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From Arthur Perry's Ye Qmttdge PStccolumn;, The Begum O of Jawaharal,0 potentate of In dia has demanded 'independence of IncJfe, Begum.' 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 20. 193S (Sunday) , Registered social security cards issuedoemployes by Medford post ff fee are made out coVrect ly wespite Selie to the contrary, says Fragk DeSouza, postmaster. Jlk HuU, Medford's cele- fcrated0civil war veteran, re ceives invitation to joint reunion of federSl and confederate sol diers Gettysburg, Pa., in 1938. 30 YEARS AGO Ds. 20. 1918 (MndayJ preparations made in Dinty'i J3semet of Medford hotel for O, annual Chriitmas party of Cra ter dub. o - . Extentive additions to the q long distance telephone facilities oin southern Oregon, under. con struction 11 months, have been completed. 40 YEARS AGO Pc. 20. 4916 (Wednesday) Medford city council, ordains O initiative petition placing the QHa.ruion plan for refinancing of oth,city on the ballot for the Jan. 0 city flection. ? "o oCounty courtrappoints W. N. 0 Wills superintendent . of the O county poor fnn for 1917. O 3 SO YtARal A,GO 20. 1906 (Thursday) Cj oMedferd and Crater Lake Jteiiway company, consider a prejects fcr rehabilitation, and roeratior of the enterprise. TW triaV in Washington D.C. W Binger Hermann of Oregon is ;et for Fb. 4. . What's Yur I.Q.? o Ntn or correct li superior; sev en or eight ts excellent; five or 9tX Is fOOl. 1. Whafeare "bird .spiders" of Brij? - . Go2- Was Louisa Catherine John sog0Afams the wife of John Adaass oT John Qunicy Adams? OO 0 3. Who was the father of O oAtrialek, whtfc was defeated at Rrhidim? Bible. i. Dps Labor Dajr always fall on e same day of the year: C3 evenoin Lepf Year? O fi. Is the area of $he. Vatican C- morf, or less than two juJvgSb miles? O 6. Was Nellie MelSa a, famous tjillet dancer, opera singer, or tJ ajuthgr? 07.Tt. itf radio, is that sym- ubob for fluency rgodulation? O o 9 Is a trapezoid an acrobat, cour-sided figirre with two O sideoor a kind f fishing net? 9oIn gie meanings signifed by Oflowers. what characteristic is issfitned to tfie violet? 6. "Thou has no swallow in thy sgpg. No winter in thy yar." John Logan tl?48-88): in&i poem "T$ the C o"? JV.ns'we: 1. Xaantulas. 2. Jin Qunicy Adams. 3. Esau. 4. Yes. 5. Less. 6. Opera singer. 7. FM. 8. Foui-si figure with two sides. 9. Modesty. 10. Cuc- WAIL TRIBUNE Davis Quits, Al Sarena Doesn't The resignation of Clarence Davis former solicitor of U. S. Department of the Interior, and the filing of 23 mining patents here in Jackson county by the Al Sarena Mines, Inc., were not exactly what Holly wood would call "coincidental." They were not planned and timed to the minute. But they were as closely related as Siamese ' twins, the Al Sarena "give away" being the cause and the Davis resignation the effect. To keep up appearances both actions were der layed, so a decent interval between them and the election could elapse; but when former Secretary McKay was beaten for the U.S. Senate and Harris Ellsworth for the House, the stage was all set, the only question being just when the curtain would be rung up. MOW with no point in fighting a sham battle any V longer or pretending the Al Sarena case was "nothing but politics," the 'McDonald Brothers can start cutting timber as soon as the market returns to normal, and forget about how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they put into mine development and only cheap politics prevented them from resum ing mine operations or selling out same at a handsome profit. A LSO Secretary of the Interior Seaton, will no long er feel it necessary to deny that when he said nothing like the Al Sarena deal would happen again, he did not mean what he said. He meant it. Everyone who knows the type of liberal Republi can former Senator Seaton is, knows that "mining for timber" at $5 an acre within the U.S. Forest Reserve, and contrary to the recommendations xi both the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management would never again be tolerated. So the curtain has been rung up, or perhaps more accurately, it has been rung down. Little promises to be heard of the "Al Sarena case at least until the next national election and before that time comes around it is to be hoped, that what the Al Sarena company was able to put over "within the law" and the aid of the Department of the Interior, will no longer be legally possible. "THE Ellsworth bill made tion, but it was a this measure application for a mining claim on government timberland, can not be granted until the end of a five-year period, during which time the U.S. Forest Service will control the disposition of the timber. That "listens well." But the catch is if the neces sary improvement work, totaling $2500.00 be done in one year instead of five, then the patent may be granted. In other wrords if the "mining for