The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1941 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CROfiBYTON REVIEW
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fEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne
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Hud Troops Are Massed in Balkans
at Greece to Aid Italians;
Far East Crisis Approaches
BI As Japanese-British Tension Grown
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MARCH;
Again
1833, Adolf Hitter in-
ch Saar Valley into
In March. 1936. he occu-
the Rhlneland. Irt March, 1938,
ian troops moved southward
annexed Austria. In March,
-breaking the pledge of Munich
fuehrer moved into Moravia
and made the Czecho-
provinces German protec-
torates. In March. 1940, he got set
for his moves into Norway and Den-
March. 1941. arrives.
any success this
m
he wiH thank his lucky stars.
Hitler is a believer in astrology
and is declared to consult astrolo-
gers before he makes any major
moves.
The Balkans
Even before the flrst.of^March,
Hitler had gained the success he
planned in the Balkans. The final
moves may come in March, but the
P*th ofthe army was paved by ear-
lier
the highway and Josef Stalin fired
the starting gun.
- Deserted by its protectors, Bul-
garia gave way to the Geemans who
had placed 600,000 soldiers on her
border with Rumania. Bulgaria had
been promised the help of Turkey,
pro-British ally. And Turkey based
its security on the jSjpmises of help
from Russia. But Russia collapsed
again. It notified Bulgaria to expect
no help from Soviet troops and it
influenced Turkey also to withdraw
its promises to Bulgaria. Jugo-
slavia, surrounded on all sides, saw
its ministers called to Munich and
receive orders.
All this to get to plucky Greece.
Greece, despite its army's victories
over the Italians, saw its neighbors
fall before the Nazi threat It had
a choice of making a futile effort
to fight Germany alone, or to capit-
ulate like all the rest
Gi
cide. A German ultimatum was
drafted. Resistance means that the
nation would be the battleground of
German and British armies—provid-
ed the British could, in sufficient
time, extract troops frgm^the Afri-
can fifont and'•convoy them to the
Balkans.
MORE SOLDIERS:
U. S. Defense
Surveys have begun in the war
department with a view of expand-
ing the army to more than 3,000,000
men in case of emergency. It is
hoped to be able to be accomplished
the next year if necessary.
Sites for additional camps are now
being quietly surveyed all over the
country. Production plans are being
revised to reach this end and con-
gress has been asked for some of
the preliminary funds. - •———'—
What the army hopes to.realize is
the ability to put 55 divisions into
the field instead of the
be in camps on June 1 of this year.
To reach' this it is possible that the
present National Guard units will be
held in the federal army for another
year and that many of the selectees
now going to camps also will be
retairiSdT The latter go oh reserve
immediately upon completion of
their training and can be recalled
as needed to fill the requirements
of the standing armed forces.
In the near future President
gress a $3,000,000,000 program to-
ward this end.
Equipment
Meanwhile the first flow of sup-
plies are beginning to reach the
armed forces. The-army air corps
The Far East
Meanwhile in Asia the other Axis
partner, Japan, was growing more
and more belligerent. Trnnps and
naval concentrations were- moved
into Thailand (Siam) and close to
French Indo-China. Threatened
principally was the British naval
base at Singapore. But threatened
as well were the Malay peninsula,
rich in rubber and tin; the Dutch
East Indies, wealthy in the same
Friendly Visitors From Nippon
Against No. 1776
U. S. FIRMS PAY AXIS POWERS
WASHINGTON.—While the senate
is preparing to enact the lend-lease
bill committing this country to vast
outlays for Great Britain, certain
American firms are paying out hun-
dreds of dollars monthly to Ger,
many and Italy, which funds are
being used to fight both the United
States and Britain.
This secret Axis aid is being de-
livered in the form of royalty pay-
ments on industrial formulas, trade-
marks, copyrights and patents. The*Y
money is paid in dollars and is de-
posited to German and Italian ac-
counts in New York baftk£
The justice department, which has
conducted a secret Investigation,
has uncovered these interesting
facts: _ ^ :
1. That the royalty payments are
now running around $500,000 a
month, of which Germany, gets at
en!
