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Show PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) DAILY-HERALD, MONDAY, .JUNE 22, 1942 (Exempting Bandar) Saturday XaraM Published Sunday Morula abllahad by tha Herald Corporation. nth first Waat Street, Provo. Utah. Entered aa aaaond alaaa matter at the poetofflce In Proro. Utah. vadar tha act of March t. 1IT. Oilman. Nleol Ruthinan. National Advertle-rns Advertle-rns reprasentatlvaa. New York, Ban Franclaeo, Datrolt. Boston. Laa Ang-elea, Chicago. Member -United Preaa, N. - BJ. A. Bervloa, the Scrlppa Laua at - Nawapapcra and' A adit Bnreaa at Circulation, "Liberty through all the land" The Liberty Bell Subscription terma by aarrler ta Utah aounty. (I eenta tha month, far ala months, (a adanca; $T.8 tha year. In adraneet by mall anywhere In United Btatee ar Itn posaaaalons ti cenU the month: . for ata month ; IS.7I tha year la advaaea. Tha Herald wlll aof aaaume financial responsibility re-sponsibility , (or any rrrora which may appear In adrerjlaemente published Ja' eelumne. In thoae Instances wharf fhe pa'per U at f H will reprint that ?art .of the adrerttaefneat fca which the typographical mistake- aoenra. : The Shape of Total War It is possible to say with little ex-aggeration ex-aggeration that Oliver Lyttelton's accounting of the British war effort is a nonfiction, 1942 "What Price Glory" or "Farewell to Arms." We, on this side of the Atlantic, have heard and read soul-searing accounts of the horrors of war where bombs are bursting machine guns spraying, , incendiaries firing, bayonets bay-onets splitting human bodies. Piecemeal, bit by bit, we have been told something of the social and economic effects of total war in a democracy and of its even more scarifying effects in the totalitarian countries.' But Lyttelton, the Donald Nelson of Great Britain, has given us frankly, frank-ly, factually and without adornment, adorn-ment, a picture of the complete readjustment re-adjustment that such war means to civilians. Every man and woman is subject sub-ject to draft to work or fight. They cannot take jobs at will and move on when they please. They are frozen at their machines. Women work long hours up to 55 a week often at tasks that every man hates to think of having women do. flr r Boys and girls from 14 years up are almost universally engaged in war work on farms or in factories not pin money, occasional tasks, but day-by-day drudgery that frees men for fighting and for even more onerous labors. Not only has production of civilian civil-ian goods been cut to the bone, but manufacturers have had to see the patronage they had laboriously acquired ac-quired turned over to rivals, so their own factories- might be used for war goods. Food is rationed. Money doer n't count. Cabinet ministers and factory fac-tory workers, millionaires and subsistence sub-sistence level laborers, each is entitled en-titled to the same amount. Clothing is rationed. The' rich can have better quality, to be sure, but for each woman, whatever her income in-come or bank balance, there is one coat, one dress, 'one pair of shoes, one nightgown, one set of undergarments, under-garments, two pairs of hose and four handkerchiefs for this year. Sft 9fc After July 1 the ordinary civilian will get no gasoline at all. Income taxes start at the $450-a-year level, and climb fast to the almost confiscatory rate of 97 1-2 cents on the dollar. This is the" barest skeleton of what Mr. Lyttelton tells us of what total war means even after the danger of death or maiming has been discounted. dis-counted. We, too, are a party in this total war against Hitlerism. What are we civilians suffering that can be mentioned in the same breath as John Bull's troubles? At the North Jacifip Crossroads No Hitler Justice "We want no Hitler justice here," says Associate Justice Brynes of the Supreme Court. "We want no trial by ax men instead of juries. We know the blessings of liberty. To preserve these we will give our all." This, from a high scoure of sound liberality and unquestionable patriotism, pa-triotism, is a plea against condemning con-demning nationality groups as such, against persecuting loyal citizens because they or their fathers chanced to be born in some country now at war with us. It is hard advice to take, but good, so long as we do not permit termites to destroy those very freedoms. ' ' I '"-SZZ- j-a?w-ac- little Fellow' Has Plenty Of Headaches Despite -3h With Local Writers illilBllIlSini The IIIII! Washington Merry-Go-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs Robert 8. Alien Drew Pearson WASHINGTON To help patrol Hawaiian waters, the Navy, after Pearl Harbor, ordered requisitioning of many private, craft, including yachts and cabin cruisers owned by wealthy Americans who have vacation residences in H ELW8.il. Yacht owners were informed they would receive fair compensation, to be fixed by the U". S. Maritime Commission. This was readily agreed to by most owners, some of whom patriotically pat-riotically offered even to give .their boats to the