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THE BEAUFORT NEWS, BEAUFORT, N. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1942 '., ' . . ' - - . la a 'trrwn I t nvoTv WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Anti-Nazi Unity in Norway, Denmark Brings New War Threat to Sweden; Advent of Spring Weather Heralded By Increased Battlefront Activity (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion! are expressed In th'e columns, they ar those ol th. news analyst and not necessarily or this newspaper.) iBnl.aii.it by Western Newspaper Union.) TOLL: 0 17. S.-ap War News, some good, some bad, con tinued from the various battlefronts on which American troops and sail ors were meeting the might of Nip pon. The navy had admitted the loss of three warships, the aircraft tend er and former carrier Langley, the navy tanker Pecos and the destroy er Peary, with the loss of some 700 lives. This had been a bitter tragedy of the waters off Java, adding to the awful toU of the Battle of Java Sea. First the Langley, spotted by Jap planes, had been "smothered in bombs." Her crew, all but about a dozen men, got safely off, swam about, clinging to debris, until picked up by destroyers, later transferred to the Pecos. The latter, trying to escape to Australia, was caught by flights of Jap dive bombers, evaded the first run but was smashed in the sec ond. With two crews aboard one boat, the loss of life was heavy. The Peary was done to death in the Aussies' port of Darwin, but went to the bottom with all guns blazing, her commander dying at his post. Not all was to be defeat, how ever, for our naval forces. Ameri can submarines had taken a heavy toll of Japanese shipping in the neighborhood of Bali and south of Java, and in the Christmas island region. Following these disclosures, the navy reported that since the start of the war 47 Japanese ships of war had certainly been sent to the bot tom against 24 for the American navy. More than 200 ships of all types had been sunk, many of them by plane action, many by submarines, many by army planes and shore guns. This rate of loss was deemed cer tain to be more than the Japs could stand, while America was increasing her production average of more than two ships of war daily going Into the water, and more than this num ber of merchant vessels. With the attack on Australia def initely turned back, at least for the time being, military leaders were taking a more optimistic tone as to the chances for a 1942 offensive in the South Pacific. UNREST: In Norway, Denmark Observers, still writing frankly and against the Nazis in the Stock holm press, saw the spring season bringing even more anti-German unity to the Danes and the Nor wegians. Both nations were finally realiz ing that all German promises of post-war freedom were obviously false, and that occupation and pup pet government meant simply con quest. The Danes were united behind two national heroes, the king and the minister to the United States. Hen- 4 HENRIK DE KAUFFMANN Number one Danish hero. rlk de Kauffman, the latter, one Ger man had been angrily quoted, was the No. 1 Danish Hero in the eyes of the people. As to the Norwegians, their re sistance to the Quisling government had solidified until no risk was too great for the people to impede the puppet leaders. Evidence was that Germany plans on giving Quisling enough rope to hang himself. Sweden was not inclined to view these developments with joy, but rather with fear, seeing the day not far distant when she, too, would be drawn into the war. PROFITS: Agreement by a senate committee on the principle of limitation of war profits by industry had brought to light reported profits running as high as 4,000 per cent on invested capital. While, with the government pour ing capital into essential industry, such profits always would be great, the senators felt that a sliding scale of maximum permissible profits might be the answer. Some companies had returned ex cess profits, one check to the gov ernment amounting to $40,000,000. 1 if W By Edward C. Wayne HARMONY: And Discord All had not been too harmonious In this country, though in general the nation was moving swiftly enough along the path of production for the war to meet the goals and schedules set by President Roose velt But there were manifold bicker ings along the pathway. News sto ries said that there was to be sugar rationing beginning in May. Then other dispatches cited that the SEN. WALTER F. GEORGE "Victory Day" jor labor. War Production board and the Of fice of Price Administration were at odds on the sugar situation, and the whole thing might be called off that there really was plenty of sugar. This was hotly and instantly de nied by Donald Nelson, who said not only was there no friction, but that the sugar rationing was necessary and would be carried out. There also was a terrific argument in progress over the time and a half overtime paid war workers