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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Pag© 2 GENERAL WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK HUGH S. JOHNSON Washington. D. C. BIBLICAL DESTROYERS There were two reasons for that grin on the face of North Dakota's Gov. John Moses when he left the White House the other day. One was an assurance that the President would personally inyesti- gate why North Dakota has not re ceived any of the new defense plants. Moses argued that his stati was so far inland that it was ideal for defense industries. Roosevelt promised to look into the matter im mediately. The other reason was an anecdote the President told Moses “about a famous namesake of yours.*' It hap pened when Roosevelt was assistant secretary of the navy in the Wilson administration. He was asked to select from a list of American naval heroes, the name of a new destroyer. He picked “Is rael.” in honor of a U. S. captain who distinguished himself in the war against the Barbary Coast pirates in 1815. Some time later. Roosevelt was asked to approve the personnel of this destroyer. And while looking over the list of personnel, another aide entered with another personnel list for a destroyer named "Moses.” "This coincidence struck me as very funny," Roosevelt related, "and I leaned back and laughed. The young naval officer looked perturbed and inquired. 'Aren’t those the right crews for those ships—Moses and Israel” And then I laughed some more, because heading the lists of officers were the names of Murphy and O'Reilly.” Note—Moses, a Democrat from a rock-ribbed G. O. P. state, is the tallest governor in the country—6 feet 4 inches. Friday, Jan. 3, 1941 Washington. D. C. WITCH HUNT? Has the witch hunt actually be gun? I haven’t heard it. but sev eral letters and telegrams inform me that a conspicuous radio news commentator is warning the public to “watch carefully” members of By LEMUEL F. PARTON the keep-out-of-war committees be (Con solid« t»d r»«turv>— WNV Service. cause they are "appeasers" and EW YORK - Simultaneously. “are trying to make us afraid." Chancellor Hitler and Mme. Gen. Bob Wood, who was honored by congress for his work in helping Elsa Schiaparelli renounce gold and • to build the Panama canal, and extol the fruits of the spirit Prepar , brought back from an important Schiaparelli Say» ing to return to France post in France in the AEF to spark the American war production ef Cost Fetter» Our soon, the fa forts as quartermaster general, is Art of Creation mous dress maker finds being put on the pan. Col. Charles Lindbergh, who brought home the that Americans are too much given greatest honors American aviation to money-grubbing to appreciate the ever knew, and who first jolted beautiful art of couture. "The Paris American and British complacency designer is free," she says, but here in America “in creating a costume by revealing the tremendous hidden powers of German air armament, is you must think about cost.” So she's now under the wwnd of the profes g<Nng back to Paris where art is sional witch finders. Even his love unfettered and nobody worries about ly. fearless quietly philosophical money. Uncle Sam's newest submarine, Molyneux (led, to make gowns in wife has taken a dirty dig or two the 1,475-ion Grampus, sliding Into London, but Lucien Lelong. the new from such professional breast-beat View of part of the damage wrought by German bombs In Britain's the water at New London, Co tin. ing Boadicea's as Dorothy Thomp- Judge Landis of the French fash historic house of commons In recent raids. Public parts of the building The craft, one of eight similar type ion industry, remains in the service ¡ son. were untvuched, and nearby 81. Stephen's chapel also escaped, but the ordered under the Vinson act In I of art—not money of course. The What goes on here? Most of the cloisters In the crypt and the public bill office were hit. The private 1939, Is named after a common type I people who want to dress up Uncle latter implication might suggest bill office was struck by high explosive and oil bomba. of killer whale. Sam as something more canny than that Paris as a continuing world style center is somehow geared into his old role a$ the world’s prize fat boy with the bag of candy in a world Chancellor Hitler’s jug - handled of Dead End urchins, were awake economy, and that, of course is a long before these tardy tom-tom rather gauche idea. In Herr Hitler's beaters, witch doctors and Sioux Sun new order, it's art for art's sake. Soon after the occupation of Dancers were even aware that there Paris, Mme. Schiaparelli ar was a vast, sinister and growing rived here to begin a national danger in the world. lecture tour. We seemed to be Some of them had been hammer suffering from much misappre ing at the inexcusable indolence of hension about France. Il was England, the equivocal horse trad business as usual In Paris, and ing of France and. above all. the anyone who fancied that New spineless inactivity of America, long York might become the world before the "cloud no bigger than a style center had another thought man's hand" became a thunder ALBANIAN MOUNTAINEERS coming. However, she reserved head and began to belch lightning. HELP GREEKS her apostrophe of art against (Editor's Note—The Washington All of them are, and have long