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-AGE FOUR
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
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Thunty Evening. October 16, 1NX
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Nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither anything hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
--Luke 8:17.—The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.--Euripides.
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Well, That's Better
Many a young American has chucked his
job, given away his dog, turned back his ra-
dio set and kissed his sweetheart goodby
and hurried off to an army induction cen-
ter, only to learn that he could not pass
the physical. Some have endured the em-
barrassment of having to return to office or
shop or store where he had been given a
rousing sendoff, to pick up once more the
threads of existence which he never should
have dropped in the first place.
Well, this cockeyed feature of the selec-
I tive service law is being modified, as the
Texas adjutant general announced yester-
day. Hereafter the selectee will be notified
thirty days before being called to. service,
during which time he will be sent to and
from the nearest induction center to take
his physical or to fail it, as the case may
be He' won’t throw up his job until he
knows definitely that his service will be de-
manded of him and that he will be able
congress after the war, and when the Span-
ish-American war broke out President Mc-
Kinley appointed him a major general of
volunteers. He was senior field officer at
the battle of San Juan Hill, and they do
say as how the ex-Confederate fire-eater or-
dered the Yankees under him around some-
thin' awful. After a period of service in the
Philippines, Fighting Joe was made a briga-
dier general in the regular army, but soon
resigned.
Yep. the Wheelers do well to pick tittle
Joe as their model of spunk and patriotism.
This country needs more Joe Wheelers and
people like him who aren't afraid of soiling
their hands defending their country. That ■
little rooster represented the best in Ameri-
can fighting tradition.
ITEM: BATTLESHIP ALABAMA BEING BUILT TO MUSIC
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to make the grade physically.
Why this sensible step was not taken from
the beginning nobody can say, except that
it is a pretty fair sample of the haphazard
way a democracy does business in an emer-
gency.
But even a democracy learns—when bit-
Other Viewpoints
For the Public Benefit
From the Detroit News:
Indiana state highway authorities
re-
cently did some planning in the interests of
the public that won commendation of the
American Public Works Association. They
hustled up a bridge-repair job and saved
motorists enough gasoline and tire costs, not
ter experience beats knowledge into its
head ' .- to mention annoyance, to pay a substantial
D w A cash bonus.
How Near We Are The bridge was part of a highway having
s a 2.000-car-a-day-traffic. Contractors said
The U. S. destroyer Greer was en route -pairs would require 100 days
to Iceland with mail, passengers and some bricur that down 15 “days and # will be
freight, traveling in waters declared neces- worth an extra $3,000 to you." said the of-
EMTsR Comber RS-ifiethe GMA CT TAN: 4 nesals. The oridee was repaired and opened
German submarine was lurking ten miles The "highway officials estimated that it
^^ would see ^ motorists more them *7,000
Greer then picked up the sub’s spoor and | to make th< 16-mile detour during the 15 |
continued to keep it in sight and to report days. *
its course to all who cared to listen. Sud-
days.
Aueorol A41CRC).
me arson.
D
IES ERDAY: . Sue: Elen
Fairhope has just been told by
her tall, dark and badly spoil-
rd fiance that their wedding
must be put off until June-
alx long months. Sue Ellen to
disturbed, because Riv Moore
has given no good reason.
And before she can make up
her mind what to do. the negro
butler has announced another
caller. He to Johnny Harris, a
soldier from nearby Camp Shel-
by, and he is also a northern-
— er. Sue Ellen is not too fond of
northerners.
Chapter Three , •
UP FROM THE PAST L
Johnny Harris was broadshould-
ered, muscular, and his clear grey
eyes were startlingly vivid in his
lean tanned face.
He smiled and held out his
hand. “My father knew your
Aunt Carolina Fairhope. You are
Miss Fairhope?”
. mcding lu animatou. sa indifter-
ent to what want on about her.
it was as though Aunt Car at
fifty had come to life. There was
a hint of the girlishness of the
portrait over the mantel in her
eager face. 10
Sue Ellen left the room to dress
for dinner. She mounted the stair-
case to her own room, puzzled by
the upheaval in bar earn breast.
Aunt Car had known something
she would never know, a love which
lasted through a generation. She
wondered if Johnny Harris re-
sembled his father.
She forgot that in a short time
she would be with Riv. She even
forgot the disappointment of the
afternoon — she denied that sh
felt, for the first time relief that
she would not marry Riv soon.
