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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Both Parties Study Election Trends; Higher Wage Scale Ends Coal Strike; Permit Plan May Regulate Marketing As Shipments Flood Packing Plants (EDITOR'S NOTE : When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are 'J"'"0.' Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ol tills newspaper.; Peleased by Western Newspaper Union. . f , 1 1 V I ' 1 ' 1 t 1 - ' . " r" " i Admiral William Halsey, left, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur map latest Allied war plans In South Pacific. Vice Admiral A. S. Carpenter is pictured pic-tured behind General MacArthur. COAL STRIKE: Agreement Reached John L. Lewis' 460,000 soft and hard coal miners were ordered back to their jobs following agreement on new wage conditions between the United Mine Workers' steely chief and Secretary of the Interior Harold MANPOWER: Define Essential Industry At least 75 per cent of a company's business must be essential for employees em-ployees to be frozen into their jobs under War Manpower commission regulations. In plants with essential as well as nonessential production, only workers employed on the essential manufacturing can be frozen into their positions. Workers frozen in essential industry indus-try cannot transfer to other jobs without obtaining release from their employers, unless they can offer evi-dence evi-dence that their skills are not being fully utilized in their occupations, or they are not being employed full time. RUSSIA: Near Rumania As German forces retreated In the southern Ukraine, they were only 100 miles from the prewar Rumanian border, while in the north, they fell back to within 45 miles of the old Latvian boundary. Kriyoi Rog remained the focal point in the southern Ukraine, with the Germans fighting bitterly to hold open an escape corridor for their troops threatened with encirclement in the great bend of the Dnieper river. With the Germans holding at Krivoi Rog, it appeared as though they were successful in moving most of their forces from the trap. Along the Black sea coast further south, Russian troops continued to pour over the bleak, barren Nogaisk plains, with German forces streaming stream-ing westward toward the Rumanian border. As a result of recent movements, move-ments, the battle front in Russia ran in almost a straight line from north to south, with the huge Dnieper river bulge eliminated. EUROPE: Food Plentiful With 1 billion bushels of bread cereals harvested and dairy herds at high levels, Europe's food stocks appear adequate for the next year on the basis of reports of European newspapers and Swedish correspondents. correspond-ents. Only pig and poultry supplies are smaller. Because of the efficiency of Germany's Ger-many's rationing system, it was said, food will not contribute to any collapse of the Nazi home front. In- : J I F . j HOGS: Heavy Receipts With hog shipments flooding packing pack-ing centers and many slaughterers reported shifting receipts to less congested con-gested yards, there were rumors that the government may impose a permit system to regulate marketing. market-ing. During a recent three-day period, packers received 574,000 hogs, almost al-most 40,000 over the record October peak of the previous week. With packers in possession of from three to ten days' supplies, 250 to 270 pounders brought $14.40 in the Chicago Chi-cago yards, with weights below 180 pounds dropping from 15 cents to $1 under the $13.75 "floor." Although the government had worked out a permit system for marketing last year, it did not apply ap-ply it when heavy runs leveled off. According to experts, preference would be given to bigger hogs if the permit system were to be applied now. Meat Production Meat production for 1944 will total 24 billion pounds, the Bureau of Agricultural Ag-ricultural Economics reported, but increased government needs will cut civilian allocations. More than 96 million hogs will be slaughtered in 1944, the BAE said, or three million more than this year. Because of smaller spring pig crops, however, next fall's marketings creased production of vegetable oils are supplementing the Germans' diet. On the other hand, Russia faces serious food shortages this winter, win-ter, with conditions approaching famine in some areas. Should the war in Europe end suddenly, sud-denly, big difficulty in feeding the populace would arise in moving the food from the farms to the cities, where plants made idle by cessation of war production would create severe se-vere problems of unemployment INSIDE JAPAN: Morale High Intensive propaganda has had its effect in Japan, with its 90 million Lewis (left) and Ickes. L. Ickes, acting on behalf of the government which again took over the pits when a serious strike threatened. Bypassing the War Labor board which had consented only to a wage increase of $1.12 daily, Lewis and Ickes worked out a formula boosting the bituminous miners' daily take to $1.50. Under the terms, the work day would be extended to ZVi hours, with miners compensated for the average of 45 minutes of underground under-ground travel time, but