dim WASHINGTON Merry-Go-Round SECTION TWO INLAND EMPIRE SECTION TWO INLAND EMPIRE 11 -'frifref km mi DAILY 01AKG1 BILT KTWf si it mi ii ii w-KAeT. Sudden U. S. Activity To Secure Tin From Bolivia Makes Up for Years of Negligence By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON, July 30.
After seven years of stalling over one of the most important raw materials to American industry, the state department actually is doing something about the U. S. tin supply. In cooperation with the national defense commission, state department officials are doing three things: 1. Talking with Jessa Jonet about an R.F.C.
loan to establish a tin smelter in the United States. The U. S. firms in on this are Phelps Dodge, National Lead, American Metals, and the American Smelting Refining Co. 2.
Facilitating the visit of the world's biggest tin king, Simon Patino, to the United States; also holding conversations with Mauricio Hochschild, big German-Jewish producer of Bolivian tin. 3. The national defense commission has ordered 75,000 tons of metallic tin from the Malay peninsula and the Dutch East Indies. This is almost enough to last the United States for half a year if it ever gets here. But the catch is that the tin is still down in the mines of Malaya and must not only be mined and smelted, but also shipped half way around the world.
Meanwhile the Japanese may move into this area of the South Pacific, or the Germans may crush the British combine which controls Malay tin, or the British may decide they they need the tin for their own military purposes. Only Three Weeks' Supply All of which reveals one of the most inexcusable chapters of national defense neglect in recent history. Almost lobotly knew that on Jan. 1 of this year, U. S.
stocks cf tin were so low that we had only three weeks supply. And few people know what the exhaustion of our supply would mean to American life and industry. Not only would it put an end to our packing of food in tin cans, which is a major industry, but it would eventually mean a blackout for every American home not lighted by gas or kerosene lamps, For the contact point of every electric light bulb is made of tin. Furthermore, the U. S.
fleet would be laid up in a few months for lack of tin for bearing replacements. The same would ap ply to automobiles, and to many other products intimately woven into American life. Bolivian Overtures Despite this, the state depart ment literally ignored representations by the Bolivian government to work out a trade agreement whereby the United States would secure tin not from the South Pacific, but from inside the western hemisphere, thus avoiding dangerous shipping hauls, and the danger of foreign controls. First Bolivian overture to the state department was made by Charge d'Affaires Enrique Lo-zada in June, 1933, at the suggestion of the Washington Mer-ry-Go-Round. At that time, Acting Secretary of State William Phillips, now ambassador toyRome, turned a deaf ear.
He tid the United States was not Interested. Then the late Representative Sam McReynolds of Tennessee Introduced legislation placing an excise tax on the importation of crude tin, in order to encourage its smelting in the United States. Whereupon the state department actually inter- vened to kill the bill, causing Its author to protest to his old friend Cordell Hull. "This memorandum," said Mc Reynolds, referring to the state department's memo opposing the tax on crude tin, could have been no more favorable to British interests if it had been written in the British foreign office." Opponents of Plan By that time it had become apparent that the chief opponent of having Bolivian tin smelted in the United States were (1) the British tin monopoly; (2) the Patino tin interests, which were shipping ore all the way from Bolivia to Liverpool, thence back to the United States, in order to enjoy British monopoly price-fixing; and (3) the National Lead Co. and perhaps also the other heavy U.
S. users of tin, which seemed to be linked up with the Brifish-Fatino interests. For instance, the late Edward J. Cccnish, chairman of National Lead, also was chairman of Pa-ino Mines Enterprises, while the present chairman of the 'atino company, Fletcher W. lockwell, is also president of rational Lead.
T'us big American business appared to be cooperating with the British-Patino monopoly, desito national defense Interest, while the state department appeared to condone that co-opration. Bt now, suddenly awakening to he grave danger of the sit-ua'on, the. state department is tryng desperately to make up forpast negligence. Several days (Continued on Page Nineteen) WEDNESDAY, MORNING, JULY 31, DESERT SLAYING STATE ew Units Authorized to Bring Biggest Peace-Time Militia In California's History Immediate expansion of the Cali fornia National guard to 10,768 offi cers and men the greatest peace- ime force in the state's history was announced yesterday by R. E.
