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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MesfordUiTribume "Xverybody la Southern Ortfon Read Th Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 8-S141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. AdvertUinft Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sportt Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as aecond class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three moi 3.50 Sunday Only One year 3 50 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 l- Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance 6ffictal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Aoverusing I?,;,,",",,-v nir 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 AS'SOC'l-ATllON mau'lHJ NEWSPAMt PUtLISHItt ASSOCIATION 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 June 7, 1945 (It was Thursday) A public hearing on Jackson county's budget to start tomor row morning. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The pro posal to make the old courthouse ' at Jacksonville a pioneer relic museum recalls when it was dedicated, a Bible and a $5 gold piece were buried in the corner stone. It would be interesting to know if both objects are still there. Besides 12 years have passed since it was legal to look at a $5 gold pieces without pull ing down all the blinds. 20 YEARS AGO June 7. 1935 More than 10 forest fires al ready reported in Jackson and Josephine counties as summer becomes drier. Special election called in Wil low Springs district to decide whether or not stock should run at large. 30 YEARS AGO June 7, 1925 (It was Sunday) More than 25 special trains carrying Shriners home from Los Angeles convention pass through Medford. . . Almost 500 people die from in tense heat wave throughout the country, while Medford's tem perature is 75. 40 YEARS AGO" June 7, 1915 (It was Monday) Medford divided into districts to conserve irrigation water to prevent shortage. From Ashland and vicinity column: Last Thursday night twenty-seven carloads of sheep in double-deckers, reached here and were unloaded for rest and feed, afterwards being reloaded into fifty-four standard stock cars which had been cleaned out and disinfected preparatory to interstate shipment across the border. It took some likely work by Bates' transfer men and the regular attendants to get the sheep off on schedule Friday afternoon. What's the Answer?- (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Reset 1. The Chinese Reds say they will discuss Formosa with the U. S. and Nationalist China, or only the U.S., or only National ist China, or neither? 2 Republican national chair man is Leonard W. Hall, Sen. Knowland, Rep. Joseph W. Mar tin, Jr., Vice President, or Pres ident Eisenhower? 3. Ad valorem tariff duties are based on weight, value, quantity, or country of origin? 4. The last previous Virginia born President was Tyler, Mc Kinley, Taft, Wilson or Cool idge? 5. A holographic will is one dictated to a priest, all in the testator's handwriting, signed in pencil, mimeographer, or not no tarized? 6. Krishna Menon is a politi cal leader in Viet Nam, Japan, India, Puerto Rico or Israel? 7. jfmmy Durante has a re trousse nose: right or wrong? The answers: 1. Only with lhe U.S. 2. Leonard W. Hall. 3. Value. 4. Wilson. 5. All in testa tor's handwriting. 6. India. 7. Wrong (that's a turned up one). MAIL TRIBUNE Don if Interfere According to the Oregonian, Secretary of the In terior McKay now "touring Europe in a top-hat," is planning some speech-making in Oregon late this summer or fall "probably coincidental" with the scheduled debate on the John Day partnership power project between Representative Sam Coon and Sen ator Dick Neuberger. We trust this report proves to be incorrect. Secre tary McKay's views on public power are well known throughout the state and, of course, he has a perfect right to express them in Oregon or anywhere else. But it would be very poor timing and worse taste to stage a series of talks in this state during the Coon Neuberger debate and on the subject under considera tion in that debate by such a radical, partisan of one of the contestants and such a a bitter opponent of the other. What would the American people have thought, for example, if during the Lincoln-Douglas debate, Jeff Davis had decided to tour Illinois giving his well known views on slavery, or Senator Seward his con trary views on the same subject? TTHIS debate on public power with special reference to the "partnership-plan" for "John Day," has been the result of a challenge by Oregon's junior Senator which has been accepted by Congressman Coon. The controversy is between them and them only. They should be allowed to fight it out without interference by partisans on either side. If Secretary McKay has such an urge to air his views on public power in Oregon that he can't resist at this particular time, then let him join in the debate, and make it a four-sided affair, with Senator Morse joining with his junior colleague. (One thing for sure, such a quartet would put out the SKO B UT far better for all concerned to allow this verbal duel to take place as cording to the rules, regulations and traditions of of such affairs, with hands off and mouths shut, on both sides. 