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Show Salt lake City , Utah Lawmakers I t '"it ri THE DESERET NEWS 5 Saturday, March 21 1942 9 Australia's Visitors 1 a NOTHING aupsets sack full AUSTRALIANS of angry letters from constituents. During the week the offices of Congress were littered With mail sacks. icans, hundreds of them, in hotels, How Allies Lost 12 Ships In War's 'Bloodiest, Fiercest' Sea Battle restaurants and stores. But there had not been a line about them in the papers. 22322ZE Rep. Wickersham the House he had received 13,000 letters in five days. One lawmaker said the flood of, mail was even heavier than the recent one protesting pensions for Congress- - mem People back home were demanding why U. S. production had net yet meant reinforcements for the Philippine garrison and supplies for an offensive against Japan. Senator Lee asserted: A storm of indignation is rapidly rising in this country. When it hits Washington in all its force it will sweep awaT very obstacle to our war- - effort. (D-Okl- a) told One Australian merchant said: We do' not know how to treat the boys. We were supposed not to knoy they were here. Then on Monday the folks "down -- under were relieved of their when U. S. War Secretary Stimson announced that ' American troops and air corps units had arrived safely in Australia in considerable numbers. An Australian ex- ent claimed: (D-Ok- la) Congress Gets Busy To head off the storm, Washington began mulling new and drastic laws. ), Rep. Smith perennial sponsor of festrictivelaborlegisla-- " tion, produced a bill to suspend federal statutes prescribing the 40- hour week end to outlaw the closed shop. He made the bill more inviting to friends of labor by adding a provision imposing a flat 6 limitation on war profits.. At the same time it wasreported The President "was studying the idea" 'of war time wage control as an step supplementing The price control law. week the issue of the produced the most heat. Senator Vandenberg (R - Mich told the Senate: Congress will soon realize we can no more win this war with a week in the arsenal of democracy than we could week in the fox- -. with a holes of Bataan. Now we can make you our friends. We now can begin to show how grateful we are thatjhe Amer- ' T ' icans are here." The Americans had arrived ih such numbers that no port In Australia had been large enough to accommodate them so landings were made at several ports. The doughboys had been without news for the' entire trip because radios were si lenced. They had "to wear lifebelts all the time. Warships protecting successfully fought off four sub attacks. Enter MacArthur" " tin Tuesday came the sensational' news that General Douglas JMacAr-thalso had arrived in Australia, from Bataan peninsula; He 7 by plane -: will command --all - United Nations ; forces in the far Pacific east of Sing- - a pore. That includea both Australia- and Bataan. Australia was electrified, as was the democratic world. Australians had urged that he -- be placed in charge of defending their continent. Americas Lieut. Gem George Brett will command air forces in the area, under MacArthur, and U. S. Vice Admiral Herbert Leary will command the allied sea' forces in the (D-Va- the-conv- ur -- - 40-ho- ur 40-ho- ur FDRs Congressional leaders sought to head off action in Congress on any program such as Rep. Smiths till they heard from FDR. Tuesday, after a conference with CIO Chief Murray and AFL Chief Green, FDR made up his mind. He didnt want any legislation immedi- - Nazis Unhappy About Riom Trial Signs Of The Times the proud Ger- WHAT galled almost as much as the loss of World War I was they were forced to admit they started it. To make sure that doesnt happen again, the Nazis are anxious to establish before peace conferences begin that beaten France and allies starther ed the present war. The MacArthur Glide was inr troduced at the Spring convention of the Western New York Dancing Masters Council. Brave Eagle, an Osage Indian in Kansas, has a son named Fighting Bird, and a grandson named that pre-w- ton" Boom Bikes In Lucky is the youngster who has a bike that his father isnt coveting. Only two models may be built, both lightweight one for men and one for women. Bicycles built for two are out, as are childrens. inWPBs order permits a 300 crease in the production of adults bicycles, which means that 756,000 can be made this year. The Bicycle Manufacturing Association says theres a demand for many more because of curbs on the sale of autos and auto tires. Many commuters are riding bito the station jo save their cycles Summers Bufalo Ntwi auto tires. Parking lqts are caterWake Up Man Were At War!!! ing to cyclists. Many of them ina check-u- p and oiling service.week, he said, clude ately on the because things are going pretty well A Break For Buck