for the 48-hour week under the law that the work week at straight time should not exceed 40 hours. The President had maintained his position as squarely behind the 40 hour week, and while some sena tors and congressmen fought against excess profits by employers, others were busy going after labor's over time. Senator George of Georgia was a leader in the battle, suggesting that the 48-hour week be adopted and the sixth day of work be called a "vic tory day," the workers passing up their overtime, but to be paid it if the seventh day were worked. THAW: Russian for Slush Just what the great Russian thaw had meant was vividly described in dispatches from Kuibyshev. They called it "more formidable than a moated citadel." One writer said: "Imagine all the swamps you ever saw. Imagine all the muddy ditches your automobile had whizzed past. Imagine millions and millions of mudbaths. Into all this dump billions of tons of grayish snow and stir thoroughly." That's a thaw in Russia. The Rus sian mud clings to feet and to tanks. One correspondent said he saw a trackwalker on the railroad jump off the track to let a train pass. The man was buried to his waist in mud- dy slush. His comrades had to pull him out with a rope. CRITICAL YEAR: War Tempo Speeded The World could feel, with the quickening of life in springtime fields and trees, the speeding of the tempo of the war on half a dozen fronts, and the vigorous battering of nation against nation that was to make 1942 the critical year of the World war. In the "land down under" the seasons were reversed, with Aus tralia moving into the fall season. but as the threat was to the tropical north of the continent, weather made little difference. But in Russia, in occupied Eu rope, and on the embattled oceans the changing weather was bringing faster reports of action afloat and in the air. Across the English channel had been moving huge flights of bomb ing planes, of late more often than not accompanied by high and low squadrons of fighter planes, giving the "big berthas" protection from the defending Nazi ships, and they were dropping death and destruction over a widening area. The Japs were ripping at full speed into India's flanks, the Nazis on the eastern front were redoubling their pressure against the Soviet, and were said to be rushing 4,000,000 new troops into action. The Russ were countering, so it was reported, with upward of 7,000,000 men, many of them fresh troops. Temperatures had gone above freezing on much of the Russian front, and the torrential rains of springtime had been falling. The battle of the central and southern fronts in Russia were expected to be the most bitter of the war. MXMm mSmm Hill m AJyf s Homeland Defense WWlitJ&WWr IWiMit:! I Bfifm V&' fl I Bsrim'A'M' . i Several occurrences had contrib uted to the continuance of conver sations among Indian leaders with Sir Stafford Cripps, General Wavell and American representatives as to the question of the Hindus' part in the defense of their homeland. Among these events had been the perhaps fortunate mistake of a Chi nese spokesman, who had given out incorrect information about, the Japanese occupation of the port of Akyab. This port, so close to Cal cutta, had actually not been taken, but the mere thought of it for sev eral days had made the Indians realize the war was at their door. This alone gave Cripps a big ad vantage. Also the timely interven tion of Chiang Kai-shek, and the arrival in India and on the Burma front of a sizable force of American planes and fighting pilots were tell ing circumstances, and played a big part in the keeping open of negotia tions. Indians, with the exception of the Mahatma Gandhi and some others among his immediate followers and disciples, were beginning to realize that they were faced with bullets and bayonets, and that if they were going to get ready to fight, they had better be getting on with it. The Mahatma was counseling "no violence" and was continuing his life-long policy of a passive resist ance to the invader. The Moslems, 70,000,000 of them out of a 390,000,000 total population, were perfectly will ing to fight, but were demanding their right to a separate government of their own. Nehru, past president of the In dian congress, had seemed to be the toughest nut to crack. He had seemed to be holding out for the right of the Indians to do their own drafting of manpower, their own training, while conceding the right of Britain to do the leading. DE GAULLE: Important Recognition The formal recognition by the United States of the DeGaullist gov ernment control over French Equa torial West Africa, and the French Cameroons, strategic territory along the supply route to the Middle East had been considered highly impor tant. It brought, for one thing, closer ties between the United States and the Free French and put Petaln, de spite his refusal to allow Laval a GEN. CHARLES DE GAULLE Second official approval to him. place in