W ashington. I>. C.
NAZI INTK CDKK
There is a German smuggler op
era ting in the Caribbean off the
coast of Mexico.
This was the inside reason for the
President's sudden transfer of the
entire coast guard to the navy? the
coast guard's ships and planes are
needed to track down the Nazi in
truder.
Sensational feature about the
smuggler is that she is a former
U. S. vessel? the 800-ton Diescl
engined yacht that once belonged to
A. Atwater Kent, Philadelphia radio
magnate.
The one-time pleasure ship now is
being operated under the Panama
nian flag out of Vera Cruz, Mexico,
by Nazi agents in that city, end is
being used to transport high test
gasoline and mercury to small Car
ibbean islands where Japanese ships
collect the smuggled strategic sup
plies.
The yacht recently unloaded 1.000
flasks of mercury at an island which
for military reasons must be name
less.
The former luxury craft came into
possession of the Nazis by a cir
cuitous route which intelligence ex
uncovered only a lew weeks
ago. The purchase was made by a
shipping company whose main of
fice is in Vera Cruz and has a
branch ofliee in New Orleans, where
transfer of title took place. The
price was $18,000.
fortunately for intelligence the
payment was made in U. S. bills of
S1,(X)0 denomination. From the seri
al numbers, the bills were traced
back to a Vera Cruz bank. There
it was learned the money had been
withdrawn from the account of the
loading Nazi business house in
Mexico, and turned over to the ship
ping company that bought the yacht.
Subsequent investigation revealed
that all the stockholders of this com
pany were Germans; also that the
two top officers were Spaniards, one
a naturalized Mexican and the other
3 naturalized American citizen.
Now, every movement of the
yacht is watched, but there is noth
ing the United States can do about
the ship unless she enters American
waters. So far the vessel has been
very careful to stay within Mexican
territorial waters.
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LEND-LEASE .MILK EXPERT
The most novel type of lend-lease
operation thus far was the lend
A?jS,m5 of a man named Adolph.
Aaolph Eichhorn went over to help
~ Brltlsh against Adolf Hitler.
The British are suffering from in
sufficient production of milk, be
cause of diseased cattle, and Eich
horn is the man who knows all the
cow cures. He is director of the
animal disease station under the de
partment of agriculture.
_T*)r?e Principal diseases afflict
British cattle: tuberculosis, which
makes the cattle lean; Bang's dis
ease, which rjsuJts in the loss of
the calf; and mastitis.
Eichhorn was obliged to tell the
British that tuberculosis, which af
flicts 35 per cent of British cattle
cannot be cured during the course
of the war, unless the war lasts for
another generation. It took the
United States 22 years to get the
disease under control.
Bang's disease is more readily
cured. By vaccination, a calf can
be immunized so that its adult life
will not be afflicted with the dis
ease.
. Meantime, the British are import
ing great quantities of dry and pow
dered milk from the United States.
Fresh milk is worth a king's ransom
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returned favor
vhen Rep. John McCormack oJ
Massachusetts was elected Demo
cratic floor leader of the house, i
one of his strongest and most un
expected supporters was Georgia's
fiery New Deal-hating Gene Cox. 1
Though the two men were poles
apart on economic views. Cox never
theless backed McCormack and did
yeoman work for him.
Recently McCormack returned the
favor. Before leaving on a trip to
Massachusetts, McCormack named
Cox floor leader during his absence.
There s one condition, however
Gene " he grinned. "You'll have
to refrain from those hot one-minute
speeches on the floor. I don't want
my stand-in taking swings at the
administration. It would look bad "
McCormack wished the Georgian
luck and left the chamber. Hardly
had he departed when Cox jumped
up and asked permission to address
the house for one minute. New
Dealers held their breath, expect
ing him to uncork one of his scorch
ing blasts.
But they relaxed with a sigh of
relief when Cox launched into a ter
rific tirade against John L. Lewi?
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
By Edward C. Wayne
Strike Situation and Japanese Crisis
Prove Washington's Toughest Problems;
Winter Closes In on Eastern Front
As Russia Reports Taking Offensive
(KDITOR S NOTE? W
i Released by Western Newspaper I'mon.',
STRIKES:
At Showdown
Congressional passage of the Neu
trality act changes was a victory
for the administration in that Pres
ident Roosevelt stood his ground on
his labor position, declining to meet
a growing demand for legislation
outlawing strikes, and laws setting
? cciling on wages.
Yet the narrow margin in the
house <20 votes) also was consid
ered a severe rebikc to the Presi
dent for his attitude, and there were
signs in the press and in congress
that legislators and editors were get
ting ready to kick over the traces.
Crucial situations had faced the
President both over the strikes in
captive coal mines owned by steel
companies, largely occupied in de
fense work, and in the threatened
railroad strike.
There had been little evidence
that the White House was getting
anywhere in either struggle, though
the President had made manful ef
forts to dissuade John L. Lewis and
his U.M.W. from going overboard.
