Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-06-25
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By LEMUEL F.! PARTON -
Consolidated Features-WNU Features.
n 7 EW YORK.--In June, 1910, few
Y months. after becoming COVER
nor of Alaska, Ernest Gruening said,
"A few parachutists could takeFAlas-
This Doc Doesn't He p pom
Treat Eyes, Ears, the. observa-
But Uses His DUN to- ton OF IN e
William Mitchell, He who holds
Alaska holds the world,' and, a
man of: peace. and a foe of imperi-
alism, the governor thereafter never
missed chance to urge the stra-
tegic importance of Alaska, and to
insist that sit has the greatest pos
sibilities for an offensive of any land
under the American flag" Congress
was not, at first, responsive. Just
how effective the governors pleas
have been is still shrouded in the
mists of that frozen domain.
The least insular of men, DR.. 7
Gruenihg has long been con-
cerned with insular affairs, and
was chief of the division of terri s..
tories of the department of the
interior from 1894 to 1889, re-
lceiving the Alaskan appointment
on December 5 of the latter
year. He is a doctor. of medi-
cine, with degree from Har-
ward university, diverted to n
newspaper work early in his ca
reer. His studious bent has been
such that he might have been
put down for -boOkworm, had it
not been for his success in prac
teal affairs, notably running big
town newspapers and making
them pay.
The son of a famous New York
J eye and ear specialist, DR.. Gruening
also had intended to treat eyes and
ears, but began his career as an
alert reporter for the Boston Ameri-
can That led him to the successive
managing editorships of the Boston
Herald, the Traveller and the Jour
nal, the New York Tribune and the
New York Nation, with time out for
his service as private in the World
war. IN a4.ai ,al ASA saia,.
A liberal and reformer, he began
back-trailing our tentative adven-
lures in Imperialism, in the Philip
pines and in establishing our he
gemony over the Caribbean. Enter
ing the department of the interior
he became the administration torch
bearer for a territorial New Deal.
He was born in New York city in
1887.
HOWARD MINGOS is a skilled
= writing man who also can add
and subtract. This unique combina-
ton of talents naturally has made
Howard C. Mingos rent rent hi bist tori
A John the Baptist an Of avia-
OF Air Wilderness tlon prog
tor of the annual aircraft year book,
published by the aeronautical cham
Der of commerce. The 1912 edition
Of the book, just out, says Our plane
manufacturers have some 'tfrightfuli
SURPRISES for the Axis; which. will
jolt the enemy clear down to his
cloven hoof. -. 49,.
'Who says it?" is the wary on
lockers natural query about
wartime news like that. The first :
answer, as to Mr. MingOs, and
it is reassuriDg, is that he; is :.
cautious and never has gone off
half-cOeked in reporting avia-.
ton news, good or bad. In 1887, ~
he did not pull his punch in re- !
porting the swift ascendancy of o
the German Luftwaffea over, the %
British Raj. ..-.sl...
He has long sustained a reputation
as good reporter, on the New York
Sun for quite spell. He is the au-
thor of more than 1000 articles on
aviation in newspapers and maya
zines, and several books. ttfThe Air
Is Our Concern was the, subject of
a book on which he elaborated in
1885. He now gets long overdue
agreement on that. ".'-5 'i o..
After his graduation from his
home town high school in Athens,
Pa, young MIR. Mingos studied two
years at the Philadelphia School
of Industrial Art, then switched to
long stretch of newspaper work, with
the Philadelphia Telegraph, the
Scranton Republic, the New York
Times and Sun. From 1922 to 1880,
he was special contributor of avia-
ton articles to the Times. With the
volunteer air service of the U. S.
army, overseas, in the first World
war, he became special represent
alive of the aeronautical chamber
of commerce in 1920. He is 81 years
old, our outstanding professional
score-keeper in air doings.
a NY day now we may get word
that sWarms of American
planes, manned by Americans, are
fighting and bombing with the Brit
ish over Germany. Maj. Gen. James
E. CLANCY will wing them eastward,
as commander of all American
army forces in the British Isles. He