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WILLKIE AND F.D.R.
Seldom in political history has a
President of the United States re
ceived such wholesome support on
major foreign policy from a defeat
ed candidate as Franklin Roosevelt
has received from Wendell Willkie.
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Few people know how active Willkie
has
been behind the scenes
(Consolidated Feature»- WNU Service.)
For instance. Willkie has even
X’L'W YORK —In his new novel. done some missionary work on Joe
’ •’Storm." nominated by some Martin, chairman of the Republican
reviewers for the Pulitzer prize. National committee and opposition
George Stewart notes that man is leader of the house. Willkie remains
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Aie-
an air ani- on very friendly terms with his old
24 Hour Alert in mal and not campaign manager, even though
Weather Building, a land ani- they differed on foreign policy.
Shortly after the congressional
Washington, D C. have coni. vote to repeal the Neutrality act.
monly supposed. We live at the in which the Republicans nearly de
bottom of an ocean of air but that feated Roosevelt. Willkie phoned
doesn't make us a land animal, any J<>e Martin.
"Joe,” he said, "those Republi
more than a crab is a land animal
because it lives at the bottom of a cans who voted against repeal of
neutrality are going to have a tough
body of water.
time being re-elected. They're go
Dramatizing a sterm which gath
ing to And the country is behind
ered up north of Japan, and clock
Soldiers, members of the newly
Roosevelt on this.”
Russ fishermen at work In the icy waters near Kamchatka, USSR,
ing it down this way. and record
The Republican national chair the peninsula jutting out from the Siberian mainland to the uorth of formed Hawaii territorial guard, are
ing the resulting inter-play of hu
pictured on duty at their post al
man nature and meteorology, Mr. man replied that he would not only Japan. Al a press conference. President Roosevelt hinted that lease-lend
re-elect all the Republicans who aid might even go to Kamchatka. Bright bays looked it up in the alias, Honolulu radio station KGMII. A
Stewart’s book is an incidental, per
voted against Roosevelt, but he did some figuring, and came forth with the not-too-far-fetchcd idea that bomb, probably intended for the
haps not intended, reminder that the
would also elect a lot of new Repub U. S. bombers based on Kamchatka could give the land of the rising radio station, fell nearby during the
politicos have been far behind the
sneak Japanesr raid December 7.
licans to fill the seats of the Demo sun quite a message.
meteorologists in grasping the full
crats whj had voted with Roosevelt
implications of man adding wings to
“Listen." said Willkie, "if you re
his breathing apparatus.
elect 80 per cent of those who voted
against the President you'll be the
Francis W. Reichelderfer. the
greatest political genius of all time.”
lean, baldish, chief of the U. S.
"And," said Willkie. in telling the
weather bureau, seems to have
story to a friend afterward, "a few
had something like that in mind
days later there was Joe himself
for many years, and that's all to
voting with Roosevelt for a declara
the good just now. as our fight
tion of war.”
ers, on, under and above the
—Buy Defense Bonds—
sea have the best weather serv-
SHIP-BUILDING PROGRAM
ice in the world. It was in the
The action of the house naval af
aerological service of the navy
fairs committee in slashing the pro
that Commander Reichelderfer
posed expansion of our two-ocean
carried through his "air mass"
navy was due chiefly to shortages of
analysis which revolutionised
weather forecasting. Bringing
materials and construction equip-
: ment.
meteorology into focus with
However. Rear Admiral Samuel
modern communications, avia
Robinson, chief of the bureau of
tion and revised military science
was a little heeded but supreme
ships, ran into a blunt barrage of
questions about the worth of the
ly important assignment, and
battleship under modern combat
Commander Reichelderfer made
I conditions.
Committee
members
good.
sharply suggested that in view of
He isn't dealing bulletins the way the battleship's record in this war,
he used to. The most authentic the navy might be wdse to build no
weather news now is low-down, deep , more.
