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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS, TEXAS
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne
Germany Continues Pounding Britain
As Autumn Stormy Season Arrives;
Italy Reports Deep Drives Into Egypt;
Oct. 16 Set as Draft Registration Day
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THE WAR:
Britain Waits
While self-propelled barges were
poised at French channel ports,
Waiting to carry German soldiers on
an invasion of England, Prime Min-
ister Churchill called a secret ses-
sion of parliament.
Tides were favorable for the at-
tempt by sea, London was being
bombed day and night almost with-
out letup, and reports said Big Ber-
tha guns were shelling the British
capital from the French coast.
Buckingham palace, home of the
king, was bombed three times in
REGISTRATION:
Oct. 16 the Day
October 1(1 will see 16.500,000 young
Americans between the ages of 21
and 36 march to polling places and
register for the first peacetime draft
in the nation's history. The date
was set by President Roosevelt when
he signed the measure over which
congress debated more than three
months.
After registration, local boards—it
is intended to have about 6,500—will
shuffle the cards and give each man
a number. Then a series of num-
bers will be drawn In Washington by
lot. When the numbers are drawn
each man with a corresponding
number in a local board's file will
I be put down for service in that
I sequence.
Questionnaires will be sent to each
\ man in the order in which their num-
, bers were drawn, asking about de-
pendents, physical disabilities, etc.
On the basis of this information each
man will be classified as follows:
Class 1, available for immediate
services; class 2, service deferred
because due to employment in nec-
essary defense industry; class 3,
service deferred because of depend-
ents; class 4, service deferred by
law—judges, legislators, etc.
Meanwhile, Washington will de-
cide on a quota for each district,
based on population and the number
of men from the area already in
In the Headlines
LONDON, ENGLAND—That classic
crack by former Premier Chamberlain
that the Nazis had “missed the bus"
(meaning they had failed in their
conquest attempts) is recalled to mind
by this one in a t.Andon street. It was
wrecked by a German bomb in one of
the raids on the British capital. No
one was hurt says the censor, as the
driver, conductor and tiassengers had
taken shelter in a nearby raid refuge.
five days. Craters appeared along
the Strand, in Fleet and Bond
streets, in Leicester and Berkley
Squares, houses in fashionable Pic-
adilly and the slums of Cheapside
were demolished, the bank of Eng-
land was hit by splinters, the house
of parliament did not go untouched, j
subways and railroad yards were
damaged. In 10 days, 2.000 were !
killed and 8,009 injured in London
alone.
Berlin radios warned that London
could choose between the fate of pul-
verized Warsaw or surrendered
Paris. The British replied that the
Germans' hope was to force king
and government to leave the city,
thus gaining a moral victory. They
said there would be no evacuation
of the capital. They warned citi-
zens, however, that Hitler's attempt
at invasion might come "within a
few hours" and that only Hitler
knew when the signal would be
given.
In Nazi Territory
The Germans faced handicaps,
however. While their flying was not
stopped by heavy fogs, gales in the
channel made shipping perilous.
And British fliers were not forced
out of the air. .They plowed the
fields of Nazi airmen at Schiphol
and Ypenburg in The Netherlands,
around Calais, Dunkerque, Abbe-
ville and Antwerp. They dropped
calling cards in congested Berlin,
weeded out gun emplacements along
the channel near Boulogne, sunk
barges on the coast, wrecked oil
tanks and rail sidings through Ger-
man areas, hit the Bosch spark-plug
factory at Stuttgart, docks at Ham-
burg and ammunition dumps in
the Black Forest.
But throughout the British were
fighting against superior odds.
Egypt
In the Near East the British were
pressed by Italian armies which in-
vaded Egypt and pushed on to vital
oases. There was no declaration of
war. Egypt, which had threatened
to join the British if the Italians
crossed the border, showed no in-
clination to resist at once.
The Italians captured Sidi Bar-
rani, 60 miles from the Lybian bor-
der on the fourth day. Sidi Barrani
is only 180 miles from Alexandria,
one of the main British strongholds,
and 350 miles from the Suez canal.
