Page Two
Illinois Valley News, Thursday. October 17. 1940
Air Raids Make Things ’Interesting’ in London
Washington, D. C.
Things I Never
FIFTH COLUMN EVIDENCE
Knew ’Til Now
The Dies investigating committee
t
now has documentary evidence of About K. Rockne A F ootball)
The reason most football players
Nazi fifth column operations in the
U. S. so explosive that its publica­ i wear silk trousers is because it's
tion might lead to a complete rup­ | hard for an opponent to get a grip
ture of diplomatic relations with on them . . . Twenty-five years ago,
football was considered so "brutal”
Germany.
Because of this the committee has that the legislatures of half a dozen
been nervously sitting on the load states passed a law making it a
of dynamite, uncertain what to do. penal offense to play the game . . .
It has consulted the state depart­ "Old Siwash” isn't something the
ment, which is just as jittery itself. radio gagmen thought up—it’s actu­
In fact, even more so. The de­ ally a college. (It's square monicker
partment foresees the inevitable ne­ is Knox college, and it's in Gales­
cessity of demanding the recall of a burg, Ill.) . . . When Knute Rockne
number of German diplomatic rep wa« captain of the Notre Dame foot­
resentatives, with certain retaliation ball team, he invited his mother to
by Berlin by the ousting of U. S. see him play against University of
officials. In the present delicate . Chicago. Rockne played more brilli­
state of U. S.-Axis relations, the de­ antly than ever, making long runs
partment doesn’t want to run that and spectacular pass catches. After
the game Knute proudly asked what
risk.
So on its urgent advice, the com-1 she thought of the spectacle. "It
mittee is sitting tight and continu­ was marvelous!" she said breath­
"That cheer-leader who
ing its secret probe of the subversive lessly,
Left: While the staff of the United States embassy in London works on in the building below their feet,
activities. * The documentary evi-. turned the pinwheels was wonder- these members of the staff are assigned to the roof scanning the skies for Nazi planes. Should the planes
ful!
”
dence in the possession of the com- J
< ome close, the warning is given. Right: Six men of the “Suicide Squad" bomb disposal unit of the Royal
mittee is staggering. It definitely J
Engineers lift a heavy time-bomb from the crater it caused when it plunged into a West London street.
As
a
tribute
to
Red
Grange,
the
establishes:
1. That the Nazi government is I Illinois football team has never re-
directly supervising and financing a issued his number, the famous "77,”
nationwide fifth column campaign to to any of its players . . . The win­
oppose and obstruct the defense pro-1 ner of the Minnesota-Michigan game
gram, the U. S. government's for­ each year gets possession of a little
eign policy and aid to Great Britain. brown jug which cost 18 cents!
2. That this activity is being car-I (Imagine 22 grown boys fighting
ried on through German consulates [ over that!) . . . Will Rogers once
and German-controlled papers, plus kiddingly asked Rockne if he
propaganda agencies of various thought his son could make the
"Fighting Irish" team if he went to
kinds.
Notre
Dame. "No doubt he could,”
3. That Nazi consuls get detailed
instructions from Berlin through reg­ replied Rockne. “but he might have
ular short-wave broadcasts in code. to change his name to Rogerski or
Rogeoli.”
Column Fuehrer.
Suspected master mind of the Nazi
South Bend, Indiana, the home of
fifth column is Dr. Manfreld Zapp,
head of the Trans-Ocean News Serv­ Notre Dame, is the only town in the
ice, a propaganda outfit with offices country with a statue honoring a
in New York and Washington. Zapp football player. The player honored
came to this country after being isn't the great Knute Rockne. as
booted out of South Africa by the you'd suppose, but George Gipp (his
star pupil) . . . Rockne has a more
British government.
Twenty-two
Two of the consuls implicated in practical memorial.
the evidence the committee has head coaches around the nation are
turned over to the state department men who were taught their football
are Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, at San A, B, Cs by him . . , Rockne's
big ambition was to have his son,
Francisco, and Herbert Scholz, at Knute Jr., follow
in his footsteps,
Boston.
Last year, the lad became a candi-
Scholz has been closely associat­
date for halfback on the Notre Dame
ed with Friedrich Ernst Auhaugen, team. During a scrimmage,
his
Nazi lecturer for “The American leg was fractured and it's been
so
Fellowship Forum,” who was seized weakened that he may never
be
in Los Angeles recently as he was able to play football.
attempting to board a ship for Ja­
pan. The committee is holding Au­
Rockne, who knew every trick in
haugen as a key witness.
the book of psychology, could turn
I.arge bombs for the royal Australian air force are pictured (left) being Tilled with explosives at the Com­
Other evidence in its possession defeat into victory between halves
discloses the existence of a secret in the locker room almost every monwealth explosives factory in Maribyrong, Australia. They will be put to use against military objectives
Fascist army in the U. S. running time. During the first half of one sf Germany and Italy. Right: Inspecting Vickers machine guns at the small-arms factory in Lithgow, Aus­
into the thousands. Chief organizers game, the Notre Dame team played tralia, before shipping for distribution throughout the British empire.
of this force have been the Ger­ very poorly, and the half ended with
man American Bund, the Ku Klux a score of 7—0 in favor of their op­
Kian and other "nationalistic” ponent. In the locker room, the
groups.
