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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 7. 1945
(It was Saturday)
Members of cast of Medford
High school senior class play in
clude Bob Boyer, Bill Hedrich,
Bill Patton, Chuck Jones, and
John Bullock.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: In the
Coast league, the Portland Beav
ers are out in front as far as Gen.
Patton's tank army; to the
amazement of everybody, in
cluding themselves.
20 YEARS AGO
April 7, 1935
(It was Sunday)
R. B. Hammond Sr. and E. L.
Childers to meet in finals of
President's cup golf tournament
at Rogue Valley Country club.
Students at University of Ore
gon, -Eugene and University
High schools plan mass demon
stration against "war as a
method."
80 YEARS AGO ,
April 7. 1925
(It was Monday)
Medford offers a free site for
the county courthouse if and
when it is moved from Jackson
ville. Workers finally reach body
of Floyd Collins, who died in a
rock slide in a Kentucky cave
in January.
40 YEARS AGO
April 7, 1915
(It was Tuesday)
Residents of North and South
Riverside ave. area protest to
city police that "the nights are
made hideous by wild men rid
ing motorcycles."
Monthly meeting of Medford
Commercial club "enlivened" by
speech by S. S. Smith and a
tenor solo by Fletcher Fish of
Phoenix.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 71)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Name two of the three pres
ent Supreme Court justises
who're Republilans.
2. Asia would get much less
or much more than half, or
about half, of the new Eisenhow
er program for' foreign aid?
3. Present Government farm
price supports on basic crops are
at 75-90, 75-100, 82V2-90 or flat
90 per cent of parity?
4. The boundary is still unof
ficial between two states: Mary
land and Virginia, Oklahoma
and Texas, North and South Da
kota, or Arizona and California?
5. Home Run Baker, picked
this year for baseball's Hall of
Fame, was Athletics third base
man, Chicago Cub shortstop, N.
Y. Giants catcher, or Brooklyn
pitcher?
6. Sen. McCarthy served dur
ing World War II in the Air
Corps. Army, Coast Guard, Ma
rine Corps or Navy?
7. The late Thomas G. Ma
saryk set up after World War I
the state of Czechoslovakia. Fin
land, Lithuania, Poland or Yugo
slavia? .-. .v- M
The Answers: 1. They re Chief
Justice Warren and Justices Bur
ton and Harlan. 2. Much more
than half. 3. 82V2-90 per cent of
parity. 4. Arizona and Califor
nia. 5. Athletics third baseman.
6. Marina Corps. 7. Czechoslova
kia. The first plant for making
collapsible metal tubes ; in the
United States was established in
1870 in Philadelphia.
MAIL TRIBUNB
A Truly Great Man
One of the best stories about Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill (retired) we have heard was told re
cently by the well-known newspaper correspondent,
Dorothy Thompson, in the Oregonian. .
It seems that Mrs. Thompson was invited to a
White House dinner during the Roosevelt adminis
tration (F.D.R.) and sat next to the affable and in
gratiating host, whom she had known for several
years.
During the conversation which was shortly after
the now famous Yalta meeting, President Roosevelt
told a story he thought amusing about a contretemps
which occurred at the final banquet at Yalta, between
Stalin and Churchill.
OTALIN, it seems, liked his vodka and after drink
ing 30 or 40 toasts proposed one of his own name
ly: that after the Germans had been defeated, which
promised to be soon, 50,000 German officers be taken
out and shot. The Russian leader found this very ap
pealing and proper, as he thought the German people
were not so bad but their officer class was, and should
be liquidated.
President Roosevelt, who was feeling in good
spirits also, and favored taking drastic measures
against Germany at that time but not later arose
to suggest that instead of shooting 50,000 German of
ficers, it might be better to shoot only 49,000! That
comment relieved the tension somewhat with every
one around the table, but Premier Churchill.
The Premier of England did not think the suggest
ion funny. He kept his seat, offered no toast, but did
remark gruffly, and so all could hear':
"Her majesty's government does NOT shoot prisoners
of war!" , .
"THAT was a slap in Stalin's face, so taken and in
" tended. (It has been hinted since he and Churchill
were never on good terms thereafter) .
