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PAGE FOUTt MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1942. MlWOElUiljiwTRIBUKl "BrM tm tmihr Oi mm4m (he) Hall Itejft. ln Norife rif t lhoM ROBERT ItfJHU 'liter. BRNCtfT ft Olt-BTRAP ftltnifew. MMi a nut matter M4 for4. OrfjA, b4m Aol erf Urb . Ill tmacniPTioN ratm til 4 iuB4r rr MM Deal - midar montha... Ill PallF ) n'Uf - thr mmmtht SB tllf ortr mnth., II ta4. Ce)irtJ ltftt. J $, vtlia, Gi RUL Ra(m Rlw. Phali. TJl a4 M molt rnim Ptt ijiif rr JJ ZJ1 evn ontltf en trtewiih. a. AU tfXff, Mate l . Offlrtal Papew erf t CM r MKMHKa - fH MWH'Urll CHIM PWIM nil twmnww wwjrw Th . loii'f all l te pHiAU- f ah era 4apatcr.M rrtti- ta tl a athar wiaa rl(4 i papar. n lM t fa will naa MWtih Haral-L All rigMa far wbileail af apMlAi liipttikN ara aiaa f mcmrcr or uNiico mcm MB UN BR 0 AUDIT RIlRBAU Of CIRCULATION Adeartlelng Rapraaantatjva. WBBT-HOI-I.IUAT CuMHANf Ilia OffioM in Nsw far. C . D trail. rraneiKA. la A Ra-Htla. artld. -. Ui't AtUntA. -r Ollt0NLrf$rtCI fllLISllEy44stlTIM Ye Smudge Pot Br Artbut Perr The Japanese admitted bomb ing of Tokyo and lour other great cltlei of the empire, while cheering to the people, U taken by them, and aome comment ton, with a liberal helping of fait. This trend is aided and abetted by the official shush hush on the details, accom panied by a dignified silence. The publie hai moped and moaned and cussed the fate of Pearl Harbor, Singapore and Bataan so long, they are prone to believe good news when it does come. Again, It is about the first time this nation has received cheerful tidings, unfol lowed by black Information the British had all but kicked the military bucket somewhere on their far-flung battlelines. The Interpreters ot the news are a gloomy lot anywhere. In the aerial taking apart of Nippon, they refer "to the reported bombing of Tokyo." They are taking no chances on error. In their yen for accuracy they should say: The reported bomb ing of the alleged Tokyo. It was flying Fortresses, not kites, the Nipponese saw In the skies over Yagawa, Kobe, Yokohama and the home town ot the Mikado. 80 8UDDENI (Oakland Post-Inquirer) "News of the engagement ot Miss Helen Henderson, daugh ter ot James Henderson of the Island of Hilo. to Seldon Chil lingsworth, has reached her." It was warm enough'yes. af ternoon for some of the Older Girls to wonder, if the electric fan they stowed away last fall, where they used to hide the gin, still worked. Gen. MacArthur after some controversy, has been named commander-in-chief of United Nations' land, sea and air opera tions in the southwest Pacific, with orders to proceed with an offensive against the foe. He will do his own thinking, with out any help from "Tommy the Cork" or starry-eyed youths in Washington, D. C. The German people were di rected by their propaganda min ister to pray for Adolf Hitler on his 53rd birthday. He sure needs it, and the German people might put in a few licks for themselves. J. Tannehill Walker, 3, went tlshing with his Paw Sun. and caught a fish as long as himself and about as lively. This boy Is getting an early start as a pis catorial enthusiast, and It Is hoped he will not make catching another his life work. "It Is time for the government to crack down on the crack pits." Blue Mt. tagle ) By cracky! e Pierre Laval of France, new chief of that unhappy land, by grace of Adolf, sounded in his first formal speech, like he was running for office, instead of al ready ui it. He promised the French people everything but $30 every Thursday and free electric lights. F Brown of E. Pt., took time off from the store Sun. and planted his corn. He is one of the Brown boys who has been in a fast lope for six weeks, with no time off for good behavior, due to a rush of biz. The government Is short of brass for war material. They might boll down the democratic national committeeman who ad vised the palpitating democracy last week the way to lose the war was to elect a republican cor.grrnrr.itn. "Play I ETS give thanks for small favors. The baseball 1-1 season opens in Portland tonight. The skipper of this department has never been a rabid baseball fan, but as has been frequently re marked, all values are relative. And with leaders of practically all other sports, rushing into the army and navy, no horse racing this winter, and probably no big football games in the fall, it is refreshing and heartening, to find some thing on the sport page but bathing