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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
RAF Reich Blitz Forecast of Invasion;
Hoover Urges Greater Power for FDR;
Soviets Push Ahead on Kharkov Front;
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The thanks of a grateful nation and the Congressional Medal of Honor
ginned on his breast by President Roosevelt were the rewards received by
Brig. Gen. James Doolittle for his valor in leading the bombing raid on the
mainland of Japan, including Tokyo, a few weeks ago. Above, left to right,
are Lieut. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of air forces, Mrs. Doolittle and Presi-
dent Roosevelt congratulating America’s newest hero. General Doolittle.
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DOOLITTLE:
Secrets Well Kept
Three questions remained un-
answered when President Roosevelt
pinned the Congressional Medal of
Honor on the breast of Brigadier
General Doolittle in an unheralded
"White House ceremony commemo-
rating the recent history-making
American bombers’ raid on the Jap-
anese mainland.
Where did daredevil Jimmy
olittle’s squadron take off
'ID- Where did the Tank Biers
land after they bombed Tokyo
/ and sowed a whirlwind of Are,
death and destruction in their
wake? By what route did Doo-
little reach Washington?
While the mystery remained a
well-kept secret, Doolittle, who had
won international renown as a
peacetime speed flier before his lat-
est exploit made him America’s No.
1 hero, revealed some significant
facts.
The Yanks outfiew and outfought
Japanese planes and retired without
losing a single plane. They “hedge-
hopped" over Tokyo low enough to
see a bail game in progress. Yankee
bombers played havoc with vital
Japanese industrial areas 40 miles
long and 5 to 20 miles wide. They
scored direct hits on a battleship or
cruiser under construction near To-
kyo and scattered incendiary bombs
over airplane factories in Nagoya.
In extending Doolittle the na-
tion's thanks, President Roose-
velt announced the award of 79
Distinguished Service Crosses
for the 79 volunteers—pilots,
machine gunners, bombardiers
and radiomen—who participated
in the raid.
Speaking over the radio following
hia decoration. General Doolittle de-
clared that the April raid over
Tokyo was only the beginning of
many more.
HOOVER URGES:
More Power for FDR
Former President Herbert Hoover
urged that President Roosevelt be
given additional “dictatorial eco-
nomic powers" as a means of win-
ning the total war.
“There must be no hesitation
in giving them to President
Roosevelt and apbolding him in
them,” Mr. Hoover said in an
address before the 24th assem-
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Economic dictatorship, however,
must not encroach on civil liber-
ties, he declared. “From a philo-
sophical viewpoint," he said he
would like to see the “sixth colum-
nists given a little more liberty."
v, “Criticism of the conduct of
the war is accessary if we are
to win the war,” he added. “We
want the war conducted right
.. . Democracy can correct mis-
takes only through public ex-
posure and opposition to them."
Mr. Hoover did not define specif-
ically the new dictatorial powers he
advocated for President Roosevelt.
He said, however, “We must start
our thinking with a cold, hard fact;
that the economic measures to win
total war are just plain Fascist
economics.”
STEELWORKERS:
To Be ‘Missionaries'
As his conflict with John L. Lewis
for control of millions of American
workers tightened, Philip Murray,
president of the CIO, urged dele-
gates win attended the Steel Work-
ers’ Organising committee conven-
tion at Cleveland, Ohio, to become
"missionaries of national unity.”
“*1 do not want internal strife in
Bus union nor in the CIO,” Murray
said. “Men's minds must rise
above internal bickering when the
,n*rtto Is embroiled in a world war.
INVASION PRELUDE:
RAF Blitzes Reich
While Royal Air force bombers
blasted war factories and chem-
ical plants in Germany and blitzed
Nazi submarine bases in France and
enemy airdromes in Holland, the
Churchill government announced
that the RAF’s heavy air offensive
was a prelude to an ultimate inva-
sion of continental Europe.
Sir Stafford Cripps, lord privy
seal and government spokesman in
commons said:
“These bombings are, in oar
view, of material assistance to
Russian resistance and the best
way in which we can give as-
sistance until such time as we
are able to make a carefully
planned attack on the continent
of Europe, which we intend
to do.”
The accelerated tempo of Brit-
ain’s air offensive was seen in the
performance of one detachment of
bombers which unloaded 40,000 fire
bombs over the city of Mannheim
in southwest Germany, second
largest inland port of Germany and
the site of a number of important
chemical, armament and engineer-
ing factories.
