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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEW. UTAH Hitler in Mental Decline? Close Observers Say Yes 1 Reliable Reports Indicate Fuehrer Subject to Uncontrolled Emotions; German Physician Believes He Will Have Mental 'Explosion.' By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Where is HitlerT That question can't be answered with any certainty at this writing and nobody seemi to care. For more than a month, the communications from the German High Command have not borne the Fuehrer's signature. signa-ture. The anniversaries of two of the great events in Nazi history have come and gone, the celebrations were held with very little display in comparison with other years and entirely without appearance cf the No. 1 Nazi himself. Hitler has made no public appearance for months. It is true that communications supposedly from the Fuehrer have been made public but always through a second party, notably the speech on the anniversary of the founding of the National Socialist party. The set excuse is that Hitler is with his troops in the Russian front But at the rate that front is moving these days, it is doubtful if he is very near it.. It is quite possible pos-sible that he is elsewhere or even nowhere but the interesting thing is that this man, who has managed to turn the world upside down, does not seem at all essential to the great political and military machine he has built up.' It may be functioning without him and this would seem to indicate that if he is not dead, but should suddenly die, it wouldn't make much difference. Some time ago, a report received from underground sources was received re-ceived in London. It said that "Hitler "Hit-ler either has been given an ultimatum ultima-tum by his generals, who pointed out his military blunders, "or he is suffering from one of his hysterical fits and is in ill health as a result of his Russian reverses." Recent Developments What about these fits? They are no fiction but well-authenticated events. Before several witnesses he has frequently burst into tears, and in other ways given vent to utterly ut-terly uncontrolled emotions. But these fits are of less importance than certain other likewise well-substantiated but not widely known developments devel-opments which have taken place within the last year or two. There are several stories which I heard from the lips of a man who has closely watched Hitler's career from its earliest beginning. The man is Fred Oechsner, a former colleague of mine. In fact, I was Berlin as correspondent for the Consolidated Con-solidated Press Just about the time Hitler was beginning bis political career. Long before anybody else took Hitler seriously, Oechsner wrote to me: "This man is some day going to be the bull in Europe's china shop." Oechsner, who is now in Washington, told me the following story which he also repeats in his excellent book, "This Is the Enemy." As you know, Hitler was always a teetotaler. He never drank anything any-thing but some very weak beer especially es-pecially brewed for him and he only took sips of this pale beverage. Recently his habits changed. "Persons who visited him at his headquarters early in the winter told me," Oechsner says, "that he was becoming grave and irritable and that it was not uncommon for him on a cold night to drink three or four glasses of grog. He also took occasional drinks of a Bavarian liquor called Enzian which is not unlike gin." Now Oechsner is an exceedingly reliable reporter and when he says the Fuehrer finished three grogs in an evening, I believe it also I believe be-lieve that a man unused to taking alcohol must have been higher than Berchtesgaden when he went to bed. Oechsner also said: 'There is a German physician of international repute who believes that some day Hitler will have a brain disturbance of a serious nature. This physician has treated Hitler since 1921 and knows his physical condition as well as his personal life. It is his opinion that Hitler is an outstanding example exam-ple of a half-trained, half-educated person with a phenomena talent for absorbing and co-ordinating information infor-mation and detail gleaned from other oth-er sources. This attention to detail and pattern, he says, is obvious in Hitler's drawings, in his speeches, his military campaigns. It is a phe BRIEFS All rural women are being asked to enroll in the national Victory Home Food Supply program. The brother of the king of Sweden. Prince Oscar Bernadotte, has resigned re-signed the chairmanship of the Swedish Young Men's Christian association. as-sociation. Reason advancing age. He has held the post for more than SO years! nomenal mental power but somt day it is going to explode." Suicide the End? Without revealing the source, 1 have heard the opinion expressed by a man who has seen and met witfc Hitler many times and is exceedingly exceeding-ly familiar with his life, that it ii quite possible that a mental decline has started which, he believes, may end in suicide. On my own score, I may say thai when I heard Hitler deliver his famous fa-mous speech at the start of the wai in 1939 in which he said that he wai going to the front and would lead Germany to victory, that he would not take oft his uniform until this had been achieved, and in the nexl breath named his successors. 