1941-01-29 — Page 7

NANCY

GOOD NIGHT-- HERE COMES

THAT PEST

"AGAIN!

U.S. Tribute To British Press

In an editorial headed "Heroes of the Press," which quotes extensively from the "unforgettable picture" of conditions of work now in London painted in a recent wireless broadcast by Mr Bishop, assistant manager of "The Times," the "New York Times" declares:-

The London newspapers ofj these terrible days are in them- selves documents that deserve to be treasured. They explain how millions in London have been able to endure a month of. torror from the skies. They prove better than speeches or cabled dispatches or photo-

Judge Brands Verdict Of Jury Cruel

FRANK FLINTOFT, - thirty-

graphs that life in the great city one-year-old Bristol soldier and

on in spite of Hitler's "mercy killer," was at Glouces Hoes efforts to strangle it.

The London milkman goes hister Assizes recently branded as trains and buses a criminal lunatic, to be detained rounds, subway keep moving In spite of all obstacles, during the King's pleasure.

And Mr Justice Charles, who light and power services are man-

tained as fur as possible, and news-had to make the order, said it papers appear an usual. Thousands was a "rather cruel verdict"

who

that forced him to do so.

of homely men and women maintala the essential services of London are helping fully as much as fighter squadrons anti-aircraft gun- ners to keep the body and soul of London alive. Whatever the risks, they face them without flinching.

truck

Like the correspondents who carry on during the ralds, the linotypers and

drivers

of London are! proving themselves heroes. Their in- ished products look as orderly as if there were no ratda; the descriptions of the raids themselves are almost as objective as if they had taken place on another continent.

To look at the unchanging front page of "The Times" one would hardly know that London was being bombed, apart from a pathetic death notice now and then, telling friends that some man, woman, or child had died "due to enemy action."

The jury had found Flintoft guilty but insane and recom- mended him to mercy.

Had they taken notice of his direc- tion that there was no evidence off insanity, said the judge, and found Filntoft guilty of murder with a re- commendation to mercy, he would doubtless have been reprieved and very soon tolcared.

Devoted Couple

Flintott, charged with the murder of his wife and their baby daughter, had pleaded not guilty.

They were a devoted couple, said witnesses, but the wife developed paralysis which, a doctor said, was incurable.

So Flintoft, it was alleged, shot his wife with a rifle as she lay in bed, and then shot his baby.

ho

While the woman was waiting to be taken away by ambulance knelt by her bedside and kissed her, praying that she might dle.

Hitler would like among other things to destroy the free Press of: England,"

Bald Mr Bishop. We are determined that he shall not succeed." With such a spirit (declares the New York Times) the free Press of Eng- land is now writing a chapter of courage and devotion which will take its place among the finest records of baby there was the newspaper profession.

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Wednesday,

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January, 29, 1941.

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LOVE

MARIGOLD

OH; HORACE ---YOU' SAY THE NICEST THINGS

ZANIE BUSHMILLEM...

JOHN BULL KEEPS PROMISE-Full military co-operation, British promised, would be given Greace in fight against Italy. So radio picture, passed by Grook and British consors and flashad from London, shows laughing Tommies loaving ship at unnamed Greek port, to battla Italians, **

Guard

Aircraft Plants

To Prevent Sabotage

By Alexander Kahn

United Press Staff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 (UP),-Privately-owned aircraft plants in Southern California are under the most stringent surveillance to prevent possible sabotage of planes being built for the United States and Britain.

In a statement to the police Flintoft said: "There was nothing for her but

Even executives of aircraft companies must follow closely the rules laid down by military worse pain and suffering. For the no future I could leave her to, and I thought it best intelligence officers assigned to guard these key industrial units. that she, too, should be spared the Recently Robert Gross, president of Lockheed Aircraft Company, was stopped in his own possible misery of being an orphan." plant and forced to don a badge identifying him as a company employee before he was permitted

"to go through the factory.”

schools and other buildings.

SOLDIERS RESCUE

SEAGULL

:

Captured Britons' One Meal

Millions Undergo Training

U.S. Army Practises Blitzkrieg Tactics

By John A. Reichmann

United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. (UP).The United States Army is confident of its ability to meet any emergency that could confront it now, and, likewise, any future emergency.

That is the opinion of officers working long hours in army posts throughout the country to convert millions of peaceful men and billions of taxpayers', money into an efficient, hard-hitting 'army.

Their confidence is reflected number and exact equipment & In the, high morale manifested secret.

Two Lessons . at various posta visited by this correspondent and other defence All of these men and all of this writers during a recent army activity represent the army's adap- sponsored alr tour of the con- tution of lessons learned from modern tinental defence establishment.

.

wor.

