a 12 THE ST. JOSEPH NEWS- PRESS Unstrung Necklace PACIFIC EMPIRE PA ADMIRALTY MARSHALLS GILBERTS The Washington Hurley, in Report to F. D. R. on Near East, Says British Get Best of Us--Tells of Secret Exploring of Arabian Oil, Urges Firmer United States Policy.
By DREW PEARSON Debonair, dynamic Patrick J. Hurley, Hoover's secretary of war, enjoyed a recent luncheon with President Roosevelt which had Interesting repercussions in the breast of F. D. R. himself.
Republican Hurley, who has been made a major, general by the president and was entrusted in recent months with various confidential missions from Moscow to Teheran, spent three full hours at the White House reporting on Arabian oil, Jewish migration to Palestine, and a plan by which he, Hurley, would become United States ambassador for the Near and Middle East. He told the president that, while flying over Arabia, he had noticed large automobile van below. Flying lower, he ascertained that they were British oil men. Later, he said, he discovered that British oil companies, hitherto barred from Arabia by Arab Ruler Ibn Saud, had come in under the guise of scientists looking for locusts. The locust is supposed to originate in Arabia, so 500 oil men, equipped with trucks and geological instruments, were using locusts as an excuse to explore Arabia.
Hurley, who was paid $108,000 the Sinclair Oil Company in 1942 while. in United States army uniform, has been a strong advocate of American development of Arabian oil, and he emphasized this point to the president. He also. urged that a more forthright American policy. be adopted regarding the British in the Near East and was extremely critical of the way he claimed Britain was using American lendlease goods to enhance its position in the Near East.
The dynamte Pat proposed that lend-lease, goods be sold on a cash basis from now on, and also that he be made special United States ambassador to keep an eye on -all Near East problems, from oil to lend-lease to politics. "With the rank of ambassador and also major general," Hurley argued, "I could really do a job for you." What he wanted was to be the counterpart of British Ambassador Richard Casey, who held British cabinet rank in Cairo and was supposed to handle all Near and Middle Eastern problems. (Casey, who once served in Washington as Australian minister, has now been transferred to Calcutta as gover: nor of Bengal:) trouble with Casey," continued-Hurley, "was that he didn't have military rank and the milItary run things in the Near East. As a major general, I could put the British in their place." PRESIDENT DEMURS The irrepressible Pat then went on to tell how, in Chungking, Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek had invited him to a dinner, also to be attended by the British, ambassador. But Hurley declined because he lacked the rank of ambassador and.
he did not want to bear the ignominy of being outranked by the British envoy. Again, when he was in Moscow, Stalin remarked to Hurley that he had heard he was to be made United States ambassador to Russia. "I knew wit wasn't true." Hurley quoted Stalin as saying, "because your government never sends anyone here as ambassader who isn't valet de chambre to the British." The president, who is fond of Hurley, but who already has able Jim Landis, former civil defense director, as state department coordinator in Cairo, didn't take to the idea of making Hurley an ambassador. "Pat," he said, "you want to be petted all the time. I've given you everything you I've followed your policy in the Middie East.
I sent you to Iran and to Moscow and China, and now you want to be- an ambassador." "Without the rank of shot back Hurley, "I wouldn't have the chance of a cat on a back In the end, the ex-secretary of war intimated that he might take the stump, throughout the United States of America, telling about lend-lease operations in the Near East and criticizing our supine policy toward the British, White House friends said that the president seemed a bit upset by this. Naturally, a Republican who had been favored by the Roosevelt administration and had been let in on inside diplomatic operations could do considerable damage if he went on a public speaking rampage: So perhaps, in the end, Hurley 20115553 PRIVATE BREGER. ABROAD "He's training to be a bombardier." March 1944 When a Forum Goes Stale Often it is a good idea for a deliberative assembly, after long while In session, to take a recess, go home, talk matters over with the people, and get a fresh start. And this may apply to Missouri's constitutional convention. In a few days the lature will meet in Jefferson City for what is planned as a brief and snappy session, perhaps not more than a fortnight, or a month at the most, but the concon has been occupying the chamber.
of the house of representatives, so will have to vacate and choose one of two courses -either find other. quarters temporarily, or take a recess. The recess plan would seem to be advisable, if for no other reason, because a considerable bloc of delegates has been floun'dering in recent weeks. has lost a sense of perspective and proportion. Made up entirely of lawyers, it has been trying to kill a provision of Missouri's organic law which takes the higher courts out of politics, a provision which the people voted into the charter in 1940, and which, two years later, they refused to.
repeal. Perhaps there "are. too many lawyers of the Bourbon persuasion sitting as delegates in the convention. Lawyers of that type are hostile to any basic change in the law. If they would come home and talk it over with the people who elected them, they might get a clearer view of their duty to the state.