By that time the British had re-
vealed the strategy of their cam-
paign. With only 230,000 troops, 500
planes and 1,000 armored cars they
were hopelessly outnumbered. Plan
was to retreat to a shorter line, thus
extending the Italian forces before
engaging in a major battle.
Hundreds of young National Guards-
men in 26 states who are mobilizing are
busily engaged in getting their first
taste of duty in federal service. Here
are some of the boys learning the ins
and nuts of machine guns at the 71st
Regiment armory in New York.
the army or navy. Enough men
then will be taken from class 1 to
fill out the quota. Each man will
be given a physical examination. If
he cannot meet the requirements
he will be passed over and the next
man taken.
When draftees arrive in camp,
they will be given another examina-
tion, physical and mental. Those
not measuring up topnotch will be
placed in separate sections for
physical care.
Base pay will be $21 a month
for the first four months and $30 a
month after that. Service will be
for one year, but may be extended
by the President in case of emer-
gency.
First Call Nov. 15
Bankrupt—Perry county, In east-
ern Kentucky, filed a petition in
bankruptcy in the federal court. It
is believed the first county in the
nation to take such action.
Steel—Ingot production in August
amounted to 6,033,037 tons. It was
the third largest in industrial his-
tory.
Wheat—Grain experts in Chicago
predicted the Canadian spring wheat
surplus at 508,000,000 bushels, sec-
ond largest on record.
Education—Fear that defense jobs
and conscription would cut into col-
lege enrollments was dispelled when
fall enrollments showed a normal
figure. University of California was
one of the few below last year, the
drop being 700.
Living Costs — Government sur-
vey, aided by private commodity ex-
perts, indicates cost of food is not
likely to rise much for the balance
of this year. In communities
6\vamped with defense contracts,
rents will rise. Over-all costs may
go up 2 to 5 per cent by spring.
POLITICS:
Democratic
President Roosevelt made the first
official speech of the campaign when
he appeared before the Teamsters’
union convention in the D. A. R.’s
Constitution hall In Washington. He
told them the gains of collective bar-
gaining, maximum hours and min-
imum wages, and social security
must be maintained. He said his
"one supreme determination” was
to keep war away from these shores.
Republican
Wendell Willkie grew hoarse in a
single day of receptions in Chicago,
reported unequaled since Lindbergh
rode through the Loop. The official
opening of his 15-day tour designed
for the winning of the West was in
Coffeyville, Kan., where he once
taught school. From there he went
on to Oklahoma, Texas, and a four-
day campaign in California, the
greatest attention any Republican
presidential candidate ever has giv-
en that state.
Willkie's speeches raised the issue
of the dictatorship of a third term.
He said Roosevelt was the godfather
of the unhappy Munich conference,
and declared if President Roosevelt
should be re-elected “you will be
serving under an American totali-
tarian government before the third
term is over.”
DEATH:
The Speaker
William B. Bankhead, third speak-
er of the house under the New Deal
to die in office, was the victim of
overwork. The speaker exerted him-
self in active days and tedious nights
in the extended congressional ses-
Who’s a Copycat? Everybody!
Man is, under the skin, and sometimes on top of it, remark-
ably akin to the lotvcr animals. His sense of self-preservation is
just as acute. So are his appetites and a great many of his emotions.
1 he following series of photos is not intended to poke fun at any-
one, but is designed merely to draw a few parallels. In some of the
cases portrayed the subjects have deliberately copied denizens of
the lotvcr animal kingdom. In others the similarity is purely ac-
cidental, We could have drawn more deadly parallels, hut our aim
is a pleasing series and nothing would be gained by introducing
unpleasantness. There is too much of that in the headlines.
VAMPIRE . . . In the upper picture we have a giant fruit bat,
popularly called the vampire bat through a belief that it sucks
human blood. It is not pretty. The maid in the lower picture sug-
gests a bat in flight—making a pretty picture. Her cloak is designed
to act as a sail on a ski run. Her name, Madeline O'Reilly, of New
York. She was photographed at North Conway, New Hampshire.
Jimmy
NOSY . . . This monkey gets
his name from his extraordinary
proboscis. Nature gave it to him
for a reason—and the reason
was not to make people laugh.
SCHNOZZOLA .
