CARTOONISTS' PENS MEET JAP SWORDS
Duffy in Baltimore Sun Leuil in Milwaukee Journal
Reveille In Washington' 'If There's Another Job To Do, We'll Do It'
Loring in. Providence Bulletin
Direct Hit'
Sweigert in San Francisco Chronicle
Sticking His Neck Out'
Knox in Memphis Commercial Appeal
'When Madmen Lead The Blind'
Hungerore! in Piiku
'WarOnGnZ.P0,'-!'
The WORLD This WEEK
Labor Gets
Into Step
WAR caught the Smith strike
curb bill between the House
and the Senate. As William
Green, president of the AFL, and
Philip Murray, president of the
CIO, pledged their aid to President
Roosevelt, Senate leaders were re
ported to have agreed to take the
measure up Monday. The Senate la
bor committee already had approved
the milder bill sponsored by Senator
Ball (R-Minn.).
Vice President Wallace, as presi
dent of the Senate, routed the Smith
Bill to the labor committee instead
of the judiciary committee, which
has the reputation of being some
what sterner.
Both Green and Murray attacked
the Smith measure and said it was
unnecessary to assure continued
production. There were demands in
the Senate, however, for action on
some kind of anti-strike legislation.
Thurman Arnold, assistant attor
ney general, meanwhile lashed out
at "illegitimate practices of labor
unions strategically located in trans
portation or distribution industries."
He said "Labor conspiracies in
many larger cities are preventing
consumers from having cheaper
houses, cheaper transportation and
cheaper distribution of the interests
of life."
The strike picture as a whole was
the brightest in weeks. A threatened
walk-out of 125,000 welders was
postponed when their independent
union appealed to the U. S. Concili
ation Service for intervention.
A wage dispute of 42,000 Railway
Express Co. employes' was settled
when the company and union repre
sentatives agreed on a 10-cent an
hour pay increase.
The Association of American Rail
roads meanwhile decided to ask the
ICC to approve a 10 increase in
rates to help meet the cost of the
wage increase granted in their re
cent dispute with the rail brother
hoods. They estimated the wage set
tlement would cost $300,000,000 a
year.
A 40-Year Battle
Coal miners began fighting at the
turn of the century for a union shop
in the "captive" coal mines owned
by big steel companies. Now, under
the CIO United Mine Workers, they
have won.
Sunday the arbitration board ap
pointed by President Roosevelt re
turned a 2-to-l decision backing
UMW's demand for the union shop,
a dispute that had given rise to three
strikes.
The dissenter was Benjamin F.
Fairless, president of U. S. Steel
Corp., who said the decision imposed
"an unregulated labor monopoly" on
the industry. However, the industry
had agreed to accept the ruling. The
other two arbiters were Dr. John R.
Steelman of the U. S. Conciliation
Service and UMW President John L.
Lewis. Lewis commented: "I feel
that the award justifies the position
assumed by the United Mine Work
ers." In Short . . .
Arrived: Maxim Litvinoff, new
Russian ambassador, in Washington.
Separated: Tommy Manville, 47-year-old
asbestos heir, and his fifth
wife, showgirl Bonita Edwards, 22,
after 18 days.
Upheld: The conviction of Robert
S. James in the so-called Los An
geles "rattlesnake murder," by the
Supreme Court.
Sentenced: 12 members of Social
ist Workers Party, to 16 months in
prison on charges of advocating
overthrow of the government; six
more, to terms of a year and a day.
Banned: Production ol coin-operated
gambling machines after Feb. 1,
by OPM, which also ordered produc
tion of juke boxes and other coin
devices cut 25.
Died: Hart O. Berg, 76, who de
veloped the Browning pistol and
machine gun in this country; Charles
A. Whelan, 78, president of United
Cigar Stores.
(All BitMe Reterved, AP Feature Service)
1 And The War Began
"Eager for realisation of their
inordinate ambition to dominate
the Orient, both America and Brit
ain are giving support to the Chun
king regime and have aggravated
the disturbance in east Asia. Our
empire, for its existence and self
defense, has no other recourse but
to appeal to arms."
Hirohito's proclamation of war
"Yesterday, December seventh,
1941 a date which will live in
infamy the United States of
America was suddenly and delib
erately attacked, by naval and air
forces of the empire of Japan. . . .
With confidence in our armed
forces with the unbounding de
termination of our people we
will gain the inevitable triumph
so help us God"
FDR's message to Congress
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The A-B-C Of In-The-Middle Turkey
WHAT with all the excitement in Russia and
Libya and then in the Pacific the impor
tance of Turkey, Germany's fall-back route to the
Middle East and the Suez Canal, has been some
what forgotten.