timber" opera tor has the necessary cash and most of them do the timber rights can be secured in 12 months, under the old guise of filing a old give away is on. . CITHER a new bill to protect the national forests from such exploitation should be passed, or the Ellsworth bill amended so the U.S. Forest Service would have control over all mining claims within the reserve as to their legitimacy, and if legitimate their rights to timber should be confined to the amounts necessary, not to logging, but to MINING operations. In other words, as we see it, where Uncle Sam owns the timber land, timber and mining operations should be kept separate, it should not be legally possi ble for anyone to secure timber at a small percentage of its market value, under the guise of operating a mine, where the latter is not justified by the mineral values that exist. R.W.R. Too Sorry to hear Attorney General Brownell is going to continue in his position for four more years. The last four we had assumed would be enough. Not that we have any charges to file against the pres ent occupant, but we think as an Attorney General he has been a good precinct politician. He has been a devoted advocate and defender qf the Republican party, end when votes were needed even made a few conspicuous gestures in the direction of anti-trust proceedings and promotion of social jus tice and welfare. But taking his administration as a whole he has been just another disciple of "what is best for General Motors is best for the country." a a a "THE Attorney General is not the only member of the cabinet with a similar complex in fact as far as our records show, on a vote it would be unanimous but at least a change would hold out some hope of an unorthodox type from a doctrinal standpoint, slipping in. Like the Al Sarena case above noted the Brownell problem represents rather a baffling situation. For there has as far as known been no misfeasance or mal feasance no law breaking involved it is just a mat ter of public policy a question largely of emphasis. But reduced to its essentials it is something that might hare a profound effect upon the present and future course of this democracy. R.W.R. Woodward Esfafe Set New York (U.R) Sportsman William Woodward Jr., fatally shot by his wife last year in the belief he was a prowler, left a gross estate of S12.676.877, it was revealed Wednesday in sur rogate's court. A report by his executors in dicated that after the estate was settled and the taxes paid it Thursday. December 20. I95S a step in the right direc- very short one. Under mining claim, and the same Much Browndl at $12,676,877 would amount to about $4 mil lion. Woodward left his estate to, his widow, Ann, and two sons, William Woodward III, 12 and James T., 8. They each will be beneficiaries of trust funds of about S1.3 million. Mrs. Wood ward's trust will go to their chil dren at her death. . Tito Takes Buildup as By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Tito of Yugoslavia has taken the first step toward building himself up, as Eastern Europe s big i nd e p e ndent C o m m u n i st leader. It has long been evident that Tito, fore seeing the loos ening of Russia's grip on its satel- Charlts Mrt ann lues, Jiupeu lu Decome me No. 1 man among Eastern European Red leaders. NQttGt Of FdCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop NIXON TO AUSTRIA . look over the problem on the Washington The first thing that any reasonably sharp-mind ed person will note about Rich ard M. Nixon's journey to Aus tria, is the simple fact that it will do no good at all where it is most necessary to do good. Helping the tragic Hungarian refugees, which is the Vice Pres ident's avowed object, is of course a high and proper pur pose of national policy. If Nixon cah speed the refugee flow to this country, it will be a fine thing. -On the other hand, the Vice President's presence in Austria will do nothing whatever to help those most in need of help. It will not assist the even more tragic, even braver Hungarians, who have stayed in Hungary under imminent threat of death by starvation or Soviet attack, in order to carry on the fight for national freedom. In this country, by the usual Madison Avenue methods, the Administration's activity about the refugee problem has been made to look like activity about the Hungarian problem. But in fact our total activity about the Hungarian problem has been to support high sounding but empty resolutions in the United Na tions which are voted for with universal, cynical hypocrisy, in the clear knowledge that they will produce no result whatever. rTHESE somewhat harsh but - realistic observations are in order at the moment, because it is important to place the Nixon trip to Austria in proper perspec tive as a political gesture. It is a most interesting gesture, but only because of the light it sheds on the domestic political trend. The relevant facts