Friday, November 14, 1941 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 2 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK ‘Much Greater Sacrifices in Future' Speaks for ¡Nippon Washington. D. C. NAZI SABOTAGE The man to watch in Europe to­ day-next to Hitler—is a suave and charming diplomat in Turkey named Franz von Papen. It is al­ ways a significant omen when Hitler By LEMUEL F. PARTON sends Von Papen to a country. It (Consolidated Featurei WNU Service.) means he has dire and potent in­ VEW YORK —We are quite cer- tentions regarding that area. It was Von Papen who went to ' tain that there is a chipping sparrow out our way which didn't Austria as ambassador to soften stand still long enough to be count­ it in preparation for the Nazi oc­ ed. but at any cupation It was Von Papen who 26 Stuffed Bird Cutt rate Roger years ago tried to do the same thing here. And now. with weath­ Pet er non’» Count Tory Peter­ er getting cold in Russia and Hitler son's national To 5,750,000,000 bird count of running lower and lower on oil, a Nazi squeeze on Turkey becomes 5.750.000,000 receives respectful, almost inevitable. To prepare for even admiring attention, and no it. Ambassador Von Papen has been challenges or quibbles about it. working overtime in Turkey. Concurrently the National Audu­ Almost forgotten is Von INipen's bon society, of which Mr. Peterson attempt to soften and sabotage the Is educational director, begins a United States during the last war. drive for the protection of birds and But his operations here indicate the other wild life in defense areas. President Roosevelt addressing the 250 delegates of the International lengths to which he may go in Tur­ key to bring that country into the Labor organization al their annual meeting In the East room of the At the age of 26. Mr. Peterson White House, at which 33 nations were represented. The address was Saburn Kurunu, «pedal Japanese Axis. proved that bird lore can be In 1915, Von Papen was German carried to the nation by radio. The President condemned the "mis­ envoy who flew here from Tokyo made to yield a lot mor- than military attache in Washington guided" few industrialists and labor leaders “who place personal advan­ on a Pacific clipper (or a “tlnal" mere bird seed. That was in when Count Johann von Bernstorff tage above the welfare of their nation," and warned that every American talk to rase the “very aeriou« altua- when he published his 1934. returned from England with • faces “much greater sacrifices in the future." Photo shows Secretary tivti In the Pacific.** Kurusu was for­ book. “Field Guide to the mer ambassador to Berlin, where satchel containing $150,000,000 in of Labor Perkins as she Introduced the President to the meeting. Birds." As bird books go it was he signed the Axis pact for Japan. a best-seller, warmly praised I German treasury notes. Von Papen. then in Mexico City, not only by the somewhat eso­ teric cult of bird-fanciers, but ; hurried north, and immediately began organizing a network of by a much wider public, which spies. appreciated its clarity and sim­ Invasion Via Canada. plicity. There came other edi­ tions and then his “Field Guide After selecting his agents care- to Birds of the West,” and his ■ fully. Von Papen laid the following “Junior Book of Birds." of 1939. I plans: No. 1. To invade Canada through All in all. Mr. Peterson's books and magaiine articles were so British Columbia with the aid of German warships in the Pacific and successful that he has had plen­ German reservists in the United ty of time to count birds—even States. This plan was vetoed by five billions of them. Von Bernstorff. He not only writes but illustrates No. 2. To blow up the Welland his books, having emerged from the canal. This scheme likewise was New York Art Students’ league as abandoned, because the canal was a highly qualified decorative artist too well guarded. He is known as the best American No. 3. To blow up Canadian rail- authority on field identification of roads in an effort to prevent trans­ birds. portation of Japanese troops Mr. Peterson had an adventure through Canada. • (The Japanese at the convention of the society at were fighting with the Allies.) Cape May last year, which, so far No. 4. To blow up the Internation­ as we can learn, was not picked up al bridge at Vanceboro, Maine. by the news hawks at the time. It This was accomplished through an Col. Early Duncan, commandant seems a group of ornithologists. Pe­ agent named Werner Horn. at Lowry Field, Denver, Colo., who terson included, got up at 4:30 to | Von Papen was so industrious and This remarkable photograph, one of the most vivid to come out of has been quoted as saying that clock a scheduled hawk migration. unicru^Jloui that he over-reached It didn t come off and all were and Wilson demanded his the Sino-Japanesc war sone, shows a vanguard of Japanese shock troops churches whose pastors “preach downhearted until a rumor got j recaU But when he reached home, led by a sword-brandishing officer, rushing the burning camp of the against true Americanism” will be around that a black-necked stilt had both he and Bernstorf! were award­ Chinese soldiers at Changsha. Changsha was one of the most important declared “out of bounds’* for the 10.000 soldiers al Lowry Field. been seen near the lighthouse pond. ed decorations, and both promoted. positions of the Chiang Kal-shck forces. There had been no stilt in this sec­ Subsequently, Von Papen became tion since 1870. chancellor of Germany and he took The party set out for the spot. part in the conspiracies which Finally far across the pond, brought Hitler into power. inaccessible to any dry land ap­ proach. the bird was sighted. RUSSIAN REQUEST—A DRIBLET Mr. Peterson said it would be Averell Harriman's confidential necessary to approach as near report