OF NEW GUINEA
NOW ACTUAL FACT
Brilliant Strategy Crushes
Japs Ready To Strike
Philippines
Allied Headquarters, South
west Pacific, Aug. 28 (U.R)
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
forces have achieved the prac
tical reconquest of New Guinea,
the second largest island in the
world, with casualties little more
than one-tenth of those inflicted
on the Japanese who once were
called the world's best jungle
fighters.
This means that MacArthur's
brilliant strategy has brought
his forces to the point where
they are poised to strike at the
Philippines with fewer Ameri
can losses than in any campaign
of the war.
It means that three Japanese
armies totalling some 300,000
men have been smashed with at
least half their number killed
for a loss of Americans and Aus
tralians far less than one-tenth
of that figure.
It means a land area more
than six times as great as the
United Kingdom has been re
claimed from the Japanese.
American air and sea domination
has been brought to within 1,500
miles of the Japanese homeland.
In the opinion of informed ob
servers at MacArthur's head
quarters, the results attained are
more important in future possi
bilities than in what already has
been accomplished, impressive
as that has been.
These men foresee the possi
bility that a further extension
of MacArthur's strategy may
achieve a similar result on a
I he captain said he had to
know what was up at the head
of that gully. So the sergeant
took a couple of volunteers and
crawled up there. They knocked
the whey out of two machine
guns and killed eight Germans.
Then they crawled back with
the information.
this actual happening shows
what's winning this war
American willingness to do the
necessary job and do it plus. If
the captain asked you to rccon
noiter a bullet-buzzing gully,
you'd try.
On the home front, you can
do an important job, too. You
can put in some good licks for
your War Chest.
For their War Chest cam
paigns, many western commu
nities arc" now organizing. To
day, these War Chests seem to
be doing things for everybody
from the unfortunates of
war-stricken countries to, possi
bly, that sergeant's kid brother.
Their drives mustn't fail.
You've heard lots about
manpower shortages. Weil, the
War Chests really have one.
Only think of how many peo
ple in your community have
moved, and you'll realize the fix
most War Chest organizations
are in. The. captain now fight
ing used to do his part as a vol
unteer worker. This year some
one must do it for him and
for thousands like him.
Since the Japanese have
been shoved back on their own
doormats, perhaps you've been
relieved of your civilian war
duties. That gives you an op
portunity to do something more.
Give your local War Chest a
hand! Call the Chest today, and
volunteer to work your street,
your block, jour office, your
plant, or anything else you can
do. If you don't know how to
get in touch with the Chest,
call us. We knowl
scale perhaps five times as great
the reduction to military im
potence of hundreds of thou
sands of Japanese in the Dutch
East Indies and the Philippines
with American losses propor
tionately as light as those of
New Guinea.
FANCY HEREFORD
OF NION T
RESTS UNIQUELY
When Peerless Domino 32,
alias Brownie, feels a little
weary or in a contemplative
mood, he sits down. Now, if
Brownie happened to be a Span
iel, such a thing would be quite
in order, but Brownie is a four-year-old
Hereford bull weighing
a few hundred pounds. Visitors
coming unexpectedly upon
Brownie are apt to break out
laughing or else wonder if may
be they hadn't better take to
wearing glasses, or something.
Brownie is one of several
Domino strain Herefords of Nion
Tucker's Flounce Rock ranch
herd. Workers at the Tucker
ranch, situated between Trail
snd .Prospect, declare that
Brownie never lies down, like
ordinary bulls, but always sits,
much as a dog would. He is
quite tame and can be petted.
A "sitting" bull is a rare crea
ture, but must have been known
in times past as is evidenced by
the historically famous olains
Sioux Indian medicine man, Sit
ting Bull, of which every Ameri
can has read and heard.
Mr. Tucker, part-owner of the
San Francisco Chronicle, left for
California this morning after
spending a few days at the ranch
lodge, Rogue's Roost.
Olive
Barber si)
Observations
Mail-bag: Of course I like a
letter telling something so inter
esting I see at a glance there's
column material in it. But the
part of me which isn't columnist
enjoys as much as the funniest
or the most thrilling story, such
letters as deal in the inconse
quentials of everyday living.
Like the letter I just now read
which the writer had had to in
terrupt because," a neighbor
came in with some new crochet
patterns." Oh I know what little
chance a columnist would have
in competition with a neighbor
with crochet patterns in hand!
And that's the way it should be,
which is why such a letter
touches a special place in my
heart.
And then one letter of so Inti
mate a nature, I cannot quote
from it; a tender loving lecture
It was and though it was from a
woman I've never seen, she
seemed very near to me and her
gentle admonitions closed with
"May the Lord guide you into
all truth," and was signed, "A
loving Friend and Sister.
