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Show THE BULLETIN. IHNflHAM. UTAH -- - To Head Draft Board Maj. Gen. Allen Gullion, advocate general of the United States army, who will be nominated by the Presi-dent as chief of national draft board. Takes Oath as Secretary of Commerce f I W i f j Aft y r..:. v.. . ,.v.rfW.iV.W..-- Jesse Jones, the Texas banker, who joined the Reconstruction Finance corporation under Herbert Hoover and became its chairman during the Roosevelt administration, will succeed Harry L. Hopkins as secretary of romme-c- e. He is here shown at the White House receiving the oath of office from Justice Stanley Reed. 'if THE VILLAGE NEWS-FRES- S (Piop. mi Editor, W. WiochtU) Katie Hepburn of these parts ex-pects her new gentleman friend, who not long back stopped his car on a lonely road (at midnight, near Santa Barbara, out California way) and on bended knee asked Kate to be his'n . . . His name is Garson Ka-ni- n, who directed many good mov-ies, such as "The Great Man Votes" end "A Man to Remember." 'Tenny-rat- e, the young man is now flying East to ask Katie's kinfolk for her hand in holy matrimony. Willkie'i new Main Street head-quarters are in Frank Campbell's deserted funeral parlors at Sixty-sixt- h street. When ye ed laughed, fit to kill, a Willkie rooter observed, "Wal, it's the first time anything alive was there!" Ex-Go- Al Smith is wearing a Willkie tie . . . G. J. Nathan, after 10 years, will do drama criticism again for the American Mercury. Besides his chores for Esquire and Liberty. Must be payin' a mighty big income tax. Heard a good one last night over ai oeorge K.eiiy'8 lavern. Seems they all were talking about the fail-ure of a theatrical man, who lost all his millions that he made produc-ing attractions. "He was a bad egg, but nobody seemed to think so so long as he had money," said George. "Naturally," replied Charlie Ad-le- r, who is quite a philosopher, "like most bad eggs he was all right until he was broke." Joe DiMaggio's admirers have nicknamed him Bucktooth McGce . . . Talk about town that Joe Ken-nedy, our ambassador, may bi com-ing home in about two weeks. Madeleine Carroll is a pretty sad young lady these days. Her maw's letters tell of the terrible air raids over her house near Dover, and Madeleine hasn't heard from her gentleman friend in a long time, too. The reports about a new fiance are poppycock. Ye ed recalls that our state dep't a few weeks ago made it clear that any foreign diplomat In the U. S. (who Interferes with our Internal af-fairs) will be considered persona non grata. Well, Newsweek reports that the N. Y. Italian Consul Vecchiotti is taking a very active part in our Pres. campaign. How about that, Mr. Hull? New Yorkers Are Talking About: Fay Wray's breathless romance with Clifford Odets ... The fact that Herbert Hoover in 1928 said he was ready to support Coolidge for a third term! . . Raymond Paige's legiti-mate squawk: That the list of re-cordings distributed by the Nat'l Comm. for Music Appreciation to "foster American culture by means of American recordings for Ameri-can listeners" does not contain one American work I . The rumored Carol and Lupescu arrival soon via Clipper. The line's local offices got a message stating: "Completing royal reservations" . . . Dietrich's next flicker, "Seven Sinners," in .m. uu;nvi, vfnHinn ...;n , iviuitvga win uuk vmy luvti her glammer-gam- s in pants, but she will also shoot pool. Have a cigar, lady? They're Also Talking About: Mrs. H. Payne Whitney and that attentive sculptor . . . The separation of the David Bruces. She's Mellon's daughter. He allegedly took the London Red Cross post to forget . . . Walter O'Keefe's gag about Mary Pickford buying the Gen'l Motors and Ford exhibits to use as book-end- s in her den. And the gag about O'Keefe hooking up with the G. O. P. "to get back on the Haw! They Do Say, Too: Parents mag-azine's annual award will go to Katherine F. Lenroot, chief of the U. S. Children's bureau. At the Ritz on the twenty-thir- Mrs. F. D. R. got it last time . . . How Ralph Ingersoll's enemies are trying to get his backers to divorce him. Be-cause he is pro-- D. R. . . Mar-shall Field III, his biggest backer, is a Repub, and will not desert him ... A. A. Knopfs regret about not carefully reading proofs on Warwick Deeping's novel, which contains three