The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-15
Straight From
Washington
By STEPHEN Nj. YOUNG
Congressman at Large, Ohio

| Congressman at Large, Oh1O ]
Washington - Brass hats of the
Army and Navy would do we'll to
eliminate some red tape in the War
and Navy Department Buildings, get
away from their superior attitude, and
try to form closer contact with the
industrial brains Of America. Unfor
tunately, because of present conges-
tion in Washington, citizen seeking
to confer with an Army or Navy Of
ficer on an important National De-
fense matter must first spend about
an hour on the first floor of the War
Department or Navy Department
Building, standing in line to identify
himself, obtain a badge, and then go
to another line of waiting people and
wait for his turn to have his brief-case
opened and examined before receiving
permission to go upstairs for his ten
minute conference. Result: congestion
on the first floor, officers on the
upper floors waiting to confer with
callers who are tangled in red tape.
Churchill
Prime Minister Churchill speaks as
magnificently as the Russians fight
but his addresses to the joint ses-
sion of Congress, and to the Canadian
Parliament, were merely incidental
He came to this country on war
ship, and was accompanied by eighty
! high officials, including the Chief OF
| the General Staff of the British Army
the Lord of the Admiralty and Lore
Beaverbrook. The object of this visit
was to map out the course of the
war for months to come.
Washington is the General Head
quarters of the World, and Franklin
| ID. Roosevelt is Commander-in-C Chief
Churchill and his associates wanteC
more action in the Atlantic, and op
posed further aid to the Philippine:
and Singapore. Australian representa-
tives joined President Roosevelt
Churchill was verruled-more planes
warships, men, and munitions will b'
sent to the Pacific American bomb
ers have already gone across to thi
Philippines, and more American
planes and men will be in there fight
ing around Manila and Singapore. /
may be desperate undertaking OF
our part to hold the Philippines, bu
the Japs are suffering tremendous!
for every mile they gain.
Wake Island
This Republic may endure for thou
sands of years, but American schoo
children a thousand years from nov
will recall Wake Island and it's littl
force of defenders and say, "The.
were brave menw The defenders o
Wake Island completely fooled tn
Japs, and this small force sank two
possibly three, destroyerS and pow
erful Jap cruiser. The American Com
mandpr had four five-inch guns con
cealcd in the jungle. The Japs ha
complete information down to tn
smallest detail regarding the Amer
lean dcfenses, except for the five-inc
guns. That secret had been wei
guarded. The few American plane
were finally destroyed, and the three
inch and smaller guns Silenced.
mighty Jap cruiser then came in clos
off shore. Inferno burst forth fror
the jungle. Within four minutes, tn
cruiser, blasted by five-inch shell
sank with heavy loss of life.
: Silly Rumor
Thousands of ticket holders remain
ed away from the Rose Bowl footba
; game New Years Day at Durham
n. G. They wanted to see Duke an
Oregon State play, but forced to d
) so because of a rumOr which Swcp
through Durham that the German
, were going to bomb the stadium
Nothing could have been sillier tha
this. Hitler could probably get an ali
craft carrier close to our Atlanti
Scaboard. At most, about thirty o
forty planes from this carrier woul
soon be driven off or destroyed b.
our interceptor planes. Furthermore
if any Atlantic coast cities are in fo
bombing, objective such as tn
Charleston or Philadelphia Nav
Yards, or the vast airplane works a
Baltimore, or possibly Washington
are more likely targets than is som
pleasure seeking crowd at game o
race track. We should keep our fee
on the ground, be calm, make up on
minds to take whatever punishment
comes our way and not listen to sill
rumOrS.