FRIDAY. MAR. 7. 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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GENERAL
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in Plane
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
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Washington. D. C.
WASHINGTON. — Defense chiefs
WAR POSSIBILITIES
aren't advertising it but they are
In a friendly debate with Major
quietly trying to ward off a blow-up
George Fielding Eliot on war possi­
over the host of dollar-a-year men
bilities. two of the principal schools
now working for the government.
of so-called thought were seen in
Some of the One Dollar men are
pretty clear profile.
conscientious and sincere public
On a few basic guesses there was
servants. Others are less scrupulous.
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
complete agreement; that this coun­
While representing the government
«.'onaolidatrd Features— WNU Service.)
try is in no danger of invasion in
they have sold goods to the govern­
the measurable future, that Ger­
EW YORK—In 1918, there was
ment exerted inside pressure in fa­
many will not be successful in an in­
a tall, gangling young man in
vor of their industries, represented
vasion of England this year and that charge of a crew of men who were
clients before government agencies.
her chance of doing it later will making lewisite gas. in a hide-out
All this has been no secret on
Cleve-
probably decline, that there is no
Capitol Hill, where the steadily
Chemical Expert near
land. A vet-
prospect that England will lose her
growing corps of One Dollar moguls
mastery of the ocean this year.
Speak» Softly, So eran officer
has been eyed with increasing re-
advised him
So much seems to be a pretty gen­
sentment Recently this undercover
eral consensus of opinion among Nothing Blows Up to give or-
indignation took form in a bill by
fairly well informed students of the ders in a low tone of voice and
Sen. Kenneth McKellar, veteran
speak slowly and cautiously. There
problems of war as they affect us.
Tennessean, to ban such business
Beyond that, there is disagree­ were human and chemical tensions
men from government service and
ment Major Eliot, who is one of there, intermingling, and a sharp
to probe their operations.
the most painstaking of our military word might twitch a workman's
McKellar's plan is to await en-
critics, is also one of the leaders of nerve and cause trouble.
actment of the lend-lease bill be-
those who feel that it is to our inter­
fore pushing his measure, but mean­
That might have been good
est to “keep the war as far away
while defense chiefs, seeing the
training
for a college president­
from our shores as possible.” He
handwriting on the wall, have qui­
to-be. At any rale, they made
quotes the authorities to the general
etly started cleaning up the situa­
Dr. James Bryant Conant presi­
effect that the real line of defense
tion themselves.
dent
of Harvard. In 193«. He has
of a great sea-power “is the coast*
This has been done in a series of
continued to speak softly and to
line of its possible enemies.”
apparently unrelated moves. Under
get results without anything
Between the two nations, as he
cover of transferring the original de­
blowing up, and now President
every
fense organization to the new office correctly says, is control of
Roosevelt picks him to head a
dominating
point
on
all
the
oceans;
of production management, several
scientific mission to Britain.
England itself, Gibraltar, Suez,
One Dollar men have been eased
Aden, Singapore. Corregidor, Cape­
He was a major in the newly or­
home with the high-sounding, face­
saving title of “Advisory Consult­ town. the Falkland islands, Pana­ ganized chemical warfare service in
ma, Honduras. Hawaii and all the the days when he was making lew­
ant" pinned to their coat-tails. Oth­
great American bases on both isite gas. Within a few years of
ers have been shifted to jobs not di­
rectly connected with their own in- coasts. Coupled with the superior­ the day when he took his Harvard
ity of the two fleets, he thinks no doctorate, in 1917, he was famed
dustries.
Also, several non-commercial ex- land power can at length prevail. here and abroad as one of the
perts have been brought in to re- To all this he adds, and his adver­ world s leading research chemists.
place One Dollar men in important saries agree, that England alone If our leasing and lending includes
sections of the OPM. And more could never retake on land, the Ger­ specialized brains, we could not
man conquests in northern Europe; have sent a scientist more compe­
house-cleaning is still to come.
Nate—Among non-commercial ex­ that it could be done, if at all, only tent to devise defenses against gas
perts who have been brought into with a new A.E.F. of millions, which attack, or, perhaps to solve some
the OPM are Dr. Ernest M. Hop­ he does not favor, and that Russia new Nazi chemical ruthlessness, of
kins, president of Dartmouth col­ is no great threat on the German which, it is reported, the British
war office has evidence.
lege; Dexter S. Kimball, former east flank.
To most of that, the opposing argu­
dean of Cornell university engineer­
He is a pioneer and expert In
ing school; William E. Wickenden. ment is: “O.K., but how is the war
gas warfare and defense, but he
president of Case School of Applied then to be won by Britain?” His
hates war and as an educator
Science; Dr. W. S. A. Pott, presi­ premises leave only the one answer
has worked diligently to out-
and
he
makes
it
frankly
—
economic
dent of Elmira college; and Dr. s.
mode and banish forever bis
S. Stratton, Harvard professor of strangulation of Germanized Europe
war gases. He hastened to en­
by a British blockade and battering
economics.
list when we entered the World
of
Germany
from
the
air,
naval
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war. A friend persuaded him
frustration of Japan in Asia and
MR. SMITH GOES TO
that be would be much more
the Indies.
