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Show 1 i f THE LEW SFN. LEW. UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Axis Powers Continue Balkan Drive, Attempting to Cut Britain's 'Lifeline'; Turbulent Labor Convention Forecast; Selective Service Lottery Completed v-- (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion! ere exprened In theie columns, they re those ot the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) rp.u.4 by Western Newspaper ' BATTLE FOR EMPIRE: Balkan Adventure Reinforced by an "understanding" with Gen. Francisco Franco, dictator dicta-tor of Spain, and Vice Premier Pierre Pi-erre Laval, acknowledged leader of France, the Axis powers rode off on a new highway of conquest. Benito Be-nito Mussolini served a six-hour ultimatum ul-timatum on Greece to surrender its strategic airports and harbors "to guarantee peace." Then without waiting for an answer, Fascist legions le-gions drove across the border toward to-ward Athens from their bases in already-conquered Albania. Meanwhile Adolf Hitler, established estab-lished in Rumania, made ready to attack Turkey, swinging through the lone remaining independent countries coun-tries of Bulgaria and Jugoslavia. Hitler predicted that by December 1 he would hold Istanbul and the Dardanelles. Dar-danelles. Meanwhile there were indications that German troops would find free passage through Spain to attack Gibraltar. Gi-braltar. France's role was to turn over air and naval bases in Africa and the Near East for the battle on ' Britain's life line in the Mediterranean. Mediterra-nean. What seemed to be happening was the result of Hitler's failure to make England capitulate on schedule. London was still taking a severe beating from the air but still holding out and apparently giving Germany as good as it received. So, unable to conquer Britain, Hitler Hit-ler swung his force on conquest of the British empire with a pincer movement on both ends of the Mediterranean. Outposts In this movement, Greece and Turkey were the last outposts linked to England in the fight against totalitarian to-talitarian domination. Outside of the Western hemisphere no independent nations lived, with the exception of parts of the British empire, virtually cut off from their mother country if the Nazi conquest succeeded. There seemed little in the way of that success. Greece with an army of but 200,000 regulars, 400.000 re- a t ' .TO---; I Nl'V siai-tiriMftffWsfi Here is General Alexander Papa-tos Papa-tos who has been appointed by King George of Greece to lead the land forces of his country In their battle to fight off the invasion by Italian troops. serves, and 175 warplanes was hardly more than a wooden barrier across the road in the path of a juggernaut. Turkey boasted of 2,000,000 warriors, outflanked on all tides. Appeals to Britain were answered immediately, but Britain could ill afford to assemble its scattered na-ral na-ral power for a definite issue in the Near East Its Mediterranean fleet vent into immediate action, occupying occu-pying the fortified Greek island of ciete, which bars the way to Suez, ind landing in Crete, which gives them a base near Italy. AS TO WAR: Call for Service President Roosevelt stood at a microphone. Near him was War Secretary Henry Stimson, blindfolded. blindfold-ed. The cabinet member reached Into a glass bowl with his left band, pulled out a capsule and extracted slip of paper. He handed it to the President. "The first number," the President said, "is 158." A woman screamed. It was the number assigned as-signed by a draft board to her son. It meant he was first on the list in HIGHLIGHTS.. . in the tveeks neivs C A federal grand jury investigation investiga-tion was begun into activities of Manfred Zapp and the Transocean News Service, which he headed. The Transocean News Service has no connection with any American news service. Its headquarters are in Berlin Ber-lin and there is an office in New York. It supplies "news" free of charge to many Latin-American newspapers. his district to answer the nation's selective service call. The woman was Mrs. Henry E. Bell, wife of a World war veteran who was on duty outside the building build-ing in a legion guard of honor. As a memento she was given the capsule cap-sule which contained her son's number. num-ber. Later her husband, a District of Columbia fireman, also was permitted per-mitted to draw a number from the bowl. Earlier, dignitaries of the federal government drew numbers, and later lat-er Boy Scouts, veterans, newsmen, radio announcers and volunteers from the audience were given the honor. The pulling of numbers, begun be-gun at nopn, went on all night and continued hours after the sun had struck the Capitol's dome. Nine thousand in all were listed serially. In that order, providing the young men pass physical tests and