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Show a nn) NS i eta j (WNU ¢ } Foi rR ee Service ee a | some Fascist barba- the town where he was a noted figure, and on the same corner where he started peddling papers, he once more newsboy'd the paper of which he once was head man . i Le town buzzed with the tale and his shamefaced employer, rather than have ‘‘the story'' confirmed, made him m. e. again-but of a branch publication in China. During the exciting twenties Vic Watson, then city ed of.the N. Y. American, assigned reporter Nat Ferber to expose crooked brokerage houses . . . These bucketshops were cleaning up, trimming the chumps, and to do this they had powerful underworld contacts, of course... That's just what Watson and Ferber suspected . . One day while they attended a hearing of a brokerage case, held in a deserted street late in the night, Ferber happened to look out a window and noticed that in every doorway a figure lurked ‘ He thought fast He phoned his paper to rush down every photographer on the staff-to take photos of every person on that street ya When the flashlights popped the lurkers fled . . The cameramen did a swell job-many photos matched several rogues gallery Rembrandats. ee ee _ p ali Air Raid When the Japanese police arrested James Young of International News, they found a radio script in his papers . . For several days they 3rd-degreed him about a gal named "Purina" . - "Your RusSian girl friend? <A Portuguese dancer? One of your assistant Spies? Who is Purina?'' - He finally convinced them that the Script was the opening radio program (produced a year before) of ‘‘The Inside Story of Al Jolson," in which reporter Young acted, ‘‘Purina'"' being a St. Louis sponsor's cereal. BORE HOLES IN CORNERS OF S's SHELVES , " WNU Service United Features Washington, D. C. D. C. NEW AID FOR BRITAIN Another historic move to aid Great Britain, almost as significant as the destroyer-islands deal, is now on President Roosevelt's desk. It is a plan to sell to the British 30 merchant vessels owned by the United States government and now tied up in the James river, Virginia. The vessels, built during the World war, are desperately needed by Great Britain because of her severe shipping losses in submarine and aerial warfare. In the once-scorned James river fleet, controlled by the maritime commission, are the only readymade vessels in the world today that can be purchased in quantity. The fleet consists of 92 ships of about 8,000 to 10,000 tons each. The engines are in fair condition, having been turned over periodically by the navy. However, considerable ARMY ok Hefty Rep. Frank Fries of Illinois, one-time miner, is leading the battle to save the federal mine inspection bill from being shelved in the house mines committee. Sponsored by Sen. Matt Neely of West Virginia and Rep. Kent Keller of Illinois, the measure is being stymied by an undercover filibuster. "The Republican," official organ of the Young Republican Nationa] federation, urges Willkie to name four or five cabinet members now, and campaign not with a two-man ticket but with a six or seven-man ticket. AND BUS to the many LINES the Na- of Motor Bus something to Opadd with to and In speaking tional Association erators, I learned things I do not know. This country is now a gridiron of motor roads. A considerable part of its passengers and freight transportation moves over these roads in automotive vehicles. Whatever may be the fairness to the railroad networks of the low tax and roadbed costs to these competitors of theirs, this system is a very necessary part of our national ma- chinery A cae Here's a peek into a Ramsgate air raid shelter. The city of Rams| gate, in England, has been subjected to constant air raid alarms, and ‘the people have, during these many weeks past, grown quite accustomed to spending long hours in air raid shelters. Girls are knitting as they pass the time. Housewives discuss the high cost of living and other home ‘problems. Little boys suck on ice cream cones and wait, like the others, ‘for the raid to pass over. London's loss of time every day because of air ‘raids is a very serious matter, and the Nazis seem to know it. _ President Signs Peacetime Draft Bill blanket serves as an extra pair of pants for Private Edward Tortolani, who sharpens a crease as he gets ready to enter the regular army of the United States. He's one of the 3,500 men in three New York city National Guard regiments who have dropped their civilian pursuits for a year's service in encampments, New Speaker for transportation in both peace and war. Hitler has shown the necessity for the highest perfection in swift, motorized movements of army units. Our government has belatedly recognized it. We are getting ready to spend vast sums to motorize our army. Doubtless we soon will be adding to our public highway system a new network of "strategic roads''-feeder highways into areas that may be threatened and are not now well equipped for quick transportation of masses of men and sup! plies. Our new and only partly motorized army is writing a terrible record of delays and breakdowns due to halftrained drivers and repair and serv- ice departments. pected should This is to be ex- in any beginning, be cured. * +s but it President Roosevelt signs the nation's first peacetime conscription | bill. Standing, left to right: Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Rep. |A. J. May, chairman of the house military affairs committee, Gen. | George C. Marshall, chief of staff, and Sen. Morris Sheppard, chairman |ef the senate military affairs committee, Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn of Texas, who succeeds the late William Bankhead. One of his first duties was presiding over Bankhead's state funeral., Business Women Hold National Observance Health Meet * Is anything like that being done? On the contrary, because the quartermaster general of the army has a ‘joint military passenger agreement'? with the railroads which is | practically exclusive of the use of automotive transport, it is only in very rare cases that the civilian au| tomotive Systems can be used for the transportation of troops. One "Making Democracy Work' will be the theme of National Business Women's week, October 6-12. 