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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, May 31, 1945 Backing the Attack om * Okinawa Island FOR SALE (00 nero rauch III Hiu>lmiiil«li C ounty, Kxoollont bullilli»««, Iloni«, . ... Mndorn —. bot« nil acaon c ln iro d , 40 neron amid b o l lim i llS .o o n mo ner.-n l»«lry fn rm eiin ip le l« ta iv lv n ninderii Block noil, near e iilii|il« iiH lerii n in e n non. «>•«■ (in no «er« n, r<- Im lr y lin k lliir lm r »12.000. tia.ooo. «0 I I ,in n eu iiiiilp ti'ly iniidern H knall V o l ley »in.Non M an y <itb«r finn form » If ri 'nnnhnlily | » i » i I n .... I ■ F • o r »«•-« d e ta il« — w - il»«. ri'HNimn ,v » «-»» — ».- Morin W alla«« A gaaoy, Bur- li» » » o e. W ««h. or e ill pc a k h n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ino XÀU! Washington. I). C. STRATEGY AGAINST JAPAN Back in 1937-38. Adm William Leahy, now chief of staff to the White House, devised a strategy against Japan, which, if put into ef fect. might have prevented Pearl Harbor and even World War II. Today, the old Leahy strategy is being dusted off, especially on Capi* tol Hill, as the best means of finish ing the war with Japan. It would save thousands of American lives, its proponents claim, and would serve as an example of how wars can be won—or prevented—by naval blockade The proposals made by Ad m iral Leahy constitute one of the most important and unwrit ten chapters in the history of what happened shortly before the war began. Leahy, then chief of naval operations and one of the best strategists the navy has seen in years, saw all too clearly what was coming both in Europe and Asia. At that time, 1937, Japan had Just begun her fuO-ocale invasion of China, and it was Leahy’s Idea to make an example of Nippon which would show Hitler and Mussolini — then feeling their oats — that the Cnited States meant business and would stand four-square behind the peace machinery of the world. Therefore, he proposed to Roose velt a naval blockade of Japan in cooperation with the British fleet, using the peace machinery of the League of Nations and the nine- power pact which guarantees the sovereignty of China. Leahy argued that by keeping the U. S. Navy in the Philippines and the British fleet at Singapore, we could cut off all oil, scrap iron, copper, cotton and other war ma terials from Japan. Without these, he argued, the Japanese war ma chine would be powerless and would fold up in six months. Leahy fig ured that the United States w'ould lose its gunboats on the Yangtze river, but that aside from this the main U. S. fleet would not have to fire a single shot. British Start Blockade. President Roosevelt agreed. So did the British. And in the late sum mer of 1937. the British actually de tailed 6 battleships. 12 cruisers and 20 destroyers to leave British home waters for Singapore. Just at that moment, however, the axis capi tals apparently got wind of what was happening, and Mussolini started his unofficial submarine campaign off the coast of Spain which detained the British fleet at Gibraltar. The Panay Incident. At any rate, the plan to blockade Japan, following the failure of the Brussels conference in October, 1937. was dropped. But Adm iral Leahy revived it again a year later, when, in December, 1938. the Japs sank the U. S. Gunboat Panay and the British Gunboat Ladybird. Leahy recognized this for what it was, a deliberate attempt by the Jap war lords to test out how much insult the United States would take, and to make Britain and the USA lose face with the Chinese. Ac cordingly he rushed to the state department and all one Sunday afternoon. December 13, 1938. one day after the sinking of the Panay, he urged Cordell Hull to seize this psychological moment to put the blockade of Japan into effect. The British were also willing to cooperate And, Leahy pointed out. in another year, war, inevitably breaking out in Europe, would tie up the British fleet and they could not possibly help us in the Pacific. Russia, he also pointed out. had 60 submarines at Vladivostok, ready to help us cut off all scrap iron, all oil, all cotton and copper from Japan. Without these, he argued, the Japanese war machine would be paralyzed. Pacing the floor of H ull’s office w ith Leahy was Hugh Wilson, ex ambassador to Germany and one of the state department's foremost ap peasers. He opposed Leahy at ev ery turn, finally convinced cautious Cordell Hull that Leahy was too vig orous, that it was best to appease Japan. • Less than one year later. Hitler had invaded Poland, the British fleet was desperately needed to defend B ritish home waters, and the fat was in the fire. From that point on there was no possible way the United States could blockade Japan —though many people have never understood why we went to the op posite extreme and increased our shipments of oil and scrap iron to Japan so that she laid in tremendous reserves before Pearl Harbor. Japan Can Be Starved. But beginning with V-E Day, the possibility of blockading Japan for the first time since 1939 was com pletely reversed. Since V-E Day, the B ritish fleet is entirely free to oper ate in the Pacific. So are Russian submarines. So is the whole might of the U. S. Navy, now no