Show -- atiPkiutztripagmt-amtipheutombermo- A - z 1 I ) I 01bt gsztt T 1 - —Established April by 8alt Lege Iribune 15 1871 issued every morning I0 Publishing porn pan By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON—Some Salt Lake City Utah Thur sday Morning May 20 1913 The Tribune is a member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusives entitled to the nee for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited tti this paper and also the local news published herein Fire Department Wins Praiee Battle for-Galla- The Salt Lake fire department is to be highly commended for its splendid The home front must have its service of supplies its communications system and its transportation facilities as well as the armies in the field if the war program is to continue Business men and industrialists not directly engaged in war work have been willing to sacrifice man power and other things in order that the national program could be pushed as rapidly as possible But there are limits to everything and unless some relief is offered the civilian economy is in danger of coming to a complete halt These things have been sensed by many of us here in the intermountain territory but there has been some reluctance on the part of employers to offer serious objections because they might be looked on as unpatriotic Now that the situation has grown worse it was apparent someone must speak Thus the appeal voiced by Gus P Backman of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce Tuesday before the Rotary club holds particular significance at this time The chamber secretary after pointing out Utah' substantial contribution to the war program set forth the case in the following words: "We are now faced with a real emergency The time has arrived when we must call upon the government to desist or the civilian economy will collapse Those in charge must realize that the civilian economy does sustain the war work during the destructive and tragic fire which gutted the downtown building occupied by the Victory theater Gallant firemen braved the inferno to battle the flames and to keep them- from spreading to adjoining buildings- Without their courageous and intelligent efforts the blaze could have swept the entire block of business houses and resulted in the Inost destructive conflagration in the history of the city Three fire fighters lost their lives and a number of others suffered serious Injuries but the battle against the flames was carried on until the blaze was brought under control The deaths of these men serve to remind us of the warning issued last month by Chief LaVere M Hanson of the mounting fire dangers in this city due to increased population and industrial activities This lamentable tragedy will also give weight to requests for needed equipment to bring the fire department up to the highest possible efficiency These gallant firemen who risk their lives at every major blaze deserve the best in apparatus clothing and safety devices These men are entitled to the most efficient implements obtainable just as nur soldiers now fighting human foes rate the best of weapons The war against fire goes on continuously It involves not only the spectacular and sometimes fatal activities con3aected with a big downtown blaze but also rigid inspection of buildings warnings to owners and sometimes drastic orders for the removal of danger spots In this work the fire department should have the cooperation of all citizens Salt Lake is well into the year and It threatens to be another costly one unless great care is taken to guard against fire hazards overcrowding and negligence in the disposal of matches cigars and cigarets Chief Hanson in his report pointed out that fire losses in Salt Lake had risen sharply for the year 1942 Total cost of fires in that period was $S28026 compared to the previous year's effort" No sensible and loyal business man wishes to obstruct for one moment the war program of this nation but there are many times when those in charge of doing a certain job lose sight of "the other fellow's" problems and permit their own zealous efforts to throw the total program out of balance Mr Backman does not ask measures to hamper defense plans but he has made a timely plea in behalf of moderation on the part of authorities who admittedly have a difficult task With the local air thus cleared there should be no reason why the situation can not be worked out in an equitable manner all-o- Food Conferees Look Forward to Jolly Time 638554 The Tribune takes this opportunity to express extreme regret over the tragic deaths of these firemen and extends the warmest sympathy to the bereaved families and relatives A paradise for politicians is the Homestead hotel at Warm Springs Va with no prying newspaper reporters ad plenty of good liquor As the world food conference gets under way at this swanky health resort news is trickling out despite the ban on reporters that