1 thought he was preparing for suicide. J doubt if he is now dead. He mai not even be ill but the thing is, there has been no report of any public appearance for a long time. That, of course, is hearsay evi denceor long-distance diagnosis but what Oechsner reports comet rrom nrst-hand authority. so Hitler may already be in a padded cell and nobody seems to carei . ' :, . Fourth Term Doe$ FDR Want It? Will the President run for Fourth Term? A number of cross currents are definitely in motion, some directly moving toward an attempt to draft Mr. Roosevelt as candidate in '44; some which at present seem to be carrying him in the opposite direc tion. . One thing that many neoDle fail to realize is the fact that when the precedent against a man serving in the White House for more than two terms was broken, the first olive was out of the bottle and the chief obstacle ob-stacle to a fourth term was re- moved. As has been pointed out, the American people never before wanted want-ed a man for a third term candi date, although twice before candidates candi-dates would have made the attemnt Grant and Theodore Roosevelt When the first whispers for a cos- sible third term for Franklin Roose- velt were heard, I talked to a seasoned sea-soned political observer. He said: the President doesn't want to run again but he will be persuaded to by his friends. I make bold to state at this Juncture Junc-ture that exactly the same statement state-ment can be made today with one modification: The President doesn't want to run for a fourth term but his friends are trying to .persuade him to. I feel sure that the President does not want to run again. I do believe he passionately desires to preside at the peace table. But some of his friends have a different view. As Joseph Tumulty, secretary to President Pres-ident Wilson, once remarked about the White House: "It's a nice boarding board-ing house, you hate like the dickens to move out." Friends Demands Two things are acting in favor of persuading the President: One, this earnest and insistent demand of his "friends' who don't want "to move out" and some of whom honestly believe be-lieve that it would be for the geaeral good if the President stayed on. Their arguments are many. The second factor and the one which could elect Mr. Roosevelt for a fourth term, if he does run again, can be expressed In the well-known slogan, "Don't swap horses while crossing a stream." It is the reasoning rea-soning behind this homely expression expres-sion which, of course, provides the most persuasive argument to any President. On the other hand, if by 1944 Hitler Hit-ler has been defeated, the President might feel that he could serve even better at the peace table if he were not the head of a political party, il he were not bound by certain domestic do-mestic policies which the head ol an administration must administer with one eye on the votes in the next election. I believe that if the President felt positively that he would be allowed to play the principal role in the peace-making, even though someone else were in the White House (perhaps (per-haps a Republican), or if he fell that as President, he would be less effective as a peacemaker, he would not consider a fourth term. 4 by Baukhage One reason Russia is not sc anxious to make peace with Finland Fin-land is because 100.000 German soldiers sol-diers would be released for duty elsewhere. Twenty-two states have entered into co-operative arrangements with the Forest Service to develop a forest for-est products marketing service foi farmers. Nazi Counter Drive in Kharkov Area Wins Back Part of Russ Winter Gains; Wallace Warns of Future War Menace; Allies Tighten Ring on Rommel Armies Beleaied bjr Western Newipaper Union. - NORTH AFRICA: Rommel Rages Like a wild animal in a cage, Marshal Mar-shal Rommel had struck out at the forces hemming in his 250,000 army in Tunisia. His principal offensive had been a heavy thrust at Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth army before the strategic Mareth line in Southern Tunisia. But the wary Englishman had anticipated an-ticipated the German move and his deadly artillery fire had repelled repeated re-peated Nazi attacks with "very heavy losses." Rommel, a master of tank warfare, war-fare, had attempted to break through the British lines with his heavy mechanized equipment, but when he was forced to withdraw wrecked German tanks were