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Show PAGE TOUR PROVO UTAH)" DAILY HERALD, ' THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 1942 SECTION -TWO Brwt (KxcapUag Saturday and - - . Sunday) iultr liftll PHbliabtd and'ar Moraine abliahad fcjr tha HaraM Corpetmtloa, . It Waat Straat. Proro, Utah. Entarad a aaaon dui matter at tba poatofttca la Praro, Vuh, nodal- tha act af March 1. 1IT. Q 11 man. iflcol Jtothman. National Adrartia-In Adrartia-In rapraaaatatlTaa. Naw York, 8an Fraaclaoa, Datrolt. . Boston. Loa ABfelaa. Chleaco. Ifaaibar tTnltad Prw, N. A. Sarrlca. taa Sarfppa Laaru of Kawapapara and Audit Buraaa at Ctremlatloa. "Mbartr throuah all tha land" Tba Ubarty Ball Subaarlpttaa tartn by aaniar la Utah eounty. f( aanta tba month, ft.tt far aU montha. la adranca; 17.10 tba Tar. in adraaca; by mall anywhara la Unltad Btataa or Ita poaaaaatona tl caata tba month; ft.tt (or ats month; 11.71 tha yaar In adranca. Tha Harald will not aaauma financial ra-sponaibllity ra-sponaibllity far any arrora which may appaar In adrartlaamanta pabtlabad In Ita colamna. Ia thoaa Inatancca wbara tba papar la at fault, it will raprlnt that part af tha adVartlaamant la which tha typographical mlataka accura. Fats and Figures ' One of the simplest war aids asked ask-ed by Uncle Sam one which does not require even the slightest self-sacrifice self-sacrifice is the saving of fats and greases. The response thus far has been good, but not good enough. Perhaps that is because saving waste grease is so very simple that its importance import-ance has not been realized. To make up a shortage caused by Japanese aggression, and then to supply the added needs brought by war, American housewives must save and take to their meat markets mar-kets for forwarding to Uncle Sam half a billion pounds of waste fats this year. That is only a fourth of what has been wasted in the past. But since the year was half gone before the campaign began, it is about half of what could have been saved if every housewife co-operated to the limit. Some will shirk. Therefore the rest must contribute enough more to make up for the laggards. Grease and fats produce glycerine, glycer-ine, and this is made into nitroglycerine nitro-glycerine and other explosives. Glycerine is needed also as a float for ships' compasses and in the mechanisms which throw depth charges overboard at axis submarines. sub-marines. A one-pound coffee can will hold two pounds of grease. That is enough to make the explosive needed need-ed for five anti-tank shells. In the past we got almost a billion bil-lion pounds a year from Far Eastern sources cut off by the Japs cocoa-nut cocoa-nut oil and copra from the Philippines, Philip-pines, palm oil from the Dutch East Indies and Malaya, tung oil from China, perilla oil from Manchuria and Japan. We can replace part of this loss, The and get something toward the, billion bil-lion additional pounds required by war, from . Latin American sources, if we can spare cargo space in ships. The more we get from home, the more shipping we can use directly di-rectly against the axis. So out of American frying pans and broilers from the drippings of steaks and chops, beef and pork and lamb roasts, chickens and turkeys and ducks and geese must come fat for glycerine for explosives for shells and bombs and depth charges to win this war. v Pour off the drippings through a strainer into a tin can. When the lard or vegetable fat gets too old to fry doughnuts or potatoes or iast-nachts, iast-nachts, dump it into the can. . Around the first of the week, when the butcher isn't too busy, take him anything you have from a pound up. He will pay the market price, and send the fat to the munition makers. Modern Rangers The name "rangers" is apt for the American version of the Commandos. Comman-dos. In a war that features use of the most ultra-modern instruments of death and destruction, we have been driven back to the methods of stealth and man-to-man combat in which Rogers Rangers outdid the very Indians from whom they derived de-rived their methodology. The services of Robert Rogers' backwoods militiamen were invaluable invalu-able to the Anglo-Americans during he Seven Years War against the French in North America. They accomplished ac-complished feats which no regular troops, however skilled and courageous, cou-rageous, could have achieved. That is what the modern Rangers will do with modern enemies. iiiiifiiiniiiiiHji-jHiiljjiLiuiiiB Washington Merry-Go-Round m m. vt a www . v v . m tl Br Draw Ftfaoa (WnJ ft. Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs ILZ aJW Zr. Z WASHINGTON Politics sometimes play an important role in determining the fate of battles. Usually it is an unfortunate role, but in handling any conglomerations of Allies so loose-knit as the United Nations, or even the British Empire, politics arc often necessary. Latest illustration was the removal of Gen. Auchinleck as British commander in North Africa. Inside story behind this is that he was ousted to satisfy the South Africans and Gen. Jan Smuts. ""Those who have fought around Auchinleck say h is a good soldier. But his chief disaster during Rommel's mid-summer advance was the fall of Totrak. And for this his supporters partly part-ly blame politics, and the fact that a South African, Gen. Kloppers, had been given command com-mand of Tobruk. It is no secret that the political situation inside South Africa is ticklish. The Boers have been enthusiastic over the British, and Gen. Smuts faces critical opposition from their leader, Gen. James Hertzog, who fought against the British in the Boer War. Perhaps this delicate situation also had something to do with the surrender of Tobruk. Long casualty lists do not make good reading in the South African papers, and this may have influenced Gen. Klopprrs in giving up Tobruk in a few hours, whereas it had withstood weeks of pounding before. However, there was also a great deal of criticism in South Africa because Gen. Auchinleck Auchin-leck permitted his army to be out-maneuvered, so Nazi forces were able to approach Tobruk by surprise This was what made South Africans especially bitter. Rrsult was that Gen. Smuts demanded Auchinleck's removal, and to preserve a delicate political 'balance in South Africa, he was fired. ROOSEVELT AS RADIO WRITER The American public doesn't hear much about the short wave radio broadcasts which send a constant stream of U. S. propaganda into Axis countries. Still less does it know that recently President Roosevelt himself personally dictated one of the most effective of these broadcasts. broad-casts. Briefly summarized here is what Roosevelt dictated: "In 1918, the Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Navy was riding through Brittany when his pilot car, driving ahead of him, bumped into a priest. "The Assistant Secretary of the Navy went to the assistance of the priest and offered to take him to a hospital. But, brushing off his clothes, the priest said he was not hurt. The Assistant Secretary then offered him compensation. compensa-tion. The priest replied that never would he accept any compensation from so fine an organ-izatipn organ-izatipn as the United States Navy. ."So the Assistant Secretary then asked if there was anything which was particularly needed Jit his church. rrhe priest replied that for some time he had been trying to complete a leaded window in. his ehapel. So the Assistant Secretary took out his check book and wrote a check for $200. "A year later word was received that the window had been completed, and that a candle was burning in it in memory of the United States Navy and all it represented. "Six years later another letter came saying that the candle was still burning. Other letters have followed. And that candle is still burning unless the Nazis have put it out" NOTE: The author of the radio script did not say so, but the then Assistant Secretary of the Navy is now the President of the United States. WHO RUNS OIL? Preventing the overlapping of government agencies obviously is a hard job when the government gov-ernment has become so big. However, on a question so vital as rubber it would seem not only relatively simple but important to secure cooperation between agencies. On Sept. 1, WPBoss Donald Nelson wrote to Wayne Johnson, directing him to examine the possibilities and potentialities of producing rubber, high test gasoline and kindred byproducts by-products from the petroleum refineries of the country. ' Coming nine months after Pearl Harbor, such a directive on Sept. 1 seemed a bit tardy. But in addition it cut directly across work already al-ready being done by Ickes' Office of Petroleum Coordinator. On July 13, this office sent out an order to all oil companies to examine ' the