beauties, boiler plate and reminiscences of Connie Mack. CO play ball you Portland Beavers! Let the peanuts crack and the ice-cold bottles pop, and the fat man in his shirt sleeves, ride the umpire with the wooden head! Its the great American game, and we are grate ful to the powers that be for letting it carry on in spite of the war. It isn't much, at least as Portland plays it. But it is a lot mpre than nothing. So again Gracias, Great White Father! Graciasl Crazy-Like a Fox! A RESPECTED contemporary up the line pontifi " cates that this man Laval is plain crazy. "Imagine any sane person, condemning the dec laration of war on Germany and urging collaboration" with the nazis." So the "dope" is given 30 days before he lies down in a lead-lined casket, or is pushed for life into a padded cell. JVflEBBE so, mebbe so! But the fact should not be forgotten that the ex-premier with the shifty eye and the undertakers clothes, in his native land has no reputation for being mentally unbalanced. No, at the Quai D'Orsay they claim M. Laval is no dope and no .crusader. If he didn't have strong support for this hook-up with Hitler against the al lies and particularly England, it is believed he would never hazard it M. Laval, in 6hort, is a thorough-going Fascist. He not only believes collaboration with axis fascism is best for him, but best for France. And he has plenty of nerve, don't forget that, the sort of nerve that goes a long way, at such a critical time in a mercurial melting pot like subjuga ted France. HTIIIS is no prediction Laval will win out 1 We can't believe he will. But it IS a rebuke for those who would write him off as just another French "nut" who can be hustled quietly off to the psychopathic ward, or can be shelved without a fight If Pierre is crazy, he is crazy like a fox. If this reapproachment with Nazi Germany were as forlorn a cause as our worthy contemporary believes it to be, NEVER fear! M. Pierre Laval would never be leading it ! Was Japan Really Bombed? "Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain. That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain. The Heathen Chinee is peculiar." A ND probably if Japanese instead of Chinese labor had been dominant in California in Bret Harte's day, Nippon would have earned the somewhat ques tionable tribute. For both the yellow races are Oriental, and are not inclined to be as open and direct, and therefore as comprehensible, as the Caucassian. Which is partly an answer to the inquiry of a subscriber as to what these bombing reports from Tokyo REALLY mean. FRANKLY we don't know. Our guess is Tokyo and other large industrial centers in Japan WERE bombed on Saturday last, by U. S. bombers and in all likelihood from some U. S. airplane carriers, if from land bases certainly we would think super-bombers, not light ones, would have done the damage. And Nippon immediately broadcast the news, in the hope of getting some valuable information re garding the point of origin. DUT if it develops no such bombing ever occurred, or if there was a bombing it was not by U. S. planes, well this department will not be greatly sur prised. "For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain," the Japs are only a few steps behind their amber brothers the other side of the China sea. And already the Tokyo radio has broadcast at least three utterly different versions of what actually happened. So almost anything may develop. However, until there is evidence to the contrary, this department will stick to the belief Japan WAS tombed, U. S. airplanes did it, and all these conflict ing reports from Tokyo merely add up the fact that Nippon, preatly agitated, is merely encaged in an other of its we'll known "fishing" expeditions. Train Wrecked by Burning Trestle The Dalles, Ore.. April 21. (.P) A burning railroad bridge gave way beneath a freight train near here yesterday, dumping a locomotive tender and 10 box cars Into a gully. Two trainmen viere Injured, u e 1 1 u e t su louiiy . Lawrence Ball" Moore, brnkrman. Jumped and fractured an ankle. Glenn Bakrr, engineer, was cut and bruised. Both are from Wish ram, Wah. Spokane, Wash., April 21 i.Pi !asollne rationing In east ern Washington was attacked a unnecessary in a sharply worded resolution by the Northwest Mining association today. Personal Health Service Br WlllUm SIm4 letters awtalalat, V ptnonal Meitk ao jtn, eat u im eusnast. r traetmeat, rtU a aanttrae by Dr. BraS; it a stamped stlf