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JEFFERSON CITY POST-TRIBUNE Jefferson Friday, IfrtI I The Post Established 1908 The Tribune Established 1865 Published everj week daj evening except THE TRIBUNE FEINTING COMFANT Member ot tb Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the for republlcatlon of all news dlspatcbei credited to 16 or not otherwise credited In thli also tht loctl news published herein. All rights of republJctJoc gpecUl dispatches herein Entered to the Jefferson City, Mo, Second Class Matter under the Act ol March 3, Subscription Bits bj Carriet io Jelfcriu City IBt WMkJj By Mall In Missouri Year In advance $4.00 8 Months in I Months In advance-- tl.25 1 Month Jn JO By Hall Misioart Year In advance Month In .60 I Months In 6 Months Jn TELEPHOKE XOT ALL FROM COLE CO, Miss Margaret Cobb, state budget director fs from Greene county and not from Cole county. Metropolitan newspapers credit her to Cole county and call attention to the fact that the Cole county committee was not consulted about the appointment. Gov. Donnell will probably not consult the map when he makes an appointment.

He will be more concerned about the qualifications of the men and women he calls upon to assist him in managing state affairs than in the county they hail from. But various parts of the state will be demanding recognition and it will be necessary from time to time to take geography into consideration. Frequently men and women who came here from other parts of the state to accept appointments and who remained here are tredited to Cole County. That naturally militates against a bonafide resident of the county receiving political consideration. Several appointments are on the fire now that may be credited to Cole county but that in fact should be credited to the counties from which the individuals originally were elected or appointed.

When the time comes for appointments the governor and his advisers should take that fact into consideration. APRIL, 1917; APRIL, 1941 April, 1917, was the moment of despair for Britain in the World War. The sinking of ships reached a peak that month, with nearly a million tons lost. JeUicoe himself told Admiral Sims that the British could not go on with the war if such losses continued. And he saw no way out.

Only a few weeks food supply remained in the islands. British, Allied, and neutral shipping losses have now reached 5,000,000 tons in the present war, according to Lloyds. With spring, and a Hew all-out submarine and bomber war on shipping, the situation is again grave. In 1917, against the inertia of skeptical leaders in the British Admiralty, convoy was adopted. In May, the first month of convoy, losses began to fall.

The menace was licked. What means for fighting the twin submarines and bomber menace will be discovered to meet the present emergency, we do not know. But it was done once, in an emergency at least as grave as that of 1941. That offers an eternal hope that it can be done again. SALES TAX TO PAY FOR AVAR Colliers favors a sales tax to finance the lease-lend and aid to Britain measure.

It would exempt only the very necessities of life. The sales tax is often criticized because it hits those least able to shoulder the burden. But by the same token there is no tax. that will make the people so conscious of the mounting cost of government and extravagance in public office. Taxes concern only those who pay so the more taxpayers the greater the concern and the greater the interest in government, a condition that might be altogether wholesome.

Germany's armed forces says Hitler will take the lead during the spring and summer from the Italians. What lead? An official decree orders all Italian farm- The newspaper and the radio are always looking for missing persons. The best way to find a missing relative is to get rich. Years ago a foreigner designed an American dollar. Since that time foreigners have always had designs on our dollars.

The old expression "Hands across the seals displaced by the lease-lend bill by arms the won't be long now till we can take off our vest and step out In our Spring suit- we hope. Alabama man was sent to jail for stealing his neighbor's cornet. Anyway he'll get some sleep. Statisticians say that every rat costs the U. S.

$1.82 a year. The four legged ones. Very few women smoke pipes, it i difficult to talk with a pipe in your mouth. Trying to keep up xvith the neighbors is one swell way to get behind. Broadening the tax base tht pock book.

Washington Daybook By Jack Stinnett The call of the wild calls city folks to the and lotiu to tht city. WASHINGTON So rapidly is the United States Army changing that a lot of the old- timers have very little jump on some of the trainees. "Just what are some of the changes?" Tasked a colonel through whose hand almost all new regulations pass. "Man, man," he exclaimed, "I wouldn't know where to start to tell you. There are literally hundreds of them.

Think what happens when the cavalry becomes mechanized, when tank corps and parachute corps and ski corps are set up. The widened use of. the semi-automatic rifle alone calls for changes in drill regulations, changes in firing range regulations." The Colonel's right. The further I dug into the changes iu our army, the more ecomplex the story became until it was a mass of detail that would have even a straight-thinking old top sarge dizzy. But without going into all that, these changes seem to fall into various trends and the trends can be demonstrated.

