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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM. UTAH MaMMMMMMMMaMMBMBMMMBMMMMjWggiB Fearsome Weapons Produced When Man Seeks to Destroy I Man't inventive genius can also be destructive. Turned to pro-ducing weapons of tear, it can devise instruments that deal death swiftly, unmercifully. Here are a few of them: STABILIZING flA c . - rs - T War "depth-Je-t ADJUSTED CT VATER INTAKE gg Rtl-- - I RELEASE i- - im NafawfcaS. , ; ... .; ... .fiJT.J!l Above: Two versions of the dangerous mine. Drawing shows hoiv Germany's fearsome magnetic mine may be built so that it can be dropped from a low-flyin- g airplane. When attracted to a passing ship, it explodes. I J I M Above: Depth charges f M' f "W &I being prepared in a Brit iWT ' $ '' 4 f J idi factory. They an H?JV - s drPPvd over sjibma I i iV "tf ' 1 I rinrs rrndiing the hull IViwrp jt, ftj5 via explosive pressure jMjt"9kimmiim'S Lower left: 7 he torpedo - ; i Firtil ro Above: t rench soldier loading a long distann artillery shell. At left Bombs wired tc a tiagon i in evacuated territory j They explode when ; wagon is moved. i .. i: ' " 2 h;&? Jobber ,. m lead carries a nmshrr "pota, grenade, handy for hurling e the enemy It , - --.JLS . - T-- , duapnel. These German soldiers , purport fo be Koing or ft Most fearsome weapon to avdians is fw aeria bomb GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Jour: A COLTLE OF TEETH Washington, D. C. This is a parable. It is being written within the hour that I had two teeth yanked. They were fine perfect teeth. All mine are. Never before, except for one that got broken in a controversial colloquy, did a dental surgeon ever do any-thing to me and I am 58. At 80 my mother had all her teeth. It runs in the family. This year, in the cool Impartial efficiency of the army medical corps, I was told by the chief of dental surgery at Walter Reed hos-pital: "These two teeth have to go if you don't want to lose half a dozen." I was very angry. Even his y showed their perfection. I raged up to New York to con-sult Independently my favorite ex-pertstwo of them Ted Fonarton and Joe Levy. Now my two teeth are gone and, as the anesthetic wears off, it hurts like hell. Everybody remarked what swell teeth they were, even after they were out. But an infection had de-stroyed the foundation in which they were imbedded. By the protective action, advised by experts less than two years ago, I could have saved them. I felt nothing, so I didn't do what my ex-perts advised. Englnnd understands this sort of thing now and so do France and Holland and Belgium. We are be-ginning to understand it in a panicky sort of way. Three years ago a veteran expert on American industrial prepared-ness, a man with unusual sources of information in Europe, Mr. B. M. Baruch, told the President what was going on there, what wasn't go- - The Merry Month of May By Thomas, ing on here at all, and not going on fast enough in England and France. But we rocked along exactly as I did with my teeth. Now that we see what ingenious fiendishncss in the hell of modern war looks like, every drowsy editorial page, column of comment and panicky legislator begins to demand "billions for de-fense." O. K., but it isn't enough. We can't meet this danger simply by "passing a law," even if it appro-priates billions. The answer to three questions is absolutely imperative. (1) What are we to defend? That is an answer to be made by the President and the state department. (2) What do we need to defend it? That is an an-swer to be made by the army and navy. (3) How can we best and most quickly and economically get what we need? That is for the lead-ers of industry. For God's sake let's show just a fraction of Hitler's intelligence and preserve not only our skin but the teeth we are going to need so badly U. S. BLUNDERS Among the snap judgments com-ing out of Europe is that only a dic-tatorship can make effective war It is not a fact. Woodrow Wil-so- n said wisely of 1918: "The high- est and best efficiency is the spon-taneo-of a free people." It is true that we stumbled lamen-tabl- y before we got into the war-a- nd immediately afterward. We stumbled because we were misinformed and far from unity of purpose. As soon as the grcat majority of our people were in- formed and had decided on what we must do, no nation in history-- not even Germany today-o-ver "ldae 3 quicker, better or more massive mobilzation and attack H isn't a question of form of gov- ernment or organization. It is sole- - cr of right m in i- i- U a dictatorship were the answer Stahn is the most absolute on earth doiaord.smash-n- g job of and showing England didn't ;v, any other business h s hmn Pas.p-.r- t to oblivion. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Farnham F. Dudgeon President Asks Billion Dollars For National Defense Program; Nazis Smash at Maginot Line (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspnper Union. eNGiIand ' f THE HAQur yjT oj ,1111111125 MILES IIHhhw6 raS france 'r BUSINESS: Confusion "When business is good with us, it indicates an upswing in business conditions through-out the country." So said none other than Postmaster General James A. Farley as he announced that postal revenues reached an e high at the close of the last fiscal year. He also ventured the prediction that the current year would The above map graphically reveals how close German bombing wings are to England's coast should the Nazi war machine continue to hold The Hague, capital of the Netherlands. As indicated, it is only 125 airline miles from this point to Harwich, England, and London is only 100 miles south-west of Harwich. Lower arrow points to