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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1942)
r The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning. August 14. 1342 PA6Z tans " AussieBrains Yield Many Inventions ; By MURLIN SPENCER N SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA New and sometimes strange proposals for winning the war are coming from the minds of Austra lia's embryo Edisons as a result cf Japan's march to the common wealth's very doorstep. ; One Australian - has - proposed that, colossal weights be lifted by means of magnets, towed, to Ger many and dropped on Berlin' and Hitler. . : ..-Another suggested a sort, of ."kite barrage," -with , hundreds ,of kites floating In th air over a given area. If an. enemy plane truck the kite Sand severed the' .atring, the ..contact -would; dis charge a rocket to rise up arid blast the plane. I l , Each new threat to Austra lia or the appearance of Jap anese submarines ' offshore has .been followed by the submis sion of an Increased number of Inventions. The Australian army inventions directorate Is' " encouraging them. The directorate, created to in vestigate and encourage inven tions which might aid the war ef fort, told newsmen that it hopes In every mail there will be a rev olutionary idea which might be a factor in winning the war. ,' Thus far in the war no country has produced a revolutionary war machine, such as the tank, the airplane or machine gun. . The tank has been put to increased use and the airplane is playing a new role in the conflict, but they are products of other times. The flow of inventions, which now average about 150 a week. comes from persons in every kind of . business, from refugees who have just reached the common wealth and even from children An 11 -year old boy sent in elabo rate plans for tank modifications. ' Successful inventions are mili tary secrets and are not disclosed. But the. directorate revealed that It has one invention for an en tirely novel method of ship pro pulsion. A Polish engineer sub mitted highly promising inven tions and a Hungarian refugee suggested aircraft textile im provements which may be of 'great value. Besides its search for the Im provement of equipment, the directorate is Investigating the manufacture of substitute ma terials to help Australia meet Its war shortages. The poinsettia. Which prows in profusion, is be ing examined as a possible sub stitute for rubber. I The appearance of Japanese submarines in Sydney harbor was followed by a flood of inventions for detection devices, some of them worthy of close Investiga tion. One man appeared who claimed to be a human detector, able to locate submarines from . the shore with no more equipment than a divining rod. He would wave the rod and point seaward with the assertion, "There is a submarine to the northeast about 40 miles." . The directorate investigated the human detector and concluded that while it was unable to prove him right, it also was unableto prove him wrong. Large Collection Oft Bronze, Brass Given From Bank . , . ( An assortment of bronze and brass wickets door "casings and window ' screens estimated ; to weigh in excess of 1500 pounds was contributed to Salem's scrap metal salvage campaign. Thursday by the - Ladd & Bush-Salem branch of the United States . Na tional bank of Portland. - . -! The metal, part of the original window wickets of Ladd & Bush bank' when the institution was opened for Imsiness 73 years ago, and part the accumulations of the years as alterations in the build ing took place, was collected from jasement storage comers, by em ployes , of the- bank. v . j Bronze. andT6r$ss are among the most important metals from a war salvage standpoint, A. C Haag of the Salem salvage committee, said. The bank's .scrap' will go into the :pool being collected by the salvage committee to sell for the benefit of Salem's United War Chest : ' ilji oled Mason Dies PORTLAND, Aug., 13.