The room where she stood was
a beautiful room, in the front of
the house. The windows were
deepset and many-paned and the
magnolia branches shut off the
view of the narrow village Street:
The furniture was massive, with
"I’m Sue Ellen Fairhope.” She ............. ... .......... ......
was so astonished that this man a canopied bed brought .from
should be the son of Aunt Car’s France long before the War be-
old sweetheart that she stood ’tween the States.
staring at him and even 1st him She dropped down on the beg
lake her hand. and wondered idly if she would
“I’ll call Aunt Car," she aald meen Johnny Harris again For
briefly: “She will want to see you.” some, reason unknown to herself
For the tint time in her life she she hoped not
felt awkward and at a loss for
words. She withdrew her fingers
from the clasp of his firm cool
she hoped not.
THE WALLERS •
Colonel Moore, Riv’s father, had.
been more fortunate than families •
in Tyler Springs like the Fairhopes.
The Colonel managed to enter po-
lilies and work his way into the
fingers, went out through the din-
ing room and long hall toward
the kitchen. With her hand on the_____.... .... .., ...... ...
pantry door, she paused. Should favor of those with influence in
she tell Aunt Car or dismiss the ----2 -
man, telling him that Aunt Car
o Ler
■ WASHINGT
the United Star
Aimmobilizing J
“Serman, Italian
“It is just a
is that the Uni
exist,” Pepper I
"We and H1
struggle will be
9 The Florida
and a vehement
denly the submarine fired a torpedo at the
Greer. Eight minutes 1 a t e r the GTeer
dropped depth bombs over the spot where
the sub was supposed to be. It positively
did not fire on the submarine first.
There you have the official U. S. navy re-
port of the celebrated incident which took
place last month, the first openly acknowl-
edged clash between a U. S. navy vessel and
a German submarine This report has been
certified to a congressional committee by
Admiral Stark, chief of naval operations, U.
S. N.
The navy operates on the theory that Nazi
raiders are pirates, and that it is justified
in announcing thepresence of raiders to
ships of all nations which are likely to be
sunk without warning unless such intended
victims are warned to stay clear.
Manifestly this is an unfriendly act to the
Nazis but a friendly act to all others. It is
Cranium Crackers
THOSE NEW TAXES
Taxes are gome of the more certain certain- |
ties of this current era with a raft of new and
THE NEXT SHIPYARD TROUBLE ?
increased levies having just gone into ef- -----------------------------------------------------
feet. You're paying them, so check up on . I ■
hom much you know about these new ted- Lost Mines StiH Intrigue Populace
1. What tax is now charged on local
phone calls? ,—
2 . To what figures have income tax ex- j
emptions for—single and married persons .
been lowered?
3 What is the tax per pack of playing
This is the third in a series
by Sam Jackson on America
as he sees it
By SAM JACKSON
AP Feature Service Writer
NEEDLES, Calif — The beauty
of living in one of these towns on
overnight but drove right off as
if he was headin' in the direction
of Blythe.
“Well, next day he was back and
called me out to his truck He
asked me if I wanted to see some-
thing pretty. That milk can was
full of ore just like this. Goodness
The storekeeper laughed up-
reariously at this dig and put
the specimen back in his cash
register. Others corroborated
the Georgian's discovery, which
apparently occurred - shoot 12
justified only on the theory that the raid-
ers are pirates, a reputation they have
' amply earned for themselves by repeated
€ violation of international law and the law
of humanity, by striking without warning
and without distinction.
was not here? Would it be wise
or right to bring back vividly to
Aunt Car the memory of en old
love affair? Would aha want to
meet her lover’s son?
The man had forgotten Aunt
Car—had married ...
"What is it?" Aunt Car herself
made the decision, for Sue Ellen
heard her voice behind her in
the library, and Johnny Harris's
voice, so unlike Riv’s soft slurred
southern voice. She heard Aunt
Carolina's little cry of surprise
end did not listen any longer but
pushed open the door into the
pantry and went out to where
Aunt Pleas was struggling with
Aunt Jennie and the supper.
Aunt Pleas was stout and rosy
Her hair had not a thread of
white in It and she had worn it
all her lifetime in a figure eight on
the back of her head. Her brown
Washington. He carried Ml-a real
estate business to Tyler Springe
and the adjoining country and
sold plantations at fat commissions
to northerners.
The Colonel had made too
much money from his Yankee
clients to affront them. His most
influential one was a man frong
Michigan. Jim Waller, who made
money in automobile parts and
now had promoted a gigantic pro-
gram of airplane manufacturing for
defense. The Colonel had enter-_____
tained the Wallers, ‘ sold them a
huge estate and insisted, accords
ing to Riv’s story that Riv escort
them about during the period
when they were inspecting the i
property.
