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Show THE ni'M.ETlN. K'Nf.HAM. ITT AH Victims of Jap Subs on California Coast ' ... ! .1 MrjS toll ti n e& xt At left, the 5,698-to- n freighter Absaroka, hit by a Jap torpedo off the California coast. Is shown, with deck awash, as she made some port. One crew member was killed. Right: This photo pictures the thrilling landing of part of the crew of the tanker "Montebello," which was sunk by a submarine off California. Here a lifeboat bobs In the boiling surf, dangerously close to the rocks, as rescuers throw men a line. Private Papen of a Cub Reporter: The scene is Honolulu, and the ' dialogue begins: "Listen!" The Increasing roar sounded like the surging swell of voices from a distant stadium. "Planes," he said. "Our pa-trol . . ." He shook his head. "Too many." In the distance there were sharp explosions like vicious blasts of thunder. They rolled and cracked and echoed. A blinding, jagged sheet of yellow flame rose and spread. ". . . Well, it's cofne at last . . ." "... What happened, sir? Was it bad?" "Very bad. They caught us flat-foote-d. Approached very high. Twenty, maybe thirty thousand feet . . . The anti-aircra- ft boys held up . . They knew just where to strike and what to strike with." "They hit us with incendiaries the first time over . . . They caught the hangars at Hickam . . . and even went out cf their way to set Are to Rogers Airport buildings and the barracks." "... The enemy gave usthree blasts . . . It'll be days before we can patch up." ". . , Casualties heavy, sir?" . . They scored a direct hit on Schofield Barracks." ". . . Clipper service, of course, has been suspended. The Japs are reputed fond of shooting down un-arm. e.d. transport planes." It was Japan that the United States was at war with. "And Pearl Haroor, sir7" "A mess . . . They scored direct hits on the foundries and on the pumping plant near the drydock. They burned the air station hangars , '. . The hospital's all right, and they didn't hit any of the fuel oil tanks ..." "Pearl Harbor was a cinch . . . AH they had to do was follow the coast line and blast away . . ." . "But how could they get several hundred planes here?" "God knows. Japan . . . wouldn't have enough aircraft carriers . . . My guess is that they got a couple of carriers through by traveling away from the regular shipping lanes. That ... put 100 to ISO little shipboard fighters in striking dis-tance ..." "The raid occurred at eleven forty-- two ." - The bombing of the Island of Oahu had occurred at 11:42 . . . The Pres.dent of the United States announced by radio to the country that Americs was at war with . . . Japan, whose fleets, even then, were headed eastward ... "Our country has known some black days, but none so black as this one. God help us all!" The above are excerpts from "LIghtni.ig In the Night," by Fred Allhoff, which appeared in Liberty Magazine. Sept. 7. 1040. 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A tire firm uses this honey of a slogan: "Don't be a skidiot!" . . . America is like this: Mario Gallo, manager of the San Carlo Opera company, was married here last week to Hizi Koy Ke, Japanese so-prano. Buy Defense Bonds Terrific feud going on in the U. S. Supreme court. Justices Douglas, Murphy, Black and Frankfurter are the principals involved . . . San Francisco newspaper man Paul Smith (a Lieut. Comdr. in Navy Public Relations), has received the Green Light from Sec'y Knox . . . To drop the traditional silence and keep the public informed. Mr. Knox feels that unlike other wars, this is "a people's war" and they should know all. etc. Buy Defense Bonds-Jim- my Dorsey says the Jap Em-peror should be called: "Hirohito-Below-The-Belt- . . . Because they've been caught accepting ad-verts from shows containing smut and double entendre, the Christian Science Monitor will no longer take play ads in Boston until they've first studied the manuscript ... If you don't have to use the long distance phone (for mush, frinstance) please don't! Gov't agencies and officials are incessantly on them and unless yours is life and death stuff you j are urged to use the mails. j rv KAl IA pREyrpearson Washington, D. C. WILLKIE AND F.D.R. Seldom in political history has a President of the United States re-ceived such wholesome support on major foreign policy from a defeat-ed cendidate as Franklin Roosevelt has received from Wendell Willkie. Few people know how active Willkie has been behind the scenes. For instance, Willkie has even done some missionary work on Joe Martin, chairman of the Republican National committee and opposition leader of the house. Willkie remains on very friendly terms with his old campaign manager, even though they eiflered on foreign policy. Shortly after the congressional vote to repeal the Neutrality act. In which the Republicans nearly de-feated Roosevelt, Willkie phoned Joe Martin. "Joe," he said, "those Republi- - cans who voted against repeal of neutrality are going to have a tough time being They're go- - ing to find the country is behind Roosevelt on this." The Republican national chair-man replied that he would not only all the Republicans who voted against Roosevelt, but he would also elect a lot of new Repub-licans to fill the seats of the Demo-crats whu had voted with