Commanders of Four U. S. Air Districts
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The four major generals in command of the four air districts into
which the United States has been divided are shown here. Top, left,
Maj. Gen. B. K. Yount, commanding general of the Southeast air corps
district. Top, right, Maj. Gen. John F. Curry (N. W. district); bottom,
left, Maj. Gen. James Chaney, (N. E. district); bottom, right, Maj.
Gen. Jacob Fickei (S. W. district.)
U. S. Releases Planes to Greece
In swift execution of aiding the nations fighting aggression, the
United States government has released to Greece 30 P-40 pursuit planes,
pictured above, for immediate delivery. The planes, rated by air experts
in America as possessing greater speed, maneuverability and stamina
than Italy’s best, mount four wing-contained machine guns each.
Aiding British
Somewhere In England . . . Na
tive Indians have flocked loyally to
the banner of the British royal air
force, lending their abilities to Brit
ain in its fight for life against Ger
many. This Indian pilot is having a
mug of hot coffee after a flight.
Released by Nazis
Mrs. E. Decgan, U. 8. embassy
clerk in Paris, who was held by
Nazis and later released. It is
thought she was accused of aiding
British officers escape from France.
Football Classics That Hail the New Year!
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BOWL GAMES
' Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.
Stanford - Nebraska
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Boston College -Tennessee
( Orange Bowl, Miami
Mississippi Slate • Georgetown
Cotton Bowl, Dallas
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Sunbowl, El Paso
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The principal grid battles which will be fought throughout the nation
on January 1, New Year’s day, are shown in the center panel. As in
other years, capacity crowds are expected to witness these football
classics in the great stadia, four of which are here shown. A festival,
typical of the region, will precede the game at each of these focal points
to which the eyes of the nation’s football fans will soon turn.
77th Congress Convenes
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As a result of the November 5 election, the new senate which con
venes January 3, will be composed of 66 Democrats, 28 Republicans, 1
Progressive, and 1 Independent, against 68 Democrats and 25 Republi
cans since November 5. The new house will have 267 Democrats, 162
Republicans and 6 others, against 260 Democrats, 167 Republicans, 4
others and 4 vacancies since November 5.
U. S. ‘Listening Post’
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Ocean
On January 1 the U. S. will
establish a consular ‘‘listening post”
at Freetown, Sierra Leone, British
West Africa, whence the air dis
tance to South America is shortest.
A Case for Damages
Alex Ripau, 49, (above) of Indi
ana Harbor, Ind., worked 12 years
in a Michigan prison, lor a crime
he did not commit. Friends will
ask the legislature convening at
Lansing, Mich., January 5, for $10,
000 damages
Moving Against Italians in Egypt
Newly arrived British reinforcements In Egypt leave camp in Cairo for a route march, part of the training
they receive to accustom themselves to conditions of desert warfare. After a long quiet on the front in west
ern Egypt, the British have retaken Sidi Barrani, which they lost in October.
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Canadian W arship Torpedoed by ‘Sub’
At the right is the 1,337-ton Canadian destroyer, Saguenay, at Ottawa, Canada, which was damaged by
a torpedo in an encounter with a submarine in the eastern Atlantic. Twenty-one seamen were lost and 18
wounded. The Saguenay made port, and is being repaired. At the left is the warship's commanding officer,
C. R. Miles. The Saguenay is the first Canadian fighting ship to be directly damaged by an enemy vessel.
London’s ‘Hello Gals’ Take It in Day’s Work
When the air-raid sirens scream in London the only difference it
makes to the heroines in the big city’s telephone exchanges is that they
must don their steel hats. They stick to their boards through what they
call “the unpleasant periods.” Often they must vary their stock phrases
with “Sorry sir, that number was bombed last night.”
Off to Chile on a ‘Flying Fortress’
Mme. Carlos Davila, wife of the former president of Chile, being
helped from the ambulance that took her to Mitchell field, New York,
where she boarded a mighty U. S. “flying fortress” to be flown to Santiago,
Chile. President Roosevelt put the great bomber at her disposal, as
another gesture of good neighborliness. Mme. Davila recently underwent
an operation in New York.
