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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, APRIL 10, 1942
Washington, D. C.
HOME-GROWN FASCISTS
After three months of temporizing
With native Fascist champions. At
torney General Francis Biddle is
finally going to get tough—on direct
personal orders of the President.
Roosevelt directed Biddle to take
vigorous legal action against cer
tain factional leaders who have been
publicly denouncing the war against
the Axis and in some instances ac
tually expressing pleasure over Jap
victories.
Complaints have poured into
Washington from parents of boys in
the armed services demanding that
these domestic foes be jailed. But
Biddle demurred on the ground of
“preserving civil liberties.”
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FBI
agents arrested Robert Noble, rabid
Los Angeles Fascist leader, on seri
ous charges involving statements
concerning the war. Despite the
FBI’s evidence, Biddle ordered
Noble released.
This brought down a storm of
protests on Biddle’s head that stead
ily increased as the hostile opera
tions of these elements became bold
er and more outspoken. Still Biddle
refused to allow either the FBI or
federal district attorneys, who were
champing at the bit, to crack down.
Finally White House advisers,
alarmed over the situation, took the
matter direct to the President. They
laid before him a mass of evidence
dealing with Noble, Father Cough
lin, Francis P. Moran of Boston,
Gerald L. K. Smith of Michigan and
Charles B. Hudson of Omaha.
One document shown Roosevelt
was the March 16 issue of Coughlin’s
weekly publication which declared
that a “world-wide sacred war” was
declared against Germany nine
years ago. The publication also at
tacked aid to Russia, denounced the
British bombing of French plants
making Nazi supplies, and contained
such statements as:
“Unless the German forces can
overcome Russia and successfully
invade England by the end of Sep
tember, there is every evidence that
the entire world will have elected to
experience a blood bath the like of
which was never imagined by the
most poetic minds.”—“It has been
the practiced policy of the Roose
velt administration to favor the Chi
nese in their war against Japan.
This policy has rankled in the hearts
of the Nipponese war lords who are
devoted to the policy of Asia for the
Asiatic, a policy which, after all, is
nothing more than an expression of
our own Monroe Doctrine.”
After carefully examining the
evidence, the President summoned
Biddle, ordered him to get tough
and do so immediately.
• * •
GOOD WAR NEWS
Here is some all-important GOOD
war news for a change.
The United States and the Brit
ish Empire have won a victory of
supreme importance in the crucial
war production race.
For the first time in the 2% years
of the war the United States and
Britain now are outproducing the
Axis and its vassal states in vital
arms and munitions.
Although the two Allies still are
on the defensive, henceforth Anglo-
American war output should pile up
an ever-increasing margin of arma
ment superiority.
U. S. producing capacity in par
ticular is just beginning to swing
into an all-out war scale. The mighty
auto industry, for example, is now
being furiously converted. Other
major industries are undergoing the
same transformation. Also hundreds
of new war plants are in various
stages of completion, with hundreds
of others being projected.
Sage old “Bernie” Baruch com
ments: “We can’t yet crack our
heels together in celebration, even
if things are better.”
What he means is that there are
still plenty of sour spots.
Some of these are: labor supply,
certain obstacles in the flow of ma
terials, shortage of materials, in
adequate use of equipment, insuf
ficient subcontracting, red tape and
bureaucratic obstruction, the incom
petence, greed and lack of initiative
of many employers, the profit-
mindedness of dollar-a-year men.
But despite all these, U. S. indus
try every week is pouring out a
steadily soaring floodtide of war sup
plies. On the basis of a private
survey made by the authors of this
column, it can be stated definitely
that with the British Empire’s
greatly accelerated production the
two Allies now are ahead of the
Axis.
Note: The survey was limited on
the Allied side to the U. S. and
British Empire because it is impos
sible to get detailed information
about Russian production.
—Buy Defense Bonds—
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Congressional critics of President
Roosevelt are caustically denounced
by A. F. Whitney, white-crested
president of the Railroad Trainmen,
in the latest issue of the union’s
magazine. In a lead editorial Whit
ney declares, “No congressman or
congressional committee, no sena
tor or group in the senate, no Axis
agent or anyone else seeking to use
the war to discredit the President
will throw any sand in our eyes in
any way useful in their desire to
advance a selfish, ignoble purpose."
SAVING TIRE WEAR
"Anybody who drives more than
40 miles an hour is a slacker.”—
Mr. Henderson in his appeal for rub
ber saving.
* * #
True, but the average man has
become so accustomed to moving
fast that he unconsciously gets into
the upper speedometer brackets.
Only today we were riding to town
with Elmer Twitchell, a fiery expo
nent of cutting down speed to save
tires.
“Mr. Henderson is dead right,”
snapped Mr. Twitchell. “This is no
joking matter. Tires must be saved
and it can only be done by driving
with more care.”