longer needed to watch for submarines in the Caribbean or the Atlantic. Today it is possible to throw up such a naval blockade around the main Jap islands, augmented by air patrols, that hardly a ton of raw materials could reach Jap factories D y P aul M aixon J ^ R r le a w d by W estern N ew spap er Union. »2500 2 lu ll« » fr o m C o- (•tu t S A L E : P ro fita b le Koloa concern crn nm ery lee iilnn l. re a r la e m to r looker« W ill liny fo r « « If In f iv r v o ir * ( In n e r r e llr ln a lin ,u lru O. M K n » 'h « r, ftn idandala W o»h. Hkv I-!I-:’C pi >T C i'll P I. A N TH Nuiiev H u ll. Porto Itleo Ilia , M ining, well rooted nlnniM. good count 40° »1 no moo. »2 no. ISO», »7.8" J. C D<O 'n »»r, n l » « n i T »n n » m < __ KAISER SETS PACE IN RECONVERSION PLANS SAN FRANCISCO—The Pacific coast has about the same postwar worry as the rest of the country but in more accentuated and positive form because of the vast expansion throughout the state in planes, ship yards and other war industries. The Kaiser shipyards industry, for example, has been losing about 5.000 employees a month. The last four pages of their newspaper in its last issue contained want-ads of workers seeking ride - sharing automobile seats to return home. Their yards payroll at Richmond near here has been cut from peak employment of 13.000 down to 49.000 already (and it has had 500.000 different persons employed in the past four years). I met the emperor of this most fabulous accumulation of American industries during the war, Henry J. Kaiser, and talked with him for more than an hour. His is not only the largest but most varied of a ll th e n a tio n ’ s strictly new war en terprises and con tains 100 industries. Thus he also has the biggest of ail Henry J. the problems of re Kaiser conversion and I was interested in ascertaining how he would meet it. He is a crisp, heavy-set man with a knowledge of what is needed and with unlimited ideas of how to do the job. He has both business hope and faith—a confidence that the imagination of the American people will devise methods of carrying for ward our industrial postwar system and faith that it cannot fail. What he—aggressive lone wolf in dustrial fighter that he is—thinks the country needs prim arily is compe tition. The first postwar industry j :o which he is turning his attention is, naturally, shipping. He was | growling about another business leader who made a speech a few days back advocating scrapping of the American merchant marine. We now have more ships than any na- j tion ever had on the seas, (number is a m ilita ry secret) and he thinks they should be used. This w ill re quire government subsidy in his apinion because competing Euro pean lines have subsidies. I judge that he has in mind American ac quisition of the trade which Japan formerly had in the Orient. He did not mention a current rumor that he may build postwar ships for Russia, | although I saw him shortly after he left Molotov. A l ’ ItE H , e o lllllll, Idaho, helw eell K l l H l l | l o l l l l nod C o lo r d’A la n *. 2 m il«« from NChonl. SO a e r i « one« In e iilllv n llo n ilnod tim b er, Kxevltent nprlna«. No Im llilliiK « R B ad » l» y , 1001 10th BI-. T,a O rnnd*. O ra . tio A lie n , mo bent bottom , clsnr. On M orann Inke Slock mid equip. If w auled Priced to «»II. I am r e llr - Ina T. O ranch. O r« h » m , W n. IIE H E K O lt l* Bred now«. Ilonrn, g ilt« w «ln«r lllgn U n re la te d »20 to »25 W. M. D a v ey , M adloal I>ah«, W u h t a g t o a . ________________ _ _ _ _ _ c o ll SA LE «lock rIIn rh B e a u tifu l m ountain B d ltb P rld e a a a , C ona nt 1, Id aho. BEES Selling Out Everything The problem of unloading vital supplies for the American invàderà who have been fighting their way Inland, yard by yard, on the 70-mlV-long Okinawa Island, haa been a big one. Picture at lower left shows an LST approaching shore with supplì*a. Center: Supplies are landed. Upper right: Necessities of life and war. row after row. line the dusty beach on this far Pacific Isle. Circle: Fleet C o m m a n d e r Cheater W. N lm lti. Out of the Ashes of War Arises a New Manila SS B I v m o f Yalloxr Ita lia a S a a s, Oood S o a t y Q atherera. 30 B m p ty T ram a Mlv«». A li Mlv»» hava doubla eovar aad aqalppad fo r p ro d u ela g eom b hoaay. 188 Bnpar» np»r aad 100 hlva »taada far »la. W rite or Call Dr. F. M. Trout M alla, O ragoa THE HENNING VIOLIN K and Mad» »ad U n«nrpa»»»d T erm « W r ite fo r Booklet. E x p e rt Itep nlrlnK GUSTAV HENNING VIOX.IK M A K BB 8907 Btb A v».. K. B. S a a tti» S, W u h . MSO Cow Tralrra A« a result of war necessity wom en gradually are taking over the Job of "cow testers" in tbe United States Cow testers test m ilk for but- terfat content, and If the m ilk of a certain cow is not up to standard, she is disposed of for food. Packers* Earnings Manila begins to rebuild. Left, the once-beautiful and modern queen city of the Orient, devastated by the Japs, starts the task of rebuilding with the help of the U. 8. engineers. Upper center: This taxi Is not much to look at, but it indicates Manila's reconversion. Upper right: A road repair gang is at work on Manila's Taft avenue, erasing some of the scars. Lower right: Bailey bridge. Marooned