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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- S. NEPHI. UTAH LABOR PEACE: Dove Hovers Near WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Power of Russ Offensives Peril Nazi Synthetic Rubber Industry Achieved Within One Year Armies From Moscow Line to Caucasus; Axis Stakes Africa Defense on Bizerte; Germans Seize French Port of Toulon Speedy Adoption of Rubber Manufacturing Program Shaves 24 Years From Time Required to Launch New Industry. (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. By BAUKIIAGE AVujs shortly thereafter, announcement will be made of the creation of what may become one of the world's greatest industries synthetic rubber manufacturing. By that time probably ten plants will be assured of operation the three biggest will make synthetic rubber out of alcohol, which means a market for the farmer's grain. If the program marches according to schedule, the United States will have achieved within one year what usually takes a quarter of a century to accomplish the building of a new industry. This is the message that William Jeffers, president of the Union Pacific railway, now rubber adminis- trator gave me. Mr. Jefters presides at a desk in one of the offices of the War Production board and appears to be one man taken out of the American business world who believes that you can get things done even within the in Washington, government. He looks like what he is. A railroad man who came up from the bottom, still carries a union card and usually mentions it. He is slow spoken, a stocky prophet of the practical, skeptical of the theoretical, who talks about his' " organization of successful "business men" who "know their stuff." I asked him first if he found much difference between working for the government and running a railroad. "Yes," he answered. Then he smiled and took his time before he went on. "This is a democracy I suppose the delays are necessary. But I haven't had much trouble." He looked up. "I make my own decisions. I got that Ford plant overnight." (He engineered the negotiations for the Ford tire manufacturing plant in Detroit for shipment to Russia.) "two-fisted- -- Using What We Have "1 have a h organization businessmen who know their stuff. We are going to do what we are supposed to do on schedule. On our own schedule. We have the information we want and In a few weeks we'll know just how many plants we are going to have, what their capacity will be and the order in which they will start producing. "My first job," Jeflers went on as he lifted his 220 pounds and walked around the desk, "is keeping the country on rubber with what we've got. That means reclamation and conservation. Then it's to produce the synthetic rubber we need to keep going for the duration. Meanwhile I watch that stock pile of pure rubber we have, like a hawk. "Here are the ABC's," he said, motioning me to a chair beside a table on which was standing what looked like an open sample case. It contained a number of bottles and a few other objects properly labeled. He pointed to the first bottle. "This is full of shreds," he said. "It is part of a whole tire, casing and all, cut up." He pointed to the next bottle. "This," he said, "is the same stuff after it has been soaked in oil and acid and the pieces of casing Boated out. You can see the pieces of metal in it still." He showed me a screen with pieces of metal on it. "Here is the filter which strains out the metal a lot of meta) gets into a tire." There were a lot of pieces sticking to the bottom of the filter. "These next bottles," he went on, 'show the way the stuff looks after each successive process of refining. And here is the reclaimed rubber.' he said as he picked up a black strip. Then he pointed to a new tire leaning against the wall. "This tire is made of reclaimed rubber." I felt I said so. It. It seemed normal. "It isn't as good as the tires you get today." he said, "but it is as g od as the ones you got ten years of two-fiste- When Adolf Hitler tore up the Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1343 II Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. By the time this is written or top-notc- d PRO." Then we came to part two part two of his Job, which is the production of synthetic rubber. He showed me a yellowish object which felt like rubber. "This is neophrene synthetic rubber made of carbide. It is better than rubber, but it is very expensive." B R I E F S There are two bottles, the contents of which looked just alike to me a milky substance. One was the pure latex from the rubber tree. The other was a synthetic product made from alcohol of petroleum. "I am not a chemist," Jeffers said, "and I don't intend to be one. Those are just the ABC's." He went back to the immediate problem before him, which is to keep America rolling until the synthetic factories start to work. "Are you going to be able to do that?" I asked. "It is not impossible if everybody plays the game," he said. "I know you can't regiment the