(He was doing about 28 now.)
* • •
“I can’t understand the mental
processes of the American who
reads all about the rubber situa
tion, knows how speed shortens the
life of tires and yet keeps on driving
as he always did. It is shameful.”
(We noticed the speedometer now
showed 32.)
* • •
“We’re in a great war. Our coun
try needs every ounce of rubber it
can get. There are no more new
tires to be had. Everybody ought
to know without being told, that it
is impossible to conserve tires and
not reduce driving speed at all
times. Yet we find ignorant, stupid
fellows driving as if nothing had hap
pened.”
(He has now got the old bus up to 38.)
• • •
“Why do people take these warn
ings from government agencies so
lightly? Something should be done
to make them obey the suggestions.
There is no place in American life
today for the speed nut who just
won’t change his habits.”
(He was now doing about 42.)
• * *
“I favor backing up Henderson,”
went on Mr. Twitchell, with deep
agitation. “Every community should
back him up. The police should be
more vigorous. No halfway meas
ures should be shown. I am for the
arrest and punishment of every
short-sighted, pig-headed, self-satis
fied son of a sea cook who is too
blankety blank thick to see his re
sponsibilities to do his full duty.”
(He was now doing 50.)
• * •
“There oughta be a law! Why
should anybody be unwilling to co
operate with the government? Why
should—.”
We nudged him and pointed to
the speedometer which had begun
climbing toward 55.
Elmer reddened and took his foot
off the accelerator.
“Sfunny!” he said guiltily. “Just
a habit, I guess. Now, as I was
saying ...”
* • •
THE COMMUNIQUE
A terrific crash was heard ... it
was followed by a sound of wood
work crashing . . . presently the
whole window came out of the
house, as the form of Elmer Twitch
ell was flung through it.
“What’s the matter?” we asked,
picking Elmer up.
“It’s okay,” explained Elmer.
“I’m fighting a delaying action.”
ft * •
Can’t You Boys Get Together?
From the Post-Intelligencer—“BEAUTI
FUL mountain lion stuffed. Sell or trade.
MI-5860.
“SWAP piano for overstuffed or what
have you. 1610 Belmont.”
• • •
C.P.T. says he knows a fellow who
is so nervous about the draft that
he won’t take anything in capsule
form.
• « •
THOUGHTS ON THE
WOMEN’S ARMY
Mother is a colonel,
“Sis” wears major’s bars;
Auntie is a sergeant,
Grandma wears some stars;
Jennie’s a lieutenant—
So are Nell and Liz;
Johnny’s quite dejected—
A private’s all HE IS!
• • •
“Give me 100 U. S. air fighters to
200 Japs and we will lick them every
time.”—Lieutenant General Brett.
Shucks! Our boys are just
practicing now. When they real
ly get down to real fighting they
will think it poor sportsmanship
to take on less than three at a
time.
• • •
The government has indicted 114 cheest
makers as price fixers. It ought to be easy,
thinks P. L. T., to find the holes in this
case.
ft ft ft
Elmer Twitchell is in a dither over
the ban on quarter and pinball ma
chines. “I just about had it figured
out when the jackpot was due to
drop,” he squawked, “and in an
other couple of months I would have
had the right momentum on the
marbles all figured out.”
• » •
Ad similes: As worried as a
man with an automobile.
A gunnery class at the state merchant marine academy, Fort Schuyler, N. Y., is shown (left) operating a
naval gun. Future officers for the U. S. merchant marine are being trained here to sail the seven seas under
Old Glory. They learn not only to sail their ships but to fight them if necessary. Right: Cadet Robert King
is shown studying the gyro-pilot at the merchant marine academy.
U. S. Troops Start Building Alaska Highway
Upper picture shows journey’s end, as U. S. engineer corps troops arrive at the end of the steel ribbon,
at Dawson Creek, B. C., to start building a highway to Alaska from the end of the present road at Fort St.
John. Below: First activity of road building at start of construction of the Alaska highway. Note men in fore
ground with truck pulling another road-building truck out of a ditch. All equipment for the project was shipped
from the States.
Old Canon—Reborn—May Roar Again
‘Gen. Heat’ in India
Part of cannon caravan shown as it passed through Pittsfield, Mass.,
on its way to Boston Common, to participate in demonstration commemo
rating the original expedition, when Gen. Henry Knox delivered a train of
artillery to Gen. George Washington, from Fort Ticonderoga. The old
cannon will be smashed and used for salvage in the current war.
Temperatures go sky-high in India
in the summertime, and the men
who work in India’s iron and steel
industry must have almost super
human stamina to withstand it.
Here two punjabi tongsmen stand
in front of a “man cooler” fan in
the Tatas plant at Bombay, which
provides armament for the Allies.
