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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne War Approaches New Critical Phase As ‘Showdown’ Looms in Near East; Defense M ediation Board Struggles To A v e rt Strikes in V ita l Industries Defense Bonds istoriati RABBITS AND SKINS i f CJmo Scoti Wako* Washiugton, D. C. BOMBER OUTPUT C L A S S IF IE D DEPARTMENT iH r lr .ia r d b , W estern N ew spaper U nion.) P o u ltr y , ra b b its , r a b b it aktn a. W r it* Hiat c a rd fo r price*. I'r lc e e v ery iliih now K u b y b Co.. »3A B. W, F r o n t, P o r tla n d . O ra. t A F am ou s C oon Story Though not announced by the TRUCK PARTS White House, two impelling factors f")N E of the classics of early . «R eleased by W estern N ew spaper Union ) . Ile a v y -d u t y M o le rà , n a u la p a rta , were behind the President’s sensa American humor Is the story of bo« 111- m . liru a , b o ia ta nod used I ro t’ ka. tional letter to Secretory Stimson Davy Crockett’s “ interview” with a TRUCK U iti t KING COMPANY asking for an immediate increase in coon. According to the usual ver- lO tb A N E . H a w th o r n » I'o r t la n d . O ra. | the monthly output of bombers. i sion, this famous Tennessee fron One was the obvious need of pro tiersman was out hunting one day SCH O O LS viding Britain with more and big when he spied a raccoon high up in W A IM IM O T O N B B A U T Y G O L L I O 1 K a ta b lla tird IUIM — M A In 101» ger planes to curry the offensive to a tree. Instantly he leveled his F r e e to o ls a m i u n ifo r m s In c lu d e d In Germany. Second, known only to deudly rifle at the animal, where ou r now a ix -e la l low ra t» a on tu itio n . inside authorities, was Intelligence upon the coon cried out: "Is that W h y not ha v e a I l f » , l i n e ,iro f» a » lo n ? B e a ttie . W a a h . information that the Nazis are in you, Crockett? Then don't shoot—I’ll I8 8 n Becond A ve creasing the bomber force of their come down!" i n n O e . . Mt i i . i " i : , ‘ k 111 x i n e h i ia it it i : hm Luftwaffe. The reports are that the Although this is readily recog j v D MOLEK HAKBEK COLLEGE Ignore Jan Paderewski, former German air force now consists of nized us a “tall tale” und a bit of 887 B. W T h ir d A v e . P o r tla n d . O ra. tlie following: premier of Poland amt pianist frontier folklore, it has been repeat Six main air fleets, each compris- ed of world-wide fame, as he urged innumerable times as a tribute to REGISTER NOW I img 1.000 bombers. 625 fighters und all Americans to purchase United unerring marksmanship. F o r N u m m i’i' tu rn , I'.aay p u y m m t plan . 75 reconnuisance planes, u total of Crockett’s F re e L if e e m p lo y ,»i«nt aervtoe. so many other yurns asso States Sarings Bonds. His was 10,200. Also there is an independent But, like TBBN BBAUTY CO LLBO 1 with his nume, it is also a 71» W B. B B W . 8 th A v». P o r tla n d Or«. one of a number of nation-wide air unit of 2,750 planes, a naval air ciated “borrowed story” and another man service of 1,000, an operational train was the hero of it when it was first radio pleas made by nationally B K IP Y A B D W B L D B B B T B A IM B D A d v a n c e d whorl course, In d iv id u a l In ing unit of 650, und a transport or told. known persons volunteering their s tr u c tio n ; C e rtifie d a n d iMUided; no ganization of 3.500 planes. In addi w a it in g ; e n r o ll n o w ; ban'ra* © laaa«s aid to help the sale of these Visit the historical museum in tion to these first-line ships, is a now fo r m in g day an d n ltfh t bonds. Money obtained in this S H I P Y A R D W B L D B K B ' SC H O O L reserve of 12,000 others, plus 5,000 Bennington, Vt., and there you will M U . >73« see a long rifle which, according to «313 K . a . P n lo n trainers and transports. manner is being used to finance w o R oy« K<>lnir to I I . H. o r tw o m an Grand total: About 35,000 planes. the card beside it. is the ".50 caliber T can the national defense program. itio n . W r it » o r c a ll Gerinun airplane production ca gun used by Lieut Col. Martin Scott, a t o n e e a r rn M f u o l l d e tu rn B a r b e r C o lla g e , 130 .Marshal Petain’s decision for France to collaborate with Adolf Hitler's pacity is estimated at 3,000 planes a native of Bennington und sharp B. W . M a d le n a Bt., P o r tla n d . O regon . government has made the tiny French mandate of Syria the center of un D A K A R : month, including about 500 bombers. shooter. It was made at Harper's OPPORTUNITY rest and a potential battleground. Here are pictured French colonial troops However, except for bombers, Ger Ferry in 1814 and first used in 1818 A Problem on parade in the streets of Beirut, chief citv of Syria. many is not now using her full pro in the Fifth Rifle Regiment of the N E E D E X T R A C A H IIT G ro w rnueli- Despite the fact that many papers, duction capacity as she doesn't need rooms In o a lln r abed; m a ll to us; w k ly . pay. W r it e W e s te r n M u ih r o o w especially those with a non-interven that many new planes a month. Co.. P o r tla n d . Or». tribute to the heroism of the under N A Z IS : Nazi March production is estimat tionist tinge, were playing up con equipped army of the Nile, and the voys as a leading issue, the Vichy ed nt 2,200 ships of all types, but Creative Pause FILMS long defense of Tobruk, backed up only 1,600 in April. In May, how Although fighting continued heav by the navy, showed how thinly the flop to the Nazi standard seemed ever, Intelligence reports are that to bring far more sensational issues FA ST SERVICE ily in North Africa and seemed to long Italo-German rear was held. Nazi plane production is being convoys to the public notice. 8 P r in t s fr o m B ach Oood N e g a tiv e be stepping up on the Iraq front Salum changed hands five or six than President Roosevelt immediately, stepped up to replace Balkan and Berlin talked of a “creative pause’ times in a week, and some cases 25c W B B TB B N PKOTO C O M PA NY which could be regarded as a pre of British advances into Libya were when he learned that Retain had North African losses. Reports are vague about what the B o i W -4 2 0 5 P o r tla n d . O ra cursor of events of great magnitude. reported, though Axis sources al pledged France to a more complete Nazis are doing with the nine gov Berlin claimed the turning point of ways claimed the British were collaboration with Germany, and ernment und eleven private aircruft 8 P H I NTH A N U T W O ENLARG E that this might take a military turn, M E N T S tfto— M a d e by P o r tla n d 's lu rg - the war was at hand, and pointed to “chased back.” ru t r r t n ll k o d ak fln la h e i ille f a c * plants in France, most of them lo warned France that this country did diplomatic spearhead attacks in tlo n K u a ru n tr rd Q u a lit y P ic tu r e Co. not consider this as a friendly atti cated in the occupied zone; also re B om W 3 5 7 3 , P o r tla n d . O re g o n . France and the Near-East as the M E D IA T IO N : tude, and this was followed up by garding the eight Dutch factories, type of thing referred to in the Bigger Stick ........................ the announcement w by Pan-American including the Fokker works, and the FOR SALE “ pause.” .. A 5?e5ican industry, geared up to republics that they would take over seventeen Belgian plants. M IL K G O A T S , H e a v y M il k e r ,. Io n« As Britain caught its breath for its highest pitch ip history, and real- French Guiana and Martinique if These plants have large potential la c ta tio n , to h«ad to p ic k fr o m . W m . a fewr days after the terrific bomb K itc h e n , B t . 8, box 138-e, P o r tla n d , wnether the public did or not, there was any danger of their fall- producing capacity, but best infor ing of London and other cities, casu that the O regon . for 40 billions of dollars ing under Nazi control. mation is that the Nazis are strip alty lists were made up showing worth of call material was equivalent to to ACRES R IV E R BOTTOM . IA I- This attitude was promptly re ping them of their machine tools that 86,312 citizens had been killed asking P R O V E D L A N D . E x c e lle n t fo r d a ir y , industry to work an Ameri and other equipment. How much sented by French authorities, and a or wounded by bombings since last can miracle, teetered along on the t r u c k g u rd en . I tu lle to h ig h w a y . 