173,000 members of 1,700 women's clubs will participate in the observance. Poster illustrates the theme. Dr. Minnie L. Maffett (right) is president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs which sponsors the event. Supreme Court to Open Fall Term To Celebrate reason advanced general for by the quar- refusal to | change that bone-headed senility is that the ‘joint military passenger agreements have been in effect between the railroads and the war and navy departments for Over a quarter of a century.' So had the French military methods, which the German swift moving motorized attack smashed in a few weeks, been used for over a "‘quarter of a century." This reason reveals the typical dry rot of the Crus- tacean bureaucracy which is so dan- serous in this like world. swiftly We must have work for military can't keep it up business. But we tomotive network oncile that with a Something ought this tomorrow. cK Important venes October picture of the tices Roberts, Black. Above, This week two prominent Ameri| Cans will observe their birthdays. Former Secretary of Agriculture |and Vice Presidential Candidate Henry A. Wallace will celebrate his cases will face the United States Supreme court when it con- fifty-second birth day on October 1%, 8. Members of the court are here shown grouped around a Associate Justice of Supreme court building in Washington. the Wnited Below, L. to R., JusStates Supreme Court McReynolds, Chief Justice Hughes, Harlan Fiske Justices Stone Stone will celebrate his Justices Douglas, Reed, Frankfurter sixty -eighth and Murphy, am birthday on October 11. moving war- our railroad netefficiency and you without giving it also need our auand we can't recrailroad monopoly. to be done about ok like to make a corner whatnot £ them,"' Well, the letter continued. here it is ladies! With ¢ collection of pitchers all in plae The sketch gives all of the dime sions and instructions. 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General Gullion is to direct the selective service draft and Col. Lewis Hershey is to be his deputy. These are splendid choices. General Gullion, head of the legal department of the army, is a veteran of the World war draft. He knows every angle of its execution. There he worked first as head of its information and press relations sections. In that job he had to be expert both in all the machin ery of the draft and also in its bearing on the public. mR 10 Hills Enclose ordered. There o* General Marshall made clear recently that his plans do not contemplate a military motor fleet capable of carrying all his troops at one time. He suggested a ‘‘shuttle system'? whereby the army motor transport is to take part of an army forward and then go back for the rest. termaster group had made the spool shely described in SEWING BOOK 3 ' the end tables of spools in Boo "One member has an interesti collection of pitchers and wot Drawer If it only took half on a trip that would cut army speed by two-thirds. Why should there not be added to the plan, wherever possible, complete utilization in both peace and war of our splendid existing civilian motor transport system-not merely for carriage, but for maintenance of service? To do that requires experimental experience, while in an emergency all such transport would surely be suddenly commandeered and used in helterskelter fashion, it is as important to get a smoothly working operation by peacetime practice as it is to have experimental maneuvers. with the National Guard. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., U. S. surgeon general, will be one of the principal speakers at the sixty-ninth annual meeting of the American Public Health association to be held at Detroit October 8-11, that many of the women in h MRS. Our plans for a new swift-moving motorized army, capable of striking like lightning anywhere on either coast of our country, should be integrated closely with our splendid existing civilian system of motor transport. It would be foolish to attempt to parallel it completely for the army with another complete system of government-owned and operated motor vehicles. * ‘, oS HOME Demonstration A wrote me the other day to A # The record of experienced civil/ ian bus and truck systems in economy, efficiency and maintenance shows remarkable performance-averages of 75,000 to 100,000 miles of highways operation without mechanical delay. Recently, a motorized artillery battalion on a super-highway averaged 16 miles per hour on a march of 135 miles-due to mechanical troubles. This is just one of dozens of recent examples. You can't make an efficient motor fleet overnight. repairs will have to be made to other parts of the ships by the British, totaling $165,000 each. The British plan to offer about $30 a ton for the vessels, which is considered high in view of the fact that they will have to spend $165,000 or about $20 per ton for repairs. The total price paid to the United States for the ships will be in the neighborhood of $8,000,000, while the total British repair bill will be about $5,000,000. *" Whatnot ~. Made of Spoo NY SECRET BRITISH WEAPON Britain's new secret anti-aircraft weapon, which is described as neither "gun, ray, nor balloon," is the most ingenious defense instrument the war has yet devised, according to military reports received here. It consists of a shell which when fired by an anti-aircraft gun, explodes at a desired