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Newspaper Page TextPage 6 Eugene Register-Guard, Wednesday, June 21, 1944. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER iPubllthed Every Cvenltuj ana Sunday) EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Alton 1. Baker BIANAGINO EDITOR .. WllUp M. Tuml NEWS SERVICE a .ui Press. Unite Press MEMBER Audit Bureau of Circulation Entered at the Poet Office at Cujene. Oregon, is lecond elais matter. Tba Redtler-Ouard'a poller la the complete and Ira partial publication In He news oases or all news and state menu on newe. On thle page the editors or The Regular Guard offer their opinions on events of the daj and mitten of Importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful In tba development of oonrtructlve community policy. BRITAIN PRODUCES A-l CHUMP It might make for friendly feeling be tween nations to have an annual competi tion to nominate the "Chump of the Year," something after the fashion in which the Order of the Buggy Ride meets from time to time to recognize what Charioteer C. E. Mc Lean calls "Unusual Extinction." This year's international honors (so long held by fa mous Americans) would probably go to Britain's Production Minister Oliver Lyttle ton for his remark that: . "The United States provoked Japan to war." Of course, that crack brought our Secre tary Hull boiling out of his corner with some appropriate Tennessee epithets, and Mr. Lyttleton has hastened to explain that he did not mean his words to mean what they sounded like to other people. He was mere ly trying to say that the United States had begun to arm, it had showed its sympathy for Britain and those who were fighting against the Axis, but "this would not have provoked Japan IF Japan had been peace minded." Possibly it could be said with some truth that we "provoked Japan," if by that you. -mean that we invited attack, by being com pletely indifferent to the menace of their aggression in Asia and their mounting war power. Perhaps it might be said that we "provoked" them in the sense that a fly on a bald man's dome is an "irresistible temp tation" to the practical joker. Why, even as late as July 25, 1941, our Mr. Roosevelt was , explaining to his neighbors in Hyde Park why we should go on sending the little yel low brothers oil and- scrap, in the hope of gentling their ambitions. Mr. Hull feels the indignity more than most men because he was entertaining Messrs Kurusu and Nomura in Washington at the very hour when Pearl Harbor had begun to happen. And there is a great deal we do not know about Pearl Harbor and may never know, if Kimmel and Short are not brought td trial and given their day in court. I Our British cousin did not mean what he said unkindly, we feel sure, but these are veVy sensitive times, and hard feelings should be averted by awarding Hon. Lyttle ton the "blue ribbon" as "Chump of the Year." I SAIPAN MAY BE "DECISIVE" I Many years ago a man named Crissey compiled a book:in which he described "Fif teen Decisive Battles of The World" (from Tnermopolae to Waterloo and Gettysburg). In modern war, the struggle is seldom decid ed by any single battle or feat of strategy. In the present war, it may be contended that history was altered when Hitler blund ered into Russia, or when Japan made the dastardly assault on Pearl Harbor, or when Montgomery swept Rommel out of Africa, or! when we seized naval control of the Pa cific with Midway. The successful invasion of, Normandy may not end the war in Europe but it is a fine start on the last chapter. So is our dramatic attack on Saipan which may give us the key to the most vital of the Japanese outer defences in the Marianas (next door to Guam which we neglected). Victory at Saipan will not end the war in the Pacific, but it will hasten victory great ly because, it carries a threat which the Japanese cannot ignore a bomber base within easy shuttle distance of the main ii dustrial centers in Japan, a naval base from which we can cut their island supply lines completely. The attack on Saipan has already smoked out a large section of Japanese air force, and it may bring the Japanese '"Grand Fleet" out of its hiding. That apparently is what Nim itz wants, but even if the Japs do not meet this challenge fully, even if they decide to sacrifice the Marianas, they will be in deep trouble. ! It is interesting to note that the Japanese filially have taken Changsha, the key point on the Canton-Hankow rail route through the interior of China. This is interpreted by many observers as their answer to our steady advance through the Pacific. Their aim will be to try to force China out of the war and to develop this interior route to the Malay and Dutch India regions which they have plundered. But it may take them a long time to exploit this gain. Meantime spectacular victory at Saipan may do much to offset our "loss of face" in China, especially if we move rapidly to ex ploit our gain by bombing Japan to a blis ter. It may .be that the bold move against Saipan was conceived to offset the Jap gains In China. This small Island in mid-Pacific Is little more than a dot on the map, but it may be come an historic name. Once again we see a demonstration of the Importance of air and sea power, integrated with armies, But if you recall where we stood right a'fter Pearl Harbor, -you can understand that perhaps the real decision lay with PRODUCTION POWER. ' . Or possibly the "decisive factor" lies in the spirit of the American people, a peace loving people who did not want any war, but had the courage for it when it came. Our greatest heritage from the pioneers is re sourcefulness. Radio Tokyo complains that we do not fight this war according .to con ventional patterns. We have been using men and machines in ways not laid down in the texts on war which the Japanese have stud ied so carefully. SSsssssssssss! So sorry!