lWOSEGOir STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon. Friday Morning, August 8. 1843
TAGZ
India Gesture
as Attention
Attitude There Possibly
armies and get them forward de
cisively against the out-cambered
but firmly-entrenched British de
fender. British sea power balks
any. other form of offensive.
Presumably Italy . can throw
the bulk of her air force Into the
fight . and achieve a numerical
superiority ; as great, or possibly
Decisive , in Italy's Ju able to mass for the long-de-
' Eastern Thrust ,
By KIRKE L SIMPSON
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
While Italy presses her drive
to wrest the Sues Canal from Brit
ish .control, Britain makes what
may be a counter . more. In the
form of a political gesture to In
dia, at once the richest unit of
the empire and the most difficult
problem for London: to handle.
With Indian's 360,000,000 pop
ulation as a reservoir to draw on
for defense of the canal, the odds
against Italy's great adventure
would be weighted heavily against
Mussolini. That J. may be one of
the motives behind Britain's ac
tion In proffering India new pled
ges of ultimate commonwealth
status and immediate, active par
ticipation in highest government
councils in India. Yet the gesture
appears to have some other, and
perhaps controlling motive. ," be
cause any additional fighting
strength Britain hopes to gain
from it could not affect the mil
itary situation in Egypt and oth
er parts of Africa for many
months.
Sea-Air . Test Due
Obviously Britain counts on
other factors! to hold Sues on
sea-power, experience in desert
fighting, skill in making effect
ive' military forces out of native
troops of many races and creeds
and, above all, on the waterless
sands of Egypt. Any Italian of
fensive must conquer these sands
to reaeh the canal. :- ,f
The more a layman studies the
possibilities of the Italian attack,
the more it becomes clear that a
test of sea power versus air power,
is coming. It is only by air that
Italy can hope to supply her
layed attack on England. The
Italian ground attack as It has
developed so far on the Libyan-
Egyptian front, and in BritishJ
somaliland. Is brushed aside by
military experts as a mere pre
liminary for mass Italian air ac
tion to come.
There are authentic reports of
extensive Italian experimentation
for just the sort of attack to be
expected. Neutral observers In
Italian-held territory witnessed
extensive parachute maneuvers
therej several years ago, when
that'iype of warfare was still a
military novelty.
It well may be by such means
that the Italian high command
plans to pave the way for the
slow advance of ground columns,
or to surprise British garrisons
on vital bases. Informed military
men say' tank warfare, or mech
anised -blitzkrieg" in any form,
Is inconceivable In such, desert
terrain, with temperatures run
ning to 120 degrees In the shade.
With so huge a task of supply
and transport confronting It on
its own near eastern offensive
front, it Is highly doubtful that
the Italian high command can
lend much aerial assistance to
Germany in any attack on Eng
land proper. On the contrary,
there are seemingly authentic re
ports that "Germany -has already
contributed special types of fight
ing aircraft to Italy for the Sues
campaign. -
Sprays Peaches
TJNIONVALE Spraying with
sulphur, as a brown-rot prevent
ive measure, was in progress Mon
day at the C. J. Countiss four-acre
peach orchard.
MetalPlant
Starts Soon
Branch of Aluminum Firm
fat Vancouver ) Uses
Bonneville Power
WASHINGTON; DC, Aug. 8
VP) Manufacture . of aluminum.
vital peacetime and defense ma
terial, will be started at Vancou
ver,. Waslu, early next month.
At that time a. switch will be
thrown in the Bonneville substa
tion at that place and wheels of
the multi-million dollar plant of
the 'Aluminum Company of Amer
ica will start turning under power
generated at -Bonneville dam. . .
A 116,000 -volt transmission
line from the dam to the substa
tion has ''been completed, and
work on the plant proper IS la
the final stages.
Immediately after the switch
Is turned, the process of convert
ing . alumina into aluminum pigs
for the manufacture or planes and
other products will be started. -
"Pig aluminum produced at
the Vancouver plant can be
shipped by low-cost water trans
portation to processing plants
elsewhere In the United States,
where it can be converted Into
forms suitable for use by the
large west coast airplane manu
facturing ' Industry, which Is a
heavy user of aluminum, said
Paul J. Raver, Bonneville admin
istrator, who announced; the time
of start of production, from' the
Alcoa plant.
