Friday, November 14, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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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.
Japanese Attack Changsha
W arns Pastors
As Army Takes Over Air Plant
U
Poles Take Over U. S. Submarine
Ship Lost
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