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Show THE PAGE TWO DEFENSE: Navy Day WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE Pan America Faces Hard Job Maintaining Neutrality Zone; Agree on More Restrictions Determined to "share the fate of his ship." Capt Hans Langsdorf of the scuttled German battleship Graf Spee blew out his brains in a Buenos Aires hotel. At Port Everglades, Fla., rested the Nazi freighter Arauca, driven to refuge when a British warship fired across her bow a few miles from shore. At Ellis Island, N. Y., were landed the 400 survivors of Germany's luxury liner Columbus, scuttled off the Virginia capes rather than face inevitable capture by a British destroyer. Crewmen hours, the customary time of departure. But on one such morning Helgoland saw the biggest air battle in history. When it was over the Nazi high command announced 36 of 52 British planes were shot down, meanwhile admitting the loss of two ships. London scoffed, placing British losses at seven and German at 12. Apparently the "security patrol" bogged down shortly thereafter, for the Germans, no longer laying mines, began dropping aerial torpedoes on British merchant craft Lost by this and other means were 23 allied vessels in three days. Other war news: C French Navy Minister Cesar figured the British had sunk 30 to 35 Nazi and that France had scored 10 times. His conclusion: The Reich has lost between 42 and 47 of the 60 submarines she had when the war started. C Raring to fight, cheering, singing and shouting, "Where the hell is Hitler?" the vanguard of Canada's expeditionary force (in which observers noticed a few Americans) docked in Britain. Cam-pinc- k Ocean GERMAN LUXURY LINER COLUMBUS SCUTTLED HERE GERMAN FREIGHTER DRIVEN ASHORE BY BRITISH CRUISER Pacific Ocean In the North GRAF SPEE WAS SCUTTLED hi HERE AFTER SEA FIGHT NEUTRALITY VIOLATIONS There will be teeth, now. were interned for 60 days, but must then leave the U. S. (Before he killed himself, Graf Spee's captain told how the ship had fooled her raiding victims by camouflaging, once by changing her superstructure to resemble the British cruiser Renown. London heard how its cruiser Exeter had staged a valiant fight against Graf Spee until help arrived. Said the report: One seaman, who had both legs shot off, commented that he was "not doing too badly under somewhat adverse circumstances." He died a fete hours later.) The Spee, Columbus and Arauca incidents brought Europe's war to Lumbering down Finland's arctic highway came a huge motorized Soviet army while plucky guerilla fighters pecked away at the roadside. Russian casualties: About 30,000 men and 200 tanks. But it was victory of a sort, and that was what Moscow demanded. A Copenhagen newspaper reported that Josef Stalin was raging mad over his army's failure in Finland, having ordered a purge of military leadership and an investigation at the NEPHI, UTAH S, attention than usual: C At Washington the navy department awarded a $20,016,699 contract for airplanes to the Consolidated Aircraft corporation at San Diego. 4L At Quincy, Mass., the navy tested its newest airplane carrier, the $21,000,000 Wasp, which steamed on a trial run along the New England coast with its secret deck equipment shrouded by tarpaulins. Thursday, December 28, 1939 Is Great Day For- - 1 January As Europe's war came nearer home two (See items of domestic news drew more (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. PAN AMERICA: Violations TIMES-NEW- WHO'S . 5 per 'A - " n NEW today's unhappy agricultural plight, one of the sorrows of improved production methods is that increased acreage yields only glut the nation's already overfilled granaries. Thus, at year's end, the U. S. department of agriculture sadly announced that acreage despite slashes in 1939 total farm producLOU GEHRIG RACE HORSES Thi$ is tion was in many cases above last term Grayhound, He and all other slugger, he begins year's. Best example was com, which horses have a birthday Janu- on New York's crime commission. yielded 29.5 bushels per acre com- ary 1. pared with last year's 27.8 bushels (1928-37of and the ) average 23 bushels. Reason for this boost was the new hybrid variety which Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace has promoted among the tall corn growers of his native Iowa. Although corn acreage harvested was the smallest since 1898, production was 2.619,137,000 bushels, the largest with one exception (1937) since 10-ye- ar 1932. Among wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley, the only other increased grain crop was barley. Total grain production was 4,626,000,000 against 4,868,000,000 in 1938. Winter wheat (but not spring) was up 13,000,000 ElfSKvltSS JTmatanuskaI Pacific tUlinh Ocean MATANUSKA V. S. withDUCHESS OF WINDSOR