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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1941. - MedfordWTribuiii Rwb tb MU TribuM." Pukltchad by UEDruKU PRINTING CO. 1.t North rir t Pties 1141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor. ERNEST R. OIUTRAP. lunar. Am Indpadat Nppr. imirMl Meond elaaa matter At M4 ford. Oregon, undttr Aet mt Marb I. UBflCRlPTtOM RATES y Mall IB jnci Dally and BuBdajr M Dally and Sunday aiootha... I M Daily and Sunday thraa months I 00 By Carrier la Advaaca Uadford, Aab- ana. tniru rmii sctwii Hi It. Rou Rlvar. Phoaats, TalanC and motor routaai Daily and Sunday ona faar ! All Urmi caa la advance. Official Paper mt the City of M4fW orrieiaJ raper ar --' HRMHKR OP THE ASSOCIATED PR MS HecsMf IBS run tmmm f iw The Auoetatad Preee la aaclaalvaly entitled to tha naa far publleatloa of all newe diapaichaa eredlted to It r othar vtaa raiitd to thte pa par. and alao t Iba local nana publtahad herein. All rlfhta for publication of tpooIAJ dlapatehaa haralB af alao roaarad. MBMHBR Or UNITED PRESS MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advartlalns praoantatla WEBT-HOl.LIDAT COMPANY. INC. Office In Naw Torn, Chicago. Delre t. Ban rranetaoo. Loa Anlaa. SaatUa. Portland, St. Louie. Atlanta, Vanooovar. B C DKCo(tit4srkMi u$ijt1rj44scuTm Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry niL t..nl.t." nlaved a r nut iiu4ui - - -vital though treacherous part In the Japanese attack on Hawaii. Only In Norway waa their be trayal more complete, Secretary of the Navy Knox reports. And for years, America has been sending misslonariea and scrap iron to the Land of the Rising Sun. Folsora prison In California plans a public speaking class for Inmates, who will hold de bates with outside teams. First they will learn to say, "Ladles and Gentlemen," Instead of "Gentlemen of the Jury.' Fire chiefs of the Northwest have started issuing the annual warning against lighting the Christmas tree candles too close to Santa Claus' wmsners. Retention of the 40-hour week for defens workers dur ing the war, brought forth crisp, curt comment from edi torial typewriters. They note soldiers, sailors, and marines In the Far Pacific are fighting on a 188-hour week, and no overtime pay. Ona of tha Older Girla an nounces a house-fly showed up In her kitchen Mon. It looked so lonesome, she did not have the heart to swat It. Members of tha Kodlak, Alas ka, Rotary club have made vows to let their beards grow until Nippon is defeated. This Is a fine, rugged, rigorous out burst of patriotism, but it looks like the home-folks would suf fer more than the foe. SPIRIT Or THE TIMES (Pendleton East Oregonlan) TOR SALE Nails Place. The best little business in town. Yours for $7,000.00 going after a Jap." Snow, alleged by poets to be "beautiful," came this am. ap parently in answer to tha pleas of the Older Girls for a "white Christmas." An Inch of tha stuff in these parts Is worse than all that fell, that tough winter at Valley Forge in Revolution ary days. It should only fall In the hills and In Russia, where It Is appreciated, end can do some good. From many cities come word America's entry Into the war is dimming interest in Santa Claus, and the public is thinking more of Hitler than the good St Nick. There will always be a Santa Claus, and tha way things are shaping up on many fronts, the No. 1 enemy of man kind won't last until mid-summer, let alone until Christmas 1942. Der Fuehrer is not even worth the hate that is wasted on him. Autolsts are now permitted to put new license plates on their new cars, or their old ones. Old Marshal retain of the Vlrhy regime of France Is again reported out of patience with the Nazis. Tills Is a first-class sign the Marshal Is going to do what they tell him to do, and blame England for It. L. C. Taylor sported a birth day Sun. He Is 20 years older, or 10 years younger than he claims to be. And, besides, it's none of your business. Eugene, Ore., Dec. 18. (IP) Struck by a snapped cable, Roy Withrow Cheshire was killed at the Brown logging company west of bexa yesterday. "It's the TXELL, well, history DOES repeat itself 1 The present scribe well remembers a couple of decades ago, when Medford awoke to a new world, a world of ice and snow, as it did today. An unusual and a beautiful world, but at that time, there were certain serious flies in the amber. IN the first place the telephone and telegraph wires broke down, which not only cut off the housewife, but the Mail Tribune from all outside communication. (Yes, that was a pretty slim paper, 20 years ago!) Then all the power lines crashed, causing cross circuit fires, putting out lights and cutting off a large share of the residence heat of that day. As a result many houses, particularly in the val ley and suburbs were closed up and the shivering oc cupants hied themselves to the nearest functioning hostelry. THE next night it cleared and the mercury did a nose dive, unprecedented in all southern Oregon history. How many degrees below zero we don't re call, but enough to freeze unprotected car radiators and house pipes solid. The