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Four The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Wednesday, August 21, 1940 CapitaljUournal SALEM, OREGON ESTABLISHED MARCH 1, 1881 As Independent Hewipper pubUibed Everj Alwmoon Cier.pt SondM t 444 Cnemekete 8t relepbonu Bualneaa Offlot 8571 Newt Room SS72: Bodetj EdJtoi 5571 OEORGB PUTNAM. FVU. LEASED WIRB SERVICE Of THE ASSOCIATED FBES8 AND THE UNITED PRESS SUBSCRIPTION BATES BX CAERlEBi WeeU, 1.15; Monthly, 1.60; One Teai, tIM. B1 MAIL IN OREOONi Monthly, .60; Sbr Months, $2.60; One Year, WOO UNITED STATES OUTSIDE OREOONI Monthly. $.60; 81 Montlu. 13.00; Year. 18.00. The Associated Pre, la exclusively enUUed to mo use for publication of all newi dtapatchea credited to It or not otherwise credited In thU paper and also local newi published herein. "With or without of feme to friend or foe I sketch your world exactly at it goes. British Planes Superior ii u. n. it seems tu uc me twuciiouo .. - the British and American planes utilized in the war are superior to those utilized rjy me nemmns. j -- have been built on a mass production basis for quantity ana -j. i.-i... a. i. n , nnmhora wVinf. t.hpv lack in naviira- tion equipment and gadgets. leader ot a mgnt nas a piane piupcuj chuw - -others merely follow, so that if the master plane is destroyed, the others must turn back, which is said to account for the fact that a few British fliers can out maneuver and turn back a squadron many times their number. Another reason for British superiority in performance in the air is because of superior fuel and lubricating oil, the higher "octane number" developed by American engineers for British and American oil companies. Air speeds of 250 to 400 miles an hour are impossible without special gasoline. mi.. j..innMAt- nf tiirrh trmAa aviation pafloline has been gradual. In 1928 airplane gasoline used had about 60 octane rating, as tne octane numueis iuac, uic cubio more power for each pound of weight. Since then the octane number has been raised to first 87, which meant 33 per cent increase in power, then to 100, another increase of 30 per cent in power, reducing take off distances 20 per cent and increasing climbing speeds 40 per cent. Germany's best aviation gasoline is that obtained by causing hydrogen to combine chemically with the gas ob tained from coal and coal tar. Its octane rating is 72 to 75. By adding tetraethyl lead, the rating is raised to 87. But many of the German planes shot down were supplied with 67 octane rating gas, while the British rating is above 100. Moreover lubricating oil for high rating gasoline must be correspondingly better and Germany is unable to produce the quality needed. Still Playing Grudges That the president, despite his declared aloofness from politics, plays it at every opportunity to visit his grudges is shown by his attack on Roy Howard, head of the Scripps Howard chain of newspapers, who he identified as the only private individual he had in mind when he said in his third term acceptance address that with one exception, the persons he had asked to help in the defense program had agreed to do so, ',. . The president said he had asked Howard to go to South America by plane, on a 4U-day trip, and meet editors ana government officials he knew when he represented the United Press there. Mr. Roosevelt said he asked Howard to talk to them confidentially, on behalf of the United States, and find out what their own personal opinions were on liitn column activities. Howard is now in the orient on an assignment from his newspapers but his editor in chief quotes from a letter written by Howard to the president on June 5. In it Howard states that it was 20 years since he America and that he had lost "contacts with the politics and the personalities of the continent," concluding his declination with: "No personal considerations ever have or ever will Interfere with my rendering to you, or anyone In your position, any public service for which I am qualified." The independent Scripps-Howard a third term and are supporting Wendell Willkie for presi dent. It was on Howard's yacht that Willkie sailed to New York from the republican convention, which accounts for the singling out of Howard as a horrible example of the nn patriotic citizen. Doubtful Economy The city council should scrutinize and consider carefully and be cautious in adopting the suggestion that the disposal as well as the collectoin of garbage be farmed out to