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Show THE Pasre Two WEEKLY NEWS RUML PLAN: ANALYSIS In Again, Out Again U. S. Invasion of Attu Is Second Step Allied Food Conference In Drive to Oust Japs From Aleutians; Discount Rumors of Nazi Italian Rift As Allies Plan Heavy Knockout Blows Envisions World Council -- International Group Would Be Empowered to Oversee Production, Distribution of 'Bread And Beef to Feed Society of Nations. Thursday, May 27, 1943 NEPHI, UTAH TIMES-NEW- are expressed In these column, they are these of (EDITOR'S NOTE : When opinions Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ! this newspaper.) . Released by Western Newspaper Union. Passed by the senate, the Ruml plan was rejected by the house for the third time, in the wake of an open letter from President Roosevelt indicating he would veto such a KJ bill. As a result of the action, some form of legislation was put squarely up to a conference committee of the house and Yjtf drew Pearson Washington, D. C. SUBMARINE ANTIDOTE A history making event took place senate. The committee had two bills as a recently in the long war against the submarine. Official tests were made basis on which to map of the helicopter, which, despite opOne was the senate measure position of the navy, has been urged modeled after the Ruml plan, all of either the 1942 or 1943 by officials of the army and War income tax, whichever is lower, and Shipping administration for antionly assessing incomes in excess of submarine patrol. Within a few hours after the pubnormal. The other was the house d bilL only wiping out the regular 6 lication of a story per cent tax plus the first surtax on this subject, a group of officials rate of 13 per cent on 1942 income. from Washington, including highly interested and highly placed officials In both cases, a 20 per cent withof the British admiralty, British shipholding tax, would be taken out of all mission, and the RAF, stood in weekly or monthly wages after de- ping amazement on the deck of a tanker ductions of lawful exemptions to apoffshore while a little airplane with ply on the 1943 tax. Farmers and a rotary wing on top landed professional people would pay on andcrazy took off from a deck space not their estimated tax in quarterly inmore stallments, making a final settle- itself. than twice the size of the plane ment on March 15 of the following It was a Sikorsky helicopter, pilotyear. ed by a boyish colonel who reminded everybody of Charles Lindbergh PRODUCTION: in his younger days H. F. Gregory, On Schedule from Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, "On all important categories in who knows more about helicopters the President's (war production) than anybody else In the air force. program we are up to and ahead of Gregory made 24 landings on the schedule." tanker during the two days of trials. With these words, War Production He operated under all conceivable Board Chairman Donald Nelson de- conditions when the tanker was ridscribed the nation's booming induswhen she was runing at trial effort. Only in the matter of ning at anchor, 15 knots, when she was reservadid he speak with airplanes headed into the wind, and when she tion, declaring the situation was one was running with the wind. with emphasis now placed on quality The War Shipping administration, rather than quantity. which supplied the tanker, had ofChanging needs of the services fered to remove the mast, to provide may necessitate some alterations in a safer landing space. But invenproduction plans. Nelson said, echo- tor Sikorsky scorned that as "too ing reports that revised schedules easy." Accordingly, his plane was have slowed the tempo of some set down by Colonel Gregory in the plants while increasing it in others. space between the mast and the Tank production has been chopped, deck house, with only a clearNelson revealed, since Great Britain ance on either side. and Russia have reduced their estig 'Eyes.' mates of their needs. To the British and American shipping experts whose ships are going GERMANY: to the bottom every day, the sigRuhr Flooded nificance of this feat was inescapFlying at an altitude of 100 feet, able. They firmly believe the helifour - engined British Lancasters copter can be used to supplement dropped heavy mines in the huge the escort vessels for the greater reservoirs of the Eder and Mohne protection of merchant ships in condams ' in northwestern Germany. voy. Then British airmen watched the It is too light to carry much strikmines swirl into the dams' sluices, ing power of its own, except a few explode and break open big breaches rockets, but it can fly out ahead of waters the convoy, hover over the sea, spot through which the