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Newspaper Page TextPACE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1941. MlOTOBDjTRl0UNl Omtkt Kuf4 MBUruRO I RiNTlNO CO. M-lt-tt North rtv nioM RUHlIT W HUHU -Wllof. IRNUT ft OIUITRAF. M-f.-fr. alrd -a) Meon4 -AM ttimr St (r4. Oro, .. Act mi Mreb t, lilt IJb:MIKTfOM R1TU r MeUI 1 A1-aci Dii la -lf - rr $i ftvUJr t-4 uii1f h woaeha... It Pliy Suh'IsfthrM month. I Dftliy unflr w mom..- ii C.rri.r ! A M1 ford. Ah Itol Cvntral PwbI. Jukannvllt. Units Hill. ftusj Rlr. fnols, TaYI-stb and aa motor roataai Dali aad luadaf n raar.....tt.M Pailr aai uartar ona noett),,. .la AU tartna cub la advance. Offlclai fa oar at iha City Udfa Ofriclai fapat al JarAaaa lual HKMHKH Of US AwmH IAI Ml fMU ItttttlM rail I iifi Wlr Marvlaa. TSa Aaaoetatad praw la aiolaaial atftlM tf tha saa for puWtaatloa l all Aaa tiiapaiahtM araditoil ta it or athar wiaa aradltaA to tai aapar, and aJa la tfca local naa pubti-ttHt hr la All rihu tor aabiieatiaa of paat AlapaiefcM aaraia fta aiaa roaarvad MIHHIH OF UNIIBO fRKHI H BMB KM ur AUUIT B'IRBAD Or ClHCULATIUNa Advartiaiat RapraMotatl vaa WIIT-HUU.IUAI UUU HNt, I Ma Offloaa ia Na Tar a, Ctiioaao. Da trait, Baa r r anal aa Uoa A n a a laa, I la. Portlaad. di. t-ta, Atlanta. Vanaoarar. u c. Oriitlotffspkrii Ye Smudge Pot Bt Arthur Parry . Washington, D. C, reports there Is "too much loose talk" these days. There also appears to be too many talkers loose. Coot county has a mule prob lem. In 1939, It was decided to build a community house for the Coos Bay Indians, and a span of mules were dispatched there to assist in the clearing of the building site "a site already logged-off and which could have been reduced to comparltive evenness of surface In a Jiffy with a bulldozer," the Coos Bay Times editorially notes. Now, the original need, if any, for the government mules has long since passed, and they have grown fat from long loafing in the pleasant pastures "and nobody wants them." The Great White Father, insists however, the aborigines should have them, and pay for them "in such in stallments as might be fixed." There the matter rests, both ides unyielding. There seems nothing to do but swap the mules off for a rowboat, almost a household conveyance in much watered Coos, or wait until the next deer season, and trust both will be accidentally shot for one. The threatened special session of the legislature, If called, will be early in January. This would be a fine way to start off a New Year. The president challenges the argument of John L. Lewis, the rambunctious C.I.O. boss, and hit the validity of that gent's position in the coal strike. What the country needs is another Graver Cleveland or Calvin Coolidge, former presidents, who on two historic occasions, wasted no time in suppressing bullhead edness in union leaders. Both survived, politically. Bracing weather of the past couple of days has braced a goodly portion of the population up against a stove, or kindred heating apparatus. DECEITFUL THINGS! (Red Bluff (Calif.) News) "The most amazing feature of preliminaries to starting a war is the fact that nobody appears to be mad at anybody. A m b a ssadors extraordinary and prodigious call on a po tential enemy with a smile, a smirk, a profound bow, soft spoken words and a hand shake that looks like a seal of everlasting friendship. They go out to dinner together and ere tickled pink to outdo each other in courtesy." The late Los Angeles earth quake was due to a "fault." Everybody has them. The secession movement, orig inally started by Curry county and from which she profited by wide publicity, has spread to Siskiyou county, Calif. It this keeps up these parts will soon be known as the Balkans of the Pacific coast. Benton county has not threatened to Join the Insurgents, unless O.S C. Is named for Rose Bowl game, but may. Nevertheless, the alert and wide-awake Grants Tass Cavemen, who hate publicity like a chorus 'girl, pop up un erringly on the edge of the seces sion, in their moth-eaten coyote hides, and long underwear, due to the frost on the pumpkin, waving their cotton-batten war clubs, and threaten all the sun dry with a glass of lukewarm cougar blood. They are the most indefatigable publicity hounds on either side of the Rockies. There is a shortage of golf balls in Germany, the depart ment of commerce says The Best Chance of Peace The best chance for peace in this Kurusu confer ence, is the fact that neither nation really wants war. And as an important corollary to that, neither nation is satisfactorily prepared for war. 