2. That a considerable portion of
the money was used by Germany
last year to buy U. S. goods for de-
livery to Latin American buyers, to
make good on contracts that Ger-
many confidently had signed after
the fall of France but was unable
to fill, because of the unshaken Brit-
ish blockade.
3. That Nazi and Fascist agents
have drawn on the funds to finance
racial and anti-defense propaganda
This friendly visit of a Japanese military delegation to the Reich-
chancellery in Berlin to see.. Hitler may be symbolic of co-operative
implications far beyond mere casualness, as Japanjregarded the landing
of Australian troops in Singapore as a -"belligerent action." Standing be-
side Hitler is General Yamashita of Japan.
When It Rains in California—
Sen;—Robert--Reynolds—<D.>—of
North Carolina, telling the senate
that Bill No. 1776 "may lead us di-
rectly toward a declaration of war."
Reynolds became the first souther*
senator to oppose the bill.
A NEW YORKER'S Nt
On one of the forums
Sabbath the opposing al
tied with the topic of the
to stifle the Fifth Column,
on one thing: Publicity ig
: way to wipe out all th? rod*
a certain WW, jwho has been",
that for a long time now,)lg (
"hysterical," among other
Ho, hum . . . Some of us, _
ally, are heckled for playing \
Important" news . . . But i
York H-T devoted a 2-colyum j
page spread to the news that]
ton stewdents are now al]_.
have panther soup in their
. . . The same day the NY j
reported that all the bishops j
Wonder how the Satevepoit't
about that? Since the SEP
piece claiming the Norweghog
bergh, the aviation expert,
we need 10,000 planes to be i
Rickenbacker, another «j
claims we need 150,000 planei',
In short, what the country
—less experts and more planet"
Patriot!
CHARLESTON, S. C.—The U. S.
navy destroyer "Ingraham" pictured
sliding down the ways after its chris-
tening. Thus, America adds another
link to her first line o! defense, at i/«
Bars it mm Australian soldier, typi-
cal of At large contingent just ar-
rived in Singapore to protect British
interests there. Ho pictured
Troop ship with a number
hardenedP companions.
And between
two
m
that long have been
at Japan's eyes—Austra-
the Philippines.
question was what would Brit-
the United States do In the
this hostile action. The
was not long in being an*
Britain sent convoy after
of tough, hardened Aiistra-
to Singapore—men'who
and anxious to fight for
States' reply was less
s~" ~ * as defiant. ,
fnd children
tlavy men in the
Other U. S. citizens were
«_rrt-.stt$ss
no one knew where,
a Japanese declaration that. It
most misunderstood nation
and was willing to «*•
peace anywhere at any-
ersecretary of Mate made
"We are more inter-
said. "it) deeds than in
r>'s?,
shipbuilding program goes far ahead of
schedule.
units expect to receive in March
the first new fighting planes embody-
ing features developed in European
warfare. Deliveries already have
started on it limited number of Bell
P-39 pursuit ships whose armament
includes, a 37-mm cannon fired
through the propeller.
Also scheduled for early delivery
are medium and light bombers,
which, like fighting planes, are
equipped with leakproof fuel tanks,
armor protection and heavier fire
tower. Many wil
ama Canal Zone and others to
Puerto Rico. *
SPIES AND OIL:
In Latin America
propaganda in South America.
\/ That while U. S. firms fork
ovCTulJieir tribute in dollars, such
royalties as Germany and Italy pay
arfe in the^orm of blocked marks and
export lira; that is, money that can
be spent only .in Germany or Italy.
Actually, the money levy is a sec-
ondary consideration. What really
worries the authorities is how much
vital military production information
these royalty agreements betray to
the Axis.
