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I I A i By S. Burton Heath Co-operatives Expected By Walter Lippmann 1 Allied Combination in Pacific Held Sufficient to Whip Japan There was nothing in. Mr. Churchill's speech or in Mr. Hull's press interview which can give the Japanese militarists any reason to think they can safely advance any therThis is not the JSummer of 1940, when Britain stood alone and at hay in Europe, when China stood alone in Asia, when America was; unprepared," and Soviet Russia was bound to Germany.

This is the Summer of 1941, and the balance of power has turned decisively against Japan. Whereas a year ago we felt constrained tobuy time by a To Help Rebuild China 7 NEW YORK, Aug. 29. If bin'a survives the Japanese -war, her rehabilitation will be aided by an industrial co-operative movement which Has gained considerable headway since was established in 1938 by Premier Dr. H.

H. Kung. He first formulated the plan as minister of finance. Already, at that time, Nipponese shells and bombs had destroyed four-fifths of China's never too extensive factory capacity. The co-op FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1941 2-M policy of concessions and retreats, we are now in -a position to insure our security in ARE YOU LISTENING? By Webster idea in part was a makesmit, me racinc oy positive arm, need be, by decisive action In Iceland We areabje now to talk with Tokyo on the basis of a new situation.

An American mm tary mission under Brig. Gen. John Magruder Is on its. way jtoChlna but Dr. Kung envisaged it also as a permanent contribution to the republic's economy.

Among the thousands of war destitute in refuge camps were many skilled workmen. These had the choice of idleness or of working for the Japs. Dr. Kung decided that the invaders could be deprived of the services of such men, and China given some positive benefit, by creating a group of flexible, decentralized small industries. By the end of the year almost American supplies' are on their way buretor tinkerers to be notrd along the roadside any week-end after dusk.

On the heavily burdened parkways of the metropolitan district, this causes worse thfin usual traffic jams at hours When throngs' are. creeping homeward from picnic spots, golf links and other suburban resorts. The shutdown has emphasized that gas stations really are service stations. The sale of fuel and oil comprises about five-sixths of their gross business. But in addition, they serve as handy local emergency posts.

They sell and service tires, batteries and small parts. Many of to Siberia. Manila, Hong Kong Ship's Captain Can Be Tough But Signalmen Say i He Talks to Them Like One of Fellows Singapore have been heavily rein Tucker Writes: Indians Head For Broadway Inca Producer Says He Will Pse Them In New Extravaganza By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Aug. ere going to have a lot of braves, forced. 'Japan is separated from her Axis partners In Europe by the great Russian wedge and by the improved British position resulting from the conquest of Ethiopia- 1300 societies with more than 13.000 members had been formed.

This now has been increased to 1664 co By FLETCHER PRATT ABOARD U.S. WARSHIP IN ICE and the occupation of Syria, Irak and Iran. The naval position in the operatives with 22,000 workers. Some LAND WATERS. The skipper of North Atlantic has been greatly are located in the rear zone, iar removed from hostilities.

Others a warship In full commission is a improved, and similar improve lonely man. He Is personally re merits will no doubt soon be as are in a huge arc around the fighting lines. A few are in the guerrilla sponsible-for about $50,000,000 worth T-reeS Cot7rT Clock aj A perfczt) vuY hope For who's The mess i DAY poP TR HUMAM THE WORLD i 0AL( GAME RAce.yeRe today ts isi DOOMED ls squaws and chiefs puttering around In the theater this Winter At any rate an Inca Indian, who says his sured In the South Atlantic, POSITION IMPROVED of ship and the lives of some 1700 region, and even behind the Jap men; he is an autocrat more absolute In spite of a certain amount of lines. EXPANDING SCALE obstruction and uninformed politi in his own domain than Hitler. Inexorable custom cuts him.

off from, the social life of the ship; he eats The Chinese industrial co-opera cal confusion at home. The American position in the world whole full title is His Supreme Highness Prince Cante Waste, has opened an office on Fifth Avenue, with the intention of porducing a vast Indian musical extravaganza. He'll use several hundred Indians recruited from Government reservations. If them will run out a can of gasoline to a stranded motorist, or send a mechanic to find a short circuit in his ignition system or to replace and mend a flat tire. The dollar volume of these services is not large.