American people and I am not in favor of trying to do it, but when the people understand what we are trying to do for them, I think they will cooperate. I have gotten splendid cooperation already from big business, little business and individuals. It is reassuring to learn how people react when they know what we are doing. I get all kinds of letters and I answer all of them. "When the people realize how important it is to help us help them In save rubber, they will the last war we had a lot of flags and parades, went down to the train to see the fellows off with a band. There doesn't seem to be any of that in this war. It might be a But when the people good thing. to do." will do that and keep the country on rubber meanwhile and means big little business and the business, folks "who eat in the kitchen" as Mr. Jeffers puts it. "They have the balance of power." he says. About Wasted Coal According to the United States Office of the Bituminous Coal Consumers' Counsel bituminous or "soft" coal is the backbone of America. It supplies industry with more than one-haof the power and energy required to produce the weapons of war. Creates nearly 55 per cent of the electricity used in our nation. Heats more than 50 p.-cent of the homes of America Four out of five of all the railroad loco motives of the country get their power from bituminous coal Twenty-fiv- e million tons of "soft" coal will be wasted by the domestic lf consumer this year unlrss more than usual care is exercised in the operation of home heating furnaces. Women in some branches of the The death penalty can be pronounced on Belgians who slaughter may get some of those wooden nickels we used to hear so much about after all. Senator Wagner has introduced a bill allowing the treasury to make coins under ten cents out of "any kind of material." Buy War Bond people now that animals without German reaped frustration, as the Russian army mammoth new offensive brought relief to Stalingrad and threatened disaster to the Nazi's entire expedition beyond the Don river. Gathering steamroller momentum e on a front the new Russian drive pierced deep into the area, slashing the flanks of the German wedge converging on Stalingrad, cutting the two railroads supplying the Nazi forces, and capturing dozens of towns and cities. One early Moscow communique reported that more than 100,000 German troops had been killed or cap- 'tured in the first phases of the of 200-mil- fensive. That Marshal Timoshenko's strategy had been well planned was indicated by the effectiveness of the pincer movements it thrust out north and south of Stalingrad and southeast toward Rostov. This provided a trap for Nazi divisions between the Red spearheads and Stalingrad. That the Soviet offensive was even g more than Moscow at first reported was indicated by German far-flun- It was "Jap by Jap" as the American forces pushed slowly forward around Buna and Gona in New Guinea. record-breakin- cuffs d are forbidden? Don't worry, the cloth Is turned over to the Red Cross and rewoven. SOUTH PACIFIC: 'Jap by Jap' Adolf Hitler's costliest venture of 1942 We g i ) titata f MARSHAL TIMOSHENKO . . . His pincers hurt. high commancl communiques revealing that the Russian army had struck 600 miles to the north of Stalingrad, on the Rzhev front, west of Moscow. This meant danger to the Nazi winter lines in the area bordering Latvia, and the necessity of spreading German manpower thinner by bringing more forces into action at widely scattered points. Favorable as the outlook was, however, military experts cautioned temperance in analyzing the reports. Germany, they pointed out, still occupied vast strategic and industrial areas of European Russia. The Nazis had encountered fierce Soviet resistance last winter and still had emerged to start this year's The Russ were on the offensives. move, but a tough campaign was ahead. NORTH AFRICA: Axis Last Stand : it l. HIGHLIGHTS ROME: Mobilization of workers from many parts of Italy for repair arid reconstruction work in Genoa, Turin, Milan and other northern cities "devastated by attacks of enemy aviation" was reported under way here by Fascist leaders. This report was coupled with recent official statements urging city dwellers to move to rural areas unless needed in war work. jr 7 ! DEPARTMENT zi RAZOR BLADES KENT BLADES U I El. ' Reading the Papers Out Loud: This is not the first time that American battle flags have been carried to the Mediterranean. They were there ver a century ago for the same purpose the extermination of pirates At that time we fought for the freedom of the seas. Now we fight for the freedom of America. If you said that a little while ago, you were called a warmonger, an interventionist or a soandso . . . But no one today doubts that America is safer because men from Montana and Georgia, Vermont and Nevada are throwing piPHILLIP MURRAY rates out of Tunis and Algeria . . . This AEF is more than a lesson in Unity means strength. It is a milestone in Post-wa- r as well, as the current geography. national