'THE conference has been compared frequently with Munich. But there is little similarity. At Munich Britain and France did not want war. And, as far as that goes Hitler didn't, if he could get what he wanted without it. But Hitler was PREPARED for war, and had his terms been denied he undoubtedly would have de clared it. In this sense therefore he did want it, for he was ready for it, and definitely preferred war to a diplomatic defeat. When two parties meet in an effort to avoid war, with one side well prepared and the other not, there is never much question as to the result, the stronger side gets the better of it. tfa Sfr y t THAT was the case at Munich, it was a creat victory 1 for Hitler. But there is tit u i tunic in itniiingiuii. For while Japan is probably more eager for peace with the United States, than the other way around ; for this country to have a war on two fronts would be no Sunday school picnic and the present adminis tration is undoubtedly willing to make material con cessions to avoid it. CO while this department can't see, and never has 'J been able to see, how a clash with Japan in the Pacific can be permanently avoided, we can see how at the present time it might be postponed. And the basic reason would be, that neither nation, at this particular stage of the game, WISHES it. It May Be No Joke Judge Coleman is altogether too casual about this Southern Oregon secession movement. With Curry county, Oregon now joined by Siskivou and Del Norte counties, California, and a combined war chest of $100! to dismiss the rebellion as a "mere advertising stunt in which Jackson county refuses to join," is entirely too Neroesque ! Or was it Nero who fiddled while Rome burned? Whoever it was how has our County Judge the temerity, in view of recent tragic world events, to dismiss any popular uprising, however small, as just an advertising stunt What was Hitler's original beer hall putsch but an advertising stunt, for a half-baked cataleptic corporal, who couldn't even put on a roll of wall-paper straight. It was a joke, just another publicity stunt. But because the conservative people of Germany treated it as such, look where they are now, and where is Adolf! ' v , ' MO, judge, in this day and age don't be so mid Victorian as to dismiss anything of such a REVOLTING nature as just a publicity stunt. Not only the Nazi revolution but the present war in Europe, started as merely publicity stunts, at least that is what the enemies of this Austrian upstart and show-off called them. But now look at the mess. We don't say the malcontents of Curry, Siskiyou and Del Norte are going to advance on Jackson coun ty AT ONCE, but don't forget, judge, great oaks from little acorns grow and the Chicago fire was started by a lantern's wick. So why take a chance? Why try to laugh it off and just irritate and further arouse the malcontents? You should at least in the interest of public security and Oregon solidarity oil up that cannon across the ptreet from the court house, and inform the "Sheriff's posse" to be in readiness! Freedom of the Seas? A correspondent recently complimented this de partment for patriotically upholding the "freedom of the seas." We like to be commended, for things we do say, dui not lor inings we don t. A A o,-., 4U ..., t ., tC u . r-uu ii-u e nave 10 our best Knowledge never upheld the freedom of the seas, The reason being as we animule," in war-time at .: c iu. ii-iKiia, iiiTuuiii ui me cr.13 is ifiuiirny not an issue for no one denies it. In other words the phrase "freedom of the seas", 11 1 ... .L 1 i 1. , jo uue ui muse- miui-v um caicii-imraMi's, wnicn naa some validity perhaps in 1812, but none whatever in this modernistic and militaristic era. THE main reason for nnKL-A ...nMA 1. . 