Enemy Propaganda W hich Fools Only the Enemy
Photo at left, received from an enemy source and used for propaganda by the Germans, purportedly shows
British prisoners of war carrying their wounded under German escort after the raid on Dieppe. In this raid
the Allies took many German prisoners back to England. The caption which accompanied the Jap propaganda
picture at right described the photo as bursting the bubble blown by Anglo-American propagandists, point
ing out that for these U. S. prisoners “large numbers of potatoes are peeled daily, and many pounds of juicy
meat cooked.” But who eats the spuds and meat is anybody’s guess.
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Life-Suit Designed to Reduce Torpedoing Casualties
In the first public demonstration of a new, water-tight “life-suit," Coast Guardsman Harold T. Batzer
is shown in photo on left with suit on. In photo at right he splashes happily In Lake Michigan, off Chicago, as
dry and smug as if he were in front of his fireplace—almost—The new suit is designed to lower mortality
from exposure among victims of torpcdoings. The suits have already been placed on some merchant ships
and tankers.
Pacific War Council Meets in Washington
President Roosevelt posed with the Pacific war council at a recent
session. Shown, left to right, are Sir Owen Dixon of Australia; Leighton
McCarthy of Canada; Walter Nash of New Zealand; Lord Halifax, Great
Britain; Dr. T. V. Soong, China; Dr. A. Loudon, ambassador from the
Netherlands; and Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine common
wealth.
Nazi Raid on Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
This photo was taken from the body of a German officer killed on
the Russian front. Notations on the original describe the photo as having
been made by the officer during a raid on the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw.
Jews are lined up in the streets and forced to stand facing a wall with
hands above their heads for long periods. Gestapo agents at left are
searching some of the victims.
Mountbattens
Photo shows Lord and Lady Louis
Mountbatten arriving at West
minster abbey, to attend services.
Lord Mountbatten is the sturdy and
fearless chief of Great Britain’s
Commandos, who have thrown the
Nazi-held French coast into a state
of panic.
"Jean Valjean’
Osmund Wcstgate, whose finger
prints gave him away as an escaped
“lifer” from Joliet, III., displays his
coast guard identification card
which permits him to resume his job
at a defense plant in New York. Illi
nois gave him “a break.”
Old White House Fence Goes for Scrap
The national scrap drive plays no favorites. Photo shows Harold L.
li kes, secretary of the Interior, tossing part of a fence that once surround
ed the White House into the interior department’s scrap metal collection.
The old fence was replaced in 1937 by a newer and higher fence.
U. S. Troops at Port Moresby
Carrying barracks bags, personal belongings and ammunition, these
American soldiers are shown as they arrived at Port Moresby, New
Guinea. Since then these troops have likely seen action with Jap jungle
troops, headed towards this base. New Guinea natives and Australian
soldiers sitting on gas drums inspect the troops as they march past.
Morning Chores for U. S. Desert Troops
This tank crew, encamped for the night on the desert, is getting things
in battle shape as the sun rises. One man keeps a vigilant lookout for
the enemy; a second crewman cleans out the 75 mm. gun, and a third
works around the treads. American tankists have already given an excel
lent account of themselves in tank battles against the Rommel forces.
Three Big Names in Coast Guard
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By any other names, these three smiling members of the U. S.
coast guard would be just as efficient, but with the names they’ve got they
sound oh, so impressive! They are, left to right, Winston Churchill of
Denver, Charles Evans Hughes of New York, and Henry Edsel Ford of
Mt. Sterling, Ky. All are in the C, G. radio school in Atlantic City.
Vichy ‘Celebrates’
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Marshal retain, head of Vichy,
France, is welcomed by Pierre
Laval as he arrives at the Gcrgovir
memorial, near Clermont Ferrand.
Here, on the second anniversary ol
the French Legion, members of the
legion brought earth from all parts
of the French empire to be sealed
in the monument which commemo
rates Vercingetorix's victory over
Julius Caesar in 52 B. C.
Rubber Czar
A streamlined rubber program Is
expected to develop from the ap
pointment of William Jeffers as rub
ber administrator. Mr. Jeffers
(shown) is president of the Union
Pacific R.R.
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Jap ‘Ins’ and ‘Outs' |
Masayuki Tani, president of the
board of information, who, accord
ing to a Japanese broadcast, was
named Japanese foreign minister,
replacing Foreign Minister Shingen
ori Togo in the cabinet of Premier
Tojo. Tani is shown at top and Togo
below.
Gets High Post
Roar Admiral John H. Towers,
chief of the bureau of aeronautics,
who has been named “commander
of the air force, Pacific fleet,” a new
and important post, just created.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
‘Versailles of the Plains’
' I' HIS month marks the 75th
* anniversary of the "Ver
sailles of the Plains”—the fa- !
mous Medicine Lodge peace
council of 18S7. Not only did it
bring together a galaxy of fron
tier notables, both red man and
white, but it was attended by a
greater number of journalists
than had ever before assembled
for such an event. Some were
destined for future fame and
among these were:
JOHN D. HOWLAND
(From a photograph taken in 1867.
Original In the collections of the
State Historical Society of Colorado.)
No newspaper camera men were
present at the Medicine Lodge coun
cil to snap pictures of the treaty
makers. But John D. Howland, “art
ist-correspondent" for Harper’*
Weekly, was there and posterity is
indebted to his skilled pencil for it*
only pictorial record of that his
toric event.
Howland was a descendant of Johi
Howland who came to America 01
the Mayflower. His grandparents,
natives of New Bedford, Mass., emi
grated to Ohio soon after the Revolu
tion and helped found the settlement
of Zanesville where he was born
May 7, 1843. One of his uncles, Lem
Owen, was a trapper in the West and
a contemporary of Kit Carson and
Jim Bridger. His tales of adven
ture on the frontier so stirred the
Imagination of young Howland that
at the age of 14 he ran away from
home and entered the employ of the
American Fur company.
He accompanied a band of trap
pers fup the Missouri to Fort PierreJ
then crossed the plains to old Fort1
Laramie on the North Platte. Tha
next year he joined the rush of gold
seekers to the new diggings in the
Pikes Peak region of Colorado but.
failing to make his fortune there, he
returned to the fur company. Be
cause young Howland was one o£
the few white traders who dealt
fairly with the Indians, he became a
great favorite of the Sioux. Under
the tutelage of their warriors he be
came a skilled hunter with the bow
and arrow and the women kept him
supplied with handsomely beaded
and fur-trimmed buckskin clothing.
At the outbreak of the Civil war.
Howland enlisted in the First Regi
ment of Colorado Volunteers. He
had a part in the campaign in New
Mexico which saved the Southwest
for the Union and he also served
as a captain of scouts in the cam
paign against the hostile Indians in
1864. Mustered out of the army
' that year, the youthful frontiersman,
decided to satisfy his longing to b*»,
come an artist.
In 1865 he went to Paris where he
studied under several of the French
masters until 1867 when he was noti
fied of his appointment as interpret
er for the commission appointed to
make a treaty with the Sioux. Dur
ing his stay in France he had acted
as “artist-correspondent" for Har
per’s Weekly, so when he returned
to America, Harper's immediately
commissioned him to cover the ne
gotiations with the Sioux in August
and with the Southern Plains tribes
the following October.
Thus it was that he went to the
Medicine Lodge council and there
drew the pictures, one of which,
first published as a full-page illus
tration in Harper’s for November
16, 1867, has become the classic rep
resentation of this high spot in the
annals of the frontier and has often
been reproduced in histories of the
: West.
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Central portion of Howland’s fa
mous drawing of the Medicine
Lodge peace council.
