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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward a Wayne
Xommuniat Plot* Is Giarged by Vichy
,Shotting Attack on Lavak
ish-Russian Forces Occupy Iran;
Senate Launches Gas Shortage Probe
(XOITOK'S NOTE—Wkaa tplitoM wi expr«i«ed In U« mIuii, they
an IkM «r the mm* aat nacaaaarlljr •( tkla aawapapar.)
Where One Died in Tornado
U. S. S. Silversides
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(Released by Waftara Newspaper Union.)
—* Some of the 11,OM woriters in the Kearny N. J., shipyards are pic-
tared as they went back to work after the U. S. navy had taken over
aupervision of the plant. Producing defense shipping, the yards had been
(dosed for 18 days because of a C.I.O. strike.
LAVAL:
And a Purge
, In Paris three tajon were guillo-
tined as the first actlon-m a^purge- trovsk, with or without the buge
of anti-Vichy ..elements, following
the shooting of Pierre Laval and
Marcel peat, French leaders advo-
cating closer collaboration with Ger-
many. Special courts convicted the
assailants and it was declared that
"this attack on Laval was but part of
a vast "Communist conspiracy."
I-RAN:
An Occupation
That the Russo-British action
. against Iran would be virtually an
occupation rather than a full-fledged
invasion was seen almost immedi-
ately, after the troop movement
started.
Two things were early indications
of this fact, first -the sending by
British transport planes of small de-
tachments of. .troops far into the in-
terior to protect British industrial
- outposts; second," the fact that "points
like Bandar-Shahpur, which could
ban been bitterly defended, tell at
, once to the invaders.
v In tact, it was apparent that while
the Iran government might have
been under the Nazi .thpmb because
of the presence in the country of
hordes of fifth columnists, it was
not a heavily implanted thumb, and
within the government itself was ap-
parently enough friendly strength to
"create an early offer of peace.
That Russia and Britain would re-
gard thiff peace-offer as accept-
able only if they were given.con-
trol of key ppints, was obvious. The
refusal of the Iranians to expel the
Germans, as demanded by Britain
and Russia, was Nazi-inspired, it
it true, bqt the decision to offer to
expel them after the .invasion' was
under way, and the Nazi bluff had
been called, was entirely too pat to
suit the invaders.
A glance jit the map was sufficient
to -show the-tactical- importance of
Iran in any defense of India and
the Middle East, and collaboration
with Russia from the great centers
o< British supply wQ,uld demand
some point of land contact
"Also the oil establishments on both
sides of the Caspian sea demanded
protection, and the position of Iran
demanded control of that area in or-
der to accomplish this.
The Berlin reaction to the Iranian
adventure of the Soviet and Britain
waa not expressed until the. cam-
paign was nearly over, and then it
war called "a classical case of
brutal attack on a neutral state
which had done everything to pre-
vent war and respect ^.the interests
cf third parties ..."
C;AS:
0$nate Probe
U was forecast that Leon Hender-
son. price administrator, waa con-
templating setting a ceiling price on
;|liaplirie in the East, aia reports of
fig by individual filling ata-
poured in aa the shortage, real
nary, began to be felt
senate undertook an Invest!-
to answet these questional
i the shortage raai ot imaginary?
)re an organised effort to
the publicf I *as
led IB tiirts
...Ad gutt-es
4. Are a* tank ears being
... m> Jheh fiiQdst ability to ever-
«MM (he shortage?
President
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nh.i-b h to build toy Oa*ember a
UBU out* ptpelmr t;«o> ** central
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RUSSIA:
Still Fighting
Despite the loss
of Dnieprope-
coun-
tank-
to
power dam, and in spite of repeated
German communiques Which an-
nounced the continued successes of
the Nazi arms at the north and
south, there was every evidence that
-the Soviet Waif ^continuing to fight
and to battle with an organized army
of sorts.
It was one thing for the German- '
^Finnish army to report itself 35 j
miles from Leningrad and another |
thing to explain the lack of an-
nouncements of airplane damage to I
the city of any extent. .
The Germans also reported ad- :
vances south of the city, yet these ;
wei"e averaging eight to nine miles
a day, as against the 30 or 40 miles
daily "gained in the battles of France
and Poland.
