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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1941
Signal System Blankets Great Britain
Remotest Nooks and Corners
Of Kingdom Reached hy
Army Headquarters.
LONDON.—Nerve center of Brit
ain’s home defense system is a sig
nals station at army G. H. Q. some
where in England. From it radiates
a secret network that has been per
fected since Dunkerque and which
extends to every nook and corner of
the United Kingdom. By means of
it the genera' staff could get into im
mediate touch with almost any unit
of the home forces, cutting out if
need be the normal link with the
various commands. A special cor
respondent of the London Times,
who was allowed to visit the station,
thus describes it:
The underground labyrinth of G.
H. Q., with its mysterious galleries,
red lights and general air of secre
cy, is a little reminiscent of the
control rooms ot a Maginot fortress.
The signals station is clearly one of
its most vital parts for the link it
must maintain between the opera
tions room and field formations. So
many means of communication have
been devised that the chances of all
being put out of action, I was as
sured, are remote.
Tested in Air Raids.
Military communications to some
extent use post office circuits from
which direct private lines are main
tained by army specialists, many of
whom were post office technicians of
high skill. The usual means of
transmitting and receiving messages
is by teleprinter. Many of these
machines, in direct communication
with the commands, are installed in
the teleprinter room, where an hour
ly check is made on a switchboard—
more frequently in periods of heavy
air raids—to insure that each line
is working.
Then the station has its own tele
phone exchange, controlled by wom
an operators from the post office,
with more private lines to the com
mands, the war rooms of the Cabi
net, the admiralty and war office,
the ministries, and so on. One sec
tion of the switchboard, labeled
significantly “combined operations
panel,” is set apart for actual bat
tle, and to this only a limited num
ber of officers of the general staff
would have access.
Many lines are reserved for the
commands of the Royal Air force.
Every precaution is taken against
the use of the telephone for the
transmission of false messages.
Should the telephone system with
each of its alternative routes break
down entirely, there is a reserve
system of wireless transmission. As
a general rule all wireless mes
sages from so far back are sent in
cipher — only forward formations
would use wireless en clair—and
some of the most interesting mo
ments of the correspondent’s visit
were spent in the cipher room, with
all its cryptic devices.
Here the idea was dispelled that
the use of cipher necessarily in
volves delay, for an almost uncanny
electrical machine exists by which
messages may be enciphered or de
ciphered with the speed of an ordi
nary transmitter. All the operator
does is to put in a message en
clair and it comes out in cipher
ready for dispatch, and the same
operation is carried out the other
way round.
Finally, if all else failed, there
is a small army of dispatch riders at
G. H. Q. who normally maintain a
service of letter delivery; but a
good deal would have to happen be
fore it came to that.
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While the city of Vitebsk, Russia, burns fiercely, the German troops
above pause in the street for lunch, and well-earned rest, after their swift 1
and bloody advance into this town, located in the heart of Russia.
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PETER RABBIT HAS A SPLEN
DID THOUGHT
Minute Make-Ups I
By V.V. |
A BOUT the easiest way to apply
sun oil is to spray it over your
skin with an atomizer. Economical,
too, because you don’t waste any of
the oil by spilling it into the palm
of your hand. You can tell by the
pleasant tickly feeling of the spray
when you’re thoroughly covered.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
D ETER RABBIT squatted inside a
r hollow log beside the Laughing
Brook in the Green Forest and a
hunter with a terrible gun sat on the
outside of the same log. The hunter
didn’t know that Peter was inside,
but Pete^ knew that the hunter was
outside. Sometimes Peter would
chuckle at the thought of how that
hunter never once dreamed that he
was so near, and then again little
cold shivers of fear ran over Peter
at the thought of what might happen
if that hunter should take it into his
head to look inside the hollow log.
Now as they sat there both were
thinking and their thoughts v/ere just
as different as thoughts very well
could be. The hunter was thinking
that it was great fun to hunt the
little forest people and try to kill
them with his terrible gun, while
Peter was thinking that it was aw
ful, simply awful to be hunted and
feel that at any minute he might
make his very last jump.
