Fire Razes Whiting (Ind.) Gasoline Tanks
With the roar of a bombardment, terrific blasts rocked Whiting, Ind.,
as fire, raging through the Standard Oil company’s gasoline refinery—
largest in the world—exploded tank after tank. Loss was estimated at
about $100,000. One man was killed and more than a score injured. This
picture, made from a plane, shows the fire at its height.
As National League Pennant Is Clinched
This soundphoto shows the Brooklyn Dodgers en masse, as they ar
rived at their dressing room after defeating the Boston Braves 6 to 0
at Boston. By so doing they clinched the National league pennant. It was
a nip and tuck race with the St. Louis Cardinals, but the boys nosed
the St. Louis team out—and are they pleased!
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About 100,000 veterans of World War 1 marched before a cheering
throng estimated at a million, in Milwaukee, Wis., in parade attending
their twenty-third annual convention. Tens of thousands of people had
poured into the city to view the spectacular demonstration. Above scene
was taken as the parade passed the city hall.
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Inaugurating ‘Retailers for Defense Week’
Inaugurating the drive of the nation’s retail merchants to push the
sale of defense bonds, Mrs. Roosevelt purchased a bond from Donald
M. Nelson, executive director of supply priorities and allocations board.
Left to right, Donald M. Nelson; Mrs. Roosevelt; Maj. Benjamin Namm,
chairman, treasury retailers advisory committee.
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\ acationing in U. S.
On a six-week vacation to the
United States and Canada, the duke
and duchess of Windsor, partners
in a romance that rocked the world,
are pictured at the British embas
sy, in Washington, where they had
breakfast. They were received brief
ly at the White House by the Presi
dent. The duke is governor of the
Bahamas, where the U. S. is build
ing a defense base.
To Fly for R. A. F.
Peter G. Lehman, 24, son of Gov.
Herbert Lehman of New York, who
enlisted as pilot in the Canadian
R.A.F. Peter volunteered with the
full approval of his parents.
Spurs Farm Output
Some 400 representatives of 12
agricultural states assembled in
Chicago to hear Claude R. Wickard
(top), secretary of agriculture,
launch the largest food production
drive in American history to assist
the democracies opposing Hitler.
Among his hearers are, (1. to r.) 8.
H. Sabin, Commodity Credit, M. Pot
temger, Ohio Land Use, and Otto
Croy, Ohio State university.
On Eastern Front
Adm. Nicholas Horthy, regent of
Hungary, with Adolf Hitler at the
Nasi warlord’s headquarters on
eastern front. Horthy was awarded
the iron cross before returning.
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No longer dees New York lag behind densely populated metropolitan areas In the ways and means of com
bating possible gas attacks. New York firemen are given courses in such technique at the fire college in
Long Island City. Picture at left shows assistant chief of the fire department, James Quinn, Instructing the
men how to put on the gas masks. At right men with the masks on go into the gas chamber.
Kids Stand Ready to Defend National Capital
The spirit of national defense has permeated the children of Washington, D. C. At the right an anti-air
craft gun crew of the Washington junior home defense battalion is ready for action. The "gun” is a piece of
pipe. Picture at left shows group treating a member who has become a "casualty” during a "raid.” And in
the center, equipped with binoculars and megaphone, a tot is all ready to do her bit for the city’s defense.
Morgenthau’s Son Naval Reserve Graduate
Three generations of Morgentbaus are pictured at graduation exer
cises of the U. S. naval reserve midshipmen on board the U. S. S.
Prairie State, anchored in the Hudson river. Left to right, Henry Mor
genthau, secretary of the treasury; his son, R. M. Morgenthau, who is
graduating, and Henry Morgenthau Sr.
World’s Biggest Non-Rigid Airship
The world’s largest non-rigid airship, the K-3, which was described by
naval commander C. S. Knox as satisfactory, following a test flight at
Akron, Ohio. After acceptance by the navy, the 246-foot, $325,000 blimp will
be equipped with machine guns, torpedoes and depth charges.
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Succeeds Wavell
Now that General Wavell has been
transferred to Syria, the command
of the potential “hot spot” in Africa
goes to Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck
(left), shown with MaJ. Gen. H. B.
