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Show THE LEW SUN. LEHL UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Russians Cheered by U. S. War Pact Pledging Support of Second Front; Nation's Scrap Rubber Pile Grows; U. S. Information Units Consolidated (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion, are expressed In theie column., they art thai, of lb. new. analyst and not Beeeuartly oi toll aewipaper.) Relaaaad by W.etern Newipapcr Union. ALEUTIANS: Foggy Details When the Jap radio announced that Nipponese troops had made a lundinir on the Aleutian Islands there was no immediate denial by the U. S. government For the navy had to wait for the fog to clear In that area to check these claims. When the weather turned better It waa found that enemy landings had been made on the island of Attu, at the extreme tip of the island group which stretches off Alaska In the Pacific ocean. Also Jap ships had put Into Kiska harbor on an Island nearer the North American mainland. main-land. Navy "operations" were called .Into play Immediately to squelch any threat of a Jap drive for Alaska. It was believed that the landings took place at the time of the first raid on Dutch Harbor and about the same time as the beginning of the Midway island battle. Rear Admiral John H. Towers, U. S. navy chief of the bureau of aeronautics, classed the Jap thrust as of "no real importance" and figured that It could even become liability to the enemy. WAR INFORMATION: Gets an Overhauling At long last there came word from Washington that all the information functions of the government agencies agen-cies were being consolidated by the creation of an "Office of War Information" In-formation" to be headed by Elmer Davis, well-known writer and radio commentator. All the duties and activities of the Office of Facts and Figures, the Office Of-fice of Government Reports, the division di-vision of information for the Office of Emergency Management and the foreign information service of the co-ordinator of information, will be under the authority of the new of- j flee, according to a White House announcement an-nouncement Further, Director Davis will have "full authority to eliminate all overlapping over-lapping and duplication and to dis continue in any department any informational in-formational activity which is not BYRON PRICE To collaborate with Davit. necessary or useful to the war effort ef-fort . . ." Under policies laid down by the President this office will "issue directives to all departments depart-ments and agencies of the government govern-ment with respect to their informational informa-tional services." This means that while the various agencies and departments will still continue to operate, their activities must now conform to such direction as the Office of War Information may give them. The presidential order provided for close collaboration between Byron Price, director of censorship, and Davis to "facilitate the prompt and full dissemination of all available avail-able information which will not give aid to the enemy." HOUSING: 'Conversion Loans With a term as long as seven years, a new type of "war conversion conver-sion loan" up to $5,000 is available for converting an existing structure Into additional living accommodations accommoda-tions for war workers in war production pro-duction areas. This new type loan was announced by Federal Housing Commissioner Ferguson at the same time it was revealed that during the first five months of 1942, 70.225 new dwellings dwell-ings were started in war housing areas. New home programs generally gener-ally are from 35 to 45 per cent lower than a year ago. HIGHLIGHTS COMMUNICATION The house ways and means committee has approved ap-proved an increase of at least 50 per cent in the tax on telephone and telegraph charges of all kinds. RESIGNATION: In order that a younger man might take his place. Sir Harry Luke, British governor of the Fiji islands and high commissioner commis-sioner of the western Pacific since 1938, has resigned. RUSSIA: Diplomacy and Death In Russia, even as the "citizens army" took up arms to defend to the death their city of Sevastopol, word came from Washington, Moscow and London that gave them cause for cheer although their immediate fate was darkened. It was the word that the Soviet Union and the United States had reached a "full-understanding" with regard to the urgent tasks of opening open-ing a second European front In 1942. After a conference between Russian Foreign Commissar Molotov and President Roosevelt in Washington, methods of speeding U. S. war aid to Russia were developed and the fundamental problems of post-war co-operation to