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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1942)
Four The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon CapitalfflJouraal SALEM, OREGON ESTABLISHED MARCH 1, 1888 An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 444 Chemeketa St Teiepnones Business umc oon News Room 3572; Society Editor 3573 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE UNITED flltss SUBSCRIPTION RATES: riaorra. ar.lrW in. Mnnthlv S75! One Year. S9.00 D 1 VJUVIlwiti " . V I " i - , - BT MAIL IN OREGON: Monthly, $.60; Six Months, $3.00; One UNITED STATES OUTSIDE OREGON: Monthly, $.60; Six Months, $3.60; Year, $7.20 mL. A.tna1 Dntci la nvnliici Vulv entitled to the USfi for DUbli 4.110 naavnam - cation of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper, and also local news puDUsnea nerein. "With or without offense to friends or foes I sketch your world exactly as it goes." Red Tarje Poor Substitute It is beginning to look very much as if a majority of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers assigned to Camp Adair are going to have to forego the pleasure of liv ing at home or having their families near them while sta tioned at the camp. With only a small part of the officers so far assigned and with still fewer already at the camp, living quarters in the cantonment area are already at a premium. Corvallis, Albany, Monmouth and Independence, all of which are within the designated camp defense area and en titled to building material priorities, report that practically every availaDle house ana apartment lurmaiicu m mum rilaliPil is rfinted. and the overflow demand is rapidly drain ing the Salem supply. Completion of construction work at the camp and the release of workmen engaged on the job is ex pected to relieve the situation somewhat in the towns close T . . i .1. 1 L - C Mn to the camp out not a great aeai. . mrga pan, ul uicc mu are living on the job in tent camps or in trailers. The government, seemingly unenthused over the idea of having the wives and families of the officers so close to the camp, is doing nothing to expedite the construction of homes for them. From both Corvallis and Albany, despite their defense area ratings, come complaints of difficulty in getting building plans approved by federal housing authorities, securing critical mater ials and of unreasonable limilation of alteration and repair jobs to $500. Rumors of federal rent control being contemplated with the uncertainty as to future ceiling prices, also serve to discourage construction of houses and apartments as investments. Priorities on materials to which they are theoretically entitled in a defense area might as well not exist, according to builders. A Portland housing authority official just re turned from Washington reports that contractors had better reconcile themselves to using cut nails, if they get any at all; that "only wood, concrete and similar types of pipe" will be available ; that steel and iron are out, and that in the fu ture builders will have no choice but will be told what ma terials they can use. They might cheerfully give up or share their homes to house the officers and men in training if that becomes necessary, but householders in the area are not going to feci obligated to do so to provide accommodations for officers' families for whom the government is not inclined to raise a hand. There are undoubtedly many home owners in Salem, Albany, Corvallis and other nearby towns who would remodel to make living quarters for one or two extra families if permllled to do so. Vacant store and office build ings could be converted into apartments and auto courts enlarged if WPB would say the word. The central Willamette valley welcomes the soldiers and their families and, given half a chance, will provide the facil ities to make them comfortable. But we cannot build and renovate dwellings out of red tape and priorities that do not provide. Giant Flying Cargo Planes Coming from a leading industrialist, skilled engineer. big contractor and successful ship-builder, the proposal of Henry J. Kaiser, president of the Oregon Shipbuilding cor poration at Portland, that the nation turn nine of its huge shipyards, including his own, to the mass production of the gi Glen L. Martin 70-ton flying Mars for cargo carrying as an answer to the submarine threat may receive the at tention it deserves from the president and maritime com mission, if not from navy brass hats. Mr. Kaiser slates that 40 such flying cargo ships can be constructed per month from each plant ten months after operations begin. "We can have the assembly line function ing in six months or less." And judging by his record, he knows what ho is talking about. He is not a visionary. The use of giant flying cargo ships is not original with Mr. Kaiser, though he is the first great industrialist to champion it. Their use has long been advocated by leading aeronautical engineers who vision a day when most of the foreign commerce