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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon Thursday. January 15, 1942 Page Feur Heppner Gazette Times THE HEPPNER (JAZETTE. Established March 30, 1883; THE HEPPNER TIMES, Established November 18, 1897; CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912 Published every Thursday morning by CBAWFOBD PUBLISHING COMPAITY and entered at the Post Office at Hepp ner, Oregon, as second-class matter. JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $2.50 Two Years 4.50 Three Years 6.00 Six Months 1.25 Three Months 65 Single Copies 05 Official Paper for Morrow County Clear Heads NE citizen once gained popular acclaim with the remark, "What America needs is a good five-cent cigar." The remark relieved the stress of weighty problems then confronting the nation. Today America is at war; the Pa cific coast is actually a theater of operations, no less real than Eng land or the Philippines, as a recent speaker was heard to remark. There can, and very well may be shooting, and time of its arrival may not be foretold. In the face of actuality the home defense program fire, police, air wardens, first aid, bomb information all need to be taken very serious ly and a really workable program oiled for smooth operation. The pos sibility must be faced with grim de termination. Yet there must be maintained a balanced perspective. All must take a leaf from the book of the London cabby, who, when his rig was blasted by a Ger man air bomb, looked up and shook his fist, defying the cowardly air man to come back and fight like a man. Each new day brings dislocations in the business world, and readjust ment to bridge upsets in the orderly conduct of life is not readily made. In many instances adversities appear insurmountable at first glance. On deeper study and application of new ideas, they "may not be, however. It is for each individual to do his best to help keep the work-a-day world going in the usual manner so far as possible. To do otherwise is but to delay the day of victory. Those in command have asked that everyone continue in his cus tomary pursuits, doing that for which he has been trained, and do ing it a little better, until or unless called upon to do duty for the war effort as directed by those in com mand. In this way, each shall con tribute his greatest share toward the common welfare and hasten the overthrow of aggressor nations. It is the duty of every citizen to safeguard any bit of military in formation which he may learn, to make sure that it does not become of use to the enemy. It is also the citizen's duty to not repeat any idle rumors which he may hear. Press and radio are operating un der a voluntary censorship, with direction from military authorities as to what news might aid or give comfort to the enemy. There is no attempt to keep free speech from raising its voice against such mat ters of governmental policy as may be deemed not best suited to pros ecuting the war effort. But above all things it today be hooves everyone to keep a true perspective, to maintain a clear head. America must think straight, work straight and shoot straight. . A few weeks ago a contributed article in these columns took bus iness men of Heppner to task for not attending high school basketball games. Comes forward this week a reader who asked why the editor didn't answer that one. He wanted to know if it wouldn't be better to discontinue athletics entirely and put the athletes to work at FFA projects, from which they could get something constructive. Sound bod ies and good coordination as well as good sportsmanship such as is ac quired from athletics are of much value to the athlete and to the na tion, but maybe the reader is right in wondering if high school athletes play only for approval of the crowd. BUY A SHARE IN DEFENSE SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS BANK WITH YOUR COUNTRY is the theme of this effective Defense Savings poster now seen in store windows and in the lobbies of buildings all over the country. Drawn by artist Henry Billings, of Rhinebeck, N. Y., the poster portrays the spirit of patriotism by investing in the United States Government through the purchase of Defense Bonds and Stamps. Stamps are priced from 10 cents to $5; Bonds from $18.75 to $10,000. That doesn't mean to infer that the article was written by an athlete. We saw one of OSCs'l942 Rose Bowl players on the train the other evening. He had the fact prominent ly displayed on the front of his jacket a just show of pride. In a corner chat his one remark about the whole affair was, "I'm glad it's all over." And there's a three-year-old boy at the editor's house for whom an athletic career is anticipated. When told not to "swallow it whole," he made the quite lucid reply, "What hole, mama?" As this seems to be an airing of privy matters concerning the edi tor with intention, actually of giv ing some elucidation upon common affairs it seems mete to thank a contemporary reporter for recently giving us a little advertising. We told some friends we didn't care for the long accustomed nickname of Jap, which actually is a shortening of a Christian name. Our friend had the fact published in a contem porary newspaper, as well as told on the air. Yet the name has stuck, despite many observations from those who learned the news. Whether or not this matter in spired someone to leave a clipping under the sanctum sanctorum door last evening from another contem porary newspaper is a matter for conjecture. It