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
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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.’*
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Kings and Queens of Health—And of Com
Rfis of 4 H MeAuh (Sammons
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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
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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
