New Men To
Fly For Navy
Are Well Trained
—
SEATTLE, July — That U. S.
Navy fliers are second to -none is
well known—but what about the
new men, the flying officers who
will fight and fly the Navy planes
now coming off the production
lines?
They too, will be second to
none.
Stories of the stamina and en
ergy power of the German luft
waffe may be well organized pro
paganda, but there is no propag
anda about athletic education
and recreational program under
way at the Naval Air Station.
Sand Point, Capt. Ralph Wood,
U. S. Navy, Commanding Offic
er of the Station, has just an
nounced the appointment of
Lieut. Norman F. Kunde. U. S.
Naval Reserve, to head the staff
cf the athletic instructors who
will keep the airmen in top
physical trim.
Fine Type of Man
Lieut. Kunde is well known in
the sports worid, and he holds a
Eachelor’s degree, Master's de
gree, and has completed advanc
ed work toward a Doctorate at
New York University. Education
al and recreational experts con
sider him a fine example of the
type of athletic director needed
to carry on the Navy's new pro
gram Kunde is on a leave of ab
sence from his alma mater, the
University of Washington, where
he was supervisor of Required
Physical Education, and handled
technical training courses in re
creation, corrective physical ed
ucation, first aid and safety. He
was formerly boxing coach at the
University and turned out a
champioship team.
Welfare Building
The Naval Air Station, Sand
Point, is now completing an ath
letic welfare building which will
house athletic and recreation fac
ilities for both officers and enlist
ed men. It will feature gymna
sium, swimming pool, bowling
alley, theatre, and special exer
cise rooms. A turf athletic field
adjoins it for the staging of sea
sonal outdoor sports. The station
already has a fast-moving soft
ball league and baseball team
which competes with outside or
ganizations.
Kunde and his staff will sched
ule regular physical education
classes which will fit into the
Naval air training program of
the officer personnel, cadets and
ground crews.
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ME RR Y -GO -R O UND
THE WASHINGTON
By Drew Pearson apd
Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON —For approx:
mately one year J. Edgar Hoover
Director of the Federal Bureau
of • Investigation, has not been
particularly happy.
A most every week there issu-'
ed from Capitol Hill a Dies
Committee blast about spies and
j saboteurs in the United States.
The blasts made headlines. Also
j they caused all sorts of people
'and editorial writers to query:
| What is J. Edgar Hoover do
1 ing about these foreign spies?
i Why is he leaving everything to
the patriotic Mr. Dies?
In reply Mr. Hoover said abso
lutely nothing.
And there was a very good
reason. For during that year he
| had under surveillance the great
■ est spy ring ever shadowed in
the United States. And one word
leaking out that they were being
shadowed would have sent every
suspect running for cover, upset
| the evidence FBI agents were col
I lecting during months of cease
' less vigil.
For instance, J. Edgar Hoover's
men knew, more than a year ago
tha ta Nazi spy ring was plot
ting to blow up the British liner
Queen Mary, then docked in New
! York. They knew it because at
1 that time they were permittedf
to tap -telephone wires, and they
1 listened in on the plot.
Right in the middle of the plot,
the Supreme Court ruled that
tlephone wires could not be tap
ped, and from that ime on the
FBI had to shadow the spies in
stead of listen in on them. To
( have arrested the saboteurs at
j that tme wou'd have meant that
I the other spies, suifpected but
' not yet in the net, would have
i fled the country. So Hoover said
j nothing and waited.
Also he had the Queen Mary
| carefully guarded. She sailed un
damaged. It was more than a
year ago, also, that Hoover learn
1 ed that a Nazi agent inside the
Sperry gyroscope plant was try
r ing to lay hands on the blu-e
. prints of the secret United Sjtates
[ bomb-sight. In fact, four prints
were almost within his reach
\ when the FBI found out about it.
. j For more than a year since then,
: those plans have been kept tan
. talizingly just out of reach while
Hoover waited for more spies to
I walk into his net.
