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Show THE LElll St'N. I.EHI. UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne President Names Production Czar And Reorganizes Defense Set-Ups To Speed Up All-Out War Effort; Report Submarines Off East Coast (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions ara xprciied la theaa (alumna, the ra thai t th new snalyat and not neoaaearlly ( tbis aewapapar.) t (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) -w-M r Leon Henderson, director. Division of Civilian Supply of the Office of Production Management, trys out one of the "Victory model" bicycles produced by manufacturers at request of OPM. This lightweight model Is constructed of less costly material, and shorn of all gadgets. The new bikes will be built for both men and women. Photo shows Henderson pedaling, and Miss Betty Barrett of York, Neb., in the luggage basket. A sure way for the boss to get his secretary to the office on time. NELSON: Production Czar As the United States moved forward for-ward into all-out war production, Donald M. Nelson had been named production chief, placed in sole command com-mand over OPM, SPAB and all other oth-er vital production organizations. His position was compared to that of Bernard M. Baruch in 1917. Mr. Nelson had been, before his promotion promo-tion to sole command, the head of SPAB, the priorities control board, and thus had been sitting with his hands on the needle valve which kept materials flowing smoothly to defense plants. His post also was compared to that of Lord Beaverbrook in Eng- land. . He was given command by executive execu-tive order, and though the order did not immediately make legally clear how far his power went, there was enough in President Roosevelt's statement to show that it would go far enough to put Nelson Into sole command. A board, including Messrs. Knud-sen, Knud-sen, Hillman and other chiefs of various vital groups, was to work under Nelson. The President said, in part: "Mr. Nelson will no longer serve as director of the priorities division. Ke will' devote his entire time to directing the production program. His decisions as to procurement and production will be final." Thus Mr. Nelson has authority over not only the industrialists and labor leaders who were In Washington Washing-ton to harness American production to a program for victory, but also ever the army and navy themselves, them-selves, in a way, because his decisions de-cisions as to what they might have In the way of arms and munitions would be final. They would still have legal contracting con-tracting authority, but Mr. Nelson would have to pass upon these contracts con-tracts before they could go into effect, ef-fect, and could, in effect, make them larger or smaller, quicker or slower. LUZON: Defense ' When the history of World War II Is written it will have become evident evi-dent that the defense of Luzon by the American-Filipino forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur should be placed alongside of other famous "last stands." Conceded only the slimmest possible pos-sible hope of hanging on until help might arrive, the MacArthur forces, entrenched in the Mariveles mountains moun-tains back of Manila bay, had reported re-ported not only stemming an "all-out" "all-out" Japanese drive, but that they bad driven the attackers back. They had forced the Japs to remove re-move their big guns far to the rear, out of range of the American batteries, bat-teries, had silenced 11 Japanese batteries, bat-teries, and had raised havoc with charging detachments of tanks and Infantry. Not in any way claiming that the Japanese advance had been permanently perma-nently checked, General MacArthur reported to Washington that the 24-hour 24-hour battle had shown definitely that the American guns and gunnery were superior to those of the enemy. The Japs claimed that they had taken Olongaoo. naval base on a bay to the north of Manila bay. and this had been confirmed by Washington. Wash-ington. There was more than a suspicion that the Japs were content to let the present armed forces now in the Philippines do the "mopping up" against the MacArthur army, and had turned their attention rather to Increasing the tempo of the aU-lmportant aU-lmportant Malay offensive, and the general offensive against the Dutch East Indies, using Mindanao as a base. SUBMARINE: Action Navy planes and ships had a busy time chasing enemy submarines reported re-ported lurking off the East coast of the U. S. , . Two ships were reported sunk by submarine action off Long Island, N. Y. The first was the Panamanian Pana-manian tanker Norness which was hit by three torpedoes about 120 miles from the coast. Next day watchers on shore claimed they saw a submarine sink another ship about 23 miles from shore. Meanwhile U. S. underwater craft were also busy, but the location of their action was not disclosed. The navy reported that a 17,000 ton Jap ship of the type used as a plane carrier had been sunk by U. S. submarines sub-marines in Far Eastern waters. MALAYA: Scorched Earth The house of cotymons criticism of the British Malaya forces in not carrying out the scorched earth policy pol-icy was met by dispatches which had been delayed tending to show that the British had applied that policy pol-icy in the completest way possible. An eyewitness description of the British evacuation of Perka, Selan-gor Selan-gor and Kuala Lumpur, the latter an important rubber city and the capital of the Federated Malay States bore this out A Durdin dispatch to the Times from Seremban stated that in Perak and Selangor alone millions of dollars' dol-lars' worth of rubber stocks and rubber processing plants and mil lions more in tin mine dredges and tin ore processing machinery had been destroyed. ' In addition the destruction of