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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, May 30, 1941
If I hey y Had (ione "Musical
In the course of giving musical instruction over a period of
twenty years, Arthur T. Crcmin. director of the Aviv ) ork Schools
of Music, has tnoloil certain basic rules governing the instruments
for which people are best fitted, according to their individual
personality and background. Here we have eight world leaders as
they would appear if they had suddenly gone musical. The pic­
tures are all composites.
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Washington, d . c.
BOMBER OUTPUT
Though not announced by th«
White House, two impelling factors
were behind the President’s sensa­
tional letter to Secretary Stimson
asking for an immediate increase in
tlie monthly output of bombers.
One was the obvious need of pro­
viding Britain with more and big­
ger planes to carry the offensive to
Germany. Second, known only to
inside authorities, was Intelligence
information that the Nazis are in­
creasing the bomber force of their
Luftwaffe. The reports are that the
German air force now consists of
the following:
Six main air fleets, each compris­
ing 1,000 bombers. 625 lighters and
75 reconnaisance planes, a total Ff
10.200. Also there is an independent
air unit of 2.750 planes, a naval air
service of 1.000, an operational train­
ing unit of 650, and a transport or­
ganization of 3,500 planes. In addi­
John L. Lewis, head of llic I lilted
tion to these first-line ships, is a
reserve of 12.000 others, plus 5.000
Mine* Worker* of America, who,
trainers and transports.
Navy truck*, guarded by marine*, carried KOO A. F. of L. worker* with Maj. W. W. Inglis, chairman
People with quiet hobbies, like stamp collecting, are ideally
Grand total: About 35.000 planes. through C.I.O. picket lines to work at the Moore Drydock company, of Joint board of miner* and opera-
suited for strumming on instruments such as the guitar. The Ao. 1
German airplane production ca­ Oakland, Calif., one of the II defense plant* affrded by a strike of tora, algnrd the coal peace pact
stamp collector of I . S. looks pretty natural behind a (tuitar here pacity is estimated at 3.000 planes a C.I.O.-A. F. of L. machinists for higher wage*. There was no violence. ofliclally ending the wage dispute
month, including about 500 bombers. This soundphoto show* navy truck* passing through picket line formed in the coal Industry, lie I* shown
However, except for bombers. Ger­ by the striking machinists’ union.
here addressing wagr conference In
many is not now using her full pro­
Nrw York Just before pad
duction capacity as she doesn't need
signed.
that many new planes a month.
Nazi March production is estimat- i
ed at 2.200 ships of all types, but
only 1.600 in April. In May, how­
ever, Intelligence reports are that
Nazi plane production is being
stepped up to replace Balkan and
North African losses.
Reports are vague about what the
Nazis are doing with the nine gov­
ernment and eleven private aircraft
plants in France, most of them lo­
cated in the occupied zone; also re­
garding the eight Dutch factories,
including the Fokker works, and the
seventeen Belgian plants.
These plants have large potential
producing capacity, but best in for-
mation is that the Nazis are strip­
ping them of their machine tools
and other equipment. How much
this will boost the Nazis' 3.000 planes
THAT MAN! Nervous, tense ; Ambition and the bass viol go a month is only a guess.
U. S. Goal.
people like Der Fuehrer make together. Here is Henry Ford as
Weakest link in German plane
ideal piccolo players. >.
i he would look with the big fiddle. production is aluminum. From cap­
tured planes, the British estimate
NEW NOTE IN ”.W> that the Nazis use about 500 pounds
WEEK" ... Mrs. Eleanor of this vital metal per ship. The
(■rorges Citrous. former
Roosevelt is the ideal typ< American average is 5.000 pounds.
Mayor Fiorello II. LaGuardia of New York city, who ha* bren appoint­ governor of Damascus, who, accord­
The undisclosed bomber goal of ed by President Roosevelt to head the office of civilian defense, la ing to reports from Cairo, Egypt,
for the violin. Simple,
sincere people, says ex­ 1941 to which Roosevelt referred in shown here as he received bls commission from the Chief Esecutive In led Free Frenc h forces In Invasion of
I Syria from Palcaline.
pert Cremiti, shoul1 take his letter to Stimson, is 600 a month. Washington.
The four new assembly plants in
up this instrument.
