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Show PAGE' TWO PRQVO (UTAH) DAILY" HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3L 1942; (Rxevptlnc ItlwtM aa 'mmamr MmnM rubUakad Soaday Moralm PMMid by th Haraid CorpormUva. Bank First WM Blrt, ProTO. Utah. Entr4 , mm Mwnd claw matter t the postoffic la Mm Utah. andr taa C of March t, llTt. iiiaa. Nlcol Ruthman. National Advert. tmm rprMnUtlTa Naw York. Baa Fraaclaaat Uataa. Lm Aacaiaa, CBlcaco. Unit ad Praam, M. B. A. Sarrtaa, SorlPPa Laaa o( Nawapapara aad t Bnraaa af Clrenlatlea. "Liberty through alt tha land" Tna Ubarty Ball abaorfptWa torai : aasty, aanta f ka axeata, .- tar ala month, ta adraacas 1.M tha yaa. as adTaSM! by mall4- anywhara la ttMad : Stataa mm poateaatona S cant tha month) ll.lt" iar ala atantha; tl.1t tha yaar lav Tha Herald wtTI not aponalbtlltyi for aay arrora which may appear la adTcrUaameata pabllahed ta Its eelamna, la thoaa taataneaa whaia tha paper la at faalt, k rill reprint that part af tha adrertlaaraaat at which tha typo era phleal at 1st aha Another Year , The year now beginning should be a Happy New Year. It will bring grief to many, hardships to more, irritation's to all. Biit unless all signs fail it will lead the peace-loving peoples peo-ples of the world within sight of an end to the inferno into which a few sadistic egomaniacs have plunged us. , During this year we shall have to sacrifice everything from money to lives on a scale never before con- . ceived. We shall not, however, make those sacrifices as we did the lesser ones of 1942 wondering in spite of ourselves whether they might just possibly prove to be in vain. (We can visualize in a general way the road that leads back to peace. Our enemies are on the defensive. They can stand us off for a long time perhaps, but no war ever was won by a defensive that was more than temporary, and the almost infinitesimal infinitesi-mal advantage that we now possess is certain to grow, so that on the grand scale we shall retain the offensive of-fensive from now on. Our industry has struck its stride. We aren't yet satisfied. We must never be satisfied until we have won. Yet both in quantity and in quality we so far surpass our enemies ene-mies that they have no chaice. We have stopped the unsatisfactory unsatisfac-tory copying of others' weapons and tactics. We are proving the superori-ty superori-ty of American technical methods by evolving our own weapons, which are proving as devastating to the Germans as their blitzkrieg weapons once did to the democracies democra-cies of Europe. The laps are relatively safe, for a short time. The war is yet far from their home shores. That, also, is temporary. tem-porary. Before the year-end Nippon also will feel the weight of our wrath. (r . Said Undersecretary of War Patterson Pat-terson recently: 'This much can be said with assurance. as-surance. The year 1943 will be a fighting year for American troops. We will be fighting in Europe and Asia and Afripa and on the seven seas. "We will seek our the enemy wherever we can find him not on one front or on two fronts, but on any front where Nazis and Japanese can be engaged in combat." That is the vital and encouraging difference between 1943 and the year now past. In 1943 we shall seek out our enemies, wherever they are, and strike them with mighty concentra- , tions of deadly weapons, instead of sitting back as we were forced to do so much during 1942 and wondering won-dering whether or where the enemy would strike us before we could become be-come strong enough to stop him "The year 1943 will be a tough year," said Mr. Patterson. "It will likely be a year of heavy casualties. It takes loss of life and loss of blood to attack, to press the war home tc the enemy, to win momentous battles." Indeed it does. -But it is far easier to face de6th, for one's self or his loved ones" when death is contributing contribut-ing directly to progress than when as on Bataan, in the East Indies and elsewhere during 1942 the utmost possible was to slow down a victorious victori-ous enemy's advance. . Yes, with all its sorrows and its heartbreaks 1943 should be a Happy New Year for everybody who believes be-lieves in human freedom, a year that should get happier and happier hap-pier as it goes on. Illlllllllll The Washington Merry -Co -Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs mTJ WASHINGTON The other day, Lieut. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell pushed a button on lUg desk and sent for an officer of the real estate section of Army Engineers. That officer had been engaged in such projects as condemning condemn-ing and purchasing girls' schools for conversion to military purposes, so he was surprised, and a little amused, when he heard Somervell's request. re-quest. "I want youto find an apartment," said Somervell, "for. thh Elmer Davises (Director of the Office of War Information), and it must bo a place where they can keep a cat." The officer obligingly scoured the town, first found an apartment in the Marlyn only to learn that the Davis cat would not be admitted. ad-mitted. Somervell kept abreast of developments, and at one point the idea was considered of condemning an apartment and taking it over. Finally, the officer found a nook on Sixteenth Six-teenth street, where all the Davises, human and feline, could be housed. Pleased with this success. Somervell promptly gave his officer another little housing assignment. The British government had sent to Washington their noted Gen. Sir Walter Venning, Ven-ning, to serve as director general of the British ministry of supply mission. But Sir Walter and his lady were having housing troubles. They had secured a small apartment in the Shoreham, but wanted something larger. Gen.. Somervell, as chief of U. S. services of supply, knew Sir Walter, and promised to fix everything. Promptly, he sent his real estate officer to the Shoreham, where it was learned that a larger apartment was about to be vacated. But there were complications. Two admirals of the U. S. navy had heard the same news, and their wives were already competing for the precious space. One was the wife of Admiral Thomas C. Hart. Commander of the U. S. Fleet in the battle of the Java Sea, and she was confident that, on the basis of rank- her husband being a full admiral, would- have superior claims. But Gen. Somervell put an end to the argument argu-ment by taking the apartment for Sir Walter. That was that. CAPITAL CIIAFF At a dinner given by Assistant Secretary of State Berle a few days before the assassination assassina-tion of Admiral Darlan, two Fighting Frenchmen, French-men, Andre Tixier and Admiral Georges D'Ar-, D'Ar-, genlieu, were moved to denounce the Darlan deal. In spite of the fact that there were only eight persons at table, and their host was a U. S. official, they rose in formal fashion and delivered themselves of most persuasive arguments argu-ments against the whole policy of working with Da"rlan . . . Secretary of State Hull is now accompanied in his movements about the Capital Capi-tal by a plainclothes bodyguard. MADAME CHIANG'S CHARM It hasn't been officially announced yet, but when Madame Chiang Kai-shek "Generalissl-m "Generalissl-m is tress of China," emerges from the hospital, she plans to come to Washington and camp at the White House until she has persuaded FDR to pass the ammunition. Madame Chiang i3 a very persuasive person. per-son. She combines oriental charm with a Welles-ley Welles-ley education. Unquestionably One will become China's "ambassador-in-effect" in Washington. Already Chinese Ambassador Wei is wondering whether he or Madame Chiang really represents the Chinese government. But while there may be some doubt on that, there is absolutely no doubt that China wants more planes and wants them quickly. This time, it is not the appeal of a desperate people, but of a people ready to take the offensive. Chinese military experts declare that thy could do more damage to Japan with one plane than British and Americans could do with two in the Solomons or the East Indies. Reason is that they can engage the enemy en-emy in great numbers, for all eastern China is occupied by Japan, whereas her forces in the Pacific are scattered from island to island. Immediate objective of the Chinese drive if they are allowed to make it Will be Hankow, the most strategic city in China. Madame Chiang will argue that capture of Hankow would disorganize the entire transportation transpor-tation system by which the Japanese ship supplies sup-plies overland to Indo-China and Burma. Further, several divisions of Japanese troops have been withdrawn from southeast China for reinforcement of the Solomons. If the Chinese opened a new offensive, such withdrawals with-drawals would be impossible, and the job for ir. s. and Australian figfeters in the South Pacific would be easier. 