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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1945 Editorial .... Secrecy and Confusion Secrecy has been much in the news lately, and for obvious reasons. It has ranged from the-ridiculous to the deeply serious. The first department was taken care of neatly by a White House game of possum, in which a Presidential secretary refused to admit that Harry Hopkins was out of town even after papers were carrying pictures of Mr. Hopkins taken overseas. The serious aspect of our continuing policy of secrecy arose from the exchange of charges and explanations between Rep. Marcantonio of New York and Under Secretary Sec-retary of State Grew over the terms of the still-secret Italian-Allied armistice Sept. 3, 1943. This exchange simply added a little more confusion to a situation that has been a political and diplomatic mess for almost a year and a half. During that time Italy has been a "co-belligerent," whatever that may be. An American correspondent in that country recently gave the status a clearer identification when he called Italy "a sort of Allied enemy." Mr. Marcantonio claimed that Italy lost her African colonies, the island Pantelleria and possibly the port of Triests through the armistice terms. Mr, Grew answered that the armistice made no disposition of Italian territories or frontiers. And he offered the added note that, while the armistice was concluded on an unconditional-surrender basis, it had not been necessary to apply the original terms because of Italy's "co-belligerency." "co-belligerency." All that leaves the Italian and American and British people knowing just about as much as they did before. They know that Italian forces are fighting beside the Allies to the extent of strength which the armistice armis-tice allows them. They know that the Allies are still holding thousands of co-belligerent Italy's soldiers as prisoners of war. They know that the Italians welcomed the Allies as liberators when they entered Rome, no matter how the armistice intended they should be regarded. But it is no secret that the Italians in Allied-occupied territory aren't eating as well as they did under Mussolini Mus-solini and German occupation. They know that Italy is neither conquered nor self-governing. self-governing. The .Italians are living in a state of uncertainty un-certainty and confusion. Their country's financial structure is reported to be on the verge of collapse as a result. Yet their government gov-ernment seems anxious to please, willing to continue the war, and hopeful of eventual solution! It may be hoped that the Big Three conference con-ference will, at long last, evolve a clarifying program for Italy. It is time that Italy is treated either as a conquered enemy or as an ally and that the terms under which she is to exist be made known. The Washington Merry-Go-Rourid A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs Doubtful Party We love the American system of political parties for all its faults, and would not see it changed. Still, it was rather pleasant to learn that when Adml. Thomas C. Hart was appointed United States Senator from Connecticut, Con-necticut, after 48 years in the Navy, no one was certain of his party affiliation. Perhaps the admiral wasn't quite sure himself. (He finally decided to sit on the Republican side.) There have been occasions when one had reason to suspect that party affiliation was the only thing that some congressmen were sure of. The presence of Senator-designate Hart in their midst should at least provide some welcome variety. An A ppeal For Veterans In the last war, some 10 per cent of all American forces became disabled. It has been estimated that in the present war that percentage may be doubled. The principal reasons for the expected increases are the greater destructiveness of modern war, and the improvement in surgery and medicine that today is saving many more wounded men from death. The country is conscious of its responsibility responsibil-ity to these disabled men and, through its lawmakers, has made provision for them to be compensated and cared for on their return. re-turn. But there are inevitable complications in obtaining this care and compensation, and often later difficulties, which tend to confuse and discourage some of these veterans vet-erans v This was more true after the last war than it is now. As a result, a group of returned soldiers organized the Disabled American Veterans in 1920. Their purpose was "to secure fair and just compensation, adequate and sympathetic care, and honest and profitable pro-fitable employment for those who are em ployable. By Draw Pearson (Cel. Robert & Allan on aotlvo dfllr) WASHINGTON Very little has been said bout it, but a significant Vichyite-Frenchman hat Just been secretly arrested by the De Gaulle government He Is Jacques Lemalgre-Dubreuil, ine man wno worseo with u. s. diplomats to bring General Glraud and Admiral Darlan to North Af rica. Lemaigre-Dubreuil was one of the most fa mous big business lobbyists of France, was found er of the "taxpayers league," a founder of the Fascist Cagoulards, and subsidized various French Fascist papers before the war. In Vichy he was a close friend of U. S. Minister Robert Murphy and later of Brg. Gen. Julius Homes, whom the state department placed on General Eisenhower's staff as his political adviser. It