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Show THE I.KHJ SI'N. -EHI I'TAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne 'Long, Hard War' Now Being Forecast As FDR Indicates U. S. and Britain Will Furnish Supplies to Soviet in '42; Vladivostok Looms as Trouble Spot (EDITOR'S NOTE Whu aalniana ara xprct! in these columns, the art then of tbo nowt analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ipi.q..ii by Western Newspaper Union,) 4 1- r-jf -a.iy"' i s I When the American Federation of Labor street car and bus strike was called in Detroit, thousands of workers In vital defense plants had to find other methods of getting to work from their homes. This picture shows part of the many hundreds of bosses that were Idle pending the outcome of the surprise strike. LINCOLN: An Echo For somt time efter President Roosevelt had quoted Lincoln's gloomy words following the first year of the Civil war, co-respondents puzzled themselves as to what Interpretation could properly be put upon them, - The words (Lincoln's) were these: ' "I have no word of encouragement encourage-ment to give. The military situation situa-tion is far from bright, and the country knows it as well as I do. The fact Is, the people have not yet made up their minds that we are at war with the South. "They have not buckled down to the determination to fight this war through, for they have got the idea into their beads that we are going to get out of this fix somehow by strategyl That's the word, strategy! "General McClellan thinks he Is going to whip the rebels by strategy, and the army has got the same notion. no-tion. They have no idea that the war is to be carried on and put through by hard, tough fighting; that it will hurt somebody, and no headway head-way is to be made while this delusion delu-sion lasts." t . -, . 4 ' President Roosevelt wrote his own headline over this Interview based on Lincoln's words to a group of Chicago women in an "off the record rec-ord talk" and let it be known that he intended drawing a parallel " But the newsmen saw two "parallels "paral-lels one that the President was telling American people that some of them "were going to get hurt" in this war; the other that he was telling the people that "hard, tough days" are ahead, and "that the military mili-tary situation was far from bright" Though either of these parallels seemed simple enough to draw from the words of Lincoln, others pointed to the fact that the President himself, him-self, when talking to the correspondents, corre-spondents, underlined that portion "the people have not made up their minds" and so forth. And this, in view of the fact that there was still a considerable anti-administration anti-administration group, and that they were extremely vocal, and claimed large numbers, seemed one of the more likely parallels to draw from the President's echoing of Lincoln's words. Later in his talk with the correspondents corre-spondents the President let drop a remark which, despite his expressed wishes, formed the "lead" of most of the dispatches that the war preparations were being made for it to last at least until 1943. Yet he had said previously that the Russians, he believed, would hold out through the winter of 1941, that the winter, he belllved, would see a general cessation of the fighting fight-ing on the east front due to weather conditions, and that Britain and the United States would concentrate on getting aid to Russia for the opening of the spring campaign in 1942. DAMAGE: In Germany One of the first recent eyewitness reports of actual damage in Germany Ger-many from the heavily stressed new Royal Air force attacks was brought to London by a "returning neutral diplomat" He struck the keynote of the situation situ-ation by stating that the women of Hamburg, where he was stationed, were consoling themselves with the statement: "Well, it's not so bad as it is in Bremen." The witness had not visited Bremen, Brem-en, but he said that conditions In Hamburg were comparable to those in London and other British cities hard hit by the German bombings. He told of whole blocks laid low. of rail traffic disrupted, of whole dockyards and shipbuilding yards smashed, and theaters and amusement amuse-ment centers in ruins. Ail the way from the central rail road station to the town halL the Monckebergstrasse. principal thor oughfare of the city, had been laid in ruins and closed to traffic for days at a time, he reported. J, JAPAN: Australia Speaks Up Prime Minister Robert Menzies of Australia, accusing Japan of creating creat-ing all the tension that existed in the Far East made a statement which showed that British sources still had not given up hope of maintaining main-taining some sort of peaceful condition con-dition in the Orient. He said, in part "any talk by Japan that Russia, America, Britain, Brit-ain, China and the Dutch are trying an encirclement of Japan is utterly untrue." . He pointed