FBI Efficiency
All this time Congressman Mar
tin Dies, Democrat of Texas, was
issuing blasts about spies, though
arresting none of them, and a lot
of people were asking:
‘‘Why doesn’t Hoover do some
thing?” Finally, Hoover was
ready; and just about two weeks
ago the biggest spy ring in Am
erican history was rounded up
in New York.
The machinery by which these
spies were arrested and confes
sions secured from many of them
is the best illustration of the
uuiet efficiency of the FBI. It all
happened on a Sunday. The ar
rests were made simultaneously]
in about 20 different parts of;
New York and the vicinity. Each
suspect was brought to a differ
ent room at FBI headquarters
and was interrogated by a dif
ferent FBI agent. The rooms
were so separated that no pri
soner knew what his colleagues
were in the adjoining rooms and
might be spilling the goods on
him.
Cross - examination continued
quietly all aftrenoon, interrupted
by time-out for a sandwich, a
cup of coffee or a smoke (FBI
men have instructions to kill
their prisoners with kindness).
In the end, the evidence placed
before the prisoners was so over
whelming that most of the key ar
rests decided to plead guilty.
J. Edgar Hover has been in
charge of the Federal Bureau of'
Investigation about 20 years. It
was Harlan F. Stone, now Chief
Justice, then Attorney General
under Cooledge, who put him in
charge. Prior to that Hoover had
been merely a hard-working
clerk who burned the midnight,
oil studying law and worked his
way up to chief assistant inside'
the FBI.
Hoover’s predecessor was the!
famous William J. Burns, who!
under President Harding had
made a shambles of the FBI. Pol
iticians and ex-convicts of the
Halifax Doubts
Sunny California
LOB ANGELES. July — The
British ambassador to Washing
ton. Lord Ha'ifax. arrived in Los
Angeles today, apparently pre
pared for the worst in weather.
Although the temperature rang
ed upward from SO degress, the
ambassador carried a topcoat and
i an umbrella.
! Lord Halifax will inspect the
] huge Lockheed A'rcraft factory
and persona ly accept the one
| thousandth plane that the plant
has built for Britain.
ORCHIDS FOR ALASKANS
Orchids for Alaska brides may
i come from England now, for til?
Beall Greenhouse Company of
: Seattle has just received a ship
ment of $50,000 worth of rare
p ants which came by boat to
New York and rail to the west
coast. Fragile flowers from bomb
shattered Sussex will now grow
. in the quiet of Vashon Island in
Puget Sound. A few plants were
rotted from fire-hose water pour
ed on them while standing on
the Liverpool docks during a
bombing. Lack of fuel and labor
for flower-growing is acute in
England and greenhouses are
t favorite marks for Nazi bombers.
! Nothing that needs to be done
is unimportant.
Gaston B. Means type were hired
as investigators. And if a Sen
ator did not want a certain mat,
ter investigated, it was dropped.
Hoover saw from watching
Burns, that there could be no pol
itics inside the FBI. He has been
rigid on that point ever since. He
| is a gland-hander, and will talk
■the arm off a congressman, but a
lot of kind words is all the con
gressman gets. Hoover will drop
no investigation because of pol
, itical pressure. Nor will he in
i vestigate a congressman, senator
or newsaperman unless he has
written orders from the Attor
ney General himself.
It was the sorry example of
William J. Burns under Harding
'that made Hoover resolve that
, every one of his agents must be
a college graduate. That rule is
followed even today, when the
j FBI has expanded ten tmes its
step back in the Coolidge days.
A college degree, sometimes ev
en a law degree, is just as essen
tial to an FBI job as West Point
' and Annapolis are to commis
sions in the Army and Navy.