pent-u- p roared to deluge the Ruhr and Wes-s- the wolf pack, and report by radio to the escort vessels. valleys below. This saves Hydro-electri- c stations throughout movement of the escort vessels, the area were crippled by the rising which in present practice have to maneuver constantly around the flood waters; traffics on the vital canal, which unites all of merchant ships, with heavy conGermany's river transportation, was sumption of fuel oil. disrupted, and the important indusMoreover, the helicopter, without trial city of Kassel and others be- firing a shot, brings alarm to the yond were inundated. prowling submarine and causes the to dive. Reports reaching Switzerland said at least 4,000 people had been killed Earlier acceptance of the helicopand 120,000 made homeless by the ter was prevented by the butorrents. The German high com- reau of aeronautics, whichnavy's contends mand admitted property damage that the machine is defenseless and casualties "were very high as against the guns of a submarine. walls of water rushed through pop- The defenders reply that the plane ulated districts." cart dart about so crazily that it is too evasive to be easily hit. Moreover, helicopters can be built for $15,000 each, and the loss of a few would not be serious, compared with the loss of escort vessels. In any case, the matter has gone beyond the stage of argument. The War Shipping administration is determined to have helicopters, and if the navy won't come along, WSA will make a deal with the coast guard to train pilots, and another deal with the war department to place the planes on its ships. o. for-givi- By BAUKHAGE NeuiM Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. Back in the summer of 1940, I sat In a chair under a whispering tree d and looked out over a wide and The mountains were lawn. about us. We were resting in a nest carved out of the wilderness and equipped with all the luxuries that a pampered human could demand. Lovely, indolent women in sports bar-bere- dresses sat at tables under colored indolent umbrellas. Handsome, youths in blazers lolled beside them. Negro servants padded about with tall, cooling and expensive drinks. I call it a "nest." I belonged there just like a cuckoo but I enjoyed it. It was all right. It helped circulate the money (I was a guest at a bankers' convention). But I thought back. Six months before I had ridden in an army transport plane over shuddering Europe. I looked about and saw the easy, harmless but useless life about me, made possible by the easy harvesting of America's riches. I sighed (a little enviously) and said to myself: "This can't last." ' It is a strange coincidence that today, at this very same spot, representatives of the United Nations are gathering to try to write the prescription for the third freedom freedom from want. This gathering isn't concerned with summer resorts de luxe although it meets at one. It is concerned with the proposition: We must raise the standard of living all over the globe so that the underfed can produce enough of their handiwork to exchange it for enough to eat something they just never had before. It is just too big for me to grasp, but what's a heaven for, asks Browning, if our reach doesn't exceed our grasp? World Council This plan envisions an international council at the head of a system of administrative bodies among which would be an agricultural council, supported by an agricultural bank (all this international) which would direct groups studying and applying putrition standards, direct ing the supply of products, storing surpluses, shifting crops to balance supply and demand, maintaining storehouses of crops, adjusting processing of perishable crops, developing new markets, taking care of relief in devastated or stricken areas, advising and assisting the poorer population groups to increase their efficiency and consumption. In other words, these people who have spent hours and months and devoted arduous labor to working out this idea are trying to furnish the plan for economic machinery to hold up the hands of the political eflort of a league of nations, new style the bone and sinew, the bread and beef to feed a society of nations joined together under one political umbrella of world Such an idea is laughed out of court in advance by the folk who talk of crazy dreamers, impractical s and the like. Maybe it Is impossible. But a lot of people are saying: "Well, for heaven's sake, let's try it, let's try anything nothing can cost more in blood, weat and dollars than war." The United States proved a lot of things were possible under the sharp lash of war which would have been sneered into oblivion If they had been blueprinted before Pearl Harbor. Take