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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Intensified Warfare Started
As Germany at Last Realizes
Futility of Peace Overtures
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EUROPE:
War of Diplomacy
Biggest news on the diplomatic
front was wishful thinking in Lon
don and Paris to the effect that
Italy was swinging away from Ber
lin to form a strong Balkan peace
bloc, meanwhile adopting a policy
of “benevolent neutrality’” toward
the allies. There were good rea
sons for such a move because Italy
has strong trade interests in the
Balkans, where Russia is trying to
win an upper hand.
Backing the rumor, Italian news
papers continued heaping insults on
Communism. Partially spiking it,
however, was authoritative Editor
Virgina Gayda, whose Il Giornale
D'lltalia termed Prime Minister
Chamberlain’s refusal to call off the
war ‘‘a dangerous no.”
Meanwhile Germany continued
last-minute efforts to avert war, hav
ing waited until the final heart
breaking moment in the hope that
Prime Minister Chamberlain would
capitulate. U. S. aid, asked unoffi
cially, was not forthcoming. Such
desperate efforts could only mean
that Germany had been surprised,
perhaps to her ultimate ruin, by al
lied determination. For recourse
Der Fuehrer redoubled his efforts to
cement trade relations with Russia,
now busy elsewhere after getting all
she wanted from Germany. Big
gest question: Now that the allies
had shunned peace, where was the
‘‘co-operation” Germany and Russia
had threatened only two weeks be
fore?
(Proclaiming Armistice day, President
Roosevelt revived Europe’s intervention
hopes by asking Americans to look for
ward to “a time when a just and endur
ing peace shall be established.”)
War on Land & in Air
On the western front 65 German
divisions were massed from the sea
to the Rhine. Significantly, 30 of
them stood opposite Holland and
Belgium, satisfying the experts that
Nazidom'’s offensive will follow 1914
ROYAL OAK
Sunk: 875 men and an omen.
tactics. Intensified German pres
sure was not long in coming. In a
single day it drove the French back
to their own soil on a four-mile
front in the Moselle valley, but at
a cost of 500 to 1,000 casualties and
the loss of 20 tanks.
But bigger news came from the
air. Berlin’s first bombing scare
arrived one evening as Nazi house
wives were meditating on lard sand
wiches for next morning’s break
fast (included in the week’s suggest
ed ration menu). Twenty thousand
feet up, anti-aircraft artillerymen
spotted a ‘‘raider.”” Shot down in
the panic, the plane turned out to be
a lost German bomber.
Britain had a genuine scare next
day. Fourteen German bombers in
vaded English soil for the first time.
Their objective: The huge naval
base and bridge at Firth of Forth,
near Edinburgh, Scotland. When the
melee was over Britain counted 52
killed or wounded, and slight dam
age to one cruiser. Four Nazi bomb
ers had been brought down.
War at Sea
In 1651 Britain's fugitive King
Charles II hid in an oak tree at
Boscobel, Shropshire, after the bat
tle of Worcester. A few years later
proud Britons named a warship aft
er their revered ‘‘royal oak.’”’ The
ship was promptly sunk by the
Dutch in 1667. Ten more ‘‘Royal
Oaks’’ carried the ill omen, the last
going into action at Jutland less
than a month after being commis
sioned. Weathering this battle, she
was damaged at Valencia in 1937.
Last year the $10,000,000 craft was
“‘sunk” in a British film labeled
“Torpedoed.” This month the Royal
Oak was really torpedoed and sunk,
carrying to the bottom her ill omen
and some 785 men.
This was only one part of a week
end’s terrific warfare at sea. Berlin
claimed the same submarine which
sank the Royal Oak also damaged
Britain’s battle cruiser Repulse, but
the admiralty said it couldn’t be
bothered ‘‘denying all these re
ports.”” Six other British and French
freighters went to Davy Jones’ iock
er within three days, but on Friday
the Thirteenth the British navy sank
three U-boats.
At Rome, the official paper Vie
dell'Arta “‘revealed” an ambitious
Nazi scheme to blow Britain’s navy
off the sea by allotting 200 planes
to bomb each warship. Fireside
fighters cf the long-theorized war of
airship vs. warship agreed the Nazis
had made a good start.
Russian Education
In the U. S., John Public disco.
ered for the first time that Soviet
Russia had a president. To Mich
ael Kalinin, who is Dictator Josef
Stalin’s No. 1 puppet, Franklin
Roosevelt expressed a hope for con
tinued ‘peaceful Russian-Finnish re
lations. Many another nation was
also learning about Soviet Russia, a
20-year-old bear which has just be
gun to feel its strength:
Scandinavia. Having won domina
tion of the Baltic states, Lithuania,
Estonia and Latvia, the Soviet
turned to Finland and demanded
military-naval bases. A Finn named
Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi went to
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quests while
thefolks
back home
rushed mobi
lization and
lined up a
firm Scandi
navian bloc.
