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news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this -newspaper.
Ludwig on "Wilson" V V
The. new motion picture yfis6nM. h attract
ing much attention, not only from film review
ers but from politicians as well.. The - former
judge the picture for its art,-the latter try to
measure iU 'immediate political effect since the
1944 election sees .a revival of some of the Is
sues of the period of 1918-20.
Of all the comments on the film 'which have '
come to our attention the most original is that
of Emil Ludwig, the famous German biographer .
who no lives in California as a political exile. "
In a letter to the screen editor of the Neva York
Times Ludwig takes the film sharply to task as a
' dispenser of false '-propaganda. .Ludwig de
nounces the idea prevalent in the between-wars
period that Clemenceau was a sort of devil
incarnate against whom Wilson fought as an
angel of light. He says bluntly that at Versailles
Wilson was wrong and Clemenceau right
This will not settle the-argument by any
means, but Ludwig's contention is of such im
portance that we quote his letter in full:
The Hollywood show now being presented
under the great name "Wilson" has nothing to
do with history. Onlin its last hell hour it - "
develops two political problems: the League of
Nations and . Versailles. The first1 is given as it
' should be, but the second is handled in a way
that represents a danger in these months of -.
great political decisions.
When I wrote the play "Versailles," which
was staged in Germany, Holland and London 1
".in 1932, at a time when Wilson was extremely
' T unpopular in this country, I had three hours for
; that drama. The new picture, "Wilson," comes
to Paris after two hours, and remains there for
six minutes. It shows this most important event' .
" of Wilson's life in an entirely unfinished, even
. comic scene 'where the President, as Ihe de
'fender of Justice, demands the ethnical fron-
' tiers of defeated Germany from Clemenceau, 'v
who wanted to take the Rhineland for France.
. This scene, as does the whole picture and the
' totally uiuhtellectual actor, shows your great
President ' as a -rathe stupid1, stubborn St. -;
George fighting against Evil, represented here '
l J by an ugly, diabolic monkey . with Clemen- .
' ceau's. name and face, who, in the end, makes v
a cynical bow to the noble President The; pub-
lie applauded Wilson. The whole picture
except for one .scene would be " greatly ap-
' plauded in Berlin too.
This legend of Versailles with the devil
Clemenceau, who in fact was the only man who
' ' saw the Germans rightly, became the chief
weapon in the hands of the German propa
gandists, andas It was believed by most Ameri
cans, it created sympathy for the "m-treated"
.Germans and led io an American loan of
'. $8,000,000,000 to the Germans, who used most'
,.of it for I rearmament and the financial and
r. moral preparation of this war. "
f. Today ;the same German propaganda, made
by certain professors, industrialists and emi
' grants, is going on in this country with exactly
the same lies and aims. It can easily , lead to
the same effects, creating sympathy with the
"poor, misled German people," and making
America lose a second peace. :
The very contrary should be told and shown
to the millions of -Americans crowding . to the
movies namely, that at Versailles Wilson was
wrong and Clemenceau right Wilson remains -a
great man, because he founded -the League
a( Nations. But if the Treaty of Versailles had
really been made against his proposals we
would not have a war on today.
, Not All Dreams ' .
, A disciple of Dr. Freud could no doubt ex
plain those dreams which involve a sleeper in
embarrassing situations, as when one dreams
he has gone to work without a necktie or per
haps is out on the street without his pants on.
What a feeling of relief it is to waken and real
ize it was only a dream! : 'a
Well, the embarrassing situations are some-'
times real.1 There was the man in Milwaukee
Friday, who chased a thief running of f with his
' pants and his -$688. This time, when he woke up
he realized he was out in the, hotel hall sans
' ; trousers, and to escape embarrassment let the
, thief go and went back to his room. Later he
recovered his trousers, but not the money.
Then there were pictures of men in dishabille
In Washington who were caught with their pants
off at a press-your-pants-while-you-wait place,
when it caught fire. That indeed was no place
for a self-respecting fire to start. The sight of
pants-less patrons running out pf the pressery
finKst have been "ridiculous. : . .. : .-" . . .
' . Embarrassing moments are not all dreams. !
