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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Parry.
Among other things, the
President in his fireside chat,
comes out for "freedom of the
seas." This Is a revived 1917
war issue, and Is apt to cause
soma statesmen to hit a high
one.
Tha constabulary hears the
noisiest auto horn in town causes
babies to cry. It also causes
grown-ups to feel like it.
Tha esteemed Salem Capital
Journal editorially argues what
the country needs is "a good five
cent psychiatrist." The country
in its current mood would spend
the nickel for a cigar.
Secy Hull opines the 'law of
retribution" had something to
do with the sinking of the Nazi
dreadnaught Bismarck. Another
source attributes the victory to
British prayers for vengeance.
Prayer and retribution will have
to share the glory, three ways,
with the torpedo that applied
the finishing touches.
Tha rain yes. drove Vlntle
Beall of tha C.Pt. district Into
town, hitting nothing coming or
going. Mr. B feared for a time
tha barn would beat the rain to
bis hay.
Tha hairy vetch and the beard
ed barley in the valley are com
ing along fine, and will soon be
In need of haircut and shave.
WONDERS NEVER CEASE
(Salem Capital-Journal)
"It is somewhat mystifying,
however, to account for the
fact that private citizens in
such numbers ran smell out
the existance of these illegal
contrivances when our profes
sional sleuths can find no trace
of them.
"So far as wa ara advised,
tha sheriff and his deputies
have not employed brass bands
to herald their approach. The
slot machine and punch board
operators must be psychic, or
a lot of good citizens are suf
fering from hallucinations.
Surely the sheriff cannot be
wrong."
.
The cantonment. If and when,
It is argued, will take the "eco
nomic load" off the pears. Fur
thermore, It won't be necessary
to spray the commanding of
ficer, j
...
Max Schmeling, once a color-1
ful heavyweight champion of j
the world, who lulled Champion j
Joe Louis to sleep with his good
right hand, has been killed in 1
Crete, while trying to escape
from his British raptors. He;
was a bettor man than the runt-1
tsh ex-papcrhanger who mrs-1
merlzes Germany. He could take I
Hoodlum Hitler by the slack in
the seat of his military britches
and drive him head-first three
feet into the good earth. But,
aad to till, he didn't.
"... It was believed that
...
all would recover, although two
doctors and a nurse were In at
tendance during the night "
(Olympla (Wash) Olympian)
The muffled knock.
...
"In-as-much-as we have been
able to dig up any scandals of
any sort, no wife beating, run
away hubbies, stolen autos. or
fights, may we soliloquize a
moment on vitamins with the
editor's kind consent? We left
the demonstration thoroughly
vitamlnlzed! Our hearts went
out In sympathy to our poor
grandmother and grandfather,
both of whom lived to be past 90
years and never had been intro
duced to a vitamin, or waterless
cooking!" (Merlin corr. In the
Grants Pass Bulletin) And
Grandpa, before retiring, drank
three glasses of strong apple)
cider to wash down a liberal
helping of crackers and cheese, !
to sleep better man log.
A E L. Shows the Way
THERE is a noticeable distinction between the atti-
tude of the A.F.L. and C.I.O., regarding strikes
that hold up and impair the country's defense pro
gram. Repeatedly A.F.L. officials have pledged full sup
port to the defense program, and some have even
advocated no walk-outs without a fixed period of
preliminary mediation for "the duration."
In marked contrast the C.I.O. leaders have not
only sanctioned strike after strike, but have shown
no sympathy with, or interest in, the defense program.
Any suggestion that strikes be outlawed until the
war is over, or even that a compulsory period of arbi
tration be imposed before a strike can be called, has
been met with loud outcries from the CIO leadership,
that the right to strike under any and all conditions
is organized labor's "magna charta."
a a
VESTERDAY the following edict was issued from
A. F. L. headquarters :
"All affiliates are Instructed to take disciplinary action
against locals that strike without exhausting first every re
source for peaceful mediation."
All credit to the American Federation of Labor!
That is precisely the action this paper has urged
upon the administration, since the passage of the lend
lease bill, which in our judgment, -committed this
country to do everything in its power to defeat Hitler.
It is the same action imposed by the Railway
Labor Act, which has practically eliminated strikes in
American railroad operation.
