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The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
Strategic War Materials
That Must Be DeUeloped

But with all of this hullabaloo, we
for development of our national de-
posts of raw materials which are
used in the stock pile of war re-
sources. 1t might not be so impor-
tant were it not a fact that score
or more of these materials have to
be imported. l regret the necessity
for being so bold, but it is proper
to say that our war and navy de-
partments have advanced not sim
gle program, or even thought, as
to how this nation could gain GER
tain raw materials if we were to be
involved in a war that would cut off
importation of them.
The war department has prepared
list of some of these strategic
war materials" and it has listed
some of the most important, such
as nickel, tin, manganese, rubber,
etc. That is as far as it has gone.
1t is true, and the swivel chair
officers will stress the fact, that con-
gress passed law few years back
that was designed to encourage
American production of these essen
tials. 1t was called, popularity, the
buy-American act. It even went so
far as to afford authority for pay
ment of premiums, up to Is per
cent above foreign quotations, in or
der that American capital would go
to work here on those essentials.
But has anything resulted from it?
The records answer, no.
A congressional committee also
lately has answered mo" by draft
ing another bill to encourage pro-
duction in the United States of these
war essentials. The house commit
tee on military affairs has reported
a bill which Chairman May hopes
will do the work, but even Chairman
May is doubtful of its success. He
is doubtful because, as he said, when
the bureaucrats in the executive
branch of the government do not
want to encourage domestic produc-
ton, they simply sit in their chairs
and swing their feet back and forth.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30

British royal commission which
made the study added that while
they and the United States are
friendly and none can see any rea-
son for that friendship ever to be
disturbed, no man can forecast the
future"
The shortage of nickel" said the
report, might be a weakness Suf-
ficient to determine the issue OF a
war"
l discussed this question of war
essentials with various members OF
the house-Representative Murdoch
of Arizona, Representative Francis
Case OF South Dakota, Representa-
tive Scrugham of Nevada, among
others. To a man they said that the
will of congress was being thWarted
by bureaucrats who are unwilling to
encourage American industry. Mr.
Scrugham, for instance, a former
governor of his state and mining
man, told how the bureau of mines
had reported there was no worth
while nickel deposits in Alaska. The
same agency has found no reason
to encourage American capital to
develop manganese deposits in the
United States. Mr.. Case has been
trying to get congressional action on
measures to get some use of the
metal deposits of South Dakota, but
always selfish corporate interests,
seeing no further ahead than the
point of their red noses, have stalled
tho
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30

itself threatened simultaneously on
both east and west:
West. Czechoslovakia's fall brought
Hitler part way to the Ukraine but
alien soil still stood as barrier. To
cross the Russian frontier German
troops must pass through either Ru-
mania or Poland. The latter ma
TONS hostility to the Reich has in
creased since Prague's collapse be-
cause Warsaw had good reason to
fear Germany might annex the Free
City of Danzig and close the corridor
which is Poland's only outlet to the
Baltic or any other sea. Moreover,
agitation for German annexation of
Lithuania's seaboard town of Me-
mel. and for possible creation of a
protectorate over Lithuania itself,
would leave Poland surrounded on
three sides by Germany and her
satellites.
Discarding Poland as path to the
Ukraine, Hitler has turned to Ru-
mania which not only offers a corri-
dor to Russia but many choice spoils
besides. The groundwork for this
coup was laid last November after
King Carol, fearing Naziism, made
a desperate bargaining trip to Lon
don in search of British-French
trade support. Though wined and
dined by King George (see photo
and other personages of British roy
atty who few years ago had ig-
nored him as a scapegrace, the Ru-
manian king found London unwilling
to play ball. Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain was too busy appeasing
Dictators Hitler and Mussolini to
risk upsetting Europe's diplomatic
applicant with a trade agreement
that would discriminate against the
Reich.
En- route home Carol signed ar
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
Buying for Reserves Would
Start Brand NeU Industries

In my conversations among Rocky
Mountain congressman, l could not
avoid the conclusion that capital
funds held in the United States will
not be put to work on such things
without some encouragement from
officials in Washington. l know that
some Representatives and senators
are of the opinion that the federal
government ought to offer to buy
these war essentials here and disre-
gard foreign sources. They believe
that a commitment to buy for re-
serves, if made by the federal gov
eminent, would start brand new in
dustries going in many, many parts
of the United States. All of the while,
however, we have the bureau of
mines and the war department sit
ting back and making it hard for
Americans to develop America.
This whole situation would be hard
ly worth analyzing were it not for
the facts: l. The federal government
is spending billions for defense,
along with other billions that are
being wasted, and, 2. 1t is measure
of safety to have all, or as much
as possible, of the things we would
need, in event of war, where they
can be handled by Americans for
Americans. And it is more impor-
tant, too, because numerous reports
have reached Washington in the
last year to the effect that German,
or Belgian or British capitalists
have been making overtureS to hold
ers of American mining claims for
operating leases on properties that
yield such things as essential war
metals. 1t is my belief that sooner
or later congress will learn that the
bureaucracy, which it created, has
wasted too much time; it will learn
that foreigners own all of the metal
resources here-and we will be buy
ing back the finished material at
the prices foreign monopoly cares
= to establish-just as we are now buy
ing nickel.
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
Pleads for Money to
Develop Mineral Resources

