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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Pro-Axis Jugoslavia Rule Overthrown As Boy King Peter Assumes Throne; Mediation Board Acts to End Strikes In Industries Delaying U. S. Defense (EDITOR'S NOTE Wk tnlo art nrtml li (laa. they (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) TA American flag flit from a police ear overturned by workers during the $trihe of worker at the "parent? plant of the Bethlehem Steel company. (See below: Strikts) YUGOSLAVIA: Coup Joining the Axis pewen by the government of Jugoslavia wai one thing. Getting the people to swallow swal-low this action was another. The sign-up, following periods of governmental collapse and revivification, revivifi-cation, was the signal for demonstrations demon-strations over the entire country, created and given its autonomy after aft-er World War I by the Treaty of Versailles. Serbs, Croats Joined In the outburst, out-burst, and there were parades through Belgrade with young fellows carrying what American and British flags they could find, vocally and loudly criticizing the government for failing the public in its hour of need. Then, two dayi after the signing of the pact came the dramatic report of a coup d'etat by which the army overthrew the evident pro-axis government gov-ernment of Regent Prince Paul. King Peter II, not yet 18 years old, assumed the throne and a government gov-ernment was sworn in which was pledged to defend Jugoslavia's Independence. In-dependence. The nation's army was immediately massed and dispatched to battle stations along the country frontiers. Britain and Greece hailed these reports as "great news" and Adolf Hitler Immediately demanded a statement of the new government as to their attitude toward the pact the two countries bad signed but 48 hours earlier. But from Bulgaria came reports that the Nazis were not waiting for a reply to Hitler's demand. German Ger-man forces in that country reportedly report-edly began a swift movement toward the Jugoslav frontier. General Gen-eral sentiment in Sofia, Bulgaria's capital, was that the installing of pro-British and pro-Greek government govern-ment in Jugoslavia would precipitate precipi-tate a general Balkan war. As the war fever rose steadily in Jugoslavia and as the people cheered the new regime that had its army lined up in defiance of the Axis, the ever-stormy Balkans took the spotlight spot-light of World war II. No matter what the outcome Jugoslavia had at least tendered a serious diversion to the timetable of Adolf Hitler. Defeating De-feating Jugoslavia would be no simple task, many military experts predicted. It was assumed that the great northern plains of the nation would have to be abandoned as they would offer easy going for the swiftly moving mechanized Nazi legions. Real battle would come, it seemed, in the mountain terrain of central and southern sections of the country. coun-try. Jugoslavia has a comparatively comparative-ly good army, and is considered the best of the small Balkan nations. It numbers 1,200,000 men. The U. S. reaction to the new government gov-ernment in the tiny Balkan nation was immediately favorable. The state department assured Jugoslavia that it would assist that nation in resisting any aggression. STRIKES: And Night-Sticks The resumption of work at the Harvill plant, bottleneck of Pacific plane building, provided no respite for Uncle Sam's headaches in production pro-duction spasms, for Washington frankly was expectant of strikes in 12 more vital plants. No. 1 was not long In coming, for the t main plant of the Bethlehem Steel company, lit Bethlehem, 'Pa., was next. The big polls got busy and found that the public was con- HIGHLIGHTS. ..in the news Santiago, Chile: Chile has given permission far King Carol of Rumania Ru-mania to rrre in fhife with hs swrt- heart, Mafida I.upcscu. It was re-j re-j rU-d that th; "moral tui lutuji;"- clause in An it-man n-nuiatioiis barred the romantic cou le. Tins rlause once kept a tilled i-jij!ih-Wdiiiltti away fmni the United States. By Edward C. Wayne k ,; 7 t. .h ' Here is Wendell WiUkie (right) with MacKenzie King, Canada' Prima Minister, a the C. O. P. 1940 presidential presiden-tial candidate itopped in Toronto. (Set btlow: Willkte) UAtmk1 