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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, October 4, 1945 SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Tokyo Lying in Ruins Struggles Back to New Life Vestees For Classrooms 5289 Due to an unusually large demand and the current conditions, slightly mors time Is required In filling orders for a few of the moat popular pattern numbers. HKWING Cllt« l K NKKI1I.BWGRK 709 Mission St., Han Francisco, Calif. Enclose 16 rents for Pattern FA R M WAGE D E L IR IU M This bombed-oul area in the heart of Tokyo, near the imperial palace, shows the devastating results of American fire bombing attacks. Each section or the city is responsible for clearing away its own debris and the Japanese have been ordered to do a good Job. Defense Lines, Bases Desired by Army in Pacific WASHINGTON. — Live-wire Re publican Sen. Ralph Brewster of Maine recently telephoned hard working Assistant Secretary of La bor Carl Moran, also from Maine, but a Democrat. “ Portland is among the nine dis tress cities of the country,” Sena tor Brewster reminded Moran. “ As you know, Portland shipyard work ers have been dismissed from their Jobs wholesale. Meanwhile, farmers up in Aroostook county can’t get anyone to bring in their potatoes. What can you do about it?” “What are they paying for farm labor in Aroostook county,” asked the assistant secretary of labor; “still four cents?” “ No,” replied the senator from Maine, “There’s a guaranteed wage of $12 a day.” Assistant Secretary Moran said he would do his best to switch some workers up to the potato farms. However, he might well have re plied that the labor department was I OTS of warm sweaters are that in name only and that it 'needed by high school and col actually had almost nothing to do lege girls, they say, for campuses with labor. and low temperature classrooms. For the fact Is that, under Mis« Perkins, the labor depart ment was stripped of most or its labor duties. The War Labor board is separate and independ ent. and, most Important of all, the U. S. employment service Is under the War Manpower com mission. Thus, Assistant Secre tary of Labor Moran had to turn to an outside agency, the U. S. employment service, to try to get discharged shipyard work ers to help harvest the Aroos took potato crop. This, in turn, has brought out an other difficulty affecting not mere ly Maine but the entire nation. Most war workers, drawing $1 to $2 an hour plus overtime and bonuses don’t want to go back to the farm and farm wages. The labor short age on the farms, even after V-J Day, is as acute as ever. Farm wages are higher than ever, though still a long way from shipyard and aviation factory pay. So somehow or other, either farm wages must go up, or war workers must go back to less money on the farm. In the former case, the farm ers will have to get more for their crops, which, of course, means a higher cost of living in the city. Proposals by Air Gen. Henry H. Arnold for maintenance of a series of defense lines in the Pacific for future national security is receiving growing support in congress. The latest proposal would provide m ajor fleet bases at Pearl Harbor, Guam, Saipan, Manus and Noumea, with a main naval air base at Mactan island in the Philippines. The whole would provide chains of security far from the United States shores. The house committee said the bases are needed to maintain peace. Hurricane and Fires Strike Florida Keys I Back to the Islands Ambassadors' Wives. Last week this column reported that Mrs. Ed Pauley, wife of the U. S. reparations ambassador to Moscow and former treasurer of the Democratic national committee, was listed to receive $25 a day ex penses while accompanying her husband to Russia. Since then, I have received further information that Mrs. Pauley, although listed by the state department as an official member of the party, declined to accept the $25 per diem. However, 1 still believe It a highly debatable point, when a million or so G.l.s are not per mitted to have their wives come abroad, that American higher- ups should take their wives with them to overseas war areas. After all, the average American soldier now occupying Germany or Japan has not seen his wife for more than a year. More than 200 persons were reported injured in a fire at the Richmond navy blimp base as a tropical hurricane reaching a peak velocity of 143 miles per hour swept across the Florida Keys. More than 50,000 persons were driven to seek emergency shelter in South Florida alone. Hundreds of homes were reported damaged and destroyed in the Keys. Paul V. McNutt, shown as he was sworn in as commissioner of the Philippines, a position that he held before the fall to the Japanese after Pearl Harbor attack. His appoint ment met with the approval of the Philippine government and people. Promise Delivery of Thousands of Tires Recruiting Head Tires, thousands of them, are shown moving out of the huge plants of the Firestone Tire and Rubber company, Akron, Ohio, to civilian users everywhere. The reconversion from m ilitary to civilian tire production was almost immediate, and first line tires will flow, in ever-increasing quantities, to the civilian market. To Brig. Gen. Harold N. Gilbert, USA, has been entrusted the direc tion of the greatest recruiting cam paign in the history of the army. When the Pauley reparations mis sion arrived in western Europe, the party was split up, because of lim ited accommodations in Moscow. One group, including some of the best experts on reparations, were told to remain in Frankfurt, Ger many, because there was no room to house them in Moscow. But Mrs. Pauley, despite limited accommo dations, went on to Moscow. Later, she also visited Potsdam for the Big Three session. She was the only American wife present. Mrs. Truman and Mrs. Byrnes, wife of the secretary of state, re mained at home. And during the last session of the Big Three, Mrs. Pauley sat in the gallery, a priv ileged witness to the historic cere mony. Many U. S. and British ex perts who had spent weeks prepar ing for this big climax and who had burned midnight oil whipping the agreement into shape, were barred from seeing the windup. NOTE—On August 4, this column reported that the office of war in formation had given Mrs. R. A. Mc Clure, wife of General McClure, a privileged job as receptionist in OWI's Paris office, thus permitting her to be near her husband in Ger many. Immediately after publica tion of this disclosure, the OWI re ceived an order from the White House for Mrs. McClure to come back to the United States. Capital Chaff. The shortening of the congres sional recess, which was to last until October 8, has forced several congressmen to look for temporary lodgings in Washington. They had leased their homes for the antici pated recess period. Some, like Los Angeles’ Chet Holifleld, were fore- sighted enough to make arrange ments to have at least a bedroom available if they returned. . . . Congressman K arl Mundt of South Dakota, one of the most vigorous Red-hunters of the old Dies commit tee, is traveling in Russia. . . . Each of the vestees shown is not only warm but exceptionally smart looking. The under-the- coat vestee at top is knitted of soft wool—the “hearts and flow ers’ model is crocheted in while wool and embroidered in glowing colors. Small gold buttons will be striking. • • No_______________ Name Address. SNAPPY FACTS RUBBIR A U. 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