Not all lawyer-delegates are reactionary, of course, a fact demonstrated by the part Judge Charles H. Mayer of St. Joseph is taking in convention affairs. He believes that the non-political clause should not be disturbed. "Give it a chance to prove itself," he says.
The other day in an interview Judge Mayer briefly sketched the existing plan of selecting judges of high courts in "The present- method really means that appellate judges are setected for life, but that each 10 years each one of them must submit his name to the people, who may continue him in office or reject him. "In other words, each 10 years the must voluntarily submit to.a recall election. This method did not originate with any legislature or any convention. The people themselves, thoroughly dissatisfied with: the old election method, instituted the constitutional provision and adopted it at the November, 1940, election. "The courts belong to the people, not to the lawyers." If Delegate Mayer, a lawyer, can get this point of view, the chances -are that thousands of others in every community, both lawyers and laymen, think much the same.
way about, It. Men charged with the vital task of revising the constitution should have a chance to talk it over with them. So a recess is suggested. They might then return to their duties with a outlook, more consistent with public welfare. 1,000 to Leavenworth Already pinched.
by the man power drain, St. Joseph may soon face a situation of employment undreamed of even a few months. ago. In a period of about a week more than 1,000 St. Joseph men are ordered to take pre-induction physical examinations at Fort Leavenworth.
While not all will pass, it is certain that a good percentage may soon answer the call to colors, These men are not being picked off the streets, from cigar stores or such absolutely non-essential places. These men are coming from the packing houses, Western Tablet, from stores, filling stations, insurance companies, banks and the like. Every one of these men has been working and most of them have been supporting families, one inductee we know having seven. children, When these men are drained from business and industry, it will mean that every available man and woman, physically fit, regardless of age, must take jobs that are necessary to keep the home front from suffering too acutely. This will mean that married women, without children or other home duties, must accept work for the duration--and only for the duration- as a patriotic move, Furthermore, it will mean that all absolutely non-essential jobs must be cleaned out.
FIFTY YEARS ENOUGH In Seandinavia the drinking of toasts is a ritual often accompanied by speechmaking. At the 50th wedding anniversary of the Norwegian dramatist Bjornstjerne Bjornson the whole family' was gathered around the table to hear what loving eloquence he would bestow on his wife. To everyone's consternation, the old rascal arose and declared that 50 years was quite long enough to live with anyone, and although he had no complaints, he had decided to get a divorce and start life over again. Horrified, one of his sons took him aside and told him that he must not dream of such a thing. The old man readily conceded the point and trotted back to his seat.
Meanwhile, Fru Bjornson, who was stone deaf, had sat nodding and smiling throughout. -Robert Hillyer in Atlantic Monthly. DUE FOR PENSION Hostess (speaking about the Yes, she's an old family retainer. Guest- -But you've only had her two weeks! Hostess- -Yes, dear, but these days two weeks is a long time to keep a servant. -Christian Science Monitor.
Timely Observations liveries this winter. IT JUST doesn't make sense to us, the way the tire program for trucks is being handled. For instance, the office of defense transportation requires all coal haulers to have a maximum load before they can start a delivery. That means the trucks must be loaded "to the springs," 88 the drivers say. Such a load naturally is a little hard on but in the long run will save rubber.
Yes, the ODT says the maximum load plan saves, rube ber and gasoline. A St. Joseph dealer, following the ODT rules to the letter, is in need of tires for some trucks, Already he is pushing the sale of. next winter's coal supply, and needs the tires to carry out this program, as well as to complete the de- The application was approved locally for the and it was sent to Kansas where, we tires, are told, all truck tire applications must be acted upon. Immediately the application was rejected and returned, with a- notation that the could use used tires and didn't need new ones.
"How am I going to send my trucks with full loads through alleys. on old, used tires?" asks the operator. "And the worst part is there are enough new tires allotted St. Joseph to more than meet the need." We wouldn't be surprised if case is carried to Washington: Speaking of coal hauling, it is nearly a -certainty we will have women hauling the fuel for the "next season. Already some operators are getting ready for this, and when it comes about, the householder may do the shovelirig.
