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Show rtlE Page Two TIMES-NEWS- WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ihuan famnainn Rrilich UllilJM LIUyUli By NEPHL . VyUMipUIVJII Tests New U. S. Tanks t Superior Type of Mechanized Units Developed; 'Sea Otter,' Powered by Auto Engines, To Be Used as Cargo Vessels. (EDITOR'S aro Udh if, tf When opinion, arc axprassed In these idimnl, they necessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) , t f- - , frt, i.qt y, j , ' i 37-m- n te - fool-pro- one-thir- - h Ar.d Lease-Len- d Cargoes Overlooking DuPont Circle where once the children of ambassadors played under the watchful eyes of their nurses and one could hear the rhatter of half a dozen foreign languages, there is a modest office. In that office has been carried out a Hpual American venture which may shape the final course of the ar-- at least it will help launch a thousand ships. On the second floor there is a pi'r'.icman with a straggling gray He is Starling Burgess, mustache. one of the nation's leading marine ai ctati'ct.s. At the back, downstairs s's a ii. an with thinning gray hair ir. J the mergy of youth. He is a structural engineer, the man who irp.tes the blueprints work, J. B. Weaver, hrad of Weaver Associates. organization has Just made n idea work. It was conceived by iiamilton Bryan, a retired naval This BKIKFS of thnfty Colorado farm families made up their minds that it was downright waste to feed a lot of hens. On the vt the Farm Security admin- e istration home management supervisor, they banded together and hired a first-ratpoultry specialist to cull the flock. Out of 3,200, the poultryman found BOO not worth their feed. They were sold for cash. e whole-hearte- d field. lly liaukhaxe r A group non-layin- quantity than Germany can. 2. Hitler made a fatal mistake by treating the conquered nations so badly that Germany has no chance of obtaining willing or from them no matter what their puppet governments may decree. If the Nazis had been more tactful and less brutal this situation might have been very different. 3. The feeling is growing that the German army will crack up when the men in the ranks and the people at home realize that victory is no longer around the corner. The last point he elaborated. Although the German army was beaten in the last war, he pointed out, it was not really defeated until the home-frocracked and the effect of the attitude of despair on the part of the civilians broke the fighting spirit of the armies in the CThe increase in the number of young women in the labor markrt is one of the most significant trends of this century, according to the census bureau In 1900 a li'tlo ovtr .'!0 per cent of every 100 females 20 to 24 years old were workers; in 1930 the number exceeded 40 out of 100, and by 1910 more than 45 out of every 100 young wmrn were la the labor force. s ' ' 'nlliiiu D. C. '' ' la , Silencer Not Gangster . 1 A silencer is not a gangster who real put a squealer on the spot; his inb is mild by comparison as he's in the pray painting department in an automobile plant. HOTELS rn RENO. NEVADA stop at tho Reno's largest and HOTEL GOLDEN most popnlsr hotel. Whn Hull's state department and many of the state department's mistakes OFFICE EQUIPMENT come from trying so ardently to ape MEW AND USED desks and chairs, flies, the British. inch's, sales, typewriters, adding W. S5 Broadway. Salt l.ako For years the British embassy S. L. DESK EX.. has sat on its hilltop, well removed BEAUTY SCHOOL from the bustle of Washington, and . SCHOOL OF BEAUTY CULTUHB looked with slightly disdainful the West. 18 years sucthe hoi polloi of cessful Larirest in Modern, thorough, pracment from Washington that launch-ing- s amusement Anupon operation. to the Britinvitation Enroll congress. tical anytime. Write for catalogue. of warships during November Salt Lake City. Utah ish embassy in those good old days 838 South Main by the American navy had totaled was considered by the dowagers as more than one a day. , Musical instruments better than an invitation to the In addition to the huge battleship White House. Band Instruments at harjrain Reconditioned whose identity was revealed, at prices. Liberal trades. BERKLEY MUSIC But those good old days, un CO.. 78 So. Main. Salt Lake City, Utah. least one other capital ship had both for the dowagers been sent to the Far East by Brit- fortunately and are gone, never the embassy, BARBER COLLEGE ain, and the fleet, under Admiral to return. the embassy However, "Tom