4 Thursday, November 27. 1931
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Not. 27. 1948 (Saturday)
The Rogue River Ramblers
motorcycle club sponsors its
second annual "turkey run,"
with first, second and third
prizes being a turkey, a duck
and a chicken.
Skiing conditions are good
at Crater lake, with seven
Inches of surface powder and
weather clear to partly
cloudy.
20 YEARS AGO
Not. 27. 1938 (Sunday)
A large deer comes to
school in Phoenix, but after
bounding over the fence into
the school yard thinks better
of it and retires to play hook
ey in the hinterland.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "For
these things, and many more,
thanks can be given today:
For community peace, so firm
ly planted, it couldn't get mad
over taxes, or the right to
shoot a coyote."
30 YEARS AGO
Not. 27, 1928 (Tuesday)
. The Copco Players go on
the air with the latest Helen
Norris radio drama, "The
Guardian."
Flu sufferers here are re
assured that the bug afflict
ing them is far different from
the one raising havoc in Cali
fornia. 40 YEARS AGO
Not. 27, 1918 (Wednesday)
The Medford school board
eliminates the Christmas vac
ation except for Christmas
itself and New Year's day.
From the editorial: "If
ever the United States had
cause to be thankful, it is this
Thanksgiving day. A great
world war has been success
fully waged and won."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine Aer fen correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five ef
she is good.
1. A famous duel occurred
In the early history of the
U. S. at Weehawken,' N. J.
Who were the two duelists?
i 2. Which tribe of American
Indians were engaged in the
battle at the Little Big Horn
river, in which Custer's com
mand was destroyed?
3. Correct the v following
sentence: "He did noble."
4. What is the name for the
hat customarily worn by a
5. What aromatic herb is
liked by cats?
6. Which is the capital of
South Carolina Columbia or
Columbus?
7. Is lead heavier, or light
er, than quicksilver?
8. Which branch of our
armed forces makes principal
use of 100 octane gasoline?
9. When water freezes, does
It expand, or contract?
10. A baked pudding of
apples and bread crumbs in
layers is called a B B ?
Answers: 1. Alexander
Hamilton and Aaron Burr; 2.
The Sioux; 3. "He did nobly";
4. Sombrero; 5. Catnip; 6. Co
lumbia; 7. Lighter; 8. The Air
Force; 9. Expands; 10. Brown
Betty.
. Talking Turkey
The increasing popularity of fresh-frozen, pre
stuff ed turkeys, their gizzards neatly packaged in
foil, is becoming something of a national crisis.
Gone or well on their way are the days
when Tom Gobbler made his appearance in the
backyards weeks in advanced, and strutted about
sedately between forced feedings to the delight
of children and fur-bearing pets.
Gone or growing scarce as hen's teeth is
that traumatic scene, The Chase, with Papa wield
ing a hatchet sharp enough to shave the entire
Yankees infield and Mr. Gobbler giving ground
with much fuss and flutter like Mr. Khrushchev
at the prompting of Peiping.
OING too is the ritual of the kitchen the
hours of singeing, plucking, cleaning, scrap
ing and trussing up the pounding of bread
crumbs, the chopping of celery, the grinding of
herbs.
Today, it seems, we have not only the last
word or thereabouts in kitchen appliances,
but are insisting that someone else do most of
these simplified operations for us. The era of
"Brown 'n Serve," we contend, takes not only
the chores but much of the joy out of cooking.
We are well aware that in discussing this sub
ject we have invaded to our peril the province of
womenfolk. Our real concern, however, is in the
broader implication of "Oven-Readiness."
After all, Thanksgiving Days were originally
harvest festivals. Families who had plowed and
sown, cultivated and reaped, gathered together
to enjoy the fruits of their toil and to ask the
Lord's blessing.
A ND what of us, today, we tillers of the super
" market's bright shelves? We have worked,
yesl We have earned that money we spend at the
check-out counter. But somehow it's not the same.
Wishful as we might have been once for mod
ern conveniences, and thankful as indeed we
probably were when they first appeared, never
theless we now are taking many of them for
granted.
And what is more, almost imperceptibly, we
may be beginning to take Thanksgiving itself the
least bit for granted too.