an egg, for example. Nothing up our sleeves. Just an egg. "Before the war." says frank Wilson of the department of commerce, "when Biddy, the hen, laid an egg in Cole county, Missouri, her subsequent cackle of satisfaction was based on the anticipation that that egg might get as far as Sedalia. St. Louts or, on rare occasions, New York." Then Hitler dreamed up a world war and somebody dreamed up thing called Today, Biddy's product goes around the world. ever-norm- long-hair- lend-lease- . Dehydration Scientists invented dehydration and process, as far as eggs are conie cerned, is only a yenr and a half old. Before the war, only 10 firms dried egtfs to any extent and most of those dried albumen only. Today, according to Mr. Wilson, 15 130 egg-dryin- g K I E V S increase because of the excellent sampling and the ease of shipment. You may not be able to deliver your quart of milk from the Wisconsin milk shed to the Hottentot's front porch but you can get your dried milk or dehydrated eggs there if you can adjust things so the Hottentot can produce enough to trade for what you have to sell. This applies to many other products. At present, if everybody could buy them, all the shirts made in peacetime wouldn't produce a shirt and a half per back. It's the old story right down the line we can invent the machinery to make anything. We are away behind in our inventions to improve the human lot. It's no harder but it takes more imagination. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, they say. The problem with humans is different. You've got the hungry man and the table and the food, but so far you haven't been able to fix things so you can lend-leas- Russ-Ja- p Friendship And American Ships May 7, Washington had the first official explanation of the many Aleutian bombings of the island of Kiska. It said: "United States air forces have established military positions, including an airfield on Amchitka and have been in occupation of this island since JanuOn Jap-hel- gasoline this summer, if they can show need for extra mileage, the CPA has announced 1918, American war expenditures were only IB '.i billion dollars in 1943. they will exceed 100 billion dollars. d ary." same day, the Associated Press sent out a dispatch dated "February 16 (delayed)." I might say, "I'll say it was delayed." It began 'this way: "Despite a series of eight Japanese bombing raids, this American airbase, only a few minutes flight from Kiska island went into operation today." I quote all this to show what a highly confidential war we are running. By the time this sees print perhaps while I'm writing these lines Kiska may be in American hands after a land invasion which it is admitted is the only way we can oust the enemy from this spot. If the Japs have gone by the time you read this, there will be a sigh of at least partial regret in some quarters. The reason is this. As long as the Japs are on an island HkeKiska (or Guadalcanal) more Japs have to try to reach them, to bring them supplies and keep them alive. And while that goes on, the Americans have a chance to keep enemy wounds open. Japs themselves are expendable. They are cheap, the sun god has a lot of them and he's generous in spending them. But he hasn't so many ships or so many So killing Japs doesn't supplies. bother the Mikado nearly as much as sinking his ships. That is one reason the upturning of the last Jap toes on any of their The bases will be a stolen, source of at least partial regret. There is another reason. Day in and day out, from Vancouver and Seattle, secret ships, loaded with supplies for our Russian ally have been calmly sailing away past the Kiska and Attu, under the Japanese guns in the narrow waters that lead to Vladivostok. Now that was a little matter approved by Russia and Japan who hate and fear each other privately but officially are "friendly nations." The question arises now: When and if we trounce the little men out of the stronghold they have dug with their fingernails In the rocky Attu and Kiska, will they be as willing to let us keep on shipping supplies to Russia? Perhaps it doesn't matter. By that time, which may be now, the situation may have changed. The interesting thing is that the situation does change and thanks to the cen- sorship, nobody knows it until the knowledge ceases to be aid and comfort to the enemy. But it's tough on a newsman. far-flun- g Jap-hel- d by liauhhage German seamstress was sentenced to six months imprisonment when she answered an advertisement and demanded her pay in eggs and dairy products Instead of money, according to a Nazi press report received by the Office of War Information. When the girl was refused, the report sa i.i. she lft