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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
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An actual attack by British Coast
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in northern waters is shown in
“Coastal Command,” the factual
film released by RKO. It was made
by the producers of “Target for To
night,” the British navy co-operat
ing.
*
If you think you’re bu§y, consider
Anna Lee, one of the many stars of
“Forever and a Day.” While work
ing in “Commandos Strike at Dawn”
she turned up at the RKO studios
at 10 every night and worked till
past midnight in “Forever and a
Day”—also managed her house and
family. 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 . . .
Fred Allen is the only man who has been
master of ceremonies on radio’s two big
gest quiz programs—“Take It or Leave If
and “Information Please" Ginny Simms
has been named “the girl with whom a
paratrooper would most love to be strand
ed in a parachute." _
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required to operate it cost $17,750.
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