The extent to which the motoring public has come to rely upon them is demonstrated by the ineptitude with which dozens of parties, along any resort parkway, now can be observed fiddling with tools and wondering what to do about a deflated inner tube. CANADIAN NAVY The Dominion of Canada is building toward a Navy of 400 vessels and 27,000 men. This would contrast with only 13 ships and less than 18,000 men when the war broke out 1939, and would be considerable advance over present figures. Because of the importance of tive movement, Indusco (or kung ho) produced more than a hundred has been made much better than it his meals In a cabin that looks rather like the 'dinlng-rOom of a Greenwich Village apartment, waited on by a couple of mess-boys. different articles last year, and is expanding even further.

As a whole, it has a paid-up capitalization of 880,940 yuan (a little more than and has borrowed some (An Increasing number of the mess- boys, by the way, are Chamorros from the island of Guam, rather 10 times as much more for financ than the Filipinos, who used to hold was a year ago. It is so much better that the opportunity now exists to make sure that Japan will not, because she cannot, stab us in the back, or even compel us to continue to leave the Western Hemisphere unguarded In the Atlantic because we must stand guard in the Pacific. Our conversations with Japan will, let us hope, continue, but if they do continue, it will be because we are now able to speak the language ing. The monthly output is equiva the lob.) He is subject to being called from the table or bed at odd hours for emergencies that might appear quite the Prince Cante Waste it on Broadway, he'll be a very jiaradozical young man. T.

Dorsey Is back on his Jersey farm after his adventures in Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, where he parted with his tonsils. That wa sa lively session he had with the doctors, His room was outfitted with radios and a recording device, and he occupied his free moments making all sorts of nonsensical recordings. Then, too, there were the telegrams and the telephone calls to be answered. One of the Broadway writers made a little insignificant. For instance, the flag- naval strength to the far-flung British Empire, and the home islands' dependence upon sea-borne hip signals, "Did you order that lent in value to about $600,000.

Half of this is in textiles and chemicals. Cotton, woolen, hemp, linen and silk materials make up almost a third of the production. The co-operatives have gone in also for the making of clothing and pox-tery, thetxtraction of metals and the fabrication of metal goods, for woodworking and for building con which the Japanese militarists destroyer to drop back astern of understand. They will understand imports for even the essentials of us in China, that wo intend not subsistence, this is considered by only to continue supporting Fre strategists to be one of the really THf LOKCReD AIV" China, 'but that our military mi3 vital contributions the Dominion can 7HMK Wc5 slon will determine how airplanes struction, not to mention ventures HAHDl- -To CTfcM THE WOUKSYS HAHQXCAP LAST WEEK To ear it ouGtrr Tq ee and other weapons can most effect slip in calculations and announced CAP.P jki THE TPtEES AMD ively be made availuble and then the convoy? SHORT AND WIND-WRINKLED The captain of our carrier is a short man with wind wrinkles around his eyes, chunky and athletic, in his late forties. (He was giving a couple of young ensigns a terrific going-over at a game of Badminton on the hangar deck last night.) The officers say he is a tough baby; the other day the deck force cut by three minutes their that Dorsey had been on the oper START OVeK AOAtH ting table "1214 hours." The calls from everywhere literally used.

CHINESE VALOR The Japanese have chosen to hav WITHOUT A HAMDIk 1HATGQGO j' I I poured in. DURING REHEARSAL a great war in China. It will cer lulnly serve the American interes in transport and culture. For the moment the co-operatives' production probably is their most valuable contribution, small though it is for a population the size of China's. But its sponsors feel that in the long run the setup will prove important as a means of enabling the people to participate in the regeneration of their Nation, independently of and in addition to what may be done by foreign capital.

