PAGE TWELVE
THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
Jun 1941
WOODEN SHIPS
E
TO SAVE STEEL
WASHINGTON, June 3 (AP)
Construction of wooden mer
chant ships in idle yards of the
Pacific northwest was urged
Monday by Rep. Smith (D-Wash)
In an address to the house in
which he reiterated his predic
tions of a steel shortage.
"There is no reason why mer
chant ships should be construct
ed exclusively of steel," he said,
adding: ,
"We should immediately util
ise the idle wooden shipyards of
the Pacific northwest, where the
raw materials are plentiful and
the idle ship carpenters and me
chanics are ready to go to work
and assist in turning out the ships
which are so sorely needed.
Merchant shipping is becoming
even a more important factor in
the present war than in the
World war and "it may prove
the decisive factor, he said.
A year ago, he said, he told of'
ficials of the national defense
council, the office of production
management and the maritime
commission that the supply of
steel was not adequate for ship
construction.
He said his statements "were
clearly discounted and I was
given to understand that there
was no possibility of a steel
shortage and no serious thought
was being given to any exten
sive wooden shipbuilding pro
gram.
"The United States maritime
committee and the bureau of
ships. United States navy, have
restricted their shipbuilding ac
tivity almost entirely to steel
construction, and there has been
little or no wooden construc
tion," he continued.
"In the meantime, the de
mands for steel for munitions
nave been enormous and we
are hardly started until it is
now becoming a recognized fact
that we will soon be facing a
serious shortage of steel, the
very condition which I pointed
out last summer and last autumn
and this spring was likely to oc
cur."
There is "no method of undo
ing what has already been done,
said Smith, "but we can turn
around and get headed in the
right direction on this shipbuild
ing program. There is no reason
why merchant ships should be
constructed exclusively of steel.
"The logical and most effective
method of successfully meeting
the U-boat challenge and prepar
ing ourselves for the future, is
an all-out ship-building program.
CCC in Fight for Life As
Defense Drains Man-power
KLAMATH PASSES
Edward Bagby, 75, for the
past 35 years a resident of
Klamath county, died here Sat
urday morning following a
lengthy illness.
Mr. Bagby lived in Klamath
Falls for a greater portion of
that time. He has two brothers
and four sisters, one brother,
Henry Bagby, living in Bly. The
remains are at the Earl Whit
lock funeral home.
Youth Returned
Here for Theft
Deputy Sheriff Dale Mattoon
went to Grants Pass Monday to
bring back a 16-year old boy
who stole a light truck here and
drove it to the Josephine county
seat.
The youth is alleged to have
obtained keys to a local body
works, where he started the
truck and drove it out of the
county. The case will be handled
in juvenile court.
Br FRANK I. WELLER
WASHINGTON, June S, (The
Special News Service) A dras
tic and quick method of tying
the CCC into the national de
fense program is being sought in
order that the camps may be re
filled before they are entirely
deserted.
Twenty eastern camps already
have been closed for lack of re
placement enrol Ices. Re-employment
in private enterprise, the
war industries and national de
fense training, is draining the
CCC reservoir of once-idle youth.
Congressmen are asking each
other, off the record, wheUier to
let the corps fade out of the na
tional life or take some bold step
for permanency. The so-called
western bloc senators and rep
resentatives from the mountains,
plains and prairies are taking
the poll under leadership of Rep
resentative Robinson, uMJtah.J
He says the west will not per
mit strangulation of CCC en
rollment to continue. Senator
Murdock (D-Utah) says he will
introduce remedial legislation as
soon as sufficient sentiment crys
tallizes. Talk currently centers
around a proposal to route into
the CCC all boys 17 to 18 years
old who apply for federal-aid
training in national defense jobs.
To the easterners, the CCC was
important only when it siphoned
unemployed youth out of the
great cities. Western congress
men, however, believe they can
command support from the east
by pointing Out to their col
leagues that their states are pros
pering from western support of
the national defense program.
In return, they ask that the
non-industrial west continue to
receive the benefits of the last
eight years from CCC develop
ment and conservation of nat
ural resources.
This would mean that eastern
boys again must come into the
corps to staff western camps.
Normally they numbered 50,000
year. There are 445 western
camps, but only 115 of them are
manned by western boys. Offi
cials are alarmed at the decline
applications for these jobs.
Quarterly replacement quotas
have been cut from 100,000 to
40,000 and still cannot be filled.
If the current proposal flops.
other attempts are planned to:
1. Set up 300 CCC camps to
tram volunteers for non-com
batant military service in radio.
heavy equipment operation, met
al trades, machine shops, auto
motive mechanics and a host of
other activities essential to main
tenance of a mechanized and mo
torized army.
2. Rewrite the selective serv
ice act to require that selectees
physically unfit for combat train-
Flame from a weed burner
painfully burned J. G. Houck,
Midland farmer, who was re
leased Monday from Klamath
Valley hospital after treatment.
