conference between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill,
al which they formulated the peace aims of the Democratic powers op
posing Germany. Seated. (L. to R.l: President Roosevelt. Prime Minister
Winston Churchill. Standing. (L. to R.l: Harry Hopkins, V. S. lease-lend
administrator; W. Averill Harriman, the President's lease-lend repre
sentative in England; Admiral E. J. King, commander of the V. S. At
lantic fleet: General George C. Marshall. V. S. army chief of staff: Gen
eral Dill of the British army, and Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval
operations, U. S. N.
H Korndorff, president of the
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock
company, who offered to turn over
to the navy the company's strike
bound plant at Kearney. N. J. He
is shown after hating had a con
ference with Secretary of the Navy,
Frank Knox. The company prom
ised complete co-operation to the
government.
New Pacific .Airbase for U. S.
Seriously Wounded
The first picture taken at Johnson Island in the Pacific, site of the
new U. 8. air station, commissioned on August 15. Johnson Island is 717
miles southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii. Picture was taken during the con
struction of some buildings on the site of the field.
Strike Stops Warship Buildin
While work on some *373,000,000 worth of warships and merchantmen
remained at a standstill, these members of the C.I.O. industrial union of
America picketed outside the yards of the Federal Shipbuilding A Dry
Dock company at Kearney, N. J. The strike was called over the failure
of th« company and the union to agree in a dispute over the classification
of some 1,500 workers.
New and Old Governors of Puerto Rico
Rexford Guy Tugwell, left, who has been nominated by President
Roosevelt to be governor oi Puerto Rico, shakes hands with Guy J. Swope,
right, the retiring governor. In the center is Luis Monozmarin, president
of the Puerto Rican senate. The meeting took place on the liner 8. 8.
Coamo, when Tugwell greeted the newly arrived retiring governor.
Friday, August 22, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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VVaxhinKtoii. I>. C.
FAR EAST POKER GAME
or perspective on the present
South Pacific tug-of-war between
Japan and Britain, it is well to re
member that for years Thailand,
then known as Siam, win a pawn
in the power game of the bigger
nations of the Pacific.
In this game the United States
had a hand, for years, American
financial advisers have been at
tached to the Thailand throne, one
of them huving been Francis Suyre,
son-in-law ok Woodrow Wilson, now
high commissioner of the Philip
pines.
He wooed Thailand on many oc
casions, including the ornate recep
tion given the former king of Slain,
who as "Supreme Arbiter of the
Ebb and Flow of th\* Tide. Brother
of the Moon. Half Brother of the
Sun and Keeper of the Twenty-four
Golden Umbrellas," came to Wash
ington in the days of Herbert
Hoover and was regally entertained.
The British were even more in
terested in the Siamese
British
advisers for a time ran tile king
dom's
government,
trained
its
army, supplied the one or two ships
tor its navy.
But half a dozen years ago the
Japanese began preaching the doc
trine of Asia for the yellow man,
and Siam for the Siamese. That
was how the name came to be
i changed to Thailand, a natlonalisUc
token of home rule.
Reason tor Japan's interest in this
small country was not nationalism,
but the fact that a slender finger
of land, about as wide as the Isth
mus of Panama, called the Isthmus
if Kra, is controlled by Thailand. A
canal through this isthmus, connect- i
ing the Indian ocean and the Gulf
of Siam, would give a new short j
route from the Pacific to India, ren- i
der Singapore impcitent, and cut
three days from the trip between
Indo-China and Burma.
Such a canal would leave Singa
pore’s giant guns and expensive
naval bases guarding an out-of-date
sea highway, almost as unimpor
tant as the Straits of Magellan after
the Panama canal was built.
That is one reason the British are
ready to fight to keep the Japanese
<>ut of Thailand.
• •
Vice Premier Kiii hiro Hiranuma,
75. of Japan and key member of the
BRITISH INVASION PLANS
cabinet, who was struck in the chest
First British plan for an invasion
and jaw by pistol bullets fired by a of the continent (since the start of
33-year-old assassin in Tokyo.
the Russian-Nazi conflict) was a
landing in Holland. This, it was fig
ured. would get sympathetic support
from the Dutch; would create a sec
ond front requiring Hitler to divert
part of his troops and airplanes
from the Russian front.