government outright. But there was one notable exception. Among the craft ordered taker! over was the sumptuous yacht Kailani, owned by Doris Duke Cromwell the tobacco and utility heiress, famed before her marriage as "the richest girl in America." Naval officers were startled to receive a letter from R. W. Swearingen, Mrs. Cromwell's Honolulu agent, asking $35,000 for the Kailani. This price, Swearingen added, did not include in-clude Mrs. Cromwell's "sport fishing outfits and a few personal articles now on board." "The original cost of this vessel," he wrote, was in excess of $50,000 and approximately $15,000 has been expended in making alterations and improvements for her use in Hawaiian waters. Mrs. Cromwell offers to dock -the vessel to permit your examination of the underwater under-water structure and to conduct any trial operations op-erations considered necessary." The "offer" was bluntly rejected. The lawyer was told to inform Mrs. Cromwell Crom-well to hand over her yacht immediately, do her price dickering later with the Maritime Commission. Com-mission. SUPPLIES TO RUSSIA The fates and the. weather were good to the Russians last winter. But now another twist of fate and the weathetfare working against the United States and Russia. It so happens that the polar ice cap this year has come farther south than at any other time in 100 years. This has pushed the shipping lanes by which U. S. convoys carry supplies to Murmansk, - closer and closer to Norway and the powerful Nazi bases there. Result is that only 200 miles of sea separate the polar ice packs and the coast of Norway a very narrow gauntlet for ships to run, facing simultaneous attack from Nazi submarines, sub-marines, airplanes and destroyers. ; N, This is why there have been losses on the route to Russia. It is also, why the United States has not been able' to deliver all the supplies promised Russia though it has tried desperately desperate-ly and the Russians have tremendously appreciated appre-ciated the effort. To prey on this shipping, the Nazis have developed one of their strongest bases at Trond-heim, Trond-heim, Norway. There they have not only submarines, sub-marines, but land-based airplanes. They also have the advantage during the summer of nearly near-ly 24 hours of daylight. This handicaps submarines, sub-marines, but helps airplanes. Therefore, . convoys skirting the north tip have to. fight a running battle for three days be-fore be-fore they can reach Murmansk. It is continuous 'day a.nd night fighting, with-scarcely a wink of 'sleep . for, the. crews. Merchant vessels bristle with armament. Cun-crewg have been giving a magnificent account of themselves, but the odds are - tremendous and will continue to be until the Allies can establish a second front in Norway. FRANCE GOES ANTI-NAZI It can be no secret to the Nazis that! scores of Frenchmen are sneaking out of France to England by small boat or even airplane. Some eventually have found their way to the United States. The story they tell is one of the most encouraging en-couraging of the war pictures, but it shows our State Department to be lagging months behind in its policy toward France. The -people of France, say these heroes of midnight channel-crossings, are so far ahead of the U. S. State Department that it would be humorous if it were not pathetic. U. S. food shipments to French North Africa, they say, won't help win over the French people; if anything, any-thing, will retard the independence movement there. The French have been won over by much greater issues than food, and are insulted at the State Department's idea that they would sell their souls for a mess of pottage. Here are the major developments which have really influenced France: 1. The behavior of the Germans in France. 2. The fact that Britain was not only able to prevent Nazi invasion, but now is so effectively ef-fectively bombing the Continent. 3. The resistance of the Russians. 4. American entry into the war. Of all these, one of the most effective incidents in-cidents was the British , bombing of the Renault Ren-ault motor plant (Frenchmen had been tipped off to leave in advance), and the dropping of the French flag along the Champs Elysee by a British fighter plane last week. So when the Big Push does come, it will find an enthusiastic French people anxious to cooperate. Note: The French fleet, these Frenchmen French-men say, now will not bs turned over to ijit-ler ijit-ler not because of food shipments, but because be-cause the French sailors won't permit it; and the Nazis haven't got the 35,000 naval personnel person-nel available to man them. CAPITAJL CHAFF Donald Nelson has spent some time in Sen ator Truman's office recently trying to dissuade dis-suade him from issuing the Senate report crit icSl of dollara-year men . . . Congressman Clyde Ellis of Arkansas is financing his campaign for the Senate in a unique manner. man-ner. Long an enemy of the power trust, he is getting contributions from farmers and small electricity users who suffer from high local rates. . . . After