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Friday, January 9 1942 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 2 e>. f*. j*.r- «b. e. «b. «b. Mentionetl in Presidential Hint r- r- ; ASK ME ANOTHER ? » I f ♦ ? ■ J A General Quiz t ? <V. <N. <b. «V. <N. (*. (V. (V. ft. ft. (t. <V. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. The Questions Washington. I). C. WILLKIE AND F.D.R. Seldom in political history has a President of the United States re ceived such wholesome support on major foreign policy from a defeat ed candidate as Franklin Roosevelt has received from Wendell Willkie. By LEMUEL F. PARTON Few people know how active Willkie has been behind the scenes (Consolidated Feature»- WNU Service.) For instance. Willkie has even X’L'W YORK —In his new novel. done some missionary work on Joe ’ •’Storm." nominated by some Martin, chairman of the Republican reviewers for the Pulitzer prize. National committee and opposition George Stewart notes that man is leader of the house. Willkie remains _ . u Aie- an air ani- on very friendly terms with his old 24 Hour Alert in mal and not campaign manager, even though Weather Building, a land ani- they differed on foreign policy. Shortly after the congressional Washington, D C. have coni. vote to repeal the Neutrality act. monly supposed. We live at the in which the Republicans nearly de bottom of an ocean of air but that feated Roosevelt. Willkie phoned doesn't make us a land animal, any J<>e Martin. "Joe,” he said, "those Republi more than a crab is a land animal because it lives at the bottom of a cans who voted against repeal of neutrality are going to have a tough body of water. time being re-elected. They're go Dramatizing a sterm which gath ing to And the country is behind ered up north of Japan, and clock Soldiers, members of the newly Roosevelt on this.” Russ fishermen at work In the icy waters near Kamchatka, USSR, ing it down this way. and record The Republican national chair the peninsula jutting out from the Siberian mainland to the uorth of formed Hawaii territorial guard, are ing the resulting inter-play of hu pictured on duty at their post al man nature and meteorology, Mr. man replied that he would not only Japan. Al a press conference. President Roosevelt hinted that lease-lend re-elect all the Republicans who aid might even go to Kamchatka. Bright bays looked it up in the alias, Honolulu radio station KGMII. A Stewart’s book is an incidental, per voted against Roosevelt, but he did some figuring, and came forth with the not-too-far-fetchcd idea that bomb, probably intended for the haps not intended, reminder that the would also elect a lot of new Repub U. S. bombers based on Kamchatka could give the land of the rising radio station, fell nearby during the politicos have been far behind the sneak Japanesr raid December 7. licans to fill the seats of the Demo sun quite a message. meteorologists in grasping the full crats whj had voted with Roosevelt implications of man adding wings to “Listen." said Willkie, "if you re his breathing apparatus. elect 80 per cent of those who voted against the President you'll be the Francis W. Reichelderfer. the greatest political genius of all time.” lean, baldish, chief of the U. S. "And," said Willkie. in telling the weather bureau, seems to have story to a friend afterward, "a few had something like that in mind days later there was Joe himself for many years, and that's all to voting with Roosevelt for a declara the good just now. as our fight tion of war.” ers, on, under and above the —Buy Defense Bonds— sea have the best weather serv- SHIP-BUILDING PROGRAM ice in the world. It was in the The action of the house naval af aerological service of the navy fairs committee in slashing the pro that Commander Reichelderfer posed expansion of our two-ocean carried through his "air mass" navy was due chiefly to shortages of analysis which revolutionised weather forecasting. Bringing materials and construction equip- : ment. meteorology into focus with However. Rear Admiral Samuel modern communications, avia Robinson, chief of the bureau of tion and revised military science was a little heeded but supreme ships, ran into a blunt barrage of questions about the worth of the ly important assignment, and battleship under modern combat Commander Reichelderfer made I conditions. Committee members good. sharply suggested that in view of He isn't dealing bulletins the way the battleship's record in this war, he used to. The most authentic the navy might be wdse to build no weather news now is low-down, deep , more. Mir Anthony Eden, British foreign This radiophoto shows members of the British Commando force that from Sibyl's Cave of the Winds, Robinson contended that this secretary, shown as he was wel raided the German base at Vaagsoe, Norway, helping their wounded slipped out quietly to the armed would be impractical, since the forces and a touchy job it is, with United States needed battleships "if comrades into one of their invasion barges as they retired from the comed on arrival In M mcow for an the seven seas to cover. The com our enemies continue to use them Norse isle after dynamiting German plants, warehouses, etc., and exhaustive discussion of the war spiking coastal guns. They practically annihilated the German garrison. 