Duke of Knit Welcomed to Neo York
HU royal highness, the duke of Kent, brother of King George VI of
England, is welcomed to New York city by Mayor Fioreilo H. LaGuardla.
The duke, in a plane of the Canadian air force, landed at LaGuardla
field, where this picture was made. He took an automobile for Hyde
Park, where he spent the week-end with President Roosevelt,
Bombs Explode in Havana
A chain of five bombs rocked downtown Havana injuring 15 persons
and wrecking store fronts. Police believe the bombs were thrown by
an anti-Spanish political group. The store “La Moda.” well known to
tourists from Miami and other parts of the U. S., is shown after the
blast.
‘Miss America of National Defense’
Alma Carroll. 18, above, captured the title of “Miss America of
National Defense" awarded daring the annual Mardi Gras celebration at
Venice, Calif., by the army, navy and marines. Candidates were "draft
ed" in drawing from goldfish bowl, designating them to represent training
camps throughout the U. S. Then enlisted men made their selection.
Miss Carroll represented Quantico, Va., marine base.
First Lady at Pan-American Girl Scout Rally
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Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (center) is shown with scout leaders (un
identified) as she prepared to address the second Western hemisphere
encampment of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides at Camp Bonnie Brae, East
Otis, Mass, Behind her are Girl Scouts from North, Central and South
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Now Sorting Nation
Training schooner. Yema, cue of
America's largest yachts before
conversion to IT. S. service, sails
from New York on maiden trainin';
cruise with some 1M apprentice sea j
men aboard. The ship was present
ed to Uncle Sam for $1.
Thumb Ride
A surprise strike of street cur tad
bus operators caused Wt.Mt work
ers in Detroit to struggle with make
shifts. Here Evelyn Muleski and
Daphne Hare are thumbing their
way to work.
Let the Sirens Blow
If all the air raid wardens are as
easy to look at as Joan Leslie, well,
the more air raids the better, says
we. Miss Leslie poses here (in New
York) in the first women’s air raid
uniform, which is completely fire re
sistant and protects body against
fragments.
Chiefs Meet
After a talk with defense leaders,
Lord Beaverbrook, British supply
minister (left), said be had found
Wm. Knudsen, production chief
(right), very “honest and generous."
LumI mu! \ir M^nnuxifrs at Wes»t Point
Ft»mod nahul the tilth iWV u Wtalrr rstami af the Went Pent cadets asm aliag a read ta the
TtcinitT *f the l’. S. aWttn academy. Went Pet at, V Y . at the start af the cadets* aaaaal Ml eseeetsea. Pic
tare at right shews a tew-dr tag "attaching'* plane getting a hat rerepltna. as cadet Infantry sad aatf-alrtraft
gam epea be aa H.
'Love Your Enemies* on Eastern Front
Pic lure at Ml shows captured Vaiis reretrkf bread fras lastiu nidi era, accord tag ta the Moscow aad
London censor-approved caption, la the ph tare at the riftl Germai troopers are jithf drat aid ta a waaaded
Russian soldier. It woaid seem that hath sides ta this tear Me cisitct Mfce to scad sat photos itishf the*
men rendering aid to waaaded eaetrties.
Mystery Blaze Sweeps Brooklyn Waterfront
Darting as close to the flames as it dared go. a cameraman oa a
special plane made this onnsoal photo of the conflagration that swept
pier £7 in Brooklyn in one of the worst fires in recent years, la the
center, between both piers can be seen the Caban liner, Paaaca. ablaze.
Scores of firemen were severely injured and some military supplies were
damaged.
Home from ‘The Wars*
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The U. S. S. Wakefield, formerly the 8. 8. Manhattan, is sboun
arriving in New York harbor with the force of soldiers who recently went
sooth to co-operate with the V. 8. marines In mimic war. Landing exer
cise and beach head tactics on the coast of North Carolina were high
spots of the "war.”
‘Gold in Them Peaks*
Goldminer Frank Gimlett. fan from
Colorado, gets Ids first glimpse at
New York's architectural peaks.
Equipped with pick, shore) and gold
pan. he ataad« atop the Pennsyl
vania hotel with the Empire State
building ta the background. Be Is
•C years old.