AMATEURS GET BUSY One result of the evening closing Tommy also figured In a little Impromptu adventure in the Astor make to the war effort. A delegation was sent to London recently to discuss methods by which Canada can make herself most useful in the battle of the Atlantic. The R.C.N., which techincatly is entirely distinct from the British Navy, co-operated with its big brother during the first fourteen months of hostilities to escort thirty-five hundred vessels carrying twenty-one million tons of cargo from Canadian ports. In half a year, one destroyer participated in protecting more than 240 ships a distance equivalent to more than a complete circuit around the earth to make sure that this Chinese war, own best record at getting a flight of planes off the deck (at the bow), which the Japanese picked for them lobby some time ago, absolutely tin programmed, He has a bad ankle moving the parked airplanes, and selves, proves to be a bigger war than they bargained for. The valor taking in another flight over the of the Chinese and the toughness Suddenly It gave way under him and he.

collapsed Somebody yelled "Get a doctor." A guest stern. The flight officer trotted up of their Nutional spirit have been to the bridge, all palpitating with delight, to break the glad tidings proved beyond all doubt. The Jupa who had Just walked in yelled, "Ail to the skipper. Before he could open nese will understand, even though they hear contrary voices raised in right, tell me who to call i call him." The guest, it turned of gasoline stations in the East is a tremendous increase in the number of amateur tire-changers and car his mouth, the captain said: "I wish at the equator, without a loss. this country, why an increased sup out, was none other than old Dr.

Xlldare himself Lew Ayrcs. port to China Is an obvious measure you'd tell deck force of yours to get some of the lead out of their pants. They're almost as slow as in the defense of the vital Interests This happened during a -rehearsal of the United States. these British carriers." By Sigrid Arne of the Rudy Vallee program They will understand, too, as dip Dick Mack, who is the producer, SYMPATHY? OH, NOl lomats and professional soldiers 0 We have also had some personal yelled to his secretary: "Say, have you got John Bnrrymore'i telephone how the United States will send Science Qossip ands Comment view of his toughness. While we were making our official call at supplies to Russia by way of Siberia number7" "Yes' the said.

It is of Immense importance to us Washington Scene the captain's official residence. that there should remain firmly which is the chart room behind the bridge, we met the squadron established and strongly armed an "Then give it to Mr, Barrymore. He wants to call his home." Morton Gould has julst composed independent Russian Government in The Daily Knave (Editor's note: Sigrid Arne is sit leader of the carrier's planes coming out. A couple, of hours before Siberia. We do not wish Hitler, ting in for Jack Stinnett, who is on concerto for "Tap Dancing" for Paul Draper, who will introduce it or some Russian Quisling or Darlan he had escaped death by inches when his carburetor froze in the as our nearest neighbor in Alaska at Carnegie Hall this Fall It It must not be imagined for an lion web belts, approximately 19 always startles me when I rem em million white cotton handkerchiefs instant that Uncle Sam's soldiers, if ley mist aloft and he plunged into the ship's' wake.

Instead of sym We do not wish Japan for a neigh bor in Alaska. VALUE OF RUSSIAN ARMY and more than seven million canvas Silk Stocking Ersatz Found Government Experts Promise Substitute Women Will Accept By FRANK I. WELLER WASHINGTON, Aug. ber that Dorothy Lamour used to operate an elevator In a Chicago de they ever tangle with an enemy, will secrecy. Then a representative called to tell her the same story.

She played dead pari to the second call. Then the representative told the senator he'd talked with Ned. The senator hit the ceiling with "So! She talked!" "Talked? Did she know about It before I talked to her? She didn't say so." The senator chuckled, phoned Ned: "You're one woman who can keep a secret." And he followed partment store By the time you pathy, he had evidently received a hauling over the coals: "I'm awfully sorry, sir," he said, and Finully as long as Japan has a handle that enemy with gloves, but gloves do nevertheless constitute an important item in the soldier's ward Government which is Invading vacation.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. "Members and Press Only" is a forbidding sign which appears in two places in the capitol.

One is beside a private elevator to the Senate floor and The other flanks an elevator to the House floor and gallery. Newspaper men take that privilege absent-mindedly. But it's usualy with a gulp that a woman reporter takes her first ride. leggings. Bicycle The insomnia victim who spotted one bunny while counting sheep hurried past us, his face miser are reading this I'll be sail fishing In Florida, I hope Most of the producers are crying about the shortage of pretty girls Their robe.