Mir Anthony Eden, British foreign
This radiophoto shows members of the British Commando force that
from Sibyl's Cave of the Winds,
Robinson contended that this
secretary,
shown as he was wel
raided
the
German
base
at
Vaagsoe,
Norway,
helping
their
wounded
slipped out quietly to the armed would be impractical, since the
forces and a touchy job it is, with United States needed battleships "if comrades into one of their invasion barges as they retired from the comed on arrival In M mcow for an
the seven seas to cover. The com our enemies continue to use them Norse isle after dynamiting German plants, warehouses, etc., and exhaustive discussion of the war
spiking coastal guns. They practically annihilated the German garrison. 1 with Premier Josef Stalin.
mander is putting on forced draught for combat punjoses."
the full 24 hours in the old red brick
“What is your honest private opin-
weather building in Washington.
; ion of the battleship?” he was
In 1918, the youth from Harlan, asked. "Do you think this type of
Ind., two years out of Northwestern ship is worth all the money it costs
university, new'.y commissioned en and the time and labor required to
sign in the navy, was sent to Lisbon ; build them?”
“I'm sorry, gentlemen, but it's not
to dig weather reports for the wob
bly crow-hop of the NC-4 across the my function to answer that ques
ocean. Thereafter, joining the aero tion.” sidestepped Robinson with a
logical service, he was the weather smile. “I'm not a policy man. My
consultant of polar fliers, gave Lind job is to build ships after it is de
bergh the gun for his historic flight cided they are needed. However,
to Paris, cleared or held Dr. Ecke- I have my own ideas about the bat
ner’s blimps, served from 1922 to tleship.”
This drew laughter, and the ad
1928 as head of the aerological serv
ice, and became head of the weath miral was pressed no further.
Robinson also was quizzed close
er bureau on January 16, 1939.
ly about the high cost of certain
vessels which the navy proposed
in the expansion program, chiefly
TN ANOTHER, ana possibly more
an aircraft carrier at an estimated
* enjoyable, century. Cadet Charles
$85,000,000.
M. Wesson, known as “The Bull,”
"Higher labor and material costs
was a famous line-bucker at West
are the biggest factors,” Robinson
Point. For
explained. "For instance, we have
Ordnance Chief
34 years in
a new type of armor plate for our
the ordnance
Comes Up With
ships which is far stronger than
department
that used by any other nation. It
5 Billion in Hand
of the army,
costs $60 a ton, three times as much
he has been bucking congress, try
as the armor plate we formerly
ing to break through the line for an
used."
appropriation touchdown, and al
“How about the labor supply?"
most always thrown for a loss. But
“We have plenty of labor to carry
now, as Major General Wesson,
out our shipbuilding program," Rob
chief of ordnance since 1938, he finds
inson said. "Also plenty of facili
his appropriation upped about 1,600
ties. Getting materials and ma- j
per cent to around $5.000.000,000.
chine tools is our big problem right
now. However, the shortage doesn't
General Wesson, bulky, mus
amount to a bottleneck. In fact,
cular and appropriately beetle-
Newly appointed deputy com
production
is running a little ahead
browed at 63, has been a glutton
of schedule and will be greatly ex- ,
mander of the Panama canal de
for punishment, trying to get
partment, Maj. Gen. Karl Truesdell
pedited by next spring.”
goods and gear for the armed
—
Bay
Defense
Bonds
—
(right) pictured upon his arrival at
Prime
minister
of
Great
Britain,
Winston
Churchill,
Is
shown
here
forces. But he stands up well
chatting with President Roosevelt, upon his arrival at the White House. Balboa, Canal Zone. On the left Is
CAPITAL CHAFF
under it, with no come-back oth
The outbreak of the war obscured At the right is Capi. John Beardall, White House naval aid. Churchill Brig. Gen. Wallace Philoon, who Is j
er than an occasional wry wise
the incident, but the house ate crow came to the U. 8. for a series of conferences regarding the creation of a chief of stafT of the Caribbean de
crack Away back in 1920, he
fense command.
in a big way on its action last sum unified allied command.
made an earnest plea for anti
mer
barring
David
Lasser,
former
aircraft guns, insisting that the
head of the Workers Alliance, from
bombing effectiveness of planes
government employment
After a
was increasing rapidly and we
careful investigation, the appropria
would be in a bad way if we
tions committee completely exoner
didn't keep ahead of it. The
ated Lasser of any Communist af
general might just as well have
filiations. Representatives John Ta
asked for caviar and champagne
ber, N. Y., J. W Ditter, Pa., and
for the daily army ration. It was
Everett Dirksen, Ill., who made the
prettv much that way for the
original accusation ducked the com
next 20 years. And now, all at
mittee session when Lasser was
once the man who blew in Brew
cleared.
ster’s Millions is a skin-flint,
Puerto Ricans wryly recall that
compared to the general.
