Evening star., 1943-05-26

openly. owl countered with Z
straight account Of developments
and emphasized that action Of the
miners was just that much more
evidence that labor here was free
They included numerous stories of
labor's great contributions to the
war effort in the plant, in buying
bonds and in giving to blood banks,
and men to the armed forces. They
took the offensive rather than the
defensive.
Various Sources Of News.
owl gathers news for its cables
and broadcasts as well as using ma
terial compiled by newspapers and
radio and press releases. Some dis
patches are supplied by the State
Department for special use which
never see print in this country.
The cable-wireless wing of Owl
supplies news to the radio and press
OF neutral counties through Owl
outposts in the various capitals.
This news also is assembled and
sent from New York. We are now
dispatching some 5000 words a day
to Turkey, 1000 to Spain and $500
to Sweden. the latter either directly
to Stockholm or through Switzer-
land
Owl says that when it first es-
tablished an Office in Ankara a year
ago only about per cent OF the
foreign news in the Turkish press
was from this country. Now they
claim that more than so per cent of
the foreign news there originates
here The Turks are described as
quite friendly.
In Spain we have made far less
progress, although the Owl Madrid
outpost has recommended increas-
ing the material sent there to 1000
words day. A large portion of
material sent Spain deals with our
friendly relations with Latin Amer
lea and with news of the Catholic
Church here. One group of dis
patches sent to Madrid included the
visit Of Miss Katherine Lenroot,
chief Of the Children's Bureau, to
South America, much about the
visit here of the Bolivian President,
and OF the establishment of an avia-
ton gasoline plant in Mexico.
Sweden Likes Technical News.
The people OF Sweden, according
to Owl. like to hear OF technologi-
cal. medical and industrial progress
IN this country, as we'll as stories as
to how we are faring in battle. In
Sweden there is also much interest
about efforts to obtain better hous-
ing for war workers. 1t. Gen. Will
liam Knudsen, the former General
Motors president. now the Army's
production expediter, Is a favorite
in Sweden. Gen. Knudsen was born
in Denmark.
American newspaper columnists
are widely used by O:vI In It's cable
dispatches. Those whose columns
are most frequently employed are
Samuel Grafton and Raymond
Clapper. Editorials in newspapers
likewise are picked up.
Owl directs ono program 4 day
to the German troops. 1t features
music and war news which the Nazi
soldiers are unlikely to get else
where. There is evidencs that the
troops hear the programs, or at least
prisoners taken in Tunisia have told
Owl that they listened.
Axis Beams" to U. S. Soldiers.
The Germans, too, have a program
"beamed' to our fighting men on
foreign soil. It is one calculated to
encourage homesickness among our
soldiers. 1t includes dated popular
tunes like Happy Days Are Here
Again and "Halleluiah" and
woman announcer with an Ameri-
can infection who tells the men how
nice it would be to be back in
Paducah or Kokomo with the best
girl" The announcer points out
that no doubt the best girl is
running around with that draft
dodger down the street while you
are over here fighting war in which
you have no interest"
owl states that one great handi-