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Washington, D. C, March 5. Be
lieve it or not, the navy department
is building boats in the Rocky moun
tains where there is no ocean and
not even a river to float them. And
if the navy can build boats on the
continental divide it can also build
them at Pendleton, Bend, LaGrande,
or any other interior point in Ore
gon. This war is going to be differ
ent, and much of the difference came
with the debacle at Pearl Harbor.
From Pasco a contractor came to
the national capital last spring and
asked for a contract to build small
boats, craft that could navigate the
Columbia to the sea. The brass hats
of the navy smiled tolerantly, repli
ed 'that Pasco was too far inland
for anyone to think of building boats
whose destination was blue water.
The contractor was persistent, the
navy firm and no boats. The idea
is not ridiculous now.
Up in the Rocky mountains the
navy is constructing escort boats,
such as have been let to contractors
along the Oregon and Washington
coast. They are made "knock-down"
style, shipped on flat cars and land
ed at coast ports where the pieces
are put together, and away goes the
escort ship. What the navy is doing
on the backbone of the continent it
can do anywhere else. Secretary
Knox is already saying that the
threat of Japanese invasion makes
it advisable to move industries some
200 to 400 miles inland and his
subordinates have started in with
the escort ships. They may get
around to building knock-down de-
STAR Reporter
FRIDAY-SATURDAY
APPOINTMENT
FOR LOVE
Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan,
Rita Johnson, Eugene Pallette
A mad.' merry design for loving . . .
the prize -surprise of the year.
Plus
JAIL HOUSE BLUES
Nat Pendleton, Anne Gwyiine,
Robert Paige, Warren Hymer
A rowdy comedy with music, loaded
with sock lines, sock gags and a few
well aimed socks at the jaw . . . will
more than please anyone looking for
a laugh.
SUNDAY-MONDAY
SHADOW OF THE
THIN MAN
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Dickie
Hall, Asta (the dog), Henry O'Neill
Riotous Nick and Nora Charles aro
back after two years, better than
ever, and gaily doing more of the
slap-happy things you've always
loved them for!
TUESDAY Bargain Night
PARIS CALLING
Randolp Scott, Eli'zabeth Bergner,
Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard,
Eduardo Cianelli
A suspenseful, timely spy melo
drama with a top-ranking cast turn
ing in splendid performances.
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY
YOU BELONG TO ME
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda,
Edgar Buchanan, Ruth Donnelly
A saucy comedy that will keep you
roaring your approval all the way
through.
stroyers later and assembling them
a Pacific coast ports.
In the war building the other day
the topflight officers were holding
an off-the-record session with mem
bers of the senate military and ap
propriation committees and the of
ficers were letting their hair down.
There was some compaint at lack of
production in certain essential ma
terials, talk of the positions now lost
to the Japanese which must later
be retaken, and always the point
that, time is every hing. The5 sooner
material is available the better for
the cause of the allies, said the mil
itary experts over and over again.
If time is so important and you
need all production possible, said
Senator Rufus Holman, addressing
Lieut. Gen. William Knudsen (army
still doesn't like a civilian given such
rank), why did you send the alum
inum rolling mill to Spokane? The
time lost would have furnished an
armada of bombers. The general said
the government did not want the
plant destroyed by enemies, as it
might be if located at Fairview. Why,
then, inquired Holman, did you lo
cate the aluminum ingot plant at
Tacoma? On account of current,
answered Knudsen. If you mean
power, said the senator, the Tacoma
ingot plant is served from Bonne
ville, about 14 miles from the Fair
view site.
Laundries and cleaners will soon
be notified by war production board
that they must reduce the use of
chlorine to the minimum they are
already working under reduced or
ders. Papermakers are in the same
boat. With the expanding war pro
duction program the demand for
chlorine is such that white shirts
may not return from the laundry
white, but gray, and women's cloth
ing will suffer. It is this pressure
for more chlorine that is causing
a study to be made of the Pacific
northwest and, unless reports are
haywire, there will be two or three
chlorine plants installed "east of the
Mountains."
Preparing to scrape the bottom of
the barrel for man-power, the high
erups are working out a plan to en
list a corps of specialists who might
be regarded as trouble-shooters. The
idea is to build up a corps of civil
ians and place them in uniforms of
distinctive type, using them to dis
place army officers in administra
tive positions. The men wanted
must be over draft age and be tech
nical experts in business and other
lines. The specialists could be sent
with AEF to look after details in
their particular lines. It would be
one way of enabling men to do their
bit who are too old to carry a gun
but whose training is valuable.
Before the far west becomes ex
cited over the proposal of Secretary
of the Interior Ickes to build power
plants from the Palisades to Skagit
river and from Couer d'Alene to De
troit, some figures accumulated by
the federal power commission will
be of interest. It is estimated that
the yearly capacity of turbine man
ufacurers is 3,500,000 kilowatts; of
this amount the steam equipment
represents 2,500,000 kilowatts and
hydro equipment 1,000,000. The navy
wants turbines to generate 13,000,000
kilowatts by 1945; the maritime com-
mission requires turbines for the
fleet it has under construction which
by 1945 will represent the grinding
out of 29,000,000 kilowatts. It is ap
parent that the manufacturing ca
. pacity is loaded up unless some new
factories are built, and between the
two-ocean navy and the seven-ocean
merchant fleet there is little hope
for turbines to use in the proposed
power program.
T'S THE STORM THAT TESTS A SHIP!
Almost any ship can sail in a calm sea. It
takes a storm to test the timbers and crew.
This thought has been an inspiration for the entire
Pacific Power & Light organization during the past
32 years ... as it fought hundreds of sleet, snow, wind
and lightning storms; floods, fires and all the other
dangers to a power company.
OUR CREW IS
SIGNED UP
100
We ore proud to announce that all 796 men and women
in the Pacific Power & Light organization are now jetting
aside a generous part of their monthly income for the
purchase of United States defense bonds.
Every civilian, no matter how vital his job, must do
more than work harder. War costs money! That is why
every man and woman on the PP&L staff has signed up
to contribute generously to the national war chest.
But today every American is facing the worst storm
of all time TOTAL WAR.
Many of Pacific Power & Light's technicians are
serving with the army and navy. The remainder of the
smooth-working and efficient team are hard at work
rushing additional power to scores of war industries . . .
building new lines to scattered airfields, army and navy
establishments, shipyards, and food processing plants.
Because of their experience in meeting emergencies,
PP&L employees have been called on to take a leading
part in civilian defense activities. And, of course, the
company must continue to cope with regular operat
ing troubles.
But come what may, the entire PP&L organiza
tion experienced and trained after 32 years of meeting
crisis after crisis will keep on giving you, and 74.000
other users of its cheap electricity, the highest quality
service consistent with "all out" war production.
PACIFIC POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
32 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE
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