Show THE OGDEN 6--A PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered at the postoffice at Ogden as second class matter according to Act of Congress Marcn S 1879 Member of The Associated Press United Press NEA Service and A B C The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the locai news SUBSCRIPTION PRICES By Carrier 90c a month $980 a year when paid 80c in advance By Mpil— Must be paid in advance and Nevada a month $860 a year in Utah Idaho month $1200 a $100 States All other Wyoming ' a year Unpleasant Suspicions Even in the midst of war one has to take time out to marvel at the versatile John L Lewis Never a man to be bound bf' consistency this time he has achieved the ultimate in paradox He is going — he hopes — to organize employers In the whole history of trades unionism nothing “like this ever before has haplabor boss a pened Here is a man to whom employers have' been lifelong anathema deliberately setting out to ganize the backbone of American capitalism top-ranki- ng the farmers He is saying frankly positively and even belligerently that he doesn’t give a tinker’s damck about the farm laborers All he wants is the owners the managers the entrepreneurs who up to now have been untouchable in the trades union program ' Mr Lewis is not organizing the farmers to work shorter hours themselves to give their employes shorter work weeks to improve conditions of agricultural labor to promote any of those social goals which organized labor customarily demands Not at all He wants the employing farmers to obtain a greater profit from the production and sale of milk through higher prices The more one thinks about this latest Lewis venture the more one becomes convinced that there is a vejfy black Ethiopian i in the woodpile j Tn dealing with so devious a mind as Mr Lewis’ it is not safe to leap at Conclusions It is permissible however to point out a few considerations which the protagonist of the nation’s farmers can hardly have missed More than 30 million Americans live on farms A large proportion of these own from one cow to hundreds and sell milk Perhaps an equal number in rural villages depend for their livings upon the farmers’ trade There are close ter seven million individual farms Unlike industry and commerce’ farming is a business which has more enterpren-eur- s than hired hands Being very vulgar one may point out that in organizing industry the gravy comes from millions of workers rather than from thou- sands of owners But on farms the reverse self-proclaim- ed is true - Moreover being in suspicious mood today' one notes that if perchance Mr Lewis had political ambitions — if he desired either votes for himself or the control over votes — there are perhaps ten millions in the hands of the nation’s dairy farmers but relatively few cast by agricultural hired hands Perhaps Mr Lewis softened by beatings he has taken really has been moved by the plight of the dairymen and for purely unselfish reasons has laid aside his crusade in behalf of industrial workers and gone to the farmers’ succor That could be the answer But from this corner it has all the odor of very unpalatable bafoney ’ Sensible System - By Drew Pearson and Robert & Alien ! WASHINGTON—There was a very good reason for the hot crack of Attorney General j Francis Biddle that Martin Die is a muddling "amateur” ' i Biddle believes the justice department jhis the Texas congressional sleuth over a barrel aijd the surprise crack was the opening shot of af fusillade i! soon to be fired In a long series of reports Dies has! charged that more than 120© Communists and fellow travelers have jobs In government agencies In Washington Recently their names plus Dies’ 'evidence were turned over to super sleuth J Edgar Hoover for a further probe before dismissing all! those ' actually found to be Reds The FBI investigationif has now been completed and the report is Biddle’s hands 'i The report declares that Dies’ charges' afe unfounded in all but a few instances And even most of these are borderline But to remove all possibility of controversy Biddle has taken still another precaution bjr appointing Undersecretary of the Interior Pempsey Undersecretary of Commerce Taylor and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Gaston to go over the FBI report and make a report on' the report Roosevelt and Wallace jtf I When Biddle got the FBI report he' showed it to the president and remarked ‘Tve reaUy got if' Dies on the run this time” To which the president is reported tp ‘have reI plied: j(i "You mean he had you on the run until 'Henry J kicked him into your corner” The president’s reference was to Henry Wallace’s scathing denunciation of Dies wherij Dies claimed 35 employes of the board of economic ? warfare are leftists Hors D’Oeuvres There Is bitter personal hatred between j Laval and Admiral Darlan Some Frenchmen hope this will retard Darlan’s handing over of thes fleet In the first World Probably wishful thinking war Laval was a pacifist he went to Switzerland to meet with other pacifists including Russian Mensheviks The son of a butcher Laval became a millionaire he has a medieval j castle 1 in France with drawbridge and tnoat State Laval’s officials first move to expect department be friendly toward the United States He cannot sustain the shoclc of an immediate rupture j of relations First token of this policy was seen in Ambassador Henry-Hayevisit to the state department