--,Fu- neral services will "be held here Friday for-jicblat Paulsen, for 12 years fiel$:ecretary for. the Ma sonic; boani; of relief, lie i died Tuesday, 'Vv OBfliraiCJ- She's as Lively as a Yeunpter- Now her Backache i better . . IXany auttecem nEer BCZn bmcfcact enkkly, Mce-ttttyaiaeover tea a tanaa of their trouble W be tmd Judaej' i Tba kidneys ai Natui chief way oi ! tak fnc tba nm acida aad waat out of tba fclood. Tbey help mat people paes alwrt . bee dlaotder of kidney fraction permit poisonous waiter to rental ia your btood. it may etute naopnf backache, rheumatic paiaa, irt pauu, loa of pep and energy, gcttiac P aisbta, aveliia. puffinee uacW aba mymt. hoariarh and diaiineaa. Fraqueat oacaaty nwnri with martioc end burning aome timea ahowt there ia aorocthing wroag vita our kidney or bladder. . . Doat wait! Aak your dragmrt for Doaa a riiia. aaed aueeeaafully by milbona for or ' aOyeara. They Kive happy relief aad will be!? the 15 milea of ktduey tube fiiaeh out p0"" a vmm Irem j our blood, Ct Ioaa l ull. Hmiini n i ii.ii i ji . m'sw.,.-r,,,m,: ,,J., ,.,, . iMiu,Ww..JMyJ.'Jut.ij.u,w.rwgw.r .t, IWmmtiV9' It. -- . ,. vriiii- i ii i 1 1 Hi. 1 1)1 a Here la the fishing boat which foundered after striking a submerged rock in Saginaw bay, resulting in the drowning of 12 of 13 persons aboard. The only survivor was Mrs. Dorothy Repkie, 23-year-old Bay .City, Mich, mother, who swam seven miles to land through sheer determination to reach her 4 bahy who was safe ashore. The boat was beached at Point Au Gres, ' (I.I.N.Pbonephoto) t'l Spruce Leader Returns as Fuel Director . PORTLAND A u g. 13-P)-Hii assignment as fuel coordinator for Washington v and - Oregon brings Gent . Brice p. . pisque to the northwest for the second time to iron out a wartime problem. . In 1917, as a colonel, he was or dered to 'develop spruce produc tion to the point' where' 100,000 warplanes a year could.be built. That called for - something like 50,000,000. board feet of lumber a mopth. Bj ihe ni of ,the war there was a "civilian and military army of more than 150,000 men at work, railroads and sawmills had been " built, a n d timber, camps dotted e 'Oregon and Washing ton woods. New" mills arid rail roads were under construction; 1 At' the end of the war, this army was. producing .nearly half of the goal set by Disque, who had be come a brigadier general. 1 He als fjpupled the tamed "4 17. Loyal Legiea, of Loggers and Lumbermen, a labor organization built to offset the activities of the International Wood Workers of the World "Wobblies." The 4-L organization . existed until recent years when it was declared to be company-dominated and thus in conflict with fed eral law. .. : ... .. - Community Series Ended Wednesday ; The series of neighborhood lead er training meetings on the con trol of inflation was concluded in Marion county Wednesday Of this week when Robert E. Riederj county' agricultural : agent, and Miss Frances Clinton, home dem-' onstration agent, conducted a meeting at Salem Heights, and Wayne D. Harding, 4H club agentJ with'W. G. Nibler," assistant ag ricultural agent, conducted the meeting at the Pringle school. ' For the past four weeks meet ings have' been held in 47 com-i muni ties An the county with 94 community, leaders and 800 neigh borhood leaders taking .part ' : 1 This program which is nation wide in Oregon is sponsored by the extension service of the'Ore- Firs t Aid : Cards , Held for Owners r At RedXross A cumber .of individuals who have certified themselves In first aid have failed to secure their certification cards which are now being held at the Red Cross of fice. These cards are important to have, not only for certification in case of giving assistance at the time of. an accident, but also for employment purposes, and the owner's should call for the cards at their earliest convenience, ac cording to Mrs. W. Gordon Black, chairman of first aid. Instructors' cards are being held for: Eileen Westphal, Earl La Fond, Phoebe Busick, Marie Jack son, Marjorie Edlund, Peggy Al fred, Blanche Isherwood, Mrs. Grace Webber Mrs. Wayne F. Taylor. . ; - v; Miscellaneous certifications are being held for: Constance Low, Wandaline Engle, Charles Val deneourt, Marjorie LundahL Jer- gon State college at the request of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard. - ' , 1 . ry Williams, Doris Webb, Louis Hough, Dorothy Howard, Robert Heilman, Betty Feller, Ruby Burnham, Mrs. H. A. Biskie, Don Kinser, Harold Paraduer ' Edna Selberg, Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Rose, June Shields, Arthur Shilo, Vivian Roth, Ruth Weum. . - The Red Cross office is located at 435 State street Cards will be mailed if addresses are corrected. ' Shoes DE-SIZED .Vc. Made Longer or Wider . All Work Guaranteed 980 pt Shoe Clinic FRED MEYER Lwcr Level S rr rti ii 7 - lira riT I iTuTj :T! 15c Value . I Orange Reamer With Coupon Great value at this saving. I Void after Aug. 17, 1942. 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