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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.
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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
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Personal Health Service
By William
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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
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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.
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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.
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