The Willamina times., November 05, 1942, Image 4

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Heavy Fighting in Guadalcanal Battle
Changes Entire Jap Pacific Strategy;
British Offensive Is Aimed at Libya;
Coffee Rationing Begins November 28
Dipest?
G em s of Thought
A N D the patience to wuit for
* * the coming of these things
with the wisdom to know them
w i l l 'l l l l i r y I n in e
W It Hunt
Aviation to Revolutionize
America's Living Habits
4 Ughi! A bah t! A light! A ligh t!
Il grew, i i i l u i l i l ling iinliirlril!
I l g re w in hr lim r 'i hnrsl <>/ ilawn.
I l r gninnl a uorld. hr gmr I lu ll
world
Ih grunitrii lemon! “On! Suit o n !“
M il 1 1 II.
Civil Aeronautics Administration Provides the
R elea sed by W estern N ew sp ap er Union
Necessary Impetus; New Developments to
Have Social as Well as Material Effect.
By BAVKIIAGE
4nul>\t am i ('i)mnieniiiinr,
Honesty is like a 7 per cent
interest; it wiff beat all kinds
of spcckcrlanhuns in the long
run.—Josh Billings.
We must pay a price for
freedom, but no price that is
ever asked for it is half the
cost of doing without it.—II. I,,
Mencken.
WNU Service, 1343 II street N W
ways is divided into one-mile sec­
Washington, D. C.
tions; that is, a train is warned a
One thing the war w ill produce, mile ahead of the block in which
upon which there is general agree­ there is an obstruction to traffic. In
ment, is national airmindedness. the a ir a comparable block is now
And there w ill be basic changes in 15 miles. When the cruising speed
i J.
• aspirin r
,
the living habits of the nation, pro­ of the commercial planes goes up
woaio a. uaotsr stnia
duced by development of the a ir­ the block w ill have to tie increased.
plane, as great or greater than were Traffic control is regulated by a
produced by the automobile.
federal airways system. In 1941 it
The real test of a gift is how well
The automobile and the good was extended to the point where it
it is received. Which puts Camels
roads which made its use possible separated and controlled traffic
and Prince Albert Smoking Tobac­
revolutionized small town life. The from 14 centers, established by the
co right at the top of the list as
airplane, according to the experts Civil Aeronautics administration.
gifts sure to please any smoker.
who manage to snatch a moment Over a m illion and a half aircraft
And they’re ideal us lastm inute
to think beyond bombers and fight­ operations were recorded in that
gifts. It's a convenient and eco­
ers to passenger and cargo planes, year.
nomical way to remember all your
After a raid on Japanese positions, the first thing U. S. air fighters is going to change big town life and
smoking friends — particularly
The increase in speed which m ili­
do in New Guinea is to amble over to the grass hut (called “ Sloppy i perhaps something far more impor- tary developments in airplane man­
men in the service who prefer to­
Joe s > near the Port Moresby airfield for a cup of hot tea and a snack I tant—small-world life.
bacco and cigarettes to any other
ufacture have brought about w ill
The temperature, obviously, was way up when this picture was taken.
Recently I had a long chat with have a social as well as a material
gifts. You have your choice of the
i one of the men who heads up a effect. '
Camel Christmas Carton, contain­
! plant that is turning out planes for C ru ia in g — A t 4 0 0
G U AD ALC AN AL:
ing 10 packages of 20's or the
COFFEE:
.
I Uncle Sam. That is a fulltim e job.
Camel “ Holiday House,” contain­
Full Scale Fight
One Cup a Day
‘Think back," my air-minded
i But he is a, dreamer, too, and the
ing four "fla t fifties." Both are
News of full scale fighting on
colorfully-wrapped, ready to give,
Coffee w ill be rationed throughout J moment he gets a chance to lean friend said, “ to World War I. Our
Guadalcanal island came to an ap­ the nation beginning November 28 back and think out loud about the maximum speed of war planes was
without uny additional Christmas
prehensive America as U. S. soldiers on the basis of one pound each five ( future, he paints an epic picture of about 180 miles. Today, 180 miles
wrapping. Also the pound canister
is the cruising speed of our commer­ of Prince Albert is handsomely
and marines bore the brunt of con­ weeks for all persons over 15 years the skyways of tomorrow.
