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Show i rt Americas New Atlantic liases Hem Caribbean mg) UflD GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Jour: jR0 Notes of a Bystander The Front rages: As long as the Rome and llerlin papers keep print- ing, Britain doesn't need a propa- ganda force. The Axis' squawks about the British attacks will have the whole world despising them even more than now . The trouble with covering plane attacks, confides James Aldrich from the British Mediterranean fleet, is that you develop a tendency to see in the sky things you think are planes." Of course, you feel much relieved when they are planes. . . . It's good Huey is promise to Long didnt livs. make every man a king wouldnt be much of an inducement these days . . . The editorial salutes to the history and meaning of the City ef London made shudders rhumba across the body. We recall similar editorials about Prague, Warsaw, Vienna and Paris much too reminiscent of an obituary notice. . . 1 1 C. V. R. Thompson, the New York correspondent for the London relays this current London quip: All the civilized nations had destroyed, bombs had levelled every city in the world, and a lone British pilot who remained alive flew his plane over Europe to search for some sign of life . . . But he could find none and no building unscathed . . . Seeing nothing at all left of Europe, he started flying to the U. S. but his navigation was faulty and he ran out of gas, crashing in the heart of the African jungle . . . With his last ounce of strength he scribbled on a bit of fuselage: "Here died the last man on earth!" And then he died . . . Two little apes, who had been watching from a tree, climbed down, waddled over to the wreckage. One picked up the note, read it to the other and exclaimed: "The last man on earth! Good gracious, do we have to start this whole darned business all over again? Fx-pres- s, b'-e- n The Debunking Dep't: Mr. Woodcongressman from Virginia-m- ade a ringing defense of Colonel Lindbergh. He insisted that Lindbergh most not be denied the right of Free Speech . . . Mr. Woodruff delivered some vitriolic remarks about people who disagreed with Lindbergh. This was n great waste of time, words and money, considering that nobody has ever tried to stop Lindbergh from saying anyIn fact, since entering the thing political arena, Lindbergh has been treated like a prodigal son. Both press and radio have given his comments conspicuous space and the networks have given him valuable radio time free . . . Even President Roosevelt is denied that priviIn short, lege at certain times the press and radio (which Lindbergh has often criticized harshly) have treated Lindbergh so fairly that Lindbergh himself has never complained about being mistreated. ruff, ... ... "IIS Safeguard All Approaches To United States and Washington, D. C. BOGGLING Unless the Roosevelt administration shakes itself free of red tape and really does something about tin, it may have a major scandal on its hands. Months have passed since the nation first woke up to the fact that its supply of tin was desperately low. During that time, Japan has edgsd down closer and closer to the Malays and the Dutch East Indies, our chief tin supply, and now is at the gates of French Meanwhile, the plan to set up a tin smelter in the United States using Iiolivian ore and to save a dangerous ocean haul half way round the world, still is clutched in the large hand of Jesse Jones. Jesse now is going through exactly the same routine that the state department followed four months ago asking American metal companies how much tin they would smelt, what process they would use, etc. Last May several companies told the state department they were glad to Ihelps Dodge, American Metals, American Smelting Si Refining and Vulcan Detinning. From them the state department had secured all necessary information. But after it had finished, the national defense commission went into the matter oil over again, asking virtually the same questions. Now, at long last, the tin problem has Amine before Jesse Jones, who as federal loan administrator loan passes upon the $2,000,000 which is to be spent on constructing the tin smelter. And Jesse Jones has gone into all the aforementioned red tape still again. The tin situation is made even more difficult by the fact that although one of the busiest men in Washington, Jones declines to delegate authority, wants to know all the details. Jones is now secretary of commerce, a department which Herbert Hoover once made one of the most important in the government. But Jesse also insisted upon keeping his hands on the vital job of federal loan administrator. This makes him, next to Roosevelt, the most powerful man in the government also the most sought after. Result is that state department