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NAZI INTRUDER
There is a German smuggler op
erating in the Caribbean off the
coast of Mexico.
This was the inside reason for the
President’s sudden transfer of the
entire coast guard to the navy—the
coast guard’s ships and planes are
needed to track down the Nazi in
truder.
Sensational feature about the
smuggler is that she is a former
U. S, vessel—the 800-ton Diesel
engined yacht that once belonged to
A. Atwater Kent, Philadelphia radio
magnate.
The one-time pleasure ship now is
being operated under the Panama
nian flag out of Vera Cruz, Mexico,
by Nazi agents in that city, and is
being used to transport high test
gasoline and mercury to small Car
}bbean islands where Japanese ships
collect the smuggled strategic sup
plies.
The yacht recently unloaded 1,000
flasks of mercury at an island which
for military reasons must be name
less.
The former luxury craft came into
possession of the Nazis by a cir
cuitous route which intelligence ex
perts uncovered only a few weeks
ago. The purchase was made by a
shipping company whose main of
fice is in Vera Cruz and has a
branch office in New Orleans, where
transfer of title took place. The
price was $lB,OOO.
Fortunately for intelligence the
payment was made in U. S. bills of
$l,OOO denomination. From the seri
al numbers, the bills were traced
back to a Vera Cruz bank. There
it was learned the money had been'
withdrawn from the account of the
leading Nazi business house in
Mexico, and turned over to the ship
ping company that bought the yacht.
Subsequent investigation revealed
that all the stockholders of this com
pany were Germans; also that the
two top officers were Spaniards, one
a naturalized Mexican and the other
a naturalized American citizen.
Now, every movement of the
yacht is watched, but there is noth
ing the United States can do about
the ship unless she enters American
waters. So far the vessel has been
very careful to stay within Mexican
territorial waters.
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LEND-LEASE MILK EXPERT
The most novel type of lend-lease
operation thus far was the lend
leasing of a man named Adolph.
Adolph Eichhorn went over to help
the British against Adolf Hitler.
The British are suffering from in
sufficient production of milk, be
cause of diseased cattle, and Eich
horn is the man who knows all the
cow cures. He is director of the
animal disease station under the de
partment of agriculture.
Three principal diseases afflict
British cattle: tuberculosis, which
makes the cattle lean; Bang’s dis
ease, which results in the loss of
the calf; and mastitis.
Eichhorn was obliged to tell the
British that tuberculosis, which af
flicts 35 per cent of British cattle,
cannot be cured during the course
of the war, unless the war lasts for
another generation. It took the
United States 22 years to get the
disease under control.
Bang’s disease is more readily
cured. By vaccination, a calf can
be immunized so that its adult life
will not be afflicted with the dis
ease.
Meantime, the British are import
ing great quantities of dry and pow
dered milk from the United States.
Fresh milk is worth a king’s ransom.
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RETURNED FAVOR
When Rep. John McCormack of
Massachusetts was elected Demo
cratic floor leader of the house,
one of his strongest and most un
expected supporters was Georgia’s
fiery New Deal-hating Gene Cox.
Though the two men were poles
apart on economic views, Cox never
theless backed McCormack and did
yeoman work for him.
Recently McCormack returned the
favor. Before leaving on a trip to
Massachusetts, McCormack named
Cox floor leader during his absence.
“There’s one condition, however,
Gene,” he grinned. ‘‘You’ll have
to refrain from those hot one-minute
speeches on the floor. I don’t want
my stand-in taking swings at the,
administration. It would look bad.”
McCormack wished the Georgian
luck and left the chamber. Hardly
had he departed when Cox jumped
up and asked permissiefti to address
the house for one minute. New
Dealers held their breath, expect
ing him to uncork one of his scorch
ing blasts.
But they relaxed with a sigh of
relief when Cox launched into a ter
rific tirade against John L. Lewis.
• • •
CAPITAL CHAFF
Capt. Jules James, commandant
of the U. S. naval base at Bermuda,
is a nephew of Secretary of War
Stimson.
