Show - tke - 1 ' A - : 1 8 1 I : I T IT 1 b3e I till t ''""") C''' Volt cf°11) 1(111V I Established April ibniu Behind the I Scenes of Current News 7 15 1871 Issued every morning by Balt Lake Tribune Publishing' Comosn7 -- - i i Inside Axis Stories Hint Crueral Battles Ahead i '' ' 1 I ' 1 As soon as American news writers who bad been interned in Germany and Italy reached Lisbon they stiparted filing reams of copy: All of it is interesting and it is more authentic than anything they have been able to send out of these axis Uncountries while they were there trammeled by censors they tell their real impressions gained during their stays in the lands of Hitler and Mussolini It all seems to add up to this: neither Germany nor Italy is on the verge of internal collapse although the morale of the The en- peoples has suffered severely trance of the United States into the war against them and the collapse of the nazi ' 'RAZ in Russia havse been keen disappoint- German peo- rnelits to the victory-minde- d The spirit of hopelessness in Italy Tie has grown with defeats in Africa and the incrwed occupation of their country by tazi soldiers and the gestapo Unsettled monetary cernditions bother Germans although they have plenty to eat while the Italians are really suffering from lack of r I 11 - ' 1 1 0 I 1 1 I 1 J - i 1 1 I i i i 1 I I t i i i1 foodstuffs 1 : 1 1 I I t 4 1 I ' i 1 1 - 1 :' I the enemy apparently did not get within torpedo range of any troop transport We have not heard the whole thrilling story we may not hear it all until the war is over but the bare facts tell much It was a glorious achievement ' 2 1 Ford Bomber Plant Goes Into War Production Announcement of the start of operations at the Ford bomber factory near Detroit has been released by the army and while details about' the project are closely guarded military secrets it can be safely assumed that the publication l of them would bring little comfort to the Willow Run is the This at enemy factory largest airplane manufacturing plant in the world How 'many planes it will turn out a day is not to be told but the fact that Henry Ford and his experts are running ttie plant gives some hint as to its capacity These bombing planes will flow from the assembly lines of this typically American manufactory in an unceasing stream until the war ends in victory for the united nations and their might will be felt in all quarters of the I I : 1 ' Bootlegging of "food is prevalent in: c globe both countries despite dire threats of the a is It remarkable undertaking and governments Many Italians are begin-rin- g could be possible only in a country such to understand a face that has been as the United States where automobiles apparent to outsiders for Some tithe that have been built by the millions ' This whichever side wins they lose are plant is the dream of democratic industry said to be wishing for a victory ‘Some come true and will no doubt prove the nations as the lesser of two evils:- e of the totalitarians and their nightmare Not much is reported by these returnof efficiency boasts empty ing correspondents about Hitler's loss of is a remarkable man himFord Henry prestige ' in Germany after his last exself In the former world conflict he plaining speech but Mussolini has lost over a million dollars to spent something much because his people feel that he has etake a "peace ship" to Europe where he become a mere gauleiter for Hitler ' ' hoped that good will and decency would But ' to wishful thinkers here in prevail over the forces of evil and war America the reports' contain little enhe failed was perhaps due to his That couragement for an early end of the war mistaken idealism but it is interesting Italy as bad as things stand will last out to note in this war he has assumed that this year and possibly another according a more view realistic He has apparto Richard G Massock former Rome car- the that concluded ently best way to get respondent and Germany according to to is the peace beat daylights out of those writer Joseph W Grigg is prewho start and Spread war paring for the greatest war effort in its history Germans in high places admit that New York Highlights the coming summer and fall are the "now or never" seasons and that if Hitler fails to plow through Russian armies to the By Charles B Driscoll n e wheat and oil fields-withithe next few NEW YORK—The mailing machine in Grand Central terminal is a months he will face ultimate defeat plaything that I get a lot of fun out of There is a unanimity in all these reI've never aeen One elsewhere though I ports indicating thatthe next few months suppose there must be a great many of them will see the final outcome of the war dein the country You take your unstamped letter shove cided Observers do not believe that a the edge of the envelope into a certain Russian victory will end the conflict in groove turn a handle until the amount of Europe but they declare it will hasten postage you want to pay shows on a dial axis defeat by many months drop in that amount of money and whooey! The machine takes the letter right out of All these reports from inside the axis your hand stamps it with the correct and from other parts of the world indiamount and deposits it in a mailbox undereate that the united nations face this sumneath It's one of the smartest machines I've mer and fall the most critical period in handled since the early McCormick torn modern history On