Instead of bringing a formal written note he was instructed to convey the J message orally which is more friendly Congressmen Enlist At present six representatives and oni ienator are on active duty with the army and navy They ' ' I i J ’s M are: Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts I captain U S1 army Representative Lyndon Johnson of Tekaf - lieutenant commander U S navy Representative Warren Magnuson of Wkshing-to- n lieutenant commander U S navy Representative Albert L Vreeland of New Jer( sey captain U S army Representative Frank C Osmers of New Jersey corporal U S army jj j" Representative Eugene Worley of Texas lieutenant commander U S navy1 Representative Francis E Walter of ‘Pennsylvania lieutenant commander U S navy! Besides these seven several other congressmen are itching to volunteer However all members of congress are automatically eligible for deferment and although patriotic motives are appreciated there is! inother side to the question which concerns admlnistra r j tion leaders When a member of the house joins up jit means that his congressional district — comprising anywhere from 200000 to a million people— is left without representation in the government So the president and his advisers frankly feel that a Congressman best serves his country by remaining in congress Therefore administration leaders on Capitol Hill have requested the war and navy departments to release all members of the house and senate now in the armed services and reject further enlistments of congressmen Power Probe A powerful lobby is again back on the Wash’i ington scene Driven out of the capitol a few yean kgo by the blasting investigation of Justice Hugo sj Black then U S senator from Alabama the utility forces have quietly resumed their undercover pressure operations Lobbying headquarters are in kitj office building on downtown 14th street In the heart of the city y Inquiries at this office elicited the explanation that the purpose of the power interests $ras to “facilitate cooperation with the government war effort” But congressional leaders tell! ’ j j j j They claim the office is headquarters! large and aggressive lobby now fighting efery proposal to expand public power for war! purposes Furthermore the lobby has had several major suc1 cesses in its undercover operations rj The defeat of a big public power expansion in Arkansas strongly recommended by the president and the war production-boar- d is laid F squarely at the doorstep of the lobby j j Up in arms over the lobby’s successes! congressional public power leaders are planning a Counter attack Representative Clyde Ellis militant Arkansas leader of the house public power bloc soon will Introduce a resolution for a sweeping investigation of the power lobby With congress now very investigation-minded Ellis’ resolution bodes nd good for the power boys j 1 - Sugar rationing is coming closer Registration for cards is not many days off and thereafter we shall have to drug the sweet tooth with half a pound per person each week It is going to Sea-Fighte- Merry:Go-Roun- p' ferent story j f1 be a bother But since there is a shortage the individual rationing plan President Roosevelt has indicated to ftenibcratic who urged him to tour the country that seems to us to be the only sensible way of chiefs he may take a trip this summer handling allocation Surely it will be better —if the war permit Democratic candidates facing election battles are eager to have him visit than the current haphazard control over “tough their states Also the president long hk wanted ! ’ Merry-Go-Rou- nd trans-continent- al k gasoline yith a ration card every person gets his share and no more Without one early birds and hogs get everything and the rest of us nothing r several army camps and war! producPat di Cicco and his wife the tion centers former Gloria Vanderbilt are living in : a j Washington hotel while socialite friends try to wangle jj him a commission in the army or navy (Copyright 1942 by United Feature Syndicate Inc) to inspect ‘ Speaking of jam sessions what mother put up last fall is now being put down Being short of coin is why a lot of sons take after thelold man Maybe the stockingless girl of today is the daughter of the barefoot boy of yesterday Most people are good for nothing when it comes to a loan Keep walking to keep well the doc advises To be sure—and occasionally jump The one worse thing than a car that won’t start is one that won’t stop — in time! Science has gone far but the doggone y stairs still creak at a m It’s a lot easier to get credit for what you do than for what you buy two-thirt- fo SO THEY SAY Tell the boss you aren’t loafing when you prop your feet on the desk It’s a swell way to rest them — S G Staff New York foot specialist expecting more walking and more foot trouble ! j The whole affair was a field day and for two days we had something like a picnic—Brigadier General Ralph Royce leader of daring pii )' S air raid on Japanese bases JI P- - 3 i In the magnificent exploit of Brigadier Oenera! Ralph Royce and his gallant American 'comrades we see the tide of war turnipg against Japami- -J A Beasley Australian supply minister ’ - It may M be1 a good idea for students to wear shorts as a cloth conservation measure Jh fact they may be glad t® get shorts — Price Administrator 5 Leont Henderson THURSDAY EVENINSI'APRIL 23 Marines Same Ac British Commandos With Romantic Name Says Edson