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Show THE COUNTY RICH REAPER Sntered tz second class mattei Feb, 8, 1929, it the Post Ofir Randolph, Utah, under th Act of March 3. 1879. Wm. E. Marshall, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION 31.50 Per Year in Advance, Layton Marshall, Editor and Proprietor By WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Edward C. Explains Incident Wayne Gems of Thought XW AS dv Roosevelt Churchill Meeting at Sea flOOD manners Vichy Nazi Collaboration Strengthened prattle of yesterday; their interests are all of today and the is the art of making those people easy with 'whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. Swift. I love children. They do not -- Aims Brings Joint Declaration of War Seeking A Better Future for World; -- tomorrows. Richard Mansfield. I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved. .(Released by Western Newspaper Union.). U.PhiHipr Schiller. But he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed. Shakespeare. THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE PURKEY Dear Ma Well, I gess maybe I will be tossed Into the guard house again or shot or put peeling more 7 I VOW potatus The fourth the outbreak of of anniversary was the Chinese Incident TOKYO, JAPAN. (and I dont know witch is worser). I got one of them post cards from the Sen. Wheeler ryX NSTtCI big-wig- First Committee and what I read the newspapers about all the fuss being made about it makes me awful nervous. Only some good luck will save me. I wrote a note to the President like the Senator asked me to saying I was against getting into the European war. (I did not say positively though.) And I explained while I was against it I wood go peacefully if ordered. In But even this was wrong and only a letter I just got from Nellie Petersen keeps me from a nervus breakdown. It seems I wrote a letter to Nellie the same time I wrote to Washington, and by mistake I put the letter about not getting into the war in Nellies envelope and sent to Mr. Roosevelt the letter I meant for Nellie. This wood seem a good break I gess but I am not two sure becuz how will the President know? The letter he got just began My Darling Nellie and what will he think of a private calling his superior a name like that? In the very first sentence of the letter witch he has it says Remember all your promises to me my dear, and what is to keep him from thinking I am talking about the very promises mentioned on that Wheeler post card? He will not know I am just talking about the promises Nellie Petersen made to me about not dancing with Sergeant Mooney no more and about marrying me if i ever get through kitchen police tallies. I think that the letter witch I sent to President Roosevelt by mistake also says I am holding him to every promise he made last year witch means Nellies promises about always being true to me and not the Presidents campaign promises but he will not know this I am afraid. I think I closed this letter with a line like I am very serious about this, honey bunch, and if you go back on your word and try to e me in any way I will take no nonsense. You can see what a fix I am in, ma. Every time I see an officer coming my way I think General Marshall has sent for me. two-tim- I am in bad with Nellie two on account of she does not know whht to make of the letter witch she got from me and witch was meant for the President. She says that I am a louse for ever writing it in the first place. Every time I have seen Nellie I have told her I was every inch a fighting man and that war held no terrors for me, no matter whether it was on home grounds or where, so I look pretty foolish to her writing a letter to the President that I am against any war that takes me far away from home. Come what may, ma, I am in a tough spot and I feel two worried to write more now except to close saying I love you like always. Your loving son, Oscar. Ima Dodo wants to do her part in the V campaign, so she is sweater. wearing a ck TWEET! TWEET! The St. George hotel at Bermuda is now occupied by the U. S. engineers corps, the picturesque Inverurie is occupied by the British contraband control, the Bermudian and Princess have been taken over by the censorship bureau and the Elbow Beach hotel will scon be oc cupied by U. S. navy officials, good regulation honeymoon in thal country seems pretty difficult just now. marked in Tokyo by speeches by They army and navy told the populace of the great gains made but made no attempt to explain the delay in the final break-dow- n of China' s defense. Above is Lieut. Gen. Hideki To jo, Japanese war minister, delivering one of the main addresses. PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT t joint declaration of general from their historic meeting at sea came an eight-poin- war aims and a plan for a better future for the world. (See below: HISTORIC MEETING HISTORIC MEETING: A Declaration After a secret meeting at sea. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain, issued and signed a joint declaration of general war aims. This declaration in its introduction explained that two men, being met together, deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world. The declaration then went on to outline the sort of world that would be sought following the end of the war. In its eight point text, the message expressed in a general way the foreign policy of the present U. S. administration and from the British point of view it was most concrete statement of war aims yet disclosed by that government. In the opening point of the declaration it was declared that neither the U. S. nor Britain sought aggrandizement, territorial, or other. In the next and following points the ideals expressed included: the right of all peoples to choose their own form of government; a system of world trade working to the benefit of all nations; a desire for fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field; after the final destruction of Nazi tyranny hope was expressed for a peace in which all nations could exist in safety and traverse the high seas . . . without hindrance; and finally, a plea for the abandonment of the use of force between nations of the world. This historic document and meeting, when they were announced end ed two weeks of rumors about the possibility of the men meeting. No sooner had the President left Washington on what was announced to be a short vacation cruise before the speculation and guessing began to sweep through this country and England. Churchill was said to be absent from London on pertinent war matters. For five days no direct word as to the Presidents whereabouts was available to the U. S. public. Then came word that an announcement was to be made. It was reported that at the meet ings (there were several confer ences) high ranking army and naval officials of both countries were present. From the White House came a statement that they had examined the whole problem of the supply of munitions of 'war. DRAMA: In Washington of of It was high drama, that passage the bill which makes the service selectees, guardsmen and regulars 18 months more than they signed up for. The closeness of the vote, 203 to 202, was part of it, but the sudden ness with which it came, the bitter ness of the press and forensic fight on the measure, gave the battle its punch and severity. The climax came when the calm voice of Speaker Sam Rayburn an nounced the totals, a victory for the administration by one vote. This was met by a tumult in galleries and on floor of almost indescribable excitement. It had been one of those things that no one could have predicted, and in which both sides felt sure of victory until the totals had been announced. s. A Declaration.) ORIENT: COLLABORATION r Vichy Nazi Pact Japan Committed -- The report Coming at a moment when the landed n war was in its most critical stage, and at a time when the Japanese situation was at a sort of peak crisis, the Vichy-Narapprochement, ending in an upset of the governments policy of limited collaboration, and putting the highDarlan practically at ly the helm of French affairs was a sensation indeed. It was one of those sensations of the type that we knew all along was going to' happen, but it was still a major shock when it hapRusso-Germa- zi anti-Briti- sh pened. One was forced to look at the matn ter both from the and from the however, viewpoint, viewpoint, largely a matter of ones imagination, of Marshal Petain himself. Preparatory1' articles had been written by escaped Frenchmen quoting the record of Petains career to show that he had been both obstructionist and defeatist in the last war, and not at all the hero British-Amerita- that early histories had painted. His collapse, therefore, was not unexpected in wiser quarters, and yet a double analysis of his reasons was possible, one perhaps more charitable to the old man himself, the other perhaps a more realistic summation of the whole affair. Petain, one might say, viewing the impossible situation of France, was making a complete surrender to Germanys demands, hoping for and betting on an eventual German victory, and at the same time expecting that when the debacle and reorganization of Europe might come, France would get some crumbs from the conquerors table. History Will Tell That was the realistic view of the situation, and the one most generally accepted in Britain. More char itable was the thought that Petain, working for France in a country already vanquished, and with Laval and Darlan, both friendly to the Nazis, at his side, had no other course than to surrender and those so viewing his act expressed the hope that Petain was secretly wishing for a complete resistance to German occupation of French colonies and bases by the Weygand forces. Whichever might turn out to be the factual reason, the eventuality was the same, for few doubted but that the French fleet, barring British preventive measures, perhaps aided by the United States, would be placed at Hitlers disposal for some move in the western Mediterranean. Perhaps, it