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Friday, May 16, 1941
U. S. Seizes Nazi Sailors
Spotting Saboteurs
Plant parasites and diseases which come to America from for­
eign lands cost I ncle Sam about 3 billions per year. But the I S.
is busy trying to stop these saboteurs. .4 chain of plant quarantine
stations has been established around our borders where incoming
plants must pass rigid inspections. These photos take you to on«’ of
these "agricultural Ellis Islands" at Hoboken. X. J.
George Becker, chief entomologist at the Hoboken plant quar­
antine station, pointing to an enlarged picture of a new beetle,
which is found in plants coming from South .4 morirà.
Washington. D. C.
MEDITERRANEAN KEY
Key to the fateful battle of the
Mediterranean which is about to
burst in full fury is not the Suez
canal, but Britain's great naval base
at Alexandria. 125 miles west of
die canal entrance.
The loss of Alexandria would de­
prive the British of their key
“bridgehead” in northern Africa
and ensure Axis domination of the
eastern Mediterranean.
Actually, the Suez canal itself has
been of little value to the British
for months. It went out of use as
the so-called "life-line of the em­
pire" when the Axis air attack that
severely damaged the air carrier Il­
lustrious proved it was suicidal to
attempt to convoy shipping through
the long and narrow waterway.
Since then the Mediterranean has
been a "no man’s land” for all the
belligerents. While 2.000 miles in
length, its narrow width at certain
places has made it extremely haz­
ardous for both sides, and the Brit­
ish have been routing their shipping
around the Cape of Good Hope for
In another direct anti-N'ail move, government agents rounded up more
some time.
than 160 stranded Nail seamen for shipment to American “concentra­
Loss of the Mediterranean would, tion camp or campa.’’ This soundphoto shows some of those seised board­
of course, be a serious blow to the ing a cutter at New York, cn route io Ellis Island for detention.
British; but it would by no means
end the war or mean victory for the
Axis. With her fleet Intact, Britain
would still be able to carry the light
to Hitler and Mussolini.
Good W ill Flight Ends in Tragedy
Lord Halifax, British ambassador
to the U. N., shown as he delivered
Ills speech in behalf of American aid
to Britain, in Chicago, lie declared
“war's end must bring a system by
which all men will find opportunity
to build the foundations of a good
and decent life.“
Against War
MACHINE TOOLS
Chief reason behind the big cur­
tailment in auto production was the
release of urgently needed machine
tools for defense. The machine tool
bott^'neck could be broken over­
night if all the machine tools owned
by the motor industry were turned
to the making of planes, tanks and
other armament.
Defense experts estimate that
there are around 1.500.000 machine
tools in the U. S., of which more
than half are in plants making mo­
tor vehicles or parts for them, and
in the allied metal fabricating In­
dustry. The list includes grinders,
milling machines, lathes, boring
machines, presses, gear cutters,
drillers, and shapers, all vital in the
production of defense equipment.
New output of machine tools is
)W speeding at the rate of 14.000
month.
This is a spectacular
¡hievement and a great tribute to
* industry. But it is only a drop
the bucket compared to the
1.000 machine tools already pos­
ised by the auto and metal ta b-
ating industries, which army rnen
would increase defense produc-
to full flow immediately if
ed and devoted entirely to this
Inspectors f tnminin/! a ship­
ment of orchids from England.
Y es, even the ultra-aristocratic
orchid may have diseases and lice.
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Bolivian Minister Don Luis Gauchalla. second from left, examines
personal effects of Capt. Rafael Rivas, aide io chief of the Bolivian air
corps, who died when his good-will plane crashed during take-off from
Washington, D. C., airport. Captain Taborga. aide to president of Bolivia,
was taken alive from the flaming wreckage, but in critical condition. The
ship crashed on the second leg of a lS.OOO-mlle good-will flight.
Eormer Gov. Philip l.aEollclle of
Wisconsin, as he drllverrd a firry
anti-war speech In llinsdalr. III. He
urged that America remain at peace.
President Opens Defense Savings ( Campaign
1 lappv Birthday?
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HIDDEN COLLEAGUE
A
stocky,
gray-haired
man,
tanked by a group of sightseers,
ipproached a Capitol policeman and
isked directions to the office of Sen.
liram Johnson of California.
Tucked away in an obscure cor-
icr of the north side of the Capitol
inhere tourists never tread. John-
on's office is one of the hardest to
nd in the great structure. .
“1'11 do my best to explain how
o get there,” said the policeman.
Are you a tourist?”
“No,” grinned the inquirer, “I’m
tie other senator from California,
enator Downey.”
FERRY SCHOOL
Scale Sleuth ... Inspector Her­
bert Sanford studying an import­
ed lymbidium orchid u ith a pow­
erful hand lens. He is looking
for scale insects.
Close B'ork ... It takes a mi­
croscope to spot some species of
bug and blight saboteurs. Here
Chief Inspector Emil Kostal ex­
amines imported plants.
Everybody is wondering how the
swarms ot fighting planes which
U. S. factories will produce for the
British in the next 12 months will
be delivered overseas. The answer,
for the big ships, is that they will
be flown across—and in such great
numbers that the British are setting
up a special pilot training school for
that purpose, in the United States.
The school will give an intensive
refresher and training course to vol­
unteer pilots to qualify them tor
“ferrying” the big bombers across
the Atlantic.
President Roosevelt is shown as he purchased the first defense savings
The volunteers may be British, bond and officially opened the treasury’s multi-million dollar defense
Canadian, of American. However, savings campaign. The new savings stamps and bonds arc on sale at
it is expected that the largest num­ post offices and banks and range from 10 cents to (10,000 in denomination,
bers will be Americans. The British Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau is shown handing the President his bond
can use 250 of them.
just before the nation-wide radio addresses.
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Faisal II, king of Iraq, who cele­
brated hla sixth birthday while the
artillery ot his army was shelling
British troops who had taken refuge
in the R.A.F. base at Hahbanlyab,
Iraq. Pro-Nail Rashid Beg Gallant
Is In the saddle as premier of Iraq.
GOOD NEIGHBOR PILOTS
Lethal Chamber . . . Workers of the quarantine station are re­
moving cases of plants from a lethal chamber, where the insects
with which the plants were infected were slain with gas fumes.
Another "Good Neighbor” gesture
will soon be made to our immediate
neighbor to the south, Mexico. The
state department will offer pilot­
training courses to a number of
Mexican youths in the United States.
Initiator of the idea was Vice
President Henry Wallace. When he
visited Mexico last year, one of the
problems discussed was the short­
age of aviators in the Mexican
army. Wallace was told that Mex­
ico wanted to undertake a pilot­
training program similar to that in
the United States, but lacked planes
and instructors.
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Chamber Hears Army and Navy Chiefs
Greek leader
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Leading economists rate the in­
dustrial and financial surveys com-
i pleted by the O’Mahoney monopoly
committee as the most valuable
source material on the economy of
the country ever compiled.
Department of agriculture is rec­
ommending a new plant to hold soil
Members of the United Mates Chamber of Commerce attending the
in the gullies—but they wish the
Japanese would tell how to produce twenty-ninth annual meeting In Washington heard from the top-ranking
the seed. Known as kudzu, it is one officers of the army and navy. Photo shows, L. to R„ Gen. George C.
of the plant secrets of Japan. It Marshall, U. 8. army chief of staff; Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of
serves not only as a soil binder but naval operations; Thos. Mclnnerney, vice president Chamber of Commerce.
also as a feed, surpassing alfalfa.
General Tsolakoglu, who signed
the Greek surrender at (Salonika,
and who is reported to have formed
a new government, rival to that of
King George II at Crete.