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Friday, January 30, 1942 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Paq© 2 WHO’S NEWS THIS TtófáiMfok New Underwater Prowler for Navy DON'T LET Kctircs CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP ! Washington, D. C. NEW SELECTEES It needed no mind reading to fathom what was behind that war department announcement of the purchase of 700.000.000 feet of lum ber and 240.000 kegs of nails - the biggest order of its kind in U. S. By LEMUEL F. PARTON history. (Consolidated Features WNU Service ! The materials are for the con X* EW YORK.—Encouraging news struction of numerous new army ' is that we may keep our rub cantonments and the enlargement ber heels, and if we have to travel of existing ones. on them, instead of on rubber tires. Army strength, down to 1.600.000 it won’t be Small, Still Voice the fault of after the demobilization of 28 to 35 year olds last fall, is due for a big Of Scientista Now Dr. Elmer increase—at least another 1.000.000 W. Brandes, More Audible head of the after the next draft lottery follow ing the February 16 registration of bureau of plant industry of the de men between 21 and 44. partment of agriculture An estimated 24.000.0<M) will regis For many years. Dr. Brandes has ter next month, and on the basis of been exploring rubber jungles, wher past experience only about 5 per ever he can find them, studying rub cent will be rated 1-A; that is. sub ber-yielding plants and staking out ject to immediate call. Heretofore for the government useful data and the army has inducted only men in techniques. Currently, he tells the ' good physical condition, with no de house agriculture committee about pendents and not engaged in "es the urgency of planting large areas sential" production. of the guayule shrub. This time, However, as the need for military the committee is listening more in manpower develops, 1-A standards tently. Germany is far ahead of us will be broadened and many thou The submarine Guardfish Is launched at the Electric Boat company's in synthetic rubber production. sands of 1-B, 2-A. and 2-B deferees yards in New London, Conn. When it is commissioned it will roam the by pre-war standards will be called On occasion. Dr. Brandes has seas to give the Axis a dose of its own medicine. worked up a pleasant friendship up. For the present, the army still is with head-hunters, and should placing primary emphasis on youth. be able to get on friendly terms The February 16 registration is ex- with congressmen. It was in August, 1928. that he landed his | pected to list around 2.000.000 20-21 hydroplane in a jungle river in i youngsters and the largest propor- tion of new inductees will come from New Guinea. It scared the wits this group. Registrants in the 36 out of the pygmy head-hunters. to 44 group will have to be in top But the genial and conspicuous ly unarmed Dr. Brandes lured ' condition to get in the army at this time. them into his camp by friendly However, big scale inductions gestures and they became from this age group can be expected friends and co-operators. He has by fall, particularly those with no flown many thousands of lone dependents and with previous mili jungle air leagues on many re tary service. search expeditions to Central and South America, Asia and For the present the army will take the Pacific islands. In July, 1940. its older-age recruits from the 28 congress provided $500.000 for a to 35 year olds who were exempted study of crude rubber in the I because of dependency or defense Western hemisphere. Dr. Bran . work. FEEN-fl-MINTÎoi WEEK Narrowly Escapes Watery Grave des flew to Brazil and is now offering to congress the result of his researches there. Education a Debt Education — u debt dur from present to future generations.— George Peabody. of Robert 8. Fennell Jr., left, and George Tavclle. both nt Savannah. Ga., relate their experience to newspaper men at a hospital in Hoboken, N. J. They are the only known survivors of the steamer. City of Atlanta, which was sunk by a submarine off Cape Hatteras. The ill-fated vessel carried a crew of 47. Eor Pan-American Solidarity Against Axis COLDS LtQUIO TASI til S ALVt NOM t)BOH couch onori The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cos mo Gordon Lang, archbishop of Canterbury, who announced his re tirement as head of the Churc h of England, lie said that the present crisis needs a man with younger “ardor and vigor.** Sinks Jap Ship WNU-13 4. 