petroleum pe-troleum products totaled several millions of dollars. Copra and coal docks were dynamited dyna-mited or burned. Dynamiters were mining the country through which the Japs were approaching closer to Singapore, and this was evident in the slowing down of the Japanese advance. Describing the evacuation of Kuala Ku-ala Lumpur, Durdin wrote that the British had opened the larger stores and had removed what stocks it wanted, and then had left the stores open to allow the population to take what it wished. The inhabitants seethed up and down the streets which were littered with refuse, carrying what they had been able to get aboard rickshas, on bicycles and on shoulders and heads. From every corner of the city sounded the booming explosions as the Punjab sappers and dynamiters destroyed bridges, roads and other communication links as soon as the British convoys had moved through the city. Two large department stores were completely despoiled of goods within a few hours. Coolies who had never nev-er tasted chocolate . candy went about with their arms full, giving them away to others who had none. The burning of the rubber trees was not possible, but since the plants producing rubber and the rubber rub-ber stocks were burned, the British say it will be a long time before the Japs can get any. HITLER: Has He Fled? Unconfirmed reports had been received re-ceived from the Russian front that Hitler, with Smolensk threatened by the Russian armies, had fled to a safer point While this had been Impossible of confirmation, the Red headquarters reported capture of towns in the "Smolensk area" which showed that the war was coming uncomfortably close to "Der Fuehrer" if he was still there on the scene of actual service. 'War Orphan No. 1' H r I' i "f A j j r X V 7 am war orphan 'No. 1," said Mrs. Helen Nelson, wife of Donald M. Nelson, Chicago, III. , whom President Roosevelt Roose-velt appointed chief of war production just recently. AIR: Supremacy Sought There was every indication that the battle for air supremacy In the Far Eastern theater of war was definitely being battled for. The news dispatches had contained con-tained increasing reports of air battles bat-tles on all fronts, and though there was still no indication that General MacArthur had any sort of an air arm, both the British and Dutch defenses de-fenses were being bolstered by American, Chinese and Australian planes. The Dutch early had said that if the Allies would give them enough planes, they could defeat Japanese efforts to capture important strongholds strong-holds in their islands. The Japs, on the other hand, were continuing to capture some, including includ-ing the island of Tarakan, a small islet defended by about as many men as had . stood before the Japs at Wake island. The Dutch defenders finally had to surrender, though more than half of the garrison got away and lived to fight another day. Before leaving and before the remainder were forced by the odds to lay down their arms, they reported having mined and blown up all the oil wells on the island, an important small producer of petroleum. It still was not definite where the high command had set up headquarters, headquar-ters, save that it was somewhere on the island of Java, but whether at Batavia, from which most of the dispatches were coming, or at Surabaya, Sura-baya, could not be learned. An idea of What the capture of Tarakan meant by the way, was the Dutch figure on its oil output 80,000 tons monthly of the finest grade of petroleum. The Dutch, in describing the destruction of the wells, said, simply: , "The Japanese have found that we were not bluffing when we announced an-nounced that no oil installations would be permitted to fall into their hands." PAN-AMERICA: Opens Conference Of vital importance had been considered con-sidered the Pan-American conference confer-ence of nations, which had opened its sessions at Rio, with Sumner Welles in charge of affairs forthe American state department. There were really only two doubt-fuls doubt-fuls on .the list, but they were important, im-portant, and covered the southern half of the continentArgentina and Chile. Yet, as the conference met with the announced purpose of further fulfilling the general blockade against the Axis by a continental breaking of relations with all Axis nations, it was felt quite hopeful that Argentina and Chile would come in and enter the joint action wholeheartedly. whole-heartedly. OUSTER: Against Dye Men Five of the principal uperaung executives of the General Aniline and Film corporation were summarily summa-rily ousted from their position by order of the treasury department which had been trying for several months to establish that the company com-pany actually was owned by the Nazi firm of I. G. Farbenindustrie. The men suspended, all naturalized natural-ized citizens of German birth, were Dr. Rudolph Hutz, a director; Hans Aickelen and William Vom Rath. both former directors who resigned within the past month; F. W. Von Meister, general manager of the ' Oxalid division, andXeopole Eckler, ; acting general manager of the Agfa- j Ansco division. They have been refused the right ' among other things, to enter the ; premisesof the company. Decern- j bcr 12 the treasury aepanrnenr placed 17 of its operatives in the main offices of the company. Brown Boys in MIPS "mum m sr. m The navy department has established naval reserve officers training train-ing corps at various colleges throughout the nation. Typical of these is the unit at Drown university. Providence, R. J where the navy has a key base at nearby Newport. These photos take you to Brown, and show you how the Brown boys in blue are learning the arts of the seagoing warrior to man the fortresses of floating steel that are our first line of defense. Like the generations of Brown sons