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Show THE LEW SUN. LEH1. UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS More Aid to Great Britain' Problem Faces Opening Sessions of Congress; Tempo of Attacks on Italy Stepped Up; Report 'Heavy' British Shipping Losses (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are eipreeaed la then column, ther are (boa of the new analyst and not neeceaarlly of Ibla nawapaper.) m.i. ..d by Western Newspaper nm. ' 77TII CONGRESS: Washington Gloomy As the new congress comes into being, it meets in a Washington that is marked by a mood far from op timism. There is public talk, which may be nothing more, that Britain has only a 90-day grace period before be-fore Hitler strikes hard and that Britain is far from well prepared and American "aid" has fallen down. The first job of the1 new congress will be to stir the public, industry and labor out of that lethargy. Efforts Ef-forts already have begun in speeches by Defense Chief William Knudsen, and Secretaries Stimsop and Hull. The topic of all is the same: It is much later than you think. They hope by painting the defense picture pic-ture In its true colors to convince workers, employees and the general public that there must be an immediate im-mediate all-out arms production and all other considerations labor's .right and profits must step aside until the job is done. New Board One step in this direction was appointment ap-pointment by President Roosevelt of a new super-production board on defense. de-fense. It has been given complete executive authority all the constitution consti-tution allows, according to the Presidentto Presi-dentto act in the name of the government. gov-ernment. The national advisory defense de-fense council which has been carrying carry-ing on the work up until this time has been pure that, advisory. It lacked authority. The new board will have authority, authori-ty, probably more, than most people expect, and will crack down. Knudsen Knud-sen has been named chairman and Sidney Hillman, C. I. O. vice president presi-dent and enemy of John L. Lewis, Is vice chairman. War Secretary Stimson wd Navy Secretary Knox are the other members. Job Ahead The job is monumental. Army housing is 60 per cent behind schedule sched-ule with only 300,000 soldiers on active ac-tive duty, out of a contemplated 1,400,000. Not a single airplane ordered or-dered since congress voted money last July has been delivered. If any tanks have been delivered it is a secret" When it was decided to build one munitions plant and work on construction more than 40 hours a week, that was "news." Most startling of all was the lack of realization on the part of too many that in this war those nations which sensed their danger too late have, reached their war potential! ties too late or not at all. CHANGED MAN: Neiv U. S. Envoy In 1936, British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden asked the League of Nations to vote an embargo against Italy because the Duce invaded Ethiopia. The man who led the fight against such a proposal was a Frenchman, Pierre Laval, at the ANTHONY EDEN Personal and patriotic delight. moment French premier. Laval supported Italy and kept the League's action from being unanimous. unani-mous. Eden's battle at Geneva aroused the enmity of Mussolini and so bitter was the exchange that Prime Minister Min-ister Neville Chamberlain, then in the beginning of his appeasement drive, forced Eden to resign. In Eden's place came Lord Halifax, a member of the Cliveden set and sup- WOMEN ... in the news Shopping Lady Decies, the former for-mer Elizabeth Drexel of Philadelphia who married Social Leader Harry Lehr in the gay 90s and moved to Paris, returned home. She told of shopping in occupied Paris. In one store she had decided to buy a coat when a fat, uniformed man reached across the counter, seized it and said, 'Til take this for my wife." Lady Decies walked away. The man in uniform was General Goering. ii H i By Edward C. Wayne 1 porter of appeasement. He laid the groundwork for the pact of Munich, where Czechoslovakia was sold down the river and Hitler gained the idea all Europe would bow to his whim. But times change and sometimes men change, too. Lord Halifax now Is described as one of the most determined men in England in support sup-port of the war effort. The death of Lord Lothian, British ambassador to the United States, gives Lord Halifax a new task. He steps down from the foreign ministry, where he directed ambassadors, to become an ambassador himself, being assigned to Washington. Back into the foreign ministry in London goes Anthony Eden, who would take personal as well