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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOP.D, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1942. i!AFORDCWrRIBUKl MltlKuHD PHlNTlNO CO I-W I.' rti St phoM RoHICfU W fli'HU 1't trd m Mrourf claw mHt at Md tr4. Orfc aiKl. Al March IIHM. RIPI ION RATES y Mall -IB ? Oaiiy n4 Suffy M Dally an 4iilav moot ha.. I - Daily an unlay an itiih.. It , Daily i luniir .mlh I Daily u'1 ntnnth.. II . By Parriar 1 A4anra M1for1. Aah toad Tantrai PoM laeliBMia. al Hill RnfiM Riw Phoaala. T"t 4 m inim rou-aa Dally and mirtar-o yaar.... DaJiy a" dunf month All tarn aaah (a 4anca Hhui at (h Clly ! Mrdfwtf Offlrtal ra Jnrfc HIEMHKBOf rH 4WMM lArROI'MW ... iks UB. fof DuWtfAtlo. At MW .l.p.if ert"."l I. " , a7M .rlil"l I. ' P"P" ' " Ik. Mai n. .u.n.herf '! All rll" .uMlrall.ii l 4tptM knit, sr. IIIHHtll ur UNITED PRIM msumch op Ainn "i'"0 ., or OIHl'lH-ATIilN (lit HiI.I.HAr c'llMPANT ic SjITrra. I Miua at LHll Ailam iia. vanfiHi.i - n n Ye Smudge Pot B? Artbuf Parry -i Frederick Palmer, mill' .n .'rv.rt. nredicU any all out n well-armed Aus- 4 ii. win tut the beginning of h. in fnr JiDan. Ha la the llrat forecaster In a long time, ihowlng a faint sign of opt inlam, and not singing the mill hnr hlues. for the masses, whoM facea are now long jnough to eat oats off the bot tom oi an oia-iMiui"" ." rtnm nf these days some fear- lax acrlbbler may come right nut. and declare the Japanese haven't "Chinaman's chance, One of the rural Older Gils report she had an angel cake drop on her. A fnw ants were out Tues day, as a sign of Spring. They w.r looking for picnics and pants. " 'We can't understand how Sa lem Vikings always manages to draw the easier brackets . (Coos Bay Times). No hostess team. REMOVING THE STINO (Kewanee (Ind.) Star) "Dua to a typographical error In a story of the can didacy of Edwin F. Peterson as county treasurer, the Star printed that Peterson was president of the Illinois Bar keepers' Association. It should have read Illinois Beekeepers' Association." Salem mothers and others are organizing a crusade against the police, for the way Juveniles are acting In general, and run nlng around nights. If the "vounalns" don't behave, the police should be marched to the woodshed, even if It does hurt the parents more than the po lice. ... The Klamath Falls quint, de ceived their looks, and lasted only two games In the state tournament. The trip, as In pre vious years, was no doubt social success. The Black Tor nado whirled into the semi finals, and win, lose, or draw will throw no dead pears at the foe. ... This is Friday the 13th, and the birthday of Col.-Judge Tou Velle of J'vllle. ... There was a mlscue on the highway due to a bottleneck Both the driver and the bottle retained their necks. ... "Spring to date has been tin usual for Its damness." (Wil low Creek Jottings). The same here. ... Premier Tojo of Tokyo In dulged in tome fancy boasting yesterday, that excelled the late offhand lying of the late Mus solinl of Italy, whose current whereabouts are unknown, and nobody, not even his country men, particularly care. To) paints a rosy picture for Japan and a black one for the United Nations. He Is the diplomat who announced he would make the peace terms In Washington C. When the peace terms are made he will haul an American central In a rickshaw, up the r -d to the front door of the ' !; idn's place. ENROLLMENT OFF Columbia. Mo. (U.R) War nas cut deeply into the enrollment rl the University of Missouri Registration for the second se mester of the 1941 42 school year showed 4 469 shi tents 13 per cent under Um first semester. OlEdo(OlLrf$r7EI fniupjtU 4s ftj mi The AlliesBest Bet Accordine to the srapevine from Washington Stalin will not only hand to the allies NOW, but ultimately join in the war against Japan, if the united nations will launch a major offensive against Hitler in the west, within the next 60 or 90 days. If this offer is true, (and cumstantial evidence as well port it) then one can't believe the Anglo-American command will pull such a boner as to spurn it. For, as has been frequently pointed out in this de partment, Vladivostok as a hostile airbase, is the fatal weakness in Japan's bombers stationed there supported by fighting planes, might reduce Japan's industrial areas to shambles in a few weeks. And that industrial area, from a mili tary and naval angle, is Nippon s fighting heart. ..... fXH the other hand, without such airbases, or simi- larly favorable ones, the task of ever driving Japan out of the mid-Pacific and defeating her, pre sents tactical and strategic obstacles which are almost insurmountable. DRITAIN has a splendidly equipped mechanized " army of between three and four million men lying idle in England, as well as command of the seas and of course the channel. She has been materially reinforced recently by American troops, guns and planes. Even if the war situation elsewhere weren't so critical, and Stalin's offer favorable