The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, November 21, 1941, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON DONOVAN AIMS TRUTH GANNON AT GERMANS Br PETER EDSON WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 How to have a propaganda min istry that will out-gobble Goeb bels without having a propa ganda ministry and without having a Goebbels is the para doxical job that has now shaken down for Col. William J. Don ovan, whoso office as co-ordin-alor of information is known in Washington as COI. ' The nickname should be COY, for of all the defense agencies in Washington, COI alone is publicity shy. It has no public relations officer to give statements to the press, other than Donovan himself, who is harder to see than Greta Gar o off the screen, and who wants to be alone Just about as bad, Donovan has Just moved his headquarters Into the old Naval hospital buildings, a couple 01 iDits from the Potomac river, way out by the Lincoln Mem orial. It s a good nideoui. xus research staff under Dr. James Phinney Baxter III, president of Williams college, and Dr. Ernest Stacey Griffith, chief of the famed congressional legis lative reference service, will be quartered way at the other end of Washington in the library of congress, where "Silence" Is the motto, and a man can be let alone. All this hush-hush embar rasses Donovan and his staff of unknown size, made up of the darndest array of college pro fessors, poets, playwrights, for eign correspondents, newspaper men, broadcasters and their ilk. All of them are conscious of the fact that this is a democracy and that the people are entitled to know what goes on. Most of them, before they got into the government, devoted their pri vate lives to trying to tell the people what went on. They are still dealing with publishable material propaganda, in a sense but they don't want anybody to know that ifs pro paganda they're dishing out, and that's why all the mystery and secrecy. Mo Balonlst As a matter of fact, their out put isn't exactly propaganda. That word has been pretty bad ly abused and has become syn onymous with baloney. Donovan wants it understood that he is not dealing In baloney. The only way to beat a barrage of verbal baloney Is with a crossfire of truth, laid down before the enemy can start its barrage to rolling. And there "Wild Bill" Donovan of the "Fighting 69th" New '42 Hudson Body Styling ss 'JiT' Mma rima MuailMi front rod rear spring rates mulling in Improved All new 1942 Hudeon mcV ,r imA TOnc1 "'' !d' fiU1 worthy in the new etylin- i the deejgn of row fr.ro. J" graceful flair of body contour uttl- raex apnnte to be lowered and tn. la th. 8 -cylinder eeden in th. Com modore bene. believes is where the COI Job comes in to lay down a counter-propaganda of truth and facts that will make the Ger man baloney type of propaganda look as silly as it is. Outside pressure on Washing ton to open a full-fledged min istry of propaganda has been tremendous. Donovan feels that such procedure would not be the way the American democracy should proceed. For this reason, COI has been organized as a kind of brain trust operation planning the counter-propaganda, but letting established agencies of the government, privately-owned radio stations and the privately-owned, independ ent, free and uncensored press be the issuing media. The af firmative end of COI functions through its foreign information service, headed by Playwright Robert Sherwood in New York, and Nelson Poynter in Wash ington. Hop to Catch the Worm They get up early at the COI offices. There are staff meet ings at 8 in the morning. There are shifts working around the clock, seven days a week. The news is analyzed. How can this development b e counteracted? What is the answer to that? Where can the nazi propaganda machine be outwitted, beaten to the punch? In what ways is the axis most vulnerable to counter propaganda? COI thus plans its battles of words. In spite of all the secrecy sur rounding operations of the Don ovan office, certain develop ments of recent days reveal how effective counter - propaganda can be. There was the incident of the new German map for re dividing South America accord ing to nazi notions. President Roosevelt mentioned it in a speech and it set the Germans to hawling abusive denials. Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long made a speech directed at Italy, in which he said Italian troops sent to aid Germany were but Russians Aware of German Treachery Even While 7939 'Honeymoon' Pact in Vogue EDITORS: The FuuUnl had no Ilia' lloci retarding German "fri,ndhlp" eturtei the SI month of th aOTlal-oad eoo-auirra-ton part and mn full at ot thli breath in aiMll to itrrnathtn their military ma chine. United Pre,, ataff Correspondent Wallace Carroll rTa la the toltowlni OK- nateh. Ha filed the dilDateh from the tint oenior-rrM eaolehead ha reached alter lear. IBS the eoTtel uoloa.l By WALLACE CARROLL Copyright. 