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Show THE LEW SUN. LEW. UTAH IHH 1 Portrait of a Newspaper Reader Mumbling to llimitlft . Get 'the editorial writers tore and they perform at their lockiest They bit glory en their pieces on the Nazi Inhumanities at Lidice. Now they show their teeth again, booraying Pres. Roosevelt for naming a military mili-tary board to try the tight Nazi saboteurs . . . Hitler, will let out his customary howl about our uncivilized un-civilized methods, but bow can ha expect us to hear him? He lost bis right to squawk at Lidice . . . Any way, what did bis chumps bope (or In case they got caught with trunks full of explosives and bribe money? A scolding? Another thing bow did the Belch act when a bomb went oil under a Munich rostrum a few minutes after Hitler minced off It? The Gestapo Ges-tapo lured two Britishers over the border to pin it an them. No crime was ever proved against the prisoners. pris-oners. They were just executed to give Hitler a cue for another tantrum tan-trum . . . Most of our senators and congressmen In Washington are honest men. Good Americans, reliable reli-able citizens. The few legislators who are busy calling their critics smear artists have good cause to worry . , . Election isn't far off, and their critics are giving them insomnia insom-nia ., . These worried congressmen congress-men call their exposers Communists Commu-nists ... HmfJ . . . Their most persistent critics are Raymond Dapper, Dap-per, Time magazine, the conservative conserva-tive N. Y. Times and the arch Republican Re-publican N. Y. Herald Tribune. And 95 per cent of the newspapers in America . . . What some congressmen con-gressmen call Communistic propaganda propa-ganda is actually their voting records rec-ords and speeches from the Cong. Record. . Once a ball player gets into the big sugar he gets unpopular in the press boxes. Ruth used to take rides when he bickered for a heavier heavi-er wage. DiMaggio was assailed also for trying to do better. . The latest patsy is the Red Sox star. Ted Williams ... He got fed up with the hoots of the bleacherites and let them know it For Just losing his temper he was practically outlawed out-lawed . . . Why shouldn't be blow up? Others do. and nobody considers consid-ers them criminals . . . Actors in night clubs carry on steady warfare war-fare with the crude, ad libbers, but they get cheers when they fight back . . Maybe baseball wouldn't be such a dull business if they let a few more tempers loose. There are too many coppera running the game . . . Football coaches get all heated up. telling their players to go out and fight In baseball, apparently, ap-parently, the athletes are instructed to go out there and remember the customer is always right Not over at this desk! ii j Hollyweodltea are going Into the army and navy Just like other Americans. Remember all the blah-blah blah-blah in congress when it was said the actora would rate deferment? . , . Movletown was recently criticized criti-cized for making films about the war. Now Variety complains because be-cause they don't make enough war finis. Ho, humphl . . . The dlmout doesn't mean much to New Yorkers, but it robs the visitors of the thrill of seeing the Incandescent Belt at Its gaudiest ... The White Way was Broadway's trademark, and the first peep at it always left the looker gasping . . . Best comment of all on the sight was offered by G. K. Chesterton, as A. Woollcott once reported. re-ported. Chesterton stared and marveled, mar-veled, then said: "What a thrill this must be for anybody who can't read!" Man About Town: This la the way Harry Hopkins proposed to lovely Louise Macy . . . The night before Mr. Churchill returned re-turned to London Louise went to the home of Mrs. Averell Harrlman to dress for dinner, where Mr. Hopkins Hop-kins called for her . . . As they were having a cocktail (prior to leaving tor the White House) Mr. H. (a shy aortuvachap) asked Misa Macy to marry hire In this manner: man-ner: "I waa Just talking ta the President and I asked him whether he thought yon would aay 'yes' if I asked yon to marry me and the President said he thought yea would" , . . Her answer belongs In the history books . . . "As osual," the said, "the President la right" New Yorkers Are Talking About: Fred Allen's high blood pressure, which sent him hurrying to Mayo Brothera at Rochester, Minn. . . , Lindbergh's definite threat to announce an-nounce his candidacy for office soon via