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WAR SECRETARY WOODRING
POLITICAL CHAFF

The Republican National commit
tee is making vigorous efforts to
line up the Scandinavian vote, i'm
portant in dozen states. The John
Ericsson Republican league, found
ed 80 years ago in honor of the in
ventor of the Monitor, first Union
ironclad warship, is being rejuvenat-
ed. Principal speaker at the recent
Ericsson league convention in Chi
cago was Senator Bob Taft.
The A. F. of L. is boiling with
resentment because of Thurman Ar
nold's antitrust prosecutions.
Jack Garner is telling intimates
that he is now convinced the Presi-
dent will run again. The vice pres
ident says Roosevelt hasn't said any,
thing to him about it, but his opin-
ion is based on "unmistakable in
dications."
Dan Tobin, head of the Teamsters,
is having trouble with his own un-
ion because of his third term sup
port for Roosevelt.
The hobby of Sen. Joe Guffey of
Pennsylvania is saving dimes. He
has glass bank on his desk, and
before closing his office, drops in all
the dimes he finds in his pocket.
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the others would follow in it's
tracks; then all would roll togeth-
er in rough and tumble, in which
their small teeth would tug at the
fur OF their companions.
Bouncing Badgers.
Young badgers are among the
most amusing cubs to watch at
play. With their bold black and
white markings they are quaint
looking little creatures, and rath-
er clumsy, but there is no doubt
that they thoroughly enjoy life, and
their play is exuberant and siren
uouS.
First they poke their noses in
the ground, searching for hidden
grubs; then, without any warning,
all stiffen their fur, making it
stand upright, and now they look
twice their size. With their short
legs also stiffened they bounce
round one another like footballs,
then leap in, grip a mouthful of
fur, and roll over and over. They
break apart, and again play the
bouncing game, and just as sud-
denly as they started to play they
cease, and the next moment all
are diligently searching for more
food.
Many young otters are born at
an awkward time, that is at the
beginning of winter, but they are
hardy little creatures and appear
to be able to stand any amount of
cold. Offers, more than any other
wild creatures, show us that they
thoroughly enjoy life; plentiful
supply of food makes them con-
tented, and both parents and young
play the most delightful games.
Fun in the Water.
What appeared to be a large
brown ball was floating gently
down stream, hardly making a
ripple as it swept along. Suddenly
the ball seemed to burst open with
loud splash, and four excited OF
ters with their bright, eager eyes
well above the water, started
swimming round one another. One
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d. of C.. AND
White Housings

President Roosevelt made another
request for money. This time it
was for more than billion, for the
army, navy and civilian train
ing program, coupled with a fear
that all continents may become in
volved in the II German war Che
did not mention Germany by name).
Roosevelt asked for specific author
ity to call up the national guard and
army reservists-if and when need
ed to Safeguard" and defend"
And Roosevelt asked for a corps of
dollar-a-year men, to expedite ma
tional defense preparations. Also,
there came a request for a million
dollars, to expand the navy depart
ment and munitions buildings in the
capital. Talkative young Elliott
Roosevelt assailed so-called fifth
columns in Mexico. Elliott is ra-
dio executive.
War department plans called for
immediate orders to get $500
planes, 1,700 tanks, 500 heavy artil-
lery units, and big consignments Of
anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns.
The senate voted, 55-4, for a new
alien control resolution, already
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WASHINGTON.-The French have
been too proud to let the public
know it, but they have been almost
down on their knees before U. S.
officials to beg, borrow, or buy
more airplanes.
The French aviation situation is
desperate. How many planes have
been smashed is not definitely known
perhaps not even by the French
themselves. But most of their air
force on the western front has been
put out of business. 1t is estimated
that at least an equal number of
NaZi planes have also crashed, but
Germany started with about $4,000
planes, the French with about 1000.
One big handicap to the French
is that they were counting upon Brit
ish air support. The original tactics
were for the French to do the bulk
of the land fighting, with the British
reinforcing in the air. But this was
before anyone realized that Hitler
was going to break through the
French lines and head straight for
the channel.
Now Britain needs every plane
she has for the home defense.
So desperate was the French
plight that they wanted to buy any
kind of plane, even those consid-
cred too old for the U. S. army.
The war department estimates it
has more than 1,500 out of date
planes. However, the secretary of
war issued an order no later than
March IA prohibiting the sale of sur
plus army material even to third
parties who might conceivably re-
sell them to France and England.
Latest Plane Purchases.
Meanwhile the delivery of air.
planes already ordered by the
French and British proceeds with
tragic slowness. Here are the in
side figures, illustrating how long it
may take the United States to turn
out $4,000 planes for itself:
Ordered by Allies
(through Delivered Unde-
May 20 to Allies hvered
Airplanes 1883 1888 $500
Motors 20,82O 4,O22 1878
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u. S. REDS:
Don't LOpe Nnzis

