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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEIII, UTAH Terrible Hatreds rv rrM i rv Kv K hnri kwpnne Nnirit - Hr Rumors From Embattled Nations Hint of Plans for Organized Extermination Of Enemy Peoples. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. ' WNU Service, Union Trust Building-, Washington, D. C. It wai a soft, Washington spring afternoon. The late shifts of gov ernment workers were hurrying home. The two guardian magnolias that stand on the White House lawn were tipped with the rays of the setting sun. My thoughts were nei ther on this blissful scene nor on the latest news of the battlefront which I had Just finished broadcasting. broadcast-ing. Frankly, I was concerned chief ly with dinner. The announcer was just finishing the "commercial" and I was picking my hat up from the sofa in the studio when I saw the engineer beck' ening to me from behind the glass wall of his goldfish bowL He held up a paper on which was printed "Stop in News Room Important!" I did. The atmosphere was tense as it is frequently these days. A notice had Just appeared on the news ticker to the effect that the White House was about to release an im portant statement It is possible, but not probable, that the thing we were all thinking that statement was going to announce an-nounce but didn't, will happen before be-fore these lines reach print the invasion in-vasion of Europe. Until it does, we shall continue to expect it and while the busy home front keeps our nose pretty well to the grindstone, one hint from overseas and an atmosphere atmos-phere of suspense envelops the CapltoL , v Secrecy's Curtain Meanwhile, there is the feeling that tremendous things are happening happen-ing under a heavy curtain of secrecy in Europe even the hint of which does not reach the press or the public. pub-lic. Russia, of course, is a mystery. What is happening there? Is the remarkable Red army, which in the past has seemed to be able to draw endless men and supplies from nowhere no-where after each crushing defeat, finally exhausted? Spring came early ear-ly to the steppes this year and the Germans, if they are able, will launch their annual summer offensive offen-sive a month; earlier. They hope to be able to break the Red army this time and then hold back the remnants rem-nants with a sparsely manned but intricate line of defense while they turn their attention to the Allies in the West No one knows what the strength of Russia is today. One does know that a terrible hate has been enkindled enkin-dled in the whole race against the . Germans and it is reported that the Red army has threatened that if Soviet forces ever do reach German soil, they will leave no human being living. One story has been spread through Switzerland that if an Allies' Al-lies' army is on the continent when Russia breaks Germany's eastern frontiers if she does that the Germans Ger-mans will open their western front to the Allies and let them in rather than expose themselves to the Russians. Rus-sians. Plan for Prisoners Another report has seeped out of Russia. It is continuously repeated that simply because of the inconvenience incon-venience of caring for prisoners, both the Germans and Russians have been shooting men who are captured or who surrender. On the other hand, the Russians are said to be carefully preserving some of the men they take. Russian propaganda, propagan-da, dropped over the German lines, is very alluring. Some of the pamphlets pam-phlets instruct the German soldiers to surrender and bring with them the leaflet which acts as a passport Then, according to a report which has come in from a neutral country, the prisoners are carefully examined exam-ined and a small percentage weeded out for Soviet indoctrination. They go through a long course of instruction instruc-tion so careful that it is said finally only 10 per cent are accepted as satisfactory. These elite arc then trained to be used as the spearhead of a political invasion of Germany. Hatred, like that in Russia, has poisoned all Europe. There is a belief be-lief now on the part of many of the conquered countries that the Germans, Ger-mans, having given up hope of victory, vic-tory, intend to go forward with a systematic extermination of other races within their reach, as they have in Poland and with the Jews, so that regardless of what happens, the Teutonic stock will dominate BRIEFS Emperor Hirohito on the occasion of the Japanese diet adjournment "granted Premier Tojo, in recognition recogni-tion of his services, one package of chrysanthemum - crested cigarettes and one box of scents," the Tokyo radio told the Japanese people. The Nazis and Italian Fascists and the Japanese refer . to their propaganda propa-ganda as "thought warfare." Kindled ' numerically when the war is over. To meet this, the other nations are talking about turning the tables and beginning organized mass murder of Germans everywhere the moment the Nazi armies lay down their arms. . Only the other day, I talked with a widely traveled Russian newspa per man, who said frankly that he believed this was the proper course. How powerful this spirit of blood revenge really is and whether it will