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Show THE LEW SUN. LEH1. UTAH . 1 MM ipft U 1 " I'-vnu .vu., t 1 aAS A r iWTii intrri -n tti i In Wan About Totvn: Does The Washington Time Herald know that 24 members of congress are mixed up (in various degrees) in the current Federal Grand Jury's probe into the activities activi-ties of foreign agents using our mails for propaganda purposes? Not all 24 are involved in guilt Some were merely Innocent bystanders by-standers . . , How can Petain of fer himself as a hostage? How can be give what he doesn't ?wn? What two braln-trnsters of a certain cer-tain Washington probe are suspect ed of receiving checks from former- Nazi espionage chief Von Bohle In S. A.? ... Is there anything to the Capital buzz that Odium may inherit Knudsen's OPM headache? ' . . . Can you guess which one of the highest paid radio stars quit his cig sponsor because he wouldn't allow al-low him to get a divorce to wed an- . other? . Isn't Doris Duke going to get her divorce in Honolulu In May and marry a Naval flier now here? . . . Is it possible that Princess Stefanie I Hohenlohe has taken a house in suburban sub-urban Beverly Hills, Alexandria, Va., under the com de plume she has often used in hotels? And why does she prefer being that near to Washington, D. C? . . . Table conversationalists con-versationalists quote Rauschning, the historian, as saying that, according ac-cording to bis deductions, the war should end in 18 months. Lt. Comdr. Gene Markey sure Has It Bad (and that ain't good!) over Olivia De Havilland. Spends all his Navy coin on postage stamps to write her . . . Sad, isn't it, the torch Jeff Jones of Princeton is carrying for Gloria Vanderbilt? His pals fear it'll make him ill . . . That's gonna be quite a story when the Screen Publicists' Guild explodes over the commy element . , . Heavens Heav-ens I Have you heard the dreadful news? Because of metal priorities beauty shops will feel a shortage of bobby-pins! So yon want to be an actress, eh? Life recently revealed that S.50O professional people haunt producers' produc-ers' offices. Of these, 1,000 get Jobs. The average yearly employment is 4 to 8 weeks and the average annual an-nual Income (excluding stars) is $200 to $500 . . . Be a stenographer, sister. You meet a better class of people in the subway, anyway. ........ . . i - Somerset Maugham ' spurned an Invite to an affair for Their Highnesses, High-nesses, and didn't send any regrets . . . Peggy Joyce's current is Jimmy Jim-my Wilson, a handsome six-footer. Must be love he's poor . . . If the Japs get sassier FDR will call out the Boy Scout' New J'orfe Heartbeat: The Big Parade: C. Aubrey Smith as British as a monocle . . . Rita Hayworth the reason eyes were Invented ... Herbert Marshall Marsh-all and Arthur Treacher ringsiding at the Riviera, giving each ether the Teallehs" and "y'don't-says!" . . . Louis BromJleld at Fefe's Beach. His latest book, "Wild Is the River," is a candidate for the Best-Seller lists . . . Eddy Duchin, curling up with a good bookie in the Waldorf foyer . . . Rosemary Lane signing autographs outside the Barrymore Theater. One of them asked her to get Priscilla's. too. The crumbs have crust . , . The 3 Andrew Sisters Sis-ters wearing spangled skirts, spangled span-gled gloves and spangled hats. Looked like a Christmas Tree-o . . Owwwwwch! Who threw that? ... Wendy Barrie in the Roosevelt Grill with a 10-penny nail dangling from her bracelet "They say I look like one I might as well wear one,'1 is the explanation ... Swiity Morgan greeting a sucker at the House of Chan with: "Sit down, pal, and have a check." Sallies in Our Alley: In "Back Street" Margaret Sullavan played The Other Woman opposite Charles Boyer. In their latest, "App't for Love," she plays his wile, who has to contend with two other gals. An interviewer asked Boyer if he or Margaret had given it a thought "Oh, yes." he said- "Miss Sullavan thought of it She said that this time for her the shoe was on the other foot but I was still the heell" . . . A hefty sort of lady floated across the Club 18 floor and dared clown Jack White to make fun of her. "Gwan," she dared him, "make a wisecrack and see what happens!" . . . ,Vinee Curran deflated her with: , "Say, didn't you used to have "Goodyear' "Good-year' printed on you?" ... It left her b-limp. ' Memos of a Midnighter: Did the Duke purchase a $50,000 baubla from Paul Flato for Wally? Didn't pay cash . . FPA'a writing book notices now and then for bis old boss, the Tribune . The flop, "Good Neighbor," has a good line about a nice lady whose goodness went nnrepaid: "She puts her foot in it every time she opens her heart" . . . Senator Guffey was talked out of kissing Diana Barrymore on the ground that ft wasn't dignified . . . And he's the guy who's supposed to expiess the will of the peop'el Washington, D. C. NAZI SABOTAGE The man to watch In Europe todaynext to-daynext to Hitler is a suave and charming diplomat in Turkey named Franz von Papen. It is always al-ways a significant omen when Hitler sends Von Papen to a country. It means he has dire and potent Intentions In-tentions regarding that area. It was Von Papen who went to Austria as ambassador to soften it in preparation for the Nazi occupation. oc-cupation. It