responsibility. between American emergency unity Rome and Berlin now know that labor factions was urged by the and Libya are our next miliTripoli of Federathe American presidents But their chief tary objectives. tion of Labor and the CIO in is that world freedom is our speeches from the same platform be- worry war aim . . . They know that while fore a war relief meeting which atone camp exists of both while concentration tracted representatives one Nazi propaganda cell unions. functions and while one squad of Pointing out that if labor factions Axis troops resists our arms will could unite together in war relief remain in the field . . . America work they could likewise carry unity has liberated North Africa because into their dealings with each other, a free America can only exist in a President William Green of the AFL free world . . . The full strength of d sounded the keynote for America will continue to march . . . peace negotiations between the Because the road to Berlin is the unions. only way back to Main St. Phillip Murray, CIO president, declared: "I have no desire to be an The that went on obstructionist. I never was and I against whispering the British is now being dinever will be." Organized labor "in rected against the French . . . all countries was the first group to Maybe it's wrong to keep Darlan on realize that Hitler was a threat to the job, but Gen. Eisenhower got civilization," Murray added. that far by ignoring the clamor clique, so why should he listen to DAKAR: them now? You can get a rap against Giraud, too, if you turn your Ripe Harvest Like a ripe plum, Dakar and the ear in a certain direction . . vast French colony of West Africa DeGaulIe has an enemy section fell into the hands of the United over here, and so have most of the military leaders our forces Nations. While this action had been French are dealing with . . . It's the same expected since the collaboration of old line you heard against Churchill, Admiral Jean Darlan with the AlWavell, Ritchie, etc. You'll hear lies, it was nevertheless welcome, it again if we happen to line up for not a single drop of blood was with the Arabs or the Hottentots. shed in its acquisition. Eecause it's easier to say someFor 2Vz years Dakar had been a than to know something. thing gun pointed at the Western hemithreat sphere, with the Nobody has lined up more eagerly of Axis fingers on the trigger. Now the war causes than the Hollythat threat was removed. But this for . They have conwas not all the good news, for at wood workers . their time and their talents least 15 French warships and 50,000 tributed the service men and French troops came under Allied to amusing bond sales. The spirit building up control. . Then out there is right, too . Despite feeble protests from Mar- they tip over the works by making shal Petain in Vichy, Admiral Dar- a flicker that gives people the idea lan proclaimed his command of the that it's still 1928 in California. The Allied under area, supervision. latest to get the hammers is "Once Searching their atlases, Amer- Upon a Honeymoon." .Several of the icans learned that French West Af- N. Y. reviewers were shocked that rica is the largest unit of the French a picture could take ruined Warsaw empire, embracing 1,815,768 square as the setting for a piece of low miles and a population of 15.000.000. comedy. This is the third flicker Dakar is one of the world's strategic that has earned rebukes for the ports, with facilities sufficient to ac- movie makers. They will soon have commodate a large part of the Allied to start reading the New York refleets. views with smoked glasses. They're too blinding fcr the naked eye. POST-WA- R ... ... ... 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Jars 30f . s" Mother of Misery Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness that Indolence is justly considered the mother of misery. Robert Burton. vnil i uu Uiniiru UUUI1.U uiun ourr Ln rnnu rnumv iinu enrrrn ever-prese- It was clear that Adolf Hitler meant to make the Allies pay a good price for possession of the last key Axis strongholds in North Africa. For he had concentrated air power and manpower in Bizerte, the "Gibraltar" of Tunisia and was using the short, overnight shuttle route between Sicily and the African mainland to reinforce his garrisons there. Despite the vigilance of American and British air and sea power it had been possible for Hitler to move convoys across the narrow straits under cover of darkness. The American and British forces demonstrated their will and capacity to get the job done by the steady encirclement of the Axis-hel- d ports of Tunis and Bizerte, despite the first downpours of the North African rainy season. Air warfare was on the increase with the Axis getting the worst of it. ' : i British ai;d American planes harassed the defenders of Bizerte with bombing attacks. Allied bombers raided tie Gcla airport In Sicily ADM. WILLIAM F. HALSEY and attai ned Axis shipping. Mean. . . ictirry paid dn idrnds. while RAF detachments swooped to carry the