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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
SUBMARINES:
LuU Near u. S.

That American coastal waters are
no longer a soft spot for German
submarines was the view expressed
by British officials in a commune
que from London. Consequently it
was believed that Axis U-boats had
been forced to seek other waters in
which to prey on United Nations
commerce.
Adoption of the convoy system in
the Panama and Caribbean areas
plus increased air defenses were cit
ed as coinciding with a decreased
scale of submarine attacks.
American military authorities
commenting on the recent drop in
submarine sinkings, warned, how
ever, that the Nazis might now be
preparing to bring the full brunt
of their underseas attack against the
heavily conveyed supply lines across
the North Atlantic.
Increasing Allied effectiveness
against submarines was said to be
due to the fact that the "bottleneck
regarding engines for submarine
chasers, defensive craft and dirigi-
bles has been broken and defensive
craft are coming forward in greater
numbers"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21

which make up the Congress Of In
dustrial Organizations"
Biggest stumbling blocks in labor
peace talks for the seven years that
the two groups had gone their own
way had been personalities and the
refusal or inability of ALL to recog-
nize CLOS organization Of unions by
grouping all workers in an industry
into one union.
As far as personalities were con-
cerned, Philip Murray had by
passed John L. Lewis by appointing
to the CLIO peace committee MEM
bers not necessarily committed to
the head Of potent United Mine
Workers. Lewis and Green had con-
stantly differed on peace terms in
the past and with the former out Of
the front trenches (but still very
much in the fight) some observers
were forecasting an outside chance
for q united labor front-united for
u. S. victory.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
CARGO PLANES:
Get Green Light


A "go-ahead green light" for the
construction Of vast cargo planes in
months to come was given by both
the army and navy.
Speaking for the army, Lieut..
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commander
Of the army air forces, told senate
military affairs committee that 81
per cent Of all multiple-engine
bomber planes to be produced for
the remainder Of 1912 will be cargo
or transport carriers. Including all
planes of comparable flying range,
he added, 80 per cent Of the total
output will be essentially for cargo
purposes.
General Arnold revealed that car
60 and transport carriers now being
produced are used to move para
troops and airborne infantry, to tow
elders and to carry supplies to COM
bat zones. Planes are moving about
$500, 900 tons of material week. he
said.
Speaking for the navy, Rear Adj
miral John H. Towers, chief of the
Bureau of Aeronautics, disclosed
that the navy is speeding huge pro-
gram for building cargo planes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
GRAIN AND OIL:
To the Nazis

Though the cost in men and ma
chimes has been terrific, the Nazis
are already reaping the benefits Of
their 1912 drive for the oil and grain
riches of the Caucasus.
This was evidenced by an admis-
sion on the part Of Red Star, Off
cial Russian army newspaper, that
already the Germans were shipping
trainloads Of foodstuffs from the Ku-
ban area. Kuban is one Of Russia s
finest farm sectors but now has been
practically cut off from Soviet con-
troll.
However, the Nazis were not har-
vesting all the grain nor pumping
all the oil that the Russians were
forced to abandon. For as they re-
treated, the Cossack defenders were
employing the "scorched earth"
policy to the best Of their ability.
Grain fields and granaries crammed
with wheat were blazing as the Ger
mans advanced to them. Oil wells
in the Maikop field were blown up
by Soviet troops. Yet experts were
forced to admit that the Nazi prize
that remained was worth the battle
losses. For these are the things
Germany needs to continue fighting
oil and grain.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
HOUSEWIVES:
Face Job Draft

Spokesman for the manpower
commission intimated that one out
Of every four American housewives
between the ages Of 10 and A may
be needed in munitions jobs for this
country to attain full war produc-
ton.
It was indicated that a nationwide
occupational registration of women
might be undertaken as a means Of
cataloguing the country's total fem
mime adult resources.
Paul v. McNutt, manpower chief,
has estimated that about 5000, 600
more women must be placed in war
jobs by the end of 1913.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
Washington, d. @.
WOODEN SAILING SHIPS