1X7E have some doubts about Congressman Coon ever appearing to answer the call for action, but we may be mistaken. Hope we are, for the more discussion on this im portant subject the more light shed on the problem, the better the chances of a final decision that will contribute the maximum benefits to this state and the undeveloped areas of the entire northwest. R.W.R. It Isn 9t the Leadership According to reports Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson is far more popular with the Eisenhower Republicans in congress than with the Democrats back home. The Democratic rank and file claim their party, due to its passive non-aggressive leadership or lack of any leadership has. muffed the ball time after time, and thus abandoned all chance of returning to power next year in the face of another Eisenhower popularity landslide. AXELL such a reaction is understandable. The " Texas Senator is of the mild and conciliatory type, and the record during his regime will show in many cases, stronger support for the President and his policies from the Democrats, than the Republi cans. But it is doubtful if this can be justly blamed on Senator Johnson or his leadership. The plain truth seems to be that the Eisenhower program, particularly as it relates to foreign policy; is favored generally by the Democratic party. It is also true the strongest opposition in the Upper House particularly, comes from the Republicans especially those that follow the isolationist leadership of Sen ators like Knowland, Jenner, Malone and McCarthy. This is simply a matter of FACT. It could be changed if the Democratic leadership wished to abandon its principles for partisan profit, but that has not appeared to be the majority party's aim and that happens to be this departments defi nition of good statesmanship. A LL may be changed when the 1956 campaign real ity opens. But as of today we fail to see how one could ex pect, the Democratic leader, or the Democratic ma jority in the congress, to join in with the Knowlands, Jenners and McCarthys, and thus repudiate their own party principles' and convictions. The complaint, in fact, should come from the Re publicans who claim that General Eisenhower didn't know which party he belonged to four years ago and doesn't know now. Like "Brer rabbit" they are lying low and not saying much. Unless all signs fail, however, they will say a good deal when the time for the convention to nominate a new candidate, comes up. As things look today the GOP opposition to Ike won't get to first base. But that doesn't mean they won't TRY! R.W.R. . New St. Mark's Priest Greeted St. Mark's Episcopal church greeted its new assistant priest, the Rev. Robert Franz Burger, at a parish reception last Sun day. Mr. Burger, a native of Missouri, arrived recently to be come assistant to the Rev. George R. V. Bolster, rector of St. Mark's. Unmarried and an ardent mountaineer, Mr. Burger has I Tuesday, June 7. 1955 sign early!) originally planned, and ac served the past two years as as sistant Priest at St. James's Epis copal church in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the Church Di vinity School of the Pacific at Berkeley, Calif. The new assistant priest will be in charge of St. Mark's during June, while the Rev. and Mrs. Bolster vacation in Canada. Mr. Burger resides at 620 South Oakdale ive. .z . Matter of Fact Dear Commissioner Washington. Dear General Joseph M. Swing: As Commissioner of Immigra- tion and Nat uralization you are of course a f very important person nowa days no less, in fact, than the keeper of the keys of the gates of the United States, with n m p Joeeph Alsop help, naturally, from that fine, vigilant, active man, Mr. Scott McLeod, over at the State Department. None the less, I dare to ad dress you on behalf of a Chinese friend, Mr. Lung Shun-wen, be cause I think just possibly you did not really understand .his case when you ordered him de ported from this country. The reason you gave for not letting Mr. Lung stay in America was the position now held by his father, old Governor Lung Yen, as a vice chairman of the Nation al Military Council of the Chi nese Communist government Mr. Lung's father's position sounds bad, of course, but