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4CapKal Journal. Salem, Oregon, Friday, Jan. 21, 1944 1;f,
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War Work and Prisons
A program under which convicts in state prisons may
reclaim and salvage cast-off shoes and clothing for use in
foreign countries by the United Nations Relief and Rehabili
tation administration was revealed at the recent western
i.nnfiini- nf nrisnn officials at San Francisco by Major
W. H. Barke, head of the prison industries branch of the
Wa Pi-nrliu-l inn linard.
The WPB has mailed out contracts for the weaving of
cloth and its fabrication into work trousers by inmates of
New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, Indiana, Illinois and
Ohio prisons. The cloth will be woven from reclaimed wool
and cotton clothing obtained m salvage urives.
As part of the UNRRA program 30,000 pairs of shoes a
month are to be turned out in Massachusetts, New Jersey
and Maryland prisons, to be rebuilt from accumulations of
rejected and worn out shoes of the United Slates armed
services.
City prisons are also being utilized in war work, the
army quartermaster in Jersey City has signed a contract
for the New York City prison to do the laundry work for
the army in that vicinity for the next 20 weeks and the
Philadelphia prisons have a salvage program.
Inmates of federal and state prisons throughout the coun
try have produced more than $100 million worth of war
goods and food, of which state prisons have produced $16
million under WPB contracts. Food crops, including live
stock, poultry and dairy products produced by prisons last
year were over $27 million in value from the half million
acres under cultivation by prison inmates and it is proposed
to add 50,000 acres this year.
Wardens generally report that morale of the inmates of
state prisons was never better, though at least one half of
those engaged in war production receive no pay for it. They
are glad to do it for patriotic reasons, but for a sustained
effort and to make the whole process more equitable the
wardens agreed the prisoners should have pay for war work.
The largo purchases of war bonds and the volunteer work on
special jobs, like mailing out ration books, testify to the
patriotism of many inmates. .
Warden George Alexander of the Oregon sl ate prison, who
attended the conference reported to the board of control that
of the 900 prisoners in the penitentiary, 200 are employed in
the flax industry, and suggested that a prison canning unit
be obtained as the WPB will assist in obtaining priorities,
and promises orderly distribution of any excess production
not required for state institutions.
Alexander favors pay incentives for prisoners to build
morale. Flax workers and wood-cutters are the only inmates
who now receive pay. Only about 10 percent of the prisoners
are unemployables. During the summer approximately 600
worked at something useful. War work offers necessary
occupation but efforts of the warden to secure contracts
have met with the opposition of organized labor.
Hiding Behind the Emergency
In its anxiety to cooperate with transportation officials
In solving the problem of war hauling the state highway
commission, it is to be feared, has leaned over backwards in
its concern for truckers who inadvertently overload their
vehicles on the public highways. Today the commission an
nounced abandonment of its past policy of recommending
cancellation of permits of overload violators. ,
Hereafter overweight trucks will be halted by state police
and compelled to remove the excess weight wherever they
are stopped. In justification of its new procedure the com
mission asserts "that the nominal fines which have been
imposed by justices of the peace upon violators is no de
terrent to the practice since the profit from the overload
more than pays the fine and costs assessed." It also ex
plains that the suspension of permits has in many cases
"imposed a very severe penalty since the permit is issued
for the whole fleet of an operator rather than to individual
trucks," and whole operations are thus tied up rather than
just the offending vehicle.
Logging trucks are the worst offenders, and (lie commis
sion estimates that only 15 percent of these can be classified
as chronic and intentional violators. The commission ques
tions its own authority "to permit overloaded trucks to
continue over highways and bridges" after the overload
has been determined. . .
By the commission's own reasoning the great majority of
trucks had nothing to fear in the past policy of cancelling
permits. Under the new policy the commission is encourag
ing chronic offenders to hide behind the excuse that they are
carrying war goods, and also encouraging through the lighter
penalty the taking of chances of being caught. If the com
mission has no authority to permit overloads to use the
highway beyond the point where they are detected, it would
seem to follow that it is its duty to cancel the permits which
allow them on the road at all.
A Check on Future Wars
In visioning that future wars will be fought principally
in the air and that airplanes will be the chosen weapon ot
aggressors, the new president of The Institute of Aeronauti
cal Sciences, Reuben II. Fleet, has advanced a plan for check
ing the ambitions of would-be Hitlers and Tojos.
Testifying at a postwar planning hearing of a house com
mittee Fleet, a senior consultant to Consolidated VuUee Air
craft corporation, advanced this suggestion:
"We should deny our present enemies for a time the right to
make any type o( aircraft, or weapon auainst aircraft, or the use
of the air for the operation of any type of aircraft. This denial
should extend perhaps SO years to give the temperament of their
people a chance to change to the point where they learn to prefer
peace to war."