Thumb" Phillips, was of WHILE YOU LEARN. Demand for appears completely unaware of that EARN considerable proportions. Salt Lake Barber College, 170 barbers. fact." And its charming young men Kefrent St., formerly Moler Barber Collepe. As to American launchings, these go their saying way, charming had included the 35,000-to- n battlesometimes too audibly: "We must Coal and Electric Used Ranges ship Indiana, the 10,000-tolight be nice to Americans"; while the cruiser Cleveland, four destroyers real work of defending Britain takes Largest selection in the west. (10 to $75. Fully 1 year terras. and a submarine, added to many place in the British Purchasing comreconditioned, guaranteed. INTERMOUNTAIN UTILITIES other smaller craft. mission, largely under the direc151 South State St. Salt Lake City. Utah Keels were laid during the month tion of Canadians and for one cruiser, nine destrojers and Australians. GUARANTEED WATCH REPAIRS three submarines, Washington reViscount Halifax is one of the . . . Watches repaired Mail $3.50 By vealed. Only most delightful and genteel persons or less. Returned C.O.D. service. anPrime Minister Churchill, ever to grace the embassy. He tries CRUSER, 14 W. 1st South, Salt Lake City But hard as he tries, he nouncing as the ships arrived that hard. reinforcements were being sent to cannot overcome the bubbling WATER SOFTENERS the Far East, said this had been Charles Peake, who minces around Hardest Water made soft as melted snow made possible by increased Amerhim as if his lordship still were WITH A RAINIER WATER SOFTENER ican aid in the Atlantic, bearing viceroy of India with white and 809 State. Clhieer Supply Co., S LC.Lt. DEALER FRANCHISES AVAILABLE out the general feeling that the crimson-costumeSikhs mounted U. S. navy was picking up much of on black chargers outside his palBUSINESS COLLEGE TRAINING the load in that ocean. ace, in Calcutta, instead of being in a city where politics are very Work available for students to earn boaid WOMEN: and room while attending College. Write earthy and where the congressa lot HENAGFR BUSINESS COLLEGE Keokuk from wife has man's In Uniform x 46 East Broadway Salt Lake City more influence than the pink tea Churchill had solemnly told the seen at the experts protocol usually house of commons that with' AmerUSED EQUIPMENT British embassy. ican aid and increased tempo of o o INTERMOUNTAIN MERCHANTS SUPPLY British production, the crisis of ma(Dealers in Bankrupt Stocks) WASHINGTON SOCIETY terial was at an end, but that 1942 We buy and sell all kinds of business fixtures Washington is a city where deand equipment. Cash registers, meat scales. would be dominated by a new crisis bate may rage furiously on the floor otTioe equip. 58 E. 4th So Salt Lake City that of man and woman power. of the senate, but simmer down to He asked authority to draft 3,000,-00- 0 GLASS g MIRRORS in the anteFRAMES friendly more men into the uniformed room or around the dinner table Latest Style framed or nnframed services, also to begin to draft afterward. This is not always the women, also for service in uniform, case, however, and sometimes Mirrors Polished Plate Glass though combatant work would be Washington different destrni to choone from at society becomes so Many done only by women who volun$1.5 and p. Table mirror. Pictares and aroused that it is dangerous to inframes. Pictures framed. teered. vite certain strong-mindepeople DeLuxe Glass Company Many other changes were to be to dinner. made in the conscription structure Glass for STary purpose This was true during the fight over 141 E. Broadway Salt Laka City as Britain prepared to enlist the Roosevelt's court bill; and Supreme of the nation's full power services Roosevelt-Willki- e electhe Vote Trickery Thwarted on the "right litUe. tight little isle." during tion and it is somewhat While Fupervising: national elecMen 18hi years old were to be true campaign; controverthe tions in Nicaragua, the TJ. S. macalled up. The age for compulsory sies during Oldneutrality hands at the game rines asked today. each native to dip his to was be raised service military of controversy, however, manage to finger in mercurochrome, so that from 41 to 51 years. keep their tempers. For instance, the tell-tal- e stain would aid in the This, he said, would yield 2,750,000 seated near each other at dinner the detection of "repeaters." men. He asked also permission to other night were Sen. Burt Wheeler, withdraw a government promise than whom there is no more enerthat no men