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The Senate approves a
measure providing lor the pay
ment of foldier benefit allot-
mentf before the November
election, but doubt if the check
will be ready by then because
of the bookkeeping involved.
The profiteers revealed to date,
as far as the records show, ex
perienced no delays in getting
their profits.
...
The fuel administrator for the
Northwest says citizens will
have to cut their own wood for
next winter's chilly blasts, and
further states the government
will not do it This is the most
severe yanking away from fed
eral paternalism in many a
moon.
Clark Gable of the he-man
films, has joined H. Flewher,
the late demon baker, In the
air corps In Florida, where both
will work for Uncle Sam. The
first day Clark's C. Chaplin was
ruthlessly denuded.
...
FAIR ENOUGHI
(Salem Capital-Journal)
"We make mistakes and are
glad to know of them. When
Journal carrier misses
customer, the paper is not to
be condemned as being no
good, and we feel that this
applies to us too."
. .
Threats to punish Hitler and
his trigger-men for their bar
barities in tha conquered lands
are now extensively talked.
Hopes are high better Job will
be done than In the case of
Kaiser Wilhclm in the First
World War. The Hohenzollern
was lord was to be hanged by
the neck, as one of the terms of
the peace treaty. The Allies
never got around to the task.
Instead, he passed away in a
palace In Holland after several
years of calm and hit-and-miss
woodcutting. Adolf and his
bloody handed crew will prob
ably live to a ripe, old age,
barring, of course a massacre
among themselves.
...
Amateur weather experts
have been busy predicting the
heat for several days, give or
take 10 degrees.
"Mrs. J. W. burned her hand
quite badly last week when she
put some kerosene In a stove."
(Elkton Notes, Eugene Reg'
Ister-Gunrd.) Last of the kit
chen daredevils takes one more
chance.
...
Lives of 10 American airmen
in a South American Jungle was
saved by a beacon of light from
a cigarette lighter that hadn't
worked for years. They all
were surprised as If a dry foun
tain pen had suddenly started
squirting Ink.
...
GRACIOUS ALIVEI
(Research Mag.)
"For In that case there
would be one class, the null
class; two classes of classes,
namely, the class of no classes
and the class whose only mem
ber Is the mill-class; and four
classes of classes of classes,
namely the one which is null,
the one whose only member
is the null class of classes, the
one whose only member is the
class whose only member is
the null-class, and the one
which is the sum of the last
two."
...
Pumpkins and squashes are
gaining rotundity under the
warm sun. The latter make the
best pumpkin pies, food experts
claim.
The first vineyards of Call'
fornia were planted by the Fran
ciscan Fathers. Now they con
stltute one of the state's major
Industries.
An Important U. S. Victory
A FTER many weeks of unrelieved gloom in the war
" reports, the skies appear to have cleared sudden
ly and in all directions.
After silence and reportorial shadow-boxing in a
monotonous fashion for nearly ten days, the US Navy
finally claims a victory in the Solomons, and the claim
appears to be well founded.
The cost is not given, but the best Japanese harbor
in the islands and the best air base have been taken
and all Japanese efforts to retake them have failed.
.....
IT WOULD probably be an exaggeration to term the
Tulagi victory one of the decisive battles of the
present war. But it is an extremely important one.
For it removes all doubt that when the United
States starts out seriously to gain an objective
in the Japanese - held island area they can do
so. What they have accomplished in the Solomons,
they certainly, in theory at least, can accomplish else
where. EXPENDITURE in time and personnel no doubt
will have to be considerable, but here, as we see
it, is the hand writing on the wall.
The capture of these strategic bases in the Solo
mons, demonstrates that in any even contest, where
Japan no longer has the tremendous advantage
gained by "jumping the gun", the allied forces headed
by the United States, have a punch too quick and too
strong for neurotic Nippon.
It took a long time for the worm to turn, but turn
it has, at last!
War Skies Clearing
MOT ONLY are the war skies brightening in the
41 Far East, but everything the other side of the
world looks better, even in Russia.
American bombers are attacking Germany proper
and the Axis force in Egypt with telling effect, sus
taining their remarkable reputation in China of losing
few ships and bringing down many.
And the Yank airmen, London discloses, eat it up,
returning to their bases full
'OR the first time in many weeks, the Red army
has staged a counterattack in the Stalingrad area
which promises to amount to something beside claims
o Nazi slaughter territory held by the Germans has
actually been recaptured, Moscow claims.
