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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, November 30, 1944 The Hornet Returns to Wreck Japanese Fleet B ehin the /N e By P aul M allon Toy Chest That Ha» Folding Table Top E N C IL IN G the scalloped bor S T ders, b rig h t sturs and topsy tu rvy letters on this gay toy chest is sure to put you in the ChrlNtnuis s p irit. The chest itse lf is eusy to m ake from setups of plywood. The rope handles and wooden wheels niuke it possible to move u com plete assortm ent of toys to Washington, l> CABINET CLEAN-OUT? WASHINGTON.—Those around the White House say that this tim e the President really means business • FU LL W EEK '—H IG H ER when it comes to cleaning out his OUR TOWN —This is Our Town, Cabinet. Of course, this word has U.S.A.. the one in which the plum ber been passed out so often that some m ust hire 12 helpers to keep 6 on intim ates are keeping their fingers the Job as the rest earn enough to crossed. live sa tisfactorily laying otf half the However, it is a fact that Roose tim e, where the b rickla ye r has g iv velt is now faced with some situa en up tryin g to handle his crew Mid tions he cannot escape, other situa gone to blacksm ithing, where the tions which have made him sore. In unskilled laborer wanted $8 a day the form er category is Cordell fo r washing windows. It is much like H u ll’ s health. In the latter cate your town I ' suspect, developing gory is Jesse Jones. As a result, curious phenomena as a backwash various names have been put in the of war, that need attention. White House Cabinet hopper and are While progress is thus be:ng made being examined carefully. in some lines toward a four and Here are some of the names which three day week, the local druggist may feature in the new cabinet. has not been able to h ire a helper Secretary of Commerce— M arrin- fo r three years or more and has er Eccles, now chairman of the Fed had no vacation in that tim e. His eral Reserve Board; or Leon Hen w ife is his helper and they open up derson; or Chester Bowles, now about 9 a. m. and keep open u ntil OPA a dm inistrator; or Beardsley 10 or 11 p. m. every day. seven Rumi, author of the Rumi tax plan days a week unless tiredness causes and considered a liberal big-busi them to oversleep and open up late ness man. or weariness at the end of the day Secretary of Labor—Dan Tobin, sends them home earlier. They are head of the teamsters’ union; or conscientious people who would John Winant, now Ambassador to Left: Full-face photo of the U. 8. Hornet, silhouetted planes crowning Its flight deck, somewhere In the rath er go out of business than offer London and form er head of the In Pacific. Lower right: The Stars and Stripes flutters in Pacific brreic from carrier. Upper right: Blimp makes an in fe rio r or unsafe product, and a ternational Labor Office. Winant, one-point landing aboard carrier. Cruising in from a flight, the navy blimp makes the landing somewhere fa irly general example of the trap however, would prefer to be Secre at sea. Three carriers help pay bark part of the debt owed the Japs for sinking their namesake carriers, in which sm all business is caught. ta ry of State. Tobin, if appointed, the Hornet. Wasp and Lexington. Deadly blows were dealt the Japanese fleet during the second battle of They cannot get enough products is about the only AFL leader who the Philippines by the Hornet and other navy carriers. to fill the demand and swell th e ir would be acceptable to the CIO. incomes, as some other w ar incomes Postmaster General—Robert Han- have been swollen in this neighbor negan. Frank Walker, now Post hood. master General, believes that the Dem ocratic national chairman They are patient victims of a should also be Postmaster and. be new kind of inflation which is ing a re tirin g person anyway. Walk not much discussed and not er is ready to step out. thoroughly understood. Secretary of Agriculture— Roose The patience of a ll the people, in velt is hoping to persuade Henry fact, is impressive. In the nearby Wallace to take this job again. I f city more than here, people w ill not, Wallace w ill be offered the am- j stand in sidewalk lines, quietly, bassadorship to Moscow, considered good-humoredly fo r a h a lf hour or v ita lly im portant, or chairmanship m ore to get to a ticket window or of the international food organiza into a restaurant. H urried A m e ri tion. Roosevelt feels that it would cans would not do that before the be d ifficult politically to make Wal war, or would not take it well if lace Secretary of State because of they found it necessary. Patiently opposition from Hull and Senate re- i also they accept in fe rio r cigarettes, actionaries. food and service at the prices of the Secretary of State — Ex-Justice best—or more. They even stand, Jim m y Byrnes or Ambassador Wi w ithout a m urm u r the law-evading nant. Appointment of Byrnes would prices of the gouging merchant, one smooth things down fo r Hull, who of whom told me: “ You know I isn't anxious to resign even though can charge anything I want and get in the hospital. H ull would kick it . " like a mule if Sumner Welles or He was nearly rig h t because in Wallace were to succeed him. m any lines, by cutting quality Byrnes also gets along well w ith and service or creating ne.. infe Senate Foreign Relations chairm an Lett: Mrs. Ethel Esterly of Allentown, Pa., is shown in hospital with the son born to her recently. Sur rio r brands or by any one of a hun Tom Connally and other reactiona rounding her are her husband. Earl Wallace Esterly, right, foreground, and 15 more of her 18 living children. dred devices d ifficu lt or impossible ries. She says the new son. Timothy, will be the last. Right: The mother of 17 children. Mrs. Stella Dorothy Welsh. fo r the customer to detect, he can Secretary of the Interior—Harold 43. of Allison Park, Pa., has donated 11 pints of blood to the Red Cross. She and her husband, Robert J. “ charge anything." Ickes. Welsh, 53, are shown with 14 of their children. Two