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Show THE LEW SDN. USUI. UTAH .. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Italian Army's Chief of Staff Resigns As Greeks Drive Further Into Albania; Nazis Pour Into Rumania Amid Chaos; U. S. Aid Held Vital to British Victory (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions Are expressed In these columns, they re those of the news aaalyit end not necessarily of this newspaper.) Dy Western Newspaper Union. DUCE'S GAMBLE: Stakes Are Raised In Athens, wives of the German legation staff are knitting for Greek soldiers fighting Italy, Berlin's Axis partner There were other indications indica-tions Germany was In no hurry to come to Mussolini's rescue in Albania. Al-bania. It was said Hitler had advised ad-vised against the campaign and since the Duce had gone ahead anyhow, any-how, he should be given time to consider the consequences of effront to the leader. Mussolini apparently was doing penitence. Already he had relieved one commander in the field, another at home and ordered more Fascist legions committed to the Balkan campaign. There were other, more practical reasons, why his drive first bogged down and then turned Into retreat. These were: British aid in the air and sea, which made hazardous his lines of communication; unwise anticipation an-ticipation of mechanized units In mountain regions; insufficient use of the Italian air corps; Greek strategic stra-tegic ability which made the most of Italian losses. "Resignation" of Marshal Pietro Badoglio as chief of the Italian general gen-eral staff was also announced officially of-ficially in Rome. This fact gave some indication of the tough going of Mussolini's plans for a "quickie" war in Greece. Badoglio was re- IS?" A U - n' - r 1 ( ' , J ; 111 irJifl-a-ifrJ--nrimmiitftiiil '''' f BENITO MUSSOLINI Is he doing penitence? placed byen. Ugo Cavalero, until recently commander of the Italian forces in East Africa. Italy's most famous soldier, Badoglio had been chief of staff for 13 years and had been in supreme command of all three branches of the fight forces of Italy. The Mediterranean The first major encounter of the British and Italian navies was off Sardinia. British planes sighted tiny spots in the ocean, identified as Ital ian warships. They radioed the word back to the fleet and the British, Brit-ish, led by the battleship Renown, went into action. Planes Joined the melee. The Italians finally threw up a smoke screen and got back under the protection of shore bat teries. There were conflicting claims. but the British declaration that its navy controlled the Mediterranean seemed to hold weight. The British told a story: 'The American navy," it said, "prefers whiskey, the British navy rum. But the Italian navy sticks to port." ENGLAND'S CRISIS: Food and Planes More and more it became apparent appar-ent that the weeks just ahead may decide the ultimate victory for Adolf Hitler. That he is well aware of this is seen in the Intense bombings being administered to British industrial indus-trial areas. Supplies Is the key, and Hitler hopes to so cripple British production produc-tion that the anticipated spring drive will be made easier. Certain it is that he is obtaining some results, although British censorship has hidden hid-den the extent of the industrial damage dam-age in Coventry, Birmingham, Bristol Bris-tol and Liverpool. On the other hand, Arthur Greenwood, Green-wood, minister of production, admitted ad-mitted losses when speaking to commons. com-mons. Also an increase in U-boat activity was admitted to threaten sea traffic, upon which Britain must rely for the major share of its foodstuffs. food-stuffs. Stricter rationing was de creed, milk supplies curtailed, Imports Im-ports of fresh fruits banned and fewer meat shipments forecast. Shipping losses were estimated at 4.500,000 tons a year. It was 600,000 tons a month at the height of the U-boat campaign in 1917. Partial British answer to this was found in R. A. F. bombings of submarine bases In France and Belgium. British Brit-ish war on German production also was made in bombings on a score of continental cities. The Way Ahead Eyes of all were on the rate of production of planes and munitions in the United States. Here may be the final test, if the British can hold out to mid-summer. American planes sent to Britain in October numbered 281. Scheduled for November No-vember were 390. For January the figure is 350, and 400 by April, to be Increased to 900 by January, 1942. Also by that time It is considered con-sidered a fair estimate that the U. S. will have 50,000 planes of its own. But