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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEHI. UTAH Allied Food Conference Envisions World Council International Group Would Be Empowered to Oversee Production, Distribution of 'Bread And Beef to Feed Society of Nations. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. VTSV Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. Back In the summer of 1940, 1 fat in a chair under a whispering tree and looked out over a wide and bar-bered bar-bered lawn. The mountains were about us. We were resting in a nest carved out of the wilderness and equipped with all the luxuries that a pampered human could demand Lovely, Indolent women in sports dresses sat at tables under colored umbrellas. Handsome, indolent youths in blazers lolled beside them. Negro servants padded about with tall, cooling and expensive drinks. I call it a "nest" I belonged there just like a cuckoo but I enjoyed it It was all right It helped circu late the money (I was a guest at a bankers' convention). But I thought back. Six months before I had ridden rid-den in an army transport plane over shuddering Europe. I looked about and saw the easy, harmless but useless life about me, made possible by the easy harvesting of America's riches. I sighed (a little enviously) and aid to myself: "This can't last." It is a strange coincidence that today, at this very same spot, representatives repre-sentatives of the United Nations are gathering to try to write the prescription pre-scription for the third freedom-freedom freedom-freedom from want. This gathering isn't concerned with summer resorts de luxe although al-though it meets at one. It is concerned con-cerned with the proposition: We must raise the standard of living all over the globe so that the underfed can produce enough of their handiwork handi-work to exchange it for enough to eat something they Just sever had before. It is just too big for me to grasp, but what's a heaven for, asks Browning, Brown-ing, if our reach doesn't exceed our ' grasp? World Council This plan envisions an international internation-al council at the head of a system of administrative bodies among which would be an agricultural council, coun-cil, supported by an agricultural bank (all this international) which would direct groups studying and applying nutrition standards, direct ing the supply of products, storing surpluses, shifting crops to balance supply and demand, maintaining ever-normal storehouses of non-perishable crops, adjusting processing of perishable crops, developing new markets, taking care of relief in devastated or stricken areas, advising advis-ing and assisting the poorer population popula-tion groups to increase their efficiency effi-ciency and consumption. In other words, these people who have spent hours and months and devoted arduous labor to working out this idea are trying to furnish the plan for economic machinery to hold up the hands of the political effort of a league of nations, new style the bone and sinew, the bread and beef to feed a society of nations joined together under one political umbrella of world co-operation. Such an idea is laughed out of court in advance by the folk who talk of crazy dreamers, Impractical long-hairs and the like. Maybe it is impossible. But a lot of people are saying: "Well, for heaven's sake, let's try it, let's try anything nothing can cost more in blood, sweat and dollars than war." The United States proved a lot of things were possible under the sharp lash of war which would have been sneered into oblivion if they had been blueprinted before Pearl Harbor. Har-bor. Take an egg$ for example. Noth-lng Noth-lng up our sleeves. Just an egg. "Before the war," says Frank Wilson Wil-son of the department of commerce, "when Biddy, the hen, laid an egg in Cole county, Missouri, her subsequent subse-quent cackle of satisfaction was based on the anticipation that that egg might get as far as Sedalia, St Louis or, on rare occasions. New York." Then Hitler dreamed up a world war and somebody dreamed up i thing called lend-lease. Today, Biddy's Bid-dy's product goes around the world. ,Dehydration Scientists invented dehydration and the process, as far as eggs are concerned, con-cerned, is only a year and a half old. Before the war, only 10 firms dried eggs to any extent and most of those dried albumen only. Today, according accord-ing to Mr. Wilson, 130 egg-drying BRIEFS . . Victory gardeners planning to cul-, cul-, tivate plots away from their homes will be eligible for extra