Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-09-19
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
D. LEMUEL r. PARTON

government has secretly called
xaj. Ya,dl.y As.i. bert 8. Yard
Asssyins Foreign ley. its cryp-
Bvoadcasts Here? tic cryptic
gram mer,
forgiven his indiscretion in publish
ing THE Black Chamber" 4 dec
ade ago and set him to work again
plucking diplomatic and espionage
secrets from the air.
This Is highly interesting in view
Of Major Yardley's frequent predic-
tons that the state department
would have to set up new listening
posts, and carry on where he left
OF, in the event Of war or even
the threat Of war.
Major Yardley was % expert
rs 4 de-coder that, knowing -
japanese, he could catch Japa-
nese double-talk on the air, and
DECIDE 1t. When Henry L. Slim
ssa was secretary q state ~
didn't like either espionage O
eounter-espioaage and thought
- decent natioa should have
anything to do with It.
Hence. Major Yardley's secret
'Black Chamber" in New York,
which must have been something
like the lair of Caglistro, was sum-
marily closed and the major was
fred. Then he wrote his book and
it, repercussions were such that
congress passed law against his
writing any more Of the same kind.
In this book, he included de-
eeded messages showing how
Japan had been giving this eoun-
txy the grand run-afound during
the Warrington arms confer
saee. II almost caused . cabi-
ut crisis IN Japan and made
eur state department reach for
- smelling salts.
Herbert o. Yard1ey, a native Of
Washington, in his youth a tele-
graph operator for the war depart
ment, became q code expert and
was transferred to the cryptograph-
ic bureau just before our entrance
into the first World war.
Whether it's nice or not, the ext
gencies Of the time are such that
the newly organized foreign broad
cast monitoring service is now work.
ing 24-hour shift, assaying about
900, 900 words of daily foreign broad
casts.
nOWN in the valley he heard the
- train blow. So the farm boy
N the North Carolina mountains
hung up his hoe and followed the
white plume
Old Squirrel Gun Of smoke to
Taught Tycoon to fame and
Dyasp Sharp Bead fortun e.
o u 6
Thomas A. Morgan's muzzle-loading
squirrel gun was an instrument of
precision compared to the best arti-
fee of economics and business at
q time like this. It taught the fu-
ture president of the Sperry corpo-
ration to draw sharp bead on what
ever he was shooting at and in Lin
coins phrase, never to "shoot at q
louise on his own eyebrow.
So, today, his target d post
war solveney. With all the rush
q defense orders and plant ex-
pansisn there ID each day some
ding h the kitty for what may
eome hereafter. Fer the first
hah q this year, $433,31s has
esoe int this "eushisaing"
IND. The margin for error IN
sueh eompstatioas probably
b greater than that q . Sperry
bsmb sight, but whatever \
skilled preeisionist may do Il
being deae.
At l6. Thomas A. Morgan fetched
up in the navy, was quickly en-
crossed with the magic whirligig Of
. Sperry gyroscope and was there
b. steered into his manifest destiny.
His skill with the gyroscope
brought him in touch with its in
vsntor, Elmer A. Sperry, and his
career n . maker Of precision IN
sryments-the need for which il al
vays m inverse ratio to the stability
md precision in the affairs Of men.
u wasn't al smesth saiIing.
DuRing Tie Wseid war, Tie ears
NV vas daekAg a1A Aodgiag
- h1iAg u the nists. Mr..
l6seEaa chased 4 here aaA there
- eve4yWAeee, b sen 4 gyro-
sooQos, esagA1 ~ wikA Il anA