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Canada’s Strength In The Air
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To win the war the British Em
pire is depending not only on the ;
playing fields of Eton but on the
flying fields of Canada. From the
latter the first squadron of the!
Jtoyal Canadian Air Force has
arrived in England. It is the van
guard of an armada which is ex
pected to develop 15,000 trained
pilots a year. The British believe
that with their home forces this
will be enough to tip the balance
■of air power definitely against
Germany.
Canada’s great war effort is j
concentrated in the air. On the
Canadian prairies the full re
sources of three Dominions are
being pooled in the Common
wealth Air Training Plan. Can-:
auians are confident that they
can supply at least 10.000 pilots,
^ir observers, gunners and radio j
men annually. Australia and New !
Zealand will each send 2.500
more from their home fields for
final training. The cost of the
plan, allocated among the three
Dominions and the United King
dom has been set at $800,000,000
over a three-year period. Canada
highly air-minded, already has
about 20 suitable airdromes and
60 more are being added. Canad- j
ian plane factories are operating i
at top speed and both training
and fighting craft are coming
from the United States. For ev
ery man sent into the air ten are
-necessary on the ground, and
these crews are under intensive
training. By May of this year the
Commonwealth plan should be
under full power.
Toward the end of the last
war Canadians made up 40 per
-ci nt of the R. A. F. Major Bishop
the Canadian ace. alone destroy
ed 72 enemy planes. Canadians
and Anzacs proved the best fly
ing material England had. If. as
Napoleon said, victory depends
upon the last reserves, fighting
filers from the British reserve of
Canada, Australia and New Zea
land may force the final decision
in the clouds.—New York Times.
THIS
WHISKEY
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4
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The Washington
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By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON — For the first
time in 24 years, Republicans
and Democrats swing into a bat
tle for the Presidency against the
ominous backdrop of a big-time
European warfare.
The 1940 campaign scene has
marked similarities —and some
striking contrasts — to that of
1916 when Woodrow Wilson rode
to victory over Charles Evans
Hughes on the slogan “He kept
us out of war.”
Again the nation is trying to
maintain neutrality. Again a
Democratic administration is in
power. To Europe on a peace-ex
ploring tour for President Roose
velt went Under-Secretary of
State Sumner Welles. To Europe
on a similar mission went Presi
dent Wilson’s unofficial armbassad
or. Col. E. M. House.
The “all-out” war then had a
sharper Impact on this country
than the present "limited” con
flict. Submarine sinking without
warning of foreign merchant ves
sels with Americans aboard brot
from Wilson an ultimatum that
unless Germany abandoned that
sort of warfare the United States
would sever diplomatic relations.
Uncle Sam now forbids Ameri
can ships and travelers to go into
war zone waters.
T. R. Jeered Wilson
In 191®. members of both part
ies carried guns as well as flags
in Citizens Preparedness parades.
New York society girls enrolled
in a "military training camp op
erated by a woman of wealth at
Erskine, N. J. In contrast to the
current overwhelming "keep out”
sentiment, many then felt that
U. S. participation was inevit
able.
Republicans centered their cam
paign attack on Wilson's failure
to take a stronger stand in deal
ing with the belligerents partic
ularly Germany. Teddy Roose
velt lambasted him for writing
pussy-footing notes,” jeered at
the famed Wilson declaration “a
nation too proud to fight.”
This year’s G. O. P. fire is be
ing directed chiefly at Democrat
ic domestic policies. On the inter
national side, Republican politic
ians are warning of the danger
.'of our getting into the war.
Owing to the third-term enig
ma the flock of leading possibil
itics in both parties, presidential
rrospects are much more mud
dled now than in 1916. Wilson
' was an unopposed Democratic
choice for a second term. Justice
Hughes was a likely Republican
election, although T. R., was get
- ting more of the spotlight,
Hughes won the Republican
nomination on the third ballot.
Teddy Roosevelt was nominated
' by the Progressives but declined
! and supported the Republican
ticket. The Wilson-Hughes race
was the closest since the Hayes
Tilden contest, Hughes having
the bitter experience of learning
that he had lost the presidency
after believing he had won it.
Early Returns For Hughes
Early returns from the east and
middle-western cities gave Hugh
es such a large lead that New
York newspapers ran the head
line "Sweeping Victory for Hugh
es.”
Belated returns from rural sec
tions in the west showed Wilson
gaining and, on the third day af
ter election, his victory was con
ceded. Wilson received 277 elec
toral votes, Hughes 254.
Before Wilson’s second inaugur
ati.rn, unrestricted submarine
warfare caused severance of dip
lomatic relations with Germany.
Less than a month after his inau
guration, he appeared before Con
gress to ask a declaration of a
state of war.
HAWAIIAN VOLCANO
IS ERUPTING
HILO. Hawaii, April 9—Smoke
billowed out of red-glowing Mo
kuaweoweo crater of Maunaloa.
45 miles from here, on ist first
eruption since 1935, when rivers
t of lava approached within 12 mil
es of here.
The eruption began shortly af
ter midnight and four columns of
smoke arose from the crater.
Dr. Thomas Jaggar, volcanol
ogist. who predicted the previous
eruption, said last year another
outburst was “overdue.”
An airplane flight disclosed a
| fissure four to five miles long has
I opened on the side of Mauna Loa
J and that lava has started flowing
| down the mountain in the direc
tion of Kau desert on the oppos
I ite side.
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] Alaska Gets Old-Age Grant
—
The Social Security Board thru,
its Territorial Director, Hugh J.!
Wade, announced today the grant
ing of $160,912.90 to the Territory!
' of Alaska for thp purpose of as
sisting the Territory to defray j
the cost of its Old-Age Aissistanco
Law for the balance of the fiscal
year ending June 30.
During February of this year
the Department of Public Wel
fare for the Territory of Alaska
made old-age assistance grants
to 1,348 aged individuals. The av
erage monthly payment amount
ed to $28.02 for each recipient.
The Social Security Board sin
ce July 1, 1937 (which was the
date on which the Alaska Old
Age Assistance Law went into ef [
feet) has granted to the Territory |
of Alaska $517,296.47—for the fis,
cal year ending July 1, 1938, the I
Territory received $144,458.99,
the next fiscal year it received,
$163,176.31 and for the present fis
cal year grants amounting to j
$209,661.17 have been received.
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H STORY IN THE MAKING —All of liis hope for peace seems to mark the expression of
1 i s i‘i this Feb. 27 view at the Vatican when Myron C. Taylor (left), F. D. R.'s special
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