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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH THE RICH COUNTY REAPER es second class matter Feb. 8. 1929, at the Post Office, Randolph, Utah, ander tb Act of March 3, 1879. ffm, E. Marshall, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION 11.39 Per Year in Advance. Layton Marshall, Editor and Proprietor Entered WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Big Job THE CHEERFUL CHERUB German Air Blitz on Island of Crete Ih country places $1.d birds 5in$ Results in Defense to Death9 Fighting; U. S. Attitude Toward France Changes As Vichy-Berli- n Strengthen Relations WHOS NEWS tbrouK UnVieud tKft summer chy. Unnoticed in j, The (EDITOR'S NOTE Whea opinion nr expressed In these eolnmns, they r those f the new analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) T (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) 2.11 the city little children chirp tend pky. wvcn THIS WEEK WNU Service. By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) YORK. George Ade is the first and the last of the modern fabulists. He might still do something, factual but still fabulous, like f mst Iron Hat Instead Of Mortar Board Crowns Beauty ' This is General B. C. Frey New who was a Zealander, berg, in charge of the Greek-Britis- h defense of the island of Crete when the Nazi forces first loosed their air blitz against that strong hold. When the British were forced to withdraw their airforce his duty became a gigantic task. today, about - Theresa Bonney. The once upon a time was in 1921 when the pretty American girl from Syracuse turned in her thesis for her doctorate of letters, at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her subject was The Moral Ideas in the Theater of'Alexander Dumas NEW YORK. One of the U. S. navys new torpedo boats (foreground) the Younger. The cheers, were re- and a coast guard cutter are shown cutting through the water of the Hudsounding and international. son river during recent maneuvers. These craft are Miss Bonney previously had equipped with torpedo tubes and depth bombs to battle larger destroyers romped through the University of and submarines. California and had taken her masPLANES: ters degree at Harvard. European those who had followed the course And Months bureaus of American newspapers CRETE: of the invasion of Greece. The BritStatistical proof that thousands of rushed girl reporters to Paris to An Air Test ish claimed that most of its army in like Rome, cant be built in extoll her beauty and her intelliplanes, The big island of Crete, which Greece had been taken back to a was given by Admiral Towday gence. She did not disappoint them. Prime Minister Churchill said would Egypt, there to rejoin the army of ers, who reported to All the garlands of the Groves of Secretary of Academe were hers, to say nothing be defended to the death by an the Nile, and to be rearmed from Navy Knox that in the past 10 of her flair for clothes. The least army composed of General Frey-ber- g new supplies, part of which had months the navy has gained 1,304 and New Zealand, British and come from the United States. the girls could figure for her was planes of all types. Greek troops under his command While it was known that some The navy now has 3,476 planes of the presidency of an American colsuddenly became the center of the forces got into Crete, and that the all types, including trainers, and lege. war when a dramatic and unexpect- Greeks salvaged considerable por- this compared with the British estiToday is today, and in the ed invasion of the island was made tions of one of its armies, the quan- mate that Germany was operating years in between Adolf Hitler Nazi troops. by tity was largely a matter of guess- about 2,000 to 3,000 planes in the has brought about drastic reviwere There some early reports work. Battle of Crete alone, not counting sion of moral ideas in France that the Germans were also Most coming of who the in use in other theaters of the those back troops got and elsewhere. And in these in normal transports,' but there was to Egypt were Australians and Britwar. Miss years, Bonney has had a little doubt that the air test was pre- ish, hence most observers believed It also was significant that Adringside seat at the apocalypse. eminent, and that the world was wit- there was probably about one divi- miral Towers report to Mr. Knox Just now the Vichy government such en- sion of New Zealanders in Crete, was that the nessing the first large-scal- e navy already is exawards her the Croix de Guerre deavor since the days of the inva- and possibly the same number of periencing a shortage of pilots, for bravery and devotion in sion of Norway, and of the- Low British, and perhaps two or three which compared with Germanys evacuating refugees during the Holland. Countries, times particularly of Greeks. number that reported 100,000 pilots trained beGerman invasion of last year. Britain reported that the first 1,500 British 'dispatches admitted prac- fore the war started. .In fact, it was She needed no identification here, soldiers who landed in chutes were complete control of the air this pilot training program which as she had already gained fame, not wearing the New Zealand uniform, tically by the Germans over Crete, and first called the attention of the world as an intellectual but as a photog- and coldly announced that they hence it was considered still more to Germanys rebirth as a military rapher whose closeups of chaos are could expect to be shot. All of likely that the Germans, who had power in spite of the restrictive efofficial records in the Library of them, it was quickly reported, were no particular need of Crete, might forts of the Treaty of Versailles. either killed or rounded up rapidly. be trying the attack to test out Congress and in the French arin Of the 1,304 planes which the navy chives. Last December, she reGermany as promptly retorted actual warfare what the parachut- has added to her forces, only about ceived a grant from the Carnegie that if any of the parachutists were ists could do when 600 of them are combat types, Adfoundation to return to France and treated as spies and shot, Germany from aloft. miral Towers revealed. continue her pictorial record of the would reply ten to one in kind. The goal of 50,000 fighting planes . war. n .But the British and Greeks didnt VICHY: i for the American army and navy have long to wait or long to con- A The hair-pi- n turn in her career combined Point was, therefore, envisioned Turning came just at the time women template what to do with the first in the future, Admiral Towers as far The of into 1,500. flop the were discarding hair-pinVichy strongly In that not until January, By the second morning of the in- Nazi encampment proved likely to revealing Paris, she sold a story to an 1942, will the existing shortage of a returning-poivasion the as to was British radio Amerprove American ' newspaper. They pilots be relieved. Not until then will porting that the Nazi invasion force icas entry into the war. For one the cabled for a picture. She had number of pilots begin to catch was it 7,000, and oh the second after- thing, flopped one popular poll on trouble in getting it and decided with the number of planes. noon hiked this figure to 11,500. convoys from a minority to a ma- up to put an end to such difficulties. , This brought the German force to jority, and the administration in DRAFT: With her sister Louise and her ' at least one full division, and a good Washington, which had been acmother, in America, as partners way into the second division. And cused in some quarters of watching A New Plan she organized Bonney & Co., the British quickly estimated that these polls before acting, promptly International operating the called out in excess this figure meant that the Germans announced that the convoy question of Pennsylvania Picture bureau. 