Port Orford post., October 29, 1937, Image 2

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___________ PORT ORFORD, OREGON, POST
EUROPE GIRDS FOR BOMBING R AIDS '
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
Good Offense Is Best Defense Against Aerial Attack, Nation
Believe: Race Is On to Build Planes, Train Airmen.
By WILLIAM C. UTLEY
LL Europe has glued its
attention to the Far East
—to Shanghai, Tientsin, Nan­
king and the other great Chi­
nese metropolises now form­
ing targets for deadly Jap-
anese bombs. Europeans are
watching
ruthless attacks
upon civilian populations, and
the wanton destruction of
homes and public buildings
occupied by noncombatants
in something of the manner
of the football scout watching
this week’s game to perfect
the defenses of his own team
for the big game that looms
in the future.
about
Relief for Aliens.
QANTA MONICA, CALIF.
—If an American were
dependent on public charity
in any continental country,
he’d be out of luck and out of
that country, too, as quickly
as they could throw him out.
If, in addition, he openly attacked
the government of that country, he’d
still be out ot luck
because he’d be in
jail.
Hundreds of thou­
sands of aliens are
on relief here. Many
of
them
slipped
across the borders
through leaks in our
The World war gave Europe, and
immigration laws—
particularly England, a glimpse of
and brought their
what might be expected in a few
folks with them, al­
years, after aerial bombing had per- J
so to be cared for
Bankin> former congresswoman from Montana and now associate secretary of the Na-
V
fectcd the efficiency lacking in its
Ri at the taxpayers’ Irvin S. Cobb lona. Council for the Prevention
vf War, pictured as she addressed a meeting ot the body recently and pleaded
Infancy. Air bombers extend the
X A™C"Can aloof"pss fr°m fOreign disputes' 2-Defenders of Shanghai repelling a Japanese attack on the
French aviation forces developed this new type blimp. The detachable expense. Some are
theater of war into the civilian pop­
avowed enemies of our form of city. 3—Herr Von Stohrer, newly appointed German ambassador to the insurgent government of Spain (left!
ulations of the great cities, reduce fuselage can float to the ground by parachute in the event of damage to
government.
shown as he acknowledged cheering crowds at Salamanca, Spain, with the Nazi salute. General Franco, who
to a mockery the territorial bound- its gas-bag.
Steps to oust such parasites are received the new envoy’s credentials, is shown at his right.
• ries on a continent peopled by
gas masks, now being manufac­ formances in Ethiopia, have gained : balked on the ground that to do so
many small nations and threaten,
tured at the rate of 300,000 to 400,000 her fame, but her air force still I would work hardships on their fam-
when coupled with other agencies of a week.
fails to measure up to that of some ilies. You could say the same thing
SIGNS FOR MOVIES
modern warfare, to wipe out Euro­
Booklets issued by the govern­ of her competitors in quality. She for bedbugs.
pean civilization.
ment teach citizens to organize has failed to develop a good air­
We're starting to register these
There are few qualified authori-
neighborhoods for practice in the cooled engine.
non-residents. But it's to be a “vol­
ties who believe that bombing ex-
issuance of gas masks and other­
Shortage of fuel supply has been untary” registration, not compul­
ped it ions on
rge cities could wise reduce the holocaust of whole-
a real obstacle to Italian aerial de- !
bring an entire nation to surrender sale air raids. Fire-fighting squads velopment, and has prevented her I sory. Any person in the audience,
besides Madame Perkins, who be­
by shattering its morale and upset­ are being readied to minimize de­
fliers from obtaining sufficient fly- ' lieves the undesirables will come
ting the structure of government. struction by incendiary bombs; oth­
ing time to qualify them. They are ! a-running to list themselves, and
The cities of Shanghai and Madrid er groups are being organized to
said to have an average of but 70 I risk deportation thereby, kindly
still stand, if their heads be bloody, repair damaged public utilities and
hours in the air. Lack of raw ma­ raise the right hand.
after months of ruthless, coldly- clean areas left conlaminated after
terials, as demonstrated when sanc­
planned attacks from the air. But gas attacks.
tions were applied in the Ethiopian
Champion Crooks.
there is always the possibility that
Civilians are also being instruct­ war, renders her incapable of sus- ' I 'RUST California to turn up with
the next time may be different, . nd
ed in ways of making at least one tained high-speed production, al­
* a world’s champion of some- 1
for this reason the race among Eu­
room of each house gasproof. Archi- though she is now building planes at , thing. They arrested a man on sus- I
ropean nations to build air forces tects
are also beiDg advised to in- the rate of 200 a month.
