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Show THE LEIU SUN. LEIIL UTAH ---------- WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne President Sketches World Strategy; Australia Is Periled by Japanese Army Invasion of Its Key Island Outposts; Nelson Speeds Up U. S. War Production (EDITOR'S NOTE Wkon opinion! are expressed In theeo eolamm, ther ore Ihoso of tho mwi analyst and not necessarily ol this newspaper.) . (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) y.-Hj,rsTTTVre, ; ', J n : . - J& 'ilr ' . ' K' 5t J; .vMMWLvitttoMKw ,vtf-ti-- -AMNViwPrJ Sumner Welles, undersecretary of state and head of the TJ. S. dele-Cation dele-Cation to the Pan-American conference at Eio de Janeiro, Brazil, Is cheered by spectators as he waves his hat from the Tiradentes palace, scene of the hlstorio meeting:. BLUEPRINT: Of World Battle y While the nation girded itself for Yictory production on a scale never hitherto dreamed of, and while American soldiers were arriving on foreign fields ready to do battle until un-til victory, while still others were filling the news with their heroic exploits, ex-ploits, President Roosevelt gave newsmen a hint of the "blueprint of battle." The President, following the close of the Churchill conferences, and the safe return of the British premier to London by airplane from Bermuda, Ber-muda, had told little to newsmen save that there was a complete accord ac-cord among the united nations. Now he had begun to give them the picture, a portrait of battle carried car-ried on simultaneously in every part of the globe by the soldiers of all nationals working In concert with each other. Thus were found American aviators avi-ators fighting in the Singapore area, with the Dutch In the East Indies, In the Philippines, over the Seven Seas, and most lately arriving in Britain and other points for service. The President said one could look at the map of the world and assume that the anti-Axis group was doing something at almost every strategic point He said that joint technical committees com-mittees were busy, covering the subjects of production, of transportation transpor-tation of produced supplies to every part of the globe, also to the assignment of fighting men and machines ma-chines to points where they were most needed. While all of his Information had been of a general nature, the nearest near-est he came to giving out details was when he said that excellent progress was being made in strengthening the Allied forces in the Pacific. This latter statement was taken by the press to be an attempt by the President to allay Chinese fears that the Allies were not going to make a vigorous enough battle against the Japs. The President had finished a conference con-ference with Dr. Hubertus Van Mook, lieutenant governor general of the Netherlands Indies. Dr. Van Mook came out of the conferance room beaming. JAPS: Extend Fronts The Japs, far from being licked or even stopped, were constantly extending ex-tending their front, and with reports lf their continued advances spreading spread-ing out with attacks on all fronts, curie dispatches telling of two new ventures. These were the invasion of New Guinea and the Solomon island is-land area; and an invasion of Bur-ma Bur-ma by the Siamese as a measure to aid Japan. Indicating a threat to Australia itself, the New Guinea invasion was paced by air attacks and a movement move-ment of naval forces. The Solomon Islands lie In a chain northeast of Australia and east of New Guinea. The Burma invasion had started at Myawaddie on the Burma-Thai frontier. This lies at the northern end of the Burmese panhandle bordering bor-dering the puppet country. It had not been unexpected, and General Wavell's headquarters some time before had told of Chinese Chi-nese reinforcements to the Burmese troops, apparently sent there for just such a contingency. The invaders also seized the port of Tavoy, which bisects the panhandle pan-handle and gave the Jap-assisters a good advantage L. opening the fighting. Jap fliers were reported to have occupied a flying field at Tavoy, and roared cut to attack with bombs the Important cities and ports of Moul-mein Moul-mein and Rangoon. PRODUCTION: OPM Finally Dies The OPM, over which William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman had presided as twin genii for many hard-working, hard-fighting months prior to American entry into the war, finally died, Production Chief Donald Nelson supplanting it entirely entire-ly with his new War Production board, probably to be known as WPB. Mr. Nelson, however, had "port folios" in his new series of divisions for most of the key men in OPM for it was not so much a junking of an old organization as a revamping of it on a streamlined basis. The placing of one man, Nelson, at the head of the war production effort, also necessarily called for a change in organization. This was undertaken fearlessly by Nelson, who created five primary divisions, most of them utilizing as heads former members of the organization organ-ization t of OPM, SPAB and other groups. ' Leon Henderson still was In charge of civilian supply; Hillman still had the labor job; Stacy May was "progress reporter," and so on down the