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Show PAGE-TOUR PROVO (UTAH) - DAILY HERALD; FRIDAY: APRIL1 r 3y 1942 SECTION TWO f : ; I Strary iftmrn ' (BiMptlag satarAM day Hr14 PsbUahad tsaAsy Koratac " Pufellahd by tk HmM Corpmtln, M . loath rtm-Wnt StrMt, Prova. Utah. Entrd m mnM cIms natter t- th poatofflc ta PnWi Utah, udw tk m of March . Itl. ; .Ubu, Nleol Rath mas, Natioaal Adnrdi. tec rspraaaatatlvaa, Kaw York, Bu rraaclaoo, Detroit. .Boston. Vom Angkt, Chlca, M amber United , Proaa, N. S. A. Sorrlea, IB Serlppa Laagva of Nwpapars Audit Baroaa at ClroulaUoa. m Ubarty- - through . all th .land" Tha I Liberty Sell "fcactlptloa tarma by emrrlar ta Utah aunty, cent tha month, tut for a months. In adraaoa; fT.M th roar. In hdramt by mail aywbr In United States or it wMOMione eenu tbe roonthj II. (or au jnoatba; -!'( th year la advaoca. The' Herald wU net .eeeome naaaetal ra-esonalMllty ra-esonalMllty Car aay arrore which may aapaaf .la advertUenienta pnblUhed la Ita eoluaana. fa those Instance where th paper to at fault. It will reprint that part of th advertisement to whloh th typographical mlatak emra , . "We iAryan Moslem Have to Stick Together His Words Match His Deeds . Soldiers are supposed to fight not talkl Eloquence, generally speaking, . has little place as men face cannon-hurled cannon-hurled death. The doer, not the say-eiy say-eiy wins the medals and decorations. Yet time and again men have leaped leap-ed to victory with a cry on their lips. . Phrases have fifed a nation "Remember "Re-member the Alamo," "Surrender, - hell, 'we haven't " begun to' fight," "Give me liberty, of give me death," "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead." . Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg thought "the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." His words still ring, . but the battle rages only in history books. Npw we have a man whose words equal his daring, whose phrases slash as did his men on Ba- - iaan. Here's proof that the Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's magnificence shines not only on the battlefield: "There shall be no compromise. ,We shall win or we shall die." To the Australian Parliament. "Men will; not fight and men will not die unless they know what they are fighting and dying for." Assuring Assur-ing reporters in Australia he would hold back only news valuable to the enemy. "I came through and I shall return." re-turn." .Arriving in Australia from the Philippines. "Take every other normal precaution precau-tion for protection of the headquart- ers, but let's keep the flag flying." Reply to officer 'insisting flag should be removed from Manila Army ' headquarters. '7T6day, "Tan. 30, 1942, the anniversary anni-versary of your birth, smoke-begrimed men, covered with the marks of battle, rise from the foxholes of Ba-taan Ba-taan and the batteries of Corregidor to pray reverently that God may bless immeasurably the President of the United States." Birthday mes-a mes-a sage to President Roosevelt. "Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die." To a West point graduating class. "This job will last a long time." After marriage to Jean Faircloth.' "I shall lead the patrol to let the boys know that somebody at headquarters head-quarters is willing to go withjthem." Reply to officer in. 19 18 who tried to keep him from going over the top. "Americans never quit." Ordering U. S. boxing team back into competition competi-tion at 1928 Olympic Games dfter coach withdrew team in protest over a decision. "Very well, if we lose 3000 men, we lose 3001." When warned in France that a certain operation would result in 3000 casualties. "I shall keep the soldier's faith." Assuming command of United Nations' Na-tions' forces in Southwest Pacific. 9fr y 9 Here then stands a man who can and has and will back up his words with his fists. The enemy knows the sting of those fists and has felt the lash of that tongue. Yet it can be as gentle as a mother. He talks with the simplicity of Lincoln, but those common, straight-forward words drive deeper than the oratorical blasts of a hundred sunshine patriots. As an Australian reporter put it, "He is not only a first-class thinker and fighter but a fine speaker. Whenyou hear him, you may not remember a word he says, but you will understand how he infused his forqes with such a heroic fighting spirit." ; H1IHHI! The Washington Merry-Go-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs WASHINGTON A short time ago Australian Minister Casey received a cable from Melbourne Which read: "Please arrange meetings for me with heads of AK of L and