Turkey's late strong man, Kemal Ataturk, laid
down a pro - British policy as a fundamental. In
1938 he launched a $170,000,000, five-year "arm-for-peace"
program, which was financed in part by
a $100,000,000 credit from England and France. In
return Turkey promised to defend the Dardanelles
against Axis aggression. When war struck, and es
pecially after France fell, England found it impos
sible to supply Turkey with the guns and planes it
had promised.
Turkey began to dally with Germany, but Eng
land and the U. S. hoped she had been brought back
into the fold with the granting of $100,000,000 in
lend-lease credits.
Turkey now has an army of about a million well
trained and equipped men. In addition, she prob
ably could mobilize another 7,000,000 fighters, in
cluding women. Every man and woman between 16
and 60 is subject to conscription; the women were
included when Ataturk freed them from their harems.
The Dardanelles divide European Turkey (about
the size of Massachusetts) from Asiatic Turkey. They
are heavily fortified and naval experts say it would
be impossible for any ship to get through as long as
the forts were firing. European Turkey is a mass of
defenses, especially along the Bulgarian border.
Even if the Germans succeeded in crossing Euro
pean Turkey and storming into Asiatic Turkey, how
ever, the campaign would be far from won. The
British and Free French have been concentrating
troops in Syria, Iraq and Iran, and these would give
a good account of themselves.
Solid arrow slwws how far the Germans'
Caucasus drive took them. White arrow "A" shows
where they tcould have none next. White arrow
"B" indicates Turkish fall-back route for eastern
jaw of pincers movement on Sues; white arrow
"C," the western jaw.
ROSTOV
ALv SUEZ CANAL fsC
Science
War And Peace In Skies
While German and British airmen
battle in the skies, astronomers of
the two countries are still working
together on the scientific problems of
the heavens. Dr. Bart J. Bok of Har
vard, reviewing the year's accom
plishments in astronomy, reported:
"In spite of the barriers of censor
ship, astronomers have during 1941
succeeded in keeping alive interna
tional contacts."
New 'Infantile' Treatment
For years doctors have clamped
victims of infantile paralysis in
casts, splints and braces. The theory
was that wasted legs and arms
would heal better with complete
rest.
Two years ago nurse Elizabeth
Kenny of Australia introduced a
"work" treatment to American doc
tors. The patient is left as free as
possible, the joints are manipulated
and hot packs are applied to help re
store damaged nerves.
After extensive demonstrations at
Minneapolis General Hospital, the
National Foundation For Infantile
Paralysis endorsed the "work"
method. Dr. Wallace H. Cole and
Miland E. Knapp reported "The pa
tients observed were much more
comfortable and cheerful."
Stories About People
A-1 Public Servants
The Board of Supervisors of East
St. Louis, 111., wanted to give Allie
McAtee, their pauper investigator, a
$300-a-year raise, but McAtee
turned it down. He said the boom
had cut down the number of paupers
so much his job wasn't worth any
more than his present $2,000.
Before you faint, get this one
Sheriff Fred A. Ross of Lauder
dale county, Mississippi, actually
turned back $5,000, thereby keeping
a campaign promise for the second
year. Ross promised he would keep
only a reasonable salary out of the
fees he collects and contribute the
rest to the state old age pension
fund.
Names Make News
A little boy went to a parade In
New York City in 1852. He got lost
from his parents and never found
them. An orphanage gave him the
name Ben Fritman. He fought in the
Civil War, settled in Indiana. He
died last weekend without ever
knowing who he was.
The same day Fritman died, Macy
T. Grippen, 56, found out that his
name was really Scott. A Kalama
zoo, Mich., railroad worker, Grip-pen-Scott
set out on the track of his
birth certificate when the railroad
asked all employes to furnish them.
In his native Goshen, Ind., he found
no Grippens listed but learned from
relatives that his mother had remar
ried when he was two years old. He
had never been legally adopted by
his step-father.
Success Story
Three years ago blond Dorothy
Kirsten was financing her study of
voice by scrubbing floors. One night
she got an audition in a New York
radio studio. Grace Moore, Metro
politan star, happened to be there.
She packed Dorothy off to Italy to
study.
The war cut Dorothy's training
career short, but she reached a cli
max in her career last weekend in
Chicago co - starring with Miss
Moore in "La Boheme."
Justice In Georgia
A mob stormed the Dodge county,
Georgia, jail last June, seized a
young Negro named Eddie Lee
Spivey. He was given an impromptu
"trial" on charges of raping a white
woman. Then a happening almost
unheard of the mob decided there
wasn't enough evidence to lynch
him. He was returned to jail for a
regular trial. Last weekend he was
acquitted.
