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Show FDR Must lake Helm Again To Achieve National Unity Improved Weapons, Better Use of Old, Defeating Subs Administration, Congress Must Get Tough In Throttling Various Pressure Groups , Seeking Advantages for Few. By BAUKHAGE tr him the workman is making all the money at an easy Job. The workman will face higher living costs and he certainly has to, without a wage raise, until somebody comes along and tells him the farmer is getting rich and that is why his food costs go up. And so on. The reason why I believe this is because I receive letters like the following: "My husband is 67 years old working and making $38.00 a week when tax is taken out. We are buying two war bonds each month but we have a son in the navy and one designing aviation tools in a plant in Atlanta. Perhaps he, too, will soon be in the service, though married he has no children yet. "We are like many relatives who though making hundreds a month dont buy a bond. These same people went through the depression with Jobs while we took it the hard way. Our two boys suffered from malnutrition during those difference in point of view? You see we suffered making us think. My boys bought war bonds right from the start. Their dad and I feel the need of a decent world to live in, too. for we had to live in a deprived world for several years. It gave us a different slant on life. We want a decent world for our children and grandchildren and other people's children. "Selfishness and greed will have to go if 'w.e are to have that decent world. If a congressmans constituents talk to him that way, we went have much more trouble cm the home front. Hitler will have to begin worrying again. rip-roari- The Washington atmosphere Thus the gravest threat to Allied success, the submarine campaign against shipping. Is being answered, as it was in World War L Success is coming faster than anyone dared hope a little while ago. In April Admiral King of the U. S. navy predicted that the submarine danger would be brought under control with' in four to six months. Secretary of Navy Knox a few days later said that the increasing numbers of destroyers now guarding convoys would soon have their beneficial effect. The peril to the bridge of ships carrying war supplies to Europe and the Orient is not being met by any one "secret weapon. Destroyers, airplanes, cannon, radar, helicopters, balloons and many other war machines are being employed in combinations best adapted to the The change for the better has come rather suddenly. Only last January the tremendous losses in shipping tonnage were causing extreme concern in Allied war councils. Almost a million tons a month was being sunk last year. Charles E. Walsh, chief of the maritime procurement division, has revealed that over 11 million tons went down in the first year of war. The Merchant Marine reports that nearly 6,000 men have been lost in the last 20 months. Until very lately, there was little light through the dark clouds. Ships Getting Through. Now the great fleets of merchant Ships are arriving in Allied ports with small losses. The protection devised by the navy is succeeding. A convoy, which may consist of hundreds of ships carrying ammunition, food, plane parts, oil and thousands of other war materials, as well as troops, offers many tar-- af- species but the citizens of as welL Today, I came down town at an odd hour an interesting hour. I was a little later than usual. The war workers and the boarding-hous- e cats and the alley pups, which wait until the workers are out of the way, had vanished on their various duties; only an indolent and disreputable Tom still paused to massage its hips against a garbage can, and a yellowish part-fo- x terrier, certainly part, and from his brush, certainly more fox than terrier, lay in the xact center of the alley where anything that ran down the middle gutter would eventually reach him. . These creatures sniff at protocol and treat it as they do anything else they sniff at. But that hour is also the hour of the pet parade, for the handsome creatures that strain at leashes. . The most unhappy person I meet at this bewitching hour is a thin little relic of a butler, who is literally tom between losing his dignity and his grip on one of the embassy great danes. No men like to walk dogs. All dogs like to walk men. But one gentleman dog nurse dared me to stare him down. He was being led by a aristocrat, a young wired-haire- d fox, as white and starched as if his proud mamma prepared him for a birthday party. d Then there was the cocker, who dropped its eyes, sadder still when it realized I had noted that its mistress was wearing a far too Informal house dress for polite street wear. And then, there was the little it undulated along with a rather forced smile. It was a dachsi. hund and