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Show PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD,- MONDAY JUNE 29,-. 1942, ' iftaraana ' itExeaptlns Saturday lad Bandar ImM Publiabed Sanday Mornlnc Pabltehed by ' the Herald Corporation, f South Pint Wast Street, Prove, Utah. Entered ma aeeond elaae matter at the poetefflee In Prove. Utah. nader the act of March a. JIT. Oilman. Nleol Rathman. National Advertla-tng Advertla-tng repraeeatatlvea. New York, San Francisco, retrott. Beaton toe Anrelea. Chicago. ' Member United Preen, N. XV. A. Service, tba Sorlppa Laavue of Newapapera and A ad It Bareaa at Circulation, "liberty fhrouah all he land" Tba Liberty Ball , abaeriptloa terms by carrier la Utah county, - f cents the month; $t.M, torn als months in advance: T9 tba year. In advances by mall anywhere In Unite atatee a Ha poaaeaalona ( eanta tha montbt .M for at - toon tha: IS.Ti tba yaar In advance. Tha Herald will not am ma financial responsibility re-sponsibility tor any arrora which may appear In advertteanients published In Ita columns, la thoae Instances where tba neper la at fault, t anil r print that part of tba advertisement in which tha typographical mlataka eeeura. What About China? The leaders and thinkers of China have two principal aims today. The first of course, is to beat Japan. Until that has been accomplished, nothing noth-ing else can matter. The second is to obtain from Great .Britain and the United States some guaranty that, when the war has been won, China will be treated as an equal. There is nothing theoretical or abstract ab-stract about this second goal. China isn't social climbing at our expense. She is only seekina that we make good on some of the nice things we are saying about democracy and about the rights of all peoples to make their own governmental mistakes mis-takes in their own ways. ' Specifically, China wants to know what we are going to do about extraterritoriality ex-traterritoriality and exclusion. Extraterritoriality is the multisyllabic multisylla-bic name for that privilege, which all western nations have claimed and exercised, of establishing on 'Chinese soil little private domains of our own, in which the Chinese had no more rights than in Tas mania. It is as though, in the Chinatown of San Francisco or New York, territories terri-tories had been set aside over which the United States relinquished all control. Chinese soldiers would guard them; Chinese courts would function; our police could not touch criminals in those Chinatowns. Needless to say, neither we nor the British, the French or the Germans Ger-mans would consider granting China such rights. Why, then, should we expect the Chinese to feel happy when we, through superior military might, have enforced such an ig-nominous ig-nominous bargain upon China? Exclusion is the antithesis of extraterritoriality. ex-traterritoriality. While we force China to admit any occidental at his will, and waive all control over him whjle on selected Clhinese soil, we forbid Chinese to enter the United Unit-ed States at all except temporarily, under drastic "control or to become citizens under any circumstances. This rankles almost as much as extraterritoriality.. But the argument here is less clean cut. There are important im-portant economic angles. The great difficulty springs from oriental ability abili-ty 'and willingness to work for a few cents a day, to live on rice.-and water, wa-ter, and thereby to compete for jobs on a basis that no American should be expected to consider. With the kindliest of feeling toward to-ward Chinese, and all gratitude- and admiration for the splendid fight they are making, there is a question whether we should make any sweeping promises about exclusion. But we can proclaim to the world, at once, that after we have helped chase the Japs we shall pull our troops and renounce forever any claim to extraterritoriality in China. Workers Needed For want of about 150 workers, the farmers of Sheridan County, Wyoming, are considering plowing up a thousand acres of sugar beets from which 36,000 sacks of sugar beets could be made. The nearby Clearmont area needs 250 workers to avert a similar danger. dan-ger. Business men are rallying to save the situation. Montana is negotiating ne-gotiating with Washington to bring interned Japanese-Americans from California to thin sugar beet fields there. Meanwhile more than a million persons are being supported on WPA, CCC and NYA rolls. ' Working On Him Washington Merry-Co-Round A Dcdly Picture of What s, Going On In National Affairs WASHINGTON Inside reaction of Administration Ad-ministration adyisein to thte political fjrib-ulations fjrib-ulations of Winston Churchill is mixed. Roughly Rough-ly there are two groups:- (1) the inner White House circle which knows Churchill well and has become a greater rooter for him politically; and (2) some of the Army and Navy officials who v are inclined to think he is a little too debonair to be hard-boiled, thorough-going military executive. " All, however, pay tribute .to his