Recognizing in his own formula the truth of the fact that
the airplane will also be an important instrument for keeping
the peace, Fleet also recommended that in shaping the peace
treaties air power quotas ne assigned to an oi me uiuieu
Nations. For the United Slates and Russia he suggested
quotas of 30 percent each, 20 percent for Croat Britain and
that the remaining zv percent ue auocaiou 10 ine .sni.wicr
nations. In this latter recommendation he is treading on
dangerous ground and inviting just such a fiasco as resulted
from the naval disarmament of 20 years ago following the
last war. There is no feasible formula by which ratios of
military preparedness can be successfully fixed for free na
tions, although penalties can be imposed and enforced on the
vanquished.
Dallas Foundrymen
Block War Effort
Dallas The strike of north
west foundry workers, called
by their AFL union early this
week, closed the foundry de
Editor md Publliher
tht um fir publication of ail newi
In thin paprr, nd !o local nfi
partment fo the Dallas Machine
and Locomotive Works but did
not affect the shops. Approxi
mately twelve workers are em
ployed here. This is the first
strike stoppage nf a vital war
industry in the community
since the war began.
Animal Life
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By Don
After hearing that the Junior
Chamber of Commerce had gone
ahead this year and named a
junior first citizen of the past
year for Salem, we want to place
our name up as a candidate for
the senile first citizen of the
year. We don't think these
young chaps should cop all the
honors and under present condi
tions there being a majority of
Novelties
In the News
By tlie Associated Pruts)
The Home Front
While Plains, N. Y., Last
October Miss Helen E. Ver
Planck ordered two pairs of
shoes from a store, asked that
they be sent to P. P. Box 841,
White Plains. The shoes finally
arrived the other day.
A postal clerk apparently
thought the parcel was marked
A. P. P., shipped it to North
Africa. Officials there mailed
it back.
Miss Ver Planck didn't mind
the delay but balked at paying
the postage due and customs
duty.
Tarawa Boom De-ay
New York When the marines
stormed ashore and capture the
Jap-held Pacific island of Tara
wa they did it with a song, re
ports Capt. Earle Wilson, chief
of the marine corps combat
correspondents.
Naval guns provided the beat,
he said, as the leathernecks
chanted: "Tarawa Boom De
ay." Hot Stuff-
New York Tenants of a
Central Park west apartment
recently almost went without
heat possibly a home.
While shoveling coal into the
furnace, John Ozbort noticed an
odd-shaped piece of fuel. It was
a slick of dynamite.
Nazi Rule Observed
By Oregon Woman
Portland. Jan. 21 (4i Mrs.
Andrew W. Edson, who saw
France and the Netherlands un
der nazi rule, was back home to
day five years after starting on
a four-month tour of Europe.
The French were "impressed
with the German might as an
impossible thing to beat'1 and
were resigned to defeat, said the
former Alice Wedemeyer, who
was working in the American
legation In Paris when the Ger
mans marched in.
But the Dutch reacted to Ger
man occupation with bitterness
instead of resignation, she said,
and the reaction was a "terrific
strain" on nazi troops. She was
working then in the American
embassy at The Hague.
In 1342, at Lisbon, she mar
ried Edson, an American at
tache who now is in equatorial
Africa where she is not per
mitted to accompany him.
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senile citizens around over jun
ior citizens, and this being a de
mocratic country, presumably,
why not have a contest for the
No. 1 senile citizen, and who can
have any qualifications for that
post which could possibly out
weigh ours? If there be such,
then trot 'em out. We don't fear
any competition in this regard
and would be glad to know if
there are such or any of whom
are suchcr.
Personally, this idea of pick
ing a junior first citizen during
war time looks like a kind of
far fetched proposition and one
that could be hung up for the
duration. We say this with all
due respect to the personable,
hardworking and highly deserv
ing young man who was selected
for the post. But it would seem,
looking at it from the sidelines,
that Salem has a lot of junior
first citizens who are not around
right now for the selecting.
We have junior first citizens
sweating in the steaming fox
holes of the south Pacific, junior
first citizens in the drenched
and deluged quagmires of Italy,
junior first citizens in submar
ines, on merchant ships, on bat
tlewagons, destroyers and land
ing barges, junior first citizens
in army camps at home and
abroad, and for a group of jun
ior chaps at home to pick out
some junior first citizen in years
like these seems to be a rather
futile occupation.
We'd like to see a composite
junior first citizen of all of these
boys we've mentioned, many of
of whom will suffer and die
without any vote of commenda
tion except that of their parents
and the knowledge in their own
hearts that they've helped to
make it safe to name junior citi
zens at home for many years
to come.
We repeat, this is no reflec
tion on the young man selected
But we do seriously doubt the
taste in continuance of this sort
of peace-time play in years
when the real junior first citi'
zens are away offering their
lives for their country.
