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TOl’GH JOB AHEAD
(Philadelphia Record)
President Roosevelt is to be
commended for his choice of
Rear Admiral William D. Leahy
for one of the most ticklish jobs
in the diplomtie service—Ambas
sador to Unoccupied France.
In Vichy, Admiral Leahy will
be in the midst cf the behind
the-scen:s struggle between pro
British ar.d pro-German forces.
Hopes are expressed in Washing
ton that he will be able to stiffen
French morale and prevent Ger
man inroads on the French col
onial empir .
One of his most difficult jobs
will be to resolve the problem of
French possessions in this hemi
sphere, particularly Martinique.
As former Governor of Puerto
Rico he will bring to the ques
tion a fami'iarity with colonial
problems as well as an under
stand of Martinique's importance
in naval affairs.
Formerly Chief of Naval oper
ations. Admiral Leahy served in
the Spanish-American War and
the Boxer uprising. His wide ex
perience will be needed as Am
bassador to the captive Govern
ment in Vichy.
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Ambassador to France Leahy
S 0 1' R D P U G H ’’
S f A T ! n N f R Y
At Nugget Office
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Mystery Shrouds
Identity of Bomb
sight Inventor
By Max Boyd
WASHINGTON, Dec. (£>)—'The
"Mr. X." who developed the na
tion’s No. 1 military secret—the
je3 ously guarded, high accur
acy bombsight—is being shielded
so carefully it was learned that
authorities decline to reveal his
identity lest his life be endan
gered.
“Mr. X” is the man responsible
for the instrument known as the
“Norden Bombsight.” Although
not a navy man he worked close
ly with that department for 15
years in perfecting the invention.
Nothing more is known about
him. Another secret is the loca
tion of the plant where the sights
are manufactured.
General Georg. C. Marshall,
army chief of staff spoke of the
secret device as the “Norden
bombsight” when he emphasized
that it would not be part of the
equipment on the giant long
rang. bombing planes just being
released for sale to Great Brit
ain.
The army chief made a pointed
distinction between the Norden
sight and an earlier instrument,
the Sperry bombsight. The
Sperry sight h disclosed had
been made available to the Brit
ish.
General Marshall said that the
“Norden” development had been
adopted as standard equipment
for United States army and navy
bombers, sup rseding the Sperry
instrument.
One familiar with the sight’s
performance sa:d that it was an
exaggeration to say as some re
ports have had it that the sight
could plump a bomb into a pick
Is. barrel unerringly from the al
iitude of 20.000 feet. He asserted
however that small group of
comgers equipped with the No
den device could spread a dead
'v bomb "pattern” over a small
target from a great altitude. Pat
’-* rn bombing is used it was ex
■ ed to offset the slight mar
j n of error caused by varying
air cuirents that bombs encour
er as they drop.
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New Deal Thorn Who
Rose To Power, That
Is Sen. W F. Georsre
By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON. Dec. — To his
colleagues in the Senate, he’s the
“gentleman from Georgia”; to a
lot of politicians he's the mystery
man of politics”; to persons
whose memories are short, he’s
that euphonious delight, “George
of Georgia.”
As recently as two years ago,
he was a thorn in the sid of the
New Deal; but in official Wash
ington today and probably in the
important news to come he is
and will be spotlighted from
coast to coast as Chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee.
Sen. Walter F. George, uns:n
sational, a’oof, statesman of the
old school politics, is at one and
the same time the most difficult
and the easiest man in the Sen
ate to write about.
Most difficult because he has
always skirt d the rim of anec
dotal activies that give in a para
graph the nature of the .man.
Easiest because from youth he
has pursued a course that is al
most complete y barren of those
inex plicable i n co nsistencies
which the column biographer
must brush aside or build from
molehills into mountains.
IN SENATE SINCE 1922
Senator George came to the
Senate in 1922. He could have
come a few months earlier than
he did but with a gesture of Geor
gian court sy he bowed out of
the picture fo lowing the death
of Sen. Tiiomas E. Watson in or
der that Mrs. Rebecca L. Felton
an elderly and distinguished lady
in the state might have the honor
of being the first of her sex to
sit in the upp r house of Con
gress.
| Soon after, in an election Mrs.
Felton did not enter, he dumb
founded the state’s politicians by
walking away with the vote —
dumbfounded them because al
though he had held judgeships in
th state for 15 years he was not
even thought of as a politician
or a man capable of piling up
' votes in the hurly-burly of a
i southern senatorial race.
With the same quiet persuasive
ness that he used then and a fac
ulty for making influential
friends in every hamlet and city
in his bailiwik Senator George
has been re-elected with tick
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tock regularity — even in 1938,
when (because of his devastat
ing attack on the Supreme Court
revision plan) he was slated by
the New Deal and President
Roosevelt himself for the purge.
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BYGONES ARE BYGONES
His split with the administra
tion according to intimates has
left no scars and his elevation to
the now all-important post of
Chairman of th; Senate Foreign
Relations Committee following
the death of Sen. Key Pittman
has caused no pains at the White
House or State Department. As
a matter of fact his brother south
erner Secretary of State Cordell
Hull is one of his closest friends
and the Senator has already in
formed the press that as Chair
man he will continue to be as
fully in accord with the present
foreign policies as he has been
as a senior member of the com
mittee.
George was born in Preston,
Ga., 62 years ago. Working as a
farm laborer he made his way
through grade school and Mercer
University to an LL.D. degree.
H; started practicing in Vienna,
Ga„ in 1901 and six years later
was elected Circuit Judge. He re
mained on various state benches
for 15 years.
AN ABLE SPEAKER
If today the sever :, patrician, i
white-haired gentleman from1
Gorgia has any outstanding
characteristics they are these: Ab
ility as a speaker which, though
acking in political pyrotechnics,
almost always fills the Senate I
floor and galleries with eager lis-,
teners; an amazing memory typi
fled by the time when he gave
a reporter a 20-minute extempor
aneous statement and an hour
later repeated it word for word,
period for period, to other re
porters who had gotten wind of
tho story; and a dry humor that i
frequently has a practical twist.'
A few years ago, with no
prompting from him, Senator
George was “appointed" by a i
Chicago humorist chief execut- !
ive of “The Society for the Pre-1
vention of Calling Sleeping Car:
Porters Georgs,” Pressed by the
press for a platform and state- j
ment of policy, the Senator ask-;
ed: “Well, why not call them by
their right names?” Nobody it
j seemed had ever thought of such'
a thing.
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FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
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Cloudy with occasional very light snow and not much change in
temeprature tonight and Tuesday.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 30 Lowest temp — 19 Precipitation — 0.05
Total precip this month — 0.43 Total since Jan. 1, 1940_-12.16
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight —.-.. 27 89 NE-9 Snow
Sam - —.—— — —- - 24 88 E-ll Snow
12:30 p m ... . .. 21 85 E-ll Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrsie 9:59 a m Sunset 1:57 p m.
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Highest temp — 25 Lowest temp — 5 Precipitation _ 0.02
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