HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-06-18, Page 7Japan's Bamboo V 0 1 C E
And Paper Cities
At • •a recent, pehlisherte luneh.eoe
Bruce Le.neastee, author of Bright
To Pbo Wanderer, made the • fol-
lowing enlightning remarks re-
gerding, the nrobablit. damagefeel*t
done by bombing TOkyo-ande-other
•
Japanese cities:
-
As. .soon. as dee news' of Peed
Herber reached the States, the .t
first . reaction was, natitially, deep
-angee. Then; unfortune.tely, came
• • a • geeat „ vindictive riebbing .ef
.hands: -"Just •wait until our planes
• • fly ewerthe it bamboo anil papeee.
' • cities!". This cry was taken up
by the:public .in genal, fostered • -
by nueierdife Columniste, •inanY. of ._
whom. should have known better
through residence in Japan it has
brerigae *aye\ of wislifute •
thinkingthat,..to me% mind,."isedan-;•• • .
gertmee The average citizen:(and
• too . Oftenthe writer) seem' to
Iiave•conjured up i'picture.oi a few
. 'Allied' bombers: flying 'Over 'Hoeshit
scattering, rather •casually, a.
e •• few' . incendiary • bombs. ' Easy,
• • ien'e it? Whyr-tw.oeor three .bonibee
• •
WOUid
wipe..out ,any one of their_ _
bantheo •.and paper cities! • • 's
M • ••
T&iat's fine. But the cities newel
•.; .. paper and they aren'i • bamboo.
• The vital points, of Tokyte ,Kobe,
Nagoya, Yokehama are brick, 'con-
crete, steel, stone. (At this. point-
. • .Sorneone arises to sag': "But e've
• , rieen pictures of -e") Of course he
has seen,. pictures • of Japanese
houses. But how are they Melt?,
--e-theseltapanaseeetyle_hease.. !ma, tO
• -begin ewith, a_ roof of heavy tile.
(Nik baeiboo;• not Paper, not
• th.atelie-theugb yen wat find
thatch in the, county district; it's
. •
not very billam.ntable„ tine. tocore
stant:exposare; to a rainy climate.)
This roof is about: 50 to 60 per
cent' of the house Theesupporte.
• .• .•
are macleof cedar or pie, not see-
•• . ,esoned as •we know the, term-. •The
• • , walla are mud -plater laid over a
. .• network of syithes. 'Paper is often,
• ' • pasted over .sliding, removable
tor -widows,. hut .ofelater...
, •
• • ...yeare, glass eha s.- •heen • used :more
, and • more. -;This epaper, is so•
in-
• flammable that •it . will burn off its •
frame With* '-even charring the
• wood. .Pet ifions beiwienhme—:
•are ofteu. 'a heeyy. spongy' earn-
" board • set fn wood fremesand
little morecombustible -than. wood.
• Berries charcoal thee in big pots;
• there is no. heat. . There is little,
fi ny, furniture to burn. • And
• annelid°. (Which, again ..is not
sensed of a low. combustion point)
is. used only for trimniiugs,•:Orna-
OF THE
PRESS
WOMAN IN THE. CHAIR
' Though it was Accomplished •
uietly and Without .cerenapny., ee
rely hietorie .ocoasion tookeplace
or Ed nton•East, sat briefly as
Chairman of -the Committee of
he Whole House at Otta*a..
enarked• the . first time a woinen:
has ever presidedover a •sitting'
Of either House of Parliament 'in
the Dominion Capitale• •
' This c-ountry has been competes.;
tively backward in putting wiise
men • in •• Parliamentary 'office.
There are but four of them in
the Commons and Senate • tocleye,
But we are eirogreesinge • Mrs. _
Casselreanhe Seecupancy. of ,the
Chair, brief though it -was; "denione.,
strates 'how far ..we • ha•ve,.'gone
elonge the road ef -finally .
admit-
ting ',that' .w.omen :are "PerstinS,'!.
' • ., • :. WindsoreSter
.• •s•-•0--
• CORSET LORE , •
• Discussions as to the possibile
ity a'a.shortage of feminine form
compressors such as corsets and -
girdles due to the need of • con-
serving steel and rubber for war •
needs recalls the lines • of Samuel
Hoffensetin: •• • , . •
Nothing . from • ir atraight. .line -
swerves
So sharply as a woMares. curves..
