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Show PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, " FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1942 ..... fExcaptla Saturday an4 , , Sunday) ... nlW Marala Publlaaad Sunday Morula ' PablUhad by tha Harald Corporation. M Boat First Waat Straat, Proro, Utah. Kntarcd aa aacend clasa mattar at tba aoatafflca ta Frora, Utah, andar tba act af March a. 117. Oilman, NIeol Ruthmaa. National AdvartU-laa AdvartU-laa rapraaantattvaa, Naw York; San Franciaeo, Datroit. Boaton. Loa- aacalaa, Chicago. Mambar Cnltad Praaa. N. B. A. Sarrtoa. tva Sarlppa Laavua of Nawapapara aad adit Boraaa at Circalatlon. 8 Subscription tarma by aaariar is Ola aounty. M aanta tha month, tt.M far aia months, n a'dvaneo: f 7.10 tha yaar. la advasaa; by mall anjrwhara tn Dnltad Btataa ar tta poaaaaalona at eanta tba month j II. t ta ata aaontba; 15.71 tba yaar la advaaca. Ubarty through all tha land" Tba Ubarty Ball Tba Harald will sot aaauraa ponalbllity for any arrora which may appaar tn advartlaamanta pnbllahad la Ita calumna. la thoaa Inatancaa wbara tba papar la at faalt, It will raprlnt that part af tha advartlaamaa la which tha typographical mlataka Headlines Or Victory? Sufficient time has elapsed since the capture of eight submarine-borne submarine-borne saboteurs was announced to permit calm consideration of such fact? as have developed publicly. On the basis of what is ascertainable, ascertain-able, we believe that this episode is the best illustration to date of the urgent need for unification of all war publicity under intelligent direction. dir-ection. On the basis of what is ascer tain-Washington tain-Washington for withholding infor-taiaticn infor-taiaticn to which the public is entitled entitl-ed and which could do the enemy no good. Here is a sensational instance of information which we believe should not have been given publicity, pub-licity, for several reasons of which two will suffice to make the point. Both the British and our Navy-make Navy-make a point of relusing to publicize publi-cize submarine sinkings, on the ground that it is good strategy to keep the Germans in ignorance, to the last possible moment, as to the fate ol these agencies of destruction. How much more, then, should f Hitler have been left to worry about his saboteurs; to wonder why their ; scheduled sabotage did not come 5 off; to vaver whether to wait or to I send substitutes who might not yci .uyui, lvj v vinwi lc ill ly l ii - ance whether resident fifth columnists, column-ists, expected to help immigrant saboteurs, were at large or in cus- " todv. Again, one of the earliest psychological psychol-ogical lessons learned by a cub newspaper reporter is the power of suggestion. Let the papers report suicide by a hitherto unthought of poison, and a wave of such deaths with the same poison often follows. Let it be reported that so-and-so killed himself by jumping from such a skyscraper, and that building seems to become a Mecca for those who have tired of living. Millions never had heard of the .Horseshoe Curve at Altoona, or had no conception of its military importance. Out of these there undoubtedly are a few Hitlerites, a few malcontents, malcon-tents, a few unrecognized maniacs who to serve Hitler or to injure the United States or merely to do something some-thing sensational now know where to turn their attention. If these don't like Altoona, or live too far away, or find the curve too well guarded, they can turn to John Edgar Hoover's official list and choose another vital spot at which to strike. In organizing and directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation's current setup Mr. Hoover has done, and is doing, a marvelous job. No criticism of his love for headlines should detract from his very real achievements. But this war is to preserve democracy, democ-racy, not to make headlines for anybody. Ve are making the greatest number num-ber of machine tools any country' in the world has ever made, and it's still not enough. Lieut. Gen William S. Knudsen, former General Motors president. singling out of Admiral William Leahy as one of his most trusted advisers on war strategy is some vitally important background which may affect the entire future strategy of the war. Not only Is Admiral Leahy one of the most