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Show THE LEW SUN. LEHI. UTAH ' -r- " -I inirr rnn niMTEPER: I r nni 1 nw-r I Ps i i it 11 i'i 1 via mM x i - - - m aai aaai w j- . ,s i i "aimK "1 I "7 7 ..i ar .....I " I iril.ll III .ifl l Hit! WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS s ' 1 ,111 fclllHf 551 I iSfcBaBaBBaaa I I John L Lewis Leading Anti-Wage Ceiling Fight 'Man Who Cam? Back' Responsible for Battle Against Little Steel Formula Of Increases. UL-L By BAUKIIAGE New Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. There is a new candidate in Wash' lngton for the title of the "man who came back." He has come back before so it is probably no great thrill for him but it is a terrific pain in the neck for a number of people who hoped this tall, dark ghost had been laid away for the duration, if not for longer. I am speaking of John Lewis, stripped of his robes as head of the CIO which he hewed out of the rock of AF of L opposition. But if his head is bloody, it is bowed in no humility whatever. Lewis may not be all the way back but it seems very much as If Messrs. Green' and Murray are going through some preliminary shuffles that may be a dance to Piper Lewis' tune. Lewis loudly sounded the keynote for what he hopes to be the death march for the Little Steel formula which held wage raises down to a 15 per cent maximum. When Murray and Green heard of Lewis' press con-' con-' ference, on the day he sounded his threat, they hurried te the White House where the President, who isn't seeing Just anybody, permitted the visit and let the CIO and the AF of L talk to reporters on the White House steps but they had nothing to say which could drown the Lewis roar. I talked with a man who has fought labor's cause for many a year without affiliation with any group. He said to me: "There are only two things that will keep from blowing the whole price control system Into the high heavens. Either Murray and Green can turn their backs on Lewis, put aside their fears that he will win the plaudits of labor away from them by being the sole champion of wage raises and say boldly to their followers: fol-lowers: " "We'll do what is best for you and everybody. - Inflation will be worse In the end than the squeeze you feel you are getting now.' "If they don't, Lewis will have his way.'--v ':(;'-' "The alternative," he went on, "is to have the President call in both the farm and the labor leaders and say: 'AH right. How much of an increase in-crease do you want? Twenty per cent? Thirty? Bat then prices will go np by just that much. Ton and everybody else will be that much worse off.' " Of course, there is another alternative alterna-tive a cast-iron ceiling on prices but the metal to withstand the upward up-ward pressure has not been found. With this situation before him, almost al-most anyone would rather be right or left of center than President. . Different Problem Recently, to add to the troubles of the labor leaders themselves as well as the government, there was evidence evi-dence of a different type of problem In scattered hot-spots in the labor worldundisciplined groups which one man described as made up of men "who wouldn't even take orders from Stalin." Some 300 workers in a zinc smelter smelt-er in Moundsville, W. Va., gave notice that they weren't going to work Saturday or Sunday without overtime pay. This, in spite of the fact that they worked only 36 hours a week. The orders are clear that double-time Is only paid for a seventh sev-enth day of consecutive work. But these men said "orders or no orders" or-ders" they weren't going to work Saturdays or Sundays without that overtime. Zinc is one of the bottle necks. The War Production board was frantic. These are only pin pricks and not typical but they cause a near-crisis every time they occur in industries producing essential materials. Quick Comeback To McNutt Edict There has seldom been a quicker comeback In a Washington bout than the smart jab to the chin that followed fol-lowed Paul McNutt's haymaker delivered de-livered at the boys in non-essential Industry. The echoes of the "work or fight" Ukase of the Manpower commission were still reverberating up and down the corridors of the long list of Industries In-dustries from bootblacking to window-curtain manufacturing when the house military committee arose with Its "no, so, a thousand times, no!" Representative Kilday of Texas obtained ob-tained a promise from Chairman May of the Military Affairs commit tee for immediate hearings on his amendment to the Selective Service act and the "block McNutt" move was soon heavily under way. As you know, Representative Kll-day's Kll-day's bill is aimed to make dependency depend-ency the basic cause of deferment while McNutt's move was to establish estab-lish participation in the war effort In field, factory or the armed forces as the principle governing the order of induction. McNutt's order set the boys in the non-essential businesses hammering at the doors of the United States Employment offices all over the country and consternation and confusion con-fusion reigned. Then up spoke Mr. Kilday. The attitude