rations of gasoline this summer, if they can show need for extra mileage, the OPA has announced. In 1918, American war expenditures expendi-tures were only 13V4 billion dollars in 1943. they will exceed 100 billion dollars. plants, big ones, mostly scattered through the Middle West are drying eggs. Wilson predicts that before the war is over, 35 per cent of America's Amer-ica's three billion dozens of eggs will be treated for processing annually. And so the fragile egg, formerly shipped only short distances, can travel anywhere. How great the American market for dehydrated eggs will be depends on to what extent ex-tent the consumer takes to the idea, undoubtedly world consumption will increase because of the excellent lend-lease sampling and the ease of shipment You may not be able to deliver your quart of milk from the Wisconsin Wiscon-sin milk shed to the Hottentot's front porch but you can get your dried milk or dehydrated eggs there if you can adjust things so the Hottentot Hotten-tot can produce enough to trade for what you have to sell. This applies to many other products. At present if everybody could buy them, all the shirts made in peacetime wouldn't produce a shirt and a half per back. It's the old story right down the line we can invent the machinery to make anything. We are away behind be-hind in our inventions to Improve the human lot. It's no harder but it takes more imagination. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, they say. The problem prob-lem with humans is different. You've got the hungry man and the table and the food, but so far you haven't been able to fix things so you can lead him to it Rasa-Jap Friendship And American Ships On May 7, Washington had the first official explanation of the many bombings of the Jap-held Aleutian island of Kiska. It said: "United States air forces have established military positions, including an airfield air-field on Amchitka and have been in occupation of this island since January." Janu-ary." The same day, the Associated Press sent out a dispatch dated February 18 (delayed)." I might say,, "I'll say it was delayed." It began this way: "Despite a series of eight Japanese bombing raids, this American airbase, only a few minutes flight from Kiska island went into operation today." I quote all this to show what a highly confidential war we are running. run-ning. By the time this sees print-perhaps print-perhaps while Tm : writing these lines Kiska may be in American hands after a land invasion which it is admitted is the only way we can oust the enemy from this spot If the Japs have gone by the time you read this, there will be a sigh of at least partial regret in some quarters. The reason is this. As long as the Japs are on an islandlike Kiska (or Guadalcanal) more Japs have to Jry to reach them, to bring them supplies and keep them alive. And while that goes on, the Americans have a chance to keep enemy wounds open. Japs themselves are expendable. They are cheap, the sun god has a lot of them and he's generous in spending them. But he hasn't so many ships or so many supplies. So killing Japs doesn't bother the Mikado nearly as much as sinking his ships. That is one reason the upturning of the last Jap toes on any of their stolen, far-flung bases will be a source of at least partial regret There is another reason. Day in and day out from Vancouver and Seattle, secret ships, loaded with supplies for our Russian ally have been calmly sailing away past the Jap-held Kiska and Attu, under the Japanese guns in the narrow waters that lead to Vladivostok. Now that was a little matter approved ap-proved by Russia and Japan who hate and fear each other privately but officially are "friendly nations." The question arises now: When and if we trounce the little men out of the stronghold they have dug with their fingernails in the rocky Attu and Kiska, will they be as willing to let us keep on shipping supplies to Russia? Perhaps it doesn't matter. By that time, which may be now, the situation may have changed. The interesting thing is that the situation does change and thanks to the censorship, cen-sorship, nobody knows it until the knowledge ceases to be aid and comfort com-fort to the enemy. But it's tough on a newsman. . by Baukhage A German seamstress was sentenced sen-tenced to six months imprisonment when she answered an advertisement advertise-ment and demanded her pay in eggs and dairy products instead of money, according to a Nazi press report received re-ceived by the Office of War Information. Informa-tion. When the girl was refused, the report said, she left saying that she had enough customers who would comply with such demands. j WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U. S. Invasion of Attu Is Second Step In Drive to Oust Japs From Aleutians; Discount Rumors of Nazi -Italian Rift As Allies Plan Heavy Knockout Blows (EDITOR'S NOTE I When (pinion art iprMMd In thew "' .M.'