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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,- OREGON,- WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1942;
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Political operations of Santa
Claui in the war effort are com-
inf to light. It leenu he need
a "ceiling," with his whiskers
frozen for the duration.
Pictures of the 14 men and
women arrested by the FBI as
ides of Nazi spies are not flat
tering. Individually and col
lectively, they appear to be
nothing for a self-respecting
rattlesnake to meet up a- dark
alley on a windy night.
"NAZI HORDES PUT RUS
SIA IN DIRE PERIL."
(Hdllne.) All Quiet On The
Second Front -
The democratic candidate for
Governor has written a letter
protesting plans of republicans
to work for their nominee. In
thinking that one up, the gentle
man must have let go the presi
dential coat-tails long enough to
scratch his head. People should
not relax in the war effort and
defeat him at the polls. -
LADIES PREFER RUNTS
; (Marysville Democrat)
' "We have seen these 'great
big over-grown boys' In ac
tion. Anyone who likes them
may have our share and wel
come. They are frightfully
hard on the nervous system
any any woman past 21 would
just as soon have a catamount
loose in the parlor.",
Jasper Bluejay, Jr., In his
youthful Innocence alighted on
a cherry orchard scarecrow yes.
and scared his Maw because he
wasn't scared.
A naturalized American
nabbed as a spy was a college
student. The completion of his
education will have to wait un
til he serves approximately 40
semesters in a large stone struc
ture with barred windows.
"Washington, July IS (tfV-
The wheels of government roll
ed Monday to avert a shortage
of work pants which threatened
to expose 388 pounds of ship
yard worker to the California
breeze." Democracy in full
bloom.
Conservation of spruce for
airplane building is now urged.
This brings memories of the
other war, when a railroad was
built to every spruce stump
along with 13 million bridles for
S48 army mules.
The railroads have asked the
State Highway commission to
compel autoists to come to a
full stop at crossings. This it a
safety measure that has been
preached for many years but has
not dimmed the ardor of speed
idiots to knock locomotives off
their track.
The grasshopper problem is
teing solved by turkeys eating
them in many sections. At
Thanksgiving some of the fowls
will show up in butcher shopi
as "milk fed and fattened."
...
Stern Park Gardens. 111., has
changed its name to Lidice, the
Czech village razed by Hitler in
reprisal for the assassination of
his prize trigger man. Moscow.
Idaho, points with pride to its
monicker, once mildly regretted.
run sale one or more
kittens from respectable mother
Only purchasers polite to cats
considered. Price five cents or
10 cents, depending on financial
status of purchaser." (Eatonton
(Ga.) Messenger.) Kitty, kittyl
Germany permits private use
of automobiles only when such
operation is in the interest of
the war effort or vitally neces
rr.
A Great Victory, -But!
Pity poor Elmer Davis! Yesterday's victory blast
by the U. S. Navy recapitulating the triumph at
Midway, is a perfect example of what must give
Elmer a severe pain in the neck.
And it would any other honest, straight-shooting
war-news administrator. I or it so obviously followed
out the Frank Knox pattern, of playing-up the good
news and playing down the bad, thus giving the
American people a totally false view of the situation,
as it actually exists.
TXE don't mean to imply this U. S. naval ambush
" at Midway was NOT an outstanding American
victory. It was. And as previously stated in this col
umn it undoubtedly reduced to the vanishing point,
for the time being at least, any attempt by Japan
to invade the Pacific coast.
But it wasn't in any sense the decisive or over
whelmingly one-sided triumph that this verbal naval
fanfare, delivered over a
would make out.
FOR example. Here is an
Japanese losses: 'Twenty ships lost, including four air
craft carriers sunk or damaged."
"Including four aircraft carriers sunk or dam
aged!"
WHICH was it" Were
damaged? If the former that "20 Jap ships lost" is
correct If the latter it isn't correct; for SOME of the
20 Japanese ships said to be "lost", were only damaged.
No one knows. But the
Japan with a fleet of 80 vessels, lost 25 of its total
strength, while the United States only lost one de
stroyer and had only one airplane earner "put out
of action," a comparative loss ratio of 20 to one
and one-half.
DUT just what does "put out of action" mean?
Presumably damaged but not destroyed. On the
other hand, some time ago, there was a report from
San Diego that the U. S. carrier in question, the
"Yorkto'wn" was "damaged beyond repair."
Was it? Then the loss ratio should be 20 to 2.
