Power for America’s Defense Preparedness
Wilson dam, one of the great hydro-electric power producers of the Tennessee valley, is an important unit
•f the 10 that can produce 1,700,000 horsepower of electricity for America’s defense. As the lakes above the
TV A dams are completed, speedboat racing has become a fad. Seven regattas have already been held
this summer. Pretty Pat Poore, shown, will be “Miss TV A” in Chattanooga’s Labor day celebration. Two
hundred cities in the seven states of the valley area will unite for the four-day program.
,-rfw. Where Great Britain Was Last Invaded
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Here at Hastings and St. Leonards, in Sussex, England, is where William the Conqueror landed almost
900 years ago In a successful conquest—a conquest that Chancellor Hitler of Germany hopes to repeat. This
mecca of British sea lovers again shudders under another attack from the east, as the biggest aerial fleets
of all time are launched against the British isles. Each day hordes of German airplanes darken the sky.
Testing Law Curbing Use of Flag
Principals in court battle to decide whether the American flag may
be legally painted upon a commercial truck. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W.
Long are shown being served with a warrant after Long (at left) drove
the truck up to a Baltimore police station to invite the test.
New ‘Loan’ Policy for American Art
Inaugurating a new lending policy which will make its collection of
oil paintings available to other institutions In the United States, the Metro
politan Museum of Art in New York city will begin taking applications
for loans on September 1. Typical of the modern American collection is
the painting by Joe Jones entitled "Threshing," reproduced above.
Air ‘Scarf’
Australian air force observer
wears a scarf of bullets around his
neck before going aloft at Sydney.
McNary Accepts
Charles L. McNary, Republican
vice presidential candidate to be for
mally notified of nomination by Gov.
Harold E. Stassen, on August 27, at
Salem, Ore. The acceptance speech
will be made at Oregon State Fair
grounds.
Newly Formed ‘Green Guards of America’
If the “blits" strikes this country the women of Washington will be prepared to do their bit in the way
of defense. Several hundred have already been enrolled in Camp No. 1 of the “Green Guards of America," an
organization which will take up first aid and ambulance corps duties in time of war—duties for which they have
started training. Members of the newly formed “Guards” are shown here in their dark green uniforms and
over-seas caps. •»> —
175,000 Hear Willkie’s Acceptance Speech
Wendell L. Wlllkie, Elwood, Indiana’s most famous son, (indicated by arrow) comes home to accept the
Republican presidential nomination. A crowd estimated at more than 175,000 heard his speech of acceptance
at the notification ceremonies in Callaway park. Formal notification of his nomination was made by National
Chairman Joseph Martin of Massachusetts.
Running Mates in Shirt Sleeves
A picture of informality, President Roosevelt and Secretary of Agri
culture Henry A. Wallace, Democratic vice presidential nominee, greet
ing women Democratic party workers assembled at Mrs. Roosevelt’s
Val-Kill cottage in Hyde Park, N. Y. The President drove over from the
family home to introduce Wallace as his 1940 running mate.
Paints Call to Arms for Uncle Sam
Maj. Thomas B. Woodburn at Governors island, New York, with his
latest poster for the U. S. army, completed with the collaboration of bis
wife, Margaret (shown) also a well known artist. The poster is entitled
“Defend Your Country.”
‘Blitzkrieg Bob’
Private William Hanyak of the
Eleventh Infantry, takes time out
from the "Battle of the St. Lawrence
Valley,” at Ogdcnsburg, N. Y„ to
have his crowning glory pruned.
Hanyak hails from Philadelphia.
This Is ‘The Nuts’
Dressed for sultry weather, seven
month-old Carole Russell of Miami
cools off on the inside with coco
nut milk direct from the shell. A
| large nipple does the trick.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.!
NEW YORK.—More varied in this
country than in England are
repercussions to the things John
Cudahy, United States ambassador
to Belgium, is
John Cudahy quoted as
Criticized for having said in
Talk on Belgium fn Ante7ie”
° in England
that aid would be required next win
ter to save 8,000,000 Belgians from
famine. His defense of King Leo
pold III, is regarded as, to say the
least, undiplomatic. Whether Secre
tary of State Cordell Hull will take
cognizance of a further statement
alleging the correct behavior of Ger
man troops in Belgium—criticized in
England as wholly out of order—re
mains to be seen.
Son of an Irish Immigrant
who went to Milwaukee and
made an Immense fortune as m
meat packer, Cudahy’s diplo
matic career began In 1933 with
his selection by President Roose
velt as ambassador to Poland.
In May, 1937, he became minis
ter to the Irish Free State and
was appointed to the post at
Brussels in 1939, succeeding
Joseph E. Davies when the lat
ter was assigned as a special
assistant to the secretary of
state.
Cudahy was the first to advise
President Roosevelt—via telephone
—of the German invasion of Bel
gium where he remained at his post
of duty, narrowly escaping death or
injury from bombs, until he, togeth
er with all other foreign represen
tatives were requested to leave tho
country. Later, in Germany, he
spent two hours with Leopold of Bel
gium in the castle assigned to the
monarch by the German army and
obtained from him a personal letter,
presumably divulging the inside
story of Belgian capitulation, for
Mr. Roosevelt.
The ambassador is a Harvard
man, class of 1910, holding de
grees of bachelor of law, Wis
consin, 1913, and doctor of laws,
Carroll university. Admitted to
the Wisconsin bar in 1913. he
practiced until 1917 when he be
came a captain in the United
States army. Later he ranched
in New Mexico, and from 1923
until 1933, when appointed to Po
land, he engaged in real estate.
ONE of the outspoken critics in
congress of most, if not all. of
President Roosevelt’s policies, Sen.
Rush D. Holt (Dem., W. Va.) finds
the current
Young Senator debate in the
Strong Critic senate over
Of Roosevelt the ,selectiv®
service and
National Guard bills peculiarly his
dish. Punctuated by daily clashes
j between him and Sen. Sherman
Minton of Indiana, the colloquys of
the two lawmakers have not been
regarded by their colleagues as en
hancing the dignity of the sen
ate. At all events, Holt’s reputa
tion as a senator, who has spoken
to more empty seats than any
other member of the upper house,
past or present, has not been main
tained in recent sessions, nor do
legislative correspondents note the
days the smiles of amused toler
ance which used to mark his
bludgeoning oratory.
With the exception or Henry
Clay, the youngest man ever
elected to the United States sen
ate, Holt landed in office in 1935
without benefit of the Democrat
ic machine of his state, though
wearing the Democratic label.
When he defeated Sen. Henry O.
Hatfield, a Republican warhorse.
for the senatorial toga, he was
29 yean old, too young to as
sume his seat. The voters of
his state knew this, but it made
no difference. They just cast
their ballots for him anyway.
He had to wait six months be
fore the legal office-taking age
arrived.
Having been at one time an
athletic director, at St. Patrick’s
school in West Virginia, the in
stincts of this flushed, exalted
stripling were all for the old
college try from the minute he
was sworn in, a manifestation of
youthful ebullience violating an
unwritten senate rule calling for
silence on the part of a new
member.
One of the first things he did was
to visit the White House to make
it clear that he was in line with
New Deal policies, but later it was
made equally clear he was a hold
out so far as machine politics, state
or national, were concerned. As for
the New Deal, he fought the court
reorganization bill. He repeatedly
accused the WPA of political im
plementation. He opposed the cash
and carry neutrality plan
When his present term in the sen
; ate ends he will not return, having
! been defeated in the primary elec
| tlon in his state last May.