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Mightiest of All Military Units
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK, Aug. ll.-WPl-Cut a man In half, and ha dlei.
Cut an army In halt, and It usually la destroyed, too.
But one Army severed In rombat during the last war la still
alive and nourishing. That Is the American First Army, 30 years
old this week.
It has traveled a long way and
won many battles since it was
formed in A la Forte-Sous-Juarre,
France, by the General of the
Armies John J. Pershing in 1918.
Armies, like men of merit,
sometimes fail to get the recog
nition they deserve. This has
been the case with the First
Army, now based at Fort Jav on
Governors Island In New York
harbor.
The wearers of the black "A
shoulder patch insignia of the
first Army sometimes get an
noyed with the public's tendency
to confuse the achievements of
their army with those of General
George Patton's more widely
known Third Army.
But this confusion Is probably
Inescapable. The average Amer
ican civilian knows little more
about the organization of his
armed forces than an Eskimo
does about the hierarchy of the
Episcopal Church.
In the public mind an army
can really be glamorized only
through a glamorous leader. And
In the Second World War the
flamboyant career of two-gun
"Georgle" Patton, alternately
America's favorite hero and bad
boy of the top brass, Insured re
nown for the Third Army he
commanded.
Patton was a great leader, and
certainly a great leader doesn't
have a bad army. But It la doubt
ful If the Third Army ever quite
measured up to the First Army
at Its peak.
of the Third Army or the tre- u"1f.,hln more '"" ""7"' ,h
mendous record It made In Its "'J PlnK, traffic en-
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Oregon Traffic Engineering con
ference at uregon btate college.
First to break the German Iron
ring in France at St. Lo.
First into Paris.
First into Belgium.
First through the Seigfried
Line.
First to take a German city
Aachen. First across the Rhine at
Remagen.
First to link up with the Rus
sians on the River Elbe.
But perhaps its finest stand
was made In the "Battle of the
Bulge" In the dark December of
1944. Split In two by a surprise
40-mlle German armored break
through, the First Army rallied,
threw back the enemy, healed Its
deep wound and rolled on to
victory. Only a great army could
have taken a spear thrust like
that and survived.
These are the things the vet
eran First Army remembers.
They explain why the newest re
cruit wears the big black "A"
with pride. He's joined a team
that never lost.
More Benefits
Advocated From
Parking Meters
OREGON STATE COLLEGE
Motorist who feed coins into
parking meters are entitled to
aweep across France. But armies
are elastic things, weakened or
strengthened as divisions are
taken from or added to them.
An army one month may be only
a planning neaaquarters contain
ing a few thousand men; the
next month It may be a fighting
force numbered in the hundreds
of thousands. Its morale depends
upon the nature of the units that
make it up and upon the quality
of leadership provided by the
army commander.
Outstanding 'Firsts'
Because of Its mobility, vast
weight of arms .and high per
centage of veteran troops the
First Army is regarded bv some
military men aa the mightiest
(Ingle army in history.
A great army la measured by
Ita reaction to potential disaster
as well as by Ita victories. The
First Army, trained and led to
France by Gen. Omar Nelson
Bradley and later guided by Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges, stood up
well under both tests.
It Is proud of these "firsts":
First to hit the beaches of Normandy.
Protest Meat Prices
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John Miller (left) and James McKlasock demonstrate their fethngs
, about meat prices In CIO parade down Broadway In Camden, N. J.
i 'Buy no meat" movements are gaining In strength throughout the
w rest of the country.
Harry Aumuck. Spokane traf
fic engineer, said that meter
revenues now generally used by
towns and cities to reduce gen
eral taxation should go Into
permanent traffic Improvements
and investments in off-street
parking. He answered critics of
parking meters by pointing out
that meter-regulated spaces pro
vide from three to five times as
effective control as unmetered
spaces.
One-way streets were also ad
vocated at the conference as one
of the least used but most effec
tive wavs of creating better use
of existing streets. They not
only utilize present facilities with
out great additional cost, but
tend to reduce accidents and save
motorists time. The public gets
used to them In less than 30 days
and merchants find within a few
weeks that they actually gain
sale volume because their shopp
ing areas are more accessible, it
was pointed out.
Officials of the Institute of
Wool Growers Of
Australia Expect
Profitable Year
SYDNEY, Aug. 12. (.'P) Aus
tralian wool growers think they
will continue to prosper In the
new 1948-49 season.
The season officially opened
August 1. The first sale will be
gin in Sydney August 30.
Wool experts have expressed
Traffic Engineers praised west
ern highway and traffic engineers
for the lead they have taken in
promoting traffic safety. The
western section of the institute
they said, is the largest and most
active In the country. The en
gineers commended Oregon State
college for Its part In sponsoring
this first northwest regional conference-
and voted to make a
similar meeting a yearly affair.
the view that the market will
continue to be as strong as In the
past two years. Some think the
prices may be even higher than
In the past two seasons.
