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‘2 ~Cetting ready to send out a troop convoy is like frying to empty a dozen mail-order warehouses at one time. : All around the terminal are huge supply dumps and vehicle parks. I saw about an acre of one type of material ready to be hauled overseas. Large fields were packed with rows of trench diggers, bulldozers, ambulances, sterilizing trucks, air corps repair shops on wheels and gasoline trucks. These are rolled up and swung aboard the transports by great cranes. As assembly plants: are developed at foreign bases it will be possible to save ship space by sending trucks in knocked-down form. The terminal buildings themselves all ‘connect with the headhouse along the dock. The service of supply has its own switching engines, and switching creWs are kept busy shunting. freight cars up into the terminal warehouses. There were cases of string beans, condensed milk, sauerkraut, canned fruit, canned ' meat, beans, ketchup, and other articles: hauled out to -the ship. ; The 8. O, 8. uses small trucks called fork lifts, which scoop of-dozens of cases at a time and roll them out to the .ship. One of these little scooters can do the work of several ‘large gangs of handlers. Loading has to be done rapidly because the pressure is on to reduce the turn-around time of all shipping.

It's a Tremendous Job!

THE COMPLETE SECRECY around such an .operation gives one a somewhat mysterious feeling. #Bome of the soldiers in this particular expedition had speculated every locality on the globe as a possible destination.

Incidentally, the soldiers go aboard without any bands or cheering crowds. The whole scene is very

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} Ernie Pyle has gone to Ireland. His stories from our army camps there should start in a few days.

By Raymond Clapper] ;

matter-of-fact, much as it would be on any dock where a freighter is loading. In looking over the merchandise which is to go out with the troops one realizes what infinite detail has gone into the planning. Some of the troops going aboard carried hand saws. On the docks were stacks of prefabricated houses. There were bundles of garden tools such as hose, rakes and spades, for raising vegetables for the commissary. The actual loading must be planned with the nature of the expedition in mind. The most efficient way to load is to put the heavy material at the bottom of the ship. But if it is an expedition which may have to go into action as it lands, then the loading must be changed so that fighting equipment and ammunition are up on deck ‘where the troops can get at it quickly. Some idea of the quantity of foodstuffs which must be taken may be gained from the fact that several thousand men must be fed over a period of perhaps several weeks. It would be like stocking an enormous restaurant for a long siege.

The Paper Work Involved!

ON ANOTHER TRANSPORT I saw the hospital arrangements. The main hospital is equipped with battery operating lights so that operations may be performed even if the ship’s lighting system goes out. - One often is tempted to question the vast amount of paper work in the military services. Yet when you see the enormous quantities of goods and the variety of them that must be handled swiftly and without any misplacing it is obvious that a most thorough checking and recording of the movement of these goods from one spot to another, even around the warehouse itself, becomes necessary if damaging delay and confusion are to be avoided. ! For instance, through some slip-up there were not enough new helmets to supply one outfit in the terminal where I was watching the loading. But it was possible instantly to locate an additional supply and truck them in later on in the evening.

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Inside IY By Lowell Nussbaum

KEEPING OUR EARS close to the ground as usual, we checked up on the 15-minute interlude yesterday when the stores sold nothing but war bonds and { stamps. The net was that everybody took it in a patriotic spirit and the sales were good. The downtown restaurants joined in, too, and in one of the dining rooms the headwaiter had disposed of two bonds and .a good many stamps by 12:30. At high noon, one of our big stores gave the © ® ® — signal over the bell system, buglers blasted’ forth on each floor and clerks donned streamer ribbons. ‘Customers were handed printed slips explaining what went on. In another store, a customer came in right at noon. “I want to buy that flag there,” he said pointing. “We're not selling a thing but bonds and stamps for 15 minutes,” replied the clerk. “Okay,” said the customer, “I'll wait.” <

Waited he did. At 12:15% -it- was" his flag. “Well, They're All Poison” AN AGENT OF OURS (he wouldn't want us to use his name) went into liquor establishment to buy himself a bottle of refresher, The man showed him two kinds. “Which is best?” asked our agent in high ence, “Well, they're all poison,” answered the “merchant a bit sadly. . . . Remember the “mystery plane?” Well, we just found out that the state police are still getting calls about night-flying ships. “We even had one about an army plane,” said Don F.