as it is. wouldn't it be sound strategy to utilize these strong forces, in some OTHER direction than TRY to beat Hitler to the punch? A tremendous undertaking and a costlv one? No doubt. But how many more defeats must the allies suffer. before they realize that unless Hitler is forced to fight on two fronts this summer. World War No. 2 may well be LOST! How Come the Gneisenau? Instead of bombing the Nazi battleship Gneisenau, the R.A.F. should employ inspect it For this battleship must battleship has and the information we should think would be invaluable to the gle on the Seven Seas. The Gneisenau was bombed steadily for months and months while it was docked at Brest, and accord ing to British reports, each serious damage. We can't bombs that fell but the total ran well into the hundred-thousands. Nevertheless the Gneisenau was able to get out to sea, proceed up the channel and make Kiel under its own power, when the opportune time came. NOW according to the same source of information the doughty Nazi man-of-war is docked at the important German base, and R.A.F. mobs are again showering down upon it. How come? In only one day's attack the Jap air force sank two of England's most modern battleships, the Prince of Wales and the Repulse. But this second-rate tub for a navy, has now been a target for the R.A.F., daj in day out for close to two years, and is still intact. One of these dark nights no doubt like the proverbial cat with nine lives, it will again sally out. What has the Gneisenau ship has got? INSTEAD of resuming Kiel, we would suggest and put Scotland Yard on Gneisenau s invulnerability, Such information could two things: Show how the British fleet could be bet ter Protected against air attack, or, Reveal the fatal weakness in the R.A.F. bombing methods adopted against the Gneisenau. The Laws Delay Do you remember the Esposito Brothers? Frobably not. But had you been in New York city in January 1941 however, you would. For on a cold, clear, winter day, over 14 months ago, and in broad daylight, these two cold-blooded bandits, shot and killed a payroll messenger, only a stone's throw from Herald Square, killed a policeman who pursued them, and then before they could even 2et out of sight of the crime, were caught red-handed. There was no doubt, reasonable or unreasonable, of their identity or their guilt. The incriminating evidence, was overwhelming. VET our system of criminal procedure is such, thai it took a vear and two months, to bring thest mad-doe brothers to justice. with the result that their execution in Sing Sing last night meant little or nothing to the public at large . . . William and An thony Esposito electrocuted? oh yeah, who were they and what was it all about? There is only one justification for capital punish ment, its deterrent effect on others. But how can there be any real deterrent when at time of retribution the cause has been forgotten? It's an old story of course. But the law's delay in iminal proc?duri remains, one of the most deplor able features of the American system of jurisprudence. over Vladivostok: air oases there is considerable cir as military logic to sup defense. A fleet of super- DEFENSE and for once some Fifth Columnist to have something no other .British navy, in its strug and every attack inflicted recall the exact number of of the Nazis poor excuse got that no other battle the bombing marathon at the R.A.F. take a week off, the job, so the secret of the. may be determined. hardly fail to do one of that ese Personal Health Service By William SljtiM4 Irltcra pcrtatnln. to pmanil ktautb ana k(1M. oat to 4le aiaml. ar traaimcBt. will b. anaatrea by Or. Bndj If a Mmprt at If- dUrraara to v. hip. la .nrloara uilnt (koala M bn.1 aaa wrtura la Ink I Owing to ih but. number at k-ttrre rteeltrd only a lea ran k innnM hrra ho reply ran b mail, to quPrtra aoc conform! nr, Co Inauuctlont Addrcaa Dr. Milium Brady, too CI Carol no. Beterly Hint, Calif. . STOP THA T When you meet one of those morons who turns on his blind ing headlamps and keeps them on until disas ter or the law overtakes him you may breathe only a passing pray er that he'll suffer all of the damage when he does blind some op posing driver .who happens to be deficient in vitamin A. At least I do. But I go on from there thinking of all the harm done to eyesight and all the good money wasted by bad illu mination and glare. There are a few simple princi ples of good lighting which any child should know but that's Just the trouble, there are sev eral million people in the coun try who are incapable of under standing things a normal twelve year old child can understand. Yet even a person with only a ten-year-old I. Q. is conscious of discomfort when he enters oi remains for a while in a room ablaze in glaring light he in stinctively avoids the place or gets away as soon as he can On the other hand everybody is conscious of the restfulness one feels on entering a room illum inated with indirect means, that is, where