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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Army Tour Edward C. Wayne 6,760 Language WHOS Scorched Earth and Guerrilla Fighting Is Soviet Answer to German Thrust; ' Revenue Bill for Defense Spending It seems incredible are as many as 6,760 lam' the world, but a cently by philologists revj,! such is the case. Most of a? guages are dead toneu only 2,796 are now even this seems a stagger ft? NEWS Provides Many Additional New Taxes THIS rJ In these columns, they (EDITORS NOTE When opinions are are those of the news analyst and 'not expressed necessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) , Among the white races is most widely spoken, theT sian, German, Spanish, pr5 Portuguese and Italian, Cf der given. Of the rest, m0?3 pie speak and write Chinese' any other language. T WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) "MEW .YORK. The army could use a few Broadway playwrights, particularly those who have had war experience. But it already has top-flig- ht The about Army Impresario ; mass-producti- Russo-Germa- tax-make- rs e one-sixt- . boil-dow- ! ! j : . ! ! Russo-Germa- God-give- k, ? ya 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 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 as an undertak- ing of the utmost importance and President Roosevelt recently promoted the army Belasco from major general to the rank of temporary lieutenant general. His 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 conn Pep LINK - ' U- By JERRY Into War Games This is the scene in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) federal court as 25 members of the huge spy ring were arraigned by the government. Called one of the most active, extensive and vicious spy rings in the nations history, 26 men and 3 women were arrested throughout the country. PLANES: Most of them were of German descent. They were charged with A Slowdown? transmitting vital defense information to a - foreign government. Three 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 conrevenue 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 wings, by communiques. practically complete. and tails, etc., and ship In addition to the huge amount fuselages In the absence of any possible these sections to large assembly direct war correspondence, that is expected from the new income tax plants in Omaha, Kansas City and structure, the congress exactly what it developed into, Fort Worth and Tulsa, where they communiques by both had agreed that business would have will be put together in assemblysides, so much at variance that the to yield about $1,360,000,000 more line fashion. 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. answer to production of Premier Josef Stalin urged upon his Excise taxes were to be increased bombers. by a TO per cent tax on electric people a policy of scorched earth 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 out how the sucNazi of the ber products not including footwear aluminum shortagepointcan possibly grave danger cesses and acknowledged the for- and auto tires or tubes, which are on hob with the best laid plans. ward movement of German troops. other tax schedules; 10 per cent on play They say that when a plane He asked his people to destroy ev- electrical and metal signs; 10 per weighs 10,000 pounds, it erything that might be of value to pent on washing .machines for com- takes 13,600 pounds of ingotactually alumibenot if could be saved it h a mercial of Germany laundries; to do the job because of the hind the retreating Soviet columns. cent a bottle on soft drinks (4 cents num loss through scraps. Only at certain points .did .the a case); 10 per cent on retail furs; weight cannot be melted These reports of the two high commands another 10 on toilet preparations; a down intoscraps metal again airplane So excepcoincide, and these were use 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 ored by their absence than their machines which dispense articles; alloys required. The observers who feel that OPM ' , 10 per cent on optical instruments presence. is also point being too Speaking of an important town on other than eyeglasses; 10 per cent out that the optimistic scrap losses under the southern front, the Germans on office and store machines. of plane buildthe automotive n Thus the said, We captured Lwow, and the of, the tax ing are likely toplan be more than in Russians said, We left Lwow. structure was this: where the plane factories, regular And even in that point of coinciExcise taxes (like the above) workers have more and experience dence there was a variance which $867,000,000. ... will make fewer mistakes. left much to guesswork. Income levies including excess They also feel it is going to be Yet from the very names of profits, $2,468,500,000. a huge problem for the big plane Estate and gift taxes $113,700,000.' manufacturers places it was possible to take a to operate in cities Gerof the see a and to of the. as far distant from map close picture Giving a total each other as man plan emerging, though it was $3,500,000,000 sought. Baltimore and Omaha, for instance, This enabled the public to get a and still impossible by the same token to picmaintain a cohesive and ture the Russian defense. generalized sort of picture of what clever organization. The picture was that of a giant is coming to the American way of However, present plane producclutching hand, with the wrist to the life, at least from a tax standpoint tion, gloomy as this outlook might north and the fingers outstretched during the next tax year. be, took a step upward when North though which way the joints of the American Aviation got back to its SHOCK: would flex could themselves fingers scheduled 10 planes a day, and the not be foreseen. To British 1,500 soldiers who had been staThree fingers were stretching Scarcely less shocking to the Brit- tioned near the plant were - sent toward Moscow arid Leningrad, and to more distant points. two were extending southward into ish than the arrival of Hess on away The soil Scottish wage structure finally decidwas the news that Gen. the rich Ukraine. Two or three of ed upon turned put to be 60 cents t Sir Archibald Wavell rebeen had five these shafts showed signs that of his command in Africa and