level and releases a new kind of gas. This gas has the same density as air and does not dissipate. It holds together and constitutes a sort of invisible balloon. The gas is harmless-except when it explodes, and then it possesses tremendous destructive power. Explosion is by ignition. An airplane engine roaring through one of these gas masses ignites it and causes an explosion which tears the plane to pieces. That is the way the British are reported to be using it. * Corner Pape FROM MISSOURI One of the greatest publicity drives in U. S. political history is about to be launched. From thousands of billboards, posters, window _ signs, movie screens, radios and sound trucks, the voters of the country will be bombarded with arguments, slogans and oratory until November 5 as to why Wendell Willkie should be elected President of the United States. The campaign will be under the auspices of the Republican national committee, but its real authors are a group of live-wire St. Louis business men headed by bustling Edgar Queeny, president of the Monsanto Chemical company, one of the bigGeorge Bernard Shaw's music: gest such firms in the country. *‘People who read my Prefaces are An original Willkie booster, repelled by what they choose to Queeny has been giving a large part term my arrogance-their word for of his time to the job of electing my habit of telling the painful truth. him. He lunches daily with a score And people who read what other of politically smart friends, and it folks say about me are revolted by was at these informal powwows that my callousness-the average jourthe nation-wide publicity plan nalist's word for the irritating way | evolved. in which I keep my head while the Originally Missouri was to stage rest of mankind are losing theirs the show alone, but the national Thus, everyone who doesn't committee was so impressed with know me firmly believes me to be its possibilities that Queeny was quite the most unpleasant person asked to apply it to the entire counalive; and as a consequence all I | try. He responded with characterhave to do with people who meet me | istie zip. for the first time is to be just reaThrough his influence, five leading sonably polite, in order to convey advertising firms went to work with an impression of superhuman the agency that handles the Moncharm."' santo account, the Gardner Adver| tising company of St. Louis, and asSports writer Harry Grayson fears | signed two representatives to each no man, and like most sports chron- | state to explain the drive to local iclers, often wields the hammer with G. O. P. chiefs. great effect. Harry's pride and joy | One particular point to be exis Harry Jr One day Papa | plained was that the cost would be Grayson met a friend and amazed | too large for the national comhim by devoting the entire gabfest mittee to bear under the Hatch act, to raving about what a great guy and that the state organizations Clyde Beatty was. ‘‘He's the most would have to carry the load. The wonderful man I ever met," said advertising contact men have reGrayson. ported back that without exception "How do you figure that out?" the state headquarters are willing inquired the listener. to raise and spend the necessary "How do I figure it out?" yelled | funds. Harry. ‘‘Why, when I took my kid ~*~ ~ x to his circus, Beatty let him go in MERRY-GO-ROUND the cage with the lions!" For admission to a press conference with Secretary of War StimNunnally Johnson, who pens son, newsmen must be equipped pieces between movies, had a quarwith identification cards, colored rel with a colyumist over a trivial bright red. matter sometime ago. The latter Colonel Ward Maris, able press rerecently patty-caked one of Nunnallations officer of war department, ly's mag pieces. He wired the colis literally behind the eight-ball. yumist: ‘"‘Many thanks. Your kisses Planted on his desk is a billiard are still exciting." ball, marked with the figure eight. Pee) in Spruces Up for Army A Washington, This legend concerns Ted Thackery, the Post's managing editor. Ted has the distinction of becoming the m. e. of a paper he once peddled in the Midwest . . . Then he came to New York, and because his boss paid him off in bigger compliments than wages, he developed a eynical attitude . . . As a result, he was demoted to a job on one of the publisher's other rags . . . He surprised the higher-ups by accepting it, and so they fired him. Very unfairly, he felt . . . Despite his years with the outfit, he was left penniless. He had the courage to perform this legendary exploit. He returned to ill Time Shelter TAMING: risms. This so incensed one of them, he slapped Hi's face during a dance . . Not wishing to cause any excitement, because his companion (the wife of a friend) expected an heir, Moderwell ignored the insult . . . The next day a Rumanian crisis forced him to fly to Bucharest. At once Rome was sprayed with talk that the American was a coward. That he had been slapped and then left Italy by plane, etc. When Hi returned to Rome his best pals told him the only way to disinfect the ugly situation would be to fight a duel. The challenge became the topic of every European correspondent, but Hi had other ideas . . He entered the explosive Fascist's lair, told him Americans do not fight with swords and then flattened him with a sock on the' jaw . . . Then Hi challenged him to a duel with swords, pistols or anything else . . . The next day the duel was cancelled-because Moderwell was not a gentleman! Fi the Passing Al SCRIBES exposed UTAH en When Hi Moderwell was covering the Rome beat for a Chicago gazette "ue MOAB. - | YE THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT. Ri tee e San GFrancisces Beem tes 1] and eT eetet cl ~ 1000° ROOMS * 1000 -BATHS Te) ot person; $6 Wet teas Bev ay iat TT bY eh Soverldoking UNION SQUARE y 7 |