are simple enough. Because of the tangle of barricades erected by the late Senator McCarran and the very far from late Scott McLeod, this country long ago ceased to keep the noble promise engraved on the Statute of Liberty. Even after the President gave the generous order "let the Hungarian refu gees come in" it still proved far from easy to chop away the squalid obstacles to the entry of refugees in large numbers. At this juncture, the Vice President suggested to the Pres ident that it might be a good idea if he went to Austria to In The Day's Vice-President Nixon left Washington Tuesday for a tour of Hungarian refugee camps in Austria. His job is to find out exactly what is going on. There have been disturbing reports that relief supplies have been badly mishandled, with too little food and clothing getting through to those who are in need of help. Nixon's mission is to get the facts and come back and report on what ought to be done. I have an idea that we'll all be interested in his report. TIE WILL be gone in the gen-H-eral neighborhood of a WEEK. He is expected to spend five days touring the refugee Camps and getting a look at the situation including talking to people who are on the ground and know what is happening. It will take him about a- day to go and a day to come back. That's the fabulous modern world for you. Is anyone in these parts old enough to remember when Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days was generally re garded as a reckless and utterly improbable flight of imagination? The world moves. TN LONDON a far right wing member of parliament, who couldn't take what happened at Suez and resigned his seat, says: . "The perfidy of Dulles over Suez has made Machiavelli look like a saint. The Suez expedition failed (because of American failure to support it.) A united Britain would have resisted the cirticisms of the oil politicians in Washington, ignored the Stewart Alsop First Step Toward East European Leader Now he has taken the first active step in that direction by sending a mission to Warsaw to visit Wladyslaw Gomulka, who has won independent Com munist status for Poland. Dispatches report the Yugo slav delegates will advise Go mulka to seek economic aid from the United States. Tito's Move Unwelcome Tito's move can hardly be welcomed by the Soviet govern ment. Russia has troubles enough at the moment without any chisel ing in by Tito. ' It may not be entirely a coin cidence that just when the spot. The President gladly as sented, and so the expedition was announced with the usual fanfare. a a a THIS pattern might be less strikintr if it wpro nnt fnr turn O ' - - -" - V..W obviously connected facts. In the first place, an adroit and intelli gent man wishing to build him self up to the stature of a future Presidential candidate could hardly ask for a better chance than Dick Nixon has now se cured for himself. In the second place, this is the second repeat of the same pat tern. Once before the Adminis tration was troubled by an even greater problem the problem of the strains on the Western Al liance imposed by the Suez crisis. Once before the Vice President had the idea that he might do something to help. Once before, he put this idea up to the President. The result was his extremely good and very helpful speech to the Automobile association, which he not only proposed but drafted personally. The fact that the speech was genuinely helpful, the fact that the Vice President in Austria will also do his genuine best to help the refugees, cannot quite conceal another striking fact. The Vice President is also help ing himself by stepping forward in these conspicuous and respon sible roles. The question is being asked. therefore, whether President Eisenhower has already decided that "he's my boy," as he once said about Nixon, to the point of consciously planning a Nixon nomination in 1960. The answer, thus far, is almost certainly in the negative. a a a THE truth is that this is now a -t physically tired administra tion. The Cabinet is elderly. The President himself, despite his magnificent recovery , must watch his health carefully. It is now known that the fatigue of the Suez crisis caused his doctors almost to order him to Georgia. In a tired administration, what could be more natural than the assumption of a more and more prominent role by a young immensely vigorous, outstand ingly intelligent and dynamic man like Nixon? This second question answers itself. The Nixon buildiup is most probably unplanned by anyone but Nixon. Yet if the buildup continues as it has started the Republican choice of the President's successor four years from now is likely to become just about as "free and open" as the choice of the Vice Pres idential nominee at San Fran cisco. (C) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. News byf rank Jenkins threats of our enemies in the Kremlin and proceeded to oc cupy the entire