18000. te rm s J . J. V o k a l. B I . B e d slight diplomatic interchange fol this will boost the Nazis’ 3,000 planes June. d in g . C a lifo r n ia . brink of the cliff of labor troubles, a month is only a guess. lowed, apparently for the moment Yet the two worst months were actually falling over. U. S. Goal. quieting things down, though there H E R V IC E H T A T IO N . <1 H O C E I t T September and October, not March but It without evident that somebody or were Swiss reports that Ambassa S T O R E , c a m p g ro u n d w it h 8 c a b in a . Weakest link in German plane and April, as most had thought. some was 2 5 -a c re Ir r ig a t e d ra n c h ; lo c a te d on agency, presumably the de produotion is aluminum. From cap There were 32,000 casualties in the fense mediation board. Dr. Dykstra dor Leahy would be recalled. C o lu m b ia R iv e r h ig h w a y a t Ir r ig o n , O re . N o tr u d e d n M r a . T r a n k D ele ht, Then came the sudden news that tured planes, the British estimate fall months, and only 23,000 in chieftain, Ir r ig o n , O ra. was wielding a bigger that the Nazis use about 500 pounds the French would give the Nazis the March and April. This showed a stick than the department of labor 7 1 0 -A C R E W H E A T a n d S T O C K better defense in shelters, as there conciliators ever did, and was wield use of their air and naval bases, of this vital metal per ship. The RANCH. B o b t. B ohd e. M o ro . O re. especially at Dakar. And Dakar, American average is 5,000 pounds. was no question but that the spring ing it to some purpQse. The undisclosed bomber goal of small African port, but of mighty 80 A c re s w e ll Im p ro v e d , m ile to Tal» raids had showed much more power Strike threats, not so mqch import to the United States and 1941 to which Roosevelt referred in ou»« T o w n . 15000., In c lu d in g crops, than those in the fall. h a lf chh I i . B . C. B nod prase, 818 I d a DAVY CROCKETT strikes, the order of the Britain, at once leaped into the cen his letter to Stimson, is 600 a month. In the matter of losses at sea, day. The became d e lle , S po kane. soft coal strike was halt The four new assembly plants in there was somewhat of a drop dur ed, then threatened to break out ter of the spotlight as the major regular army. This gun was often O N E O F R E S T D A I R Y R A N C H E S In Omaha, Tulsa, Kansas City and used problem. ing the month of April, and in early again, by Colonel Scott while at Fort N . W ., 860 A ., A c u ltiv a te d , rais ed but the mediators were “on Dakar was the very hop-off place Fort Worth should produce about Howard at Green Bay. Wis,, where fe May, one week showing only a loss e d f o r 25 head. E x c e lle n t a n d a m p le o Î1! ‘J 0“? 16 ?nd hoped to that President Roosevelt had men- 300 bombers a month. To double he and Captain Merrill were com Im p ro v e m e n t» . C lose to to w n . R. R of 36,000 tons, or at the rate of about í°p” quell it. The hard coal miners, 100,- tioned in the early days of the war their output it will be necessary to a n d p a v e m e n t. O n m a ll a n d school 150,000 tons a month, as against pre 000 bus ro u te » . R e m u n e r a tiv e m a rk e t of them, threatened to walk out, as the probable one that Germany build and equip at least as many mandants, beginning in 1834." This close. 912.000 te rm » . vious months when the rate hopped demanding is the rifle used by the man who more wages. would use if an air invasion of the new plants, plus taking over an in was the original hero of the famous C h o ice r e s ta u r a n t bu siness In clu d e s up to around 250,000, Nastiest threat of all was the Gen New world was attempted. creased ratio of automobile and oth coon story. b a n q u e t h a ll In liv e to w n In N o r th This was in spite of the fact of eral strike, which had Knud Id a h o . L a s t y e a r's bu siness, 940,000 er plant facilities to turn out the nec longer days and better weather for sen of Motors It was a clear call on the part of essary I ’rlo e 99.000 a n d w o rth it. | d o w n. Scott s reputation as a mighty OPM up a tree when he called parts. submarines to operate in. Many be it the "most dangerous.” The C. I. O. the President for a fuller realization hunter was established while he was T h r e e lo ts Im p ro v e d w it h s to re b u ild . The letter which OPM Director lieved the R.A.F. raids which held Automobile Workers group wanted a by the public of the severeity of the x c e l, still a boy. At the age of 12 he ln < . 