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Show THE Page Two WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By A Edward C. Wayne The N. J. government's dispossessing of the German-America- n Bund (from the state) sent the blood racing through my veins . . . What a victory for all of us who have been taking their insolence all these years! . . . Why the N. Y. press doesn't campaign for similar action I wish I knew . . . I'd enjoy printing his cap and car numbers if I didn't think his employers would scold him for being human . . . Anyway, he stopped his Broadway trolley the other afternoon to unload some passengers and saw a blind He man on the other corner left his trolley and escorted the blind one by the wing to the other side of the congested street . . . his bell and Then he went on. For the life of me I cannot figure out why "Amapola" is so popular. It has the corniest tune of them all is . . . And when "Intermezzo" played a la Beguine I feel like yelling: "Stop!!!" . . . Why do they always try to improve on masterpieces, anyhow? . . . The Commodity Research Bureau's 1941 Year Book shows that the President's Emergency Proclamation means increasingly strict rationing of vital war materials. We're getting invisible ration cards now . . . My idea of a delicacy is the peppery red cabbage at Moore's. smijiwjimwmiii iwmiiumfstf 'vwyw''"Wfmm.tif! jwnj d d U. S. citizens are getting a look at the famous Nazi fighting plane, the Messerschmitt, now on display in a New York theater. Proceeds from the showing of this plane will go to buy "bundles for Britain." This Is the first time that one of these aerial fighters has been shown In the United States. first-han- COURT: STRIKES: A Formula Changed President Roosevelt's appointment When I read that the authorities of Harlan Fiske Stone to replace say "no sabotage," as in that huge Charles Evans Hughes as chief jusenJersey fire, I wonder do theYork-villtice of Supreme court was ane forcement agents know that in nounced at the same time as he they brag: "That was our an- sent to the senate the names of " swer to the closing of Camp If the fire is due to two new associate justices he had picked, Sen. James Byrnes of South negligence, the insurance companies Carolina and Attorney General Robdo not have to pay off. But if it is ert H. Jackson of New York. sabotage, they have to pay ImmediA Republican, Justice Stone is 68 Hoover told ately . . . Mr. the me that the stories about the fire years old and was appointed toCool-idge Were inaccurate at first. That in- Supreme court by President in 1925. His appointment as stead of the damage being 25 milcame as somewhat of lions. It was only two . . . That achief justice for many sources In surprise deof a there wasn't a thing there that Attorney fense nature or for Britain and Washington believed Jackson would get the nomthat no sabotage had been detect- General In short, colyumists are ination. ed not alone when it comes to getting Senator Byrnes, who has been ina administration supporter wrong steers even newspaper edi- strong tors fall hard for them now and the senate since the early days of will succeed Justice then like we ordinary people . . . the New Deal, who retired some time McReynolds a I know, I know. I'm not journalago. Jackson will take the place ist . . . I'm merely a jeernalist left vacant by. Justice Stone's eleTen, tch, tch. s . ... Nord-land- G.-M- ... vation to chief justice. The story of the week most unlikely to be confirmed: Japanese propagandists in the U. S. have Just released the following flash: That "the Chinese invaded California in 500 A. D." . . . Something to worry It must be wonabout, huh? and derful to be an visit the Big Street tor the first It time and see those lights seems wonderful to me, who has lived among them so long and I get a belt, too, out of watching watchers watch them. ... ... I see news here and there and it, too, that Washington, D. C, is getting so crowded with people that it has become the nation's boom town. And that Broadway showmen near and others are seriously thinking of cpening night clubs there to cash in quickly . . . But they would be the suckers if they did . . . Apparently they do not know that Washington is still an early town, and that on Saturday night the bars must close by It is not a place midnight where they stay up late since nearly all of them must be up early with the other worms . . . The numerous parties given by the elite and officials there almost nightly consume all the best customers, anyway and that's ... Notes of an Innocent Bystander Broadway Alien: The orchids go to the editorialist on the N. Y. Times for this: "The Dionne quintuplets are seven years old. In many respects it is a woman's most delightful age. At seven she sits on a man's knee without hesitation, affected or genuine, and without put