an "all-out speed-up" would even revise these figures upward. RUMANIA: Death and Terror In 1923 a Polish mystic in Rumania Ruma-nia formed a fascist, anti-Semitic movement under the name of League of the Archangel Michael, later to become the Iron Guard. His followers wore green shirts. At the same time in Germany an Austrian beer hall orator launched a similar campaign known as National Socialism. Social-ism. His followers wore brown shirts. In 1938, the Iron Guard, admirers of their German counterpart and allegedly financed by them, were outlawed, by King Carol following a long list of bombings' and outrages. out-rages. Corneliu Zelea Condreanu, the Guard leader, was imprisoned. Later it was announced he had been shot dead while trying to escape. Three months ago German pressure pres-sure pushed Carol from his throne and put the Iron Guard in control. But the green-shirted legions yearned for revenge. They attained that revenge when a band of several hundred forced their way into a fortress prison, took from cells 69 anti-guardist leaders and executed them. Included was Gen, George Argesauto, premier at the time of Condreanu's death. Civil War The Bucharest government ' of Premier Gen. Ion Antonescu quickly quick-ly expressed disapproval in the name of party discipline. The premier pre-mier is titular head of the Iron Guard. Even with strict censorship censor-ship it was learned that there had been wholesale resignations of army officers in protest But the assassinations assas-sinations continued and units of the i y ' v- ; ? f V ; : f - H ; tt N . : GEN. JOHN ANTONESCU He expressed "disapproval? army and Iron Guard clashed. Lat er 30 of the Iron Guardists were reported re-ported "suicides." Hitler had little to lose in the quarrel. Both the army and Iron Guard are pro-Nazi, the army however how-ever not approving of anti-Semitism. Amid the internal chaos, trainloads of German troops poured into Rumania Ru-mania to "keep order." Germany badly needs Rumanian oil and wheat, and the Rumanian mountain passes lie across the path of the Nazi push to the east Hitler was easing his route while the Rumanians Rumani-ans quarreled. NAMES in the news Envoy a pan named as its am-bassadoi am-bassadoi to the United States, Admiral Ad-miral Kichisaburo Nomura, 62, who in 1898 was graduated by the Naval academy at Annapolis. Known for his pro-American tendencies the appointment ap-pointment was looked upon as a Japanese move to heal present strained relations. During the World war, Admiral Nomura served in Washington as naval attache. Career Tom Harmon, 1940's football foot-ball sensation, revealed his secret career ambition. Speaking on a radio ra-dio program which picked him as an ail-American halfback, he said he wouldn't seek a job as a gridiron coach. Instead he wants to become a sports radio announcer. The sports radio announcer conducting the program pro-gram turned the rest of the ceremony cere-mony over to him. Saved From Blitz 1 V V W - .r - iff 4,r "V- X-fi-. , v'1 J little Pauline Tropp, now in New York, still clutches her doll as she remembers the horror of the bombing of London, from which she and her doll escaped. FARM SHOW: Girl Is Winner At the forty-first annual International Interna-tional Livestock Exposition and Hay and Grain show in Chicago, the major event for Junior cattlemen and farmers was won by Evelyn Asay, of Mt. Carrall, 111. It was the junior steer competition and Miss Asay carried away honors with her Hereford steer Sargo. Then Sargo went on to even greater great-er glory. He was picked as the Grand Champion steer of the exposition, expo-sition, the highest honor in cattle-dom. cattle-dom. Later he was sold to the Firestone Fire-stone Tire and Rubber company at the fancy price of $3.30 per pound. This cash and the money won in prizes by the animal will be used as a down payment for a farm for the Asay family, according to Evelyn, who was hailed as the toast of the show. Iowa State university was the winner win-ner of the collegiate judging contest, con-test, scoring 4,430 points out of a possible 5,000. Texas A. & M. college col-lege placed second with 4,409 and Ohio State university third with 4,394. SI AM AT WAR: Another Invasion In the World war Siam . (Thailand) fought on the side of the Allies. Several Sev-eral thousand .troops were brought to France, but military experts after aft-er estimating their combat possibilities, possibili-ties, assigned them to truck driving in the Paris district. Now Siam has attacked France, troops invading parts of helpless Indo-China. The French garrison there, split in allegiance to the Vichy and De Gaulle