private individuals under contract, a system which would materially weaken the city s control over sanitation service. Proponents of the change a saving in municipal expense, and would eliminate the need for extensive repairs to the municipal incinerator as well as obviate the threatened necessity of buying additional ground lor Durying incombustible retuse and waste. The fallacy of the argument lies in the fact that some. one must pay the cost of disposing of this refuse and, if the city does not do it out of general tax levies it must be paid out of charges made by the private contractor against in- uiviuuai customers, nucn a set-up encourages citizens and business and industrial establishments to economize on dis posal expenditures, often to the detriment of nnhlic health. The experience of other cities with the contract garbage disposal has seldom been satisfactory. In most cases it has resulted in negligence due to lack of proper control, higher iv luuiviuuni Glutens mm even in grait encouraged oy the monopolistic nature of the system. Salem itself has had difficulty in making licensed garbage haulers live up to prescribed terms. Evacuation of Somaliland Because of the necessity of defending more strategic places and especially concentrating the mass strength of the nation m Britain to resist Hitler's threatened blitzkrieg in vasion, the British have been forced to withdraw their small garrison in British Somaliland menaced by superior Italian forces. But outside of its probable effect on Italians, Arabs and native African troops, the victory is an empty one for Mussolini, for it docs not effect British control of Aden and the Red Sea. Somaliland is a hot, inhospital, barren desert region. It was the land of Pont described in the inscriptions of an cient pharoahs from which the Egyptians obtained supplies of myrrh, frankensence, cassia gum, and other products used in embalming and religious rites. Its population is nomadic, a racial mixture of Hammites, Negroes and Arabs, princi pally Mohammedan in religion. British military experts hold that Mussolini will have to take an offensive designed to break British naval power in the seas linked by the Suez canal to save his Ethiopian forces from eventual strangulation by the British blockade. EdlUu ma Publisher a nf nnininn nf flhSCTVerS that It is reported that only the had spent any time in South papers are opposed to this important health and argue that it would effect ! Life at Its Lowest Ebb HHnBraBsBa By Beck dmsasBEanUBn g?gggSf OF YOU TO BRING ME TH6 J s ICE CREAM. BUT MY r-"' -) DOCTOR HAS ME ON A S SSSSH STRICT DIET . HOWEVER, I l i I CAN TALK. AND , ' . I THERE'S SO MUCH I ) GOSH - vANT TO TELL SHE'S GONNA i N YOU , J LET IT SIT t )' J ' 1 THERE ANO ! ips ror By Don It's going to be fun for the old- timers around here who can get close enough to Charley McNary next Tuesday to watch the ex presslon on his face when he gets notified that he's been selected as the vice -presidential nominee for the republican party. As a rule, Charley has a pretty good poker face and can take these sudden surprises and shocks with an im mobile countenance. But no mat ter what may be said about the vice - presidency, after all there's only one vice-president of the United States at a lime, and to be picked for it out of 130,000,000 peo ple Is something. So to sneak up on a man when he's not even think ing about It and suddenly tell him he's apt to be vice-president of the United States right out of a clear sky, there's but few who would look surprised, no matter how strong their character. So we can hardly wait to be a kinda 'little mouse in the corner and watch Charley when they spring this on him. Us boys are sure going to havo fun, But that's not the worst of it for Charley. After they spring tills on him, he's supposed to come right back without a chance to think and Novelties In the News (By the Associated Press) It Ain't Hay Louisville, Ky. Dr. Donald M. Bennett, University of Louisville physics professor, found a needle In a stack a $105 radium needle In a stock of ashes. A hospital misplaced the needle (used for cancer treatment). Dr. Bennett was called in with a radium detecting Instrument. He poked around the grounds for two hours, when he neared the ash uue, there was a clicking sound In ills earphones. Digging did the rest. Forethought Beaufort, S. C When a rescue party in the recent hurricane found an old negro woman In the loft of her Inundated cabin