Ihere are similar .soviet
Leningrad and while in the Caucasus it would still
be incorrect to say the German offensive has been
stopped, it has definitely been slowed down.
Allied successes on land are further confirmed by
the reports of the German High command, acknowl
edging heavy defense fighting in the north, and con
centrating on U-Boat successes at sea a large pro
portion of the latter being
allies but neutral countries
. . .
SO, ALL in all, the war scene looks materially better
rrir rioa few a irnw? 1am rt
It is still a long and rocky road to Dublin. But at
least the United Nations have at long last, started to
make real progress and in
The Juke Box Problem
JUKE BOXES and recorded broadcasts have cre-
ated some real poblems for American musicians,
but no solution is likely to be found until the players
are represented by someone other than James Caesar
I'etrillo.
It is unquestionably true
several forms has cut down the number of jobs open
to professional musicians and has lowered individual
earnings. Some way should be found to distribute
royalties so that orchestra members get more for rec
ords which make money for their owners than they
get for those which merely entertain a household.
F Jt this will not be done by
barring members of the musicians' union from mak
ing new recordings.
The most immediate effect, as Elmer Davis has
printed out, will be to cripple hundreds of small radio
st'tions throughout the country which are valuable
t j the nation as disseminators of news but which sur
vive economically through the use of recorded music
on sustaining programs.
We could probably get along without juke boxes,
but the fact is that they do afford amusement to a
e.reat many people who have few other ways of get
ting it, and in only a few places where they now per
form ould the management afford to replace them
vl h even one tinny piano.
What the musicians face is a difficult technological
problem similar to those that have been faced by
workers in many other industries. It will be solved
partly by intelligent collective bargaining, partly by
painful readjustment.
Mr. Petrillo understands neither of these processes
r nd until the musicians shelve this frock-coated sym
bol of labor racketeering, the public will not be lavish
with its sympathy. The Nation.
F
Portland, Aug. 1 8. OP)
Jealousy prompted the shooting
of four persons here Saturday
night. Detective Collie Stoops
said today, and the gun wielder
is expected to die.
Enni I. Gabriel, about 43,
of pep and rarin' to go.
smashes in the vicinity of
successes not against the
particularly Brazil.
. .
the right direction.
that canned music in its
ukases from Mr. Petnllo
was said by Stoops to have
opened fire with a .22 caliber
rifle in his North Portland ice
cream parlor, wounding Mrs.
Gabriel and R. W. Ellis, a cus
tomer. Policeman Ralph Gray
was shot as he entered the door.
Gray returned the fire,
wounded. Stoops said Gabriel
had Indicated Jealousy over at
tentions he believed his wife had
paid other men.
"Soldier" was derived from
the Latin word "solldus," mean
ing "a solid piece of money."
Personal Health Service
By Wlliam
Signed letters pertaining ta personal health ana hygiene, mot ta disease
diagnosis or treatment, .III be answers ? Or. Brad? If a s'amped Mil
ddrMM envelop U enclosed. UiHn sbonM M brief and written In Ink
Owing to tha uirg. n amber of tettort racelved only a few caw b answered
here. No reply coa b. mad. ta a aeries oat conforming to Instructions.
Address Or. William Brady, tea CI C amino. Beterlr Hills, Calif.
CHILD
Sometimes misguided parents!
parents who have had courses
In the new phychology of child
training try
to account for
tha failure of
t hair strange
psychology in
practice by as
suming that
the unhappy
victim of it Is
"headstrong"or
"unusual" or
"hlghstrung"or
"very n s i
tive," so that
Dr. Brady the method
which do well enough for ordi
nary kids cannot be applied to
their undisciplined freak or
flattering words to that effect.
This sort of parental defeatism,
as well as the evil effect of the
wishy-washy training, probably
brings upon many a youngster
the stigma of being a "problem
child" or of being "delinquent"
when, with a fair show in the
' -ay of old-faahioned home dis
cipline the youngster would get
along all right.
In laying this I am not un
mindful of the fact that, regard
less of training, a certain pro
portion of children in families
rich or poor, illiterate, fairly ed
ucated or well educated, are
born deficient, morons, psycho
paths, neurotics and that these
children are likely to become
"problem" children or deliquent
or moral offenders or criminals
if not confined in Institutions or
otherwise kept under rigid con
trol. Indeed, I do not know whether
this child whose behavior is de
scribed by the correspondent is
a mental defective but the
child' behavior, so far as moth
er describes it, is merely that of
the average normal youngster
who has not the advantage of
good home training, I should
say.