morale-building genius and the great service he did England in pulling it out of the slough immediately after the Chamberlain fiasco. His Administration critics, howeverand they are very sympathetic critics point out that morale in England is now tops, and what she needs is a ruthless weeding out of inefficiency, and a tough executive. Most interesting sidelight on the current Churchill debates in the House of Commons is the reaction on the Inner Circle here. Some of them view the problem of keeping Churchill In office almost as "the second front." They have -come to know and like Churchill so well, that perhaps unconsciously they regard each problem in the light of "What effect will this have on Churchill politically?" Some U. S. strategists in the Army and Navy were quite frank in their criticism of Churchill's House of Commons speech after his last visit here, and felt that "he had made political-capital out of Roosevelt's promise of tanks and planes for Libya. Whatever Churchill takes back with him this time will have been won with more difficulty. dif-ficulty. However, those close to the picture are not greatly worried about his ( political future. They point out that although the majority of Churchill's own party dislike him and personally personal-ly would like to get rid of him, they don't dare have a general election, because most of them face wrathy electorates which probably would sweep them out of office5 .Therefore, they prefer to keep i Churchill on as the lesser of two evils. ARGENTINE DISASTER One unpublished fact which particularly in censed La tin Americans in connection with the recent sinking of the Argentine vessel Rio Tercero off New York was a conversation between be-tween the German submarine commander and Cap. Louis Pedro Scalese. Immediately after the Argentine vessel sank, the . submarine surfaced and picked up Oapt. Scalese. Inside the submarine, the German commander com-mander questioned him on the destination of his ship, its cargo, etc. The Argentine captain was burning , with Indignation Not only was Als vessel neutral, but the German government officially of-ficially had given Latin American nations until . June 26 to get their ships out of North American, Amer-ican, waters. , 8o before the Nazi could get anything out of him, Capt. Scalese blurted out: "Why did you do this It is not June 26. It tiaonly June 22." : ,:.- ., . . To 'which the Nazi commander replied in gruff; trot-very good English:' "Aw, go to hell!"- However,- the- Nazis did relieve - Captain Scalese of one embarrassment. The ship sank ; so quickly ten minutes that he had time only to pull on his pants, and he got into the life- Robert 8. Allen Drew Pearson boat without shoes. So the Nazi commander gave the barefoot Argentine captain a new pair of shoes. Note: While in the submarine's chart room, Capt. Scalese had a chance to take a furtive glance at the sub's chart noted that it had sailed quite close to New York. HEAT ON NXXSON There was a very good reason for that "a spokesman said" story that Donald Nelson will shortly "reorganize" WPB. This insipired story was put out several days after Nelson had hotly defended certain of his $l-a-year assistants whom the plain-talking plain-talking Truman committee caustically denounced. de-nounced. The inference of Nelson's statement then was he intended to disregard the committee commit-tee and not shake-up WPB. Reason for his subsequent sub-sequent change of mind was potent inner WPB pressure. According to WPB insiders, three top officials of-ficials let it be known that they were seriously considering resigning unless Nelson climbed off his high horse and got rid of the obstructive deadwood. These three executives are James Knowlson, director of the Industry Operations Division; William Batt, head of the Requirements Require-ments Committee; and Houlder Hudgina, chief of the Purchasing Division. Faced with the possibility of such a walkout. walk-out. Nelson decided according to insiders that maybe he had better do some housecleaning so word of this intention was put out indirectly through the planted story. TWO WPB FACTIONS How far Nelson goes in his "reorganization" remains to be seen. Real inside fact is that his ablest and most conscientious advisers have been urging him to clean up WPB for a long time. It is an open secret, that two groups have been warring for. dominance in Nelson's inner councils. One, led by John Lord O'Brian, former for-mer corporation lawyer who is WPB general counsel, and Sidney Weinberg, Wall Street banker -who is Nelson's executive assistant, has been pressuring him against a shake-up. O'Brian and Weinberg were the real authors of Nelson's letter , defending $l-a-year men. Weinberg also is credited with chief responsibility responsibil-ity for brining in other-bankers and business-minded business-minded moguls. One of them, now under quiet investigation by the Justice. Department, is charged with placing plac-ing a huge war contract that nets his company more than $23,000 a week. Another, - Walker Mason, recently