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f I PAGE EIGHT The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Orgoiu Sunday Morning, April 13. 1 341 Sara jevo, World War Powder Keg Awaits Among Its Minarets For Battle Wii ' Influx of Refugee Jews Among Devout Mohammedans Causes Problem; Arabs V .. as Brothers Arouse Sympathy By ALVIN J. STEINKOPF SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia, April 12. (Cable Correspondence of the Associated Press) This Bosnian city, scene of the incident which touched off the World war, sits among its minarets and uneasily watches as the nazi war - It has felt bombs of the Ger mans and as for war it certainly knows all the arguments, pro and con, and the nervous city is un happily disturbed by the conflict ing issues which have torn Eu rope apart. Sarajevo hears gunfire. Out in the picturesque hills which sur round the old town, detachments of the Yugoslav army are waiting for the invaders. There is a black out, the Serbs disturbed by war ring planes which fly over . . . and over. In Center of .Problem. Sarajevo is the geographical center of vastly complicated Bal kan problems. And if this were not enough, the town which looks like a picture in a book of fairy tales is passing through a slow but apparently inevitable revolu tion of character. Spiritually, it is moving out of the Orient and out of the middle ages into modern Europe. The process, of course, is strain on the old social ma3 chinery. In crowds which poke around the glittering merchandise liTthe old bazaar, the Mohammedan women, to be sure, still wear veils. But under at least some of the veils are rouged cheeks and lips touched up with cos metics. In a street called Vojvode Stepe Stepanovic, I was startled when addressed in flawless German by a veiled woman who might have been 20 or 60. In one of the quiet er coffee houses into which I was maneuvered adroitly, she threw back her veil. She was a young woman who had been present the day before when I visited a "mo dern" Mohammedan acquaintance. She had not worn the veil then. She had used a lipstick well and wanted to know all about an Eng lish grammar. "But why," I asked, "do you redden your lips and then hide them with a vH?" "Because, she replied, "I thought I might meet you." j Which seemed to be about as smart an answer as one could hope to hear in any of Europe's so phisticated capitals. There is no dazzling speed about the changes taking place here. There couldn't be in a conserva tive town where muezzins sing out the Koran's call to prayer five times daily from 80 minarets. But the process definitely is under way, and the muezzins themselves talk about it when they climb down from their minarets to re fresh themselves with Turkish coffee out of a kettle of beaten copper.., ...... Not Particularly Proud Sarajevo is not particularly proud of its dubious distinction of being the city which "started the World war." There are no monu ments to Revolutionist Gavrilo Prinzip, the young Serb who shot the Austrian crown prince, Arch duke Franz Ferdinand, and the Archduchess Sophie on that fate ful June 28, 1914. There is nothing distinctive about his grave, which I was told "is visited only by Americans." His brother still lives in a village )r Good heslth doesn't just liappea. It is a result of sound habits and common-sense pre cautions. Don't take health for granted. When you are a bit "under the weather,' go to ; your Doctor for a careful check-up. Follow bis counsel closely. It may prerent much trouble, suffering and expense later then, be sure to bring his prescription here where expert attendon is guaranteed. .7i:lliiH-H Uilleli's Cor. State .& Liberty- machine drives closer. nearby and is politically quite un distinguished. the little Miljacka river still tumbles swiftly through . the town, splashing . over low con crete dams. One of the bridges across the stream has been named Prinzip bridge, and a tablet on the wall of a photo shop there says in the Serb language: "Here was struck the blow" for Free Bosnia. But that is all. There are no holidays on account of Prinzip and on his bridge now loiter men wearing pointed Serbian shoes, all day long filing buck saw's. They are hoping someone will buy a load of wood from the peasants whose ox carts are lined along the Miljacka. If someone buys, maybe the men with the buck saws can get a sawing job worth 20 or 30 dinars (about 45 to 70 cents. Business Is Bad Business is bad, they say, be cause wood costs too much and in wartime Yugoslavia is learning to burn its very soft lignite coal, which smokes terribly and makes the. bottoms of kettles black with smeary soot. My modern Mohammedan friend in his shop at the edge of the bazaar takes fine silver wire and with a skill which seems super-human weaves laces of ex quisite beauty. He takes his length of stiff lace and places it on a strip of silver which he then thrusts into a little clay-lined oven which has been heated with charcoal. At the right moment he