probably It was hustling along like a caterpillar in high gear, trotting with its hind legs, and hopping with its little turtle-- ol Necessary The objectives are pretty clear. In the first place, the President has got to take the helm again. He has got to crack down. He has got to see that dissensions do not break out He has got to see to it that the secretary of the treasury comes out with a clear-ctax and savings program which will absorb the inut sad-eye- e, tives. anti-Naz- j in paws Bourke-Whit- front I even met a feline on a leash, a great big tortoiseshell Thomas it looked as if it was safer that way for the rest of us all I could think of was tiger, tiger, 'burning bright in the jungle of the night." by Baukhage The Aflierlcan soldiers average The German occupation forces coffee ration is 40 cups of coffee a have "ceased quarrying for large month. stone blocks in the southern province of Vestofold, the Stockholm The Army Service Forces is the newspaper Aftontidningen said in an largest employer of women in the article reported to the OWI. The United States today, with a total of Germans had intended using the 38 379,300, or approximately per cent of the more than 1,000,000 ci- stone for victory monuments, the vilian workers employed in ord- article said. Waste labor obviously will not be countenanced. nance plants, depots, etc. t WANT; FEATHERS i ruintwi! CO, 22isai 4i By VIB by e, Sev- . . long line of eral were autographed by Eisenhower, Marshall, Churchill and others, but the one that held the eye was a bill inscribed, she said, by people with whom she had been torpedoed . , . "Huh? you huh. Oh, says Margaret, youd be surprised at the people you meet nowadays, who have been torpedoed! .' rs La White was on a ship that sank A troopin the Mediterranean its out as marked on the space A HELICOPTER LANDS Settling slowly about 200 it including appears, ship, landing field on the deck of a Victory ship, this helicopter makes a per- British women, returning to Engfect landing. This peculiar aircraft can rise and descend almost vertically, land from the Colonies . . . All were and can hover over the water, spotting submarines. saved by British warships. The 200 women salvaged nothing Crash panels must now be put into does not have its speed or maneubut their lipsticks coast regulaairguard every door, by verability. Then there is the tions. These are sections of thin craft carrier, which is accompanyJoey Adams forwards the one ing large convoys lately. Planes wood within every door, that can be about the French peasant in occuout crewmen, by trapped from the carrier can patrol a wide smashed whose home had been circle and prevent any enemy sur- leaving a space big enough to per- pied territory, It is the Nazis ransacked by conmit escape. face craft from surprising the is stuff not humor. It brought a of grim centers To preserve the nerve voy. . . . The That new marvel, radar, can lo- ship as long as possible, the pilot here by escaped refugees fish and man a famished caught covered tiny are shack house and radio cate enemy planes and submarines . . . "Here! with amazing accuracy, in fogs or with reinforced concrete and steel raced home with it we can at night Destroyers are being capable of withstanding submarine he said to .his wife, "at lastwe will cook, . . But how eat! equipped with radar now. Listen- shelling. asked. They took our coal she it? Boats. In Life Latest submarines to devices detect by ing Finally, when seamen have to and wood, our matches and even the the pulsations of their propellers, have been in use for some time, so abandon ship, the latest and best in stove! . . . The peasant took the equipment comes into fish to the lake, tossed it back and the officers in charge of the defense of a convoy have several play. By orders of the coast guard, stood watching it wiggle back to life means of knowing when the enemy the life boats are always kept swung . . . Suddenly the fish gave the y salute and yelled: Viva out and clamped against canvas-covere- d is approaching. cushions. The ropes holding Laval! Only about 500 miles of the voyage between the United States and the boats are secured by a single Fort Casters company commandBritish ports is beyond the range of "pelican hook which can be tripped er, ironically enough, is a land based aircraft, according to by simply releasing a catch allowIndian . . . March of Times latSecretary Knox. The patrol planes ing the boat to be lowered into the est, Inside Fascist Spain, makes of the Allies can protect shipping water in a minute or two. At the same time a boat is low- audiences wonder why the State within an arc six or seven hundred ered, a life net, kept rolled up Dept plays ball with Franco . . . miles in radius. against the side of the ship just be- - James Cromwells new business: Ships Mount Heavy Guns. g