told observations of a reporter in Japan from which it was deducted that the Japanese planned ruthless treatment to make themselves hated. ,;The campaign has resulted in one very definite accomplishment, the article conclud ed. It has so unified the Chinese that the strengthened Dragon will soon rise to devour perpetrators of the plan. However it may be we are to bear some stigma from a name, we here disclaim one requisite for an accept able Nipponese patriot, that of aqua tic ability, and to deny any connec tion with the man who was stricken to death when he found a Japanese vessel under the bed. Which again may be just one of those idle rumors which everyone should ignore and make a practice of not repeating. Don't believe it unless it comes from an accredited news source and that's not baloney. Repeating somebody's say-so, if it be true, might be to divulge to en emy ears news that might cost lives A, -w. vl Fish Regulations Set By Game Commission The state game commission, at a meeting held January 10, set the general season for trout six inches or over in length in 1942 from April 18 to October 31, with the exception of twelve eastern Oregon counties where the season will extend from May 2 to October 31. These counties are Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Hamey, Klamath, Lake, Morrow, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wheeler and Mal heur. The daily bag limit remains the same as before fifteen pounds and one fish but not to exceed fifteen fish in any one day. The limit for any seven consecutive days or in possession at any one time is thirty pounds and two fish but not to ex ceed thirty fish. All tributaries of the Snake river and of the Columbia river east of the Deschutes river will be closed to steelhead and salmon angling af ter October 31. Changes in black bass regulations include the establishment of a min imum length limit of eight inches and a closed season during May and June to protect the spawning fish. Also, the separate bag limit for bass is eliminated and bass are included in the general bag limit for spiny rayed fish, which is 30 in any one day of all species combined or in posses sion at any one time. No bullfrogs under four inches in body length may be taken. The season will be open from June 1 to April 15 of the following year with the exception that in the counties east of the Cascades the season will not open until July 1. A daily bag limit of five fish will be effective for striped bass. In addition to the present bag lim it of three for sturgeon under four feet in length, the limit for stur geon over four feeet in length is to be two. Special seasons and limits in the individual counties will be listed in the annual synopsis of angling reg ulations to be issued by the game commission in the very near future. Mr. and Mrs'. Hugh B. Smith who were in Portland since before Christmas, arrived home the first of the week, having been delayed from making an earlier start by the sil ver thaw that blocked the highway for several days. of loved ones or friends, and if un true it can only add to uncertainty and unrest, the basis of panic an ally courted by the Axis. A WEEK OF THE WAR . . . (A "Week of the War" summar izes information on the important developments of the week made available by official sources through and including Friday, January 9.) The President, in a message to Congress, said he had directed Fed eral agencies to arrange a new schedule of war production calling for 60,000 planes in 1942, including 45,000 combat craft, and 125,000 in 1943, including 100,000 combat units; 45,000 tanks in 1942 and 75,000 in 1943; 20,000 anti-aircraft guns in 1942 and 35,000 in 1943; 8,000,000 deadweight tons of merchant ships in 1942 and 10,000,000 in 1943. The President told Congress he would order the U. S. armed forces to a world-wide front to find the enemy and "hit him and hit him again whenever and wherever we can reach him." He said U. 13. forces would take up positions if necessary in the British Isles, the Far East and on all oceans and bases within and without the New World necessary to protect the Western Hemisphere. The President proposed total ex penditures in the fiscal year 1943 of $77,000,000,000. Of this $56,000,000, 000 would be for the war. He said total war expenditures are now at the rate of approximately $2,000,000, 000 a month and may surpass $5, 000,000,000 a month during fiscal 1943. The President said he could not predict ultimate costs "because I cannot predict the changing for tunes of war," but he proposed an increase in tax collections of $27, 000,000,000. He asked careful con gressional consideration of income taxes collected at' the source, pay roll taxes, excise taxes and taxes on state and local government bonds. Mr. Roosevelt said expenditures for farm aid, work relief and youth aid would be reduced by the end of the 1942 fiscal year $600,000,000 from last year and will be reduced an other $860,000,000 next fiscal year when the total cost will be $1,400, 000,000 or about half of the sum for the present year. PRODUCTION PROGRESS The Office of Emergency Manage ment reported increased pooling of aircraft production facilities within the industry and with the auto in dustry, and concentration on super ior types of planes. The OEM said in almost every month of 1942 addi tional plants will begin production of planes with parts supplied' by in dustrial pools. The War Deartment reported at least one plant of each of the 13 types required for the munitions program wa