26x60 s t K a y v le w , Id a h o E 93,000 the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau ap 10 per cent pay raise and a closed present menace to the Western General Knudsen sent auto makers killed a notorious bear that had le n t chance f o r re s tu n ra n t. w it h 9500 d o w n. parently damaged at their docks in shop. The strike was set for one hemisphere, yet talk of Dakar and that they will have to hold dowm been preying upon the live-stock Brest were responsible in great morning, and three hours before it its vital character brought storms their 1942 car production to 78.5 per of the farmers around Bennington ST A CY. "REALTOR" measure for the fall-off in sinkings. was of protest from non-interventionists. cent of this year’s output, is con and young Scott was brought into ■ T A C T . " B IA L T O B ''. due to break a 24-hour truce sidered only a beginning. Insiders C o ,n r d ’ A l a . , , Id a h o Reports from North Africa tended was announced, and a couple of The first effect of the Dakar in predict that there will be another town in triumph astride the carcass to show the British army of the Nile hours before it was expired the cident was to change vitally the at of the bear. During his hunting ex big cut soon. Wifey (bitterly)—How can you picking up somewhat in verve and peditions, he roamed westward into was settled on a basis of the titude of some “new” non-interven talk that way? You know that I apparently in machines, though strike tionists, including Senator Reynolds LATIN ADMIRALS New York and it was near Lake raise but no closed shop. never pester you for money? some reports showed the supply of pay of North Carolina, who had whooped The state department scored a Bonaparte in the foothills of the The Colt’s strike, tying up $30,000,- HulAiy—No, but the people you tanks to be so low that the British it up against the lease-lend bill, and ten-strike when it finally persuaded Adirondacks that a coon in a tree, in machine-gun contracts, lasted buy things from do. were arming trucks with cannon 00C a day. Tanks were moving off now was being quoted as “not in the navy to invite the chiefs of seeing him approaching, said: "Is and sending them out into the desert only assembly lines, 20-mm cannon for favor of going into Dakar, but prob Latin American navies to visit the that you, Martin Scott? Then don’t in lieu of tanks. ably favoring taking over Mar United States. The junket definitely shoot—I’ll come down!” Tanks were moving off American airplanes were in mass production, tinique and French Guiana.” carried weight. For the United a 3,000-horsepower airplane rhotor At least such a yarn was printed assembly lines, but how many were States navy, without any ifs, ands in a Utica, N. Y., newspaper in BY YOUR LAXATIVK-RELIEVC was said to be “less than a year getting to Britain and especially to away.” H ESS: CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY or buts, is the most powerful in the 1837, and when the New York Sun the Near-East and North African world, and the thing that counts in and other papers reprinted it, it was • W h en you f „ I g a u y , h .ad ac h y , logy In every way it was apparent that Simmering fronts remained a mystery. due to cloggad-up bowala, do aa m illion s South America today is the belief given wide circulation. American industry was “catching Davy There were increasing evidences the d o - t a k e Faan-A M in t a t bedtim e. N e a t Hailed as one of the most terrific that this country can really ward idea” that it was being called Crockett had been killed during the m o rn in g - - thorough, com fortablo relie f, that the British and Nazis were go news stories of all time, the Hess off Nazi invasion. helping you start th e day