Show PUBLISHING COMPANY VIENNA GERMANY GLASMANN EDITOR AND GENERAL MANAGER Associate General Manager Frank Francis Associate Editor Leonard G Diehl A I r AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER — -- — Fublisnea tuvery —— — Entered at the postoffice Member J n i ravening ana ouuua CT Mnm ° 71? WlLLIUUk 1 'ZtSncm of Congress March 3 1879 and A B G all now riisrtatphps credited to P use to the entiUed newsT focaT is ""th Press exclusively The Associated — it or not otherwise creaitea ui m f"'-- SUBSCRIPTION PRICES 75o a nA in advance By Mau— jwusi be paid in advance a w ooc a uwhui year All Other States $100 a month $1200 tsy carrier a- vear in uian laano mevouo — — wnmine T " t j - ? : ' V V The Washington d 8 Allen By Drew Pearson and Robert WASHINGTON— Examination by U S experts the of the captured Messerschmitt sent here by British has uncovered one highly significant fact: hundred The nazis are now using only one to two of these construction pounds of magnesium in the famous fighter planes to ' This low nazi magnesium content is comparea made S U planes 0 pounds used in similar the lighter than of this featherweight metal one-thir- d as 1000 much use as bombers Our big aluminum The more magnesium used pounds of magnesium over-all weight of the planes the lighter the evidence that German magneThis is considered not is keeping pace with Luftwaffe sium production were the nazis would certainly it If requirements be using more magnesium in their planes because and there found a bucolic loveliness hea rd the tinkling of bells of hundreds of sheep and the notes of a flute played by an aged wrinkled shepherd sitting under a tree" Pressed for an opinion on the war the old man said he had none g "and sadly went back to his "I " " JTACT? There is something eternal about Greece Byroij was not the only one who "dreamed that Greece might still be free" Greece shall be free again and the old man piping his flute-oa plateau in Thessaly has a greater permanence there than any driver of a nazi tank " Does it look dark for Greece for the world for freedom ? Perhaps it does Yet go back a year The British were then withdrawing from the fiasco in Norway The fall of France was o:ily weeks away and there were people then who gave Britain only weeks to live Yet E ritain lives and in the midst of the Greek tragedy an old man can still pipe ' of its extreme lightness and strength Heavier metals increase the dead weight reducing the ship's lifting power speed and cruising range all vital factors in aerial' combat If as the experts believe German magnesium is highly production is falling behind war needstooKit me worm the nazis tiermany important Under lead in the output of this strategic metal For years the United States lagged behind because of cartel agreements between magnesium and aluminum manufacturers which kept down production In 1939 U S magnesium production barely totalled 7000000 pounds By 1940 as a result of frantic defense efforts this was stepped up to pounds still far short of army navy and requirements Large scale output of certain types of aircraft is being held up until several new magnesium plants get into operation O P M plans call for an output of 75000000 pounds Jn 1942 If no hitches develop mark may be reached by the the 50000000-poun- d p mountain-toi end of this year j upon Nazi Embassy - Did Yugoslavia fall? Yes but Yugoslavia telephone number of the German embassy fell almost without a struggle by the sign- in "The Washington is District 4500 often confused with state department number District 4510 Though ing of a paper It has cost Hitler more than the the department has changed its number they that md in conquering it he has incurred still state get calls for one another The other day the phone rang in the German hatreds not easily quelled cost' embassy and a woman's voice said: "Is this the Has Greece fallen? Yes but it has state department?" The embassy clerk replied "No madam that Hitler thousands of his finest youth Last is Republic 5600" number Greece might October it looked as though "Oh dear" said the lady "I'm in a pay station fall wthin a few weeks to the Italians Yet and I've already paid my nickel Could you transfer 12-500- aid-Brita- in I ' six months later both Mussolini and Hitler are paying a price for Greece — a heavy price o create one more house of hatred to be pol: ced and held under by armed force Strcngly and more strongly comes the i realization that the struggle that shakes the" wc rid is no mere business of battles won and q iick blitzkriegs but a long grinding struggle which may consume years For just'ak modern war is a war on civilians and pfoples and not merely of armies so conquest implies not only the beating of armies but the beating of peoples the breaking or remolding of their spirit and their soul In this sense Hitler has not yet conquered a single country though his legions have achieved (at a price) many victories His panzer divisions may drive Greek riflemen before! them but the shepherd is uncon-quere- d In ejvery conquered country in Europe the