CIO, Want no lahledah entertainment while I'm in Washington." . The instruction came from Casey's boss, Australian Minister of External Affairs Herbert Her-bert V. Evatt. Casey, extremely popular with Washington's Washing-ton's social upper crust, had to reply that "he did not know any American labor leaders, could not arrange the introductions. Casey has since resigned as Australian Minister to enter the British cabinet, but his chief. External Ex-ternal Minister Evatt is now in Washington and is thv most invigorating visitor, this country has seen since Winston Churchill. Reason Minister Evatt wanted to meet TJ. S. labor leaders was because he is a member mem-ber of the few labor governments in the world, and because he is convinced that American labor could profit by some of the mistakes and lessons of Australian labor. "In ' Australia," says Evatt, "we haven't had one strike. Labor has patched up all its differences for the duration. We have the. name factions that you do like your AF of I, and CIO but there's no . quarrel between them -now. The last thing they want is to row while the country's in danger." LABOR'S RESPONSIBILITY Minister Evatt also thinks that labor has to assume more responsibility along with its gains. "For years," he says, "we had conservative conserva-tive governments in Australia. And now that the government's been turned over to labor, we've got to make a go of it. . , "And your' labor people here have got to make a go of it too. Otherwise they'll lose all they gained under Roosevelt." Minister Evatt has not been an active labor man an his life. For many years he was a justice of the Supreme Court of Australia, comparable to our Supreme Court. More recently, re-cently, he stepped down from the bencn to take the most important post in the cabinet, equivalent to Australian Foreign Minister except that Australia, being part of the British Empire, ,1a not supposed to have any foreign effairs. External Minister Evatt is in Washington ' to speed war supplies to his beleaguered nation na-tion and to work with the new Council of the Pacific, to which he is a delegate. NO BRAINS '-"Jack Kelly, one-time famed athlete who 4s 17. S. Director of Physical Fitness, has been tangling with Senator Harry Byrd over the question of -Improving the endurance of Americans. Amer-icans. Although Kelly has spent only $16,000 in the, eight months of his program, Byrd, .-a-; loud economy clamorer, is "agin it." Following a speech by Kelly defending his program, Byrd told newsmen the Philadelphian favored msking people "dumber and stronger." . Reporters asked Kelly what he had to aay about that "Just . tell Senator Byrd." was the reply, "that he need not be alarmed. I only want to make him stronger." - By Drew Pearn mat Hoaert v, AUea NELSON MYSTERY Friends of war production chief Donald Nelson are baffled. They can't understand why he isr't ridding his staff of dollar-a-year men whose incompetence and profit-minded obstructionism ob-structionism are hampering him and bringing iown on his head a storm of public criticism. Personally sincere, conscientious and able, Nelson, in the three months he has been WPB boss, has accomplished much in bringing order end drive into the production program. He has licked many tough problems and shown himself an executive of courage and imagination imagina-tion except in one vital respect. That is in failing to surround himself with assistants of top caliber and punch. Tt was expected when Nelson took charge that he would purge the deadwood and worse that had made such a tragic shambles of OPM. Instead, he took over the OPM high command practically intact. Further, of the few changes he did make, several were worse than the officials offi-cials they replaced. For example: Philip Reed, glad-handing General Electric mogul, had been anything but a shining success in several key OPM . posts. It was an open secret that one of its chiefs was trying to find a way to ease him out. Insiders took it for granted that Reed would be on 3 of the first dropped by Nelson. Instead, In-stead, to .everyone's astonishment, the dawdling dawd-ling dollar-a-yearer was made head of the key Bureau of . Industry Brances. However, nothing was said publicly about this situation at the time in the belief that it was only temporary and that as soon as Nelson had disposed of more pressing matters he would clean; up his staff. Note: Among the nearly 300 dollar-a-year men on Nelson's staff is Ralph Wolf, an official offi-cial of Standard Oil of New Jersey, who is assistant director of the synthetic rubber section sec-tion of WPB. PERSECUTION COMPLEX Three