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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEWS- WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By . NEPIII. UTAH Thursday, November 21, 1940 Greeks Take Second Inning of War; r i is it t New Yorkers Are Talking About: Baron Oppenhelin of Germany, who can't get back into the U. S. from Mexico because he has no visa. He's the bloke who got in the newspapers when that pretty dancer jumped to her death from his apartment window . . . The defense post in Washington that Robert Moses can get if he wants it . . . The $25,000 they gave Ben Hecht for one week's work on "Foreign Corre- spondent" . . . France Farmer and D. FJamm, the radio magnate . . . Ursula I'arrott, the novelist, and her John Wildberg, the producer. &. h j Washington, D. C. WALLACE TO PLAY STRONG ROLE For about 160 years, the vice president of the United States has been either trouble-make- pure or else a figure-hea- d quiet-spoke- Havana-Madri- airline, industrial and national advertising the Times got plus J30.000 in political arts during the camclean-upaign . . . The soon-du- e of all subversive outfits, including the Scummunists. p J?- M Jour: - Washington, D. C. DANGER OF 'INFLATION The greatest danger before us now ia "inflation." In barnyard American all that means is high prices. nt cigar." ... rhumbs dancer at JOHNSON "i I, f. II t 4 -04 NEW YORK. Mme. Annette Clemenceau, daughter-in-la- w of half-siste- a breathless alliance . . . The Herald Trib's forthcoming names on expose bigger than Tex Rirber and Dr. Westrick and several "loyal" American big guns who should be shot . . . All that extra (- President Tom Marshall, vice president under Woodrow Wilson, is remembered only for hi remark: "What thi country needs is a good five-ce- Charles G. Dawes, vice president under Coolidge, became famous when his alarm clock allegedly failed to go off and he arrived at the Capitol too late to change a tie The new plane program to make vote. it the United States of AIRmerica Charley Curtis will only be re. . . Valentina, who designed a membered because of his social war r wardrobe for Norma Shearer to to place his ahead of Alwear in "Escape," being mighty ice Longworth at dinner. And Jack surprised to see the screen credit Gamer will go down In history bego to Adrian . . . The dismissal of cause of his private refrigerator and charges and complete exoneration of his covert opposition to Roosevelt W. B. Clelland In a Canadian court None of these vice presidents was when his wife, a former showgirl, an active worker for the head of didn't appear to press her complaint his administration; many of them . . . The luck of King Carol and deliberately hindered it Lupescu being run out of Rumania Now, however, for the first time where the quake might have killed in recent history, we have a vice them . . . The rumor that the Doropresident who will be a right hand of the President Wallace was thy Arnold police files have mysteriously disappeared. Her fadeour trained under Roosevelt and can be was never solved. counted upon to be a great asset not a deterrent. It I not supposed to be known The first rumor of FDR's plans after 1944: He can become editor yet but already Wallace has disof the Atlanta Journal, owned by his cussed ideas with the President dear friend, James E. Cox of Ohio, whereby he will work on three imaccording to chums of Cox . . . portant problems. They are: 1. To act as liaison officer beThe silent, but smoldering rivalry between Tommy Manville and tween the White House and conGeorge Trommer over the prettiest gress. This Is the most important belles In the show sector. Lucky job of all. 2. To act as a sort of ambassador-at-larg- e girls they get the costliest gifts while the vet Romeos quarrel over in cementing Good Neighthem. bor relations between the United States and Latin America, especialPathfinder mag's remark that the ly where congressional affairs are concerned. Literary Digest didn't fold up be3. To formulate plans for shifting cause of its bum guess on the 1936 industrial economy election . . . That's like saying the the nation' bird died from the fall instead of from armament to a normal basis, the bullet . . , The forthcoming after the war Is over. book by Don Qulnn about the radio censors who spoil programs. It Is PATRIOT BUSINESS MEN brilliantly titled: "Idiot's Delete"! Behind thai irate outburst from the New England Shoe Manufacturers association at the army' new Reprinted from ye ed's air Journal: Heat and