8nr.nl ' A ' ' I T u , 1 ' ?! an,d nav!?s between entire iNAllUNb. ISot only are all members of the warring populations involved, but all material resources are war contraband-contribute to military prowess and resistance. A neutral, therefore, has ship goods in time of war, II J t.; , nnuiiit-r, ami mis is nor. none ii me omer Deuieerent has the power to prevent it. So we take no stock in poinp; to war to uphold the freedom of the seas, in WAR time. Freedom of the seas belonps to the nation or group of nations, cap able of maintaining it. We do take stock in going to WAR, to protect this country from becoming a vassal state of Hitler, who i" victorious would not only deny freedom of the seas, but human freudom of EVERY sort' little chance of a similar out- ...j .... i l. see it. there "ain't no sich least. And when peace i this is that modern wars, . . I. e - no more inherent right to to one belligerent than to . ... . Personal Health Service By William Signed tetters pertaining to personal health and orflsn. eat ta disease dlagnost f treatment, will be Mim by Dr. Brady If a tamped self. sddreMed envelope is enclose. Letters should be brief and written la Ins, Owing M the Urge number of letters recelfed nly a few eaa be answered her. No reply eaa be nude ta queries act conforming ts Ultra rU ens. Sddrtt Dr. William Brady, tss El Camlna, Beterlr unit. Cell. EFFECT Of INTENSE HE A manufacturer of metal Im plements asks for information concerning harmful effects of expos ure of the eyes to the ultra vi o 1 e t rays of weld ing machines and would like to know at what distance from the arc the rays may be injurious to the eyes, It is not only the ultra-violet rays but the infrared or heat rays that are !"early oru injurious to ltne eve. A temperature of over 7000 degrees F. Is attained by the electric arc. The intense heat as well as the intense light emit ted by molten metal and molten glass causes the cataract which furnace workers, puddlers, glass blowers and sheet glass workers so often develop. Even cold ultraviolet light, however, is injurious to the eyes when exposure is excessive. For instance the "klieg eyes" of cin ema workers or actors, eye in flammation (conjunctivitis) with a sensation of heat, hypersensi tiveness to light (photophobia) lacrimation (excessive tear se cretion) and redness of the cov ering of eyeball. This is caused by the ultraviolet rays from the carbon arc of the lamps used in obtaining interior pictures. At what distance from the arc the ultraviolet rays may injure the eyes one guests is as good as another. If exposure is frequent or prolonged damage may be done at a distance of fifteen or twenty feet. Sir William Crook es devised one kind of glass that cuts off over 90 per cent of the heat rays, another that is opaque to the shorter ultra-violet rays which are the most injurious, doth kinds cannot be used or made in one lens. Electric welders should wear all-metal helmets with windows of Crookes glass or other glass of similar sort, or several layers of red and blue glass, or a flat piece of Crookes glass coated with an extremely thin layer of 22 karat gold which is protected by a flat piece of hard white crown glass. The gold layer screens or reflects half of the red and practically all of the infra-red or heat rays. The ultra violet rays are thrown back or screened out by the Crookes glass which allows visible light to pass freely but absorbs or throws back the ultra-violet. The visible light may be regulat ed by varying the thickness of the gold according to the re quirements of the work. By FRANK JENKINS "HE Germans announce the capture of Kerch, where the Crimean peninsula thrusts out to the east between the Sea of Azov and the Black sea. The Russians (as these words are written) have not conceded it, but it is probable that Kerch lhas fallen. The red army has becn fiRhting tlere with its back to the water, always a danger- ous enterprise. Its Job has been to hold the Kerch side of the narrow strait lvercn jthnt Joins the Black sea and the iSca of Asov while defense", were !bel"g rnl"d on the other IsKle. piIIS strait Is from four to 10 miles in width, and the na ture of the country on the east .1,1.. . ,,K Ih.l th fl..rmnn. win probably have to attempt to ctorh it at its wiriest noint which 1, at the Kerch railhead. Tne EnR,lsh chBnne, Mvtn Dover and Calais is roughly ao mi,r' wi1e bmit ,wlce tn" j hVr"rm.Vf m.hkeTin Icrowinu the Kerch strait and lettering down un"0'" t"n h.nd the Russian de- other side will be ""-" ........ ..ii,., ii leant They took Crete, to be sure, crossing some 73 miles of water from the Greek mainland to do it, but Crete's defenses were weak especially air defense. It Is certain that the Russians must have organized strong de fenses on the east side of the Kerch strait. It is In the cross ing of the strait, rather than, the -f.-ii ? of Kerch, that the real battle will com In The- - .. . ,. . . . , . Day?s , News - Brady. M. O. AT AND LIGHT ON EYES 1 Besides the hazards of ultra violet rays and extreme heat electric arc welding done in un vented, confined spaces may ex pose the worker to harmful fumes, volatilized metals and nitrogen dioxide or nitric oxide gases. Nickel, copper, zinc, mag nseium, aluminum and possibly lead may enter the alloy for welding electrodes, and their fumes should be taken into con sideration when installing the ventilation equipment in the shop. OIESTION8 AND ANSWERS Degeneracy. Does smoking and drinking, ar on or two packs of cigarettes a day and about ten beers or highball a week, tend to lower a young man's efficiency or potency? U. B. Answer Of court It does. The young mtn retort to smoking and drinking In the tint place In a tort of sissy hop of concealing hit weak ness of character or hi general In feriority from hit acquaintances or from himself, if h had real man hood and enough brains he would manage to get along comfortably without such Indulgence. Your, question betoken degeneracy which amount to a national peril. Doctor In Name Only. Nothwlthstandlng th dipping en closed, we shall continue to tak our "nlp of Iodine." At our house the opinion or advice of "or Doc Brady' outweighs and scientific" advice of fered by th telf-promotlng doctor Who wrltet or edit the material from which th cllppplng It taken H. M. T. Answer In th clipping a "Dr." So-and-ao tayt only a physlclan'a ex amination can determine If there Is Iodine deficiency In your diet. So the "Doctor" advises you to con sult your doctor and to avoid dan gerous experiments. All of which it a labored effort to be nice and ethi cal. Matter of fact no physician can tell by examination whether any one't diet Is deficient in Iodine. That It Is not a "dangerout experiment" to sup plement the ordinary diet with a suitable dally ration of Iodine ha been proved by the experience of mil lion of people In sections of the country where Idodlne 1 added to th common tabl salt told In ttoret. under th advice and supervision of th local hetlth authorities And a few thousand of reader of thla column have been taking a "nip" of Iodine fat Instructed In pamphlet on Zodln Ration I am glad to tend on request If you Inclose stamped en velope bearing your address) for years with only benefit to health and well being. Finally, th "Dr." Bo-and to who uttered the 1910 tentlment here quoted It not a physicltn at all, but usee th title "Doctor" ob viously to befuddle unwary people who readily assume It meant he I a physician. True, he la a Ph. D. (Doctor of Phllloaophy) and hence should b addreased at Doctor, not Mister. (Cpyrlght 1841, John F. Dill Co.) Ed. Notet rerson wishing t communicate with Dr. Brady hanld tend tetter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D. tea O famine Beverly HIM. Calif. MILITARY men will watch this enterprise with acute interest, because it seems prob able the Germans will uncover spme of the methods they have been rehearsing for the at tempted crossing of the English channel if and when, ris generally assumed that the Germans are preparing to in vade the Caucasus, where the bulk of Russia's oil Is located. If you will glance at your map you will see In moment why forcing