all the paper used at Convoys are so large, however, 1 the Pentagon Bldg., Washington. that despite all sorts of armed Secret papers no longer are burned, guardians, some ships will be atbut . . . Permission for tacked, and perhaps damaged or Kate Smith to sing "God Bless sunk. Often too, a single merchant America, in This Is the Army ship has to travel without escort to cost Warners $10,000 . . . The Boy enter a small port off the regular and Girl Scouts get that songs royalrun, or for a number of other reaties, $113,000 to date. sons. Merchant ships have long been accustomed to mount some cannon George Lalt, the INS correspondin wartime, but against modern enent, says there is little love lost beemy craft, ordinary seamen have tween King Farouk of Egypt and the little chance to use their weapons British High Commissioner . . . effectively. The maritime commisThey needle each other often . . . sion has ordered every American One day the Commissioner refive-inc- h to A a gun. ship carry marked to the King that a man crew from the navy mans the piece, hasnt proved his mettle until he has which is deadly to enemy submashot a lion . . . Farouk proceeded rines and destroyers, or any vessel to the Cairo zoo and shot sevenl with thinner armor than a cruiser. Ships are protected against airNew York Heartbeat: craft by guns and .50 caliber machine guns. Expert navy Sallies in Our Alley: Confrere crews also handle these ordnance. Skolsky, as all Hollywood knows, Submarines and planes are relucis a furious hypochondriac. His tant to get too close to a ship that pockets bulge with medicines at all can defend herself, and torpedoes, times . . . As he walked past a bombs and gunfire aimed from a dis- LIFE RAFT Six research men are drug store the other day, Arthur tance are less accurate. shown testing the new rubber life Murray said: Dont you want to A barrage balloon is now being raft under actual shipwreck condi. . . "Nh-nd go in? the added to the defensive equipment tions for the Maritime commission. colyumist, I dont need anything of merchant ships. The balloon They were "cast adrift near Cape "I know, was the "but trails steel cables when in the air, Fear, N. C., to study conditions of maybe the druggist doesreply, I . . . thereby preventing a divebombing survival at sea, and to report de- Lucy Monroe counsels:. Three ways plane from getting too close to the fects and possibilities for improveto avoid criticism: Say nothing. ship, or from running along it and ment. Merchant ships carry these Do nothing. Be nothing! to in crew the rafts addition with machine the lifeboats. strafing gun bullets. The gas bag is raised and Midtown Vignette: Groucho Marx lowered by a cable attached to a low the boat deck, is released. Three tells it, Happened, he says, to a or four men can scramble down this winch near the stern. pal who wanted a pair of bowling net at the same tixpe. Last month the maritime comshoes but was reluctant to surrenMerchant ships must also carry der his ration mission and the War Shipping adHe went coupon ministration decided, after a suc- liferafts, since the boats may be to a sporting goods shop where he cessful demonstration, that helicop-ter- s damaged by shells, or the sinking told the owner: Your brother said can be employed to give added ship may be leaning so far over I could a pair of bowling shoes buy is that it impossible to lower life- here without a protection to individual ships. Evcoupon . . . The ery new Liberty model ship will boats on one side. boss nodded and sold him the shoes a Boats Carry Radios. carry helicopter, according to As the patron started to go, he A portable sending and present plans.- - As these peculiar receiving said: Now that Ive got em, I gotaircraft can rise and descend almost radio set must be included in the ta confess your brother didnt send vertically, they can operate from equipment of at least one lifeboat on me in . . . Thats all right, the a small area on the deck of a ves- every ship. owner said, patting the chap on the sel. Whether the ship is part of a Water rations on each boat have shoulder, dont worry about it, boy. convoy or sailing alone, the helicop- been increased from three to ten I aint got any brother." ter can hover around, watching for quarts per person. Fourteen ounces the enemy. each of pemmican, malted milk Broadway Tinsel: Bergman Some Sinkings Inevitable. tablets, chocolate and type C army will be the third starIngrid to be honored will be and ration biscuits Ships sunk, damaged must be included in with a Time cover. Rita Hayworth however, despite all defensive pre- every boat for each person. was first A sign outside the cautions and efforts. Some are Rubber lifesaving suits are is- Los wrecked by storms, or are smashed sued to each member of the crew. reau:Angeles Marriage License BuThinkl Is It