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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEIIL UTAH i . ii ALLOTMENT: Russian People United In Second Front Demand ii Plead for Diversion of Nazi Soldiers from Eastern Battlefields; Soviet Picture Grows Darker. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator, WNU Features, 1343 H Street, N. W Washington, D. C. Just at the time when Washington was anxiously awaiting news of the battle of the Solomon Islands and the reports from Russia seemed to grow worse by the hour, the curtain was pulled back for little group here and they were shown a disturbing dis-turbing picture of the mind of the common man iu Russia. I say the picture was disturbing. To those who read between the lines It seemed to reveal the possibility that the United Nations were about to lose the sympathy If not the material support of the single Ally which has been able to engage the Axis effectively. Not only the common man In Rus-i Rus-i sia, but everybody from Stalin down, divides sharply with the majority ma-jority of United Nations military epinion about a second front. That split of opinion tt was made plain, may affect not only our military relations with Russia, but post-war relations as welL Naturally the Axis is promoting such disunity. Briefly the two views are these: The Allied strategists say: Inva-sion Inva-sion of the European continent now might mean another Dunkirk, Another An-other Dunkirk would be worse for the Allied cause than to let Russia continue alone as she Is now doing. The Russian common man, according ac-cording to the analysis of this mind to which I referred above, says: If you do not divert Nazi soldiers from the eastern front Russia cannot hold out. We have sacrificed greatly. Except for a few divisions in Egypt Which are not fighting (at this writing) writ-ing) no Allied soldiers are attacking Hitler's armies except us. We have died by the thousands, if not millions, making last-ditch stands that gave you time to prepare. pre-pare. Why should you be unwilling to die, too, even if you cannot be, immediately successful with an invasion in-vasion to save us now, and, as a result, save yourselves later on? Russia's Opinion That seems to be the Russian reasoning. rea-soning. It is understood that after the Molotov visit to the United States and the announcement of the Anglo-Russian pact, that hopes ran high In the bosom of the ordinary Russian. Since then nothing has happened except the victorious ad-vance ad-vance of the German armies which now either hold the richest parts of Russia in their grip or bar them from the rest of the country. This attitude has become evident and supposedly well-informed ob servers predict that the disappoint ment on the part of the general Russian public will have bad ef feet on the morale of the Russian army. There are, of course, advocates in high places In the American government gov-ernment as well as in Britain, for the opening of a second front. But even if the American high strategists strate-gists were unanimous on this subject sub-ject they would have to defer to Great Britain since the brunt of an invasion at this time would have to be borne by British troops. Of course, it must be realized that the Russians on their side and the British and Americans on theirs are each thinking to some degree in terms of their own welfare, as well as in terms of the common objective defeat of the enemy. But there may be also a philosophical difference. differ-ence. American and British officers have been trained in a school which makes them hesitate to sacrifice men in what seems a futile effort, that is an effort which they are not sure has at least a greater chance of success than of failure. The Russians Rus-sians have shown that they are quite willing to die even when they know that they are already beaten and further resistance, although it takes greater 4oll of enemy lives, cannot be successful Gunner Wings Aid a Fighting Man The American bomber was drenched with German anti-aircraft fire, one engine was smashed and burning, one propeller was shot way, bullets had riddled the ship's tail. Down it was crashing, out of control. It struck, pancake-wise, and miracle of miracles it bounded up. The pilot still glued to the controls con-trols felt the plane respond. It staggered stag-gered upward and back to England BRIEFS Canada has issued a call for 2,500 men, veterans of the last war and cot over 50 years of age, to be members mem-bers of the Veterans Guard of Canada. Can-ada. Cotton specialists of the department depart-ment of agriculture say the way eoXtjo is picked will determine how er soldier's clothes wtn wear on U-e caUleS'ld , 'Q & from that famous Fourth of July raid over Holland. I have just been talking with the boy who was in the gunner's turret of that plane and naturally I asked him what he thought about when they started to crash. He said he couldn't remember. But I have a hunch that it was a little town out in Kansas. "The world's fine," he told me earnestly, leaning across the table. "I'm glad of the chance to see what I've seen of it. But I'll be glad when I get back to Fredonia where I was brought