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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION On New York Front - K rf Senator James M. Mead, Presi-dent Roosevelt's choice In the New York gubernatorial race, as he ad-dressed an outdoor second-fro-rally in New York city. Mead op-poses Attorney General John J. Ben-nett, who is backed by James A. Farley. PATTERNS SEWDNG COIRCLE cloth. The suit is trim, , to essentials only- -, d can be worn tucked in a or as a jacket abbreviated overall, romper suit j"1 t worship The last nam d'r a sail boat decoration Z applied as a bright ch contrasting color. atc! Pattern No. 8166 is h , 4 and 5 year olds. Size I 3',4 yards 35 or mal yards ric rac to trim rom Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PAnTr 149 New Moatjomsf" San Francisco Enclose 20 cents in col., CH pattern desired. fot e Pattern N Size. Name Address TROUBLE WEDDING RING be-- loved quilt of many genera-tions returns in all its tradition-lade- n beauty. This new pattern gives accurate cutting guide for segments containing either six or eight pieces, so you have your choice of working with small pieces or ones which are a bit larger. The quilt size is the same in either case an ample 86 by 99. Turn spare moments into useful moments by piecing the Double Wedding Ring; prints, plain color and white or a pastel are required. The pattern No. Z8131 is 15 cents. Send your order to: AUNT MARTHA Box I66-- Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address YES, your youngster is ready for and hours of play when you make her this cunning suit in a stout durable cotton which "can take it"! We suggest seer-sucker, poplin, denim or broad- - ml and Iky five p Wife Tallies.,! os recommended by the U. S. flu.,. ... j U.S. NEEDS UfF "? tun rma food 'f H AMONO THOH 'j J tfcoMMiNOfo m ntt I ) I NuntmoH kxxi ium a t' 1 That's my Junior! Isn't tit worth th. bast protection tsry?fr--'- ,h', ' CUTTE ID B1ACKLEGOL? 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As prices go down, more persons enjoy new !s a cycle of human betterment, it starts with the printed wWs f a newspaper advertisement' WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS German Spearheads Across Don River Are Established After Heavy Losses; Nazis 'Dig In' Along Egyptian Front; Gandhi to Japs: 'You're Not Welcome' (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. In answer to a call from President Roosevelt, representatives of labor and capital meet in Washington to discuss measures. Front row, left to right: W. Witherow, president, National Association of Manufacturers; Philip Murray, president of the CIO; Erik Johnson, president of the chamber of commerce; William Green, president of the AFL; and George Heany of the AFL. Back row, left to right: Walter Welsenburger, National Association of Manufacturers; James B. Carey of the CIO; and Joyce O'Hara of the II. S. Chamber of Commerce. RUSSIA: Desperate Battles Bridging the lower Don river, Nazi troops continued to press on in their steady drive into the Caucasus. Rus-sian infantrymen, battling desper-ately from the southern bank of the Don, 120 miles east of Rostov, threw tons of explosives at the Nazis, but two German SDearheads were es- - OPEN LETTER: To the Japs "Tokyo papers please copy" . . . It didn't actually read that "way but the idea was the same, for the open letter by Mohandas K. Gandhi which appeared in his magazine, Harijan, was aimed directly at the Japanese. And if Tokyo bothered to read it. this is whnt 'thpv lpnmeH: NEXT JAP MOVE: 'Fool's Paradise' ". . .1 say 'we are living in a fool's paradise. It is only absolute fear that will awaken the people to a realization of what they must face in the immediate future." With those words Premier Mitch-ell Hepburn of Ontario emphasized the peril which faces the United 'Nations particularly Great Britain and the United States. Hepburn predicted that Japan's next major move would be an at-tack on Dutch Harbor in the Aleu-tian islands. From Dutch Harbor long range bombers could attack the United States production centers on the West coast and a considerable distance inland. "Untold difficulties" may be In store for Britain because of the des-perate situation of the Russian army, the premier said. Nazi sub-jugation of the entire Mediterranean area "will mean Germany will oc-cupy the whole of France and take the French fleet." SHIPPING: Highest Level One week last month merchant ship sinkings rose to the highest level since the beginning of the war and also "greatly exceeded new con-struction." This brought from the War Ship-ping administration a limit on ship-ping space to "cargo essential to the prosecution of the war." This action was expected to increase substan-tially the cargo space for the United Nations' military requirements. WSA also reported "the several different fleets of the United Nations are combining their operations as complements to each other for war purposes" with the Combined Ship-ping Adjustment board directing shipping in the various pools. A definite shortage of trained sea-men is reported because of the "tre-mendous wartime expansion of our merchant shipping." PRODUCTION: Greater Increases While the Joint War Production tablished. A Soviet bulletin announced that nine pontoon bridges were smashed, throwing Nazi troops and equipment into the Don. But new reserves were ready to take the place of the drowned men, whose bodies were left to float down the river. Despite German successes at Ros-tov, Soviet troops made the Nazis pay dearly for their gains. In part, a Russian communique announced that "One small group of Soviet in-fantry alone in one day with anti-tank guns, machine guns and in-cendiary