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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION More Propaganda 1 r ,. , ; ; ;;' V; Rep. Martin Dies of Texas, chair-man of the famous investigating committee that bears his name, is shown examining a big collection of propaganda material, allegedly anti-Jewi-and intended for distribution in this country by agencies nnder Nazi control. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) 'ALL OCT' FOR WAR MEANS JUST THAT DURING World War I, a manu-facturer friend, whose plant was working to capacity on a govern-ment order, said to me: "The government needs my prod-uct It cannot get it elsewhere. I can, and propose to raise my price, and the government will pay." "Does your present price meet your production costs?" I asked. "Yes, and more, but " "You have a son in France. He is offering all he has, including life, to serve his government, and not asking a price, but you " The tears came to his eyes as he stopped me. "No," he said, "I had not thought of it in that way. The price will not go up; it will come down." That should be the attitude of all of us in this war. "All out" war means a total sac-rifice on the part of all of us to de-feat the enemy. The men in our armed forces offer that total sac-rifice without thought of gain. They offer life when needed. The manu-facturer who demands a profit on his product, the farmer who insists on higher prices for his crops, the workman who demands excessive wages, who refuses to work long hours, or strikes because he can en-force unreasonable demands, are not fighting an "all out" war. They refuse to sacrifice for the cause. SOCIAL GAINS AND WAR PRODUCTION D7 AMONG "social gains" are to be counted the support of people who do not want to work, or the working of short hours, or short weeks, we are going to sacrifice some "social gains" before we achieve a maximum of war produc-tion and defeat the enemy. Amer-ica has something more important than "social gains" to think about today. Should Hitler win, those are not the only gains that would be lost. DEBT DECREASE THE COMMERCE department at Washington reports a decrease in state and local debts by a total of $42,000,000 for the 12 months end-ing last June 30. That is not much out of a total indebtedness of for local and state gov-ernments, but at least it is a step in the right direction. The present bonded indebtedness of local, state and federal govern-ments amounts to $77,434,000,000. That does not include the debts of the various corporations and adminis-trations chartered by the federal government and for which we guar-antee their bonds, which means we must pay them. It also does not include the money loaned to the democracies under the lease-len- d law, or much of our own cost of preparedness and war. America will not kick about any necessary war cost, but most of us may complain a bit about the cost of unnecessary civilian activities. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON 'BLACKOUTS' ON MONDAY, Tuesday and Wed-nesday following the Jap attack on Hawaii, it rained, and rained hard, throughout southern California. All who could had remained indoors to avoid a ducking. Late Wednesday afternoon the storm broke, the sun set clear and by seven o'clock peo-ple of the cities, towns and farms were out en masse to see the Christmas displays in the streets and in the shops. Then bing! street lights and the decorative Christmas lights were out. The sirens were sounding an. air raid warning. Over the radio the interceptor command was order-ing all lights out in all homes, mo-torists were instructed to stop at the side of the road wherever they might be, put out all lights, and re-main there until the "All Clear" sig-nal was given. It was a blackout California's first hint of the meaning of war. The interceptor command reported the possibility of enemy planes be-ing in the offing. Winter nights can be chilly in southern California. To sit for three hours and more in unheated, cars; to sit for three hours and more in unlighted homes or to find the way to bed in the dark, takes more of something than the American people usually display but they did it. Whether the interceptor com-mand had heard the drone of a fleet of Jap planes or the sound of a flock of hoot owls, that alarm dem-onstrated that the civilian popula-tion will obey war-tim- e orders and that we have the spirit needed to win this war. SPENDING 56 BILLIONS FIFTY-SI- BILLION DOLLARS for war expenditures in 1942. Can we spend it? That is far more than it cost to run the federal govern-ment for the first 100 years of our national existence, including the cost of three major wars and some smaller ones. It means spending approximately $153,000,000 each one of the 365 days of 1942; $6,350,000 for each one of the 8,760 hours. My guess is that there will be some of the 56 billions left over at the end of 1942. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Submarine Activity Highlights Action Of United States and Enemy Navies; Russian Troops Use Nazi Technique In Important Victory Over Germans (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are are expressed In these columns, they those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) U. S. NAVY: A Hint or Tivo Nothing in the form of detailed communiques about naval activities was coming out of the Pacific, but occasionally there was a hint or two which showed that Uncle Sam's Union Jack was not waving aimless-ly about in those waters. One of these was a dispatch from a correspondent aboard one of the battlewagons, who wrote to the press that the navy was active, was sinking Jap submarines, was on the lookout for unwary Jap ships and dropping them to the bottom of the sea, but was not allowing itself to be trapped. He also stated categorically that among the