people remain forever unconquered because -- there is something within them that must remai iorever iree ' Rumania Hits Bottom We wouldn't pretend to know much about Rumanian politics which always at this dis tance ook a good deal like an egg scrambling itself But that is all in the past Rumanian now Baron von Killinger tics is to Rumania has an ler's nounced formally at Bucharest that General Antonescu is "Rumania's representative for poli-simp- le Hit-'ambassad- or" Adolf Hitler" We jseem to recall that General Antonescu claimed the title of "premier" or some such name vaguely suggesting that in some way he represented the people On Sept 6 1940 Antonescu was crying "Brother Rumanians! From the depths of a heavy heart I appeal to you to forget all and to rally around our young and beloved king" (Michael) His heart may have been heavy then but it wa3 apparently elastic The masquerade is over Today he is "Rumania's representative for Adolf Hitler" Soft coal miners and operators expect-tfind peace without government aid Uncle Sam prefers to have them mine their own o - ' ' Main problem today seems to be to get the airplalnes into the air while keeping cost of living figures on the gcound ' Washington is more specific on just what kind qf a machine age we're living tfi— adding machine Statistician says that every rat costs the d United States $1S2 a year The four-legge- ones Alabama man landed in jail for stealing a neighbor's cornet Anyway he'll get some sleep ' me Textile Profits When O P M purchasing chief Donald Kelson remarked at his press conference that textile prices were under scrutiny his words went unnoticed in the press But to textile insiders they sent cold shivers up the spine What Nelson did not reveal but which they knew was that his associate Leon Henderson defense price regulator naa quietly completed a survey showing that the mill margins (profits) ere the highest in history Henderson's figures show a jump in mill margins from 1063 in June 1940 to 16 in february 1941 and still going up If the price paid growers for cotton had kept pace with that of textiles it would be selling today at around 20 cents a pound instead of 1071 — its present figure Informally Henderson has warned textile leaders to watch their step indicating willing' ness to allow them to put on the brakes themselves iiTTTl i vvnen tne president sam mere were to be no war millionaires" Henderson told the mill men took his words literally I'll give you time to try to worn out the situation yourselves but you had Detter produce results —or I will" A j Merry-Go-Rou- nd The bedroom Harry Hopkins occupies in the vvnite rlouse is known as the blue room part of tne suite occupied by the king and queen of England two years ago It is located in the southeast corner of the house Mrs Roosevelt's morning mail consists of 900 to 1000 letters A chime rings at the White House door to notify the doorman a car is approaching in the driveway A year ago juarrie maimer was a fleet-foote- d Postal mes ' senger who "ran copy1' iri the national press building for Washington correspondents Now he is a budding song writer with his tirst ballad "Sweet Tempta tion a nit in the east O P M director genera! William Knudsen will have nothing to do with ghost writers He writes all speeches and articles carrying ma name 'His latest witticism is "An expert is mechanic away from 'home" New Deal Justice Hugo Black is rated by Chief Justice Hughes as one or the keenest analytical minds and one of tho most conscientious jurists on the federal bench Rolling Army If you are going into the army the chances are 0 that you won't be a "line" soldier at all The odds are 1 to 3 that you will be a chauffeur or a mechanic Official war department estimates are that 400000 men of the new army will be drivers or mechanics of motor vehicles This is the expression of the machine age Some idea of the importance of wheels and gears in the new mobile army is found in the rate at which 'the war department is acquiring motor vehicles Two years ago the total number in the army was 14000 Now it's approaching 150000 and the end of 'June it will be 190000 The final by goal of 286000 will be reached by early fall The quartermaster corps is trying to avoid the confusion of the World war when the army had to cope with 216 different makes of vehicles Now it has only 16 most of its trucks coming from only two companies Practically all half-to- n trucks are Dodges trucks Chevrolets and 21z-to- n trucks General Motors 50-5- ' ' Tainto Tirane ALBANIAN ' VaIona V 35-m- m -- ) tT white-bearde" jConstanto Back Sax y Varna I Wheat fruit f V yu vU'sALONIKA "Xf J Ci 4 jLL isSSIulW T t TURKEY n n rt f it 'ii Scale of Miles i 0 Aegean oea 2 " vaC 1 100 --c- j The Allies I v 0"H l l it'll If to Allies WJg this tune Invading Yugoslavia and Greece Adolf Hitler takes another long chance the oU ores and food supplies vital to his armies and people Shown on rnap hitB the invasion by whose flow to Germany may !be or is already interrupted and transport facilities From the Pony Express Capital Comment Raymond