officials, national defense commissioners and tin experts have to mark time waiting for a chance to see Jesse Jones. And after they got to him they have to wait for him to go through all the details personall- Ry NORTON PHILLIPS WASHINGTON. The air and naval bases in the Atlantic ocean and Caribbean sea acquired recently by the United States from Great Britain through negotiations led by the Marquess of Lothian, British envoy in Washington, sweep like an inverted questionmark from Newfoundland on the north, south-westwa- Meanwhile the threatened Japanese conquest of Asiatic tin supplies proceeds. Meanwhile also the United States lacks enough tin actually on hand to last a full year. Note Present molasses-liknegotiations regarding tin have won the nickname e "Tin-doggling- ... ... . ... ... ... ... . . rd through Bermuda the and Bahamas, south to Jamaica, eastward to Trinidad and British Guiana, and northward again to St. Lucia and Antigua, according to a special bulletin from the National Geographic society. From Newfoundland, the northernmost base, to British United States neuly acquired naval and air bases in the Atlantic Guiana, on the mainland of South America, southernmost ocean extend from Newfoundland to the mainland of South Amer of the bases, is an airline dis- ica, an airline distance of approximately 2,700 miles. tance of approximately 2,700 population 55 per cent colored. A maica supports 1,173,000 inhabitants, strategic factor is the problem of the second largest number of Britmiles, the bulletin says. food, water, and other ne- ish subjects in the Western hemi- y- Newfoundland is one of the most supplies; from important of the base locations, cessities are imported chiefly the United States. guarding the northern approaches 3,000 Islands in Bahamas. by air and water The Bahama islands group, roughto Canada and the United States. ly 700 miles southwest of Bermuda, It extends for ap- over which the duke of Windsor now presides, consists in all of more proximately 400 than 3,000 islands, islets, cays and miles north and south across the rocks strewn over some 630 miles of ocean between Florida and HiGulf of St. Laspaniola (the island of Haiti and the widwrence, the ened mouth of the Dominican Republic). The aggregate area is less than 4,500 square St. Lawrence rivlow er. Newfoun- miles. All of the islands areisland of The and coral formation. dlands famous Botwood airfield nearest Florida is Bimini, abouthis-60 used at one time miles east of Miami. The most toric is San Salvador (Watling isby the Tan American transatlantic land) on the eastern fringe, where clippers, and recently by American-buil- t Columbus landed in 1492. war planes flown to England, Jamaica, 500 miles south of the lies about 2,000 miles west and and on the southern side Bahamas, Ireof coast the from south slightly of is one of the vital base loCuba, of land. It is 950 miles southwest cations because of its nearness to the southern tip of Greenland. the Panama canal which lies about Portugal's Azores islands are 1,400 550 miles to the south. It is the Bermiles to the southeast, and only one of the bases squarely withmuda is 1,110 miles to the southwest. Newfoundland is of greatest in the Carribbean sea; the others lie on the outer fringe of importance as an air base in mid- nearby that body of water. It is Britain's summer when a short period of good intend beside the busy watchdog weather makes flying relatively Windward Passage, shipping chanAtlantic. North across the easy nel between the North Atlantic and Bermuda Near U. S. Panama canal. the at Bermuda, The defense base Kingston is capital and chief port. next to the south from NewfoundWith only 4,000 square miles, Ja- land, is within 1,000 miles or less of every important port on the Atlantic coast of North America, both in the Export-hnpo- rt United States and Canada. The English channel ports of Britain lie more than 3,000 miles to the northHalf-Billio- n east. The United States is only as distant, since Cape Hatteras, WASHINGTON. When congress N. C., is 640 miles west and slightly law a recently extending the passed north. Bermudas subtropical cluster of life of the United States Export-Impobank to 1947, and authorizmore than 150 islands, enclosed within a living barricade of coral ing $500,000,000 additional loans, it reef about ten miles in diameter, gave sanction and approval to the bank one could ever expect already serves as Britains base for queerest the British navy's "America and to find. It has no tellers, no cashWest Indies fleet Within the rim iers, no cash, no vaults, no marble of coral reef the Bermuda islands columns, or no safety devices, but are so grouped as pearly to encirwaters of the cle the Great sound, mentioned as the probable American base. Small islands around the Great sound's sheltered harbor