When the dinner had ended Sir Winston, who had
not neglected his brandy preferring it to. vodka, did
not yield to any alcoholic exuberance or the social am
enities however, and took President Roosevelt severe
ly to task for siding with the Russian leader regarding
such an inhuman and barbarous proposal.
It was only a joke on
rejoinder. "I thought it better to turn it off that way
than to take it seriously,"
At this point Mrs. Thompson said she turned to
the President and quietly but pointedly observed, that
she agreed in this case with Premier Churchill completely.
But Dorothy" was FDR s rejoinder, "you must
realize I did not mean what I said, I merely thought
it best for all concerned, to take such a proposal with
a smile instead of otherwise, and cause a scene.
HAT was the end of the story.
But we think it one of the best to date, as reveal
ing the true inner characters of these three leading
statesmen of World War
British war leader, whose
of 80 has brought tears of
tears of sorrow and regret
world.
Winston Churchill liked his brandy and his 50-
cent cigars, neglecting neither, he even took things
in his stride and whenever appropriate with a smile ;
but when matters of principle became involved, when
questions between what he regarded as right and
wrong were concerned, that jaw of his became firm,
those smiling eyes became cold, and regardless of
the nature of the company, social or otherwise, or
the temptations to go the "easy way" he took his place
on the firing line, to defend the British traditions and
especially the one he cherished most, that of good
sportsmanship, decency and fair-play.
IT WAS this fundamental moral sense and courage
imbedded in the hard core of his fighting nature,
that made him stand alone on this occasion and out
so far ahead of his contemporaries in time of nation
al and world crisis.
He was in short a truly GREAT Man, one of the
few in public life of the present generation. He was
a man not only of fortitude few men in high posi
tion lack it but of wisdom, vision and the type of
initiative so rare and yet so essential. to successful
leadership.
As has been stated previously, the world, particu
larly the English-speaking world, will not seem the
same without him.
gUT fortunately this is not an obituary.
Sir Winston although living on borrowed time, ap
pears to be in excellent health and vigor, his mental
powers not noticeably impaired, and so while on his
vacation, his old seat in Parliament will be waiting
for his return.
It is not only the hope of his countrymen, but of
all men of good will, we believe, that he may resume
his place in the government soon, and for many years
the benefit of his unerring foresight, wisdom and de
votion to principle will be available to the struggling
and sometimes frustrated, nations of the Free World.
R.W.R.
Billy Graham Lauds Winston Churchill
Glasgow, Scotland (U.R)
American Evangelist Billy Gra
ham last night lauded former
British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill "as the greatest man
of our times."
Graham recalled he visited
Churchill at 10 Downing Street
last year.
"I got the impression he was
a man of deep religious convic
tion," the evangelist said. "
Graham drew a capacity
Thursday, April 7, 1955
my part, was the smiling
II, and particularly of the
resignation now at the age
regret to his own eyes, and
to the eyes of the civilized
crowd of 18,750 to his nightly
sermon and won "Decisions For
Christ" from 411. The new con
verts raised the total for Gra
ham's "Tell Scotland" crusade to
6,496.
FoUowing the meeting, Gra
ham attended a birthday party
for his choir leader, Cliff Bar
rows, at the Royal Scottish Au
tomobile club. Graham's present
to Barrows was a set of bagpipes.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Headed south from Tucson to
ward the twin towns of Nogales
one of them in the American
state of Arizona, the other in the
Mexican state of Sonora. The
distance from Tucson is about
65 miles, over a truly wonderful
highway. It is wide, and for the
most part straight, and the sur
face is as smooth as a table.
THE terrain slopes gently to
ward the south. There is a
strong tail wind. It would be
easy to let the speed drift into
the upper brackets on the speed
ometer. But there is the ever
present psychological bugbear of
these unmarked Arizona patrol
cars, equipped with radar, of
which the signs warn you about
every mile and a quarter. In the
back of your mind there is a
chilling picture. The picture is
that of a cop seated in a car bear
ing NO insignia of ' the great
state of Arizona. Maybe a Ford.
