Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1940, Page 7

ficNufl Suggests Use 0f Gold af Fort Knox ToBuy War Goods U. S. Not Prepared To Defend Own Shores, Official Warns By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, May 20.—Paul V. Mc- Nutt, warning that “we are unpre- pared even to defend our own shores,” suggests that the United States use its huge store of gold at Fort Knox, Ky, to purchase war supplies and subsidize war industries. Transmitter in New Gas Masks Make Talking Easier By the Associated Press. If you ever have tried to talk wearing a gas mask, this should cheer you: Maj. Gen. W. C. Baker of the Army’s Chemical Warfare Serv- ice told Senators that new gas masks have a “diaphragm transmitter something along the same line as a telephone transmitter.” “It is a disc directly in front of the mouth,” he sald. “It is gasproof and transmits sound a little more readily than the service mask, which has noth- ing at all to aid in voice trans- mission.” The Social Securitiy aaministrator | $0IVE Domestic Problems, recalled that Americans have sold 8,500,000 tons of scrap iron to Japan wheeler urges "a'ion and told a Sunday citizenship au- dience: “It looks very much like a situa- tion in which an amiable, freedom- loving Nation is, without realizing it, exposing itself to grave perils for the sake of the junk business. Pictures Danger. “The danger lies in powerful men- of-war steaming into Manila Harbor, into Guam, the Hawaiian Islands and—if we dare to think of it—into San Diego and through the Panama Canal. Huge, sleek men-of-war, flying a foreign flag, and made from American junk!” Should the European demccrncxc: be defeated, he said: “There would be no peace for us. | ‘Then would the old years of freedom | and peace and unconcern be gone foreyer. > * " An avowed candidate for the Dem- ocratic presidential nomination if President Roosevelt does not seek a third term, Mr. McNutt said he spoke as a private citizen, not as a party representative or Government officer. “We must have billions of dollars fn gold—gold buried at Fort Knox,” Mr. McNutt said. Possible Uses for Gold. “We can spend that gold before we get so much of it that it won't buy anything. We can lay in stores of needed resources. * * * We can use it to fortify the canal, and to eubsidize the manufacture of air- 2 Elams to put armor on the decks of ! attleships and to put the Army on- wheels. “America is as unprepared as vlns Britain to face a world in which dictators are on the march. We are unprepared even to defend our own | shores. We have inadequate sea | yower, an inadequate army and in- | sufficient air power.” Honolulu Awaits Blackout In Big Mock Blitzkrieg Br the Associated Press. HONOLULU, May 20—Some 25.- | 000 United States troops ended a | week of concentrated field training {oday, prepared to meet the light- | ning thrusts of a make-believe “red” enemy invasion of these strategic | Pacific islands | The three-day war games will #tart Thursday night with the Ter- ritory's first “black-out,” which of- ficers termed the greatest experi- | ment of its kind ever held under the American Elag All lights vis-' tble from the air are to be ex-‘ . tin ed at an air-raid signal. “Red” planes will attack all the major islands of the archipelago | between 8:30 and 9 o'clock Thurs- | day night, but the offensive will be | concentrated on the main island of | ©Oahu, on which Honolulu is located. | The bulk of the United sta',esi fleet, here for two weeks after par- | Sicipating in war games off Hawaii, has moved on to Lahaini Roads, Maui Island, but some 150 war craft | will be in this area to lend a touch | of reality to the maneuvers. 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