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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION -- " VATICAN: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne And Neutrality McNutt Lashes 'Disciples of Despair Calls for All -- Out Attack on Tokyo; Pan-Americ- an Solidarity Increases; R.A.F. Reverses Tide in Malta Battle (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they Are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspapers (Released by Western Newspaper Union.). LATIN-AMERIC- A : Grows More Solid Historians, pointing to the fact that 21 n nations ei-ther have declared war or have bro-ken relations with the Axis, as com-pared with 13 in the last war, had expressed the belief that Chile would be the next one in, and that solidarity was on the in-crease, boding well for hemispher-ic unity in the post-wa- r period. However, as President-elec- t Juan Eios had reached the threshold of his office following the election, Adolf Hitler had cabled him ex-pressing the hope that "German re-lations with Chile might become even closer." Chile and Argentina, at this point had remained the only two still maintaining relations with the Axis. Hitler was quoted as cabling: "I take this opportunity to express the desire that the relations of sin-cere friendship between Germany and the Republic of Chile will be LABOR: Picture Complicated The labor situation, in the other big battle which had centered in Washington, the fight over whether the week should be retained or not, had complicated the New Deal picture tremendously. On the one hand Secretary of La-bor Perkins and the White House itself had been found apparently un-willing to scrap the week, while Thurman Arnold, of the at-torney general's staff, had issued the most bitter statement against labor unions as obstructing the war effort that had come out of Wash-ington since the New Deal started. Now, the unions were y against the move to end the week, claiming that the only benefit their workers had from it was the extra half-tim- e pay for the usual eight hours of overtime week-ly, while business already was be-ing accused of getting huge profits for its share of the war-tim- e boom in industrial activity. Congressional leaders were found urging, against business, that all profits over 6 per cent be recap-tured for the government, and at the same time highly divided over the week. Tremendous mail was being re-ceived on the subject, convincing many congressmen that a definite nationwide campaign to have the week thrown out was in prog-ress. One official high in the War Pro-duction board stated that the week through overtime payments was adding 8 per cent to the cost of all war contracts. 'ATTACK TOKYO': Pleads McNutt Lashing out at "disciples of de-spair," Paul V. McNutt, social se-curity administrator, had urged an "attack on Tokyo" as the "real de-fense of America." He said: "America's defense does not be-gin at wading depth on Coney Is-land, nor on the sundrenched sands of San Diego. "America's defense begins with the attack on , Tokyo. It is when flames roar through Yokohama ARCHBISHOP SPELLMAN "The church is against atrocities.'' The sending of a Japanese mis-sion to the Vatican in Rome and its acceptance by the pope had brought statements from Washington and London that the Allies "had direct-ed the attention of the pope to the unfortunate effects of allowing Ja-pan to establish a mission at the Holy See. While there was no direct answer to these representations from Pope Pius himself, the pontiff's closefriend and American spokesman, Archbish-op Spellman of New York, said: "Leaders of nations who have tried to influence the Holy Father on one side or the other in this conflict must understand that the Holy Fa-ther has to be impartial. "While there can be no neutrali-ty between right and wrong, and the church is against atrocities, the Holy See must keep in contact with and aid the Catholics of every na-tion. "The Holy See must accept the envoys who choose to make these contacts." SUGAR: A Week of None The announcement that there would be a week of no sugar sales decreed by the government for the week of April 27, came when sugar rationing, ban on sales of new automobiles, and demands that auto graveyards give up their dead were holding the economic spotlight The East was having gasoline shut-downs, with rationing in prospect throughout this territory, perhaps also in the Pacific Northwest Washington told the people of 7,900,000 tons of sugar having been withdrawn from the market by hoarders, and told of plans to make sugar hoarders give up their sup-plies to the retail stores, selling them back at retail prices. A campaign had been started to force used-car-l- junkmen to "turn over" their cars every 60 days or face the penalty of having the rusty metal requisitioned by the govern-ment In one eastern state of average size, it was said, the junkyards had 14,000 cars, enough metal to make 2,300,000 three-inc- h shells; 9,000 howitzers or 6,000 ft guns. ' W 'V. PRESIDENT-ELEC-T JUAN RIOS Relations with Germany strained. preserved during your term as pres-ident, and if possible, become even closer." Yet, by contrasts, most Latin-Americ-observers took this as a hint that relations were on the point of being broken. JAPS: Warn Aussies The Japanese, apparently trying to undermine Australian confidence and trying to build up a lack of unity within the continent, were put-ting out "waniings to Australians" before they had tried a landing. The grim determination of the Australians to defend their country, plus the appointment of Gen. Doug-las MacArthur to the supreme com-mand, was ample assurance that Japanese propaganda would fall on barren soil. As the invaders of New Guinea were moving across the difficult and almost impassable terrain between Salamaua and Lae and Fort Mores-by on the southern coast, with pros-pect of a bitter battle at the end, they issued the following warning: "Australia stands at the cross-roads. She must choose between freedom and the fate of the Dutch East Indies. "Japan has no territorial aspira-tions, and wants Australia to be-come a partner in the eastern Asiat-ic prosperity realm. "Australia, with a population of only 7,000,000 cannot defend her long eastern coastline. "The countries, Japan and Aus-tralia, economically supplement each other. One way leads to the end of Australia's existence and the other to wealth and peace," said the Japanese. At the same time the Japs showed evidence of being jittery over possi-ble attacks by