months have gone by and Nelson has yet given no sign of doing anything about this. . i Further, not only has he had ample time to act but the door was opened wide for him to do so by the explosive resignation of Robert Guthrie and two of his assistants because of the obstructionism of profit-minded dollar-a-year men to all-out war effort. Guthrie-and his aides presented Nelson with a made-to-order opportunity to wield a long-overdue ax. But Nelson doesn't see it that way at all.. To intimates he has complained bitterly about the courageous walkout on the ground that it wa . a personal affront to him and an "act of disloyalty." Nelson's apparent inability to get rid of fuddling assistants is a trait he shares in common com-mon with the President One of Roosevelt's chief weaknesses is his incapacity to dismiss aides of proven Incompetence. Note: Friends, worried about Nelson's frayed nerves; : are urging him to take a vacation. va-cation. He has been under enormous pressure for months. ; . ;: : ; dfv - ; "1 i Gi . . KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR it it ir it it it 7it it it it it CHILE COASTAL EMPIRE If that drop of iodine smeared over bruise or abrasion could share the Intelligence and tendencies tend-encies of its human beneficiary, it would, likely enough, have much to say of its unappreciated dignity and importance, in war as in peace; of its parent, nitrate of soda; of the nitrate's power in life and death in the human family; fam-ily; . and, finally of the world's only producer of natural nitrates on a commercial scale the Republic Re-public of Chile. Chile, an empire, in itself, a great ribbon of 286,396 square miles, spread '.along' the rim of the Pacific, for nearly 3,000 miles, reaches farther south than any other nation of the American Continent. It is sometimes referred re-ferred to as "the California of South America." If there is some similarity as to relative location, lo-cation, shape and topography, the parallel cannot be carried far. Two Californias, nearly, could be contained within the boundaries boun-daries of Chile. They would hold Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Holland and Switzerland. Cape Horn and the Chilean archipelago are about as far from the bleak desert country of the north, where are the nitrate fields, as San Francisco is from New York. The belt line, at its broadest, is about the distance from Washington to New York. Stretched out between the great Andean mountain range and the Pacific, Chile has a climate varying vary-ing from the heat of the baked northern desert to the snow and ice of the stormy deep south. Nature has portioned the country, coun-try, . roughly, into three productive produc-tive zones. In the extreme south, adjacent to the strait of Magellan, Ma-gellan, are good grazing areas where stock-raising is a rapidly developing, industry. To the north is the great Central Valley, famed as one of the world's garden spots. Here all the products of the temperate zone and most of those of sub-tropical climates grow luxuriantly. This is the most highly cultivated part of the country. And here, in a fertile fer-tile valley between mountains and sea, is the beautiful capital city of Santiago. On the coast, only 116 miles away, is the equally famous port of Valparaiso. And last, but by no means least. is the zone of .the nitrate fields. The eyes of the nations of a world at war, as the struggle in defense of the ideals of the New World moves toward decision, will turn with more and more eagerness eager-ness toward Chile's desert storehouse. store-house. For nitrate, with its by product, iodine, is a principal item in the manufacture of ex plosives. A necessity of war botn for the making and mending of wounds, it is priceless, too, as a nutrient for man - and his hus bandry. In times of peace and normal demand, Chilean nitrate was second sec-ond only to Chilean copper, another an-other war need now. As a world-producer world-producer of this metal, Chile is outranked only by the united States. The country has, in addition, addi-tion, surpluses of iron and coal. After more than a hundred years, the mining of gold has been resumed. re-sumed. Recent' discoveries, of oil seepages may be 'herald of an other great' industry to come. , Chile's Is-a. - republican form of government .with executive, legia- lative and judicial branches. Its present constitution dates back only to September 18, 1925, but it retains many of the important features of one adopted nearly a hundred years before it. This older constitution was largely the work of the great statesman Diego Di-ego Portales, Minister of State under President Prieto from 1831 to" 1841. This constitution, in turn, superseded a still older one, Chile's first. It was drafted by a committee appointed by the famous General O'Higgins shortly, short-ly, after the Chileans, with the help of the Argentine patriot and soklier, General San Martin, defeated de-feated Spanish royalist forces. This triumph, the Battle of Ma-ipo Ma-ipo April 5, 1818, marks the end of Spanish power in Chile and the birth of the Republic. o WAR QUIZ 1. What type of plane is this Navy aircraft? 