Maybe a Chevvie. Heck! Maybe
a Cadillac. This is a fabulous
country down here.
In your mind's eye, you "see
the cop watching a radar screen.
On the screen there is a blip.
You have the fearsome feeling
that the blip is YOU and that the
radar jigger is saying to the cop:
"This guy is from Oregon and
his foot is getting heavy on the
throttle and in about two shakes
of a lamb's tail he's going to
be over the limit. Then you can
NAB HIM."
MIND YOU, I don't take too
much stock in this radar
business. I have a sneaking no
tion that at the worst about all
it amounts to is a couple of cops
sitting in their cars a measured
mile apart and talking to each
other by two-way radio. In that
event, it would be just an old
fashioned speed trap, and if you
kep an eye peeled for lurking
cops you will be OK.
But
How can you be sure?
This radar is mysterious stuff.
Maybe it DOES see all. Maybe it
DOES know all. So I ease up on
the accelerator.
The UNKNOWN is always
terrifying.
THE road ffbm Tucson to
Nogales follows an ancient
watercourse. The stream has
long since dried up. But in the
underground reservoirs beneath
the gently sloping valley, na
ture has STORED WATER as
a squirrel stores nuts in seasons
of plenty for use in seasons of
scarcity. Man, probing with his
drills, has FOUND these under
ground stores and with his elec
trically driven pumps he is lift
ing the water up and putting it
on the thirsty soil.
The result is the. miracle of
irrigation, which maketh the
desert to blossom as the rose.
The hotter the desert, it seems,
the better, for when heat and
moisture and good rich soil are
mixed in the proper proportions
the consequences thereof are
something wonderful to gaze
upon.
1HOPE man down here doesn't
get greedy and pump the
water out of the underground
reservoirs faster than nature is
willing, to fill them up.
That would be tragic.
AT the border there is another
miracle.
It is the miracle of what hap
pens when government, by apd
large and lumping everything
together, has been GOOD FOR
THE PEOPLE instead of being
BAD FOR THE PEOPLE.
Between the American state
of Arizona and the Mexican
state of Sonora there is only an
imaginary line. On both sides of
this line the soil is the same.
There is as much water on one
side of it as on the other. The
same beneficent sun looks down
on it all.
But
OH, shucks! Let's skip that. To
describe in meticulous de
tail the differences between the
American state of Arizona and
the Mexican state of Sonora
would be to cast aspersions upon
our neighbor Mexico, and cast
ing aspersions upon our neigh
bors is mean and churlish and
altogether unforgivable.
But the ' contrast in ways of
life is a startling thing and if you
find yourself getting soured on
your country and its institutions
you'd better come down here
and take a good look.
What you'll see, I think, will
teach you a lesson that will be
good for your soul.
Churchill Planning To
Westerham, England U.R)
Sir Winston Churchill today kept
a long promised date with the
builders who will remodel his
country house while he vaca
tions in Sicily.
The newly retired Prime Min
ister is full of plans and proj
ects, despite his 80 years. The
first is to convert Chartwell, the
red-brick Georgian house he
bought'in 1922, from a week end
retreat to a full time residence.
Later, Chartwell will be al
tered into the Churchill Museum
that Churchill will leave to pos
terity, much as the late Presi
dent Roosevelt left his Hyde
Park estate.
The museum will be financed
from Churchill's 80th birthday
fund. Donations are still coming
in from- all- over the world,
adding to the $280,000 "first in
ON HIS WAY OUT As a large crowd sets up a thunder
ous cheer, Sir Winston Churchill leaves his London resi
dence, No. 10 Downing Street, for last official mile ride
ta Buckingham Palace. There he handed Queen Elizabeth
his resignation as the prime minister of Great Britain.
Kremlin Shows Great
Anxiety Over
Who Fled To Freedom
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
The Kremlin is showing great
anxiety over the flight of Valery
Alexandrovich Lysikov to the
freedom, of
West Berlin.
So far there
have been four
official Soviet
demands for
Lysikov's re-
t u r n, each
more excited
than the one
before.
The fourth
protest was
Charles McCann maae Dy no
less a personage than Soviet For
eign Minister Vyacheslav M.