was Von Papen who 28 years ago tried to do the same thing here. And now, with weather weath-er getting cold in Russia and Hitler running lower and lower on oil, a Nazi squeeze on Turkey becomes almost inevitable. To prepare for it Ambassador Von Papen has been working overtime in Turkey. Almost forgotten is Von Papen's attempt to soften and sabotage the United States during the last war. But his operations here indicate the lengths to which he may go in Turkey Tur-key to bring that country into the Axis. In 1915, Von Papen was German military attache in Washington when Count Johann von Bernstorft returned from England with a satchel containing $150,000,000 in German treasury notes. Von Papen, then in Mexico City, hurried north, and immediately began organizing a network of spies. . . .. - . Invasion' Via Canada. After selecting his agents carefully, care-fully, Von Papen laid the following plans: No. 1. To invade Canada through British Columbia with the aid of German warships in the Pacific and German reservists in the United States. This plan was vetoed by Von Bernstorft. No. 2. To blow up the Welland canal This scheme likewise was abandoned, because the canal was too well guarded. No. 3. To blow up Canadian railroads rail-roads in an effort to prevent transportation trans-portation of Japanese troops through Canada. (The Japanese were fighting with the Allies.) No. 4. To blow up the International Internation-al bridge at Vanceboro, Maine. This was accomplished through an agent named Werner Horn. Von Papen was so Industrious and unscrupulous that he over-reached himself, and Wilson demanded his recall. But when he reached home, both he and Bernstorff were award ed decorations, and both promoted. Subsequently, Von Papen became chancellor of .Germany and he took part in the conspiracies which brought Hitler into power. RUSSIAN REQUEST A DRIBLET Averell Harriman's confidential report on Russian requests for aid, was vastly different from British re- j quests after Dunkirk. In comparison compari-son with the British, the Russian orders seemed a mere driblet. After the Lowlands debacle, the British had to start from scratch, having lost practically all their almored equipment and most of their field artillery. The Russians have lost tremendous quantities of material, but judging from their relatively modest requests, they still must have a lot left One of the chief things they asked for was 75 and 105 mm. guns, which, luckily we can supply. Production Pro-duction figures are a military secret, but these cannon are now rolling off assembly lines in quantity. quan-tity. The Russians also asked for machine guns, which we can furnish also in large numbers, since machine ma-chine gun production is at a high level. One of the biggest and pleasant-est pleasant-est surprises to Harriman was that the Russians do not need machine tools, at least for the present This took a big load off his mind, as both the U. S. and Britain have few tools to spare right now. Note: U. S. military experts consider con-sider lack of co-ordination between the three Russian armies to be one of the principal reasons for the break through in the center against Moscow. Although there has been a shift of Russian generals, doubt still exists about the co-ordination of the three armies under central cen-tral command. INFLATION CURE Here is the inside lowdown on Price Administrator Leon Henderson's Hender-son's own private preventive against inflation. He disclosed it to a group of Charlestown, W. Va., business men during a speech on the dangers of runaway prices. One of the audience asked Henderson how a business man could best protect himself against inflation. "Work like hell," was the prompt reply, "and go to church regularly." MERRY-GO-ROUND Introduced to a British production expert who had just completed a survey of U. S. defense plants. OPM boss William- Knudsen took him off his feet by inquiring "What impressed you least?" A sports commentator, sponsored by a shaving cream, called the duke of Windsor in Baltimore, inviting him to appear as guest star on the radio program, the money to be paid to British charity. The duke declined even before he was told the offer was only $100. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Billion Dollars! U. S. War Supplies Is Pledged for Assistance to Russia As Stalin Asks 'New Front' in Nazi War; U. S. Warns Finland to Cease Fighting (EDITOR'S NOTE Whin plnlcni arc iprcaicd la then lolamns, the; r then ( U Bwa nnnlyit and ncecMarily t( this owpar. l (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) RUSSIA: U.S. Pledge Same day the state department announced that a billion dollars worth of war supplies bad been pledged to Russia, Josef Stalin in a speech deplored the lack of a second front in the battle against Hitler. Spaaking on the eve of the twenty-fourth twenty-fourth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, the Soviet leader claimed that the Nazi blitzkrieg was a failure but added that his Russian forces were not doing as well as they could be expected to do because be-cause Germany had thrown her entire en-tire force on Russia believing there was no fear of a western front opening open-ing up. He asserted that Russia was still strong and that the losses