In ol in a4 Mama InKrtv 1fnritfr rathpr than mnnnffprnpnt forI --- the enormous increase in strikes. The present strike held In Its grip more than a billion in war orders, including a lasge percentage for home defense. Police nightsticks clubbed the strikers into submission at the outset, permitting non-strikers entrance through picket lines, but it was evident that this was only the start of a widespread labor movement to fish for higher wages through the moment of public necessity. ne-cessity. Chief lack of sympathy with this attitude was seen in the ranks of relatives and friends of those taken in the selective service. These lads, most of them working for $21 a month and food and clothing in Uncle Un-cle Sam's uniform, were resentful of labor striking for increases from SO to 79 cents an hour as at the Harvill plant They said so, in letters home, and parents and friends Joined enthusiastically enthusi-astically in the protest Many congressmen con-gressmen and senators reported receiving re-ceiving such letters and telegrams. Polls showed public sentiment almost al-most unanimous against such strikes, and blaming largely the labor la-bor leaders rather than the plant owners. The new national mediation board, headed by Dr. Dykstra, just moved to it from selective service, seemed to have the Bethlehem strike as the first pitched Into its lap, and what it would do with this situation challenged chal-lenged public attention from the outset out-set This board moved swiftly in the Allis-Chalmers strike at Milwaukee Mil-waukee which has been holding up much defense rearmament It ordered or-dered the company to summon its 7,800 force back to work Immediately. Immedi-ately. Chief pubi.. indignation over the strikes was directed at C. I. O. organizations, or-ganizations, with Congressman Diet claiming that the labor troubles could be traced directly to "Reds." This also was the public focus after William Green, head of the A. F. of L. organizations, disclaimed any anti-defense attempts, and proved it by sending his men through C. L O. picket lines in one instance. WHLKIE: Keeps Hand In Wendell Willkie, avowedly keeping his eye on the next presidential race, was keeping himself before the public pub-lic by making a personal goodwill tour of Canada. He was greeted with wild enthusiasm enthusi-asm in Toronto and in Montreal, his first two stops. . In the first he appealed for alt American ships, naval and merchant mer-chant for Britain that can be spared, and "that means giving until it hurts." This remark was cheered to the echo. In Montreal, the next day, he was showered with ticker tape and given a triumphal entry into the city. In Montreal his theme was similar. simi-lar. He said: "Give Britain ships until the airplanes air-planes start to roll and give Britain superiority in the air then, good-by Hitler, you're on the way out" He said further: "This is a test as to whether the democratic enterprise system can outproduce the totalitarian enslaved method of production. Well I put it up to you, now. I put it up to the .husiness men of America to prove it. ' T think' they" can." If I did not think they could, I could not believe in imcrty:"' . Berlin: Government circles expressed ex-pressed themselves as delighted which greeted tlr s:i;:i ip of Juyo-Uavia Juyo-Uavia as an a:.s partner. "Our next Ktiul is Turkey" titosr close to the n.v.Tt.iit -vimI. "(Ulirr u: l t:ns will mi;m" v., is the oiliciai I sl.it p.ent, "our' dir!":;,.H y ncV'T I pauses." 'Eemailman' '! ... vm w 4 LONDON. ENGLAND. This pretty London girl i$ wearing the new uniform of the Britiih postwomen. They used to wear $kirt$ but the government , has sanctioned trousers if the women prefer to wear them. NAZIS: Spread Sub Zone A spreading of the submarine-active submarine-active zone to include Iceland and a considerable portion of the North Atlantic westward toward the shores of the United States was another' sensational announcement that caused watchers on the "when shall we get In" front anxious moments. They started making maps of the 42-degree line of longitude, and showed how close it is to the American Amer-ican neutrality zone area. It did not touch yet but was coming perilously perilous-ly close. It meant that if American naval vessels took up the convoying