WOOOG1lN 0kA4Lk4No 6A1&A -
When Undersecretary of COM
merce Wayne C. Taylor was flying
to Rio for the Inter-America con-
ference, he remarked:
"Our toughest problem is shipping.
We have to find something that will
give us the most cargo space, using
the least critical material. That's
the formula"
Then he looked out of the plane
window and saw a tiny sailing vessel
below. "You may laugh" he said,
'but we may even come to that"
That was last January. What Tay-
lor had said on an impulse stuck in
his mind. At Rio he talked it over
with Brazilians who were worried
about moving their coffee crop. He
was sure he had the answer to the
submarine Championships requir-
ing no critical materials, ships that
would coast along in shallow waters
and keep alive the trade among the
Americas.
But he struck snag in Washing
ton. The Maritime commission was
not interested. Skeptics said it was
a reversion to the ''horse- and-buggy
days" of the sea. Three times Tay-
lor worked up his project in revised
forms, but each time it failed to
click.
Then he tried another tack. He
published an account of the project
in a trade weekly of the department
of commerce. Immediately it struck
fire. Boat builders all over the coun-
try wanted to take part in the enter
prise. Official interest was kindled.
Result was that RFC allocated
$4,000, 1000, with which the Rookie
teller Office is setting up corpora
ton to build and acquire wooden
sailing vessels for inter-American
trade.
Two designs have been completed,
one for shallow draft vessel and
one for a heavy sea vessel. Yards
have been selected in Latin Amer
lea, and contracts are being let.
There will be an endless belt OF
300-ton sailing ships, making long
and short voyages, using auxiliary
engines when necessary, but saving
fuel by using, most of the time, the
trade winds that made the Carib-
bean famous in the days of Clipper
ships.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
OFFENSIVE:
In Southwest Pacific

Exactly eight months after the
bombing Of Pearl Harbor-eight
months of gloom-laden defensive
warfare-Allied air, sea and land
forces carried the battle to the en-
envy in the Southwest Pacific thea
ter of war.
In a fierce battle for the Solomon
islands, the United States feet and
warships of the Pacific fiotilla struck
heavy, continuing blows at Japa-
nese bases in Americas first great
offensive of the war.
Adm. Chester w. Ninitz, U. S.
naval commander in the Pacific,
stressed the force of enemy resist
ance. The fight was at the northern
boundary of the Coral sea, where a
u. S. task force in May inflicted the
first great naval defeat in history
upon Japan.
Although not discussed in official
communicates, navy spokesman
made it clear that the assault on
the Solomons was the first major
attempt to regain Japanese-seized
territory. Equally clear was the
fact that all possible fire power was
being brought to bear upon the en-
envy. This would include army and
navy bombing planes, Smelling from
big guns of naval surface ships and
possibly strong land action.
Some thousands of miles north a
Pacific fleet task force had bonn
barded Jap ships and installations
at Kiska, one of three Aleutian is
lands upon which an estimated
10000 Japanese have entrenched
themselves.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
GRIM ENDING:
For SabOteurs

The greatest execution in the his
tory Of the nations capital took
place when six Of eight Nazi sabo-
teurs who came to this country by
submarine to cripple the war effort
were electrocuted in the District OF
Columbia jail's electric chair.
II was an hour and a half after
the first Of the p1otters was pro-
nounced dead that the White House
made its official announcement. The
six were Herbert Hans Haupt, Helm
rich Harm Heinck, Edward John
Kerling, Hermann Otto Neubauer,
Richard Quirin and Werner Thiel.
Two other saboteurs escaped death
by aiding the prosecution. One Of
them, Ernest Peter Burger, was SEN
fenced to life In prison at hard la
Dor. The other, George John Dasch,
was sentenced to 80 years at hard
labor.
Meanwhile, the nations first inn
portant sedition trial since the out
break Of the war came to q close
when federal court jury in Indian
apolis found William Dudley Policy,
founder Of the Fascist Silver Shirts,
guilty of criminal sedition.
Pelley's co defendants, Agnes
Marion Henderson, his secretary,
and Lawrence Brown, were found
guilty only of conspiracy. Policy
was found guilty on all II counts in
the indictment.
Even as the erstwhile dictator Of
the Silver Shirts braced himself for
the penalties ahead, the American
public demonstrated again its stern
temper when Federal Judge Arthur
J. futile pronounced a death SEN
tence for treason upon Max Stephan,
Detroit restaurant owner, for be-
traying his adopted country by be-
friending an escaped Nazi prisoner.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21