The aluminum company con
tracted for an. Initial delivery of
37.000 kilowatts of power, and
will- Increase its demand about
600 kilowatts a" month until It
Is receiving S 2,6 00 kilowatts. A
second block of 11.500 kilowatts
will be made available by Jan
uary 1, 1941.
Billy Ralin Is Whole Toira of Millican;
Ppstoffice (He Rons It) Has Rusting
A Business; Whole Town Once Moved
: - By JOSEPH HGNEY - ; --
MILLICAN, .Ore:, Au. S-(AP) Hardy Billy Rahn,
desert dictator, has been this. town's Bole master longer. than
most contemporary totalitarians' have been operating in" Eu
rope. -:. : '' 's ' 1 -" I
He has fed and clothed the entire' population and exerted
his will indisputably for 20 years: The town would vanish
Join the legends of western ghosts
If he ever left. '. : -
Billy Is the only, resident 'ft this
once Important waterhole. In the
forsaken sagebrush of central
Oregon: His town Is honored by
every major Oregon map and -officially
recognised -by the. postal
department. " , ', . .
There were some rumors MUU
can's: population 'has lost Its sta
bility and boomed .100 per, cent
since 19 SO. . '-
"My brother visited me a few
months last year," explained BiL
ly, who never gets lonely in his
triple duty as postmaster, store
keeper and service station attend
ant. "When he left the population
returned to normal." .
Millican," named for George Mil
lican, a pioneer stockman, rises to
fame' with Its one resident every
census year.
Soon after the word went "out
that Billy was the whole town, his
postofflce handled a rushing bus
iness the biggest in, ten years.
Requests came from - autograph
hounds and freak stamp cancella
tion collectors. Picture agencies
asked him for photographs and a
national radio program volun-1
teered expenses for a trip to New
York.
The radio offer t.as Billy
stumped.' He'd like to accept but
he's afraid 1 o e a 1-government
would go to pot in his absenee.
Millican might lose Its distinction
without any ' population whatso
ever and, anyway, the mall has to
go through.
Life moves along pretty slowly
out here on the high desert where
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six ; months each year. Nothing
startling; . has occurred since the
central .Oregon hirhwav rerontlnr
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Woman Who Kept
ouse Dies
PORTLAND. Ore.. An.: -(JPl
L Mrs. Sarah Isabel . Greenwood.
74,. one of the, few women' ever J
w. join, ua uuuea states llgnt
house service; died" here today. -.-
She started her career In 1SS5
following the slaying of her hae
baniJames Greenwood" contrac
tor and hnllder,who opersTted. sev
eral ' Columbia river navigation
lights. Mrs. Greenwood, with five
children-to support, took them
over and operated them for '40
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Early.Says Steel .
Indus try looming
" SKATTHE, "Anr.. .-PV-8teph-
en Early, secretary to President
Roosevelt,- said - here , todiy that
one of the , president's fondest
hopes was to bring, about the es
tablishment of a' great steel in
dustry on the Pacific coast.
He came here for an overnight
visit with the president's son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
John Boettlger.
Norse Freighter ":
Damaged by Fire
Explosions -Follow, Vessel
- la Beached y Sabotage-;
'Deemed .Unlikely ;
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NEW OBE. Abc S-&FV-Roc7ced
by two sharp explosions after
myttenons fire which flared from
stent - to stern', the Liverpool-
bound - Norwegian freighter Lists
was beached la the lower harbor
today. T , 1 v , " - " '
red era! bureau of Investigation
agents and ' the . police .' sabotage
squad Investigated the erew and
cargo " of the American-operated
ship which had been trading be
tween New York and. England, v
A preliminary report-by city de
tec tires dismissed likelihood of
sabotage and said the fire start
ed in a piece of waste In the
ship's engine room .and' spread
rapidly. . - ; ;
' The explosions 'came, the report
said, when the. flames reached a
fuel tank and a' kerosene -.tank
near the engine room.'