Britain's Crisis

WASHINGTON, July 2.—If the Nazis reach the

Nile, cut the Suez canal, bottle up or sink the British fleet or drive it from the Mediterranean—all distinct possibilities at this writing—only a miracle could save Churchill, After the lightning capture of Tobruk, reports from London suggested that the British prime minister was in danger of falling. Few informed officials here, however, took them seriously. It would require much more than that, they said, to oust such a popular figure from office. But now, they admit, much mere than that is happening, and they are wondering. Like Americans, the British do ’ not like to swap horses in the ‘middle of a stream. But they did it in 1916 under ‘circumstances somewhat similar to those of the

Stiver,. the state police boss. no “mystery plane.” thing.

The Scrapman’s Plans

CONSERVATIVELY SPEAKING, we'd say that 150,000 people will go out to see the Messerschmitt and other war planes next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the airport. On Army Day, when the army had a few planes on display there, W. Washington st. looked like 500-mile day. . . . If you've been saving tin cans like the government requested a few weeks ago, don’t grow too impatient. The chances are 99-to-1 that a collection will start in about 30 days. Dudley Smith, the WPB’s. salvage director, here, says the government still ‘wants those cans, but that it just takes time to work out a collection procedure. (Incidentally, the WPB switchboard girl confided to us that Mr, Smith's title is “scrapman.”)

Finished Your Latest Barrel?

A YOUNG LADY we know and her young man went to the courthouse to get their marriage license and as they came out of the clerk’s-office, a sourlooking man stepped up and asked softly: “Have you got a minister to marry you?” Johnny-on-the-spot, eh? , .. From a girl cab-driver: “They don’t let us drive at nights. That's dangerous business, you know.” . Our nomination for the best tieup with-the-war business slogan: “Beauty is your duty” on a Massachusetts ave. beauty parlor. . .. If you didn’t know it, your share of Indiana's beer swigging last year was 11.3 gallons. That's right. In 1940, your share was 10.1 gallons. Beer-frinkingest state in the union is Maryland with a per-capita consumption of 22.8 gallons. Eight states—including Indiana—consumed 57.5 per cent of the nation’s beer. Feel full?

By Wm. Philip Simms

s0 he insisted on shrapnel for the army in France. Unfortunately, he did not foresee trench warfare where high explosives were the thing and shrapnel was about as deadly as an April shower. And so on. But right about here the similarity ends. Back in the first world war, Britain had a David Lloyd George. His critics say he was not profound. Maybe he wasn’t. But he was dynamite, and his fulminations shook Britain deep enough to get results. So, late in 1916, when the clamor for a new man to lead the government came to a head, Lloyd George went in and. Asquith went out,

But Something Must Be Done

THE DIFFERENCE between 1916 and 1942 would seem to be this: The opposition to Asquith was not merely vocal; it had a definite program. It did not confine itself to grumbling over defeats; it said what would have to be done to win. Above all, it

The answer is there is People just call—about every-

Rivalry Yanks and

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“You'll win it only because we fought your war for you during two years while you were fighting only with dollars,” a Briton answers bitterly. z “Yeah? You haven't done so much,” the American jeers. “You couldn’t even hold Singapore, the world’s greatest naval base!” “We couldn’t hold Singapore,” the Britisher replies angrily, “because you were asleep. You were supposed to keep command of the seas, based on Pearl Harbor.” “Anyway, co-operation demands some sacrifices.” “When you find 100 per cent cooperation, it is likely to be 90 per cent British and 10 per cent American.” The quarrel is on. No good comes of such useless, silly blamethrowing. Neither convinces the other but each goes home ‘and tells his wife of the argument and how he pulverized his opponent. The wives then repeat as their own husbands’ witticisms at the bridge table next day causing bitter, unhealing wounds.