. enieSe . are. ' indeed times that'.
ertruht—tielhe---seidieset
.stouts. •. Some •time -age in,
land • Corsets werd rationed bee
cause of the acute, need Of steel.
It was then Louis 'Shaw Wrote:
•
The ship of state for an even keel,
Needs 'tons and tons of corset
e steel, • .
-T-he-die is- mit, -the fates have •
.written- . • '• • • .
The, ladies no*, must • beige for
Britain. • . , •
e--Dunneifle. Chronicle'
LESSON '• FOR FATTIES
Ten co-eds • of ' the ,'University-
' of Chicago went without •.sugar in
their—feed-,-arid—drink • for tire
, weeks by way Of experiment: At
the end of that- time ,they had.
lost an aggregate of over. 25
pounds. This may • teachsome-
thing to. men, as well as women,
in the fatty • forties and fifties.
-e-St. Thomas. Times -journal-
- ., •
• •W;iNTElf)'' TO KNOW • '
• '
. •
4
,th23, 4
';''M'S134°.M{P.tioltrikfi Irkwriri
' • the family- bath -tide- tun 194, •per
cent of the time. Waterepressure
• (ter:tire fightingeourgosee) is good '
in most cities:especially those in
the, hills.
' '" •
• This is not to say that a Japan-
.
ese house, or ,city, ie not inflein-
maiele, It eis, highly so. In fact. •
• It's * nearly 20 •per cent as intim- •
malele as our Americanecities with
their row's of shingle -roofed three
deckers and tenements. • A, Can- •
•
• adian city, where more brick. plas-
ter and tile are' used than with us,
would -be •closer • -to Japanese hi
eafety than would our. -This is*
• note -tee -Say that bombing • will not.
help beat Japan.' It will help eller-
meuely. ' But a Japanese city will,
have to be bombed as thoroughly •
as, Bremen or Kiel.. A few bombs
/nem American.,canadian or •Aus-
tralin planes••aren't going to burn
up the. Empire. If we sell our
selves on the idea that they are,'
we're in for a bad s io' k.
41 •
Brtish W. A. A. F.
Did Splendid Job
'Britain% W.AA.F's---ehe girls of
the Women's Aueilliary Air Force
'e -did• their biggest job last week. '
They played an impOrtant part in
the success of the 1,000 -plane raid
on Cologne,'
The W.A.A.'F.% assisted the R.A.
F, men in the planning .arid exec's
tion of• the raid..Some of the girls •
acted as Interpretation officers at
the bomber command headquarh
ers, where they passed days pre-_
• paring rge •-• ts—a
_maps whieh the Bombers carried.
e As meteorological clerks in. the.
.."'Weather • section, ,,others provided
The forecasts which decided what
night the raid; was to be. launch -
• THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST
• The great tank now confronting
a liberated America,: which more '
• than three-quarters of ei century
•ego fought a .four -years war to
free the slaves, is to aid,in work-
ing out the freedom of the whole
world from Slavery, -The Christian •
..SCierice Board of Directors told
several thousand Christian. Sci-
entists gathered in annual meet-
ing in Boston last week.
• Meeting in their Mother Church
• under the world -enveloping shad-
ow of what is probably'the gra-vest
threat to political and religious
freedom since the advent of
Chriatianity, the visitors were re-
minded in a report .by The Chris-;
----tiiiiiseScientee-Breat-deeo`!• feeLecture
ship .that the union of Britain and
• America Was foreseen forty -lour
years ago by Mary Baker Eddy;
Diseeverer and Founder of Chris-
tian • Science, as the instrement
thienig5 which the rights of free
•peoples everywhere might be Per-
• inanently established and protect-
ed.
• This welding together of • the
twogreat democracies, under the
• 'impact of an international crisis,
Said theLecture Board, is the
•consummation of the fond hopes
of all Christian Scientistee The
Board alluded specifically to a
poem • written in 1898 by the
• Leader a this world-wide religi-
• ous movement, Mrs. Eddy, which
reads in part as fellows: • •
'Brave Britain, blest Amerieal
Unite your yoUr battle:Plan;
• Victorious, all who live it,—
•'The' love for rebel and- mace".
DIV!
e'le • , AZ
MAN MAURICE
E
_
Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army
We cheerfully and voluntarily
ration ourselves in the rise of tea,
eteffeeeendougare-Why not ration'
ourSelves in the use of gasoline?
If we can drink our fewer cups of
tea and coffee unsweetened why
can't we walk a mile or two and
save the gasoline we woutd have
used for war uses?