the government of Vichy France, very much on the spot re garding his future conduct. It was the second official approval of DeGaulle and his followers. Rec ognition of his control over New Caledonia had come first. But French West Africa was a terrific territory with a population of mil lions and close to a million square miles. Oddly, on the same day, the Vichy government reported that Germany had given it "permission" to rebuild its air force, and to this was add ed the Information that Vichy now had more than 1,000 warplanes, or actually more than all France had at the outset of the war. CORREGIDOR: Nipping Off Japs Despite the widely increased pres sure on the Bataan lines of General Wainwright and the almost constant attacks by Jap planes on Corregidor, American fighters continued to take their toll of Jap planes. Just as the British on Malta had held out through the entire war against hundreds of attacks from the air, the anti-aircraft gunners on Cor regidor were getting from two to four enemy planes a day with machine-like precision. They were only counting those they dropped. Many more were re ported badly damaged and probably disabled. A sharp land counterattack had turned a Jap thrust into a trap on the land. General Wainwright was continu ing the tradition set up by Mac Arthur. MISCELLANY: Washington: The government took over control of the entire national stock of quinine. Huge amounts are needed for soldiers in the tropics. San Francisco: Survivors of the Langley told odd stories of what they saved. One officer said he shoved two oranges in his pockets. He said he saw a Filipino messboy swimming along with a ouija board on his head. J Hii HgIim tirLJ MiMl Washington, D. C. STANDARD OIL LOBBY Lobbying will always be practiced in Washington. Recently, however, it has reached new heights. In the pre-New Deal days, lobby ists lobbied to get land grants, lum ber concessions, and Teapot Dome oil leases. Under the New Deal they lobbied for Public Works con tracts, WPA grants, and steamship routes. Today they lobby for war con tracts. But perhaps the most avid, rapacious and lustful lobbying is for priorities on the purchase of materials. In this connection, Standard Oil has just managed to get remark able priority rating for the shipment of $14,500,000 worth of steel to Vene zuela. The story illustrates how a job can be done if you have the lobbyist to do it. In this case Standard Oil is ably represented by Washington attorney John N. Bohannon, who knows his way around, even to the White House. What Standard wanted was steel for its oil wells in Venezuela, and it had the plausible argument that it must keep up Venezuelan oil pro duction for the American and Brit ish navies. However, other Ameri can oil companies also wanted steel for wells in Texas, Louisiana and California. Also they had the ad vantage of producing oil which does not require a long and hazardous tanker haul. However, they did not have the advantage of an A-l lobby ist. For Mr. Bohannon went to Ad miral Stark, then chief of naval op erations, and practically scared him to death about the danger of losing Venezuelan oil. Stark called Donald Nelson, boss of War Production, and put the pressure on him. Mean while Bohannon and friends pres sured the state department, lend- lease administration, board of eco nomic warfare and finally the White House. If there was anyone Standard Oil forgot to high-pressure they were sick in bed. So Standard Oil got what it wanted, a priority rating of A-l-C, higher than that of domestic oil companies, and the materials have now been shipped. LEWIS PAYROLL The Washington Merry-Go-Round wishes to correct an earlier state ment that John L. Lewis had three relatives on union payrolls whose salaries, plus his own, gave the family an annual "take" of $48,500 from the collections of union dues. We regret to say that on further investigation we find we erred griev ously. We apologize to Mr. Lewis for underestimating his capacities and print below the full Lewis fam ily payroll showing that the miner czar has not three but nine rela tives in cushy jobs and that the family "take" is not $48,500 but $70,500: John L. Lewis, president, United Mine Workers $23,000 Kathryn Lewis, daughter, secre tary treasurer, District 50, U.M.W 7,500 Denny Lewis, brother, head of United Construction Workers organizing committee 10,000 J. B. Bell, brother-in-law, C.I.O. , controller 6,000 Orin Miller, brother-in-law, su perintendent of the U.M.W. of fice building in Indianapolis . . . 5,000 Dan Collins, brother - in law, C.I.O. organizer ,00 William Thomas, cousin, super intendent U.M.W, building in Washington 6,000 Margaret Lindig, sister-in-law of Denny. U.M.W. stenographer .. 