Editorial Cothmont
CARELESS EEFOXTING
This being the season et the year when every
resident of this forested areas should be unusually
careful .about fire, we, naturally, have had our
attention drawn to stories of forest fires of other
days. -v.-. v- " '..''K-T- '-7 ;.-
One of these appeared in Western Outdoor Quar
terly, official publication of the Federation of West
ern Outdoor clubs, and we were, we admit some-
what surprised to read that "the Tillamook-Wolf
Creek burn in Oregon in 1933 was the biggest for
est fire ever to take place in the United States and
comprised some 14 billion feet of timber."
We "were surprised because we
member that we had read that probably the biggest proven by events. It is n jthe west, not the east,
. . . . . .!" .' ..... iL.i I - : ' 4. . . 1. 1
fire ever reported in North America was in the
' Miramichi area, which swept through more than.
' 3,000,000 acres of forests in Maine and New Bruns
wick in October, 1825. ;
When we first came to Oregon, one of our first
trips took us into the southern section of what is
referred to as the Yacolt burn, better known as
the Columbia river burn of 1902, which covered
more than 600,000 acres, much of it valuable tim
ber. Other notable fires of history include: Idaha,
1910, 2,000,000 acres; Peshtigo. Wisconsin,' 1871,
1 .280.000 acres; Michigan, 1881. 1,000,000 acres;
Big Horn, Wyoming, 1878, 500,000 acres; Yaquina,
Oregon, 1843,- 450.CC3 . acres; Nestucea, 7 Oregon,
1352, 320,000 acres; Coos Bay, Oregon, 1868, 300,000
acres and Eaudett Minnesota, 1910,
all much larger in extant than the
' Creek fire. : - v r - . . r .'.;..; ,:;:r.
For the benefit of the editors of Western Outdoor
Quarterly; it may be stated that what it refers to
as the Tillamook-Wolf Creek fire,. was in-reality
two disinct Cres which, however, were burning at
one and the same time. At the closest point the two
fires were at least 13 miles apart, and one was not
! far as is known, associated with the other. -Hood
T.ivcr News. ' . . .
favor Sways lt; No Fear Shall Awe"
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
TOE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COJIPANY
, M . CHARLES A. SPRAGUX, Editor and Publisher !
Member of the Associated Press r i
Bradley and Montgomery -
While General Eisenhower has emphasized
that the raising of General Bradley to a com
mand equal to that heldj by General, now Field
t Marshal Montgomery hublied no discredit to
the latter, the fact remains that the colorful
Montgomery has not repeated his performance
in North Africa. For that matter he didn't do it
with his eighth army in Italy. Somehow in Italy
and Normandy
ments still seem
, and won one of the most brilliant campaigns in j
modern warfare. 1 I
, Reichsmarshal Goering
house arrest at his home,
this 'done because it will
gets to study
a jail window,
Interpreting
The iWarj Nevs
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
ASSOCIATED PKESsjTAR ANALYST
chanced to re-
that Germany's
300,000 acres, ' It seems Incredible that such a .total military ;
TUlamook-Wolf
misconception of
i i
A 1.
1
Montgomery. did not show the
same flash he displayed jin the battle of F4
Alamein and the race across Africa. - - 7
. . ........... . j (. . . . . .
In Normandy zhe breaks didn't seem to be
with him. His British and Canadian troops were
facing" the stronger section! of the German line,
apparently. The German j idea teems vto have
been to head off a leftwird swing around to
LeHavre or a direct thrust toward Paris, and
massed their troops acrgssj the northern end of
the peninsula to block j such moves. Bradley,
commanding 7 the .allied right ; wing, ? broke
through at St Lo, ' Patton's fresh third army
poured through the gap and its later achieve
almost Jinjnredible. At any rate i
the Bradley-Patton team became the free strut- j
ing arm, and .-the British, failing in their at
tempts to crack the German line, served as a
shoreward 'anchor. uy7"'jr-j77;7fS ' t
, t The result was thai Blradleyad Patton im
mediately became popular heroes. The award
was on the basis of perfarrtiance, Which in battle
is the final test Montgomery though is well
entitled to promotion to the rank of field mar
shal. In the long annals pf British military his
tory few who have worn that title did so from
greater merit than General Sir Bernard Mont
gomery, who outfoxed the! desert fox, Rommel,
is said to be under;
KarinhalL That wiUi
give him time to enjoy the art -treasures he has:
stolen from all over Europe. He had better get
nature from behind the grid of
j i -j. i s
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Namur, Namur . . . Yank tank spearheads are
said to be nearing Namur. It was the Namur
radio in 1918 which reported that the Germans!
were ready to sue for an armistice.. But the
Yanks and their allies will not stop at the Ger
man border this time. I 1 : -
Senator Truman acknowledges his formal
notifv;ation with a 22-miriute address. Appro-,
priate length for a J22 calibre man.
