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GOLDEN VALLEY NEWS
Kaiser Plans Postwar
Homes of Gypsum Sheets
San Franclsco_--~The Henry J.
Kaiser shape of things to come in
postwar days, more especially in
the realm of private, prefabricated,
cheap, and fireproof housing, took
a more definite form here today.
The key material in the model
structure he envisions is gypsum_.-
almost with a capital G.
Steel, which he makes in his
Fontana, Calif., plant; magnesium,
which he also produces; plastic
cement for are exterior covering;
and aluminum, which the Far West
has learned how to make___all
these things enter into the Kaiser
calculations.
Free enterprise; no public funds
involved; work possibilities for
hundreds of thousands; trade with
the Orient; competition with ex-
isting great gylhsum companies on a
price basis; more work always for
the administrators and the artisans
of the vast Kaiser domainmthese
are included in the plan.
Takes Over Gypsum Firm
Mr. Kaiser has talked of these
things before. Today he an-
nounced that his "boys," meaning
his own two sons and the group of
fabulous young executives teamed
with them in the Kaiser enter-
prises, are taking over manage-
ment of the Standard Gypsum
Company, a Pacific Coast concern
which claims to control 500,000,000
tons of raw gypsum.
Book Review
The name of Cordell Hull occurs
iust once in Sumner Welles's book
on the past, 'The Tii~ne of Decision'
published by Horner& Co., N. Y.
C. $3.00) present & future of U. S.
foreign policy. Inasmuch as former
Undersecretary of State Welles
quit his post because of basic diff-
erences between himself and Mr.
Hull, such diplomatic restraint
might argue a mealymouthed, chil-
ly and platitudinously correct
book. Surprisingly enough, Mr.
Welles writes a sprightly prose,
hits straight from the shoulder
when he is discussing what he
considers State Department mis-'
takes, and plants himself flat-foot-
edly on the issues which he holds
to be important.
The narrative high point of i
Welles's book is the long chapter
describing his 1940 mission to
Europe which was undertaken in
the fragile hope that the "phony"
war might somehow be halted, be-
fore the real shooting began. Wel-
les had no authority to commit the
U. S. to war, but he managed dis-
creetly to suggest that his country
might el-range its isolationist mind
if a Nazi victory seemed imminent.
The portraiture in Welles's Euro-
pean travelogue rings clear and
'~Cheaper than" frame construe-true. The late Count Ciano is
tion--considerably cheaper," corn- shown boldly expressing his con-
merited Gone Trefethren Mr Kal
' . • . - tempt for German Foreign Minis-
ser's right-hand man, as his prmf tar Ribbentrop and his antagonism
cipal expounaea to a roommt o toward Hitler. Mussolini astonish-l~
reporters on his. postwar ,n°using .......... • e , -
vision, ."lower insurance,' added i~aeroWu:l~d °Yat~e.en~lingcllon£~r:roPpnd}
see, 'tKa °r'oists trusses rafters hair snow white In repose,
-'asterboard -anels or whole side' his face fell in rolls of flesh. Whenl
pi ... P _ ' ..... ntthe Duce talked he kept his eyes!
walls will De mane in sizes that ca - " a e f r moments when he'
be shipped: Roofin.g will be of any s~U~e~Vere~° his reputation for I
number ot materials m coniorm , . ,, . ,,
to the general fireproof plan. s,armg dynammally. 1
"Costs will be as much as 23 per Badger's Paws. Goring was sim-
cent less than in ordinary wood
frame construction," contributed
Sam A. Perkins, well-known North-
westerner, President of the former
Standard Gypsum Company, pub-
fisher of several newspapers. The
gypsum company has been reor-
ganized as a Delaware company.
Mr. Perkins is now a member of
the board. "I wanted the Kaiser
organization, to take it over," he
said, "and they have done so."
Neither Mr. Kaiser nor Mr.
Perkins would go deeply into the
fin'ancial phase of the reorganiza-
tion. "The Kaiser company is $o~-
ligated to spend millions of
lars," Mr. Kaiser said.
The present plan" does not in-
clude the delivery of completed
houses, ready to occupy, on a given
lot, F. O. B. some place or other,
"not at this time." said Mr. Kaiser,
and his righthand man wagged his
head knowingly.
The ~aiser Engineering Depart-
men~ wants six whole floors of an
office building "the boss" has just
bought in Oakland. '%Chert they
want that much space you can
know they have a lot of things to
work out," NIr. Kaiser said. At
present there is no "model house,"
except on, paper.
