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THE STATES31AN PUBLISHING COMPANY "
. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Member ol the Associated Press;
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Hying Round the World '-"i :
Global flying is nothing . new;, though . most
of the flights have been along the smaller cir
cles rather than around the i fulLequatonal
belt But now TWA makes application for a
license - for regular flights clear round the
world. It seeks to set up a system .of . flights
from key points in the United States to 10
key traffic centers in foreign lands, with a plan
which would bring any. point in its world sys-,
tem to. within 38 hours of the United States.
Jules Verne whose wonder book on "Around
the World in 80 Days" was one of the popular
works of fiction a half century arid more ago,
,would turn over, in his grave at such a pro
posal. : :' ; ' ''- :: : j '-
TWA's application accentuates the inimin
ence of the question of how to handle commer
cial flying when the war ends. It involves poli
tics, . economics and mechanics. Committees
have been studying the question, and Assist
ant Secretary of State A. A. Berle had confer
ences recently with Lord Beaverbrook in Great
Britain, but nothing had been made public as
to the terms of any agreement. We need to de
velop a clear and firm policy on how we shall
deal with foreign countries, with foreign com
panies; how we shall permit or encourage
American companies (or a single monopoly) to
operate. '."-"
There isn't -the slightest doubt that there
will be a host of passengers who will want to
fly, to all parts of the world on TWA's 38-hour
schedule, so governmental authorities should
not wait too long before making up their
minds as to general policies.
Secrets vs. Human Nature
If ever a well-kept secret has 'paid dividends,
it is the date of the greatest invasion in history.
So far, nothing has transpired to alter the be
lief the Germans in France were caught off
guard with the resultant saving of thousands
of allied lives.
Bui one man talked. And only mitigating
circumstance in his favor is that he apparently,
did not disclose the locale of the impending
blow if he knew.
From all appearances, Maj. Gen. Henry J.
F. Miller in being demoted and sent home for
saying at a London cocktail party that the
invasion would be "before June 13," has re
ceived, no more punishment than even so re
spected an officer deserved.
It is human nature to want to share a secret,
or at least to let the world know that one has in
side information even though nothing specifical
ly is. divulged. In childhood it is "I know a secret-,
but I. won't t&:f.yfy ;
And apparently even the-president and his
wife are as human as the rest of us. 'By dis
closing that she knew in advance the date of
the invasion, Mrs.' Roosevelt showed that her
husband must have confided in her, But she
apparently , kept the faith, and no harm was
done, later in her irresistible desire to let oth-
ers know she was in the high confidence.
It is regretted that Gen. Miller, through his
off-base wish to show his knowledge, has been
lost as a general officer in the war theatre.
But if it turns out that the price of his slip
has not been too great for others, he may have
served a useful purpose by showing those in
the service and out that there is a terrifying
importance in the trite phrase, "zip your lip."
- 30 per cnt0f all jjrales, for "th same period.' I
"There can f be arTexcuse for such action in
cases of actual hardship, of course. But if there
was $271,000,000 worth-of. hardship Jo 'this
country in May, 1944 it can't be 'seen at a
.glance, ! . " - I
... The purchase and immediate sale" oi ' war
bonds doesn't help the, war effort Those who
plan such disposal had better:; never buy i
The intrinsic value of war savings plans was -evinced
- in the case of a 25-year-old stamp
V from the last war,: which turned up in an old ,
book a few days ago. i i -' t . -;
It was of the series of 1918, worth $5 on":
the redeemable date in 1923. Long' forgotten,
it finally was presented to the federal' re-'
serve .bank to, see, what would happen. The ".
answer was instantaneous the stamp was cash
able at its face value. i
A few current war bonds would be mighty
handy no matter at what future date they show
up. Cashed now, .they represent nothing but '
wasted paper and effort, insofar as the war ef
fort is concerned. ji 1 " '
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We May Not like It, But- j
V, That -new $5 use-stamp tax" . for the family
. car is just .about due and there isn't a thing
to do about it but pay up. . , - . ,
m .The stamp long has been a point of contro
versy; and there is I considerable,, merit to' the
contention that it is unfair to add another $150,
000,000 to the bill of car operators who already
share a tax burden considerably out of pro
portion to others, if ; ,
Automobile tax, personal property tax, gaso
line tax, accessories tax and luxury tax, as ; well
as other -federal and state levies,-have been
heaped upon the nation's motorists. ; v
It seems -hardly likely, that the manpower es
sential for the sale and recording of the use
stamp tax, as well as the vital japer used in
the process, warrants continuance of the sep
arate levy which cannot but net iar less than
its gross proceeds. And there are enough wind
shield stickers without that one. ? j
The "soak the car owner" assessment seems
to be one of those things which could be, elim
inated in the first phase of a! needed , program
to equalize and simplify the f financing both
of the war and the peace. . r
News Behind
' The News 5 -
By PAUL MALLON
.A (....;
Interpret
They're Still Good
It was more than startling on the day of in
vasion to learn that last month Americans
cashed $271,000,000 in war bonds an estimated
ing
The War Mews
By KIRKE L SIMPSON
Cooyngnt 1844 by the Associated Press
Allied efforts to expand the Normandy beach-
. head westward toward the mouth of the Seine
and westward across the base of the Cherbourg
peninsula have German observers worried over
which direction the next major phase of the fight
may take. They report naval bombardments and
'possible new landing operations far beyond either
end of the present beachhead;
Eastward around partially ' encircled Caen the
first major tank battle of the invasion is being
fought out. The odds seem too long in the allies
favor, however, for great doubt that, the old city
must soon fall. It is in easy range of big allied
naval guns to supplement allied air domination
over and beyond the beachhead and offset a pos
sible immediate nazi superiority in tank power.
