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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER GENERAL HUGH ' VI s. JOHNSON 1 Cfjrfetnuus on tfje prairie frontier History Worn it The Story of the Most Unusual Celebration in American Memos of a Girl Friday Dear Mr. W.: Admiral Leahy is sore and disgruntled over the lack of Instructions given him for his new job as Amb. to France. He is even talking of not going; though probably will, anyway. FDR and Mr. Hull both talk in vague generalities about what he is to do there . . . Senators Wheeler and Norris are getting another blast ready under the guise of probing foreign connections with American industry. The FBI will come in for another heckYou will be ling, and you, too. called a warmonger, etc. . . . Remember way back when the Fascist armies used to throw up one hand instead of two? part-tim- e ... in e pulse-taker- ,,. press-agente- b.,y. d (iPhillipr MISTAKE DRAFT MAKES MAJOR down a The draft army turned the other driver taxicab York New that it doesn t day. This must show need think there is any immediate army. the in men for fighting WA , was In this case the taxi driver turned down because he didnt pass a 100 per cent eye test. Imagine that! Why, everybody knows from York taxi experience that a New man is dangerous under all conditions and twice as much of a threat to friend or foe If be cant see. basis. ... Also Chatting About: Tallulah Bankhead's understanding. John Emery, her husband, is tnwning with Tamara Geva, with Tallulah's permibh . . . George Trice, who is not divorcing his Stock Ext barge chair for the risky night club business as rumored Elmer Davis, the commentator, who is convahsc.ng after an opeiation at Suydi'iiham liosp . . . The "marriage of Bonnie Bak-r- r ami Oirm Tut kcr. Iier heart to Juh s Stein, the music pubs vv .v At After a life of unselfish service for labor unions at wages far below his worth, he was getting on. He had family obligations. In addition, he is the easiest "touch I know. If you are out of luck, all you have to do to get McGradys money is to ask him for it So be didnt have anything put aside. The RCA did one of the most inCamille Williams' CBS vice prexy heart went to So. America on Govt telligent things in recent industrial It employed this management business. Gave her a giant-size- d union labor leader to keep great with which diamond ring ruby and to console herself during his absence its labor relations straight made Do you think Amb. Kennedy him first a director and later a vice president and paid him a salary may chief for RKO as buzzed? commensurate with other first lieutenants of Mr. Sarnofl. RCA would Adcla Rogers St. Johns boy, Bill, not willingly lose his services, and A Mr. and his bride have parted McGrady can make belated women's radio group is plotting a for his old age. preparations nation-wid- e boycott of all radio proFor these reasons, it would be grams, if the big music row isnt unfair to him to give up that require Ironed out by New Years . . . Franwould also be unnecessary, cises Sims of the Jolson show will job. It if the war department is wed a doctor in Feb. . . . The Nazis because will keep out of labor diswise it have just opened their eighth movie house in New York. Before the war putes. Keeping out wouldnt take too much of McGradys time. not even four could make money. Except at the arsenals, and to a But in the U. S. movie theaters are part of Goebbels scheme. Two limited extent elsewhere, the war others recently opened in Chicago department is not an employer. It procures its supplies from contrac. . . FDRs next book will be called: tors. They will get into some dis"The Next Four. putes. There will be some strikes. Some of them will delay the rearmaQuentin Reynolds will not return ment program. But it is not the to London after his holiday here . . . business to horn in. That is armys the Truster, the business of Stanley High, Sidney Hillmans lahas become one of the editors at bor or the Perkins conorganization Readers Digest . . . Mr. Dies ciliation service. will connect a Columbia prof, (no Army officers are not fitted by longer there) with his "amazing mass of Italian propaganda data in training, background or office to the U. S. . . . Eddie Pola says conduct themselves well in the heat the new head of the Italian army is or emotion of a strike situation where you cant move men by yellthe right man. Hes an old camIf the army ing: "Squads right. rein three major paigner, been doesn't push this porcupine over to treats. the departments where it belongs, or if it permits them to push it over The German propaganda machine to the army, some soldier is a suckis utilizing American radio commener. It is a safe bet that it won't be tators and columnists (without their done while McGrady is there, and in spreading reports knowledge) that if it is done he wont stay there. that King Leopold of the Belgians is a traitor to his people and is APPEASEMENT working for the Nazi cause. ActuOut of the administration are comally, he is still a closely guarded ing private warnings that one great prisoner in