Wednesday, August 26, 1942
Four
The Ccpital Journal, Salem, Oregon
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Yankees of Latin America
Tho wnrlrl war and its dcvcloninir events make extreme
y timely a book just issued entitled "Argentina: the Life
Story of a Nation," by John W. White (Viking.) The au
thor was an American newspaperman in Latin America lor
25 years, for 12 of them in Buenos Aires. The book is both
a historical survey ana an economic, social auu cmvuiu
planation of Argentina to North Americans.
Argentina is 2300 miles lone, and has over 13 million in-
Tiahitants. Thev have ambition, industry and efficiency.
They don't like Americans and
a minority rule .of force with
to the large German and Italian
The Argentines arc handsome, well dressed, cultural and
polite, save in public, where their rudeness to each other is habit
ual and grim. The Argentine "has no sense of humor, never laughs
at himself, and Heaven help the man who laughs at him!" Their
worst traits, Mr. White points out, are exactly the same as those
they criticize in North Americans. "They arc materialistic, im
perialistic, hypocritical, overbearing and insincere.- Like North
Americans, they arc moneyconscious and forever talking about
the price of things.. Like North Americans, they talk too loudly
in public places."
Argentina's pro-axis neutrality, Mr. White thinks, has
points of resemblance to pre-Pcarl Harbor isolationism in the
United States. It represents the policy only of the "reaction
ary conservative class which seized the government by revo
lution in 1930," which is trying to suppress the democracy
desired by the majority. Some 2000 land-owning families
contribute the backbone of the conservative party, hence
they back Castillo in the presidency, support the fascist and
nazi organizations and permit .Buenos Aires to be the center
of axis propaganda and espionage in the western hemisphere.
An allied victory would change the situation overnight,
says Mr. White, and find the conservatives scrambling back
in the demderntic fold to maintain power.
Regulating Off-Shore Fishing
Senator McNary has introduced a bill, backed by the fish
and wildlife service, to control all off-shore fishing off the
west coast of the United States, the first attempt to extend
regulation beyond the 3-milo limit. Attempts by the coastal
states have been ineffective because of a lack of uniformity
m their laws.
Unregulated trolling is depleting salmon, the most valu
able of Our fish. The trailers take many immature fish which
means a great loss in poundage,
in the days at sea before they enter rivers.
Federal control in Alaskan waters has preserved and in
creased the salmon pack there. Similar measures by British
Columbia are increasing the Frazicr river sockeyc runs. The
halibut was saved from depiction by international agree
ment for regulation, but there has been no effective control
of salmon fishing in our northwest coastal waters.
The proposed legislation will establish regulation through
control of deliveries. A nominal license fee will be impos
ed on all boat fishing off-shore, and without such license
no boat may deliver fish into United States ports. After a
study by federal fishing authorities, regulations governing
gear, seasons and areas, are to be put into effect and viola
tions will cause cancellation of the license.
Whether the bill is enacted
invested in the president will
all off-shore fishing,' for fish
the food supply of the army,
Willkie's World Tour
'There are .many surmises as to why Wendell Willkie
is going to Russia and the far and middle cast, and many of
the political-minded interpret
rum lrom participating as titular head of the republican
party in the New York gubernatorial cnmuaiirn for nominee
Dewey, in whose support lie
the candidate s pre-Pcarl Harbor
However, there is no reason to believe Willkie is actuat
ed by any other motive thnn the patriotic ones he announced,
as the representative of tho president to convince our allies
of the sincerity of our war effort in behalf of the United Na
tions, as leader of the opposition party and representative of
a united people his visit will bo salutatory and convincing, an
impressive witness to the strong purpose of the United Slates
to do its utmost to aid our allies and attack the common
enemy.
Willkie's visit to England awakened a popular response
and convinced the British that America was in earnest in an
all-out war. History will probably repeat itself, despite the
difficulties of language, for Willkie is a vigorous, forceful,
energetic man. There arc probably many things he can tell
them that our official propagandists l.avc overlooked, and
that the Russians, Chinese and others want to know.
Bears Would Keep
Record Intact
Chicago, Aug. 26 M' Chica
go's big bad Bears, the profes
sionals who never have lost a
football game In all star com
petition at Soldier Field, nrc
taking every precaution in pre
paring for their fourth venture
against tho Collegians Friday
night.
For one thing, owner-coach
George Halas has decided to
keep his starling lineup a secret
until game lime.
For another, he has had Clark
Shaughnossy, his frequent col
laborator on T formation plays
and a precision expert, super
vising drills at (he Bears' Dcln
field, Wis., camp.
