THURSDAY, MAY I, 1941
TIM ES. W ILLAMINA, OREGON
Under the \\ ing of the American Eagle
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
Up to Specifications
W im pus—You su re m ade a poor
job of painting this door.
M rs. W im pus—Well, you de
clared this m orning th a t it needed
painting badly.
Nice A ttire
what gear were you in at
the tim e of the accident?"
Oh, I had on a blue woollen »ports
j root, fur cap, gauntlet gloves and tan
771155,
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated F eatu res—WNU S e rv ice.,
thpnM n n rC an C .U" d er U’ S,’ Prot®ctio” 7 hen the governm ent signed an ag reem en t w ith D anish officials.
Thus the Monroe D octrine sp rea d s northw ard in scope. Photos show the fishing colony a t U m anak (below) and
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h’ V
Scoresbysund (upper rig h t). C ircle: H endrick De K auffm an,,, D anish m in ister to toe ¿ . S.,
recalled by the German-controlled Copenhagen governm ent, for his role in the negotiations.
Cherry Blossom Time in Washington
«
This photo shows how people w alked or rode to view th e splendor of the hundreds of Ja p a n e se cherry
trees as they b u rst in full bloom around toe Tidal Basin in toe natio n ’s capital. Ir.set: N ancy Alden Strong is
crowned Queen of the C herry Blossom s. With h e r is Sen. John Overton of L ouisiana. About a q u a rte r of a
m illion people atten d ed the coronation.
To \\ atcli Air War
GREEK
of 10 twin-engined bom bers from
I W ashington, D. C., to A laska and re-
i turn. As ea rly as 1911 he prac-
i ticed at aerial b om bardm ent and
■ w ar d ep a rtm en t records cred it him
with being the pioneer in the suc
cessful use of the radio for m ilitary
purposes in an airplane.
Quite at v aria n ce with the out
w ard sem blance of this slightly
built, silver-haired soldier with his
> diffident sm ile, is his fo rth rig h t ut- I
j' teran ces and w ritings concerning toe !
airplane as a w ar m achine.
PHyjICIAN,
Still an active pilot, m ounting ad
m in istrativ e duties have cut down
his tim e in the a ir and restricted his
activ ity in two hobbies—cooking
and w riting fiction. Boys who re
m em b er his “ Bill B ruce” books, in
cluding “ Bill B ruce at West P o in t,”
“ Bill Bruce a t Flying School,” and
other breath-taking juvenile works,
will re g re t the recen t idleness of
his pen.
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D RO N OU N CED feeling of good-will
1 tow ard a nation w here she has
been m ost hospitably received, sen
tim en t born of local pride and a high
B r a z ilia n S e n h o r a sen?e, of hon‘
o r a Die pre-
C h r is te n s S h ip in f e r m e n t ,
S p ir it o f G o o d - W ill d d d e d
stren g th t o
the gestu re which Senhora Peixoto
em ployed in breaking the bottle con
taining cham p ag n e over the bow of
the new M oore-M cCorm ack p assen
ger liner, Rio de Jan eiro , as it slid
down the w ays in the shipyard at
C hester, P a., the oth er day. So a c t
ing, she rep resen ted her husband,
C om m ander E rn an i Do A m aral
Peixoto, governor of the sta te of Rio
de Ja n eiro —for which the vessel
w as nam ed—as well as h er fath er,
Getulio V argas, p resid en t of Brazil.
As the Nazi a ir blitz shifts from nation to nation only faces in the
fam iliar pictures of ruined hom es a re changed. Censors are quick to
realize th a t photos like the one above, taken in G reece, do m uch to invite
sym pathy of neutrals. H ere three generations of G reek p ea san try weep
am id ruins of th e ir “ blitzed” hom e.
M aj.-Gen. If. II. Arnold, chief of
the U. 8. a rm y air corps, shown as
he boarded a clipper plane in New
York for flight to E urope. G eneral
Arnold will go to London to act as
an official ob serv er for the w ar de-
i p artm en t.
cresiBius,
Twenty-two y ea rs la te r he again
J won the trophy as leader of a flight
“ The only way to prevent air
invasion is to attack the invader
with superior num bers and
knock him out of the a ir.” He
has been preaching this for
years, his concern having ever
been for the constant p ro cu re
m ent of thousands of new, im
proved com bat cra ft, training of
thousands of new pilots, enlist
m ent of tens of thousands of
ground crew m en, swelling of
airc ra ft plants and acquisition
of vital raw m ateria l for future
a irc ra ft production.
O '
Three Generations of Tears in Greece
Good Reason
EW YORK.—Maj. Gen. H enry H.
“ Why is th e bell rin g in g ?”
Arnold, chief of the arm y air
| corps who has ju st arriv ed in E ng
“ B ecause I ’m pulling the ro p e.”
land to serve as an official ob serv er
A r n o ld , P u p il o f
ot
4w a r-
B E H IN D T IM E S
• l
_.
1S about the
W r ig h ts , P io n e e r only officer
In A r m y A v ia tio n
rem aining in
active serv
ice who learned to fly under the p er
sonal supervision of Wilbur and O r
ville W right at th eir school in Day-
ton, Ohio. J u s t two y ea rs previ
ously the w ar d ep a rtm en t had ac
“ How is it, Tom, you never m a r
cepted delivery of its first batch of ried
?”
airp lan es and so his experience as a
“
Well
I don’t feel that I ’m fitted
flier p retty n early spans the com
t’ m a rry a m odern woman. I c a n 't
plete period of arm y aviation.
cook nor nothing.”
Anyone who can recall the
statu s of flying in 1911 will a p
F irs t and Second Class
p reciate “ H ap” A rnold's exploits
M rs. G abley—Can you tell m e
in his first y ea r of train in g as a
; who ca m e over on the M ayflower?
young lieutenant, assigned to
M rs. Ja b b e r—Yes. My an cesto rs
flight duty from the in fan try ,
) and a few oth er people.
with a record of 140 flights, 29
hours in the air. In his second
y ear of train in g he achieved
honor as the first w inner of the
M ackay trophy aw arded for ex
cellence as a m ilitary pilot. In
a day so blustery and cold as to
keep all but 2 of 12 en tran ts out
of the race he com pleted a 40-
m ile flight, originating at College
P a rk , Md., a t an av erag e speed
of 52 m iles an hour.
A petite, vivid w om an, who
has m ade a delightful im p res
sion upon those concerned in
m aking toe c u rren t visit of toe
distinguished B razilian p air an
im portant hands - across - toe -
sphere event, the senhora holds
a degree in law, the result of
study at the U niversity of B ra
zil, a profession, how ever, in
which she has never p racticed.
M arrying soon afte r graduation
she eventually becam e secretary
to her father, a position she
now holds. H er hosts in New
Y'ork have found her a fluent
speaker of English.
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All the Traffic
Would Bear"
• There was a tim e in America
when there were no set prices.
E ach m erchant charged w hat
he th o u g h t “ the traffic would
b e a r.” A d v e rtis in g cam e to
the rescue o f the consumer.
I t led the way to th e estab
lished prices you pay when
y o u b u y a n y th in g to d a y .