Monday, October 19, 1942
The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregdn
Three
0
Average Made
By U.S. Planes
Called Good
Washington, Oct. 19 W)
Coupling unvarnished criticism
of American fighter planes with
an overall analysis of all army
and navy air types, the office of
war , information concluded to
day that "on average the com
bat performance of United States
aircraft was good" and improv
ing. In a 10,000 word report to the
i public designed to dispel the fog
of confusion concerning Ameri
can planes, OWI said "the truth
lies between the two extremes'
of adverse and favorable criti
cisms.
Specifically, the document
said:
1. The Curtiss P-40, Bell P-39
(Airacobra), and North Ameri
can P-51 (Mustang), standard
army fighters already in action,
have many good points but are
definitely inferior to foreign
types in high-altitude combat.
Improved types are in produc-
tion but haven't been battle-tested
yet.
2. Chief fault of our fighters
is the tardy and incomplete de
velopment of the Allison liquid
cooled motor.
3. For daylight precision
bombing our Flying Fortress B
17s and Liberator B-S4s are un
surpassed. 4. Our medium bombers, Mit
chell B-25s and Martin B-26s
have no competitors.
5. Latest navy fighter, dive
bomber and torpedo types al
ready in action are the best car
rier planes in the world.
6. Other types patrol, recon
naissance, cargo and transport,
artillery fire-spotters, etc. are
."satisfactory in quality" within
their own fields.
Hunting Injury
Fatal to Judge
Fossil, Ore., Oct. 19 (U.BCarl
Hendricks, circuit judge of Sher
man, Gilliam and Wheeler coun
ties, was fatally wounded late
yesterday in a hunting accident
40 miles south of here.
Sheriff Ed Kelsay reported
Judge Hendricks died almost in
stantly when he was struck by
a bullet accidentally discharged
' from the rifle of- Bill Potter,
Richmond, Ore. :
Judge Hendricks was talking
to Potter and three others when
the gun went off, Kelsay said.
Hendricks had been circuit
judge since 1934. He is survived
by his widow and a daughter,
Carlotta, both of Fossil; a sis
ter, Mary, Tacoma, and three
brothers, Robert of Fossil, Win
lock of Portland and Ford of
Los Angeles.
Salem, Oct. 19 VP) Circuit
Judge Carl Hendricks, killed
yesterday in a hunting accident
near Fossil, was "one of the
ablest judges in Oregon,, and he
will be missed greatly," Gover
nor Charles A. Sprague said to
day. The governor will name a suc-
Film Actors Stage
o Farcical Football
By Don Shea
Los Angeles, Oct. 19 VP) The comedians gave their all for
their" captain, Betty Grable, all uniformed in mink and sable. But
it wasn't enough. Their script writers hadn't thought up as many
gags as those of Kita May worth's
Hollywood wolves (leading
men), so they lost a benefit grid
iron-farce before 45,000 howling
spectators yesterday, 92-79.
Any resemblance to a football
game was not only coincidental
it was libelous,
After a pageant such as only
movie folks can produce hun
dreds of international flags, star
lets . afoot, horseback and in
jeeps, soldiers, sailors, marines,
coitumed bicycle and motorcycle
brigades, pursuit planes roaring
' Q overhead, drum majorettes and
Boy Scouts the game began.
The red-shirted comedians
popped out of a hole in the
ground; the white jerseyed lead
ing men left their bench, com
plete with full-length mirrors,
dressing tables and portable bar.
Bald Wince Barrett kicked off
and the football, a dummy, float
ed out of the stadium.
On the first play each team
scored 66 points as each player
produced a hidden ball and gal
loped for a touchdown.
A strip-teaser popped from a
leading men's huddle, the co
medians chased her, and the
leading men scored.
Leon Errol, who "gets drunk
on rye bread, wobbled all over
Othe field; Clyde Cook lost his
pants and did a bubble dance in
pantaloons; stunt men did hand
springs over tacklers and charg
es of dynamite ended each quarter.
Old Autos in
Danger of Being
Nabbed as Scrap
Portland, Oct. 19 (IF) The
scrap drive has Fortlanders so
enthusiastic that drivers of aged
automobiles don't dare leave
them unguarded on the city
streets.