China, encircling the Philippines and threatening the great sources of essential American supplies in More than 13 million pairs of gloves are included in the procure able as a spanked boy's. In thd Navy no excuses are adequate. The motto is Produce, or else. That's jumping over a fence, was thrown the South Pacific, we should be complaint is that the model agencies have them oil under contract a situation this column intends to ex ment program of the Quartermaster Corps for providing the men in the why we have the No. 1 Navy of very foolish, indeed if we did not through with many valuable tips.ftl off his count, but Ranger William Holloman, who spotted a bicycle in Tribune Special News Service.) appreciate the value of the Russian Army with all the articles of cloth LOOKS LIKE GRANDMOTHER me worm.

WHALE OF A YARN Lassen Volcanic National Park while Army, the Russian Air Force and American hosiery shops soon will place on sale a Yankee brand of plore BROADWAY IDIOM he was counting motor vehicles, It was way back in 1850 that the I arc ab()ut 15() women re. writer sat in the Senate the Russian Navy in Siberia. There is a big white Armv ing they will need while in tne service. Most of the gloves will be of heavy leather or of olive drab first woman rst woman "ersatz silk" stocking made of Therefore, now that our situation Mischa Auer, the actor (or cktor eallerv. Now.

91 years later, women 4 college graduates to frail Maudie cotton. transport with usMan unmitigated nuisance, as she Is verv slow. has 'improved now that we are in didn't allow the appearance of the mechanical maverick to jimmy up his total. What he did do was interview the bicyclist. McDougal of "the Philadelphia Re wool, a small percentage will be riding gloves of lined or unlintd You can hardly tell the substitute are still mucrr in the minority.

Of 542 persons admitted to the press always falling outVof station trinsically jnuch stronger, and now that there' exists in the Pacific from' real silk, the Government in ind emitting horschide or cowhide. cord, who looks the grandmother but won't tell her age. Some barely For the past three Summers spectors claim, adding that it is coalition of Chinese, Russians, Brit j. In order to provide the. soldiers with clothing suitable for all kinds exist on gossip letters to home town many times better than the un ish, Dutch mid Americans it is our of smoke.

This aftenioon she slopped altogether, signaling the admiral that she had run into a whale and wanted to clear it off comroftable hose Nazi scientists papers. But some get around in turn to say that Japan shall ad Ranger Holloman has been stationed at the Sulphur Works Checking Station in Lassen Park. Currently he is keeping a personal count of motor vehicles. Naw, smarty! Not chauffeur driven cars. of weather and under all possible conditions, the Quartermaster Corps fashioned from wood or glass or vance no further and that this con-slant menace must be -reduced.

The coal. Many are having shifted to galleries only 38 are women. The women have every privilege the men enjoy, except the old "back room" gathering at the day's end when men cronies of press and Congress collect for a few "quick ones" and the low down. USE OF TELEPHONE That could mean the women would miss stories, but they get around it The Government experts promise lime to reduce the Japanese threat to put wfmself to sleep, but to find now and in the next few months her bows. "Congratulations on being able to go fast enough to run into anything," the admiral signaled back.

He was skeptical about that Whale story, and so is the captain. publicity jobs, and most of those are with the Government. Often they shift because of the one real handi- pan whirh WasViinntnn wntmfn rp as we say on Broadway) can talk unless he Is sitting on something high. It seems Impossible for him to sink into a chair and indulge in conversation He has to be perched on a table, or a piano I've seen any number of private photographs of Auer, being interviewed, and always he Is six or eight feet off the rug. Joan Crawford's agents are trying to find a suitable script fur her.

She is anxious to appear on Broadway this Pall. Before they became "actors, these players earned, their -living as models: Joan Leslie," Jane. Russell, Sterling Haywood, Susan Haywood, Veronica Lake. out how many cars are coming in. to give the American women a cotton sock so near to silk they'll never know the difference.