length of the canal." He's living back in the good old days when all that was necessary to fix everything up when there was trouble any where in the world was to send the British fleet. HPHOSE days are past. The British expedition to Suez, which cost somewhere around 150 million dollars, came so near bankrupting Britain that she had to come hat in hand to us and plead with us to forego this years' interest payment on the debt she owes us. If $150,000,000 which is mere pocket change in the busi ness of waging war brings Britain to the edge of bank ruptcy, how would she go about financing a REAL war as this disgruntled . Britisher proposes? The world has changed. T ETS not gloat over the change. It would be wonder ful if Britain was still big and strong and able to handle all the dangerous situations that arise in the world. We could then settle back and RUN OUR AFFAIRS which would be splendid. A AND let's not get peeved when hard-boiled Britons like this one get their dander up and tell us off. There were generations when twisting the tail of the British lion was our favorite pasiime. Britain then was big and we were little. The situation is re versed now .... . Yugoslav delegation started for Warsaw, the Moscow press and radio opened a new attack on Tito. The Russians based their at tack on a speech made on Dec. 7 by Yugoslav Vice President Edvard Kardelj. Kardelj criti cized Russia's intervention in the Hungarian rebellion and called for "liberalization" of the Hungarian puppet government of Premier Janos Kadar. Yugoslavia's attitude, as ex pressed by Kardelj, goes against the basic principles of Marxist and Leninist Communism, it was complained, and constitutes in terference in Hungarian affairs. Recent Aiiacki Restrained But it is notable that recent Russian attacks on Tito have been remarkably restrained compared to those of past years. When Nikita S. Khrushchev and Nikolai A. Bulganin made their pilgrimage to Tito in May, 1955, they failed to get him back in the Moscow camp. But since then, the Russians seem to have been afraid to carry any antagonism to Tito too far. He is a tough man to tangle with, as Josef Stalin found out. It seems certain that, after the Polish and Hungarian re volts, Tito will steadily increase his influence among satellite leaders. Some of them still stick to the "Stalinist" line. But there is nothing else they can do un less they want to give way to "Titoists." Criminal Bureau Of Identification Urged (or Oregon Portland U.P.) Formation of a state bureau of criminal identification topped reconv mendations ' of the Legislative Interim Committee on Sex Crime Prevention today. The committee urged that the Legislature "give most earnest consideration to establishment of an Oregon bureau of criminal identification7 and investigation under the governor's jurisdiction but otherwise patterned after California's and separate from existing law enforcement agencies." The report suggested that the bureau, if created, receive fin gerprints of suspects in felonies and all sex crimes. These would be in addition to the filing of reports on all sex crimes sus pects to the agency. Suggests Duplicate Copy The committee recommended that all magistrates and judges in Oregon forward to the pro posed agency a duplicate copy of any judgment of conviction rendered. The proposed agency would supply all law enforcement agencies in the state with forms covering crime reports, aid to needy children reports, crim inal and personal identification cards and additional arrest and disposition reports. The group cautioned in its re port, that "extreme care should be taken to avoid the passage of sex crime laws unless they are needed, are correlated with existing laws in the same field and can be implemented with a reasonable degree of effective ness." Many Germans Still Missing Since War II Bonn, Germany U.P.) More than 5 million Germans still are missing since World War II, most of them behind the Iron Curtain, the West German gov ernment reported today. They include 1,245,000 former Wehrmacht soldiers listed as missing on the Eastern Front and 100,000 known to have entered war prisoner camps in Russia and later disappeared, a report said. Be with Si 4 y.