NEW TAX PLAN:
Collect at Source
To help Americans pay heavy in-
come taxes that would affect mil-
lions of workers in the small-income
group for the first time and to com-
bat inflation, the treasury depart-
ment outlined to the House ways and
means committee a “collection-at-
source” program.
Under the new plan, employers
would withhold on behalf of the gov-
ernment part of the pay of single
workers making more than $11 a
week and childless married persons
making more than $26. The amount
deducted would be used as a credit
against income taxes.
Increased individual income sur-
taxes ranging from 12 per cent on
the first $2,000 to 80 per cent on
taxable earnings exceeding $200,000
yearly were written into the pend-
ing war revenue bill.
The ways and means committee’s
plan did not incorporate President
Roosevelt's suggestion that no
American’s income should exceed
$25,000 a year after payment of alj
taxes.
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WON’T BE LONG NOW
Macon Reed, ex-Washington news-
man, now a private in the army,
has this to say about the new mili-
tary machines which Uncle Sam is
So swiftly whipping into shape:
“Haw is U to be in the army?
There is a breath-taking exhilaration
in swinging across a parade ground
and seeing and feeling the other col-
umns moving in the effortless,
smooth, free inarch step of the
American army—marching, march-
ing, marching to heaven knows
where. At such a moment, and
only at such a moment, one gets a
Bash perception of the true strength
of America, a boundless sweep ol
irresistible power—and I chuckle ts
myself and think ‘Whst is everybody
in Washington in sneh a fret and
worry about?’ Mandalay? Lashio?
Trifles, boys, mere trifles. We heard
the news of their fall with a yhwn
and got on with our work. Just
wait till we get started. It won’t be
long now!”
• • •
W HAT HAPPENS AFTER
THE WAR?
At six one morning, Henry Wal-
lace woke up and began thinking
about the speech he was going to
make in New York. Ideas kept tum-
bling into his mind. Quietly, so as
not to disturb Mrs. Wallace, he
reached for the dictaphone and be-
gan speaking into it.
He dictated to the length of one
cylinder, Mrs. Wallace still slept.
Next morning, he woke again at
six, and did the same thing. On
the third morning, he woke at 3:30.
This time, he dictated the remain-
der of the speech, which ran to 3,000
words. Mrs. Wallace slept on.
The vice president still had two
weeks to spare before the speaking
engagement, but the thoughts had
been simmering in his mind, and he
wanted to get them down. He want-
ed to say—not in words hurriedly
thrown together on the way to New
York—what he felt about fighting
the war to a finish, then making
a peace that will stick.
People’s Revolution.
The general applause to that
speech is still reverberating in
Washington. Because it was one of
the most important speeches of the
war. Titled, “The Price of Free
World Victory,” it was a forecast ol
world freedom after victory.
Wallace has turned out more
words than any other member of
the Roosevelt family, including
the President. But none of his words
have been more significant than this
speech before the Free World asso-
ciation in which he said: “Every-
where the common people are on the
march."
It included words of dire warning
to Hitler, and also words full of
meaning to the future of imperial-
ists, such as: “No nation will have
the God-given right to exploit other
nations" . . . “The march of free-
dom of the past 150 years has been
a long-drawn-out people's revolu-
tion.”
But especially significant were
the words: “Those who write
the peace must think of the
whole world. There can be no
privileged peoples,’’
Coast Shipping Losses
May Bring Investigation
Airing of Blanket Charges May Result From
Nazi Torpedoing of American Vessels
In Coastwise Trade.
By BAUKHAGE
New! Analyst and Commentator.
Soviets Still Ahead
Stubborn battles on which the de-
cision of World War II appeared to
hinge still persisted on the Kharkov
and Kerch fronts.
On the Kharkov front the Rus-
sian armies under Marshal
Timoshenko continued their ad-
vance* ha the faee of stiffened
German resistance and sharp
counterattacks. On the Kerch
front, the Russians denied Nazi
claims of a clean sweep to the
gntewsy of the precious Cauca-
sus oil fields.
That the Red army was keeping
alive its offensive in the Kharkov
sector at a swiftly rising cost to the
Nazis in men, heavy weapons and
supplies was indicated by the latest
war bulletins.
“On one sector near Kharkov,”
said a report, “our troops annihi-
lated 1,650 German officers and men
and destroyed 27 tanks, an ammu-
nition dump and a gasoline dump.
Booty captured included 37 guns,
57 mortars, 10,000 shells, 40.000
rounds of ammunition, three wire-
less stations and other material.”