The two most important army les- The new national army that is bo- | sons learned so far, the veteran off- ing worked into shape gave the im- cera indicato, are to get Infantry injo pression that I was deadly serious the breach at the front more quickly about its job. In many wayk, the than before and, secondly, to ́arm fi army of to-day presents a different more heavily so that li can striko pleture than the army of 1017. The harder on offensive or in repelling officers and men are more casual a counter-attack. their relations, yet there is no lack of discipline. The salute is as brisk as ever and the air about the camps is thick with "yes, sir," and "po, sir."

Throughout the area-covered by the survey-from Fort Bliss, Texas to Fort Benning, Georgia-barracks were sprouting from the mud and dust, as they did in 1917. But there is an ordered form to the expansion programme.

Company streets are laid out with greater emetency. Sometimes the equipment is inadequate but it In kept in tip-top shape. At Fort Sill, Olahoma,

The tanks, the dive bombers and the artillery may breach enemy lines, but it is still the infantry that gains ground and holds it, they assert,"

Crown Prince Umberto

Believed Held Prisoner ITALIAN troops believe that

where the new 340U:

being Crown Prince Umberto is. in-

Field Artillery Regiment is

formed with negro recruits, the 155- terned somewhere in northern millimeter rifles made in France in Italy, Italian officers taken pri- 1017 are polished until they aro as soner by the Greeks said this, shiny as the 1040 tractors that pull an Athens message states.

them.

Training Survey

Prince Umberto, who is 37," was told by Mussolini in Febru- At Fort Knox, Kentucky, youngary last year that he no longer men with a flair for machines are held his title, as it had been applying their genlus to modern, abolished.. armour-plated tanks that go tearing acrass the broken ravines along the Ohio River at

at 80 miles an hour, üring cannon at targets.

The

of this new armoured corps know, and they tell their men, that they are but one part of a team that the tanks them

themselves cannot win wars but must use their tremendous striking power to break through and fan out behind an enemy, facilitating the work of the Infantry.

officers

He had annoyed Mussolini by refushig to support the Italian Government's anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic policy. French policy of the Italian Foreign He had also opposed the anti- Minister (Count Clono),

Virtual Exile

It was rumoured in May last year At Fort Bliss, Texas, horse cavalry that Mussolini was virtually exiling ts fighting to maintain its place Prince Umberto to Belgium. other despite the alarums of some branches that the day of the horse

In October, 1929, an Italian student

has passed. Officers there pointed tried to assassinate the Crown Prince. out that many areas prevent any use in Brussels because he had "betrayed of tanks and that horse and horse the Italian Constitution,"

Prince Umberto" was married to men can carry a great fire power Princess Marie Jose of Belgium in aver difficult terrain at a remarkable

January, 1930. They have one son, speed.

To clinch their argument, these aged four. veteran officers ask, "How do you know where the next, war will be fought?"

Air Classer

Al Randolph Field, Texas, young cadets work long hours with their comparatively few training planes, rushing from class to class to get the last minute of training service from

other one takes off.

The

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Parachute

Hitler, Duce At Concert

"Let Me Die" Played During Mussolini's meeting with Hitler in the Palazzo Vec-

He notes that in the Clemens VIK Hall, where the Dicta talked to one another, there is a bust of Machiavelli, and he reoerde, that, after lunch, rain prevented. Chem from making a tour of the city; so. they attended a concert at which Monteverdi's "Let Mo Dio” was played.

PROSPERITY IN WOOL In addition to Army and Navy intelligence officers by the

INDUSTRY

score, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, privato police and Violet Mulvenna, 10, who won the

Very big orders are now being British intelligence agents are on guard against saboteurs.

them. On # fair day, the skies over American Legion drum, majorette

those Texas plains roar as one class contest at Boston, lost her place at placed throughout the wool industry Every major aeroplane factory in Southern California has orders for material to be made up into from Britain for fighting or training planes, and at each factory

swoops down after its lesson and an-chio, Florence, recently, Italian the head of the University of Missis blankets. One ogent offered a con- the British Purchasing Commission has set up its own offices to

pursuit 'planes cruised overhead, sippi band-by

streamlined infantry the Rome correspondent of the tract for 1,000,000 lbs. of coarse count

division at Fort Sam Houston demon- The pretty baton twirler had ex-yarn. When ready, the blankets will check every step in the building of the planes.

be sent as quickly as possible to Carl A. Cover, vice president to a dozen Umes by special police

strates how quickly it can move foot "New York Times" discloses. pected to step before the Mississippi- London and elsewhere for the use of the Douglas Aircraft Com- who examined their passes.

soldiers from one point to another. Georgia football crowd recently of people whose houses have been

Eyes All Watching

Their mobility is incredible to World Athens, But in a parade she tossed bombed, and who are now housed in pany, recently announced, in

The number of intelligence officera THE Ufe of English prisoners War doughboys.