the efforts of axis binders that were the wonder of rural life foes depends the future of the world many years ago whether it is to be ruled by aggression Seeing one of those superhuman machines cutting the cornstalks and binding and oppression or by freedom of choice them into neat bundles my Irish father used ' and the four securities to exclaim "Sure they'll be flying in the air Our efforts to assist Russia in her life yet and you can have me ear if they don't!" The observation platform atop the Woolend death struggle must be redoubled worth building is closed until victory comes our industrial output must continue to go The tower gives a good view of lower forward our Offensive drives in all parts 'Manhattan and has been doing a fair busiof the world'must be pushed to the limit ness even since opening of the much higher end the bonds of unity among citizens of Empire State tower observatory But it's too close to the Brooklyn navy this country and between this nation and for comfort Those yellow boys with yard Its allies must be forged ever stronger telescopic cameras may have sneaked tmtil victory is attained bar during years through the recently past but the government is taking no chances with possibility of any more e-taking from that elevation Big things United Nations' Navies are afoot at the navy yard and the sukiyaki anti-came- ra pictur- - Perform Remarkable Feat ' Safe transportation of a huge army of American soldiers across the Atlantic and landing them in northern Ireland is - Li peddlers are not welcome Just a word to relatives of persons in New York especially to parents ofliving students and other young people who have recently come here Don't worry about air raids You have heard about the hurried migration of certain groups of New York families to the rural safety of the Connecticut hills since the war began It's true But these are timid souls In London which took one year of steady bombing and many more monthS of intermittent bombing almost everybody is still alive Released by McNaught Syndicate Inc Intrepid correspondents in the far east are performing miracles of journalism considering that the war there is as hard to follow as a blaze in a fireworks store time nears to settle on summer vacations if any and has anyone thought to ask Mars which two weeks he would like off this year? The A thoughtful editor in the prairie country prefers a cow to a saxophone because in addition to making the same noise it gives milk It instructions There is no doubt that the nazis knew :the convoy was on its way and there is to doubt that the word went out to get these troop ships at any cost but the szited nation5 were prepared for them and - of sly We wish H G Wells would tell us how all this is to turn out For a while we thought the uncertainty would be fun but only for a 'while Weather adviees tralia are that it from far-awa- y October already ness! How the time flies is AusGood- ' 1 ee-- s Czecho-Slovak- ia - '' - - r17 -: 1 t -- -71 "s- : te I ?)') 4t Os i - L0J-N:- ' v '')‘ I e ‘ 1 I I ' 'ill‘ ANat f)pe --- - : -- :'- - - - :- : : - ' '''s --- - : t ' e eeee' elee:iteeei eiV‘e'- - I I I Pe :11 1 X !"' - e-- I ) I - ef kY I et I - k11 gpi BURIAN SERvicE - - I s' Ii ' 17-- --- f :s - - 'e I I I (-- I ' ' - -RECr-tA ) 7 ANN INC : A4A By Our Readers and administration patronage has been freely used against him" We "American citizens" who disagree with the Roosevelt administration on its domestic policies will continue to oppose him but we will follow him tenaciously in this war with inour creasing taxes war bonds necsons' lives and our own if essary to perpetuate our constitution and flag They are the grandest things in this world ' and must be preserved at all costs from the foreign foe and I am sorry to say from been made Defends Policy Critics Editor Tribune: Elizabeth: didn't disprove my rubber stamp congress article but said I was What part of the forbids us as constitution "American citizens" from disagreeing with the administration? She should know because she has "memorized" it Doesn't she really understand that as "American citizens" we have been disagreeing for about 150 years including even war years? y Ours is a system with its resultant political discussions and elections She prates about the bill of rights and yet she would "shut me up" because I offered a constructive crit- icism That is not in the bill of That is in Germany rights and I am sorry to say in our administration to some extent1 They have tried to shut up Senator Byrd (D) and others foropposing their nonwar financial extravagance Frank Kent says: d "Attempts to build up an machine in his state have i two-part- some people at home L T T Editor Tribune: Some ask: "What are the aims of this war?" This war and the courses it will take is the last war' that will afflict humanity It is the 'battle of the great daya° This war is for the purpose of cleansing the earth preparatory to the coming of a better system It is not to save the 1 anti-Byr- 0- - - Senator From Sandpit By Ham Park ' - ' Fame is a vapor popularity an accident: riches take wings the only certainty is oblivion— Horace Greeley Muriel Bass of Ogden wrote us a letter in which she says that some of the statements made in this column are bewildering to say the least She was referring in particular to information I have given about Ham service in the navy Her Jr's son is headed for the navy air corps and she is