was Murphy and Holmes, working largely large-ly through Lemaigre-Dubreuil, who cooperated with the French rightists and Fascists in North Africa even after the Allied occupation. As political polit-ical adviser on General Eisenhower's staff it was also Holmes' job to pass on whether the U. S. army should desist from British policy when they stormed Athens and surrounded the Belgian parliament with tanks. Unfortunately because Eisenhower acqulesed in these operations, the British nerformed them Jointly in the name also of the United States and we shared part of the blame. The president has now made General Holmes assistant secretary of state. General De Gaulle has now thrown Lemaigre-Dubreuil in Jail. BERIBBONED HOLMES General Holmes is one of the most decorated men ever to hold office in the state deoartment. Though he has never been in combat. Holmes is a commander of the crown of Jugoslavia, commander com-mander of the Order of the Foenix (Greece), has the Lebanese order of merit, the southern cross of Brazil, French Legion of honor, com mander of Oussam Alaouite of Morocco, grand omcer of Nisnan Illtlcar of Tunisia, and is a com mander of the crown of Roumania. Some of these he got as a result of being chief creeter or protocol omcer of the state department and of being in charge of foreign exhibits at New York's World's Fair. Holmes' decorations take up three rows of ribbons across his chest. As he assumed office in the state department his subordinates promtply dubbed him "Ribbentrop. VICE PRESIDENT'S AIDE Hard-working Harry Truman has worked out a new wrinkle for vice-president. He now has a military aide Col. Harry H. Vaughn of Missouri. This is the first time in the memory of capital observers that the vice-president has had a full- fledged commissioned officer assigned to him as military aide. Other members of the cabinet, with the exception of the secretary of war and the secretary sec-retary of the navy, are not entitled to any gold braid, and no recent vice-president preceding Truman has ever had any Brass Hats around him. Henry Wallace even objected to a secret service man accompanying him around the country. The last time a military aide waited upon a civilian member of the cabinet was during the Hoover administration when Secretary of State Stimson brought back Capt. Eugene -Regnier from the Philippines and had him serve as military aide in the state department. This caused a considerable con-siderable furor on Capital Hall, where Democrats, the in control of the House of Representatives, inserted a special provision in the war appropri ations bill cutting off Regnier's salary. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. then a member of Coneress. stronaiy supported the amendment and took a special appeal by Senate Republicans to kill it. Todav, however, it is doubtful whether the Democrats will raise a protest against a full-fledg ed colonel as aide to Vice-President Truman. Note Colonel Vaughn was appointed a cap tain in field artillery in 1924 was called to active duty immediately after Pearl Harbor. In 1943 he was the war department's liaison officer with the Truman committee. That was where he got to know Harry. CAPITAL CHAFF Secretary Henry Morgenthau got awfully sore when White House adviser Sam Rosenman was given a commission to study not only supplies but the "finances" of liberated countries Finances come under his treasury department. Henry was especially sore at FEA's Oscar Cox who wrote the broad letter of instruction to Rosenman. It was Henry who originally brought Cox to Washington Wash-ington Remarked Ernie Cuneo after the senate military affairs committee unanimously confirmed Elliott Roosevelt to be a brigadier general: gen-eral: "What Henry Wallace needs Is to send a dog bv airolane. Then he'd be confirmed too.". . . . Tho dav after FDR fired Jesse Jones, the latter called on ailing Senator Carter Glass of Virginia with a larce hunch of flowers to solicit a State ment in his behalf. Glass is ranking member of the banking and currency committee, and Jones hadn't called on him in months. He came away with no statement Senator Happy Chandler Chand-ler of Kentucky won't get Judge Land is Job as czar of baseball, partly due to the fact that the baseball people don't like Happy's war-built swimming swim-ming pool or the row he had with the photographer photog-rapher who tried to take his picture with a lady in a New York night club. . . . Dies committee files didn't do any good when Jerome Davis and Gardner Jackson sued the Saturday Evening Post for calling them Communist stooges. The Post dug heavily into the Dies files for its defense, but in the end settled for cold cash. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Now Comes the Fireworks is bringing. One of the sources to which the Veterans Administration is turning is the DAV. The two groups are cooperating in the training of 400 disabled veterans of World War II to serve as full-time DAV national na-tional service officers. A million dollars of government funds has been appropriated to help meet the cost of this training program which consists of five months' special college instruction and 18 months of on-the-job placement training in various veterans facilities throughout the country. But $10,000,000 is needed to meet the One of the DAV's chief contributions dur-, modest salaries of these 400 additional work ing the peacetime years was in presenting and prosecuting veterans claims, free of charge. That service is now expanding, and will continue to grow. But the DAV's work ers over the next 10 years. So the DAV, after financing its own work for 25 years, is making its first, national appeal for funds. The drive is endorsed by-an imposing list does not end there. It follows through on I of eminent men, including high military of cases after claims are disposed or and hos-, f icera and the governors of 35 states. pitalization ended. It helps to rehabilitate any disabled veteran vet-eran who applies for assistance, whether a 'DAV member or not. . Ita care extends through the veteran's life and beyond it, in the assistance it gives his dependents. Congress has authorized the Veterans' Administration to seeure all aid it can in car rying the huge load of work that -this war gotten and neglected. The campaign is "entitled to full support of every citizen," as the Veterans' Administrator, Admin-istrator, Brig.-Gen. Frank T. Hines, has said. The DAV, chartered by Congress, non-political, self-effacing and, until now, self-supporting, may be trusted to help carry out a nation's minimum guarantee that those who have fought and bled for it shall not be for- v I mmfm - ' Three Big RFC Beneficiaries By PETER ED SON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. 21 Interesting sidelight on the activities acti-vities of industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, Andrew Jackson Hlgglns and R. S. Reynolds, the big three of New Deal businessmen who have come out openly for Henry Wallace as Secretary of Commerce, Com-merce, is that they have benefited from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under Jesse Jones to the tune of government loans and authorizations aggregating over 400 million dollars. Kaiser is the big beneficiary. Into the Fontana, Calif., steel works which both Kaiser and U. S. Steel are trying to buy for potswar private operation, and into the Permanente Magnesium plan. Defense Plant Corporation has put 141 million dollars. Kaiser has paid back five millions on the Fontana operation and on the Permanente he has paid back four million. Through the Maritime Commission, Commis-sion, into Kaiser operated shipyards, ship-yards, the government has put over 130 millions. In addition to these larger sums, Kaiser has received a subsidy sub-sidy on the manufacture of magnesium mag-nesium powder produced at Permanente, Per-manente, amounting to nearly three million dollars. This subsidy payment came about through the inability of the Permanente plant to produce magnesium for sale to the government at the OPA ceiling price of 22' 2 cents a pound. Loss Charged to War-It War-It was, of course, a new process untried on a big scale. It made magnesium all right, and Kaiser has produced over 11 million pounds. But to permit the plant to operate at cost and still sell at the government ceiling price, RFCwas forced to buy the output, out-put, first at 50 cents a pound, then 40 cents, then 30 cents. RFC subsidiaries then sell the product to processors at the OPA price and charge the loss up to the war. Maritime Commission authorized author-ized expenditures of 39 million dollars for the Higgins dream of an assembly line to produce Liberty ships. The contract was cancelled after these expenditures were made, and not a single Liberty ship was launched from this yard.f Next, Higgins got a contract to go into the production of plywood ply-wood planes. After 30 million dollars worth of Defense Plant Coroporation money had gone into this project, the plywood contract was canceled and a decision was made to produce metal planes. No metal planes have been produced, pro-duced, though these expenditures have not been a complete washout. wash-out. In some of the facilities that were intended for the production of airplanes, shells and airplane parts have been manufactured and have gone into the war effort. New Deal Project RFC advances to Reynolds Metals have been by far the best investments of the lot. The Idea of breaking the Aluminum Company Com-pany of America monopoly on the production of aluminum was a pet New Deal project in the early days of the National Defense effort. When R. S. Reynolds showed show-ed interest in this project as a first step in making wrappers for Reynolds Tobacco cigarets his company got the contract. Reynolds Rey-nolds Metals was advanced 43 million of government money and to date has paid back eight million. mil-lion. Friendliness of the big three for the administration is easy to understand in the light of all this nign zinancing on government money. Without belittling their actual accompusnmentB in the least, it will be possible for the historians to record that they maae misiaxes just like everv body else,, and the taxpayers of xne rwure win root the bill. President John Quincy Adams ana Anarew Jackson were born the same year-1767 and Presidents Presi-dents Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford Ruth-erford B. Hayes were not only born the same year 1822 but in the same state, Ohio. Navy Medicos At Guam Pave Road to Japan By EDWARD L. THOMAS United Press War Correspondent; GUAM (U.R American scientists scient-ists are fighting their own little war on this island. Their primary objective is to see that disease is eradicated as a Japanese ally, but they