Most of all Halas has had the
Bears gelling in plenty of de
Editor and Publisher
their present government is
a fascist basis, due largely
population, air. w nue says .
as salmon double their weight
or not, the wartime powers
probably be invoked to control
are an important essential in
ns well as civilians.
it as a political move to keep
has been lukewarm because of
isolationism.
fensive licks. The Bears or
dinarily don't worry loo much
about what the other team is
going to do. Their tactics are
based on maintaining possession
of the ball most of the time. De
fensive drill was designed lo
stop, among others, Bill Dudley
of Virginia, who ran wild in all
star practice last week.
EOCE Opens Grid
Practice Sept. 17
LaGrandc, Aug. 26 (!) East
ern Oregon College of Educa
tion will start football practice
September 17, Coach Bob Quinn
announced today.
Expecting a sizable crop of
lctlcrmcn back in his lineup,
plus outstanding high school
graduates, Qulnn said he was at
tempting to lino up games with
several service learns. Inrlnrilns
the Pendleton air base eleven,
The Reprieve
sxSm By Beck m
BUN.KITTyJ JH -f-JfYM i. THC CHILDREN )
BEir VHlliry ,-U&. vJLlS ) THINK ITS
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By Don
We've watched in vain for Art
Perry, Medford columnist, to
make some comment on a cap
tion which appeared under a cut
in a Portland paper a few days
ago. The picture showed the
soldiers at the cantonment do
ing their stuff in the Medford
neighborhood under what the
caption hailed as "conditions
ideal for desert warfare." Ap
parently even Art has been
stumped on that one, he being
leading exponent of Medford as
being the heart of the Garden
of Eden. It seems, aflcr all
maybe Medford is only an oasis.
We can assure. Art, however,
they'll have a heck of a time
trying to locale any conditions
in this here valley ideal for des
ert warfare. They're going to
have a hard time up this way to
keep the wings from sprouting
on the shoulders of the boys as
signed lo this earthly paradise.
Although we'll admit we've been
Novelties
In the News
(By the Assoclntrd Tress)
Good Example
Knoxvillc, Tenn. When the
Tennessee Valley Authority
completes its giant Fonlana dam
in 1944, there won't be any
Japan that is, Japan, N.C.
The unincorporated mountain
town will be 50 feet beneath the
waters of Fonlana reservoir.
Japan is in Graham county near
Bryson City, N.C. TVA officials
don'l know how the village came
by its name.
What?
Los Angeles An employe re
ported to police Hie theft of a
16-gaugc shotgun.
From the information desk of
Almee Semple McPherson's An
gcius Temple.
Lure of the Siren
Seattle They'll ask the police
to make him walk, next time,
Twice now pajama-clnd Jimmy
McDaniel, 3, has scooted away
from home before his parents
awakened in the morning. The
last time, police found him two
miles away on a borrowed tri
cycle. Said his mother, "he's thrilled
lo death at his ride home in a
police car. We're afraid he may
make a habil of it."
Wonderful Destruction
Spokane G u s Diakoumcs
read that Americans had bombed
his native Tylos, Greece.
Ho rushed down lo buy $1,200
worth of war bonds so they can
do 11 again,
"All Greeks feel as I do," he
said.
Bond Purchases to
Ease Readjustment
Portland, Ore., Aug. 28 (U.B
Frugal living and purchase of
war bonds now will ease the re
adjustment after the war, James
J. Hunter, president of the Bank
of California, advised here yes
terday. "We are piling up a govern
mcnt debt that will spell travail
and tribulation beyond imagina
tion when the day of reckoning
comes," said Hunter.
He said he was sympathetic
toward the principles of farm
parity but that forces which
drive up the basis of parity
seemed allied with the move
ment, Increasing the cost of farm
labor and the things the farmer
buys.
supper
Upjohn
around here for a long lime and
there are not ,evcn any stubs
showing yet.
Double Murder
(Editor & Publisher)
The following letter was re
ceived by the Alexandria (La.)
Town Talk:
"forest Hill, La.
"a tempted lo muder and sui
cicd a curd at Long leaf, la. at a
bout 8 oclock this moring. ben
procieu a neggro 45 years old
stab his comin law wife 6 lines
with a buch kife and when she
was sick, up and taken her to
doctor. W. c Guntcr, depty
sherif was notifed of the a fair
and the oficer went to the sean.
he screh the neggro home findin
him gon. the oficer was told
lha the neggro was seen leav
the hous goin lo a swamp behin
his hous with a gun. the oficer
went in the swamp an foun the
neggro iin in a pool of blud with
a bucher kife in his hand, he
had stab his self 8 lines with a
large kite, the sherif' call the
chcrity hoslillal at pineVille and
sent ben to hospitlal. no hopes
held by the dr. for him. stabed
in the lungs and also throt."