offensive lines that may result in a terrific boycott by various groups. How'll Bergdorf-Goodma- n explain that one? Henri Unterman's quiet arrival on the S. S. Iroquois two weeks ago. He's King Carol's biz adviser and advance man here? Sallies in Our Alley: Jerry Cooper thinks it is funny that whenever an actor goes out to Hollywood he knocks wood but when he comes back he knocks Hollywood . . . A breathless stranger asked a where he could locate Har-old Ross, the New Yorker editor, last night . . . "He's probably over at J. & C.'s," obliged the colyumist . . . "But how will I know him," said the stranger, "we've never met!" . . . "It's a cinch," was the retort, "he always sits with his back to the check." GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Jaur: IMud talma WNUfcrH TRIBUTE TO BANKHEAD NEW YORK. This is pretty late for a piece about the passing of Speaker Bankhead, but if it were even later, I couldn't let the going of a great man pass without at least the tribute of a sigh. These Bankheads have been south-ern public men in the very finest of American traditions father and three sons. The father of the late speaker and present Senator Bank-hea- d also was a senator. A third brother was a cadet at West Point in my time and became an able and beloved officer in our army. They were all much alike In ap-pearance and more alike in charac-tercourteous, considerate, brave, loyal, gentle and kind. Those are a lot of adjectives, but I considered every one before I wrote it, and I couldn't fairly or accurately have omitted any. I never met anybody, associate or op-ponent, in public life or out, who didn't have about that opinion of these men, which is a remarkable circumstance indeed. The late speaker was noted for all these qualities and, notwithstanding intense party loyalty, . for leaning over backward to be fair to the opposition minority. RED CAPS Mayor LaGuardia wants to mo-bilize the Pullman porters for the New Deal third term. I don't know about the Pullman porters. They are railroad employees. Neither NRA nor its successor labor laws could help them much. Certainly the mayor would have harder sled-ding with the station porters. Both the red caps and the public are reg-imented by the wages and hours ad-ministration and they don't like it. Before the more abundant life came to them, while there was no-body to guarantee their maximum hours and minimum weekly wage, and no compulsion on the passengers to pay them 10 cents for every pack-age toted, they found the traveling public reasonably generous. A two-bi- t tip was usual for a real load. Sometimes it was only a dime and sometimes nothing. But these cases were exceptions usually old ladies and country bankers of the David Ha rum type. A compulsory dime for every package carried was an untried ex-periment. Now the red caps wish it had never been tried, even if when the public doesn't collectively pay their minimum wages in full, their employers the terminal or railroad companies have to make up the difference. The boys variously estimate to me that it has reduced their incomes on the average 10 to 25 per cent. They would prefer Adam Smith's doctrine of laissez-fair- e to the Henry Wal-lace thesis of "regulate everything." They want their rugged individual-ism restored. Formerly, and because he didn't have to, the average passenger with one man-size- d grip willingly gave a quarter for carrying it. Now Uncle Sam tells him that 10 cents is enough and that the porter must take it. Sometimes, as in a recent experi-ence of our First Lady, who left a train with seven Darepls what uitv. the hurry and bustle and this and that, the passenger forgets the new rule and, as in that experience, hands out half a buck and thinks it generous. It used to be, but now the tariff should be 70 cents. The carrier-for-hir- relationship has not yet been sufficiently established for these small enterprisers to demand the extra dimes. Just the same, they get debited by the company exactly as though they had been collected. This also may be imagination, but some of the red caps think they see a tendency to fewer but larger pieces of luggage. DRAFT LAW The conscription bill is a law and it is high time. But because of the rush and the sheer poli- tics and demagoguery of part of the debate, a perfectly unworkable, un-constitutional and almost unintelli-gible