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Friday, May 2, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Warriors Meet
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Offer Chance* for Many
G
Eleanor Roosevelt
Wxxhington. D. C.
NAZIS SHY OF MAGNESIUM
Rural Electrification
I have been doing so many things
tlie last few days, that I keep re
membering happenings which I for
got to tell you.
One recent afternoon, in Washing
ton. there was a meeting of the
workers in the rural electrification
program from all over the country.
I had the pleasure of being with them
for a few minutes and I mention it
here because, from the beginning,
this program has seemed to me
be of such general importance
the rural people of our nation.
Every time electricity is taken
some remote spot, it brings new
opportunity to the farmer to lighten
his labors. It allows him to accom
plish more and. therefore, increases
his buying power.
To the woman of the house it
brings relief from back-breaking
toil, a better standard in home life,
more time to spend with the chil
dren, and less weariness at the end
of the day. The men and women
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau
(indicated by
working in this program are funda
mentally changing our life for the arrow) appearing before the house ways and means committee re
garding the treasury's $3.500,000.000 revenue program, said:
tte face
better.
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Examination by U. S. experts of
the captured Messerschmitt sent
here by the British has uncovered
one highly significant fact:
The
Nazis are now using only 1 to 200
pounds of magnesium in the con
struction of these famous tighter
planes.
This low Nazi magnesium content is
compared to the 400 500 pounds used
in similar U. S. planes made of this
featherweight metal, one-third light
er than aluminum. Our big bomb
ers use as much as 1.000 pounds of
magnesium. The more magnesium
used, the lighter the over-all weight
of the planes.
This is considered evidence that
German magnesium production is
not keeping pace with Luftwaffe re
quirements. If it were, the Nazis
would certainly be using more mag
nesium in their planes, because of
its extreme lightness and strength.
Heavier metals increase the dead
weight, reducing the ship's lifting
power, speed and cruising range, all
vital factors in aerial combat.
If. as the experts believe. German
a greater challenge than at any time In the history of the republic.1
magnesium production is falling be •COVERING GROUND'
He warned that all classes “shall bear their fair share of the burden.”
hind war needs, it is highly im
It
seems
as
though
I
were
cover
portant. Under the Nazis. Germany
took the world lead in the output of ing a good deal of ground these
days. One day I had the pleasure
this strategic metal.
of meeting for a few minutes Mr.
For years the United States lagged
Darrell Brown, the young artist who
behind because of cartel agreements
won a prize offered by Mr. Isaac
between magnesium and aluminum
Liberman, president of Arnold Con
manufacturers, which kept down
stable company, for painting a por
production. In 1939, U. S magne
trait of me in the dress I wore on
sium production barely totaled 7,000.-
Inauguration night. I thought I had
900 pounds. By 1940, as a result of
never seen him and. since I am not
frantic defense efforts, this was
particularly interested in portraits
stepped up to 12.500,000 pounds, still myself, I think I must have seemed
far short of army, navy and aid- a rather unsatisfactbry subject
Britain requirements.
This, however, is a portrait of the
Large scale output of certain dress. I was interested to learn that
types of aircraft is being held up I had met Mr. Brown some years
until several new magnesium plants ago in Iowa, and was glad to be
get into operation. OPM plans call able to show him the Lincoln por
for an output of 75,000.000 pounds in trait in the State dining room, which
1942.
If no hitches develop, the he liked as much as we do.
50,000,000-pound mark may be
We had a number of friends with
reached by the end of this year.
us for lunch in the afternoon. I re
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ceived Señora Najera, wife of the
TEXTILE PROFITS
Mexican ambassador, and Señora
When OPM Purchasing Chief Don Avila Camacho, whose husband is
ald Nelson remarked at his press brother of the president of Mexico.
conference that textile prices were After that I received the high school
under scrutiny, his words went un senior class from Staatsburgh, N. Y.
noticed in the press. But to textile which is the village next to Hyde
insiders they sent cold shivers up Park. They have been very fortu
Under guard of Constable T. J. Johnston (left) of the Koyal Canadian
the spine.
nate in having such good weather mounted police and Lance Corporal Henderson of the Canadian army,
What Nelson did not reveaL but and I am sure enjoyed their trip.
two of the ?8 German prisoners of war who fled from an internment
which they knew, was that his ar-
The crowds in Washington are camp at Peninsula, Ontario, are shown on the railroad car in which
cociate, Leon Henderson, defense great. I do not remember seeing they were returned. Twenty of the fugitives have been roundrd up.
price regulator, had quietly com so much traffic. I am particularly
pleted a survey showing that the glad that the cherry blossoms are
mill margins (profits) are the high out so that no one who came hoping
est in history. Henderson's figures to see them will go away disap
show a jump in mill margins from pointed.
