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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1940)
Lincoln Memorial Demolished in Air Raid Christ church, on Westminster road, London, which was wrecked dur ing a Nazi air raid. When this church was destroyed a memorial to Abraham Lincoln, in the form of a pillar commemorating the abolition of slavery in the United States, was destroyed with it. Christ church is one of the many huge edifices in Britain wiped out by air attacks. Air Transport Crashes in Missouri Ditch This picture shows the wreckage of an American Airlines transport, which overshot the runway while landing at St. Louis, and bounced into a ditch which borders the airport. The pilot and co-pilot were slightly injured. Fortunately, five other persons who were riding in the plane escaped injury. Plots Dakar Defense General Weygand (left), former leader of French troops In war with Nazis, in Dakar, Africa, where he has been sent to solidify defense plans for this colonial outpost. Envoy Pro Tem ■ i ii hiiii .. 'Tin.. i • ~i r - iv niTmrramrMVBinOtrinwi Neville Butler, counselor of the British embassy, who will serve as pro tern ambassador to the U. S. from Britain, until appointment of successor to Lord Lothian. They Seek 12,000 Flying Students Lieut. W. Wittie Jr., assistant recruiting officer for the Philadelphia flying cadets, is shown (left) going over plans for the procurement of applicants with Lieut. Lawrence Semans, of the U. S. army ,air corps. Lieut. Semans is advance agent in a drive to get 200 Philadelphians to make up part of 12,000 flying cadets needed in the expansion program. 23rd Recipient of Donor’s Blood Mrs. Leslie Watts cheers her mother, Mrs. Hazel Farmer, victim of staphylococcus septicemia, who will be the twenty-third recipient of the blood of Mrs. Rose McMullin, of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Farmer, whose home is in Oklahoma City, was brought to Chicago to await the arrival of Mrs. McMullin, whose blood has saved the lives of 22 persons. Off to Caribbean President Roosevelt waves from the deek of cruiser Tuscaloosa at Miami, Fla., as he starts on his cruise to the Caribbean to inspect new military bases. He said the voyage was strictly for business. Here From Britain Sir Frederick Phillips, undersecre tary of the British treasury, shown on his arrival in New York. He came to America to straighten out dollar exchange “technicalities.’* I Kings and Queens of Health—And of Com Rfis of 4 H MeAuh (Sammons A Left: 4-H club members chosen as the nation's healthiest at the live-stock show held at Chicago. L. to R.: Vcneta DeWitt, 15, Milford, Iowa: Tom Wiley, 17, Ashland, Ohio; Vernon Duncan, 16, Silver City, N. C.; Robert Bolen, 19, Lauren, Iowa; and Edith Reynolds, 17, Seminole, Okla. Right: Charles Fischer, 33, of Shclby ville, Ind., who won the title pf com king at the stock show. His land yielded 65 bushels to the acre. Good Luck for Tommy—Bad Luck for II Duce Left: A British pilot with his mascot, beside his badly damaged plane, which he brought back to its base with most of the tail shot away. Right: A British soldier looking over the remains of one of 11 Duce’s bomb ers which was shot down in southeast England by British anti-aircraft. Fourteen Italian planes were brought down the same day, according to the British. Another 4Sub’ for Uncle Sam The submarine Grenadier, costing $3,500,000, and built in less than nine months, was launched recently at the Portsmouth, N. II., navy yard. The craft, shown above, was the fourth to slide down the ways at this navy yard this year. It was christened by Mrs. Walter S. Anderson, wife of the rear admiral directing naval intelligence. To Aid Infantile Paralysis Sufferers ^#0 YOUR OWN CORNER <* - _^| • 4 & g-' -% j .< President Roosevelt has authorized the use of his birthday, January 30, to raise funds for infantile paralysis sufferers. The committee for the celebration of the President’s birthday is here shown. L. to R., George Allen, of Washington; Eddie Cantor, noted radio, stage and screen star; and Keith Morgan, national campaign chairman. ‘Mystery Man’ Gen. Maxim Weygand, “mystery man of Europe,” chatting with Mo hammedans at Fez, French Moroc co. Rumors persist that Weygand may join forces with DcGaulle. Puerto Rico Draft A Puerto Rican mountain man reads the sign telling him that men between 21 and 36 must sign up for military service. The Puerto Rican registry date was November 20. NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Gliders offer opportu nity to teach young avia tors fundamentals of fly ing . . . Washington ob servers question policy of giving England only half of arms output. (Bell Syndicate—WNU Servlce.l WASHINGTON.