Tentative plans, explained by one dealer, call for the installation of hydraulle lifts on all his trucks, so the loads can be dumped. "We will fill the trucks with a clam bucket." he explained. "The woman driver the load as near to the bin as possible, pull a lever and dump it. From then on it will be. -up to the householder to put it in the bin.
We can't expect the women drivers to shovel the load." But, at that, we know of one woman hauler who shovels coal every day in this city. With more and more of the younger men being taken into the armed forces, the ranks of St. Joseph Boy Scout leaders are be-. ing rapidly depleted. Already an appeal has been made to the older scouters' to return to duty and many are accepting the call.
The Boy Scout movement is needed even more vitally at this time than ever, for it is a program that builds. sturdy bodies and keen minds for the future. A St. Joseph family has received a letter from one of those American prisoners who escaped Japanese prison camp and came home to tell about the march of death. The officer told the St.
Joseph parents he saw their son just shortly before he fled and his health was only fair. The family doesn't want any mention of their name, fearing word might in some way get back to the Japs and they would inflict additional tortures on their son. The man is one of St. Joseph's best known soldiers. A St.
Joseph Boy Scout officlat, who never touches the alcoholic nectar. sat, in a downtown drug store the other day and heard four customers ask to purchase whisky and were turned down with "Sorry, have none." Just in a kidding way, when the man started to leave, he said, "Sammy, give me a quart of good bourbon." The druggist reached beneath the counter and came up with two pints.of Seagrams, Was the man's face red? Tuesday was a big day for E. W. Tedlock although he wasn't here to hear his name called twice. First, when a draft board official called the roll of group of new Inductees he was heard to call out Tedlock's name, A few minutes later young Tedlock's name was called in federal court for jury service.
He now is residing in Albuquerque, to where his draft papers were forwarded. the action, was prosecuted. When the four men who escaped from the Buchanan County recently went into a filling station, which they intended to burglarize later, one of them turned up the station clock an hour. The idea, police said, was to make the operator close the place earlier, 80 it wouldn't be necessary to wait so long before breaking in Through a selective service board, a long-missing relative of a St. Joseph woman.
was discovered shortif after the woman died. The relative had been living at Anderson Ranch Dam, Idaho When a divorce suit was dismissed in circuit court here last week the explanation given was that it was being dropped because the woman defendant, who is in New York, had been threatening to commit suicide if. A convict from St. Joseph. who.
has been at the state more than five years was called upon recently by an attorney. who had been in his case back in 1938. The convict succumbed to a sales talk and gave the attorney $12.50 for "expenses in the case." P. S. Until recently the convict was earning only $1.50 a month at the penitentiary Prosecuting Attorney Joseph Sherman, in talking with a defendant last week relative to a plea of guilty, asked he man what sentence he would recomMend for, him if their positions were reversed.
The man said, year. then reconsidered, and said, "Six months." The prosecutor recommended and secured an eight-year prison sentence for the fellow. The Jackpot By MERRILL CHILCOT Published Daily and Sunday By THE NEWS CORPORATION C. M. President Henry D.
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You May- Need Sympathy Yourself Some Time--And they came to. a place which was named Gethsemane. -Mark 14:32. Gasoline, Panel Attorney The naming of Joseph Garvey as counsel for the gasoline panel is a good step. The intricacies.
of these many government agencies almost make legal counsel Imperative, Since their establishment all local selective, service boards have had their, legal advisors, officially called government agents. Theirs 1s the duty of seeing that the local draft boards do no injustice to any registrant, also to see that no registrant unfairly evades army' service. They advise as to and prepare all appeals: The system has been unantimously satisfactory and we believe the gasoline panel will find its labors lessened its duties much simplified by having a good lawyer, with the bar standing of Joseph M. Garvey. Grisly Executions Though there hasn't been a legal execution in Kansas since 1870; they are now building a gallows at Lansing penitentiary for the hanging of a murderer, and are building it in a warehouse from which the public will he excluded.
Kansas shudders at the thought of a hanging, and there was a time when Missourians- expertenced cold chills when the word was mentioned. At best it was, and is, a ghastly -process. But think how far Missouri has to humanize the rite! recently. as 1937 it was the practice in Missouri to hang capital offenders at county seat towns. When the Buchanan County jail was built in 1908 it was given as neat a gallows-trap as one would find in a day's ride -and it has never been save as an exhibit to divert the morbidly curious jail visitor.