Clapper By WASHINGTON - April 26 is over i Nobody knows 8 But there is something short of blood that we must sacrifice whether we fight or not We anust sacrifice wealth earnings and per- haps savings Whether we fight or not we are living in a world Sof Not even Colonel Lindforce bergh thinks we can live safely without being heavily armed for an indefinite period That being the case the of dollars is necessary ijlf we can get by with nothing mare serious than a sacrifice of dollars we shall be lucky indeed it will be a cheap price compared with the price that most other free nations are paying for survival — and often in vain The treasury's tax proposals have been outlined to congress They are severe Thank God for that If this government hasn't the guts to stand for heavy taxation in this crisis it hasn't the guts to do anyThe same goes for the thing !If they can't American people take a stiff tax bill they haven't the stamina that it takes in this tough world machines among numer- pin-ba- ll ous other such items There is no reason why these should not carry some freight Already the chiselers are active This town Is full of lobbyists and gumshoe agents trying to fight off taxes They are buttonholing members of congress with hard luck stories and long tales about how SATURDAY ROLL-CAL- L ' I From Pueblo: Why is the JEWS HARP so called? — M S Answer:' Attempts have been made to tarce the name to "jaws and to the French word - "jeu meaning piay tsut "jews- is retheir particular luxuries are really garded as the original form The essential to the national morale origin is obscure The instrument and should be tax exempt It was first called "Jew's Trump" would be a help if every member From Ogden: Please pronounce of congress were stone deaf until after the tax bill is passed The CARIBBEAN — L D ' s kar-i- less attention paid to the wailing Answer: First second choice is kuh- of those who are trying to escape BEE-u- n j I j taxes the better With All of this sacrifice we d to our tax may add only d revenues The most tax bill will be needed to bring total revenues up to $12000000000 That would still force the governmpnt tn borrow $6000000000 In the last year congress has appro priated or authorized $40000000000 for defense More will be voted The debt is nearing $50000000000 Therefore congress needs the fullest public support for ruthless taxation There should be short public patience with those who in sist on profits as usual or on In comes as usual There Is no such thing as de fending ourselves short of taxes RIB-ee-u- n much!" All right!" He was then asked "What was the question?" What do professors know?" Change the word "professors" to tujigiKiBijicu or statesmen or "people" and it's still a nifty for the questions that today weigh down like a ton of bricks on the collapsed chest of mankind In Washington there are half a dozen questions the answers to which no one knows and you and I can only guess but since we've started it does no harm to state the questions if only to help see where we're going if only to show how little we know disputes without - 1 se non-aggressi- " SHIP LOSS SET 232600 " ic 1 imaginary and Europe Then the weather tions answers write your own men set up stations Their records showed figuratively Greenland was fit to fly into or out of with safe ty for about 15 minutes every third BOMB Sunday afternoon —The rest of the time fogs or rain when It wasn't BRITISH snowing As for shipping there is an open season of only a few weeks in midsummer The rest of the time solid ice or even worse Ice "KIEL - an-m- en - AHNG-kah-ra- TONS - Turkish Chief Makes Martial Law Area Tour Return In Coffins To i ISTANBUL Turkey (AP)— President Ismet April : 26 Of Inonu was unofficially reported Turkey at Saturday to have left the capitaland Ankara last night for this city Turkish Thrace regions which are under martial law It was'assumed he was on an in spection trip Village In ' Kent " j0- VC y-- novfh10-yearRess- Ut BECKENHAM England April men of this 26' (AP)—-Ninetee- n small village in Kent came home today from London in flat draped floweredi coffins London air raid During a recentcall to their auxa answered tehy for help reported station fire iliary for duty In London's east end and all died in the explosion of a single bomb Here's First Picture Proof of Nazis In African War A 4 ' f aiuiii more 10-ye- r iy i v IJ '' - w I T Vins tzjA 7" o- nar f itself to any nnui""rt ibc body od saes money Kt fl ruu enn ittu in rwn in sur V--m cornio" 8 t be rl0f0ricel : $29-75- Box NATIONALLY KNOWtf lt ft 77 77" feu M &EOSPRING ? 5 i r '- my -' K ' r a : With New Triplt Border ' TLIi bedspring is truly "the nation's fatorite"— orer 3 mil lion now in use And it is now further unproved with a new TRIPLE BORDER which adds greater comfort and support— yef d price remains the same Here s deftnitefy the perfect foundation for mattress with a lifetime fnj of wear! Wx v TPs" 7 pVV"j-V 7 1 7 4 I health JL o now thicker ftner— euarantee the T- same: X 1 v — Guarantee ' - '"St I BERLIN - 19 : -- ques- i - - " 1 au-iimiik- ar - on - -- — interruption of work and guarantees the right to' ) organize Any Hope for Greece? 