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V The OHEGOH STATESMAN, SaJeca, Ogoa Sunday Homing, Angus! 27. 1341 PAGS ELEVCr Washington Outlook WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 Japan is making passes at French Xndo-China and.may.be on the verge of what likely would be her last territorial grab. , The Japs already occupy this large, rich French colony, system atically take Its rice, rubber and coal for war purposes but have left civil administration to the French governor-general. Vice Admrial Jean Decoux. With the flight of the 1 French puppet government Xrom Vichy, Decoux nas assumed "absolute powers" without waiting jfor them to be granted by Vichy, . ' - Now the Japanese press, as re ported by Damei, Japanese news : agency,' is complaining that in spite of Decoux's renewed assur ances of cooperation with. Japan, pro-Allied elements remain active. If the familiar pattern is followed, it will develop soon that Decoux and his whole regime are "insin cere." The next step is likely to be complete ejection of the French ' regime, possibly behind a syn thetic native independence move- menL. Japan is In no mood to coddle anybody. Tokyo no longer tries to tell the people that the B-29 raids are Just' propaganda stunts; but frankly calls them the real thing. Premier .Koiso warns his people that "the enemy plans an early invasion of Japan itself. . Perhaps most significant of all, the Tokyo government has not waited for the forthcoming diet session to en force a decree ordering compul sory labor service for all "women' "trom 12 to 40. Incidentally, it wouldn't ' be wasted effort to spend half an hour studying Yetorofu Jima, In the Kurile island chain. Yetorofu (Etorofu on some maps) is the largest island in the chain, which stretches north from Japan proper, It has several good ports and cer tainly will figure in the news the event north. in of a ' thrust from the Navy Crane Raises Locomotive t h -V ft i ' T V-7 "mi V i - ' i -.' -? 1 X 1 4 FarraiExporl Program Play Receive Boost While the rayon allotment has : been hiked to 102,000 "heavy tires. the office of defense transporta tion estimates that a minimum of 165,000 casings . are needed each i mpnth, to maintain essential com mercial . transportation. Kenny Exponent "Will Vork in Portland PORTLAND, Aug. 26-(ff)-Mar-garet Yoder, nationally known exponent cf the Kenny treatment, will come here to aid in control of infantile paralysis, which has stricken 52 persons and caused 10 deaths In Portland , this year. Eight new cases were reported today, but Dr. Thomas Meador, city health officer, said the dis ease was not at epidemic level. Norman Thomas to Talk PORTLAND, Aug. clalist Norman Thomas wDl speak at Washington high school Wed nesday as part of his campaign tour for the presidency. A 150-ton navr yard craneralses this locomotive ef the NsrfoUc and Portsmouth Belt line from the waters of the southern braneh of the Elizabeth river. The engine was backing from Pert Norfolk to Berk ley when It ran through an opened draw bridge, carrying four freight cars and three trainmen into the river. The trainmen were believed lost. (AP wlrephoto) in ' Crop Insurance Again? A bi partisan drive " has developed the house to restore -the federal crop insurance program before the September congressional recess. Rep. Pace (D-Ga) says droughts and floods have caused some law makers to change their minds about the insurance plan. Congress voted to liquidate it last year after its administration and deficits had cost' $63,000,000 over above ' five years. It covered wheat and cotton. . Trouble for Rover r Veterans' administration, officials ; want to get the legal : low-down on what the administration's obligations are under a recently, enacted law authorizing it to provide guide dogs for blinded war veterans. The law calls for an appropria tion of $1,000,000 to purchase and train dogs as well as provide other aids to the blind vets. The admin istration says the wording of the law leaves certain questions unan cwered, such as; Who pays for Bover's unkeep once he has been turned over to his guide assignment? Who pays his doctor bills If he gets sick? Who is responsible if he - wrecks somebody's garden or bites one of the neighbor's kids? . Unwelcome Guests Look for considerable pressure by repre sentatives from- migrant-swollen Industrial cities to retain in 'con version legislation a provision to provide funds for war workers to return to their homes. Residents of many "of these cities, particu larly in the south, are longing for the good old days when they weren't so crowded. Snow Suits The children's snow suit situation looks very bad for this winter despite a special war production board program to provide a greater supply than last year. Materials were set aside, and WPB expects more to be made, but inventories are "way down, and the total supply looks shorter. Aircraft WoesNow that cut backs are in prospect, aircraft! plants are beginning to encounter a serious problem resulting from their earerness to employ dis charged servicemen. Union contracts : require .that severances be in order of seniority. Veterans are naturally near the bottom of the list. It is not easy to cut them off the payroll while civilians who have been spending the duration working for high wages, plus time and a halt after 40 hours, remain on. had circled the volcano until he decided he could wait no longer for the other bomber to make its try for"-the emergency field. He followed radio directions and lo cated the field. He had only a 15 minute gasoline supply left when he turned the motors off. "It was the closest call of that kind I've had," said the veteran of Aleutian flying, who has made a number of Kurile missions. Fire Causes Heavy Dainage to Dredge , PORTLAND, Aug. 2fr-(tfVF;-r Investigator Harry Heise estimat ed $30,000 damage to the $70,000 river dredge "Titan" from an ear ly morning blaze at Albina crane dock. A defective oil burner started the fire in the - dredge's engine room, Heise said. . - ' - - - . 