Durante, famed stage and
screen comedian, found that his
nose is his fortune. The garland
is Hawaiian leis.
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service. I
\TEW YORK.—The urgency of the
IN times is such that perhaps this
country needs a good alchemist
more than a good flve-ccnt cigar.
r- j ai l • s Possibly we
Good Alchemist have one jn
Might Be Our Dr. Samuel
r, . . .. . Colville Lind,
Greatest Need who offers
what appears to this department to
be the first soundly conservative
sanction for the possible availability
of atomic power—power in our time.
At the Detroit meeting of the
American Chemical society,
starting Its national defense in-
ventory of chemical skills and
resources, Dr. Lind reports a
startling advance toward the
power riches of the metal ura-
nium 235. Hit a few atoms of
U-235 with 50 electron volts and
you (iraw off 200,000,000 electron
volts. It looks like a power mil-
lcnlum, which this country could
use just now. Dr. Lind says
there is plenty of uranium and
that the seisure of its power is
a practical possibility, not nul-
lified by high costs of the proc-
ess. Cutting the power atom out
of the herd of slightly different
atoms is the one great remaining
obstacle.
Dr. Lind has been an ace atom-
nucleus bomber for many years.
His field of radioactivity has been a
zone of wizardry in chemistry and
he has turned in much basic re-
search, including his ionization the-
ory of the chemical effect of radium
rays. He has written extensively
on subjects in his field.
From his native McMinnville,
Tenn., where he was born in 1879,
he went to Washington and Lee uni-
versity and the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, with an educa-
tional chaser at the University of
Leipzig and later at the University
of Paris. He taught at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, served as chief
chemist of the U. S. bureau of mines
and is now dean of the institute of
technology of the University of Min-
nesota.
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\ /fILLIONS by the hundreds are
just about an irresistible tar-
Delicious for
outings • • • saves hours of
preparation . t ; nourishing . .;
economical s i « order; today;
from your grocer.
Field Humps at
The first cadre of 75,000 will be
called to camps about November 15.
Successive calls for about 100.000
men each will bring about 400,000
into training by January 1. On that
date the army expects to have 1,000,-
000 men under arms, including
regular troops and National Guards-
men.
On the same day that the draft
measure was signed, 60,000 National
Guardsmen in 26 states reported to
their armories for active service
which will extend for a year, and
the President gave orders to call
out an additional 35,700 on October
15.
Swinging full tilt into the defense
program, Washington also;
C. Heard President Roosevelt ask
congress for an appropriation of
$1,600,000,000 to defray expenses of
the first year of training of draftees.
C. Saw President Roosevelt sign a
$5,350,000,000 supplementary defense
appropriation.
C Awarded 21 aviation manufactur-
ers orders to prepare for construc-
tion of 14,000 planes, at the rate of
900 a month. This production rate
will be doubled within a year.
NAMES
in the news
Birthday—Gen. John J. Pershing,
commander of the A. E. F., at 00
had no special message for the
United States. He said, however,
he believed England could hold out.
"At least I hope so,” he added.
Veteran—Leonor F. Loree, 82, one
of the last of the railroad "giants"
of the era of Harriman and Hill,
died in his Jersey estate. Until 1938
he was head of the Delaware and
Hudson.
Taxes—Lester P. Barlow, Inven-
tor whose liquid oxygen-carbon
bomb failed to kill any goats recent-
ly in an official test, won a patent
claim of $592,719 from the govern-
ment for an invention used In the
World war. His income taxes on the
sum amount to $412,817. Barlow
said he would "rock the capital”
before paying it. His new oxygen
bomb, however, had far greater
force than any explosive now used.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is pic-
tured here /curing the church in lusper,
Alabama, after attending the funeral
services for Speuker William B. Bank-
head. An army aide attached to the
U hite House is pictured with him.
sion. When he agreed to speak at a
Baltimore political rally his physi-
cian protested. But before he could
speak a blood vessel ruptured in
his abdomen. He died four days
later. Mr. Bankhead, father of ac-
tress Tallulah Bankhead, was bur-
ied In his home town of Jasper,
Ala. President Roosevelt attended
the ceremonies.
