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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Urges Arms Boost Edward C. Wayne ASK ME ANOTHER Current War Front Shifts to Syria With Oil Fields of Iraq as Prize; Draft Everything Legislation Aims To Break Strikes in Defense Plants ; The Questions WAR IN Offering Informal on Various Subjects t 6. What is meant Citizens of Bear Mountain, N. ceived a taste of what actual war attack might mean when the coast artillery and West Point cadets put on a defense of a big attack and a bridge near that point. Guns and equip-ment used were in same positions they would actually occupy in an actual battle for defense of the bridge. anti-aircra-ft Easy Home Shorthand Stacy May, research chief of OPM, is pictured as he told the senate defense committee that the gigantic American armament program must be doubled to aid Great Britain and other nations in overcoming the German advantage in production. He proposed that the goal of spending twenty billion dollars next year for arms be increased to forty billions. WAR: On New Front 2. DRAFT: Everything A stiff fight against President Roosevelts draft everything measure sent to the congress closely following his freedom speech appeared likely," though the administration forces seemed willing enough to modify the measure'from its first draft. The President softened the shock of the measure, which at first sight looked like an effort toward a economic dictatorship, by a later announcement that its major purpose was to permit the administration to break strikes in defense industries, which were still a knotty problem all over the nation. Both Senator Byrd of Virginia and Senator Tydings of Maryland had taken the floor to demand that the President himself take the leadership in halting strikes, Byrd saying: There are 60 to 70 strikes in defense industries, and new ones are occurring every day. I dont assume the government would want to take over and operate all these plants. A prohibition against strikes and compulsory arbitration would be a better method. The bill, which in its original form would give the President, under his proclamation of a state of unlimited emergency, power to seize and sell anything in the nations long list of private property, found its first compromise offer coming from administration leaders in the form of a time limit on the Presidents powers, together with a proviso that congress must first itself declare a national emergency before they could be used. d members of both houses, wildly suspicious of the measure, started their own investigation to try to determine its origin. com-ple- Labor-minde- te I (De J p -reader-hom- The collapse of the defense of Crete was followed by a good deal of backing and filling as the forces of Great Britain wondered where the axe was going to fall next. The preponderance of British belief was that if would be in Syria, and two things happened at once: The British started mobilizing toward Syria and began air attacks on Syrian points, and the French started propaganda efforts to prove that they needed German aid to repel British attack. The British countered by announcing, via their Turkish friends, that Germany already had landed 20,000 men in civilian dress, who would doff their tourist garb and take up arms just as soon as ' transports landed them. Also the British asserted that 400 German planes were already at Syrian airdromes, ready for an attack on Iraqs British army from of in defiance bases supplied, Franco-Britis- h friendship, by agreement with the Petain government headed by Darlan. The observers in this country were not fooled by this sort of diplomatic byplay, and were able to recognize the same maneuvers, with some variations, that had preceded the German occupation of the Balkans and the subsequent' blitz attack upon Greece. Britains plan was not only a delaying action, but because of the peculiar location of the immensely GASOLINE: valuable Mosul oil field, to try to get i into Syria first, while the German An Issue tourists were still unarmed, and No sooner had Secretary Ickes to destroy the landing fields there suggested gasless Sundays as a if possible. means of controlling the oil supply of the country than administration Home Front critics began asking embarrassing Churchills government, taking a questions. ' How could this country, with congreat deal of criticism because of the Crete disaster, because many trol of half the worlds oil supply, British people thought the Crete bat- be facing an oil shortage? tle might have been won if better How did it happen that American handled, now found itself with an concerns were selling oil and its intensely serious problem on its products to Japan? To Russia? To hands. j other countries via which it might There were signs that authorized get into Axis hands? sources in Britain were preparing commit-- " The defense the public as gently as might be tee in congressinvestigating was asking some of for a practical abandonment of the these questions, and getting strange Mediterranean as a naval control answers. The Standard Oil comarea since the loss of Crete, and one pany had to explain the deal to its announcement flatly said that Amer- stockholders, and this brought the ican aid must hurry if it was to get issue into more prominence. to the Red sea and Suez in time The oil concern admitted the sale to get to the British forces in North of oil and gasoline (except the Africa. airplane gas) to Japan, but The British were expecting air- said that when the agreement was borne attacks on Malta, Cyprus, made the British, American and Alexandria and Suez, but whether Dutch governments were consulted, the Germans would attempt para- and that the terms were entirely acchute troop operations after their ceptable to all three. huge losses in Crete was doubtful. It was one of the puzzling phases In fact, the Turkish slant on the of Americas defense effort. attempt to land in Syria was that invasion would be carried SEA WAR: out. A dozen or more large ships were to carry supplies tp Syria via Claims the Dodecanese islands, and from Berlin, having claimed that half these it would be possible, Turkey of Britains entire merchant ship said, to land in Syria by an over- strength had been destroyed, assertnight sailing under cover of dark- ed that the total had reached 11,000,000 tons. ness. Britain admitted six millions. Five ' hundred motorized troops had made such a trip, Turkey said, Both agreed that British pre-wthough France vigorously denied it. strength had totaled around 21 milHarking back to the days when lions or 22 millions of tons. The German claim was that, her Weygands Near-Eaarmy was estimated at 750,000 men, figures were ships sunk, Britain was bleeding to now being given out in allied circles death, and that a speedup of airthat De Gaullet had an. army of plane attacks on merchant ships and war vessels might be expected. 