The new partners ia gypsum look
to the whole Pacific Coast and to
the Orient for their market. There
is a market for 100,000 tons of gYP-
sum each year in the Orient right
rmw if it could be supplied, Mr
:Perkins said. His company has
ships to take it there when the war
ends, he added.
What will the Orient use for
money in the buying of gypsum
after the war? someone asked.
"Just recall that Great Britain,
~ter the Napoleonic Wars, without
funds and confronted ,by the great-
eat obstacles built the greatest in-
dustrial nation the world ever has
konwn~" said Mr. Kaiser.
'~l'he head man of the Kaiser
'empire,' as it has been called, al-
ways is enthusiastic when starting
off on a new venture. In this one
he is exceptionally so. The gYP-
sum enterprise and prospects ap-
pear, at least, to furnish a needed
complement for his steel mill at
Fontana.._and that, every one:2o~
his organization knows, is me m
of his dreams.
"_.~is" is one of those things
were all been talking about," he
said. It is private enterprise of
the first water. I have carried the
brand of using only Government
funds, in spite of the fact that up
to the beginning of the war I
never used Government funds
even for cement (on various big
dam projects). Now that the war
is drawing to a conclusion,, I see in
this gypsum enterprise an oppor-
tunity to produce for peacetime---
which is of equal important with
the winnin~ of the war."
The gyp'sum company, as it stood
before Mr. Kaiser took over its
management, had plants at Long
Beach, C~li~; Seattle, Wash.; in
Nevada, and on San Marcos Island
in the Gulf of California. Others
are planned.
'"This project will reduce the
costs of many things that people
..... ~,,~ "It will
want," said Mr. ~a~-.
benefit agriculture as well as the
building industry. It will be
geared to heavy producitom And
heavy production and low costs
mean the economy of abundance
that we all want."
Two reporters now living _in
. apartments and wanting to bullet
were so carried away with the
builder's enthusiasm that they
promised to wait until his "model
house is ready before going into
the market. A fairly easY promise,
it was implied, since no builder is
taking private contracts these days.
Half Truth. In Boston, Mrs.
Henry F. Waitt was asked in court:
"Didn't your husband black your
eyes last year?" Replied she: "Of
course not--only one of them."
AMERICANS BEGIN REHAB!LITATION OF CHERBOURG
AMERICAN SOLDIERS are doing their share in rehabilitating the French port of Cherbourg, France, by repair-
ing its bomb-torn streets, Since the liberation of the city from the Germans, ~he damage done to it during
the long assault has been repaired by engineers of the U. S, occupation forces. (International)
SAM'S
ple and unaffected when he wel-
comed Welles to his garish home,
Karinhall, in" the flat North Ger-
man birch and pine woods. But the
U. S diplomat could, not keep his
eyes off the tubby Nazi's hands,
which were "shaped like the dig-
ging paws of a badger." On his
right hand Goring wore an enor-
mous ring set with six huge dia-
monds; o~ his left he wore an em-
erald a~ least an inch square. Gor-
ing's hands were presumably more
eloquent of German intentions
than anythin'g Wel,les heard either
at Karinhall or in Berlin.
In France Welles experienced a
sensation of general expectancy.
Presidc;nt /Ltbert Lebrum seemed
to have lost his memory. From ex-
Premiers Blum and Herriot, Wel-
les derived only the feeling that
France's days were numbered. Af
tar his visit to Blum. Welles re-
ceived 3,000 insulting letters from
Frenchmen who resentec~ his call-
ing on a Jew.
Oddly enough, Wen~ w~ im~
pressed with the 'courage" ~m
"d~etermizmtion," of Nevile C°nam-[
berla~ V~lles ~a~o ~s., ~
words for Brazil's Presiaent ~-~ "t
ulio Vargas, and for the State De-t
partment's policies toward Vichy
and the late Admiral Darlan. 1
K'"" ~v~. On the subject of world organi-
German Ku Klux .... "::"~ zatmn, Welles is a Wflsonian,
about his mp
Author Welles says " which puts him in the ar~ti-Walter
lomatic past is more exciting but Lippmann camp. Against Lipp-
mann's argument for fegional
SERVICE
?,,~ET THE ONLY TRIPLETS in the U. S. Army Nurse Corps. They are
(i. to r.) : Lts. Elizabeth Flavia, Mary Virginia, and Ellen Rose Chappe-
lear of Benedict, Md. The triplets are stationed at the Army Air Corps
Regional Hospital in Coral Gables, Fla. (International)
a relatively free basis with the ~|1) V|C~O~
outer world.
less relevant than what he says a-
bout the world's uncertain future.
