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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1940)
Page Two Illinois Valley News, Thursday, October 10. 1940 It’s Going to Be a Hot Election! r * ¿>/CE Washington, D. C. JAPAN GETS AVIATION FUEL The new iron and steel scrap em bargo finally shut off one of Japan's key military supplies. But through a loophole as big as a barn door. Japan had been able, despite this supposedly stringent embargo, to obtain all the U. S. gas it needs for the bombers that are raining death and destruction on helpless Chinese cities and villages. This loophole is the little-noticed pro vision that limits the embargo only to a certain super-grade of gas—87 octane and over. This type of fuel is essential for modern aerial warfare. Without it planes are not able to attain the great speeds necessary in dog fights and raids such as take place night and day over Britain. But Japan is not up against that kind of battling. Its bombers and fighter planes face no aerial opposi tion. They have the skies to them selves. They don’t need super-gas. They can do just as well on lower octane fuel. Their job is no differ ent than an ordinary transport plane's. They haul out a load of bombs, dump it and fly back. The story is told in the following unpublished government figures. In the month after the imposition of the so-called embargo, Japan Imported from the United States 187.028 bar rels of lower grade gasoline, or more than 20 per cent of all such exports during that period. • • • THE VILLAGE NEWS-PRESS (Prop, »nd Editor. W Winchtll) Mrs. Roosevelt sure told off the radicals after the Newspaper Guild held its affair. It was one of those off-the-record gabfests, and she spoke her mind plenty, Wish we could jot down what Mrs. FDR said but tain’t allowed. But she said plenty—to their faces. Ex-Magistrate Overton Harris ' sure oughta know better’n to argue with a cop about getting a ticket. Happened in a West 57th Street re stricted area ... "I could break you for this!” the ex-judge threat ened. Hell, there's nothing deader than an ex-anything, say we. Heard a mighty good joke over at Bub Martyn's Cuba place. It was a take-off by Milt Gross, the pic ture drawer. Seems that a movie man with an accent told an actress who applied for a part: "You got eyes like "Hedy” . . . "Heavens sakes alive!” said the lady, "Hedy Lamarr?” "Naw,” said the movie man, "Hedy Cantor!” Hear tell Miss P. Hopkins Joyce, the famed wife, is being signed up to go on the radio and give a series of gossip scoops. Ye ed ain’t wor ried. Peg can't write gossip as well as she can make it. Ha, ha. Mrs. Jack Oakie, who nearly passed on to the Pearly Gates on acc’t of her ailment, has been ad vised by her doc to completely rest for several months or else face seri ous consequences. The former Venita Vardon certainly shouldn't go around worryin’ her well-wishers that way. SPY CENTER The large Japanese fishing colony on Terminal island in Los Angeles harbor is soon due for a clean-up by. Uncle Sam. This colony lias long been under suspicion as a nerve center of for eign espionage on the West coast. Met up with Romo Vincent, the More than one of the "fishing” ves show-actor at Mario's Hurricane sels is radio-equipped, and intelli cabaret. He told ye ed about the gence officials have evidence that oddest clause he's ever seen in a some of the colony's sea-going deni contract. In the one he had in a zens double in brass as spies. restaurant in New Orleans the No action has been taken up to clause stated: •You shall not go now chiefly because of state depart on before the salad.” ment qualms about kicking up an international ruckus. The suspects Ye ed can remember all the were kept under scrutiny but noth way back in this village when Tif- ing was done to get rid of them. fany & Co. were ring and stone ped- But with Japan taking the bit in dlers in the 1930s and considered it its teeth in Indo-China and showing beneath their dignity to put their signs of further adventures, the name outside their store. Wai, next state department has withdrawn its month they open a new one on 57th red light. Under a plan worked out and 5th, and have their name almost with California and Los Angeles of- everywhere, My, oh my sr.d lands ficials, the fishing village will be sakes alive! How lha mighty have dispersed. fallen. V. 8. FLYING FORTRESSES "Flying Fortresses" of the U. S. army and powerful twin-engined I’BY patrol bombers of the U. S. navy—for Britain— The negotiations have been going on for several weeks simultaneously with conversations regarding the se curing of air and naval bases on strategic British islands in the Pa cific. The British are urgently in need of long range, great weight-carrying planes of the "Flying Fortress" and PBY type. Lack of ships of this kind is a vital weakness in British air power. They have no planes capable of operating east of Berlin. which makes it impossible to strike at some of the Nazis' kqy war pro duction centers located in what were formerly Austria and Czechoslo vakia A fleet of 25 "Flying Fortresses," which have a cruising radius of over 5.000 miles, would bring the war home to the Germans where it would hurt most. Also, the British could strike smashing blows at Italian industries-and Italy is the Achilles heel of the Axis. The naval PBYs are needed in the crucial Mediterranean struggle With a range of 4.