back to the Churchill-Roosevelt Churchill-Roosevelt conference, and stated that Japan's invasion of Indo China and her other moves in that direction direc-tion were aimed at creating tension, and were unjustified. Yet there was in his statement as well as those emanating from London, every indication that there is a belief the situation surrounding Japan is not hopeless. , Many of these observers pointed to Vladivostok Vladivos-tok as the future storm center, and that Japan's peace or war would rise or fall on her action concerning the-Siberian port. ' v 'l- For it Is to Vladivostok that all the aid for Russia from the United States and Britain must go, and although al-though Japan bad made some remarks re-marks that she could not watch such procession of military movements quietly, British circles seemed to feel that Nippon was beginning to realize that a move against Vladivostok Vladi-vostok certainly would involve her In war, and that she "must come out on the short end" if she chooses that pathway. : They saw Japan, as holding her hand, as thinking things over, and that the proper policy would be for Britain and the United States to be Increasingly firm, thus giving an impetus im-petus to Japanese caution. Menzies simply warned the Japanese: Jap-anese: "Britain and the United States, though one a belligerent and the other a neutral, are entering Into a' great moral partnership." One British- commentator said, that a blockade of Vladivostok "certainly "cer-tainly would ' bring war between Japan and the Western Democracies." Democra-cies." The plural seemed to include America with Britain. - TRENCHES: A Letter Home With what purpose in mind it was difficult to understand, but Berlin released a story purporting to be from a soldier on the eastern front describing in detail the difficulties of trench warfare, on the keynote, "now we can tell our fathers that we, too, fought in trenches." Although the sector was not designated, des-ignated, certain items caused the belief that it wss in tliv central part of the huge battlefield, where for weeks the German advance was bogged down, and where the high command complained of weather and road conditions. The soldier, writing home, told of the rain and the mud In the trenches, of shoes not taken off for weeks, and of the terrific dangers from Russian hand grenade and artillery ar-tillery fire. Weidlich. the corporal who wrote the letter, said it was like a Punch and Judy show, for whenever a head was lifted, a grenade was hurled. This pictured a war of position, not one of movement and bore out the Russian claim that the motorized advance had been halted, at least in the center. v BUDENNY: The Germans in their official despatches des-patches claimed that Marshal Budenny's army of the south had been trapped in the capture of all of the Ukraine west of the Dnieper river, yet British sources seemed inclined to agree with the Russian assertions that a large part if not all. of the army had been withdrawn with-drawn in an orderly manner. British commentators said: "It would be a serious disaster to the Russian defense if this army were trapped." 'Be Assured' I , Xf I f s ' ' - I ' ' .M" .try -.-.:. . French Ambassador Gaston Henri-Hay Henri-Hay is pictured being interviewed by the press following his latest conference con-ference with Sec. of State Hull The Ambassador assured the Secretary that France has no intention of turning turn-ing over the French fleet on French colonial bases to Germany. These assurances were part of the formal explanation of Marshal Petain's declaration dec-laration of closer French collaboration collabora-tion with Germany. NEXT: Phases of War? Assuming it to be correct that the Germans will be bogged down by the advent of winter on the eastern front many were asking what the next phases of the war would be. It was generally agreed that the center of activity and Interest would shift to the Near-East and to northern north-ern Africa, for the advent of winter in the Soviet battlefield would bring to that territory what many believed the Nazi army had been waiting for cooler weather. General Smuts predicted that the Nazis would try a huge assault In North Africa in September, and that It would fail. ' Some sort of activity also was expected on the Syrian and Turkish front. As to the Russo-German war, It was believed certain that the Nazis would try a blitz attack across the Dnieper river In an attempt to complete com-plete the conquest of the Ukraine before cold weather, and that the use, of large numbers of parachute troops similar to the attack on Crete might be looked for. In fact there were dispatches that the Russian anti-aircraft fire had shot down large German planes actually carrying tanks proof that this had been part of the plan the Nazis have for the Invasion of Britain. The only time that the Budenny army will have, these authorities pointed out to prepare to meet the onslaught of the German