The Russians reported a fierce,
battle for the mastery of the skies
over Leningrad with ..the.issaie
doubt. The city, they said, was still
unhit Moscow al^o elicited the
breathless praise of the British mis-
sion for its defense against German
air raiders. There was every indi-
cation that the Russian strength and
uoility had been underestimated
both by Hitler and the rest of tfa«
world. \
It was true that the third month
of the war found the' whole left bank
of the Dnieper in Germaja-hands,
but th.ere was evidence "that the Ger-
mans had planned to conquer what
they sought of Russia in one month,
and then to offer peace to Britain.
The peace offer was still in the
offing—-so was the German drive on
Russia, a&far as the objectives were-
concerned. Any serious capitulation
on the part of the Soviet seemed as
far . distant as ever.
. The Russians had reported a dar-
ing adventure on" the central front
the sending of a well-equipped army
in a southerly direction, to attempt
to cut the German lines at Gomel,
and to trap the entire advance force.
No definite report was forthcom-
ing as to the outcome of this effort
but British hints sent out oyer the
wire, after bright hopes had been
entertained for nine days, during
which some 20 villages were re-
taken, finally seemed to show" a
growing belief that the effort had
failed.
JAPAN:
Again Storm Center •
The official Japanese pronuncia-
mento that it weuld consider the
shipping of oil to Vladivostok by
Britain, the United States or the
Dutch East Indies an unfriendly act
again placed Nippon in the center of
a storm, especially as this waa coo*
aidered Japan's, <official answer to
the waroinga of phurchilL
Russia'a answer to Japan was that
she would consider it distinctly an
unfriendly act if Japan interfered in
Washington, D. C.
AUTO CUT
That fanfared OPM cut of 26%
per cent in auto production drew no
cheers from war department chiefs.
To them it was a big disappoint-
ment
First of all the cut looks a lot
thing the OPM carefully did not re-
veal in its hoopla press releases
was the fact that even with thii
Curtailment auto productipn still
will be 10 per cent greater than in
1938 and 1939.
In other words, notwithstanding
the increasing shortage of strategic
raw materials, such as steel, rub-
ber, alloys and other metals,, auto
production to continue-at levels
higher than in the peaceful years of
'38 and '39. ,
Another reason for the army
gloom was that it wanted an imme-
diate cut of at least 50 per cent.
For months war department heads
pleaded 4nd argued with OPM mo-
jjuls for drastic curtailment on the,
ground tKat the material going into
pleasure cars are desperately need-
ed for planes, tanks, ships, guns and
other vital armaments. But for
months the OPM masterminds did
absolutely nothing.
Finally, in July, scrappy OPACS
Director Leon Henderson, who has
seen eye-to-ey^ with the army on
this issue from the start, took the
■ bull, by the horns and "ordered"
a" 50 per cent slash.
OPM's reaction was to hit the ceil-
ing. It refused to accept the ruling.
And while OPM battled behind the
scenes with OPACS, autos continued
to roll off a ssem bl^y"1 ines In record-
breaking numbers. However, Hen-
derson's -bare-knuckling finally' took
effect. -The 26per cent-cut is a
little less than half of what the army
and Henderson wanted, but it is 6Vi
per cent more than OPM's original
figure.
• • •
TANKS FOR BRITAIN
Some time ago the Merry-Go-
• Round revealed that a chief objec-
tive of Lord Beaverbrook's visit was
to get-more tanks—tanks for Iran;
tanks for Egypt, tanks eventually
for an invasion, of the continent.
Beaverbrook particularly wanted the
new powerful 32 tonnprs that soon
will roll off the Chrysler assembly
Tine St tfie"rate of 450 a rriorfjh.
It can now " be revealed that the
British supply^ minister-wiH not go
borne empty handed. He will .take
back with him very cheering assur-
ances regarding the division of these
tanks between the'O. S. and British
armed forces. But that isn't the end
of his tank problem.
Allotting tanks to the British in.
_this_country is one thing, but deliv-
ering them across the Atlantic is
another.
In fact the problem of transport-
ing large numbers of 32-ton tanks
Is £Re~Toughest shipping problem
maritime experts Have faced since
the magnetic mine, which ravaged
shipping until the de-magnetizing de-
vices wefe, evolved.
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Shown here are the ruins of a canning factory at Swcdesboro, N. J.,
after a tortaado bad ripped it to pieces. George Hemplc, of Swedesboro,
was crushed to death when a 150-foot steel stack at the cannery fell on
and smashed the truck in which he. was sitting. Eighty others were in-
jured in the cannery. Other sections of Delaware and New Jersey suffered
damage .from the storm.