9 9 99,
A NY division in labor circles at such a critical time
as this is to be deplored. But it IS consoling to
know that the oldest and largest unit of organized
labor places the welfare of the country above every
selfish consideration, and is directly opposing
the younger, smaller and more radical unit of labor
that doesn't 1
Keeps Everybody Guessing
TIELL, there is one thing regarding the President's
war speech no one can deny:
It did nothing to lessen world confusion. In fact
even the Axis powers can't
ing.
Japan, for example, declares the speech undoubt
edly means active U. S. participation in the war.
iJerlin professes to see no
no intensification of same,
little new in the long-heralded broadcast that no of
ficial comment can be expected.
Italy, on the other hand, is reported as greatly
cheered and relieved by the President's "unexpected
mildness."
Declares Percy Winner, I. N. S. correspondent at
Rome:
.
"Thank God It wasn't worse! Now there Is a chance of
ending he war before autumn." This remark Is typical of
the Italian people's reaction t& the White House declara
tion. Perhaps one of the motives of the President was
to keep the enemy guessing. If so, he was magnifi
cently successful, not only in that part of the world,
but every other !
Predicts War in Pacific
'"I17HAT two generations of Americans feared
' would one day come about now seems to be
almost upon us," says Edgar Snow, expert news
analyist from the far east, fcnow discusses the pos
sibility of war with Japan in his article, "Showdown
in the Pacific" in the current issue of The Saturday
Evening Post.
"Today Washington is
aggressive Eastern neighbor that she cannot cut her
self any more of the Pacific," says Snow, who has re
cently returned to the United States after thirteen
years in the Orient.
"Perhaps it can be confined for some time to the
kind of war Japan invented
full of streamlined incidents; but with or without
trimmings, what we are touching is war.
"Among acute observers, among our naval and
military people around the Orient and in our islands
of the Pacific, I have, for months past, heard this war
discussed exclusively in matter-of-fact terms of how
and when and where. Few people now believe that
diplomacy can do more than postpone it. The truth
is that relations between the United States and Japan
r ft Tn nil 11 rtXl'rtl V ! I-li-ltVl O 1 . 1 cl n rt Mnl stm i w rt
o.v ..w .... ...w. c,..-. .-, ..v.Mnn hi
gics and the broad deployment of battle forces.
"MOTHING is Certain these day?, and least Of all
in tVi( Oriont." onntinnps tho author "lmt thrpp
(1,,'., . , ., , i,, ..,.. 1,1 l t.i
things now seem to me to be reasonably probable-
though by no means probably reasonable. The first
19 that the United States Will fight, if noCCSSarV. to
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preent Japan fiom seeming baes in the hntish and
PlltCh Colonics Of Southeastern Asia and MalaVSia.
The second is that Japan
nios soon I believe this year or abandon her whole
dream of southward expansion and mastery of tht
western Pacific. And the third, that what Japan does
in the next few month- can decisively influence the
outcome oi tne nauie lor turope itseit.
In reply to the question put by Snow, a British en
voy stated that he believed it impossible to effect an
Anglo-Japanese reconciliation and avoid war. "We
shall have to fight Japan," the envoy told Snow. "My
mission is to delay it as long as possible. I do not
anticipate peat ?UCCeS,
battle COmes, We shall not
ApprntimatrlT 14 ooo - of j .ld
hipjd frcm rmnc a yrar i". are
stored al Martinique.
agree regarding its mean
such danger, or at least
declarinir there was so
about ready to tell our
herself undeclared and
must pOUnce Oil those COlo-
bllt 1 hope that When the
be alone Ollt here."
, It w.a from Mrttn:qiie th.t
plune. Emprew ol N,v.v!i, went to
I Franca.
Personal Health Service
By William
Slf nd letters pertaining la peraanal aeallh aa hygiene, net la disease
SI.ino.li mr traaloMat, will ka aruatred ky IM. Brady If a stamped aau
addreasrd anntlope la enclosed. Letters aBeeM ta brier and a-nuea la Ink
Owing la IM large number al letters melted eoly a few ran be enswartd
bare. Ke reply eaa be made la ajrjerlae not ronormlng to Instruction,
addreae D, MUllarn Brady. MS ei c amino, Beierl; mils, calif.