everything has been done to insure the pleasure and ease of the conferees Even the state of Virginia relaxed its laws to permit importation of 300 gallons of liquor for the visitors Newspaper men are not completely barred from the area They have been quartered in a dancing casino near the hotel which houses delegates and where the sessions will be held No doubt the scribes can give dances while they await reports from the deliberations up on the hill However if no one but delegates and newsmen is allowed within the sacred precincts the boys will just have to dance with each other Radios will probably be permitted 13o the music should be Britain's Dam Bombers Write Aviation History - ' - When gallant fighter pilots of the It A I" saved the little island of Britain from the luftwaffe in England's darkest hour they wrote a new chapter in the history of aerial warfare Never said Prime Minister Churchill did so many people owe so much to so few Years of complacency had whittled Britain's air forces almost to the vanishing point at the beginning of the war but through almost superhuman efforts a fighting fleet of Spitfires was built and flown by men who braved death to save their country Now it is the bomber's day and the war is pointed in the other direction Daring bomber crews British and Amerscan fly daily and nightly over Germany and nazi controlled countries to land telling blows on Hitler's war machine Factories shipyards railroads ports and canals have been destroyed or crippled for months by this incessant pounding Monday the R A F hung up a new record for destructive aerial warfare when daring crews flew into the heart of Germany's industrial regions to blast away two great dams Their explosives riot only wrecked these important industrial units but loosed great floods which swept over war factories power plants transportation systems and waterways doing as much damage as a score of bombing raids It was a remarkable feat and again the R A F has written aerial warfare history There is no doubt that it was a solar plexus blow for Hitler's war machine The extent of the damage and its effect on the war remains to be told later This raid alone furnishes proof that the airplane has become one of the most lethal weapons of warfare and it sets a new high mark for aerial strategy Such military exploits require careful planning brilliant execution steady flying and accurate bombing Only a per fectly coordinated fighting machine could accomplish so workmanlike a job It has outdone anything that Goering could have conceived and we hope and trust that it will be repeated again and again until the nazis are completely softened for the final coup de grace ut ''-- -- - rc: - r:1: 1746 - 'r At - !' 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''' t : : k ) 4 A k IN - )Nt‘- f! -- - -- "ff:1:t- !i!t7 ::IfA::::"'41:"::lq":13:::-4"':'1'1-c! :i7:1::'9:r:!':13-1- - - 71 4 Japs Seek Excuse for Use of Poison Gas WASHINGTON — A Tokyo broadcast charging that we have been using poison gas in the storming of Attu may mean the Japs want an alibi for home consumption or an excuse for using poison gas on us or the Chinese The broadcast further intensifies Interest In the prospects of the use of gas in the war which was revived as a possibility in axis defense after the allied victory in Tunisia Prime Minister Churchill early served notice in the name of all the allies when he said that if the enemy ever used poison gas We are prethe allies would pared to do so in quantity and in a quality as deadly if not deadlier than the enemy can produce Poison gas is not as is generally understood outlawed by Some the Geneva convention nations agreed not to use it but subject to agreement by others which was not forthcoming In the war of nerves the nazis made much play of the gas which they had in store as a terrific adjunct of total warfare Every British man woman and child carried a gas mask month after month The French and British soldiers in France carried a thin protective gossamer coat against a new burning gas the Germans were supposed to have but it was never in evidence in the battle of France Nor was it in their air blitz on Britain The reason probably was that mustard gas which is still the most effective gas as a military weapon best serves the defensive Saturate the area of approach with it aneit burns the flesh of the soldiers when they crawl forward on the ground in their advance If the nazis use gas it will be In quantity and breadth on a critical front aiming at surprise But the surprise will be on - their side er ' Senator From Sandpit e Friendship is a word the very sight of which makes the heart warm—Augustine Birrell My copy was in and I was wondering what to do with myself when the phone rang It was my old friend Harry Sherman from Hollywood who is here looking over location sites for his forthcoming technicolor film "Buffalo Bill" Nothing would do but I must come up to his