Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, November 30, 1944
The Hornet Returns to Wreck Japanese Fleet
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By P aul M allon
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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