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The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
u. S. Watches azores
As Possible Threat
To atlantic Security

NEW YORK.-Direct fight of
commercial airplanes between New
York and the Azores islands. a dis
lance of 1000 miles. has again TO-
cused attention on the Azores as a
potential aerial threat to American
security.
Beginning this spring, two Ameri-
can transatlantic air services are
making the 2.00o-mile trip in a sim
gle hop. carrying mail and passen-
gers. Military men see no reason
why invading bombers could not
make the same trip.
Thus the dreamy Portuguese is
lands in mid-Atlantic have assumed
tremendous significance within a few
short months. after 500 years of iso-
lation and loneliness. They have
moved within Is hours of the Allan
tic seaboard.
The islands have belonged to the
Portuguese since their discovery
in l444. The United States holds
no fear of invasion from the Azores
so long as Portugal owns them,
for the friendly relation of these two
nations has continued unbroken
since Colonial times. But it is
not implausible to assume that an
aggressor power may some day
seize them.
Several military men have ex-
pressed this fear openly. In 1898,
Rear Adm. Yates Stirling, former
navy chief of staff, expected Franco
Spain to capture Portugal.
Maj. George Fielding Eliot treats
the same subject in his book, THE
Ramparts to Watch" He says: For
these islands to pass into German
control. either directly or by means
of a Portuguese puppet government
dominated by Nazis and Fascist
influence would be a matter of such
grave concern that it's a question
whether we ought not to resist"
Aerial experts point u that ene-
my boInbers from the Azores would
have to fly only LILO miles to reach
Newfoundland. Thus an air base in
the Azores would be considerably
closer to our coast than Hawaii.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
u. S. Farmer Puts Money in the Bank
While City Folk End Up Behind 8-Ball
By OSCAR REGAIN

released by Western Newspaper Union.)
w Though
W his source of income is
constantly threatened by nat
ural and artificial disasters
and he must support the ma
tons largest family, Mr.. Az
m nFarmerman-
ages to save more money
than any other average man
in the United States. What's
more. chronological trends viii
probably enable him to better his
record for economy in the next few
years-and get fat doing 1t.
A house-to-house survey of more
than 1000, 600 farm, village and city
families by the department Of ag-
riculture reveals that 70 per cent Of
the nations farm families consist of
five or more persons. Only 20 per
cent of the village and city groups
II that large, the average being
slightly under three. Yet where in
come is from 81, 900 to 81, $50 a year,
a farm family ends the year with
a saving of $26 up, while city fam
lilies of the same level wind up in
a deep financial hole. Let a farm
er get his hands on as much as
$4,000 to S. 900 a year and he'll save
almost half of it. the survey dis
closed.
His Diet Is Better.
While watching his pennies, the
farmer manages to eat more good
things than other groups. His brood
OF FIVE consumes 90 per cent more
milk. 16 per cent more butter and
rs per cent more fresh vegetables
than city families. Village families.
incidentally, are shown by the sur
vey to be the poorest fed in the
land, some almost to the point Of
malnutrition. though an abundance
of fresh and nourishing food is usu-
ally available nearby.
In fairness, however, the survey
discloses that farmers do not have
as many incidental expenses as their
urban brethren. Less than half those
questioned had electricity, while 98
per cent of city and village dwell
ers get monthly power bills. Only
So per cent of the rural families
had installed telephones as COM
pared with go per cent for village
and urban families.
More than "a per cent Of city
homes we're billed for running wa
ter, while in the north-central re-
gion of the United States ony "a
per cent of the farms paid for that
convenience. Furthermore though
"a per cent Of the farmers own au-
tomobiles as compared with only
70 per cent of the others, the agrari-
ans buy th~ree-fourths of their cars
from the used-car market while
more than half the city families buy
new cars.
However, from one point Of view,
farm savings are menaced by the
rapid spread Of rural identification.
Within the past decade the benefits
OF electricity. according to the Rur-
al Eiectrincation administration,
have been extended TO 700. 900 farms.
In addition. the hard-surfacing Of
approximately IS per cent Of the
nations primary and secondary
highways has brought the costly at
fractions of the city-beauty par
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NAMES
In the news