of those favoring the measure meas-ure to draft the single men first, everywhere, ev-erywhere, before the married men and the others with dependents go, is this: They say they do not want the Selective Service act made a weapon to force men into essential jobs. They claim the act was never so intended. Legislation, they say, must be passed after careful study which will lay down a manpower program; military service is an honor as well as a duty. It must not be used as s threat. Kilday' t Views I talked with Representative Kilday Kil-day before the hearings began. He was optimistic over quick committee com-mittee acceptance of his bill though he said he didn't want to hurry the hearings and he realized all sorts of opposition might develop. He point ed out that his measure would not alter the present deferments, that It doesn't mean, as some seemed to think, that single men, now deferred under the present deferment rules, will be yanked out of their jobs and thrown Into the army. Opponents say, however, in some cases, this will be the actual effect. Whatever the effects on agricul- ture and industry may be if the bill passes, it will sink the present Manpower Man-power commission program without a trace and with all hands on board. There is plenty of public appeal in the Kilday measure the argument that it is more important to keep the family together than to fill quotas for industry or the army and tho navy, te argument that there is no authority in the Selective Service act to do what the Manpower commission commis-sion order is aimed to achieve, namely, to state what job a man is to hold. And that side of the argument argu-ment has particular appeal In a congress con-gress exceedingly jealous of its prerogatives, pre-rogatives, sworn to prevent usurpation usurpa-tion of its powers by the administrative adminis-trative branch. .. . ..' A Prediction Last week, 1 reported the prediction predic-tion by a keen observer of this whole problem to the effect that one more desperate measure would be attempted at-tempted by the Manpower commission commis-sion before it would be forced to step aside for some other agency. McNutt acted, and within 24 hours of that prediction, the military affairs committee com-mittee announced hearings on the Kilday bill, looks very much like a bird of ill omen echoing the second part of the dire prediction the end of the Manpower commission as an agency with any- power of Initiative left To many high army officials, there is grim satisfaction in what is happening. Long ago, it was intimated inti-mated that sooner or later the military mili-tary would have to take over the whip hand and settle the manpower question in its own way. Some military mili-tary men would be quite happy to have the Kilday measure pass, sweep everyone draftable into the armed forces and then do its own reallocation, re-allocation, screening out the men necessary to industry and agriculture agricul-ture and furlough them back as military mili-tary needs, first, and the industry's, second, demanded. One can imagine, however, how union labor would like to see khaki and navy blue manning the stamping stamp-ing machines and the lathes beside the workingmen in civvies. Labor's objection to the bill was expected from the first And so we have a four-way clash: Legislators, Manpower commission. Military, Labor. Once more, a labor draft "looms' as the headlines say. HIGHLIGHTS in the week's newt Horse meat on sale in Washington Is being received very well. So did the muskrat served to Secretary Wlckard and Vice President Wallace. Wal-lace. Soon the order will be: "One Porterhorse steak, well broken." Someone suggested "Marinettes" for the marine corps girls auxiliary. It didn't take. Even a she-devil dog won't be a puppet . Until it was announced that General Gen-eral Eisenhower was to continue to have full command in North Africa, a string of stories kept coming cut of London to the effect that it might go to a British general. It was considered con-sidered anti-Eisenhower propaganda. Newsmen returned from North Africa are not enthusiastic over the harems they claim they saw. . Tunisia Upset Slows Yank Timetable; Japs Open . 7 - Pronged Offensive to Knock China Completely Oat of War; Axis Spokesmen Try Peace 'Feelers ,B'S NOTE I When .pinion Myy"' i Nawepaper Inien'a mtw analyete and not eeeri:. Utatara NatWStjaXDAf L'niail'B ICWI ftleaUyfttC I Released by Western Newspaper Uniun. a i ' 1 - - A wounded U. S. soldier struck during a heavy air attack by German planes on the airfield at Souk el Arba in Algeria is shown being comforted by a comrade-in-arms. The airfield was originally captured by V. S. paratroopers. TUNISIAN TIMETABLE: Delayed by Rommel General Eisenhower had had his choice of fighting decisive engagements engage-ments on ground offered him by Marshal Rommel or on terrain of his own choosing. That he had preferred pre-ferred the latter was indicated by the fact that he was not drawn into a major battle when the Nazis pushed American troops out of the Tunisian area between Sidi Bou Zid and Gafsa into the foothills bordering border-ing Tebessa, Algeria. While