Friday, August 8, 1941
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Picture in upper left shows reconnaissance cars at Fort Benning. Ga.. being towed across a stream by
an armored scout car during maneuvers. Upper right: Radio picture showing Red army’s amphibian tanks
crossing an unnamed river near the German-Russo war front. Below: United States marines leave landing
barges near Jacksonville, N. C., and splash ashore to establish a beachhead during “Invasion’* maneuvers.
With the First Cavalry Maneuvers
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Shown above are two scenes in the Texas-New Mexico war maneuvers, where 17.000 men and officers en
gaged in cavalry maneuvers, in the broiling heat of the arid Southwest. In the upper picture cavalrymen
are shown on the march across the desert. The picture below shows one of the army's light tanks participat
ing in the maneuvers.
Women Lend a Hand in Russia
Youthful Patriot
,
Russian Red Cross nurses ride a truck to their posts during an anti
war raid drill in Moscow, U.S.S.R. Recently these nurses have been
working under fire, as the Nazi Luftwaffe attempted again and again to
burn out this camouflaged capital of painted spires and teeming mil
lions. Moscow's citizens took the raids stoically.
New Blood for U. S. Navy
Thousands of Americans who have never set foot on a warship have |
steed their blond for the U. 8. navy. A shipment of that blood, dried
and processed, is shown being taken aboard a man-o-war at Philadelphia
savy yard. The blood waa collected by the American Red Cross. It
keep« indefinitely under proper conditions.
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Bill Stahl Jr. is only 20 months
old, but he is giving his toy autos
to Fire Lieut. Edward McLaughlin
of New York. The toys contain alu
minum, which is needed for defense.
It was Junior’s contribution during
National Aluminum week.
Freed by Spain
Josephine Winter, 25, American
ambulance driver, who was held in
jail at FLgueras, Spain, for 11 days
on suspicion of being a spy, shown
on her return to the V. 8.
Washington. O. C.
BIG DAY FOR NEWS MEN
Twenty newspaper men leaned
forward around the long blue baizo
table in the ante-room of the secre
tary of state. At the extreme end
stood tall, austere acting secretary,
Sumner Welles. On his face was an
expression of grim-lipped Intensity.
In his hand was a typewritten state-
1 ment. He read it aloud. It was a
scathing, carefully worded blast
against Japan.
At tiie opposite end of the table
■tood three Japanese news men,
short, affable, eager. For months
and years they bad been attending
press conferences, given the same
1 privileges as any American news
men.
For months also they had
waited for some such bombshell.
Now it came.
One split second after Welles fin
ished reading his statement, the
Japanese were out the door, pat
tering down the marble corridor to
the press room telephones. It was
a big day for Japanese news men.
Finally Ickes Wins.
It was also a big day for certain
members of the .Roosevelt cabinet.
For months and years they also had
been waiting. For months and years
also they had been urging Roosevelt
to embargo oil shipments to Japan.
At a cabinet meeting just before
Japan moved. Secretary Ickes, as
new oil administrator, raised the em
bargo question again. He proposed
to stop oil shipments to Japan. But
the acting secretary of state said
no. Japan, he said, was going to
make a move toward IndoChina
and it would be wiser to wait.
Once before. Ickes had stopped a
shipment of oil to Japan and aroused
the wrath of the state department.
Last June a Philadelphia manufac
turer complained to him that a Jap
anese ship was loading 240.000 gal
lons of lubricating oil.
“I can't get oil myself to speed
up my own defense orders,’* wrote
the manufacturer, “and yet I see in
front of my nose this shipment of
oil going to Japan. To hell with
defense, if the government is as
screwy as that.’’
So Ickes called the coast guard
and asked them to act before the
oil was loaded. They did.
Then things began to boil. It did
not leak out at the time, but the
state department complained to the
White House that Ickes' action had
interfered with the policy of appeas
ing Japan so she would not go south
to the Dutch East Indies
I , However, Ickes held his ground.
He insisted that he was not med
dling in foreign policy, but that it
was nonsense to ration oil and gas
on the Atlantic seaboard and at the
same time let Japan ship oil away
from the Atlantic seaboard.
In the end Ickes won.
Bombard Tokyo.
Naval strategists make no secret
as to what they would do to curb
Japan They consider it foolhardy
and suicide to send a lot of U. S.
warships across the vast expanse of
ocean to Singapore or the Dutch
East Indies.
They figure we are going to get
into the war anyway, and it is good
strategy to deal knockout blows in
the very first round. They favor
sending waves of U. S. bombers
from the Philippines to raze the
paper and bamboo cities of Tokyo,
Yokohama. Kobe and Osaka. They
also favor sending the fleet, plus
airplane carriers to the coast of Ja
pan.
They favor doing this immediate
ly. There is no use. say the navy
men, of punching at a man's legs
when you can strike for his heart.
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CLOSING PANAMA TO JAPAN
Secretary Stimson was telling the
absolute truth when he denied that
the discovery of a time-bomb was
responsible for keeping 10 Japanese
ships out of the Panama canal For
this was not the reason.
Real reason why the canal was
barred to the Japanese was the dis
covery that two of their ships were
floating bazars being rushed to the
east coast of South America to grab
off the trade which Axis operators
were forced to abandon as a result
of the U. S. blacklist.