The Washington investigator STANDARD-EXAMINE- D I Until a divorce there is a community f Interest in a husband’s pockets— Judge Rudolph ) Desort Chicago upholding a wife’s right to search her ' husband’s pockets i Byj PETER EDSON Capping Job rs Fair Standard-Examin- er t2 ) ifti Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON April 24-- You will hear more and more about amphibious warfare as this thing goes on but in this connection the marine corps’ official nose is a little bit harder than usual over all NEW YORK April 23-- The the publicity that the British Comlabor press of the country mandos have been receiving and the suggestions that a Commando consisting of many small and genforce be established in the United erally scurrilous publications most States The way the marines tell it the of them conducted for the financial and political profit of the union Commandos are simply trained iii all ‘the tricks of the bosses has' greeted with jubilaBritish Royal Marines the only tion & decision by the New York difference being that these new court of appeals that unions may are ’cashing in on the sue for libel Up to now however tricky publicity of a new romantic name that has' caught the public I have seen no similar' rejoicing in any o t these sheets over anfancy Furthermore the marines want other decision by a state court in the cockeyed world to appreciate California that unions and obthat said marines know all there also their publications may viously is to know about this amphibious in turn be for libel by those sued What it amounts warfare anyway " whom to defame! I they delight to is the landing of expeditionary forces and the development and venture to believe that this one will be stoutly resented as anholding of beachheads to prepare other low blow at labor rights the way for regular soldiers Since The York decision was no 'New marine our corps was established in 1798 it has been called on to surprise to me because I had assumed that a union had make an average of more than two so to speak and could personality such landings every year The basobtain redress from and punish ic principles of this type of amslandered who its fair anyone iame phibious warfare remain the name is have That I why always in the marines war this say only there are new' weapons better been very careful to stay within bounds of provable fact in my planes better tanks parachute the of unions and those discussion to amounts is it What that troops vicious personalities engaged in the amphibioiis warfare' has become who exploit persecute union racket mechanized The Japs have shown they have and rob the common American mastered!) this art of amphibious workers with the connivance of the warfare ip their numerous landing national government weighed my facts well before operation on Pacific islands but I Ideclared that the American Fedno the the marines say Japs have of Labor had among the eration really new tricks Some informa- roster of union officials in its comtion on the training of the marines the nucleus of a ponent groups for the hew amphibious warfare class rogues’ gallery and that has been given but most of the first a front for thieves become had it detail is still secret Formerly the and underworld gangsters For I marine amphiba were known as to was that such crooks prove ready or Mobile FMF Force the Fleet! Mike Boyle of the ChiThat name didn’t stick so now as Umbrella there are two units Atlantic Am- cago electricians Browne Bioff and Scalise and the degenerate phibious JCorps and Pacific Am- Brother Jones of Akron Ohio phibious Corps ‘memwere others But unless you want to start a among many of the official family and fight don’t call one of these am- bers in the organization that powers phibious Leathernecks a "Com Brother Will Green had publicly mando’r and officially defended Browne his character had become "noafter Laws Luncheon torious throughout the country Soldier on Corregidor and workhe had vouched for Brothand that ers in munitions plants will be glad a Capone gangster of Scalise er to know! that Washington society sort knowing most obvious the has unofficially decided that the time lunch hour may properly end at that Brother Scalise had done a and young for exploiting three-thirt- y seducing fact was dep m The ' girl as her bargaining agent veloped as follows : I have always held that responsiAccording to Washington etiaccompanies the privilege of quette no guest should leave a bility a free press and just naturally asluncheon before the guest of honor The sumed that anyone who bore false makes his or her departure he Archduke Otto of Hapsburg one witness against a union must I to liable Similarly punishment of the parasites who hangs around a conviction or superWashington a good bit these days entertained a “Union or its official that stition a luncheon to was recently invited be held responsishould publication Being the highest ranking guest ble and false for defamatory repbeno one was supposed to leave innocent indiresentations against such did had But Otto fore he realized that because but viduals n a good time he stayed till never invoked was sue to the thereby keeping away from thereright some artificial be must their job a lot of people WhereIn the California case an upon one of Washington’s social business man brought arbiters opined there ought to be a indignant a local union for falsesuit three-thirtagainst y law that after p m ly