draws aid for colonists. Rumor She opens French chateau as says many will now return to hospital for wounded on Janu"mainland.'' ary 1. al mine-layin- g NAMES . in i the news From New York, Herbert Hoover sent Finland's Premier Risto Ryll the $100,000 his relief orgnniiation collected in its first wct k,- !. Arriving in Manhattan was James F. Montgomery, U. S. minister to Hungary. Reports said he would resign unless the state department allowed his wife to relurn to Europe with him. C To Reno came Mrs. Orson raWellrs, wife of the dio and stage dramatist, awaiting a divorce. C Friends In Washington hinted Wisconsin's John I). Wlrfchcm, state supreme court justice ("a Democrat, Catholic, midwestern-c- r and liberal") would be named to the U. S. Supreme court to succeed another midwestern Catholic, the late Pierce Butler. NATHAN WITT A conspiracy ? over that he had attempted to sponsor a boycott of the mill's products by a Boston department store. C That Philip G. Phillips, regional NLRB director at Cincinnati, had written his superiors that the city editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer was a "swell guy and a dear friend of mine," and had kept out of print a .vries ef articles critical to NLRB. When the city editor and his boss denied this. Director Phillips said that his "language was Earlier it was brought out that had refused to drop a Complaint against a Cincinnati firm because the employer refused to reinstate s worker discharged for communistic activities. CThat Nathan Witt, NLRB secretary whom Boardsman Leiserson would have fired, "plotted" with C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing company to f rce Inland Steel into a written agreement providing for exclusive bargaining;. Commented Committeeman llsrry Routzohn "I think this constiRep., Ohio): tutes conspiracy." After several days of this, committee members were reported ready to ask congress for msjor amendments in the Wagner act So did several nther groups. Including C. I. O. and the Nations Association of Manufacturers. C. I. O. For several months many political forecasters have believed 1910'i presidential election will be won or lost in the midwestern farm belt As the preseason campaign drew to a close (it will start again after congress adjourns) it became apparent that Republicans concentrate most of their ammunition on the progressive-minde- was sWif f Hi ' iiifeiwfaa&ait.i atmntffiiifiHtfiiiiiiwmttm jl ' V " 1 OBSERVATORY Only man who knotvs it's New Year's, officially, is operator of master clock at Washington's naval observatory. Art , miWiiriiiinrf rinrirfistfsssMsiiiM PAUL McNUTT His U. S. social security agency begins annuity payments on January 1, date having been moved ahead two years. JZ'i t4 i t "1 :J&JA ft v'.". i" W A .X' ' u. Kb .vi , vr it,.,l. j v ' M V.. A J4 !,1T J h,j..M LEWIS LAW ES Warden of STREET SWEEPERS In New York's Sing Sing prison every city, they must clean up the debris left by celebrants. completes 20 years on the job. last Vi , '., to see the light Sen. Burton K. Montana's Wheeler, himself a potential candidate, who warned that westerners would vote the Republican ticket unless the Democrats nominate a i-'- "tV "liberal." Explanation: their natural tendency has been with the Republican party and they could see no reason to change if a conservative Democrat is nominated." Meanwhile the rumor spread that .... i... 4 smart Republicans may try to -- HtLiUst iv.....,-- ,. IL. l r, w swing to their cause two of the -FOOTBALL ELY BouT CULBERTSONIIe and games Wests foremost liberals Minnesota's Sen. Ilenrik Shipstead, a in the West and South usher out all other br'ulge players must Farmer-Laboritand Wisconsin's the 1939 grid season in a blaze learn new contract rules effecSen. Robert M. LaFollette, whose of glory. tive January 1. doughty father once dominated the G. O. P. Key man in this campaign is Minnesota's youthful Gov Harold Stassen, a Republican whose masterful has weldr'AfPel ed a strong party consisting of progressive Republicans and disgruntled "... 1 e, fence-straddlin- g right-win- g Farmer-Laboritcs- . Already committed to supporting Shipstead in the Republican primary. Governor Stassen could easily extend his Idea into neighboring farm states, where discontent with the administration's reciprocal trade program may prove a No. 1 talking point for Republicans in 1910. PARADES a lot about money and trade, says Germany will be licked by her pov- In natur- Catllaax Still erty ul resources Guides French MonetaryPoUcy chiefly oil. At long and bitter conflict, more bitterly assailed in the past than perhaps any other man in France, he commands respect as he keeps on croaking, "Victory in war is often destroyed by finance," and he Is still a powerful guiding force in French monetary policy. Be has