provision was iimm;.j i. , uhu n, -t- he provision relating to compul-- ; s"ry ordcrs and, in the alternative or m addition, the condemnation of phints. It provides that either the secre-- ; tary of war or the secretary of the may place an order with a manufacturer at a price fixed by the secretary. If the manufacturer duesn t proceed to fin it at that price "d give it priority over all other "dcrs. it shall be deemed a felony pumshable by three years' impris- - .nmer.t and a fine up to $50,000. A so ,n case of a failure not only o take but to fill the order, the P Uit may be seized and operated D the government. uASf)th,h C0'Umn has rcPtedly government must have Power to commandeer not only man-ufactun-plants but also supplies sh ps and even railroads. The presl " Provn applies only to com-Pulsor- y orders for manufacture to manufacturing pi;lnts I am aware of no experienced aut omy wh0 contests of such a power to the President -hen properly defined. Fortherea o its almost total insufficiency Just explained, the provision is not properly defined. ar.w..,' -- r- " nii i i 'in Washington, D. C. NAZI CENSORSHIP It's not being widely publicized, but Nazi Germany already holds a tight rein on all message! sent by the state department to its diplomats in parts of Europe. In fact, the state department is unable to com-municate at all with certain sections, and communications to other sec-tions must be relayed through Ber-lin. The department has its secret codes for transmission of official messages, but codes are no good if the messages don't move. If Mr. Hull wants to communicate with a member of the U. S. diplo-matic staff in Paris, he cannot do so directly, but must file to the new French capital of Vichy, and from there, subject to the whim of the Petain government, the message may be moved on to Paris. A short time ago, messages had to be sent via Berlin, with the hope that Nazi officials would permit the U. S. embassy there to relay the message to Paris by courier. Both Brussels and Antwerp are completely cut off, except through Berlin, but oddly enough, Rotterdam and Antwerp ore open for direct P.vl.i..mmiuiini ii cv 'iatbijnvnm Atnxr imt iin.. cti rniar(fjnt .a ii win Washington to Norway's capital, Oslo, must be routed through Stock-holm. Note Though this hus meant a reduction in official messages to Eu-rope, the total of cable messages clearing from the state department is breaking all records for volume, chiefly because of heavy communi-cation with Latin America. SMOKELESS POWDER SHORTAGE Destruction of the Kenvil, N. J., powder plant was a far more seri-ous blow to national defense than anyone in high official circles want-ed to admit. It now leaves the United States with only two smokeless powder plants in the entire country the du-Po-plant at Carney's Point, N. J., and the government-owne- d Picatin-n- y arsenal at Dover, N. J., not far from Kenvil. It produces only a very small amount of powder. Real fact is that powder plants are slow and cumbersome to build, requiring a series of buildings in which the powder is gradually dried. Two new plants are being rushed to completion by the war department, but they will not be finished until next spring. One of these is near Charlestown, Ind., and will be operated by the duPonts, though built by the gov-ernment at a cost of $25,000,000. The other will be at Radford, Va., and will be operated by the Hercules Powder company, though built by the government at the same price. How serious is the powder situa-tion was illustrated by the fact that one day after the New Jersey ex-plosion, the war department issued "speed-up- " letters to both duPont and Hercules, whereby they are or-dered to increase powder production from 200,000 pounds a day to 300,-00- 0 pounds a day in the Radford plant; and from 200,000 a day to 400,-00- 0 a day in the Charlestown, Ind., plant. This means that the plants will be bigger, but it does not mean they will be finished earlier. Day after the New Jersey exdo- - sion, also, the war department sent a confidential memo to the White House on the seriousness of the pow-der situation. Note German intelligence agents unquestionably knew the exact ca-pacity of American powder facto-ries, and how limited our present production was namely, 20,000,000 pounds a year. They must have known also that the destruction of