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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28
VICHY:
To Join Hitler

Hardly unexpected at this time,
and with the hostage-shooting mat
ter being what it was, had come
the report that vichy was planning
to "go the whole hog and throw in
with Hitler's 'new order"
It had been known for long time
where the sympathies Of Darlan and
Laval had been, but Petain was
supposed to have been more or less
on the fence.
History one day might recount,
observers felt, that there was some
strange and mysterious connection
between the fatal plane crash which
killed General Huntziger and the
decision to join the Axis.
Huntziger. minister OF war. had
just been to Africa, presumably con-
ferring with Mystery Man Weygand
and was on his way back home to a
momentous meeting Of the govern
ment when his plane fell and he was
killed.
Many wondered what bearing
this would have on the situation in
Nazi-Vichy relations.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28
KURUSU:
Last Try?

Most observers of the situation In
the Pacific believed that with the
arrival of Saburo Kurusu in WASH
ington the last stage Of the difficult
effort of Japan and the United States
to avoid war had been reached.
During his plane trip to this coun-
try there had been little Of encour-
aging press comment, and the state
department had again and again re-
peated its gloomy outlook.
Officials of the cabinet, particu-
larly Secretary Knox Of the Navy,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28
ONE WAY OF GETTING
THE FACTS TO PEOPLE

SECRETARY MORGENTHAU is
asking congress for another heavy
tax increase, one that will produce
an additional seven or eight billion
dollars each year. He also asks for
legislation that will collect all fed
eral taxes at the source, that the
taxes be deducted from the pay en-
velopes Of employees and from the
dividend checks to stockholders.
Such action by congress would give
the mass of the people a better
understanding Of what they pay for
what government provides. It would
give them facts our system Of "hid-
den" taxes has long denied the
greater portion of the American
people. It would make for a more
intelligent citizenship and more in
telligent voters. Let US hope the
politicians may accept at least that
part of the secretary's recommen-
dalton.
FEDERAL MAIL
WASHINGTON tells us we must
economic in our use of paper, but
the federal government has ordered
one billion, four hundred million en-
velopes for 1912. That represents
II envelopes for every Individual in
the nation, including the babies.
Those envelopes viii be distributed
as ranked mail. At the normal
postage rate of'three cents, it would
mean a postal revenue of AZ million
dollars. There is one reason for q
postal deficit.
HAIR CURRIERS'
THE LADIES cannot buy made
in-America hair curriers', the kind
they wear to bed. The reason is the
factories making them cannot get
necessary material as it is needed
for the war munitions we are pro-
ducing for England. But cheer up,
ladies, the stores viii sell you exact
ly the same thing, with a tride diff
ferent name, made in and imported
from England. English hair curler
factories are still operating. The
price, incidentally, is Just half Of the
made-in-America kind.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28
THE ATTIC-IN WHICH
MENHnn VEc MN AnE cmnn TT

