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THE CALGARY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1942 Highway Builders Six Out Of Ten People In B. C. Fear Air Raids This Year 'Flying Freight-Car' Proposal Studied Report Brenner Pass Closed to Traffic NEW YORK, Aug. 5 (AP) A BBC broadcast heard today by CBS. said "the Brenner Pass which links Germany and Italy is reported to have been closed for two days.

There as no explanation. The broadcast reported that all traffic coming from Germany was being stopped at the Italian sawood and every kind light material, but he asked had anyone heard of an engine built out of bakawood. There you have the key to the hole probipm. If Mr. Kaiser can find materials to buld those engines then he can build the planes.

STRONG MAN DEAD JUNEAU, Alaska. Aug. 5 (AP) John Wagne 80, who during the Klondike gold rush was known as the strongest man on the Chiikoot Pass Trail, died today in a hospital where he had been patient since last October. Wagner came to the territory in 'S6 and established a reputation as the only rocker who could carry a cook stove. JS LIKELY IN THEIR AREA? have been expecting a miracle in his campaign against inflation.

Canada's success in controlling prices has gained new advocates, say. for the Dominion's system. But the King government in Canada was able to establish it overnight by order-in-council. Mr. Roosevelt has no such easy task for one thing, he is at the mercy of a Congress that takes its own sweet time in legislation respecting taxation; for another, he has Edges m'f INDIGESTION WALLOP YOU BELOW THE BELT? Hrip Your Forgotten "2S" Far Th Kind 01 Reiiei That Helps Mikt You Rarin' More than htlt of rwr iiytlm it hrtow the blt in your feet of bnwelt.

Bo when indigeKmo trike. try nmethiig tht helpi digwtion in th stomach AND th belt. Whut yna mT need is Crtr'i Lrttte LIvw to five needed help to that "forgotten 58 feet" of Tk on Littla Liver Pill hefora and ona after lnl. Take them areonling to dirertimu. They help wake np a lerger f)o of the main digestive juires in your atom-ch AND bowels-help you digeat what yon have eaten in Nature's own way.

Then most folks get the kind of relief that makes you feel better from your head to youi toes. Juflt be sure you get the genuine Carter's Little Liver Fills from your druggist 2U. i i.i iv- jt This has been a war of the unexpected, and because a majority do or do not expect an air raid is, of course, no indication as to whether one will occur or not. It hcs also, however, been a war in which apathy and resultant unpre-paredness among free peoples hare been the enemy's greatest weapon. The following survey, therefore, is significant in revealing to what degree the people living in various parts of Canada are mentally prepared for possible enemy attack by air.

By Institute of Public Opinion) TORONTO, Aug. 5 Out on Canada's Pacific coast today, more than six out of every ten adults are going about their business convinced that an enemy air raid is likely before the end of the summer. This grim fact should jolt the apathy of those in other parts of Canada who are inclined to be sceptical as to the need for air raid precautions. Of all the di-ov- 11 inces, British Columbia, which has already had a CANADIAN 1N5TTWTI PUBUC OP1WOM taste of shelling at Vancouver Island, feels itself most vulnerable to air attack, and is the only province in which a majority of the population feel an air attack is likely. PEOPLE DISSATISFIED A few weeks ago, an institute survey showed that over a third of Canada's city folk were dissatisfied with the way air raid precautions were being handled in their communities.

Chief criticism of these people, as expressed to Gallup interviewers, was that residents of their communities were not taking the need for defence against air attack seriously enough. This is borne out to some extent by the latest Gallup survey, which was based on the question: "Do you think an air raid on this province is at all likely this summer?" Taken as a nation, most Canadians do not expect such an attack on their own province as the following national figures show: Think air raid likely 24 Think air raid unlikely 65 Undecided 11 D0U3TFULS DROP The number of Canadians undecided on this point has dropped a By Ft. T. ELSON toy oulhrn Ltd WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 President Roosevelt has returned qualified answers to two issues that have profoundly stirred the American people; inflation and the tremendously interesting proposal to build a fleet of flying freight cars.