up. Back where I know everybody and everybody knows me. I can't get used to folks hurrying so." By the time this is in print I hope that Fredonia has had chance to see Technical Sergeant Robert Go-lay Go-lay and for him to see it They'll get out the band when he comes back with his brand new gunner's wings on his coat along with his pre-Pearl pre-Pearl Harbor service ribbons and that other bar that shows he's the owner of a Flying Cross. Of course, pretty Mrs. Golay and six months old Robert will be proud. "I like small towns," says Robert And he's seen quite a piece of the world. In fact, you might say, after his experience on the Fourth of July, he knows Holland from the ground up. That was where he was shot down (temporarily) and he said they brought a lot of Dutch soil back with them. Surprise to Wife Most of you have seen pictures of Bob getting his gunner's wings, one of the first two pairs ever awarded, at the ceremony in Texas on August 9. But Mrs. Golay heard about the flighit over Holland shortly after it happened. 'And it was a surprise to her. Because when Bob left for Europe he was only an "armorer" and that meant his job in the ah corps was a ground job. And Mrs. Golay had given her husband one order Don't fly. She was willing to have him fight the war and get it over, but not in the air. Then one day an officer called her on the phone and told her that her husband had taken part in the then widely heralded American Fourth of July expedition and that he was safe. Brass And Brass Hats Donald Nelson popped his eyes recently re-cently when the navy ordered 13,000 pounds of brass to make the door plates for a new battleship. Brass is scarce. The WPB asked the navy if instead of brass they couldn't use some commoner metal, or. perhaps just paint the labels on the doors. It was the navy's turn to be shocked. Battleships had always been adorned with brass plates. A tradition, of centuries was menaced if battleship nameplates should ever be made of anything but brass. "Moreover," said a navy brass hat,y'navy men are used to brass plates. If in the heat of battle a man is ordered to a certain station, he will automatically look for brass plates to guide him. Stenciled signs will mean nothing to him. At a critical moment the lack of a brass plate may mean the loss of the ship." Nelson had to yield. He had to yield again when the ship demanded stainless steel cooking cook-ing utensils. Nelson's office thought stainless steel somewhat luxurious, particularly since a battleship requires re-quires thousands of utensils in its cook's galleys. "Why not enameled ware?" the navy was asked. "Ever hear of tonsilitis ?M an admiral ad-miral argued. "Do enameled cooking utensils cause tonsilitis?" the WPB counter-queried. counter-queried. "No, but you can polish stainless steel until it shines. You can't do that to enamel. If it shines, we don't have tonsilitis in the navy." They got the brass name plates add the stainless steel. They also got brass cuspidors, because the navy department pointed out: "The cuspidors are the sure barometer of whether the gobs are on their toes. If the cuspidors of the navy's fighting ships shine bright, the officers know the gobs are doing their job. If there are no brass cuspidors, cus-pidors, how can they know?" by Baukhage According to the FBI, the nation's police force has been increased 175 per cent, largely through the formation for-mation of auxiliary staffs. The Agriculture Marketing admin-istration, admin-istration, lend-lease foud buyer, says that during the next two years its buying of dehydrated foods may save the space of 1,000 cargo ships of about 5.000 tons each. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Brazil's Declaration of War on Axis Aids Western Hemisphere Solidarity; 'Largest' U. S. Convoy Reaches Britain; Marines Score Again in Pacific Drive (EDITOR'S NOTE) Wh. .plnUni r. .ipr.S U these 'J.-VJ.m'mi!) W ! Newspaper Union' sews nalfM m nsessssrliy l "' Rtlcaaed by Western Newspaper Union. . (,. 4 M-iit V" v,?,;:-:: ('':.: rfwoae. m. mwW v':' nf ! II 'I III nflTimn 'mi VTilW- i..a..w,J,m1Aii V. 8. fliers in London celebrate pean arsenals. Target of the first raid was Ronen, France, which was left in flames. Centers Holding the wire from the first bomb dropped by a Flying Fortress la Capt. William Musselwhite of Jackson, Miss. LARGEST CONVOY: Arrives in England Shape of things to come in Europe was clearly etched by the announcement announce-ment that the largest U. S. troop convoy con-voy ever attempted in this war had landed safely in Great Britain. Military Mil-itary experts quickly viewed this move as a speed-up gesture in United Unit-ed Nations' second front plans. Included in the convoy were "many thousands" of soldiers and airmen plus vast quantities of war materials. Troops were swiftly disembarked dis-embarked and scattered to the interior in-terior of England, there to join other oth-er units already In training for the attack on German held Europe. "Special units' and "task forces" in the convoy added weight to the theory that U. 5. troops will play an increasing role in future Commando raids or other action on the continent. conti-nent. MORE