Across this country from coast
to coast business experts are de-
voting -their talents to the working
• National unity is a term that
has been loosely, Often Medi too
loesele interpreted to mean the
interrelation of English 'and
• French speaking Canadians. pe.
generally accepted has. this inter-
pretation' become that most of us
• seem to have forgotten that na-
• tional unity is non-existent so
long as the tribulations of Cane.-
• ehans in any of the, provinces ate
charred bet__Cenadians in the
•• • Dutch Harbor
• Dutch Harbor issituated on
tiny eAerialcarile Island in a deep
helot of the northernshare of
much larger Unalaska Wand, Mae
of the long chain of Aleutians
which eteing out in a sweeping
are toward Japan. ' It is about
2,835 •air mile e from Tokyo on •
ethe- Southwest, and 2,345 entleti
fteineSan-Pranciseo- on the South
eagit. -It thus forms the apex for
uglilyee triangular line which
might • be,e_lrawn on -the map be-
tween ,the three . points. From
Seattle, Wash.; to, Dutch Harbor
is about 1,900 air .miles. •" .• -
The United Statesslas been '
building fortifications there since
1940. • •Their extent, has' :been, kept
decret. •
•
•" Dutch Harbor, which until 're-
. pently was only a village with
'a trading .poSt, a fuel oil depot,
, a4 a naval radio eta:then, re.ceiv- • •
ed its%ranie ,because of the
tion •that a Duteh ,ship 'first en-
• t,ered ,its bay; a 'bulletin, from the• ',
National - Geographic S'o eet„e t y
pointe out. Russiah navigators,
however, early came 'this way.•
.,"They • knew • the -then-busy fur-
sealing--centie by its native Es-
•.kieno name . of Udakta. . Later,
• the, harbor becathe a way station'
• for .vessele ' making for theegold
rush regions of the 'Yukon and •
Nome, Alaska. •
Dutch Harbor is ,,13/e miles long •
by half a mile in' Width. • Water •
• isdeep near the -shores and in
• , most parts of the harbor; violent
• 'gales occasionally . sweep • these
Waters, whenmariners are warned' :
to look out for williwaws, sudden
guatt..L.40.1(1 land; air. cOmmon•
alpeg.mountainous'coasts of 'Nigh --
latitudes.. - • .• •
• 1,
reeeT, _ -sea% le..hie A e
hateproheymeterelo?
is the recent flurry over the re-
duction of the gasoline rationing
unit in the Maritime • Province
from five gallons to two due to a
-shortege which by the time*-thid
'reaches print may have disappear-
ed. There was- a perfectly natural-
• feeling down! east that it was not
• fair that Maritimers should be on
"short commons" when drivers
'the other six provinces still could- '
obtain their fell ration. •'
Ottawa answered by pointing
out reasons that • fully justified
the reduction.
All of this, is a preamble to the
As motor transport drivers, still
others drove air crews to:searting.
points. and awaited- their -return
with ambulances ready in case of
need. They kept the telephone
lines , open ' from' desk until after
Aawn acid also worked in long
shifts at teleprinters and in opette
Cons rooms as code and cipher
Merits.' ' •
As rallio girls W.A.A.F.'s passed
landing inetructioee by telephone
to the returning crew's. Tho,y pre -
•pared, and peeked food for, the
oat -going aitinen •and had 'tea mid
coffee ready ,when they arrived
beck. • •
The work of these "back room"
girls •continued long after the hest --
�f the returieng crews were hornet
In bed„ Thee were on the phone
sending. eue details pt missing
planes and helping gather .the
news. •
headquarters's, in Nemo*, East
Africa, by ,a native telegrapher
down the line.
The telegram , read: "Three
• bons 'on platform.. Station master
in Water tank. •Please wire tin.
structions.''' • '
e -Boston Globe
•
BRIGADIER IN IROQUOIS
Brigadier 9.. M. Martin, !mined
to c'ommand, a brigade in the 7th
Cliadian Division, is a full-
blooded Iroquois. Tecumseh( would
be proud of him, especially as he
loeght•eirersees during the Great
War with the- Canadian infantry
and the Royal Flying Corps.
—Brockville Recorder and Times
—o—
TASTE RF: BO• TH
It was Wordsworth's lament
that "plain living and•high think-
ing are no more." But now the
plain -living is being enforced and
we are he. inning sortie tall think- ing. ' •
•• —Kansas .City Star
NO OIL; NO DUST
• Why worry? There won't be
enough road oil torlay the dust
• that motorists won'E raise anyway.
