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Show UINTAII BASIN RECORD PiSlEiMS Nazi Submarine Menace Is Allies' Chief Problem Said to Boost ed What Would They Say to Their America as It Enters Second Year of a Great War? By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union. Anc.lwt and Commentator. think that this, at least to a large 1343 II street, N.YV. degree, is true. But that explanaWashington, D. C. tion does not seem reasonable. It will be a lung and b'tter war." That was the rer.iaik of tne Australian minister of dtfenss: in a re- German Advances Two days later, In Synthetic Gas cent Interview. I heard a general, wito had visited We know that Germany has made many fronts, make a s.m.lar stateremarkable advances in the manusame the You have heard ment. facture of synthetic gasoline and offprediction made from dozens of oils. We know that some oil has icials. And the strange thing is, it been retrieved from the Maikop oil account an with is usually preceded fields m Russia, new ones developed a Nt thing but of Allied successes. in Austria. but" stands between the enumeraIf Germany is not yet starved of tion of victories achieved and the and lubricants, if the Luftgasoline road prediction of the long, hard waffe has not really disappeared ahead. from the earth, its absence from the Since this perplexed me, I tried air may have another meaning. We varifrom answer to get a concrete know that in spite of the heavy Geron ous persons as fo just what lies man losses in men and material in the long, hard road. Out of the anRussia, Germany still has a large the out, stand obstacles swers, two and powerful army. Possibly over "vanof the submarine and the story 300 fully equipped divisions trained ishing Luftwaffe. Only recently has men. it been definitely revealed that the It is estimated that aside from enemys greatest and most effective soldiers engaged in Russia and weapon is the submarine. For a North Africa, the garrisons in the long time, the British permitted only occupied countries, there must be a the most general statements regardstriking mobile army of a million ing the sinking of Allied or even men and more. Of course, these neutral ships by Lately, are estimates but they are not overbecause it was realized that the peoestimates. And besides this army ple were in ignorance of the extent there is the "vanished Luftwaffe. of this menace, more detailed stateis that this great ments have been made, although The assumption like the airforce is resting, army out. no are given (till figures conserving and building up its We know that America Is bnilding strength for one of two things: eithan American ships ther a long, last stand defense of aliips faster are being sank. We know that the the borders of the Reich or one margin between launchings and more powerful offensive. sinkings is very narrow. And we Meanwhile, we know that every know that launchings alone do not that Japan is allowed to occupy day really balance sinkings ball for bull the rich possessions of her stolen because the enemy sinks loaded empire, she is nearer to the exships valuable cargoes are de- ploitation of their resources, the destroyed trained men not easily or velopment of which wrill make her immediately replaceable are killed stronger. And every day, she is left or at least taken out of action for undisturbed by a major attack, she long periods gaps are left in the is able to increase her fortifications, war effort with each lost cargo. wear down the Chinese and spread When I was in Berlin covering the her "silver bullets among the less outbreak of the European war in loyal war-lorfollowers on the 1939, I heard a great deal of talk fringe of Chiang central about Germanys counter-blockadarmy. bow the Nazis could fill seas with There are two factors which make There was much talk the road ahead a hard one the prestheir of the great numbers which could ent successful operation and the be produced by the American methrapid replacement of the German od of the assembly line. 1 had no submarine flotilla and the probabiliidea bow much truth there was in ty that Germany is holding back a Then in the powerful army and air force eithei those statements. months that followed, not much was for another telling blow or to deFor a pe- fend its strongly fortified terrain. said about the riod when they were operating on our coasts, America was conscious of their presence but when they Ideologies were driven out of sight of our Put Them on Ice? shores, they were driven out of mind As I go wandering round the town as well. taking a look in every quarter with I apologies to Wan Eyed Reilly have acquired data in the last few Nazi Boasts days that have convinced me that Largely Confirmed we will have to expunge the word Now we learn how great their dep- Ideology from the bright lexicon of redations are on the shipping lanes war, if we are going to win. where they converge in the eastern I have observed three places Atlantic, confirming to some degree where the ideologies have gotten in the German boasts which are soundand