Jim Waller’s daughter, Deedora,
stayed in Tyler Springs to overset
the restoration of the old Fair-
child plantation She was homely
but smart. A brilliant conversation,
list. She had traveled all over the
world and had had a splendid edu-
cation.
SEN, CLAU
Workers
For Antic
“Fourteen worke
Abilene, most of U
ley construction
sail from New Y
the island of An
will help construe
art of the Unite
pheric defense pt
The 8. J. Gre
New York City has
air base. It will b
few miles from a
to be constructed
Construction is du
months.
The island of An
eastward in the Br
It is 200 miles
Rico and 3,000 m
York
•Both the air an
be built there spi
destroyer-base swa
idem Roosevelt wl
Among worker.
are Joe Allen, for
kee, Okla.; Charlie
Loy Edmonds
L E. Bowling of A
Hawk of Dallas, a
Winfrey, carpente
Camp Berkeley.'
Solorado Su
$900 For. Bo
COLORADO CTI
—Total Boy Scout
eyes were quick and snapping
and only her soft slurred tones
betrayed her southern birth. She
might have been a thrifty New
England housewife, for she was—-----m
quick, and decisive and the ruling positive statement that she would
force in their small household. allow no one to annoy her”^
"Who came ini' sho asked never gossip about Riv. now that they
interrupting her orders that Aunt were definitely engaged 1
Jennie move faster, that Uncle Riv had been sweet and thoush."
Freeman bring in coal, her own ful during th. month rouownusht
fingers meanwhile neatly folding -announcement. Then in Ie the
linen, back from the laundry, and went to Washington
her bright brown eyes raised only drifted back
for a moment at Sue Ellen’s en-
trance.
Various friends told Sue men
she Was a fool to trust Riv and
she had antagonized many by her
years ago. The Milk Can Mine.
In a small way, has joined the
legends of the Loot Dutchman
Mine, the Leet Breyfogle Mine
and ethers that quicken the
pulse of adventure er avarice
or both.
I cards? - . < . _____
4. You pay the same tax on sporting goods, the edge of a vast and mysterious know, whateit was worth.
I jewelry, furs, musical instruments, radios desert is that you’re always poten-
and refrigerators. What percent of the pur-tially rich.. ...
chase price is it? As planes, trains and automobiles trailed and maybe murdered.” I’m
5. What annual tax do owners of automo- roar by, carrying rich folks on goin’ to Georgia and get all my
their perpetual shuttle between folks.’ • ....... .. .... pcopie wlw , --------— - —
New York and Hollywood, you can 1 He got to El Paso—I got this grow up on the desert. Many old amusement touched Sue Ellen
part from his uncle that come out
biles and of pinball machines pay?
Answers on This Page, Col. 8
" They’s plenty more where this
come from,' he says. 'But I ain't
goin to be out there alone and get
These stories are very real and
IS IT LOVE?
-—--rumors
_ , , 3 that an early ac-s
quaintance with Deedora had de-
veloped into something quite dif e
ferent. * a
day
first time that
For
the
.Sue Ellen heard some of this
She refused to accept it She als-
quased the rumors with Riv quite
frankly and Riv told her that he
had been with Deedora to plots ,
the Colonel, who had some desk
with Waller which] would A
him out of the draft =‘"
.— _—.--------------.___. . _ , But you can't escape the
chanism, to gloss over actual fail- i we can get ourselves. Riv,” she insisted. “Its . novel '
ure in a financial wav But from “This man doesn’t look hun-ment regulation.”
all I could learn it didn’t fail to “ A damned silly one. and don 0
happy. Who is he?” think I intend to do squad, ml
----------------i---Sue Ellen slipped into a chair and left. The Colons) ouidhrieht 1
and raised her eyebrows.. Now, as the dressed 7 fix
"A draftee from Camp Shelby, she wondered 1 the Her dinner,
enough water to bring you back I TOW VOL I9I CSS LUUOIS His father was an old sweetheart ment of her wedding Postpone-
alive,you ought, to find somethingof Aunt Car's" 14 1 —- - 4 -• paved a
Nearly all these desert towns WASHINGTON — Congress Ulmer Since It only takes one I Aunt Pleas collapsed on a-chair,
boast st least one sample of ex- back on the j66. Theoretically of Object" to knock s “unanimous con-her- plump nands dropping her
---1 4— —^ ^ * sent" into the middle of the next linen on the kitehen floor.
