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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1941)
Illinois Valley News, Thursday, December 18, 1941 Page Two latest Additions to America’s Sea Power r r MEWIY-GO-noiiND \ U/W I Tri ? ? ANOTHER t ? ? ? ? The Questions Start of British-African Drive Guardians of Our W estern Coast Caught Short Behind the Enemy Lines 1. In British history, what is meant by the star chamber? 2. What is a menage? 3. What name is given to a poem in which the initial letters of the lines, when taken in order, form a word or words? 4. If London bridge should fall down, into what river would it land? 5. What is the plural of the word mongoose? 6. At what is a calligrapher adept? 7. One-fourth of a barrel is called what? 8. Who coached the “point-a- minute" team famous in football history? 9. When was the first star measured? 10. Which country first intro duced the lifeboat? The Answers 1. An ancient high court which sat without a jury. 2. A household. 3. An acrostic. 4. The Thames. 5. Mongooses. 6. Handwriting. 7. A firkin. 8. Fielding H. Yost. 9. Although the stars have been | scientifically studied for hundreds of years, not one was ever meas ured until December 13, 1920, when the diameter of Betelgeuse was determined with the aid of a special type of interferometer at the Mount Wilson observatory in California. 10. The lifeboat was a British in troduction. The first was launched at South Shields in 1789. There were many wrecks and great loss of life in the stormy waters at the entrance to the Tyne, and South Shields residents offered a prize for the design of a boat capa ble of riding the rough seas. The best points in the various designs submitted were combined in the ■ first boat. People's Will Nothing can ruin our country if the people themselves will under take its safety—and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands other than their own. —Daniel Webster. Tops in Chemistry St. Nicholas Loved lor Piety, Grace Recovers Sight • • • i tri i tl < ii u i e la getting increased Ever: icept tlie poor postman w ages. The co st <of living has gone up but itrike against the govern- The s iv air corps is wind-tunnel testing a new single-engine tighter plane tliät will do 512 miles an hour. 100 rm les faster than any other All the bugs plane iin existence. have be•en eliminated from the plane except on<r—finding a pilot who can safely fly a plane at that terrific 1 speed fN. [X. fX.. (X.. (X.. JX.. 0-<s.0.cs.r-0-<v.ts.<s.c-o-0-<v.o-<s.<v.cs.<s-<s. Washington, I). C. HIDDEN TREASURE With American industries crying for war materials, the government has finally got around to seizing a giant horde of semi-manufactured war materials originally intended for the conquered countries. Tons upon tons of steel bars, steei rods, steel sheets, ship plates, tin plate, copper wire were ordered by Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Holland and Belgium, some of it three years ago. It has been in warehouses and idle freight cars ever since, despite the scarcity of raw materials and despite the fact that some indus Our meihanized age certainly tries are even closing for lack of puts Santa at a disadvantage, be them. cause his reindeer never had trou Why this horde of priceless ma bles like this. Several Inches of terial remained untouched for so snow prove too much for his modern long is a mystery. But the secret carriage, so Santa Claus has to is first, government red tape and wield a snow shovel in front of a bureaucracy; second, the fact that New York store to free it. (Editor’s owners of these materials, who note: Wonder what he does at the were holding them for higher Above you see a "mosquito boat" of the U. S. navy zipping across the bows of a freighter in New Y’ork North pole where the snow is really prices, did not want to sell. The old Export Control board un harbor during a test run. Officially designated as “I’-T" boats, these little craft carry torpedo tubes and ma deep. ) der Gen. Russell Maxwell, who is chine guns in turrets and have terrific speed. Inset: Slipping into the waters of Los Angeles harbor is the now devoting his abilities to the 10,000-ton John Paul Jones, its name reminiscent of an earlier American ship. The cost was $1,650,000. Near East, did nothing about this treasure horde. But now Henry Wallace's Economic Defense board is finally moving in. A small haul was made earlier this year in Hoboken, N J., of alu minum and other materials, but the coming seizures are on a far great Early American colonies along the er scale. Of one commodity alone, Atlantic seaboard could have been tin plate, there will be 100,000 cases, located on different continents, so or 15,000 tons, taken from three far as their Christmas celebrations areas. New York, Philadelphia, and were concerned. Baltimore. Many of the customs of England The total haul of all commodities were followed by the southern colo will be between 20 and 25 thousand nics of Georgia, Carolina, Maryland I carloads, which, at an average of and Virginia. Here the Christmas 50 tons to the car, means over a season was a holiday in the true million tons. sense of the word. Feasting and The Economic Defense board will merrymaking were common, but re I use only $200,000 to finance the ligious worship and prayer were not requisitioning of all this material, forgotten. the value of which runs into many In sharp contrast to this happy millions. Most of it will be seized celebration was the manner in which and sold again on the same day, so Christinas was marked in New tlie $200,000 will be merely a re England. Puritan leaders did their volving fund. • • • best to create a different concep tion of the day. Celebrations were INTERNED ITALIANS declared pagan in origin, and it was