A serious fault of the new
psychology of child training, as
I see it and probably any col
lege sophomore can see clearly
that I am woefully ignorant of
such matters is that it presup
poses that the Infant or young
child is a reasoning and reason
able being. In fact a child less
than four or five years of age
is only a little animal, a cub,
if you please. It is absurd, and
in effect rather cruel, to deal
with a child of that age as
though he or she were intelli
gent enough to understand why
things' must be thus and so.
In a scrapbook or old-fashion
ed file I started about the time
I began the study of medicine
(in the office of my preceptor
News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
(Continued from Pag On.)
have found they must go deeper
into the norma' business profits
in the new bill. Confiscation of
excess war profits wlU not fur
nish enough revenue.
The House committee had to
dare to tax more from those re
duced dividends you see on the
market page today.
The basis of our capitalistic
democracy, the one we are fight
ing for, is profits. A profits sys
tem cannot be run successfully
without them.
If this wera a temporary mat
ter of sliding through a war
period without them, it might
possibly be done. But as the
government is faced with the
necessity of continuing this same
level of taxes after the war,
there can be no doubt that our
national figure, as well as our
current war-production effort,
is wrapped up In this tax ques
tion. ...
EVERYONE knows there is a
point at which taxation be
comes nationally suicidal, and
everyone (liberal and business
man) can agree where that point
is the point at which bus'"ess
production ceases to be profit
able. When that point Is passed, la
bor can get no wage Increases,
the opportunity for work must
shrink and th system of pro
duction bends and breaks.
The senate committee hearings
have shown that point was not
only reached but passed In the
House bill in many corporate
instances. Business men have
come to the senate, with their
books for the first time in tax
bill history.
Certain examples were recent
ly rhown In this column, to
which one more recent illustra
tion may be added. One of the
last to testify wa the t'custa
Paper corporation, of Pifgah
Forest. N. C.
Its earnings statement showed
th Hons bill would force It to
double th price of its product
if
Brady. M. P.
TRAINING
before I entered medical school)
there is a paragraph I dipped
from soma forgotten paper or
r-Jgazine, reading: "Practice
self immolation in bringing up
your children." The idea made
such a deep Impression on me,
years before I had any emiaren,
that i carefully clipped and pre
served it. My own parents cer
tainly practiced self-immolation,
self-sacrifice, in bringing up
their children, to a greater de
gree, I think, than any other
parents of similar economic sta
tus in our community. Self im
molation, yes, but a child can
hardly understand o appreciate
the sacrifices parents make for
him. until the child is at least
eight years old. Younger chil
dren are Just little animals, ac
cepting whatever they may get
from or through the self-denial
of their parents as only natural.
But good parents, good oia
fashioned parents, may make all
the sacrifice in the world 'or
their children, nay, perhaps
more than many good parents
would deem right, yet never re
lax the disciplinary control
which, in the long run, main
tains the child's reverence and
respect for his parents.
QUESTIONS A ANSWER
Constipation
In on. article you spoke favorably
of cascsra. If a person with consti
pation must use any Lxatlv. help
at all. At the aom. tun. from what
you said I gathered that It would be
advisable to take Tltsmln B complex
long with caacara. Ia this correct?
(C. w. M.)
Answer It Is an excellent plan
to combine with ths emit a falr
dally ration of vitamin B complex.
I think. The easeara la best taken
In three small daw. dally, rather
than In on. dose, and some B com
plex should go with each dose. This
la the mat .objectionable medicine
on. with the constipation habit can
use. I think. Bend ten cent, and
stamped envelope bearing your ad
dress for booklet 'The ConsUuatlon
Habit and Colon Hygiene."
Canker Sores
I suffered for year, from frequent
canker sores, eventually found that
th. quickest cure Is a light quick
touch on each sore with a crystal
of sulphur sulfate (common blue
vitrei) held In tweerera. Just one
light quick touch. A minute after
ward rinse mouth gently with tea
spoonful of salt In glass of warm
water. One application of th. copper
sulfate doe. th. work. It Is not no
harsh as allver nitrate. (H. M. S.,
M. V., (retired).
Answpr Thank you. Doctor.