Notre Dame lads burst into a Cold
• • •
sweat, fearing what Rockne would
LOST LIBRARY
say. He said nothing during the
The favorite story of the Presi­ entire rest period. When the second
dent's at present is about a library half was called, he got up and mere­
that burned down in Georgia. Here's ly said. "Let's go. girls!”
how he tells it to callers:
A Georgia politico called on him
Rockne. who played the flute, al­
with a sorrowful plea to use his in­ ways insisted on taking the instru­
fluence to get a WPA grant for a ment with him to every Notre Dame
new library.
game. (He had a superstition that
"What happened to the old one?” it brought the team luck.) . . . The
asked the President.
Navy mascot goat inherits the job,
“It was destroyed by fire," re­ which is passed down from father
plied the visitor sadly. "And Mr. to son . . . President Woodrow Wil­
President, I fear for the literacy of son was once Princeton university's
my home folks if a new library isn't football coach. (He also coached at
built quickly. No town should be Wesleyan )
without a library. It's a great cul­
tural influence.”
K It . who had a nimble wit, was
“Absolutely." agreed the Presi­ at a loss for wolds only once tn his
dent. "How long has your town life, according to Warren Brown.
been without a library?”
After the Southern California game
“Seventy-six years.”
in 1930. J. P McEvoy, the humorist,
“Seventy-six years!"
and several newspaper men gath­
“Yes, sir
Sherman burned it ered in Rockne's dressing room and
down."
got into a discussion of art and lit­
erature with him. Rockne took ex-
c eption to one of McEvoy's argu-
LOCAL AIR BASES
The army air corps isn't saying menta. "That's just as silly as my
anything publicly, but it is making setting out to imitate Mencken,”
a quiet survey of all airports in the said Rockne. "Can you imagine
country for the purpose of locating me trying to imitate Mencken?”
"Why, yes," replied McEvoy.
new bases and training centers.
Objective behind the plan is to
A huge man-made waterfall Is shown spurting from the 11 tremen­
‘•Lulubelle” shows off her six-foot
Secure the greatest possible disper­ Notes of a Newsboy
dous outlet valves of the Boulder dam, in Nevada, creating a waterfall youngster at the San Francisco zoo.
sion of air forces necessary for de­
America now realizes that the higher than Niagara. When engineers opened the valves, they sent As excitement caused the death of
fense
Four cities already have road to isolation i-sids where it al- 30.000.000 gallons of water plunging into the mighty Colorado river. her two previous babies, news of the
been selected: New Orleans. West ways ends, with the enemy on your Twenty thousand tourists were there.
birth was withheld for 3 days.
Palm Beach, Fla.. Tallahassee. Fla., doorstep. Ironically, the only way
and Augusta, G ii
to get into this kind of trouble is
to run from it .
. Czecho-Slovakia
CAPITAL < HAFF
thought she had isolated herself
New French Ambassador Henri- from Austria
. . Poland thought
Haye was asked about French wine she had isolated herself from
clocks. He said. "The Germans Czecho-Slovakia
Norway
took France, and I'm sure they thought she had isolated herself from
found their way into the cellars. I Finland
Holland thought she
wouldn't be surprised if all the good had isolated herself from Norway
bottles have gone somewhere "
and Denmark
But each had
The Italian ambassador. Prince merely isolated herself from the
Colonna, has been in Washington help that would have saved her .
more than a year, but has not yet European advocates of isolation to­
sent his card, according to protocol, day wear the medals of the dicta­
to the Czech minister. This is Italy's tors Their own countries have dis-1
way of refusing to recognize that appeared
Czechoslovakia still exists.
While Gen Hugh Johnson. ex-NRA
The newss
and
boss, was blasting at Elliott Roose­ Broadway v
He
velt for being given a "paper work" pinned an 1
assignment as an air corps captain. picture on I,
Johnson's son. Capt Kilbourne right on Wei
Johnston, a regular army officer, got Edelson. tl
himself a desk job in the office of dashed into
the selective service administrator. other day i
Bernarr MacFadden, health cult­ children, wi
ist, magazine owner and big Florida mayor and police commissioner
realty owner, may take another with The Valorous Deed Medal , . .
Dr. Frederick Aughagen, German
President Roosevelt awards a gold star to Rear Admiral Richard E.
whirl for the senate. He is angling Comforting Thought The world w ill Byrd, to be attached to the suspension ribbon of his Distinguished Service citizen and former professor of lan­
with Florida G. O P. leaders to never belong to the Axis because Medal. The award was for his recent achievements in the Antarctic. guages at Columbia “U." who was
get his name on the party ballot each member of the Axis thinks the Photo shows President Roosecelt, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, arrested In Los Angeles and held
against Democratic Senator Charles world belongs to him.
and Rear Admiral Richard E. Bvrd.
i (ar lb« Dies committee.
Andrews
Australia Does Her Bit for Great Britain
Open Giant Boulder Dam Outlet Valves '
\dmiral Bvrd Awarded Gold Star
Six-Foot Babe
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