addmate aDnlopa la enclos-. letter saoale M bntl ana arltua la Ink Owlns to the large number of sitters raetln an I? a few can he answered Una. No rsplr eaa k atada u ausnet not eonformlni u Ink tract Ions address Dr. William arady. Ml CI Camlna. Battrly Hills. Calif. SO THI1 IS CANCER MONTH They tell ma this la Cancer, on we have tor fighting cancer Month and I don t mean as trology. I never can get enthu siastic about such "weeks" or "months" and I'd rather not be bothered even about "days," If you dont mind. But cancer Is different For quite while now I haven't said a word about cancer, in this column Net because the frowns of a certain class of people in timidate me, but it Just happens I have been pounding away on other lines tor a while. Now I'm going to try to print the common Danger Signals of Cancer 1. Any sore that does not readily heal, particularly If it Is In or about the mouth or at any other body orifice. 3. Any wart or mole that changes in color, size or appear ance; or that is situated on a part of the body subject to chronic or constant Irritation from the clothing, whether or not there is change in color or appearance, and particularly if it Is on one of the feet. 3. Any lump, especially a lump in the female breast. 4. Any unusual discharge from any of the body cavities, partic ularly If it Is blood-stained. 5. Digestive disturbance or persistent discomfort purporting to be "Indigestion" developing In a person between 45 and 85 years of age. Some people contend that the average reader I. Q. Is that of a 12-year-old child. I don't know about that, but I believe the I. Q. of readers of this column is considerably higher than that and so I print these danger signals, confident that readers who may become at all suspi cious or alarmed about their own trouble wll act as Intelli gent people that is, not worry about It but go straight to a physician and find out. After all, our greatest worries, fears or dreads are about what we do not know. Dread, Doubt and Delay are great allies ot cancer. The most potent weap- News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (OonUnued from rage cms) have developed In aome lines of skilled work and In some localities already. In cities where there are large plane plants, Baltimore, for in stance: on the west coast: Bridge port, Conn.; Norfolk (shipbuild ing); Wichita, shortages already are being reported. Needed most are tool design ers, tool makers, machinists, welders. Training programs are going on, but there Is also a certain amount of labor pirating. Cases have been discovered of a man ufacturer going to another city and running a blind want-ad for certain types of workers. In September and October, when the crops are coming In, and the conversion of industry ; to full war-gait will have been ! fairly well completed, the pinch will begin. a a THE grief of Sidney Hillman (Hi ir " (once alter-ego of William mMU- Loula " Be ,h ,he JaP Knudsen in war production) at I 'e11 ,or some elusive bait to tell having his ego tossed around j u wh,t w -nted to know? in the reorganization which left I, see Donald Nelson on top. has now .THERE may be some danger In been assauged. Hlllman's resig- over-interpreting the bomb nation, placed quietly on Mr j lnf raid on Japan as the await Nelson s desk some weeks ago opening of our big offensive, and never officially reported I Technically, It must be accepted has been rejected mainly as an extension of our He is to be the Harrj-Hopkins of labor for the president, a special adviser. His duties will be a secret between him and the president. The president could not give him the man power mobilization post he wanted because of op position from labor in both AFL and CIO camps. eaa A SPAT has developed among the president's advisers over the freezing of wages. His war labor board is still granting increases in some specific In stances, thereby running counter to what obviously is the general POISON OAK? Try t bottU of ZEMACOL Yq matt ho Mt1f1f4 or rnur nwnft chrfitlif rvfnndrtl. hi botttr I urn m w&ftU-tN I nun. Brady. M. D. are, first. Knowledge, and sec ond Taking It In Time. QCISTIO.VS A.SSWEM Agrees A boat exposure The writer, hiring wadso winter streams and rlrora, plowsd around in was snot and clothing In deep wet now for dars without ohangs. In survsTln worn and In army ssnrlc. Tr suffering any III stlsct. agrees with your teaehlng about tha harm le senses e( ersryday "eiposurs". (W. O. N.) Anawsr-Thenk