“If only he could be hunted a
while himself perhaps he would un
derstand, and if he understood I’m
sure he would throw away that ter
rible gun,” thought Peter.
Somehow Peter couldn’t get that
idea out of his head, and having
plenty of time for thinking as he
squatted inside the hollow log wait
ing for the hunter to go away, he
kept turning it over and over in
his mind trying to think of some
way in which that hunter could be
taught just what it means to be
hunted.
“The trouble is he isn’t afraid of
any of us even when he hasn’t got
his terrible gun with him,” thought
Peter and wrinkled his brows. “He’s
a stranger here and somehow I
don’t believe Farmer Brown’s Boy
would let him hunt here if he knew.
Farmer Brown’s Boy hasn’t been
out once this fall with his terrible
gun and—and, well, 1 think he
doesn’t want to hunt us any more.
I guess he found out how it feels to
be afraid that time he met Buster
Bear.”
And right then all of a sudden a
splendid thought popped into Peter’s
funny little head. It was so splen
did that it made him jump and start
to sit up because he can think bet-,
ter when he sits up. But he didn’t
sit up this time. Oh, my no! Of
course not. You see he had for
gotten where he was and when he
started to sit up he bumped his head
so hard that it made the tears come.
He wanted to squeal, but he clapped
a hand over his mouth and held his
breath. You see he remembered
just in time that hunter sitting on
the log.
Presently he heard the hunter get
up and whistle to his dog, who all
the time had been trying to find
Peter’s tracks, and couldn’t, be
cause Peter had walked in the wa
ter at the edge of the Laughing
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
This unusual picture of affection between animals was taken near
Seattle, Wash., where the week-old fawn was orphaned. Duke, the
cocker spaniel, is evidently telling the small deer, he thinks he is a “dear.”
The hunter didn’t know that Peter
was inside.
Brook before he crawled into the
hollow log, and you know water is
one of the best friends of all the
little people who leave scent in their
tracks as Peter does, and Reddy
Fox, and Bobby Coon, and Unc’ Bil
ly Possum do. Water carries the
scent away. Peter peeped out of
the hollow log. The hunter had giv
en up and was going away to hunt
for someone else.
Peter gave a great sigh of relief.
Then he once more settled down to
wait until he was quite sure that
dog was in another part of the Green
Forest, or had left it altogether. And
while he waited he kept turning over
and over in his mind that splendid
thought. What was it? Why, it was
to get Buster Bear to frighten the
hunter as he had once frightened
Farmer Brown’s Boy. Of course
the hunter would be afraid and
would run away, and of course Bus
ter Bear would chase him. Then
the hunter would know how it feels
to be hunted. Wasn’t that a splen
did idea?
(Associated Newspapers—WNU Service.)
Ship Sunk, but Captain
Loses Only His Clothes
LONDON.—The captain still stood
on the bridge after a German air
bomb hit his merchantman—but the
blast stripped him down to only the
waistband of his trousers, the
sleeves of his jacket and his socks.
That was only the first bomb. The
second, another direct hit, sank the
vessel but the captain survived.
The ministry of information said
that except for the loss of clothing,
and dignity, the captain suffered
only head cuts and bruises.
This Woman Has Answer
To Who Has the Button
KALAMAZOO, MICH. — Anyone
having trouble replacing lost buttons
might drop a line to Mrs. Arthur
Owens—she has about 10,000 of
them. She has buttons made of
pewter, china, pearl, glass, sand
stone, crystal, wood, bone, cut steel,
enamel, calico, inlaid jet and silver.
They range from tiny jet buttons
about the size of a pea to an ornate
metal and lace fastener two inches
in diameter.
Thrilling Capture,
But It’s a Scarecrow
KINGSTREE, S. C.—Stealthily
surrounding their man, police
edged forward through a corn
and tobacco field toward a
stooped figure. They approached
with caution the desperate char
acter they believed to have as
saulted a Lake City, S. C., man.