the source of light, the lamps or tubes themselves, are not directly visible but the light is diffused and reflected evenly to all points by ceilings and walls. In such a room there is a constant invitation or temp tation to linger because it Is pleasant and comfortable there. For reading, needlework and the like, under artificial illumi nation, the lamp should be placed a few feet above and a few feet to one side and a few feet behind the plane of vision as one sits at work that is just back of the field of vision so that the lamp itself is not vis ible unless one turns the head to look at it. Working at desk, bench, table or stand the lamp should be higher and either directly over worker's head or a few feet back. Never have the lamp hanging In front so that it is constantly visible as the worker sits or stands before the bench. News Behind The News by Paul Mallon .Continued Prom Pags One) could have gotten off the ground because no air fields for them had been built. The British and Dutch had not provided sufficient anti-air craft guns to defend any vital point. Their troops were not trained to the type of warfare they would encounter, while the Japs had spent years preparing for this special mission of con quest. They simply, badly under-estimated what they needed and what the Japs had. These are fundamental mis takes which date back long be fore the fighting began. They could not be corrected in a few weeks or a few months. After them, nothing effective could have been done. ... DISMAYED British and Dutch statesmen are inclined, like the public now, to analyre events of the past three fight ing months in search of the answer for their troubles, rather than these older and more im portant truths. It can be seen now the Japs won the far east before this war began when they took Indo-China, with the placid ac quiescence of Vichy. Without it their campaign would not have been possible. The British ae pended on Thailand to fight and particularly to offer air fields, but this error, too, proven disastrous. The Japs were half way down the Malay peninsula before the British even knew where they would have to fight or how. ... THE far eastern correspond ents talked of "reinforce ments." and the Dutch and British echoed this call, but everyone can now see reinforce ments within the necessary 30 to 60 days was wholly impos sible from the start. From San Francisco to Batavla is 36 days by convoy. A Jam-up occurred in our Pacific ports, due largely to a shortage of ships-available on-the-spot, after the war began but even If sufficient nonexist !ant ships, planes, tanks, trained itxT.-vnin'I nad been waiting In port to ko at Uia outbreak oi (5 Brady M. D. CLARE Green, blue or other colored bulbs, globes or shades ara un desirable from the standpoint of efficient lighting and conser vation of the eyes. Soft yellow ish tints are all right. Brilliant spot lighting, with the rest of the room in deep shadow, is trying to the eyes and conducive to eyestrain. The illumination should at least make all parts of the room visi ble without effort, when the eyes are taken off from the reading or close work frequent ly, as they should be, to regard things at a distance for a mo ment. This is particularly im portant for one with myopia (nearsightedness). So far as comfort, vision and freedom from eyestrain are con cerned, indirect lighting (light from invisible source, diffused and reflected by selling or walls or other non-shiny surfaces), is always best in living room, work room, dining room, bed room. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS . Blesslnra Among the many blessings people bestow on our great friend and ad viser please count mine for the tre mendous change your InstrucUon brought In my 16-year-old daughter's outlook and spirit. She had surtered much from acne. In spite of all treat ment. I send for your pamphlet, and In a few weeks her skin cleared up and so did her state of mind. Now she Is a bappy, normal girl again. (Mrs. K. O. O.) Answer I like to catch 'em young. On request I am glad to mall the pamphlet on Acne (Blackheads and Pimples) to any reader who provides stamped envelope bearing bis or ber address. Roles for Reducing How dow one get the Instructions for reducing to which you referred In a recent article? I am about 30 pounds overweight and if It Is pos sible to get rid of the excess without endangering health I want to do It. (V. L.) Answer Send 35o and stamped envelope bearing your address. . aek for booklet "Rules for Reducing." Pact 1s, you can't kep such excess weight without endangering health. Headache My daughter and I are subject to frequent headache. (Mrs. P. H.) Answer Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for pamphlet "Why Have Headache?" (Copyright 1843, John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to i-onimunlrate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D- 265 El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. war, they could not