Mr.. Murdoch, also mining man,
made a plea on the floor of the
house the other day for congress to
provide some money enabling real
istic procedure with respect to
our unknown and undeveloped metal
resources-so that we would know
in case of war, if for no other rea-
son.
Since my school boy days"
said Mr.. Murdoch in house debate,
II have been told that Alaska is a
treasure house of natural wealth and
economic resources. / believe we
have been and are overlooking that
fact in our dealing with that far off
corner of our country. feel that we
ought to develop those resources;
we ought to know more about
them"
Mr.. Murdoch statement causes
me to ask the question: since it is
our national policy Cat present, at
leasD to spend billions of dollars
under the guise of making work, why
not designate some few of the mill
lions for worthwhile national devel-
opment?
Reference was made the other day
to testimony given two years ago
before the senate finance commit
tee. l looked it up and found that
the late Francis P. Garvan, then
president of the chemical founda-
ton, had caused an investigation to
be made of Alaskan metal re-
sources. The report brought in by
a Wisconsin university professor.
who did the searching and digging
on the ground, makes one wonder
what undercurrent of influence has
prevented the development of metal
claims, such as nickel and tin, up
there. Very few of the national leg
iSlators knew of the testimony.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
Bruckart's Washington Digest
Official Washington Is Watching
Europe Events With Uneasy Eye
State Department Voices Disgust of American People
At Hiters Dastardly Actions; Our National Re-
sources of War Materials Should Be Developed.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington ID. c.

WASHINGTON. - Obviously, Off
cial Washington, as indeed the whole
world, has been watching what has
been going on in Europe in the last
few weeks. They have been watch
ing with more uneasiness, more gen
uine fear, how Hitler has been eX-
panding the Reich, Selling, crush
ing, stealing, new territory, subju-
eating new peoples, as his insane
ambition leads him on and on. Those
charged with official responsibility
have watched because there can be
no mistake about the dangers in
herent in this wild remaking OF the
map Of the world.
Our government has had the cour-
age to speak out, through its depart
ment of state. 1t has said the Hitler
action in overpowering the peoples
of Europe, the minority races, is
a dastardly thing There was moth
ing else that could be done about 1t.
Secretary Hull and Under Secretary
Welles, of the department of state,
have left no doubt in the minds Of
other nations, however, that we, as
a people, are angry about what Hit
Ter has done. But again: we can do
nothing more than protest, because
the United States has no business
going to war over some other ma
TONS troubles.
But while our state department
has been getting on record with it's
disgust, and there has been great
TODD about Strengthening our ma
tional defense just in case trouble
would break out and involve US.
Washington bureaucrats and some
selfish elements in congress have
been foiling correction of our great
est weakness. President Roosevelt
has used his most patriotic voice to
force action by congress in develop
ment of airplanes for defense, in
construction of new battle boats and
has moved strongly for production
of equipment, guns, and the like.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30

preston as a S. Hurban
child. Becoming
a soldier, he went to Russia 80
years ago to accept a professor
ship in the cars war college.
When the World war broke out
he and 10000 other Czechs joined
the Russian army. During the
revolution these Czechs made
their historic movement to Vladi-
vostok, where the group collected
funds to send Hurban to Washing
ton. There he joined DR.. THOMAS
Masaryk in founding the Czech
nation. After the government
was established he returned to
Washington as Czech military at
tache, later going to Egypt as
charge d'affaires, to Sweden as
minister, and in 1886 back to
Washington as minister. His
greatest accomplishment here
was consummation of the Czech
U. S. trade treaty last year, now
abrogated under Hitler's "protec-
torate" regime.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
Miscellany

A new, sub-low priced sports car
will be introduced on the American
market this summer.
. The tomb of Pharaoh Psou Sen
Nef, Egyptian ruler of about $50 B.
c., has been discovered by Prof.
Pierre Montet of Strasbourg univer-
sity.
o The u. S. army has asked con-
gress to forbid West Point gradu-
ates from marrying during the first
three years of active service.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
Hanging Drdperies
Over French Doors
BY RUTH WYETH SPEARS

