The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, April 28, 1943, Page 6, Image 6

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Th OIXGOn STAttTMAlt Cal.n. Or?on. Wtdattdar Morciaj. Apia M. H
American Supplies to Russia Include
Locomotives and Rolling StocLvPlanes,
Trucks and United States Experts-
(EDITOR'S NOTE Clyde Farasworth and George Tucker, Associated Press war cor
respondents, hare transmitted the following first-hand description of the movement of
war supplies to Kussian by way of Iran.)
; ; SOMEWHERE IN IRAN- (5 -American rwar material is
reaching Russia via the Persian coiridor fasterthan the Rus
sians can take it. Their warehouses md freight yards are glutted.
Accompanied by Russian officers, we inspected the. soviet
supply ? dumps deep within the
Russian zone of northern Iran and
found yards piled high with Amer
ican war - equipment still ; not
moved to the fighting fronts be
cause the rate of arrival has caught
up with and surpassed Russian
facilities.
" We followed the corridor from
the 'Persian gulf to within a few
miles of the, Caspian sea, visiting
docks, rail centers and great as
sembly plants, and saw the fruits
of the v extensive effort that has
transformed the Persian plains and
plateaus into a vast conveyor belt
over which move planes, tanks,
armored cars, raw materials; ex
plosive, trucks, jeeps and guns for
Russians soldiers. " t !
We saw Bosslaa fflcers la
shock blouses ; an' black boots,
, suns strapped to their hips, rub
their hands and kick their heels
together as MltcheU and Boston
bombers, fresh from American
factories, dropped oat of the sky.
We saw lines of tractors palling
seven-ton trailers la : twisting
convoys miles ' long . carrying
sapplies through the ragged de
files of the Poshtikuh mountains
to the Rd army.
Wesav' American locomotives
pulling : .American rolling stock
manned by experts from the Erie,
New '.Yorar Central, Pennsylvania
and other American lines. We saw
great cranes . lifting locomotives
out of the barges on to dockside
tracks to help in movement of this
mass of materials northward over
hundreds of miles of difficult ter
rain. . .
We saw Americans, sweating on
this : delivery job ? without equal,
struggle against the handicaps , of
adverse geography and climate.
They , are working in exhausting
heat, stifling dust, knee-deep mud,
snowdrifts, blizzards and driving
rain in their place and season. At
the same time they must combat
the hazards of strange diseases in
a strange land.
The full responsibility for these
undertakings is on the shoulders
of Major General Donald J. Connolly,-
lank West Pointer whose
father before him was an army of
ficer and who spent years in the
Philippines, Panama, France and
odd corners of the world preparing
himself for just such an' assign
ment as this, the supreme assign
ment of his career.
Kindly as a school superinten
dent, gray and the father of two
sons, Connolly- is a striking figure
in the riding boots: and .breeches
which! he prefers, to other attire.'
' Operations in the Persian corri
dor fall, into four great divisions:
A palm-edged island is the
heart of the air effort. This 45-mile-long
spit of land one of the
hottest spots in the world in May,
June and July Is the reception
center for fighters and bombers
from America. '
The fighters are trucked in crat
ed from cargo ships, assembled
by the facile bands of experts and
then inspected and given; test
flights. The bombers arrive under
their own power manned by ferry
pilots to whom the ocean crossing
is only a workaday task.
Two: Ports
Russia can thank Yankee far
sightedness and tenacity for the
mass of supplies now reaching the
Red army. Originally, the Soviets
rejected the idea of the Persian
gulf route on the grounds that
17,000 miles of salt water between
US ports and the headwaters of
the Persian gulf was an extrava
gance of time and an invitation to
ruinous losses to submarines. They
preferred to rely on their great
port of Murmansk.
Three: Trucks
Wheelhorse of the Persial gulf
service command is Colonel Don
G. Shingler, Wyoming-bred engin
eer out of West Point who devel
oped the overland transport from
blueprint beginnings into fleets of
trucks which shuttle between gulf
ports and the Russian zone.
Shingler came out from Ameri
ca in civilian clothes with the or
iginal mission to Iran long before
the Unted States was in the war,
and when the Russians still ques
tioned the value of the corridor
as a supply route.
Today, in an atmosphere remi
niscent of Detroit, modern assem
bly lines are discharging trucks
and armored cars at the rate of
one every four minutes.
Few; Kail
The 1400-mile Transiranian
railway into which abdicated Shah
Riza Kahn Pahlevi poured $90,-
000,000 was virtually a ready-
made supply line for Russia, al
though the old Shah never intend
ed it that way.