of the world will be thus transported, ships being utilized principally for heavy and low grade goods. Such plans were detailed in full with their possibilities at a recent convention of engineers. One thing certain is that enemy submarines are still sinking merchant ships faster than the United Nations can build them. Planes are being utilized today by the allies in getting supplies to China, as well as by the Germans as troop and munition transports in Russia and Africa. Among the possibilities outlined arc the use of irianl: air trailers with motor-powered planes utilized as locomotives to pull a train of cargo trailers. The Supreme Boon-Doqqle After years of log-rolling and after repeated rejection both houses of congress have passed and sent to the presi dent a $03 million measure authorizing the construction of the Florida barge canal and other waterway and pipeline facilities designed to help relieve the cast coast oil shortage. Of the total, $44 million is to be spent on the canal, $10 million lor a series ot pipelines across Florida, $13 million for a pipeline from North Mississippi to Savannah, Ga., and 4o minion ior extension oi me ljuit coast waterway, be tween Appalachce Bay. Fla.. and Comus Christi. Tex. The gas shortage is thus utilized as an excuse "to help win thn vni'" lur Hium.f imr... ....... ,! M.jnHt.i. ij ..... ..... .,iT Hiiviiuij; iiiuiir , ini;ii mm iiimui mm liucuetl for the war to the bottomless Florida pork barrel. The canal is opposed by a large element in Florida as a menace to the fruit industry by creating a salt water table under the or chards. It can serve no war purpose, for the war will be lost or won long uciore me canal can bo completed. Senator Vandenbcrg says "the country looks upon the Florida canal ns tho supreme boon-doggle of all time." Yet, ii seems we must continue noon-tiogglmg "to win tho war. The Optimists Uv Beck mil rrT.m"it UV UeCK w,rri,nrrTTt-r,rTrnT,tBMsiill ( MAKE US TAKE A BATH ). K&k-MWA '. 1 TONIGHT AFTER THAT igfyMfctSMtlEM, two hour swim in fN SmSMM by Canal Protected Barrage Balloons By Chandler DichI U. S. Army Headquarters, Panama, Canal Zone, July 20. (Wide World) Resourceful United Stales military men have con quered the problems of keeping barrage balloons flying in the tropics and provided the Pan- ama Canal with a new and lm Crater Lake Travel Off 65 Per Cent Medford, Ore., July 20 U.R Travel to Crater Lake National Park has dropped about 65 per cent this year, according to Superintendent E. P. Leavltt, because of tho decrease, the cafeteria has been closed, boat service on the lake has been suspended and tllo bus connec tion to Grants Pass discontinued. The tire shorlnce i In hl.m said Lcavttt, portant defense. Today's balloon barrages denser than those employed by the British in London's defense hover protectingly over vital areas of the Canal defense zone, their lethal cables assuring doom to any axis plane they contact In terrifying supplement (ter rifying for the enemy, that is) are such death-dealing adjuncts as the giant "killer net" and a series of special gadgets (details of which are secret) which promise close to maximum fa talities among uninvited visitors. The balloons were brought to Panama soon after the war start ed. Balloons never previously had been maintained effectively far south, officers said, in tropic winds and rains and heat. But a balloon barrage would add much to canal defense, so the Panama coast artillery com mand of Maj. Gen. Homer R. Oldfield went to work on the problem of maintenance. Today, after six months of testing and experimental adjusting, the bar rage is a proved and permanent defense weapon, and corres pondents for the first time may report its presence. "We've definitely proved that balloon barrages can be main tained effectively in the trop ics," Lt. Col. Horace S. Van Voast, Jr., of Schenectady, N. Y., told correspondents visiting field positions, "and this gives the coast artillery a sixth weapon for use in defending the canal." These weapon, the barrage balloon officer of the Panama command explained, are used in varying combinations to meet various typos of attacks, and the more weapons available, ' the belter the defense. The coast ar tillery's list now includes: , 1. Fixed scacoast guns; 2. Tractor drawn guns; 3. Railway artillery; 4. Anti-aircraft guns, includ ing machine guns; 5. Controlled mines; 6. Barrage balloons. The task ot the balloon bar rage forces, Colonel Van Voast explained, is to deny the area immediately over vital spots to enemy planes, forcing the air craft up high where their at tack will be less accurate and less effective and where they will be vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire and interceptor planes. The air above important can al areas has, in fact, become ex tremely unhealthy for axis fli ers. . Manning Clan Calls Reunion Final preparations have been made by members of the George and Henry Manning clan to hold the second annual reunion Sun day, July 26, at Champoeg