Show SCORES HITS ROBOT PLANE WASHING washington ron no military secret than a 1 is s more closely guarded sensational n new iw robot airplane now being tried out secretly by the navy in both hawa hawaii ii and langley field va navy experts have been working for more than 1 10 years to d develop a reliable plane operated who by radio control observers have witnessed sorn some e of the latest the device as near tests pronounce takes miraculous A robot bomber its bombs over a distant oil off discharges and target returns to base touched by a lands without being human hand the distance ot of the target is calculated in advance and when the I 1 robot reaches it a device automatically I 1 releases the bombs naturally the aiming is largely a matter of ch chance once but in the tests a number 1 I 1 of f direct hits were scored the cruising radius of the robots is limited only by fuel supply and the radio frequency range while most effective at short distances the robot can be used for long range bombing in conjunction with piloted planes or by a so caned cabied system of relay control that is is by radio stations along the line of flight I 1 so closely is the invention guarded that navy officers have been warned that any talk about it will be considered a violation of the espionage act and make them subject to court martial and dismissal j DEFENSE INFLUENCE there was a hidden brickbat in that sharp warning issued by assistant war secretary rpbert patterson that no one has an inside track in the awarding of army defense contracts what the mild mannered former U S circuit court judge say was that he is planning to insert a little clause in every army contract requiring contractors to swear they paid no commissions or any other fees to obtain the order penalty for doing so is ca cancellation of the contract under the law patterson is legally responsible for the entire industrial mobilization program and passes on every large army contract the boasts of certain lobbyists hobbyists and high pressure promoters that they can get army orders through inside influence are therefore a direct reflection on him he like it one bit and has no intention of putting up with it some of the influence operators have even told officials of cities they could deliver defense projects which had already been located elsewhere by the war department for strategic reasons DUTCH PRINCESS inside story of the expected white house visit of crown Princ princess esq juliana of the netherlands is that she and mrs roosevelt have kept up a correspondence ever since the princess arrived in canada six months ago with her two baby daughters the visit to washington might have come sooner but the princess put it off because she relish a round of extravagant entertainment she wants to avoid being dined and wined while her own people now under german domination are living on rationed food the princess with her two children has been living in a rented house in ottawa her husband prince bernhard is in london as aide de camp to queen wilhelmina and her brother is reported to be in a german concentration camp in ottawa the princess has not entertained has amused herself by walking and playing tennis she will be a white house guest for two days beginning december 18 conscientious OBJECTORS the man responsible for the light sentence given the eight divinity college students who refused to register for the draft was not the new york courto court but attorney att orney general robert jackson the young men who were students of union theological seminary were about to receive a three year yea r sentence but as a result of jacksons intervention inter bention ven tion they got a year and a day jackson polled the judges in advance of the decision and found they were all in favor of a 10 long ng s stiff t 1 ff sentence partly for hu humanitarian m unitarian ani reasons and partly because he want nt the boys to become martyrs who would arouse wide popular objection to the law jackson instructed ted U S attorney cahill to ask for a sho short rt sentence the students now may get out in even less than a year the short sentence makes them eligible for white house reprieve eve whereas with a longer sentence the president would not have felt free to intervene MERRY GO ROUND mrs roosevelt the only white house devotee of square dancing another enthusiast is handsome young jimmy rowe white house secretary who belongs to a club staging square dances once a week jimmys favorite is the cowboy stor s stomp rip |