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Show THE LEHISlTN. I.EHl. lTTAll f-' . New Kind of I ( Saw I MMMNBMMM ' ' I I I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Reports of Hess Flight to England Fill News Columns and Radio Lanes; Convoys Plus Strikes Plus Priorities Equal Headaches in Defense Program (FD1TOR S NOTE When oplnlona ars are tho of 111. news analyel aua (Released by Wertern BOMBSHELL: Human Variety The Rudolf Hess incident was the dropping of a bombshell Into the moors of Scotland which went up with a louder explosion than any of the tons of TNT that Hitler's aviators had yet sent across the channel. Imaginations ran riot the house of commons was in a dither more than 20 basic theories were advanced ad-vanced to explain why Hess fled Germany in an airplane and dropped to earth in a parachute, and with the interweaving and variations vari-ations of these, one had several thousand stories to choose from. To list the British theories and those of neutrals would be futile because be-cause they were not only limited by the imaginations of their creators. To list the German explanations also would be futile because they obviously were the propagandic outbursts out-bursts of a government whose nose was temporarily out of joint Outside of this, all was speculation, specula-tion, all was guesswork, but the guessers, most of them being paid at so much a word, let themselves go and endless columns were printed Yet the story was not being "overplayed" "over-played" most thinking newspaper men being at a loss for earlier comparisons com-parisons to : journalistic history, which, one must recall, doesn't go far back when history is considered. But outside of the type of story that history presented to the Middle Ages and during the days of Caesar and Hannibal, and Anthony and Cleopatra, and Cassius and Brutus, and Helen of Troy, Hess' flight was unique. Most newspaper commentators were willing to call it the biggest story in centuries and let it go at that. They wagged their heads and said, "What if Cordell Hull were to fly to Germany,, or what if it had been the other way over the channel chan-nel and Anthony Eden had made the trip?" - This was enough to settle the point as to the magnitude of the news to their own satisfaction, anyway. - Basic explanation of the Hess incident, in-cident, on the standpoint of logic, "V 5 RUDOLF HESS A louder explosion than bombs' brought personal considerations and personal safety to the fore. It was pointed out: a. Hess had evidently wanted to escape Germany for some reason for he was practically under a de tainment sentence by Hitler's hav ing grounded him. b. If his reason for escape was sound, then to pick out a spot where he would be utterly safe from retribution, retri-bution, England was the one and only spot in the world. c. It personal safety was his motive, mo-tive, then an inescapable parallel was that something must have been wrong with the unity of the Nazi party of which he was No. 3 fuehrer. This was enough explanation for British serenity over the incident, also for German perturbation. ; It was significant that most German dispatches covered these three points. . . - - Point No. 1 was covered when Hitler announced Hess was crazy and had been detained for his own safety. No. St, that he should select England, Germans explained by say ing that the nature of his Insanity was that he believed that he, single-handed, single-handed, could bring about peace. tuuu a was nanoied by a - su-aignt-out denial that anything was wrong with the Nazi oartv Hess was a "good Nazi but crazy." Tainted Toenails Whether crazy or not, when they took off his shoe and sock to attend to his fractartd ankle, he was rmd V have painted toenails, hardly the Ta" wea of a hard-boiled mzi. leaders personal decorations I-veryone who ever had any con-tact con-tact With Hess told his paragraph or two. from the palmist who said he was "superstitious" to the news- vnvvr commentator who tnnW ,-, ...nuua coast to coast" to tell how e naa seen years ago. "ess go skiing two Hk 1 i ii mi ...p wmm SOS ' 77. By Edward C. Wayne expresses' 1 I; these jolnmnjj . tbjr Newspaper Union.). PRIORITIES: And OPM A new difficulty to the U. S. handling han-dling of defense work loomed when William S. Knudsen, motor official and head of OPM, seemed to take as a personal issue the question of taking priorities out of his hands and giving them to a special organization organi-zation answerable only to the army