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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, June 19, 1941
Washington, D. C, June 19. At
long last the administration is giv
ing its active support to purge or
ganized labor groups of the subver
sive elements which have caused so
much trouble and delay in the na
tional defense program. There has
been unusual tolerance of the com
munists, left-wingers and "fellow
travelers," from before the sit-down
strikes and anyone who directed at
tention to the activities of these un
American groups was promptly
branoxd as a "red baiter." From
now on things, will be different, if
spokesmen at the White House know
what is in the wind.
Practicaly every strike on the
west coast, and other threatened but
not called, is known to have been
instigated by communists who had
wormed ther way into the unions
Three years ago the Dies commit
tee seized literature from the com
munists directing what should be
done to cause a strike in national
defense; how to cause trouble and
delay in production in aircraft fac
tories, in shipyards, in the lumber
industry, etc. The committee even
found the names of communists who
were sent to the Pacific coast to
start the trouble. These discoveries
were laughed at; the Dies committee
was ridiculed from the White House
down through the cabinet chiefs nf
division. Not a finger was lifted by
the administration to assist the com
mittee in uncovering the termites
gnawing at the fabric of govern
ment. The Dies committee made other
discoveries. It learned that some
high placed federal officials, some
holding very important positions,
were playing with the communists.
The committee published a list of
some 600 names of men and women
on the federal payroll in the na
tional capital who were members of
the League for Peace and Democ
racy, a front organization. Instead
of being praised, the committee was
condemned for attempting to be
smirch these government upper
case officers, stenographers, lawyers
and file clerks. But the expose'
caused the league to fold up. Later
most of the 600 were found on the
membership rolls of other organiza
tions which were under susnicion.
The National Labor Relations
board, which notified sawmill oper
ators and other employers of the
Pacific northwest that they were vi
olating the Wagner act if they men
tioned that a union was under the
control of communists (even if true),
or discharged a worker known to
be a communist. The secretary, who
almost ruled the employers of the
country by his instructions to field
agents, is now out, but he is de
manding that the radio be given to
Harry Bridges in order to offset the
newspaper accounts of the trial of
the alien, labor leader. Congress had
to specifically provide that no funds
of NLPJ3 should be used to pay
another radical in the organization.
A former candidate for governor
on the communist ticket is drawing
i)d.JUU a year m a government as
ency. Others invested their funds
in the bonds of Soviet Russia but
not in United States securities. When
it was suggested these and others on
the government payroll be discharg
ed, they have asserted that their
civil liberties were being violated.
The navy yard in Washington, D. C,
contains a group of communists who
publish their own paper and scatter
copies around the plant. The navy
yards, from Bremerton to Philadel
phia, still contain reds, working on
government ships. Two new cruisei-s
were damaged on their trial trips
when someone drove phonograph
needles into the electric cables; by
leaving a tool in the gears which
ground them to bits.
These matters were called "acci
dents," but the mteJldgenoe service
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Sprague Urges Foresi Defense
Governor Charles A. Sprague hands statement designating June 30 to
July 6 as Keep Oregon Green Week to Nelson S. Rogers, state forester.
A statewide mobilization is planned.
Salem. June 18. Urging the neo-
ple of Oregon to keep forest fires
from the state, as a vital step in
national defense. Governor Charles
A. Sprague has designated a Keep
Oregon Green Week for statewide
observance. He made this state
ment:
Asks Mobilization
"Believing that defense of Ore.
gon's forests Is vital to the con
tinued prosperity and happiness
of our people and constitutes a
very Important phase of nation
al defense, I hereby designate
the week of June 30 to July 6.
1941. as 'Keep Oregon Green
Week', it is my earnest hope
that every adult and child In
Oregon may be impressed with,
his or her responsibility in
guarding our magnificent trees
from forest fires and wastage of
every kind. I call every Ore
gonian tu arms against our for
est foes. Let this special week
be a time ot mobilization in a
great cause. Keep Oregon
Green!"
Membership Invited
John B. Woods, executive secre
tary ot the Keep Oregon Green
association, reports that plans are
complete for a statewide enrollment
ot active members of the association
during the special week designated
by the governor. Enrollment places
will be established In every com
munity where membership cards
and pins will be Issued, upon pay
ment of the annual 25-cent dues.
Every cent of proceeds from mem
bership enrollment goes for educa
tional and publicity purposes, Mr.
Woods said.
Permanent Set-up
The Keep Oregon Green associa
tion Is an outgrowth of the state
wide committee appointed by Gov
ernor Sprague to organize the state
lor forest protection. Dean John
son of Toledo is chairman and Ed
mund Hayes of Portland -is chair
man of the executive committee.
What Forests Mean
In summarizing the values of Ore
gon's green forests, the association
has issued the followi TIE? st.ntpmpnt
"What Keep Oregon Green means
io xuu ,
Scenic beauty which each vPar
attracts hundreds of thousands of
tourists.