-YMDrnMr!) Wtiura Ntwippr Union's nowt niy nnd not eerllr ! bow.pf.f Released by Weitern ' ''l i ,Mli.lniilili3s.,i..i;'.( Pictured are members of the delegation of the United States to the rrnioj Natinn onnforfnre on food and agriculture at Hot Springs, Va. Left to right, seated: Murray D. Lincoln, executive secretary of the nn- vrn, riimhh Fofferatlon: Miss Josenhise Schain: Judge Marvin Jones, conference chairman. Standing: Paul H. Appleby, undersecre tary of agriculture; W. L. Clayton, Thomas Parran, M.D., surgeon general, v. s. ruDiic ueaun oervi ATTU: Second Step in Aleutians Firmly established on Attu, westernmost west-ernmost of the Aleutian islands in Japanese hands, strong American forces pushed forward against bitter bit-ter opposition by the enemy. First to admit the American land-tecs, land-tecs, the JaDS also were first to con fess that heavy U. S. aerial and naval bombardments provided an irresistible irresist-ible cover for a continuing stream of reinforcements. r , Presaeine their defeat on Attu, the Japs made much of the claim that their troops were fighting numerical ly superior forces. In Washington. Col. R. Ernest Du- puy declared that the attack on Attu was the second step in the drive to oust the Japs from the Aleutians. The first, he said, was the American occupation of Amchitka and Adak to establish basea from which to strike not only Attu but also Kiska, 172 miles to the east FOOD CONFERENCE: Post-War Agriculture ". Reconstruction of agriculture in Europe after the war was the principal prin-cipal subject of discussion among the representatives attending the United Nations food conference in Hot Springs, Va. i According to Marvin H. Jones, chairman of the parley and head of the U. S. delegation, conferees are chiefly concerned with getting the farmlands of reclaimed countries coun-tries back into production. Problems connected with such an effort, such as adequate distribution distribu-tion of supplies and materials, and the planning for the production of crops which would furnish local populations pop-ulations with nutritional diets, were brought into study. The conference, in the nature of a discussion, brings no binding agreements among the nations, Jones said. Representatives will present conclusions of the conference confer-ence to their respective governments govern-ments for further action. ITALY: No Setup After a sudden welter of rumor, it appeared as though the Allies would have to take Italy the hard way. The Italians and Nazis gave no sign of handing it over on a silver platter. King Victor Emmanuel answered wild rumors originated by the Free French that he was about to abdicate abdi-cate by appearing at an art exhibition exhibi-tion in Rome to receive. the applause ap-plause of his subjects. Talk fiat Hitler was preparing to abandon Italy to its fate and draw all Nazi forces into the Brenner pass were immediately counteracted by plentiful assurances in the German press that Der Fuehrer had no such idea. Allied airmen apparently were the first to take these rumors with a grain of salt. Even as the abdication abdica-tion talk, etc., intrigued the arm chair strategists, bombers were plastering the seaplane base of Lido di Roma, 15 miles from the Italian capital. Hangars, moorings and planes were the targets. Rome admitted damage in the vicinity, but claimed Axis planes had bombed Algerian harbors "with good results." HIGHLIGHTS CASUALTIES: British losses In the Middle East and Africa have totaled 220,000 since Italy entered the war. GOOD REASON: Love-sickness was accepted as a reason for allowing allow-ing an essential woman employee to leave her Job in the States and take another in Pearl Harbor beside her sweetheart Newspaper Union. assistant secretary oi commerce, RECIPROCAL TRADE: Renewal Fought Renewal of President Roosevelt's authority to negotiate reciprocal trade treaties with foreign countries was the subject of heated debate in congress, with successful efforts to limit the life of the President's pow. er to two years. Claimed as a great contribution to stable international relations by its advocates, and opposed as a dan gerous threat to our tariff system by