and navy chiefs. Knudsen was quoted as saying that he would quit if the plan went through. Thus the question of priorities lifted lift-ed its head as a vital defense issue, further complicating the picture. Priorities were becoming a very real Issue in business, also, many manufacturers finding that this one question might easily keep them from success or failure in carrying out contracts. The right to a priority prior-ity of delivery of machine tools might alone answer an entire question ques-tion of manufacture. Knudsen took the attitude that if the work of production manage- WILLIAM S. KNUDSEN lie forced an issue. ment was his, that to remove from his hands a vital tool like the right to decide questions of priorities, would be to make his task impossible, impos-sible, and to rob him of his prime prerogative. It seemed likely that unless this question Was irofled out swiftly to the liking of the ' Danish-born pro duction . expert, the government might be looking for a new man. STRIKES: " Vp-Grade Again The labor trouble tempo to the United States defense Industry was on the upward curve again, .ith a $30,000,000 order for Browning machine ma-chine guns held up at the Colt factory fac-tory in Hartford, Conn,, and other old labor difficulties threatening to break oftt anew, including the coal strike. Always rearing its head was the threatened General Motors strike, which would, if it occurred, affect millions of dollars in defense work and about 160,000 employees, and John L. Lewis said that if the coal contract with southern operators was not forthcoming soon, he would call the 400,000 coal miners out again. This brought the strike news back onto the front pages with a bang, and Eepresentative Thomas of New Jersey,, a Republican called for a roundup of Communists ta labor groups, and to order them all arrest ed on treason charges. This was the most drastic step suggested thus far. snips : Britain Bound President Roosevelt assured the nation that the administration's oh jective of 2,000,000 tons of merchant shipping for Britain would be real ized by mid-June This assurance carried with it the impo rtsnt promise that the bill per mitting the President to take pos' sesstoD of foreign vessels idle ta American ports was in the category oi "sure thines." The senate and house engaged ta desultory effort to write into the bill amendments chief among which was the Tobey amendment forbid ding the use of convoys. The whole convoy Issue, as Indeed all other news of the war on this side of the water took a back seat during the news ascendancy of Ru- aou Hess, but the" issue was there, ready to rip itself out into the ooen at an appropriate moment and to become the central point of a whole congressional debate on the Presi dents general foreign policy. The 2,000,000 tons of ships for Brit- am within a month came as the Nazis were claiming 10,000,000 tons of British ships sunk by U-boat since the start of the war, an J with the British, while admitting losses or at least nair that amount, gen erauy showing the pinch sharply Further drastic reductions in the meat ration (and little is as dear to the Britisher as his beloved beef and mutton) were announced and the general trend of commons de- bate Indicated that Britain was feel i 4L. l: it i , I lug uic snip pincn iremenanusly. a i Gold Star Mother I sat ,J-t;Lto'' tf 4 When American Gold Star Mothers conducted their annual an-nual ceremonies in Glendale, California, Mrs. Anna Barn-brock, Barn-brock, 94, oldest of the group in the nation, participated in the ceremonies. Mrs. Barn-brock Barn-brock is pictured standing before be-fore the marble statuary "A Compassionate Mother," which was unveiled. DRAFT: Bars Lifted Of extreme import was the decision deci-sion of congress to lift all bans to the size of the army or to the question ques-tion of selective service for any purpose pur-pose for which it might be used ta the national defense. Also vital was the decision immediately imme-diately to classify the 10,000,000 young men still unclassified ta the first call, and to set up the second call for an early date, probably ta July. Two things were highly likely as a result that the draft would be used to call men of a younger age than before, and that it would also be used to hunt out "missing links" among the skilled trades for use ta defense, industry. The first eventuality naturally would follow the report of army chiefs after a few months' experience experi-ence with draftees that the younger