Cupid or Conon rocks or icebergs. Even when Besides keeping a man dry while in scription? in a sinking condition, nevertheless, the water, the suits give protection a ship may sometimes be saved by against exposure in a lifeboat or Sounds In the Night: At the Hursome of the safety features that are raft. Attached to the shoulder of ricane: Her husband doesnt talk a of modern If the each suit is a jackknife with which in his part ship. ship he just grins sleep . . . must be abandoned, other emer- a man can free himself if he is en- At La Conga: The same flattery gency features help to save the lives tangled in ropes, and a police whisthat turns your head will later turn of the crew. tle and a red signal light to atmiddle your In the Mayan: Many safety devices have been tract the attention of rescuers. "She fell for him hook, line and bank added, and old ones have been imSo the perils to Allied shipping are account At LaMartinique: proved. Several have been built being combatted successfully His favorite exercise is into the ship itself. The maritime combining all known resources by taking of bows At the Famous Door: commission found that men were warships, planes, guns and radio. He has that typical hurt frequently in the dark passage- The war goods are getting Bway look-gr- een through. with envy! ways when the lights went out after The ships are arriving safely. But a torpedo had struck. Luminous-paiwhen a ship does go down the brave Manhattan Murals: The Chinese seamen have a much better chance signs now mark all passagecopy girl in the AP news room . . . ways and exits, and directions point to sail again than living to ladders and indicate the switches before, thanks to ever better ever The undertakers office advertising: equipAir conditioning. of emergency lights. ment ... 1 life-savi- Nazi-Vich- full-blood- MECl calljnj g a, 8fter Ved, c- week else ig ' sti public PHOTO FINISHn,,. jnfl $ roles BEAUTIFUL 4x6 PlCTURPt S 120 negatives, 3V4x4 sixes EA. Roiu s 45c 16 exp. 60c 36 on enlarge, on portrait from old, new pict. OVERkiWXS PACIFIC PHOTO SEimn? P. O. Baa 666-- SAN FKANCISG- - i 4 5? rad10-imnbi- a I it GUERNSEY HETlfrP HIGH GRADE GCERN8ET under one year and Yearn,...? Its a Family Affair A youngster asked his M how wars began. Well, said his father, V pose America quarreled with land and But, interrupted the mo America must never quarrel England. I know, he answered, but am only taking a hypothetical ' sensive I ride"; at stance. You are misleading the said the mother. No, I am not! replai ruesday child,1 he shoutei Never mind, dad, boy, I think I know begin. Mrs. iaod foi said th, how wan a it ret on her cl (war mained inly m SUN BURN Cool the burnof nmhn, Sprinkle with Menu, formerly Menem Powder. Relieve hut rash too. Get lie rea That v Fallen S 8K0 Rat its got tc In the Sunlight Do not anticipate trouble, worry about what may pen. Keep in the next iwa ia de-ink- nh-nh- i111 ruing leepy "De-lnkin- '' Ll)y "idacorr WANTED Pay $74.38 per we a gLPWAgSrj AUTOMOBILE ... anti-aircra- ft hap sunlight-Frankl- in. who co-- s ton in it. DONT LET Those CONSTIPATION their stu oi amus SLOW YOU UP When bowele are sluggish tod jet feel irritable, headachy, do at million the modem do chew laxative. Simply che chewing-gu- example guerite Appoir across FEEN-A-MIN- tfore you go to bed, only in accordance with pecksje directions sleep without being disturbed. Next morning gentle, thorough relief, helping you feel swell again. Try FEEN-A-MIN- Y which T parents Thereu taking "Self-s- i Tastes good, is handy economical. A generous family aipply FEEN-A-MIN- and FEEN-A-MIHn- of Precious Things A precious thing is all the more won precious to us if it has been by work or economy. J. Ruskin. ' ... ... stiff-legge- d flation dollars. Congress will have to support that program. The pressure groups whose purpose it is to get their members more money for products or wages, will have to be throttled. This means that the administration has to be tough. Congress will have to have courage. The people will have to support their elected representa- feathers Notes of a City Slicker: just back Margaret from taking pictures of world famous statesmen, was showing her at fects strangers who tarry long within the shadow of the Washington monument or the Capitol dome. It affects not only the higher anti-inflati- BRIE FS U-bo- Diary of a Broadcaster er The vast majority of Americans are perfectly willing to carry their share of the load. They are not willing to make sacrifices if they believe someone else is getting the benefit and shirking their share. The farmer will work the skin off his hands and take a meager reward If its for the good of the country and the boy he spared to join the army. But not if somebody tells The submarine was utterin May, Prime defeated ly Minister Churchill stated triumphantly