Illinois Valley News, Thursday, August 21, 1941
Page Two
Vi here New U. S. Base Is Taking Shape
Two-Thirds Loaf
“How many people work in the
government office?”
“About one-third of them.
DRESSING
THE PAPERS OF
Washington. D. C.
PI RK I I
FAR EAST POKER GAME
For perspective on the present
South Pacific tug-of-war between Dear Ma —
Well, I gess maybe 1 will be tossed
Japan and Britain, it is well to re
member that for years Thailand, into the guard house again or shot
or put peeling
then known as Siam, was a pawn
more
potatus
in the power game of the bigger
< and I don’t know
nations of the Pacific.
witch is worser)
In this game the United States
I got one of them
had a hand
For years. American
Maude looks good enough to eat.”
post cards from
financial advisers have been at
“Be careful! They say she em
the
Sen.
Wheeler
tached to the Thailand throne, one
ploys artificial coloring matter.”
First Committee
of them having been Francis Sayre,
and what I read
son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson, now
high commissioner of the Philip in the newspapers about all the fuss
being made about it makes me aw-
pines.
He wooed Thailand on many oc ful nervous. Only ' some good luck
casions, including the ornate recep will save me. I wrote a note to
tion given the former king of Siam, the President like the Senator asked
who as "Supreme Arbiter of the me to saying I was against getting
Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother into the European war. (I did not
of the Moon. Half Brother of the say positively though.) And I ex
Sun and Keeper of the Twenty-four plained while I was against it I
Golden Umbrellas,” came to Wash wood go peacefully if ordered.
BiTfEf.
ington in the days of Herbert
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But even this was wrong and only
Hoover and was regally entertained.
In the lower left is a view of part of the construction work on the V. 8. base site at the British island of Trin
THROUGH THE
The British were even more in a letter I just got from Nellie Pe idad, where the government is spending millions to make more secure the approaches to the Panama canal.
tersen
keeps
me
from
a
nervus
USE OF
terested in the Siamese
British
Above is shown Major StaiTord, commander of the marines at Trinidad, shaking hands with Commander St.
Type
advisers for a time ran the king breakdown It seems I wrote a let George Lindsay of Britain's royal navy. Kight: American ships unloading cargoes of material at Port of Spain.
dom's
government,
trained
its ter to Nellie the same time I wrote
discovered sy
army, supplied the one or two ships to Washington, and by mistake I
JOHANN
put the letter about not getting Into
for its navy.
6UTEN0ER6
But half a dozen years ago the the war in Nellie's envelope and
IM 1454.
Japanese began preaching the doc sent to Mr. Roosevelt the letter I
trine of Asia for the yellow man, | meant for Nellie.
and Siam for the Siamese That
was how tile name came to be
This wood seem a good break I
changed to Thailand, a nationalistic gess but I am not two sure becuz
token of home rule.
how will the President know? The
Reason for Japan's interest in this letter he got just began “My Darl
THÉ 5ÉTT« WAy TO TREAT
small country was not nationalism, ing Nellie” and what will he think
CONSTIPATION DUE TO LACK C-
but the fact that a slender finger of a private calling his superior a
PROPER "BULK" IN THE PIET 15 Ï0
of land, about as wide as the Isth name like that? In the very first
CORRECT THE CAUSE OF THE
mus of Panama, called the Isthmus sentence of the letter witch he has
TROUBLE WITH A DELICIOUS
of Kra. is controlled by Thailand A it says “Remember all your prom
,
CEREAL, KELLOGG'S .
canal through this isthmus, connect ises to me my dear, and what is
ALL-BRAN... EAT I KLtiyrf
ing the Indian ocean and the Gulf to keep him from thinking I am
of Siam, would give a new short talking about the very promises
route from the Pacific to India, ren mentioned on that Wheeler post
der Singapore impotent, and cut card? He will not know I am just
three days from the trip between talking about the promises Nellie
Petersen made to me about not
Indo-China and Burma.
with Sergeant Mooney no
Such a canal would leave Singa- dancing
1
Establish a Standard
and about marrying me if I
pore’s giant guns and expensive more
1
Let us raise a standard to which
get through kitchen police du
naval bases guarding an out-of-date ever
1
the wise and honest can repair;
sea highway, almost as unimpor- ties.
1
• • •
the rest is in the hands of God.—
tant as the Straits of Magellan after
George Washington.
I think that the letter witch I
the Panama canal was built.
sent to President Roosevelt by mis
That is one reason the British are j
take also says I am holding him
ready to fight to keep the Japanese
to every promise he made last year
out of Thailand
witch means Nellie's promises about
what Doctors do for it
• •
Doctors know that gai trapped in the stomach or
always being true to me and not
gullet may act like a hair-trigger on the heart. They
BRITISH INVASION PLANS
set gas free with the fastest-acting medicines known
the President’s campaign promises
— the fastest net like the medicines in Bell-ana
First British plan for an invasion
i
Tablets Try Bell-ana today, if the FIRST DOSE
but he will not know this I am
doesn’t prove Bell -ans better, return bottle to us and
of the continent (since the start of afraid. I think I closed this letter
receive DOUBLE money back. 25c. at all drug stores.