IN one sense this is a trivial matter, but in another
it isn't For it shows the spirit BEHIND the report:
the determination to take a certain set of facts and
instead of letting thm speak for themselves, dressing
them up in their party clothes, and shining only the
shoes that can be seen by the audience !
In other words, following the discredited trade
practice in war news reports of putting all the ripe
strawberries on the top of
the green beneath.
We don't like it We are
And equally certain when
sugar-pill techniqque they
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in even mure glaring eAainpic ui ougoi-tuanins i
" this report is giving the airplane losses of the
enemy and saying nothing whatever about the losses
suffered by the United States.
It took the navy over a month to check up the
Midway battle and release this report. It is categori
cally stated Japan lost 275 planes, and yet not even
an estimate of the American loss, is given.
WHY?
Naturally everyone will ask that question. And
just as naturally, until it is answered, the American
people will assume, the U. S.
powers that be, didn't dare
That may be entirely untrue, we nave an idea it is.
But it also is the inevitable result of this silly hocus
pocus in navy publicity quarters, which refuses to
take the people into their confidence, which plays
up the good, plays down the bad, and suppresses
certain vital facts entirely !
It is the wrong technique,
at once be given authority
How Strong Is Russia?
A subscriber asks how large an army Russia has,
and if we know at the present writing, how it com
pares in size and equipment with Germany's.
Sorrv but we can't answer the question. We doubt
if anyone KNOWS, and
Stalin. (Oh the big shots know what they have, out
we doubt if they can more than guess about the
enemy.)
There is little doubt of this however: the Russian
and German losses, since last June, have been enorm
ous, both in men and equipment Our belief is the
Russian losses have exceeded the German, but that
mav not be tine of course.
Moreover there is slight doubt Germany's mechan
ized production exceeds that of Russia, while the
material aid from England
has no doubt been reduced of late.
But two points should not be forgotten. First.
Russia is a country of unlimited natural resources,
and for at least ten years Stalin has been developing
raw materials and their manufacture into modern
Runs and munitions for the war he is now fighting.
Two, and even more important, Russia has 100,000,
000 more people to draw upon than Germany, and
there are no better fighters in the world than these
Red soldiers.
In other words Russia can lose an army produced
by a population of 100 million people and still fight
on even terms with German man power.
That is some numerical advantage for even the
cataleptic ex-paper hanger to overcome 1
month after the event,
extract from the official
they sunk or were they
inescapable implication is
the box, the rotten and
sure Llmer Davis doesn't
the people get wise to this
won't
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losses were so great, tne
announce them.
and blmer Davis should
to squash it!
this goes for Hitler and
and the United States,
Personal Health Service
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dUsnuM. at traatttxat. will be answered kt Dr. Bradj It a eumpfd salt
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address Or. William Brad. tS El Camlno. Bawl; aula. Calif.
THE SECRET OF SUCCESSFUL SOMERSAULTING
Thru faulty technique long
ago I illustrated the "Invitation
to the Somersaultauqua" with
drawings de
signed to show
the novice how
to roll 'em.
The sketches
seemed to me
to make the
thing so sim
ple that any
one could get
the hang of it
almost at a
glance.
But It only
Dr. Brady goes to show
that as a teacher I deliver a
mean wood on the bowling
green. It has dawned on me.
since we inducted Patsy and
Bill (grandchildren) into the
order, that the position of the
model In the drawings is funda
mentally wrong, and I regret
now mat it did not occur to me
to use a movie to illustrate the
invitation. Might have saved a
lot of ceilings in the apartment
below. I hope any reader who
darn nearly broke his or her
neck trying to stunt in the man-
ner of the illustration will think
no more about it. My error. I'm
sorry, but after all it does seem
as though any one should be
able to turn a dozen on the floor
anywhere without anybody be
low or in the next room won
dering if there is an earthquake.
You see, the secret of success
ful somersaulting lies in curling
up tight at the take-off. The in
structions, as you may read in
the Invitation, were as follows:
Crouch down,' place both
hands on floor (or pad or mat
tress at first) IVi feet apart,
then place the top or crown
of your head on the floor be
tween your hands. Look out,
now! You're in a precarious
position, and it requires but a
slight push with your feet to
roll you over.
