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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, JULY 17, 1942
Washington, D. C.
BEHIND RAF RAIDS
Few people outside the inner cir
cle know it, but the recent bombing
raids on Bremen, Cologne, Essen,
have been accomplished in part
through the farsightedness of Ed
Stettinius Jr., who, long ago saw the
importance of high octane gas and
demanded that the administration
start large scale production.
Stettinius has taken it on the chin
regarding the slowness of aluminum
production and has admitted he was
wrong. (Real reason for the tragic
error was his reliance on Aluminum
Corporation of America figures).
But on two other vital commodities
he was way out in front.
One of these was rubber. Stetti
nius was the first to see the reed of
building synthetic rubber factories
to prepare for the fall of Singapore
and began dinning on Jesse Jones
for nearly a year before he could
get Jesse to move.
The other commodity was high oc
tane gasoline, without which the cur
rent bombing raids could not take
place. One bomber takes about
1,000 gallons of gasoline to fly from
England to Germany and back, so
with 1,000 bombers staging a raid,
1,000,000 gallons of fuel is used up
in one night.
• * *
V. S. PRISONERS IN BAT VAN
Ex-Undersecretary of the Interior
Jack Dempsey has taken up with
the American Red Cross the prob
lem' of getting a Red Cross repre
sentative in Manila to look out for
U. S. prisoners from Bataan and
Corregidor.
So far, the Japs have not permit
ted a Swiss Red Cross representa
tive in Manila, though they have ad
mitted Swiss representatives to
Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
No excuse has been given by the
Japs for not permitting a Swiss
representative in Manila, but U. S.
officials presume it is because they
don’t want anyone from the outside
world to see what is going on there.
Meanwhile, however, the treat
ment of U. S. prisoners in Japan
and China is reported to be good.
The Swiss representatives make
regular reports, state that Ameri
can prisoners have no complaints,
that sheets on the beds are changed
frequently, and that married men
are allowed to go to see their wives
every week-end.
* • •
ROYAL PRESS CONFERENCE
At King Peter’s conference with
the pres-., the Jugoslav monarch
was completely poised, though ad
mitting the camera men fazed him
a bit. With characteristic zeal they
monopolized the proceedings with
popping flash-bulbs.
A reporter asked Peter what his
outstanding impressions were of the
U. S.
“One that stands out is your
friendliness,” he answered prompt
ly. “Everywhere I have gone I have
noticed that.”
“Does that include photogra
phers?”
“Well, they are persistent, aren’t
they? I wouldn’t mind if they didn’t
keep shooting off things in my face.”
* • •
TANKER-SAVING PIPELINE
American automobile owners don’t
know it, but indirectly they had the
British to thank for the final deci
sion to build a new pipeline from the
South to the Middle West.
Secretary Ickes had been urging
construction of this pipeline for
more than a year—always being
rebuffed by the War Production
board.
Part of Ickes’ argument was that
it was foolish to waste American
tankers by having them carry oil
all the way to England from the
Gulf of Mexico. If, on the other
hand, tankers could load oil and
gasoline at a Middle Atlantic port,
they could save 1,000 miles of
travel and reduce the exposure to
submarine attack. Tankers are get
ting scarce these days, and the
shorter the distance they have to
steam, the more trips they can
make.
Ickes put forth this argument em
phatically at the last hearing before
the War Production board, but was
rebutted by Lieut. Gen. Brehon Som
ervell, head of the army’s service of
supplies. Somervell pooh-poohed the
idea that England was hard up for
oil or gasoline, said he had just re
turned from there, and that Ickes’
argument was pure poppycock.
Ickes made no immediate reply,
but cabled the British government.
The British were boiling mad, and
the reply he received clinched the
matter. The War Production board
decided Somervell didn’t know much
about British oil supplies. The pipe
line was ordered built.
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
C. Capitol insiders are betting that
before the tax bill finally emerges
from congress it will contain some
kind of provision for compulsory
war savings as an aflti-inflation
measure. Secretary Morgenthau has
been opposed to this, but recently
seems willing to shift his view.
C. Former OPM boss William Knud-
sen, in his new role as a lieutenant-
general in the army, has inspected
285 war plants and in many of them
he has recommended changes which
have increased production.
PRIVATE PURKEY IN LOVE
AND WAR
Dear Ma—
There is not much to write about
and anyhow even if there was the
top sarge wood
not give me time
enough to write
about it. I am
well and feel
stronger than ev
er witch puzzles
me on account of
if I did half as
much work when I was in civilyun
life I wood be a fizzical wreck long
ago. I gess it must be that a jeep
goes on doing whats asked of him
in the army knowing it won’t do
him no good to kick and he knows
he wood get no sympathy if he got
run down.
• • •
I see where we declared war on
the Ballcan states Bullgaria, Roo-
mania and Hungaria. When it first
come over the radio that we de
clared war on three states extra it
sort of jarred me on account of we
was already fighting so many states
that I am always one or two states
behind. But when I found out it
was only Bullgaria, Roomania and
Hungaria I felt easier. I got no
friends in none of them and the
only Hungarian I knew played in a
orchestra witch was pretty bad. Ev
erybody is in the war now so a few
more do not make no difference I
gess.