The original British idea was to
have the United States co-operate tn
a landing force.
This, however,
scarcely got beyond the informal
suggestion stage. It was immedi
ately and emphatically vetoed, first,
for political reasons; second, be
cause Roosevelt did not have the
power to send troops abroad; third,
because of the scarcity of shipping
to transport and supply an Amer
ican army overseas.
Since then, none of the proposals
for creating a second European
front has contemplated any Amer
ican participation.
The second idea discussed was a
British attempt through Spain and
Portugal This also scarcely got
beyond the discussion stage, because
it was figured, first, that the Ger
man army probably could take over
Spain by the time British troops be
gan to land; second, that even if
a foothold could be obtained, ■
march across the Pyrenees to
France would be too difficult
The only part which the United
Leon Henderson, chief of Office of States might have played in such
Price Administration and Civilian a plan was to send food ships with
Supply, told congress that there soon which to help win over the Spanish
will be a tremendous increase in the population.
Norway Heavily Fortified.
cost of living. He appeared before
Since then another plan for pos
the house banking and currency sible British invasion of Norway has
committee to urge passage of the been discussed. However, this.also
price-fixing bill. Photo shows Hen is difficult. The Nazis now have 10
derson pointing to 10 foot chart show divisions in Norway; more impor
ing changes in cofnmodity prices of tant, they have been working fever
present war period.
ishly with characteristic German
thoroughness to fortify Norwegian
ports and possible invasion points,
The chief factor holding back the
British, however, has been their
Al-
lack of armored equipment.
though the British army is about
2,000,000 strong, only about 750,000
men are fully armed with modern
equipment. And the most serious
defect in their equipment is the lack
of tanks.
Vast numbers of tanks were lost
by the British at Dunquerque, a loss
which has not yet been replenished.
And no invasion of the continent
could be successful without a pow
erful tank force.
Also, despite the strength of the
Nazi army on the Russian front, a
total of 47 well-equipped German
divisions are stationed in western
Europe.
This is approximately
700,000 men.
Recent discussion of British aid
to Russia has turned to the Near
East and a British move from the
Gulf of Persia, through Iran to the
Russian oil fields of the Caucasus.
Col. Wm. E. Lynd, appointed chief
These oil fields are one of the chief
of the air support command, former*
goals of the Nazi army, and once
ly air officer of general headquar
Hitler succeeds in taking
the
ters in the war department. There
Ukraine, it would be relatively easy
are now five air support commands.
for blm to cut off thia supply.
Prices Going Up
Air
Chief
I
All or Nothing
Shyly the young man stood be
fore the father of his adored.
"Mr. Jones," he stammered, "I
—er—will- cr- what 1 want is to
nsk you for your daughter's
hand.”
The old man frowned as he took
his pipe from his mouth.
"t'.m’t <io th.it." he r.l OW1« ' 1.
"you must take the whole girl or
nothing.”
The (Hutton
"I.udies and gentlemen,” shout
ed the street performer, "in a few
moments I will astonish you by
eating coal, stones, and nails. I
will also swallow a sword after
which 1 will come around with the
hat, trusting to get enough for a
crust of bread.”
"What!" came u voice from the
crowd. "Still hungry?”
Conslilerate
Tom Hi, wliut's the idea of
The growls of a bear were
broadcast the other afternoon wearing my raincout?
Tim Well, you wouldn't like
front a zoo, and in same homes
tiny tots were heard to remark your new suit to get wet, would
that Daddy had come home early. you?