army under un-der General Von Rundstedt J would be that required by the Nazis to "mop up" such resistance points as Odessa and others in the part cut off by the pincer movement The chutists, they said, would be employed in an effort to drive Russian Rus-sian machine-gunners from the east bank of the river, and dive bombers would be used to harass the artillery farther to the Russian rear. FERRY: . To Africa, Suez A method by which American fliers could ferry British war planes to Suez and Africa without technically technical-ly Impairing this country's war position po-sition was found. Pan-American Airways agreed to do the delivering, hiring pilots for this purpose, and flying the bombers and fighters over already organized Pan-American passenger routes. This showed the advantage of well-organized air lines in time of war. The Pan-American officials pointed out how difficult the ferrying job was in view of the fact that the British had no such organized routes, and that when planes were delivered, there was great difficulty on the part of the British in getting the pilots back to their starting point But Pan-American, with mail and passenger routes to South America and the Near-East could send the planes over with hired pilots, and fly them back to this country as passengers on their regularly scheduled sched-uled planes, or could add more special spe-cial transport planes to already organized or-ganized routes, with weather reports, landing bases, fuel supplies and radio communications already established. es-tablished. ' The plan, evidently soon to be put into effect was another implementing implement-ing of America's lend-lease aid to Britain, and was seen as wiping out another bottleneck. A WIDOW: Though declaring herself still certain cer-tain that she is a widow because one of Josef Stalin's secret agents assassinated her husband, Mme. Leon Trotsky, in an Interview on the first anniversary of her husband's hus-band's murder, expressed the prayer that Russia would win the war with the Nazis. DETROIT: One of America's key defense cities, Detroit automobile center of the world, was badly tied up when the street car and bus operators struck in a jurisdictional dispute involving in-volving one union each of the A. F of L. and the C.I.O. Some 400,000 factory and office workers use this means of transport trans-port and had to find emergency ways of getting to and from work. Mayor Jeffries said to the A. F. of L. conference: "You can't run the ity of Detroit" 4 Shooting These pictures deal with those gentlemen of the press who go around with little black boxes and take pictures of contemporary contempo-rary history in the making, and who think nothing of risking risk-ing life and limb to get a good "shot." Right: Theboysare carrying on their jobs in a blizzard. This is not a posed picture, either. It was made covering story of trial of Bruno Hauptmann for murder of the Lindbergh baby. Shooting up at a ledge on the 17th floor of the Hotel Gotham, Neio York, where John Ward, 26, was perched on the brink of eternity while police pleaded with him not to jump. But he did! Suspense ... Whooping it up high in the air while photographing photo-graphing construction work on the Hoover dam. fr pi?TF cr j SViBaMUT BIIMlf HIMMMM.J..ii . Left: Press photographers are likely to be aroused at any hour of the night, as we.see at the left. Right: While covering a disastrous disas-trous flood this lensman had to submit to the rules and be inoculated. Press photographersen-dure photographersen-dure anything to get "something different" as this picture proves. pWkA . v ::, .7 W&: ; i Line the postman, neither snow nor rain nor heat can halt the photographers of the press, who cover flood, fire and earthquake. the News Hanging from the Empire State building is all right for window-washers, window-washers, but it's tough on the news photographer. While Walter Winchell is on temporary tempo-rary active duty with the U.S. navy hit column it being conducted by guest columnists,' This week' t it written: By "Believe It Or Not' Ripley. The first gossip column the statue of Pasquino, a witty barber, was set up in Rome and contributors contribu-tors pasted satirical and witty comments com-ments on its base. Thus columnists were bora The first war correspondent was George Wilkins Kendall, who reported re-ported the Mexican war (1846-47) from the battlefield exclusively for the New Orleans Picayune. By means of a special pony express, he was able to scoop all other papers and the war department as well. A newspaper printed on cheese was published in Gouda, Holland,' about 1840. Since the cheese could be eaten, the Dutch readers were said to be in the habit of "swallowing" "swal-lowing" anything, -.if A French newspaper published on a large handkerchief was another curiosity, which did not at all startle star-tle Paris in the eighties. It was the origin of the "nosey" press. Another publisher in