" BecansetheTesseK-dld not have
steam up. the detectives reported,
crew members were unable to de
velop sufficient water pressure to
fight the- Oamea' effectively.
- The ship still biased tonight as
two fireboats pumped water into
her.i x ". "
No Oamultiee "
Her erew of S4 abandoned ship
and were taken aboard a' tug. to
the ' government . barge office for
questioning. None waa .Injured. -'
Marine authorities s a 1 d the
1171-ton Lists was delayed three
days in -sailing due to -dlf Ileal ties
In. signing on- a crew,', a not un
usual occurrence on ships bound
for war sones. :. 4
The- Cosmopolitan Shipping
company, operators of the vesafcl.
ssid she carried a general cargo
for Liverpool. They denied reports
that munitions were aboard. ;
One explosion appeared to come
from the galley. Both, were unex
plained. . -
' The IJsU left New Tork last
night and- a few hours later ra-
Uoed she had engine trouble and
was nnable t proceed, i
"t Three' tugs, one acting as a rud
der, were bringing the ship In
when' fire spurted from her Idle
engine room. " "v 7 - J ' ; - I
Two-Seat Glider V
'' Record Smaslied
, . SDN VALLEY. - Ids,; Aug. i tv-
WV-John' Robinson of San Diego,
Calif., .national sailplane cham
pion, set a new nnofXlclal Ameri
can altitude record for two-seater
gliders "here today: when, with
Dick Durrance,. national down
hill, ski champion betide him, 'he
piloted a sailplane to a height
12.409 feet above the point s of
takeoff, "i , ' -' t - .;, - - '
Robinson said that soon after
the. takeoff the glider caught a
"therma, - or . updraft of warm
air, which carried the sailplane
to aa altitude of 10.400 feet in
44 minutes, a rise of almost 221
feet a -minute. Soon after reach
ing -that altitude another 'ther
mal carried them to 12.404 feet
he said. . '-..!, . :
Girls Are FreecL 1
:Burglarytharge
SEATTLE; Aug.. .-(ffVTwo
Portland, girls, Mlsf Msxise
Names, 20, and Miss JTranees Sut
ton.., Vowed they would go right
home to their mothers today when
Superior Jadge Chester A Batch-elor-
gave them- suspended sen
tences , f orburglary. p:- f t i :
The r girls - were- released "T on
their good behavior after; having
served four' months In. the county
JalL' Uaxine's brother, David, 11.
was' sentenced to IS years 5 In
prison in the same ease last Ap
ril. - . : ..---j. '. i '
Farley Ambitioii
To Onu Biisiiiess
Flans riot Rerealed bow,
but 1937 Statement
' Indicates Hope
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NEW YORK, Aug. S.-i-FH
Jsmes A.' ; Parley didn't explain
today. In resigning as postmaster
general, what "definite arrange
ments' he had made for his fu
ture, but It has long been known
what kind of a Job he wanted on
returning ; to private business.
' In 1117, long before he was
mentioned . as possible future
head of the New York Yankeee
baseball team. Parley had this to
say about the sort of a Job he'd
like If and when he left the cab-.
Inet: "
" "I ; would want something more
than a selling Job. I think I would
be a good ! salesmen. In fact. I
know I would. But I would like
an opportunity to build up an
equity In a business, so I would
have something more than Just a
salary for security for my- family.-.
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' 'The man who directed Franklin
D. Roosevelt's election and re
election campaigns and accur
ately predicted In 1924 that the
president would carry every state
except Maine and Vermont com
mented In his autobiography, pub
lished In 1938. that publie life
hasbeeen very good to me.
Then he concluded with this
observationr : , -
The wise man steps down
when' he is at the top and beforjy
the going gets rough. "
JndgelFines Himself
PORTLAND, Aug. S-C?-MuaJ-dpal
.Judge , Julius Cohn turned
the tables today and passed sen
tence upon himself. He paid a $1
fine for violating the automobile
parking ordinance. -
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