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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1940
Washington, D. C.
JAPAN GETS AVIATION FUEL
The new iron and steel scrap em
bargo finally shut off one of Japan’s
key military supplies.
But through a loophole as big as
a barn door, Japan had been able,
despite this supposedly stringent
embargo, to obtain all the U. S. gas
it needs for the bombers that are
raining death and destruction on
helpless Chinese cities and villages.
This loophole is the little-noticed pro
vision that limits the embargo only
to a certain super-grade of gas—87
octane and over.
This type of fuel is essential for
modern aerial warfare. Without it
planes are not able to attain the
great speeds necessary in dog fights
and raids such as take place night
and day over Britain.
But Japan is not up against that
kind of battling. Its bombers and
fighter planes face no aerial opposi
tion. They have the skies to them
selves. They don’t need super-gas.
They can do just as well on lower
octane fuel. Their job is no differ
ent than an ordinary transport
plane’s. They haul out a load of
bombs, dump it and fly back.
The story is told in the following
unpublished government figures. In
the month after the imposition of the
so-called embargo, Japan imported
from the United States 187,026 bar
rels of lower grade gasoline, or more
than 20 per cent of all such exports
during that period.
• • •
SPT CENTER
The large Japanese fishing colony
on Terminal island in Los Angeles
harbor is soon due for a clean-up
by Uncle Sam.
This colony has long been under
suspicion as a nerve center of for
eign espionage on the West coast.
More than one of the “fishing” ves
sels is radio-equipped, and intelli
gence officials have evidence that
some of the colony’s sea-going deni
zens double in brass as spies.
No action has been taken up to
now chiefly because of state depart
ment qualms about kicking up an
international ruckus. The suspects
were kept under scrutiny but noth
ing was done to get rid of them.
But with Japan taking the bit in
its teeth in Indo-China and showing
signs of further adventures, the
state department has withdrawn its
red light. Under a plan worked out
with California and Los Angeles of
ficials, the fishing village will be
dispersed.
• • •
C. S. FLYING FORTRESSES
“Flying Fortresses” of the U. S.
army and powerful twin-engined
PBY patrol bombers of the U. S.
navy—for Britain—
The negotiations have been going
on for several weeks simultaneously
with conversations regarding the se
curing of air and naval bases on
strategic British islands in the Pa
cific.
The British are urgently in need
of long-range, great weight-carrying
planes of the “Flying Fortress” and
PBY type. Lack of ships of this
kind is a vital weakness in British
air power. They have no planes
capable of operating east of Berlin,
which makes it impossible to strike
at some of the Nazis’ key war pro
duction centers located in what were
formerly Austria and Czechoslo
vakia.
A fleet of 25 “Flying Fortresses,”
which have a cruising radius of over
5,000 miles, would bring the war
home to the Germans where it
would hurt most. Also, the British
could strike smashing blows at
Italian industries—and Italy is the
Achilles heel of the Axis.
The naval PBYs are needed in the
crucial Mediterranean struggle.
With a range of 4,000 miles, these
mighty flying boats could destroy
Italian submarines, transports and
supply ships. Italy has to transport
everything she needs in her African
offensive across the Mediterranean,
and the PBYs could cripple this
jugular vein.
These planes also are needed to
meet assault on Gibraltar, key to
British control of the Mediterranean.
They also would put Britain in a
much stronger position to meet
Spanish intervention.
The army has a total of 59 “Fly
ing Fortresses” plus a number of
others in production, which are com
ing from the factory at the rate of
about seven a month.
The British would like to make
an arrangement to obtain every oth
er new ship. Army officials say
this would not delay U. S. rearming,
but would enable the manufacturer
to expand his facilities and achieve
a greater output.
The navy is amply supplied with
PBYs. It already has 196 in service
and 200 more being produced at the
rate of one every 36 hours. The
new ships are considerably faster
and more powerful than most of the
196 in service. Navy heads declare
that 50 of these planes could be
spared without any impairment to
navy air power.
The British plan to fly the giant
planes direct across the Atlantic,
and crews of English and Amer
ican airmen are being assembled is
Canada for this purpose.
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNXJ Service.)
N EW YORK.—One of the greatest
philippics of William Pitt was
his famous denunciation of that foul
word, “democracy,” which had
„ come into the
trier win K. Hart English lan-
Joins in Attacks guage “from
On ‘Democracy* sewers of
Paris.” To
him its only associations were
homicide and madness. This de
partment has noted recently 11 com
parable attacks on this subversive
word from similarly respectable and
authoritative sources. The latest is
the address by Merwin K. Hart, at
the Union League club in which Mr.
Hart “suspected” that the word was
eased into the country, subversively,
by the Communist Internationale ir
1935.
