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Show THE Hl't.t KTIN H'NKH AIM. 1TA Land and Air Maneuvers at West Point . . mwwmv u - - .. I I HIM Framed against the hills (left) an Infantry column of the West Point cadets moves along a road in the vicinity of the U. 8. military academy, West Point, N. Y., at the start of the cadets' annual field exercises. Pic-ture at right shows a low-flyin- g "attacking" plane getting a hot reception, as cadet Infantry and anti-aircra- ft guns open fire on it. yJhl.Phillipr P LUKE AND ELMER ON THAT SEA CONFERENCE What do you think of the eight point program?" asked Luke Twitchell of his brother Elmer. "Well, Wilson needed 14," replied Elmer. "So you see Roosevelt took six strokes on Woodrow's game." "And Roosevelt is playing over a much tougher course," said Luke, always the golfer. "I'll say so," agreed Elmer. "They didn't have so many hidden i greens in Wilson's time, the course didn't cover so much territory and there were fewer contestants." "I suppose it ain't quite right to speak of a terrible war like this in terms of golf," sighed Luke. "Why not?" snapped Elmer. "It has all the violence, bad manners, cheating and general brutality of the public links game, anyhow." "Why meet on a battleship to frame a program for peace and brotherly love?" asked Luke, plain-- j ly puzzled. "Dramatic suspense, color, mys-tery and all that," explained Elmer. "It ain't so much what you do or say in a crisis like this. It's how you put it over. That meeting had everything but sex appeal." "All it needed was some John Powers' models," nodded Luke. "It got across without 'em," in-sisted Elmer, "but I wonder they weren't used, at that. John Bull and Uncle Sam are out to fire the imagination of the world, kindle the enthusiasms of all friends of free-dom and get their message into the mikes and onto the front pages ev-erywhere. And tii is sea huddle did it" "Whoever thought Churchill, num-ber one man of the British empire, would leave London, fly to sea and hold a conference with the Presi-dent of the United States in mid-ocean- ? And who ever thought the President of the United States could drop everything at Washington to go to sea for the same purpose?" asked Luke. "It would even have been cut out of a movie script as too far-fetched," declared Elmer. "Get the picture! Roosevelt gets on his yachl and disappears in one of the big moments of history. His disappear-ance is so complete even the news-ree-l men can't find him. The sus-pense is terrific. Democrats every-where begin to fear something has happened to him." "And Republicans begin to feat something has not," put in Luke. "Rumors of a conference with Churchill at sea are spread, but dis credited as something that the hail tonic company would delete as in-credible even if Gabriel Heatter put it in his radio broadcast" contin-ued Elmer. "Nevertheless it turns out to be the real McCoy." "Can you imagine the fit Hitlei must have thrown when he turned aside from his Russian blitz in what he thought was one of his big mo-ments and realized that Winston and Frankie had grabbed all the head-lines?" asked Luke. "He's still howling," said Elmer "What do you think of the eighi points themselves?" asked Luke. "I don't see much new," replieo Elmer. "They're just Wilson's old model streamlined and with the fluid drive. But there was nothing wrong with the 14 points except that w forgot 'em too soon." "Do you think the Roosevelt Churchill eight points could have been improved?" asked Luke. "I do." declared Elmer. "By what?" asked Luke. "By a ninth point" snapped El mer. "A ninth point pledging Uncle Sam and John Bull not to go tc sleep standing up in the middle of a bowling alley." MORE REVIEW Oh, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Despite each horrible new "facey" No matter which you try to be ltnow you're simply Spencer Tracy. Babs Morgan puts it this way,-Uhe-n in Rome, do as the Ger- mans do." Martin Ragaway says Mussolini is so eclipsed lately that Hitler must oe doing his publicity. DIFFICULTY IN A GAS ECONOMY DRIVE Now if I ' should run out of Bes.de some rural fence. She thinks it's done to make a pass And not for home defense! Carl Holmquist Athens, actmg under Nazi orders, street from Franklin D. Roosevelt I.:"' 10 the Rue de la Paper 'Sf Somethi"g- will do i. Hitler's own free wiU. FIRST big RFcTri THE FIRST i, dollar. 