Brussels, Belgium, had an idea. He printed his paper on rubber sheets, to enable en-able the ladies to read it while taking a bath. And the "Blano sur Noir" white on black was a French innovation reversing re-versing the usual order by printing its news in white letters on black paper. And talking of up-to-date news, the French "La Presse Prophetique" was published for the purpose of giving the news of next year. It was not a success because it was published in hieroglyphics. . When the newspaper business was in its infancy, the reporter was called "an emissary," the editor "a register." "The Romios" of Athens is a daily paper published in verse. The co-ordinated German newspapers news-papers have recently discarded question marks from their headlines, because one editor of Essen, Germany, Ger-many, was sent to a concentration camp. By mistake the headline "Hindenburg Congratulates Hitler," was provided with a question mark instead of an exclamation point Suicides are banned from Turkish newspapers. ; f ft When I used a picture of the emperor em-peror of Japan in my Believe It or Not cartoon, the Japanese ambassador ambassa-dor in Washington made a very urgent ur-gent telephone call to me. He requested re-quested mat if a picture of the emperor em-peror must be used, then it was of the highest importance that this picture pic-ture be printed on the front page of the newspaper, because it is a Japanese Jap-anese law that nothing must appear over the Supreme Portrait of the Son of Heaven. - I explained to him as gently as I could that this rule cannot be followed in America. His Excellency Excel-lency thought for a minute, and then he suggested that I place over the cartoon a printed admonition to the American public not to set down any objects such as drinking glasses, pots and pans, etc., on the picture! He was greatly disappointed disappoint-ed when I explained that the American Amer-ican public will not be restrained by any such printed admonition, a The Japanese newspapers carry on their staff a special employee called the "prison editor." ; He is paid a salary for taking the rap in case the newspaper is fined or sentenced sen-tenced to Jail. In such a case the prison editor (whipping boy) goes to jail without interrupting the even tenor of the newspaper. The 'Japanese press law provides jail for the offense of "belly treason" trea-son" another word for "secret disloyalty" dis-loyalty" of the paper. a Aglait Ehmanortut (Pages for Everybody) is the title of the Es-kimo Es-kimo newspaper published at Nain, Labrador. It is published In the winter only, because In the summer Its readers have no time to read, being be-ing busy with seal and fishing. The oldest newspaper was recently recent-ly discovered in Ostia, Italy. It was published in 58 B. C was ontrro,,. v in wax upon stone and contained uie louowing news items: (Date) 7 days before the calends of August (July 24). In the land of Cumo born 30 bovi an An Harvested 500,000 loads of wheat ouppaea ouu laDor steers. Crucified the slave Mithridates'for having blasphemed against the spirits spir-its cf his Master. Repaid 10,000,000 sesterces . for which there is no need. a a a The real father of newspapers was Julius Caesar, who Instituted the famous "Acta Publica," which ran for six centuries. And so it is in order that Italy should be the first to modernize her newspaper business by Introducing the "push-button press." which brings an Italian newspapers totally under the domination of the Italian Press and Propaganda Ministry The Germans copied that system wifli its minister of propaganda and public enlightenment under the fa. mous Dr. Goebbels. Attend 0. l-T.-UARrTil? Radio, Automotive, X)iese Body . Feader. WFwbSfe' OREGON INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY NUMBER ONeTSS jtmu nave any aoubt aboiJ to give a man in any 0f tWl military or naval serviced carton of ciearettPs n .3 K of smoking tobacco. TovH first as a eift with tha,raM you check up, actual sale?! show that In Army, Naw Corps and Coast 'Guard'! stores (where the menL the "National Joy Smokl Camel cartons and pound t Prince Albert Smoking To number one gifts for .T? Sam's services. Adv. Death and Sleep - u, 28 1 j mtHIVi w o It AC! man . " a third of life is passed in J Dnnui A J. Fuller Pep By JERRY LTNJ Old Doo Wiggins used to kit:! man is rich who's got a hole it 3 pocket. Which, reminds tne of gtw your vitamins. Folks need Q an; 11 any one 01 them It mlai the old vitality Is punctureu that's why this delicious cd KKT1 OOP'S PEP, is Imported zor it's an extra-good source 0!; two vitamins that are ladi-many ladi-many meals Bi and D. PEP'S a Jim-dandy tastin'eerf too. Why not have it tomonorl just Know you 11 im lti !! serving: III tkt iailf ttid 45 to iS. the mimmsm fojwMd Tasteless, Thoughts They never taste whoq drink; they always talk v think. Prior. 11 WOMEN , 3S-S HEED THIS ADVICE! 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