Exchanging ‘Autographs’ in Britain
United States soldiers, part of the A. E. F., who have just arrived in
London, are shown making friends with British girls in uniform. According
to the British caption which came with this photograph, they are ex
changing “autographs.”
Mrs. Mabel Mahon, living with 10
dogs at Uniontown, Pa., held up a
$1,000,000 defense housing project by
refusing to move. She is shown
above with one of her dogs.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Echo of a Forgotten ‘War’
A PRIL 9 of this year marks the
50th anniversary of an event
that was a high spot in the history
of the West—the battle Which took
place at the KC ranch on the Powder
river in Wyoming on April 9, 1892.
Perhaps “battle” is too pretentious
a word, for it was only a frontier
gun fight in which few men were
involved. But in so far as it was a
case of a man fighting to the death
against odds of nearly 50 to 1, it had
a certain Homeric quality which
raised it above the level of such af
fairs.
The man’s name, appropriately
enough, was Champion—Nate Cham
pion. His enemies said he was a
rustler—and he undoubtedly was. So
they killed him and, all unknowing,
they also gave him a certain kind
of immortality. For after his death
ne became a sort of Robin Hood
hero, an almost legendary figure
whose name and fame have been
perpetuated in song and story.
The living Nate Champion was not
an important person. But Nate
Champion, dying, became a kind of
symbol and as such was more sig
nificant. For the fight at the KC
was the first battle in a “war” which
“marked the dividing line between
the Old West, under the rule of the
cattle kings, and the New West of
the pioneer homesteader.”
The story of this conflict has been
told many times and it is related
again in a book published recently
by the Caxton Printers, Ltd., of
Caldwell, Idaho—“The Longest Rope
—The Truth About the Johnson
County Cattle War,” by D. F. Baber,
as told by Bill Walker. The prin
cipal interest and value of this ad
dition to our store of Western
BILL WALKER
Americana lies in the fact that the
story is told by one of the few sur
vivors of the “war” and pcssibly the
only survivor of those present at the
KC ranch fight.
The Johnson County war, also
known as the “Powder River war,”
the “Rustler war” and “The Inva
sion,” was the result of the cattle
stealing that was prevalent in Wyo
ming in the late eighties and early
nineties. The big cattle outfits, the
principal victims, decided it must
be stopped and, rightfully or wrong
fully, fixed upon their own method
of doing it. Accordingly, a group of
these cattlemen, accompanied by
hired gun men from Texas, set out
early in April, 1892, to invade John
son county, which they regarded as
the stronghold of the thieves, and
to summarily execute certain men
whom they looked upon as the lead
ers.
Their first objective was the KC
ranch house on the Powder, occu
pied by Nate Champion, the “king
of the rustlers,” and his companion,
Nick Rae. Bill Walker, “cowpoke”
and trapper, and his partner, Ben
Jones, had spent the night there and
when they set out for an early start
on a trapping expedition the next
morning they were made prisoners
by the “regulators” who had sur
rounded the ranch house.
Thus it was that the co-author of
“The Longest Rope” became an
eye-witness of the historic fight that
followed. He saw Nick Rae shot
down as he came out of the door
a little later. He saw Nate Cham
pion rush out, amid a hail of bul
lets, and drag his dying companion
back into the cabin. He tells of
Champion’s rifle duel with his ene
mies, which lasted nearly all day,
until they set fire to the cabin and
forced him to flee. He “came out
shooting” and died under their, fire
in a little gulch nearby. The leader
of the “regulators” looked down at
him—“Give me fifty men like that
and I could whip the whole state!”
he said.
After Nate Champion was killed,
his assailants found on his body a
little book in which he had written
an account of his desperate last
stand. A newspaper reporter, Sam T.
Clover of the Chicago Herald, who
had accompanied the “regulators,”
made a copy of this account which
has been frequently reprinted un
der the title of “The Diary of the
Rustler King” and widely circulat
ed. It has perpetuated the fame of
Nate Champion as has a poem “Our
Hero’s Grave,” written by one of
his friends and set to music soon
after his death.
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Mose Knew Not What
Lucy Talked Of, but How!
Before the court on wife-brought
charges of desertion and non
support, Mose Brown meekly ad-,
mitted his guilt and offered noth
ing in extenuation except that the
lady talked too much.
“That’s no excuse for desertion,
Mose,” said the judge. “The law
gives a woman the right to talk all
she wants to.”
“Yassuh, Jedge. I knows it
do. Only Lucy she never stop
talkin’. She keep it up stiddy,
mo’nin’, noon and night, till I cain’t
stan’ it no mo’.”
“She does? What does she talk
about?” inquired the court.
“Jedge, suh,” Moses said, “she
don’t say.”
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