43 MUSCULAR RHEUMATIC PAIN Sor.noaa and Stllfncsa You need to rub on ■ powerfully sooth ing "COt’NTKH-iXKITANT*' Ilka Mu*- len .1. to q uickly ral invo neurit la. rheu matic arhaa and pains. Het ter than a multarti platter io help break up painful local congestion! REDTAPE BUSTER Ordnance is the haughtiest and He was born in Washington in most hide-bound branch of the 1891, was educated in science at army. So much so that it has been Michigan State college, Cornell and the object of much bitter private the University of Michigan, taught criticism by civilian defense chiefs. But there is one notable exception at Michigan State and entered the government service as a plant pa ; to this Ordnance rule. He is Wil thologist at the Puerto Rico agricul liam Van Antwerp Kemp, a tall. tural experiment station in 1914. He | husky, dynamic engineer, who made served in the World war, as a sec • big success in private business I and volunteered his services when ond lieutenant, in France. ■ the national emergency arose. Since *T' HERE is one section of the popu- then, as an Ammunition division ex •* lace which won’t be bothered ecutive, he has been making his much by all this rationing of food, tory, busting redtape in tradition- clothes, automobile tires and house- I bound Ordnance. hold goods. It There are many tales of Kemp's A T oot for One of is the group unconventional exploits. The latest Our Indiapenaable which is. for is one of the best. the most Asked by a general to suggest a ‘Morale Build er a’ part, astran- manager for a new government ger to such luxuries. One of them munition plant about to begin pro asked me for a dime today. duction, Kemp recommended a crack "We gotta work fast,” he said, expert who had been loaned to the “before the government gets all the British to build a plant in England. loose dimes.” "He ought to be finished with his If. as reported, morale is good job over there by now,” said Kemp. among people who are hungry and "If he is. get him,” was the order. cold, the Salvation Army has helped, From the British, Kemp learned and will help, greatly to this end. the expert had completed his work And rating many new stars in his and was available. So Kemp picked crown, or cap, is Col. John J. Allan, up a phone and called the state de just now becoming the Army’s lieu partment. tenant commissioner for 11 central "I want to talk to the guy,” he states, with headquarters at Chi said, "who gets guys back from Eng cago. land.” When, as a young man, get There was a gasp, but the operator ting a start as a jeweler, John switched Kemp to someone who James Allan decided to give his asked him who he was and what life to the Salvation Army, he . he wanted. disguised himself as a derelict, "I'm Kemp of Army Ordnance,” when he went down into New he said. "There's a guy in England York's Bowery. He shared their we want to run an ammunition plant flop-houses, wore ragged clothes for us. Get him back here right and took his hand-out where he away, will you?” found it. "Condescending to men Six days later the expert reported of low estate," in the scriptural to Kemp and left for his new job. phrase, he found reciprocal un A few days later the general again derstanding when he shared summoned Kemp, asked what had their troubles. That was the been done about the expert. start of his career of kindly and “It’s all taken care of, general,” aggressive friendliness as an said Kemp. "He’s been on the job evangelist, and champion of the at the plant two days." down-but-never-outs, and as a “How did you get him back here cornetist for the Bowery and I so fast?” for King George of England—at “No trouble. I just called up the a command performance in 1904. state department, asked for the guy He was for three years a soloist who gets guys back here and he with Reeves American band of 1 arranged it.” Providence, R. I. "Kemp,” said the general severe- He is the father of the United ' ly. “do you know who that guy in Service Organizations. It was on j the state department was?” “No, sir.” October 11, 1940, that he met with “He was the undersecretary of executives of the Y.M.C.A., the Knights of Columbus and the Jew state.” Note: Kemp has persistently re- ish Welfare organization for united effort among the soldiers, and out ' fused to accept an army commis- i sion. Finally, pressed by the gen of this meeting came the U.S.O. He is married, the father of five eral for the reason, he retorted: children. He was born in Hazelton, | “Some day I may want to come in Pa., in 1887, his mother having been here and blow up. It I do, as an born near Nottingham, England, a officer you could court-martial me. stone's throw from the home of Gen But as a civilian, all you can do is fire me I’m remaining a civilian.” eral Booth. JAP SCHOOL LESSONS In the World war, he was senior After