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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEIH, UTAH f U jp-l ,Yr j Labor Draff FDR's Bid For Support of Veterans Legislation Would Signify Full Backing of War Effort; See Servicemen as Powerful Political Group. By BAUKJIAGE AW'i Analyst and Commentator, -WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Hitler Calls for Finish Fight As Russian Drive Perils Berlin; FarmM achine Pinch to Persist Released bv Western NwmoM TTntnm (EDITOR'S NOTE: When oplnlene ar expressed In these eolumne, they re these f Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ef tbis newspaper.; WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. "If the President really intends to crack down and jam this national service bill through congress one thing is certain he doesn't Intend to run for a fifth term." That statement made by seasoned sea-soned old-timer who is a very good political weather prophet started me off on a Journey of exploration which disclosed a number of interesting inter-esting observations concerning the President's plans for the next four fears which can be reduced to four main points: 1. Whether or not the President believes he owes a debt to labor for the activities of the CIO Political Action committee In the last election, elec-tion, he doesn't Intend to pay such a debt 2. He has found a "better 'ole," and he intends to make use of it If he can, namely, another much more Important pressure . group which will probably be getting up steam long before the next election, but 3. Mr. Roosevelt is not Interested In the next presidential election for himself, because 4. He has much larger fish to fry before and after 1948, and something's some-thing's cooking right now. How can the President afford to overlook the support of labor (point 1) and hunt a "better "ole" (point 2)? ' Because the most powerful pressure pres-sure group the country has ever known is now in the making, the veterans of World War IL Election Indicates Vets' Influence , It is still too early for the men and women In the military service to wield much direct political power, but Judging from the vote cast in the last election and the efforts made both to prevent and to obtain it the predischarge importance of veterans veter-ans cannot be entirely overlooked. Already, there are a number of very clear signs of the stirring of tremendous potentialities of the veteran vet-eran in the postwar political world. At present, three hundred thousand have already Joined the American Legion. We are not allowed, because be-cause of security reasons, to print the number of men already discharged, dis-charged, but as of some five months ago it was a million and a half. The Legion does not take any but those with honorable discharges and that would mean that World War II dischargees dis-chargees are Joining up at about the same rate that World War I veterans vet-erans became legionnaires. The Legion has nearly a million and a half dues-paying members out of the three-million who served In the last war. If the same propor-tions propor-tions were maintained we can envision envi-sion a future veterans' organization (either the Legion or a hew group) numbering at least five million persons. And that calculation is based on the armed forces as of today. to-day. By the time the war is over the number of those who will have served will be much greater. That is looking at the potential strength of the World War n veteran vet-eran pressure solely in terms of numbers. Another highly Important factor must be considered. There is much evidence Indicating that the present day fighting man is much more politically conscious than we were in 1817 and '18. This is seen to the discussion ("orientation") groups which are carried on by the army and navy all over the world, by the tremendous amount of news which reaches the "troops even in remote corners of the world, by their constant call for more, and by their very emphatic and continued gTipes about how the civilian front is being run. I have talked with one of the editors edi-tors of the present Stars and Stripes, with the head of the legislative division divi-sion of the American Legion and with a member of the Veterans Administration Ad-ministration who keeps to close touch with current veteran affairs. All agreed emphatically to the thesis that the men and women in the fighting forces will come back with a keen interest in bow the country coun-try is to be run and with a firm Intention of seeing that they are going go-ing to have their say in the running. This feeling is paralleled by the demands de-mands In every liberated country by the people who carried on the resistance against the enemy, who in every case demand strong representation repre-sentation in the new governments. Vets Demand All-Out Effort We can see that any man with his eye on the political future will have to woo the veteraa And that brings us back to the National Service bill. Now one of the chief gripes of the serviceman is the fact that he is drafted to fight where and when he Is told but the men who work in the war plants do not have to take orders or-ders from anybody. The sorest spot on the G.I.'s soul is the strike of the miners last year. Na'turally, he thinks a labor draft law should be passed. That is the kind of news the President Presi-dent wants to get out. That is one