pressure bring out method of buying shoe was an unthe best in steel and men In told story of how a group of busia hot campaign both political parties ness men working for the governhave sharply set forth the things ment saved the taxpayers about they hold different . . . Lest they $6,000,000. forget, your newsboy reVnlnds the The manufacturers were Indignant American people of things they hold that the army, under Defense comin common . . , Together, they own mission guidance, had scattered its a great Union, a Declaration of Inorders for 4,000,000 pairs of shoes dependence, a Constitution and a Instead of giving this juicy business, Bill of Rights . . . They hold these as in the past, to a few big firms. things together because they hold, But by this new method the army separately, the right to Life, Liberty was able to obtain shoes at $1.50 a and the Pursuit of Happiness . . . pair less than they cost during the They know by now that an AmeriWorld war. can election decides only policies, A group of business executives, not principles . . . Under our common law traditions the majority la working devotedly ia the procurement division. In the past six months privileged only because under our not only have saved the government common sense Constitution every several hundred millions on defense minority is protected . . . They not disturbed own a common future because they supplies, but have conown a common past . . . Nobody market conditions or caused to loom. The shoe will ever know the politics of the sumer prices one item in this reUnknown Soldier. The people who deal was only but it Is a typical markable record, buried their heroes together at one. Trenton, Shiluh, Manila and the Because of the long battle in conMarne, will continue to bury their gress over the Selective Service act differences at the polling places. the army was not sure until the very To both parties then, the Amerlast moment whether It would need ican people owe their thanks for producing a house not divided but de- shoes for 400.000 regulars, or for 1,000.000 additional draftees. So it voted. was September 16 before Brig. Gen. Clifford Corbln of the quartermasOrson Welles" constant dinners ter corps rushed to the Defense comwith his pretty sec'y, Kathryn with his requirements. The mission Trooper . . . The lavender lads who procurement aces were all ready for are nocking to see "Charley'i Aunt" him. . . . The 4,000 reserve officers who For weeks they had quietly surwill be called between Nov. and Dec. veyed the shoe Industry. They knew 15 in N. Y. . . , Jack Dempsey's of every plant from the real burn over Gene Tunney's quot- the capacitycapable of turning out giants ed political speeches about Demp-sey- 's thousands of a day to the pairs war record and Dcmpsey'a smallest in a Boston loft factory oath to sock him on sight . . . Am- Also, had carefully studied bassador Wm. Bullitt's "torch" for World they war experience, when the his old girl whom he met again in as a price of shoes had Washington the other day but who result of the placing of big orders has married another . . . The ad- with a few firms. mission now by Uirir Intimates that the army's system Myma Ley and A. Hornblow Jr. of So, discarding asking for bids on the entire are on the verge . . . Betty Alien' exthumbnail drscriptions of Gocbbels 4,000,000 pairs, the commission perts quietly asked every reputable and Hitler: and I'reycw. manufacturer in the industry for a price on the number of shoes he Diamonds will be cheaper In 1942 was capable of producing. The rebecause a company mining silver sults Of this wily trading were reand gold in Central America has markable. discovered diamonds on it lands During the World war, the army . . . The forthcoming Dies commitpaid $4 a pair for shoes. Through tee "white paper." which will con- the procurement division's method tain the names of the U. S. Nazis of negotiated contracts, distributed and Scummunists with whom they among 25 factories from New Engare at war . . . Claude Rains' re- land to St. Louis, the army was able treat to his Pcnnsy farm to undergo to get its 4.000.000 pairs of regulaan narration . . . The line sweeping tion shoes at $2 50 a pair. Hollywood after it was overheard at Note Chief of the procurement dithe House of Murphy bar: "He' Donald Nelvision is the type that got a helping hand son, the former Scars, Roebuck and broke it off at the elbow." dynamo. The Cuban rontul general's son and Charlotte Van Duyn, the Dutch - HUGH S. (EDITOR'S NOTE Whe opinions are