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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Hitler Aids British WHOS Extending of Material Aid to Russia Poses Difficult Problem for British; NEWS U. S. Also Studies Soviet Aid Question; a success? asked Yes, Early Reports on Fighting Are Vague THIS (EDITORS NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) rpgicngoH by Western Newspaper TTw4f WEEK are those By LEMUEL F. PARTON Features' WNU Service.) are many NEW YORK. whoThere wont like this war, when and if it comes our way. There will be no Captain Thorne, of the third act of Secret (Consolidated OIL IRON ORE econon Blankley repHed Blinkson, two hearty cheers. f 1 ; gave me In court the quarrelsome worn,, admitted that she had pulled m a handful of her neighbors hah She said she wanted it for a locket "Any knives or scissors to maam?" inquired the man at the!H Dont think we have replied! facetious young wife, but can sharpen wits? Yes, if youve got any! PUZZLING FEAT Service, Muddled as the international situation is, here is another incident to add to the confusion. Pictured above is Mrs. Brigid Elizabeth Hitler, wife of Chancellor Adolf Hitlers shown at her desk at her first days work for the British War Relief society in New York. Mrs. Hitler points proudly to Aid Britain pin. Her work with the society is voluntary. PIG IRON STEEL step-brothe- 11937 SUGAR 11937 Axyi EACH COMPLETE SYMBOL fxl EQUALS 10 PER CENT Total National Production (in milliona of ton): Coal (1940), 164.6; Oil and Gat (1940), 34.2; Pi9 Iron (1940), 14.9; Sla.l (1940), 18.4; Sugar (1937, 1938), 3.5. r, LEASE-LEN- Drawn from an authoritative source, the above chart indicates the total amounts of strategic resources produced in the entire Soviet Union. These items come from the Ukraine and Caucasus in the following percentages: Coal, 62; oil, 83; iron ore, 64; pig iron, 63; steel, 47; and sugar, 74. Thus loss of the area represents a tremendous blow to Russia and an important gain for the Nazis. This chart was released by the University of Chicago Round Table. The Picture As Nazi Germany and Red Russia hurled their armies into the most battle-lin- e g of all human history, the question of just what aid would be sent to the Soviet forces was a moot point on both sides 'of far-flun- the Atlantic.' The governments of both Britain and.., the . United. States. declared themselves on successive days as having solved the question as to the aid principle by boiling it down to a very simple equation . Anybody that is fighting Nazis is on our side in this fight. Britain announced it would send economic and military aid, and the United States said the same, but it was not immediately clear just how much of the latter there would be. Englands first move was to increase the effectiveness of her bombing raids on occupied France and German cities, raiding both by day and by night, and reportedly downing many Nazi airplanes. In fact, the RAF reported the dropping of as many bombs by weight in two weeks of the Russian warfare as they had in a whole month previously.' Heavy American bombers were constantly arriving on the scene in England, and these, presumably, permitted the British to regard planes as slightly more expendable than they had viewed them previously. did not seem to be any of ferrying airplanes to Rather, the only serious of a changed policy on the part of England was the suggestion in some quarters that it might be a good thing for Britain to cross the channel with soldiers and tanks now There question Russia. question that Hitlers back was turned. That Britain was watching the n war with her fingers crossed was evident in the military answer to this suggestion. The first objection was that the channel ports had been so blasted that they would not be suitable for landings of large numbers of troops, and that, if the Germans should win a sudden and swift victory over the Russians, then limited forces of British on the continent might find themselves in a very precarious position. Therefore the question of British aid to Russia seemed to be largely one of sending an advisory military mission, which was done at once, and the extension of more liberal trading credits. In the United States, aside from the fact that the question of any aid at all became a matter of vitriolic debate, the actual aid to the Reds boiled itself down to the same thing. President Roosevelt said: Even if Russia were to send us a list of her needs, it is not possible to fill the order as one would go to a store. Our munitions factories, including the airplane 'plants, are completely busy filling our own needs and those of Britain. The question of time was important, for the United States did not want to send planes and other equipment to Vladivostok, thence to start the long trek across Siberia, and then to arrive just in time to fall into Nazi hands. FIGHTING: Clouded The war was odd in that it was being carried on without the benefit of war correspondents. Russo-Germa- n . Of little value as they are in mod- ern warfare, where they are scarcely able to keep up with the swiftness of events, and where they are just as apt as civilians of other types to become casualties themselves, they were badly missed in thjs, the greatest battle from point of numbers and power of all history. It would have taken an army of e them to cover a front, to begin with, and in the second place, the Nazis barred all correspondents from the front, and the Russians did likewise. The Nazis were using soldier correspondents, but the feeling among readers of communiques was that they were more than usually uncommunicative. It was impossible to do more on a war map than to draw hazy lines, with arrows pointed at the districts where one side or the other claimed that the action was taking place. Estimates of the number of men and machines in action were of the haziest, conjecture, running all the way from 100 divisions on a side to 200, and the plane guesses from 2,000 on a side to 4,000. There