IT LOOKS
A testimonial may give the,
experience, opinion or wish of
the writer, but unless you know
the experience, opinion, or wish
of the other
dozen, thous
and or million
persons who
are in a posi
tion to report
on the matter,
it doesn't mean
anything. -Dear
Sir:
Last spring
I was so run
down, tired
and discourag
ed all the time.
All the world looked blue. My
hair was very gray.
(What did I tell you? Oh, I
didn't tell you, did I? But I
meant to convey the Idea in the
title how you look depends
largely on how you are feeling.
This poor girl was feeling pret
ty sad, and her hair looked very
gray. I can't help thinking that
some such state of mind may
account for a good many testi
monials I have received from
readers who declare that their
gray hair is regaining its natur
al color.)
I read your article about 'The
Woman Who Went to Town on
Iodine". I tried it, and do I feel
like a different person? My hair
comes in darker now, so I am
about one-half as gray as a year
ago. You may be sure I take my
"Iodin Ration" and my vitamin
B complex regularly, I seldom
get the blues any more.
My eldest daughter, 14, re
marked, after I had been follow
ing your advice a few months:
"Mother, is Daddy getting bet
ter natured, or what makes such
a change around here? Our
home seems so much happier
than It used to be."
I replied "The change la In
me. thanks to Dr. Brady."
(Come, now, Just between our
selves Ol' Doc Brady is suffic
ient.) Now whenever I feel low in
spirit or that tired feeling comes
on, I go right away and take my
nip of iodine and my regular ra
tion of vitamin B complex.
I don't believe it darkens hair
already gray, but I do know new
hair comes in dark. I am 45
years old.
(The rest of letter missing).
If ten thousand individuals
whose hair is turning gray pre
maturely would try it out for
six months or a year and then
report whether it has done any
good, we might know some
thing. The instructions are given
in the monograph on "Care of
the -Hair" available to any one
THE
CAPITAL
PARADE
By JOSEPH ALSOP and
ROBERT KINTNER
(OntlmieC Prom Pass On. I
agreeing in principle on a pro- matic advantages,
gram. This memorandum was ...
initialled by Secretary Morgan-1 pirr this does not mean that
thau. Secretary of State Cordell ; D there is not much to be done.
Hull, and Attorney General 1,. on,v reallv practicai ,rfu.
Robert H. Jackson. Since then ment put forward , the serv.
the budget bureau, which I ice d,,partmenU against effect
studies all proposals for new ( ive aid to Britain the argu.
government agencies, has bceniment tha, by commlttjng our.
hard at work. I selves in the Atlantic, we shall
The bureau has prepared a j encourage the Japanese to mis
comprehensive catalogue of all behave in the Pacific. The Jap-
economic powers lodged in the ,
u iiui.-ii. oiivi . .-.w..... vi cuunirjr m rcunumic at
order of the broadest type has j tack. Their war economy is
been drawn, authorizing a new . wholly derjendent on mainten
agency of economic defense to nce of their present export
exercise these powers, wun re-,
nwn5lbUi,v on brol)fl mMt-rs of
"policy given to an inter-drirt-
mental committee but with a dt-
j rector as the executive head
I
IT Is easy to understand, but,
;1 npf to excuse the ncsltation
:,nd delay when one remembers
.N' b, decision had not
been made and when one ex-
!nmmp, ttie wyf of th, .,
to be called into olav. Some of
h"c powers are: Export and
import control of the strictest
kind: shipping and
. restrictions: control
bunkerage
of Amerl-
cn ,s,- ,,f frciKncrs through
'ZJT'JT-
tries; direct and indirect com
mercial prrsstires; capital con
trol and all the rest of the rnor-
motis economic authority now
retmg In one part of the gov-
ernmont or another. l'nles the
Mate department suddenly re-
vtvps ita l.irmrr omvisition. the
new experiment will be both
'extremely far rrse-V.ins and do-
tentml'y important to the Joint
Ttritis'- American war effort.
The price of Ji!.'V '.as t-een
Iheat'y. The axis powers hav ob-
Brady M. D.
AS YOU FEEL
who asks for it and provides a
stamped envelope bearing his
address.
QI ESTIOSS AND ANSWERS.