inflicted on Germany far outnumbered damage dam-age to U.S.S.R. troops. About this time Moscow sources were announcing that the Nazis had been fought to a standstill around Moscow and Leningrad. Berlin claimed to have gained in both areas and reports from the South indicated a Nazi break through into the Crimea, more or less a gateway gate-way to the Caucasus. Yet it had become apparent that Russian defense ideas were not basically founded on a defense of the Crimea, but that the Reds considered con-sidered Rostov as the entrance to the Caucasus, and would hold as hard there as possible, perhaps as successfully as at Moscow and Leningrad. Len-ingrad. There had been no indication that the Nazis' early prediction of collapse col-lapse of Russian resistance could be looked for, and observers felt that if that eventuality was likely, then Moscow and Leningrad would hardly have been defended so vigorously vig-orously and successfully. The developments pointed, on the other hand, to a real and serious fall-down of the Nazi blitz, perhaps JOSEF STALIN Same day he asked for a "second front? he got a billion dollars. connected with the weather, but definitely def-initely halting the invasion short of Russia's two main cities. Lozovsky called the situation "serious," "se-rious," and there was a rumor that Stalin had left Moscow, perhaps heralding her-alding its fall There was little effort ef-fort on the part of the Russians to minimize the danager of the loss of Moscow, Leningrad or both, with 100 divisions reported moved by the Nazis from occupied countries to the Russian front Neither did the Russian statements state-ments sound panicky, and the armies apparently were intact, in the main. WARNING: To Finland The United States had acted parallel with Great Britain in sending send-ing to Finland a stern warning that continuance of the Finnish participation partici-pation in the Nazi attack on Russia would be considered an unfriendly act The tragedy of Finland was that of a small country caught between naturally hostile and powerful neighbor empires Germany and Russia. There was little question' that if Russia were to win the war with or without British aid, as Britain's partner in the fighting she would demand de-mand a return to the frontiers of 1914. Finland was faced with the fact that a German victory would leave Finland enslaved, and that a Rus HIGHLIGHTS New York: Aftermath of the Finnish Finn-ish note from the United States had been seen in a broadcast picked up here saying that 21 Finns were arrested ar-rested in Helsinki following an anti-German anti-German demonstration. Chicago: National defense has ch;yiged reading tastes. The libraries libra-ries here are swamped with requests for mechanical literature and technical tech-nical books. 'T of if Finland goes on fighting, then Russia's Rus-sia's strength will be impaired and through Russia the strength of Brit ain and the United States. There was seen in the move a tacit guar antee of after the war aid to Fin land if she should stop fighting NEUTRALITY: Fight Bitter Foes of changes in the neutrality act which included not only all the regular anti administration star warts but one or two new acquisitions acquisi-tions to the fold had turned out to be a bitter-fighting group, though hardly a member of it had expected to see victory perch on its banner, The effort seemed to be not so much to defeat the administration, generally conceded to be impossi ble, but rather to whoop up a gen eral anti-foreign policy sentiment, Sen. Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, only woman senator, and mother of two sons in the army, is shown making mak-ing a speech in favor of passage of revised Neutrality act. using every; argument and White House word as ammunition and target tar-get respectively. Senator Walsh of the navy affairs committee, typical of the arguments against the amendments repealing two f impory- provisions of the act said it would hurt the navy. The navy didn't have ships or men requisite for an entry into the war. "And this is an entry," said he, "unless we already are in." With its differences of technic the stand of the minority was ever the same, however that the President had gone far beyond the authorizations authoriza-tions of congress by taking steps already taken, and that the White House was, in effect asking an O.K. on these and tacit permission to go further. JAPAN: Lays Down Law A list of "must" terms for the United States to abide by or get into trouble with Japan had been laid down, chief among which was the immediate stoppage of economic and military aid to China. . The list: "Stop all military and economic aid to Chungking and cease all propaganda prop-aganda or military missions to keep Chungking at war with Japan. America could advise Chungking to make peace. "Stop encirclement of Japan by military, naval and air bases and by economic barriers. Proceed no further with military and naval movements in the western Pacific. "Acknowledge Japan's coprosper-ity coprosper-ity sphere and her leadership in the western Pacific. "Recognize Manchukuo. Nobody can undo what has been done there. "Stop at once the freezing of Japan's Ja-pan's assets in the U. S. "Restore the trade treaties, abolish abol-ish all restrictions on