expressed In these columns, they those of the news Analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) iwiB-- H y Western Newspaper Union. in are in the family of hi r chief, the Rumanian Earthquake; Rumors of Changes in Next Cabinet; British Bombers Raid Italian Fleet 2,000 Killed in &DREvrpCAKSON ROBERT ALIEN General Refugee Edward C. Wayne n MORE In producAlong with the speed-ution of airplanes and tanks, there Is In the speed-ua much productan of 3. Edgar Hoover is now turning out special sgent of the FBI at the phenomenal rate of 40 a week. Formerly, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had only 90 special agents, but a recent congressional authorization boosted the figure to Hoover now has almost at1,500. tained that mark, with 1.340 trained and 160 more to be produced. WOODBRIDGE, N. J. This scene of desolation met the eye after a terrifying blast leveled the United Railway and Signal Co., here, killing nine persons and Injuring 33. Though the plant made torpedo signals for railroads. It was said to be working on a device of "great importance" to the army and navy. (For news of other powder plant blasts see "DEFENSE: Supplies.") FOUR HORSEMEN: War WAR AT SEA: Greece is connected to Fascist-hel- d Albania by three highways running through deep mountain passes. Down these three highways marched Mussolini's blackshlrt legions In the first week of his war with Greece. Back up the highways hurried what was left of the divisions in the sec- British Losses Brltainwas not hiding the fact that continued loss of freighter vessels was seriously interfering with the conduct of the overseas supplies. Neutral estimates have put the losses at 3,400,000 tons out of an available 30.000,000. The rate of sinkings has gone up sharply since ond week. June. Prime Minister Churchill told The Greeks, outnumbered two to commons the losses were more serihad the one, reported they pushed ous than air raids, and said the Britinvaders back on the northern and ish must even heavier atcentral front. On the southern front tacks next expect He sounded out spring. they also claimed victory, said a Ireland on the use of bases there complete Italian division was surbut Eire President De Valera rerounded and wiped out jected the bid. still German England, pounded by One day Berlin announced that a warplanes, saw the Tower of Lon- convoy of 20 British ships had been ancient famous where don, prison attacked and sunk. It was believed prisoners were confined In the Elizaa sea raider of the pocket battleship bethan era, smashed by a bomb. type was at large in the north AtOne night the raiding planes had an lantic. The English unaccustomed hum. But three days later. London reguessed they were Italians, a guess ports of the attack on the same conconfirmed when one was shot down. voy varied greatly from this Berlin The Italian onslaught brought demands in London for a raid on dispatch. Said the British: A German Rome, treasured architectural city battleship overtook a Britishpocket conuntil now protected by agreement voy of 38 ships and a dramatic and Said George Bernard Shaw, heroic of the sea was then "There is no reason why Rome enacted.episode should not have It If only people The British armed merchant were not killed and we could select Jervis Bay, steamed directly the places to be bombed, I would cruiser, at the more heavily gunned and arwelcome an attack on London. They mored German ship and engaged in down a are knocking good many combat outclassed, the galThough things we should have knocked down lant crew of the Jervis Bay continourselves long ago." ued shelling their enemy until at Germany was being torn by tons least 29 of the other ships of the of explosives also. When Adolf Hithad made their escape unler visited the Munich beerhall, Nazi convoy der smoke screens. In the end the A out F. R the fliers shrine, sought Jervis Bay was lost and place and dropped explosives. Hit- Fogarty Fegen, wounded in Captain the batof his ler cancelled the broadcast down with his ship. went tle, annual speech. The raiders found the spot just an. hour after the ad- Italian Losses dress and sent high German officials Reports from London also told of scurrying to shelters. a smashing bombing attack upon Likewise when Soviet Premier Italy's navy, anchored In the MedMolotofT and 32 trade and commeriterranean port of Taranto. British cial advisers came to Berlin, the planes operating from an aircraft route over which their private train carrier were reported to have put passed was bombed. The