bottles destroyed nine Ger-man tanks and killed hundreds of Hitlerites." The communique said that the Red army still was fighting stub-bornly at 'Novocherkassk and at Tsimlyansk. Soviet airmen were credited with destroying 299 German planes dur-ing the week. Russian losses for the same period were placed at 137. In one sector of the front Russian soldiers were said to have wiped out more than four Nazi regiments in three weeks' fighting, capturing large military stores, including 400 machine guns, 560 automatic rifles, 46 mortars and 20,000 shells. In addition, they destroyed 328 tanks. fpvpt'S war. "Make no mistake about the fact that you (meaning Japan) will be sadly disillusioned if you believe you will receive a willing welcome from India." Further, the Japs were told that they had "been gravely misin-formed that we have chosen this particular moment to embarrass the Allies when your attack is imminent. If we wanted to turn Britain's dif-ficulty into our opportunity, we should have done it as soon as the war broke out." Also for the benefit of the Japa-nese, the Indian leader outlined the aims of his Congress par-ty with respect to their objective of independence, as preparation "to re-sist all militarist and imperialist ambition, whether It be British im-perialism, German Naziism, or your pattern." CASUALTIES: In U. S. Forces From the Office of War Informa-tion came the latest check-u- p of to-tal casualties in the U. S. armed forces to date. This report showed these casual-ties to be 44,143, including killed, wounded, and missing of the army, navy, marine corps, coast guard and Philippine Scouts, exclusive of 1.022 J . V 7 .1. JL X lf ' ' -- 111, Nazis Dig In A lull in the desert war saw Ger-man troops digging in on the front 75 miles west of Alexandria, from El Alamein to the Quattara de-pression. A communique from Cairo an-nounced that heavy British and United States bombers continued to sweep across the Mediterranean to attack Crete and that another force struck at Tobruk again. Light bombers continued to ham-mer Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's sea and air bases, troop and vehicle concentrations. Additional informa-tion said that fires and explosions occurred when the big bombers struck at airdromes in Canada and Tympakion in Crete. BOMBS: On Wide Fronts On several widespread battle-front- s the thud of United Nations' bombs and shells jarred the Axis into realizing that all offensives in this war were not necessarily theirs. Six times in ten days warships of the British navy bombarded Matruh, the enemy's most advanced sea "base in Egypt. British reports said that the Axis held city had been knocked "flatter than a pancake" as a result of the some 2,000 shells blasted into the vital harbor facili-ties. Use of the harbor by the Axis was believed to be out of the ques-tion for practically every shore building had been blown into debris. Meanwhile from Cairo came word that the Germans and Italians based at El Daba, west of El Alamein, had been heavily bombed from the air and U. S. planes were reported to have caused immense damage to the Axis ports of Bengasi and To-bruk, still further to the west. Allied ground forces were kept busy consolidating their positions as a dispatch out of London said that while the Axis appeared to be on the defensive in Africa, the safe ar-rival of a single enemy convoy might swing the balance the other way. Pacific But Libya and Egypt were not the only sectors which saw the might of Allied air power, for General 's headquarters in Australia reported the bombing of Jap land forces at Gona Mission on the north-ern New Guinea coast. Barges, stores and other installations of the newly established enemy base at Papua were attacked, said the com-munique. This activity was so in-tense that a number of Jap trans-ports in the harbor nearby were unable to unload. known navy prisoners of and casual-ties of the Philippine Commonwealth army. Here is the breakdown by the vari-ous branches of the service: (1) U. S. army killed, 902; wounded, 1,413; missing, 17,452. (2) Philippine Scouts killed, 479; wounded, 754; missing, 11,000. (3) U. S. navy killed, 3,420; wounded, 11,501; missing, 7,672. SYNTHETIC RUBBER: Congress Takes a Hand In a congressional effort to solve the synthetic rubber production tan-gle, members of the house and sen-ate passed the Gillette bill creating the Rubber Supply agency, which would control that portion of the program dealing with agricultural or forest products. Rubber production from petro-leum would remain under direction of the War Production board. Un-der provisions of the bill all author-ity over synthetic rubber plants using agricultural commodities as raw material would be taken away from Donald M. Nelson, WPB chair-man. In its final form, the bill requires WPB, the army, navy or any other agency to deliver critical materials for use in constructing or operating alcohol rubber plants upon certifica-tion from the director of the Rub-ber Supply agency, and grants the agency blanket priority "over all deliveries of similar articles or ma-terials for private account." ,WAGES: Shoiv Increase Figures released by Frances Per-kins, secretary of labor, disclosed that the average hourly earnings of workers in manufacturing industries rose 1.5 per cent from April to May, and the May average of 83.1 cents per hour was 14.5 per cent higher than a year ago. The increase was held due to overtime, expansion of working forces in high wage scale industries and to wage-rat- e in-creases. Chairman Davis of the National War Labor board said that man-day- s worked in June were an esti-mated 275,000,000 as against 242,000 000 in May. Man-day- s lost from war