I" NEED some help" my
friends voice said over the
telephone. "The living room dra-
peries are finished. I am bursting
with pride over them, but / don't
know how to hang the ones for the
French DOORS"
eyes, I want to cover the door
frame at the sides, but l can't COW
er much of the door because it
must open and shut without inter-
fering with the draperies. I did
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30

and Hungary. and
so much pride in
the late CZecho-
slovak n a tion,
that he refused to
surrender t h e
Czech legation in
Washington to the
German ambaS-
sador. Born in
the Carpathian
mountains, h e
knew Magyar op-
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
Mexico

Last year Mexico's President La
faro Cardenas chased U. S. and
British oil companies out OF the
country and seized their properties.
A big enough problem in itself, ex-
preparation doomed still more inn
portant in the light Of U. S. efforts
to solidify the Americas against for
eign economic Intervention. Mean
while Mexico made hay by selling
its ill-gotten oil to Germany while
Pan-American nerves neared the
breaking point.
Like other American nations
which have tried barter trade agree
ments with the Reich, Mexico soon
discovered she was unable to use
the manufactured items Germany
offered in lieu of cash. Selling the
opportunity, victimized oil compa-
MES sent Donald Richberg, attorney
and former brain truster" to make
peace with Senior Cardenas.
Richberg terms: Control Of the
properties S1OulQ DG IGLQl iltd W lilC
companies long enough for them to
break even on all past and present
investments. Then the property
would revert to Mexico.
Cardenas terms: Cooperative
Mexican-company operation of the
oil properties, with U. S. and British
firms to invest new cash for their
development. But Mexico would
maintain complete control over the
industry.
After two weeks of consultation
brought no solution, Mr.. Richberg
returned home, promising to come
back late in April. Hardly had he
left, however, before President Car
denas announced his own final
terms before 10000 cheering work
ers. Mexico will keep the wells,
paying indemnifcation with oil TAX
en- from them.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
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The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
Pierson Assists
In Nazi Put-Out
In Brazil Game


as a goose-egg for the Reich.
The young and energetic Mr.. Pier
son, who became head of the bank
in 1886, toured the Latin-American
countries last summer and fall and
returned with a lot of sizzling new
ideas about hopping up South Amer
lean trade, and resisting the totali-
tartan drive, by deploying credit
judiciously where it is needed most
to grease the trade run-around.
When it came to Brazil, he got
eager attention from both the
state department and the admin
istration, as Brazil is an impor-
tant consideration of naval geOg-
raphy as we'll as trade. Shout
dering far out into the Atlantic,
with the new fascist threat to
the Canary Islands, it would, If
hostile, pinch us in narrowing
seaway, with Argentina, on the
whole not so chubby with the
U. S. A., away down under. For
both strategic and commercial
reasons, Brazil is our entrepot to
South America, if we keep on
being neighborly.
In Harvard law school Mr.. Pier
son was obsessed with foreign trade
and directed his studies to practice
-. al u Dx,oo 90 o,~ L.,
Angeles, his opportunity came in
1884, when he was appointed general
counsel for the Export-Import bank.
In 1896, there was, for him, a time.
ly New Deal row, which resulted in
the resignation of George N. Peek
as head of the bank and the tipping
Of Mr.. Pierson.
@ Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
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EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst, and not
necessarily of the newspaper.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
Gray Skipped
No Step to Fly
Air Leuiothon

now trying a few preliminary crow
hops around New York harbor.
Captain Gray, it seems, had
system, in qualifying for this
stellar role in aviation. First
he became a licensed airplane
mechanic; then he qualified as
an aeronautical engineer, a
master mariner and a radio
technician; after all, he took
diplomas in metereOlOgy, sea-
manship, international law, ad-
miralty law and business admin
istration.
That seems to be about par for the
lad who would be a skipper on one
Of these new leviathans of the air
All this, and many years of hazard
Gus flying over the mountain wilder
ness of Mexico and Central America
bring Captain Gray to the ripe ole
age of SO. He left college in his sec
ond year at the University of Iowa
and was aloft for the first time a
the age of 10. His home town i!
Gutenberg, Iowa.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
People

Appointed, to the U. S. Supreme
court post vacated by Louis ID.
Brandeis, Securities and Exchange
Commissioner william o. Douglas,
easterner whose western back
ground balances the court geograph-
ically.
. Declined, by DIR. Arthur Compton,
Nobel prize-winning physicist, presi-
dency of Ohio State university.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
Heddliners
COL. vLADIMAR S. HURBAN