(Copyright 14J, John F. Dill. Co.)
Eil. Note: Persons wishing to
commmantrat. with Pr. Brady
shootd send letter direct ta Dr. .
William Brady. M. O. !U M
Camlne, Bercrly Hills. Calif.
(cigarette paper) next year In
order to break even and it the
fiscal year provision of the
House bill is maintained, it
would have to quadruple Its
price to meet taxes for the final
quarter.
Its profits, before taxes, would
be $5,943,738 for this year un
der the House bill, of which the
state and federal governments
would take all but $729,711.43,
leaving an insufficient amount
to meet its annual debt interest
Of $1,179,000.
...
MANY of these dangerous de
" fects in the House bill will
be eliminated by the senate
committee. The withholding tax
no doubt will be revised. Cred
it for debt and interest will be
adopted. Some features of the
Ruml plan to pay as you go
(not all or much of it) will be
written into the bill.
A deferred maintenance credit
will be allowed for industries
like the railroads, burning up
their machines faster In war ac
tivities tha.i the depreciation al
lowances recognire. Inventory
adjustments may be permitted.
Possibly even the 45 per cent
normal or 90 per cent excess
profits tax may be shaved slight
ly (5 or 10 per cent).
Even so, the new unrecognized
problem of taxation will remain
the same. The ceiling on cor
poration taxes and on whatever
rich are left (look around you In
your home town and see how
many of the rich homes of 20
years ago are now boarding
houses) has been reached.
The only place, then, where
the government can get more
money, is from the union work
er, the low salaried man, the
"poor". If you will.
The time therefore has come
for a complete revision of politi
cal views, from both liberals and
government, on this subject. It
is no longer truly liberal or pro
gressive to advocate further ex
pansion of the taxing methods
of former years to th point of
destruction.
That course, while professing
to be liberal, is really reaction
ary, destructive, revolutionary.
Congress and it statesmen
and politicians, will have to face
the bitterly unwelcome and un
popular new facts of taxation
facts which It can already sea.
but which its procrastination on
th present bill, shows it i not
eager to meet.
Kelly's
Comment
rrosa Washington. D. C.
Food Cost Jumps
After Election
Gold Production
Due For Closure
What's Happening
To Pribilof f Seals
s Br Joha W. KattT
Washington, D. C. Aug. 18.
Sometime after the November
election and possibly before the
end of the year housewives will
find the cost of living substanti
ally higher than at present, De
spite the ceilings of office of
price control. On presumably
excellent authority the predic
tion is made that the people will
find that meat is being rationed,
although the department of
agriculture has asserted that
there are more cattle on farm
and range today than ever be
iore. The maximum price prevail
ing last March, and which is the
present ceiling in grocery stores.
is playing hood witn grocers
throughout the land. March re
tail selling was based on the
1941 stock. As shelves were de
pleted and efforts were made to
obtain replacements the grocers
discovered that they could not
buy at the 1941 price and if they
made replacements at current
rates they would be out of
pocket.
This situation had been sensed
by OPA and an attempt was
made to have congress provide
an appropriation by means of
which a subsidy could be paid
to protect the seller from loss
and to maintain March prices
for the protection of consumers
Congress could not see eye to
eye with Leon Henderson and
took a position against guaran
teeing food dispensers from loss.
Mr. Henderson permitted, then,
a few punctures in tha price
ceiung which made the several
commodities (Jams, jellies, etc.)
jump a few cents, an increase
which the housewife had to ab
sorb.
As retailers refuse to restock
and sell at a loss (the March
prices) office of price adminis
tration will soon authorize more,
holes to be kicked in the ceil
ings and the cost of food will be
upped between one and two per
cent. This is the very situation
that Henderson hoped to pre
vent. It so happens that most
of the vegetable and fruit prod
ucts of the Pacific northwest
will be on tho new celling list.
Whether Henderson can hold
the ceilings at the new prices
(to be announced in a matter of
weeks) Is a subject of specula
tion, but it all goes back to the
original criticism of price con
trol, that there can be no suc
cessful control of prices until
there is control of wages.
Against control of wages the ad
ministration Is firmly set.
Food items exempt from ceil
ings are soaring. Eggs are at an
all-time high; butter is out to
establish a new record. Each
of these commodities are being
shipped over sea, the eggs being
dried to save cargo space.
Chickens are up. The value of
the dollar is sinking, a certain
sign of inflation.