Airmen Rescued by Helicopter HAS MANY PLANS The nation also needs 2.000,000 homes, low cost homes, and he sees in this field vast opportunities for postwar activity, in his opinion. Transportation should be entirely revised. A lower cost fare should be worked out on the railroads. Speed highways should be extended, as the nation in the future w ill continue to move out from the cities. He sees opportunities for building lower cost cars in the automobile industry (which he does not believe is com petitive now) and great possibilities in development of health facilities for the people. He would promote health facilities in every possible way to a scope amounting to a na tional industry. Here is a man with ideas and the kind of energetic imagination which conceives new ventures when old ones fail. He is now in metals, con ceiving a new magnesium alloy for steel, a new kind of plaster, gyp sum, planes, chemicals. New Air Hero While net earnings of the pack ing industry, based on sales, amounted to 1 per cent for the seven-year period, 1937-43, 11 other major industries reported compara ble earnings ranging from 4 to 7.9 per cent. Weather Chart It is possible that in time a farm er may be given a chart showing the probability of weather hazards in his locality, for virtually every day of the year, says the department of agriculture. Unplugging Cord When disconnecting an electric cord always grasp it by the plug— not by the cord itself. This w ill pre vent pulling the small wires out of place and lengthen the life of the cord. Ambitious Student The first student to enter North Carolina State university, 30 days after it opened in 1795, was Hin ton James, who walked 200 miles from Wilmington to matriculate. Varied Climate North Carolina has the most varied climate in eastern America, with a range of 20 degrees in aver age temperatures between the mountain tops and the seacoast. Cleaning Fireplace B ELIEVES IN C OM PETITION He is also in coal and steel, and Eleven marooned RCAF airmen who were rescued by a U. 8. coast in each industry he attempts to main guard helicopter in the first rescue of its kind, set up this 808 sign in tain a competitive spirit. He keeps the snow (upper left), made of green spruce boughs. Lower left: Cave three offices in Washington instead in the snow In which the airmen lived for two weeks in the Labrador wilds. of one and thus promotes greater Snow is 10 feet deep. Right: Air view of the actual rescue. work energy among his own em ployees—and, of course, more pro duction. 4 I suspect his own reconversion plan is already well under way. There is much well-advised talk about him expanding into foreign production in Latin America and elsewhere. His enthusiastic spirit is symbolic of the feeling among other business men with whom I talk throughout I this area. In this respect it is some what different from the East where I the trend runs to pessimism or doubt although labor is going home j in droves. Everyone out here figures the Jap war to take another year (my guess j is somewhat less than that) and sees San Francisco and the Pacific ! coast as gateways to the newly j opened island empires of the Pa cific and the Orient. We may ex pect a doubling of our trade west ward. and perhaps more. There is much remaining of the forty-niner gold strike ambition Among the high ranking army and navy officials who spoke on the among these business people and I would not be surprised if they meet world-wide victory bioadcast celebrating V-E Day were, left to right: Gen. their postwar problem which is George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U. 8. arm y: Adm. William O. heavier than any other section, as Leahy, chief of staff to the President, and Adm. Ernest J. King, chief of naval operations. well a ; any another. Army and Navy Chiefs in V-E Broadcast Marine pilot, 2nd Lt. William W. Eldridge Jr. of Hixon, Tenn., grins as he returns to his Oki nawa airfield after blasting four Jap planes in as many minutes, when Jap suicide bombers attacked a U .8. ship. Proudest Mom To clean fireplace bricks, cover with a paste of powdered pumice and household ammonia. Let dry for an hour, then scrub with warm, soapy water. Potatoes in Jackets Research workers say potatoes boiled in their jackets lose only half as much ascorbic acid as baked potatoes and only a third as much thiamine. Thrifty Gardeners T hrifty gardeners thin their rows at the time when the greens, let tuce, carrots and other first vegeta tes make good table dishes. Spoil Quickly Fats saved over from cooking spoil more quickly than new fat. So keep them extra cold and us« as soon as possible. Cake Raisins Raisins w ill be less likely to sink in the cake if they are heated and rolled in flour before they are added to the batter. Grease Remover Soak greasy tinned pots and pans In hot soda water. The soda removes the grease quickly. Veneer Production Washington, Florida and North Mrs. Ida Eisenhower, 83, mother Carolina lead the nation in veneer of Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower, production. shown as she looked with pride at photo of her famous son, conqueror of German military might. Changed Names U ntil 1810 Buffalo, N. Y., wai known as New Amsterdam.
