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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1942)
Auto Plants Are Geared for War Production Machine guns sprout where auto parts once grew in the Brown-Lipe Chapin division of General Motors In Syracuse, N. Y. Above at left you see an inspector putting the final Okay on a bevy of Browning machine guns before they are taken to the test range for inspection. At right, machine gun slide plates are carefully checked to .002 of an inch. There are about 300 parts in each machine gun turned out here. Singapore, Crossroads of Far East Sea Lanes Above is shown a view of Raffles square in Singapore, famed British bastion that is the meeting place of numerous important sea routes, and the main objective of the Jap drive through the jungles of Malaya. Inset: Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, allied commander in chief in the Far East, shown making a tour of inspec tion at the formidable British fortress at the tip of the Malayan peninsula. Nazi Bumper Plane Gets the Bumps ■■■wwnnTTT‘n~Tir~^—’iar ™—~rr '^MWMrnrnir^^"- - The strange device affixed to the leading edges of this Hcinkel bomb er’s wings is a bumper to help prevent it from entangling with the cables of balloon barrages which protect all of Britain’s larger towns. The device leads the cables past the wing tips. Three ‘Bigs’ of 0. C. D. Meet First Time The three directors of the Office of Civilian Defense meet for the first time in Washington. They arc, left to right, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant director in charge of women’s activities; Mayor LaGuardia of New York, director and James M. Landis, dean of law, Harvard university, assistant director. i Decorated Lieuts. G. M. Welch and K. M. Taylor were scarcely commissioned in the army air corps before they shot down six Jap planes at Pearl Harbor on December 7. Picture was taken after they were decorated with the distinguished service cross. For Anti-Axis Pact Or. W. M. Plochl, chancellor of free Austrian national council, who asked Cordell Hull that free Aus trians be allowed to affiliate with nations that signed anti-Axis pact. For Pan-American Solidarity Against Axis Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, center, and U. S. ambassa dor to Brazil, Jefferson Caffery, are shown talking to Oswaido Aranha, Brazil's foreign minister, who was also administrator of the Pan-American conference held in Rio de Janeiro. The photo was made Just before the third conference of foreign ministers in the interest of lining up all the American republics in a solid 100 per cent Western hemisphere front against the Axis, with a complete rupture of diplomatic relations. Leaders described Aranha as a “tower of strength.” Commandos Examine Captured Field Piece . . ...._ British troops examine a German field gun, captured during their occupation of the island of Maaloy, Norway. The British commandos were landed on the Norwegian islands of Vaagso and Maaloy, after coast defenses had been silenced. Fifteen thousand six hundred and fifty tons of enemy shipping were destroyed, with munition dumps, oil tanks and storehouses. Hawaii Gets Set for ‘Return Engagement* ' ?»*♦» mart mmt,. i i r k mmm m mr ri m m ■HRr -3F. -xES* ... .mr-y.-^OT^ U. S. troops and native workmen work on underground installations of dugouts. This is a first aid dugout equipped to perform surgery in an advanced position. Warns Draft Boards Against Hysteria Brig. Gen. Lewis B. liershey, director of selective service, speaks at national press conference in Washington. lie said he expects the na tion’s manpower in the next several months to come from men in the 21 to 37 age group, and warned local draft boards not to indiscriminately classify men for immediate service because we are at war. Visits White House Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 Republi can candidate for the presidency, shown with reporters as he walked down the White House roadway, fol lowing a conference with President Roosevelt. Willkie gave the report ers no indication as to what the con ference was about. Production Chief Donald Nelson, named by the President to head a war production board, superseding the supply, al locations and priorities board. Nel son has ‘‘final'’ authority over all matters of production. In fcMerry England' Mrs. Winston Churchill is shown obviously enjoying a dance with a munitions worker at a recreation center in the North of England. This center was opened for the use of workers who have come from the south of England and Scotland. Commands Dutch Lieut. Gen. Hcinter Poorten, com mander of the armed forces of Neth erlands East Indies, which have made things so hot for the invading Nipponese. V bmB Transfer No. ZSC-1 ANGEL PUSS! Sugah Pie! ** Where are you all? 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