SOMEHOW, between
-rVae'ri-T'ivwon tiirli-ov
difficult to count our blessiners. Possibly it takes
too much time, more likely too much concentration.
Tt's pflsv enoup-h to
many blessings around today, and point to re
cessions and international crises and all the
spiritual uncertainties that surround us.
But they are there, believe us. And on mis one
dav at least, let us take the time and the effort
to recognize them. E.W.
Moviemakers9 Hazard
One of the silly little extra-curricular activi
ties we enjoy is watching for technical errors in
movies. While fiendish, this harms no one, and
.-' . ja mn i 1
delights us out 01 all proper proportion wnen we
spot one.
Such things, in particular, as telephone wires
showing up in westerns presumably located in
the "old west," long before there were such wires,
we look for. The same goes for automobile tire
tracks in the dirt, and so on.
These often are difficult for movie-makers to
eliminate, but their increasing skill and care has
made them more and more rare in today's motion
pictures. ,
HOWEVER, the advancing skills of the U.S.
Aik T?rt-a Viora a no axt nrnMpTTi for
movie makers.
Over in the Bend
western picture, and at
shooting for several hours.
The cause? A high-flying jet had gone over
load, and left a loner, white contrail across the
sky a mark of modern
story of the last century.
And the Bend Bulletin recalls that in another
picture, "Oregon Passage," filmed in the Mt.
Hood area, there was a scene with Mt Hood on
the skyline, with a covered wagon train rolling
along the base while high overhead was the
contrail of a warplane. E.A.
It Was Nice
His wife and two daughters took a man we
know to the Bolshoi ballet movie the other night.
Everyone enjoyed it thoroughly (including,
rather to his surprise, our friend).
But the thing that impressed him most, aside
from the film itself, was the almost total silence
of the audience. No whistling, no hooting, no foot
stamping, and only about two sacks of rattling
popcorn in the entire place.
He had just about forgotten that movie audi
ences could be courteous, quiet and thoughtful of
the rights of others. It was nice. E. A.
Education Board
To Discuss Budget
PorUand -IUPD- The State
Board of Higher Education
has scheduled a meeting here
Friday to talk about money
problems.
. Education leaders will dis
cuss a threatened cut of $7
million to $8 million in the
proposed biennial budget. The
State Department of Finance
and Administration made the
the cold, war and the
wo -finrl if. a Ht.t.lo mnrp
sav there iust aren t that
'
area they are filming a
one point had to hold up
civilization ill-befitting a
WANT CONVENTION
New York -UPB- New York
City will put in a bid for the
19 6 0 National Democratic
Convention. Mayor Robert F.
Wagner will head a delega
tion which will discuss the
matter with the Democratic
National Committee Dec. 5.
The city, wUl offer $300,000 to
the Democrats as an incentive.
budget-cut proposal.
The proposed operational
budget of Oregon campuses
for the 1959-61 biennium is
$81,949,000. '
Dennis the Menace
KISS AN HUG! KISS
YOUR SWEETIE ON
Matter of Fact
NASSER'S DILEMMA
Beirut, Lebanon - Gamal
Abdel Nasser has not had a
particularly merry fortnight.
The disastrous
failure of the
attempt to kid
nap King Hus
sein of Jor
dan was bad
enough. The
Khartoum
coup d'etat
was worse,
since it is
Joiipta Alsop Kiiuwnwudve
not only forestalled a virtual
Egyptian political take-over
in the Sudan, but installed a
government committed to
keeping the Sudan indepen
dent.
All the same, the Egyptian
dictator is probably just as
much disturbed by another,
much less noted current de
velopment. For, even within
the ranks of the most con
vinced Nasser-style Arab na
tionalists, a certain resistance
is clearly developing to Nas
ser's claim to be the unique,
aU-powerful leader of all the
Arab lands.
The core of this resistance
is the difficulty Nasser has
encountered in Syria, where
the cheers for Arab union
have died down into a low,
ominous grumble about Egyp
tian rule. But Syria is not
the only place where Arab
nationalists have been chal
lenging Nasser's unique au
thority. F)R example, Kamal Cha
rlerehi is the JLrah nation
alist leader with the greatest
personal following in Iraq. He
was not included in the new
Iraqi government of Brig.
