Thursday; December 21, 1939
The Capital Journal, Salem) Oregon
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Big Round-Up
Of Reindeer
Being Started
Anchorage, Alaska, Dec. 21 . . -Saint
Nick's immortal Donner and
Blitzen team Is playing second fid
dle in the Alaskan reindeer picture
this Chrlstmastide. Uncle Sam has
taken over the whip-hand.
Charles J. Burdick, special repre
sentative of the department of In
terior, was scheduled to fly to Nome
today to set up the organization for
the greatest reindeer round-up in
north land history. His mission will
be to spend $720,000 for all Uie
animals owned by non-Eskimos.
The purpose of the government
nction Is to establish a herding
program for the natives.
Burdick said he expected his
f rew to stage 50 gigantic round-ups
over 168,000 square miles during
January. The round-ups will offer
the strange combination of modern
science exemplified by radio and
airplane linked with dog teams and
the Eskimos' native resourcefulness.
While 10 radio-equipped round-up
bosses direct the ground work In
diferent sectors, Burdick will scurry
between sectors by airplane, direct
ing activities with his two-way ra
dio. In this land, of winter darkness,
the work will be done by moonlight
to the baying of wolf packs across
the snow. When there is no moon,
there will be no work. Wolves are
expected to be a menace only In the
far northwestern Kotzebue area,
where herders must keep a constant
guard over their herds.
The round-up will be for counting
and division of the unbranded ani
mals, expected to be about two
thirds of the total, among the var
ious owners on a pro-rata basis.
Ickes Summons
Liberal Parley
Washington, Dec. 21 (Secre
tary Ickes said today liberals among
the democrats and republicans
might call a national convention.
some time before the 1940 presi
dential campaign to organize sup
port for whiche-ver party named a
liberal to head lis ticket.
At his press conference Ickes said
that he had discussed such a pos
sibility with Senators Norris (Ind.
Neb.), and LaPollette (Prog., Wis.)
The decision to call the confer
ence might or might not depend
upon whether President Roosevelt
decided to try for a third term, Ickes
said.
"It (the liberal conference)," he
explained, "might be called before
or after the president had announc
ed a decision or it might bo held
after both parties had chosen their
f candidates.
The convention, he said, would not
be aimed at setting up a third poll
tfcal party.
Its primary purpose, he continu
ed, would be to direct support to
whichever party went to the coun
try under a liberal banner.
In event both named "reaction
ary candidates," however, he said
the liberals might be called upon
for a "sacrifice hit,"
Asked to amplify this remark, he
ald the liberals might decide, if
they had nowhere else to turn, to
launch a third party ticket, perhaps
in New York state, with almost cer
tain knowledge of defeat.
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Messenger Boys
May Work Again
Han Francisco. Dec. 21 Decl
aion of 300 Western Union workers
on strike here since September 7, to
return to work under a plan pro
posed by Secretary of Labor Pran
ces Perkins, was promised today by
oficlals of the CIO American com
munications association.
The strikers, by a four to one vote
accepted the peace plan yesterday,
but met again last night to hear a
report or the strike committee on
minor details of rates of pay and
seniority. The committee met with
company officials, who also accepted
the peace plan, yesterday.
Under Secretary Perkins plan,
strikers will return to work without
discrimination pending court action
on a National Labor Relations board
decision ordering dls-establishment
of the independent association of
Western Union employes. The com
pany has contracted with this union
for 21 years.
Most of the strikers are messen
ger boys.
Claim Japanese
Force Isolated
Chungking, Dec. 21 (fP) A Chin
ese army spokesman declared today
that Japanese forces holding Nan
ning, strategic South China military
center, had been isolated and that
the Japanese army was on the eve
of a major defeat In the Nanntng
area.
The spokesman said Japanese
units attempting to advance north
and northeast of Nanning had been
driven back to within ten miles of
the city and that communications
between Nanning and the coast to
the south had been cut.