Apparently the Japs had a tip
that the blacklist was going to be
issued, because the two ships hasti
ly left the west coast and were wait
ing to go through the canal, when
suddenly the blacklist was published.
Equipped with elaborate merchan
dizing displays, and carrying high- ,
powered, Spanish-speaking sales
men, the ships were literal arsenals
of economic warfare. With them,
the Japanese would have invaded
the most lucrative markets in Latin
America before either tffe U. S. or
the Latin Americans could have
i moved to block them.
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
U. S. authorities are quietly keep
ing an eye on Andre Maurois, well-
known French writer, who has de
parted on a mysterious “private
mission” to South America. Maurois
is strongly pro-Vichy and is suspect
ed of going south for the purpose of
plugging the Nazi-controlled French
regime.
The army's new heavy tank la
equipped not only with machine guns
and a 75-mm. gun, but also with a
nice shiny horn to keep soldiers
themselves from getting in the way.
(■citing Nowhere
The circus and filn fuir was vis
iting a small town, and one old
Negro had taken u fancy to the
merry-go-round.
Round and round he went, never
seeming to tire, until ull his mon
ey was gone. Then only did he
dismount to rejoin his wife, who
had been watching bin with im
patient eyes.
•‘Well, Ebenezer," she said,
“you sure have spent your money
and had a good ride. But where
you been, Ebenezer, where you
been?”
Flush—Not Blush
Boogy—See how the bride is
blushing?
Woogy—Go on, man. That's not
a blush. That's the first flush of
victory.
The man who counts In this
world Is the cashier.
Quite at Home
“Did Freda regret leaving the
stage when site married?”
“Not in tin- li-ii-.t,
She feels
she's still in the profession.”
“How is tli.it?”
“One scene
I nfter another.”
Platonic friendship, says a wise
man, is the gun you didn't know
was loaded.
Get-Together Day
Hitter» flow would you define a
picnic?
Jitter» To me, mv friend, a picnic ii
If That’s Expression
Evelyn-Helen sings with a a day »el apart to get better acquainted
great deal of expression, doesn't with anti, bug», worm», miitquiloei,
chigger», tick» and poiton ivy.
she?
Joy—Well, she niukes
faces when she does it.
awful
That's Her Count
“Bobby, how old is your sister?”
“Twenty-five.”
Something About Him
“Twenty-five? SHe told me she
“hly dear, I nrrrr imagined you would
was just twenty."
marry the man you did,“ »aid Glad»».
“Oh, I expect that’s because she
either did I, my dear,“ re pit nd her
friend. "/ duliked Aia ways, Aul I was five before she learned to
count.”
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Th« Queitiom
1. What South American coun
try has a Colorado river?
2. What writer described the
Brobdingnagians?
3. What is the weight of a gallon
of pure water?
4. What is believed the world's
oldest city still inhabited?
5. The bundle of rods on the
back of a dime is called what?
6. What is the largest star
known?
7. Is a pound of feathers heavier
than a pound of gold?
8. How many names of U. S.
Presidents begin with A?
9. If a boat is clinker-built, what
is its distinguishing feature?
10. What is a canon in music?
r The Aniweri
1. Argentina.
2. Swift (in “Gulliver’s Trav
els,” people of a country where
everything is of enormous size).
3. One gallon of water weighs
8 355 pounds.
4. Damascus.
5. Fasces.
6. Antares (90,000,000 times larg
er than our sun).
7. Yes. Gold is weighed by the
troy system, 12 ounces to the
pound, while feathers are weighed i
by the avoirdupois measure.
8. Three — John Adams, John
Quincy Adams and Chester Ar
thur.
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9. Its plunks or plûtes overlap.
10. A cunon is u piece of musio
(usually religious) in two or more
parts, echoing euch other. An ear
ly specimen is “Non nobis, Do
mine," composed by Birde in th*
Fourteenth century.
Failures Teach
Every failure teaches a mun
something if he will learn.—
Dickens.
Our Gold and Silver
Since 1918 the U. S. mints have
coined $1,574,809,140 in silver, and
since 1920 they have coined
$4,526,218,478 in gold. The United
States stock in gold at the end of
the fiscal year in 1940 was $19,-
Register of Ills
963,090,869 in gold coin and bul
History is only the register of
lion, and $547,078,371 in silver dol
lars and $402,260,615 in subsidiary crimes and misfortunes. — Vol
taire.
coins.
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READING THE FUNNIES
Sunday comics had their origin
when Jimmy Swinnertonfs car
toons first appeared in J892 in
the San francisco "[xaminer,"
SMOKING mild, fragrant King
Edward Cigars is another American
custom in popular favor every
where. For genuine smoking pleas
ure, light up a King Edward today.
KING EDWARD'
Cigars
WORLDS LARGEST SELLER
The merchant who advertises must treat
you better than the merchant who does,
not. He must treat you as though you
were the most influential person in town.
ARE AN
INFLUENTIAL
PERSON
As a matter of cold fact you are. You
hold the destiny of his business in your
hands. He knows it. He shows it. And you
benefit by good service, by courteous treat
ment, by good value—and by lower price*.