Gen. Karim Kassem, perhops
because his moderate views
on all subjects except Arab
union made Chaderchi repug
nant to the Iraqi Commu
nists. Yet Chaderchi retains
great influence. Hence he had
much to offer Nasser when
he went to Cairo after the
coup d'etat in Baghdad, to
talk about the terms of Iraq's
association with the United
Arab Republic.
According to highly author
ative reports, however, the
Nasser-Chaderchi talks ended
in- a blazing disagreement.
Chaderchi was passionately
anxious to help in realizing
his long-cherished dream of
Arab union under Nasser. But
he also dared to insist that
Iraq ought to be allowed a
certain local autonomy within
the union, that political
parties ought to continue to
exist in Iraq, that a measure
of free discussion should be
permitted within the press,
and so on. Nasser apparently
rejected all these claims, in
sisting his own way was best.
Both Chaderchi's bargain
ing and Nasser's violence
were no doubt motivated by
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
A FAMOUS MOVIE QUEEN agreed to lead the Thanksgiving
Day parade in a Southern city, but cancelled by telegram
at the last minute. This is how the local gazette handled the
story day by day:
First day: Miss Fifi Who-
sis, reigning Deauiy oi me
screen, will be our guest this
year.
Second day: The ravish
ing Fifi Whosis, irresistible
siren of Hollywood, tells the
secrets of her beauty.
Third day: Fifi Whosis,
who will lead the parade
day after tomorrow, will
live up to her reputation for
charm and affability and
sign all autographs.
Fourth day: Fifi Whosis,
53-year-old former motion picture actress, has cancelled her
appearance in our fair city.
Peter Gabel is fond of the tale about two stalwart janitors in a
Wall Street skyscraper. Seems they are broom mates, they've even
swept together, and are, to sum up, dust Inseparable.
O M6fc by Bewtt Cert PtotribuU by Stof rutauu Sjrafeeifc
n-7f' a
AN' HUG! SMACK
THE MUG' .
By Joseph Alsop
the already-mentioned exper
ience in Syria. Here the de
velopment has a p p a r ently
reached an acute stage, judg
ing by the Cairo radio's re
cent demure announcement
that the Syrian Vice Presi
dent of the United Arab Re
public, Akram Hourani, has
been deprived of all his exe
cutive powers. In order to un
derstand the extraordinary
character of this announce
ment, a little past history is
needed.
IN brief, the Kremlin, rather
than Nasser, was the
prime mover in the first Syr
ian coup d'etat last summer.
Until this coup d'etat occur
red, all Soviet dealings with
the Arab nationalists in Syria
and everywhere else had been
channeled t h r ough Nasser
personaUy. The Damascus
coup , d'etat greatly strength
ened the Nasserite national
ists in Syria. But it produced
an even greater tacrease of
Syrian Communist strength.
For example, the coup install
ed a party member, Gen. Asis
Al Bieri, as Army Chief of
Staff, and it gave wide new
powers to the Kremlin's chief
local agent, Defense Minister
Khalid Azm.
For just this reason, Akram
Hourani was visibly disquiet
ed when this reporter visited
Damascus just after the first
coup d'etat had taken place
there. As the leader of the ul-tra-Nasserite
but non-Communist
Baath party, Hourani
then enjoyed vastly more in
fluence in Damascus than
Chaderchi has ever had in
Baghdad. In the person of the
formidable Chief of the Syr
ian Army Intelligence, Col
Abdel Hamid Serraj, Houra
ni also had a loyal and im
mensely strong partner in the
Army at that time.
Hourani and Serraj, work
ing together, were therefore
able to stage what amounted
to a second coup d'etat. They
nipped the bulk of the Com
munist strength in Syria in
the bud, by the simple device
of taking Syria into the Unit
ed Arab Republic. The effect
of this sudden union of Syria
with Egypt was so dramatic
that the Syrian Communist
leader-in-chief, Khalid Baq
dash, left the country for
a while.