rounded navy men around the President (Hull liked him as ambassador to France and Xckes paid great tribute to him as governor of Puerto Rico), but the Admiral also played a great part in trying to stop Japan before it was too late. In fact, if Admiral Leahy's advice had been followed in 1937 when he was Chief of Naval Operations there would probably have been no war in the Far East, and perhaps none in Europe today. Leahy proposed, when the Japs first went into China, that the U. S. and British fleets impose a long distance naval blockade, cutting off Japan's oil, scrap iron, cotton, and copper, and starving out the Japanese military machine in three months. At that time, Britain and the United States had the strongest navies in the world, were not worried about convoys, attacks in the Mediterranean, the protection of India. All they had to do, Admiral Leahy told the President, was station the American fleet off the California coast and the British fleet at Singapore, and the Japs would be finished. At that time they had had no chance to build up heavy reserves of oil and scrap iron as they did later. However, the State Department blew hot and cold, finally undercut Leahy's plan. STOP JAPAN One year later, however, he revived it, after the Japs sank the ' Panay in a deliberate slap at the U. S. A. And on one Sunday afternoon in December, 1938, Leahy spent three hours In Secretary Hull's office pleading with him that now was the time to stop Japan, before it was too late. Leahy argued that a world war was certain, that if we waited too long Britain would be in it up to the neck, could give us no help, but if we acted at once, showed Europe we meant business, it would serve as such an object lesson . to Hitler that war in Europe might be prevented. But on that same afternoon, Hugh Wilson, later ambassador to Germany and head of the appeasement clique, pleaded with Hull that we must not offend Japan, that she needed her place in the sun, that if we let her expand in China she would be satisfied, would go no further. fur-ther. In the end, Hull sided with Hugh Wilson. NOT TOO MANY FRONTS Ever since then, Admiral Leahy has leaned toward concentrating our main war effort in the Far East. And ever since Pearl Harbor there has been an important group in the Navy also in the Army which favors knocking Japan out of the war first. This group believes we cannot fight on too many fronts at once; that the problem of attacking at-tacking heavily fortified France is terrific, that we should concentrate on Japan and the North African front. The latter they point out, This is really one war. You cannot can-not entirely disassociate one area from others. You have to consider the picture as a whole. You cannot say you will concentrate on one thing and neglect the others, as, for instance, in supplies. Dr. Eelco N. van Kleffens, Netherlands foreign minister. The Din Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs B - rUICUXS Hubert S. Alien actlT !,) DAantiiuiun odium uic x I raivjtrn i, n rrn1A Vv , , . . , wuiu ic ua7u aa a a i. tapping stone into njurope after Japan is knocked out of the Pacific. So with Admiral Leahy closer than ever to the White House, his views should have an important effect upon future war policy. NEW FLAG FOB CAPITOL You hear little about it. but an important phase of war production planning is the dehydration de-hydration (drying) of meats, vegetables and fruits for U. 8$. forces and lend-lease shipments. WPB experts estimate that if all the food needed for United Nations armies were dehydrated de-hydrated instead of canned, the difference in containers weights would be four billion pounds, or equal to the shipping space or 180.000 railroad rail-road cars or 360 merchant vessels of 10 000-ton 000-ton capacity. War chiefs are so concerned about the matter mat-ter that a special inter-departmental committee of the WPB, the War and Agriculture Departments, Depart-ments, has been appointed to expedite priority ratings on materials needed for erectlne dehydrating de-hydrating plants. 