—Germany’s huge supply of trained airplane pilots is due, in very large part, to the fact that, during the long period after the first World war, in which she was not allowed to have armament, her youth went in for gliding. America, many authorities are contending, should do the same thing, not because there is any le gal restriction on military planes in this country, but because the devel opment of gliding as a sport for youth would provide an enormous reservoir from which the army and navy air forces could draw in an emergency. Commander Eugene F. McDonald ^Jr. of the naval reserve quotes Ern est Udet, the German flier, as say ing that from 250,000 to 300,000 young Germans learned to fly, in the period just before the outbreak of the World war, in inexpensive gliders. American boys are even more adapted to this sport than the young Germans, McDonald points out. And the great advantage of glider flying is that it is within the possibilities of so many more American boys proportionately. If put into quan tity production, good gliders could be sold, McDonald contends, for about $150 each. But the big fac tor is that there is little upkeep for gliders. The chief expense, after the sail planes are acquired, is an old automobile for towing and the gasoline to run it FAVORS FREE GLIDERS Many experts think that one of the most economical expenditures the United States government could make would be to supply gliders free to boys’ clubs. Orders for as many planes as would be demand ed, should this be started, would re sult in a very low price per sail plane, perhaps as low as the $150 Commander McDonald calculates. The chief advantage of glider training for prospective airplane pi lots is that they are forced to learn all about air conditions, particular ly rising currents, air pockets, down drafts and how to take advantage of them. Many of the important improve ments in radio, McDonald says, were first conceived by the radio amateurs, of whom he estimates there are at least 54,000 in this coun try. He predicts that many im provements in aviation will be de vised by amateurs if we can get our boys enthusiastic about glider clubs. BRITAIN NEEDS PLANES Mysterious to many observers is President Roosevelt’s attitude on the present system of giving Britain half of America’s military aircraft production and giving the other half for our own defense. It does not seem to these observers to fit in with the underlying notion of many persons that unless Great Britain wins this war the United States is in trouble, and hence every possible aid should be extended to Britain, not so much as an unselfish line of action as one of very real but in telligent selfishness. If Britain vitally needs more fight ing and bombing planes, of which there seems to be no doubt what ever, it would seem that the inter ests of the United States—once it is accepted that if Britain goes down we are in trouble—would require that Britain be given every fighting plane this country can produce. It is very simple to say that if Winston Churchill’s warnings had been heeded (he said as long ago as 1917 that Britannia must rule the clouds as well as the waves) there would have been no such ter rific bombing of London and the Midlands as Britain has undergone. It would be just as simple to say that if the warnings in this country voiced by Gen. William Mitchell had b^en heeded, from 1920 until his court martial in 1925, this country would now be in a position to sup ply Britain as well as our own de fense with all the planes needed. WARNINGS IGNORED The facts are too simple for that. The facts are that old-fashioned high commands in both the British and United States army and navy made compliance with such warn ings impossible. Recrimination ffOW is of no espe cial value. Most of the men who disagreed with Churchill in Britain and Billy Mitchell here were sin cere in their views. The point is: What, should be done now? There is no doubt that Britain is STILL in danger. Whether the island can be fed despite the constant destruction of merchant shipping by bombers, added to the shipping toll taken by • 1 mines and submarines, depends very largely on the number of planes that can be sent her from America. Meanwhile we are build ing up capacity to produce planes for our own defense