declaring that his place of busanybody ican leave any luncheon iness was unfair to labor and without apology and no matter how $100 a nominal but siglong the! guest of honor stu£k nificant victory around Still I would not he confident decision would be susSenator that this Washington Badinage United States supreme in the tained Tom Connally of Marlin Texas — I court for I have just refreshed my men beresent these dollar-a-yeFrankfurfamous on the memory ing overpaid Senator Harry S ter decision in the carTruman of Independence Mo— encourno find case and They’re not being overpaid by their penters’ agement for victims of wanton 'incompanies but they are overpaid jury at the hands of liars on the by the government union side In that case as Justice FrankFirst it was called the air corps furter blandly conceded the carferrying ‘command Then it was penters and machinists both called the'air corps ferry command reached an agreement with Now it is called the air corps ferof St! Louis over the rying command again All of which of certain division jobs among may confuse the axis but no more their memberships respective than it does Washington promising to submit all disputes to arbitration The carpenters how! Bond Barrier ever repudiated their treaty after Sales promotion managers for the manner of aggressor nations the war bonds campaigns have run and when Annheuser-Busch in onto a peculiar problem in dealing turn refused to its agreerepudiate with the foreign language press ment with the machinists and carIt seems that the penters not only struck but by in America Minute Man the emblem which circulars and through their ofIs printed! on the stamps and bond3 ficial journal 'started an injurious and all of the posters and adveron the false representation tising matter doesn’t register very boycott the company was unfair1 that well with' the foreign born Only to Justice FrankfurAccording symbol they recognize is the Statue ter’s own statement of the case it of Liberty was the carpenters’ union which the comNiftiest! suggestion to save tires plainlyis was unfair and of unfairacquitted plainly pany Inventor's ness Nevertheless Justice Frankwhich the National comes council ha received thus far furter held that "the picketing of from a genius who proposes that Annheuser-Busc- h to inwith four helium balloons be attached dicate that Annheusfer-Busc- hsigns was to the four corners of the car to unfair to organized labor” was “a lighten Its weight and thus save familiar practice in these situawear of the casings on the pave- tions” and that "the facts here ment j charged constitute lawful conduct the Clayton act” In other One of ' the star writers of the under not different but office of facts and figures staff words the substantially court in the highest took leave of absence because of a United States rehere pointedly muscular affliction which forced frains from inan condemning him to wear his arm in a sling To vican innocent of slander jurious inquiries on thl cause of his ail- tim by a union and holds that in ment he explains: Unit"Well whenf my grandchildren the Clayton act at least the ed States consciously ingather on my knee to ask me what tended to congress hands of I did in the Second World War unions the place inthe defamation of weapon I’ll be able to say that I fell out of a swivel chair in the office of with which to f beat into submission persons with whom they have facts and figures” broken already and - admittedly Enough ®MM! so-call- sea-soldie- sea-soldie- ed rs j -- rs ) al-w- ys four-fiftee- ver-bot- en Ire-cover- ed i ar so-call- ed Ann-heu&er-Bu- pfficials Confer On Alien Centers SAN FRANCISCO April 23 (AP) Darrell J Greenwell WPA administrator for Utah conferred with officials relative to public relations matters in the west coast alien assembly and reception centers R L Nncshodson WPA regional director said yesterday Greenwell former Ogden editor now stationed at Salt Lake City was dalled in temporarily as a public relations consultant to WPA prior to setting up procedure to apply at j the new assembly centers being constructed to receive evacuated aliens faith v Unions and their publications are incomparably more guilty of vicious slander and libel than their critics while those who criticize unions generally may be said to err when they do only from lack of skill and caution In the presentation of facts It is t the general public t candidates for political office critics of criminality in unions who suffer by far the most from false witness in this equation but it is the purveyors of this abuse who claim protection and disclaim legal responsibility Possibly your congressman and senators would like to correct Mr Frankfurter’s Impression that it ever was the intention of congress to legalize defamation of whomsoever by a special group and-hones- ’ ‘ 4 j 1 Hawaii’s Air Corps Eager For Any Kind of Squabble HONOLULU AP)—It April 23 is mighty easy to kick up a rumpus in the army air corps in Hawaii The boys are spoiling for a chance to fight and they have just got to work off energy in some kind of squabble Just mention that any one of the 48 states is better or worse than the other— and watch the fireworks “Look where our generals are from — Oklahoma” “Heck Texas' will take you all on” “Yeah? Well don’t forget there's California” And so on far Into the morning noon and night Statistics today showed about half the flying officers in Hawaii come from 