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Daily News from New York, New York • 6

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ERRORS LKMUq IHSamms um "2aBr SPITFIRES BY OWN are right a thousand times cannot be denied. "If we stand here and practice what we believe to be the appropriate thing we will stick here HI "But I know exactly what we are 1 (Continued from page 2) before he leaped from a sky inferno and parachuted down to weeks of agony in a hospital before he could get back to the squadron. Another, in peacetime, was a hurdler whose name was known all over the world. The day previous his squadron had shot down its 100th German. Next to him was "Fanny" once a Liverpool motor car saleman.

Then "Sawn Off." aged 21. ace of the flight, with 25 planes to his score, the scars of two broken legs and a broken arm and the distinction of having more machines shot from under him than any man in the RAF. 20 Victims to Be Ace. The RAF. incidentally, has (Continued from page t) wild applause when Johnson called upon the Senators to vote "as men who have any sort of bowels in them to keep the word of the President even if he wont keep it himself make good the campaign pledge that our Army, air force or Navy will not be sent to fight in foreign land." With the Johnson vote out of the way, the Administration steamroller moved swiftly and effectively, crushing all opposition.

Senator Taft offered the original Ellender amendment designed to keep American armed forces within this hemisphere. It was defeated, 51 to 38. Then the Administration, offering the "compromise" Ellender amendment, drawn after Ellender up against. It would not make any difference if we were trying to write the Ten Commandments into this proposed law. If it were not permitted by the chief mogul of TO this nation to write the Ten Com-" mandments into law, he would only have to say so in order to have them stricken out." fy "Be Men," His Plea.

Then came the outburst: "I say, for God's sake be 1 Stand on your two legs. Be not afraid to say that we will not let our boys be sent abroad. We will yield everything sought by Great Britain, but the real thing we will not yield, the one thing we will hold fast to, is our own blood. Wre are entitled to that. The people who will not hold fast to their own blood can vote against this amend- ment Senator Wheeler an-nounced his support of Johnson's i amendment with a warning that unless it was approved, the action i of Congress would be widely inter- pre ted as an "invitation to the rk -j i i Senator Wheeler Backs Johnson amendment.

Europe, Asia, Africa shall not come to America," cried Johnson. "We will not participate in foreign wars and will not send our Army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside the America's except in cases of attack. Scornfully attacking the peace pledges of both parties and the "keep out of war" Presidential campaign pledges of Roosevelt and Willkie, Johnson, his voice trembling with rage, declared the fact that on the Senate floor be was "at a disadvantage in calling the President to account. "Had these pledges come from an oridnary man or woman, I would be able to excoriate them and subject them to the denuncia tion which they deserve if they broke their word. But I cannot do that to the President of the United States," he said.

"I shall not doit. It is sufficient merely to read his utterances and then you must determined whether you are going to keep his faith for him or whether you are going to break his faith for him." "I Realize the Pressure." Taking up White House pressure exerted to keep Admnistraton sena tors in line for H. R. 1776, Johnson said bitterly: "I realize the pressure that is brought to bear in this sort of a fight. I understand something of the real fight that is on today and know something of what is in the wind regarding this particular measure.

Let it be, and let it come. Let! every one of us stand here and leT him risk political extinction. Let him stand here and do what he deems to be right. And that we ADVERTISEMENT raised the "ace" rating. Twenty vietims is the requirement now.

The adjutant promised to show everything and did. An apprehensive young D. F. C. pilot officer underwent the agony of being told to help the writer into his pet Spitfire.

"For the love of Pete handle her gently, sir," he begged as the flight leader shouted an invitation to give the guns a workout. "I've had her five weeks and she hasn't had a mark on her yet." On the eight wing guns in a fighter, that pump out something like 3.00U bullets in half a minute of controlled burst shooting, the pilot's life depends. If a ham hand keeps them firing long enough they will burn out. Hence the anxiety. The slim, drab green Spitfire quivered to life under the terrific blast of the guns.

Tracer bullets ponrtd out in a solid white stream to bury themselves harmlessly, I must add, in a sandpit. Camera Shoots, Too. In battle an automatic moving picture camera goes into action and in the projection room later, spools of these films were run off to screen a string of the most 1 graphic dramas the human eye has ever witnessed. In the cockpit of the improved Mark III Spitfire, which has the I new Rolls Vulture 2.000 h.p. en- I irine and a cannon firing one-pound shells, the dash is as full of ex- pensive telltale dials as a power- I house control panel.

The most important of them is the new fighter sight operated with mirrors tne pilot never looKing directly at his target. The sight- ing plate shows four luminous lines, like those of a telescopic sight. The vertical lines are fixed but the horizontal lines correspond ing to the east and west points move aDart or annroach pacVi othpr as the pilot revolves a ring-like Vernier collar below. The Vernier i is marked with figures correspond- ing to the wing width of various Nazi machines. Once the pilot recognizes the type of Nazi he is chasing he sets the sight for the appropriate calibration and has a perfect target at 200 yards firing range when the enemy's wing tips just fill the space separating the broken horizontal lines.

At that instant he opens fire j-resiaeni xo sena American Doys across the water." He said he had intended to vote for the original Ellender amendment, defeated yesterday by the Roosevelt lieutenant. Returns te Ship Deal. Earlier, Wheeler had said he believed that the trade of the 50 destroyers to Britain for air and naval bases was "illegal, Attorney-General Jackson's opinion to the contrary notwithstanding." Denouncing H. R. 1776 in its entirety, Wheeler sarcastically asserted that, if any member of Congress deserved "credit" for it, that man was Senator Pepper of Florida, who has been trumpeting for all-out aid to Britain for almost a year.