objectives of the navy was to prevent a repetition of Jap attacks on Midway and Johnson's islands, or on Pearl Harbor. A further hint that showed the Japanese might have cause for the jitters concerning the ocean situa-tion came from an official commu-nique that three Japanese vessels had been sent to the bottom of the Bay of Tokyo, uncomfortably close to vulnerable Japanese cities as the two American vessels torpedoed off Long Island, not by the Japanese, but presumably by RUSSIANS: Cut Off Nazis Using the favorite Nazi technique of parachutists behind the lines, the Russians had struck a vital blow in the Mozhaisk sector and believed they had trapped a force of about 100,000 Germans who had no re-course but to surrender or face an-nihilation. Clouds of parachutists were dropped behind a fairly stable Ger-man position, one which the Rus- - MALAYA: Resistance For some time it had been evi-dent that a supreme battle for air mastery over Malaya had been in progress, perhaps spreading to the whole southwest Pacific area; now it had become plain that British resistance was steadily growing, and that the final and desperate battle to save Singapore was in the offing. It seemed likely that this would take place at a point about 50 miles from Singapore, perhaps closer, somewhere on a line south of the Maur river. It was with considerable surprise and no little concern that the British announced the Japs had crossed the Maur and had established a bridge-head on the southeast bank. Previous gains which had shoved the Japanese 350 miles down the Malayan peninsula had caused no such battle as did the attempt to wipe out the Maur river bridgehead. Final picture of the Malaya front would be a line about 100 miles wide running generally from east to west, with some inevitable salients caused by irregularities of the terrain. Against this wall, said Major Gen-eral Bennett, the Japs were expect-ed to hurl their full force of artillery, tanks and planes. The counter picture, ' however, was more encouraging to the Allies. Australian transports loaded with men and machines were arriving at Singapore at long last, and plane reinforcement, particularly fast Buf-falo (American made) fighter planes were appearing on the front and were doing terrific execution. This had been the sort of thing the Australian government had been crying out for during several weeks. The "singing Aussies" were going into combat, were reported to have hurled at least one section of attacking Japs back into confusion. There was no disposition on the part of the Malaya defenders to be-come cocky, indeed Major General Bennett was rather on the pessimis-tic side, and said it was likely that the Japs before long would be knock-ing at the doors of Singapore. But in general things were a little more on the upturn side, and many believed the tide of the Singapore battle might be turning. Certain it was that it had been a heterogeneous army which had faced the Japs up to this point. From now on it looked as though the Aussies were taking over, planes and men, and that the Japs might have found, as they did in the Chi-nese battlefields, foemen more than worthy of their steel. TRAGEDIES: Sabotage? Either saboteurs were responsible or the nation was beset by another of those unexplained series of air-plane tragedies, one of them killing a darling of the movies, Carole LABOR: A Peace Offer John L. Lewis, who admittedly threw a personal monkey wrench into the machinery of labor unions which sought to make peace between C.I.O. and A.F.L. prior to the war declaration, now had extended the olive branch of peace "as a war move." The leader of the United Mine Workers, originator of the breakaway from the A.F.L. in the first place, back in 1936, wrote to Philip Murray, head of C.I.O., suggesting that a peace negotiation be started. He also wrote in the same vein to William Green, presi-dent of A.F.L. President Roosevelt repeatedly had sought to bring about just such an outcome. Each effort had failed. It had been more than a year since the last try was made. Lewis, in his letters, said: "It is my opinion that under con-ditions existing at present there is a justification for the belief that a further effort could achieve success. "It is obvious that if accouplement could be achieved, with unified and competent leadership the results would be advantageous and in the public interest. Heretofore this has not been possible. "Conditions are now changed. America needs unity in every phase of its national economy." SUBMARINES: German Losses Heavy The war in the Atlantic, particu-larly since the United States started patroling, has resulted In heavy sub-marine losses for Germany, A. V. Alexander, first lord of the ad-miralty, declared. He said that thousands of the Reich's best submarine personnel had been .drowned or captured, in-cluding many of Hitler's commanders. He said: "A heavy toll is being taken, and it seems clear that one of the great problems of the enemy is to man his new submarines with sufficiently trained crews. "Meantime the strength of the royal navy is growing despite heavy and repeated casualties." It was one of his first statements since the loss of the Repulse in Singapore waters. He was unable to deliver it in person because he was busy with Prime Minister Churchill, who had just flown in from Bermuda, thus terminating his stay in the United States. Churchill was greeted like a re-turning conqueror, and was cheered to the echo wherever he appeared. 