done more damage than a bufing again. It is stated by British falo moth in an overstuffed sofa. naval observers that the Germans Of course in North Africa it may are the subs, mak- be the climate or the rainy season ing the parts in factories scattered ideologies have done some of their all over the Reich and assembling most devastating work. I have conthem in great underground caverns versed with an army officer, an offhewn out of the rock or covered icial, who knows that terrain and with concrete on the shores oi the also what it produces, a newspaper Bay of Biscay in France. philosopher and a radical all of Therein lies a clear and simple them look at the situation on the explanation of the Allies' greatest shores of the Mediterranean a litproblem, the chief obstacle on the tle differently. The official explains that the politics are very imporlong, hard road." The second obstacle may be a tant the radical, happy over . the fancied one but it is real in the success against all Fascists, but inminds of many. The unknown is furiated over using them even to defeat usually more terrible than the help should themselves, shouts have shot Darlan the known and perhaps this one is at "We day after he served his purpose. d least partly a myth but no Well, remarks the official, "somerealist can afford to under estimate the enemys potentialities. body did. didnt they? The army officer calls the whole controversy Those who believe this obstacle1 a backyard row that will be forgothidden is behind the it exists, say ten as ground dries up and the A1 Luftmystery of the vanishing lies get a few victories. waffe." But tine correspondent philosopher According to military men, there paused to analyze. are at present very few German He said: "You have heard that planes on the Russian front. I heard one thing that greatly improved the a recent estimate of as morale in the Russian army was many as a year ago. making the officers supreme and reThere are not many German moving the authority of the com' which were originally planes ever Africa the Allies have missars at least achieved parity In air pow- placed at their elbows. You know er. Where is the German Luftwaffe? the Russian officers could make no Its presence darkened the skies of move without the okay of the com Europe once has it really van- missar and yet the officer was reished? Been used up? Worn out? sponsible if anything went wrong. The factories which turn out reNow, the officer has the final word-m- any of the former commissars who placements all destroyed by Allied bombers? Is Its necessary fuel and had military training have become lubrication exhausted? 8ome people officers. WND Servlr. d Kai-shek- 's e, -- bard-beade- BRIEFS Tbe Swedish Labor federation reports that the number of strikes, and workers Involved, during 1942, was the lowest ever recorded. Only 34 strikes, with some 1,922 workers involved, were reported. The number of lost working days totaled 94,000. Only three timeB before in the history of Sweden's labor, have there been a less number of working days lest through strikes. by Baukhage Feed grain supplies are 12 per cent larger, hay supplies are 9 per cent larger, and supplies of grain and hay per animal on farms are somewhat larger than they were this time last year. This year, civilians will prooably more peanut butter than ever before, because peanut butter Is high in both protein and fat eat month, which finds America entering the second of the greatest war in her history, also finds her men honoring again the memory of her two greatest sons conflicts. other two who led her successfully through What were their prospects was debating of victory as they entered the Continental congress from the Mother counindependence second year of those conflicts try and on the immortal Fourth of the War for American In- July it took the decisive step. Up had been dependence and the War Be- to this atime Washington of himfor the rights fight leading tween the States? self and his compatriots as Englishlle looked forward to " the peaceable If George Washington and men. Now the congress had given of my own vine and enjoyment Abraham Lincoln were alive him something else to fight for. They called it Liberty the king of Eng- of a house divided against itself today, what message would land called it Treason. Witty old but even in his own family there they give to the embattled Ben Franklin had told his fellows was dissension and disunity. America of 1943? When the war began many Demothat they must hang together or as- THIS By BAUKIIAGE fig-tre- e When the second year of the Revolution began George Washington found himself commander-in-chie- f of what was little better than To the mema rabblo in arms. bers of the Continental congress he had declared Lest some unlucky event should happen, unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered, by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. 