1941. by United Press MANILA, Nov. 21 (UP) While soviet censors were sup pressing open criticism of the axis during the Russian-German honeymoon which began in Au gust, 1939, members of the com munist party continued to carry on anti-fascist and anti-nazi pro paganda throughout the soviet union. In Moscow I talked with soviet citizens and foreigners who had attended anti-nazi lectures after the signing of the Russian-German pact. The tone ot the talks flittered little from the speeches of Max im Litvinov at Geneva during the years he vainly tried to or ganize an anti-Hitler front. No Illusions This Is one of number of facts which could be cited to show that Josef Stalin had no il lusions regarding Soviet-German friendship, but hoped to obtain a breathing space in which to strengthen his position. Did the Stalin government make full use of the 21 months hostages to keep the Italians at home in servitude to the nazis. That one caught both the Ger mans and Italians off guard. There are other incidents of the same kind which reveal how this battle of words is to be fought But most of them prob ably won t be told about until the war is over, if then. illlneeeeeiltriffliiaf'"v'J- SEE THE NEW 1942 The PEOPLE'S CAR DEALER'S NAME HERE (Address Here) ARE NEW AUTHORIZED DEALERS There's Only ONE to Look at NOW if you want to drive a dependable, normal size, quality motor car at a monthly cost you can really afford, today, if defense-time taxes, colt of gas and oil and your cost of living keep going op and up. There's only ONE to look si NOW it yon want real ECONOMY up to 35 miles per gallon of gas up to 40,000 miles per set of tires lowest OIL cost and total sayings up to $20 a month, the very first year. The NEW 1942 The PEOPLE'S CAR Enjoy the one car you can really afford. Buy a new 1942 Willys Americar, NOW, before the next increase in motor car prices hits us. See your nearest Willys dealer. He will trade with you on most liberal terms. YOU'LL NEED THESE 10 "WILLYS" SAVINGS! lowest purchase price Lowest down payment Lowest monthly paylnent Lowest Insurance cost Lowest license cost e Lowest oil cost per mil Lowest upkeep cost Lowest depreciation Up to 35 miles per gallon' Up to 40,000 miles en tires. leeee eevbiee eWtt omoMif ee ewea ee 30 m mens, sW very flnf veer, ee cemeeree to fee e-vetiaje cerftj ot SW Ave cert In fee price effort next above tWHy. thus gained, or did it throw away the breathing space by a half hearted rearmament policy like the Chamberlain government of Great Britain after Munich? The evidence in this war shows that the soviet made full use of the respite, and given an other year might well have made themselves invincible against in vasion. The greatest weakness ot the soviet union as a military power has been a shortage of skilled la bor, engineers, and technicians. The United States and Britain enjoy a heritage of a century of technical progress, but even they found themselves short of skilled workers and engineers when they tried to expand their arms pro duction. The Soviets took over a coun try which in many respects was four centuries behind the United States and Britain. They had to teach 70 per cent of the people to read and write before they could initiate them to the mysteries of modern chemistry, mathematics and the slide rule. Luxuries Curtailed Successive five-year plans were essentially an attempt to concen trate the limited skill available on the creation of that heavy in dustry which is indispensable to the modern military power. After the purges of 1936-37, however, the soviet government partially relaxed this concentrat ed effort and transferred, some of its limited technical resources to production of consumer goods, which the soviet people had done without since Lenin's new eco nomic policy was abandoned, The change over did not last long, however. With the out break of the European war in September, 1939, the output of goods which; were considered luxuries was curtailed. Further curtailment followed the Finnish war, and as the time approached when Adolf Hitler would strike, the Soviets were concentrating all available skill and energy on war preparations. This concentration explains some of the techical surprises the Soviets are able to spring. In the aircraft industry the brilliant commissar, A. Shakhu rin, who is under 35, created an organization which produced two remarkable new planes, the MIG3 fighter and the Stormvik attack bomber, both of