The Japanese army captured Nan
ning, former capital of Kwangsl
province, November 24 In a drive
from the South China coast In
tended to cut China's highway out
lets to French Indo-Chlna and Brit
ish Burma.
The United States embassy re
celved a telegram from E. C. Zim
merman, formerly of Alton, 111., re
porting a bomb burst within 20 feet
of the Evangelical Lutheran mis
sion residence at Shasl when Jap
anese warplanes raided that port on
the Upper Yangtze river yesterday.
The message made no mention of
casualties.
Mckerson Opposes
Justice Department
Portland, Dec. 21 (P) A proposal
to create a state department of
Justice was opposed today by D. E.
Nickerson, executive secretary of the
Oregon state federation of labor,
"It Is apparent to us that the goal
Is to create an all-powerful official
and that a possible aim Is to take
selection of this official away from
citizens of the state," he wrote to
Hugh A. Scott, executive secretary
of the Portland City club.
The letter said the proposal was
being studied by committees of the
city club and the state bar associa
tion.
"It does not take much imagina
tion," he wrote, "to see that a gov
ernor vested with the power to
select an attorney general, who
would direct all prosecutions, acti
vltles of the state police, the paroli
board, sheriffs and district attor
nevg could be a director In more
tf.an a small way."
Brings German Ship Safe Into Port Captain Frederick Stengler
Is shown getting a light from Sheriff Walter Clark of Broward
county, Fla., Just after he had eluded capture by a British cruiser
by putting the German freighter Arauca Into Fort Lauderdale.
Fla. The British cruiser, cheated of lis prey, stayed outside the
port. Associated Press Photo.
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Stale to Patch
Road Pavement
R. H, Baldock, state highway en
gineer, accompanied by Engineers
Bishop, Smith and Swart of the
state highway department, and
County Judge Siegmund, County
Commissioner Smith and County
Engineer Hubbs this morning, ex
amined the water damage done to
the fill and pavement on the north
river road near McNary corners
and the engineers agreed that the
state will patch the pavement as
soon as it Is sufficiently dried out
and weather is such as to permit.
The road was constructed last
summer from federal funds and
under a contract let by the state
highway department so that depart
ment agreed to do the patching
repairs. It Is estimated that about
100 feet of patching will be required
on the fill in places where the
pavement has been torn out, said
Commissioner Smith. Tills agree
ment on part of the state highway
engineers will permit the road to be
placed back In safe and easily tra
veled condition during the winter,
rather than to await action next
summer with the traffic going over
places patched with rock and gravel
only.
To The Editor: The administra
tions' reciprocal trade treaties serve
only as a clever camouflage for the
free trade, a sort of a "Missouri
treat, you treat me and I will treat
you. Last year the United States,
while asking our farmers to restrict
crops, imported $475,000,000 worth
of the following commodities:
Cattle, dairy products, meat pro-j
ducts, fish, hides and skins, Inedi
ble animals, vegetables, fruit, nuts,
furs, cotton, beverages, Jute, flax,
hemp and ramine, not to mention!
anything about the millions of dol
lars worth of lumber and shingles.
The foregoing are a few samples,
every Item of which could be pro
duced in this country. This year wti I
have excelled the Importations of
last year, and we are still entering!
into trade treaties with more coun
tries on the same terms, and we
continue to pay our farmers to re
strict crops, and wonder why fair
agriculture prices fail to zoom on
our stock market. This kind of a
procedure will serve fairly well so
long as the administration ean con
tinue to bond our country, and op
erate on borrowed capital, and not
worry about our mounting national
debt. But there will come a day
when, If our tariff laws are not
raised sufficiently to protect our
producers, we will plunge head-on
into a complete panfe. Tills country
cannot allow Importing of agricul
tural products. We are capable of
producing more than we can con
sume at home, in fact it's folly for
us to permit Importation of any
commodities that can be produced
here In sufficiency. But the demo
cratic party always did insist on
free trade, and to hoodwink the
public, this time they have clamped
it onto us in a camouflaged manner
in the name of reciprocal trade
treaties, which means paying our
farmers to restrict crops and open
ing up the home market for foreign
dumping. There U no sound sense
in free trading for the U.S.A. free
trade means the countries that can
produce and deliver the cheapest
will capture the market and hold it
for their benefit, which means Un
cle Sam cannot compete.