plumbers had a field day but no one else didl IT doesn't look, at the present writing, as though there would be such a heavy snowfall this time, but it certainly comes next to that of the famous blizzard of the long, long ago. It is to be hoped, however, our respected public utilities are in better shape to stand a white Christmas this year than they were the year following the first World War. Some progress should have been made, in two decades! The U. S. A. THE general sigh of relief following the announce- ment of U. S. losses in the sneak attack on Hawaii, clearly demonstrates the value of giving the people the truth, in this man's war, (Modified, of course, by military expediency and transmission of valuable in formation to the enemy.) The first official U. the losses had been severe, but only the capsizing of one ancient warship was acknowledged, with many other ships damaged, and the total death list was placed at 1500. PVERYONE knew the government was withholding " the truth. As a result the public imagination was allowed full rein, and before the official statement by Secre tary Knox yesterday, nine out of ten citizens believed the U. S. Pacific fleet had really been knocked out, and as a result, a Jap invasion along the Pacific coast might be expected at any moment. IN other words, withholding the facts, instead of pre- venting alarm and boosting morale, had exactly the opposite result, increased the former and im paired the latter, which in the opinion of this depart ment it will do nine times out of ten, with a democ racy like this where literacy and intelligence are high. The secretary's frankness in granting somebody erred, for the U. S. command was not "on the alert", is also highly commendable. THAT is the way to run a war in a country like this, just as it is the way the war in England is conduct ed. The Roosevelt administration has started out in the shooting phase of world war No. 2, on the right foot. Here is honing, that regardless of what the fu ture may contain, this realistic, honest and courag eous policy is continued ! How portion of Secretary Knox's statement, how- ever is somewhat puzzling. "The entire Pacific fleet", he declared, "with its battleships, aircraft carriers, its light cruisrs, destroy ers and submarines are uninjured and are all at sea seeking contact with the enemy." If that is correct, then why are the U. S. bases and possessions left unprotected as far as the fleet is concerned? If the Philippines, Wake, Midway and Guam, were worth holding and fortifying, aren't they worth defending, with every resource at the government's command? BUT if the current wire reports are correct, the Pa cific fleet is making no effort to reinforce or re lieve any of these vital posts in our Pacific defense set up. These points are all left to defend themselves, against Jap invaders, which with the exception of the Philippines, outnumber the U. S. defenders from two to one to ten to one. There must be some good reason for this. But we have an idea, this department's incomprehension is shared by a large majority of the American people, and it might be wise for the navy department to en lighten them. VAVES BATTER JHIP Astoria, Dec. 18. (P) Wives battered the wrecked .it.on steamer Mauna Ala into the sands of Clatsop spit today. The bow and stern had been washed 73 feet apart Hundreds of i if Can "Take" It S. announcement admitted Come? beachcombers carried away car go and parts of wreckage. Among the prizes were hun dreds of Christmas trees. Closing time uf Cleeified Adi . as. Too bate to Claeairj 11 -SO p Climate! Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertaining to personal healtb and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Bred? If a stamped eelf eddreued envelope Is enelosed. Letters shoold be brief and written la Ink. Owing to the Urge n amber of letters received on It a few can he answered her. No reply ean be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, gu El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. SO THERE IS AN ANTI - In nutritional research and, animal experimentation it hasj been recognized for a long I time that some entity or factor' in the vitamin B complex pre vents the hair of animals from turning gray prema turely. Wheth er this anti gray factor is essential for the same pur pose in human nutrition has; been left in j the field ' of i conjecture until the present time. Now the Identity of the anti-gray-hair factor has been estab lished. It is para-amlno-benzoic acid. This has been used for many years as a base for mak ing the local anesthetic novo caine and for making toluene for the manufacture of the ex plosive TNT (tri-ni-tro-toluene). Altho chemically Identified, it is not yet available in a form pure enough for safe use for restoring the original normal color to hair that is turning or has turned gray. Para-amlno-benzoic acid is a synthetic, that is, it is artificially produced by the manufacturing chemist. Like other synthetic vitamins, such as thiamin (arti ficial Bl) and carotent (synthetic or artificial vitamin A), it is probably less