(MX) miles, these mighty flying boats could destroy Italian submarines, transports and supply ships. Italy has to transport everything she needs in her African offensive across the Mediterranean, and the PBYs could cripple this jugular vein. These planes also are needed to meet assault on Gibraltar, key to British control of the Mediterranean. They also would put Britain in a much stronger position to meet Spanish intervention. The army has a total of 59 "Fly ing Fortresses" plus a number of others in production, which are com ing from the factory at the rate of about seven a month The British would like to make an arrangement to obtain every oth er new ship Army Officials say this would not delay U S rearming, but would enable the manufacturer to expand his facilities and achieve a greater output The navy is amply supplied with I’BYs It already has 196 in service and 200 more being produced at the rate of one every 36 hours The new ships are considerably faster and more powerful than most of the 196 in service. Navy heads declare that 50 of these planes could be span ed without any impairment to navy air power. The British plan to fly the giant planes direct across the Atlantic, and crews of English and Amer ican airmen are being assembled in Canada for this purpose. Our esteemed and jovial rival, Franklin Pierce Adams, said that he made up a joke which he sees is now a campaign button. The one about Willkie for President—of Com monwealth A Southern. Fact is that a photograph of that button fan in the New York Mirror on the edi toral page and was a stale joke weeks before The Mirror editor ran it One of the Roosevelt boys was in I.a Conga the other night and a drunk started getting chummy. "My father and your father.” he hic coughed, "yoosh'd to be clash- matesh. She I want you to know we're for your pop” . . . The Roose veit boy straightened the chap's coat. "Yoosh don’t have to hold me up." he sulked. "I'm not holding you up." replied the President's son. 'Tm just straightening out the Willkie button in your lapel." Aii Expert Disagrees Dear Grant: I happened to see your article about Sammy Snead. How a man like you who has seen as much golf as you have can compare Sammy Snead's swing, which has a decided loop (which is preventing him from winning big tournaments), with a great swing like Harry Vardon’s baffles me. What do you mean about Hagen, Sarazen and J. II. Taylor being swingers? They certainly were not swingers, but decided hitters. And if you are writing on the subject of swingers, how can you possibly overlook Byron Nelson who, I per sonally think, is a much better swinger, and better grooved, than Snead has been last two years. To the layman your article might appeal, but to someone like myself w ho knows a little about it,' it is really funny. Sincerely yours, Jimmie Donaldson President Roosevelt, en route to ground breaking ceremonies for the new Recorder of Deeds building in Washington, is pictured as his car was parked before the Roosevelt Republican club headquarters. Right: The Republican presidential candidate, Wendell Willkie, is here shown shaking hands with E. E. Matthews when his train stopped at Dickinson, N. D. People came from far and near to see Willkie and to hear him speak, while on his western tour. Anti in Rebuttal— Dear Jimmie— I know of few golfers who swing a golf club better than you do—or few who know as much about the old game. But I can’t agree with you about Sammy Snead. You say he has a loop in his swing? So did Bobby Jones. Do you know a better swinger? Yet only a few days ago Bobby Jones told me that in his opinion Snead had the best all around swing with every club that he had ever seen—and Bob played with Vardon as far back as 1920. Bobby Jones was referring to the1 physical makeup of Snead's swing, not to his mental attitude in a cham A government appeal for aluminum pots and pans brought thousands of tons of these kitchen utensils from pionship. all over England into the rapacious maw of Britain's war machine. From sitting on fires these pots and pans Snead gets amazing results with will go to cloud-hopping in defense of the tight little island. At left, workmen are cleaning the aluminum little show of effort, of extra effort. scrap. Right, tons of ingots, once stewpots, on their way to become •'Spitfires” and Hurricane planes. Snead’s downfall has never been due to any fault in his swing—only to his inability to concentrate—only to his mental attitude, which as know is 70 per cent of golf. ______ u I played with Bobby Jones Pown Liquid Air days ago and he had a 65. I still got a thrill from