W. Hughes, in Egypt.
His Ship Sunk
Capt. J. D. Ifalliday of the 8. 8.
Steel Seafarer, bombed and sunk la
the Red sea. Captain Hailiday and
his crew of 35 were saved by a Brit
ish warship.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Camp Cavalcade
SHADOWY figures in a cavalcade
of American history—such are
(he men behind the names of the
great army cantonments scattered
all over the United States, where
young Americans are learning to be
soldiers in order to defend their
country when the need arises.
Today thousands of soldiers from
the state which sent U. S. Grant into
N. B. Forrest
tne conmc* o*
1861-65 arc train
ing at a camp
near Tullahoma.
Tenn., which
bears the name
of another Amer
ican military gen
ius. Nathan Bed
ford Forrest
(1821-1877) is re
membered by
most Americans
as the man whose
recipe for victory
was “Git thar
fustest with the
mostest men” but more than one
Union general remembered him aa
a “wizard of the saddle” who re
pea tr ily outrode, outwitted or out
fought them whether he had the
“mostest men” or not Despite the
fact that he was uneducated and had
no formal military training, his
deeds won from a West Pointer and
another great leader this tribute:
“the most remarkable man the
Civil war produced on either side.”
The man who paid that tribute to
Forrest was William Tecumseh
Sherman (1870
1891) for whom
Camp Sherman
near Chillicothe,
Ohio, is named.
It was Ohio which
sent "Comp"
Sherman to West
Point where he
learned * the art
and science of
making war.
Years later he ut
tered the phrase
by which he is
best remembered
by most Ameri
W. T. Sherman
cans—“War is hell!” He knew that
from experience—in Mexico in 1846
47, but more particularly from 1861
65 when he was Grant’s right-hand
man in dealing the death blows to
the Confederacy.
One of Lee's commissioners of
surrender at Appomattox was a fel
low-Virginian and a militant church
man — William Nelson Pendleton
(1809-1883). A graduate of West
Point in the class of 1831, he re
signed two years later to teach
mathematics in colleges in Pennsyl
vania and Delaware. Then he joined
the Protestant Episcopal church,
was ordained a priest and was serv
ing as rector of a church in Lexing
ton, Va , at the outbreak of the War
Between the States. Putting off his
church robes to don the Confeder
ate gray, he rose to the rank of brig
adier-general and chief of artillery
of the Army of Northern Virginia
and at the end of the war returned
to his pastoral duties in Lexington.
A camp at Virginia Beach, Va „
bears his name.
Virginia gave to the Confederacy
its “Fighting Rector” of the Prot
Leonidas Poik
estant Episcopal
church— William
Nelson Pendle
ton, Louisiana
gave to the same
cause its Protes
tant Episcopal
bishop— Leonidas
Polk (1806-1864).
Bom in Raleigh,
N. C., Polk, who
was a cousin of
President James
K. Polk, was
graduated from
West Point in
1827 and served
as a second lieutenant of artillery
for five * months before resigning
from the army to study theology.
Eleven years later he became the
missionary bishop of the Southwest
and in 1841 he was consecrated bish
op of Louisiana, a position he held
for 20 years. At the outbreak of the
War Between the States he was com
missioned a major-general in the
Confederate army. Promoted to
lieutenant-general in 1862, he com
manded the Department of Alabama,
Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana
from January to May, 1864. The next
month he was killed by a cannon
ball at the Battle of Pine Mountain,
Ga. Because of his prominence in
the religious, educational and mili
tary life of Louisiana, it was singu
larly appropriate that one of the
largest camps, near Leesville, In
that state should bear his name.
A Pioneer in Physiology
In 1822 William Beaumont, an
army surgeon, began what was to
be the most important contribution
to the physiology of digestion in cen
turies. For eight years he made a
■tudy of Alexis St. Martin, a French
Canadian, who had the misfortune
to have a permanent opening in his
stomach due to a gunshot wound. In
1833 Beaumont published his "Ex
periments and Observations on the
Gastric Juice and the Physiology of
Digestion." which was the founda
tion of modern dietetics.