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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03

VERIFY WEAKNESS
IN NAZI AIR FORCE

War strategists in this coun-
try are paying particular stten-
ton 10 the fact that no new
types OF German planes are be-
ing shot down by the British.
In each instance where a mem
Der of the Raj has bsgged his
opponent. the flaming wreck has
been a ship similar in design to
those used back in the beginning
OF the war. This circumstance
lends support 10 the theory that
Hitlers air force is not being ex-
banded and improved as the
fighting progresses.
The point IS made that II Ger
many had a sufficient supply OF
machine tools and raw materl-
ais, she would be bounding the
Russians with superior bombers
and laying eggs" on England at
the same time. Hitler isn't do
ing either. His air soldiers are
flying the same old models and
their number has not been main
tanned az anywhere near the
peak the Germans had when
they started the war.
Obviously. when Russia was
forced into conflict with Ger
many. the latter's source OF sup
ply for raw materials was re-
duced considerably, perhaps
fatally. With the Soviet fight
ers burning and otherwise de-
stroying all Of their plants as
the yretrest. even the conquest
o. the L. s. s. r. would leave
Hitler far short Of what he
needs for anything like a 10 or
2o-year war. The plane situa-
ton seems 70 tell a significant
rory Of internal weakness
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03
PULSE OF
THE PUBLIC
PROGRAM OF CONTINUOUS
MINING COMMITTEE


Editor The Times: A million
new jobs for the Pacific north
west A million men working
In new industries, Not a mere
dream. but q possibility. Pos
sible because all that Is neces-
sary TO achieve this is TO remove
the inequalities in taxes, tariffs
and freight rates; eliminate the
present situation which forces
northwest industries TO pay
taxes which aggregate more
than is paid in wages in for
eign countries.
The Continuous Mining COM
mittee believes that the copper
from the Tacoma smelter should
be manufactured into electrical
appliances in the northwest.
The pulp from our pulp mills
should be made into rayon in
the northwest;
And scrap iron gathered in
the northwest should be made
into steel here instead of being
shipped TO the orient;
Ores containing aluminium,
antimony, manganese, magne-
isum. iron. chromium. coal and
other strategic minerals of
which there are known depos-
its in Washington should be
mined and refined in the north
west for northwest industries.
While we would not allow
smelter 10 be established on
Puget Sound to pay laborers
only so cents day 10 treat
tin ore from Alaska. and nei-
Their would we allow such
smelter to be exempted from
payment OF income taxes on the
immense profits realized in such
a venture. nor would we allow
a monopoly 10 charge prices five
times the value of this product
yet, this is actually what is
being done. Tin ore from Alaska
is going 10 the Far East for
refining. shipped back 10 the
eastern coast Of the United
States. where II is allowed entry
without a tariff. the shipping
being done on foreign boats
operated by foreign erews-all
OF which is not only harmful
10 the Pacific northwest indus
tries but 10 its citizens as well.
Tin imports are not taxed. yet
we paw taxes on Our own bread.
butter and clothing.
That the people o. Washing
ton may have more facts on this
and similar conditions, the COM
mittee is asking a report by
The State Planning Council:
The Mines and Mining Divi-
sion:
The State Tax Commission.
Answering the following ques-
tons. the answers 10 be made
only sfter a careful investiga-
ton Of the facts:
Are jobs prevented and IN
employment created by local.
state and federal taxation OF
local industries
Are taxes. in some instances,
a heavier load for local indus
tries than tariffs on low-wsge
produced materials imported
from foreign countries?
Are Jobs prevented in the
state Of Washington through
the practice. through which no
penalties or tax levies or tariffs
are levied against ores or rner-
ehandise moving IN inter-stats
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03