U. S. navy’s radio towers at Cayey,
He was born in St. Louis, Mo., and 25 miles from San Juan, were dis
was graduated from West Point in mantled three years ago and sold I
as scrap iron to the Japanese.
1900.
Office of Civilian Defense is pre
In 1907, he joined the ordnance
department, made good on his job paring a handbook on "What You
as a hard-working and competent Can Do For Civilian Defense.” Au-’
technician and passed quite a few thor of the handbook is Eleanor
miracles in keeping the U. S. arse Pierson, wife of Export-Import Bank 1
nal at Watertown, Mass., kicking out President Warren Lee Pierson.
Australia's able Minister Richard '
fighting equipment during the World
war, with or without congressional G. Casey drives about Washington '
rippropriations. As commandant of in a British car with a transparent
the Aberdeen proving grounds in top and right-hand drive.
Apparently not having enough to
Maryland, he spent much time ex
This soundphoto, which was taken somewhere in the bleak wilds of
Admiral Earnest J. King, com
plaining to congress why the army do with the war, representatives of Alaska, shows United Htatcs troops landing at an Alaskan post to man mander In chief of the United States
found it difficult to patch up old the Pure Food and Drug adminis our most northern frontier. These troops have received special training fleet and in supreme command of
Springfield rifles, or get its shoes tration now ask drug firms the ques for duty In this bleak outpost, and can be expected to give a good account all naval operating forces in Atlan
half-soled. In some manner or other tion: "How much business did you •f themselves against all comers.
tic, Pacific and Asiatic waters.
do last year?”
he gets «long with congress.
After British Raid on Nazi Base
Bad News—For Axis
American Troops in Alaska
Confers \\ itli Stalin
Defends ( ’anal
Heads U. S. Fleet
I. Whut I n the milc-high city in
the United Stale«?
2 Why du air traveler« have
trouble with their fountain pen« in
higher altitude«?
3. Whut country ia culled Mix-
raim in the Bible?
4. During the wnr with Spain
who was commander in-chief of
our force«?
5. The core of the earth is be
lieved to be composed of whut?
6. Whut is perique?
7. When did Benjamin Fiunklin
receive his first uirmuil letter?
The Answers
1. Denver, Colo.
2. The uir in the pen (if pen 1«
but partially full) expand«, cuue-
ing u Icukuge of ink.
3. Egypt.
4. Willium McKinley.
ft. Nickel und iron.
fl. A strong flavored tobacco.
7. In 1785. when in France. It
wus sent from Englund by bal
loon.
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Relief nt ln«t from that gtirsthng. «mollwry
(reim« in th» »t<»ma<h. Wlren « auaad by
• »»»»a •< id from
fermentation «
nervou» c«<it»ment try ADI.A Tablets
Contain lh»muth and Carlamat»»
?UICK rwhrf Your «Ituggiai ha» ADLA
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Your Troubles
Do not grieve upon your own
troubles: you would not huve them
if you did not need them. l)o not
grieve over the troubles of "Oliv
ers”; there are no others
Bolton
Hall.
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P»tn go«« quirk, corns
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no puds
Forming Habits
It is just ns easy to form n good
habit us it ia to form a bad one.
And it is just us hard to breuk «
good habit ns n bud one. So get
the good ones and keep them.
Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On
CreomuUion relieves promptly be
cause It goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ Inden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe und lied raw. tender. In
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creonnilnion with the un
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Ches? Colds, Bronchitis
Working to Forget
I do not vuluc fortune. The love
of labor is my sheet anchor. I
work that I may forget, and for
getting, I am happy.—Stephen Gi
rard.
DON'T LET
CONSTIPATION
SLOW YOU UP
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Good-nature is the most god-lika
commendation of a good man.—
Dryden.
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