safeguard "peace and security" were decided upon. The state department of the United Unit-ed States bad further good news for VYACHESLAV MOLOTOV In full accord with F. D. R. the Russian people. It was that a lease-lend agreement similar to that signed betmeen the U. S. and Britain Brit-ain as well as China, had been entered en-tered into with the Soviet The good news from London was that Russia and Britain had signed a 20-year mutual assistance pact But In the Sevastopol area and around Kharkov the Nazis continued their pounding at Russian lines. Civilian Ci-vilian morale was good, said Moscow Mos-cow reports. BOTTOMS UP: For Jap Navy Eight Japanese aircraft carriers at least half of that country's known carrier power were sunk or so badly damaged in the Midway and Coral Sea battles that they will be unfit for early action, informed naval sources have estimated. Based on communiques issued by the U. S. army and navy and Allied headquarters, capital ship losses of Japan and the United States from December 7 up to and including the Midway battle are as follows: ' JAPAN 1 Battleship 1 Seaplane tender 4 Aircraft carriers 18 Cruisers ' UNITED STATES 1 Battleship ; 1 Seaplane tender 1 Aircraft carrier 1 Cruiser The official communiques concern only those ships whose loss' is unquestioned. un-questioned. Unofficial reports include in-clude ships whose loss, though unverified. un-verified. Is fairly certain. TREASURE HUNT: This Time Rubber Although it was only one cent a pound, that fact didn't stop Americans Ameri-cans from stripping their homes, garages and factories of every available avail-able pound of idle and (to them) useless rubber. The rubber salvage program got underway upon President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's order. Collected by the nation's na-tion's gasoline filling stations, the scrap rubber is being transported to central collection points by petroleum petro-leum industry trucks and sold to the Rubber Recovery corporation. Undersecretary of War Patterson reported that army and navy crude rubber requirements during the 21 months after April 1, 1942. will be 800.000 tons, compared with the present U. S. reserve of 600,000 tons. He said he hoped the difference differ-ence would be made by the synthetic syn-thetic program. WPB Rubber Coordinator Co-ordinator Newhall stated that the synthetic program will produce 80.000 tons In the rest of 1942 and 300,000 tons during 1943. in the week's news HEROES: Visiting Washington on a tour of the nation in behalf of war bond sales 15 American and British war heroes paid their respects to President Roosevelt and congress. At the White House. President and Mrs. Roosevelt and British Ambas-sador Ambas-sador Lord Halifax were on hand to greet them. On Capitol Hill they wer. greeted in the house chara-ber chara-ber and by senate members. TUT r 1 X fs I VENGEANCE: Promised Czechs By President In a broadcast from London, Czechoslovakian President Eduard Benes promised that, following the war, military law, Including the death penalty, will be imposed on all Nazis responsible for the ties tial destruction" in the Czech nation, Benes declared flatly that on the first day of victory the policy of personal response hilttv null 1 11 Ka al- ' ried out mercilessly 1 against all expo nents of the Nazi party and the Reich government on Czech territory, be' ginning with the former protector, Baron von Neurath, all leaders of the Gestapo and SS for- Eduard Benea mationS, and all Germans in the political and mili tary administration of Bohemia and Moravia." In Washington, Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian vice premier and foreign minister, urged destruction of "several" German villages by air bombardment in retaliation for the wiping out of the Czech town of Lidice. (Lidice was eradicated as a reprisal measure for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, Reich protector for Bohemia and Moravia.) "To my mind," said Masaryk, "it should be ten teeth for one and ten eyes for one." CHINESE FRONT: Nancheng Falls On the Chinese front the Japanese drive in Kiangsi province had ad' vanced 100 miles and forced the de fenders to evacuate the town of Nan cheng, bringing the Japanese within 125 miles of closing the gap be' tween their eastern and western forces. Dispatches stated that the Chinese had recaptured the town of Tsung- jen, approximately half way be tween Nanchang, Jap Kiangsi base, and Nancheng. A Dome! news agency report claimed that Japanese troops, ad vancing rapidly, have occupied Kwangfeng, 18 miles southwest of Yushan. Japanese forces northeast of Wu ning were reported to be under severe se-vere attack, and