Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1942, Page 29

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1942, sise does not add effciency. ocean 'Sland Among with the neighboring Brttsh-man | gpers’ Children Tought Navy Converting Normandie | 5 mis; i e asnion i s b o ot Coon o | Leper® Children Tought | Drops Sult Becost o ot Snis Fulier Into Huge Troop Transport |l coiscueis wivioncs | Japan's Objectives |somcrn o seoried i i added armor and increased arma- In that year, the output of the two ing being constructed by the Society | Diego, Calif., has dropped his claim ment and compartmentation to af- Pacific islands amounted to nearly | sor protection of Lepers and Defense | for $00 damages made after & col- i i HH 1 tons of te rock. Luxury Liner Believed More Useful tord arester oroection - ssuinat || Southwest Pacific |20 om0 £ g eonjunction with | lision between his sutomobile and For Carrying Men. Than Aircraft ing plane capactty. ot the Brtish Phosphate Commis- By BEN H. PEARSE. for the troops to exerciss, The | bor since the beginning of the war,| Holds Strategic Position |tics, s local school has been main- ‘was put in the custody of the Coast HGIMY me HWGII tained with an enrollment of some maximum number which could be o ey e e o eraner | cartied on & Pacific trip was esti- | Guard last Spring and was offcially 50 mative boys. ‘Of special mteress mated by observers at 10,000. For |scized and turned over to the Navy| To Australia in view of the Japanese attacks is f,‘;“.‘f,’,‘dfl‘.",‘;'ifiifiezn’;m“’;f’; _rryin'? a voyage of a week or on the | December 12. > the recently reported fact that ing an expeditionary force of be-|Atlantic perhapk as many as 15,000 bt e e Britain’s Ocean Island, among |Ocean Island has s small but well- tween 10,000 and 15,000 men. could be packed in. - E the many objectives of Japanese |equipped hospital. While the Navy Department has| The obvious need for troop trans- | Spake Stories Regum bombing planes, occupies a highly made its first and probably its last | POTts for reinforcing overseas garri- P strategic hub position in the South- . . fe its first and probably lts 185t | sons 1s only one of many reasons | Popularity in South west Pacific, says a bulletin trom [Swiss Raise Poppyseed .:‘i’ae“ol the French Line, ‘lhe fast- why naval experts here bel’eve that By the Assoclated Press. the National Geographic Society. - %t and most huxurious ship afloat | the Lafayette will not be converted | “GHARIOTTE, N. C—Snakes, of |, It 18 8 little less than halfway of To Increase Oil Supply when she made her maiden voyage | into 8 carrier. Since plans and |,,s, "h,ve wriggled into the South- | the distance from Australia to the | g, i, Associated Press. here in 1035, will be converted into | SPecifications for the ship alreads | ery’ pyplic prints. Hawallan Islands. Less than 400| BERN, Switserland—Switzerland a naval “auxiliary” and renamed in | 8¢ in Nazi hands, "m" m‘;.h“:’th; There’s the home-loving reptile | t‘he ’J°m e m“"u point | 104 stepped back to the Paleolithic honor of the French Revolutionary | In8 8ny naval secret to say that the | oyer Kinston way. Dr. Ira M. Hardy |0 the Japance Marsball $TolD|age in an effort to solve its war- War hero, several considerations|Iéports that the Normandle Was| ... ia¢ g farmer had this particu- | O the north, Ocean OF | time fat and oil problems. cited by naval observers point to designed for conversion into an air- lar pet in a box. Well, one of his neighbors on the nme“rndlhree ant‘;:;! n e e i the belief she will be used to trans- | CTaft carrier are '“”"“‘il might | children accidentally opened the %“T';?“é‘tm French and | tive people who inhabited pile huts port troops overseas rather than as| Like any other vessel, 5 e b tg“ box and, as might be expected, out | /1 teC Suater. HES CIACh, in the Lake of Zi got most of an aircraft carrier. e clzflim!’"“ld mmv:n“: "'lmum‘ slithered Mr. Snake. Ocean Island is the ruling seat of | their edible oil “from poppyseed. Estimates of the number of troops | norsepomer. or Tno et The farmer, fearful that the |, ‘“piiih Crown Colony of the | SWitzerland now is again encourag- which could be packed aboard the | IOrscpower engines and the huge | snake might get & bit too friendly (16 Britisn, CTown COlnY of W8 | i raising of poppyseed for that 83,000-ton _vessel vary considerably. fl:&?fififéxfi pslgtel?nl;y Tuean dwith t:‘ o cgfldrenmlkep‘tl theay }i‘e‘d‘ islands, more than w0 dozen in | Purpose, as well s mustard, rape- However, it is pointed out that the rebuilding the ship at great ex- | fl:mwnm:xs p:“ Lre:g tix :el;;(c '®d | number, extend in a sweeping arc ne:, chestnuts, maize, soya beans Leviathan, the seized German Ves- | pense of time and money, both of | chanced to glance down and there, | €8St and southeast of Ocean Island. | and even tobacco. sel Vaterland, converted into a|gnich could be put to better use | g SNl ) & OSSO N as the | The Gllbert and Ellice Islands|= ——————— — o O g e oy |in converting other craft, it Was | gnafe; . have’ Do o A e troops at one time on trips to Eng- polnied o‘.l‘f‘ 1,000 Feet Long. And Jody J. Hinds of Kingstree, fot:;noxgrg snfe .:zu;y :{m -fl.:‘s effects land and France, and that the| pmorS Thsn 1 . ould | S: C- didn’t “buy a pig in a poke” | o migrations and interming- fayette is iherabivi] Her huge size probably would| i Te got a rattier in a sack. Hinds |9f race migrations L Lafayette is considerably larger. | ygie it possible for her to carry of | pought a sack of coconuts—and a | D€ _among the peoples of the Length of Voyage Big Factor. | store 400 or 500 planes. Her length, | week later, when his 2-year old son Western Pacific. The length of the voyage would K more than 1000 feet, is nearly 200 | ymqved toward it, out peeked a rat- | Little Ocean Island, only about be an important factor, too, since | feet more than the largest Navy |ijer isix miles in circumference and the amount of food and stores nec- | aircreft carrier, which would give |l'mldms a population of less than " essary for a trip across the Pacific | an additional margin of safety in R G PR 3,000, is well known in the economic 3 L would cut down the space available | landing operations sad allow more A Japanese admirer has pre- | world for its rich deposits of high- 2 i = ) st g, Add Gay Color, Comfort to Your Recrea- JOSEPH SUDY y ' , for troops. The longer the trip, too, | space for storing planes on deck.|sented Hitler and Mussolini each | quality phosphate rock, used in 4 K ( l v 1 . . h ho . C . 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