ACTION: In the Pacific ' As U. S. forces were continuing their mopping up activities in the Solomon islands word from another sector of the Pacific indicated that the marines had done it again. This time it was the Gilbert islands that felt the power of a marine detachment detach-ment as it smashed a Jp seaplane base, radio installations and stores on the island of Makin, island in the Gilbert group. This action came in the form of a hit and run attack. Caught entirely by surprise, the Japs were so confused that bombers bomb-ers from other bases actually destroyed de-stroyed their Jap planes on the ground. Meanwhile all was not quiet in the Solomons, scene of the earlier and more extensive action by the U. S. forces. Here the marines were busy cleaning out the Japs that retreated to the hills after initial successes were scored by the American attackers. at-tackers. Trouble for the marines came from another source but an official communique from Pearl Harbor revealed re-vealed that it had been treated with typical marine thoroughness. This was a night attack by fast boats of 700 Japs who stormed the marine-held marine-held positions from the sea. After a'night and day of fighting, 670 Japs were dead and the other 30 were captured. Marine losses were 28 killed and 72 injured. WAR PRODUCTION: An Important Date Straight from the source that should know the War Production boardthe nation learned how it was doing in the battle of the assembly as-sembly lines. Donald Nelson, WPB chief, told the U. S. frankly where it stood. It amounted to this: War production is ahead in some categories, catego-ries, behind schedule in others. Big. gest problems are shortages of materials ma-terials and balancing of output among various agencies and service branches. These, he said, are getting get-ting vigorous attention. Such production also now has a date objective. Nelson said that U. S. war production is being planned to provide the maximum impact on the enemy by July 1, 1943.. This does not mean that our offensive will necessarily reach its peak by that date but this is the definite strategic goal of production and all production will be gauged by the one question: "How much will it contribute to the war effort by July 1, 1943?" ELECTRIC POWER: Less for Civilians In a move to readjust its war- time power expansion program the war production board has halted or suspended work on 85 public and private power projects. In addition, the WPB assigned such low Driorit ratings to 28 federal projects that completion probably will be postponed post-poned until after the war. unless new demands arise. The WPB said that "civilian inconvenience and sarrifir must k. " ' KAV,EU. j ' iwwwj,ujwjimujw.:T-' i i if ... v k " - -ar after the first raid on Hitler's Euro BRAZIL AT WAR: First in South America Angered by months of Axis aggression, aggres-sion, Brazil became the first South American nation to declare war upon Germany and Italy, thus swelling swell-ing the ranks of the United Nations to 29. Brazil's declaration of a state of war climaxed a week filled with mass demonstrations against the Axis sinking of five Brazilian ships with the loss of approximately 600 lives. The state of war did not include Japan, although Brazil broke diplomatic diplo-matic relations with all three Axis nations last January. The declaration of war cleared the way for immediate measures to secure the protection ot what has been termed the most vulnerable land area on the Atlantic side of the Western hemisphere the Natal bulge only 1,600 miles from Dakar in Africa. Military men long have pointed to this sector as the place where Axis forces would strike first if they were able to consolidate their African and European positions. Brig. Gen. Amaro Soares Bitten-court, Bitten-court, Brazilian military attache to the United States, said that Brazil "is defending the continent," and that "we must congregate and re unite all our military elements for the defense of the northeast, the strategical point on the bulge of Brazil for invasion by the Axis." RUSSIA: Bloody Battle Good news resulting from Allied offensives in the Pacific was offset by continued reversals on the Russian Rus-sian front. As the Nazi pincer movement move-ment drove relentlessly toward Stalingrad, the official Soviet com munique admitted new crossings of the Don river. "In the area northeast of Kotel-nikovo," Kotel-nikovo," the communique said, "our troops fought intensive battles with large tank and infantry forces. On various sectors the Germans, at the cost of tremendous losses, managed to advance." Fresh Nazi reinforcements brought out of the reserve pool or shifted from other sectors, were thrown into the bloody battle for Stalingrad. The reckless disregard of losses gave evidence of Nazi desperation des-peration for a knockout blow to the Red army. Stalingrad is a rich prize. Its prime importance is in its location on the Volga river, along which the oil of Baku and Allied supplies shipped through the Persian gulf reach central Russia. In addition, the city's huge plants produce tanks and war supplies, and its oil refineries re-fineries add to its strategic value. COMMANDO RAID: 'Official Success As Allied service chiefs studied the results of the Commando raid on Dieppe, official sources declared that the operation fulfilled its objective. objec-tive. Valuable information on Nazi defenses was secured. The raid, employing British and Canadian Commandos simnnrfa k American Rangers, was a nine-hour battle on the Nazi-fortified coastal defenses at Dieppe, midway between Calais and Le Havre. Initial German Ger-man estimates placed the invader force at 11,000, but the exact number num-ber remained an Allied secret The force carried tanks and artillery with them. "As the result of heavy fighting ... our casualties were high but not unduly so in view of the operation.