more than a year, Congress finally has Vindicated David Lasser, one time head of the Workers Alliance. Although a mil-; itant foe of Communism Lasser was barred from government employment by a cabal of anti-labor anti-labor congressmen who wrote (provisions in the 1941 WPA budget. This unfair ban has been eliminated in the 1042 budget. . . .First to give the Navy Relief Fund Was Walter Winchell, who forked over 5,000 bucks. . . . Friends of Juan Trippe, czar of Pan American Airways, have been sending out feelers about having him made assistant secretary of the Navy. No great enthusiasm so far. (Copyright, 192, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) A professional author and critic of twenty years' experience, Mil dred I. Reid, has been engaged for the workship sessions of the "Lucky Seventh Roundup of the League of Utah Writers at Provo Pro-vo on July 11 and 12, according to Lamont Johnson, writer and second vice president of the league. Miss Reid Is author of "Writers Here's How." "Writers Help Yourselves," and four other books. So practical and penetrating are her criticisms, aays Mr. Johnson, that students under her tutelage frequently break into well-paying markets previously inaccessible. As an example, a women's club under her' guidance won ten out of twelve awards in a story contest con-test in which members of 67 other organizations competed. A resident or Evanston, 111., she is president of the Chicago Fiction Guild, and a member or the board of governors of the 'United Authors association, and the National League of American Pen Women. She has written and criticized poetry, articles, radio scripts as well as fiction. She operates a writers' colony in New Hampshire in late summers. sum-mers. This year she will also be a guest speaker at the writers' conference con-ference of the University of New Hampshire, Durham. She has lectured lec-tured at Northwestern university and elsewhere. Besides giving an address on "Mistakes Beginning Writers Often Of-ten Make," Miss Reid will participate partic-ipate in workship sessions and a question box period, the latter un der the chairmanship of Martha Robeson Wright of Ogden. , Cherry McKay, president of the Provo chapter, which is host this year, announced Saturday that Wyroa Hansen, Provo, has been appointed housing and reception chairman; and Edith Y. Booth, exhibit ex-hibit and decorations chairman. pMrs. McKay, with Professor Klsie 'c. Carroll and Margaret Maw as co-chairmen will have charge of L the poets' breakfast July 12. Frank Robertson, dean of Utah writers, has a strangely appealing and original short story in the second July number of Ranch Romances. Ro-mances. "Heap Big Powwow" Is its title .and it probes the heart of a cowboy who, neither white cast and alone. It took a brown-skinned brown-skinned lass, slender as a birch, to bridge the impassable chasm. Mr. Robertson does't often use the short story form, but when he does the result is notable. "Heap Big Powwow" may be found in the issue of Ranch Romances on sale at newsstands from- June nineteenth to July third. O ANSWERS TO WAR QUIZ 1. Here's an attractive flag. Lett top quarter white with blue star; jight top quarter red; left lower quarter blue; session called Pondichery. Is it one of the Society Islands, a part of the coast of Madagascar or an ancient holding on the east coast of India? . Answers on Page Seven BIRTHDAYS Tuesday, June 2S MRS. HATTTE T. McCLELLAN FERN AND FAE ROSS MRS. MAE RADKE MRS. ROBERT R. BURNS MISS ILEEN PHILIPS Aid Bv, PETER EDSON Presidential signature on the Murray-Pa tman bill, known al the small business act, makes this measure a law and sets up a fund of $150 million to be administered by a Smaller War Plants Corporation Corp-oration that will assist small manufacturers man-ufacturers who can efficiently produce pro-duce war or essential civilian materials. ma-terials. But don't think this solves all the problems of small business. busi-ness. The Murray-Patman bill is Just a step in the right direction, and the most conservative guess as to the sum required to really save small business is another $200 million a year. It works out something like this: The country has some 14,000 manufacturing plants. The National Na-tional Small Business Conference of Chicago, a strictly private trade association, estimates that of this number, only about 45,000 can be converted to war production. Pessimistically, therefore, the conference con-ference predicts that eventually 139,000 plants face the possibility possibil-ity of complete wartime shutdown. The Bureau - of Industry. Branches In the War Production Board says this estimate Is far too gloomy. The WPB guess Is that of. these 164,000 manufacturers, al but perhaps 24,000 can keep going during this war production era. The prospect of 24,000 small businesses being shout down and by Oct. 1, 1942 Is nothing to cheer over, but It's brighter than the outlook of 139,000 plants being forced to the wall. Whatever the number eventu ally put out of business, the reasons rea-sons for their shutdown