Show Salt £ak ZThc Sunday Morning Tribune- March 14 1943 A - 17 Week's Review of International Picture -- More people art willing: to concede this week that the war may not be terminated as quickly as some had optimistically hoped There has been a resurgence of German power In Russia ' The Japanese have be grin a dangerous offensive in central China The morale' of the Italian troops te Tunisia is better than it ever was in Egypt or Libya Axis and allied propaganda has impressed upon the aggressors that they are fighting for their very existence in a world in which their methods are to be taboo if they lose We can expect them to wage a determined fight with all the terrible weap ons they can conceive as long as there is hope of their wincing Whereas there was some talk of the war being over in 1844 the timetable is being reviled upward again— one year and a half to defeat Germany and after that another two air-forc- Eden Visit Makes Week's Top News In Tunisia there hai been a brightening of the situation within the week Rommel and his "expendables" are fighting themselves out in the desert Their violent attacks from one end of the long line to the other cannot hope to achieve anything but delay in the inevitable allied offensive Rommel cannot hope to break out of his narrowing pocket Facing his northern flank Is the British First army by American strongly reinforced troops In the center are the French and the main body of while the American troops French hold the allied line in the and the British iiouthwest to Eighth army stands ready strike in the southeast At Rom- There is no evidence that bombed cities have long been deprived of their public utilities or that the morale of the workers has begun to crumble Hitler's citadel has been dented but it is far from destroyed Unless attacks from the air can be greatly intensified the Hitler-reic- h will have to be mel's back is the sea Overhead allied planes hold almost complete control of the sky When the Brtish imperials move against the Mareth line that -- By George Gallup- By George Gallup Director American Institute of Public Opinion PRINCETON N J March 13 — A year's experience with "war time" in this country has modified public opinion considerably toward having clocks an hour ahead Across the nation today fewer people look with favor upon war time than did o in January 1942 just before legislation was passed moving the clocks ahead an hour in the interests of industrial production programs Perhaps more important farm opposition to war time has mounted sharply as compared to last year This shift in public sentiment concerning war time takes on added importance in view of the increasing concern over food deproduction schedules The conpartment of agriculture or gress may want to appoint a special group to investigate how much war time has hurt farm production if any as against its benefits if any to industrial production The Institute took the issue to the American people in a nationwide survey at the suggestion of Cole Representative Williama Cresoluof Missouri who haa tion in the house calling for a return to standard time Here is the question which field reporters for the Institute n of the put to a prisals The French are organized Northern France has become alive with a fighting force that may number 25000 men The'se-cr"Committee of Five" is operating according to well-lai- d plans German trains are being derailed hundreds of German soldiers are being shot and the underground movement with et cross-sectio- ""SUM D as I If y x V 4 Make March month to march a your cheering pnowgir Man cheer your "Marching x Jfor PHOTOGWH A P 0lx I I A I All DlYMS UH far-reachi- America Eden also is expected to talk about world food problems postwar rehabilitation the delicate French political situa- -- tlon and relations with Russia More than a month ago it became known in London that Secretary Eden was planning toa trip to the United States tackle the many political problems which the Casablanca conference had left unsolved Casablanca was a meeting of military minds Since then much disquieting friction has developed in the political field The allies are united in wanting to see the axis powers defeated but they do not see politically and economically on the type of world they hope to achieve when they defeat the axis Until they have laid some groundwork for eye-to-e- political and economic as well seas military collaboration rious disagreements cannot be avoided Anthony Eden's visit may draw the United States into the vortex of new political agreements which must be achieved if there is any permanent good to come out of this on yellow t - 3 -- " - - § war" Such poetry he said that day would come from men under 30 "I haven't been in it" he said of the war "I won't have had the experience to write about it" I Stephen Vincent Benet who won fame 1 $ and coveted writers' prize NEW YORK March 13 UP) with his Stephen Vincent Benet 4i poet and writer who used some of the fire- and brimstone of his short "John Brown's j'Z I - Webstory "The Devil and Daniel on behalf of the war effort Body" In 1929 died Saturday at his Manhattan died Saturday home He had been ill several days and He had been ' suffered a heart attack Friday night Funeral services will be held ill few only Monday Son of an army colonel grandson of a brigadier general for days Among whom he was named the writer other well-knowas a member of a noted family which in this feneration flowered into literature Both he and his writings brother William Rose Benet had which was won Pulitzer prizes for their poetry Their sister Miss Laura filmed was Benet is also known as a poet Benet's wife the