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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER Madagascar Guards WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Rattlesnake Rattle Axis diplomats have started the Axis Threat to Western Hemisphere Forestalled by Move on Martinique; Nazis Begin Eastern Crimean Drive To Gain Needed Caucasian Oil Fields Vital Supply Routes Qj Comoro la groundwork for a peace offensive. Their peace conditions will be flatly rejected by our Commander-in-Chie- t I There is no other course because there is no such thing as conditional freedom.' offer from 4 dictator is what a rattle is to a rattlesnake. The American war policy is both clear and final. We will only return to peace when Hitler can never again return to war. Once we were lulled into false security but we shall never be swindled out of victory. We shall never lose with a pen what our men have gained by the sword. America remembers Pearl Harbor and she is determined that Tokyo will never forget. The only Americans who will ever go to Munich will be flying bombers made m Detroit Our fleet stands between us and Hitlers war but our graves stand between us and Hitlers peace. We have learned Europes lesson there is no such thing as an honorable treaty with a dishonorable government. The American people will make peace some day but only a peace that will explain to Colin Kellys son why his father died. In these columns, they (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are are those of the news analyst and not expressed necessarily of this newspaper.) (Poioae0(i by Western Newspaper TTr,rt PROTECTORATE: In Caribbean GERMAN DRIVE: In Eastern Crimea with Adm. Dealing directly Georges Robert as the ultimate governing authority of the French possessions in the Caribbean and French Guiana, the United States moved to forestall the Axis powers from gaining any foothold in the Western hemisphere. orders from President Upon Roosevelt, American representatives arrived at Martinique and informed Admiral Robert that the United States desired to place troops in the French possession to guard against Nazi spring The drive finally began with a thrust toward Kerch in the eastern Crimea. Kerch is a key peninsular point along the shortest route to the Caucasian oil fields. The Nazis main effort was directed, as many observers thought it would be, at driving across the Kerch peninsula to win the rich fuel deposits. Too, they would be in a position to threaten the Allied eastern flank in Iran, another oil kingdom. Comparative quiet had prevailed in the Kerch peninsula since last December when the Russians hurled the Germans back from the town of Kerch. Neutral observers stated that approximately 2,000,000 men were in action on the Donetz front Early reports indicated vast Nazi strength front between Dneon the propetrovsk and the peninsula. 'W 250-mi- MALTA: More Bombs Things I Never Knew And Still Don't Know: That the Japs consider four an unlucky number, just as we feel about thirteen over here. (Sho nufif the American eagle unloaded his first batch of eggs on Nippon in April, which is the fourth month of the year! ) . . . That a new official edict in England prohibits those rows of Xs, representing kisses, at the bottom of letters, because spies can use them as a code . . . How we overlooked this for our Literary Lace dept: Alimony the high cost of leaving. That the word coined by the R. A. Fliers for those propaganda pamphlets they drop on enemy territory ADMIRAL JOHN H. HOOVER Messenger to Martinique. any Axis threat. The state department ignored Pierre Laval, chief of the Vichy government, to deal directly with Robert. Adm. John H. Hoover, representing the United States, made it definite that this country would desire to garrison the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, off Newfoundland, in addition to Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean sea. The state department emphasized that no ultimatum was being served on the French admiral. Robert had been friendly with the two previous American missions since the fall of is Bomphlets . . . That the Chinese regard cockroaches as symbols of wealth. (Their logic being that a family must be pretty poor, if they cant afford to feed a few cockroaches) . . , That the British Medical Journal offers this tip for prevention of colds: Throw your head back and let a few drops of pure in 1940. medicinal cod liver oil slide intol, France