250,000 men at the present time. Greco-Britis- h sea-bor- ne 117 Minna St. Enclose 10 U service e San Francisco, cents in copy of SHORTHAND. The death of former Kaiser Wilhelm at 82 of a blood clot on the lung and the elaborate military funeral accorded him by the dictator of Germany, Adolf Hitler, former Austrian paperhanger, brought an odd and dramatic close to a long and interesting career. The man who was so much in the forefront of the last war that the slogan Hang the Kaiser was on the lips of half the Allied soldiers, died after 22 years of exile after a ripe and peaceful old age, even in the midst of a present war which had brought the conquering hordes of his former country in triumph to his point of exile at Doom, Holland. Yet, even in this triumph, though the Germans could have brought the Hohenzollern monarch back to his throne had their desire been to do so, this was not done, and the kaiser and his family remained in exile, there for death to find him while the issue pf, tjpe fate of his country was still in doubt. However, the relations between Germany and the former monarch were as odd as the position of the civilized world at the time of the kaisers death. Hitler seemed filled with respect and homage to his former monarch, though what the kaiser thought of the humbly born Austrian who succeeded him was little in evidence, and mattered just as little, t Hitlers final move to order a funeral with full military honors, was the last there was in the news about the lord of the Hohenzollerns. Course well-pai- DOORN: End of Road 1941-4- ! Fit yourself for work! Outsl page shorthand manual gives 18 earl lessons, dozens ot skii forms, tips on acquiring ProfessittJ Send for your copy speed. ' Returning foreign correspondents, making a junket of the defense production industries as guests of the war department, found that airplane motors, considered one of the potential bottlenecks, are being rushed into production at one plant in Connecticut to the tune of 1,400,000 horsepower monthly. One official of this concern, reviewing what he knew of the potential production of this industry, predicted that between 70,000 and 100,000 airplane engines will be turned out during The total airplane industry, from a motor standpoint, should eventually be turning out 10,000,000 horsepower a month. While these producers had no accurate figures on Axis production, it was figured that it might be between 3,000,000 and 5,000,000 a month at the present time, with future capabilities unfigured. In addition to the three great American aviation motor concerns output, the automotive industry has been asked for some, and while not in production yet, they will eventually contribute a large percentage of the total. This turned the pages back to World War I, when Americas most important fighting airplane motor, the Liberty, was turned out in quantity in a leading automotive factory. This factory also, by the way, was making the recoil mechanism for the gun then a war bottleneck. bv bouffe? J V. S. g DEFENSE: Production ? I row boats? 2. Hurl missiles. 3. How many rivers in Europe 3. More than 40, the most are named Aa? portant ones being in prar 4. The king of what country Switzerland, Germany, Latvia? commanded an army in the field Russia. 4. Belgium (Albert I). during the World war? 5. The Fourteenth 5. What century usually is called century 6. Comic opera. the beginning of the Renaissance? Y., re- , A Quiz With Answm 1. Who was the first President The Answers of the United States to be born under the American flag? 2. In olden times, what did a 1. Martin Van Buren ballista do, dance, hurl missiles or ber 5, 1782). In these columns, they (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are ' are those of the news analyst and not expressed necessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union. . ' Bound Calif coin for you K t Symbols Learned in Spare Time REAMING of a good secreta-ria- l job and doing something about it! 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RThen a i Salary of Prime Minister The salary of the prime minister of Great Britain is 10,000 pounds (about $35,000 at present rate of exchange) per year. 105 Army Airfields The army air corps occupies the United States approximately It airfields of its own, and 10 in Alast I Hawaii, Panama, etc. Wash Both Sides Both sides of a Venetian blind slat can be washed at once with a new sponge rubber device and dried with another one. f Hanging a Broom A broom will give better servit if, when not in use, it is hung that the weight does not rest on , Longfellow Made Revere Famous Paul Revere made his famous ride on April 18, 1775. The poet who made him immortal was Longfellow. ooled Sheep Skins f plans to ship shortd skins suitable form the United States, j Vagrants Get Feast Three thousand vagrants were recently given a feast of potatoes and potato soup in Oska, Japan. straws. - 1 . I Copeland is the contempof a firm of potters that J l the Spode factory. ind St. Mary Popular There are 10 colleges in the United States bearing the name St. Mary or St. Marys. Parchment Shades Parchment shades should ped with a soft cloth damp th a little olive oiL Drug Store Sales Drug store sales in the U. S. averaged $11.87 per person in 1939, according to the census. Rhode Island Most n proportion to size, Khode the most densely populated the Union. Tons of Tomatoes Nearly five tons of tomatoes were grown in Margate, England, public parks last year. , Ravioli in America wo pounds of ravioli are m tured in America every the day. Wood Replaces Metal Wood is being used in place of I . f . js One Bachelor metal in building small sea ships in Japan. Native Population White inhabitants of North Carolina are 99.7 per cent native born. No Sale of Tires Italy has prohibited the rubber tires between individua Short Lives Some species of fish never live longer than one year. 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