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Show THp RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH RlfcH COUNTY REAPER Entred m wmnd cine matter Feb. 8, 1929, at the Post Office, Randolph. Utah, under the THE Act of March 3, 1879. Wm. E. Marshall, Bniinew Manacer 1.51 Per Year in Advance. SUBSCRIPTION Layton Marshall, Editor and Proprietor WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS STRIKES: Hold Attention By Edward C. Wayne My youthful hopes New Violence in Nazi Aerial Blitz1 die beceuse Though I attain them never rn wrep them in . immortal verse And thus theyll live forever. cfcivt Aimed to Cripple British Shipping; Destroyer Lanes Across Atlantic Convoys Urged to Replace Hard-Hi- t BRIDGE FAN THE CHEERFUL CHERUB (EDITORS NOTE When pinions are expressed In these eolnmns, they are those of the news analyst and not neeessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union, i & WNU Service. wife is a I understand your bridge fiend., Yes, her favorite poem is I staid up at the bridge till midnight! DON'T BE BOSSED Here are some of the pickets which surrounded the Harvill Aircraft Die Casting corporation plant early in the labor dispute there. FATHER KNOWS See Below Mother, do you think father knows Harry is going to call for me in his airplane? O, I think so, dear. Hes been hanging around the skylight with a club all afternoon. HARD COAL Pops, why do they call it hard coal? Because, Tommy, its not only hard in itself, but hard to get and harder still to pay for. OBJECTION OVERRULED Auntie So, your young man makes plenty of money but hes a windowdresser you say? Niece Yes, auntie what of that? Auntie What o that? Hes one o these immodest fellows that always forget to pull down the blinds I suppose! HAPPY MARRIAGE Their marriage seems to have turned out well, after all. Yes. You see, they both belong to several clubs and dont meet often enough to get tired of each other." SAVED MONEY Hailed by some experts as one of the really great military exploits of all time has been the sweep of the British forces against the Italians in Africa. Shown here with two of his aides is the British commanding general, Sir Archibald Wavell, (center). General OConnor of the British forces is shown at left and Australias General Mackay at right. Real test of Wavells military genius would come if his troops should clash with Hitlers in the Balkans. CONVOY: AERIAL: Blitz Grows Or Lanes? Britain was sticking to the convoy Nazi Germany brought out its heaviest air blitzkrieg, perhaps as system, while American shipping exa workup of an invasion atperts suggested abandoning it, and tempt, and the results were not too substituting the lane protection happy, as far as the British defense system, which seemed full of typical' Yankee ingenuity. was concerned. The Great Circle route, about 2,000 The first three days of the main attack were directed at London, Liv- miles long, according to this project, was to be patrolled with at least erpool and Bristol, and while the 50 destroyers, each of them given damage was heavy, and casualties 50 miles to patrol 10 times a day. British aerial correspondingly high, would That mean that every 2.4 leaders were jubilant over the fact that 30 German attackers were shot hours a destroyer would pass any down, and gave the credit to vthe given spot in the lane, and with a g air arm, the anti- constant lookout, should be able to new spot enemy submarines. aircraft batteries, and a The plan would be putting 40 deweapon. on the lane, with 10 allowed This latter, it was later explained, stroyers to in be port refueling and getting ft consisted of some sort of supplies. of shell which contained coils were these not only wire, which unwound when the shell a Advantages lookout better and more warship exploded with lethal effect on enefor protection purposes, but strength my planes. a much more efficient use of ships. However, later news was not so For under the convoy system, if 40 favorable. The opening attack was are ships gathered together, the followed by another terrific blast at of the fastest is the speed of speed one a and third at Glasgow Bristol, the slowest. at Hull. The Traffic Lane Plan The first two cities, in a single would proposedthe faster vessels to permit night, reported around 1,000 casual- move at top speed from one side of ties, and the blast at Hull was re- the 'Atlantic to the other, permitting ported to have been even more se- them to take many more loads, in vere. The British apparently figured the long run. They would sail from that they might as well abandon to destroyer, and it would destroyer any attempt to disguise the towns be the latters duty to keep the lane attacked, at least in news dis- clear of enemy raiders. patches. And the present great hazard, of At first they would simply desigg veslumping 40 or 50 nate the town as a northeast town for a mass target, sels together or a town in the Midlands.. or a would be removed. southeast town, and then, within minutes, the German releases Plan Debated would be out with the name of the As an interesting background for city, and what observers reported this very question of convoys, and from there. how they ought to be conducted, This British reticence continued Washington debated the statement up to and including all the attacks of the Committee to Defend America except that on Hull. In this case, by Aiding the Allies, chief advoa cate of the lease-len- d the morning dispatches said bill, urging southeastern port town, but the aft- that the U. S. provide guards for ernoon papers were able to carry convoys. . the story under a direct Hull dateThe President, conferring with the line. press, dismissed the question, sayIt was apparent that Hitlers air- ing there had been some reports to men were not trying day attacks, that effect, but that he had paid no being satisfied with heavy night attention to them. bombings in large force. However, in view of the CommiOne after another they were