60 rtP.: In 1!)31 when w" b'r Chicago wasii positor, which; 2 Key might not haw '"- - Of these, the Ce which Gen. Charle, president was on,, Friday and Saturday continued on Monday from other sources ably have had to clol, available cash. Thec. bank would undoubted cipitated a general ti Chicago and other r these conditions, an made by the Chicago Reconstruction Finaiici for help for Central I Some four yean President Hoover told anxious hours he spesi mer camp near Wash Saturday night, Sunda. night. With direct te nections to New York, Washington, he made ble effort to meet the s out a loan from RFC. loan was justified. Hi tral Trust could paj He knew the integrity General Dawes. Tee liked the idea of receii RFC because the Pres friend. His bank was predicament than som ers but had suffered II of encountering i moi than others had up tot Mr. Hoover told i every effort of which hi to procure relief for situation without an i RFC. He worked it ft any intermission from til before dawn Monda success, and finally i loan and instructed tb rush ninety millions k Chicago. That the loan wai evidenced by the relid tion of all the larger cago. That his faith is and ability of Generi justified has been provi ment in full of that $3 no depositor of Centr a dollar. FINANCIAL T0WEE ( UNDER CONSTRUCT WITH THE HELP the American people, built a towering, top-b- f structure measured When it toppled over we damned Insull andi punishment Insull fie to escape our wrath, have built that flnancii out our support and he Today we are assistii another financial tower is measured in billion the Insull millions, ment's expenditures only by our ability to lions that congress w propriates must comi sweat of our brows, limit to what we can p When that limit is n will be a crash that wi cane as compared t zephyr of the Insull hysteria or insanity o cans will be responsible for the Insull collaps building the top-he-that will topple over a financial morass. damn for that catasti what are your repres congress voting? . . t RAILROAD WAGES RAILROAD employ manding a heavy toe If they get it each fan more transportation on he sends to market wife will pay more W her family. The radi the increase along if they are perm'"611 not, they will pro" hands of receivers v millions of American ' vested their savings securities will lse- - earnings will not penj ut more money, taken in. It ! bm ta'. inflation is bora. . OLD AND NEW HITLER IS MOEWj are mortal. His or years of life ttfj than that of other tnorj death wiU come an structure of hate the bodies of conqu eluding those oi will topple and B will oome .omeotfl of the power poM which we may orJ , but. wliich we J in niter hovi we Washington, D. C. AUTO CUT That fanfared OPM cut of 26 per cent in auto production drew nc cheers from war department chiefs. To them it was a big disappoint ment First of all the cut looks a lot bigger than it actually is. For one thing the OPM carefully did not re-veal in its hoopla press releases was the fact that even with this curtailment auto production still will be 10 per cent greater than in 1938 and 1939. In other words, notwithstanding the increasing shortage of strategic raw materials, such as steel, rub-ber, alloys and other metals, auto production Is to continue at levels higher than in the peaceful years of '38 and 39. Another reason for the army gloom was that it wanted an imme-diate cut of at least 50 per cent For months war department heads pleaded and argued with OPM mo-guls for drastic curtailment, on the ground that the material going Into pleasure cars are desperately need-ed for planes, tanks, ships, guns and other vital armaments. But for months the OPM masterminds did absolutely nothing. Finally, In July, scrappy OPACS Director Leon Henderson, who has seen eye-to-ey- e with the army on this issue from the start, took the bull by the horns and "ordered" a 50 per cent slash. OPM's reaction was to hit the ceil-ing. It refused to accept the ruling. And while OPM battled behind the scenes with OPACS, autos continued to roll off assembly lines in record-breakin-numbers. However, Hen-derson's bare-knuckli- finally took effect. The 26V4 per cent cut is a little less than half of what the army and Henderson wanted, but it is 6'4 per cent more than OPM's original figure. TANKS FOR BRITAIN Some time ago the Merry-Go-Roun- d revealed that a chief objec-tive of Lord Beaverbrook's visit was to get more tanks tanks for Iran: tanks for Egypt, tanks eventually for an Invasion of the