THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- PETTICOAT ARMY: To Serve Overseas WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Soviets Break Nazi Lines, at Kharkov To Relieve Pressure on Kerch Front; U. S. Army Takes Over All Air Lines; Lower Wage Brackets Face Income Tax NX! Arti pnkvrPiAfSaH (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WAR CONDITIONS AND YOUR TOWN THE WAR offers an opportunity to improve conditions in thousands of America's country towns. Less help causes the farmer to economize on time. Rubber shortage and the inability to replace tires calls for a reduction in automobile mileage. The rationing of gas will stop Washington, D. C. RRs VS. SHIPS It hasn't made headlines, but a battle royal has been raging between WPB Czar Donald Nelson and Transportation Czar Joe Eastman over the freezing of steel for the construction of railroad cars. With less and less shipping moving along the coast and more and more traffic by rail, the question is These one of the most important facing any unnecessary travel. the country. things mean opportunity for recapWhat happened was that the War town for business country turing Production board froze" all construc busithat merchants. Holding tion materials already on hand in ness when peace comes depends railroad construction shops. The inupon how well country town mer- tention was to transfer these materichants meet Hie demands of town and farm people with adequate als for use in building other types stocks of merchandise and modern of cars. Joe Eastman claims However, merchandising methods. that these materials, chiefly steel, To assist country towns in doing already had been bought and cut out a thorough job, the department of for in certain shapes, certain commerce at Washington has pre- so the ordercars, merely will make the a that book of detailed plans pared materials go unused, with car shops will be helpful in any town. The closing down. Fua to Better title is "How Plan Already, Eastman argues, certain Yourture for Your Home Town and of Pullman Standard are idle, plants self in War for Peace." I am sure at a time when all should be any one interested could get a copy used to capacity. plants by writing Carrol L. Wilson, DirecMeanwhile railroads are groaning tor, Bureau of Foreign and Domes- with traffic. Sugar is now being tic Commerce. hauled by rail as much as possible It provides details for a survey from Florida to avoid submarines. of the town and its trading area, Oil is clogged up in the producing and suggests that such a survey be fields for lack of railroad transpormade by a senior high school class, tation. And with the sinkings of to be followed by definite improveseveral Chilean ore ships, more ments in such town conditions as iron ore has to be hauled from inwill make it a more attractive culterior U. S. iron mines. tural, social and trading center. In view of all this, Eastman comThe plans proposed are practical, plains bitterly that Nelson won't reexsimple and call for no extensive lease the steel and let the car Making the proposed foundries do the job. penditure. Survey would be excellent training for high school students, directed by INFLUENCING EUROPEAN a principal or teacher. LABOR Here is one inside reason why Revitalizing America's country towns as social and market centers Roosevelt leans toward labor. is one of the urgent needs of the Basically, the President always has r, nation. It can be done in towns been and continues to be, where the people want it done. That even though he has become fed up department of commerce booklet with some labor activities in the win show the way to those who ask past year. But in addition, U. S. war stratefor it gists are convinced that the chief hope of revolution in Europe comes FORTY MILES AN HOUR from labor. And most of the psyIS NOT A HARDSHIP chological warfare being FORTY MILES AN HOUR, says the devised here is aimedstrategy at influencing President, is fast enough during the labor in Germany, Czechoslovakia, period of tire shortage, which means Austria and the occupied countries. the period of the war To be sure, Although not generally known, the there are still some speed demons nucleus of the old Social Democratwho have not heeded the President's ic party which tried to create a real and who are still traveling warning in Germany is still intact at 50. 60 and 70 miles an hour. But republic When Hitler came into power, they they will soon be walking at an moved to Czechoslovakia. After the ever slower pace than the first Sudetenland seizure, they moved to I remember could travel. In the late nineties I have for- Paris. Aftertothe downfall of Paris, the U. S. A. they moved gotten the exact year H. H. Kohl-sat- t, Fifty Social Democrats from the then one of the editors and ownold Reichstag are now in this counorers of the Chicago with U. S. officials. try ganized what I believe was the first Furthermore, it is labor in the automobile race. It covered a disoccupied countries which tance of some 30 miles, from the European is able to assemble or make radios. in to hall hall the city Chicago city German labor listens to the radio in Elgin. far more than other classes. Some Much preparation was made for labor groups even have the event There were no gas sta- very small "underground" published newspan tions in those days, and and these are pers on hand cans of gas were distributed at fre- distributed by presses band. quent intervals along the designated German labor resents the long route. There were, I think, six cars hours in munitions factories, the entered. All were of the small pay and the lack of food, more variety, with high buggy