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THE SILSBEE BEE
Turning Out Tanks in Quantity Lots
By Edward C. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
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Brings Convoy Issue Into Open Debate;
45,000 British Soldiers Are Saved
As Nazis Complete Balkan Campaign
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Air Marshal “Billy” Bishop of the
Royal Canadian air force (right) in-
spects the huge Douglas aircraft
plant at Santa Monica, Calif., where
many planes for the RAF are made.
He is shown with Donald Douglas,
president of the plant.
INVASION:
'Bugbear9
The end of the Greek campaign
and the slowing down of the North
African fight, if it was not at the
stalemate point, brought the old
British bugbear of an invasion at-
tempt to the fore again.
It was a bugbear but a bugbear
with a silver lining, if that was pos-
sible, for most of Britain dreaded
the days of waiting more than the
actual attempt, so sure were the
people that it would be smashed.
of a “new government” similar to
that of occupied France, and the af
fair officially at an end.
RUSSIA:
At Crossroads
Indication that Soviet Russia is
facing a situation that is becoming
less and less healthy for the Soviet’s
peace of mind came when it was
officially announced by Moscow that
12,000 German troops, well equipped
with tanks and heavy artillery, had
moved into Finland by water with
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golf champion (left), is welcomed
by Brig. Gen. Walter Weaver, as he
reports for duty at Maxwell Field,
Ala. Chapman is one of many top-
flight athletes being called to duty.
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Plotters in action in New York city information center during an
actual demonstration of aircraft warning system of Northeastern states.
Under direction of the supervisor (upper right), they chart the course,
altitude, number and type of spotted planes. Control platform (upper
left) advises different fighter bases of the approach of the enemy.
While buddies gathered round to watch and learn, members of the
Fifty-eighth Signal Battalion at Camp Forrest, Tenn., show off their pole-
climbing prowess in exercises designed to school men in the fine art of
field communications. In actual warfare, soldiers of signal corps must
be adept at tree-climbing. Climbing irons are used.
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His bill: 40% loss, at sea.
(EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
are those, of. the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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A view of the first U. S. “concentration camp,” at Fort Stanton, N. M., where 300 members of the crew
of the scuttled German luxury liner Columbus are interned for the war’s duration. Barracks adjoining the
fort are their homes, but they are not confined as ordinary prisoners, being permitted to occasionally explore
the nearby foothills (shown lower left). Map shows the location of Ft. Stanton.
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not only of the escape of 45,000 men,
but hinted that the other 12,000 “un-
accounted for” probably would die
or be taken prisoners—but might,
possibly, escape somewhere else
temporarily.
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One of the large cogs in the U. S. defense machinery is this production plant of the American Car & Foundry
company at Berwick, Pa., where tanks are turned out by mass production methods. Here is an assembly line
I with tanks reaching as far as the eye can see, while workmen put on the finishing touches. (Inset) New tanks
leaving the plant for their first road test.
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the evident intention of staying
there.
The official announcement coupled
with this move by the Nazis, at
least former allies of Russia, with
the decision by Russia not long ago
not to permit further shipments of
arms and munitions over her rail-
roads, or through her country by air
or land.
Just what the German objective
was in Finland was not immediately
apparent, but it was evident that if
the Germans intend to go on south-
ward through Turkey and Syria into
Iraq and Iran, the Germans will
certainly bottle up the Black Sea
for Russia, and few believed the
Soviet would stand for that without
fighting, perhaps on the side of the
Turks, perhaps alone.
This is the eventuality that most
friends of an eventual defeat for
Hitler and Mussolini and Japan
have looked forward to, and Church-
ill hinted at it not long ago.
France. It seemed that the Greeks
were better co-operators than the
French, whose morale was utterly
shot long before the British began to
fall back, and had to contend with
clogged roads and fleeing millions.
But Churchill let the commons
have the “Greek bill” of expenses as
soon as he knew what it was, and
announced he would permit a full
debate on this motion:
A vote of confidence in the con-
duct of the war by the British gov-
ernment—and a vote of approval on
the giving of aid to the Greeks.
Churchill said the British had put
60,000 soldiers into Greece, including
anti-Administration circles, mostly
in magazines, prior to the last elec-
tion, and had continued with a news-
paper column.
The army had certified Johnson
for reappointment, so in refusing
to allow the commission to go out,
the President went against his army
chiefs’ advice, and further stated
that as there was no likelihood of
Johnson’s actively serving, he want-
ed to spare the commission for
somebody that would.
Lindbergh, in his letter to the
President resigning, had made quite
a point of the fact that as an in-
active army officer, he had felt per-
mitted to use the freedom of speech
in attacking the administration’s for-
eign policy, but that if the Presi-
dent was going to impugn his pa-
triotism—why then he was going to
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Washington: President Roosevelt
himself opened the government’s
multi-billion dollar defense savings
campaign by buying the first bond
himself. The ceremony was broad-
cast from coast to coast.
New York: Jesse Jones announced
that the government debt would go
to 90 billions, and that America,
which had no sacrifices as yet,
would be making them “and plenty
of them.”, ..