Just to change the subject.
our former barber friend, Len
Gibbons,- who was revealed in
our column last night as the
newest half-time member of the
FT & BA with his uppers gone,
sent word over he'd give us a
free shave if he just had
chance to stand over us in a
barber's chair with a razor pois
ed. Thanks, Len, for the offer,
but we don't Just like the tone
Yea, if we took Len up on this
offer, we'd stand exposed as Sa
lem's senile citizen No, 1, no
fooling.
Ellis Family Returns
Wheatland Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Ellis and family former
ly of this district who spent
the last few months in southern
California, have returned and
two of the children have enroll
ed at the Wheatland school.
They are living in the Murray
Kirkwood house.
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rieWar Today
By DeWitt Mackenzie
An Interpretative analysis of
war developments by a fam
ous Associated Press war correspondent.
It's indeed a long stretch of
Italy's ancient Appian Way that
has no turning, and Uncle Sam's
mud-caked fifth army may at
last have found the twist which,
so to speak, will bring it within
sight of the objective of hellish
months of battling both Ger
mans and weather the eternal
city of Rome.
This encouraging vantage
point has been reached by the
breaching of the Hitlerite line
north of the Garigliano river
a difficult and dangerous op
eration which forced the enemy
to abandon the city of Min
tumo. strategic communications
center and stronghold on the
ADDian Way. British troops in
the fifth army achieved this by
driving spearheads across this
natural water barrier, on both
sides of Minturno, in the face
of fierce German counter-attacks.
Weather Easing Up
Minturno is some 76 miles
from Rome, as the bee would
measure the course. That's about
a 20 minute flight for a pas
sen eer Diane, but it can be a
mighty long distance for an
army to fight its way ana uk
kIv will be. However, one of
our toughest obstacles the win
ter weather would seem lo De
weakening. The experts say the
worst of it Drobably is past,
which gives promise that allied
progress will be eased.
When British Premier Chur
chill returned to the house of
commons this week at his jo
vial best after his tilt Willi
nnpnmnnia in the middle east
Sir Herbert William asked
if the orime minister was aware
of any "false optimism" voiced
in a recent speech in which
General Sir Bernard Montgom
ery indicated the probable early
capture of Rome (your colum
ist hadn't placed such interpre
tation on Montgomery's re
marks.) "I don't know about false op
tnmism." Churchill replied.
"There has been a lot of bad
weather."
Heights Must be Taken
Some observers like to think
that Rome will be in allied
hands by spring, but caution re
minds us that there are some
inuffh obstacles to be sur
mounted before we reach that
happy goal with land troops,
thoueh our bombers are finding
the going easy enough, as wit
ness the assaults on the city
yesterday and day before.
The American fifth army must
occupy the high ground beyond
Frosinone in order to get set for
the final dash to Rome (maps
please!). At the same time the
British eighth army on the right
flank will have to capture the
heights north of Pescara on the
Adriatic -We must expect this
to entail much hard fighting,
for the Germans have the ad
vantage of the strong mountain
positions in the center of the
Italian peninsula.
The further offensive may be
speeded by amphibious opera
tions along the coasts.
Appius Cladius, censor at
Rome from 312 to 308 B. C,
built this immortal military
highway during that period. He
thought so well of his creation
that he called it "the queen of
roads" a name which still
clings, and not without merit.
A Three Days'
Cough is Your
Danger Signal
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cause It goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flnmpH hrnnrhinl mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way It
qutcKiy auays me cougn or you iw
to have Your money back.
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for Coushs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
WANTED:
A Man to Do Vital
Mechanical Work
If you've ever tinkered
around with autos. fixed a
bathroom faucet, done minor
mechanical jobs, and like to
, use your head and your
' hands. 6outhern Pacific has
a good .lob for you. S.P. will
start vou as a HELPER in
the S.P. shops ... or out on
the line, if you prefer . . .
working with skilled crafts
men. This Is vital mechanical
work on vital railroad equip
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permanent company. Excit
ing, too. because vou see the
"inside'' of ralroadina . . .
help make the railroad run.
Regular railroad pay. Rail
road pass courtesies. A fine
pension plan. Medical servic
es. Manv other advantanes.
A real start on a real Job.
Liberal ase limits.