title of admiral. The down on Tripoli, supply port for others now serving are Adm. Krnest Rommel's Afrika Korps. J. King, commander of the United Four hundred miles east of Tripoli, Slates fleet; Chester W. Nimitz, head the British eighth army had musof the Pacific fleet; Royal E. Inger-snltered men. tanks, guns and planes Atlantic fleet commander, and for its showdown battle with' the batHarold R. Stark, commander of tered legions of Marshal Rommel in American naval forces in Europe. the El AnhHla defile. fV- A CLASSIFIED . hard-presse- d military service are taking special coursrs in jiujitsu. short-legge- n Even as the end appeared near for the enemy it was learned that he had been successful in landing fresh reinforcements. Discovery that these new troops had been landed came when identirealize that the most vital thing in fication of enemy dead showed our war effort is saving rubber, marine insignia different from that we are going to see something tanfound on previous Jap casualties. These new uniforms and the excel, gible." At that point Mr. Jeffers dropped lent physical condition of the troops an aside, one of the little human confirmed recent landings of strong remarks that are typical of him, reinforcements. Special markings tinged though it is with a touch of on the uniforms indicated that these irony "Maybe if the people didn't landing forces of shock troops had run around so much they could visit evidently been sent to relieve the their neighbors and they might Japs being pushed make friends and get better friends steadily backward by sustained Allied drives. that way." For almost two weeks Jap naval Rubber and Economics "Rubber affects the social life of forces had been prowling off the New Guinea shore trying to get land the people, no doubt the whole on to the island. U. S. fliers American economy, rightly or forces wrongly, is built on rubber and we were able to sink four destroyers and a light cruiser while this action can't change it. Look at the farmer. We have to have food. The was going on. Then under the cover farmer can't go back to the horse of darkness and with adverse weathand wagon. If he could get the er prevailing the Jap troops were horses, we couldn't build the wagons finally landed. While this made conditions more now. He has to get the crops to difficult for the Allied forces trying market it all comes back to transto drive the Japs off the island, there portation. "We'll keep them on rubber. Gas was no letup in the fierceness of the rationing is rough justice. It works attack. From General MacArthur's hardships on some. Some take ad- headquarters came reports that the advance had been vantage of it it's the man who has U. three gallons more than he needs counted in yards and even feet as and uses them to ride around the the inner defense circle of the enemy country that is the waster. But I was pierced. think we'll get Meanwhile on Guadalcanal, U. S. I went back to problem two: the troops continued to advance slowly building of the synthetic industry. east and west of Henderson airfield. "The government will own the plants," I said, "won't that make HALSEY: post-wa- r problems?" He said to me, "Yes, the government will own the 'One of Five' With swiftness the plants and the product will be manufactured on what amounts to a 'man- senate confirmed President Rooseagement fee' basis. A lot of other velt's action in promoting Vice Adthings," he said, "will be made un- miral William F. Halsey, leader of the victorious American fleet in the der the same conditions." "But I'm not interested in post- Solomon Islands sea battle, to the war problems." Jeffers went on, rank of full admiral. Thus thoughtful, dogged Halsey "my job is to help win the war. Un- became the fifth U. S. naval officer less bugs develop that we can't take care of, we'll do it. And if we do. we'll accomplish in a year and a half what it usually takes 25 years by llaukhnne What do they do with the ends of the pants tailors have cut off for German- armistice and marched into unoccupied France back in early November his armies the port of Toulon where the French fleet was known to be based. Such generosity lasted but two short weeks and then came the Nazi order to demobilize the army and navy of Vichy France in what was termed a move to counteract the gains of the United Nations in North Africa. This meant that Toulon was being seized by the Germans and with it, the French fleet. Such action was taken, said the Nazis, because of "breaches of honor" on the part of French officials. A Berlin announcement telling of the occupation of Toulon admitted that "part of the French fleet has scuttled itself." It was also admitted that the French forces in that area had "resisted" for a few hours before the city fell to the combined German-Italiaarmies. -French r Rubber Production RUSSIAN FRONT: Reds Turn Table FRENCH FLEET: Toulon Occupied Thursday, December 3, 1942 in the week's news PLANS: There's no group as superstitious as show people. They fear more . . postwar program to