the page ones. The Maglo Lanterns: "United We Stand" is a stiff reminder to all of us that Hitler thrives on our disunity. dis-unity. It chronicles events from the Treaty of Versailles until Pearl Harbor, highlighting the Axis "divide "di-vide and conquer" technique -, , ; "Eagle Squadron" shows Yanks in the" RAF, with the blitz and the British reprisals .contributing a powerful pow-erful Sunday punch. Diana Barry-more. Barry-more. Eddie Albert' Robert Stack ana others show up handsomely, but ; the fattest role is. played "by-the "by-the high explosives. r 1 1 1 Msliingtifh Washington, D. C. ALEUTIANS IMPORTANT Behind the army-navy attempts to blast the Japs, out of the Aleutian islands is more than natural antipathy antipa-thy to having an enemy on American Amer-ican toil or the fear of an invasion of Alaska. These are Important But In addition, ad-dition, events In Egypt may mean that more than ever we shall have to use these vital stepping stones of the Aleutian Islands to carry the war to the heart of Japan. , To get the full significance of the picture it is necessary to recall that ever since Pearl Harbor there bas been an honest difference of opinion among U. S. war strata-, gists as to whether we should concentrate con-centrate on fighting Japan in the Pacific or Hitler in Europe. At one time, shortly after Pearl Harbor, high-up U. S. naval advisers worked out an elaborate war plan, which is no longer a secret for concentrating con-centrating almost all our naval strength in the Pacific and making a direct attack on the Japanese islandsat is-landsat a time when the Japs had their lines dispersed to Manila, Singapore and the South Seas. But the plan meant leaving the Atlantic coast relatively unguarded, also virtually abandoning convoys to Britain and Russia. In the end it was decided that the Russian front was all-important and must be supplied sup-plied at all costs. The wisdom of this decision seemt to have been borne out by subsequent events. Japs Worried. However, those who urge the all- out war in Asia have persisted, and their argument bas been strength ened by recent developments. One is the fact that the Japs, obviously scared at the prospect of a second front in Asia, are fighting feverishly to clean out the Chinese before China gets important help from us. Fear of a second front In Asia also was why the Japs nipped part of the Aleutian islands. Main development however, was the defeat at Tobruk and the serious Nazi threat to the entire Near East; for if the Near East falls, with its vital supply route opened by American Amer-ican railroad engineers from the Gulf of Persia to the Caucasus, then it may be absolutely imperative to open new supply lines to Russia via Alaska and Siberia. And, even more important the entire focus of the war, so far as the United States is concerned, may turn to the Far East; for, if Hitler secures the oil of Iran, Iraq and Mosul, it may be trie wisest strategy to knock Japan out of the war first because the Nazis will have the re-' sources to continue for a long time. WHAT IS AN EXPERT? When Federal Comumnlcations Chairman Lawrence Fly appeared before the house interstate commerce com-merce commission recently, he was asked by Representative Clarence Brown of Ohio: "What is your definition of an expert?" ex-pert?" "Well." replied Fly, T once heard an expert described as any damned fool away from home." "Do you pick your experts at the FCC on that basis?" inquired Congressman Con-gressman Brown. "No," said Fly. "We generally take them from the Industry, where they have proven their worth." "I afn asking these questions because be-cause of a peculiar experience I had recently," explained the Ohio congressman, con-gressman, and went on to tell how congressional committee had referred him to an expert on accounting, ac-counting, "a young man who graduated gradu-ated from college in 1939 and was still a trifle wet behind the ears." A short time later, Brown continued, contin-ued, he called at the War Production Produc-tion board on another matter and was referred to an "agricultural expert" ex-pert" Lo and behold, the expert proved to be the same young man. "Following this, I again called at the WPB on a matter pertaining to metal," said Brown. "This time I was referred to an expert on copper and, believe it or not Mr. Fly, it was the same agent "And," Brown warned the chairman chair-man of the Federal Communications commission, "if I ever come down to your commission