which have been used successfully against tanks. In inspected an MIG at an air drome on the central front and learned why foreign experts who have seen It rank it with the British Spitfire. Its liquid-cooled engine is described as being in the class with the Rolls-Royce Merlin and the General Motors Allison motors. In order to save aluminum, the soviet engineers made the wings of plywood. I saw a MIG which was hit In the wing by an ti-aircraft shrapnel, but the wood was not splintered and the plane was able to return to base. It was a simple operation to "unbutton1 the damaged wing and "button" on a new one, whereas it would have taken a long time to repair a metal wing. Apparently the MIG's can dive as fast as all-metal planes, and soviet airmen claim their "coef- ficient of safety" is higher than that of most foreign fighters, The Soviets also made great progress in other fields of arms production. In the Spanish civil war foreign arms engineers learned that soviet machine guns had the highest rate of fire in the world. These guns subsequently were improved. Thirty-five cali ber machine guns used In soviet planes are the lightest and most compact machine guns I have ever seen, and any country would be glad to have them. An incident which showed the, soviet technical skill and enter prise occurred during a confer ence at which early in October authorities worked out a pro gram for supplying Anglo-Amer ican war materials to Russia. A four-engined consolidated B24 bomber carrying some Amer ican delegates from Scotland was about to alight at the Moscow air drome with wing flaps lowered when another crossed its course. E- A new development In driving ease, known as the Hudson Drive- Master, Is spotlighted on the new 1943 Hudson cars now on dis play by Douglas Motor company, newly appointed Hudson dealer for this territory. Offered as a low-cost optional extra on all models, the Drive Master entirely eltmtnutes clutch operation, except as a safety pre caution when starting the motor. Advantages In economy, fast shifting action, quiet operation, and eliniinntion ot slippage, are claimed for tho Drive-Master by Hudson engineers following four years ot extensive field testing and development. A new second or "pick-up" gear especially designed for smooth rapid acceleration pro vides, it is said, unusually fast get-away in traffic. With the gear lover set In "high" position at the start of a day's driving, the gears shift from "pick-up" into "high" po sition automatically, depending upon the speed of the car, and back again to second "pick-up" automatically when accelerator pressure is released. In normal driving, no further shifting ef fort Is required. Low and re verse gears are selected by the Handy Shift gear lever. NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (,p) The usual holiday upswing in sales appeared in retail stores this week, aided substantially by preparations for Thanksgiving, fall clearances and early Christ mas shopping, Dun & Bradstrect reported today. "Shoppers' greater emphasis on wearing apparel and. other soft goods," the asencv review said, "indicated a definite shift from the durable type of mer chandise which was most in de mand during the buying spree of August and September. "With defense production gains offsetting curtailment in non-defense lines, the over-all rate of output held solidly at record levels." In 32 states which celebrated Thanksgiving this week, the re view noted, most retailers tnnk this occasion to Inaugurate the holiday season. Stocks in most centers were reported at record levels. For the country as a whole the agency estimated retail turn over at 15 to 22 per cent better than a year ago, the broadest margin of increase in six weeks. In the major regions the in creases were as follows: New England, 12 to 18 per cent; east, 12 to 15; middle west. 14 to 20; south, 18 to 23; south west, 20 to 23; northwest, 11 to 14, and Pacific coast, 15 to 20. Government Orders Bring Movement In Wood Market BOSTON, Nov. 21 OP) The Commercial bulletin will say of the wool market tomorrow: Tho award of further con' tracts by the government for worsted fabrics and underwear has accounted for a fair move ment in wool again this past week, chiefly In fine and half blood wools, although there has been some Interest shown in medium wools. Prices have been fully maintained. "Military fabrics, which have relegated civilian business very largely to the background, have called for both foreign and do mestic wools. Mast of the awards thus far made against the bids of November 4 for 33 100,000 yards of serges and shirtings, have been on a basis of 50 per cent domestic and 50 per cent foreign wool, with celling