effective in human nutrition than the natural vita min is. At any rate, in my Judg ment, it is always better to take the entire natural vitamin B complex than It is to take Just synthetic pure thiamin (Bl), for Instance, no matter what the indication for the Isolated Bl may be. It Is well recognized today that natural vitamin A is more effective than synthetic carotene in any circumstance. So If your hair Is turning gray, Maggie, the advice of Or Doc Brady who wouldn't mind having a mop of gray hair on top or any other shade, for that matter is that you treat yourself to, say, a couple of vitamin B complex capsules daily, or about six vitamin B complex tables daily all at one gulp or divided Into two or three daily feedings with meals, as you prefer to supplement your diet. You, too, John. Along with your dally ration of natural vitamin B complex you had better take the Iodin Ration too. Long before the (Ooitlnued Prom Page One) the navy was caught flatfooted; found the air force grounded and the pilots asleep. And con gress wants to know why. e e e FROM Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, the navy drew a line to Honolulu; said It would be impossible for an enemy to reach the northwest coast through that barrier. This was one of the reasons the navy fought development of Tongue Point, declared It unnecessary; neglected entrance to Puget sound. The Pacific fleet expect ed the Japanese to strike at the Philippines as one of the first acts of war; could not conceive of the little brown men having the effontery to bomb the great Pearl Harbor base. From the dissatisfaction of western congressmen, It appears that a court martial will be held, unless pressure Is exerted to prevent It. The criticism also Includes the navy Intelligence system. Congressmen are Inquir ing how the Japanese consumed a week in traversing the sea to Hawaii on their mission of de struction without some agent of navy Intelligence learning of the undercover plan and relaying the information to those In com mand at Prarl Harbor. a e NO senator from Washington and only one from Oregon voted for the declaration of war against Japan, Senator Bone is In Florida and did not attempt to return. Senator Wallgren was on the west coast, as was Sena tor Holman of Oregon, and they raced to Washington as fast as weather conditions would per mit. From Chicago they tele graphed Senator McNary to hold up the vote until they could arrive. A poiice escort waited at the airport for them, 1 f4 0 AT ATHE ' NflilflL Brady. M. D. CRAY - HAIR VITAMIN? anti-gray-halr factor was heard of, correspondents taking the Iodln Ration (to keep from go ing stale or from losing Interest and capacity to enjoy life) re ported now and then that their gray or graying hair seemed to regain its natural color. As I said, all I know .about this is what these correspondents tell me. But in any case the Iodin Ration can do no harm, and on request, if you inclose stamped envelope bearing your address. I'll send Instructions for Taking an Iodin Ration right out of the same vial from which you pour tincture of iodine on scratch, abrasion or wound as first aid disinfection, and with complete nonchalance In regard to that POISON label the droll drug law requires on every vial of tincture of iodine sold by the druggist. It seems that some eminent medical man long ago pronounced iodine poisonous, and altho no one is ever fatally poisoned by Iodine, the author ities are strict about labelling It "POISON" the same author ities who indulgently permit indiscriminate sale and even Indiscriminate distribution in samples of concoctions contain ing such deadly poison as strych nine and the like without a word or hint on the label In regard to the peril to children who may get hold of the "medi cine." QUESTIONS 4, ANMVFKS What, Consult a Physlclanf la It advisable to are a doctor when there Is pua coming from one breast? (L. E. O.) Answer Yes. sh-h-h-th! The Preacher Mar Heat What la a good cure for yawning? It annoya me most when coming out from church eernce and driving home after a aermon. I Just can't control my desire to yawn. (Mrs. W. A. A.) Answer Frpxh mr mil .var.tM w ho, for once the Toung Snip, who amy inn is my laionw cure-au, can t find fault with the prescription. Try walklne home instead rr ,Min, walk to church, shop, sc tool, office or ciud instcaa or tiding. Small Order Please tell me thru your column how to doctor arthritis. Havo It In my hands and arms. (Mrs. E. M. p. Answer Sei.d StamnMl .nwlnn. hearing yo- addreu, and ask for uiiimiB loiaer. ur inclose ten cents with your stamped aflf addresaed envelope, for booklet "The Ills Called Rheumatism." (Copyright 1841, John P. Wile Co.) M. Note: Persons wishing fo rommunlrate with Dr. Brady honld send letter direct to nr. William Brady. M. D, ?.m El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. but by the time they reached the capitol the senate had voted and adjourned; the senate was anxious to beat the house to passage of the declaration. Also too late to answer roll call In the house was Representative Jackson of Washington and Rep