The White Falcon - 08.11.1941, Blaðsíða 7

THE WHITE FALCON
FAGH 7
The American Scene
Atlantic
Men of the Atlantic fleet fac-
ed the grim realities of war
this week as the undeclared
naval warfare between Amer-
ica and Germany reached real-
istic proportions.
Reuben James — 95 dead.
Last week, on patrol duty
off Iceland, the American De-
stroyer Rueben James was hit
by a submarine’s torpedo and
went down marking the first
American warship to be lost
in the present hostilities.
For four days no mention of
casualties was made, as Wash-
ington waited for the final
count. Then it came, the final
figures listed 45 as saved ....
95 missing and considered
dead .... the largest casualty
list of any American warship
belligerent or non-belligerent,
since the sinking of the Maine
in Havana harbor 1896.
Reaction in Washington was
varied. Senator Scott Lucas
said the sinking was “further
proof of a well designed Nazi
scheme and terroristic plan to
drive all naval vessels of anti-
axis powers off treaty protect-
ed waters”. Isolationist Sena-
tor Nye regretted the disaster,
but said “you can’t walk into
a barroom of enemies and re-
main without a fight .... that’s
apparently what the Admini-
stration hopes to do.”
President Roosevelt quickly
remarked tht he didn’t believe
the incident would cause ally
change in Ainericaln-German
relations. It was evident that
the President did not intend
to use the incident at present
for a declaration of war.
Wednesday the Navy depart-
ment announced that the night
before the sinking of the Reub-
en James the tanker Salinas
had been hit by a torpedo en-
route from Iceland to the Un-
ited States. The announcement
was withheld until after the
tanker reached its destination.
Foodstuff for Britain
. . took an ironic turn this week
in Detroit when women pickets
threw eggs and tomatoes at
British Ambassador Lord Hali-
fax. Previously a group known
as “American Mothers” had
picketed Halifax’s hotel with
placards reading “to Halifax
with Halifax” and “down with
England” and “Halifax is a
Warmonger**.
Labor
Employment.
St. Louis (UP). — Lachran
MacLeaj", president of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Association told
business leaders this week they
should make plans now to re-
turn 26,000,000 soldiers and de-
fense workers to post war ci-
vilian occupations.
Defense
It was revealed iii Washing-
ton this week that the propos-
ed shipment of machine tools
to Russia is meeting strong op-
position. The Washington be-
lief is based on the possibility
of the tools reaching German
hands through the fall of the
USSR. Only finished weapons
will be shipped. Also revealed
was the fact that under the
agreement reached in Moscow
the United States will ship
fifteen billion dollars in de-
fense materials annually to the
Soviets.
Coast Guard.
President Roosevelt, Sunday
night, put the entire Coast
guard under the jurisdiction
of the Navy, concentrating the
nations power at sea for the
undeclared .war now raging in
the Atlantic. In other times un-
its of the Coast Guard had
been transferred from the
Treasury to the Navy depart-
ments jurisdiction. The exeeut-
ive order transferred all units
“until further orders”.
Defective defense items.
War department sources
revealed the Army had return-
ed five thousand of the new-
est half inch machine guns for
planes, and antitank guns to
the manufacturers because
tests revealed defective work.
Estimated Value of defective
arms — $5,000,000.
Uruguay ponders.
The Uruguayan senate pond-
ered acceptance of a seventeen
million dollar arms loan from
the United States.
Sports
Chicago—The Illinois racing
hoard ordered four persons
ruled off the turf for life be-
cause of alleged connection
with the running of a “ringer”
at Hawthorne track Sept. 24th
and 26th.
The horse Hasty Notion,
which the board found ran in
two races at Hawthorne under
the name of Rapid Bone, also
was banned from the turf.
The persons ordered su-
spended from racing were R.
V. C. Van Cleve, reputed own-
er of Rapid Bone, William
Rafferty, Chicago, the man to
whom Hasty Notion was sold
by Brad Brodsky, Philadelphia,
Mrs. George Ehinger, identifi-
ed as the aunt whom Rafferty
claimed was buying horses for
him, and Pete Walls.
A $ 700 first place purse won
by Rapid Bone at Hawthorne
Sept. 24th and a $ 200 second-
place money won by the horse
Sept. 26th were ordered re-
turned.
AMERICAN CHAMPS—Here they are, New York Yankees, American Baseball League's 1941 champions. Front, Tim Sullivan,
batboy. First row, from left: Bordagaray, Rizzuto, Chandler, Schulte, coach, Fletcher, coach, McCarthy, manager, Combs, coach,
Donald, Breuer, Bonham. Second row, Keller, Rosar, Henrich, Dickey, Murphy, Branch, Sturm, Priddy, Crosetti, Doc Painter,
trainer. Third row, Gordon, Ruffing, DiMaggio, Silvestri, Gomez, Schrieber, Selkirk, Stanceau, Peek. Rolfe and Russo are ill.