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Show i t "f t - ' - 3,' " V.- , - - ''it' '-".- ?THE WASHINGTON f PROVO (UTAH) WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1943. 1 GO Dun D I mi f i 1LP U U P UU UOILddod Reluctant Women Various surveys agree that American Ameri-can women show little enthusiasm for war work, either in factories or in voluntary war services, and suggest that intelligent recruitment methods l will have to be adopted if the ma-I ma-I jority of women are to be interested. The number of women in war industry in-dustry has. reached 4)000,000, but the National Industrial Conference Board Teports that employers find that most .women feel no personal urge to go to work in factories. There is no social pressure upon women to assist in the war effort, the board's inquirers report, and, on the contrary, women still feel that such .work would impair their social standing. stand-ing. :l The Women's City Club in New Work looked into reports that women of leisure were lagging behind their working sisters in willingness to devote de-vote free time to voluntary war ser-. ser-. vice. Women without paid jobs, mostly most-ly .under 60 and in more-than-$5000 income class, were interviewed. Only about two out of five were found to be enrolled, for voluntary war work, and of these two-thirds give 12 hours a week or less. The same explanations crop up in both surveys. There are children who need care and there is housework to be done. Nurses and maids are increasingly in-creasingly hard to get. - Also, explicitly or implicitly, there is a third reason which may be even more important. The average woman is not 'aware of any pressing need for her services. She may, indeed, have read or been told that women are needed; but sometimes she doesn't believe it at all, and sometimes she accepts it as a generalization. "The average woman apparently feels much as do a great many men that the government has not exhausted exhaust-ed its MAN-power resources. ". This may not be correct. However until Washington produces something some-thing in the nature of a "Baruch report" re-port" on manpower, the attempt to recruit women is going to face ser-. ser-. ious obstacles. : The volunteer situation, likewise, seems to be quite dependent upon improved public relations. Too many ' women assume that the civilian defense de-fense jobs are all -filled. Too few, apparently, know that there is part-time part-time volunteer work which could be fitted into their home and child-care programs. .American women are not slackers. .They merely have not been impressed impress-ed with the extent of the need and pf the opportunity. That is a fault of ""''government which can and should .'.be remedied. "Educating Africa x;:Trie American Army is doing a " splendid missionary job in North Af-' Af-' rica, teaching the moral and ethical -and human differences between hu- :man beings and axis soldiery and, at ::the same time, impressing upon the world the superiority of American 'economic resources. "Some 3500 Italian children, mostly "of prisoners of war, were given a Christmas party by our men in Eri-rtrea, Eri-rtrea, with presents and candy and motion pictures. The American invasion fleet took with ' it much ted, sugar and cotton cloth. Rice, cigarets, tobacco; shoes, pencils, razors and medical supplies have followed. These have been distributed- among the natives in pay- vjnent; for services. ' This is, of course; the exact oppo-. oppo-. site of the axis policy of stripping oc-cupied oc-cupied countries, enslaving and . starving the. people. Be sure that "full details; of such attitudes, will percolate perco-late throughout neutral, occupied and .puppet axis peoples, to our infinite penent. v, " 4 - U.S. State Paper Is Best Seller The War Wm Have to Wait ti Bv PETER EDSON Dally Herald . Washington Correspondent Somewhat to its surprise, the Department of State has a best seller on its hands in its first publication pub-lication of 1943, the 25-cent, 144-page, 144-page, paper-backed thriller officially of-ficially titled "Peace and War-United War-United States Foreign Policy 1931-1941." The initial order was for 2500 copies. That just took eare of the State Department, other interested inter-ested government officials and the press. As it was purely an undocumented un-documented historiacl introduction to a complete volume of official papers which will be out around Feb. 1. State Department's re search and publications division ( thought the demand for tnis introduction in-troduction would be small. But the first edition was gobbled up overnight, and congressmen and others began calling up and asking ask-ing for 50 copies or so apiece. A rush order for a second edition ed-ition of 50,000 copies had to be given to the Government Printing Print-ing Office, but that's probably just the beginning. Private publishers pub-lishers are begging for reprint rights, and the little book may find its way eventually to the news stands for display