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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDTORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1942. MEDFOR&&TfinUNI "iwirm Is taaUiani Off R4 in Hall THbM Dally Kpt $mtwr4mw Pu U .() bp KCDPORO PRINTIHO (XX Mt Men rtr St. Ptioti till BOPEBT W RT'flU Mlf.r. RMEBT R OTLrnU. Mm.) ZMrd Mfonr) matter at Mt"l- tara, Ortfoo, ander Aet of Wares I. 1ST SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mall Tn Alvanc: Datir and Runway on 7ar .M tal1r aa Suadar 4lt month... I I Daily sua Hindiy -thra matilka I " Iallv ar f)undar-n moMh... ! Br Carriar ! Wadfart. Art UmL Cantral P(it JathMnfUU, im RUL Roca lUwr. PnaMl Talant, and a tnciaf raw'.aat Dalit m4 luaJar ana pir II DaJlr and Sunday ona month... .If All tarma earti la adranea. Orrtrlxl Pa par aff lha fM af tdfar) Offlt-Ut Paaw ! Jarkaa Caaatr MKMIIFR OF TUB A-MOC1ATSD PRKM lUroiflat rail Vmur4 Wlf aWrlrw Tha AMorlat Praaa la wIm.-..? aatltltd ta th aaa far ayalltatlaa of all nava dlapatchaa eredltad t It thT vtaa credited ta tMa pepr. and alaa ta ti laaal ntwi puh.ia.her1 herein. All r1hta for pu.ltee.tlen afapaclal laatrha herein ara alee reeerred. MEWHHIl OP UNITED PWBM 1IKUBP.R OK AUDIT RUBBAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advartlilng- BapfwnlallfS WBST-HnLMDAT COMrANT. 110. Office la Kw Tarfc, CMcM Detrtlt ftan rrartrtacft. ! Anralaa, ... Portland. 4ft. LMl. MUm. Vw.r. futility vu)M Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Pwrr The Allied Commando raid, on the French eoat, wai no two- bit blackface afair, but three ring circus, described aa "a dresi rehearsal" for the main event the invasion of Germany. It was all over in nine hours, but it holds deep portnta for a na tion whose main passion in life is war. This time Berliner! can bawl "Kami-Tad" far into the night, for international good fellowship, and not Ret it. It was also notice In the peoples of tha conquered lands, and France be trayed by her own leaders to Qil up their muskets for the fay fff vengeance. e The "Yorkshire Post," a Brit ish newspaper, had all the ad vance dope on the American victory in the Solomons. One of these days, a political Solo mon, will explain, How come? "John Glover was a Marble- head boatman, one of 11 chil dren born to John and Hannah Glover on the 5th of November, 1732." (National Republican.) B.D. (Before Dionnes). The esteemed Salem States man, ejaculates potent mouth ful, viz.: "Passive resistance" as firacticed in India, is something ike "peaceful picketing" as practiced in Oregon, circa 1837." Now is the time to mention the Aw Goond of Punjab, In the report of hot spots In the state this burg leads all the rest with 103 degrees. But It was a dry heat here. Ten de grees could be added and still be cooler than say, Salem, at 3 F. SOUNDS GOOSEYI (From "Pretty Ladles") "I have a beautiful throat, long, white and round, a thing of perfect symmetry which pleases me very much. I am always conscious of it, and hold my head so that its full length is displayed. I am as vain as a swan about it." II Duce of Italy yearns, Rome dispatches lie, for personal com bat with Gen. Mikhailovich, the leader of the Yugoslavs, who keeps five Nazi divisions busy and Italian militarists in a cold sweat. It would be Just like the guerilla leader to twist the Mus solini person into a prettel, and ship him to Brenner Pass for the next conference with Hitler. The conductor of the column to the left is now riding a bi cycle. There has been nothing like it since the spring of 1913 when he showed up one morn ing smoking a corn cob pipe. The State Liquor commission Is pondering the question of ban nlng Sunday sales of beer and wines. What effect this would have on the Saturday whooping for the sake of whooping, has not been evaluated, as the Hun dingers. Inc., say. Tokyo now regards the Ameri can offensive In the Pacific, as too much so, and becoming more so. ... "Bonked on suspicion of as sault with intent to do bodily harm was James Fleming 3S, Flynn's former butler and now his personal secretary. Fleming, six feet two Inches tall but weighing only 13 pounds, de scribed himself as "hardly the pugilistic type." (S. F. Chroui. cle.) You sure h'aint. FOOD