In commenting on the situation on
the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea,
a communique said Russian forces
were barring the way to the Cau-
casus in a way that resembled the
long American defense of the
Bataan peninsula in the PhiliDDines.
ENEMY ALIENS
Some significant things are going
on behind-the-scenes in the justice
department. With the savageness
of a commando attack, Attorney
General Biddle has now launched an
offensive against all enemy agents
in the U. S. A., has given the green
light to Big G-Man Hoover to move
wherever he wants.
This came after Biddle had been
prodded by the White House for
dawdling. Now, however, he has
gathered large dossiers of sensation-
al and incontestable evidence, and
it looks as if several U. S. Fascists
would end up behind the bars,
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, if German and Italian nationals
along the Atlantic seaboard. Army
brass hats have been demanding that
everyone born in Germany or Italy
and still unnaturalized be moved
west of the Allegheny mountains.
However, this would mean a mass
trek numbering perhaps a million.
And along the Pacific coast, even
the movement of 100,000 Japanese
proved a terrific headache.
Therefore Biddle is working
on the policy of picking oat the
dangerous groups among Ger-
mans and Italians, but leaving
those whose loyalty seems OK.
Many of them are oldsters who
left Europe before the days of
dictators. Many even have sons
in the (J. S. army. However, the
job of sorting the loyal from the
disloyal is going to be one of
the toughest jobs the justice de-
partment ever faced.
• * •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
U. S. farmers are doing so well
that government credit agencies re-
port taking in more money in mort-
gage payments than they are lend-
ing out. Also, many farmers are
building up reserve funds against
debts In the post-war period.
The marine corps has quietly
abandoned its high-powered drive to
recruit star athletes. Reason: Many
of them didn’t measure up to the
high physical standards required of
marines; had flat feet, bad
enlarged hearts.
WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N-W,
Washington, D. C.
“You commentators," said an
earnest young lady to me recently,
“talk about sinking* ships and shoot-
ing down planes as if you were
talking about somebody moving in-
animate chessmen on a board.”
I hadn’t thought of it that way.
We do. We have to. And the peo-
ple take it that way. They are a
long way off from actual combat.
You just can’t translate a war into
personal experience—until it hits
you.
That is why it has taken the re-
verberations ef toe Nasi torpedoes
that are sending down ships within
eyesight of onr coast so long to
reach Washington. Bnt they have
reached at last and there promises
to be a resoundlns echo In the Mari-
time commission and in toe ship-
yards of Apierici.
The need for ships is the greatest
need the allied nations face today
for the boats are going down faster
than they are being built. They are
not being built as fast as they might
be. Those we have are not being
used to best advantage. Those are
the blanket charges soon to be
aired, if certain people in Washing-
ton have their way.
The details of these charges may
appear before this reaches print.
The story seems to be exactly the
same story that lay behind the de-
lay in the manufacture of tanks and
planes and guns which resulted in
overhauling of the OPM. The
charges which were made in that
case, you will recall, were:—that in-
dustry did not want to change over
from the manufacture of civilian
goods to war products; that labor
refused to co-operate; that the gov-
ernment failed to crack down on
industry and labor and. in the case
of the OPM, retained dollar-a-year
men in its service who put the busi-
ness they represented ahead of the
nation’s needs.
Whether or not these charges can
be made to stick and their causes
removed in the case of the Mari-
time commission and shipbuilding
(management and labor) remains to
be seen, but the chances are they
will.
These are toe things yon hear:
More bananas were shipped to toe
United States in the first three
months after Pearl Harbor than
there were last year (before Pearl
Harbor). Couldn’t those boats have
been put to better nse?
Why wasn’t the pipeline, suggest-
ed a year ago, built so that neces-
sary oil could be sent through it in-
stead of aboard tankers that are be-
ing sunk at the rate of three a day?
Couldn't the railroads have been
forced to cut down on their passen-
ger traffic earlier to haul some of
that oil?
What was done about the men
“loafing in the shipyards" after Ad-
miral Land, head of the Maritime
commission, made the public
charge?
Ditto concerning foremen who
were said to have been instructed
to tell the men to slow down?
But nothing will be done until the
smoke of those burning ships gets
into the public’s eyes. It has al-
ready gotten into some eyes and I
am passing along that personal
story exactly as it was told to me.
Here it is in the worker’s exact
words except for deletions which are
a military necessity:
Eyewitness Story
garden in the cool of the evening
and. looking np from the petunias
and carnations I wss able to see toe
thick, greasy smoke billowing np
from a ship Gut was torpedoed
few hours ago. A good many men
were killed on this particular ship.