you. dr. Altho ha doesn't say it In so many words, tha arctic explorer, atafsnsaon. does, too. and bases his opinion on his exper ience llrlng in tha srctlo. Truth Is my own ballet Is based la part on tha exptrlsnc of Stefsnsson and that of oeunUesa people of sound Judg ment and actual sxpsrlanos, aa op posed to the fancies or theories of mollycoddles and others who .hare scarcely experienced exposure to cold and wet. Reference I'd Ilka to haw the reference to tha original source of your recent statement to the effect that it is practically Impossible for one to get enough vitamins by Including ade quate amounts of fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, milk, egirs, greens, etc.. In tha diet. ( . M. D.) AnswerDear Doctor: Why is It that whan a medical colleague writes for information he NEVER Incloses a atamped envelope bearing his ad dress, whereaa when I write a medical colleague for Information I AL WAYS hare tobacco In my old tobac co box? For tha original source con sult article by Norman Jollffe, inter national Clinics. 4: 4- (Dm) 1S38. Fit For War Work When I applied for a Job In (a large airplane plant) they said I could begin work as soon as I began taking treatment for my hernia. I did so. and thanks to your advice. Dr. gave me tha Injection treatment. I am working right along and I hellere tha hernia la cured. (I. B.) Answer Most industrial plants now favor tha Injection treatment, which. In competent hands, gives as good a chanos of cure aa oparaUon doss, and without hospitalisation and incapacitation from work. Quinine Have been Informed you recently mentioned a pamphlet on tha use of quinine, rieass give particulars again (Mrs. L. 8.) Answer Send stamped envelope bearing your address, ask for pamph let "Quinine in Modern Medicine." (Copyright 1943, John F. Dllle Co.) , Ed. Note! Per -one wishing to communicate with Or. flraity should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M D. tSS tl Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. t tl . - . T . . pwucy m noia tnem aown Dy indirect pressure. But a new group Is rising Inside to advocate that any ne- I cessary wage readjustments be paid in the form of government bonds, redeemable after the war. This would circumvent the in flation argument, and please Messrs. Green and Murray who are working against any freez ing. All "factions know something must be done, but the question is distinctly disagreeable here politically. see IT looks like the Japs got all tangled up in their radio morale planning Just before our first bombs hit them. On Tues day they denied as "an infamous lie" a statement attributed to Reuters. British news service, stating they had been bombed. They said Reuters had faked the statement to bolster British morale. That made It doubly embar rassing for them five days later when the Infamous lie came true. The way they said it also let us know they did not expect any bombing, did not think it possible. That told us the time was ripe. Funny part of it Is. Reuters never carried any such state- harassment raiding like the j owi leveiea at me niarsnai;. wke. Marcus and New Guinea i "'anas It represents offensive and Inspiring action, but the big offensive drive will require a ! lot material to be marshaled ' far-away corners of the earth Generally it is anticipated for next year. CARPENTERS SEE THE NEW SKILSAW Light Powerful Dependable HANSEN Kelly's Comment From Washington, D. C Northwest Facing ( Labor Shortage) Houiing Trouble Also Paramount Sub Plant Eyed In Northwest . Br John W. Kelly Washington. D. C. April 21 War Industries in the northwest will be unable to operate at capacity unless the threatened labor shortage is overcome. There are not enough mechanics or green hands available now for the shipbuilding program and the airplane factories. It Is a fact that scouts from some of the large Industries in Washing ton and Oregon are now in the Rocky mountain states looking for mechanics. In tha mountain area there are no big industries and tha scouts hope to round up the men necessary for the coast. Ona personnel man is looking for 30,000 men and he Isn't par ticular where they come from. He hopes to attract several thousand from Denver, some from Cheyenne and will go to Omaha if need be to find work ers. Men engaged must pay their own transportation. At Bremerton navy yard H. L. Mason, lieutenant U. S. navy re serves, employment officer, is reaching out for every available man. He