Illinois Valley News, Thursday, November 16, 1941 Paße Four Seamen Needed For Coast Ships Anticipating: the early arrival in Pacific Coast ports of nearly KOO Merchant Marine ships from the Philippines invasion, Wash­ ing-ton and local officials of the IT. S. Maritime Commission and the War Manpower Commission are acting to avert a manpower crisis in the manning of ships. Paul V. McNutt, chairman WMC and Emory S. Io»nd, vice admiral and chairman USMC, today re­ leased a joint statement through Andrew (J. Wilson, Pacific area executive of the War Shipping Ad­ ministration, appealing to merch­ ant seamen to realize the serious­ ness of the shipping situation and to sacrifice Christmas holidays at home to keep the invasion supplies flowing overseas. “At the present moment there are many merchant marine seamen waiting for ships in San Francisco, P -rtland, Seattle, Los Angeles and other parts,” stated Mr. Wilson, “but the facts are that most of our hips are returning in a quantity that will tax the capacity of all Pacific ports. Then every seaman now on the beach will be immed­ iately employed and we will be crying for more. Because of the Christmas season, many men will be reluctant to sail — but the sup­ plies for our next big invasion are waiting now on the docks of San Francisco and other Pacific ports and they must be rushed overseas. Many ships from the Atlantic are 1 reporting for the Pacific run and a mass of delivery of newly-built vessels is expected.” “To man these ships will re­ quire every available merchant seaman in the West — and their ships will leave before Christmas.” To meet the impending emerg­ ency, the Wur Manpower Commis­ sion chairman has notified all lo­ cal and 3500 other U. S. Employ­ ment Service offices t<> concen­ trate on recruiting experienced seamen now ashore. "We are asking employers to release im­ mediately any men who have hail previous sea experience,” declares 1 ('airman McNutt, “and such men are guaranteed the same reem­ ployment and seniority rights as members of the armed forces. “No employer will be permitted to hire any merchant marine sea­ man who may come ashore, look­ ing for a job, withopt specific per­ mission of the USES. Any man with sea experience will be im­ measurably more valuable to the war effort as an active merchant seaman than he could possibly be to a shore industry, especially in view of the critical situation ini- forces in overseas duty, more can­ Mrs. Halm, consisting of cake and pending in the Pacific war the- ned foods will be needed because cocoa. aters. Supplies for these invasions the can has proved the most prac- The C. E. was organized to pro- must be delivered by merchant ■ tical container for the shipmnt of I vide some recreation for the young marine ships and no delay for lack foods abroad, ' people of the community. It is to of seamen can be tolerated. ' be held every Sunday night except American Merchant Marine lone Sunday afternoon at one of hips have ben . ng in efficient- Christian Endeavor I the homes. The meetings will con- ly manned. Admiral Land’s state­ Organized . sist of group singing, a short scrip­ ment reveals. “In a recent ture, and the rest of the time will month, as many as 1600 men sailed Sunday afternoon a meeting at 1 be devoted to the community work as licensed officers, who either has! the home of Mrs. Halm was held i and recreation. no license or were employed for to organize a young people’s Chris­ ìli emergency sailings in positions AH young people who are in­ tian Endeavor. Present at the higher than their license. We have meeting were the following: Mary terested in these meetings should | to use Navy radio operators be­ Lou Hill, Sylvia Wilson, Rebecca meet at the Community church in | cause we cannot get enough civil­ Freeman, Lois Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Cave Junction next Sunday at 8 | ian radio men. Glenn Halm, Mr. and Mr.-s. Bob o’clock. “On October 20 while* the Phil­ Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Lee, ippine invasion was in progress, Mr. and Mrs. Seat, Mrs. Taylor, we had in the entire United States Mrs. Sherier and Mrs. Halm, only a sufficient number of skilled Temporary officers were chosen officers in American seaports able [ and captains of two membership to operate about 10 vessels; where­ campaign teams were Bill Hill and as on the same day we had re­ Eileen Schneider. quests for enough men in these Refreshments were served by I critical ratings to operate about 45 ships.” Men with sea experience, and cooks and radio men—even with­ out sea experience—are asked to register with the War Shipping Administration recruiting offices in their nearest port. Men without sea experience should report to U. S. Maritime Service for training. I Pay starts upon acceptance. “Spare your breath to cool your Thanks I want the people of the \ alley to know that I sincerely appreciate their votes L. M. MITCHELL s porridge"—Cervantes NOVEMBER County Kitchens Become Tin Mines for War Items Women of Josephine county can “mine” tin sufficient for 62 short range heavy bombers this year. These figures were compiled by J. A. Stewart, vice president of the American ('an company, on the basis of canned foods consumed by civilians in the county during 1943. On the basis of last year’s con­ sumption, civilians will open 1,- 320,384 cans of food this year, he said. According to a table re­ cently issued by Washington, 21,- 000 cans provide tin sufficient for one short range heavy bomber. Meanwhile, the armed forces consumed approximately three bil­ lion cans of food during 1943 and needs for the current year are ex­ pected to rise to three and a quar­ ter billion cans, Mr. Stewart said. 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Caryer CAVE JUNCTION ROUTE 1 — CAVES HIGHWAY “Mary and I were just saying, Judge, how lucky we are here in America that we have so many natural resources to help win the war.” "That's right, Jim. When war broke out we had oil, we had steel, we had food, lumber, aluminum...practically everything we needed. There’s one thing we didn’t have... rubber. The enemy had that.” "But that didn't bother us for long. Soon American brains and industry had «ynthetic rubber by the tons rolling out of plants. That filled a critical need ... you can't win a war without rubber.” r».< '■ I was very much interested the other day in reading a statement made by a high gov­ ernment official on synthetic rubber. In it he said’ It is fair to regard the rubber manui.-.c- tured to date as being almost solely the prod­ uct of the be verage distilling industry.’ ” He a!so said that, in his estimation, the tremendous contribution of distillers’ indus­ trial alcohol to t he svnthet ic rubber program l ad not received the recognition which it deserves.” V»e certainly learned something today, didn't we Mary?” b Gw/r-.-v. »/ AlcoHU* Iu4