First in interest to Canadians, is Mr. Roosevelt's observation that only sloppy thinking pre-supposes that you can apply Canada's successful price-control system that worked with a nation of 11,000,000, people and apply it lock, stock and barrel to a nation of people. Second, he says that he has been studying for five to six months the proposal to build aerial cargo carriers as a quick and easy way of beating the submarine. The issue here could be summed up, he said, by an old maxim that you can't rob Peter to pay Paul meaning that you can't divert material from bombers to build cargo carriers and have them both. DANGER IS GREAT Neither ansvver was probably what people wanted to hear.

They have been told that the danger of inflation is very great and that the Canadian system is the one way to lick it. They have also responded to the imaginative picture drawn by the West Coast shipbuilding expert, Harry J- Kaiser, of a fleet of 5,000 flying boats, hopping the oceans bringing aid and troops to beat the Axis. Some of the president's critics hundreds, on foot, on motorcycles and army trucks. They jam the local beer taverns and lunch coun ters and cafes do a land office business. Almost every kind of business from the local theatre if there is one to the local hardware store where everything from nails to nail polish may be purchased get in on this wartime stream of cash.

The big question in the interior is "how long will it last?" Almost any oldtimer will tell you, if you give him a chance, of the boom eras of the past which eventually faded having barely scratched the possibilities of the country in mining, lumbering and agriculture. But most believe now that with the vwrtime building of roads that 50 years of peacetime appeal failed to bring, the country will be opened up and prosperity will stay after the soldiers' tents and construction gangs have disappeared. to consider the labor, which proportionately swings much greater weight here than it does in Canada. A FAIR HEARING Kaiser's proposal for the "flying freight cars" has been getting a fair hearing. Although the president's answer was seemingly negative, it does not mean that the cargo-carrier program won't be stepped up as a result of this nation-wide agitation.

The problem goes right back to materials. The president said that this whole scheme is being determined by the relative priority rating according essential needs and the decisions of those who know most about fighting. But a reporter persisted could not those planes be built out of plywood? Mr. Roosevelt smiled, yes, they had been studying plywood, bal- IT'S DRY. Convenient tconom.cal ClCIf A OfrKMI CARTON Ol tfVOr IH- 11 I II EHRI'T i wm sr -w an REACH NEW PEAK WINNIPEG.

Aug. 5 (CP) Passenger, air mail and express traffic on trans-Canada air lines reached a new peak in June, the monthly report to the board of directors showed here today. ONE WORST ENEMY cf healthy teeth and firm gums GINGIVITIS 1 1 tew tit. 1 out of 5 May have trouble ahead! Pon't ignore even slightly bleeding gums. This may me! you, too, have Gingivitis a gum inflammation which may claim 4 out of victims even young folks.

If neglected Gingivitis may often lead to the shrinking gums and loosened teeth of Pyorrhea which only your dentist should treat. So watch out Start now to guard against Gingivitis by massaging gums twice daily with Forhan'a Toothpaste. Formula of Dr. R. J.

Forhan. At all drug and department stores. HAD! IN CANADA Forhan's FOR FIRMER GUMS CLEANER TEETH 1 IVVrl I K-'- -ij i WHY CA ADA I QUENCHES THIRST FASTER FARMER'S DAUGHTER-1942 Bring Prosperity To B.C. Inferior Flood of Cash Fills Coffers of Small Town Merchants By HERBERT JONES SOMEWHERE IN THE BRITISH COLUMBIA INTERIOR. Aug.

5 Country folk set their clocks to the bugle strains of 'Taps" and "Reveille" these days in a section of the British Columbia interior. The army has moved in. The move came swift and sudden, almost without warning. Army tents by the hundred sprang up in hastily-cleared patches of forest in this mountainous terrain where some valleys ooze with acres of muskeg. Big marquee tents went up for headquarters staffs.

