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THE GIDDINGS STAR
New Might for the U. S. Navy
Arrive in U. S.
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD
Defense workage due to
strikes probably exceeds
estimates . . . Delay in
building cargo ships in
U. S. increases starvation
threat to England.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
GOANTZAND
b VICE
A striking photo of two powerful arms which go far towards making
our navy the world's greatest. The submarine Triton, sister ship of the
Squalus, and one of the navy’s newest underseas craft, is seen from the
navy Blimp, G-1, off Barnegat, N. J., light. One of the blimp's motors
covers the upper part of picture.
The East Indies situation is be
I coming more tense each day. Above
is Eelco Van Kieffens, foreign min
ister of the Netherlands in exile.
shown on arrival in New York with
his wife. He is on his way to dis-
cuss East Indian problems with
President Roosevelt.
Foreign Propaganda Fed to Furnace
‘Tummy’ Victim
This is a scene at the Roncon Annex post office in San Francisco,
Calif., as postal employees burn a big load of foreign propaganda con-
sisting of magazines, pamphlets and books. Officials have been watching
incoming propaganda for many months and thought it about time to
consign it to the flames.
Gail Grochowski, 6%-pound girl,
of Worcester, Mass., youngest vic-
tim of the “upside-down” stomach
malady on record. She is now re-
covering, following an operation.
.Pe-vicui
United States to Observe Army Day
Gymnasts
I WANT YOU
SIZE of U. S. ARMY
IIMHHHi
1865 unoW) 2.128.948
HHHHHHHH
1918 mov W. 3,673,888
U.S.ARMY
1
J939
HIM
1941 (MR)
187.886
1,003,500
Collegiate gymnasts will compete
. at the National Collegiate Athletic
The rapidly growing armed forces of the U. S. will be on review on association championship at the Uni-
Army day, April 7, when troops will hold open house to visiting citizens, versity of Chicago April 12. Co-cap-
Upper left: Gen. George S. Marshall, army chief of staff. Upper right: | tains Dclver Daly (top) and Bob
A recruiting poster of World war days, which is again being widely used. Banning of Minnesota are favored
Lower right: H. H. Arnold, chief of the army air corps, for top positions.
for top positions.
A ‘Big Shot’ for Uncle Sam
U. S. NAVY
Built
Building
15 Battleships
17
6 Aircraft Carriers 12
37
Cruisers
48
159
Destroyers
166
104
Submarines
81
The North Carolina, (above) first new battleship of the U. S. navy
in 20 years, is to be commissioned April 11, five months ahead of
schedule, has nice 16-inch guns, which can fire a broadside of 20,000
pounds for 20 miles. Its displacement is 35,000 tons, the biggest in the
V. S. navy. It was launched June 13 at New York.
Chemist
WASHINGTON. — The newspaper
men who attend President Roose-
velt's press conferences are getting
a little tougher, as time passes, on
the importance to national defense
of the labor troubles in industries
working on U. S. or British war or-
ders. The President's retort about
never more than one-quarter of one
per cent of the defense production
being tied up by strikes at any one
time did not end the questioning
at a recent conference.
Putting their heads together after-
wards, one group of reporters de-
cided that this "one-quarter of one
per cent" was much more deceptive
than anything the newspapers had
printed. One reporter figured out
that the Allis Chalmers strike alone |
was tying up more than one-third
| of 1 per cent of all national defense
orders.
Inasmuch as this one strike had
been running for more than six
weeks on the day the President
made the statement, and inasmuch as
there were quite a number of other
strikes in national defense industries
during that six weeks, it would seem
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.—A year
O or so ago Sammy Snead, the ex-
hillbilly from the uplands of West
Virginia, was golf’s most famous
entry. Through the
last year this man-
tie had floated to
the shoulders of
Ben Hogan from
the plains of Texas.
Snead in one sea-
_ son picked up over
$20,000in prize
PTKImoney Hogan
P4 hasn’t yet reached
apTa that mark, but his
s Avicitn general average
Grantland Rice through the last 12
months has been
one of golf’s sensational stories.
Gene Sarazen thinks Hogan today
is the greatest golfer in the game-
one of the greatest of all time as
far as shotmaking and grim, com-
petitive concentration are con-
cerned. What is there left?
Snead played brilliantly through
the recent international four-ball
championship, but Hogan's luster
carried an even deeper roseate tint
or glint. The slender Texan was
. phenomenal.
How They Compare
I asked Bob Macdonald, not only
one of the star stylists of his time,
but also one of the best instructors
and keenest observers, to give me
his idea of their swings. Bob Mac-
donald is a veteran Scot who has
| played golf for 40 years and has
Washington, D. C.
HOW BRITISH MEET RAIDS
FDR got a first-hand account of
how British morale is maintained
during the blitz when Surgeon Gen-
eral Thomas Parran, head of the
Civil Defense mission, reported at
the White House.