been, money for the last. Merry-Go-Round's famous Brass for all-out defense of this country. Ring this week is awarded to the AU are against hysterical dissipa- . Addressing the Junior League of unsung allies of the Greek army, the tion of it Who speaks for America— Los Angeles recently, she said: peasants and mountaineers of Al they or their half-crazed critics? "All of us in Paris are impressed If they were so much more nearly by the generosity of American men bania.) Much tribute has been paid to the right before, maybe they are more regarding their women. American gallant Greek army and royal air nearly right now, when they ques men have a world-wide reputation force for winning one of this war's tion whether we should rush head for the money they spend on women. "I say bravo to you! Go right most crucial battles, in that wildest long into a gun fight with our gun and most remote corner of Europe— not even loaded and. as a first act. ahead.” give away our guns. I had an idea that the French felt Albania. German troops arriving In Bucharest, Rumania. A total force esti Ihr American export liner, Excatn- Our greatest lack right now is win that way a few years ago when I mated at 20 divisions, or 300.000 men, with artillery, bridge-building equip bion, wbo was taken froin tbe shlp But little has been written about Rogers, who said: “America never was privileged to see some of the ment, tanks and motor transports formed the vanguard of a new German al Bermuda by the British and held the Albanian peasants and moun lost a war or won a conference.” inner workings of Lanvin’s estab- expedition into the Balkans. Hungary's grant of right-of-way stirred up under suspiclon of espionage. Stäh taineers who have provided the We can wonder what he would say lishment in Paris, to talk to the many conjectures as to what this move might mean. l' r briamr a U. 8. cltiscn In 1933. Greeks with the most amazing in about “Let's take the silly fool dol vendeuses and witness the defer- telligence service of this war, so ac lar mark from aid to Britain.” ence to a Texas oil magnate, when curate that the Greeks have known From how many billions have we he came in to help his wife choose down to the last detail just how taken the “silly fool dollar mark” a gown. many Italians were located behind for foreigners it would be hard to Mme. Schiaparelli lived five years each hill, where their guns were say. We took them off from the biU in New York. Her daughter. Ma i placed, and the exact nature of their we footed for the last World war to risa. was born in her Ninth street fortifications. a present total, with interest of about bouse in Greenwich Village. That An army without eyes is helpless. 14 billions. was before the days of her fame I And the Albanians, who have never and opulence, and she thought about forgotten the manner in which Mus BIG FOUR money a great deal in those days. solini drove their queen and her day- The four-man control of industrial Taking an unheated fiat in old son out of the country two years mobilization, consisting of the sec Patchin place, a dingy little nub ago, have contributed materially to retaries of war and navy, Mr. Knud bin of a street off Jefferson Mar the surprising succession of Greek sen and Mr. Hillman, may do some ket court, she found a $20 bill victories. good, but it is not, as some have on the floor. It was a good said, the equivalent of the War In omen. Other money came and STATE DEPARTMENT WIDOWS dustries board plan that worked in she returned to a garret In Par There was not much Christmas . 1918 to provide the fastest re-arma is, to write poetry. A sweater joy this year in the homes of 124 ment ever recorded by a great na design brought her into her ca “blitzkrieg widows” of the Ameri tion. It violates an essential and reer. For one who scorns mon can diplomatic service. Their hus basic principle of that plan. It takes ey she is a masterful and dili band diplomats are still on the job, nothing from experience. It is an gent business woman, her huge but the wives are prevented by offi experiment. establishment turningoutaround cial regulations from joining them. There are four great and insistent 10.000 garments a year at prices From Warsaw, from Berlin, from demands in time of war. They are up to $5,000. Of V distinguished Copenhagen, from Oslo, from Brus those of the army, the navy, the Italian family of astronomers sels, from the Hague, following the allies, if any. and greater than these and scholars, she has been de spread of the war, these "blitzkrieg and just as important, the needs scribed by Edna Le Fevre as widows" came trekking home—on of civilian population. Heads of the “a woman nobody can know, ab government order—with children by army and navy are under heavy re sorbed with books on metaphys the hand. sponsibilities for two of those needs. ics, aesthetics and philosophy.” A few capitals, such as Moscow With the best intention in the world and Helsinki, have now permitted it is only human nature for them LMAN B. MYERS, inventor of wives to rejoin their husbands, but to grab and fight each for their own the new “jet expulsion” motor meanwhile, a new warning has gone — to seek in extreme cases even out affecting citizens in the Far monopoly control of all the best which is expected vastly to increase East, and the ranks of the widows