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Show THE PAGE TWO i 111 MO? Val Guest, the colyum's star cor- still feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square with the guns booming overto them. Even the birds are used them now . . . The newsboy In Pic'Half-Timcadilly chalking up: . The . Scores: Jerry, 54 Down' pieces of incendiary bombs fetching anything from a dollar for smarties A who pick them up chocolate-and-guvendor doing a roaring trade in the shelters . . . The raid during a violent thunderstorm. After a loud thunder crack, an urchin comforted an old lady with: "That wasn't Hitler, lady, that w as God, and he won't hurt you' . . . The real need of a coat with two pairs of pants. One to work in, the other to sleep in . . . The Savoy Hotel, where, when you book a table, you can book a bed in the shelter. They ask you politely: 'Will you be staying for the raid, sir?' , . . The ten-cestores, now fifteen cent . . . The gag badges you can buy e . ... d nt with the inscription: 'Please, don't tell me how nearly you were bombed' . . . Well, there goes the shrapnel. for a Walter. I enclose a bit of Maybe you can use it paper-weight.- " Virginia. Gayda, Benito's boy, now has a chance to show how good an editor he is. All he has to do is explain (to his fellow Italians) whatever became of what he called: "The soft, decadent British Empire." The United Press includes In Its ten best news stories of 1940 "The There's Enigma of Russia" been no news out of Russia since Stalin established his censorship last So what the UP is January asking you to believe is a big news story is: "Russia Keeps Its Mouth Shut!" ... ... Paul Waner, The slugging star for Pittsburgh (for 15 years), has been Paul, when he was tops, was reported to have been guaranteed a life job in the ball club owner's will . . . Now he joins Babe Ruth in fired. idleness Babe being the player who saved baseball from ruin after It must the Black Sox scandal not be thought, however, that base. . . ball forgets its crowd-getter- s No, indeedy. They are always elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. . . . ... New York Heartbeat New Yorcbids: Abe Lyman's new theme song: 'Moon Over America" . . . The Rosalind Russell-M- . Douglas worduels in Columbia's: "This Thing Called Love" .'. . Warner's "Santa Fe Trail" . . . Hildegarde's version of "The Last Time I Saw Paris" . . . The "Truth or Consequences" program . . . The forthcoming "High Sierra" picture, another Hellingcr high-sp- Our snail's pace arms production doesn't need any declaration of an emergency or new legislation to speed it up. It needs Just one thing, authorized and responsible management and leadership in the government itself. That seems so plain as not to need argument. Even a very small industrial effort needs that. Nobody would dream of starting one without that. Mr. Knudsen says that the public Is "sold" to the necessity for speed and production, but that industry and labor are asleep. Almost at the moment he was saying that, another member of the rearmament advisory overhead, Mr. Nelson, was telling us that the trouble is that the public is apathetic, asleep. This Is not to criticize these gentlemen. They have done marvelous Jobs of making without straw such bricks as we have manufactured. The "straw" that management of a great effort needs Is authority. They haven't got it. But did anybody ever hear of any determined effort on their part to get it? It is well known that there has been none. In the absence of such an effort, perhaps we should look twice at these indictments of the public, or labor and of industry especially when one of these authorities says that the public is to blame while the other feels that the public attitude is satisfactory but that industry and labor are the goats. Whenever a man. or a group of men, step into the driver's seat, there Is only one goat when the bus doesn't run. It is the man at the controls. If he didn't get the right gasoline or has accepted a faulty accelerator, it doesn't lie in his mouth to blame either the passengers or the rest of the crew. Mr. Knudsen is right about the public attitude. The public has been far ahead of government for defense from the very start, ahead of both congress and the executive department It balked at nothing. It is ready for any sacrifice. As for labor and Industry, they are the public. Their response at such a time depends entirely upon government leadership of them. They are the lead, swing and heel horses of this team. They can haul the load and put every ounce of their weight on the traces. But they can't set the pace and direction without a guiding intelligence and inspiration to spark the effort There is no hanging back on the Industrial aido. It has never been more willing and eager since World War I. The solution of our problem doesn't reside in words and gestures and laws and new, strange and devices. It resides in work and common sense and competent leadership. TERRIBLE URGENCY Just now, in the highly successful John Times Square Ticker-TapBarrymore told a chum that the more or less process of forming panicky public opingreatest