each nostril your throat through (Id PRIME MINISTER : rather have a cold.) , A Report Whether you know that ice cream manufacturers have concocted a victory sundae, which is made of red, white and blue ice cream. The plan is to charge 25 cents and give the customer a 10 cent defense stamp as a rebate . . . That Mrs. Chip Robert, wife of the secretary of the Democratic Committee, recently gave a Washington luncheon for some femme friends. One of the women invited, phoned and asked: What shall I wear to your To which Mrs. Robluncheon? ert replied: Come in an open throat and a back suitable for knifing! ... Whether learn that it will depress you to you have only one chance in 20,000 to be questioned in a Gallup poll. (Thats the capitalistic system for you) . . . That in Australia there are lizards that bark . . . Whether, after all these years, Jimmy Cagney wont finally win the Academy Award for his Geo. M. Cohan portrayal in Yankee Doodle Dandy," the film dandy . . . That the recruiting slogan of the Marine Corps at Amarillo, Texas, is: Join the Marines and see Tokyo. Whether you know that cats are employed by the U. S. Government with the Post Office Department footing the bill for their keep. (Their job is to keep rats and mice from making a meal of the mail) . . . That on a highway in Venezuela theres a monument to a wrecked automobile with the inscription: Slowly one goes far . . . That the tag of Ann Sheridan's oomphlicker, Juke Girl, is the funniest fun. Annie says to Ronald Reagan: Lef settle down on a farm and raise tomatoes . . . Reagan, ogling her Whos interested chassis, retorts: in raising tomatoes? That if you feel cold in bed because you havent enough blankets, just cover your head with a scarf, and your, whole body, feet and all, will warm up in a jiffy. (In these days that alone is worth the price you paid for the paper!) . . . That when Louis XIV was King of France, for a nominal fee people could come to the palace and watch him eat (That must have been scads of fun!) Whether you know that in ancient Gaul there were laws making it taboo to get too stout (If a guy got stouter than the law permitted be was fined) . . . That a psychologist has figured out that a person who lives seventy years has spent 2,100 hours looking in mirrors. (Who, me?) . . . That the latest wrinkle is a cosmetic for women to put on their teeth, like nail polish, to give them that toothpaste-a- d smile . . . That in China the nicest gift you can give a man on his 41st and 51st (Because birthdays is chow-meiits a symbol of longevity there). As he reviewed the war on the second anniversary of his rise to the premiership, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain indicated that he believed the tide of battle had turned in the favor of the United Nations. While he foresaw suffering ahead he told his people that deserved to hear the encouraging news that Britains great air force had been constantly bombing a number of Nazi industrial cities and would continue to bomb them. Churchill warned the Nazis that if they used poison gas against Russia, that this same RAF would be used to carry gas warfare in the largest possiDle scale against miliThis tary objectives in Germany. remark received special attention as less than 24 hours before he spoke, Russia had reported that the Nazis were using gas mines in the battle of the Crimea. War shipments through the Arctic supply route are definitely getting through to Russia, said the prime minister, although there have been losses to the United Nations in these convoys. He also thinks Russians army is growing stronger. In a ceremony punctuated by falling Nazi bombs, Great Britains Lord Gort was sworn in as the new of governor and commander-in-chie- f Malta, the. most bombed spot on earth. Lord Gort took his oath of office amid the ruins of a building smashed in a previous attack. Bombs were falling throughout the proceedings and the chief justice administering the oath had his hand cut and bleeding from a wound sustained during the raid. More than 10,000 high explosive, armor piercing bombs have been dropped on Malta this year, according to an Alexandria, Egypt, source. The island, lying off the coast of Italy in the Mediterranean, has been under constant attack by the Nazi bombing forces because it guards the vital Axis supply routes to Africa and the Middle East As a result of these continuing raids an official British check-u- p shows that Maltas property