men were far more adaptable than the older, and could take their training train-ing quicker and better. The second resulted from the realization that many men in the uniform would be much more productive pro-ductive to defense ta shipyards or munitions plants and that the classification classi-fication lists, if turned over to defense de-fense production men -might result ta discovery of these facts before the uniform was donned. ' The lifting of any ban on the size of the army tended to indicate that there was justification for the grow ing belief that the end of a ealendar year would not very likely mean the end of a man's military service, under present conditions. VICHY: A New Role More and more it was becoming apparent that newest German propaganda prop-aganda was to convince the world, especially the United States, of one fact that the war was over and Germany was about to undertake the difficult task of reconstruction. In effect the story to (as one Ger man writer put it) "poor daddy Roosevelt" was this: 'All British have been chased from the European continent except at Gibraltar. "Thus Germany's prime objective has been achieved. We shall now try to cement these 300,000,000 people peo-ple Into one force, working for Ger many. "With this force we shall confront the United States and defeated Britain." First move in the "war is now over game" was to lighten, somewhat, the armistice terms for France and to ask deeper collaboration. This, : according to dispatches. Vichy accepted unanimously. The German plan called for the return of some prisoners of war, the raising of the line between occupied oc-cupied and unoccupied France, and a list of demands on the French for co-operation which might never be made public. Most observers believed that Ger many, ta order to get and hold the Mediterranean, would give almost any concession to beaten France to grab the French fleet, but this did not appear on the surface as a condition. Why a Change? What did change Vichy's role in the world? Up to that moment the world had pictured Vichy and un occupied France as a saddened. hungry nation, bled white by the Nazis, and hoping against hope for the day when a British victory would return the country to peace, prosperity and freedom. Now the world had to picture a France which had further surrendered, surren-dered, which was sending Darlan to repeated close and secret conferences confer-ences with a "high Nazi authority," and which was prepared to tell the United States, in effect, just what the Germans were claiming: "The war is over, Europe now is dominated by Germany, and France is going to collaborate politically and socially, to see what she can gain for herself in the reorganization reorganiza-tion of Europe. If you go into the war on the side of Britain you are against, not for us." The Everglades Now Center of - y SNSwS As grown in the Everglades tugar cane is cut in the field, moved in tractor wagons to the railroad, and hauled by train to the raw sugar mill at Clewiston.- ; Right: The "Casey Jones of the Everglades" having a bit of fun oiling up the company locomotive. it t lit- d- li) knows how to cut f sugarcane. Hff ti iWlfMV Jf n -r .a y w I i n Il-IIIMMI I Iiiiiiii The cars are locked to the rails and tilted. The cane is now on Its way to become sugar. Planting is planned to provide canes which mature on a regular schedule during a six-month period. ' The raw sugar flows into sacks from automatic weighers, each sack getting the same amount of sugar when the boy releases a trigger. Harvest season in Florida's Everglades is a season of merry-making. t, & i;. Hi Once a Waste Sugar Industry A dozen years ago the Florida Everglades were barren and unproductive. Today they are the center of a sugar industry which ' j t e nnn provides more inun '"'-y people with employment ana wnicn spent war u million and a half dollars in 1940 for materials purchased pur-chased in 19 other states. $f The ten plantations of the fSi United States Sugar cor- poranon spreait avvr thousands of acres of these glade lands. These photos show what goes on during the harvest season at Clewiston, Fla. The girls at the left look very industrious, but they are only out for a frolic in the sugar cane. 7 The long journey starts. Up the escalator go the sacks to the freight cars, then to the refinery, where the raw sugar is refined into the white table product. W Man About Town Npw Yorkers Are Talking A&onts Ths 400 ter cent law biz tilt for Willkie after