with their lunch time chopped from 30 to 15 minutes. Anthracite miners will receive 70 cents more daily, 37.8 cents more by sacrificing 15 minutes of their 30 minutes lunch time, and 32.2 cents more as a result of a previous WLB award. ITALY: Line Sags With Generals Clark and Montgomery Mont-gomery bringing their full pressure to bear on the western and central sectors of the Germans' Massico ridge mountain line, the Nazis began be-gan to slowly give ground. As they drew back along the west coast, they planted extensive mines and dynamited and blocked off roads, impeding the advance of pursuing pur-suing Allies. Smashing through during ' the night, British troops captured Iser-nia Iser-nia in the center. By so doing, Montgomery's Tommies cut the Nazis' forward east-west supply road, forcing them to use other routes .behind the, mountains. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Smash Jap Squadron The battle to clear the enemy from the northern Solomons was on. U. S. troops were pouring ashore at Kekata bay on Bougainville island. is-land. In darkness and rain, reconnaissance recon-naissance reported the approach of a strong Jap naval squadron to resist re-sist the American landings. U. S. squadrons headed north for the fight. Ninety minutes of tense maneuvering maneuver-ing was followed by two hours of fighting. Toll: One Jap cruiser and four destroyers sunk.- U. S. loss: Damage and casualties. Their footing secure, U. S. troops pressed inland on Bougainville. At the Japs' great base of Eabaul to the west, U. S. fliers dropped hundreds hun-dreds of bombs, with Allied headquarters head-quarters claiming 100,000 tons of enemy shipping sunk or damaged. people firm in their conviction that theirs is a holy war to smash the white man's economic domination of Asia. Early victories after Pearl Harbor heightened Japanese Japa-nese enthusiasm, and although overburdened over-burdened transportation transpor-tation facilities have aggravated the general gen-eral food shortage with black markets should drop below current levels. Despite record slaughterings in 1943, cattle on farms should number about 80 million head January 1. Because of the feed situation, total cattle fed jhould slide below 1943 levels in the corn belt and other areas, BAE said. Because of a shortage of ewes and labor, the 1944 lamb crop should be one to two million head smaller than this year, with slaughter also dropping. drop-ping. Butchering of sheep at 1943 levels would seriously deplete supplies sup-plies by 1945. ELECTIONS: GOP Trend With the election of Republican Simeon 5. Willis as governor of Kentucky, Ken-tucky, the GOP swept through all recent re-cent elections to strengthen indications indica-tions of a swing in the political pendulum. pen-dulum. In New York, Republican Joe R. Hanley amassed a majority of 348,-000 348,-000 votes to win the lieutenant-governorship from Democrat Lieut. Gen. William N. Haskell. Should Governor Tom Dewey decide to make the presidential race in 1944, Party-man Hanley will fill his shoes. Governor of New Jersey during World War I, Republican Walter Edge ran up a majority of 128,000 votes to win the office again during World War II, besting labor-backed Democrat Vincent Murphy. Republicans maintained their 62-year 62-year control of Philadelphia with the election of Republican Bernard Samuel Sam-uel for mayor over White House favorite fa-vorite and Democrat William Bullitt by 64,000 votes. Said GOP National Chairman Harrison Har-rison Spangler: "The light of the New Deal has flickered out." Retorted Re-torted Democratic National Chairman Chair-man Frank C. Walker: "I read no national trend whatsoever in . . . the . . . results." i thriving, travelers Emperor say that the usually Hlrohito frugal populace has accepted added privations as one of the necessities of war. Financed by paper money issuance, issu-ance, Japan's war industries are booming, with everybody from employer em-ployer to worker prospering. Coolie wages alone have risen from about 34 cents to $2.30 a day. The Japs are heavy war bond buyers. As head of the Japanese religion Emperor Hirohito still commands awesome loyalty of the people with Premier Tojo cleverly playing upon this reverence to mobilize the state. WAR STOCKS FALL: Rumors of an early peace resulting result-ing from the Moscow conference and victories on the Russian and Italian fronts, caused declines in so-caUed war stocks, including railroads, rail-roads, and an upturn in peace stocks on the New York and other markets Steel, rubber, aircraft, and distilling issues dropped one to two points as did many low grade rail stocks' High class rails and many utili ties marked up small gains. In com modifies, wheat broke one to two cents a bushel, but recovered later DUCKS: haorrhedXthttr National Wild Life RefuS" & at Havana, 111., announced it estimated that 125 million ducks are heading south from Canadian feed ing grounds. ea" The station bands a sample num. ber of ducks every year. When . duck ,s killed the band is re turn J to the station by the hunter By thK means it is possible to estimate the number of ducks shot anr.ualld their average life span. |