have altered the result in view of the orig inal pre-war mistakes. What could have broken the back of the Jap offensive was a naval blow at the Jap lines of communications, establish ment of a beach head on the China coast, maintenance there of a force of dive bombers to prey upon Jap shipping. After Pearl harbor, we did not have the navy to do it. ... "THESE facts have been ob- scured by the deceptive and childish modes of allied public ity and censorship such things as the Singapore censor sup press I n g CBS Correspondent Cecil Brown for hinting that Singapore was in a bad way only a week or so before it fell. They constantly held out hope to the public that Malaya or Java could be defended if only reinforcements could be sent. long after they knew reinforce ments were impossible, and that the far east had been doomed by faulty pre-war preparations. The responsibility was British and Dutch, not ours. That is the plain story of the far vast as history will write it. DIE UNREPETANT By Harry Crockett Osslning. N. Y., March 13 (&) William Esposito, 30, play ed dead on the cold pavement of a midtown New York street lust off Fifth avenue 14 months ago and then arose to shoot and kill Patrolman Edward F. Mah er, 53, but today he was really dead killed In Sing Sing pris on's electric chair Just five min utes after his brother Anthony, 37. Virtually 10 months of lying In bed, abstaining from all food except that which was fed them forcibly, had reduced the "mad dog killers" to skin and bones Last night neither of the brothers accepted the Rev. Ber nard Martin's offer of spiritual solace before he died. BOOS! MARRIAGE RATE Salinas Cal. (U.P.) Monterey County Clerk, C. F. Joy, re ports 145 marriage licenses is sued during January, as com pared to 94 for the same month in 1941. Furt Ord soldiers are responsible for Uie Increase. Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C -Ingot Plant Going To Eastern Coast - Private Concerns " To Furnish Power , Ration Everything, Morgenthau Urges . , By John W. Kail Washington, D. C, March 13. Those hopeful communities in the northwest anticipating that the government might locate an aluminum ingot plant in their vicinity have been discarded in favor of New York, Boston and Philadelphia. Cheap power, which is the principal element in manufacturing the ingots and which made the northwest so attractive (and TVA), has been kicked out the window and War Production board doesn't care what is the' cost of the electric ity that is to be used so long as the war prcsram achieves 640, 000,000 pounds of aluminum. War department, Secretary of the Navy Knox, Lieut-Gen. Bill Knudsen have all taken the stand that new industries should not be located on the Pacific coast because of its exposure to the menace of Japanese bomb ers. No such apprehension is felt by WPB, etc., in the master of locating these industries on the Atlantic coast. New York City, Boston and Philadelphia are all exposed to attacks from the air and from surface craft. (One German sub marine insists that it has pene trated New York harbor and as evidence showed pictures of the skyline). The locations for the aluminum pig plants in those metropolitan areas are far more exposed than existing plants in the northwest Longview, Ta coma, Vancouver, Troutdale. The argument for. moving an aluminum rolling mill to Spo kane and against the installa tion of new "pot plants" at Cas cade Locks or on Puget sound was forgotten in the rush to give great new facilities to Phil adelphia, New York and Bos ton and Chicago, too, but Chi cago is regarded as immune from even a token bomb. Not a peep is uttered about the po tential danger to aluminum plants in the east. This fear applies only to the Pacific coast. NO government-built dams. such as Bonneville and Grand Coulee, are planned to provide the electricity for these alum inum plants. Not a government- owned kilowatt will be used in those Atlantic coast cities. A power pool In the Boston area (the contributors all private utilities) will furnish an esti mated 240,000 k.w. New York City has a reserve of 800,000 k.w. generating capacity, and Philadelphia has 380,000 k.w. available for the aluminum in dustry. Most of these generating plants are producing electricity out of steampower, and it is higher than the hydro-electric power of the northwest. War Production board, which has changed its views on many things lately such as no com petitive bids when a negotiated contract is available, the safest place to locate an aluminum in dustry, etc.,. in effect says "hang the expense," get us the alum inum. Use of privately owned power is the first break the utilities have had since the ad ministration launched its gov ernment ownership program. ... ALUMINUM Company of America, which operates at Vancouver and has the contract for building and operrting a "pot plant" at Troutdale and which also is building the plant at lacoma, has been Delected as the concern to build and op erate the pig aluminum