alongside "Ghastly Confessions" and "Murder "Mur-der Omnibook." Government red tape interferes with this last project pro-ject a little, for the Government Printing Office won't sell on consignment con-signment and won't allow book dealers who will pay cash in advance ad-vance to make more than 25 per cent on their sales, whereas the custom of the trade is a 40 per cent commission. Regardless of those restrictions, Office of War Information will bring out a smaller, pocket-size edition with reduced margins to save paper, and arrangements are being made to publish the work in Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and German at least. No White Paper "Peace and War" has incorrectly incor-rectly referred to as an American White Paper, but that's a misnomer. misno-mer. The first edition had a brown paper cover and the second maroon. Also, since neither of ; these editions has any documents, the publication isn't really entitled en-titled to be referred to as an official of-ficial "paper'' in the strict interpretation inter-pretation of diplomatic jargon. The complete text will be the best source book possible on American foreign policy in the dreadful 1931-41 decade. The "Peace nad War" introduction pamphlet just sums it all up in somewhat official but absolutely accurate language. You will look in vain for any ndication of authorship of "Peace and War." That's intentional. The booklet is a Department of State publication and though it was Secretary of State Cordell mars idea to issue this introduction separately and he guided its prep aration, credit for the work is given to the department as a whole. As a matter of fact, practically every head of every division in the State Department read proof and made suggestions or alter ations to insure that this would be a foolproof job, with no chance of an error and no possibility ot a kick-back from some foreign propaganda agency. Man Who IWd The Work Research, first drafting editing and final preparation of "Peace and War" were, however, the work of Carlton Savage, one of the younger counselors of the department. de-partment. He has been working on "Peace and War" since last spring. Savage came to Washington in 1926 from Salem, Ore. He had been principal of a . high school and secretary and business man ager of the state normal school, y m "Ni " j V 0 WITHCHJT; STRIKE 7 llSPi! n va OSxl "WITHOUT- ClPll :i UJ1 .11 FROM THE V &C7-& ? HHP V XV X " Kpfrg i ------- MKflMnrlMh.fcM- : : , : ; AUNT HET By ROBERT QITHXEN. Ifs Rationing at a Glance War Ration Book Deadline for obtaining war ration ra-tion books No. 1 expired January Jan-uary 15, 1943. It is necessary to have this book before 'receiving new all-purpose book for point rationing, due soon after the first of the year. Coffee Stamp No. 27 in war ration book No. 1, good for one pound until Jan. , 1943. Sugar Stamp No. 10 in war ration book No. 1, good for three pounds of sugar until Jan. 31, 1943. Tires First inspection provided for in mileage rationing program must be made before February 1 for passenger automobiles and January Jan-uary 16 for commercial vehicles. Certificates for recaps or various grades of new tires issued by war but, filled with the idealism of the Coolidge era of peace, he threw it all up and came to the capital to get any kind of a job he could find to play even a minor part in maintaining that glorious tradition. As a protege of Senator Sen-ator Charles L.. McNarr, also of Salem, Savage, in 1927, finally did get a minor research job in the State Department and went on from there. In the piping times of peace, Savage made a special study of neutrality before the first World War and edited a three-volume State Department publication on that subject. Wljen the present war broke out in Europe, 'Savage was naturally the historical authority auth-ority on U.S. neutrality, so he was advanced to more important drafting assignments. Savage is' decidedly the Oregon type of State Deparmtent career man, in distinction to the Groton-Harvard Groton-Harvard type. And he is one of Secretary Hull's more regular companions when the . tall statesman states-man from the hills of Tennessee takes an hour or so of a summer afternoon to play croquet. price and rationing boards to eligible users on proof of need through inspection. Fuel No rationing of coal, gas or oil yet in intermountain region, but householders urged to use as conservatively as possible to prevent pre-vent shortage and possible future fu-ture rationing. Gasoline Passenger cars -No, . 