‘Ears Pinned Back/’
This German plane looks like it
had its "ears pinned back." Not
so, however. It was a fine, almost
undamaged specimen of the latest
German fighting plane.
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
fey
CARTER FIELD
l . S. and British Air
planes Max Be Decisive
Fat'tor in W or . . „ Sn?>>
stitutes Could Result in
Japan's Losing Post*
IT nr Silk Market.
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WASHINGTON.—Britato has the
Germans beaten with regard to
fighting places America ss pr-duc
uv* the best bcmbmg places la the '
world. Britain to to production on
these crack fighting plane* .Amer
ica to to production and rapidly ap
proaching huge quantity production
on the bombers.
That ts toe airplane picture of the
present war. It to likely to be the
decisive factor to its settlement The
British fighter to now so superior to
anything the Germans have, and to
being produced to such numbers—
pkas the fact that the training pro
gram for the men to fly and fight
them to sell under way as told to a
prenotis dispatch—that any thought
of the Nazis mtoatag air a^cnonty
ever Britan to highly unlikely
It to ta teres ung to note the rea
sons why Britain has excelled to
fighters and toe United States to
bombers. The whole thought of the
British has been devoted since tang
before Munich to defense—defense
of their island-preventing of fleets
of bombers from making a sham
ble of their country.
Hence they specialized an small,
very fast planes with heavy gun
fire. or. as the experts prefer to
call ft fire power
These planes not only had to be
fast—w, to heavy tee power—they
had to be able to climb quickly, so
that when toe fleet of attacking
bombers, coming at high speed,
were noted they could get in toe air
and attack them.
Whether they had tang range or
not was not important to toe task
contemplated. Hence they saved
weight and added to speed and
ctimbmg capacity by reducing toe
amount of gas carried.
American Problem
Entirely Different
Now consider toe American prob
lem. as it has bees viewed ever
since we lock aviation seriously—or
rather swr» the admirals and gen
erals have admitted that airplanes
are good for something besides
sce-_ ting.
We planned a defensive war. So
we wanted long-range ships—big
ships that could fty tang distances
and deliver their blows and return.
We sacrificed fire power and en
gine weight < speed'- to this great de
sire for king-distance operation. A “
problem, the West Indies. Hawaii,
and toe Panama Canal gives part of
the cine to this line of thought.
But without going into rhapsodies
about this new British fighter let us
consider some details. This plane is
the new Typhoon. It will replace
toe famous Spitfire. Now toe Spit
fire bad a speed estimated at about
439 miles an hour. We do not know
how fast toe Typhoon is. but ob
servers have seen toe Typhoons
•walking away” from the Spitfires
as speed bursts. The Typhoon is
equipped with one engine, the new
'Sabre” made by toe Napier people
of automobile fame. Experts say
its horsepower exceeds 2.400. and a
report to an American news service
recently stated it was 2.350. Com
pare this with toe Allison engine,
which now has 1,350 horsepower, re
cently stepped up from 1.050!
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Japan May Lose
Post-War Market
Deprivation of her best silk mar
ket by the banning of imports by
the United States, may not deter
Japan so far as this emergency is
concerned- It may even drive her
into that long-predicted war with
Uncle Sam. which most of Japan's
statesmen, and practically all naval
officers, at the United States, and
of other nations as well, have been
expecting ever since the first World
war.
But, reverting to the silk situa
' tion. Japan is likely to rue the day
she crossed Uncle Sam so sharply,
and not because of any TEMPORA
RY silk embargo. The point is that
when this emergency is over, when
this war is done, and Uncle Sam
officially will welcome trade with
Japan once more, there may be
very little demand in this, the best
market in the world, for Japanese
silk. Or any other silk!
People who are compelled to use
substitutes sometimes get to like the
substitutes This is not always true.
at course. Mad women in this coun
try today would prefer to have silk
stockings than any of the substi
tutes on the market But the sub
stitutes now being offered may be
no more like the substitutes that
will be offered when this war is over
than the Model T Ford is like the
1941 version.
American manufacturers, more
than any other class in the world,
are given to improving products.
So long before Atlantic liners are
steaming up the new St Lawrence
Seaway, this writer predicts. Amer
ican mills will be turning out stock
ings made of substitutes for silk
which will be as cheap or cheaper,
and as good or better, than any
hosiery derived from silk worms.