shoulders and wounded ankles or
knees.
They also point to the long list
of football stars who made their
bids for the big league, only to blow
the job.
But there were more than a few
who didn't blow.
Among the First
Christy Mathewson was better
known as a football star at Buck
nell than he was as pitcher.
He had just won a major Buck
nell game with a long drop kick
when he came to the Giants, where
Andy Freeman wanted him to play
first base. A college football star
was sensation in those days.
About the same time a big Cali
fornia football star by the name Of
Orvie Overall came to the Cubs. He
was among the best.
Mickey Cochrane was a better
football player at Boston U. than he
was at baseball. Mickey had every
thing an All-America entry needs.
Lou Gehrig was among Column
bias better backs.
Eddie Collins was a Columbia
quarterback of first class merit be-
fore starring at second for the Ath-
letics, where he first played under
an assumed name.
Jim Thorpe was q fine outfielder,
but Jim couldn't quite locate q fast
breaking curve.
Reese and Collins came up from
football at Vanderbilt to join the
Giants and Dodgers. Ernie Movers,
one Of footballs best, couldn't quite
stick in the majors. Schoolboy
Rowe was another football star.
Joe Gordon was football wonder
as an Oregon freshman before they
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21

made him stick to
baseball. Gordon
would have been as
big a star in pro
football as he is in
baseball. Ask fluffy
LeemanS.
The tops Of the
football baseball
combinations were
Mathewson, Over
all, Cochrane, Col
Inns, Gehrig and
Chandler.
Thoro haxyc honY,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
in the weeks ne,os

WASHINGTON: Manufacture Of
typewriters, except for a small
quantity to be produced for the gov
eminent by one factory, win end
October 81, it was announced by the
War Production board in an order
released here. The order likewise
limited the production of most type
writer companies between July I
and October ] to 1874 per cent of the
machines sold by them last year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
STEEL:
Probe Black Market

In answer to charges that q
"black market" in steel existed,
where immediate delivery was
made from bullying warehouses scat
tered over the nation" two govern
ment investigations were inmedi-
ately begun.
First probe was undertaken by
Price Administrator Leon Henderson
after charges made by Frank Hig-
gins, associated with his father in q
New Orleans shipbuilding yard, that
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21

many former foot
ball lurninaries have
also starred under
baseball's Big Tent?
More than a few
managers, Joe Nc
Carthy especially,
believe football is a
bad dish for any
baseball player to
take on.
They figure foot
ball takes too heavy
a toll I'm injured liga-
m ents, battered
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
HIC HLICHTS in

GENEVA: Guglielmo Ferrero,
noted Italian historian and foe Of
the Fascists, died here at the age
of II. Seven years ago his books
were seized by the Mussolini govern
sment and he was forced to flee Italy.
He had taught history at the Uni
versity Of Geneva ever since.
Among bis most noted books was
The Grandeur and Decadence Of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
INDIA:
Action

Action
As the crisis in the latest drive
for India's independence APP
preached, Britain acted with speed
and surprise. BY official decree,
Mohandas K. Gandhi and almost 200
other All-India Congress party lead
ers were arrested as they prepared
to- launch their nationwide nom
violent civil disobedience movement
as a protest against Britain's re-
fusal to grant India immediate free
dom.
Some sources reported that the
British acted because it was learned
that an extensive sabotage cam
paign against the war effort was
about to get under way.
Rank and file of Gandhi's party
did not take their rebuke quietly.
Dispatches from New Delhi report
ed rioting in Bombay and Ahmeda-
bad. In addition government grain
stores were looted in protest against
the British action.
It was the sixth time that Gandhi
had handed himself over to govern
ment officials in his lifelong fight for
Indian independence. AS he gave
himself up he called upon his fol-
lowers to remember the slogan:
Either we get freedom or die"
Technically Gandhi was not being
imprisoned but he was to be kept
under "strict surveillance"
Britain's attitude seemed to be
summed up in the thought that while
midas independence was important,
the most vital problem Of the United
Nations at present was the winning
If a war
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
NO BOASTER