line. Probably the first and most vital job, almost coincidental with the naming of Nelson himself, went to Knudsen. The big motor man became be-came a Lieutenant General, in direct di-rect charge of the speeding up of factory production in general, that is, as far as Army procurement was concerned. j But the man who was to be most in the public eye for the next few weeks was Ernest Kanzler, a new figure In the picture, who was named automobile production czar not of automobiles, but of what the auto factories are going to make. MAC ARTHUR: Resistance As If to prove that the defeat of his army had been prematurely predicted. pre-dicted. General MacArthur sprang a distinct surprise on Washington and the country's newspapers when he reported that American-Filipino resistance re-sistance was continuing on the island of Mindanao in the vicinity of Davao. An all-out Japanese effort to turn the Luzon defenders' right flank had earlier been turned back with heaviest heav-iest Jap losses, and yet the danger was far from over, for the Japanese were reported returning to the attack at-tack again with vigor. It was reported that an entire Japanese Jap-anese army estimated by some as many as 300,000 men had been thrown into the battle for Luzon and the whole Bataan peninsula front blazed Into action in a renewal of the Japanese attempt to crush the defenders. But the word from MacArthur's headquarters that fighting was continuing con-tinuing in Mindanao came long after official Washington had given up Mindanao for lost, and simply showed how difficult communications communica-tions were in the area. It was believed possible that Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur himself had thought Mindanao Min-danao gone until he received belated belat-ed word from the southern island that the battle was still in progress. CRITIQUE: A dual report on profiteering came before the legislative bodies of the congress, the Truman report and the Vinson report named for their committee chairmen, the former rushing into print and Into the press a few days ahead of the latter. That congress, aware of the huge character of the burling of 56 billions bil-lions into war production in two short years, and of what this might mean if profits were allowed to go beyond certain limits, intended to clamp the lid down was evident. 'March of Dimes' t , iu. Jrf B 1 , " i L 3t f ' T Alma F. Borgrneyer, clerk in the mail room at the White House, opens mail bags jammed with "March of Dimes" letters addressed to President Roosevelt and designed to aid in the fight against infantile paralysis. The mail was reaching Its peak just before the President's Diamond Jubilee Celebration on January Janu-ary 30. SUB ATTACKS: Intensified Submarines, probably German U boats, were pressing their attacks along the East coast of the United States, but the Navy department had reported that strong counter measures were being taken. The whereabouts of the navy's chief strength was being kept a closely guarded secret, but all authorities from the President down continued to insist that the navy was extremely active, and was disposed dis-posed in such a manner as best to meet present threats. " The sinking of a Japanese cruiser by navy bombing planes was announced, an-nounced, and there had been a number num-ber of sinkings of supply ships, some of them close to Japan-Most Japan-Most dramatic had been the ex-ploit ex-ploit of PT-boat division commander command-er Lieutenant Bulkeley, who shot his own boat at 80 miles an hour Into the Bay of Olongapo, sent a 5,000-ton Japanese vessel to the bottom and escaped unscathed. Bulkeley's boat, a 77-foot speedster, speed-ster, carries heavy machine-guns and 18-inch torpedoes. He was being be-ing hailed as a hero almost on a par with Colin Kelly. The cruiser sinking lacked details, but the navy said it was sent to the bottom 100 miles off the island of Jolo, one of the nearly 8,000 isles of the Philippine group.; Where the American bombers which did this trick and achieved other victories were based was a closely guarded secret, but there were many possible bases in territory terri-tory within reach of the location where the sinking occurred. - PRICE CONTROL : The price control bill, sulking In the house and senate conference under un-der the baleful displeasure of the President, continued to bog down as prices continued to soar. The farm relief "Joker". in the bill had met with condemnation, not only from the White House, but from many leading agricultural centers, and this remained the main point of controversy in the bill. In the meantime, Secretary of Agriculture Wickard came out with" a statement that there probably would be a shortage of sugar, just after all the refinery men had gone out on a limb with the opposite prediction. pre-diction. . : Sugar hoarders and othe,r purchasers pur-chasers of foodstuffs were continuing continu-ing to storm grocery stores and cartoons car-toons were published under the caption cap-tion "this little pig went to market" showing hoarders at their deadly work at the grocery counters. Administration circles were at their gloomiest over the situation, one source saying "we had hoped to get an improvement over the house bill