London: Belgian circles reported
that Germany is holding 128,000 Bel-
gians prisoners of war.
London: British bombers claimed
sinking or damaging 42,000 tons of
Axis coastwise ships in a week. The
British announcement said “evident-
ly the Nazi rail strain is being re-
lieved by the use of coastwise ship-
ping in more favorable weather.”
Chungking, China: Capt. James
Roosevelt of the marines bobbed up
in Chungking, watched the Japanese
carry out an air raid on the city,
praised the public’s morale, and an-
nounced that he was going to fly to
northern Africa to observe the war
there. He said to Generalissino Chi-
ang Kai-shek. “I’m here to learn.”
Mrs. Dena Shelby Diehl of
Danville, Ky., by marriage a
great-great granddaughter of
Isaac Shelby, Revolutionary
war hero and first governor of
Kentucky, is the American
Mother of 1941. She was ex-
tended this honor by the
American Mothers’ commit-
tee of the Golden Rule founda-
tion, which annually sponsors
the American Mother. Cited
as being “representative of the
best there is in motherhood,”
Mrs. Diehl is the mother of
four grown children—all girls.
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
NJEW YORK.—Back in the calm,
LN untroubled days of February,
1939, with one more spring not far
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The debacle in Greece seemed to
be “small potatoes” as far as men
and munitions were concerned, as
compared with Dunquerque, but the
pattern turned out to be almost iden-
tical.
There was little question but that
the fighting had been as hard at one
place as at the other, with probably
more successful work done by the
British in Greece than they did in
WINSTON CHURCHILL
His bill: 3,000 killed in Greece.
one division each (about half of the
total force) of Australians and New
Zealanders.
He said that of this number there
were about 3,000 casualties (killed
and wounded and missing), about
45,000 “got away to fight on other
fronts,” and 12,000 were still un-
accounted for. This, presumably,
included those left to screen the re-
treat (suicide battalions); and those
lost at sea in sunken transports.
The prime minister said “British
losses were small compared to the
losses inflicted on the Germans, who
on some occasions for two days at
a time were brought to a complete
standstill by forces one-fifth their
number.”
He said, further, that the conduct
of the troops, especially the rear
guard, merited the highest praise,
and that the British demonstrated
that prolonged air bombing by day
and night had no power to shake
their discipline or their morale.
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to Britain by sea, and said that
these ranged from 40 per cent to
more than half. He then quoted a
high defense official as saying,
“they were nowhere near 40 per
cent and were getting less constant-
ly.”
However, it was still apparent
■that Britain preferred to send
American aircraft across the ocean
by air rather than on the water, and
the President backed up this effort
by announcing he was asking for a
survey to get all the commercial
air transports possible, presumably
to ferry the pilots back and forth
who were in the transatlantic
shipping of warplanes to Britain.
That this was a big industry and
getting bigger was seen by the new
revelations of the prices being paid
to American pilots for doing the fer-
rying. Some of these salaries were
quoted at $1,500 a trip, which didn’t
seem so much, but it was a good
deal for a day’s ’ flying, and some
of the bombers were making it in
12 hours.
Of course, there was the wait be-
fore you got back to earn another
$1,500, but the pilots were getting
astronomical “waiting salaries” as
well. But there were signs that as
American production was stepped
up, this business was beginning to
get out of hand, and that there was
a woeful shortage of planes capable
of bringing the pilots back to Amer-
ica.
There also was revealed another
British immediate request for a
quantity of mosquito torpedo boats,
and also the fact that American sup-
ply was short, for Secretary Knox
said, “We’ll let them have some,
and more as we finish them up.”
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CONVOY:
Argument
Theanti-convoy and pro-convoy
fight in the senate picked up when
the Tobey and Nye resolutions were
given formal consideration in com-
mittee. ■
Both resolutions were defeated in
committee, but only by a vote of 13-
10, and this showed what strength
the non-intefventionists had gained.
The resolution would have tied the
President’s hands most effectively,
in the question of using, the Amer-
ican navy to protect . shipments to
Britain and other defending democ-
racies.
Both would have demanded that
the President get, congressional ap-
proval for any convoying that might
be done, and pledged congress to
give or withhold it within 14 days.
This would have slowed the pace
of the naval commander-in-chief to a
walk. There was little repetition,
however, of the charges that con-
voying already was being done.
Senator Nye, in some of his
speeches, began to give figures of
U. S. losses of equipment en route
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T AST October, Major Edward
— Bowes, of radio fame, gave his
Westchester estate to the Lutheran
church. Then, in November, he
Maj. Bowes Gives gave his 62-
' ton yacht
With Freedom of and his 29-
A m • • foot speed-
One From Frisco boat to the
navy. Previously he had given to
St. Patrick’s cathedral four huge
English elms and eight Schwedleri
maples. And now he is giving to
St. Patrick’s an Andrea del Sarto
painting, masterpiece of the Floren-
tine painter, done in 1515. It is
“The Holy Family With St. John
and Ste. Elizabeth.”