with a 150- pound pig In her lap, she explained : "Ah bin t'rough de storm of 1893 and me and mah family most starve to death so dis time ah aln' mean to starve.". Count 'Em Lamed, Kas. W. B. Oonard has figured out how many grains of wheat are in a 60-pound bushel: 480,000. Conard didn't count them all- just the number In the first ounce, then resorted to multiplication. Cozad Badly Hurt. Wife Loses Life Klamath Palls, Ore., Aug. 31 (U.R) Gary B. Cozad, Klamath Palls, was In a hospital today recovering from severe injuries suffered In an automobile accident Sunday which took the life of his wife, Mrs. Gary B. Cozad. The car missed a curve at the bottom of a steep street In Klam ath Falls and plunged over a bank Both occupants were thrown from the vehicle. Mrs. Cozad died of severe shock. I Si supper Upjohn give an acceptance speech. In the first place, If he isn't going to be notified until next Tuesday, how do they know he's going to accept? It'd sure be a joke on the boys if Charley would come back and say, "Thank you gentlemen for your kindness, but while I'm here I'm going to hang around and go to the state fair, fish for trout In the home trout pool and help harvest the filberts." This would kinda give the visiting firemen a Jolt and make a great newspaper spread. So the home folks are going to be on tender hooks until they find out how Charley looks and what he says when this monkey business is sprung on him. Feminine Sense of Humor Denver (U.R Police feared today more telephone calls from a pleasant-voiced young lady with a dis torted sense of humor. Because of telephone calls by the humorist last night residents of one block were honored with In terruptions by: 1. Hearses from four mortuaries. 2. Cars from 18 taxi companies. 3. A fire department pumper. 4. A public service company trou ble crew. The various vehicles responded to reports by the caller of dead persons, car passengers, smoke-filled houses, and "no lights." They found alive but Irate neighbors, no passengers, neither fire nor smoke and homes well-lighted. Oh, well, girls will be girls. Plane Makers Help Uncle Sam Washington, Aug. 21 (U.PJ The presidents of five of the nation's largest aircraft companies said to day In a joint statement that air plane manufacturers "have offered and will continue to give the govern ment every resource and facility at their command" In the interest of national defense. "We are ready to build airplanes first and talk about profits after ward," they said. "To this end the industry Is making rapid progress." Tne statement was signed by President Donald W. Douglas of the Douglas Aircraft Co.; Robert E Gross, president of Lockheed Air craft Co.; President P. G. Johnson of Boeing Airplane Co.; B. W. Mil lar, president of Vulture Aircraft, Inc., and R. H. Fleet, president of consolidated Aircraft Co. It was made public after It was revealed that army and navy offl. clals had told members of the sen ate deficiency appropriations sub committee, considering the 15.008.- 000,000 "total defense" bill, that the two services had been unable to place orders for 5275 airplanes be cause manufacturres objected to statutory limitations on profits. SPECIAL Brake Reline Fords . . . Chevrolets Plymouths Ate. Sp.elal Price, en Other Makes ( Caret Complete Brake Reline $g95 Instant Credit Budget Terms Tirt$totte STORES Center & Liberty St, Salem, Ore. Kelly Says: Oregon Strength for Willkie-McNary Shown New Leadership Gives GOP Courage All Groups Sounded By Political Writer By John W. Kelly Washington, D. C Aug. 21 For the next few days this column will be devoted to the political situa tion in Oregon as affecting the presidential campaign. The assump tion that Oregon will be carried by the WIUkle-McNary ticket be cause Oregon's Charles McNary Is the vice-presidential nominee Is challenged by new dealers while some republicans express doubts when they think of the smashing majorities Mr. Roosevelt has had In his two previous contests. To get at the heart of the Ore gon situation opinions have been solicited and received from many of the smartest political observers in the state. . These observers cov er the range from labor leaders and labor rank and file to Jeffer- sonlan democrats, new dealers, of fice holders, professional and busi ness men, practicing newspaper men and farmers. They constitute a cross-section of the men (and wom en) who take an active Interest in matters political. A symposium of the views of this