10.68 in June. 1940, to 16 in Febru
The White House has been filled
ary, 1941, and still going up.
to capacity with sight-seers during
If the price paid growers for cot the visiting hours, and I am sure
ton had kept pace with that of tex this is so with all the public build
tiles, it would be selling today at ings. Our own young people went
around 20 cents a pound instead of out to Mt. Vernon one day and could
10.71—its present figure. Informal not even get inside the house.
ly, Henderson has warned textile
leaders to watch their step, indi SPRINGTIME
Starting for a speaking engage
cating willingness to allow them to
ment in Charlotte. N. C., we arrived
put on the brakes themselves.
in Greensboro, N. C., on time. A
plane sent over by the Charlotte
TB PROTECTION
At cost of less than a penny News Publishing company, which
aniece. the navy is taking pictures was sponsoring my lecture, was
of the lungs of all new recruits, to waiting on the field. The College
weed out the unfit before they be for Women at Greensboro had sent
come government charges for life. a few representatives to greet me
Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, with a box of flowers, and the local
surgeon general of the navy, esti radio man was also there with a
mates that the pennies will save microphone so I could say a few
taxpayers many millions. Veterans' words of greeting before starting on
hospitals are full of TB cases from the other plane for Charlotte.
the last war—many of whom prob
All this was done very rapidly,
ably had the disease before they and then we climbed into the small
entered the service.
er plane with a delightful young pi
The new device takes a photograph lot and reporter from the News,
on a 35-mm. film of a fluoroscope, who acted as one of our hostesses
replacing the larger and far more during the day. We were soon look
expensive X-ray picture. So revo ing down on the fields and woods
lutionary is the change that manu of North Carolina.
facturers of X-ray equipment op
It seemed more like summer than
posed it for fear of losing business. spring. The flowers were all out
The navy did the pioneering in and the dogwood was in full bloom.
"mass chest surveys,” but gives Somehow or other, this "little” trip
credit as the original pioneer to a to southern California and then to
Brazilian named D'Abreu.
North Carolina, seems to have
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This picture Is typical of the way the national defense program Is
robbed me of that first feeling of
NO GLITTER
spring creeping over the landscape. progressing. Here two hooded welders at the plant of the American Car
No phase of modern defensive
There was no sign of spring the and Foundry company in Berwick, Pa., are shown at work on some of
warfare, in which attacking planes last time I was in Hyde Park and the armor plate that goes on the fighting tanks being turned out by the
must be checked, is considered more suddenly, when I was back in Wash hundred. Tanks roll off the assembly line at a rapid rate.
vital than the art of camouflage. ington, everything was out—magno
The British long ago learned that lias, forsythias, daffodils; every
one effective protection against day thing seemed in full bloom over
time bombing of an army in the night! Perhaps, when I get back to
field was to make sure no equip Hyde Park in early May, I shall get
The U. S. that first sense of life awakening
ment reflects the sun.
army is following this same sound again in the trees, fields and
rule.
marshes.
All glitter has been ordered re
As we came through Virginia in
moved from military equipment.
the morning, one hillside seemed to
Even bayonets are being dipped in
a special blue finish to prevent shine. me particularly beautiful. The
The dull olive surface of staff cars, leaves on the trees were pale green
troop transport trucks and other ve and a soft reddish brown. In be
hicles was designed to this end. It tween, some kind of white blossom
blends with the landscape and is a glistened and the purple of the Judas
safeguard against air attacks.
tree was everywhere in sight
Nazi Prisoners Recaptured After Break
you been thinking ubout
H AVE
the United State* Civil Serv
ice, wondering if there's n S|x>t
you con fill, un opportunity for
you?
There may be, for Uncle Sum
needs clerks, typists, nurses, <loc-
tors, border putrolmen, inuchin-
1st*, guards and many others to
carry on hi* work ull over the
country.
•
Gen. *ir Archibald Wavcll (left),
commander *< the British expedi
tionary force In North Africa, pic
tured with Gen. Jan Smuts, premier
of the I nion of South Africa, I*
Cairo, Egypt.
In South Africa,
every European resident-clllscn be
tween 17 and 60 is eligible for mill«
tary duty.
Three years ago Hans Karl-Heinz
Sennhenn, young German immi
grant, declared his intention to be
come a U. S. citizen and received his
first naturalization papers.
Under
the Selective Service act that makes
him a "declarant alien" and sub
ject to draft But now a clerk at
the German embassy, Sennhenn is
fighting being drafted on the ground
that he is not a U. S. citizen and does
not want to be one.
Mrs. Roosevelt's morning mall
consists of 900 to 1.000 letters.
In the past few days I have had so
much time on planes and trains
that I actually finished reading ev
erything I took with me. I may
have mentioned to you before "War
By Revolution,” by a young English
man, Francis Williams, who has
been in politics for a number of
years. I was much interested in it
because I feel that his contention is
correct, that really to win the fight
Radiophoto of German panzer units parading down one of the main
against Hitlerism, the people in all thoroughfares In Belgrade In review before General Von Kleist, after the
the countries under Hitler’s control occupation of the Jugoslav capital. Part of Parliament square Is shown
must want freedom and a better In background. After 11 days of fighting the Jugoslavs capitulated.
life brought by their own action.
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The couple had enjoyed n inenl
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out without money.
Calling the proprietor, he ex
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with:
"It won't take me long to slip
home, und my wife will remain
here as security.”
“Pardon me,” said the propri-
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"Sir, snapped the customer nn-
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my wife is not worth the $1.50?”
"Not at all,” the proprietor pro
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Brig. Gen. Hrrhon
army conatruclion division chief,
before Truman senate committee.
Neighborly Duty
He said that almost over night his
One person I have to make good;
division was required to produce
But my duty to my
living facilities for a population half myself.
again as big as the city of St. Louis. neighbor- is much more nearly ex
pressed by saying that 1 have to
make him happy—if I may.—Hub
ert Louis Stevenson.
Unfortunate One
There is no one more unfortu
nate than the man who has never
been unfortunate, for it has never
been in his power to try himself.—
Seneca.
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Premier W. L. Mackenzie King, of
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confer with the President at the
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