GOVERNMENT FEARS RISING
PRICES
WASHINGTON. Only insiders
know it, but the government is pre
paring drastic price controls if the
present upward trend continues.
They fear a runaway price situa
tion which would hit the pockctbooks
of the great mass of consumers.
And the last thing the administra
tion wants right now is a hot cost
of-living potato on its hands.
So far there have been marked
price advances only in a few com
modities—lumber, scrap iron, and
other basic raw materials. But re
cently there have been tell-tale signs
of a general upward movement, and
some of those mysterious late-after
noon White House conferences have
been over this problem. Three plans
of attack are under consideration:
1. Use of the priorities control now
vested in the office of production
management, under the supervision
of ex-U. S. Steel man Edward R.
Stettinius Jr., to deprive price goug
ers of their supplies, thus forcing
them either to go out of business
or bring their prices into line.
2. Use of the "draft industry" law
to compel price gouging concerns to
sell to the government at a fixed
figure; also to "freeze" prices in
industries where quotations persist
in getting out of line with what
are considered fair levels.
3. Imposition of a price ceiling on
all commodities and on every step
in the industrial process from raw
materials to retailer.
The last was the recommendation
of Bernard Baruch, based on his ex
perience as head of the 1917-18 war
industries board. In private confer
ences with Roosevelt and defense
chiefs, Baruch emphasized that the
one big price lesson learned in
World War I was that half-way con
trol measures were worse than none
at all.
"You must either stabilize every
price or stabilize no price," he de
clared. "If you impose controls only
at one point, you leave the door wide
open for a worse break-away some
where else. The only effective de
fense is total defense and the only
effective price control is total con
trol."
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HOPKINS REPORTS
Here are some of the things Harry
Hopkins told the President.
First and most important, Hop
kins definitely stated his conviction
that the British would be able to
hold out against the Nazis. He thor
oughly agreed with Wendell Willkie
in spiking isolationist claims that
Britain would crack up, submit to a
negotiated peace, and leave the
U.S.A. to hold the bag after voting
"all-out" aid.
However, Hopkins got no request
from Winston Churchill that the U. S.
send five to ten destroyers a month.
What Churchill did request was the
right to repair British destroyersand
other naval craft in American dry
docks. This has been one of Brit
ain's most difficult problems, since
all of her dry-docks are fairly easy
targets for air raids, so that vessels
needing repair frequently have been
bombed a second time or even a
third time and have to be repaired
all over again.
ChurchiD also asked that the Unit
ed States sell or lease "mosquito
boats." These are small, fast motor
boats carrying torpedoes and
equipped to lay depth charges,
which the United States has been
building at the rate of about one a
week for some time. • '
Churchill wanted them particular
ly to ward off Nazi invasion, when
it cpmes. Virtually impossible to
hit because of their high speed—
they can do 50 miles an hour—the
mosquito boats would be especially
effective against Nazi troop-ships
and barges attempting to cross the
channel.
However, the mosquito boats
which the United States is building
are a little light for the choppy wa
ters of the English channel, and it
is significant that the President al
ready has ordered the redesigning of
the stern of these boats in order to
improve their balance.
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CAPITAL CHAFF
Ex-Senator King of Utah visited
the senate the other day, snt in his
old seat and itched with the impulse
to rise and address the chamber.
Blind ex-Senator Gore of Okla
homa came into the chamber on the
arm of a page and listened with up
lifted face and rapt expression to the
debate.
Following isolation demonstra
tions in the senate galleries last
week, Capitol police keep all visitors
lined up on the lower floor, ana ad
mit only a few at a time.
Latest issue of the magazine "Na
tional Republican," blithely ignores
Wendell Willkie, but heaps four col
umns on ex-Ambassador Joe Ken
nedy for his fight against the lease
lend bill. The magazine also has a
few kind words for Norman Thom
as, the Socialist candidate, who also
opposes the bill.
The FBI is advising all plants do
ing defense work not to sell their
waste paper but to destroy it.
Henry Wallace presides over the
aenate from the opening at 12 until
1:30, then retires to lunch on orange
juice and a cheese sandwich.
M lißfefti. *' i. .
Three powerful units of the British fleet are seen off the Rock of Gibraltar as they helped cover passage
of convoys through the Mediterranean to Greece. The warships are (left to right) aircraft carrier Ark Royal,
an unidentified battleship, and dreadnaught, Renown. (Insert) British destroyers making high-speed turna
when attacked by enemy aircraft while convoying ships through Mediterranean.
New Fighters for Uncle Sam's Air Force
Interior view of the huge Curtiss-Wright plant in Buffalo, N. 1., showing the mass assembling of tht>
new Curtiss P-40 pursuit ships for the U. S. army air corps. This plant turns out 10 planes daily, and will
soon increase this number as additional trained mechanics are put to work in the new plant buildings.
When Enemies Become Allies
For the moment at least, enemies become allies to help a wounded
soldier. A British officer and an Italian prisoner are shown in this sound
photo carrying an Italian casualty at Bengasi, Libya, to an ambulance.
Another wounded soldier is on the (round awaiting assistance from the
friendly enemies.