War Comes At Last
To A Peaceful People
UNTIL the last minute, Americans had hoped
they could keep out of war. The last minute
arrived before they knew it, even while the Japa
nese envoys were keeping up the pretense of peace.
Patient Secretary Hull received the report of
Japanese attack as Nomura and Kurusu were wait-
One Nation,
Indivisible
LIKE a good-natured giant,
stunned by a blow from be--hind,
Uncle Sam staggered under
the first Japanese attack. Then he
recovered his balance, jutted his
jaw and fought back persuaded at
last that not everyone is to be
trusted.
From the second that the news
came, America's differences "were
dropped.
The America First Committee
urged its supporters "to give their
support to the war effort," and
Charles A. Lindbergh, one of its
leading members, declared "Our
country has been attacked by force
of arms, and by force of arms we
must retaliate.
ing to see him. He let them into hl I
their final Tnessage-reiectina his M
tormula-and then let them have it. rS 9
years of public service," he said, "I have ZH
a document so crowded witv, i ..Te'Ol
and distortions." Then he d tawH.
UHM
Treachery
In The West
HONOLULU woke early Siol
day morning to the bml
battle planes. "On" ,,..
sleepy" householders, and tunS
uvci iui anouier nap.
But early risers, peering it J
sky, saw the rising sun painWiU
trie .bombers' wingi. They weS
"theirs." Then bombs came M
Hours later, Japan got await
.the formality of declaring wit
America and Great Britain. Ha
day Britain and America repUtdi
record time.
As the days unfolded, hamneJ
diow louowea nammer-Dlow. TuU
land gave up, and a horde of Jnu
nese soldiers swarmed over m.
Quotes
Jack Stinnett, Washington col
umnist: "The utter confusion of
commentators who for days had
been predicting that nothing
would happen in the Pacific was
matched only by the surprise of
those who had been saying that
something toould."
Attache at New York .Japanese
Consulate, explaining why office
staff was clearing out its belong
ings: "This is a special Sunday."
Agriculture Department Year
book: "A rise of two degrees in
the temperature of the earth
would clear the polar seas of all
ice."
The Army
Home For Christmas
Many of the boys in the army
many of them literally boys away
from home for the first time have
tne tmrma noad. Manila w
bombed, and landings were mid
on Luzon island. The British to!
ships Prince of Wales and Repglat
were sunk. The Japanese claim!
supremacy in the Pacific, but Kim
dent Roosevelt dismissed thli i
fantastic.
Thursday U. S. Army bomben
sank the battleshin Haruna.
It became plain that the Ja
strategy was to put U. S. andBnt
ish forces on the defensive in th
Pacific while they thrust against &.
British in Burma and Singapore. I
, Jipai
"We must fight with everything we been living just for the day they borders into Malaya and towinr 1
nave ; ah .uanaon wired t un. "ine leave uumt mi nnauua uu
Japanese attack leaves us no lough. '
choice." When war news came, it looked
To War-Time Basis like it was all over, but the Army
As quickly as the surprise circum- went ahead with preparations for
stances permitted, the nation the holiday. Local commanders have
switched over to a full war-time the authority over granting fur
basis. The west coast, aroused by loughs, and some were reported can
air raid scares and Civilian Defense celled, but in general officials be
Director LaGuardia's warning that heved any major change in Army
war was "not far from the Cali- practice would be delayed until af
fornia coast," went into a nightly, ter the holidays,
blackout. The east coast had warn- AH soldiers are due back on duty
ings, too. fcy Jan- 4-
T.pcrislatinn was immediately in- . i '
Uraers IS Orders . For reasons of their own.
diers draftees included to fight Private Victor Golas was ordered Axis partners, Germany and m
anywhere in the world and to keep 10 , lrara; C?P QUlY al ? Baltimore delayed declaring war until raw
them under arms for the duration, rauroaa crossing wnue nis outnt was day. Congress lost utue nine a
A change in the draft age brackets passing mrougn en route nome to clanng war on tnem, too.
and the cancelling of manv defer-
Massachusetts from the Carolina whv did Janan attack?
