named Ehrlien. Ehrlien is on the border of Inner Mongolia. Thence the road will extend through Inner Mongolia to Outer Mongolia, on the northwest. V "Railroads Minister Teng Tai Yuan, who was on the first train, told the 700 people gath ered at the tiny halt of Ehrlien that completion of the present section of the line will add to Inner Mongolia's economic and cultural advance," Peiping said. But the Reds are building the network for economic and mili tary purposes. It will connect Red China with Russia's Trans Siberian railroad at points along a line extending from Eastern Siberia to Alma Ata, in the Sov iet Kazakh Republic in Central Asia. . .. Whatever the motive of the Reds in speeding construction, it is hardly likely they have in mind their campaign of "peace ful co-existence." ' ROYAL-M HEARING AID only .'100 complete with air conduction nceiruf . - end lioci earmold " If someone close to you needs a hearing aid, yet has hesitated to buy one, what finer, more practical Christmas gift could there be than a tiny, jewel-like . Zenith Royal-M. It's easy to wear... easy to adjust ...and so easy for you to give! SPECIAL CHRISTMAS trial orn-R Buy the aid for a gift before Christmas whenever most convenient. The recipient must be satisfied or your . money will be refunded promptly up to 10 days after Christmas. George E. White AT FLYNN ELECTRIC CO. . 131 W. 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