The major started on a grand
garrison finish, along in his fif-
ties. This writer remembers
him as a genial evangel of real
estate, and a crusader against
crime in San Francisco, many
years ago. Even in that day he
had imposed on a grammar
school education the smoothest
diction in those parts.
It was in San Francisco, a most
theatrical town, that he moved into
the theater. It was in 1917 that he
built the Capitol theater in New
York and thereafter his career was
a pleasant upbound ride on a gold-
plated escalator.
Off and on, he has been radio’s
best magnet for fan-mail and his
“take” has been put down at around
$25,000 a week. He started his
amateur hour in 1934 and it quickly
blazed into a four-eleven conflagra-
tion. He lives abstemiously, as to
food and drink, but sports a $38,000
car, with Venetian blinds, a refrig-
erator and gold-rimmed dishes, and
he provides plenty of Lucullan trim-
mings for the entertainment of his
guests. He gives things away on
the slightest provocation and
couldn’t possibly have come from
anywhere but San Francisco.
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war scare was all paper talk. Re-
sponsible statesmen of Europe had
things well in hand.
On this same day, there was a
little item, back in the dustbin of
the newspaper, reporting that, in
■certain minor changes in the army,
the President was putting the “ac-
cent on youth.” One Brig. Gen.
Delos C. Emmons, a youth of 51,
was upped to the post of chief of
the army’s mobile general head-
quarters air force. Five or six other
youngsters were similarly elevated.
The other day, the quietly ef-
fective General Emmons was
given direction of a new organi-
zation of possibly 500,000 or
600,000 civilian air raid spotters.
Four brigadier generals will as-
sist him in recruiting and train-
ing his volunteer observers.
Back in 1916, we thought of air-
planes as primarily useful for ob-
servation, and it was the signal
corps, our only flying service, that
the then Captain Emmons entered.
He adapted himself quickly to the
fighting as well as observing uses of
planes, became a keen technician
in the art of plane development and
flying, and, in 1920 and 1921 taught
flying at Harvard university. He is
a native of Huntington, W. Va., and
graduated from West Point in 1909.
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N/ISS MABEL BOARDMAN, tall,
-V- regal, tireless and alert, is a
born co-operator and commander.
Her 40 years with the Red Cross is
An Accident Gave a timely ci-
tation, not
Disaster Victims only in the
. . I . . aftermath of
Cause to Rejoice the tragedy
of London, but in her current Wash-
ington announcement that the Red
Cross is geared for swift emergency
action. In this connection, she men-
tions the fact that it sent more than
$23,000,000 to Europe last year, and
gives other details of its expanding
and intensifying organization.
Miss Boardman is secretary
of the American Red Cross.
During her service, its member-
ship has grown from 300 to
15,000,000, with much of the
credit for this increase assigned
to her. Born and reared in
'Cleveland, with abundant means
and distinguished family ante-
cedents, she was a Washington
society bud. In 1900, a friend
made an unauthorized use of her
name as one of the incorpora-
tors of the new Red Cross.
Miss Boardman accepted the call
and has helped guide and build the
vast organization with unflagging
energy and administrative and or-
ganizing ability. She is straight as
a ramrod, serene and at ease, but
with a touch of military alertness,
—an ever watchful evangel against
all the plagues of the litany.
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Some members of the house want- to be silenced and deported, in fact
ed to know if the 45,000 had fled to there were few limits in the sugges-
Crete or had reached their own tions that emanated from various
bases. Churchill said he believed sources backing up the President
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widely distributed in the press.
He, a former New Dealer and a
the Greek war over, the formation former head of the NRA in the early
Roosevelt days, had been busy in
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' army commission, was denied a re-
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The “Lone Eagle,” Charles Au-
gustus Lindbergh, once more land-
ed on Page One as the first Ameri-
can news story.
Lindbergh, who had first associat-
ed himself with the non-intervention-
ists and later with advocates of the
theory that British victory was im-
possible and German victory cer-
tain, carried his views to the Ameri-
can public until finally President
Roosevelt took cognizance of them
in a press conference, mentioning
Lindbergh by name, and in no
complimentary terms.
Lindy countered by resigning his
commission in the air corps reserve,
and accompanied it with a personal
letter to the President which he re-
leased to the press as soon as it was
written, and long before the Presi-
dent received it.
The war department accepted the
resignation. The President received
the letter. Lindbergh received from
Presidential Secretary Early the
hint that perhaps he would like also
to return to Hitler a decoration he
had received from Der Fuehrer
some years back.
The open controversy had its
backers on both sides, both public
and private. The non-intervention-
ists immediately made of Lindy a
martyr, and at a subsequent public
meeting, Senator Nye, leader of the
“keep out of war” bloc in the senate,
along with Senator Wheeler, made
capital of the incident by address-
ing his hearers as “fellow-Copper-
heads.”
The copperhead reference was
President Roosevelt’s, used in the
press conference anent Lindbergh.
Lindy’s name was cheered to the
echo at each of these meetings, and
the leaders of the movement were
quick to seize on him as a martyr.
Opponents of Lindbergh’s attitude
were glad he resigned his commis-
sion but took the stand that he ought
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