its foes, the Reciprocal Trade act passed through the house only after fierce debate and a two-year limita tion on its existence. Inspired by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, administration forces contended that renewal of the act now was necessary to assure the world that we were prepared to participate par-ticipate in the revival of international interna-tional commerce and stabilize employment em-ployment and marketing in other countries. Foes of the act said it had failed to avert war since its creation in 1934. They tried to limit its opera. tions by offering amendments which would allow congress to review treaties; permit domestic producers to testify against provisions of any treaty, and prevent the importation of products when they sold for less than the American cost of production- WHEAT: May Increase Acreage With some officials claiming current cur-rent consumption of wheat will run 500 million bushels over the 1943 crop of 690,000,000 bushels, the War Food administration has been debating de-bating about the possibility of increasing in-creasing acreage allotment next year by 20 or 25 per cent. If the WFA has hesitated in deciding de-ciding on an increase, it has been for fear that production of other important im-portant staples like corn, flaxseed, soybeans and peas would drop. The problem centers around boosting wheat output without sacrificing other oth-er yields. This year, 55 million acres of wheat were seeded, and intended increases in-creases would add 11 million acres. At a normal yield of 12 bushels to the acre, the WFA estimates the extra plantings would produce a crop of 792 million bushels. HOSPITAL SHIP: Sunk by Japs With its red, cross sign brightly lighted and the whole vessel fully illuminated, the Australian hospital ship Centaur was silently plying through placid waters to New Guinea. Suddenly a terrific explosion shook the ship, and in a moment, it was wrapped in raging orange flames. As many of the vessel's complement of 363 fought to escape the burning hulk, the ship went down, only 64 surviving. Cause of the sinking: a Japanese torpedo. Even as some of the survivors sur-vivors clung shakily to a raft, they could see the ' submarine's lights flickering over the dark sea. said Gen. Douglas MacArthur: "I cannot express the revulsion I feel at this unnecessary act of cruelty . . . The Red Cross will not falter under this foul blow. Its light of mercy will but shine the brighter on our way to eventual victory." in the week's nexct OPA: President Roosevelt has asked for an appropriation of $177 . 000.000 to operate the Office of Price Administration during the fiscal year 1944. BOOKS: Some 35 million pocket-size pocket-size editions of popular books will be published on order for the army, navy and aaarine corps for service men. KUML PLAN: In Again, Out Again Passed by the senate, the Ruml plan was rejected by the house for the third time, in the wake of an open letter from President Roosevelt Roose-velt indicating he would veto such a bilL As a result of the action, some form of pay-as-you-go legislation was put squarely up to a conference confer-ence committee of the house and senate. The committee had two bills as a basis on which to map pay-as-you-go. One was the senate measure modeled .after the Ruml plan, forgiving for-giving all of either the 1942 or 1943 income tax, whichever is lower, and only assessing Incomes in excess of normal. The other. was the house bill, only wiping out the regular 6 per cent tax plus the first surtax rate of 13 per cent on 1942 income. In both cases, a 20 per cent withholding with-holding tax would be taken out of all weekly or monthly wages after deductions de-ductions of lawful exemptions to apply ap-ply on the 1943 tax. Farmers and professional people would pay on their estimated tax in quarterly installments, in-stallments, making a final settlement settle-ment on March 15 of the following year. , PRODUCTION: On Schedule "On all important categories in the President's (war production) program we are up to and ahead of schedule." With these words, War Production Board Chairman Donald Nelson described de-scribed the nation's booming industrial indus-trial effort. Only in the matter of airplanes did he speak with reservation, reserva-tion, declaring the situation was one with emphasis now placed on quality rather man quantity. Changing needs of the services may necessitate some alterations in production plans, Nelson said, echoing echo-ing reports that revised schedules have slowed the tempo of