Other Nations Puzzled

MEANWHILE, there is a spectator to the fight. He is most likely: a businessman—Argentine, Brazilian, Uruguayan, Chilean.

fighting for the Nazis?” he ‘asks with utter reasonableness. “While we are talking,” he continues, “let me tell you we don’t like your blacklists.” You both call them war measures to choke Germany now, but you mean them as a step to economic control of my country after the war. We can't afford that. We must keep as many countries interested in our

all of you against each other for our own salvation.” The Britisher takes the bait. 1“American officials operating their blacklists of axis firms in South America have learned British trade secrets and are passing on that information to American exporters.” “Why not?” counters the American. “British censorship in Trinidad photostated important trade letters exchanged between American firms and their clients in Latin ‘America—for the benefit of British export trade.”

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“YOU BOYS should get together,” the South American says.

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“Why don’t you both keep your

countries as possible, to balance

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embassy in Washington, has investigated it officially: in a recent trip through Colombia, Peru, Argent: na, Rereguey and Brazil.

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Fear Post-War Friction:

THE QUARREL goes something like this: “After we win this war, we’ll have to fight the British,” an Anierican businessman says casually at the American club in Buenos Alves.

“There should be—but isn’t—complete understanding between Eritish and American embassies about blacklists. Blacklisting by one should mean—but doesn ’t— blacklisting by the other.” | The Britisher retorts: “The American embassy is trying to drive us out of Brazil. Thank God, you can’t possibly do that in Argentina.” “Why interfere with us in Latin America?” the American g:ks. “We don’t interfere with you. i in India.” There’s the nub. The cat’s| out of the bag. At this point the South Am:erican’s worst fears are confirmed. Britishers and Americans are fighting—to control his couxry. At this rate the good neighbor policy is just another name for the kind of imperialism wich Britain exercised to “keep ‘open the: road to India.” The South American leaves the club and looks in the newspaper to :see how the Germans are doing. ‘But some British and Americans have recognized the dediizer. In Buenos Aires some mor ths ago, a small group of junior American and British busiiess executives recognized the fac: of this senseless backbiting and ow it played into the hands of : ie Nazis’ fifth column.

8 = = I Good Will Dinners THEY ‘ORGANIZED 3 Duichtreat dinner once a month. They shun publicity, won’t have their names known or their plac: of meeting. I dined with them one night and shall respect their wishes. They have only one uty and purpose: To step on falk, gossip and slander disruptive to British-American co-operatio:. Additionally, some Amer ans in Buenos Aires deliberately irequent their British clubs ‘and Britishers the American ‘cluh: to be seen, to eat, drink and ple; together, to fraternize.

In Rio De Janeiro in. the past month, something of the zame sort has occurred. Every ‘week now, a number of business: nen, plus some American and British diplomats, meet for cocktails, alternating the nationality of heir host. These are laudable efforts to mend a serious split. ‘The complete solution is not here, for these efforts only attack the outer

South America’s Trade 3

By ALLEN HADEN Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, "ly

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 17 (By Clipper).—An exe tremely serious cleavage between Americans and British in South America has split the united front needed to fight ; the Nazis here and, unless patched soon, it promises impair the possibility of peacetime reconstruction. Post-war policy, which both London and Washington are tying to define: (still somewhat hesitatingly), attempts to bypass precisely this kind of pernicious rivalry. As a war effort, it is pieposterous for allies to fight side by side against Jz p= anese, Germans, Italians, only to have the cousins of soldiers being killed squabbling over shares of trade in South America. So serious has the quarreling become that Eric Lingeman, former commercial counselor at the British embassy in Buenos Aires and now at the British

American troops as they appeared recently marching in London, ‘Says Mr. Haden: It is preposterous for allies to fight side by side against Japanese, Germans, Italians, only to have the cousins of soldiers being killed squabbling over shares of trade in South America.

manifestations. They do not answer the basic question. Why is this British-American feud? For men who speak a foreign language all day, there is a fatal temptation to insult a man . in English, a temptation which neither Americans nor British seem able to resist, however pleasant, it aids the Nazis. They love it, It is meat to their chopper. Their whispering propaganda takes full advantage of the quarrel, feeding it, fanning it.