in a recent address. The first lord of the admiralty amended this by announcing that the British navy had set a new record in sinkthat month for exnow losses ings, and that ceeded German production. task. years. Dont you think this makes a Two events mark the low fat unified effort tor victory. One was when a reporter, with no evil innuendo in his mind as far as I know (and I know the man), asked the President if he would make any comment for background on the statement that although things were going well 'on the battlefront they were not going so well on the administration front (meaning home front). The President replied with a castigation of the press and radio. Some of their representatives, he said, were encouraging governmental friction. He could have given a answer which blasting, would have encouraged the country. As It was, he made some of the men whose job it is to interpret the news to the country, too mad to be objective. The second event which marked efthe nadir in shoulder-to-shouldfort on the home front was when congress came within an eyelash of killing the use of any and all subsidies which would have broken a wide hole in the dam. Let me state immediately that I do not believe that subsidies is the panacea for our inflation ills, but to have wiped them out completely at that time would have meant Jerking the one, wobbling support we did have right out from under the price-contrstructure. Since then the President has perked up and taken a positive stand and congress on second thought modified its berserk mood and evolved a compromise. Now It is up to the people. If the congressmen are convinced that they can afford to go national and not be defeated a year from November; if they are convinced that the people will support their votes If they vote for what they think the country needs and not to suit the pressure groups that sit on their desks all day, the crisis will pass. Crack-Dow- n trying to carry our end of the war effort but we have many friends and Two Events R short-snorte- Afwi Analyit and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. In tho next few weeks decisions will be reached which will affect the length of the war and they will not be made on the military fronts. They will be made in small town offices, leaning across fences, down at the post office or the court house, on front stoops, at the Elks club, in the lodge rooms and after meetin's of one kind or another in every snlddlesex, village and farm in the country. They will result from conversations between the congressmen, home to mend their 1944 fences, and their constituents. The nation faces a crisis on the home front Unless it is solved in the common sense American way, it is going to prolong the war months, and perhaps longer. Its presence has already delayed the capitulation of Italy, according to some of the more around pessimistic pessimists Washington. As success on the battlefront grows, the efforts of those trying to support a total war are being defeated on the home front CLASSIC Recent Allied Success in Undersea War Is Result of Coordinated Campaign LIKE A DUCKS BACK The new Morner lifesaving suit keeps seamen dry and warm under ail conditions. A Jackknife for cutting away entangling ropes, and a red signal light and police whistle for attracting attention of rescuers are attached to the shoulder. gets for enemy submarines and torpedo planes. Destroyers, ranging along the flanks, and ahead and behind the convoy, are the usual defenders of the slow and helpless freighters, tankers and troopships. But the "greyhounds of the sea have a lot of auxiliaries under the new system. One of these is the corvette, a small merchant ship converted to a light warship. It can function much as the destroyer does, although it S UF f AceifdMJ nisinoi Whats in a Name? The name Adolph comes from an old Gothic name which meaffl "Father Wolf. 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Is sure that he was and still is in love with the girl who played him in it . . . The wife willopposite not go to see the picture and has threatened everything if he sees it . . .He almost saw it one night last week but the Mrs. threatened to swallow some pills and he didnt go. It And Your Strength and Energy Is Below P may ba eauaad by dtawder nay function that pegmta sraata to accumulata. For n? manw-whpeopla fed tired, weak and the kidney, fail to nmortu Irom matter acids and other sraata WYou J en backad may suffer nagging rheumatic pains, headaches, - 4 Pinretting op nights, leg ty nJ Sometimes frequent and tion with smarting end burnmf wrong is other sign that something 4 . maodiubtthatp Is wiser than --I , Doan 'l Pille. It is better toMy won country has .mb? medicine that -, on omethinj p proval than lown. Doan' hava boonall dru d many ytara. Ara at Got Doar today. treatment ' 1 |