4 Does the opening of the Red sea and the Indian ocean to U S shipping stand a chance of being any help to i Yugoslavia- or Greece? There are few U S ships In this area now It will take three weeks to get them there If they go by the Atlantic six weeks if they go by the Pacific Time will give you the best answer to this one maybe soon 5 Does the new Soviet-Japanemean that treaty of Convoys Questioned to Ger loan will battleships 1 What's Japan all the hullabaloo c U on to prey many snipping or about convoys? on and move the Dutch Singapore Some congressmen would put a Indies? East legal ban on the placing of U S Take that one easy Japan will ships in convoys to Europe That not as long readily split her fleet would apply not only to naval !S fleet is- - in the Pa-U as the vessels doing the actual convoy I ing but also to vessels assigned cific 6 Do all these moves mean that to protection of merchantmen into war and If we This dispute comes at the time so are heading are driven British the If how? there Is serious doubt as to value could where Greece this from of convoys in this war In the an send expeditionary country last war when the submarine was force? I the only enemv of shipping the Landing j in England or even guarded convoy was effective Ireland would do no good LandThis war with planes directing in north Europe is of course submarines and planes bombing ing Landing in south Euconvoys the convoy system may impossible : ou of the- - question even is Losses in rope be tactically wrong knocked out of the if wre Italy some recent convoys may have Nonsense Obviousbeen so hl?h as a fourth or a war Africa? no place to send an ly there being third of the vessels it's impossible force Maybe the solution is to send expeditionary to get into States United the for the ships out one by one letting j war the them sneak through on varying Oh yealj? Look at that one makes courses One ship again Thi might be a naval war smaller target than 20 the flieet and air services getwith 2 Is Greenland going to be much long long before ting Into iction move use as an air base? a man could the army air surveys Early trans-Atlantlooked on Greenland as a natura If you don't like these half-wa- y point between America to - r a V X-ra- h batting an eye the prof answered "Not " - hard-boile- X-ra- Taxes to be increased three or four billions Truly the government giveth and the government taketh away d organize or strike that the only wunuwniie : iaDor peace comes through mutual agreement between and employe employer that compulsory labor is slave labor and wiH not work Sanest proposal thus far would seem to be! the idea to put all labor on the same status that rail- road- - employes enjoy under the railway labor act which sets up machinery 'for settlement of all ' From Jackson: Should one say bergs ' By Associated Press 3 to Will around congress get from" or fdifferent British bombers launched a different M doing anything more about the heavy attack on the German naval than"?—A"diflabor situation particularly as It base at Kiel last night and struck Answer:' Authorities prefer relates to strikes in defense Indus- lighter blows at Berlin Bremer- ferent from" tries jurisdictional strikes a com- haven Vilhelmshaven jimaen Lubeck aijd Friedrichstadt the From Youngstown: How should pulsory cooling off period? If congress does act it may ministry of Information said AMEN be pronounced? — J P The luftfaffe at the same time Answer:: In speaking say ay- - have to force through its program executive the over the body of concentrated on a northeast Engmen in singing say end of government Five congres- lish town identified by the GerFrom Detroit: Should one say sional committees have delved or mans as Newcastle) giving It its-' are delving into this labor ques- heaviest pounding of the war Pas- I ' "thank you kindly"? — F I ob tion With typical congressional ualties were feared heavy Answer i The expression resentment these committeemen avoid The R 'A F also bombed oil v viously is nonsense Bet er into funnels ears at Rotterdam the infor-- f stores their have bent it to catch the faintest whisper that mation ministry said and scored From St Joseph: How should might be uttered to urge con direct hits- on two supply ships InK ANKARA! be pronounced ? — J C gress to "pass a law" that would convoy west of Helgoland in day! xnuu put a crimp In labor's rights for light yesterday Answer At Kieli the ministry declared as: duration of the emergency Arrcnt the first syllable "bombs burst in the shipyards andt after witness Administrative h out" The attack on on broke fires member witness from cabinet 40th of the war f was the Berlin back bounced has down serenely The Acadamy Award for this on the French German there thts guns to assertion the with LOGIC LOONY week'3 that goes area Dover the coast J shelled newspaper that headlined "Screen should be no curb on labor's right f beauty much Improved after auto Wreck disfigures face! ' Bv Associated Press ' Tf vou hear or read