Mittelstaedt. The guard, of which Company of San Bernardino is a unit, will be increased in personnel from 10,026 within a week, General Mittelstaedt said after receiving war department authorization for the expansion program, to be confined to central and Southern California. LIST NEW UNITS The additions will complete the personnel of the 144th field artillery with headquarters in Santa Barbara, he 115th medical regiment with headquarters in Los Angeles and the 115th quartermaster regiment, also centered in Los Angeles. The new units for the three guard regiments and their locations are: 144th field artillery Battery Bnkersfield; Battery Santa Maria; headquarters battery, second battalion, Oxnard; Battery Santa Monica; Battery Riverside. llHth medical regiment Company Glendale.
115th A quartermaster regiment service company, Los Angeles. DRILLS SCHEDULED The new recruits will not partici pate in the August training maneuvers, to he held at Fort Lewis, where the older units of the guard will hold drills on the site of World war training. Hundreds of thousands of recruits were drilled at the fort, then known as Camp Lewis, in 1917 and 1918. Company of which Capt. I.
N. Gilbert Is the commanding officer is a machine gun unit of the 185th infantry. It is now at full strength or 4 men. Beauty Contestants To Attend Club Meet Eleven San Bernardino county girls entered in the "Miss California" contest, to be held in San Ber nardino the night of Aug. 3, will be guests of the Argonaut club at its Thursday breakfast meeting in the California hotel.
A surprise program for the meet ing is being arranged by Postmaster Harold P. Thoreson. What's Doing Today 12 noon San Bernardino County Democratic Luncheon club, Mapes cafeteria. 12 noon Native Sons luncheon Mapes cafeteria. 12 noon San Bernardino Contrac tor's association, directors, Elks clubhouse.
7:15 p.m. Speakers club, Y.M.C.A. p.m. Adima club, Temple Emanu El. p.m.
number of commerce entertainment program, Perri hill bowl. 8 p.m. Joint installation, Odd Fel lows and Magnolia Rebekah lodges, Odd Fellows temple. 8 p.m. Company national guard municipal auditorium.
8 p.m. Arrowhead parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, Amer ican Legion clubhouse. 8 p.m. Union Oil Co. meeting, Cali forma hotel.
GUARD FORCES POLITICAL DOMINATION BY PEOPLE, GUTHRIE Deep down in the heart of the American people is a resentment against too much political domination, a resentment that has been building up through the years and which could, if properly guided, do strange things in the Roosevelt-Willkie battle for the presidency. This manifestation of the people, expressed at both the Republican and Democratic conventions, was the most important result of the two great political shows in the opinion of James A. Guthrie, editor of The Sun, who related his impressions of them at yesterday's luncheon of the San Bernardino Rotary club. "At Philadelphia," said Mr. Guthrie, "the Republican convention nominated for president a man who four years before had been a Democrat and who was practically unknown to the vast majority of the delegates until a month before the session.
"At Chicago, tha Democratic con CITY YOUTH WINS ARMY VINCS' AT TEXAS FIELD Fillmore A. Hoak the son of Vernon avenue, who was commissioned a lieutenant In the army air corps at Kelly field, Texas, where course. (U. S. Army photo).
Hoak, Among 211 Cadets Commissioned, to Await Assignment to Air Base Fillmore A. Hoak son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
Hoak, of 2101 Mt. Vernon avenue, San Bernardino, was one of two San Bernardino county youths to win the coveted silver wings of the army air corps at the graduation of class 40-D of the air corps advanced flying school at Kelly field, Texas. Young Hoak, one of 211 flying cadets to successfully complete the final 10 weeks of training in the advanced course, now holds a commis sion in the air corps reserve. He will remain at Kelly field in active duty with the air corps until his assignment to one of the army air bases. Roger W.
Page, of Ontario, the other county youth to graduate in the 40-D class, has been assigned to the air corps flying school at Ran- Twenty men have been employed by the U. S. Forest service under an E.R.A. allotment approved in Washington, Supervisor DeWitt Nelson announced yesterday, The men will be assigned to tanker truck crews for fire suppression work. When not engaged in fire suppression, they will undertake construction and maintenance jobs in the San Bernardino National forest.