plants in the east. Funds for construc tion will, of course, be provided by Reconstruction Finance cor poration through Defense Plant corporation, a subsidiary, This new expansion program will cost about $330,000,000. ac cording to the estimate of Wil liam L. Batt, which makes the government investment in such plants in Oregon and Washing- ton Insignificant. None of this money will be required for ad ditional generating facilities. Grand Coulee and Bonneville are asking for turbines to com plete their capacity, explaining there is more demand for power than they can supply until these units are Installed. Whether this supposed power shortage in the northwest determined WPB to arrange for its entire ex panded program in the east is not known. ... SECRETARY of the Treasury . H-nry Morgenthau, Jr.. does not Deneve in half-way measures, such as rationing tires and su gar. He has advised the ways Bladder Weakness If rfi fuStr from Otttinf I'p rflfhta. Barkaicltt. .Ntrroutr.fij, lf Plr., SoHb AnklM tr.d trr torn out. djt to non-erf tnlt rid nocwTiifmie K;drt ar.d B!addr trou , yo i should tr Tt vfiun u cmnt )jv?vi " to t. p :r,1 Prlntfd ftirr.tt if"t ft fimritel atlu-tr rf M J" ATsatfM tot W teUf 0T IS DISTEVCUISHED SERVICE CROSS Th Oistingoishad-Sarviea Cross is awarded to persons who, whfl. serving la any capacity with the Army of th United Statin, distinguished themselves by ex traordinary heroism In connec tion with military operations against an armed enemy. This decoration was Instituted by exeo utive order in January, 1918, and confirmed by Congress July t, 1918. It is a cross of brons with an eagle In th center and a scroll below th eagl bearing th in scription "For Valor." On th ravers is space for th recipient' nam. Til cross is suspended by s ring from a watered-silk ribbon, composed of a band of red, white, blue, white, and red. (Blue, an inch in width, predominates.) I and means committee that the way to handle the situation for the duration is to ration every thing; food, clothing and every thing else that a civilian buys. There is not one country now in the war where complete ra tioning, such as proposed by Morgenthau, is applied. The sec retary of the treasury says that unless the United States goes off the deep-end in rationing it will be up to its neck in infla tion. The staff of office of price administrator is already work ing on plans for rationing every. thing, wishing to be prepared if necessity- should make such a demand. OPA has issued orders for reducing the material in men's suits, but the latest styles for women show that suits for the fair sex call for very full skirts and jackets several inches longer than heretofore. Appar ently the material being saved by denying the men will be used for the women. Many of the strategic mater ials required by the United States are part of the great nat ural resources of Latin America. Aii'Mmisiiifie Gotntini jS52.4S Distributed by SNIDER ofor ESEIJLTS USE MAIL TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED ADS! Flight o Time Medford aid Jackson County History from th flies of tb. stall Trlban. IS and to years a to TEN YEARS AGO TODAY March 13. 1932 It was Sunday) High school basketball team leaves for state tournament at Salem Tuesday. Buying power of dollar la now $1.79, treasury reports. Only half of the dogs In coun ty have licenses, and after April 1 the cost will be doubled. New clues lead to Denver gang as kidnaper of Lindbergh baby. President von Hindenburg of Germany misses re-election by 165,000 votes. Hitler runs far behind and is repudiated at the polls. Unsettled with occasional rain. High 65, low 48 degrees. Ray Coleman of Jacksonville. Is high with 99 out of 100 at trapshoot. First smudging about April 1, county agent predicts. Mild weather develops pear buds fast. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY March 13, 1922 (It was Monday) Astoria Klan marches into Methodist church, in their night gowns, and give the pastor a $20 bill. Uproar in the senate over peace pact, when Sen. Borah of Idaho casts reflection on verac ity of Secretary of State Hughes. America stands pat on posi tion for payment of war debts, and will not allow allies to take all Germany can pay. Elks minstrel show at Page tonight. Jerry Jerome, end man, has the flu. Peculiar cloud formations last night attract wide attention. Fair weather. High 49, low 31 degrees. CANNERY WAGE BASE INCREASED 10 CENTS Salem, March 13 UP) Mini mum wages in the canning industry were increased 10 cents an hour yesterday by the state wage and hour commission, boosting the minimum wage for women to 52,4 cents an hour, and for men to 65 cents. The order is effective April 1. FOR DEFENSE Zanesville, O. (U.R) Under a municipal court ruling by Judge Homer Walters all defendants whose fines are suspended must put the amount of the fine into defense savings stamps or de fense bonds. Closing time for Classified Ads a i. m. Too late to Classify 12:30 DAIRY at PRODUCE CO. mm 111