real session, it’s only necessary for Yes. Johnny Harris. Prob-
to be ably, said Sue Ellen scornfully,
members "Aunt Car will ask him to sup-
been on a holiday, of congress are away, per.”. .. e
Mont went back home to do Now that periodover. Con-Johnny AmarsC pot 5
pulse-taking and fence mending gress hasn’t reassembled in recent heard the door close. Aunt car
; There are straws in the wind Indl- | years with observers more keenly appeared, her soft cheeks flushed,
* CAI BL L NT TIENES REETam or <he.po.mca. depart- - SMTreni .ne.vene lee
house and senate—hints that per- mental and administrative leaders lessly. “His father wanted him to
haps there will not be so much more eager to know what direction come over to Tyler Springs and
opposition to the administration’s the legislative tide is going to meet me He said that his father
foreign policy—and stronger op- take. never forgot me.”
position to non-defense spending The explanation is simple. Take Aunt Pleas did not speak but
, .__Congress takes these unofficial one squint at the three major meas- her small mouth tightened
come in from the desert Used to I holidays by a simple expediency, ures due for immediate consid. - *
stand there, just like you are I According to the rules, neither eration;”
think he'd been sick. That was the house can adjourn for more than (1) The new six billion dollar
reason he come out here, three days. Majority and minority Lend-Lease bill 'Of the three
well, kept pickin around leaders in both houses make a ten- pending measures this is consid.
and pickin around just to kill tleman’s agreement that no con-ered by most observers the least
time I guess Every once in a I troversial matters will be brought likely encounter 1
K he d cash Amoner order from up. Then on Mondays and Thur-anon However then E One RAT the" Neutrally Ano "LUN
home obodykner, just where days, or Tuesdays and Fridays, the point in it out of which the Isola- to be a battle royal a recent sen-
* " prosetin Hed picked Z house and senate go through their tionists are certain to make capi- ate poll, which lacked any den-
used to so CM mn anerent aree: 1°% hanarui or stay-behinds n.nine, commltmentn.from fsemr
tions. | semble. Routine business is trans raiders when merchant vesiele indicated that some modish-
Then he come in about dinner | acted—"by unanimous consent”-
time one night and asked for one and this is possible because the
of them big milk cans there I’majority sod minority leaders are
thought he looked a little excited, always on hand to see that the
and sure enough he didn’t stay opposition doesn’t slip something
Arming Merchant Ships Will Take Many Months, May Not Be Effective
By COL, FREDFRICK PALMER I home port A plane cannot
Military Expert, North American j
Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON Oct. 16 —
Arming our merchant ships in
an efficient worthwhile man-
ner, once congress gives, the
word, will be another task for [
our busy navy which la much
misunderstood Some people
who think that it la a simple
chore, Gquickly carried out, will
be surprised to find that It
takes many months .
As they see It this is all that
5 It is but a step from this system of betray-
ing the presence of raiders to the actual at-
tacking of those raiders wherever and when-
ever encountered How near we are to that
anyone can appreciate by reflecting that if
the torpedo had struck the Greer the U. S.
Barbs t.
Isn't it strange what some people put au-
to licenses on?
Lots of men going along on easy street
| turn off on Wall Street and get lost.
navy would have had no honorable recourse |
than to attack all Nazi ships of war on
sight.
That may come at any moment. We will Now is the time to start letting your beard
be in the war the moment a Nazi torpedo grow as preparedness for Christmas ties,
strikes a U. S. S.
An eastern man who fired at his wife is
being sued for divorce. The parting shot!
persuasive
to the people who
look at them without envy Any
I day now Indian Joe or Old Smok-
, ey may walk in and announce that
i the grubstake you gave him long
. months ago has enabled him to
! find a canyon lined with gold. -
■ Or if you get impatient you L an
let your wife run the store or %as
'station for a couple of weeks and
timers have led a hand-to-mouth I ‘Guess whos talking to Aunt
existence all their years and gone ICar?
to their graves with an unquench-
able faith that they still were go-
a map or nothin except a letter ing to find their bonanza
I suppose psychology would say _ - .
his is daydreaming, a defense me- one, when we need every mouthful
and tried to find the mine - and
got appendicitis and was operated
on. Well, he died and didn’t leave
he’d already written home
"And you know, the doctor's
bill, from what this uncle says
come to just exactly the amount
"I never guess. Some sick neigh-
bor, I suppose—that’s all your
Aunt Car thinks about. Carrying
away the supper to give to some-
of all the gold he had in that
go prospecting yourself. There are „ —__-________
distant ranges that few white men milk can. Includin' the can."
have ever reached, and you rea- I —--------------------------------------
son that If you can just get into
their more remote canyons with
make them
happy.