his palace at Laeken, American danger just now is organto been not and see has Belgium, and daily growth of "appeasization Hitler and will not see the Pope in ers and their cunning propaganda Hitlers behalf . . . Dont worry to stir up public sentiment for "apabout the source . . . Amazing the peasement. way Greece is "fighting for FreeIt isnt easy to define just what is dom and Democracy. Greece, you meant by this use of the word. Apa is know, Dictatorship! peasement, as a grew out of the series of settlements with HitT. story ler acceded to by France and EngHenry Wallace told a Q. that Harold Ickes means what he land, whereby they welched on the says and wilquit if the Forest Servalliances France, at least, had made ice isn't handed to him from Wawith such little nations as Austria llaces old Agriculture Dept. They and Czechoslovakia, in .order to have tilled for a long time, but Mrs. "ring Germany in a cordon sani-tairIckes is trying to patch up matters. of steel and to preserve the She consults Wallace regarding the provisions of the treaty of Ver2,500 chickens which she raises in sailles. Maryland . . . The lowdown on the They tossed those little nations to quarrel between Ickes and Gov. the Nazi waives quite obviously beCramer of the Virgin Islands is an cause there was nothing else they old "Graphic honey . . . Capt. J. could do. They had allowed themJones (Navy recruiting here) Cary selves to become too weak and Geracknowledges the numerous broadmany to become too strong to do cast mentions for recruits. Says anything else. since first mention there's been a The very word "appease, taken In accepted apgratifying increase with the circumstances of those setplicants not only In the Northeasttlements, implied that there was ern Division, but throughout the nasome right on the Nazi side. The tion. appeasing concessions were' used Your Girl Friday. not as a truce to gain time for all-odefense. They were used as a Man About Town narcotic assurance to the British New Yorkers Are Talking About: and the French of "peace in our . time, with an effect that they went Jimmy Roosevelts new on snoring while Germany became She is lovely Roma Aldrich, the blonde photog's model, succeedstronger and stronger. Some of us began to insist that we ing nurse Romelle Schneider . . . The blazing of Franchot Tone and prepare, years before Munich and with growing insistence ever since Alice Faye . . . Alfred G. Vandeinsistence on our own weakness, rbilts first choice for his next bride on the great threat growing in the Dolly De Milo, who is better known world and the absolute necessity in Hollywood . . . The new locks on the hoods of all FDRs motor for American rearmament cars to guard against saboteurs and Many, if not most of those who assassins. Only Secret Service took this stand believe we are not We agents can open them . . . The way even yet arming effectively. Joan Crawford thrilled the chorines have preceded and supported every move to speed and Increase total in "Louisiana Purchase by coming backstage to chat with them after defense to the point of American curtain . . . The several rendezvous invincibility on this side Of the world. of the divided Hal Roachs. ReconOur only point of difference with ciliation? . , . The Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurters, who other equally earnest and sincere Americans is that we do not believe have "adopted the three children of Gilbert Murray, the British in either the necessity or the wisdom of scattering our defense over . . . author, for "the duration more territory than we can guard, Fred Allens fury with his agency. Because they sent out a yappy story do not believe in putting our counsaying Fred would pay $20 each for try into a military situation in which any 1808 penny. They came in its defense depends on the strength bunches, so Allen wants the agency or weakness of others their blunders or successes. to make good.. Theyre ' Washington, D. C. McGRADY SELECTION The selection of E. F. McGrady to advise the war department on labor relations couldn't have been improved upon, from the governments point of view. From Mr. McGradys, it may not be so hot. man. He Eddie is a dollar-a-yea- r cant 'afford to be that except on a We do believe that, whether Britain wins or does not win. we shall never be safe again without adequate defense of our own, that part of our strength is our financial soundness and that we cannot weaken it by undertaking to finance the wars of others at a cost which, in a long war to which we are a party, could rise as high as one hundred billion dollars. If that opinion and record is what Is meant by "appeasement, we regard the word as on epithet without argument ' sv jg. ' For that matter, imagine a taxi driver being turned down by the army for any reason! V. big A taxi driver, particularly city one, is the countrys best bet , Iv ff. v&vMy av Stf. v.. WVVlWw' .,vs Old Fort Abraham Lincoln in the wintertime. (From a contemporary photograph by D. F. Barry). By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) the day before Christmas, 1875, at old Fort