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'Vlim 'CTZibU ! fcTATCS-iAlL Sclera. Oregon. Friday "Moniing. Juns IS. IZil pagz Tinuz:,! Vcod Is Really a Critical Material Today; The US Is Using More of It in the Var ; Than SteeLEven for Such Things as B edsp rings By JAMES D. WHITE WASinNGTON-yp)-The United States is using more wood In this war than steel. ' : T , i War Undersecretary Robert W. Patterson says the 1942 figures were 120,000,000 tons of wood, about 100,000,000 tons of steeL ' Wood is a critical material. Its sale is restricted. You can build a porch or a lean-to garage if the whole job. Including all labor and materials, costs no more than $200. Farmers and industrial builders have big ger allotments. Too, youcaft buy more if it's for a "repair Job, but you may have trouble finding it. Shortages exist where stocks have been depleted. 1 American dependence upon wood is unusual. In no other coun : try, with the possible exception of Japan, are there so many wooden houses. ' The government estimates ' that in peacetime we use nearly half the lumber, more than half ' the paper made -of wood, and 40 - per cent of the wood in all forms used In' the whole world. " ' War r is increasing the uses of wood, and the National lumber Manufacturers association esti mates that substitution of wood saved five million tons of war scarce metal last year. ; ( -' On the civilian side, wood : is being used for bottle caps and bed springs, - baby buggies and : shopping pushcarts, and dozens of other new uses. ' ; . For the military services, the lumber people have figured out that somewhere near 1500 items are made wholly or in part of wood from crutches to plywood fuselages for airplanes. The demands are " tremendous and specific. Pontoon bridge planks, for instance, are six inches thick enough to support a heavy tank. Decking for ships is requir ed in huge quantities, some of it in strips 40 feet long. Mine sweep , ers require some timbers 108 feet Ion, and you don't often see trees big enough to yield such a chunk of wood in one piece unless you ; live among - the - redwoods or - the Douglas firs. " .The figures show, about C00 types of structures built ef wood for the army and navy alone. Estimates for 1943 indicate, however, that the majority of this work cantonments, barracks, bridges, factories has been fin ished. About 35 per cent of the lumber supplied in 1943 will go Into boxes and crates in which to ship materials of war' across ;the oceans. . Much heavy wooden construc tion has been possible in this war which was not dreamed of in the last ' " The navy, : for instance, , has built wooden hangars 'for blimps. These structures, sometimes 1000 feet long and nearly 200 feet high, are made possible by what ' is called a timber - connector. This consists of a metal ring embedded in both timbers to be joined together.- Fastened by an ordinary bolt, it makes the Joint stronger than would several such bolts, and utilizes nearly the entire strength of the wood, which pound for pound is as strong as steel but always heretofore lost strength at joints, j The" timber - connector also makes possible bigger and stronger: bridges, ' - buildings, trestles and towers. A wooden tower f ased to be considered safe above St feet. Today It's considered sound at 300. The same trick makes possible wooden storage tanks which will hold up to 500,000 gallons of wat er, gasoline or oil. But there are many other uses for wood and its products.- Wood cellulose is a source of paper, j glucose, alcohol, rayon, synthetic rubber, and other things. Its chemical ' structure is well known . : Not so fully explored is the exact nature of lignin, the resi nous binder in wood, but it is to day tiie major source for the growing plastics industry, w Using resins made from ling nin, wood can be Joined together almost Indefinitely into any size of board, the jolnlnrs ef which are stronger than the wood it self. ! The uses of plywood have ex tended to the building of gliders, fuselages and boats. The nation used 38 billion board feet of lumber in 1942. That was a deficit in terms of the estimated rate at which trees mature about 32 billion board feet annually. This deficit was made up by dip ping into stocks and inventories both wholesale and retail all over the country. In many cases these were wiped out; that's why there are shortages in some areas. For 1943 the requirements of war are estimated at just about the yearly growth 32 billion board feet. '-, . The 1 United .States cut a few billion more than that last year, will cut probably less this year, for, like all war industries, lum bering is having its troubles. Main problem is manpower, officially estimated to be 15 per cent de ficient for the entire industry, but unofficially as high as 25 per cent in the logging end of the fame. r Iciest complaint of the Indus try I that the price ceilings placed en logs in April used last fall as a base period. Ceilings on logs mean ceilings on wages to the operator, , who contends he can no longer com pete on the labor ; market with other war industries. , Otherwise the industry says the government :4 has, been helpful with allotments of equipment About 95 per cent of all logs are moved by truck these days, and if replacements for ' trucks and tires were not provided logging would be seriously hampered, the industry says. . : " So, say the lumbermen,'! 1943 production depends primarily upon the labor the lumber industry gets. , AFL Demands Shingle Work Wage Increase PORTLAND, Ore.; June 17-(JP) AFL demands for a general 25 per cent wage increase in i the red cedar shingle industry of Ore gon and Washington were heard by the West Coast Lumber com mission Thursday. t ; The Shingle Weaver's ? union, representing 77 shingle mills, al so asked for a minimum guaran tee of $9.50 for 6 hours for saw yers and $8 for packers. ; They sought an increase of 22hi cents an hour for split bin pack ing and asked time-and-one-half for a 40-minute period daily when machines are being readied for operation. i ' Union representatives cited in creased living costs and wage raises in other lumbering , opera tions as justification for the de mands. ' i ; Spokesman for mill operators contended that any adjustment in wages would call for a like ad justment in ceiling prices of shin gles. - - - . The commission asked both parties to file briefs. : No Women With J apt On Attn MASSACRE BAY, Attu Island J?y- Just to settle some rumors which already are rife on this island and doubtless will be equals ly common in the, states as soon as some ships from Attu get back home. To wit: ' Americans - haven't found any indication that there are any Jap anese women on Attu. . They haven't found any women soldiers. ' They haven't f oond -"any geisha girls. True: Among Japanese effects have been found lots of silk (sol diers frequently carry silk hand kerchiefs, sometimes v decorated with pornographic drawings).' ' Also true: They frequently have small dolls among their effects (they apparently are souvenirs, or reminders of Japanese children at home). 'Also true: There are numbers of powder puffs (Japanese offi cers use ; them : to apply: after shaving powder) . ) 1 . In short, - American ' of fleers have been snaking a serious ef fort to find oat If Japanese mill-? tary plans Involve the importa tion of women and especially to learn the fate of native Aleut women who were eaptared when the enemy took this Island. Both queries to date are unanswered. Crop Weather Bulletin Good - PORTLAND, June 17,--The weather' bureau's weather -crop bulletin ; Thursday showed : favor able growing conditions during the week ending Tuesday for po tatoes, peas and small grains. The weather was mostly too cool for corn, garden and truck crops - to make much progress. Haying was delayed temporarily by rain in some regions, of the state. Rains interfered only slight ly with strawberry picking. t Fiber: flax is blooming. Sugar beet thinning is nearly finished. Early peas are being canned. Early cherries and a few new po tatoes ' have reached the market. Walnuts were reported setting well. - .pi - v " : Steward Robbed Portland police investigated a report by Victor- Schalbetter, a Union Pacific dining car steward, that an unidentified negro held him up aboard a diner at the Union station and robbed him of $300 in dining car money. OPA -Subsidy Plan Fight . Waxes Hot WASHINGTON, June X7 -VP) A -? housing - committee's counsel declared Thursday that the office of price administration "is seek ing to bring the entire American indutrlal system under bureau cratic control: by controlling pro fits. OPA Administrator Prentiss M. Brown replied his agency has no authority to control profits and does not seek to do so. Other OPA-related develop ments: , , 1. Rowland Jones, jr, Wash ington . representative of the Na tional Retail ; Druggists associa tion, testified OPA is "consider ing a nation-wide ceiling price on cigarettes," and a committee member . commented this might mean an intention to eliminate brands. 