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o TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, December 21, I95S o G O o n O Stamp Honoring Mellon (Recalls Days Spent n ii ew Peal By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Andrew W. Mellon might be a Civil war hero or the name of a horse so far a3 the pres ent generation would know or care. But the old timers around town have not for gotten the spry and rest less little man who stuttered In his speech. Lyle C. Wilson A three-cent stamp bearing Mellon's likeness Qwas dedicated in his honor Tues- jg i ;;pJ day. Perhaps the old man's bones can cease rattling now in protest against what his friends hotly called a notable ef fort to smear his memory for ever. It was just 20 years ago that FDR's New Deal Department of Justice sought to indict Mellon on charges of fradulent income tax returns. Mellon, Pennsyl vania's greatest financier, had been secretary of treasury in three successive Republican ad ministrations Harding, Cool idge and Hoover 1921-1932. He was for years called the greatest secretary of treasury since Alexander Hamilton. But Mellon's luck faded with the great depression and former President Hoover whisked him out of the cabinet to be ambas sador to Great Britain before the election of 1932. The old man had become a political liability. Mellon No Crook But that did not mean he was a crook. The Roosevelt admin istration, however, was slugging the so-called reactionaries in 1935 and Mellon was a standout. As former ace treasury agent and tax commissioner Elmer Irey related to William Slocum for the book "The Tax Dodgers." it happened like this: "The Roosevelt administration made me go after Andy Mellon," Irey said. "I liked Mr. Mellon, and they knew it, so the FBI took first crack. Jackson Needed Help "Bob Jackson (later attorney general and Supreme Court jus tice) was made Internal Revenue Department chief counsel and he said to me: T need help on this Mellon thing. The FBI investiga tion was no good. You run one on him.' The FBI evidently had found no tax dodging. "In a short time Irey got a telephone call from Henry Mor genthau Jr., secretary of trea sury. The secretary said: 'Irey, you can't be i99 2-3 per cent on this job. Investigate Mellon. I order it.' .y ' ..i'A 'o NO MATCH Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulgjnin (left) and Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev (right), with their host, the Maharrajah of Jaipur (center), are dwarfed by the towering bulk of two wrestlers who entertained the Russian leaders during their Cfisit in Jaipur, India. The wrestler on the left was released from jail, where he is serv ing a life sentence for murder, to exhibit his power in the ring. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY O Hollywood (U.R) Fess Par ker has turned in his coonskin (Sp, officially buried his Davy Crockett char acter and ad mitted that the nation wide storm he he caused is down to a drizzle. A year ago Parker's furrv i.hdo top and shoot- Aline IWosby in' iron launched the country's su-sub-deb set on the biggest hero wor ship craze since Hopalong Cas sidy. But Parker confesses that (he kids have left their coonskin caps to the moths. "Too much heat in too short a time," drawled the lanky actor as he sat in his modern hillside home. "But I'm grateful to old Davy. I only feel we should let him rest in peace and give him back his cap." The second of this year's two part Crockett television series was aired on "Disneyland" last week. Unless Disney runs them again i the spring, that's the last of Davy. Parker meantime has starred In a Disney color feature, "The Great Locomotive Chase," a Civil war story. He was pro moted to a fancy frock coat with black velvet piping and a wide brimmed gray hat. "My wardrobe will knock you out," grinned the slow-talking actoi"Before I had a full beard, but now I'm close-shaven. I still get killed in this movie, though. But in my next Disney picture,. 'Westward Ho, the Wagons', I live. Knd I even get the wo man." Although Parker's role in Dis ney's TV series is over, "The Great Locomotive Chase" was filmed for home screens also. The program, "A True Life Ad venture With Fess Parker," will be televised next spring and "that will help me make the transition." Success Switch "Actually, I've svitched from Davy more successfully than I imasiped," said Parker. "When we were on location in Georgia the kids would come up and say, Basic Rules by Railroad Group Keeps Cars on Move San Francisco U.R) Did you ever wait at a railroad cross ing while a long freight train slid by and wonder who keeps tab of the nation's scrambled freight cars? How did some get so far from their home lines? Who keeps things straightened out? Why, at times, are there so many emp ties? Why, at other times, are there no empties? Although there are a total of 1,785,849 freight cars in the Uni ted States today, including 716, 874 box cars, certain areas re port an acute box car and hopper car shortage such as that being experienced in the lumbering sections of Northern California and Southern Oregon. Why? One man who knows some of the answers is Clarence H. Grant, tall, gray-haired general superintendent of transportation of the Southern Pacific. "Some cars leave our shops at Sacramento brand new and never come home," he said. "Sometimes there's a reason. All railroads want new cars. The old ones and the broken ones, like poor relatives, are those that come back." Basic Rules Grant explained that there were certain basic rules laid down by the American Associa tion of Railroads in Washington to keep the cars