on Russian requests for aid as possible, disturb the bird, was vastly different from British re­ and then observe its flight care­ quests after Dunkirk. In compari­ fully. He and William Fish vol­ son with the British, the Russian unteered to brave the mud and | orders seemed a mere driblet cold. They waded tn, and at After the Lowlands debacle, the times were up to their armpits British had to start from scratch, in slimy mud. Finally Peterson having lost practically all their waved his arms at the stilt. It armored equipment and most of didn't move. Approaching near­ their field artillery. The Russians er, they discovered it was as have lost tremendous quantities of stiff as a plank. material, but judging from their modest requests, they The convention finally ran down relatively have a lot left. still must the story. The National Academy One of the chief things they asked of Sciences at Philadelphia had had guns, a housecleaning and heaved out a for was 75 and 105 mm. Pro­ which, luckily we can supply, lot of stuffed birds. Some rival bird military fans of the Delaware valley had re­ duction figures are a secret, but these cannon are now trieved the stilt and set it up across rolling off assembly lines in quan­ the pond. tity. The Russians also asked for machine guns, which we can furnish P IN Maine, on last summer's also in large numbers, since ma­ holiday, tfcis writer talked with chine gun production is at a high an old road-side philosopher who level. was concerned with problems aris­ One of the biggest, and pleasant­ ing from the Prof .Perry Boldly lengthening est surprises to Harriman was that the Russians do not need machine Trumpet» an ‘Old life-span in I tools, at least for the present. This , New Age Movement’ New Eng , took a big load off his mind, as land. both the U. S. and Britain have few 'They don’t do much dyin’ up With an armed soldier standing by, machinists are shown at work | tools to spare right now. here," he said. “Down at West in the Bendix plant of Air Associates, Inc., Bendix, N. J., the defense Note: U. S. military experts con­ Newton, they had to shoot an old plant taken over by the U. 8. army on orders from President Roosevelt. First picture of Sihanok, new king sider lack of co-ordination between feller, just to start a graveyard.” The army rehired workers “ as Americans, ” disregarding their previous of Cambodia. He is pictured stand­ the three Russian armies to be one Professor Ralph Barton Per­ of the principal reasons for the status in the dispute which had kept the vital defense plant idle. Col. Roy ing ominously In the rain during last ry, of the faculty of philosophy break through in the center against M. Jones, eastern district supervisor of the army air corps procurement rites for King Hisovas-Monivon, for­ of Harvard university, is simi­ Moscow. Although there has been division, stands behind the sentry. Machine guns were set up at strategic mer ruler of the kingdom of 3.006,- larly concerned about old age, a shift of Russian generals, doubt spots on the grounds of the plant to keep the peace. More than 35,000,000 000. Most Important resource is its but for a different reason. In a still exists about the co-ordination in defense contracts are held by Air Associates, which manufactures air­ tin. The kingdom is now largely brilliant essay in a recent issue under Japanese influence. of the three armies under a cen­ plane parts. of the Princeton Alumni Week­ tral command. ly, he rallies the oldsters against • • • being "hustled around by their INFLATION CURE juniors in politics; he notes the Here is the inside lowdown on capitulation of wise old age to Price Administrator Leon Hender­ bumptious youth, and chal­ son's own private preventive against lenges Rabbi Ben Ezra by in­ inflation. sisting that there’s no use grow­ He disclosed it to a group of ing old with him, or anybody Charlestown, W. Va., business men else, if old-age is to be merely during a speech on the dangers of a tolerated short-ender in the of the runaway prices. One life sweepstakes. “The most audience asked Henderson how • striking evidence of the down­ business man could best protect fall of the aged,” writes Profes­ himself against inflation. sor Perry, “is to be found in “Work like hell." was the prompt the domestic circle.” reply, “and go to church regularly.” “The authority of the father was • • • first broken by the mother, and the MERRY-GO-ROUND children poured through the breach. Introduced to a British production The last remnant of paternal au­ expert, who had just completed thority was the period in which the a survey of U. S. defense plants. father was an ogre, who came home OPM boss William Knudsen took at the end of the day to deal with him oft his feet by inquiring “What major offenses. He was no longer impressed you least?” magistrate, only executioner. A sports commentator, sponsored “But even this role disappeared by a shaving cream, called the duke when domestic criminology was of Windsor in Baltimore, inviting Under terms of the lend-lease act, two average United Slates sub­ him to appear as guest star on the Lt. Comdr. II. L. Edwards, com­ modernized and the child’s insubor­ radio program, the money to be marines were turned over to the British and Polish navies at ‘he Groton manding officer of the U.S.8. Reu­ dination was regarded as a person­ paid to British charity. The duke submarine bases, Groton, Conn. The Polish crew la shown going aboard ben James, sunk by a torpedo while ality problem, to be solved by love, declined—even before he was told the submarine, an 800-ton craft built in 1931. The British got a 600-ton on convoy duty near Iceland. The hygiene and psychoanalysis.” the offer was only $100. submarine built In 1918. ship was a flush-deck destroyer. 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