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Illinois Valley News, Thursday, October 10. 1940
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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unpublished government figures.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.
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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.
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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—
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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
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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
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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.
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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.