as patriotic pa-triotic delight In knocking out Mussolini. Mus-solini. Pierre Laval? He's out of the French cabinet at this time, but German Influence is seeking to have him replaced. Until such can be brought to pass, he will live in Paris, under protection of the Nazi invaders. WAR ON ITALY: Tempo Increases Fearful of being too optimistic, but still hopefully, the eyes of the democratic nations were turned on Italy. Reverses for the Fascist legions le-gions were reported by the Greeks in Albania and by the British in Egypt. There were continued re ports of falling morale on the home front. If Italy should crack it would be a. serious blow to the Axis. Even an BENITO MUSSOLINI ' He heard a few excuses. Axis is no stronger than its weakest spoke. The forward march of the kilted Greek Evzones in Albania appeared to be slowed down. There were desperate des-perate counter-attacks by the Italians Ital-ians and some towns were retaken. But the Greeks were certain it was just a momentary halt and the march north could be resumed. From Africa, Field Marshal Ro-dolfo Ro-dolfo Graziani reported to the Duce on why his Egyptian campaign had been such a dismal failure; and why after making a 75-mile advance into British territory he halted for three months and then suffered a serious defeat. He said he had not received mechanical equipment from home which had been piomised to him. Even before the British attacked and drove him far back into Libya, he reported, he knew of their plans. He denied the campaign against him was a surprise and said that so many Italians, reportedly as high as 80,000, were lost because they chose to fight into the "last spasm" rather rath-er than retreat. But excuses don't win battles, and good reason or no, the Libyan forces had lost all their gains and were in a desperate plight to save the remnants of their army. The British Brit-ish indicated that an even more extensive ex-tensive blow was being aimed and hinted much of Libya may be in their hands by spring. Even the British navy mocked the Italians. In broad daylight, with flags flying and openly inviting attack, at-tack, a squadron of the royal navy swept through the Straits of Otranto and into the Adriatic, Mussolini's private lake. It was an open dare to the Italians to come out and fight, but no Fascist man-o'-war appeared. So the British crossed over to Va-lona, Va-lona, Albanian port used by Mussolini's Musso-lini's forces, and turned their guns on the harbors. Then they sailed out into the Mediterranean again. Spies Executed On Armistice Day, November 11, the Royal Air Force called at the Italian naval base at Taranto. In the subsequent informalities, London Lon-don says bombs were dropped that sank or crippled half Italy's navy. Mussolini gave his answer to that One Italian naval officer and a civilian civil-ian were executed and 22 others jailed, including a woman who was given a life term. Spies, said the Fascists. They were accused of giving information that helped the British locate the vessels. NAMES ... in the news . j if 4 v ? j fc $V i It '?7i L WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE An award for "better-understanding." Honor William Allen White, Emporia, Em-poria, Kan., editor, was given the annual Churchman's award by the journal of the Protestant Episcopal church. The award was "for promotion pro-motion of good-will and better understanding un-derstanding among all people." Cruise Adm. William D. Leahy, appointed U. S. ambassador to France, spent the holidays on the' high seas. The U. S. S. Tuscaloosa, used by the President for his vacation vaca-tion cruises, carried the envoy to Lisbon, Lis-bon, Spain, en route to his new job. Fighter Gene Tunney, retired undefeated un-defeated heavyweight boxing champion, cham-pion, is wearing a naval uniform. The former marine buck private was commissioned a lieutenant commander com-mander and assigned as physical instructor in-structor to three naval aviation training stations. Tragedy Great crowds lined the streets of Helsinki and in a torchlight torch-light ceremony waved farewell to Kyosti Kallio, retiring president who carried the nation through crisis in peace and war. The 67-year-old statesman was bound to his ancestral ances-tral home after seeing his successor succes-sor take the reigns of government. At the railway station he turned and waved to the crowds. Then he slumped to the ground and died in the arms of Gen. Baron Manner-heim, Manner-heim, Finland's military hero. ANGER IN BERLIN: Sharp Words to U.S. The official Nazi spokesman turned a wrathful tongue loose on the United States. The American policy of giving all aid to Britain "short of