: i; i i . f i
PAGZT0U2
TL OrJXSOIl STATESMAN,
Scia. Oregon Friday Homing. August 13. 1S11
i tr 1
p
. Favor Sway Ut; No Fear Shell Awi". . -
" ' Trom First Statesman; March 23, 1831 .
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COJiPANY i
. v CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Member of the Associated Press - -
The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publication' of all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
- 4
1
'.vni- . .'i nm " v -1' '" i ? -
uisuuery rairiousm ine issue jomeu . f , .j -
' A recent Jap broadcast told how the American The senate having substituted the George
people were almost starving for lack of food, bill for the Murray-Kilgore' bill on the subject
and added that whiskey was selling at $15 or of compensation to workers, the house is. now
$20 a bint-or was it a auart? The last was the considering the subject, and efforts are eing
only statement approximating the truth, and made to revive the defeated senate measure In
that only in the bootleg trade in the hot war
industry spots where money burns the work
ers' pockets. j f:j; . .:". :
s However the progress report of the senatorial
committee investigating the alcoholic industry,
filed a few days ago7 is highly critical of the
nation's distilleries who have used patriotism
as a cloak for greed, and so) have contributed
to the black markets of the country. The com
mittee, which is composed of Senators McCar
ran, KHgore, Murdock and Ferguson, finds that
' fin the case of some of the more important
companies, instead of rationing beverage spir
its, profits were rationed." The report covers
the distilling industry and deals particularly
with the Big Four: National, Schenley, Distil
lers Corporation-Seagrams and Hiram Walker.
; The particular charges brought against dis
tilleries are:
" 1. Hoarding of their own whisky stocks and
cutting them With blends, with the apparent in- v
tention of holding their aged whiskies for mar
keting at higher price after the war. i ;
2. Getting around OPA ceiling prices by put
, ting out new brands of blended whiskies at
higher prices. . -.
3. Monopolistic practices in buying up smal
ler distilleries arid acquiring a large proportion
bf the California wine industry, besides owning
or controlling distilleries in Cuba and Puerto
Rico. li t ,: : :' . ., .. ;-
' The report calls attention to advertising of
the Distilled Spirits Institute, a trade association
Of distilleries, entitled, "The Truth About the
Whiskey Shortage," and bluntly comments:
The committee's investigations have indicated
that the statement is a misrepresentation of the
facts as they existed then (Nov. 1043) and as
they exist today."
For example the advertising said there were
in late 1943 203 million proof gallons of whisky
available. The committee after making its check
concludes: '.. . ," .
"Therefore, instead of the 203,000,000 proof
gallons available for consumption in November,
1943, there was really the equivalent of about
350,000,000 gallons of salable whisky available.
In its summary the committee report says:
In . general the committee believes that in
r view of the recent action of the war production
. board, allowing the distillers to produce bev- ,
i; erage spirits for a 30-day period, it is incumbent
r upon, the distillers to show their good faith
; bjr releasing more whisky from their bonded
warehouses to help alleviate a condition which
has been occasioned at least as much by the
hoarding of the distillers rather than by any
hoarding which may be chargeable to the
American public. It is obvious that the large
distillers wish to retain substantial stocks of
aged whiskies in their bonded warehouses un
til after the war, so that they will be in better
position to command higher prices and realize
1 greater profits at the expense of an unsuspect
ing public, whom the liquor industry had hoped
. would be educated into the belief that the al
leged whisky shortage was not the fruit of the
liquor industry.
T The gouging of the consumers is a more or.
less temporary wartime phenomenon, in which
. the distillers have plenty of company. There is
' perhaps greater menace to the country in the
' concentration of ownership in few hands and
' those moving to acquire substantial interest in
the wine industry of California. Power so large
and so concentrated can easily operate to the
detriment of the country, preventing the control
which is necessary to maintain some semblance
, of decency in the liquor business, r
The Oregon City Enterprise says that "in the
conference with the governors Mr. Dewey 'set
tled the areas of conflict between the national
and state governments." We doubt it. There
aren't 24 cabinet positions.
"Russians Get over Biebrza"'says our head
line. Considering all the tough spelling behind
them and al the Polish pronunciation ahead of
them Biebrza was easy.
If they are having waste paper drives in Ger
many we fancy a good many copies of "Mein
Kampf" are being contributed.
This utility grade beef may do for chronic
jawers, but most people rate it as the grade they
made liberty steak of in the last war.