Anyi, west of the Jap base of Nanchang, was under Beige. SYNTHETIC RUBBER: And 'Cracking U. S. chemists have perfected a new petroleum "cracking" process for making high-grade aviation gas oline that should also help break the bottleneck in synthetic rubber pro duction, according to the War Production Pro-duction board. The same refining plant turning out aviation gas would be able also to turn out butadiene, a vital ingredient ingre-dient in making synthetic rubber, according to this announcement Although both these products come from the same petroleum base, up to now they have been produced in separate operations. Plants which can handle the production pro-duction of 120,000 tons of synthetic rubber from butadiene will be in use before January 1, 1943, but until this new process was discovered, there were grave doubts as to whether or not a sufficient supply of butadiene to keep them going could be supplied. It is believed that the new process proc-ess will permit just that LIBYA: Tanks at Tobruk Bir Hacheim in Libva had fallen and the British thought this might slow somewhat the desert thrust of the Nazi forces aimed at Tobruk but on came the tank army of CoL Gen. Erwin Rommel. Forgotten was the fact that last year the Brit-ish Brit-ish had held that city throughout the Libyan campaign and had made history his-tory during its siege. There were mine fields and strong barbed wire defenses stretching almost al-most 15 miles around the city and at its back door was the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean sea. But it was at the center cen-ter of the land front that Rommel threw his heaviest tanks. These were met by British soldiers at the controls of American-made "General "Gener-al Grant" tanks, most successful weapons yet found to harass the mechanized units of the enemy. There was some speculation at first as to whether or not Rommel might try a flank thrust to reach the sea to the east or west of the city but from the start of the battle the fate of Tobruk hinged on a frontal drive itself. This fact stood out, experts said, because Rommel intent on taking the city itself and thus avoid the risk of leaving it as a British "sore-spot" a it ttov-a to be last year. MANPOWER: Industry and the armed forces must forget the "quest for the "ideal man for every job," according to Selective Service Director Hershey. who said the time was not far off when all men and women will be needed and Selective Service will touch the "fringe of men deferted . . because of dependency." Congress had acted to raise the base pay of army men to $50 per month and the plan for authorizing assistance to dependents of mem. bers of the armed forces cleared. BakinzBread for v uith the rapid expansion oj tne army, and enlisted men in the theory and l"J0fi l mnnneement. as well as the use oj eqwy" nuti tituri onu a-- Private William Claycomb of Blairsville, Pa weighs the in-fredients in-fredients for bread. Private Sofness of Boston, left. i t m ' cuts the mixed doueh as it comes from the mechanical mixer. Pri vate Glick of JSew York operates the mixer. - A : I In ' ii ' i l tJi - " I id 1 1 J v" f V1' '--- i7 "I . .. M:' After the dough has set for 24 hours to rise, it is placed on this workbench where it is kneaded, weighed and placed into the pans for immediate baking. - i J'i In the picture above. PAvnto A. G. Hodges of Galax, Vav ( ngnij pulls the bread from the baking ovens, while Privntm F eph Adams of Rochester, N. Yn I removes the baked bread. Rieht: t mumping me not bread. I T, - r jrira Our Doughboys . - jT Vmtrtlt The next step in bread-making is to dump a bag of flour into the mechanical mixer. Private J. R. Bowers of Henri' etta, Ohla removes the mixed dough from the trough to the bench where it will be kneaded. He seems to like his job. I I i ssm wm - amm smmm msst iv 1 - wm m The Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: Yon probably read, In the stories about John Barrymore, how saddened he was over the loss of his interned Jan valet and the Jap's family . , On the other hand, some of Charles Chaplin's Jap servants turned out to be noies . . . The most ironic situa tion of alL we think, concerns Eugenia Eu-genia Clair Flatto, Grand Hostess of the American Gold Star Mothers annual convention . . . Before the war, Mrs. Flatto had a loyal Jap pardenor . . : He had been here for many years had even fought for this nation in the last big war . . . But because he is Japanese he had to be interned . . . Mrs. Flatto now has hew gardener, who is acceptable to the authorities a German, who can't even speak English! One of President Roosevelt's clos est advisers, a New Yorker, was feastins in a