। picion of burglary and forgery and
and defenses against air forces of
elude gasproof shelters in all new
For protecting Italian citizens in organizing a training school for ju- j
their enemies has been heightened
buildings. The subways were looked the larger cities, Il Duce has chosen I venile criminals and first one little
of recent days to a fever pitch.
to for shelter in the World war, but to depend chiefly upon rapid evacua­ | thing and then another.
There are perhaps 20,000 military officials todav warn that they are
tion in the case of air raids, leaving
Surely that would seem to be ca-
airplanes owned by the nations of more likely to be traps than shel­
only those absolutely necessary to I reer enough, but this party had ad-
Europe today, and more thousands ters, being not far enough under­
government and to war industry re­ i ditional claims to recognition. He
are being turned out every month. ground.
maining in the industrial centers of admitted he had been sentenced
The same nations are pressing
Russia Supreme Numerically.
the Po valley to the north. Within to forty-nine terms in various jails
plans of defense to completion
In the case that raids become so three or four years he expects I and penitentiaries, which in itself
among both military and civilian
Rome's first subway to be com­ I would seem to constitute an inter­
branches of the population with a terrible that the plans will not hold
up, the only alternative is to get pleted; it will also be used as an national record, and said that in
speed born of genuine fear.
the population out of London. Rail­ auxiliary air raid shelter. A royal forty-three of these cases he had
Airline hostesses are all so capa­
Britons Excel Technically,
He didn’t explain
roads are now offering plans for rap­ decree has made it compulsory that been paroled.
ble and charming that the inroads of
England, not soon destined to for­ id mass evacuation.
all new buildings be supplied—at how the big hearted parole boards
Cupid are the most serious factor
get the terrifying Zeppelin and Gotha
Numerically, Russia has the most the builders' expense—with a stand- i failed to turn him loose before he
involved in alienating them from
WK
raids which drove London into a powerful air force in the world. ard underground shelter which, it finished those remaining six sen­
their jobs. Now comes an announce­
state of panic in 1917, is one of the She own* about 3.000 first line is claimed, adds no more than two tences.
It must be profound regret to the '
foremost in building her air defenses planes and about 1,500 to 2,000 oth­ per cent to the cost.
Life tor Willie, pet squirrel owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Britten ment from an airline company indi­
cating another threat. As evidence
and realizes that the best defense
Germany is the great mystery boys in Alcatraz and other bide-a- of Greenville, Tenn., is just one dentist chair after another. Willie’s front
er planes, mostly training ships.
we show you a picture of pretty
is a good offense, as they often say
wee
homes
conducted
by
the
feder
­
teeth
began
to
curve
backward
toward
the
roof
of
his
mouth
and
his
Her aerial personnel of 50,000. in­ among European powers in the air, [
Daphne Lane, airline hostess who
football
al
government
that,
owing
to
the
Her flrst- cluding 7,000 or 8,000 pilots is well- Her
extremely
rapid
growth,
owner carted him off to the dentist to have them ground off. The dentist
has just received a motion picture
line strength (at home, with the
cruel refusal of Uncle Sam to go opined that Willie eats too much prepared food.
organized and effective, but not well coupled with the obvious ir.endship
contract.
fleet and abroad) numbers about equipped.
between the Reich and Italy, is said into the paroling business on a
2,000
and
wholesale basis, none of them, how­
reserves,
Russia is said to have no more to have Britain quaking. No one
called the best in Europe, raise the
ever ambitious, has a chance to
BONNEVILLE CHIEF
than 400 or 500 first class planes, can be sure, but it is a good guess '
total to 3,000.
equal this splendid showing.