has notified George P. Sheridan, National Youth ad ministration, Tacoma, that he has Jobs for about ISO NYA every week. Lieutenant Mason's letter has been offered to con gress as to the importance ot the training of NYA, It is estimated that 8,000 must be transported from Portland to Vancouver, Wash., when the shipyards on the Washington shore of the Columbia are at the peak. Movlr.g of this num ber of workers back and forth will be a problem. A greater problem will be facilities for workers to reach Swan island where SO oil tankers are to be constructed in a yard now being built. Proposed to President Roose velt by Sidney Hillman as part of the program for administra tion of manpower is the estab lishment of a labor pool or bat talion, a mobile reservoir of workers which, under a direct ing head, can be shifted from one war industry to another as a shortage of workers develops. This proposal was made looking forward to the time when scar city of labor for war work will become acute. e THE housing trouble is break ing out all over the northwest. The thousands of dwellings at Bremerton, Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver, Spokane and Pasco, the units authorized for Med ford, Albany, Corvallia, Pendle ton and Walla Walla are insuf ficient to meet the demand. In to all of these communities are swarming an army of workers who must have a place to sleep. Housing of the most temporary and flimsy character means an expenditure of about $3,000 per unit and In some Instances up to $4,000. a JOHN L. LEWIS intends try ing to unionize the dairy farmers of Oregon, Washington and Ida ho as part of his campaign to enroll an estimated 3.500,000 men in the dairy industry. To date approximately 30,000 dairy men have Joined up with the United Mine Workers of Ameri ca (CIO), the membership being in New York and Michigan. The UMW is Lewis' personal union and his reaching out for the dairymen Is his first step in his plan to establish a third labor orsanizatton. Four farm groups are pre pared to fight the union scheme to the last ditch. The National Grange, the American Farm Bureau federation, the Council of Farmers Co-operatives, and the Free Farmers Inc. have been sharpening their knives for Lewis or any other labor leader who attempts to force the dairy men Into a union. These farm associations opened up by pre senting witnesses In favor of a house measure Intended to curb labor racketeering. The UMW organizers assert that there wUl be no violence In their efforts to get the dairymen into the tent: that there will be no coercion, no boycotting, no strikes or intimidation. These assurances have been taken with a grain of salt by the farm organizations. a PLANS for building submar .: -J-SJ-gL. TERMS HARDWARE ines on an assembly line were knocked Into a cocked hat when the company received orders for another kind of production. The concern, located on the great lakes, was so interested in the Pacific northwest that one of the executives went out and studied the possibilities of Puget sound and the Columbia river. A site was spotted and plans drawn. There were to be four ways, or railroads. The boats were to be built in sections, the machinery Installed at one point and the completed boat would slide into the river for a test. Each part of a submarine would be worked on by one crew; they built that part and no other, on the same principal as tha as sembly line in an automobile factory, where a workman turns nut No. 48 on all cars. More than 100 submarines are contained in the new navy bill, which is yet to be acted upon by bouse and senate. Possibly a part of them will be contracted for in the northwest. Communications The Primary Rate Issue To tha editor: In a recent editorial In the Mail Tribune you state that all Republicans should at the May primary vote for Charles Sprague for governor. I for one do not intend to vote for Sorague. but to vote for Earl Snell and hope there will be many more who will do the same thing. When the people had voted by a substantial majority sev eral times to hold the nomi nating election in May, Gov. Sprague signed a bill passed by tha legislature to change the time of holding the primary election from May to Septem ber; virtually saying that the people did not know what they wanted. If the people do not know what they want who does know? Wm. D. Roberts, Medford, Ore. A PLEA FOR TOLERANCE To the editor "A house divided against It self cannot stand." Our country