of the reasons why he wants a national na-tional service bill passed. He knows Its importance to the morale of the fighting men as well as to the production pro-duction of supplies. That is why he is willing to risk the anger of labor pressure against the measure. He knows that the morale of those boys now will, affect their attitude toward the government when they return and their confidence in the leaders of the country. But where, then, does point 3 (Mr. Roosevelt is not interested in the next presidential election) come in? The answer Is in the "Bigger fish" he has to fry (point 4). When an American reaches the presidency it is usually considered that he has hit the ceiling and from there on there is no place to go but down. True, the United States is pretty big outfit to boss, but what about the United Nations? Bigger. Whether or not the United States puts its weight behind a United Nations Na-tions organization to prevent future wars will depend on the verdict of the men who know more about war than anybody else in the world, the men who are fighting this one. And anyone who champions this undertaking, whether he is finally chosen as its leader, or whether he merely goes down in history as the man who made it possible, he will have to have the confidence and the support of the veterans, whose opinions opin-ions on the subject will receive general gen-eral acknowledgement, it is conceded, con-ceded, i . Incidentally, another Roosevelt figured in one of the most ambitious efforts at international organization for the preservation of peace, "Teddy" "Ted-dy" having prompted Czar Nicholas II of Russia to call the second Hague Peace Conference of 1907. Here is a little human interest story that will interest you if you have a boy in the service or if you are a psychiatrist. My friend joined me in the club. He was obviously feeling very proud and happy about something. He told me he had just had a telephone call from his boy who was training to be a paratrooper. It is something to be allowed to take the training all are volunteers. It is a lot more to make good. , Well, the boy had made his first Jump from a plane. It .was, he had phoned his father. Just like riding on a roller-coaster. The real hard Jumps, he said, were the first at about 35 feet from a tower with a cable attachment. And the fifth jump from the plane. That is the one that ends a lot of careers. Some of the toughest-fibered boys can't make that one, even if they have gone through those preceding, including in-cluding the first tower jump. Then they are "washed up" as the saying say-ing goes, and they disappear. But a lot disappear after the first jump. Men who have come back with medals for bravery in action sometimes stand there, the tears streaming down their cheeks because be-cause they just can't dive off into nothing. But my friend's boy said it was like a roller-coaster. And as the father sat there you could see that that meant a lot to him and at last he revealed why. "1 couldn't help remembering," he said, "when the boy was about five and his older brother had just climbed up on a chair and Jumped off. He got up on the chair but he Just couldn't make the Jump . . . now he's done it." BARBS by Baukhage The Italian Boy Scouts had their first rally in 20 years. What a lot those kids will have to unlearn. Just what would a good deed be, Fascist style? It was recently reported that Fala, the famous White House aberdeen pup, was to have a "wedding." Query: Is another marriage la the Roosevelt family news? Eggs are reported $46 apiece in Jap-occupied Shanghai. However, shells are much more plentiful in Tokyo, 'tis averred. If it weren't for the OPA, evc-n the, Pullman berth-rate would increase. You couldn't make an honest dollarif dol-larif it were really honest I 1 - v Carrying on winter drive over snow-clad western front, U. S. troops haul supplies to battle lines on sleds, then remove wounded on them, Sleds are made by service forces. EUROPE: ! Berlin Imperilled Ironing out the huge bulges formed in the early stages of their breakthrough, and drawing up their forces into an almost solid front, the Russians poised for their next great offensive thrust against Germany Ger-many while Adolf Hitler called upon his people to ". . . fight on no matter mat-ter where and no matter under what circumstances. . . ." In a voice at once calm and then almost hysterical, the Fuehrer said: ". . . I expect every German to do his duty to the last Every fit man must stake his life and body. The sick and infirm and otherwise dispensable dis-pensable must work to the last ounce of their strength . . ." It was on the road directly to Berlin that the Russian drive gained its greatest intensity, with Marshal Zhukov's 1st White Russian army not only menacing the capital fron-tally, fron-tally, but also threatening to swing to the north to cut it off from its ports of Stettin and encircle it from the rear. Meanwhile, Marshal Konev's 1st Ukranian army swept northward along the Oder from Silesia and threatened to pocket Berlin from the south. Konev shifted the weight of his attack after bitter German resistance re-sistance slowed his drive across the Oder into Silesia, the "Little Ruhr" of the Reich, much of whose resources re-sources already had fallen to the Reds. Yanks Plough Ahed With the Nazis' once formidable bulge ironed out, U. S. armies were threatening