p? ~~ Washington, D. C. SUBMARINE ANTIDOTE A history making event took place recently in the long war against the submarine. Official tests were made of the helicopter, which, despite op position of the navy, has been urged by officials of the army and War Slipping administration for anti submarine patrol. Within a few hours after the pub lication of a Merry-Go-Round story on this subject, a group of officials from Washington, including highly interested and highly placed officials of the British admiralty, British ship ping mission, and the RAF, stood in amazement on the deck of a tanker offshore while a little airplane with a crazy rotary wing on top landed and took off from a deck space not more than twice the size of the plane itself. It was a Sikorsky helicopter, pilot ed by a boyish colonel who remind ed everybody of Charles Lindbergh in his younger days?H. F. Gregory, from Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, who knows more about helicopters than anybody else in the air force. Gregory made 24 landings on the tanker during the two days of trials. Ha operated under all conceivable conditions?when the tanker was rid ing at anchor, when she was run ning at 1516 knots, when she was headed into the wind, and when she was running with the wind. The War Shipping administration, which supplied the tanker, had of fered to remove the mast, to provide a safer landing space. But inven tor Sikorsky scorned that as "too easy." Accordingly, his plane was set down by Colonel Gregory in the space between the mast and the deck house, with only a 14-foot clear ance on either side. Far-Seeing 'Eyes/ To the British and American ship ping experts whose ships are going to the bottom every day, the sig nificance of this feat was inescap able. They (Irmly believe the heli copter can be used to supplement the escort vessels for the greater protection of merchant ships in con voy. It la too light to carry much strik ing power of its own, except a few rockets, but it can fly out ahead of the convoy, hover over the sea, spot the wolf pack, and report by radio to the escort vessels. This saves movement of the escort vessels, which In present practice have to maneuver constantly around the merchant ships, with heavy con sumption of fuel oil. Moreover, the helicopter, without firing a shot! brings alarm to the prowling submarine and causes the U-boat to dive. Earlier acceptance of the helicop ter was prevented by the navy's bu reau of aeronautics, which contends that the machine is defenseless Against the guns of a submarine. The defenders reply that the plane can dart about so crazily that it is too evasive to be easily Mt. More over, helicopters can be built for $15,000 each, and the loss of a few would not be serious, compared with the loss of escort vessels. In any case, the matter has gone beyond the stage of argument. The War Shipping administration is determined to have helicopters, and if the navy won't come along, WSA will make a deal with the coast guard to train pilots, and another deal with the war department to place the planes on its ships. ? ? ? ARMT AND COAL MINES John L. Lewis would have got the surprise of his life if he could have had a dictaphone recording of the conversation of Secretary of War Stimson and Gen. B. B. Somervell regarding the use of troops in taking ever the coal mines. Lewis had expressed public ap prehension that the army had a plan to seize the coal mines In case of a strike. Undoubtedly subordinate anhy ofBcers did have such a plan hi mind. . r!t But when Secretary Stimson sat down with Secretary Ickes, plus General Somervell and other army ofBcers, the army expressed vigor ous opinions to the contrary. Gen eral Somervell, accused by some of wanting the army to take over all civilian activities, made this re mark: "The last thing are want is an Is sue of the army against the people." Secretary Stimson also expressed relief that Secretary Ickes, known as a staunch defender of civil lib erty, had been selected by the Presi dent to handle the coal crisis. He offered Ickes every co-operation but expressed the hope that he would not have to use troops. ? ? ? CAPITOL CHAFF C Freshman Representative Charles La Follette is the only Republican congressman who supported the President'? foreign policies in the last campaign. La Follette also has a liberal labor record. C Radio Operator R. W. Dunn, who first received the coded message of an armistice November 11, ISIS, Is eager to serve again. He has en rolled as a Junior radio .operator In Pan American Airways. Seattle ? school, preparing tor Alaska sere '1MB- V-.VT r.;? ?/?* .i-.*. ?? lev- v . Area of U. S. Push in North Pacific CH 1? J)Sa & Htfi^ro* ISLANDS iiij II nZ??*oi yv&g-JjiZ* " "?*' ?? T ^.