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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, April II. 1937 Queen Elizabeth, Philip Reluctantly Take Off for Home Paris (U.R) Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ended their "unforgettable" visit to Paris today with a farewell so reluct ant the Queen's husband nearly fell on his face. Philip was waving enthusias-1 tically at the crowd at Le Bour get Field as he climbed the nar row gangway into the royal Vis count airliner. Suddenly he tripped on a step but he grabbed the handrail just in time to avoid falling in front of dozens of photographers.. Without further incident they took off for a trip to Flanders Fields where more than a mil lion Britons died in two world wars. After three days in Paris packed with pleasure and proto col, the Queen and Prince flew to Lille, the oft liberated gate, to France, and its "annex," Rou baix. Shots Mark Departure The royal couple planned to take off for England in their Vis count later in the day leaving behind a country which a gallant Frenchman quipped "no English army could conquer with arms, but which surrendered to a queen's smile." Eighty cannon shots marked the Queen's departure from Paris where she spent three "un forgettable days" to use her own words. Thursday night the capital gave her a regal farewell at a dinner for 210 selected guests in the sumptuous Salle des Caria tides of the Louvre Palace, once the city home of France's kings and queens. A crowd of 5,000 Parisians waited throughout the cold windy night to cheer the Queen as she returned to Elysee Palace before midnight. Endless Days in Antarctic Bring About 'Big Eye' Club McMurdo Sound S.P:, The 24-hour-a-day sunshine of the Antarctic summer has changed life-long sleeping routines for some of the 300 Americans here and created McMurdo Sound's "Big Eye Club." The "big eye," is the name given to the inability of some of the men to readjust them selves to the endless days in the Antarctic. No one knows just how it got its name, but it aptly describes the wide-eyed look of Arraignments Due In Bombing of Bar Los Angeles U.R) Four men were scheduled to be ar raigned in Superior Court today for the gasoline bombing of a Los Angeles neighborhood bar which took six lives. The men were indicted by the county Grang Jury on six counts of murder and one of arson Wednesday following four hours of testimony by 21 witnesses, many of whom were in the Club Mecca shortly before midnight last Thursday when a can of gasoline was sloshed into the bar and ignited. Named in the indictments were Clyde Bates, 36, an ex convict and the man suspected of hurling the gasoline; Manuel Chavez, 25, suspected of throw ing a flaming wad of paper on the explosive fluid; Oscar Bren haug, 54, and Manuel Hernan dez, 18, both of whom admitted being with Bates and Chavez. Witnesses positively identified the four men as having been in the bar shortly before the flam ing explosion and said they were thrown out for using vile lan guage and bothering a woman patron. Detective Sgt. Vic Little said Brenhaug and Hernandez gave officers statements in which they said they sat in a car while Bates and Chavez went to the bar with the can of gasoline. Five men patrons and a wait ress were burned to death in the blast and fire while three others suffered burns. Metals Workers Attend Meetings To Vote on Pact Portland U.R) Striking metals trades union members ! were attending membership ' meetings here today to pass on ! an agreement reached Wednes-1 day in their three-day labor dis-; pute with 27 Portland plants. J Federal Mediator Elmer Wil-j liams said terms of the tenta- tive agreement could not be an nounced until after the ratifica tion meetings but it was under stood the settlement followed the lines of an earlier Seattle pattern where a six-and-one-half per cent wage increase was warranted. Three thousand workers had struck Portland fabricating plants three days ago. However, Al Bird, secretary of the Port land Metal Trades Council, said all workers at Willamette Iron and Steel Company were ex pected to report to work today regardless of the outcome of the membership meetings to resume work on the SS Soledad. The ship was being repaired under government contract. the "members" who wander around this base "in the middle of the night," unable to sleep. Despite their windowless sleep ing quarters, some of McMurdo tesidents are unable to sleep wit;j the sun shining brightly outside. During the Antarctic summer, the sun turns in a circle never setting, and the men work or play on into the early hours, of the morning. Sleep finally comes to them when they are almost exhausted. . The meeting-place for the "club" is the comfortable mess hall where they congregate in the "wee small hours" to drink coffee and talk. Sometimes they can watch a "big eye movie," screened for their entertainment. One of the reasons for the prevalence of "big eye" among some of the more recent arrivals by air, is the lack of any transi tory period from the "civilized world" where the sun sets around 6 p.m. On previous Antarctic expedi tions, the transition was made gradually over a period of weeks as the ships made their way down here from the northern latitudes. As the ships