are also gathering valuable first-hand data that will serve toward to-ward making the postwar world a healthier one. Capt. T. M. Rivers of Forest Hills, N. Y., who is on leave from his civilian post as director of the Rockefeller hospital In New York, landed here with a staff of 44 officers and 226 enlisted men on Jan. 12. He is already set up in a 25-acre jungle camp that will be his advance headquarters for the Pacific Medical Research unit. In a few short weeks Navy Sea- bees and doctors cleared the un derbrush from the 25-acre plot between two field hospitals nd began construction of, more than 00 steel buildings. These will house the valuable scientific equipment that will not only be used to study diseases already encountered en-countered on the road to Japan but also will be prepared to take quick counteraction against new diseases that medical men expect to find as our forces move northward north-ward toward the Japanese homeland home-land and China. Adm. Mclntire Sought Best The idea was fostered by Vice Adm. Ross T. Mclntire, USN President Roosevelt's personal physician and chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery of the navy. We were fighting the war with the best equipment 'and material and Adm. Mclntire decided we should also fight disease with the latest weapons," explained Capt. Rivers. "The experience out here in the Pacific has been that disease dis-ease puts men out of action quicker quick-er than bullets. And you can't fight a war with sick soldiers." The project is financed by the navy with a supplementary fund of $25,000 donated by the Rockefeller Rocke-feller Foundation. Personnel includes in-cludes some of the finest doctors in the United States. Tarpaulin - covered crates and boxes are scattered over the temporary tem-porary encampment, containing some 5,000 separate pieces of equipment for the unit. Capt.) Rivers said he expects to complete 1 the project sometime in March,! but meanwhile he and his staff! are working in temporary quarters. Several groups under Capt. Rivers' direction are investigating investigat-ing diseases such at malaria and scrub typhus in the South Pacific now. Another group is studying methods of spraying insecticides from airplanes and "we shall have a lot to learn about this," said Capt. Rivers. ,' Invasion Units Trained The doctors here are not going to do all their work in laboratories labora-tories miles behind the front lines. Several mobile units are training to land with assault groups. A disease known as Schistomla-sis Schistomla-sis is giving the scientists plenty of worry at the moment. Our forces haven't encountered it yet but it's a dead cinch they will eventually if they go to Formosa, China or Southern Japan, accord- j ing to Capt. Rivers. . 1 The Schistomlasls germ breeds in snails and rice paddies and If a human being so much as washes bis hands in water polluted by this germ he's almost certain to become infected. Capt. Rivers ex plained. "The germ settles in the liver and the intestines and persons in fected literally bleed to death in acute cases. But whUe concentrating on fighting diseases that might hold up the progress of the war, Capt. Rivers and nis siaix aiso are studying stu-dying diseases prevalent on this Island such as tuberculosis, am-! oebic dysentery, hookworm and dengue fever, that if successfully countered wiu mane uie tropics a more healthier place to live n than they have ever been in the past. Ernie Pyle Finds Climate In Marianas Islands Magnificent By ERNIE PYLE high altitude XN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS too Hot. it became almost Now we are far, far away from everything that was home or seemed like home. Five thousand miles from America, and 12.000 miles from my friends flchtinc on the German border. Twelve thousand miles from Sidi Bou Zid and Venafro and Troina and St. Mere Egllse names as unheard 01 on this side of the world as areKwajalein and Chichi J una and Ullthl on the other side, The Pacific names are all new to me too, all except the out standing ones. For those fighting one war do not pay much atten tion to the other war. Each one thinks his war is the worst and the most Important war. And unquestionably un-questionably it is. We came to the Marianas by airplane from Honolulu. The weather was perfect, and yet so long and grinding was the jour ney that It evenutally became a blur, and at the end I could not even remember what day we had left Honolulu, although actually it was only the day before. We came in the same kind of Diane that brought us from Call forma a huge, fovr-mourcd Douglas transport, flown by the Naval Air Transport Service As soon as we were in the air Lieut Comdr. Max Miller and I took off our nrriii n n put on our house slippers, West of Pearl Harbor mill wry lonnamy KV't.'; J m m e a 1 - i-vx, 7 st I ni 1 Stassen Plans To Meet With Devey WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (U.R) Comdr. Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, said today he would confer with Gov. Thomas Thom-as E. Dewey of New York and other republican leaders before attending the United Nations conference con-ference at San Francisco. Stassen now is flag secretary on the staff of Adm. William F. Hal-sey, Hal-sey, Jr. He returned to the capital cap-ital with Halsey. Stassen told a press conference he intends to make his views known on world organization before be-fore the conference, perhaps sometimes in March, while he will be on military leave. The confernce starts April 25. WASHINGTON. Feb. 21 (U.R) Admiral William F. Halsey's out-of-point crystal ball was revealed today to be a secret weapon. Halsey's flag secretary, Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen, told a press conference today the story of Halsey's prediction late in 1942 that the war against Japan would be over by Christmas, 1042. The prediction has brought Halsey a good deal of twitting by those in a position to twit an admiral. Stassen said Halsey's statement "was made during the darkest days of the war." "We had very little navy and a hard struggle ahead of us. Australia was worried and the Jap navy was strong. It was a pretty gloomy situation. The question was whether we could hold the line. "The admiral made his bold, assertive. almost bragadoccio statement to cheer up our own forces and to hold the Japanese back and it worked. The predecessor of the roller bearing appeared first in 1100 B. C. A picture painted on a rock at El Bersheb in that year shows workers placing cylinders of wood in the path of a great slab of stone as other men pull it forward. a t e 1 y drops away. For example, ex-ample, in Hon olulu, all Naval officers m u i wear neckties. But the moment mo-ment you leave Pearl Harbor Pjt they come off. and you never see them again. Max and I read a while in the two books we had brought with us Thurber'B "My World and Welcome to It," and Joseph Mitchell's Mit-chell's "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon." But good as they both are, we couldn't seem to keep our minds on them, and pretty soon we were more willingly absorbed in a wonderfully Informative book the Navy issues to- westbound friends, called "Guide to the Western Pacific We made but two stops in the 3500-mile journey to the Marl anas, and how we ever found those two tiny islands is beyond me, for they were the merest dots in the wide ocean. But they find them all the time, so who am I to worry c Our first stop was at Johnston Island, four hours out from Honolulu. Hono-lulu. As it came into view I was shocked at how tiny it is. It is hardly bigger than a few airplane carriers lashed together, and it hasn't got a tree on it. Yet it has been developed into an airfield that will take the biggest planes, and several hundred hund-red Americans live and work there. The climate is magniflcient. and most of the soldiers and sailors wear only shorts and are deeply tanned. The 'way I feel now, a life of quiet escape out there for a while would be wonderful. But the boys there are tired of "escape," and the monotony of the place gets on their nerves. W stopped there for an hour in later afternoon, and then we took off and headed west and soon it was dark. Gradually the passengers went, to sleep in their seats. There was nothing to see out of the windows but darkness; a long night over the Pacific lay ahead of us. The night was extra long, for we were chasing the darkness. The flight orderly brought a blanket for each of us, and the passengers wrapped up. But soon most of them unwrapped, for the cabin was heated, and even at It was after midnight when we. could sense. by the motors tone and the pressure In our cars that we were coming down. We could- n t feel that we were turning but we were, for now the moon would be high on one side of us, and a few moments later it would be low on the other side of us. And then suddenly there were lights smack underneath us, lights of what seemed a good-sized little town, and then at last we were 1 on the ground in an unbelievably ' bustling airport, teeming with men and planes and lights. The place was Kwajalein. That's not hard to pronounce if you dont try too hard. Just say "kwa-juh-leen." It's in the Mar shall Islands. There, during last March and April, American soldiers sol-diers and Marines killed 10.000 Japanese, and opened our Island stepping-stone path straight across the mid-Pacific. Even today our Seabees can't dig a trench for a sewer pipe without digging up dead Japan- ' ese. But even so the island is transformed, as we so rapidly transform all our islands that are destroyed in the taking. It Is a great air base now. Naval officers met our plane despite the hour, loaded us Into 4 jeeps, and drove us a few hundred yards to a mes hall. A cool night breeze was blowing, and it seemed seem-ed wonderful to be, on the ground again, even such scant and sorrowed sor-rowed ground as this. For an hour we sat around a . white-linened table and drank f coffee and sipped iced fruit Juice. You would hardly have known you were not in America. And then we were off again, to fly through the sightless night westward west-ward and on westward. i Da Yea lists E3T RASHES? xt yea suffer from hot flashae. fart was. Bartons, a MS Mwtl ttaaa all tfua to tha functional "mlddla-ate" "mlddla-ate" period peculiar to woman try Lrdl X. PUtkham'a Vegetable Com- fcfedasspveUUy t or women if ftsfts natvnl Follow lata airacnona. 1 Q's and A's Q What is the area of Berlin, with a prewar population of 432,000? A 332 square miles, about five and a half times the size of our District of Columbia. O What is MET in the British Army? A A tankman's term for mechanized mech-anized enemy transport (does not include tanks or mobile guns.) 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