The American Communist party,
in the last six months, has sent
$4,000 to German reds, to help them
in their underground struggle
against Hitler. This fact was an
nounced at the c. P.'s national con-
vention in New York, which gather
ing appeared to be unabashed by
the Russo-German pact of last
August. (This anti-Hitlerism, how
ever, did not make things any cas-
ier for the Films early in the year,
There were visiting reds at New
York from Mexico, Chile, Haiti, Ice
land, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. A
Mexican delegate condemned Con-
gresham Martin Dies and his COM
mittee. The convention opposed
participation in the national advi-
sorry defense commission "and any
subordinate boards"
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Hole in the Sea

1t has now been discovered that
there is a hole in the Atlantic 51z
miles deep, the greatest depth yet
recorded. The exact depth is %, $50
feet, and it is about go miles north
of Cape Engano on the east of the
island of Haiti in the Caribbean
1t was discovered by means of a
"sonic" or echo depth finder when
soundings were being taken by the
U. S. A. cruiser Milwaukee.
1t has long been known that the
greatest mountain range in the
world rises from the ocean bed
and stretches north and south from
Iceland to the Antarctic, almost
midway between the two Ameri-
cas- and Europe and Africa. Ten
times as long as the Himalayan
range, in many places these huge
undersea mountains rise to a
height of over four miles.
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III GERMAN WAR:
Flanders Battle

The Observation-Disclosures
battle came virtually to an end, save
for up-moppings and kitty-corner
operations here and there. The
Dutch and Belgian armies had been
surrendered or finished, and the
First, Seventh, and Ninth French
armies were destroyed. Nobody
came out of it with any laurels save
the British navy, which somehow
succeeded in ferrying perhaps two
thirds of the British army out Of
Dunkirk by means of warships,
transports, yachts, barges, and life
boats-and under heavy aerial fire.
1t seemed that the German air
force fell down on this debarkation
operation, for British losses, in re-
treat, were smaller than might have
been expected. Somehow, the allies
secured temporary air supremacy
in the Dunkirk sector, and the Brit
ish Spitfire machines showed a
slight superiority to the German
Messerschmitt combat craft. Brit
ish morale, strangely enough, was
reported as excellent, but French
morale did not appear in quite so
favorable light. The German gen.
eral headquarters was strangely re-
strained in its moment of triumph.
Lille, fourth city of France and it's
Pittsburgh, was in German
hands, along with Amsterdam, Rot
terdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Ostend,
Calais, Boulogne, The Hague, Liege,
etc. Would refugee-choked, hyster-
ical Paris be next, wondered the
railbirdS?
Even as these railbirds wondered,
Hitler's warbirds came out of the
skies and rained showers of bombs
upon southern France and later
upon Paris itself. In the first at
tacks about $50 German bombers
swept over the city, dropping their
cargoes of high explosives, setting
many fires, infiicting huge property
losses and killing at least As persons
in Paris and its suburbs. The allies
promised to repay Germany bomb
for bomb in the new air offensive
they were launching.
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| n A M E. S
in the ne,Us