moved through darkness into twilight and then broad daylight, the men were able to work them selves into some routine. Nowadays, the USAF Globe master flights from Christ church, New Zealand, 2,250 miles north, cover the distance in 11 hours, leaving no time to get accustomed to the "midnight sun." The Antarctic "commuters" arrive here around 9 a.m. when the base is starting the day's activity, after losing a night's sleep. The cold, dry atmosphere of the Antarctic prevents them from drowsing. Trouble In Winter To go to sleep after arrival is to help "big eye" get started. When you wake up after this sleep, you find yourself so re freshed that it's difficult to get to sleep that "night." This is the big factor that usually con tributes to "big eye." The Antarctic sleeplessness, however, is not confined to the 24-hour sunshine of the summer. During the winter, when the reverse occurs darkness for 24 hours the "big eye" also takes hold. A number of the Operation Deepfreeze I wintering-over per sonnel experienced it during the winter after they had completed the first of their major tasks erection of the camp buildings. Lt. Comdr. Isaac M. Taylor, Chapel Hill, N.C., the tall medi cal officer at McMurdo who cared for the 93, men who win tered over, said their sleepless ness was "compounded of rest lessness.' He explained that when the men completed the big construction task, they had time to stop and think what was going to happen during the three long months of darkness that lay ahead of them. Taylor said the men did not have "big eye" when work was started on the Ice runway. Work ing in sub-zero temperatures on 12-hour shifts, they really need ed sleep when they came up from the strip site on the bay ice of Erebus Bay in McMurdo Sound. , One of the biggest problems for "big eye" victims is keeping track of the dayg of the week and whether It is a.m. or p.m. One Air Force flyer who re turned from a 10-hour flight to the South Pole around 4 p.m., went to sleep. He woke up seven hours later, glanced at his watch, walked outside and prepared to go to the messhall for lunch. HUNTING FOR A Seattle U.R) Members of Local 79 of the Machinists union Wednesday overruled a recom mendation by their executive committee and voted to reject a proposed ' settlement to the metal trades strike. Bob Johnson, business repre sentative for the local, said the strike would continue. Several other crafts ratified the employ ers' proposal. About 8,000 employees of metal fabricating plants were idled when an estimated 1,800 machinists walked off the job last Friday. Most of the indus try was expected to remain un der strike until the machinists settle their dispute. 'BEDFORD'S FINEST MEATS SINCE 1940" ALL OF OUR MEATS ARE GOVERNMENT INSPECTED SWIFT'S PREMIUM w einers I -Pound Bag ALL MEAT OCEAN FRESH FILLET OF SOLE CHICKEN OF THE SEA U j'h- Bit) Would Cover Additional Workers Washington (U.R) Sen. ' John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), has intro duced bill to extend the cover age of the Sl-an-hour federal miaijnum wage to an addition al five million workers. He said in introducing the bill Wednesday it would give minimum wage protection "to a large number of workers in en terprises which economic studies have indicated would benefit from such coverage." Kennedy heads a Senate La bor subcommittee which held hearings on the Minimum Wage law. The administration has pro posed changes in the law whicn would extend its coverage to about two million workers. Kennedy said his proposal would broaden coverage of the act to cover the larger retail and service enterprises, construction work, local transit systems, ho tels, laundries and other ser vices. General Foods Cuts Wholesale Coffee Prices New York U.PJ General Food Corp. Thursday announced a 4-cent per pound cut m the wholesale prices of its regular ground grocery pack coffees. Six weeks ago the Maxwell House ivicinn of General Foods cut wholesale coffee prices 3 cents per pound. Retail trade units in the United States have gained 42 per cent in number since 1931 to a I total of 1,864,000. Starts Made in Training Program phicago (U.R) The execu tive director of the National Civil Service League envisions a growing role for government as a participant in the expanding hunt for manpower and its train ing. James R. Watson, in a recent isue of State Government, publi cation of the Council of State Governments, said that govern ment "has a long way to go" in the development of training pro grams for personnel but that "some important starts have been made." "Today, every source of man power must be quickly and fully developed and utilized," Watson wrote. "It is economi cally sound, therefore, for gov ernment to spend money in pro viding proper training for its own talented people." Watson cited programs in pri vate business, such as the man agement training program of the American Management Associa tion, as a guidepost for govern ment. The program has gradu ated 2,600 persons in five years. Watson said the success of a government training set-up is de pendent on progressive attitudes throughout. "For a training program to be successful, it must be part of a progressive personnel system," he said. 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