Respectfully,
R. D. TURPIN.
England Makes
New Type of
Fighting Plane
London, Dec. 21 (U,R) Great Bri
tain is rushing production of a new
type of fighting plane to combat the
two-seater Messerschmidts which
the Germans used In a big five-hour
fight over Helgoland Bay Monday,
It was reported today.
Faster and more powerful than
the crack Hurricanes and Spitfires
of the Royal Air Force, the new
plane already has been tested and
has been put into full production,
it was said.
According to Information so far
made available, it Is a Bol ton-Paul
all metal two-seater, with a multi-
gun turrent mounted behind the
pilot's cockpit. It has a 39.5 foot
wingspread, its fuselage length is
30 feet and it has a 1,000-horse-pow-
er motor.
A second new model, the Black
burn Roc, is destined to play an
important work in the naval aviation
corps. The test model of this plane,
a fleet flight or, was completed sev
eral months ago.
Germany used in the Helgoland
Bay fight its new Messerschmidt
110 two-motored fighters, reported
to have a top speed of 370 miles
an hour, mounting two small can
non and four machine guns forward
and two moveable machine guns In
the rear.
British experts now assert with
more firmness that Britain holds
air supremacy. They say that the
use of the new Messerschmidts to
combat British North Sea patrols
Defeated Lie Detector Carl
Erickson, 25, is shown in a Chi
cago police station after Police
Capt. T. Harrison said he had
confessed to shooting and killing
his one-time friend, Herbert
Wolf, 28, and also had told how
he defeated a lie detector test,
Associated Press Photo.
01 Stalin Cause
Of Celebration
Moscow, Dec. 21 (Pi Soviet Rus
sia celebrated on a large scale today
the sixtieth birthday anniversary of
her leader, Joseph Stalin, who was
eulogized by the press as "the pillar
of hope to the workers of capital
istic states."
As his red army legions fought In
bitter cold in the invasion of Fin
land, a new biography of Stalin was
published by President Michael Ka
linin of the supreme Soviet, describ
inghim as "a happy man who led
one-sixth of the globe to socialism.
He now Is ready to lead them to
communism."
The book was given an Initial
printing of 1,000,000 copies.
A flood of newspaper articles cre
dited Stalin with many achievements
of the Soviet Union, including the
"liberation" of the Ukranian and
White Russian regions from Poland
and pacts with the Baltic states, but
marie no mention of Finland.
The radio and newspapers were
devoted almost completely to the
anniversary.
The council of people's commis
sars resolved to institute in his hon
or 16 annual prizes of 100,000 rubles
each for outstanding work In medi
cine, law. the sciences, arts and the
theatre; similar prizes for the best
inventions and for achievements in
military sclpnce; and scholarships
for 4000 science students.
The newspapers reported that
more than 270,000,000 copies of
books by Stalin had been printed In
almost a score of languages. A con
siderable reader, he writes in Rus
sian, which he speaks with a Geor
gian accent.
Visitors are Welcomed
Lyons Clyde Lewis went to Sa
lem, and with his mother, Mrs.
Frances Lewis, went to Cutler City
where they spent the weekend at
the Floyd Martin home. Mrs. Lewis
will remain for an extended visit.
Miss Beulah Lewis accompanied
them as far as Monmouth where
she spent . the weekend with her
sister. Miss Lucille Lewis, who is
attending Oregon School of Education.
was a sign of weakness. It Is as
serted that the British planes en
gaged In the Helgoland fight shot
down at least 12 of the 24 super
Messerschmidts sent against them.
Germany is seeking young recruits
for its foreign sales organizations.
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