was said, full collaboration was a prerequisite to an invasion attempt on the part of Germany, and, if successful, a complete German victory. That, in sum, was Petains dream, say the British, when he addressed his people over the radio and said: Frenchmen, I have grave things to tell you! all-ou- t RUSSIA: Second Phase that the Japanese had a in 180,000 men Indo-Chin- and that most of these would be concentrated on the Thai frontier, was taken in British circles to mean that the Japs were committed to invasion, and that when it started, Britain would find herself fighting on a new front. What sounded very much like an ultimatum to Nippon was described in dispatches from Melbourne, which stated with positiveness that Britain and the United States had informed the Japanese that they must inform the two countries whether she agrees to forego her policy of expansion southward, and that a reply was insisted upon within a stipulated time. Russias answer to Japanese objections to the use of the Siberian e port of Vladivostok for was Russia from that America ships intends to convoy suCh shipments with naval vessels, producing another eastern danger point. The Russians also demanded that pact Japan sign a without reservations. The report of Japanese occupation with 180,000 troops came from Manila, a source which also stated that the British are forming in considerable force along the Malayan and Burmah borders of Thailand, ready to move in if they feel Japanese invasion is a certainty. NUMBER ONE GIFTS If you have any doubt about what to give a man in any of the nations military or naval services, send a carton of cigarettes or a pound tin of smoking tobacco. Tobacco rates first as a gift with them. And when, you check up, actual sales records show that in Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard1 service stores (where the men buy their owa) Camels outsell all other cign arettes. It is that Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco is the National Joy Smoke. Local tobacco dealers are now featuring Camel cartons and pound tins of Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco as number one gifts for men in Uncle Sams services. Adv. well-know- Death and Sleep Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep and yet a third of life is passed in sleep. Byron. MOTHER SHE KNOWS... Grandmothers baking day secret, the baking powder that has been the favorite of millions of proud bakers for years and years. lend-leas- Serving Country He serves his party best who serves his country best. Rutherford B. Hayes. San Ttanci5co'5 Largest and Best Located Hotel SLASH: In Army Fund lOOO ROOMS lOOO BATHS Of considerable significance in the Washington scene was the fact that the senate appropriations commit- tee made emergency history by slashing more than a billion and a quarter dollars from the army appropriation bill, the first defense appropriation amount that has not passed with a rubber stamp regularity. The committee, headed by Senator Glass of Virginia, made the cut by unanimous vote. The cut amounted to 17.3 per cent of the amount asked, a substantial slice indeed. The house already had passed the bill on July 28, and had sent it to the senate with the inclusion of an item of $1,347,000,000 for tanks, and for anti-tan-k and guns. Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson had personaUy urged the inclusion of this item. It was, he said, essential to the army if the United States was to move into armed conflict. The senate committee, having slashed $1,347,000,000 by disapproving this item, then turned around and added $112,000,000 to the bill, thus making the net cut $1,235,000,-000- . anti-aircr- aft $4.00 ONE PERSON $6.00 TWO PERSONS HOTEL st. mnncis DAN E. LONDON .MGIl WNU 3541 W Led by Passions A jealous woman believes anything her passion suggests. Gay. HOTEL BEN LOMOND OGDEN. UTAH The main facts about the requested appropriation were kept from the public as military secrets, but it was known that the amount asked was for equipment for over and above an army of 3,000,000 men. In other words, this number of men could be equipped with tanks, k and guns anti-tan- anti-aircr- aft through appropriations already O.K.d, but the committee turned The Nazis big second push on thumbs down on the additional the eastern front was producing re- equipment to go beyond the 3,000,000-ma- n sults in territory gained, but it still figure. was debatable as to whether RusThe figures called for 4,600 mesian resistance was being shattered, dium tanks; 1,500 tanks, and or whether the pattern of Chinese that the biggest light item was for resistance to Japan was being reft guns, and that 1,000 of peated in another, sector of the these were to have been of 4.7 inch war. caliber, anti-aircra- 351 Bathe - J.OO to tt.Ot $4.00 Family Rooma for 4 ponoiuo Air Cooled Loanee end Lobby Dlnln Room Coffee Shop Top Room Homo of KiwanU Exeentlre Rotary Exchange OpUmiito JO-Chamber of Commerce and Ad Clib DID Room Hotel Ben Lomond OGDEN. UTAH BnbortB.TUck.lIfS. |