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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, JULY 10, 1942
Washington, D. C.
SUPPLIES TO RUSSIA
The fates and the weather were
good to the Russians last winter.
But now another twist of fate and
the weather are working against
the United States and Russia.
It so happens that the polar ice
cap this year has come farther
south than at any other time in 100
years. This has pushed the ship
ping lanes by which U. S. convoys
carry supplies to Murmansk, closer
and closer to Norway and the pow
erful Nazi bases there.
Result is that only 200 miles of
sea separate the polar ice packs
and the coast of Norway—a very
narrow gauntlet for ships to run,
facing simultaneous attack from
Nazi submarines, airplanes and de
stroyers.
This is why there have been
losses on the route to Russia. It is
also why the United States has not
been able to deliver all the supplies
promised Russia—though it has
tried desperately and the Russians
have tremendously appreciated the
effort.
To prey on this shipping, the
Nazis have developed one of their
strongest bases at Trondheim, Nor
way. There they have not only
submarines, but land-based air
planes. They also have the advan
tage during the summer of nearly
24 hours of daylight.
Therefore, convoys skirting the
north tip of Norway have to fight
a running battle for three days be
fore they can reach Murmansk. It
is continuous day and night fighting,
with scarcely a wink of sleep for the
crews. Merchant vessels bristle
with armament. Guncrews have
been giving a magnificent account
of themselves, but the odds are tre
mendous.
• • •
FRANCE GOES ANTI-NAZI
It can be no secret to the Nazis
that scores of Frenchmen are sneak
ing out of France to England by
small boat or even airplane. Some
eventually have found their way to
the United States.
The story they tell is one of the
most encouraging of the war pic
tures, but it shows our state depart
ment to be lagging months behind in
its policy toward France.
The people of France, say these
heroes of midnight channel-cross
ings, are so far ahead of the U. S.
state department that it would be
humorous if it were not pathetic.
U. S. food shipments to French
North Africa, they say, won’t help
win over the French people; if any
thing, will retard the independence
movement there.
The French have been won over
by much greater issues than food,
and are insulted at the state de
partment’s idea that they would sell
their souls for a mess of pottage.
Here are the major developments
which have really influenced France:
J. The behavior of the Germans
in France.
2. The fact that Britain was not
only able to prevent Nazi invasion,
but now is so effectively bombing
the continent.
3. The resistance of the Russians.
4. American entry into the war.
Of all these, one of the most ef
fective incidents was the British
bombing of the Renault motor plant
(Frenchmen had been tipped off to
leave in advance), and the drop
ping of the French flag along the
Champs Elysee by a British fighter
plane last week.
So when the Big Push does come,
it will find an enthusiastic French
people anxious to co-operate.
Note: The French fleet, these
Frenchmen say, now will not be
turned over to Hitler—not because
of food shipments, but because the
French sailors won’t permit it; and
the Nazis haven’t got the 35,000
naval personnel available to man
them.
• • •
AXIS OILFIELDS
Behind the frequent Jap bombing
raids on North Australia is a very
important fact which has escaped
the headlines. As long as General
MacArthur’s planes are based on
North Australia, the Japs can’t go
ahead with their long-cherished
plans to develop the oil fields of
Java.
For long - range U. S. army
bombers can carry pay loads to
Java and make » shambles of
oil tanks and oil wells.
That is why the Japs still
want to take North Australia,
though since the Coral sea battle
they have cooled off on the idea
of landing troops in the more
populated and richer areas of
southeast Australia—which, in
cidentally, are now strongly
defended.
This same principle of long dis
tance raids by U. S. army bombers
is cutting into Hitler’s oil supply hi
Rumania. For Rumainan oil tanks
are well above ground and easy
targets.
To date, Hitler’s only source of
gasoline, so vital to his tanks and
airplanes, are (1) synthetic plants
in Germany, and (2) Rumiana.
That’s why he has to take the Rus
sian oil fields or the war can’t con
tinue. So the most valuable help
army bombers can give Russia is
to blow up Rumanian oil wells.
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ELMER TWITCHELL AND
FOOD CONTROL
Uncle Sam has now named a
WPBFRC, War Production Board
Food Requirement Committee. It
will look into the
matter of food re
quirements dur
ing the war, with
a view to conser
vation.
« • •
A good deal
could be accom
plished right off
the bat by a sim
ple but inflexible
rule requiring
people to stop
overloading the fork.
• • •
We are a nation of overloaders,
and if we are to guard against food
shortages something’s gotta be done
to check us up. Watch the average
American eat today, in the middle
of a global war, and would you sus
pect he was subsisting during a
great conflict? You would not. You
would imagine he was trying for a
new record at a picnic ground.