He tightened the last rail bolt
when the line was completed in
1938, bought the first ticket, and
took the first ride. The Coney Is
land curves, bridges, tunnels and
imported rolling stock were like a
hew toy.
- Americans have turned the toy
of the Shah into a weapon for de
defense of the Union of Soviet So
cialist Republics. .
Scout Leader
Meet Called
Cari Ashenbrenner, chairman of
the Cherry City district commis
sioners, has called a meeting of
the district scout masters round
table for tonight at 7:30 o'clock
in the Rotary cabin back of Leslie
junior high. Twenty-six scoutmas
ters are expected to attend. '
Business for the session includes
the zoning of the city for final
cleanup in the tin salvage drive,
slated May 8. Donald Lunberg will
make a presentation concerning
the patrol system to the scoutmasters.
2 Convicts
e
Reescap
Officers
Wallace In Peru
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WALLACE WET$ PERUVIAN A I D I -vice rresl
dent Wallace shakes hands with Cos. Alberto Solar!, aide to r era's,
president, daring Ms stopover at Lima. At right la Col. Vernon E?
Bleree. LSMC, Mtlag chief, UJS. Kaval Aviation sfisslea to Fern,
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At.'ZTJZXil TX2CP1 stationed la outposts In India employ the natives
to carry much of their equipment through the jungle. Here's a typi
cal I Tasa Indian from Assam lugging a case And basket containing
.U. 5. field rations. He can carry M-pound pack for many miles.
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Farm Labor
Transportation.
Arranged For
Transportation for pickers dur
ing the coming harvest season has
been put into the hands of Charles
H. Gram, former state labor com
missioner, according to announce
ment Tuesday. Gram will repre
sent a number of packers and
larger growers, who. banded to
gether to employ him. His terri
tory includes Marion, 'Polk, Bea
ton. Linn and Yamhill courties.
At present the number of trucks
needed Is unknown, hinging up
on how well the platoon system,
planned by the US employment
service and the school authorities,
will work out. The matter of pro
duction will effect the problem
also, but Gram believes that the
progress he has made so far in
lining up transportation points to
ward ample supplies for the har
vest season this summer.
MACON, Ga, April 27-iSVLe-land
Harvey and D. C Black, re
captured Sunday f after escaping
from the state penitentiary at
Reidsvnie, Ga, 11 days ago, fought
their way out of the Bibb county
(Macon) jail Tuesday night with
fists and pistol Cre.
I The two desperadoes, ringlead
ers of the recent mass break of 25
convicts 'from the state prison,
fired a single stray shot as they
overpowered Jailer T. J. McCom
mon as he made his rounds to close
up the cells for the night. -
McCommon said ' he did not
know where they got the gun. r
Black fired a shot at the floor
and slugged McCommon. The pri
soner, then ran to an elevator in
the outer corridor, cowed the op
erator with Black's pistol and
forced him to take them to the
jail basement There they disap
peared. ':
Harvey and Black were captured
Sunday as they slept in a stolen
car hidden In a wooded area 12
miles north of Macon. " '
Around Oregon
By T!i Associated Press
Motorists who" do not get ade
quate gasoline from B mileaee ra
tions for driving In the course of
their work may apply for allot
ments providing 720 miles month
ly, the district OPA announced at
Portland . . . The Athena nea
growers association at Pendleton
asked the farm security admini
stratum to provide 3000 Mexican
harvesters during June and July.
The S. S. Cushmaa K. Davis,
174th Liberty ship launched by
Oregon' Shipbuilding corooration.
was named for a one-time Minne
sota governor ... If recapping fa
cilities are not available amplica
tion for replacement tires for farm
tractors may now be made, the
district OPA announced at Port
land . . . Dr. D. M. Erb. Univer
sity of Oregon president said he
would address a regional state gov
ernment council at San Francisco
Friday on postwar education . . .
The University of Oregon an
nounced the ninth annual Oregon
student science conference will be
held there May 1 . . . Mrs. Clara
Hembree. recently honored as the
woman of the month by the Amer
ican Association of University
Women In a KOAC broadcast died
in Portland . . . The Oregon State
College homo economics club elec
ted two officers from Albany -
Beryl Marks as president, Margery
Anderson as vice-president ...
Funeral services were held at
Moro for Margaret Whalley Peetz,
53, Sherman county assessor since
1924 . . . Dr. Howard Drlggs. pres
ident of the American Pioneer
Trails association, will sneak
Wednesday at Baker enroute to
Champoeg for the centennial cele
bration of provisional government
in the Oregon territory . .