completed in 1941, mak ing a total of 28 now in operation. The announcement said 28 more will begin production soon. OPM Director Knudsen announced the auto industry must double its scheduled war output to handle $5, 000,000,000 additional war contracts. OPM formed a 10-member industry labor committtee to study conver sion of the industry to war units. EMPLOYMENT . Labor Secretary Perkins reported 15,000,000 workers will be engaged in war production by the end of 1942 three times as many as were so employed in the fourth quarter of 1941. There will be only a rela tively small increase in total em ployment, however, Miss Perkins said, because many persons now working in civilian-goods industry will be shifted to war work. WPA announced 3,800,000 persons were unemployed in December, 100,000 less than the previous month. CONSERVATION OF MATERIALS OPM announced industrial conser vation programs will be set up in more than 30 industrial centers to wreck old machinery and equipment to salvage needed materials; to min imize waste and spoilage, to handle scrap and speed its return to users. OPM also recommended elimina tion of special deliveries of milk and substitution of every-other-day de lievery for daily delivery to con serve tires. The agency recommend ed manufacturers simlify the types of bottles and other containers and eliminate those not necessary; or dered all tin and lead scrap under rationing control, restricted use of ethyl alcohol in toilet soaps, mouth washes, rubbing alcohol, candy glazes; cut use of certain materials in manufacture of vending machines dispensing cigarettes, food, candy and other items; cut the amount of wool for civilian use to 80 percent of last year; and restricted the use of copper in certain radio parts. OPM granted permission to auto manufacturers to make 204,848 cars in January in order to use up parts already made before the plants are converted to war production. Con gress passed a law permitting the President to order daylight saving time to save electric power. PRICES The President sent a message to Congress asking for provision for a single price administrator for all prices in the price control legislation now under consideration. The OPM issued a pamphlet, "How to Stop In flation," explaining in noh -technical language the causes of inflation,, measures taken in other countries and what can be done here to keep prices down. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported wholesale prices are now at the highest level since 193917.6 percent above this time last year. CIVILIAN DEFENSE The President appointed James M. Landis, dean of the Harvard law school, as executive of the Office of Civilian Defense to direct the civ ilian defense program under the general supervision of Director La Guardia, who is also mayor of New York City. The House and Senate passed and sent to conference a bill appropriating $100,000,000 for civil ian defense. OCD asked its region al directors to obtain from state and city governments all possible equip ment needed by the auxiliary fire men, policemen, air raid wardens and other volunteers. Director McNutt of the Defense Health and Welfare services set up in each of the 49 states a state nursing council on defense to promote recruiting of stu dent nurses and enrollment of 50,000 voung women in nursing schools in 1942. AGRICULTURE The Oklahoma Agriculture De fense board established an experi mental "machinery bank" to pro vide a reservoir of spare parts for farm equipment. All idle farming equipment on Oklahoma's 32,000 farms will be centrally located, re paired and made available to farm ers as they need it. PAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS OEM announce that for the first time in recent history, U. S. imports from Latin America have been larger than exports. U. S. trade in Latin America, the agency said, was one-third larger than in the corresponding period of 1940 and about 75 percent than in the first three quarters of 1939. The State Department elevated the U. S. le gations in Paraguay, Ecuador and Bolivia to the rank of embassies in "formal recognition of the import ance of developments" leading to Pan-American solidarity. Under Secretary of State Welles left Wash ington to attend the Pan-American conference of foreign ministers at Rio de Janeiro January 15. THE WAR FRONT , The White House announced the U. S., Britain, the Netherlands and the Dominion governments agreed to a unified command in the South west Pacific area with all sea, land and air forces under Gen. Wavell of the British army, with Lt. Gen. Brett, of the U. S. army air forces, as next in ' command, Gen. Mac Arthur, commander in the Philip pines, reported his lines holding against renewed Japanese attacks. The Army and Navy reported sink ing of three enemy cargo ships of 10,000 tons each, one enemy trans port and more than a score of Jap anese bombing and fighting planes. The Marine Corps announced that new reports showed defenders of Wake Island had sunk one cruiser, four destroyers, one submarine and one gunboat before succumbing. The President cited the entire Wake garrison for heroism. The White House announced the RAF dropped more than 2,000,000 American pamphlets on Nazi-occupied France stressing the historic ties between the American and French people. The pamphlets in cluded pictures of the Statue of Liberty and quotations from the President's speeches. The President set February 16 for selective service registration of men from 20 to 44 who have not pre viously registered.