2. The United States acquired a base in England's oldest North American colony. Whicn is it Bermuda, Jamaica, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia? 3. Is the northern part of Australia, Aus-tralia, at which the Japs may strike first, antarctic, temperate ort tropical in climate? BOYS IN THE SERVICE T Theron Harward, aon of Mr. and Mrs. Orson A. Harward, baa been promoted corporal in the U. S. Marine Corps. He has recently returned to San Diego from San Luis Obispo, where he was drill instructor over 63 men. He is now in charge of a. Browning Au- Corporal Marines tomatic Rifle equad. Harward joined the November 9, 1940. His brother, Moyle Harward, a first class , private, is with the Medical Detachment 145th field artillery in Hawaii. He was also in San Luis Obispo for a year before be-fore he left for Hawaii. Their father was a sergeant in the first World War Company F. ammunition train 16th division. Airway beacons first were used in 1930 and were employed on the airmail route between Chicago, 111., and Cheyenne, Wyo. Axis Poison to be Foi i - With Releases from- O F F Light By PETER EDSON Dally, Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. April 3 Office Of-fice of Facts and -Figures, the government agency set up to see that the country ia correctly informed in-formed about the war, is soon to Issue a new series of releases on Axis propaganda in the United state. Tnqse statements may do the first of a more or less regular service to pheck up on what kind of whoppers the Japs and Germans are trying to make the American people believe, and they will be based on OFF policy and theory that, the best way to. offset the fairy stories is to expose them in print and brand them lies. This is the "counter propaganda of truth" for. home consumption. These new anti-axis statements are a f ollowup on OFF' second venture in the pamphlet field through its current thriller, "Divide "Div-ide and Conquer," an analysis of the Hitler propaganda technique in waging pyschological warfare in Europe, with an explanation of Its application in the United States and a warning of what's the worst you can look for here. . A million copies of the 16-page pamphlet have been printed for distribution to the press, radio, clergy, schools and similar places where It is hoped they will do the most good. Or, if you want a copy for your own library and amazement amaze-ment drop a postcard to the Office of Facts and Figures, Washington, D. C. It's free. "Divide and Conquer" is a lot better Job than OFF's first pamphlet. pam-phlet. "Report to the Nation," which was pretty generally panned because it was too long, had a kind of superior magazine writer's approach on things and viewed the situation with oh such terrifically rosy rose-colered glasses. "Report to the Nation" did serve one useful purpose In that OFF apparently learned about pamphlets from that learned what pamphlets should not be at any rate. Easy to Read The question may be raised as to whether the United States is a tract-reading nation. The country goes, for books, magazines, newspapers, news-papers, lectures and radio in a big way, and everyone Is a sucker for a "free-take-one- box." That may be the tip-off that this medium med-ium of tracts and pamphlets may be just what's needed to tell the story. At any rate the story must be told and re-told, by every possible pos-sible means, from the gossip ot gutter and backfence to the shouts frm the house top. and ivory tower. tow-er. So more power to it. People who keep up on these things won't find anything particularly partic-ularly new in OFF'S "Divide and Conquer" pamphlet. It's a re-hash and condensation of all the best books on the Hitler technique-Edmund technique-Edmund . Taylor's "Strategy : of Terror," Hermann Rauschnings "Voice of Descon. Donovan and Mowrers "Fifth Column Lessons Les-sons . for Americaiis.' Cardinal Hlond's "Persecution of the Catholics Cath-olics in Poland," and so on. Including Includ-ing the Federal Communications Commission Monitoring Service Digest and the publications of the Dies Committee on