The logical Objection to schemes
for dismembering Germany and
in,ternatiormlizing her communica-
tions and, power developments is
that carpetbagging" inevitably
breeds a Ku Klux Klan. But Wel-
les argues that political constraint
can be made pala.table if Germany
and Japan are allowed to trade on
Guard Is Dead
COL. EDMOND W. STARLING, 69-
year-old retired head of the White
House detail of the U. S. Secret
Service, is dead. Starling, who
died in New York City, devoted
25 years of hie life to the guard-
ing of five presidents ~t
United States. The
teated the lives of
~on, Warren G. Harding,
Coolidge, Herbert
Franklin Roosevelt
tiva duty.
groupings and alliances, Welles
Icounterposes a revived' League of
Nations, a "Comxnunity of Power"
with a central executive council, a
centralized security and arma-
/
moots commission, and interna-
tional trusteeship of colonial peo-
ples who are not ready for auton-
tomy. In Welles's proposed provis-
ional council of the United Nat-
ions, the big nations (Russia, the
United Kingdom, China and the
U. S.) would get four votes out of
a total of eleven. Yet Welles
would base his international on-
ganization on regional as well as
national representation, and he
would have certain" designated~ re-
gions do their own" policing.
In all of this blueprint organiza-
tional work, readers may wonder
where the ultimate power of coer-
cion is to rest. Mr. Welles is above
all a diplomatic technician; never-
theless, he admits that no interna-
tional organization can survive un-
los it is suported by the opinion
of free men and women through-
out the world---which tosses the
ball back to the moralists and the
philosophers.~TIME
$86,500.000 tNECESSARY TO RE"
~UILD PRIMARY HIGHWAY
SYSTEM
Highway Departmen~ officials to-
day announced that reconstruction
of the State's primary federal aid
highway system would cost an es-
timated $86,584,639.
Included in the $86,500,000 esti-
mate is constructed and modern-
ization of 2,642 miles of the 4,010
miles on the primary system, plus
180 structures over 20 feet in
length.
Items detailed in the estimate are:
Right of Way, $1,316,777; Struc-
tures, $2,887,903.00; Grading, $26,-
656,798; Surfacing, $47,965,011; and
Engineering and Contingencies, $7,-
758,150.
Department engineers estimate
, that reconstruction and moderniza-'
tiun of the secondm~y system would
require an additional $65,000,000.
Department officials point out that
there is included in the estimate
only those roads which are obso-
lete or deficient in some respect
and which should be reconstructed,
. A study ~'ecently released by the
Department indicates that over 61
per cent of the mileage on the state
system is over 10 years old.
f
M-S4
Can Snap Beans I
Correctlyi Lack of Truck
Tires ThreaIens
bet~e~a~F.r~h~ gatidey rPer°cdhU¢;;im~'eh°Ulnd/Transp0ris
Sr>ap beans should be processed
while they are young ~nd tender.
Beans: are a non.-aeid vegetable that
must be processed carefully to in-
SUF~ safety.
Remove s~rh~gs before washing.
S~rt carefully and di~ard any
damaged or wilted pods• Wash
thoroughly in plenty of clean cold
water. Beanm must be washed sev-
eral times to be sure no dirt ad-
heroes to the fuzzy skin. Leave
whole or cut or break into one to
two in-h pieces. Add boiling water
to cover and simmer in an, uncov-
ered pan for five minutes or until
beans will bend without breaking.
P~ck hot into clean jars and cover
with the water they were cooked
in.. Pack ~oosely to within oee half
in.~h of the top of the pint jar or
within 1 inch of the top of a qoart
jar. Use only new lids aPd m~bbers
for non-acid vegetables. Process
pints for 30 minutes at 10 pounds
pressure and quarts for 40 minutes
at 10 pounds pressure in a pressure
cooker.
Always boil 10 minutes at a roll-
ing boil before tasteing. 10 minute,s
boiling will destroy ~n~ toxin ~hat
may have developed in the canned
vegetable.