under 20 would be sent getic isolationist, and Undersecreoverseas. He wants, he said, to send tary of the Navy Forrestal, Just as them overseas at a minimum of 19 energetically interventionist years. Wheeler was talking about the reWhat Comfort! As to the women for the draft, cent neutrality debate, telling how he explained he wants the right to Roosevelt forces influenced votes What Convenience! by conscript single women between 20 promising Jobs and dishing out paWhat a Location! and 30 years old for the uniformed tronage. Interrupted Undersecretary services, though not for combat Forrestal: "unless they volunteer." It was the "Senator, did the neutrality fight first indication that with modern reach the depths of your fight to mechanized war women might be the Wheeler-Raybur- n act?" pass just as acceptable as men for the (The Holding Corporation act.) fighting services. "No," shot back Senator Wheeler, "7ui--lil- t timi von "I didn't have the patronage." HOW MUCH: visit Silt Liki City! d The two men continued a Aid to Reds? bit tat, thatm, suhtn ... 70 prcttM discussion of neutrality, rxin...t it ft Urn n...nitpNMt, There was quite 'a controversy Wheeler maintaining that time . Iiw CiIIm S9 . . . l.w Wlatar Rilit. stand quarters in would prove that his anti-wa- r raging in lease-lenwas right After the war, he conWashington when it was revealed that the October and November tended, history would reverse the promises of aid to Russia had fallen present tide of war sentiment and far short of being carried out. there would be a revulsion of feelThe reasons were four-folbut ing if not a virtual French revoluBest Time for Ryegrass back of them all was an apparent tion. The best time to sow ryegrass to "And when the guillotine ax beinability of those in command to de prevent erosion and increase the orcide whether to send all Russia gins to fall, senator," said Forrestganic matter content is from the asked, and whether, if it was sent. al as he departed, "will you be my last of June to the last of Septemit would arrive at usable points attorney?" o o o ber. and in good time. FINNS VS. NAZIS Asked why this was, authorities had responded first that there was a Rubber From Papua Intelligence reports from Europe considerable lack of ships to carry for the first time indicate friction of Australia's rubber and Finnish the materials; second, there was between German Is coming from the island of Papus. troops on the eastern fronts. The difficulty getting the British to per mit the United States to cut down on Finns are tore because the Nazis British aid, sending the material to have been living off the country and Russia; third, there was a lack of have not been at all scrupulous in information as to whether Russia paying Finnish peasants for pigs, In the really could handle 350,000 tons a cows and chickens. West On top of this, the Nazis recently month at the port of Archangel. Low Prices My ousted Finnish children from an Because of a shortage of docks, are the stuff would have to be unloaded orphanage at Rovaninemi and used Revolutionary This staff. on the Ice, they said, and might be made it for the general Genuine Acrylic Plate. $22.95 the Finns boil with anger. lost or wasted. ruieanite Plate 56.50 The Russians replied that unloadArrjWt la tha an. CAPITAL CHAFF ing on the ice was a regular thing, awr of la The government Is paying out and that they could handle all the taath rnwmbllns mora money than ever before in hismaterial that way. One Washing-toniaatatara. Denial piatos mull who believed the nation tory for use of the wires and ether. ontia nMlni should send the promised aid said: Even with reduced rates for official at ttnnrraainna ardonly ordm from drntmu All work lnna by "The Russians can do the unloadmessages, the tolls for telegraph, ha nira Workmanahip and Union treare radio cable and no unions and are have telephone, ing They matmaH fully uaraMi willing to work 24 hours a day. They mendous. a official are inefficient but their willingnes Every time government makes them effective." picks up the telephone to make an outside call. Uncle Sam pays three Then there were some who frank' ly believe the promise made to Ruscents, the wholesale rate. In teler"T M I ii Ma"'i"sial'"t sia was to large, and impossible, graph messages the government gets a 40 per cent discount, though there under the conditions, of carrying yyy Is a minimum charge of 20 cents. out. lam WINSTON CHURCHILL IPere U. S. warships relieving his navy? The arrival of the first