• " —Kitchener Record
-••
Tank Fights Duel
With Italian Sub
TIM WAR WEEK ---, Cotiuneotary on Current Events
Six Months Afte
Japan Strikes
The Japanese military leaders
are presented by the New York
Times as advantegeouely sitting
in the centre of a circle. Their
qpponents have had the task of
deciding et just what point On that
• circle theyeewould strike. After the
peeeineinary move against Pearl
tt.a1.30r they moved ectuth. There -
they • strengthened themseliee on
the rubber end tin of Malya, the
MI and 'rubber and foodstuffs ot
the Indies. Then it was west into
• Burnett, the gateway to Southern •
• China and India. While their arm-
ies last week marched toward
and ,hammereci at the .vital
central and coastal regions. of
China, their, navy again fought in
the NorthePacifie. Still their lead- ,,
ersotild ',Otiose watch of pel these,
moves -woUld be- the main blow.
'.Midwaylt Attack e
• The•Japaneee had done little in,
the north Paeifk since 1'earl Her- :
her. Her ships and Zero fighter
planes were busy in the south. •
Ship Plane teams won sontrel of
the Macassar Strait from' Ample
-
pan forces operating with •the
Dutch and British, defeated a UP,
ited Nations fleet in the Java
Sea.. Not until Japan reached the
Coral °Sea did her' string of ,vi -
tortes. end. These, supported -by
land-based .aireraft, a United Na-
• tions fleet drove a strong Japan-
ese . task force north • into her,
•
the_e_geited ,Naticins
newly conquered islet!ds,• there was no'. thought that that __ _o thugh_.
was 'final. '•
Last Week' exactly six months_
• after the surprise attack on 'PearI•
. Harbor, Japan again tried • her
• luck in the north. Raiding parties
of'Japanese aircraft, hit at Dutch
Harbor in Alaska's Aleutian Is-
• lands. Southward one'
"other ,heavier attack' was directed
against Midway ' Island, American
outpost between Pearl Harbor and
• Tokyo. • This time the • Japanese
did not find American planes titled
up on_ the groend, so limey'easy
•ctergets •for • elapeerese bojbers.
• They were in the ,air and fighting'.
• Japanese airplane carriers, ,battle-,
ehips, • cruisers and- • transports
eesuffered--headamage,---dam:age
Scoutmasters; Cut -misters and :
, Commissioners of inclia 10,41 year
contributed 10,000 rupees, or
750 pounds, to Britain's War Dis-
tressed Seouts Fund for Scout air
raid sufferers.*• ,
4.
• Toronto • Boy • Scout Leaders
have been giving cooking instruc-
tion to a •detaelienent of fifty girls
•• of the Food Administration Ser.:
• vice of; the Canadian Red 'Cross
'corps. The course is being given
at the Crooked"Creek-Boy-Seout---
• campsite, and is a feature of pre-
parations being 'made by .the Red
Cross against any War eventudlity
which may call for the' emergency
feeding •of large numbers of per-
•, One war service job of 'Bethnel
Green (London). Boy Scouts was
rection recently of 4,000
sele-Migr.
eit Tee - see e•
•
Peati 14.rbor
North Pacific -
has a base ewhich may , one day,
b:e the springboard for an atlas
straight at the heart of Japan. pa. .
tensively it stands guard over the
Alaskan territory whieb has come
' to have increased strategic value• I,
with the increased military value ,
of airplanee. From Alaska the : •
• wide teaches of Ilia Pacific grow •
small, come within the operating
• range of aircraft: the 5,135 miles.
fr-omTokyo to San Francisco. be-
come 2,345 Rom Duteli Harbor.
As' long ago as 1920 Alaska was
called '"The keystone of the Ma-
gic ar,eh".•
•Effect Undetermined
Midway islaed, the second eb-:
• jective of the. Japanese force, in •
an atoll of two tiny islands emc-
ees:uided: by • shouts and • reefs.
Guarded heavily by Army, Navy; • ,
:end .Marine forces, it constitutes
aleemit au outer defense for' Pearl
H,erbote 1,300 miles away., Amerie
'cd's" bastion in ,the mid -Pacific. In •
Japanese hands it could be the
base for harrying attacks against
the hi g ships -berthed' at Pearl
Harbor. The Japanese • have paid
it constant ...attention, attacking
it 'at -leaet once each month—ex-
cepting for April—since' the start
of the • war. But the attacks have
been light by occasionall airplanes .