The whole business boils down
TO the fact that Nelson will run
the defense show on this side of
the Atlantic and Biggers will be
the boss when it comes to dis
tribution and use OF supplies sent
TO the other side.
There also is deep significance
in the fact that the board unifies
the various divisions OF the de-
Tense effort. The result will be
that in the future, II SPAB tells
a non-defense manufacturer he
can't have a certain raw mate
rial. he can be sure SPAB, first,
has surveyed the whole picture
and has not been led astray by
war strategists: and second, that
there won't be anybody to over
rule SPAB. Its word will be
final, subject only to presiden-
tial approval and Mr.. Roosevelt
isn't likely to interfere.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03

policy got under his skin. Mel
son said he thought it was time
for him TO 20 back to his peace
time job as an executive Of
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
The second time Nelson sought
to vanish from the capital scene,
Mr.. Roosevelt told him 70 draw
up a plan for a reorganization
OF the defense and lease-lend
agencies. The purchasing boss
reached for a pencil and pad
and sketched roughly what now
has come into existence. It was
his baby in the beginning and
his lie the task OF bringing it up.
Wsllaoe's speciality has been
keeping an eye on Nelson Rookie
Teller and his defense unit,
which Is promoting a better I'M
derstanding between the U. 3.
and Latin-American republics.
The vice president will function
merely as the presiding officer
at board meetings. and a haison
man between the White House
and SPAB. Almost as far back
on the shelf. 30 far as the fun
dsmental business of passing
out supplies is concerned, 10
Knudsen. Sears-Roebuck simply
passed General Motors on the
hill. with Nelson making for
himself the kind Of reputation
which originally led the public
to clamor for knudsen's appoint
ment as the number one defense
man.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven Of these
test questions Turn 10 the
womsns page for the answers.
1. Shirley Temple used to sp-
pear in two-reel comedies. true
or false
?. Was Theodore Roosevelt q
lawyer,
). Pocahontss married Cap
tain John Smith. John Rolfe, or
John Alden
4. How many years are in q
millennium
8. Name the author OF The
Last Days Of Pompeh."
6. What Ia the only state
name IN the union ending In k
7. Who coined the phrase
The -Four Hundred" to describe
the elite Of society,
6. With which sport il Fred
die Red Cochrane principally
associated
q Who il chairman o. the
L. S. senate committee on for
eign relations
10. In which American war
vas Richard Harding Davis q
reporter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03

Second largest river on
the continent, sout h ern
boundary Of our state, a
mighty flow of water ae-
commodating the worlds
shipping, a eh ann el e d
mouth treacherous enough
to command the respect OF
the most able mariner
what do you know about
the great Columbia rlverT
Her name honors the stauneh
little Columbia Rediviya, the
ship OF Capt Robert Gray. who
discovered the river N 11eZ.
Admiral Vancouver MADE the
first chart OF the rivers mouth
that same year.
The evil bar across the Co
lumbias mouth then had
single channel across IL. Between
1889 and 1851, charts show two
channels: one came around the
end Of Clatsop Spit and the
other close to Cape Dissppoint-
ment ana the Washington shore.
Separating the two WAS Middle
Sands which shifted hastily.
Later there were three channels
and threat Of a fourth.
Early charts and those made
annually by the u. s. army en-
gineers since 1878 show a con-
slant tendency for the channels
and shoals to keep moving ever
northward; by the time one
melted into the Washington
shore another would develop on
the Oregon side, and 30 on.
In an effort to conquer the
treacherous and shoal bar across
the rivers mouth. work on the
South lefty was commenced in
1884.
The tremendous proportions Of
everything concerned in mans
battle with the river In almost
beyond ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS huge
South deity is Sc miles long
and the North DEITY Is 2.5 miles
long.
The project required rs years
and cost $4,000. 900. There Is
more than 5000, 900 tons of rock
in the South Jetty alone. Rocks
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03
PLENTY PAIN
KILLER HANDY

For example, suppose a manu-
facturer Of commercial airliners
wants an order OF a certain
strategic material. amounting to
40 per cent OF the total volume
then available. and the army
comes along with a demand for
30 per cent OF the same stuff for
defense and lease-lend purposes.
The board. which now means
Nelson. will subject the army's
request TO the same microscopic
attention given TO the private
manufacturers requisition. And
then SPAB will come through
with the answer. and there won't
be any more TO IL.
What may very well occur is
a lessening Of the disloeation Of
non-defense business resulting
from the step-up in armament
production. Reports have become
too current TO be ignored that
steel and other metals have been
earmarked for defense projects
with cannot be commenced at
best for a year. while factories
without government contracts
are being forced either 10 re-
duce their pay rolls or fold COM
pletely. SPAB should be able 10
keep everybody as nearly happy
as possible with the emphasis,
OF course, on defense. What il
can and probably will do will be
TO administer large doses Of
pain-killer 10 the manufacturers
being squeezed TO the wall dur
ing the present period Of indus
trial re-adjustment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03
The French Paw