CONDEMNED Salem. Aug. 20 (P) The Ftnte Department of Agriculture raid today that its foodstuff In spections during July resulted in seizure and condemnation of an unusually large suiuunt of foodstuffs. Waste of Time and Space Every now and then we become completely "regusted" with official war report and feel like never printing them again. What really happened at Dieppe yesterday, for example? No one knows but the German and British headquarters and they won't tell. "THE British claim a great success, with one third of the German air fleet In the west annihilated, munition dumps and radio stations demolished, the greatest aerial umbrella raised in the history of modern warfare, warranting a grand celebration by the returning Commandos, including the powder smudged but exulting American "rangers" led by none other than the glamorous and intrepid Douglas Fairbanks Jr! THE German High Command claims precisely the wvji-aa . a rVirrhtf ill rlahapla fni thst tinittfrl nations, a catastrophic defeat, with 112 allied planes destroyed, 3 cruisers, 3 torpedo boats, 4 transports and 5 other ships sunk, over 6,000 casualties and 1,500 prisoners, and bo on We irrant the British earned a far better reputation for veracity than the German, but in this instance it is clear, facta are not the concern of either side. 'HE British quite obviously, want to convince the world, and particularly Germany, that yester day's Super Commando raid was so successful that an all-out allied invasion will soon follow. The Germans, Just as the world and particularly the United States, that German defenses in the west are so strong, any serious attempt on the part of the united nations to invade that section of Europe would be suicidal. IN Bhort here is a perfect example of treating official .- unnrii nAf aa tnorifiima rt InfYirmntirin. Vint TTH, I V,UI M MW .,V....fc, vat a . aa, w aa . aa v. w aaa mediums of propaganda, calculated to boost the morale of one side and impair the morale of the other. With both sides trying to do the same thing the result is a draw, one effort entirely neutralizing the other. As far as public enlightenment is concerned there might as well have been no official reports at all ! The Net We see no reason to revise our diagnosis of yes terday as far as this big show by the allies at Dieppe is concerned. It did prove to be only a dress rehearsal. But there is little doubt that it definitely marked the assumption of an allied offensive in the west, to be followed by other super raids, and PERHAPS final ly by a landing in force for invasion somewhere between the north cape and say Cherbourg. Or if this sortie proved to be too costly, or revealed greater German strength than anticipated, then the invasion attempt may be postponed for this year, but everything will be done to convince Cermftriv that it hasn't hpen and that the blow mav fall at any time. In either be the same. IN other words, whatever the precise outcome of t Vt ia nSflnna ro A U'ViInK mav tiorai Ka Irnnii'Ti t 1 4 i ' . pjc scatv niiivu lit c j t vi w in DETAIL until the war is over, the big show in the channel yesterday did: Mark a mile-stone in meant, The transfer of the initiative in the west from the Axis to the Allies and compulsion as far as Hitler is concerned of equipped forces on 2 fronts, instead of one. "77me to get Tough " Donald Nelson, U. S. production chief, declares the time has come to "get .nyone who gets in tion," Donald adds belligerently, "will have his head taken off: We supposed the former Sears-Roebuck chief had always been tough. But our special operative in Washington recent ly declared "off the record," that Donalds bark has proved to be far worse than his bite, that things therefore have been deteriorating rapidly in the WPB, "with danger of ultimate liquidation." THE chief trouble, our S. O. added was Mr. Nelson's disposition to play ball with his old big business pals, and not tread on their toes even when in effect they considered their profits first and the welfare of the country thereafter. There is no denial however that Donald can bite as well as bark. And there is reason to believe the recent dis appointing record in war production has screwed his courage up to the point of