are the actual bases for the British navy and the Tan American dipper planes Of the 28,000 residents on Bermuda's 19 i square miles, the white inhabitants are outnumbered in a Bank Authorized to Loan Dollars one-fift- h rt land-locke- d Tax Commission Proposes Budget For Rearmament . . fun-necee- e! MERRY-GO-ROUN- . . D . . . "purity-m-politics- " . . $36,000-a-yen- . r . - CHICAGO. A billion-dollar-a-ye- ar rearmament program for the United States which would not cost taxpayers a red cent now or in the future is the prospect hold out by the National Consumers Tax commission. In a message to the quarter-milliomembers in 45 states, Mrs. Melville Mucklestone, NCTC president, declared that "if our local governments would eliminate inefficiency and waste from the administration of their affairs. American taxpayers would be saved a sum so large that it would more than offset the $994,400,000 to be raised annually through the national defense act which went into effect July 1. This seemingly solution to a large part of the defense problem is an actual possibility, Mrs. Mucklestone said, for the simple reason that the local taxpayer is the same one who foots the national tax bill and therefore costs of defense measures. "Experts agree that making our city, town, county, and other local governmcnt.il units thoroughly efficient and honest would cut from 10 to 20 per cent from our total local tax bill." tlie NCTC loader declared, without curtailing cssent.al governmental services." lm Jr SNI ta-- PILOT TRAINING WASHINGTON. Five week ago I questioned the value and efficiency of the civilian pilot training program, which is a plan to train 50.000 pilots for military and naval service by farming the students out to civilian pilots in groups of from 10 to 40 to be trained at so much a head. I said that it was not prop- .Released by Western Newspaper Union.) RETTING LOW DOWN "The Republican." sprightly, enSounds in the Night: At 21: "It G. O. P. monthly, offers looks like they're getting a more terprising some interesting advice on how to intellectual clientele the women place your money in the election. At the Riviera: are homelier" At its request, and with the as"She goes around daring you to of complete freedom of surance knock her conscience from her M. Oehlor, a research C. opinion, At the Stork: "To shoulder" specialist, prepared a betting "tally me a n'.ght club is just an upholstered concentration camp . . . sheet. In offering it the magazine At die Beachcomber: "She's an warns, however, that conditions may change abruptly. . heiress and hes an heirdale" "Election bettors must take into At La Martinique: "She's in the consideration," says the publication, room nose her gloss, powder dulling brightening her lips and sharpening "the possibility that a major 'emerher fangs" . . . At the Village Barn: gency' may burst into bloom late in "One look at her fiegor and your October or very early in NovemAt ber and may be a decisive factor eyes yell for crutches!" in the outcome." With this in mind Club Gaucho: "It's a pretty neck it presents the following tips on tie, only its not pulled tight enough At Club 18: "He's as sincere how to bet Willkie money: "Cinch bet" Vermont, Kansas, as a Japanese apology At Maine. New Hampshire, Iowa. South Coq Rouge: "I went with her once. I had more fun biting my nails" Dakota, Massachusetts. North DaIn Reubens: "It's a lucky kota. Minnesota. Michigan. Total. tiling for Buckingham palace that 87 electoral votes. Rhode Island. Ne"Give odds Gooring wasn't dropped on it! braska. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Wisconsin (?). Total, 101 elecManhattan Murals: The flip newsboy at Fiftieth and Seventh who toral votes. Indiana. New "Even money" shouted: "Britain Bombs Berlin"! Read about the Grapes of RAF!" York, Illinois. Total, 90 electoral The shooting shoppes all over votes. "Ask odds" Oregon, Wyoming, midtown, chiefly patronized by sharpshooting gals . . The "funny- Connecticut, Delaware. California, mans" who wears FDR and Willkie Idaho. Total, 45 electoral votes. West Virginia, "Ask long odds buttons on his lapel sooo . . . Jack Alexander's Montana, New Mexico, Kentucky, smarticle on Billy Rose for the Colorado, Missouri, Maryland. Utah. Total, 67 electoral Washington. Essecpee will be christened: "Basevotes. ment Belasco" . . . Add descriptions: "Dont bet" Nevada, Oklahoma, New York is a big dice game. Everybody's a loser, but nobody wants to Tennessee. Arizona. Virginia, North Carolina. Florida, Arkansas, Louisileave the game. ana, Alabama, Texas. Georgia, Mis14to The Wireless: Attesting the sissippi. South Carolina. Total, 141 karat caliber of the British morale, electoral votes. Ed Marrow said they would rather live underground than under Nazi Assistant Secretary of State Berle domination Choily McCarthy is