The 43rd divisions signal COM
pany from Rhode Island has young
buck private who has great future
before him-of some kind.
The other morning, while on KIP.
duty, he offered to bet the mess SER
geant S. that he could eat two good
sized watermelons in ten minutes
fiat. The sergeant was suspicious.
'sWhat makes you think you CAM"
he parried.
Because" was the reply, II just
polished off two when you weren't
looking" ~ AZ
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21

more than we nave mentloned mere,
but this sextette has the lead.
Trained Muscles
The majority Of all the leading
stars were 0ne-game people. Bobby
Jones, for example, played no 9TH
er game but golf until he was grown.
Every muscle in his body was trained
and developed for a golf swing.
Bob had no conflicting muscles
that wouldn't work together.
Schoolboy Rowe was star at
football, golf, tennis, shot-putting
and other pastimes while playing
baseball. Over-developed muscles
had no helpful effect on his pitching
career.
Ty Cobb played no game but base
ball. Cobb refused to swing golf
club until near the end of his major
league career.
Ty still insists the two swings are
different. They are i'm Cobb's case,
as Ty in baseball was more Of
puncher than a swinger. Ruth,
Speaker and others were swingerS
who could play golf in the 70s.
The Case of Chandler
The case Of Sturgeon Chandler,
the Gainesville Clipper, takes an I'M
usual angle.
Here is a pitcher who has won
70 of his last "a games, turning
back to the summer of 1871. And
this happened after he had passed
his Sind birthday.
As a starter it took Chandler five
years and a touring jaunt through
seven different cities before he final
" parked himself ON Yankee
bench. After that a yanked arm
ligament and later broken ankle
were no great help.
When Spud dropped his first four
games last spring his outlook was
about as sunny and as cheerful as
windowless cellar.
And then it happened-10 straight
for 1941-12 out of IA for 1942-and
almost every game brilliantly
pitched.
/ recall years ago Harry Mehre,
then Georgia's coach, telling me that
Chandler was one Of the hardest
workers on his squad.
Chandler has proved that by TAX
ing the knocks and raps that came
his way without kick or an alibi.
It took him 10 years to locate the
smoother road, and 10 years is quite
chunk from a pitchers career.
But doubt today that anyone can
name better pitcher.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21

THE brilliant pitching record set
4 by Spud Chandler, Georgia's for
mer half-back, has brought an old
discussion out of the dust. How
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Allies Take Offensive in Pacific Area
With Naval Attack on Solomon Islands;
British Thwart Sabotage Plan in India;
Nazis Reap Profits From Russian Drive


WI
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
VICE PRESIDENTS
RECREATION

On a hot August morning, when
residents Of the Wardman Park
hotel had fans turned on full blast,
they looked with surprise to see four
figures come out on the tennis court.
They looked second time. It was
the vice president and party of
friends out for set of doubles.
Henry Wallace took off a pair OF
Stacks, threw them into corner,
and trotted out onto the court in
white shorts and a white sports
shirt. 1t was eight o'clock as the
game began.
Wearing no hat or eyeshade, and
welding the racket in his left hand,
Wallace entered into the game with
the gusto Of high school boy. It
was not tennis of professional quail
ity, but it was high class amateur
play. Frequently the ball was re-
turned eight or ten times in single
exchange. Once when Wallace was
at the net, he made five returns in
succession, finally won the point.
At 9:05 the set ended. Wallace
retreated to the corner of the court,
pulled on his Stacks, headed back
to his apartment for a shower.
Other apartment jewellers, still sit
ting in front of the fans, sighed and
shook their heads in wonderment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
MERRY-GO-ROUND