actor on the screen is Gary e: sheep-herdin- Cooper and that he wished he could act like him . . . They Insist that the femme half of that "scandalous" duo of Hollywood stars went to the Will Hays office and, after she unveiled the entire story, was completely exonerated . . . The Taluca Lake natives will betcha that Ane Sheridan and George Brent wer married two months ago, desplt. the denials. Memos of a Midnlghter: The Phil 2nd Ann'y, stifling the rumors . . . The MGM information booth at Times Square will become a recru.ting station . . . The songwriters will picket radio stations with pianos on trucks . . . Count Adclburg, of the White Russian colony here, and Rosemary Warbur-toof the Social Register, are Like That . . . Trent Patterson, the thrush (recently in court over friend's husband), is being consoled by a hooch exec . . . Sally Rand incorporated herself last week to dodge claims from her recent bankruptcy. There is still $7,000 against her, chorus girl wages, etc. Plants, celebrating their n, Sounds In the Night: In The Stork: "What a facel She looks like a million dollars your enemy has" . . . In Reuben's: "Nope. I don't wanna be a Broadwayite. I don't look good with a knife In my back" In Club Cuba: "Tell me, whose little chock-boo- k stub are you?" At Chatcau-Moderne- : "The big whoops! Give him enough rope and he'U start At The Copaca-banJumping It" "When he enters the room it's Just as though someone left" . . . At The Radio Franks: "Why shouldn't he be crazy? Isn't he out of her mind?" ... ... ... a: Street Scenery: The slcepirg pill ads In a drug store window: "Take dose and doze!" . . . The safety slogan on a cr: "You keep your distance and we'll both keep our health!" . . , The new airlines terminal building architectural poetry . . , The tiniest autograph-signe- r In town: Little 8 year old Joan Carroll, besieged by the at the "Panama Hattie" stage door . . . The pathetic look-In- g giving Broadway a droopier look ss they battle the winter rr weatherrrr. auto-grafte- rs sign-carrie- WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By g ion, there are three principal shibboleths or sloganeered conclusions floating about Washington. The first is a sort of hushed whisper that the next 120 days will decide the fate of the world, including ours. This is the "terrible urgency" mystery and out of it grows a second that we should begin financing the British Empire over this short crisis by gift or loan, secured or otherwise to the extent .of about A third, somewhat $2,000,000,000. Inconsistently, Is that this is a struggle to an absolute knockout between Hitlcrism and democracy, that we must get into it with force of arms, and that it must go on until one or the other is wiped completely off the slate. No matter which of these conclusions or any variation or opposition of them is held, there seems' to be no difference of opinion whatever that we must get our Industry into an all-ohigh speed war production immediately and that we are not doing it So let's skip that We ought to take a long look, however, at tills proposal to finance the British Empire. We can't reach a decision on the basis of any crisis or.any $2,000,000,000 estimate. Britain has plenty of resources here to get all that we shall have to give for many times 120 days. If this is to be a long war to the destruction of Hitler on the continent and we now concede the amount of interest or obligation necessary to warrant financing this phase' of it up to S2. 000. 000. 000. we are involved. There is and there can be no limit on the billions we must spend. When you get into a war, you don't count costs. That isn't all. Helping by supplies to enable England to resist invasion, to maintain the British fleet and shut Hitler up on the Continent of Europe, as Napoleon was blockaded, is one thing largely a matter of maintaining naval and air supremacy. Invading Europe and destroying Hitler is quite another thing. He has a superior army with all the equipment accumulated during years of European rearmament. Napoleon blew up through interior revolt but, compared with the grip that Hitler has taken on his conquests, Napoleon was a sissybritches 120-da- y hooked-inextric- ably He Said 'No' Edward C. Wayne JOHNSON Halifax Named British Envoy to U. S. Washington, D. C. PRODUCTION ARMS raid respondent in the London airwomen shelters, reports: "The old A Picnic HUGH S. m Jour: Reporter's Private Papers: all-clea- r, General Thursday. January 2, 1941 NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- As Eden Gets Foreign Minister Post; U. S. Defense Set-U- p Revised in Effort To Speed Up Industrial Production ' When children's party she had attended her mother said: "Well, daughter, did you have a nice time?" "Oh, yes, said Betty enthusiastically, "it was the best party I ever tasted." W f v 1 ....,......,....rrrr Washington, D. C. FARM TRENDS The hearings of the special house committee Investigating farm under the chairmanship of California's kindly Rep. John Tolan, r' j deserve a lot more attention than they have received. Leading experts have disclosed I some extremely significant facts concerning