interested Her chief criticism is of my navy 'lingo One time she points out I said that Ham Jr was in the navy air corps and then at an- -other time I mentioned his being in camp — and the navy doesn't have camps All right all right He's in the navy air corps At the Oak- land airport which is on land and he's been there nearly a month and in his last letter he said he hadn't been "ashore" He hasn't since he got there been anywhere else except ashore unless they've parked him out in the bay or the estuary What kind of language is that? And who's bewildered now? He sleeps in a building I'd' call a barracks but which instead of having floors has decks His time is regulated by bells which I understand start ringing at midnight and continue every half hour until the number 8 Then they has been reached start all over again His speed is figured by knots I just looked up the definition of a knot in Webster's It says: "A knot e is a division of a marked by pieces of cloth or knotted string at equal distances being 4733 feet when the line is used with a glass 5075 feet where the glass runs 30 seconds" What I want to know is—do they speak English in the navy? I'd like to feel that when my boy comes back home we can at least converse with one another And as for a speed gauge I'll stick to my old speedometer Imagine trying to tell how fast you were going with a knotted string or piece of cloth! If that wouldn't be bewildering I'd like to know what would! ' log-lin- Pungent Lines If you've got a choking feeling "monopoly gold crowd" but to destroy it It is not to continue the system of exploitation it is to do away with it It is not to further enslave nations but to make conditions that shall prohibit any kind of enslavement It is not to further enslave mankind but to make men free The system started in the days of Nebuchadnezzar which originated the gold standard and which has caused all woe poverty slavery and war Its days are numbered The warring nations unwittingly are its executioners and will be its pallbearers When the struggle ends at that moment war will receive its death blow and will never more afflict humanity With its ending will come also the ending of the nystema and institutions which have caused all wars Man has failed and now destiny has taken it into its itiviln hands I say to all despairing people the starving the sorrowing the imprisoned and the dying lift up your eyes and see economic salvation just beyond the dark hillcrests of 'A rmageddon and behold the glory of a redeemed humanity C N Lund - Cites War's Aim there's smell of musty hay Then you're absolutely certain that there's phosgene on the way But if it smells of bleaching powder this would surely mean That the gas you are meeting is most certainly chlorine If for garlic or for onions you think that you've a taste When in' war you meet them leave the area in haste For lIt's mustard and quite quickly your skin will start to blister And in hospital you'll be needing the attention of a Sister while geraniums And lastly look quite pleasant in a bed If their smell is Levisite you may quickly wish you're dead —From a London paper clipped and sent in by Frank W Knight Notes on the Cuff Department Mr and Mrs Jack Cummock have a garden and a dog The garden is fenced and the dog isn't allowed to run loose In the garden they had a small red white and blue windmill—but it disappeared the other morning Probably someone's dog admired it and wanted it for his kennel d child Surely no would have taken it and certainly no adult What do you and well-traine- - Discusses Ability - Editor Tribune: Yes our school teachers professors and editors are still teaching the phrase: "Rewards are according to brains and ability" It was about the year 1925 that a report on that subject was published According to that it took 15000 college professors to earn a gross income that equaled Henry Ford's net income My subject is: "Rewards According to Brains and Ability" There has evidently been a great improvement on the intelligence of the public in general and such financiers as Ford have been losing intelligence since the inauguration of the new deal Thus when we even up the rewarøs we also even up the brains and ability The pending Income tax legislation even threatens to make some of our college professors as smart as Mr Ford Now when we learn to refuse any one the right to own that which he does not use we will have reached almost as high a stage of intelligence as the Russian peasants have What is more we will be able to carry on the war for democracy quite successfully D C Grundvig Huntington Utah think? Success is the ability to get along with some people and ahead of some others There's a comeback to every argument: the trick is to think of one in time Off the Record With the two gallons of rationed gasoline one might better clean up last year's suit and take it for a walk on a Sunday afternoon How does anyone feel at this time about a film revival of "The Covered Wagon" or "Coast to Coast on No Tires"? Heroines in the comic strips are born young and stay that way But a wife on the daytime radio is a wreck at 25 The flow of photos out of Hitler Germany has dwindled since the declaration of war We had wondered about Goering and how he looks in the nazi equivalent of the zoot suit: France the land of costly and exquisite perfumes evens it up' nicely It also produced Laval 4 a n Using Enormous Forces Marshal Timoshenko