have no dependents, they will be sent to army camps for a year's training. The first, a mere trickle, will leave home November 15. Before spring 800.000 in all will be in khaki. Army )e fj, f f . LLf ; If: w: ', '4j This fellow typifies the expression of many "158s" as they learned that their numbers were the first drawn in the selective service lottery. He is Eugene Kolb Jr., of San Francisco. officials estimated only those men whose serial numbers were among the first 1,500 selected will be examined ex-amined for service this year, and half of them will not be accepted. President Roosevelt ruled that no man may be taken unless he has been given five days" notice by his draft board, in order to settle personal per-sonal affairs. Mexico Weakens The republic just south of the Rio has decided to lift an embargo on supplies of war to Japan. The embargo em-bargo had been decreed five days earlier by President Cardenas. It was indicated there still may be some restrictions on oil and scrap, which are government monopolies. Otherwise exporters may engage in free trade, including much needed mercury. One diplomatic source said a change may be made in the order after President-elect Manuel Cama-cho Cama-cho takes office in December. This spokesman said Mexico was anxious to co-operate with the United States and would recall the embargo if Washington indicated the international interna-tional situation made it necessary. The four days' trial, however, cost Mexican exporters hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars, since the war has shut off all other shipments. REVOLT INC. I. O.: Lewis Is Target What is forecast as likely to be ore of the most turbulent conventions con-ventions in American labor history is due when the Congress of Industrial Indus-trial Organizations meets at Atlantic City. John L. Lewis' endorsement of Wendell L. Willkie in the just closed presidential campaign was coupled with the announcement that he would resign if Roosevelt were elected. Lewis already faced growing opposition op-position in the C. I. O. Sidney Hill-man, Hill-man, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, split with Lewis on national defense. Hillman was named to the defense commission. Backing Hillman was the powerful Textile union. Lewis endorsement of Willkie split away from him heavy factions of the automobile, steel, rubber and electrical workers. If Lewis fails of re-election, many look upon Philip Murray, quiet-voiced quiet-voiced steel chieftain, as the possible possi-ble successor, rather than Hillman. X What was called the most drastic anti-union law in American history was declared unconstitutional by the Oregon Supreme court. The law forbade picket lines and industrial boycotts and was adopted by a state-wide referendum. C Dr. W. Edward Gallie of Toronto, Canada, was elected president at the annual meeting of the American College of Surgeons. THE GLEANERS: Championship V Irving Bauman 1940 Champion, National Cornhusking Contest. In a field of 21 expert nubbin toss-ers, toss-ers, Irving Bauman, Eureka, Illinois, Illi-nois, tossed 46.71 bushels of corn against the bangboard to win the National Cornhusking Championship at Davenport, Iowa. He barely nudged out Marion Link, of Ames, Iowa, who husked 46.36 bushels in the 80 minute contest. Bauman, a renter, married and with a three-year-old son, gets the gold cup and $100 prize. NO REST: Carol Pursued The turbulent road to exile traveled trav-eled by former King Carol of Ru- mania struck a new detour. One month on his way from Bucharest to Portugal and still not at his goal, the king learned that the Spanish government had ordered his consort, Mme. Lupescu, and his palace minister, min-ister, Ernest Urdareanu, returned to Rumania. There they likely will stand trial before an Iron Guard court for crimes against the state. Carol was informed of the order by Spanish police. "Pray, who gave those orders?" he asked. "My superiors," su-periors," said the officers. "Who are your superiors?" asked the king. There was no answer. LOST COLONY: Neiv Clues In 1591, when George White, governor gov-ernor of the colony of Virginia, returned re-turned from a two-year trip to England, Eng-land, he could find not a trace of the settlement he had left on Roanoke island, N. C. The only clue was the word "Croatan" carved on a tree. It was the name of a local Indian tribe. Until recently historians were mystified at the disappearance of the pioneer men and women. Three years ago a 21-pound quartz stone was found on the bank of the Chowan Chow-an river, near Edenton, N. C. In Elizabethan English it told of the death of the colonists' from "misery and war." Included in the dead was Virginia Dare, first white child born in America. Now 46 other stones have been unearthed along a trail which showed the colonists plodded through