The cost Of preparedness high Everybody is worried
and rightly about the increase in debt the
cost. in money and time and sacrifice of defense.
All roads costly today. On the other side take
look 1t France which did not prepare well enough -Four
hundred thousand francs France pays Germany for
the nestmable privilege of entertaining in its midst
quering German army How much that is in money is
hard to say because franc today is what Berlin
is But you get idea from the fact that this
annual indemnity Of 100000 francs is than
twice Frances annual receipts than all other French
expenditures.
So while costs to prepare costs to be unprepared too
Mark the perfect man. and behold the upright for the
end of that is peaee.-Psalm 81 81.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03
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Of both jetties average some
thing over IS tons apiece.
Astounding statistics such IS
those. sir.
The famous Knuokle-where
the South Jetty turns AZ = gro
tesque angle some two miles
from shore before extending
almost five more miles out into
the seas mute testimony 10
the engineering obstacles met
during construction Of the jet
ties. For an entire year train
loads Of 40 ton boulders were
dumped daily into an apparently
bottomless hole; by that time It
was decided 10 build around the
spot.
But far more important and
terrible II the factor Of weather
and the almighty power Of the
sea. Maintenance of the two
stolid walls of rock thanking the
Cohmbias mouth Is an ever
lasting project
Along the top Of each jetty is
a railroad trestle OF oversized
timbers. Throughout the sum-
mer months locomotive daily
hauls a train OF seven fiatcars
loaded with mammoth boulders;
battered old steam shovel
nudges the rocks overheard on
either side.
Despite the fact that those
rocks weigh from five to fifty
tons each, during each storm the
laundering seas toss those rocks
about like mere bits OF flotsam
and jetsam. The outer half-mils
OF trestle is shattered into
wreckage of splinters and twist
ed steel, IL not carried away
altogether. Battering seas cause
the outer portions of the rock
jetties to scatter and settle in
a acre-broad shoals.
just a few years ago the army
engineers (who. as you know.
maintain all navigable u. s.
waterwsys) experimental with
a stabilizing anchor" for the
seaward end OF the South lefty:
a concrete block weighing over
3,400 tons. II had smaller
blocks attached to 1t with I'm
holy brig chains The first win
ters storm wrecked the whole
proposition and some OF the
blocks haven't been located yet.
Engineers experimental by
pouring thousands of tons Of
asphalt to make a smoth skin"
over the extreme mile or so OF
the mountainous structures. The
sea crumbled through asphalt
many feet thick and tossed the
boulders as before.
A seagoing dredge, at the cost
OF several years work and $780,
600, created a channel through
the bar. A year after the pro-
Jeet was complete, you couldn't
tell where shed been.
But the gigantic task Of con-
quering the Columbia's mouth is
not so hopeless as il might
rightly seem: Engineers sim
eerely believe they have at last
solved the problem of shifting
channels and shoals, and thus
can consequently maintain an
enduring channel across the bar
which Is grimly known as the
Graveyard Of Ships"
BY means of systematic SUBJ
jettes and bikes tbuilt at right
angles to the Washington shore;
the newest and biggest is the
mile-long rock OF jetty Al tides
and the rivers flow are directed
southwark toward the rivers
middle and thereby compensate
the waters natural tendency to
scour hazardous channels NOV
ing always northward.
Thus we glimpse the briefsst
ANIMAL Of but one phase Of the
Columbia, mighty river Of the
West
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03