suite at the Hotel Utah Dick Dickson for a gabfest Harry's associate producer and detail man was there and we took our hair down and talked We spoke of C and talked Watt Brandon of Kemmerer a mutual friend and a grand guy and of the big game hunts he arranges now and then I asked about Bill Boyd who is the lead in Harry's "Hopalong Cassidy" series which is known to every youngster in the S A and most foreign parts and Harry said that Bill was standing up well under the weight of years (I judge Bill must be all of 40) I sort of stand in awe of these friends of mine like Harry Dave Hempstead and Joe Santley producers and directors in a great industry But you don't stand in awe of them long—particularly Harry While other producers have in- vested fantastic sums in supercolossals he has gone along calmly producing "horse operas" that have made him rich But while he probably has more dollars than Dublin has corks he hasn't lost the common touch He's still a very human human being While we were in a veritable heaven of reminiscences Dick Dickson butted in with ''How about putting on the nosebag? I feel the need of some fodder" (Dick's an So we went down to the Empire room and took on some food And such food it was! I'll bet that the steak I had would have used up all the points I have in my ration book! (I'm drooling now just thinking about it) Mention was made of Hedda of a perfect blackout Next day the answers were brought and the prize was awarded for this: "A blind black man dressed In a black suit in a coal cellar with the doors shut on a foggy night and without a light groping among the coals for a blind black cat" — Saturday Night Ireland Luck Gets Rating top-flig- Two Cats Off the Record Very enlightening the war to one and all The natives of interior New Guinea have now seen automobiles and we have seen a horse Rumor hath it that Franco is now edging toward the allied side by way of new ties with It is smart of an Portugal innocent bystander sometimes to resume walking Ferry Pilots who make the transatlantic round trip in 24 hours don't lose a day's instalment in their favorite adventure comic strips Whatever it may be the record for the number ' of served with Sunday dinner in a country hotel seems safe for the duration The burden of fastidious judgment is that north Africa is not the best ventilated of spots The removal of the axis may help I however Aren't we the people who back in 1930 swore we'd never —well hardly ever—buy another share of stock? ht - Perdita cries for a lover - y) I By Ham Park Hopper and I said I knew her well because we'd been in a show together years ago so toHarry Hedhad me indite a message da on the menu After I'd eaten so much that I practically had to be helpecr out of my chair we went back up to the room where Frank O'Brien of the state department of publitity and industrial development showed us some colored slides of the country around Kanab Moab and Monument valley The beauty of them was breath-takin- g Around there in all probability Harry will shoot his outdoor scenes of "Buffalo Bill" He'll spend nearly two million bucks and that my friends isn't hay in anybody's William Wellman language dione of Hollywood's rectors will be in charge and Joel McCrea will essay the title role Harry might even give me a "thinking" part I could do with a vacation not having had one for a couple of years red-blood- the children to give their ideas axis prisoners in the United States and Canada the large majority being German as soon as they can be transported from Tunisia The British are turning over theirs to us since it is easier to feed them on this side of the Atlantic than to send food to Britain for them Our treatment of them will be strictly in conformity with the Geneva convention We shall put the private soldiers to work On army rations they will be better fed than they have been In this war better than many of them have ever been fed Aside from being supplied board and lodging they will be paid 10 cents a day as spending money Canteens will be set up where they can buy cigarets and little luxuries such as there are for American prisoners in Germany They will have the other reciprocal privileges through the International lied Cross They may write letters which will be forwarded to their relatives through Geneva and through which they may receive packages from home or any money In Geneva exchange Officer prisoners work only If they choose The idea that their pay will be the Bartle as that of relative rank of the United States or the Canadian army is mistaken In the United States officers will receive $35 to $45 a month The first batches of prisoners are already on the way across the Atlantic It will not be long There is before others start room for them on the return voyages of our transports Naturally they will not be employed in munitions plants or anywhere which allows them access to military information They will more than earn their