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Master Bakers woe ostrr the
err host of ia9iUstts)-fker-
know yea- weald want
only the best. :
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at Youit enoenrs
Woman Judge
Raps Youth
Farm Labor
PORTLAND, Ore, April 27-(p)
Juvenile delinquency must be at
tacked through small community
movements instead of concerted
city-wide programs, Helen Greg
ory HalL judge of the juvenile
court at Vancouver, BC, said Tues
day. -
The neighborhood house Is the
right idea." she said, describing
Vancouver all-family clubhous-
Destroyer Drops Depth Charges
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TARCET PRACTICE AT SE A-Water flies Into the air as a depth ehsrg dropped by
a scoat plans frem the carrier in the foreground hits a target towed by a destroyer.
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es, conducted in and by communi
ties. "
She condemned a campaign to
provide more farm labor by clos
ing Canadian schools . early this
year a -drive that also la being
pressed in Oregon.
"Thousands of them never go
to the farms," said the tiny white
haired magistrate. "If it's neces
sary that the children work in the
orchards and on the farms, let
them get .work permits and then
leave school early.
Six Dead in
Plane Crash
OAKLAND, Calif , April 27-)
Six' men were reported burned to
death and several others injured
Tuesday night In the crash, of a
large naval transport plan nl the
Oakland mils.
Oakland police said ambulances
from Oakland and San Leandro
had removed 10 injured to hospi
tal: "r
The big plane, believed to be
from the Alameda naval air sta
tion come ; 10 miles northwest,
crashed near the ; Chabot golf
course in the low range of hills
along the east shore of San Fran
Cisco bay. The craft burst into
flames: --,
There was no immediate an
nouncement . from the navy . nor
Identification of the dead ' from
other .sources.
Woods Labor r
Call Heeded
PORTLAND, Ore, April 27-
The war manpower commission'
"back to the' woods'' order w
hitting it stride Tuesday. . I
" Emory Wodth Oregon director of
the US employment service, esti
mated f several hundred already
have left other war Jobs for the
taU timber of the Pacific northwest.-.
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Personnel official of the three'
Raiser shipyard in this area said
at least 200 workers have left to
resume Jobs as loggers. .
" Ed Ross, manager of a CIO in
ternational woodworkers hiring
hall reported an exodus of loggers
averaging about 45 weekly since
war manpower 'commissioner Paul
V. McNutt described logging as
the northwest's No. 1 manpower
problem. ' .
Employment office and union
hall figures do not Include others
who are returning to the lumber
ing Industry independently, r v
TO WAND A, ILL.,-W-It,s
against the law for one family to
da.'-; ',:rh ; n
The town board announced that
it win enforce strictly its town or
dinance to that effect, that each,
family is to dispose of all but one
dog, and that they must keep it
at home until April 29 so all those
running at large can be destroyed.
2fEW;YORK-p)-ter Hels-
chober, a US sailor from Brooklyn,
came 'on furlough unexpectedly.
The family was out. and while
he was waiting a navy telegram
was delivered. It said seaman
Lester Heischober was missing at
sea; his ship had been torpedoed.
housainas
ask us why it s the w
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Our founder, the late Leopold F. Schmidt, A
in 1896 chose Tumwater, near Oljmpia, a
the site of our original plant because he
found there spring water which, when ana
lyzed by a nationally recognizee! brewing
laboratory and tested by actual brewing,
proved to be ideal.
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Olympia Beer met instant favor with the
publie and prior to prohibition sales grew
to large proportions. During these same
years our management established three,
other breweries in Pacific Coast cities.
We put into the sales promotion and
marketing: of the products of these other
three plants all the planning, energy and
intelligence that had gone into the market
ing of Olympia Beer.
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; 7e installed equipment that was like that
used in the Olympia plant. We followed
precisely the same methods of brewing. The
same management directed the processes
anid used identically the same materials. In
each city the best water supply available was
used We hoped that, we might approach
the quality; of ou Olympia Beer ;
To our great disappointment, we found
. ourselves, unable to produce in any of the; j
new plants a beer of like character and !
comparable to that brewed at TiimwaterJ
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The public did not accept the new brands
as the equal of Olympia Beer. The sales of
Olympia in the cities where the new brew
cries were operating showed no decrease
In the operation of these other Breweries ;
we were forced to recognize that without
this one essential factor water front our.
famous subterranean tceJi we could no
duplicate Olympia Beer. I
Therefore, in 1933, when tee returned
the brewing of Olympia Beer, tee 'decided
to confute our operations to the one plant
at Olympia tdth the knowledge that "It9
the Water that makes Olympia Beer so
good. F" "
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not good for brewias beeanse of one
more of f! following defects i
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seasonal factors.
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