To Stock
holm, Swe
den’s vener
able King
Gustav summoned Denmark’s King
Christian, Norway’s King Haakon
and Finland’s President Kyosti Kal
lio to decide Scandinavia’'s attitude.
It was expected the Finns would sur
render a few islands, but not the
strategic Aalands which Russia cov
ets.
Baltic. Estonia’s Gen. Johan Lai
doner assured the people their na
tion was still free, but there were
signs to the contrary. Among them:
The premier resigned and a new
cabinet was established. Mean
while Lithuania, which received a
better break from Moscow than ei
ther Latvia or Estonia (winning rule
over the former Polish city of Wil
no), decided to demand that Ger
many grant her extra - territorial
rights in the harbor of Memel, which
Adolf Hitler seized last spring. The
Lithuanians hoped Russia would
back their request.
Balkans. Hungary feared that
Russia’s Baltic conquest would be
followed by demands for Ruthenia,
the Ukrainian province seized from
Czecho-Slovakia early this year. Ru
mania had similar worries over
Bessarabia, the petroleum-rich area
she took from Russia after the World
war. Moreover, Rumania heard re
ports that Russia might try to set
tle Balkan troubles at her expen:e,
taking both Bessarabia and Ruthe
nia, and placating the Hungarians
and Bulgarians by giving each a
slice of land they lost to Rumania
after the last war.
This, it was reliably stated, held
a top place among demands Russia
tried to force down the throat of
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Sukro
Saracoglu. Acting as mediator for
all Balkan states, Saracoglu had re
portedly refused not only to sell Ru
mania short, but also to recognize
Russia’s Polish grab, create a neu
tral Balkan bloc under German-Rus
sian domination, or break Turkey’s
alliance with Britain and France.
Russian troops were massed on
her borders, but the Turks stood so
firm that many a diplomat felt she
held the balance of European pow
er. Her position: Turkey would stay
neutral if the allies fought Russia,
but she would join the allies if Italy
took sides with Germany. With
2,000,000 troops under arms, con
trolling the strategic Dardenelles
and holding considerable influence
over other Balkan states, the Turks
were not te be slighted.
How the Wind Is Blowing . . .
THRIFT—In the term ending
June 30, a total of $12,854,114
was deposited in school savings
accounts by 2,534,472 U. S, chil
dren.
LABOR—At Cleveland and San
Francisco, A. F. of L. and C. 1. O.
closed their national conventions
with no hint of peace.
POLITICS—Among G. O. P.
presidential hopefuls, a Gallup
poll showed New York’s Thomas
Dewey losing popularity since
war was declared, while Isolation
ist Sen. Arthur Vandenberg has
made slight gains. Ohio’s Sen.
Robert A. Taft, who outlined a
seven-point ‘‘negative’’ program
for repealing New Deal meas
ures, has held his own. Percent
ages: Dewey, 39; Vandenberg,
27; Taft; -17.
BAKER COUNTY NEWS
that made news
FORD STERLING—At Holly
wood, the 55-year-old, early-day
film comedian died. :
DR. KURT VORN SCHUSCH
NIGG—At Vienna, said ‘“‘abso
lutely authentic sources,”’ the for
mer Austrian chancellor is being
pounded into unconsciousness
daily for refusing to issue a proc
lamation urging Austrians to de
fend Hitler Germany.
0. J. ARNOLD—At Chicago,
the president of the Northwestern
National Life Insurance company
told business men to reject gov
ernment subsidies and donations.
CULBERT OLSON—In Califor
nia, the governor made news:
(1) by winning a drive so par
don Tom Mooney’s alleged ac
complice in the Preparedness day
disaster, Warren K. Billings, and
(2) by ordering hearings on al
leged beatings at San Quentin
prison.
CONGRESS:
Peace?
Neutrality was making a bum this
month out of many an otherwise
efficient statesman. Each day the
lower house of congress assembled
half-heartedly, listened to a few
pointless speeches and went its way
to Washington’s cocktail rooms and
bars. There was nothing else to do
until the senate finished wrangling
with neutrality and sent the bill
over. Meanwhile that happy day
was drawing nearer.
