SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, October 23, 1937
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Turkish Military Strength One
Of Best KeDt in Land of Secrets
Br RUSSELL JONES ,
United Press Correspondent i
Istanbul, Turkey IF The ,
strength of Turkish fighting I
forces is the best kept secret in ;
this land of secrets.
, Turkish military officers flat
Iv refuse to diicu5s numbers,
equipment, arms or disposition.
Even government civilians just
below Premier Adnan Menderes
claim they know nothing.
The habit of secrecy has ex
tended to the American mission
which has been training and
equipping the lurks. Its mem
bers also refuse to talk, despite
a congressional stipulation that
the mission must be open to
American news coverage.
The unanimous opinion of
both the Turks and foreigners
here is that Turkey could mop
up the entire Mid-East without
serious trouble and give a first
class account of itself even
against Russia.
Turks Are Tough
It is generally agreed that the
Turkish fighting man is one of
the toughest and bravest in the
world.
Although the Turkish soldier
does not have the technical apti
tude of the American or West
European soldier, he is learning
fast and is capable of enduring
far greater hardships.
While estimates vary from a
quarter to a half million, an ed
ucated guess of Turkish strength
Is 400,000 men, backed by a
ready reserve of almost 2 mil
lion. The air force is equipped with
some 300 F-84 fighter-bombers
and F-86 fighters. The clamp of
secrecy on planes is so great that
a Turkish air force colonel
watching a flight of F-86s
claimed he was unable to identi
fy their type.
How Many Tanks?
Information on tanks Is just
as tight, but most observers be
lieve the Syrian charge that 500
Turkish tanks are massed on the
border is a wild exaggeration.
They estimate that the total ar
mored strength of Turkey is
only slightly higher than that
figure.
First line tanks are known to
be M-47 Pattons probably sev
eral hundred backed by M-24
Stuarts and M-36s.
The navy's main offensive
force is 16 modern submarines.
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some based on the Black Sea.
Other naval units include at
least eight destroyers, four de
stroyer escorts, eight mine
sweepers, a number of sub-
killers and patrol boats
The army is the best-trained
HILLARY AT ANTARCTICA Sir Edmund Hillary (cen
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Iraq Racing Against Time
To Convert Oil
Baghdad (IP) Iraq is racing
against time in seeking to con
vert its fabulous oil wealth into
general prosperity and internal
stability.
The big question is whether
Iraq can build its way Into a
prosperous and modern state
without the revolutionary kind
of changes through which Kemal
Ataturk brought Turkey out of
its medieval coma some decades
back. Prime Minister Nuri es
Said and his followers think so,
but many Iraqis and westerners
here doubt it.
This Arab nation has em
barked on what is probably the
most advanced development pro
gram in operation today. Seven
out of every 10 dollars of income
from its prodigious oil produc
tion goes directly into this pro
gram to make the garden of the
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of the three miliatry forces, with
hundreds of officers and enlist
ed men battle-tested in Korea
forming the nucleus. During the
Korean war, seven brigades to
talling some 35,000 men rotated
through combat.
Wealth
Tigris and Euphrates rivers
bloom as in ancient times.
Close to a billion dollars will
be spent on flood control, power
and irrigation schemes, roads,
bridges, industrial and agricul
tural projects and social serv
ices during the next five years.
The whole program is a cal
culated risk which King Feisal
and Nuri, hope will pay off by
putting an end to chronic politi
cal instability. It's a gamble be
cause the government has put
the long-term benefit ahead of
immediate gain for Iraq's 6,000,
000 people.
Nuri has Imposed authoritar
ian rule on Iraq to gain the time
to prove to the people that they
the the true beneficiaries of the
nation's oil wealth. "The country
is now under martial law and
there have been no political par
ties for three years.
The 68-year-old owlish prime
minister avowedly wants to
bring back democratic govern
ment, but, as he recently told
western correspondents , '"we
must be careful to maintain
peace and order and not allow
the Shepilovs and Khrushchevs
to -deal with our safety and
policy."
Aside from oil, Iraq is basic
ally an agricultural country, and
many observers here feel the
crucial test of Nuri's program
will be centered on what he does
to break up the present feudal
landholding system. But much of
Nuri's political support comes
from the big landowners and tri
bal sheikhs.
Land Tax Considered
The typical Iraqi peasant is a
sharecropper. His total income,
ntostly in the form of crops,
averages 150 dollars per year.