the Tunisian reverse was not a catastrophe, it was nevertheless neverthe-less a punishing setback that meant considerable further Belay in liquidating liqui-dating the Axis in Africa and moving mov-ing on to the vastly bigger job of getting at Europe. The situation was brightened somewhat by reports that the veteran British Eighth army had rolled up from the south and had engaged Rommel's atten tion. The loss of three advance air fields and three forward positions by the American forces was costly. Superior weight and mechanical equipment, plus gruelling battle ex perience was the explanation for the Nazi success. The new German 60,- ton Mark tanks had proved too strong for the 28-ton American tanks. The Nazis, moreover, had caught the Americans with their lines too thinly held. In Washington Secretary of War Stimson said that American forces, outnumbered and outarmed have suffered "sharp reverses and sub stantial casualties." BLACK MARKETS: Gangsters Reap Riches How to combat the black markets in meat products which were sky rocketing retail prices, menacing the supply for military and lend-lease lend-lease purposes and endangering the future existence of small packers was a problem that had congress as well as agricultural officials worried. wor-ried. As reports persisted that gangsters gang-sters had turned their unscrupulous talents into this highly profitable illegal il-legal trade, two suggestions were made by the OPA to the house small business committee, for solving solv-ing the problem. One was for the government to purchase live animals. ani-mals. The other was for a registration registra-tion of every person who sells or handles meat FRENCH ARMADA: To Strengthen Allies Heartening news that 42 French warships, in addition to the four now undergoing repairs in American shipyards, would soon be fighting on the side of the United Nations was brought out by Vice Admiral Raymond Ray-mond Fenard, chief of the French naval mission to the United States. Admiral Fenard said that two more battleships, six cruisers, an aircraft carrier, seven destroyers, 14 submarines and ten auxiliary craft would join the United, Nations armada arma-da "soon, but I don't know when." The naval leader said that the cruisers Gloire and Georges Ley. gues already are in action against the Axis. PEACE OFFENSIVE: Axis Tries Wedge Long expected by Allied chancellories, chancel-lories, the Axis peace offensive finally final-ly got under way. First feelers were extended by Virginio Gayda, Fascist editor. The next move came from Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Jos-eph Goebbels. The theme of both Axis spokesmen spokes-men was that the unprecedented Russian victories were as much a danger to Britain and America as to the Axis. Therefore why not a separate sep-arate peace, so that Europe could be saved from the Bolshevik menace? men-ace? Quick to expose the spurious technique tech-nique by which the enemy hopes to talk its way out of the consequences of impending defeat was Elmer Davis, Da-vis, chief of the Office of War Information. Infor-mation. "This pulls the whole matter mat-ter into the open," he declared. "The Axis is trying to drive a wedge between be-tween Bfit&in, the United States and their Allies." CANNED MEAT: Temporary Freeze Making supplies of canned meats and canned fish last through the year was a problem causing many a headache in the Office of Food Administration. Stocks on dealers' shelves had dwindled ominously; housewives were on a buying spree. Result: the OPA suspended sales of canned salmon, tuna, shrimp, meat spreads and kindred products until at least March 28 the date on which meat rationing was expected to be gin. Meanwhile, housewives and corner grocerymen had begun to familiar ize themselves with the point-ration' ing system governing the sale of canned fruits and vegetables, dried fruits, canned soups and canned baby foods. JAP WAR THEATER: lme. Chiang Urges Speed Even as Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Washington was calling for more decisive Allied blows against Japan, communiques from China revealed that the Japs had undertaken what was apparently a major effort to knock China out of the war. The Jap offensive took the form of attacks in seven Chinese areas from above Shanghai to Yunan in the Southwest The core of the drive had been directed along the old Burma Bur-ma road in Southwest Yunan. Seeking to stir America to a prat. er understanding of Japan's menace to the Allies, Madame Chiang said it was contrary to the United Na tions' interests to allow Japan "to continue not only as a potential enemy, ene-my, but as a waiting sword of Damocles, Dam-ocles, ready to descend at a moment's mo-ment's notice." Reports from Allied Pacific heart. quarters continued to reflect steady, if undramatic progress. . In New Guinea, American and Australian jungle troops were pushing hard on me neeis of Japs retreating from the Wau area toward Muho nn th outskirts of Salamau. In the air Liberator and Flying Fortress bombers continued attacks on .Tan positiors in Dutch New Guinea and New Britain. HIGHLIGHTS i the week's news WASHINGTON: CoL Bernt Bal- chen. New York, famous for his Arctic exploits and now a member of the army air corns, has bn awarded the Soldier's medal and Oak Leaf cluster, the war department depart-ment announced. Balchen participated partici-pated with two navy fliers in tho i rescue last June of a Flying For tress crew m Greenland that had suffered suf-fered a wilderness craekup. CANBERRA: The Australian com-mor.