1944 IS TOO LATE Madame Chiang also has another powerful power-ful argument up her sleeve that 1944 will be too late. The schedule now adopted by the United Nations high command to knock off Hitler Hit-ler first and then turn on Hirohito in 194 is regarded ty the Chinese as dangerous and unsound strategy. v Month by month, the Japanese are consolidating. con-solidating. They are bringing together the rubber, rub-ber, tin, and oil of the East Indies, with the iron and coal of north China, and welding an industrial system which will be able to run indefinitely. in-definitely. No longer will scrap iron be necessary neces-sary from the outside world. t It given time, Madame Chiang will argue, the Japs will complete the gaps in the rail lines between Singapore and China, and thus have an overland transportation route, safe from submarines. Then no matter how strong the British and American Navies, they will be no more able to dent Jap supply lines than the Japs can dent our communications between San Francisco and New York. That roughly is the powerful argument Madame Chiang Kaishek will make. (Copyright, 1942. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Induction V .. War-time Cargo Planes May Be Scrapped After the War Q In what way did the Marine Corps recently give new recogni tion to its air arm ? A They changed the words of their hymn to read, "We fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea." Previously "the air' was not mentioned in the song. Q Does color blindness affect women as well as men? A Very seldom. Color blindness, blind-ness, the inability to distinguish colors, especially red and grene, occurs almost exclusively in males. Q What is the correct pronunciation pronun-ciation of the name of the famous Czech village of Lidice? A LEE-dit-seh, with the accent on the first syllable. Lee rhymes with see, the dit rhymes with sit, and the seh rhymes winth the "se" of set. Q Will vitamins make you fat? A No. They promote growth and health but in no way add to fat. Q When and where was the first golf tournament held? A The first golf tournament was held at Prestwick, Scotland, in 1860, 36 holes medal play. Instead In-stead of a medal, the winner was given a belt, which was to become forever the property of the man winning it three times in succession. succes-sion. Tom Morris Jr. gained permanent per-manent possession with victories in 186S-'69-70. 'WAR 1 It's no secret that the soldier who wears three stripes like this is a sergeant, but if you saw a WAAC wearing these chevrons, what would her proper title be ? 2. The U. S. marked the an-nivers an-nivers a r y of Pearl Harbor by launch i n g the Bel leau Wood, the New Jersey, the Bunker Hill and the Miami. Identify the type of each of these war vessels (battleship, aircraft carrier or cruiser) . 3. Is Tulagl near Tebourba in Tunisia? - Answers on Page Eight RFC Streamlines Loan Plan to Aid Small Business Reconstruction Finance Corporation Corpor-ation has authorized its Salt Lake City Agency to make business and defense loans up to and including in-cluding $100,000 to any one borrower bor-rower without the necessity of referring re-ferring the loan applications to the corporation's Washington office. of-fice. Loans made in cooperation with bands can be approved by the local agency in amounts not exceeding $250,000, provided the .bank's participation in tle loan is not less than 25 per cent and represents rep-resents new money loaned. Approximately Ap-proximately 90 per cent of the national defense loans and loans to business enterprises made by RFC to date are under $100,000. Therefore, a large percentage of the applications can now be acted upon by the local agency. In order to expediate tne consideration con-sideration and closing of these loans, the procedure has been revised re-vised to reduce to a minimum the number of documents required to be executed by borrowers and it is now possible for the local agency to disburse a loan within a very few days after an applica tion is received. It is not tha policy of RFC to compete with banks and it wiU not make loans where the credit sought is available at reasonable rates and terms through normal lending channels. Banks are en couraged to cooperate with RFC by participating in loans When they are unable or do not feci justified in carrying the entire amount. Loans will be made to purchase inventory, pay labor, buy machinery machin-ery and equipment and to expand existing facilities. If a concern has a defense contract or subcontract subcon-tract