were even skeptics on the street who asked who knows whether theres any fighting at all. The answer to that was to be found on the Western Front, where bombing of England had been abandoned, and virtually German defense of the air. Hitler, said wiser observers, would not have permitted that unless the real McCoy in the way of a war blitz were going on at the 2,000-mil- Eastern front. Both sides made the most optimistic claims. The Germans claimed uncounted planes shot down and destroyed on the ground; the Russians said the count in the first week was 387 for them, 382 for Germany. The Germans claimed that theyd wiped out a whole division and that their blitz was moving forward on schedule and that a great victory would be announced momentarily. The Russians countered with the statement that at no place had the Nazis moved into actual Russian territory, and that at some points their own troops were on the offensive. One instance of the difficulty of getting facts from the communiques came in the battle of the Prut river, which the Germans first claimed to have crossed without difficulty; later said they had established by hard fighting a bridgehead across the Prut, two days after they had previously announced an easy and swift crossing. As to the Prut, the Russians said 10 barges of the enemy crossed a wide river under cover of a fog, but were hurled back later with terand this river was rible losses supposed to be the same Prut, The Russians claimed Warsaw and Constanta, important cities in territory in flames, and heavy damage on Helsinki and Danzig. The Germans said they were burning up Leningrad, Russia's second most populous city. r pre-w- Nazi-occupi- ed ar getting through the critical Morse message and no William Gillette about whom a drama of communications may be built. They scrapped the Morse, for good and all about . two years ago. Theres no more hand work in army communications. These nostalgic thoughts were prompted by the participation of Maj. Gen. Joseph O. Mauborgne in the big doings at Fort Monmouth, N. J., recently, with a troop review by the general and an amateur play, The Bottlenecks of 1941, and many other spirited goings on in which the general was prominently featured. General Mauborgne, chief signal officer of the army, is the Thomas Alva Edison of aviation radio in the army at any rate. It was in October, 1912, that the then Lieutenant Mauborgne installed the first radio set in an airplane, at Fort Riley, Kan. The army had 12 planes then, and aviation meant signal corps, with planes first conceived as primarily useful for observation and signalling. Lieut. Arnold, who Hap later was to become head of the army air corps, flew one of the planes to Fort Riley for the installation. There was much excitement, all over the country, when Lieutenant Mau-- borgnes cumbersome quenched spark radio set managed to waft a few signals earthward. There was still more excitement when, in 1914, the lieutenant achieved the first communication between an airplane and a ground station. The veil of, secrecy surrounding the whole question of lease-len- d aid to Britain, which had not been pierced very satisfactorily from the readers point of view by President Roosevelts statement, was pulled aside enough to give a more promising picture. The disclosure came before the senates commerce committee. It came in the form of a general survey by a number of shipping lines as to the increase in Red set carwere goes, which, presumably, mostly of the variety. This was in a discussion of a bill that would place virtually all merchant ships operating from the U. S. under the control of the Maritime commission. Ship operators appeared before the committee asking for just compensation for themselves and that this be included in the measure. Then came the reports. One said that a large part of its fleet was now in the Red sea business; another reported three ships now en route there; still a third said he had He had started something there sent four ships there, and that he and came along with it, to todays had 16 others in the same trade. miracles of aerial chatter. He atThe attorney of the Maritime tained his present rank September 15, 1937, having been for the precommission, testifying for the said the amount of lease-len- d vious year director of the radio labcargoes to the Red sea was oratory at Wright Field. For 29 enormous. years his work has been an unceasing concentration on developANY PANS?,. ment and experiment in aviation radio. His career is one of many Asks LaGuardia recent reminders of our possibly unLittle Flower LaGuardia got unsuspected high degree of preparedder way his OCD, or civilian de- ness in varied and fense director, and made his first trained personnel. highly specialized nation-wid- e appeal a plan to start a collection of scrap aluminum. CO FAR, Victor JSmanuel has been His broadcast appeal called for thwarted in his lifetime ambition citizens to contribute everything to win the Kentucky Derby and the from pots and pans to washing ma- Grand National. 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In the first place, assuming that the Communists actually were in back of some of the labor troubles, they now found themselves fighting for their lives (in Russia) against the Nazis, and as America was pledged to do likewise in the program, the Communists changed their front and were less likely to participate in defense strikes. But, on the other hand, the basic desire of labor for a an hour minimum wage as a sort of level at which theyd be willing to work hard and faithfully at most any sort of defense task, seemed not at all reduced, and this was sure to cause outbreaks in the future. all-out-- 75-ce- nt HOTEL L OGDEN, UTAH duction. Most war talk seems to boil down to just about that possibility. Mr. Emanuel has made a shift from finance to management, partly under circumstances over which he had no control, and management would seem to be the gainer. 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