If Adam and Eve could only
have known what would be hap
pening in 1942 the apple prob
ably would have rotted on the
twig.
Our battalion of sidewalk
swecpersoff on the south side of
Stale street slopped work and
stared with envy the other a.
m., when Fay Rice, acknowl
edged sidewalk sweeperoff for
the north side of that street ap
peared with a new broom about
three feet wide, took about 10
swipes at his section of sidewalk
and disappeared in his store, the
job done for the day. That's
about the first stroke of real pro
gress we've seen in sidewalk
sweeping oft hereabouts for a
long lime. Now the other guys
are wondering where he got his
priority.
Cliff Lewis informs that he
was standing In his yard out on
State street the other afternoon
when a big crow landed on an
cave not more than 20 feet dis
tant and began to talk to him.
"Crows aren't very sociable as
a rule," says Cliff, "and he kind
of surprised me with his friend
liness. I didn't understand ex
actly what he said, but evidently
he was trying lo toll me some
thing. Maybe somebody has lost
a pet crow in these parts."
Police to Enforce
40 Mile Speed Limit
Governor Charles Spiague,
criticizing the apparently apa
thetic attitude of many Oregon
motorists toward Hie 40-milc war
time "speed limit," said today he
would ask state police to "crack
down" on speeders.
The governor, concerned over
the misuse of tires by fast driv
ers, said motorists were in need
of a reminder that their tires
would have lo last for the dura
tion and that the reminder
would be furnished in part by
stricter police supervision.
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Kelly Says
Soldiers Not Given
Leave to Pick "Hops
DeWilt Against
Hiring of Japanese
Campaign by Unions
Faced by Alcoa
z By John W. Kelly
Washington, Aug. 26 No sol
diers" will be given furloughs to
pick hops in Yakima valley or
Willamette valley, says Henry
L. Slimson, secretary of war,
and anyone who has entertained
such an idea may as well forget
it. The business of a soldier,
sapiently observes Secretary
Stimson, is soldiering. The
same reply goes for the orchard
isls of the northwest, who have
been suggesting that soldiers be
granted permission to pick fruit.
The soldiers, it is asserted, are
willing to pick up a few dollars
on the side working in hop
fields, orchards or even kicking
polatocs out of the soil cast of
the Cascades.
Heretofore migratory labor
has been used in the northwest
to handle various crops, but this
year while some migratory la
bor camps are available, there is
a shortage of several thousand
workers. Mexican labor is now
permitted to enter the United
States, under arrangement with
the department of state, but
Mexicans although common in
California and the sugar beet
fields of Idaho have never pene
trated into Oregon and Wash
ington, No for Japanese
There is persistent and con
tinued demand of some ranch
ers that the evacuated Japanese
be employed in the harvest. Gen
eral DeWilt, in command of mil
itary operations on the coast, has
said no with emphasis. For in
stance, in the Pacific northwest
there is a relocation camp now
occupied by 16,000 Japanese,
with the number increasing.
Several thousand of these aliens
and native born are experienced
agriculturists and would wel
come opportunity to work. Near
by is one of the largest potato
acreages in the area. Some 3000
or 4000 people will be required
to dig the potatoes and they are
not available. The department
of agriculture . -oposes that,
rather than see millions of bush
els of spuds rot in the ground
at a time when food is so valu
able, it will make an appeal
lo General DeWilt to permit the
hiring of Japanese.
In that vicinity lives a ranch
er well known and respected by
his neighbors. He has three sons
in the service, boys .who grew
up in Ihe district and were
popular. One was killed by the
Japanese at Wake island, a sec
ond was killed on Bataan pen
insula; the third is in the army
somewhere. Father of these
dead heroes has sworn that he
will shoot on sight any Japan
ese he finds outside the reloca
tion center. There is the mak
ings of a bad situation, with
bloodshed, for the father has
neighbors who sympathize with
him (their own sons are in the
service) and the Japanese evac
uces are unarmed, all firearms
having been taken from them.
Who Flashed
This Light
In The
I Blackout?
San Francisco is blacked
out Suddenly a light
flashes from a home
high in the hilly resi
dential district. Is it a
signal to enemy air
craft? Is it the work of
a fifth columnist? How
much docs the fifth col
umn endanger America?