fu ll o f your Texan war for independence the ing to hook up in a big battle in the upon for a supreme effort in which flight to Britain simmered down Behind the scenes, the man who previous year and, as one of the norm al energy and pep, feeling lik e a United States was challenging somewhat when it became known Near-East, end perhaps this time on the m illion ! P e e n - A - M in t doesn't distu rb helped most to dress the stage for “heroes of the Alamo,” his fame be the world, and was planning to show that somewhat more even terms. your n ig h t’« rest or interfere w ith work the the German claim that he was Latin American admirals was John the world that this country, supreme even greater than it had been next day. TVy Feen A M in t, th e chewing Within a day after the Nazi planes in machines and machine tools, flying on a peace mission and had ny Thomason, better known for his came gum laxative, y o w —lf. I t taatea good, it's moved into Iraq via Syrian air could dominate the world in mili a Messiah complex was at least prolific pen portraits of the marines while he was an Indian fighter, bear handy and econom ical. . . a fa m ily supply hunter and congressman from Ten partially confirmed by the British. dromes, a brief death notice in a tary affairs. (Red Pants, Fix Bayonets, Jeb nessee. So it is easy to see how However, even those who were Berlin paper told of the loss of a the public still Gallup-polled writing the most hotly anti-British Stuart, Salt Winds and Gobi Dust). some of his admirers, knowing the young pilot named Von Blomberg, 79 But Thomason, now a colonel in the per cent against active entry in articles admitted that Germany’s marines, had served in Latin Amer widely reprinted story of Martin son of the Field Marshal, also for the war, and Dr. James B. Conant mer war minister, who was ousted of Harvard said “America doesn’t nose was out of joint, and hinted ica, knew the importance of the ad Scott's “interview" with the coon, Swift Report in 1938 when he married a carpen know it’s in a real emergency.” Odd that a pause in cross-channel activi mirals’ visit. Other U. S. brass hats appropriated it for their hero and at Report, that which no evil thing tributed the incident to Crockett. ter’s daughter. ties might be blamed on the Hess didn’t. Admiral Harold Stark, chief thing pbout the poll was that nearly Commissioned a captain in the of any kind is more swift, in It was not said where Von Blom the same per cent favored all-out flight, and one writer said it was of naval operations, fumed and fret Fifth Rifle Regiment of the United creases with travel and gains the “worst blow the Nazi govern berg died, but the British radio said aid to Britain. ted, only wanted to show the Good States army, Scott’s fame as a strength by its progress.—Vergil. ment had suffered in its history.” it had been determined that he was Neighbors a few East coast stations. marksman spread rapidly. Once he The discovery that Hess had paint At this point Johnny Thomason re one of the first casualties among the OCD: ed toenails and that he was at the marked: “This visit is giving you « demonstrated his sharpshooting Nazi fliers to enter Iraq. Ready to Co , ability by tacking an ace of clubs very least an odd fish caused the London did not try to minimize President Roosevelt was calling British propagandists to moderate pain in the neck. How about letting on a tree and firing three shots at me take it over?” the importance of the Near-East on millions of Americans to enroll in somewhat, and they were treading i it with his muzzle-loading rifle (no M a k e and sell fam ou» M A R V A S h a m Thomason insisted that the trip doubt, the one in the Bennington mu flight, and official circles likened it the civilian defense group, under the softly. poo and H a n d Lo tio n . Profita big. E u . y was important enough to do it right, seum) in a minute and 20 seconds. in scope to the Battle of the Atlantic, banner of a new group of initials, to m oke oa m ix in g a cake. Send $1 they were teasing Germany dem each fo r sim ple recipe an d direction anded m ore e n te rta in m e n t and stated that the British control