shipping and commerce." The program, published by the Japan Times and Advertiser, organ of the foreign office, declared that the Pacific was "on the brink of war." It was considered significant in Washington that there was no mention men-tion of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis in the statement It stated that "there could be no retreat" from these principles, poles away from anything the American state department depart-ment was prepared to concede. Japan felt that America's aid to China program was simply an evidence evi-dence that this country was afraid to fight Japan directly. in the wesk'$ news London: General Wavell, who was sent from north Africa to India to organize the British armies there, may be used to lead a force to fight side by side with the Russians in defense de-fense of the Caucasus oil fields. Dublin, Ind.: Life was beginning at 71 for Riley Laymon. He became be-came the father of twins and started start-ed out on a brand-new job in a factory on his birthday. sian victory would rob her again her natural territory. America's viewDoint was that Luck Smiles mil, minimum i ij i gpi H "IT". I J w.. - 1 tiff's ' iJ? I , . When the torpedoed V. S. tanker Salinas limped into port under its own power, one of the luckiest fellovjs aboard was Phillip McBride (above) of Chicago. It was the third time he had missed death by inches. He was transferred from the S. S. Greer to the S. S. Kearny shortly before the Greer was attacked and then was transferred to the Salinas just before the Kearny was torpedoed. So far he is still one jump ahead of a torpedo. tor-pedo. 'NEST': : Near Iceland Somewhere south and west of Iceland Ice-land it had become evident that Germany Ger-many had established a big "nest" of submarines preying upon convoys, con-voys, and apparently giving especial espe-cial interest to American warships. What inroads this country's navy had been making on it was not revealed, re-vealed, the published "score" being totally ia favor of Hitler, though the navy department had early announced an-nounced that no successes against U-boats would be reported. The loss of the Reuben James, the navy said, entailed 95 casualties, casual-ties, all of the officers being missing miss-ing as well as half of the enlisted men. Only two known dead, one survivor dying of his injuries and the other a body picked from the water, were reported. Reports of the torpedoing of the destroyer were that the vessel was struck in the center and broke in two, the forward half sinking at once, and the afterpart going to the bottom a few minutes later. Evidently Evi-dently most of those saved were aft and succeeded in picking up a few of those hurled into the ocean from the other part of the ship. The navy said: "It is probable that the attack took place during darkness. From the terrific force of the explosion it is a possibility that the magazine exploded. It is a probability that the majority of the casualties occurred oc-curred in the forward section, al-tlfcugh al-tlfcugh two of the survivors were from that part of the ship." Latest incident was the torpedoing torpedo-ing of the Salinas, navy tanker, in the same district where the others had occurred. The Salinas made port The navy would not give details de-tails of her damage, but published no casualty list among the crew. FOOD: Rationing? A rumor which had been worrying housewives that the United States, in addition to seeking price control, would also start food control and rationing, was categorically denied by Donald Nelson, who said "I should know." He is priorities director of the nation, na-tion, and said that any rationins of any type of material, whether edible or not would normally go through his office. That the matter had been considered, consid-ered, he denied, then showed his own awareness of the situation by stating that he had known that there would be shortages of certain foods, but that a rationing program had not been talked of. Foods he mentioned were cheese of which huge quantities are being sent to England, and salmon, which has been short for a aood while, ami whiqh also is a favored lease-lend M S iuoa. DRUG: New Wonders It was announced fnrmaii. i 4 .vimauj Ulak gramicidin, new drug dug out of the soU three years ago by Dr. Rene DuBose, who had modestly declined ouj yuuuc ciaims ior tne medicine and had sriven it nut k.,,-.. vcauug 10 a dozen medical schools and hospitals, hos-pitals, has turned oat to be the uj m me age far more powerful fa germ-kBng than the now-famous "sulfa" drugs. Its notencv ia fwim 1 AAA A - .aa - - ,WV W 1UU.UUU times as great as sulmanilamide. u -vea mousands of lives. One mUlionth-teasnnnnftiT - i . - w aooui the size Of a rirnn nf . uuai or log, has been sufficient (of gramicidin) "i-use trom 10,000 le thal dores of pneumonia germs First reports of its use on hu-mans hu-mans came from twn Rn.- - . wnu univer- sity medical researchers, who told of curing ulcers in thre we. v. ucuea an drugs for 15 rears: of curin? i.h. .. .... , 0 "-""i miecuon which is almost 100 per cent fatal ordinarily. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) SEES 'PLANNED ECONOMY AS FORM OF FASCISM WASHINGTON is figuring on the war in' Europe continuing at least into, and possibly all through 1943, and that we will be a part of it No one has attempted to say when or how up to this time, but it is expected the opening may be with Japan and Hitler's support of the Japs against us. Washington hopes to stay out of active participation in the war until un-til our war production can be greatly great-ly increased, in fact trebled. That would mean an annual expenditure of 50 billion dollars a year. It would also mean cutting production for civilian use by at least 50 per cent The opinion in Washington is that all small manufacturing concerns that cannot be adapted to war production pro-duction will have to close and get out of business. It will mean the closing of thousands of small factories, fac-tories, a large proportion of them located in small towns. Big business is to be regimented, as the farms are regimented. The government will not operate them, but will dictate what they will produce, pro-duce, whom they will employ and how they will operate. It is to be "planned economy" for American business. When the war is over the "planned economy" is to be applied to business busi-ness throughout the world, as well as to America, if America has the "say so" and in Washington they believe America will be in a position posi-tion to dictate. It is through such "planned economy" that an after-the-war depression is to be prevented. pre-vented. That briefly, is the program at Washington, for the future. To me it is not a bright or promising future, fu-ture, either during the war or after it is over. To me it is the end of the American way of life, the American system of free competition competi-tion under which we have grown great To me it is the state capitalism capital-ism of Fascist Italy. . INFLATION WOULD MEAN EQUALIZATION OF POVERTY WE ARE TOLD in Washington that America is to spend 50 billions a year on preparations for war and aid to the democracies. That is about three times as much as we have spent during 1941. Where are we to get this 50 billion bil-lion dollars a year? What are we to use for money. Does it mean the printing presses? If it does, it means inflation that is disaster. It means destruction of all our values, as individuals and as a nation. It does not mean the equalization of wealth, but it does mean the equali zation of poverty, and it means poverty for every one, with nothing to divide. Our domestic and foreign policies are so tied together that it is impossible impos-sible to determine where one stops and the other begins. America's future is in the balance, bal-ance, with the scales tipping definitely def-initely against our American way of life, our American civilization. THEY, TOO, SERVE WHO MAKE CHEESE THE DAIRY SECTION of Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, one of the greatest dairy producing pro-ducing districts in the world, is a two to five-hour haul to the Chicago market Wisconsin cheese is now going to England, purchased and paid for on lease-lend account by the United States for the English government Wisconsin cheese is selling in English stores at less than people in Chicago can buy it To help England, it is necessary to provide mere thaa war supplies. Food is a major item. Of the first seven billions appropriated by congress con-gress for British assistance, practically prac-tically one billion will be used for food products from Amer loan farms, and American farmers have reason to be proud of the Job they are doing. OUR ARMY FOR A REPUBLIC to . r et - effective fighting force there must oe a purpose, enthusia ment discipline. Todav we hav. an army of one and a half million men, but to the rank and file of that army, all four ingredients are lacking. lack-ing. To assemble and maintain that army has cost close to two billion bil-lion dollars. If we are to equip and feed the democracies of the world, it would have been better if we had kept that snillion and a half men on the farms and in the factories, where they might have been doing their part in providing the food and equipment so badly needed. They would have been more effective and better satisfied. satis-fied. THAT SHRINKING DOLLAR THROUGHOUT the last 200 year, in all nations the cost for the necessities neces-sities of life-for food, clothing, shd. ter. fuel-has taken 65 per cent of the income of each individual. In this country as late as 1905. the government gov-ernment took an additional five cents out of each dollar for taxes in 0L f ',re B0W takin about 30 cents, leaving us only five cents that we can do with as we please That may account for the decrease in collections at Sunday church services. . 7ivfu Pattern 2945. M1 w J can make the dree 1- . 1 heavier material and, S Pattern 2945 eonfai-. . .... recUons for making the doll ? 3 materials reniilrefi c i U"J tojsjuu Sewing Circle Needleetalt n 117 Minna St Ian ttiunJ Enclose 15 cents la coloi fe J tern No. Name Address Experience and Tsn Experience ia the (S Thought, and Thought is lb! of Action. We can notk-tf from books. Disraeli MMi . iiAll!' A iUKfcK- nun Closet Shop, Tt I and Financial Distrid I 250 FINELY APPOINTS K allwtld...owHhlwtliH ONE PERSON. ..P TWO PERSONS.. TUIM RF5....$3 fAMHY ROOMS fO f0W"H JOHN T. SHEA, MANACB 750 sunn J was Taction represents the leate& a nation. 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