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Show I135 JE7 xu- WAY FOR THE ROCKET FLIVVER W. B. Stout, Detroit engineer, warns the auto industry that the ilrplane industry is so far ahead of It in new ideas that it may lead the leld in automobile making after the , d-ar. lie thinks the aviation engineers engi-neers and designers will spring mod- j fls that will eclipse anything the au- lomobile people have dreamed of. It seems to make sense. We can Imagine the aviation folks beating he gun and coming out with a fliv-rer fliv-rer that will combine the best fea-atres fea-atres of a runabout and a fighter-plane, fighter-plane, and with a touring model Jiat will put mothers-in-law in the jail-turret or bomb rack. We await these coming postwar models in the salesroom windows: The Whirlwind Coupe A tippy lumber. Has rigar shaped body nith two motors and collapsible Kings for bopping street intersections. intersec-tions. Has distance computer and tutomatlo horizon sights. Rubber raft and flares optional. The Town Car Terror Has three motors over rear axle. Seat for pilot ind co-pilot on roof. Carries spare motors in fenders. Makes 100 miles in hour. Is air-cooled and has automatic auto-matic device which flashes red lights fchen driver has taken wrong road. Powerfully armored in rear to combat com-bat motorcycle interceptors. ! Hellcat Sedan Nothing can stop I this ear once it is warmed up. Car-j Car-j ries pilot, co-pilot and rrew of ten. Room for 250 pounds luggage. Hanks ! beautifully at all altitudes and speeds. Has bomb bay doors. Re-! Re-! vcrsible retractor motors and smart" icquence-valves. Also equipped with driftmcters. Forty miles to a gallon. gal-lon. Speed 180 per hour. Comet Limousine Just the number num-ber for getting anywhere regardless of obstacles. Has four concealed dynamotdrs. Excellent diver. Carries Car-ries spare set of landing gear. On road test this car went through ten miles of flak from motorcops unscathed. un-scathed. Another model, badly battered, bat-tered, got home on two wheels and with steering wheel gone. This car operates as efficiently upside down as rightside up, a point to be considered consid-ered in modern traffic. It looks like lots of fun ahead, boys and girls. The law enforcement enforce-ment officials are going to love it. But we think the pedestrians are going to be pretty scared by the sight of traffic cops In scout planes. Tokyo's Mrs. Topping A woman who calls herself Mrs. Henry Topping broadcasts from Japan Ja-pan in sweet motherly tones, lauding laud-ing the Japs as a kindly people, assuring as-suring Americans that their sons suffer no cruelties and even quoting Yank prisoners as saying, "The Jap is not a bad fellow at all. He is fighting as I am, because I am told to. But he wants to get back to his wife and kids, just as I do." The Japs pronounce it wrong. What they want is a Co-Barbarity Sphere. "Ickes Bafs Plan for U. S. to Take Over Fish Industry." Headline. Omigoshl The thought that there was any talk of federal operation of fishing astounds us. Washington controlling the fish catch, mending the nets, telling the halibut when to run and announcing a code for mackerel? It unnerves us. We are skeptical about results. A rarp or hake may give in but wait until they try to tell a big blue, bass or kingflsh what to do about holding the line! And we won't believe be-lieve Chester Bowles is all he Is cracked up to be until we see how he comes out in an argument with a swordfish. , As Elmer Twitchell says, a ceiling on fish is better than fish on the ceiling, anyhow. It will be weeks before we can step into a fish market without thinking think-ing of administrators and conferences. confer-ences. Not for a long time can we gaze upon a filet of sole without thinking of arbitration boards. We saw a boiled cod today and couldn't escape the feeling Harold Ickes was in the background, with lemon and parsley. "Governor Dewey Cuts Budget Five Million." Headline. A thing like that can make a man an outcast in this country today. "Thousands of tenants are complaining com-plaining bitterly that landlords refuse re-fuse to paint or redecorate" Mayor LaGuardia of New York. We recently met a landlord who was pretty decent about it. He agreed to- cooperate. If we would buy the paint and do the painting be would furnish the ladder. "Traders Interest Centers in Rye." Headline. Gin being harder to get. |