AbraLincoln on the Dakota frontier. In the quarters of Lieut. Francis M. Gibson of the Seventh Cavalry his young bride, Katherine Gibson, was struggling with the problem of decorating the bare little rooms for the Christmas Tree party which they the window casement. In short, my unwere planning to give that invited guests were small Indian children who were staring through the glass at evening. the tree in mesmeric enhancement. Soldiers, sent out to scour For a moment I was held spellbound so as not the neighborhood for any- into surprise, then,I cautiously, frighten them. opened the porch door a had to and At first motioned enter. them tree, thing resembling shrank away, then a returned with a few forlorn they cowered andyoungster In buckskin, by the hand a diminutive squaw branches of sage and cedar dragging about four years old, stepped Into the brush. But, undaunted by this room, the others following warily, single file. How had they gained entrance to poor substitute for Christmas the garrison. I wondered? Then I rea slight breach in the stockade greenery, the young couple called wall. Just big enough to admit the wrigin to set work. They hung the gling and out of one small body at a time. boughs on stout cords from I turned to the supposed leader of the the ceiling down to within a partyto and speaking slowly, asked, pointthe tree, "Some one tell Indian ing few feet of the floor. It? about boy WAS ITham straight-backe- Beneath they placed a washtub, decorated with gaily painted paper and filled with sand. In the latter they buried what few gifts they had been able to purchase from the scanty stocks of merchants in the crude little frontier town of Bismarck a few miles away. "Well call it a Christmas piel cried Katherine Gibson with a brave laugh. But the room still lacked a festive holiday appearance, so they set to work on sheets of plain paper which she had saved. They colored the paper with paints, then cut it into long strips to serve as festoons. To their aid came several young officers of the Seventh, recently arrived at Fort Lincoln from West Point. With silver foil that had been wrapped around cigars, these youngsters covered the few nuts available and hung them on the makeshift Christmas tree. Other officers wives contributed old Christmas cards, resurrected from their trunks, and they tied them on the tree with scraps of faded ribbon that had been ironed and freshened. They colored candles with red paint, cut them in two and perched them jauntily on the branches of the tree. They fashioned a big bell out of paper that had been colored red and pasted cut-opictures of Santa Claus on its edges. As for refreshments for the party what it the post traders store had only a meager supply of such staples as sugar, coffee, flour and the like? Somehow young Katherine Gibson managed to get together some sandwiches, a cake, a small amount of candy and lemonade made from citric acid Crystals. But her greatest ice cream I It triumph was was ice cream made from condensed milk, whipped-u- p gelatine and the whites of eggs. (The mailman had brought these eggs from Bismarck and he had wrapped them in cotton and carried them inside his buckskin shirt next to his warm body to keep them from freezing.) By late afternoon the young officer and his bride were ready to receive their guests. Soon a laughing throng had gathered in their house for the festivities and . . . But let Katherine Gibson tell the story of that party and its unexpected and dramatic after-mat- h surely one of the strangest Christmas Eve celebrations ever held in America. Here is the story, told in her own words: He nodded, as the little hostiles around the agencies picked up a smattering of English very quickly. "Who tell Indian boy? "Horn Toad. Horn Toad was a Indian scout, adored by all the children in the garrison. "Oh, I nodded, while the little frozen band huddled about the stove in stolid silence, "and who is she? Indicating the wee squaw. Sister," replied the boy, while the little girl clung more fiercely to his hand. My eyes ran over the tiny figure and my heart contracted. The poor tot shivered and drew across the shoulders of her calico dress an Impromptu shawl made of gunny sack and a strip of the . same material served as her only Her mocassins and leggings were of buckskin. The young warriors were clad in whole suits of it, but. evidently, when It came to the female of the species, the supply had given out. It was a miracle that the little band hadn't been frozen to death. Just how, where, or why at this season of the year these people were abroad Instead of under shelter at the agencies did not matter. The fact remained that they and at least some of their tribe had set up their wickiups somewhere nearby. I mentally shook myself. What a unconscionable hour for these children to be up. They must be returned to their mothers at once, and yet as I looked into their timid, expectant faces, pity stirred within me, and my logic went woefully awry. Heaven only knew how long they head-gear- When the lad guest had departed, I thought I would take a peep Into the kllenen