tinued Japanese attacks. The en­ of age, under an order issued by
“ What the roads did for the auto- cial planes. Today our fast w ar­ gift-wrapped. Your dealer is fea­
emy bolstered its push with fresh the Office of Price Administration. I mobile the airfields w ill do for the planes make much more than 400 turing all these w elcome gifts now.
reinforcements, landing them on the
On the basis of 35 to 40 cups per airplane,” he said to me w’atching , miles an hour. Let's be conserva­ —Adv.
northwestern end of the island.
pound, the ration means slightly i imaginary airplanes in a blue cloud tive and say that in 1965 our com­
The Japs opened their big attack more than a cup a day a person. So i of cigar smoke. “ We now have 25 mercial planes w ill be cruising at
by laying down a heavy a rtille ry that merchants can stock their i times as many airports as we had at least 400 miles.
barrage and then using tanks and shelves, retail sales of coffee w ill be before the war. They are in many
"In my opinion we w ill race the
remote places. Those places won’t sun from New York to Los Angeles
troops against the Americans' de frozen at midnight, November 21.
fense lines. In the first two days of
and not do a bad job; leave New
F irst of all the rationed coffee w ill i be remote any more.”
fighting, United States forces re­ be purchased on the last stamp in N e s t f o r W a r b ir d a
ork at noon and be in Los Angeles !
at 4 p. m .—their time.
pulsed five tank attacks with a rtil­ the sugar ration book, stamp No. 28.
When he said that I couldn’t help
lery. The navy communique did not Following rationed coffee w ill be is­
Going in the other direction,
recalling a trip I made recently on
mention American tanks.
sued by working backward through a special plane across the country. leave New York at 5 p. m., get to
Prior to sending th e ir ground the sugar stamp book, using stamps Because we were going to see a lot London for breakfast. Leave Lon- I
forces into action, the foe smashed No. 28 to 19, in sequence.
of airplane secrets anyhow, we were don at eight in the evening and get
E lig ib ility w ill be determined by permitted to "look” —I mean by that, to New York in the morning."
at Henderson field—with costly re­
Relieve Distress
sults for themselves. The Japs sent the age shown on the sugar book.
It is easy to see that when London, 1
the curtains weren’t drawn as they
over 16 bombers escorted by 20 Zero
Tim
e-Tested Way
New
\
ork
and
Los
Angeles
are
that
'
are in all ordinary passenger planes
fighters. Grumman Wildcats, pilot­ R A F B O M B E R S :
these days. I won’t reveal the de­ near together in terms of time, they I
ed by marines, shot down all of the Over Italy
tails of what I saw, of course, but w ill be that much nearer together in
fighters, one of the bombers and
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PEHETRAIES
I can tell you it was hard to be­ terms of thought—in habits, cus­
Long-range
RAF
bombers
struex
to upper bronchial
damaged three additional bombers.
toms
and
understanding.
There
can
lieve.
Suddenly
in
the
midst
of
no­
» tubes with soothing
750 miles across France and Switzer­
Japanese shipping in the Solomons land to ravage sections of northern where the runways of a field below be no distant places, in the natural
,
m edicinal vapors.
area was the target of American Ita ly and to smash the port of Genoa would be visible. A few miles away course of existence, Americans on
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STIMULATES
\ ch est and back sur­
pilots. The fliers chalked up two in the heaviest raids of the war on i I could see automobiles or railway business or recreation w ill move
faces like a w arm -
Jap cruisers and one destroyer dam­ H itle r’s henchmen.
trains moving along like bugs or through Singapore, Tokyo, Buenos
Ing p o u lt ic e .
aged, another cruiser probably dam­
i worms. I knew the passengers were Aires, Rio, Moscow and their c iti­
Targets included the great Genoa- looking at the landscape as they zens w ill be a part of our cities.
roa hou **
aged and one heavy cruiser or bat­
Milan-Turin industrial triangle, site passed. But plain and h ill and riv ­
tleship possibly damaged.