A few made this mistake yes
terday, when 3,000 volunteers
roamed the city, picking up
scrap which householders had
piled on the curbs, and Detec
tive H. J. McCormick of the auto
theft division said owners of at
least eight cars were scanning
the scrap heaps today for their
machines. Privately he estimat
ed that the disappearances would
run into the dozens.
Not counting this patriotic lar
ceny, the scrap drive was a huge
success. Chairman Hamilton
Corbett said it far exceeded ex
pectations. Early in the day he
predicted 1,000 tons would be
collected. Later he increased
the prediction to 1,500 tons. The
exact amount will not be known
until weighing is completed.
Meanwhile Governor Sprague
urged Oregonians to even great
er efforts in the coming week.
"Though we have until Jan. '
to reach our 100,000-ton figure,
we feel certain that with the
grand cooperation of individuals
and organization, another week
of this intensive drive might put
Oregon over the top by getting
its quota first of all the 48
states," he said.
Because the deadline for the
drive was extended at least a
week, regulations were changed
for the $2,000 war bond prize
contest. Counties, business
firms and contesting boys and
girls may choose any three of
the four weeks from Sept. 28 to
Oct. 24 for the competition.
cessor to Judge Hendricks, the
successor to serve until Jan. 1,
1945. Hendricks was judge for
Gilliam, Sherman and Wheeler
counties.
They kicked autographed foot
balls into the stands, and portly
Edward Arnold was introduced
by Milton Berle as "the man who
doesn't need a second front, he
has one."
An inter-team gang fight end
ed with all players scattering to
the sidelines when heavyweight
champ Joe Louis, here on fur
lough, walked sullenly across the
field. .
And finally Donald Barry, un
able to tackle George Tobias,
hauled out his six-shooter and
shot him "dead." Barry's team
was penalized five yards. Ref
eree Victor Moore, in full dress
suit, called it illegal murder.
So was the gamel
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Are They Going to War? Two relics of Salems early--day
fire fighting equipment which await council action
before joining the parade of old metal to the scrap pile
are the hand pumper dating back to the 1870s, and the
alarm bell which formerly hung in the belfry of the old
Yew Park fire station.
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Anne S. Monroe
Oregon Author
Dies Suddenly
Portland, Oct. 19 (U.R) Funer
al services were being arranged
today for Anne Shannon Monroe,
well-known Oregon author and
newspaperwoman, who died at
the home of her sister in Lake")
Grove yesterday.
Born In Bloomington, Mo.,
Oct. 29, 1873, Miss Monroe had
long been a resident of Oregon.
She contributed to nationally
known magazines and was prom
inent in lecture work.
Dim-Out Rules'
Slated by Owen
Lights in homes in the dim-out
zone must not shine upward
through windows, state civilian
defense Coordinator J e r r o 1 d
Owen said today in explaining
new dim-out regulations.
Window shades must be drawn
in every room as low as the bot
tom of each light.
Porch lights must be shielded
on the outside with opaque mate
rial so that no light goes out
ward above the lowest part of
the lamp, but it is permissible to
have the porch light reflect
against the wall.
Street lights must be shielded,
but the defense council said it
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would discourage any plans
whereby cities would extinguish
their lights. The lights are
needed, Owen said, to safeguard
life and property.
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bomber crew. His office is the "greenhouse" of transparent
plastic in the nose of the ship. And he works there on split
second time. But when those busy "office hours" are over
well, just look below and watch him enjoying a Camel
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Relics of Early Day
Salem May Go to War
Salem's two historic fire pumpers, one of them a hand-op-crated
engine dating back to the '60s and the other a steam pumper
used in the '80s may be among obsolete city-owned property going
into scrap to make bullets and
bombs. Both are housed in the
East Salem fire station.
It is believed no man now lives
who saw the old hand pumper
in operation. Judge L. H. McMa
han, early-day fireman and who
has always been interested in the
fire department, thinks the pum
per was used by Eureka company,
one of the first of Salem's fire
fighting organizations.