- Little yellow men should not aspire to teach inventors of the game. ' SOCIETY. WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS, By MARIAN IOWBY WASHINGTON LETTER By PETER EDSON (Register-Guard Washington Correspondent) COMING; GUNS THAT 'THINK' For a preview of the most advanced forces of destruction that will be loosed in World War III, or even in World War II if it lasts long enough, tests of new weapons and new explosives now being made at the U. S. Naval Proving Ground, Dahl gren, Va., and at the big Naval Air Station, Patux cnt, Md., give the best picture. A two-day inspec tion of these bases, arranged by Navy Secretary James Forrestal for a small group of newspaper correspondents, reveals the extent to which naval warfare at best has become a war of gadgets. Begin right with the explosives going into shells, bombs and depth charges. The TNT of the last war was thought to be the ultimate as a force of destruction, but it has already been surpassed. It is still a highly restricted subject for discussion. The British have permitted some mention of their "R. D. X." explosive, but the Americans have some thing that is a much more stable equivalent. What it will do, of course, is increase the range, velocity and destructiver.ess of nearly every type of thing that can be thrown at an enemy. It is only one of the new explosives under development. Tests are being made with new powders that are not only smokeless, but conceal the flash at the muzzle when big guns are fired. This is a highly important development. In night action, the tell tale flash of a main battery is the worst give-away of a ship's position. Rockets Come in Various Sizes and Shapes Rockets, which have caught the public fancy to such an amazing degree, are now in production and in use in a variety of shapes and sizes and from special purpose mounts. Recent Navy com muniques have revealed the use of rocket barrages fired from landing craft in the southwest Pacific, and In the sinking of a Nazi submarine in the At lantic by planes firing rockets. Against submarines, the rocket projectile is of exceptional advantage in that the rocket gives the shell head continued driving power under water. Having all the destructive force of three and five inch shells, rockets can be fired without recoil. Mounting a five-inch gun on an airplane is today unthinkable. Rockets on planes, however, can be fired in pairs or in salvo to give from two to 10 times as much fire-power as could be obtained from a single five-int-h gun, and without the extra weight or strain. Adding more guns and more rockets to aircraft and surface vessels is only one of the means of in creasing the firepower which each plane and ship can throw against an enemy. Every effort is being made to increase efficiency and size of each weapon. Problems of Faster Firing Being Solved The normal rate of fire of a .50-caliber machine gun. for instance, is 750 rounds a minute. That is 12 rounds a second, but even so, aircraft traveling 30 miles an hour, five miles a minute, 400 feet a second, stand a good chance of missing each other in the intervals of one shot for every 30 feet or more of travel. The problem, then, is one of mak ing the machine guns fire faster and it is being solved. The 20-mm. cannon likewise seems destined to be stepped up in efficiency first by twin mounting, second by installation as a packaged gun to be hung from the wing of a plane. This is only the beginning of what will probably be an era of automatic weapons of sizes that used to be considered too big for destroyers, for the tendency is to make every weapon bigger, better, faster. Five hundred-pound bombs are still effec tive, but the ratio of 4000-pound bombs goes up and up and up. Advances in control of all these new weapons have kept pace with improvements in the weapons themselves. Here is where the real gad getiy comes into play. There are bombsights and computing gyroscopic gunsights which do things the original Norden and Sperry models cannot do complex thinking machines which solve mathema tical problems faster than mechanical gunnery de vices can execute the answers. Details about these fantastic things will probably not be revealed until after the war. OLIVE BARRF.IfS OBSERVATIONS GULLION-VICARV WEDDING IN OKLAHOMA Announcement has been made by Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Vicary of the marriage of their daughter, Miss Ardelle Vicary, to Pvt. Gor don Wright Gullion, son of Mrs. Wright Gullion and of Dr. O. R. Gullion of Eugene. The wedding was an event of June 3 at Camp Gruber chapel, Oklahoma, at two o'clock in the afternoon. j Mrs. Gullion went east for her I son's wedding. The couple will be at home at Muskogee, Okla., while Pvt. Gul lion is at Camp Gruber. He is In