-' the British "The navy lost a fairly large number num-ber of landing craft because naval craft did not leave the French coast until it was known that every possible possi-ble man had been taken off." The raiders were reported to have destroyed ammunition dumps, a six-gun six-gun shore artillery battery, a large anti-aircraft battery and a radio location lo-cation station. Reports from Vichy placed British dead at 500. 7W ?J MO t MS-.,-.. - v.-.v -.wrtB Speed Up Dependents of enlisted men in the U S. armed forces will be getting their allotments earlier than Novem-ber Novem-ber 1 under the terms of hiU passed by congress and now signed by the President After the President had affixed his signature the navy said it would issue is-sue such allotment checks "very soon" and the army announced thai their payments would start early in September. Originally these payments would have started November 1, although applications filed early would be retroactive re-troactive to June 1. Basic payment to dependents is $50 per month, servicemen serv-icemen contributing $22 and the army or navy $28. It could not be determined how many applications for such payments pay-ments had been made to the army or navy. It was estimated however how-ever that about half the men in the service would have dependents receiving re-ceiving the allotments. YOUR DRAFT STATUS: May Change Soon Married men and men now deferred de-ferred because they work in essential essen-tial Industry will be called in the draft in the not distant future. That was the statement of Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director direc-tor of selective service, before a well-packed forum at a Chicago university. uni-versity. In respect to men deferred because be-cause of war work. Gen. Hershey said: "You just can't go on deferring defer-ring a man for work reasons alone if you can find an older man, a woman, wom-an, or a physically handicapped per- BRIG. GEN. LEWIS B. HERSHET JPbrfc reasons alone aren't enough. son to take that man's place. It's going to be necessary to reclassify those 2A's and 2B's (war-work deferments) de-ferments) , and necessary means just that necessary. Just because they are in war industry is no reason rea-son for permanent deferment. The industrialists will simply have to train substitutes." He was also asked about the prospects pros-pects for 3A's deferred because of dependencies. "The first in order are the so-called so-called "grandmother cases," the men with second-class dependents grandparents, mothers, brothers, step-brothers and so on. , I think they're under the light right now. As sure as September 1 comes around well, obviously, those fellows are next "And the men with wives only are just as obviously next after that Then would come the men with wives and children, and the question there seems to be what is the degree de-gree of dependency?" - COFFEE,X)VERALLS: One Down; the Other Up The possibilities of coffee rationing ration-ing appeared more imminent with the government's order to restrict deliveries to dealers to 65 per cent of last year's deliveries as compared com-pared with the present monthly quota quo-ta of 75 per cent. The decrease in coffee deliveries was but one of several actions which will bring the war ever closer to Mr. and Mrs. John Public. Increased employment has resulted result-ed in steps by the War Production board to make cotton looms turn out more rugged fabrics needed for serviceable work clothes. The theater-going public may have reduced fare in the not so, distant future. Operators of movie and stage theaters were warned by WPB that shortages of materials would make it increasingly difficult to keep all show houses open. MISCELLANY: COMMANDER: An ace of World war L Brig. Gen. Clayton L. Bis-sell. Bis-sell. was appointed commander of U. S. army air forces in China. Burma Bur-ma and India. IMPROVED: Returning from n Official tOtir Clt Aloclrn C w Wallgren of Washington announced himself "much improved by the improved im-proved military . situation" in the Aleutians. SUNK: Am.r;.,. ...v .v.o,, Buumannes. hammering at Japan's extended Pacific Pa-cific communication lines, sank four and Damaged twn mr cui; limps. Two cargo ships and a large transport trans-port were sunk in the western Pacific Pa-cific A large merchant ship was sunk off the Aleutians. TEAM: Henry Kaiser, western shipbuilding wizard, and Howard Hughes, noted round-the-world flier have announced they are joining in a program to build a flet of 500 "fly. ing