6 At a recent meeting, this committee listened to various experts. Throughout the long discussion, dis-cussion, an elderly man sat silent in the back of the room. He was William W. Skinner, associate asso-ciate chief of the Agriculture Department's bureau of chemistry and engineering, the government's gov-ernment's top authority on dehydration Woo BKUt 'I6, WaS not called on until the meeting was breaking up. Then he was merely asked ' the others"011 ln thC ViCWS exPresed by With a withering glance at the previous witnesses, most of them youths. Skinner replied-I replied-I have been a student of dehydration for many years but I don't suppose that counts. Old fehows ike me don't get much attention. The accent is on youth in these times so much so that I think it wouldn't be out of place to design another Hag for the Capitol ln addition addi-tion to Old Glory. xes, gentlemen, I Suspense 3tZQrixL--. Rifts, Reorganizations, Rooms to Rent in Capital NLA jjmjiiK, in. recommpnH o vi- Smant0'' Wh a pair f diaPrs CAPITAL CHAFF Admiral Sherman, commander of the late airplane carrier Lexington, pays great tribute to newly enlisted navy men. "With only four months training," he says, "they behaved like veterans. The order to abandon ship was almost like a parade drill." . . . Credit far-sighted Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma with having advocated many months ago giant trans-Atlantic transport planes to carry war materials to Russia and Britain. -Now various experts say this will be the only solution to our serious shipping problem. Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife of Senator "No-X-Card" Pepper of Florida, walks to social engagements or takes the street car. Commander Paul Smith; ex-editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, now in charge of Navy press relations, is itching to get into combat duty, probably will go to sea soon. (Copyright 1942 by United Feature Service, Inc.) FORUM 'n Agin 'Em Plenty of Rubber At the Utah Lake Editor Herald: Rubber, rubber, and more rubber. rub-ber. We read about it in the newspapers and hear about rubber rub-ber on the radio; you can almost taste it when you eat. Well, if rubber is needed for tires and fror. war purposes we must fur; nish it. Now, if ruooer is so bad ly needed why not get all those big tires down at the pier by Utah lake. We have just been down there and was surprised to see upwards of 50 tires for the boats to bump up against. Before Be-fore talking of taking possession of the tires of the civilian cars let the government first gather up all the rubber that is yet !re-j tained. We have seen scores of boats tied up at wharfs long before be-fore there were ruoDer tires. It can be done. Do those fellows that have boats down at the lake know that we are in a serious war, and that private desires and excuses will not win this war? When our president says, we need rubbejt", let there be no quibbling. To retain re-tain any old tires or discarded rubber that now is needed is unpatriotic. un-patriotic. We are told that some places they are burning old tiros to get rid of them. If that is correct, that ought to be stopped. A short time ago the British burned a lot of rubber in Malaya to keep the Japs from getting it. But the Japs have plenty now. We don't. C. V. HANSEN. w Our Boys In the War (If jjou hv news about a son, brother or father tn the armed forces, the Daily Herald would like to print it. Send tt In.) WAR QUIZ D 1. This division insignia is the Santa Fe Cross within two cir cles of varying colors, the outer one divided in to four arcs. h i s division, based at Camp Joseph T. Robinson Rob-inson in World War II, has a was mm large comple ment ot Missouri and Kankas National Na-tional Guardsmen. What division is this? 2. Buy U. S. war bonds and stamps. An investment of $18.75 in a war bond (maturity value $25.00) buys this important piece of equipment: Garand rifle, field telephone, hand grenade. 