'Washington little realized then bow soon some unlucky event should happen nor what a long succession of such misfortunes would devil aim for the next six years. But he must have had a foreshadowing of them, for, within a week after he assumed command of the army, he was writing to his friend, Richard We are in an exceedHenry Lee: ingly dangerous situation. We have but. about sixteen thousand effective men in all this department, whereas, by the accounts which I received from even the first officers in command, I had no doubt of finding between eighteen and twenty thousand; out of these are only fourteen thousand fit for duty . . . The smallness of his army was, however, only one of his many problems. Not only were the soldiers poorly armed, poorly clothed and poorly fed, but there was a shocking lack of discipline. Men accepted bounties to enlist, then deserted immediately. Low Morale. Morale among the officers was not much better, for in their attitude toward each other they reflected all the jealousies and suspicions which had prevented unity of the English colonies in the struggle with the French and Indians. Washington had to face not only wholesale desertions and furious mutinies among the private soldiers, but also the most exquisitely embarrassing feuds among his officers with threats of wholesale resignations, writes his biographer, Rupert Hughes, His prudence, fairness and devotion to the government were It tested to the last degree seemed to him, and it seems to the later Inspector of the records, that at this time Washington was almost the only man in America who had a sense of national entity and jiational duty. The rest talked of liberty, and indignation at tyrants, but their interests were almost altogether individual, municipal, or provincial. Such was the situation as the year 1776 opened. Up in' Canada Bene dict Arnolds forces had settled down to their fruitless siege of Quebec. Washingtons siege of Boston seemed equally futile until early in March when he occupied Dorchester Heights. Then on St. Patrick's day Lord Howe evacuated the city and Washington and his motley army marched in. ' It was a victory for the Patriot cause, of course, but it was far from decisive. For Howes army was still intact and there was no telling where it would strike next. Washington guessed correctly that it would be New York. So in April he marched his army there only to find himself in a nest of Tory intrigue and, two months later, narrowly to escape assassination at the hands of a member of his own bodyguard. ... outside of Quebec, Arnolds army was rotting away with cold, hunger and smallpox and by the middle of June its shattered remnants had been chased out of Canada. Thus ended in failure the expedition upon which Washington had counted so much the addition of the Canadians to the Patriot cause. While this was taking place, the Meanwhile, crats, among them Stephen A. Doug suredly we shall hang separately. If the Revolution failed, one of the las, steadfastly supported the Presifirst candidates for the hangmans dent but others violently opposed to l, the a war which they declared had rerope would be that commander-in-chie- f of the sulted from the election of a Republican President. It was this group That danger seemed perilously who brought into existence the near soon after Washington had his Knights of the Golden Circle, the troops drawn up on parade and the secret organization of the CopperDeclaration of Independence read heads, who criticized the conduct of to them. Up the bay came a British the war, hoped to gain control of armada 400 transports and 32,000 the government and make some sort soldiers, convoyed by 10 battleships of compromise peace with the South. and 20 frigates, manned by more Even within his own party Lincoln than 10,000 sailors. A little later had enemies who tried to thwart his they were joined by 10,000 Hessian efforts to save the Union. One facmercenaries. Against this aggrega- tion induced congress to create a tion of British might Washington had Committee on the Conduct of the a motley horde of not more than War which was almost as damaging 20,000 men, many of them unfit for to the war effort as the activities of service or unwilling to fight because the Copperheads. congress had failed to pay them or Stormy as was the political situaeven to provide them with enough tion when the second year of the clothing, arms and food. war began, the military situation A Series of Disasters. was more encouraging. In the West Then followed the series of disasFort Henry had fallen, "Unconditionters which was to make the Year al Surrender Grant had taken Fort one of the blackest Donelson, and Farragut had capof Independence years in the whole struggle for lib- tured New Orleans. But in the East, erty. In August General Putnams then regarded as the most imporarmy was cut to pieces at the Battle tant theater of war, a military genius of Long Island and narrowly es- named Robert E. Lee was threatencaped capture. In September Wash- ing Washington and another military ington was driven out of New York genius named Stonewall Jackson and his army retreated to Harlem was outmaneuvering and outfighting Heights in panic rout. every Union commander