A like number of men was laid off July 15 when budgets approved for the forest failed to include an E.R.A. allotment. Prior to the new fiscal year 60 men and women were employed on the emergency basis, C.C.C. camp enrollments within recent weeks have brought up the number of men available for fire duty within the forest, providing a near-normal protective force. FIST FIB II ENLARGE vention broke the third term tradi-' tion and in addition staged one of the weirdest revolts in the history of American politics.
"I think it would pay the political leaders of this nation if they would find the answer to the two major manifestations that took place at the two conventions. The demonstration from the galleries at Philadelphia that forced the nomination of Mr. Willkie certainly was akin to the revolt in the galleries and on the floor on the last night of the Chicago convention. "Those who are able to understand the meaning of this surge of emotions of the American' people will find the answer to what the American people are thinking in this campaign." Mr. Guthrie pictured the scene at Philadelphia the galleries' constant chant of want Willkie;" the flood of telegrams, thousands every hour, over the delegates; the old guard's final attempt to stop Wlll- 7 Mr.
and Mrs. F. A. Hoak, of 2101 Mt he completed his advanced flying dolph field, Texas, to take an ad vanced instructor course in prep aration for assignment to one of the three major training fields on the Gulf coast as instructor for incoming classes of C.A.A. training program graduates.
Both San Bernardino county youths received their diplomas and commissions from Col. Taylor E. Darby of Fort Houston, and their silver wings from Col. Eugene A. Lohman, advanced flying school commander and organizer of the present government air force expansion program.
In class 40-D California was represented by the most enrollees, 30. Ten of that number were from Southern California and the balance from communities scattered throughout the central and northern portions of the state. Injuries suffered by Byra Grant Smithson, 49 years old, of Rialto, on July 17 when he was crushed be neath a tractor proved fatal yesterday. Mr. Smithson, an employe of the Rialto Orange died at St.
Ber- nardine's hospital of a fractured back and an injury to his spina cord which caused paralysis, said Coroner R. E. Williams. The accident occurred on the Cox orange grove on North Pepper street in Rialto. Mr.
Smithson was attempting to tighten a trailer hitch on a tractor which was in motion when he slipped and fell beneath the heavy machine which was hacking up. He was a native of Greene county, (Continued on Page Nineteen) RESENTED TELLS CLUB kie. with Taft, and its utter failure, The voice of the galleries was the voice of the American people. They simply refused to permit any semblance of a boss-driven convention. The American people were de termined that this Republican con vention would not be bossed from smoke-filled hotel rooms.
The hard er the stop-Willkie advocates fought, the louder the voice of the people shouted for Willkie. At Chicago I saw that demon stration repeate even under weirder circ*mstances. I am satis fied there is a direct connection be tween the emotions that won Philadelphia and the emotions that lost at Chicago. "The Chicago convention smarted under the fact it did nothing on its own it followed the program to the letter that had been laid down the White House and conveyed to the convention, managers by Harry (Continued on Page Nineteen) RANGK HER DIES OF INJURY a INQUEST SET TODAY Mi Dancers and Fencers to Appear In Series of Exhibitions at Perris Hill Tonight Japan night, one of the most popular features of last summer's Perris hill bowl programs, will be repeated tonight, as the fourth in the series of the 1940 concerts sponsored by the San Bernardino chamber of commerce. Arranged by the Japanese Asso ciation of San Bernardino Valley the program will include colorful solo and ensemble dances of Japan as well as exhibitions of the Nip ponese national sport, fencing Dancers and fencers from all parts of inland Southern California will participate, with Helen Hirata, of San Bernardino, as master of cere monies.
HOUR ADVANCED The program will start earlier than usual, it was announced by E. E. Stldham, chairman of the chamber of commerce committee for the concerts, with the first number presented at 7:15 p.m. Preceeding the Japanese program the San Bernardino Federal Music project band under the direction of Mortimer Herron will present a brief concert. Feature of the band's portion of the program will be a cornet duet by Henry Miranda and Franklin White and vocal solos by Gail Suter.
