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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, December 8, 195S
FDR's Speech 14 Years Ago Today Called One of Greatest Presidential Efforts
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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
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AMERICAN BEAUTIES- Joan Culver, 18-year-old Pasa
dena City College freshman from La Canada, Calif., was
selected to reign as Queen of the Tournament of Roses at
Pasadena New Year's Day. Joan, who will be officially
crowned Dec, 28, admires her bouquet of roses, symbol
of her royal title.
Kiwanis Foundation Funds Total $3,298
Kiwanis Foundation of Med-
ford funds were listed at $3,
298.69 yesterday by Foundation
Treasurer Dwight Houghton.
Houghton, President Boyd
Budge of the foundation and E.
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."
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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
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All members of the committee
and other members of the cham
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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.
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groups of pheasants that had
huddled together when the
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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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