G Former French Generalissimo
Gamelin was said to have commit
ted suicide, while General Corap,
chief of the French Ninth army de-
feated at Sedan, was reported as ex-
ecuted. General Bodet of the
French Medical corps got six
months in Jail for abandoning his
post in the ill-fated Sedan sector.
Thus did la Republique crack down.
q General Robert Lee Bullard, dis
tinguished U. S. army officer and
patriot, was reelected president of
the National Security league, which
favors increased preparedness and
is strongly "anti-subversive" in its
hawkeye activities.
q Proving that American isolation
sentiment was by no means dead,
some 1000 earnest Catholics prayed
for peace, assembled at st. Patrick's
cathedral in New York. With the
Catholics, members of other faiths
peace-minded, despite war propa-
ganda-participated. Here were
1000 anonymous but highly impor-
tant Names in the News.
q Jean Batten, well-known and we'll
favored young aviatrix, was exhibit
ed as an ambulance driver in the
Anglo-French corps, hooked up with
the Gallo army. She looked won
derful in uniform.
q President Alfredo Baldomir of
Uruguay got the jitters over fifth
columns, and thereby was enabled
to tighten up his own dictatorship at
Monteyideo, not unwelcome turn
of affairs, it was stated. Dictator
Baldomir succeeded his brother-in-
law, Dictator Terra, in 1888.
q Two World war wagon-drivers.
Clarence Payne of Georgia and
James Delaney of Long Island, re-
ceived U. S. Silver Star medals for
their heroic delivery of water-cart
under fire, back in 1918. Delaney,
unfortunately, had passed away, so
his mother got the award.
The Ely miner., 1940-06-13
There Sat Snlithers' Cat
With 'Baited' Breath

The talk had turned on intelli-
gent animals and some very tall
stories had been told when
Smithers Clipped in.
"Clever animals?" he queried.
81 bet none of you ever had a pet
to equal my old cat. He was
very fond of cheese. If it was on
the table at meal-times and he
smelt it, he'd come over and beg
for a bit. One day it struck me
that every time he'd had a bit of
cheese he wouldn't wait for any,
thing more to eat, but always
cleared off right away. The next
time I gave him some cheese I
followed him. Do you know what
that cat was doing? He was sit
ting by a mousehole breathing
down it!"
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Springtime Is Season Of Joy
AndZestfor Wild Creatures
With Nature in Her Gayest Mood, animals
Enjoy Their OUn Games and FrOlics.

CPRINGTIME in the wilds is
- playtime. The majority of our
mammals have their young in the
early months of the year, and in
April and May it is possible to
watch the most delightful games
among the puppies of the fields.
Badger, fox and otter cubs are
very playful little creatures. The
otter and badger appear to have
a certain amount of method in
their games, but fox cubs simply
romp among themselves in a wild
abandon.
On sloping sand cliff near my
home seven fox cubs came out of
a large hole; on the ledge just
outside they played with round
stone, pushing it with their feet,
tossing it in the air and allowing
it to run down the slope.
When tired of this they played
a game which resembled "Follow
the Leader" One would run for
ward, dodge and leap over all
kinds of imaginary obstacles, and
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ItaIic Notes

All private motoring stopped in
Italy, due to government conserva-
ton OF gas and oil. Italy has no
native petroleum, iron or coal.
Pro-Italians were jailed in Eng
lands Mediterranean naval base,
Malta. Possession of this strategic
island is leading Italian objective.
The English suspended Italian pa
pers read by the Italian-speaking
Maltese. A minority of Maltese
talk the ancient Carthaginian tongue
Of Hannibal and his elephants.
Mussolini said he was too busy to
see U. S. Ambassador Phillips, who
was toting a message from Roose-
welt. MuSsolini also broke off ship
ping deal with the English, in the
matter Of illegal contraband control,
which put the shivers into London.
Italian journalists left Paris.
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leaped right out of the stream and
over its companions to dive on the
other side, and as they floated
along this acrobat made circles
around them, those below trying to
grip it as it passed over. Then
they all joined up again, and
seemed to be having struggle as
to which could pull the others un-
der the surface, a sort of spirited
ducking game.
They continue to play until all
are tired. Then the parents lead
their young off to a well-hidden
lair, where they all sleep until
hunger and high spirits call again.
Oliver G. Pike in London Tit
Bits.
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p a S S ed by
the house.
The immi-
grafton nat
uraliz alton
b u r e a U
W ould b e
transfer
from the de-
partnent OF
labor to the
departmen n t
of justice.
S e n a t or S
N orris and
Whaa1or 1ih
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Planes and guns, said Willkie, are
not built by emotional appeals over
the radio. "We have confused liberty
with license" added the Repub-
icans' dusky equine.
But Candidate Dewey, in New
York, characterized certain of
Roosevelt's defense measures as
progress in the right direction.
He added, in sorrow, that much re-
mained to be done. Dewey had not
yet selected a nominator (for him
self, to boost him at the Republi-
cans Philadelphia convention this
month. Dewey, on the whole, tends
to be more kid-glove and velvetine
than the rugged quipster, Willkie.
Liberals, for some reason, much pre-
fer western Wendell to the 20. A."
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erals opposed to the transfer, as
sailed ]. Edgar Hoover and the G.
men, while Wheeler censured the
current American "hysteria."
Archibald Macleash, radical" IL
brarian of the Congressional library
at Washington, said that the II Ger
man war was not a revolt of the
masses. He said that, instead, it
was the revolt of gang.
SOS, 100000:
BattIeship
The $65,OO0,00O battleship, Wash
ington, was launched at the Phila-
delphia navy yard. It is a 35, 600
tonner-1, 800 tons bigger than any
American battleship now in opera
ton. The Washington is our first
new capital ship in 10 years. It is
$50 feet long. Fifteen-year-old vir-
ginia Marshall of Spokane, great
Observation-Disclosures of Chief
Justice John Marshall, was the
Washingtonian christener. The boat
was named after her home state.
BELIEVE 1T OR NOT:
More Statistics
Berlin said the English lost go
channel warships and transports.
London said four. London said IL
British airplanes destroyed 81 Ger
mar planes-with no loss. Wash
ington experts believed the channel
drive had cost Germany 40 per cent
of it's mechanized equipment.
'Outnumbered by incredible
odds," the royal air force brought
down n Germans in one day-''fig-
ures on price which was paid are
not available"
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Wise and Otherwise