has thrown enormous forces into the battle in the hope of overwhelming the Germans If he can prevent enemy reinforcements from being rushed in time he will capture Kharkov and thus make a serious dent in'-tGerman line of defense From all available reports it appears that the Germans have massed the- bulk of their reserves in the south The nazi high command has always considered that sector the "softest"- and most profitable field of operation The field marshals who are now running the retch with Hitler as standard bearer have realized from the beginning that the capture of Moscow and Leningrad would mean spectacular victories but from the military point of view they would mean relatively little The Russians' strong point has always been defense and the vastness of their country will permit them to withdraw toward the east dangerously lengthening the German lines of communication The southern front holds the prospect of tangible gain for the nazis for once the Germarui reach the Caucasus and its oil they also will be behind the allied armies in the near east The plan of campaign last fall provided for such an operation until Hitler upset the field marshal's apple' cart by ordering a political offensive in the center Hitler wanted to give his people a Christmas present in the form of captured Moscow In order to do this he ordered an offensive against the soviet capital and in his haste to get there before the really heavy winter set in he withdrew six divisions from the southern front He did not capture Moscow and made It impossible for Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt to continue the offensive against i comthe defeated forces of the Russian mander in the Ukraine at that time Field Marshal Semeon Budyenny This was Hitler's first great military fiasco and cost him a great deal of prestige with his military leaders While the German military commanders — almost all Junkers of the old school—conceded the little Austrian certain "military and strategic Instincts" the failure of his operation against Moscow placed him in a delicate position with respect to military men P I 1 1 ' : - Lost Positions Regained The positions lost last winter becautse - the southern army was weakened have now been retaken The cost was heavy both in men and war material But at the present time it is the nazi high command composed of professional soldiers which directs the strategy of the reich's armies Hitler merely puts his stamp of approval on whatever the general staff decides to do Success or failure of the German operations against the Caucasus depends entirely on what Marshal Timoshenko can do If he should succeed in breakNng through the Kharkov front by smashing up the powerful nazi lines of defense there it is likely that the Germans will have to slow down their operations on the Caucasian border and revise their strategy once more The fact that the Russians withhold from their allies everything but what they release in their optimistic communiques is not considered here as reducing the likelihood that their operations are successful Christopher'Billopp Says - A family I party is one at Which members of the family and their spouses assertble from far and wide unto the fourth and fifth generation and partake of food and talk alout family You find yourself beside a frightened young thing who recently has married into the family and you look at her fiercely and insist that whether she likes it or not it is now your turn to tell her the relationship that exists between you So she married Jim? Very well then That is quite simple Jim's was your You give her time to let that brother fact burn Itself into her memory Important JiTYCII having been your brother it follows logically that your grandmother and Jim's grandmother were first cousins You offer her salted nuts as she makes a mental note of that You take a large mouthful of chicken croquette and as it proceeds on its way down the alimentary canal you hasten to explain that since your grandmother and were first cousins Jim's then of course your mother and Jim's grandfather were second cousins And since your mother and Jim's grandfather were second cousins it is as plain as a pikestaff that you and Jiin's father are third cousins Therefore you arrive at the vital conclusion that you are Jim's third cousin once removed and her cousin once removed by marriage ' The poor child you note looks more frightened than ever and yoti wonder if had she known what she was getting into she would ever have had the courage to marry Jim great-grandfather- - 's er great-grandfathe- great-grandmoth- rs er S i SI - er A certain business man who has been taking golf lessons from Torn Mc- -Hugh asked him if his garne was improving "Well" said Tom "it's not getting any worse or any better It's just getting queerer"' w I f e's A friend of crumpled a fender getting the car out of the garage She went to a mechanic and said: Can you repair this fender so that my husband won't know it has been bent?" The mechanic looked at the bent fender and then said: "Nope But I can fix it up so that in a couple of days you can ask your husband how he bent it" r - - ‘ ' The Public Forum' " :- I y ' I or - I A 'Iff I 1 - 4 !'40172- ' nazi-Flungari- an ENTRJNci 1 4 I ) - !t' :4 : r t' 'i' Ythl''44 - It ! - - e:6 - e eet 44'" - 7 GAZITTESV!DICe14JpArtd:11 ee - K A vsy see! -- 1 :'' :' ' ' '''''' '40 :- t e: : --- -o ee' e: i I '::!