possibilities pos-sibilities of conserving butyl for the quick manufacture man-ufacture of rubber, taking advantage of the refineries which were becoming idle because of gasoline rationing. Furthermore, it "happens that all the oil companies of the nation are operating very effectively under Ickes. Nevertheless, Nelson slid a highly important order off his desk without with-out any regard to what another important agency was doing. NOTE: Wayne Johnson, to whom Nelson issued the order, was a very effective money raiser for Roosevelt's campaign in 1932, 1936, and 1940; is a genial and effective director of a railroad' and a shipping company, but so far as is known, had absolutely no previous experience experi-ence in oil. CAPITAL CHAFF Senator "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky took his first airplane ride during a recent trip to Alaska. The mountains are high in this area, fog is dense, the ride made "Happy" most unhappy. un-happy. So once he got to Alaska, he decided to return by a destroyer. Senator Holman of Oregon Ore-gon came with him. Senators Burton of Ohio and Wallgrcn of Washington flew . . . Charley Clark, investigator, for the Truman committee, had a narrow escape while flying from' Alaska. His plane crashed, one man was killed, one suffered suf-fered a broken spine, Clark escaped by jumping jump-ing . out of the window after the plane hir a mountain. Of four planes which took off with Clark, two crashed . . When the FBI investigated investi-gated Pulitzer Playwright Robert Sherwood, someone sicced them onto Marc Connelly, ex-husband of Mrs. Sherwood. Marc doesn't like Sherwood . . . Sherwood was in the famous Black Watch regiment ia EWorld War I FBI investigation is compulsory for all government govern-ment officials and much . of it merely- wastes the time of valuable FBI men. But Martin Dies demands it. ' - Question for Future Historians j 5 ' Ural Industrial Development Give Russia NX Ace in the Hole Once News, Now History Twenty-five Years Ago Today From the Files of the PROVO HERALD September 10, 1917 One of the first Provoans tc possess a new Kissel car, Roy Boren was showing the machine which was highlighted by the latest lat-est type of steel body. Arrested by officers for playing cards for money ,e large group of juveniles were taken to juvenile court. A twoyear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Palmer was saved from death by quick action from Dr. W. T. Hasler, who attended when the baby swallowed a potion of rat po'ison. Striking with such force that large watermelons were cracked hailstones as large as one and" one-half inches in circumference fell at Olmsted. Considerable damage was inflicted on fruit with apples and peaches being knocked from the trees and grapes being hammered from the vines. Payson Briefs PAYSON Mr, and Mrs. McKay Mc-Kay Perkins and'" baby visited here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Flint McClellan, Monday. They are of Magna. Mrs.- Myrtle Dowdle Lott of Heyburn, Idaho, spent several days visiting relatives and friends in Payson. She was the , house guest of Mrs. Flint McClellan and Kept. Promise 1 3 l!iTvV- i , A A j FORUM 'n Agin Ea Keep Sowiette Park For Social Center Lieutenant John James Powers CJ. S. N., above, missing in action, made good his word for the olic! back home," and for it was nonorec by President Roosevelt with a Meda,' of Honor. In a heroic action, Pow-3ts' Pow-3ts' dive bomber was destroyed oy ihe explosion of his own Domb which ae virtually laid on the flight deck-f deck-f a Jap plane carrier in the Cora. Sea. He promised he would get the carrier and he did. Mrs. Ann E. Wilson. Mrs. Len Huff and Mrs. McClellan entertained enter-tained in Payson canyon with a steak fry in her honor. They also made the trip over the scenic loop. It was Mrs. Lett's first trip to Payson canyon since she made the trip in a horse-drawn wagon. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Dowdle entertained en-tertained at a bonfire canyon supper sup-per for Mrs. Lott. SIDE GLANCES By GAILBRAITH font i tv wi tvcc. mc t. M. t& u. . ar. off. f-n Editor Herald: We the people speak: The Provo Carpenter Union, Local No. 1498, the Sons and Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, members of the Townsend Old Age Pension organization; in fact, the citizens citi-zens and taxpayers of Provo in general, are opposing the pro posed conversion of the city-owned city-owned property at Sowiette Park for a high school building site. We are not opposed to the building of a high school. Such a building will, of course, be needed as the population increases and Provo grows. But the point of contention is, that the area containing con-taining the Sowiette Park be left unmolested. The park has been created and dedicated in memory and honor of the hardy Pioneers who landed here and fought the savage Indian, and bravely toiled, laying the foundation for our beautiful Provo. A fine monument monu-ment has recently been erected there, a splendid building has been built, which contains many valuable relics of the Pioaa,;rs. Now, keep the park for the purpose pur-pose for which it was intended. If Provo grows as is predicted, to be a city of 40,000 people within the next few years, Provo has not a park adequate for the enjoyment of that population: the site of Sowiette Park will then be needed.- It should also be retained as a playground and social so-cial center for the children as well as older folks. If the school board of Salt Lake City should suggest ! the building- cf a high school in Liberty Park, would such a request re-quest be granted? Surely not. Then why should the same request re-quest not be denied here? The I Sowiette Park can be serviceable to Provo, as Liberty park is to Salt Lake City. So, folks, let's not do a rash act that we shall be sorry for in years to dme, but keep the Sowiette Park as a "Memorial, Recreational, and Social So-cial Center.! C. V. HANSEN. 1 From their title, you'd think smart men only wore this insignia. in-signia. What does it signify? 2 The aircraft air-craft carrier Lexington, sunk in the Coral Sea, was originally orig-inally a type of KSgKijg ship no longer ' used, by the Navy. What was that type? , 3 -Can you properly call any American soldier a "doughboy?" Answers on Page Three, Sec. Twc 51 thought I'd bring my publicity idea direct to'you U... 1 i . : i 1 1 1 1 1 ,1 ' , v. i vl '-out"""Uunt;ni; ruises tor au inc oim-i vnrin . - - ithey can- buy more jwar bonds? : WARD PLANS JAMBOREE LEHT Lehi First ward will hold its annual fall jamboree on October 22 and 23. Two evening's eve-ning's entertainment is being planned including an auction of farm products, programs and dances. . - . w 1 The object of the jamboree is to help the farmers of the ward harvest their crops, all priesthood priest-hood quorums of the ward organizing organ-izing to help with the harvest of the . crops. BY PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent The picture generally painted is that if the Nazi drive on the southern Russian front should succeed in crossing the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea, the Soviet would be done for. In more detail, the picture presents pre-sents this prospect: The Soviet army divided and having to fight on two fronts; the Soviet's largest oil fields, first at Grozny, then at Baku, in German .hands; the Soviet's So-viet's industrial might, already crippled by the loss of the Ukraine and Donets basins north of the Black Sea, further shattered shatter-ed by the loss of the Rostov and Stalingrad areas; and the Volga river Itself cut. That is a gloomy picture indeed, in-deed, and a mere glance at it is enough to whet interest in the possibility of a second front in western Europe to relieve the pressure aainst the Soviet armies in the east. It can be stated authoritatively, meanwhile, that the Soviet need not necessarily be knocked out or counted out of the war, even were her armies to suffer the loss of the entire ' Caucasus area. That loss would be a bitter blow, but not insurmountable, for the Soviet Would still have the effective production pro-duction of her two largest industrial in-dustrial areas, Moscow and Leningrad. Len-ingrad. There is also the further report that behind the Ural mountains, dividing- Russia proper from Siberia, Si-beria, there is a new industrial area of a size and productive capacity that would surprise the whole non-Russian world. Program Censored The Soviet has apparently with good purpose kept secret the development details of this Ural mountain industrial area. According Accord-ing to Ernest C Ropes, head of the Russian division in the Bureau Bu-reau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and one of the few men in the United