Slight Slip
NEW EFFECTIVE IIAY FEVER
RELIEF
Forced to put on hi» brake» tuddenly,
Huy fever, which annually causes
the driter <>/ l/ie »port» rur found it
more sneezes, more inflamed noses
ihixiluit crabuite acroi« the hmi I, pttl and more red, streaming eves than
mining a lamp-pint hr/ore it tlopprtl. any other scourge, may have Da
I 'p ¡trolled a policeman.
final big fling this September, nil
“U ell“ he remarked (iniulb, “you because a Pennsylvania electrical
engineer was served a dish of com
got a nice »kid there, sir.“
“Pardon me. officer,“ k < ii the haughty meal mush which was entirely too
salty.
reply; “ihit lady u my wile.“
The engineer, sneezing, and with
nil other hay fever manifestations,
Still One
stopped at a hotel where he was
Stranger (watching boy fishing) served a dish of mush which he
—How many have you caught, considered sending back us it was
sonny?
much too salty. Finally he ute it,
Sonny—When I get another, I'll however; the hay fever attack
lessened, ultimately ceased. Next
have one.
be had Hurt® mc.il-i, all ov«V-
safted, und experienced his most
A man met a friend who owcil comfortable
time in years in tho
hint *5. The friend saw it was "hay fever seu.son.
”
impossible to escape. "My dear
His analytical mind quickly
fellow,” he said. "1 owe you *5 grasped the possibility that thu
and an a]»ology. Please accept the saline substance in his food was
responsible for his relief.
apology now.”
About this time, Dr. E. E. Scl-
leek,
u graduate of Columbia Uni-
No Waiting
verslty.’inet the engineer, made
Kidder—Which end of a cow gets notes, and when he returned to h>s
up first?
home, began experiments. Today
Chugwater— My experience in Dr. Scllecdt declares he has found
buying beef is that both ends of a certain means of relief for hay
the animal rise at the same time. fever and is supported in his con-
tention by otl er med cal < xpertfl.
and a nationally known chctnicni
manufacturing concern, the Hol-
lings-Smlth Company, nt Ornngc-
? ASK ME
g. New York, has taken over
making the remedy, which is called
?
ANOTHER
Nakamo Bell.
Describing the experiments, Dr.
? A General Quiz
Selleck said, "After I was sure I
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had found a means of quickly re
lieving hay fever through th«
Thu Questiono
chloride group, I tested it tn the
¡1 t | i .u Ut al w ay I kn< w. I held
1. "Sail on, O Ship of State! a three day clinic, to which m.iny
Sail on, O Union, strong and hay fever
i >
h l,
great!” is a quotation front what from ages ranging from 10 to 60
years. Each person was given two
American poet?
2. Over what country did the tablets with n little water. Some
relief came to all within ten min
Incas reign?
utes. Reports on these eases «lur
3. Approximately how many ing the ensuing weeks showed
miles of railroad are there in the practically a complete cessation
United States?
of symptoms.”—Aav.
4. How many vestigial organs
Hearing Reproof
has man?
Fear not the anger of the wisa
5. Is sunburn caused by the
to raise; Those best can bear re
heat of the sun?
6. Where was the Tower of proof who merit praise.—Popa.
Babel?
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The Antu/eri
a /
ILL!
LICE
1. Henry W. Longfellow ("The
Building of the Ship").
2. Peru.
3. Approximately 236,000 miles OA'.H IN Ft ATM I R$
4. Man possesses no less than
180 vestigial organs that, although
probably once of vital importance,
are now of little use to him.
Close Relative
5. No, sunburn is caused by the
Indecision is a very near rela
ultraviolet rays of the sun.
tive to unhappiness. — Stanley
6. Babylon.
Mills.
It s A GOOD
AMERICAN
CUSTOM
SATURDAY HIGHT
BATHS have been an Ameri-
tan cartom tinea the first
settler’s wife pointed to the
tab and said: "Climb in and
wash seme of that sail off your
hide." Objectors considered
such frequent bathing harmful.
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Cigars ia a truly pleasurable custom,
enjoyed by wise smokers every
where. America's favorite cigar.
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WORLDS LARGEST SELLER
UMTS
HE PUBLIC nature of advertising bene
fits everyone it touches. It benefits the
T
public by describing exactly the products that are offered.
benefits employees, because the advertiser must be more fair
and just than the employer who has no obligation to the public.
These benefits of advertising are quite apart from the obvious
benefits which advertising confers—the lower prices, the higher
quality, the better service that go with advertised goods and firms.