and find this chap, you and I are going to tangle. MERRY-GO-ROUND Favorite rejoinder of Senator Harry S. Truman, when a member of his war contracts investigating committee objects to his strenuous pace: "If you don't like the heat get out of the kitchen." Silver - thatched Representative Cliff Wood rum of Virginia faces a primary fight from Moss A. Plunk-ett Plunk-ett a militant Virginia liberal. Mrs. Roosevelt's close friend. Con-gresswoman Con-gresswoman Caroline O'Day of New York, will have Democratic competition com-petition this year Miss Martha Palmer, active worker among the Young Democrats. Buffalo,' N. Y., has Joined the select list of big cities in which all the large stores hart turned over their sales forces to pusning the sale of war stamps and bonds. It costs taxpayers $3,500 year to operate the senate's subway train that shuttles lazy senators one-block frtnv the Senate, pfflct building to we CapitoL WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Nazi Steamroller Pushes Soviets Back In Struggle for Control of Caucasus; Government Wheat Sells for 83 Cents; Wage Pattern Set by Ruling on Steel . (EDITOR'S KOTEI WMl eainMBS mwm .pr .. ail ( . fMra Ntwta" UaUa's aws aaaljtls aaa aai asurUy 1 ' Released by Weitern PpajaPjppjaapjBaajjaBjaajsAaBBStaa Coast Guardsman Jack Cullen, 21-year-old hero who confronted the Nazi saboteurs who landed on American soil from a submarine, la shown as he was congratulated by Vice Admiral Russel R. Waesche, commandant com-mandant of the U. S. coast guard, for his devotion to duty and outstanding performance that led to the capture and trial or the spy ring. Cullen was advanced from seaman to coxswain In recognition of his service. RUSSIA: Nazi Steamroller Adolf Hitler had demonstrated that the long delay before he launched his monster offensive against the Soviet Union had not been wasted and that despite terrific ter-rific losses his tank forces had lost none of their striking power. For the mighty thrusts which started originally in the Kursk and Kharkov areas had steadily gained in weight and momentum, forcing their way through the Don basin. The attack developed three spearheads spear-heads aimed to split the armies of Marshal Timoshenko in the Ukraine and those of Marshal Zhukov in the Moscow area. The northern objec tive was Voronezh on the Moscow-Rostov Moscow-Rostov railway; the central thrust was aimed at Kuibyshev; and the southern had Stalingrad as its goal. Moscow made no effort to minimize mini-mize the danger of a broad breakthrough. break-through. For once holding a line from Rostov to Stalingrad, the Nazis would be in position to swing south ward to Astrakhan on the Caspian sea and into the Caucasus itself, where waited their supreme prize the fabulous oil pools of Tiflis and Baku. Moreover, such a move would pave the way for a junction by Nazi Marshal Von Bock with the armies of Japan poised on the borders bor-ders of India far to the east and those of Field Marshal Rommel, on the shores of the Mediterranean. EGYPT: Collision of Tanks Air-borne from Crete came Rommel's Rom-mel's long-awaited reinforcements. Tough and battle-seasoned were they and expert at storming defenses de-fenses such as the British were manning man-ning against them in Egypt's crucial El Alamein sector. Tricky Marshal Rommel employed a battle device that bad won for him on many a previous occasion that of beginning his attack at dusk when the sun was in his opponents' eyes. Bringing up heavy tank reinforcements, reinforce-ments, both sides battered each other oth-er in battles on which the fate of Alexandria and Suez depended. The Nazis' immediate goal was a desert coastal ridge five miles west of El Alamein which the British had won from him days before. In the fiercely contested struggle, the RAF was actively engaged, with fighter bombers and light bombers scoring many direct hits on tanks and ranging rang-ing far to the rear to harass Rommel's Rom-mel's thinned-out supply and communication com-munication lines. DRAFT: War Effort' "Contributing to the war effort" will be an important factor in determining de-termining the draft status of married mar-ried as well as single men. In defining what constitutes "contributing "con-tributing to the war effort" selective selec-tive service headquarters outlined 34 different types of jobs which would place a man in that category and thus delay his induction. Draft officials emphasized that the supply of single men of all classes