It ivas this situation more than
any other which had caused the de
fection of many administration sup
JOHN L. LEWIS
The President made manful efforts.
porters during the Neutrality act
voting.
The "closed shop" issue in the
mine strike, never very popular in
circles not closely allied with labor
unions, caused the outburst of anti
strike feeling to be particularly
severe.
RUSSIANS:
On Warpath
Long on the defensive, and having
lost many thousands of square miles
of territory, Russia had assumed
the offensive all along the vast front.
Moscow was reporting considerable
success against the Nazis, and re
ported that the Germans had been
suffering from frostbite, that they
were exhausted and discouraged,
but admitted that back of the front
there were evidences that another
offensive was being formed.
Those who believed Hitler would
order any withdrawal because of
the weather were having to revise
their opinions. The Russian drive
against the Germans was meeting
with the same rugged resistance the
Reds themselves had offered against
the Nazis.
Successes were reported in the
far north, where Kuibyshev dis
patches declared 20 German trans
ports had been sunk in what was
to have been a major invasion at
tempt in the Murmansk sector.
Also 2,500 Italian^ had been re
ported "eliminated" in the Crimean
sector, and victories also were
claimed by Russia in the Donets
basin area.
The Finns were being hurled back
in front of Leningrad, and the gen
eral Russian tone was one of con
fidence, yet watchfulness, the lat
ter being stressed because Red
headquarters figured the Germans
still had at least one more huge at
tack up their sleeves.
VICHY:
To Join Hitler
Hardly unexpected at this time,
, and with the hostage-shooting mat
, ter being what it wes, had come
the report that Vichy was planning
to "go the whole hog" and throw in
J with Hitler's "new order."
It had been known for a long time
I where the sympathies of Darlan and
I Laval had been, but Petain was
j supposed to have been more or less
I on the fence.
KURUSU:
Last Try?
Most observers of the situation in
the Pacific believed that with the
arrival of Saburo Kurusu in Wash
ington the last stage of the difficult
effort of Japan and the United States
to avoid war had been reached.
During his plane trip to this coun
try there had been little of encour
aging press comment, and the state
department had again and again re
peated its gloomy outlook.
Officials of the cabinet, particu
larly Secretary Knox of the Navy,
SABURO KURUSU
**A gloomy outlook .n
had expressed this same view of de
pression over any chance of a peace
ful settlement.
Still Kurusu had arrived, had
been greeted with smiles by Amer
ican diplomats, and the conversa
tions weie on.
Basic difficulty of solving an equa
tion where Japan was at war with
China and both Britain and Amer
ica had declared this war an act
of aggression and had been giving
and promising a;d to China was
openly apparent.
Japan was urging the United
States:
"Leave us alone in China!"
The United States was demanding
of Japan:
"You let China alone!"
These points were poles apart.
ARK ROYAL:
Finally Sunk
Most famous of the British air
craft carriers, Ark Royal, sunk
several times according to Berlin
dispatches, finally has been sent to
the bottom, and it was London, not
Berlin, which announced it.
It sank 25 miles off Gibraltar,
while in tow of other warships after
a U-boat had torn a terrific hole in
her side. Pumps were unavailing
to repair the damage, and practical
ly all of the 1,600 aboard her had
been removed save just enough men
to handle the tawing lines.
Finally, when she was nearing
shallow water at last, she suddenly
turned over on her side like a "tired
child" and went to the bottom. Only
one man of her crew was reported
lost.
It was regarded as probable that
many of her planes had been able
to fly ashore and make port. Thus
went to the bottom of the Mediter
ranean the third aircraft carrier
Britain had lost, the largest and
newest, launched in 1938, of 22,000
tons.
TURKEY:
An Offer
Axis sources were reported to
have made Turkey an offer of
Thrace as a last inducement to get
the Turks to join the triple alliance.
The sudden interest in Turkey on
the part of Germany, as borne out
in reports from both Berlin and
Bern was rather a puzzle to some,
while others saw in it the possibility
that Germany might, now that she
was somewhat bogged down in Rus
sia, be seeking a Turkish route to
Russian oil wells.
Three possibilities were seen ?
that Turkey had already decided to
throw in with the Axis? that in
creased pressure would be brought
to bear on Turkey (in line with
Bern's view of the situation) and
third, that Germany might be satis
fied to have Turkey neutral and aloof
but fearing that American and Brit
ish pressure from the south might
turn her from her neutral course
to a pro-British stand.
A MONG the real wiz kids of sport
I'd like to nominate at least
four rookies. They are Alonzo Stage,
79, Connie Mack, 78, Matt Winn, 81,
and E. R. Bradley, 82. Their aver
age age is around 80 and they are
just beginning to get up steam.
There must be something hooked
to sport that blocks off the attacking
years.