three years’ probing of sub chaplain of the Seventy-seventh di vision in France, the first Salva versive activities, it takes a lot to tion Army chaplain in the Ameri excite Rep. Martin Dies, but the oth can armed forces. He won the er day the rangy Texan hit on a French Croix de Guerre and later discovery that took his breath away. His committee has been making received the rank of major chaplain of the U. S. army. In 1925, he en a sweeping inquiry of Jap fifth- tered the army reserve corps, and columning on the West coast, includ his "Colonel” is a military title. ing subversive teaching in Japanese He was in Salvation Army work in language schools located all over Newark from 1923 to 1925 and there southern California. Investigators after in Columbus, Ohio, for eight found that from the primary grades years, managing the Greenwood up students in these schools are in Lake Camp for Children. He never doctrinated with militarism and the trumpets himself, but the Army does. i ideology of their Jap ancestors. • Winn bowols oro sluggish and you foal Irritable, haa.lai hy and ovarything you do is an afTort. do us millione do • haw IKl.NAMINT. th. nuolarn .hawing gum laaativa. Simply chew I'KKN A MINT balore you go to bad alaap with out boiiigdiaiuit>ad n.st morning gantla, thorough raliat, halping you feel await again, lull of your normal pop. Try FKKN A MINT. Tust.s good, Is hamly and o. <>m.ml. al. A ganaroua lamily supply Lieut. John D. Itulkeley, com- niandrr of “mosquito boat“ that dashed Into Blnanga Bay, P. I., and torpedoed an enemy vessel of 5.000 tons in night attack, under hall of llorse Relationship bullets. Bulkeley was commended Under American horse-racing | by the navy department. laws, thoroughbreds having the same sires but different dams are not half brothers or half sisters. Only those having the same dnms are considered to be related. V ¡sits \\ hile I louse THAT STOMACH AGAIN / Maybe you «t« too f««tl Worked l«to. Were too hungry. Normal itotna ha are 1 •lightly oetd, but burned eating, when «■- bauited. can <auw KXCKSS •< id. A OLA Tablet« contain Rtamuth ami Carbonate« for QUICK relief. Aak drugg.at f < AULA. .Maidens' Desire The desire to please everything having eyes seems inborn in maidens.—Salomon Gcssner. ^Relieves distress from MONTHLY^ FEMALE WEAKNESS Lydia E. Plnkliam's Compound Tablets <wlth add.-d iron» not only help relieve cramps, headache, backache but al.so weak, cranky, nervous feelings due to monthly functional disturbances. Taken regularly - Lydia Pink ham’s Tablets help build up resist ance against distress of "difficult days." They also help build up red ^blood. Follow label directions^ Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, center, and U. S. ambassa dor to Brazil, Jefferson Caffery, are shown talking to Oswaldo Aranha. Brazil’s foreign minister, who was also administrator of the Pan-American conference held in Rio de Janeiro. The photo was made just before the third conference of foreign ministers in the interest of lining up all the American republics in a solid 100 per cent Western hemisphere front against the Axis, with a complete rupture of diplomatic relations. Commandos Examine Captured Field Piece Precious Liberty God grants liberty only to those Wendell L. Willkie. 1940 Republi can candidate for the presidency, who love it, and are always ready shown with reporters as he walked to guard and defend it.—Webster. down the White House roadway, fol lowing a conference with President Roosevelt. Willkie gave the report ers no indication as to what the con ference was about. Production Chief Give a Thought to MAIN STREET British troops examine a German field gun, captured during their occupation of the island of Maaloy, Norway. The British commandos were landed on the Norwegian Islands of Vaagso and Maaloy, after coast defenses had been silenced. Fifteen thousand six hundred and fifty tons of enemy shipping were destroyed, with munition dumps, oil tanks and storehouses. Donald Nelson, named by the President to head a war production board, superseding the supply, al locations and priorities board. Nel son has “final” authority. • For, in our town .. . and towns like ouri clear scrota the country . . . lhere'a a ateady revolution going on. Changes in dress atylea and food prices . . . the rite of a hat crown . . . the fall of furni ture pricea-these matters vitally affect our living ... And the news is ably covered in advertisements. • Smart people who like to be up-to-the-minute in living current events, follow advertise ments ss closely as headlines. • They know what's doing in America . .. and they also know where money buys most.