strewn over the battlefield. In the north the British First army had regained the initiative and was pressing the enemy, while on the central front the American forces were moving steadily to hem the Axis in. DRAFT: Plan to Save Farmers Plans of the administration to take the pressure of the draft off the nation's shortaged pool of farm labor la-bor apparently contemplate the induction in-duction of unmarried men over 38 or those in that age group without dependents. This, at least was the interpretation of Washington observ ers concerning orders by the War Manpower commission to the selective selec-tive service to reclassify such men 1A beginning May 1. The Manpower commission's action ac-tion followed the announcement of a four-point plan for the deferment of essential farm labor. It came at a moment too, when the congressional congression-al farm bloc had launched a drive to clarify the farm labor confusion. Local draft boards were under orders or-ders hereafter to place no more men in Class 4-H and to reclassify out of 4-H into 1-A all such men now deferred de-ferred because over the military age limit. At the same time draft boards were ordered to begin reclassification re-classification immediately of all men over 38 who may become eligible eligi-ble for class 2-C or 3-C because con nected with farm work. U. S -RUSSIA : Need More Trust' , Although the storm over Ambassador-Admiral William H. Stand-ley's Stand-ley's complaint concerning Russia's failure to inform its people fully about the great extent of American aid had subsided and future lend-lease lend-lease shipments on an ever-bigger scale were assured, the need for greater mutual confidence between the two Allies continued. .This need was stressed by Vice President Henry A. Wallace in a speech which coincidentally enough was delivered at the time Stand-ley's Stand-ley's statement was made public. Mr. Wallace had stressed the fact that a third World war might result re-sult unless the western democracies and Russia reach a satisfactory understanding. un-derstanding. "War will be probable in case we doublecross Russia." Wallace said. VICE PRESIDENT WALLACE . . . beuare World War III. "Such a war would be inevitable if Russia should again embrace the Trotskyist idea of fomenting world revolution, or if British interests should again be sympathetic to anti-Russian anti-Russian activity in Germany and other countries." HIGH LIGHTS CHICAGO: With an abundance of billing and cooing, 5,605 fast-flying doves were drafted in Chicago for the army, reducing the city's peacetime peace-time pigeon population by one-sixth. The war first drafted a big group of racing pigeons from the city a year ago. These traditional symbols sym-bols of peace were reported in action ac-tion from Bataan to Britain, according ac-cording to a report received here. I wr- :i RUSSIA: Nazis Uncoil Three reasons were cited by military mili-tary observers for the initial success of the sudden German counter-offensive counter-offensive west of Rostov and south of Kharkov which in its early stages had swept forward 100 miles and resulted in the capture of eight key cities in the Donetz basin which had been taken earlier by the Soviets in their great winter drive. One reason was the use by the Nazis of 25 fresh divisions. Twelve of these had been rushed from western west-ern Europe and the others replenished replen-ished after previous action. A second sec-ond reason was the draining of troops from this southern sector by the Russians to supply momentum to their drive on Orel and Vyazma to the north. The third was the superiority su-periority of Axis supply lines and communications in the Donetz area. The serious extent of these early German successes was evident in the fact that Russian , official communiques com-muniques had admitted the loss of the cities the Germans had claimed. Russ reports disclosed that the German Ger-man move had actually started late in February. ' '' The setback in the south had not prevented the Russians from continuing con-tinuing their drive on Vyazma. Red communiques had reported the capture cap-ture of Tiomkino. ' FOOD SUPPLY: Nutrition Level Dips That the food situation in the United Unit-ed States is rapidly bringing the American people down to the Canadian Ca-nadian and British level of nutrition was the opinion voiced by Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. Mr. Wickard likewise disclosed that the amount of food available for civilians "is going to be something M v , - i mimi i mil riri imi'i 1 1 i inirir" CLAUDE WICKARD . . . more vegetables, less meat. less than it is at the present time,' in testimony before the senate ap propriations committee. Because of the increasine demand for proteins and fats includins meat, dairy products and some oil crops from our military forces and our Allies. Mr. Wickard said the American people will