a crossing at Kerch is desirable. It provides a short cut to the Caucasus. Otherwise it will be necessary for the nazis to fight their way clear around the Sea of Azov and lengthening of their com munication lines is becoming a problem already. e TTHERE is always the possi- bility that Turkey may be brought over to the German side, either by diplomatic guile or by force. That, as your map will show you, would provide the opportunity for a German pincers movement against the Caucasus.) e e ANOTHER strategic point In the Russian fighting is at Tikhvcn, which you will find on your map about 100 miles east ward from Leningrad. After finding Tikhven. go on and locate Archangel. You will note that Tikhven lies at the be ginning of a long road with Archangel at Its end. It is a DIFFICULT road, but Murmansk and Archangel are the shortest route for getting American supplies into Russia and it may be taken for granted that Germany will do everything she can to close it. That is one reason for the long and stubborn defense of Leningrad. e e lEEP your eye on this situa tion In the north. It pro vides the principal reason for German pressure on Finland to keep on fighting. Closing um ti Classified Adt s m Too Lai to Classify UM P Kelly's Comment From Washington Duclu Sidetrack K. F. Bomber Base Collision Peril Seen For Pilots Salem Doctor Visits Capital Br Jena W. Kelly - Washington; D. C, Nov. 19. DR. IRA C. GABRIELSON, for mer resident of Oregon, where he was with the biological sur vey, and now chief of the fish and wildlife service (new title for the biological survey) Is what might be called an un friendly witness to the aspira tions of Klamath Falls to have a bombing base located there. The argument has become quite seri ous with Frank Jenkins, news paper publisher; C. E. Reynolds, secretary of the chamber of I commerce, and all other civic ; boosters about the wildlife ref uge at Tule and lower Klamath lakes; military boards and the conservationists all participat ing. Army air corps was very in terested in Klamath Falls as a base for bombers until the ques tion of the birds came up Ca nadian honkers and just plain ducks. Whether or not Klamath Falls is selected depends, it ap pears, on the birds. Proposed site of the bomber base is about 14 miles from the bird sanctu aries which,' ordinarily, should be ample distance, but the mod ern bomber has speed of 300 miles an hour and would arrive at the refuge in nothing flat, if it went in that direction. What effect would the bomb ers have on the ducks? What ef fect would the ducks have on the fliers? These are the out standing points being investigat ed. Dr. Gabrielson (who has to stand up for his bureau) says the ducks would be excited by the roaring of the bombers, and when ducks are excited they take to the air. The birds fly to Tule lake and to lower Klamath, back and forth. Dr. Gabrielson makes this his strong point. BUT there is the other point what the ducks would do to the army pilots. It has happened in the past (with reports in the press) that flying geese have struck planes In midair, which finished the goose and scared or injured the pilot. As planes are now constructed a goose might not break a propellor, but there is no telling what would happen if out of tha nowhere a duck or honker slapped through the pilot's enclosure' and struck him in the face or landed in his lap. This would be a matter of sec onds with a bomber speeding at 300 miles and a goose going anywhere from 35 to 100 miles. An army pilot has not time to watch the birds and there would be a collision before he could swerve his bomber. Much can happen In a second in the air, KLAMATH FALLS Is devel oping a fine municipal airport. Private fliers go to the Falls for duck hunting. It is suggested that the experience and the opinion of these private fliers be obtained, or that a few bomb ers be sent to the area to gather first hand Information. Dr. Gab rielson admits that the ducks are not everlastingly at the two refuges. They are there about 40 days twice a year the south ern flight and the northern flight and the flight strip of the birds is less