the medical corps of the army. Both are former students of the University of Oregon. IOTA SIGMA MEMBERS NAME NOMINATING GROUP Mrs. Robert Rheinsburg, Mrs. Edgar Dugan, and Mrs. Jeppie Jensen were named as a nom inating committee for Iota Sigma, which met Monday afternoon for an early dessert at the home of Mrs. Floyd Travis. Mrs. L. L. Dally led devotions, preceding the business meeting. Mrs. Erma Ward, who was assisting hostess, also presented a book review. Mem . ber sewed for the Red Cross dur I ing the session. ' It was decided to nom no meeting in jury, dui all members will attend the meet ing of the Federation of Women's clubs to be held next month. A special guest was Rev. Mamie Bisconer of North Bend. . PLAN SALES Plans for special sales to be held during the convention in July ! were made by the graduate re- gents of the Women of the Moose, meeting Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Allie Clarke. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Joe Bartlett. SOCIAL EVENT Illahee Division held a social meeting Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. B. F. Lohr, Mrs. C. O. Homer assisting the hostess. Following dessert, cards ' were played, and honors went to Mrs. R. M. Gordon and Mrs. H. F. Og den. i IMO RUYLE CIRCLE Imo Ruyle Missionary circle of First Baptist church met Tuesday evening at the church parlors, with members of Alpha Missionary cir cle as guests. A play, "The Friend ly Heart," was presented by Mrs. Henry Peck, Mrs. Roy Shaffer, Mrs. Leo Deffenbacher and Miss Leola Deffenbacher. Miss Janet Wilcox sang a solo. Refreshments were served by the hostess com mittee, Mrs. O. G. Sullivan, Mrs Herschel Davis, Mrs. D. D. Wolfe and Mrs. Roy Hedgecoke. MISS DURHAM NEW ENLISTEE IN WACS Miss Olive Durham, - 303 Rose avenue, Eugene, is the newest re cruit from Eugene in the Wacs. She qualified for the air Wacs as a link training Instructor and leaves for Fort Des Moines July 9 for training. Miss Durham Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Durham of Eugene. She attended local schools and the aeronautical school at Pittsburg, Pa. Her father is a vet eran of World war I. Her brother-in-law is Cpl. Marion Lundrus tun, who is In the service stationed at Tampa, Florida. 75 GIRLS ATTENDING ;' SCOUT DAY CAMP Girl Scouts attending Eugene day camp at Hendricks park may reach the park by taking either University .or Falrmount bus which leaves Tenth and Willam ette streets at nine forty-five o'clock each morning. More than 75 Girl Scouts from the Eugene area are attending this camp which is under the supervi sion of Miss Katherine Jones. The day camp will operate Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of each week until June 29. Adult counselors direct all day, camp activities,' according to Mrs. Arthur W. Priaulx. Girl Scout commissioner for Eugene. "We have a full attendance and are offering our Girl Scouts folk dancing, singing, exploration trips, hiking, first aid, campcraft, handi craft, dramatics, camp cooking and overnight camping," Mrs. Priaulx pointed out. Day campers should reach camp at ten o'clock each morning, Mrs. Priaulx stated, if they take the University Loop or Fairmont bus and get off at Nineteenth and Fairmont. ., RETURNS FROM TRIP Mrs. Grace Hampton returned Wednesday morning from a trip to Nevada and California. She visited relatives at Round Moun tain, Nev., also at Hawthorne, Nev., and later vjsited in Death Valley and other California points. WOMEN OF MOOSE Mrs. W. I. Lane will be chair- man of the nrooram at t . meet ing of the Women of the Moose Clue To Amelia Earhart Fate To Be Sought On Saipan Isle SATURDAY NIGHT IN SEATTLE I told Ivan, the elevator boy at the hotel where I'm staying while here in Seattle, that 1 was going down town. It was Saturday night and I wanted to see some of the thinRs I'd heard happened in a big city on Saturday night. Not that 1 wanted men to carve each other with knives or use the street as a shooting gallery, but just the same, if they were bound to carve and shoot, well I'd like to be there when it happened. It would give me something to tell the folks about at the Pumpkin Rollers' Dall when 1 got back home. "Oh, Ma'am." exclaimed the deferential Ivan, "You'd best stay right here in the hotel. You might get as far as the Skidroad; and no one is safe on the SkidVoad on Saturday night." There was real concern in his voice. "Don't you worry about mc. Sonny," I as sured him. "I'm safe anywhere. Not from choice but necessity." For I've found by experience that gray hair and curves in the wrong places arc great er protection than a police escort. So I went down town but never got as far as the colorful and blood-shedding skidrnnd. There was too much human Interest stuff on 4th Avenue. Humanity swept through the streets in a steady torrent with at least four men to every woman; and nt least four service men for evcrv civilian, Also there was an MP and SP for every four soldiers and sailors. I'm told that Seattle' Is the most thoroughly policed city in the United States. I found no disorder and certainly saw no carving or shooting. Yet I was enculfed with pity. Pity for the thousands of young things so hungrily searching for a good time. 1 could see the girls were think ing. "Time is short! The boys mav be gone to morrow!" And the boys. "Time