How Congress ‘Labors’
pamLaith ceithe huh no a
A Worthy Model
A spontaneous movement among persons
named Wheeler who do not like Senator
Burton K Wheeler's attitude proposes to
raise sufficient funds to buy a bomber for
Britain and to adopt as their guiding spirit
Fighting Joe Wheeler, late of the C. S. A.
’ "Big Shoe Sale"—advertisement. It's a
wonder that doesn’t keep the women away.
The Abilene Reporter-ftms
MORNING - EVENING -SUNDAY -
and the U S A
Well, it would be difficult to pick a bet-
ter model than Fighting Joe There was a 31 a
man for you! He was a Confederate colonel 9 J
at 25. a brigadier soon thereafter, and a ma- ■
jor general before he quit growing. At 29 TL90N
he was a lieutenant general, hanging like a | :
leach on Sherman’s flank through the march
through Georgia Some of his opponents H
made the mistake of considering him a little i ■
squirt—he wasn't much bigger on the phy- •
sical side than a high school sophomore— —
but they only made that mistake once His re,
men fairly worshiped the tiny little man E
scrunched upon the back of the tall horse —
which always led the wav through hell and
high water "
This little gamecock served a stretch in
The
Iypoen
te their
this basis
is necessary:
A ships carpenter drills some
, holes in her deck. A gun is
swung on board and screwed
into place A few members of
the ship’s crew who have mod
eyesight are chosen as a gun’s
crew Have plenty of ammu-
I-nition handy with which to
pepper n bomber or submarine
to extinction, and a lease-lend
‘ cargo proceeds safely on its
tremely rich ore (called high- I_____„ L
grade or “picture rock 7 and there | course, 11 has never been off, but.... dd
is always a story with it calculate actually since the passage of the a few good party watchdogs to
ed to raise hopes of sudden wealth, 'defense tax bill the gentlemen have on hand Most of the
To be continued
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Rides the Rails or Will the Main-
Train, Run Tonight is, the title or
t pay, which the Parent Tesch- •
Wueocation will stage here next
Tuesday night. It is a three ad
melodrama by Morland Cary *
Rich, the, hero played by supt
Fle, Miller, barely saves the poor
widow and her daughter from
villians. - from two
nWA/P McCAnEine dfrected
.The cast includes the following:
Superintendent Miller, Mr. Clyd. •
Haden, and Mrs. Glenn O'Dell a.
the principal characters; and Clyde
Haden. J. C. Eubanks, Oran Harp-
$Mrs. Sara Nell Jones, E.
Williams, j w Bigony, Lucin.
Webb, and Homer Hutto. .
Typical, I suppose, is the one
which goes with a certain piece
of while quartz about half as
large as your flat and richly
encrusted with virgin gold. II
is easy te believe the, claim of
the storekeeper who owns it
that the bullion to worth $70.
“This fellow was from Georgia *
6
Entered •• Second Class Matter Oct,
« 1908 at the postoffice, Abilene Texas, .. __—
- ., —-----—--related the storekeeper “Used to
buy his grub here every time he
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parachute s gun on board a
ship which was away on a
three months trip out and
back to Sues Or. if it could,
the leaflets of instruction it
muzzle velocity of 2,500 feet
per second They penetrate the
raiders when merchant vessels
cannot mount large caliber
guns Merchant ships with
really trained run crews can
add their own to the volume
of a convoy's anti-aircraft gun
fire.
dropped with the gun even on
a second readme would not
make an efficient gunner of a
merchant seaman who had
never fired a shot of any kind?
Providing there is’ available
labor and no delaying strike,
fixing a platform upon a stur-
dy merchant ship for any auna
up to a 3-inch caliber does
not take long. But first we
armor of a bomber or a light
tank and explode within the
confined space of complicated
control instruments
— They are the most vital need -
for the Russians against Ger-
man mechanism and dive born
bers." The Germans have cor.
There was something almost
shameful in Aunt Car's excite-
ment. Usually so reserved, so
tal—how much of it is going to
Russia? >
Cattle Shipments
From Midland Beguno
must have the guns.
