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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION INDIA: Gandhi's Gain C h WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS j . Powerful Strength of Nazi Thrust Drives to Greatest Gain in Russia; Aussies Smash at Rommel in Egypt; U. S. Forces 'Change Policy' in China WMtliXif?1 Plnion expressed In these columns, they are those of newspaper Lnion's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspoper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. J s. " i i RUSSIA: Deepest Drive Even Moscow admitted it The powerful Nazi thrust had finally driven deeper into Soviet territory than at any time before in the his-tory of the war. Last year it was toward Moscow that drive pene-trated to its farthest point. But the current German cam-paign wasn't headed directly that way. Its spearhead had thrust it-self across the Don river and swung around the big bend of that river heading southeastward down the valley toward Stalingrad. Though there were immense losses of Nazi men and machines Hitler keot on enintr for he wanted CHINA: Change of Policy "There has been a definite change in policy since July 1. (This was the date on which regular U. S. army air forces started operations in China.) Hankow, Canton and other cities in occupied China which were never bombed before have been bombed now." So began a hard-hittin- g statement from the headquarters of Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, chief of air operations against the Japs in China. "We are going deeper and deeper into China. All cities under Japa-nese occupation will be bombed. Thara Tiiill h a TnnrP active DOliCV MOHANDAS K. GANDHI A step-u- in moral pressure. His doctor had ordered him to rest from now on. You can draw your own conclusions as to what will hap-pen," he further stated. Meanwhile, concrete evidence of this new surge of strength was re-vealed in an announcement from Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stillwell's Chungking headquarters which said that Linchwan, important base for : V f 1 1 ) ! Stalingrad on the vital Volga. But even more he wanted what he could find beyond . . . the rich oil pools of THE CAUCASUS. The Moscow-Rosto- v railway had been cut earlier and Soviet commu-nications thus suffered a hard blow. When the Germans slash across and solidate their positions on the Volga it means that still another highly important link between the final bat-tleground for the Caucasus and Mos-cow would be severed. Crumpling of their forces further to the north of Rostov would also leave the Rus-sians open to a hard new push by floods of Nazis released from that battle sector. Russia's hope was the heavy toll of German strength that was being extracted as the Reds fell back in their delaying action all along the fighting front. German claims of success spoke of the breaking of "local resistance everywhere." Some military sources were inclined to agree with them in this regard' but there was speculation as to whether or not communiques like this one were true: ' In one day's fighting Germany lost only six planes and on the same day Russian losses were set at 63 tanks and 74 planes. Berlin said so, but Moscow didn't. SABOTEURS: All Doubt The eight Nazi saboteurs as they were tried for their lives before a Washington, D. C, military com-mission had the benefit of govern- - because of his extreme exhaustion but Mohandas K. Gandhi was again on the road to beating down the Brit-ish and he would not be stopped. After six days of discussion at Wardha, Gandhi's Congress party's working committee agreed to adopt his project for a step-u- p in moral pressure to force Great Brit-ain to give India full freedom im-mediately. News out of New Delhi indicated that this step came as triumph for the advocate of Indian nationalism over Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, left-win-g leader of the party. Nehru has been described as the best friend the United Nations have in India and thus it appeared that any movement to force freedom from Britain would be so carried out as to refrain from interfering with the war effort there. For most sources did not believe Nehru would have been won over so easily if he thought the United Nations cause would be endangered. CEILINGS: Some Changes When first the General Maximum Price regulation was introduced it was pretty difficult to adjust cases that appeared to be directly harm-ing someone unfairly. This has now been amended to permit Leon Hen-derson's Office of Price Adminis-tration to adjust ceiling prices in cer-tain "hardship cases." Frozen fruits and vegetables were among the first ceilings to face ad-justment. Ceiling prices on these products are being increased to pre-vent crops from rotting in the field because of increased gathering and packing costs. Price relief will also soon be granted for jams, jellies and pre-serves. Some idea of the amount of money to be spent, taxed or saved throughout the country in the com-ing months came from Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones in a state-ment to the effect that the American people in 1943 will have over $30,000,000,000 more income than "the value of things for which the money can be spent." RATIONING: Gasoline About 8,000,000 eastern motorists were to get their basic permanent gasoline coupon books, said OPA, and local boards were instructed to insist on complete proof of eligibil-ity and need before granting sup-plemental rations of any kind. GENERAL JOSEPH STDLXWELL Helped with a "change of policy." the Jap thrust in Kinangsi province, had been bombed by "Allied planes." But not only air power seemed to be growing in the Linchwan sector, for the Chinese ground troops were reported driving back the Japs toward that city and toward Nan-chan- EGYPT: Again the Aussies German Field Marshal Rommel had to ' deal with the Australians again. His mobile columns and ar-tillery had smashed the British back in a headlong drive that had dan-gerously extended his communication lines back to Bengasi and Tobruk. And then at El Alamein the British army of the Nile, reinforced by Australians, let him have it. They chose the coastal route to slap back. Along the Mediterranean they rushed at the Nazi and Italian forces who had little time to dig in and consolidate their positions. The British, South African and New Zea-land desert units threw out an of-fensive to the south and west of their El Alamein line and the Aussies charged in against the German tanks. Renorts from Cairo said that they I ' I ) , . , ' J lM-.- mi ii mrna in ii in ii .1 were using a new type of anti-tan- k gun and they used it at shorter range than usual. It had been a n assault and some of the enemy had been caught napping. Time after time the Aussies were way out in front of their supporting tanks. They overran enemy gun po-sitions and in some cases turned the guns around to the west and fired at the German-Italia- n positions beyond. There developed later, however, the most important angle of the battle for the Suez. It was an all-o-air battle. Rommel had suf-fered some heavy plane losses as he kept hammering the British back but now his air strength seemed to be strengthened. For as the Aus-sies caught his tanks temporarily off guard, Rommel's planes rose to blast the advance British lines. This However, congressmen, members of state and local legislatures, and other government officials will be eligible for "special rations" for use in legislative or official business. Bona fide political candidates may have extra rations for travel neces-sary to the prosecution of their can-didacies. Newspaper reporters and photographers will be eligible for supplementary rations up to a quan-tity sufficient to permit 470 miles of occupational driving per month if they can meet car pooling provi-sions. Gasoline stations which have been supplying war workers will be granted increased monthly quotas and the WPB granted OPA author-ity to require filling station opera-tors to submit coupons or other evi-dence that rationing regulations are being complied with when gasoline is delivered to their stations. ELMER DAVIS i?eZeases were "circumspect." d counsel which tried to give these enemy agents the benefit of all doubt as to their guilt. Extensive by defense counsel of prosecution wit-- , nesses slowed testimony but during the trial little information leaked out to the y public. Elmer Davis, director of the Of-fice of War Information, ha.d a tough round with the court in getting re-lease on any news whatsoever. He did get two daily press releases but they were described as "circum-spect" MISCELLANY: TIRES: President Roosevelt's press conference heard him say that if the war situation gets worse than at present, the government may have to requisition every automo-bile tire in the United States. CHIEF: U. S. army ah-- forces have as their new commander-in-chie- f in the European area Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz. we OPERATIONS: The department of agriculture will continue to op-erate despite the fact that congress is wrangling over its current appro-priations as a resolution to finance it for a month