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Tht OREGON STATESMAN, Sofaa, Ortejoa, Friday Honing, Mcrr 22. 1942 m (i)refiOttiitatcsmatt . . a. . e J mmmummm MS "Mo Favor Sways U; No Fear i Shall Au" From First SUtesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. SPIIAGUE, President Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of an Dews dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. Shangri-La, Oregon Doolittle had carried out the air raid from i ' the air base Shangri-La, which was not other ! wise described by Roosevelt. German radio '. - as quoted by Associated Press. - Poetic fancy h regarded as somewhat ef feminate and therefore something to be scorned by the Nietzchean superman of military Ger many. Thus it is scarcely amazing that Berlin missed the point of President Roosevelt's "reve lation" that Shangri-La was the base from which sixteen American bombers took off for Tokyo. Presumably someone, in the Japanese war Office, no doubt a non-military-minded in terpreter, was sufficiently effeminate to recog nize: the allusion, otherwise we would by now .have heard of aerial scouting expeditions over Tibet. . Other disclosures in Washington, DC, at the time Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle was decorat ed for his exploit, can hardly have had any other effect than further mystifications of Tokyo. For it was revealed that the planes were B-25 medium bombers which have a maximum cruising range of some 2000 miles. :- Thus they could not haVe come from Midway; and if they had come from Alaska they could not have had enough motor fuel left to reach China. Yet they were army bombers, which suggests that they didn't take off from car riers. So the Shangri-La mystery is deeper than ever. , , : But in another sense, everybody in Oregon knows the location of Shangri-La. It is not in Tibet, but in our own highly-favored state; per haps at Pendleton though a number of other Oregon communities have fractional claims upon it. " ? ndleton, where every one of the 79 fliers who participated in the raid received all fNjart ol his night training wnn ine sole ion of General Doolittle himself they re going to have a big celebration Saturday night, .With a parade and a program at the city! hall. It's not difficult to realize how Pen dletonians feel. These young fliers lived, many of them in private residences in Pendleton while serving at the eastern Oregon base, and became well acquainted with the city, and its people with them. They were still there last Decem ber when Pearl Harbor was bombed, and many a Pendleton recalls the hope expressed by some Of these fliers that they might be privileged to return the compliment in Tokyothough .they could have had slight notion then that they would be the first to do -so. It appears further however that at least six, not five as originally announced, of the 79 fliers were Oregon boys; Captain David M. Jones of Charleston, on Coos Bay; Lieutenants Robert 8. jClever and Dean Davenport of Portland, Robert G.' Emmens of Medford, Everett W. Holstrom of Eugene; and Corporal Jacob De Shazer of Madras. So you see, Shangri-La is in Oregon or so we will insist until Doomsday, with no apologies to the supermen for our indulgence in poetic fancy, Americans from the president down are so constituted that they can indulge in a bit of romancing and still have the daring and the aggressive spirit and the skill to bomb military objectives in Tokyo. And how. Endless repetition however may create a wrong impression. We estimate that it's just about time someone came to the aid of first aid and pointed out that this joke in all its repetitions with but slight variation, came from the one source. Otherwise we fear that first aid classes, : which as a general rule are supervised by qualified and responsible persons who take care that no untoward incident occurs, will have difficulty in recruiting volunteer "victims." Postal Workers' Pay Back in the roaring 'twenties .one of the publications regularly reaching editors' desks was a bulletin sponsored by and devoted" to the interests of federal employes. It hasn't been .coming in recent years, and one might assume that in these latter days of federal government domination and expansion, Uncle Sam's workers are doing: all right and in no need of a mouth piece to present their case, to the public If that is the general state of affairs it obvi ously doesn't extend to the postal workers, just about the longest-established major group of federal employes. Postal clerks and carriers are still receiving the salaries that were de creed by congress in 1925. Both classes of work ers start at $1700 a year; at the end of five years, they are to get $2100 a year. The postoffice department is efficient and aside from the appointment of postmasters, non political. The civil service examinations for regular postal employes are rigid. It is not surprising that at present,-despite the security of postal work and the retirement pensions for which however the postal workers pay dur ing their period of service the department h having difficulty in filling vacancies. t Though mail clerks and carriers' salaries have not increased their duties have in recent months. Alien registrations, sale