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Show THE BULLETIN. MNCHAM. UTAH " Seven Killed, 9 Injured, in Plane Crash rrrnT---r-- - :!A- - -t-r-? s' wife .o.v, djkithltllWI 1"" -- - : Seven persons were killed and nine were Injured when this Eastern Airlines plane crashed near Atlanta, Ga. Rep. William D. Byron, of Maryland, was one of the seven killed. Among the injured was Capt. Eddie Rlckenbacker, World war flying ace and owner of the airline. Photo shows rescuers searching in the debris for bodies. Win Film Awards Ginger Rogers, who won the an-nual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award for ber performance in "Kitty Foyle," and James Stewart, who was voted 1940's outstanding actor for his work in "The Philadelphia Story." general HUGH S. JOHNSON Jour: Dated Fmm W WNUfcnfc Washington, D. C. WAR POSSIBILITIES In a friendly debate with Majoi George Fielding Eliot on war possi-bilities, two of the principal schools of thought were seen In pretty clear profile. On a few basic guesses there was complete agreement; that this coun-tr- y Is In no danger of Invasion in the measurable future, that Ger-many will not be successful In an in-vasion of England this year and that her chance of doing it later will probably decline, that there Is no prospect that England will lose her mastery of the ocean this year. So much seems to be a pretty gen-eral consensus of opinion among fairly well Informed students of the problems of war as they affect us. Beyond that, there is disagree-ment. Major Eliot, who is one of the most painstaking of our military critics, is also one of the leaders of those who feel that it is to our inter-est to "keep the war as far away from our shores as possible." He quotes the authorities to the general effect that the real line of defense of a great sea-pow- "is the coast-line of its possible enemies." Between the two nations, as he correctly says, is control of every dominating point on all the oceans; England itself, Gibraltar, Suez, Aden, Singapore, Corregidor, Cape-town, the Falkland islands, Pana-ma, Honduras, Hawaii and all the great American bases on both coasts. Coupled with the superior-ity of the two fleets, he thinks no land power can at length prevail. To all this he adds, and his adver-saries agree, that England alone could never retake on land, the Ger-man conquests in northern Europe; that it could be done, if at all, only with a new A.E.F. of millions, which he does not favor, and that Russia is no great threat on the German east flank. To most of that, the opposing argu-ment is: "O.K., but how is the war then to be won by Britain?" His premises leave only the one answer and he makes it frankly economic strangulation of Germanized Europe by a British blockade and battering of Germany from the air, naval frustration of Japan in Asia and the Indies. The opponents say: "Economic strangulation unaccompanied by military attack never yet won a war. A combination of both did beat our Confederacy and whip Germany in 1918. In both cases it was a long slow process. In this case, without constant military pressure requiring of any enemy the consumption of tremendous quantities of scant sup-plies, it would be interminable and extremely doubtful of result Fur-thermore, since we are undertaking to finance this world-wid- e military, naval and economic strategy and to become not only the arsenal but the larder, banker, guardian and good neighbor to half a world, it would work our economic ruin. It is an-other "great experiment noble in motive," but it takes in too much territory for even our resources. "If we perfect our own defenses and shorten our lines, our naval, military and air strength will be multiplied in comparison with a strategy of buttering them thin so across the whole globe. We can be-come impregnable. Half a planet is enough for one nation to undertake to finance and defend. The differ-ence in cost is tens of billions. The difference in risk of war and dis-aster is immeasurable. Aid Brit-ain? Yes, up to two very definite limits: That it does not weaken our own defense, that it does not involve us in a world-wid- e war the cause of which we can't control. The Eliot argument does both." There are two proposals. "You pays your money and you takes your choice." CONVOY SHIPS TO BRITAIN We are going to convoy ships car-rying aid to Britain. There is not much doubt that a provision in the lease-len- d bill prohibiting the Presi-dent from using American armed forces on the high seas to protect American property, would be an un-constitutional congressional interfer-ence with his constitutional power as commander-in-chie- f of the armed forces. Except for some psycho-logical popular effect it would be useless, null and void. Just now, popular opinion is so much against convoys, which would be a direct venture into war, that it probably would not be attempted at present. But a most skillful job has been done of leading popular opinion closer and closer to war, and also of so timing action as not to offend it. It is easy to see how a change o favor convoys could oc- cur. Some time later in the year our industrial mobilization will begin to disgorge vast quantities of supplies The British demand for them will be great. The lease-len- d bill will be a law and there will be no financial or other hindrance to sending them Also Hitler's major effort to blockl ade Britain on and under the sea will be at its peak and cargo sink-ing- s will multiply. Then we shall hear: "Are we just building shlps and supplies for Hit- - the docks of Liverpool can help win this war. 