3 coupons in basic V" A" mileage ration book good for four gallons each until January 22. Class "B" coupons good for four gallons of gasoline until expiratioon date shown on book. Class "C" coupons good for four gallons of gasoline for three months from date of issuance. is-suance. v Motorcycles -,lass "P" cou pons from basic books good for one and one-half gallons of gasoline gaso-line until July 22, 1942. Class "D" coupons from books marked "supplemental" good for one and one-half gallons, of gasoline during dur-ing time marked on book. Transports (trucks, buses, taxicabs, etc.) Class T-l and T-2 coupons each good for five gallons gal-lons of gasoline until April 1, 1943. Off -highway machines (boats, airplanes, farm equipment, etc.) Class "E" coupons good for one gallon of gasoline and class "R" coupons good for five gallons of gasoline, both for three months from date of issuance. Miscellaneous 4 Automobiles, bicycles and six types of rubber work shoes and boots (not ordinary rubbers and galoshes) are being rationed and purchase certificates from your local war price and rationing board are necessary. "After a man gets rich like Joe, he likes to brag about his humble start, but he cant do it without mak-in' mak-in' his wife mad." A Daily Picture of What's SZZ Going on in National Affairs J,ttJi V5 Robert en Q Who are the WAACS, WAVES, WIRES, and SPARS? A WAACS are members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, WAVES are the Women's Auxiliary Aux-iliary Volunteer Emergency . Service Ser-vice (Naval), WIRES are Women Wo-men in Radio and Electrical Service, Serv-ice, and SPARS are "Semper Paratus Always Ready" (Coast Guard). . , Q What does the threat count printed on the label of bed sheets and pillow cases indicate? A Thread count figures indicate indi-cate the number of threads per squire inch running both ways of the material. Generally speaking the higher the thread count, the closer the weave, the better the material. Q What famous massacre of a British detachment occurred when a wily Indian chief invited unsuspecting Redcoats to watch a lacrosse game? A The massacre of Fort Mackinac Mack-inac in 1763 by Chief Pontiac of the Ottawas, who was still loyal to France after the British acquired ac-quired Canada. Q Are game cocks taught to fight? A No. They are born with the instinct. They are conditioned for fighting with a regular diet and daily alcohol rubs. S- Side Glances 'Oh,. I won't, mind getting along on fewef'clothes it will give me Something 'in common with our boys in ' the jungles IV ' ;. ' o SERIAL STORY l AM A MURDERER' BY MORRIS MAR KEY 6fVftl6HT. 1 NEA SERVICE. INCV UNSOLVED MYSTERY CHAPTER XX. 'JT seems that we face a very clear situation,'! Lieutenant Thatcher said. "Quite clear," Captain Meehan answered. Cynthia looked at them, at Mitchell Mit-chell Grace and . Henry Prentiss. Please explain it to me," she asked. Lieutenant Thatcher looked at Captain Meehan again, and nodded slightly, and Captain Meehan, staring at the steeple made by his joined fingertips, spoke quietly: "The facts are simple. We are dealing with a man who appeared, literally, from nowhere, pretending pretend-ing to be someone else altogether. Such an assumption could be altered only by a message from your friend Mr, Stewart, saying that this Vaughan Dunbar really was his friend, and really bore a letter of introduction to you; Under the circumstances, I do not expect such a message. . He used great shrewdness to work his way into your house. He committed his crime in the rriost ostentatious way possible in full view of dozens of people. What does that tell us? Simply that he intends to vanish into the nowhere from which he emerged. Actually, he told us that much in the note lie left behind. "He knows that vre shall never find a hint Of the past from which he came or.' at least he thinks he knows thai. ?And he is equally confident that we '. shall not find the way into his iuture. ' ;" "And what does that " mean to us, who pursue him? Just thit We know nothing of nistraU before be-fore he came into your lives. And that trail . has broken off now, as abruptly as it started. It breaks off at the ' automobile , he abandoned, aban-doned, after managing with such cleverness to get it clear of the immediate vicinity of this house, "Where does it lead from there? Perhaps.. to another automobile, which he had planted in that selfsame self-same parking lot. Or to any of several; bus lines leading' away " from the iaTw't'a"4ozen' railroad stations on two different lines, all within easy walking dis- lance: Garden City itself, Country Life -Press, Hempstead, Nassau Boulevard, Mineola of course, we have checked them all. With no results whatever. "We have notified every city and town in the country to look for him. AH airports have been under special observation for days. The only comfort we may find is the fact that disappearing is very difficult business indeed. It does not happen often. And I think you know that we never give up." He looked at Lieutenant Thatcher, Thatch-er, who nodded approval. And Lieutenant Thatcher, said, "Our main chance now is to find "out more about the early life of your father, Miss Merriwether." ' (YN Friday, a cablegram came from Bill Stewart. He had heard of Vaughan Dunbar some years ago. Had never met him. Understood he had died somewhere. some-where. Nor did fortune thereafter attend at-tend inquiry into the earlier life oi Colonel Merriwether. As a