Liver, Iron and Vitamin B
When doctors prescribe liter and
Iron In severe anemia, do they mean
ordinary beer or calf liter, and how
about liver and bacon I mean would
Uter asten In such dishes be good
tor tha blood f (L. L.)
Answer At least It would not be
bad for anybody's blood or health.
A substance present In tha lining of
tha stomach and in liver la essential
for generation of new blood. Cook
ing destroys this substance. 'Hence
doctors prescribe fresb raw liver or
extracts of liter.
Th. substance Is
called "Intrinsic Something elea
present In tha natural vitamin B
comples Is likewise necessary for
blood formation, and this Is called
tha "extrinsic" factor. Further In
formation available in booklet "Blood
and Health." . 1041 edition, copy
mailed on request If you Inclose 10c
coin snd stamped envelope bearing
your address.
Tied snd I'ntled
A few yean ago I was In such
poor health .when my baby waa born
(by Caesarian section) that my doe-'
tor advised against subsequent chlld
c'rth snd tied off the tubes. Now
X am In excellent nealth and so
terribly wish to have another, la It
possible to have tha tubea reopened
without a major operation. (Mr.
B. A.I
Answer Only by an abdominal
operation would It be posalbla to
reconstruct a tube which mlsht re
store capacity to conceive. This Is
a major operation, but not a danger
ous one.
Botulism
Is there sny danger of contracting
botulism from hon.a canned salmon
not canned In pressure cooker? Could
vegetables canned with vinegar, such
as pickled beets, or commercially
canned producta contain tha poison?
(Mrs. A. E I
Answer Any food that stands for
soma time or Is carelessly handled
before It la canned may be Infected
with the Clostridium botullnus or
spores of the organism, and unless
tha food Is cooked or boiled for five
hours or hested to 931 degrees F. for
IS minutes, the spores may survive
snd continue to proouce tha deadly
toiln or poison In the food, no mst
ter whether home canned or pickled
or commercially processed. Boiling
for 10 minutes destroys the toxin.
It Is a good rule to discard any food
that looks, tastes or smells "queer"
on opening can.
Mrnopanse
Can you give any advice on pre
venting the distressing hot flashes
thst coma with change of lite? (Mrs.
g. W.
Aniwei. Calcium feeding and es
trogen Injections by your physician.
Send stsmped envelope bearing your
address, for free monographs on
"Menopsuae" and "The Calcium
Shortage."
(Protected by John F. Dllle Co.)
Ed Note: Persons wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct ta Dr.
nilllam Hrady, M. D. t6S El
Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif.
talned large amounts of raw
materials in this country. So
much axis capital has already
fled this country that the freez
ing order will have little effect.
The nazis, through their own
economic warfare, have made
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delav is always the same I an.y at KSea,tle is, '"quently
whether in this case, or in the j i Decause ' Jng in
,..siurt j , i an aluminum part and there is
unwillingness to expand an in- .. ... .
adequate scope of defense prep-1 w,,t, untl1 th new design
aration or a refusal to make00' rom n ",ern ffbr
known a national policy ,hat !n ?actor;- SucJj P1'"1 m'Rh
could be used for great diplo
anese are the most vulnerable
and import balance.
There is no question that an
economic attack on their econ
omy will make the Japanese
think twice before they move.
Similarly, the most serious of
our problems in the western
hemisphere ha, been the steady
intiltration and economic pene-
tration in South America by
German stints. Once an effect-
,ve prpgri)m pf mnoniC dr.
fens has been launched, it will
be possible to f.ght Oie Ger
mans with their own weapons.
in this hemisphere as well as
elsewhere.
p
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The president has now estah-
hed the major policy. And it
be assumed that the de
pendent decisions will follow in
short oriler. They include not
only the establishment of an of-
fice of economic defense but a '
reorganization and expansion of i
defense production; strong meas-,
tires asainst nszi agents In th is :
countrv: counter nrr-naeanrta in
beha'.f of the democracies: a
method to cope with the prob-
lem of strikes in defense indus-1
tries, and all the other things
reei I t procure an all-out
effort by this country. )
Kelly's
Comment
From Washington
Northwest to B
Aluminum Center
More Plant Site
Seen Necessary
Reynold Staff
Ex-Federal Men
By John W. Kelly
Washington, D. C. May 29.