known glory, riches, JaiL exile, calumny, foolish adulation, scandal, exultation, bitterness and disillusionment, and st with bloodshot eyes and Jaw, he's still on his feet when the gong ends the round. His fortune was sank in the defense of his wife for killing Gaston Calmette In 1914. Be returned from banishment to full indication in the espionage case against him, to become premier and later finance minister of out-thrn- this writer began newsWHEN paper work in Chicago, people In Halsted and West Madison streets seemed te be about as badly off Pattern Lovely goodness 1959 t is as lovely does and; knows this crocheted medallion does things for any' room, even though it's the veryl A B C of crochet. Try it and seel Pattern 1959 contains directions for making medallion; illustra--! tions of it and of stitches; mate-- , rials required; photograph of me- -' dallion. Send 15 cents in coins for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., Nee-dlecr- lor and was interested in his work with Jane Addams at Hull House, the pioneer social settlement They were devoted and unselfish, but, when I looked around the Hull House neighborhood several years ago, nothing seemed to have changed much. Mr. Taylor's son, Wayne C. Taylor, grew up in this shadow ef misery, and now moves into a sort of pantograph enlargement of the same. Be is en route to Finland, to study and organize relief there. The social settlement theory, as bravely expounded and lived by the elder Mr. Taylor and Jane Addams, was that "ail men are brothers," and. If fortunate citi-tewill live in neighborly intercourse with the unfortunate, "a little leaven will leaven the whole lump." The younger Mr. Taylor catching step with his times, was a realist whe believed that the way ahead lay in understanding ef basic economic forces and in the application of progressive and enlightened techniques of government. He became special adviser te President Roosevelt en foreign trade; assistant of the AAA; rice president of the Export-Impobank of Washington; assistant secretary of the treasury. He withdrew from d the office last February, dissenting from what he considered the treasury department's policy of shaping money procedure to foreign policy. Like the Bull Boose melio-ristIt would seem that the economist Innovators and have net yet found the golden key. A comparison et notes by father and son as te what's wrong with West Madison street, Europe and points, and what te de about It, would, I am sure, be Interesting. Mr. Taylor was graduated from Yale in 1918. served in the World war, and was engaged in the banking and brokerage business in Chicago before going to Washington in ns New York, N. Y. Please write your name, address and pattern number plainly. Theirs but to Do Two English boys who were pal joined the army together and, like so many others, were finding it difficult to understand what the drill instructor barked at them. When the instructor gave an order, Alt whispered: "Ere, Bill, what did 'e say?" "Ain't got the least idea" replied Bill, "but we've got to do it." extra-involve- d Right Bait "You must have used a lot of: patience to catch so many fish." "No worms." A millionaire says it's easy to get rich if you spend less than you make. I'd rather make more than I spend. Greater Field 7 hear your son is to be m dentist. You said recently that he was tm be an ear specialist.'' "Yes, he wanted tm be, but I persuaded him that a man has 32 teeth and only ' Same Method "I caught my husband flirting." i "That's how I got mine, too." rt s. As 1933. lie Saw It "How does my dress look?" "It looks to me like three weeks' wages." LOST YOUR PEP? Hora Is Amazing Rstlsf ef Conditions Due to Sluggish Bwels rene-Tator- s bm aiild. llMMuutlw refrMhlai, invigorating. relief Iroai tick headache, UUooa apella. tlrad fading wheal aaaociatad with coaatlpaUon. of N R from your Wrfhnirt DicV set a 25c bos dracgiM. Maka the taet tbea li aa aeiightea. return taa aox te aa. Wa an refasd the pareaaea AaaSSSSSBSSSSSajaaMM 5239 W WNU Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL WOULD be hard to say whether Col. Fulgen-cl- o big, swart, dead-pa- IT '.""31 n Batista, Cuba's power man, headed in from right or left Possi- b1' Power is Pohttcal Form e maln dca U such with Of Power Men Hard to Place vators, and their political orientation is merely academic. A year ago, the news scouts were reporting that Batista was swinging right The news today Is that the Cuban Communist party Is backing him for election to the presidency. A No news Is the mere fact that (hey are having a presidential election In Cuba. Batista r, r, was barber, brakeman, soldier and stenographer, before be Belted Cuba with the flight of President Marhado. He Is ef Cuban, Indian, Chilean origin, with features and big Mongoloid