Following the band concert, Howard H. Palmer will lead half-hour of community singing. PROGRAM ARRANGED Dancers in the Japanese program include; Miharu Bando, teacher, Emiko Kiuchi, Kimiko Tamura, Hideko Yamash*ta, and Yoshiko Uemura. Fencers are: George Kami- mura, teacher, Robert Ohashi, Carl Uyeda, Leon Uyeda, Eugene Inouye, Henry Arimoto, and Raymond Uyeda. ine complete program as arranged by Helen Hirata is as fol lows: Yu-suzuml (The Breeze of the Summer Evening), solo dance by Emiko Kiuchi; Yakko-san (Little Errand Boy), solo dance by Phyllis Hirata; Ondo, ballet by dance ensemble; Kendo, exhibition by fencers.
Osome, solo dance by Kamiko Tamura; acrobatic tap dance by Phyllis Hirata; Ondo, ballet by dance ensemble; Harusame (The Rain of Spring), solo dance by Mi haru Bando; Kendo, exhibition by fencers; Shukuga Mat (Celebration Dance), entire ensemble. Central Labor Council Votes For Sheppard The San Bernardino Central Labor council last night endorsed Representative Harry R. Sheppard for reelection from the nineteenth congressional district. The endorsem*nt was based on a letter from William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, praising Congressman Sheppard's labor record in Washington, which included his support of the wages and hours bill in committee and on the floor. The Central Labor council, which represents 28 unions in the county affiliated with the A.F.L., voted endorsem*nt of Mr.
Sheppard after talks by N. E. West, congressional candidate opposing Mr. Sheppard, and William N. Frazee, Mr.
West's campaign manager. Six Enlistments in U. S. Army Reported Six enlistments in the U. S.
army were announced yesterday at the San Bernardino recruiting station by Lieut. J. H. Bozung, recruiting officers. They were Charles W.
Coverdale, Fontana; Orrin K. Cooper, 440 Court street, San Bernardino; Stewart A. Davis, 390 street, San Bernardino; Joseph M. McHale, Riverside; Fletcher D. Harris, Hemet, and Harley D.
Smith, Yucaipa. Boy Scouts Attend Nevada Encampment Two San Bernardino boys and two from the Redlands district are attending a Boy Scout camp at Te-copa in the Charleston mountains of Nevada. They are Martin Einbinder and William Clark of San Bernardino, William Lee Gardner of Redlands, and Davis Loenhorst of Yucaipa. They will return with Executive A. J.
Roberts and Chester Harbauer next Sunday. 1 I KM 1940 FLOWERS FOR NEWEST VALLEY INDUSTRY a i This looks like a field of daisies, planting of pyrethrum, a flower from icicles are made. Almost unknown in crop, pyrethrum is being grown experimentally by the Fontana Farms Co. Insert at lower right offers States uses 10.000.000 pounds of pyrethrum a year, and virtually all of it is imported, chiefly from Japan. First Crop Harvested Experiment Being Conducted By HOWARD C.
HEYN Flowers for fly spray! It's a big business in the United States, although a new one to San Bernardino county and California. The flower is known as pyrethrum, a perennial whose blossom resembles that of a daisy, and the Fontana Farms Co. is growing it experimentally on one and one-quarter acres of land west of that community. Juice extracted from the blossoms of the pyrethrum is used in the manufacture of many insecticides, the most common of which is fly spray. Vegetable sprays have been made from the pyrethrum, and they are the best obtainable because they kill insects without damaging the vegetables or affecting the humans who later will eat the vegetables.
However, cost in recent years has Jobs Gained by Club Members Three hundred members of the San Bernardino Placement club have secured gainful employment since the club was established four months ago, it was reported at the club's meeting in the state employment office last night. The organization was founded, with the state department of employment cooperating, as a 20-30 club project. Edward Imsand, 20-30 president, last night told 50 members present that 20-30 will continue to sponsor the club. Ernest Hood, J. M.
K. Youngblood, both of the employment office, and Mrs. Hood spoke briefly. A short program and demonstra tion of telephone instruments and their use was presented by Robert Knepshield and Phillip Norris, both of the Associated Telephone Co. Jack Brainard, 20-30 club repre sentative, acted as program chairman.