cleared both legisla-tive chambers. TRAINING: To house trainee radio aviation operators, the Tech-nical Training command is taking over the world's largest hotel the Stevens in Chicago. Also taken over was the Congress hotel in the same city. WELCOME: The Soviet sub which blasted two torpedoes into the 35,000 ton Nazi battleship Tirpitz in Arctic waters has been officially welcomed home at its base by the admiral of the fleet. WOMEN: British women of 42 years of age have now registered for war service, bringing the total number of women so registered to eight million. War industries and women's auxiliary services are claiming them at the rate of 15,000 a day. seemed to mean that from some-where had come help. Ansiver in Crete? Experts looked toward Crete for the answer. For on that island in the Mediterranean were based the Nazi ace in the hole. This consisted of the powerful plane force and the parachute troops that had taken the island from the Greeks last year and which now were poised to re-lieve pressure from Rommel. PACIFIC: New Guinea Front Strategic New Guinea now bases U. S. troops and will likely be used as a jumping off place for attacks on the Jap invaders of the .Pacific. Same day it became known in the United States- - that our troops had been stationed at Port Moresby on that island the Japs sent over 21 bombers with eight fighters to add another raid to the oft-h- area. Kept high by fire, the bomb-ing "was scattered and wild and there was no damage." The announcement that these troops were in New Guinea marked the first time thav it was learned that U. S. forces werp moving north-ward from Australia. Previously only activity by American troops in Australia and on the French island of New Caledonia, had been report-ed in the southwest Pacific. Port Moresby lies just north of Australia and with Port Darwin in North Australia forms a vital area for defensive as well as offensive moves by the United Nations' forces. It has been bombed constantly by the Japs. Tires Eligible motorists may be refused new tires by local rationing boards if an inspector's report shows that the purchaser has abused his old tires, according to an announce-ment made by OPA. Also local boards may receive application for new tires from purchasers of trac-tors, farm implements, and other vehicles sold without tires. BILLIONS: For War Congressional war appropriations now total more than $225,000,000,000, but the U. S. actually has spent less than 40 billions, according to current War Production board fig-ures. There is an average daily rate of expenditures for war by gov-ernment agencies of $158,600,000. Last month the WPB bureau of finance obtained $62,120,464 in the form of loans or advances on pay-ments for war materials for 397 manufacturers. WAR WORK: For Millions From the War Manpower com-mission came word that approxi-mately 8,600,000 persons will be brought into war work in 1942 from nondefense plants. Another 1,400,000 will come in from the unemployed, 400,000 from the agriculture labor supply and over three million from the regular increase in the national labor supply. During 1942 and 1943 almost 20 million people will be drawn into war production and the armed services. beauty for bed-roo- m linens is offered in these ' new designs. Graceful baskets of brown filled with colorful flow-'e- rs are for pillow slips, dresser ,'scarf and vanity set. Outline, lazy 'daisy, blanket stitch and French Iknots are the simple stitches 'required for the motifs. Pattern No. Z9463, 15 cents, brings a s transfer which In-cludes all of the motifs shown, together 'with directions. Send your order to: AUNT MARTHA Box 166-- Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address , iJUT5rmTjL"'"bl,;kl"f40 GO MUCH FARTHER f PSH W FEATHERS .T A J. Fuller Pep By JERRY LINK 0-so- ?1 Nothing much gets by Old Judge Wiggins "Puller," he says to me, "Just about the only thing that can keep on growing without nourishment Is some folks' con-ceit." And speakln' o' nourishment reminds me that you got to get all your vitamins. That's why I keep tellin' folks about KELLOGG'S PEP. 'Course PEP hasn't all the vitamins. But it's extra-ric- h in the two most likely to be short In ordinary meals vitamins Bi and D. And PEP'S a tastln' cereal, too. Why not try it tomorrow? A delicioul cereal that supplies per serving (1 oz.)t the full minimum daily need of yitamin D; 114 the daily need ofyitamin Bi. on "certain days" of month If functional monthly disturbances make you nervous, restless, high-strun- g, cranky, blue, at such times -t-ry Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound - famous for over 60 years to help relieve such pain and nervous feelings of women's "difficult days." Taken regularly Pinkham's Compound helps build up resist-ance against such annoying symp--, toms. Follow label directions. Well Whole Gran Values..! i it As recommended by the U. S. 