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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEH1. UTAH il u JJ II While Waller ffinchell U on temporary tempo-rary active duly with tht (J. S. navy his column it being conducted by guest ctilumni.it. This week's column u written writ-ten By JAMES It. YOUNG I. N. S. Correspondent 13 Yean in Japan and Author, "Behind the Rising Sun." UNFINISHED STORIES What has become of the Emperor's Em-peror's brother. Prince Chichibu? His failure to appear at the Empire's Em-pire's 2C00th mythological anniversary anniver-sary of the founding of the Sun Goddess" God-dess" country aroused queries. What will become of Japan's puppet Em peror of Manchuria, Henry Pu Yi, vho rides a bicycle and plays tennis ten-nis under "protection"? Not having hav-ing an heir, the Japanese somehow some-how will put the skids under him to favor his Manchu brother, whom militarists married oft to a Japanese girl. How will the Japanese handle their puppet Wang Ching Wei at Nanking? Japanese guards surround sur-round him for two purposes: Keep enemy hand grenades from being tossed at him and keep him from running away. His wife, notorious in Chinese politics, stays in Shanghai Shang-hai selling government jobs and opium opi-um licenses. The President's freezing order of Japanese business means: NO MORE lily bulbs for Easter, goldfish gold-fish by the tankfuls for five and dime stores, oyster bed seedlings, camphor for methol products ot pyretheum seeds for bug powder. Japan facet economic ruin. Her Manchurian market depended on soy bean cake exports to Europe. That business is finished. No more silk market means Japan's second great agriculture ulSset and farm problem rice and its shortage is No. 1. Next problem is shortage of fish which is Japan's staple. Mining Min-ing the island kingdom's waters to keep out Russian submarines from Vladivostok will restrict tens of thousands of tiny fishing Junks. ..:"" The Japanese are always kidding themselves and their people. One Inventor claims sardines will produce pro-duce an oil convertible to gasoline. But first they need the sardines. In Quantities prohibitive. Another Japanese Jap-anese announced Tokyo is protected from air attacks by the use of fishing fish-ing nets strung over the city! suspended sus-pended by balloons the net catches the, blitz bombs. Actually, Tokjra has but one bomb proof shelter, for the emperor and his family. , l-s .' Tlie Nipponese think they can overcome the acute shortage of scrap and iron ore which months ago stopped their entire heavy industry in-dustry output. By salvaging old ships. Salvage available from four ships, including the President Hoover, would be sufficient for a locomotive and a string of cars. Bob Hueun, Richmond, Ind., helped build China's railways with Japanese tiesyears ago he logged nearly a million ties a year. Now the Japanese army runs its trains over those ties. E. W. Frazar, the oldest American Japan had, now resides in New York. He introduced to Japan the first automobile, the first phonograph, phono-graph, the first locomotive. He'd been in Japan nearly 70 years Just a few short of the days when Commodore Com-modore Perry opened Japan to foreign for-eign trade. a Air-conditioning which became popular, has closed down. Insufficient Insuffi-cient water, milk rations, which were cut 50 per cent a year ago, have been reduced another 50 per . cent no more cows or dairy fodder. fod-der. Ditto on eggs and potatoes. QUESTION: Lieut. Commander Walter Win-chell, Win-chell, you are in the navy now on reserve service. If you have time, check with fellow officers why the State Department forced the navy's hand and permitted two Japanese spies to be released and why others remain here with diplomatic immunity, immu-nity, including one who is in hiding in Washington? How many American Amer-ican missionaries remain in Japanese Japa-nese prisons in Korea? Why not trade them for Japanese spies in this country? v ITS A LAUGH The State Department permits the Japanese Government news agency, Domei, to operate here without registering. reg-istering. Why? "The Japanese reply re-ply is that it is not a propaganda organl The agency is financed by the Foreign Office, the army, the navy and the Communications Ministry Min-istry for an annual propaganda deficit def-icit of near 2,000.000 Japanese yen. Japan tacks precision tool machine ma-chine oiL Only a few companies in the world make this special oiL If we had stopped shipments two years ago it would have wrecked her great armaments production. - The week Acting Secretary ot State Weiles condemned Japan tor her seizure of Indo-China, which the Japanese planned several, years back but which the silk hats refused to believe, you read of 55 transports. 