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^WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1944"
INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT
ACCORDING to Josh Lee. member of the Civil
Aeronautics Board, the chief problems that
require solution by the (government, and soon, if
air cargoTs to'play' its destined role in the world j
trade are
I. The freedom of innocent passage., estab- ;
tished through multilateral agreement. Meaning
that non-military craft would have the right to 1
fly non-stop through the air space over any coun
try with which such an agreement has been reach- ;
ed.
2. The right of technical stop, established .
tbrough multilateral agreement. Meaning the right j
to stop for fuel,, repairs, bad weather or an emer
gency. . ,
3. The right of commercial stop for scheduled
operators. Meaning the right fo lahd at specified j
bases for the purpose of taking on and discharg- i
ibg traffic, for regular airline operation.
4. The right of commercial stop for non-scheduled
operator* 'This would be for the benefit of char
ter and contract operators.
5. The right to establish and use international
aviation facilities. This would include air naviga
tion aids, communications channels and meteorolo
gical information essential to the operation of an
nir transport system.
6. An international authority with the function
of recommending the “rules of the road.’’ Here
would be a governmental machinery for the pur
pose of establishing uniform safety-rules and reg
ulations. uniform communications procedures and
standardization of weather reports. A sort of in
ternational CAA.
If our great plans for the rest of the world are
hot to fade out, and if there will be a victory in
1944. then it is apparent that some speedy action
is needed on these problems—all of which must
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yet be solved before true international air transport
goes into operation.
Far-reaching plans are being made along this
line, but the work of knocking down the barriers
which will allow putting these plans into opera
tion speedily, so that this new industry will be able
to absorb its share of post-war re-employment, has
hardly been started.—(Juneau Empire).
CUT BACKS- RECONVERSION
PIE FIRST practical effects of specific war pro
duction cutbacks are now being felt rather
generally for the first time. The trend is bound to
continue and before many more months pass can
cellation of war contracts may rise to a point where
reconversion will become the No. 1 problem before
the nation, even though neither the European nor
Pacific wars are over.
It is difficult to predict with exactitude just how
or when the big wave of cutbacks may come.
Straws in the wind are the decisions of the War
Production Board to permit the masufacture of
2.000,000 flatirons for civilians and the production
of 50.000 bathtubs for war housing needs in 1944.
WPB concluded its announcement about the irons
with this statement: "It is possible that war pro
duction demands by the middle of 1944 will have
diminished ir. certain fields of production so that
a number of other items of civilian goods can be
put into production, but as things stand at present,
little can be done but to prepare plans against the
time wThen conditions permitting such production
will prevail.”
Many weeks or months may pass before a com
plete picture of this changing condition may be
drawn. Government procuremertt agencies almost
every day are ordering production stopped in some
plant. Reports on such cancellations are not now'
being gathered in a central place. Even if and
when they are, WPB has the task of reallocating
unusued materials to other war uses, or, more
probably, to civilian goods.
Other straws in the wind: production of tanks,
already sharply reduced, will be trimmed further;
small arms and ammunition for them will be whit
tled down because of tremendous supplies; alumi
num output is so high that industry officials are
quite worried about how to maintain employment
levels; definite plans for production of more rail
r ian locomotives are well along^ and the same ap
plies to freight cars; office equipment manufac
turers may move back rather rapidly to their for
mer products; electrical equipment companies are
re" ng ready to make a quick change-over.
A Soldier Tells of
How to Stay Alive
This advice on how to keep
alive in battle was sent bv a
wounded U. S. soldier n Italy to !
his brother, a lieutenant at Camp
Van Dorn. La.
“Never dig in under a conspicu
ous tree—riflemen use the tree as •:
an aiming point arid let you have i
it.
“Never dig in or take cover be
hind a landmark such as a rock
t>i!e or fence, or in a culvert or
under a bridge. The enemy will
throw a searching fire to drive
you into a place like that—and
then murder you with rifle fire.
“When you're caught in artil- ;
iery fire,, for heaven’s sake keep
moving! When you get up close |,
they will have to cease fire, but
if you stop and dig in you are
done.
“If you hear a bullet crack by
your fanny, don’$ be there for the
second one. It will be between j
your shoulders or your eyes— |
damned unpomfortable in either
place.
“When you are on the march
or attack, always keep an eye
ahead of you. Look for a hole or
have a place picked out to fall in.
Sometimes you may be caught
short, as witness me ...