remarked on the excellent service"
when he lunched at the local Red
Cross canteen for service men the
other day. But he didn't know that
his waitress was Mrs. Jed Johnson,
wife of the congressman from Okla
homa.
G Popular, white-thatched Repre-
sentative Joseph J. ("Judge")
Mansfield of Texas, who gets around
in a wheel chair faster than most
people walk, was telling colleagues
about political opponent in his dis
trict who's always trying to make
people believe am &c." Remarked
COP Representative Charles A.
Eaton of New Jersey: "Shucks,
Judge, you'd just be getting started
at &c."
q Greatest pals of Rumania's exiled
King Carol and the titian-haired
Madame Lupescu in Mexico City
are U. S. Ambassador George Mes
sersmith and wife. The Messer-
smiths got to know the couple when
they came to Cuba while Messer-
smith was ambassador there. In
Mexico City they played bridge to-
gether frequently.
q Ex-Ambassador Josephus Dam
iels, now editor of the Raleigh News
and Observer, is writing more pun
gent editorials at 80 than most edi-
tors at 40.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21

more than we have mentioned here.
but this sextette has the lead.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21

The Danbury Fair has been
called off ON account Of the gas
and rubber shortage. This is
going to throw q lot Of cooch
dancers, snake charmers, side
show freaks and terrible ham,
burg cooks out Of autumn work.
It is Elmer Twitchell's belief that
few things harm the morale Of
America more than listening to
United States congressman on the
Forum of the Air. "You don't know
what incoherency is until you have
heard 'em," insists Mr.. Twitchell.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-18
Well Received Plays to Be Repeated

TWO PLAYS which had particularly good reception
for Theater Arts members during the current
being repeated.
The players will be before
The first will be cutting from 1.-THE Old Maid" the
play by Zoe Akens adapted from the novel by Edith
Wharton
The includes. Mrs. Richard Forsyth who plays the
lead. Mrs. Guy Chester Smith. Mrs Don McMuen.
Mrs Morgan Douglas. Mrs. John Prout Mrs William
Merrell. and Mrs Leslie Putnam.
The second will be Thornton Wlders. Happy Journey
From Trenton to Camden.
In the cast Mrs John Hockey Mrs Frank Col
idge. Mrs. Thomas Morrow Mrs. J. Hall Gambler
Mrs. Ralph Simonds. and Madeleine Cliff
Mrs Carl b. Grawn. president of the Visiting Nurse
Association and other members of the Board of Trustees
and staff Chicago taking part this week in the
biennial convention of the three national nursing organizations
American Nurses Association National Organization
for Public Health Nursing and National League of Nursing
Education.
Mrs. Grawn is chairman of round table for di-
recors and lay members of agencies having stats
than Is. the subject. Adjusting to Wartime
Problems. -.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-18
Virginia S+raith. DR.. Jeffries
Honored at Dinner Dance
BY FRANCES OVENS

and the University Of Virginia.
And he expects to enter the
navy soon.
ONE OF the jolliest parties at
the Statler during luncheon yes
terday had Mrs. Edward J.
Jeffries Jr. as hostess.
Her guests were members Of
the cast of "Springtime for
Henry" now at the Shubert-
Lafayette Theater. They were
Edward Everett Horton, Eleanor
Lawson, Marjorie Wilson, Marie
Ellis and Gavin Muir.
MRS. CHARLES HORTON
METCALF has just returned
from a d. A. r. convention in
Chicago.
Before that she was in Fred
ericksburg. Va. attending a
meeting of the Kenmore Asso-
citation and while there she was
the house guest of Mrs. II. H.
Smith.
Mrs. Metcalf calls attention to
a meeting of the Daughters of
Founders and Patriots which
will be held at the Women's
City Club next Friday.
PARTIES ARE numerous for
Georgana Voelkner who will be-
come the bride of John F. Hern
at high noon next Saturday in
Our Lady of the Rosary Church.
Miss Ann McDougall and Miss
Peggy Clarke were co-hosteSses
at a personal shower recently in
the home of Mrs. Herbert
Martin IN Greenlawn avenue.
Miss Shirley Hern and Miss
Isabel Wetmore gave a kitchen
shower and evening party for
Miss Voelkner last week.
Mrs. Hugh A. Hagerty and
Mrs. George Hopper entertained
the bridesmaid and several other
guests at lunc eon. at the
Women's City Club. Mrs. d. J.
Starrett and Mrs. Jacobs John
Lambe gave a luncheon and
miscellaneous shower and lunch
con at Detroit Yacht Club.
Miss Catherine Goss will be
hostess at the spinister dinnef
this evening.