Akron ‘Blackout’
A Are at the Lowenthal Rubber
company In Akron, Ohio, caused a
blackout of the city. The Arm Is in
the reclaimed rubber business.
Damage was estimated at $50,000.
Football Hero
Tom Harmon, Michigan U.’s All
American football hero, with the
Heisman memorial trophy given by
the Downtown Athletic club, of New
York city, to the outstanding college
player of the year.
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewtd by
CARTER FIELD
Indirect loans to Britain
likely before Congress is
asked to act . . . United
States busy with plans
to help Britain meet
serious ship shortage.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
WASHINGTON.—It seems prob
able now that this government will
be giving Britain credits indirectly,
or by going 'round Robin Hood's
bam in order to avoid violating the
Johnson or neutrality acts, before
the direct onslaught is made in con
gress to clear the way to straight
out loans.
Despite the emphatic declaration
of Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau Jr. that the $100,000,000
loan to China is not a precedent,
it may well turn out to be a pat
tern, the eventual following of which
will result in technically indirect but
actually very direct loans to Britain.
There is already a scheme on foot
to finance, with American dollars,
the sale of beef and grain from the
Argentine Republic to Britain. This
would be worked out, assuming it
is approved, in this fashion. Ar
gentina would ship $100,000,000
worth of beef and grain to Britain.
She would then have a credit for
that amount in London.
Uncle Sam is anxious to make
good-will loans in South America,
so he lends Argentina $100,000,000.
As collateral for this loan, Jesse
Jones, if it is RFC money that is
to be used, or Henry Morgenthau.
if stabilization funds are to be em
ployed, takes that credf? Argentina
has in London.
ENGLAND RECEIVES CREDITS
So the whole thing winds up this
way. London has $100,000,000 worth
of needed supplies. Argentina has
sold $100,000,000 worth of exports she
was anxious to sell. Uncle Sam
has a note for $100,000,000 given
him by the Argentine, secured by
British endorsement. Which, of
course, means merely that John
Bull owes Uncle Sam $100,000,000.
Some color is given to the reason
ableness of the prediction that this
sort of thing will be done by the
pains taken by the administration
to gain approval on Capitol Hill for
the Chinese loan.
Recently Jesse Jones stated pub
licly that he considered Great Brit
ain a "good risk."
And on the same day Sen. Hiram
W. Johnson, arriving in California,
said that the administration was
"mad” to get into the war at the
earliest possible moment.
Of course, that depends upon what
one means by getting “into” the
war. If you ask the Germans, the
United States is "in the war” now,
and if any useful purpose would be
served, from the German stand
point, the Nazis would declare war
on us.
There may have been such a situ
ation sometime before in history,
but it seems to escape most students
of past wars.
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BRITISH SHIPPING SUFFERS
Seriousness of the British shipping
situation is causing all sorts of plan
ning by the United States govern
ment in the hope of working out
ways and means of meeting the
problem. Incidentally, the German
embassy in Washington is devoting
considerable effort to keeping in
formed as to what new plans for
aiding Britain are under considera
tion. The Germans do not know
just what to do about it, but they
are massing data as though they
were about to undertake a publicity
barrage.
If this war should ever reach the
note-writing stage that preceded
American entry in the last war, the
Germans will have plenty of items to
write into their diplomatic missives.
The big question at the moment
is ships, due to the surprise sprung
by the Germans in playing such
havoc with a convoy. As a matter
of fact, this problem has been ap
parent t* observers from the open
ing of the war, even though the suc
cess in attacking convoys—some
thing which was not accomplished
in the last war—was not anticipated.
But these dispatches a year ago
pointed out that the biggest need of
the British before the war was over
would be ships—ships to carry vital
supplies and foodstuffs to Britain.
The British planning for the emer
gency was far from perfect. It
seems, for example, that after Mu
nich something should have been
done to get more acres in Britain to
producing foodstuffs. It was re
vealed by the London Times some
time back that there were more
than 3,000,000 acres which had been
producing food toward the end of
the last war which were NOT pro
ducing food this time.
Three million acres will produce
a lot of food—will feed a lot of peo
ple, even if poorly cultivated.
The whole thing ties in with air
planes, of course. If the British had
equaled the Germans in air power,
there would now have been no such
threat to the shipping that supplies
the tight little island.