. . a
LOOK for gold mine opera
tions in the northwest to be sus
pended on orders of war pro
duction board, and look for
miners to be transferred from
the anthracite region of Penn
slyvania to the coal mines of
Washington and Oregon. WPB
has been turning the screws on
gold mining by refusing ex
plosives and other essentials.
Of all the metals gold is today
the least necessary, while cop
per ranks near the top. Gen.
Brehon Somervell has suggested
to WPB that gold mines be re
quisitioned for copper produc
tion. Whether this would stop
the gold mining dredges of
Washington and Oregon is un
certain, for the dredges are prac
tically automatic, have only a
handful of men on a dredge and
there is no drilling or blasting
with this equipment. The de
mand for copper Is so urgent
that the sending of gold miners
to work in copper mines is now
under consideration by the war
manpower commission, V. S. em
ployment service and WPB.
Oil administration, after warn
ing people of the northwest to
arrange their heating plants for
coal instead of fuel oil. is send
ing Brig Gen. B. P. Disque to
that section and he will be the
j boss of the fuel program. Coal
ura in ine area 19 minra in
Washington. Oregon, Utah and
Wyoming. The industry Is short
on labor; there is a surplus of
miners in Pennsylvania. War
manpower commission has long
discussed the sending of work
ers from areas where they are
not needed to regions where
there is a shortage.
.
riSH and wildlife service Is
wondering what is happening to
the seal herd on Pribiloff is
lands, north of Kiska. The na
tives were evacuated several
months ago by the service, be
fore the annual "take' of seal
skins. It is believed possible
that the Japanese have been
raiding the islands where, it Is
calculated, the herd this year
wa ona muiic-a seals. Tha
seals began assembling at the
breeding ground about the time
that Nip were entrenching
themselves in the Aleutians. The
migration from the islands starts
in August. Japanese have long
had an eye on the seal herds and
prior to the compact with the
United States and Canada caught
all they could. Under the com
pact th herd was built up to
it present size. Japapese need
the furs for clothing in their
northern enterprise and the fat
are even more important to
them.
The War Today
Br
By Dewltt MacKensia
Special Writer
rThla rlailv feature, conducted
by Dewltt Mackenzie, wide world
war analyst, is written in his
absence today, by Glenn Babb.)
For Russia this Is still a one
front war. She wants a second
front, but she wants it in the
right place. The Churchill-Stalin
conference at Moscow, while
reaffirming the alliance of three
great powers whose lands gir
dle the globe and whose forces
tioM th nemv An .11 tha seas
and all but one of the two con
tinents, emphasized once more
tk ctwUf union's anvtetv to
confine her share in the war to
one front until her Allies can
marshal the power and choose
the time and place for the
second.
Japan was not mentioned by
name in the communique which
announced the results of the
Moscow conclave. But the care
taken, obviously at the Insis
tence of Joseph Stalin, to ex
elude Japan from the announced
scope of the decisions showed
oToarlv that the threat of Hir-
ohlto's army in Manchuria was
never far from tne minas or ine
conferees even as they grappled
with tha deadly urvent nroblems
of stopping Adolf Hitler.
Tor the second lime m ten
weeks the leaders of the United
Nations have made this pointed
exception Yesterday's announ
cement declared again that the
agreements concluded early In
Tuna wera aaainst "Hitlerite
Germanv and her associates in
Europe.
The United States and Brit
ln much as thev mar hooe to
;ee eastern Siberia ultimately
available as base of operations
against Japan, are compelled to
accept their ally's single-front
stand with sympathy and under
standing. One of the great dan
gers confronting the United
Nations is that the much-debat-front
will be opened
by Japan before America and
Britain are ready to striKe, tnat.
is will come at the eastern ex
tremltv .if the areat eurasian
land mass Instead of the west
ern. Tertalnlv this is no time for
Russia to rhallenge the Mikado's
Kwantung army, which reports
from many quarters aescriDe as
omwinf eteadilv in numbers
and striking power, ranged along
the Amur and Ussurl rivers,
ready to thrust deep into Si
beria in the fine autumn weather
that begins in a week or two in
Northeastern Asia.