agricultural trends that are affecting the lives of miliums and the future of the United, States. Yet Tolan has had a tough time keeping ;; his committee going. Lack of public interest due to the VICHY, FRANCE. Shown European war has played into the hands of elements who oppose doing here is Fernand Di Brinon, anything drastic about the migrant French ambassador in Germanproblem, among them the California -occupied Paris, tcho actChamber of Commerce and the Asing under orders of the French sociated Farmers. Chief of State Philippe Prof. Paul S. Taylor of the Unis, delivered to the versity of California told the comFrance's refusal to make mittee of three significant trends: 1. Rapid enlargement of farms unany changes in the French der a single operator. In a survey cabinet or to take back the last summer in the Middle West he ousted Pierre Laval, found one 9,000-acr- e grain and live stock farm in Ohio. At the same time, 25,000 tenant farmers were unable to obtain farms. A Is marchENGLAND shown "Pioneer" squad SOMEWHERE IS 2. Spread of farm management ing to work after a night raid on a Midlands town. The duty of these men services for absentee owners, such Is to clean up the debris and make roads passable. They also demolish parts At San Diego, Con AIRPLANES as business men. Already there are of buildings left standing by the bombs but which might constitute a hazsolidated Aircraft corporation anseveral professional societies of men ard. Often they work right through the raid while bombs drop. nounced a $14,000,000 building proj In this field. ect doubling its present capacity. 3. Wholesale elimination-ofarm The fall of Salum forced an entry WINE At Livermore, Calif., labor through mechanization which BOSS: into Italian territory, and the Britgave Schenley Import corporation is rapidly changing the traditional ish, using the German tactics of the impetus to the American wine inBecomes Servant American concept of the family-size- d ahead shot Cresta the dustry by purchasing Selection of Viscount Halifax as fight through Flanders, corn belt farm. 175 down the miles coastal roads Blanca Wine company. British ambassador to the United "Our ancestors of three generasurwithin the border, completely PRODUCTION At Washington, Siates was a case of the boss betions ago," Taylor warned, "found 0 off some and Reserve board the Federal rounding cutting reported and servant vice versa, the solution for their goal of indecoming the troops in Bardia, principal port. that during November Industrial pro for Anthony Eden was named as pendent working farmers, secure on of a was state in 132 Bardia record a duction hit placed high, per most likely candidate for succession the land, in the land reform clauses 1935-3and forces the British main of cent seige, the average. to Halifax's post as foreign secof the Homestead act Today the after leaving sufficient men to prosARMS At Washington, British ofretary. the reduction of Bardia, later ficials completed a master list of march of mechanization and other Halifax left the cabinet the last ecute to be reinforced from the rear, $3,000,000,000 in new war orders to economic forces have produced deof the Chamberlain appeasement pendence and insecurity on the land pushed on toward Tobruk and be placed in the U. S., including m crew, a man lor for our generation. Stern necessity Derna. combat 12,000 planes. Britwhose scalp the compels us to find our way to mainhis main Marshal Graziani and ish tain independence and security GREEK: to were still able ahead forces keep had howled among those who work the soil." of the British, but the latter claimed Aims Revised for months without Note One of the most interesting enormous of numbers prisoners, success. The Greek war cry of "Tirana by trends reported by Professor Taylor killed and wounded Italians, totaling conWashington that the acquisition of farms is around 30,000, great booty, all ac Christmas" had to be revised, when was ceded the great abilItalian resistance stiffened, and the now a "rage" among business men, of loss British complished with.a amity of the new skirted Evzones had to fight ahead who in several midwestern cities are only 1,000. bassador, and preevery inch of the way at bayonet holding weekly "farmer luncheons" en would where the Just Germans dicted success for to hear talks by farm management point. in ter Africa the of the Battle picture him here, while it was German reinforceWhether experts. According to Taylor, the na was not with the British clear, mat Ameri ment or not was not clear, but as the business men take up farming partof in val forces Viscount charge apparently can public opinion the coastline and unmolested, and Italians neared the hopping off ly as a substitute for golf and partHalifax at the outset might better ports either in British places they fought harder and the ly "as a safe place to invest funds." recall his appeasement tactics be- the Greek advance, while continuing or under siege. hands fore Munich. DEFENSE HOUSING steady, was not as spectacular. It was announced that Britain CLAUSE SIX: The Greeks reminded one of a Defense Commissioner William football team nearing