Publishers
Refuse Tail
ACP Program Appeasement
R .lnn Pr .nar .d Following a meeting recently be-{
,.~.v~..~ .,. -.VjL,--,,..,.v,~. tween Sen~ator Robert A. Taft and~
i , }representatives of the book and}
VThde farmers are carrying out t ~az r
• , "', ' , i .l:na~ ine industry in . egard to thel
consewation practices under lhel problems raised by the restrictiveJ
1944 Agricultural Conservation, pro- measure o ' " ' 'I
.......... ] ~ .s f Tffle V of the Soldiers ,
gram maz perform oouole omy ~orl Vote t
• . . ' , Bill. ,he Board of Directors of I
the natron, by increasing food pro-l the Council on books in Wartime l
du.ction and conserving our vit~.tll formally went on record yesterday/
son resources me *van program ~s as
-, . uuanimously opposed to the pro-1
being readied for early announce- visions of Mr. Taft's rider.
mont.
The 1945 program has come up
from the "grass roots" in its custo-
mary style through recommenda-
tions to the State AAA Offices by
the elected community and county
farmer-committeemen of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Agency. It is
almost ready to return to local con-
ditions by the selection of needed
practice~ from the national pro-
gram and preparation of detailed
specifications to assure high quali-
ty c0n~ervation returns.
Throughout the west, farmers and
their elected committeemen have
generally advocated that the 1945
Program follow closely the 1944 A-
CP Program which many farmers
have described as the most satis-
factory ACP Program to date. On-
ly minor changes in the Program
were suggested by the farmer-cc~m-
mitteemen who urged that the pro-
gram be presented to farmers as
early as possible }n order that they
may utilize its conservation assis-
tance to the fullest extent in their
1945 war production and soft-build-
ing efforts.
Practices emphasized irt 1944. and
due to be again in 1945. are those.
that will return the most immediate
results in, the way of increased food
production. N. E. Dodd. Chief of
the AAA, points out that as soon
as wartime requirements permit,
American farmers must take steps
to restore the soil productivity
which has been drawrt upon dur-
ing the war. This will mean more
emphasis on conservation practices
from which the nation, benefits in
long-time rather than immediate
production.
Congress has authorized the Ag-
ricultural Adjustment Agency to
plan a 1945 Program for which to-
tal expenditures may not exceed
as the 1944 Program. Steadily ex-
$350,000.000 approximately the same
AA conservation practices which
panding farmer participation in A-
improve and maintain soil resour-
ces has resulted in, an increase in
payments to assist farmers in. carry-
ins out these practices from $60,-
....... r-'" Lo..is[ 000 000 in 1936 to an expected $2&~,
I~UCKy l.,ouis, m ~e~ m~, u 000'000 this
r~e~er:~a ~0est~ur~:tc~Ttdr~anaj ,year.
r $3 d [ VISITS SISTER
train. Canedian~ Railways rewarde ] Mrs Elmer Skam of B 1
a four, W.
him by making his home town of!
Bothwell, Ontario, a train stop on l D., is spending a week in Bismarck
with her sister. Miss Mabel Nor-
his days off. dine, 124 Ave. B.
Hitler and His (?) Generals
The position of the Council was
set forth by W. W .Norton. Chair-
man of the Board of Directors, in a
letter addressed to Mr. Taft. The
letter was sent as a matter of .re-
cord in view of Mr. Taft's recent
statement to the press that he will
"be glad to sponsor amendments to
the act for the purp6se of increas-
NEW YORK--It was 1940. The German armies were all-conquer-
. having overrun France and the low countries in short order.
~ng..~ . ---s su"P0sad to be at Germany's mercy and Russia was still
l~t~'~-~'~alsy-w-~ wt~h Hitler and Der Fuerher was proud of hm' genera.~s.
~e ~ie a bunch of them field marshals to show his pleasure, m zne
honored g~oup a~ove are tmfFto right) Von Richenau, Von Witzleben,
%n Kluge {now Normandy commander), List:Von Loeb and Von Rock.
TodaY. rsvort~ jay, ~iuer m purging generam rign~ ann ~ez~ ~o pr~.
- -" utah from ousting him
~s~ a mil~,v P
The motor-transportation crisis,
long foreseen, has arrived. But the
crisis comes not from a shortage of
rubber, but of workers and equip-
ment with which to produce heavy-
duty tires.
One by one, hundreds of the na,
tion's essential trucks and busses
are limping into gaI~ages--their
heavy tires worn, out, and no new
ones available. From the ,great dis-
tances of the Southwest, one bus
operating reported last week that
from 25 to 50 percent of his equip-
ment will be tied up within 30 to
60 days. Another trucker expects
one-third of his units to be off the
road by August 15. Nationally, the
Americar~ Trucking Association says
"day by day scores of trucks are
going up on jacks."