British capital ship ever to go to the Far East at the head of a fleet, the 35,000-toPrince of battleship Wales, electrified Singapore and was accompanied by the announce- x1 , i i & n n n push-butto- " , NOTE Vsi A ' isiVti ' BRITISH DIPLOMACY The British barring of Russian Ambassador Litvinoff from an airplane en route to the U.S.A. has increased Washington whispers that it is about time the British did something to clean up their mori bund diplomatic service and cut out snubs to people who are trying to help them. It has long been the belief of Americans, too polite to mention it, that the British embassy in Washington can make more mistakes to the square inch even than Mr. of the news Analyst and not 1it Vt; ' f Washington, y d means to do something inefficiently; "Get cracking" means get a Trip-o-li.- over-taxe- Slang terms every one uses now in England are "a lot of slap'' means a lot of excitement "to boob it," S Rome Discloses Plot to Kill Mussolini As Part of Widespread Revolt Plans; Soviet Claims Gains in Bitter Fighting; Nazis Stall British Campaign in Libya By BAUKIIAGE National Farm and Home Hour Commentator. 1343 H Street, N-Y."'V commander, and Warren Nobel, an automotive engineer. The idea was Washington, D. C. Is this statement true or false? to build a small cargo boat to be driven by automobile engines to "A popular military song now be-ilend-leas- e supplies across widely sung has in it a line to help get the triumphs of American soldiers the Atlantic. In addition to making the wheels in Africa." The answer is "true." But do not go round, these were the problems be alarmed, the song is the hymn of to be faced in such an undertaking: 1. Speed in construction. the United States marines and the 2. Method of building and use of line is: "From the halls of Monte" It material which would avoid use of zuma to the shores of shipyards and an under-supplrefers to our fight with the Barbary of expert shipbuilders. pirates in 1801. Nevertheless, the 3. Material which could be obUnited States army is now celebrattained from small mills not now of American another triumph ing arms in Africa not human arms busy. 4. Low cost. but tanks. Whether the British can As to design, the ships had to be drive those tanks to victory against one of Germany's foremost generals of shallow draft and produceable in large numbers, so that the loss of is another matter, but the superiority of our little iron wagons in one would mean small losses in mathe early engagements of this Brit- terial and manpower. ish offensive is evidence, military 'Otter' Passes Tests experts say, that the United States Weaver Associates took the job still has the mechanical genius that and produced the sleek "Sea Otter," in world. the can outmatch any a creature which has now passed all ofI have just talked with a high tests, a characteristically American ficer who has served with Amerbecause it was conceived ica's new first armored division. enterprise and executed on private initiative, He says that America has a mecha result of typical American invenanized army in the making that will tive genius. be superior to any Hitler can proThere are many remarkable techduce. This officer credits our sucnical qualities of this revolutionary cess to an old Ameican characteriwhich to the layman seems to stic which some people were afraid craft be a glorified outboard motorboat. n had run to seed in this Aside from technicalities some of age; the ability to do things with the features of the achievement are our hands. worth mentioning: Instead of makFine Mechanical Experts ing use of the large steel plates 'The new army," said the officer, for the hull usually used in ship"is developing the finest set of building, a smaller plate has been mechanical experts I ever saw. adopted. These small plates can be Americans are natural mechanics made in small steel mills, many of and it is coming out as a result of which up to now have been unable the training of our motorized units." to get materials because they are not When the army laid aside "May equipped for the work required by West," the heavy tank the United the big shipyards. In order to do States built first, and concentrated away with the need of expert hand on the smaller and far more mobile welders a special device has been unit mounted with a created so that the welding can be Because the gun, many people wondered if it done automatically. could stand up against the heavier ships are only 250 feet long they German tanks with their much