pulls it out, and there is the silver and lace fused, with the metal still to be seen as., a delicate tracing. Then he makes bracelets which English, tourists used to buy. "One of our troubles," he says, "comes from the fact that more refugee Jews have come here than can be absorbed easily in this city of 80,000. We have almost 11,000 Jews, a circumstance which leads to mis understandings with the Moham medan popvriation. Then we are called nazi-friendly and even fifth columnists. "But no. We realize that na tional socialism is a German in vention, and we really don't think it is for us. What seems to be sym pathy for German aspirations in the southeast is to be explained entirely on religious grounds. Arabs Our Brothers "The Arabs in Palestine are, as children of Allah, our brothers. In their difficult position they have found strong support in Germany, so it is only natural thafr with this phase of nationaifiooiaKst-aetfvity we'shdula' be sympathetic." Every political breeze makes a little whirlwind in Sarajevo's nar row streets, in which rug mer chants jostle against donkeys de livering milk. There is a lively German ele ment 'Many Jews are negotiating for visas. White Russians, after years of vain hopes,' think some thing may happen in favor of their dim cause. Red Russians are taking new interest now that there Is a Soviet legation in Bel grade. Phone 3118 tft t I ' . Birthplace I:i; pr its trerr . r r -: - v turn -t- - Half Million Payroll Seen In War Work i ASTORIA, April 12-JP)-Pay-rolls born of the national rearma ment program will reach $500, 000 per month in I the lower Co lumbia river area, a survey of contracts disclosed Friday. This region is the locale for the most diversified military prepar edness program in the state. Con tracts calling for $1 1,3 10,659 in ex penditures hereabouts already are approved or executed. The payroll of Fort Stevens, Camp Clatsop and the naval air base at Tongue Point currently reaches $217,500 a month. The Fort Stevens payroll comes to $67,500, that of Camp Clatsop $70,000, while construction work ers at Tongue Point draw about $60,000, and the present navy and navy-supervised personnel draws about $16,500. The latter figures of course will increase sharply when the base is put in commis sion. By the time the Astoria Marine Construction company gets to work on four minesweepers for which it holds a $1,320,000 con tract, about 200 men will b paid close to $40,000 a month. When the navy begins work on pier No. 2 to create its $250, 000 section base, the contract job will bring between $20,000 and $25,000 in pay to workers. Stimulated by the rearmament money, a $120,000 sub-division of 20 new residences has started. The estimated monthly payroll will run around $6400. Reliable estimates are not available on the payroll that will accompany start of work by the Astoria Marine Iron Works on its $1,000,000 contract to build 10 marine engines for merchant Piv It 's 'Expected to be large and there is a chance the firm may get a contract to construct some ships. WPA projects, also connected with defense work, will add to the total particularly if the WPA pays prevailing wages for skilled work. Frontier Surgery Used iii Taking Steel From Eye ' 5 SPOKANE, April 12-)-Me-mories of a day when frontier sur gery favored pushing an Indian arrow on through the flesh in stead of drawing it back through the wound were revived Thursday by Dr. Telford I. Moore when he extracted an eighth-inch long sliver of steel fromBasil Hasting's eyeball. . The steel fragment, flying from a chisel he was using, penetrated r the cornea of Hasting's eye, and lodged in the center of the eyeball. - Dr. Moore," who said the tech nique was unusual but riot new, cut away the tissue holding, th e eyeball, made a small incision at the back of the eye and placed a high-powered magnet against the back of the eyebalL The physician said Hastings, who is 23, would be out of the hospital in 10 days, his eyesight unimpaired. Courts Discover Blood Will Tell Says Prosecutor, PUULMAN, April 12 Pi-Courts j of the' nation are discovering that "blood will ten when the defen dant stands on bis constitutional rights and refuses to give evidence against himself. Prosecutor C. C. Quack enbush of Spokane county informs' northwest law enforce ment men. '- ,r; The prosicutor, speaking, at a session of the Northwest Law En foircement cference, added1 that many courts excluded such .'tests on. grounds Tof improper indenti-t Ccation a n d . handling of blood specimens. - I- 'l'--''t ; "In the negative' sense blood tests are. of vital worth in matern ity, filiation, murder and negli gent homicide cases, he said, i t ."It cannot be proved that blood is I from a cert in Individual," but can be proved definitely! that cer tain blood Is not that of a certain inaiviciuai.". . of First World War .:X::xy: ..: ;:...:;.v: View of ; the city of Sarajevo Burglar Alarm On Poor Box Jails Thief RICHMOND, Cal April 12- -After the poor box in St Mark's church