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Show THE LEII1 SUN. LEU I. UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne 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 Whan pinion are cxpresaed In the iilaram, thr arc thoa f th new analyst and not neceasarily ( tbia newspaper.) (Released by Western TA American flag flies from a police car overturned by workers during the strike of worker at the "parent" plant of the Bethlehem Steel company. (See below: Strikes) YUGOSLAVIA: Coup Joining the Axis powers by the government of Jugoslavia was 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 day, 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 had 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 a 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 nw 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 imple 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 cumbers 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 mors vital plants. No. 1 was not long in coming, for the main plant of the Bethlehem Steel company, in Bethlehem, Pa., was next The big polls got busy and found that the public was con- H I G H L I G H Santiago, Chile: Chile has given permission for King Carol of Rumania Ru-mania to live in Chile with his sweetheart, sweet-heart, Magda Lupescu. It was reported re-ported that the "moral turpitude" clause in American regulations barred the romantic couple. This clause once kept a titled Englishwoman English-woman away from the United States. fl l, 5 f -1 ' w - ! I - ;a t ii t.MM' J p- ' ?"MI"-'"i L 4 Ili- ,t t Li ' 1 kAi.ijiV.vt.iiTi, lfcinrii.imiiiilnnirKniiiiirhiitiii(i'rnrrriiii'fii Newspaper Union.) Were is Wendell Willkie (right) with MacKenzie King, Canada's Prime Minister, as the G. O. P. 1940 presidential presiden-tial candidate stopped in Toronto. (See below: Willkie) siderably inclined to blame labor leaders rather than management for the enormous Increase in strikes. The present strike held in its grip more than a billion in war orders, including a large 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 50 to 75 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 pubL- indignation over the strikes was directed at C. I. O. organizations, or-ganizations, with Congressman Dies 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. I. O. picket lines in one instance. WILLKIE: 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 all 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 aus-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 business men of America to prove it I think they can. If I did not think they could, I could not believe in liberty." . T S . . . in the netvs Berlin: Government circles expressed ex-pressed themselves as delighted with the reaction of 'excitement which greeted the sign-up of Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia as an axis partner. "Our next goal is Turkey" those close to the government said. "Other nations na-tions will sign" was the official statement "our diplomacy never pauses." 'Femailman' 4 't In $ LONDON, ENGLAND.-This ENGLAND.-This pretty London girl is wearing the new uniform of the British postwomen. They used to wear skirts 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 waters, wa-ters, so that they could be added to the transatlantic trade. First ship to leave this country for Iceland following the announcement announce-ment of the additional blockade zone was the freighter Godafos from New York. The New York-Reyjavik run was started after the German 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 9, 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 Roose velt asked. OPM, the Office of Production Management furnished the figures, The direct government outlays, including in-cluding the seven billion, reached the total of $39,100,000,000. In addi tion came British orders of more than three billions, bringing the grand total to past the forty-two bil lion mark. Of these huge sums not more than 3Vi 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 con tracts. In fact of the 42 billions, OPM says that nearly 30 billions already have been appropriated or contract ed, and that nine billions represents the budget allowance for 1942. FOOD: Becomes an Issue Almost coincidental with recent news that America would send food to unoccupied France for distribu tion under the watchful eyes of the American Red Cross, who were sur posed to see that none of it got into the nands (or mouths) of Germans, came word that this distribution already al-ready had begun, and that the Red Cross workers were satisfied that all of it was going to French men, women wom-en and children. Kathleen Norris Says: Are Mothers 4Iays '"e est Mothers? (Bell Syndicate Some wives really ARE second rate, they really are whining and stupid and unattractive, and a man might reasonably turn from them to the friend in whom he finds 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 wins away another girl's beau, the second girl never concedes con-cedes that the first girl is anything but designing and a flatterer and two-faced and unscrupulous. That is human nature; unless we may console ourselves that the vampire is a thoroughly unscrupulous creature, crea-ture, we have to admit that we ourselves our-selves are rather second rate. And yet some wives really ARE second rate, they really are whinng and stupid and unattractive, and a man might reasonably turn from them to the friend in 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 his plans, doesn't mean that he is 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 is 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 he 