freighters" to carry important war supplies to the fighting fronts in aO parts of the world. lip During Mr. WinchelTt absence, on vacation, his column will 6a conducted by guest columnists. By LIONEL BARRYMORE (Who needs no introduction.) , Every actor knows what the critics crit-ics think of him. These industrious gentlemen who distribute plaudits or brickoats, according w uici t0ur f clavs and performances, have the benefits of their news paper circulation to broadcast tnetr views. Now, having been offered the na nf mv friend Walter WinchelL with whom I often agree and just as often do not I have the opportunity not often vouchsafed the actor to talk about the fellows who talk about him, in print Of the great stage critics there were some who honestly wrote what hp hpiiv(d. in SDite of helL high water and the newspaper's business office. No actor ever resented Deing owtiniTPd hv one of these men. In fact, we respected their knowledge and views, and oiten Deneniea Dy .nnatniptiv criticism. The same applied to playwrights, when these critics analyzed a piay. FIRED ACTOR TURNS CRITIC AND ROASTS SHOW Sometimes critics are evolved In strange ways. Years ago my brother broth-er John and I were in a traveling repertory company. We had a friend, 'Fred Butler, a newspaper man, whom we persuaded to come along and try being an actor. This wasn't in any spirit of discovery. We were great cronies and Uked to be together. Also Butler had a gold tooth which could always "be pawned when we were broke. The company got as far as Minneapolis Minne-apolis when the director decided that Butler was no actor, and, much to the dismay of John and myself, "fired" him. Butler went out and landed a job on a newspaper. Then he talked the editor into letting him review our shows. Gleefully, he "roasted" them, and John and I used to laugh over his "roasts" at dinner each night. But they drove the manager wild. I remember one gem In which be deplored that a good play "could be utterly ruined by an insignificant young actor named Lionel Barry-more." Barry-more." George Bernard Shaw was a great critic, in the days when he reviewed plays for London publications. True, he sometimes wrote terrible things about them. - But any criticism of his was tempered with justice. Mark Twain once tried his hand at dramatic dra-matic criticism on the old Alta California Cali-fornia in San Francisco, but never became really interested in it. The motion picture brought about a new technique in criticism. The early "tintypes" were ignored. Then, as pictures grew in stature, critics were forced to write about them. At first many had a feeling of hostility, but this gradually disappeared, dis-appeared, and today a fine picture like "Mrs. Miniver" is reviewed by the keenest dramatic minds among the writers of the press. NEW KIND OF CRITICISM EVOLVED BY MOVIES Motion pictures have evolved a new form of criticism which the public never sees. Pete Harrison started it, with confidential reports on pictures to exhibitors. He told them what to expect from the picture, pic-ture, from a showman's point of view, to equip them with advance information on the handling and exploitation ex-ploitation of a film. An adverse report meant that too much expenditure for advertising, for instance, was inadvisable. On the other hand, when he praised a picture, this meant that the exhibitor exhibi-tor was safe in "going the whole hog" in exploitation. Today there are numerous trade magazines, which review pictures in the same manner and for the same reason. They tell the exhibitor what to expect Sometimes audiences fool them, however. Audiences may flock to a picture the trade critics bad no faith in. And vice versa. For, after all, the only reliable critic is the public itself. A few days ago a group of studio writers and directors were discussing discuss-ing a certain picture. They picked holes in the story. They thought players were miscast "When the critics get hold of it, you'll see," they chorused. One veteran director spoke up. "WelL maybe you're right" he remarked. re-marked. "It looks like nobody's going go-ing to like it except audiences." He was right The picture grossed a million. Buy War Bonds-Babe Bonds-Babe Rath didn't give much thought as to whether "The Pride of the Yankees" film was a white-tie white-tie or black-tie premiere . . . The Babe showed up with his throat bared, very informal, m'dear . . . You get a pretty good line on the Nazi honor code in the behavior of the eight saboteurs. They shortchanged short-changed the Coast Guardsman who pretended to accept their bribe . . . Even in bargaining for their lives they can't stop cheating . . . Orders were handed Washington hotels to fire their enemv alien waiters. S tin.. TT. WEWAND USED tk. typewrit, addlns dub. 7l ASt ... .... PETERSON UBOaZS in? as big stories as & American fishermen inXy caught only 3,286.580 sii J?? fih, or 8 per cent fc," Z year before-according to? , " less thu year before. In Red I Jin. Now busy men An get up earlv tn hmu ... . crostats which automation, J trol what time the fir. ;. .. .J n in the morning and off at 3 fan Via Baf tn 4L t . 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