It isn't the top or crown of
your head, but the back of your
head or as nearly the back as
you can contrive, tnai you
should place on the floor. In the
right position for a smooth, easy
roll which brings you right up
on your feet (still curled up
tightly) you should be aDie to
look up between your legs at
the ceiling behind you Just be
fore you push off.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
(Continued Prom Page One)
timed occasion, around $325,
000.000 of held-up allowances
will be shoveled out of tha
clouds here in payments to
wives, children, fathers and
mothers. No payments will be
made until then.
The war department says It
never heard of the election
which is to occur November 3.
It says it chose November 1.
two days preceding keep a
straight face, please because
bookkeeping and investigation
will delay the preparation of
checks until precisely that mo
ment from June 1. the date
from which the allowances are
to be made.
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A tremendous amount of
" administrative labor
and bookkeeping is no doubt
necessary to get such vast sys
tem going. But the most peculiar
and still unexplained phase of
the matter is, why payments are
not to be made as cases are com
pleted in the coming months,
but are to be held up for one
great lump sum payment of five
months' arrears Just before the
voters go to the polls to elect a
new congress?
The inhuman aspect of the
matter is that the dependents
are assumed to be needy, else
the payment would not be made.
These are not gratuities, but are
for subsistence. How the depen
dents will live until two days
before election is not quite
clear.
Note The baste allowance
for a dependent wife Is $50, the
government contributes $28 and
the soldier $22. In addition the
government furnishes $20 for
one child 10 for each addition
al child. $3 for parents and oth
er relatives, etc. Maximum
possible payment is $112.
A ny place you touch the
"rubber situation. It burns,
with a usual resultant aroma.
Only now has the CPA increas
ed the price offered for guayule
from 12's cents per pound to
28 cents per pound, in order to
get some of that rubber base
product which Mexico has been
selling to others.
Our whole Latin American
buying policy is itiU continuing I
Brady- M. D.
What daily somersaulting is
good for the "Invitation to the
Somersaultauqua" explains
for copy send stamped envelope
bearing your address. Few doc
tors take their own medicine. I
do half a dozen or a dozen rolls
and the half dozen selected
movements from the Last Brady
Symphony which I believe es
sential to preserve vite, first
thing every morning and often
take the kinks out of body and
mind by rolling a few in front
of my' desk when at play here
in my playroom preparing these
articles.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Inns Trouble
X bare suffered for several years
wltn chronic sinusitis and I am
happy to report that by following
the suggestions In your Informative
pampbleta -TTha Calcium Shortage
and "Relief for Allergy- I have had
several months of comparative com
fort now and I feel and look much
better than for years past. (T. M.)
Answer Copy to Ol' Doctor Coin
cident, please. On request, accom
panied with stamped envelope bear
ing your address, I am glad to mall
the pamphlet "The Calcium Short
age" or the pamphlet "Relief for
Allergy." If you want both, Inclose
Is cents additional. .
Stomach Hyperacidity
' Ben Told a person with stomach
hyperacldtty, altho he may have at
tacks of IndlgesUon Is free from
cancer. Is that true? I am 66 years
old. (J. E. N.)
Answer Tie time Ben Is right for
once not absolutely, but probably
in most Instances that Is so.
My My. Minerva
I average only three glasses of
water a week. I cannot drink any
kind of fluid. When I try to drink
water It nauseates me. Have Ben
Told it la the cause of me being
dizzy. What will make me drink
water? (Minerva)
Answer Eating more meat, eegs,
fish, poultry, working or playing
hard In the sun. perhsps drinking
carbonated water plain unflavored
soda water for a while.
' Taking (he San -
I have been taking supplementary
dally rations of vitamin B complex
and vitamin D as recommended In
your booklet on constipation. It has
proved very beneficial. Would I Be
getting too much vitamin D.lf I con
tinued tha. while taking sun baths
this summer? (Mrs. E. O. K.)
Answer No.
(Copyright 1M3. John P. Dllle Co.)
Ed. Note: Persons wishing te
eommunlrate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Dr.
. William Brady, M. D. tss El
Camlno, Beverly Hills. Calif.
along the same old faulty low
priced line. Argentine, Brazilian
and Chilean manufacturers have
i been topping our fixed mini
mum and getting the ruDDer we
need.
Incidentally, a large synthetic
rubber interest will announce
within a few days a new plan
for super-synthetic production
which is supposed to provide
tires capable of traveling 60
miles an hour.