ting the knee to sleep. Unlike the older women of the household, the enjoys listening to him. In fact, she encourages him to talk, and she believes any story he tells her. Her curiosity over what became of his loss is unquestionably sincere. While unduly interested, perhaps, in the state of his exchequer and never too proud to accept pecuniary aid, she is no whose gratitude is measured by the amount of the contribution. For as little as two cophis specper cents she will bear-hutacles all out of shape, and he feels sure she means it." gold-digg- g Manhattan Murals: The subway singers who have switched from torch tunes to patriotic themes , , , The sign in the druggist's: "Do you have tattle-tal- e gray matter?" . . . The Greenwich Village which conspicuously features a sign advertising the poor quality of its coffee . . . The 8lh Avenue barber shop's sign: "Satisfied Haircuts or Your Hair refunded!" . . . The 42nd Street hawker selling "glamour ties" plain cravats with noi&y stripes. gin-mi- 1 U. S.: Ship Worry The Robin Moor, sunk in the South Atlantic well within the United States' neutrality zone, was declared by its few survivors to have been sunk by a German the first In what most observers expected would be a series of international incidents, similar to that of the Lusi-tani- a in the last war. The Robin Moor went to the bottom, bearing seven passengers Including a little child, and the first lifeboat, the only one immediately found, contained only 11 survivors. The other two boats, according to the evidence of Brazilian ship people who went in search, showed on the surface of the sea some evidence that they had been lost. The first notice of the loss was given as "the result of a storm at sea," but the survivors told their rescuer that they had been torpedoed. Following these reports by survivors, authoritative sources in Washington indicated that work on a formal note of protest to Germany was under way by the state department. It was pointed out that in such a note restitution for loss of American life and property was only what the Nazis could expect. While at first the White House had announced that "judgment should be withheld" on the incident, later word came that there seemed to be "no longer any reason" for that. The state department's report was first made public by Sumner Welles at his press conference. He based his findings on the account of the sinking as it came from Walter J. Linthicum, U. S. consul at Pernarn-bucBrazil. Linthicum spent nearly five hours getting the stories of the rescued persons. MICE: Calls Names Celebrating the year that Italy has been In the war, Mussolini made a speech to his puppet legislators in which he defied the United States to become more active in the war, after saying that this country is "really in the war already." He also likened President Roosevelt to Sulla, one of the bloodiest and most tyrannical of all the Roman dictators. The Axis would certainly win, Mussolini told his people, and the sole effect this country's attitude would have would be to lengthen the struggle. He made no references to Italy's s losses of of her empire, of the 200.000 prisoners taken in North Africa, nor of the losses Italy had suffered to her fleet. Mussolini simply placed England on notice that she was doomed, that all her positions in the war had been taken, and that if America wanted to send aid she would find no place to send it. two-third- Ever since President Roosevelt's fireside chat the nation had been forwaiting for a mula, realizing that in the presidential speech there had been a definite pledge to halt defense work stoppages in labor disputes. It remained for the strike at North American Aviation's plant at Ingle-wooCalif., where 12,000 men engaged in building $196,000,000 in warplanes, to provide the answer, and the United States to wonder what kind of an answer it was. Swiftly, methodically, the troops moved in and took over the plant, began weeding out the union's labor leaders, inspected even the contents of lunch boxes of returning workers, and put the plant back Into production within two days that were reported to be "approaching normal." Within 24 hours planes were rolling off assembly lines into test flights, and on the surface all was apparently well. But observers began asking themselves questions during the next few days when trouble of various types began to appear, not at North American Aviation, but at other plants. Several things bothered people who were wondering whether the use of soldiers to take over plants would be a workable system of strike-preventio- n d, strike-endin- g. Some wondered if perhaps the strikers at Inglewood weren't a bit too willing to have the plant taken over. Others wondered if, perhaps, the strikers' demand of the government that the pay be raised to 87 H cents an hour, or 12 cents an hour