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Friday, January 23, 1942 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Apparently Little Tommy U <is ti Morir Enthuaia.it It may be that those who let mil lions of tons of scrap iron go to Japan are not too anxious to adver- tise our present dearth of scrap. but the real fact is that it is so serious as to cause the shutdown By LEMUEL F. PARTON of nine blast furnaces in Youngs- «Consolidated Feature» -WNU Serxice.» , town. Ohio, alone. \'EW YORK—Dr Ales Hrdlicka. To meet the shortage, the OPM ’ the anthropologist, once had has been conducting an experi- a plan to measure the skulls of mental campaign to collect scrap all congressmen, in his studies , iron in Erie. Pa., and is launching of head-size other campaigns in H.ston, Pitts- Brain Indexers and contour burgh. Bridgeport and Akron. How- in their rela Studying Skills, ever, the campaign is going very tion to intel slowly. Chief trouble is that col Ignoring Skulls ligence. The lections are made through the nor congressmen didn't like the idea mal scrap iron trade. and nothing came of it Therefore, it looks as if the Amer ican public might have to take Studying skills, rather than things in hand. A survey of Butler skulls. Dr. Leonard Carmichael. county. Ohio, shows that every president of Tufts college, gets farmer has an average of about 50 better co-operation. In August, pounds of usable scrap iron and 1940. the government put him at This soumlphoto shows the res rubber rusting or rotting behind the head of a committee of sav cued crew of the Panamanian tank his barn. On this basis, the OPM ants to work up a national brain er, Norncss, which was torpedoed estimates that it should be possible index. They have compiled an by a submarine off the eastern tip to collect 1.500.000 tons of scrap index of several hundred thou Indian troops of the British imperial forces are pictured on trucks, of Long Island. Photo was made from American farmers. sand good brains. Not many people realize the im off to meet the Japs who were driving through the dripping green upon their safe arrival on land. The Norncss' master said the submarine This committee was known as the portance which scrap plays in the jungles of Malaya in an effort to outflank the vital fortress of Singa ! National Roster of Scientific and iron and steel industry. Ordinarily, pore. These Indians are great lighters, and are well versed In the stayed on the surface while firing methods of jungle warfare. three torpedoes at regular intervals. Specialized Personnel, and now steel is made 50 per cent from ore there has been added to it a special and 50 per cent from scrap iron. committee on wartime requirements But today ordinary supplies of scrap for specialized personnel, with Dr. iron are diminished, not only by Carmichael as chairman. The ob previous sales to Japan but by the vious function of the committee is fact that war industries supply no to find good brains and recruit them. scrap. Many tanks, guns, and mili Since the first World war. the clas tary motor trucks are shipped off to They sical Binet-Simon intelligence quo Egypt. Malaya or Russia. tient has gained by sundry repairs never come back. Ordinarily, indus and betterments. The inquiry now try supplies its own scrap iron from covers not only the question of junked automobiles, etc. But now whether we know much of anything there will be fewer automobiles to junk. but whether we have any sense. So the scrap iron problem is one which will require every farmer In 1920. we saw an experi and householder to look around be ment in a progressive school in hind his barn or in his basement to San Francisco which now seems see what he can spare for war in pertinent to what Dr. Carmich ael and his committee are try dustries. You can check off lead as the next ing to <k>. They picked a group strategic material to be put under of high l.Q. boys, of superior interdict for civilian use. OPM's heredity and cultural back banning order will be issued short ground, and then they picked ly. That will mean the end of lead some less favored lads, of low foil and numerous other items of I.Q. from the North Beach for normal everyday use. One possible eign section. They gave each exception may be lead for automo child a certain amount of mon Iionald Marr Nelson. who ha« hern bile batteries, but even that will be ey, told him to buy some thing, glvrn supreme authority ovrr all under severe restrictions. start trading and report gains The Yawata Marti, 17,000-ton Jap liner, which may he the ship which U. 8. war procerement and produc Reason for the ban is inadequacy or losses in two months. When was sunk by a V. 8. submarine in the Far East. The vessel was a fast tion a* head of newly created war of domestic supply to meet the the bell rang, most of the silk- increasing need for bullets. War luxury liner, owned and operated by the NYK lines, and probably con- production board. Nelson Is 53 years stocking lads had lost their production tables call for a lead con I verted into an aircraft carrier. shirts and the North Beach mob sumption of 60,000 tons monthly by had fanned its holdings up to June; 100.000 tons monthly by next sizeable juvenile fortunes. January. For military reasons, fig From this, the pedagogs figured ures on U. S. supply can not be something Like survival intelligence disclosed, but it is below what is j as distinguished from merely super needed even with production in- 1 imposed and possibly non-converti creases now under way plus imports ble cultural intelligence. It is un from Canada. Mexico and other for questionably survival intelligence eign sources. So civilian use will that Dr. Carmichael and his brain be restricted for the duration. • • • indexers are looking for, as their study has to do with particularized, WLW ICELAND specialized, useful, workable skills. The largest standard-wave broad Dr. Carmichael, one of the most casting apparatus in the US A.