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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, MARCH 26, 1943 Washington, D. C. ‘FLYING MINUTE MEN’ (The brass ring, good (or one free ride on the Washington Merry-Go- Round, is awarded this week to the Civil Air Patrol.) This brass ring goes not to one man but to 68,000 men and women. They are members of the Civil Air patrol who have been fighting the war in little single-motor planes fly- ihg within the boundaries of the United States, and who carry the / torch for the future of civil aviation in this country. How long they will be allowed to carry that torch is the important question. At present they are or phans of the storm—carrying mili tary responsibilities without mili tary standing. They fight subma rines, but they had to fight for weap ons first. The army and WPB are slowly throttling them by refusing new equipment or repair parts. Thus in order to keep their gradually de teriorating machines going, the Civil Air patrol is almost certain to be swallowed by the army. • The army has been wanting to take over because civilian fliers in wartime are considered a nuisance by the military—with justification in some cases. Youths and Fathers. But the owners of 25,000 private planes thought they had something to offer. The younger ones went into military service. Others, many being married men with families, organized the Civil Air patrol, which for more than a year has been flying the coastal waters and maintaining a courier service throughout the United States. These are the “Flying Minute Men.” At first their submarine pa trol was merely a spotting job. If they spotted a submarine, they were supposed to radio a shore base and then hover around waiting for a bomber to come to the scene of action. But they had so many heart rending experiences, that they clam ored for bombs of their own. They would dart low over the water, dis cover a submarine location, radio to a shore base, hold the contact, hover and pursue—and then some times lose the prey because the army never came along. For months they called in vflin for bombing equipment. War depart ment insisted that no civilians are allowed to carry weapons, and thus the Civil Air patrol should not be armed. The army would not even release life rafts, and as a result several CAP pilots have lost their lives on submarine patrol. Finally the restriction was waived, and today these little single-engine planes carry small bomb racks, bombs, and bomb sights. But they have not been allowed to reveal the success of their subma rine patrol. War department calls it “military information,” and in sists that CAP shall say no more than that they have “attacked” sub marines—without indicating the re sult. Subs Sunk. But we can reveal that submarines spotted by CAP observers have actu ally been sunk. The authority for this statement is Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley of the army air corps, who also emphasizes that these “Flying . Minute Men” have provided their own planes, tools, radios, and other equipment. A year ago German submarines were sinking merchant stops within sight of the Atlantic coast. This brazen activity ceased after estab lishment of the Civil Air patrol. The submarines were driven into deep waters, for the small planes, flying low and wing slowly, were able to do a better job of spotting than big patrol bombers which whizzed past the scene too rapidly for close ob servation. • » » WHY THE JAPS KNOW Here is an excerpt from the in terior department’s annual 1941 re port, which indicates why the Japs know so mucb about the Aleutian Islands: “The floating plant Kosei Maru, with auxiliary craft consisting of 9 trawlers, was engaged from May to August, 1940, in taking halibut and cod in Bering Sea about 100 miles northeast of the Pribilof Islands, with one additional trawler during the last week or two of the season. The vessel was reported to have left for Japan toward the end of August. “This is the eleventh consecutive 'year that Japanese floating plants have operated in these waters, the number of vessels having varied from one to four, with the usual complement of tenders.” . Note: Under international law it is impossible to prevent foreign fish ermen from fishing in foreign waters. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND C. War Transport Czar Joe Eastman says he gets a bushel of letters and postcards every week suggesting that he bar Mrs. Roosevelt from traveling . . . Old Washington ob servers who have seen previous Presidents suffer from getting out of touch with the nation, wish FDR had two Mrs. Roosevelts to keep him posted about U. S. sentiment. Any President who loses contact with the people is finished, and every President, especially in wartime, has to keep close to his desk. Eighty-Three Days on a Raft in Atlantic Reduced to skin and bones by hunger, thirst and exposure, Cornelius Van Der Slot, of Rotterdam, is helped by a U. S. sailor aboard a navy patrol boat off the Brazilian coast. Van Der Slot’s two companions, Nick Hoogendam Viaar Dinger, Holland, left, and Basil Izzi, South Barry, Mass., gather up their meager belongings preparatory to being helped aboard the rescuing craft. The men, survivors of five who reached the raft after their vessel had been torpedoed, were adrift on the South Atlantic for 83 days. They existed on raw fish, fowl and rain water which they managed to catch from time to time. (Official navy photo.) Convicts Make Goods for Battlefronts While many of their friends and relatives are in the armed forces, inmates of San Quentin, Calif., prison