Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, October 4, 1945
SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK
Tokyo Lying in Ruins Struggles Back to New Life
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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.
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Hare in the Moon
The moon holds such an inti
mate place in the lives of the Jap
anese that they celebrate its birth
day atinually in early March. In
the moon these people see a hare
bedecked with jewels.
in rubber
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