had been robbed several times last year. Father Richard A. O'Donnell rigged it up with a burglar alarm. One night recently the alarm rang and Father O'DonnelL in the nearby pastor house notified police. A police car made a fast run and arrived as a man sprinted out and down the street. He was captured and booked as Fred Allen Wilson, 23, of Emeryville and charged with petty theft although the burglar alarm interrupted the burglary attempt and nothing was taken. Police Captain E. Bengley said he learned from Oakland police the suspect had just been re leased; from the Oakland jail for pilfering a poor box at another church. Army Stymies rTeetli-Pulling Draft Dodgers BALTIMORE, April 12-(JF)-From now on the dental draft dodgers will have to chew army steaks whether they like them or not and without those teeth they discarded. Lieut. Col. Amos R. Koontz, state medical director for the draft, said today that the DDD's are out of luck. What they did, after being ex amined and rated physically fit for service, Col. Koontz explained, was to go to a dentist and have just enough teeth pulled to dis qualify them by the army's stan dards, . One man, whp had - more" than i gn 'teeth, when examined by his draft board physician, turned up at the army induction station without a single tooth in his upper jaw. There was nothing the army could do but turn him down. Now, Lieut Col. Henry C. Stan wood, selective service executive for Maryland, ha j received word from Washington that the physi cal requirements in such cases have ; been waived by the war de partment .The effect .of .the new regulation is that anyone who had sufficient teeth when examined and selected for., service will get a uniform whether he shows up at the induc tion station with all -his teeth or one. - - --.- The war department, said Col.' Stan wood, simply, put teeth into the law. ' , ' ' ' ' Circus Fat Lady Operation Bust t As Bed Breaks - TAMPA, Fla Aprfl 12-H(p)-The operation , to remove .some -100 of the 80Q pounds of Mrs. Ruth-' Poli tico, jovial carnival fat lady, has been- postponed the delay 'being an engineering rather than a sur gical problem. ... -- The standard hospital bed into which she attempted to climb at lampa Municipal hospital a few minutes before an aesthetic was to oe administered coUapsed, and mere sne sat, helpless but unhurt. Doctors arrived quickly, how ever, and after examination said her; pulse, had increased to the point where they . thought it best to caU the whole thing off for the time being." "We might try again soon," said Mrs. Ppntico, resting in her own bed which had been moved in. It has four by four cross pieces and springs that would float a truck. 5. . "I don't know how-much the doctor is going to take away," she said, "but it probably win be from my; legs and possibly- my abdo men.", i f - , ; .. 0nce she went, on a reducing diet, she said, but gained ' nine pounds in four days 'and gave it up.'- . -. - - ;; , Thieves Steal Evidence - FOREST CITY. Ark, ADrfl 12 -P)-Francis county sheriffs dep uties recently recovered a quan tity of stolen merchandise .'Tn-M t In the sheriff a Cceasevidence Now, theyll 'have to do it over i . Thieves ; broke into. the. office stole the, once-stolen goods. ( v. - V Under Fire ""3 i 1 - . .5 I ;!:JivX;:-.;::::::";X-: S ?: ; : '::. Arsenic Seen As Valuable Medicine ST. LOUIS, " April ; 2-J-k chemistry professor has reported the problems of some diseases may yet find an answer in arsenic. This poison might be made to seek out germs and save lives it could easily destroy. Prof. Norman J. Harror of Franklin (Ind.) col lege disclosed in a paper before the annual convention of the American Chemical society. "Arsenic can be a valuable med icine if one knows how to use it," he said, "but it. is entirely too risky a poison for inexperienced hands to meddle with in any- form whatever." It has been used in minute amounts in combating syphilis, anemias and certain kinds of wasting diseases. "It is believed the fundamental benefits of arsenic compounds lie in its influence on nutritive func tions and in a stimulation of the blood-making processes," Prof. Harrar explained, "As a result, the metapolism rate may be low ered, the body weight increased, the respiration facilitated, and complexion freshened." Once it is understood and pro perly directed, Prof. Harrar con cluded, arsenic "can become an instrument of superhuman power." is SPEMG IT STARTS TODAY GOME IN TODAY! TXTTE, YOUR. 