- - - ' -t '‘-- :1 141"" 2 V-- ' 1 12::: e e-- '' f db s' 1 'r i''4 r ---- ' e e! 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(tv 4 4 TA 4 1 kst oeoj eee 7 s ei a - ' : - ell ises- e iii 411 :4 ::::1:::-- k - ' y 1?-'' ': l':::! iAo47 2:- r Sn'i ee ‘ Czecho-Slovaki- ' i ' -1 v:" self-defeati- st ' -- gri!IeireH i rumors to lull their foes into false sense of security Clever nazi attacks on the psychologica l front have always been divided into two categories:: (I) For home consumption (2) for foreign effect Goebbels customarily tells the home folks all is well with the world conquest and passes to outside nations such familiar ' stories as the one that Hitler wants no more territory that he would not attack Russia a Austria that the Maginot line was impregnable—adding a little contraiy confusionnow and then to cover his purpose The thing 'to remember about all these rumors is that the only places in the wokld they are not being freely circulated- are in Germany and Italy: Goebbels well knows it is human nature for individuals to believe what they wish ' to believe even if it comes to them in the form of rumors ' Adopt Wise Polley Officialdom here is naturally unable to track down all the rumors to their source and show them to be untrue But most officials have adopted the wise policy of paying no attention to them The fact is whether true or untrue they should not make the slightest difference to us in our war purposes They cannot be helpful so we should neither believe nor disbelieve them but just refuse to accept them until they have backing of authority just forget them let them go They are simply worthless and should be treated as such The current flock of intangible tales started after Hitler's last speech All kinds of stories developed telling ot unrest in President Benes of Germany was quoted as saying Hitler's speech was a forerunner of a nazi attempt to secure a stalemate peace Our papers of April 28 carried several such stories One from Berne expected a purge in Germany One from Washington said Hitler was desperate and had broken with the high command A few days later came the Victor Emmanuel story and hardly a day has passed since without some similar story the latest ones concerning a nazi attempt to kidnap Mussolini and the possibility that Von Brauchitsch had gone to a sanatorium after a breakdown Before that came yarns from Buenos Aires that King Victor had dismissed Mussolini that il duce had permitted rumors that he would sell to the highest bidder From Ankara came the story that germs of revolt were spreading in the German army etc a 17s it 0e4- - Coo le eee - 4' 4 'Mitt ail i 1 l'‘----r- '?i- I 4 r--- - - - 1 As tf 2 ' A )7 last legs Without a single exception they all serve to sponsor the notion that the end of the war is near and therefore they imply that foes of the axis need not break their necks hurrying their production or hastening to the battlefront Pure Nazi Propaganda That is enough to make anyone cast them aside immediately with the suspicion that they are nazi propaganda designed solely to undermine our war effort Take that rumor about GoerIing and Ciano going to Lisbon There are fairly good grounds for believing Goering's influence has truly declined since his air force lost the battle of Britain and that Iiimmler has edged him out of his position as official heir apparent to der fuehrer Goering is primarily an army man and flier while Himmler' as head of the secret police has control of politics in the nazi party But if Goering is out as the rumors say he could not go to Lisbon as an emissary of the German government or intact of anyone except himself He would merely be another Hess The rumor therefore does not even carry its own weight The nazi scheme of propa- has always included the gcinda of - ' i : t000' le e i e ee - d 0 P : - ? !ee1 --- 'N 1 ' fl 17ei441:: T I re'e ft ! tr - s' r: 0 ':- f - '21 s17:-- 1 ?4 ‘ !: 'IT' --1 - :"'e I The only thing similar about all these taies is their purpose They all create an impression that the axis is wobbling on its ' 1 ' t' : sl ti 1 ket e them" mass-producti- fool-pro- : - one knows where these stories come from They generally appear in print as radio reports reaching Moscow or London from Berne or Istanbul Never is any authority given Usually London and Moscow pass them along with smiling doubt as if to say: "We don't believe them either but there might be something in ' - DooRE 7 r- 1 THE oPEP4 Mussolini Now no ex-Berl- in ' Al4 -- NA ut -- I ' e'fi:i s 1 1 ir' 4t '' : ti1----- ? ric INaii War Lords A n d Not Hitler Direct Russ Fight 1lailitttig le —By Zr7 I WASHINGTON May 18—A plague of rumors is flying out of Europe Typical is the one that Hitler fias banished Goering who is going to Lisbon with Count Ciano to negotiate a peaCe through the British ambassado there This unbacked tale has many ramifications one that the Italian ambassador in Spain has been whispering sweet sell-oterms on the side to the British diplomat Sir Samual HoareEm-at the instance of King Victor manuel who is supposed to be plotting a coup to decapitate Salt Lake City Utah Wedn esday Morning May 20 1942 ' May 20 1912 - Revolving Door I By Paul Mallon is a member of the Msociated Presa The associated Press is exclusively entitled to tbs for reproduczlon of an iaews dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local newt published herein rbe Tribune albs 5nit ake Zribunt Zile :Wedneiday Morning i |