New 'Tank KillerTn Action
—The IT. S. S. -Silversides. another
$6,000,000 submarine for the'navy, la
launched at Mare island, Vallejo,
Calif. Five other submarines are
under construction at the Mare Is-
land navy yard. Mrs. James J. Ho*
gan was sponsor.
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Geo. E. Mayes, Aft
The U. S. army's provisional GHQ tank destroyer battalion unveiled
its weapons at impressive demonstrations at Fort Meade, Md°. This sound-
photo shows a fast new "tank killer" (at left) firing its 75-mm weapon at
tank (right) durjfig tactical experiments in maneuvers. " —
Pierre Laval, foremost collabora-
tor with German "new order," who
♦
was shot in Versailles by an assas-
sin posing as a volunteer in French
legion recruited to fight Russia.
Duke of Kent Welcomed to New York Now Serving Nation
In a nutshell here is the problem:
For every shipload of light 12 ton
tanks sent to England or Africa, the
same ship plus nearly three-fourths
of another ship would be required to
transport the same number of 32-
ton tanks. In other words, they^are
bigger.-^-Translated into specific fig-
ures—that 26-ship convoy which
landed 560 light tanks at Alexandria
three months ago would have had
to consist of 44. vessels to carry
the same number of medium tanks.
With shipping scarcer than hen's
teeth, a difference of 18 ships is an
extremely important factor. Also,
the necessity of traveling in slow
convoys further reduce* the amount
of shipping available. Some experts
estimated this reduction as high as
50 per cent In addition the British
sometimes take an~excessively long
time to unload cargoes.
So the tank problem thus also be-
comes an acute shipping^problem.
One bright spot in the situation is
the great reduction in ship losses in
the last 80 days since tbe extension
of the U. S. neutrality patrols. But
the basic problem of securing more
cargo bottoms still remains.
Note: Since January f, U. S. ship-
yards have turned out a total of 59
cargo vessels.
- ' 4 ' • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
any way with Russia's commerce^"" Army officers are singing the
m
actively
and Lflciiw
; "7~ W ■ Tr
through her principal Siberian port
Hie ftusslgnt called to the atten-
tion of Japan that the material thua
received waa not in any way to b*
used aa a reservoir for any attack
on the Japaneae, but aolely to de-
fend herself against the invasion of
Germany. • <
Any child could aee die truth of
this statement, but the mora, that
Russia was on tbe defensive in the
weet, the bolder Japan waa bound
to be.
Japan, however much '*b* -might
ha worried by poaaible British-Amer-
ican-Dutch military and naval action
against her, could not be expected to
1<mm much sleep over Russia, which
*be had whipped In 1004, and which
now waa embroiled in a war to the
death with the Hazia.
if Russia's attitude waa to be
«ed up by Britain waa
tare, and if the United
waa to become active in a
m war, then the pic-
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to he feeling bar way. v
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praises of 20th Century-Fox's Darryl
Zanuck.~,and • many jonoyie^moguls
for their big jobrbrfllming 100 reels
ot army training films. This was
the first-time training films have
ever been taken, and Hollywood did
them for 40 per .cent of what it would
have cost Hollywood itself to do the
Job. In other words, the army only
had to pay union labor and cost ot
film. Hollywood supplying the stu-
dios, production, overhead and ev-
erything else.
The Washington Diplomatic corps
is goggle-eyed over Mrs. Warren
Pierson'a new book, "The Good
Neighbor Murder." Her husband is
head of the Export-Import Bank
Which loans millions to the Good
Neighbors.
Dr. 1. Lubin, brilliant White House
defense expert, is the. moat "offlced"
official in Washington. -R* <has an
office in the White House, another
in the labor department as bead of
the bureltf of labor atatisUca, a
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His royal highness, the duke of Kent, brother of King George VI of
England, la welcomed to New York city by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardla.
The duke, in a plane of the Canadian air force, landed at LaGuardia
field, where thia picture was made: He took an automobile for Hyde
Park, where he spent the week-end with President Roosevelt.
Bombs Explode in Havana
adviaer to Secretary Morgenthaa
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Training schooner, Vema, one of
America's largest yachts before
conversion to U. 8. service, sails
from New York on maiden training
cruise with some 100 apprentice sea-
men jtboard. The .ship was present,
ed to Uncle Sam for fl.
Thumb Ride
A. surprise strike ef street ear and
baa operators canned 400,000 wait-
ers In Detrelt to straggle with
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Curry, W. M. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1941, newspaper, September 5, 1941; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth243236/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.