be carried out, one can only guess. Another mystery of which there are only tiny hints is the power and scope of the underground movements move-ments in the occupied countries and the extent to whtxh Allied agents are now working hand-in-hand with the saboteurs In France and Belgium and particularly Holland. Hints leas-out leas-out Saboteurs A secret German report which reached Allied hands stated the following: fol-lowing: "Sometime ago, English parachut ists landed near Prague. When they were held up by the local pelice, they obeyed the order, hands up. But they carried a special device on their belts with a pistol from which cords ran to their hands. The latter fired the pistoL Thus they succeeded by a quick and appropriate appro-priate movement in accounting for the policemen." Here is a part of another enemy report, revealing the activities behind be-hind the lines. It came through Italian military channels: "During the. attack on the Fuka Aerdrome (Africa) the enemy Allied troops put up distress signals. They succeeded in enticing the sentries away from their posts for a time and successfully carried out their sabotage." , Reports have come of British saboteurs gaining entrance to factories fac-tories in the daytime, planting time bombs and leaving. A device has been perfected which can be carried car-ried concealed in the hand I have held one attached by a clever means to a tank car or a locomotive, locomo-tive, if would blow it to pieces. That is only one 6f hundreds of ingenious gadgets which have been perfected for this strange work of secret destruction de-struction that is going on everywhere. every-where. Even more ingenious are the methods which the underground organizations hi France and Italy are using to obtain arms and supplies sup-plies for the insurrection when the moment comes. Some day, "an important statement state-ment from the White House" will come, heralding events many of which we have not even dreamed. -.'' While the airplane factories turn out bombers and fighters, the air-minded air-minded leaders continue to make their air plans for peace. The latest lat-est scheme which has come to my attention is an announcement from the Northeast Airlines company which says this company has made application for a helicopter service to carry air mail and air express in New England. I These little planes that can rise straight up and hover, can land on a parlor rug. They would. In this proposed service, land on the roofs of post office buildings provided, I take it, that the buildings are not of the rococo vintage with peaked and pointed and turreted roofs.' The service would .carry first-class as well as air mail, according to the application filed with the Civil Aeronautics board. Four hundred points would be included. The little "flying automobiles" would not only fly between towns and cities but would carry mail from urban centers to the large airports where the mail would be transferred to the air liners. A national labor service act still hovers Just beyond the horizon. The chief purpose of Manpower Commissioner Commis-sioner McNutt's intricate plans, including in-cluding shifts of men from non-deferrable non-deferrable industry to war work is to build the machinery so that when the act is passed it can be put into effect at once. Now that the farm labor problem has been taken off McNutt's doorstep, door-step, and with the definite "back-to-the-farm" trend, congress may ease up on McNutt and give him the money he needs to build his pre-natlonal pre-natlonal service machinery. by Baukhage In the recent battle between the White House and the press over excluding ex-cluding newspaper men from the hotels ho-tels where the United Nations Food conference delegates are to be housed, Elmer Davis, OWI head, was strictly on the side of the press. Some of our soldiers In American camps during the meat shortage learned to eat goat and like it WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Rommel's Southern Front Stronghold Captured in British Eighth Army Drive; FDR, Camacho Join in 'Neighbor' Plea; American Fliers Pound Japs in Pacific (EDITOR S NOTE! When I Wnwn Newspaper uiuea Released by Western Newspaper Union. i W H y y ; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, U. S. A., head of the Allied forces in Africa, takes the salute of a sentry as he inspects front lines in Tunisia. Lieut. Gen. George 8. Patton Jr., commander of American ground forces driving through Tunisia, follows him. The colonel commanding the unit being Inspected returns the sentry's TUNISIA: Nazis Run Gauntlet Axis efforts to reinforce their em battled armies in Tunisia met strong Allied resistance as Gen. Bernard Montgomery's 8th army opened a successful assault on the Enfidaville passes on the southern front. En fidaville, Rommel's coastal anchor, fell after furious fighting. While British naval units charged an Italian convoy in the narrow channel separating Sicily from Tunisia, Tu-nisia, American and British fighter planes fell upon huge German Junk ers transports and cargo planes crossing the straits. , While British Spitfires held off Axis fighter escorts, American War-hawks War-hawks (P-40) dived to attack the giant Junkers, flying