sources and supplies of material, the range, speed and fighting ef- B STf; m .»fectiveness of ’ ■ . are swelling still further. manufacturing, storage and trans ‘Gemut at Need war plan„ This separation is much more than portation facilities, power and labor. a sentimental problem. It creates That isn’t a guess. That happened 1» a Self-Starter was a New- John C. Garand, inventor of the a strain on the budget of each fam early in World War I, and continued And Finisher, Too J.; army's famed semi-automatic Gar ily, for they are obliged to maintain to happen until it was stopped by Tbe newest and best of the U. 8. medium bombers la B-26, shown and rifle. Is shown at work In his two establishments, and the salaries the War Industries board. We are happened to be a self-starter and of the foreign service are not gauged rushing into a program of produc finisher Without benefit of any ac here taking off (above), and In the air (below), during a teat flight at model shop at the Springfield. to meet living costs in this country. tion just as great. To have that ademic seminars, he became a hay Baltimore, Md. Product of the Glenn L. Martin factory at Baltimore, Mass., armory, where his grand gun The state department has had so happen without any regulation is a loft radio inventor. This, incidental this high performance dealer of destruction will soon be rolling off the Is In mass production to arm our defense forces. much grief from the “widows” that very bad thing. It creates unneces ly, was in the Bronx where there production lines at mass production rate. a move is being considered to lift sary shortages to the great prejudice weren’t any haylofts; but make it the ban and allow them to return not only of all the people but the a cellar and the result is the same. to their husbands' posts. After 32 years he appears with armament program itself. It unnec his critically Important Inven essarily tangles and disrupts the CAPITAL CHAFF tion. He got a job with a wire whole industrial machine. It mul The state department is getting a tiplies cost, reduces speed and less station In Sacramento, and heavy volume of mail from all parts makes doubly ’ifficult the eventual was soon throwing his voice far of the country urging strong U. S. shift back to a peace economy. ther than anybody else In those assistance to Greece. parts. He later worked with Lee For that reason and many others, Josephus Daniels, ambassador to the director of mobilization should De Forrest and by 1932 had Mexico, is the only ambassador ap not have to work under the control brought through a “cold light” pointed by Roosevelt in 1933 who of the army and navy as he must radio tube. He started work on still remains at the same post. hl« jet expulsion or “rocket" do if he is one of a committee of Experts of the house migrant in four in which a division of opinion motor four years ago. Engi- vestigating committee estimate that would result either in a deadlock or n-ers say it may Increase at least 4,000.000 job-hunters are con a domination by the purchasing de speed of fighting planes by stantly on the move in the country. partments. miles an hour. • • • Some American women have switched to cotton stockings as a T WAS not until they began work Our experience in the World war protest against Japan, yet in the and the experience in every other in strengthening the roofs of the first nine months of this year, the country indicates that the director Capitol at Washington that most United States inlported $66,000,000 of mobilization should be independ Americans were aware that an ar worth of silk from Japan. ent of any statutory purchasing chitect was regularly attached to a • • • agencies. It is his part of the job structure of which George Washing MERRY-GO-ROUND to co-ordinate all purchasing pro ton first laid the cornerstone in 1793. Two former editors of the "Arne- grams with each other to prevent He is David Lynn of Hyattsville, roc News," daily paper of the 1918 confusion, delay, waste and loss; but Md. Lynn in 23 years of service President Roosevelt awarded the Collier trophy, principal aviation U. S. army of occupation at Coblenz, that is only part of his job and not had ample opportunity of Learning Count Carlo Sforxa, former Italian Germany, are now on active duty even the most important part. The all the ins and outs of the famous award of the year, to 15 representatives of commercial airlines for the at the war department. They are other part is to co-ordinate, organ building. He served 10 years as safety record achieved last year. Three physicians were also honored for premier, who la credited with the CoL Fred J. Mueller and Lieut.-CoL ize, speed, aid and supervise the civil engineer of the Capitol and in developing an oxygen mask. They are L. to R„ standing (front), Dr. W. statement that the Italian people ere • B. B McMahon, both assigned to whole industrial structure for max 1927 became architectural supervi Boothby and Dr. W. Lovelace II, of the Mnyo Foundation, and Capt. H. dissatisfied with Fascism. He la now Armstrong of the army medical corps, Wright Held, Dayton, Ohio. an exile In the U. 8. the public relations staff. imum efficiency and production. sor. « New Nazi Army Moves Into Rumania Our Newest Bomber in Flight Power for Defense • • • E President Awards Collier Aviation Trophy I Sees Fascism’s End