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Show . , WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Allied Armies Launch Strong Offensive Against German Strongholds in Italy; Russ Score New Gains Along Dnieper; Dairymen Get First Federal Subsidy (EDITOR'S NOTE : When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) I - . Released by Western Newspaper Union. HESS: Official Version For two years British government sources kept their silence on the object ob-ject of Nazi Rudolph Hess' flight to Scotland. Then Anthony Eden stood before parliament and told the official of-ficial story: Hess had made his historic and fantastic flight "on a mission of humanity." hu-manity." He came to Great Britain with specific peace terms because ai that time Hitler feared a long wai and didn't want to fight England. Among the peace terms that proved a stumbling block were these stipulations: stipu-lations: (1) Hitler would not deal with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. (2) Germany wanted a "free hand" in Europe with the Britist empire to remain unmolested. HANOVER: Hangover In one of the most destructiv bombing raids yet delivered on the Reich, the Royal Air force demolished demol-ished a large area of Hanover and struck a crippling blow at an industrial in-dustrial machine already staggering from repeated onslaughts. The Hanover raid was one of the most destructive to be delivered or Germany. Block busters and incen- riinripc wrpro rnnrprt into rubbei Tlf ACT COST OF LIVING INCREASES IN THE AMERICAS (SINCE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II) BOLIVIA f - - ITU frV11- MEXICO OLrfxvvA r- ill IrHiXJ , CANADA Eac), ,ymij0 reprejgnt, 5 tse ; tost 0j ;vjng SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Spring Another Trap Japanese troops manning the important im-portant New Guinea base of Fin-schafen Fin-schafen were hemmed in on three sides by Allied forces following Gen. Douglas MacArthur's master plan of utilizing units to land in strength behind the enemy's key points and work to cut off his supply. After the pattern of the conquest of Lae farther to the south, big airplane air-plane transports landed Allied troops northwest of Finschafen. As these troops pressed in against the Japs from the west, other ground forces moved in on the enemy from the south. Then, the encirclement was made complete when the U. S. navy put troops 'ashore to the north. Capture of Finschafen would place the Allies a short distance from the Jap air bases on New Britain island is-land to the east and thus reduce the efficiency of these bases as points for attack on U. S. forces. WORLD RELIEF: Plan Proposed America's participation in an international in-ternational relief and rehabilitation NAPLES: Gutted City By the time Allied forces had opened their offensive against Naples, Na-ples, the Nazis had turned the big port city into a mass of flames. They wrecked and scuttled every ship that had escaped Allied bombs and destroyed every wharf. The Fifth and Eighth armies were bringing their full power to bear against their objective. That the Germans had early given up hope of holding the city was proved by the wholesale destruction of all usable usa-ble facilities. At least 30 ships lay sunk or aground in the harbor as the result of Nazi scuttling and Allied Al-lied bombs. Bombers had also wrecked railroad yards so thoroughly thorough-ly that no traffic had come into them for weeks. Corsica Even as the offensive against Naples Na-ples began, French troops and American Amer-ican Rangers were driving ahead in Corsica, island of Napoleonic history. his-tory. They had closed in on Bastia, northeastern port of the island, and Allied naval and air forces had clamped on a tight blockade against German escape. MILK PRODUCERS: Get First Subsidy History was made in the dairy Industry In-dustry with the disclosure that the government has paid its first subsidy sub-sidy to dairymen. The announcement announce-ment was made as Fred M. Vinson, economic stabilization director, took over the job of arbitrating a widespread wide-spread milk price disagreement. Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee Ten-nessee stated that Vinson told him a subsidy had been given milk producers pro-ducers in the drouth-stricken area near Memphis. Other official sources said the subsidy would total 50 cents program to be administered ad-ministered along the lines of the League of Nations was to come up for congressional approval. Congressional approval will be needed for appropriations appro-priations with which the government govern-ment will take part in the plan. As shaped along the pattern of a proposal of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, 44 unit- Winston Churchill factories, railroad yards and supplj depots at the rate of approximate!; 133,000 pounds a minute. LOndor sources said the raid was one oJ the greatest air blows of the war. Equally heartening was the indication indi-cation that the RAF may have found the answer to anti-aircraft defenses and night fighters. Its losses were only 26 aircraft, a remarkable record rec-ord for such a large-scale attack. ALLIED CHIEF: Post to Marshall To Gen. George C. Marshall was to go the supreme command of all Allied forces, it was reported, even as congress loudly protested over the general's rumored removal as chiei strategist of the Allied armies. According to the rumors, General Marshall's differences with British leaders over war plans resulted in pressure for his removal as U. S. chief of staff, in which capacity he mapped all U. S. military activity and thus influenced British action. Official Washington waited to see whether General Marshall's reports ed appointment as supreme commander com-mander