matter , of plain truth, the first that could really r be learned of him was his appearance . on the Chicago scene, and subsequently at Denver and in Canada, abou five years before the day -that he called for Cynthia at the convent, and brought her out .into the world. The knowledge that could be gained of him moved in the conventional con-ventional channels of business, mining promotions and. such kindred kin-dred enterprises. But information about him, as a human being; was scant indeed. For there were .no relatives that could be found, no old friends, and for that matter no old enemies. -'. Mitchell - Grace produced such files as existed, and told of the matters upon which hi time' had been-occupied. They were,ilde astonishment of aU concerned, of trifling importance. A small handful hand-ful , of shares here and -nibbling purchases of interest in mines"! or corporations. - . ' ' v " Tiiere' were huge reserves, of shares and bonds and of cash! in several New York and Chicago banks. -. ' '. ; . : ' " " " His will could - not , be! found. And his . lawyers, : whonv-he -had consulted most .'infrequently-bad never drawn one. for him. Which meant; of 'course, that in good.time all of his ; wealth' would fall jto Cynthia. ,-- : , .:'-r'-'si-; , The 'excitement of -the -Newspapers cooled and died.' J.Jeh-of the police, visited Stone:Housj less and less frequently.' Peopij'atvthe Broken- Hill club began ta talt :tof other things than thes' dramatic death of ;- Colonel -: Merriwether. And the trail of Vaughan Dunbar still ended where it always had ended, at the door of a Packard roadster in Garden City. rST after Thanksgiving, Cynthia Cyn-thia went to Honolulu. She closed the house, and carried Fred West's cousin Anne with her. Her spirits had risen, of course, because be-cause they were of a sort that nothing could keep subdued beyond be-yond a certain space of time. But in that setting it would have been hard for her to recover all of her old verve and gaiety. Her sense of decency and the fitness of things would have interfered. She knew this instinctively. And she had it explained, gently but categorically, by Henry Prentiss. And it. was, as a matter of fact, Henry Prentiss who suggested Hawaii, and Anne. She liked both ideas immensely. The whole notion no-tion of change, of new scenes, seemed to reyive her, Henry ,; Prentiss and Mitchell Grace and Fred West drank wine with Cynthia and Anne in the sitting sit-ting room of their quarters aboard ship on the night they sailed away. They were taking the long way 'round, through the Canal and touching at Los Angeles and San Francisco. There were no anguished faces nor heavy sighs even if there was no carefree laughter. Henry Prentiss said, "Well, now, it's so long, Miss Pretty, and good traveling." 1 "Goodby,'you old shoe." "Send picture postcards. "In all colors.w "Saying,-'Wish you were here always . saying that." '" "And,- X is my room. The gong boomed; through the companionways and a piping boy's voice , called, : '"All : ashore that's going, ashore!" t . Cynthia . said, YouH "let me know quickly if if anything if they find " . : " - ' "Yes, Miss Pretty. ? Goodby. . . . Goodby.'.V. Good-by. Good-by. - "-'. ." ' ,; The siren bellowed and drowned all last words: And Prentiss ; and Grace, and West were oh 'the pier standing and waving. And the ship wore out into. the river channel. TM three men got into a taxi-cab, taxi-cab, :; and' Henry ' Prentiss said, "Gentlemen, the occasion seems appropriate for something a little serious in the way of partaking. Anil right?" !Right you are,, said Fred W$st and Mitcb,Giicew 4.rt ..,... '; .Prentiss said to the driver, Tim Costeilo's bar on Third avenue. ltrs that one with sawdust on the Aoosv . ' - - v , j - ; (To Be Continued ; WASHINGTON Failure of the British and American Navies to make any appreciable headway head-way in, comBating the submarine, now the chief bottleneck of the war, has caused members of the Truman Committee to do some soul-probing among Navy and WPB chieftains. One handicap has been the difficulty, so far, of doing damage to Nazi submarine yards, vmier 'has taken such careful precautions to house his construction yards under heavy concrete con-crete sheds, that he must have planned long ago to make the submarine his chief weapon in his effort to prevent an allied victory. ttipr mnRSi vp roncrete tunnels, not oniv are well camouflaged, tout are so heavily" built that allied bombs can do little damage. Thus submarine construction can proceed without interruption in-terruption during air raids. Meanwhile, Hitler is concentrating materials, mater-ials, labor and everything he has on launching submarines at terrific speed. In contrast, the U. S. Navy has moved with snail-like pace in building escort ships to combat submarines. ARCHITECT GIBBS TO RESCUE At first the Admirals were too intent on building big battleships to pay much attention to escort vessels. Then steel became scarce and it was a matter of choosing