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Show THE LEW SUN. LEIH. UTAH Scientific Gadgeteer 'So Sorry' WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne i ; - " Soviet Claims Strong Counter-Attacks Stall German Drive in Three Sectors; Japan Feels Weight of 'Crack Down'; British Get Invasion Threat Warning (EDITOR'S NOTE We oplnlana ara exprei.eo I ti tJ'V,i,".n"' V1.'? ra thai ef the bcwi analyet nd not necessarily of UU newipaptr.; (Released by Western Newapaper Union.) I 'z"" V I SOMEWUERE-IN-EN GLAND A four-motored Consolidated "Liberator," "Libera-tor," just received from the United States, is shown in flight over England. It was flown across the Atlantic by a crew composed of Americans, Canadians Cana-dians and English, and made the crossing in just over eight hours, according accord-ing to the British. These ships have a wonderful record of service with the R. A. F. NAZIS: Real Trouble Claims by the Russians that they" had not only stopped the Nazis along the entire 1,000-mile front, but that they had taken the offensive at points, asserting penetrations as deep as 100 miles had been made, featured the Russo-German war news. There were many observers who believed the Russian claims to be fairly accurate, pointing at many admissions from Berlin tending to show that the high command was dissatisfied with the progress being made. This dissatisfaction was expressed in complaints against the difficulty of the terrain, the bad character of the Russian roads, and the strong resistance of the Russian troops. Using these statements as at least an explanation and a background for belief in the general failure of the German offensive, observers sought to find the answer in Russian Rus-sian tactics and Russian preparedness. prepared-ness. " " .' : : V They pointed, out that in the last war, Russia had an army of about 800,000, poorly mobilized, well-led but not enthusiastic for fighting. This force was hurled into the eastern east-ern battlefield without good preparation, prepara-tion, ran into highly trained opposition oppo-sition and was defeated bit by bit This time, apparently, the general Russian plan was to place a good-sized good-sized portion of the huge army on the long front, fight a series of rearguard rear-guard and testing actions to discover dis-cover where the main Nazi punch would be directed, and to keep the most excellent forces in reserve. r The German drive apparently was hitting in three general directions, Leningrad, Kiev and Moscow, with the heaviest attack In the center, with Smolensk the focal point. It was around Smolensk that the severest fighting occurred, and it was there that the German effort bogged down most seriously; For better than two weeks there was no real report of advance, and finally came the Moscow claims that the Germans had been hurled out of their trenches and were gradually giving way. BRITISH: Vieio of Scene Churchill, expressing the British viewpoint of the Russian scene of action, saw in It a German failure to execute a complete blitzkrieg, but warned that Britain was dealing "with a dangerous maniac" and claimed that the Nazis, failing against Russia, were thinking of turning to a British invasion attempt at-tempt Demanding that the defenders of the islands get themselves "into concert pitch" by September 1, the British leader seemed to attach especial es-pecial import to that date, a war anniversary an-niversary for Hitler. Churchill did not boldly announce that the British had definite Information Infor-mation of a planned invasion attempt, at-tempt, but the British viewpoint evidently evi-dently was that the Russian defeat or victory would not necessarily settle the war. The final scene of the war, it was plain the British thought, would be fought in the west, either on British soil in repelling the invader, or in a British reinvasion of the continent conti-nent . There were many rumors of action ac-tion in other fields. In North Africa the British heard that the Germans were removing troops, and leaving the campaign to the Italians, who might be expected, once the removal remov-al was complete, to fall back as disastrously as the did bpfor The situation was extremely tense u, xurney, louowing the British occupation oc-cupation of Syria, because it reported that the Germans were massing nuge forces in Bulgaria, presumably to move acme, tww.. into the Caucasus region, and at- empi w encircle the Ukraine. GASOLINE: Curtailment Gasoline consumption under mandatory man-datory control, with a view