sent against In October he was defeated at the him in the Shenandoah valley. Battle of White Plains. In NovemMcClellan Fails. ber the British captured Fort WashIn March, General McClellan, the of of defenses one the chief ington, Union commander, had begun his the Hudson, and forced the Ameri-- Peninsular campaign "which for numbers engaged and losses suffered surpassed any previous operation in North America. By June it was apparent that the campaign had failed and that the volunteer system could not produce the number of men needed for replacements after the blood bath McClellan had given the Union army. In a confidential message to the state 0 governors Lincoln appealed for new troops, saying "I would publicly appeal to the country for this new force were it not that I fear a ;Y general panic and stampede would follow, so hard it is to have a thing understood as it is. This appeal brought him the troops he needed but, having lost 'A 5s 0confidence in McClellan, he placed General Pope in command. The re H I I I. i suit was the terrible defeat at the I ai Aftta Thnltr A A second Battle of Manassas and Mc". . . government of the people, by the Clellan was again in the saddle. people and for the people, shall not per- Thereupon Lee invaded Maryland ish from the earth! and was stopped at the Battle of cans to evacuate Fort Lee, the oth- Antietam, after which he recrossed er. The last month of this dismal the Potomac. McClellan might have second year of the war found him crushed Lee but failed to do so. retreating across New Jersey and, Lincoln again removed Little Mac to General Burnalthough his splendid victory at and gave command Trenton on Christmas night some- side, whose attack on Frederickswhat lightened the gloom, there was burg resulted in the loss of 10,000 still many a discouragement and Union dead and wounded. So the year ended in failure and many a defeat ahead of him before the next year should bring the turn- a deep gloom settled over the North. Even greater was the depression in ing point of the war at Saratoga. the White House, for the election of But despite the seemingly impossible nature of his task and the Horatio Seymour, the Democrat, in mountainous difficulties which he New York, was regarded as a reovercame, the record is clear that pudiation of Lincolns conduct of the George Washington never lost his war. He could not foresee that the courage and his belief in the right- next year would bring the turning ness of the cause for which he was point of the war with the victories fighting. If in this second year of at Vicksburg and Gettysburg both our great struggle America suffers achieved on the anniversary of the severe reverses and at the end of signing of the Declaration of Indeit victory may still seem far away, pendence. then may George Washingtons Four months later the Great draw new courage Emancipator journeyed to one of from a sentence in a letter he wrote those battlefields and there delivto his brother during the retreat ered an immortal address. across New Jersey. It was an exIf Abraham Lincoln were alive pression of his unshaken faith that today, the message that he might he would "be once more fixed among give to an America engaged in a you in the peaceable enjoyment of struggle with the most deadly enemy own vine and my of freedom the world has ever A House Divided. known would be a quotation from While the second year of the War the Gettysburg Address. It is the Between the States was not so dark reassurance: for Abraham Lincoln as 1776 had That this nation under God shall been for George Washington, there have a new birth of freedom, and was many a reverse in 1862 that that government of the would have caused a lesser soul to the people, and for the people, by people shall despair. Not only was he the head not perish from the earth! arch-rebe- rebels-in-arm- ? AflWMlilhii i fig-tre- Washington and Lincoln Speak to Their The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be Freemen, or Slaves, whether they are to have any property they can call their own, whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unknown null ions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this s. 100,-00- m Fellow-American- Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most Abject Submission; this is all we can expect We have therefore to resolve to Gen. George conquer or to die. Washington in an order to the Continental Army on July 2, 1776. Army. To take black stains outVx hardwood floor, scrub floor Q ously with hot water and 1 water, using a stiff brush," stains repeat p,e!efied persistent TOUR OF DUTY: Ger- man Output; Vanishing Luftwaffe Puzzles United Nations Military Observers. AVuj If Gen. George Washington and President Abraham Lincoln Were Living Today . . s Today every day experiencing; but we must bear up against them, and make the best of mankind as they are, since we cannot have them as we wish. Let me, therefore, conjure you to lay aside such thoughts (resigning from the army) thoughts injurious to you and excessively so to your country, which