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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1940
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
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■^^EW YORK.—In the last nine
years,' this typewriter has re
ported on the achievements of about
7,000 Americans distinguished in the
'No. 1 Flier of
Navy Got Wings
The Hard Way
arts of war
and peace. If
the appraisal
of personnel
resources is
important in a critical hour, the rec
ord of this file is encouraging. Hit
ler has not repealed the axiom that
the whole is equal to the sum of all
its parts; and that being the case,
this onlooker is* convinced that we
have what it takes, considering, par
ticularly, the requirements for cour
age and highly* specialized ability.
Today's citations of individual
preparedness are Rear Admiral
John H. Towers, ranking avia
tion officer of the navy, and
Major General H. H. Arnold,
chief of the army air corps.
They are flexibly minded men
who never have been grounded
by precedent. They came all
the way up from primitive and
hazardous aviation, and from
their altitude they have seen
farther over the horizon than
most of the rest of us. And they
warned us.
Admiral Towers is the only sur
vivor of the first three men assigned
to naval aviation in 1911. Com
mander John Rodgers was killed in
1926, and Commander T. G. Ellyson
in 1928. Towers himself has had
many a close brush with death. It
was in May, 1919, that he command
ed the transatlantic flight of the.
wobbly, but determined NC4. He
and his mates, sagging down into
the sea, taxied 60 hours over 205
miles to the Azores. In 1913, he
was bucked out of a lurching sea
plane, caught a strap as he fell and
dropped 1,700 feet with the hurtling
plane into Chesapeake bay.
The navy’s No. 1 flier was born
in Rome, Ga., in 1886. Glenn Cur
tiss taught him to fly at Hammonds-
port, N. Y. Succeeding Rear Ad
miral Cook, he became a rear ad
miral and head of the bureau of
naval aeronautics in June, 1939. He
is a West Pointer of the class of
1906.
Major General Arnold, known in
the air corps as “Happy” Arnold,
for obvious reasons, was assigned
to aviation in 1911 and trained by the
tr* , , t a ' Wright broth-
Cowboy of Atr e rs, at Day-
Thrilled Capital ton, Ohio. In
In Sprocket Job 1912 he caught
s *' ’ the attention
of the then complacent country by
riding a clattering chain and sprock
et job 30 miles around Washington.
In Jhe same year, he coaxed a quaint
sort of Currier and Ives plane up
to the perilous height of 6,540 feet.
-*It was a national sensation.- They
began callhii him the “ride ’em
cowboy” of the air.
When the World war started
we had 35 pilots and 55 planes.
Lieutenant Arnold was clamor
ing for more then, and, as gen
eral, he has been out in front the
last year, 0 insisting that air
strength would decide any mod
ern war. -
Pne of his most notable achieve
ments was his brilliant leadership
of a hazardous plane survey over
the Alaska mountain ranges. He is
a native of Gladwyn, Pa., and was
graduated from West Point in 1907.
R EAR ADMIRAL Samuel M. Rob
inson blames delay in ship con
struction to restrictive labor laws,
short work weeks and inadequate
or qualified
Adm. Kooinson appropria-
Rates High as tions. As co-
Navy Appraiser ordinator of
ship construc
tion, he is cast in an important role
in the hard-pressing enterprise of
naval expansion. He is chief of the
navy bureau of engineering, ap
pointed September 13 and appears
in the opening arguments primarily
as a technician rather than as a
policy adviser. When and if there
is a; decision as to just what we
want to defend, what will be needed
to defend it, and how much it will
costv* Admiral Robinson will no
doubt score highly in the technical
“information please.” He is 58 years
old, a native of Eulogy, Texas, was
graduated from West Point in 1899
and engaged thereafter in never
spectacular, but crucially important
naval engineering.
A FRIEND of mine, who until a
few months ago had lived in
Italy several years, tells me that
Crown Prince Humbert of Italy not
only is a holdout against the Fascist
regime, but that he has a tremen
dous personal following which he
could and would launch against
Italy’s entry into the war. My
friend believes that his opposition
to the axis and the war must have
been sharpened by the fact that his
wife, the former Princess Marie
Jose, is a daughter of the late King
Albart of Belgium.
Thunder on Our Coast—but It’s Only Practice!
The thunder of the great war across the seas re-echoes here in America as one of the six-inch disappear
ing guns at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, unlimbers its blast. As the gunner yanks the lanyard a projectile is
hurled at a moving target several miles away. Note how the men in the pit have braced themselves against
the effects of the concussion.
Refugees Fleeing the Terrible Nazi Invasion
This view, somewhere in Belgium, passed by French censors, shows a small group of nuns and civilians
fleeing before a Nazi invasion. (Inset)—This dramatic picture shows a mother and child sobbing in the midst
of the ruins of their home, in the environs of Paris, after a Nazi raid had destroyed what was dear to them.
These scenes are typical of m^ny that are witnessed daily in the war-torn sections of Europe.
Adijiiral Byrd Checks His Polar Maps
Sponsors New Sub
Back again in his Boston home, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd gets
down on his hands and knees before a large map of the wilderness known
as Antarctica. He is explaining the many difficulties his expedition has en
countered in establishing bases along the unexplored coastline under the
Southern Cross.
Mrs. Walter B. Woodson, wife of
Rear Admiral Woodson, just before
she acted as sponsor to the newest
addition to Uncle Sam’s submarine
fleet, the U. S. S. Trout. The Trout
has recently been launched at the
Portsmouth navy yard.
Kills Baby Son to Save Him From War
Mrs. Katherine Kelly of Chicago, suffering from “involutional de
pression,” and her five-year-old son, John, whom she killed with a base
ball bat because she wanted to save him from the war. The tragedy
occurred while Austin, her 16-year-old son, was attending the furnace.
The jury recommended that Mrs. Kelly be held on a murder charge.
Airdream Realized
Igor Sikorsky, aircraft designer,
claims success for his airdream to
rise and descend vertically. It looks
ancient, but here it is—1940 model
—hovering over the airport. Mr,
Sikorsky is at the*controls.
1 OP?. SEW
4-- Ruth Wyeth Spears
A CERTAIN Miss Fixit, and
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inherited a house full of furniture
that was not old enough to be
either quaint or antique. One day
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ing how to plot a room color plan
based on a rug, or a picture, or a
piece of drapery material with
good coloring. Miss Fixit had a
picture that she had always loved
because of its beautiful colors.
Just for fun, as a sort of game,
she made a room color plot based
on that picture. Then she sudden
ly realized that, after all, color is
very cheap—anyone can have pH
they want of it for very little
money.
That was really a turning point
in the life of Miss Fixit. This old
rocker that she made over is
merely a sample of what may
happen when a clever young lady
is bent upon bringing color into
her life. The chair has been paint
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seat cushion and back are covered
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I wish every reader interested
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Bedford Hills New York
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