cross section should be a fair re flection of what is going on in Oregon's composite mind political ly. Buttons Everywhere The first tiling that Impresses a visiting political writer is the presence everywhere of Willkie-Mc Nary buttons and the absence of Roosevelt buttons. In 1036 a Lan-don-Knox button was a rarity: it required fortitude and recklessness to be seen wearing one. In that campaign four years ago every Ore gon highway carried a stream of traffic in which threo out of every five cars carried a banner on the bumper proclaiming "Roosevelt for President." The other two cars were not decorated with Landon streamers. It may well be that the new deal organization has not been furnished with buttons, streamers and pictures of Mr. Roosevelt, although at tills time (August, 1936), they were, as stated, everywhere present on coat lapels, on automobiles and In the windows of homes. Visually, whatever the reason, re publicans are making the best dis play In Oregon at the moment. Possibly the kicking out of Jim Far ley by the White House inner cir cle and reorganization of the na tional committee has delayed the buttons and other display adver tising. All Business Hurt Observers state that business and professional men and their em ployes are practically 100 per cent for Willkie and McNary. This was not true in 1936. At that time there was little enthusiasm for the Landon-Knox ticket: Landon did not click, and Knox (now In Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet), denounced without qualification everything the Roosevelt administration Is doing. Many business men approved of some new deal objectives. Repub lican party workers had little heart in the cause, recognizing that they were doomed to defeat. Big business, which has been a whipping boy for the new deal, Is actually little business, for pun ishments meted to so-called big business has hurt also the little fellow. In the past four years lit tle business has flt th ef-tn Hons whloh have curbed initiative and handicapped expansion. These are matters which have changed the sentiment, nf th small ..- chant and shifted him to the re- puoncan side. Strikes Hurt FDR Troubles with labor hav onntrl- buted to costing Mr. Roosevelt mucn employer support. In large part this trouble has come through government agencies, such as the national labor relations board. t $1.83 ' 1 -eeWaSi MCfl 1 I 3UndetTW,ut.. IEKft I I Mill IHllHllfM" Mini ii iiMI CONTINENTAL DISTILLING CORPORATION PHILADELPHIA, PA Ram Sale at Pendleton is Big Affair Pendleton, Ore., Aug. 21 (JPh- While workmen In four shifts began con struction of the concrete grand stands for the Round -Up grounds to replace the one destroyed by fire Thursday night, at another end of the grounds another important ac tivity was under way today. With the Oregon ram sale sched uled to be held here Friday with A. W. Thompson, Lincoln, Neb., and V. R. Runnlon of Heppner ,as auc tioneers, a 50 percent Increase In entries has necessitated enlarging pens, auction space and carpenters are in high gear In preparing for the sale. The ram sale, sponsored by the Oregon Wool Growers' association, will see 750 go on the block, com pared with 500 last year, said Walter Holt, association secretary, of Pen dleton. New owners offering rams this year Include Guy Chandler of E3 lensburg. Wash., Prank Brown.. Jr. of Carlton, Ore., Fred W. Hicks of Corbett, Ore., Jimmle Riddle of In dependence, and Roland Thomas of Hilgard, Ore. Others here before and returning this year include: H. G. Avery, Paul Knautz and H. J. Speckhart of La Grande; A. I. Eoff of Salem; F. L. Fayer of Elgin, Clayton Fox, Im bler; Stanley Green, Stan field: Kirkman Co., Walla Walla; Mike Royes, Summer ville; T. S. Teeter. Imbler; Dave M. Waddell, Amity; B. F. Burroughs, Homedale, Idaho; Alex Cruikshank, McMinnvllle; Floyd T. Fox, Silverton; C. K. Ped ersen and Floyd M. Edwards, Al bany; Howard Raser, Walla Walla. Jay M. Reynolds, Corvallis; Mrs Lulu M. Ross, McMinnvllle; KUian Schmidt, Beaver Creek; Harms Bro thers, Canby: Glenwood Farm. Port land; John K. Madsen, Mt. Pleasant. Utah; and Frank Frazler and Cun ninRham Sheep Co., both Pendleton. The sale will begin at 10 a.m. Auto and Truck Sales Increase Detroit, Aug. 21 (P) The Auto mobile Manufacturers' association estimated today that retail sales of passenger cars and trucks during the first seven months of 1940 numbered 2,524,841 units, an increase of 28.3 percent over the comparable period last