rolling. The basic doctrine is the Freight Car Service Rule. This calls for a 'Mr. Parker, can we have your autograph?' They didn't call me Davy. Most of my fan mail is addressed to Fess Parker. "I'm grateful to Mr. Disney for this opportunity to do other pictures. Otherwise, my career would have ended right where it began." Fess figures Davy Crockett's popularity faded because of oth er historical TV westerns such as "Frontier" and "Wyatt Earp." To confirm the demise of Davy, the. actor is sending back his Crockett outfits to the Disney wardrobe department. "The other night I wasdriv ing down my street and I saw two little girls wearing their coonskin caps." Parker said with I o tnnnh nf nnstaleia. "That made me feel good that somebody remembered." loaded car to be routed as di rectly as possible to its destina tion and, when empty, to be routed by the most direct route back home. "This rule, of course, is often violated" Grant said. "But then there is the per diem rate of $2.40 for each car, running from midnight to midnight, and charged by the home road when the car is on a foreign line. When we set foreign cars, na turally we want to get them off" our line and onto someone else's as quickly as possible. But when there is a shortage everybody grabs cars the best cars." Shippers frequently upset the system. Cars consigned to one market are re-routed en route to another market where the commodity shipped is selling better. Some cars are consigned without a destination specified, subject only to instructions en route. Card System "Girls punching holes in cards keep track of the cars," Grant said. "The cards, of course, are run through machines to keep a running inventory of where the car is, on whose railroad it is and whom to charge for it." A set of such cards may repre sent an entire freight train as it leaves Los Angeles for Ogden, one of the "portals" of the West. Here an interchange from the Southern Pacific to the Union Pacific occurs and the freight leaves for Omaha, where other interchanges can occur, the cars going over the C.B.&I. and on to Boston, or the C. &N. W. to the Twin Cities or Chicago. The original freight train now is completely scrambled and its cars have been absorbed in other trains on other roads. "But each company makes out a weekly and a monthly report, Grant said. "This is designed to show where the cars are and to be held the AARO tells where a surplus of cars is located. Each month the railroads swap charges for the $2.40 per day on each car on a foreign line." The individual railroad can determine where each car it owns is by looking over the records of the auditor of-freight accounts. These records show the number, the interchanges and whether the car is loaded or unloaded. o to: &COMA $ 8.60 SEATTLE $ 9.15 LOS ANGELES $10.70 SAN DIEGO $12.40 plus Fed. Tax i LW&VS Cfe Save On TRAILWAYS Family Plan Fares Jewish Soldiers Will Spell Christian Gs Friedberg, Germany (U.R) Jewish soldiers of the U.S. 29th Field Artillery battalion will man all posts on Christmas day to give Christian soldiers free time for religious services. An Army announcement said the Jewish soldiers had volun teered to stand guard, do kitch en police work apd all other nec essary tasks on the holiday. NATURALLY Hartford, Conn. (U.R) A meeting of officials to turn over to the New Haven Railroad prop erty for construction of a new station to provide more efficient service was delayed several min utes. Finally the railroad's repre sentative, Atty. Thomas J. O'Sul livan, arrived and explained, "The train was late." "Irey explained his personal physcally, given to Justice Dog House o viewpomt that Mellon was in nocent although admitting it was not his place to judge. Morgen thau's answer was: "I'm direct ing you to go ahead, Irey."' Jury Refused io Indict ' ' Mellon's tax paying easily survived investigation, and that was that. The grand jury refus ed to indict. Mellon was a patriot by his own and the standards of many others but he was no softy. He was, in fact, hard in many ways although a wispy little man, fluttering traffic in through down town Washington like a startled bird. Treasury corner tourists usually scoffed when a guide suddenly urged them to believe that the slight figure dodging the trams and autos at 15th and Pennsyl vania was, in fact, secretary of the treasury of the United States. Brutalities Charged His coal and iron policy in industries Mellon controlled long were under charges of strike brutalities. When depression came there is the word of Mr. Hoover, himself, that Mellon had only one formula: "Liquidate stocks, liquidate labor, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real es tate." Although a great giver to good causes, cnurches, mu seums and it is true, hungry men and women, Mellon was hardly a humanitarian. But neither was he a tax dodger. The grand jury refusal to indict after. FBI and treasury investigations seems to call a foul on the New Deal against'on old, tax-wise innocent man. W OK MARKET J 1202 North Rive'rsid i OPEN EVERY B k NIGHT TIL M U. MIDNIGHT Shows Clean Rafrof Heeis 7 WALTZING SEEMS SO TAME THESE DAYS THE MAMBO'S GOT MORE PEP PERHAPS THE YELLOW PAGES CAN HELP ME LEARN ms? T v -mi m TcrWsyi FOR DANCING ACADEMIES IT PAYS TO LOOK IN THE 'CLASSIFIED PART OF YOUR TELEPHONE BOOK T V I Used by 9 cut of IO people as a guide to those who sell or serve & Pacific Telephone 1 f'ndUFo.TT) 'V If - row Pages' fr0M 0O2 JhWST VS!2ZzZZZZ-'' MEW &to- "for ex-r99 . -J . r . Rocking"-' . -r-- NEW m Thi s one has moved a lot of folks to change their buying habits. 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