18,000 young men in the draft, Lacking' an had from 2,000 to 3,000 airplanes on has practically been settled. out what was called a new important picture, she bought a President Roosevelt, it was said, trying duty in southern Greece. camera ,and started shooting. aimed to give the selectee a plan The usual silence and mystery as does not like the word convoys, and break. Her pictures were even a bigger success than bey thesis. - Baron j to what actually was transpiring im- is more in favor of the navy taking The plan was this. The 18,000 mediately was clamped down by the over portions of the Atlantic and Pa- were to be called out, and immediMannerheim let her get into the British ministry' of information, cific, even as far as the Red Sea, thick of. the fighting in Finland ately given a searching examinawhich contented itself with issuing for instance, and helping to create tion and awarded her the - White along all lines, including their such generalities as the situation protective lanes through which ' Rose of Finland.1 final medical examination by the is in hand, leaving it' up to the ships could move safely. doctors. . d and vivacious, Germans to give Witty, This is the method American ship- army the world what inThen they were to be returned to she made friends and frequently formation could be ping experts have liked from the their homes and gleaned. was a click .or two ahead, of her jobs, those who The German claims, as usual, start, but it was significant that were to army life being eligible rivals in some new and unheralded were broad, the Nazis asserting that Americas course was charted along placed on call in from 10 to 30 days, belch out of hell. She brought back many had been these lines the day after the polls and the rest of them to return to important points to the Library of Congress 200 picand that captured, many British reported 52 per cent in favor of con- their normal jobs, secure in the tures of the blitzkrieg. been destroyed on the voying and 41 per cent opposed and planes had knowledge that they would not be the other 7 per cent undecided. ground. called. T OUIS B. Mayer, motion pic-tuBritish sources seemed willing to Public attention then turned to This was aimed to remove much executive, the highest paid admit that the Germans had utter Vichy, and Secretary Hull warned of the uncertainty which grew out of American with his salary of $697,047 mastery of the air, but General France that she would have to the give method of selective previous in 1940, came a longer way up than Freyberg said that every hilltop had this country a plain and honest service picking. Dr. William L.B. Mayer Came others of the its sentinel in Crete, that an elabo- statement of just what her collabo- Mather Lewis, selective service diSEC hsting rate method of signaling had been ration with Germany would consist rector of Pennsylvania, said he was Up All the Way from the worked out, and that even those of before France could hope to re- advised that if the experiment n From Sea Bottom bottom .f parachutists who arrived at night store relations to proved a success there, it would be the sea m were promptly spotted, reported and a state of amity. applied to the entire nation. fact. At the age of 14, he wore given action from the ground forces. This attitude was indeed a far cry At the same time President Roosea diving suit, salvaging iron from Neutral observers, however, point1917 and 1918, and velt put into being the OCD, or Ofsunken ships at New Brunswick. ed out that in order to effect large-scal- e from the days of the time when first the of fice Civilian doughboys Defense, with Mayor His family had brought him at the landing of troops who were landed in France with Lafayette, Fiorello LaGuardia of New York its of three from Minsk, Russia, not parachutists, the Germans must were here as their age slogan. head, working without salary, as will where, like George M. Cohan, he have obtained at least temporary strong declaration came at all of his intermediaries. had been bom on the Fourth of control of landing fields, or must be theHulls same time when it was anAlso plans for the home guard v July in 1885. using emergency fields. nounced that a British flotilla was were worked out at Washington, British reports told of many trans- hovering about the ports of Mar- this He sold his iron in Boston, group to function sepport planes shot down with their tinique where the French aircraft arately from the OCD, entirely saved $600 and bought a tumble-dow-n' which would of both on the island carrier Beam and other vessels ostensibly have a men, cargoes theater at Haverhill, membership of and into the waters surrounding it. were bottled up. There was some millions Mass., in the early days of the of American men, women also told of huge, disquiet over the report that these and even children. However, they custard pie dynasty of the unwieldy transport planes towing ships had been out at sea, but the movies. In 1914, he got the New One of the first tests of the United numbers of gliders loaded with men British reported they were England rights for The Birth States against possible war was an simply and munitions, a mode of transpor- on maneuvers. of a Nation. That routed him entirely complete blackout of the tation not reported in wide-scause to Hollywood, the presidency of But if they were poised for an at- Hawaiian islands, where even the before. Metro-Gol. tempt to run the British blockade, isolated hamlets were darkened, and a How on the force Crete was it was likely that there would be and planes of the American large fast on the long, army grand circuit -- of., movie high, remained a military secret of the either fighting or scuttling or both in and navy flew overhead to inspect Greeks and the British, though there the South Atlantic, well within our the situation and to see how comfinance. was considerable figuring done by sphere of influence. plete it was. K - -- air-bor- ne r WATCHES FOR SALE WATCHES! Wrist Watches $3.00 $4.80 up Free list. Can use old watches in trade; O. M. 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