Editorial Comment
From Other Papers
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
The Canadian troop newspaper Maple Leaf re
cently carried an editorial giving high praise to
our armies in northern France. With a self-ef-.
facement not commonly found among fighting men,
it says: "The major credit for placing the Germans
in their present precarious position belongs to Lieu- '
tenant General Omar Bradley's American armies.;.
It is true that the Canadians and British played
their part, and played it well . . . but the auda
city of the American thrusts has caught the .fancy;
of every allied soldier.' -
With thanks to. the Canadians, and with as much
objectivity as. we can muster,' we agree. The Amer
lean soldier at his best has always shown himself
to be as good as any. other soldier, from anywhere.
Americans when-trained fought very well in ma- K
ny of the Revolutionary; battles. At Trenton, for
example, there was an audacious thrust credited
to Washington's generalship, but it was successful
it had men with the spirit to put It through, Auda-
city in operations, in the Civil War, is attached to ;
famous names like Stonewall i J ackson's, but in
each case it was founded on subordinate officers
and on, the fighting men who had the drive to win.
The last World War and our lesser wars, the Mex
ican and Spanish-American, prove again that Amer
icans, properly trained and led, and with experience,
are as good as those of any other nation.
' The Canadian editorial refers to us as. their al
lies from another of the 'decadent democracies. "
Democracy never was decaient Hitler just thought
It was. Son Francisco Chroricis.
its original or in modified form. This debate is
in a way pivotaL It divides the proponents of
the spending theory of making the country; rich
from the opponents of that theory; The argu
ments are pretty well boiled down in the follow
ing quotations from senators joining in the de
bate. For the Murray-Kilgore bill, Senator Mur
ray said: . ' -? :: r
The reconversion bill which has been report-;
ed from the military affairs committee provides 1
congress with the opportunity to discharge its .
responsibilities to the American people. It Is a
statesmanlike measure which will -enable us to )
avoid another depression such as that which t
followed in the wake of the first world war. ;
Its enactment by the congress will lay the basis :
for our achieving an expanding and thriving
economy, with improved I standard! of living )
for all the people of our j country. 'i '. : g
Senator Taft of Ohio offered the following
compact argument in opposition: -j p
Mr. President, the Murray-Kilgore bill vio-
lates every principle of sound government in the ; ,
post war era. In the first place, ItiSuppressesj
local self-government; it places in the federal
government all control of labor, all control of .
unempoyment compensation, all control of re-'
employment In the second place, It delegates;
complete legislative power. l suppose there is
no senator here who has not said he is in favor ;
of congress passing the laws and not giving the
power to some bureaucrat to do so. Yet it ls ( :
proposed, by the pending bill simply to handi '
over to some bureaucrat the power to make any -law
and, in effect, do anything he thinks ne--cesary
to help in this supposed post war emer
gency. : " j - I , r I
In the third place, it would destroy indivi-
dual liberty, because it would impose an NRA '
control over all industry,1 and impose a work'
administrator's control over all individuals. 1
Finally, it proposes unlimited spending. It;
adopts the theory that every problem we have i '
to meet is to be solved simply by more govern-;
ment power and more government spending, j
There is no member of the senate who has not -talked
against bureaucracy f and the establish-
ment of bureaus, yet here t is proposed that
we establish a whole series of new bureaus to
deal with every problem which congress itself'
has not adequately considered. ;
Thus the old battle is renewed ' between the
new deal theory of spending ourselves into pros
perity by use of the federal treasury and pub
lic credit and the other and older conception
of avoidance of mounting debt arid continuing
deficits. Before the guns cool or even stop firing
the domestic battle Is resumed. Our previous
experience demonstrated however that the
stimulant of public spending may grow into
the narcotic of dependence Ion Washington. .
One thing is certain, that tf congress yields to
the easy spenders even before thd need is clear
then any hope of restoring fiscal consrvatism
is at an end. ... . : f :jr ." H :-.
Interpreting r
The War News ;
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON - :
ASSOCIATTD PRESS WAR ANALYST .
Paris seemed close to delivery "from its nazt
oppressors as American guns: boomed distantly in
the ears of its people; but an even greater prize lay
close within allied grasp. f i .
