Show 1 THE GARLAND g U S TIMES GARLAND WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Capitols 'Face UTAH By Edward C Berlin Offers Photo as ‘Proof Wayne Landing of Naval Forces in Iceland Brings Speculation on Future Moves Lifting' Of U S in Setting Up Defense Bases Shaded Communiques Dim War Picture Postponed Because of War Historic Building Has Never Been Completed An Old Prediction on Soviet-NaOutbreak Comes to Light lala art aurmW la Mm Whaa (EDITOR’S NOTE— ( UU r Um at th aowo analyst a0 (Rclaaaxl by Western Kivipaptr By BAUKIIAGE National Farm and Horn Service 1313 H Street N W Washington D C Hitler has prevented ' the Capitol from having its face lifted I sat in the office of the architect of the Capitol David Lynn the other day and learned that the historic building which houses our lawmakers has never been finished The architect’s modest suite is tucked away where few visitors except Californians seeking out Senator Johnson in his hideaway next door ever find it On the walls are the solemn portraits of Mr Lynn’s predecessors clear back to Dr Thornton the Capitol’s first architect in wig and stock and the handsome Thomas Hugn Walter with his firm mouth and shock of white hair who seemed to bow in emphatic agreement when his friendly successor d spoke: “The extension and completion of the Capitol” said Mr Lynn earnestly “has been urged for the past 70 years or more Legislation to that end has been introduced from time to time but it has never passed Right now Senator Connally of Texas and Senator Andrews of Florida are very much interested in the undertaking” I had just left the office of the speaker of the house Sam Rayburn and I knew that he approved the idea and I had heard that the President had lent a not unsympathetic ear to the project as well But the war in Europe is interfering as it is with many other civilian pursuits Here’s the Job The job that the experts say has to be done in a nutshell is this: The central portion of the eastern side of the building (which faces the Capitol plaza) must be extended 32 feet 6 inches “This extension is recommended said Architect for two purposes” Lynn “First in order to correct the architectural defect in the L adding to the skirt or which exists due base of the dome extending over the east portico in sucb a manner as to give the appearance of apparent lack of support to the dome The second reason for this step is to provide additional and needed accommodations and to replace the existing sandstone exterior with marble” “Few people know it” Mr Lynn added “but one reason why we have to paint the building every four years is to make the central part which is sandstone match the wings which are marble” Extension of the east front would give 58 much needed extra rooms of provide a passage for members congress directly from one chamber Now when to the other on all floors there is a joint session or when members of one house want to pass to the other they have to squeeze through the main corridors which are frequently packed with visitors Spaee Badly Needed The additional offices are badly needed and now that radio has come to take its place beside the press as a medium for reporting the doings of congress to the people more space would be welcomed by the radio corAt present the radio respondents newsmen are tucked in between pillars in the house and senate wings in offices from which it is very difficult to broadcast Visitors who call upon their representatives in the Capitol may be to surprised that they have to talk for them right out in the lobby members of the house have no pubaddition The room lic waiting would make such an accommodation possible on Many hearings have been held the finishing legislation authorizingwould complete of the Capitol which Thomas the work of the famous This ' talented archiHugh Walter tect planned the two wings which accommodate the senate and the house respectively and the short corridors which connect them to the central portion of the building He also replaced the wooden dome erected after the burning of the Capitol with a metal one But acwho have cording to the expertssketches he studied his plans and never intended to let that massiveof cone that has become the symbol the federal city perch precariously skirt on its foundation with its of the roof hanging over the edge Mr Walter would have extended for the east wall if it had not been the Civil war which interrupted his Then just as congress activities WNU i I V — ' BRIEFS More Bibles are sold in Germany I than Hitler’s “Mein Kampf in told by the persons interested called venture the new Washington Biblical Photoplays which presents the Bible in moving picture form Bible Now America is to see the stories in motion and color to supis being read in the what plement which the nearly 8000000 Bibles Hour Commentator Ju was about ready to order Mr Lynn to carry on the work of his illustrious predecessor another war in Europe broke out and the skirt of the dome is once again left hanging on the fate of empires An Old Prediction Comet to Light A week after the one of my listeners war started called my attention to a fading record of the foreign relations of the United States of July 11 1919 It is a report of the then vice at Viborg Robert Imbrie consul who was later killed in Teheran Persia The report describes in detail the struggle between the White Russians and Bolshevicks (that is the state department spelling at the time) It urges that the United States give sanction to an attack on Russia by the Finnish forces which represented an army and navy which Vice Consul Imbrie said “is quite