than two miles wide, the well known fly-away, as the sportsmen designate it. Senator Charles L. McNary, a champion of conservation and a great lover of the birds (he has a flock of wild ducks at his Fircone farm near Salem) is try ing to iron out the situation; has had talks with General Arnold, in charge of air force for the army, and with Dr. Gabrielson. The senator wants the bomber base at Klamath Falls and he does not want the ducks Inter fered with. He Is now accumu lating all the information ob tainable. FARM security administration has decided to establish a per manent clinic at Nyssa for the benefit of migratory workers. It will also install a "light con struction" camp instead of a mobile camp. FOR the first time in 57 years Dr. W. A. Morse of Salem drop ped into Washington and was met at the union station by Dr. Ross Mclntire with a White House limosine, whisked away to Mclntire's home. Dr. Mclntire ', a a , . . r ft. " ..uuciii uugci vs. H 1 1 9C ego i aaiem; long oeiore he became the personal physi cian of President Roosevelt and was commissioned an admiral by the chief executive. All that Dr. Morse recognized of the Washington of 1884 was the W'ashington monument, the W'hita House and tha capitol building. News Behind The News By Paul MalloD (Continued Prom Pace One) union leaders (AFT, as well as CIO) to shy away from the board. They can hardly be ex pected to cooperate in mediation already pledged against this principle. The board simply cannot func tion effectively, in the light of this situation. THE answer behind all this Is new leg Islat ion. Messrs. Roosevelt and H i 1 1 m a n, no doubt, had some in mind when they took their stand. The glow ering mood of the house would require some, In any event. Dis satisfaction with the treasonous sabotage of defense work by strikes is sweeping through the administrations' southern dele gations. The White House Is apt to try to guide this legislative wrath away from straight-out anti strike legislation. AU adminis tration labor authorities person ally take the ground that a man cannot be prevented from quit ting his job, although draftees ae nrn hihited from retiring. In a small defense plant In New England recently, lor instance, the workers did not strike. Each worker merely decided to go fishing the same day, and fish ing they went. e JOHN Lewis Is not the only regal ghost lurking behind the shadows of many friends at h rin ronvention In Detroit. Also armed is Uncle John's ad versary Mr. Hillman. In fact, Hillman sllnoed out to Detroit several days in advance to or ganize the anti-Lewis forces. First convention blood was spilled meagerly at a bar three niaHta hifnri the meeting op ened. A Lewis man is reported to have defeated two niiiman men. The rantlve coal mine dispute was advertised as a personal po litical fight between Lewis and Roosevelt, and it was all of that, but Mr. Lewis was aiming his hnrriect hlnws nast Mr. Roose- velt's ear at Mr. Hillman. Lewis henchmen are inclined to blame all their troubles on Hillman. FIRST result of the altered me diation board status is that the quiet old U. S. conciliation service is likely to get more and more prominence as government mediator. District 50 of Mr. Lewis' United Mine Workers has withdrawn Its case from the board and given it to the concili ation service. That service has no powers, except persuasion, which worKS Desi anyway in ordinary instances. CAMP HAS BLAZE Gold Hill, Nov. 19. (Spl.) Four cabins were destroyed by fire at the Beaver Auto camp, Tuesday about 3:30 p. m., when it is believed an oil stove In one of the cabins exploded, causing the flames to spread rapidly in the frame buildings. Efforts of the city fire depart ment and employees from the ce ment plant, which is Just across the railroad tracks from the auto camp, kept the flames from spreading to the office and sec ond hand store at the camp. Mr. and Mrs. George Taylor have operated the camp grounds and second hand store for the past year. SCIENTIST DIES Musku, Germany, Nov. 19. (APV Walter H. Nernst, 77. one of Germany's foremost Inventors and scientists snd winner of the 1920 Nobel