BUT the temporary absence
of Badtiash by no means
settled the grave question of
the future working relation
ship between the central gov
ernment in Cairo and the new
Syr ian province. Hourani
very obviously expected
Syria to enjoy the same meas
ure of autonomy that Chad
erchi asked for Iraq. He fur
ther expected to be recogniz
ed as the effective viceroy of
Syria, as his service to Nasser
demanded, and he was in-
Stop Me
-JJj POUffn
Editorial Comment
PAROLE FOR
D'AUTREMONT
The attempted robbery of
Southern Pacific train No. 13
at tunnel 13 near Siskiyou in
Jackson County on October
11, 1923, was no crime of
passion. It had been planned
for weeks by Ray and Roy
De Autremont, 23-year-old
twins, and their 19-year-old
brother Hugh. The young
men had bought a car in Port
land in which they hoped to
escape after robbing the train.
They stole dynamite and a
detonator, set up a camp in
the mountains, carefully burn
ed a tarpaulin and tool box
to destroy evidence of their
guilt and devised a hideaway
in the mountains near tunnel
13 to which they hoped to
take their loot.
The four murders they
committed in attempting the
robbery were as cold-blooded
as the earlier plans. Their
first victim was E. E. Dough
erty, the mail clerk, whose
body was consumed by fire
which swept the mail car after
it had been dynamited inside
the tunnel. Engineer Sid
Bates and Firemen Marvin
Seng were shot through the
head when the robbers dis
covered that the dynamite
blast had been too strong and
that the crime was a failure.
Brakeman C. O. Johnson was
shot as he came through the
tunnel with a red light to
see what was wrong with the
train.
If the three De Autremont
brothers (the name is now
used correctly as D' Autre
mont) had been caught imme
diately there is no doubt they
.would have been sentenced
to die. But it was nearly four
years later that Hugh, ar
rested in the Philippines
where he was serving in the
Army under an assumed
name, was brought to trial
in Jackson county. .By then
tempers had cooled somewhat
and the jury undoubtedly
also was swayed by the youth
of the bright young man. It
found him guilty but recom
mended life imprisonment.
The older brothers were cap
tured in Ohio while Hugh was
on trial. They pleaded guilty
and received the same sen
tence as Hugh-life.
For years, the D' Autremont
case has come up regularly
before the Parole Board, as
do the cases of all prisoners.
Roy has no chance for re
lease, as he is insane. Ray
apparently is not Being con
sidered for parole, at least
not at the present. But Hugh
will go free, by action of the
Parole Board, as soon as he
completes pre-release school
ing. The Parole Board's action
was courageous. It is bound
to be criticized strongly by
those who believe aU the
D'Autremonts should spend
the rest of their natural lives
in prison. But prison is for
rehabilitation as well as to
protect society. For more
deed granted great authority
when the United Arab Repub
lic was first formed.
Yet even at the outset, still
greater authority was concen
trated in the hands of the for
mer Egyptian Ambassador to
Damascus, Gen. Mahmoud Ri-
ad, who now in effect became
Nasser's High Commissioner
in Syria. If the Hourani-Ser-
raj partnership had nonethe
less continued, different ar
rangements might have been
forced upon passer in the
end. But Serraj now dropped
Hourani, and seemed to be
content to serve as Nasser's
Syrian Deputy-High Commis
sioner and Police Chief.
rjHHUS the way was prepared
for the recent Cairo an
nouncement. It was issued
shortly after Akram Hourani
had been temporarily called
to Cairo and reportedly order
ed not to return to Damascus.
The announcement transfers
all Hourani's former execu
tive authority in Syria to Dr.
Nureddine Kahla, the techni
cian who heads the executive
council of the "Syrian re
gion." Dr. Kahla is expected
to be a pliant tool of Gen. Ri
ad's without any of Hourani's
inconvenient tendencies to
have ideas of his own about
his country's future.
What had happened to
Hourani, to whom Nasser
owed so much, is ironically
and wonderfully Nasser's fun
damental dilemna. His dilem-
na consists in the fact that all
the cheers for Arab national
ism and Arab unity in these
last years have not silenced
and cannot silence the still,
small, obstinate voices of Ar
ab particularism and Arab lo
calism.