the Russian-Nazi conflict) was a with a line like “I am very serious
the present World war is an experimental ground for many things that “were never done before.” Typical
landing tn Holland This, it was fig about tins, honey bunch, and if you
Life a Gift
ured, would get sympathetic support go back on your word and try to of the nc ver-nevers was the fetish that men and women could not work or fight together in the same regiment,
Whatever a man has, is in real
from the Dutch; would create a sec two-time me in any way I will take At an artillery practice camp in England these taboos are ousted. Left, we see men and women of the battery
ity only a gift.—Wieland.
ond front requiring Hitler to divert no nonsense." You can see what a parading together, and on the right they are receiving gun instruction together. The test is successful.
part of his troops and airplanes fix I am in, ma
Every time 1
from the Russian front.
see an officer coming my way I
The original British idea was to think General Marshall has sent for
have the United States co operate in me.
a landing force.
This, however,
I am in bad with Nellie two on
scarcely got beyond the informal
Cranky? Restless?
suggestion stage. It was immedi account of she does not know what
Can't sleep? Tire
■
easily? Because of
to
make
of
the
ately and emphatically vetoed, first,
distress of monthly
for political reasons, second, be letter witch she
functional disturbances? Then try
cause Roosevelt did not have the got from me and
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound.
witch
was
meant
power to send troops abroad; third,
Pinkham's Compound Is famous
because of the scarcity of shipping for the President
for relieving pain of Irregular periods
to transport and supply an Amer She says that I
and cranky nervousness due to such
am a louse for
ican army overseas
disturbances. One of the most effec
tive medicines you can buy today
Since then, none of the proposals ever writing it in
for
this purpose — made especially
first
place
for creating a second European the
lor women. WORTH TRYING!
Nellie I
Every time I have
front has contemplated any Amer
have told her I was every inch a
ican participation.
fighting man and that war held no
The second idea discussed was a terrors for me, no matter whether
Doing of Revenge
British attempt through Spain and it was on home grounds or where,
Revenge converts a little right
Portugal
This alsu scarcely got so I look pretty foolish to her writ
Into a great wrong.
beyond the discui ssion stage, because ing a letter to the President that
it was figured, first, that the Ger-
man army probably could take over
Spain by the time British troop be-
gan to land; second, that even i if
Come what may. ma. I am in a
M foothold could be obtained. a
march across the Pyrenees to tough spot and I feel two worried to
write more now except to close say
France would be too difficult
ing I love you like always
The only part which Ute United
Your loving son,
UE to dietary indiscre
States might have played tn such
a plan was to send food ships with
tions, change of drink
which to help win over the Spanish
ing water or sudden changes
lina Dodo wants to do her part
population
in weather can be quickly
in Uie "V” campaign, so she is
Norway Heavily Fortified.
relieved by Wakefield’s
Roger ('. reace, the new senator
wearing a V-neck sweater.
Since then another plan for pos
Blackberry Balsam. For 94
from South Carolina. publisher of
sible British invasion of Norway has
the News-Piedmont, Greenville, S.
years a household remedy.
IWEET!
TWEET!
been discussed However, this also
V scene at the American base in Greenland, showing two patrol ships C., who was appointed by Governor
Sold at all drug stores.
The St George hotel at Bermuda
is difficult The Nazis now have 10
tied to an oil tanker, with a coast guard tug beside them. In far ba< kground Maybank to fill out unexpired term
Be sure to ask for genuine
divisions in Norway, more impor Is now occupied by the U S. engi is a I . S. army transport, while in the foreground can be seen soldiers of late Sen. Alva I umpkin. who died
neers
corps,
the
picturesque
Inve
tant. they have been working fever
aboard the transport from whiih this was taken. This picture is from after serving less than two weeks
itti characteristic German rurie is occupied by the British the first shipment of photos of the American forces in Greenland.
Wakefield’s
in the senate.
contraband
control,
the
Bermudian
i to fortify Norwegian
and Princess have been taken
tssible invasion points
factor holding back the by the censorship bureau anc
uompouna
however, has been i their Elbow Beach hotel will soon b
navy
officials
armored equipment l
Al cupied by U S
Custom a Habit
the British army is about good regulation honeymoon in
Custom
is almost a second na
pretty
difficult
country
seems
strong, only about ' 750,000
ture.—Plutarch.
with n n odern now
most serious
1 111 HON I I MOON Is 05 I
heir equipment is the lack
The two lovebirds
•I t
Are having w
more vo
. a loss
mailed,
mtinent
it was
a pow-
Merrill
of th<
A "Mixed’ Artillery Battery in Britain
INDIGESTION
Vnieriran Base in Greenland
Nervous Restless
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\d\ iscr to Stimson
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the fir»t tinte since the World war. fighting photographers arc
bring trained by the 1 . S. army, the photographers are taught to crawl
up into the front lines and get pu lures of real action. Here one of the front
lines lens lads at It. Benning. Ga.. leaps a trench, camera in hand. Be*
hind him comes his a^Ktant with film and other equipment.
Maj. Gen. John F. O'Ryan of New
York, veteran commander of the
New York National Guard, who has
been appointed senior adviser to
Henry Stimson, secretary of war.
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