delicatessen. As he started to leave, the owner handed him a small package . . . "This, he explained, "is for the President It contains some of my best corned beef and pastrami. Please take it to him with my" compliments" . . The next day when the President opened the package, right on top of the spicy cold cuts were two dozen of the delicatessen man cards . . . FDR sent for Steve Early and, handing the cards to him. dryly instructed : , "Here pass these around to the various Embassies. When FDR was assistant secre tary of the navy, they say, he was visited by some ladies of the Tenv perance Union. They wanted him to christen the ships with soda pop instead of champagne. "The trouble with you ladies, said Mr. Roosevelt, "is that instead of opposing the christening of a ves sel with champagne, you should en- courage it. And get a great temper ance lesson." "Why, how can we?" queried one of them. "Well," he replied, "after the first taste of wine, the ship takes to water and sticks to it ever after." Then there's the one about the Mussolini troops, who will go down in history as men who'd rather eat and make love than fight . . . One Italian captain decided to do something about it, and after a pep talk he charged: "Avanti!" "t ("For-ward!") ("For-ward!") and so shouting--he led them Into battle. , When he turned, the (captain found himself 50 yards ahead-alone! ahead-alone! With all his men still seated on the ground applauding applaud-ing and yelling: "Bravo! Bravo!" Admirers of Herbert Bayard Swope were disappointed not to find an anecdote about him in our recent re-cent pillar called "Newspaperman Stuff." M. Throckmorton Cohn, who says Swope is a guy you always find in a photo finish when newspapermen newspaper-men are discussed, relays this one about him. While exec editor down on the World, Swope formed a habit of depending de-pending a great deal for the exact time on the clock in the tower of the Tribune which was directly across the way . . . Every now and then the Trib clock would stop. This riled Swope no end . . . So one day he got it off his chest by running this on the World's editorial page: "The Tribune tries to tell the administration administra-tion how to run the government, yet cannot keep Its own clock going." For almost a year she has been trying to crash the Broadway heavens heav-ens .. . To attract attention she circulated the fable that she is an heiress to millions and that her family fam-ily pays her a large sum weekly to keep out of the theater . . . Naturally, Natur-ally, that kind of a story got her a lot of publicity, and playwrights and producers catered to her as a potential poten-tial backer ... The thing exploded right in her pretty face when she was threatened with eviction over $20 hotel bill. Most top salary players conld not squander their money even if they wanted to. The greater part of their salaries goes to taxes and professional and living liv-ing expenses. The rest is nan- -died by business managers. Hollywood stars are not the gourmets gour-mets they are cracked up to be. They have to eat sparingly of sim ple foods in order to maintain their figures and physical condition. Most stars' dream of Paradise is to be able to eat steak and potatoes and pie whenever they feel like it but they don't Don't Believe What You Hear About Hollywood: Modern Americans believe more myth and legend about Hollywood than did the ancient Greeks about the boyt from Mount Olympus, from Ajax to Zeus, inclusive. Although there is Chamber of Commerce to promote this mecca which doesn't exist, there is ne Hollywood Err Han or city officials. That vague territory is just the northwest section of the city of Los Angeles, DB. LEVI DEL 7 "-""--w NEW AND CSBDr-. 51 So. MmntT" ! Nation, Fawn Floii; Leads Them All Ask your Friendly Grtctr - Teacher Hw was iron ore discovered? Jimmy-I believe they ml Treat Constipation This Gentler Way! Many folks say that almost bad as constipation an bd cathartics and purge. Us: because many medicinal m tlves work this way: they elta prod the intestines Into xti or draw moisture Into then m other parts of the body. Now comes news of a ttii and pleasanter way of head constipation, for the millions: people with normal lrtesti:: whose trouble is due to lick ; "bulk" In the diet. Thiswjyls! eating KELLOGG'8 ALL-BEi! a crisp, delicious cereal, w drinking plenty of water ALL-BRAN, unlike many maE: nal laxatives, acts principally the contents of the colon am helps you to have easy, mm elimination. ALL-BEAK Is mi by Ketlogg's in Battle Creet! your condition is not helped this simple treatment, better your doctor. it-i: n. 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