Illinois Valley News, Thursday, September 4, 1941
Page Two
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Shov. n here arc the ruins of a canning factory at Swedesboro. N
after a tornado had ripped it to pieces. George Heniplc, of Swedesboro,
was crushed to death when a 150-foot steel stack at the cannery fell on
and smashed the truck in which he was sitting. Eighty others were in­
jured in the cannery. Other sections of Delaware and New Jersey suffered
damage from the storm.
The U. S. 8. Silversides, another
$6,000,000 submarine for the navy, is
launched at Mare island, Vallejo,
Calif. Five other submarines are
under construction at the Mare is­
land navy yard. Mrs. James J. Ho-
gan was sponsor.
Shot by \ssa»in
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i he U. S. army’s provisional GIIQ tank destroyer battalion unveiled
Its weapons at impressive demonstrations at Fort Meade, Nd. This sound-
plioto shows a fast new "tank killer" (at left) firing its 75-mm weapon at
tank (right) during tactical experiments in maneuvers.
Pierre Laval, foremost collabora­
tor with German "new order,” who
was shot in Versailles bv an assas­
sin posing as a volunteer in French
legion recruited to fight Russia.
Now Sen ing
I hike of Kent Welcomed to New Ù ork
Training schooner, Verna, one of
America's largest yachts before
conversion to V. 8. service, sails
from New $ ork on maiden training
cruise with some 100 apprentice sea­
men aboard. The ship was present­
ed to t'ncle Sam for $1.
III* royal highness, the duke of Kent, brother of King George VI of
I ngl.ind, is well omed Io New t ork city bi Mayor Fiorello II. LaGuardia.
The duke, In ;• plane of the Canadian air force, landed at LaGuardia
field. where this pit lure was made, lie took an automobile for Hyde
Park. where he spent the week-end with President Rooseselt.
l imini» Kidu
Ila«ana injuring 1'• person*
chain of five bomb
and wri t king store fronts. I'olli c believe the bomb* were thrown by
an anti Spanish political group, the store
la Moda.” well known to
tourists from Miami and other parts of the I S.. I* *hown after the
blast.
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\ surprise strike of street < ar and
bus operators caused 4M.0M work­
ers in Detroit to struggle with make­
shifts. Here Evelyn Maleski and
Daphne Hare are thumbing their
way to work.
Washington, D. C.
A CTO CUT
That fanfared OPM cut of 264
per eent in auto production drew no
cheers from war department chiefs.
To them it was a big disappoint­
ment
First of all the cut looks a lot
bigger than it actually is. For one
thing the OPM carefully did not re­
veal in its hoopla press releases
was the fact that even with this
curtailment auto production still
will be 10 per cent greater than in
1938 and 1939.
In other words, notwithstanding
the increasing shortage of strategic
raw materials, such as steel, rub­
ber, alloys and other metals, auto
production is to continue at levels
higher than in the peaceful years of
’38 and '39.
Another reason for the army
oom was that it wanted an imme­
diate cut of at least 50 i#r cent
For months war department heads
pleaded and argued with OPM mo­
guls for drastic curtailment, on the
ground that the material going into
pleasure cars are desperately need­
ed for planes, tanks, ships, guns and
other vital armaments.
But for
months the OPM masterminds did
absolutely nothing.
Finally, in July, scrappy OPACS
Director Leon Henderson, who has
seen eye-to-eye with the army on
this issue from the start, took the
bull by the horns and "ordered”
a 50 per cent slash.
OPM’s reaction was to hit the ceil­
ing. It refused to accept the ruling.
And while OPM battled behind the
scenes with OPACS, autos continued
to roll off assembly lines in record­
breaking numbers. However, Hen­
derson's bare-knuckling finally took
effect. The 264 per cent cut is a
little less than half of what the army
and Henderson wanted, but it is 64
per cent more than OPM's original
figure.
TANKS FOR BRITAIN
Some time ago the Merry-Go-
Round revealed that a chief objec­
tive of Lord Beaverbrook’s visit was
to get more tanks—tanks for Iran;
tanks for Egypt, tanks eventually
for an invasion of the continent.
Beaverbrook particularly wanted the
new powerful 32 tonners that soon
will roll off the Chrysler assembly
line at the rate of 450 a month.
It can now be revealed that the
British supply minister will not go
home empty handed. lie will take
back with him very cheering assur­
ances regarding the division of these
tanks between the U. S. and British
armed forces. But that isn't the end
1 of his tank problem.
Allotting tanks to the British in
this country is one thing, but deliv­
ering them across the Atlantic is
another.