of auto use tax: stamps, an increasing number of civil ser vice examinations and the sale of defense stamps and bonds are some of the additional burdens undertaken by the postal employes as a result of the war emergency. Meanwhile the fixed salaries are dwindling in terms of pur chasing power. , Justice suggests popular support for the Sweeney bill now in congress, proposing salary increases for postal employes. Evolution Hits a Land Mine ladio Programs Past Halloa First Aid for First Aid " - . The "gag menn who do the thinking for comic strip artists read the newspapers, but microscopically. It's, said that there are only seven original jokes; that what passes for a new joke is just one of those old ones in a mew dress. News items in a great many cases tfurnish the new dress. . - . Unfortunately for the sake of seeming origi inality, all the gag men read the same 'news items. Not long ago there was an item about some overly-energetic member of a first aid class to whose practice "victim" artificial res piration was applied with such vigor that pres ently he actually ' was a "victim" in need of first aid and indeed, hospitalization. " Gag men pounced upon this item en masse, with the result that a majority, we should esti mate, of the comic strips have since depicted A. jlutt or sorr.3 similar fall guy beinff man handled; by. women practicing first aid. It's v:ry, very funny or it was the first time. - A joke is a joke, harmless if properly labeled. I At all times of the day or night one is likely to encounted automobiles parked along the roads and highways. Seeing them there at night nbw, one is completely in the dark as to Whether the cause may be a flat tire, an empty gas tank or two hearts that beat as one. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON I (Distribution by King Features Syndicate. Inc. Repro duction in whole or In part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, May 21 The worm is turning in this war. Acknowledged superior skill, energy and ingenuity of the United States are beginning to appear in aggressive action. You can see it in the battle of the Coral sea, in the arrival unscathed of a great mass of convoyed troops in Ire land, but particularly in the ex ploit of General Doolittle and the 79 flyers he took to Japan. Their venture will be imper ishably famous, not because of the exceptional military dam age done (we do not yet know how much it was), but because of the incredible circumstance that they carried a bombing attack halfway around the world and escaped without a single plane shot down. The feat was distinctive for three reasons: One The attack was made at mid-day in clear weather. The nazis, British and others generally have been staging their bombing raids at night, to get the protection cover of darkness. Even the Jap raid on Pearl Harbor was a sneak-up attack at dawn. ; Two The 80 Doolit tiers did precision bombing. Each man had a target designated. The customary way of this war so far has been what they call pattern bombing. The bombardiers come in upon targets in formation and drop their eggs together, hoping a few will strike home in the right spots. The Doolittlers picked the right spots, went to them, saw them and split them from 1500 feet, ji Three Everyone else has been looking for alti tude to get away from anti-aircraft fire. They de vised even stratosphere bombers with telescopic bombsights. Gen. Doolittle found the answer they have been looking for, but in the opposite direction. He rendered the anti-aircraft guns of Japan useless by coming in over Japan at an altitude of about 100 feet or less and staying there until the boys found their objectives. Of course that is too low for actual bombing. You are apt to get caught In the explosion you cause. At the objectives, the Doolittlers went up to 1500 feet where they could drop an egg through .the eye of a needle. It is practically impossible for any A-A gun to catch a fast plane at 1500 feet, wholly impossible at 100 feet The range finder on the 3-inch A-A gun in common use, assumes to catch the plane at the point where it should be by the time the shell gets there. This gun is therefore, effective only at 4000 feet where the plane moves slowly across its Vision. ! Everybody has another A-A gun, the 37 mm., for use between 2000 and 4000 feet That is why the Doolittlers went no higher than 1500. At that alti tude their planes, carrying special new devices which are the product of American inventive genius, traveled so fast nothing could move fast enough to catch them except a machine gun. But at their inVasion altitude of 100 feet or less they crossed the horizon of any given machine gun so fast the gunner could heardly have known they were coming before they were gone. ! This explains why no plane was lost why the defense and started figuring up some new ideas : civilian Defense Protec. School. Of Protection, whv thev could think of nothinff 10 BUT Wax Shop. , to do afterward except howl that only' hospitals and schools were bombed. j Can you imagine one of these Doolittlers carrying a bomb all the way to Japan to waste it on a non-military objective at mid-day from 1500 feet? Why, he could shave off the emperor's mustache under those conditions. 