With its capture, prompt expansion of the in
vasion front into the Seine delta to bring La Havre,'
big port near the Seine mouth, under a land-and- -sea
' cross fire would result. That is what Berlin
broadcasts imply as the reason for the desperate
nazi effort to cling to Caen against such odds. .
There is no allied confirmation of a sea bom-
' bardment of -La Havre. If that port is General
Montgomery's next eastward objective,' it is doubt
ful his sea batteries would be loosed against it.
The ; foe can be counted on to demolish much of
. the . port installations. There would be little point
In adding unnecessary wreckage from -allied guns. . yond our fondest hopes. They had plenty of time
WASHINGTON, June 14 The great enthus
iasm of the first day of the landing in France
made ensuing reports of the first Week of the bat
tle seem somewhat disappointing. ;
Most authorities would have expected the pene
tration to be three or four times as deep by now.
The unexpected strength of the
German troops, the extent of
underwater mine fields, i and
bad weather I in the channel'
can be offered as valid explan
ations. The fighting, too,? has
been as tough" or tougher than
represented. But optimism on
this side was certainly over-
. played. .-' -. " "
It may possibly be five more
days before the battle will have
Paul Malion .. reached the point where ' any
authentic guesses can be made as to how long the
job will take (adding three more days to the or
iginal forecast published June 8 for the three days
of bad channel weather.) y :' I f '-
Concentrations of power on both the landing' and
defensive sides. always require much more time
than people generally; expect niter the north! Af
rican landings, week! passed before the important
conflicts. On the Anzio beachhead in Italy, where
no opposition was offered to our landing, the bat
tle did not develop until the eighth day.
-The truly unexplained mystery of the attack so
far however, has been the almost, total absence of
the ' German ' air force. No more than 100 nazi
planes a day appeared over the battle area in the
first six days. The average was 30 to 50 planes. ,
We blackened the skies the first! day with 11,000
planes, and it Is no military secret that we have
amassed forces which! will increase that figure. ,
The long unanswered question of "where is the"
German air force," ii sull unansirered. The Ger
mans have allowed odds of 110 to 1 against them
to prevail over the heads of their troops. ,
The deduction that Hitler is saving his planes is
natural, but does not explain the shortage , of re
connaissance planes in the channel when our 4000
ships were plowing their way across the first day.
If he is saving the luftwaffe, it must be to meet
a second invasion somewhere on 'the coast, which
General Eisenhower; constantly . has threatened
from day to day by ship and plane maneuvers. How
it can be any more valuable to him then, than! for
the first invasion, I: cannot understand. In fact,
I am beginning to doubt gravely if there is a luft
waffe in France, any more than there was one
in Italy. : U -r -:.V"' 1- . r :
Herr Goerin'g's brave orders to U to fight to the
death as the .attack opened, probably were deliv
ered to empty. space. f;. " 'i J
Down in Italy, their flight from3 Rome has been
accompanied by a collapse of German morale be-
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It is quite conceivable, however, that new allied
landings on the wide beaches east of La' Havre
might develop. Pincer attacks to nip off such
promontories as that on which Cherbourg, La.
, HavTe and Brest in Brittany stand are always to
be expected. Nor is there much doubt that soon- '
et or later, once the Cherbourg bulge is in allied
hands to facilitate ! troops the supply movements,
the Brittany peninsula will become the focus of
a ;- southwestward ' drive- , t:-;'' 'rt-u.'tfj
Berlin .already "reports heavy allied shipping I
concentrations sighted in the Bay ol Biscay, south
ward of the Brittany coast It seems unlikely that
. the time is ripe for that Not until the Cherbourg
bulge is fully in allied control would Brittany be
come vulnerable. ':'.'J. X-',:
- That may not be long deferred. Allied spear
heads - -3 reported west of Carentan near the
base of the Normandy peninsula. .That would place
American advance' elements within 10 miles or
even less of the road and rail lines paralleling the
west shore cf fie peninsula, the only supply or es
cape line still open to German forces holding Cher-'
fcourg and' the hilly t? of the Normandy foreland.
to prepare to get out, but even so, their troops have
been sharply cut up. Their whole retreat has been
disorderly, and their remaining . armies L have lost
cohesion. . I i ..- - -'-iV."' i i
This raises the question of whether they can now
hold the Apennine line for any length' of time,
This series of fortified moimtain' positions, . run
ning across the boot from Liverno of Florence to
Rimini, is well dug and has been long occupied
to guard against; any amphibious landings north
of Bome. ;t?,;:;.;-:4 ' v : ; .