1 with Premier Josef Stalin. mander is putting on forced draught for combat punjoses." the full 24 hours in the old red brick “What is your honest private opin- weather building in Washington. ; ion of the battleship?” he was In 1918, the youth from Harlan, asked. "Do you think this type of Ind., two years out of Northwestern ship is worth all the money it costs university, new'.y commissioned en and the time and labor required to sign in the navy, was sent to Lisbon ; build them?” “I'm sorry, gentlemen, but it's not to dig weather reports for the wob bly crow-hop of the NC-4 across the my function to answer that ques ocean. Thereafter, joining the aero tion.” sidestepped Robinson with a logical service, he was the weather smile. “I'm not a policy man. My consultant of polar fliers, gave Lind job is to build ships after it is de bergh the gun for his historic flight cided they are needed. However, to Paris, cleared or held Dr. Ecke- I have my own ideas about the bat ner’s blimps, served from 1922 to tleship.” This drew laughter, and the ad 1928 as head of the aerological serv ice, and became head of the weath miral was pressed no further. Robinson also was quizzed close er bureau on January 16, 1939. ly about the high cost of certain vessels which the navy proposed in the expansion program, chiefly TN ANOTHER, ana possibly more an aircraft carrier at an estimated * enjoyable, century. Cadet Charles $85,000,000. M. Wesson, known as “The Bull,” "Higher labor and material costs was a famous line-bucker at West are the biggest factors,” Robinson Point. For explained. "For instance, we have Ordnance Chief 34 years in a new type of armor plate for our the ordnance Comes Up With ships which is far stronger than department that used by any other nation. It 5 Billion in Hand of the army, costs $60 a ton, three times as much he has been bucking congress, try as the armor plate we formerly ing to break through the line for an used." appropriation touchdown, and al “How about the labor supply?" most always thrown for a loss. But “We have plenty of labor to carry now, as Major General Wesson, out our shipbuilding program," Rob chief of ordnance since 1938, he finds inson said. "Also plenty of facili his appropriation upped about 1,600 ties. Getting materials and ma- j per cent to around $5.000.000,000. chine tools is our big problem right now. However, the shortage doesn't General Wesson, bulky, mus amount to a bottleneck. In fact, cular and appropriately beetle- Newly appointed deputy com production is running a little ahead browed at 63, has been a glutton of schedule and will be greatly ex- , mander of the Panama canal de for punishment, trying to get partment, Maj. Gen. Karl Truesdell pedited by next spring.” goods and gear for the armed — Bay Defense Bonds — (right) pictured upon his arrival at Prime minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, Is shown here forces. But he stands up well chatting with President Roosevelt, upon his arrival at the White House. Balboa, Canal Zone. On the left Is CAPITAL CHAFF under it, with no come-back oth The outbreak of the war obscured At the right is Capi. John Beardall, White House naval aid. Churchill Brig. Gen. Wallace Philoon, who Is j er than an occasional wry wise the incident, but the house ate crow came to the U. 8. for a series of conferences regarding the creation of a chief of stafT of the Caribbean de crack Away back in 1920, he fense command. in a big way on its action last sum unified allied command. made an earnest plea for anti mer barring David Lasser, former aircraft guns, insisting that the head of the Workers Alliance, from bombing effectiveness of planes government employment After a was increasing rapidly and we careful investigation, the appropria would be in a bad way if we tions committee completely exoner didn't keep ahead of it. The ated Lasser of any Communist af general might just as well have filiations. Representatives John Ta asked for caviar and champagne ber, N. Y., J. W Ditter, Pa., and for the daily army ration. It was Everett Dirksen, Ill., who made the prettv much that way for the original accusation ducked the com next 20 years. And now, all at mittee session when Lasser was once the man who blew in Brew cleared. ster’s Millions is a skin-flint, Puerto Ricans wryly recall that compared to the general. U. S. navy’s radio towers at Cayey, He was born in St. Louis, Mo., and 25 miles from San Juan, were dis was graduated from West Point in mantled three years ago and sold I as scrap iron to the Japanese. 1900. Office of Civilian Defense is pre In 1907, he joined the ordnance department, made good on his job paring a handbook on "What You as a hard-working and competent Can Do For Civilian Defense.” Au-’ technician and passed quite a few thor of the handbook is Eleanor miracles in keeping the U. S. arse Pierson, wife of Export-Import Bank 1 nal at Watertown, Mass., kicking out President Warren Lee Pierson. Australia's able Minister Richard ' fighting equipment during the World war, with or without congressional G. Casey drives about Washington ' rippropriations. As commandant of in a British car with a transparent the Aberdeen proving grounds in top and right-hand drive. Apparently not having enough to Maryland, he spent much time ex This soundphoto, which was taken somewhere in the bleak wilds of Admiral Earnest J. King, com plaining to congress why the army do with the war, representatives of Alaska, shows United Htatcs troops landing at an Alaskan post to man mander In chief of the United States found it difficult to patch up old the Pure Food and Drug adminis our most northern frontier. These troops have received special training fleet and in supreme command of Springfield rifles, or get its shoes tration now ask drug firms the ques for duty In this bleak outpost, and can be expected to give a good account all naval operating forces in Atlan half-soled. In some manner or other tion: "How much business did you •f themselves against all comers. tic, Pacific and Asiatic waters. do last year?” he gets «long with congress. After British Raid on Nazi Base Bad News—For Axis American Troops in Alaska Confers \\ itli Stalin Defends ( ’anal Heads U. S. Fleet I. Whut I n the milc-high city in the United Stale«? 2 Why du air traveler« have trouble with their fountain pen« in higher altitude«? 3. Whut country ia culled Mix- raim in the Bible? 4. During the wnr with Spain who was commander in-chief of our force«? 5. The core of the earth is be lieved to be composed of whut? 6. Whut is perique? 7. When did Benjamin Fiunklin receive his first uirmuil letter? The Answers 1. Denver, Colo. 2. The uir in the pen (if pen 1« but partially full) expand«, cuue- ing u Icukuge of ink. 3. Egypt. 4. Willium McKinley. ft. Nickel und iron. fl. A strong flavored tobacco. 7. In 1785. when in France. It wus sent from Englund by bal loon. 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