Molotov.
Molotov summoned American
T 1 -
Ike's Appointment
Recalls Forgotten
Pact With Russia
Washington (U.R) The
United States has a 40-year-old
trouble-shooting treaty with Rus
sia which has lain dust-covered
and forgotten in the cold war.
This came to light after Presi
d e n t Eisenhower surprised
everybody including the State
Department's official spokesman
by appointing a French his
torian to a commission set up
under a similar treaty with Swe
den. His action sent reporters to
their history books.
'Cooling Off Treaty
There they learned that the
United States at one time had
such treaties--known as "Bry
an Cooling Off Treaties" with
about 40 nations, including Rus
sia. The agreement with Russia
never was annulled and still is
carried on U.S. books as tech
nically in force.
The treaties were the pet proj
ect of William Jennings Bryan,
who served as Secretary of State
during part of the administration
of President Woodrow Wilson.
He felt the best way to head off
serious trouble was o prevent it
before it got out of hand.
Commissions, Set Up
Under the agreements, five
member commissions were set
up to handle any dispute between
the treaty signatories if it could
not be handled through normal
diplomatic channels.
The treaties ran for five-year
periods and were automatically
renewed unless "denounced" by
either party.
Remodel House
stallment" presented Churchill
on his birthday last Nov. 30.
Beekeepers Schedule
Series of Meetings
The Rogue River Valley Bee
keepers association will hold s
weekly meetings at which in-,
struction and advice in beekeep- j
ing will be available to anyone ;
interested. Plans for the night !
meetings were adopted by the ;
association last night and it was
announced that the first one will
be held Thursday, April 14, in
Bigham hall at the fairgrounds.
The second meeting, on April
21, at the same place, will be ad
dressed by Dr. W. P. Stevens,
entomologist and extension
apiarist. He will be assisted by
some of the beekeepers of the
valley.
Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen
to his office to protest against
Lysikov's "detention."
"The just indignation of the
Soviet people has been aroused,"
Molotov said solemnly.
Just a Boy
Is Lysikov then, another of
the numerous high secret police
espionage officers who have
sought asylum in free countries
all over the world?
Is he a brilliant Soviet scien
tist who has fled to the West
with atomic secrets?
No. Lysikov is a pink-oheek-ed,
keen-eyed, jazz-loving Rus
sian bey of 17 who escaped to
the American sector of Berlin on
March 18 and turned himself
over to officers at Tempelhof
Air Field.
"I wanted to breathe some free
air," he explained later to news
men. "I want to be a pilot in the
American Air Force."
Lysikov's father is a lieuten
ant colonel in the Soviet Air
Force, stationed in East Ger
many. The father and mother
went to West Berlin to plead
with the boy to return, and to
threaten him.
"You will be put in a concen
tration camp," his father said.
"They will put you to work in
the mines.
They spent 2Vt hours with
the boy. He refused all the pleas
and ignored all the threats.
"It:s no use," the mother said
finally. "We may as well go
home."
It may be asked why the
Kremlin is so worked up over
the flight of one Russian boy to
the ;West.
The answer is simple. Valery's
flight is a slap in the face for
the entire Communist concept.
He is no mature Russian who, af
ter being stationed in the West,
decided not to go home.
It may be taken for granted
that Allied propaganda radios
beamed behind the Iron Curtain
will tell Valery's story to count
less thousands of his fellow-Russian
boys and girls. And the
Kremlin knows it.
HE'LL BE HARDENED
Shreveport, La. (U.R) For
mer Lt. Andrew W. Hilger is
pedaling a bicycle to his home in
St. Paul, Minn., 1050 miles away,
so he can "harden up" after his
desk job in the Air Force.
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Matter of Fact
THE ARMY AND THE ISLANDS
Washington The vast major
ity of responsible army officers
including Gen. Matthew Ridg-
way, Chief of
S t a f f be
lieve that
American
ground troops
will ultimately
have, to fight,
if the decision
is taken to
hold Quemoy
and the Mat
sus. This convic
tion, of course,
Stewart Abo
flies in the face of the Air
Force and Navy doctrine that
the job of defending the off
shore islands can be done with
air and naval power alone. There
is certainly a professional bias
in the Army view. But there
also seems to be a good deal
of plain common sense.
