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From First SUtesman, March 28, 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO.
CHARLES A. SPIIAGUE, President
Member of The Associated Press
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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
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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. However,
no one knows for how long.
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,The Russia fighting Is involved on both sides
la a complicated system of counter-attacks which
.are "difficult to measure from day to day. The
Germans started at Kerch; the Russians moved at
Kharwov to relieve Kerch; the Germans counter-attacked
south of Kharkov to relieve Kharkov.
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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.
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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.