30 warships, three aircraft carrier? speeding south. - Washington, D. C. AUTO CUT That fanfared OPM cut of 26H per cent in auto production drew no cheers from war department chiefs. To them it was a big disappoint-ment disappoint-ment First of all the -cut looks a lot bigger than it actually is. For one thing the OPM carefully did not reveal re-veal in its hoopla press releases was the fact that even with this curtailment auto production still will be 10 per cent greater than in 1938 and 1939. In other words, notwithstanding the increasing shortage of strategic raw materials, such as steel, rubber, rub-ber, alloys and other metals, auto production is to continue at levels higher than in the peaceful years of '38 and '39. Another reason for the army gloom was that it wanted an immediate imme-diate cut of at least 50 per cent For months war department heads pleaded and argued with OPM moguls mo-guls for drastic curtailment, on the ground that the material going into pleasure cars are desperately needed need-ed for planes, tanks, ships, guns and other vital armaments. But tor months the OPM masterminds did absolutely nothing. Finally, in July, scrappy OPACS Director Leon Henderson, who has seen eye-to-eye with the army on this issue from the start, took the bull by the horns and "ordered" a 50 per cent slash. OPM's reaction was to hit the ceiling. ceil-ing. It refused to accept the ruling. And while OPM battled behind the scenes with OPACS, autos continued to roll off assembly lines in record-, breaking numbers. However, Henderson's Hen-derson's bare-knuckling finally took effect The 26 Vt per cent cut is a little less than half of what the army and Henderson wanted, but it is 64 per cent more than OPM's original figure. ... ......... .. TANKS FOR BRITAIN Some time ago the Merry-Go-Round revealed that a chief objective objec-tive of Lord Beaverbrook's visit was to get more tanks tanks for Iran; tanks tor Egypt, tanks eventually for an Invasion of the continent. Beaverbrook particularly wanted the new powerful 32 tonners that soon will roll off the Chrysler assembly line at the rate ot 450 a month. , It can now be revealed that the British supply minister will not go home empty handed. He will take back with him very cheering assurances assur-ances regarding the division of these tanks between the U. S. and British armed forces. But that isn't the end of his tank problem. Allotting tanks to the British in this country is one thing, but delivering deliv-ering them across the Atlantic is another. - In fact, the problem of transporting transport-ing large numbers of 32-ton tanks is the toughest shipping problem maritime experts have faced since the magnetic mine, which ravaged shipping until the de-magnetizing devices de-vices were evolved. , In a nutshell here Is the problem: For every shipload of light 12 ton tanks sent to England or Africa, the same ship plus nearly three-fourths of another ship would be required to transport the same number of 32-ton 32-ton tanks. In other words, they are bigger. Translated into specific figuresthat fig-uresthat 26-ship convoy which landed 560 light tanks at Alexandria three months ago would have had to consist of 44 vessels to carry the same number ot medium tanks. With shipping scarcer than hen's teeth, a difference of 18 ships is an extremely important factor. Also, the necessity of traveling in slow convoys further reduces the amount of shipping available. Some experts estimated this reduction as high as 50 per cent In addition the British sometimes take an excessively long time to unload, cargoes. So the tank problem thus also becomes be-comes an acute shipping problem. One bright spot in the situation is the great reduction In ship losses in the last 60 days since the extension of the U. S. neutrality patrols. But the basic problem ot securing more cargo bottoms still remains. Note: Since January 1, U. S. shipyards ship-yards have turned out a total ot 56 cargo vessels. MERRY-GO-ROUND Army officers are singing the praises of 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck and many movie moguls tor their big Job in filming 100 reels ot army training films. This was the first time training films have ever been taken, and Hollywood did them tor 40 per cent of what it would have cost Hollywood itself to do the job. In other words, the army only had to pay union labor and cost of film. Hollywood supplying the studios, stu-dios, production, overhead and everything ev-erything else. ' " The Washington Diplomatic corps is goggle-eyed over Mrs. Warren Pierson's new book, "The Good Neighbor Murder." Her husband is head of the Export-Import Bank which loans millions to the Good Neighbors. Dr. L Lubin, brilliant White House defense expert, is the most "offlced" official in Washington. He has an office in the White House, another in the labor department as head ot the bureau of labor statistics, a third in the labor division of OPM. and a fourth in the treasury as an adviser to Secretary Morgenthau. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne 'Communist Plot' Is Charged by Vichy Following Shooting Attack on Laval British -Russian Forces Occupy Iran; Senate Launches Gas Shortage Probe (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are sxpreeaed a theae column, they are those ( tfao aewt analyst ana not aeeeaaarlly of toll aewepaper.) p !.... ,y Western Newspaper Union.),. !..; I ItiM. If Pa It l-.me of the 11,000 workers in the Kearny N. J., shipyards are pictured pic-tured as they went back to work after the U. S. navy had taken over supervision of the plant. Producing defense shipping, the yards had been closed for 18 days because of a C.I.O. strike. LAVAL: j And a Purge In Paris three men were guillotined guillo-tined as the first action in a purge of anti-Vichy elements, following the shooting of Pierre Laval and Marcel Deat, French leaders advocating advo-cating closer collaboration with Germany. Ger-many. Special courts convicted the assailants and it was declared that the attack on Laval was but part ot a vast "Communist conspiracy." IRAN: An Occupation That the Russo-British action against Iran would be virtually an occupation rather than a full-fledged Invasion was seen almost immediately immedi-ately after the troop movement started. Two things were early indications of this fact, first the sending by British transport planes of small detachments de-tachments of troops far into the interior in-terior to protect British industrial outposts; second, the fact that points like Bandar-Shahpur, which could have been bitterly defended, fell at once to the invaders. In fact, it was apparent that while the Iran , government might have been under the Nazi thumb because of the presence in the country of hordes of fifth columnists, it was not a heavily implanted thumb, and within the government itself was apparently ap-parently enough friendly strength to create an early offer of peace. That Russia and Britain would re gard ' this peace offer as acceptable accept-able only if they were given control con-trol of key points, was obvious. The refusal of the Iranians to expel the Germans, as demanded by Britain and Russia, was Nazi-inspired, it is true, but the decision to offer to expel them after the invasion was under way, and the Nazi bluff had been called, was entirely too pat to suit the Invaders. A glance at the map was sufficient to show the tactical importance of Iran in any defense of India and the Middle East, and collaboration with Russia from the great centers of British supply would demand some point of land contact " Also the oil establishments on both sides of the Caspian sea demanded protection, and. the position of Iran demanded control of that area in order or-der to accomplish this. The Berlin reaction to the Iranian adventure of the Soviet and Britain was not expressed until the campaign cam-paign was nearly over, and then it was called "a classical case of brutal attack on a neutral state which had done everything to prevent pre-vent war and respect the interests of third parties . . ." GAS: Senate Probe It was forecast that Leon Henderson, Hender-son, price administrator, was contemplating con-templating setting a ceiling prica on gasoline in the East, as reports of profiteering by individual filling stations sta-tions poured in as the shortage, real or imaginary, began to be felt The senate undertook an investigation investi-gation to answer these questions: 1. Is the shortage real or imaginary? 2. Is there an organized effort to confuse the public? 3. Was the country coun-try justified in transferring 50 tankers tank-ers from the gulf-eastern trade to Britain? 4. Are the tank cars being used to their fullest ability to overcome over-come the shortage? At the same time the President had signed an order giving the right of eminent domain to a company which was to build by December a 1,200 mile pipeline from the central southern oil fields to the southeastern southeast-ern refineries. The mayor of Atlanta, Ga., showed how much confusion there was by informing the oil administration that the oil companies told him there was plenty of fuel oil and plenty ot gasoline and plenty of transportation transporta-tion for Atlanta's needs. He asked: "Why, therefore, should Atlanta be made the victim of propaganda?" WMiMl if t if. M a ,T-C-'- RUSSIA: Still Fighting Despite the loss of Dnepropetrovsk, Dneprope-trovsk, with or without the huge power dam, and in spite of repeated German communiques which announced an-nounced the continued successes of the Nazi arms at the north and south, there was every evidence that the Soviet was continuing to fight and to battle with an organized army of sorts. It was one thing for the German-Finnish German-Finnish army to report itself 35 miles from Leningrad and another thing to explain the lack of announcements an-nouncements of airplane damage to the city of any extent. The Germans also reported advances ad-vances south of the city, yet these were averaging eight to nine miles a day, as against the 30 or 40 miles daily gained in the battles of France and . Poland. The Russians reported a fierce battle for the mastery of the skies over Leningrad with the issue in doubt. The city, they said, was still unhit Moscow also elicited the breathless praise of the British mis sion for its defense against German, air raiders. There was every indi cation that the Russian strength and ability had t been underestimated both by Hitler and the rest of the world. It was true that the third month of the war found the whole left bank of the Dnieper in German hands, but there was evidence that the Ger mans had planned to conquer what they sought of Russia in one month, and then to offer peace to Britain. The peace offer was still in the offing so was the German drive on Russia, as far as the objectives were concerned. Any serious capitulation on the part of the Soviet seemed as far distant as ever. V The Russians had reported a dar Ing adventure