Pacific northwest ia to become
the aluminum headquarters of
the United States, with RFC
financing the greatest produc
tion program on record. In
addition to manufacturing ingot
aluminum there will be a fab
rication plant perhaps more
than one. All but minor details
are settled. The management of
the government plant, or plants,
will be in charge of companies
now in the field. Reynolds
Metals Co., for example, has
today a contract for 60,000 kw
to be delivered at Longview,
Wash. The company is prepar
ing a site for three times that
size, to use 200,000 kw. Alcoa
will manage a government
plant, and the Bohn Brass &
Aluminum Co. is in the picture
as it now develops.
It is absolutely necessary for
the government to come to the
Pacific northwest, for only on
the mighty Columbia river is
there an untapped flow of
power. Conditions in TVA are
becoming desperate. There is
a grave water shortage and
TVA, private companies, OPM,
Federal Power commission,
army and navy officials have
been holding conferences in the
national capital to plan methods
of meeting the situation. Alcoa
has a contract for 30,000 kw
at TVA and this has been in
creased to 150,000 kw extra.
OPM has control of power, and
through priorities will give
power for national defense. To
obtain more needed energy is
the problem. It is suggested
that the S. S. Normandie,
French liner taken over by the
coast guard, be moved to Mobile
and its great engines used as
a standby plant, after the man
ner in which an airplane carrier
furnished power to Tacoma sev
eral years ago when Tacoma
had a power shortage. Another
proposal is to assemble old
Diesel engines and hook them
up for generating power.
...
WITH the government in the
power business, new sites other
than Alcoa at Vancouver and
Reynolds Metals Co. at Long-
view will be required. One
possible site is Cascade Locks:
another, the immediate vicinity
of Bonneville say at Dodson,
a few miles from the dam and
on the Oregon side. (Secretary
Ickes isn't as mad at Oregon
as some Oregonians imagine).
Or there may be a plant spotted
in the Puget sound region.
Of as great importance as the
pig plants and more important
in the way of employment is
a fabricating plant. Such a
plant must be established in the
northwest to provide the light
metal for airplane companies.
There are constant changes in
airplanes. Boeing Aircraft com
be located in Portland or vi
cinity. (Reynolds, who contem
plates a fabricating plant, says
he will locate it wherever RFC
tells him.)
IT is worthy of note that the
Reynolds company is being
staffed By men from federal
payrolls. Walter Rice, an at
torney of the anti-trust division
of the department of Justice,
after attacking Aluminum Com
pany of America, has resigned
his government Job and is now
1 ! In
JUST
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a
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ITS XASiE-
IPraaf
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axo l LCAl STRAIGHT BOt"RBO THI5KEY
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vice-president and general coun
sel of Reynolds, which the gov
ernment has financed to com
pete with Alcoa. Mr. Rice, it
will be recalled, handled the
"sick chicken" case in NIRA
I days, -the decision in whlcn
killed the blue eagle. From
, Reconstruction Finance corpora
tion (thU agency hai loaned
Reynolds millions to fight Alcoa)
Ir. J. Lindquist, who was chief
I auditor, has resigned to become
l another vice-president in the
i Reynolds set-up. Marion M.
iCaskie, former member and
j chairman of the Interstate Com
Imerce commission, has resigned
from his government Job and
also is vice-president, because,
explains Reynolds, "he felt that
he could do his country more
good in this emergency by re
turning to our company wan
by remaining in public service."
Other key men in government
will Join the Reynolds concern.
...
WITH OPM enforcing prior
ities on power and giving first
I preference to national defense,
this organization may aeciine,
for the time being, to furnish
energy from Grand Coulee and
Bonneville for such social bene
fits as REA cooperatives, or to
provide power for public utility
districts except where contracts
j have already been signed. OPM
can suspend the organic law of
Bonneville, which provides a
certain percentage of the gen
erating capacity be reserved for
co-ops and PUDs. There is too
great a demand for power for
aluminum and magnesium for
defense purposes to permit any
thing else to stand in the way.
...
THE anticipated war depart
ment activity in central Oregon.