really USING his bicuspids. At least here is hoping. There is more and more evidence from the national capitol, that the time to get tough has arrived not only in WPB but in all the alphabetical corridors and sanctums! JACKIE COOGAN. A PILOT Twentynlne Palms, Calif., Aug 2 if! He soared to stardom as "The Kid." Now he's roaring again. The air forces to day announced the graduation of Jackie Cook an as a glider pilot, with the rank of staff sergeant. Ctorint tlin t. Ctuafln SAt m. loo Ui la Clawus .2 40 ad infinitum. reports in this war have obviously want to convince Result case the net result will World War No. 2, for it maintaining large fully tough." the way of war produc 1648 AUTO VIOLATORS Balem, Aug. Jo State Police reported today they ar reted 1(146 persons and warned 801 1 others dorm Julv for vin. lating motor vehicle laws, fines' ano sentences totaling H77 and, 3Z days in jail. The Uruguay constitution of 1034 follows the general pallet n lot that of the United Stale. Personal Health Service Bg Wtllam aifn4 letters pertaining te penunal health and hrgttn. not to 4Imw dtatnoais or tm.nwat, will bo anaVr4 b Or. Brad- ir a iUaiae4 wlf- HuirHfa finviop w rnnoHa. im(era onoaM ae aner aaa srnttta la int. Onlng to the large number of letters ncm only a In eaa bo anomroa her, No reply eaa M mad to nuerloo not conforming ta instructions. nonmo or. minora maoj, soo ei THE FINE AAT OF MURDER If you want to believe what you read In contemporary fic tion perhaps you Can get some w onderf ul Ideal about ev ery aspect of life. But how Is tha fiction readar to know whithtr the author is In terpreting n aspect of life or whether the author it pre senting an Im perhaps f 1 se Dr. oraay tonctp tion? This difficulty keeps me from reading contemporary fiction except murder mysteries. I have never found a murder my tery good enough to hold a read er's interest. In which the author attempted to Interpret any as pect ot life, if the author has a story, that Is enough readers don't care much what his inter pretation of aspects of Ufa may e Every little while a corres pondent asks me how much of this or that poison must be Siven to kill a person, or some such question, and sometime ex plains that he intends to use the information in the plot of a mur der mystery The other day a correspond ent asked whether air Injected Inta a vein or into tha blood would kill a man instantly and whether postmortem Investiga tion would disclose the cause of death. The correspondent did not give the usual explanation for his Inquiry. A few bubbles of air Injected Into a vein, tor Instance by a hypodermic syringe, are harm less, and from experimental In vestigation it would seem that even a small continuous stream of air entering a vein would be equally harmless. In an experi ment of D'Abreu, a French in vestigator, one and one-half pints of air had .to be Injected into a v-in to kill a bull weigh ing 500 pounds. To kill a man a little less than enough air to fill a half pint measure would be necessary. That's a lot of air to Inject Into a vein It would take some time, and the chances are some one would come along and discover your fiendish plan be fore you could finish the job and remove all traces of the opera tion Even If you got away with it, postmortem investigation would certainly reveal the cause of death A wound severing the jugular vein at the base of the neck, or another Urge vein In that region may permit air to be sucked In (large veins do not collapse when cut) and enter the heart. (Continued Prom Pag On) the best paid per hour to be found in the lumber business anywhere. However, th draft has caught many lumberjacks and shipyards and aircraft fac tories and other war Industries have thinned the ranks of fall ers and buckers and made in roads on the skilled mechanics In the sawmills. Opposition was voiced by cer tain members of the Interdepart mental committee to use ot the troops, such as the statement that work In the woods requires experience and that green hands are subject to casualties falling trees, flying cables comparable to those suffered on the battle field. It was admitted that there are many hazards. To avoid what union spokesmen consid ered "indentured labor" it was suggested