States who has examined every bit of information which the Soviet government has allowed the outside world to learn about this area, it has been explored ex-plored within the last 25 years and developed almost entirely within the three five-year plans that began in 1928. Under the first five-year plan a few of the resources were developed devel-oped as concessions with foreign capital. But no outside aid was sought during the past 10 years for the developments, which have of course been accelerated by the war effort and the moving of some industrial plants from the Moscow and Leningrad areas to the safety of these mountains. All these developments of the last two years have been cloaked by military censorship. But, one official report before the Soviet entered the war against Germany is perhaps significant. It said: "Two hundred new plants were built in the Urals between 193f and 1940." Today, this new Ural industrial area has some 15 cities, of from 50,000 to 500,000 population, with names that have not appeared in the communiques ' thus far anc" which must be sought on the map. They include: Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Chelya-binsk, Molotov, Ufa, Nishni-Tagil, Magnitogorsk, Orsk and Stalinsk Resources Tremendous - The resources of the area are tremendous, even when propaganda propa-ganda is discounted. Most hopeful, hope-ful, from the ipoint of view of supplying sup-plying mechanized and air armies, was the discovery of oil in 1929 in Ural fields of such extent that the area is known as a "second Baku." Baku and Grozny in the Caucasus have together been producing pro-ducing some 85 per cent of the Soviet's petroleum products. Metals of the Ural area provide its richest resources, and the mines, at the outbreak of the war, were yielding 30 per cent of its iron, 86 per cent of its copper, plus aluminum, chrome, manganese, manga-nese, nickel. Coal and electric power have also been developed in the Ural area. With the removal of some manufacturing and processing plants from western Russia, it has now supposedly, been possiblbe to integrate the-eiiOre Ural area into an industrial 'district that is to a large extent self-sufficient. RECEIVES. AWARD LEHI M. W. Wathra of Lehi, received the Purple Heart award from the war department of te United States, Monday, the .award being given to those who are are wounded in action. Mr. Wath-en Wath-en was twiee wounded during World War I, in France. AUNT HEX By ROBERT QUELLEN 'Tm glad Pa take his bath Saturday night. Feel-in' Feel-in' so clean and different on Sunday morning makes him think it a pious feelin'." - Businessmen-Soldiers Train In Honolulu to Give Future Jap Invaders "The Business" TXT i, 41 '5"Kvf .. Cu 1 ' f i "Til4 ? v ? -I - ,i f 1 : . 4 ,r i . , ' ' v - ft - V" v ,' f - : ' f t Regular Army non-com gives rifle instruction to members of Hono-lulus Hono-lulus new Business Men's Training Corps. By NEA Service HONOLULU, Sept. 10 Honolulu now has its own "People's Army' whose privates, non-coms and offercs are civilian business men, bankers, utility men, shopkeepers and defense workers. Called the Business Men's Training Corps, it is the product of the islanders' determination not to be caught napping if and when the -aps attack again. It includes soma 1300 volunteers, of whom 64 per cent have had previous military experience. The U. S. Army. Navy, Marine Corp3 and Coast Guard are represented. In addition there are also former National and Territorial Guard officers and veterans vet-erans of the Canadian, French and British armies. Many among them fought in France. REGULAR ARMY HELPS TRAIN VOLUNTEERS The BMTC gets regular military training, including intensive; rifle and "pistol practice: It is planned and ''supervised by the Corps' own officers, assisted by regular Army men and the provost marshal of the . Hawaiian Department, who is official military adviser. The members are . also trained in air raid defense.. These citizen-soldiers are uniformed In trim khaki, with , BMTC shoulder patches, overseas caps, and steel helmets. They are equipped with .45 calibre Colt pistols and .30 calibre Springfield rifles. Recently, reviewed, and . highly complimented by. General Delos Emmons,. Honolulu's businessmen-soldiers are -confident that they 'can help give Mr- Moto;"the business" should he decide to drop' in for an unfriendly vurit.. . . , . .. , ;..- . i |