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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT. MOAB, UTAH |GENERAL | JOHNSON Sr. -- Bids Doctor ‘Babies' to Huge Party HUGH SOR ION iPhilips WF Dea " SE oe oi = me a re > ei ge em 2 ago bar ae 2 * HITLER'S SECRET GAS All the evidence gathered by military agents abroad now points to the probability that Hitler's secret plan for conquering Britain is poison gas. It is significant that so far, Hitler has not used gas. Even more significant is the fact that he has been storing it up in huge reserves. French and British intelligence officers have sent back reports that alarming quantities are now manufactured and ready for use. Whether any new and more deadly form of gas has been perfected, they do not know. One reason Hitler did not use gas in attacking France and Belgium was that his army was moving too fast. His tanks and armored cars were penetrating into the enemy lines so rapidly that they would have caught up with their own gas. It would have hampered Nazi operations rather than aided them. But in England it will be different. For the English channel lies between Germany and her victim. There will be no danger of the gas seeping back to Nazi invaders until they actually land troops. And so far all evidence indicates that before attempting to land troops, Hitler will subject England to a rain of bombs such as the world never has seen before. , Only after Hitler has gassed and bombed England to the verge of surrender will the Nazi attack by sea begin. * * * U. S WAR PRODUCTION One very real worry among some of Roosevelt's friends is that after all the hullabaloo over national defense, October may come around with not many more airplanes or tanks constructed. This, they know, would be disastrous to the country, but also from a purely political viewpoint it would mean the defeat of President Roosevelt or any other Democratic candidate at the polls in November. This possibility has caused shaking of heads even among several cabinet members who have seen how slowly other projects moved in the past. They know that with the nation voting the biggest national de- fense budget with the in peacetime history, President fw and phasizing OR met a paneithts meegitanintenn gratin is going to expect pect them fast. its urgency, himself the results em- country and ex- Result: No electric Edsel-If they fans for the state department. The building has just had its wiring changed from direct to alternating current, but the money for new fans is not available until the new fiscal year, White House press conferences are drawing between 150 and 200 newsmen these days. U. S. Ambassador Steinhart looks in vain for a day of rest in Moscow. The Soviets have outlawed Sunday; they take one day of rest every six days. But it usually coincides with a week-day in Washington when the state department is at work-and its cables keep Steinhart at work. SEC Commissioner Leon Henderson went back to his class reunion at Swarthmore college, where 20 years ago they called. him *‘Dub.'' The class parade was headed by a sign reading, ‘‘Wall Street-Don't Be Afraid of Henderson-We Knew Him When He Was ‘Dub'." do that we *> ¢ can't ¢ a ) H babies he has Dr. A. O. Belmore of Bridgewater, Mass., (on platform, right) speaks to some 0 f the 2,002 brought into the world, in unusual party staged at his home, in celebration of his thirty-fifth anniversary as a practicing physician. Close to 1,000 of his "babies" attended the party. Edsel-She's a slick looker, ain't she? Henry-Not to me, son. I hate that kind of machine. Man's place is on the ground. He don't belong up in the air. Edsel-Your early models kept him up in the air, Dad. Henry-It wasn't the car's fault; it was the rough - Refugees to Canada From British Isles roads. * - Edsel-I don't think there's much more work on this plane than on a de luxe sedan. Henry-Not as much. There'll be no women passengers in it; that'll save us a lot of aE gadgets and fan-LE. cy stuff. We won't have to worry fi where to put the / vanity case and CH ash tray. Edsel-We can save a lot of time there. Henry-You're telling me! a * © Edsel-What colors are we going to make these war planes? Henry-Now don't bring up that matter. One color is all I'll stand for. It's going to be hard enough satisfying everybody on this job without getting into any arguments over colors, Edsel-Are you sure Washington won't ‘insist on reds, pinks and greens? Henry-Nobody can be sure of Washington on anything, but I've got a promise, and if some bureaucrat comes rushing in and demands that the air force works better in a light blue plane than a gray one I'm going to raise the devil. * Gracie Fields, famed British comedienne who has been entertaining Tommies at the front, shown among some of the British refugee children brought to Canada. Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands holding one of her children on train at Halifax, while F. E. H. Groenman, Netherlands minister to Canada, holds her eldest child. The royal party will reside temporarily at a vacation resort in Canada, Royal Inspection of Canadian Fighters Against Reds PLEA as brutal as you may- Bitter, scornful, mean or clever; But treat me like a neutral? ... Say, Positively, mister, never! Hit me till the harpists play, Kick me in the middle section, Scalp me, but, please never say "This is done for your protection!"' s)6h6s Queen Elizabeth is interested in a Toronto crew in training, while her husband, Kin g George General A. G. L. McNaughton, during a visit to a They are inspecting regiments of the Scottish VI, chats with Major southern England enCanadian active serv- Gene Tunney lambasts the Reds, and especially what he terms their control of the National Youth congress. He is speaking at a press conference at Hotel Roosevelt, New York ‘Armistice Car' in Old Role-In Reverse city. German Consul] Elmer Twitchell is so disturbed by fifth columns that he never reads beyond the first and second. + e 7 Nobody gets more frightened by war than a holder of stocks 3,000 miles away. Elmer Twitchell was out on the lawn with his new gasoline-driven lawn mower last night. Causing a neighbor to sneer: "‘A mechanized attack again!" « s t The President has _ decorated George Cohan for composing two great war songs. They are given as ‘Over There' and "You're a Grand Old Flag."' But if Irving Berlin doesn't get a little federal recognition, it won't seem quite fair. "Oh How I Hate to Get up in the Morning'' was a favorite war song, too. os & * Add similes; As futile as a fellow who finds he hasn't the house keys at three in the morning. Martin R. Ragawav. s Both men are leading citizens with honorable and distinguished records. Mr. Stimson was at one time secretary of war and at another, secretary of state. In neither position did he leave any record that would recommend him as a great cabinet minister. As secretary of state he was ready to use force to oppose Japan in Manchukuo, a course which, however high-minded, would have been fatal to the American strategical position in the Far East. Both these gentlemen have served as volunteer temporary army officers in time of war-Mr. Knox in two wars. There can be nothing but praise for that patriotic and high-minded performance. But a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Such temporary service in relatively subordinate commands sometimes-fortunately not frequently-leaves the ‘‘veteran'' with the conviction that Providence really intended him as a latter-day Napoleon-or at least a master of strategy, logistics and tactics. * Surely the President doesn't feel the need of any such expert amateur military and naval advice. He shares a similar conviction about his own powers in these fields. It was obviously not with any idea to improve technical preparedness that this move was made. It will have a reverse effect. It is too clearly a pure political gesture in an election year-the ‘‘coalition-cabinet'' slickness that the White House has denied intending. It is a dangerous gesture because it is designed to destroy the third term tradition and erect a war dictatorship by impairing our two-party system, which is of the very essence of American democracy-and that is menacing and sinister in the extreme. The most fantastic retake of recently, at Compiegne forest, the French and German roles of conquerors, handed to envoys of "must be accepted as a whole," ' histo ry was staged in this histori c vehicle France-an armistice meetin g in which 1918 were reversed. The German s, as the the defeated French, peace terms which | Baron Edgar von Spieg el, German consul general at New Orleans, alleged to have made remarks to the effect that German y will not forget U. S. aid to the allies, Under a statutory mandate Mr. Johnson's organization has done much of the preparatory work necessary to rapid supply and industrial mobilization. In ‘its recent historical floundering to make up for its criminal neglect of preparedness, this administration has simply ignored the valuable product of work and planning-by-passed it and paralleled it. Now it has taken the tucker out of Mr. Johnson's dynamic leadership and energy by kicking him aside and giving him a new boss whom it will take weeks to educate. * * Sau @S eS SS SS ee anne eee --t ase eee maw heee tom- This is a cruel blow to the fine work that has been done-especially recently-by Louis Johnson in the office of assistant secretary of war. oe Be signif- Mr. Stimson won't do the war department any good. It will take months to educate him in the completely changed condition since he left-and his is the sort of inflexible mind which does not filter fast. * +. o * Edsel-Have you ever thought what may be the outcome of this job, Dad? Maybe after we get into production the public will want planes instead of autos. Henry-I'm afraid of that. Edsel-Maybe the general public will always prefer to stay on the ground. Henry-If you watched the average Sunday driver you wouldn't think so. Edsel-Well, anyhow, we'll get busy and do our best. Henry (reflectively)-Gosh, but this seems funny. And to think that in the last war my contribution was A PEACE SHIP! * ew DEFENSE BOOM We haven't even scratched the surface of consideration