American planes from Alaska via the Aleutians, Adm. Kayozo Nakamura having told the Japanese people in a broadcast: "Fears that the United States in the spring will embark on surprise attacks on Japan by submarines and aircraft are unnecessary. "The Americans have no adequate base." European centers had placed little importance on the signing in Moscow of a renewal of the pact between Japan and Russia on the subject of fishing rights off the Si-berian coast. Refusal of Russia to have signed would have been viewed as a prac-tical declaration of war. But few European observers took the sign-ing of the pact, in existence for many years, as any special sign of friendliness. PAUL V. McNUTT "More Leathernecks, fewer bottlenecks." and the factories of the Ruhr are blasted and broken that Wichita, Kansas City and Omaha will be se-cure. "The leathernecks of Wake island taught the Japs what it costs to lick only a few hundred marines. What this nation needs is more leather-necks and fewer bottlenecks." BRITISH: Gain Air Strength The report of a British-Germa- n air fight around Malta, where the British had been taking a beating since the war began without giving in, had been a signal for the fact that the British R.A.F. had been steadily gaining strength. In this assault, British Hurricane fighters and gunnery had brought down 12 bombers and two fighters in a assault on the island, the biggest bag in the war so far. Most significant was the fact that the "ack-ac- k boys," the gunners on the island, were credited with knocking the two fighters and 8 of the 12 bombers out of the air. The other four planes shot down were fighter-bomber- s, similar in plan to our "medium attack bomb-ers," and they were all bagged by the R.A.F. fighting squadron. TRAINING PROGRAMS: For Army Forces War Secretary Stimson has an-nounced that 100,000 men and wom-en will be trained for civilian jobs including overhaul and repair' me-chanics, production workers, inspec-tors at government factories, depots and arsenals in government and state-owne- d schools and rented facil-ities of private technical schools. El-igible men must be outside the age and other selective service require-ments. Students will be paid $900 to $1,400 a year in training. Courses vary from 15 weeks to four months. Applications may be made to any civil service commission local office. The Army institute has been es-tablished at Madison, Wis., to pro-vide for enlisted men with at least four months active service, corre-spondence study in more than 65 courses in English, social studies, mathematics, science, business and engineering at a cost of two dollars a course. Army Ground Forces Commander McNair announced selection of a site "west of the Colorado river" for large-scal- e troop training in modern desert warfare, part of a program to develop task forces for mountain, airborne and armored warfare and for joint ground opera-tions. The department said the re-placement and school command will open headquarters at Birmingham, Ala., and the antiaircraft command at Richmond, Va., before April 1. The former will include 14 schools and replacement centers, including officer candidate schools. A military police replacement training center will be established at Fort Riley, Kan., about April 8, to accommo-date 1,800 trainees from all sections of the country. Mr. Stimson said the R.O.T.C. program will be main-tained in colleges, but the army can-not supply material and personnel to provide training at such institutions. ATLANTIC: Sinkings continued at a rapid pace along the Atlantic seaboard, though there were not so many on the regu- lar sea-lan- carrying commerce between Britain and the U. S. Yet there were favorable signs and measures were being taken to make the lot of the submarine hard-er, and to cut down sinkings. One of these was the dim-o- or black-ou- t of lights of cities and re- sorts along the coast, particularly along s frequented by coast- wise vessels. Sinkings oft Miami at night, for instance, had been reported caused in part by the silhouetting of ships close to shore by the lights of the city, the subs lying out to the east and having excellent targets to fire The answer came swiftly and na tnotically, the cities along the coast immediately adopted "dim-out- " or black-out- " their own precautions, not for to protection, but designed remove the light background for Ue ships passing close outside beaches. The silhouette targets liu be lost for the Jap raiders. nTTEKNS L. D. S. 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This stirs up the sediment, etc., which in turn settles on the plants and makes them un-sightly. A very simple solution lor this problem is a small filter which can be hung on the tank at the back, coupled to the air line from the aerator, and by continual fil-tration will keep the water crystal clear. HIGHLIGHTS in the week's news New York: One of the most defi-nite reports of the sinking of a off the coast was reported by General Drum, who said that a patrol bomber returning after a pho-tographic mission had seen a sub-marine, had dropped four depth-bomb- s and that the oil and debris which littered the sea made it defi-nite that the submarine had been sunk. Peoria, 111.: The government had stepped in and ended a strike on the Toledo, Peoria and Western railroad. The government held that the failure of the railroad to arbi-trate with the brotherhoods consti-tuted a blocking of the war effort. Istanbul: Turkey was predicting the fall of the Kallay government of Hungary in favor of a regime which would be still more favorable to Ger-many. The Turkish observers felt that it was a general move by Ger-many to "blackjack" Hungary into providing more soldiers for the Nazis. London: The Times has reported that German heavy industry is pay-ing Adolf Hitler a personal tribute of $12,000,000 a year for his own use, and that Hitler devotes a por-tion of this to buy support. Philadelphia: One convict was killed and others injured in a riot at the penitentiary. The riot was started over a shortened ration of sugar in the convicts' coffee. JAPS: America's greatest forced migra-tion of enemy aliens had started on the Pacific coast when a small cara-van moved out of Los Angeles' "lit-tle Tokyo," bound for the Owens valley, far inland. They were the first of an estimat-ed 35,000 individuals who were to be moved to the Owens valley re-ception center. They moved for the most part in busses, the caravans rolling along in true army convoy style, with command cars at front and rear. |