Senators passed the 300,000-word
mark in their debate on isolationism
vs. cash-and-carry. Though they
were still going strong, compromise
was in the air to replace the pre
mature victory song of embargo re
pealists. Some of the incentive came
from outside, such as Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh’s second radio speech
in which he plumped for retention
of the arms embargo. Howard Coon
ley, president of the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers, pointed
out that industry is opposed to war
and realizes ‘the falseness of war
profits. This gave North Dakota’s
Sen. Gerald P. (‘‘Neutrality’’) Nye
a new talking point.
Thus far, isolationist propaganda
has tried to convince the nation
that cash-and-carry neutrality will
get America into war. But the cam
paign failed to jell, so isolationists
found a more potent weapon by
dramatizing the post-war depression
that will inevitably follow if U, S.
industry expands to serve warring
Europe. Said Mr. Nye with pretty
fair logic: “I dare the senate to find
10 (of 50 leading industrialists) who
will wish to repeat the experience
of the last war boom.”
A few minutes later, when Senator
Nye returned to the old song that
administration neutrality proposals
are a ‘‘step’”’ toward war, he found
himself confronted for the first time
with Nebraska'’s 78-year-old Sen.
George W. Norris who had a few
things to get off his mind: ‘This
charge (that the President’s recom
mendation would lead to participa
tion in the war) is without founda
tion whatever . . . I know this bill
won’t please Hitler. But are we go
ing to ask him what to do? Are we
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Are we going to ask Hitler?
going to be so afraid that we will
offend him that we are going to re
fuse to act?”
Within a few days action seemed
imminent. The arms embargo was
a cinch for repeal, but on other
issues there was compromise. Chair
man Key Pittman of the foreign re
lations committee abandoned the 90-
day credit clause, which critics
charged was a circumvention of the
Johnson act (forbidding loans to
war debt defaulting nations). Re
strictions on U, S. shipping would be
relaxed to permit operations in bel
ligerent areas far removed from the
war sector (i.e., Australia, New Zea
land and -other French-British colo
nies). On this point, presidential
discretion will probably be the rule,
LABOR:
Building Probe
At Washington, indictment of a la
bor union charged with delaying
work on government buildings
opered the coast-to-coast U. S. at
tack on reputed trade restraints i,
the building industry. Among cities
to be probed: Chicago, New York
Seattle and Cleveland. The allega.
tion: That union jurisdictional fights
are hamstringing a building revival.
ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
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“The Tale of the Galloping Tooth
H ELLO EVERYBODY:
. You may have been in France during the unpleasantness
that went on there in 1914-1918. You may have seen towns shelled
to a crumbling ruin. You may have seen regiments decimated
by poison gas. You may have seen men torn to pieces by burs.t
ing grenades and families pauperized and turned out of tl_lelr
homes by the onward plunge of the great German war machine.
You may think you know all about the horrors of war, but Don
Aspinwall of Rochelle Park, N. J., will tell you you haven’t
seen anything.
Don was somewhere in the Villers Cotteret area on special
dyty with the Second division. A deafening barrage had been
rolling back and forth across the lines for mere than two hours.
The Germans were tossing every form of pyrotechnic display in
their bag of tricks. Huge 9.2’s roared overhead like great ex
press trains. Machine-gun bullets zipped by. An occasional ash
can from a miniewerfer battery would tumble lazily through
the early morning haze to spread itself with a devastating roar
in front of the barbed wire. It was a swell time to be someplace
else. But horror? Horror, nothing! The real horror was going
on right inside Don Aspinwall’s face.
Don Had a Toothache.
It was undoubtedly the outstanding disaster of the whole.
war. It had been going on for 24 hours and Don was con
vinced that if it went on two hours longer nothing could keep the
Germans from taking Paris. And Don was miles away from any pos
sible agency of relief. The only thing that could have stopped that
ache would be a well-placed bullet, and Don was all in favor of that.
“I tell you,” he says, ‘‘the actual Gospel truth. I poked my head over
““He had no anesthetic, but glancing behind me I knew the worst.
A stolid-faced six-foot Yorkshire orderly had sneaked in.”
the top of the trench several times and gave Jerry the Bronx Salute in
the sincere hope that some German officer might take offense and
order me erased with a machine-gun, field battery or some other sim
ilarly effective weapon.” 2
Attempts at Suicide Came Back Labeled, ‘“No Dice.”
But no German officer would have been sucker enough to
halt such an effective blow to the Allied cause. All Don’s attempts
at suicide came back to him labeled, ‘“No Dice.” He had to
wait until he was relieved from duty and then, in a semi-delirium
he lit out for the nearest British medical unit two miles away.
Eventually he got there and was ushered into the presence of a
brass hat who turned him over to a young medical lieutenant.