White House has received a bar
rage of letters and telegrams urg
ing Maury Maverick as ambassador
to Mexico.
Madame Maxim Litvinov was
born Ivy Low, daughter of British
historian Sidney Low, and niece of
Sir A. Maurice Low, who was Wash
ington correspondent of London’s
Morning Post.
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BUILDING ANYTHING, MISTER?
SPAB has ruled that no new pub
lic or private building may be start
ed unless it is essential to the health
and safety of the country. Pop,
there goes that idea of a new two-car
garage!
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The government must save all
“critical material” for the war.
Critical material is almost every
thing from the blueprint to the
architect’s bill.
The man who has just dug a cellar
for anything may find he is just the
custodian of a hole for the duration |
of the war.
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Director Donald M. Nelson says
that if you have a building partly
finished he will try to take you out
of your position in mid-air, but it is
more than likely that the man with 1
a house only 50 per cent finished
will save himself a lot of trouble !
by just putting a sign “Opened By ,
Mistake” on the whole project.
♦ ♦ *
This is an all-out war and u ap
pears to be leaving the building all
out of most everything from cellar
door hinges to lightning rods.
* ♦ *
“Is the construction directly nec
essary for national defense, or for
the health and safety of the civilian
population?” This is the test ques
tion Washington asks. How are you
going to make a new country home
fit into that?
♦ ♦ *
In fact, how are you going to
make a garage fit?
♦ » *
Almost everything is necessary to
defense, including those bronze
door-knockers and the bathtub
faucets.
♦ * ♦
“The House That Jack Built” is
becoming the Bungalow That Nelson
Stopped.
* * *
Mr. Nelson says the restrictions
will halt “pork barrel” projects.
The answer to that is “Wanna bet?”
* * *
He will have his work cut out for
him trying to convince a congress
man that the new power dam at
Corncob Valley isn’t essential to the
safety of the country and that the !
de luxe post office in Cribbage Hol
low isn’t vital to the health of every
politician involved.
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Some questions and answers is
sued by the SPAB to explain the
situation include:
Q. —If I were building a 10-story
building and had four stories up
could I get material to finish it?
A.—Very likely, yes.
Q. —If only an excavation existed?
A.—lt would be a tossup.
* * *
And the builder would be “He who
gets tossed.”
♦ ♦ *
AS MA GOOSE MIGHT PUT IT
This is the house that Jack built.
* * •
This is the architect that planned
the house that Jack built.
♦ ♦ *
This is the builder retained by the
architect that planned the house that
Jack built.
• * *
This is the stuff they needed for
The cellar and the second floor.
* • *
This is the owner (oh, sad is he!)
Who got word from S.P.A.B.
He couldn’t get stuff needed for
The cellar and the second floor.
* * *
You can go on from here. All it
takes is imagination.
* * *
LINES ON LONGEVITY
(An average life span of 550 years
is attainable if conditions in the
body at the age of 10 years are re
tained, according to a professor in
the Columbia university school of
medicine. —News item.)
Consider, please, the child of ten,
Whose bodily condition’s
A miracle to learned men,
Professors and physicians,
Who say that if we could retain
This stamina and vigor,
Five hundred years we might
remain,
And somewhat more, they figure.
But I have watched a child at play,
From morning until night time,
And wearily I now must say
That threescore ten is quite time.
—Richard Armour.
* * *
There is a 5 per cent tax on all
railroad, plane and boat tickets now,
and one hesitates to think what this
must mean to Mrs. Roosevelt.
Commuters are excepted. This is
the first instance in history where
a commuter got any consideration
whatever.
* * *
Roach powders are now hit by
priorities. An ingredient is needed
in munitions. Well, if the insecticide
man goes after Hitler we’ll take care
of the situation around our own
kitchen sink.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
No Dud Duds for Army
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quality of all clothing
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Here on the roof of the quarter master s department you see fabrics
undergoing a weather test.