keep in helping to relieve our labor shortage Many will help to harvest crops on either side F of the Canadian border Our chemical warfare service and our scientists have not been idle neither in defensive nor All our offensive preparations soldiers are provided with the latest in gas masks Chemically treated clothing can resist mustard gas and the areas with which it is siturated can be chemically decontaminated Beyond this a block-bustbomb can scatter a lot of mustard gas and smaller bombs their share to burn people struggling amid the wreckage from regular bomb explosions Hitler had better think twice before he inaugurateschemical warfare as a desperate measure We shall have close to 200000 I Folly moans with an aching tooth Thus the world is ever balanced "rwixt the sorrows of age and —Anon youth Notes on the Cuff Department It never rains but it pours Portunato Anse Imo phoned to invite me to dinner but I had already accepted Joe Casella's Then Leon Stanley invitation asked me to lunch I had to refuse because Joe had specifically insisted that I refrain from eating so that I would be in shape for his repast When I think of the meager and lonesome snacks I indulged in last week I become almost morose We were speaking of bowling a game which I do not play and know very little about but Lawrence Nink wants to challenge Ralph Andersen to a bout or 'whatever you call it He offers to play Ralph and says he'll do it with his hands tied behind him and wearing a blindfold You don't suppose Larry could be bragging a bit do you? - side-dish- I 1 1 By Walter Lippmann A sound judgment on coming events is impossible in so far as we hold to the popular notion that because Italy is not one of the great military powers Italy is a ligible factor in the world war As a matter of fact Italy has played and still plays a critical role in the war against Japan as well as in the war against Germany The intervention of Italy coincided with the treachery of Marshal Petain Laval and Admiral Darlan in taking the French navy out of the war This compelled the British to concentrate a fleet in the Mediterranean and strained their naval power to such a degree that they have never had the ships which were necessary to attack Japan or even to oppose her We must never forget because it is essential to an understanding of the future that the capitulation of Pe' tam the intervention of Mussolini and the a all took Japanese seizure of were 1940 and June in part of one place grand strategical plan The campaigns of Rommel were based on Italy and would have been entirely impossible without the support of the Italian navy army and air force Though the in Italian army suffered inglorious reverses no the campaign against Greece there is doubt that without Italy the German conquest of Greece Yugoslavia and Crete and the occupation of the Balkans would have required forces that Hitler has used elsewhere Nor is there much doubt that Italian fascism has exercised great influence upon the menacing attitude of Spain by convincing the Spanish fascists that if all fascists do not hang together they will hang separately t - i i i 1 f t 1 E ' t 1 es In Washington a distinguOhed and busy solon still refuses to have anything to do with a dial phone On account one imagines of having a finger in other things "There's a knack to selecting the right gift" says the writer on a woman's page Some have it while others give the loveliest stocking boxes full of little empty compartments in wartime ' 1 i f I 1 ! t ' I I r r o Thus the victory 111Africa will not have been completed until Italy has been eliminated from the war By pinning down our forces and by holding against us the three peninsulas of the Mediterranean sea Mussolini is defending the outposts and the approaches to his German and Japanese allies Italy stands in the way of the full use of our air power against Germany Italy though a second class naval power still neutralizes enough of allied sea power to deprive us of the naval superiority which is necessary for offensive warfare against Japan Only when Mussolini's position is destroyed can the deciding phase of the global war begin This is evident without to be speculating upon how this is going encirdone whether by frontal assault by clement or by some other means to end Italian participation in the later chapters of the war Now that Rommers African army has been captured it is probable that the defense of Italy is largely in the hands of Italians They are supported by a German air force and by some troops here and there But contrary to the general impression there is reason to think that Italy is not occupied by a substantial German army If this information is correct then it is of the utmost importance that we cease to think of the Italians as mere pawns under Hitler's control that we cease to make fun of them cease to asperse their courage and their fighting capacity and that we address ourselves seriously