•or submarines.. Careiers and battle.
• ships operating near Midway lent
• week were attacking forcps. of a • •
• diftetent order. •
It seems quite' conclusive • mew • •
that the. Japanese ran into a trap"
se-a-t-eMideray=elisiance-•-anti_eehaeeetitese_ee________, e
•
were badly stung. But the full' ex- .• • •
.teut•of the damege they have'eurt.
'fered and its effect upon poesible,
future Japanese operations re..
Mains to be determined.
U. S. Strategic Seccerei • •
Other operations, perhaps eve li •' •
enother attack on Hawaii Or an
• Offensive • against Russia, . may
'have been dependent upon • the •
success of the MidwaY attack an4
. the mysterious. happenings near
•Dutela Harbor. And in , repuleing
•
. r .
the • Japanese. The Pacific Fleet •• A
• may .weil have dealt the enemy. a • •
*severe blow 'in the E eat. But it
would seem too. early to conelude
far out of Proportion, it is report- that he--Japaneee7defeeteasect-dise
eti. The ,Midway area not only "Itnet.ell. probability,. the Japanese
ed. to that suffered by the defend. •
remained in American handeehut •possess sufficient sea and atr
the, JaPanase force appeared to strength, even . after the Midway
limp off .after a bad mauling by losses ape subtracted, to, •attempt
sfAuremrsy, Navy -and ated. ltIarine..K.Corpa,
Keystone Of Pacific
. United Natioas. ,
either new offensive actions or to
• ' any operalions undertaken by the,
Put up. strong resistance against •
wee -re; , • 99 rl ^ Val_Agliff_ . 4 la_ ,.._
----'=',IS.
. p'.
• . charge that we are failing to live
•
• up to our privilege 'of serving in •
the ranks•of the Individual Citi-
zen's Army.
. How?
• It should be obvious!
•• Have we in ,the central And -
western parts of the country any
, moral right to five gallons of
• gasoline when because " of trans,.
portation or any other difficul-
• ties, fellow, privates in Guy behind
the lines army who -are ' much
loser to actual warfare' arid pp-'
tential attack—have to •be reduc-
ed
to two gallons? • "• •
• 'Why, if there is. tree national
:unity, - do we not spare the 'public
eM.barraSsment of Minister e we
employ to govern us by Volentar-
• ily reducing our consumption of
gasoline to the lowest level forced
upon any geograkhical section of
the Dominion? ,
• Citizens of countries where
"verboten" is ' a familiar word
read garbled accounts. of , out • pre- '
• • vincial differences, accounts •that•
. .
' gnif ied_eto the • point Of
making some of us appear to be
"Oppressed minorities," when such
stories are -• published: But the
feet that such stories are pub-
. liihed is the fault of the citizens
who fail to give the lead. to those
they have set in authority. •
" What seems to be the first duel
between a tank arid a submarine
at sea was foughtejnst before the
British campaign in Libya opened,
says London Calling. A British
• officer, telling. the story in a
BBC bioadeast, explanied ho*, in
making. oat preparations for the ,
offeneive, we reinforced the To-
bruk gatrison with heavy infantry
tanks
Without the Germans suspect-
-the tanks were taken up to
Tobruk in small bargee—shallow
draft vessels with no great turn
of ,speed. One barge was hosing
geritly alonethe coast bound for
Tohruk when an Italian submar-
ifie surfaced near her and opened
fire, The crew of the tank were
abc ard and fortunately in their,
machine when the attack began.
The turret of the htaills was just
• protruding above the gunwale of
the barge,; it Was rapidly swung
around and a tweeepounder with
atinor-piereing shot was turned on
the Italian submarine,-
The Italian got the shock of '
his life when little flat-bottonie
.ed tub of a boat suddenly un-
leashed rapid and sustained fire
that was altogether too accurate.
The siebrimrine ceased fire and
dived. The barge and' cargo went
On its way
, 11
horrors, of inflation arrATinaintae
stocks -of essential war goods fo
our fighting fortes. Some o
• these men serve without pay, tn
others—away from their norma
• ations—sacrifice the norma
•
✓ War Savings Stamps were- the,
f admission tickets sold at the door
e for a Boy Scout and Girl Guide
I erttertainment at the Noranda
I High. School.
oce
ads,
the
• in
• ing
"
boy
40
the
.of
we
out
wa
con
can
mon gooa.