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ruption of their enemies. ’ ” 2 2

Same Way in Last War

IT IS UNFORTUNATELY not a new thing. Something of the sort existed during the last war, The other day I found a Portuguese translation of a book called “England’s Effort.” It consists ostensibly of six letters to an American friend by Mrs. Humphry Ward. It was written in 1916, a British propaganda work. Reading the book today, it is curious and very sad to find Mrs. Ward recognizing and carefully demolishing arguments which sound as if made from 1939 to 1942. When British and ‘American men and women in South America fight on the basis of partial information, they disagree profoundly with the policy Washington and London are trying to arrive at on the basis of full information. Here’s policy. Vice President Henry A. Wallace wasn’t fooling when speaking about the postwar world, he said on May 25,

British Tommies on the march.

1942: “No nation will have the God-given right to exploit other nations. Older mations will have the privilege of helping younger nations get started on the path

to industrialism but there must

be neither military nor economic imperialism.” 2 2 2

Wallace Spoke for All

POLICY ALSO is the working of lease-lend. The fundamental of that plan—debated and settled in congress—was that Great Britain should not be forced to deliver foreign investments into American hands before receiving financial assistance. If Britain were stripped of foreign investments she would be bankrupt at the war’s end. This condition we, as a nation, cannot afford to permit, since England is a better customer of the United States than all Latin America put together.

Mr. Wallace spoke for the very

top men in England and America. He also spoke for the very lowest in both countries—and in all the world. But Mr, Wallace was not heard by the in-betweens, the men who operate banks, make telephone and telegraph cables hum, who buy and sell. Mr, Wallace wasn’t heard by vice presidents, general managers and engineers—British or American. Putting it baldly, the in-be-tweens see a chance for a killing. "At best, the British want to inherit German trade, at worst to hold their former position. The Americans at worst, want to inherit the German share of trade

Future Auto Will Be More Economical,

and at best displace the British also.. » = ” "THE WORLD has progressed from’ such crude concepts. One doesn’t “control” continents any more by the principles of 1929 capitalism. If one does, this war’s in vain, And while this has been realized in the supreme war and ° economic‘ councils, it must filter down to the field. I have discussed this problem with Amerigan, British and South. American businessmen and diplomats over a period of months, They feel the situation urgently requires remedy. Sifting suggestions, they boil down to approxi= mately this: 1. Restate. in Washington and London the policy of Anglo~ American : co-operation, and why, 2. Home offices of firms having interests in South ‘America should * be mobilized through chambers of commerce to have their representatives know and understand the broad policy. The tenor of communicatiors to the field should ‘be: “We are allies. Don’t knock -an ally. Keep legitimate competition~ for after the war.” 3. Strict instructions by the state department and the foreign office to American and British diplomats respectively. The tenor: “Co-operate positively. If you can’t, come home. Stop knocking, We're not trying to’ steal South America from each other. . Keep your business communities coe operating.”

ASKS BILLION

Cheaper and Lighter, Engineers Believe

By Science Service 1 NEW YORK, July 2.—Whea the cessation of hostilities permi's the manufacture of automobiles = the new cars will be smaller, lighter, lower, cheaper and more ec:nomical than present ones, anc some radical new designs with eng ine in the rear may be seen. This is the consensus of engineering opinion - as gathered by Frank Jardine, chief engin:sr of the castings division of thd Aluminum’ Company of Americe. pub-. lished in the isstie of the Society! of Automotive Engineers Journal appearing today. The first post-war autos. he warned, however, .will probsly be similar to the 1942 models, anc. jiiose

expensive. Sage. Toque

develop the:

PLANE IN FIGHT

Pilot on Torpedo Mission In Midway Reveals Unusual Flight.