Roosevelt "Listen," said Willkie, "if you re-elect 80 per cent of those who voted against the President you'll be the greatest political genius of all time." "And," said Willkie, in telling the story to a friend afterward, "a few days later there was Joe himself voting with Roosevelt for a declara-tion of war." Buy Defense Bonds SniP-BUILDIN- G PROGRAM The action of the house naval af-fairs committee in slashing the pro-posed expansion of our two-ocea- n navy was due chiefly to shortages of materials and construction equip-ment. However, Rear Admiral Samuel Robinson, chief of the bureau of ships, ran into a blunt barrage of questions about the worth of the battleship under modern combat conditions. Committee members sharply suggested that in view of the battleship's record in this war, the navy might be wise to build no more. Robinson contended that- this would be impractical, since the United States needed battleships "if our enemies continue to use them for combat purposes." "What is your honest private opin-ion of the battleship?" he was asked. "Do you think this type of ship is worth all the money it costs and the time and labor required to build them?" "I'm sorry, gentlemen, but it's not my function to answer that ques-tion," sidestepped Robinson with a smile. "I'm not a policy man. My job is to build ships after it is de-cided they are needed. However, I have my own ideas about the bat-tleship." This drew laughter, and the ad-miral was pressed no further. Robinson also was quizzed close-ly about the high cost of certain vessels which the navy proposed in the expansion program, chiefly an aircraft carrier at an estimated $85,000,000. "Higher labor and material costs are the biggest factors," Robinson explained. "For instance, we have a new type of armor plate for our ships which is far stronger than that used by any other nation. It costs $60 a ton, three times as much as the armor plate we formerly used." "How about the labor supply?" . "We have plenty of labor to carry out our shipbuilding program." Rob-inson said. "Also plenty of facili-ties. Getting materials and ma-chine tools is our big problem right now. However, the shortage doesn't amount to a bottleneck. In fact, production is running a little ahead of schedule and will be greatly ex-pedited by next spring." 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Anne Linn. If the rubber shortage gets serious what will this country do for chicken sandwiches. And clam chowder? AIN'T IT SO Of all poor friends on whom to call The "friendly neutral" tops 'em alL , a a Elmer Twitchell says that nothing unnerves him as much as Mayor LaGuardia urging everybody to let nothing disturb them. a The Wright brothers 38 years ago at Kitty Hawk first proved a heavier than a'r machine could fly and it is this department's guess that if the brothers cou'd have foreseen the future, they would have scrapped the thing before th try-o-a a "Golf and Tennis Balls to Be Rationed." Headline. How can we make these all-o-drives without them? a a a Bathing suits and rubber bathing caps are to be rationed, too, begin-ning next month. This was the first news to arouse Ima Dodo to a reali-zation the country is really at war. a a a Yale has pledged its support of the country in the war. But a lot of football fans will put more faith in Harvard and Princeton. 'Pause in the Day's Occupation' Smiling cheerfully as they push German forces back the way they came, members of this Russian tank crew (left) halt for brief pause in their march westward, for lunch. Rigors of the Russian winter seem to have no terrors for these hardy soldiers. Right: These Italian prisoners in the Libyan desert seem too miserable to attempt to escape, and yet they are guarded carefully before being shipped to a concentration camp. 1 Surest Key The best and secure keys is the friendship oft pie. Antigonus. n B I To Fill Men's Shoes fl --3 First members of the Canadian women's army corps to leave Can-ada on active service are shown as they left Ottawa for Washington, D. C, where they will take over duties formerly performed by men at the Canadian legation. All are company sergeant majors. Fierce Moro Tribesmen Fight Japs t - ?"7WW 11 h f tfPWSiK A. i A deadly warm welcome was extended Japs who tried to open a second front in the Philippines by invading Mindanao island. On hand to greet them were some of the fiercest fighters known, the Moro tribes-men, to whom fighting is a profession. They are' shown being inspected by Col. Ralph McCoy in Zamboanga, P. I. Good-Nature- d M:i Good-natur- e is the mos commendation of a goo Dryden. ii n 1 Alleviating Misfortf One alleviation in misS; to endure and submit to if Seneca. 1I Tops in Autographs 'if r;-- j t! hi1 'i At " . " t if- Chinese ambassador, Dr. Hu Shili, leaves White House with book, "The Personal Papers or Franklin D. Roosevelt," presented by staff and autographed by the President. President Roosevelt With War Cabinet I --HqHovx Fit The President and his war cabinet, at meeting in White House. Left to right around table: Harry Hopkins, Frances Fcrkins, Col. P. B. Flem-ing, Henry Wallace, F. LaGuardia, Paul McXutt, Jesse Jones, Harold Ickes, Frank C. Walker, Henry Stimson, Cordcll Hull, the President, Ueory Morgenthau, Francis Biddle, Frank Knox, and Claude Wickard. |