Friday, January 30, 1942
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New Underwater Prowler for Navy
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Washington, D. C.
NEW SELECTEES
It needed no mind reading to
fathom what was behind that war
department announcement of the
purchase of 700.000.000 feet of lum­
ber and 240.000 kegs of nails - the
biggest order of its kind in U. S.
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
history.
(Consolidated Features WNU Service !
The materials are for the con­
X* EW YORK.—Encouraging news struction of numerous new army
' is that we may keep our rub­ cantonments and the enlargement
ber heels, and if we have to travel of existing ones.
on them, instead of on rubber tires.
Army strength, down to 1.600.000
it won’t be
Small, Still Voice the fault of after the demobilization of 28 to 35
year olds last fall, is due for a big
Of Scientista Now Dr. Elmer increase—at least another 1.000.000
W. Brandes,
More Audible head of the after the next draft lottery follow­
ing the February 16 registration of
bureau of plant industry of the de­ men between 21 and 44.
partment of agriculture
An estimated 24.000.0<M) will regis­
For many years. Dr. Brandes has ter next month, and on the basis of
been exploring rubber jungles, wher past experience only about 5 per
ever he can find them, studying rub­ cent will be rated 1-A; that is. sub­
ber-yielding plants and staking out ject to immediate call. Heretofore
for the government useful data and the army has inducted only men in
techniques. Currently, he tells the ' good physical condition, with no de­
house agriculture committee about pendents and not engaged in "es­
the urgency of planting large areas sential" production.
of the guayule shrub. This time,
However, as the need for military
the committee is listening more in­ manpower develops, 1-A standards
tently. Germany is far ahead of us will be broadened and many thou­
The submarine Guardfish Is launched at the Electric Boat company's
in synthetic rubber production.
sands of 1-B, 2-A. and 2-B deferees
yards in New London, Conn. When it is commissioned it will roam the
by pre-war standards will be called
On occasion. Dr. Brandes has
seas to give the Axis a dose of its own medicine.
worked up a pleasant friendship
up.
For the present, the army still is
with head-hunters, and should
placing primary emphasis on youth.
be able to get on friendly terms
The February 16 registration is ex-
with congressmen. It was in
August, 1928. that he landed his | pected to list around 2.000.000 20-21
hydroplane in a jungle river in i youngsters and the largest propor-
tion of new inductees will come from
New Guinea. It scared the wits
this group. Registrants in the 36
out of the pygmy head-hunters.
to 44 group will have to be in top
But the genial and conspicuous­
ly unarmed Dr. Brandes lured ' condition to get in the army at this
time.
them into his camp by friendly­
However, big scale inductions
gestures and they became
from this age group can be expected
friends and co-operators. He has
by fall, particularly those with no
flown many thousands of lone
dependents and with previous mili­
jungle air leagues on many re­
tary service.
search expeditions to Central
and South America, Asia and
For the present the army will take
the Pacific islands. In July, 1940.
its older-age recruits from the 28
congress provided $500.000 for a
to 35 year olds who were exempted
study of crude rubber in the I because of dependency or defense
Western hemisphere. Dr. Bran­ . work.
FEEN-fl-MINTÎoi
WEEK
Narrowly Escapes Watery Grave
des flew to Brazil and is now
offering to congress the result
of his researches there.
Education a Debt
Education — u debt dur from
present to future generations.—
George Peabody.
of
Robert 8. Fennell Jr., left, and George Tavclle. both nt Savannah.
Ga., relate their experience to newspaper men at a hospital in Hoboken,
N. J. They are the only known survivors of the steamer. City of Atlanta,
which was sunk by a submarine off Cape Hatteras. The ill-fated vessel
carried a crew of 47.
Eor Pan-American Solidarity Against Axis
COLDS
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couch onori
The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cos­
mo Gordon Lang, archbishop of
Canterbury, who announced his re­
tirement as head of the Churc h of
England, lie said that the present
crisis needs a man with younger
“ardor and vigor.**
Sinks Jap Ship
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REDTAPE BUSTER
Ordnance is the haughtiest and
He was born in Washington in most hide-bound branch of the
1891, was educated in science at army. So much so that it has been
Michigan State college, Cornell and the object of much bitter private
the University of Michigan, taught criticism by civilian defense chiefs.
But there is one notable exception
at Michigan State and entered the
government service as a plant pa­ ; to this Ordnance rule. He is Wil­
thologist at the Puerto Rico agricul­ liam Van Antwerp Kemp, a tall.
tural experiment station in 1914. He | husky, dynamic engineer, who made
served in the World war, as a sec­ • big success in private business
I and volunteered his services when
ond lieutenant, in France.
■ the national emergency arose. Since
*T' HERE is one section of the popu- then, as an Ammunition division ex­
•* lace which won’t be bothered ecutive, he has been making his­
much by all this rationing of food, tory, busting redtape in tradition-
clothes, automobile tires and house- I bound Ordnance.
hold goods. It
There are many tales of Kemp's
A T oot for One of is the group unconventional exploits. The latest
Our Indiapenaable which is. for is one of the best.
the most
Asked by a general to suggest a
‘Morale Build er a’ part, astran-
manager for a new government
ger to such luxuries. One of them munition plant about to begin pro­
asked me for a dime today.
duction, Kemp recommended a crack
"We gotta work fast,” he said, expert who had been loaned to the
“before the government gets all the British to build a plant in England.
loose dimes.”