made New England regional director, di-rector, is charged with blocking the construction of a big shipyard, later approved over his head, and with writing a widely distributed letter in 1940 declaring that if .Roosevelt were re-elected, policy holders would be in danger of losing their insurance. Insiders also say the O'Brien-Weir berg group, has been cooking up Nelson with tn idea that he is a sure-fire 1944 presidential ktpe. Note; Nelson is due for some othes personnel jolts from 'the. Truman" committee also the War Frauds Division of the Justice Department. Depart-ment. ' :" i (Copyright, J942, by United Stature syndicate, mc.j ft LA ftaWtc. bSE. O ANSWERS TO WAR QUIZ 1. This American medal sus pended from a ribbon with yellow, blue, yellow .blue and yellow u ; , il ' stripes is called Irl 1: a Spanish cam paign medal. Where did troopers qerve to earn it and when? 2. What does a n American sailor mean when he says he has beer, called to the mast? Does he have to shin up a mast, pull some ropes or go before his captain for a calldown about misdeeds? 3. Italy is once more demanding demand-ing the cession of Nice from Ev.nna is it wmmo it is an im portant sea base, because it was once an Italian city or because in peacetimes it is a lucrative waiter wai-ter resort: Answers on Page Eight Legion Men Elect At Spanish Fork SPANISH FORK E. E. Anderson, Ander-son, manager of the local California Califor-nia Packing plant, was elected commander of the Spanish Fork post, of the American Legion at an elecetion meeting recently. Other officers elected are, Angel Caras, first vice commander; Go-mer Go-mer Thomas, second vice-commander; Wilford T. Johnson, adjutant; ad-jutant; Fred S. Dart, historian; a. Frank . Nelson, chaplain; Wm. Lee, 8ergeantat-arms; George 15. Larsen, service officer; David E. Stoker, grave registrar; executive AUNT HET By ROBERT QCILUCN "I'm willing to give up rubber and gasoline, too, If it will purge the highways high-ways and streets of these horns that play tunes." bicycles, wagons, tricycles , and doll buggies. . Cash prizes will also be given for best costumes. At 11 a. m. races and games for children chil-dren will be held and at 2 p. m. a balloon dance in the Junior high school, At 8 p. m. there wil be a band concert in Memorial park and fireworks fire-works a,t the Done Sports Field at 9:30 p. m. The celebration will be under the direction of the city recreation department with Eugene Hillman, general chairman. The city made an appropriation for prizes. Political Tinge Detected By Writer In New Tax Bill 1 ' By PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent The punch-drunk Ways - and Means committee of the House has practically finished its four months' fight over writing" the new tax bill, and it's about time. For the last few weeks the committee com-mittee has been arguing in circles, taking days to make decisions that normally take hours. The 20-odd members of the committee are tired, and frankly confess they have been getting on each others' nerves. They even write letters to each other to argue, after hours on debatable provisions. The bill is, of course, one of the biggest ever written and that makes it a sizable undertaking. The committee hearings fill eome-3500 eome-3500 pages of solid type. If you were able to stay awake long enough to read 50 pages a night, it would still take you six weeks Just to read the testimony of experts ex-perts and witnesses who appeared in long processions. And this wordage does not cover the executive execu-tive sessions of the committee. Two full weeks, for instance, were spent in arguing about the corporate cor-porate income tax provisions. As sent to the floor of the House for debate and bassaee early in July, it will be a politi cal tax .bill, for this is an election year. The indicated total revenue to be derived is far below Treasury suggestions. That may be changed by Senate" action, but the House committee has given in to demands de-mands to keep It low. The principal political aspect of the House bill is the absence of a federal sales tax. Labor and a lot of other consumer pressure groups didn't want one and the Treasury and the White House backed that stand. But some of the committee members predict a federal sales tax will be in the bill written next year, and no fooling. fool-ing. Agitation for a general manufacturers' man-ufacturers' federal sales tax has been brewing for so long that, once the election is out of the road, it stands the best" chance it ever has had for passage next year, although it was licked in 1917, 1921 and 1932. Excise Taxes In place 'of the sales tax there will be new excise taxes, the good old familiar nuisance taxes that crap up in every war emergency. Things like taxes on checks and maybe taxes on soft drinks. These new taxes are hard and often costly cost-ly to collect. There is no experience ex-perience on collecting the proposed tax on freight and only the experience ex-perience with social security de- fductions to tell how the fancy new salary withholding tax will