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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Nazi Advance Guard Enters Bulgaria; Japan's Arbitration Offer Rejected By Britain; Far Eastern Crisis Grows; Defense Board Speeds Up Arms Work (EDITOR'S NOTE Waaa aalaiaaa ata iprM4 la theaa linns, ta? art taaaa at ta aaalyat a aat taurlly at thia atwiaaaar.) itit1 - ur "''" r-i BALKY BALKANS: -And an American As Adolf Hitler! advance aTuard lipped into Bulgaria from Rumania there wai none to stay them. Clad In civilian overcoat! which they did not remove but from which protruded protrud-ed ilcek military boota. member! of the German staff took over the principal prin-cipal hotel of Sofia and the main Bulgarian resort town 40 mllei away. Where before anti-Nazi signs had been scribbled on wall! and Bulgar national songs were heard, now orchestras or-chestras turned to Viennese waltzes and raised their right arms, palm open. Bulgarian army generals came to the Sofia hotel with bundles of maps under their arms. All day and all night they and the boot-clad men poured over them. There was only one show of hostility. hos-tility. But it was beaut while it lasted, which was about an hour. George H. Earle, American minister minis-ter to Bulgaria and former governor of Pennsylvania, was in a night club Just around the corner from the embassy em-bassy building. The place was filled with the mysterious boot-clad, clvil-lan-overcoated foreigners. The governor gov-ernor didn't like the tune the orchestra orches-tra was playing and asked them to switch to "It's a Long Way to Tip-perary." Tip-perary." One of the mysterious strangers took offense. Earle said later he was a major of the German general staff. Words were passed and finally final-ly Earle said the major threw a bottle bot-tle at him, which he warded off by covering his head with his arm. The former governor has never been known to pass up a chance like that In the World war he commanded a submarine chaser. ' :; GEORGE BU EARLE Waiters and Bulgan were tnlisui. After the war he took up aviation, cracking up several machines but always getting into another and flying fly-ing off just as quickly as possible. He is an expert boxer and has not refused to make use of his fists before. be-fore. Earle said he "Injured the man's features." Reporters who were present pres-ent said the battle lasted for an hour with bottles, chairs and tables being used in the melee. The mysterious mys-terious foreigner was aided by reinforcements re-inforcements which consisted of certain cer-tain other boot-clad and overcoated gentlemen. Earle enlisted the waiters wait-ers at the restaurant, where he was known and various and sundry Bui-gars Bui-gars who were present Police had hard time with both sides for the next hour. AIR CRASH: Number Four Last August the commercial air lines of the country had established a no-accident record of IT months, but with the midnight crash of an Eastern Airlines sleeper plane near Atlanta, Ga., the number of accidents acci-dents in the intervening six months was raised to four. When searchers, near dawn, reached the scene of the crash they found seven persons killed, nine others injured. Among those found dead was a member of congress. con-gress. Rep. William D. Byron of Maryland, and among the severely injured was the famed World war flying ace, Eddie Rickenbackcr, president of the company brtwhose plane he was riding. Also killed were - the pilot, the co-pilot and steward of the -plane's crew: " Next day a report from Balboa, Canal Zone, told of the caasb of a U. S. army bomber into Panama bay. An immediate search, first reports re-ports safd, failed to disclose any trace of a crew of seven. SPAIN: Ex-M anarch Dies Spain's former monarch, King Alfonso Al-fonso XIII, died of a heart ailment after an illness of two weeks, lie "died' in Iris' Home Kbteffrtom which-had which-had been his exile horrje for the post 10 years. He reigned as king of the Spanish people for 29 years, during which time at least eight BtUmpts were made to assassinate him. His reign ended in April, 1931, when he left the throne, saying that . . . "I no longer have the love of my people." By Edward C. Wayne PEACEMAKER: An Offer Japan offered to be the peacemaker peacemak-er of the world and arbitrate all disputes. dis-putes. The offer came in a statement state-ment from Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. Churchill conferred with U. S. authorities and then called in the Japanese ambassador. His re ply was one word: "No." Meanwhile the Japanese "peacemakers" "peace-makers" in Indo-China were mopping mop-ping up on their job. Having in stigated a conflict between Thailand (Siam) and the French rulers of Indo-China, Japan stepped in and "enforced" an armistice, taking for itself the rich port of Saignon. While the terms of the armistice were being developed into a peace treaty, Japanese soldiers extended 1 . i. r X . - If. fcKk. ft.kK XJ&, mint), i YOSUKE MATSUOKA For him, a one-word reply. their influence in Indo-China until the French rulers became mere pup pets. Stores were filled with Jap anese products and residents who refused re-fused to buy them were beaten and jailed. Just west of the Indo-Chinese sphere of influence is the Philippines and just south are the Dutch East Indies, chief source of United States tin and rubber. The Japanese turned covetous eyes on that spot If that source of supply would be closed to United States shipping, America's entire defense effort would be threatened. Big Stick Washington said nothing, but carried car-ried a big stick. The U. S. fleet was known to be somewhere in the vicinity. Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the army, also had a big stick. Hundreds of army fight ing planes left the West coast for our Pacific possessions Hawaii and the Philippines. More important the house voted funds to fortify the islands of Guam and Samoa, the U. S. Gibraltars in the Pacific. The same proposal was defeated in the house two years ago for fear of offending Japan. MEN AT WORK: Full Speed While congress spent precious weeks in prolonged debate on the lease-lend bill to send war materials to Great Britain, the defense commission com-mission got in some mighty speedy licks. The arming of the nation's forces has entered the third P of the plan, priorities. The other two are procurement and production. Stettinius1 Job Priorities is the job now. It will do no good to produce 40 airplane engines and no airplane tail assemblies. assem-blies. The defense commission must regulate production so that every item down to the last eraser on a lead pencil arrives just at the moment mo-ment it can be used. The task Is under the direction of E. R. Stettinlus Jr. Aluminum and machine tool industries were first to feel the effects of his order. By authority of the navy speedup law passed last June, Stettinlus directed direct-ed that both Industries put aside all other labor and devote their entire energies to filling defense contracts. After defense contracts are under way, commercial production will be rationed. But until such time as the government has sufficient aluminum? alumi-num? 'for instance' for planes "and tanks, there will be little or none for streamlined trains, kitchen utensils or even tooth paste tubes. Meanwhile procurement and production pro-duction must be stepped up to meet new demands. How this was being done was reflected re-flected in the news, of the day. Consider: Con-sider: C A now 8 inch railroad gun capable capa-ble of hurling a 260-pound shell 18 miles was delivered to the army's proving "grounds at Aberdeen? 'MoV The gun weighs 22S.000 pounds. C The three of the army's four mechanized divisions, still not supplied sup-plied with arms, arc refeiving scout cars. One was displayed in Washington Wash-ington and two brave congressmen consented to ride in it The driver took them straight up the Capitol steps. ';. AS 'r I New Angle Triangle i tun f uimm wmmmmmtntmtmmmmm f '..II i I GLENDALE, CALIF. A triangle consisting of a man, his wife, and the V. S. army, landed Mrs. Esther M. Moore (above) in jail when (in violation vio-lation of army fides) h refused re-fused to cease, making frequent fre-quent efforts to visit her husband. hus-band. Sergt. G. G. Moore. A veteran army man, Moore is completing his flying course at an army air school in Glen-dale Glen-dale and Mrs. Moore was arrested ar-rested on a charge of disturbing disturb-ing the peace after a series of attempts to get by the sentries on duty. PIG BOATS: In the. Atlantic Hitler made another speech. It was more eloquent in what it did not say than in what was said. Der Fuehrer pictured an impressive spring campaign against England's life lines in the Atlantic. None got up and left the meeting, although some, hearkening back to the same speech in January, may have thought to do so with the expression, expres-sion, "Here's where we came in." In reality, the speech made in the Munich beer cellar where Naziism waa born, was a tactic admission that Hitler's air power, his original major weapon -on which he risked war, bad failed to produce decisive results. And between the lines of the -speech can be read the admission admis-sion that British sea power is gripping grip-ping the Axis countries even tighter than it did last fall So Hitler, during the winter months, has been building a new type of U-boat known as "pig boats" to naval men. In Norway, Denmark. Den-mark. Belgium, The Netherlands and in France all the vast ship building yards have been turning out pocket submarines during the winter months. How many the Germans have on hand is not known, but best estimates are 1,000, with hundreds more ready to be delivered before summer. No nation has nearly this many undersea craft The United States has but a few hundred and England even less. Germany last fall was estimated to have almost 500 standard stand-ard size submarines. But submarines sub-marines do not fight submarines. To sink them, fast cruisers and destroyers destroy-ers are necessary. Britain, even with the 5 destroyers obtained from the U. S.. will have a difficult time to cope with the situation, if even a fraction of that number U-boats begins to prey on the sealanes that bring her food and munitions. Explanation Mussolini also made a