Copyright 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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than 31 years in the peniten
tiary, Hugh D' Autremont has
been a model prisoner. The
likelihood is that he will live
as peacefully outside the walls
as inside.
Recently Nathan Leopold
was paroled from prison in
Illinois. His crime was per
haps even more repulsive
than D'Autremont's, if that
is possible. Thousands of mur
derers who were sentenced to
life imprisonment have been
released on parole, and pe
nologists say that as a class
murderers are the best risks
for parole.
Hugh D' Autremont has dem
onstrated that he is as good
a risk as the majority of pris
oners who are released. If we
are to have a parole system,
it should be applied on an
equal basis among those
whose prison records indicate
they have been rehabilitated.
Despite D'Autremont's ex
tremely vicious crime of 35
years ago, the parole seems
justified.-Oregonian.
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ease.
Best Advice
To the editor: About the
best advice that has ever
come out of our court house
in Jackson County was given
to us by the late Judge Cole
man when he stated that
every one was complaining
about our high taxes yet
would vote on every bond is
sue that would come along.
Our County Assessor in the
Wednesday , communication,
gave us some real food for
thought. He stated that after
the bond issue had been de
feated by the voters, that the
city officials of Medford pro
vided in the budget for 1957
1958 $50,000 for off street
parkmg, also for 1958-1959
the sum of $7,000 was budget
ed for the same purpose.
Would it not be well for
the . officials of the city of
Medford to report to the tax
payers how much of that $57,-
000 had been spent and for
what purpose?
A public official is such
only as long as they realize
that they are a public servant.
When they feel it is not neces
sary to respect the will of the
public their value as a public
official has ceased. This the
ory was completely vindicated
at the polls on Nov. 4.
The tax payers who pay the
bills have a right to know
what the score is.
Frank Howell
.' 205 Laurel st.
Medford.
From John Gribble
To the Editor: A few cor
rections are apparent with ref
erence to the ''Mystery Tree"
writeup in Thursday evening's
paper.
The writeup states, "Gribble
enclosed a seed of the tree
with leaves when he wrote the
school of forestry." My letter
(which I let the reporter read,
along with Mr. Randall's re
ply, knowing the bunglesome
way some reporters state
things) reads: "Herewith are
a few leaves and seed keys,"
etc 'Twas a handful or so of
seed. "A seed of the tree"
sounds rather silly, don't you
think?
But the "Boasts Knowl
edge" heading and "boasts
prodigious knowledge of trees,
according to his fellow work
ers" adds a lie and insult to
injury. I'm sure my "fellow
workers" never heard me
boast or brag of a "prodigious
knowledge of trees," or any
thing else, and I'm just as sure
they , never made such re
marks. Indeed, I feel very
humble, for I realize that my
knowledge is limited. Such a
writeup needs both explana
tion and an apology.
However, if I was of a bit
of service in helping on the
"free-gratis -for-nothing" pro
gram of city street parking
tree inventory I am thankful
for having been able, and glad
to have helped. The work was
fascinatingly interesting, and
it was a pleasure to work
with Mrs. Eden and Mrs.
Tucker.
John Gribble,
139 Kenwood ave.f
Medford.
(Editor's note: The Mail
Tribune freely apologizes if
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Russian Note
Seen To Reduce
Military Threat
Washington - (UPD - Ameri
can officials said today the
Russian note on Berlin ap
peared to reduce the imme
diate military threat but
throw it into the realm of
diplomatic and propaganda
pressure.
They said, however, that
the Russians have now made
it abundantly clear that their
eventual aim is the complete
ouster of Western Allies from
the former German capital.
This was true, they said,
even though the Kremlin is
trying to reach this goal by
successive sugar-coated steps
instead of a single blunt ap
proach. No Formal Comment
A spokesman said there
would be no formal comment
from the State Department
until officials had received
and studied a translation of
the lengthy document released
in Moscow early today.
Informed officials, however,
described the Russian com
munication as being more or
less along the line of what
they had expected from the
Kremlin.
They noted that Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles
Wednesday had said the Rus
sians mignt De trying to de
cide how to present their de
mands in a form which would
appear more reasonable than
Khrushchev's original Nov. 10
blast.