put nations now jinxes than a voodoo tribe under the Axis yoke back on their One of their pet superstitions is that always die in feet and able to produce as well as their colleagues consume were taken with the ap- threes. It's just happened again, pointment by President Roosevelt of with May Robson, Edna Mae Oliver Gov. Herbert H. Lehmann of New and Laura Hope Crews passing York as director of foreign relief away. Earlier in the year a Hollywood trio died within a short time and rehabilitation. each other John Barry more and Sources close to the administra- of two producers, J. Walter Ruben and tion indicated that the program envisions an extension of the "Good Bernie Hyman. Neighbor" policy to the rest of the Brooks Atkinson gave a tender world not only by this country, but M. Cohan. Best column to by the rest of the United Nations. of all was George his discussion of "Over Specifically they intimated that fu- There," which was the "theme ture economic solidarity could best be promoted by raising the stand- song" of the last war. Mr. Atkinard of living and wealth of poorer son tells you why. "Although 'Over and smaller nations without hurting There' has the strangest and most unlikely tune," said Mr. A., "it is the economy of the larger and richone of the songs almost any Amerer countries. on the spur of the ican can The United States cannot debase moment. sing It is a perfect expression its own economy to build other na- of a popular emotion" . . . What tions, official spokesmen pointed out, more could you ask of a war song? in but it can assist them improving So far there have been good ditties their own conditions. Such improvefor the service branches Air Corps, ment would benefit this country as Marines, etc. but nothing for the well as the rest of the world. civilians to get hot about . . Mr. 'Good-Neighborlines- HOT If you suffer from hot flashes, dizzi- ness, distress of "irregularities", are weak, nervous. Irritable, blue at times due to the functional "middle-age- " period in a woman's life try Lydla E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound the medicine you can buy today that's made especially for women. Pinkham's Compound has helped thousands upon thousands of women to relieve such annoying symptoms. Follow label directions. 's Compound Is worth trying! best-kno- Pink-ham- An Economist Take care to be an economist in prosperity ; there is no fear of your being one in adversity. Zimmerman. s' First steps toward a world-wid- e . 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Authority to construct a second new oil pipe line from Southwest oil fields to the New area, providing 200,000 barrels daily to the Eastern Seaboard has been requested by the Petroleum Administration, Harold L. Ickes, oil co- ordinator, revealed. Construction of the new pipe line would take from 9 to 12 months if authority and priorities were granted, Mr. Ickes told a house of representatives subcommittee. The new project would supplement a line already being built from Longview, Texas, to Norris, 111., and from thence to New Jersey. TREASON: Trail's End The end of the treason road came for Six Gcrman-boChicago citizens LONDON: British salvage experts when three men were sentenced to have the j b narrowed down to so death and their wives to 25 years fine an art, that cans of, powdered in the federal penitentiary for aidhousehold milk now have their coning Herbert Hans Haupt, executed tents stamped on the tin instead of Nazi saboteur who was one of the a paper wrapper: bus tickets are band of eight conspirators landed by of nn inch thinner than in submarine in this country last June. The six sentenced were Hans Max prewar days; and government typists by closer spacing and other Haupt, Erna Haupt, Walter Otto economies now save 8,000 tons of Froehling and Lucille Frochling, Otto Wergin and Kate Wergin. paper every year. Cohan knew how to stir up people. He might have spun out another "Over There." For that reason, and too many others, he died too soon. Two lasses were srhmoosing over their daiquiris, wishing the war would end and things get back to normal. What's normal? . . That's when the Stock Market fell on its kisser and bankrupted every, body who's anybody . . That's when Bundists strutted in Madison Square Garden and challenged the law to make something of it That's when people lived in tar paper shacks and peddled apples on the corner . . . That's when the dust storms shooed okies all over . . the . nation. 111 1 11 vou visitwr I ,) loom) ot' 111 mM f !I r"1"" HI ill COFFEE SH0F- 11 11 150.000 NEW L IB "i"' - 11 Things I Never Knete 'Til ftow: That you shouldn't applaud at the end of "The Star Spangled Banner." (It would be Just as correct to applaud a minister's prayer.) That when your doctor writes on the prescription: "Gossypium don't get panicky. (It only means absoibent cotton.) purl-factu- That Miles Standish was one of the few warriors correctly chrin. tened. Miles, in Latin, means s.,j. dier. 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