. But the 'nads'-will ' need reinforcements from
southern France and Yugoslavia if they are to hold
it The reports on their military strength was 19
divisions around Rome, and two or three more sent
forward from the Apennine line for the defense in
-front of the capitoL
Our latest figure ba captured "prisoners runs no
higher than 30.C0O, which would be about three di
visions as German, divisions go these days. While
these figures would indicate they have escaped
to the Apennines with the bulk of their troops,
their : condition Is hardly as formidable as their
numbers. . - :. '-. ... - :
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The5 big drivo is cn!
Tha shoudoun is ai h-idl!
Never in all our history has? America faced a
more crucial moment. Now, as we go all out in
our march to victoryyou must join the. fight,
too! 'No matter how much you have done you
must do morel- It is a solemn duty for every Am
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the - Merrimac' with : inL--4he
first iron-dad vessel.' Shot from
the federal gunboats bounced off
its sides and the f Merrimac
threatenedj to destroy the whole
federal naivy, until Mother se
cret Veap0nV.the "Monitor' a
xeese-boz ori rafr,-with' a
revolving turret appeared, fought
four-hour battle with the "Mer
rimac" (renamed the "Virginia")
and forced it to retire from ac
tion with a leak at tne water
line. Oddly enough, however, the
future naval development em
braced principles of both types:
the "iron-kad" became the ves
sel s built with heavy armor
plate; and the turret became the
highly mobile gun turret of mod- '
era warships.. - Vi' -"'
Just how a "new" weapon ap
pears to those on the side lack
ing it Is revealed in Ariosto's
-poem "Oriando Furioso" (1316).
Orlando the hero, was a knight
who got into combat with a foe
with a firearm. The poet of .
course has! his lance-armed hero
win his fight, and then to search
the booty for the firemrm--Mthe
pestr , . .; . "that device, whose
unresisted j force resembled thun
der in its! rapid course." -.
And this is what Orlando did
with the lirearm: he sailed out
on the ocean and cast it into
the sea, saying:
"Ol cursed device! base imple
ment of death! V .
Fram'd in the black Tartarean
- realms beneath j
By ' Beelzebub's ' malicious , art
design'd
To ruin all the race or human-'
kind 4
That ne'er again a knight by .
thee may dare, ' .
Or dastard cowards, by they help
in war, .
With vantage base, assault a
nobler foe,
Here lie forever in th. abyss
' below," ' V. ...
Alas for Orlando, the firearm
refused ,to stay on the bottom
of the ocean. He was a pretty
fair propaet though when he
saw what the firearm would do
to "the nice of human kind."
We moderns are no smarter
than Orlando. Did not the great
nations back in 1922 sink their
' warships fn the ocean, with the
same hope as Orlando? And the
same subsequent disillusionment,
Americsxi Surgtona ' '
an Advanced xts army
BAS2, Marshall Islands, June 14
jty- Army surgeons at this cent
rail Pacific' outpost perform an
average of two major operations
daily. Most of the patients are
American service men, but quite
a few Marshallese . shot by the
Japanese have been handled and
some Japanese prisoners'- of war
also have been reluctant patients.
' Maj. Harvey D. Bingham of
Seattle, chief , surgean, said the
Marshallese are docile patients.
. -It we wanted to change their
dressings half a - dozen times - a
day they'd be there grinning
and chattering happily, he said.
Today's Garden
II By LJLXJE MADSEN
. 'Urs. F S, writes that she-, is
growing "lovely tomato plants"
with the "nicest foliage" but
; thf t all ghe fruits ' are dropping
off. In fact, the flowers are big,
"too, but they do not develop. She
has given her bed some amonlum
fertilizer and a lot of manure.
This used to, she writes, pep her
laWn up so much, in the spring
that she thought it was good for
the tomatoes.
, Answer: But she must remem
ber she isn't trying to grow a
forage crop. She is trying . to
grow fruit. The nitrogenous fer
tilizers will' "pep" up the growth
.' of foliage and grass and the "for
age" division of the plants but
it will not do much toward de
veloping fruit More potash and
phosphate are needed for this.
She probably won't be, able to
do much for her tomatoes this
year, although rd give them
some application of superphos-
v phate. Potash is a difficult thing
to obtain now, but that does help
1 fruit development
Next year don't put manure
and nitrogenous fertilizers in the
tomato bed. -
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