'HELLFIRE': Important Surrender Poles, ' British and Free French were in the British force which stormed and forced surrender of Halfaya pass, the "hellfire" strong-hold which twice before in this war had changed hands on the Libyan front. The pass is a break in th escarp-ment near the Libyan-Egyptia- n frontier, and forms a supply route which saves the British or Ger-mans, as the case may be, a detour by a southern route. Fifty-fiv- e hundred Germans and Italians surrendered at Halfaya pass, raising the total of Axis pris-oners taken in the British victory to 31,000. The taking of Solum, another "re-sistant pocket' back of the British lines, had cut off Halfaya's de-fenders from aid from the Medi- -' terranean, and they were surround-- 1 ed by land. Any supplies they got fell from Axis planes, and the British had mastery of the air. So Halfaya fell, and the victory was hailed by the British as of far more import than immediately ap-peared. MISCELLANY: Washington: More than 100 Ger-man, Japanese and Italian business concerns have been padlocked and 98 others were operating under fed-eral supervision. Cleveland: Dr Abba Hillel Silver, Zionist leader, said Britain or Amer-ica should arm defenseless Pales-tine in order that the Jews may de-fend their homeland and assure their independence. Baltimore: The navy's super-airplan-the Martin "Mars," capa-ble of flying non-sto- p with full load to Europe and back, will resume tests about April 1, after being damaged by fire in her opening flight. New York: Prevailing opinion in Sweden is that Germany has lost her war with Russia, and will be forced soon to admit it. Washington: Six hundred and thirty-- two Liberty ships will be built during the next two years, a total of around 7,000,000 tons, according to a recent award of contracts to special shipyards constructed to build them. v This is a recent photo of Field Mar-shal Walther von Reichenaa, who, according to Berlin reports, died aft-er an attack of apoplexy. He was given a large share of credit for the sweeping Nazi victories in the West and was regarded as the gen-eral closest to Hitler. sians had been hammering with ar-tillery fire for more than a week. These forces consolidated, alleg-edly destroyed seven Nazi battal-ions of infantry and burned a rail-road train containing 23 cars of war material. The Germans, their sup-ply lines cut, were trapped. It was believed by Red headquar-ters that the surrender would follow as a matter of course, without se-rious further resistance. Field Marshal Von Reichenau, fa-mous leader of the Germans' Ukrainian army, responsible for the successful southern drive against the Russians last summer, dropped dead of apoplexy, and a state fu-neral was decreed for him. Thus Hitler had lost by death an-other famed commander, after re-lieving Von Brauchitsch of command not long before. MAC ARTHUR: Spirited Although MacArthur's men on the island of Luzon had continued to put up a spirited resistance to over-whelming numbers of Japanese in-vaders, there were certain aspects of late communiques which had pointed to the fact that the battle j must be entering its decisive stages. And Washington was holding out to the American public no hope that there could be any outcome but final defeat, though temporary, in that theater of the war. The Japs had evidently turned MacArthur's right flank somewhat, if not completely, and reports of a landing on the Bataan peninsula were highly disquieting. The brave little army was putting up a terrific defensive fight, but Washington observers pointed out that much of its success depended on maintaining communications with Corregidor, and it was up to the right flank to maintain this connec- - tion. Tokyo cemmuniqii-s- had shown that MacArthur's army was fighting bitterly to maintain this. It was considered more likely that the American right flank was en- - deavoring to keep supply lines open than to make an escape. But there was believed little like lihood that reinforcements for the defending army would even be pos-sible in time to turn defeat into vic-tory. From the opening days of the bat-tle leading observers in Washing-ton had seen the loss of the Philip-pines as inevitable, though predict-ing that they would be "redeemed" later. Buy Defense Bonds Carole Lombard is shown accept-ing defense bond applications and stuffing them into the case of the first shell fired in World War I. This photo was made in Indianapolis, where she assisted in launching a bond sale drive. It was while re-turning to Hollywood from this mis-sion that she lost her life. Lombard, her mother, 15 air pilots, presumably those engaged in ferry-ing planes from factories to air-fields, and five others. There had been no immediate data on sabotage, but the average observ-er was wondering when there were more than 50 lives lost in 48 hours in six crashes, five of them army planes (three bombers and two fight-ers) and one of a huge transport plane with 15 pilots among the pas-sengers. The transport plane crashed into the side of an 8,500-fo- mountain at night, thirty-fiv- e miles out of Las Vegas, shortly after the pilot had reported good weather. Army secrecy shrouded the mili-tary plane crashes, but the sudden wave sent uncomfortable tinglings along the public spine, wondering whether the ships had been tam-pered with. In the case of the crash in which Miss Lombard lost her life, she was returning from having personally sold more than 52,000,000 in defense bonds in Indiana, her birthplace. 11 BILLIONS: For JJ. S. Navy President Roosevelt had asked congress for another 11 billions for the navy, of which 7 billions was to be expended in 1943. This brought the 1942 estimated spending for the navy to 11 billions, as 7 billions already had been budg-eted. Purpose was to speed the con-struction of a fleet and to expand and augment existing naval facilities. j Transfer No. Z9381 " A NGEL PUSS! Sugah Pie! Where are you all? Com halp youh Por Ole Mammy wit dese hot things." And since this happy-go-luck- y trio have handy loops for convenient hanging, they are bound to be ever ready to help protect hands from the heat. 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