— distinguished of modern psycholo owned by WLW Cincinnati—may be gists, was bom in Philadelphia in set up in Iceland to drown out Hit 1898, and was educated at Tufts and ler's rasping broadcasts to the Ger Harvard, and taught at Princeton man people. and Brown before becoming presi For many years WLW operated a dent of Tufts in 1938. 500.000 watt station in Cincinnati, but was forced by the Federal Com TA OWN near Windy Gap, on the munications commission to reduce to edge of Death Valley, we knew 50.000 watts, which is the maximum a big, dead-pan cow-puncher who for ordinary commercial stations in doubled in dancing and fighting, and the U.S A Therefore, WLW has now President Quezon * ho c°u,d offered its big 500.000 watt set to the dance down government to be established in Ice Blends Dancing, or smack land, Since Hitler's stations are no Politic. Perfectly ’ % where near as strong as 500.000 watts, WLW's beams from Iceland parts. Elsewhere, we have found could drown out his voice every this unique blend of talents only in time he went on the air. Manuel Quezon, recently inducted Furthermore, WLW Iceland would into his second term as president of not operate on short wave, which the the Philippines. German people are not permitted It would operate on a Sr. Quezon negotiated for Philip to hear. pine independence in the New York standard broadcasting beam and studio of Arthur Murray, the danc would come in over the ordinary ing master. Dancing is his art, his German radio. By turning a button L. Clare Carglle, president of the recreation and his driving passion. in the station in Iceland, the wave National Automobile association, Four hours a day went to dancing length could be changed to cut in who told members of the senate when he was cutting the islands on any German program. A view of the yard at the naval station at Olongapo, Philippine Is committee on small business that There is one catch to the proposal, adrift—with second thoughts later. The first dancing shift was from 10 however. WLW Cincinnati wants to lands, 60 miles from Manila on the Bataan peninsula, where Japanese the government must take prompt o'clock until noon. The hours from make a deal with the government army forces in a large-scale offensive met with a deadly hail of fire from steps or 44,000 auto dealers and one to three went to Philippine in whereby it would be permitted to General MacArthur's embattled defenders. Olongapo Is an important their half million employees face immediate disaster. dependence, and then the dancing set up another 500,000 watt station submarine base equipped with floating docks. in the United States in return for picked up from three to five. sending its equipment to Iceland. • • • The bright-eyed, coffee-colored little man with the dazzling CAPITAL CHAFF smile so captivated Woodrow Secretary of War Stimson has Wilson that the President put a been shaking up some of his gen declaration for Philippine inde erals, and has put Gen. Raymond pendence slap-bang into the Lee temporarily in charge of mili Democratic platform. But in the tary intelligence. Lee was former Hawes-Cutting bill, enacted in U. S military attache in London and 1933, Señor Quezon found a one an A-l officer. Army people hope way tariff squeeze, unsatisfac he stays in charge of the intelli tory guarantees as to the atti gence service. tude of Pacific powers, and oth To make more office space in er defects, and started dancing Washington, the Farm Credit ad and negotiating his way around ministration is being moved to Chi these obstacles. cago. He is said to be just about the Through its nation-wide co-ops, smartest politician in the business. Harry Slattery’s Rural Electrifica He is university trained. His father tion administration has erected was a Filipino and his mother half more than 370,000 miles of trans Spanish. He smokes cigarettes in mission lines, This was more than an endless chain, dancing or sit the 15 largest utility holding com- ting still, gesticulates fluently and panies in the country combined, turns the sharp spotlight of a keen, Over 1,250,000 farmers are beneflt- agile, realistic mind on matter in ing from cheap electricity as a re Russell J. Iloag, of While hand, He was wounded in the Phil- sult of the REA system. Plains, N. V., 18-year-old descend Fifty per cent of our vitamin A ippine war for Independence and for Air chief marshal Sir Charles Portal (left), chief of the air staff of the ant of Isaac Hull, American naval years strung with the jungle d.e- is being sent to England. This, to Royal Air force, and Lieut. Gen. Henry II. Arnold, chief of the United hero, Is welcomed by his father. hards, somewhat embarrassed in gether with the shortage of fish liv States air forces, are shown during their meeting in General Arnold's Chief Yeoman James R. Iloag, aft his later career by the rampant and ers and oils from Norway and Japan, office at Washington, D. C. They discussed aerial details of the grand er Joining the navy. The elder Hoag bellicose Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, is causing a shortage of vitamins in allied strategy. has seen 30 years of service. the U.S.A. President Quezon is 59. 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