capable of taking Petr© grad (Leningrad)” Mr Imbrie concludes: “It has long been apparent that Russia as an economic factor has under the Bolshevicks ceased to exist at least so far as the United States and the Allied Nations are concerned Where formerly she produced food in such quantities that it formed a large item of her exshe is starving a condiport now tion directly attributable to Bolshe-vic- k The misrule and terrorism world is not only shut off from one of the greatest commercial markets one of also but it is great deprived source of food supply The agents of Germany with an eye to the commercial and political future are takof the existing ing full advantage conditions Already the feeling of Russia Bolshevick is with Ger- many" I never met Mr Imbrie but his tragedy came back in an oddly personal way today when I received the letter containing the above reference Some JO years after Imbrie was killed I was on a hiking trip in the Green mountains and a friend of mine loaned me an army canteen my own faithful container having outlived its usefulness Later I learned that the flagon which had cooled my lips with the waters of had mountain springs Vermont’s cononce belonged to the murdered sul Now his ghost comes back with a prediction he made in 1923 at the time of the Lausanne conference “Within a decade” my informant quotes Imbrie as saying privately then “hell will break loose with more fury than ever Bessarabian oil will be the decisive faotor" National It Being Indian Day Planned Indian day A National ica That for Amer- J A Youngren of is what He tells Idaho proposes me that 18 state governors are ready in such an undertakto ing Washington has heard about it too I remember my first Indian day I did not know what it was then It was in western Washington There was a knock at the door of our home My mother who like the rest of the family was fresh anfrom “the East” (Illinois) the - I was frightened knockswered Maybe she was for all her pioneer blood For there silhouetted against the afternoon was the tallest man I ever saw— and wrapped in a blanwas father who He wanted ket my justice of the peace And when the brave learned he wasn’t there he went away peacefully leaving only a faint odor of salmon behind him I have known a few Indians myself Jim Thorpe whom I once infootball star of Carlisle terviewed who and young served with me in France in the I am not mentioning the artillery with Indian 100 per cent Americans blood like my fraternity brother in Freeman Morgan the university this Indian day-te-pee So I am for tomahawk papoose and all Pocatello ediAnd I’ll bet that Skeeter Vogt tor of the Gallup (N M) Gazette when he reads this in his own paper So ought the will agree with me rest of the paler faces who might not be here now if the Red Men had had a couple of panzer divisions and a few less pipes of peace h Baukhage Census bureau says were this country in 1939 printed in The statue of Will Rogers in the Capitol stands in a comer looking right at the door of the senate chamber Capitol guides tell visitors that Will once said he would never like to stand in Statuary Ball because want to keep an he explained eye on congress” “I iu ) 1 f i I With communiques giving varied reports oa the progress of the from Berlin which purports to Dr J C McCracken superintendent of the American Hospital for gun German war comes this with two of his charges from show Nasi heavy tanks rolling through tho White Russian capital of ltefageea in Shanghai China is pictured It was not definitely known tho Nasls had pushed this far —bat tho baby clinio The children seem to be thriving on meals made np of Minsk cracked wheat which they consider a luxury The Red Cross bags are this would seem to bo “proof” Bays Berlin then cat ap and used for making clothea for the children ICELAND: A Move AXIS: Sickness? The sudden step which President Roosevelt took in ordering the ocof Iceland by American cupation naval forces ahd the plan to thus relieve the British in the handling of that distant adjunct of the occupied Danish kingdom not only clarified the foreign policy but present brought repercussions on both sides of the Atlantic These were both favorable and unfavorable to the move the British hailing it with obvious delight as “putting teeth” and definiteness into the U S policy of insuring arrival d aid and the fullest coof operation short of war with Britain The Axis powers as were to be were quoted variously as expected such action opposing vigorously which they did not apparently learn of until it was an accomsaid the The Germans plished fact U S now had troops “in the war the zone” and could expect results Italians called it a “provocative” step and the Japanese called It '‘do facto American entry Into the war” Thse sentiments were echoed on this side of the water by the chief Two American incidents tended to show that since the start of the Russian campaign even before there had been aome signs within Germany and Italy of what might be termed Axis sickness Walter Alexander 57 year old American citizen born in Germany left there about six weeks ago He busihad been in the ness in Berlin since 1933 He finally arrived in Jersey City where he was quoted as follows: “Forty per cent of the German people are against Hitler and the of the administration opponents Senator Wheeler not only being outspoken against it but drawing White House fire for having announced the rumored objective thus accordbefore it took place secretarial ing to a White House statement “jeopardizing American lives” More interesting were the speculations concerning future moves