Up From Plain Beginnings
Despite the atmosphere of guns
! and gangsters surrounding the
FBI, there is nothing very sen
sational about either Hoover’s
past or his present. He came
from very plain surroundings,
and up until a few years ago
still lived with his mother in the
none too fashionable Washington
house in which he was born. His
family has been a family of gov
, ernment workers, and his bro
1 I
j ther was Chief of the Bureau of
Navigation of the commerce de- i
partment.
No family influence or politic-1
al pull pushed Hoover ahead in'
life, and probably his success
stems chiefly from ceaseless, un
remitting work pLus personal in
tegrity, plus a scrupulous care
not to infringe upon the civil
liberties.
The CIO has been suspicous of:
Hoover and sometimes accuses
him of planting labor spies. Un-j
questionably if there are sabot- j
eurs inside national defense fac-!
tories, Hoover will have men i
planted to find them out. But the i
real fact is, though the CIO may
not appreciate it, that Hoover is
one of the most circumspect pro
tectors of civil liberties in the
country.
No suspect gets his reputation
ruined by having his name splash
ed in the headlines unless Hoo
ver definitely has the goods on
him. There are no raids on the
private files of political organiza
tion such as staged by the Dies
Committee. Hoover is tough, but
he respects the rules of game —
especially the fundamental lib
erties on which the nation was
founded.
Labor, indeed the whole nation
in times like these, is lucky to
have him on the job.
Neon Sign
Causes Bombers
To Crash
MARCH P5ELD. Calif.. July —
That they mistook a bright neon
sicn for an airport beacon was
one explanation offered by the
commanding officer of three light
bombers which cradled in the1
vicinity of Madera, Calif., a few
days ago.
No one was serious'y injured
when the bombers crashed as the
six occupants all bailed out safe
ly in parachutes.
Hawaii To Get
3,000 Workers
VALLEJO, Calif., July— Navy
officials announced a Va! eio that
600 skilled workmen hired in the
East have arrived at the Mare
Island Navy Yard, enroute to
Honolulu.
Tile men are part of about
3,000 ski'led workers to be added
■ to the civilian force at the Pearl
Harbor naval base in the islands.
Tlie workers will be given tern
porary employment at Mare Is
and while awaiting passage to
Honolulu,
REDUCTION IN ADS
TERMED MISTAKE
I _
j Thomas H. Corpe told the Pac
ific Clubs Association conven
1 tion that “wise business leaders
' will avoid the pitfa'ls of the
! World War. when a number of
fine firms cut their advertising ac
1 propriations.”
j Corpe, assistant sales manager
of Lockheed Aircraft Corpora
tion. said these firms ‘found them
j selves out of the public eye in
two or three years and unknow
| ingly greased the skids for their
own crash.”
! WHAT THE WANT ADS
MEAN TO NOME
———
To Sell that gun, furniture
baby carriage, coat, trunk at a
profit.
To Buy that ice box or rug
piano or suit, car or accordian al
low cost.
|. To Rent that room, garage
apartment or that house to de
sirable tenants.
- .
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ITALIAN TROOPS
IN GREECE REBEL
Mr~.COW. July — The Soviet
hign '• '■ mand reported ;hat dis
turban:- ; and rebellion had b ok
en out among troops of Italian,
divisi: ns in Greece which had
been ordered to go to the Turk
ish front. Details of the disturb
ances were not given.
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SCENE OF SUBAMARINE DISASTER
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A U. S. Navy submarine (top), the rescue iM' ip Falun (enter), and
(he Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane (bottom), lie motuyiless at
j sea off Portsmouth, N. II. over the ^approximate spot where the
Navy submarine 0-9 w<V't down in 440 feet of water with 33 men
abcard, waiting to begin salvage ;operations.
NAVY CHIEF DROPS WREATH FOR SUD DEAD
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Col. Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy (near bow) throws a wreath over the side from the U. S.
Navy submarine Triton, while a bugler blows taps, as funeral services were held at sea for 33
officers and men lost aboard the submarine 0-9 off Portsmouth, N. H. Note the flag at half mast.