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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
G eneral
Friday, Dec. 13, 1940
Escapes From Nazis
HUGH S.
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JOHNSON
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Washington, D. C.
Washington, D. C.
BRITISH INVASION
CAPACITY PROBLEMS
The British are coming to Wash­
Our greatest national problem is
the apparent approaching shortages ington at a rate that almost
in producing capacity for steel, air­ amounts to a second invasion. Even
planes, possibly later for automo­ in 1814, when the Redcoats burned
biles, certainly now for explosives, the Capitol, their force was scarcely
cannon and many lesser munitions. more impressive.
Nobody can expect "business as
Actually there are 430 represent­
usual.” Military and naval needs atives of the British government in
must have an absolute right-of-way. Washington today—130 members of
But that principle must not be the embassy staff, 300 members of
permitted to ride roughshod over the British purchasing commission
civilian necessities or to avoidable and British air commission. The
shattering of our economic system figure includes everyone—officers,
unless these sacrifices are the only clerks, messengers and chauffeurs.
way—especially if they are a worse
The British embassy and chan­
way—to attain our real end. which cery now is the largest diplomatic
is the quickest and the greatest con­ establishment in Washington, but it
centration of our men and metal at is not large enough. An annex has
every threatened point.
been added to care for an overflow
There is another principle which of coding clerks and officials of the
is very apt to be forgotten among office of economic warfare.
defense executives under constant
Meanwhile the two British com­
fire of criticism and staggering re­ missions occupy space in four other
Stepping right out—and right stylish, too. by the way—arc these 4-11
sponsibility for particular results, buildings. They started out in mod­ club girls who designed and sewed these winning garments for their
with none responsible for the com­ est quarters in the Hibbs building,
annual contest in connection with the International Live Stock show which
bined result. It is that maintenance expanded to the entire tup floor of
of civilian morale is of equal or the Willard hotel, added further was held in Chicago last week. Their costumrs were approved by the
greater importance as compared space in the Adams building, and stylist Jane Alden, who is shown in the center, wearing dinner gown. The
with the maintenance of military most recently have taken over An­ girls are. from left to right: Gertrude Burbank of Dover, Massachusetts;
morale.
drew Mellon’s old apartment build­ Jean Wisccup of Oxford. Ohio; Hester Roberts of Lumber, North Carolina,
Modern war is not merely a mat­ ing at 1785 Massachusetts avenue and Mabel Tremper of Coldenham, New York.
ter of battles between armed forces. to accommodate the air commis­
It is, to an equal or even greater
sion.
degree, a death struggle between
These are the British in Washing­
economic systems—entire nations
mobilized for war from the most ton alone. In addition, the New York
remote farm or factory to the ac­ office of the purchasing commission
tual battle line. Employment must numbers 1.000 persons, plus 500 in­
be maintained, prices stabilized, spectors who travel about the coun­
hardships minimized to the full ex­ try testing the wide assortment of
tent that this is possible without re­ articles, from ships to airplanes,
ducing military and naval progress which are being purchased in the
—and especially if this is possible United States
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with an effect of increasing that
U.
S.
RUBBER
SUPPLIES
progress.
Should congress ever decide to in
It is easy and spectacular to say
that the way to increase available vestigate the National Defense com­
military and naval steel is to in­ mission it would unearth some ap­
crease steel mill capacity, that the palling delays in the securing of
way to increase available military the nation’s raw materials—par-1
aircraft is to stop the production of ticularly rubber.
civilian transport planes and the
Real fact is that a fundamental
way to motorize infantry divisions is difference exists between the de­
to take all automotive truck produc­ fense commission and Jesse Jones
tion to equip the army.
regarding future rubber supplies.
Civilian personnel and equipment The commission believes that the
for operating air, truck and bus production of synthetic rubber
transport is organized and trained should begin immediately, and
to a degree of efficiency that the wants to give a subsidy of $180.-
army can never hope to reach. Mili­ 000.000 to American rubber com­
Daylight view of the wreckage of the airliner which crashed near
tary transport is needed desperate­ panies. The subsidy would be nec­ Chicago's airport, taking a toll of eight lives and injuring eight persons,
ly when it is needed, but that is essary to offset the price of natural some critically. The ship lost headway as it was gliding in to its landing,
only part of the time. To duplicate rubber, which sells for 18 cents to stalled, fell, crashed into a house, a garage and an electric power line,
the existing civilian plant and then 20 cents a pound, whereas synthetic and then crashed its 12 tons to the ground.
to immobilize the duplication for rubber would cost about 25 cents.
long periods is folly from every an­
Six Synthetic Rubbers.
gle, and unnecessary strain on pro­
To this end, the defense commis­
duction and a deprivation of civil­ sion has been negotiating with vari­
ian service. It is much less than the ous rubber companies, and the fol­
best service of military needs.
lowing are ready to co-operate if a
For example, it is agreed that, subsidy is granted:
before we throttle down the facilities
DuPont, which produces Neo­
of our air transport industry, to pro­ prene. This company is by far the
vide army transport planes, we ex­ most experienced in the field, and
plore and test the possibility of us­ its product has the highest produc­
ing it for army transport when it is
tion.
needed and leave it free to serve
Standard Oil. which produces
civilian uses when it is not
Butyl and has the license for U. S.
