Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, November 9, 1944
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‘We Promised and We Are Back'— MacArthur
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I A General Quiz
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By P aul M allon
W ashington, D
1. How many lim e r a year do a
clock and a sun dial agree ex
actly?
2. What sovereign, upon seeing
an imitation of herself by a
groom-in-waiting, said: “ We are
not amused’’?
3. What country hus the largest
volunteer army?
4. In London what is Rotten
Row?
5. Duncan Phyfe's best-known
motif on furniture is what?
6. What country's legislative
body is celled the storthing?
C.
EISENHOWER'S BRILLIANT
PLANNING
W hen the inside story of G en eral
Eisenhow er's European w a r plan-1
P R E S E N T LABOR TR EN D S
ning is Anally told, the A m eric an
S P E L L R E A L . D . IS - A S . T E R
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public w ill be am azed at some of the
O U R T O W N . U . S. A .—-This Is O u r thinga he hag put a c ro M . H ere is
Tow
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gtory;
.u n. . U . S. A., . just a lik e m any
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o ther I suspect, and a ra th e r as-
U )n g before D day Eisenhow er !
tonishing place rig h t now fo r e v e ry
had tim ed ev ery operation down to
one in i t
the last m inute. T he most im
I should not say “ astonishing” be p ortan t m an eu ver was to b reak
cause no one is astonished at a n y through the G erm an s' A tlan tic w all
thing these days. Its p ecu lia r con and wedge an opening through
ditio n is a ch ief subject ot conver- which other troops could pour. The
sational concern am ong its re s i-I G e rm a n High C o m m an d considered ,
dents, although not ye t recognized th is w a u im p reg n ab le. Y e t Eisen-1
in public statem ents. I t just seems how er's d riv in g dem and fo r offense
to be grow ing into som ething no one was such that he allotted his m en
understands.
e x a c tly 45 m inutes to get through.
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T h e re is our plu m b er, fo r in
stance. as good a p lu m b er as th ere
ever w ill be. His in te g rity shows in
his w ork.
W hen he Axes a pipe,
you know it is Axed, which is per-
haps an unusual thing in itself these
days.
He had each m ove so c a re fu lly
tinned and planned that, a fte r 45
I m inutes, other ships, supplies, m en
would be piling up on the beach,
would have no place to go unless
the break-through was accom plished
in the tim e allotted.
In the past ye a r, th ere w ere
only three days out of the cus
to m a ry 365 in w hich his en tire
force of help appeared for w ork.
T hey are m akin g such high
rates of pay th a t they can liv e
co m fo rtably (to the fullest of the
liq u or ratio n also) by w orking
only h alf the tim e , and nothing
can get them to w ork the other
h alf. He keeps 12 men on the
p ayro ll in order to get the six
necessary fo r his business.
B e fo re th e in v a s io n a fu ll-
s c a le re p lic a of G e r m a n f o r tif i
c a tio n s w a s c o n s tru c te d In E n g
la n d . b u ilt fro m a e r ia l photo
g ra p h s .
And d ay
a ft e r d a y ,
A m e r ic a n
tro o p s
re h e a rs e d
t h e ir b re a k - th ro u g h . T h e best
t im e th e y w e re a b le to m a k e in
these re h e a rs a ls , h o w e v e r, w as
one h o u r a n d 30 m in u te s . B u t
w h e n D d a y fin a lly c a m e , th a n k s
to G e n e r a l
E is e n h o w e r’s d y
n a m ic p la n n in g , they m a d e It
not in 45. bnt in 35 m in u te s .
I called the best b ric k la y e r in O ur
Tow n to do a little job. H e said he
had gone out of business. His health
could not stand the strain of try in g
to keep his troup of b ric k la y e rs to
gether. as none wished to w ork reg
u la rly .
G en. Douglas M a c A rth u r (r ig h t ) , L ie u t. Gen. R ic h a rd K. S utherland (le ft), and Sergio O am ena, president
of the P h ilipp ines, keep th e ir p ro m ise and re tu rn to the Islands— w ith A m e ric a n troops. In one of the steps
to reg ain the islands fro m the Japs. L o w er rig h t shows a lan din g e ra ft b ristlin g w ith U . 8. in fa n try m e n as II
cut its w a y to w a rd the s m o u ld rrln g shore of J-eytc island, the first m a jo r step In re tak in g the islands.
Big Crowds in the Rain and in Pittsburgh
through, ran into difficulty.-
L ie u t. Gen. O m a r B rad ley
Good News!