of aid-to-Britain ships to the end of the neutrality zone, they would be within a very few miles (as oceans are reckoned) of the lines where they might expect action from German submarines. One news analyst, after a tour of western plane factories, reported that heavy bombers, at the rate of four or five a day, were being flown across the continent and thence to Britain under the lease-lend bill, and that still more than these were being be-ing delivered to the army, but that it was thought a good portion of these were going overseas as well. There was little danger to this type of shipment except from adverse ad-verse weather and mechanical failures fail-ures over the ocean. But Americans Ameri-cans were concerned over what was going to happen to American shipping ship-ping and to foreign bottoms carrying aid to Britain. The British, losing heavily at sea, were issuing a request to the Norwegian Nor-wegian government to turn over to it about 100 vessels now plying American and Latin-American wa-. ters, so that they could be added to the transatlantic trade. First ship to leave this country for Iceland following the announce ment of the additional blockade zone was the freighter Godafos from New York. The New York-Reyjavik run was started after the German invasion in-vasion of Denmark cut Iceland off from her parent country. Three small freighters and three small passenger steamers now operate on that voyage. Whether they would continue or not remained to be seen. DEFENSE: 42 Billions With the passage of the $7,000,-000,000 $7,000,-000,000 bill implementing the British aid bill by a vote of 61 to S, total moneys allotted in one way or another an-other for national defense or British and democratic aid In Europe reached the staggering total of 42 billions of dollars. Most of the floor debate (seven hours) on the seven billion bill was devoted to explanations by various senators of why they had voted against British aid and now were switching to vote for tLs bill giving the bill the funds President Roosevelt Roose-velt asked. OPM. the Office of Production Management furnished the figures. The direct government outlays, in cluding the seven billion, reached the total of $39,100,000,000. In addition addi-tion came British orders of more than three billions, bringing the grand total to past the forty-two billion bil-lion mark. Of these huge sums not more than ZVt billion actually have been spent But an enormous part of the whole has been contracted for, and factories the length and the breadth of the land were being built or were "tooling up" to carry out the contracts. con-tracts. In fact of the 42 billions. OPM says that nearly -30 billions already, have been appropriated'or contracted, contract-ed, and that nine billions represents the budget allowance foV 1942. ' FOOD: Becomes an Issue Almost coincidental with recent fstha-t AmerKra would send 'food to unoccupied France for distribution distribu-tion under the watchful eyes of the American Rud Cro&s. wliu were cup-posed cup-posed to see that none of it'gnt into the hands tor njuuths) at Germans, came word that this distribution al-rvaily al-rvaily h.i.l l" i;i;n, and that the Red C'r oss Uiiiki'is wi re sat, Mini that all 'f it ".is K-.mt; to French men. women wom-en and children. Kathleen Norris Says: Are Mothers Always the Best Mothers? (Ball Syndlcata Soma wives really AM second rata, they really are whining and stupid and unattractive, and a mat might reasonably turn from them to the friend in whom ha fnd sympathy and gentleness and affection. By KATHLEEN NORRIS WOMEN are much more generous to each other than they used to be, the old "catty" femininity has gone pretty well out of fashion, and still the very hardest thing for a woman to do is to admit that another woman is more attractive than she is. You never hear a woman say: "Well, to tell you the truth, she is really nicer than I am. She has better bet-ter manners and more charm. People like her better." Of course men don't admit this of other men, either, but I am writing of women at the moment. If a girl win away another girl's beau, the second girl never concedes con-cedes that the first girl la anything but designing and a flatterer and two-faced and unscrupulous. That is human nature; unless we may console