speech. Whereas Hitler seemed scornful of wavering within the German lines, n Duce seemed less sure. He blamed discontent on Jews and Masons Ma-sons and dwelt on the indissoluble ties that bind Italy to Germany, which is a nice way of putting it now that German censors are in charge of communications leading from Italy to the outside world. He had a new explanation for the disasters in Africa. Marshal Grazi-anl Grazi-anl earlier blamed failure on lack of mechanical equipment in the Fascist forces. Mussolini said, however, how-ever, that the British succeeded because be-cause they achieved numerical superiority. su-periority. Since all British reinforcements re-inforcements to Egypt pass within SO miles of Italian naval and air bases, II Duce seemed here also to be making an admission of the ineffectiveness in-effectiveness of his battle forces. MISCELLANY: C In the main hall of the Kremlin, Krem-lin, in Moscow, a national conference confer-ence of the Communist party was in progress. Members charged that production- In several key Industries was delayed due to buck-passing and overwhelming red tape. The Central Cen-tral Committee hinted shake-ups. TnT dismissals followed quickly: Among those losing their official heads was Maxim Litinoff, former foreign commissar, and Paulina Shemyonovna Zhemchuihina, wife of Fremlcr and Foreign Minister Molotoff. H The annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards for'-oUtvliititWng"avtirig'in the films went to Ginger Rogers 'for her per- I forrinance in "Kitty Foyte" and to James Stuwart for his role in "The 1 Fhmrdrlphta- Story' " i ft There was confi-sion at Mrs. Roosevelt's press conference The : 40 or more women reporters were sitting in the Madison Room at the White House when past the door walked a bathrobe-clad male figure. He heard the female voices and fled. It was Harry Hopkins, presidential guest. Someone closed the door. As far back as human knowledge goes, man has been using certain cer-tain members of the animal kingdom to help him hunt other members. mem-bers. The most familiar example, of course, is the dog, which is - A" " 1 ' y 1 ? t" i t '" Hold that tiger! The big striped cat is easy to hold now, for he is dead, and is being loaded on a carrier elephant. The hunt was held on the vast jungle estate of the Maharajah of Gwalior, in India, in honor of former British Viceroy Lord Reading. Right: The end of a cheetah hunt. The animal, ani-mal, streamlined member mem-ber of the cat family, is trained to hunt deer. Human stalkers "spot" the deer and head it in the direction where the best run will give most entertainment to the hunters. Then a cheetah is turned loose. ' - - - A Chinese fisherman off on an expedition with his six cormorants. cormo-rants. He puts an iron ring around the neck of each bird, to which is attached a light line. The ring prevents the bird from swallowing swallow-ing his catch, and iKeTine keeps the bird under control. 1 "0 ..r '-. ,-,w-iy.,.-. L: , - J jfWk A .A V .. "V One of the most ancient of sports i slag hunting. ' This photo ' was' made during a stag hunt at the estate es-tate of the Count de Vibraye, near Paris. The stag attempted to swim the Cosson river, but the- hounds cornered him for the kill. A ttuntpt scene in "good ducking" country. The hunters blaze away from their battery in the midst ef their decoy flock. Hunters' Helpers i used in many ways: Fox hunting, deer hunting, and so forth. But there are many other examples not quite so familiar, some of which are. shown in the accompanying accom-panying series of photos. Before the present war, Germans attempted at-tempted to revive the sport of falconry on a large scale. Photo (left) shows a soldier , falconer removing the victim (a rabbit) from the talons. V I" - v,. ., . ' r ; r '-o j I V 'I ( "4 J jr.!: 1 vAl ,i DOLLAR-TEAR-TROUBLE WASHINGTON. Defense chiefs' aren't advertising it but they are quietly trying to ward off a blow-up over the boat of dollar-a-year men now working lor the government Some of the One Dollar men are conscientious and sincere public servants. Others arc less scrupulous. While representing the government they have sold goods to the government, govern-ment, exerted inside pressure In favor fa-vor of their industries, represented clients before government agencies. All this has been no secret on Capitol Hill, where the steadily growing corps of One Dollar moguls has been eyed with- Increasing resentment re-sentment Recently this undercover indignation took form in a bill by Sen. Kenneth McKellar. veteran Tenneseean, to ban such business men from government service and to probe their operations. McKellar's plan is to await enactment en-actment of the lend-lease bill before be-fore pushing his measure, but meanwhile mean-while defense chiefs, seeing the handwriting on the wall, have quietly qui-etly started cleaning up the situs-tion situs-tion themselves. This has been done in a series of apparently unrelated moves. Under cover of transferring 6 original defense de-fense organization to the new office of production management, several One Dollar men have been eased home with the high-sounding, face-saving