almost at water wa-ter level. Fifty-eight of the Junkers and 16 of the fighters were claimed shot down. That brought to 142 the number num-ber of Axis aircraft destroyed in a three-day period. Gen. Montgomery's hardened infantry in-fantry stormed initial Axis positions in the mountains after artillery had laid down a heavy barrage. FARM MEASURE: House Economy In one of its sharpest economy moves to date, the house passed by a voice vote and sent to the senate an agriculture department appropriation appropri-ation bill allotting $715,099,622 for the fiscal year 1944 but abolishing the Farm Security administration and banning incentive payments to farmers. farm-ers. " ; In its budget request the department depart-ment had asked for $947,134,491. The measure lopped $240,093,647 off the original request. The revised total was reached by adding $20,000,-000 $20,000,-000 for the Rural Electrification administration ad-ministration and striking $12,000,000 sought by the FSA for rural rehabilitation re-habilitation loans. In its final form the house bill abolishes abol-ishes the FSA, abolishes the federal crop insurance program for wheat and cotton, stipulates that none of the funds may be used for incentive payments to farmers producing war crops, sets aside $300,000,000 for the AAA conservation program, prohibits prohib-its payment of more than $500 to any one person for soil conservation purposes, prevents restoration of the Regional Credit Agricultural corporation corpo-ration and allots $20,000,000 for REA Belief was expressed in some quarters that the senate committee would reinstate the FSA to prevent it from being snuffed out RUSSIA: Scramble for Base Portending " possible large scale action in the Caucasus, German troops continued their pressure in the Novorossisk region. While the Russians claimed to have beaten back Nazi efforts to prevent pre-vent their forces from tightening their vise around Novorossisk, the Germans said the luftwaffe pounded Red positions and supply bases on the Black sea coast Novorossisk stands as the Germans' Ger-mans' lone important base in the Caucasus. Situated across from the Crimea, it was the only major position posi-tion retained by the Nazis during their retreat this winter. It is a relatively short distance to Novorossisk Novoros-sisk from the Russian mainland connecting con-necting with the Crimea. 1 HIGHLIGHTS LEND-LEASE: Lend-lease shipments ship-ments to North Africa during the first four months of Allied occupation reached $28,250,000. Shipments included in-cluded flour, sugar, clothing, seed. HONEST STEEL: In a special report, the Truman war investigating investigat-ing committee called upou steel producers pro-ducers to overhaul their inspection systems so as to assure the government govern-ment of the highest grades. .pinions are sipreaeed la these selamas. l a' newt analysia and not aeoeuarflr ! ewspaper.l '"St salute. GOOD NEIGHBORS: Visit in Monterrey "We have, all of us, recognized the privilege of interdependence- one upon another." Franklin D, Roosevelt. "Good neighbors. Good friends That is what we have always wished to be for all the peoples of the earth." Manuel Avila Camacho. With those words, spoken on Mex lean soil, the President of the Unit ed States and the president of Me ieo reaffirmed the" unity of the Americas and offered the , good' neighbor policy as a model for the world, once the "machinery of bar barism constructed by. the dictators is completely destroyed." President Roosevelt arrived In Monterrey, site of the historic meet ing, following an extensive tour of inspection through war centers in the southern part of the United States. He was high in praise of the troops, which he compared with those he had seen on his trip last September. He told the press he had found morale very, very high and declared the men looked extremely, ex-tremely, fit1.:. - PACIFIC: Action at Both Ends Giving the Japs no rest, American fliers pounded enemy air fields and shipping at both ends of the Pacific. Flying Fortresses, Liberators and Avengers struck at the Jap air base of Kahili in the Solomons, starting big fires and pocking the runways with bomb craters. Other units attacked at-tacked Munda farther to the west, also causing damage. While the air fields were being raided,- Avenger torpedo planes sailed into a cluster of Jap ships bearing reinforcements for enemy troops in the Shortland island area of the Solomons. Five hits were scored on a 10,000-ton vessel, which was left sinking, and two other ships were battered by hits and near misses (bombs exploding alongside the target). , In the Aleutians to the north, bombers and fighter planes swooped down on Attu and Kiska. Results were unobserved at Attu, but hangars han-gars and camps were blown up and grounded planes strafed at Kiska. WAR MANPOWER: 27 Million Frozen If you're an employee in an essen. tial industry, you're as good as fro zen tor tne duration. That is the substance of the War Manpower commission's orders for bidding employees in essential in. dustry from changing jobs except unaer especial conditions. Under the WMC's order." wnrfe. er must be irregularly employed or noi employed to his best ability in an essential industry before