visiting out of action two battleships, two diplomats escaped Injury. The folcruisers and two auxiliary craft and lowing day MolotofT and Hitler held severely damaged a third battleship. conference during Aircraft were used in the attack, a three-hou- r which it Is believed the course of according to London, because the the two nations in relation to the harbor is too heavily fortified for Balkan countries was decided. surface craft to approach it While the Italians described these reports Death as "fantastic," If they are true, it Euover rode Horseman Pale The means that English domination of An earthmore war. than rope in the Mediterranean Is assured for quake shook Rumania killing an estimated 2,000 and causing millions some time to come. The vessels sunk or damaged represent about of dollars of property damage. Def of Italy's full fighting of the some were also pro( stroyed lific Rumanian oil wells which have strength of larger vessels. been supplying Adolf Hitler with the POST ELECTION: gasoline needed for his war maThe Aftermath chine. Rumors of changes in the cabinet were given scant attention by PresiFamine Unable to ship food through the dent Roosevelt although there are British blockade, the American Red excellent indications some will be made when the new administration Cross prepared to close all Its stations in occupied and unoccupied officially starts January 20. SecreAll Europe was under France. tary of Interior Harold Ickes was the first to submit his resignation. strict rationing. He acted the day after election. Pestilence There was no Indication the resigHow long England holds out may nation would be accepted. It merely depend indirectly more than directly was the same routine Mr. Ickes followed four years ago "to give the on Nazi bombs. Millions of people were crowded Into air raid shelters President a free hand." War Secretary Henry L. Stlmson night after night In foul air and weakened by loss of sleep. It is Is mentioned among those who may feared this may bring epidemics as leave. New York's Mayor LaGuar-di- a soon as spring arrives. was mentioned ss a possible successor. The "little flower" knows On the continent other millions, enfeebled by lack of proper nutri- the army, was raised on an army tion, also are susceptible to disease. post one-hal- N I B LETS . . . of the neck's neivs p d n. clerk Spy Tyler Kent tn the American embassy In London, was convicted of an offense against the Officials Secrets act Kent a graduate of Princeton and George Washington university, previously served In the U S. embassy In Moscow. Sentence was reserved pending trial of Anna WolkofT, daughter of Cxarist Russian admiral, who testified tn the Kent trial Death Neville Chamberlain, appeasement prime minister of Great Britain, found the peace he so long sought Amid the roar of German bomb around his Hampshire home, the 111 and aged statesman died at the age of 71. Earlier It had been reported he would seek health in California, but his Illness had proceeded too far for that trip to be undertaken. Georges Clemen-cea- u, "The Tiger" of France in World war days, is photographed on her arrival in New York aboard the S. S. Exeter. The Exeter brought many American and European refugees from the war zone and the ship's officers told of two shots fired across her stern by a British patrol boat while the vessel was one hour out of Lisbon, Portugal. CONGRESS: No Business Congress continues the fiction of being in session, although virtually all but a few members left the city. Every other day officials of both houses appear, open the session, hear the official prayer, permit speeches to be inserted in the Record and then recess within a few minutes. There is no embarrassing roll call. Agitation for an official adjournment is opposed by Republican leaders as well as many Democrats. They hold congress should be in the position of instant action, due to the troublous foreign situation. One bill being worked out in the meantime is the Ramspeck measure for extension of the merit system to cover some 150.000 more government workers. The bill has been passed by both houses and is being delayed because the house won't accept changes made in conference. Final acceptance would make the Roosevelt administration the record-breakfor civil service extension. er Debt Meanwhile Treasury Secretary Morgenthau warned the ceiling on the federal debt must be raised soon, due to heavy defense spending. A formal treasury request for new taxes and a higher debt limit probably $60.000,000,000 