to the problems of ending the Italian war quickly and at the least cost Statesmanship Needed - These problems are not in the narrow and literal sense only military And even at the military'1evel it is clear that they call not only for strategists tacticians and the planning of supply but also for what we may call military statesmanship The clue to what this means was given in Tunisia when the Italian commander in chief asked that he be allowed to surrender to the Eighth army—that is to say to the famous army which has conquered the Italian empire Marshal Messe's feelings on this point of honor are entitled to respect and us they are highly instructive They teach that in dealing with the Italian army we are dealing with men who will bow to defeat If they are able to feel that they have done their duty as soldiers and that their soldier's honor is intact We shall do well to remember this when we come finally to grips with the Italians It is clear enough also it would seem that after the defeat in honorable battle the task of dealing with the Italian nation will be simpler if we make it clear that the consequence of unconditional surrender is that Italy will be placed under an allied and purely military government Italy is an enemy country and therefore nothing that was done in French north Africa is a model or a precedent The Italians will respect more readily and will be governed more easily by the general who has defeated them in battle : I' f I t I t i I t 1 f i t I r Christopher Billopp Says: "Well Jones I saw you hoeing in your My garden so I thought I'd come over learn you have a nice layout! How did you to do all this? "You are far more advanced than I are beautiful onions You must have got your sets in very early Mine haven't come to anything at all And your lettuce Mine is not much more is magnificent than out of the ground Bow "You're still cutting asparsg-usdo you manage to keep your bed in such good shape? Mine always look!' undernourished and I never get quite enough for the table Are those radishes? You have a nice mess of them haven't you? "It just shows what a real gardener can do I'm afraid my talents don't run in that line What is that? You are digging those onions for me? Why you can't spare them You'll need them all for your family Say you've given me far too many! Mary will be delighted when she sees these "Look here now Don't pull up those radishes for me I'll tell you right now I am not going to take all that lettuce Why we couldn't use that much in a week "Please don't cut your asparagus You've embarrassed me enough already How can I ever pay you back for all this? It's more than I can carry I'll have to go home and get the wheelbarrow You are far too generous for your own good "Oh honey! Hurry up and come on down I want to show you something What do you think of that layout! Onions lettuce asparagus radishes! That's not bad for an afternoon's work is it? "By the way I understand Brown has a wonderful garden I think I'll stop by his place tomorrow and see how he's getting am-Tho- se I ? $ I I f - I along" ) I I 4 ' p - - —AW!!s r - Must Eliminate Italy - - 1‘ 4 I'''''711 s Ae :: f"10!--i'- :' t- ‘ - ' 6'L'- It: : -: 'e$'r l'i Y: 1) - A A' - 340:4s!?'-: 4 - 1 4- '''- f'':- 1 i :1 11:41 1: r:t ' 6 1 ! i - ' ' I : ' i I : - ' l t i ' '1'-'- - 1 Indo-Chin- :::4 A ' 1 t s t ?r4::7--' ' '“' ''4 z1I'PJ:7::::Te--r-7p-0- ! '''-- tT ) - t': No' 1:: '::02:01ratal k N1 VP 100' - 7' - 11 : ' ' :: sr 1(7 '''''' i t ' ::: '''44' 1 :: 1- r i:- iI 7 N I-- t :t : 1'1'1' f " - k- ) 1I Lii::) I A 1 H' 1''-:!tr:--- 1 7:: ) 44 1 c 0 rC441 4 t' ! A'r kr " w ' ' ::: t r pINgt ' '''': ::22:itx''c:i'1r i's::s1i10-?iis- !k"- t l ' 4 :' i: ' 74voo' '' S!: - ''' - f :to AC- ' " 7'''-- t' :: : t!'iin rs ':'"'--' ' i1 - ) k " : '':::'!'ivL- A teacher in a country school was trying to impress on the minds of the small evacuees the meaning of A R P He asked Quote x7:ç Nriintoo) ' Perfect Description I 4 :1 !011::'1t4 rd Asked what is necessary to win a court case an English judge according to Francis L Wellman replied: "First you need a good case then you need good evidence then you need good witnesses then you need a good jury and then you need good luck"— 4:i ' 1 (":: 1 :: 441 fast-movi- 24-sto- ry Vk A )4-- : bombing attacks on Germany must first conclude this current phase of blasting railroad communications far back from the coast engaging the luftwaffe daily knocking out whatever combat planes they can and destroying the German centers of airplane production Then it can hammer the fortifications on the coast as an immediate prelude to a landing When you hear of German batteries along the coast catching this rain of explosives you will know invasion is nigh (Distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc Reproduction in whole or in part strictly prohibited) New York Highlights t 4 Ars't ge long-rang- tr - long-distan- ce Anglo-America- (kifey I - 0 67 