NEW ELKS RULER
Omaha. July 13. (.ft E
Mark Sullivan, Boston attorney,
today was elected grand exalted
ruler of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks at the
78th annual national convention
here. He succeeds Judge John
S. McClelland of Atlanta, Ga.
Sullivan , a member of the
Elks since 1908, in an address,
pledged the efforts of the 500,
000 members of the order to an
all-out program of assistance tn
the mobilization of arms and in
dustrial resources for the war
effort.
Fred R. Dickson of Kearney.
Neb., was elected grand esteem
ed loyal knight. Other officers
include:
Frank R. Venable, Butte.
Mont., grand esteemed lecturing
knight, and George M. C. Lean.
El Reno, Okla., grand treasurer.
Wayne Jensen Riles
Held inWhite, S. D.
Funeral services for Sergeant
Wayne A. Jensen, former resi
dent of Carberry creek above
Applegate were held recently in
White. S D., Sergeant Jensen
was killed July 1 in an automo
bile accident at Wilmington, N.
C, at the airbase where he was
stationed with the U. S. army
air corps
He enlisted from Medford
Dec. 27 1941. He resided with
his wife Mrs. Wayne Jensen at
their home 30 miles out of Jack
sonville on Carberry Creek
above Applegate. He was a
brother-in-law of Russell and
Billy Mitchell, of the same ad
dress. Dutch Boy Paints
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$1 No. Bsrtlett
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Comment
From Washington. D. C.
Banks Prosperous
Under New System
Apartment Owners
Protest Oil Order
Ban Congressmen
From Army, Navy
By Jobs W. Kallr
Washington, D. C. July 13.
All the banks in' Oregon and
Washington ara making money
and the banks, as a whole, were
never in better condition, says
the comptroller of the currency.
However, the system of banking
has been changed with the war
and in no way resembles bank
ing business as carried on in
previous wars. One central
body does all the lending (the
federal government) instead of
banks making loans for war
Industries. Government furn
ishes the funds for war efforts
and the banks then take the
securities of the government.
This has resulted in all the
banks being stuffed with fed
eral obligations, and while the
interest rate is small the volume
is such that the banks are sit
ting pretty. On various loans,
too, that the banks make they
are insured by the government
up to a certain per cent.
In the first World war Indus
tries with war contracts bor
rowed from the banks and made
a killing; the profits rolled up
until there were millionaires so
plentiful that they pushed one
another off the sidewalk. In
the present war new million
aires will be scarce; the federal
government has taken steps to
curb enormous profits. Con
cerns which are considered as
making unjust profits (usually
because neither the contractor
nor the army nor navy had any
idea of what the costs would be
originally) are having their con
tracts renegotiated and by this
method of checking the govern
ment has recaptured more than
one billion dollars, and another
billion may be saved. It is im
possible for any large yard on
Columbia river or Puget sound
to lose a single dollar on the
ships they are turning out; they
will make so . much per ship in
any event and this sum is in
creased by the time saved in
building. Last year a couple of
shipyards in Seattle decided
they were making too much
money and were among the first
to have their contracts revised.
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APARTMENT house propriet
ors are writing to office of price
administrator concerning the
order to reduce fuel oil to SO
per cent of the March 1941 sup
ply. One landlord says that if
that order applies to the west
coast it will be impossible to
heat apartments and furnish hot
water; that while winters in the
northwest are not as severe as
in the midwest and east, the
March fuel comes at a time
When spring and warm days are
at hand and Pacific northwest
states reduce consumption for
this reason. Half of the March
supply for the cold weather
period of winter will, says the
writer, bring general discontent
and dissatisfaction.
see
CONGRESSMAN Warren G.
Magnuson's days as an active
participant in the war on the
deck of a navy vessel are over.
President Roosevelt has seen to
that. Representative Magnuson
was for months on active duty
as a naval reserve officer; came
back to congress last month
with tales of war in the Pacific
that caused fellow members'
eyes to bug out. It wasn't
Magnuson's adventures that
caused Mr. Roosevelt to act; it
was Henry Cabot Lodge, repub
lican senator from Massachus
etts, who was a major on the
Lybian desert. From Cairo.
Senator Lodge notified Secre
tary of War Henry Stimson that
he was prepared to go into the
regular army for the duration.
Lodge is up for re-election in
November and the fact that he
was under fire in Lybia was
making a hit with his constit
uents. A new dealer is a can
didate against Lodge and is
telling how Lodge's grandfather
opposed Wilson's league of na
tions way back when. Presi
dent Roosevelt notified war and
navy departments that no men
in public life (Lodge, Magnuson
and five other legislators) shall
be permitted to go Into uniform.