to reducing re-ducing the volume of eastern states' demand to meet the oil transportation transpor-tation shortage moved a step nearer when Secretary of the Interior Ickes recommended that more than 100,000 service stations in eastern states close from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m. every night in the week. This was the first direct move on the part of the government to limit sales of gasoline. Rationing may follow, it was indicated 'by some sources. Ickes said he was continuing his appeal for a yoluntary one-third cut in consumption, hoping that the station closing recommendation, "plus the voluntary curtailment will be enough to put us across." JAPAN: A Winner? The Japanese situation was highly Confusing to the lay mind, for the invasion of French Indo-China, even with the consent of Vichy, seemed plainly an overt act, and one which should merit the strongest possible punishment . from Britain and the United States. Indeed, this was the way it all started out, with concerted action by the U. S., Britain, Australia, Can ada and the Dutch East Indies. How ever, as the days went on and as the Japanese continued to land military forces in Indo-China, there began to be dispatches indicating that the adverse action would be much milder mild-er than had been anticipated; In fact British sources said that oil shipments to Japan might contin ue; the Dutch said they had not "yet" abrogated their agreement with Japan for 1,800,000 tons of oil a year; Washington hinted that the "appeasement oil" might continue to go to Japan as long as she did nothing more than invade Indo- China. Yet there were some things on the other side of the picture, because other' British high authorities said "wait and see what happens", on Japanese reprisals; the Dutch announced an-nounced that if the break came, Japan Ja-pan need never expect to get East Indian oil, forj the Dutch had made preparations to destroy all wells and refineries instantly. , The question was whether Japan was the winner or the loser by her move into Indo China, and there was evidence on both sides. NIPPON: . Behavior If future action against Japan was to deDend on the behavior of the Nipponese, there was little immedi ate evidence that this behavior would be mild. Almost immediately there was a serious "incident" when Japanese bombers attacking Chungking paused directly over the U. S. gunboat gun-boat Tutuila, part of the Yangtze river patrol, and dropped some bombs, which damaged the vessel, though there were no casualties. The ship was anchored in the so-called so-called safety zone across the river from the Chinese capital One bomb, according to a report from Shanghai, fell only eight yards from the gunboat, gun-boat, caving in a part of the ship's stern and blowing some equipment off the dock. Also in the Shanghai dispatches came word that the Japanese army had authorized the seizure of American Amer-ican property in North China. Actual Ac-tual seizure of some properties had been made, the consulate reported to Washington. , Some of them were the oil properties proper-ties at Swatow, Chefoo and Tsing-tao Tsing-tao and a tobacco plant at the latter lat-ter town. There . were reports of other seizures at Tsinan and Mukden. Muk-den. Some occurred in Manchukuo, Japanese puppet state, but some were In occupied territories of North China proper. i , n -Fit 5 . - i Lieut. Com. W. A. Bowers, V. S. iV is in command of the Gunboat U. S. S. Tutuila, which was damaged by Jap-anese Jap-anese bombs during an air raid ' on Chungking, China. The Tutuila was lying near the V. S. embassy at Chungking Chung-king when the bombing occurred. oc-curred. No injuries to U. S. seamen were reported. Before an official protest could be made, Japanese official apologized apolo-gized for the incident. U.S.: Turning Tide The frank statement by Secretary of the Navy Knox that an American destroyer in the Atlantic had dropped three depth bombs when it believed it was about to be attacked by a submarine focused attention on the "battle of the Atlantic." It brought by Senator George the statement that he believed the U. S. naval patrol of the sea lanes as far east as Iceland appeared to have been of such assistance to Britain that she was slowly gaining the upper up-per hand in the effort to keep the ocean free for the passage of supplies. sup-plies. At about the same time however, Germany announced the sinking of 19 vessels in one convoy, totaling 116,000 tons. Yet the Nazis admitted that the sinking was accomplished