that
Germany's
first-line
planes
are
imitative
American and French
The honor remains where prop­
For a time England had diflicuL planes; the others are obsolescent, more than 2,000 in number. Her !
tics in production, but is now build­
fine factories can turn out new ones erly it belongs, constituting a mag­
nificent tribute to the beautiful
ing about 175 planes a month, and
a* fast as those ot any other na
production is on the upswing, indi­
tion on the continent if they can ob­ mush-headed theory that a state’s
cating that perhaps these difficulties
tain enough raw materials, and P' son should be a clearing house
have been straightened out. Tech­
right now she is believed to be pro­ and not a strong-box with a time­
lock on it.
nically, her air force is head and
ducing between 200 and 300 a month.
shoulders above the rest of the con­
Like some other countries, she has
Nazi Influence.
tinent. Her airplanes are far better
not produced a really top-notch mo
T'VE been talking with a friend just
than any of those operated or
tor.
* back from Germany. In old days,
under construction by any other Eu­
French Prestige Slips.
I 'iked Germany as a land flowing
ropean power.
Her supermarine
Germany's aerial forces are un
with gemuetlich and good beer and
Spitfire planes do 346 miles an hour
dor command separate from the a superior line of liverwurst. I won­
and she has bombers capable of
army. Air Minister Wilhelm Goer- der whether I'd like it so well now.
nearly 300.
I ing has developed his command so
Because this fellow says every
Measures taken to defend Eng-
, rapidly that, for the time being, it minute everybody must give the
probably is not well organized, but Nazi salute and say, "Heil, Hitler!"
most every precaution known upon
some day soon it will be in good If a citizen wants his eggs fried,
the continent. London is the heart of
working order. Her air defenses he says first to the wuiter, "Heil,
the empire and, from the
its
are under the same command, and Hitler!” If he wants 'em turned
most vulnerable point. There 10,-
are probably the best co-ordinated over, he says it twice—once for
000,000 persons live within an area
in Europe. Her anti-aircraft artil­ each egg.
of 2,000 square miles.
lery line boasts 480 guns and new
There's a swastika flag flying over
An English army airman in para
England's ring of volunteer ob- chute maneuvers above Henlow.
ones are being completed at th* practically every house. Absence
James D. Ross of Seattle, who
rate ot one battery a day. Cheap of a swastika flag signifies that the has been appointed by President
extends out into France and Belgium despite their recent successes In civilian gas masks are being rapid­ folks who used to live there are now
Roosevelt as administrator of the
and is backed up by naval patrols Spain.
However, Russia has the ly distributed among the populace. in the hoosegow for failing to fly Bonneville dam project. Under the
in the Channel. This serves to give benefit of capable foreign designers, Shelters are being constructed. But same.
supervision of Secretary of the In­
Five-year-old Lonny Bliss of Miami, Fla., is a keen angler. He is
London an hour's warning to mobi­ engineers, foremen, metallurgists the real defense of Berlin, the capi­
My friend may have exaggerated terior Harold L. Ickes. Mr. Ross
pictured as he tries his luck for the wily fish that lurk beneath the lily
lize her defenses if a raid is com­ and mechanics, and has shown tal. is its relatively great distance •omewhat, but, I think, not much,
will administer the transmission and pads. These rare tropical water lilies grow so big that Lonny can get
ing, were the lookouts stationed at marked imitative ability. She is from any frontier.
Because while talking we came sale of all hydroelectric power.
right out on one and use it instead of a boat.
Ilie mouth of the Thames there willing to spend money and her la­
France has slipped from her one- ' abreast of a Leiderkranz cheese in
would be but 10 or 15 minutes to bor is cheap. She builds foreign time position as the leading air a delicatesen store window and
prepare
A few flying ships are airplane engines under license. And force of Europe. She has now only 1 involuntarily he said. "Heil, Hit
based along the coast tor purposes of recent months her airplane pro­ about 2.000 front line planes, includ­ 1er!”
of reconnoissance. These ure sup­ duction has speeded to the point ing those within her borders, with ’
plemented by a Volunteer Observ­ where it is the greatest in Europe. the fleet and abroad, and 1.000 train­
Nominating Barkley.