A young wife writes me she
has been canning cherries and
ambition begetting, still more
ambition as it does with all
women, she then baked bread,
though the day was one of the
I hottest we've had. I know how
that goes, for on wash day, in
variably I bake pies, give the
lamps an extra cleaning and
sure as I get to the overalls, I
think of a good column idea.
(I never washed today, so 'scuse
please!)
And then another letter from
a woman telling me she and her
husband had just joined the
church; Joined it together. She
said, "It was Mich a sacred mo
ment, it was like getting married
again." And surely it would be,
for where both husband and
wife become practising Chris
tians, then indeed are they truly
united. When they jointly say,
"I know in Whom I have be
lieved", their feet are set on the
one and only path which can
keep them one to the end of the
way. There must be many cou
ples who have this all important
decision together; I wish they
were more frequently told
about. It would help, learning of
them, to offset the depressed
feeling one get on hearing of
the steady grind of the divorce
courts.
So goes the mall and it doesn't
have to tell some breath taking
Incident to be mighty well
worth the reading.
The Seine river is 475 miles
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Here, taking life easy nt Nion Tucker's Flounce Rock Ranch between Trail and Prospect, Is
Peerless Domino 32. otherwise known as Brownie and a real "sitting" bull. Just to prove his
stories. Paul Force, herdsman on the ranch, took this picture of Brownie who never lies down,
like ordinary bulls, but just sits.
TO
NEW DEAL DRIVE
IN 22 Ml TALK
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 28.
(U.R) U. S. Sen. Harry S. Tru
man, who "kicks off" the Demo
cratic party's campaign for a
fourth term when he receives
notification Thursday night at
Lamar, Mo., of his nomination
for vice president, said he'd
"stick to facts with plenty of
reasons why the Democrats
should be reelected" in his
speech.
The Missouri senator said he
hoped to have the 22-minute ad
dress completed by Tuesday
morning. He has been working
on it the last two or three days.
As for the contents of the
speech, to be broadcast by the
four networks, Truman said:
"I always try to stick just to
facts and that's what I'm doing
this time."
Truman said he would go to
Joplin, Mo., 37 miles south of
Lamar, Wednesday night and
would be host to a group of
senators at a breakfast Thursday
morning. He said he would go
to Lamar about 4 o'clock Thurs
day afternoon.
Informed that Lamar citizens
were upset because they thought
Joplin was trying "to steal our
show," Truman said he was sure
that the show was Lamar's and
would continue to be.
"Lamar is a fine town and its
citizens will be satisfied," he
said.
The senator was born in La
mar. His family moved away
when he was a child. The house
In which he lived, four blocks
east of the square, will be open
to the public Thursday.
JOKE ON A CORPORAL
Chicago, Aug. 28 (U.R) Cpl.
William R. Lay, of the U. S. En
gineers, will have some explain
ing to do when ne gets home
from France. A photo of Lay be
ing ardently kissed by a grateful
mademoiselle was carried on the
front page of a Chicago newspa
per yesterday and friends im
mediately began bombarding
his wife with telephone calls.
Use Man Tribune Want Ada.
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Telling Time By
By J. Hugh Pruett
Astronomer, General Extension
Division, University of Oregon
Estimating the approximate
hour of night by the starry time
piece is possible for the one
who is familiar with the face of
this clock and the direction of
movement of its single hand.
The end of the hand is none oth
er than the pointers of the Big
Dipper, those two stars on the
outer side of the bowl which di
rect us to the North Star, Po
liaris. Because the pole of the earth
points to a place among the in
conceivably faraway stars which
seem to be very near Polaris, we
use this as our north star. To the
unaided eye it appears to have
practically no motion, while all
the other prominent stars in the
northern sky seem daily to en
circle it. If we draw an imag
inary line out from Polaris
thrush the pointers of the Big
I Dipper, we have a moving hour
hand of three stars by which
time to the nearest hour may
be determined by one who knows
the peculiarities of this celestial
clock.
This hour hand turns in a di
rection opposite that common to
LT.
JUNGLE DELICACY
With the Americal Infantry
Division Somewhere in the
Southwest Pacific, Aug. 28 (U.R)
A new "jungle delicacy" that is
gaining much favor with men
of the Americal, especially those
who go on patrols in search of
the elusive Nips, is the choka,
native vegetable, that is describ
ed as something between a cu
cumber and a summer squash.
First Lieut. Raymond Ross of
Medford, Ore., and one of the
Americal's ace patrol leaders, is
credited with "discovering' 'the
new dish. The choka vine gets
its name from the fact that it
spreads to the highest banyan
tree or covers large areas of the
jungle, choking everything it
envelops.