Omaha. Tulsa, Kansas City and
Fort Worth should produce about
300 bombers a month. To double
their output it will be necessary to
build and equip at least as many
new plants, plus taking over an in­
creased ratio of automobile and oth­
er plant facilities to turn out the nec­
essary parts.
The letter which OPM Director
General Knudsen sent auto makers
that they will have to hold down
their 1942 car production to 78.5 per
cent of this year’s output, is con-
sidered only a beginning. Insiders
predict that there will be another
big cut soon.
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LATIN ADMIRALS
The state department scored a
ten-strike when it Anally persuaded
the navy to invite the chiefs of
Latin American navies to visit the
United States. The junket definitely
carried weight.
For the United
States navy, without any ifs, ands
or buts, is the most powerful in the
world, and the thing that counts in
South America today is the belief
that this country can really ward
off Nazi invasion.
Behind the scenes, the man who
helped most to dress the stage for
Latin American admirals was John­
ny Thomason, better known for bis
prolifle pen portraits of the marines
(Red Pants. Fix Bayonets, Jeb
The duke of Npolcto, 41-year-old
Stuart, Salt Winds and Gobi Dust).
A group of conscientious draft objectors being signed Into Camp cousin of King Victor Emmanuel
Thomason, now a colonel in the
Patapsco, Elkridge, Md., America’s first camp for conscientious objec- of Italy, who han been named king
marines, had served in Latin Amer­
tors, where they will serve their year doing non-mllilary service, Thcy of the new Axis-created state of Cro­
ica, knew the importance of the ad­
will be put to work improving roads and doing conservation work. atia. The new kingdom was carved
mirals’ visit Other U. S. brass hats
Seated al desk Is Dr. E. Wildman, director of the camp. Ily July 21 from Jugoslavia, with areas taken
didn't. Admiral Harold Stark, chief
such camps will be in operation throughout the country under administra­ by Germany and Italy as a result of
of naval operations, fumed and fret­
tion of the American Fl lends Service committee. Under terms of the ar­ victorious war. Croatia’s new queen
ted. only wanted to show the Good
Affectionate people like Queen Neighbors a few East coast stations. rangement the federal government is not obligated to pay camp expenses. Is Princess Irene of Greece.
Nation's Civilian Defense Chief
Elizabeth of England should be at
home with the accordion, we are
told. And Good Queen Hess seems
to be.
Statesmen whose main mission in
life is telling other people where
to head in are ideally suited to be
hand conductors—always waving
the stick. So here is II Duce di­
recting.
Winston Churchill has played
many roles in his exciting life and
/flayed them all well. It is reason­
able to suppose he would make a
good rhumba player.
At this point Johnny Thomason re­
marked: “This visit is giving you a
pain in the neck. How about letting
me take it over?”
Thomason insisted that the trip
was important enough to do it right,
demanded
more
entertainment
money from the White House «nd
got it. At flrst he worked on the
idea of meeting the admirals with
U. S. cruisers at Barranquilla, Co­
lombia, taking them out to the mid­
Atlantic to view the U. S. naval pa­
trol at work. This was given up
as too long, and a coast-to-coast in­
spection of U. S. naval stations was
substituted.
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Largest Transport of Its Kind
Men Hitler Trusted
&
MERRY-GO-ROUND
The
G.O.P.-controlled
Kansas
legislature hit Rep. Jack Houston,
long Kansas Democrat, with every­
thing but the waterbucket in gerry­
mandering his district, but he takes
it philosophically. “When a sales­
man makes good on the Job,” he
says with a grin, “his territory is in­
creased.”
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The world’s largest twin-motored airliner, the new 36-passcngcr Cur­
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tiss-Wright transport plane. The plane, designed for army troop trans­
U. S. military intelligence places
port, arrived In New York after a non-stop flight from St. Louis. It can
the number of German panzer divi­
accommodate 40 soldiers. Cruising at 60 per cent of full speed, It
sions at not over 20 out of a total
averaged better than 215 miles an hour on the 933-mile test flight.
of 260 divisions.
Ernest Roehm (left) and Rudolf
Hess, the only two men whom Hitler
fully trusted seven years ago. Yet
Roehm was assassinated In a
“purge” and lies* has fled Germany.
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