ourselves that the vampire la a thoroughly unscrupulous creature, crea-ture, we have to admit that wa ourselves our-selves are rather second rate. And yet some wives really ARE second rate, they really are whtnng and stupid and unattractive, and a man might reasonably turn from them to the friend to whom he finds sympathy and gentleness and affection. affec-tion. Just because a man marries a woman at 20, when she is sweet and fresh and laughing and devoted devot-ed to him and bis plans, doesn't mean that he la going to adore her 14 years later, when she has lost all bloom and charm, when her voice is discontented and her housekeeping house-keeping disgraceful. Sally's Problem. The problem of the woman I am going to call Sally Waters has something some-thing to do with this situation; Sally la 37 now, and hers is a real tragedy, sadder perhaps even than death. This is part of the letter. "Paul and I were married when I was 23 and ba two years older. I had a good job teaching and for a year I kept it Then his anxiety for a real home with a wife In it and a child, persuaded me to stop work, and a year later Jean was born. Money was rather scarce at the time and the baby was delicate; I had a bard year or two, when Paul, who never paid the slightest attention to the child or helped me in any way with the housework, was wasting most of his evenings with a crowd at the club, and coming com-ing home so late that he was exhausted ex-hausted in the mornings and was continually losing Jobs. "When Jean was two, he suddenly discovered that ba adored his daughter, daugh-ter, but by that time I was thoroughly thorough-ly discouraged. I was offered the job of house manager in a home for defective children at a good salary, and Paul and I were divorced. di-vorced. He went to live with bis mother, who came twice to me afterward aft-erward to help her get Nm a Job, which' I gladly did? The arrangement arrange-ment was that they should have -eaV"f6r'lrw6''1m'o1DfJtrtr,vk, generosity on my part, for I could have asked differentterms.'" Paul, without a job and with a bad record of Intemperance was not (n a position posi-tion to question anything. At that tiroe his fath-er.-a most exacting, invalid, in-valid, was living. Daughter Wants le Leave. "1 mertagerf my iok and my child, keeping a little girl to watch her in business hours, and stealing every minute I could to be with her She grew lovelier and lovelier, and at about six. her invalid grandfather having died, began to spend sum- mer vacation with her grandmoth- WNU Service.) PERPLEXED Consider Sally Water' problem . . . Scorned by her husband after her baby was born, Sally became discouraged dis-couraged and finally was divorced from Paul. Sally tvent to work, giving giv-ing Paul and hi mother the baby daughter for two months each year. Now at the age of 10, the daughter wants to live with her father and grandmother. Should Sally be obliged to give up her only child? Read Kathleen Norris' startling re- ply er and father. They fed her then, naturally, but I clothed and educated educat-ed her, worried over her when she was I1L "Now she is 10, and she wants to live with her grandmother. That is the long and the short of it She loves her father; he is managing the small farm now, and he and her grandmother worship Jean. She wants to go to school with a little girl who lives near, she wants to help Granny cook, and she and Daddy Dad-dy manage everything and have so much fun. "I admit that it is a more natural nat-ural life for her than living in a sanitarium san-itarium filled with defectives and psychopaths, but what about me? Have I no rights? Now that she is a fine. Independent self-reliant little human being, rather than an exacting exact-ing and delicate baby, Paul wants her, of course. A Bitter Blow. "The thought that she wanted to go to him was so bitter to me at first that I could not conceal it from her. She cried for days, but when she finally gave In it was with the air of a martyr, and she made no secret of the fact that her interest was out at the farm. She telephoned ber father every night and nothing that I did or offered in the way of movies or new frocks interested ber. "What shall I do? Give up my child, the very light of my life, or keep her and trust that after a time