he pan shift jobs. In regions in which the wml has decreed' no labor shortage short-age exists, employees in essential industry can take higher paying jobs u me moves are approved by the WMC. The WMC order does not aftwt employees in non-essential industry, who are free to switch Dositiona in all, some 27 million workers are af- rected by the WMC ruling. invoking provisions of th ir nomic Stabilization act the wir established a fine of $1,000 and a year's imprisonment for violation of the order. in the week's news FOUR FREEDOMS: Speaking in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Henry Wallace said that unless the four freedoms were instituted after the war democracy will have failed. PRAYERS: Prayers for peace were asked as the Vatican inaugurated inaugu-rated weekly broadcasts to Russia The broadcast told the people not to give up hope for a peace despite the continuance of the war. FOOD SUPPLY: II Kl II IN 3U1 I Mil I I I II Ir-tJ arNr-t r. v ' 1 I I I A O s Another Pull on Belt Following a statement of the Of-flee Of-flee of War Information that there would be a reduction of 6 per cent in the food supply for this year, the department of agriculture revised its previous production estimates downward. . . . The department said there would be about 12 pounds less meat pound less poultry and fish. 2H pounds less lard, margarine and cooking compounds, and about 10 ft pounds less citrus fruits per person than anticipated earlier. Fraction-al Fraction-al increases were reported for canned fruits, potatoes and rice. Despite the cut. the department said that the food supply per capita would equal the 1935-'39 total, but that rationing would spread the amount more equitably. The department de-partment also revealed that food production in 1943 will be 3 per cent above last year, if favorable weather weath-er prevails, and 31 per cent above the 1935-'39 average. Of the total supply of food available avail-able this year, however, the army, lend-lease and world relief will obtain ob-tain 25 per cent Army requirements require-ments are based on a force of 8,200,-000 8,200,-000 men. who eat twice as much as civilians. In its report the OWI declared that food shortages will bring "inconveniences" "in-conveniences" and "exasperations" to consumers, but will not affect their life or health. TOKYO: Stung From Hornet Equipped with a 20-cent bomb-sight bomb-sight 16 North American B-25 medium me-dium bombers used the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet to take off for the historic raid on Tokyo. The Hornet was 800 miles from Tokyo when the B-25s rose in the air and headed for the Japanese coast line. As they approached, the airmen flew in at low level to avoid detection, and then raised their planes to 1,500 feet as they plastered factories, railways and refineries in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe. The original plan was to alight at certain points in unoccupied China, but storms arose, exhausting the planes ebbing fuel supplies. Of the 16 craft 15 made crash landings or were lost as their crews bailed out Major General Doolittle, who led the raid, was among those who parachuted para-chuted to safety. Of the 80 pilots, eight fell into Jap hands. One was killed and two are still missing. Sixty-four survived, many of them landing in occupied China, but working their way to the unoccupied zone with the help of friendly natives. Weak fighter opposition was encountered en-countered and anti-aircraft fire was inaccurate as the Japs were caught completely by surprise. COEBBELS: No End of Sufferings "The war is in its fourth year and has reached its hardest stage so far, and the end or a way out of its burdens and sufferings is at present nowhere in sight." - ' Thus spoke Nazi Propaganda Min ister Joseph Goebbels on the eve of Adolf Hitler's 54th birthday. Goebbels Goeb-bels said the fuehrer would spend the day at field headquarters. While Goebbels spoke, Marshal Herman Goering issued an order of the day to the German army, stress ing the same foreboding note. Said he: ". . . We will follow the glorious German flag in accordance with our oaths as brave soldiers in any hours and in any fight on land and sea in any area with the greatest great-est readiness to sacrifice." Eulogizing Hitler as the "libera tor of the fatherland," Goering also called him the "savior of western civilization from the Bolshevik menace." men-ace." SUBMARINES: Planes vs. Wolves Allied airplanes have joined in the battle of the Atlantic. Manning American Flvins For. tresses and Liberators and British Sunderlands,, Allied airmen are ranging far into the North Atlantic to strike against backs of Nazi U-boats, attacking the east-bound convoys. Attached to the British coastal command, these long-range heavy bombers are meeting the harassed convoys on the last leg of their journey. They are dumping thou sands of depth charges on the wolf-packs wolf-packs they can spot from aloft In recent action, the bombers de livered 19 attacks in four days. Seek ing to avoid the concussion nf th depth charges, U-boats climbed to tne surface and then engaged the airplanes with anti-aircraft fire from their decks. The British air min istry claimed no kills, but