Then came the legislature in 1937 and passed a law providing, for execution of the death, penalty by lethal gas at the state penitentiary, a method hailed as more humane and less grisly than the gibbet procesh. The gas chamber might overcome some. of the Sunflower state's scruples: to legal execution of convicts. Four Budding Orators We believe the four young people who will participate in the oratorical zone contest of the American Legion here tonight deserve the encouragement of your presence, and your applause. Their subject will be the principles of Americanism as practiced under the federal constitution.
For many years this has been an annual occasion, nation-wide In scope, and it is estimated that, to qualify as contenders, not fewer than- 1,400,000 boys and girls have devoted special study to their country's: basic law, and have tried to grasp the living spirit that underlies it. So drop in at legion hall this evening. and give a hand to Patricia Gabriel of Independence, Fred Maughmer Jr. of Savannah, Janis Adams. of Excelsior Springs and- Betty Sedlak of Sedalia, all high school students and all winners in the district contests.
The present youth of America will be called upon in due time to participate in the great task of substituting reason and jus-tice for force in the settlement of international disputes. A careful study of governments and the instrumentalities of order will help to prepare them for their future responsibilities. Wait and See After the that ration tokens were introduced, a grocer burst into print the joyous news that he could wait on twice as many customers as. before. We fear that his enthusiasm for tokens as time-savers may have been intemperate and premature.
It's all right now, but wait till all the housewives start paying points for groceries with these less-than-dime-size gadgets, Or maybe this storekeeper has never seen a woman trying to fish bus fare out of a pocketbook that contains more oddments than a magician's silk hat. LIFE'S LITTLE DRAMAS Down at the corner, Horatio Always was treating the He'd buy them popcorn and Father was rich, and the Then there was Sammy, Who lacked the money to When his turn came he He offered each friend just Fate is so strange, it's even All of his friends now our Sammy works now in his He can buy gum, and they We presume some of the painters won't favor. the election of Senator to succeed Governor the only Donnelly, work for them will be to add a to the sign, on the governor's door. It's Obvious. On politics some folks are mum, Opinions they are screening.
still, unless you're very dumb, You know which way they're leaning. Not that we want to find fault with the fellows who draw the comic string, but we thought Andy Gump was funnier when he used to run for president. Five men are being given. tryouts for road overseer jobs in Buchanan County. Harold Slater is confident if they don't make the grade on those jobs that the St.
Louis Browns still will be willing to give, them tryouts as pitchers. Riddle: Why is Hitler like an American railroad -these days? Answer: Neither is saying much about. timetables. Different Result. Of all bad cooks, the worst are these, Who always alter reelpes.
Red writes back from Italy that he's lived in a pup tent so long he thinks the bugler ought to whistle to call him instead of blowing the regular mess call. The rich man who used to go around showing off by lighting cigars with $10 bills has, had to quit it. He can't find the cigars. Sirles, boys and the girls. ice cream and pop; coin he would drop.
whose last name was Peetz. set up the treats. looked mighty glum; one stick of gum. astounding; Sammy's surrounding. big brother's store; can't--anymore.
"An item in the 15 years column tells of a special sess of congress to be called to sider farm relief. Yet, in the of what happened, that very riod came to be looked upon "the good old days." It's Not -Over Yet. The danger now we have to rt Of folks who think the war won. We're gaining ground, as. been said, But heavy work still lies ahea If ignorance of the law actua did excuse a man, few pec would be paying income tax because if there ever a law which found the pec ignorant it's this income tax me Edmon Street Ed is.
afrai the war will end on some dog gone election day, finding th customary places of celebra tion all closed. There's still quite an argum as to which can kill the most around a place -the man who his own cigarets or the fellow takes his spectacles off for cle ing a couple of hundred time day. Gossip Peddlers. He lacks in tact Who will In you "a fact" Unverified. The preacher told every me ber of his congregation to "himself if he'd ever done anythi he regretted in his lifetime, Sugar Lake Ike had to admit ti he felt pretty bad the time he in six solid weeks cutting sto wood and then there was a winter.
The Once Over By H. I. PHILLI Dear Harriet: I am rushing this letter to you on account of I guess that case of the American soldier and the quadruplets may have upset you. is no pal of mine and I never heard- of the guy. What more I think the whole thing is phoney and I got five suspicions: 1.
It is just a British to make the United States feel England is out to give the Yanks a better break in the 2. It is a scheme between London and Washington to, get the headlines away from them Russian soldiers, and their wonderful feats. 3. It is propaganda to show the Germans that England is still England despite the 4. It is advance publicity for the British showing of "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek." 5.