she will turn to me again? We have most of our meals in the big dining-room, dining-room, but I have a nice suite of three rooms, including a small kitchen where I can arrange an occasional oc-casional little feast for just the two of us. We have many perquisites, rent, light service, meals, hot water, wa-ter, linen, but Jean says lately that she hates the institution, the wards and the smells of the halls and elevators. ele-vators. Is it fair that after ignoring ignor-ing his responsibility for her when she most needed him, her father should have the pleasure of her company now? His mother, I will say, is a wonderfully fine woman, and I am not surprised that Jean adores . Granny. Perhaps if I had had Granny's sheltered life and comfortable home I might be the same sort of woman." Let Jean Go. . This Is really a sad letter, and a hard one to answer. But I think that the answer is that Jean is the person to consider, and that her mother's best chance of winning the child's heart is to be generous now. Life with a loving father and wonderful won-derful grandmother on a farm Is a, child's ideal of perfect happiness," especially when it is contrasted with the 'bleakness and bigness of tosUr tion life. Jean probably suffers from Cons tan fa'ssoc la Hon " wfthHuYe "d ef ec-tlve ec-tlve and afflicted children, and finds the coziness of her grandmother's table ta-ble delightful by comparison. Bo -I would- give her up, if I were Sally, as we all have to give up our children sooner or later, and re-oice re-oice that so pleasant end safe- a haven is ready for her, in a world in which so-many hundreds of end drcn are neither safe nor happy. I,et that be the arrangement foi , the present. Sally. But be very sure j that the future holds changes tha' ; you cannot possibly anticipate. atl 1 Private Papers of a Cub Reporter: Irrtn g. Cobb, in this year's version ver-sion of his autobiography, gets pretty pret-ty persnlckitty about today's reporters. report-ers. The columnists, however, are bis great big aversion . . . Irvin insists in-sists the columnists are not accurate accu-rate and so forth . . So what happens? ... So Harry Hansen, the book critic, decided to give Cobb a little lesson In accuracy . . . Cobb, it appears, relates how, In Belgium In 1914, bis life was threatened threat-ened ... He goes on, for several Dick Tracy pages, to tell bow a ferocious fe-rocious German major pulled a gun on him, menacing him worse than Karloff could . . . Here is Hansen's cold water: "Tha actual incident was trivial Tha officer was a sergeant ser-geant and Cobb's life was never in danger. I saw it and often marveled' mar-veled' at the international episode Cobb made of it" Oswald Marshall heard It in London Lon-don . . . About the two Germans who met in Paree, and Carl said to Fritz: "Have you a gute job here?," "Yah," Fritz fritz'd. "I have a vorry gute job. I sit on top of da Eiffel Towah undt I vatch for da English to vave da vhite flag I" "Iss it gute pay?" queried CarL "Not much." said Fritz, "but idds for life!" The colyunt's L Elinsoa recently planed in from Hollywood making his initial flight .' . . He tried, however, how-ever, to impress his friends who were taking him to the airport by telling them that flying was old stuff to him . . . When they got to the airport Elinson said to an attendant: attend-ant: "I'm taking the American Mercury. Mer-cury. What TRACK does that leave on?" Columbia's short-wave listening post heard this from England . . . It is the best illustration of Russia's position in the war . . . It was meroo'd to Churchill by a returned diplomat from Moscow, to wit: "A report came in to the Kremlin which read: 'Nine British planes destroyed. Nine German planes shot down' . . . Stalin looked at it rubbed his hands and smiled. " Good,' be drooled. That's 18 planes for us.' " Alexander Markey observes: "Mebbe the 111 Duce will know better bet-ter than to Mussolin the next time." We hear his chin has retreated six inches I Joe Belchman, the orchestra man, offers the one about Herr Goebbela, who was interviewing a German journalist who applied for an editorial edi-torial job on one of the Nazi-controlled newspapers in Berlin . . . "What" asked Goebbels, "are your views on our government and its policies?" "Well." started