In the vicinity of Bend, is esti
mated to cost $7,500,000 for
buildings alone. From the num
ber of troops to be stationed
there (when and if) it will prob
ably be an anti-aircraft battalion
or several such battalions rather
than an army air force. To light
the cantonment the government
may run a transmission line
from The Dalles or arrange for
the local power company to
build up its load.
By Frank Jenkins
UfEDNESDAY'S big news Is
" President Roosevelt's
speech. In his speech he com
mits the nation to these policies:
1. Freedom of the seas.
2. DYNAMIC defense against
attack.
J7REEDOM of the seas is a
catch phrase. The United
States has defined it in various
ways at various times to fit var
ious situations.
Under one definition we sent
our navy to the Mediterranean
sea to clean out the Barbary pi
rates by means of shooting war.
Under another definition, we
passed the neutrality act forbid
ding American ships to enter
war zones.
These definitions are diamet
ric opposites.
'TUESDAY night. President
1 Roosevelt defined freedom
of the seas for us in the light
of the present situation, as fol
lows: "I say the delivery of needed
supplies to Britain is IMPERA-J
TI . I say this can be done. It
must be done. It WILL be
done."
IF Hitler forcibly resists the de
livery of needed supplies to
Britain, the result will be shoot
ing war.
That is the situation in a nut
shell. A FEW CEXTS
In The ;
Day's
. News
TIIAX A DOLLAR
7 T e (PrPini)
buys tins great
KENTUCKY
Bourbon !
Check the proof (it's tVi at good" 01
. . . the superior flaTor (only Kenttiekv-
di'tilleH bourbon riaa it) . . . the
( years of me llowjn t to Tonr taste),
OLD
YorE. X T. This
DEFENSE against attack la
fundamental American po
icy. President Roosevelt pledge
DYNAMIC defense. Then he de
fines attack:
"Attack can begin with ANY
BASE which menaces our secur
ity, north or south."
Dakar, for instance. Or tha
Azores or Cape Verde islands
all mentioned in his speech.
"FNYNAMIC" defense is a new
''term. There is no accepted
definition, of it.
This, however, is widely ac
cepted military maxim: The best
defense is good OFFENSE.
Confederate General Forrest
gave this definition of a good
offense: "Git thar fustest with
the mostest men."
SUPPOSE Hitler seizes (or
THREATENS to seize) Da
kar or the Azores or Cape Verde
islands or "any base which
menaces our security, north or
south."
We can assume that "dynam- '
ic" defense in such an event
would involve "gitting thar fust
est with the mostest men."
THAT would involve sending
expeditionary force to foreign
soil.
t
IN the light of these grave and
possibly fateful definitions of
national policy, we must ALL
agree with the president's state
ment that "NO DISPUTES OF
ANY SORT must interfere with
arms production."
We can't fight without weap
ons. AS a dramatic climax to the
" President's speech, he pro
claims a state of "unlimited
emergency."
What does that mean?
In practice, not much.
A state of unlimited emer
gency presumably confers upon J
the president all the powers he
would normally be entitled to
wield in time of actual war.
In reality, he possessed prac
tically unlimited power already,
through delegation by congress.
IT does, however, call attention
to the gravity of the present
situation. That is probably its
purpose.
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Medtord and Jacksoa County
History from th files of th
Mail Tribune 10 and 20 years
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
May 29. 1931.
(It was Friday.) a
High plane flight proves pos-
sible in stratosphere despite low
pressure and cold.
Daughter of Kansas City may
or, orf visit to France, drinkg
champagne with mayor of Vin
cennes. City to observe
Day tomorrow.
Decoration
No campfire permits will b
Issued in national forests until
June 15.
Talent district pear growers
to hold meetings to discuss advis
ability of advertising pears.
Lamports leads in the kitten
ball league.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
May 29. 1921.
fit was Sunadv.)
At exercises held Friday. 45
students of the high school re
ceive diplomas.
Field M a r s h a 1 Von Hinder
burg still idol of the German
people.
Owing to melting snows In th
hills. Applegate streams are still
not at their best for fishing.
Carnival on Front street is
forced to close by a downpour
of rain Saturday.
Evangelist Bulgin tells audi
ence sheriff is trying to catch
him catching a fish illegally.
Building revival underway
here with many new homes be
ing built.
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