between heavy ships for offensive war, or light ships to defend against submarines. This was a hard decision. Tn addition, the Navy had about nine different dif-ferent types of escort vessels on paper, and the admirals had difficulty making up their minds which were the best. An escort vessel is light, fast, more thinly armored than a destroyer, destroy-er, but must be capable of cruising long distances. dis-tances. It is not an easy ship to design. Finally Charles Wilson, WPB' production dynamo, was brought o Washington partly to speed, up escort vessels. But this was only last August. Wilson, to help the Navy make up its mind, brouglit William F. Gibbs, of the famous naval architectural firm of Gibbs and Cox, to Washington. Gibbs has now recommended a design not unlike the British corvette, another name for an escort vessel. Production of these is being rushed. v Meanwhile, it is no longer a military secret that sinkings by U-boats have reached their highest peak so far. When news to this effect was cabled from London, giving the tonnage sunk as around 1,000,000 per month, it was officially of-ficially denied by Secretary of the Navy Knox. Since then Lord Cranborne, British government govern-ment leader in the House of Lords, has officially stated that since Allied landing in Africa sinkings sink-ings by U-boats had achieved their highest rate. Lord Cranborne also warned that the rate was increasing and the peak probably had not been reached. Presumably the American public is to decide de-cide which to believe Lord Cranborne or Secretary Sec-retary Knox. NOTE: When the Under Secretary of Navy complained to Senator Brewster of Maine that the American public was not awake, Brewster replied: "How can they be when the Army and Navy keep them in a state of ignorance regarding the military situation?" SUBS LEAVE ATLANTIC COAST One favorable phase of the submarine situation sit-uation is along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.A., which is becoming almost a)s dangerous a hunting ground for subs as the waters around England. This is because of the Navy's recent speeded-up production of patrol ships, which police the coast. These ships, smaller than escort vessels, are not built for trans-Atlantic crossings, but are doing a very effective job at home. . J Another effective factor is the blimp, which can hover over an enemy sub, drop depth bombs more easily than a plane, and stay in the area until surface ships arrived. A blimp can even liar An f a biiV ...ah . . The Navy also has adopted the policy of arming to the teeth every kind , of ship in Atlantic At-lantic waters, especially with depth charges. The policy is to let the Nazis know that whenever when-ever subs attack any kind of ship they will find a sting in its tail. H y This policy seems to be working along the Atlantic coast, though its success may be due in part to the fact that African waters now provide better pickings, with a shorter trip back to Germany. P. S HE MADE THE SALE Two men deserve chief credit for the long delayed Chilean break with the Axis. They are patient Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and persevering Chilean Ambassador Michels. Only his friends knew about it, but Michels had warned his government that he would resign re-sign if Chile did not line up 100 per cent with the U. S. A. In Chile, his strong U. S. friendship friend-ship was the subject of considerable comment, even kidding. One newspaper cartoon shows Michels as the proprietor of .-a hat store selling imported sombreros, and wearing the star-spangled star-spangled high silk topper of Uncle Sam. The ambassador is trying to sell an Uncle Sam topper to Chilean President Rios. T haven't quite decided to take this hat," is the Chilean President's reply. "Sooner or later you will have to wear it," says Ambassador Michels. ' Last week, Michels finally made the sale. UNCLE JESSE ON THE JOB This column sometimes has teen critical of Jesse Jones' delays on war materials. However, How-ever, here is one where Uncle Jesse was right on the balL pushing other officials to act. His ' Defense Plant Corporation has been working on a plan to bring oil into the East in steel cans or drums. This has the advantage of saving: tank cars, which are scarce, since drums can , be loaded into boxcars. The Petroleum Administration for War originally proposed this plan, and then Defense Plant rushed , through a contract whereby 550.-000 550.-000 drums, holding 50 gallons each, could be manufactured quickly out of thin steel which doesnot-require much: strategic material. TbV drums can hold kerosene or fuel oil,-" though toa.riskyfor gasoline. , Factories have been all set, ready to turn VUk Ul UUU ill fc UUitL.BUIUB VJ. ' UlCUl lib the rate of 8,000 per day. Now, however, some of the, boys in the Petroleum Administration for War are lagging behind Uncle Jesse. , They-have They-have ' been holding up the deal. r (Copyright. 1943 ; by United Feature . Syndicate, ' Inc.) . 4 .1 I |