In fact, the problem of transport­
ing largo numbers of 32-ton tanks
is the toughest shipping problem
maritime experts have faced since
the magnetic mine, which ravaged
shipping until the de-magnetizing de­
vices were evolved.
In a nutshell here is the problem:
For every shipload of light 12 ton
tanks sent to England or Africa, the
same ship plus nearly three-fourths
of another ship would be required to
transport the same number of 32-
ton tanks. In other words, they are
bigger. Translated into specific fig­
ures—that 26-ship convoy which
landed 560 light tanks at Alexandria
three months ago would have had
to cohsist of 44 vessels to carry
the same number of medium tanks
With shipping scarcer than hens
teeth, a difference of 18 ships is an
extremely important factor, Also,
the necessity of traveling in slow
convoys further reduces the amount
of shipping available Some experts
estimated this reduction as high as
50 per cent In addition the British
sometimes take an excessively long
time to unload cargoes.
So the tank problem thus also be­
comes an acute shipping problem.
One bright spot in the situation is
the great reduction in ship losses in
the last 60 days since the extension
of the U S. neutrality patrols. But
the basic problem of securing more
cargo bottems still remains.
Note Since January 1. U. S ship­
yards have turned out a total of 56
cargo vessels.
MERRY-GO-ROl ND
Army officers are singing the
praises of 20th Century-Fox's Darryl
Zanuck and many movie moguls
for their big job in filming 100 reels
of army training films
This was
the first time training films have
ever been taken, and Hollywood did
them for 40 per cent of what it would
have cost Hollywood itself to do the
job. In other words, the army only
had to pay union labor and cost of
film. Hollywood supplying the stu­
dios. production, overhead and ev­
erything else.
The W ashington Diplomatic corps
goggle-eyed over Mrs. Warren
Pierson’s new book. "The Good
Neighbor Murder ” Her husband is
head of the Export-Import Bank
which loa ms million* to the Good
Neighbors
Dr I. Lubin, brilliant White House
defens expert, is the most "ofllced”
official in Washington. He has an
office tn the White House, another
in the labor department as head of
the bureau of labor statistics, a
third in the labor division of OPM.
and a fourth in the treasury a* an
adviser tis Secretary Morgenthau.
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One Too Many
Her Secret
“Why do they always call
ture ‘she’?”
he asked:
“Because no one knows
“How many coats of paint do old she is.”
you give a door?”
“Two, my boy,” was the reply,
If you don’t strike oil in
“Then if you give it three minutes' talk, you should stop bor­
coats,” said the lad brightly, “it ing.
would be an over-coat?”
“No, my lad,” retorted the
Why Tell It?
painter grimly, “it would be a
It ICO, a very net nizht when Jones
waste coat.”
knocked at the door of hit friend
| Young Alec was watching a
' house painter at work. Presently
Walls.
“Hallo!’' exclaimed Watts. “I’m xtad
Wife—That boy of ours gets to see you. Come in!"
“I don’t think I dare,” Jones protest
more like you every day.
Hubby—What’s he been up to ed. “My feet are very dirty.”
“That doesn't matter. Just keep your
now?
boots on.”
Prelude
The big difference between hu­
man and vegetable life is that in
vegetation the sap rises.
SOMETHING ELSE
No Sale
Lawyer—That’ll be $10, please.
Client—What for?
“My advice!”
“But I'm not taking it.
Another’s Pattern
Pop—So your engagement to
that rich deb is off. I thought you
One of the most unfortunate said she doted on you?
Son—She did; but her father
phases of specialization in modern
industry is the one of the initiative proved to be an antidote.
faculty. There are millions of
people in this country who never
While Iron Is Hot
really think, never act on their
•'I hear your new lodger is a
own responsibility. They do not very impetuous fellow. Does ev-
have to. They are simply cogs erything in the heat of the mo­
in vast machines. They follow the ment.”
pattern marked out for them.
“Yes, it’s his job. He is a black­
They never try to make one.
smith.”
“You can’t loaf in the race for news ..
says BEVERLY HEPBURN, Newspaper Reporter
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C’opr. 1941 by
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Independence of Opinion
It is easy in the world to live
after the world’s opinion; it
i" is
easy in solitude to live after our
| own; but the great man is he who
in the midst of the crowd keeps
with perfect sweetness the inde-
pendence of solitude.—Emerson.
HE PUBLIC nature of advertising bene­
fits everyone it touches. It benefits the
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public by describing exactly the products that are offered. It
benefits employees, because the advertiser must be more fair
and just than the employer who has no obligation to the public.
These benefits of advertising are quite apart from the obvious
benefits which advertising confers—the lower prices, the higher
quality, the better service that go with advertised goods and firms.
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