Hand Pumper Relic
An old city directory, dated
1I88I, and owned by F. P. Wells
of West Salem, relates that Cap
ital Engine company No. 1 was
organized in May of 1867, and
since the old pumper is stamped
with the name of that company
it is believed to have been the
same piece of equipment that
was used, according to Judge
McMahan's recollection, in fight
ing the Reed's Opera House fire,
about 1882, for the reason that
the hand-pumper then used, and
manned largely by Chinese
whom the firemen pressed into
the service, was bigger than the
one now about to go into the na
tion's scrap heap.
Organization of a volunteer
fire department on a substantial
scale appears to have followed
a series of bad fires in the '60's.
One of these, starting about 3
o'clock in the morning of May
10, 1863, in Byrne's saloon, and
spread to nearby buildings. In
all, seven wooden buildings, in
cluding the Union hotel, were
destroyed with a loss of $22,000.
The following year, on Saturday,
July 23, the Mansion house, pio
neer hotel located at the south
cast corner of Liberty and State,
and an entire block eastward
from the hotel, were burned.
Old Steamer Listed
On April 17, 1865, a fire, be
lieved to have been of incendiary
origin, started in Plamondon's
saloon, spread to other build
ings on the west side of Com
mercial between Ferry and State
and caused a total loss of some
$20,000. .
The old steam pumper still
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where cigarettes
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The'7-ZONI"-Taste and Throat-is the
proving ground for cigarettes. Only your
taste and throat can decide which ciga-
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are absolutely individual to you.
experience of millions of smokers, we believe
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owned by the city was used by
Capital Engine company No. 1
and is believed to have been pur
chased about the year 1882. This
is the surmise of Judge McMah
an, who recalls that the first La
France steam pumper was ac
quired by the city , about that
time. That was the year that
Company No. 3, of which Judge
McMahan was a member, was
organized. Agitation for a steam
pumper is believed to have start
ed about 10 years before the La
France steam rig was purchased
Salem had other early fire or
ganizations, but those here men
tioned are though't to be the ones
that used this old equipment
Another fire department relic
to be disposed of as war scrap is
the old bell, stored at the city
warehouse, that was used by the
Yew Park fire company which
had headquarters in the building
at 13th and Ferry streets, recent
ly, replaced by the new city ware
house.
Ten or 15 years ago the city
installed at downtown street in
tersections the traffic markers
that came to be known derisive
ly as "punkins." Some of these
remain in the streets, but most
have been removed, and those
that have been removed are to
be scrapped for the war effort.
Election Registration
Totals 539,000
Oregon's general election reg
istration probably will total
about 539,000, smallest general
election total since 1934, it was
estimated today. Five of the 36
counties still have not reported
their figures.
The 1940 registration, an all
time record, was 613,428. Fig
ures for other general elections
include 1938, 557,871; 1936, 546,
034, and 1934, 484,491.
State department officials said
the decline was caused by per
sons moving out of their pre
cincts to work in war industries,
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Jerry
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the Arm?, Navy. Marines, and Coast
Guard it Camel. (Based on actual
sales records in Post Exchanges.
Sates Commissaries, Ship's Service
Stores, Snip's Stores, and Canteens.)
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men going into the armed forces,
the elimination by county clerks
of registrants who had not voted
in the past two elections, and a
general lack of interest in politics.
Rebekah Lodge Meets
Lyons Faith Rebekah lodge
met at the hall with Goldie
Rambo acting noble grand in the
absence of Frances Kruse. Re
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WHEN YOU'RE TRAINING
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AS A BOMBARDIER
A LL America's living at split-second time today . from the bom
il bardier at his bombsight to the men who make the bombs like
Lorigan below. You... and you...
So it's only natural that most everybody's smok
ing more these days. Only natural, too, that taste and
throat the "T-Zonc" are more important than ever
to cigarette smokers now.
But. ..take no one's word for it when it comes to
your own smoking. Make the"T-Zone" test described
at the left, below. And let your taste and your throat
decide for themselves,.
JERRY LORIGAN, who forges bombs on a split-second
schedule, is just as partial to Camels as the man who lays
those bombs on the target. "I've smoked Camels for years,"
says Jerry. "They don't get my throat, and they don't tire
my taste. They're tops!"
ports were given from the con
vention. At the social hour Alta
Bodeker, Mable Bass, Mable Spa
and Alice Huber were the com
mittee and staged a hobo party
with each member dressed for
the occasion.
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