Greater competition from con
tinental buyers is expected in the
new season. The abolition of the
Australian government subsidy
on purchases by Australian buy
ers, however, may help to keep
prices down.
Nearly 400,000 bales of war
time surplus wool were placed
on the Australian market last
season. This year, twice that
amount will be released.
Australian wool growers are
spending some of their hig post
war profits to improve their
flocks. Melbourne sales of stud
rams In Augusi brought the high
est prices in years.
Nobody is guessing yet what
American buyers will do in the
new season. Everybody, however,
Is hoping for more United States
buying to keep price up, and to
bring in dollars.
Moscow Must Drop Red Crusade
To Obtain U. S. Collaboration
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst .
The Moscow radio laid aside its customary attacks on the
Democracies yesterday and for a change urged closer collaboration
between Russia and the United States to assure lasting peace.
The commentator declared that
"Just as it was collaboration of
the great powers that made pos
sible complete victory over the
forces of fascism and militarism,
so collaboration assure a lasting
peace at the present time." Since
ail broadcasts in Russia are gov
ernment controlled, we can be
sure that this extraordinary state
ment had official approval.
Such a striking about face
from the caustic criticism of the
Democracies makes us pause to
enquire "why?" Are the Musco
vites talking "for the record," are
they on a fishing expedition, or
do they really mean business?
However, before trying to answer
that, let's give a constructive re
sponse to the suggestion of col
laboration. There is Just one way, as I
see it. In which full collaboration
can be secured with the United
States. That is for Moscow to
abandon its project of world re
volution for the establishment
of Communist governments by
force.
America never has challenged
Russia on what the latter was
doing within Soviet borders. How
ever, the United States has made
it quite clear that she will not
stand idly by while Communism
is thrust upon small nations
themselves against Moscow-directed
aggression.
What U. 3. Won't Tolerate
Mind you, we are not dealing
with a normal Ideological cru
sade. One of the cardinal tenets of
Bolshevism is the necessity of
using strong-arm methods not
only In the establishment of Red
governments but in "persuading"
unwilling people to subscribe to
the ism. In this manner little
countries like Czechoslovakia are
taken over by Moscow.
The United States will not col
laborate with a government
which pursues any such scheme
of operations. She will not col
laborate with an ideology which
says that the world isn't big
enough to hold both "capitalism"
and Communism, and that "cap
italistic" countries must be de
stroyed. She will not tolerate
subversive activities by Com
munists within her own borders.
Man, 80, Obtains Lictnst
To Marry Eighth Time
VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 12.
JP) An 80-year-old pensioner
from Anacortes, Wash., who said
he had been married seven times
before, applied lor a marriage
license here Tuesday.
The elderly bridegroom la John
Dodd. The bride is Mabel V.
Owen, 57, Vancouver.
Dodd aald In the marriage II
oense aplication that he had
been divorced twice, and widowed
five times.
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Bears are near-sighted because
of their long-time habit of feed
ing with noses to the ground.
Keen senses of hearing and smell
which lack strength to defend make up for this deficiency.
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FRIDAY - SATURDAY
August 13 - 14
ASK YOUR RED & WHITE
GROCER FOR OTHER
MONEY-SAVINa CASE
SPECIALS
PEAS Fancy 3 Sieve. Red & While No. 2 Can 21c
Case of 24 for 4.97 12 for 2.49
PEAS Fancy Sieve. Red & While No. 2 Can 19c
Cose of 24 for 4.43 12 for 2.25
CORN Fancy Whole Kernel Red & While No. 2 Can 21c
Cose of 24 for 4.97 12 for 2.49
SPINACH Red & White - No. 2 Can 15c
Case of 24 for 3.53 12 for 1.79
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For Friday and Saturday
CHERRY ANGELFOOD CAKE
and
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Ask for Them at Your Grocer's
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N. Jackson
SUPERIOR MEATS
BROKEN SLICES.
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PORK CHOPS
TENDERIZED STEAK ,85'
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WIENERS
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STOCK-UP-SPECIALS
Case of 24
EASTERN OREGON PEAS
GOOD QUALITY No. 2 can 14c
3.09 12 Cam 1.59
BESTWEST APRICOTS
SELECT FANCY IN EXTRA HEAVY SYRUP
No. 1 Tall Can 19c
Case of 48 .
7.79
12 Cant.
2.04
HUNTS TOMATO JUICE
44-oi. Can 25c Case of 12 2.39
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No. 2V'a Can 25c Cos of 24 5.49
PEACHES, SLICED FREESTONE
No.2'iCan 29c 12 for 3.24
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