Congressman Magnuson has
been summarily beached.
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SUGGESTIONS continue to
roll in as to what to do with
alien Japanese. The board
which is relocating the Japanese
VISIT CANADA
I YouH
I orated
return to your wartime job refreshed and invifl.
iiwiimb, in vaniiM. i ui an ut-ians cover
off Springs Hotel in the Canadian Rockies, and
I ins Ba
V?7
ii itin uiuiiiuis
your local agent, or
Urn. H. Deacon. J e. W Rrosdwsv,
Portland. BR. SoJ?
Your American dollars go further...
all prictt in Canada art Gowrnmrnt
controlled.
BWFF SPRINGS HOTLL
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At Spy Trial
(m
Mrs. Gerard Melino (above),
24, of Chicago, onca tha fiancee
of Herbert Hans Haupt. one of
tha eight accused German-born
saboteurs on trial in Washington,
leaves the department of jus
tice, where the trial was under
way. has investigated the Deschutes
project to determine whether
aliens could be placed there
since CCC camps have been
abandoned. No decision has
been reached. Friends of the
project, which will soon shut
down for want of labor (there
is still a hangover appropriation
of several hundred thousand
dollars) argue that Japanese can
be worked on expansion of
canals as some are now doing
in Idaho.
BONNEVILLE officials have
been directed by Secretary of
the Interior Ickes to prepare
data to be submitted to the
bureau of mines on the suit
ability of locating the newly
authorized electro-technical la
boratory in that region. The
laboratory is to be operated by
the bureau and where it wishes
the plant to be located will
govern. Senator Holman of
Oregon started the idea and
Senator Wallgren of Washing
ton offered an amendment to
place it in the northwest area.
Colorado and Arizona are after
it.
Minneapolis, July 15. (JP
Wooden tires developed by the
Twin Cities Newspaper Service
are now being used to deliver
Minneapolis newspapers.
Originator of the idea, the
newspaper service has applied
for patents on the new style
wooden tire which they said
makes the trucks steer easier
although they are noisier than
rubber.
Trucks equipped with the
tires can be driven no faster
than 13 miles per hour, the
company said, but multiple de
liveries to news stands are pos
sible instead of the one delivery
per day permitted under defence
transportation rules.
The tires are composed of 36
wooden blocks bolted together
and held in place by an iron
band.
AUTHOR'S HUSBAND IS
ROMMEL'S PRISONER
Atlanta, July IS. fP) Jan
Struther. author of the best
selling novel and movie hit.
Mrs. Miniver, said today she
had received word that her hus
band, Lieut Anthony Maxtone
Graham of the British army,
has been taken prisoner by
Field Marshal Rommel's forces
in North Africa.
"As long as he's alive, that's
all that matters," she said.
Portugal and Spain account
for about 70 percent of the an
nual world production of cork.
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Medford and Jackson Co only
HUtury from ibe fUei of the MaU
Tribune IS and ta veers ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
. July 1932
(It was Friday)
Speaker Garner urges Wash
ington police to oust bonus seek
ers from capitol.
More jobs loom for Jackson
county needy.
County court refuses to don
ate $1,000 for booster fund for
railroad to coast.
President Hoover and mem
bers of cabinet reduce own pay
in economy move.
First California Bartletti
bring $2.25 per box on Portland
market.
Fishing improves in Rogue
river and piscatorial enthusiasts
rejoice.
East counts 75 victims in first
heat spell of season.
Cloudy with some sunshine.
High 84, low SI degrees.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
July 15, 1922
(It was Saturday)
Tourists steal gas from A. V.
Carlson spray rig of Willow
Springs during noon hour.
Early peace in railroad strike ,
fades.
Senate rejects Henry Ford's
offer for Muscle Shoals.
Fair,
grees.
High 98.5, low 54 de-
Planes will patrol Oregon
forests against fires remainder
of season.
Moonshine at country dances
opposed by Northwest Sheriff's
convention.
John Perl and Grover Corum
leave on upper Rogue fishing
trip.
Recall election uproar sweeps
county.
Use stall Tribune want ads.
Commander
ri-vr, rlJ.Za
I i- V 'a'i
Brig. Gen. Ira C Eaker, Liana
county, Tex., was disclosed te
ba the commander-in-chief of
the bomber command of the
U. S. army air forces in the
European theater of operations.
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