year. There has been general agreement on the Wagner labor act but the peculiar and frequently unfair deci sions of the board in administer' ing the law are the seat of the dis satisfaction, and the board has cre ated discord where formerly per fect harmony and good will existed between the boss and the workman, These are matters which did not enter into the campaign of 1 but now must be reckoned with in a time when every vote counts. On the surface, therefore, It looks as though the employing class is with Willkie and McNary. This Is out one of several groups and Is not sufficient of Itself to determine the outcome In Oregon. Equally important are the farmers of Ore gon, the democrats and, of course. labor, which has more ballots to deliver than any other group. wnat experienced observers of each of these groups think of the contest between the new dealers and the republicans will be set down in order. They voice the drift whatever it Is of Oregon In the campaign and can be accepted as the considered judgment of men and women who know their par ticular iieids. r Convenient.. Shipment of packages, Urge or small, is quick and easy with Railway Express. We call for mod deliver at no extra charge in all cities and principal towns. Rates are economical, too, and include receipts and insurance. For (auiwapccu spciuy Air r.xpresj. Phone us. ..or Western Union, RAILWAY&&EXPRESS NATION-WIDE RAIL-AIR Sa(em belched byWillDcnch "May I borrow an adding machine? I want to figure out how long I'd have to leave a quarter in at compound Interest before I can buy a nice new car like Frank Perry has!" 70,000 Farm Units Disappear Chicago, Aug. 21 iff) An estimate that 70,000 farming units had "dis appeared" in the last five years in five cornbelt states Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio was giv en by an expert today to the con gressional committee on Interstate migration. P. G. Beck, of Indianapolis, di rector of the farm security adminis tration's region 3, comprising those states, said the estimate, which he termed "conservative," was based on preliminary census data and county assessors' reports on reduction of the number of farms. Enlargement and consolidation of farms because of mechanization. deterioration of land resources and failure of farmers to "make a go of it" through lack of ability or re serves beyond their control were given, In Beck's prepared statement,' as principal reasons for the decline. 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Ttm mrt cordially invited H tht Belt System exhibit Golden Gate Fair THEpl!AiS,FI9J,?tE1: uuonirao uimc im oiaie WPA. or live precariously close to starvation levels. "Every time a farm unit disap pears, there is a farm family which must provide for itself elsewhere," Beck satd. "Many people so dislo cated will become interstate mi grants, and their ranks will be swelled by farm laborers who, as well as farm owners and tenant fnrmors hnvo hflnn 'tractorori (iff the land." Child Killed by Auto Portland, Aug. 21 (&) Two-year-old Leonard Honey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Honey, Aloha, wai killed last night in an automobile accident on Cooper mountain near Bcavcrton. By JACK HUBBARD I see Jim Farley has been moved from the stamp depart ment to the soda pop counter. He leaves his Job as Postmaster General on Aug. 31 to take over sales promotion for Coca Cola. He is also negotiating to buy the N. Y. Yankees baseball team. That's a nice combination baseball and soda pop. Baseball umpires In the Yankee stadium can count on having nothing to dodge except Coca Cola bottles and plenty of them. Big Jim has done nice job of promot ing the Democrats, so his new Job ought to be a cinch. Every body has to drink no matter what party they belong to. Ex-President Herbert Hoover Bpcnt hla 66th birthday fishing In Montana. He should have stayed home who ever heard of putting candles on a grilled trout? You'll bo amazed at the big trade-In allowance you get nt Hubbard's. If you're In the market for a new car Just see us. Torma are made easy for you because we do our own financing. Let us give you a trial ride in a new Dodge or Plymouth. See our selected itock of used cars. Get our prices and terms then buy where your money will do you the moat good. HUBBARD MOTOR CO. Dodge A Plymouth Dealer Chcmekcla & High Sts. Phona 4119 "On the Corner" The telephone is a good thing to use. It's friendly. Intown.it V3 AND TELEGRAPH COMANT oi. Phone 3101 Si