3. The word platoon was taken by the British centuries ago from the French pleton. It referred to a small body of foot soldiers. To What does it refer today? Answers on Page Eight Utah Eliminates Diphtheria Deaths Captain Roscoe Nelson, naval aviator in the United States Marine Mar-ine Corps who was graduated from Brigham Young university tn 1&39 while taking flight training train-ing at Pensacola, left Provo Wednesday Wed-nesday for the naval air station in San Diego, Calif. He is assigned as-signed to a combat group which has been on patrol duty on the Pacific coast since the outbreak of war. Captain Nelson, who filled an L. D. S. mission to Germany from 1936 to 1939, joined the Marines in August '39, and after weathering weath-ering a month of elimination flight training at Oakland, Calif-was Calif-was assigned to school at the navy aviation training base at Pensacola. Upon receiving his wings in July, 1940, the former B. Y. U. student filled a number of assignments, as-signments, one of which took him to Cuba, for six months in the winter of 1940-41. He has. also been stationed at Quantico, Va. At present he is aide-de-camp for Major General Roy S. Gelger of the Marines. Captain and Mrs. Nelson, the former Joyce Rich of Logan, have been visiting friends and relatives rela-tives in Utah. O Our Boarding House tA.O TUftT OLD ftliPPC- STmONi ABOUT TWRB USVAT6 ON ONH MftTGH , YJtrt TUB VMfR BN NOT. LUCIFER r szsgr hi CONFUSION, PANIC IN SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (U.R) If they had been listening to Tokyo radio, San Franciscans could have learned today that they were "gripped by confusion and panic" during a routine precautionary precau-tionary radio silence Tuesday night. BY PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent Secretary of State the Hon. Cordell Hull isn't playing croquet on the lawn of the big Washington Washing-ton mansion taken ovr by Secretary Sec-retary of War the Hon. Henry L. j Stimson, these days, and that's significant news. For some years. Secretary Hull's principal Washington Wash-ington diversion has been to play croquet, and he's good, except ex-cept at times when some issue is bothering him particularly. During the Japanese negotiations before Pearl Harbor, his game was way off. Secretary Stimson's generous offer of the use of the private croquet grounds on his estate was a greatly appreciated and beautiful gesture of inter-cabinet inter-cabinet co-operation and friendship, friend-ship, for Secretary Hull lives in a hotel that has tennis courts for Vice President Wallace, but no croquet grounds fcfr the secretary of state. But the other day when Secretary Hull set out for his late afternoon workout with ball, mallet, wicket and stake, he went to another court. Reason? Secretary Sec-retary Stimson had spoken angrily an-grily to him that day, and he didn't approve, so he wouldn't go near the Stimson house. Donald M. Nelson's reorganization reorgan-ization of the War Production Boaj-d makes little difference to the business man having to negotiate ne-gotiate with WPB. Chief importance import-ance of the reorganization is in strengthening the policy-making setup, and business men coming to Washington will in most instances in-stances deal, with the same people they dealt with previously, allowing allow-ing for the usual frequent and at times confusing shifts of personnel per-sonnel in government administrative administra-tive ' jobs. Only place the lo?al business man can benefit from, the Nelson realignment is Uirough greater responsibility given to the 13 regional WPB offices. When these regional ofifces function as they should, business men should be able to cafry on most of their dealings with the board at the regional level, making trips to Washington less necessary. Billets Due? No definite policy has been decided de-cided on, but government housing officials, up against it in trying to provide adequate shelter in some war production areas, are seriously considering resort to billeting. If such a program should go tljrough, your spare room might then be drafted for some war worker's occupancy for the duration. Difficulty of billeting billet-ing is .that householders won't like the idea of being told to take in roomers. If such a program can be put over, it would have to be on a voluntary basis, appealing to the patriotism and natural sympathies- of citizens. Democratic politicians are whispering whis-pering that the reason Henry Ford wouldn't allow government housing development near the Willow Run bomber plant near Ypsilanti. Mich., is that the Republicans Re-publicans feared to bring that many new C. I. O. and therefore Democratic voters into a community com-munity now considered . safely G. O. P. Melvyn Douglas, movie star direct di-rect 1 of the OCD's artists' and writers' bureau, is heading back to Hollywood for six weeks to make another movie and enough money to enable him to return to Washington and work