function. From the Treasury point of view, however, these difficulties are as nothing when compared with the difficulties . of putting over a general manufacturers' sale tax. This manufacturers' sales tax isn't to be confused with the retail sales tax now levied by over 30 state?, giving them a principal prin-cipal source of income, easily collected col-lected and relatively painless to the taxpayer. The manufacturers' sales tax is something else again. Fish, F'rlnstance " , First take the problem of determining de-termining who Is a manufacturer. Is it the manufacturer of fishhooks, fish-hooks, the man who catches the fish, the man who manufactures the tin cans in which the fish is packed, or the man who paeks the fish in the tin cans and pastes on a four-color label? Or are they all manufacturers and do you . tax them all, plus the man who prints the labels, the manufacturer manu-facturer of the boat used by the fisherman and the man who made the wagon to haul the stuff to market. . If the manufacturer's tax is assessed as-sessed at the first level, the tax 1 A 1 I a ia pasaeu on iu me Bcuunti ana third manufacturers and eventually eventu-ally to the wholesaler, the retailer re-tailer and the consumer. It is usually pyramided in such fashion that it eventually becomes a sizeable size-able increase in the cost of living, instead of Just a 2 or 3 per cent tax. Proponents of a manufacturers sales tax point out that Canada has put over the manufacturers' sales tax without too much trouble. trou-ble. But IT. S. tax experts say the problem of administering a manufacturers' sales tax In Can- ada, with its limited industries and a population of 11 million, can't be compared to the "problem of the highly industrialized U.S. with its 130 millions. ALL, STAR GAME ATLANTA, Ga., June 29 0J.E) The Little Rock Travelers will meet the "Southern Association all-stars in the fifth annual game, July 9. Little Rock clinched the assignment with a double win over the New Orleans Pelicans. BIRTHDAYS Tuesday, June 80 BARBARA PAXMAN CHARLES A. DAHLQUIST MILTON H. KNUDSEN L. EGGERTSEN CLUFF MRS. IRENE SHUMWAY FANNIE B. MORTENSEN committee members: Frank Scott, Lawrence Johnson, Leo N. Banks, Worthy B. Davis, Wm. J. Money, Berneli Hansen, Wilford T. Johnson, John-son, and E. E. Anderson. Commander Com-mander Anderson takes the place of Berneli Hansen who has served during the past year as commander. com-mander. The officers will be installed in-stalled at a meeting to be held in July. Payson Prepares Childrens Stunts PAYSON Payson will observe the Fourth of July with a patriotic celebration planned especially for the entertainment of the children. A miniature parade will form at City park at 10:30 a.m. and march north on Main street.' Prizes will be awarded for the best decorated SIDE GLANCES By GA1LBRAITH eo w. tr wt Bravter. inc. T. m. ago, u. a, r. on. '1 try to be extra nice to him thest days, because nobody gives him lumps of sugar any more 1" SERIAL STORY SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR BY BLANCHE ROBERTS COPYRIGHT. 1942. NEA SERVICC.'lNC THF3 STOnVi Jnaitk Ktaa-alr mui Tom Barkr are raaalayea of m alralaae factory. Koliowlaa; a loyer'a quarrel, they are both aent to the Ana'i weat eoaat branrb Jadith to investigate a "leak" ia the era-aalxatloa, Tom to take plana of a new bomber. Two foreUraera aad the co-pilot la ad the airliner ia which the two are rldlna; aad kldaap Tom. He allpa Jadith the plana. Whea the kidnaper kid-naper retarn to the nlane for the plana, Jadith ateaia their ear, Saaa Tom boaad In ahaek. she eata him looae, eaeapea while he battle bat-tle a hla eapter. Panned, ahe leaven tha ear, thomba a ride with a track driver. . , THOSE MEN AGAIN CHAPTER V TJHE grinning driver opened the door and Judith climbed up into the truck without a second invitation. "Thanks," she said to him, relieved. re-lieved. "Where are you headed for?" "San Diego," he answered. "Where do you want to go?" "To San Diego. May I ride ell the way, please?" "Sure, baby, why not?" He pulled the truck back into the road. Judith settled back. This was a break, she thought. She'd have been an easy prey to follow, in the bandits' car. This way, there was less chance of them catching up with her. The thought of Tom at their mercy was not a pleasant one, but he was right in telling her to get the plans safely to San Diego first. That was the Important Impor-tant thing their own happiness and welfare must be forgotten for now. a a a AT noon they stopped at a road-side road-side cafe. Judith was ravenously raven-ously hungry. She had not eaten since last night when the plane stopped. She ate - greedily, her head bent over the plate. Thus she did not see the two men enter the cafe and sit . down at the other end of the lunch counter. f- "She can't be far away,, .said ane of the men, and Judith stopped eating, her fork poised in mid-air. She peered around at her newfound new-found friend cautiously. Instantly, she recognized Heavy and the foreigner, for-eigner, Karl, . Her appetite vanished. van-ished. She