Dr. Parran’s mission spent a
month in England studying the peo-
ple living under constant aerial
bombardment, and reported that one
secret of Britain's splendid morale
is immediate government relief for
bombed victims.
As soon as "all clear” sounds over
a beleaguered city, rescue workers
are on the scene with hot food, med-
ical care, arrangements for shelter
and ready cash.
Repairs on damaged dwellings are
begun immediately. Furniture is
salvaged and stored. Families
whose homes were destroyed are bil-
leted at government expense. Com-
pensation is paid for injuries. Pen-
sions are given dependents of killed
civilians and rescue workers.
The mere fact that ready cash is
paid promptly has tremendous psy-
chological effect. Upon application
and without red tape, bomb victims
can get a cash grant to buy cloth-
ing, new furniture, and workmen's
tools. Small shopkeepers can obtain
up to 50 pounds to buy new stocks.
Disguised Plants.
Dr. Parran’s mission was particu-
larly impressed by the ingenuity of
British civil defenses.
One scheme for protecting vital
industries is an elaborate system of
that there must have been some; seen them all drift by.
"Snead and Hogan have different
methods of hitting the ball,” Bob dummy factories to mislead Nazi
said, "Snead gets most of his power | bombers. These plants are duplicat-
largely from his left shoulder which 1 ed even to position, color and mark-
controls a good part of his swing, ings. Old cars are towed to the yards
He has a magnificent left shoulder | of the fake plants to simulate work-
turn. Of course, the left side of his ers’ autos.
rather extraordinary mathematics 1
on the part of whoever gave the
President that figure.
ANY DELAY IMPORTANT
But there is another side to it,
| which has little to do with percent-
ages. It may be very interesting to
know the exact percentage in any
given case, but a war is a contest
in which one side usually wins, and
the other loses. It is not a case of |
whether either of the combatants
makes a passing mark, as in an
academic course.
To make the point clear in this
| case, let us assume for a moment
that the possible invasion of the
United States about which so much
| has been said does come about, and
| that the Gettysburg of this contest
would be an air battle. Let us further
W. L. Evans (above) will preside
when some 3,509 chemists gather in
St. Louis, April 7, for the Ameri-
can Chemical society convention.
Subject, chemistry and defense.
body, left hip and left knee, turn Some industrial centers even use
with the left shoulder. He doesn't great smudge pots, emitting huge
depend so much on hand and arm billows of black smoke completely
action. blanketing an area.
"Mogan uses his hands as well as Industry has been completely dis-
any golfer I ever saw. I might even | persed into hundreds of small plants
go further and say he uses them bet- in Britain, each making separate
ter than any golfer I ever saw Of parts for the war machine. Dupli-
course, Hogan also has a sound left cate plants are ready to take over
production of vital products.
assume that this air battle was
desperately close—as indeed Get-
tysburg was—and that when it was
over the winner had only a few
score of planes left, and the loser
none.
Now let’s go back to this strike
situation. Suppose there is a strike
in a factory making airplanes, or a
plant producing the engines for them, I
or the aluminum, or whatnot. And
suppose as a result of that strike this
country has 100 less airplanes on
the day of that battle than it would
have had had there been no strike. j
It might easily make the differ-'
ence between this country's being ’
SAMMY SNEAD
conquered and its emerging trium-
phant, and yet that strike might not
figure as one-tenth of 1 per cent of side body turn. But from the top
of the swing he calls on the whip-
lash power of his hands to speed the |
clubhead on through the ball. Ho-
gan uses his hands much more than
our national defense production at
the time it was raging.
Building Cargo Fleet
Was Long Delayed
Perhaps the most curious failure to
take time by the forelock in the
whole defense situation has been the
length of time it took the adminis-
Snead uses his. Snead uses his left
shoulder more than Hogan does.”
At the time we were following the
final match together.
"Here are some other details that
should be watched,” Macdonald
tration to come around to building said. "Watch how well both Hogan
a fleet of cargo ships. | and Snead use their feet. By that
The shipping problem was realized I mean the transference of major
in September, 1939, more than a weight from the left side to the right
year and a half ago. It was known on the backswing. I should say
then, by both British and United that Snead has more width to his
States officials, that there was noth- swing than any golfer I've seen. His
ing more certain than that Ger- arc is tremendous.
many's most effective weapon would "They are both in position at the
be the destruction of shipping, with top of the swing to use their full
the hope of ultimately starving Brit- power, which so few golfers ever
ain out. , - ... --
are. Not enough golfers ever think
At that time no one, of course, enough about the backswing. They
foresaw the collapse of France, nor
the seizure of Norway and Den-
mark, though the fate of Belgium
was anticipated. Folks were in-
stinctively following the pattern of
the last war in their minds.
only think of hitting the ball, which
means the downswing. How can you
have a good downswing when you
have no backswing for a foundation
It was not realized that, with the
in the way of balance?