• • *
Well, mom, do not worry about
me as from all I hear it is softer
being here in the army than being
a plain civilyun. The situation back
home is very heartbreaking to me.
New York and a lot of other cities
is so dark nights it is more lonesome
going out after dark than it would be
tc stay home.
• » •
Gas is going to be harder than
ever to get, the government is talk
ing about taking
tires away from
everybody, all
parking lots at
the beaches have
been closed at
night and there
is talk of forbid
ding bus travel
except on business, so it is just a
laugh now when anybody talks about
keeping out of the army so he can
do as he pleases.
• • *
Gosh, mom, I gess you and pop
take more orders right now in a
day than I get in the army in a
week. All people in civilyun life
have got on me is that they don’t
have to peel potatoes. The radio
keeps talking about ceiling troubles
back home and I still hope nothing
has happened to your ceiling yet,
although you did not answer my
last letter about it.
I hope you are all fixed on
priorities also whatever they
are. Everybody seems to be
having them. Sergeant Mooney
says I need not worry about
having them as I had them when
I was a boy.
• • •
John Bennett is in my outfit and
he is always good for a laugh. He
says he just ran
across the most
cookoo jeep in
the army. He
says he saw him
with a homemade
fly trap catching
flies. At first he
thought he was
just nuts but when he seen him do
ing it four days in a row he de
manded a explanation and found the
nitwit was catching them to feed a
pet frog which he keeps in his tent
as a mascot.
• • •
It takes all kinds of men to make
a army but this is the first time I
knew it also took a fly trap and a
frog. Well this will have to be all.
I get pretty homesick at times of
coarse, mom, and I wish I could
get back to see you and pop often-
er but on the other hand I don’t
gess I could stand life back in a
city with so many restrickshuns and
with everybody giving orders about
one thing and another.
Your loving son,
( Oscar.
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“Retain Deplores Rising Discon
tent.”—Headline.
And how the rising discontent must
deplore Hetain!
• * •
WE CAN’T BELIEVE IT
According to reports I’m hearing.
The motor car is disappearing.
About the change I’m in the dark ...
Just try to find a place to park!
—Merrill Chilcote.
* • *
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* * «
IS IT JUST IN FUN?
With all the bulletins, warnings,
radio talks, etc., being made to save
tires and gas by slow driving, one
has only to stand on almost any
open road in America to see that
thousands of drivers are brazenly ig
noring the whole matter. This driv
er should be put well near the top
of Fifth Columnists, and, what’s
more, the police are almost as guilty
in their lackadaisical attitude about
him.
Keeping the St. Lawrence Free From Subs
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Canada’s new mosquito boats are busy at their job keeping convoys safe from submarines in the St. Law
rence river. The sub-chasers, which are the Canadian navy’s version of the U. S. “mosquito boat,” are called
“Fairmiles.” They are 100 feet long, fast, and capable of carrying a record volume of depth bombs. In pic
ture at the left two husky crewmen are given the ticklish job of loading a depth charge on a “Fairmile.”
Center: Typical, French-Canadian sailors enlisted in the Royal Canadian navy operate a blinker signal to
escorting destroyers. Right: One hundred feet of water from the St. Lawrence cascades into the air as
a depth bomb blasts the “sub’-’ below.
Pushing Against Axis in the Pacific
First photos to come out of
the new air base in New
Guinea from which U. S. and
Allied fliers are striking at Jap
bases: Right: Two fliers stand
beneath the bomb bay of a U. S.
bomber somewhere in New
Guinea, inscribing 100-pound
ers. Left: American pilots and
crew push a B-25 from the run
way to make room for other
planes to take off.
Chemical Warfare Demonstration
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A barrage of 25 shells is fired from “Livens projectors” during the
army’s chemical warfare demonstration at Edgewood arsenal, Maryland.
The projectors are used to throw destructive chemicals against the enemy,
or smoke bombs to screen troop movements. Men in the foreground are
telephone operators in contact with advance forces and the “plunger”
man who sets off the charge.
Yankee Tanks in Northern Ireland
Gains Freedom
Mrs. Jetti Fuerstein, shown with
her one-year-old son, Nathan, on
their arrival in New York from
Portugal on the SS Guine. The
child was born in a concentration
camp abroad, but is none the worse
for his bitter experience.
Cools His Heels
Armored units of the American expeditionary force in Northern Ire
land, among the most recent arrivals, have lost no time in getting into
hard training and preparing for the opening of a possible second front.
Negotiating rough country in Northern Ireland, these “General Grant”
tanks, followed by U. S. infantrymen, are proving that they can take it—
and give it!
John T. Robertson, musician first
class at the U. S. naval air station.
Corpus Christi, Texas, cools his
heels after a long march, while
practicing on his bass horn.
Gene Tunney
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CUPPOSE we could put on a base-
^ ball carnival that included Cy
Young, Ty Cobb, Nap Lajoie, Tris
Speaker, Joe Jackson, Ed Walsh,
Babe Ruth, George Sisler, Rogers
Hornsby and Hans Wagner. It would
be something to look at—especially
for those who carry memories of
other baseball days.