-vtatth issued a proclamation according the United States most favored nation treatment on tariffs. This action was taken without formal for-mal request from the United States. R- V. Keane, minister of trade and customs, said: "It is wrong that ou-principil ou-principil ally, who has given us great material assistance, should remain re-main on the punitive general tariff." RACE FOR DNIEPER: Nazis Still Menaced Only two natural defense lines ir the flat farm areas of southern Russia Rus-sia were left open to the Nazi armlet after the victorious Russian forces had swept rapidly westward follow, ing the fall of Rostov and Kharkov. These were the Dnieper river in the central Ukraine, and behind it th Dniester river on the Rumanian border. bor-der. ' , -v.. Even If Hitler's-armies won th race to the Dnieper river and succeeded suc-ceeded in establishing a new winter, line behind its mile-wide expanse, the Nazi problems were by no means solved. The Nazi southern flank in the Crimea would be exposed and difficult to hold. The northern flank west of Leningrad would likewise be in jeopardy. In an effort to convert the German retreat westward into a disorderly rout, the Red army had pounded ahead In a knockout offensive aimed at Orel, Nazi anchor point below Moscow. Strategic junction of four railroads, Orel provided direct communications com-munications between north Russia and the central Ukraine on the trunk rail line between Moscow and Orel As the Reds continued to push the Nazis out of the eastern and northern north-ern regions of the Donets river, Nazi resistance had stiffened inside the river basin itself. DRAFT: 'Undesirables Next? As it became clear that congressional congres-sional sentiment was preponderantly in favor of deferring fathers and others with dependents until the supply sup-ply of single men was completely exhausted, ex-hausted, somber predictions on the future quality of draftees were made by army spokesmen. Brig. Gen. Miller G. White warned that deferment for fathers of draft age would make it necessary for the army to induct illiterates, men with venereal diseases and "undesirables" "unde-sirables" now accepted only in limited lim-ited numbers. The rapidity with which the nation's na-tion's armed forces are being built up was indicated by a statement by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, head of the selective service system, that a total of 28,000 men per day are being taken into the army and navy at present induction rates. RATION DATES: March 13 Period 5 fuel-oil coupons, cou-pons, good to Sept. 30, become valid. March 15 Last valid date for No. 11 sugar , coupons, good for three pounds. March 21 Last valid date for Stamp No. 25, good for one pound of coffee. March 21 Last day on which Coupon 4 In "A" gas ration book is valid. March 31 Final date for first inspection of passenger car tires for "A" card holders and motorcycles. April 26 Expiration date for Period 4 fuel-oil coupons. Jun 15 Last valid date for Stamp No. 17, good for one pair of shoes. INFLATION: Taxation the Remedy Hard-headed Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve board of governors, bluntly warned congress that the nation faced disastrous dis-astrous inflation because the government gov-ernment is financing too much of its war deficit by bank borrowing and not enough by taxation and public borrowing. Asserting that the government was doing a "very bad" job of war financing by comparison with other countries, Mr, Eccles said the problem prob-lem of inflation was "entirely in the hands of congress." ' "No government in a war period has been able to avoid some inflation," infla-tion," he said, adding that "inflation can only come by congress appropriating ap-propriating money and failing to provide pro-vide method of collecting money." Purchasing power this year, he estimated, would be 40 billion dollars dol-lars in excess of goods and services serv-ices available. If the public saved in the same proportion as in 1942, however, he said the gap would be shaved down to about 15 billion. FASTEST PLANE: Unveiled by Navy When the navy unveiled what was termed the "fastest airplane in the United States" at a Hartford, Conn., plane factory, it was disclosed that other models of this ship the Vought F4U1 Corsair had already been in successful action against the Japs over Munda in the South Pacific. Among the "bests" claimed in the Corsair's behalf were that it has the most powerful engine of any navy ngnter m the world: that it can nut. fight and outfly land basl airrraff in the same classification; that it can be used as an interceptor. STEEL CAPACITY: Steel companies have met tho wartime challenge of ereater outnnt by spending nearly a billion and a quarter of their money to increase production and efficiency since 1938, the American Iron and Steel Institute Insti-tute announced. One-third of this sum was spent in the first three years of war, but after Pearl Harbor.' expenditures were stepped up. From 1941 through 1943, the institute said, the industry indus-try spent or prepared to spend about $773,000,000. 