1 Now none of these three phases is entirely new to the warring minds of men, but no one ever before put them together In the way Gen. Doo little did. Herein lie all the elements of the story of how and why we will win the war. j We have always had the best fliers and the best planes. It has taken us a while to adapt them to surprise conditions which were presented to us. i We are just beginning to show our stuff, i The secret weapon of the United States is the i same as always. We have Doolittles in our armed 1 AviriAAA And vsa MiitAwtaii KiTivcs tuiu vtu xav. tux ga.irt eMA.ir4M - - t 1 JO Fulton Lewis. 1r. The questioned I column f May 8 suggesUng the Orch!own . Japs would probably next turn back on China io:so News, to knock her out of the war with a pincer drive iroZjvw'orehe.. down the Yangtze and up through Yunnan, has mo Eiia Fitzgerald orchestra. ; now been fully confirmed in dispatches (May 20) . from Chungking. The prospect that China would be in a bad way 'is now being suggested by the Chinese authorities. , ' , . Invasion of Australia now seems more remote than ever. Attack on India seems out of the Jap program entirely,, (Both these remote possibilities then were being widely predicted, you will re member.) ' Of two real prospects suggested in that May . 8 column, one is still alive. A Jap attack on Russia may - be started jointly with the operations in China at any timev But the Jap move to- seize islands east of Aus tralia (New Hebrides, New Caledonia, New Zea land) to cut our line of supplies, has certainly been delayed by the battle of the Coral sea. 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'JO Romance at Helen Trent , 9:45 Our Gal Sunday. lO.-oo-Uf' Can B Beautiful. 10:1 5-Woman In Whit. 1030-Vte and Sad. 10:45 Jan Endicott. Reporter.. - 11 0 Bright Borzob. - - ; 11:13 Aunt Jenny. 1130 W Lov smd Learn. 11:45 The, Goldbergs. ; f 120 Eyes of the World. 12:15 Knox Manning. News. 1230 Joyce Jordan 12.-45 Woman of Couraga. 1 0 Stepmother. ;. 1:15 Exploring Spec. 130 Joey Kaarns Orchestra." - 1:45 Very Truly Yours. 20 News. 2:15 Siesta. S 30 William Winter. New. . 3:45 Scartergood Barnes. 30 Album Leave. 3:15 Hedda Hopper's -. Bollyweod. 330 Fre.D Parker , . iiRO (KSG8 j - ''. .." By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wid World War Analyst for Th Statesman Whatever strategic concept Marshal Timoshenko may have had in hurling his armies against the Kharkov pivot of the nazi southern front on May 8, the es sential fact as the spreading bat tle enters its third week is that he stiU holds the initiative. Hitler has lost another preci ous two weeks time if nothing else. To emphasize that loss, the expanding battle in the Ukraine rolls into its third week Just one month short of the summer sol stice, June 22. That anniver sary has more than astronomi cal meaning for Russia and the world this year. It will be also the beginning of the. second year of the Russo-German war. Hit ler announced his war on Russia at 5:30 a.m., Berlin time, June 22, 1941. Whether Der Fuehrer thought It fitting- to celebrate the longest day of the year by undertaking bis greatest mili tary adventure, or the timing f bis attack was dictated by more practical considers dons is of no consequence. What does matter is that he started too late. Five months later, November 22, the nazi invasion reached its high-water mark with the cap ture of Rostov. Just a week more and the great German re treat had begun at Rostov, a re treat that has been reversed no where in the last six months ex cept on Kerch isthmus. What might have happened had Germany been able to strike six weeks earlier last year can only be imagined. What did hap pen definitely broke the spell of mythical Invincibility Hitler had so artfully woven to be muse much of the world. It also largely timed Japan's "day ot Infamy at Pearl Harbor nine days after the nazi retreat from Rostov started, the first German rearward trek of this war. The Balkan campaign cost Hitler that vital six-week time loss In Russia a year ago. The Timoshenk ffenslve la the Ukraine has already cost him a two-week time loss this year in exploiting and expanding his successor on Kerch tsthums. To what extent It has also sapped his reserves in tanks, planes and men or compelled further prolonged delay In the launching of the vast new of fensive to "annihilate'' Rus sia is yet to be disclosed. The time element is all im portant, vastly more Important than territory lost or won on Kerch isthmus or the. Kharkov front by either side in the last two weeks. And of hardly less importance is the fact that Timo shenko has retained the initia tive although his westward march toward Dneiper river crossing that, in his hands, Would leave the whole German south ern flank in the Ukraine and Crimea up in the air has ap parently halted at Krasnograd. Whether that most dangerous Russian thrust to within thre score miles of the vital bridges across the Dnieper was stopped by admittedly stiffening German resistance or held up by the Rus sian commander for other rea sons is not clear. There has been no intimation of heavy fighting in the Krasnograd area in sev eral days. 'Crime at Casftaway' The Nation's No. 1 Life Insurance Policy TEH PERCENT OF NOUR ZgX INCOME. WPKJjW0" (Xjf UTB?.