the goal-lin- e might add the post of minister to And National Knudsen's frank admission of lagDefense Both amits, sjaff uj Washington. a stiffened defense. and ging plane production wasn't the meeting When President Roosevelt wants bassador and minister had been the Enormously important objectives only sour situation he could have custom in Britain's Paris office, but to do something drastic and final had been achieved, however, Pogra-det- z tagged. Another is defense housing. hitherto Washington has had only an and something that has no. been on the north and Argirocastro This is a real muddle. Although done before, he has a system all his on the ambassador. south, Porto Edda and other congress voted $290,000,000 five own. to Just what Eden has been up vital points having fallen into their months ago to provide housing for He calls tells his legal advisers in, In Egypt and the near East has new workers in the defense indushands. never been made clear, but it must them what he wants to do, and then showed a good third of AlMaps tries, not one shovel of dirt has yet have been successful, because ob- has them find a law for it. bania taken back from the Italian been turned on a single project He has created a new Job, called Invaders. servers pointed to the fact that B. E. Immediate objectives Housing for civilian workers on (before Eden) things had been at the Office for Emergency Produc- were the port town of Valona, and army and navy reservations and artion into it and MediterManagement eastern put a standstill in the the inland bases of Tepelinl and senals is progressing satisfactorily. ranean sector, and after Anthony ar- William S. Knudsen, wizard automo- Chlmara. Several projects begun last summer bile instrucwith production man, rived on the scene, of a Sudden the Greek generals claimed the Ital- by the U. S. Housing authority for tions is to be that he the "czar" for ians bad moved out of Klisura, but defense British rose up, pelted the Fascists, employees in Pensacola, and sailed them way back into U. S. defense, and all lights extend that the Greeks were not entering Fla., and Montgomery, Ala., are be will before him ing lights. green town Libya. until the Fascists had been nearly finished. Several the Knudsen took the job (which he stormed from their The British effort against the Dopositions on the private undertakings also are well new before the almost had order) crowned was also decanese islands under way. But that is all. heights to the rear. new and told his authority, with a great deal of success, and grabbed Former Greek army officers now In other areas, thousands of deto and finAmerica "roll its sleeves up Eden Is believed to have had a in the United States placed utmost fense workers in private plants are to mu and work" building planes go ger in that pie as well. importance on the conquest of Tepe- being forced to crowd their families So now he is to be brought back nitions. linl, an important road junction into unsanitary quarters, pay exor"There must be no appeasement" as foreign minister from his present point They stated categorically that bitant rents, or live miles away post as secretary for war, and this he said, and he called the war in if the Greeks capture Tepelini, fur- from their jobs, In tents, shacks and in "irreconcilable" charac into will Europe back he will be odd. for go ther Italian resistance in Albania other makeshifts. Meanwhile, the a Job he held under Chamberlain, ter, and asked the nation to "recog- would be impossible. money congress appropriated to full of the nize the crisis" gravity and which he vacated because he On the other side, experienced house them is lying unused. In which additional resulted power military men pointed out that beopenly expressed himself as out of sympathy with the then premier's being given to his organization. DDZS BLACKLISTED yond Tepelini and toward the coast One writer said that seven line the Albanian plains, and it was appeasement policy. Rep. Martin Dies, who has done a months ago, when Knudsen was givIn this territory that the Fascists' lot of blacklisting, has himself been en the defense chairmanship, he mechanized forces, SECONDS: especially if aid- put on a blacklist of his and ed gave that funny by German tanks and dive bombIn the Ring He has been barred from taking asked President Roosevelt "who's ers, might succeed in halting the out any books from the Washington "3 was knocked The he said not, President boss?" Italy perhaps, advance. Greek because of refusal to public out of the war by England-Greece- , am." And Knudsen took the job, The British fleet boldly ranged up pay a library fine of 80 cents for keeping but her seconds, at any rate. Jumped it was said with misgivings. and down Italy's private Adriatic, books beyond the into the ring. Presence of large These misgivings have been more period. Valona . with thousand-poun- d The Texan withdrew "They numbers of German troops was conthan justified in the defense indus- bombing naval shells and receiving no Shall wordy Not Want" and "I Went to Pitt firmed in many quarters. try lag. Now, it is held. Mr. Rooseanswering fire. The