Friday, April 11, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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When Ford's River Rouge Plant Closed
Ousted by
U. S.
W
G
Eleanor Roosevelt
ART COLLECTION
Washington. D. C.
The other morning I spent an
ITALIANS BITTER AGAINST
hour at the National Gallery of Art
DUCE
Official and uncensored U. S. re­ looking at the early Italian primi­
ports from Italy tell an amazing tives. What a marvelous collection!
story of resentment against Musso­ It seemed to me I had never seen
lini. It is so strong that, according so many priceless treasures gath­
to U. S. observers, the present Fas­ ered together in one place. Mr, Da­
cist regime could not remain in of­ vid Finley and his staff are particu­
fice without the support of German larly happy over the fact that they
have had between eight and nine
troops.
thousand visitors daily. So, beauty
Most significant of all is the fact
does appeal to the American public.
that most of the Italian army is
In the afternoon, I went to the
heartily out of sympathy with II
concert at the Library of Congress
Duce. and Field Marshal Badoglio,
to hear the Budapest String Quar­
ex-chief of staff, does not even at­
tette. which was a joy.
tempt to conceal his criticism. Ap­
On the next afternoon. I went to
parently Badoglio is so popular that
tea at Mrs. Florence Kerr’s with
Transfer No. 7.9272
Mussolini cannot touch him, for no
the regional directors for the WPA
attempt has been made to jail or
community service projects.
As
CARDINAL, robin and barn­
exile him.
usual. I was impressed with the
swallow join with the red­
The sentiment of the Italian army amount of valuable service which the
wing, chickadee, meuduw lark,
explains in large part the recent fail­ bulk of the WPA projects render in
bluebird and indigo bunting in
ures in Albania and North Africa, every field of community life.
bringing color to your lawn or gar­
where thousands of Italians have sur­
den. They come in natural size
FUND APPEAL
rendered. On the other hand, fight­
on this transfer, ready to be traced
There
seems
to
be
one
more
fund
Sound
photo
of
Adm.
Alberto
Lals.
ing in Ethiopia has been just the op­
to plywood, wallboard or thin lum­
appeal
which
cannot
be
ignored.
It
Italian
i,aval
attache
at
Washington,
posite, with the Italians putting up
whose recall was demanded of the ber. Cut them from the wood with
a fierce resistance.
This is ex­ Is the Royal Air Force Benevolent i
jig, coping or keyhole saw and
When the gigantic River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor company— Italian government by the United
plained by the fact that the Italian Fund of the U. S. A. Inc. Their
paint according to suggestions on
offices
are
at
515
Madison
avenue.
States,
In
connection
with
the
at
­
largest single industrial establishment in the world—was completely
army in Ethiopia has not been in
New York city and they are help­ closed by a strike of the United Auto Workers union, a C. I. O. affiliate, ! tempted sabotage of Italian ships In the pattern. Then place them id
touch with conditions in Italy.
trees or on bushes to brighten Ute
ing the needy dependents of RAF
American waters.
There are now more Gestapo of- pilots, punners and observers, who tying up $150.000.000 in defense contracta. Photo shows a huge crowd of
out-of-doors.
workers
being
addressed
by
Ruelher
and
Taylor,
leaders.
ficers (German secret police) in are killed or disabled in the per­
e e e
Rome than in Berlin.
Together formance of their duty.
Genera! cutout directions are on transfer
with about 136,000 Nazi troops, the
7.0272. IS cents. Send order to:
I think all of us have been stirred
Gestapo are also stationed in every by the extraordinary services of the
other key city in Italy.
RAF. and you will perhaps be inter­
Al'NT MARTHA
It is the Gestapo which has been ested to know that the royalties from
Box IM W
Kansas City, Mo.
particularly active in isolating the the books written by Lawrence of
Enclose IS cents fur each pattern
American embassy, with the re­ Arabia, were willed by him some
desired. Pattern Ne.,,,.............
sult that Ambassador Phillips at time before his death to this fund,
Name ......................... ................ ..
present is able to see few people. which was founded in 1919. He, him­
Address
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If found talking to Phillips, his old self. enlisted as a mechanic in the
Italian friends are warned, then ar­ RAF and was known in the service
rested. Even other foreign diplo­ i as Aircraftsman Shaw.
mats in Italy have received Gestapo
One interesting thing about the
warnings not to communicate with fund is that neither in England nor
Copenhagen's first bombproof
American diplomats.
in the United States, does a penny
shelter, built a short time ago, is
raised
go
to
overhead.