Reich territory again on a long front while farther to the south, mixed French and American Ameri-can units reduced the enemy's pocket below Strasbourg in Alsace. As U. S. troops plodded through waist-high snow to push back into the Reich from Belgium and Luxembourg, Lux-embourg, the Nazis retreated to the Siegfried line to resist any major attack. The persistence of the U. S. attacks, despite the bitter winter weather, indicated an Allied determination deter-mination to obtain the most favorable favor-able positions for the next large-scale large-scale offensive and give the limited Gerrhan forces no rest In Alsace, the focal point of the fighting switched from the Palatinate Palat-inate border region to the German pocket south of Strasbourg, where the Nazis have maintained a foothold foot-hold ever since their general evacu ation of France. In resisting south of Strasbourg, the enemy made good use of the many interlocking canals in the district to put up a defensive stand. Momentous Meeting To Confidant Harry Hopkins went the task of sizing up the European political situation for Chief Franklin D. Roosevelt preparatory prepara-tory to the momentous momen-tous "Big Three" conference, which was expected to result re-sult in the drafting of more specific surrender sur-render terms to the tottering Reich. Long the Presi dent's closest ad- H6ki" viser, Lank Harry made the rounds of Europe's western capitals, conferring confer-ring at length with Prime Minister Churchill in London and General de Gaulle in Paris, and then reportedly reported-ly scheduled to talk with the pope In the Vatican before flying on to Moscow. In the forthcoming conference of the Big Three, indications pointed to formal agreement of Poland's an- WAR FARE Despite the expansion of military food needs and large shipments to the Allies, U. S. and Canadian food supplies for civilians in 1944 were maintained or increased as compared com-pared with 1943. Food supplies for civilians in the United Kingdom also showed some improvement over 1943, but continued below the United Kingdom prewar level for many foods and below 1944 levels in the U. S. and Canada for dairy products, prod-ucts, meat eggs, sugars, and fruit Snt 'jwumm, HSdfl nexation of East Prussia and the Polish Corridor in compensation for other territory taken over by Russia; Rus-sia; French annexation of German land west of the Rhine, and adminiS' tration of the industrial Ruhr valley by an international commission. PACIFIC: Continue March , Cheered on by the huzzah of na tlves clustered in liberated villages, General MacArthur continued his march on Manila, with the Japanese still offering their stiffest resistance on his left flank far to the northeast, In driving to Manila, General Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur executed another brilliant landing operation, this time putting troops ashore above Subic bay to the west of his advancing columns. As a result of the maneuver, Yanks were in a position to cut off the retreat of any Japs to Bataan to the south; squeeze any forces between them and the main U. S. column, and dear Subic bay for U. S. shipping to furnish a shorter supply route than from LIngayen Gulf on the north. In continuing to put up their stiffest stiff-est resistance far to the northeast of General MacArthur's advance columns, col-umns, the Japs clung stubbornly to ridge positions, while other units sought to relieve pressure against their lines with tank-led attacks. FARM MACHINERY: To Remain Tight Although nearly , equalling the peak prewar output, production of farm machinery for the year ending July 1 will fall short of operators' demands, the Office of War Infor-ation Infor-ation reported, what with the heavy strain on existing equipment and the critical manpower problem. Quotas on the $697,000,001 worth of machinery, parts and attachments generally will be met, OWI predicted, although manufacturers are experiencing labor shortages and difficulties obtaining component parts, such as malleable castings and lumber. lum-ber. Of the total output, U. S. farmers will obtain 90 per cent, with 7 per cent being available for export and 3 per cent for lend-lease. Declaring that essential demands will not be met, the OWI said: "No more new tractors, side delivery rakes, combines or other haying or harvesting machinery will be available avail-able during the 1945 crop year than . . . during the 1944 crop year." WARTIME SEIZURES: Defined by Court In a decision defining civilian rights in wartime a decision ths government promptly appealed to a higher court Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan ruled that President Roosevelt lacked the authority to seize Montgomery Ward properties. proper-ties. Slowly, clearly reading his decision. deci-sion. Judge Sullivan averred that the Constitution permitted seizure of civilian property only in areas in the immediate fighting zones, and that the war labor disputes act allowed al-lowed seizure only of plants engaged in actual production of war material. materi-al. Insofar as the properties were not in the war zones, and they are not manufacturing war material, they were not liable to seizure under either authority. Judge Sullivan decreed. de-creed. Further, Judge Sullivan said, only congress by the framing of constitutional constitu-tional laws, and not an independent agency like the War Labor board, has