price of $3.14, against $2.98 previously. Rather more than half of the quantity la un derstood to have been placed. "Foreign market are hardly changed, except that South American markets have eased a bit further this week. "Western operations have ac counted for several million pounds of wool this week, chief ly in Texas, New Mexico and Wyoming at prices fully firm, 'Mohair continues dun ano barely firm." (Quotations unchanged.) FUNNY BUSINESS THAT HOMEY ATMOSPHERE COFFEYVILLE, Kas. (P) Real estate ad in the Coffeyvllle Journal: i 'A real sorry, run down, old fashioned, B room dwelling; needs new roof, new floors, new paint and about seven other things; It is especially well locat ed. Price $1,200." United States army airman, man aged to avoid a collision, but the strain . caused a wing flap to buckle. The Soviets never had seen B24 and it looked as if re pairs would take a long time. Within three days, however, sov iet technicians produced a new wing flap every bit as good as the "lie wonted to pull w tooth, but it muni be a tough one to yunkl" Advent of American Planes To Russia Told By Writer rKdltor-a NrtU: nre la the aUtry ot hew lli Rtiulana pllrhad In en! ft rait for th muting ot Anmkan alrplana. etilrh Ihty ipvvtlll, matured, entire h a ralUft rr, rorrpo"lal nu l"nl tvrftl w,ka la lha aA,l,l ufllnn ant la rrmvUnf fruie the ftrt rrntr lrae cable head he rcerheil afur Uartnc.) By WALLACE CARROLL Copirlitit. IMI, Unltae) frees MANILA, P. I., Nov. 21 (Un censored) (UP) The Egyp tians never worked harder on pyramids than tho Russians worked to build an airdrome where the first American fight er planes were assembled lor action on the Russiun front. It looked llko a hopeless Job when orders camo from Moscow to construct an airdrome in that region of endless forests and peat bogs. Foreign experts said, in fact, it couldn't be done. but the Russians just laughed and said, ."nlchevo" it's nothing. A few weeks later when two young officers In the united States army air corps arrived to supervise assembling ot the first Curliss P40', they found a modern airdrome unlike any other In the world. The soviet government assign ed 2000 laborers and 1000 army pioneers to the Job. Within three weeks they had cleared trees and stumps from an area u( several square miles. Then they set to work to drain the field and build an all-weather run way. First they dug away peat to a depth of two to three fevt Then they laid a foundation of logs like railway tics. Whore they had dug deepest they laid more logs crosswise above the first layer. Finally onop they put a solid flooring ot six-by-six timbers. When they had finished, they had a corduroy runway a mile long and 100 yards wide, which not even the heaviest bomber could shake. Lieut. Hubert Zemke, 27, of Missoula, Mont., arrived from i Britain with the first consign ment of P49's. Lieut John All son. 28, of Galneswllle. Fla., who had flown to Moscow In July with Lend-lease Adminis trator Harry Hopkins, Joined him. In a surprisingly short time, the Russians had mastered the socruti uf tho P40. Tho Orltltli lieu )u eavvine seueuia m am plana which addad several hundred pounds weight unci cut its speed 16 miles an hour The soviet engineer took onu look and decided tho giulguti wuuld Iiuvb tu go, In tho United States and Brit ain two cranes are used to -cmbla the IMO's, one uf two tuns mid another ot one ton. Tha Soviets had only one criuio, a one-ton affair, but they Just said "nlchevo" and went ahead, The one-tim crane, was used to suspend the fintelng? tlia Job dime In thn Untied Stales n nd Urllaln Willi a two-timnor. Then 20 pioneers raised Hie wing and held It on their hacks and shoulders while mo L'liiinlt's buckled It to thn fuau luge. Suiui't Itin-R they eluud hunched over for ninrn than a liu If hour while a wing was being fixed. HAF mechanics were ossemb- ll,f lli,l.nMa It, lltn umm.m nlrtlroino. They hud been hiind ling Hurricanes tor yeurs where as tho Russians wero seeing tha IMO's for the first time, but the Russians were most disappoint ed when the HrllUli succeeded In assembling their first Hur ricane before tho Russians as sembled their first Curtlss. So they redoubled their ef forts and suereded In deliver ing five P40's to a nearby air dromo In a slnglo dny. They, worked 14 hours or more everj day, always enthusiastic, always convinced they were going to win tne war ana always In good numnr. Two Injured When Car Hits Train SALEM. Nov. 21 (,P) Two Hubbard men who drove Into the side of a slow-moving Southern Pacific railroad locomotive last night wero In a hospital today with cuts, bruises and posslblo in ternal injuries. 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