Informality Prevails For instance, the army, without relaxing its emphasis on duty and the prompt execution of orders, is probably more "informal" than it ever has been. There's the matter of the hand salute. A very recent regulation reads: When off duty and when you are not in a (military) camp post or station, the salute is optional unless you are addressed by an officer." No more of that jerking to salute every time you pass an officer on the street, unless you just feel that way about it. There's another order which illustrates this point: During the present emergency (gun) salutes and honors usually rendered army officials will not be given unless requested by those officials in advance of their arrival at any camp, post or other words, if the general wants to hear the guns boom in salute his arrival, he has to ask for it. The New Fashions The army's going in for comfort, too-- comfort clothing.

This started more than a year ago and is progressing constantly. For instance, ln the field uniform, there's no more puttering with wrap-puttees. The new canvas puttees are short, comparatively loose and the are tucked int For garrison duty (and on leave) the boys wear trousers. The coats, over-coats and field jackets all have "bellows backs" for free arm action. Gone are the old choker collars.

And in this man army, for the duration, at least, there are no dress uniforms. so Kterni ed and vita- ean rowers been pro- 6 anfl and beans have 0 "ght gether for generations but it's likely now that the tnunees will get their discharge without any a 1-2-3 Go! rr 13S its 3 method of train. Its (1) explain; (2) demonstrate- (3) x- on this- last, over and over, until the soldier is etter-perfect. But the new army th 1 and 2 Its motion 'SO trainH? 5 JS Sing more thsn Irtfi Ih 31 Ju the llmber is increasing lapidly. They run the whole gamut of to I have written before of the new army's recreation and entertainment, but it is worth men- tionmg agai n.

Picture shows, dances. hosTess- es, 3.2 per cent beer, lending libraries, photo to 5 7 Can et ictul taken to send to the folks back home Dig out any old. gray- thatched vpteran of other days, take him through a day in the life "Armv today a nd he11 tell you certainly: Army life sure ain't what it used- to be." Man About Manhattan By George Tucker YORK hese bleak March days re memb er in a long TM TM Street, and Liam 'Flaherty. The unseasonable weather has helped them forget the sand in their shoes, the loose-fotted urge to be rambling. a res lt Phil Ston who holes up at Washington, during the winter, is ready with a new book-- "The Princess." His agent Harold Matson, tells me it is the story of a self-sufficient woman who takes over the management of a farm in Iowa and in the process finds that she is more married to her responsibilities than to her husband.

Max Miller, who wrote "I Cover the Waterfront," has composed the biography of Reno, and is now writing the story of South California. Miller is a tall, unassuming man in his thirties who lives in a beach house, gathers his own driftwood and shuns the frivolities of life. He has noted a sirange drift in the "new" California. Previously people moved to California to retire. Now, with the defense industries booming, they go not to retire but to work and.

in many cases to begin anew. Even the architecture of the state has been influenced by these shifting tides in population. They are building neat little colonial and New England bungalows. In the population centers there are housing projects. It looks like a new chapter in the story of California.

There apparently continues the demand for as much factual material as fiction. James Street, a curious sort of southerner who calls Connecticut home "I'll be home by the first of June," he writes is in the deep south, on the Mississippi, working on a story of the Delta. He has just completed a long novel, "In My Father's House." As for Van Doren' the word around town is that a new manuscript of his will throw more light on the American Revolution than anything published in a generation. He has obtained the personal files, hitherto unseen, of Sir Henry Clinton, a British commander, which show that every major figure in the American army was tempted to betrayal but that Benedict Arnold was the only man of consequence who yielded. It is said that Van Doren's book will unmask various local "heroes" who are remembered as patriotic but who actually were in the pay of the British and Tory forces.

Frank van Wyck Mason interrupted his work on "Rivers of Glory" twice in a week to run up from Baltimore for speaking engagements. Once he spoke on the historical novel and the change, in the ways of writing them that has come about in the last generation. In a nutshell, Mason's remarks add up to this: In the old days all villains were black and all heroines chaste and pure. This is no longer the case. Modern authors strive, for realism -try to make characters human.

On Mason's other trip to Manhattan his talk centered around three of his former novels--all murder mysteries-- that are now being ht out undcr one. binding bearing the title Former Newspaperman Not So Keen About That "You Got to Get Up" Stuff, He Says In Letter By Private Merrill Panltt CAMP JOSEPH T. ROBINSON, March 28--The first military problem solved daily by every soldier in the 35th Division training here is getting up in the morning. It isn't easy. Promptly at 5:30 a.m.,.

in my tent for example, the tentmate who must have been a milkman in Civilian life, turns on the light, grins, and joyfully shrieks, "Get up, get up, gel up, get up, get up!" Then, because we just wince and groan a little, he sings out out names until we quiet him with a few well-turned phrases He then finds loudest and most cheerful hill-billies on the radio and contentedly hums along with "Sunshine, you are my sunshine." At 5:40 we start thinking about getting out of bed. This, simple act is not accomplished, as it is at home, by flinging the covers aside. Our beds here are' made up army style--which means the blankets and sheets are folded under the mattress so tightly that you can't turn over under them, much less throv them off. You, therefore, wriggle your body toward the head of thi bunk until your arms are free From then on it is easier be cause you can push yoursel completely free by using your arms for, traction. While you are sitting on the bunk, feebly trying to lace your leggings, the cannon goes off anc all but throws you on your face Our search for it failed, but we know for a certainty that the cannon is somewhere under our tent.