LATIN-AMERICA
useful in gas research for the
The opponents say:
“Economic
It looks as if Senator Barkley was
bureau of mines. From this bu­
right when he denounced the box of­ strangulation unaccompanied by
reau he later was transferred to
fice smash movie, “Mr. Smith military attack never yet won a
the chemical warfare service.
Comes to Washington.” That film is war. A combination of both did beat
now causing all kinds of headaches our Confederacy and whip Germany
He is an Alpinist, still climbing
for the U. S A. in South America, in 1918. In both cases it was a long mountains at the age of 48.
In
where it is used by the Nazis as one slow process. In this case, without 1937, he scaled North Palisade
of their deadliest propaganda weap­ constant military pressure requiring mountain in the California Sierra, a
ons.
of any enemy the consumption of hazardous climb of 14,254 feet. Dur­
John Hay (“Jock”) Whitney has tremendous quantities of scant sup­ ing the previous winter, he had bro­
just made this report to the Rocke­ plies, it would be interminable and ken his collar-bone while skiing. He
feller branch of the national defense extremely doubtful of result Fur- is blue-eyed, with rather severe ped­
commission. The story of a grafting thermore, since we are undertaking agogical spectacles, which make
senate ganging up on a young re­ to finance this world-wide military, him look scientific, and a warm,
former. Whitney says, is being circu­ naval and economic strategy and to ready smile which makes him look
lated through Latin America as an become not only the arsenal but the human.
illustration of U. S. government larder, banker, guardian and good I
His father was a photo-engraver
graft.
neighbor to half a world, it would of Dorchester, Mass. There was
Whitney has been pressuring Hol- work our economic ruin. It is an­ some sniffing among the Brahmins
lywood moguls to halt further for­ other “great experiment noble in when the professor of chemistry
eign distribution of the film.
motive,” but it takes in too much became president of Harvard. But
Another big problem for Whitney territory for even our resources.
Charles W. Eliot had been a pro­
is newsreels. Just how damaging a
“If we perfect our own defenses fessor of chemistry and had scored
newsreel can be to the “Good Neigh­ and shorten our lines, our naval, heavily in the humanities—as did
bor” policy if even a slight detail of military and air strength will be Dr. Conant So there was prece­
sequence is overlooked, was illustrat­ multiplied in comparison with
dent for that appointment, but pos­
ed in a recent report to the state strategy of buttering them thin so sibly not for his present appoint­
department by Norman Armour, across the whole «•lobe. We can be- ment The tradition of the absent­
ambassador to Argentina.
come impregnable, Half a planet minded professor fades in an era
In a Buenos Aires theater one is enough for one nation to undertake of highly specialized knowledge.
night. Armour was witnessing Amer­ to finance and defend. The differ­
ican newsreel shots of an air raid on ence in cost is tens of billions. The
ERHAPS more than any other
Great Britain. Immediately follow­ difference in risk of war and dis­
one man. Sir Robert Brooke-Pop­
ing the raid pictures a bathing beau­ aster is immeasurable.
Aid Brit­ ham saw the need for wings over
ty contest in California was flashed ain? Yes, up to two very definite the British empire and worked hard
on the screen.
limits: That it does not weaken our
and long to
“The letdown of the audience was own defense, that it does not involve British Far East provide them.
terrific,” Armour reported, pointing us in a world-wide war the cause Air Chief Took a As command­
out that the newsreel made it appear of which we can't control. The Eliot
er-in-chief in
Long View Ahead the Far East
that United States had its mind on argument does both.”
bathing beauties instead of defense,
There are two proposals. "You today, with tension mounting hourly
r
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pays your money and you takes your on land and sea, he may take credit
THE TAFT BROTHERS
for strengthening air defenses to the
choice.”
William Howard Taft’s boys, Bob
farthest
outpost of Britain’s domin­
and Charley, are at odds again,
ions.
CONVOY SHIPS TO BRITAIN
Charley having been in Washington
He attended Sandhurst and en­
We are going to convoy ships car­
more than a week in his new Job be­
tered
the army. He was at the front
rying aid to Britain. There is not
fore he got together with Bob.
in France from the first to the last
Reason is the Job Charley has much doubt that a provision in the
taken from the hands of Roosevelt. lease-lend bill prohibiting the Presi­ gunshot
N
Ginger Roger«, who won the an­
nual Academy of Motion Picture
Aria and Nclencea award for her
performance In “Kitty Foyle," and
Jamea Hlewart, who was voted
1949's eulalandlng actor for hla work
la “The Philadelphia Story.”