Privates? now. The Senate Military Affairs ComThe President added there has been an amazing state of public mittee unanimously recommended a misinformation about the prob- pay rise for men in the lower brack- lem. He said he had received let- ets of the - armed forces. - Biggest ters from five editors of small news- break would be for buck privates in papers asking why the law did not the Army whose pay would be douthe permit anyone to work more than bled from $21 to $42 a month for first year. Other soldiers would 40 hours a week.,. We all know, he added, that there get lesser increases. The only innever was any limit on the work, creases in base pay for cdtnmis-sionofficers would go to Navy enweek and that nearly all munitions lieutenants and plants now have much" more Than signs would from $1,500-ta week Some, however, who are working only 20 or 30, he went $1,800 a year. Senator Johnson sponon, because they are unable to sor of the measure, figured it would materials. increase annual pay expenses by ls Army, Navy and maritime backed. FBRup, huta House. about $268,000,000. Committee proceeded to hold hearings on the "Smith bill. .Rep. .Vinson introduced a twin bill. WPBs Quarrel Hitlerian Alibis Meanwhile WPB was in a stew Adolf Hitler went back a long over the abrupt resignation of Robway history to find a Russian as R. Guthrie ert head of its textiles Winterin colder than the recent one. division. Guthrie huffed off after In his speech last Sunday he blamed some of his that former charging his troubles on the worst Russian associates on WPB were hampering Winter in 140 years Significantly, the war program because of 7their the great Napoleon had his disasinterest in individual industries. rout 130 years ago. WPB Chief Nelson counter- trous Was Hitler trying to minimize the charged Guthrie had engaged in present misfortunes by implying personal conflicts With other staff that his men had even a tougher .... -- members. Winter than Napoleons? Senator Truman, head of the Sen- Also, he alibied that the Winter ateDefense Investigating Commit- earlier, thanscien tee, said hir group would look into tific forecasts led us to expect. I affaire Guthrie. He prophesied that his army would annihilate the Russians but said it would take place this coming Summer (rather than Spring). Commenting on, the speech U. S.. Acting Secretary of State' Welles said: There is implicit in every, word and every phrase Hitlers own' recognition of his impending downfall A Berlin dispatch to a Swiss pa- -' per said Hitler had called back practically all the purged or sulking topofficers including Von former commander in chief, and Von Bock. tm - 40-ho- ur ed Army-secon- d -- 40-ho- ur . ' Brau-chitsc- h, peace-tim- e standard for the-bo- -- through The Start Spangled Banner without snapping a single vocal chord. But many Americans must..h um or twidd e thumbs when", bands hit the high spots. An Army morale officer and a Penn State music professor have 'made a new streamlined arrangement of the anthem in the key of They say it is easily singable. 1 -- , : A-fl- American Twenties and early Thirties? Today Europe is swarming with bootleggers. Furtively, .and oftenwith the .con- -, nivance of officials, they, peddle wares at exorbitant prices. A Nazi major in Belgium secretly sells hams to natives for well-to-- ex-CI- sack. A Fascist district leader furnishes olive oil to Italians at $3 a pint -A British clerk offers counterfeit' clothing coupons or genuine Canadian maple syrup for. a price. of Amer- All the mumbo-jumb- o icas Prohibition days, goes with this CIO-AF- S v cleus. - ice-president Market all-nig- Jn Short ... --- -- - -- - 1 ( . ar even-temper- ny A French farmer near Paris, fearful of German requisitions, sells wheat to nocturnal visitors at $12 .a the-rack- O were cheered.. Even . the stock market Jumped. Senator Connally said: It is fortunate for the civilized world that he is there. The democracies are thrilled and will respond gloriously to his gen-- " ' eralship. In Washington it was disclosed that President Roosevelt had direct- -. ed MacArthur to leave the Philip- - -- $25 apiece. - ed e do racketeering: prearranged knocks on a door . , , back street rendezvous. War Comes. ToLat iff America . . . Hans Smeltz sent me. in 'is the But situation Europe - By midweek, sunk had four Brazilian vessels, a Chilean more desperate In all countries, the name fora and freightUruguayan freighter is the same: The Black Marer. The Chilean ship went down not ket. and scarcity have proHunger New far from York City with most duced. the. Black Market. It has be. .of her crev7. come one of the most pervasive as' He Would Like To Know Himself MU Right! Resent i. Wide World ratur pects of life in Europe,- For decades burly, John L. Lewis, chief, and Phil Murray, present CIO chief, were