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Sometimes frequent and scanty urina-tion with amarting and burning is an-other sign that something is wrong with the kidneys or bladder. There Bhould be no doubt that prompt treatment ia wiser than neglect. Use Doan't Pills. It Is better to rely on a medicine that has won countrywide ap- - Eroval than on something less favorably Doan't have been tried and test-ed many years. Are at all drug stores. Get Doan't today. HOTEL BEN LOUD OGDEN UTAH V. i. v f " 4M ISO Rooms 350 Battu - $2.00 to H.OO Family Rooms for 4 persons - . 14.00 Air Cooled Lounge and Lobby Dining Boom CofTee Shop Tap Boom Home of Rotary Klwanis Executives Exchange Optimists 'n-J-Chamber of Commerce and Ad CInb Hotel Ben Lomond OGDEN. UTAH Hubert E. Vislck. Mgr. We Can All C) EXPERT , BUYERS ! In bringing us buying Informoti" to prices that are being oikd' T what we Intend to boy, and 01 Jj the advert" I y quality we can expect, columns of this newipaper perfo n worth while service which tavei many dollars a year. It Is a good habit to form, Hie of consulting the advertisemen" time we make a purchase, flwug" p. have already decided iJt b'M want and where we are soins It. It gives us the most priceless Ct In the world: the feelinS of 4 adequately prepared. an When we go Into a store, PP beforehand with knowledge offered and at whot price. an expert buyer, filled with se dence. It Is a pleasant feeling to the feeling of adequacy. M' unhapplness In the worid can be to a lack of this feeling. I""1 Using shows another of ' j ,. facets shows Itself as on 010 ' I making all our business rel" more secure and pleasant. WNU--W 2942 Tactd ofi v ADVERTISING ' ADVERTISING represents the leadership of a nation. It points the way. We merely follow follow to new heights of comfort, of convenience, of happiness. As time goes on advertis-ing is used more and more, and as it is used more we all profit more. It's the way advertising has of bringing a profit fo everybody concerned, ihe consumer included "All the Traffic Would Bear" There was a time in America when there were no set prices. Each merchant charged what he thought "the traffic would bear." Advertising came to the rescue of the consumer. It led the way to the estab-lished prices you pay when you buy anything- today. L BlUOUSEHom Hnirrrass Flower pots can be made fr buckets or cans. Paint them r, on magazine pictures in color a '! then shellac. To keep coat buttons from tea ing out, sew a smaller button the under side, running the thr3 through both. Clean your oil mops in hot ter to which has been added wast ing powder, with a little ammon Put your kitchen table on cast ers. You then can roll it whet' you want it and save yourself many .steps. When stewing dried fruits, th addition of a small amount of lemon rind will give a better flavor. Shake your turkish towels vi. orously before hanging up to dry This removes wrinkles and raises the nap. To keep fish from breaking when cooking, put the pieces in hot fat with sKm siae uppermost and them to bro.wn before turning" If you cannot get candleholders for the birthday cake, decorate top with marshmallows and stick a candle into each one. To remove ice cream and other grease stains from silk crepe, try rubbing the stain briskly with a piece of ordinary toilet tissue, crumpled! Stretch the material tight and rub in all directions un, til stain disappears. ASK ME 7 ? ; ANOTHER J ? I General Quiz j It.-..----- - The Questions 1 what useful but deadly drug does the nux vomica tree.yleI?o! 2 Which of the following not' belong to the Central Ameri-can group: Costa Rica, Colom-bia, Guatemala? 3. What was the ancient name of the Dardanelles? 4 What name is given to a group of paid applauders? 5 What did the three men, Ha-drian, Justinian and Trajan, have in common? . 6 Who cautioned his men to "put your trust in God, but mind to keep your powder dry"? 7. How many miracles of "risi are narrated in every one of the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John? , , 8. On what river is the Grand Coulee dam? 9. Who wrote the Pledge to the Flag of the United States? 10. The principal antagonists in the Peloponnesian war were what countries? The Answers 1. Strychnine. 2. Colombia. 3. Hellespont. 4. Claque. 