-y T at Vj.j i I,- Today and Tomdrrow M o o o By Walter All the evidence available here seems to agree with the re-( port that there i sharp conflict inside tne Kremlin. What we do not know as yetis how far the issues of this c o n f 1 i-c t in volve the re gime within the Soviet U n i o h itself. waiver Uhulm But we can be ' sure they do involve directly and immediately the basis of the foreign policy of the Soviet Union. First Poland and then Hun gary have demonstrated beyond all possible doubt that in East ern Europe there may be satel lite governments but there are no satellite nations. More- than that, the Soviet Union is now faced with the fact that the East European armies, far from being a military asset, are grave lia bilities. As a result, the .whole strategic position in Eastern Eu rope is undermined, and by way of being turned over. The lands lying between the line of the Iron Curtain on the West and the Soviet frontier in the East, between the Baltic on the north and the Balkans on the south, have been looked upon as vital: parts of the Soviet military sys tem. They are no longer that. They are danger spots within that system. This is a strategic up set of the first order which is bound to have profound effects on the foreign policy of the Soviet Union. '. o I I IS very lmpurtami umi wc - should realize tor ourselves the problems which the strategic upset present to the Kremlin. The problem is at bottom wheth er the military occupation of Eastern Europe can he relaxed, and eventually terminated, with out a popular explosion not onlj' against Stalinism, not only against Communism, but against Russia as well. The Kremlin is faced with the question whether Eastern Eu rope, which Stalin incorporated into his empire, can be prevent ed from becoming implacably hostile. It must be evident to the contending factions in -the Krem lin that in this regi&n of Europe the nations are opposed to the Soviet presence, and that the military occupation is bound to" run into increasing-popular re sistance. There is an old Stalin, ist faction which has been dom-, inant in the Hungarian crisis. It must be arguing, we may suppose, that the Soviet position in Europe will be lost without a stern totalitarian use o, mili tary force. T1HERE must be also, we must -- suppose, a younger and more moderate faction who argue, that Stalinism will not work. They must be arguing that the -vital interests of Soviet security can now best be protected by mak ing settlements on the principle of national freedom. ' , There are now several inter esting and important precedents for settlements of this kind. There is the example of Aus tria, which is a neutralized na tional state. There is the .ex ample of Finland, which is a free country within the Soviet military system. There. is Yugo slavia, which is an independent national state, but 'avowedly Communist. There is Poland.. which has achieved a large mea sure of national freedom but FOR. BLIND CHILDREN Somerville, Mass. (U.R) Jo"hn Silk, a Lions Club member and operator of an automobile wash ing business, let colleagues take over operation of his equipment on a Saturday and all receipts for the day were turned oVer to the club which helps to finance the education of one blind child each year. May the Peace which come's ofo Faith, The Courage that's bom of Hope, And the Joy which dw'efls "in Love, you now, and- through Across from tfce Courthouse Fran Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Chapel ;.... iW Mortuary. -. u! ' ; Lippmnn within its militaalliance ! &th tne Soviet Union,. The common principle in alio these case is O that tfcese coum$iej; are aiicpi0 them self-governing and that .their internal affairs are &fto 0 ruled rom MsScow. O Th moderate faction in Kremlin, which canobe assumed to exist, must be awaft thatoif $ the principle of Rational See dom is not extended to Hun- 0 gary, to East Germany, to Czech- O a. . i a j cS-!;. oOiei ronseni ana unuer ouvitri auspice. the fires which are still smoldering j IWi3ry ajill burst into I flame ad will spread. o 7 .0 O : IT is the American giterest, andO it is the interest of the ft'est em world," that te liberation o of, Eastern Eurgpe o sKtfuld achieved nq by an explosion, q but 6y "negotiated settlement, o This is the considered viev of the Admiaiatratiqc. Jt isrhe con- , sidered 0vie Qof 'Die NATO p'owers? a o O The gfeat question is whether it -is not n8w too late for aora tional aid orderly, solutipn of the East Sipetn problem. Much0 blood 0 his been slled.O u Fierce hatreds h a v been aroused. It would b har to O make sach.etilemeift bow Cif the Kremlin w$re decided to makej.themo Tb Krettolin ep- O pears to b divid nd unde-O o cided- o e n Q 3 There art two tfei ngf vhich0 we can do0whih my dielp.9D is to kep mfilring it cleafhat oo we hore for rieaceablG ico- tiated settlements betweOn the O Soviet Union cncl zip i East European neighbor. Th other q lS to kT alive ans m tnaj HJcl ofj, open public di:ussiono 11 O over th world tfi idt0' Eenerat settlement ia hic5hi NATO wefefa egter t ttJ- meniuDajea on lie reunujeauun of Germany and the eaithdnjflgl of foreign troops otlfroufhout some kind of brotdonutrf(liejt(l o security0 bel& ejitendinj ftoni 'Scandiavia to the glkns.0 At this stagthereCjnetipQ to dot aU the i' and to cro all the t's. Tfta sn be dojte i. later when the timg is more favorable man it is just aow for acfual negoationss What needs doing nefcv is to 'Opg? up vistas of hopl in the darkening seene. 0 Copyright 195 New YoAP o Herald Tribune Inc. 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