face-saving title of "Advisory Consultant" Consult-ant" pinned to their coat-tails. Others Oth-ers have been shifted to jobs not directly di-rectly connected with their own industries. in-dustries. Also, several non-commercial experts ex-perts have been brought in to replace re-place One Dollar men in important sections of the OPM. And more house-cleaning is still to come. Note Among non-commercial experts ex-perts who have been brought into the OPM are Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, Hop-kins, president of Dartmouth college; col-lege; Dexter S. Kimball, former dean of Cornell university engineering engineer-ing school; William E. Wlckenden, president of Case School of Applied Science; Dr. W. S. A. Pott president presi-dent of Elmira college; and Dr. S. S. Stratton, Harvard professor of economics. a a a MR. SMITH GOES TO LATIN-AMERICA - It looks as if Senator Barkley was right when he denounced the box office of-fice smash movie, "Mr. Smith Comes to Washington." That film is now causing all kinds of headaches for the U. S. A. in South America, where it is used by the Nazis as one of their deadliest propaganda weapons. weap-ons. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney has just made this report to the Rockefeller Rocke-feller branch of the national defense commission. The story of a grafting senate ganging up on a young reformer, re-former, Whitney says, is being circulated circu-lated through Latin America as an illustration of U. S. government graft Whitney has been pressuring Hollywood Hol-lywood moguls to halt further foreign for-eign distribution of the film. Another big problem for Whitney is newsreels. Just how damaging newsreel can be to the "Good Neighbor" Neigh-bor" policy if even a slight detail of sequence is overlooked, was illustrated illustrat-ed in a recent report to the state department by Norman Armour, ambassador to Argentina. In a Buenos Aires theater one night Armour was witnessing American Amer-ican newsreel shots of an air raid on Great Britain. Immediately following follow-ing the raid pictures a bathing beauty beau-ty contest in California was flashed on the screen. "The letdown of the audience was terrific," Armour reported, pointing out that the newsreel made it appear that United States had its mind on bathing beauties instead of defense, a a THE TAFT BROTHERS William Howard Taft's boys, Bob and Charley, are at odds again, Charley having been in Washington more than a week in his new Job before be-fore he got together with Bob. Reason is the Job Charley has taken from the hands of Roosevelt It sounds harmless enough "Assistant "Assist-ant Co-ordinator of Recreational Activities Ac-tivities for Defense" but It's a sufficient suf-ficient tie-up with the administration foreign policy to leave antl-interven-tionist Bob a bit chilly. What hurt more", perhaps, was that Charley, who haa long quarreled quar-reled with his brother over domestic policies, accepted the Job Just the week before the historic lease-lend debate opened in the senat. Hnh knew where brother Charier itni uuic, nameiy wiin tne Com mittee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies.- But this brought the split into the public gaze. "Vou don't have to agree with your brother all the time, do you?" is Bob's shrugging comment MFRRV rn nniiun vj UUUI 19 Vou Can !iph.hiiMjiiAVi, t. l . .,u.u-nulnlul WUIIll P Ctl I J . v. o. conciliation con-ciliation service, practically any ...iuniKuv m ms omce working on some labor disnut K.,t 7 and 7:15 p. m. He always takes nine oui 10 nsien to a favorite ujuy raaio program. The budeet Is full rt iintm. 1:tiA ' - uiuvjuc UbllC items. Kurh na trt nnn . vv.,vuv iui a icnce on tne Texas-Mexican border, $78,000 for personal funds for inmates of federal narcotic Institutions, $10,000 for sea food Inspection. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS To prevent the in.u cover of . $ ing. coat it with paSS,401 on if you want them Jt? fortable. m to c. a , Gas ovens will no u oven door is left op JJ fla ute, after gasasnt M water Is spilled m . . . book, putleaPfbetwntlllef ters and iron first on 0 ' .ubl on the other. UJR-Mj Shrubbery should ba w . the late winter rather W pring Old stems ,ft S pruned out as near the baSl U possible rather thaaTl5r25? snipped off. w "Ni a A good way to keep th table clean while cw)kin7.niT? ing is to keep . utibty tray on your table M spoons, measuring cupj, hJ To keep a floor in goodcaA tion requires more than tatdrfuL ness. Besides a regular mZZ waxing for the whole room, (hi areas which are walked ovtrft! most should be waxed more oft. Chilli UOTUK mm Deception The silly when deceived excliia loudly; the fool complains; tat honest man walks away and s silent. La Noue. "THEY CALL ME 4D0C' "When someone complains of adi Stomach I hand them one of my AD Ii Tablets" wrote Mr. M. of Pens. I "Doc" met you he'd probably i YOU onel Ask your drogpittofcf for ADLA Tablets and ttt hot quickly they relieve acid bdigestica Blush of Men Men blush less for their crins than for their weaknesses and n ity. La Bruyere. 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