un-American affairs., But the OFF pamphlet is a good I and convient boil down on all this material. It is well-writ? ten, easy to read in a half hour and well-illustrated by some Fits-Patrick Fits-Patrick cartoons which you will remember in your bad dreams because be-cause they were drawn to knock you right out of your favorite overstuffed, over-stuffed, fireside complacency. Watch OFF Grow Office of Facts and Figures has recently moved from' the library of Congress annex ta the two top floors of a brand-new eight-story building, originally intended to be an apartment house, out near the Lincoln Memorial. Watch it grow and go now. . In the five months in which the outfit has been in existence, it has done a tremendous amount of talking talk-ing and it has more ideas up its sleeve and through the top of its hat than you could write down in a day. Its bright young men are busier and more enthusiastic than a hundred bird dogs at a field trial, j Thus far, most of the OFF ideas are off the record. In their short: life the OFF has broken out with announcements and press releases re-leases only 12 times.; That's remarkable re-markable restraint for a government govern-ment information agency, but some of the ideas in its hopper are as ambitious as Adolf. They run all the way from a belief that 95 per cent of the government's press releases re-leases are a waste that should be taken as that, to an idea that OFF should start a service on its own to give war news to the nation's 11.000 country weeklies. Time'll tell which idea comes out on top. There can be no peace until the wicked forces that have wrecked the world have been cast down and destroyed. -George VI of England. Beware of the man who instills doubt in your mind. He may not be Hitler's agent, but he is doing the agent's work. War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson. P SERIAL STORY MEXICAN MASQUERADE BY CECIL CARNES corrtHr. tias. nka saavics. inc. aunt: HET By BOREBT QUILZJCZf p T try to have nice manners, man-ners, .but I reckon it just -ain't . in me. To save my -life I can't gush over a prcm- nt that give me a pain in "the neck.' EXPLORATION CHAPTER IX "AH, now you misjudge me," protested Escobar quickly, and if his tone was equable, there was still a trace of red to color the clear olive skin of his cheeks. "As the officer responsible for this district, I have lately found it ad' visable.to keep an eye on telegrams. tele-grams. A mild censorship, you see, quite unofficial and very ex tra-legal. The wire to you came through the San Saba office while I was there, and it was placed before me as a matter of routine police routine, senor." 'I beg your pardon," said Allan, rising and holding out his hand to make it more convincing. "I should have remembered your of flcial position and not spoken out of turn. With the whole world going to hell in a hack you are certainly justified in doing everything every-thing you can to keep this little corner of it peaceful. "My sentiments exactly," nod- ned the Mexican, and gave a friendly pressure of his strong fingers to Allan's hand. "And now you will excuse me, yes? Perhaps we shall have the pleas ure of your company at dinner this evening." His smiling, debonair self again, he sauntered back to where his charming companion awaited him. Allan made a grimace at the treacherous telegram and stuck the thing in his pocket He gave some thought to the incident that - afternoon .when he wasn't wondering if - the - axles would snap or the radiator blow up. Whatever else Escobar might be, he was still the Government with a capital G in this neck of the woods and it made Allan a bit uncomfortable to think he might have become an object of suspicion to the police. It would be ruinous to his mission if he were slapped into the local hoosegow on charge of being a spy or fifth-columnist or something. But the colonel had seemed quite good-humored about, it, he tried to reassure himself,' and if he really 'bad serious doubts of Allan's bonii fides he would hardly have tipped W his hand so openly about the extra-legal, censor-chip. censor-chip. Moreover, his suggestion of dinner together . had sounded cordial, and he had drifted away smiling. . Not that the smile meant much, mused Allan, dissuading the sedan from . plunging , into a clump of cholla cactus. Mexicans have a reputation for "taking life easily, but they stand for no foolishness. "Damn efficient," these rurales!" muttered Allan. "The way he spotted that San Diego date-line 4 ' Dammit, he's goodl" TTTHEN his speedometer had " jolted off nearly ten miles of highway hell, Allan slowed up and began to look