Russian-Japanese relations are
refulated, according to repeated
official statements, by the
neutrality treaty the two powers
lgned at Easter 1941, In Mos
Althnueh Jaoan has been
at war for nearly nine months
against two principal allies, nus
sla insists on holding with rigid
correctness to the letter of her
engagement Does the Kremlin
really believe that Japan will
honor her pledge a day longer
than it fit her purposes? Is
Stalin trying merely to avoid
givng the provocation that might
be all that the eager Kwantung
army would need to send it
gainst Vladivostok?
What Russia hopes for or ex
pects from Japan remains one
it this war's great mysteries.
Obviously, however, that Is not
th tlma from Russia's or her
allies' points of view to com
plete the glooai nature 01 me
war by turning Siberia and Man
churia into a battleground.
That may come later .when
the Germans phase of the war
gives way to tha Japanese. All
signs now point to this conflict
assuming that we win it be
ing a two-chapter afalr. with
the decision In the orient post
poned until Hitler Is disposed
.,f rina of the most convincing
of such signs is that phrase in
vesterday s communique nu
lerite Germany and her associ
ates in Europe "
Communications
NO MORE CANNED MUSIC?
To tha editor.
In the Pathfinder issue of
August IS under caption of "No
More Canned Music" is the news
that the Musicians union of 138,
000 members, headed by James
C. Petrillo, refuse to make any
more records or transcriptions.
That is certainly glad news
for the multitude of poor
musicians in this country, tens
of thousands of whom have been
ruined by this so-called canned
music.
Elmer Davis, head of the Of
fice of War Information, mad
a personal appeal to Petrillo on
behalf of the people of the
United States.
Tha following ia aa extract
from the article: "It was charged
that Petrillo order would put
many small radio stations out of
business, especially in small
towns where there is no musical
talent for hire. It would hurt
restaurants, hotels and small
dance halls. It would affect ad
vertising agencies."
All the above charges are
bosh. People who talk like that
just don't know the public; nor
have they any idea of the flow
of musical talent In every small
town of say 10,000 or more that
is hidden away, lost in decay.
for the lack of opportunities for
playing in public.
In the article Petrillo stated
"that the half million juke
boxes had thrown 8.000 musi
cians out of work and that 900
radio stations do not employ a
single live musician."
Now, here is the point, would
the public, who listen to these
500 radio stations, rather hear
some local talent, of which wa
claim there is a plentiful supply
available, and that at very low
rates, or would the public rather
hear phonograph records?
Who does all this canned
music benefit? Certainly not
the public. Forty years ago all
theatres had their paid orches
tras and musicians, and we can
vouch for the fact that the music
was good and more to the public
taste than the stuff wailed out
of machines at the talkies now
adays. In this particular line
tens of thousands of musicians
lost their means of making a
modest living.
Then, who has been benefit
ted? Mostly movie directors
and actors and actresses and
monopoly chain theatre pro
prietors. In the old days actors
and vaudeville performers aver
aged about $200 per month for
the best and there was no such
an animal as a movie director.
Nowadays star actors and act
resses get $10,000 to $20,000 per
month and the directors not
much less.
The phonograph for the home
Is almost out of date, but most
homes have radios. Let the
radio stations give the local
talent a chance.
(Signed)
Fred Alton Halght,
Sydney S. Barker,
Orio Blanchi,
Secretary of local 591, I
American Federation of
Musicians.
Flight o Time
Medrord and Jackson County
History Ironi the files of th. Mali
Trlhun. 10 and 20 years ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
August 18, 1932
(It was Thursday)
First shipload of valley pears
sail from Portland for British
Isles
Vice President Curtis in state
ment opposed reepal of prohibi
tion. Gov. Roosevelt of New York
to visit west on presidential
stumping tour.
John Anderson of the Tolo
brought in a stalk of corn over
22 feet long.
One hundred and one cars of
pears shipped so far this season
by local packers.
Robert Newland falls out of
tree on King's highway and
hurts his hip.
Busl noss Improvement
'hroughout nation continues.
Fair and warmer. High 85,
tow 52 degrees.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
August 18. 1922
(It was Thursday)
Chinese government on verge
f collapse.
Califor-ila to deport Bolshe
vik! strikers.
Secy. Hoover favors federal
control of coal prices, and Is
roundly scored.
Deadlock continues In railroad
strike.
Attemnt to raid Ralph Cow
gill's watermelon patch is fail
ed. Dick Isaacs departs for three
weeks visit in Seattle.
Harmony is keynote of meet
ing of county Republicans.
Unsettled with showers. High
91, low 44 degrees.
Use MaU Tribune want ada.
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