Complete destruction of all German armies west
of the Seine obviously was being prepared in the
north by the Americans and; Canadians, even be- ;
fore the allied meat-chopper attack in the Norman
dy pocket had finished its deadly; task. To the
south steel shod American and Franco-American
prongs were reaching via the! Loire and the Rhone'
for a junction that would leave tens of thousands
of nazi garrison and occupation troops cut of in
west central an dsouthern France to be dealt with
mercilessly by resurgent Frfnch patriot forces."
This is a more alluring objective in military eyes
than the taking of Paris itself. There are broad
German hints of coming nazi evacuation of the,
city in any case, and it will not be subjected by the '
allies to war damage if it can be avoided. The Ger
mans' plight is growing more desperate hour by
hour from sea to sea across the once nazi boasted ,
fortress Europe that has proved in fact to have
, only a defensive crust along jits French coast lines
and little. within it to back that up ; ;
The staggering fact about 'German reports, now.
allied confirmed, of a new multiple break through
by the hard-hitting American third army to seize
Orleans, Chartres and Dreuxiand fling a 100 mile
arc of triple threat close about Paris is that a re la- .
tively early allied north-south junction somewhere
around the headwaters of the Loire and the Rhone
is a clear cut possibility. ' I .
The danger to shattered fragments of the nazi ?
seventh army, streaming eastward; from the Nor I
'mandy debacle to the Seine, is more imminent:
Defying bad weather, allied planes are harrying
every highroad and byroad; and i blasting every
standing bridge to hold the enemy in that devel
oping trap west of the Seine for annihilation.
Yet it is the right wing of .General Patton's bold '
new breakthrough drive, stormin up the Loire
to take Orleans in its stridi, that seem to hold
greater possibilities. At Orleans the cutting edge
of General. Eisenhower's massive forces Was only
- 200 miles, air line, from Lyon in the upper Rhone
valley.-.To the south General Patch's southern in
vasion host firmly planted in its two-day-old
beachhead 50 miles wide and 30 deep, was less than
200 miles from the upper Rhone metropolis. -
; Franco-American forces are In a position to In
vest bom Toulon and Marseilles, lor to: cut them
off and reach the Rhone valley above them. They
have the active aid of French patriot forces. That
insures accurate information as to enemy move
ments and opportunities for jflankihg stabs through
the : mountains ? around '. jth 'I enejny's attempted
stands. It also means detachment' of strong Ger
man forces from operations to check either Patton
or Patch as they push toward a junction to deal
with. French' guerillas. ;-; j 'i 'Trf "'- ; "
It seems unquestionable that "sooner or later
Jand probably sooner the nakl high command must
signal a sweeping general retreat. from most' of
France- or risk such utter defeat there that hope' of
holding out long on Germany's own frontiers would
be slim. '
tzz t : ' -.- - !t
:.n - r j - " . - K
- 1 ! !
( ' i; ;; '-: :'Y " !
J ! I : - :
m'- -hi U-' r : "H - . :
; -m . 1 i; i ; ' - S -
1 ' mil' fi f ,fwt2.Jr U'A ;
rAT THE FRONTlj
Hecrry learns He
Ccml Spank Lit
Slip of a Elgnorina
WITH THE AEF IN ITALY, I
Aug. 3-(delayedMffHt was U I
. a mistake. . Besides he was get- j
ting gypped, and what's more, no )
redblooded American soldier
would take that sort of treatment 1
.from a little slip of 'a signorina j
anyhow. ; i.fe;',.,. y.::-
But Pfc Arnold (Heavy) LInd- i
' holm still had to ten it to the GI !
judge. ; - s n
Heavy, a 45th division dough
boy who hails "from Fairport
Harbor, Ohio, wu visiting an
Italian ' town when : he saw a
shooting gallery operated by the t
signorina In question. Giving the j
eye to his combat infantrymen's j
t badge the wily girl asked Heavy t
.to try bis luck with the BB gun. i
Expert with a carbine. Heavy
was somewhat hurt :! when he j
. failed to hit a single target with 1
a full clip of BB shot He asked i
for another gun, while watching .
other GFs giggle for a grim and 1
glowing half hour. He squeezed ;
'"""fc
UtDITDf?
1
(Continued uom fage 1)
Mews Behind the News
:; : .. 1 1 By paul mallon . . : -. : 'y ' ? ;: V
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole
' 1 or In pirt! strictly prohibited.)
Thb Literary
Guidopost
i 1 y " 1 1 1 1
. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1,7-4-The
military experts aral writing of
four German taniei fin fiance,'
I but they are pay
ing an undeserv
ed compliiaeht to
three.!- f H j '
The biggest and
best, if not; the
only ieal enemy
armyohthe
western front, is
north iOfi the'.