state park. A special program has been arranged. Each member is asked to bring a basket lunch sufficient for the family and to notify oth er ' relatives. The committee consists of May Manning, president; Zeta Manning, secretary, and G. J, Moison, vice-president. Kelly Says Pint of Milk Daily For All in the World That's Objective of Henry A. Wallace Chaos Created by Too Many Agencies By John W. Kelly; Committeewomen Not All Organized Portland, Ore., July 20 ttl.R) Seven counties have not organ ized their democratic committee- women, announced Stale Chair man Charles Leach in calling the democratic state central committee to meet in Portland on August 1. The delinquent counlies are Lake, Wheeler, Grant, Malheur, Curry, Umatilla and Sherman. Representatives of the other 29 counties arc expected to attend the meeting. Among business to be trans acted will be the selection of a new slate chairman and other slate officers. Names mention ed for the chairmanship include Fred Fisk, Eugene Washington, July 20. For several days last year the offices of two representatives from the Pacific northwest were hounded by a man with a scheme which he begged them to sponsor as legislation. The west e r n e r s turned down the visitor, but now the same scheme is pro posed by Vice President Henry A. Wallace. . The representatives were asked to offer a bill which would provide a bottle of milk for every school child in the United States, the cost to be de frayed by congressional appro priation. The vice - president's plan makes that proposal look like chicken feed. When peace comes, said Wal lace, and Britain and the United Slates start to impose the "four freedoms" on tho rest of the world, everyone in the world (United States is to feed the world) would be given a quart of milk every day. Later Wal lace revised his statement by re ducing the quart to one pint. This would require, roughly, 400,000 gallons of milk daily for Washington and 250,000 gallons for Oregon consumers. While the cows of the northwest pro duce more than that, the sur plus could be shipped to the Chinese and the myriads of In dia. In Europe goat's milk is the favorite and in Thibet mare's milk is the delicacy, but Wal lace holds out for cow's milk. Hull in Generous Mood Cordell Hull, secretary of slate, proposes sharing every thing in this country with the rest of the nations. No more tariff walls, just free trade, if there is anything to share after the lend-lease and the war. High officials are outlining the post war program rather premature ly in the opinion of high army officers. Professional soldiers predict it will be a long way, but the chairman of the house committee on military affairs hints that the war may end this year (within six months), or in 1943 anyway. These post-war plans for a new kind of world are not im pressing the senate committee on military affairs That commit tee has been combing the Pacific coast to learn what defense preparations have been taken Senator Wallgren ot Washing ton and Senator Holman of Ore gon have been picked to head an expedition to Alaska for look-see. The committee dis tinctly is not satisfied with what they hear is going on in the Aleutians. Holman has already made a confidential report to the committee on what he has found and did not find on the Oregon and Washington coasts (he was there when the Japanese sub marine shelled Fort Stevens) but the committee has not seen fit to release the report. How ever, this Holman report caused Chairman Bob Reynolds to des ignate the special committee to go to Alaska. Reynolds Foresaw It Senator Reynolds ( call me Bob") visited the Aleutians three years ago shot a walrus and a bear and predicted then that Japanese would attempt an invasion via Attu and Kiska if there should be war between Japan and the United States; suggested fortifying these vol canic rocks. Of all the theaters of war, less has been told the American public of the Japanese invasion than any other combat area. For reasons of military strategy the senate committee may make no statement upon their return from the north. There are so many different agencies in government having something to do with rubber that northwest senators have been unable to find a single per son who can give them any def inite information on when there will be material for new tires. The agencies range from Rubber Reserve corporation, a Jesse Jones subsidiary, to the chief of a section of war production board; from department of agri culture to department of com merce. Two oil companies have a single patent but instead of authorizing them to proceed with the manufacture of a syn thetic, a government agency has invited another oil concern to investigate the process and re port whether it is feasible. At a press conference the president said there would be ample rub ber, b"t tires are growing thin ner every day with no relief in sight. West Wants Relief West coasters are wanting to know when they will have re lief. Army and navy officers, diplomats and government