more than they were asking of private industry, and the same wage that the government, they claimed, was now paying workers of similar skill in similar jobs. The union leaders were equipping men with signs reading "hold out and remember the army can't make planes" but their pleas fell for the most part on deaf ears, and the second day of the army occupation they voted to go back in a body. But the army wouldn't take some of them back, ordered others reclassified and shoved in the army at $21 a month instead of $20 or better a week. C.I.O.: Red or Pink One of the of the Inglewood strike and its result was that the Dies committee findings came to the fore and began to render some sort of answer to the popular controversy of the past two years, whether the C.I.O. is red, white or just pink. Rival unions used to call the C.I.O. red the C.I.O. maintained it was pure white, and the Dies committee just hinted around that it might be somewhat pink that there were Communists in the C.I.O., but that it was not Id The conqueror is not so much pleased by entering into open gates as by forcing his way. He desires not the fields to be cultivated by the patient husbandman; he would have them laid waste by sword and fire. It would be' his shame to go by a way already opened. Lucan. DREWifEAPSON up bare-knuck- ... Line-U- p Cruel Conqueror Wtfingnm parmRNS Washington, D. C. GASLESS SUNDAYS It begins to look as if gasless Sundays might not be so necessary aftreer all if certain forms in the oil industry are put through by new National Oil Ad- NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) , (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) . wrasap1!" t' KAI (EDITOR'S are those of i,j m mpimuiimmm 'Hold-Ou- Thursday, June 19, 1941 NEPHL UTAH S. SEW I HQ GI&CLG Sinking of 'Robin Moor by Submarine Is Investigated by State Department; Byrnes, Jackson Named to High Court As Stone Is Appointed Chief Justice Portrait of a Man Pecking at a Portable dang-dange- TIMES-NEW- proven that it was Communist-controlled or not Then came a wide, serious series of defense or partial defense labor troubles, most of them involving one branch or another of the C.I.O. Alabama's RepresentativeStarnes, active head of the Dies body, promptly made public that each of the striking unions had a Commuas its acnist or an tive leader. In the aircraft Industry, Chairman Frankensteen of the aircraft division, who had called the Inglewood strike "outlaw," "wildcat" and "unauthorized," found himself placarded in two ways as a jackass and as a traitor to the cause by the very union over which he had jurisdiction just as soon as he admitted that the Junior local union chiefs were, indeed. Communists. He ordered them suspended from their Jobs, then went to the Inglewood scene of action and made a plea to the men to go back to work. His plea was unsuccessful. ministrator Ickes. For instance, the tanker system. When an oil tanker comes from the Gulf of Mexico up the East coast, it may stop at Charleston to discharge part of its oil, then at Norfolk, then at Baltimore. It discharges a certain amount at each port where its company distributes or refines oil. Simultaneously, a tanker belongDays and weeks passed since the ing to another company will stop off Nazi drive toward Egypt through at exactly the same ports. Thus Libya began and although Axis the tankers of three or even four difforces took many points beyond ferent companies may be feeding Tobruk they were not able to capthe same cities at the same time. ture the besieged city itself. Hera is British If, on the other hand, one composition inside the Tobruk perimeter. Propany served one section of the countected by Italian ammunition boxes try, or if one tanker delivered oil filled with stones, they provide amto all the companies in each port ple protection from the splinters of instead of only to its own, distribubombs dropped by Nazi fliers. tion would be measurably speeded. Also, there are four different types of high octane gasoline being reSYRIA: fined in the United States. All these Gets in War varieties are not particularly necesNames of the world's oldest sary, one type being sufficient durtowns, including such as Damascus, ing the emergency. Concentration believed the oldest, and Tyre, con- on only one type of high octane sidered its closest rival, got Into the gas also would considerably increase front page headlines as the British gasoline output and distribution. sailed on into Syria, following the There is plenty of oil in the expectations of everyone. U. S. A.; it is only a matter of Vichy dispatches told of resistand distribution. ance, but except in certain spots the refining laws have Note The anti-truresistance was of the "token" varioil companies from ety a few shots fired and then the prevented the French troops laying down their cutting competitionoilof