The burner became discon
nected at the nozzle and the gas
oline caught on fire. Flame
squirted over the farmer, set
ting his clothes on fire. He man
aged to tear the burning clothes
off of him, but was seriously
burned.
His physician said he had
third degree bums on both
hands and one thigh, and second
degree burns on bis face. He
will recover.
Federal automotive taxes, now
being collected at the rate of
more than $450,000,000 annual
ly, are providing revenue equi
valent to 60 per cent of the an
nual budget of the federal gov
ernment during the years before
entrance in the last World war,
CURB SERVICE
KANSAS CITY, VP) Taxicab
Priver Leslie Roberts pulled up
fceslde Patrolman Don Defoe
and said:
'This passenger is giving me
trouble.
Seeing a pistol in the man's
hand, Defoe drew his own gun
and ordered the man to drop his
weapon. The officer picked up
tne gun, discovered it was
toy.
The passenger signed a state
ment admitting he robbed Rob
erts of $1.95.
In six days, the United States
could eat up all our beef sur
plus. Senora Ana Rosa Mar
tinas Guerrero, Argentine femin
ist leader.
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Ing go to CCC camps until their
health permits induction. The
selectee would not be required
to serve if he had other accepted
claims for deferment, or if med
ical officers agreed that the
6-month CCC tour of duty would
not restore him to physical con
dition. 3. Amend the law to give the
CCC enrollee all or a greater
part of his pay to offset advan
tages offered by the national
youth administration and state
vocational training schools.
4. Deny, by government regu
lation, federal-aid jobs to any
boy 17 to 21 years old who has
not had previous CCC training.
5. Give CCC an extra $20.-
000,000 to obtain camp instruc-
J.E.
The resignation of
Stonehouse as manager
E.
the
Algonia Lumber company and
the appointment of Freeman
Schultz, yard foreman, to the
post, was announced Monday.
Stonehouse, Algoma manager
since 1931, is leaving because of
continued ill health, he said in
a statement to The News-Herald.
His future plans are indef
inite. The new manager has been
with the firm for approximate
ly 15 years. W. R. Henry, for
mer assistant yard foreman, will
succeed Schultz.
Young and Old Lead Mouse-like
Lives Amid Ruins of Dunkerque
Idealism Is never lost except
when faith and morals are per
mitted to wither and decay.
tors and equipment for training j James A. Farley, former Post
in national defense industries. master-General.
VICHY (Correspondence of
the Special News Service)
When the Paris municipal coun
cil recently "adopted" Dunker
que for relief purposes, it took
over a city where a deserted rem
nant of children and old people
lead mouse-like lives in cellars
and roofless homes among ruins
that still hold the bodies of some
of their neighbors.
The 12.000 inhabitants left out
of 100.000 in tho town and its
suburbs, living in the one build
ing out of five still standing, ex
ist in shattered homes with caved
in roofs, doorless doorways and
windows without panes, accord
ing to a description in the Week
ly Candiate.
From May 18. 1940. when the
trlclty, yet 2000 more came drift
ing back. Until February, when
the R. A. F. bombings of Dun
kerque ceased, they slept in cel
lars. Most of them are old peo
ple or children, the magazine
said, adding:
Eighty per cent of the houses
In Dunkerque, including all pub
lic buildtnits, were destroyed or
gulled ut the time of the battle,
leaving 26,000 people homeless.
Fifty-one streets disappeared as
all their buildings were ruled to
the ground; 40 others were bad
ly ruined.
From 1200 to 1500 civilians
were killed by the German bom
bardments of tho town in May
and June, 1940; in the ruins of
population was reduced to 10.- one building alone there Is an
000. until mid-August, they went estimated minimum of a nun
wlthout city water, gas or elec- dred bodies still unrecovered.
Another 191 were killed by R.
A. F. bombings since then.
The town's supplies come al
most exclusively from Lille now,
and are becoming Increasingly
source despite organized relief ef
forts. Easterner Wants
Real Ranch Sojourn
The chamber of commerce re
ceived an unusual request Tues
day from a man in the east who
wants to learn the nnmn of some
rancher here that will accept
paying guests.
"Not Interested In a dude
ranch," said the letter.
Anxious to aceoiumndiile, the
chamber asked Hint the request
be published and that any ranch
owner willing to accept paying
guests to notify the chumbcr
office here.
Indiana man sued for divorce
because his wife turned the
tables on him. Also some chairs
and tho garden hose.
It will take more than 4000
yards of cement to line the Tule
lake sump tunnel, and to con
struct the pump house and pipe
line, according to 1). .. llnyden,
superintendent of the US bureau
of reclamation.
Workmen are setting up equip
ment and getting ready to use
the cement which will put the
tunnel several steps ahead In
the Job of completion. It is hop
ed the contractors will be
through In mid-September which
is fur ahcud of schedule.
We both spoke the language
of the new Europe. Plcrro La
val, French politlrlun, on his
interview with Hitler.
Cypress trees are immune to
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