"He ought to be finished with his
If. as reported, morale is good job over there by now,” said Kemp.
among people who are hungry and
"If he is. get him,” was the order.
cold, the Salvation Army has helped,
From the British, Kemp learned
and will help, greatly to this end. the expert had completed his work
And rating many new stars in his and was available. So Kemp picked
crown, or cap, is Col. John J. Allan, up a phone and called the state de­
just now becoming the Army’s lieu­ partment.
tenant commissioner for 11 central
"I want to talk to the guy,” he
states, with headquarters at Chi­ said, "who gets guys back from Eng­
cago.
land.”
When, as a young man, get­
There was a gasp, but the operator
ting a start as a jeweler, John
switched Kemp to someone who
James Allan decided to give his
asked him who he was and what
life to the Salvation Army, he . he wanted.
disguised himself as a derelict,
"I'm Kemp of Army Ordnance,”
when he went down into New
he said. "There's a guy in England
York's Bowery. He shared their
we want to run an ammunition plant
flop-houses, wore ragged clothes
for us. Get him back here right
and took his hand-out where he
away, will you?”
found it. "Condescending to men
Six days later the expert reported
of low estate," in the scriptural
to Kemp and left for his new job.
phrase, he found reciprocal un­
A few days later the general again
derstanding when he shared
summoned Kemp, asked what had
their troubles. That was the
been done about the expert.
start of his career of kindly and
“It’s all taken care of, general,”
aggressive friendliness as an
said Kemp. "He’s been on the job
evangelist, and champion of the
at the plant two days."
down-but-never-outs, and as a
“How did you get him back here
cornetist for the Bowery and I so fast?”
for King George of England—at
“No trouble. I just called up the
a command performance in 1904.
state department, asked for the guy
He was for three years a soloist
who gets guys back here and he
with Reeves American band of 1 arranged it.”
Providence, R. I.
"Kemp,” said the general severe-
He is the father of the United ' ly. “do you know who that guy in
Service Organizations. It was on j the state department was?”
“No, sir.”
October 11, 1940, that he met with
“He was the undersecretary of
executives of the Y.M.C.A., the
Knights of Columbus and the Jew­ state.”
Note: Kemp has persistently re-
ish Welfare organization for united
effort among the soldiers, and out ' fused to accept an army commis-
i sion. Finally, pressed by the gen­
of this meeting came the U.S.O.
He is married, the father of five eral for the reason, he retorted:
children. He was born in Hazelton, | “Some day I may want to come in
Pa., in 1887, his mother having been here and blow up. It I do, as an
born near Nottingham, England, a officer you could court-martial me.
stone's throw from the home of Gen­ But as a civilian, all you can do is
fire me I’m remaining a civilian.”
eral Booth.
JAP SCHOOL LESSONS
In the World war, he was senior
After three years’ probing of sub­
chaplain of the Seventy-seventh di­
vision in France, the first Salva­ versive activities, it takes a lot to
tion Army chaplain in the Ameri­ excite Rep. Martin Dies, but the oth­
can armed forces. He won the er day the rangy Texan hit on a
French Croix de Guerre and later discovery that took his breath away.
His committee has been making
received the rank of major chaplain
of the U. S. army. In 1925, he en­ a sweeping inquiry of Jap fifth-
tered the army reserve corps, and columning on the West coast, includ­
his "Colonel” is a military title. ing subversive teaching in Japanese
He was in Salvation Army work in language schools located all over
Newark from 1923 to 1925 and there­ southern California. Investigators
after in Columbus, Ohio, for eight found that from the primary grades
years, managing the Greenwood up students in these schools are in­
Lake Camp for Children. He never doctrinated with militarism and the
trumpets himself, but the Army does. i ideology of their Jap ancestors.
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Lieut. John D. Itulkeley, com-
niandrr of “mosquito boat“ that
dashed Into Blnanga Bay, P. I., and
torpedoed an enemy vessel of 5.000
tons in night attack, under hall of
llorse Relationship
bullets. Bulkeley was commended
Under American horse-racing
| by the navy department.
laws, thoroughbreds having the
same sires but different dams are
not half brothers or half sisters.
Only those having the same dnms
are considered to be related.
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Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, center, and U. S. ambassa­
dor to Brazil, Jefferson Caffery, are shown talking to Oswaldo Aranha.
Brazil’s foreign minister, who was also administrator of the Pan-American
conference held in Rio de Janeiro. The photo was made just before the
third conference of foreign ministers in the interest of lining up all the
American republics in a solid 100 per cent Western hemisphere front
against the Axis, with a complete rupture of diplomatic relations.
Commandos Examine Captured Field Piece
Precious Liberty
God grants liberty only to those
Wendell L. Willkie. 1940 Republi­
can candidate for the presidency, who love it, and are always ready
shown with reporters as he walked to guard and defend it.—Webster.
down the White House roadway, fol­
lowing a conference with President
Roosevelt. Willkie gave the report­
ers no indication as to what the con­
ference was about.
Production Chief
Give a Thought to
MAIN STREET
British troops examine a German field gun, captured during their
occupation of the island of Maaloy, Norway. The British commandos
were landed on the Norwegian Islands of Vaagso and Maaloy, after coast
defenses had been silenced. Fifteen thousand six hundred and fifty
tons of enemy shipping were destroyed, with munition dumps, oil tanks
and storehouses.
Donald Nelson, named by the
President to head a war production
board, superseding the supply, al­
locations and priorities board. Nel­
son has “final” authority.
• For, in our town .. . and towns
like ouri clear scrota the country
. . . lhere'a a ateady revolution
going on. Changes in dress atylea
and food prices . . . the rite of a
hat crown . . . the fall of furni­
ture pricea-these matters vitally
affect our living ... And the news
is ably covered in advertisements.
• Smart people who like to be
up-to-the-minute in living
current events, follow advertise­
ments ss closely as headlines.
• They know what's doing in
America . .. and they also know
where money buys most.