the Nazi sources recalling in their comment on the President’s action the fact that he had spoken previously of the strategic import from a Western hemisphere viewpoint of the Azores the Cape Verde islands African port and Dakar also made clear The President that geographical definitions of the Western hemisphere as far as dif-he is concerned do not make much ference and that when one is dea certain section of the fending globe it is more important to “outguess the other fellow” than to draw geographical limitations on your activities RUSSIANS: A Picture Gradually as the moved into the latter part of first month growingly clearer obpicture of the situation could be war the tained Stripped of equivocal commuand delving behind these aid of town names and general lines here was the portrait of conditions at that period: The Germans together with their allies had attacked along a 1100 mile front with initial quick success in the extreme north in the central district and a slower success in the niques with the south This continued with the Russians falling back and burning towns and supplies as far as possible for about a week or 10 days Then the German advance ran Into the Stalin line and an entirely different tempn of" Russian resist ance It was almost as though a large train had run into a resilient obstacle which halted it gently and then even began to shove it backward The Russian communiques painted this picture as far more favorable to the Reds and the Germans minimized or ignored things and spoke of everything being “expected” and "running on schedule" All this of course might be true depending on the schedule From other points came data however tending to show that the German machine had perhaps not but at any rate A met its master foe man worthy of its steel and one that was not going to be a “pushover” in the sense of previous opponents war “The German people are just beginning to tire of it And they have the feeling that it does not matter whether they win They feel they have lost their freedom anyway “Business men in Germany are disgusted because they can make no move except under government regulation and orders” And Count Carlo Sforza" once a member of Mussolini’s cabinet but who now declares he was one of the said at original foes of Fascism Ann Arbor Mich that a British victory in the war would be theMusstant signal for the fall of the solini government Even now the count declared there might at any time be a “passive strike” on the part of the Italian navy which does not like to fight on the side of the Germans that Italy was He said however so much under the domination of Hitler that the people knew a signal for revolt against Mussolini would mean that the Germans would march on Milan Venice and Trieste and also on Rome Germany must fall first before the present Italian regime coUapses he said t Milk Trouble on West Coast i i i ri Difficulties with the A F at L International Teamsters’ onion forced mQk producers inch as these (above) la tho Los Angeles srea to poor This was asserted by 21900 quarto of milk a day down tho drains His firm was the sixth dairy to Clarence Smith dairy bead be picketed and their milk listed as “hot csrgo” : i Last Honors for Paderewski n I t SYRIA: End of War The official announcement that a formal request for an armistice had come to the British from General Dentz of the Vichy defenders seemed to bring an end to a campaign which ended on the saddest of possible notes Churchill struck the British attitude by saying: “I hardly need say how very glad His Majesty’s Government is to see an end brought to this very distressing conflict in which 1000 to 1500 Indian Australian and British troops who had volunteered in order to defend France have fallen killed or wounded under French bullets as a result of the lamentable confusion into which the affairs of so many good people in so many parts of the world have been thrown by the victories of Hitler’ army” This was a gentle way of acquainting the people with the number of casualties there had been in the British forces How many the Free French under De Gaulle had lost was not mentioned but it was believed to have been heavier as they assumed the brunt of the attack Alfred Duff Cooper said: “I am horrified to hear that funds are being collected to celebrate the victory' in Syria” The decision of General Dentz to sue for peace came at a time when the pressure was being put heavily on Beirut which it turned out was the key to the whole campaign renowned Polish A view of the funeral of Irnace Jan Paderewski The casket patriot and pianist draped with the national flag of the was borne on a gun carriage flag by an honor ruard of Polish Republic Until It can be taken to Poland the body will rest in the U g army Arlington cemetery Mexico Makes Land Expropriation Payment i RAF: The mastery of the daytime air on the western front of the war remained with the RAF which was carrying out bombing attacks in the new large tempo with squadrons aloft by day and by night It was revealed that the Nazis batnow have floating round Wilhelmshaven and teries that flights of bombers which meet with no resistance at all over the French coastal areas except from fire are meeting with considerable fighter resistance as soon as they get over Germany Mexican ambassador Dr Don Francisco Najera (right) hands acting at State Sumner Welles the Mexican government’s check for in payment of tho amount due an account at the claims of citisens whose lands In Mexico have been expropriated since 1927 under the Mexican agrarian program Secretary $1000000 American August 30 t J |