of all Allied forces carried with it the responsibility of continued planning, or whether it only involved execution of somebody else'i strategy. LEGION: Neiv Program When the final gavel fell on this year's American Legion convention held in Omaha, Neb., delegates could look back on these major de velopments in the organization's program: pro-gram: (1) Election of a new commander, Warren H. Atherton of Stockton, Calif. (2) Pledging of a "middle road" conservative stand on the two important im-portant issues of foreign relation! and domestic affairs. (3) Expansion of the Legion'i Americanization program. (4) A memorial to congress call ing on that body to tighten up the law on franking privileges to prevenl congressmen from using the mails to promote the propaganda of ai "un-American" cause. GLOOM: From Jap Radio In a gloomy forecast of new Allied aerial blows, the Tokyo radio announced an-nounced that Japan is getting ready to evacuate Tokyo and other important impor-tant cities "in view of the decisive phase upon which the war will enter during the coming months." Premier Tojo announced that the Japanese government had decided to prepare "for the moving of government gov-ernment departments, industrial establishments es-tablishments and the civilian population" popu-lation" from Japan's major cities. The Tojo cabinet also called for total mobilization of the civilian population, pop-ulation, abolishment of age limits to make all persons liable for national nation-al service and strengthening of government gov-ernment control over industry. MASS INVASION: At 'Right Time' Plans for a gigantic second front in France and the Low Countries "at what we and our American Allies judge to be the right time" were promised by Prime Minister Churchill Church-ill in his war report to Great Britain's Brit-ain's house of commons. During his optimistic speech ot two hours and seven minutes, Churchill defended the Italian campaign, cam-paign, terming it a "third front," and forecast a Stalin-Roosevelt-Churchill conference before the end of the year. He sketched Allied progress in air, sea and land warfare. war-fare. SAVINGS: Go Up During the three months ended in June, every working person in the U. S. added approximately $60 to his cash and deposits. This figure was indicated by reports re-ports of the Securities and Exchange commission, which declared that individual in-dividual savings for the quarter totaled to-taled $2,900,000,000. The figure per working person is obtained by breaking the SEC estimate among tie nation's estimated labor force of 53 million people. a hundredweight, approximately equal to one cent a quart. LIFE INSURANCE: On War Deaths Deaths in the United States army, navy and marine corps up to the end of June, 1943, have resulted in life insurance claim payments totaling 32 million dollars, the Institute of Life Insurance has reported. Of 23,700 policies on which payments pay-ments were made, $15,100,000 was paid out under 11,100 policies in the first six months of this year by American life insurance companies. "The number of deaths is probably prob-ably half the number of claims paid," the institute said. The average aver-age ownership of life insurance is two policies per policy holder. RUSSIA: 'Disengaged' Nazis German troops continued to "systematically "sys-tematically disengage themselves" as the Red army smashed on toward Smolensk, captured Poltava, the last Nazi base in the southern Ukraine, and engulfed German defenses de-fenses along a 300-mile line just short of the middle Dnieper river. Continuing their drive on Smolensk, Smo-lensk, the great Nazi eastern front stronghold that once was Hitler's headquarters, the Russian army closed in from the southeast, overrunning over-running 863 villages and killing more than 5,300 Germans. A Berlin broadcast acknowledged the peril to Smolensk, Kiev and other eastern front bastions. But Berlin was hesitant to paint the overall picture. pic-ture. For instance: The Germany at one time held approximately 500,-000 500,-000 square miles of Russia proper. It is estimated that they now hold only 200,000. form an advisory council, with a special spe-cial central committee composed of the U. S., Great Britain, Russia and China. Under the plan, the organization established will be authorized to acquire, ac-quire, hold, and convey property; make contracts; undertake obligations; obliga-tions; manage undertakings, and perform any legal act appropriate to its object and purposes. Unless the senate ratified further forms of participation by a two-thirds vote, U. S. obligations would be confined to appropriations of funds. ARMED FORCES: Ask for Fathers October 1 was at hand and before be-fore congress was the Wheeler resolution reso-lution which would delay the drafting draft-ing of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers scheduled to begin on that date. Before the house and senate military mili-tary committees came the nation's manpower experts. Also before these legislators came the highest officials of the army and navy. And then they heard the voice of Bernard M. Baruch, special presidential adviser. Testimony from all these sources arrived at the same essential fact: Give the armed forces what they want in the way of manpower. Generally speaking the nation seemed to agree with this viewpoint but those who were opposing the drafting of these pre-Pearl Harbor fathers based their case on the assertion as-sertion that the whole manpower program was being mishandled and that was why the drafting of fathers "appeared necessary." Agriculture, the armed forces themselves, government gov-ernment agencies and industry were all accused of hoarding manpower rhile fathers were being asked to get into uniform. |