only with the greatest difficulty. The German dispatches, in describing de-scribing the armed escort of the patrol, admitted that there were many armed ships, in fact, claimed the sinking of one and the damaging damag-ing of another. Partly due to American intervention, interven-tion, Churchill told the commons; the "battle in the Atlantic is mov ing progressively in our favor," and this sentiment was quoted and echoed by Senator George. From the turn of events, however, the senator drew the conclusion that there would be no attempt at invasion inva-sion of Britain this year. He cited also the difficulty of the German invasion of Russia as one of his reasons. In this premise of the Georgia senator, however, Churchill hardly seemed to agree. HOPKINS: To Moscow The flight of Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's lend-lease administrator ad-ministrator and personal representative represen-tative to warring capitals, caused Intense interest here, because it was supposedly pbrtending the sending of lend-lease aid to Russia. Hopkins was scheduled to confer with Stalin in person, also to talk with leaders such as Molotov, Lit-vinov Lit-vinov and others. ' His departure was a closely guarded secret until he had arrived safely, and indeed it was a dangerous danger-ous flight, as the Nazi warplanes were occasionally flying over Moscow. Mos-cow. ' : JOINT: Tax Returns? One of the most dubious pieces of tax legislation found its central fight to circle about whether or not husbands and wives should be forced to file joint returns. Few prognosticators in Washington Washing-ton could be found willing to bet that the battle would end one way or the other. The tax bill came out of committee commit-tee with the joint returns mandatory, manda-tory, but only after the stiffest sort of a fight and with only the slightest slight-est sort of margin in the committee Toting. One of the first floor battles was to get the administration leaders to agree to open the matter for floor discussion during debate, and in this skirmish the foes of mandatory joint returns won out It was finally agreed that an amendment will be offered to remove re-move the mandatory joint return clause, and that this may be debated debat-ed on the floor. SABOTAGE: Canadian Strike A three-day "sort of sit-down" strike in Canada's biggest war industry, the aluminum works, brought from the government the statement that sabotage was suspected, sus-pected, and that thorough investigations investi-gations would be instituted. The government formally called the strike a "suspected case of enemy sabotage" and promised that arrests would be made. 5 I VlWMW'AVi r - Above: Sun telescope made from an old auto axle. Murray is focusing the solar image on a paper receiver here. Right: At the eyepiece of this homemade telescope he checks up on a few stars. The instrument is made of old water pipes, wood and pieces of mirror. Note how the wood is bound with wire. - I :v:-:'.vw:-:-;-Afes:ii3t W1' jjjnP -T Shiver Record . . . Here is the recording device of Murray's seismograph. Needles mark the lampblacked drum with every shiver of Old Mother Earth. It records about 15 major quakes a year, some as far distant as India. Mr. Murray has no less than six seismographs in his suburban home at Huntington Beach. The hobbyist preserves his seismograph seis-mograph records by giving the lampblacked ; chart a bath in shellac and alcohol. This makes his records permanent. mfk si Part ot rnApptoor m Murray s seismograph t V) mm. t 3t H ' Keeping track of earthquakes 3 and checking up on the weather ;& are a few of the things that ; make life worth living for Mar- I fin G. Murray, assistant postmas- i ter at Huntington Beach, Calif. I Mr. Murray makes all his own scientific instruments out of pieces of junk. These photos take you for a call. fnw Ww.?rw(w - "-r ' At ieft Murray has the im- , -;i age of the $un accurately jo-lJjcused jo-lJjcused on the buff paper be- v 1 hind this blackened tube, i he W nistnl in nart oi his P. O. 7o6. r i Below: From an assortment of discards Mr. Murray got this instrument, which accurately accu-rately measures magnetic dip. The seismograph timing device tells Murray to the split second when a quake occurs, but he uses this special microscope to dope out where it happened. u Washington, D. C. BIG DAY FOB NEWS MEN Twenty newspaper men leaned forward around the long blue baize table in the ante-room of the secretary secre-tary of state. At the extreme end stood tall, austere acting