outcome still Purpose of these was a bit dubi- velt has said to Mr. Knudsen. in was In doubt though dispatches con- College," and the library had a very difficult time getting the books back. ous, but consensus was that some effect "I was wrong before. Now tinued to favor Greece. After repeated requests Dies finalwould be used in actual fighting in you are the boss!" And now Knud ly returned them. But he refused tc the Battle of Greece and the Battle sen will go ahead with full authority. HOOVER: pay the small fine Imposed, at th As to Clause Six. and the part it of Africa, and that others would be rate of two cents a day, for his Speaks Again played, some of the Washingtonians employed to bolster home morale. Germany, in admitting official aid questioned the President's authority ' Herbert Hoover, announcing him- tardiness. Making no exception to to Italy, let it be known that Axis to give Knudsen supreme power. He self as definitely and forever out of IU rules, the library thereupon politics, took the speaker's stand placed him on its blacklist until he partners must strnd together, and pointed to the Second Reorganization that in sendtng aid to II Duce's tot- art. Now, that set did not give the again to appeal for a general U. S. pays up. tering armies Germany was but re- President this power specifically, but sentiment in favor of making plans ON THE DISTAFF SIDE paying aid sent to her by Italy in acting under its authority the Prcsi to feed Europe's hungry without letthe form of "hundreds of pilots and dent issued an executive order ting any of the food get Into GerSen. Hattie Caraway has received l a letter from a man back In Arkanbombing." (which he WAS empowered to do). man stomachs. planes for The former hero of Belgian reIt was too early for the general Clause Six of this order read: sas which says, "Dear Miss Hattie. lief told the people he believed this I want to be In the Secret Service. etTect of these reinforcements to be "(6) In the event of a nationa could be accomplished, but that it Please send me gun. noted In the war reports. British emergency, or threat of a nationa badge, and mechanized forces, backed by naval emergency, (the President may cre would not be the work of a week or handcuffs by return mail. I know but a would month require months something!" guns from the Mediterranean and by ate) such office for emergency mannaval and army planes from overMrs. Caraway is an expert in agement as the President shall de of planning before it could be car ried out head, pushed on rapidly into Libya. termine." making white fudge with walnuts. Millions of men, women and chilMrs. Mary Norton of New dren In the overrun countries of Eu- drives around Washington in Jersey a ear rope will be facing real hunger, cold with New Jersey license number 13. 1 G L1G S in the ueek's news and starvation before the next har- Her chauffeur is Lucile McDonagh, vest and If lives are to be saved, who Is niece, clerk, and chauffeur. s s e said Hoover, America must do the BE RM I'D A The British have Uk A few years ago America was saving. CAPITAL CHAFF was en SS estate from real and Excambion the overbuilt going Oscar Hoover's statement as to the im. Navy brasshats often are peeved begging. Today a housing shortage R. Stabler, 33, the ship's barber, a at the views of independent-mindeGerman-borminence of starvation went unchalnaturalL-eAmerican is one of the bottlenecks of defense citizen. lenged, and news dispatches from Rep. Mclvin Mass, war flier and industry. Here are a few reports: MALTA Prince Philip of Greece Shanghai, for Instance, told of 12.900 ranking member of the house naval Seattle (plane crntrr) reports affairs committee. But they respect bodies being found, dead from staris be first member of the royal family next sleepi"this time year they'll s u Join the British armed forces of them his ability. When the navy wanted ng; in tents." vation, more than a congressional expert to make an Roc. Mend, III., (arsenal) has an He's 19 and has been assigned to Chinese children. In six months Inspection tour of its aviation trainactive duty oti a battleship acute shortage of housing. alone in the one city. ing station, Mass was picked. (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are axpreaaed In these tilimm, thy are thosa of the news analyst and not necessarily ( this newspaper.) m.i.s."' by Western Newspaper sv vsxfsj vr, - - mm fkf -- Pe-tai- n, -- came in from ths Betty Sin Eater England a man who took on the sins of a dead person , by taking food and liquid in the I presence of the body, was called a In old-tim- e sin eater. Area of U. S., Canada The area of the United States, excluding' extraterritorial possessions, is 3,026,789 square miles. That of Canada is 3,694,863 square miles. There are 41 inhabitants per square mile in the United States, and in Canada, according to latest figures, J V three. Tax While on Location The State of Idaho is making ef- forts to collect state income taxes from actors and others for the time they spent on location in that state during the filming of "Northwest r Passage.'' 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