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 Page 2 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 / 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. 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