offi cials are provided with new tires, but congressmen cannot get a re-tread Gossip says tires and new cars are being sent to South America under the "good neighbor" policy. The secretary of Henry A. Wallace slit open a couple of envelopes and out fell a petition from .the Chehalis Women's Christian Temperance union and another from Port Ludlow and Bellingham (latter signed by 234 people) asking that congress legislate to abolish and prohibit the manufacture, importation and sale of alcoholic beverages for the duration. They were sent to the committee on judiciary and filed with similar petitions from Tacoma, Seattle, Salem, Hillsboro and a score of other Washington and Oregon towns. The committee, which has sev eral hundred of these petitions from everywhere, is taking no steps with them yet. dall, Toledo; Ward Statz, Med ford, and Jack, Summerville who will shortly relinquish the post of U.S. Marshal to Frank Oscar Ken- Hamm of Klamath Falls. 1 G RUSSIA Yr k o ioo gffl yVORONEZH I jTUTEnS belgorod)) kolJv Vpovorino kharkov msk X iWs. 1 stalingpad: X LISICHANSK iv J 1 'VOROSHILOVGRAD I jPOKROvsK t ?pon 1 TA0ANP$Z7 To Caucasus I srpZOS7QV And Oil Heldsl yTea of AiovCj m miss Army Halts Nails at Voroneih Red army counter-attacks In the Voronezh resulted In the recapture of an important point on the northern anchor of tho defense line against the nazi drlvo for the Caucasus oil region and a stubborn defense was maintained by Mar shal Timoshcnko's troops In the vital Boguchar-Migulinsk, Voroshilovgrad and Pok rovsk areas. A withdrawal In the area south of Boguchar, Increasing the middle sector threat by the nnzis, was admitted by the Soviets. Associated Press Photo. Satem Sketches By Will Danch "Believe me, Judge, I wasn't trying to steal Mrs. Arthur TMckman's silverware. My wife just wanted me to find out what kind of material she used in her new kitchen at Silverton!" 0 Novelties In the News (By tho Associated Preia) Choosy Robbers Philadelphia Two men held up Leroy Shields, garage attend ant, took $11.60 from his cash register and picked out a new automobile. "We'll take that too," Shields was told "after you replace those two worn tires on the front." Shields replaced them, and the bandits drove away. Pigeon Potpie Pittsburgh William- Snyder, 58, was haled before Magistrate John J. O'Keefe to explain why he hadn't complied with a sani tary officer's order to get rid of 40 pigeons. "I've been eating them as fast as I could," Snyder told O'Keefe, adding he had only 20 pigeons left. . O'Keefe gave him three days to dispose of the remaining pigeons and suggested Snyder move them away not eat them, Sweet Tooth Banned Pontiac, 111. Threshing din ners won't be the same in down state Illinois this summer. The hot and thirsty harvest hands aren't going to get any iced tea or lemonade and there won't be any pie for desert. Farm wives say it s all on account of the sugar shortage. Spots Spring Valley, III. Spring Valley has 179 licensed dogs and 11 of them are named Spot. Sec ond place, official records show, goes to the 10 named Pal. Other popular canine cognomens are Brownie, Duke, Poochie, Trixie and Blackie. Catholic Day at Champoeg Cancelled stsylon, ore., July 20 oi.ra Champoeg Catholic day, an ev ent which in the past decade has brought Catholics from all sections of Oregon to take part In the program, has been can celled due to the restrictions on travel, according to Information given out here. The event is sponsored annu ally by the Marion County council of Knights of Columbus. except for serious misconduct, Provision is made for appeal. No worker may be suspended for more than three days as a disciplinary measure. unaer mese conauions pro-a duction is booming. Since the--collapse of France in May, 1940, industrial produtcion lost thr ough disputes between employers and employes has equaled one working day for each employe every 15 years. Strikes Cost Little Time Since the beginning of the war total time lost because of strikes has averaged half an hour a year for each worker, ac cording to the British ministry of labor. Such a record offers a ready contrast to World war I. The best year of that period saw strikes cost almost 3,000,000 days of labor. In 1914 10,000,000 work days were lost. What strikes have occurred were settled through the nation al arbitration tribunal, which re- -ceives the dispute after a "cool ing off period" of 21 days. Until several months ago only 148 men, five women and 14 firms nau ueen prosecuiea ior reius- ing to accept the tribunal's rul ings. Disputes decreased sharply after Germany invaded Russia. Labor Situation in Britain Described Editor'! Note Here U the lint of two dispatches showing how Britain has dealt wtlh its war time labor, production and living cost problems. The author returned recently from a tour ot war battle-fronts which Included six weeks in the British Isle. By Virgil Plnkley (United Press stall Correspondent) New York, July 20 (J.R) Wage controls, subsidy payments to keep down the