The rest were brought into toe coast
guard station; some of them sent to
the hotel and toe rest to toe local
hospital, whose ward is again filled
with shipwrecked survivors.
“I have a special interest in that
ship because ... I watched her
lying off shore ali through the moon-
light night. She was three miles off
shore and she got under way just at
sunup steaming south in the pre-
sumed safety of daylight. We . . .
quit watching her at 7 a. m. and
half an hour later, off the . . . she
was blown up.
“It has been a comparatively
quiet 24 hours in this vicinity only
two ships being torpedoed within
sight of shore. The other one went
down at midnight and there were
so many flares from lifeboats that it
looked like Greek fire on the Fourth
of July. Small boats . . . brought
them ashore . . ,
“The survivors of this ship (an-
other one which was sunk in the
same vicinity) said that the safest
run in the world today is between
New York and Liverpool The worst
stretch is ... (a portion of the At-
lantic coast). This particular ship
passed nine wrecks between . . . and
... (a stretch of some 450 miles).
The coast guard is doing a wonder-
ful job around here but why the . . .
(the rest delected, for other than
military reasons).”
That is the picture which is star,
ing in Washington’s face today.
• • •
Chicle Situation
All Gummed Up
My jaw dropped the other day
when I learned that the United
States government was carrying on
TwgetVattwn* -which roijli kArrine
with the chicle importations to the
United States. My jaw dropped
and if I were in the habit of chew-
ing gum, the gum might have
dropped, symbolically. For what
would the millions of jaws of the
millions of American gum chewers
do if the chicle supply stopped?
They would stop, too, and so would
an industry which earned $61,000,000
the year of the last census and
probably much more since.
Why should this trickle of chicle
be stopped? Well, the answer is, it
won’t be stopped bnt if may be
reduced—slightly. It seems that a
chiclero, one who makes the chicle
trickle from toe tree down In Cen-
tral America and Mexico, could if
be would, apply his art to the Cas-
tilla tree, as well. And the castilla
tree produces a very good brand of
rubber, something which we cannot
eschew, even if we cannot chew it.
Do not chuckle at my tale of
chicle. It is based on hard facts
which are these:
A large group of men called
chicleros collect chicle from trees
many of which are located in the
forests of Central America and
Mexico. They are experts. The
chicle trees grow frequently near
the castilla tree. If the chicleros
were induced to do so they might
tap the castilla as well as the
chicle and thus obtain for America
some of the raw material needed to
make raw rubber.
This might cut down the chicle
supply. Nevertheless negotiations
are about to be concluded to this
end.
If they are successful it will be
another achievement of the Board of
Economic Warfare with the aid of
the state department.
Rubber Classifications
There are three classifications of
rubber, all of which although allied
in their uses are different.
They are crude rubber, reclaimed
rubber and synthetic rubber.
Crude rubber comes from our fast
diminishing stocks on hand, from
the trickle that may come from the
castilla, from the wild rubber and
other similar trees of South Amer-
ica and from general plantings of
trees and shrubs in the Western
hemisphere. The most important
source in this third classification is
the guayule plantations which will
be coming into yield in a year with
vising and helping with this produc-
tion.
Of reclaimed rubber the sources
are the scrap piles. There is a cer-
tain amount already collected. This
is already in the hands of reclaimers
and declarers.
The third classification of robber
is synthetic rubber. The manufac-
ture of synthetic rubber if the quick-
est potential source of supply. Its
manufacture is to the period of de-
velopment. There are various
methods of obtaining it and recently
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
urged a program for toe making of
synthetic rubber from alcohol made
from corn and wheaL
We have plenty of corn and wheat
and a number of distilling plants.
If these are supplemented with oth-
ers and we can start soon, the
chicle supply may not be endan-
gered at ad. *
Hitler s Scheme
From indisputable diplomatic
sources your reporter learns that
the Nazis hope to win, with their
fifth and sixth columns, what they
could not win on the battlefields.
If the Russian campaign fails, Hit-
ler is to be deposed—and the Ger-
man General Staff will pose as the
savior of the world from Bol-
shevism. There is only one rub—
Hitler is planning it all to save him-
self from the allied armies and the
armies of Germany.
The only thing Hitler has to offer
the civilized world is his death. The
only people more double crossed
•than the conquered are the appeas-
ers. The only peopfe more brutally
treated than captured civilians are
the German industrialists, who gave
Hitler his first money.