that the army permit lumberjacks now In the armed service to receive extended fur oughs on condition that they re turn to employment In the woods in a civilian rapacity and when the pressure for workers is eased they again take their place in uniform. That proposal was met with coolness as involving too much red tape and, besides, lumberjacks in service are now scattered from Australia to Egypt, from bases in the Carib bean to Alaska; too far from home to be released to handle an ax and saw among the tall trees of the northwest. e e WASHINGTON observers ex press the thought that Henry J Kaiser is being given the well known run-around. He has army and navy aiisinst him as well as the aircraft Industry on the west cunt, the latter bviause there is a fear that he will move in on 'Mi Brady- P- i-nmino, neveri nuis. canr. A few bubbles of air mixed with the blood In the heart would be harmless, but if a large amount is thus sucked in it prevents the right ventricle from contracting ind stops the heart in diastole. In such caie the heart at necrop sy is found distended with foam. )rSTfoii ANSWr.B Raw Meat Members at my family will not eat raw shopped meat, raw steak roast Desr.'Mader th lmproulon that rare or underdone beef may cause tapeworm. I maintain this eannot happen. (Mr, o. H ) Answer Unsafe to eat even gov ernment Inspected meat raw. Tape worm larvae In beef are eaolly over looked by an Inspector. Eating porK. ham or oauaage raw or underdone Is still mora dangerous that way trtchlnoals may be contracted, and trichinosis Is sometimes fatal. Al ways tries to book meat thoroughly, avoid rare of underdone meat. Cooking destroys either tapeworm larva or trichina larvae. It any present In the beef or pork. Much meat In local markets everywhere Is not government inspected. Mother Likes Halt Mother. 70. hankere after Baity sraokers. She has a good appetite, but eats ealty crackers between meals, a pound or two a week. Why does he crave salty crackers? Is It harm ful for her to eat them so mucn7 (Mrs. C. U O. Answer Perhaps because her diet doea not Include enough meat and flh. Anyway It Is harmless for her to consume a pound or two of salty crackers between meals each week If she wishes. Thymus Is there any way, except X-ry to show whether the thymus gland 1 emerged? Is th thymus gland nat urally large In early Infancy ana aoee It naturally ahrlnk later In child hood? Our child has tn peculiar breathing symptoms, but at the hos pital w were not told the thymus gland was enlarged. They said he will outgrow the noisy breathing later on. Mr. I. W.) Answer Tee, th thymus Is nor mally large In early Infancy and nor mally shrinks In later chiidnooa. Difficult to make sure how large the gland IS (It Ilea deep behind upper part of breastbone) without x-ray. I gather there's more legend tnan fact in medical literature concerning th thymus gland and enlargement of the thymus. I know less about It than I thought I knew twenty years ago. A large thymus In the case of my grandson associated with extremely large adenoids made me so fearful of annnetnesla mat we kept the poor kid from proper surgical relief for a year or more. He had no dlffculty with anethesla, and removal of adenoid obstruction made his breathing virtually normal, en abled him to sleep of nights his gramp too. (Copyright 1943. John T. Dine co.j gd. Note: Persons wishing to commmunlrnle with Pr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D. IBS Fl Camlno, Beverly Hills. Calif. their preserves. The "letters of intent" were read to Kaiser by Donald Nelson of WPB. but after Kaiser left town a different sort of letter arrived which was not as direct or comprehensive aa th letters first read to him. Nor does Glenn L. Martin's 'Mars" appear to be the type of flying freight carrier that Kaiser hopes to build. He is said to have procured from somewhere plans for a TO-tonner substantially dif ferent from the Mart-n creation. There has existed a tight com bination of the 20-odd airplane factories and government agen cies have refused to sanction or provide funds for anv new plant; rather than establish a new plant they have permitted exist ing plants to expand Somehow, however, a Pennsylvania com pany has wangled