is not expected until next January however. The present congress has voted almost $17,000,000,000 for defense. Morgenthau said the treasury has no idea of asking congress to pass a retroactive tax on government securities. NEW STATE: Hawaii Votes By a vote of two to one Hawaiian citizens expressed a desire for statehood. The vote was merely a plebiscite, an Indication of bow the people of the 40 Islands feel toward the question. Agitation in the islands to become state goes back bethe forty-nint- h yond the time when the area was annexed to the United States. An element in the island then sought to make the annexation dependent on But congress merely statehood. granted the new land territorial rights. The territorial legislature now 1 expected to petition congress again. If the petition la granted, the legislature must draft a proposed constitution which also must be approved by congress. A congressional resolution is the final step in the admission procedure. DEFENSE: Supplies To equip the men who will operate U. S. tanks, trucks and planes, the army quartermaster depot at Philadelphia is working overtime. In on week the depot accepted bids on 900.000 bath towels. 15.000 pairs of gauntlets. 200.000 field hats. 10.000 pounds of twine. 20.000.000 yards of khaki cloth. S5O.0O0 roll collar wool overcoats. 1000.000 pairs of leggings, 9.000.000 pairs of socks, 2.347,000 pairs of shoes and 750 bugles. En sines by Ford The Ford Motor company has been awarded Its first defense contract $123,000,000 order tor airplane engines. Last June. Henry Ford declared he would accept orders for the United States but not for Brit, ain. The number of engine in the order was not announced. Sliare for Britain Great Britain will receive approxairimately 28.373 American-madplane before June. 1942. This was made possible by arrangement approved by President Roosevelt wh agreed to allow London 50 per cenl of the planes which will be produced in the United S ites by that date. The extent of the British order wai set at $2.(0.000.000. The 0 sharing will extend t other munition needs, the Priontiei board announced. Deliveries wUl b staggered. 50-5- Since they are not as spectacular as the bombing of workers' homes, they usually don't get attention before it is too late. War inflation is about the deadliest bearing of war upon the poor. Wages in war never have advanced as fast as the cost of living. The price of anything is mostly the cost OLACK and white yarn a cvo-ch- et of labor to produce it The higher hook presto a life-lik- e they go, the higher the cost of living. panda cuddle toy. Single crochet War inflation (high prices) is the forms the exterior of this cute aniworst bearing of war upon the helpmal; cotton stuffing the interior; less. Germany is bombing the buttons do excellent service as homes of England's poor and seeking to cut off the eyes. supply of milk to babies and food to Easy directions for this cuddly panda adults. England is hell-beon the are Z9036, 15c. He is about 14 inches tall same process to blockade Europe when finished, and will be a nursery faIt takes but little effort to crochet and starve into submission even her vorite. him. Send order to: most gallant defenders: France, Finland, Poland. AUNT MARTHA I do not counsel otherwise. We, Box 166-Kansas City, Mo. ourselves, invented war frightful-nes- s IS cents for each pattern Enclose in our blockade of Southern desired. Pattern No ports and our destruction of food Name in the Shenanand supplies Georgia doah. It must make the wounds of Address ............................. Christ bleed again, but so it is and we must accept it But let's not be blind to a similar war of starvation against our own people high prices. If they go too high they will destroy the practical living value of every insurance policy, social security benefit wage, salary or pension in the United States. This is not because they will reduce those payments. They won't But those payments will buy so little in a high price structure that they will become chaff. I hear that Wall Street pundits say that it will be only a "mild inflation." I honor the sincerity of their opinions but I suspect their knowledge. Once you start this deadly process it is like a snowball rolling down hilL You can no more suffer It "gradually" than you can fire a LTo relieve tieadachs. gun gradually. It is a progress that body discomfort and feeds upon itself. aches, taks 2 Biyer With much actual experience in Aspirin Tablets and drink a glass of wstcf. war inflation, I