We have reached a point from production of the famous German
whence we simply cannot go for­
synthetic rubber. Buna.
ward with the present planless and
Goodyear, which produces Chem­
hydra-headed organization of our de­
igum.
fensive effort. We must have an in­
Goodrich, which produces Ameri­
telligent and properly organized au­
thority with both authority and re­ pol.
sponsibility to do the job. In spite
United States Rubber, which is
of all recent Pollyanna reports of working on a product, so far un­
progress “on order," the job is not christened.
being done as it should.
However, Jesse Jones doesn't be­
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lieve that synthetic rubber needs to
MILITARY MOBILIZATION
be produced on a large scale. He
It is becoming clearer daily from favors a small subsidy to one com­
all parts of the country that our pany as an experiment
military mobilization would have
The defense commission counters
been better if it had been kept more with a forecast of what might hap­
closely in step with our industrial pen should all o^r rubber be cut off
mobilization and been planned more in the Dutch East Indies. It em­
deliberately.
phasizes that machinery cannot be
The drafted men now going to set up overnight to produce emer­
camp will serve only a year, un­ gency rubber. Stettinius is really
less we get into war or some emer­ aroused, may appeal to the White
gency situation. It is very certain House if he doesn't soon move Jesse.
that, within that year, we shall not
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have nearly enough of the new and
HOOVER
VISITS
CAPITAL
complicated weapons of modern war
Although Herbert Hoover con­
to train many of these recruits and
Charleston Navy Yard, Boston, which was protected by a cordon of
before we do have them, they will stantly shuttles back and forth about
the country, he sedulously avoids more than 100 police and a detachment of marines after a navy official
be discharged.
Washington. The ex-President has had received information that a workman would attempt to carry a lime
About all in which many can ex­
a phobia against Washington under bomb and dynamite into the navy yard in a lunchbox, when the gates
pect to become proficient is the foot,
the New Deal.
were opened for the day shift. A thorough search revealed nothing
bayonet and rifle work of the World
Hoover's last public visit was last whatever.
war infantry. That is also badly
needed. I do not agree with some winter, when he appeared un­
of our military “experts” that ev­ announced before a congressional
erything the war department has committee in behalf of a loan for
done is wrong and that this “old the then embattled Finns. But he
doughboy stuff is as dead as the spent the entire day here sub rosa
last Sunday.
do-do.”
Hoover stayed at the swanky
However, it cannot be denied that
because we have no completely home of William R. Castie, under­
equipped panzer divisions and they secretary of state in his regime and
can’t be improvised, delay in get­ one of the most active appeasement
ting them is critical. But looking advocates in the country.
back at the unplanned and dilatory
Hoover spent most of his time con­
action of the rest of the government ferring with Castle and some old
in appropriating money last sum­ newspaper friends about his plan to
mer, I fail to see how the army force the British to open their block­
could have done very much better in ade so that food can be shipped into
its circumstances.
Nazi-occupied Europe.
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The principal blunder—the one-
year training period, which is so
CAPITAL CHAFF
ill-fitted to the military problem—
Lovely Louise Atwill has had two
is not the army's fault. But if these husbands, Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
men go out before we get motorized former chief of staff, and her pres­
equipment to train the more tech­ ent actor-husband, Lionel Atwill.
nical troops, we will have to start She says the closest other call she
all over to man our panzer divisions ever had to fnatrimony was with
with men who have not yet learned Herbert Hoover. She and Hoover
even the rudiments of soldiering.
were attending a wedding of two
Another great drawback is that friends in Paris several years ago
Palestine . . . Captain Anthony Eden, British minister of war, is
we do not have a large enough 1- when the priest got them mixed shown (hatless) shaking hands with an officer of a Trans-Jordan frontier
cleus of professional soldiers to do up with the bridal couple and wax force during hi* recent visit to the British army of the Middle East. The
this job. The Officer’s Reserve corps about to unite them.
be-medaled officer at left is unidentified, but the gadget he holds in his
is a good beginning, but these men
J. Edgar Hoover and a group of hand is a fly-switch, If that’s of any help.
are mostly amateurs.
FBI officials are studying Spanish.
8 Dead, 8 Injured, in Airliner Crash
Intact After Borni» Threat
British War Minister in Middle East
John Becesai la pictured here with
his wife In New York city aa they
arrived aboard the H. 8. Kiboney,
from Lisbon, Portugal.
Brccani,
who writes under the pen name of
“liana Habe,” recently had the good
fortune of escaping from a Nasi
prison camp.
Witness
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General’s Guest
A gift thut is sure to please any
cigarette smoker is a gift of Camel
Cigurettes. Local dealers are fea­
turing Camels in two special gift
packuges. The well-known Camel
carton—10 packs of “20's"—is pre­
sented in handsome holiday dress.
Another Camel gift special is the
Christmas package of 4 “flat fif­
ties.” Both packuges are ready-to
give even to the gift label.—Adv.
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Gold is the fool's curial;., which
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This is Boy Scout Jim Rast, the
12-year-old who wanted to volunteer
In the Eighth division. He is hold­
Always * Duty
ing in his hand the invitation he re­
There is not a moment without
ceived from Maj. Gen. Philip Pey­
some duty.—Cicero.
ton. commanding officer, to be the
general's guest at a division I ns pro- I
tion at Columbia, S. C. Scout Rast
went there In the general’s car which
brought him from his home In Swan­
sea, S. C., and back again.
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