r1- $ - The you FIGHTING 7 op i FoR J' it:iff?::::11:5' - n Lii-- 1 ib:r ARE y ri 1! - one-thi- Ai' War's Strategy Calls for Defeat of Italy Manning —By r 4 - :7e:-440- - s 4re - radio - I :1- - But what about feeding the world? Well we must be patient until some decision' has been made and then the conference leaders will tell the soldiers and the soldiers will tell the reporters and the reporters will tell us Or maybe they will all "tell it to the marines' I uestion ar ttt$-74- :yri-- i- commentators have been reportn ing the intensified bombing of western Europe as a "prelude to invasion" causing people to run to the front door for their paper each day to see iftit has started The air and press simultaneously have been filled naturally enough with speculation suggesting a direct immediate drive through Holland into the heart of Germany or a flanking invasion through Italy or Norway or both simultaneously It all depends on one factor— planes If Hitler has a formidable Air force available in western Europe an invasion cannot be successfully attempted until that air force is beaten The same factor applies everywhere We can go wherever we can get superiority in the air—and nowhere else Nazi Air Strength The latest authentic reports suggest Hitler has about 6500 actual fighting planes a still formidable number About of them (something over 2000 planes) are sunpposed to be on the Russian front and will have to remain there for the possibly forthcoming drives and Leningrad against Moscow claim to have deThe Russians ' stroyed 1300 planes in the last two weeks If they did they have decimated nazi air power on their front but Russian reports are always so enthusiastic that none of our miltiary decisions are likely to be based on what Stalin gives out in his newspaper Hitler's production according to the most trustworthy available data is now running about 1200 to 1600 planes a month just about half of his a peak of month) plane production (2500 1941 and reached in the fall of continuing for some months thereafter His replacements therefore are coming slowly and painfully but not inconsiderably None are being wasted by the worried fuehrer against us on the southern front The air opposition we have run into in the southern part of Sicily Italy and Sardinia has been very weak While rumors have appeared that the nazis have withdrawn ground forces back behind the Alps the latest checks indicate Hitler has not had many troops in Italy His controls there lately have been maintained mostly by gestapo leaders and industrial plant managers He would be in a desperate condition indeed if he intended to let us get Italy without fighting and acquire air bases there with which to bomb all Germany Put all these authentic reports of the air situation together and you must conclude we already have air superiority over southern Italy Sicily and Sardinia but will have a fight on our hands yet to acquire it over Holland Belgium or France Feasible Spots Invasion of Italy therefore seems feasible the northwest European coastline still difficult Norway would be much easier Th e S e current intensified bombings of Germany are therefore only preludes to invasion Heavy bombers it is true are used as artillery in a prelude to attack Two months before Tunisia collapsed our bombers blasted Naples and the Sicilian ports destroying shipping and then for the final push drew in to hammer the German fighting line in north Africa The long-ranbombing comes first then short range no great problem NEW YORK—A dynamo is frail and lazy unreliable and erratic compared with white-haired slim Mrs L Victor Weil horsewoman war philanthropist worker patron of the arts I have just spent an afternoon with her and I'm fit for a good long vacation At Long Branch N J Mrs Weil has 20 show horses in which she has invested a trifle less than $100000 She took on show horses and horse shows as a hobby six years ago as a means of recuperating from serious illness She does her own driving at the shows and a great deal of other driving too In her home which is the top floor of a apartment house which she built and owns in Central Park South she has a large room filled with ribbons and cups and platters won by her horses in shows all over the 'United States My seeing Mrs Weil had to do with Lebanon hospital yesterday I had been hearing about this latest and most marvelous New fork hospital wholly built since the war started and wanted to have a look at before it opens for public service I heardit that Mrs Weil was the person to see and presently learned that she is indeed She built it She took me first to the old Lebanon It occupies a building mostly frame' construction that is over a century old I agreed with the lady that it is about time abandon the old plant The less said about it the better Tico-Doll- ift'7tVPf!?4 Anglo-America- Chamber Secretary al ppe al ppea l ppeal nt The Behind the Scene of Current News :sj '?!"!?1!-- - |