Seine and feomme
I rivers! guarding
I the lowlands
gateways! into Germany and de
termined to' cling to thi &bot
launching platforms (upon which
Hitler has built a false and des
perate last-breath faith i among
his people at home, causing them .
to expect; this wanton destruction
will weaken the : Allies Will to '
battle, ; whereas it only speeds
and strengthens us.)l j j .
As for the other "armies,' hone
actually deserve the; name. The
Nazi Seventh army has been icon- .
siderably used up fighting itsjway
out of the Falaise j entrapment
We may never feel disappointed
that we did not completely crush
and capture it, I : ill I
But the Germans have been
Similarly jtrapped, possibly 10 or
12 times iin this war, as (deeply
as at Falaose. Only once, at Stal
ingrad, did they fail to escape
with the bulk of their; forces from
the vigilant and swift Russians. -;
They got considerable portions
of their forces out this time, by
bitterly holding their j strong cen
ter on thi Caeh front so long. In
three weks there, the jBritish
and Canadians were inot jable to
advance more than ja few1 miles.
Our delay there gave; time to the
Germans jto pi-epa in the jrear
against the brilliant; flank 1 cir
cuiting of our 'armored divisions.
- The Nazis put the toulk j!f their
remaining force between Falaise
and Argentan on tjoth sides of
the mouth of the Bag. W could
not get enough power far around
. to Argentan to dose jit frbmi the
south, and the Nazi; positions on
the north side of the Bag were
full battleline defenses which
could not! be penetrated readily.
- The Germans slipped their men
'. out of the Bag at night, moving
mem across fields,! 1 using i the
roads for light vehicles, leaving
of; the
guard
behind, on the outer! line
Bag, fairly , strong fear
pockets .with good artillery cen
ters, expecting these to be gob
bled up as 'our line was able to
advance. - f -
On j the southern side of the
Bag, there was not a strong bat
tle line, the first few days, but on
a thin front presented by our ar
mored force. Thus, the Nazis
escaped a complete kill, but their
army was so weakened its future
fighting power is questionable.
(As a matter of complete truth,
this Nazi Seventh army was tech
nically two, being made up of the
major elements of the two
armies.)
Nothing like an army and not
much: of a fighting force remains
In southwest France. The group
ing of a few divisions there has
been; drained for reinforcements
the, past 10 days.
: The Fourth and ' so - called
southern army, facing our new
invasion of the Riviera aimed up
the Rhone valley (read again the
column published April 13, which
described as "an Ideal plan" for
grand invasions the two routes
we are pursuing up the Seine and
the Rhone to Paris ( contains no
more than 8 to 10 divisions scat
tered along the river.
Then the Germans have some
troops at Vichy, and others in
central France before Paris.
This distribution of their for
ces does not suggest that they in
tend to retire to the Maginot line
or the Seigfried, but rather plan
to hold the north bank of the
Seine - Marne or Seine - Oise
Aisne and perhaps later the Som-me-Oise-Aisne
, their . major re
maining army being within those
river lines already.
The Maginot would not be of
much use to them as its rear is
' presented to us, f and the Seig
fried is within Germany, too
close to home fort hem. Excel-.
lent! defensive positions are
I available to the Nazis throughout ;
eastern i France in the hills and
mountains, there being only a i
; few gateways into Germany, the ;
southern one around Belf ort near ;
the Swiss border, the Lorraine
: gate! in' the center and in ; the
north the Ardenne, Z through -:
which the Germans moved west
to conquer France.
But our intentions are to use
v up their remaining fighting tor-
ces so thoroughly as to end their
power of resistance and conclude
; the war on French lowland soiL
"FURLOUGH" by Frans Boell
ering (Viking; S2J0).
; Christopher La Farge is not
the only one who can use fic
tion to report fact There is also
Fritz Hoellering, who used to be
a German editor. Mr. Hoellering
fought the nazi party while he
still had the materials for a bat- :
tie, and when he was tossed out
of Germany he c a m e , like So
many, others, to America. Ac
cording to his publisher, he his
been! trying to find himself since.
j I i - i ' 3
I "Furlough" is the second novel
he has published since he came
to this ; country, and unlike the
first,1, it was written in English.