resentative White of Idaho. Sen ator John Thomas of Idaho tele graphed McNary that he could not leave his home: he was heading a group of men trying to find the body of a relative who had drowned. e e SPAB is outlining a program by which during the next two years there will be spent four billion dollars a month. It Is proposed to double the present appropriations of 67 billion dol lars and speed all production on a 24-hour basis. Believing that strikes will be suspended by labor leaders now that war actually exists, the senate will pass a very mild anti-strike measure. If it does not shelve the matter. Under SPAB plan many sacri fices will be called for from civ ilians. The restrictions on mater ials for heavy consumer goods will be Increased, and a propos al to save small Industries by making an allocation of two per cent of supplies (supposed to be sufficient to keep them opera ting) is receiving attention. Reg ulations for the acquisition of property, such as machinery, raw materials and other facili ties, have been drawn up and submitted to SPAB. By this means SPAB expects to increase production of war goods to at least 50 per cent sometime In 1942. This would double present productive capacity on war sup plies. Tricycles Several Siiei to Choose From co AC i co nc Also Wagons, Scooters, Doll Buggies HANSEN HARDWARE 35 North Bartlett Phone 2370 Y 2-DAY FOR LINE T Portable Field Is Seen As Way To Keep Air Force Up With Motorized Units. By Jack Stinnett Washington It takes weeks to build an ordinary all-weather airport, even working large crews night and day. But army air corps officers in Washington, on the basis of experiments they have just witnessed in North Carolina, are talking about building all-weather ports in two days that will take every thing from a 65 horsepower grasshopper to a 5,000 horse power B-24. This Is not an accomplished fact yet but it's on its way. In North Carolina, the army avia tion engineers recently put down their first portable landing field in 11 days. It was the so-called Marston mat more than a thousand tons of perforated steel plates, 10 feet long, 15 inches wide, and an eighth of an inch thick, that lock together into a solid run way, 150 feet wide and 3,000 feet long. Land Everything In the following days and nights, in rain, shine and inky darkness, army pilots took off and landed practically every type of plane the army uses on that runway and walked off singing its praises. The same engineers that laid that runway are saying now that in time they will have one of equal strength and size that will weigh less than 400 tons and can be laid on fairly level terrain In two days. Is it any wonder that MaJ. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air force, finished his inspection with the enthusiastic declaration that it is "the year's greatest achievement in avia tion." Praise by Pilots The pilots who took off and landed on the mat had this to say: that it was less slippery in wet weather than the surfacing used on permanent airport run ways; that because of the 2V4 inch perforations, the brakes took hold much more quickly; and that there is less wear on rubber tires. The advantages of such a port able, rapid-construction airfield hardly need explaining. The conception of an air force oper- ' ating In all kinds of weather is as new as this war. That means solid surface landing areas. It is no trouble for a plane to keep up with mechan ized divisions operating at great speed but until the portable landing field appeared, there was no solution to the problem of keeping all-weather airfields close enough to the rapidly moving lines to operate with maximum effect against enemy air operations from established ports. One air observer here says that If the Nazis had had such movable airfields in Russia, the story of their advance might i have been far different. He I points to the report that even though they captured one air port after another in Holland, Belgium and France, their need for others to keep up with the rapid advance led them to try roping off strips of highway and using these for emergency land ing fields. This plan had to be abandoned as unsuccessful but it demonstrated one flaw in an almost perfect military machine. Hunt R. G. A. F. Plane After Plunge in Bay Nanalmo, B. C, Dec. 16. (CP) Royal Canadian air force officials and provincial police today resumed an intensive search of Nanoose bay, about 15 miles north of Nanaimo, In the hopes of finding some trace of an R.C.A.F. plane which crashed and sank there last night after developing engine trouble. The machine was seen by res idents along the shore of the bay as It attempted to land on the rough water. They raid it touched the water once but gave three hops and rose again. Then It settled back into the water and a few minutes later turned over and sank. afjer 3 MOPwe a MXtaFr FPU TOM f Stpl I fig if? I IS GIRL WORKERS IN DEFENSE PROGRAM Des Moines, la. (U.f? Girls can tear down an automobile engine, handle a lathe or spot welder with the best of men and there should be a place for them In America's booming defense industries. That's