Or suppose you could put on a se
ries of fights that knew such names
as Jim Corbett, Bob
Fitzsimmons, John
Lawrence Sullivan,
Jim Jeffries, Jack
Dempsey, Gene Tun
ney and Joe Louis.
That, also, would be
something to see.
In a way, after
this fashion, the Hale
America open golf
show in Chicago, for
war fund purposes,
was the closest ap
proach anyone could
make along the lines of past and
present stardom when it comes to
a matter of past color and skill,
hooked up with modern ability to
wreck par.
Turning Back the Clock
When 4t comes to turning back the
clock in Chicago’s golf ensemble we
can give you Chick Evans, an ex
caddie from the Edgewater G. C.
in Chicago, who was a star golfer
35 years ago—and who is still good.
We could give you Francis Oui-
met, another ex-caddie who at the
age of 20, turned back Harry Var-
don and Ted Ray 29 years ago at
Brookline in Massachusetts. And he
is still good.
Or we can give you Walter Hagen
who threatened at Brookline in 1913,
and came along to win the U. S.
Open in 1914 at Midlothian, Chicago.
Or Bobby Jones who starred at
Merion in 1916, only 26 years ago,
at the age of 14.
Or Gene Sarazen, who at the age
of 20, won the U. S. Open at Skokie,
another Chicago course, in 1922—a
mere lapse of 20 years.
And don’t think that Jones and
Sarazen can’t break 70 today.
Hagen, Jones and Sarazen togeth
er have won something like 30 na
tional and international champion
ships. Jones and Hagen have been
the two great golfers of all times
and when it comes to the combined
check-up of skill and color Sarazen
isn’t far away. Harry Vardon had
his full share of skill, but not the
color that goes with the three we
have named.
The Modern Group
No one could expect Cobb, Ruth,
Speaker, Young, Lajoie, Sisler or
Hornsby to compete with the pres
ent day crop—Ted Williams, Joe
Gordon, Bobby Doerr, Joe DiMag-
gio, Pete Reiser, Terry Moore, and
others.
So no one could expect Jones, Ha
gen, Sarazen and other old-timers
to match scoring
swings with Byron
Nelson, Ben Hogan,
Sammy Snead or
Craig Wood.
But this is one out
standing feature of
golf. The old-timers,
here and there still
will play holes and
shots as brilliantly
as any Nelson, Ho
gan or Snead can
produce.
They no longer have the physical
or the concentrative stamina to hook
up shot after shot through 72 holes.
This means a twelve or a fourteen-
hour grind, where there is no let-up
on nerve pressure—where only those
who have battled from coast to
coast, week after week through many
months, are well enough seasoned to
go the route. But these old-timers
still can play all the shots any of
the modern crop can produce.
The only trouble is that they
can’t link them together, stroke aft
er stroke, and hole after hole. It is
the linking process that counts.
Even 20-handicap golfers have made
holes in one, or hammered brassie
shots dead against the pin.
So it would be foolish to expect
any member from the Old Guard to
keep on the heels of a Nelson, Ho
gan or Snead, to mention only three
members from the modem group.
Jones and Sarazen might—in an
18-hole test. But not over the 72-
hole route, where cancentration and
nerves begin to disintegrate and fall
apart, and the old urge fades out—
not overlooking a little matter
known as youth—competitive youth.
For all that, the golfers hang on
the longest. They still can stick
around when the others are merely
records covered with dust.
A Faster Pace
There isn’t any debating the fact
that modem golfers have set a fast
er pace than old-timers could offer.
Their game is more standardized—
a 270-yard drive and then a wallop
for the pin.
But I still think they lack the va
riety of shots old-timers could play
—the half and three-quarter iron,
for example.
The dynamiter or blaster of the
modem crop has made a big differ
ence in bunker play. You also can
call it the “wedge.”
To remove a fresh grease spot
on a rug, cover ihe spot with blot
ting paper, then press with a hot
flat-iron. Cover the spot writh
magnesia, let it remain for 24
hours, then brush off.
• • •
Use the tab in opening and clos
ing slide fasteners. Don’t force
them. Before washing a “zip”
garment close the zipper. Guard
it in pressing so the teeth will not
be thrown out of alignment.
• • •
If your bread is too fresh to slice
easily, put it into the refrigerator
to get thoroughly cold.
• • »
When you wan' to thicken gravy,
put the flour and water into a
wide-mouthed jar, with a screw top
and shake well.
• • •
Clothes iron much easier if they
are hung up carefully, pinned
securely with plenty of clothespins
and shaken occasionally to remove
wrinkles.
• • •
Keep your linoleum floors waxed.
Wash the floor first with mild soap
and water. Wipe it dry. After
half an hour has elapsed apply a
thin coat of floor wax.
• • •
To keep lemons, sift dry sand
into a stone jar, then bury the lem
ons in the sand, so that they will
not touch each other.
• • •
If you have china plates with
cracked, old faces you probably
subjected them to sudden, great
or unevenly applied temperature
changes. Or perhaps you soaked
the dishes too long in water and
the body expanded, cracking the
glaze.
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