saying that she hi:l enrich customers who would comply with such demands. A Merry-Go-Roun- e lead him to it. . . . Victory gardeners planning to cul- tivate plots away from their homes will be eligible for extra rations of In plants, big ones, mostly scattered through the Middle West, are drying eggs. Wilson predicts that before the war is over, 35 per cent of America's three billion dozens of eggs will be treated for processing annually. And so the fragile egg, formerly shipped only short distances, can travel anywhere. How great the American market for dehydrated eggs will be depends on to what extent the consumer takes to the idea, undoubtedly world consumption will Pictured are members of the delegation of the United States to the United Nations conference on food and agriculture at Hot Springs, Va. Left to right, seated: Murray D. Lincoln, executive secretary of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation; Miss Josephine Schain; Judge Marvin Jones, conference chairman. Standing: Paul H. Appleby, undersecretary of agriculture; W. L. Clayton, assistant secretary of commerce, and Thomas Parran, M.D., surgeon general, U. S. Public Health Service. ATTU: Second Step in Aleutians Firmly established on Attu, westernmost of the Aleutian islands in Japanese hands, strong American forces pushed forward against bitter opposition by the enemy. First to admit the American landings, the Japs also were first to confess that heavy U. S. aerial and naval bombardments provided an irresistible cover for a continuing stream of reinforcements. Presaging their defeat on Attu, the Japs made much of the claim that their troops were fighting numerically superior forces. y In Washington, Col. R. Ernest declared that the attack on Attu was the second step in the drive to oust the Japs from the Aleutians. The first, he said, was the American occupation of Amchitka and Adak to establish bases from which to strike not only Attu but also Kiska, 172 miles to the east. Du-pu- FOOD CONFERENCE: Post-Wa- r Agriculture RECIPROCAL TRADE: Reneival Fought Renewal of President Roosevelt's authority to negotiate reciprocal trade treaties with foreign countries was the subject of heated debate in congress, with successful efforts to limit the life of the President's power to two years. Claimed as a great contribution to stable international relations by its advocates, and opposed as a dangerous threat to our tariff system by its foes, the Reciprocal Trade act passed through the house only after r limitafierce debate and a tion on its existence. Inspired by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, administration forces contended that renewal of the act now was necessary to assure the world that we were prepared to participate in the revival of international commerce and stabilize employment and marketing in other countries. Foes of the act said it had failed to avert war since its creation in 1934. They tried to limit its operations by offering amendments which would allow congress to review treaties; permit domestic producers to testify against provisions of any treaty, and prevent the importation of products when they sold for less than the American cost of production. two-yea- Reconstruction of agriculture in Europe after the war was the principal subject of discussion among the representatives attending the United Nations food conference in Hot Springs, Va. According to Marvin H. Jones, chairman of the parley and head of the U. S. delegation, conferees WHEAT: are chiefly concerned with getting May Increase Acreage the farmlands of reclaimed counWith some officials claiming curtries back into production. rent consumption of wheat will run Problems connected with such an 500 million bushels over the 1943 effort, such as adequate distribucrop of 690,000.000 bushels, the War tion of supplies and materials, and Food administration has been dethe planning for the production of bating about the possibility of incrops which would furnish local pop- creasing acreage allotment next ulations with nutritional diets, were year by 20 or 25 per cent. If the WFA has hesitated in debrought into study. The conference, in the nature of ciding on an increase, it has been a discussion, brings no binding for fear that production of other imagreements among the nations, portant staples like corn, flaxseed, Jones said. Representatives will soybe'ans and peas would drop. The present conclusions of the confer- problem centers around boosting ence to their respective govern wheat output without sacrificing other yields. ments for further action. This year, 55 million acres of ITALY: wheat were seeded, and intended increases would add 11 million acres. No Setup At a normal