the slow, smooth beauty of his swing, Bob still in sists that Snead is the top. The dif- ference is that Bobby could always concentrate and keep full control of his mental and nerve resource». Snead can't, Yet remember this— in his last four big tournaments, Snead has won three and reached the final hole against Nelson in the last P. G. A. I have seen Snead hit many a golf ball, but I have yet to see any "decided loop.” Brings Good Will Hagen anil Nelson Here's one for that feller from New York to end his Sunday night talk with: ”—who is glad to live in a land where confidence in a pres idential candidate means a button | in your lapel instead of a bullet in your back ” Two years ago Martha Scott ar rived in New York from James port. Mo., with $50 to carve herself a niche in the Thittir. Carleton Alsop was a socially prominent ra dio producer . . . He gave Martha the role of Alice Blair in one of his WOR serials because she needed a job to eat and because the script called for an unknown youngster out to achieve fame and happiness in the Big City . . . The hero of the strip drama was a mun-about-town author patterned after Al sop's per- sonality . . . The struggling Alice of the continuity eventually married the dashing hero. Just as the struggling Martha Scott, promoted from the hungry Rehearsal Club days- through her playing in the stage and screen "Our Town" and "The Howards of Vir ginia" was married the other day in a Fifth Avenue church to the pop ular Carleton Alsop. national crown and yet manje in- eluding Bobby Jones, pick the West Virginian as one of the top stylists since the first Scotchman socked a rock with a shepherd's crook and complained of the greens. Snead may be the "dream swinger” to many, but he isn't to Jimmie Donald son. an able stylist Grantland Rice nt his own and one of the top instructors of the game, In rating Snead as highly as we have, Jimmie thinks your corre- spondent is a trifle curious in the cupola—as follows— e Jump Russ Davenport quit Fortune to help Mr. Willkie, and wrote a piece for it about his man. So J. Cham berlain (formerly a book critic) of the paper wrote one for Roosevelt. Sort of a battle page. Wai, Russ took a dig at Johnny in his. Said something about not having the time to read a book as he was busy mak ing a President. The rest of the staff decided to go buy Russ a copy of Mortimer J. Adler's "How to Read a Book.” NOTES OF A NEW YORKER OW good a swinger is Sammy Snead eomnarerl compared tn to th» the Kp.f best of H all time? Snead has yet to win a Continuing our correspondence, I hate to disagree with an expert of your rank. But to my mind Walter Hagen is a better swinger than most. Hagen in his prime was one of the ideal swingers. Sarazen, with his stocky build, is more of a hitter than a swinger. We agree here. Sarazen doesn't think Snead has any loop, but he is afraid Snead is getting a trifle flat in his back swing. "The greatest fault in golf today,” Sarazen says. As for swingers—how about Henry Picard? Winning temperament—no. But a great golfer and a great swinger. Snead has had a better three or four-year record than Mac Donald Smith. Did you ever see a finer swinger than Mac Smith? Yet Mac Smith through 25 years never won a national title. Here was the great crime of all golf. Mac Smith with the golfing temperament of Walter Hagen or Byron Nelson would have won at least six championships. Imagine Sammy Snead with the mental atti tude of a Hagen or a Nelson—or the tremendous concentration of a Bobby Jones— Even as it is. I believe Sammy Snead will still astonish the world of golf. Wa tch him? Getting ready for his 35.000-foot parachute jump. A. H. Starnes of Greta Kubio. good will messenger Chicago, seated, tests himself for the seven-mile leap. Wind is blasted from Mexico, who will tour the L'niK against the chamois bag over his face at 200 miles per hour. The tempera ed States, She is a direct descend ture in the cabinet is below zero. ant of the last Inca ruler. Elliott Roosevelt Joins Air Corps No Rest for \\ earv* r I I F V / Suing Still Secondary ■ it Pi J 3 If you are thinking in terms of * J 4 swingers I'll give you my list—Bob »? by Jones. Harry Vardon. Sammy Snead. Waller Hagen. Mac Smith. Henry Picard and Paul Runyan. It also so happens that winning cham pionship golf belongs even more in the heart and above the shoulders than it does In the technique of any 1 swing. Elliott Roosevelt, son of President Roosevelt, has been sworn in as What about Bvron Nelson, one of • our best through many years' Nel captain in the Reserve Army Air corps. He has taken up his duties at son is a good swinger, who once in Wright field. Dayton. Ohio. Photo shows Elliott looking at a plane model a while gets his left wrist Led up 1 with Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of army air corps. 3 / N Jiisho Matsubashi. who has not lain down to sleep for 35 years, ar rives in Los Angeles, from Japan. Vice archbishop of the Shlngon Bud dhist sect, he fasts «5 days a year.