would have to be exhausted first " Trends were clarified in the revised re-vised policies announced by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, , director of seJective service. While reiter ating that "bona fide family reia-tionsl.ips reia-tionsl.ips will be protected as Jong as possible," General Hershey instructed in-structed local draft boards that when the time comes for calling men with dependents . to service, those who are not contributing to the war effort should be called first Last class to be inducted would be married men with children who lie contributing to the war effort . ... ,.. thr ars Um of newspaper Union. WAGES: Raise for Steelmen In a decision regarded as a yardstick yard-stick for future wage disputes, the War Labor board laid down the principle that workers were entitled to a 15 per cent increase, based on higher living costs between January, Janu-ary, 1941, and May, 1942. The ruling was made when the board approved a daily wage increase in-crease of 44 cents for workers employed em-ployed by the so-called "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Republic, Inland and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Directly affected were 157,000 men. Indirectly the decision was expected to affect more than a million mil-lion workers, including 600,000 throughout the steel industry generally gener-ally and 400,000 automobile plant workers. The CIO United Steel Workers originally had asked for a $1 a day increase. The WLB voted the compromise com-promise wage increase 8 to 4, the labor members dissenting. SURPLUS WHEAT: To Sell at 83c News bulletins had carried the bare announcement that the house of representatives had concurred with a senate proposal to convert government owned surplus wheat into United Nations war needs by feeding it to livestock to produce meat, milk and eggs. But back of that announcement was the story of the breakup of a six-months' legislative log-jam, a victory for the administration's anti-inflation anti-inflation program and acknowledgement acknowledge-ment by the farm bloc that it must accept less than a parity rate for the sale of this grain. Twice before the house had voted to bar the sale of surplus wheat unless, un-less, it was made at the full parity price of $1.35 a busheL Now it agreed to go along with the senate ana allow the sale of 125,000,000 bushels of government-owned wheat at 85 per cent of the parity price of corn or about 83 cents a bushel for feeding cattle and hogs. The house also agreed that any amount of government-owned grain might be sold below parity prices for the manufacture of alcohol for rubber or munitions.' MIDWAY SAGA: Better Than Expected When a naval communique released re-leased the first official detailed account ac-count of the Battle of Midway, the steadily growing conviction that the United States had won a victory of major importance was confirmed. The communique revealed for the first time that Japan had sent an armada of 80 ships to assault Midway Mid-way as a prelude to the conquest of Hawaii. Final score of the battle was 20 Jap ships sunk or damaged, including includ-ing four aircraft carriers sunk and three battleships hit; 275 planes destroyed, de-stroyed, and 4,300 men killed or drowned. American losses included the destroyer Hammann sunk, the aircraft carrier Yorktown put out of action and 3.07 officers and enlisted men lost " SUBMARINES: Menace Groivs Official acknowledgement that something drastic must be done to counteract the Axis unrelenting submarine sub-marine attacks on United Nations shipping was seen In Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox's announcement announce-ment that a convoy system had been set up In the Caribbean area and would be established in the Gulf of Mexico."- - Coastwise convoys, however, would have to get along without the help of destroyers, it was indicated. W " Y - r ly f . . 