Army Volunteer Found in River Missing since volunteering for military training, Walter Sweda. Zt, ol rJckford Brooklyn. was found dead at 10 A. M. yes terday in the East River off Java in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn.

He failed to appear Jan. 15 for induction bv his local draft board and police were asked to search for him. At his rooming house, it was said he hadn't been seen since Jan. 14. No marks of violence were on the body.

ADVERTISEMENT (NEWS diagram hy Staff Artist) Diagram shows principle of new fighter might described by Mac-kenzie. Vertical line A-B are fixed, horizontal lines C-D move at pilot revolves calibrated collar below. and the target should look as if a buzz-saw had dropped on it. It was a large party that turned into the nroiection room where re cently developed shots of perform- ances by the spectators were to be check on claims of Dilots to insure absolute accuracy in Air Ministry communiques and to instruct other pny vi.u notconej. The black bulk of a Dormer with the white lines of British tracer bullets darting off into empty air to the right of its wing-tip.

The O. caption read: "Poor shooting. Never be in a hurry." A young pilot behind commented. "Lousy. Back to the second league." The film rolled on.

The white lines swung over on the glistening black back of the German and lingered there a couple of seconds, Suddenly a cloud of black smoke plumed out of the tail and four Nazis in a hurry baled out before the Dornier reeled over and hack-dived to earth. "That's better," said the caption. Spectators Wisecrack. Films of dive fights, climbing fights and stunting fights with the target flashing on and off the screen till he took the death dive or escaped kept this reporter gaping, only dimly aware of the wisecracks of the actors in these tra-forgetable spectacles. The final breath-taking climax was a shot made by "Sawn Off" somebody whispered that.

A huge Junkers swung to the centre of the screen. The white tracers stabbed its flanks fitfullv. then concentrated in the bis- na arrow of a prolonged burst. Great fragments flashed to rio-ht and i left: seemed to be coming back in I vour face as the Browning guns tore out the German's entrails. I The ta4 came closer, the white fnrv of Ko fr-irc i i Suddenly the transparent cabin of the Nazi's rear gunner, with the doomed gunner still inside was chopped off and with its helpless prisoner began a plunge to earth.

The lights went up and the mad armchair ride through the skies with that heroic company was over. Next: More about the RAF, the planes they fly and the ones they bring down. The storehouse will provide cubic feet of space, which could accommodate almost 5,000 persons without too much discomfort. It will have two floors, 90 feet deep, with only 3 feet 6 inches of the structure above ground. The cost was put at $175,000, which includes heavy steel cabinets with slots for the storing of paintings.

The plans were drawn by the architectural firm of Eggers and Higgins, 542 Fifth Ave. I had been persuaded to withdraw his original proposal, won. Admittedly "Meaning This nrnimsal in admitted fcv both sidea uttery meaning- "ess." It provides that "nothing in the bill shall change existing laws" relative to the moving of American aj-md forces Ellender voted against his own anlendment when it was offered by Taft. An amendment by Reynolds to exclude Russia from receiving any aid under the bill was defeated, 56 to 35. Woman Senator for Bill.

For the first time during the debate the only woman Senator, Mrs. Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, entered the battle. She backed the bill. "I want to speak for the mothers who are not afraid of this bill' she declared. "I have two sons in the Army and I think they will be safer if this bill is not amended.

I am supporting the bill as it stands." Recalls League Battle. Rising to oratorical heights rot equalled in the Senate since the battle against Wilson's proposal that the United States join the League of Nations, Johnson pleaded with his colleagues: "Have the guts that God gave you Have the decency that ought to actuate you to save from bloody graves the boys of America." Johnson's impassioned plea moved not only the galleries, but even Administration leaders. He was speaking in behalf of his amendment to prohibit the use of i Congressional appropriations to compensate, maintain, supply or equip" officers or enlisted men in the land forces of the United States employed or used in any capacity, uuwr ulan as military ouseivers or attaches, in any place beyond the lmuts tne western Hemisphere, except in the territories and pos the Unl.td States; and to forbid the use of appropriations for naval personel employed or used in the war danger zones fixed by Neutrality Act proclamations. Johnson reminded the Senators that many of them and both major political parties had promised never again to send American soldiers to Europe. Tries to Label Foes.

Johnson concluded with the declaration that those who wanted to send American troops to Europe would vote against his amendment, while those who did not want to do so would vote for it. "That is not the issue," protested Majority Leader Barkley. "And I say it is," roared Johnson. Barkley insisted that nothing in the bill dealt with troop movements, Says People Back Him. "The American people are determined that the war raging in GET AFTER THAT MARCH COLD i Take Father John's Medicine to relieve the cold and to build body resistance.

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Business hours are from 9:30 A. M. to 9:30 P. Id. daily and Saturday.

You will recognize at a glance these famous suits and topcoats as regular $37.50 to $4250 values. WTe urge you to come in at once. The city's first bomb shelter, designed ostensibly to store art treasures, was in the planning stage yesterday, with the filing of blueprints with the Department of Housing and Buildings by the Frick Collection. The concrete structure will be iug under 9 E. 70th adjoining the old Frick mansion on Fifth Ave.

and behind the Frick Art Reference Library at 10 E. 71st St. Protection of valuable art objects from dampness was the purpose of the project, according to spokesman for the Frick Collection. But it was not denied that the big vault would give protection to citizens in the event of war-time bombing. .1.

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