losses include 15,500 homes, 70 churches, 18 convents, 22 schools and eight per cent hospitals. Seventy-fiv- e the property in Valetta, the principal city, has been made uninhabitable by the attacks. CORAL SEA: Heavy Toll Exacting a toll of at least 21 Japanese warships in the Battle of the Coral Sea, American sea and air forces combined to slap back a Jap fleet in its first major attempt to smash through the outer defenses of Australia. Advanced Allied bases reported that at least 500 planes took part battle which was in the five-da- y fought 450 miles off the northeast coast of Australia. Battered remnants of the attacking Jap forces were reported to fl.o-ma- s that direction. TRAP SPRUNG: On Jap Invaders stirring story of how Japanese invading forces on the Burma road were sent reeling back by a surprise Chinese blow from a trapped army was told by dispatches from A Chungking. The Chinese on the Burma road plan. followed their prearranged They allowed the Japs to sweep into Yunnan province and lengthen their communication lines. The Japs advanced triumphantly. A strong Chinese army, which the Japs had bypassed in central Burma, struck hard into the exposed The rear lines of the invaders. maneuver cut off the main communication route and line of retreat of the Japanese units, which had split into two columns to try to outflank the Chinese. One of these columns was wiped out in the first 24 hours The other forces were of fighting. expected to be "liquidated within a said a Chinese comfew days, munique. RATIONED: On Eastern Seaboard GAS d of all auApproximately tomobile owners in the eastern seaboard states have been limited to three gallons of gasoline a week by an order from the Office of Price one-thir- whose use of autoThe mobiles is classed as will be entitled to purchase a total of 27 gallons of gasoline from May 15 to July 1, when a permanent rationing plan goes into effect Motorists have been classified in five categories for rationing purposes. Holders of A cards are B-- 2 B-- l, and nonessentiaL B-- 3 cards have been issued to motorists, including workers in arms industries, whose cars are necessary in pursuit of their employment The amount of gasoline they receive depends upon the amount of daily mileage they declared at registration time. It ranges from 4 57 to 8 17 gallons a week. The X cards were issued to unrestricted users, including buses, taxicabs, physicians, nurses, ambulances, hearses, ministers, highway maintenance crews and government of municipally operated cars. one-thir- d, action-producin- trade barriers: Rhode Island requires that all milk brought in from neighboring states must be colored pink. Imagine drinking pink milk. The obvious purpose is to keep out foreign milk and make all drink Rhode Island milk. However, trucking restrictions have limped northward to their were responsible for most of the bases in New Britain and the Solo- wrath. mon islands following the rout. Public Roads Commissioner MacSweeping claims by the Japs as Donald said the following regulato their success in the battle were tions would remove the most seridiscounted by both General MacAr-thu- r ous stoppages of interstate truck in Australia and by the navy traffic: Maximum width for trucks, department in Washington. MacAr-thur-s 96 inches; height, l2 feet 6 inches; headquarters described Jap length, 35 feet for single vehicles reports of Allied losses as entirely and 45 feet for combinations; load fictional and the navy department for a single axle, 18,000 pounds; stated that while reports of the damgross weight, 30,000 pounds for vehicles having two axles and 40,000 age to U. S. forces was still incomplete, neither a U. S. aircraft car- pounds for vehicles with three or rier nor a battleship had been lost. more. Commander of U. S. naval forces in the great battle of the Coral sea was Vice Admiral Herbert Fairfax Leary of Washington, D. C. Admiral Leary is a gunnery expert and won the Navy Cross in World War I.'