'I tin fe- 'Jr CHINA FRONT: Doolittle Sequel Ever since the attack on Tokyo by Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle . nd bis squadron of American bombers, Japanese objectives in China have been the seizure of areas from which United States bombert might strike again. Thus when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek't battered armies acknowl-edged acknowl-edged the loss of Wenchow and J lan. seaports In southern Cheklang province, after steady withdrawals from ttrategic points in the Kiangsi-Fuklen-Chekiang area, another air threat to Tokyo had been removed. Bravely, however, a Chinese official offi-cial spokesman pledged that with increasing in-creasing air support from the Unit-ed Unit-ed States, the Chinese army would intensify its counterattacks and would immobilize more Japanese troops in China than ever before. Elaborating on China's view of the war and her role of tying up large numbers of Japanese, the spokesman said both Germany and Japan were "now making desperate bids, as they must score certain successes this summer in order to sustain a long war against the United Unit-ed Nations." 'FIGHTING FRENCH': U. S. Encourages More effective co-operation between be-tween the followers of Gen. Charles De Gaulle and the governments of the United Nations was forecast as a result of several steps which coincided co-incided with the celebration of Bastille Bas-tille day. First of all, the De Gaullist movement move-ment acquired a new name "Fighting "Fight-ing France" instead of "Free France." At the same time the French National committee became an administrative central body. To symbolize the new relationship the United States announced the appointment ap-pointment of Admiral Harold R. Stark, commander of U. S. naval forces in Europe, and Brig. Gen. Charles L. Bolte, chief of staff of the army's Eurogean headquarters, as military representatives to General Gen-eral De Gaulle's headquarters in London. This step did not affect United States relations with Vichy, already badly strained by Pierre Laval's refusal re-fusal to accede to President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's request that French naval vessels ves-sels Interned at Alexandria, Egypt, be removed from the danger of Axis capture. SECOND FRONT: Dress Rehearsal? From London came two significant signifi-cant reports indicating that plans for the long-heralded Anglo-American second front in Europe were going steadily 'forward. Just when such a front would be possible, however, how-ever, no military observer would hazard a guess. Described as a "prelude to what may be major military operations on the European coast" powerful American and Canadian forces plus ? 1 Ji GEN. D WIGHT EISENHOWER units of the Royal navy and marines ma-rines carried on the greatest raid and invasion maneuvers ever held in European waters. At the same time, Lieut Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of American forces in the European theater, continued methodically me-thodically the job of setting up the organization that will carry on the offensive. Giving attention to land, air and supply forces, he announced that Maj. Gen. M. W. Clark would command all ground forces, Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz would command air forces and Maj. Gen. J. C. H. Lee would be responsible for sup-plies. sup-plies. OPA: 'Politics Out' Price Administrator Leon Hender. son has won many an enemy among professional politicians w ui tviLUlk disregard of partisan tactics. Hence his latest warning to OPA em- nlAVAAB 4U .... wiveca uiai Bny poiiucal activity would result in i was not calculated to gain him any new friends among the politicos But observers believed it would step ud the OPA's efficiency. "No one in the OPA , .. v'6uiuuua IS going to be nrmitt POlltlCS With th ma - . ,. - . - ciiuri, - Mr. Henderson said, in an administrative order reminding workers of their status under the Hatch act v"Je.Said from tte beginning that OPA is going to be run on nonpartisan non-partisan lines. - I do not want any-one any-one to have the slightest doubt about the consequences that will result from failing to comply with the law. As I have said in the past if the Hatch act doesn't get them, the Henderson Hen-derson axe wifl." r 7 Released by Western Newspaper Union. A TYPICAL MARINE WHO WANTED A FIGHT ' THE TWO THINGS from which Lieut CoL Kink Beecher, United States marines, derived greatest pleasure was to fish and to fight He could spend long days on a favorite fa-vorite Wisconsin lake, and while he preferred a black bass, he did not despise the lowly perch. But even better than fishing, to Kink, was a good scrap. Fighting with him is an avocation, as well as a vocation. He Is a "from the ranks" officer and bas fought with the marines in France, in Nicaragua, China, Haiti, and other places. The last time I saw him was at Quanticp, the marine ma-rine barracks near Washington, where he was unhappy because there was no prospect of a fight. I last heard from him at Shanghai. He left