When
it
comes
to
the
makeup
of
MtUJONS OF MOTHERS relieve dis­
of Ita ly ’s principal aircraft and ship­
Three attacks were made by Doug­ building works. The day before, er were all they could see. Just out our own towns, large and small, it
tress o f colds th is double-action
way because It s so clT ectlve-so
las dive bombers on a force of cruis­ RAF planes left Genoa flaming un­ of their range of vbion there is easy to see what w ill happen when
e a s y ! J u s t rub t h r o a t , c h e s t ,
would be a busy airport. Only war- a normal daily commuting distance
ers and destroyers north of Florida der two-ton “ block buster” bombs.
a n d b a c k w ith good old Vicks’
birds nest on it now, but some day to work w ill be stretched to a hun­
island—13 miles north of Guadal­
VapoRub at bedtime.
The B ritish air m inistry announced commercial planes w ill rise from dred miles. The residential area of
canal. The navy communique said
I n sta n tly VapoRub goes to work
—2 ways at enca, a s Illustrated
one enemy cruiser was damaged by that many large fires were set at these thousands of tiny intersections cities w ill fan out in monstrous c ir­
a b o v e — to r e l i e v e c o u g h i n g
Genoa, and the raid drew the almost in the sky routes that w ill lace the cles. There w ill be a much more
bombs and the force withdrew.
spasm s, help clear congestion In
unheard of admission from Rome world together in a tiny ball.
general admixture of viewpoint and
upper bronchial tubes, an d Invite
Cooperation
radio that the bombers caused heavy
The way these dots on the air map attitude of city and country, of com
com forting sleep. O ften by m orn­
damage.
While
the
bombers
also
ing
m ost o f th e m isery of the
have increased is incredible. The munity and community. The melt
Meanwhile, from General MacAr­
cold Is gone. W hen a cold strikes
thur s headquarters in Australia attacked other points, they concen­ Civil Aeronautics adm inistration’s ing pot of America w ill produce t
try tim e-tested Vicks VapoRub.
came word of continuing Allied trated their incendiaries and heavy first airport program got untfer way much more homogeneous broth of
bombing raids on Jap bases north explosives on Genoa, Ita ly ’s chief in 1941 with 385 defense landing humanity. And it w ill temper the
areas designated for construction or world.
of the Solomons.
Approximately port.
The reason for the heaviest attack repair. There were 282 new a ir­
100,000 tons of shipping were de­
stroyed or damaged in three nights on Genoa was obvious. That port ports by the end of 1941 as well as ‘A u a t e r it y ’ L u n c h e o n
rX ia to s k i n
city is a vita l supply terminal for 46 new seaplane bases and anchor­
of bombing at Rabaul, New Britain.
Vvrtv p ro v e n ie n f
M a k e s L a a tin g Im p re a a io n
Field
Marshal
Erwin
Rommel
in
Af­
ages.
The
significant
increase
in
Other Allied bombers attacked
Soothin, Retinol allays
My friend from Australia dropped
rica. I t is also the site of a ircra ft landing fields since then is, of
Kavieng, New Ireland, scoring direct parts
■mtation of externally causad pimples,
in suddenly in an army bomber the
and munition works.
course,
a
m
ilita
ry
secret.
At’
the
hits on Jap fuel dumps and installa­
thut battening healing. Try it today I
j beginning of 1942 there were 2,484 other day, as friends have a way
tions.
Fires were visible for 90 N O R T H A F R IC A :
of
doing
these
days.
His
business
i airports in the country, of which
miles.
j J,086 were municipal institutions, has kept him in Australia many
Medium bombers were in action Libya Hound
' 930 were commercial. That in it ­ years. He likes the folks “ down un­
over Dutch Tim or, north of Australia,
When the British launched the self is significant for it shows how der” and he’s doing a good job for
where they bombed grounded a ir­ “ biggest battle” of Egypt, m ilita ry
Without a Care
communities themselves pushed for- our soldiers there and for Uncle
craft on the airdrome at Koepang, experts knew that the objective was I ward
The loss of wealth is loss of
to open their skygates without Sam now.
starting numerous fires.
to crush the Africa Corps of Nazi waiting for a commercial organiza­
“ Australia is not fighting a total dirt, the happiest man is without
General Rommel and drive the Axis tion to do the job. The rest of the war yet,’ ’ he said, “ but she’s a darn- a shirt.