The
neces
­
Americans, however, are ex­
on the site where Ludvig Holberg,
tremely popular with the Italian sary administrative expense is car­
the celebrated Scandinavian au­
people, who remember the efforts of ried on by the small group of peo­
thor, wrote his Epistolae in 1727.
President Roosevelt to prevent the ple who were instrumental in set­
In it, says Collier's, Holbert pre­
war in the first place, and to keep ting up the fund.
dicted that if men should ever
Perhaps, because 1 like flying so
Italy from entering the war. Also,
learn to fly they would swoop
the state department has facilitated much, I often think of that particu­
down
upon and attempt to destroy
the passage of certain Italo-Amer- lar branch of the military services.
great numbers of innocent people
icans back to Italy. Their work has I know that even in peace time pilots
who, to save themselves, would
worry about the care of their fami­
been effective.
have to take refuge in holes in the
lies
in
case
they
“
go
west
”
The
Meanwhile, food scarcity in Italy
ground.
men
who
fly
daily
and
nightly
across
has increased to the point where
Count Paul Telekl, the premier
Dramatic airview off Punta Arenas harbor. San Jose, Costa Rica,
even the upper classes feel the food the enemy lines may meet death
almost any time. All we can do is to ahowing the Nazi freighter Eisanbach burning as she goes down. It is who aligned Hungary with the Axis
pinch. Poorer people are starving.
Uncle Art Sayt:
give them the assurance that those alleged that the fires were started by the vessel's own crew members. but fought German domination, was
AU the reports indicate that when they leave behind will be cared for.
Costa Rican authorities arrested 120 seamen and officers, who were found dead in bed. Authorities said
XV
ORTH
WHILE friendships
the break finaUy does come in Italy,
he shot himself.
DOCK THEATER
clapped in Jail on arson charges.
’ ’ can always survive a quur-
it wiU be an explosion of major pro­
In driving around the City of
rel. But when
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portions.
Charleston. S. C., I passed the Dock
your feelings they go sour.
Street theater, which is one of the
The man who never lends
AAA CORN BATTLE
interesting buildings erected by
money
has but few friends. But
.
e
o
•
Inside the agriculture department WPA. The theater is charming and
then, he doesn't need so many.
■ savage row is raging between AAA a real effort has been made, I un­
Snap judgments have a way
advocates of acreage control and derstand, by certain people to re-
of coming unstuck.
apostles of larger farm production. | vive and present old plays. I have
This time the battle is over corn.
■ been told that they have been charm­
Don't worry when you stum­
A referendum has been set for ingly done, but that the support is
ble. Remember that a worm is
May 31 to permit farmers to vote not really sufficient to warrant con­
the only creature that can't fall
on wheat marketing quotas, and the tinuance of the effort. Audiences just
down.
dispute is whether to conduct a sim­ do not attend, and so it may be nec- I
The snob's hero is the snob
ilar election on com.
Some of essary to close the doors of the Dock !
who snubs him.
Opening
Games
Claude Wickard's boys say com is Street theater. This seems a sad
The English office boy has a
threatened with a price decline due waste. It is hard to understand why,
New York at Brooklyn
new one: He asks for a day off
in
this
city
of
great
culture
and
j
to the loss of export pork markets
to evacuate his grandmother
St. Louis at Cincinnati
in embattled Europe, but experts taste, such a program as has been
who
has been bombed.
carried
on
is
not
successful
finan
­
contend that pork is in for a big
Pittsburgh at Chicago
cially.
boom under the defense and lend-
MIDDLETON GARDENS
Boston at Philadelphia
lease programs.
The sun has not been very kind to
Inside fact is that Secretary Wick-
us. The other day Miss Thompson
a rd has just about decided to caU
■ay alaci the Heart
and I walked around Middleton Gar­
off a plebiscite among com-hog
Oaa uaeeM u> >*•
er .» i I m •«, an like a
dens in Valdosta, Ga., in the early
kalr ulaaer aa U. heart at th. ■,« itti of 4t.iraaa
farmers, unofficially scheduled for
.n«art m*n and woman depend on lull ana TablaU la
morning bemoaning the fact that
m N gss fpM No laialive but made of tba fasuwg-
next fall, despite the loud demands
artlng medicine« known for arid I ■ »digestion. If lbw
no sunlight danced upon the water,
FIMNT lx INK dowwa'I prove Iteli-ant botiwe, return
from Triple-A boss Rudolph M. [
boUAa 10 M lad r erette UOUBLK
JM. Sta.
or played through the leaves of the
Evans, that one should be held.*
trees. However, nothing can really
Tuvans, spokesman of the big “cash­
spoil the beauty of those gardens and
income” farmers, has been arguing
Great Character
we enjoyed our walk and came back
Character is higher than intel­
that it is just as important to con­
to thank Mrs. Smith, who had invited
lect. A great soul will be strong
trol com as wheat.