The natives of this Southwest
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The Big Dipper
artificial timepieces, or coun
tercloskwise. It happens that at
midnight, war-time, on the day
spring begins. March 21, the
pointers are almost overhead
and straight above the North
Star in the 12 o'clock position.
This coincidence will be spoiled
when we again return to civil
time.
Since this star-bejewelcd hand
makes a complete circuit in 24
hours, we shall have to figure
accordingly Six hours after mid
night of March 21, the hand will
be pointing due west from Po
laris. One can estimate the time
fairly easily to the nearest hour
throughout the interval between
midnight and 6 a. m. At noon
it will point straight down to the
north point of the horizon.
Everything would be simple
did the earth not revolve around
the sun. This action brings all
stars to any certain position al
most four minutes earlier each
succeeding night, or one hour
earlier each half-month. We
must revise the face of our clock
frequently. On April 21, the
straight-up position of this hand
indicates 10 p. m. instead of mid
night, and on May 21, 8 p. m.
Pacific island had celled Lt.
Ross' attention to the choka. It
resembles a large cucumber and
Lt. Ross isn't certain whether it
is fruit or vegetable. However, it
was left for the lieutenant to
concoct a recipe for preparing
them which he passes on to civil
ians who might bo visiting this
desert island in later years when
the war is over.
First boil the chokas In salt
water until a knife or fork can
be inserted and withdrawn
easily. Pour off water, remove
chokas, slice in half and remove
seed. Then place generous
chunks of butter in the center
and allow to melt. Add salt and
pepper to taste. In the jungle
Lt. Ross explained, it is per
missable to allow butter to run
down the chin and to smack the
lips noisily.
"It tastes something like a
summer squash and Is delicious
if you like summer squash,
he explained.
Two Chokas will make a full
meal for one good Scotchman,
The aircraft manufacturing
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times as large as the automobile
industry was in its year of great
est peacetime production.
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UNEMPLOYMENT
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EMPLOYEES FIRST
Sen. George Urges Social
Security For Group De
bate Slated
Washington, Aug. 28 U.R
Sen. Walter F. George, D., Ga.,
renewed his fight to bring fed
eral workers under social secur
ity today with a prediction that
40 per cent of all persona on the
federal payroll will be thrown
out of work when the war in
Europe ends.
He made his new appeal as
the house prepared to begin de
bate tomorrow on the entire
question of unemployment com
pensation for war workers, with
prospects of a bitter floor fight
between administration Demo
crats and Republicans over the
extent of such aid.
Debate will center around
George's senate-approved bill
which the house ways and
means committee amended to
remove sections for extending
social security to federal work
ers, providing up to $200 to re
turn war workers to their home
areas and authorizing retrain
ing of war workers at govern
ment expense.
Declaring that the government
"won't remain a big employer"
when the war enters its conclud
ing stages. George said that
3.500,000 federal employes
would be one of the first large
groups to feel the axe of unem
ployment. He said the deleted
provisions of his bill should be
reinstated In the house or when
the measure goes to conference
between the house and senate.
ORDER PAY BONUS
Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R)
The War Labor Board today di
rected the payment of four, six
and eight cents per hour premi
ums to 20,000 non-ferrous metals
workers in seven western states
but only if approved by Eco
nomic Stabilizer Fred M. Vin-
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Monday, August 28, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
DEWEY WITHHOLDS
SPECIFIC IDEAS
ON PEACE PLANS
Albany, N. Y., Aug. 28 U.R)
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, in a
move to keep post-war peace
plans out of politics, has with
held specific and detailed ideas
for preventing future wars, it
was reported today.
The Republican presidential
nominee, it was said, wants first
to bring about a non-partisan
agreement on general objectives
before starting discussions of
definite plans. Such a procedure,
his advisers said, would prevent
controversy from clouding gen
eral objectives.
May I
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When Dewey outlined his in
ternational policies two weeks
ago, he spoke In general term
although it was said he had more
specific proposals in back of
the statement. He spoke of po
licing Germany and Japan and
internationalization of the Ruhr
as a step toward maintaining
world peace.
According to sources close to
Dewey, the GOP standard-bear-er
may go deeper into the inter
national peace plans early In
the campaign. But his strategy is
to keep the main peace objec
tives out of politics and confina
debate to specific plans.
MADAME SHEK ILL
Washington, Aug. 28 U. i'
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wifo
of the Chinese generalissimo, isj
seriously ill and will come to
the United States in a few weeks
for urgently needed medical
treatment, her brother-in-law,
Chinese Finance Minister Dr.
H. H. Kung, disclosed today.
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