When fire destroyed Actor Wallace Beery V
trailer he chirruped "Hve burned my breeches
behind me" i -
Hitler's dream of world conquest was fast
sbrivelmg into a hopeless fight to hold the Reich
itself, this" first week-end of a fateful September
in Europe. . : ' -.jj ,S'.' - !
Utter chaos marked the German; rout in France.
There were credible infiojations of . Nazi retreat
also from Italy, the Balkan peninsula, Denmark
and Norway which could jmean that everywhere
but in the east front the Carpathians to East Prus
sia, German and Austrian! armies were being called
back to defend their own; hpme frontiers. '
And by every sign the retreat order : again had
come too late as it did at Stalingrad, in Africa, in
Sicily and in northern Russia and the lost Baltic
states. The inner walls iiofj Nazidom's citadel, all
that is left of the boasted; fortress Europe, were
quaking if not already breached in .the west and
rumbling with symptona jof impeding I internal
explosions as well as actual revolt in Slovakia. ,
The portents for Germany everywhere were so
sinister that Nazi radio spokesmen hardly sought
to conceal them from home front hearers. They
pointed in only one direction, due east to claim
a negative victory. Between East Prussia and the
Carpathians, they said, j the vast Russian steam
roller had been stemmed.! j , r"- '-. rj
Whether that was true or not events in Poland
seemed apt to disclose within the next week. The
mere fact that the claim,' was made by the Nazis
at the very moment, that allied forces in France
were rolling practically ! unopposed into Belgium
and to th gates of Germany itself is significant It
might furnish a clue to the desperate expedients
. to which German leadership, with or without Hitler
approval, is preparing to resort to evade paying the
fuU. price for the nation's; war crimes, - ; J
It will be recalled that in the wake of the army j
; effort in Germany that narrowly failed to eliminate
Hitler and his own top-flight military advisers, the!
new Nazi regime he set; up scraped the German
home-front manpower barrel to reinforce the east-
em front against the Russians. It was done in the '
face of a warning by General. Dittmari spokesman
of the German miUtary j hjgh command, that the ;
crisis for Germany lay in- the west not in the east i
- That military judgment has -now been well '
own frontiers are most closely !
threatened if not already! crossed by American
forces. It is there, near the jSaarbnicken Gap lead-;
ing into the industrial heartland of Germany that
massive Allied striking power is mustered for aj
knock-out blow. ',"'!'
The German flight frciml France has gone at a;
pace leaving no doubt that lit lacks -any semblance
of plan or purpose. j ' ' , . - ! -
Through it all in the west there has been little
or any intimation of German reinforcement of that!
front by withdrawals from; the east or elsewhere, i
Isolated divisions may hive been brought up; but
if so, they, have not beenjbailt up into an effective
force for counter action.1sl7. 7 A V - ' y . .it.
the realitiias of the war in the west
or even the ruthless fanaticism ol Hitler and his!
Nazi leaders could account tor the German debacle
in France; Historians willsiek soc.s other explana- i
tion. They may- iind It a( a deliberate -policy jot
limiting the strength -on he ground or in sir to be
committed to the French, Italian or any ther tiiea-1
tre under pressure of this western Allies while;
straining every nerve to beep the Russians in the
east at bay from Reich frira tiers prcyer. t
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fTOfrnrirs
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state board of health. That is as
far as his reporting goes. The
treasurer whose official concern
is financial and not social merely
reports the aggregate receipts In
divorce cases, $49,005 for the last
biennium. The state! board of
health includes jthe marriage li
cense figures In! Its report on vi
tal sUtistics. ! j ,
It seems to me there should be
a comprehensive system of re- I
porting particularly of marriage,
divorce,' and j criminal cases for
the -state jas a whole. Just.who "
should assemble these statistics is '
1 less important j than " that they
should be assembled. I The jre- -ports
on marriage and divorce
might be collected by the state
board of health! or the secretary
of state. ' Reports of criminal
cases miht got to the superin
tendent of state police or to the
secretary of state.' These statis- ,
tics should cover the number and
the nature of criminal cases, and
their final disposition, j
A comprehensive reporting
system in criminal matters is
highly important for proper law
enforcement At present the re
porting is only partial. Iflinger
. prints are takeh the report goes
in to the state bureau of identi
fication; but j unless there is a
conviction and a commitment to
the penitenttaryj the fingerprints "
may not be taken. ; '.j-;';
The superintendent of state
police ought to: have a! steady
flow of essential inf ormtaion re
specting crimes! and arrests, at
least on felonies. The statistical
' Information May be revealing as
to trends in crime, and localities
where the1 incidence of crime is ;
greatest Sociologists could have !