That is unless before Japan's partners in Europe has purchased or has made plans procure more than 323 individual items of wearing apparel. The procurement program includes hats and caps, shirts, trousers, underwear, boots and shoes, coats, jackets, raincoats, overcoats, socks, When he had counted up to 99,999 can gather themselves together for porters meet, in common with i ine lalK went on: we said ennd another great offensive in the West. The means by which this can be done is to Consolidate and reinforce night, and I wandered up to the signal bridge, where everything was cars he waited expectantly for the machine that was to bring his total up to an even 100,000. But instead of an automobile, the next machine to check in wasa bicycle. neckties, leggings and hand ana xeei.

i ve ncvci ucaiu umntu request the women to come back lheCQalilioiT of Pacific powers uiacKer man a Hole in a box, all women reporter uumpmiii i.mi Lith ahnt wht ghts out and overhanging clouds. Government official "held out' just; n0i, Miss Hessie Small of Venzonio, CHALLENGE ANSWERED China, Russia, The Netherlands, Britain and America. They have a combined force, provided it Is combined, sufficient to defeat Japan. Decause sne was a woman, ouu Michigan, was aboard the bike. She The signal watch, invisible in the told Holloman that during the past black, read off a signal to his women must disprove personally the adage, "Tell a woman, tell the world." One they do, they get a spe Robert Quillen two years she has pedalled a total Thus in one way or in another the ultimate choice depending writer," the man who records all kerchiefs.

The present program calls for approximately 17 millions caps and hats. These Include caps for bakers and cooks, cotton khaki field caps serge field caps, herringbone twril working caps and Winter caps. The hat list includes the following: Cotton field hats, herringbone twill working hats and olive drab service hats. The more than 29 million shirts of more than 16,000 miles. Her the received messages.

"That's a cial Royalty from their news contacts. There are many ways of doing it, challenge." He worked the handle Russia again proves that 87-mm. anti-tank guns are too light, yet we keep making them. Nobody has power to cut through rd tape, busir ness plans and politics. upon Japan we can and must find a way to put an end to the threat of two-ocean war.

Our own Revolution was like all othprs. Onlv those who made it his own searchlight, making the but here's an example from Ned proper reply; if he had not it would ICopyrlirlit, 1M1. for Tlir Ti llmne Harris, one of the few could really appreciate what it won. bicycle trips have taken her from California to Maine, and from Wyoming to Tennessee. At the present time she is making a bicycle tour of the National parks of the West.

At the time she checked in at the checking station she had visited ten of the western parks. ave been the interlocutor's dutv women to nave jneaoeu ineuupuii- Even Hitler finds allies useful. tan paper's Washington bureau. Ned being procured under the current 'STRICTLY PRIVATE' If he stays, in front somebody else had been tipped to a news bomb by program are of two kinds and are iu open me wnnout more question. "That cruiser is a lousy ship; not half as good as the one we worked with last cruise." a grouchy senator who swore her to must do the back-stabbing ailfcti Smml kr th At Ttmimrt I writ made of cotton khaki or of flannel or wool.

the girls simply can't bear "fishnet" and "spiderweb" designs. "We want to please the little cupcakes" one expert explained, "but they ought to give us a break too. There has to be some design to give the garment a strength equal to silk if the hose, is to be equally light and as nearly invisible as silk;" Cotton specialists at Agricuture Department's Beltsville, experiment station have provided hosiery manufacturers with 50 different patterns. Many of the producers already have started gearing their machinery for the new output. Manufacturers aLx favor sturdy, soft pima cotton and the long staple Mississippi delta types for fancy hosiery, but most of the popular brands selling for $1 and less a pair will be made by a "new process from the short lint upland cotton abundant in the deep South.

These new stockings, offered to meet the need created by cessation of Japanese silk imports, constitute one of this country's first major attempts to substitute native goods for imported articles. First stocks of the sheer cotton hose will appear on the retail market in about four months. Producers timed them to fill store shelves emptied of the last remaining chiffon stockings. Authorities say retailers have two months' supply of I Coney Maybe they haven't got a good MODEST MAIDENS By Don Flowers snipper like ours." From Lassen also comes a nature 'That's right." The signalman turned in the dark, "We got a good note having to do with a rock cony, or coney, a small, rabbit-like "var Duncn or officers aboard th la shin. mint" that may, or may not have had They give us a break.

