FIRE PRECAUTION
AIM OF ENGINEERS
FOR CAMP WHITE
Fire Breaks Prepared Around
Entire Reservation; Roads
Prepared for Fighters-'
Camp White Fighting a
war and fighting mosquitoes
aren't the only things on the
minds of men here on the Post.
Members of the Post Engi
neer Branch have busied them
selves during the past six
weeks with fighting fires and
the possibility of fires in the
43,000 acres of land in the mil
itary reservation here.
Under the direction of Capt.
Virgil M. Lancaster, Post En
gineer, fire breaks have been
prepared around the entire
boundary of the reservation and
the interior has been gridded
with fire breaks.
Any fire within the reserva
tion can now be confined in an
area of 10 acres or less.
Fire Breaks Made
Fire breaks have been tied
Into the existing road system to
utilize the road system as part
of the fire-break grid. Roads
leading into canyons at straegic
points are being bulldozed out
to allow fire equipment to ap
proach as close as possible to
the base of the ridges, Capt.
Lancaster said.
Burning out of grass within
the Camp area has been com
pleted with the exception of a
few isolated areas.
This burning is done to pro
tect the Post from fire spread
ing throughout the Camp areas
as well as to prevent fires from
originating by careless smok
ers. Caution Required
Capt. Lancaster pointed out
that this area is beginning to
Wn
"henever you hear our
boys have struck again in
France ... in Italy, Burma, New
Guinea ... on the seas what's
the first thing you think about?
The wounded!
Ol ona thing you want to
feci sure that for the wounded
Uncle Sam has plenty of hos
pitals . . . plenty of doctors . . .
plenty of nurses . . . plenty of
hospital cooks and dieticians
and attendants.
You realize, perhaps, that
the nearer Uncle Sam comes to
that ideal, the less in personnel
and equipment remains for ci
vilian hospitals. But you say:
"'The boys are welcome to my
share I'll do without."
However, your appendix
may not agree. An appendix has
no sense of history no feeling
of responsibility. Science has yet
to find a patriotic germ. An
accident, going somewhere to
happen, is uninfluenced by the
highest motives.
Every doy hundreds of ci
vilians are struck down people
who only yesterday were both
willing and happy to stay out
of a hospital. An appendix de
mands a surgery immediately.
A germ requires laboratory
detection. An. accident makes
emergency treatment impera
tive. Somehow, the hospitals
keep on managing to care for
these people. Around the clock!
Every day! With never a break,
a rest, or a vacation! With
never, in fact, so much as an
hour oil!
True, their people don't have
much time any more for frills.
But they do get those appen
dices out, those germs under
control, those injuries bound
up. They keep the patients rest
ing comfortable.
All we con say is "Bravo!"
But we can say it good and loud
"BRAVO!"
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Soldier Guests Give Ginger Jeep Ride
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When Ginger Rogers enter
tained a large group of soldiers
and Wacs recently at her Rogue
river ranch near here she was
guest of honor on a jeep ride.
With plenty of GI company, the
glamorous star is shown above.
At the wheel is Sgt. Eshpeter. In
the rear seat are left to right,
Cpl. Stanley Gardner of WPRC
and Pfc. John M. Quiroz, a
WPRC casual.
Willing hands assist Ginger
out of the jeep (left). Sgt. Esh
peter, in sun tans, and Pfc. Mar
Rivere, WPRC casual, have the
honors. (Photos by Pfc. Robert
L. Lanctot, engraving courtesy
Camp White Grenade.)
enter the active fire season, and
all personnel traveling about
the Camp proper or in the reser
vation are cautioned not to dis
card any lighted material, in
cluding matches, cigarette butts
or pipe heels.
Such a fire, if started, could
cause thousands of dollars of
damage, and as the Camp
strength is at low point, ade
quate personnel for suppression
of forest fires would be most
difficult to obtain, he stated.
The State Forestry Service
has been co-operating by locat
ing fires from their lookouts
throughout the area, and the
Fire Department and Post En
gineers have available fire
fighting equipment. Fires are
reported by dialing 17.