Helpers needed in
all crafts
See or writ
Roundhouse Foreman
Near S. P. Paassenger Station
Salem, Orecon,
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Serving Uncle Sam
Among the 77 men signed up
by the navy recruiting station
in Portland Thursday were Reu
ben Kilburn Abbott, Robert Lo
rain Clark, Elmer Goertzen, La
monte Lester Kindle, Chester
William Lankira, Howard Cur
tis Obershaw, all of Salem and
Andrew Jackson Kosack, Sheri
dan, In a letter dated December 6
written by Pfc, Delbert Sav
age of the South Pacific area to
his sister, Mrs. F. L. Kurtz of
Portland, he said in part: "To
morrow is Pearl Harbor day
with us and we are having our
own war bond drive today and
tomorrow. In one of your re
cent letters you spoke of those
seven men who were going to
stay out in the river on that raft
until the state's quota in the
war bond drive was filled. It
is sure nice to know that they
don't have anything more worth
while to do than that at a time
when our wonderful country
and way of living is fighting for
its existence. It is sure too bad
that they have to make such a
sacrifice. Somebody ought to
give them the word. They
should send them for a trip out
our way where people don't
sacrifice anything and never
heard that there is a war going
on." Pfc. Savage was an em
ploye of the paper mill here
prior to enlisting in the USMC
more than two years ago. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Sav
age, live at 2615 Brooks ave
nue. James D. Mohnej', apprcn
tice right guide petty officer 2c,
U. S. navy, arrived home Wed
nesday to spend a 15-day leave
with his parents. Mr. and Mrs
R. A. Mohney, Sr., 1515 Belle-
vue street. James attended the
Salem grade and high schools,
later entering the electric weld
ing school of the Willamette
Iron and Steel company at Port
land. Later he worked as a
pipe welder for the same com
pany until entering the navy.
Sgt. Richard L. Morgan, U. S.
army, -is spending a 15-day "de
lay in route" to his station at
his home on route 1. Sgt. Mor
gan has recently completed the
A.S.T.P. course in advanced me
chanical engineering at Oregon
State, having been in that unit
since March 15 of last year. He
is a brother of Glenn E. Morgan
of Salem and Fred E. Morgan of
Portland.
Agent: V.
PACIFIC
tERVINO ALL
Kirk V. Bell, whose Salem
home is at 2034 Warner street,
has completed officers' candi
date school at Fort Monmouth,
N. J., and has been commission
ed a second lieutenant, He has
now been assigned to Harvard
university for advanced train
ing. Recently he spent a leave
of 10 days at Beacon, N. Y.. with
relatives. Lt. Bell is a son of
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd V. Bell of
Salem and is a graduate ef Ore
gon State college. When a
youngster he was a carrier for
the Capital Journal.
Angus Erwin, Jr., Q. M. 37c,
U.S.N., has returned to the east
coast after spending an 18-day
leave in Salem as the guest of
his grandmother. Mrs. Lot. L.
Pearcc, and other relatives.
Young Erwin enlisted at the lo
cal recruiting office in July,
1942, and has seen active serv
ice in the South Pacific war area,
returning to the states in July,
19411. for further training at the
suhmarine-chaser training cen
ter at Miami, Florida. On Oc
tober 1 he was assigned to a
sub-chaser which is now doing
off-shore patrol and coastal con
voy duty in the north Atlantic.
A blackout in an English city
is the blackest thing Captain C.
L, Wood, Jr., has ever encoun
tered and to move through one
becomes an exciting adventure.
The artillery officer whose folk
are in Salem (C. L. Wood, Sr.,
of the public utilities commis
sioner's organization) says that
a stroll down the middle of an
English street where a blackout
is in progress proves that bor
dering trees, unlighted lamp
posts, curbs and ditches have all
moved from their proper loca
tions. When the pedestrian
finally determines to try the
sidewalk he finds it blocked by
shrubs, iron fences, flower gar
dens, front porches and more
"D" IS FOR
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Policies that
.24 years, we've been
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trees, A second experience de
scribed by the captain covered
dinner in an English home. Itk
first home cooked meal in ovWi
a year. He compared his host
to a puppy that "fairly wriggled
both ends in overwhelming
friendship." "It all adds up to
the fact that after we get home
again it ia going to be hard for
any rabble rouscr to convince us
that there is anything wrong
with the English," he wrote
from back of a stack of seven
letters just received from his
dad.
Pvt. Ted Ogdahl, USMC, for
mer Willamette student and
football player, who has been
stationed at Parris Island. S.C.,
for the cast several weeks, has
been transferrer! to Quantico,
Va. Mrs. Ogdahl (Jean Donald
son) has gone east to be with
her husband.
Clear Lake Robert Masscy
was home on a furlough last
week. He is stationed in M1s.Wa
ippi and returned to his b;3
last Saturday.
Clear Lake Harold Dutoit
was inducted into the army Jan
uary 12, He and his wife visited
with his mother and brother a,,
few days before leaving for
camp.
Scio James Summers, navy
enlistee at Farraeut, spent a few
days recently on leave at the
home of his mother, Mrs. Al
Baker, in Scio. It wa under-,,
stood he soon would be trans
ferred to another base. He is a
petty officer third class.
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