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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. But I’m
sure we’ll have an interesting sea
son with enough material left to go
around.”
All of which, with the colleges,
the navy and army teams, plus the
pros, should find the American land
scape and atmosphere packed with
more flying footballs than any past
season ever knew.
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