HeadCo/ds
iO S FOLK» WITH SNIFFtV
SM C IU
Sots Dress
Werks fsst
Sigili Where
TreeWe t i l
VICKS VA-IKO-HOl
kept !
C A P IT A L C H A F F
C The d an ger of a new c rim e w ave
as a resu lt of le ttin g re tu rn in g w a r
heroes keep captu red revo lvers and
m ach ine guns is w o rryin g officials,
«.P u b lish er Joe Patterson w asn't
kid din g when he explained th a t the
N ew Y o rk News was dropping the
“ P re sid en tia l B a ttle P ag e” because
of lib el. H e faces a libel suit fro m
C IO ’s Beannie B ald w in . . . . The
G O P accused B a ld w in of d raw in g a
sa la ry fro m the g overnm ent w hile
w o rkin g w ith the C IO and Patterson
p rin te d IL
1. Four times—April 15, June
15, September 1 and December 24.
2. Queen Victoria.
3. India.
It hus a volunteer
arm y of 2,000,000 strong, accord
ing to the government of India's
information service in Washing
ton, D. C.
4. A fashionable equestrian thor
oughfare.
5. A lyre,
6. Norway.
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But w ith his advance into F ra n c e i
tim ed to the hour and d ay, E is e n -I
how er, a fte r the o rig in al break-1
rig h t on schedule in pen etratin g
south into N o rm an dy. And M a j. Ben.
F O R C E D O U T O F B U S IN E S S
Joe Collins was on schedule or ahead
I t was not w orth the trouble to
of it in p en etratin g Cherbourg. In
try to handle them because you
fact, they had developed, in coopera
could n eve r get a jo b done.
He
tion w ith Eisenhow er, a new type of
opened, instead, an old b lacksm ith
advance. Instead of advancing so
shop w hich had been closed fo r 30
m a n y m iles and then w aitin g for
years. Yes sir, our leading b ric k
supplies to com e up, as a t the slow-
la y e r has become a blacksm ith , a
m oving Anzio beachhead, they de
sym bol of our progress.
veloped the tac tic of barging ahead
The hotel m a n a g e r in O ur Tow n
regardless of supplies.
is a superior fellow , has had top ex
Thus G en eral Collins surprised the
perience in N ew Y o rk C ity, a pro
N azis and the w orld, ignoring N azi
gressive kind of m anager who w ants
m achine-gun nests, fo rg etting about
to m a k e his food b etter, his place
supplies and forging rig ht into C h er
efficient and superior.
He broke
bourg before its defenders knew
down try in g to do it, and a fte r a
w hat was happening.
few weeks in the hospital is now
T ro u b le w ith M o nty.
tak in g a m onth’ s rest.
Eisenhow er’ s ch ief trouble, how
H is w aiters m a d e enough money
ever, was w ith G en eral M o ntg om
to allow th em to re tire each payday
ery, whom W inston C h u rch ill once
and re tu rn , e ith e r rested or b le ary
described as “ m agnificent in de
eyed the follow ing Tuesday or Wed'
feat, insufferab le in v ic to ry ."
nesday. H is maids went off to the
G e n e ra l M o ntg om ery had been
local w a r factory where they could
given Caen as his o bjective. But
m a k e $30 a week and m ore stand
days passed and nothing happened.
ing around doing p rac tic ally noth
T h e offensive - m inded Eisenhow er
ing. Some days only one em ployee
kept h a m m e rin g a t M o ntg om ery,
showed up.
urg in g an advance. But nothing hap
W hat has happened to O ur
pened. A c tu a lly , M o ntg om ery had
T o w n * No one wants to w ork.
ju s t as high a ran k as E isenhow er,
No one who can live otherw ise
had seen m a n y m o re battles, so
wants the responsibilities of an
E isenhow er was in no position to
em plo yer. I t is not a m anpow er
get too rough.
question (the men are here) or
F in a lly , A ir In te llig e n c e showed
an economic question involved
th a t G e rm a n resistance behind the
in a ll those statistics the gov
A llie d lines was a m e re shell. He
ernm en t bureaucrats w ran g le .
could te ll fro m
a ir observation
about. I t is a state of m ind, a
th a t the N azis wer<* able to b ring
condition for w hich there seems
up only about 25 p er cent of th e ir
no rem edy.
needed supplies.
T h e ir re in fo rc e
T h e eld erly couple down the street m ents had to hide in the d aytim e ,
fin a lly got a m an to wash th e ir w in advance only a t night. M ost of the
dows this fall, but he w anted $8 a bridges across the Seine w ere down.
day fo r th a t sitnple task and they
So E isenhow er, tire d of w aitin g
could not afford it.