- n Italy: Premier Mussolini and the king of Italy watched a parade of marching men and lines of war machines wind through the streets of Rome as part of Italys observation of Empire day. Actually it was the sixth anniversary of Mussolinis n formal proclamation of a new empire based on the conquest of Ethiopia, which has since fallen to the British. The above map depicts the size of the French island of Madagascar of by comparing it with the area New York state. Madagascars importance to the United Nations lies in the fact that bases on the island control the supply lines to India and the Middle East. British occupation forestalled a possible Axis move in g In an message to Conference on the Federal-Stat- e War Restrictions, President Roosevelt declared that legal obstacles to commerce, arising from a desire for regional and local advantage, have imposed a heavy toll on the national war effort Rep. Emanuel Celler of New York, in a radio broadcast pointed out a vivid illustration of existing strength- HIGHLIGHTS SHADED AREA SHOWS COMPARATIVE SIZE OF HEW YORK STATE TRADE BARRIERS: Impose Heavy Toll Repeated warnings issued by the ened when Donald M. Nelson, war production chief, declared that emergency rationing of coal is probable unless consumers build up their reserve supplies immediately to the limit of storage. Nelson pointed out that the fuel oil situation on the East coast and winter transportation problems make stockpiling operations now of utmost importance to all consumers who are dependent on coal for heating their homes or running their factories. Joseph B. Eastman, director of the Office of Defense Transportation, stated that there is no shortage of coal, nor will there be. But if consumers wait until the fall and winter months to fill their requirements, a serious transportation shortage will possibly result This we must avoid. OCEAN . COAL: Reserve Supplies nations coal dealers were INDIAN long-herald- the week's news Women: War Manpower Chair man McNutt indicated that the U. S. has an adequate supply of wogian power to train and employ in war and essential civilian industries at an increasing rate during the next two years. Next year, he predicted there will be 4,000,000 In war jobs out of an expected 20,000,000 war workers. TOKYO ATTACK: Now Its 'Official ! Three weeks after American bombing planes rained bombs on Tokyo and other Japanese cities, the raid has been confirmed by an official U. S. war department communique. The bombing flight was made and the selected tarin mid-dagets were unmistakable and were accurately attacked. Further, the communique stated that Military, naval and industrial plants were the objectives. Some of the large fires burned at least two days. y, Washington, D. C. RRs VS. SHIPS It hasnt made headlines, but a battle royal has been raging between WPB Czar Donald Nelson and Transportation Czar Joe Eastman over the freezing of steel for the construction of railroad cars. With less and less shipping moving along the coast, and more and more traffic by rail, the question is one of the most important facing the country. What happened was that the War Production board froze all construction materials already on band in railroad construction shops. The intention was to transfer these materials for use in building other types of cars. However, Joe Eastman claims that these materials, chiefly steel, already had been bought and cut out for certain cars, in certain shapes, so the order merely will make the materials go unused, with car shops closing down. Already, Eastman argues, certain plants of Pullman Standard are idle, at a time when all plants should be used to capacity. Meanwhile railroads are groaning with traffic. Sugar is now being hauled by rail as much as possible from Florida to avoid submarines. Oil is clogged up in the producing fields for lack of railroad transportation. And with the sinkings of several Chilean ore ships, more iron ore has to be hauled from interior U. S. iron mines. In view of all this, Eastman complains bitterly that Nelson wont release the steel and let the car foundries do the job. Cinnamon toast may be made without sugar by blending 2k tablespoons of honey with tw thirds tablespoon butter. Increase amounts as desired. Keep butter covered in the re. frigerator lest it pick up flavors from other foods. Also keep but. ter in the coldest part of the re. frigerator. Eggs should be stored in the refrigerator but they do not need the coldest spot. If level teaspoon of one-ha- lf bak-in- g powder is added to every fo eggs used in making a souffle it will not fall after it has been removed from the oven. Individual service table mats save lots of laundering. Use them in place of luncheon or tablecloths For outdoor or porch serving try the prettily decorated oilcloth mats; they only need a daily wip. ing with a dampened cloth. mmm A m IN 63 B.C. MARCUS TULLIUS TIRO INVENTED A SYSTEM OF SHORTHAND USED IN THE ROMAN SENATE -- AND CREATED A BETTER WAY OF RECORDING SPEECH. INFLUENCING EUROPEAN LABOR Here is one inside reason why Roosevelt leans toward labor. Basically, the President always has r, been and continues to be, even though he has become fed up with some labor activities in the past year. But in addition, U. S. war strategists are convinced that the chief hope of revolution in Europe comes from labor. And most of the psychological warfare strategy being devised here is aimed at influencing labor in Germany, 'Czechoslovakia, Austria arid the occupied countries. Although not generally known, the nucleus of the old Social Democratic party which tried to create a real republic in Germany is still intact. When Hitler came into power, they moved to Czechoslovakia. After the Sudetenland seizure, they moved to Paris. After the downfall of Paris, they moved to the U. S. A. Fifty Social Democrats from the old Reichstag are now in this counwith U. S. officials. try Furthermore, it is labor in the European occupied countries which is able to assemble or make radios. German labor listens to the radio far more than other classes. Some labor groups even have published very small "underground newspapers on hand presses and these are distributed by hand. German labor resents the long hours in munitions factories, the small pay and the lack of food, more than any other group. Also labor is about the only group which was not taken over completely by Hitler. The Communists, his chief opponents, now have long been underground, but secretly active. To European labor Roosevelt always has been one of the worlds greatest leaders. And one thought in the minds of war strategists is to show Europe that the rights of labor here will not be thrown completely overboard during war. THE BETTER WAY TO TREAT CONSTIPATION DUE TO LACK OF PR0PERBULKIN THE DIET IS 70 CORRECT THE CAUSE OF THE pro-labo- WALLACES FAVORITES The men who came to Washington with Henry Wallace in the early days of the New Deal realize now that they picked a winning horse. Almost to a man, they have moved up to important posts in the gov- ernment Claude Wickard was head of the corn-ho- g section in Wallaces AAA. Now he is secretary of agriculture. Milo Perkins was a lowly assistant to Wallace, holding down a desk in the outer office. Today, he runs the Board of Economic Warfare, as important as a cabinet post Paul Appleby was an assistant in the inner office. Now he is undersecretary of agriculture at $10,000 a year. Chester Davis was head of the AAA Now he, is director of the Federal Reserve bank in St. Louis. R. M. (Spike) Evans was an aide to Wallace; now head of AAA. Sam Bledsoe, Roy Hendrickson, and Whitney Tharin were newsmen Bledsoe is covering agriculture. now an assistant to the secretary. MERRY-GO-ROUN- TROUBLE WITH A DELICIOUS CEREAL, KELLOGG'S EAT AU.-8RA- IT EVERY DAY AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER.. Do You Bake at Home? If you do, send for a grand cook book crammed with recipes for breads d all kinds of and cakes. Its absolutely free. Just drop a postcard with your name and address to Standard Brands Inc., 691 Washington St., New York City. Adv. yeast-raise- CALLOUSES To relieve painful callouses, burning or tenderness on bottom of feet and remove callouses get these thin, soothing, cushioning pads. Acid Indigestion What many Doctor do for it When excess stomach add causes gas, sour stomach or heartburn, doctors prescribe the fastest-actin- g medicines known for symtomatic relief medicines bke those in Bell-an- s Tablets. No laxative. If yoor better, return very first trial doesnt prove Bell-an- s bottle to os and get double your money back? 25c. Buy U. S. SAVINGS BONDS BEII LOMOND HOTEL OGDEN, UTAH D Secretary of War Stimson is held in the warmest personal esteem by army commanders. and he never meddles in military operations and backs np his subordinates 100 per cent. Stimson is always at his desk by 8 a. m., and rarely leaves until evening, when he always takes home with him a big bundle of papers that he works over after dinner. Good explanation of Your Army and how the draft works, has been written by George H. Jiler of the Bridgeport Post. Hard-worki- open-mind- Ilf Rooms SSI Bath - fl.01 to H.U Fanil? Roam, for 4 paraonia Air Cooled Lounge and Lrfcbr M-- DUnfaw Coffee Shop Horn of Tu Boor Klwanla EzoeatlTM 2 Optimist Chamber af Commerce and Ad Club Rotary Exchsnr Hotel Ben Lomond OGDEN. - V-'-- Habort UTAH I. Yislek, Utu |