“Whatever you see or find on
the field of battle leave it, un
less you’ve killed the man your
THIRTY TON TANK rolls
over the head ol Capt. C. T.
Hillman, ot Turner's Falls.
Mass., who demonstrates how a
foxhole is handy in battle.
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self. Then be* careful of foun- 1
:ain pen sets.”
Relating how 14 men were
killed when an .88 shell hit a
:-ulvert, the private reported:
"This private was sweating them
tut in an irrigation ditch. I got i
* wet fanny, but I still have a j
tanny.”
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In making landings, the soldier
advised his brother, the best thing
to do is “Make your peace with
God before you start, keep a tight
upper lip and get the hell ^ff the
beach quick. Else you won't get
off it at all.
“Above all I can say, never be
caught short on a hole. If you
are dug in. an :88 can light 2 1-2
or three feet from you and it
will not hurt you. It will cover
you up and scare hell out of you.
"And, if you are in a hole,
small arms can't even scare you.
The enemy will finally have to
come in range. There is nothing
satisfies a man's soul so much as
having the enemy make a frontal
assault.”
"With you dug in, he just can’t
win. The Germans tried that on
us at Sidi Bu Sis, Tunisia. They
are still burying Jerries.
“Also, tanks are a joke if you
are dug in.”
NEWS OF NOMEITES
IN THE STATES
Gordon Parlette, formerly but
cher at Polet’s, and also associated
with George Madsen, originators
of the Nevada Grill, is now busy
on a defense project in Honolulu,
Hawaii.
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Sprinsteen,
who mined the famous Bessie
Bench for many years, are now
located at Deer Lodge, Montana,
and are both working, doing their
share in defense work.
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LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY
"MY LIFE IN CHINA: 1926-41"
by Halloil Abend (Harcourt,
Brace. $3).
For a variety of reasons, Hallett
Abend’s “My Life in China” is
the most valuable book on China,
by a correspondent, 1 have read so
far. Partly this is because he
lived in China as New York Times
correspondent for the 15 years be
fore 1941, and thus has a long
view of events. Partly it is be
cause he has had the good sense
to hang everything on himself and
his own experiences; as long as
this is done, a reader has a meas
uring rod by which to judge the
content.
Two major things emerge from
Mr. Abend's book. One is the tan
gle of war, murder and intrigue
which preceded China’s “unifica
tion” under Chiang. The other
is the complete pattern of Japan
ese aggression from its real be
ginning in the 'twenties to the
present. The vast detail connect-1
ed with each of these ventures
makes extraordinary reading, and
this is largely because it has been
so well organized by the writer, j
No American will remember all j
of it, but none is likely to forget
the essential facts.
Mr. Abend himself was under
fire, physically, and so far as his |
reputation was concerned. He says
Chiang and his nationalists perse
cuted him in typical Chinese fash
ion because he insisted on report
ing both sides, and would not
write that unification was com
plete years before it really w»as.
And Russia, he says, decided he
was a naughty boy a s well—
Russia and China pestered the
New York executives of the Times
for years With demands that
Abend be recalled in disgrace, and
got exactly nowhere.
The truth, according to Abend,
is lhat China was not unified
until the Japs began their major
attack in the mid-thirties, and
that then the unification was a
compromise which set over the
differences between Chiang and
the "Red" Chinese armies until
after the war. The truth is that
Japan deliberately tipped her
hand many years before the pres
ent war began, and most of our
diplomats in China refused to
read it, he adds. As late as 1935
an interview with an important
Japanese frankly explaining Jap
an's campaign against the w’hite
race was buried in the back pages
of the Sunday Times. And so on,
in shocking but (1 am afraid) un
controvertible detail, for 396
pages.
SENDS GREETINGS
TO NOME FRIENDS
R. W. J. Reed , sends greetings
to his Nome friends from I.-ong
Beach, where he has made his
home since his retirement from
the service of . the U. S. Customs.
Mr. Reed will be. remembered by
the old-timers as he was customs
officer here for many years. He is
now well past 70 years of age and
feeling fine.
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COMPLETES SPECIAL
COURSE IN CHICAGO
Mrs. Dazey Wood, widow of
Rev. Wilbur Wood, who was pas
tor of the Federated Church, has
just completed a special course in
electric and physio-therapy at
Northwestern University at Chi
cago, where she has been study
ing for the past year. Harriet and
Norma Wood are visiting with
their grandmother and will join
their mother when school is out.
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