some plants while increasing it in others. Tank production has been chopped. Nelson revealed, since Great Britain and Russia have reduced their estimates esti-mates of their needs. GERMANY:; Ruhr Flooded Flying at an altitude of 100 feet, four - engined British Lancasters dropped heavy mines in the huge reservoirs of the Eder and Mohne dams in northwestern Germany. Then British airmen watched the mines swirl into the dams' sluices, explode and break open big breaches through which the pent-up waters roared to deluge the Ruhr and Wes-ser Wes-ser valleys below. Hydro-electric stations throughout the area were crippled by the rising flood waters; traffic on the vital Mit-tleland Mit-tleland canal, which unites all of Germany's river transportation, was disrupted, and the important industrial indus-trial city of Kassel and others beyond be-yond were inundated. Reports reaching Switzerland said at least 4,000 people had been killed and 120,000 made homeless by the torrents. The German high command com-mand admitted property damage and casualties "were very high as walls of water rushed through populated pop-ulated .districts." Visitor m Dr. Eduard Benes, president of the Czechoslovakiao eovernment-in- exile, is shown as he conferred with President Roosevelt during an ' in formal visit at the White House. U.S. CASUALTIES: 80,000 Lost In 17 months of warfare. U. S. losses have approximated 80,000 men. Army casualties include 6.078 killed; 12,277 wounded; 24,345 missing, miss-ing, and 12,244 reported prisoners. Of the wounded, 4,000 have returned to duty or been discharged from hos- pitalization. The major losses in prisoners- or missing were suffered in the Philippines. . In the navy, 7,218 have been killed, 4,683 wounded, and 12,061 missing. Since September, 1941, the merchant marine has reported 4,555 casualties. , COAL TRUCE: Still Friends Continuing to act in unison. Secretary Secre-tary of the Interior Harold Ickes and United Mine Workers chief John Lewis arranged for a 15-day truce in the tangled mine situation. Once before, the two had agreed to a 15-day breathing spell, as 465,000 bituminous and anthracite miners were preparing to stay away from the pits. Miners were lining up behind be-hind Lewis again to strike when extension ex-tension of the truce was announced. 35? r - - i L - ff L IUHD DREW SON Washington, D. C. SUBMARINE ANTIDOTE A history making event took place recently in the long war against the submarine. Official tests were made of the helicopter, which, despite opposition op-position of the navy, has been urged by officials of the army and War Shipping administration for antisubmarine anti-submarine patrol. Within a few hours after the publication pub-lication of a Merry-Go-Round story on this subject a group of officials from Washington, including highly interested and highly placed officials of the British admiralty, British shipping ship-ping mission, and the RAF, stood in amazement on the deck of a tanker offshore while a little airplane with a crazy rotary wing on top landed and took off from a deck space not more than twice the size of the plane itself. It was a Sikorsky helicopter, piloted pilot-ed by a boyish colonel who reminded remind-ed everybody of Charles Lindbergh in his younger days H. F. Gregory, from Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, who knows more about helicopters than anybody else in the air force. Gregory made 24 landings on the tanker during the 'two days of trials. He operated under all conceivable conditions when the tanker was riding rid-ing at anchor, when she was running run-ning at 15 knots, when she was headed into the wind, and when she was running with the wind. The War Shipping administration, which supplied the tanker, had offered of-fered to remove the mast to provide a safer landing space. But inventor inven-tor Sikorsky scorned that as "too easy." Accordingly, his plane was set down by Colonel Gregory in the space between the mast and the deck house, with only a 14-foot clearance clear-ance on either side. Far-Seelng 'Eyes.' To the British and American shipping ship-ping experts whose ships are going to the bottom every day, the significance sig-nificance of this feat was inescapable. inescap-able. They firmly believe the helicopter heli-copter can be used to supplement the escort vessels for the greater protection of merchant ships, in convoy. con-voy. It is too light to carry much striking strik-ing power of its own, except a few rockets, but it can fly out ahead of the convoy, hover over the sea, spot the