'Mm ?1 11 1 H'-'-' "''ii ' 'JiS U 1 Notes of a New Yorker: Newspapermen know how United Press eels about the following fact ... It reminds its staffers that news may break any place and it warns Ihem not to be indifferent to any lo-cale for scoops ... It stems from 1917, when the late Bob Bender (who became UP's vice president) was in the White House washroom, and in came Joe Tumulty, secre-tary to President Wilson . . . Tu-multy was so upset he couldn't steady himself, which made Bender nervous . . . "What the devil's the matter with you, anyway?" shouted the newspaperman. too," chattered Tumulty, "if you seen a Dec-laration of War!" Bender, still disarranged, sped out of the place and down to the UP offices with the notable scoop. There Is danger that Hitler can take America, but there is more danger in those Americans who would give it to him. The newspapers, as you probably have heard, always write the obitu-aries of well-know- n citizens long before they die and then file them away until they are summoned to the Pearly Gates. One New York newspaper has this opening line on Father Divine, the colored question mark, to wit: "Father Divine, the man who claimed he would live for-ever, didn't." One of Broadway's ham actors was recently booked into one of those intimate night clubs ... On his opening night he warned the manager that he needed absolute quiet while he performed . . . The manager complied by instructing his staff to obey this request . . . After the first performance the manager went backstage to inquire if every-thing was okay. "No," shouted the ham, "all through my act there was a terrific disturbance. It went puck brrrrrrr thwacckkl Have that stopped!" "Look," squelched the manager, "when that puck brrrrrrr thwacckk stops you will be fired. That's the cash register!" Cholly Adler, the Tavern-keepe- r, relays the one about the day Goering stormed into an aircraft factory, or-dered a dozen planes, and demanded they be ready in three days . . . "That is impossible!" shrieked the foreman . . . "It must be so," barked Goering, and strode away . . . Nazi efficiency came crashing through, and three days later, when a crew arrived at the factory, the planes were ready as ordered . . . Jhe pilots got in and soared over the channel to bomb the British . . . Reaching London, the first pilot pulled his bomb release and out dropped four of the factory's night shift! Joseph Clark Baldwin, who has been mentioned for the vacancy caused by the passing of Kenneth Simpson, has a four-year-o- unmar-ried son who attends private school. The other day he was asked to re-cite the Pledge of Allegiance . . . All the political talk he heard at home apparently confused him. He convulsed his teacher by starting: "I pledge allegiance to the flag and to the Republicans for which it stands!" Jimmy Dorsey tells about the Hol-lywood producer who was trying to theft a big box-offlc- e personality from a rival studio. He dangled a contract in front of the actor and asked: "Well, is it Yes?" The actor shook his head . . . "Then," persisted the producer, "is it No?" . . . The actor still shook his head. "Well," plaintively cortiiued the producer, "at least won't you re-consider and give me a definite may-be?" A delegation of Japanese recently visited the Curtiss-Wrig- aviation plant in Paterson, N. J. . . . An inspection tour, it was called . . . They were loaded with cameras, of course . . . Guided and supervised by courteous personnel, they were allowed to snap pictures of certain parts and motors to their hearts' content ... Now don't get excited it was all right . . . This was the catch . . . Before leaving the plant all had to pass through a tiny room in single file . . . In that room, unknown to them, was a battery of y machines, bombarding away . . . Those rays, in case you didden know, rendered useless the films the Japanazis had exposed . . . None of the pictures "turned out," and no relations or niceties were strained. Broadway Alien: When he shakes your hand he wants to know what's i.n..your heart, not up your sleeve He continues tipping his hat to ladies long after he's lost his curly strands . . . When he borrows a dollar, he has the headache, not the lender ... If he trips at your house, he consults his doctor, not his law-yer ... He always has a reason for what he does not an alibi . . . The only thing he ever got on the cuff was a spot of gravy ... He thinks his father was a lucky guy in meeting his mother. DOLLAR-YEAR-TROUBL- E WASHINGTON. Defense chiefs aren't advertising it, but they are quietly trying to ward off a blow-u- p over the host of dollar-a-yea- r men now working for the government Some of the One Dollar men are conscientious and sincere public servants. Others are less scrupulous. While representing the government they have sold goods to the govern-ment, exerted inside pressure in fa-vor of their industries, represented clients before government agencies. All this has been no secret on Capitol Hill, where the steadily growing corps of One Dollar moguls has been eyed with Increasing re-sentment. Recently this undercover indignation took form in a bill by Sen. Kenneth McKellar, veteran Tenncs6ean, to ban such business men from government service and to probe their operations. McKellar's plan is to await en-actment of the lend-leas- e bill be-fore pushing his measure, but mean-while defense chiefs, seeing the handwriting on the wall, have qui-etly started cleaning up the situa-tion themselves. This has been done in a series of apparently unrelated moves. Under cover of transferring the original de-fense organization tn the new nfiirf of production management, several One Dollar men have been eased home with the face-savin- g title of "Advisory Consult-ant" pinned to their coat-tail- s. Oth-ers