Sti({, one of Walter Camp's All
America veterans in 1889, which
happens to be 52 years ago. Is still
one of the hardest-working football
coaches in the trade. Stags uses
running spikes in place of crutches.
They tell me at the College of the
Pacific he is all over the field like
a runaway coyote ? and Stagg isn't
more than a short chip shot away
from 80.
Along the same line Connie Mack
is all set for his next spring train
ing trip, hoping this time to lift his
Athletics up around the bottom of
the first division. Connie, also, won't
ALONZO STAGG
ns? nn much calendar space before
80 arrives. His main ambition now
is to win the A. L. pennant on his
eightieth birthday.
Stagg and Mack have been active
features in over 60 years of sport,
and neither is looking for a sunset
port.
The Kenluckians
Col. Matt Winn of Kentucky, hav
ing left 80 well behind, is even more
active than usual in rounding up his
next Kentucky Derby.
At the same time Col. E. R. Brad
ley at 82 still has his Lexington
posses out looking for another Derby
winner.
Colonel Winn has seen all the Ken
tucky Derbies ever run since the
first one in 1875, and he hopes to
turn the Seventieth Derby anniver
sary, three years further on, into the
greatest pageant of them all.
It has been some time since
Colonel Bradley won one of these
Bluegrass features, so he is equal
ly active in having another three
year-old ready soon, one with a
chance to win. His Eimelech just
missed out.
Colonel Winn has an idea at this
moment that Alsab may be the
greatest Derby winner of all time.
As great as Alsab Is, there is a wide
gap between a two-year-old and a
three-year-old, considering all the
deadly incidents that can happen to
a thoroughbred, including house
maid's knee and the pip.
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The Two Races
Although spring practice Is three
months away, American league
managers ? plus owners ? plus ball
players ? are still brooding over the
promised strength of the Yankees.
In the meanwhile, the National
can look forward to another all
summer scramble among Dodgers,
Cardinals, Reds and possibly Pi
rates or someone else.
The Reds with Johnny Vander
Meer and Elmer Riddle on hand to
help out their pitching veterans will
be a better club next spring if Bill
McKechnie can plug one or two
gaps. Bill is lucky these gaps are
not in his pitching department, the
toughest canyon to fill up.
Having located a large part of
his control, Vander Meer is likely to
be one of the great pitchers of 1942.
So is Riddle.
But at this point American league
clubs can see no light rays of any
consequence. Seven of them are
looking into holes as deep and as
dark as the mouth of a railrsad
tunnel.
The Red Sox still haven't the
pitching or the defensive speed to
close up that big gap between them
selves and the Yankees. The Red
Sox still lack the infield ground
i covering speed needed to help any
pitcher along. The Yankee infield
has killed off many a rap starting
j for a base hit that Red Sox infield
i ers couldn't have handled
Land of Opposite
.uThe t?incsc compass poml3
the south, nun wear skirts Jh
women wear trousers. The dress,
makers are men; women c-ir~
the burdens. The spoken ian^^Z
is not written; the written lan
guage is not spoken. Books ar*
read backwards.
White is used for moumui,.
bridesmaids wear black, and m
stead of being young maidens ' art
old women. The Chinese surname
comes first. They shake their own
hand instead of the hand of the
person introduced. Vessels are
launched sideways; and horses
mounted from the off-side. Chi
ncse begin their dinner with des
sert; end with soup and fish.
Pull the Trigger on
Lazy Bowels, with
Ease for Stomach, too
When constipation brings on acid in
digestion. stomach upset, bloat in*, dizsy
spells, gas. coated tongue, sour ta>,te and
bad breath, your stomach is probably
"crying the blues" because ycur bowels
don't move. It calls (or Laxative-Senna
to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels,
combined with Syrup Pepsin for perfect
ease to your stomach in taking. For years,
many Doctors have given pepsin prepa
rations in their prescriptions to make
medicine more agreeable to a t ouchy stom
ach. So be sure your laxative contains
Syrup i'epsin. Insist on Or. Caldwell's
Laxative Senna combined with Syrup Pep
sin. See how wonderfully the Laxative
Senna wakes up lazy nerves and muscles
in your intestines to bring welcome relief
from constipation And the good old
Syrup Pepsin makes this laxati\ e so com
fortable and easy on your stomach. Even
f.nicky children love the taste of this
pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Cald
well's Laxative Senna at your druggist
today. Try one laxative combined with
Syrup Pepsin for case to your stomach, too.
Higher Vision
Happy those who here on earth
have dreamt of a higher vision!
They will the sooner be able to
endure the glories of the world to
come. ? Novalis.
Expressed Beauty
Beauty is expression. When I
paint a mother I try to render her
beautiful by the mere look she
gives her child.? Jean Francois
Millet.
Relief At Last
For Your Cough
Creomulslon relieves promptly be
cause It goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, In
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un
derstanding you must like the way It
I quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
Need of Kindness
Kindness is wisdom. There is
none in life but needs it and may
learn. ? Bailey.
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