THE ATTIC-IN WHICH
MEMORIES, TOO, ARE STORED
EVERY well-ordered home should
have an attic as a place for the
storage of memories. In the attic
the memories will lie dormant until
there comes moving day. When
that time comes, its long-forgotten
treasures will be revealed and the
problem of disposing Of those treas
ures will be a serious one.
There win be found the crib and
high chair the babies used years
ago. Those babies are now grown
to men and women. They have
homes and families of their own in
far-away places. What memories
of their days of babyhood-the days
when the home echoed the happy
prattle of little children-those SIM
pie bits of long discarded furniture
bring back. There can be no more
babies to use them, but it is hard
to let them 60.
In a litter of the attic are found
the school and college dance pro-
grams Of the daughter. Written on
them are the names of boys, many
of whom we have long forgotten, but
those names recall memories of
hopes for the daughters future,
of evenings when one or another
"called" and INA" and / retired
from the parlor or living room and
watched the clock for the appro-
pirate hour for the young mans de-
parture. Ransacking the attic gives
one an opportunity to live over
again those cherished days Of the
long ago.
You dig out of the clutter the uni
form you wore as a soldier before
the turn Of the century and with it
the sword that was your badge of
office. They remind you of the long
forgotten comrades of those soldier
days.
Then you find "Ma's" wedding
dress and hat and marvel at the
style and re Of the dress. You re-
call incidAB Of that happy day
when you took her from the home
in the little Iowa town to a new
home in the city. You recall those
who were present at the wedding
ceremony. Most of them you have
not heard of for years and you won
der at what changes life may have
brought to them, what success or
failure may have been their lot.
These are but typical of the thou
sands of incidents the contents of
the attic will bring back to you.
Each item, as you dig it out of the
accumulation, presents q problem.
Can you discard it? Can you throw
away the old lamp beside which you
spent SO many pleasant evenings?
Should you not keep the old and
badly worn quilt your mother
"pieced" and quilted so many,
many years ago? There are the
pictures Of friends Of the long ago,
some of which are now hard to re-
call, but when you do, they live
again. Should you not keep each
and every one Of them, as well
as the thousands Of letters you spend
hours and days rereading?
Yes, the attic ID a storehouse Of
memories. A storehouse that offers
more problems when you move than
does all the rest of the house to-
gether. In the end you keep much
of it to be stored away in another
attic that becomes another store
house of memories and presents
other problems should you ever
move again.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28
RUSSIANS:
On Warpath

( Long on the defensive, and having
lost many thousands of square miles
Of territory, Russia had assumed
the offensive all along the vast front.
Moscow was reporting considerable
success against the Nazis, and re-
ported that the Germans had been
suffering from frostbite, that they
were exhausted and discouraged,
but admitted that back Of the front
there were evidences that another
offensive was being formed.
Those who believed Hitler would
order any withdrawal because of
the weather were having to revise
their opinions. The, Russian drive
against the Germans was meeting
with the same rugged resistance the
Reds themselves had offered against
the Nazis.
Successes were reported in the
far north, where Kuibyshev dis
patches declared 20 German trans
ports had been sunk in what was
to have been a major invasion at
tempt in the Murmansk sector.
Also $500 Italians had been re-
ported eliminated" in the Crinean
sector, and victories also were
claimed by Russia in the Donets
basin area.
!. The Firms were being hurled back
in front of Leningrad, and the gen.
eral Russian tone was one of con-
- IA Ia
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28

had expressed this same view of de-
preston over any chance Of a peace
full settlement.
Still Kurusu had arrived, had
been greeted with smiles by Amer
lean diplomats, and the conversa-
tions were on.
Basic difficulty of solving an equa-
ton where Japan was at war with
China and both Britain and Amer
lea had declared this war an act
of aggression and had been giving
and promising aid to China was
openly apparent.
Japan was urging the United
States:
leave us alone in China!"
The United States was demanding
Of Japan:
"You let China alone!"
These points were poles apart.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28
For Indenendence

Economizing for the purpose OF
being independent is one Of the
soundest indications of. manly
character.-Samuel Smiles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28
AXIS
Blues

ALI was not rosy In AXIS countries,
dispatches had informed the world.
A New York Times correspondent,
returning with his bride from Ber-
lin, told of no rest, of constant
harassments, of poor food, of no en-
tertainment. The few passenger
trains were so crowded that trips
were extremely inconvenient, he re-
ported, and said that he had lost 20
pounds due to poor food.
Eatable food only could be OBJ
tanned in the most expensive res
taurants, he added, and in the poor
err ones the dinners "just WOULDN'T
60 down"
People are not told what kind Of
meat they are getting, he said, but
it makes no difference as they all
tasted the same.
London said Germany was des-
perate for oil, or she would have
abandoned the Russian offensive for
the winter, and be willing just to
hang on.
A reliable source was quoted as
saying that if the Russian oil fields
were not conquered, Germany would
be out Of oil reserves by the winter
of 1912. IL n
The official German reports were
beginning to tell the public of fierce
Russian attacks, and the color Of
Berlin dispatches confirmed the fact
that the Germans were on the de-
fensive all along the front.
At the same time Italy coupled
an announcement admitting severe
and continued raids on Italian cities
by British planes with the ousting
Of the chief of the Italian air force,
General Pricolo, and his replace
ment by General Fougiere.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28
TURKEY:
An Offer