when we got to the senate, but the senate bill was worse than the house bill and now most of us would be calling it a victory if we could get the house bill enacted." MISCELLANY: Bern: German rationing has cut men down from five cigarettes a day to three. Women are allowed no tobacco ration whatever. o Vichy: A German soldier was shot and killed outside a Paris night club. Police were able to arrest a young girl said to have been a witness. She was confronted with a dozen suspects and ordered to pick out the man who fired the shot. e e Babwia: The Dutch admitted the loss of Minahassa, the northern portion por-tion of the Island of Celebes. It was the second severe loss of oil-important islands in the N.E.L 00 London: Already work was in progress reviving the "scorched areas" of Soviet Russia retaken by the Red army. It was announced that Sir John Russell had been named advisor to the board, and would go to Russia with American, Canadian and British help to put Russian production back into being. I I jaaC-ia a -Wt g-yj-y- If 71 -rJ t .DTK Hating Hate: The President of the u J has announced , Zku4! ve. It is: Th', Twenty-six nations ? Nlfi win a war and to keen I follows war. r!P! fused to leam ZL"? tr Wooden Ships for Men of Iron Away out of the focus of the spotlight men are doing a job which, though not spectacular, is vital to the security 0 this nation. These are the men who are building the little wooden ships that have the hazardous job of keeping our waters clear of mines trawlers that are manned by men of iron. At the Snow shipyards in Rockland, We- things are humming. These pictures, made at the snow yards, show what goes mio a wooavn su. 1 I J VMSK Two shipwrights work on a heel here. In the background are two hulls in various stages of construction Old-timer Howard Gordon, who has been a ship's carpenter since 1898. He is honing his ax to a razor edge here. Two workers "dubbing" on the outside of the hull for the ex-terior ex-terior planking. They work to a chalkline snapped on the ribs. y . , aiM'-mw i.,u iiiyyyiiMuuuuiujwiMW jr -y " ' ' Old-timer Hay Rubshaw is working inside the framework of a hull under construction. He is dubbing or smoothing out and lining lin-ing up the ribs for planking, using an adz. K. Si-- T-r XL - C v s" . N Greasing the skids before launching a completed wooden ship. Pounds and pounds of grease are smeared on the skid to make the slide of the new craft easy and to counteract friction. rJL - v 1-1 ... A i Trim and clean as a hound's tooth, a new wooden ship for the navy takes to the water without fanfa. J'o time for ceremony. Washington, D. C. NEW SELECTEES Tt needed no mind reading to fathom what was behind that war department announcement of the nnrrhaso of 700.000.000 feet of lum- ber and 240,000 kegs of nails the biggest order of its kind in u. s. history. . Tho materials are lor ine. con struction of numerous new army cantonments and the enlargement of existing ones. Army Rtrenffth. down to 1,600,000 ft or the demobilization of 23 to 35 year olds last fall, is due for a big increase at least anouier -,uw,wu after the next draft lottery following follow-ing the February 16 registration of men between 21 and 44. An estimated 24.000.000 Will regis ter next month, and on the basis of past experience only about 5 per cent will be rated i-a; mat is, sur lect to Immediate call. Heretofore the army has inducted only men in good physical condition, with no dependents de-pendents and not engaged in "essential" "es-sential" production. However, as the need for military manpower develops, 1-A standards will be broadened and many thousands thou-sands of 1-B, 2-A, and 2-B deferees by pre-war standards will be called up. For the present, the army still Is placing primary emphasis on youth. The February 16 registration is ex pected to list around 2,000,000 20-21 youngsters and the largest proportion propor-tion of new inductees will come from this group. Registrants in the 36 to 44 group will have to be in top condition to get In the army at this time. ". However, big scale inductions from this age group can be expected by fall, particularly those with no dependents and with previous military mili-tary service. For the present the army will take its older-age recruits from the 28 to 35 year olds who were exempted because of dependency or defense work. REDTAPE BUSTER Ordnance is the haughtiest and most hide-bound branch of the army. So much so that it has been the object of much bitter private criticism by civilian defense chiefs. But there is one notable exception to this Ordnance rule. He is William Wil-liam Van Atftwerp Kemp, a tall, husky, dynamic engineer, who made a big success in private business and volunteered his services when the national emergency arose. Since then, as an Ammunition division executive, ex-ecutive, he has been making history, his-tory, busting redtape in tradition-bound tradition-bound Ordnance. There are many tales of Kemp's unconventional exploits. The latest is one of the best Asked bv a general to surest a manager for a new government munition plant about to begin production, pro-duction, Kemp recommended a crack expert who had been loaned to the British to build a plant in England. "He