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Tribune
EDFORD
Full Associated Press
Fall United Press
Thirty-Second Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1937
No. 184.
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SKY - BATTLESHIP
WITH 3 TURRETS
-BUILTFDR NAVY
Utmost Secrecy Surrounds
Construction Of Giant
' Armored Plane Larger
One Is Reported Planned.
By Arthur N. Suvprkrop
(UP Staff Correspondent)
BAN DIEOO, Cal. (UP) A flying.
' armored dread naught of the skies
the United States navy's bid to
maintain Its supremacy In the skies
will be given Its first tests here
within a few weeks.
And while the finishing touches
are being placed on the great plane.
In the most closely maintained sec
recy, an even more powerful plane
1a being designed, It was learned.
Turreted, fore and aft, like the
giant dreadnaughts of the surface,
the new fighting craft will be as
large. If not larger, than the trans
Pacific Clipper planet.
Four giant motors, mounted on
the single wing, will develop more
than .200 horsepower, H was
learned.
Built By Consolidated
At the Consolidated Aircraft cor
poration plant here, where the
plane la being built by the most
trusted workmen, officials were
loath to drop the veil of secrecy
concerning the fighting craft said
to be the world's most powerful air
fighting machine. It waa revealed,
however, that a super-strong, all
metal hull, armored to protect the
vital portion of the plane from
rival aircraft or anti-aircraft fire,
la nearing completion. '
This hull, It la said, . do de
signed that the huge flying battle
ship will be able to ride out the
most severe storms If forced to land
la the ocean.
5,000-Mile Firing Range
A cruising range of at leaat 8.000
miles, probably even farther, will
make the air dreadnaughts capable
of operating with the surface fleet
lit even the most far-flung maneu
vers. Aboard will be complete quar
ters for the crew, it was believed.
A fuel supply which will enable
the plane to take-off and- remain
la the air for at least 48 hours will
be carried presumably In armored
tanks.
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GIANTS OF
The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Company,
Receiving: Six New High Speed Freight Engines
The first of these powerful, fast
locomotives has just been de
livered at Spokane by the Ameri
can Locomotive Company, after a
leisurely Journey under tow from
the Schenectady works.
The other five will follow la a
few days.
After being made ready for
service they will be placed on
through runs of the districts cov
ering the 273 miles between
Spokane, Pasco and Wlshram, and
later also on the Oregon Trunk
Railway between Wlsbram and
Bend, 152 miles.
Their rated tractive force ts
104,500 pounds, contrasted to that
of 64,500 pounds of the most
powerful units heretofore in serv
ice on this line, which will handle
heavy traffio with ease on the
maximum grade of .4 of one per
cent between Spokane and Snake
Hirer, 123 miles, and .2 of one
percent west to Wlshram, 150
miles. They will not be used west
of Wlshram on account of the sus
tained easy water grade to Van
couver. These locomotives are of the
proven type for heavy duty, even
on mountain grades, known at
4-6-6-4 simple Mallet, meaning
to the layman four pilot truck
lals admit that revolutionary1
change In construction technique
have been worked out changes
which some compared to the Intro
duction of steel armor-plating on
the world famous Monitor, of Civil
war days.
It waa learned, despite the care
ful guarding of all phases of the
design and construction of the craft,
that at least three turrets will be
mounted on the big plane.
Caliber Not Known
One of these will be In the bow,
another will be In the amldship
section, and the third some place
near the tall assembly. It Is as
sumed, also, the plane will be equip
ped witn guns which will give it
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wheels, two sets of six driving
wheels and four trailer truck
wheels.
They have two complete power
units, each with three pairs ol
driving wheels 69 Inches in di
ameter; cylinders 23 Inches In di
ameter and stroke of 32 inches;
and rated speed of 65 miles per
hour. The boiler carries a work
ing pressure of 250 pounds per
square inch.
An Idea of their great size li
gained from a few dimensions.
The length of engine is 75 feet
5 Inches, tender 46 feet 10 inches,
total 122 feet 3 inches; total
length of largest class heretofore
on this line 80 feet 6 inches.
The weight of engine ts 624,600
pounds, tender 398,400 pounds,
total 1,022,900 pounds; length of
firebox 20 feet 6 inches, width 9
feet 6 Inches; height of engine
16 feet 11 inches; capacity of
tender 20,000 gallons of water,
6,000 gallons of fuel oil.
The tender has two trucks, each
with three pairs of wheels. Alt
driving and truck wheels hare
roller bearings.
The cabs carry the road num
bers 900 to 905 inclusive, and the
tenders bear the company's elllp
tlcal trade-mark.
adequate protection from attacks
from all angles, but the caliber and
size of the armaments in each tur
ret are something about which no
word of Information Is available.