former Rose"The Devil mary Carr Is also a writer "John Brown's Body" a long and Daniel narrative poem for which he won the Pulitzer prize for poetry in Webster" 1929 is one of his best known - " ster" U si - 5 ' ' - Jf STOCKTON Cal March 13 VPt The navy rescue vessel U S S described by the navy as fcj Anchor one of the largest ships constructport was 1 ed at this inland launched from the Colberg shiptoday Sponsor was Mrs Hat-ti- e 1 yardStevenson chosen by the secretary of the navy to christen the "f ship in recognition of her two sons now on active duty as officers at m " m ass ' " -J U S Launches Big Rescue Craft -- fi r - M zip - -- J - " - i "!" sa I wn works Benet was working on another long historical poem "Western Star when the war started He abandoned printed poetry principally to do radio scripts Notable broadcasts he wrote included a series titled "Dear Adolf" "Your Army" "A Time to Reap" last presented Thanksgiving Books" which throughout the Tooth for Paul Raymond Mas-se- y "A Child Is Born" presented last Christmas day by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne He was working on an Easter program He wrote the prayer read by President Roosevelt at a united "They Burned the has been repeated United States "A Revere" in which starred and Man Power Problem Irks Industrialist's Wife SOUTH BEND Ind March 13 (UP) — Mrs Paul G Hoffman wife of the president of the Stude-bak- er corporation complained Saturday night that the man " 1 problem was far from Mrs Hoffman has hired three cooks who euit in rapid suc cession to take jobs in a war plant — that's right in the Studebaker power solved l - I ' I ' corporation nations day celebration at the White House last June 14 When he started writing for radio Benet already was well established as a writer and poet by virtue of a series of published works that began appearing when he was 17 and a freshman at Yale In the summers he and his wife and their three children Stephanie Rachael and Thomas Carr Benet lived in their house in Stonington Conn where James Whistler had lived as a boy Here in a tiny bare third-stor- y room his feet propped up on another chair Benet would write MATHEMATICS FOR ENGINEERS TUESDAY MARCH 16 7 P M Civil Engineering Building University ef Uteh Camess TUITION FREE For information en this class or other engineering managemest science war training classes write or call Dean ef Mines esd Engineering School University of Utah Salt Lake City people throughout the country: "A resolution m congress caui for a return to standard time If the throughout the nation in this question were voted on returnstate would you vote for ing to standard time or staying on war time?" The results: Favor remaining" on war 44 time Favor return to standard HOURS 10 f M 42 time 14 No opinion These findings are contrasted to the January 1942 study when 57 per cent of those questioned favored war time 30 per cent opposed and 13 per cent had no opinion on the question While sentiment is today evenly divided for the whole country on the issue the farmers are now overwhelmingly opposed to war time Last year 45 per cent of them favored staying on standard time 36 per cent were willing to go on war time and 19 per cent had no opinions Following Is a table showing present farm sentiment as contrasted to urban: Favor Favor War Stand No Farm Time2S - Time Opln 66 11 Cities & Towns Under 15 46 39 10000 Cities & Towns Over 15 53 10000 The farmers according to reconports from field reporters cantend that their schedules not be readjusted to fit legislated tlms and that the advanced clock brings them only confusion and lowered productiveness War time lay advocates found strongest among younger people prefer the advanced clock because of the increased daylight which it affords for purposes of recreation Governor Foresees Roosevelt in '44 OKLAHOMA CITY March (Pi — Governor Robert S Kerr said Saturday that if the war was not over next year President Roosevelt would be "overwhelmingly indorsed for a fourth term by the Democrats of Oklahoma" "I would bt happy to help carry their desires into effect" he added He also predicted that Mr Roosevelt would be reelected The governor spoke in response to a question asked at his regular press conference He has been a staunch supporter of the president's policies Smelter Fire Fails To Halt Output VALLEJO Cal March 13 (JP — Fire burned for three hours Saturarea of day in the the big American Smelting and Refining company plant at Selby across Carquinez strait from here An area of about two city blocks was burned over but work at the vast smelter was not disturbed Officials of the company declined to estimate loss The smelter processed gold and silver ere for Nevada's Comstock Lode In the Bonanza era 1 'ill r if vf fay V S jooanigm -- fhx £- - copy paper on a board held in his lap Interviewed at Stonington last summer Benet said in his high voice peering through double-lens- ed glasses "I shall not writ a long narrative poem about this - 13 R Pulitzer Prize Winner Dies Of Brief Illness tin long hand Distinguished Career Ends War Time Foes Gain ed 1! should be the signal for a general allied push along the rest of the front Of more effect than the military action may be the visit of Anthony Eden to the United States The purpose of his visit definitely announced is to undertake a general exchange of views with the United States government on all aspects of the war situation and to discuss the most effective method of preparing for meetings between the governments of all united nations to consider questions arising out of the war The role of aviation in the postwar world Is expected to play an important