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I o FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, December 8, 195S FDR's Speech 14 Years Ago Today Called One of Greatest Presidential Efforts Its ty( ar M r ifiataW. e 1 By LYLE C. WILSON United Pren Correspondent Washington (U.R) Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a man who inspired controversy among hig fellow A m e r i cans, some hating equally as oth ers loved. But FDR'S worst enemies never claimed he couldn't make a speech. Fou r teen years ago this Lyle C. Wilson day, Mr. Roose velt delivered before Congress an address which surely will be in any short list of great presi dential utterances. FDR was a past master at the political game of-eoncealing thoughts in flow- Red Bomb Plot Seen In Apartment Blast Frankfurt, Germany (U.R) West German authorities ex pressed suspicion today that a Communist bomb plot may have been responsible for an apart ment house explosion that took at least 26 lives yesterday. q Federal authorities Q ordered autopsies performed on the vic tims agd close questioning of the survivors. Federal German po lice and bomb experts joined state and citv officials in comb ing through0the wreckage of the five-story building for clues. Suspicion was aroused by the fact that all but two couples liv ing m the building were reft gees from Communist-controlled East Prussia and the Sudeten land. ing language. He could rouse a rabble with the best. But when the chips were down he spoke in simple phrases which had a lightning bolt's crackling power. So it was at noon Dec. 8, 1941, when Mr. Roosevelt addressed the Congress: "Mr. Vice-President, Mr. Speak er, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives: "Yesterday. Dec. 7, 1941 a day which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. "The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward maintenance of Use Mail Tribune Want Ads an Original Contribution to REL9EF OF PAIN ' mfN iraa im$u ttmftrtltf itmptnrf fill ttlltft .OK I TME 0U 0t Ml IT -but raly en the published medical report on SURIN. - which proves its effectiveness in relieving -'arthritic-rheumatic psin! SURIN was tested tot months by doctors in a famous clinic . . . tested on chronic rheumatic patienta with these significant results. 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Ron Rice spoke at the Medford Kiwanis club luncheon yester day concerning the corporation formed by the club to provide education and charitable assist ance. Certificates were handed to 25 contributing members of the foundation. They included Ed Feldman and Les DeArmond, life members, and 23 sustaining members. C. O. Rice was intro duced as a non-Kiwanis member of the foundation. It was reported that three other sustaining mem berships had been received since the certificates were prepared. Sustaining memberships are S10 per year contributions and life memberships are-given for donations of S500 or more. Budge outlined foundation ad ministration and Kiwanis re sponsibility. Ron Rice urged 100 per cent participation by mem bers of the club. The luncheon was at Rogue Valley Country club. Kiwanians and their wives will meet jointly at the country club next Wednes day noon for the annual Kiwan ian Dames doll luncheon. Hoffman Defends Funds for Republic Los Angeles (U.R) Paul Hoff man, board chairman of the Fund for the Republic, today defended the controversial fund against the criticism of Henry Ford II. Hoffman refused to take di rect issue with Ford but said, "anyone who will review the record of the Fund of the Repub lic will agree it has made im portant contributions through educational means . . ." Ford has mildly criticized the fund's activities by saying he found" them "dubious." The DAN PATCH CO., Inc. 2080 WEST MAIN STREET DECEMBER 5TH JANUARY 5TH o s $ $ SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! Get a Discount on Your . ROOFING SIDING WEATHER STRIPPING Master No Draft Interlock Metal Weather Stripping Pabco Windproof Roofing Shingles Pabco Asbestos Precision Panels Shake Siding Of With The D DISCOUNTCoupon Below NO OBLIGATION FOR ESTIMATES Designate on the Coupon Below What You Are Interested In. The Dan Patch Co., Inc. 2080 West Main i Roofing ! Name Address Q Siding Weather Strip peace in the Pacific . . . "The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused se vere damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that many American lives have been lost. "Yesterday the Japanese gov ernment also launched an attack against Malaya. "Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. "Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam. . "Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. "Last night the Japanese at tacked Wake Island. "And this morning the Jap anese attacked Midway . . . "As commander in chief of the Army and Navy I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. "Always will our whole na tion remember the character of the onslaught against us. "No matter how long it may take us to overcome this pre meditated invasion, the Ameri can people in their righteous Committee To Discuss City Budgeting, Taxes City budgeting and taxation will be the subject at a meeting of the legislative committee of, the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 a.m. Friday. City Manager Robert Duff will discuss phases of the city's fi nancial operation, and how they relate to the tax bills received by residents of Medford. All members of the committee and other members of the cham ber interested are welcome. The meeting will be at the Medford hotel. might will win through to abso lute victory ... "Hostilities exist. There Is no blinking at the fact that our peo ple, our territory and our inter ests are in grave danger. "With confidence in our arm ed forces with the unbound ing determination of our people we will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God." A few minutes later Congress declared that a state of war PHEASANT MASSACRE Allegan, Mich. U.R) Near ly 1,000 pheasants were killed in a 10-square mile area north of here during a severe hailstorm. Conservation officer Harry Plotts said he found several groups of pheasants that had huddled together when the storm hit in an attempt to pro tect themselves from hailstones the size of golf balls. existed between the imperial gural and was bettered only government of Japan and the people and government of the United States. The speech was one of FDR's truly great efforts. . To those here who clocked him through the remarkable years of his reign, it packed a punch equally with FDR's stirring first inau- once. The best was the unforgetta ble first chat from FDR'i fire side with an anxious nation, standing by. From the loud speaker came that powerful, re assuring voice with the memoi able words: "My friends ..." 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