some more for the government without compensation. Zero Minus Army air force people are a little annoyed at all the criticism criti-cism leveled against them because be-cause they haven't a plane the equal of the Jap Zero fight,r. The U. S. flyers say the only advantage ad-vantage the Zeros have is that when the going gets too tough. Jap Zero pilots can climb right out of a fight. But, say U. S. pilots, the Japs can do this because be-cause the Zero plane has sacrificed sacri-ficed armor and fire power and even safety for this one advantage. advan-tage. When U. S. planes go into battle, pilots are given a plane cf heavy construction, protected by armor, with superior fire power, plenty of gasoline capacity, parar chute, rubber boat, flares and every other life-saving device tor use in case the flyer has to hail out. The Japs sacrifice all these in the Zero fighter, just to give the Jap pilots this quick pick-up-and-go advantage. All these factors explain why the caption on a photograph of a crashed Zero lightyr, just received from Australia, Aus-tralia, bore the news that in the last month more than 300 of these Jap Zero planes had been similarly simi-larly destroyed. They had enough speed to climb out of a fight, lut not enough stamina and gasoline to get home on. GREASE - COLLECTION DRIVE PUTS HOUSEWIFE IN "BATTLE aaaaiaMaaaaMawMaM.... ........... . - tL3 !! 1 I Kit 11 pro H p - I II ' I , t it I f,.---. rj, - ' 1 1,, If ,j . I I - r$ II :: M0 The home-front -soldier, above, saves and strains leftover ' grease and ... u.a" WASHINGTON, July 24 (U.R) The census bureau reported todays that only 1,457 people died from diphtheria in 1940, cutting the death rate to 1.1 per 100,000 population, popu-lation, the lowest in history. Three States Vermont, Delaware Dela-ware and Utah had no deaths" from the disease and New Hampshire Hamp-shire and Idaho had only one each. Forty years ago, the bureau said, the death rate was 40 per 100,000 people, and as late as 1&2S the toll was 15,520. AUMT HKJ By ROBERT QITILLEN - r wouldn't r. sympathize with Sue if the moths ate iliw.JupHard luck comes to : all, but moths and mice and : cockroaches are pure lazl- '. he68.w ' ' "' -aj ' j . . . sells it to her neighborhood butcher, who turns it over to . . . X . . . plants which, -refine it -for its , glycerine . . .' . used in nitroglycerine that puU.the.BANQ in Uncle Sam's explosives for, rictpry , - . By NEA Service ' , . The American housewife on the home front doesn't carry a rifle, drive a tank or pilot a bomber but she now has a job that's mighty important to the men in uniform. It's collecting for Uncle Sam' ail . her unneeded deep fats, - pan and broiler drippings, renderings from bacon rinds, and skimmings from soupa and boiled meats. They are needed to produce explosives explo-sives for victory. It may seem like a far cry between this morning's morn-ing's bacon-drippings and a bomb blowing up an airplane factory in Japan or .Germany,, but here's , what happens when you, the housewife, help grease the skids for, the Axis: The grease is drained at home - through a strainer, covered with gauze to remove all Impurities, Im-purities, into tin cans or other thoroughly-cleaned metal containers and placed in the family refrigerator refrig-erator for preservation until at least a pound has been 'saved.'" : " - ,- Taken to the neighborhood butcher, the -housewife sells it for four, or five cents.' Steel drums full of the grease are collected--by trucks," circulating circulat-ing to all butcher shops, and taken to a refining station for proeessing.V ' ' ., . ; Soap Factory Salvages. Glycerine At one stage of the -process,, your grease goes to a soap plant-'where-' glycerine Is" salvaged. Tank cars carry Jit ;to .giants kettles. 'Tallow, cocoanut . oil and caustic' soda; are', added." High-temperature cooking: sends ;soap ;'tO the -'top;, glycerine .lye to : the bottom .to- ta drawn off, . ' r, j Then, as shown,' a workman removes salt from huge evaporating tanks In which glycerine is recovered re-covered f rohr the glycerine lye With the salt removed re-moved at. the tank bottom, only glycerine remains in 'the; tank; "?. .cj:-x-C?'. It is this glycerine that Is used for producing nitroglycerine for the super 'explosives needed by Uncle -Sam, and his allies to blast the-Axis.- |