R U S S IA :
forces deep into Libya, there to nearly twenty-five hundred fields site farther along than America We
crush and destroy it. While it was were army and navy, emergency or haven’t started,” ’he told me.
Relief Army
easy to arrive at this fact it was a
“ Because,”
I suggested,
we
At points the battle line in Stalin­ more difficult task to determine j miscellaneous; 30 were private.
didn’t get the scare they got and
grad had been driven to within 600 whether or not this represented the ' A ir p o r t D e v e lo p m e n t
are still getting.”
yards of the Volga as the struggle much sought “ Second Front.”
Meanwhile, with the aid of the
Yes, he said. “ Nobody expect­
for that vita l city reached its climax.
While the first reports of this new CAA laws were drawn up in many ed the Japs to try to get and hold
While the Soviet reports told of beat­
states which in the year 1942 result­
ing off constant Nazi attacks, these offensive by the British and other ed in the passage of 42 separate Australia, but they did fear that if
United
Nations
forces
revealed
that
there wasn’t adequate protection the
same communiques admitted that
the Germans were being shoved acts by state legislations designed
the Germans gained important back by the quick tr u s ts of air to provide municipalities or coun­ Japs could bomb Australian cities
and the big war plants all along the
streets and buildings in other sec­
and land power nobody was under- ! ties or other political divisions with coast and put them out of business.”
tions of the stricken city.
estimating the tremendous task I authority to cure defects in or de
The thing he seemed to feel that
To the northwest, the Soviet “ re­ ahead.
velop airports. Ten states passed had made a great impression on the
lie f a rm y’’ battled forward. After
To n ullify the German Africa ! acts to acquire land and construct “ austerity.”
one advance this force found 3,000 Corps and to open more the Medi­ facilities and operate them. Some
“ Take the austerity luncheons and
German troops dead and dying in terranean sea lanes is a big job
states built flight strips beside high­
trenches and dugouts. In one in­ But it appeared that the British at­ ways from unclaimed aviation tax dinners—that is what they are
called,” he said.
“ I invited an
habited locality 600 Rumanians were tack had been well prepared and refund money. All this shows how American Big Shot to luqph. I gave
killed and many captured.
-because they help develop
long planned. It had been made aviation was becoming a part of the him the menu. He said: TU take
Germany’s final, all-out drive for possible only because huge quanti­ national political consciousness.
proper growth, strong bones and
a dozen oysters.’ ‘AU right,’ I told
the city of Stalingrad itself was just ties of supplies had been poured into
sound teeth! Scott’s Emulsion ia
During this time one of the prob­ him, ‘that w ill amount to three shill­
p art of the news from Russia, how­ Egypt from America. These came lems of the air that few people, ings and w ill leave you sixpence,
rich in natural A and D Vita­
ever, for in the Mozdok area of the through by way of the big U. S. base even those who constantly use air which is enough for a cup of coffee.’ ”
mins*—and so good-tasting. Also,
Caucasus the Nazi advance had been* in Eritrea, on the Red sea.
4 times easier to digest than
travel, realize, increased—the tra f­
It seems that you can buy just
slowed to a standstill; on the Black
plain cod liver oil! Buy today!
U. S. planes were co-operating fic problem. As one pilot expressed so much, no more. You can spend
sea Russian marines were throwing with the British but no large num­ it to me, speaking of a field where 65 cents for lunch and 85 cents for
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back a strong Nazi drive southeast bers of American ground troops he learned most of his flying; “ Our dinner. You can have your luxuries
of Novorossisk; and on the Voronezh were reported in this action. And it traffic problem there was a lot more but it doesn’t leave anything over.
sector of the upper Don two Ger­ was in the a ir that the United Nations complicated than the one on Times
And instead of a lim it on income
man platoons were slaughtered try ­ first showed their strongest power
square in New York c ity .”
of $25,000 a year which has been
ing to cross a water barrier. (Be­ For once Rommel did not rule the
I t is easy to see why. Consider suggested here; after taxes are de­
lieved to be the Don rive r.)
skies.
that the block system on the ra il­ ducted, $10,000 is a ll that is left.
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