When the space in this paper
usually taken up by my column
has something else in it, take it
for granted I've had to devote
my time to hunting an apartment
instead of writing. And I might
as well admit here and now that
I'm about to become a casualty
to the battle for a home. I can
stand the emotional wear and
tear of hearing several dozen
"No vacancies" hurled at me
per day, but the pedal wear and
tear is more than I can take and
write. Not that I write with my
feet, but blisters on my heels
make an echo in my heart. And
there's nothing like a blister
echo to upset one's thinking.
In Seattle, no two home pros
pects ever come on the same side
of the city the same day. I've just
about decided there's a law cov
ering this: or perhaps it's an
OPA regulation; it smells more
like an OPA product than a reg
ular law.
These prospects are never ad
vertised. But somewhere, some
how, the report gets started that
sometime In November there's
to be a vacancy out on North
9th street: or maybe it's 130th
street south The word spreads
like wildfire and the trek starts.
Conductors know the siens and
portents and it is my belief that
they send secret word to some
house-hunting friend of their
own, for on arriving at 96th
street north (or 130th street
south) the card on the door will
say, "November vacancy filled."
Or maybe it will be. "No anart
ment to let until August 1, '56 "
So the runner In my last pair of
stockings and the'skin off my
shin, let alone the blisters on my
heels, have all been for nothing.
But the next day brings a re
port of a cabin at Alki Point.
The homeless horde starts for
Alkl Point on the first car out.
with O'ive Barber well in the
lead. Not that anyone hns given
her this advantage out of respect
for her gray hair, but they've
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Observations
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Early August
By J. Hugh Pruett
Astronomer, General Extension
Division, University of Oregon
Although the evening sky of
early .August holds four bright
planets, yet it promises less in
the way of a display of these
other worlds than it did a
month ago. By ten o'clock or
shortly thereafter all will have
set or will be so near the horizon
that there will be little satisfac
tion in their observation.
Jupiter will set an hour after i
sunset and a little south of west.
Where horizons are not hidden
by buildings or natural obstruc
tions and when the air is very
clear, this bright planet may be
spotted low in the sky during
the first part of the month.
Mars, not far from Jupiter, will
set a little later but can hardly
be noticed.
Venus, is nearer the sun than
either Jupiter or Mars so for
some time will not be seen as an
"evening star." However, in the
early autumn Venus will become
a splendid twilight object. Mer
cury will appear farthest east
learned to respect her barging
ability. The Big City has taught
me to barge with force, finesse
and finality. Also, Nature, with
forward looking favoritism, gave
me a barging presence, you
might say. After this boot camp
training in Seattle. I could stop
a longhorn stampede In nothing
flat and never fire a pistol.
But this town is going to have
one less home hunter beginning
tomorrow. My fert wore off
some time ago and walking on
my hands has cramped my barg
ing style. Yesterdav. three peo
ple beat me to the "No vacancy"
sign in Renton.
San Francisco's Italian colo
ny reenacts Columbus' disco-cry
of America every year on Octo
ber 12.
Pcpil-Cola Company,
Franchistd fiottltri Pepsi-Cola
Sky Review
of the sun on August 10, but
will not be in a favorable posi
tion for very satisfactory obser
vation. On that date Mercury
will be to the left of and some
what higher than Jupiter.
The eastern dawn claims only
Saturn. This ringed planet, now
moderately bright, rises about
three hours before the sun and
far north of due cast.
Visible tonight at around 10
o'clock, bright yellow Cnpella is
almost due north and on the
horizon. Before midnight this
star can be clearly seen higher
and farther east. Since it is be
low the north star, its apparent
motion is eastward.
Very high in the east. Peneb
shines at the head of the North
ern Cross. A much brighter star.
Vega in the Harp of Orpheus,
gleams almost in the zenith.
Somewhat west of due south,
splendid Antarcs flashes red.
Low toward the southwest white
Spica is twinkling, while high
in the western sky, orange Arc
turus glitters nt the lower end
of the starry Kite.
