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Show THE PACE TWO but Still Powerful, Plentiful Food Supplies Seen Position Grows Weaker Released by Western Newspaper Union.. are expressed In these columns, they are those of (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions Western Newspaper Lnion'e news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Shipping Losses Reduce Flow of Material; Efficiency of Pilots Suffers From Poor Tactics in Combat. EUROPE: The War By BAUKIIAGE cident indicates about Germany within, remains to be seen. Whether the German collapse comes before the leaves turn, or after the snow flies, the next weeks will see emphasis placed on the Pacific campaign. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that peace can be wrung from Japan well within the current The fall of Tojo and his cabinet indicates the gravity with which the Japs are looking ahead. First, let us examine the material upon which Japan counts to make up her sinews of strength. She has managed to keep her main battle fleet "in being" as the phrase goes. Like Germany, toward the end of the last war, in spite of heavy losses in auxiliary craft, she still has enough of her big war wagons to stage a "battle of Jutland," or at least to attempt it. Second: Japan still has a large, army. That army has never been subject to the wear and tear of sustained battle with an equal. It is true that there are many retreats which we have read about when the Japs have staged what was advertised as a big offensive and which petered out with the flag of Nippon back where It started from. However, it is generally agreed among military men that, except perhaps in the recent abortive morale drive into India, and in Burma where General and the Chinese armies are moving to a Junction, the Japs have usually done Just about what they expected to do and could have done more if they had made up their minds to it. For the most part they have not tried to win territory and hold it. They have tried to wear down the Chinese army, contribute to the impoverishment and the weakening of the Chinese government. This they have accomplished to no little degree. They have likewise reduced the number of actual and . potential American airbases in They have made a possible land invasion of the Chinese coast harder for the Allies. Such an invasion is considered inevitable and essential to Allied victory. On the debit side, there are these items: First, is one word written in the boldest hand because of the thing it symbolizes SAIPAN. U. S. Plane Within Easy well-traine- . Stil-we- ll Chi-pa- Bombing Range of Japan The capture of this island base within easy bombing ranee of Japan means mdny things. It tends to neutralize what heretofore has been Japan's advantage in destroying American bases in China. It brings the war figuratively, as well as literally, close to Japan. It registers the success of a strategy which has smashed Japan's outer defenses, her great Pacific island empire. It is unproves that necessary. This means that the regaining Japanese strongholds such as Truk. and other outposts do not have to be knocked off one by one, and starved they ran be out. if necessary. Snipnn in American hands means a'fo that the which have already sounded their warning to the "island-hopping- Jap " home folk will soon be In ac- tive operation on a scale hitherto un approached. Germany, like Japan, has at this writing a powerful land army But Japan, like Germany, has a vanishing air force Note the enrol-larand see how it applies to Japan. The Allied air force crippled B K I E F S The Tokyo radio makes a point of accenting the friendliness of Japan's relations with Germany but Japanese films make it clear that the Axis pact can be carried only so far, and no farther. e American Red Cross Service scholarships in accredited schools of social work now Seventy-fiv- Home re available. the German air force. And as Nazi fighter-defensdwindled, so the weight of sheer numbers reduced the effectiveness of German antiaircraft defense and offense, due to the bombing of her plane factories and plane-pafactories and to the destruction of her pilots. Germany's next greatest weakness is lack of gas and oil. This has been caused by the destruction (by the Allied air force again) of oil wells, gasoline refineries and synthetic oil plants. Proofs of the effects of this bombing are not limited to photographs showing the effect of Allied air raids on plants, on the Ploesti oil wells, on the synthetic oil plants and the refineries. It is shown in the German tanks and other war vehicles in perfect condition abandoned and captured because they ran out of fuel. cruises Raids, really shake-dowof the giant directed against Japanese industrial plants, have just e rt g n 's begun. Japan is already suffering from shortages of essential materials. Her great stolen storehouses of the Philippines and the Dutch Indies are a long way from home. The transportation problem is a terrible one Japanese shipping has been subjected to terrific losses by our submarines and planes. Distances Shrink in Far Pacific Warfare Is Japan in any better position to resist air attack than Germany? The answer seems to be "no." Her greatest defense is distance, and distances in the Pacific theater have shrunk BJ a speed far greater than most