funny so long as he keeps his bel'eves Spanish is the coining lanbarbs well sharpened. But when he guage for Americans, is having his children learn it. goes cute, he splinters. The Liberty league, moribund for Man About Town: Jolsons second the last several years, last week wnk in Fhilly grossed $33,000, he quietly folded up completely. The few remaining employees were paid . savs, meaning $12,000 profit off and told the league was giving What jokester pasted a Willkie sticker on Mrs. EDRs windshield at the up the ghost Chief reason given recent Rhinebeck fair when the was the Hatch chauffeur was dozing? . Quentin act. Jouett Shouse, league d. rector, Reynolds escaped injury when the who in its heyday drew a London apartment house he dwells salary, is supporting Willkie . When Franchot but in was bombed is not taking an open part in Tone was at Johns Hopkins hosp a the campaign. nurse developed a rash which the Gov Harold Stassen Minnesota's specialists there couldn't diagnose. They finally called it 'Romance has a leading role in guiding the labor end of the Willkie campaign Rash." Illustration of how some Indus. Um Panama Canal Zone. Indo-Chin- a. Corner Whatnot v Made of Sp WARREN L. PIERSON yet this financial institution in the last six years has agreed to lend to countries all over the world nearly $437,0(10.000, has actually advanced $160,000,000, and has collected repayments of $61,500,000. Asked how this could be done, Warren Lee Pierson, president of the bank, replied that the institution uses as much as possible existing American commercial banks the kind where checks are cashed. These banks advance the funds and handle the documents. Interest payments are shared bet tween the bank and the bank which handled the busiExport-Impor- ness. The bank was founded in 1934 to assist in the marketing abroad of industrial and agricultural products, particularly cotton, and has slowly developed into one of the most potent forces m stabilizing the foreign trade of the United States, making it possible for the American foreign trader to compete in a world m which other governments direct and control practically all the foreign trade of their nationals. sphere second only to Canada. Less of them are white. than Trinidad Valuable Colony. The sheltered harbor of Kingston is seven miles long and more than a mile in width. It is a hub for Caribbean airlines. Trinidad, close to the shore of Venezuela, serves as an "abutment for the arch of the Windward and Leeward islands which enclose the Caribbean on the east The island is 1,862 square miles in extent and has a population of 412,000. On the basis of production it is one of the most valuable of Englands West Indian colonies. The island has an enormous deposit of natural asphalt. Pitch lake, which covers 114 square miles and from which more than 100,000 tons has been exported in one year. The island also produces as much as barrels of petroleum in one year, raising this comparatively small island at one time to Seventh in world production. St. Lucia, one of the Windward islands only 200 miles north of the island of Trinidad, has an excellent harbor. Its area of 238 square miles supports a population of about mostly Negroes. This island is about 1,150 miles east of the Panama canal, and faces Dakar, the westernmost point of Africa, about 2,600 miles to the east. Once Was French. The island changed hands between England and France several times, so that the natives speak with a strong French accent. It has been English territory since 1814. The southernmost of the defense bases will be located in British Guiana, Britains only territory on the mainland of South America. It will give the United States a base some 1,450 miles east of the Panama canal and about equidistant from the canal and the hub port of the South Atlantic, Natal on the projecting "shoulder" of Brazil. The chief port and capital, Georgetown, dominates the 270 miles of coastline. This narrow British strip of South America extends for nearly 500 miles up into the continents northern highlands. Its area is 89,480 square miles. The colony has less than a third of a million inhabitants, nearly a half of them East Indians. Antigua, in the northern half of the sweeping arc of islands that guards the eastern doorway to the Caribbean sea, is about 200 miles north of St. Lucia and 260 miles east of Puerto Rico. An irregularly shaped patch of land, it is the smallest of the West Indies islands offered to the United States for bases. It is only about 12 miles in length from east to west, with a total area of 108 square miles. It has a popu lation of little over 35,000. Although at one time Antiguas English Harbour was headquarters for England's Leeward Islands naval station when the island was comparatively rich and active, it is to day merely a sleepy tropical