THE hardest tumble a man
4 can take is to fall over his
own bluff.
Consistency is a jeu0el ,ohich pa,cn-
brokers refuse to recognize.
We should be kind to poor
old worn-out horses. There
are some men who put their
shirts on them.
Intelligence test (for GRID:
Can she refuse a kiss without
being deprived of it?
No, a grass widow is not a
woman whose husband died of
hay fever.
Some girls are called gold
diggers, but they are faithful
to the last flyer.
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BRAZIL, U. S. CONFER

Some of the most important state
department conversations in Monroe
Doctrine history are now progress
ing secretly with the Brazilian gov
ernment.
They are aimed at protecting
South America from Nazi invasion,
particularly at preventing surprise
air attacks against the Panama
canal.
The discussions contemplate an
air base in northern Brazil, and also
probably naval base. Actually
these will not be called American
air and naval bases. They will be
called "co-operation" between the
U. S. army air corps and the Brazil
ian army, also between the navies
of the two countries.
Although not publicly announced,
the air corps already is arranging
to send group of army airmen to
Brazil to help train Brazilian avia-
tors. In addition, they will also help
to improve Brazilian airports, es-
pecially in north Brazil, and make
them available to U. S. army planes
when and if.
All this goes back to the Presi-
dents defense message to congress
in which he pointed to the nearness
of the African coast to Brazil-with-
in hopping distance for big bombers.
A glance at the map shows how
close Brazil is to the Canary islands,
owned by Fascist Spain, and report
ed to have been used as bases by
German warships. Should the Nazis
take over French and British pos
sessions in Africa, Brazil would be
extremely close to them. AS a mat
ter of fact, Germany does not have
to take the allied colonies to be near
Brazil; already she has titular right
to the Belgian Congo.
Northern Brazil is sparsely popu-
lated and extremely wealthy. In it
are vast rubber forests, iron ore de-
posits, cotton fields. 1t contains just
what Germany needs.
Should Hitler shatter the United
Kingdom, U. S. strategists believe
northern Brazil would be his first
objective in the Western hemi-
sphere. Hence the hurried negotia-
tions between the state department
and the Brazilian embassy.
WAR SECRETARY WOODRING
If the President wants to get rid
of War Secretary Harry Woodring,
it looks as if he would have to blast.
The nobby little Kansan is refusing
any ordinary sops to vacate.
Harry" Roosevelt propositioned
recently, "how'd you like to be min
lister to Canada? That's very i'm
portant post and will become more
so as things develop"
''No, thank you, Mr.. President"
was the quiet but firm reply. "The
only diplomatic post would consid-
er is st. James"
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against that fell
low" " "That fell
/ o w 1" m e a n t
Roosevelt. To get
rid of Roosevelt,
Willkie felt, was
the only way to
unite the nation
against the totali-
tartan threat
w ill k i e W a S
equally hard on
Hitler. He called
the Fuehrer a
SDn q Il m q n -
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ART DEPT:
On p. p. Rubens