for beginners for the first three they might form pincer movements, lieved months and then' 75 cents minimum Middle East. the off bodies and snipping surrounding General Wavell had been Britains after that point, and on up to $1.50 of Red troops here and there' along Number One hero, the only man an hour f6r more skilled workers. the battlefront. who had won for the British an im- KNOX: claimed had Germans the Already one such success east of Bialystok, portant victory and one which chalAnd His Speech stating that 100,000 Russian soldiers lenged the imagination. had participated in a mass surrenWavells men had driven through Secretary of Navy Knox, in his ' der, and that everywhere the Rus- Cyrenaica and had taken it away Boston address, stirred up an outsians were on the run. from the Italians, capturing more break on congress which threatened The Red communiques stated that than 100,000 prisoners on the way. to bring out an impeachment reso- their lines were holding intact, and True, the Nazis had come across lution and found administration sup- that at some points the Russians the Mediterranean and had taken all porters reportedly working 'under were fighting far behind the most this territory away from him, in- cover to prevent this outcome. outstretched German points, and cluding the trapping of a number In the address the navy secretary that some of these actions might of thousand of the Wavell troops. hinted that the time had come j work out badly for the invaders. It also was true that there had' for the actively to sweep the Yet, military observers pointed been a good deal of criticism of German navy menace from the seas, and out, such occurrences were of the Wavell at this time. It also was n spoke of the war, ocNazi of blitz technature the very being remembered that he had been cupying Nazi attention, as a n nique, and that in France, in Greece given at least a part of the responsito insure the aropportunity and on other fronts, including the bility for the disaster in Greece and rival of lease-len- d aid to Britain. town of Tobruk in northern Africa, Crete. headLeading groups of defending troops often Although the war ministry simply ed by Senator Wheeler of Montana, were left behind in the swift ad- recounted that Wavell had been with all their leaped on this vance, later to be encircled. transferred to the high command in power, declaringspeech the that navy secThe Greek army of the east was India and that his had been retary was stepping beyond his powplace trapped in just such a way, and taken by Gen. Sir Claude Auchin-lec- ers and seeking to get President though it held out and fought for a Scotsman, the general feel- Roosevelt to order a shooting war considerable time, it was forced to ing in Britain was that it was a between the navy and the German surrender in the end. shocking demotion. submarines and surface raiders. It was impossible, however, to see This notwithstanding the war minThe when immediately just what the Russians were accom- istry let out the rumor that perhaps put to question, President Roosevelt plishing in their defense, for the Wavell was being given a more im- from him a denial that he brought thought town name reports showed conportant task, the preparation of the American participation was necestinued German advances, and the defense of Inplia should the Russian sary at this time, and holding out capture en route of important resistance collapse and find the continued hope that this country points. Nazis blitzing in that direction. could remain out of the war. large-scal- Chinese 10,000 characters. J. Fuller Injects Realism No shot is too tough for the veteran billiard cham pion W illie Hoppe (right), who is setting up a difficult arrangement on the wing of a giant bomber wjien, he and Welker Cochran visited a San Diego, Calif., plane plant. Hoppe is starting a tour of army camps soon as a part of the war department recreation program. present spoken and1 vocabulary . . war-traini- i X Were makin new rules Uncle Fuller, says that llttit shaver, Willie. Since youve been eatln KELLOGGS PEP you gotta run around the bases twice belon your home runs count! Which shows how meager the knowledge o the young, ft you have to get all your vitamins to feel as good as I do, aM KELLOGG'S PEP has got the tm that are most likely to be scarct In ordinary meals vitamins Is B, and D. PEPs awonderful tasting cereal, too. Why don't you try it? Per serving: 12 the daily teed of 45 It 15. the minimum daily need 1 Of o Hi, Deadly Tongue The second most deadly insta, ment of destruction is the dp mite gun the first is the hums: tongue. W. G. Jordan. r t . make-believ- e. 1904. went to the wedding young woman friend a few weeks ago. The bridegroom was THISa writer a tall, bespectacled loose-geare- d, mm y0g Wlth gp en Perchance Radio Beam Led Inventor chanting grin and a thick To Comely Bride thatch of brownish hair. The bride told us he was a scientist. We should have known that he was Russell Varian, the inventor, with his brother Sigurd and several other associates, of the Klystron radio generator which American technicians say is better than anything the British have in g their new system and which has made blind-flyinin fog or night, like a trip around the block plane-spottin- g, in a Russell Varian worked his way for' the through Stanford, professors. His brother Sigurd was' a flight captain with the Airways on Mexican and Central American routes. One day Russell got a letter from Sigurd in which Sigurd said he was tired of ramming around in fog and night and they ought to get together and work out a radio beam which homing planes could really follow. Russell thought that was a good idea, so Sigurd brought him his savings of $4,000 and the boys set up a workshop at Halcyon. Their facilities just wouldnt do. Dr. David L. Webster, head of the department of physics, at Stanford, provided a laboratory, gave them effective aid in every possible way and made them .research associates of the university, but the university could provide no funds. Sigurds $4,000 dwindled to $47. The young men were living sketchily when the Klystron came through. A representative of the Bureau of Civil Aeronautics put them in touch with the Sperry Gyroscope Co. 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