• • •
Elmer Twitchell, famous cal
orie student, pinochle player and
stamp collector, has been study
ing the food situation, and he
thinks that if Uncle Sam wants
to avoid waste Step Number One
should be the abolition of the
Three-Decker Sandwich.
* * *
“The upper deck is a mere waste
of bread,” declares Elmer, “and it
also involves a further waste of let
tuce. There is little in these mod
ern three-deckers except lettuce,
anyhow, unless you want to admit
that those tomato slices are food.
• » •
“I am for a National Committee
for the Control of Lettuce also,”
continued Elmer. “If there is one
thing which lunchroom men are
profligate with it is lettuce. Of
course, in many cases this comes
under the head of second-hand or
reconditioned lettuce.
* * *
“This new Government board
should also look into the French
fried situation. Boy, there’s a
food waste for you! The Ameri
can lunchroom has come to re
gard French fries as a mere
matter of stuffing. They are just
plate fillers. They are so greasy
that nobody finishes ’em, so the
result is more waste. Let us
have a 75 per cent cut in French
fries at once by all means!
• * •
“Then there is the dining car toast
situation. Did you ever try eating
the toast you get
with a steak sand
wich on a rail
road train? Mis
ter, it was never
meant to eat. Let
us do something
about this.”
• » •
Elmer was get
ting quite excit
ed. “And then
there is the chick
en pie situation,”
he resumed. “Chicken is certainly
conserved through the average
chicken pie, but nobody eats those
onions and potatoes with which they
are filled to the exclusion of any
thing resembling meat.
• • •
“And, by the way, if we want
to save food let’s soft pedal all
this vitamin talk. Millions of
Americans are not eating be
cause they want the food imme
diately involved. They are on a
vitamin binge.”
* * •
POSSIBLE NEW STYLE
In summer heat my slack suit wilts;
I wonder how I’d look in kills.
—Merrill Chilcate.
• • •
“Willkie Doubts He Will Seek
fice Again.”—Headline.
Wanna bet?
• • *
REALIZATION
(“Edgar Bergen Got $282,000 in
Year.”—Headline.)
Cash pouring in by the barrel—
Checks coming through by the
bale—
Dough springing forth from a gush
er—
Nothing arriving but kale.
Income like that of a Morgan—
Gold by a twenty-mule team—
This is the full consummation
Of a Ventriloquist’s Dream!
• • •
Would you say the secret of
the fabulous Bergen income was
a dummy corporation?
* • •
FAIR ENOUGH
Mrs. Twitchell turned her hus
band, Elmer, over to the collec
tors when they called for old
rubber today.
“We can’t take him,” argued
one of them.
“Why not?” demanded Mrs.
Twitchell. “He’s a heel, ain’t
he?”
* • *
“Welles For Cooling Off Spell.”—
Headline.
Don’t tell us you’re for an air-
conditioned peace, mister.
As Collier Sinks in Battle of Atlantic
A naval convoy, escorting U. S. merchant ships on the At
lantic coast, lost one collier to a mine planted by enemy subs,
because there was no wake. In picture at left a survivor dries
his face after being nearly blinded and choked by the oily waters.
However, in war no chances are taken, and depth charges were
loosed with the result shown in picture at the right, just in case
a sub was lurking around.
New Methods to Speed Up Ship Production
You have seen pictures of big ships, powerful planes and giant guns for Uncle Sam’s armed forces. But
here is an item that seldom gets into the news, but is just as vital as any other sinew of war. It is the cowl
ventilator, without which Liberty ships that carry war materials to the battlefronts could not put to sea. A
Los Angeles firm, engaged in this work, turns out thousands of cowl funnels. Galvanizing the cowl is one of
the most vital parts in the process. Photo (left) shows a huge cowl being given a “bath” in a vat of molten
metal. Center: Wrinkles in the ventilator are ironed out by a small hammer. Right: A workman welding
the seams of a huge funnel.
Swear to Protect Bombsight
Fledgling bombardiers, about to get their first glimpse of the super
secret U. S. bombsight, repeat after Lieut. Col. Richard Smith, director
of training at the Midland Army Flying school, Texas, the solemn words
of the bombardier oath pledging to protect the sight. On the table is a
hooded bombsight to be exposed only after administration of the oath.
Youthful Monarch Meets President
King Peter of Jugoslavia is shown chatting with President Roosevelt
in the White House grounds. The 19-year-old monarch had spent two days
incognito in Virginia. He arrived at the White House under careful guard,
and was escorted to the White House by Secretary Cordell Hull.
‘Won’t Take It’
♦ * ♦ * ' '
Dan Gifford, ten, who wrote to Gen.
Douglas MacArthur to convince a
pal that Pearl Harbor was not in
Jap hands, is a happy lad these
days after hearing from MacAr
thur. “'They didn’t take it,” Mac
Arthur advised his youthful inquirer,
“and don’t be afraid, Danny, they
won’t take it.” Danny is shown (left)
shaking hands with his now coiv
vinced playmate, Jackie Fahy.