and has the facilities and "know how" for completing the contract, RFC wilj generally find a way to make a loan to finance the fulfillment of the contract. Local business men needing fin ancial asisstance should contract their banks or the Salt Lake City Loan Agency of the Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion 'Finance corporation, 504 Dooly building, The local loan agency will give prompt and sympathetic sym-pathetic consideration to all applications ap-plications received and will let applicants know within a very few days Kvhether or not a loan can be grantedj. TWO SUFFER BURNS LAKE SHORE Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Barney are recovering from second degree burns received on Christmas day when a gasoline stove exploded at the home of Mrs. Barney's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Simmons, where they were assisting in preparing dinner. din-ner. Both Mr. and Mrs. Barney were burned on the face and arms, and Mr. Barney was burned on his" back and legs. They were rescued by Mr. Simmons, who was asleep in an adjoining room and was awakened by the explosion. Fort Jefferson National Monument, Monu-ment, in Florida, was visited by 1141 persons during 1940. By PETER, EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent When the war is over there will be hundreds of cargo planes hanging hang-ing around and the general idea has been that these planes could immediately take off in all directions direc-tions to .haul freight, thus marking mark-ing the beginning of a new era of aerial transport. It's a pretty picture, pic-ture, but some of the aviation brains of the country have been doing a little realistic thinking about this new age of air, and much to your surprise they have come up with the idea that perhaps per-haps the most sensible thing to do with this huge air armada of cargo planes is scrap it. Engines and instruments might be salvaged, sal-vaged, but for the planes them-selves-junk 'em and make 'em over into new airplanes. The reasoning is based on the fact that up to now most cargo planes being flown are as much as six and eight years old. What are these planes? Well, a lot of them are Douglas DC-2's and DC- 3's and planes of earlier vintage. Those were the commercial planes that were in production when the war broke out and when the need for more and more cargo planes first became apparent the simplest thing to do was ask for more of the same. True, these ships were designed as passenger planes. But it was no trick at all to redesign the interior, in-terior, knock out the seats, enlarge en-large the loading door, put in a floor and make the entire fuselage cargo space. But the DC-3, lead truck horse that it is, is now six years old. Its costs of operation are figured at around 30 cents per ton mile for air freight, loaded to 60 per cent of capacity. Air express rates have been from 80 cents per ton mile up to cover costs and ground, handling charges. Passenger carrying car-rying costs run about 5 cents per passenger mile. And at those rates, air cargo simply can't be handled on a basis competitive with rail, truck or steamship. So freight costs must belowered to something like 10 cents per ton mile. t ITS A SECRET There are supposed to be new cargo planes in production now which will come close to meeting these cost-of-operation specifications. specifica-tions. Mostly they're secret planes for war use and you can't get anyone to talk about them for publication. But the mere fact that there are such planes on the drawing board is enough to set all the aviation brains of the country to thinking about what's to become be-come of the planes now flying. This line of thinking was pre sented at a recent meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Chicago. Phil Amram, a Philadelphia Phila-delphia lawyer who came down to Washington to work on the legal staff of the Board of Economic Warfare and was later shiftaai to a job which ultimately led him to his present position as head of BEW's International Air Transport Trans-port Division, is the man who brought to a head all this talk about the possible necessity of scrapping all of today's obsolete planes. Amram presented another idea which captivates the imagination. Too much attention, he says, has been paid to developing the perfect per-fect cargo plane something that will do for the development of aerial freight traffic .what the" DC-3 has done for the development develop-ment of aerial passenger traffic over the past six years. It is Am-ram's Am-ram's contention that there isn't any such thing as a perfect cargo plane. Tf the aviation industry is to get any place with its development develop-ment of air cargo, it will have to do what the motor truck industry has doge ijn the past 25 years develop a different model for every different use. NEED THEM LARGE AND SMALL "We raav need small nl.