You'll find the answers
in one of the most dra
matic stories of the war,
the new serial
Don't fall (o read this thrill
ing serial, starting In today's
Capital .Inurnnl, Turn - to
Page Nine.
L
This is another angle of the
problem of permitting Japs to
gather the harvest.
Oregon Gets Industry
Washington lost a new indus
try to Oregon a few days ago.
This is a large dehydrating plant
for processing potatoes. South
Dakota lost the plant to Wash
ington and then, in one of those
mixups, Klamath basin was se
lected as the site for the opera
tions. Needed priorities are al
ready approved and construc
tion is under way. Last year
12,400 acres were seeded in
Klamath basin, producing a crop
of 4,519,580 bushels, or an av
erage of 364 bushels to the acre.
Lend-lease and military services
are in the market for the de
hydrated spuds.
Persistent effort is being made
to cause the Aluminum Compa
ny of America at Vancouver to
adopt a "closed shop" policy.
Some workers have joined the
union but the plant is still
"open." Union organizers are
reported as- having informed
employes that they are "suck
ers" for working in Alcoa plant
when they can get higher pay
in the shipyards nearby. State
ment is made that unions are
attempting to force Alcoa to
meet shipyard wages and if the
Vancouver plant adopts ship
yard scale and the closed shop
the plan is to force Alcoa to
up wages in all its plants
throughout the country. It is
estimated that if the union pro
gram is successful it will cost
Alcoa about $50,000,000 per
year in additional wages. The
company is selling its product
to the government at a flat rate
of 15 cents a ponnd and cannot
protect, itself against the in
creased cost of labor. Alcoa is
also to operate the aluminum
plant at Trouldale.
Molalla Clay Tested
Government is now having
laboratory tests made of a de
posit of clay near Molalla in a
pilot plant in Utah to determine
the alumina content. Pending
the official report, to be made
by federal bureau of mines, it
is alleged that the Molalla clay
is richer than the extensive de
posit at Castle Rock, Wash.
Sinking of merchant ships with
if -'Iff"!
1 What a SWing! Others set a high mark
to shoot at . . . but all along we had the whis
key to top 'em all! For Imperial gives you
expensive-whiskey aroma , . . costly-whiskey
smoothness . . . premium-whiskey flavor . . .
all at a popular pricel
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of the Silverlon Home Guards got six bulls eyes, four
ducks and- a Jack Rabbit. May we cook the latter for
supper?"
Wedding Day
Not Determined
Spokane, Aug. 26 W) When
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Vaughn
get together after the war is over
they will have the problem of
deciding which day from July
13 to July 30, inclusive, is their
wedding anniversary.
Records filed here yesterday
by County Clerk Frank C. Nash
revealed that Vaughn, of Lib
by, Mont., and Eleanor Lucilc
Granhmd were married by cable
between Australia, where he is
serving with Ihe U. S. army, and
Spokane, her home town.
The 17-day marriage cere
mony went something like this,
cargoes of bauxite from Dutch
Guinea is causing a search for
substitute clays in Washington
and Oregon, heart of the alumni
num ingot industry. For ten
years the Molalla deposit was
known, but no one was inter
ested in spending a nickel to de
termine its worth.
U. S. rot. Off.
lei By Will Danch
wnttn cir Cant. Frank Powell
the records show:
On July 13 Vaughn cabled to
Miss Granlund:
"Darling, will you marry me
hv rablp? Todav. I. Benjamin
Vaughn, take you, Lucile Gran
lund, to be my lawful wedded
wife."
Three days later she replied:
"Darling, I marry you by ca
ble today. I, Eleanor Lucile
Granlund, take you, Benjamin
Vaughn, to be my lawful wed
ded husband."
That was about July 6, but
Ihe bridegroom didn't receive the
reply tntil July 30 (which would
be July 29 in Spokane.)
An army chaplain testified to
Miss Granlund's acceptance andtj
Nash was notified of the wedding.
Guest Gaffcy Home
Silverlon Mrs. B. G. Gaffcy
of Portland has been a guest at
the home of her son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. B. E.
Gaffcy, for three days.
Honduras is the greatest
banana land in the world, ex
porting more than 12,000,000
stems a year.
2 What a Climb! But even we wera
surprised how quickly IMPERIAL rang
the belli Listen! in one test-state alon
where Imperial got its first big featur
ing, it shot ahead of 332 long-established
brands to first place . . where it
has stayed ever since!
3 What a ringer! And it kept right
on ringing the bell in state after state.
It's the fastest-growing whiskey in all
America! Taste why.. .ask for Imperial
at your bar, or take home a tryout bot
tle of this great whiskey tonight!
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