He lives m a mud or reed hut.
His diet is mainly bread, unions,
dates and, occasionally, rice. If
he needs cash, he gets it from
the landlord or a moneylender
at interest rates sometimes as
high as 100 per cent. Once he
starts borrowing, he rarely gets
out of debt.
Iraq"s land problem is being
tackled as part of the develop
ment program. Already some
20,000 landless farmers and their
families have been settled on
1.240,000 acres made available
for cultivation under the massive
flood control and irrigation
projects.
When the destructive forces of
the Tigris and Euphrates floods
are fully under control, another
5,400,000 acres will be brought
under cultivation and additional
water will be supplied to 7,800,
000 acres now under seasonal
cultivation.
The government is also consid
ering imposing a land tax to
force big landowners either to
cultivate their estates fully or
break them up and sell off big
chunks to farmers. Another pro
ject is to make big landowners
pay for any benefits they receive
from the development program.
But nothing definite has been
done yet.
'"They've talked about a land
tax for years," one official said,
"buir no government has been
able to put it- into operation."
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By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press White House
Writer
New York 'TP President Ei
senhower is throwing himself
personally into a "chins up" cam
paign to bolster public confi
dence in the domestic economy
and in America's ability to keep
scientific pace with Russia.
The Chief Executive, himself,
will embark shortly on a series
of speeches around the country
to bolster the faith of the nation
in its ability to meet the many
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Washington W George
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Continental Baking Co., said to
day it is "slanderous" to insinu
ate that his company bought fa
vors from the beleaguered Bak
ery Workers Union.
Faunce made the statement to
the Senate Rackets Committee
after chairman John L. McClel
lan (D-Ark.) said the group has
uncovered "some evidence" of
collusion between the union and
the firm, the nation's largest
bakery.
McClellan made his charge
during questioning of James G.
Cross, president of the Bakery
Workers. The union is under or
ders from the AFL-CIO to get
rid of Cross or face expulsion
from the big labor federation.
Prepared Statement
Faunce began his testimony
with a 'prepared statement de
claring that "The insinuation
that Continental has bought
union favors is slanderous and
unwarranted to the point of be
ing ridiculous."
"Only total Ignorance of the
true bargaining situation of such
a baking company as Continen
tal, willful disregard for the
truth, or both, could even nerve
any one to such a statement,"
the bakery executive said.
In the controversy over the
union's representation of the
Webster City, Iowa, plant of
Continental's Morton Frozen
Foods Division , it was also
brought out that Merle Smith,
southern regional director for
the union, agreed the the union
signed a "sweetheart" contract
with the company.
Not 'Sweethearts'
Later, Smith seemed to back
away from that term, used in
the labor movement to denote an
agreement which favors manage
ment and gives substandard
benefits to union members.
Smith said his initial reaction
to the contract, negotiated with
out his knowledge was "one of
disgust of disappointment."
Faunce, in his prepared state
ment, termed "absurd" asser
tions that the Webster City con
tract was a "sweetheart" con
tract. He said its benefits are
"by no means substandard."
BOARD CHAIRMAN DIES
Hamden, Conn. OP) James
W. Hook, 73, chairman of the
board of the United Illuminating
Co. of New Haven, Conn., died
here Monday. Hook was a former
chairman of the National Associ
ation of Manufacturers commit
tee on relations between govern
ment and business.
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problems pressing on the United
States in growing complexity.
The President was not specific
but the United Press learned that
his speeches will be delivered
in several widely separated parts
of the country.
He outlined his "chins up"
campaign Tuesday night in a
speech before a Waldorf Astoria
Hotel audience of 1,500 persons
gathered under the auspices of
the National Fund for Medical
Education.
Ostensibly the occasion for the
Queen Brings Thrill;,
Macmillan Brings Bill
Washington (IP) A taxicab
driver, whendirecied to drive
to the military air terminal
here this morning asked his
passenger, "going to meet old
Mac?"
His passenger, a United
Press reporter, replied that if
the driver was referring io
British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan, the answer was
yes.
A few moments of silence,
then this observation came
from the front seat:
"They sent us the Queen to
give us a thrill; now comes
Macmillan io bring us the
bill."
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At Los Angeles Hotel
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midnight after an evening out
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dinner Tuesday night was to
honor Alfred P. Sloan Jr., re
tired head of General Motors,
for his "outstanding leadership
in medical education." Sloan re
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