-Mwa iii carry a ton or so economically, which can land on small rough fields," savs Amram. "We may need a plane with throe to five tons pavload to operate ii) mountain moun-tain areas on fields too small for larger craft such as the DC-3. which requires a 3500-foot runway. run-way. We may want landplanes of varying sizes up to 50 tons pay- load for regular operations of from 200 to 2000 miles in areas where cargo is heavy and landing fields adequate." Amram considers much of the talk about flying box cars as decidedly de-cidedly disturbing, for the cargo plane of the future can't be a clumsy, badly designed, hit-or-miss proposition out together as cheao-lv' cheao-lv' as possible. If the object is to reduce rates then the carro-carry-ing plane must just as "much as the passenger plane- be the most efficient, best-d csigned, and the cleanest aircraft which the engi neering talent of the country can create. . That's why many of today's planes may have to be scarpped. KILLED IN ACTION WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (U.R) - The nflvi; RiH tnrlav that 9ml Lieut. Wayne R. Gentry, marine corps reserve, who was reported missing on Dec. 12, now was reported re-ported dead. His next of kin is Mrs. John A. Olson, Kimberly, Idaho. SERIAL STORY FRANTIC FESTIVAL BY EDMUND FANCOTT COPYRIGHTS 1042. NEA SERVICE. INC. SPENDS FURLOUGH SPANISH FORK Sergeant Cyril Moore son of Mr. and Mrs. D. William Moore of this city, has bene spending a short furlough fur-lough with his family here. He has been in service in the air force for 18 months having enlisted en-listed May 26, 1941. After six months of training at Spokane, Washington, he left for overseas over-seas duty. He is a graduate of the Spanish Fork, high school nd was employed' in Spanish Fork prior to his enlistment. He has a brother, Leonard D. Moore, who is also serving in the armed forces. The male cardinal is the most affectionate of birds. Only death or captivity can separate it from its mate. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEX "I'm sorry for Amy. I told her that smokin' so much was what ailed her, and to prove It don't hurt her she's had to stop com-plalnin'." com-plalnin'." - ' FLIGHT CHAPTER XII JEANO'S nerve was gone. Little things one after another had worn it down and now he panicked. pan-icked. He grabbed Leona's hand and pulled her through a side door. For a moment no one realized real-ized what was happening and then it dawned on the boys that Santa was fleeing before he had finished the job. Like a pack of hounds they were after him with a bedlam bed-lam of noise. After them poured Ferdy, his aunt, Fay and Ross to herd them back. They were pouring outside without any of their coats and rubbers and they would catch their deaths of cold. Beano swept Leona into his arms and dashed to the garage. The front door was shut behind the two men now inside and he reached the garage before the hounds emerged from the house. Dismay smote him as he rounded the corner. There, standing before the doors, was a farmer's sleigh with two horses. There w&s na time for maneuvers, there was only time for action. He dropped Leona on to the pile of rugs in the sleigh, jumped in and snatched the whip. As the pursuit piled around the corner they saw a vonderful and traditional sight, Santa Claus in his sleigh driving through the snow with the Queen of the Fairies Fair-ies with him. At the gallop it was spectacular and no one noticed the disarranged appearance of the Queen of the Fairies or her disgruntled dis-gruntled expression. The cold was biting through the nightgown and she was swaying in a struggle to disentangle the rugs amidst the frantic career of the horses and sleigh down the steep drive. The pursuit stopped dead in its tracks. Even the most hard-bitten cynic among the boys was shaken to the core by the realization that Santa Claus was Behaving as if he were real after all. Ferdy'g aunt herded them back into the house. Only Fay and Ross were missing when the others came back to the unhappy Benny, who was now the man in the middle, mid-dle, detectives in the hallway and Beano gone, leaving him to face the musicJ Myra opened the front door expecting ex-pecting what she saw. She asked the two men in. They were big men and looked like ex-policemen. They also looked tough. "Well, boys?" she asked. "Trouble?" "Trou-ble?" They nodded. "We'd have been here before but the car stuck in a drift way back and we had to rent a sleigh from a farmer." "Looking for someone?" "Fellow named McCluskey up here?" "He's gone." "Gone?" "Yes," said Myra. 