The cannon means it is o'clock and also serves to an nounce the bugler, who now sounds reveille, the most.cheer ful--and most irksome--of al the bugle Our milkman friend also hums an accompani ment to reveille. TIaving but ten minutes befor "falling in," you grab som soap and a razor and dash down the company street to the place where you shave. It is still dart out and the sidewalk is of large loose rock--footing for a 11am but not a half-asleep soldier. If you're lucky enough to find a vacant mirror there are al ways five men. behind you urg ing you to hurry with not-too gentle nudges.

Shaving, there fore, is merely a fast swab with the razor and quick application of something to stop the blood Back at the tent, you are jus on that chic blue denim fatigue blouse when the soft vibrant tones of the top ser geant's voice float in the door "FALL IN AND MAKE SNAPPY!" You snatch for your field cap and rush out to the main com pans' street to fall in. A line ser gcant yells, "Overcoats!" You run back to the tent, ge your overcoat, put it on. and ge back into line just in time for an other sergeant to yell, "No over coats." Back you go to your tent, de posit your coat and get back int( line. This overcoat-no overcoa routine is followed every morn ing. The corporals report to th, sergeants who report to the firs sergeant who reports to the Cap tain.

-It's always the present or accounted for." I have suggested that instead of all of us getting out of bed to get out into the cold air, the ser geant might go from tent to ten calling the roll--thereby saving much time and effort. So far no action has been taken on my idea. DEATHS LAST NIGHT (By the Associated Press! Dr. Wayne J. Atwell BUFFALO, N.

Wayne J. Atweil, 51, noted biologist and head df the anatomy department of the University of Buffalo Medical school. Delancey WESTBURY, N. Y-- Delancey Kane Jay, 59, lawyer, banker, and an organizer of the Plattsburgh civilian training camp in 1915. Guy K.

Jeffries INDIANAPOLIS Guy K. Jeffries, 74, president of the International Exchange Clubs in 1923, and for 22 years general superintendent of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis Eastern Traction Co. BRAWN BREAKS INTO THE BAND To Keep the Iron Hot LEflVE SUPPLIES MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -There's plenty of muscle and brawn in back of those treble clefs when the University of Minnesota band toots the "Invocation of Alberich" from Wagner's opera, "Das Rheingold." A 250-pound anvil which William (Big Bill) Zesiger, ace percussionist, wallops with a sledge for sound effects, Is making the spring tour with the band this season, necessitating inclusion or six husky handlers Jn the U.S.REPORTED BIG STICUflCTlCS Lack of Power to Stop Defense Strikes Said to Be Bothering Men Washington WASHINGTON, March 28 -(AP)" "Big Stick" legislation, giving the government sweeping new powers deal with defense production stoppages, was reliably reported today to be under consideration by key congressional leaders. Responsible quarters described the projected measure as the administration's answer to criticisms that: it has failed to curb unnecessary defense strikes. The legislation under, consideration, it was said, probably would authorize direct intervention in cases where manufacturers "fail" --f or any reason at all--to carry out' defense contracts.

Existing provision of the selective service act give the government the right to take over plants whose owners "refuse" to cooper-' ate in the manufacture of military equipment. To Await Roosevelt This provision has not been invoked in any production stoppage to date and advocates of the proposed new legislation said this was due largely to the fact that proprietors 9f plants, closed by strikers consistently have contended that they were willing to resume operation. Action to take over plants under the proposed legislation, it was pointed out, automatically would outlaw any strike, since workers would' be striking 'against the government. However, federal operation of the plants was described as likely to be more technical than actual. Most of those interested said they thought congressional action would await conferences of leaders with President Roosevelt on his return from a vacation cruise.

The proposed legislation might be offered an amendment to one of a dozen minor bills pending on the senate calendar, short cutting lengthy, May Investigate Strikes Capitol Hill also heard fresh demands for "more publicity" on labor stoppages, and a proposal for re-creation of a special house committee to investigate defense strikes. There was evidence of important support for the move to revive the five man committee, headed by Smith (D-Va) which the house appointed last year. The committee's authority ended in January. Chairman Sumners (D-Tex) of the house judiciary committee discussed the labor question on the floor for an hour last night asserting that his committee would not hesitate to recommend legislation which would "send enemies the factories of anywhere else to the' electric chair, if necessary." But he expressed! opinion that no remedial legislation was necessary at this time, saying that he would depend on public opinion to end strikes because "public opinion is the most powerful wea- Belgrade Revolt May Ruin Hitler's Plans for a a Matsuoka Bound to Stop, Look, and Listen Before He Pledges Declaration of War Against Anglo-Allies: BY DEWITT MACKENZIE This Yugoslav revolt against axis domination is so big and so fast on its feet that it's difficult to rope it long enough, to get a good look at it, but there can be no doubt that it represents one of the crucial moments of the war. Much, clarification came this morning from, the reported reply of young King Peter and his government to the Nazi demand for an explanation.