the authority to compel either party to a labor dispute to accept its decisions. CATTLE CEILINGS: Purposes Cited with ihm Imnnsltlon of nrice ceil ings on live cattle. OPA looked to the relief of wholesalers and retailers previously forced to buy stock above their own regulated sales prices and bid against black market operators. ronsumers. too. would benefit from the new order, OPA said, de claring that the live ceilings, coupled with tighter restrictions on meat rationing, "should give great er assurance to each housewiie tnat she will receive her fair share of all grades of beef, including the top grades, at fair prices." From $18.60 at the Spokane mar keting center, the top cattle ceilings ceil-ings range to $17.25 for all of Texas save Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Fl Paso and San Antonio. Tops for other marketing centers include $18 for Chicago; $17.90 for Milwaukee and Cudahv. Wis.. National Stock yards. HL, and St. Louis; $17.70 for St Paul; $17.65 for Kansas City, Omaha, Sioux City and St Joseph; $17.55 for Sioux Falls and $17.35 for Indianapolis and the five cities in Texas previously mentioned. RAIL TIEUP: Coal Shortage Because of the recent railroad tie-up tie-up in the Northeast resulting from severe snowstorms, the government clamped down on coal usage in tin area until rolling stock once again could bring in supplies. Although directed to 17 eastern and middlewestern states, the government's gov-ernment's order was expected to 'apply only to those areas where dealers reserves were low, with deliveries de-liveries limited to places with less than five days' supply, and curtailments curtail-ments on the heating of recreational and educational institutions. As an indication of the severity of the weather in the Northeast which so tied up traffic that only essential war freight was moved, rail cars were frozen clear up to their bodies in many terminals, with pneumatic picks, hammers and shovels needed to free them. POLITICAL BOSS: Pender gast Dies With the death of big, ruddy-faced Thomas J. (Tom) Pendergast at 72 in a Kansas City, mo., hospital, an- (a oiner oi me coun-sj coun-sj try's tough, old-line political leaders passed from the picture. Learning the rudl ments of politics in the back room ol Brother "Jim" Pen- dergast's saloon in Kansas City, Big Tom took over the Democratic organization's river ward upon his death, and, by pursuing pur-suing the policy of getting jobs for his workers, gained control of Kansas Kans-as City's and Missouri's politics, his most notable achievement being the elevation of the present Vice Pres. Harry Truman to senator, Too powerful for its own good. Pendergast's machine became the object of heated reformist attacks, with the federal government moving in in 1938 to convict dozens of his stalwarts, and then reaching out to jail him for evasion of income tax on $315,000, received for settling an Insurance rate case. He served year and a day before being placed on probation on the condl tion he would not participate In poli tics for five years. A racing enthusl ast. Big Tom was known to have bet $2,000,000 on the bang-tails in 1935, losing $600,000. l M1Jj.NUS.l.Mll 1 Nofej of an Innocent Bystander: The Badioaf s : Fred Allen shelved his regular once-a-week program because be-cause the rigorous routine taxed his health. But during one week Allen guestarred on three different shows -and improved them all ... The new Danny Kaye program l! i bound to click. He rates a tip of the hat for avoiding the gag files and for trying a unique brand of microhm .uu '.tuff . . Hennv Young- WUi UU6" - man's gagging Is funnier than it has ever seemed Deiore . . . . m mission rates atten- uu w - . tion. A welcome relief from the usual afternoonsense. . . . Radio stations sta-tions may be forced to suspend the round-the-clock (all night) recorded programs-if skilled technicians are drafted, it wouia save say Gov't execs, for both stations and tuner-inners. Th. Magazines: Mr. Justice James F. Byrnes has turned oat an Incisive blueprint via American Magazine, which should serve as an excellent guide for taking Congressional Congres-sional Drocedure out of its covered- wagon rut and converting it into a legislative streamliner, lnis arucie is a model of constructive criticism. . . . Harper's contains a plague-by- plague report of the Argentinazi malady. ... In Vogue, Harriet Van Home takes apart radio listening gullibles who write letters of condo lence when a character in a soap oDera dies. Difficult to believe that people with their mentality can write. . . . W. Davenports ine President and the Press" in Collier's is a must for editorialists, too. . . . The Page 121 cartoon in Esquire shows two penguins looking at a deserted de-serted shack marked "Byrd," with one saying: "Wonder whatever hap pened to him?" . . . FDR decorated him last weekl Lots of Pay, But - There art at least 31 different kinds of pay you can get but 42 or more different kinds of deductions. Kinds of pay making up the workers' work-ers' wages include pay for swing shift differential, advance daywork, seven-day bonus, night bonus, individual indi-vidual and group incentives, inventory inven-tory work, vacation pay. Saturday overtime, and many others. Deductions Deduc-tions include social security taxes, war bonds and withholding taxes. Tom Pendergast POSTWAR FUNDS: Jockey for Control The