continent. Beaverbrook particularly wanted the new powerful 32 tonncrs that soon will roll off the Chrysler assembly line at the rate of 450 a month. It can now be revealed that the British supply minister will not go home empty handed. He will take back with him very cheering assur-ances regarding the division of these tanks between the U. S. and British armed forces. But that isn't the end of his tank problem. Allotting tanks to the British in this country is one thing, but deliv-ering them across the Atlantic is another. In fact, the problem of transport-ing large numbers of 32-to- n tanks is the toughest shipping problem maritime experts have faced since the magnetic mine, which ravaged shipping until the de-vices were evolved. In a nutshell here Is the problem: For every shipload of light 12 ton tanks sent to England or Africa, trie same ship plus nearly three-fourth- s of another ship would be required to transport the same number of 32-to-n tanks. In other words, they are bigger. Translated into specific fi-guresthat p convoy which landed 560 light tanks at Alexandria three months ago would have had to consist of 44 vessels to carry the same number of medium tanks. With shipping scarcer than hen's teeth, a difference of 18 ships is an extremely important factor. Also, the necessity of traveling in slow convoys further reduces the amount of shipping available. Some experts estimated this reduction as high as 50 per cent In addition the British sometimes take an excessively long time to unload cargoes. So the tank problem thus also be-comes an acute shipping problem. One bright spot in the situation is the great reduction in ship losses in the last 60 days since the extension of the U. S. neutrality patrols. But the basic problem of securing more cargo bottoms still remains. Note: Since January 1, U. S. ship-yards have turned out a total of 56 cargo vessels. MERRY-GO-ROl'N-Army officers are singing the praises of 20th Century-Fox'- s Darryl Zanuck and many movie moguls for their big job in filming 100 reels of army training films. This was the first time training films have ever been taken, and Hollywood did them for 40 per cent of what it would have cost Hollywood itself to do the job. In other words, the army only had to pay union labor and cost of film. Hollywood supplying the stu-dios, production, overhead and ev-erything else. The Washington Diplomatic corps is goggle-eye- d over Mrs. Warren Pierson's new book. "The Good Neighbor Murder." Her husband is head of the Export-Impo- rt Bank which loans millions to the Good Neighbors. Dr. I. Lubin, brilliant White House defense expert, is the most "officed" official in Washington. He has an office in the White House, another in the labor department as head of the bureau of labor statistics, a third in the labor division of OPM. and a fourth in the treasury as an adviser to Secretary Morgenthau. 4Love Your Enemies' on Eastern Front IK tww s " w y" f tMsMMlllnrniilil i miM- ''IT" fiV-- . Picture at left shows captured Nazis receiving bread from Russian soldiers, according to the Moscow and London censor-approve- d caption. In the picture at the right German troopers are giving first aid to a wounded Russian soldier. It would seem that both sides in this terrific conflict like to send out photos showing their men rendering aid to wounded enemies. U 1 ' frrri, : While Walter ff'inchell it on tempo-rur- y active duty with the V. S. navy hit column it being conducted by guest columnist!. This weeh't column it writ-ti- By JAMES It. YOUNG . AV. S. Correspondent 13 Yean in Japan and Author, "behind the Rising Sun." UNFINISHED STORIES What has become of the Em-peror's brother, "Prince Chichibu His failure to appear at the Em-pire's 2G00th mythological anniver-sary of the founding of the Sun God-dess' country aroused queries. What will become of Japan's puppet Em-peror of Manchuria, Henry Pu Yi, who rides a bicycle and plays ten-nis under "protection"? Not hav-ing nn heir, the Japanese some-how will put the skids under him to favor his Manchu brother, whom militarists married off to a Japanese girl. How will the Japanese handle their puppet Wang Ching Wei at Nanking? Japanese guards sur-round him for two purposes: Keep enemy hand grenades from being tossed at him and keep him from running away. His wife, notorious In Chinese politics, stays in Shang-hai selling government Jobs and opi-um licenses. The President's freezing order of