is sliort! Tonight may be the last time I'll ever sec a girl!" So there was carving and shooting after all. Time was steadily hewing awav the hours. Time relentlessly sniped off the minutes. And may God forgive us if we sit In Judgment on these youngsters. The things they do are done in desperation: are frantic graspings at the straws of happiness In this mad flood of life we've turned loose on them. The thing for us to do is to get down on our knees and pray for our own immortal souls, making sacred vow that THIS MUST NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN! By RICHARD W. iOHNSTON Aboard Expeditionary Force Flagship Approaching Saipan (Delayed) U.R Lt. Cmdr. Rich ard B. Black, who received the last message heard from Amelia Earhart before her disappearance in a flight over the Pacific nearly seven years ago, is alert to the possibility that Saipan may prove a clue to the mystery of her fate. Though it lies hundreds of miles to the west of Howland island, in whose vicinity Miss Earhart was, flying when she was heard from last, Saipan nevertheless has the largest static population of Japanese colonists of the is lands attacked by American forces. If her fate was anything but death in the vast Pacific, the Sai panese may know the story. The seventh anniversary of her last flight east from Lae, New Guinea, toward tiny Howland is land is only a few weeks away. On July 2. 1837, at 8:30 a.m. she sent this message: "We are on line of position 157-337: I will repeat this on 6210 kilocycles. Wait." She never was heard from again. The man who received that last message is aboard this ship. He is convinced that Miss Earhart j and her navigator. Fred Noonan, landed in the ocean near How- land island and that their plane sank without a trace. But he doesn't know. Then an employe of the interior i department. Black was ordered j to prepare a landing field at How- I land island, 600 miles east of Tarawa, to receive her plane. The 1 night before her takeoff. Black radioed u warning that a storm front had intervened and urged a postponement. Miss Earhart was anxious to avoid delay. She took off from New Guinea. Black crouched by the radio on Howland all through the long night of July 1 and 2. Every half hour Miss Earhart reported to him. When dawn streaked the sky in the east, his crew began watching for her plane. It never appeared. Units of the United States fleet participated in a search which approached but did not Invade waters surrounding the mandated islands. No trace, no wreckage ever was found. The mystery of Amelia Ear hart faded, but It was not forgot ten. Dick Black Is not hopeful, but he Is receptive as our ship nears Saipan. RAINBOWS TO SELL BONDS, GIVE CORSAGES "Gardenia day" for the fifth war bond drive In Lane county will be observed all day Saturday with the Order of Rainbow Girls as sponsor for this activity. The Rainbows will be in all the lamer stores of the business dis trict to sell bonds and with the purchase of each bond will pre sent the purchaser with a gardenia corsage. Chase Gardens have lined up the gardenias for the occasion. Miss Janet Tugman as worthy adviser heads the Rainbow work ers, and among those assisting are Misses Mary Roome, Beverly Wolff, Elaine Fredrickson, Gerry Ann Gaylord, Jane Carlyle, Bev erly Clark, Helen Huestis, Virginia Bailey, and Mar Keen. The girls will start their activ ity at ten o'clock Saturday morn ing and will sell the bonds throughout the day. Similar "gardenia days" In other cities have proved real boosts in the sale of bonds, and the Lane county fifth war loan drive com mittee is featuring the day here, too. e AUXILIARY MEETING Auxiliary to the Railway Clerks met Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. George Ash, for an evening at, cBrds. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Frank Bowers. Veterans Seeking Rooms in Armory Action was taken by the com manders' council of the Eugene veterans' organizations Tuesday night on the matter of obtaining rooms in the Eugene armory as meeting places for the several vet eran groups. Prior, to the time this country entered the war most of these organizations held their regular meetings there but were compelled to seek tther places when the army and the defense council took over the building. Plans have been announced to transform the building into a civic center, with the remodeling of some of the rooms to suit various purposes included. tor's mW ing oi we women of the Moose 'r 01 b'h the. m,,, . 7 Friday evening at the hall, when 2l? 7 wi" Ktll fi ' f ev Police Grab Those Walking Through Light "Walking through" a traffic light joined jaywalking this week as a traffic offense, enforced by more than law only, as city police cracked down on those who failed to wait until the red light turned to green. More than a dozen pedestrians, already this week, have been fined $1 each for falling to observe traf fic lights, and jaywalkers also con tinued to be picked up by Chief Bergman's staff. Shoppers Again Urged To Bring Containers Shoppers are urged again by William Lush, chairman of the retail merchant's division of the Eugene chamber of commerce, 'to brings shopping bags and to take as many unwrapped packages at possible in order to help relieve the paper shortage. 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