cost of living and price ceilings are an old story in wartime Britain. Through all the changes that have taken place in those economic and so-- cial fields since September 1939 the permanent rights of British labor have been protected. Labor leaders assured me that the workers have approved tem porary suspension of certain rights and privileges in the knowledcge that an axis victory would wash them away com pletely and permanently. In turn labor has demanded and obtained to a largS degree, such contributions from capital as limitations on profits, higher income taxes, improved social and health facilities, increased state control of raw materials, and a stronger voice in factory operations As insurance that old rights would be preserved, the govern ment sponsored and passed ir January, 1942, a bill specifying tnat pre-war standards and prac tices regarding classes of per sons employed, spreading of la bor, and wage-overtime stand ards shall be restored by employ ers, where required by trade un ions, within 18 months after the end of the war. Overtime Much Reduced During the war, however. Bri tish workers draw no overtime on shifts of 48 hours or less weekly, and in many plants over time does not start until a total of 54 to 58 hours, ranging from one-fourth to one-half above nor mal. In some instances double pay is given for Sunday work. Permission has been given for women and young persons to work longer than previously if me national welfare requires. In more than two score fac tories I visited in Britain the shortest shift worked was 48 hours and in most plants the weekly total was 54 to 62 hours, in one lactory l saw women working 77 hours a week, on night shifts as well as by day. It was not light work. They oDer- ated huge cranes 45 feet above blast furnaces. Oil smeared their faces and grime worked into their hands. Blackout precau tions forced them to labor in in tense heat and bad air. Yet they maneuvered huge buckets con taining tons of molten steel and white-hot ingots with the same skill that might have been ex pected of women shifting pots and pans in their kitchens. Living costs have increased 32 to 34 per cent, while basic wages have Increased 26 to 29 per cent and extra pay for overtime about 30 per cent. The percentage of increased pay, including over time, from July to October, 1941, compared to the corresponding period in 1938, was 42.4 per cent. Requests for higher wages are decided by boards equally repre senting labor and Industry. Freezing Successful . Freezing of living costs has been most successful in rents, up 1 per cent, while food has risen 21 per cent, clothing 91 per cent and fuel and light 26 per cent. In the year ended In April, 1942, the government spent $500,000,000 in subsidies to con trol prices and hold livine costs down. There is no statutory limit in profits or dividends. The curbs and checks have been applied In tne excess profits tax, the in come tax and the surtax so that it is indeed rare for anv InHI. vidual to have a spendable net income exceeding $25,000 in any one year. One of the workers' gains hn been protection against dismiss. al for trivial cause. By agree ment of labor, industry and go vernment no essential worker may quit his job without permis sion of the national service of ficer of the ministry of labor and no employer may discharge him, 'I in N. Com'l st Salem Of (Tomorrow's dispatch will tell how British labor is disciplining itself in the interests keeping . production geared to the needs of the country's fighting forces). 25,000 Japs Said On Islets Washington, July 20 mAn- thony J. Dimond, delegate from Alaska, expressed the opinion today that the navy long ago should have given the public a resume of Japanese activities in the Aleutians. Referring to the navy's com munique Friday giving accounts "i operations in the northern Pacific, Dimond said: , "The Japs sent altogether too much power nto the Aleutians for that move to be a mere op eration. I wonder why we had to wait this long 'to find out the facts. It all could have been made public without giving any information to the enemy. As far as the enemy's power is con cerned it doesn't help them if ' we are told what they have." Dimond said it had been re ported to him that the Japs have 25,000 troops on the cap tured islets in the western Aleu tians but that he had been un able to confirm the report. Chile is trying to Induce more dan fishermen to cast nets along lts'' J.uuu miles of coastline. Mexico will build four arlril. tlonal schools for soldiers' child ren, making a total of 20. Why Suffer Any Longer? WHEN OTTTfR9 PAIL. UM our Ohlnrtt remedies Amazing Suc cess (or (000 eart In CHINA No matter with wtitt siimenta fou are AFFLICTED Disorders slntie Itu heart lunsa liter kldneTS. itomaeh saa cnnntlpatlon ulcere diabetes rheumattam, sail and bladder, fever, akin, temala com-tjlalnte Charlie Chan Cfclnta Berk Ce. ornct noiiaa- T.nds, ana Jjl;. a a as i a a n. reanradar anit anda a a.aa ta la.aa a.aa. tWN. Coin'l 8L