Japanese business means: NO MORE. lily bulbs for Easter, gold-fish by the tankfuls for five and dime stores, oyster bed seedlings, camphor for methol products or pyretheum seeds for bug powder. Japan facea economic ruin. Her Manchurian market depended on soy bean cake exports to Europe. That business is finished. No more silk market means Japan's second great agriculture upset and farm problem rice and its shortage is No. 1. Next problem is shortage of fish which is Japan's staple. Min-ing the island kingdom's waters to keep out Russian submarines from Vladivostok will restrict tens of thousands of tiny fishing junks. The Japanese are always kidding themselves and their people. One inventor claims sardines will pro-duce an oil convertible to gasoline. But first they need the sardines. In quantities prohibitive. Another Jap-anese announced Tokyo is protected from air attacks by the use of fish-ing nets strung over the city, sus-pended by balloons the net catches the blitz bombs. Actually, Tokyo has but one bomb proof .shelter, for the emperor and his family. The Nipponese think they can overcome the acute shortage of scrap and iron ore which months ago stopped their entire heavy in-dustry output. By salvaging old ships. Salvage available from four ships, including the President Hoover, would be sufficient for a locomotive and a string of cars. I m m m I Bob Ilueun, Richmond, Ind., helped build China's railways with Japanese ties years ago he logged nearly a million ties a year. Now the Japanese army runs its trains over those ties. E. W. Frazar, the oldest American Japan had, now resides in New York. He introduced to Japan the first automobile, the first phono-graph, the first locomotive. He'd been in Japan nearly 70 years just a few short of the days when Com-modore Perry opened Japan to for-eign trade. which became popular, has closed down. Insuffi-cient water, milk rations, which were cut 50 per cent a year ago, have been reduced another 50 per cent no more cows or dairy fod-der. Ditto on eggs and potatoes. QUESTION: Lieut. Commander Waiter Win-chel- l, you are in the navy now on reserve service. If you have time, check with fellow officers why the State Department forced the navy's hand and permitted two Japanese spies to be released and why others remain here with diplomatic immu-nity. Including one who is in hiding in Washington? How many Amer-ican missionaries remain in Japa-nese prisons in Korea? Why not trade them for Japanese spies in this country? mm IT'S A LAUGH - The State Department permits the Japanese Government news agency, Domei. to operate here without reg-istering. Why? The Japanese re-ply is that it is not a propaganda organ! The agency is financed by the Foreign Office, the army, the navy and the Communications Min-istry for an annual propaganda def-icit of near 2,000,000 Japanese yen. - Japan lacks precision tool ma-chine oil. Only a few companies in the world make this special oil. If we had stopped shipments two years ago it would have wrecked her great armaments production. The week Acting Secretary of State Welles condemned Japan for her seizure of Indo-Chin- which the Japanese planned several years back Lut which the silk hats refused , to believe, you read of 55 transports, i ?0 warships, three aircraft carrier! speeding south. Mystery Blaze Sweeps Brooklyn Waterfront ,ny ; XA A Darting as close to the flames as it dared go, a cameraman on a special plane made this unusual photo of the conflagration that swept pier 27 in Brooklyn in one of the worst fires In recent years. In the center, between both piers can be seen the Cuban liner, Panuca, ablaze. Scores of firemen were severely injured and some military supplies were damaged. 'Gold in Them Peaks' " ' " J I ' Lrji'j Goldmlner Frank Gimlctt, In from Colorado, gets his first glimpse at New York's architectural peaks. Equipped with pick, shovel and gold pan, he stands atop the Pennsyl- vania hotel with the Empire State building in the background. He Is 76 years old. Home from 'The Wars' v The U. S. S. Wakefield, formerly the S. S. Manhattan, is shown arriving in New York harbor with the force of soldiers nho recently went south to with the U. S. marines in mimic war. Landing exer-cise and beach head tactics on the coast of North Carolina were high pots of the "war." 'Ears Pinned Back?' At had man pIane 'ks like it its "ears pinned back vi so, however. . , ondamaged Jcn L T! Cman flghting p,' ,at |