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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Nazi Forces Pay Huge Manpower Toll In Effort to Maintain Unbroken Line; OPA Calls for New Fuel Oil Reduction; American Bombers Blast Balkan Cities (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions art expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union s news analysts and not necessarily ol this newspaper.) B""J by Western Newspaper Union. V i i " "til ij . . .at;"'-, 1 j r : ' : If t -4 V ' ' - V Xs " boot's, ,,-v!'", En route to some unnamed destination, these five high-ranking marine ma-rine officers are planning strategy aboard a transport. Left to right are Mai. Gen. Alexander A. Vandergrift, Lieut. Col. Gerald C. Thomas, Lieut. Col. Randolph McPate, Col. Frank P. Goettge and Col. W. C. James. Colonel Goettge is reported missing in the Solomons. RUSSIAN FRONT: Nazi Toll Mounts Even as Wendell L. Willkie called tor a second front to aid the Russians, Rus-sians, Soviet troops were battling defiantly for every foot of ground on )the Volga river front. Russian gains were reported officially offi-cially on the long front extending from the Moscow-Leningrad sector to the deep Caucasus. Soviet troops occupied several heights and villages vil-lages southeast of Novorossisk, Ger-j, Ger-j, man-held Black sea base, killing ir, about 1,200 Germans in one day. In the Stalingrad area more than ": 1,000 Nazis had been reported killed ii one day's fighting. The major jattle had appeared to be in the lorthwest of the city. In one sector sec-tor the Germans launched eight at-acks at-acks against Soviet positions in 24 lours in an effort to check the threat jo their left flank. The heavy in-!antry in-!antry attacks were supported by 40 :anks. Four attacks were reported epulsed. Silence concerning the oth-:r oth-:r four indicated that progress had een made by the Nazis. The Soviet communique acknowl-j acknowl-j idged a withdrawal in the Mozdok irea where it was announced that . 'numerically superior forces" had raptured a vilj- -. j Between Mos-pn'acd Mos-pn'acd Lefiirrgr'sB, Soviet troops jutinued to mop up German forces , vhich had penetrated into the Rus-,iian Rus-,iian defenses. In a broadcast the German high fommand announced that "In the 1 lorthwestern part of the Caucasus ind on the Terek river the enemy vas ejected from deep positions not-A not-A vithstanding tenacious resistance." WILLKIE: 'Now Is the Time' Before he left Russia for his conference con-ference in China with Generalissimo Generalissi-mo Chiang Kai-shek, Wendell Willkie Will-kie took time out to tell the American Ameri-can people that in his opinion the time for opening a second front was not next spring, but right now. He said that Nazi pressure on the resources of Soviet Russia was terrific and that relief was badly needed. He urged a very definite step-up in the amount of aid being delivered to the Russians and pointed point-ed out that almost a. third of their population had been subjected to German rule. After this statement was issued Premier Joseph Stalin held his farewell fare-well banquet for Willkie, President Roosevelt's emissary, on his round-the-world check-up of the war fronts. This event was described as being most cordial. Though Stalin was joking and teasing teas-ing him throughout the affair, Willkie Will-kie said later that the Russian premier pre-mier demonstrated his clear, logical logi-cal mind, and "a vital subject, which cannot be disclosed" was mentioned often throughout the evening. eve-ning. MacARTHTJR'S MEN: Drive on Japs The first Jap withdrawal from some outposts in the Owen Stanley mountain range above Port Moresby, New Guinea, was announced in a communique from General MacAr-thur's MacAr-thur's headquarters in Australia. Strong allied patrols, aided by light artillery, forced the Jap withdrawal, with-drawal, which came concurrently with the start of heavy rains, the communique said. MacArthur's ground forces made gains in counter attacks southwest of Salamaua on the left flank of the Owen Stanley line. Ground successes were teamed with new aerial assaults on enemy posts and island bases across a thousand thou-sand mile area in the southwestern Pacific. Allied dive bombing attacks on vital Japanese supply routes met with considerable success. The Jap Kokoda-Buna supply line on the northern slope of the Owen Stanley mountains was blasted while other planes raided Dilli, capital of the enemy-held