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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Army Tour By Edward C. Wayne WHOS Scorched Earth and Guerrilla Fighting Is Soviet Answer to German Thrust; It seems incredible that there are as many as 6,760 languages in the world, but a census taken recently by philologists reveals that such is file case. Most of the languages are dead tongues, and only 2,796 are now spoken, but even this seems a staggering number. Among the white races English is most widely spoken, then Russian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian, in the order given. Of the rest, more people speak and write Chinese than any other language. The present spoken and written vocabulary Chinese comprises about 10,000 characters. NEWS Revenue Bill for Defense Spending Provides Many Additional New Taxes 7 (EDITORS NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) V' & THIS ft l :) WEEK m mi m anr By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features IVNU Service.) EW YORK. The army could use a few Broadway playwrights, particularly those who have had war experience. But it already has its own Datop-flig- ht r shot is too tough for the veteran billiard champion Willie Iloppe (right), who is setting up a difficult arrangement on the icing of a giant bomber when he and Welker Cochran visited a San Diego, Calif., plane plant. Iloppe is starting a tour of army camps soon as a part of the war department recreation program. Ao This is the scene in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) federal court as 25 mem- bers of the huge spy ring were arraigned by the government. Called one of the most active, extensive and vicious spy rings in the nations J. Fuller Pep vid Belasco. War games, to condition our new army of 1,400,000 men for real combat now provide the utmost in dramatic realism. There are machines to simulate faithfully the screaming of Stuka bombers; there will be the roar of gunfire with blank cartridges, of course; there will be parachute attacks, machine gunning from airplanes, and every possible device to keep the boys from forgetting that theyre in the army now. Gen. Lesley James McNair, - chief of staff of general headquarters, a small, keen, alert man who seems omnipresent in the army camps, is the impresario in this the armys biggest and most serious venture in applied theatricals. He has had long experience in war games and has convincingly portrayed them as invaluable rehearsals for the real thing, not only for the instruction imparted but for the unconscious, reflex conditioning of nerves and sensitivity to the now heightened tumult of war. When the nucleus of a general headquarters staff was formed July 25, 1940, General McNair was put at the head of it. That subsequently placed in his hands the intensified g maneuand expanded vers, far exceeding anything ever before attempted, and last September he took over the entire training program of the rapidly increasing army. It is regarded asan undertaking of the utmost importance and President Roosevelt recently promoted the army Belasco from major general to the rank of temporary lieutenant general. Ilis knowledge of war is by no means confined to He fought with the field artillery in France and won the U. S. Distinguished Service medal and the French Legion of Honor. He is a native of Minnesota and was graduated from West Point in history, 26 men and 3 women were arrested throughout the country. PLANES: Most of them were of German descent. They were charged with transmitting vital defense information to a foreign government. Three A Slowdown ?. men in foreground are lawyers. Observers on the economic and defense production fronts in this country seemed skeptical of the ORDEAL: TAXES: OPM outlook that grand of medium and heavy And By Communiques Spending bombers would be under way early The tax structure by which the in 1942. Following the first couple of weeks n of the war some wag congress intends to raise additional The OPM plan calls for the auto of the airwaves referred to the con- revenue to the tune of $3,500,000,000 makers to build airplanes in a numflict as an ordeal for the public during the coming fiscal year was ber of small sections, like wrings, by communiques. practically complete. and tails, etc., and ship In the absence of any possible In addition to the huge amount fuselages these sections to large assembly direct war correspondence, that is expected from the new income tax plants in Omaha, Kansas City and exactly what it developed into, ever structure, the congress Worth and Tulsa, where they Fort lengthening communiques by both had agreed that business would have will be put in assemblysides, so much at variance that the to yield about $1,360,000,000 more line fashion. together than the $3,000,000,000 it is now raispublic could do little but guess. That was the motor industrys As the German columns advanced ing. to large-scal- e answer production of Premier Josef Stalin urged upon his Excise taxes were to be increased bombers. people a policy of scorched earth by a ,10 per cent tax on electric Now those who feel that this obto be coupled with universal guer- fans, cooking appliances and simiwill not be reached until jective rilla warfare. He warned of the lar articles; a 10 per cent tax on rub- some time in 1943 point out how the grave danger of the Nazi suc- ber products not including footwear aluminum shortage can possibly cesses and acknowledged the for and auto tires or tubes, which are on hob with the best laid plans. play ward movement of German troops other tax schedules; 10 per cent on that when a plane say They He asked his people to destroy ev- electrical and metal signs; 10 per 10,000 pounds, it actually weighs to be that of value cent on washing machines for com- takes 13,600 erything might pounds of ingot alumih Germany if it could not be saved be mercial laundries; of a num to do the job because of the hind the retreating Soviet columns. cent a bottle on soft drinks (4 cents loss through scraps. weight at did certain the Only a case); 10 per cent on retail furs; points These scraps cannot be melted reports of the two high commands another 10 on toilet preparations; a down into airplane metal again coincide, and these were so excepuse tax on vending machines that because of the number of different tional that they were more to be hon- pay off in tokens; $5 for vending alloys required. ored by their absence than their machines, which dispense articles; The observers who feel that OPM 10 per cent on optical instruments presence. too optimistic also point is Speaking of an important town on other than eyeglasses; 10 per cent out being that the scrap losses under the southern front, the Germans on office and store machines. the automotive plan of plane buildWe n said, Thus the captured Lwow, and the of the tax to are be more than in ing likely Russians said, We left Lwow. structure was this: where the factories, plane regular And even in that