Axis sources were reported to
have made Turkey an offer Of
Thrace as 4 last inducement to get
the Turks to join the triple alliance.
The sudden interest in Turkey on
the part of Germany, as borne out
in reports from both Berlin and
Bern was rather puzzle to some,
while others saw in it the possibility
that Germany might, now that she
was somewhat begged down in Rus
STA, be seeking Turkish route to
Russian oil wells.
Three possibilities were seen
that Turkey had already decided to
throw in with the Axis-that in
creased pressure would be brought
to bear on Turkey Tin line with
Bern's view Of the situation) and
third, that Germany might be salts
fed to have Turkey neutral and aloof
but fearing that American and Brit
ish pressure from the south might
turn her from her neutral course
to a pro-British stand.
LIFE:
. A picture of what life was like
in Serbia following the collapse of
resistance against the southwark
plunge Of the Nazi war machine was
painted by the refugee Jugoslav
government.
Reports reaching it were that
about 8,100 hostages, including in
tellectuals, priests and students,
had been executed in three villages.
, The executions had been main
tanned, said Premier General Simo-
vic, had been carried out at the
rate Of 100 to !, in retaliation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28

pnns these columns hey
Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28

porters during the Neutrality act
voting.
The "closed shop issue in the
mine strike, never very popular in
circles not closely allied with labor
unions, caused the outburst of anti
strike feeling to be particularly
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
BY Edward q. Wayne

Strike Situation and Japanese Crisis
Prove Washington's Toughest Problems;
Winter Closes In on Eastern Front
AS Russia Reports Taking Offensive
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28
CAPrTAL CHAFF

: Capt. Jules James, cornmandans
of the u. S. naval base at Bermuda,
lis a nephew Of Secretary Of War
.Stimson.. =
4 White House has received bar
rage Of letters and kilograms urg-
ing Maury Maverick as ambassador
to Mexico.
Madame Maxim Litvinov was
born Ivy Low, daughter Of British
historian Sidney Low, and niece Of
Sir IA. Maurice Low, who was Wash
ineton correspondent Of London
Morning POST: ~
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28
ARK ROYAL:
Finally Sunk

Most famous Of the British air.
craft carriers, Ark Royal, sunk
several times according to Berlin
dispatches, finally has been sent to
the bottom, and it was London, not
Berlin, which announced it.
It sank rs miles off Gibraltar,
while in tow Of other warships after
a U-boat had torn a terrific hole in
her side. Pumps were unavailing
to repair the damage, and practical
ly all Of the 1000 aboard her had
been removed save just enough men
to handle the towing lines.
Finally, when she was nearing
shallow water at last, she suddenly
turned over on her side like tired
child and went to the bottom. Only
one man of her crew was reported
lost.
It was regarded as probable that
many of her planes had been able
to fly ashore and make port. Thus
went to the bottom Of the Mediter-
ranean the third aircraft carrier
Britain had lost, the largest and
newest, launched in 1888, Of $4,000
tons.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-28

The British were exceedingly res
tive under the continued inaction
except for heavy bombing raids over
the channel. Many members of the
house, especially the Laborite crit
les Of Churchill, were loudly clam
oring for the establishment of an
other front.
England, they said, was aware
that a munitions race was going on
in North Africa, with the Germans
doing all they could to bolster their
strength, and the British receiving
vast supplies from the United
States, and using their navy to at
tempt to break German commune
cation lines.
But the house was demanding ac-
ton on that front, being highly dis
satisfied with the "stalemate" stu
alton. Many believed it was not yet
too late to start something on that
front and drive the Nazis and Ital-
ians back on their heels into Libya
again.
But the government was giving
its critics little satisfaction, and was
showing no inclination whatever to
change the status quo. Churchill
paid a tribute to that great war
rior Stalin," and said that all pos
sible equipment and munitions
would be sent to aid him.
He also said that Britain would
firmly back up the United States in
its attitude toward Japan. Beyond
this he would not move a step,
nor would he make cabinet changes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-09