are clear. The War Production Board, to con serve critical materials and to release re-lease machinery for the making of war supplies, has had to prohibit pro-hibit completely the manufacture of thousands of items made for civilians in times of peace. Deadlvj as Bombs These stop orders are one of the most serious aspects of the war. Like bombing raids, they are unavoidable, but they are just as deadly as though bombs actually were dropped on some 24,000 or more small factories scattered over the country Statistics on these businesses what firms they are and how many employes they nave are unavailable. if you count only the smallest 24,000 manuiactones, tney represent a $4 billion a year productive capacity. The Murray-Patman bill will save a number of these firms, but it must be borne in mind that the Smaller War Plants Corporation will be destricted by law to helping help-ing production. The purpose of the bill Is not to save small business busi-ness as such, but to help finance plants that can be converted to manufacturing war supplies or the minimum requirements of civilian economy. There Is still no help in sight for the little fellows who can't convert and can't be given materials for non-essential production. pro-duction. One of the clearest statements of the problem facing these manufacturers manu-facturers and an analysis of what might be done to save them was made recently by Philip D. Reed, now dollar-a-year chief of WPB's Bureau of Industry Branches, but In- civilian life chairman of the board of General Electric Reed gave his views in a commence-, ment address at Polytechnic Institute Insti-tute of Brooklyn, and though It was generally overlooked, it was a realistic presentation from the head of one of the country's biggest big-gest businesses as to what kind cf a post-war world the graduates and their children would be facing If these 24,000 or more little businesses busi-nesses were permitted to go trust. Hours Scheduled For Suggir Applications W. LJester Mangum, rationing agent; announces that sugar applications ap-plications will be accepted only from 9 to 11 a. m. and from 1 to 4 p. m. This time change was necessitated ne-cessitated by the burden placed on the employees because of the many people thronging the sugar registration office at closing time, states Mr. Mangum. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUCLLEN - . "I didn't know Cousin Jim had been up to anything any-thing till I heard him fussin' about this narrow-minded narrow-minded community." 5. lower right quarter white with red star. It belongs to a country with which we have friendly relations and very important im-portant ones. Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Panama? 2. Foochow, Chinese city Japs want, is famous for product lor export trade. What is it scented tea, furs, soybeans, jade? 3. The Free French hold a pos- O SERIAL STORY SPORTING BLOOD BY HARRY HARRISON KROLL COPYRIGHT. 1042. NEA SERyiCE. INC. SIDE GLANCES -By GAILBRAITH corn, mt v wc stavict. mc. t. . arc. . i. wt. orr It. "Sure, Til help you to get a furlough! I haven't forgotten those fat tips you gave me -when I was a waiter back in THE MONEY VrETURNED chaptAr XI f-JUNTER stared atBella Ballard. She knew who ot the $17,- 000, and knew who nad it now! "I took it out." "Great guns!" HutWer Dent groaned. "What is thisjlanyway? Red, was that you? Hp in the nation did you get the combination?" combina-tion?" "Hunter Dent, do you mean to 6it here and pretend that youidon't know I'm even alive? For Sears and years I have trotted afterVou like a puppy. I used to as a little girl let you put me on your hore, and you were almost a father to me. I've been so much underfoot that now I'm a young lady I have grown ashamed and tried to stay away from you, though not very successfully. "So, one day when you were trying try-ing to open the safe and couldn't remember the combination, and took out your wallet and read it, and got down on your knees and said the combination aloud while you worked it, I was there in the door watching. Ypu weTe so absorbed ab-sorbed you didn't even notice me. "So I remembered your old combination com-bination just to out-smart you some time. Maybe I had In mind laying a bet anJ taking your last dollar. I don't remember. But when Junior came in that night after he had got mixed in the hold-up you see, Hunter, all that was doped up while I was out, for a ride with Oliver, and so I didn't know anything any-thing about it until too late; well, I followed those blood stains, I went up to your ofice, because Junior would make right straight for you if he got into trouble, I opened the safe, and there was the bag of money. With my own little hands I removed it. Td got wind .enough of what was going on to know the money had to be restored. re-stored. T told you I know who has it now. Would you like to know?" "Who?" Hunter asked. "The First National Bank. I took it there myself and turned it over to Mr, Temple. I asked him to see father, and the two of them worked out some way of going on your bond