his Collier's piece (an swering Lindbergh) . . . The trouDie HaUe Selassie's daughter Is having getting a visa to come here , . . Adolf Hitler's nephew, wm. .FatncK Hitler, being summoned by the N. Y. draft board, and his plans to enlist en-list in Canada. Instead , i The muffled groans over at the Sateve- nost because one year ago it paia St. Ethical McKelway a big advance fee (for a series of South American pieces) and not one word has been submitted yet. Peeler's terrific mad-on with Lib erty mag. -He sold it a yam on unions, guilds, etc.. but it'll run side by side with a yarn debunking his piece. The debunking smarucie is bylined by J. Woll, of the American Fed. of Labor . , . Shep Fields' definition of an Isolationist: A guv who sits on a fence long after a normal man feels splinters. FDR being fed op with the Axis propaganda and his belief that a counter-offensive of free ideas should be sent abroad. He thinks it is Hit ler's weak point because in Europe any man who believes wnat ne sees is a Fifth Columnist against Hitlerl . .- . The "beat" of the week: That the administration has been sounded out by influential Italian Ital-ian exiles for permission to set up in N. Y. the government of the Re public of Italy!!!!!! The Gov't Is actively considering the best location In the U. S. where foreign agents can do themselves the most and the Axis the least good . , . Naval conferences ta London have reached the point of a discussion discus-sion of joint command of all democratic demo-cratic vessels Atlantic (British), Pacific (U. S.) Notes of a Newspaperman The Story Tellers: Raymond Leslie Les-lie Buell, a Fortune editor, warns FDR is "to danger of becoming the American Chamberlain." That takes the President all the way around the block. He's been called "dictator," "warmonger" and now "appeaser." The name-callers Invent the name to fit their special angle ... There are six kinds of escort who are practically prac-tically a guarantee of spinsterhood, an anonymous model reports fa "Beauty Is My Career" In Cosmopolitan. Cosmo-politan. The half dozen will spend plenty on a gal's face, but nothing on the third ringer of the left hand . . . An editorial in the SEP states: "If the country is unable or unwilling unwill-ing for the duration of the war to frewte its economic disputes, to forget for-get its class jealousies, to put out of its mind such a thought of equity of saerlfice, then Its life is ta danger" . . . Them's fine words. We hope the Satevepost will set an example . . Page 122 of the SEP has a cartoon about a silly ostrich with its head buried in the sand. It's good to know they can laugh at them selves . . . Read Stanley High's piece: "Hitler Ersatz Religion" ta Reader's Digest. He says Germany is their God, Hitler is their Christ and Mein Kampf is their bible. The Front Pages: The Associated Press contributed great space and ink to a group's selections. They honored outstanding American womenwho wom-enwho '"made the greatest strides ta the last 50 years' . . , In the field of aviation the honored were Ruth Nichols, a South American lady named Mrs. Miguel Otero, and Anne Lindbergh . . , Amelia Ear-hart, Ear-hart, In short. Is not only Gone but Forgotten . . The Pulitzer Prize Committee's award to the Pulitzer paper ta St Louis (for getting rid of a smoke nuisance) was like seeing a man pin a medal on himself. This column's orchids for th hpst editorial cartoon of the month go to Kouin Kirby of the N. Y. Post The CaDtion was "The Canitnl f tVi World of Tomorrow Will Be Either Berlin or Washington" (which Willkie Will-kie said ta a sneech) . ; . Tn nfa chair is "Isolationist" with his news paper (featuring Lindbergh's oppo-sition oppo-sition to British aid) on the floor . . "Average American" (that's you and me and Kirby) Is Dushlns a finger in The Old Man's direction ana saying: "I don't want war any more than you do, but I don't propose pro-pose to let this guy Hitler take ME over. And don't you call m a war. monger!" In Daladier's new hnnk. "Ti-a. Speaking," there is a good tip-off on why France fell . Daladier once said sadly: "What can I do about it? Gamelin doesn't LIKE tanks!" Typewriter Ribbons: Franklin's: Rebellion agatast tyrants is obedience to God . . . Anon's- Often the man the public tars and reamers today has a feather in his cap tomorrow . . . G. B. Evans': The way to beat convicts is with convoys con-voys . . . Jack Warwick's: Few Americans want war. 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