ai LOUNX A total of 232600 tons of British mail it to this column If LOGIC transports and shipping have been it is suitable it will be published NEV MORE sunk in the 10 days since Apn 16 and 52 transport ships so se- soon (Released by The Bell Syndi-- h riously damaged that they no cate Inc) longer are fit for service DNB the said news official German agency one-thir- It will be no easy thing to get a drastic bill through The pressure to whittle down and make it soft will be enormous Some already are playing politics with the Necessity of heavy taxation They are yammering to put the blame 'for heavy taxes on the administration They think it will make the aid- ministration unpopular and that they can wring some political advantage out of this dire necessity They think they can make the administration pay politically for advocating something that is hard but necessary to the welfare lof the nation Those Republicans who would make political capital out of a stiff tax bill are the very ones who have been complaining for many years about new deal borrowing Anyone who seeks to make a political issue out of this ques tion is playing politics with the national security and is entitled to no encouragement whatever Sly editorials are beginning to appear suggesting that the mid the two-cpeople musn't be treated too roughly We are beginning to hear the argu ment that increased employment and higher wages are bringing the largest percentage increase of in come to those below $5000 a year and that therefore they rather than the next higher earning group should take the heaviest gouge i nis is insidious talk 1 he gouge should hit everybody for all the traffic will bear Let the rates be stiff Anyone earning $8000 to $10000 a year can put a surtax of 20 per cent of his income into this effort We are drafting men We can also draft luxuries Indie-brack- Hitler might get through to the comes of '$20000 to $22000 may get Suez canal yet but a lot of German in tryin': me a surtax of 33 per cent That will ives will be lost in Europe! today is thing a living cheapest a still leave such family lives human they jiist ain't that is- luxury far beyond what worth no thin'!— Calamity 'Jane anybody in Europe can enjoy The government proposes taxes DON'T TAKE MY on bank checks soft drinks furs jewelry chewing gum and possibly WORD FOR IT We-- f may shed blood before this war on Unperturbed Milo Perkins dynamic Texan In charge of foreign food needs was conferring with representatives of the British food ministry "How will you get the food off the ships if the nazis should smash up your docks?" he asked It would be inconvenient" one of the Englishmen drawled quietly "but not Insurmountable We would send small boats out to unload the ships" TB Protection At cost of less than a penny apiece the navy Is taking pictures of the lungs of all new recruits to weed out the unfit before they become government charges for life Rear Admiral Ross T Mclntire surgeon general of the navy estimates that the pennies will save taxpayers many millions Veterans hospitals are full °viTB cases from the last war — many of whom prob- had the disease before entered the service Tne new device takes athey photograph on film of fluoroscooe replacing the larger and far more expensive y picture So revolutionary is the change that manufacturers of y equipment opposed it for fear of losing business The navy did the pioneering in "mass chest surveys" but gives credit as the original pioneer to a Brazilian named D'Abreu Without ' yLJXiver j Washington Correspondent an imaginary question" PloesU jf" IMBS5 BULGARIA f v 4-t- er WASHINGTON April 26— As a gag a famous old Harvard profes sor was once asked by a colleague to "give a hvnothetfeal AXJGalatil f EDSON By Standard-Examin- " n business - On Things Bothering Capital PETER Bombing by allies threatens fields producing main Rumanian contribution to Nazi war machine BUCHAREST 400-50- flute-play-in- VJ Adriatic Sea sNaples )N J rL "VSk C YUGOSLAVIAN V Germanyjs key coinmerceK channel to Balkans now N runs to enemy territory V ' BELGRADE nmMl'i--s - RUMANIA !wfett6e V (source of aluminum) came from Yugoslavia this plus coal Iron wheat now cut off L USSR i f rAv ' — i under her control! nMAn I baiglte coal supply of this ore J Merry-Go-Roun- I iV'X 1 AX i" The Music Will Come Again 'On Easter Sunday in Greece (the Greek Orthodox Easter) an American correspond ent weary and worn with two days ot retreat with the Greek and British armies Thes-sal- y climbed a high plateau in the plain of "r7 T--S — O ttOgd ol me Associated rress w J Allied Domwr tttav& hinder flow of supplies 1 Get On Your Arguing Clothes And Gather Round for Fest This Time On Oil Ores and Food H7er Gambles Again TP - SUNDAY MORNING j APRIL 27 1941 THE OGDEN STANDARD -- EXAMINER 6-- A ¥RIB HOME FURNITURE COMPANY 'Home Owned Home Operated' Here's the first picture to reach the United States Indicative of Germany's In war the in the desert— a German bomber downe by R A F fighters "somewhere in participation ON DESERT FRONT Africa" 2358 Washington Blvd Phone 554 |