access to accural information on '
which to base jtheh studies in hu-.
man behavior! '
The material Is all in the I
: offices of the) county I clerks,'
. but there . is 1 no provision in
.law for collecting the informa-
tion from the 38 counties i and
making it available by publica
' tion. The cost would be very
small, and I hope the legislature
"THE YOUNG IDEA"
Frankly, Mr; Xfartoa, de eensider roar dairrhter a gesd
-' catrimonUl rLIT ' !
News Behind the News!
By PAUL
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole
or in part strictly
. WASHINGTON, Sept 3 The
Gallup .. poll claims Roosevelt
leading by a small margin.
The commercial polls gener
ally, in., the
past, have not
ed presidential
races about
even until two
or three weeks
before the real
vote counting. -
A magazine
'poll of the po
litical experts
.in the Wash
ington press
Paul MalloQ
corps Indicates a rather stronger "
expectation 'of t Roosevelt -victory.
This i-eflects, I think, the
popular disbelief that anyone
could ever j beat Mr. Roosevelt -the
natural sports notion that
nearly always makes the cham
pion the lavorite. Generally, the
public Cannot conceive of a
champ losing, as he has never
lost before.
- Yet the huide unquotable re
ports of j the congressmen from
back hozne actually give Dewey
an even or better chance to win,
as matters Stand today.
Discard air republican reports,
as these might be partisan. Con
sider only fthose of democratic
legislators. jThey have been so
discouraging as to alarm and ,
even embitter the democratic po-
litical leaders, who are urging
' the president to drop his Non
partisan" campaign and start a .
partisan one and he will Sep-'
tember 23. j i . - -'',"","'.-
The spearhead of the fourth
term movement was the Hill-man-CIO
poliitical action com
mittee, and; all the politicos can
see its effectiveness has been
dulled. If not splintered. The
other unlonl, and" some CIO un
ions, would not stand for . it
Wagering; odds have dropped
..- If - - i- :
gives early authorization for the
making of such reports by county
clerks to proper state offices, and.
for the information assembled to
: be included in official reports. I
shall endeavor to find out what
the practice of other states is in
. this respect. : Perhaps we can
find a -good pattern to follow.
r I
15y MOSSler
'
i
MALLON !
prohibited.)
from IVi to 1 on Roosevelt to 9
to 5 in the best racing circles.!
Take Maryland, which always
has been listed as a sure-Roosevelt
state. Today, - there is a
democratic cloakroom . saying,
possibly overdrawn but never
theless significant that "only
Senator Tydings and his secre
tary think Maryland is going
democratic These two claim
' the Roosevelt majority would be
25,000 today, but Roosevelt car
ried Maryland four4 years ago by
115,000. , - X-:;;
I know a southern democratic
leader who thinks Dewey; will
win and Is making preparations
accordingly.. Other! southerners
insistently list Texas, Mississippi
and .Virginia as doubtful. :
There are reports that the
.Roosevelt Bremerton speech in
the news-reels received little or
no applause generally, while the
campaign pictures of the Dewey
family were well received.
(Democratic leaders are now
taking care of this deficiency
and,' within the .past week, Roo
sevelt applause again has ap
peared In the movie theatres
around Washington, at least) S
All reports agree the farm
vote is lost beyond' redemption
and the business vote for Roose
velt was damaged by the de
parture . of little- businessman
Nelson and big41 businessman
Wilson from WPB in favor of a
TVA engineer. ? - .