high- can be taken through the Great er caliber weapons. In the first Lakes. They require such a shallow week's fighting in present of- draft that inland factories on rivers fensive in Libya the American creacan be utilized. The antition proved superior. So simple is their construction tank guns it carries because of their that great speed in manufacture can high muzzle velocity have a greater be attained. And when it comes to penetrating quality than the Ger- operation, instead of a skilled enmans' heavier guns. gineer any good auto mechanic who But the superior mechanical indoesn't get seasick can take care of tegrity, the greater speed, and the the engines. The automobile engine other qualities that go into the is virtually and is so cheap American product are only half the that it can be replaced economically battle. Just as horses have to be with spares which can be carried watered and fed, so tanks must be on board. cared for. Maintenance is a vital These sleek little otters cost less And this is where the than d factor. of the ordinary ship mechanical genius of the individual of the same size. Is important. When a tank division As soon as the practicability of rolls out, tools, spare parts, mathe "Sea Otter" was established the chinery must follow after. And the plans were submitted to the navy deLike all revolutionary American ordnance unit, really a partment rolling machine shop, which moves ideas many obstacles were- thrown In the wake of tha mobile units, is in the way of its consideration, but able to make any repairs short of it appealed to President Roosevelt those requiring the equipment of an Immediately, who, with Secretary of the Navy Knox, pushed it through. arsenal. At home, American motorized units have been submitted to all British Reasons practical endurance testa In the For Hope of Victory field that they would have to meet in In the last few weeks American battle except being shot at in action. Now, thanks to the fact that the ofllcials have been telling us here in Washington that the British are British in Africa are using Amertaking a much more optimistic view ican tanks, they are getting the necof of victory. I asked essary final test without risking onetheir chances Briton in a position prominent American lives. That is one reason why army of- to know, why this was the case. Here are the reasons, as he outlined ficers are celebrating America's them: bloodless battle of Africa. Perhaps 1. It has been demonstrated that somebody will write a song about it. American-Britiscollaboration can produce' the necessary sinews of Sleek Sea Otters war more rapidly and in greater Slang Terms NAVIES: Grid for Action Edward C. Wayne Japan Attacks the United States in the Pacific Without Warning. P Thursday, December 11, 1941 IT AH Declaration Japan Precipitates War in the Pacific Last week President Roosevelt, attempting to clarify tho Japanese issue formally had placed before the Nipponese government a demand that it explain why Japan had sent so many military, naval proband air forces into ably a jumping off place for an attack on Thailand or the Burma road, perhaps both. The' President did not consider this demand an ultimatum. Japan's reply was an unexpected air attack Sunday morning on the principal military and naval bases in the central and western Pacific, including the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, Singapore, Shan-hai- . Thailand, the ' Malay States, Wake and Gum Islands, as well as whatever shipping her submarine!?, planes and warships encountered in the Pacific. No reply whatsoever had been made to President Roosevelt's noles, when the attack occurred, but a reply was presented by Ambassador Nomura and Special Envoy Kurusu, approximately twenty minutes after the attack was made, notice of the attack reaching the State Department while the Japanese representatives were presenting their formal reply. Considerable loss of life and property, both civil and military, resulted from these attacks in the various points named. Within two hours after the attack a formal declaration of war was made by the Imperial Government of Tokyo, folof war lowed by declarations against Japan by Great Britain, Australia, China, United States, Canada, Costa Rica, and many of the republics In South America. As a result of the unwarranted attack the isolationist groups, including the .isolationist senators and representatives in Congress, as well as the America First committee, clamored for a declaration of war on Japan and the