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The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
Wednesday, August 21, 1940
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"With or without of feme to friend or foe
I sketch your world exactly at it goes.
British Planes Superior
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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.
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had spent any time in South
papers are opposed to
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Consequent displacement of farm
ers and farm hands, he said, meant
that many of them would Join the
army of migrants, go on relief oi
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23 MILLION fara of Arrld
have been sold. Tryajartodayl
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Ttm mrt cordially invited
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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?
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