The soldierewho leaves a $150
a month job to volunteer to serve
in teniform fo'r (in the case of a
single man) a little More than
up . ,
aneernents -, and -•' promotions ... . . . .
y could expect it 'they . 'st,ifia' . Discussing- the- previous spare -
their own jobs. • ' _ ' time treinitig of • young' recruits,
hese men don't enjoy restrict: : for the ' lineerial Fetces, Brig.-.
and controlling. their neigh:. e General , Clark, for over . 30 years
re—it takes a Nazi" mentality . a training officer of ' Regular
enjoy that sort of thing—and Army and Territcirial units, -was
y welcome. action on the part recently quoted as giving first
Cana -die*, that makes their place 'to, •fornicr Boy Scouts. Said
et:easier.' • . General Clarlc:•":4. batch of First
Why can't ive,then, who are all 4 , Class Scouts or • King's ;Scouts •
to win 'the war in. the best . • would prove 'more aceeptable to
y we can, make rationing and., , a Commanding, Officer or !a 'Sere
trol , unnecessary. . Surely we . geant •;Major as recruits than a
,stint ourselves for the cone, • , similar riumber of lads with any
' . other ' forte of. spare -time occupa-
tion
'in their' past." , .
. **
. * . e* *
The newest Canadian Boy Scout,
war, service project •ie the sendingito
o la amo . , • t t - • . us
rationed himself much more British Boy Scouts now unable 'to
verelyeehan we have been celled 4 secure them. .
„ • • , •
0I1.ga tea, coffee, gasolitre: an
. dA growing proportion of • the
men of H. • M. Forces who have .
distinguished. themselves . in im-
portant ' actions with the enemy :
are being discovered es former.
Boy • Scouts or,, Scout leaders.
Among the Swordfish _, pilots who
attacked the warships, Gneisenau
and Scharnhorst and gave their
lives, was • Lieut. Blight a mem-
ber of the 159th North London
a
ily
se
up
tir
on
fu
wi
su
eo
of
of
pi
eA
vi
tr
se
ac
to
'fe
c
es, as this is written, are the
ly rationed commodities. It's
ney. how ger .of them tie in
the -each other. The use of less
gar reduces the "spare tires"
me of us carry around. The Use,
less gasoline increases the life.
"spare • tires" we rennet re -
ace.
Have you joined the Reserve
rmy yet? Encouraging signs are. Boy Scout Troop. Lieut. David
sible in some parts of the coun- L. Davies, who took a prominent
y since this workable body was -part in the SI' Nazaire raid, also
t up to give those ineligible for • was a Scout, and the complete job
tive eervide-F---tiVersteasete chance— --of.----civarterinaseering" for an-
-train themselves for home de- other commando raid was handled •
nce 'but I have not heard any by a former Scoutmaster. ' Lord
ommanding officer say yet that Levet, leader of the Boulogne
e can't haridle any more recruits. Commando raid, is Presideet of •
That's another branch of the ;the Inverness-shire Boy Scouts
ndieiduel Citizen's Army! • Associatien. '
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seeseeeese
dra.wethe et:Aherne& este:se-on—et
American t r ohieftains.
Their' military value; to America
was- great. Duteh Harbor, a' small,
island of matted grass and 'five
trees, stands near the base of the
Aleutians, that are out:1,500
toward Japan e It. hi ii "Place df
rain and snow and fog sand hard
wind*, and eltere United States
REG'LAR FELLERS—What's in a . Name?
SEt HERE, YOU, YOUNG 0
SCALAWAG STOP BOUNCING ,
• THAT , BASEBALL AGAINST, '
• THIS WALL !
,,,elapane. - 1=21=1...1911.0.31101.2=11=72.A.9,
of Miclwaier American, foreee ham-
achieved a strategic success • of
no inean importance. From Mid- • • .,
Wee% the Japanese could" have efle
raided Pearl Harbor and 'possibly . I • -
could hive launched a major Pa- • , •
eftiee offensive- • with the West
Coat and the, Panama Canal as
' ultimate Objectives.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher
• "Why do
CONFOUND IT, BOY! NOW
CAN A 'PERSON REST
WITH THAT ETERNAL
THUMPING GOING ON?
NOW, 40 AWAY!
you always avoid me? !!"
By GENE BYRNES:
ATHLETES •
PHOOEY
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