Friday, August 8, 1941 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 2 9 Picture in upper left shows reconnaissance cars at Fort Benning. Ga.. being towed across a stream by an armored scout car during maneuvers. Upper right: Radio picture showing Red army’s amphibian tanks crossing an unnamed river near the German-Russo war front. Below: United States marines leave landing barges near Jacksonville, N. C., and splash ashore to establish a beachhead during “Invasion’* maneuvers. With the First Cavalry Maneuvers •F Shown above are two scenes in the Texas-New Mexico war maneuvers, where 17.000 men and officers en­ gaged in cavalry maneuvers, in the broiling heat of the arid Southwest. In the upper picture cavalrymen are shown on the march across the desert. The picture below shows one of the army's light tanks participat­ ing in the maneuvers. Women Lend a Hand in Russia Youthful Patriot , Russian Red Cross nurses ride a truck to their posts during an anti­ war raid drill in Moscow, U.S.S.R. Recently these nurses have been working under fire, as the Nazi Luftwaffe attempted again and again to burn out this camouflaged capital of painted spires and teeming mil­ lions. Moscow's citizens took the raids stoically. New Blood for U. S. Navy Thousands of Americans who have never set foot on a warship have | steed their blond for the U. 8. navy. A shipment of that blood, dried and processed, is shown being taken aboard a man-o-war at Philadelphia savy yard. The blood waa collected by the American Red Cross. It keep« indefinitely under proper conditions. j * Bill Stahl Jr. is only 20 months old, but he is giving his toy autos to Fire Lieut. Edward McLaughlin of New York. The toys contain alu­ minum, which is needed for defense. It was Junior’s contribution during National Aluminum week. Freed by Spain Josephine Winter, 25, American ambulance driver, who was held in jail at FLgueras, Spain, for 11 days on suspicion of being a spy, shown on her return to the V. 8. Washington. O. C. BIG DAY FOR NEWS MEN Twenty newspaper men leaned forward around the long blue baizo table in the ante-room of the secre­ tary of state. At the extreme end stood tall, austere acting secretary, Sumner Welles. On his face was an expression of grim-lipped Intensity. In his hand was a typewritten state- 1 ment. He read it aloud. It was a scathing, carefully worded blast against Japan. At tiie opposite end of the table ■tood three Japanese news men, short, affable, eager. For months and years they bad been attending press conferences, given the same 1 privileges as any American news men. For months also they had waited for some such bombshell. Now it came. One split second after Welles fin­ ished reading his statement, the Japanese were out the door, pat­ tering down the marble corridor to the press room telephones. It was a big day for Japanese news men. Finally Ickes Wins. It was also a big day for certain members of the .Roosevelt cabinet. For months and years they also had been waiting. For months and years also they had been urging Roosevelt to embargo oil shipments to Japan. At a cabinet meeting just before Japan moved. Secretary Ickes, as new oil administrator, raised the em­ bargo question again. He proposed to stop oil shipments to Japan. But the acting secretary of state said no. Japan, he said, was going to make a move toward IndoChina and it would be wiser to wait. Once before. Ickes had stopped a shipment of oil to Japan and aroused the wrath of the state department. Last June a Philadelphia manufac­ turer complained to him that a Jap­ anese ship was loading 240.000 gal­ lons of lubricating oil. “I can't get oil myself to speed up my own defense orders,’* wrote the manufacturer, “and yet I see in front of my nose this shipment of oil going to Japan. To hell with defense, if the government is as screwy as that.’’ So Ickes called the coast guard and asked them to act before the oil was loaded. They did. Then things began to boil. It did not leak out at the time, but the state department complained to the White House that Ickes' action had interfered with the policy of appeas­ ing Japan so she would not go south to the Dutch East Indies I , However, Ickes held his ground. He insisted that he was not med­ dling in foreign policy, but that it was nonsense to ration oil and gas on the Atlantic seaboard and at the same time let Japan ship oil away from the Atlantic seaboard. In the end Ickes won. Bombard Tokyo. Naval strategists make no secret as to what they would do to curb Japan They consider it foolhardy and suicide to send a lot of U. S. warships across the vast expanse of ocean to Singapore or the Dutch East Indies. They figure we are going to get into the war anyway, and it is good strategy to deal knockout blows in the very first round. They favor sending waves of U. S. bombers from the Philippines to raze the paper and bamboo cities of Tokyo, Yokohama. Kobe and Osaka. They also favor sending the fleet, plus airplane carriers to the coast of Ja­ pan. They favor doing this immediate­ ly. There is no use. say the navy men, of punching at a man's legs when you can strike for his heart. • • • CLOSING PANAMA TO JAPAN Secretary Stimson was telling the absolute truth when he denied that the discovery of a time-bomb was responsible for keeping 10 Japanese ships out of the Panama canal For this was not the reason. Real reason why the canal was barred to the Japanese was the dis­ covery that two of their ships were floating bazars being rushed to the east coast of South America to grab off the trade which Axis operators were forced to abandon as a result of the U. S. blacklist. Apparently the Japs had a tip that the blacklist was going to be issued, because the two ships hasti­ ly left the west coast and were wait­ ing to go through the canal, when suddenly the blacklist was published. Equipped with elaborate merchan­ dizing displays, and carrying high- , powered, Spanish-speaking sales­ men, the ships were literal arsenals of economic warfare. With them, the Japanese would have invaded the most lucrative markets in Latin America before either tffe U. S. or the Latin Americans could have i moved to block them. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND U. S. authorities are quietly keep­ ing an eye on Andre Maurois, well- known French writer, who has de­ parted on a mysterious “private mission” to South America. Maurois is strongly pro-Vichy and is suspect­ ed of going south for the purpose of plugging the Nazi-controlled French regime. The army's new heavy tank la equipped not only with machine guns and a 75-mm. gun, but also with a nice shiny horn to keep soldiers themselves from getting in the way. (■citing Nowhere The circus and filn fuir was vis­ iting a small town, and one old Negro had taken u fancy to the merry-go-round. Round and round he went, never seeming to tire, until ull his mon­ ey was gone. Then only did he dismount to rejoin his wife, who had been watching bin with im­ patient eyes. •‘Well, Ebenezer," she said, “you sure have spent your money and had a good ride. But where you been, Ebenezer, where you been?” Flush—Not Blush Boogy—See how the bride is blushing? Woogy—Go on, man. That's not a blush. That's the first flush of victory. The man who counts In this world Is the cashier. Quite at Home “Did Freda regret leaving the stage when site married?” “Not in tin- li-ii-.t, She feels she's still in the profession.” “How is tli.it?” “One scene I nfter another.” Platonic friendship, says a wise man, is the gun you didn't know was loaded. Get-Together Day Hitter» flow would you define a picnic? 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