North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Twenty of the nation's foremost fore-most experts on pre-Colonial folklore, folk-lore, led by Dr. Samuel E. Morison, have declared the stones authentic. Most recently discovered stone told of the marriage in 1599 of Virginia Dare's mother to an Indian chief. ASIA: U. S. Interests In Asia the. current situation had important complications. Japan, now linked to Italy and Germany by the new triple alliance, said it would fulfill its obligations. These may be Interpreted by Tokyo to call for seizure sei-zure of Hongkong and Singapore. The British base at Singapore always al-ways has been considered to prop up one end of the American lifeline. The United States took action in another direction. Premier General Petain of France was notified in a personal note from President Roosevelt Roose-velt that if France surrendered bases to the Axis powers, the United States would feel duty bound to occupy oc-cupy French colonies in the Caribbean. Carib-bean. TREND... how the wind is blowing Aoto Sales Retail sale of automobile auto-mobile trucks this season is running run-ning 20 per cent higher than in 1939. For the full year the manufacturers expect to pass the record of 1937, which was 947,000 units. Entertainer The duchess of Windsor soon may enter the radio field as a featured program. Radio circles announced they were hunting hunt-ing for a sponsor. The dnchess will broadcast from Nassau and give her earnings to the British war relief fund. Air Mail A route through New England is being planned as the next step in extension of the nonstop non-stop air mail service. All American Ameri-can Aviation, Inc., "flies the cir-cuit" cir-cuit" in several eastern routes now, dropping pouches and picking up outgoing mail without making a landing. Crime Proof that the female ot the species is deadlier than the male comes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A homicide survey showed that 14 out of erery 1,000 women arrested are charged with murder, to 10 out of every 1,000 men. 1 s 1 .1 Newspaperman Stuff Charles Chapln, who was city editor edi-tor of the New York Evening World at the beginning of the century, never drank, and was intolerant of others who Imbibed . . . Johnny Quinn, a young reporter who worked under Chapin, indulged in an occasional occa-sional glass of beer, and Chapin sternly lectured him about it . . . Quinn became ill one day and died shortly afterward, leaving a wife and children. The boys on the World, knowing the family wasn't too well off, started a collection, with each man giving what he could afford. When they came to Chapin for a contribution, he brusquely dismissed dis-missed them . . . "Don't expect anything from me," he growled. "I won't encourage young reporters who drink beer to figure they can depend on the staff to help their families after they're dead" . . . When all the contributions were in, a group of the boys took the money to Quinn' s widow. She was touched by their generosity, and tears trickled trick-led down her cheeks . . . "The World has the finest men on earth," she exclaimed. "Do you know, boys we couldn't have buried Johnny if It hadn't been for Mr. Chapin's check." A new assistant editor at the Reuter's News agency, in London, was once handed a brief cable from New York. After a perfunctory glance at it, the lad filed it with a lot of other material that wasn't of urgent importance. "Those Yanks!" he muttered. "They seem to think we're interested in their President's hunting expeditions!" . . . "What do you mean?" his superior asked . . . The new assistant picked up the cable and waved it in front of him, explaining, "New York seems to think it's worth five cents a word to tell us that McKinley's shot a buffalo!" buf-falo!" . . . The editor did a double-take double-take and, with a bellow, snatched the cable from his assistant's hand. It read: "McKinley shot Buffalo" . . , The first news of the President's Presi-dent's assassination. Several years ago Alexander Woollcott checked into a New York hospital for observation, and one of the newspapers received an erroneous errone-ous tip that he was dying. A reporter re-porter phoned the hospital and checked the report with Woollcott's nurse, who denied it . . . Woollcott, hearing the conversation, insisted on talking to the reporter and, grabbing grab-bing the phone, introduced himself. The reporter repeated the rumor . . . "Tut-tut," tut-tutted Woollcott, "I'm just here for observation" .... "Then you're not dying?" asked the lad . . . "Of course not!" said Woollcott . . . "Well," queried the reporter, "what ARE your plans?" New York Heartbeat The Big Parade: Hoot Gibson, the gweat big cowboy, dodging taxis and looking scared stiff, at 46th and Madison Mad-ison . . . Hatless Hope Hampton holding hands with hubby, hurrying home . . . Tommy Corcoran, all work and no play-boy . . . Guy Lombardo and Ben Bernie melody-land's melody-land's Sweet & Low . . ., Karen Van Ryn, the gorjiss Dutch ballerina glarrimer competition for Vera Zori-naahhhh Zori-naahhhh . . . Afternoon stroller on E. 56th Street Peggy Fears in silver sil-ver fox coat, red boodwah slippers and blue slacks . . . George Raft, the Merchant of Menace, watching the floor show at Leon and Eddie's, while the Leon and Eddie's floor show watches him. Sallies in Our Alley: Dorothy Parker Park-er was being bothered no end by mag editor Harold Ross, the town bore. He kept interrupting her party par-ty of friends in an East Side joynt with: "The revolution is coming! The revolution is coming!" When he said it for the steenth time, Parker Park-er popped him with: "And when it does it'll be EVERYBODY against Harold Ross!" . . . Dorothy Thompson Thomp-son has denied the rumors that Sinclair Sin-clair Lewis was in Reno for a divorce di-vorce . . . "It's not true!" she ejaculated to a columnist, "un-divorce "un-divorce me!" ... "I will not," he told her, "everybody in town knows that you switched your affections to a fellow named Roosevelt!" Manhattan Murals: Sign in a 3rd Avenue beanery: "This is Noise Abatement Week Don't Gargle Your Soup!" . . . The Pullman porter por-ter on the Meichants Limited (very fast train from Boston to N. Y.), who announces the arrival like this: "Hunnered Twenney Fitt Street Station Sta-tion of the World's Greatest City Noo Yawk!" . . . Those new dice that light up when you throw a 7 . . . The drunk downstairs in the 50th Street subway waiting for a bus! Memos of a Midnighter: How truzit that Charley Gehringer, the Detroiter, will wed into the Dodge millions via a widder? . . . Tom Harmon, Michigan's sensational All-american All-american (most publicized athlete of the year) will be engaged December Decem-ber 1 to Margaret Thorn, daughter f a naval officer and the prettiest co-ed at Ann Arbor . . . Dick Robertson, Rob-ertson, the co-writer of "We Three," is now walking with his shadow and talking with his echo since the divorce di-vorce . . . Herbert Bayard Swope tays he merely twisted his knee. Kathleen Norris Says: When Someone Loves You Watch Your Step! (Bell Syndicate She plays about with Walter like a that she is the most important person in out at the garage laughing and helping. By KATHLEEN NORRIS j " T F I didn't love him," sobs I the bride, "I wouldn't care when he's so mean to me!" "If I didn't love him," mourns the mother in her stricken heart, "it wouldn't be so. hard for me when he's away at night, when he marries mar-ries the wrong woman, when he's shabby and tired and discouraged! dis-couraged! " Love is the greatest joy and the greatest sorrow in life; the deepest satisfaction, the most acute fear. The power held by those who love and who are loved is a limitless power. That's why we have to be so careful of it; why it is such a crime against love itself to misuse it. Every mother has the power to completely destroy her children's lives, if she will, because they love her. Every child has potentialities of hurting his parents with coldness and cruelties, because they love him. Wherever love is, there is also the possibility of agony and cruelty and fear. This is true especially between be-tween husbands and wives, because of the necessary closeness of their relationship, and their dependence upon each other. Bliss Misery Not Far Apart. These things are so obvious as to be truisms. And yet it is a matter of great surprise to some young wives and even some older ones, that close to utter bliss there can be complete misery. When a woman wom-an gives her heart into a man's keeping she doesn't always realize that he may break it as well as cherish it When a love-tone in a man's voice thrills you to utter ecstasy, remember remem-ber that a little chill in that tone, a shade of indifference or criticism, can lower you to corresponding depths of despair. A wife may ruin her husband's life. A mother may ruin her son's. A son can break his mother's heart. Easily, easily, easily. eas-ily. Fortunately for most of us, love begets love. The young husband forgets his anger, and in the flood-tide flood-tide of a blissful reconciliation scene the bride seems to regain a surer position than ever. The son has only to say, with a sleepy kiss, "why, we were only over at Harry's playing play-ing bottle-pool, Mom. You're my girl!" to send his mother's spirits soaring to heaven again. As for mothers and small children, thank God most mothers know their power, and use it wisely. Even disciplined dis-ciplined children know that Mother loves them only too welL Domestic Triangle. But used or unused, the awful force for hurting those we love remains. re-mains. Here is the case of "Dee-dee," "Dee-dee," who lives in Pittsburgh, and