The law closed in—and discov
ered a very lifelike scarecrow.
Young Sea Lion Makes
Friends With Fishermen
SANTA CRUZ, CALIF. — Santa
Cruz fishermen insist this is not a
fish story. It is a sea lion story.
Recently a baby sea lion jumped
into the fishing boat of Capt. An
thony Davi of Santa Cruz. Davi
gave it a fish and tossed it back
into the water.
The sea lion circled the boat and
jumped into it again. Again Davi
fed it and tossed it back. When the
performance was repeated a third
time, Davi kept the sea lion aboard
and brought it into port. It was
placed in a tank on the wharf.
Later the sea lion was released.
It wandered around the waterfront
a while and then headed for the
fishing boats.
After some inspection of the
crafts, it leaped into Davi’s boat.
There it rode happily as Davi put out
to sea.
What the heck are you. Buddy?
We never knew they made ’em like
that.
(Public Ledger—WNU Service.)
Mystery Novels Banned
As Harmful to Fascist!
ROME.—Publication of mystery
novels will be strictly controlled in
Italy, because they are “harmful to
fascist youth.”
A decree issued by the ministry of
popular culture said mystery books
and magazines could not be pub
lished without a previous authoriza
tion from the ministry. Numerous
mystery books have been ordered
removed from circulation.
Most mystery books sold in Italy
are translations of the works of
American, British and French
authors.
Worst Hailstorms
India has the world’s worst hail
storms. One storm there killed more
than 100 people. Largest U. S. hail
stone on record fell in Nebraska 12
years ago. It weighed 1% pounds,
measured 17 inches around.
PREDICT PLENTIFUL FOOD SUPPLY FOR U. S. DURING 1942
WASHINGTON—An agriculture
department inventory of the coun
try’* food supplies, both on hand
and now being grown or processed,
Indicates that with a few possible
exceptions there should bs plenty
for the next twelve months at least,
and probably longer.
Present stocks of most foodstuffs
were said to be larger than they
were a year ago and crop condi
tions were described as favorable
for the production of supplies suffi
cient to last well into 1942.
Farm officials were concerned,
however, over an adequate supply
for the remainder of this year and
next year for some foodstuffs for
which there is an increased demand
both in this country and in Great
Britain.
These products include some types
of dairy and poultry products, pork
and lard, some classes of canned
vegetables and some foods of lesser
importance brought from distant
places.
Special price-supporting programs
have been begun by the department
to obtain larger production of dairy,
poultry and meat products and veg
etables.
The department acknowledged
that prices of many foods have risen
sharply this year, despite the fa
vorable supply outlook. It said the
advances could be attributed large
ly to increased consumer buying re
sulting from defense re-employment
and a larger export demand for
many commodities that are not nor
mally shipped abroad in large quan
tities.
The price rise has been consist
ent for all foods, except cereals and
bakery products, which are some
what lower than a year ago, but
they are expected to rise.
T JTENSILS appliqued in the col-
or that is to be accented in
the kitchen—shall we say yellow
or red—would be pretty for this
set of tea towels. Lovelier still
are these designs when delicate,
harmonizing tints or shades are
used for the flower appliques as
an accent.
The mischiefs of fire, of water,
or robbers, extend only to the
body; but those of pernicious doc
trines, to the mind. — Chinese
Proverb.
First Musical Boxes
The prototype of the Nineteenth
century musical box first became
popular in the Netherlands, says
Pathfinder. During the middle of
the Fifteenth century, a Flemish
organ-builder, Jehan van Steen-
ken, obtained the first letters pat
ent as “master of organs which
play of themselves.”
The dukes of Burgundy were
patrons of inventors of ingenious
mechanical boxes such as “or
gans which play of themselves,”
and musical clocks, birds, and
snuff-boxes. Van Steenken re
ceived an annual pension for his
invention from his liege lord,
Philip the Good.
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