SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Friday, May 9, 1941
It Used to Be ‘Sissy
There teas a time when the man who played badminton was rd-
garded as something less than a he-man. Rut those days are gone.
In these action photos made by the Speedray technique, tiro stars,
Ken Davidson and Hugh Forgie, show you some of the strokes.
Washington, D. C.
TERRITORIAL BASES
The island bases of the United
States are now considered our best
safeguard against Invasion.
But
army and navy brasshats get a
scorching rebuke in a report pre­
pared by the house appropriations
subcommittee that inspected terri­
torial bases.
Written by Rep. James G. Scrug-
ham of Nevada, chairman of the
group, the report recommends the
immediate creation of an “inde­
pendent air force.” This would be
intended to correct two chief
abuses:
(1) The location of army and navy
bases almost side by side in flat,
unprotected country, thus “inviting
destruction by enemy bombs.“ (2)
Failure to build hangars, repair
shops and other facilities under-
ground.
Regarding the first criticism the
Scrugham report states:
"This
policy of concentrating highly essen­
tial military or industrial struc­
tures in very limited areas cannot
be too strongly condemned, and
may constitute an error of gravest
consequences. This is as true in our
territorial as well as our continental
defenses.
“The lesson of the destruction of
the Polish air force by the Germans
at the beginning of the war seems
to have gone entirely unheeded (by
the aeronautic bureau chiefs re­
sponsible). In a flat country, pro­
tected air facilities may be imprac­
tical, but where there are adjacent
hills, it seems inexcusable to delib­
erately build . . . bases invitingly
located for bombing attacks, and so
close together that an enemy plane
can hit one if it misses the other.
"Everywhere the story is the
same, from Hawaii to Puerto Rico,
from Alaska to the Virgin Islands,
Jamaica and Trinidad. Also, no
adequate plans have been formulat­
ed for water reserves, except to con­
tract for drilling a few wells, with
grave uncertainties as to quality
and quantity.”
Scrugham’s conclusions are that
a "tragedy of the first magnitude”
may develop unless immediate
steps are taken to rectify conditions
at the territorial bases. His solu­
tion is the centralization of all mili­
tary air forces under a single head
with cabinet rank.
er going off balance.
Right: Zowie! i
Forgie com pleting an
around - the - head smash.
This shot is used by the
better players rather than
a back-hand stroke.
The Arsi group of coal miners to return to work following an agree­
ment ending the general shutdown of bituminous coal mines by the
United Mine Workers of America (C.I.O.I, which began April I and con­
tinued for a whole month. The miners are shown entering the shaft
of the Dun Glee mine, near St. Clalrsvllle, Ohio.
II. S. Chamber Head
John llunefeld. 75, who has headed the New Year Day reception line
at the White House each year since 1924. was right on the spot again
when the sale of defense savings bonds opened in the district. He was
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR AIR Arst in line at the city post office. Photo shows James Hudson making
One of the significant differences the sale to Mr. Hunefcld, as Mrs. Mary Hinton looks on.
Relow: Ken goes up into the air to
meet the bird. He is about to execute a
between the war and navy depart­
high, back hand lob, or drop shot.
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Above: Ken Davidson, one of the
greatest trick shot artists the game has
ever produced, shou s one of his tricks.
ments is the hostility of navy brass­
hats to civilian scrutiny and control
\ of their operations.
Deciding that the vastly expanded
army air corps needed a central di­
recting head. Stimson and Patter­
son selected Robert Lovett, New
York banker and World war ace,
for the job and had the President
appoint him. There was no inter­
ference from the generals, and air
corps chiefs are working harmoni­
ously and effectively with their new
civilian boss.
Navy brasshats, on the other
hand, are fighting tooth and nail to
block a similar civilian intrusion
into their gold-braided
realm.
Through high-powered lobbying op­
erations in the house, the admirals
wormed into the $3,500.000,000 navy
appropriation bill a provision that
would make it impossible to name
an assistant secretary for air.
The prohibitive clause is a very
slick piece of axing. On its face
it has no connection with the pro
posed civilian appointee. It merely
bars the expenditure of navy funds
"for any additional positions . . .
at a rate of compensation in excess
of $5,000 a year.” The pay for an
assistant secretary is $8,000 a year.
Hugh Forgie is caught by the
Speedray here in a graceful leap.
Forgie playing a defensive shot
back to his opponent’s baseline.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Women, too, are enthusiastic badminton player».
Tall, fast-moving Rep. Lyndon
Johnson is going to let no grass
grow under his feet in his campaign
for the seat of the late Sen. Morris
Sheppard of Texas. The young New
Dealer, who has the public blessing
of the President, plans 208 speeches,
an average of three a day.
George Brooks, executive assist-,
ant in the OPM labor division, is
able to keep two secretaries busy j
taking dictation and at the same
time carry on a telephone conver­
sation.
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Albert W. Hawkes of Krarney.
N. J., elected president of the U. H.
Chamber of Commerce, following
Anal business session of the 29th
annual meeting of the chamber,
Fire Demon Takes Heavy Toll in East
U. S. Loan to China
Damage estimated at about 12,000,000 was caused In the Ocean Bluffs,
Mass., area as the result of a fire that destroyed a church and leveled
more than 450 cottages. Only a timely shift In wind saved hundreds of
other houses. The above photo shows a row of cottages burning fiercely
when the Are was at its height.
Signing of a stabilization agree­
ment Involving the purchase of Chi­
nese yuan by the I). S. stabilization
fund to the amount of 850.000,000
was another Important step in the
monetary co-operation between the
United States and China. Photo
shows (seated) Henry Morgenthan
Jr., secretary of the treasury, and
T. V. Soong, representing China.
Standing: Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese am­
bassador.
Mexican Army Doctors Study U. S. Methods
Wins Safety Award
TOUGH DRAFT BOARDS
The problem of industrial man­
power has become so acute that de­
fense chiefs have complained to te­
lective service officials that tóme
local boards are "too tough” about
granting deferment to skilled work-
men.
Ohio draft boards, for example, I
are ordering the induction of crafts­
men badly needed for the crucial
machine tool program.
Similar
complaints have been made against
Michigan draft authorities for tak­
ing specially skilled men needed by
the Packard plant, now producing
Rolls-Royce airplane engines for
the British.
From Virginia have come reports
that the draft is hampering the vast
naval and shipbuilding program at
Newport News.
The problem of labor supply is
also hitting agriculture.
Agricul­
tural officials fear that so much
labor is being drained off farms that
some of them want to bar any more
defense plants in midwestern dairy
and pork sections.
• • •
Bruno Johannes Vallanskl. self-
styled agent of the Nazi "Gestapo”
secret police, al Fills Island, lie
was questioned about a small theft,
und unfolded a lurid talc of Ills serv­
ice as an alleged agent of the
"Gestapo” and revealed a swastika
scar brand on his arm.
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Mexican army medical officers visit a Chicago draft induction station
to study U. H. army methods. From left, Capt. L. Johnson of the draft
center. Mexican army men, Majors Salas, Vera and Hanches; Llcu-
tenant Colonel Ramos and Major Gomes. Captain C. Buczynski, of the
draft center. Major Zapata of Mexico. Seated: R. Forsythe, a selectee.
Gov. It. A. Hurley of Connecticut
(left) receiving the National Hafety
Council’s 1940 grand award for
states from Col. John Stilwell, presi­
dent of the Council, whose traffic
contest Is conducted in 1,281 cities
In the 48 states.