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-09

NOR years, whatever is sacred to religious
minds has been officially caricatured and
profaned in the Soviet Union
The Soviet Government intended that this
should be so.
That is why the successive Soviet "Consti-
tutions" have guaranteed freedom of anti
religious propaganda while RELIGIOUS
propaganda - meaning religious teaching - has
been penalized terribly
In thus translating into political action"
the Communist creed of atheism, the Soviet
Union has not relied only upon its brutal power
of imprisoning exiting, torturing or executing
ministers of religion and believers in God it has
had its own agency Of atheist propaganda called
"The League of the Militant Goddess"
This so-called "League" has had its official
organ - Bezbozhnik, or The Goddess. .As@a
Every issue of this repulsive publication has
contained virulent attacks upon religion or
fanatical encomiums of Communist "materalism
And, in order to eradicate from the Russian
people their natural generation for holy person
ages and emblems, mockery of these revered
figures and symbols, both in pictures and in
words, has been constant.
Reproduced on this page are three typical
representations from Bezboshnik, each for a
different year.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-09

NOR years, whatever is sacred to religious
II minds has been officially caricatured and
profaned in the Soviet Union
The Nome nugget., 1941-12-29
Raw Deal To Little Businessman May Swing House Against FDR
 That Slew Mexican AgreemenI

WASHINGTON - Republican National Chairman Joe Martin isn't advertising it yet, but he has found an issue which he thinks may swing the House of Representatives against Roose- welt in l942. It is the Raw Deal given to Little Business Men by the New Deal.'
 This has the New Deal itself frantically worried, for the lat est defense experiment to pro- tect little business has just blown up.
 This is the inide rseaon behind the trip of Floyd Odlum to the Mayo clinic at Rochester, Minn. Officially it's ulcers. But back of that is worry over failure to spread war contracts among lit tie business men.
 It hasn't been announced yet, but Odlum is getting out. He is going back to Wall Street where he finds running big business a lot easier than trying to take war contracts away from big business and give them to little business.
 Odlum, who is head of the At a S Corporation, outsmarted some of the best brains in Wall Street, but he found he couldn' t break through the rampant of Army-Navy brass hats, the OPM One-Dollar-Men and all the oth- CT red tape artists who believed in throwing contracts in the cas- jest direction-to big business - and letting little business go into bankruptcy.
 Wall Street Wizard Odlum set up the Contracts Distribution Di vision of OPM, but after he has spent three months in master minding, the little business prob lem is still as acute as when Od- lum tackled it. If anything it's worse The vehemence and num- Der of complaints have increased so greatly that Democratic lead CTS are up in arms and have talk en their fears direct to the White House.
The Nome nugget., 1941-12-29

wouldn't have the nerve to speak his mind fully to the President, so he slipped a pint bottle of rye into his pocket. And when he got 10 the White House he went into a Washroom and took a couple of healthy swigs.
 Then l stepped in," recounts Garner, and l said, Franklin, this man Lewis will sink you. You may not realize it now, but if you let him stay in the same boat with you, h'll sink you in the end.
 Garner says that he spoke his piece with considerable vigor but he feared is made little inn pression-at least at the time.
 NOTE: It was some time later that Lewis called Garner "an evil, whiskey-drinking, poker playing old man.
The Nome nugget., 1941-12-29
DEFENSE STEPCHILD

Odlum has accomplished some results. He has doubled sub-con- tracting. But these orders, inn pressive by themselves, have not kept pace with the rapid widen ing and deepening of the little business crisis-as material, la Dor and other shortage have in- creaSingly curtailed non-defense production.
 Drastically needed is a surgical reorganization of the whole de- fense contracting system, making little buiness an integral part of defense production intead of a stepchild to whom a few scraps are thrown occasionally when its yelling becomes annoying.
 The big complaint against Od- lum is that instead of tackling this basic difficulty immediately, he built up an elaborate admin istrative organization that look ed grandiose on paper but did not keep the wolf from the door of small business. Time is of the essence these fast-moving days. Scores of little plants are shut ting down daily Good intentions, no matter how good, won't keep them going.
 Odlum was too polite, too anx ious to get along with people, was too steeped in Wall Street salve. He talked about joining the Army and trying to do his job as a commissioned officer. What he needed to do was get up and squawk until he got some thing for little business.
 The only thing he got was ul- cers-for himself.
The Nome nugget., 1941-12-29
SLOW MEXICAN RELATIONS