Meanwhile, It Is persistently ru
mored In semi-official circles here
that an even larger and more pow
erful air-sea fighter has been de
signed if not actually already un
der construction here.
This rumor concerns a plane said
to be tar superior to anything ever
conceived a plane with at least six
motors.
Naval officials remain tight-lipped
concerning thla rumor.
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Far Greater Than That
Of British Some Pro
tests Openly Recorded.
OTTAWA. Ont. (UP) The penetra
tion of United States industry In
Canada, attributed to the desire -of
American manufacturers to obtain the
benefits of the British empire tariff
preferences. 1s Increasing, a survey
by the dominion bureau of statistics,
Canadian government statistical agen
cy reveals.
It la estimated that American man
ufacturers have established nearly 1,
500 branch plants in Canada, and
the large majority of the t3.OO0.00O,
000 Invested in plants In the domin
ion by foreign manufacturers is owned
by American Interests. The American
capital invested In Canada, It is re
vealed, by far exceeds British capital.
The American penetration in Canada
is particularly pronounced In Ontario,
because the province extends farthest
south and la more contiguous to the
large centers of American manufac
turing. Distance Favors Americans
Canadian economists, surveying the
situation, find a great difference be
tween the attitude of British and
American manufacturer In locating
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In Canada. The former operates pri
marily under the disadvantage of long
distance, whereas communication be
tween American plants and Canadian
subsidiaries la only a matter of min
utes and the shipment of equipment,
when urgently needed, ts only a mat
ter of hours. Moreover, the British
manufacturer has an enormous home
market, in addition' to being favor
ably located for foreign trade In gen
eral, and, being In the empire, has
all the fiscal preferences automati
cally. When the American manufacturer
attempts to enter the Canadian mar
ket, he encounters a tariff wall, and
the only way he can overcome this
Impediment Is by establishing a
branch factory In Canada.
Canadian Trade Sought
It Is not for the Canadian trade
alone, however, that the American
manufacturer Is Increasingly invest
ing capital In Canada. He Is also
seeking the preferential advantages
of British and dominion trade agree
ments. American factories located in
Canada are heavy exporters of various
commodities, ranging from automo
biles to toilet preparation, which go
to Great Britain. Australia, New Zea
land and South Africa. They enter
those countries under the preferential
tariffs, which are low In comparison
with customs duties if exporting di
rectly from the United States.
Customs regulations, however, pro
vide for a large degree of Canadian
content of labor and materials as
a qualification. For example, after
next March, the Canadian content of
motor cars must be 66 percent or else
tht great advantage accruing from
scores of parts being admitted free
will lapse.
The American branch Industry has
readily assimilated Itself Into the
Canadian Industrial structure, and. In
places, It Is actually a dominant
factor. It has a large voice In the
Canadian Manufacturers' association,
and. curiously. It commonly combat
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moves to lower the tariff against the
United States even If this would
benefit the parent Industry. Pre ac
cess to the Canadian market would
modify the necessity of Canadian
branch plants, even though It is only
through them that the empire pref
erences are available.
gome Opposition Manifest '
The penetration of American in
dustry Into Canada has aroused op-j
position in some sources. The dovel-:
opnient la particularly opposed by '
the Socialistic Co-operative Common
wealth federation party, which holds
that the operation of these companies
in the dominion la "a real menace to
Canada."- !
J. 8. Woodsworth. leader of the
party, recently accused Prime Min
ister Mitchell T. Hepburn, whose
opposition to John L. Lewis' Com
mittee for Industrial Organisation ts
construed In some quarters as an
lnvttatlon for American Industries to
locate In the province, of permitting
American companies to organlre in
the province and operate under lower
wage scales.
"Wherever there are gold, nickel
or coal mines, automobile factories, or
water powers controlled by American
Interests In Canada you should put
up an American flag, and then you
would have no room for the British
flag," he said. "Stand on guard for
Canada if you want to have British
Industries established here."
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PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 33. (Pi
Harry Hazel, national labor relations
board examiner, dented Wednesday a
motion by counsel for the Industrial
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of labor board charges against the
I. B. U. In the case In which the
organization la named respondent
along with three northwest lumber
companies and an organization of
operators.
Counsel for the labor board allege
the I. B. U. to be a "company union"
and Ineligible as a bargaining agency
for employes under the Wagner act.
Nicholas Jaureguy, attorney for the
I. E. U cou tended the complaint
contained uo charge against the or
ganization, but merely stated It hid-
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"If there has been coercion, we
want le removed, but we deny there
has been," Jaureguy said.
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