Friday, Decomber 26, 1941 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 2 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK Adaman Club Greets New Year on Summit Of Lofty Pikes Peak Battle Stations on Pacific Front While most people will be cele­ brating New Year’s in comfortably warm homes, theaters and other ampsement places, a small group of CHANGED CITY Washington has changed over­ men will be battling bitter cold and night. Washington was a boom high snow drifts us they climb to the town one week; next week it was a top of Pike's peak. Every year at the stroke of mid­ war town. The change is partly a matter of visible things, partly night on New Year's eve members things that are felt without being of the Adaman club set off a huge seen . . . Khaki-clad soldiers, with display of fireworks from the sum- By LEMUEL F. PARTON tin hats and bayonets, patroling two mit of Pike's peak, The mercury (Consolidated Feature»--WNU Service.) has fallen as low as 40 degrees be- abreast between the White House XJEW YORK —Admiral Claude C and the state department . . . Dark­ I low zero during the nine-mile climb, Bloch, commander of the naval ness over the Capitol dome, where and the wind blows relentlessly atop district at Hawaii, has been known the 14.110-foot peak searchlights are blacked out. for the as the "Jack Dempsey of the Navy” Early in the afternoon of Decem­ duration . . A jam of volunteers because of ber 31 the hardy group will leave U. S. Adm. Bloch his repeated for Civilian Defense . . . New flags ’ Colorado Springs. They will ride in delivered at Civilian Defense head­ Experienced Goal and V e h e- quarters, two for LaGuardia's car, automobiles as far as Manitou insist- Springs which is located at the base Keeper at Wicket ment two for Mrs. Roosevelt’s car. six for ence on the of the peak. Their ride ends here, the motorcycles . . . The residence importance of "beating the enemy and they begin their long climb. of German correspondent Kurt Sell to the punch.” He made a remark At first the climb is easy, but is raided at night and Sell is taken to that general effect when he was after the Half Way House is passed into custody by FBI. urging the thorough fortification of the climbing becomes extremely dif­ Though the department of com­ ficult. Snow drifts are more than Guam, early last year. Things didn't work out that way, merce deals with such innocuous 20 feet deep in places, and the in­ with Japan letting loose the subjects as census figures, its great cessant north wind whips the snow "punch.” behind diplomatic shadow steel doors are locked, and guards particles with great force. boxing, but that couldn't be charged demand credentials at the main en­ In addition to a food supply, each up to the admiral. Any government trance . . . Women fliers of Ameri­ man carries his share of the fire­ adhering to the forms of interna­ ca call a hurried meeting to speed works. The trip is a gruelling test tional law and order is at a disad­ up plans for training ... An extra of endurance and strength. But the vantage in the prevailing interna­ detail of police strolls on the south men really enjoy it. tional anarchy. But Washington grounds of the White House, last Above map shows strategic points in the naval and aerial war now being waged between the U. .*4. can't say that the ruddy, desk­ trampled by egg - rolling Easter and Japan in the Pacific. thumping old admiral. 42 years out crowds. In his press conference, the Presi­ of Annapolis, didn't give it ample warning He has long been a vigor­ dent’s voice is so grave and low that II ous advocate of widely based naval a newsman calls out, "Louder, preparedness in the Pacific and please” . . . Four plainclothesmen, readiness to strike at the first gong. in two cars, sit parked all day on No one knows what the year 1942 Waterside drive, where the bank He is a Kentuckian, as thor­ rises sharply on the back garden of will bring, but ’42 exactly 100 years oughly schooled in our high-seas the Japanese embassy . . . Even ago was a relatively quiet one for workouts of the last few decades Falla, the President’s Scottie, feels the United States. as any man in the navy, en­ In that year the national debt the change, for the White House tered in all of them and repeat­ guards have less time to play with reached the high level of more than edly decorated. He won the La grippe (influenza) him. and he curls up disconsolate in $13.594.000. specially meritorious Medal of was prevalent throughout the coun­ his green dog-house, just back of the the Spanish • American War, try. This year also saw Charles President’s office. when, as a young ensign in the Dickens visit the United States, and • • • Battle of Santiago, he rescued the Horatio Greenough statue of Spaniards from Cervera’s burn­ JAPANESE SPIES General George Washington was ing ships. His other medals Last summer Congressman Martin placed in the federal Capitol. came from the Philippine and Dies had investigators make a thor­ Other events of national impor­ Cuban campaigns, the Boxer re­ ough survey of Japanese activities tance which occurred exactly one bellion and the World war, the along the West coast. The results century ago follow: last being the Victory medal, eventually were suppressed by the March 31—Henry Clay of Ken­ and with it went the Navy Cross, state department and the President tucky resigns from the U. S senate for running transports through himself, but a brief summary of May 2—Col. John C. Fremont the blockaded section around i them indicates that some parts of commenced an exploring expedition France and England. the United States face a dangerous to the Rocky mountains. He has been chief of the bureau problem when it comes to fifth col­ June 29—President Tyler vetoes of ordnance, a gunnery officer, com­ umn activity. the tariff bill. mander of many ships, a budget of­ Hitler had many agents planted August 9—Maine boundary estab­ ficer, judge advocate general, en­ through Norway, France and the lished by the Webster-Ashburn gaged in training activities, and Low Countries when he attacked, treaty between the United States commandant of the Washington but the Japanese, according to the and England. Navy yard. He became command­ Dies report, start out with 150.000 August 30—President Tyler siens er of the battle force, with the rank . of their countrymen in the United the tariff bill. of admiral, in 1937. From 1928 to States. These