A high diplomatic source Belgrade said the answer was that Yugoslavia wouldn't ratify th pact of adhesion to the axis--signed by the government which- was overthrown--but was returning to "full and absolute neutrality." This message--born of an all- night session of the boy ruler and his cabinet--was emphasized indirectly but forcefully by the action of the Belgrade government in completing the. mobilization of a million and a quarter of the: world's toughest fighting men, and rushing them to battle stations. Now if that is in truth the reply of Peter and his councilors to Hitler, it is no wishy-washy affair but a historic declaration of rights. It means 'this: It's Up to Hitler Yugoslavia declines to take dictation from Germany. She proposes to pursue her longstanding policy of peace towards her neighbors.

So determined is she in this attitude that she is prepared to fight to maintain her right to this position. That puts the baby right back on Herr Hitler's doorstep. The next move is up to him, and if he says he wants to fight, why then it will be a fight. The Nazi chief's decision under these circumstances isn't an easy one. If he uses force he will open up a big new war front-the very thing he has been trying to avoid.

He also will ipso facto throw Yugoslavia into the Anglo- Greek camp, and perhaps even draw Turkey into the conflict. On the whole it is a grand chance for somebody to make a colossal blunder. Small wonder then that the Fuehrer should be proceeding cautiously, although report has it that German troops in Bulgaria are being rushed toward the Yugoslav border. The Nazis protested to concerning the alleged attacks on German citizens there yesterday, but spokesmen re mained reticent with the press The general attitude of official dom in Berlin, however, was one of dissatisfaction with Yugo slavia's position. Every Minute Vital Meantime Yugoslavia has re ceived offers of full aid from the United States and Britain if she fights against aggression.

Her is. far less unhappy than it-was before the revolt. Every gleans now free of combat is a golden one; for it gives her a chance to get her fighting machine into position for eventualities. This crisis be the beginning of a great turn in the- complexion of the war. Herr'Hitler will be lucky if it benefits him.

As a matter'of fact it may already have caused a grave upset in his reported for 'persuading Japan to enter actively the war against Britain by attacking the great naval base of Singapore. Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka is in Berlin now for the purpose of sizing up the situation so that his government may determine what to do. The Nazis have laid themselves out in well-nighl unprecedented manner to impress-their important guest, and the whole show has had as its background the Nazi triumph in securing the adherence of the Yugoslav government to the'axis. There are few things from the Nazi viewpoint which could i leave a more disastrous impres- I sion with Matsuoka than Yugoslav turnover. It could eas-j ily mean Japan's, sidestepping! Nazi pressure for mor active 1 support.

Government Officials Equipment Will Remair intact for Expeditions Future WASHINGTON; March 28 (AP) Leaving behind thenj costly stores of equipment burif ed indefinitely in the polajl snows, the men of the States Antarctic expedition aged homeward'today after Mil most two years at the of the world. Officials in radio cbmmunica-ll tion with the historic cuttejfl Bear. disclosed that the 26 erf evacuated by plane earlier tfEiJ. week from the expedition's ice-11 base left everything, they could not bringfl out on their backs or In theiisl pockets. Personal effects, food cient for months, books andll scientific equipment were in-SI eluded.

All the supplies, how-JI ever, are expected to be- sgfell until the next expedition arrives'! --possibly years, hence. Prby 1 ers are non-existent in the tarctic. Leave Snow Cruiser Also abandoned were the. petition's 27-ton "snow buildings, cooking equipment! power tools and- other iterns, but from-the outset theref no intention of bringing 8 these back. Besides the '26 men on Bear, enroute to Punta Chile, there are 33 men the west base aboard the interior departmental survey ship North Star.

The twofl groups -were' separated by some 1,200 miles during their' Antarctic stay. Both ships will leave 'the CHR- ean port about 2 for the United States, the North Star being due May 15 at Seattle and the Bear five days later at Boston. Although the abandoned were extensive, nothing has been written off the books. Some day, after passing, of the emergency which prompted congress to refuse funds to finance a longer stay, virtually everything may be of use to anothl 1 expedition, officials said. It is reported that there are more than 200 Civilian Training Program, graduates now actively flying with the al Air Force in England.

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