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A circus fat lady la Tampa, Fla started, reducing because she weighed too much even to be a circus fat lady (809 lbs.) ... A Im Angeles; holdup man robbed a trolley notormaa of $10 and then Remanded a transfer. . . and a Ft. Custer, Mich soldier gave the" govern ment back $10, explaining he thought he'd been eating more than his share. j . .... An Asheville, Jf. C, judge ruled that an appl4' could be a deadly, weapon (page Eve!) . . . a Miami - judge sentenced - two crap shooters to a minute in jalL i -4 and when a ferry- gate keeper slammed the barrier in a New York commuter's face, the commuter went to a bakery, bought t lemon pie, and slammed It In thej gatekeeper's : face. . . I A Chicago- police station, robbed, twice, installed a burg lar alarm. . . residents of Ox ford ville. Wis., noted approval of the sale of liquor but re fused to sanction beer. . . and when a Wilson, N.C. political candidate went to jvote for him self, he discovered that he's forgotten to register. . . A citizen of Birmingham, Ala., bawled out the police for dumping some seized liquor where his goat rot hold of it and contracted a hangover. . . on April Fool's day.a Chicago man found a pocketbook with $250 in it . . and ian Olyphant, Pa:, policeman, ifter quiting the force In a huff, continued pounding a beai explaining that he wanted toj wear out his uniform. j And an Augusta, Ga., pencil salesman succeeded in train ing a duck to take the pencils to the customers and bring the money back. j WE WANT EVERYBODY IN i I - ' -zivw .. ; .... . ., value opportunitvfor raXueoppa is good, very good. And now we're out to break all previous records!' - - Beautiful New Cars You will see the big new Plymouth can at fheir brilliant best for 1941; Extra demonstrator for this event We want Tk,i TT. I - "Value in the low-price field, t ' 'Come; and see us ) ' - -j r. Flight Surgeons, "Doctors of Serve US Armv Kemg Tired . ' -: 3- i ... ; ' -. r - ' . ... . , Science of Aviation Mo"e Important as Thousands Try - I . for jWings in NatiohaLDefense v " ' RANDOLPH FIELD, Texi, April 1 2-WTThe science of avia tion medicine is terminating the flying careers of some old-timers in the army air corps to improve safety records aloft.' . Flight surgeons can tell when a man has passed his peak, and his "reaction tune" has length ened dangerously. ' ' ' " ; The flight surgeon stays in - the background, but he. has two im portant jobs: ; : : - ; - First, .to protect every pilot's life. 1 - , ' . Second, to protect the govern ment's tremendous- cash invest ment iri each man" for 'it costs $40,000 . to . complete . the training of a single flyer. Young Men Dot Skies . Today, I goggled, wind-burned young men dot the -Texas and the nation's i skies by hundreds, yes thousands. Around 400 enroll at this "West Point of the Air" every five weeks. , Some ! of them die trying to learn to be aviators, but most of them live to be commissioned of ficers. ' : To the flight surgeon, - as- . signed to the job of preventing crashes, only two causes are " listed lor what is called in mili tary parlance "termination of a flyer's usefulness" and what is' more generaUy known as death or ! disabling . .' Injury. These causes are: . 1. Failure of engine or plane. 2. Failure of pilot. Only eight per cent of flyers are lost because of the shortcom ings of: aircraft, the air corps figures, while "the usefulness" of 92 per icent is "terminated" by faulty judgment on the part of the pilot. Whether he be student or Veteran. Thinks Ways and Means Kindly Lt. Col. Fabian L. Scott, commandant- of the school of aviation: medicine at -Randolph field, is one of the officers in charge of thinking up ways and means to reduce that 92 per" cent primarily by seeing that men with innate flying ability are selected: for training, and that ex perienced officers-no longer phys ically fit-are taken off -flying. Bitter experience taught the air corps that after years of TOWT$ m EVENT! vbu. On busings -i2 . ' our ".your new car at the nowl Go through v' - i '-7' ' "V- l 1 in Pilots Safe ": '' - : ' - y "V- .; " - Medicine Grows continuous flying, the flier be gins to show' signs of . deter ioration, particularly in middle , age. - The - economical thing to do, at this point, is to relieve nun temporarily trom active flying, flight surgeons decided. . Upon graduation, ' the flight surgeon - is eligible to examine candidates for flying officers and supervise the rigid physical -examinations they must pass twice a year to remain in ithe air. ' The flight surgeon . lives in close touch with his pilots; is trained to diagnose the occupa tional ills which result from flying, so be knows when to in? stitate periods of rest, recrea tion and temporary excuse from . duty. ' . . - : Unlike most . physicians, he deals constantly with men who wish to conceal all physical dif ficulties because they fear they win be grounded. 1 Personality, experience and diagnostic ability are required of these doctors of the air. SALT LAKE CITY, April 12 P Madge Howe of the Univer sity of Utah, might weU be the envy of any woman. For Madge has a "date," four times a week with six lieutenant colonels; 20 majors; 43 captains, and 192 first and second lieuten ants and they can't speak till they're spoken to. It all began when flying of ficers at Fort Douglas received an order that "henceforth all air corps officers must be able to converse inteUigibly in the Span ish language. 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