It is a stunt by the Heanor Chamber of Commerce to get a city on the map that nobody ever heard of up to now. QUADRUPLETS I don't even think there is any Bill Thompson or Nora Carpenter. They and them quads is fictional. I am sure of this on account of the London Daily Mail has not yet made it official. Also Moscow refuses to recognize them.
There is a lot of international complications. Pravda has printed a editorial denouncing the whole business and saying it is a sample of how little co-operation the English and Yanks is giving on the important task of winning the war. Joe Stalin says Churchill said nothing about any such plan at Teheran or Cairo and I understand he claims it is things like this that stir jealousies among allies, I do not know what Roosevelt thinks, but I hear he approves the quads and thinks it will bi help in winning the war on count of it will make Hitler gear. The best the third re has been able to do is triplets, spite "Mein Kampf," the Nazi order, the reichstag fire and of Adolf's radio speeches. So maybe the quads can chalked up as another victory our side.
The more I think of the more I gess is right. heard a rumor today that Mus lini shot himself right after ting the news. And maybe you ticed that same time the news about the quads given to the world there was ports of two offers of separ. peace. Maybe Turkey and Spain, come in on our side now.
TI must know by this time that th Nazis. is no superior race. as I said in the first place, it be all a gag, so do not take it serious. My sympathies is all we the American wife in case you my love, Oscar. Can You RememberAway back when the proble was whether you could go to Fl ida, not whether you could 1 back? said the peace ter: to the Finns would not be.
harsh -News item: Wanna bet? Jimmy Davis, song writer, co boy actor and radio singer, won the nomination for Democri ic governor of Louisiana. We 8 for Davis for president. With cabinet of tap dancers, and a co gress made up exclusively throaty singers of love ditties. SIDE GLANCES "Remember, let's not mention the subject of Easter at the table until dad has forgotten about his income tax!" -DI foun worl least now lenda TI prot seri con! reta tinit Si that Stat que: pro the ran In Ick had Moi abl tar dep Pin tior rea wit nac pos ter sta ant tio: ad not up Na tel bri Merry-Go-Round will get his ambassadorship, so that, in view of the confidence placed in him by F. D.
he would campaign for a fourth term. MERRY-GO-ROUND Ex-Governor Clifford Townsend of Indiana is now manufacturing concrete drinking fountains for live stock in which the water: will not freeze unless the temperature drops to 10 above zero The warning that more farmers must be drafted comes on the heels of another warning that Italian prisoners no longer can be. counted on for farm labor. The status of Italy as a co-belligerent will soon take Italians out of the prisoner category. Harold Hopper, recently resigned chief of WPB's motion picture section, is urging the American industry to get busy now to prevent motion picture embargoes after the war.
Free- distribution movies- one of the best means of American propaganda- -should be a plank at the peace table, Hopper urges. (Copyright, 1944.J The Fellowship of Prayer Prepared by GAIUS GLENN ATKINS. Wednesday, March 8. Broken Walls: "For He is our peace who has made both one." "Made of us a unity" (Moffatt). Ephesians 2:14.
Read Ephesians 2 2:13:18. Racial and religious and every other kind of division are no. new things. Paul's world was seamed with them. The habit of not liking people who are Doctor Atkins not like us is as old as the old Stone Age.
The reasons why belong to specialists; the consequences, at the best, are a conceit which is bad for the soul and, at the worst, battle lines and -race riots- over and over again. These dividing walls of nation, caste and color have never permanently yielded to force; have, instead, only been more strongly rebuilt. But they can not stand against friendship. St. Paul saw the walls down in his little Ephesian church, the once alienated side by side at the table of their Lord, and he made a song of it.
They had found the secret of all peace in their reconciling faith in Jenus Christ. Tear down the walls that separate And breed estrangement, 1 pride. and hate; The poor, the oppressed, the rich, the great, Are brothers in one human state. Prayer: Dear Lord and Father of Mankind, reveal to us anew that In Christ there is no East nor West, In Him no South or North, But one great fellowship of Love Throughout the whole wide earth. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
CLASSIFIED A light-headed lady tourist returning from Mexico was stopped at the border by a customs officer, who inquired concerning the contents of a small trunk she carried in the back of her car. "Oh. that." she replied airily, "that's just some clothes." Becoming suspicious, the official searched the trunk and found a dozen bottles of brandy. "Do you call that wearing apparel?" he inquired sarcastically. "Certainly, replied the lady, "those are my husband's nightcans." -Wall Street Journal, Ag ha a ha col col Mi of an tic 8u di re fe THE 1 Doctor 8.