on the central front the sending of a well-equipped army in a southerly direction, to attempt to cut the German lines at Gomel, and to trap the entire advance force, No definite report was forthcom ing as to the outcome of this effort but British hints sent out over the wire, after bright hopes had been entertained for nine days, during which some 20 villages were re taken, finally seemed to show a growing belief that the effort had failed. ' ' - - JAPAN: : Again Storm Center The official Japanese pronuncia- mento that it would consider the shipping of oil to Vladivostok by Britain, the United States or the Dutch East Indies an unfriendly act again placed Nippon in the center of a storm, especially as this was considered con-sidered Japan's official answer to the warnings of Churchill " " Russia's answer to Japan was that she would consider it distinctly an unfriendly act if Japan interfered in any way with Russia's commerce through her principal Siberian port The Russians called to the attention atten-tion of Japan that the material thus received was not in any way to be used as a reservoir for any attack on the Japanese, but solely to de fend herself against the invasion of Germany. " ' " " . Any child could see the truth of this statement but the more that Russia was on the defensive in the west the bolder Japan was bound to be. Japan, however much she might be worried by possible British-Amer ican-Dutch military and naval action against her, could not be expected to lose much sleep over Russia, which she had whipped in 1904, and which now was embroiled in a war to the death with the Nazis. - But if Russia's attitude was to be actively backed up by Britain was another picture, and if the United States was to become active in a British-Japanese war, then the pic ture was still different again. To most observers, Japan seemed to be feeling her way. 'Return Ticket' nn Here are ai least three refw gees that were lucky enough to have a "return ticket" to England. Eng-land. After a stay of a year in the United States, these three British children (left to right) Keith Padin, Valerie Collins and Colin Radin, are shown as they appeared in the Pan-American Pan-American Clipper plane in which they were flying back to England. ARMY: Praise From Stimson Secretary Stimson gave the army a pat on the back when he said those troops maneuvering in the Pacific zone, which he inspected," were far, far ahead in their training of any of the divisions sent to France in the first World war. Stimson and General Marshall looked them over, and expressed pleasure at the Job being done with the West coast troops. The general said: "The army has shown tremendous tre-mendous improvement since the maneuvers in April. The object is to permit soldiers to make all the mistakes when they are not too cost ly and can be corrected." He indicated that the army will not be caught napping' when the time comes to expand its numbers again.' He said: "Camp sites are being selected and preliminary surveys made for 20 cantonments. If the need arises we shall be in a position to start building immediately. If it doesn't we can file the plans away." ICELAND: News at Last ! The ban of the government on news from Iceland was lifted, and returning correspondents began picturing pic-turing to Americans what life is like on the newest frontier to the east One of them described the country as "a fishy smell surrounded by piles of cinders," and quoted the first soldiers he talked to as saying "it ain't much compared to the U.S.A." The town of Reykjavik, they reported, re-ported, has two movies, but both have their ticket windows closed at 3 p. m. sold out. However, the Americans had seen all the pictures before, so they didn't mind much. The only refreshing beverage was beer 1 per cent. The stores open at 1 a. m. and close at 0 p. m. and at noon Saturdays. The girls, the American soldiers reported, were like the climate cold! Yet the economic conditions, the wealth of the people, and the character char-acter of the buildings were uniformly uniform-ly reported to be good. Most of the houses ' and buildings in Reykjavik were said to be of sturdy reinforced concrete and would have done credit to any modern American city. TAXES: Still in Making It was evident that the huge tax bill, which many thought was "all set for passage" after the house got through with it paring the expected $3,350,000,000 down to $3,206,000,000, was still in the making. For the senate, more co-operative with Capitol Hill, was quick to rec ommend a widening of the income tax base, bringing about 7,000,000 more taxpayers into the fold, and later engaged itself with a move to raise corporate taxes as welL , The income tax recommendations alone, if carried out and put through the house in conference later, would increase the total amount to be raised to $3,500,000,000, and many expected still more to be tacked on. What would be the reception of these ideas in the more recalcitrant house, was difficult to foresee, but that there would be bound to be some Increase over the amount set down by the lower chamber seemed fairly obvious. The main thing was .that the tax bill, generally believed to be ready for passage, still faced rehashing Derore a nnai vote. FAST