governments and beleaguered by the Japanese, are not expected to put up a strong defense. Objective There is little cause for war between be-tween the two countries and the original attack came only after the usual "border incidents" which easily eas-ily can be inspired or imagined. Actually the behind-the-scenes sponsor is believed to be close affection af-fection between Japan and the present pres-ent Siamese government led by Premier Pre-mier Gen. Laung Bipul Songgram, and all eyes are glued on Singapore, Singa-pore, near-by British naval base, the chief British strong point in the Far East. Singapore is impregnable impregna-ble from the sea, but believed vulnerable vul-nerable by land. Should Japanese and Siamese forces unite in Indo-China, Indo-China, it would pave the way for joint movement by land against Singapore. U. S. Reaction Washington looks upon Singapore as the best restraining influence in the Far East on Japan. News of the Siamese attack brought immediate immedi-ate reaction here. Announcement was made of an additional loan of $50,000,000 to the Chinese Nationalist National-ist government with an additional $50,000,000 to be made available later. DRAFT REJECTIONS: Not Fit to Fight About 15 per cent of the first 14,-500 14,-500 men who answered the initial summons under selective service, are back home, judged by army physicians as sub-standard physically. physical-ly. All the men previously had been passed by their local draft board physicians, but army doctors were more thorough and used X-rays. Chief cause for rejection was substandard sub-standard teeth and eyesight. The high rejection percentage was a aurprise to the army. They had expected rejection not higher than 2 per cent Immediate steps were taken to call additional men from each draft board where a man was rejected before being inducted. MISCELLANY: C A third recent major airline disaster dis-aster occurred in Chicago when a large United Air Lines passenger plane crashed killing eight and injuring in-juring eight The plane was descending de-scending for a landing and was only five seconds' flying time from the Municipal airport runways when its engines stalled. It fen, crashed into a house, a garage and an electric power line and then slammed to the ground. Preliminary investigation investiga-tion indicated ice on the wings may have caused the crash. 'Possum Hunting Is Now Part of School Curriculum pps-McRae Tutsum hunting is now . v, ,. . Colleae nestled high in the mountains of Aorti Carolina. Ao. the school does not award the degree of Ph D. (doctor of possum hunting) to the boys and girls who attend. All students of Lees-McRae Lees-McRae are required to participate in some sport as part of their course in physical education necessary for graduation, lining on the list of accredited sports, and as 'possum hunting is hiking at night, 'possum hunting for credits was brought to this college. L HI, tr f I 1 4 - PI ' 15 K it -Vrkw rKwtw I A? ! CLASS ASSEMBLES . . . The 'possum hunters are assembled by director of athletics John Mackorell (patting hound) at a haystack hay-stack on the college farm. : . ; f fJ 47 I LLyl A ! I f A I I p 1 1 fl. HITTING THE TRAIL . . . "Old Red" the hound on the right, was the first dog to smell 'possum and how he bayed! r if a :aa,v: : 1 TREED ...Two opossum, a female and her young, are treed. "Steady boy, steady," shouted Mackorell to the hounds when the hunters caught up with the chase. i ' , . If. 1 s s , ! X v iAA i AA DELIGHT . . . The possum hounds went wild, as the picture shows. (Insert) Into the bag goes Mrs. 'Possum, soon to be fattened, fat-tened, cooked tvith sweet potatoes and consumed by her captors. yz $ca ix X s - ----- - This was the result of a Lees-McRae hunt. . The flashgun apparently appar-ently worried the 'possum even more than the dogs. in 1 11 1 a (Keleased by Western Newspaper Umon.l RURAL AMERICA HOPE OF THE WORLD On November 12, 1918, In the ! Savoy hotel In London, I visited for an hour with that great English statesman, Arthur Balfour. As we listened to the din of the joy-crazed throng on the Strand, which continued contin-ued day and night for a week, Lord Balfour said to me: "People of England and people of all allied nations are crazed with joy today over the ending of the conflict in which they have been engaged. They do not realize that the world is facing a more serious problem today to-day than it did day before yesterday, yester-day, or at any time during the past four years. Civilization, the civilization civili-zation we have known in Europe and which you know in America, is in the balance right now and it may disappear in