Sedan, where Germans launched their first attack on France's famed Maginot line. see an even larger James A. increase in postal Failey Immediate objective in France, of returns. In such increased reve- - course, would be to break through the Maginot line and render these fortifications useless to the defend-ers. This is a major undertaking judging from the claims made for the defensive strength of these de-fenses, but word has come through that in the Sedan sector, 146 miles northeast of Paris, the German army engaged in a terrific bid for a definite foothold. THE WAR: On Scltcditle Since the outbreak of war last year, the prediction that with the coming of spring fighting would "open up," has been on the lips of observers everywhere. As Adolf Hitler's military machine thrust it-self across The Netherlands, into Belgium and France, these predic-tions were at last coming true. For the world was witnessing what was hailed as "the greatest battle in his-tory." As in 1914 the German forces were making the most impressive show-ing in the first few days of the fighting. This time fortifications are believed to be stronger and less open to attack but the Nazi army and air fore has developed offen-sive war to the point where no de-fense appears to be impregnable. In The Netherlands, the Dutch army was ordered to cease firing, thus ending resistance to Germany's swarms of bombing planes and mo-torized troops. nue he observed a general improve-ment in business conditions. For some time business analysts have been in accord with Mr. B'arley in his thought that business was fairly good and getting better. Now the pattern of war is beginning to stamp itself in the industrial and agricultural fields and these impres-sions are sure to be felt. Foreign markets for farm goods will probably be lost for the time being at least, but there will be a shift in the demand for manufac-tured goods from the warring na-tions. In particular the allies will no doubt be forced to speed up their purchases of war supplies, mainly fighting planes and equipment. Whether the ultimate result will be a loss or gain for industry in this country is still uncertain. One thing was certain, however, confu-sion was the byword on the stock market. Up went some stocks, down went others. Best guess was that the war would tend to accelerate U. S. trade with our neighbors in the Western hem-isphere. And if demands for large PREPAREDNESS: Speed Up Appearing before a joint session of congress, President Roosevelt outlined a plan asking for an imme-diate appropriation of $296,000,000 for building up the nation's army, navy and air forces to protect the United States from any foreign in-vader. He also asked for authoriza-tion of future appropriations, total-ing $280,000,000, bringing his entire request to over a billion dollars. This sum is in addition to regular military funds for the next fiscal year. Particular emphasis was placed upon a plea to strengthen U. S. air power quickly. U. S. home-defens- e supplies materi-alize, war equipment manufacturing firms should register neat gains. POLITICS: Inside Track For a long time New Dealers have been claiming that their champion. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, could have tlie Democratic nomination for the presidency for the third time if he wanted it. Fact now is that with 499 delegates solidly pledged for him and with New York's 94, practically his for the asking, he will have enough votes to be nom-inated on the first ballot come con-vention time. And the third term tide was rising Scope This intensive fighting along the ' 200-mil- e front from the North sea to Saarbruecken was of utmost impor-tance to the allies and Germany alike. This was indicated by the staggering amount of force each side whipped into the fray. Some experts claimed that this first great battle might be the most decisive of the war. It appeared that Adolf Hitler firmly believing that "the Hour" had come, or forced through Germany's internal situation, had decided to stake all in one gigantic gamble. As thousands of Nazi planes rained bombs upon military objec-tives and communication lines, Eng-land's royal air force flung back the challenge by loosing ton after ton of high explosives in areas near im-portant munitions plants along the Rhine and upon large German troop concentrations. f JjA( f 'I" Vf , fsp f I t: N' t : Objectives What the aims of the German high command in the great land offensive actually are, of course remain a with the war. Many Washington politicians have felt for months that the President's decision to become a candidate hinged largely upon the development of Europe's conflict. With the outbreak of the "big battle" it appeared to them that he would decide to make the race. Other observers felt he would with-hold accepting or rejecting the nom-ination until it has actually been tendered. Cordell Hull, secretary of state, appears to have the inside track for tlie nomination if President Roose-velt refuses it. Montana's Sen. Bur-ton K. Wheeler seems to be running second only to Mr. Hull in the Dem-ocratic club. GEN. JOHN PERSHING Did he like the President's ttilk? Pointing out that the United States navy was second to none and that the army was at the greatest peace-time strength in history, he urged that production of airplanes and the training of pilots be speeded up to provide the needed force in this division of military defense. While war plane production has been in- - closely guarded military secret. But in general it appeared that with The Netherlands at their mercy and with key airports in that country avail-able to the Nazi air force, inten-sive bombing of the British Isles was an ever-prese- nt