2,400 Ann Miller, daughter of brother-in-law Orin Miller, U.M.W. itenographer 1.400 Son-in-law of Floyd Bell, another Lewis brother-in-law, District 50 organizer 1,600 Total Lewti family payroll . .S70.500 (In addition to their big salaries, Lewis, his daughter and brother also have fat expense accounts. What they spend is their secret. No fig ures have ever been revealed, even to union members.) And Still More. Imposing as is this payroll list, it still does not tell the whole story. There is one Lewis relative who is not on a union payroll but who garners a high-bracket income from unions controlled by John L. He is brother-in-law Floyd Bell, an in surance agent. Representative of a surety company, Bell has what amounts to a monopoly on the busi ness of bonding all national, district and local U.M.W. officers and all C.I.O. officials. His commissions are estimated at $40,000 a year. This sum, plus the payroll listed above, would bring the total "take" of the Lewis family up to $110,500 a year. MERRY-GO-ROUND Wayne Coy, brainy young White House assistant, is slated for a pro motion. The ex-Indiana newsman will be made assistant budget di rector. Coy will also continue as head of the Office of Emergency Management Good news for the cotton grower. Under war stimulation, cotton con sumption now is around 1,000,000 bales a month, is expected to reach an estimated total of 13,500,000 bale, for the year. This is nearly 3,000,00 'ales more than last year. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) First Signal Officer IN THE post library at Fort Mon mouth, N. J., is a simple velvet covered box with an engraved plate which reads: "Compass and chain worn by Brigadier General Albert J. Mycr, First Signal Officer, U. S. Army. Presented by his daughter, Miss Gertrude Myer, through Major General Campbell B. Hodges, by the Chief Signal Officer to the Com manding General, Fort Monmouth, March 3, 1942." This latest addi tion to the collection of early signal ea.ed by Western Newspaper Vnlon.) . . . . - IS mKM corps equipment at Fort Monmouth is a memorial to the man whose foresight and pioneering with flags and torches, during and after the Civil war, blazed the way for the army's streamlined signal communi cation systems. When 20-year-old Albert J. Myer was graduated from Hobart college in his native state of New York in 1847, his graduation thesis was titled "A Sign Language for Deaf Mutes" and it contained the germ of the visual signaling system which he was to devise later. After his grad uation from Buffalo medical college, he practiced for three years. Then, in 1854, he was commissioned as sistant surgeon in the army and or dered to New Mexico. In the dry climate of the South west, where the clearness of the air made it possible to see objects at a great distance, Myer became enthu siastic over the possibilities of visual signaling and devoted his leisure hours to developing a simple sys tem. In 1858 the war department recognized the work of the young doctor by appointing a board to ex amine "the principles and plans of the signaling, mode of use in the field and course to be pursued in introducing to the army." The next year John B. Floyd, President Buchanan's secretary of war, com mended his system to congress which appropriated $2,000 for the "manufacture or purchase of ap paratus and equipment for field sig naling." It also authorized the ap pointment of one signal officer on the staff of the army with the rank and pay of a major of cavalry and on June 27, 1860, Assistant Surgeon Myer became Major Myer. The army's first signal officer soon had an opportunity to demon strate the value of his system. He was detailed to duty with Gen. E. R. S. Canby's expedition against the hostile Navajos in the Southwest, where an extensive test of his new system, using both flag and torch, proved a distinct success. The re sult was the opening of a signal school at Fortress Monroe, Va., un der his direction and at the outbreak of the War Between the States, Myer was called upon to organize signal communications in the Army of the Potomac. Immediately after the battle of Bull Run, he submitted a plan for a separate signal corps but it was not until March 3, 1863, that this was done. Within a year he was no longer Major Myer but Colonel Myer, hav ing been brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry at the battle of Han over Court House and colonel for similar services at Malvern Hill. By the time the war ended he had been brevetted brigadier general. After the war Colonel Myer, who bad been relieved of duty as chief signal officer following a disagree ment with Secretary Stanton of the war department, was reappointed to that post by President Johnson. He succeeded in having West Point in clude signaling as a permanent part of the cadet course and the naval academy at Annapolis also adopted his methods. Myer was pro moted brigadier-general on June 16, 1880, and died in Buffalo, N. Y., two months later, on August 24, while still on active duty in the service he had organized. Myer has another distinction which entitles him to the grateful remembrance of his fellow-Americans that of "Father of the Weath er Bureau." In 1869 he proposed that the peacetime activities of the signal corps be extended to in clude sending out storm warnings. He influenced congress to es tablish the United States weather bureau under the direction of the signal corps and during its first 10 years it was supervised by "Old Probabilities," as Myer be came familiarly known all over the United States. Man About Town: The Charlie Chaplin-Paulette God dard bustup is in the offing. They've finally agreed to the division of the spoils . . . It's another image over at the War Correspondent H. R. Knickerbockers. He's in Australia . . . When Louise Atwill divorced General MacArthur (to wed actor Lionel Atwill) someone asked her why she divorced the hero. "Oh," was the champion eating-your-words crack of all time, "I was just ex changing a few small stars for one big one!" The boys in the camps are sizzling over Rita Hayworth's husband (Ed die Judson) for demanding a 30G settlement. They rate her the "nic est dish of all" . . . Isn't Japambas sador Nomura's brother in Mexico as a Jap navy specialist in hydro graphic surveys? Mexico might find it advantageous to dig him up. Mrs. O. O. Mclntyre has been of fered a colyum job after the man ner of the late New York chronicler . . . Here's something different in items: A B'wayite is suing a col yumist for saying he was a gyp. The case is due shortly and he's in the hoosegow on a burglary charge! ... An Upstater sought by G-Men in the lottery expose was right in Mr. Hoover's outer office at the time. He was wild to be a G-Man! Buy Defense Bonds Richard Whitney, who paid his debt to Zoociety, has offered him self to the armed forces in any form. So far no takers . . . From' forty entries Shemp Howard was voted the homeliest man in Holly wood. The judges were Virginia Bruce, Priscilla Lane and Anne Gwynne . . . Variety rejects some of the slang in "The American The saurus of Slang," claiming they have a phony ring. All the phrases listed sound "manufactured," which slangunge can't be. Slang is slang for the same reason that a man is tough: It can't help it. Lord Beaverbrook says Hess is still in a London (not Ontario) pris on, as suspected . . . Mr. and Mrs. Goe Shing Wong of 398 Mass Ave., South End, Boston, have named their new-born Douglas We Win Wong . ... Midtowners are laugh ing over the big shot who threw a party at the Copa for Hollywood peo ple and paid off with a check that bounced . . . The FBI took away three Fifth Avenue department store employees suspected of Nazi activities. Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: There's the mak ings of a nice feud in the Elmer Davis-H. V. Kaltenborn disagree ment. Davis took Kaltenborn's la bor blast apart piece by piece and said "Nh-nh" to the charges. It claims it's the old demand for lower wages' wearing a new frock ... All those quips on the radio about tires are wearing thin ... A must of the week is the "This Is War" program. Big-time playwriting . , . Midget Joe Goebbels' spring styles in lies are being exhibited by some of the commentators. Goebbels is build ing a Bolshy scare, in case the Nazi offensive fizzles. The American dopes couldn't be more obliging to him. Buy Defense Bonds The Front Pages: A statesman laughed off the hysteria of that Chicago ayemer. "A rag that styles itself the world's greatest newspa per," he said, "has to pitch the rest of its reading matter in the same farce key" . , . Lieut. -Gen'l Jona than M. Wainwright authored. s dis patch that belongs to America's catalogue of Inspired words. The Japs sent an ultimatum to surrender to Gen. MacArthur's successor. He reported it to Washington, adding the glorious postscript: "No reply was necessary and none was made" . , , Raymond Clapper cabled a line from the Far East which should be a good Up to US Industry. He wrote: "China has more pilots than planes." The Story Tellers: Could Milton Mayer's piece in the SEP be the cause of the big walkout? Race dis crimination is nothing new. The Irish were abused over here for half a century. As recent as the Blaine Cleveland campaign the antls raised "the Irish question." It is all re ported in "The Story of Scapegoats in History," pamphlet by Kenneth M. Gould . . Another pamphlet, "Greece Fights," relates a wheeze about Benito. A painting of Old Baldy, hung in a Greek town, was mutilated. A fine of 10 drachmas was assessed against every inhabi tant. All paid twenty, explaining that covered tomorrow's mutilation. Buy Defense Bonds Jay C. Fllpp-en of "Hellzapoppin," was looking at Ilka Chase's auto biography and observed: "A per son must be very careful these days the stage doorman may be writ ing his memoirs!" . . . Another gal who scorched her set In print retort ed to cries of "Shame!"with this: "But I made sacrifices to write my book. The royalties I got didn't come near the hush money I passed up!" . . . 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