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v i - c \ THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. JUNE 26, 1942 Washington, D. C. CUTTING NAVY TAPE Behind Admiral King’s forthright order slashing navy red tape 50 per cent and ordering more navy officers out of Washington, was an interesting comparison with the Japanese navy, conducted back- stage by some of the President’s advisers. Americans, recently familiar with Japan, have reported that the Jap anese navy is staffed by only about 1,000 personnel in Tokyo. In con trast, the navy department in Wash ington has more than 30,000—not in cluding the navy yard. The Japanese navy also is report ed to have cut red tape and gov ernment reports to the bone and it gives widest latitude to command ers at sea. The U. S. navy also gives wide latitude to commanders in distant posts, such as Admiral Leary in New Zealand, Admiral Nimitz at Pearl Harbor. But in home waters, especially in anti submarine warfare along the East coast, insiders say the navy has suf fered from a constant stream of re ports and orders to and from Wash ington requiring a tremendous staff for the paper work alone. Now Admiral King offers promo tions to officers who will decrease their Washington bureaus rather than increase them. * « * GASOLINE CZAR The one-man dynamo who runs the gas rationing system of the U. S. A. is a preacher’s son and a former professor of economics. Though one of the most harassed men in Washington, he is constantly on the verge of breaking into a broad smile. Only 35 years old, he has gray hair about the ears, thin hair on top, works so late into the night that his wife, mother of a new-born boy, seldom sees him. “I general ly make the 2 a. m. feeding,” he says. Joel Dean was bom in Vermont, schooled in California, and has a doctor’s degree from Harvard, where he wrote a thesis on small loans. He spent a year as European man ager of a travel bureau, two years as traveling salesman for Interna tional Business Machine, and seven years as teacher and research ex pert. As a fellow economist, he always admired Leon Henderson, but never met him until he came to Washing ton less than a year ago. To effect his own economy in gasoline, he formed a “Drive-In Club” with four other OPA officials. They take turns driving to the of fice from Arlington, Va., across the river. When brickbats fly in the OPA of fice, Dean recalls that his father, a Congregational minister, wanted him to be a missionary on a South Sea island. “Many people,” says Dean, “wist that I had fulfilled that mission.” * • « ARMY HOUR PROGRAM “Jamming” radio programs is one of the recognized weapons of mod em warfare. But it is a two-edged sword, and the war department ra dio branch is ready to swing on the Axis if the prize Army Hour, on Sundays, is jammed again. Jamming by manufactured static or other interference is feasible in the United States only on short-wave broadcasts. The Army Hour fea tures short-wave talks from all over the world, made by such noted per sonages as Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, General MacArthur, General Wav- ell, and others. The most recent case of jamming was during a talk by a high ranking army officer from the Dutch island of Curacao. A pi ano banged loudly all the time he spoke. Winston Churchill’s latest speech, which came on the radio immedi ately before the army hour, was jammed by a gutteral Teutonic voice carefully observing Churchill’s own pauses in an effort to escape de tection. These two cases of jamming were traced by triangulation to Axis broadcasting stations. The army proposes to retaliate if this deliberate interference doesn’t stop. * • • WAR FLASHES C. If you are a business executive, and uncertain about tax deductions for advertising and pay increases, you can get “informal” advice by applying to the internal revenue bu reau under a new treasury ruling. C. OPA agents are checking up on private airports on tips that they are bootlegging high octane gas to car drivers. High octane won’t run a car by itself, but makes a very smooth-running fuel if mixed with lower grade gas. C. Guerrilla warfare in Russia has become so highly organized that ev ery third guerrilla now is armed with an automatic rifle. C. The war department soon will break still more precedents. It will start accepting women doctors in the army medical corps. They will be assigned chiefly to the WAAC, and also for general eye, ear, nose and throat work. C. The army’s new M-l helmet, that comes far over the cheeks, neck and forehead and is much stronger than the old raky “tin-hat,” is now being distributed to all soldiers. PRIVATE PURKEY IN LOVE AND WAR Dear Oscar—This will have to be Just a short note, my dear. I am trying to get into the W o m e n’s Army Auxiliary Corps and I got ... crushed in the rush - My right K* V arm was so twist ed I can hardly writs. I cannot bear to think of you in the service of your country without feeling that I should also do my bit in some way. It would be fine if I got as signed to duty somewhere near enough to see you often, as I miss you terribly. More later. All my love, Harriet. Dear Harriet.—Gee but I am ser- prised about you and the WAAC and I don’t know if I like it or not. It is a fine thing for you to do I guess but it sort of makes it look like you did not have complete confi dence in me to win this war. I mean all your let ters up to this time indercated you was satisfied with the part I was doing and not that you thought you should get in and make sure every thing went okay. * • * And another thing, Harriet, is this. We are having enuff trou ble corresponding when only one of us is in the army and it wood be twice as confusing if we was both being switched around the globe. It is bad enuff when you ain’t sure where I am but it wood be worse if you didn’t know where you was neither and vicus versus. • • • Now, Harriet, if you have made up your mind I serpose it is no sense arguing but all I hope is that you have thought it all over carefully first. I read in the paper that the women’s army is to go on hikes and be trained a good deal like any army and I am awful worried about your feet. I remember you never was much good at long walks and I cannot bear the idea of you being cut in the hot sun all day with your feet hurting. I warn you that army life is awful tough on dogs. It is bad enough on a man’s dogs witch is tougher than a girl’s dogs any how and I do not think girl’s feet is meant for such work. I warn you also to ask about guard duty and k.p. detail, Har riet. Find out if you got to do these things in a woman’s army. And if you have I am sure you wood want no part of ii. Guard duty means you got to go out and walk between two posts sometimes all night and you won’t see nobody. You will hear the darndest noises and it is two creepy for any girl, espeshully one who is as nervus