HEADQUARTERS, HAWAIIAN AIR FORCE, June 23 (Delayed) (U. P.).—Pvt. Earl D. Ashley told today how his torpedo plane had passed a flight of Japanese bombers during the Midway air-naval battle without firing. a shot. Each ignored the other and sped on toward their assigned objectives. Pvi. Ashley, 21, of Williamston, N. C,, told the story from his bed

had a go-getter for a leader in the person of Lloyd George. Today Churchill’s opposition has no Lloyd George. Lloyd George lis still living, but politically he has been buried a long time. Sir Stafford Cripps is an intellectual. But those who know him best do not Class him with Churchill as a leader of men. 4 Anthony Eden is one of England's cleverest and most likeable younger. statesmen. But he lacks the John Bull touch which/ the people of Britain love. Major Clement Attlee and Ernest Bevin, labor party leaders, have many qualifications but hardly those required of a prime minister at this particular moment. Nor does Beaverbrook seem to have what it takes, brilliant executive though he has proved himself to be. But. something will have to be done. “In war,” said the late Earl Grey of Fallodon, “if something clearly wrong or unwise is demanded it is necessary to resist public clamor; but it is necessary to do what will inspire public confidence.” Churchill now faces one of those moments.

TO HELP GHINA

Chungking Offic Official Seeks U.S. Help to Industrialize Nation After War.

WASHINGTON, July 2 (U. P.).— Formation of a $1,000,000,000 China reconstruction finance corporation to carry out a postwar program of industrialization in China was pro= posed today by H. D. Wong, ree ‘search director of the Nankai instie tute of economics at Chungking. In a pamphlet published by the national planning association, Mr, Wong said postwar development of China was a primary responsibility of the united nations and an essen=

present time. In the first war, as in the second, Britain and Kier 3 allies got off to a bad start. They were pretty severely mauled. Save at the first battle of the Marne they failed to score, and casualties were extremely high. Criticism of the government ‘mounted.

The Situation in 1916—

HERBERT ASQUITH was prime minister. Lord Kitchener was his ‘minister of war. Kitchener, fresh ffom Egypt and the Sudan, was a great popular hero. In him, as in Churchill, the people had every confidence. Whatever he did was bound to be right.

But Kitchener belonged fo the old school of British officers. He had no faith in any but regular soldiers. The territorials he referred to as “a town clerk’s army.” He was aware that Britain would have to raise and train a great new force, but he was behind the times on how it should be armed. He * knew shrapnel was good stuff for desert fighting

The engineers believed that there would be extensive use of substitute materials developed during the war, with savings in weight and cost and in many instances with mechanical

improvement. Increased production of aluminum and magnesium would permit greater use of these lightweight materials, Plastic windshields curved at the corner posts will permit better seeing. Tires will be about the same but may be of synthetic or natural rubber." Hydraulic drives and brakes, automatic transmission and ‘overdrive will definitely appear on all but: the low-priced ‘models. Engines will be smaller and lighter in weight. Carburetors will probtoljably not be changed, but - superged charges -and fuel-injection: systems

may be developed. Eventually the engine may be placed in the rear. These are some of the specifications for the future car as dreamed by present-day engineers, but subject to future revision.

Afraid to Seize Cuspidor Mats

WASHINGTON, July 2 (U. PJ). —Only Oil Co-ordinator Harold L. Ickes’ fear of congress keeps him from gathering the rubber cuspidor mats in the house and senate and tossing them on the scrap pile. He admitted as much in letters to Vice President Henry Wallace

My Day

NEW YORK, Wednesday —Yesterday morning at Hyde Park Mrs. Morgenthau, Mrs. Fleeson O'Donnel and I took the three little girls to visit the Vanderbilt ‘mansion, . Since Mrs, Morgenthau and I had been through it a number times, we wandered around .nd examined the trees outside, and for the first time I discovered a cucumber tree. To other people it may be

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Gloria Swanson, in a play called “Reflected Glory.” However, all these leisurely country activities were exchanged this morning for New York City and Washington, and a more exacting existence, I have just received the following postcard and

I imagine there are a good many people who are

troubled ' in the same way, so I quote it here. It comes from Schenectady, N. Y., and reads: “Could you enlighten the people? How can a baby be supported on "$12 a month—which amounts to about 40 cents a day? The second child receives $10

in Farrington hospital, where he was recovering from wounds received during a one-sided machine gun duel with a swarm of Japanese

. fighters which attacked his plane

after it successfully launched its torpedo at a Japanese carrier. He was given a purple heart award for his work as tail gunner in the plane.