probably have xo live more on vegetable fats and proteins than they formerly did. "We have about reached the place now where we cannot expand our meat production any more." he said. "because we are not going to have enough of the basic element feed- to support much more increase." LABOR MANHUNT: French Fight Nazis Adolf Hitler's desperate need for manpower had caused the Nazi to put more than usual pressure on the collaborative Laval regime for more French workers. The German demand had been for 400,000 men. When Nazi soldiers sol-diers abetted by the Vichy government govern-ment set out to meet this goal, the trouble started. Street fighting guerrilla tactics and sabotage were the French Patriots' Pa-triots' answer to this effort to bolster bol-ster Germany's waning manpower resources. Reports received hv Fighting French in London indicat ed that in a single 72-hour uprising more than 350 German soldi uut been killed. Swift and cruel were the reprisals taken for this insubordination. But the repressive measures onlv nm to fan the flames of French hatred against the German conquerors. in the week's news WASHINGTON: How Lieut Chester Ches-ter W. Nimitz Jr., son of the Pa-cifie Pa-cifie admiiat won the silver star medal was disclosed in a navy report re-port The citation made public here says young Nimitz served with "cori-spicuoua "cori-spicuoua gallantry and intrepidity" as torpedo and gunnery officer and later as executive officer on two war patrols. During a third patrol near Java, he also won distinction. I V- V- w w it M I r r-m tj .1,1 1 COUNTRIES AT WAR 000 000 THI FOUOWINO STATIS HAVI SfVtREO RELATIONS WITH THI AXISi Veneivela, Colombia, Icvador, Pent, Bolivia Paraguay. Uruguay, tgypf Saudi Arabia, Chile.' The above chart shows at a glance which nations of the world have declared de-clared war against the others. Of all the United Nations only three-Britain, three-Britain, Czechoslovakia and China have declared war on the entire Axis tribe. The United States excepts ex-cepts Finland which yet may be in duced to quit the Axis. PACIFIC FRONT: Jap Power Wanes In the Far; Eastern war theater, reports from China disclosed that the main Japanese offensive in Western Yunnan province along the old Burma road had been halted on the west bank of the Salween rivef. Waning enemy . air power in the Burma-China area was indicated by Allied reports that repeated attacks by American and British fliers on Jap objectives had failed to lure any Nipponese planes into battle. On the Solomon Islands battle-front battle-front American planes roved to the northward raiding Kahili, Buin and Ballale in the Shortland Islands area and Viru Harbor in New Georgia. The Japs retaliated with a raid on Tulagi close to Guadalcanal. Summarizing the situation in the Pacific, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said that American forces are stronger than- ever before in the Solomon Islands sector while throughout the South Pacific, the Japs are having increasing difficul ty in supplying their island bases. ' Without adequate shipping, the secretary explained, the Japs cannot maintain their South Pacific bases and face further retirement ANTI-VICHY: Action in No. Africa Increasing evidence that Gen. Henri Giraud's North Africa regime will move steadily further away from Vichy influences and ever closer clos-er to the democratic methods of the United Nations was seen in the high commissioner's summary action ac-tion in repudiating all Petain decrees de-crees relating to African colonial affairs af-fairs and liquidating the entire government gov-ernment bureau concerned with restrictions re-strictions on Jews. "A decree signed in Vichy has no effect in North Africa," was Giraud's Gi-raud's terse explanation. "The German Ger-man occupation interrupted the free exercise of national sovereignty." General Giraud's action followed that of Governor General Nogues of French Morocco reinstating government govern-ment workers Hi WUIUCi Vichy s orders and repealing the ban on listening to certain foreign broadcasts. broad-casts. In repealing the Vichy anti-Semitic anti-Semitic decrees. High Commissioner Giraud ordered General Bounty, who dealt with Jewish problems, to be icuiuvea zrom office. CHINA: Destiny's Crossroads A 10-year - ywgiaui ror China, including the building of 20,000 transport planes, was proposed pro-posed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek Kai-shek in his book, "China's Destiny " While his wife. Madam, r-u; , - "... VUJCHlgv was busy winning friends for China on her visit to the United States, the Generalissimo disclosed plans calling call-ing for 2,460,000 graduates from various va-rious grades of technical schools to aid in developing postwar China. 4' iiiiiiii Sr. Imaire 00009900 U.S.A. 0 00 0 0 0 0 u.$. sr. 0 0 00 O China OOOOOOOO cih-s. OOOOOOOO j..