people dreamed was possible. Japan's next defense fighter planes has suffered in greater prowas than portion expected. The quality, as well as the quantity of Jap planes has fallen off so that Japan has become stingy in her use of fighters as the Germans. The quality, of her pilots has greatly de teriorated. And this point blends into another. Japan simply has not of aviation. the strategic know-hoWhen she does send her bombers and fighters out in great numbers, they are no match for Allied power, man or plane. There is no question that as Japan's resistance weakens the Allied striking power is increased. It is impossible to mention details, of course, for security reasons and it would be unwise to assemble known facts and figures concerning the type of material manufactured and the disposition of forces which, taken together, would indicate clearly enough how the weight of Allied might is being distributed. We can quote the statement of Prime Minister Curtin of Australia, for instance, who says that "this year" British forces in great numbers will be transferred to the Pacific theater. Finally, there is a third factor which seems to be a hastening of the end. It is difficult to speak of "morale" in connection with Japan since the people are told how and what to think. But the tone of the official utterances has taken on a decidedly gloomy note. Even as to the shifts in command -- the fall of the Tojo which might have been cabinet hailed with a cheerful fanfare, the phrases were grave and grim. It is also reported, from sources in touch with Japan's inner politics, that the Jap militarists are waiting hopefully to see if the Allies grant enough leniency in their terms to Germany to justify surrender on their part. Although it was emphatically denied in Tokyo it is still believed here that the Japanese representative to the Holy See laid a tentative peace offer before the Pope. Briefly, then, as the conservatively optimistic observers in Washington look at the picture rapidly forming in the Pacific, they see several f.ictors which heretofore worked toward a long drawn out struggle in the Far Fast either removed or altered. First, the theory that the Allies must fight their way to vice island by tory, by island, has been completely exSecond. Japan's air force ploded deflated. has been measurably Third, the strategy of a blow at the heart of the empire rather than attrition at its perimeter is now sea-mil- considered sea-mil- a reasonable certainty. by riaukhnfte Unlike Amef.'can movie heroes, the Japanese film hero usually doesn't win the heroine in such a way as to live happily ever after. Japan?: p- movies have a tendency to end on an unhappy note of sorrow or frustration with the hero and heroine heina. tern apart by some incident that exilts family duty and sacrifice above '.hei own personal desire. Europe. In France, U. S. tanks and ara mored columns spearheaded break from the narrow neck of the Cherbourg peninsula into the open country of Brittany to the south, chasing seven enemy divisions in their drive and bagging upwards of 30,000 prisoners. While the U. S. forces smashed into Brittany on the western end of the 100 mile French front, British troops took up the assault on the eastern flank and forward. As the Allies pounded fought into the open country, leaving the tall, thick hedgerows and peaked hills behind them, they were in position to bring the full force of Guam Marine Captains Paul their mobile, armored equipment S. O'Neal, Brighton, Mass., and into play and slug it out with the Milton F. Thompson, Upper Mont-clai- r, foe. N. J., replant Old Glory on As German commentators empharecaptured Guam. sized the Russian numerical superiority on the eastern front since the PACIFIC: Allied invasion of the west had necessitated the diversion of many New Strike With U. S. forces under Adm. divisions to that battle-sectothe Red avalanche rumbled further Chester Nimitz fighting through north and westward, threatening to Japan's inner ring of fortifications cut off 300,000 Nazis in the Baltic within 1,500 miles of the enemy states and engulfing the old Polish homeland, other American troops to the south under General capital of Warsaw. Already half-wacommand jumped to the across prewar Poland, the Russian drive had come within 150 miles of far northwest corner of New Guinea to threaten the foe's first-lin- e defenses guarding the rich treasures of the Indies region. By hopping up the New Guinea coast to the northwest tip, the American troops the enemy garrison of 15.000 men at 's Manokwari, pursuing General policy of landing on the flanks of Japanese strongholds and isolating their defenders from neighboring lines. As General MacArthur's forces secured the whole northern coast of New Guinea and approached to within 600 miles of the Philippines, Admiral Nimitz's naval and ground units pressed their conquest of Guam to the north with over 6.000 , of the enemy's defenders counted dead in the U. S. drive. Normandy Bazooka team di- FOOD: rects fire at entrenched enemv during heavy fighting in lightning" U. S. Even Balance advance. Because of larger supplies of fresh Germany proper, with the Nazis try- fruits and vegetables and cereals, ing to stabilize the sagging front food stocks during the approaching along the lower Vistula river, where fall and