have made a study Repeat in 2 hours. of this thing for years from the in2. For sots throat from beginning of history. War price flation always grinds the face of the cold, dissolve 36ayer Aspirin Tablets in V poor, not only during hostilities, but a. and (lau of water Pain, rawness are for years thereafter. It lowers the eased very quickly. buying power of their wages. It also doubles or multiplies the cost 3. Check temperaof war. not merely while it is going ture. If you have a on, but for years thereafter in the fever and temperature does not go toil, sweat and taxes in which workif throat down ers and their children must pay for Dain is not Quick the vastly increased cost ly relieved, call your doctor. So far, we have only the symptoms of war inflation. But the gt ns are so plain that it takes no Three simple steps relieve painful terrific microscope to see them fast symptoms accompanying ingovernmental spending and sort throat eased in a hurry. creased debt and deficit capacity At the first sign of a cold, follow the production, a sellers market and a directions ia the pictures above desperate disposition for counter-biddin- g the simplest and among the most in a congested market with effective methods of relief known expense no object to modern science. It has been said that high taxes So quickly does Bayer Aspirin will stop it I shall write another act both internally and as a garcolumn on that It is crazy nongle, you'll feel its wonderful relief start banishing the pain of your sense. Do high taxes of as much as cold in a remarkably short time. 10 cents a gallon prevent the price Try this way. You will say it is of gasoline from going up as high as unequalled. But be sure you get the 18 cents in some states when it 3X. Bayer prod- should be 8 cents? High taxes are net you want Ask for not the answer. Mad as it may Bayer Aspirin by the seem, I am for deficit financing of full name when you buy. Vy this war and not for higher taxes. GENUINE BAYER ASPIRIN This may come strangely from me. who hates personalized power, but I am also for giving the PresiBeing Contented dent a complete power of priorities To to stop competitive bidding and to and the contented, even poverty bring happiness, ration production not to the longest while obscurity to the wealth and purse, but to the most necessitous honors are ambitious, of productive misery. use. The latter can only mean skyrocketing prices. If necessary, I am for giving him complete authori"No Harsh Laxatives For Me ty over the price structure to preADLERIKA gives me proper action, vent Its rising above reasonable levis pleasant and easy. Used ADLERels. Everybody knows it is high IKA past 10 years for spells of connow for reasonable enough profit ADLERIKA stipation." (A. W-usually clears bowels quickly and TWO PARTY SYSTEM relieves gas pains. Get it TODAY. It is suggested that Mr. Willkle AT YOUR DRUG STORE should be appointed to Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet and accept I think not We must stand united in preCowardly Falsehood paring this country for defense, but Falsehood is cowardice truth ia that doesn't mean that we should courage. give up the principal Instrument of our democracy which w are prey sysparing to defend our tem. Salt Lake'j NEWEST HOTEL We are not at war and even If we were, we would commit suicide for Americanism if we abandon the institution of political debate by reof leaders sponsible TV opposing schools of thought For the present Is Willkie leader the titular Mr. of the party of almost half of the American people. That half Is in opposiJui- - ' IE tion to many of the policies of this " administration. He now acts as their anointed spokesman and advocate. If he abandons that part be would certainly be derelict In the duty he owes to them for their trust aid gar-gl- ... fast-acti- aA. fj flJ Vt) two-part- 1U Mr. Willkie so far gave away at the outset the greatest asset of his party the strong opposition of millions to any involvement in Europe's quarrels that I sometimes wonder t his decision to run and his Philadelphia acceptance. There were preconvention candidates who did represent that opinion. He didn't challenge them on that vital point then. If his beliefs on that question were those of so many people In opposition to this dministralion's. he should have fought for them more openly. 'ri ... aat3 Hotel TEMPLE SQUARE Opphi BICHLT It'l Merae TtMste UECOXXESVSH ftVet$i.50to$3.00 stark of dtrrtftcrtoa re stop tf rfcif beswrifal Imtelr m.NEST Bossmta. tUm. c |