pals. But for the past-yetheyve-been-o- n snarling, terms. Their hostility was aggravated some weeks Sgo when Lewis, on his L own hook, proposed unity. Murray was sure the move was meant to embarrass hint He curtly rejected the suggestion, termed it a Pearl Harbor attack." Later the two reportedly bumped into each other in the lobby of the United Mine Workers Building in Washington. Murrays friends offer .this version of the meeting: Gruffly-- , Lewis asked Murray what-h- e meant by calling me a Jap. Murray retorted that Lewis owed him an apology for his undercover campaign" against him. Now, Murrays friends say, Lewis is tightening his grip on his miners union as a preliminary to deserting the CIO and forming a third labor movement with the UMW as a nu- CIO Gets A Dun Lewis UMW has sent the CIO a MacArthur dun for a payment on $1:665,000 Australians Asked For Him which UMW put up for the CIOs early organizing campaigns. One pines a month ago and that the bril- friend of Lewis scoffed at the idea liant general had requested a delay UMW would withdraw from the he could perfect arrangements CIO. You dont do that to an or- until with his Philippine command,- - He . $1,665,-000, owes ganization which you left Bataan under the command of he said. Major Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, ' Though Murray heads the CIO his ri,ght-han- d man. and the Steel Workers Organizing By the change MacArthur Committee his only present salary i large part of the command of $18,000 a year as relinquished by Britains General Lewis UMW. , Sir Archibald Waveil nearly a. Lewis is busily b u i 1 d i n g ' up month, ago as generalissimo, qf the. In Southern California, the FBI UMWS Strength' by WOolngffiany snilt Wst Parifi(. Wavp nnw rounded up neatly 20(T"definttely varieties of ''unorganized- -1 workers-danger-ous mands the area west of Singapore, catchUMWs a into District 50, Japanese, including MacArthur east. school teachers, Buddhist priests all unit for unorganized workers Invasion Fleet Smashed not engaged in actual coal mining. and gardeners. is the' story book sol- -. MacArthur coal and Chemical On Ellis Island the Italian operatic basso, Ezio Pinza, was held as workers form a nucleus. Recently dier, poised, cool, - even dairy farmers were enrolled unorthodox, daring and admired by . -an enemy alien. his staff officers and men. His father in it. was a hero in the War Between the College Graduates At 18? Two Who Deserfed States, Douglas was a general in the Most college students have been World War and commanded the two At Fort Ga.; Oglethorpe, 22 by the time they graduated. Those famed Rainbow Division. He was Charlie who went on for professional de- youthful cavalry privates, Lovett and Jim Testerman, decided U. S. Chief of Staff at 50, is now 62 grees have studied until they were to run out on Uncle Sam. They beat though he looks a decade younger. at least 25. Thus the lawyer or docThe general and his American a two with and escaped sentry tor was often 28 before he was es- up troops apparently, were arriving service apiece, forced a cab tablished. enough to even . think driver topistols take them through part of none too soon. A hugt Japanese arabout marrying. mada was pressing down on AusTennessee. The President of Fordham, the tralias New Guinea. w , ht as they paused at an But I. Gannon, thinks the On Wednesday the U. S. Navy cafe in Abingdon, Va., two FBI A recent arrival in America from Rev. Robert set-up has been cockeyed. whole disclosed an invading force off New Belgium says: approached. The deserters Guinea had If a professional man is to marry . agents . shooting. been smashed by U. S. One Food is scarce unless one has the was agent before he is 25, and it is to his spir- began and ' Australian air forces which Markilled,-thto Black four was other shot times the money patronize sunk or damaged 23 Japanese vesket. But if you have money, you can itual advaritage and the advantage- in the chest. Of society thahe ould, the bachA - vasL. manhunt - closed-i- n - on sels jncludingj 2 warships. The Allget-, anything - you -- want - from- - the Germans food, passports and so on elors degree must be a possibility at them,' under the personal direction ies, it said, lost only one plane. The Germans, Belgians and French 18, he said. of FBI Chief Hoover. They got no His program for graduating col- further than an abandoned are all conducting these Black house at years the edge of town. Tear gas forced German officials are liv- legians at 18 would mean: six of three of school: high them to surrender. grammar Killed: 150 Americans, as a toring off their share of the profits. nado swirled through .seven states One big shot in London is said to school: three of college. have been have made $500,000 illegally since . Already, many colleges (Miss., Ky., Tenn., 111., Ind., Ala., the war began.' In some countries, rearranging their schedules so that Mo.) and wrecked millions of dollars at can The 20. the students graduate use of the Black Market is a dire worth of property. About 1,000 more forced this change to shorter were injured. Mississippi was worst necessity because food often is not draft even available to holders of ration vacations and more intensive study. hit. y Picked: An opaque green pellet ' .tickets- .A Slogan For 1942 market 'the isnt Why containing the number 3485 from a stamped An Iowa doughboy, Martin Trep-- . out? Five, persons .recently were goldfish bowl in Washington by Sec- executed in Germany or occupied tow, was killed at Chateau-Thier- ry retary of War Stimson. It was the first number picked in the third area in one week for bootlegging. in 1918. Friends found he had slogan on the flyleaf of draft lottery which will tap a reserItaly sentenced 22 persons to 10 penned voir of 9,000,000 men months in solitary confinement and his diary: , America must win this war. fines up to 80,000 lire for selling rice tions victory drive. Adjustments Therefore ! will work; I will save; hadlb be made because of three er- illegally. rors that slipped in tojthe drawing, This month, after a London news-- .. I will sacrifice; I will endure; I will do my utmost;-$20- 0 of the 7,000 capsulesL. paper disclosed a Racketeer hadrsold 'fight cheerfully-an- d worth of sugar for $600, Brit- - as if the issue of the whole struggle Tangled: Four Army planes in the ain gave last warning to war food depended on me alone. .Air. Corps Feoy ..Command, during Wallacehas a blinding snowstorm near Lima, O. racketeers. Aweek later the- Black , Ctllint in Jttmtrut CuUt of 1942 The planes"crashed to-- therground,'-alLJhenilntFnrtr'raised - to-- 14 -- posed.that . . years imprisonment. Surprise adopt Martin's .slogan, ABC Of Europe's Black REMEMBER of the the Anzac zone. CIO?i mild-manner- ed ys back. Sir Chanmukham Chetty, head of the Indian purchasing mission in New York: The European races, and In this I include Amer , icans, must realize without any equivocation or mental reservation that the days of their guardianship over the Asiatic people have most decidedly come to an end." an In Coming ff bushy-brow- in the Army when they get ar Abroad . that ar - ns offi-cia- (D-G- a) Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt: Labor should not give up the standards, it has won in peace time because it has an obligation to maintain At Home (D-Col- ob-ta- ift Blow-O- of war In 1934). veniently ignore Germanys string (mlnister Two weeks ago an irked Nazi ofof aggressions against Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. To them ficial reminded Vichy that the questhe important point is that France tion to be answered was why did and Britain declared war on Ger- France declare war on Germany? rather than the secondary quesmany. That is why they were anxious to tion of why France lost the war. And last weekend Adolf Hitler have Vichy stage the current Riom himself denounced thetriaLand said-Vichtrial of Frances They hoped the trial would establish handling of it was incomEnemies Inside America , in prehensible. Frances guilt. Axis theorists have often hinted To this a French spokesman tartly the Vichy government also wanted the trial, in the hope of throwing replied that Vichy had no intention' that the United States was a pushover for .propagandists and spies. reof inquiring into political responsimore mud at Frances pre-wduring the week the Axis had publican government. bility for the war until 1the situation But Both Nazis and in which France now finds herself evidence that Uncle Sam can get tough, darned tough! Frenchmen to date have been pain- - changes. In New York seven convicted Nazi spies were sentenced to federal prison to serve a total of 117 years. The only reason they escaped hanging was that their espionage took place before Dec. 7. Also in New York Nazi propagandist George Sylvester Viereck was sentenced to the maximum term of two to six years plus $1,500 fine for Jailing to register with the government the full details of his work on behalf of Germany. Eighteen enemy aliens, equipped witjT23 cameras, 13 short wave radio , receivers, six . shotguns,, were like Vi- -, SOPRANOS seized by the FBI near Mitchel Field (at on Long Island. jrighO--Can breeze o d People Views fully disappointed. The prosecution has sought only to establish why France wasnt prepared for war. One defendant, former Premier Leon Blum, defiantly defended Frances democracy. Another- defendant, former- - Premier Edouard The Bull Daladier, bluntly blamed Frances defeat on (1) French industrialists, (2) army pluto-demoera- tic 4k oy r : 40-ho- ur r were were the Amer- et ' for-4h-n- a-. -- Vice-Preside- nt' t' - - .1 |