Hitler's Vienna paper, on the 300th
anniversary Of Rubens' death, said
that Flemish artist was a German
ic pagan" who painted Christian
sagas with a fleshly relish. This
seemed fairly obvious to art critics,
some Of whom call him the Falstaff
Of the Palette. Rubens liked to de-
pict mountains of flesh," said the
Vienna journal. Rubens, too, added
the paper, was fond of Christian
Venuses" and "Nazarene wres-
tiers" He was without the blinds
Of churchly virtue, and fearless in
the face of nature" It will be re-
membered that many of Rubens'
themes were religious.
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1t just had to happen! With all the
netUs OF fifth column" activities ,0Ork-
ing in other lands to aid the German
cause, somebody had to come through
,Uith netos OF sixth column. And, it
soas DR.. Herbert Cesork, (pichired
aboUe) professor OF social ethics at
Andouer-NeOton theological school in
Boston pho reported that ,Uithin Ger
many herself there is group Of per-
sons seeking to bring about Hitler's
do,OntalI. He bases his netos OF this
sixth column" activity on connections
,oith the anti.Hitler movement in Ger.
many.
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COUP IN CANADA:
MOsIey of Montreal

The Canadian mounted police,
turning into a local Gestapo or
OGPU, seized eight members of the
National Unity party in Montreal,
the British empires great French
city. Most important of the victims
was Adrien Arcand, French Cana
dian Fascist leader, important in
Quebec provincial politics, and op-
posed to the war. There were stimuli
taneous coups in at least three 9TH
er Canadian cities including Ottawa,
Toronto and Windsor.
Tourists to the dominion were for
hidden to bring firearms in with
them, under an order from the ma
tional revenue department. The
teeth in the current Canadian die
tatorship-which long preceded the
new English totalitarian state-are
supplied by section 80 of the De-
tense of Canada regulations. AS for
Arcand, he was a trouble-maker, a
red-baiter, and an anti-semite, who
doubtless considered himself Hit
ler. He and his boys have been ac-
customed to prance about in swas-
tikas and wearing shirtings made of
dark blue material.
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Italy should
might likely direct attack at the great British
Malta footing
Map the right shows the relationship Malta
bombing
sOni a
British anchor Below
Malta is blazing during gunnery practice.
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BILLY PHELPS:
And the I.4OO

Prof. Billy Phelps of Yale, book
man Of renown, said he'd rather
lose the war with the allies than
win with Hitler. Billy said Hitler
had changed "Athens into Sparta. +"
But some 1,400 Yale students
thought otherwise. They signed Pc
tition asking that Americas isolation
continue. They were of draft age!
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ANTI.ROOSEVELT:
On Campaign

Wendell Willkie said, out in Den
yer, "I'd love to 60 to the people
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FLASHING down the straight
aways at speeds as high as 100
miles an hour, Wilbur Shaw
streaked to victory in this great race.
Here's proof of Safety - Proof of
Blowout Protection = Proof of Tire
Superiority-backed, not by claims,
but by performance.
Patented construction features in
the Firestone Tires used by these
great drivers on the speedway are
incorporated in the Firestone
Champion Tires you buy for the
highway.
For greater safety, economy and
dependability, equip your car with
a set today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-17
Insulation Of Goroee
Reduces Heut Loss

The garage, newest unit to be
added to the home, often is given the
least weather protection, construc-
ton engineers have found. This is
probably because home owners are
unaccustomed to thinking of their
garages as an actual unit in the
home.
As q matter OF fact. the garage
needs insulation as much as any
other part Of the home. The addi-
tional protection given by insulation
may be the difference between an
unchanged and a frozen motor.
Many householders have found
that the Use of Insulating board as
finish for the walls and ceilings
of their garages is a good invest
ment. BY reducing excessive loss of
heat, the added protection quickly
pays for its installation.
In instances where the garage is
not properly insulated, the rooms
above or adjoining the garage very
often are dificult to heat. This is
because cold air is admitted In large
quantities when the garage doors are
opened and unless there is insulation
between the garage and adjacent
rooms this cold penetrates into the
house.