as you. I remember you are a little jumpy in the dark even when I am with you and so how wood you feel all alone, Harriet? Now k.p. duty is going around picking up all waste papers, butts, etc., all over the 'camp and peeling vegetables and it is no job for a girl who is not used to it and I re member your mother always said you hated to help in the kitchen at all and did not exactly like house cleaning either. Of coarse I have not got the lowdown on the women’s army and do not know what you wood half to do but I am just warn' ing you. * • • Sergeant Mooney says you wood have to do all that a man does in a army accept to fight. But I read in a paper that you wood be detailed most to light duties witch I hope is true on account of I have enuff to do worrying about what shape I am in without worrying about you, Harriet. So think it all over and as the old saying goes look before you become a rolling stone. Write me a long letter. Love, Oscar. • • • All stores will sell war bonds and stamps and nothing else for 15 minutes on July 1. And there will, of course, be the shopper who will want a discount for cash and ask that they be sent. • * • Another dimout victim is the actor who now has to sign up at so much per week and his name in the ex tinguished lights. Private Purkey’s old man when rebuked the other day for overeating explained: “I’m de veloping my second front.” • v* • It is Ima Dodo who tried to assist in the New York dimout by coming downtown at night »nd wearing dark glasses. New Rubber From Old to Help Bridge Shortage When you answer the nation’s call for your scrap rubber, here is what becomes of it before it becomes reclaimed rubber, mixed with crude and served up to bridge the shortage. At left you see scrap rubber which has been ground, beated and mixed before being forced through a fine screen to remove dirt. The rub ber comes out like spaghetti strings. At right is a pile of finely ground rubber scrap. Building New Naval Base in South Pacific A naval officer and a couple of chiefs stand in water above their waists (left) as they pick a site for seaplane ramps at a new base upon an undisclosed island in the South Pacific. Right: The luxuriant fronds from the plentiful palm trees quickly, effectively and inexpensively camouflage the tents of the army, navy and marine units that occupy this South Pa cific isle. Part of New ‘Toughening Course’ Cousin to F.D.R. A seven-foot high collection of logs, sandbags and dirt, piled to a 45-degree angle, is really no obstacle to these boys at Selfridge Field as they go over the new 220-yard obstacle course, designed to toughen them up. At this side of the obstacle is a four-foot ditch filled with sand. There are hurdles, tunnels and jumps where a miss means a mud- bath. Jorge Delano, a cousin of Presi dent Roosevelt, from Santiago, Chile, called on the President dur ing a visit to the national capital. He is shown as he left the White House after his visit. Yanks in the Caribbean Gold Star Mother This photo, from somewhere in the Caribbean area, shows U. S. troops in the course of their vigorous training for bush warfare, while becoming acclimated to the intense heat prevalent in these tropic out posts. A jungle fox hole is seen, well camouflaged. Mrs. Mary F. Hill, 72, at conven tion of American Gold Star mothers, in New York. Mrs. Hill, past presi dent of the organization, was again elected president. T'HERE are now thousands of col- -*■ iege football players, not over looking 148 National leaguers, on ac tive service in the army, navy and marines. This is an underestimate. And there are many more on their way. In the face of this we have been asked far and wide what will be come of football this next fall. As far as one can offer a guess on a June date, football will keep under steam with the men that are left. This goes for both the col leges and the pros. It has been the wish of both army and navy that football be carried on, even with an increased number of players. Army and navy teams will be at full speed. Above all other games, this is a football nation. I am referring to high school, college and professional players, plus the many millions who make up the camp followers. So you can figure it out that football will be the last game to go, if it goes at all. Which it won’t. Typical Case In the matter of college play we can take Minnesota as a typical case along the upper plateau. In this connection, George Barton, the sage of Gopher football, writes, “I am afraid Minnesota’s national championship days are over for the duration, but the Gopher will do pretty well in Big Ten competition. “Six regulars are gone from the great line of the past two years— Fitch and Ringer, ends; Odson, tackle; Levy and Pukema, guards; BERNIE BIERMAN Flick, center. And, of course, Bruce Smith and Bob Sweiger from the backfield. Gone also is Bemie Bier- man and three of his coaching staff.” But it might be mentioned here that as long as Minnesota has a back named Bill Daley and tackle named Dick Wildung, the Gopher has something more than a mere nucleus on hand. Daley is a big part of any backfield and Wildung is a big part of any good line. And there are others around in Norsemen gold. Two Others From this crow’s nest two of the best-looking college squads will be long to Georgia and Texas A. and M. And you can add Texas. Of course, you must remember that more than one or two things may happen between now and late Sep tember. The strength of the different serv ice teams is still a summer guess, but judging from most of their schedules they will have something more than tackling dummies or guard. It might be noted here that foot ball is only a part of these cadet training centers. Football will be but one-fifth or one-sixth part of the 10 or 12-hour conditioning drills, at which boxing, wrestling, hurdling, etc., will keep them spinning Ijke human tops from dawn to dark. The added rivalry between coUege and service teams will add to the general interest of the game, de spite the fact that 40,000 or 80,000 crowds might not be on hand when the whistle blows. Pro Football There are now 148 National league football players in active service, with others on their way soon. Twen ty-eight of these players hold com missions. Eighty-three joined up with the army, 56 with the navy, and nine with the marines. Each year the pros draft some 200 top-rank players. They will get few from the draft list this fall. But as Steve Owen of the Giants puts it, “While we’ve all lost good men and key men, we’ll have enough left to carry the game along until more men are called. This will make it a closer race—a better race. “We won’t have those Chicago Bears of last season to look at,” Big Steve said. “Halas has lost his share of stars, and he had more stars to lose. At this spot I can’t see any standout team. 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