Is an important room in the house of the "United Nations." If we want to keep this house standing we will have to sweep down some of the cob-webs of intolerance. The race and reli gious prejudice and the anti- labor cob-webs gathering about our social structure may become a snare to entangle us. Our gov ernment was founded on the ideal of tolerance in race and religion and the dignity of labor. We want something to work to ward an ideal that "all men are created free and equal." We must have a vision for "with out vision the people perish." We have always survived war speculation it is nothing new. Washington complained that speculation and an insatiable thirst for riches seemed to have got the better of every other con sideration and almost of every order of men." We are being continually advised against the spectacle of France. France was not betrayed by labor whoever heard of a laborer betraying his country? France was betrayed by her traitorous leaders. We were aagared at the Idea of discrimination against the negro workers at the canton ment. Would those who are In favor of excluding the negroes from war work be willing to ex clude them from conscription and from the privilege and honor or lighting for the "Four Free doms?" We hear much of the "yellow bellies." the "yellow devus" and there is much talk of the war to sava Christian civi lization. This is not a race war nor a religious war. The so- called Christian white races are fighting Cfi both sides and mil- PINT $1.20 QUART $2.25 r mmc L Hi G7 SFBOOr STRAIGHT SOtTtBOS WHISXIT. J J DRAKE I Sw-TlffrTTfW.rJ Hons of the yellow race are fight ing desperately against fascism. It is to our interests not to anta gonize the dark Mohammedan and Buddhist peoples of India and Africa. As ex-Ambassador Oavies said ot the Russians, sometime "we may be glad to get their help." It would be a good idea to In vest 35 cents In an Outline of History by our great contem porary English historian, H. G. Wells and read what part the eastern peoples and their great religious leaders have played and are still playing among the many hundreds of millions of In habitants of the world. CHARITY R. SANDER, Rt. 2, Box 295, Medford, Ore. Flight o' Time Metffare ani .arksoa Caanty History from i he riles of the Mall Trlbene 10 and 10 Tsars ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY April 21, 1932 (It was Thursday) Gov. Rolph of California de nies pardon to Tom Mooney, who comes back with a bitter attack. Heavy wlr.ds hit southern California. Snowplows start opening Med ford entrance to Crater Lake park. Heavy frost predicted for to night, with orchardists ready to light smudge pots. High 51, low 35 degrees. County candidates to dance at Lake Creek hall. Lamnnrt's and .tannine teams win ooeninff ffamea nf kitten ball league. Thieves break into boxcar at Central Point and steal sooda consigned to E. C. Faber'g store. ine store nas eeen robbed on an average of twice a year for several years. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY April 21, 1922 (It was Saturday) Nation-wide strike of railroad workers looms. No war even if Genoa confer ence fail. Russian 4l0af H- clare as they yield point to i ranee. Good year for pears In pros pect, fruit expert declares. Rear brakeman held up and robbed while on flae dntv h. yond Main street crossing. Rain forecast. High 77. low 46 degrees. It was the warmest day of the year. 7j Harry Manning, "Medford Ca ruso," to appear on Rialto program. William von der Hellen and Raymond Reter start building new packing house. G. Pass Landmark To Be Torn Down Grants Pass, April 21 (Spl. The Richfield h e - -. north of Grants Pass, which was aonaiea By the oil company to the county because the company figured the cost of tearing the tower down would be more than the tower was worth as scrap, is going to be torn down by the county in the near future and stored with care. Commissioner Pete Frederickson announced Monday. The tower Is now valuable. Structural steel cannot be purT chased now except for high priority ratings, and the county is going to salvage the steel carefully. India is the largest producer of mica in the world and the principal source of chief strategic types. Are YOU the hospitable type? If you rs the hospiuMe type, eagar to treat your guests royally, then g"-e them a "deMt-rvA" treat nth Cream of Kentucky, ft'i made by tha 'dean'' of Kentucky dis tillers. 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