are all Japanese citi­ September 29—Order of the Sons 1940, he was commander in chief zens. and do not include 50,000 sec­ of Temperance organized in New With the U. 8. and Japan fighting so close to home, maneuvers of I.os Angeles Women's Ambulance and of the U. S. fleet, and was assigned ond generation Japanese born in the York. Defense corps turned into a public morale-building review. At left you see a demonstration of a gas mask to command of the Hawaii district United States. The Dies report drill, and rescue of a victim during a mock gas attack. Picture at right shows an anti-aircraft gun crew. in the latter years. He's a naval shows that 200 key Japanese have officer’s officer, with a high repu­ been decorated by the emperor dur­ tation for strategic and technical ing the past two years and that skill many Japanese are in close co-op­ eration with the homeland through HIS onlooker, meeting quite a the Central Japanese association few explorers in various parts of which has been directed by consu­ The year 1942 would ordinarily be the world, has noted in them, al­ lates in California. one marked by a great observance most invariably, a good sense of Dies agents have collected photo­ of some sort for the achievement of , drama and No Showmanship an instinct graphs of various Japanese truck Christopher Columbus in 1492. gardens operated alongside oil tanks In Makeup of This ll>r s h o w- and strategic railroads. Also they 1942 rounds out 450 years since discovery of America. Woman Explorer report 5,000 Japanese residing on In 1892. on the occasion of terminal islands in Los Angeles har­ four hundredth anniversary, A. Boyd, just now cited by the bor, where are located strategic oil Chicago fair, one of the most Washington Bureau of Standards for tanks. Reeves field and a shipbuild­ nowned in the world, took place. her scientific work on her last Arc­ ing company. Oil storage tanks But for World War II, 1942 would tic expedition, is lacking in these blown up in the harbors would en­ have brought about another signif­ attributes. She rounds out 17 years danger all of the Los Angeles area. icant celebration. of Arctic exploring with never a The most reyealing documents Even as it is, there is some talk tale of a close brush with death, and seized by Dies' agents are maps, of paying due honor to the great never anybody drawing lots to see showing all the U. S. strategic points navigator who, in 1492 like the who would shoot himself when they and fortifications, and a naval man­ world we know in the dawn of 1942. were down to the last kilo of pem- ual showing the size of all Ameri­ also had his "darkest hour” before mican. can naval vessels. the light burst on a new world. to validate the She does a lot The naval manual, published in Joaquin Miller wrote of this hour strictly scientific assumptions of Arctic exploration and to disprove 1941. is so up to date that it even in Columbus’ life—and it could be the tradition that women are gar- shows latest models of U. S. mos­ symbolic of the arrival and hopes rulous. When she popped off 29 quito boats together with the Presi­ of the year 1942. The poetry fol­ polar bears in 1926. it was only by dential yacht Potomac and the plan lows: accident that the news leaked out of U. S. airplane carriers. The lo­ Then pale and wan he kept the deck And peered through darkness through other members of her ex­ cation of guns, engine room, etc., Ah, that night, of all dark nights pedition. Her log is never like that is indicated alongside the photo­ And then a light—a light. of each vessel. It must have graph of Henry Hudson which spotted up a lot of mermaids and sea demons taken Japanese agents months or It grew, a starlet flag unfurled It grew time’s burst of dawn— years to collect this data. around Spitzbergen. He gained—a world. He gave that world its grandest lesson A recent portrait of Dr. A. W. L. She is back from her sixteenth On—and on I KNEW FORMATIONS Tjarda Van Htarkenborgh Htachan- trip up north on C'apt. Bob Bart­ Another Japanese map seized by View of Guam, our lonely Island outpost In the Pacific, which has wrr, governor-general of the Neth­ lett's stout little schooner, the Dies’ agents is revealing in the ex been attacked and reported taken by Japanese military and naval forces. erlands East Indies. With the Jap­ For 17 years Effie Morrisey, treme. It shows the layout of the Guam Is regarded as the key American Pacific outpost. At the upper anese move into Thailand, Nether­ she has been commuting up to American fleet in a typical battle left is the Pan American Airways terminal. lands East Indic* are threatened. the icebergs every summer— formation near Hawaii. U. S. naval Although the United States leads farther north than any other officers confirm the fact that the the world in many ways, it is about white woman ever went. This map correctly shows past naval ma­ sixth rate in the eyes of Father writer frequently has seen the neuvers. Time. He brings the new year first imposing old Victorian Boyd The documents show the details of to Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe home in San Rafael, Calif., be­ Pearl Harbor, the Panama canal, and most of South America before hind tall privet hedges, whence San Francisco, Manila, Guam and he finally gets around to this coun­ I came the smart, comely young Vladivostok. They also give the nor ­ try. Then tor three more hours the girl, to buck a frozen wilder­ mal crusing radius of the U. S. fleel people of California must be satis­ ness, get decorations from two out of Honolulu, together with the fied with 1941 before they receive former governments, special normal location of airplane carriers, the fresh new year of 1942. and unique recognition from the cruising battleships, scouts and aux­ When the new year is born it National Geographic society, and iliary transports. Maps also show will be 7 a. m., December 31, in have "Louise Boyd Land” spot­ the whereabouts of submarine ca­ our eastern cities; 6 a. m. ted up on government maps, bles, mines, channels, wireless sta­ central time zone; 5 a. m. where the De Geer glacier used tions, Japanese consulates and air mountain zone; and 4 a. m. to be. bases all along the West coast. Pacific coast states. Ship news reporters find her un­ • • • communicative, coming and going, Early Scots Used Bible WAR CHAFF and her reports go through official For Glimpse Into Future scientific channels. En route to the