have been shifted to Jobs not di-rectly connected with their own in-dustries. Also, several ex-perts have been brought in to re-place One Dollar men in important sections of the OPM. And more house-cleanin- g is still to come. Note Among ex-perts who have been brought into the OPM are Dr. Ernest M. Hop-kins, president of Dartmouth col-lege; Dexter S. Kimball, former dean of Cornell university engineer-ing school; William E. Wickenden, president of Case School of Applied Science; Dr. W. S. A. Pott, presi-dent of Elmira college; and Dr. S. S. Stratton, Harvard pressor of economics. MR. SMITH GOES TO LATIN-AMERIC- A It looks as if Senator Barkley was right when he denounced the box of-fice smash movie, "Mr. Smith Comes to Washington." That film is now causing all kinds of headaches for the U. S. A. in South America, where it is used by the Nazis as one of their deadliest propaganda weap-ons. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney has just made this report to the Rocke-feller branch of the national defense commission. The story of a grafting senate ganging up on a young re-former, Whitney says, is being circu-lated through Latin America as an illustration of U. S. government graft Whitney has been pressuring Hol-lywood moguls to halt further for-eign distribution of the film. Another big problem for Whitney is newsrecls. Just how damaging a newsreel can be to the "Good Neigh-bor" policy if even a slight detail of sequence is overlooked, was illustrat-ed in a recent report to the state department by Norman Armour, ambassador to Argentina. In a Buenos Aires theater one night, Armour was witnessing Amer-ican newsreel shots of an air raid on Great Britain. Immediately follow-ing the raid pictures a bathing beau-ty contest in California was flashed on the screen. "The letdown of the audience was terrific," Armour reported, pointing out that the newsreel made it appear that United States had its mind on bathing beauties instead of defense. THE TAFT BROTHERS William Howard Taffs boys. Bob and Charley, are at odds again, Charley having been in Washington more than a week in his new job be-fore he got together with Bob. Reason is the job Charley has taken from the hands of Roosevelt It sounds harmless enough "Assist-ant of Recreational Ac-tivities for Defense" but it's a suf-ficient tie-u- p with the administration foreign policy to leave Bob a bit chilly. What hurt more, perhaps, was that Charley, who has long quar-reled with his brother over domestic policies, accepted the Job just the week before the historic lease-len- d debate opened in the senate. Bob knew where brother Charley stood long before, namely with the Com-mittee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. But this brought the split into the public gaze. "You don't have to agree with your brother all the time, do you?" is Bob's shrugging comment MERRY-GO-ROUN- D You can reach hard-workin- g John R. Steelman. head of the U. S. Con-ciliation service, practically any midnight in his office working on some labor dispute, but not between 7 and 7:15 p. m. He always takes this time out to listen to a favorite daily radio program. The budget is full of unique little items, such as $6,000 for a fence on the Texas-Mexica- n border, $76,000 for personal funds for inmates of federal narcotic institutions, $10,000 for sea food inspection. I- - ..TiTTS Pattern 6903 ; TVTAKE this your mo; iYA embroidered panel: ly shaded roses are in outline stitch and are ef wool or silk floss. Begi: . 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MERCHflj oYour f" fldvertisi Dollar buys something space and circuit tie columns of J ll; paper. It buys sp i tt - -- able circulation plus consideration readers for this e a and its advertising ,r Is LET US TEZJJ -- MORE flBgS Flies to Post J " V4 if s I f"' " IrmAiii unit jinn mi niri i - 3 John G. Wlnant, V. S. ambassador to Great Britain, going aboard the Atlantic Clipper at La Guardia field, New York, en route to Great Brit-ain, via Lisbon. Police Clash With Pickets at Steel Plant ft hMf(l "'jfelUl Police try to force hole through pickets to allow car to pass through Number 1 gate of the big Lackawanna plant of the Bethlehem Steel company, near Buffalo, N. Y., during the C. I. O. strike, which periled defense production. The Bethlehem company has 1 billion dollars' worth of military orders. Land at Boston Army Base pi 1 - iw : - The first U. S. army transport since 1918 has just landed 1,200 soldiers at the Boston army base. Some of the 1,200 are shown above debarking from the troopship General Hunter Liggett en route to Camp Edwards and Fort Devens. These men have just completed five weeks' secret maneuvers in the Caribbean. On Special Mission Of III v mt Afe iViaJ Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard university, aboard the S. S. Excalibur, as he sailed for Europe on a mission for President Roose-velt. Dr. Conant is bead of a spe-cial new mission to England to col-lect defense information. Qualities of Pra: Prayer is the believer: ij and support, his weapt j fense, his light in dar- j companionship in sol: s fountain in the desert, a and his deliverance- .- ia Our AngeU f Our acts our angels a? i or ill, our fatal shadows by us still. Fletcher. Australian Troops Arrive in Singapore "Berlin or Bust" was the chant of these crack Australian troops as they arrived In Singapore to strengthen the British defenses. They were equipped with great numbers of fighting planes and bombers. Defense Expediter 5 ' t Avercll Harriman, New York finan-cier, whom President Roosevelt named as aide to Ambassador W-lnant, as a step in aid to British un-der lend-leas- e bill program. |