“It took him five minutes to diagnose the case of acute
toothache,” says Don, and then he seated me in an improvised
dental chair and looked worried. It seems there wasn’t any local
anesthetic in that part of the country and-—well—what to do?
Don told him what to do. He told him to get that tooth out of
there and to hell with the anesthetic. That didn’t seem quite cricket to
the young Englishman. He demurred for a moment. Then he seemed
to have an idea and said, “‘All right, Yank. But I say, it will bally-well
hurt you more than it does me.”
““With those words of comfort,” says Don, ‘he stepped out for a
minute. When he came back I watched him open a shabby black bag
and produce a none-too-clean pair of ordinary gas pliers. He had no
anesthetic, but glancing behind me I knew the worst. A stolid-faced
six-foot Yorkshire orderly had sneaked in. He stood at my back toving
with the barrel of a massive British Webley navy type revolver and
gauging the distance to certain sections of my skull with a practiced
eye. I didn’t have long to think about that though.”
Don didn’t have any time to think about it at all. The minute
he turned his head he felt something hit it that felt like a nudge
from a howitzer. There was a blinding flash and a million stars,
pin-wheels, constellations and blue lights danced before his eyes.
“I began to fall into a deep, black void,” he says. ‘At last,
1 thought, the Germans had planted a nice, juicy shell under the
dental chair, and I was all ready to put forth my hand and
receive my harp and halo. Then I began to be aware of a discon
certing fact. I could still feel a dull throb where my toothache
had been, and now there was another dull throb in the back of
my head.”
Gradually both old and new throbs increased in intensity. The black
before Don’s eyes faded to a gray haze, and through it he began to see
the features of the young British medical attendant. There was a large
moving blur behind the attendant. The haze cleared a little more and
Don could see it was the Yorkshire orderly. The orderly was calmly
wiping the butt of his Webley and Don distinctly remembers noticing that
several brown hairs still adhered to that butt. Don’s hair is brown,
tOO. He says that might, or might not, have been a coincidence.
And What a Climax. -
And then the doctor spoke.
Don couldn’t hear what he was saying very well, but the picture of
what happened was beginning to take shape in his brain. That York
shire orderly had been the anesthetic. He had socked Don on the coco
with the butt of that revolver. And now the medical attendant seemed
to be apologetic about it.
Don stopped him. .*“‘Don’t worry, doc,” he said. “It’s all right
with me. It was a swell job, even if your anesthetic was a bit
rough.”
The attendant shook his head and began to repeat his words. ‘‘Then,"
says Don, “my confused brain began to function-as I heard that Eng
lishman say, ‘Oh, I'm sorry, Yank, but I haven’t done anything yet,
you know. You see my orderly worked too fast and I had to wait until
you came out of it SO YOU COULD TELL ME WHICH TOOTH IT WAS!’”
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Scientists Find Locusts Are of 2 Distinct Kinds
I'here are two races of the peri
odical cicada—the seventeen-year
race and another that appears ev
ery 13 years Scientists have found
no differences in the two except
that one remains underground in the
iarva sand pupa stages four years
ionger than the other.
Every year is locust year in some
part of the country. There are 17
different broods of the 17 year race
and thirteen broods of the 13-year
race, writes a correspondent in the
Chicago Tribune. The broods have
been catalogued by Roman num
bers. Broods Nos. 1 to 17 compose
the 17-year race. The 13-year race
is numbered from 18 to 30. Broods
are thus easily distinguished.
There is overlapping of the terri
tories occupied by the two races ang
also by the different broods. In
some sections, however, the locusts
only appear at 13 or 17-year inter
vals, indicating the presence of only
one brood.
The periodical eicadas are not
found in the western part of the
United States. They live mainly ir
the wooded regions from the Atlan
tic coast westward to central! Kan.
sas.
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Constipation, and
Pepsin-ize Acid Stomach Too
When constipation brings on acid indi
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tongue, sour taste, and bad I’)reath, your
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move. So you need botfi Pepsin to help
break up fast that rich undigested food in
your stomach, and Laxative Senna to pull
the trigger on those lazy bowels. So be
sure your laxative also contains Pepsin.
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power of Pepsin to dissolve those lumps of
undigested protein food which may linger
in your stomach, to cause belching, gastric
acidity and, nausea. This is how pepsin
-Izing your stomach helps relieve it of such
distress. At the same time this medicine
wakes up lazy nerves and muscles in your
bowels to relieve your constipation. So see
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Temptations Multiply
He that labors may be tempted
by one evil; but he {hat is idle is
tempted by a ‘thousand.—ltalian
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