ments also was in DrdsDect. maneuvers. Most observers agreed the T(
Tnf fhpro was rift lark nf willino The last truck went by, but no- nitarv sp nluneed their nil
manpower. Recruiting stations were 5od3I told Golas to5"it' 80 into war either as an oriental A
iammorl P!von 9H (Ton .TnVin J. he Stayed On the job lOI 30 hOUrS, f.-f 4 sava face" a . do-or-n
Pershing offered his services again roV,gh raitl aJnd gloom of night. way out 0f the mess into wM
"to the last ounce" of my strength. Finally somebody remembered him. 'their country had fallen-or M
"Victorv Proeram" Planned After 12 hours sleeP he cau8ht , cause they had received proaW
SPAB demandfdT"vicZy pro- train tol Massachusetts, with his from Germany that led themS
gram" which p?obably would double ffi.HSi"' t0 bS IieY ,the ?ouldn ffl
the nation's spending for arma- CGneratulated. m his ears. quickly, with Japan sharing, bwl
ments, Estimates of the amount Women Doctors Want To Helo 11JUmwU? T"Ln,i. WM. Wurf
ranged Irom $35,000,000,000 to ?50,- . . "c " "?","' w, Btj
000,000,000. Much of the "victory The Navy - bans women doctors news ana hr t. w ote. WM
program" would center around " ."l" i-.Trfth7wklW
DireC- any m cimei dci vitc. is pan mm yo" v. .
directors ox tne American Medical and mat Knocking oay
Wava'. i 3 u uif(iMt rvin narration.
lutions to President Roosevelt asking To Americans the otfter m
in "tne Digger cuh.i6imv"
naval construction, but OPM Diree
tor Knudsen said the production
goal for four-motored bombers had
haan kAnalAJ fi-nvn RAA . v...U .n
,1,000. This emphasized the opinion that women physicians be taken into
of defense officials that the war in iaB rtrmy reserve "upon inesame peenoveua. - .v
the Pacific must be won by bomb- f,e""s as ormemDers" end tnat Durnmg, ?"X"jSmtA
ins.Ianan "all proper and necessary steps be anti-Fascist side. Bom nu''i
mg japan. n.i. i- . . nuicV, T. hvan forces repowi
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OPM put critical materials on a
"seize first and pay later" basis, and
President Roosevelt announced that
war industries were going on the
seven-day week (the factories, not
the workers).
Enemy Aliens Siezed
Enemy banks and businesses
were seized, and the government
slapped rigid restrictions on Japa
nese, German and Italian "enemy
aliens." Many regarded as especially
dangerous were arrested. The Jus
tice Department, however, urged
Americans to be careful not to harm
the "many persons of Japanese ex
traction whose loyalty to this coun
try is unquestioned."
Latin American nations and Can
ada swung into line behind the U. S.
Many Latin American countries
declared war; others merely de
clared the U.S. "non-belligerent,"
which leaves their ports open to
American ships.
One note of disunity was the de
mand by some congressmen that
the Army and Navy be called on to
explain how the Japanese were able
to sneak up on Hawaii. The general
attitude in Congress, however,
seemed to be that .that was all over
and the thing to do was not to let
anything like it happen again.
The best key to the nation's feel
ings came in the telegrams and tele
phone calls that poured into the
White House after FDR's Tuesday
night speech. His secretary, Stephen.
Early, said "Without exception, they
.show a complete unanimity."
Navy reserve.
encouraging gams.
The Home Front
law unconstitutional. The cotirtsM
cision saw: . . .i m
"Freedom of speech and b l
press are not aosoiuw i-
it would be a greater enHM
state and its people if ttePJ
subject to censorship m lg
speech of the individual depw
upon a censor's mSttid
Tne u. o. --.,)., pref
while : upheld the right
and tne pudhc d-cisM
at any stage of a e . ,
were reversals of contemn' o
citations agamst the "S
Times and Harry Bridges, we
maritime union leaaw.
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una uerense
Defense is a comppn
and willy-nilly the defenwJ
War And Prices
War has overtaken the adminis
tration's eiforts to control prices be
fore defense boom inflation pushed
them out of sight. Now an even
greater boom is in sight, and Price
Administrator Henderson testified to
the Senate banking committee that
"We need a strong bill to authorize
real control of prices."
Henderson said he didn't think the
bill passed by the House had nearly
enough teeth in it.
Senator Downey (D-Calif.) told
the committee he intended to pro
pose a system of enforced savings
"to take 10 to 15 per cent of all In
come" as a rider to the price bill.
He said this would almost eliminate
anv rfnncfor nf inflntlnn Vw Hrawlnff
off from $12,000,000,000 to $15,000,- 2"ction machine has gw"
000,000 of our national income extremely complicated "ww
Freedom Of Speech
In the summer of 1940 Sussex
county, New Jersey, officials closed
trnlled bv a
and boards. ,n.ff.V"l
Now Senator centnuj
1S introduced 1 1 ton ' Ie depi
has
lew jersey, omciais ciooea new "r-7i- a iini"ru
down a German - American Bund the whole .rung . v.Btvam
Nine men were convicted of ment, to db - w W3
camp.
violating the state "race hatred"
law; they were accused of making or
promoting anti-Jewish speeches at
the camp.
But last weekend the state su
preme court reversed their prison
sentences and fines and declared the
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adopted to save W frM
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