The new agreement with Mex ico is one of the most important recent contributions to our Good Neighbor policy. But the inside fact is that the President and his advisers required a long time to sell it to Secretary Hull. He did n't seem to like it at all.
 Actually the Mexican agree ment was negotiated on Septem- Der l. Although the President ap proved it almost immediately, Cordell Hull held it up for two months and nineteen days.
 The agreement provides for the stabilization of the Mexican peso in the same way we have helped to peg the pound sterling For a Mexican road building pro gram underwritten by the Unit ed States; also a trade treaty; and a cash payment by Mexico on claims of American citizens. Finally, it lays the ground for conciliation of the oil dispute which has disrupted American Mexican relations for several years.
 It was this oil proposal which apparently got in Cordell Hull's craw.
 However, October was finally set for the signing of the agree ment, and the Mexicans brought their Minister of Finance, Ed uardo Saurez, up from Mexico City. But suddenly something happened, and the State Depart ment postponed the signing un- til October 5.
 Then, as the Mexicans once again were ready to sign, the State Department postponed once more. Again there was a myster- ious wait. Then Secretary Nor genthau actually told the press that the agreement would be signed October 12.
 But once more. as the Mexi- cans prepared for the final form ality the State Department held up the deal.
The Nome nugget., 1941-12-29
JOHN l.. LEWIS'S EVIL
 OLD MAN

It has been a long time since Jack Garner an dthe late Sen ator Joe Robinson of Arkansas went to see the President of the United States about John L. Lewis. But the ex-Vice President sitting in his stocking feet on his front porch in Uvalde these days, still remember it.
 A MT. Garner tells the story, he was a bit worried for fear he
The Nome nugget., 1941-12-29
STANDARD OIL IN BACKGROUND
The President had approved the agreement. Secretary MOrgen-

ti1e agreement. SecTeIdTy hOTSen- thau had OK'd his end of it. Jesse Jones had approved the $50, 100000 credit for road build ing, and Undersecretary of State Welles had worked out all the de tails But the Secretary of State needed more time. Undersecre- tary Welles advised that no one rush his chief; so everyone sat tight for almost another month.
 Finally, the date of November 19 was set for the signature. The Mexican delegates sat in the May flower Hotel. A bellboy paged MT. Parish and MT. Armstrong. ;" It was William s. Parish and Thomas R. Armstrong, president and vice president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, being sum- moned to their last conference with MT. Hull.
 The Secretary of State had ben won over. In the end he is- sued nice statement in favor of the agreement, though also in- sisting to the end that the agree ment did not bind the oil com panies.
 (The Washington Merry-Go- Round by Drew Pearson and Robert s. Allen)
The Nome nugget., 1941-12-29

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-22
Mud Flies
In Pitt
Squabble

ITrTsBuR6H DR.. Jock suth.
eriand today blamed lack Of sordi-
nary courtesy and deesncy' on the
part Of University Of Pittsburgh
officials and inept administration
Of q plan To ds-emphasixs football
for his resignation ~ Pitt coach
In 1899.
Sutherland. coach of the Brook
lyn Dodgers professional team.
said he would still be a. Pitt had
he been treated with just ordi'
nary courtesy and dsesncy' and
had schedules been adjusted to
the quality Of the material"
eutherlAsd's state N ut wss
made after Dos Harmless. fossnes
Pitt athletic director. Denied ~
nsovs that ~ had rsfused poc1set
money Ia usesnbess ~ Pitts 1881
Rose howl team asd elassrsd that
Sutherland had demanded os.eeo
for preparing the team fes NJ
Rose Bowl.