It is! written well, too, in. spite
of a kind of soft focus that un
fanuliarity with the colloquial
meaning of certain words some
times gives his prose. The novel
has a great many, fine pointf-k
its sincerity, its, truthful presen
tation of the fact underlying '.
Germany today,' the strange way
in which the daemonic charac
ter bf certain Germans is ac
curately transcribed. But it has
a serious lack, which is humor.
Mr. Hoellering would probably
say (there is nothing funny In
Germany today, and probably he
would - add that : his purpose Is
not to entertain, but to "repori
in fiction the truth about: Ger
many as she begins to break un
der the strain of a futile war.
These things are true, and no
body would expect "Furlough
to be a comedy. But for artistic
' reasons some relief must be ad
mitted; page after page of ma
cabre horror, or pity, or dull re
, action to a hated regime grow
monotonous, and at last Indiges
tible. .; , ; :
Mr. Hoellering's Hans is the
typical young nazi, thoroughly
indoctrinated, strong with the
; strength of the movement. He is
trapped in a shell-hole with an
other German soldier. The strah
j ger curses Hitler and the war,
and Hans obeys the order $o
; shoot defeatists. But the stran
ger has papers for a furlough,
and Hans' desire for a few days .
j of freedom at home leads him to
steal ! all the man's papers, and
HE YOUNb! IDEA" By Mossier
m ... - -. - A . . ; ,
1 got rlxbt act f bed the first lie you called, UoxaT
disappear. What he finds at
: home the web of underground
i movements, the dull hatred! of
j nazi f ideology, the inescapable
; fear, and the wild nazi profiteer
'! ing4-these things shake . Hans
i deeply. : t:':;-,J'., j
Today's Garden
- By LILLTE MADSEN I t
J Mrs. S. R. wants to know how
i to prevent her perennial phlox
from "reverting"'. She reports
that she had some lovely pink
: ones and ' now they have fall
! turned : back .into magenta
shades." ' i j -
Answer: The phlox do not re-.
; vert. But if the flower heads are
' permitted to go to seed, they will
reseed themselves and the seed
' lings will crowd out the hybrid
sorts,' giving the impression1 of
'reverting." Remove the; flower
. heads as soon as they begin to
i.; fade. ' -t
- i Mrs. F. C asks, if it Is too late
- to sow delphinium seed.' A friend
just sen her some choice seed,
' she writes, and wants to know if
it will grow if planted now. She
is afraid she may. lose it if she
.-keeps it over. l-r, j ( ; 1
r Answer: t Now is a very good
time to plant delphiniums. - She
should have a nice growth yet
this falL But the litUe seedlings
i must be carefully watched when
; they come up or slugs or 'cut
i worms may do away with them
ta sltort order, Scatter sharp sand
over the seed bed after the seeds
are planted and be careful not to
I wash this away. As soon as the
. seeSlinss begin to appear, scatter
bait for the cutworms. .
fled to this country from Europe
to escape compulsory military
service. While no one puts faith
in the Bryan theory that "a mil-;
lion men would spring to arms"!
in the event of attack, the oppo-j
sition to peacetime conscription
is almost instinctive. ' j
Likewise there will be opposi
tion to stretching our sovereignty,
from Dakar to Guadalcanal and
from Iceland to the Kuriles to'
obtain a protective screen for this'
continent Other nations will
raise the cry of imperialism, and
the Atlantic charter will be cited
in protest The sincerity of our!
participation in' a world organi
zation for peace will be doubted;
' Against ' these arguments the
cold fact will be advanced that
twice within our generation this
country has become involved in
world war, that modern inven-j
tion makes our former geograph
ical isolation insufficient protec
tion; and that our constant lack
of preparedness in the past has
been an invitation to aggressor
nations to start wars, hoping for
victory before we could become
armed. ,-i
It seems to me that before we
decide just what our future mill-;
tary policy should be the whole
subject should be given thorough
study, either under the direction
of congressional committees or
by some commission composed of
military experts and well-informed
civilians. Military, policy
depends - in considerable degree
on what our political intentions
are and our economic plans. One
of our troubles has been that our
foreign policy- was largely im
provised and that our military
and ; naval policy was adopted
without much reference to our
diplomatic designs."
.There is one thing which stands
out, and that is, that the Ameri
can people will sink no warships
when this fracas is over. In fact.
they will insist on a substantial
military establishgent, navy, air
force and army which should
only be relaxed as World condi
tions stabilize and as the pro
posed world order really gave
promise of functioning. Butdef
inltely we should work toward
the ideal of a world order. In
which , international disputes
could be settled in a world court
and aggressor nations promptly
crushed by the combined force f
. the peace-loving states.