and letting you out X couldnt tell them much. I couldnt say to Dad that Junior was the hold-up man. I just turned the money back to the bank and told them to keep their mouths shut until we could see a little further..' Hunter could only repeat, "So you did that." "Yes, and I asked a man to marry me and he turned me down cold." "Red, you're plain crazy! You and Tisdale are engaged to be married.' He's rich. He's in on the BaLWrd fortune. What's more logical log-ical than you two should marry and keep the fortune intact? What am I? A kind of glorified hired man for your dad. Why, even the colts I raise go to him. The strain of prolific corn I develop becomes his. what chance do I have?" a CHE turned to examine him. Her eyes traced his features, would have to be a private matter. Maybe only Hank ins and his father, and the parties who were to get the money, know about the business. Hank didn't mean, perhaps, per-haps, to let it slip. But it was between be-tween friends. All right. The gang is there, hears; and Hank has to go. They make their wagers. Suppose, Sup-pose, just as a hypothesis, the Ghi-barto Ghi-barto twins make a wager no one there could intercept the messenger messen-ger and take that roll off him. Or it could have been any one else present who bet Junior, with a little top much under his belt as usual, took the bet up. The party broke. Hankins Temple dispatched the money by the messenger. The time was not far from midnight. Why the money had to move at dropped to take in his big athletic fuch ,an houf' and,in mth, 8 way' shoulders and chest "You're young is n? easy ? exPlam ""Jf5 yu though. You seem Bfealthy. You appear to have your original equipment of teeth, hair, and brains. I always admired your intelligence, in-telligence, Hunter." ' "Thanks," he said with dry bitterness. bit-terness. Dld it ever occur to you that I might be a good sport after all, Hunter? I mean your-being poor has never worried me. I read stories and see motion pictures where the poor boy refuses to marrjV, the wealthy girl because it will give him an inferiority complex; com-plex; bat I thought you might be above slich petty things, Hunter. You've snade yourself gone through Ihfe university mostly on your owii become a scientific research re-search mm, you've created things, such as that strain of corn. And you've only begun. Your whole life lies ahead of you. There is nothing to Ikeep you from making a name for yourself that will be the envy ofVmany men who only had wealth o start on Ol Tisdale, Tis-dale, for insfbnee. I wouldn't be afraid to start from scratch with such a man &f you, Hunter. I'm betting on you.; You remind me in lots of ways of Dad. He met a challenge. They made him mad and he showed -them. Well, now I've told you. t thought perhaps you loved me, Hunter." "God," he said, VI do love you!" "I wouldn't hav you now on a silver platter." "Red, you driveVme almost to murder!" "We still have bne of those messy things to cleat- up." "So we have," Huijter said. "So we have. Look here, 'Red. Let me tell you how I have; this doped up. He knit his brows, groping for words. "Let's start, from the beginning. At one of the parties at your house Hank Temple let It drop that he had to get tJ the bank to see a shipment of money get out Seventeen thousand dollars. It consider another thing or two. a a 6tKAY, let's consider them. There is that ordnance plant scandal which has just broken. The older Ghibarto Is involved in fraud against the government. Rascal. Like father like twins. The money is a bribe. Know about that wharf project which is junt across the river from the old landing below Water Street? That is a part of this ordnance plant Some one down there in the know was getting get-ting ready to talk. Ghibarto and this is hard talk but we have to look things in the eye and perhaps per-haps Banker .Temple, and just possibly pos-sibly your dad, who usually has irons in all the civic fires, fingers in all the local pies, though I take it for granted neither jnan knowingly know-ingly got caught with his pants down had to get a bribe there to shut a mouth. Since it was secret it looked safe enough. The murdered messenger left the bank. He had to gp on foot, part of the way in any case, because the street was closed down which he must hurry. "But the Ghibarto twins, rascals like their daddy,' see a chance to pick up $17,000. Looks like a sure-fire setup. The gang dont dare talk. Kill the messenger and he cant talk. Might as well shoot Junior, too. Two men, nondescript and dark, did appear, and the fireworks fire-works started. Well, those were the twins. Why they didn't leave town when the plan flopped they didn't figure on Junior really shooting back to keep the joke from spreading, and toting his hot lead like a true sport is explainable when you figure that Junior wont talk; he may yet die without talking. talk-ing. Besides, the guy that runs looks guilty. So" Red, her face strange, let in the clutch and started off with a scruff of rubber. Her jaw was suddenly grim and set (To Be Concluded) |