2. Rep. Sc anion (D-Pa) told the house that a "profiteering minority ; in big business is at tempting to discredit the OPA and "to place control of consumer food prices in 'the hands of the war food administrator where they know, big business will get a break and the consumer will get it in the neck. , The i question of profit control was "raised by Harold L. Allen, counsel of the house committee investigating executive agencies, who said subpoenaed files, of Da vid" GinsbUrg,; former OPA gen eral counsel, showed this to be an OPA aim. r . Jones, saying ' he , spoke ' for 28,000 lade pendent drnggists, told the committee they object ed to the OPA .rubber goods sundries regulations from the standpoint of "price celling, grade labeling and differentia tion in. price ceilings for differ ent classes of retailers. He said we want one maximum ceiling price for alL , Scanlon said he was replying to an advertisement by the American Dairy association en titled "100 million pounds of but ter disappeared." He said the but ter "disappeared' into the hands of the WFA which bought if "to protect the creamery "industry from suffering an inventory loss when OPA's consumer nickel-a-pound i butter; subsidy went into effect June 10. . J Declaring the WFA "now owns the butter," Scanlon asked: ; j Is the WFA solaar to release it today or tomorrow m that the present batter shortage to ' consumers will be averted? Or are they coins to sit on it and play politics with their palp In .the creamery basinessr . . Bamboo Shack . 7edding Scene In New Guinea ' SOBtEWnERE IN NEW G UIN EA-;p)-In a b a m b shack lighted by kerosene lant . eras, . the first marriage cere mony here uniting Americans was performed recently before a small service audience mt offi cers and nurses.' v - ' t The principals w ere Flrstj "Lieut, Dan JLXaeer, Evansvllle,' . TumTu and Second Lieat. EnxenJa Andrews, an army nurse, ef STnneapoIis, ' tlinn. . f ? p, ' Lient. Uaeer said he and his bride came across the Pacific the' same ship. ; Oa Australia thej were 'assigned to the game h s p 1 1 a 1 - and came - to New. Gminea on. the same ship. - They became engaged here in January, and decided there was no time like the present to get married, even If they could ob tain only seven days leave to tbeJAastralian mainland for a honeymoon. - - - Speeders Fined WEST SALEM Ronald E. Baker, route one, paid a fine of J5 for violation of the basic rule. Richard IL Norrls of McMinn ville and James Walter Stilson, 2145 Bellevue, each posted $5 bail tor the same offense. ; Alfalfa Price Control Set WASHINGTON, June MMJPf Alfalfa hay was put under price control Thursday by the office of price administration in , Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and New Mexico, and in FJ Paso and Hud speth counties in Texas. The auction, which establishes prices at levels set up last Feb ruary -for California, Oregon and Washington, : should cause a re duction in the price to the farm er, the OPA declared. The maximum price for un graded hay, loose on the farm, is $20 a ton. Slightly higher prices are permitted' for hay that Is graded by a state or federal in spector, except grade No. 2 which is also $20 a ton. Michaels Gets Shock ; ' While On Fishing Trip WEST SALEM Darwin Mi chaels, son of Mr. and Mrs. Drew Michaels, got the shock of his life when he went fishing this week. In casting, his hook came in contact with a live electric wire. The : rod being metal, the circuit was complet ed. .Current knocked him down, burned his : hands severely and melted the end ef the rod and reel. Specialist Named : Richard G. Montgomery, direc tor of the district OPA, announced at ' Portland the appointment of Earl J. Peterson, former Portland food broker, as food price special ist . - and JOZ SAYS If You're Looking for a Good Place to Buy Dcllcr dclhcs At Great lloner SaVirf? Prices Come on op to JfdJ)ES SilisTsis; Where Low Rent and Small Overhead Costs . Makes It Possible to Sell the BEST CLOTHES FOD LESS Come On Up Without Obligation and Convince Yourself ' See How Easy It Is to ; Save $5X3 fo $I0.C3 ''iK'- ': :"":l - rvT: ':' . -l": ' i' :': On Men's and Young Men's New, Smart, Stylish, Expertly Tailored Superfine Quality 100 Wool MM Proportionate Savings on Top Quality Sport Coats - Leisure Coats - Slacks Suit Pants - Hats & Rain Coats Here Youll Find Just the Suit You Expected to Pay $3 or $10 - More for Elsewhere ? 45 I. 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