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 hard 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 sotJate that he was exhausted ex-hausted in the mornings and was continually losing jobs. . "When Jean was two, he suddenly discovered that he 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 atva good salary, and Paul and I were divorced. di-vorced. He went to live with his mother, who came twice to me afterward aft-erward to help her get him a job, which I gladly did. The arrangement arrange-ment was that they should have Jean for two months a year, pure generosity on my part for I could have asked different terms. Paul, without a job and with a bad record of intemperance was not in a position posi-tion to question anything. At that time his father, a most exacting invalid, in-valid, was living. Daughter Wants to Leave. "I managed my job 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 summer sum-mer vacations with her grandmoth WNU Service.) PERPLEXED Consider Sally Water's problem . . . Scorned by her husband after her baby was born, Sally became discouraged dis-couraged and finally was divorced from Paul. Sally went to work, giving giv-ing Paul and his 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 reply. re-ply. er and father. They fed her then, naturally, but I clothed and educated educat-ed her, worried over her when she was ilL "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 her father every night and nothing that I did or offered in the way of movies or new frocks interested her. "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 institution institu-tion life. Jean probably suffers from constant association with the defective defec-tive and afflicted children, and finds the coziness of her grandmother's table ta-ble delightful by comparison. So I would give her up, if I were Sally, as we all have to give up our children sooner or later, and rejoice re-joice that so pleasant and safe a haven is ready for her, in a. world in which so many hundreds of children chil-dren are neither safe nor happy. Let that be the arrangement for the present Sally. But be very sure that the future holds changes thai you cannot possibly anticipate. j 1 J 1m.Wv,,:;ZJ Private Papers of a Cub Reporter: Irvln 8. Cobb, in this year's ver-sion ver-sion of his autobiography, gets pretty pret-ty persnickitty about today's reporters. report-ers. The columnists, however, are his great big aversion . . . Irvln 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, his life was threatened threat-ened ... He goes on, for several Dick Tracy pages, to tell how a ferocious fe-rocious German major pulled a gun on him, menacing him worse than Karloff could . . . Here is Hansen's cold water: "The actual incident was trivial The 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 zit on top of da Eiffel Towah undt I vatch for da English to vave da vhite flag!" "Iss it gute pay?" queried CarL "Not much," said Fritz, "but idds for life!" The colyura's I. Elinson 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 memo'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. x " 'Good,' he 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! J . Joe Reichman, the orchestra man, offers the one about Herr Goebbels, 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, J'are your views on our government and its policies?" "Well," started the reporter, "I think" "Then," interrupted Beagle Puss, "I can't use' you." Ozzie 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 idd says here in da pay-pas pay-pas dot Roosevelt is hiring men for a dollah a year!" "Iss dot zo?" gasped 'the other. "Dot's even less dan ve get!" 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 the least Americans can do is stick by their jobs. Now that It is old-hat, let's not forget that the Lend-Leas'e battle-one battle-one of the fiercest in the senate's history was waged in the interest oi unity! . . . America would be a lot safer if all its aviators got into the air force and out of politics. Films 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 . . . The British Brit-ish 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 a corking radio serial named "Special "Spe-cial Correspondent" A half-hour show about an American reporter with the world as his beat "Hearses Don't Burry,- the title of a new crime novel, would be a good wall motto for some of the madder mad-der motorists. Betty Compton, the former Mrs. Jimmy Walker, is taking a dance teacher's training course. Whei she graduates she will get a franchise fran-chise to conduct an Arthur Murraj branch in White Plains . . . Johr Hubbard's description of a perfeel gold-digging doll: "She's a womar who has no heart making a fool o) a man without a head." vuiz The Q "esfioni 1. Was Capt. Miles ' Who vs. f if its revoluUon 6rouS? 4. Next to oxyinJ 5? ' chief elemental the earth's crust? 0nstltueit of what? a meanttj 6. What President of ft. r ' Gibraltar of the Easu41 8. Is there more sunlight t , equator than at the pS ' ft' 9. What is the smallest of a flowering plants? w 10. In what direction does clone whirl? uuocy. The Answers , 1. Capt Miles Standish was not ' 2. Alexander Hamilton, 3. .The trip takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 43 seconds 4. Silicon. 8. War (guerra). 6. Calvin Coolidge. 7. Singapore. 8. No. A recent study showed that each pole has 65 more hours of sunlight per year than the equator. 9. The smallest of all flowering' plants belong to the genus Wolffia They are aquatic, have no roots and produce flowers about the size and shape of the head of a pin. 10. 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