REVIVED FRENCH NAVY
READY TO FIGHT AGAIN
Cherbourg, July 29. (U.R)
The revived French navy has
reached a strength of 300.000
tons caqul to its size in 1927
and is ready to fight in Pacific
as well as European waters.
Louis Jacquinot. French navy
secretary, said today.
Jacquinot came to Cherbourg
for his first official visit to his
homeland since he escaped in
May, 1943. He said the French
navy totals 50,000 men, all vol
unteers, and he hoped to base
forces in France as soon as pos
sible. An excess of carbon dioxide In
water run through lead pipes
may result in load poisoning In
users of the water.
Long hland City. N. 1'.
Bottling Company of Mtdford
MENINGITIS IS
FOUGHT BY NEW
SULFA TREATMENT
Army Doctors Discover Ef
fective Method of Com
batting Dreaded Disease.
Baltimore, Md., (U.R) Army
doctors faced with possibility of
meningococcal meningitis epi
demics now have a new, simple
completely effective method of
combatting the disease mass
administration of sulfadiazine
tablets as a result of experi
ments conducted by an Army
medical officer and a Johns
Hopkins University epidemiolo
gist. Dr. John J. Phair, associate
professor of epidemiology at
Johns Hopkins School of Public
Health here, is the civilian half
of the two-man Army commis
sion that has spent three years
seeking means to combat men
ingitis. His- Army counterpart
is Maj. E. B. Schoenbach, New
York City.
They evolved the sulfadiazine
tablet technique for meningitis
through experiments with a
group of 100 soldiers at Fort
Meade, Md., working against a
disease that during World War
I caused between 30 and 40 per
cent fatalities in some 5,000
cases.
Standard Dose
Anxious to determine how
the meningitis organism starts
in a community and how to
stop it. Dr. Phair and Maj.
Schoenbach tested the 100 sol
diers over a 68-day period.
They found that at any given
time during the 68 days the
meningitis germ was present in
four out of every 10 of the
soldiers. Over the entire period.
92 per cent of the men carried
the germ at some time.
Aware that sulfadiazine had
been used successfully for sev
eral years to treat meningitis.
Dr. Phair and Maj. Schoenbach
worked with experimental doses
until they found that two germs
a total of four tablets de
stroyed the germ in every case.
Aid to Army Eoctort
Dr. Phair pointed out that
this knowledge would greatly
simplify problems of Army doc
tors handling large groups of
men. The use of sulfadiazine
now does not require the tre
mendous job of singling out one
or two persons in a camp of sev
eral thousand men, or among
a group of soldiers on a troop
ship, for example.
Instead, he said, doctors can
simply administer four tablets
of sulfadiazine to each member
of the group with assurance
that any potential epidemic will
thereby be fully checked.
The current rate of fatalities
from meningitis is only about
three or four per cent of those
who become ill with the disease,
approximately one-tenth of
what it was during the first
world war.
Dr. Phair's two man commis
sion on meningitis was created
in June, 1941, and was assigned
to investigate measures of con
trol as the disease appeared In
army camps during the winters
of 1942 and 1043.
The stocky, sandy-haired
Johns Hopkins doctor, formerly
a Rockefeller Foundation scien
tist, pleasantly declined any
credit for a "discovery," point
ing out that sulfadiazine had
been used for treatment of men
ingitis long before he and Maj.
Schoenbach began their experi
ments. He said the Army-civilian
combination on the two-man
meningitis commission made an
Ideal team.
"It works perfectly," he said.
"Maj. Schoenbach can get what
we want in his capacity as an
officer, and on occasions where
a civilian fits in better, I have
my chance to get results. Be
tween the two of us, we usually
can accomplish whatever we
set out to do."
RITES FOR BLAST DEAD
Port Chicago, Cal., July 31.
(U.R) Religious and military
memorial services were held
here yesterday for 322 service
men and civilians killed in the
July 17 explosion disaster.