One of the Italian ship officers in believed such rites were out of keep detention at Fort Missoula, Mont., ing with Uie true spirit of the day. wrote his wife in Italy a letter Their efforts were overcome after which U. S. officials are sure will m number of years and New Eng never reach her. land yuletides gradually assumed a The letter will get to Italy, all character more like those of old right. Mail is still being exchanged England. regularly between the two coun Christmas in the middle colonies tries. But authorities are certain of New York, New Jersey, Penn that the officer's letter will not get sylvania and Delaware was cele by II Duce's censors, for, in hungry, The picture at the left, made somewhere on the Egyptian-Libyan border, shows a Bren carrier coming brated in the manner that the col battered, war-weary Italy this through barbed wire that marked the Egyptian-Libyan border as the British opened their attack on Axis onists followed in their countries of poignant message would not be forces in the desert. At the right an artillery piece opens fire in a desert attack to push the Axis forces origin In addition to England, these "good propaganda." into the Mediterranean.—Soundphotos. colonies were populated by people This is the reason: from Germany, Holland and Swe "We left Philadelphia for the city den The Germans, for example, of Missoula." wrote the husband. brought to America the custom of "The journey lasted three days and using the Christmas tree, but the three nights on a train and was a Quakers of Philadelphia limited real pleasure. We did not lack a their observance to religious cere thing because we traveled in a Pull monies. man. At meal times we turned it Family reunions marked the sea into a dining room and at night son in both the middle and southern into a dormitory. The meals were colonics. Houses were crowded with magnificent. welcome guests who were treated "I can tell you that for me (he to the best of fowls, wines and journey was one I had dreamed of sweetmeats. for years and then, in an extraor Along the frontier Christmas was dinary way, it came true. As I a season of active merrymaking said before, this place is beautiful, which in places verged on rowdy all green with woods and surround ism ed by hills. The air is fine and As time went on, Christmas in healthy, my appetite very good nnd the various sections of the colonics the food abundant and exquisite. • We d< > not lack milk, butter. became fused until there is today bread, vegetables, fruit. a considerable similarity of prac meat. sugar <ar icoffee. When I am eating tices throughout the United States I always think of you, who are per- haps without food. No one can coinplain about the guards. They treat us with every respect and cons kit•ration " Note To Americans the effusive descriptio n of the food as "abun- The name of Santa Claus is mere uuni a nu exquisite" is interesting. ly slurring the Dutch San Nicho- becaus e the alien prisoners at Fort l.i which is, of course. Saint Nich Missoula are fed straight army olas American children are proba fare. In quality and quantity bly tile only ones who say it exactly their r a tu >ns are exactly the same that way as thos if U. 8. soldiers. Prof. R. J. Williams of Texas, Nicholas was an actual person, • • • (topi who was awarded the chemis lie was Bishop of Myra, in L.vcia. St It \r IRON IO .1 IRAN try medal of Columbia university A i.i Minor, in Hie first part of the Soon after word of the Japanese attack on Hawaii was flashed from for his discovery of panthothenic For ye. irs. the heaviest foreign Fourth century, A D. He was also buyer < < tJ. S. scrap iron was Japan. the White House. American aviators took to the air and the U. S. fleet acid. Below: His brother. Dr. R. the youngest bishop in the history of Despite• n inch public protesting, the steamed out of Pearl Harbor to meet the stealthy Japanese. This photo R. Williams of New York, who re the church. state depairtnnnt pe; nutted Nippon- (taken before the attack) shows the Pacific fleet steaming through the ceived same medal for isolation of olas ese milita rists to import huge quan- Golden («ate. Fro Ml tlu* iilav of his birth N vitamin Bl. rev ra led hii’ piety a nd gira<’0 He titles o f tlhis vital strategic niateri- rcfusi•d on fast day s to ta the al No w ,appeasement chickens are n.iturial nour ishment <af a c Id. corning h< une to roost. With de fense production swinging But N ich« )las was not a ti>a refoot .*d ! 1' verty. 11 reelu! fa- into full t ide, tlie U. S. suddenly is i wealthy merci at. and confrotiited with a serious scrap thcr ' e. For v anous reasons, de- his ri nablcd hi in to be • a efs are saying nothing hi good thing: in life. tense situation. But it it very was about t ft* ast of Saint Nich oli \ number of steel makers iber acute elebrated on r have |*ri\ atelv reported curtailed ages truxi to ress producta ori schedules in the offing the fr st IV * which g rew u und because? o f inability to obtain need- k»y fest ival cd Slipjjliv s of scrap iint a elm iportant plant executive One rist- be u ent Si> tl ir as to describe his con- ( tarli.Iin x* ( • leht at e<l in 9N says that Chris' Tra diti ■ A I) 9H It e held as • rast in A D. 137 record of or.4 io nit the lif ut A n 340. sit Cy m ade litigation 1IS to t tual carefi il ir ?hr'lat's birth and date i rtrd Dec er r 2í> as the rrlost n< cor- th is rect d ate F•ojx» Julius acci led the fr stivai al Hi »tue and eistai on thi i d ate. which w as act »tec1 by every na ti or . tn Christendo ASK ME J A General Quiz DPEW PEARSON & ROBERT ALLEN Christmas Marked In Early Colonies lly Jollity, Feasting fN.. I This photograph, which was passed by the German censors and Bernard M. 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