the opinion of foremen and supervisors in the national youth administration's metal and wood-working shops here, where more than 500 girls have laid aside dresses and aprons for coveralls and slacks to work with machines instead of dish pans. Girls have been pouring into shops in Iowa so fast since the program of mechanical training for girls was launched eight months ago, that NYA statistic ians haven't been able to keep count. In the Des Moines and Clin ton shops, each of which have nearly $60,000 worth of drills, presses, shapers, welders and pattern-making equipment, the girls haven't been the least queasy about grease and grime, foremen report. The fact that fingcr-nall polish won't stay on in a machine shop doesn't seem to bother them at all. They are working right along side the boys in overhauling state automobiles, making street and road signs, steel lockers and ornamental ironwork for state parks. MOTHER REJOICES Seattle, Dec. 16. P) Mrs. Herbert Ross Hein rejoiced to day over the kind of telegram for which every "Pearl Harbor mother" had prayed. She had been notified officially of the death of her son, Ensign Doug las Hein, in the Japanese bomb ing of Hawaii December 7. She was notified yesterday that he was only wounded in action. THE PERFECT MAN Seattle, Dec. 16. (IP) The marines laid claim today to "the perfect man". Donald Daniels, 25, handsome Seattle truck driv er, was to be Inducted after an examination that failed to show a physical defect, not even so much as a filled tooth. Watchman Forgets Mattoon, III. UP William Sparks, watchman at a railroad crossing here, for years, posted a sign "No Watchman on Duty" as his last official act before leaving for home at the end of the day. Late one night f car moved Into the path of a slow moving locomotive at the cross ing and suffered considerable damage. Sparks was the driver of the car. Cloalng uiua in Classified Ada 9 a- m. Too Lata to Claaalfy 13 30 p IS IN FAMILY SIZE HALF BOXES to 50 select Paara ar.rf i. ... 40 to 50 select Ptars expressed to any point in the U. S. Phone your Hare s the price, ear bow. clua n nw u. d. rnone your era's the price, par box. plus GIFT BOXES namronufgiur" 'd"' "T Gift Comic 13 to 14 paara. Dalle ered to any point In tha U. S. A $1.95 Oregon. California and Washingtc $1.80 Also Cull Comic Pears and Newtown Apples for Local Consumption RETER FRUIT CO. 323 SO. FIR ST. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Comity Hlitory from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and to yeara ato. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 16. 1931 (It was Wednesday) Republican leaders in senate declare "the only brain throb possessed by Democratic heads is to put the country on a dole," and "their only program criti cism of President Hoover." Continued cold with rain or sn. w predicted. High 40, low 23 degrees. Crops value this year far be low 1931, statistics show. Early hearing for Fehl libel suit seen. Another candidate for sheriff shows up, bringing the grand total to 13. Medford high football team is awarded title trophy. Heavy snow falls at Fish Lake, cheering irrlgatlonists. Council holds final meeting of year. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 16, 1921 (It was Friday) Secretary of War Weeks pro posed in event war comes again, money and industry be drafted, as well as men. College students return home for the Yule holidays. Christmas mail shows big increase. Man arrested in Warsaw, Poland, as man who financed Wall Street bomb plot. The scent of gas was strong at the Trigonia oil well today, when drilling was resumed. France desires "only to protect her prestige and honor" in firm stand against Germany's plea for financial aid. j Pitched battle rages in Belfast over peace agreement with England. MONE ON TROOP TRAIN INJURED IN SMASHUP Napavine, Wash., Dec. 16. UP) A Northern Pacific express train that ploughed into an army troop train north of here yesterday afternoon rlerallod two carloads of troops without injuring anyone and only slight ly damaged the locomotive and cars. The army train was leaving a siding as it was hit by the ex press which was Just picking up speed, the chief dispatcher's of fice in Tacoma reported. MILK BOARD PONDERS Salem, Dec. 16. (P) The state milk control board, after holding a hearing here yester- day, said it would announce about January 1 Its decision whether to grant dairymen's pleas for a milk price Increase in the Salem area from 12 to 14 cents a quart. CRASH KILLS TWO Lebanon, Ore., Dec. 16. UP) Head-on collision of an auto mobile and a logging truck kill ed two persons on the South Santiam highway near here y.es terday. They were Wallace Pet erson, 21, and Mrs. Vera Ed wards, 37, passengers In the au tomobile. Both resided in Lebanon. CRASH KILLS CLERIC American Falls, Idaho, Dec. 16. (P) I n J u r I e s received when his automobile overturn ed here yesterday resulted in the death of the Rt. Rev. Fred- i' i erick D. Bartlett of Boise, bishop s of the Episcopal church mis sionary district of Idaho. 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