of defense of our cities from sudden air raids. That requires tens of thousands of guns with some kind of semi-military home guard and expert crews -and we haven't even begun to think about it or to provide onetenth of one per cent of the material the whole program will require. Shall we, like England, dally along with a bunch of Chamberlains until it is too late for any Churchill to do his stuff? Our effort to build our defenses, if vigorously and intelligently handled, should create much employment and eyen some kind of an industrial boom. Appropriations asked for seem tremendous but, if they are really to prove sufficient and effective, we ain't seen nothin' yet. We haven't even made a good start. It has been estimated by the best informed authority that if the World war had ee through 1919, our expendi$25, ures000, forobufine that year would have been War, whether offensive or defenSive, Is now largely a matter of industrial production of arms-spartan discipline and Sacrifice to the single purpose of milit ary efficiency, +S =, =< SS - ae SSS Sere te nnn nnn esa Rog Got Bless America YE ee less America €*3°E &€& Dee, = No. Z9191 «ef Transfer majestically oye New York harbor, ‘‘Miss erty' is an ever-impressive &S "LOWERING Li @& ardent That is true in both these cases. In both, this conviction has persuaded these gents that we should commence firing tomorrow-before we get guns to fire. That strategic folly is another danger of this blitzkrieg move. * Edsel-The upholstery won't be optional, either. Henry-But it won't be easy sailing. We have to be careful turning out planes for war. We can't make any little mistakes. A loose nut may be okay in a flivver but it's bad stuff in an airplane. A driver who gets up a mile in the air and discovers something was left off his plane is in a tough spot. a poisonous 1917 and 1918 in a steadily increasing clamor until his most recent blasts insisted on our convoying contraband of war to Britain and opening our naval bases to the British fleet-both irretrievable acts of war. 2 Mr. Knox has been preaching armed intervention for months. This choice leaves no doubt whatever about the President's own intentions. If he is not stopped he is going to take this country into bloody war as soon as possible whether it wants to go or not-and with about 85 per cent majority, it doesn't want to go. Henry-All I'm afraid of is that the government will keep changing the model. turn out one a month. Henry-You know how the government generally does things, but I've got a promise it will stick to one set of plans. has Mr. Stimson has been raising his voice for us to repeat the follies of IT CAN BE DONE YOU CAN DO IT, POP * CAPITAL CHAFF Summer heat has come to Washington, but not the new fiscal year. spectively, icance. They are both tom beaters for war. minder of our heritage as Amer Holding aloft the glowir cans. torch of freedom, she 2 you of it? -- will be called reconstruction financing, and it will be tempting bait to farming and business groups. SECOND, it is more than likely that Hitler will offer to freeze the armaments of Europe and the United States on the basis of their present armed strength. This also will be tempting to a tax-ridden American public. The United States always has favored disarmament, and several times has proposed freezing armaments. However, this was when France and England had an army and navy, and when this country was protected by them in South America. Today, Hitler's reported plan would leave the United States with less than 250,000 men, Germany with about 3,000,000. In other words, Latin America would be open to attack at any time, and the United States would be powerless to prevent it. Nevertheless, Hitler's plans would have strong appeal in the United States, especially if accompanied by the usual Nazi propaganda stating that Hitler had only the kindliest ideas about the United States and cherished absolutely no designs for any part of her soil. Note-This was the propaganda Germany dropped from airplanes on France before the tanks came. It told how France and Germany had no basic quarrel, could live in peace indefinitely. peeps do Henry-I never imagined I'd ever be in this business. How did it happen anyhow? Edsel-We just got up one morning and found ourselves in it. Henry-Do you think we can turn out 1,000 a day? Edsel-If it can be done you can do it, Pop. want a huge loan from the United States government to do it. This smth atgetneeg-nptbmramenacat-aeeeeooecenalee eee what think -in fact, he will be willing to take most of our surplus-but he will gp coca Pop, possible to get a general idea of what the immediate future will bring forth in Europe if Hitler takes England, as he seems sure to do in the next month. FIRST, he will want to buy U. S. eg AND HENRY DISCUSS HE PLANE IDEA Edsel- Well, cotton and grain in large quantities ‘ wen it is WNU Service Washington, D. C. ‘DANGEROUS GESTURE' The selection of the Republicans, Mr. Knox and Mr. Stimson as secretaries Df navy and war re- represent > EDSE¢ D.C. i democratic America. 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