into the closed corporation and is in tne process of developing 900 flving freight cars. On the west coast the plane makers want no new competi tion (majority of the plane fac tories are on the west const) and they have viewed Kaiser's pro position as a threat. The Kaiser idea may eventually be backed by the maritime commission, THOSE Japanese Zero fight ing planes, now active in the Aleutians, arc so called because they were made in 1940. which, i according to Japanese chronol-; ogy. is their year 26011. The Japs j use the last two numerals of their year to designate a plane, hence these navy fighters bear lit. "00" sign. They are single ' seaters and bu.lt by Mitsubishi. ' the nam given to the largest of I the Japanese It. the A'.eutiars. several of them having been de-! stroyed at Kiska. Th" Japanese calendar begu-s 660 B. C. The War Today Br By Dewltt MacKensi Special Writer (This column, conducted as a I daily feat ire by Dewitt Mac-: ( Kentle. Wide World analyst. Is Aritten today in MacKenzie's ' absence, by Glenn Babb 1 I We have had our preview of 'the second front. Yesterday! I'orres of the Western United ' j Nations, the United States. Can-1 ada, Britain and Uit fighting 3"- 'Swa PRISONER Major Cen.rsl Jonathan M. Walnwrtght, right, wearing steal hlmr, shown in a Japanese prison tamp, where h was taken following surrender of U. S. forces at Corregidor. "bote- reached New York by way of Lisbon and London. French, broke Into the defenses of Naziland at Dieppe, main tained themselves for nine hours on the soil of Adolf Hitler's new Europe and returned to base on schedule. For th first time an allied landing on the continent has been carried out under tha con ditions that will obtain when the commandos and rangers are followed by the great transport fleets filled with the army of Europe's liberation. Goebbels' propaganda ma chine, trying to convince the Germans and their alave peoples that Dieppe was the real thing and that it failed disastrously. pictured a mythical transport fleet lying offshore In the chan nel mists yesterday. But that was only a figment of the Goeb bels Imagination; when it be comes reality the Nasis will have to invent new myths to ex plain the opening of a new and dreaded phase of the war. Dieppe was Dunkerque in re verse, with a mighty canopy of planes covering an offensive op eration, not a retreat. It showed vividly how greatly the war sit uation has changed since tne black days of June, 1940 for not even the dangerous nositlon of the Russians In the Caucasus or; he threat to Suez can obscure the growing accumulation of evidence that the Initiative Is nassing from Hitler's hands to the forces bent on his destruc tion. United States troops have fought on the continent for the first time since 1918. This land ing of course, was under far dif ferent conditions from those un der which the stream of 2,000. 000 Americans flowed throueh the frlendW oorts of Brest, St. NB7aire and Bordeaux a quarter century ago. when nearly all France was a beachhead for the British and Americans. This time the re-establishment of the continental beachhead is a necesarv preliminary to a march to the Rhine and beyond. Dieope was the dress rehearsal for that vat and costly operation. Yesterday's landing wag ad mittedly costly. The Canadian neonle, whose sons formed the bulk of the landing forces Srimly welcoming the chance nfter two years of waiting and oreparation have been warned by their government to exoect heavy casualties. Nearly 100 al '.led fighter planes were lost with at least 6B pilots, a heavy toll even though offset by at least equally heavy German losses, which some experts esti mated accounted for a third of the Nazi air power in the west iTn coastal zone of operations. The layman may ask for the just:"ation of this expenditure of li'e and costly weapons. It Is simply that so tremendously im' portant an operation as the in vasion of Naziland can not be undertaken without every bit of knowledge and experience that can be gathered knowledge of the enemv's permanent fortifica tions and tactical dispositions and plans, experience of what the enterprise requires In the way of weapons, manpower and training. OUTPUT SMALLER Seattle. Aug. 20. lT The Federal division of Agricultural Statistics here today rrported that, although Washington state sheepmen saved an average of 108 lambs for every 100 ewes on hand last January 1, the state's lamb crop is the smallest in IS years. The national lamb crop is two per cent smaller than last year's record. Seattle. Aug. 20 tip) The Federal Fishery Industries Office here today announced the Alas ka salmon pack, as of August 8. aggregated 2.786.279 standard cases, compared with 4.460,951 for a comparable, but earlier, date last year. It is nearly 789. 