&CTAJJ.Y0UR WTOEST j rP nW-,. 8 ft Crtesy Ostreit Fi Frva By EDITH BRISTOL Chapter 24 (Continued) "Calm down, sister, take it easy," Landers said. "Nobody said you did." They went over the bedroom for clues, while Sydney and X waited, silent and miserable, un til Dr. Henry and Sheriff Allen arrived. I didn't like the way the city detectives treated Allen, as if he was a hick from the sticks. I didn't think they treated Dr. Henry with much respect, either. But they showed him a little more after he answered their first question. "Did you prescribe this sleep ing medicine for Mrs. Gregg, doctor?" He gave one swift look at the box, its contents and at the label. Then turned to the three detec tives: "I ordered the medicine athe drug store. But my prescrip tion was one at bedtime. This figure one has been changed Into a four. Look at it!" Landers took a magnifying glass from his pocket Under the glass we could see, as plain as day, the heavy marking that had changed the figure 1 into a . - "One tablet is a powerful sedative," said Dr. Henry. "Two would be excessive and three would be dangerous. Four would be fatal. "Someone changed the figure one to four, Dr. Henry had said. Right at that moment the pos sible implications of that state ment did not strike home to me. . That came later on. Ill hurry over the events of . that dreadful day just as fast as I . can and still not leave out something vital to the story. The newspaper?, people came in droves. Sheriff Allen advised me to work with the, San Francisco detectives lust as well as I could , and I tried to follow his advice. There was no Lance here now to absorb the shock and the photographers took pictures of me, sitting and standing, front and side views.. Finally, the long day was over. -Detective Landers told me to stay at the apartment In case he wanted me for-anything Sydney stayed there, too and we stood in the sunset, looking out over the hills of the city. All over the city little twink ling, golden lights appeared in lofty windows. I thought how Ertelle had loved all this. The city with its lights; and its theaters and its laughter. All the life that she wanted and so , much of it she had missed. - . Sydney came and stood beside me at the window and I felt that he was thinking the same thing. "I let her down dread- fully" he said. "She cared so 1 much about my making a ' suc cess on the stage. 1 just played around with amateur ; theaters; it didn't seem worth the effort to really succeed. She wanted . me j to get into . pictures, you know. But who am L anyhow, to make a success of anything?"' j Allot sudden I realized what was wrong with Sydney Loftus behind that air of cynicism and that tone of mockery. That was just his way of covering up his distrust of himself. Estelle had never been frank with her son. She told him his father was dead. But he knew she told little lies and bigger ones, too, some timesand so her statement had never convinced him. Suppose he knew mat Worth Durfee was his father; that there was noth ing to be ashamed of about his birth? Would that help him? It was on the very tip of my tongue to tell him, but I thought better of it and was glad I had, when Sheriff Allen came in from the hall of justice, He put his wide hat on one of the spindly little ivory and gold tables and joined us at the wide window. "Dr. Henry stayed at the hall," he said. "He wants to see the results of the chemical analysis of the tablets in the box and of the microscopic report on the label. But I had some thing: to tell you, Sydney." I started to leave the room, but Allen stopped me. "Needn't run away, Gerry. Sydney won't mind you hearing this." (To be continued) Today's Garden By LILLJE L. MADSEN to transplant her primroses. Says she thinks something is injuring the roots. Answer: Primroses may be di vided just after the flowering season. Take them up and ex amine the roots. If strawberry weavil is at work, dust the roots slightly with rotenone and re plant in fresh soil. Scatter a tea spoonful of the poisoned apple pumaee (comes .under various trade names) around the crown of the plant. This should really have been done a little earlier in the season but is still effec tive. P. R, Woodburn, asks if there are any bantam chickens which will not scratch in the garden and if bantams are a good in sect control. Answer: I am not an authority on bantams but there are some I know from experience which do scratch more than others. Most of them will, I believe, do . some scratching while they are - going about with their little chicks. But they are good scav engers as far as insects are con cerned. I was given one pair of beautiful little bantams with feathers on the legs (I simply do not know the varieties) and because these were rather heavy birds, X was sure they wouldn't scratch. But I was definitely mistaken. Then someone brought me a pair of very slim little birds which looked as if they might scratch everything up in the garden. But wrong again! They are very , speedy and watch the ground like hawks watch a little Cock of chickens. They are the 'best scavengers X have had and have done ; the least' harm scratching only, and then little when they have chicks.