He will be succeeded by Fred Thompson as the 20-30 representa tive in the Placement club beginning next week. PISTOL MATCH TODAY Deputies of Sheriff Emmett L. Shay will hold a pistol match at the Perris hill pistol range today at 1:30 p.m. in charge of Deputy Sheriff Eugene S. Jones.
FLY SPRAY! but in reality it is an experimental which fly spray and other Insect the United States as a commercia closeup of the blossoms. The United at Fontana Where discouraged use of pyrethrum for vegetable spray, sinca practically all the United States' supply of the flowers must be imported. It was this condition, primarily, that led the Fontana Farms Co. to undertake pyrethrum culture experimentally, E. L.
Sedelmeir, vice- president, said yesterday. "We were looking around for a new crop, preferably a crop that would replace something the United States currently had to import," he said. "Pyrethrum appeared to be the answer. This was two years ago, and now we have just harvested our first crop, amounting to 1,050 pounds of dried flowers." Except for the experimental acreage in Fontanat located two miles west of the township on Arrow boulevard, pyrethrum is grown only (Continued on Page Nineteen) Groups Praised For Fire Help Public appreciation to San Ber nardino agencies for cooperation in combating the brush fire north of Lake Arrowhead was expressed yesterday by DeWitt Nelson, supervisor of the San Bernardino National forest. "We want to extend our thanks and appreciation to the Pacific Electric and Santa Fe railways, to various packing houses and growers, to the state employment depart ment and to the police departments of valley cities for supplying a thou sand men to fight the fire.
"We are grateful for the full support of Russell Smith and his state forestry crews." IFF GEHS Till ATTENII Tl GRIGGS' FIJI Source of $845 Proves Puzzle To Authorities; Inquiry to Be Held at Courthouse With officers investigating the possibility that Ralph W. Griggs killed Mrs. Gladys Long at a lonely camp on. the desert for money and not "because I loved her," Cor oner K. j.
vviuiams toaay will conduct an inquest into he woman death. The inquiry will be held at 2 in the superior court jury room in the courthouse. Among those who will testify will be San Bernardino county officer who conducted tha investigation and Warren Hudson and Aldo Cor-sini, detective lieutenants, of tha Los Angeles police homicide squad, who first questioned Griggs. FULL CONFESSION Griggs has made a complete con fession to the slaying, saying he killed her "because I loved her, and she was going to leave me." Undersherlff James W. Stocker is investigating the source of $845 officers found on Griggs.
Griggs said the moneywas his savings, but the undersherlff said he was studying the possibility that Mrs. Long was slain for her money. She had recently effected a property settlement with her husband, B. L. Long, nightwatchman on the Al Jolson estate.
BARES QUARREL In his confession, Griggs said he and Mrs. Long had quarreled at their desert camp 20 miles east of Vic-torville, and he hurled a rock at her. The rock struck Mrs. Long in the back of the head and she fell dead, Griggs said in his confession. He then wrapped the woman's body in a quilt, stuffed It in the rear compartment of his car, and rode around Los Angeles nearly 10 days before the body was discovered by a parking station attendant.
Harris Elected City Park Head Melville Harris, San Bernardino merchant, last night was named chairman of the city park commission succeeding W. W. Haggard, who resigned several months ago. Mr. Haggard was transferred to Arizona by the Santa Fe railroad.
Harold Lord will continue as vice-chairman. The meeting last night was devoted to consideration of the park budget and the improvement program planned for the ensuing year. Major activity will be in planting and maintenance of street trees throughout the city, the commission announced. Removal of two ash trees in the parkway facing the post office, both in poor condition, was recom mended. Santa Fefs Freight Activity Shows Gain Santa Fe railroad system carload-ings for the week ending July 27 totaled 19,508 as compared with 18.910 for the same week in 1939.
Cars received from connections numbered 5,227, a drop from the 5.460 total for the same week a year ago. March Field May Get Two Units of Guard Two national guard units of the coast artillery, one in Ventura and the other at Camp Logan, 111., will ba transferred to March field for training, provided congress approves pending guard training legislation, said George C. Mvshall, army chief of staff. Peters-McCook Studio HOUSE FURNISHINGS and DECORATION Specially Low Prices on Accessories During August 317 Street Telephone 434-03 FILL DIRT FOR SALE i In North End GEORGE HERZ CO. Phone 241-42.