now dark and descried, so. wnh lighted candle held high. I orened the door As lire Maine slabbed through the darkness I suddenly gasped and gazed before me with startled eyes for on lire side porch appeared some strangers hud died together - stranger s of Juvenile stature, one barely tall enough to see above children. While they were thus engaged, I ran upstairs looking for old blankets, woolen stockings, and socks. I found a short coat of my own, some mittens, and galoshes and warm mufflers. Suddenly, queer sounds coming from below sent me scurrying downstairs, where I paused. The noise started with the clapping of bands, accompanied by a weird chant. This was followed by the sound of softly muffled feet and short, sharp whoops, at first faint but growing louder and louder. I sank upon the stairs and peered through the bannisters into the living room, and what I beheld kept me rooted to the spot. My eyes dilated before a picturesque phase of barbaric expression. half-wa- y boy, evidently to do his part and that of his tribe toward the entertainment, was staging a performance of his own and was directing the others in some kind of a dance. One boy and the diminutive squaw stood at the side, clapping their hands and chanting monotonously, the latter moving her hips and body in imitation of the older squaws, while, circling the stove in single file, the young braves stamped upon the carpet with the firmness of buffaloes combined with the whirlwind lightness of the wildcat, their lithe frames swaying like the prairie grasses and with a rhythm as perfect as a set measure. Backwards and forwards they flung themselves as though made of elastic rubber, bending pliant heads and necks and emitting whoops ef Joy. The crunching Into the carpet of ruinous sand mattered not, for on the step I sat tike petrified wood, lost in wonder at the wild beauty and the cadence of that native dance. Why, I pondered, did white children have to spend money to atttain anything like the grace of these aborigines to whom it seemed as inborn and as natural as a spring of cool, clear water? The dirge changed, and the little redskins swung Into close group formation, each executing fast, fantastic steps. Followed more insistent g and droning. The yeung bucks quickly into back flung single file, whereupon the dance became fiercer, the whoops louder and longer, and with a frenzy that almost shook the floor they fairly leaped about the stove until the leader held up his hand and stopped. The droning ceased, the embryo braves threw themselves, gasping, upon the carpet, and the wee one slid down beside the young chief. I drew a deep breath, hurried back upstairs, and brought down an armful of clothing and blankets. Then I bundled up the wee squaw like a bale of cotton, tied my too-bimittens on her warm little hands and gave the rest of the blankets, mufflers and galoshes to the boys. After that I stripped the tree of Its remaining gifts, put candy and cake In a bag, which I consigned to the care of the straight-backe- d boy, and very reluctantly let my guests out again into the night. 1 glanced up at the clock In the hall Already It was Christmas. The snow crunched crisply beneath light, retreating steps, while again and again the happy children, clutching their cherished toys, turned radiant faces over their shoulders for one last look and smile. straight-backe- Finally the small straight-backe- dian boy, bringing up the ... Eve dawned bright and Chrlstrnne clear, and the temperature had moderated Someone brought an old banjo, another had unearthed an antique guitar, With such dance another a Jew's-harmusic provided we swung Into the Virmuch with lied merriment, and ginia then the old square dances had Ihelr a beautiful time we had! turn What Finally, before midnight. Lieutenant Gibson, being ollicer of the day, had lo make his rounds of the outposis, and shortly afierward the paity broke up. everyone tired bul happy Noting all this. I communed with myI should have sent self thoughtfully. them home right away. I told myself severely, yet I continued to heap their laps with goodies, popcorn, nuts and candy. Besides, there was some Ice cream left over, and cake, too, that were begging to be eaten, and what was a party without them? So, before they knew it, mounds of pink and white concoction were whisked in front of the little savages, who immediately plunged small eager fingers into the pretty, fluffy stuff, only to recoil from the sudden chill. The tiny squaw was the first to experiment wfth it by cautiously licking some off her palm, and her cherubic smile would have inspired a masterpiece from RaphaeL They needed no further urging and attacked the ice eream, stuffing themselves with all the abandon of healthy, hungry The wishing Mrs. Francis M. Gibson and Baby Kate who grew up to become Mrs. Katherine Gibson Foil-ger- a, author ol "With Custers d rear In- with his Christmas burdens, patted his mouth with his slim hand and emitted the farewell call of his tribe, which seemed to Unger on the air even after the Uttle band had faded from view. I smiled to myself, blew