the reporter, "I think" "Then," interrupted Beagle Puss, "I can't use you." Osiie Nelson has one about them, too ... It deals with the two Nazis in Berlin who were reading their newspapers and gloating over "how terrible" things were in the United States . . . "Why." said one, "tings iss so bad kid saya here in da pay-pas pay-pas dot Roosevelt Is hiring men for a dollah a year I" "Iss dot zo?" gasped the other. "Dot's even less dan ve get I" Notes of an Innocent Bystander: Labor and management are reminded re-minded that strikes can never build national defense ... If the British, in the name of Liberty, can stick by their guns tha least Americans can do is stick by their jobs. Now that It Is aid-hat, let's not forget that tha Lend-Lease battle-one battle-one of the fiercest in the senate's history was waged in tha interest of unity! . . . America would ba a lot safer if all its aviators got into the air force and out of politics. . Finns favor titles suggesting thoroughfares. thor-oughfares. There were "Back Street" and "Dead End" and now "Side Street" . . . They're steering clear of "alley," as it might remind too many box offices where business busi-ness has been lately . . . Tha Brit lsh have a delightful sense of timing. tim-ing. The London Palladium featured a revival of "No Time for Comedy" . . . NBC has two former foreign correspondents, who just finished s Corking .radio v serial. .named j'pe-cial j'pe-cial Correspondent" A half-hour show about an American reporter with th world as -Mr beat "Hearses Den't Hurry," the title of a new crime novel, would be a good wall motto for some of the madder mad-der motorLts. Betty Compton, the former Mrs Jimmy Walker, is taking a danci teacher's tra lrilng course! Whei she graduates she will get a fran cblse to conduct an Arthur Murray branch In White Plains . . Johr Hubbard's description of a perfeci gold-diKHing doll: "She's a womar who has no heart making a fool oi a man without a head." Ask Me Jlrir2 . O Genera Tht Question, 1. WMCpt.MUesstaJ iners? Hi j T 1 Who waa killed bit Burr In the famous duaj? i ' S. What la the exact 1 time taken by the eath Ib its revolution around tin ? - ' 5 4. Next to oxygen, wht?-1 ro chief elementary constou A the earth's crust? TV1 8. The word guerrilla at n from a Spanish word J E c what? t"M'i 6. What President of tht- 1 r,J States was born on July fc'-i Ij 2 7. What place is kno -Gibraltar of the East? ttr 8. Is there more sunll' cf : equator than at the poleit torr ' 9. What is the smalleibed v? flowering plants? s soon 10. In what direction irflcn zm clone whirl? . on the ears. The Answer, "' ' epalrsi 1. Capt Miles Standlsh- 'j"1 a Pilgrim, he was brouj!jg4ji m for protection. d t 1 Alexander Hamiltoa. ist: 1 1 3. The trip takes 365 is are j hours, 48 minutes and ttdians a 4. Silicon. 5. War (guerra). 6. Calvin Coolidga. to' 7. Singapore. withmi 1 No. A recent study. get that each pole has 65 mod uew f of fimlightt per year ttg. gnu; equator. to M r 9. The smallest of all t j 0 plant belong to the genut' ' They are aquatic, hava and produce flowers about? if5! and shape of the head of ," "" 10. Because of the rotatiS11 ,cn' earth, a cyclone whirls cjrutrlI 1 in the Southern hemisphrunT to counterclockwise in tht ners, 1 hemisphere. For the str?,9 on, cyclonic storms trai ward in the tropics and a- ak in the middle latitudes.. uto kffle. vat ?t ' amui ' I.JWS of tketicg IT" A - m . , ftfe'reted ft. . W Twicer wl (i7 1 ret ttM Sl 2ft tun i b MUt3pei al shel, CUE nw tcii'Lu iuav tn Tocfnything OOMCTIRffTION DUB TO VP WOW BOX WTH8 PICT COKECr THI CMSI OP THI1!" Vrrw a oeuoous rrf aS CBnuom &e? rr EVSKY OaV WO I mm aid tar MINK PUNTY 1M torj Of WATIR AJcraa gut SStomedl 'to keep Time to Befleet and' Su The solitary side of stf0. 1 demands leisure for nowever, upon subjects on which fl-lease t and whirl of daily business reserve as ha clouds rise thick ilea, the forbid the intellect to fastent . Froude. Jt .his type joslsv ai MsclaDy c MEITsrifles, Jr, 4b!e am DISCOMFORTS. A riiN,'..n.iw WNU W eeler-Ny Tnrth Is Hardy salon thi Truth is tough. It wiHlnrt Ho like a bubble, at a totM cctpi you may kick it about all. e-Jd a football, and it will be rs CLpai full at eventog.-01iver Holmes. 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