reached in her purse for a pencil and paper, wrote a note and slipped it to the truck driver at her Side. "Get me out of here quietly. Hurry!" , He read it and looked at her sharply. She inclined her head toward the other men, and he saw the fear in her eyes. He quickly put some coins on the counter and stood up, " keeping' between her and the men until they reached the door; Tram there Judith threw caution aside and darted for the truck. He took his place under the wheel and off they rolled. "Am I helping a criminal escape?" es-cape?" he demanded bluntly. "No," she answered readily, not taking offense at his question." "Those are the men I escaped from last night They must not catch me again. . They are dangerous. dan-gerous. The blond one' is a foreigner. for-eigner. He would kill me, I think." "I don't like foreigners," he said gruffly. "Shake, Mister." He was a swell guy, she decided. Lucky for her things had turned out as well as they had. Without his help, she would probably have been caught by now. Suddenly she snapped to attention. She turned to Harry. "Is there a car back of you?" He looked into the side mirror. "Yeah a big black one. Coming Com-ing fast, too." "That's it," gasped Judith. She caught Harry's arm and her nails cut into his flesh. "Please don't stop if they tell you to." "Okay, sister." He grinned. Til handle this. And don't worry about them stopping this wagon. We're loaded and rolling." In a moment, the car caught up with them and pulled up level with the truck. Judith slid down out of sight. One of the men leaned out and yelled. "Pull over, bud, if you don't want any trouble." Judith recognized recog-nized Heavy's voice. "Says you!" Harry snarled, jamming jam-ming his foot on the gas. The truck leaped forward. They were speeding down the road at a terrific ter-rific speed by now. Harry glanced in the mirror and saw the car gaining on them. As it drew up level with them again, his jaws set in a stubborn line. "You asked for it!" yelled Harry out of his window. '"Here I come!" He jerked the truck to the mid- Idle of the road. There was a r . a it j screecning oi ures as me speecung car swerved into the ditch and hit the embankment. Without a backward glance, Harry put the accelerator to the floor and sped on. "You can come up for air now," he told Judith, with grim satisfaction. satis-faction. "Nobody's going to make me pull over and stop if I don't want to not while I'm driving this wagon." A S they rolled on down the high-way, high-way, Judith realized she must change her course. Harry had become be-come a friend a good friend in these few short hours, and as long as she was with him, his life was in danger. The truck would be easy to follow, and her pursuers would show up again, she was sure of that. And this time they would use their guns. , -She reached in her purse for, a handkerchief, and her fingers touched a small package. The sleeping pills! A plan began to materialize. About sundown, Harry pulled into a dumpy looking tourist camp and stopped. "Well, baby, here's where we spend the night. Not much to look at, but it's clean enough. Ill see about getting you a cabin. I usually sleep in the truck." "If you'll get some groceries from the woman in there, Harry, 111 cook us a nice meaL I'm awfully hungry. Some coffee, and steak and bread," she suggested. "Say, that'll be swell," he said. He went -back to the store, and returned soon, laden with the groceries. While Judith prepared the meal, he sat watching her with quizzical eyes. "I just can't figure you out," he said once. "Don't try to, Harry," she answered. an-swered. "Everything will "be all right now, I'm sure. Thanks to you," she added." VF7HEN he went in to wash up, " Judith, opened, her purse quickly and seized the sleeping medicine. Into his coffee she put two doses. "That ought to dq the trick," she decided.' "Two spoons or one of sugar, Harry?" she called to him. "Two spoor", baby," he answered, an-swered, coming back Into the room. ."You're sure a swell girl-cooking girl-cooking supper and making it so homelike." "I'm trying to repay you for your kindness today,' she said. "Here drink your coffee while it's hot and 111 finish frying the steak. I never drink coffee at night. It keeps me awake." Judith took as long as she could to finish the rest of the meal and put it on the. table. When she finally sat down, Harry was stupid and drowsy, yawning with every breath. He mumbled something about taking a short nap and dropped his head onto the. table. She waited a moment,' then slipped quietly from her chair. She put on her hat, took two $10 bills from her purse and stuffed them into his shirt pocket where she had seen him put the truck keys. . She tiptoed out the door. No one was around the other cabins as she made her way to the back. It was quite dark. She paused behind the last shack in the row . as she saw car lights pull into the camp. ; ' " A man said: There's the truck all right.: Well get a cabin next to it" Judith's heart stood still as she recognized Heavy's voice, ; (To Be Continued) |