This thesis, which may devel
op into something of an Amer
ican “kulturkampf,” is based on
the contention that the founding
fathers set up not a democracy,
but a republic, and that the
word, “democracy,” is insepa
rable from Dubious Marxist as
sociations. Mr. Hart also insists
that the Marxists have kidnaped
the word “liberal,” which was
all right until it got into bad
company.
Mr. Hart is president of the New
York State Economic council. He
has been for many years a vigorous
and hard-hitting assailant of radical
ism in any form. He shells the
“subversionists” from his estate on
Pippin hiil near Utica. His targets
have been labor unions, child labor
legislation, social insurance, social
ized medicine, compulsory health
insurance and extravagant expendi
tures for public education.
Graduated from Harvard in
1904, Mr. Hart has made his
business career in insurance,
law and manufacturing. He
was gassed in the war, is a li
censed aviator and a patron -of
aviation. He urges national dis
cipline. In his Union League ad
dress he warned us that we are
becoming too soft to stand up
against the “tougher products
that result from a fascist educa
tion.”
CIR ERIC COATES was the first
^ British composer to treat mod
em syncopation seriously, and write
compositions in the quickened beat.
Many bricks
Sir Coates of
Quickened Beat
Gets Last Toot
were thrown
in his direc
tion by his
classical con
freres, but now he gets the last
word—or the last toot. They gear
their whirling war machines to his
“hot licks” tempo, broadcast to the
forges and workbenches. It is
speed-up music and workers and
machines catch the pace. A favorite
piece is his recent “Calling All
Workers” in which he says he
sought to capture the spirit of the
“wonderful British, people in their
war effort.”
It is a tribute to the surpris
ing adaptability of the British
at a time wheu their traditional
work-beat was supposed 'to be
something like “Auld Lang
Syne.” Significantly, war and
rumors of war stir lively music
and frantic dancing, as attested
by the historic dance of the
Carmagnole which has been the
forerunner of European wars
and revolutions, the jazz out
break before our entry into the
World war, and the present
swing craze. At any rate, Sir
Eric is in tune with the times
and by all accounts Old England
is, too, as her war production
hits a machine-gun tempo to the
beat of a swing baton.
Sir Eric was a romanticist and
classicist, which makes his change
of pace all the more interesting.
For many years, he was the prin
cipal viola in the Queen’s Hall or
chestra. He gradually gained emi
nence by his numerous orchestral
works and songs and became a Fel
low of the Royal Academy of Music
in 1922. One of his best-known songs
is “I Pitch My Lonely Caravan at
Night”—a mood ironically at vari
ance with London’s night-time mus-
ings just now. He is the son of a
back country surgeon. His avoca
tion is photography which passion
he indulges even when the bombs
are falling.
1 M 1905 Joseph A. Rosen arriveo
at Michigan State agricultural
college from Russia with fifty centb
and a few grains of rye. The fifty
cents blossomed into the education
of Dr. Rosen and the handful of rye
spread over 1,500,000 acres in Can
ada and the United States, the high
est yielding rye in the world knowi
as “Rosen rye.” Today Dr. Roser
as head of the European Refuge
colony in the Dominican Republi<
reports things are going swirr
mingly in this new home base f<-
the victims of aggression abroad.
I
I
Inventor and His ‘Diatonic Torpedo’
Typical Conscriptee
J. Robert Fish, well-known inventor of Springfield, Mass., is shown at
his New York hotel with drawings of his “Diatonic torpedo.” The sketches
show that when used as a mine the torpedo sinks to the bottom and stands
upright, at an angle, depending upon currents. Friendly vessels may pass
over the mine field safely by using a secret timber.
Private Roy Bruch of “Company
G”, New York, takes the role of a
typical conscriptee. The pack in
cludes messkit, helmet, gas mask,
first aid kit, raincoat, bayonet, shov
el and mosquito bar.
The United States’ 35-year rule over the finances of the Dominican
Republic was ended by a treaty signed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull
and Gen. Rafael L. Trujillo, political chief of the West Indian state.
The treaty, negotiated by Hugh Wilson, former ambassador to Germany,
is expected to improve Latin-American relations.
Vice President Garner takes the
gavel from Sen. Key Pittman, as
he resumed his duties as presiding
officer in the senate, after a three-
month absence.
The National Guard association’s convention will be held October 17-19
at San Antonio, Texas. The program will center around the defense drive
and a critical study of U. S. armed forces. Members are shown mobiliz
ing for a year’s intensive training. Brig. Gen. Walter De Lamater (inset),
president of the association, will preside at the convention.
The National Small Business
Men’s association will hold its an
nual convention in Chicago October
15-17. DeWitt M. Emery, association
president, is shown above.