about him for Sun Su's landmark. He discovered it presently, well off to the left of the road he was on and evi dently quite near the shore of the Gulf. It was a steep little hill, perhaps thirty feet high, and the top was crowned by a grove of knotty, gnarled old pines. If he could gain their shelter unseen. he could be comfortably sure of remaining so. There was a jungle of cactus to the right He located a break in the gray-green wall, turned into it daringly, and parked the long-suffering long-suffering sedan where it would not be noticed from the road. Not a soul was in sight He might have thought he had Lower California to himself but for faint sounds of human activity which came from the direction of the gulf. Distant voices, and mixed with them the rattle of chains and the clank of machinery. "The cannery, I expect. The cannery and what else?" His right hand went back to touch his hip-pocket though the weight of his automatic was proof enough of its presence. Just for luck, and thinking of poor Harry Bishop, he took it out and made sure it was in readiness for use in case any body came after him with a hypo dermic needle. "Well, here goes!" Stooping a little, his alert eyes watchful, he left the dusty road and headed cross-country for the pine-topped hill. He had on can vas leggings which protected him from cactus spines and other more deadly perils. Several big scorpions scuttled away at his swift approach, and at least one side-winder rattled an angry warning at him to watch his step. He reached the base of the hill with no more than these reptilian alarms. He began the steep ascent, as-cent, climbing fairly quickly till he was within a few' feet of the top.' Then he crouched and went the rest of the way on hands and knees. He came to the grove of nine, crawled through it to its farther edge, and dropped fiat on his stomach in as nice a frontline front-line observation post as nature ever devised. . Stretched before him was the blue-green expanse of the Gulf. glinting and twinkling in the re flected rays of -sunlight. Across the -water, nearly, ten miles distant dis-tant at this point, was the hazy shore of Mexico, barren, sandy and with no sign of habitation. , THESE details held Allan's at- tutivu mine mwi4 m m stant What ha -was interested in1 was a group of islands which, laj close inshore, almost directly below be-low him. They stretched out in a chain parallel to the shore and separated from it, as Sun Su had said, by a strait hardly more than a hundred yards in width. Only two of the islands appeared ap-peared to be occupied. One, much the biggest of the group, had several substantial buildings, on it; the "cannery" obviously. There was a boat dock on its nearest shore; on the farthest, a long pier jutted out into the water. The other occupied island was a good deal smaller than the first Allan noted a roomy, white stone bungalow in the center, and small structure, apparently a boat- house, on its nearest shore. He saw the; figures of a man and a woman pacing to and fro on a tiled path, and - he focused his glasses on them curiously. Neither was Japanese. The woman was young, blonde, and rather pretty in a piquant way, ne decided. The man was blond, too. tall and broad-shouldered; he might have been an American but for the way he gesticulated with' his hands as he talked. Still and all, the chief feature of tbe scene, to hold Allan's bemused attention: was on the Penincifia itself. A little way off. a crew of Japanese workmen were, digging two me side oz a small mountain with picks and shovels. They seemed to be excavating a dark; clay-like substance which was put on hand barrows and carried to a big scow by the water's edge. When it was loaded, the scow was towed byt a launch to the cannery island and another scow came up to be filled. ; . "Something wrong about this." muttered) Allan, wrinkling his brow in perplexity. "You don'l use clay in canning fish, do you? I wonder) why the Sam Hill Sun Su didn't . mention - this digging? It could have started, I suppose, after he received his last report from his pals." He shook his head regretfully. "Wish X knew more about sou" - " r In the middle of that. wish.. a rattlesnake whirred some yards behind him. He had done nothing himself to startle the most nervous of side-winders; he turned - his head quickly to see what had. He found .'himself looking straight into the muzzle of a rifle. It was held by the squat Eurasian. and behind him were six short but strongly i built - Japanese. The squat man growled a guttural order. i . ..-. ;. . "Hands' up, Senor Steelal - Pronto!" I - (To Be CttiUnuedj |