yield of 12 bushels to After a sudden welter of rumor, the acre, the WFA estimates the it appeared as though the Allies extra plantings would produce a would have to take Italy the hard crop of 792 million bushels. way. The Italians and Nazis gave no sign of handing It over on a silver HOSPITAL SHIP: platter. King Victor Emmanuel answered Sunk by Japs With its red cross sign brightly wild rumors originated by the Free French that he was about to abdilighted and the whole vessel fully cate by appearing at an art exhibiilluminated, the Australian hospital tion in Rome to receive the apship Centaur was silently plying through placid waters to New plause of his subjects. Talk that Hitler was preparing to Guinea. abandon Italy to its fate and draw Suddenly a terrific explosion shook all Nazi forces into the Brenner pass the ship, and in a moment, it was were immediately counteracted by wrapped in raging orange flames. plentiful assurances in the German As many of the vcrsel's complement press that Dcr Fuehrer had no such of 303 fought to escape the burning idea. hulk, the ship went down, only 64 Allied airmen apparently were the surviving. Cause of the sinking: a Japanese first to take these rumors with a grain of salt. Even as the abdica- torpedo. Even as some of the surtion talk, etc., intrigued the arm vivors clurg shakily to a raft, they chair strategists, bombers were could see the submarine' lights plastering the seaplane base of Lido flickering over the dark sea. Said Gen. Douglas MacArthur: "I di Roma, 15 miles from the Italian Hangars, moorings and cannot express the revulsion I feel capital. at this unnecessary act of cruelty planes were the targets. Rome admitted damage in the . . . The Red Cross will not falter vicinity, but claimed Axis planes under this foul blow. ' Its light of had bombed Algerian harbors "with mercy will but shine the brighter on our way to eventual victory." good results." II I G II L I G II T S CASl'ALTIKS: British losses in the Middle East and Africa have totaled 220,000 since Italy entered the war. Love sickness GOOD REASON: was accepted as a reason for allowing an essential woman employee to leave her job in the States and take another in Pearl Harbor beside her sweetheart. in the week's news Far-Seein- er Mit-tlela- at Visitor People You Meet: Victor Mature, formerly of Holly, and Broadway, now of the He fur. U. S. Coast Guard loaf'd in the Broadway arena again the other midnight for the first time in a long spell . . . Just back from long convoy duty, and now gone again . . . Proud of his promothe tion and the part he is playing war . . . The other night his luuge and hands were weatherbeaten tough . . . "What!" one of us remarked. "No manicure?" "Oh, I couldn't have a manicure," he replied seriously. "The fellows on the ship would be in stitches" . . . No squawks . . . Just one little one . . . The way they keep teasing him about Miss Hayworth. ... wood i-- .. Amon Carter . . . Prosperous newspaper publisher from Fort Worth . . . He and his wife were divorced about a year ago, but they both patronize the Stork Club a lot . . And never interfere with each other's pleasure . . . They simply do not talk any more . . . The other night the transatlantic phone operator found him there . . . Friends in London had word of his son . . . Captured by the Nazis in Tunisia . . The news was a relief . . . . There had been none about the boy He wanted to share for so long e but he the news with his didn't know how . . . And so he waited for someone they both knew to come in (his daughter) who tolct the mother. ... can't speak a wrote the ... to three foreign ditties Bob Russell, who word of Spanish He wordage "Maria Elena," "Frenesi" and "Brazil" . . . "Maria" was the first song in 16 years to hit the million copy division. The words to "Frenesi" he considers his worst lyric . . . His words to "Brazil" Jay on a publisher's shelves for over a year they couldn't see it! . . . His latest lyric is heard at the Versailles where they feature the song, "Dark Blue" . . . His newest thrill is making the Hit Parade last week with a grand torch called: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore." Then there's Bea Wain, whose voice hardly needs an introduction to people who buy recordings and have a radio . . . Bea opened at the Riobamba last night succeeding Frank Sinatra, whose click was town talk recently . . . Bea was oof'ly nervous, mister . . . Not only was she taking over the spot vacated by a crowd-pullebut it was her night club debut, too . . . Nervous, it seems, because she was afraid she wouldn't be good enough! . . . Good enough? . . . She's merely been featured on the Hit Parade r, and Magic Key programs, and