10 states Evry state in the Union however is represented By percentage the first five states are California 14 per cent Texas 9 Illinois 5 New York 5 and Oklahoma 4 per cent The others include Ohio 4 per cent Florida 22 Iowa 2 Missouri 2 and Pennsylvania 16 Of the six air officers two are from Kansas and one each from Oklahoma Texas Illinois and Massachusetts Major General Clarence L Tinker commander of the air force is an Oklahoman His chief of staff Colonel James A Mollison is from Kansas as is Brigadier General Willis H Hale head of the bomber command The latter’s executive officer Colonel Albert F Hegenberger is from Massachu- NEW ZEALAND FLEET READY NEW DRAFT CLASS MEN OF PHYSICAL DEFECTS INCLUDES WASHINGTON April 23 (UP) The war department today created a new draft classification— that of (suspended) — to include men with physical defects which are remediable to fit them for full military service Those classified as (suspended) will not be inducted until their defects have been corrected when they will be autoand matically placed in called up in their regular turn The new regulations provide for up to three days hospitalization to determine whether defects can be corrected with army or other government institutions to be used wherever possible The army also relaxed physical' requirements applying to teeth making bridges and dentures 1-- A 1-- A 1-- A i MELBOURNE Australia April (UP) — A New Zealand-Unite- d States naval command to operate In tiie south Pacific outside the zone of General Douglas MacAr-thur- ’s control but under the supervision of the United States Pacific command was announced today Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghorm-le- y of Portland Ore who has been serving as a special U S naval observer in London will organize the new ’command He will be replaced in London by Rear Admiral Harold R Stark The command will be under the supervision of Admiral Chester W Nim-it- z commander of the Pacific fleet with headquarters at Honolulu Two U S navy officers are en route to Auckland New Zealand from Australia to establish the nucleus of Ghormley’s staff 23 Steel Screen Cloth top-ranki- ng Price Is Advanced TO THE JAP BUSTIN’ OOWPUNCHERS WASHINGTON 23 i r r (UP)— From the ranches and camps on The office of priceApril admiistration the mountain — advanced manufacturers' today They have answered their Prjsi- - ceiling on steel screen cloth by deni’s call about five per cent to aid smaller Stowed away their boots spurs and companies which are unable to opSaddles — erate under the former price Steel They won’t be on the' roundups screen cloth affected by today’s this fall order is used widely for household setts window and door screens Brigadier General Howard C Da- Each cowboy— well knows It’s a A substantial portion of the total vidson head of the interceptor screen output is manufactured by duty command is a Texan and his ex- And danger is part of his work marginal producers who were unecutive officer Lieut Col Ernest For there in the ranks of the able to operate under the existing Moore is from Illinois rangers ceiling prices the OPA said in‘ J t Delaware breaks prominently to the picture by virtue of being the residence of Lieut George Welch of Wilmington one of the two flyer who knocked down more than one Japanese plane December 7- The other flier who shared this distinction Is Lieut Kenneth Taylor of Hominy Okia An army bomber credited with sinking an enemy submarine near here a few weeks ago was piloted by Lieut James V Edmundson Santa Monica Calif No on state has a monopoly on however achievement Purple hearts for heroism under fire are pretty will scattered among the - ‘ There’s no place for any who ' shirk The ranges are now quite deserted And dotted with unbranded cows The cattle’s grown wild in the canyons For the cowboys have taken their vows They're never afraid to go hungry ' Or sleep in the snow onthe ground And they can all handle a rifle So the Japs wUl soon know they’re around HOYTS COMPOUND RELIEVES STOMACH AHD BOWEL MISERY Indigestion Kidney Dte-- I tress and ’Constipation Were Relieved by Iloyt’s Says Mr Gearing of Butte Mr Joseph A Gearing of 2610 Pine street Butte Montana says: "I have been compelled to states But one state always is better There’ll be ' medals citations and than the others Just ask any flyer prises For the boys hunting Japs in the which it is— “back home” rocks But the game that would get real attention Granger Opposes Diversion of Milk Would be "Gathering locks!” Axis r- (D-Uta- h) (R-Col- o) ACCIDENT DEATHS RISE April’ 23 (AP)— An 11 In industrial accent increase per cident deaths in the first quarter of 1942 Was attributed today by the national safety council to the expansion of wartime industrial ac’ CHICAGO 4 tivity s s v v scalp v 2 WASHINGTON April 23 (AP)— demanded Rep Granger today that the federal government oppose any diversion of milk to industrial uses such as the manufacture of cloth "I am asking the surgeon general to make open warfare upon this process of diverting milk at a time when our shipments of powdered milk to our allies are woefully behind schedule” he said in a statement He referred to a recent statement by Representative Hill who said that one large company planned to divert 250000 quarts of milk daily to the manufacture of cloth using the casein that is obtained by chemical processes for raw milk - 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