tryttees action, it was believed that the President was more interested than ing to knock various British provincial cities out of the picture. Charts he was willing to admit. British auwere being printed showing it was thorities, also, it was learned, were costing Hitler an estimated $43,000 expecting the United States to do to kill each civilian slain in air- something along this line. It was recalled that the British bombing. Britain published her losses since naval leaders had said that they the start of, the war at 25,000. had men enough on hand to man the The ominous character of the entire U. S. navy, if'necessary, and raids on Bristol, Glasgow and Hull this was taken to mean that Britain were that although the German raid- was prepared for a lease-len- d of ers came over in large numbers, more naval vessels. There were two possible plans bejudging by the weight of bombs dropped, in two nights the total Briting discussed: 1. The transfer of more destroyers ish claims of bombers shot down was exactly two. and possibly cruisers to Britain so Prior to this attack, British com- they could be assigned to convoy mentators had been proudly saying service. 2. An extension of the neutrality an estimated 3 per cent of the bombers were being shot down, and that zone further into the North Atlantic if this figure could be raised to 10, to keep the Nazi warships away furthen the German air force could not ther, andor to permit U. S.- naval vessels to patrol those areas and stand the strain. Those observers who saw in the release the British ships for the heavy blitz from the air a prelude more distant patrol duty. The navy department transmitted to an invasion attempt, while they were numerous, ranged all the way to ship operators the news, sent to from any day advocates to one the U. S. by Churchill, that Nazi high Japanese official, who, at 10,000 raiders and submarines were operd meridimile distance, blandly announced ating inside the of some of which an is on longitude, would the land Germans that within the present neutrality1 zone. British soil in a matter of hours. night-fightin- anti-aircra- - slow-movin- , suppose you tried to save every penny when you started in business? I did more than that. I rescued a lot that other people were squan1 dering. AUTO GRADUATE - - Jones tells me he has been graduated from an automobile school. Yes; he feelingly refers to it as alma motor. forty-secon- Two strikes, one big in volume and the other involving only 423 men, but holding a vast menace to plane building, held the attention of those in charge of production management. The big strike was at the $5,900,000 construction project at Wright field, Dayton, Ohio, huge testing ground for army airplanes. The strikers were refusing to negotiate, saying well go back to work as soon as they chase those other fellows, (nonunion members) off. This was a strike of the A. F. of L. building trades unions of Dayton. It seemed, to the public, a picayune matter. The work of thousands was being held up by 400 A. F. of L. men, who objected because an electrical subcontractor put 4 C.I.O. men to work. The contract of the electrical subcontractor was held up, and the men went back to work. The contract finally was reinstated, and out went the men again. There was talk at this point of the government taking over. The other strike was that of the Harvill manufacturing company, an organization headed by a former soda jerker who invented a process for .casting airplane parts from aluminum and magnesium, light metals. Harvills plant, employing only 423, makes parts for practically every big plane manufacturer on the Pacific coast, including such giants as Boeing and Lockheed, Douglas and Vultee, Vega and North Amer- ican. The men were asking raises from 50 to 75 cents an hour, and the strike, according to Harvill himself, was threatening plane factory shutdowns that would throw 60, 000. out of work and would jeopardize the construction of thousands of war- planes. This the workers denied, saying that the factory was well ahead of the needs of the other plants. Here, too, the government and the defense administration were looking with an anxious eye, wondering how far to go to break the walkout. TURKEY: Green Light? The Bulgar-Gree- k front continued to teeter on the brink of war, and observers were interested to hear through grapevine channels that Soviet Russia had given Turkey the green light to go ahead and defy Germany. Whether this was wishful thinking or not, many of those on the scene considered it was sound politics and even sounder diplomacy. They harked back to the old statement, which has been held to since the beginning of the war, that Russias long-ranpolicy would be that of a fisher in troubled waters, that she would egg on the weaker party against the stronger, particularly where this suited Russias convenience, and then step in for her own personal grab. They pointed to the Polish experience, and the Rumanian outcome as proof of this contention. Just as Jugoslavia was tottering and about to be forced to sign a Nazi pact after showing plainly that her sympathies were on the other side, and just as the British had landed 300,000 men in Macedonia and Thrace, and were said to have more on the way, and just as Tur- -, key was debating whether or not to toss in with England, came the dispatches about Russias attitude. Russia was soundly placed in this position. The Soviet is friendly with the Bulgars, also with Jugoslavia, both by race and general sympathy, and especially with Bulgaria because of her location on the Black sea. Russia had picked up half of Poland, a huge slice of Rumania, and was sitting with her legions ready to grab off the Black sea coast of Rumania if the slightest chance ge " BY YOUR LAXATIVE -- RELIEVE CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY When you feel gassy, headachy, logy bowels, do as millions due to dogged-u- p at bedtime. 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