q Congressman Hamilton Fish, who
wanted Roosevelt's foreign activi-
ties investigated. himself led colored
N. Y. troops In the last war. He
fought with the French army, in
the only American unit officially at
tached TO the Gallo high command.
Fish also was Harvard football cap
tain. and a member of the Harvard
crew. He is R~oosevelts unwilling
fellow-townsman in Hyde Park.
N. Y.
q DR.. Thomas Parran, surgeon
general of the U. S. public health
service. declared that cancer. which
caused more than lao, 900 deaths
last year, is on the increase and
ranks as second leading cause of
death.
q The Irish Republican army OF
wild men demonstrated against
tall. calm canon DE Valera, pre-
mier Of Fire. VAL was born in
New York, with a Spanish father.
and an Irish mother and sympa-
thies. His American origin saved
him from an English firing squad in
1916.
q william Horlick Jr., IS, whose
father started the multi-million dol
lar Horlick matted milk fortune.
died at Racine. Wis.
q William r. Buckner, who began
serving a two-year term for mail
fraud in the Philippine railway
bonds scandal. was revealed to be
the husband Of Adelaid Moffet, night
club singer and heiress to Standard
Oil millions.
GHenry Ford ii, grandson Of the
great Henry. is preparing TO become
a Roman Catholic. His grandfather
comes Of Irish Protestant stock. The
boys father is Edsel Ford.
q Harry Hopkins, secretary of
commerce, sent his 100, 900 census
takers out to work with the admoni-
ton that their task is not an lin
cuisiiion' and that they should ham
e the people politely. Said he:
~ will meet people who have
been misinformed. who are ION.
j.. e.. 1--WE them the true facts.
Ee polite ard patient. Show your
credentials willingly"
q Warren X. Billings, famous as
Tom Moneys political iail-mate in
California, got married In Nevada
70 Miss Josephine Rudolph, who met
h.rn IN curt.
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MURDER DE LUXE:

It is hoped that the English and
Nazi newspapers do not go to town
on tidings from Brooklyn, N. Y.
There the mass-murder racket in
vestigation continued under Dis
trict Attorney O'Dwyer. II turned
out that the mass-murdering outfit
maintained branch Offices in various
cities. on a truly national scale. Kid
Twist Abe Relies told astonishing
details; n poor music publisher
had been shot down on the errone-
suspicion that he was a Dewey
witness. Three important Brooklyn
witnesses we're held at 500, 900 bail
apiece. for their own safety" One
gangster was arrested: he had given
Scarface AL Capone that famous
scar. His name was Frank Galluc-
clio.
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let ii be known, to take a more
active part in pushing the war. and
there was a lot Of gossip about
Chamberlain going the way OF DALAI
dier-into the prime-ministerial dis
card. Due TO British naval losses,
there was also talk Of the axe for
Winston Churchill. arst lord Of the
admiralty.
It appeared that the neutrals
would suffer, as the result Of an in
creased war endeavor by the allies.
Germany must be shut of from oil
and iron. and If Norwegian. or Ru-
manian. or Russian neutrality suf-
fered In consequence, that could not
be helped. The special threat was
aimed at iron-carrying ships, from
Narvik. Norway. to Stettin. Ger
many, which have the habit Of plod-
ding safely along in Norwegian ter
ritorial waters, free from the frus-
trated allied blockade. The allied
reasoning ran something like this:
No Swedish iron; no German steel;
no Nazi mailed fist; no Hitler.
But the neutrals were not too
afraid Of the allies. The Dutch shot
down a British bomber that had vio-
lated their neutrality. and Rumania
appeared to be turning more and
to the German camp. The
Russian ambassador to France ex-
pressed rude opinions in a telegram
to Moscow, and the French kicked
him out on a variety OF charges.
France appeared to want war with
the Soviets; England, most emphat-
ieally. did not. as a number of sig
nincant organizational elections
across the channel showed.
Meanwhile, the Germans and Nor
wegians scored off one another. l to
/. A German U-boat wormed its
sinister way into Kirkwall. British
base In the faraway Orkney islands
north Of Scotland. and "singed
Churchlll's whiskers, II any" by
sinking a Norwegian freighter,
which was safely" held there by
the British navy. This was consid-
cred another maritime coup; but the
Norwegians countered by interning
a stranded U-boat in Norwegian wa
tiers, which aroused the customary
amount OF Juror T~eutonicus. There
was sensational talk Of a U-boat
base on the Pacific, at Whale bay.
southwest of Vladivostok, in the ST.
bcrian maritime province.
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troops sent abroad or held for train.
ing are American volunteers. OF
whom between 10, 900 and $4,000 are
said to have crossed the border
since war began.
Unlike 1914, when hostilities
brought feverish recruiting Of men
for cannon fodder and women for
nursing and bandage-making. the
war of 1910 finds Canada going along
much as usual. Only a few select
troops are accepted and they must
pass rigid examinations. Women,
no longer needed for bandage-wrap-
ping and sock-knitting, r concen-
trating instead on saving food and
working in Offices and factories.
Nor Is Great Britain demanding
huge quantities of foodstuffs as in
1914. Canadian farmers. who ex-
pected such a rush. r left with
bullying granaries.
As a source of war supplies and
a training ground for allied aviation
Canada is rapidly becoming so inn
portant that many believe 1t may
be the British empires most impor-
tant industrial center when the war
is over. Some $4,000 pilots from
England. Australia. New Zealand
and other parts of the empire are
being given their final training in
Canada.
The dominion is also manufactur-
ing planes, shells and automobiles.
Battleships may also be built there
eventually. for Canada is now max
ing smaller naval vessels.
AS never before, Canada at war
is emphasizing her financial indie.
pendence from England, acting al
most as a separate nation. Cana
dian securities held in England are
being repatriated and ST. 500. 900, 900
worth of Canadian-held American
securities are being sold back to the
United States.
The dominion is financing all
munitions manufacturing herself.
granting credits TO Britain and ear
marking her gold for Britain. When
peace finally comes she will not only
be independent of London but may
actually be a creditor nation.
But Canada's nonparticipation in
hostilities does not mean that life
goes on minus wartime restrictions.
Exports of war materials to neutral
nations are prohibited. Newspapers
and the radio are subject to severe
censorship.
Industry has been placed largely
under government control. yet
Prime Minister Mackenzie King has
pointedly assured the people that he
does not intend to keep it there.
AS a reinsurance on this point
the government has enlisted the aid
of experts from finance, industry
and commerce.
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SUPREME H COURT:

Our top tribunal found guilty the
Ethyl Gasoline corporation. in an
antitrust case. Ethyl. despite her
attractive name. was accused OF IL
censing jobbers in a way contrary
to the public veal. At the bottom
Of the cas- was an anti-khock COM
pound . Also. according to the
court. the Federal Communications
commission may license new radio
stations freely. without ~bothering
about the veal of other radio sta
tons j. 4. Also. Judge Gordon. OF
the Washington federal district
court, declared that trade unions
were just as liable as anybody or
anything else. under the Sherman
antitrust law. including the serious
charge Of criminal conspiracy, This
decision was good news TO capital
lists the country over.
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UP ABOVE:

The American airplane transport
system is fast becoming one of the
nations good boys. We point with
pride: Once we viewed with alarm.
A full year has just passed without
a single death or serious injury to
any passenger. pilot. steward, or
innocent bystander on the u. S. air
ways. This encouraging figure
takes in well over two million trav-
elers. and nearly 80 million aerial
miles. The statement came from
the Civil Aeronautics authority,
which has no axe to grind.
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n are industry and agriculture.
not guns.
To be sure, one division Of troops
has already been sent abroad but
this was more to pacify the Cana
dians than because Great Britain
wanted them. There are already
too many men or the western front
and the allies are in greater need
Of economic resources.
To make il even more unusual,
a large number of the Canadian
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
FORODDS & FORENDS:

q Tokyo, capital of the japanese
empire of Nippon. claimed a popu-
lation of 1000. 900. This is said to
make the Jap-cap the worlds second
city. with New York first. and Lon
don third. London. formerly first
in population. has been reduced by
wholesale excavations. blackouts,
and utter boredom, so the story
goes. Berlin is still fourth. and YER
minous Warsaw has doubled Its
population since the war began.
q With the Spanish civil war a year
over. the Rrandees mobile families of
No. ID took stock. Dictator
Franco recently restored them their
confiscated by the late la
republic. but still they had
paid q heavy toll. Records Of the
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
Woman-of-th Week