the comparatively near future. We know what has happened in' Russia. We do not know what will happen in Germany. We know France is seriously threatened with communism. We in England are facing some serious social problems. Danger exists in the large cities of America and the civilization we have known may disappear. "But if it does, there is one class in one nation that in time will bring it back to the world. That is the people of rural America, those who live in the small towns and on the farms of your country. They are the safe, sane, dependable people of the world today. , They will, in time, bring our civilization back to the world, but it will take 100 years to do it." That statement did not impress me at the time, but I have thought of it many times since and especially especial-ly since the jise' of Hitler in Germany. Ger-many. The English statesman had a clearer vision of the future than I could have had. I know that today leaders of English Eng-lish thought are praying that America Amer-ica may stay out of active participation partici-pation in the present conflict They are fearful that should we become an active participant we, too, will go 1 the way Europe has gone. We will sacrifice our heritage of democracy and will not be in a position to maintain main-tain that civilization which permits of free enterprise, of private ownership owner-ship of homes and farms and stores and factories. That we, too, will become be-come a socialistic state, with our people slaves of government instead in-stead of its master. The thinking people of England know America can best serve the cause of civilization by keeping out of any active participation in this war. England and all Europe need the influence of the safe, sane, dependable de-pendable people of our small towns and farms more than they need, the sacrifice of America's young manhood man-hood on European war fields. BALLYHOO CAN'T SUBSTITUTE FOR FACTS As a small boy, I wore a red cape with white facings, a blue cap and carried a smoking kerosene torch, for the supposed purpose of helping to elect James G. Blaine, but it did not. It was a part of the ballyhoo of American elections and ballyhoo, noise and denunciation of the other fellow did not change votes then, and do not now. When the time comes, if ever, that the American people are given the plain, unvarnished facts about the operation of their government on which they can base their conclusions, conclu-sions, America will have sane elections, elec-tions, and democracy will be safe. People do not think the way they are told to think. They think the way the information they have directs. They can be trusted with the facts. WHAT PRICE CORN? As a means of reducing production, produc-tion, farmers in the corn control area of the North Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and a portion of Missouri have been paid for not raising corn on approximately 15,-000,000 15,-000,000 acres. They raised grass instead of corn. In the South, farmers farm-ers were paid not to raise cotton; they were permitted to, and did, raise corn instead of cotton. In 1939 the South raised more corn than had been previously raised on the 15,000,000 acres in the North; the North, with less corn, reduced hog production by 1 million head. The South, with more corn, increased hog production by IVi million head. The price of corn is down. DERAILED That little autumn day's excursion party of the Italian army into Athens Ath-ens ran into a derail switch which turned them homeward with a cry for help to the Fuehrer. II Duce has found it takes more than brave words and noise to win a war. ! HE WHO LAUGHS IS NOT THE LAUGH SYXDICATOR One of the most serious-minded individuals I know is Bradner Kelly, whose job is editing the comic strips issuad by King's Features, one of the largest of the newspaper syndicates. syndi-cates. Few. if any, of his acquaintances acquaint-ances ever saw Brad Kelly so much as smile, and why should he? Kelly insists he has never found a real lauch In anv one of the thou sands of "funnies" that have passed ! over his desk. To him they are just , a part of the day's work. I 1 111' AKE k;. . - 'r.ur.wn little off beaming to w Party datefcfe; wuy simple summed h bygv mi Xff neath which the skirt fiJ ripples, it's trimmed . and ribbon at sleeves a: line. You can see from gram sketch how easy ft (No. 8827) is to make. out four pieces, make a and the darts, and sew it Even the least experienc er or doting aunt can do For the coming holida; this frock will be mc: priate in velveteen or taf organdy or very fine trimming. 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