5. All were emperors of Rome. 6. Oliver Cromwell. 7. One (feeding the 5,000). 8. Columbia river. 9. Francis Bellamy.. 10. Athens and Sparta. VIRGINIA VALE Beleasedly Western Newspaper Union. GARSON claims GREERLoretta Toomey is the good luck stand-i- n of Hollywood. Miss Toomey was for Sonja Heme Ellen Drew and Joan Davis before going to Metro to be stand-i- n for Hedy Lamarr and Ruth flussey. All of them did you'll remember. tLU year', she became Miss ho that Carson's stand-in-an- d woman has forged ahead young has lent her for Now Miss Garson a second time (the first was when her for some Theresa Wright got Miniver to Susan scenes in "Mrs. Peters, for scenes when Miss Gar son doesn't need her in "Random Harvest- -; they're rivals for Ronald Colman's affections, in the picture, but never meet. Incidentally, some exhibitors thought so highly of "Mrs. Miniver showing it at that they advocated advanced prices. But the sugges-tion was turned down, on the theory that this swell picture really belongs to the people, and that the greatest number should see it in the short-est possible time. Nicholas M. Schenck, president of Loew's, Inc., Metro distributors, is responsible. Jean Hersholt, the kindly Dr. Christian" of the CBS Wednesday night series, has completed the first of his two albums of children's tales . - JEAN HERSHOLT recordings. This is the first step in a plan that he has had for many years, to bring worthy translations of Hans Christian Anderson's Danish fairy tales to the American public. Barbara Moffett, 18 year old equestrienne, breaks into pictures playing the feminine lead opposite Tim Holt in RKO's "Red River Rob-in Hood." She was discovered while doing trick riding, roping and shoot-ing as the star of a rodeo troupe. So this won't be the ordinary West-ern, since the heroine will be given a chance to do her stuff, instead of just looking pretty. Joe Pasternak, who produced a Durbin's films for so long, has discovered a new singing star, Mary Croft. He gave her a role in his first Metro picture, "Tulip Time," then sent her to New York for a year's study before making more pictures. So when you see the pic-ture, look for her you may have the satisfaction of seeing a future star's first performance. Warner Brothers bought screen rights to "The Miracle," the reli-gious spectacle play, some years ago as a vehicle for Bette Davis. After several script writers had tried their hands at adapting it it was shelved. Now we hear that it may be screened. Vox Pop begins its third year of programs from military, naval and armament establishments along with its eighth of network broad-casting. It was the first radio pro-gram to adapt and contribute its facilities to national defense, the first to present the voices of selectees in training, the first and only one to undertake a Latin America tour. Randolph Scott Glenn Ford, Ev-elyn Keyes and other members of the cast got a real western recep- tion when they arrived in Utah for "Desperadoes." Local cowhands held up the train and "kidnaped" the stars. Miss Keyes is the firs Hollywood actress to make a hobby of collecting military insignia rep-resenting armed forces of all the United Nations-h- as more than 300 insignia buttons. ODDS ANDENDS As a panin. Pit when she left New York for a canon Kate Smith's spomor prcsen(ed her wuh a three.year contract renewal . . . Walter Reed, young leading man ' asllZd reCendy by RK0- - an important role with Pat Zgh:r;cg:::tneaBT' If you'd like to'see whit t , Pictured oTeslir" terest in thP iwv, lck oI of the WH"8 "TheTalk wants to sTe Ronatd Ever j beard and Cm? Pr"?" WUh a clothes." Not aL ?1 Word about herselft Fly Is Paralysis Carrier Discovery that common flies .carry the virus of infantile paral-ysis has been made by Drs. John L. Paul and James D. Trask at Yale university medical school. It is now evident that poliomye-litis (infantile paralysis), which cripples 10,000 persons and kills from 500 to 1,000 every year, is a disease of the intestinal tract as well as the spinal cord, and that flies may carry the virus from 'sewage. The discovery of Drs. Paul and Trask makes the common house fly more than ever an enemy to ihealth and even to life itself, especially among children. As We Think There is nothing either good or jbad, but thinking makes it so. Increasing Value The Church is the only institu-tion on earth which continues to increase in value while being con-stantly discounted by its friends. W. G. Montgomery. Power of Few Literary history and all history is a record of the power of minori-ties and of minorities of one. Emerson. |