mhD 1JHLnh M hOS0A
Uncertain OF his nations
fate, Finnish Minister TO the
u. S. HjaimGr ]. ProcoPe kept
mum about his marriage plans
until Finland came to terms
with Russia. after that he lost
no tiSie. Bundled aboard a
u. S.-bound steamer was Miss
Margaret Shaw Of Yorkshire,
England. Minister Procope
met her at the dock in New
York. Next day they were
married at the Fairfax, Va,
home Of r. Walton Moore,
counselor Of the u. S. state
department, by the Req. F. Y.
Joki OF the Brooklyn Finnish
Lutheran church. ahead, be-
fore the Procopes settled dotCn
in Washington, boas a south
ern honeymoon.
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Council OF Grandees indicated that
40 ermine-clad ducal ones had been
killed in the civil war. and that no
less than li6 more of them had been
"assassinated." II was further re.
ported that Spain was slowly gath.
ering momentum in reconstruction;
that her people and her leaders
were pro-German; but that her eco
nomic life now was closely integral
ed with the fortunes. of the allies.
1t Is typically Spanish. that the His
panic heart does NOT follow the
dollar.
q Pope Plus XII called for more
Christianity in all nations, and for
a rebirth OF human decency in the
face of hell on earth, i'll viii to
men. He deplored the bombing Of
civilians. the violations Of treaties,
and the whole conception of power.
politics and super-tough Realpolitik.
The Mohammedans. in India. usu.
ally the fast friends of John Eull as
against Gandhi and his predomi.
nantly Hindu Congress party. de-
nounced British treatment of the
Mehammedan Arabs in Palestine.
thus complicating both the Indian
and Minor Asian toothaches.
q Canada rallied enthusiastically to
the war. by a landslide Liberal cleo
ton which sustained Premier Mac.
kenzie King. II meant another five.
year term for the Lbs. all things
being equal and reasonably success
full. The King cabinet had pledged
itself most emphatieally against
CONSUMPTION for Canadians, which
satisfied the pacific French of Que.
bee and the polyglots of the western
provinces. Social credit, a radical
experiment. retained control of AL.
berta. but the Tories lost catas-
graphically, all along the line.
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ance OF the
nation
has ever seen.
H a v / z
straight for
wardly de-
clared war
against Nazi
Germany,Oa
nadians and
forced TO fight
on tn e
western front
but at home.
Their weap-
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
NICKEL SUBWAY:

The end Of the famous ive-cent
subway fare in New York city was
predicted! The state senate ami
assembly both passed the Mofat-
Coudert bill, taking away control of
the City subway-fare system from
the legislature, and turning it over
to the city board of estimate. Spe-
eial gloom was registered by the
nickel-minded subway Democrats.
Among city proletarians. the FIVE
cent fare has been always a fetish.
Many local Republicans have long
considered il a nonsense.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
INTOLERANCE:

: The allied war council met, some
what bewildered by IL all. in Lon
don. The French and English re-
affirmed their unity. barred any
separate peace by either. and an
nounced that their financial. econo-
mic and imperialistic cooperation
would continue after the present
wal was over They intended. they
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06

W r POTOCkI
-Poland's ambassador 10 the
u. S., whose alleged reports
TO WARSAW on conversations
sDifh William Builiff, u. S.
ambassador to France, .Oerc
published in Berlin. Said
Pofocki: 81 deny the aliega-
fions - neUer had any
(such) conversations
unison. But Congressman Hamilton
Fish and the hardshell isolationists
were Infatuated, asserting that
where there Is smoke. there Is a
fire or two. Fish demanded a thor
ough investigation. and others de-
hed the President TO laugh IL of. |
or no salt. II was . bad thing
0 have happen in a presidential,
q shird-term, year.
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Canada Fights 'Strangest War
With Industry Instead of Guns

OTTAWA. - When Cana
" dian Prime Minister w.
L. Mackenzie King won a vote
of confidence in his special
war mandate" election in
late March, it unleashed
forces which permit continu-
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Release of Polish Documents
Creates Furore in Washington;
Hull, Bullitt Deny Nazi Charge