Sam Rayburn, who entered con-
gress In 1913 after being speaker of
the Texas house of representatives
at the age of 31, was named fourth
speaker under President Roosevelt.
MISCELLANY:
<1 Hundreds of families whose wage
earners have been imported to Phil-
adelphia for employment in the
navy yard are living in automobile
trailers just outside the gates. Con-
ditions brought a protest from near-
by housewives who told the city
council that lack of proper sanita-
tion was a health menace. Similar
conditions are reported in other de-
fense industry towns, including
Bremerton, Wash., Newport, R. I.,
and Mare Island, Calif.
C One of the first acts of the new
postmaster general, Frank C. Walk-
er, was to authorize ihree new
stamp issues, carrying out a nation-
al defense motif. First day sale is
in Washington October 12. A one-
cent stamp will depict the farmer
and laborer, the two-cent the army
and navy, and the three-cent secur-
ity, education and conservation,
C A campaign to turn over some
of the army's “fiying fortress”
planes to England is expected in
Washington. Reason given will be
to test out the super-American air
fighter under combat conditions.
If we don’t pay loo much at-
tention to the grizzly bear’s ter-
rible claws we manage to feel
sorry for him, with his nose
pressed pathetically against the
bars pining for freedom.
GRACE . . . Among the
most graceful of livingthings
is the swan ... on the water.
On land it is ungainly. Then,
too, its soft and beautiful
looks hide a fierce and fight-
ing heart. And here is Sally
Rand in her impersonation
of a swan. Miss Rand has
danced with fans, bubbles
and just nothing, but her
dance of the swan is a per-
formance of beauty.
COUNTERPART ...But we
cannot pity this human counter-
part of the bear, glaring through
the bars of his cell, on charge of
killing a f cur • year - old girl
through criminal attack.
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get, and perhaps Sunday supplement
writers can be forgiven for trying
occasionally
to make a
Keeping English playboy out
Children Moving
though In his heyday his chief sins
have been no more than an under-
standable interest in hunting and
horses, and dogs, mainly retrievers.
Now, however, even these trot
into the background as he gears
up the National Child Refugee
committee of which he Is chair-
man. His job Is to keep well
oiled the wheels that roll Eng-
lish children by the thousands
out of the reach of Nazi dive
bombers. It must keep him
whacking away long after the
latest fox has taken cover.
Just the same the supplementers
were right on one point. He really
has hundreds of millions. They pour
down from the original Marshall
Fields of Chicago.
In his middle forties now, Chair-
man Field is sturdily handsome,
with a grayish pompadour and a big-
gish, sharp nose. He dresses well,
as he was taught at Eton and Cam-
bridge where he got his schooling,
though conservatively. His pants
have no cuffs at all.
This baby lion is pleasant ., . but just waitl And so with the
boy. Will that grand smile hold out through life, or become a snarl?
'T'HREE Americans talk up the
war with King George and one
Is Major General Emmons of the
United States air corps. He is one
.. . „ _ of the young-
Maj.Gen.Emmons est officers
Still Puzzled as picked by
To Why of ‘Delos’
while back to give the country’s sev-
eral military arms extra socko.
Fifty-two years old, he has been in
the army since 1909; with the Infan-
try until 1916, when he was switched
to the signal corps, That made him
a flier because in those dark and
stumbling days the signal corps was
all the flying service the United
Slates had.
At birth his parents named him
"Delos." Mostly, the Deloses lack
adequate explanation of their par-
ents’ curious preference, and the
general belongs to this forever-puz-
zled fry.
In full his name is Delos
Carleton Emmons. In many
given names there is little sense
indeed, but In "Delos’* there can
be no rhyme or reason. This
commentator knows one “Delos’*
who explains feebly that Ills giv-
en name stems from a French
cook in a Wisconsin lumber
camp where his rather was fore-
man. No more! Not even that
he flipped a noble flapjack.
The general has one daughter; she
undoubtedly has told him he is a
man who never learns. Because,
guess what he named her. Deloslel
Responsible for Injuries
A man who is sure to cause in-
juries to be done to him wherever
he goes is almost as great an evil
and inconvenience as if he were
himself the wrongdoer.—Sir Henry
Taylor.
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