mere for Manila some two weeks before Pearl Harbor. I trust he still lives even though he may be a prisoner of the Japs, but to be out of the fight would be the greatest hardship that could befall him. To me Lieut. Col. Kink Beecher typifies typi-fies the United States marine corps. GOVERNMENT BONDS IN WAR TIME WE HAVE IN AMERICA today considerably more than twice as much currency in circulation as we had during World War I, and we then had some slight inflation, but not enough to be ruinous. During World War I the public purchased the greater portion of the Liberty bonds issued by the government, as a result of special sales drives, with a house to house canvass. Within the past ten years most of the government bonds issued have been sold to the banks, with a smaller small-er percentage to the insurance companies com-panies and the public. When the banks buy. they, in turn, use them as a basis for additional bank note currency, and that" accounts for our ever-increasing money in circulation. Every increase in the amount of our circulating currency increases the danger of inflation. The banks Cannot Can-not take up the government issues without turning them into increased bank note currency. That is one of the reasons for the effort to sell the bonds to the public instead of to the banks. The other reason is to take out of the hands of the public money people would otherwise use in the purchase of commodities. We cannot produce a sufficient amount of consumer commodities to meet such a demand. When the public has money to buy more commodities commodi-ties than can be produced it pushes the prices up to Inflationary levels. The only other remedy is fixed prices, and fixed prices will leave money in the hands of the people. AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND THE COMING PEACE MRS. ROOSEVELT, in the American Ameri-can Magazine, tells us we are fighting fight-ing for the privilege of revolutionizing revolution-izing the world on the lines of democracy, de-mocracy, rather than permitting Hitler Hit-ler to revolutionize it on the lines of German totalitarianism. She says the war is but the first step in that revolution. She does not say what the final step is to be. Governor Stassen of Minnesota, in a recent interview, proposes several plans for the purpose, he says, of making the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic At-lantic program a reality at the peace conference. Both give America something to ' think about and we should be a unit as to what we want by the time that peace conference meets a few months or a few years from now. To help us in the thinking it would be well if Sumner Blossom, editor of the American Magazine, would find someone to interpret the type of world Mrs. Roosevelt is expecting expect-ing the revolution to produce. .. IN 1941 THERE WERE on the roads of America 27,300,000 of what the government considers non-priority cars. That is, cars the government gov-ernment would not permit being replaced re-placed during the war. Government experts figure that should the war last until 1945 three more years the number of non-priority cars then in operation would be down to 3,900,-000. 3,900,-000. What a dead place America would be under such conditions. Let us hope the Huns, the Japs, and the Wops are licked long before we reach such a point ; - THERE IS ONE WAY of insuring retreads for your automobile tires. Get a job as an official of a labor union. They are considered essential essen-tial to the war effort, but farmers, salesmen, merchants, and others of the common people, including workers, work-ers, may walk. . . , CLASS-CONSCIOUSNESS OUT OF THE WAR we will achieve a freedom for which we are not fighting the Huns or the Japs. Out of, the war we will achieve a freedom from that growing class-consciousness. class-consciousness. . There, were those with selfish purposes pur-poses encouraging a recognition. o class and class distinctions. . Any effort ef-fort along such lines is subversive to our ideals. It has been only in recent years that we have recognized, recog-nized, even in a small way, any class distinctions. ' " - I? r ... ? ... A General Q, ! group:. CostaTM oia. Guatemala? $ 3. What wa . . I What nam- I roup ef paid aDnTa,!1VeM Irian, Justinia ftjfe? 7. How many mirI:.ry.J a.... w UV-1HV ft (S5 re narrated in w" expels, Matthew XtZri nd John? lew.M4rk, o- va what river i. . I Coulee dam? fl8M 9. 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