The forty-first annual National Automobile show will be held at New
York October 12-20. The mural (top) depicts a motor highway linking the
U. S. with the 21 republics of the Pan-American Union. The liberty bells
(right) exemplify peace and liberty. The building is the Grand Central
Palace in New York, scene of the show.
Mrs. Henry M. Robots Jr., presi
dent general, Daughters of the
American Revolution, who will cele
brate their fiftieth anniversary at
Washington, D. C., October 11.
THE SOLDIER OF FLUSHING
BAY
(“World Fair Site Proposed for Mil
itary Training Camp.”)—Headline.
Where Futurama drew the crowds
From Maine to Timbuctoo,
That’s where I’d train to battle for
The oid Red, White and Blue;
The Trylon and the Perisphere
Will do to mark the spot
Where I got flat feet marching on
An exposition lot.
II
Where General Motors stood I’ll let
My army life take root;
By Railroads on Parade I’ll fight
And do it all on foot.
Where millions flocked on pleasure
bent
And marveled merrily
I’ll drill and drill for Uncle Sam—
And think of Gypsy Lee I
III
Where “Streets of Paris” once held
forth
I’ll master arts of war;
(If they would only leave ’em there
It won’t be such a bore);
Where crowds filed to the midway
sights
I’ll drill on soldier grub;
Baked beans and stew won’t taste
so bad
Served near the “Terrace Club.”
IV
I’ll learn to swing a rifle near
The “Living Pictures” gay,
And capture lovely models in
My fancy twice a day;
I’ll do guard duty many nights
In weather vile or nice,
Consoled by distant memories
Of “Beauties Cased in Ice.”
V
I’ll stand maneuvers any time
In wintry weather tough
Upon the spot where dancers
With soap bubbles did their stuff;
In fancy I’ll hear officers
Cry “Ready for a raid!” . . .
We’ve orders for a state of siege
Around the Aquacade!”
VI
From Standard Brands to "Gas”
and “Coke,”
From “Norway” to “The Coast,”
I’ll learn to be a soldier boy
Within this army post;
Where stood the famous “Court of
Peace”
I’ll learn the blitzkrieg way,
And chase that ritzy Borden cow
Right into Flushing bay.
VII
Most training camps are dullish
spots—
There’s little color found;
A World’s fair site should be a camp
Where glamour doth abound.
All wars are dark and deadly
things . . .
Say, kid, do you suppose
The next one could by any chance
Be run by Billy Rose?
* • •
INSOMNIA
The final feline riot wanes, the
mournful mutts are mute
And now nocturnal quiet reigns, un
broken, absolute;
The ultimate drunk has vanished in
the milkman’s rumbling wake,
And now I’d get some sleep but for
the noise the sparrows make,
—T. F. Finnerty.
• • •
BOARDER-LINE CASES
The guest that I
Consider fun
Arrives on FrL—
And leaves on Sun.
The guest that I
Award no Praise
Arrives on Fri.
And stays . . . and stays.
—Nan
• * •
Ice and coal wagons are being
used as substitutes for tanks in the
militia war games. Which explains
a letter to one mother from a boy
at camp which contained the para
graphs :
“Trapped big force of enemy
tanks today. Just hung out a sign
that we wanted ice.”
• • •
SOLIDARITY
Bathrobe workers have just won
a pay raise. Had it been refused,
the slipper, pajama and shaving
cream workers were to have walked
out in sympathy. The support of
the song writers might, as a matter
of fact, gone to them, too.
• •
TOO MUCH MAKEUP
Although I’m ready to agree
My gal is far from sainted
I’m positive she couldn’t be
As bad as she is painted.
—Avery Giles.
Strange Facts
11
More Japs Here
Choice of Nationality
All Ways to ‘Home’
!
C. Contrary to the impression cre
ated by our numerous Chinatowns,
Chinese laundries and chop suey
restaurants, America has only half
as many Chinese as Japanese resi
dents. Incidentally, 20 per cent of
the Chinese and 40 per cent of the
Japanese are women.
C. When a baby is born of a Turk
ish mother and a French father,
while aboard a British ship in
American territorial waters, his
parents may claim for him any
one of the four nationalities.
C. The average - sized Atlantic
coast oyster strains its food from
about 18 gallons of water a day; a
species of Mexican squash stores
enough moisture at one time to
keep itself alive for 15 years.
C. Homing pigeons in the service
of the United States army signal
corps have not only been trained
to fly as far as 60 miles in dark
ness, but also to locate their
“home,” or loft, when it is mount
ed on a truck and moved many
miles every 24 hours.—Collier’s.
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Every man must live with the
man he makes of himself; and the
better job he does in molding his
character, the better company he
will have.—Hudson Maxim.
Either Way
“What’s your name, boy?”
“Jimmy, sir.”
“No, I mean your full name?”
“It’s Jimmy, full or empty.”
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—Pittacus.
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