calls aloud God knows, there is not a difficulfor a gentleman of your ty, that you very justly complain of, Gen. Ceorge Washington ability. In a letter which I have not in an eminent to Gen. Philip Schuyler, December degree experienced, that I am not 24, 1773. Aboard a navy patrol plane over FI A teaspoonful of pulverized A the South Atlantic (delayed): Some i pr men are more fortunate than others. added to stove blacking Some men are richer than many. the stove a brilliant luster 11 acc Some men stay in love" longer than will last for a long time, uce s most and most men never experiransci ence the wallop that goes with being Keep leftover pancake b Mal of a Navy patrol and thicken it with flour for? at the bow-guplane (a PBY) a few feet over the fins. If it is kept several cie Fr0 submarine-infesteSouth Atlantic. add one-ha- lf teaspoon of soc eSP each cup of batter. je st; How even a veteran bombardier ;tor m focused or Left-over can keep his eyes open meat, minced, te n ov on a target out there in the open cream or salad dressing majie dir bow with the fierce wind blinding popular sandwich filling. iSo.! H and bayonneting him is something I ( radio do not savvy . . . The powerful If a childs birthday is forfanscrii gun kicks the way Joe Louis punches till the last minute, fix a yams and shakes you violently the way gift for him this way: Slicjlartba Lew Fields shook Joe Weber . . . nies, nickles or dimes into a'ith the At any rate, there you are out there red apple, tie a ribbon bow gotten, under the huge propellers several blossom end, and the tnlUr, feet ahead of the pilot alone . . . ready. Except for the hurricane-tempoCon, ME wind and perhaps a Nazi sub hiding n ' d d below. I was reminded of the time Senafaster 'WORLDS LARGEST SEU.ES ; tor Holman of Oregon and Senator Chandler of Kentucky flew to the Aleutians through heavy fog and f First Come storm most of the way. And picked Here, waiter, give memyfo: up a soldier at some Alaskan base, Yes, sir. What sort waf who immediately took his battle station and trained his gun on the skies. sir? A brand-neone. said Senator Holman, Son, whatcha fussin with that there Sorry, sir, all the new hats1- -, . ? . ; . Im been gone more than half anhrf weapon fer being ready, replied the gunner, in case we meet some Jap planes . . Holman turned The Chandler and to the intoned: Aint it silly what some of us Senators will do to get into trouble when we dont have to? w that-a-way- white-as-a-she- whiter-than-th- My good break came from missing connections with the plane that was to take me to the next port on the tour . . Had I made that plane I would have missed one of the biggest thrills of them all , . . That thrill was not my first flight in a PBY a huge and comfortable Catalina (one of which helped sink the Bismarck) ; or or circling low firing the bow-gu- n over oil specks that stained the beautiful aquamarine below . . . The big wallop came several hours later when we reached the base. I am not permitted to divulge the excitement I witnessed at this place . . . The four paragraphs about it were even before I had the chance to correct the spelling It was my first experience with an official gremlin, too . . For the first time in 22 years of newspapering I realized how tame tbe toughest editors are. blue-pencil- ... AU I was trying to jot down was that some fellows were luckier than other fellows . . . That some pilots had reasons for being happier than others and that the U. S. now has fewer enemies than it had. And so I cannot reveal at this time what all that excitement I cannot even was about elaborate that the excitement was enjoyed by a lot of very happy men, and that the reason they were so excited and happy was that certain other men, with dialects, were unhappy or dead. ... d The PBY on which I was manned by the most youthful fellows I encountered down there . . . Most were only 21. Some were 23 or 25, and some were a little more hitch-hike- seasoned . . . 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Jars 30. j, 1 At the Admirals morning conference I was shown a dispatch that told of a merchant ship sunk the night before, and that a PBY patrolling the area had radio'd seeing two lifeboats with survivors . . . But when he returned to the scene later he saw only one We were instructed to keep our eyes open for those survivors . . . That saving them would be even better than S'-'t- ... sinking an enemy sub . . . But there was no trace of them I never learned whether they had been rescued or not I kept thinking of them throughout the flight knowing that brave men somewhere were suffering not only from the suffocating humidity and heat bdt from the blinding sun. ... ... Tbe Atlantic seemed as tame as I was instructany Florida lake ed to occupy one of .the pews handed a helmet containing earphones and some dark specs . . . I Just sat there wishing hard that theyd get lucky . . . Now and then the Captain brought the plane down to a few feet over the water to circle over oil specks . . . 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