bodies, than any other group. Also labor solid tires, steered with a rod, and is about the only group which was started with the turn of a crank in not taken over completely by Hitler. front Streets and roads for the 30 The Communists, his chief oppomiles wei- - blocked off and at ten nents, now have long been undero'clock of the appointed day, the ground, but secretly active. race was on. It continued to be on To European labor Roosevelt for nearly six hours, when the always has been one of the first car arrived at the city hall in world's greatest leaders. And Elgin, an average speed of about one thought in the minds of war five miles per hour. strategists is to show Europe As I recall, only three of the six that the rights of labor here will starters ever completed the course, not be thrown completely overand the third took nearly eight hours board daring war. to travel the 30 miles. One could easily walk the distance in less time. WALLACE'S FAVORITES That was but a little more than The men who came to Washington 40 years ago. Within that time with Henry Wallace in the American ingenuity has produced days of the New Deal realize early now the refinements and speed we have that they picked a winning horse. Those gas Almost to a man, they have moved today. buggies cost far more than the aver- up to important posts in the new Our model Amerof age today. ican system of competition brought Claude Wickard was head of the production up and price down. To- corn-ho- g section in Wallace's AAA. day we have a car for every four Now he is secretary of agriculture. avin the an United States, people Milo Perkins was a lowly assistant erage of one for each family. to Wallace, holding down a desk in To go back to the President's 40 the outer office. Today, he runs the miles an hour during war time Board of Economic Warfare, as imshould not seem a great hardship. portant as a cabinet post Paul Appleby was an assistant in THE LATEST COUNT SHOWS 282 Uie inner office. Now he is undergovernmental agencies operating in secretary of agriculture at $10,000 a Washington, employing over 225,000 year. Chester Davis was head of the people. At the end of 1932 there AAA. Now he is director of the were 37 governmental agencies, emFederal Reserve bank in St. Louis. A 66,302 workers. ploying portion, R. M. ("Spike") Evans was an but by no means all, of the increase is occasioned by war activities. WE aide to Wallace; now head of AAA. Sam Bledsoe, Roy Hcndricksnn, MIGHT get along with a few less and and Whitney Tharin were newsmen save some of the taxBledsoe is covering agriculture. payers' money, or use it to buy now an assistant to the secretary. more guns, pro-labo- auto-mobil- es Inter-Ocea- n, five-gallo- er hard-presse- MERRY-GO-ROUN- CAN THE GERMANS REALLY TAKK ITT I HAVE a German-born- , though naturalized, yard man, who deplores what he says is the reason f(r this war. To prevent other wars, he this one will not stop until all Gcr. many is occupied by Allied troops. That he soys, will take the war fever out of the German mind. From what he says. 1 gather that he thifiks the Germans are not so good at "taking it" as they are at dishing it up for the other fallow. hr-pe- Secretary of War Stlmfton Is held In the warmest personal esteem by army commander. and he never meddles In military operations and backs op his subordinates 100 per cent. Slim-so- n Is always at his drk by a. m., and rarely leaves until evening, when he always takes home with him a big bundle of papers that be works over after dinnT. Good explanation of "Your Army" and how the draft wnrxs. has been written by George H. .Vet of the Bridgeport Post. Hard-workin- g open-minde- d NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they (EDITOR'S are (boss of the news analyst and not neeessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper fr- .III y;, - ' t $Ti iJf jL ft f S "Bwe Pierre Laval's position grew more difficult as the United States In practical effect ceased to recognize Vichy control over Martinique and other French possessions In the Western hemisphere. Immobilization of French warships at Martinique followed conferences between American representatives and the resident French high commissioner. Above (center) is shown Laval with M. Cathala, (left) his minister of finance and M. Paul Marion, secretary of state. RUSSIAN FRONT: Nazis Seek Oil With the rich oil fields of the Caucasus as the prize, Nazi and Russian Red army fighters locked forces in a combat which before the summer's end may determine the war's outcome. Principal theater of the Nazis' newest conquest effort was the Kerch peninsula, gateway to the Soviet's farfiung oil possessions. While the Russians admitted that a German break into the Kerch defenses had caused a withdrawal to new positions, the Soviet communiques reported that the new line was being held in good order and that a heavy toll was being taken of the attackers. Balancing this news was a report that Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's armies further north had broken through the first German defense lines around the industrial city of Kharkov and were preparing for an invasion of the city itself. Success of the Kharkov offense would mean that the German move toward the Caucasus would be forestalled. Regarded as a grand dress rehearsal for the major Nazi spring offensive when drier ground permits greater movement, the present battles offered a test of the best arms which Axis and the United Nations could muster. German air concentrations were reported the heaviest of any used thus far in World War No. 2. Russian mechanical included triple-turrequipment American tanks