threat. creased from about 6,000 to over 12,000 per year, the President asked for an annual output of 50,000 each year. All this must have sounded good to General John Persh-ing, A. E. F. commander in the last world war, who two days earlier in a rare public statement had said, "Preparedness is as necessary today as it was when war was de- - MISCELLANY: Fire destroyed $1,500,000 in war goods stored in the National Guard arsenal at Montgomery, Ala. An Investigation was ordered as Adj. Gen. Ben M. Smith reported he saw flames break out at the front and near the back of the building at about the same time. Back to the United States from the Antarctic came Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Hii said he was back because he had bien ordered to return, being under navy orders. His expedition has already charted about 900 miles of unknown coast-line in Little America, according to Byrd. "Daughters of the American De-pression," some several hundred strong, assembled in Washington for .clared in 1917, and we find ourselves in the same condition . . . every energy in this country should be de-voted to the idea of putting the United States in a condition of thor-ough preparedness against the pos-sibility of war." The galleries were packed and the atmosphere in the house chamber tense as tlie President, speaking slowly and carefully, told how the changing methods of warfare were rapidly making the isolated posi- - a conference on unemployment. Claiming to be a cross section of 3,000,000 unemployed women of America, they planned public meet-ings and hoped to obtain restora-tion of a last year's WPA wage re-duction for women workers. A contract for continuing Italy exhibit in the New York Worla's fair was signed with the provision that "if future international events render it advisable" the exhibit may be withdrawn. tion of the United States less and less of a factor in national defense. He cited air line distances between U. S. shores and foreign owned pos-sessions and went on to point out that it is the air phase of military preparedness that must receive the special attention of the United States. Vow " DSTILLERS COS "too.,.,, Ill i lfrB3 Pt.No.6f Qt. No. 60 IT'S THE LARGEST SELLING SI'tf. WHISKEY IN THEJf. TREND . . . How the wind is blowing NYLON Heralded for several months as the answer to milady's pies for a superior stocking, hose made of Nylon, a synthetic fab-ric developed by duPont chem-ists, went on sale throughout the country. Nylon, a tough yet sheer product, is spun from air, water ana coal. POLITICS In Atlantic City, supporters of a woman candidate for city commissioner, armed themselves with 200 candid cam-eras In efforts to keep "repeat-ing" voters from the polls. "Ev-ery person" whose right to vote was in doubt was due for a snap-shot and subsequent check-up- . BUILDING In the 37 states east of the Rocky mountains, res-idential building contracts, last month, were highest since 1929. Eighty-eigh- t per cent of the total $135,420,000 in contracts so awarded, was in private owner-ship construction as distinct from projects financed from public funds. SfAGECSCREENI By VIRGINIA YU (Released by Western News;;; DARAMOUNT is pa; quite a lot of m:: cause it's not safe!: chance on an eleph: rather,onaherd of : You see, though H:l has plenty of practice erything else, it's s; elephants; rounding thousand unusually girls would be child's play? to putting your hand on: the animals iust when r.. them. That's why 0. C. Strar: mount property depart-- : has arranged to feed 1! from now until next sue the filming of "MoonOve: is scheduled to begin. The elephants belong funct Hagenbeck and -- cus, whose receivers agre the stock on tlie West c studio would foot their boa: the pachyderms are fl Camarillo, Calif., devour:; worth of hay daily and r while preparations for goes on. The sv in Mandalay and shifts tt plantations of Rangoon,'' elephants will be shown k heavy wood, while Para: gets about buying hay as rental fees. When you see "ComiJ'; Mountain" you can close: and pretend you're at i-cing to the radio-the- re; well-know- n radio names t Bob Burns, of course; K p.Vr BARREL I whom radio fans knw '. Ezra"; William ITiornps Timer," and Harold '' "Gildersleeve" of " ', and Molly"; Don Ws0 J -- na Benny's program; and of Bob Hope's; MaO' field, the air waves' Cliff Arquctte, who's on almost any broadcast .L-- Bill Phillips, of the crs studio, reduced u to tears the other day. ( for it. You've lJ, the m course-h- e's v "All This and ll ( they were sliool'"S which Brtte Pav'S the sad story of her " them cry. one side and blew "C the girls, and they .. of tears, right on sche" QUOTATIONS . . . on the unr C. Robert Ley, Nazi Labor Front leader, speaking of Adolf Hitler said that he is waging war, "in God-give- n natural mission" to "bring Europe and tlie world to reason and thereby make Europe and the world happy." ft Viscount Gort, commander of tlie British expeditionary forces in France, "We are now on the eve of one of the great moments in the history of our empire. The strug-gle will be hard and long but we can be confident of final victory." ft Paul Van Zceland, former Bel-gian premier, speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, said the small na-tions of Europe hope "that the might of the United States will sooner or later be felt in favor of right." ft Sen. Arthur Capper (R., Kan.,) while discussing possibility of war developments shutting off U. S. ac-cess to staple stocks such as rub-ber and tin from the Dutch East Indies, stated that "we would be better off if we were getting our rubber from Brazil . . ."He urged using U. S. capital to develop the rubber industry in South America. |