Perfect Score
W’ith a perfect score of 175 x 175,
H. Luther Brown (above) of San
Antonio, Texas, won the individual
all-bore championship at the 14th
annual Great Eastern skeet cham
pionship held at the Remington Gun
club. Lordship, Conn.
Grantland Rice
/")NE of the most mysterious and
colorful figures in this modern
conglomeration of golfing talent is
Joe Kirkwood. Joe is almost com
plete proof as to the vital part the
emotional or psychological side can
play in this ancient Scottish game.
When Kirkwood came to this coun
try from Australia over 20 years
ago he was even
then the master of
every shot in the
game. In his exhibi
tions Joe could call
a low hook or a high
slice, a low slice or
a straight hook, a
fade or a pull. He
could even call, in
advance, that hard
est of all shots to
play—a straight ball.
At 200 yards away
he could make a
caddie duck with either a slice or a
hook. It was an easy game in trick
Shot or exhibition play. But Kirk
wood could never win a big cham
pionship.
“Competition,” he has always
said, “is an entirely different game
from any exhibition stuff.”
How It Works
Years ago I followed Kirkwood in
a North and South championship at
Pinehurst. He wasn’t scoring any
too well. He was having more than
his share of trouble.
“What seems to be the matter?”
I asked.
“I’ve developed a fade I can’t
stop,” he said.
“Why don’t you call for a hook,
or even for a straight ball, as you
do in your exhibitions?” I asked.
“If I tried that,” he said, “I’d be
all over the course. This tourna
ment-scoring game has nothing to
do with exhibition play.
The Curse of Golf
“Golf would be an easy game for
anyone to play,” Joe continued, “ex
cept for one thing.”
“What’s that?” I asked.
“Tension,” he said. “That’s the
killer—the poison.
“If it weren’t for tension almost
anyone coffld play golf well. But
tension grabs them all by the throat
—or the nerves. Take the average
duffer. Watch his practice swing.
Watch him swinging at a dandelion
or a cigar butt. You’ll see an 80
swing. Then watch the difference
when he has to hit a golf ball. He
immediately tightens up. He plants
his feet in the turf. He takes an
iron grip with both hands. His legs
and body promptly stiffen up. He
has wrecked his swing before he
even moves the clubhead.
True of the Pro
“After a fashion, this is also true
of most pros. Most of the good ones
can hit the ball long and straight,
can play almost every club well. In
practice they can give you a 67 or
a 68. But when some big tourna
ment starts, especially a champion
ship, it is too often another story.
“You can tell this in the more
hurried pace of their backswings
and downswings. You can tell it in
their restricted, or more restricted,
body turns. The temptation in a big
tournament is to steer the ball—to
keep it away from trouble.
“Only a few can keep their true
form or their true swings working
smoothly, as they do in a practice
round.”
“Leo Diegel told me once,” I said
to Joe, “that the longest walk in
golf was from the practice tee to
the first hole of tournament play.”
“Leo was 100 per cent right,”
Kirkwood said. “It’s about ten miles
—or ten strokes.
“For those who know how to
swing a club, golf is about 75 per
cent tension, nerves and concentra
tion. It is harder on the nervous
system than any other game, since
it carries less physical action or mo
tion. The more motion you have, the
less tension there is.
“Football players are always ex
tremely nervous and packed with
tension before the kickoff. But most
of this is removed in the first clash
of bodies—aftlr the first impact.
You don’t get that in golf.
“In golf ter.lion begins to get
worse—especially around the greens
when you find you’ve lost your putt
ing touch. I’ve never seen a golfer
who was good enough to win a big
tournament when he was putting
poorly. And when you get what
Tommy Armour calls ‘the yips,’ you
are just about through.”
“How can tension be cured?”
“The only sure cure I know,”
Kirkwood said, “is to cut off your
head.”
Foot Action
Henry Picard, a master stylist, is
among those who believe that good
foot action is the most difficult of
the golfing arts.
“Only a few stars know how to use
their feet properly,” Picard says,
referring to weight shift through the
swing.
Chick Evans had no superior in
this respect. You had only to watch
the work of his feet to get a big
part of the answer concerning espe
cially his iron play.
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The capybara, largest of all liv
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enough to cut corrugated iron,
says Collier’s. The Steganopodes,
an order of birds including peli
cans, cormorants and gannets,
have no nostrils and breathe
through their mouths.
Chow dogs and polar bears are
the only animals that have black
tongues; frogs and toads are the
only animals that cannot swallow
without closing their eyes; and
minks and weasels are the only-
animals, other than skunks, that
eject a malodorous fluid when an
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