Trained eyes scan every inch of Thread count. Counting the
| t/us fro/f of cloth as it is unwound number of threads per square inch
\ from one roller to another. A slight in a fabric sample —one method of
\ defect would cause rejection. ascertaining quality.
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AMONG the real wiz kids of sport
I’d like to nominate at least
four rookies. They are Alonzo Stagg,
79, Connie Mack, 78, Matt Winn, 81,
and E. R. Bradley, 82. Their aver
age age is around 80 and they are
just beginning to get up steam.
There must be something hooked
to sport that blocks off the attacking
years.
Stagg, one of Walter Camp’s All-
America veterans in 1889, which
happens to be 52 years ago, is still
one of the hardest-working football
coaches in the trade. Stagg uses
running spikes in place of crutches.
They tell me at the College of the
Pacific he is all over the field like
a runaway coyote—and Stagg isn’t
more than a short chip shot away
from 80.
Along the same line Connie Mack
is all set for his next spring train
ing trip, hoping this time to lift his
Athletics up around the bottom of
the first division. Connie, also, won’t
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ALONZO STAGG
use up much calendar space before
80 arrives. His main ambition now
is to win the A. L. pennant on his
! eightieth birthday.
Stagg and Mack have been active
features in over 60 years of sport,
and neither is looking for a sunset
port.
The Kentuckians
Col. Matt Winn of Kentucky, hav
ing left 80 well behind, is even more
active than usual in rounding up his
next Kentucky Derby.
At the same time Col. E. R. Brad
ley at 82 still has his Lexington
posses out looking for another Derby
winner.
Colonel Winn has seen all the Ken
tucky Derbies ever run since the
first one in 1875, and he hopes to
turn the Seventieth Derby anniver
sary, three years further on, into the
greatest pageant of them all.
It has been some time since ;
| Colonel Bradley won one of these 1
j Bluegrass features, so he is equal-
I ly active in having another three
year-old ready soon, one with a
chance to win. His Bimelech just
missed out.
Colonel Winn has an idea at this
moment that Alsab may be the
greatest Derby winner of all time.
\ As great as Alsab is, there is a wide
1 gap between a two-year-old and a
i three-year-old, considering all the
deadly incidents that can happen to j
a thoroughbred, including house
maid’s knee and the pip.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Two Races
Although spring practice is three
! months away, American league
' managers—plus owners—plus ball
players—are still brooding over the
! promised strength of the Yankees.
In the meanwhile, the National
j can look forward to another all
i summer scramble among Dodgers,
i Cardinals, Reds and possibly Pi
| rates or someone else.
The Reds with Johnny Vander
j Meer and Elmer Riddle on hand to
| hplp out their pitching veterans will
| be a better club next spring if Bill
1 McKechnie can plug one or two '
| gaps. Bill is lucky these gaps are
j not ,in his pitching department, the
! toughest canyon to fill up.
Having located a large part of i
j his control, Vander Meer is likely to
I be one of the great pitchers of 1942.
i So is Riddle.
I But at this point American league
clubs can see no light rays of any
I consequence. Seven of them are
looking into holes as deep and as
dark as the mouth of a railroad
tunnel.
The Red Sox still haven’t the
pitching or the defensive speed to
close up that big gap between them
selves and the Yankees. The Red
Sox still lack the infield ground
covering speed needed to help any
pitcher along. The Yankee infield
has killed off many a rap starting
for a base hit that Red Sox infield
ers couldn’t have handled.
SPORTLIGHT BRIEFS:
C. John F. Kelly, Notre Dame cap
tain and end of 1938, has been ap
pointed to the FBI staff.
Babe Herman owns a highly
profitable turkey ranch in Cali
fornia.
C, Frank Leahy has advised his
Notre Dame assistants to lay off
golf. “It’s a vicious game,” he ex
plains, “and if you get the habit
you can’t leave it alone.”
C. Dick Chan, a Chinese halfback
on the San Francisco State college
football team, weighs 125 pounds-
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not difficult, I think, to detect
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