commerce produced abroad
where labor is paid less than
one dollar a day?
Are jobs prevented in the
state of Washington because
freight rates on ores and mer-
chandise produced here and sub
ject to heavy taxes and mimi
mum wage and hour law regu-
lations while ores and merchan-
disc from Africa, Asia, South
America and other foreign areas
under-sen the Washington mar
ket to the point where II is i'm
possible for the development Of
mining and industry In this
state?
Are jobs prevented in the
state of Washington because
foreign boats and crews carry
our raw materials to the orient
where they are refined and man
dIAuit Gu hiidti INV "
scales and again reshipped to
the United States. again on for
eign boats with foreign crews,
this double freight shipping
costs being less than the single
freight rate from Puget Sound
10 the east coast on an Ameri-
can boat?
Are jobs prevented in the
state Of Washington because
heavy taxes are levied against
trucks and railroads while boats
are untaxed-not forgetting the
old expression, There is more
than one way to skin a cat
there can be more than one way
to tax freight moving by water
either on American or foreign
boats?
The committee feels that as
all homes are taxed. all farms
are taxed. all factories are
taxed, therefore:
All imports into the United
States should be taxed:
All freight moving into the
United States should be taxed;
All imports not produced in
the United States under equal
conditions taking into consid-
Grafton the wage and hour laws
and our standards OF living
should be taxed;
All money going into new in
dustries which are creating new
Jobs in the United States should
be exempt from being taxed I'M
der the income tax law. the saw
ings alone accruing to the Unit
ed States through the reduction
Of unemployment and the elimi-
nation Of the need for WPA.
would more than offset the value
Of the tax collected
These four changes In the tax
laws. properly accomplished,
would result in the creation OF
a million jobs in Pacific north
west industries - electrical ap-
pliance. would be made from
northwest copper. rayon would
be made from northwest pulp.
northwest steel would be made
from northwest scrap iron and
northwest iron ore. northwest
CLAWS and sands would be made
into dishes and glassware in the
northwest. northwest-nined alu-
rninum. manganese, magnesium
and other metals would De used
in the manufacture Of tools.
machinery. utensils and other
products in northwest factories,
with northwest workers TINS,
in turn, would create a greater
need in the northwest for more
northwest farm produce. mean
ing more farmers IN the north
vest.
MONROE II. BURNETT.
Chairman. Continuous Min
ing Committee
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03
WALLACE ROLE
10 BE MINOR ONE

There seems TO be no question
in Washington that Vice Presi-
dent wallace as chairman Of this
board 10 end al boards viii play
a minor role After all. Nelson
Up 20 now has been dong a
firsi-elass job as head OF the
purchasing division Of the office
Of production management
Twice he told the president he
was through. lie said he couldn't
stand the duplication IN the old
defense organization Co-direc-
tor william 6. Knndsen's inelin-
alton toward a business-as-us0sl
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03

try TO do things that people with
two legs do. He took up skiing
and within a year was able to
slide down a hill near his home
with the aid OF crutches.
After long practice he sue
ceeded in staying on one leg
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03
ONE-SkI SKIER

oNE-SKI SKIER
At the age of six Jean Gosse-
lin developed tuberculosis OF the
night knee, and 1t became neces-
sary TO amputate his leg. De-
termined not To spend his life ss
an invalid, Gosselin decided TO
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03
An Inside Picture OF Finon-
Al0 III j ciol and Political America
BY RAY TUCKER
WASHINGTON

WESTINGHOUSE key to the real meaning in Pres
dent Roosevels reshuffng of the defense agencies
produce the supply priores ALLEGATIONS board is his
selection of Donald NJ Nelson its executive director
and the sending of John D. Biggers to England to
vad;4 aidt pri+ai
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-03

balancing himself with ski poles.
The slalom, an event which IS
usually a race against time on
a downhill, zig-zag course. is
difficult for most two-legged
skiersi
TOMORROW: Valuabl. Cave.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-05-08

q Administrator Henderson of the
Office of Price Administration and
Civilian Supply requested manufac-
turers of farm implements not to
increase the prices of farm machin-
cry at this time. Mr.. Henderson
pointed out that in announcing the
steel price schedule he had stressed
the wide range of finished products
of which steel is part and the i'm
portance of maintaining stable
prices in these finished products.
q The navy assigned to Great Brit
ain, 20 small fast torpedo boats, un-
der the Lease-Lend program, and
Secretary Knox said U. S. and Cana
dian officials are discussing a mu-
tual program for the construction in
Canadian shipyards of additional
small craft for Britain.
Commerce Secretary Jones,
speaking in New York, said the ma
tons defense effort is "better than
good . but no matter how
fast defense production climbs, it
will not be fast enough to meet the
need nor to satisfy our state of
mind :"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-05-08
NAV I:
Buys an, Airfeld

