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The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
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SALEM, OREGON
ESTABLISHED MARCH 1, 1888
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!"
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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.
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