Ordered to Get Carrier His squadron, he said, was given orders on the morning of June 4 to “get a Japanese carrier.” The squadron of medium army

new models, and meanwhile, Sogo) tools and machinery already. on hand will have to-be used. Nor may| _

we expect new cars to run off the

assembly line the moment 4 ostilities cease. Time, is also requi ‘od to change from war-time to Deacetime production. Here -are some of the fens of automotive engineers regardiny the

future car. But Mr. Jasdine also} : warns that future events may re-|.f

quire some considerable. revision of present-day ideas.

HOLD EVERYTHING

and Speaker Sam Rayburn, in - which he intimated that improved accuracy in expectorating by lawmakers would divert the congressional mats to the war effort. “I would gather up your cuspidor mats myself, but I am afraid of congress,” Mr. Ickes said. “I need some help, and I won't question its legality.” His fear doesn’t extend to the White House, however. He picked up a floot mat at the executive mansion Monday and donated it to the scrap rubber collection.

tial step toward bringing about “stability in world social, economic and political relations.” “China’s contribution to world peace after the war must lie in her own rejuvenation as a modern industrialized nation,” he said, “able to defend herself against for= eign aggression and thus to serve as a stabilizing factor in the preservation of freedom and democracy in the Far East.”

- China Assets Limited Because of China's limited’ cape

; *familiar, but I had never come across one before.

We then stopped to look at the murals painted by Olin Dows in the little Hyde Park postoffice. Each painting has local historical interest. These paintings make this postoffice. colorful and interesting. 2 oeiok, ‘Mrs. Morgenthau and I attended a of the emergency home demonstration com- : sponsores by the Dutehiess County Farm Bu-_

While everyone was agre: d that the new cars would be cheaper, there was much variation as to actual prices. In the low pric: range, the average was $700 for a car that would do 30 miles on a gallon of gas. The large cars average: $2000 1 20 miles to a gallon «i gas. economies would be ::zquired ioe oftset higher gas taxes. Raogular fuel would be 80-octane, jp emium fuel 100-octane. : Weight of the cars would he re-| -|duced by as much as 1000 pe

per month, 33% cents a day, when he must drink two quarts of milk a day.” (A rather excessive amount!) “How can yous-buy medicine, clothing, for the other three cents a day? “Also, I would like to know how baby food which must be mixed with milk can be bought every five or six days at 79 cents? Is there a nursery in New York state where you could board a child at such a ridiculous amount ‘per month. I am inducted in the army.” Perhaps the answer is in he now 350 4 mh pay. Ouaryse, I can't answer it either, unless the 8 10 Work and she WPA nurseries and. nur-

bombers ‘raced out from Midway toward its objective. It passed a flight of Japanese bombers en route to Midway and they passed without firing a shot. The Japanese were carrying out orders to attack Midway, and the Americans were bent on destroying the Japanese carriers. The American success in the Midway battle a part was due to. the fact “tig the the. . :

ital resources, Mr. Wong asserted,

ARMED BANDIT ROBS RITZ THEATER OF $60

Armed with ‘a blue steel auto- | matic; a light-haired bandit last night held,up the Ritz theater, 34th and Illinois sts, and escaped with $60.

development; of postwar China.” : - Since a potentially wealthy but undeveloped China would “forever be a cause for possible international Miss Betty Glass, 3462 N. Illinois| conflict over her control,” Mr. Won st., was the cashier. . She said the/said, China must find . appeared to 30, place in te world’s