sons are in the service, another was killed in action. The one who told me this was a Attorney General—Francis Biddle. restaurant proprietor but I can see Roosevelt w ill not accept either the same th ing is true in other lines. Biddle’s or Ickes' resignation They The list prices on the wall concern were his top campaign speakers. items that are sold out most of the NOTE—A fter FDR defeated W ill- tim e. kie ip 1940, Miss Perkins submitted Evade Ceiling Price. her resignation. Her letter has Then there is the roofer. I called been in the White House files since one I do not know, who had an ad January 15, 1941. The President vertisem ent in the paper, to fix two never acted on it. * • • leaks which are ruining the plaster. He questioned me closely about tne KAISER’S MERCHANT FLEET nature of the job and then told me: Demon ship-builder Henry Kai “ I f we do not get out next week, ser thinks he has found an an you w ill know we could not handle swer to the burning question or your jo b .” In the end he made it how he can use some of the great rath er clear that he selected only fleet of merchant ships he has work from which he could make built, and still keep on building the most money. If I wanted a more after the war. roof put on he could do it. but Kaiser plans to enter competi he would not fix small leaks. I tion with the West Coast shipping guess it will leak all winter un lines, set up his own shipping less I fix it myself. business, try to emphasize smart salesmanship,. cheap freight I fin ally contracted for some p aint rates, mass orders. He says his ing. The painter did half the job, only hope is a free and open then as it was Saturday he said he market in the Orient, thinks be needed money to pay his men, so I can do a more efficient job of paid him up to date. He never shipping both to and from the returned to finish the other h a lf of Far East than a lot of old-line the job. I thought he m ight be w ait companies. ing for a rainy day to do the inte • • • rio r work, but we had a week of NAVY DEPT. RESHUFFLE rain thereafter and he never showed Secretary of the Navy Forrestal up. I reached the conclusion he m ust also have chosen another job finally has devised a plan to ele vate his old Wall Street friend, in the middle of mine. Now these are not amusing Struve Hensel, to the Job of Assist Scrgt. De Sales A. Glover, Pitts sym ptom s from a single com m unity ant Secretary of the Navy. He has Victory signs put up by townspeople of the Dutch city of Breda even burgh, Pa., vetfran of six missions been w anting to do it fo r a long but strikin g and common examples before it was liberated from Nazi rule by Polish troops. The signs indi over Europe, and holder ol the Air of a new kind of national inflation tim e, but there were too many Wall cate that the Nazis’ V-2 weapon will give way to the V-3 of the United Medal, has been grounded on ac which does not show in price or Streeters running the Navy to add Nations which will make a clean sweep of the war in Europe and com count of age. He is only 16 years manpower statistics or problems any more. plete freedom for its people. old and will be given a discharge. I Here is the new solution. You can as handled in Washington. M r. Roosevelt, in his campaign, w rite it down as definite that able recognized one of the points in John Sullivan, now Assistant Secre volved. He promised high wages for ta ry of the Treasury, w ill become a “ fu ll" work week, the first tim e Undersecretary of the Navy around I can recall he mentioned the word January 1. A New Hampshire Dem “ fu ll. " This may mean some action ocrat and no banker, Sullivan w ill is coming to promote full national replace Republican banker Ralph production by available manpower. Bard, who came out publicly for But if he contemplates only an Dewey. W ith banker Bard out of other national wage increase as sug the picture as Undersecretary of gested, it w ill com plicate the prob the Navy, Forrestal figures he can lem , the essence of which is that then bring in banker Hensel as As the people have two or three tim es sistant Secretary. Hensel already is as much money as the goods they chief of the Navy procurement legal can buy, and a seller’ s m arket is de division but wants a handle to his name. m o ra lizin g war economics. • • • The proper tim e econom ically for DIPLOM ATIC CHAFF a wage increase is when lay-offs C They have worn no uniform since s ta rt In w ar production, after defeat Benjam in F ra n klin appeared as Am o f G erm any so as to take up that bassador to France in ordinary slack in purchasing power and m ain clothes, refused to don court dress ta in the existing level of national in and was the sensation of the French j come. Otherwise more irre sistib le court. F ra n klin argued that he rep im petus w ill be added to the infla resented a nation of rebellious fa rm - 1 tio n a ry impulses already noticeable ers, merchants and fro n tie rsm e n ; everyw here except in the statistics. who believed more in democracy The president said something in than in king ly folderol. These German civilia ns are being marched through Kunrade, Holland, MaJ. R ichard I. Bong, Poplar, his Boston speech about having <L Since then U. S. ambassadors to work on Dutch roads. They were fo rm e rly German guards over WIs. (le ft), w ith a record of 35. cured inflation. I th in k he s till has have stuck to plain evening clothes, Dutch w orkers, who were forced to w ork fo r the Nazis. Now the Dutch do and MaJ. Thomas B. M cGuire, a lo t of w ork to do on it. No defi w ith gray-striped pants and cutaway the guarding and the ex-masters do the w orking. This is typ ical of the Ridgewood, N. J., w ith a score of n ite plan has come from the White in the afternoon. liberated countries of Europe. 25 Jap planes, meet on Leyte. House—o r even hint. Released bv Western Newspaper Unton. They Raise Large Families in Pennsylvania Signs of Victory in Holland Masters Become the Servants C H tS T M A * B I HAD! 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