^tanorcanop 8 e o F n C ? ^ 1 M - " ?MAC,MfffMSTM* ?:?:? ? :?:?: ?? ? The strategic position of Attn island, in the Aleutians, where the navy landed strong forces to engage Japanese troops, is graphically shown in this official D. S. navy map. Japanese troops occupied the island about a year ago. In the upper left hand corner is a chart of the comparative distances from Attn to vari ous points in the Pacific area. Assembly Line in Southwestern Pacific Mechanically minded American soldiers are taking their mass production assembly line methods with them to the Southwest Pacific. Here troops take parts of tracks, jeeps and ambnlances as they come from the ships and put them through the line. One improvement on the assembly line system is their "Change over." When the boys tire of one operation, a command switches all members of the line to a new position and a new job. Left, rear running gear of a two-ton track is assembled. Bight, a cab is added to the track and soon it will be ready for duty in a battle rone. Maltese Tribute to Stalingrad A stone shelter on Malta, most bombed spot on the earth, bears the name "Stalingrad." It Is a tribute from Malta to the Russian city which also rocked under Nasi mass raids, yet held out grimly to Tietory. Be neath Malta a great system of subterranean workshops hewn from solid roek were the battle stattoos of thousands of workers who made British tools of war cyan as Axis bombs exploded a bore them. Army Officers Quartered in Metal These Metal beildiafs la baa were formerly need for storia* train. New they eeree as ofdcers' qnarters for V. S. ferees in that eenatry. Three teaaats staadtac entalde of their pecatiar hones are, left to rlfht, i Captains B. B. Seitsinfer, Falrteid, lews; J. W. Cater, Louisrllle, Ky.; sad 1. L Clayton, MlaarapeWe, Miaa. She's a Major The first woman physician to b< commissioned directly into the United States army Is Dr. Margaret D. Craighill. She is shown being sworn in as a major by Col. Fred erick Seboenfeld, commanding of ficer of the Philadelphia recruiting district. Outta My Way "WBffiSeSBKKMI Dashing orer tha home plate, Bake Barn a ol the New Yerk G lasts knocks both baU and (lore from the hands el Catcher Heraandas ef the Chicago Cabs daring a tight game at the rale Grands te New Task. Spring Released by Weatern Newspaper Union. THE "match of the century" will develop when bashful Gunder Haag, famed Swedish middle distance runner, arrives in the Unit ed States to pit. his speed and en durance against America's best ath letes. The match of the century, of oourse, would see barrel chested Greg Rice, formerly of Notre Dame, meet the Ghost of Gavle, in a match designed to end a lot of arguments. Holder of five official world rec ords at distances from 1,500 meters to 5,000, including a 4:04.6 miles, Haag is looking forward to competi tion in America with all the eager ness of a rookie seeing big league action for the first time. Haag boarded a tanker at Gote- < borg for his voyage across the^At lantic. In an interview befcrd he left, he said: "I love to run and it has always been my dream to go to the United States. I have never been outside Europe and I am looking forward to competing with America's great run ners. "When I get there I'll run any place and any time, and the AAU can let the profits of any meets go where it finds suitable?whether to war benefits or other funds." Explanation The sandy-haired Haag, a village fireman at Gavle, had a very def inite purpose in mind when he made the latter statement. Previous re ports published in this country in msmmmmamammm GREG RICE dicated that he was unwilling, as ? citizen of a neutral country, to com pete in meets staged for the benefit of war relief agencies. Haag denied the statement flatly. "I am ready to ran, especially if it helps war invalids or other victims of the war," he said. Tentative arrangements for Haag's appearance in this country include ihe National AAU championships, to be held in New York June 19-20, and special meets in other cities. The AAU championship program has been arranged so that Haag, if he wishes, could run in the 1,500 meters on June 19 and in the 5,000 meters on June 20. It is in the latter race he prob ably would be called upon to face Greg Rice, world indoor record hold er at two miles and far and away America's leading distance ranner. Rice is a chief specialist in the Unit ed States Maritime service. In New York, Dan Ferris, seeretary-trean nrer of the AAU, said that all bene fits from meets in which Haag com petes would go to the U. S. Air Forces' Aid society. Sports Spectacle The race should be one of those rare sports spectacles where the is sue is a clean cut test of superiority between champions. Such meetings seldom take place?largely because two great competitors seldom arise at the same time. Old timers recall that in the field of distance running, the victory of Italy's Pietri Dorando over Amer ica's John J. Hayes at the old Madi son Square Garden was one of the most talked of events of the cen tury. Hayes had been proclaimed the Olympic marathon winner in London in 1908, after Dorando, lead ing until a few yards from the fin ish, fell and was helped over the line by friends. Hayes was given the title after Dorando was disquali fied. Then Dorando and Hayes turned professional and engaged in a se ries of marathons. The first of these took place in New York. The crowds were slightly terrific. Thou sands couldn't attend because of safety restrictions. But Dorando proved himself. He won a majority of their races, thus vindicating him self in the eyes of his followers. SPORTS SHORTS C The major league fielding record for first basemen is a .999 average set by John P. ("Stuffy") Mclnnis of the Boston