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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1941)
Illinois Valley News, Thursday, August 21, 1941 Page Two Vi here New U. S. Base Is Taking Shape Two-Thirds Loaf “How many people work in the government office?” “About one-third of them. DRESSING THE PAPERS OF Washington. D. C. PI RK I I FAR EAST POKER GAME For perspective on the present South Pacific tug-of-war between Dear Ma — Well, I gess maybe 1 will be tossed Japan and Britain, it is well to re member that for years Thailand, into the guard house again or shot or put peeling then known as Siam, was a pawn more potatus in the power game of the bigger < and I don’t know nations of the Pacific. witch is worser) In this game the United States I got one of them had a hand For years. American Maude looks good enough to eat.” post cards from financial advisers have been at “Be careful! They say she em the Sen. Wheeler tached to the Thailand throne, one ploys artificial coloring matter.” First Committee of them having been Francis Sayre, and what I read son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson, now high commissioner of the Philip in the newspapers about all the fuss being made about it makes me aw- pines. He wooed Thailand on many oc ful nervous. Only ' some good luck casions, including the ornate recep will save me. I wrote a note to tion given the former king of Siam, the President like the Senator asked who as "Supreme Arbiter of the me to saying I was against getting Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother into the European war. (I did not of the Moon. Half Brother of the say positively though.) And I ex Sun and Keeper of the Twenty-four plained while I was against it I Golden Umbrellas,” came to Wash wood go peacefully if ordered. BiTfEf. ington in the days of Herbert PRINTII'd But even this was wrong and only Hoover and was regally entertained. In the lower left is a view of part of the construction work on the V. 8. base site at the British island of Trin THROUGH THE The British were even more in a letter I just got from Nellie Pe idad, where the government is spending millions to make more secure the approaches to the Panama canal. tersen keeps me from a nervus USE OF terested in the Siamese British Above is shown Major StaiTord, commander of the marines at Trinidad, shaking hands with Commander St. Type advisers for a time ran the king breakdown It seems I wrote a let George Lindsay of Britain's royal navy. Kight: American ships unloading cargoes of material at Port of Spain. dom's government, trained its ter to Nellie the same time I wrote discovered sy army, supplied the one or two ships to Washington, and by mistake I JOHANN put the letter about not getting Into for its navy. 6UTEN0ER6 But half a dozen years ago the the war in Nellie's envelope and IM 1454. Japanese began preaching the doc sent to Mr. Roosevelt the letter I trine of Asia for the yellow man, | meant for Nellie. and Siam for the Siamese That was how tile name came to be This wood seem a good break I changed to Thailand, a nationalistic gess but I am not two sure becuz token of home rule. how will the President know? The Reason for Japan's interest in this letter he got just began “My Darl THÉ 5ÉTT« WAy TO TREAT small country was not nationalism, ing Nellie” and what will he think CONSTIPATION DUE TO LACK C- but the fact that a slender finger of a private calling his superior a PROPER "BULK" IN THE PIET 15 Ï0 of land, about as wide as the Isth name like that? In the very first CORRECT THE CAUSE OF THE mus of Panama, called the Isthmus sentence of the letter witch he has TROUBLE WITH A DELICIOUS of Kra. is controlled by Thailand A it says “Remember all your prom , CEREAL, KELLOGG'S . canal through this isthmus, connect ises to me my dear, and what is ALL-BRAN... EAT I KLtiyrf ing the Indian ocean and the Gulf to keep him from thinking I am of Siam, would give a new short talking about the very promises route from the Pacific to India, ren mentioned on that Wheeler post der Singapore impotent, and cut card? He will not know I am just three days from the trip between talking about the promises Nellie Petersen made to me about not Indo-China and Burma. with Sergeant Mooney no Such a canal would leave Singa- dancing 1 Establish a Standard and about marrying me if I pore’s giant guns and expensive more 1 Let us raise a standard to which get through kitchen police du naval bases guarding an out-of-date ever 1 the wise and honest can repair; sea highway, almost as unimpor- ties. 1 • • • the rest is in the hands of God.— tant as the Straits of Magellan after George Washington. I think that the letter witch I the Panama canal was built. sent to President Roosevelt by mis That is one reason the British are j take also says I am holding him ready to fight to keep the Japanese to every promise he made last year out of Thailand witch means Nellie's promises about what Doctors do for it • • Doctors know that gai trapped in the stomach or always being true to me and not gullet may act like a hair-trigger on the heart. They BRITISH INVASION PLANS set gas free with the fastest-acting medicines known the President’s campaign promises — the fastest net like the medicines in Bell-ana First British plan for an invasion i Tablets Try Bell-ana today, if the FIRST DOSE but he will not know this I am doesn’t prove Bell -ans better, return bottle to us and of the continent (since the start of afraid. I think I closed this letter receive DOUBLE money back. 25c. at all drug stores. the Russian-Nazi conflict) was a with a line like “I am very serious the present World war is an experimental ground for many things that “were never done before.” Typical landing tn Holland This, it was fig about tins, honey bunch, and if you Life a Gift ured, would get sympathetic support go back on your word and try to of the nc ver-nevers was the fetish that men and women could not work or fight together in the same regiment, Whatever a man has, is in real from the Dutch; would create a sec two-time me in any way I will take At an artillery practice camp in England these taboos are ousted. Left, we see men and women of the battery ity only a gift.—Wieland. ond front requiring Hitler to divert no nonsense." You can see what a parading together, and on the right they are receiving gun instruction together. The test is successful. part of his troops and airplanes fix I am in, ma Every time 1 from the Russian front. see an officer coming my way I The original British idea was to think General Marshall has sent for have the United States co operate in me. a landing force. This, however, I am in bad with Nellie two on scarcely got beyond the informal Cranky? Restless? suggestion stage. It was immedi account of she does not know what Can't sleep? Tire ■ easily? Because of to make of the ately and emphatically vetoed, first, distress of monthly for political reasons, second, be letter witch she functional disturbances? Then try cause Roosevelt did not have the got from me and Lydia E. 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Nellie I Every time I have front has contemplated any Amer have told her I was every inch a ican participation. fighting man and that war held no The second idea discussed was a terrors for me, no matter whether Doing of Revenge British attempt through Spain and it was on home grounds or where, Revenge converts a little right Portugal This alsu scarcely got so I look pretty foolish to her writ Into a great wrong. beyond the discui ssion stage, because ing a letter to the President that it was figured, first, that the Ger- man army probably could take over Spain by the time British troop be- gan to land; second, that even i if Come what may. ma. I am in a M foothold could be obtained. a march across the Pyrenees to tough spot and I feel two worried to write more now except to close say France would be too difficult ing I love you like always The only part which Ute United Your loving son, UE to dietary indiscre States might have played tn such a plan was to send food ships with tions, change of drink which to help win over the Spanish ing water or sudden changes lina Dodo wants to do her part population in weather can be quickly in Uie "V” campaign, so she is Norway Heavily Fortified. relieved by Wakefield’s Roger ('. reace, the new senator wearing a V-neck sweater. Since then another plan for pos Blackberry Balsam. For 94 from South Carolina. publisher of sible British invasion of Norway has the News-Piedmont, Greenville, S. years a household remedy. IWEET! TWEET! been discussed However, this also V scene at the American base in Greenland, showing two patrol ships C., who was appointed by Governor Sold at all drug stores. 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