winter will be relatively the Reds pressed to expand their plentiful despite decreases of at least 8 per cent in meats, the U. S. bridgeheads. In Italy, five German divisions department of agriculture reported. Despite large war requirements, fought viciously to stem the Allied the USDA said, food demands were approach to the vaunted "Gothic Line" below the famed art center being met by the of Florence, while farther to the Although production of farm west, the enemy reportedly withmachinery in June was the drew from the historic city of Pisa largest for the year ending in to the mountains above the municithat month, the War Production pality. As the two armies locked in board's overall program recombat about the "Gothic Line," the mained 11.3 per cent behind with still the lay enemy, advantage with manufacturers schedule, teron entrenched the mountainous given another additional month to rain and making full use of the rocky make up the deficit. heights to pour artillery fire upon In manufacturers addition. the advancing U. S., British, Canhave been given until September adian, French and Indian troops 30 to finish production of eight making up the Allied forces engaged types of machinery lagging far in action. behind schedule and including small rombines, corn pickers, enDIPLOMACY: silage harvesters, peanut pickers, Allied Gain corn shellcrs and hay balers. If the war was going well for the farm production, with 1943 volume Allies on the battlefields, it was go38 per cent above the 1935-'3level, ing equally well in the shimmering diplomatic ranks, with Turkey and 1944 output 5 per cent above breaking off all relations with last year. Although meat production is exGermany short of war. and e President Risto Ryti of Finland turnpected to reach the high of 25 billion pounds this year, the greating over his office to popular, Marshal Baron Gustav er portion was marketed during the first half of the year. Mannerheim. Disposed to sit on the fence and U. S. SERVICES: make concessions to whatever side appeared to be gaining the upper 6.000.000 Overseas hand on the battlefield, Turkey's Of almost 11.000.000 men In the rupture of all commercial and politarmy and navy services on June 1, indiwith relations ical Germany fi. 000.000 were on overseas cated the growing success of Allied nearly duty, the war and navy departarms. Only after the Allies had ments announced, with substantial promised to furnish protective increases predicted before the end aerial cover against possible Ger- of the ear. man bombings did the Turks make Of 7.700.000 in the army, more the break. than 4.(100.000 were overseas, with Always for Finland first. Marshal the totil expected to pass 5.000.000 Mannerheim took over the political by December 31. Of the navy's f 3.250.000. 1.566.000 were reins of his country following strong!.-Ryti's elTort to hold the aft- at or on foreign duty, with n en in transit or training for tiny nation in line behind his open declaration to stick the war out with combat. Indicative of the huge problem of Germany. Because Finland's abiding faith in his patriotism would ensupply connected with keeping the able him to weld all factions to- services in the field, army chiefs gether. Moscow is reported to find reve ... i that 63.000.000 tons of suphim acceptable as head of a peace plies have been shipped overseas since Pearl Harbor. government. r, Mac-Arthu- y Mac-Arthur- record-breakin- g 9 pro-Na- ) 900.-00- H i ; ii 1. 1 r, ii t s MQl'OK: The 31 day "holiday" from manufacturing industrial alcohol for war purposes that the WPB has granted distillers during August is being utilized by 121 companies to make whiskey. F.ight other com- panics will continue using their full capacity to make industrial alcohol The others have converted 50 per cent or less of thou facilities to of be. eiage alcohol. man-jfactur- e With the prolonged drouth affecting the potato crop in the northeast, and small improvement expected in certain sectors even with rainfall, OPA granted growers an increase of 90 cents a bushel to bring returns from $3.30 to $3.65 per hundred When King DIe.l in India, Elephant Chose New Ruler The importance of elephants in Indian history dates from the Vedic period, when they were India's They were sup- posed to be gifted with an unerr ing instinct to spot the real scion pounds. of the royal blood. Whenever a With the drouth general, potato Anecdota Presidentia: king died childless, the royal eleproduction in the southeast also was Although the White House Is the phant was called upon to solve reported to have suffered, and last place in the world (except the difficulty. crops in Ohio, western New York Grant' Tomb) you'd expect to find He was gaily caparisoned and and Long Island were said to be m some of our Presidenti given a garland to put around the off 40 to 50 per cent. Despite recent have fashioned bon mottos that neck of whomsoever he chose in rains, damage reportedly spread to would have earned them berths on his rambles for the quest of a sucIndiana, Illinois, Missouri and leading radio comedians' payrolls. cessor. Wandering through the Kansas. hills and dales, the elephant would Calvin Coolldge, generally accept- come upon the rightful ruler of F ewer Lambs of the Chief his choice, and put the garland ed as the tightest-lippeExecutives, has several