2 Liberator Pilots Describe Close Calls in Aleutian Fog y By Norman Bell v ALEUTIAN HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH AIR FORCE, Aug. 26-P-Two big Liberator bombers, back from raiding Par tfmushirOiJ&immed the top of the fog, They were part of an August-12 raiding mission which had crossed 800 miles of the open North Pacific to strike at the Jap anese island. Then they had come back but they" couldn't come down. - The Aleutians were "socked in by the thick gray mist, thousands of feet deep. Situation Bad . Captain Chadbourne Steward of San ' Francisco, and Second Lt Corbin Terry of Temple,..Tex pi lots of the two planes, knew the situation was bad and getting worse. Their gasoline' was nearly gone. They had tried for a landing on the outer islands and had failed. "There wasn't any use flub-dub- bing around there any longer," said Lieutenant Terry. Ilope. for Best Back along the Aleutian "chain, the Liberators roared. ' They were land planes. If they were forced down in the sea the thing the crews dreaded it would mean: the 'quick scramble to get out before the bombers sank; the blood-chilling plunge into the fri gid water: the struggle to craw into the tossing rubber boats. And then the ordeal of waiting wet. freezing, sick and exhausted. Rescue might come but it would have to be fast a matter of a few hours at the most. Men adrift in the sea, on raft or rubber boat,: dont last long in this part of the world. Musi Find Laad The bombers bad to get down on land! any kind of land. The weary pilots were advised by radio to keep on east. One emergency field reported a ceil-1 ing of several hundred feet. Captain Steward sighted a vol cano peak and started circling it while Lieutenant Terry eased down through the "soup" to make a pass at the emergency field. One motor of the tatter's plane went dead and his gasoline supply was good for only a few minutes' longer. There was nothing but fog above, below and all around. Prepare to Leave Terry -prepared to r "ditch" the plane , in the sea. The crew was ordered to get into their "Mae West" life preservers and make ready ;ior the transfer to rubber boats. The bomber finally broke out of the fog just above the sea. . It Was then that Terry and his copilot, Second Lt Thaddeus Buszch ipt Detroit, spotted the "lump of land" a tiny tundra island, fairly flat. Leaving the wheels of the bomber up. Terry came in for a crash landing. The island flashed beneath. - The plane; struck and skidded along on its belly. The "crash" was surprisingly soft The L soggy tundra had cushioned the shoclr. . . - " ; ; r Boat Bescaes Them He was quickly in radio con tact with the emergency base. Two and a half hours after Terry and his crew crash-landed, they were rescued by: a survey boat Captain " Steward, meanwhile, V WASHINGTON. : Autf. 2t-VP Post-war agriculture policies now being formulated by . the: Roose velt administration would estab- lish a more aggressive, export pro gram "designed to push extra pro duction . into : world markets in stead of allowing it to pile up .in thif country under government ownership. . .. - " These plans do not envision the return of the rigid production control programs of . the; thirties under which attempts were, made to reduce firm production 'to the country's own needs and to the small quantities which could' be sold abroad at ' our prices which, in the case of most products, were held above world levels by gov ernment action. ' Under the pro grams of the thirties huse ; sur pluses were accumulated by the government " r j Instead, the United States would employ . a broad two-price sys tem under which production not I needed at home would be priced to meet competition in world mar kets. . . - Those drawing up the policies believe it will be possible to maintain domestic farm! produc tion at a level considerably higher than before the war, but possi bly not as high as that reached during the present war. They be lieve it will be possible to main tain a higher level of industrial employment and hence a broad er domestic demand. . j OPA Slashes Tire Allotment In September -: - - - - . r WASHINGTON, Aug.! 28 - (JP) ! The office of price administration tonight cut the September alio-1 cation of passenger car tires 350, 000 casings under the August lev el, but increased the heavy truck and bus tire quota to 120,000, up from 85,000 for this month. - In reducing the passenger tire allotment from 1,950,000 . tires to 1,600,000, OPA explained that re serve - inventories built i up last winter-- for the summer months have been used up. I OPA said that while the lower passenger tire quota "will not re sult 'in any corresponding cut in eligibility, it does mean a still more difficult job for local ra tioning boards In deciding "who among the many applicants for new tires are the most essential! drivers." ' S A11B" and C" card; motorists are eligible for new;passenger tires, but the back log of applica- tiaruTOow stands at about 1,000,- 000 tires, the agency stated. In boosting the heavy truck and bus tire quota, OPA stressed that the critical shortage of these cas ings will not be entirely relieved. 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