At a "Tires for Victory Rally" in
Akron, Rubber Director Bradley
Dewey urged "every worker whose
output helps to build a heavy-duty
or airplane tire to make his final
sprint." The synthetic production
program has succeeded, be said. and
"our production., capacity is n~w so
great that we have been able to
lend some synthetic rubber man-
uf~mturing facilities to provide ex-
tra quantities of high-~)clsnegaso-
line." Then he pointed his finger at
the l~resen¢ bottleneck; the lack of
manpower and equipment in, mak-
ing heavy-duty tires.
This week the WPB Require-
ments Committee was meeting a-
gain. The problem: how to get 100,-
000 tires a month for civilian trucks
and busses during the third quar-
ter. These 100,000 tires will pro-
bably be a maximus allocation, or
less than the 25 per cent of total
production civilians were allotted
for the second quarter.
All workers who could be shifted
from making passer~ger-car tires
have been transferred to heavy-tire
production. All convertible equip-
ment has likewise been transferred.
The only real answer is greater
production. The original 1944 goal
was 17.500.000 h~avy tires for civ-
ilian and military uses; thus far,
production had averaged about 1,-
200.000 tires a month. To boost pro-
duction.. Rubber Boss Dewey got
the Army to release fully trained
tire workers over 30, and stepped
ing its flexibility." As Title V is at up the pace of the $75,000,000 equip-
present phrased, it prevents such ment-expansion program.
books as Catherine Drinker Bow-
en's bestseller, A YANKEE FROM The
Duke
of
Windsor
made
his
OLYMPUS, and Charles A. Beard's,lninth
trip to the U. S. since he be-
REPUBLIC from being purchased came Governor of the Bahamas in
by the Army and Navy. The Army's 1940. With him, making her seventh,
decision that such books under the
restrictive provisions of the bill
caused a storm of protest from the
Council and other organizations.
Mr. Taft has contended that the
Army has been too strict in its in-
terpretation of Title V, but he has
agreed to work for a rephrasing of
the 'bill that will do away with its
present ambiguity.
While such action might be con-
sidereal by the Council as a step in
the right direction, Mr, Norton
pointed out in his letter that only
repeal of the entire rider will be
satisfactory to the Council. It is the
conviction of the Council "that Ti-
tle V is an unnecessary piece of
legislation," wrote Mr. Norton,
"both on the basis of our practical
working experience and because of
previously existing legislative safe-
guards. Legislation such as this
causes a grave danger of impairing
the basic right of free speech, and.
no matter how much it may be
modified, that danger remains."
FUEL ORDERS NOW HELP KEEP
COAL MINES OPERATING
Half of the coal bins of the coun- I
try will be short of their usual sfip-I
ply of coal this winter, the Solidt
Fuels Administration for ~ar pro-I
diets, and other supplies of heating
fuel will .be short,
Individual coal consumers, par-i
ticularly in the middlewestern are-]
as and farmers in agricultural re-I
gions where wood fuel is available
have the best opportunities for re-
lieving these shortages conditions,
the Solid Fuels Administration sug-
gests.
Coal mines in North Dakota and
in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, western
Ker~tucky and States west of the
Mississippi River largely operate in
the summer to the extent that they
have orders to fill but are normally
busy full time in fall and winter.
Consumers who use these coals, by
putting in their orders now, can
help keep the mines busy when
they would otherwise be idle and
can relieve the winter burden on
the mines that otherwise might
cause fuel shortages.
As a home fuel, wood ranks
second to coal. Any farmer or farm
worker who thas an opportunity to
cut fuel wood will be helping to
relieve the serious strain on the na-
tion's fuel supplies.
Supporting Evidence. In Manhat-
tan. Edna Dessau, shot and severe-
ly wounded last year by one Dr.
Samuel Wain,rib. told Judge Jonah
Goldstein" that she did not care a-
bout prosecuting the doctor; she
merely wanted the return of her
~r~ar girdle, through which the
e~ passed. Judge Goldsteir~ re-
fused on the ground that the gir-
dle was state's evidence.
C h a r 1 e s Augustus Lindbergh,
Undted Aircraft Corps. lanky
baldirtg research engineer, now
demonstrating high-altitude flight
methods to U, S. airmen in the
Pacific, got down from his plane
and hob-nobbed with Lieut. Gen-
eral George Churchill Kenney,
commander of the Far Eastern /tAr
Forces.
was his Duchess.
spend a month in
haps visit his
where it is rumored oil
lions are taking place.
Bees are an inportarLt aid irt the
production of alfalta seed.
WASH D~
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pastel ginghams, one or two of
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es 2% yards of 39-inch magerial,
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