whose letter has this to say: "We've been married 14 years, I'm 36 and Walter 39. We have a boy of 12, and for the past 10 months my sister and her small girl of five have been with us. Junior adores his cousin Jo-Anne, and as I love children chil-dren and housekeeping and gardening garden-ing it is nice for me to have a girl as well as a boy. "The trouble is my sister, Nancy. She is eight years younger than l' not pretty, but with a great deal of charm. She and my husband have struck up a friendship that excludes me. "Walter defended her in her divorce di-vorce suit, which was an unpleasant one. He finally secured her a good alimony and the custody of Jo-Anne. Jo-Anne admires and loves her mother, and Nancy is nice enough with her, but more like a sister than a mother. I am like the mother of the whole crowd. Friendship Causes Heartaches. "If Nancy were ever inclined to be indiscreet, it wouldn't be with WNU Service. happy kid, and he is beginning to feel the group. If he cleans the car, Nancy is If he must run uptown she dances along. LOVE Became love holds the greatest power of all lor making others terribly ter-ribly happy or terribly sad, Kathleen Kath-leen Norris earnestly admonishes that it be used wisely. She writes this after being consulted by a "Deedee," a heartbroken young wife, whose husband and sister are very friendly. They both love her, but neither realizes the pain their friendship is causing her. Miss Norris advises that only time can correct this lamentable situation. my husband, I am sure of that She is giddy and perhaps shallow, but she loves me. But she plays about with Walter like a happy kid, and he is beginning to feel that she is the most important person in the group. "If he cleans the car, Nancy is out at the garage laughing and helping. help-ing. If he must run uptown to get beer or see somebody, she dances along. She listens to him; she laughs at old stories. "When Nancy first came both Walter Wal-ter and I said repeatedly that she brought life and brightness into the house. She does help me; she can't do enough for Junior; she is up and downstairs like a bird. It was a real pleasure to me to. have her and darling little Jo-Anne. But when it comes to the three of them going off to movies, leaving the baby with me; Walter sprucing up in the matter mat-ter of hair-cuts and neckties; telephone tele-phone calls in which he would as soon have Nancy answer as have me answer; what Nancy likes to eat and do his first consideration, then I get mad! Or rather, I get blue and diffident afraid to ask Walter to do anything for fear it interfere with plans he and Nancy have made. "I don't want to make a mountain moun-tain out of a mole-hill. I don't want to lose my sister or my husband. Tell me how to solve this problem wisely, without hurting anyone." Bear the Burden. Deedee, there isn't any immediate immedi-ate answer. This is one of the difficult diffi-cult times most of us have to endure, en-dure, sooner or later; a time when you have to admit another woman's superior charm, beauty and opportunity, oppor-tunity, and bear it The alternative is to quarrel, destroy the friendship friend-ship that now exists among you three, and possibly lessen your husband's hus-band's affection and admiration for you. He probably thinks of you as a woman with common sense. To burst out with jealousy of your sister sis-ter would shock and disgust and disillusion dis-illusion him. But you won't have to bear this forever. Nancy doesn't want to marry mar-ry your husband. She's just playing with him to keep her hand in. In a few more months she will be free to find another mate, and then she will settle down to real business, and you will have the grateful job of consoling your husband for the change in Nancy. "She isn't a bit like what she used to be," he will complain, "and it's all that boob. What she sees in him is more than I can work out! But il she's going to act like such a fool the sooner she marries him and settles set-tles down the better." Your only cure, Deedee, is time. But I would like to give a hint to the husbands and wives who so cheerfully take chances with the sacred sa-cred and easily destroyed thing that is married love and confidence. It would be a good idea for every married mar-ried person to check up on himself or herself, now and then. Ask yourself your-self if the flattering friendship that seems so harmless and so amusing amus-ing to you is hurting your old mate. Ask yourself if the person nearest you has any reason to feel herself or himself left out in the cold. Love is a great responsibility. To hurt it to repulse it is no lauehiii matter. It is my profound if some what old fashioned conviction, that one of the sins we pay for most bitterly bit-terly is the sin of throwing love aside. 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