prise for chemistry, died at his country estate near here yesterday. Nernst and others created new science physical chemistry which bridges physics and chemistry. Hs "third law" of thermo-dynamlcs dealing with the behavior of matter at the ap proach of the absolute tero gain ed the Nobel prize for him. His metallic filament lamp su perseded the old carbon lamp and paved the way for the mod ern incandescent lamp. The white rxmulation of th United States would have t. produce 500,000 more babies annually to make the birth rate of 17.5 per 1.000 equal the birth rate of 21.7 amnni the non-whites, according to the census. Closinf ttn, k m. Too Lai oa Olaatintd Adt to C'aaelfy 11 SO p 0 Mall Trunaua Waal aa Flight o Time Medtord and Jackson Count; History from tn filet of th Mali tribes 10 and to yean am TEN YEARS AGO TODAY November 19. 1931 (It was Thursday) Wrecked auto clue to three bandits who slew Ashland police man. It was found near Gold Hill. The National Guard fur nishes 20 men to help in the hunt Japan warns Russia to stay out of Manchuria. Mayor James Walker of New York City to make plea to re lease Tom Mooney, labor agi tator, from San Quentin prison. Unsettled with rain forecasted. High 61, low 31 degrees. Highway beauty program Is backed in Jackson county. County Jobless now number 991, according to work registra tions. Christmas Seal sale to sta after Thanksgiving. Cleaver wielder in store rum pus held for hearing. Japan and China agree armistice in Manchuria fuss. on TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY November 19. 1921 (It was Saturday) Harvard beats Yale, 3 to 0, In last half. Japanese stand on Chinese question main problem before arms parley. Snow blankets eastern Oregon, and Portland has silver thaw. Rain predicted. High 47, low 33.5 degrees. O. O. Alenderfer, Jerry Je rome and Al Hagen among local people at Oregon-OAC game to( day. Local turkey market still un settled. Price ranges from 37 to 45 cents. Trlgonla oil well now down 1,390 feet, and excitement grows. Meteorological Report "T . .. WEATHER BUKEAO ' Forecast Medford and vicinity: Fair tonight and Thursday with iroet tonight tnd fog in morning. Oeegons Fair tonlyht and Thursday but morning fog In valleyt. Cooler In eastern portion. Local frosts la west portion tonight. Oentle north erly wlndt offcoast. Loral Data Temperature a year ago todayi Highest 49; Lowest 24. Total monthlft- nreclntttlnn 4 M1 Inches. Excess for the month 1.36V lnohe. m Total precipitation tinea Septem iT X, 1941. ft.17 tnchea. Ezoeaa for the eaebn a. OS inches. Relative humldltv at t:3A n m yesterday S9: 4:30 a. m. today 100. Tomorrow Sunrise 7:07 a. m. Sun set 4:40 p. m. Obtereatlnnt Taken at 4:3 a. m. 120 Meridian Time. Sh 5 sf fl U If Bolt 44 37 M P. CIdy Boston S 47 .00 P.Cldy Chicago 09 60 M P.Cldy Denver 65 31 .03 finow ureka . 64 30 J0O Clear Havre 38 34 31 Clear Lot Angelet 05 40 J0O Clear Mrdlord 49 30 .00 Cloudy New Tor 01 49 .00 P. Cldy, Omaha 73 43 .78 Bain Phoenls . .. Portland 43 40 .10 Cloudy Reno 11 It M Clear Roteburg 60 34 T Cloudy Salt Lake 83 30 M Snow flan Pranclaoo... 67 38 .00 Clear Seattle 60 88 .05 Foggy Spokane 40 36 .00 Clear Wash., D. C. 70 46 .00 P.Cldy Taklma 51 84 100 Clear E CHIEF OF STAFF London, Nov. 19. (AP) A shake-up of Britain's army com mand In which General Sir Alan "Wizard" Brooke, 58, was named chief of the imperial general, staff and younger general offi cers were given key posts was announced today by the war of fice. The youngest man Involved is Major General A. E. Nye, at 45 one of the youngest generals Britain has known, who will be come vice chief of the imperial general staff. General Brooke will assume his new position December 25, when the present chief. General Sir John O. Dill, reaches the re tirement age. General Dill was made field marshal and will be come governor of Bombay when the term of Sir Roger Lumley expires. The 9 614 hoanilala in h United States have 1.2A2.7R. beds, according to a survey con- auciea Dy the cenjus bureau. Hospitals average 97 berle for; - each 10.000 of the nonulatinn " and the average hospital serves 5,000 familiea.