this kind, but administrator government arms, later to join with the British the should be able to do what the oil if not passively, actively. The invading armies were made companies can't. But LaGuardia, who made his own up of British and Free French under DeGaulle, and seemed to be mov- terms when he took his defense post, ing more or less unchecked into is still in charge of national morale. the chief and most important parts 00 of Syrian territory. SECRECY OF CONVOYS . Chief work of defense was being Most people don't realize it, but done by Nazi warplanes, said to be the contents of almost every ship based on northern Syrian airdromes leaving the United States for Englike Aleppo, principal air center of land is known to Nazi Germany. the country. However, learning just when the Britain was not referring in het shipment will reach England and dispatches to the Syrian advance as the route it will take, is another a victory, but was rather regard- matter. ing it as simply a tactically imporGetting information regarding the tant move to circumvent an expect- departure of supply ships to Enged German move, or at least to meet land is relatively simple. All Nazi it on a battleground farther removed agents have to do is go down to the from Palestine and Iraq oil fields. waterfront to watch the loading of It was obvious that the big Syrian British ships. The type of goods airfields were the prime objective, being loaded cannot be readily conand that if Britain could get hold ol cealed. them and defend them with resident Or if an American vessel is loadassistance, a good battle might be ing for the Red Sea, the papers put up on Syrian soil, and protect signed by the crew must disclose the the "backdoor" entrance to Suez port of destination. This is required and Alexandria. by law, so that a seaman may know ' But the serious resistance near where he is going, and because exthe coastline, and in southwestern tra insurance and sometimes extra Syria made it look as though Brit- wages are paid if the ship 'enters ain's success in this objective would certain areas. not be won without a good deal ol Once a British ship is loaded, howfighting. the utmost secrecy is imposed ever, In general, however, the first ad- on its route and time of departure. vances were meeting with a good Usually the ship hugs the shore as deal of resident approval, and with far north as the Canadian port of some defections of French colonials Halifax. There it may wait for days to the DeGaulle standard. or even two or three weeks for a convoy to be made up. CHURCHILL: When it finally leaves for the hazOn Spot ardous voyage across the Atlantic, Most seriously since the time he orders are given to the ship's mastook over leadership of the war ter by hand. Nothing is trusted to effort of Britain, Churchill found radio. A small boat puts out from himself "on the spot" because ol the commander of the convoy, carthe Crete mishap and words flew rying sealed orders to the master of bitterly around commons and on each vessel. the editorial pages of British newsNo other orders are given, and no papers as Churchill defended his radio messages are exchanged durprogram. ing the trip except in case of atThe British leader was holding tack, because radio messages might firm refusing cabinet modification be picked up by Nazi patrol planes. or any step that would even look Note American ships, on the othlike an admission that the Churchill er hand, follow a regular, at government was a flop handling course and constantly send the war. messages Informing the Criticism of Churchill was far less out radio , bitter than that which was directed world of their position. o o o at Chamberlain, but it was stilT far stronger than anything which had Supporting the plan of Chief of previously been leveled at him. Much of it came from Leslie Staff Marshall to lower the age of deposed minister ol army commanders, war department war. And Churchill turned on this officials quote the late Justice Oliformer cabinet member and prac- ver Wendell Holmes, who fought in tically told him to hold his tongue the Civil war. To Lady Pollock, war, and to recall that the war ministry during the Spanish-Americawas in a "lamentable condition" he wrote: "A general of 45 and a when he laid it down. private of 30 are old men." The commerce department has Summing up the Crete disaster, he laid it to inadequate control of set up a separate British empire the air, said the battle was "worth unit, headed by W. Walton Butter-wortformer state department offihaving fought," that it oost the Germans a major effort, and resulted cial in London. His job Is to estabin the loss of 17,000 men and 180 lish closer commercial ties with planes, not to mention many surface British dominions and colonies. ships. After Gen. 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