At Fort her baton upward, failed to see li

answer to reports that the Dies

Benning, Georgia, the Committee had predicted an out-FI agents and private police work in German concentration camps second armoured division works out coming down. It struck her nose.

ing In each of the plants is military break of sabotage on the West information not made public. But it in occupied France was describ-tank manoeuvres in steep ravines and Coast, that every possible pre- is known that at the Lockheed Plani ed to a newspaper correspondent wooded hillsides, through rain and troops tumble dizzily from low-flying planes, their caution was being taken by in Burbank, Cal, drap, tiere are recently in London by an Eng-dust.

more than 100 private officers, fallsh woman who visited one. Hundreds of people on the pro- military intelligence officers.:

exceeding the entire police force of Resklents in Berlin Street, Belfast, menade at a South Coast town

"All Englishmen between the do not intend to accept the decision watched a seagull struggle for its A source close to the aircraft in the city in which the factory i

Jocated.

uges of 18 and 56 were taken," of the City Council that the name of life when it became caught in a dustry revealed that the danger of the thoroughfare should

At the Douglas Plant In Santa she said. entanglement. not ba barbed-wire

They sabotage is minimised through de to shoot it. changed. The Council decided that called to soldiers

Two centralised mass production and close Monica, James E. Davis, former chief German and Italian names aroto Scotsmen of a Highland Regiment employee supervision.

of police of the city of Los Angeles, is la charge of the special officers, each door and took them at once remain, but the, people of Berlin threaded their way through the wire

Unlike automobile production, no Large forces also are employed at with just a small bundle of cloth- Street are to petition the City until they reached the seagull, freed Fathers, for they feel that the name it, and took it back to their dug-out assembly line, as such, exists in North American Aviation Company's, ing ns luggage.

neropione for a meal before letting it go. no longer does them credit.

factories, The work is plant in Inglewood and the Vultee divided into several operations and plant in Downey.

is handled by a each of these

Before The factories themselves are all separate crew of. eraftsmen. the plane can go on to the next surrounded by high fences behind operation, it must meet rigid inspec- which private officers patrol. Each for 150 prisoners and a barbed wire tion, and any faults found must be factory has its own Bre crew and enclosure.

equipped with automatic sprinklers corrected before it is passed.

to reduce the danger from spontane ous origin as well as any are that might be sabotage.

UFS

RUSSIA BOUND-Lieut. General Yoshitsugu Tatakawa, recent- appointed to represent Japanese.government as Ambassador. Moscow about to leave Tokyo, Japan. He-le biddan adieu Foreign Minister Yosuke, Matsuoka, right.

Minute Inspection

These inspections are made by] veteran and trusted employees. They check every 'rivef and boli with magnifying glasses. And even when passed by the inspectors, they are re-inspected at unstated intervals by Army and Navy experis as well as by British representatives,

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War May End Show Ban

"A German official came to

"In the camp I visited conditions were not too bad.

There are two huge dormitories

Weekly Visitors ·

Visitors are allowed once a week, but they must stand outside tho barbed wire at a 'shouting distance. A guard with revolvers remains be- side the visitor,

"Prisoner's sleep on camp beds. A blanket is provided, but Diere la no heating in the huts.

Everything seemed clean and emelent, and I was amused to see City businessmen spick and span

Employee supervision is worked Plans for more and better war- and shaven in spite of the great soap along similar lines. Every worker is time entertainment are to be con- thortage. provided with a badge which, by its

colour, discloses in what department sidered by an emergency com-

"Prisoners wash their own clothes

lie is employed. Any employee found mitteo set up by the London under a communal pump. They have in the wrong department immediate Theatre Council,

ly goes before the intelligence officers

only one meal a day-lentil soup, with meat in it, and broad.

Bored

The committee will review pro« for questioning. He is subject to Instant dismissal unless the military blems arising from the present phose men are satisfied with his explana- of the war, and the extension of en-

"Those with wives and families Uon.

tertainment to give employment to actors and actresses thrown out of outside are allowed to receive & Mille In addition to the identifying work.

money. A frull and vezeiablo man'

badge, the employce carries a card Apart from this move by, managers calls-dally at the camp to sell to the which tells what department he and actors, the Theatrical Maringera works in and bears his photograph Association is trying to obtala per-Boredom is the worse thing. Only and Angerprints. He must have this mission for theatres to open for Gorman newspapers are allowed, and card with him at all times.

M NEREDERE the men have nothing to do all day: Sunday matinees.

The infrequent visitor to any of It is hoped that the 150-year-old "The villagers are very kind” to the aeroplane plants in this aren law forbidding Sunday shows in us," the Englishwoman concluded.

bo sus-All the English in my district pino la badged and some report that, costume or make-up will Although escorted by company guides, pendéd, at least for the duration of kept very cheerful and courageous, In spite of difficulties and hardships.! they were stopped from a half-dozen the war.

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