British Convalescent Home Kept Busy
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At a hospital in the northeast section of England wounded Royal Air
Force pilots and girls of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force are now "In
minding." The hospital is used by the R. A. F. and the W. A. A. F. Plc
toi • shows convalescents walking about the grounds.
THE DANBURY REPORTER. THURSDAY. MARCH 6, 1941
Guard British Aid to Greece
Found Years Later
Wrecked plane of Charles Stanton,
of Dorchester, Mass., which disap
peared with Its live passengers June
20, 1937. It was recently found by
four farmers in a Jungle near San
Jose, Costa Rica—lts passengers a
tangled heap of bones.
Canada's Navy on Job
Two officers of the Royal Canadi
an navy watch over a eonvoy from
the bridge of their destroyer. With
the increasing flow of war materials
to Britain, Canada is kept busy.
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Memos of a Columnist's
Girl Friday:
Dear Mr. W.: Mrs. Billy Hill, wid
ow of the man who wrote "Last
Roundup" and other delightful
songs, called. Wishes we'd help lo
cate friends who were at the Wind
sor hotel bar in May, 1939, when Hill
made changes in his will. For their
child's sake, etc. . . Quentin Rey
nolds is getting many a quarter via
poker and other games from friends
and strangers for relief of kin of
RAF boys . . . Several months ago
we ran a quip about two coramys
(carrying packages) who passed
each other, one saying: "What time
is it by your bomb?" . . . Page 52
of the Satevepost just ran it as a
cartoon.
Our Sing Sing keeper friend as
sures us the Jimmy Hines slugging
stories are spurious. That Hines is
popular with all prisoners, etc.
The War Dep't is discussing a plan
to suspend all commercial airline
traffic next month or in April for a
day. All available planes will be
used to transport troops to desig
nated spots—as a test.
How come nobody realizes this?
That the Nazi radio station which
asked Americans to cable requests
(they'd like to hear) will only ac
cept friendly messages because they
intend contacting those Americans
later on for sabotage or other rea
sons?
In case yon missed Mayor La-
Guardia's description of a negotiat
ed peace: "It's like this. Suppose
a man is living happily out on the
range with his wife and children.
One day he comes home and finds
that a vile man has invaded the
sanctity of his home and attacked
his wife. And suppose that injured
man invites the attacker to stay in
the house as his star-boarder. That's
a negotiated peace I" . . Why
don't you do a col'm asking what
ever became of the Senator Wheeler
plan to probe soandso? And so on?
I'll dig up some for you . .So
many people make such big state
ments threatening to do this and
that, and after it gets in the papers
that's usually the last you hear of
it ... I heard this today: That if
Russia permits Germany a free
hand in the Balkans it'll be in return
for unhampered Russ action in Swe
den. ... By being a patriot Willkie
has found out something many of us
never learn in a lifetime. He's dis
covered his enemies among his
friends!— Your Girl Friday.
Notes of an Innocent
Bystander:
The Wireless: It isn't hard to spot
Hitler's angle in his short wave in
vitation to Americans to cable him
advice, C. O. D. If the message
rubs him the right way, he files the
sender's name as a future Bunds
man. If it's an insult, the man who
signs it is one for the Hun errand
boys over here to watch out for.
Berlin is glad to pay $2.19 for each
message that gives the Gestapo a
line on U. S. citizens, good or bad
. . John T. McManus, reviewing
Guy Lombardo's 10 years among
the headliners, finds that the band
leader keeps compromising with
changing musical modes. His band,
McManus adds, "says musical
things nicely, like a William Lyon
Phelps LV»OK ic.iew • . . . When
ine commentators get too gloomy
you can always escape to some of
the standbys . . . Easy Aces and
Fibber McGee and Molly still hold
up handsomely, with an undiminish
ing quota of laughs.
The Front Pages: One newspaper
the Axis hasn't tamed is the Vati
can organ, Ossevatore Romano. Ev
ery edition nails the Nazi-Fascist
lies that try to tell you the Catholic
church is on their side . . The
shellackings the Fascisti have taken
in Africa have made Ga-Gayda the
leading humorist in Europe. He
talks yet of "the fierce resistance"
of Graziano's troops in Libya—
meaning, doubtless, their fierce re
sistance to danger . . Dorothy
Thompson recalled a Huey Long
crack that explains the conduct of
a lot of popper-offers in Washing
ton. American Fascism, predicted
Huey, would never emerge as a
Fascist, but as a 100 per cent Amer>
ican movement. See? . . . The
headlines reported that Franco and
Mussolini met and agreed .
What most likely happened was that
Franco said he didn't like the war—
and Benito agreed ... Hi Phillips
insists it is silly to see D. Fairbanks
criticize Lindbergh . . . Almost as
comical as Lindbergh criticizing F.
D. R., Hi?
The Story Tellers: Collier's claims
that H. R. 1776 is an all-out-for De
mocracy Bill. Their editorial points
out that it may give F. D. R. a
great deal of power, but without that
power Britain might fall and leave
the U. S. powerless . . . The SEP
predictions of all kinds of gloum for
America are put in a brighter light
If you remember that it made sani
lar gloomy warnings every ume
Roosevelt ran for President Bui
Amerlcn is still hare . . . .Some
say a great American magazine is
writlna its own Sepitaph . . ,
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