who have fought in every one of America's wars since the Revolution, these young men are determined to share in America's victory effort. iffMiii At Loading and firing of naval guns is practiced in this loading machine. Dummy shells are used. A job where teamwork counts. P" ,. . "'B aaij'ii'ii'' i ''Jvfyi i Naval instructors who teach the Brown boys their gunnery simulate simu-late conditions at sea by means of a device that makes the target heave and toss. y iiMiii,, i! r iinnnni uii loiuihiiii mini ii yr; "MiiillniM'iwi'nn iniov"irrrr-mn i J -K 1 "1 li m I i I II f r y1 MISCELLANY: '"TIN FISH" . . . Studying the after part of a torpedo one of the most intricate of naval weapons. London: Germans were resuming 1 constant raids, though on a small scale, of British towns. Most of them were on the northeast coast and in East Anglica. j Rio de Janeiro: Uruguay became . the second of the LatinAmerican republics to sign a lease-lend pact . with the United States, entitling it to receive substantial shipments of arms and munitions. ypy ii i ii i 11 1 i ii i Innocent Bystander: "Dear Walter: Here Is suggestion sugges-tion you might pass on. Why don't the theater orchestras which play The Star Spangled Banner' at the end of the night play it in a key that the average person in th audience audi-ence can sing? Everyone knows that our National Anthem has a wide range that is difficult for the untrained un-trained voice. But It isn't so hard when played in a lower key. Even the recordings used in theaters are too high. For instance, last night at the Roxy the recording of the Anthem An-them was played in the key of E-flat E-flat much too high for the average voice. A key of G would enable many hundreds of others to sing It all the way through. Kitty Carlisle." Car-lisle." John Kieran nominates (in Cosmopolitan) Cosmo-politan) as his pet peeve the guy who talks out of turn. Info, Please, where John is starred, would be less exciting if the pop-off was outlawed. 4 Major James Roosevelt was in Hollywood the other day, the luncheon lunch-eon guest of the Freres Warner in their executive, dining room, if you please. During the chit-chatterbox-ing, Harry Warner said: "How are your mother and father bearing up under all this?" "I think," replied James, "that my mother is a little more tired." Phil Baker, relates a Sun interviewer, inter-viewer, once lectured to some col legians on "The Ad Lib and Its Importance in Everyday Life." One of the upstarts sprung a Joe Miller on him and asked for a sample ad lib topper. Baker, stumped, gagged his way out by saying: "The best way I could reply to that line would be to ad lib ten seconds of silence." One of B'way's hits, "In Time to Come," honors President Wilson. Now the movies plan to revere his memory with a biog . . . Excuse the finger-pointing, but drop into the Public Library some day and be reminded how many honored Americans Amer-icans made a good living out of at tacking Woodrow Wilson's peace efforts. ef-forts. New York Newsman: The capture of the German ship (Odenwald) in the South Atlantic recently (despite its disguise as an American vessel) happened, we hear, because of a boner. When the warship first encountered it it was certain the stranger was American but asked for identification, anyway. Promptly came a breezy reply typically Yankee Doodle in spirit and zing but it contained one word that trapped it The word was Broadway slang and the Germans used it wrongly. That aroused the suspicion of the U. S. warship and the rest is now in the history books. What was the slang word? Sorry. That's a naval secret. Manhattan Murals: The air-raid siren on Broadway standing silentlywaiting silent-lywaiting to scare a few thousand people out of their wits and off the streets . The oldest clock in town in the tower of St. Paul's on B'way and Vesey Street It was made in 1798 . . .The dejected young men at 90 Church Street (Navy Hquarters) when they don't pass the physical . . . The hamburger joynts all over midtown giving the hot dog stands an inferiority complex . . . The Rose Bowl Cafeteria on 44th, the Sugar Bowl on Pell Street and the Orange Bowl on 45th ... Shortest Short-est street in New York Edgar Stree where Greenwich Street meets Trinity Place near the Battery Bat-tery . . . The epidemic of huge-sized huge-sized clocks all over Times Square . . . Correct Time Square. Newspaperman Stuff: If we ever own or help run a newspaper, no matter how inconsequential it is, we will have the editor nail the following follow-ing to the masthead. It was written in the 1700s by John Adams: "Be not intimidated, by any terrors, from publishing, with the utmost freedom, free-dom, whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country; nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy or decency." Our Berlin correspondent (your what?) just phoned us this in code . . . Hans and Fritz were discussing discuss-ing conditions there. "Der Fuehrer." said Hans, "has done great work. We now haf more living space than ever." "Iss dot so?" asked Fritz. "Vy because we haf more land?" "No." was the retort. "Because we haf less soldiers." A Norwalk wag says that "the commander in chief of the Jap fleet is looking forward to dictating peace In the White House in Washington. They get that way. sometimes, after the fourth glass of sakL" Fergoodnessaki! Hitler, always a plugger for paganism, has injected a religious note into his whimperings, now that the going is tough. He's sorry his armies destroyed so many churches. Hed find them useful to hide be-hind. P t Tn Kn xt. formulated over 50 vf?bIe W or candy coated, toe. Q able, thorough? 11 S PUOiic history J register of the .'.7 H appointments, the vices lies, and the quarrels of C engage m contention fcr Relief At Lai! 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