bitter jockeying for control of the multi-bilhon dollar resources of the Reconstruction Finance corpora tion in the postwar period took t spectacular turn with the senate'i commerce committee advlsino against the appointment of Henry wauace as secretary of commerce but capital , circles intimating that he'd be speedily o.k.'d if the RFC were taken from the department and set up in an independent agency To provide for just such action. the commerce committee previously naa approved a Dill calling for the Kitrs separation from the depart ment with Senator Georee ir.a who sponsored the measure, declar ing that congress should exercise its control over the RFC's vast nM. tions instead of leaving them under executive discretion. Congressional unwillingness to entrust en-trust the RFC's resources to Wallace Wal-lace stemmed .from apprehension lest he might make .use of them on government projects to provide employment em-ployment in the postwar period. Exemplifying Ex-emplifying this apprehension, senate commerce committee Chairman Bailey said: ". . . He (Wallace) is for deficit financing to the nth degree. de-gree. That may be all right as a temporary expedient but not as a perpetual government policy. . . , BRIEFS... The original stockpile f 700 -000 electric refrigerators frozen In Febrnary. 1942, had been reduced re-duced te 48.000 at the end or November, No-vember, 1944. Hospitals an military agencies obtained them Christmas shopping in the department depart-ment stores of the United Stales in December was at the highest level on record, with the value of sales 23 per cent larger than in the corresponding corre-sponding month of 1943. Midtown Favorite: This one will amaze his pals not that Frank Far-rell Far-rell would run from a fight, but none of us ever saw him in one. ... He is better described as a mild guy. . . . Slim, good-looking and we all like him very much, ... A Life artist (who drew a picture of Far-rell Far-rell in action last year) told this story last night. . . . Frank was posing pos-ing for the artist, nonchalantly (with a gun over his knees), in one of the South Pacific islands. . . . Suddenly Frank (Cap't pod'n me, sir) Farrell of the Marines looked up and said: "Look at that over there!" ... The artist looked across to the other side of the atoll and saw nothing but jungle. . . , But Frank had spotted a camouflaged Jap. . . . And fired four times in rapid succession. . . Later when Frank and the artist walked over they found four very dead Japs there . . . Pretty good shooting for an ex-Night Club editor. The Intelligentsia: Walter Davenport, Daven-port, associate ed. of Collier's, is fly-ing fly-ing with the Air Transport Command in the Pacific for a 6 weeks tour. . . . Paul Hunter, publisher of Liberty, Lib-erty, says Marshall Field was interested inter-ested "about a year and a half ago" in the purchase of the weekly, "but it never came to anything." The recent rumors came from staffers. staff-ers. . . . Perfect name for a critic: Motion Picture Herald's London movie embalmer is Peter Burnup. . . . Bing Crosby's top songs for 1945 are expected to be his recordings ol Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" and "Night and Day." . . . Philip Wylie was unimpressed by an item concerning a Marine's children who were born on the same day in vari-ous vari-ous years. Wylie was born on May 12, 1902. His late brother on the same day in 1904, and his late half-brother, half-brother, Ted, on May 12, 1913. The Grandest Canyon: Faces About Tovm: Jimmy Du. rante, in the ailing room between broadcasts, prepares this financial report: Owe $50 you're a piker Owe $50,000-you're a businessman Owe $50,000.000you're a tycoon. Owe $50,000,000.000 you're a guwin-mint guwin-mint . . . Harold Lloyd, the clown prince, near the City Center Theatre unrecognized by autografters-who were searching for him. ... in Reu-bens Reu-bens Frank Conville (the No. 1 man of the U.S.O. entertainers-three years overseas) handing his butter to a civilian at the next table, who was making such a to-do about "only one piece." . . . Bea Lillie of the flaw-ss flaw-ss diction pausing outside Theodore Theo-dore i to chat (in rich cockney) with lonely-looking British tar. ... Ann Sheridan, bound for South America where she ha. . job at $2,000 per Broadway Confncins: Th. Trouble With Dream Girls Is ThatThe, Keen bSTall? N"e! 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Davis Ii kite an cnierence Stolen LI o before puary, wi1 Expensive Sport As one of the results of a rt; study of the black bear in Pen:; vania, authorities state: "It been conservatively estimated a $5,000 is spent by sportsmen in t ging each bear. This money is s on travel, guns, ammunition, k; ings, clothes and other items." Large Nation Largest nation in Latin Anna (larger even than the confine U. S.) is Brazil, known fori Amazon river and "Flying Dor. Rio." Natural resources are V but little exploited as yet Baia first came from Brazil. School Savines During the three years since Pes Harbor American boys and girls '4 der-your guidance have saved m ti i7nnnnnnn through bonds and stamps purchased schooL If w MANY DOCTORS RECOMMEND UST0N1C It Yoa -Tin Easily", have low rtsisH colds and minor Cls-due to Wtfl Vital Ekments-twr-waJ A & D J"rj try taking iood-tastin Scott st tion dally the year around! 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