HOP: Atlantic, Hours A new achievement for the high-powered, high-powered, four-motored Liberator bombers made by Consolidated for the British was reported when the company announced that one had flown the Atlantic, 2,350 miles from Newfoundland to Ireland, in 7 hours. The details of the flight were sent to the company by the British ministry min-istry for aircraft production, and were obtained from the navigator. FIRST BIG RFC LOAN IS FULLY PAID UP THT5 FIRST large loan made by the Reconstruction Finance corporation corpo-ration has been repaid to the last dollar. ' in 1031 when the banking situation , evtremelv bad in all sections, Chicago was an especially hot spot. Many of the smaller banxs 01 me had closed and some of the larg er ones were threatened with with drawal demands on the part or depositors, de-positors, which, although solvent h mteht not have been able to meet because of inadequate cash re- serves. Of these, the Central Trust, of which Gen. Charles Dawes was nrosiriont was one. It had a run on Friday and Saturday, and if it had continued on Monday without help from other sources, it would probably prob-ably have had to close tor lack of available cash. The closing ol that bank would undoubtedly have pre cipitated a general bank crash in Chicago and other cities. Under these conditions, an appeal was made by the Chicago Banks to the Reconstruction Finance corporation for help for Central Trust Some four years ago former-President former-President Hoover told me of the anxious hours he SDent at his sum mer camp near Washington during Saturday night Sunday and Sunday night With direct telephone con-nections con-nections to New York, Chicago and Washington, he made every possible possi-ble effort to meet the situation without with-out a loan from RFC. He knew the loan was justified. He knew Central Cen-tral Trust could pay out in time. He knew the integrity and ability of General Dawes. . The general disliked dis-liked the idea of receiving aid from RFC because the President was his friend. His bank was in no worse predicament than some of the others oth-ers but had suffered the misfortune of encountering a more severe run than others had up to that Saturday. Mr. Hoover told me he made every effort of which he was capable to procure relief for the Chicago situation without an advance from RFC. He worked at the job without any intermission from Saturday until un-til before dawn Monday, but without success, and finally authorized the loan and instructed the treasury to rush ninety millions in currency to Chicago. That the loan was justified was evidenced by the relief in the situation situa-tion of all the larger banks in Chicago, Chi-cago, That his faith in the integrity and ability of General Dawes was justified has been proved by the payment pay-ment in full of that $90,000,000. And no depositor of Central Trust lost a dollar. FINANCIAL TOWER OF BABEL UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH THE HELP and support ot the American people, Samuel Insull built a towering, top-heavy financial structure measured - in millions. When it toppled over and we lost we damned Insull and demanded his punishment Insull fled the country to escape our wrath. ' He could not have built that financial myth without with-out our support and help. Today we are assisting in building another financial tower of Babel that is measured in billions, instead of the Insull millions. The government's govern-ment's expenditures are backed only by our ability to pay. The billions bil-lions that' congress so blithely appropriates ap-propriates must come out of the sweat of our brows, and there is a limit to what we can pay. 7 r' When that limit is reached, there will be a crash that will be a hurricane hurri-cane as compared to the gentle zephyr of the Insull failure. The hysteria or insanity of us Americans Ameri-cans will be responsible, as we were tor the Insull collapse. We are building the top-heavy structure that will topple over and bury us in a financial morass. Whom will we damn tor that catastrophe? For what are your representatives in congress voting? RAILROAD WAGES RAILROAD employees are demanding de-manding a heavy increase in wages. If they get it each farmer will pay more transportation on the products he sends to market Each housewife house-wife will pay more for the food for her family. The railroads will pass the increase along to their patrons if they are permitted to do so. If not they will probably be in the hands of receivers and the several millions of Americans who have in-vested in-vested their savings in railroad securities will lose. Railroad net earnings will not permit the paying wit more money unie taken in. It is from such things ta. inflation is born. OLD AND NEW HITLER IS MORTAL, Just a. we are mortal His expectation af day. ye" of me CM no greater than that of other mortals. With hi, death will come an end of the vast fce bodies of conquered people, in-eluding in-eluding those of the Germans. It wiU topple and falL la its pla) wiU oome some other demonstration of the power politics of Europe, of winch we may or may not approve aut w.uch we cannot control, no nntUMr ho we tried. LISTEN TO . . . 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