EDITORS NOTE-when opinions are expressed In these columns 'hey
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily Of this newspaper
Released b WestenN NEWSPAPER Union. -A-
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06

\A/ILLIAM L. AUSTIN. director
W Of the census, was born on
Hurricane farm" in Mississippi.
He is an easy-going citizen, in the
censu bureau 40 years, and hasn't
yet headed for a cyclone cellar as
the extraordinarily prying 1910 cen
sus heads into a low barometer. He
has been extremely tight-lipped
about ensus data. In 1886, he re-
minded some persistent reporters
that the law did not allow the release
of census information. ''even to the
justice department"
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06

BUILDING more stately mansions
- for his soul. Fritz Mandl. the
Austrian munitioneer, runner-up for
Zaharof, was interrupted by Adolf
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-06

WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

Consolidated Features-WNU Seryice.l
NEW YORK. - Paul Reynaud,
~ who was asked to form a new
French cabinet, and successor to
Premier Daladier. put through the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-12

the names and realize just what has hap
pened to the fair kingdom over which
they ruled only short time ago.
Gracious Queen Wilhelmina Of the
Netherlands seeks refuge in England,
while her own land, for all we know, con-
tinues to be the haven of Kaiser VIII
helm, the last World Wars grim joker.
Alfonso of Spain and Halle Selassie OF
Ethiopia are also in London or were at
last reports, though the former occas-
ionally gets the wanderlust. Fog Of Al
bania had been making Paris his retreat.
Where he will 60 from there with the
Germans at the very gates, who knows?
Beck of Poland fretS away his days
somewhere in Rumania and Benes of
CzechoSlovakia restlessly travels up and
down the world. Most pathetic of all is
undoubtedly Schuschnigg of Austria, still
a forgotten prisoner of the Nazis. King
Haakon of Norway has gone to join other
royalty in England, but Leopold, criti-
cized and condemned by friends and foe
alike, is said to have been entrenched in
a German castle until such time as he
may be returned to Belgium.
Even the Duke of Windsor joins this
lonely little coterie of semi-outcasts Con-
flicting rumors have him still at war
work in England and back on the Riviera
relegated once again to the sidelines by
his native land. To their suffering Of
loss of homeland is added that of loss Of
glory. Shakespeare put it this way in
Richard II:
You may my glories and my states
depose,
But not my griefs; still I am king
of those
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-12
Baccalaureate

u. This is the season of the baccalaureate
sermon. Thousands OF graduating
classes all over the country, dressed in
their Sunday best, are sitting in uncom-
Portable chairs and listening to the words
of admonition and advice that launch
them in the world. Young people are
pretty smart these days. There is prob
ably little of what the paunchy gentle
men are telling them before the diplomas
are passed that they don't know already.
They know that it Is pretty foul world.
The daily reports from Europe are enough
to assure them of that They grew up
during 10 years of depression before that,
and they know that even without war
, the world is no bed Of roses
Well, who ever said it was? There was
q time, 40 or so years ago, when gradu-
ates could be spooned little verbal
sugar. and water concoction at gradu-
alton time without too much harm being
done. It was sugar-andwate world.
Graduates were fairly sure that If they
were diligent and reliable, they would
get along. The life that stretched before
them might get little dull, but it was
safe.
That is all over. For sugar and water,
the world has substituted blood and tears.
1t is going to be hard going in the years
ahead, and we think the young folks
know it. But if any of them are whim-
pering, we haven't heard that, either.
They came into world that just isn't
good enough. They have the task OF
making it better.
That at least is a challenge. Is it a
world where force and brutality reign?
Very well. 1t is also world to be brought
to order and justice. It is a world which
questions whether ordinary people are
good enough and smart enough to man
age their own affairs without being
knocked around by man in braided
coat? Very well, it is also world yearn-
ing for a demonstration that free people,
standing on their own legs, can carry on
their affairs effectively and maintain a
climate in which life is worth living. Is
1t a world whose goods and whose oppor-
tunities are unfairly distributed? Very
well. It is also world where social JUS
tice remains to be achieved. The United
States this year does not offer it's school
graduates a soft snap. But the United
States is still free. 1t does offer them the
finest opportunity in the world to strug
gle, to build for tomorrow better society
than the world has yet seen.