out the kerosene lamp in the hail and trudged wearily upstairs, while, drifting through the still, approaching dawn, and echoing from bastion to bastion, came the comforting call of the sentinels, "One o'clock and aU's well" Cavalry. So that is the story of the had waited out there In the cold, feasting their eyes on this glittering paradise, and Christmas Eve celebration at old that set me thinking. Quickly 1 drew them Into the living Fort Abraham Lincoln on the room and towards the Christmas Tree pie Dakota frontier a traditional obwhich. I was confident, still heM a few treasures and. digging into the sand my- servance of the birth of the Prince self. I fished out a which of Peace which came to an unI presented to the little lady Her black climax in a barbaric with and eyes leaped surprise Joy. and expected her we hands trembled as she clutched Youll find the story the toy Then, making a motion for them in a book published to continue. I flew to the kitchen to heat recently by up what cocoa still remained. The striker was Just leaving for his barracks the Caxton Printers, Ltd., of CaldWith Custers Cavwhen I called to him. well, Idaho Oh. Alkorn," I Instructed, "go to the alry Katherine Gibson Fou-gerby nearest bastion and tell the sentinel So the daughter who was born relay to other sentinels that. In the evenl of any Indians hanging around and looka few years later to the young ing for children, they are at Lieutenant Gibson's quarters and will be along Seventh Cavalry officer and his soon." wife at Fort Meade in the Black During my absence my guests had cer- Hills of South Dakota, and it is the contents entire of explored the tainly here for your enjoytub The appearance of the reproduced had dissipaled Ihetr last vestige of ment by special permission of the hesitation, and they plunged feverishly Into the sand, and with each rag doll, owners. copyright toy pistol, or other treasure exhumed, is It one of the most unusual In -fact became wild Indians they wild with delight the bns voicing their emoand at same time one of the the tions In short grunts, the wee ones in most charming Yuletide stories squeals of rapture It was upon (his scene of oortng, scatthat 'has appeared in many a tering sand that I entered, bearing a pot year. It is a strictly American of steaming cocoa, but the children refused lo abandon the magic tub until the addition to the literature of very Iasi toy had been salvngod Then, Christmas. For nowhere else In drank and of long reIhey the thirstily freshing bevei age, and soon color rethe world, except in America, turned to their pinched cheeks and warmth crept buck into their ill tie oh tiled could this incident have taken fingers. place I war-danc- e! If I was with an enemy army, declared Elmer Twitcheil today, "and I had to choose between a mess with an average regiment and one New York taxi driver, I would dodge the cabbie and take on the regiment. Every time I think of the medical experts turning down these cabbies it makes me sore, continued Elmer. Taxi drivers are the only group in American life who need no training to put up a fight They are in constant training. I read in the papers that Uncle Sam is short of tanks. Tanks are an urgent need In modern war. Okay, but what can a tank do that a modern big city taxi pilot and his cab cant do, if its necessary? What is the chief advantage of a tank? It is its ability to get across any kind of terrain, regardless of obstacles, and , act as if it didnt know they were there. Am I right? And aint that Of course I am. where a New York taxicab fills the bill 100 per cent? Elmer was quite agitated. "The army not only shouldve welcomed this driver, regardless of the fact he wore glasses, but should have admitted his CAB! he insisted, pounding the table. "If I was of draft age and had to get into a war, nothing would make me feel safer than if I knew a flock of taxis were advancing ahead of me. They would scare the hell out of any foe on earth, and that goes for Hitler, Goering and Goeb-bei- s. A mere announcement that America was recruiting a division of cab drivers would bring a peace movement at once, and I dont see why Roosevelt dont appreciate it, "Please, Mr. Roosevelt, rescind that ban on that nearsighted New York taxi pilot, throw down the gates to all taxi drivers, and then let Europe get the information that they are to be our first line of attack and defense, and you will get peace in no time. TO THE GREEKS My bonnet is of? to the Greeks They scorned big machines or a plan, And showed to a badly scared world There still can be fights, man to man; One terrible stiff kick in the pants They give to the law "Might makes right, to, a darkening world steadying, rallying light And flashed A 'DUCHESS TOOTH WEEK Miami and Miami Beach have had many curious backgrounds for the formal opening of the winter season, but this is the first time Its all been done around an infected tooth. The bathing beauties and Miss Americas upon whom Miami Beach has so long depended for publicity via press and newsreels are in a state of high indignation. The artist's models have