-. O 9 O O O Belgium 0 0 0 Holland 0 0 0 Crete O O rotaneJ 0 0 Norway O Uaemavrg O Ethiopia 0 0 0 Brasll O O CeilaRUa 00 0 00 Ofca 00 0 Ocm. Rep. OOO Guatemala OOO Haiti OOO Honduras 00 0 Mexico OOO Nicaragua OOO Panama 00 0, Salvador 00 0 fi'j'WUlUIJ w Man About Town: President Roosevelt's pledge to Mme. Chiang Kai-shek (to rush full-scale full-scale aid to China) will be evident immediately after Gen. MacArthur confers with General Wavell. The cue for the finishing touches on the United Nations' offensive on Japan . . . Wendell Willkie is hob-nobbing with New Dealers in the hope that FDK may not run (which is unlikely) unlike-ly) and that a runaway Democon-vention Democon-vention may nominate an anti-FDR, anti-New Deal candidate . . . The price of 4th Term support for Roosevelt Roose-velt (by the anti-New Deal Demos) will be the Jilting of Henry A. Wallace Wal-lace as Vice President on the nat'l ticket . . Dissident Southern Demos are boosting Jimmy Byrnes and Sen. Bankhead . . . The lads in the State Dep't, who have Just been unmasked as the ones sending oil to Spain, are the same who kept sending scrap iron to Japan. General C. R. Smith (of American Ameri-can Airlines) is on the verge of becoming be-coming head man of The Ferry Command Com-mand . . . One of the newspapers is quietly checking the draft status of all known gamblers (big shots and small fry) since Washington classed them as non-essentials (something of an understatement) and ruled that all the 3As must be lAs . . . Don't be surprised if the WAACs are sent home from foreign duty. Gen. Eisenhower's biggest 'problem" . . -. Coal mining people peo-ple hear that John Lewis will succeed suc-ceed in staging a 35-hour week by April 30. Reporter Tom O'Connor, covering a speech by Capt Eddie Ricken-backer Ricken-backer at the Waldorf last week, wrote in PM: "Apparently attracted attract-ed by the success of such word-coinage as globaloney, Rickenbacker contributed the word scummunistic to the thesaurus of Luce talk" . . . Look, mister reporter: , A guy gets a little bored having his word-style called "cheap Broadwayese" In one place and in another place credited to heroes as contributions to the war effort . , ., The last' time scummunistic scum-munistic appeared in this colyum was at least two years ago.' ' Laugh of the Week in Washington: A Northern Senator hired a secre-tary secre-tary ... It is customary to engage one from the State that elected the incumbent . .", . When anyone asked this doll where she hailed from, they were convulsed when she said: "Ah cums fum Mahblehaid, Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, suh!" P.S. : She has another Job now, honeychile. ' Harper's is bringing out a Victory edition of "Sabotage," the best-seller, at half-price, to reach the widest possible public ... When a pal told the Stork Club owner, he intended calling the Joynt "Sherman's Saloon," Sa-loon," the - reply was: "Nobody ever called me Mr. Billingsley until I opened a saloon" . . . Lieuts. Nat Benchley and John McLain are wearing the latest navy campaign ribbon, showing service in the South Atlantic area . . . Shades of the Revolution: Top ' songs with the Lorgnette Set at the St Regis Maisonette Mai-sonette Room are the Chetnik Song and the Soviet Cavalry anthem. Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: "The British correspondents in the U. S" wires H. Hutchinson, chairman chair-man of their committee, 'regret that you should have given publicity to the draft-dodging slur implied by your comment in the column. I am sure you were not aware of the fact that nearly every British correspondent corre-spondent now here either came after the war began or has been home since and that all came here with authorization of appropriate military authorities. All gave pledges to return re-turn whenever called. I hope you will set the record straight for the benefit of readers and British newsmen news-men here." Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes' definition of a Liberal: "The word is hard to define; it represents an attitude, a state, of mind, rather than a specific philosophy. Liberalism is an ideal which goes under various labels. Sometimes liberals call themselves Progressives, sometimes Democrats, sometimes Republicans, sometimes Populists. It does not matter. The label is nothing the point of view is everything. But however we describe a liberal we generally recognize him by his deeds or words. A man's fundamental, funda-mental, long-range attitude towards life and the world fixes him permanently per-manently in the esteem and opinion of his fellow-men." Bob Hope's Little Linda and ber school-chum, Carol Thomas, daughter daugh-ter of film producer Bill Thomas, were being driven to school by Mrs. Hope, who still Is tittering over the little girls' repartee. "My father," said Miss Hope, "went to the studio." 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