war" appeared heading toward to-ward a critical stage. The spokesman said American foreign policy was one of "pinpricks, injury, challenge and moral aggression" aggres-sion" against Germany. On the other oth-er hand, he said, the ' Reich had "exercised restraint to the point of self-effacement." He talked of "warlike "war-like acts." Crux of the irritation was a statement state-ment by British Minister of Shipping Ship-ping Ronald Cross who told reporters report-ers England "looks with a covetous eye" on every ton of shipping in American ports. The transfer of "a certain number of enemy ships," plus United States ships was seen by him as the only way for "replenishments "re-plenishments of any consequences." The British shipping situation was admittedly serious. In the past sev-eral sev-eral weeks U-boats have accounted for an average of three British vessels ves-sels each day. The losses in tonnage ton-nage are not as severe as during the World war, but the British have fewer ships and cannot rely on Allies Al-lies as they could in 1917. The American merchant marine is now estimated at 1,600,000 tons. Also there are about 470,000 tons of German ships in American ports, waiting out the war. "The Reich," said the Berlin spokesman, "is therefore centering its entire attention upon America's reaction." Mussolini jumped into the argument argu-ment the following day. Through his editorial spokesman, Virginia Gay-da, Gay-da, he called attention to the Berlin policy and said, "Me, too." CROP NEWS: Wheat and Hogs The department of agriculture made two announcements of interest to farmers and food buyers. The first was that the 1941 wheal crop again would be above the 10-year 10-year average which is 571,067,000 bushels. The estimate of the 1941 yield was 633,000.000 bushels. In 1940 the crop gave 589,151,000 bushels and in 1939 569,741,000 bushels. Economists also predicted an increase in-crease of between 16 and 32 per cent in hog prices by March and an even larger increase in the retail figure for pork. They said it was quite probable that hogs, now averaging about $6.25 per hundred pounds in Chicago, would be selling $1 to $2 higher before winter is over. MISCELLANY: C. The wealthy family of Count and Countess Marc de Tristan, whose young son was snatched by a kidnaper recently, were the intended in-tended victims of another extortion plot which threatened the 3-year old child. C. There will be no award of a Nobel No-bel peace prize for 1940. In Ger man-occupied Norway, where the awards formerly were made, announcement an-nouncement was made that the prize would bp r for the secono year in succession. 7 I 'far mHtiwmmrwmmtfJrm Hawaii . . . Land of Plenty Which Sweetens Your Coffee When you think of Hawaii you are more than likely to think of Hula girls and guitars and to forget that Hawaii is responsible for a larfie quantity of the sugar with which America siveetens its coffee. The sugar industry helps create a $200,000,000 commerce between Hawaii and the rest of the nation. These photos give you a better idea of the commercial side of our island possession. P ?iiv !! iff UU - Vv '" Jit SUGAR DADDY . . . J. P. sugar planters' experimental station in Honolulu, shoivn injecting liquid food into sugar cane to test growth, and develop new high- juice content types of cane. The staff which helps spend $500,000 3 V..::.: -tK4 f F-C.Jf .rfila i t i SWEETNESS IN THE RAW . . . Scene at one of the Hawaiian plants where juice is extracted from sugar cane, boiled and evaporated evap-orated to make raw sugar. These tanks are the juice boilers. m -"?! " i i frnnfflMlf TriTilatiflffi likW Hill r--mmhitlhmmwsmMMm j r nniinnffciiimi 'i SHIPPING "WHITE GOLD" ...A California freighter is be-ing be-ing loaded with raw sugar at Honolulu for shipment to the mainland. main-land. The sugar is processed in U. S. refineries and thereafter appears on the tables of Mr. and Mrs, America. ffTV - h - f " I s: i ' t tM J x& V SUGAR HARVEST FESTIVAL . . . After the sugar crop has been gathered in Hawaii, plantation families celebrate with native feasts and reunions. Here the Souza family of Waialua plantation is celebrating the end of a successful harvest. Note the modern home supplied rent-free to plantation workers. V J?L "v - ' f' ' s . The beautiful black sand beach at Kalapana, one of America's most startling jcpw wnndart. The sand is as clean as coraL v,. Martin, scientist at the Hawaiian experimental station has a large annually. Si i WW, fit A -3 h- i J! ... X- :-ir a 1 AlV--' g.M-rA. ,m Washington, D. C. BIBLICAL DESTROYERS There were two reasoni for that grin on the face of North Dakota' Gov. John Moses when he left the