For an undisclosed sum, believed
to be about 100000, the navy
bought Floyd Bennett airfeld in
New York, intending to establish on
its 387 acres the nations biggest
naval air base.
The deal, it was announced, would
still permit the use of the field as
an emergency landing field for COM
mercial aviation if LaGuardia field
was closed.
The field, with 62,500 square feet
of hangar space, will be put into
service at once, and will, navy Of
ficials pointed out, bring naval avia-
ton closer to the most important
scene of its activities, the North At
lantic.
At present the chief naval air
bases in this country are Pensacola,
Fla, on the East and San Diego,
Calf, on the West coast. The need
of an important base of greater size
than Anacostia, close to Washington,
D. c., brought about the deal with
New York city, and brings the navy
in force to the air above Long Island
i
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-05-08
u. S. ATTITUDE:
TOWARD Var

In this country the reaction to the
loss of the Greek campaign was
sharp.
The forces of the isolationists i'm
mediately took to the air, held a
giant mass-meeting in New York,
which was marked by violence out
side the hall, and, paced by Charles
A. Lindbergh, took an 81 told you so"
attitude, urging the nation to be-
ieve that British defeat of the Nazis
was not only impossible, but
that British loss of the war was a
certainty, and that if America gave
"all-out" aid to Britain that we,
too, would suffer through this de-
feat
President Roosevelt, frankly in
furiated by this attitude and these
utterances, had Secretary Hull and
Secretary Knox take to the radio
and prepare the way for state
ment by the President which ripped
the "defeatists" up the back, and
made it plain that the government
would have none of this attitude.
The administration, they said, was
frankly committed to "all-out'' aid
to Britain, and would go its way
toward this goal. Instead of re-
trenching on this policy, as urged
by the Lindbergh coterie, it was
boldly announced that the govern
ment would extend its aid still more
vigorously.
Singing out Lindbergh especially
for administration ire, the Presi-
dent, in a press conference, char
acterized him as an ''appeaser" and
"defeatist" and used the word
"copperhead" in making a COM
parison with earlier days in Amer
lean history.
Aftermath of the Presidents re-
marks regarding Lindbergh was the
news that he announced his resigna-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-05-08

q Treasury Secretary Morgenthau
announced an agreement setting UP
a fund of $50, 1000, 900, contributed by
the U. S., and $4,000, 0G9, contrib
uted by Chinese government banks,
to stabilize Chinese currency. A
joint statement by Mr.. Morgenthau
and DR.. T. v. Soong of the Central
Bank of China, described the agree
ment as cooperative agreement
between friendly nations that are
working together in many ways"
q The President issued statement
that the British Red Cross has APP
pealed through the American Red
Cross for up to 1000 young Ameri-
can doctors to serve in British mill
tary and civilian hospitals.
q OPM Deputy Production Director,
Bait, also speaking in New York,
asked the nations industry ''to do
much more than it has" in the de-
tense effort and to do it without
looking to see whether the other fell
low" is doing his share. Mr.. Bait
said the public will have no sympathy.
with any half-hearted or faint de-
tense efforts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-05-08
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To keep the inside of a gas
range in good condition, remove
rust that may have accumulated
with coarse sandpaper, then rub
over entire surface with olive oil
If sugar is added to water when
making favored ice cubes, the
cubes will not freeze clear or sol
idly.
When rooms are to be painted,
coat windows with a cleaning pow
der. If paint splatters on the glass
it comes off easily when the pow
der is wiped away.
Many kitchens have a bare, I'm
used wall space that could be
usefully and attractively trans
formed into recessed shelves.
To give shingles the appearance
of being stained, use paint with
low gloss, or a fiat paint.
Shrinkage in wOOlens is usually
due to over-washing. In ordinary
circumstances, three minutes Is
long enough for them.
If kerosene is added to the wa
ter with which inoleum is washed
it will loosen dirt and make wash
ing much easier.
Two tablespoons chile sauce or
catsup poured over top meat loaf
when half-baked gives a good fla
vor and rather crusty covering.