some how it still seems wrong to me to put automatic labels on hu man beings and decide their fate by the punch card svstem. So let me tell you a little bit about Governor Lung and the .Lung clan. I used to know them rather well when I was working for General Chennault in the Fourteenth Air Force. In those days, old Governor Lung was the last astonishing survivor of the true race of Chinese war lords. The first thing you have to grasp about Governor Lung, if you really want to understand him, is that he was basically a primitive. I must admit that he had every modern gadget his vast fortune could buv in. his big palace in Kunming: and he had bought modern weapons, too, for his private army of 70,- uuo men. Yet his gadgets didn't make him any less primitive at heart He always used to deny having tribal blood, because that is a disgrace in China. But I rather think there was truth in the Kunming gossip that Governor Lung was part Lolo. As late as the middle 1930's, the Lolo chieftains were really inde pendent rulers in their mountain fortresses in Southwest China, and the lesser hill tribes were their slaves. The Lolos were Dar ticularly strong in Yunnan, and I suspect his Lolo connections helped Lung Yen to rise to the Yunnan warlordship. Anyway, when I knew Gover nor Lung he was one of the last truly feudal rulers in the mod era world. He let Mr. Y. T. Miao, a brilliant, Western educated banker, handle problems that needed Western education. But he ran the , province, with his cousin, General Lu Han, as his deputy. He was really absolute, except that General Lu Han's mother, Madam Lu, who must have been about eighty, exercis ed something of the authority of a family elder. When she stamp ed her bound feet, even Govern or Lung used to jump. Naturally, as warloard ofVYun nan, Governor Lung made a lot of money. In his best days, he must have owned a substantial percentage of the good farm land in the province. And in 1945, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek finally sent his troops in to break Governor Lung's power, one of the things they found was a sort of private Fort Konx a whole cave out in the Western Hills heaped to the ceiling with stacks of gold bricks. Of course, that was really the end of Governor Lung's life, when his hold on Yunnan was broken. The Generalissimo put him under house arrest in Nan king. Then he escaped to Hong Kong on one of General Chen nault's airplanes he got on the plane disguised as an old woman. And then the Commu nists defeated the Generalissimo, and made Lung Yun a lot of promises, and so he went back to China to become one of their puppets. . The trouble was, all the time, that he was a primitive with his roots in Yunnan. He didn't un derstand the Chinese Commu nists any better than your friend Mr. Scott McLeod does, although of course his mistakes about them were of a quite a differ ent kind. The Communists just gave a tempting tug on his roots in Yunnan, and back Lung Yun went, full of foolish hopes; and now he is under house arrest again in Peiping, with an emotv title that is meant to encourage turncoats on Formosa. So you see. you really don't need to worry because mv friend l.nn Shun-wen is the old Governor's son. You ought to remember, too. that the younger generation of Lungs behaved very differently from the old man. One of my friend s brothers. Lunsr Shun- tseng, was the anti-Communist guerilla leader in Southwest China until the Peipine govern ment caught and shot him. All the other brothers are refugees 1 1.4 a? if me eiaest escaped from the By Joseph AIsop mainland only the other day, and Generalissimo Chiang gave him a big welcome. GAL 2 MATTER OF FACT .... As for my friend, Lung Shun wen, very few young men, sure ly, could make the transition that he has made, from being a twenty - year old lieutenant colonel and the son of one of the richest men in the world, to getting their living in a strange land. -Lung Shun-wen finished college here, although his allow ance from his father stopped in 1949. He has managed very well ever since, and now he is doing nicely with a Chinese restaurant here in Washington. I would think that a fellow who can get out and scratch like that would be the best kind of citizenship material. So I hope you will put away your punch cards for once, and reexamine his case as a human problem. Even when you achieve 200 per cent Americanism, like Mr. Scott McLeod, it is very un wise to forget that human prob lems really matter a lot. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor miut bear the name and address oi the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Ben name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the rieht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. As To Bible Prophecy To the Editor: The physical re turn of the people of Israel to Palestine never to be plucked up out of it again is prophesied in the Bible. A spiritual applica tion of such prophecies there may also be but that in no way prevents- the physical fulfill ment. Up to now these prophec ies have not been fulfilled as pre vious regatherings have been followed by scatterings. But the present regathering will no doubt have a different result. In the new world or age ruled by Jesus Christ, under His Father, Jehovah, will be glory, honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek, for there is no respect of persons with God. The new age is now upon us. See Amos 9:14,15, Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, Zechar iah 14, Romans 2: 9 ,10, 11 and Revelation 21. A. R. Stewart, 67 Ocean St. Rochester, Mass. Use Surplus for Peace To the Editor: "Feed thy en emies" commands our Heavenly Father. Do we miss His grace by this omission, failing to qualify as His children? Is Peace there fore withheld from the earth? "Peace cometh from me said the Lord." Hundreds of people are starv ing behind the iron curtains. Their leaders have made them our enemies. In reality they are our brothers. We have surpluses of food that are plaguing our economy and welfare. Should we not give it to those who hunger? Is our defense such that we can defeat only starved people? The blame is partially ours considering that the money that should feed them goes to build armaments to subdue us. Starving people are danger ous They constitute a reason for war. They must fight to allev iate their distress. Feeding those people would do more good than reducing armaments Using up our surpluses would be a stimulus to our economy, prompt more production, bring more prosperity. The good of preventing another war cannot be measured. Why then do not we Citizens buy up the surpluses from our government and give them to the people behind the Iron Curtain? Each of us can spare something. Write your Senators and Con gressman today asking for im mediate legislation so this can be done in our Christ's name. Frances Ray, Ralston, Wash. A Grandmother Comments To the Editor: Would like to comment on the graduating ex ercises last night. I saw my daughter graduate from Med ford High school with the class of 1934 and last night my grand daughter with the class of 1955. Have seen other ones graduate but never have seen . a more beautiful setting, with the col ored lights, the blue caps and gowns, the colorful school band in front and the sky above with a few patches of clouds. It was a picture no artist could do jus tice to. Even a little yellow dog liked it. May the Father above bless them all in their different walks of life. Mrs. A. W. Sullivan, 2201 East Main St. - Medford, Ore. EX-COACH DIVORCED Santa Monica, Calif. (U.R) Former professional football coach Earl L. (Curly) Lambeau, 55, was divorced yesterday by his wife, Grace, 54, who received half interest in their. $150,000 cattle ranch here and $3000 in attorney fees. The couple mar ried June 13, 1949, and separated two years later. In the Day's News BY FRANK JENKINS This weird world note: The neutral zone in Korea is providing an object lesson in the ways of Mother Nature. This territory, three miles wide and 150 miles long,' stretches across Korea where two years ago sol diers fought bitterly and blood ily. NOW THIS NEUTRAL STRIP HAS BECOME A FABULOUS WILD - LIFE REFUGE. ALL MANNER OF BIRDS AND ANI MALS HAVE SWARMED INTO IT PROTECTED FROM MAN BY THE ARMISTICE AMONG MEN. . rD LIKE to go off the deep end and point out in lilting words that when MEN CEASE TO FIGHT EACH OTHER peace reigns throughout nature and all is happy and serene. But the story from Korea won't let me. Its last paragraph adds: "Foxes, wolves and mountain cats have moved in. There is even the famous Korean tiger almost as dangerous as gunfire." rpHESE dangerously f anged and -- clawed carnivores the foxes and the wolves. and the moun tain cats and the Korean tigers slay and eat the lesser animals such as the rabbits and the squirrels and the deer and even the birds. And When they are crossed in their purposes and angered THEY FIGHT AMONG THEMSELVES! That's why it's a weird world. rTHIS CHANGING world note: In Britain, which is tied up with a railroad strike, one of Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers, the Evening Standard, offers this suggestion: Why not seriously consider doing away with the railroads and building superhighways on their roadbeds? It would never do, of course, n our country, which is HUGE. Here the railroads are indispensable for long-distance hauling on land. But Great Brit ain is small. The total land area of England, Scotland and Wales