Sometimes when it's dark the captain comes up something to do with giving Coney Island its name, for all I know. Trousers The soldiers are wearing half a dozen different types of trousers, the type depending upon the soldier's duties. Approximately 38- million pairs of trousers are being procured to meet the Army's present needs. Most of these will be of cotton khaki, olive drab serge and herringbone twill. The list will also include a few hundred thousand pairs of wool breeches for cavalrymen ami nere ana tains To us.

lust like one If rock coneys were ever indigen of the fellows. Seems like the higher ous to Coney Island, that famed amusement center must have been a great deal higher up in the air at one time than It Is today, for I a man gets in rank, the crabbier he ought to be, but I guess it ain't so. How's the Joe?" The "writer" went to the little cubical doghouse behind the mast for a pot of coffee, (CupyrlKht, liHl, for Th Ti Ibunt) have it on the authority of Dr. Carl Swartzlow, Park Naturalist that the trousers for bakers and conks. Soldiers' underwear included in the current procurement progra totals approximately 91- million items, thus topping the list in point roc-k coney is seldom found at elevations feet.

imagine" his surprise, then, when he discovered a lost rock coney had been found at Lost Creek CCC Camp in Lassen Park. The finding of the animal at Lost Creek, which has an silks on hand and manufacturers Olin Miller Says: have only enough silk for another of numbers. The soldier will have cotton shorts and sleeveless undershirts for Summer wear and wool undershirts and wool drawers for elevation of only 6000 feet, was! two months' production orin all, a four-months' total of approximately 14.000,000 dozen pair. When they are gone it will be cotton, nylon, rayon, or nothing. described by the naturalist as dis tinctly unusual.

"Peeping Tom Arrested in Florida City." Headline. For goodness sakes! why didn't he go over to the beach and take a good look? The most pathetic Summer figures are men steDDing iauntilv Winter wear. Service shoes constitute the major portion of the almost 18 million pairs of footwear in the proem e- Fish It seems to be a lucky fishing ment program. Arkansans poured yellow paint on a Lindbergh monument, but alas! they showed their contempt for him by doing it under cover of darkness. about under the impression they are wearing white suits.

season at Lassen for professors of Political Science and for assistant WAR Arrested for driving at 90 miles an hour, a riio'ttfrist' told authorities he was trying to get cool. So they put him in the cooler. What bothers radicals most is seeing unearned wealth make a big shot of a person who couldn't make ten bucks a week on his own. There are approximately 27 million items on the list of coats. These include herringbone twill working coats wool overcoats, raincoats, m'a'eknia ws, wool service coats' and coats for bakers and cooks.

Socks total 45 million pairs. These include cotton socks for Summer wear and wool socks, light afnd heavy, for colder weather. The clothing list also includes approximately 12 million neckties. These are either cotton khaki or black silk and wool. football coaches.

At any a representative of each of those branches of Collegiate activity n.s a sizeable trout to'his credit. A three-pound rainbow trout was landed in Snag Lake by Prof. Frank Shiek of the Political Science Department at the University of California. The day before this catch was made. Reedy, who is assistant football coach at Taft Junior Col THESE AWEUUtRS.

ARE. HELD TO HARDEN US UP RJCM HEAD 1DRX3TTREV ARE tmW HA1BJAV SUCCESSFUL. THE: SOUS OF MY FEET ABE LK COOS VOUR. SN A man wouldn't go around boast tt ii ing that he's as smart or as good as anybody unless he had grave doubts in the matter. Bob Trout says the Nazis use defensive and offensive propaganda.

So far we have heard only the offensive kind. as well as virtue, must be? its own reward. Certainly, lege, landed a four pounder. the earth would be Let's see; wasn't there a fellow named-Hess? 11 yoall iv ei-u-a-r-t-e-t IH go to Ae m-o-r-U-fc The clothing procurejner(rjJ gram also includes almost five mil-j 1 nut KNAVZ. no reward.

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