Delay at the Top
"Watch this,” the veteran contin-
collapse of France, and the seizure
of Norway, the Nazis would have ued. "I mean the smooth, unhur-
such favorable bases for both sub- ried pace of Snead’s backswing and
marine and airplane attacks on ship. | the slight delay Sam has at thetop.
Ping.
SHIPPING BECOMES ACUTE
You never see him hurry either a
backswing or the start of down-
_ . swing. Timing, after all, is largely
But everybody knew that sooner a matter of taking your time,
or later the persistent sinking of Snead does this all through his
merchant ships, just as in the last swing. He completes his large arc
war, would bring Britain face to without any rush at any time,
face with the danger of starvation. “Hogan's swing is faster, but just
Shrewd observers called the at- as well timed. His hand acton
tention of this writer to the certainty takes care of the entire situation,
that the shipping problem would be- once his backswing is finished prop.
without any rush at any time.
"Hogan's swing is faster, but just
once his backswing is finished prop-
erly. His two hands work perfectly
come acute and these dispatches c.ay. ... .w. .a.us won periecuy
dwelt upon it in 1939. At that time jn relation to the clubhead account-
it seemed inconceivable to these
particular observers that this gov-
ernment would not do everything
| possible to get merchant ship con-
struction going immediately.
This writer made a very bad pre-
diction in these dispatches in 1939.
| He predicted that this would be
| done It was not done. In fact, it
, has just begun to get beyond the
| planning stage, with the passage of
| a bill by congress authorizing the
ing for his marvelous iron play.
Because of the tenseness and con-
centration required through his tour-
nament play 1 asked Ben if he
weren’t afraid he might burn him-
self out.
"I'm taking that chance," he said.
"I figure I'd have to get all 1 could
from golf for two or three years
more and then settle down on a
small Texas ranch. You have to
work hard to meet the pace in this
modern golf. It leaves you dizzy.
Here I’ve been playing my head off
“start” on such a program. This
bill provides for 200 ships It is ad- here , ve been playinE my nead
mitted that it will have to b* for mentis and when I landed
followed by many other appropria-
tions Tor ship construction
at
Belleair I hadn't won a tourna-
ment ”
Tne American observers declared
that the famed balloon barrage has
been highly developed and forces
raiders to fly at great heights. Long
steel cables dangling from the bal-
loons are death traps for planes.
British confidence in their defense
is reflected in the big drop in the
number who go to bomb shelters.
Fifty per cent of Londoners stayed in
the shelters during the blitz attacks
last fall, but only 5 per cent went
to public shelters in January and
about 20 per cent to private and com-
munal shelters.
GREEKS ARE AIDED
Anything can happen in the tem-
pestuous Balkans, but it seems cer-
tain that Roosevelt diplomacy and
the lease-lend bill were responsible
for delaying the Nazi attack on
Greece for at least 10 days.
The big thing which the lend-lease
bill did for the British was to per-
mit tanks, anti-tank guns, and anti-
| aircraft guns to be landed at Saloni-
ka immediately. The British had
only limited supplies of these, and
| had to keep some in reserve for use
around Suez and other vital Medi-
I terranean areas.
I However, with passage of the
i lend-lease till, they knew they could
get reserves later from the United
| States, therefore threw all their
present reserves onto the Greek
j front.
This type of munitions is what the
Jugoslav army and the Turks have
especially needed. They have plenty
| of rifles, machine guns and a rea-
sonable amount of artillery; but few
anti-tank or anti-aircraft guns to
stop the advance of modern mech-
anized forces.
Note—The Balkans has been get-
ting its American news chiefly from
the official German DNB news agen-
cy, which had played up all the
Wheeler-Nye speeches, gave the im-
pression that the United States was
against Roosevelt and that the bill
could not pass. Final passage, how-
ever, could not be suppressed in the
news dispatches and had a tremen-
dous effect upon Balkan public opin-
ion, which recalled how American
entrance into the last war bad
turned the tables.
NO LABOR PEACE
It was expected that John L.
Lewis' retirement from the C.I.O.
would bring peace to the war-torn
ranks of labor. But this has not
been the case.
A. F. of L. and C I O. leaders are
working effectively together in the
defense administration, but other-
wise they are still poles apart.
CAPITAL CHAFF
At the left on his desk. Vice Presi-
dent Henry Wallace has a telephone
which communicates directly with
the White House.
No less than three secretaries—a
light blonde, a medium blonde, and
a brunette—take stenographic notes
of every word said at Steve Early’s
daily press conference.
Many a government clerk knows
the Supreme court chiefly as an eat-
ing place. Its cafeteria, below the
court room, serves 7,500 persons a
month.
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