her recording of "Deep Purple" sold 2,500,000 copies! The Magazines: The Satevepost's vivid pictures about the siege of Sevastopol chains your eyes to the pages . . . Look points out that the civilization that was saved with blood will have to be reconditioned with brains . . . Ruth Mitchell's story of her life, via American Magazine, is a fine reporting job . . . The notion about the Japs being incapable of fear is such a phony it might have been born on Broadway. Omori Harris, who spent 40 years among them, offers some lowdown on the Japs' alleged courage in Harper's . . This Week includes a piece about city gals on the farms called: "The Farmer's It ' sounds like the bluest of the anecARMY AND COAL MINES dotes after the Hays censors launJohn L. Lewis would have got the dered it. surprise of his life if he could have had a dictaphone recording of the Lost Generation: conversation of Secretary of War It was our world . . . and it is not Stimson and Gen. B. B. Somervell today. regarding the use of troops In taking Pour then the wine and trim the over the coal mines. candles down. Lewis had expressed public ap- We were the fools who blithely lout Dr. Eduard Benes,' president of prehension that the army bad a plan our way to seize the coal mines in case of the Czechoslovaklan govcrnment-ln-exilAnd dumbly played the charlatan is shown as he conferred with a strike. Undoubtedly subordinate and clown . . . President Roosevelt during an in- army officers did have such a plan Call for the fiddler . . . name the in mind. formal visit at the White House. lazy waltz But when Secretary Stimson sat Speak of the fragile beauty that S. U. CASUALTIES: has flown. down with Secretary Ickes, plus General Somervell and other army It is too late to lance us of our 80,000 Lost faults officers, the army expressed vigorIn 17 months of warfare, U. S. ous We must go on unheralded and to the contrary. Genopinions losses have approximated 80,000 eral Somervell, accused alone. by some of men. wanting the army to take over all include casualties 6,076 Army civilian activities, made this re- There in the dust of old, enchanted killed; 12,277 wounded; 24,345 missInns mark: , 12.244 and ing, reported prisoners. We sold the we want is an Isprecious "The last heritage of thing Of the wounded, 4,000 have returned man sue of the army against the people." to duty or been discharged from hosFor rancid wine and unimportant Secretary Stimson also expressed pitalization. The major losses in sins prisoners or missing were suffered relief that Secretary Ickes, known That stole the theme and purpose as a staunch defender of civil libin the Philippines. of our plan . . . In the navy, 7.218 have been erty, had been selected by the Presito the handle coal dent He crisis. and 12,061 killed, 4,683 wounded, It was our world and now that world but missing. Since September, 1941, the offered Ickes every is dead the be that would not And loneliness is all hope merchant marine has reported 4,555 expressed that lies ahead! use to have troops. casualties. D. W. v in r I e, COAL TRUCE: Still Friends Continuing to act In unison. SecrePresident RooRevelt has tary of the Interior Harold Ickes and United Mine Workers' chief 0 asked for an appropriation of to operate the Office of Price John Lewis arranged for a Administration during the fiscal truce In the tangled mine situation. year 1914. Once before, the two had agreed e to a breathing spell, as 465,000 HOOKS: Some 35 million pocket-siz- e bituminous and anthracite miners editions of popular books will were preparing to stay away from be published on order for the army, the pits. Miners were lining up benavy end marine corpa for service hind Lewis again to strike when exmen. tension of the truce was announced. OPA: $177,-000,00- y CAPITOL CflAFF C Freshman Representative Charles La Follette Is the only Republican congressman who supported the President' foreign policies in the last campaign. La Follette also has a liberal labor record. C. Radio Operator R. W. Dunn, who first received the coded message of an armistice November 11, 1918. is enper to serve again. He has enrolled as a junior radio operator In Pan American Airways Seattle school, preparing for Alaska Colin McKrnzie Is a member of the Merchant Marine . . . Torpedoed three times In 24 hours! Down at the Village Barn war bond rally, he brought a lump to the throats of the patrons when he olfered his three "torpedoed" medals to the highest bond bidder . . Cue rpan bought them, but a Mr. Albert Clear of Wall Street bought r'lnc i w..,th with the understanding Unit the medals be returned to him McKenzie. who has faced rit nth mun.v times, left the floor cry-i- i K like a kid. ... |