secretary, Sumner Welles. On his face was an expression of grim-lipped intensity. In his hand was a typewritten statement. state-ment. He read it aloud. It was scathing, carefully worded blast against Japan. At the opposite end of the table stood three Japanese news men, short, affable, eager. For months and years they had been attending p-ess conferences, given the same privileges as any American news men. For months also they had waited for some such bombshell. Now it came. One split second after Welles finished fin-ished reading his statement, the Japanese were out the door, pattering pat-tering down the marble corridor to the press room telephones. It wa a big day for Japanese news men. Finally Ickes Wins. It was also a big day for certain members of the Roosevelt cabinet. For months and years they also had been- waiting. For months and years also they had been urging Roosevelt to embargo oil shipments to Japan. At a cabinet meeting just before! Japan moved, Secretary Ickes, as new oil administrator, raised the embargo em-bargo question again. He proposed to stop oil shipments to Japan. But the acting secretary of state said co. Japan, he said, was going to make a move toward Indo-China and it would be wise? to wait Once before, Ickes had stopped a shipment of oil to Japan and aroused the wrath of the state department Last June a Philadelphia manufacturer manufac-turer complained to him that a Japanese Jap-anese ship was loading 240,000 gallons gal-lons of lubricating oil. v i "I can't get oil myself to speed up my own defense orders," wrote the manufacturer, "and yet I see in front of my nose this shipment of oil going to Japan. To hell with defense, if the government is as screwy as that" So Ickes called the coast guard and asked them to act before the oil was loaded. They did. Then things began to boiL It did not leak out at the time, but the state department complained to the White House that Ickes' action had interfered with the policy of appeasing appeas-ing Japan so she would not go south to the Dutch East Indies. However, Ickes held his ground. He insisted that he was not meddling med-dling in foreign policy, but that it was nonsense to ration oil and gas on the Atlantic seaboard and at the same time let Japan ship oil away from the Atlantic seaboard. In the end Ickes won. Bombard Tokyo. . Naval strategists make no secret as to what they would do to curb Japan. They consider it foolhardy and suicide to send a lot of U. S. warships across the vast expanse of ecean to Singapore or the Dutch East Indies. They figure we are going to get into the war anyway, and it is good strategy to deal knockout blows in the very first round. They favor sending waves of U. S. bombers from the Philippines to raze the paper and bamboo cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Osaka. They also favor sending the fleet, plus airplane carriers to the coast of Japan.' Ja-pan.' They favor doing this immediately. immediate-ly. There is no use, say the navy men, of punching at a man's legs when you can strike for his heart CLOSING PANAMA TO JAPAN Secretary Stimson was telling the absoluts truth when he denied that the discovery of a time-bomb was responsible for keeping 10 Japanese ships out of the Panama canal For this was not the reason. ' Real reason why the canal was barred to the Japanese was the discovery dis-covery that two of their ships were floating bazars being rushed to the east coast of South America to grab off the trade which Axis operators were forced to abandon as a result of the U. S. blacklist Apparently the Japs had a tip that the blacklist was going to be issued, because the two ships hastily hasti-ly left the west coast and were waiting wait-ing to go through the canal, when suddenly the blacklist was published. Equipped with elaborate merchandizing merchan-dizing displays, and carrying high-powered, high-powered, Spanish-speaking salesmen, sales-men, the ships were literal arsenals of economic warfare. With them, the Japanese would have Invaded the most lucrative markets in Latin America before either the U S. or the Latin Americans could have moved to block them. -. . - MERRY-GO-ROUND U. S. authorities are quietly keeping keep-ing an eye on Andre Maurois, well-known well-known French writer, who has departed de-parted on a mysterious "private mission" to South America. Maurois is strongly pro-Vichy and is suspect ed of going south for the purpose o plugging the Nazi-con trolled French regime. 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