QUICK
RELIEF
for
Blondes Bother
Playing this week at the Cra
tcrian is Mickey Rooney in "An- j
dy Hardy's Blonde Trouble,"
with Lewis Stonei Ray Holden J
Sara Haden, Bonlta Granville
and Herbert Marshall.
CHINESE RELIEF
Chungking, July 31. (U.R)
Chinese relief forces have bat
tered their way deeper into Japa
nese lines surrounding Heng
yang, wresting five strong points
from the enemy to the east of
the city, as Allied airmen raked
the blazing buttle area with gun
fire in close support of ground
units.
The Japanese lashed back In
10 furious counterattacks and
intense fighting raged on all
sides of the beleaguered Hunan
province city.
The isolated Chinese garrison
within the walls continues to
hold Isse, today's communique
said.
Eighty-eight miles to the1
northeast, Pingsiang fell to
Japanese assault forces for the
second time in the current cam
paign, the war bulletin reported.
In the area of Lciyang, 40
miles below Hcngyang and
southernmost point reached by
the Japanese in their drive to
split China from north to south.
Chinese troops have completed
mopping up operations, accord
ing to the communique.
LIVING COSTS UP
Washington, July 3 1 . (U.R)
The cost of major goods and
services in the budgets of city
families went up .02 per cent be
tween mid-May and mid-June,
the labor department's cost of
living report revealed today.
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COL GEN. ZEITZLER
INVOLVED IN PLOT
T
London, July 31. (U.R) Fur
ther weakening of the German
military machine was seen to
day as evidence mounted that
Col. Gen. Kurt Zeitzler, former
chief of the army's general staff,
was involved in the plot against
Adolf Hitler's life, and Ankara
reported that at least 4,000 sus
pected officers had escaped from
Germany.
The extent of the conspiracy
was apparent in reports that not
only Zeitzler, but other high of
ficials were involved, including
Col. Gen. Fritz Fromm, dis
missed commander of the Ger
man home army, and Count
Helldorf, notorious Gestapo
chief of Potsdam and henchman
of Herman Goering.
Weakness Will Grow
As Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Himmler kills off, or forces into
hiding, men of the officers corps
and as others become secretly
disaffected, the weakness of the
military structure will increase.
Hitler has enough loyal, profes
sional generals to direct grand
strategy, but obtaining men to
lead troops in the field may be
come a serious problem in com
ing weeks.
Private reports reaching An
kara said that since the abortive
attempt on Hitler's life and the
beginning of Himmler's purge,
at least 4,000 officers have dis
guised themselves as ordinary
soldiers and, with faked travel
ing orders, escaped in small
groups or individually into Bul
garia, Slovakia, and Bohemia.
NEGROES CITED
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
July 31 (U.R) Negro troops of
an anti-aircraft balloon division
and a quartermaster truck corps
have received official commen
dation from Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower for meritorious ser
vice since the invasion of France
an advanced post dispatch re
vealed today.
In the Middle Ages there was
a rule that if a man had lived in
a free city for a year and a day
he could no longer be claimed
by a lord as his serf.
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ZOOT-SUITERS AND
SAILORS IN CLASH
Vancouver, B. C, July 31
(U.R) City, military and; nayal
police patrolled downtown
streets today following a large
scale grudge riot late last night
involving zoot-suiters and mer
chant seamen.
Citizens took part In the fra
cas and over 1,000 persons wer
slugging it out on a downtown
street corner when police ar
rived. Clubs and batons wer
brought Into play before th
rioting was quelled. Some par
ticipants suffered minor in
juries. The street battle climaxed a
week-end feud that began when
a merchant seaman was assault
ed by a zoot-suiter in a down
town cafe. Earlier Sunday, soma
200 zooters and seamen clashed
briefly but quick intervention
by police squads prevented a
serious outbreak.
The zoot-suit element wai
composed of a mixture of high
school students, among whom
the drape-shape costumes . are
widely popular, and members of
young hoodlum gangs, a num
ber of whom were believed to
be draft evaders.
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