and the latest design planes. INCOME TAXES: More Will Pay Prospects that a single person making as little as $9.62 weekly and a childless married couple whose income Is $23.08 a week or more will have to file income tax returns were seen in the action of the house ways and means committee in voting to lower the exemptions for married persons to $1,200 a year from the present $1,500 and for single persons to $500 from $750. Allowances for children and other dependents would be left at $400. More than 8,000,000 persons, it was estimated, would be added to the present fold of 17.000,000 Americans who file income tax returns. Taxpayers could take comfort from the fact that the committee voted to retain the present 10 per cent earned income credit for earned income up to $14,000 a year. For example, a person earning $1,200 a year is permitted to deduct $120 from the amount which would otherwise be subject to the normal tax provision, provided his income is derived from wages or salaries. MARTINIQUE: Warships Immobilized As French warships at Martinique were being Immobilized, the United States ome closer to its goal of completely neutralizing French possessions in the Caribbean sea. While Vichy France had Issued a note covering the situation. American representatives Indicated they were "doing business" with Adm. Georges Robert high commissioner of the French West Indies. SHIP lUJILDING: Good IS' en s Ahead "All around the clock, seven days a week" is the rate at which Uncle Sam's ship production machine is being utilized, it was disclosed by War Shipping Administrator Emory S. Land. Good news for the future was held forth in the admiral's statement that the nation's shipyards will turn out 13.000.0(10 tuns of new vessels annually after 1943 and will continue that pace "as long as necessary." Thursday, May 21, NEPHI. UTAH S. AIRLINERS: Will Fly for U. S. Enlistment of 150,000 American women between the ages of 21 and 44 for service with the regular army anywhere in the world was authorized when the senate passed a bill creating the women's auxiliary army corps. The house had previously approved the measure. The corps will be uniformed. Pay in the ranks will be $31 the first four months and $30 from then on. Members of the corps must be in good health, unimpeachable character and have no dependents. A WAAC company, according to present plans, will comprise 250 women and four officers. It was intimated that the first task of the corps would be in the aircraft warning services. Some of the duties would include jobs as clerks, teletype operators, switchboard, telegraph or telephone operators and messengers. Duties in other branches of the service would include pharmacists, dieticians,, hostesses, laboratory assistants, laundry workers and stewardesses. , nt BR Rattlesnake Rattle AXIS SUBS: PATTERNS When an Axis submarine slipped through the net of Canada's coastal defenses to torpedo and sink two ships in the St Lawrence river, it marked the first time in history an enemy underseas craft had pene- trated North America's inland waterways. Increasing boldness of warfare all along the Atlantic seaboard was Indicated by the sinking of seven additional United Nations' merchantmen in American waters. At the same" time an enemy mine was discovered near the Florida coast. atExact location of the tack in the St. Lawrence was not disclosed in the Canadian communique, nor were the names' of the freighters sunk. That the same submarine was responsible for both sinkings was indicated by the fact that they both occurred "in the same general locality and at the same general time." The St. Lawrence river is navigable to ocean-goinvessels between its mouth and the city of Quebec, 500 miles upstream. The communique noted that both ships were sunk in the river and not in the gulf outside. at g TIRES: U. S. Wants Tliem Jesse Jones, secretary of commerce, revealed that the Reconstruction Finance corporation had made available $150,000,000 for the purchase by the government of new and used tires and tubes now in the hands of consumers. County tire ration boards of the Office of Price Administration and RFC agencies will be responsible for administering the plan, Mr. Jones declared. A voluntary system of tire purchasing will be tried out first. Should this fait, commandeering of civilian tires looked like the next step. Coincident with the Jones announcement came a pessimistic report on the nation's rubber situation issued by the Office of Emergency Management. This report "The Truth About Rubber" stated that U. S. production of synthetic rubber this year "may reach 28.000 tons," and "cannot be expected to be much more than 3"i0.000 tons" in 1943. Only by "slapping the Japs back in their islands" will the American people regain all the rubber they need, and return to prewar use, the report concludes. CI POLE are few fashions which '"pHERE do quite as much for the figura as the dress which looks lik9 a suit, an appealing version of which is presented in Pattern No There is no other course because there is no such thing as conditional freedom. A peace offer from a dictator is what a rattle is to a rattlesnake. The American war policy is both clear and final. We will only return to peace when Hitler can never again return to war. Once we were lulled into false security but we shall never be swindled out of victory. We shall never lose with a pen what our men have gained by America remember the sword. Pearl Harbor and she is determined that Tokyo will never forget. The only Americans who will ever go to Munich will be flying borncers made in Detroit GAS WARFARE: Our fleet stands between ns Fresh Warning and