mafK'les. (Consolidated lie il.. slr WNU Scrrlto.l i v. v Hotel dilch-dlgge- Fstw aft as European war victims of today. I cane-rustle- Among them, the Mummer's parade in Philadelphia, j YORK. Old Senator Joseph of France, who knows last-name- farm belt d First Democrat ife iii Crocheted Medallion For Heirloom Cloth Not Yet Found The Golden Key ill-cl- i. ia LTWJjTVI T. WEEK MehorisfHace Farm Vote 11 yfi fjl mf PHOTOGRAPHY has shaded down his green trousers and yellow shoes and green vest to more somber hues, but his is still the toughest political hide anywhere extant e, Not all of Europe's warfare took place in American waters (tee mbove). The western front was quiet as usual, but Britain's new "security patrol" over the North sea ran into a pack of trouble. Purpose of the patrol is to keep German planes at their bases during the early morning ii i.! ,1 .1. in I l 1 .L .1.1. THIS - Woe turbed Finnish calm, and that night the they celebrated prematurely sinking of Russia's warship October Revolution. (It was badly damaged, HYBRID CORN shores for the first but managed to limp home.) (Exhibited by C. E. Troyer of LaFon-taintime, and there was every indica- teeTo a League of Nations commitInd., who used it to win the the Finns sent word that they tion that Western hemisphere gov"corn title of Chicago's internaernments would tolerate no more of could hold out all winter if they got tional king" livestock show.) Secretary-Generand planes . guns. League these carryings-onGuided by the Joseph Avenol got to work bushels over the preliminary estiU. S., nations which established a immediately, sending Helsinki as- mate on a harvested area 12,000,000 fanciful "neutrality zone" at Panama City last October began laying surances that Britain and France acres less than in 1936. Soy beans would provide supplies, but not registered 87,409,000 bushels comtheir plans. pared with the estimate of 63,000,-00- 0 It was revealed that the U. S. had men. bushels The cotton yield, unto and Brazil agreed join Argentina LABOR: usually high, averaged 236 pounds in helping Uruguay force Graf Spee per acre from the smallest acreage out of Montevideo harbor, had the Probe More unsavory each day became in 40 years. Tobacco also set a new pocket vessel refused to move. Stirred to even greater action by the testimony in a house commit- yield record of 911 pounds per acre, the Columbus and Arauca incidents. tee's investigation of the National total production also reaching a new Pan America planned to put teeth Labor Relations board. Starting high of 1,769.639,000 pounds. Other farm news: in its neutrality declaration. The with the allegation of minority teeth: Any belligerent warship that Boardsman William Leiserson that C Signed in Washington was a suphis fellow members (Warren Madviolates the principle of the neutralplementary trade agreement between the U. S. and Cuba, restoring den and Edwin L. Smith) were "parity zone will be accorded no assistance in American ports. If a ship tial," the testimony went on to al- tariff reductions on sugar and tobacco imports which were terminatguilty of such violation seeks lege: refuge or repairs in an American C That Boardsman Smith had taken ed by presidential proclamation action in attempting when Europe went to war. Cuban port, it and its crew will be interned "extra-legal- " to settle a knitting mill strike; more- - tariff reductions were granted on for the war's duration. peanut butter, salmon and mohair Nobody expected Britain and Gerproducts, that nation also agreeing many to pay much attention; into maintain improved treatment for deed, a London paper pointedly reU. S. rice. marked that American nations had no right of sovereignty over extraC President Roosevelt told reporters he intended to ask congress to raise territorial waters. But Washington the $550,000,000 "owed to the treasat least hoped the restrictions would ' . ' prevent fighting in American terriury" as a result of farm parity pay' "' ments and other agricultural extorial waters. Already interned by Argentina are penditures which were approved by the 1,039 crewmen of Graf Spee who the legislators, but not provided for. found themselves scattered hastily POLITICS: to provinces far from the ocean, .1 PHOTOS ENLARGED 50c. 8x(0 postpaid. Your photo or film returned. 3 for S1.O0. HAMMOND STUDIOS, Sprinf Held, Cala. By LEMUEL F. PARTON front. Day after this Russian advance, the resourceful Finns made themselves warm while a blizzard drove the mercury to 25 below zero, paraReds. In the lyzing the south only an ineffectual air raid on Helsinki, Abo and Hango dis- THE WARS: In the West L NEWS AGRICULTURE: In I i. TEMPLE SQUARE Oppaelt Mm Man Tenpta ElGHLT KFXOMMENDOJ R.tc $150 to $3.00 It'l mirk of disrinctioa to (top sf Mtit KRNEST bssatiM C boetajr KOHHfTKR. MarW |