wolf pack, and report by radio to the escort vessels. This saves movement of the escort vessels, which in present practice have to maneuver constantly around the merchant ships, with heavy consumption con-sumption of fuel oiL Moreover, the helicopter, without firing a shot, brings alarm to the prowling submarine and causes the U-boat to dive. Earlier acceptance of the helicopter helicop-ter was prevented by the navy's bureau bu-reau of aeronautics, which contends that the machine is defenseless against the guns of a submarine. The defenders reply that the plane can dart about so crazily that it is too evasive to be easily hit Moreover, More-over, helicopters can be built for $15,000 each, and the loss of a few would not be serious, compared with the loss of escort vessels. " In any case, the matter has gone beyond the stage of argument The War Shipping administration is determined to have helicopters, and if the navy won't come along, WSA will make a deal with the coast guard to train pilots, and another deal with the war department to place the planes on its ships. ' ARMY AND COAL MINES John L. Lewis would have got the surprise of his life if he could have had a dictaphone recording of the conversation of Secretary of War Stimson and Gen. B. B. Somervell regarding the use of troops in taking over the coal mines. Lewis had expressed public apprehension ap-prehension that the army had a plan to seize the coal mines in case of a strike. Undoubtedly subordinate army officers did have such a plan in mind. , But when Secretary Stimson sat down with Secretary Ickes, plus General Somervell and other army officers, the army expressed vigorous vigor-ous opinions to the contrary. General Gen-eral Somervell, accused by some of wanting the army to take over all civilian activities, made this re mark: h "The last thing we want it an is sue of the army against the people." Secretary Stimson also expressed relief that Secretary Ickes, known as a staunch defender of civil liberty, lib-erty, had been selected by the President Presi-dent to handle the coal crisis. He offeredjekes every co-operation but expressed the hope that he would not have to use troops. . CAPITOL CHAFF C Freshman Representative Charles La Follette is the only Republican congressman who supported the President's foreign policies in the last campaign. La Follette also has a liberal labor record. C Radio Operator R. W. Dunn, who first received the coded message of an armistice November 11, 1918, is eager to serve again. He has enrolled en-rolled as a junior radio operator in Pan American Airways Seattle ; school, preparing for Alaska service. serv-ice. 1 i:i reopU You Kt... 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His words to "Brad' yuuubiiers sneives for ovef vear thev mniM ... u, 1 -V vwwau v DCC 11! I latest lyric is heard at the Vem where they feature the song, w Blue" . . . His npwoct ing the Hit Parade last week i3 Around Much Anymore." TUcn there's Bea Wain, ii " w" v uccua ttu ifluOQUCl to people who buy recording! i have a radio y . . Bea epeud the Riobamba ' last night-sw ing Frank Sinatra, whose did i town talk recently . . . Ba J oofly nervous, mister . :. I only was she taking over fat i vacated by a crowd-puller, bmi her night club debut too . . .H ous, it seems, because she afraid she wouldn't be goodosJ . . . Good enough? . . . She's m ly been featured on the Hit P;: and Maeic Key croerami toe recording of "Deep Purple" ij 2,500,000 copies! - The Magazines: The Satevepcl vivid pictures about the Bitf Sevastopol chains your eyes fc pages . . . Look points out that civilization that was saved withblf will have to be reconditioned brains . . . Ruth Mitchell's stoH her life, via American Magaziml a fine reoortins iob . . . The noa nlmiit tho Jans hpine InCSMblf fear is such a phony it might hf Koon hnrn nn RrnadwaY. VA Harris, who spent 40 years w them, offers some lowdown v Japs' alleged courage in Harp . . . This Week Includes i pj about city gals on the farms sj "Thii Farmer's .SterDaugn sounds like the bluest of the 4 dotes after the Hays censon w dered it It was our world . . . wd n today. Pour then the wine and tfs candles down, We were the fools who WW urn no And dumbly played the dm and clown . . Can for the fiddler lazy waltz , Speak of the fragile beautj has flown, . It is too late to lance us We musTgo on unheraldei alone. There in the dust of old, We sold the precious henW For rSd wine and ThafTtole the theme and of our plan . Itwour -!'' 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