Army trucks, Jeeps and other equipment sped about, kicking up clouds of dust on wagon-rutted country roads in a stream of traffic the like of which never had been seen here before. QUIET, EFFICIENT The inevitable soldier's washing made its appearance on rope clothes lines slung between the trees, and men in battledress were everywhere. Residents of nearby towns some little settlements of perhaps 1.000 or' less had been warned that the army was about to move in. But when it happened, the movement was carried out so quickly and efficiently that most civilians were taken completely by surprise. One day there had been nothing but a patch cleared in the wilderness by Canadian Army Engineers working with bulldozers.

The next, a full military camp was established there. BATTLE OF BRAWN Once established, these soldier men from the foothills of Alberta, from the prairie and from Ontario, went to work in a battle of brawn against the tough country. At some camps, as much as 50 acres were cleared by the troops for parade grounds, rifle and pistol ranges, assault courses, and other training areas. Construction of soldier huts began. In one area, men of the Pioneer Corps of an Alberta unit began erection of pre-fabricated barracks, set on timber to prevent the foundations from sinking in treacherous muskeg.

WHISTLE ARMY SONGS The army has brought a spirit of war consciousness to this interior country where until recently the war had seemed tar away. Now country folk whistle army songs while they work and old timers and veterans of the first Great War stand at attention with a proud look in their eyes, watching a section of Canada's new army marching by. "I heard we had quite an army this time," said one old veteran, who wouldn't give his name but who said he was in France three years the last time. "But I guess you gotta see it like this to really appreciate it. These fellows look good enough to smack old Hitler and his bunch right off map." A tornado of wartime prosperity is roaring across this section of British Columbia's interior.

FLOOD OF CASH The war has brought soldiers and construction workers by the thousands in a giddy whirl of ringing cash registers, quadrupled populations, a rush for supplies a prosperity boom such as the area has never known. There have been other booms in this rugged mountain country, like the land rush of the early 1900's when high-powered real estate men sold lots for $6,000 apiece. But oldtimers will tell you there never has been anything to equal the present wave of business, with accommodation unavailable and cafes hard pressed to meet demands. Dusty little 20-room hotels which hadn't had more than a half-dozen guests in months, are filled to capacity, with even a chair in the lobby at a premium as a sleeping place. Private homes rent out all available beds and even barns and garages are turned into sleeping quarters at some centres.

RESTAURANTS SOLD OUT Ordinary travellers, -unable to get accommodation, walk miles into the country seeking a bed for the night at farmhouses along the way. Restaurant owners even in the larger centres find themselves forced to close their doors periodically because their establishments are jammed. Others lock up for the night at 8 p.m. and earlier because they are sold out. Local carpenters, with their first chance in years to "cash in" on a construction boom beyond their wildest dreams, find themselves hampered by lack of lumber although all mills are cutting to capacity.

The war is the first thought here and the army has a priority on lumber. STREAM INTO TOWN At night the men from the army camps stream into the towns by the RELIEVE SUFFERING QUICKLY WITH KELLOGG'S THMA RELIEF AS 1 binnings established 1900 Three Grand Values in Hats YOU SAVE ON EVERY ONE EACH PLANE, REPRESENTS QFPOPUUJION lot since a rather similar question was put last December, a few-weeks after Pearl Harbor. Asked at that time whether they thought an air raid on their neighborhood was likely, 15 per cent expected bombings, 49 per cent did not, and as many as 36 per cent did not hazard an opinion. The figures are not entirely comparable with today's result, because in the December survey, no time limit was mentioned, whereas in the latest survey, the public was asked whether it thought an air raid likely this summer. While the above table shows that, over the nation as a whole, more than six out of every ten Canadians do not think an air raid likely this summer, people of British Columbia, taken by themselves, reverse the national total.