1H Li 1 f t'UUS,r,iL, 1 "I Private Papers Of a Cub Reporters He was one of the very first members mem-bers of the RAF's Eagle Squadron, the group of Americans who fought Hitler before the U. S. decided to take him on . . . The records of the RAF reveal that be is credited with shooting down 46 enemy planes with "63 probables" . . . After the squadron decided to permit Yanks to enlist In the U. S. forces, he saw action in North Africa . . . Now he is a student at the Officers' Candidate Candi-date School at Miami "to learn how to fight"! . .. . But wait . . . That's not the story ... His hometown home-town board has him posted for draft evasionl , The story about the soldier who turned up months after the War Dep't had officially -declared him dead brought this ... A Hollywood lad ran away from home as a kid, and soon after his father died. The parent's estate couldn't be settled without locating the prodigal son. The family tried every method, but when the legal waiting period elapsed and he failed to show up, he was declared legally dead . . . The "dead man," it appears, who had been abroad, returned to the U. S., made a career for himself in Hollywood Holly-wood and now spends his leisure weighing the advantages against the disadvantages ... Of course, he cannot vote but he doesn't pay any taxes! Some of ns think we've solved the riddle about all the wild rumors sweeping our armed forces and nationmany na-tionmany of which are credited to this broadcaster . . . Particularly the recent rumors, viz: "Did you ever say the war would end In 45 days? Didn't you say our base was a concentration camp? And didn't you say Deanna Durbin, Bette Davis and Judy Garland were killed in a plane crash flying to entertain troops?" In the Satevepost for Nov. 21st, 1942, an article titled "Hitter's Short-Wave Short-Wave Rumor Factory" reveals that an American in Berlin named Joe Scanlon plays American recordings and then "shouting breezily, says: Hello Folks! This is Station Debunk bringing you the inside dope from everywhere!' " . . . The America-nazi America-nazi prefaces his bulletins with: "Flash!" and then offers depressing stories of disasters to American troops, etc. . . . Says the Satevepost: Sateve-post: "For the next few minutes the technique, though not the content, con-tent, is reminiscent of WinchelL" Incidentally, the Nazis' secret weapon was revealed by Hitler long ago, but few of us remembered that he once said: "All I need for a war are planes, tanks and loudspeakers!" loudspeak-ers!" Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: Quent Reynolds showed the Germans no mercy on the Forum argufying. He saw the suffering that the war criminals caused, and he wants them paid off the way they've asked for it. Walter Millis, H-Trib editorialist, is for easing eas-ing up claiming we can't build a new world on hate , . . ; Soldiers of the Press" is a wallopy dramatization drama-tization of UP staffers at the battlefields. battle-fields. Its lingo is a joy, crisp and soldiery, and probably very McCoy. Henry Gorrell's strafing by the Stu-kas Stu-kas was a hair-raiser . . . Raymond Gram Swing should repeat his informative in-formative and common-sense piece on what lend-lease means. Too many empty-heads are still yapping that they haven't got sugar for their berries ber-ries because foreigners are heaping it on bread when they have bread. Their dumbness is too great to be natural. They seem to be coached in it . . . Bing Crosby's show is friskier and funnier since he shaved it to thirty minutes. The halving gives him fewer dead-weight guest-ars guest-ars to tote on his back. The Magazines: There's a lot of debating going on about how many of the Germans are guilty of their country's crimes against the world. Gerard Swope enlightens a lot of us in Free World with his piece, "The Futility of Conquest" He includes this eyebrow lifter: "Prussia In Germany Is the center of the d ease of war and has been for over two hundred years" . . . Wooll-cott's Wooll-cott's last piece (Reader's Digest) starts: "This article is a step perhaps per-haps the final one . . -" The very last word is "cemetery"! The sort of story he liked writing George Washington was nobody s sissie, but he addressed love poems to his lovelies, according to Encort, which reprints one. George was torching plenty when he picked up his quill, judging from the opening words: "O ye Gods." Doodlings: Dudley Field Malone who portrays -Churchill in a new film was an outstanding child actor. Recited Re-cited Shakespeare's "Richard HT la grammar school . arJ Eichman. whose theme song is I Love a Parade," has bis slumbers disturbed each sunup by singing soldiers sol-diers on the march near his Miami Beach home . . . 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