Axis, and the American people prepared to war with a united meet the front, with labor pledging its loyalty by calling off strikes within a f w hours after the announcement of hostilities. Indo-Chin- all-o- RUSSIAN: Victory Develops The Russian communiques had developed the extent of the Red army's outstanding victory of the war around Rostov, and finally had claimed that General Von Kleist's forces were fleeing from Timoshen-ko'- s armies right into a Soviet trap. Germany, admitting the retreat in the southern central front, had sought to belittle it as a mere "diversion" attack, and concentrated Its interest on the holes its forces were punching in the Moscow defense ring. Kuibyshev declared that the shattered remnants of Von Kleist's army was fleeing westward along the northern shore of the Sea of Asov, and that between it and n ROME: Admits Revolt Without Warning or es- cape was another large Russian force which presumably had struck southward from Khnrkov, and whose cutoff of the German supply line was rot only hampering retreat but meant eventual annihilation of Cie armies unless they could escape by ea. Chicago: A great city gave an outstanding welcome to the Sun, new morning newspaper, published by Marshall Field 111 with more f.infare than had ever greeted the formation of a newspaper. With an air of having quelled the whole thing, official Rome had admitted that ever since the start of the war there has been a huge fifth column organization busily engaged in sabotage of the nation's war effort. Sixty of the leaders had already been arrested and tried, it was reported and at least one plot to assassinate Mussolini had been quelled. Official Rome accused Britain and Russia of sponsoring the group, of financing it and directing it. Of chief interest was the fact that it was centered in Trieste, center of the largest Italian industrial concentration, and that much of its activity had been the blowing up of munitions factories. ' Q. ' it was claimed that 60 leaders had been arrested, the Ste-faThough ni report stated that 11 actual perpetrators of many of the out' rages were still at large. Listed as taken from the plotters were 450 pounds of high explosives, 149 hand grenades, 75 incendiary bombs, two machine guns, 5 pistols and thourevolvers, rapid-fir- e sands of rounds of ammunition. Though the report was confirmatory in many respects of previous stories of revolt and terrorism In Italy, many observers wondered chiefly at the purpose in making an official disclosure of the facts of the trial at Trieste. BRITAIN: Libyan Drive The British in Libya, basing their of the general tactic on a split-u- p German mechanized divisions into two parts, met their first setback when General Rommel's Fifteenth, "fighting recklessly and ferociously," according to the London communiques, succeeded in reuniting. Fortunately for the British, the union was formed inside the general trap on the Libyan "hump." And the royal navy rapidly rushed reinforcements ashore to the armies battling on land, making landings successfully at several points on the coast. British spokesmen at Cairo regarded the incident of the Juncture of the German forces simply as of the downs in an fight," said the imperial troops had not lost their confidence nor their initiative, and that British mechanized forces and airplanes still were dominating the fighting. He said: "In this fluid battle which had raged on the main front with fluctuations over an area of more than 1.C0O square miles for many days, the center of gravity has altered almost daily as our or the enemy's "one main tank concentrations massed for attack or counter-attack.- " That was as clear a picture as it was possible to obtain. It was not, however, immediately discernible from the war maps where Berlin, still worried over the situation, but a little mere confident, had anything to cheer about yet. STRIKE: Rail Settlement President Roosevelt disclosed details cf the settlement which had averted the rail strike of 1.200,000 members of the brotherhoods and had resulted in an estimated pay incre.ise of $200,000,000 to 300,000, 00D. The basic pay of 350.000 operating 75 cents a employes was raised of 850.000 tay. Tha base pay was raised 80 workers cents a day. Both were made retroactive to September 1 on a partial basis of these raises. 11evrU,nd: Tha first rlveUes tank was to be turned out this month at a factory hera. Tot new Unk wi be cdSied tha UA. hard-boile- d y d story-tellin- d good-nature- d One-twelf- th 00 n rr it |