Red Sox for 152 games in 1921. C Since Doug Mills became basket ball coach at Illinois seven years ago, the Hlini have won 01 games and lost 26 for a .701 percentage against Big Ten competition. C In 1942, 116 major league double headers resulted in standoffs and 123 otMrs produced double wins tor soe of the contesting teams. /SPECIAL ARTICl?s\ I 'BY THE LEADING Inside Story Of Toulon By J. C. Fernand-Laurent (WSU Futurt?Throutb tpeciel erreotemeel with Collier"? Weekly) It was nothing but German stupid ity that lost Hitler the French fleet last November, and the arms and Munitions at the great naval base pt Toulon. I know the story, because I was in Toulon. Admiral De Laborde, the French commander, had received no recent instructions from Vichy. The only orders in his possession were those dating from the armistice, com manding him to resist all aggression from whatever source, and to sabo tage the fleet rather than surrender it. These orders never had been countermanded. Preparations for sabotage had been made. On the morning of November 27, Vichy, in the name of Marshal Petain and as ordered from Berlin, tried to rescind this order by telephone from Vichy to Toulon. The new instructions authorized surrender of the fleet to the Ger mans. But the telephone was not functioning. 1 Why not? The truth is simple. Germans Cot Wires to Isolate. The German commanders at Tou lon, having completed encirclement of the place and not wishing to be disturbed in carrying out their in tentions, cut every telephone wire on the night of the 26th, and jammed ail radio transmission in order to isolate the naval base from the rest of France?including Vichy. It is for this reason alone that Vichy's orders to surrender the fleet never arrived?until too late to save the ships for Germany. Here was Justice: self-adminis tered 1 Many accounts have been pub lished concerning what happened at Toulon and why it happened. Most of the accounts have contained mis takes. This article, I believe, is the first true story of the heroic end of the major part of the French navy. On November 27 I was near Tou lon at the home of a member of our underground movement. We were awakened a little before seven in the morning by the crash of explosions. Uermans niter In At Nlgbt. During the night, the German troops had Altered through the sleep ing city. They encountered no one. The French sailors were aboard their ships, the infantry and the Senegalese were in the arsenal, the forts and the casements. The Ger mans hesitated, losing precious time. After a while, two columns formed, one heading toward the arsenal, the other toward the docks. Soon the Nazis were throwing themselves into every boat they could And, crowding upon pontoons they had brought with them. Suddenly a gun boomed from the Aagship. Gun Signal Booms. It was the signal?the order to sabotage all ships, to destroy port installations, to spike the guns of the coastal batteries. Aboard the 70 ves sels moored or anchored in the har bor, commanders were at their posts. They gave the pre-arranged orders. Soon the old dock, the wa ter front, the harbor and the road stead?the anchorage where France's proud ships had lived?were no more than cemeteries. Fresh explosions came from the arsenal. Machines and workshops in the factories were being destroyed. To the south, Aamea and clouds of smoke from burning ammunition dumps rose high. All around the base, from the Saron to Cape Brim, there were new explosions. Mor tars, huge riAes, shells in vast quan tity?all were destroyed. France's most powerful naval base, the work of 20 years, was a mass of smoking wreckage. Blind with rage, the Germans stormed the arsenal, killed the sen tinels and forced open the heavy gates. They were too late. There was hand-to-hand Aghting in the workshops between Nazi soldiers and French workers, many of whom were killed or wounded. In their rage the invaders then turned against the cadet school, sur rounded the youngsters and by weight of numbers manacled them, thrust them into trucks and rushed them to a concentration camp. Sev eral times along the route, crowdi tried to free the lads. First reports after the tragedy said that crews had gone down with their ships. This was not so. The truth was simpler but no less Ane: Officers and sailors, to a man, hav ing done their work of destruction, remained at their posts to thi last moment, and then in perfect or der abandoned their ships and reached shore. A number of both officers and met were explosion victims; some othen were drowned. Whan the crews got ashore, the] met heavy German forces, and mo* of them were taken pcittner. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT RAZOR BLADES KENT BUDES '?gSSF OPPORTUNITY Save money. Make money. Renew dead car batteries inexpensively. Instructions $1 ?r sent C.O.D. Pepelar Service, Racine. Win. MEDICATES m?SS POWDER FOB FAMILY USE Languages in India More than 200 languages are spoken in India. rSHAVE w.h SHELBY, &Wa ?citar~ hMkwII^COLl DONT LET " CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP ? WhM bowels are sluggish and foa faal irritable, headachy, do aa niillhme do-chew FEEN-A-MINT, the modem chewing-gam laxative. 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