Shelter for wildlife which
Oregon world famous as a fishing
and hunting state.
I he source of 12 cents of every
dollar paid in taxes by all the peo
ple to the counties and state.
Steady work and hie-h
o-- " "D"" wJ
60 percent of all persons gainfully
employed in Oregon manufactur
ing. Sixty-four per cent ot the value
ot goods exported from Oregon
goods which pay for the things that
Oregonlans buy in other states
and foreign countries.
In short, a raw material crop
that assures permanent growing
Industries and a pleasant health
ful place In which to live, work and
Play.
knew better, just as they knew that
the scattering of communist leaflets
on navy craft in San Pedro, Los
Angeles, Puget Sound and Panama
was no accident.
From the Pacific northwest the
Dies committee assembled data on
many reds who were in important
union positions and that there was
no doubt of their party connection;
two had run for public office on the
communist ticket; some were on
WPA rolls; others in the lumber
industry. They were fairlv well
placed to spread their party line.
When the president requested
strikers to return to work, and they
defied him, patience ceased to be a
virtue and troops were moved in
and took over the Inglewood air
craft plant. This defiance was the
last straw. It appears that the ad
ministration imagined that the rad
icals could be con rolled when the
president spoke, but they had grown
so self-important that the admoni
tion of the president of the United
States was ignored. Then came the
time to act.
In piece with the new attitude.
the president has ordered every per
son in civil service to be finger
printed and these prints will be ex
amined by FBI to learn whether
there is any prison record. For the
first time the administration is plan
ning a systematic investigation of
government workers. Hereafter
things probably will be different.
Flares for Stalled
Cars Are Protection
Warning flares, placed on the
highway to mark the presence of
stalled motor vehicle, are highly
important to the safety of other
motorists and should never be dis
turbed by unauthorized persons, ac
cording to a statement from the
office of the Traffic Safety division.
The statement was released fol ¬
lowing reports of the theft of sev
eral ot these torch flares, placed on
the highway in front and to the
rear of stalled vehicles.
"Without the warning conveved
by these flares, drivers mav crash
into such stalled vehicles, causing
death or serious injury, the safetv
division's statement said. 'The im
portance of these flares as a warning
to others should be keot in mind
and under no circumstances should
they be disturbed by unauthorized
persons.
Agricultural Law
Changes in Effect
Alone with the manv new Oregon
laws that went into effect the middle
of June are a number affecting the
regulatory work of the state depart
ment of agriculture. Most imoortaiit
of these from the standpoint of Mr.
and Mrs. John Q. Public is the 1941
Oregon food act. In this, all old food
laws were dumoed bv the wayside
and an entirely new law written to
bring Oregon practices in line with
the federal laws. This statute is di
rected against adulteration, mis
branding and false advertising of
foods. It provides against deceptive
pack and sack fill, also.
The only other entirely new laws
which the department is to enforce
are those regulating and licensing
rendering plant. The latter is the
result of the separation of the old
garbage feeding and rendering plant
law into a separate one for each
subject. The garbage feeding license
is $10 annually; the rendering plant,
$50' with $10 for each conveyan
or assembly plant.
Amendments were made to some
25 agricultural laws, some changes
being very minor. Among .-the am
ended laws is that permitting one
of three methods, including calfhood
vaccination for control of Bang's dis
ease. Another clarifies the statute
relating to marketing of horticul
tural products and cermits use of
clean used containers as long as old
markings are removed or defaced.
Also the department may now ap
prove non-standard containers for
fruits or vegetables packed in gift
packages. Still another maior am
endment adds a license feature to
the sales stable act.
Important to the nurserv indus
try is the revised nursery stock
growing and marketing law. In i
amended form, the old fep system
is discarded and a flat license of $10
for all dealers on each sales van!.
branch store, market stall, sales lo
cation or peddling vehicle is sub- !
stituted. Growers? licenses remain
the same except that the $5 fee now
covers one-half acre or more in
stead of less than a half acre.
Another amended law provides
for department investigation upon
complaint hat canneries or other
receiving plants are not giving t'
proper grade to fruits or vegetables
being delivered there by a grower.
Upon such complaint, the depart
ment may station an inspector at
such plant and assess costs of in
spection against the purchaser of the
fruits or vegetables or determina
tion that the grade is being mis
represented. Cooperative associa
tions are exempt from this law.
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Klamath Falls Reports that screw
worms affecting cattle are moving
north from California have led
stockmen to request that the origin
and condition of all cattle shinned
into Klamath county from the south
be checked this year. Screw worms
are the maggots of a fly which de
posits its eggs wherever the ani
mal s hide is broken. Effective con
trol has been obtained with chloro
form, gasoline or kerosene applied
to the wound where worms have
entered, and nine tar aonlied to an
abrasion or available commercial
sprays are good preventatives, says
C. A. Henderson, county agent. The
screw-worm fly also attacks sheep,
horses, dogs and mart
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