It would be a grave mistake to
think that one year of military
training for young males -will
give us an adequate military de
fense. : This war has shown how
.necessary it was to develop en
tirely new types of training
.which never had been included
J even -in regular army training
jungle fighting, commando and
amphibious operations. The new
weapons like the rocket and the
robot hint of future development
which again may change t type
of warfare.' Hence the need for
comprehensive planning and con
tinuous study of military, prob-
" lems. ;-,:.- -"- j-! - - f
. And we most not forget that
one of the best forms of military
preparedness is , in the field of
diplomacy. To avert World war
; 111.1s far more desirable than to
have to win it - -
the trigger methodically without
hitting anything at all worth a
prize. ; : :-4i-t,-1 - :
Convinced that the gun and
the jane were crooked, be hand- -ed
the girl a two lira note the
equivalent of two cents and
told her to buy herself a morn
ing paper and be doggoned glad
she, got tha t j much. Then he
walked away muttering to him
self. ; :YV
Suddenly his' muttering shift
ed to howls ot pain. ,
' The ; little lady's i Latin tern- .
per had gone sky high. at the
very thought of getting only two
lira for all those BB shot She
had grabbed up a BB gun, rest
ed, it on the counter for accura
cy and let Heavy have it right
in the seat of the pants.
Now the Buckeye boy
wouldn't s t r 1 k e a lady but
there's nothing in the etiquette
book ' which prohibits an occa-
; atonal paddling when and where
it will do the most good. Ex
hibiting cool courage in the face
of intense fire, ; Pfc. Lindholm
stormed the shooting gallery,
seized the signorina, turned her
across his knee and started
spanking.- ::. .f . r
Wiles , a n d f violence .having
failed, the signorina now sore
:- in both mind and body resort
ed to women's oldest weapon
- and began weeping, and the
MPs stopped the spanking and
hauled Heavy off to the clink.
' The best i paraphrase of the
week comes from Cpl. Charley
Brinn of Plymouth, UC, who did
his stuff on Nathan Hale's his
toric statement during the heat
of an attack which was being
somewhat m or e than strongly
resisted by the Germans.
"My only regret" quoth Char
ley as the bullets flew, "is that
I have but one life to give for
my country which if I had two
I'd feel safer.!
Biddle Works
On Machine,
Shop
Strik
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17-(p)
Attorney General Francis Biddle
conferred late today with officers
of the navy and the federal bureau
of investigation .; and declared the
Department ot Justice would co
operate in seeing that machinists
complied with the government or
der for pvertiine. work. .
Rear Adm. H. G. Bowen, acting
under presidential designation of
control of . five machine shops, to
end the union; ban against more
than 48 work hours a week, said
he "was not satisfied with the
compliance of members of Local
68 (AFL) to the orders of the of
ficer in charge.",. . 1 ;
Bowen, analyzing the return-to-
work situation in four of the five
plants seized by the navy Tuesday,
said that many men reported for
the eight-hour day instead of for
the overtime schedule posted by
the navy. The five shops employe
a total of 535 machinists.
The Admirall asserted he "was
proceeding with the certification
of workers" to enforce the return-to-work
sanctions, f
' This meant he was sending more
names to the office of price ad
ministration, the war manpower
commission and selective service
for application bf individual pen
alties against men who refused to
return to their job.
Nat J. I Pieper, agent in charge
of the FBI here; said the FBI was
investigating the situation to de
termine whether ! there had been
any violtaions of the war labor
disputes, act
Truck Tire, Committee
Sets 3-Point Program
PORTLAND, (Aug. 17-(F-Tbe
newly-formed Oregon emergency
truck tire committee tonight pre
pared to launch a three-point pro
gram to make more heavy tires
available for this area. .
' The-program, which has the ap
proval of 'the district OPA and of
fice of defense ) transportation
(ODT), will make these requests:
That the army I check its . .needs
thoroughly to make as many tires
as possible available for civilian
use, that more, manpower be al
loted tire manufacturers, and that
additional tires be released from
stock piles. . :.. ; f m ;- V:
Credit
If Deiircl
COMPANIONS!
Each; mounting is
a . masterpiece of '
design and yet 'the -engagement
ring '
harmonizes perfect
ly with the com- 1
panion .wedding -1
ring.