Since most royalties on patents are
paid according to the, number of
units sold, it should be a simple
matter for the Axis to obtain de-
tailed figures on types and rate of
flow of important materials to
the U. S. army and navy and to
Britain. Last year the justice de-
partment cracked down on Bausch
and Lomb when it discovered that
under a-Secret royalty agreement
—the firm suptJlIea tlie Germ&ft licen-
sor with a detailed accounting ol
certain instruments delivered to the
navy.
• * *
WILLKIE RATES CHURCHILL
OVER F. D.
Wendell Willkie went all-out for
the President's lend-lease bill, but
personally he doesn't like Mr.
Roosevelt any better than before.
Willkie made this clear to friends
following his conference at the
wmte House. —
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-1 Heaty downpour takes Severe tou in property damage throughout
touthern California, causing landslides, washouts and floods. Topanga
river becomes a raging .torrent. This picture^ taken in Topanga canyon,
shows a home as it crumpled into the rampant waters. Rescue workers
are attempting to save a marooned family.
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Jean Greaux, 22, native of .the Vlr-
gln islands, spent his savings to- aborrt to wng+r w wh"1rr
make a 4,000 mile trip to enter the
army. Here he is receiving his uni-
form at Jefferson Barracks, St.
Louis. He enlisted at Camp Robin-
son, Ark.
Local 'loiterers have per
game of Pedestrian Poker.'
played with names. The flrst|
er yells a common monicksfc
"Bill," at a mob of passenbj.1
counts the number who turn i
and that's his hand . . "TThij
player hollers: "Jack!"
he attracts more neck era
takes the pot.
The colyum recently itemed I
commentators should pronouncii
Knudsen's name "Nood-sen,"
"Ka-nood-sen'.' ... A country^
an of the Defense Chief resp
by saying that "K" was silent,^
-W.elU..she.'.* wrong, too . . . W«i
learn from Leon Henderson,
Mr. Ktiudsen's colleagues, thatij
name is pronounced "Ka-noo-n
the "d" being excess baggage.
Over at the 18 Club, Pat
ton relayed this one of Mr,
noo-sen . . . The Defense
was playing his favorite card |
poker, with some Washington <
nies. The limit was a dollar
During a big pot, Mr. Kan
Usually informed circles in,Mex-
ico City discussed a sensational re-
port of a Nazi Fifth Column ring
which was said to be operating
from the Canadian border to the
Cape of Good Hope. The ring was
declared to be directed from Phila-
delphia.
Mexican circles, describing the al-
leged conspiracy, said it was a pre-
step in Nazi efforts to gain
economic control of the Western
hemisphere. The plot was said alsa
to engage Communists and Spanish
Falangistas as well as Japanese
agents, and the objective to be sabo^ j rervation service and The farm ie-
taging of U. S. aid to Britain, block-
ing the American defense plans and
antagonism against the United
other potenu^tly-vak. States in soma of th Tj tln Am*rl.
can countries.
For weeks there has been evi-
dence of increased pro-Axis activity
in Mexico. Several pro-Nazi publi-
cations have appeared. Ships ar-
riving from Japan have unloaded
numerous Germans. Propaganda
has been aimed at creating suspi-
cion on the United States' good
neighbor policy, and! at a whispering
campaign that the U. S. would drag
Mexico into war.
President 'Manuel Avila Camacho
often has expressed his friendship
for the United States and his dis-
like for totalitarian policies. Just a
few days before news of the alleged
ting was made public he stibmitted
to a special session of the Mexican
congress a bin which would reopen
the rich Mexican oil resources to
private exploitation. The bill ap-
parently would clear the way for
of operations by U. S.,
and Dutch companies expro-
priated in 1988. The government,
However, would participate in the
cortroL
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Never-Ending Stream of Italian Prisoners Winning Ski Jump
Winston Churchill, he indicated,
had it all over Roosevelt in ability
and personality, was "much simpler
and more direct in manner."
"There isn't anyone in America
quite like Churchill," Willkie said.
"He was the most congenial com-
panion I've met in a very long time.
He has a -gay buoyancy that is in-
comparable.''
Willkie "also told his friends that
he had absolutely no intention of |
taking a job under Roosevelt.