Seven persons were killed and nine were injured when thia Eaalern
Airline« plane crashed near Atlanta, Ga. Rep. William D. Byron, at
Maryland, was one af the seven killed. Among the Injured was ('apt.
Eddie Rlckenbacker, World war flying ace and owner of the airline.
Photo shows rescuer« searching in the debris for bodies.
Flies to Post
Police Clash With Pickets at Steel Plant
Police try to force hole through pickets to allow car to pass
through Number 1 gate of the big Lackawanna plant of the Bethlehem
Steel company, near Buffalo, N. Y., during the ('. I. O. strike, which
periled defense production. The Bethlehem company has IS billion
dollars' worth of military orders.
Land at Boston Army Base
I
John G. Winant. U. 8. ambassador
to Great Britain, going aboard the
Atlantic Clipper al La Guardia field.
New York, en route to Great Brit­
ain, via Lisboa.
On Special Mission
P
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It sounds harmless enough—“Assist­
ant Co-ordinator of Recreational Ac­
tivities for Defense“—but it’s a suf­
ficient tie-up with the administration
foreign policy to leave anti-interven­
tionist Bob a bit chilly.
What hurt more, perhaps, was
that Charley, who has long quar­
reled with his brother over domestic
policies, accepted the Job just the
week before the historic lease-lend
debate opened in the senate. Bob
knew where brother Charley stood
long before, namely with the Com­
mittee to Defend America by Aiding
the Allies. But this brought the split
into the public gaze.
“You don't have to agree with
your brother a JI the time, do you?”
is Bob’s shrugging comment.
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
You can reach hard-working John
R. Steelman, head of the U. S. Con­
ciliation service, practically any
midnight in his office working on
some labor dispute, but not between
7 and 7:15 p. m. He always takes
this time out to listen to a favorite
daily radio program.
The budget is full of unique little
items, such as $6,000 for a fence on
the Texas-Mexican border, $76,000
for personal funds for inmates of
federal narcotic Institutions, $10,000
for sea food inspection.
dent from using American armed
forces on the high seas to protect
American property, would be an un­
constitutional congressional interfer­
ence with his constitutional power
as commander-in-chief of the armed
forces.
Except for some psycho­
logical popular effect, it would be
useless, null and void.
Just now, popular opinion is so
much against convoys, which would
be a direct venture into war, that
it probably would not be attempted
at present. But a most skillful job
has been done of leading popular
opinion closer and closer to war,
and also of so timing action as not
to offend it. It is easy to see how a
change to favor convoys could oc­
cur.
Some time later in the year our
industrial mobilization will begin to
disgorge vast quantities of supplies.
The British demand for them will be
great. The lease-lend bill will be a
law and there will be no financial or
other hindrance to sending them.
Also Hitler's major effort to block­
ade Britain on and under the sea
will be at its peak and cargo sink­
ings will multiply.
Then we shall hear: "Are we Just
building ships and supplies for Hit­
ler to sink? A ton of supplies on
the docks of Liverpool can help win
this war.
Twenty years ago he began
campaigning and agitating for
an empire matrix of commer­
cial and military airlines, pre­
dicting an hour of peril when
only such unity and co-operation
of scattered air forces could
h>ld the empire together. He
was one of the originators of the
British commonwealth air train­
ing plan; established the Royal
Air Force college in London and
became commandant of the Im­
perial Defense college. He built
Canada's $696,000,000 empire air
force which Just now is greatly
strengthening Britain’s hopes
with its 40,000 students and its
daily yield of skilled fliers for
the defense of Britain.
A lean, hard man of clipped,
astringent speech, comparable only
to a blow-torch in his powers of con­
centration, he is in his general make­
up a planned personality. He is
63 years old, hard as nails and
as whippy as a pole-vaulter. He
was bom Robert Moore, the son of
a country clergyman. For reasons
of his own, he was not satisfied to
be Robert Moore. Characteristical­
ly, he did something about it. He
procured royal dispensation to be­
come Robert Brooke-Popham. Then,
possibly in some pattern of numer­
ology. camo a career to fit the name.
The first V. 8. army transport since 1918 has Just landed 1,200 soldiers
at the Boston army base. Home of the 1,200 are shown above debarking
from the troopship General Hunter Liggett en route to Camp Edwards
and Fort Devens. These men have just completed five weeks* secret
maneuvers In the Caribbean.
Australian Troops Arrive in Singapore
"Berlin er Lust” was the chant ef these crack Australian troops as
they arrived in Singapore te strengthen the British defenses. They were
equipped with great numbers ef fighting planes and bombers.
Dr. James B. Conant, president of
Harvard university, aboard the H. H.
Excalibur, as he sailed for Europe
on a mission for President Roose­
velt. Dr. Conant is head of a spe­
cial new mission to England to col­
lect defense Information.
Defense
Averell Harriman, New York finan­
cier, whom President Roosevelt
named as aide to Ambassador Wl-
nant, as a step In aid to British un­
der lend-lease bill program.