Portuguese Timor, and Ambasi. Allied bombers also struck at Jap positions in the Solomons. FUEL OIL RATIONS: Cut to Two-Thirds ijCAS RATIONING: Wor Entire Nation Jj Rubber Administrator William M. Feffers' order for the rationing of iasoline on a nation-wide basis jh;ame as no great surprise to America's Amer-ica's 27,000,000 motorists, forewarned fore-warned by the report of the Baruch lommittee. The rationing system, expected to-B to-B ake effect in November, will be pat-erned pat-erned after the permanent program Pbieh went into effect in the eastern tates July 22. The system permits i at basic ration of 192 gallons a year, Bough for 2,880 miles of travel on Hhe basis of 15 miles per gallon. It s an average of 3.69 gallons a week. E Non-essential motorists receive "A" books, permitting them to purchase pur-chase 32 gallons of gasoline over a gbree-month period. About 68 per (lucent of the car owners in the eastern ""fates have "A" cards. A "B" book lermits its user a maximum of 470 -""niles a month. Those eligible for 'i'n''1 a ')00'c are Persons with essen-,i'ial essen-,i'ial occupations. The "C" books are individuals engaged in war or ,?:ivilian defense activities. They alow al-ow 128 gallons a month and holders nay receive as many as they actual- lii:'y need- In his first statement since his ippointment as rubber czar, Jeffers galled upon the nation's motorists to 'be volunteers" in trying to keep iur "economic life from breaking sctf"'Wn'" asked or a maximum t Wed limit of 35 miles an hour, but !neltild drivers they were to be their policerren. He urged that "ev-JJ-!I7 citizen ration his own driving nd reduce his own speed" imme- ilately. without waiting for actual r0!i-ationing. BALKANS BLASTED: V. S. Bombers f p Four Axis satellites in the Balkans -Croatia, Hungary, Rumania and Mgaria are feeling the strength of rD a I Arnerican air arm as long-range -"i four-motored bombers deposit ir loads on the capital cities of se nations, es A'Jjed bases for the attacks have )lf .?. een named, nor has the nation- Wy of the flight crews been re- , d, but observers assume that American airmen are working with .Russian and British fliers. jrH!LT.he raids are more than token gestures. The Allies have obtained K0 usable information concerning is troop and supply movements SSn s the Balkan railroads toward $ j"S.Sla and Africa. According to re-"s re-"s "aching Turkey, Rumania ' 'i , J has sent approximately 15 di- S'WnSnntC RuSSia' This is believed ""': m but flve of her divisions. Sanwhile' U- s- Army Bomber CmAander Eaker in London stated i)l's , , ncan and British airmen J LWrk 'her in day and night Jter f I Eive Gea-ny a long win-1,1 win-1,1 1 bombing. Oil-heated homes in 30 eastern and middle western states will have to get along with two-thirds of their normal nor-mal fuel supply under a new ruling by the Office of Price Administration. Administra-tion. The coupon rationing plan," said Paul M. O'Leary, OPA deputy administrator, "is going to be geared to an estimated overall average of 33 per cent of normal consumption. consump-tion. We found that the 25 per cent cut. originally planned, would not be sufficient to provide an adequate margin of safety and still meet the fuel shortage." O'Leary warned that householders who cannot heat their homes comfortably com-fortably on two-thirds of the fuel normally nor-mally used, should convert to coal if possible. If furnaces cannot be converted from oil to other fuels, he said, "then everything that is- possible must be done to improve the burner efficiency and to insulate the home properly." He pointed out that the householder household-er who improved the thermal efficiency ef-ficiency of his home through insulation insula-tion and by installing storm doors and windows, weather stripping and by overhauling his heating unit would be rewarded by added comfort. com-fort. . cl. The OPA warned consumers to nil their tanks before rationing begins. FARM FAMILIES: Approximately 20 per cent of the families in the United States live and earn their livelihood on farms, according ac-cording to a new census bureau report. re-port. It stated that there were 34,855,552 family units in the 43 states as of April 1. 1040. Of these, 27,748,991 were nonfarm families and 7,106,561 families lived on 6,096,-799 6,096,-799 farms. The receipt of more than 50 per cent of their revenue from the sale of field crops, live stock and dairy and poultry products was reported re-ported by 3,749,724 farms. |