White House the other day. One was an assurance that the President would personally investigate investi-gate why North Dakota has not received re-ceived any of the new defense plants. Moses argued that his state was so far inland that it was ideal for defense Industries. Roosevelt promised to look Into the matter immediately. im-mediately. The other reason was an anecdote the President told Moses "about a famous namesake of yours." It happened hap-pened Men Roosevelt was assistant secretary of the navy in the Wilson administration. He was asked to select from a list of American naval heroes, the name of a new destroyer. He picked "Is-, rael," in honor of a U. S. captain who distinguished himself in the war against the Barbary Coast pirates in 1815. Some time later, Roosevelt was asked to approve the personnel of this destroyer. And while looking over the list of personnel, another' aide entered with another personnel list for a destroyer named "Moses." "This coincidence struck me as very funny," Roosevelt related, "and I leaned back and laughed. The young naval officer looked perturbed and inquired, 'Aren't those the right crews for those ships Moses and Israel?' And then I laughed some more, because heading the lists of officers were the names of Murphy and O'Reilly." Note Moses, a Democrat from a rock-ribbed G. O. P. state, is the tallest governor in the country 6 feet 4 inches. ALBANIAN MOUNTAINEERS HELP GREEKS (Editor's Note The Washington Merry-Go-Round's famous Brass Ring this, week is awarded to the unsung allies of the Greek army, the peasants and mountaineers of Albania.) Al-bania.) Much tribute has been paid to the gallant Greek army and royal air force for winning one of this war's most prucial battles, in that wildest and most remote corner of Europe Albania. But little has been written about the Albanian peasants and mountaineers moun-taineers who have provided the Greeks with the most amazing intelligence in-telligence service of this war, so ac curate that the Greeks have known down to the last detail' just how many Italians were located behind each hill, where their guns were placed, and the exact nature of their fortifications. An army without eyes is helpless. And the Albanians, who havenever forgotten the manner in which Mussolini Mus-solini drove their queen and her day-old day-old son out of the country two years ago, have contributed materially to the surprising succession of Greek victories. , STATE DEPARTMENT WTOOWS There was not much Christmas Joy this year in the homes of 124 "blitzkrieg widows" of the American Ameri-can diplomatic service. Their husband hus-band diplomats are still on the job, but the wives are prevented by official offi-cial regulations from joining them. From Warsaw, from Berlin, from Copenhagen, from Oslo, from Brussels, Brus-sels, from the Hague, following the spread of the war, these "blitzkrieg widows" came trekking home on government order with children by the hand. A few capitals, such as Moscow and Helsinki, have now permitted wives to rejoin their husbands, but meanwhile, a new warning has gone out affecting citizens in the Far East, and the ranks of the widows are swelling still further. This separation Is much more than a sentimental problem. It creates a strain on the budget of each family, fam-ily, for they are obliged to maintain two establishments, and the salaries of the foreign service are not gauged to meet living costs in this country. The state department has had so much grief from the "widows" that a move is being considered to lift the ban and allow them to return to their husbands' posts. CAPITAL CHAFF The state department is getting a heavy volume of mail from all parts of the country urging strong U. S. assistance to Greece. Josephus Daniels, ambassador to Mexico, is the only ambassador appointed ap-pointed by Roosevelt in 1933 who still remains at the same post Experts of the house migrant investigating in-vestigating committee estimate that at least 4,000,000 job-hunters are constantly con-stantly oa the move in the country. Some American women have switched to cotton stockings as a protest against Japan, yet in the first nine months of this year, the United States imported $66,000,000 worth of silk from Japan. MERRY-GO-ROUND Two former editors of the "Ame-roc "Ame-roc News," daily paper of the 191E U. S. army of occupation at Coblenz, Germany, are now on active duty at the war department. They are CoL Fred J. Mueller and Lieut -CoL B. B. McMahon, both assigned tc the public relations staff. Ever This Smart Lri THIS wT7H I A popular, Sol tV'iJ mat n is reDpato ' aPP time. 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