"The President hasn't offered me
anything," he said, "and I hope he
'il-turn-it-dowTi;
One thing I don't want is an ap-
pointive office. If war should come
I Will enlist in the armed forces,
but I'm not taking a government
Job."
Willkie is still undecided what he
will do, but is leaning toward a re-
turn to law. He has been offered a
number 6f lucrative positions, one
carrying a salary of $120,000 a year.
• • •
NEW FARM BOARD
After many years of supporting
the New Deal farm program, the
powerful Farm Bureau federation
wants to set up a new government
farm agency which it would largely
dominate.
- In backstage congressional con-
versations, the farm leaders have
proposed that the AAA, the soil con-
A seemingly never-ending stream of Italian prisoners is here shown
pouring over a bridge following the Capture of an Important base during
the British sweep west through Libya, which wa%A climaxed by the cap-
ture of Bengasi, an Italian stronghold. In all, the British captured 109,090
Italians, .it was claimed. *—
Lifeboat for a Playroom
curity administration be taken away
from the department of agriculture
and be made a completely sepa-
rate agency. Then they want a five-
man board to run these important
bureaus.
~' Naturally, they expect to have a
goodly representation of members
on that board.
So far, Vice President Henry Wal-
lace and-Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard are vigorously opposed. So
also is the President.
Note—Herbert Hoover established
a famous farm board to buy wheat.
It was a mess.
• • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Elder Statesman ex-Senator King
of Utah is being promoted by friends
to become a commissioner of the
District of Columbia.
Although hampered by having its
offices scattered in six widely sepa-
rated buildings, the immigration bu-
reau is mailing out 99,000 receipts
a day to registered aliens. -
Pennsylvania Republican chiefs These British children were assigned to this lifeboat on the 8 S
wlU not havaJO ask Sen. ("Puddler fcorgic during its hazardous Journey to New York. When the stoamahlp
Jim") Davis twice to be their candi- docked the children nsed the boat, which was to be their watery home
date for govermv next year. He is to case of torpedoing, as a sort of playroom. The Georglo was the first
panting for the chance. , British passenger ship to dock in New York since November IS, 1949,
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Torger Tokle of the Norway Ski
club soars to victory lh the F. D.
Roosevelt ski tourney at Bear Mena-
taln, N. Y. His poorest leap was
16S feet. His best was 189 feet,
which beat by 9 Inches the mark ha
established two years ago.
to call his opponent's bluff
careful," cautioned the opp
"that's a whole year's Gove
pay!"
The London Dally Express!
this sign observed on a board i
side a London church: "If
knees are knocking, kneel on '
... Germany's Minister of ,
has just died . . . Gone to;
Justice,-no doubt
It happened over at Barbara 1
ton's house in Hollywood the
party . . . The wealthy lady I
several of her friends on the 1
newspapers and.trade dailies
Herb Stein, of the Hollywood
porter, a newcomer, was
with her in a dimly lit
heart-to-heart talk.
—For Expert—
WASHING AND
FRBB YAC4JW0
CLEANING
$L50
—SEB VB AV-
AL COOPER _
MOTOR COMPANt
Deportation?
wmmm
Deportation proceedings against
Harry Bridges, West coast labor
leader (above), have been ordered
by Attorney General Jackson. Ba-
sis for this action Is the FBI report
that Brldgea Is a communist.
HAULING
WHEN TOD HAVB HA!
— TO DO. CALL DS
Local and Long Distant*
* Hauling.
C. C. BECKHAM
INSURANCE OF ALL
KINDS
Taar Business Appreciated
Citizens Insurance
Agency
F. M. DUNN, Agent
CITIZENS BANK
8«e tfa For
Tour Printing
Needs
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Also . &
Typewriter Ribbons, Mr
Robber Bands, Adding MntW
Paper. Paper Clips,
Erasers, and many other
supplies that yon need
day.
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Curry, W. M. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1941, newspaper, February 28, 1941; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth243209/m1/2/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.