one factory would throw the Unit-ed States off its preparedness sched-ule more than any other single in-cident. SECRET AIRPLANE CONTRACTS The public is not going to get any more information about airplane contracts let by Hie war department. The army is putting the lid on as a military precaution. Inside fact is that news of recent contracts was released only to offset the impression that the work was not getting ahead. Secretary of War Stimson had stated on August 9 that contracts had been let for only 33 planes of the 4,000 authorized in June. Just a month later, September 10, the war department released figures that told a different story. Instead of 33, the number of planes contract-ed for was 2,797. These figures were put out to re-assure the public. But from now on there will be no talking. The war department is following the lead of General Marshall, who says, "You can't play peker with everybody looking at your hand." MERRY-GO-ROUN- D The state department is still try-ing to keep the muzzle on Mrs. "Dai-sy" Harriman. forthright minister to Norway. Apparently Mr. Hull fears she will tell what really happened there. Sen. Joe O'Mahoney polled the highest vote ever received by a Democrat in the recent Wyoming primary. With less than half of the normal vote cast in this election, the Democrats figure they have good chance to carry the state in November. . KeeP cheese fr. Use potato tog stock; (bft) gravy, and (c) hei maker, use t fo? dough. Keep the comb Cl,, tog regularly little ammonia ' aid in loosening thoroughly and dry.' 3 t When a wire baskn J"? frying the hot ft croquettes. 1 w not stick to It ft will be easy to rem To improve the 8-- lamb, rub it with7 salt, garlic, blacky joram before cookirg. During the last sta'e a cake a piece of n on the top of it wiif to cook through a; top from burning. i Wilted green vegetal freshened by washing containing a little v then left to soak in an hour before co-j Canvas City for Mobilized National Guard An aerial view of the tent city at Camp Dix, N. J., where some 9.200 National Guardsmen will be housed until construction of wooden barracks is complete. A total of 852 buildings, to handle at least 20,000 men, are being built. 60,500 guardsmen have Just been mobilized for federal duty as the opening move to put 1,000.000 men under arms by January 1. Wanted hv Nazis Adolf Hitler has just placed a price of $10,000 on the head of "Ru-dolph," Austrian patriot now in America, who was chief of the Aus-trian freedom station in France. Del iicious outings. i.wvej preparation : ; ; nour.i economca 1 j j ortfe from your grocer, --I H Every Wednesday WITH Ljj KENNY U M Portland Hoffa, f(! Al Goodman VtN onl OrthMtra, 1 22ATh. Mighty Altai' Salt' Lake's NE mm i f Hotel,) I TEMPLE Sm i fflCHLY BECOlOgj S .f this beaJ;Ml ..lrI'Ejxc Helpless Victims of Nazi Cruelty Kyw''swtpWi''y mm 'minium - y " r - i: tmT&JLit&'X'' Jane, Jacqueline and John, three pitiful little inmates of the East Grinstead (England) sunshine home for blind babies, hurry to the home's air-rai- d shelter as Nazi bombs roar overhead during one of their "morale- - softening" raids on non-milita- ry objectives in England. With the coming of ' channel storms and inland fog, military targets in England will be hard to find from the air, but the Nazis have lately acquired the habit of drop- - ping their lethal cargoes almost anywhere over Britain. Recovering Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo ex-- president and "strong man" of the Dominican Republic, who is recov-- enng from a long illness, plans to vacation here for his health, after a compu te physical checkup. He is shown on his arrival at Miami, Fia by chartered plane, en route to New lork for medical attention. Responsible for In A man who is sure ti juries to be done to bin he goes is almost as gr and inconvenience as himself the wrongdoer.-Taylo- Using Every Mm Every moment may ' some use, and that ( more pleasure than ii"-- j Chesterfield. j I Weighs Nearly a Ton hut Harmless! This high-explosi- shell, being unloaded for display at the British pavilion. New York World's fair, is an unfilled and harmless duplicate of those which the British royal railway artillery are hurling across the English channel in answer to the shells of the "Big Berthas" being used by the Nazis. U. S. Drops Charges s f 1 j Minn nr. ,ctb. |