CUL. VLADIMAK ,. HUKBAN
Though Slovak, and although
Hitler has made Slovaks indie
pendent of Czechs, Col. Hurban
has so much dislike for Germany
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30

biggest dam in the world, in Octo-
Der, 1887, it was
Bonneville Chiefbelieved in some
Soothes Hostile quarters that his
p,, py selection would
sharpen the dis
agreement between the adminiStra-
ton and the power companies. To-
day it appears that Mr.. Ross has
allayed, rather than provoked hos
tilities. The utilities rate him as
reasonable. Bonneville has been
the bette noir of western power de-
velopment. This writer hears there
is now better chance for tWo-way
appeasement than at any time in
the past.
Mr.. Ross, for 20 years head of
the municipal power develop
ment of Seattle, has human
traits which perhaps account for
his expedient rather than doc
trinal trend. No mere dOctri-
naire would amuse himself by
keeping a copper ball in the air
with no visible means of support
just because he loves kilOwatts
and likes to see them work.
He was a consulting engineer for
the New York power authority
and the st. Lawrence seaway, a con-
sultant for PWA power development
and later member of the SEC be-
fore the President made him the
Bonneville boss. AS boy, he rode
his bike from Chatham, Ont, to New
York city, to learn pharmacy. He
got job as an apprentice chem
list, but pestling seemed piffiing, SO
he hit the long grind back to Chat
ham-but he kept on pedaling. He
headed up through Edmonton to the
Alaska gold-felds, and, when dry
land failed him, he made his own
boat and pushed on. In Seattle,
years later, he helped design the
first municipal power plant.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
Purpose of Punishment

The object of punishment is pre-
vention from evil; it never can be
made impulsive to good.-Horace
Mann.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30
WHO'S
NEWS
i IT'D
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK. James D
' Ross was appointed by thu
President as chief of Bonneville, the
biggest dam in the world, in Octo
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30

XXIARREN LEE PERSON, head
w of the Export-Import bank, APP
pears to rate an assist in the Nazi
put-out in Brazil. The big credit
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30

YOUNG America is naturally en-
vious of Capt. Harold E. Gray,
who will be at the controls when
the Yankee Clipper, huge Pan
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-03-30

American Air.
ways flying boat,
takes off for its
flight across the
Atlantic. 1t is
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deal, to clear the
trade ways be-
tween the two
countrie S, i S
widely accepted
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1879
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WNU--M
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-15

War scare or no war scare, North
Carolina cows are producing more
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-15
TEN AT N. C. STATE
TO PHI KAPPA PHI

Raleigh, April 15.-One of the
highest honors that a student at
State College can receive was be-
slowed upon six undergraduate and
four graduate students today when
they were invited to join Phi Kappa
Phi honorary scholarship fraternity.
To be eligible for membership in
the fraternity, student must have
a scholastic average Of at least 81
1-2 for his four years in college,
must never have failed a course
and must possess qualities of leader
ship and initiative. Prof. L. L.
Vaughn, head of the mechanical en-
gineering department, is president
OF the State College chapter of Phi
Kappa Phi.
Undergraduates accepting invita-
tions to join are c.. P. Boswell of
Burlington, J. F. Gilmore of Oxford,
=. H. Purifoy of Bachelor, S. c.
Holmes of Cambridge, N. Y, R. w.
Slocum of Scranton, Pa, and. R. A.
Loos of Haddon Heights, N. j..
Others receiving the honor were
w. B. Rankin of Boone, graduate
student in chemistry; c. H. Hill of
Yadkinville, graduate student in
zoology; V. B. Holland of Norfolk,
Va, graduate student in agricultural
chemistry; and D. r. George of
White Plains, N. Y, graduate stu
dent in geology
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-15
HAMMITT ELLIS ON
TRIP TO CHICAGO

Raleigh, April 15.-Ten seniors in
ceramic engineering at State Col
lege left today for Chicago for the
annual meeting of the American
Ceramic Society beginning tomor-
row and continuing through Thurs
day. Prof. R. L. Stone accompanied
the students.
More than 1000 delegates from
every phase Of the ceramic industry
are expected to attend the Chicago
meeting. Six college eel annie de
partments viii; be represented. Prof.
Stone will read one of three papers
selected by the Society for presenta-
ton at the meeting.
The State College party will make
all inspection tour of the Carnegie
steel mills at Bethlehem, Pa, one
Of the most completely integrated
mills in the world. At this one place
the mills mine ore and carry it
through the various processes to
make finished steel product. Guild
ing the students will be r. w. Nc
Lean, Carnegie refractories expert,
who graduated from State College
in 1885.
Seniors on the trip include w. H.
Ellis of Henderson.