outpost. off the regular tourist "beat" Antigua is valuable as a strategically set watchdog on the route to the Panama canal. It is the center and seat of government of Britain'r Leeward islands. It is situated less than 40 miles north of Guadaloupe, one of France's colonial possessions whose status following the German conquest of the motherland is still undetermined. one-fift- h 65,-00- 0, Government Seeks Oil For Delicate Machine? TACOMA, WASH. Although the increasing number of aeronautical instruments, watches, and other delicate mechanisms is causing a shortage in the supply of fishjaw oil, a government agency, in making a survey of the sources of such lubricants, has found one in the beluga, or white whale, found in large number near Cook inlet, 15 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, according to an official report. erly supervised, was dangerous and unlikely to produce many military and naval pilots who would not have to start all over again in the primary training of the armed services. I wrote that after seeing the plan in process and talking with experienced and impartial training experts upon whose judgment I rely. From other such men that column received indorsement, but by some interested in that program I was told with various degrees of indignation that I did not know what I was talking about. Wayne Parrish, editor of American Aviation, has watched this development closely, has recently made a study of it and has not, as a recent gossip column implied, the remotest political interest. In an editorial in the September 15 issue, he goes a lot further than did my column and even hints at the very odorous condition which may result In a congressional investigation. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Hinckley wangled a total appropriation of $37,000,000 to finance thin It was presented as a program. defense move to train 50,000 pilots perhaps for Mr. Roosevelts 50,000 phantom planes. The record is not clear as tc whether congress was told that nothing in the plan commits any trainee to any kind of military service, but Mr. Parrish rports that prospects are assured that there is no such obligation and told just to forget that part of it. Out of 77 graduates of the secondary course, 76 didn't seek military training. No military or naval authority is very clearly on record, but privately neither branch believes that a satisfactory substitute for the serv- ice primary courses can be given in this haphazard fashion. Those who doubted the wisdom of the transfer of the independent CAA to the political department of commerce, do not feel much encouraged by these developments nor by the increasing sabotage of the inspection service of the old CAA, which hung up so remarkable a record of air safety on the transport lines. Veteran inspectors are being submerged, weeded out or resign in disgust to make places for less ex perienced men. It is hard enough to understand how military and naval pilots can be trained by a slapped together hay crate organization of civilian pilots, but harder still to see how a safe and uniform course of instruction can be given in so many indeby instructors pendent "schools themselves of a wide variety of experience and training without an inspection service rating almost perfect efficiency. Many of the "private flying specialists who are directing this loose jointed organization for training military and naval pilots were examined and failed to qualify under the old inspection service as inspectors. In this new "specialist rating, they receive higher pay than experienced inspectors $5,600 a year, as compared with $3,200, $3,800 or $4,600; the latter figure being the highest rate in the old inspection service. This and similar policies are stripping that service of competent men. Much worse faults of carelessness and monkey business have been reported, but I have been unable to confirm them. What this situation needs is a congressional investigation. Maybe it will get it but not until after the election. DEFENDING BRITAIN While I was in Chicago recently, the "Defend America by Defending Britain committee staged a mass meeting largely of Gold Coast intellectuals in the Coliseum. It was harangued by several eminent breast beating war criers. All they ask now is to strip our inadequate army air force of 50 of its flying fortresses and detach from our navy the mosquito torpedo boats which congress recently prevented the President from sending to Britain. How this kind of thing could be done lawfully even under the attorney generals phoney opinion by which the destroyers were detached without even consulting congress doesn't appear. These people dont care. They dont even worry about that, because they know the President doesnt care either. 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