Government Officials Must Have
Okays On All Public Speeches
WASHINGTON — The President has finally crack
ed down on high members of his official family who
run at the mouth with monkey wrench-throwing state
ments.
In recent weeks there have been several. One was
Navy Secretary Frank Knox’s pronunciamento that
the first U. S. war job was to defeat Hitler and then
we would take care of the Japs. This brilliant emana
tion created a tremendous furor in Chungking.
The Chinese government made vehement formal re
presentations and the $500,000,000 loan hurriedly
rushed through Congress was one aftermath of this
unfortunate incident.
Another embarrassing pronouncement was Secre
tary Jesse Jones’ bland claim of a $400,000,000 syn
thetic rubber producing program—most of the con
tracts of which have not even been awarded yet. Ex
perts caustically assailed this statement as misleading
and designed to cover up Jones’ bungling of the rub
ber situation.
The President has now decided to end these out
pourings from members of his official family. To this
end he has directed that henceforth high officials must
submit all statements and' speeches to the Office of
Facts and Figures, headed by able Librarian of Con
gress Archibald MacLeish.
Secret instruction to this effect were transmitted in
a letter, signed by White House -Secretary Steve Early,
to all cabinet members, their assistants and heads of all
government agencies.
Under the order, Office of Facts and Figures will no
act as a censor, but the practical effect will amount to
that. OFF will check the statements and speeches with
other interested government agencies and “recom
mend” deletions and changes to avert incidents.
Capital Chaff
Joe Kennedy, former U. S. Ambassador to Britain,
who had strong isolationist leanings, is quietly trying
to wangle a top wartime job. Kennedy’s overtures, so
far indirect, have been through friends, with influen
tial Administration ties. . . . Best editorial so far of
1942: Josephus Daniels’ announcement that after eight
years as Ambassador to Mexico, he is resuming editor
ship of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer. “It is
with some temerity,” Josephus wrote, “that this am
ateur undertakes to succeed the more sedate editor
Jonathan Worth Danields (his son) who has respond
ed to the call of the Government.” . . . Sometime ago
the Nazis threw into a concentration camp President
Seip of the University of Norway, a man of GO. Now
the Norwegian Legation in Washington learns that
Seip was sentenced January 3 to four weeks in a dark
cell. . . . British censorship of U. S. airmail from
South America makes it almost as slow as mail carried
by sea. The British still demand to see our mail at
Trdnidac^ though we now have our own censor. . .
The House stationery room ran short of rubber bands
and appealed to a former member of the House, Maury
Maverick of Texas, now with Nelson, to secure a prior
ity for them. . . .
- -The Washington-Merry-Go-*Pound by Drew Pearson and P bert
S. Allen.
“FRANKIE” PICTURE
CAUSED NO WRONG
St. Louis, Mo. — A su
perior court jury yester
day concluded that Mrs.
Frankie Baker of Portland,
Ore., was not done wrong
by the Republic Pictures
production “Frankie and
Johnnie.”
' Mrs. Baker, an elderly
negro shoe-shine parlor
owner, charged that her
privacy and reputation
were damaged $300,000
worth by the picture. She
claims to be the original
Frankie of the old song,
who shot her husband
Johnnie, because he was
doing her wrong.
Mrs. Baker was acquit
ted of homicide charges in
St. Louis in 1899 after she
shot and killed Alan Britt.
Several witnesses at the
trial testified they heard
the song before 1899.
Jap’s Pocket Subs
Of Mexican Origin
Mexico City (AP) — A
Mexican banker says the
pocket submarines the Jap
anese used in the attack on
Pearl Harbor appear sim-j
ilar to one he invented and
turned over to the foreign
ministry in 1935.
Gonzalo Sanano Anita, of
the Agricultural Credit
Bank, said the published
descriptions and pictures
appear to describe the
same machine he invented.
He said if they were built
from his plans, the plans
must have been taken from
the Foreign Relations files
because he did not discuss
them with any foreign gov
ernment.
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COMING ON THE RUN — W ITH GOOD REASO N—Soldiers in the gun crew of a 12-inch barbette gun somewhere along the Atlantic sea coast run to
their positions in drill designed to keep these coast defenders on the alert against enemy action. In this same area are 12-inch disappearing guns.
Zep Raids On
East Coast
Are Forecast
Washington (AP) — Re
sponsive military offic als
said recently it is “defin
itely in the cards” that Ger
many may use her Zeppe
lins in token raids on east
coast cities of the United
States.
The Nazis, these sources
believe, still have the two
dirigibles which bore the
swastika at the war’s out
break — the trans-Atlantic
veteran, Graf Zeppelin and
the great LZ-130, sister
ship of the Hindenburg,
which was destroyed by
fire at Lakehurst, New Jor
sev, in 1937.
Either dirigible could be
fitted to carry up to ten
bombers within easy strik
ing distance of the Atlantic,
coast and could hover off
shore while the planes,
loosed destruction on the
cities, experts here said.
Or the Zeppelins, themselv
es. could undertake a sui
cide mission and do their
own bombing.
President Roosevelt, in
his message to congress
acknowledged that the en
emy might try air attacks
on great population centers
in an attempt at “terroriz
ing our people” and under
mining morale.
In the east, navy aircraft
experts noted, the tenden
cy was to think in terms of
surface aircraft carriers,
but Germany built a dirig
ible in the first World War
for the express purpose of
bombing New York.
The Graf Zeppelin is a
ship of 4,000,000 cubic feet
and the LZ-130 has a cap
acity of 7,000.000. The lat
ter probably could better
the Hindenburg’s transAt
lantic crossing time of 55
hours, for she cruises at 70
miles an hour and has a
top speed of 85. Moreover,
years of trans-Atlantic dir
igible operations have giv
en the Nazis a corps of ex
perienced Zeppelin men.
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RUSSIANS VIEW NAZI TANK UPSIDE DOWN
Ann: 'cntlv hi bv a w 11-aim eel Kir an she'l, th S ^ German lank rests upside down
in the snow of the Soviet front an.; Ivan ng Red soldiers examine it. In back
ground at left is another disabled tank. This pict . e radioed to N. Y. from Moscow
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.KEEPS THE RECORD STRAICHT—Multiply one curly-haired, blue-eyed girl by three,
and you can see what a problem for teacher, which explains why Mrs. l addie Kubovy of ( hieag.s
pins identifications on her triplet daughters. As the names show, they're lean June and Juan. They'll
be five in April and this was their first day at kindergarten in Berwyn, a suburb.
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KNANA ICE POOL
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The Ncnana Ice Pool organiza-i
on has started functioning in
• reprurtion for the great annual
pring event. Tickets can be had'
at the Nome Drug Store, Polar
Bar, the Navada saloon and at
'ack Solonv-n’s.
Rules governing tin 1942 Ice
.-’uo! contest are:
N nana Ice Poo: cl -is April 4,
942. m: Inight,
No refunds for :■>. ,i"c>d tickets.
\ i .silent partners will be n>
tgri/-cl a win er>
K. y ticket- Nmr of combine
on signed on limit of ticket,
icing as many names as con
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Names
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