PRAIRIES FEEL SAFER Men and women in the three prairie provinces feel themselves most immune to air attack, at least for this summer, and in this part of Canada, 83 per cent of those interviewed say they do not expect their province to be bombed. In the Maritimes, while the majority do not think an air attack is at all likely, there is much more indecision about it, with 20 per cent saying they do not know what to expect. i The province of Quebec, which had the war dramatically brought to its front door through ship sinkings in the St. Lawrence river, is actually more apprehensive of an air attack than the sea-girt Maritimes. Here is the way the three Eastern areas of Canada Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes feel about the likelihood of an air raid on their respective provinces before fall: 3 3 Think air raid likely 16 Think air raid unlikely 77 Undecided 7 36 51 13 World Copyright Reserved Gain in Employment Said Below Normal OTTAWA, Aug.

5 (CP) Substantial increases in employment reported at June 1 were below normal advances for that month, the Dominion bureau of statistics said in a report today. Heavy seasonal gains are normally reported at June 1, with 75 per cent of the gain in the non-manufacturing class. The 1942 gains show only 57 per cent in the non-manufacturing group. This condition is in accordance with a survey of employment conditions in Canada during the war which shows that from Sept. 1, 1939, to June 1, 1942, the index of employment in factories rose by 78 per cent while the general increase in manufacturing groups was eight per cent, the bureau said.

Statistics received from 13,069 establishments whose working forces aggregated 1,718,329, showed an increase of 43,566 persons at June 1, against a total of on May. 1. TO SERVICE Utensils Straws Former Values to $3.95 00 STORE isa 4sk $Ba If i'f fix fit flV1 4 si i 1 'J I' li i muni ii in iii Denies Being Junior Partner To Nazi Firm Standard President Says Agreements 'Constructive' WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (AP) The Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) today disputed testimony by Patrick A. Gibson, special as.

sistant to the U.S. attorney general, that the company before the war "surrendered its freedom of action in the chemical industry" to Germany's largest industrial corporation. In a telegram to Chairman Homer Bone Washington, of the senate committee on patents, before which Gibson testified Mon day and yesterday, W. S. Farish, president of the company, said its peace time agreements with I.

G. Farbenindustrie "were entirely constructive and very much in the interest of our country and our "Specifically, Mr. Gibson was wrong when he saw fatanaarci agreed to be a junior partner to I. G. in the chemical business," the telegram said, "if by this Mr.

Gibson means, as the public is led to believe, the oil chemical business which is the only chemical field we are now in or have ever been in. CITES EXPANSION "In this field the true fact is that the agreements left absolutely unaffected all of our then existing lines of oil-Chemical business which have since expanded from about $3,000,000 to about 000. In addition they gave us control of all similar future chemical developments of I.G. as well as a minority participation in all of 1. future chemical developments which might bear upon but were less closely related to the oil business." Under one agreement, Gibson said yesterday, "Standard incurred the obligation to give the right to require that Standard's butyl rubber development be brought into Jasco (a corporation formed by Standard and the German concern) and its licensing and exploitation there controlled by I.G." Farish's telegram said Gibson 'is also entirely wrong when he thinks that Standard incurred the obligation to give I.G.

control of its butyl rubber GUIDING HAND' Gibson testified that Germany had a "guiding hand" in a patent pool now abolished of which he said Standard was a member. He said the C.R.A., which he presumed was the Catalytic Refining Association, covered the broadest field of any of "the oil patent pools promoted by Standard in exploitation of the combined patents assets of itself and I. G. "It is, of course, notorious that for the last several years German business enterprise has been German government enterprise," Gib son said. Canada's Output Astounds Aussies OTTAWA, Aug.

5 (CP) Aus. tralia's munitions production parallels that of Canada in many respects, L. J. Hartnett, director of ordnance production in Australia, said in an interview on his arrival here. Mr.

Hartnett flew from Austra lia to this continent and is visit ing Canadian and United States plants and conferring with produc tion chiefs of both countries. "We in Australia are astounded at the Canadian munitions pro gram and at the results he said. You bave done wonders here. We in our way are trying to do the best we can. We are very grateful for Canada's help and I want to meet all the people I can and see all I can while I am here." Australia is starting to produce tanks of an Australian design, is producing fighter aircraft, complete with motors, all types of small arms and a number of types of heavier guns with ammunition, Mr.

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