ought to be finished with his job over there by now," said Kemp. "If he is, get him," was the order. From the British, Kemp learned the expert had completed bis work and was available. So Kemp picked up a phone and called the state department de-partment "I want to talk to the guy," he said, "who gets guys back from England." Eng-land." There was a gasp, but the operator switched Kemp to someone who asked him who he was and what he wanted. Tm Kemp of Army Ordnance," he said. "There's a guy in England we want to run an ammunition plant for us. Get him back here right away, will you?" Six days later the expert reported to Kemp and left for his new job. A few days later the general again summoned Kemp, asked what bad been done about the expert. "It's all taken care of, general," said Kemp. "He's been on the job at the plant two days." "How did you get him back here so fast?" "No trouble. I just called up the state department asked for the guy who gets guys back here and he arranged it" "Kemp," said the general severely, severe-ly, "do you know who that guy In the state department was?" "No, sir." "He was the undersecretary of state." Note: Kemp has persistently refused re-fused to accept an army commission. commis-sion. Finally, pressed by the general gen-eral for the reason, he retorted: "Some day I may want to come in here and blow up. If I do, as an officer you could court-martial me. But as a civilian, all you can do is fire me. Tm remaining a civilian." JAP SCHOOL LESSONS After three years' probing of subversive sub-versive activities, it takes a lot to excite Rep. Martin Dies, but the other oth-er day the rangy Texan hit on a discovery that took his breath away. His committee has been making a sweeping inquiry of Jap fifth-columning fifth-columning on the West coast, includ-ing includ-ing subversive teaching in Japanese language schools located all over southern California. Investigators found that from the primary gradas up students in these schools are indoctrinated in-doctrinated with militarism and the ideology of their Jap ancestors. rhil camps and trl continent they huv. i. n " bitter battlefliI!ot Dictators light for mo. , mats for prestige; for victory But the Corij? always fight for peace lZ mistice between nations, w of soul between men. That is why the pre8ent is a total world w? delators' New Order k . ZT J against world conseion, - "tK zer attacks to break rJ are less important than the !J ganda efforts tn to. law and order. Th, CrrO pie today are fighting for thJJ Men from all over the 0,w fighting side hv m. Jr i j - ' w meir ti ui6mvjr iue Dy side for their d And when final victory J will be the iob of th. ,;:rae only to bring peace to natioj ycutc u men. For the Common VJJQ ffi 1 world are awake. Their enJ out in xne open. It is not id is a creea. They know t nothing to hate but HATEI Innocent Bystander: Judge Joseph Guthrie, of u City, tells the one about tCi that came to town and was p3 bad. The audience almost to i groaned and grumbled most ofl evening. Except that is. one srwtstn. just kept staring at the staff. neighbor who kept growling, TS awrtu," anally turned to him said: "You haven't had anytbia say what do you think about "1 am here on a free seat," the dry reply, "but if this thm any worse I am going to bd ticket and raise hell." Old razor blades are being con ed to supply steel for tanks. Don't forget No blade is too to cut Hitler's throat Jessie Royce Landis, atari "Papa Is All," the Theatre comedy about the Pennsyhi Dutch, had to spend a great del time around Lancaster leamin: lect customs, etc. She passes i this legend, typical of the pa there. To appreciate it even nf she says the Dutch rarely keep ey in banks. They usually hii around the house or in the Anyway, this concerns an eli nair whn arrived at a real tf office before April 1 "SetHeal Day" for the Dutch. They buying a farm, the price of i was $17,000. j Papa brought forth a huge si ing packed with folding money patiently counted it "It only comes to J14.000, Mai he said unhappily. "Wnat nened?" "I guess," Mama said m "we must have brought me "1 stocking. How courteous is the Japanese He always says, "Excuse please." He climbs into his neighbor's m And smiles and says, "I Ml . pardon." He bows and grins a friendly and oaii his hnnffrv f amflj A He grins and bows a friendly "So sorry, this MY garden - Ogden Nash, Mans, sit i-!q citizens are Ml. " i now. Hitler issued an order ,v. Ttaliona and the Wl membership. A British M Libya, a dress designer b Ft . hhto confused ffl this. The other day nil sent him on patrol duiy. "The captain," h "wants you to catch him prisoner." "VeriweU," said the F "Bleached, olive or snuS-c While negotiations weref4 . . t .nd the D. 1 oeiween -P-" rZLxatm ing the &urusu--."" - . . .entedmisplanrmycog; two nauons peat" racinci mi o u,n smiled tsl .u. TonananCOB-l Encourageo. "r"T H "Which part would you j north or souuw Mr. Hull is supp - ri phed:--A,long.swe. 1 the Pacuic, we u you take the bottom. th. new ClublSj writer who disappeared J "Wonder where w . "Oh, he's verj ""v tfi . WtocheB fan. m0r andtruj length article i . rti The harsh t' i on . Spot" reveaiea rr MacArthur, the General and Beieu lie, uit aumor. |