is less than that of the state of Oregon. The greatest length of the island of Great Britain . is 600 miles. Its greatest width is 320 miles. No part of it is more than 70 miles from the ocean and Britain is a great seafaring country. Much of its domestic commerce is carried by coast- wide ships. Besides In Britain the railroads are owned by the government, and it is the government that builds the roads. The change from rail foads to superhighways could be made quite simply. rj A SPEECH at Custer, South Dakota, Air Secretary Harold Talbott says today the United States has the most powerful air force in the world and WILL CONTINUE IN THE LEAD. Reassuring, isn't it? But y I suspect that about a couple of days from now somebody is going to get up m Washington or elsewhere and allow as how the Russians are so far ahead of us in air strength that it's pitiful. I'm afraid our public servants talk too much. And Every time ANYBODY says ANYTHING our fantastic mod ern communications system car ries what he has to say to the eyes and the ears of everybody in the world. No wonder we're confused. OREGON CADETS GRADUATE West Point, N. Y. (U.R) Two Oregon cadets graduated today from the U.S. Military Academy here. They include Edmund Vul gas of Portland and Reginald R. Davis of Klamath Falls. I. SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT he made It! Fellow class, mates hoist Roy B. Freeman, Jr., on their shoulders following graduation at U. S. Naval Academy, Freeman, "anchor man,1' graduated 741st In class of 741 midshipmen. (International) Russia Certain To Be Questioned on American Prisoners By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst It will not be surprising if the United States asks the Russians, at the accroaching Big Four con ference, about the Americans who are known to be imprison ed in Soviet slave labor camps. In recent months, em phasis has been put on Ameri- can prisoners of war held by Charles McCann 'the Chinese Communists. But long before the Korean war even started, it was known that the Soviet Union was hold ing many Americans prisoner. It is known right new that many still are being held. The Chinese Reds hold Ameri cans in violation of the Korean Armistice. At least the Ameri cans were combatants. But the American slave labor ers in the Soviet Union are not held in violation of any armis tice. They are being held, in violation of fundamental hu man rights, by a presumably friendly nation and a war-time ally. There always has been some suspicion that American fliers who made forced landings in Si beria during the war against Ja pan were kept prisoner by their Russian "allies." - . Bomber planes which landed on Russian territory became models for Russian bombers. Russians Hold Civilians After the end of World War II there were intermittent reports that the Russians were holding many American civilians. In addition to reports ot Americans held in slave labor camps, it was known that Russia was refusing permission for some American citizens to leave Rus sian territory. The United States made repre sentations to Russia in October and December, 1949, about 38 American citizens who were be ing detained. Russia denied that these 38 were Americans. The State Department assert ed a statement on March 3, 1950; that approximately 2000 Ameri cans were being held in the Sov iet Union. Most of these were in You'll, rest better;; with a nhone in vour bedroom And in every other room you use a lot, exten sion telephones save time and steps. Call our business office today. Pacific Telephone. Take life easy... each extension phone cosfs Jess than a nickel a day Lithuania and Eastern Poland when the Russians seized those territories. At that time Russia denied that Americans were being held as slave laborers. Letters Received The State Department retort ed that letters from American slave laborers had been received by relatives in this country. The letters bore return addresses as labor camps. Some of them de scribed conditions in the camps. The United States government continued to receive reports of the imprisonment of Americans, some of them soldiers seized on the West-East border line in Ger many. In 1953, Austrian and Dutch war prisoners freed by the Rus sians started giving details of the imprisonment of Americans. They were able to identify a few of the Americans. These, the Rus sians released later. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced on Nov. S, 1953, that he had demanded the release of all Americans impris oned in Russia. Americans still trickle back through the Iron Curtain from Russian labor camps.-, v The Big Four conference gives an opportunity for further in quiry about the rest." MR. 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