have turned to war work within the grim gray walls of the very institution which keeps them from joining in the fighting. Much of the goods now produced in the shops and yards of the prison now go to use on the farfiung battlefields of the world. These men are stripping insulation from old electric cables brought to the prison from civilian scrap piles and from the battlefields themselves. Helen Shields is the Philadelphia mint employee shown at the ma chine (left) that gives the new one-cent piece its raised and protective edge. The new coin, composed entirely of solid soft steel, with a zinc plating, replaces the old copper coin which contained 95 per cent copper, 4 per cent zinc and 1 per cent tin. Jack Kastrin is shown (right) at the com stamping machine. The machine produces the Lincoln head on one side and the “One cent. United States of America” on the obverse side. Perfect WAAC Introducing the perfect WAAC, Jane A. Whiteman, pretty blonde 21- year-old employee of the fuselage tail department of Consolidated Air craft corporation. Fort Worth, Texas. She has just passed her physical ex amination for the WAACs with a score of 100 per cent, and was de clared by examining physicians the first to fit perfectly the WAAC phys ical specifications. Weight 143, bust, perfect 36. Her 105th Birthday Mrs. Anna Marie Oswald Huber is about to cut the cake as she cele brates her 105th birthday at Harri son, N. Y. Mrs. Huber was born in Switzerland in 1838 and came to America in 1881. Primitive Labor A picture out of an ancient world, primitive tools, bullock carts and hand labor, but all so necessary to the modern scheme of things, par ticularly war, for here is being con structed an air field for American fighter, bomber and transport planes. A young girl laborer rests upon her crude tool. Broken stone, used to make a bed for the landing strip, is brought in by wom en who carry it in baskets upon their heads. ‘Army Travels oh Stomach’ Pitches Hot Steel They’re a hungry bunch, those fighting sons of freedom on the steam ing island of Guadalcanal. Photo shows cooks making flapjacks to be sent in hot containers to the troops at the front. Bob Feller, one of the finest base ball pitchers of the era, is now cap tain of a 40-mm. gun crew aboard a new battlewagon. Bob joined the navy as physical instructor but later applied for gunnery school. Here he is, grin, and all, beside his gun. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. O N THE first day of shoot ing for “Mrs. Miniver” Greer Garson was knocked down in a street scene by a boy on a bicycle. On the first day for ‘‘Madame Curie,” she was knocked down by a cam era perambulator. “Maybe it’s a good omen,” said she. “But I hope I never start a picture in a scene with a locomotive!” Nobody was surprised when “Mrs. Miniver” got the Academy Award for the best picture of 1942; it was especially good news to Major William Wyler, who directed—he recently directed the filming of the bombing of the German naval base at Wilhelms- haven. Nan Wynn, the popular radio, night club and motion picture singer, has been placed under long term contract by Columbia, and will Bird Embroidery Will Lend a Cheerful Note EpiRST Call to Spring—in charm- 1 ing bird motifs for your bed spread! 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The only stipulation she made was that after finishing her day’s work she must have time off to put her two babies to bed before starting her swing shift at RKO. * Robert Haymes also got a Colum bia break. With time for only one more film before being inducted into the army, he was removed from the lead of “Doughboys in Ireland”— and replaced by Kenny Baker—and assigned to the romantic lead in “Two Senoritas From Chicago,” the two senoritas being those two very lovely ladies, Jinx Falkenburg and Joan Davis! * . That Charles Boyer production, so badly titled “Flesh and Fantasy,” has a new and better title, “For All We Know.” Robert Cummings and Betty Field have been given the romantic leads in the fourth and final-' sequence. * New Yorkers have learned that the place to be caught during a blackout is a radio studio—instead of turning their guests loose to wait in the corridors, the stars turn to and put on a show. Burns and Allen, the “Duffy’s Tavern” folks and the members of “The Aldrich Family” can all give a superb extemporane ous show when the sirens scream. —m— A stranger in Culver City might think that Leo the Lion has turned prize fight promoter. Five big name boxers are working there. Freddy Steele, ex-middleweight kingpin, has been coaching Richard Carlson for “The Man Down Under”; Maxie Rosenbloom’s working in “Right About Face,” as are Lou Nova and Jack Roper; Johnny Indrissano, former lightweight threat, now a ref eree, is technical adviser. * So far Jean Cabin’s American pic tures haven’t been up to the stand ard of the French ones that made him famous. But it looks as if he might remedy that situation this summer; he’s obtained his release from 20th Century-Fox and will be starred by RKO in a picture to be written and produced by Dudley Nichols, and directed by Jean Re noir, which looks like a perfect com bination. * ODDS AND ENDS—Kay Kyser and hit band have started their third year of en tertaining the boys in the armed forces; in the first two years they played for more than 4,000,000 soldiers, sailors and ma rines ... Robert Benchley returns to Metro to write and star in a new series of shorts ... Alec Templeton gives a half-hour mini ature concert prior to his broadcasts . . . 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