Earlier, a considerable portion
of the business vote, and possi
bly all the top financial vote,
would have gone to Roosevelt,
on the spending-recovery prom
ise plus internationalism. j
On the other hand, New Eng-
land is still classed as largely
doubtful (by republicans) al
though Dewey has. gone a long
way toward satisfying the Will
kie elements there. . Probably
Wulkie expects to come out for
Dewey just before election as lie
did on the eve of election of
1M2 in New York. ; j
. These developments as a whole .
may explain Mr. Roosevelt's de
cision to make a labor speech
in Philadelphia and follow with
. others. " : v h '
After all, 2204,755 votes were
. (uuik nun xuur years ago
3743,48 for him) and all
nrnntftMla . Li .A. .
cast against him four years ago
this opposition has beenTgreatly
enlarged. These 2204,755 are
nearly as many as elected him
president In 1933 (23,811,837.), ,
. Many a campaign has been
won on Labor day-only to be
lost ; two months later on elec
tion day. I think Willkle, for in
stance, was stronger i at this
stage of the race four years ago,
than when the 22,304,755 votes
were cast for Mm, .
. Also, I have seen Mr. Roose
velt incompletely 1 turn1 over a
campaign situation - stacked
mountain-high against him. He
has been more clever as a cam
paigner than in1 any other phase
of his duties. Yet nothing which
has l developed jo 'far in .this
campaign yet points to that out
come' again, i v. i?z ,7
The unpopular Hillman spear
head I n f , the Nelson-Wilson
switch, the ineffective, "non
partisan - attitude have not
seemed to I bring f the - results,
compared with Dewey's organ
izing of the 28 governors in the
only states he needs to win, his
- use of Dulles in the peace con
ference to km the isolation tag
on him and get the Willkie sup
port, his killing of the radical
campaign which had built up an
cliborats czss, accuse tin cf
- By Eoger Greene i ;
(SuSstituting tor Kenneth L. Dixon)
FRANCE -(ff)- American hu
, mor often .sparkles against a
strange background like a
star shell above the grim pano
ramaof .war. - . - '
" . I shall never forget Pvt Bill
Rosenberg of Des 'Moines, Iowa,
. as I saw him this afternoon in
a battle-gutted French town.
BOl : was bored stiff. With a
? bunch r of other' GIs he was
sprawled in the back of a big,
open US army truck which was
Jammed in the middle of a miles
long convoy that moved about
.20 teeV stood j 20 minutes, then
' moved again. -H' -
Bill and his outfit had been :
down the line all afternoon bury
ing. Germans. He slapped flies,
yawned arid. Intermittently, doz
ed. Suddenly. I saw, him' jerk
awake;, and inspiration seized :
him. ' .;! j
Heyv V soldier!! ; he roared.
"Down the road!" . r i i . ;
Disconcertedly, on the stone
doorstep of a cottage which had
The Literary
Guidcpost
ftr Jehn SeTby
"OF MEN AND BATTLE, by
David Fredentaal and Kiehard
. Wilcox (Howell. 8eskin: SI).
"Of Men and Battle" is an out-
sized book that might be passed
over by a careless buyer because
it looks a lot more like a juvenile '
than it does a serious war book.
It is a very serious war book in
deed, bojth text and fUustratians.
. The artist Is David Fredenthal,
who has painted under any num
ber of fellowships, Guggenheim
to Cranbrook Academy, since he
was born 30 years ago in Detroit
' His luck has held in war time;
he was first chosen to draw (and
paint) what he saw in the de- .
fense industries, and in 1943 the
army appointed him a war artist
and fired him off to the South
west Pacific. He was in Australia
when that project was discontin-
ued, but again he was lucky-his
contract was taken over by Life '
magazine, for which he continues
to do assignments. ,
And the accompanying f text
(which is spoken of as a "sound ".
track" by the way)1 has been
written by Richard S. .Wilcox,
one : of : life's associate editors
who has seen action in both the
-Atlantic and Pacific. The book is
formally a story of the attack on
Arawa, New Britain, in Decem
ber, 1943, when the, United Na- .
tions were going over to the i
offensive in the Pacific and when '
much depended the initial
moves. Yet MessrsWilcox and
Fredenthal have noT tried to
write, history; but to describe
moods and emotions. Many f of
the drawings ! were done under
fire, all of them on the scene, and
necessarily some of them are a
bit on the scrappy, side to be
quite honest Mr. Fredenthal is
. on artist of the school which of -Jen
eschews accuracy of state
ment in the service of some other
attribute. I defy anybody to guess
what the picture of landing craft
on page 83 is, without Mr. Wil
cox's "sound track" to help him.
But the effect of the drawings
and the text is remarkable, and
cumulative. The reader honestly
ing at the jungle's edge,
fierceness of battle, the sick hor
ror of the aftermath, and even
something of the use of it aJD.