nifties to his around his neck. Thus, sometimes High swirling snowdrifts, shortage of sheep herders, wolves and wild credit. A Washington correspondent a beggar's bowl was exchanged 'fliTinu WI kine-maker- s. gag-ma- Quivering under the assault of Allied forces, German lines buckled and gave all along the perimeter of Adolf Hitler's crumbling Fortress News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building. Washington, D. C. Paradoxically, on the eve of what may be the greatest land battle America has ever fought, this country is turning its eyes eastward. The nervous Berlin radio has already announced that the war in Europe may be decided in three months. That statement lends color to the hints that General Rommel, the one Nazi commander who seems to see eye to eye with the Fuehrer and yet is apparently permitted to work out his strategy according to military science and not Hitlerian Intuition, is going to fight it out, win lose or draw, along the outer edges of Normandy. What effect the events following the attempt on the life of Hitler will have on the internal situation in Germany or what the in- AGRICULTURE: Potato Crop Suffers Turks Swing Closer to Allies As Nazi Lines Continue to Sag; , Thursday, August 10. 1941 NEPHI. UTAH NEWS ANALYSIS WEt-KL- Japs TIMES-NEW- 0 tin BRItX.K FALLS: The central span of a steel bridge across the Mississippi at Chester, 111., has fallen into the channel, blocking water traffic. The bridge stc'.on is 650 feet long and !Mi feet hieh. It was dislodged apparently by hith winds. I'l.WrS TO Kl.vSIA: More than 10.000 American planes have been sent to Russia under lend lease since October, 1941. d dogs were among the factors contributing to a heavy toll of lambs and ewes on the western ranges during the last season, with estimates that only 78 lambs of every 100 ewes survived. Popular since sheep raisers began marketing the animals early instead of waiting for two or three years as formerly when many people disliked the mutton flavor, lambs will be in smaller supply this year than last. Despite the big death loss, however, western ranges were expected to market over half of the nation's lambs in the coming crop ye"ar. Proudly They Serve Vhen Thelma A. Young joined the WAC in Philadelphia, Pa., she became the 19lh member of the family to enter service. Five brothers have been killed in action in sectors varying from Bataan to Anzio. Serving overseas are Mrs. Kathleen Young McBride, who is driving an ambulance in Great Britain: Mrs. Eileen Young Gallagher, British WRENS; Ensign Virginia Young Otto, navy nurses corps; Pharmacist's Mate Paul Young, on a hospital ship in the Pacific; First Lt. Gordon Young, a marine in New Guinea; Pvt. Allien Young in Italy; William and Phillip Young with a navy construction battalion in Iceland, and Machinist's Mate Edwin Young in the Mediterranean. In this country are First Lt. Anne Young Barnett. WAG; Lt. Frances Young Crawford, WAVE; Sgt. Nancy Young Cooper, marine, and Yeoman Diana Young Gentenaro, SPAR. DDT: Medical Weapon Deadly when applied against lice, flies and fleas, the new insecticide DDT will soon be brought into use against the malaria bearing mosquito plaguing U. S. fighting' men overseas, Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, the army's surgeon-generaannounced. Impressed by DDT's effectiveness in checking a typhus epidemic spread by body lice in Naples, Italy, last winter, and its quick action when sprayed against insects, the is in army's present developing methods for applying the chemical against the malaria bearing mosquito. DDT is the shortened form for the jaw - breaking term dichloro l, one of whose constituents is chloral-hydrat- SURPLUS GOODS: Disposal Progresses With estimates that from 50 to billion dollars worth of surplus goods would be available after the war, government authorities already 100 have developed plans for disposing of the material without throwing the whole economic machine out of gear. With more than 400 million dollars' worth of surplus goods already disposed of, the Office of War Information said, plans call for selling such material through sealed bids and auctions at about 75 per cent of cost to discourage speculators, and making the goods available in small lots for little business men. One billion dollars of government defense housing also will be declared surplus after the war, it was said, and individual units will be offered separately if satisfactory bids for whole projects are not forthcoming. ALIENS: IS umber Decreases Because of an increase in naturalization proceedings, a relatively high death rate resulting from their advanced age. and a sharp downturn in immigration, the number of aliens in t.ie U. S. was reduced to 3,400,000 by June 30 of this year. There were 5.000,000 aliens in the U. S. before the big decrease in their numbers got underway In 1940, with the peak for naturalization set during the year ending last June with 4.15.483 new citizens. With only 30,000 immigrants admitted into the country during the 12 month period ending last June, one alien came in for every 15 naturalized. ROCKETS Revelation that the U. S. navy is employing rocket projectiles on a huge scale came when it was announced that the naval ammunition procurement program would be doubled, with rockets accounting for most of