Hitler believes he can bribe Amer-
ican business men with their own
bank deposits and the American
people with the deeds to their own
homes. The American answer will
be with American scrap-iron—not on
Nazi scraps of paper. Hitler's offer
will be seventh heaven for the sixth
column. But American business
will not be fooled by Hitler’s profits
itt dollars. Tl/e Vuitea Suites Con-
stitution has paid too many divi-
dends in peace and dignity. MacAr-
thur, Stilwell, O’Hare, Wheless and
Bulkeley are building a firm foun-
dation for peace—with a wall lor
Hitler's back.
Scrambled Eggs:
The picture of wrecked Rotter-
dam, in the Times mag, is some-
thing the United Nations must re-
member to bring to the treaty table.
It’s a convicter. An unarmed town,
destroyed to show how tough the
Nazzys are. And a good argument
for a deal that will keep them from
ever getting tough again . . . Wash-
ington correspondents have a phrase
for colleagues who will square so-
cial obligations by plugging their
hosts' angle in their sheets: "They
can be bought for a canape-”
Lets of Congressmen weald be
jumpier than they already are if
thay knew their letters were being
shewn around. These are toe sore-
heads who are being goody-goody to
public but as Bund-loving as ever
in private. It’s the old raeket of
trading their faces for a lew vote#
. . . It's going to be very interesting
to see what the dallies, that have
been warning there won’t be any
elections, will do shout sponsoring
candidates. They have a choice of
admitting they have been lying or
skipping all mention of the balloting.
Which isn’t a very smart limb to
get yonrself out on, Bod.
Archibald MaeLeish, in an inter-
view, discussed his hecklers, who
have grown since he took over the
Office of Facts and Figures. "The
criticism most often expressed
against me,” he said, “is the fact
that I am a poet. Not that 1 am a
bad poet. Simply to call a man a
poet is, apparently, to throw a bad
egg at him” . . He might have
been answering a small-timer, who
columned a crud about winning the
war with poetry, “sock ’em with a
sonnet.” That's the crackerbarrel
style of satire, the easiest kind to
write. It appeals to the dopes by
ridiculing education — very small
time.
The newest army jeep is an am-
phibian model and takes to sea like
a duck to a millpond.
• • •
"Why are the Filipino people fight-
ing with such vigor? ... I can give
you the reason for this. The people
of the Philippines have something to
fight for.”—Commissioner Elixalde
of the Philippine Commonwealth.
(Sir Stafford Cripps, please note!)
Fort. Benning, Ga., has the only
parson paratrooper in the army. He
is Chaplain Raymond & Hall.
• • •
The U. S. Office of Education has
published a new chart, "Job Train-
ing for Victory,” an tndeg to pro-
grams offered by federal agencies
to train men and women for work
to war industries, governmental
agencies, and ihe armed services.
An editorial writer keeps repeat-
ing that we should win the war as
quickly as possible, because peace
is better than war ... Do you
have to have brains to figure that
out? . . . How come notx>dy ever
gives medals to critics for going to
so many dull *V nws all season? This
one was so d?BL^i the Critics Circle
and Pulitzer mittee agreed no
show was wortJNR- Drize . Thi°
Bu,
fame is. If DiMaggio dotop't get
a hit one day—they boo him> . .
Whatever happened to those people
who said they had proof Hitler was
dead? . . . Here’s one to make you
dizzier: “Blithe Spirit,” the play,
is barred from Army camps. Too
risgay, they said ... So what hap-
pens? . . . “Blithe Spirit” gives •
performance for—you'd never guess
. . . West Pointers!
Italy has celebrated toe sixth an-
niveisary of its empire—which has
ceased to exist. A lost people cling-
ing to a lost dream . .it takes
great men to look big in defeat.
Willkie, who missed the Presiden-
cy, and O’Dwyer, who ran second
for mayor, are still good men for
those offices . . . Did you hear
why that New Yorker writer was
rejected for military service? The
doctors found out lie had a brain
murmur.
Sad to read about Graham Me-
Namee’s death. He pioneered a lot
of things on the networks. He was
the first to get all het up about his
subject. He had the kind of pipes
that could convey excitement, as too
many of his mockers haven't. Ho
also was one of the few laughing
m. c.’s who got away with it. The
usual giggling feeder is an ear tor-
turer. The straight man who
laughed at the act's sallies never
hit the big time. He was a sensa-
tion at Loew’s Wichita but never
played the Palace.
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