ers' corps of workers and other civ-
Despite the fact that 9.000 civilian ing and reserve planes. About two- Z^ANVASSES show Senate Leader
ilians equipped with i airplane de- pilots were trained last year, that thirds of all French planes are ob­
’ Albcn Barkley gaining as a pos­
tecting instruments. 4 All tile reports gliding and parachute jumping are solescent. And production of late sible Democratic nominee in 1940.
with a central office • to chart the now popular sports, and that Rus­ has been halted to a virtual stand
It's high time we had somebody
course of invaders.
sians are the most air-minded people still by internal economic and po­ from Paducah for President. For
Neta Hang From Balloons.
on earth, the program is just get­ litical strife. There are plenty ol a hundred and fifty-odd years this
ting under way. The Reds expect good pilots, the air force is com­ republic has fooled along without
line of de
fen.se is the outer artillery ring of to have 150,000 pilots, a produc­ petent technically, and the French one of our local boys sitting up
there in the White House, writing
guns and searchlights. Inside this tion of 20,000 plane» a year and a have produced good motors.
>f giant si
Much of France’s aerial defense messages to congress condemning
Russia's chief
is a fighting zone in which squad-
runs
;• their airdromes within 00 weakness is that she depends too is centered in Paris, as might be the use of sugar in cornbread and
much upon foreign assistance, hav­ expected. This city is particularly proclaiming that, if any traitor
of receiving an alarm;
dares to pull down fried catfish,
its and a few fighting ing few skilled mechanical people fortunate in that thousands of cel
shoot him on the spot.
of her own and as yet having failed lars made famous by "Les Miser
With Atbcn on the job. we'll not
ables" have been inspected and pro- 1
to produce a good engine.
city point their way to the enemy.
snly have homegrown statesmanship
nounced
excellent
air
raid
shelters
Most sensational of all London's
Italy's Air Force Is Flashy.
capable of giving refuge to 1.720,00i in job lots, but silver-throated ora­
defensive measures is its next line,
R
children and persons. Other precautions—search
tory. which, by comparison, would
th«' mobile balloon bu
civilians are being trained in de­
make Patrick Henry seem like a
cables are hung in the air like a feme against aerial and chemical lights, guns, civilian drills and edu
tongue-tied man suffering from
net from a scries of blimps, offering warfare with school and factory cation—are being undertaken.
chapped lips. For Al can talk an
Anti-aircraft guns are said to b*
both a psychological and a physical drills. Her anti-aircraft guns are
hour and never use the same word
eight times as efficient today as
obstacle to the invading airman
not so numerous or well-developed
twice or the letter "r" once.
they
were
in
the
time
of
the
World
.
Ika I**«
as those of her neighbors, but
Nominate Barkley and that night
war.
and
with
the
wholesale
de
,
string of 125 three or four inch gum- great flying distances and snow-cov­
there won't be a dry throat in Mc­
tense
measures,
both
active
and
;
and 150 searchlight*
tlie ered mountains are a real protec­
Cracken county.
Elect Barkley
passive, it is hardly probable that ,
city of London itself.
tion against invading planes.
and—well, I always did think I'd
Europe’» next war will be won ir. ,
A.
The Home Office hai undertaken
make a middling fair Secretary of
Italy has some 2,250 first-line
It just means that th*
4GÍ
to unite the people in passive de- planes in operating squadrons, with the air.
the Interior; certainly nobody could
greatest human suffering will not
fense schemes. One, aimed chiefly another 1 500 in re
botch up the Indian bureau worse
Her aerial
An elevation view of the traffic circle and fountain at Seventv-ninth street. New York city, showing part
to allay the fears of air raids is to exploits, such as General Balbo's necessarily take place upon th* than it is.
fields of battle.
of he superhighway that Is a big feature of the $24.#*0. WO improvement project oa Manhattan’s west side
provide 40,000,(XX) persons with free armada and the nwr* recent per-
IRVIN S. COBB.
waterfront. Beneath this traffic circle is a garage accommodating *50 cars
Nuts to lou, Willie Squirrel
L àmi
Lily Pad Is His Fishins Boat
New ù ork s $24,000,000 Highway Opened