000 cases short of the compara tive figures for 1B40. previously the smallest in the past six years. Clewing time f, r Cieeoifled A4e "l too Ul to CtMX'.j II X 10,000 RAID DRIVE ON DIEPPE F Vichy, Aug. 20 Wtorle8 of hand-to-hand combats In the streets of flaming Dieppe under a rain of shells from British ar tillery were told todav in ex cited telephonic Information which got through to 'Vichy from the scene of yesterday's battle. Rough civilian estimates placed th number of allied raid ers at about 10.000, mostly Can adians, landed in 300 to 400 small boats and tank scows on the fortified beaches while 13 British warships hurled ahells into the German coastal defenses. French nurses and firemen dealt With Casualtle anil Hem. age while the battle raged, said tne reports reaching here. The landing boats came In a huge wave nlnn tmna 19tx, miles of coast. Beaching parties of Canadians American rangers. De Gaulle French and British fouirht through barbed wire en tanglements and exnloded land mines on shore nnri Hmv. tha Germans back Into the low part of Dieppe some distance away. ine reports continued. The raiders forced an entry In to the cltv nnri noenritofl nat n the lower quarter while the tanks, held back by anti-tank barriers which there was not time to destroy, aided bv pour ing cannon fire into the German ranks. The citv"s population was r oorted calm and orderly while the raiders and the Germans foi"ht in the streets First offhand estimates said )bout 30 civilians were killed at DicDDe, while French renorts said that at Rouen 48 civilians died. 101 were wounded and 48 buildings were destroyed by the .merican raid of Monday. The French reports suggested the raid was intended to prevent ar rival of German reinforcements for Dieppe. WINNER Representative Hamilton Flih, shown her catling hie ballot in primary battle for nom!ntion for U. S. Congrtssman from Nw York, was r-nmed by Republicans to run for 12th term. Pr.Parl Harbor isolationist and ad ministration critic, ht won 3-1. Us Mall Trttune want ads. 1 Flight o' Time Medford ad Jarkeoa Cntr (tutors I rem th files of th Mall Trisane I and lit year ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August IB. 132 at Was Saturday) Threats of Adolf Hitler of Germany against government, after death sentences are passed on five of his follower! fail to shake Chancellor Von Papen, Council to appoint committee) to s'udy commission form of government for city. Civil War veterana Of valley gather at Grants Pass. Little Carlin Piatt finds Mrs. Bert Orr's purs on street and returns it to her. Deer season to open Septem ber 20. Better business condition in nation seen within next six months. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 20. 1922 (It Was Sunday) Compulsory school law stirs interest of voters as tax raising measure. Trlgohla oil well to Operate Sundays, and welcomes visitors. Senate passes tariff bill after lung debate, France firm in demand Ger many give up Ruhr mines. British fear Chinese attack In Manchuria. BUI for government control of coal mines introduced in Con gress. Trace of rain with clearing weather. High 82, low 97 de grees. KIDS HAVE RIGHT Denver, Aug. 20. (VP) The neighbor's children have a legal right to laugh and shout. Justice of the Peace James N. Sabin heard the plea of property owners that Russell Martin and hit family be evicted because the four children constituted a nuisance and disturbed tha neighborhood. But a family cannot be evict ed just because the children are noisy, the court ruled. BAND BOX Close -Out ENDS IN ONE MORE WEEK! Fall Hats Shoes and Dresses GOING AT A FRACTION OF THEIR WORTH BAND BOX XNvVin.. h.'.i.iu,,. SALE l IJLs " Hill