become the Forgotten Mannikins. A shapely teg, a dimpled knee and the public strip have for the first time gone into the discard, believe it or not. The tooth is the thing! a, , i No leg ever did as much for Miami and Miami Beach as Wally's jaw is doing this season. nERO FOR 1940 to Billy Friesell, A wonderman so strong That he can make an error And frankly say "Im wrong. Heres Police Commissioner' Valentine of New York is completing plans to mobilize 18,500 policemen for emergency defense. Everything will be okay up to the time some defense general asks a cop how to reach a certain destination. But we would hate to be in a war and have to look for a policeman. Uaajj, Washington, D. C, DONOVANS REAL GOAL IS GREECE Inside fact regarding the present mystery trip of Col. William Dono. van to Europe is that his real is Greece. En route, however, he will jto, in North Africa where he will gee his old World war friend, Marshal Weygand, now controlling the large French army in Africa. If this powerful force took the field on the side of the British, the Italians, already in a precarious position as a result of their defeats in Greece, would be finished. This would release British naval forces for desperately needed convoy work in the Atlantic. Also it would have repercussions In the Far East, where the Japanese military have been greedily eyeing the rich Dutch East Indies and With the British supreme in the Mediterranean and their big fleet available for operations elsewhere, Japan would think twice before attempting any new grabs. On the Greek front, Donovan will make a survey similar to that which he made in England last spring. In England last spring, Donovan made a thorough survey of invasion defenses, military intelligence and the royal air force. He spent a week in the field with the British army and made several flights with the Various U. S. army, air R.A.F. corps and navy observers are now attached to the British forces as the result of Donovans trip; also he established close intelligence ties on Axis espionage and fifth column o- i J 3 J i i i i perations. On his previous British mission, Donovan traveled as the personal representative of Navy Secretary Knox. i JUNKET On November 19, when the house defeated a motion to adjourn until January, members righteously de- dared that congress should remain on the job in these grave days oi emergency. But today a dozen members ol the house are enjoying a cushy junket to Panama, at the expense of the government. And with one exception, everyone of the group voted to stay on the job. On December 5, a fortnight after so voting, they quietly sailed from New York on the S. S. Panama, which is owned by the government They will spend two weeks cruising and three days in Panama. Several are members of the mili- tary affairs committee and might have some legitimate reason for making a "defense inspection, but the war department says it know? nothing about fee junket. LONGEST SPEECH Tom Dewey got a thrill and a chuckle from his luncheon at the Capitol with Floor Leader Joe Martin and other house Republicans. The thrill was an invitation to be the principal speaker at the G. O. P. Lincoln day dinner, which the ambitious district attorney accepted. The chuckle was evoked by a story about the "longest political speech on record which gangling, curly-haire- d Rep. John M. Robsion of Kentucky, a member of the Lincoln day committee, said he made when he first ran for congress in 1918. One hot July night during the campaign Robsion addressed a big crowd in a county courthouse and was amazed by the enthusiastic reception. Cheers rent the air with every sentence and there was a vo- ciferous "more, more when he tried to conclude after an hour. As he was leaving with the local sheriff, Robsion boasted: These people sure were enthusiastic. It looks like this county is in the bag. Dont set too much store by the way them fellers carried on, Jack, confided the sheriff. "Nobody there (hie) was sober but you. WHAT BRITONS READ WPAs library service made an Interesting discovery in a survey to ascertain what the people of d Britain are reading these days. One fact uncovered was that the long, dreary hours of blackout, with no outside recreation, have greatly revived interest in household arts and handicraft. Books on these subjects are at a premium. Also, the classics are in heavy demand, with Shakespeare, Chaucer, Dickens and Kipling as the favorites. But the one subject in which Britons are most interested is the author of their affliction. The most widely read book in England, according to jhe WrA survey. Is Hitler's "Mein Kampf., war-strafe- MERRY-GO-ROUN- Every ship In the L. S. navy s being equipped with a DeGauss.ng cable, the mine device used so successfully by the British. The Installation job is tre-- I rnendous and will require more than 40,000,000 feet of cable. Ncls Anderson, WPA labor reln- tions director, received a letter from a wartime buddy addressed, "Nets Anderson, White House, Washington, D. C., care of Secretary of Commerce." Notwithstanding this, the letter was delivered promptly. , i ' ' |