In the first place, army tac
ticians believe that Chiang Kai
shek's heavy commitment of
troops to the off-shore islands
more than 50,000 on Quemoy
alone is tactically as danger
ous as the French commitment
at Dien Bien Phu. As at Dien
Bien Phu, an extremely val
uable force is being risked in a
geographical situation in which
all the tactical advantages be
long to the enemy.
The islands are so close to
the mainland that Communist
troops can land in strength on
Matsu or Quemoy or both, any
dark night. A land battle will
then ensue, in the army view,
and this battle will be decided
on the ground, like any other
infantry battle, however success
fully the American Air Force
and Navy may bomb mainland
installations. If this country in
tervenes, the island battle must
be won otherwise the United
States will indeed look like a
paper tiger.
To make sure of winning,, we
must be ready to stiffen the
Nationalist forces with crack
American troops, the army men
maintain. Therefore, if the in
tention to hold the islands is
serious, this country ought ideal
ly to have at least a full Army
corps in the Formosa area, with
at least one crack division in
readiness at all times to rein
force the Nationalist troops on
the islands.
BUT this is only the beginning
of the story, in Army eyes.
Suppose, for purposes of argu
ment, the Army men say, that
Nationalist ground troops, plus
American air-tomic strength, do
succeed in holding, the off-shore
islands without American ground
forces. If we bomb the Chinese
mainland with atomic weapons,
surely the Chinese Communists
are not going simply to sit and
take it, The minimum response
to be expected is a Chinese Com
munist and North Korean at
tack on the Korean front.
The Chinese are of course
aware that we have only a cou
ple of skinny divisions left in
Korea, and that . our available
reinforcements are even skin
nier. The Republic of Korea
forces are not negligible, but
the real deterrent to renewed
Communist aggression in Korea
hasbeen the threat of nuclear
attack on the Chinese mainland.
If we use atomic bombs against
China in the defense of Quemoy
and the Matsus, this deterrent
will be spent. For months, the
Communists have been prepar
ing for a resumption of the Ko
rean war, in open defiance of
the truce terms. Thus we should
also be prepared for a second
Korean war.
There are other possible Com
munist moves which must be
taken into account. They range
from the bombing of Formosa,
and of American bases in Oki
nawa and Japan, to the maxi
mum response invocation of
the Sino-Soviet treaty and nu
clear war with Russia.
Army men agree that Russian
intervention is on balance un
likely, but nevertheless they say
May This
1A
Easter Season
Bless You with
Hope and Peace
Directors
1 KING STREET
MEDFORD
By Stewart Alsop
that cannot be ruled out. And
they claim that we cannot be
come heavily committed in Asia
and play our promised part in
NATO also, unless the current
cut-back in troop strength is
immediately and sharply re
versed. Finally, the Army men say,
suppose the optismistic Air Force
and Navy views are right. Sup
pose the Chinese Communist
air force is knocked out of the
war, the islands are held, and
the war does not spread beyond
China. What then? How do you
finish what you have started,
except by going on to win the
war? And after all, the Army
men point out, winning major
wars has in the past required
the services of armies. ,
CONTRARY to report, neither
Gen. Ridgway nor any of
his subordinates opposes defend
ing Matsu and Quemoy, if the
President and his advisers con
clude that they must be defend
ed in the national interest. But
most responsible Army officers
do believe that the much pub
licized notion of a rather pain
less little war, in which hardly
any one on our side gets hurt,
is a dangerous illusion. They
believe that a war starting over
the off-shore islands will be no
picnic no picnic at all.
Certainly the Army, like the
other services, has "parochial"
tendencies, to use President Ei
senhower's word. But sure ly
there is also a certain unhappy
logic in the Army's position, all
the same." And by the same to
ken, if the Administration is
serious about defending off-shore
islands, there is surely precious
little logic in the announced in
tention to continue the heavy
cut-backs in Army ground
strength.
(Copyright, 1955
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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