said there was evidence of at least five sub marines destroyed. The Allied planes were mannnt by British, Canadian. Rhotfosian Australian, New Zealand and Bel gian aviators. FOOD CONFERENCE: U.S. Has No Scheme Representatives nf TTnita nr-: - " u lldUUlU Will crowd Hot Knrin ere V 10 a., iuaj la, for the Allied food conference sponsored spon-sored by the United States. According tn Sen ilk.. the conference win h v,,-n .. v,,,,; exploratory, ex-ploratory, with the various delegates specifying the needs of conquered "pics. me means required to restore re-store production tries and the mutual distribution of Newspaper Man Stuff: So here's to the gallant reporters, The boys with the pencils and pads, Those cool, imperturbable, calm, tndisturbable, Nervy, inquisitive lads. Each time that we pick up a paper. Their marvelous deeds we should bless: Those bold, reprehensible, brave, indispensable Sensible lads of the press! Newman Levy. City editors are like those you see la the movies ... They really are , , . Cynical, indifferent and lnces santly so-whatty . . . Ask Jim Bish op, one of the Mirror's nimble newspaper news-paper sleuths ... Jim was a wit ness to this incident many years ago ... It was one of those lovely tidbits tid-bits that brightened a dull night . . , Out of the nowhere came a stranger loosely waving a pistol ... "I wan na see the Fish and Game editor," he said softly, "very important" . And so Bishop brought him to the Fish and Game man ... "I Just killed my wife," began the fellow. "I trussed her in a trunk and then I tied up her boy friend in a chair and then I set fire to him.' I always liked your column, so I thought I'd give you the scoop." ' Bishop and the Fish and Game editor took him over to the city edi tor . . . Now this city editor is one of those guys who wouldn't blink if Rommel walked in and brought Hit ler with him and he was irked . , "I'm busy," he said, motioning to his assistant across the slot . . The murderer was told to repeat his story to the assistant city ed . . He took a deep breath and rubbed his face, which was scratched like a ten cent ruby . . . As he unfolded the details he kept yanking chunks of wire and rone from his Dockets. and waving' the pistol . . . The city editor never looked up from the copy he was studying, except to stifle a butt - "Now with this rope," said the killer, "I tied up her boy friend. And with this wire I strangled her lovely throat And here is the pistol, you can see for yourself that one bullet is missing" ... The indifferent city editor, who was still occupied with the dummy of a page, looked up and said to his assistant: "Hey. Think there's anything to this one?" This actually happened recently la one of the editorial offices . . . There had been rumors again that a shake- up was taking place and that heads would roll . . . One morning a stranger sat at a desk in the corner and answered the phone when it rang and when it wasn't ringing, he Just looked around at everybody . . . It gave the staff the screaming jitters jit-ters , . . Nobody knew just what he was there for and all were afraid to ask . . . Finally, one feature writer writ-er engage him in gab . . . "What is your job around here?" he asked . . . . "Oh, I don't work here," was the reply . . . "Well, then," queried the other, "who are you waiting to see?" . . . "Oh," said the stranger, "I'm not waiting to see anyone. My friend works in the advertising department de-partment Fm his insurance agent He told me I could use this desk." The reporters down at Police H quarters are the most colorful, we think ... They "live" in a shack across the street from the gold braid cops . . . Life is a game of pinochle, a brass bell bonging a second alarm, a slip boy shuffling in with a suicide's name and address or a phone call from the city desk to check on a rumor out of Washington that the Nazis are invading Turkey . . . But what we started out to say was that the kid who brings the morning papers to the niteside reporters re-porters there was bawled out by one of them. The boy had forgotten to leave a Times for the irate man . . . The kid said be was very sorry, and that it wouldn't happen again ... "It better not," barked the reporter. "You know I bring a fish home every ev-ery morning. What the hell am Z gonna wrap it up in?" My favorite newspaper man story always was the one about the veteran vet-eran editor, who on Christmas Eve gave these instructions to a cub . . '. "Now I want you to go down to the Bowery," said the boss, "and dig up some human interest about those poor unfortunates. Jot down how they enjoyed their Christmas dinner at the mission. Then after you cover the Salvaton Army feast for the poor bring me a couple of hot dogs." Those are the kind of stories scribes tell each other, at any rate, and they have spellbound newspaper newspa-per men ever since they got their first assignments . . . Take this one, frixample . . . Nobody's asking you to believe It . . . But take It, anyhow any-how ... A reporter phoned his city desk about a homicide ... "The core," he said, "is still at the scene of the crime 1" "Don't you mean corpse?" snarled the rewrite man. 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