Will Have .To Be Met
The Russian demand for
creation of a "demilitarized
free city" in West Berlin with
possible United Nations ob
servation to guarantee the in
tegrity of such an arrange
ment, did not delude anyone
in Washington into believing
the Russians were backing
down on their long-range ob
jective to expel all Western
influence.
It was noted that the Rus
sians said it was "natural"
that such a "free city" should
eventually be brought to
gether : with Communist-con
trolled East Berlin. Soviet in
sistence that whoever is in
West Berlin must there deal
with the East Communists for
access emphasized that the
blockade problem eventually
would have to be . met one
way or another.
Lumber Index
v
Down 87 Cents
Portland (CPU CrowTs lum
ber price index dropped 87
cents in the last two weeks
with declines in green Doug
las fir mainly responsible. Dry
fir and Western pine .species
also slumped.
The lumber market news
service said quarter-inch AD
fir plywood managed to hold
its $76 level on the whole,
with unsanded 5-8 inch CD
panels at about $95 for DFPA-
stamped stock.
Hungary has some of the
world's largest deposits of
bauxite, used in the produc
tion of aluminum.
Mr. Gribble, long an ardent
and effective worker in the
realms of conservation and
beautification, feels he was
misrepresented. Indeed, he
could "boast," if he were that
kind of man. In fhe story,
however, the word was used
in the dictionary - approved
sense of "possess" knowledge
which Mr.Gribble does, to the
admiration of his co-workers.)
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The latest on Berlin:
Walter Ulbright, the East
German communist boss, pre
dicts the Soviet Union will
announce its Berlin intentions
this week, but the feeling is
growing in the West that Rus
sia is having second thoughts
about precipitating a major
crisis now.
IlfHAT'S in the wind?
Nobody knows per
haps not even the commun
ists. But here is an interest
ing little dispatch that came
out of Washington last week.
"American officials say
they are convinced that one
of the principal motives be
hind Russia's Berlin moves is
Khrushchev's intense desire
to prove that a communist
satellite government can
maintain authority without
the presence of Russian
guns."
SCREWBALL? Not entirely
Put yourself in Khrush
chev's shoes.
He rules a mid-European
satellite empire by cold, brutal
force. He is seeking to con
vince the backward peoples
of a large part of the world
including Asia, Indonesia,
the Arab countries of the Mid
dle East and most, if not all
of Africa-that communism is
a better way of life for them
than the way of life offered
by the Western nations.
But-
He has to contend with the
perectly obvious fact that if
Russian troops and Russian
guns were removed his satel
lite empire in. Mid-Europe
would fly apart like the fabled
joint snake.
THAT isn't just conjecture.
It is established FACT.
It was PROVED in Hun
gary a couple of years ago.
Only Russian troops and Rus
sian guns, shooting to kill,
held the Hungarians in line.
It seems reasonably probable
from what we read and hear
that only Russian troops and
Russian guns hold the Poles
in line.
The Poles are a bold and
courageous people. Over the
centuries they haven't hesi
tated to stake their lives at
long odds on rebellion against
oppressors. But they are also
a rational people. They realize
that with bare hands they
can't hope to win their free
dom from communist Rus
sian WITH GUNS. ; "
r!"S a pretty safe bet that if
Khrushchev withdrew the
Russian guns from East Ger-many-which
is all of former '
Germany east of the Elbe
river-the GERMANS of East
Germany would rise and
throw out the communist car
petbaggers who now rule
there. It is only RUSSIAN
GUNS that keep the GER
MANS of East Germany in
submission.
The myth that the Russian
satellite empire in Mid-Europe
continues to exist because the
people of these conquered
countries prefer communism
as a way of life is too flimsy
for even the Kremlin to
believe.
If Khrushchev pulls his
troops out of East Germany
and relies on -the East Ger
man commies to handle the
situation, he'll have to send
his troops back in again. If
he sends them -back, they'll
have to come back SHOPT-
ING.
Maybe Khrushchev isn't
ready for that yet.
As many as
the stars
Our Blessings,
For these
ice are thankful.