the increase. Rocket projectiles of various si.:es are being used to strafe enemy airfields, reduce strong points, clear beachheads, and to attack both surface and submarine craft. Rocket firing planes are operating in the Pacific, and to some extent in Europe. questioned him about his reaction to Rupert Hughes' biography debunking many of the legends about George Washington. Coolidge gazed out the window and then muttered nasally: "I notice the Washington Monument is still standing." for a kingly crown. In this way was the new king, found, and the courtiers who followed the royal animal flocked to his standard and swore fealty to him. In a discussion on the proper use of a word, Grover Cleveland was surprised to hear a Senator refer to his source as' "Daniel Webster's dictionary" . . . "But my dear Senator," said Cleveland, "Noah made the dictionary" . . . "Don't be silly," replied the Senator, giving him a scornful look. "Noah built the ark." CLASSIFIED IT CAN'T BE DONE' When Wilson was faced with severe apposition on his League of Nations proposals, the abjection, "It can't be done," was familiai-this ears. At such times he would relate this story: A man was telling his son a bedtime story about an alligator. It was creeping np behind a turtle, with its mouth wide open. Finally it was within reach but Just as its great jaws were snapping shut, the turtle made a spring, ran np a tree and escaped. "Why, dad," said the bay, "how can a turtle spring and climb a tree?" "Great Scott," replied the father, "he had to!" DEPARTMENT HELP WANTED Pharmacist Registered Good Salary Plus Commission Six day week plus overtime pay Excellent Possibilities for Advancement THE OWL DRUG CO. 4th and Washington, Ogden, Utah Or 2nd South and Main, Salt Lake Citj. Trailers Used Cars o . 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Although he trembled So Save the Fats at the horrifying peals of thunder, There are 52 military uses he was thankful for the occasional flashes of lightning which enabled sulting from fat processing. him to see his way. At last he prayed: 'O Lawd, if It's jes' the same to you, I'd rather hev a little less noise an' a little more light!' " Relieved bi 5 nantrtes or double awney back re- Gas on Stomach Theodore Roosevelt had this legend on his White House desk: "The value of a smile costs nothing but creates much. It is rest to the weary daylight to the discouraged sunshine to the sad and nature's best antidote for trouble! Tes it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen for it Is something that Is no earthly good to anybody until it is given away." A large Republican meeting was attended by a small boy offering for sale four puppies, so young their eyes were still unopened. "Get your McKinley pups!" he shouted, and enjoyed a brisk sale. Two weeks later, the Democrats had a meeting in the same town, and the little boy was again seen hawking an armful of pups. "Get your Bryan pups!" he yelled this time. "See here," said an onlooker, "didn't I see you selling 'McKinley pups' here a few weeks ago?" "Yessir," replied the lad meekly, "but these are different they've got their eyes open!" When exeaM stomach add causes painful, suf focst-iTi- jf gas, sour stomach and heartburn, doctors usually medicines known for prescribe the fastest-setinv Bymptoeaatie relief menicineslikethomtn iKDists. no laxanve. oeuans Drrotrs eomrort in s ffy or double your money back on return of bottJa i as. 6e at all druggista. '"Jm 4 IM LJBysSssssaI "j fit i (f ' I MARTIN 1 1 tews I 1 Of course we can't prove it, but George Washington is alleged to fcave become wearied with an official Investigation which paraded a score of experts through his cham-- ' bers. "It is my opinion," he is quot-- I ed. "that calling many witnesses to prove one fact is like adding a large quantity of water to a small quan-- ; tity of brandy it makes it weak." I At Teheran, Stalin drove home a point with a yarn that FDR is said to be chuckling over still. "The to dietary indiscretion, changa DUEdrinking water or sudden changes in weather can be quickly relieved by Wakefield's Blackberry Balsam. For 97 year a household remedy. Sold at all drug stores. Be sure to ask for genuina 1 Bridgeport-Coon- CftlOX neighbor of an Arab sheik," related the Premier, "asked for the loan of a rope. 'I cannot lend it,' said the sheik, 1 need it to tie up my milk with.' . . . 'But surely,' replied the other, you do not tie up your milk with a rope?' " 'Brother,' said the sheik, Vhen WNU W you do not want to do a thing, one reason is as good as another.' " I'DRoosevelt, commenting on the promise of aid recently sworn by a small nation, told a newspaper man that It reminded htm of the story of the Barbados Island and the last war. The Barbados, with a standing army of twelve men, was taking bows because it had "stood ready." It was later teamed that the Island had Indeed "stood ready." In the early days of the war. It was disclosed, a cablegram was dispatched to military leaders of the Allied command. "Success," it read. "Barbados Is behind you!" pro-Alli- 1 - rowow J 32-- 44 Do Yon Hata HOT FLASHES? If you suffer from hot flaahra, real weak, nervous, bit blue at time all dua to the functional "mklclle-a- " period peculiar to women try Lydla B. 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