This is not a soft book for soft
readers, but neither is it a chil
ler. It appears- to be the . truth
about one battle as one artist
and one writer, remarkably con
genial with each other, saw it at
one time. 7. ' .' ,;
opposing soldier votes (he dem
onstrated that one-fifth of all
soldiers so far registered to vote
throughout the country, have
registered under his New York
absentee state law). ;
To date, the Dewey- campaign
has been by far the smarter. :
Anyone who thinks this brief
citation is not objective report
ing is merely deluding himself.
" un - iu : uu nnuui.
silent, strong opposition to Mr.
VnMMnalt ..n,itf. .1 mw.U(am
mere exists in this country, a
which is not indulging much, in
political debate, which may not
show itself at political meetings,
or In press reports. .
I think the fourth term will
be gravely in doubt until these
votes are counted. - 7
X f
g
jr
;;. Credit
If Desired
' : -
Arnericoa Humor
Sparkle's Against
Strange. SeSng
been crazily tipped and shattered
i by bombs, stood another GL .For
this area, the cottage was in fair
shape with its vacant-eyed win-
dow looking out from a part of
the wall which still stood. Com
pared with the rest of the town,
upon which some 2000 allied
bombers had dropped about 8000
-tons ox pomos, it was practically
a' modern home. - i
So, there was Bill Rosenburg,
calling in a bassoon bellow to
the other soldier on the doorstep;
"Hey, whyn'tcha try the FHA?
"Maybe theyTl give you a loan
on jt'"
"Nuts!" came the retort i ? 1
Oh, wait a minute, chum," ex
horted BUL "Don't give up like
that if you can show you're con
nected with war work in some
way, they might even give you a
priority on it!" ' " - , - i .
Hours later we jeeped back
i through the town's ruins, where
the reek of death still was strong.
The long line of transport moved
slowly as night approached. At
night the Germans venture forth..
Nnfwfv said mnh' because oil
keep quiet when you're caught in
a slow, creeping convoy ot am
munition irucxs in a anon rown
. at night with. black clouds roll
ing overhead to hide enemy bom
bers. - v '--"M ' ' i''v;: '
In that hushed atmosphere, I
heard some GI's talking to a pret
ty blonde USO entertainer,; Nor
. ma Browne of Chicago. They
spoke softly, kidding a bit 'and
whistling a little. . - '
'Pracjtfc
Rcligipn .
by Rev. John L. Kaigtxt, jtm .
v Counselor on ReUftoia LUa.
Willamette rmlrmity. . '
' American life has had many
prejudices .racial prejudice,
class prejudice, and so on. In re
cent years another prejudice, just
as dangerous as all others, has
appeared. It is a prejudice against
the commonplace. i;
Somehow we have been put
ting an undue stress on the big,
. spectacular tbings-ruhusual In
ventions, skyscrapers, high hon
ors, and all the rest And, per
haps unconsciously, ' we have
. been ; discounting the . common
place to such an extent that many
. people have a definite prejudice
against it-.
: One who looks at life realisti
cally, .however, will soon see the
folly of such thinking. In the
whole scene and plan of life the
farm is as significant as the sky
scraper,, the laborer as necessary
as the foreman, and the flowers
of the field as lovelyas the gal
lery's best art .
Bus Operators
Face Critical
Tire Shortage
WASHINGTON, Sept 2 Faced
With the necessity of being forced
to curtail schedules because of the
shortage of fires, officials, of the
National Association of Motor Bus
Operators -." today made ' another
plea for the elimination of all but
the most essential travel over the
Labor Day weekend.
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five buses is out of service be
cause i of lack of tire replace
ments," said Arthur M. Hill, presi
dent of the bus ' organization. "So
far, the intercity operators have
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obviously they whi-not be able to
run the multiple sections required
if travel' continues unabated.
Some war-essential travelers may
be stranded because a tire fail
ure today, with no replacements,
means another bus must be with-rl
drawn from service. "
; The war production board's re
cent order for a. drastic reduction
in the quantity of heavy bus and
truck tires that were to be made
available for August and Septem
ber was brought about to avoid
a possible shortage of heavy-duty
military tires. ; ;.'-." 1
Since tire manufacturers . are
meeting increased, quotas, It is
expected that the situation .may,
be eased in the near future but
any-relief will not come in time
to avoid Labor Day congestion.'
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