point of coinciExcise taxes (like the above) workers have more 1904. experience and dence there was a variance which $867,000,000. make will fewer mistakes. left much to guesswork. Income levies including excess They also feel it is going to be THIS writer went to the wedding Yet from the very names of profits, $2,468,500,000. a young woman friend a few a huge problem for the big plane places it was possible to take a Estate and gift taxes $113,700,000. manufacturers to in weeks cities ago. The bridegroom was operate map and see a picture of the GerGiving a total of close to the as far distant from each other as a tall, bespectacled man plan emerging, though it was $3,500,000,000 sought. Baltimore and for Omaha, instance, to same the Radio token Perchance picimpossible by This enabled the public to get a with an en- and still maintain a cohesive and ture the Russian defense. generalized sort of picture of what clever organization. Beam Led Inventor chanting grin The picture was that of a giant is coming to the American way of and a thick However, present producTo Comely Bride clutching hand, with the wrist to the life, at least from a tax standpoint tion, gloomy as this plane outlook thatch of might north and the fingers outstretched during the next tax year. took a step upward when North brownish hair. The bride told us be, though which way the joints of the American Aviation got back to its he was a scientist. We should have fingers would flex themselves could SHOCK: scheduled 10 planes a day, and the known that he was Russell Varian, not be foreseen. the inventor, with his brother Sigurd To British 1,500 soldiers who had been staThree fingers were stretching and several other associates, of the near tioned were the sent plant Scarcely less shocking to the Brittoward Moscow and Leningrad, and radio generator which to Klystron more distant away points. ish than the arrival of Hess on two were extending southward into American technicians decidsay is better structure finally the rich Ukraine. Two or three of Scottish soil was the news that Gen. edThe wage than the British have in 60 to out anything turned cents be these five shafts showed signs that Sir Archibald Wavell had been re- for upon g new their and system for the first three beginners of lieved his command in Africa and they might form pincer movements, has which made in 75 cents fog and months then minimum snipping off and surrounding bodies the Middle East. like or a block around the night, to trip on that and after $1.50 up point, of Red troops here and there along General Wavell had been Britains in a Number One hero, the only man an hour for more skilled workers. the battlefront. Russell Varian worked his way Already the Germans had claimed who had won for the British an im- KNOX: for the Stanford, through one such success east of Bialystok, portant victory and one which chalHis brother Sigurd was professors. And His Speech stating that 100,000 Russian soldiers lenged the imagination. a flight captain with the had participated in a mass surrenWavells men had driven through Secretary of Navy Knox, in his Airways on Mexican and Cender, and that everywhere the Rus- Cyrenaica and had taken it away Boston address, stirred up an out- tral American routes. One day Russians were on the run. from the Italians, capturing more break on congress which threatened sell got a letter from Sigurd in The Red communiques stated that than 100,000 prisoners on the way. to bring out an impeachment reso- which Sigurd said he was tired of their lines were holding intact, and True, the Nazis had come across lution and found administration sup- ramming around in fog and night that at some points the Russians the Mediterranean and had taken all porters working under and they ought to get together and were fighting far behind the most this territory away from him, in- cover to reportedly work out a radio beam which homprevent this outcome. outstretched German points, and cluding the trapping of a number In the address the navy secretary ing planes could really follow. Rusthat some of these actions might of thousand of the Wavell troops. sell thought that whs a good idea, hinted that the time had come work out badly for the invaders. It also was true that there had for the navy actively to sweep the so Sigurd brought him his savings Yet, military observers pointed been a good deal of criticism of German menace from the seas, and of $4,000 and the boys set up a out, such occurrences were of the Wavell at this time. It also was n of the ocworkshop at Halcyon. spoke very nature of the Nazi blitz tech being remembered that he had been cupying Nazi attention, as awar, n Their facilities just wouldnt nique, and that in France, in Greece given at least a part of the responsito insure the aropportunity do. Dr. David L. Webster, head and on other fronts, including the bility for the disaster in Greece and rival of lease-len- d aid to Britain. of the department of physics, at town of Tobruk in northern Africa, Crete. headLeading Stanford, provided a laboratory, groups of defending troops often Although the war ministry simply ed by Senator Wheeler of Montana, . gave them effective aid in every were left behind in the swift ad- recounted that Wavell had been on this speech with all their leaped way and made them possible vance, later to be encircled. transferred to the high command in declaring that the navy secresearch associates of the uniThe Greek army of the east was India and that his place had been power, was retary stepping beyond his powversity, but the university could trapped in just such a way, and taken by Gen. Sir Claude Auchin-lec- ers to get President and seeking provide no funds. Sigurds $4,000 out it and held for a Scotsman, the general feel- Roosevelt to order a though fought war shooting dwindled to $17. The young men considerable time, it was forced to ing in Britain was that it was a between the and the German navy were living sketchily when the in end. the surrender shocking demotion. submarines and surface raiders. came through. A repKlystron It was impossible, however, to see This notwithstanding the war minThe when immediately resentative of the Bureau of Civjust what the Russians were accom- istry let out the rumor that perhaps put to question, President Roosevelt il Aeronautics put them in touch plishing in their defense, for the Wavell was being given a more im- from him a denial that he brought thought the Sperry Gyroscope Co. with town name reports showed conportant task, the preparation of the American participation was necesSperry hurriedly plunked down tinued German advances, and the defense of India should the Russian at this time, and holding out sary a check for $25,000 and built a of route en capture important resistance collapse and find the continued hope that this country for Russell in Garden laboratory points. Nazis blitzing in that direction. could remain out of the war. Island. 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