We have enough by tapping
reserves to arm most of Mir
merchant ships These are not
of the latest types for the pur-
pose for which they will be
mounted on merchant ships
. It is no secret that the lat-
est. and far better types, are
the improved Oerlekon and
Bofers models These fire a
11-inch projectile which has a
I responding types. We are get-
ting ours into production which
is largely going abroad It will
be months before we have mass
production
Having the guns mounted,
the next thing is ability to hit
the targets with the shots they
fire. Lacking this the guns
4 Are of no more use than pea
shooters
When we have found that a
year: training is not enough
for the draftees any army com-
mander who to not Wit for a
mental sanitarium will agree
that gunnery is one of the key
factors in thorough training.
Anybody who has ever been
seasick, should understand that
accurate gunfire from a rolling
or plunging ship is not as easy
•s from s land base
Before a bomber diving out
of a low ceiling, has finished
its swoop the run crew of an
unescorted merchant ship — as
British experience has shown
will hardly be up the ladders
and have their gun sighted In
a convoy the merchant ship
/will share the patrol planes
Z warning of danger's approach
\ But the untrained crew firing
in the sir in Ute general direc-
tion of the bomber may do no
damage except in the fall of
shell fragments on the decks
of other ships of the convoy 7
The periscope of a submarine
is a sliver of a target If the
periscope Ie net hit at once
the submarine is wholly sub-
merged It le futile for a mer-
hmAnt 2,(8572275:
ers speed to make them effee-
tive.
Our navy has no trained na-
val gunners to spare In spite
of intensive instruction ef men.
who first must have shown
natural qualifications, more
would ba very welcome for the
present problem This is not
alone owing to the rapid ex-
pension of our navy in addi-
tion to guarding the lane to
Iceland and the long stretch of
our side of the Atlantic ocean
the huge area of responsibility
extends into the Pacific .dis-
tances
We know that our convoys of
troops, and corgoes under our
flag have reached Iceland safe-
Ship movements in con-
voYs Temain the best method
The merchant ships in a
convoy have the protection of
the fast destroyers hunting the
submarine with depth charges,
and of powerful mass anti-
aircraft five They have the
protection of big caliber guns
2 other escorting naval ves-
seis to knock out commerce
At this writing Germany has
not made open war on us by
meeting our “shoot on sight"
In kind The navy has been
prepared to meet each advanc-
ing step of the White House
policy -
So far so good. The wave
must be ready for the next step.
When Adolf Hitler decides the
time has come, he will-attack-
in surprise with customary con-
centration of power We do
not want to be caught unready
at his chosen point where he
strikes with, aay, five times
our force
A temporary setback would
- stir our angered people to
greater effort, but it would
. not be good news for British
morale. German propaganda
would spread the word through
the conquered countries that
what Germany had done to
other countries she had now
done to America, too
it seems utterly essential
that the navy should not part
with trained gun crews for
merchant ships or with the
latest type of anti-aircraft
guns to untrained crews of
merchant ships.
cation of the Act (either outright
repeal, or arming of American mer-
, chant vessels, which would be al-
lowed to operate in lu or part
of the combat zones is favored UN IRLAND: Oct. 16—(Spl.)—Cat-
by the upper house. 4 from nmuints are beginning to move
(3) Fries control legislation- and Midland ranches with first
this undoubtedly will be a honey pared.__.
of a scrap H.ROV Parka rancher, shipped 101
In the two latter instances, it reported Tail Saturday night and W
is not certain right now that the sibreted 9 have sold 650 calves to
administration knows what it reed Sibley, III., who will
wants Expressions from admin--“MP stock.
tration leaders on the Neutrality eanold, ector, hipped eight rail
Act show, that there, a split in mummed no cattle Wednesday to
* the ranks some favoring outright Ald-rohere. . @
repeal, others, merely, modification nak tresse Ester and Homer. Ims.
To complicate the situation further, Duden ofnh.5 head each to Bob
one administration senator declared ported perty, Kas it was re-
the other' day that the president,
if he wanted to, could practically
nullify the Neutrality Act, as “far
as shipping is concerned, merely
by revoking his proclamation ree-
ognizing the war and establishing
combat zones. He then could or-
der merchant vessels armed and
Answers to
: Cranium Crackers
tot them go anywhere: Some ob-
servers, who know their “powers
of the president,” point out that
this technicality had already been
resorted to. In a measure, in clear-
ing the war for shipping in the
Red Sea. •
As for price control legislation,
the big fuss will come over what
kind of machinery will be estab-
lished to administer and whether
control should include farm prices
and wages.
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