T h e kitchen fo r M o n tg o m ery and a lre a d y behind
m aid s ask $30 a week— m ore than schedule, gave the o rd er for G en
tw ice as much as a soldier Aghting e ra l B rad le y to ignore M o ntg om
at the fro n t— and sometim es get it. e ry and b rea k through the N a zi lines
But lik e others they do not w ant to the south.
to w ork, as a group, and they in
D E M O B IL IZ IN G O L D E R M E N
crease th eir salaries w hile cutting
th e ir hours of lab or and th e ir days
W a r d e p artm en t officials a re un
off, lay in g off when they accum u d e r heavy pressure to m a k e one
la te enough m oney to rest up for a v e ry im p o rtan t change in the a rm y 's
few weeks.
plan fo r dem o b ilization .
T h e d em o b ilization plan did not
R U I N O F N A T IO N S
consider servicem en ’s age.
How
Is this a w a r situation or a local ev er, men overseas, p a rtic u la rly
phenomena? I think not. It is not
those in the European th eate r, have
a w a r question because it started
been a n g rily pointing out th a t the
long before the w ar. Indeed it is
B ritis h
d em o b ilization
p ro g ram
the sam e condition to which moat
gives each m an a specific n um ber
au th orities ascribe the fa ll of F ran ce
of points for age, thus assures old
and it ruined Com m unism in Russia
e r m en a b e tte r break. T h e a rm y
W hen
conditions encourage
said it had d rafte d o lder m en “ re
people not to w ork, they natu
lu c ta n tly ,’ ’ because most w ere heads
ra lly w ill not w ork, and when
of fa m ilie s . T h e G Is now point out
a nation does not w ork it d eteri
th a t it would be eq u ally logical to
orates and gives its em inence
discharge these o ld er m en am ong
to nations which a re producers.
the ea rliest, since they a re needed
A nation has no w ealth except
by th e ir fam ilies .
the product of its labors and
V e te ra n s ’ a d m in is tra tio n studies
when the production fails off, fo r
re ve al th a t the cost of keeping o lder
any reason, it declines.
m en in u n ifo rm is g re a te r than fo r
B ut w hat bothers m e is the future. younger m en, since the a rm y pays
T h e g o vern m en t is pledged to an out la rg e sums fo r dependency. A l
in fla tio n a ry postw ar policy of high lotm ents have proved m e ag er and
w ages and high prices, thus con scarcely able to keep fa m ilie s to
tin u in g the conditions which are gether. Y et, under the d em o b iliza
causing the unofficial institution of tion plan as it stands now, fa m ily
the th re e -d a y week, of w ork av o id heads would be am ong the last men
ance and em p lo ye r re tire m e n t.
to be released.
• • •
I know lab or leaders who doubt
th a t the union people in our w a r
fa c to rie s can be kept at th e ir jobs
a fte r peace in Europe. I h ear au
th en tic pred iction s of a breakdow n
in A m e ric a n production before J a
pan can be conquered.
T his is O u r T o w n alread y.
W ill
I t soon be o u r country.
T h e best possible non p artisan au
th o rity re c e n tly has m a d e a check
o f in n e r union ca m p a g in trends and
re tu rn e d h e re w ith doubts that put
even C a lifo rn ia and W ashington in
unsure ca teg o ries. M r. Roosevelt is
holding a good p ortio n of the C IO .
Tha Anaw ara
Happy Relief When
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P re sid en t F ra n k lin D . Roosevelt visits N e w Y o rk C ity frig h t) and Is w elcom ed by a shower of ra in .
G o v ern o r T ho m as E . D e w e y is w elcom ed (le ft) a t P ittsb u rg h a m id showers of p ap er. Thousands turned out
to look a t and la te r to vote fo r th e ir fa v o rite fo r the office of P re sid en t of the U n ited States. End of c a m
paign found R oosevelt the “ b e ttin g " fa v o rite despite c la im s of D e w e y ’s supporters th a t he would spend the
n ext fo u r ye a rs in W ashington instead of A lb a n y .
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in U b ach d u rin g the d riv e into G e rm a n te r rito r y , passes s tra y sheep le ft
behind by the G erm an s when they fled to b ills d u rin g the a ir a tta c k .
A ir force fliers shown as they a re
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lin e beyond ro cky c o ra l cliffs of
M a ria n a s base, using a rifle g ren
ade launcher fo r th e ir 200-yard line.
Good catches w ere re p o rte d .
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