part in discussions -growing ut of the Eden visit field In the friction has been developing between Britain and war Anglo-America- YEAR — SINCE nt war attack to break Hitler? So far the effectiveness of bombing has been limited German production of submarines continues to be greater than our sinkings On every front German armies continue to be well equipped and German industry formidable keeps turning out planes guns and other military equipment Including new and heavier tanks They have begun large-acal- e guerilla warfare On the surface it would appear that the German recruitment of French workers caused the resistance Actually the Germans may be attempting to do more than secure workers Fearing the 1943 Invasion of the continent by the allies the nazis may be clear ing the French mainland of all men so that they will have no "enemy behind them when the attack begins To keep the Germans from eliminating such important assistance the French underground movement may have ordered its followers to take up arms This" time there were no appeals from London to smother violence for fear of re- It pin-poi- land-sea-and-- hand f es forecast continent The French too are attemptn ing to force the Y ain can be stocked with more planes Russia can be given more air power north Africa could base enough planes to destroy Italian production Organization can be perfected so that bombing will continue night and day week after week without a letup Larger and heavier bombs "and bombers can be brought into play With a thousand planes a day American bombers can attacks undertake that will destroy the vital installations without which Germany cannot continue the war All these preparations may rewar quire too much time for theattenon the continent needs tion soon if the Russians are to continue & major factor in the m power bin and aucceeded In coming out with 25 new divisions of fresh troops which caught the Russians mudded down in the Ionets basin and drove them back 80 miles in some areas before they could reorganize their lines and their communications to meet the onslaught The Eonets and rot the Dnieper river may become the new line That means the reichswehr will be in a position to stage a new offensive in Russia this summer Nazis Base Hope On Rommel's Stand Is'azi strategists seem to have assumed that as long as Rommel holds in Tunisia there will be no invasion of the European continent The stabilization of the Tunisian front enabled the Germans to pay more attention to Russia Today the Russians are making a new appeal for the opening of a second front on the 4s taken the hard way However the power of allied air attacks can be more than doubled Brit- representatives in London is keeping the Fighting French informed to developments British and American planes are attacking night and day to gain control of the air over France and to cripple German production Views Both Sides Of Invasion Talk However the attacks of the past week would not indicate any immediate invasion Two weeks ago when the "allied were attempting to dewest coast port facilities stroy the attacks smacked of efforts preliminary to Invasion The bombings of Essen Nurnberg Munich and Stuttgart all vital production centers of every type of German war equipment indieffects cated that it is long-terthe allies are after These bombing attack bear watching Their achievement may whether bombing will determine I the outcome of the war Can Germany be so weakened that actual invasion will be a walkover or will it require millions of men high casualties and an extended years against Japan One month ago it was generally expected that the Russians would not be halted until they reached the Dnieper river Today the Germans are back in Kharkov with no indication that the Russians will be able to wage the same fight for the city that they staged fof Stalingrad The reichswehr still has a considerable body of troops fighting in the Caucasus Winter is rapidly melting into spring The naxis scoured their man able-bodi- By Arthur Gaeth- - Death Claims Noted Poet In N Y Home tiff V f : fM - v " I guess the mailman must be mad at us because he hasn't brought a letter since the day you went away And if he doesn't ring the doorbell soon I think my heart will break There isn't much to tell tonight except — since all my letters seem to go astray I've found another way to say 'I love you Last night I joined the Red Cross I'm not anybody there Just one more woman — cutting dressings rolling bandages packing Red Cross kits — hoping the men we love will never need them but hoping more that they aren't past the need I'll be a Staff Assistant before long Bill In a very military uniform I can hcaryou chuckle my darling I don't mind the extra hours To me time isn't measured by the ticking of a clock — it lags or races with the beating of my heart So time at work is short because I know that you would Have me very busy I can hear you say "Chin up and get on with i v I i :llo Bill Brady 'way out there y A i Bill Sv(ciy - i - 1 J I1 I ®r m the if job" Good night Bill Brady if The Red Cross is Out there shoulder-to-should- somewhere wiih our fighting er men from training camp to the front lines All over the world wherever it can reach it it" carrying relief supplies clothing and medicines to war victims In this second year of War the needs increase You can help with time and money March is th War Fund month y Siinrtn Give more this year —n Your Dollars help make possible the pi p3 K Li 'Keep Up the Homes We're Fighting For" Give More I his Year Willi T8 0 CAN UW AY s SHOP TO ADVANTAGE 9-mmLl--Lgiiluijg- u b A- - 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