OCD, meaning the Office of Civilian in But Col. R. B. Marcy, commander of every way they could, and the i fo r m aking. Y o u r profits w ill b u y tom e of the Near-East would be thor Defense. It was expected that results were beginning to show; for I money from the White House and the regiment, examined the target o f th e things y o u 'v e alw ays w anted. oughly defended. Mayor LaGuardia of New York Berlin admitted that seven radio lis- ! got it. At first he worked on the and announced one hit and two O PDFR N O W idea of meeting the admirals with misses. Thereupon Scott called for Word came through that Nazi in would lead the movement. MW-VB PRODUCTS. Box 2S7. F i teners had been apprehended; and U. S. cruisers at Barranquilla, Co an ax, chopped into the tree and fantry units were moving into Syria The plan was to line up men and one had been executed, and all lombia, through the Bosporus, and would be women all over the nation for all that taking them out to the mid- showed three bullets in the single of these cases had occurred after sent to Iraq, undoubtedly well sup sorts of duties from airplane spot Hess’ capture and after the BBC Atlantic to view the U. S. naval pa hole! Stimulating III Will ported by mechanized forces. trol at work. This was given up ting to watching for spies or sabo Scott’s career ended in 1847 when started 10 German-language as too long, and a coast-to-coast in Preparation for war is a con From the British viewpoint, the tage and even keeping an eye on had he was killed, while leading his broadcasts daily on the subject of spection of U. S. naval stations was stant stimulus to suspicion and ill stalemate in North Africa was a prices of commodities. company in the Battle of Molino will.—Jarnos Monroe. Hess. substituted. del Rey in Mexico in 1847. It is planned to build an organiza tion into which millions can be en D IE S : MERRY-GO-ROUND rolled and trained. Before marching away to the war TANKS: The G.O.P.-controlled Kansas in Mexico, Scott visited his boyhood The plan was borrowed whole- Showdown •Plan your stay at legislature hit Rep. Jack Houston, And Killers cloth from England, and has been Martin Dies, head of the commit home in Bennington. He had left it Portland’s newest long Kansas Democrat, with every Even as the first new tanks were Britain's most successful organiza tee investigating unAmerican activi thing but the waterbucket in gerry as a poor and obscure lad. He came hotels, the. . tion, aiding the British more than ties, announcing he was ready for a back rich and famous. According moving from assembly lines, the mandering his district, but he takes army was concentrating on “tank- any other one thing in keeping air showdown on the Communist situa it philosophically. “When a sales to a contemporary account, he re killers” and studying several meth raid casualties down, and thus so tion as it affected men and women man makes good on the job,” he turned in a fine new gig, drawn by ods of combating the armored weap far stalemating Hitler’s efforts to on government payrolls was threat says with a grin, “his territory is in a superb white horse. Following knock Britain out of the war from ening an upheaval. him as an outrider was a Negro on. creased.” the air. slave, Jack, dressed in livery and He claimed to have knowledge • « • Among these were tank-traps, Also of immense value in Britain mounted on a thoroughbred, and 20 land-mines, posts, redoubts armed has been the morale-building effect that his previous report, which 300 U. S. military intelligence places 30 full-blooded dogs of various H om elike rooms I heavily, and mobile artillery, includ- of the civilian defense group, par earned him an official rebuke from the number of German panzer divi or breeds. Scott is said to have paid President Roosevelt, resulted in the 1 sions at not over 20 out of a total from * 2 3 0 per day ' '"C, of course, ta-iks themselves. ticularly tb® ARP workers. $5 a pound for Jack and later freed disbanding o f one organization. w ith bath. B ro ad w a y of 260 divisions. him. an d S alm on S treets I DON’T BE BOSSED F E E N -A -M IN T io f ^ad/ssOSiS PROFITS IIAhfllr