Hitler's war but our graves stand between as and Hitler's Following Prime Minister ChurchWe have learned Euill's warning to the Axis on gas warpeace. fare came a further assertion that rope's lesson there is no such Britain was better equipped than thing as an honorable treaty with a dishonorable governmtdt. Germany for this type of combat. The American people will ms.ke A report by the chemical expert of the ministry of economic warpeace some day but only a fare pointed out that gasproof shelpeace that will explain to Cotin ter accommodations were available Kelly's son why his father died. for only 40 per cent of the population of big German cities. Nazi precauThings 1 Never Knew tions have concentrated on large-scal- e And Still Don't Know: shelters rather than on indiThat the Japs consider four at unvidual protection, as in Britain. Only lucky number, just as we feel about a portion of the German people own thirteen over here. (Sho nuf--thgas masks, the report stated, while American eagle unloaded his first in Britain all the people possess batch of eggs on Nippon in April, them. which is the fourth month of the The British expert declared that year!) . . . That a new official diet Italy's situation is even worse than in England prohibits those row of Germany's. X's, representing kisses, at the l.ot-toof letters, because spies can POPE PIUS: use them as a code . . . How we overlooked this for our Literary Pleads for Peace Lace dep't: Alimony the high cost The voice of Pope Pius was raised of leaving. in an appeal to the world's leaders to conclude a peace "on principles That the word coined by the R. A. of justice and moderation, even if Fliers for those propaganda pamit does not seem to correspond to phlets they drop on enemy aspirations." The pontiff, however, is "Bomphlets" . . . That territory the Chinese regard cockroaches as symbols injjw !""' 'J,9mmmJW'" L""" " of wealth, (Their logic being that a family must be pretty poor, if they can't afford to feed a few cockroaches) . . . That the British Med& ical Journal offers this tip for prevention of colds: Throw your head back and let a few drops of pure ' ' ' , medicinal cod liver oil slide into your throat through each nostril. (I'd rather have a cold.) I I Whether you know that ice cream manufacturers have concocted a "victory sundae," which is made of red, white and blue ice cream. The plan is to charge 25 cents and give 1 9 the customer a 10 cent defense stamp as a rebate . . That Mrs. Chip Robert, wife of the secretary of the Democratic Committee, recently gave a Washington luncheon for some femme friends. One of the women invited, phoned and asked: "What shall I wear to your luncheon?" To which Mrs. Robert replied: "Come in an open throat POPE PIUS and a back suitable for knifing!" "Peace tilth Justice ..." acknowledged that "there is no imWhether It will depress you to mediate hope of peace." learn that you have only one chance Addressing the world by radio on in 20.000 to be questioned in a Galthe 25th anniversary of his conse- lup poll. (That's the capitalistic cration as a bishop, the pope said: system for you) . . . That In "We well know how in the state Australia there are lizards that bark of things today there would bS little . . . Whether, after all these years, Jimmy Cagney won't finally win the probability of success in formulating detailed proposals for a just and Academy Award for bis Geo. M. honorable peace. But we make this Cohan portrayal In "Yankee Doodle appeal today with greater insistence Dandy." the film dandy . . . That in view of' the menace of greater the recruiting slogan of the Marine destructive weapons." Corps at Amarillo, Texas, is: "Join The pope then urged statesmen to the Marines and see Tokyo." miss no opportunity to make a Whether you know that cats are "peace of justice and moderation." employed by the U. S. Government with the Post Office Department AUSTRALIA: footing the bill for their keep. (Their Planes Strafe Japs Job is to keep rats and mice from New Allied blows against Amboi-na- , making a meal of the mail) . . . former Dutch naval base, and That on a highway in Venezuela Rabaul, New Britain, gave strength there's a monument to a wrecked to warnings by United Nations leadautomobile with the ers that the battle of the Coral sea "Slowly one goes far" . .inscription: . That tha has not brought an end to the peril tag of Ann Sheridan's oomphlicker, facing Australia. The assaults upon "Juka Girl." is the funniest fun. Japanese bases to Die north were in- Annie says to Ronald Reagan: "Let' tended as at least partial insurance settle down on a farm and raise invasion. tomatoes" . . . Reagan, ogling her against all-oWarships and transports were re- chassis, retorts: "Who's interested ported at these bases, waiting the in raising tomatoes?" e arrival of plane That If you feel cold in bed bebefore moving Into the a sea area for Coral rendezvous cause you haven't enough blankets, with the invasion ships scattered by just cover your head with a scarf, and your whole body, feet and all. recent American sea victories. will warm up In a Jiffy. (In these air Allied attacks by Harassing bombers on both the east and west days that alone is worth the price That flanks of the Jap invasion bases you paid for the paper!) sank and damaged enemy mer- when Louis XIV was King of France, for a fee nominal people could come chantmen, set fire to docks and de- to the palace and watch him eat. airstroyed planes in Jap-hel(That must have been scads of fun!) dromes. Whether you know that in ancient Gaul there were laws making it taboo to get too stout. 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