'Listen." They listened. They heard the unmistakable jangle of sleigh bells tinkling furiously. "That's your sleigh," she said calmly. With one accord both men turned to dash to the door. Myra stopped them. "Wait," she said. "Maybe I can help you. Maybe ylm don't want him." y "What do ycra mean?" said one of them. "Diamondsrinterest you?" she asked. "What do you know about it?" said the other suspiciously. "Everything," she said. "I'm a bit of a detective myself and . . ." she whispered this, ". . . Mr. Lor-ton, Lor-ton, who owns this place, works for the R. C. M. P. Intelligence Department De-partment as a plain-clothes man, strictly between ourselves." They were impressed but not convinced. "Now listen," she said. "Do you want the ice or the man?" "YTfE'RE from tie insurance company. We want the diamonds. dia-monds. If we were in the States we'd take the man as well. But this is Canada and it'd be more trouble to get him out than he's worth." The other man added his piece. "The diamonds are worth $53,000. McCluskey's worth nothing." "O. K. What about Benny Brien?" "What about him," said one man. . "Don't know him. Only know this fellow left a mailing address care of Brien." "O. K.," said Myra. "Bygones are bygones if you get the diamonds? dia-monds? Right?" "You bet." "Then come and meet the boys and don't say a word when you get a present." She led them back to the room where the boys were seated indecisively in-decisively around the tree. Benny seemed pale and' slightly shrunk, but the two men took no notice of him. Introductions were completed with whispered asides to Ferdy and his aunt to leave it all to her and then Myra took charge of the proceedings, from the ailing Benny, but she kept him in the role of Santa Claus. "Now, boys," said Myra. "Owing "Ow-ing to the unexpected departure of Santa Claus to parts -unknown we will ask Mr. Benny .Brien to substitute and I'll substitute for the Queen of the Fairies. A bit of an anticlimax if you get the joke but if you get the presents it's all the same to you." ' She began to pull parcels from the tree and hand them to the unsuspecting Benny. He read the names of the recipients and passed them over. Then Myra casually in the stream of presents leaned down at the back of the tree ynd took a small red parcel. "Why," she said. "If this isn't lucky. We thought our two guests were going to be disappointed but here I And a little gift they can share between them." She passed it to Benny wlio felt it, read the inscription and gulped. It read, exactly like the other, "To Leona, with love from you know who." He fingered it nervously, feeling the unmistakable hardness of the diamonds. He passed it to the two detectives detec-tives as though it were red hot. One of them took it, pressed it, and nodded to the other nd passed it ove to him. The other felt it also and tucked it in his pocket. A feeling of great relief suddenly sud-denly camp over Benny. He was voluble now, the words pouring out in a hurried stream. "I use to handle all McCluskey's bookings when he was in the big time wrestling. He was good then, but he fell to pieces. Used to come to me to help him, and I would, just for old times sake and to keep him straight. But who'd have thought he'd do a thing like that. I wouldn't have touched him if I'd known he was in on any funny business." Benny was all smiles now. "Well, it's a good job I made him leave a forwarding address at my place and I hope you didn't bust up anything when you went through my office. Still, the reward re-ward will fix that up. They put a high reward on ice like that, and seeing it was me that put you boys on the right track I guess you'll be seeing I get fixed up all right. What was that? There ain't no reward? Well what do you think of that? That's life. That's justice. That's . . ." Benny noticed the menace in the detectives' eyes. "All right. All right. Don't fiet tough," he finished, lamely. (To Be Continued) i |