Opening Games
us into her house.
to live, as well as to think.—Emer­
For a time he seemed to have
I always think that it must seem
son.
Wickard convinced. Up to a month ■ very odd to have strangers wander­
Chicago at Cleveland
ago, Wickard was planning to slap ing around your garden. But she
Detroit at St. Louis
a 10 per cent curb on this year’s told us that though they marked with
com crop by declaring marketing care “private residence” outside the
Washington at Boston
quotas, with stiff penalty taxes on house, people come in if they leave
Philadelphia at New York
excess production. The matter was the doors unlocked. One morning
to be put up to com-hog farmers the maid heard some people in the
in a referendum next fall.
Concluding a three-year term as
dining room and, on coming in,
president of the Daughters of the
However, Wickard now takes the found them examining some silver.
The 1941 major league baseball season will open April 15. This year American Revolution, Mrs. Henry M.
position espoused by small farm1 Of course, in Europe certain
champions, particularly Milo Per­ houses with wonderful collections of teams face changing personnels, as players are called Into the army. Robert Jr. (above) will preside at
the organization's fiftieth congress
kins, aggressive chief of the Sur­ paintings, prints and furniture were Among leading players subject to call are Bob Feller, Cleveland Indians;
The
plus Marketing administration, that open to the public at certain times, Henry Greenberg, Detroit Tigers; John Rigney, Chicago White Sox; and in Washington, April 14-19.
D.A.R. has 143,000 members.
rising meat, poultry and dairy but never do I remember the fami­ Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox.
prices will prevent a surplus this lies' living quarters open while they
year, since farmers always fatten up were at home.
When one owns
their stock when prices justify it.
works of art, there is an obligation
Also, it is certain that a consid­ to let the public see them. But it
erable portion of the huge 700,000,- seems to me, that the public has a
000-bushel carryover of com from certain obligation in return to re­
last year will be bought for foreign spect the privacy of the owners.
shipment under the lend-lease pro­
Mrs. George Huntington drove
gram. The Commodity Credit cor­ with us well on the road to Savan­
poration, which owns, or has under nah, and then we pulled up under
loan, about 500,000,000 bushels of the some trees and ate a delicious picnic
carryover, is st ongly banking on lunch. She feels as I do, that food
eaten out of doors always has a bet­
this.
So it looks as if Evans, who has ter flavor. I always rejoice when
been warning farmers of a corn the time comes when we can have
quota election this year, will have to breakfast and lunch on the porch at
the White House.
eat his words.
A
Axis Ship Burned by Crew Off Costa Rica
Prophetic Author
• • •
Major Leagues Open Baseball Season
1). A. R. Convenes
NATIONAL LEAGUE
INDIGESTION
AMERICAN LEAGUE
I
Strengthen Pan-American Solidarity
Writers’ Meet
MERCHANTS
•Your
Advertising
Dollar
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We practically always eat on the .
porch of my cottage at Hyde Park.
The President likes to go even one
step further and has the table put
right out on the lawn. It may be a
I trifle disconcerting if it begins to
rain or, if towards evening, the mos­
quitoes begin to bite.
From Savannah to Valdosta, we
went through the turpentine coun­
Pan-American day, first observed 1« years ago, will be celebrated
try. I can not help feeling that the April 14 in every independent country In the Western hemisphere. Map
big slashes made in the trees must shows shortest distances between points in the Americas and the Old
Stettinius wants to pay the addi­ be harmful to them, but they tell me World. With the airplane reducing these distances to hours, co-operation
that the same trees are used for a
between the Americas becomes increasingly Important.
tional dividends. Labor wants to get
number of years.
DIVIDENDS VS. WAGES
More altruistic than most big
business leaders is Dollar-a-Year
Man Edward Stettinius, chairman
of the giant U. S. Steel corporation,
which maintains cordial relations
with SWOC, a C.I.O. union. Last
year U. S. Steel paid stockholders
1100.000.000. This year it should pay
about SIS«. 000.000.
But now the Steel Workers union
Is demanding a wage boost.
the additional pay.
buys something more than
space and circulation in
the columns of this news­
paper. It buys space and
circulation plus the favor­
able consideration of our
readers for this newspaper
and its advertising patrons,
Writers from both Americas will
attend the Inter-American writers*
meet at Rio Pierdras, Puerto Rico,
April 14-24. A. MacLeish (above)
will head U. 8. group.