produc-tion by strikes were 254,653 in June (.09 per cent) compared to 137,300 (.06 per cent) in May. Wayne L. Morse, public member of the NWLB, told AFL and CIO representatives that "drastic action will be taken against anyone in any labor organization that tries to bring about a stoppage of work over juris-dictional disputes. Committee of the U. S. and Canada was reporting that the annual rate of munitions production in the U. S, for the second quarter of 1942 was nearly four times that of 1941, it was also announced that Canadian production was almost three times the 1941 rate, and even greater in-creases are scheduled. A report covering the first half year of the board's activity in co-ordinating joint production outlined steps taken to increase war output by eliminating duplications, increas-ing the number of common type weapons, arranging more rapid ex-change of supplies, breaking trans-portation bottlenecks, eliminating tariff and other barriers and pro-moting full exchange of information on production methods and designs. Technical subcommittees main- tain constant contacts with those in charge of production in each country. BRIEFS: REPAIRS: Whether flown by the Royal Air force or by their own crews, American planes in England will be maintained and repaired by the United States air force from now on. The move is designed to increase efficiency and speed INCREASE: The Australian has decided to increase the pay of service men in the new budget. The increase is expected to consist of additional allowance for dependents. CONFISCATED: The government has confiscated 29 Italian and Ger man ships, including a German ves" sel caught in the Caribbean Iast year masquerading as an American ship.. Included also are those ships damaged by their crews while in American ports in March 194, as part of a general sabotage nlan WEDDING: Dark-haire- d Diana Fletcher, staJ star! tavfS for a marriage license and witiTa U b -r- rfend edrrrw PM, whose draYf rclassm??" was appealed un recently bv M Field, publisher, has army service. Ingersnll ! for at army headquarters PP6ared ern New York I 6 S0Uth- - enlistment papernrwl1118 iss. of voiunteers to G-- ror: SCRAP: Farmers ern states have beenVITu' War Production board to 't every possible bit of scran rn7 M assist in the war effort 1 to I NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Military Promotions By Merit Easy? . . . Limiting Number Of Newspaper Edi-tions . . . Bell Syndicate WNU Features. WASHINGTON. Some of the criti-cism of British generalship and of certain admirals in our own navy is absolutely just. But it is a good deal simpler to criticize than to find the answer. The statement that General Rommel, were he in the British army, might by now have at-tained the rank of sergeant, is an argument that, if followed through to its logical conclusion, would lead to some interesting thoughts. Certainly it is not true that in the United States navy anyone not a graduate of Annapolis could never hope to be an admiral nor even a captain. Few men promoted from the enlisted personnel have ever gotten beyond the grade of lieuten-ant commander two grades below captain. Naval officers will explain, when on the defensive, that usually the men are so much older, when, for some demonstrated ability, they reach the commissioned rank, that it is not in the nature of things that they should get very much further up the ladder of promotion before retirement for age. In the army it is much easier for a non-We- Point man to get up, especially if he had a good educa-tion before entering the service. But most of these cases also will be found not to have resulted from pro-motions from the enlisted person-nel. Usually these men went into the army as commissioned officers be-cause of qualifications suited to the i Nazis Do It We Don't The real problem comes right down to this what is there about the German system which makes the development of a Rommel pos-- , sible, and which makes such a de-velopment in either the British or U. S. army and navy almost ur thinkable? There is no doubt that there could be some form of liberali-zation of our promotion systems, and the British, which would re-sult in a substantial improve-ment. But it is not half as easy as it sounds. It is so easy to say that men should be promoted by merit rather than seniority. But HOW is that merit --to be determined and by whom? That's where the trouble comes in. The moment we aban-don seniority in- a democratic form of government, or a country recog-nizing the class system as unoffi-cially and extra legally as Britain does, we open the door even wider to favoritism than is alleged to have been the case in Britain. It is well to remember that our own army and navy have not been free from political promotions. Each war we have engaged in has brought lorin political pressure for certain military appointments. This busi-ness of determining promotions is far from easy. ' Fear of Restrictions on Freedom of the Press There is a very strong desire on the part of the government to cur-tail the number of editions put out by newspapers in big cities. Natur-ally there is considerable fear that any attempt to butt into this situa-tion will be resented as an inter-ference with the freedom of the press. The fact remains that a re-duction in the number of edi-tions would help tremendously in saving rubber. In most cities where this is im-portant the publishers would love to have some excuse to curtail, al-ways providing of course that their competitive interests are not hurt. Thus if there are two morning news-papers in one city (there are only about eight such cities) both papers would save considerable money if there should be no edition of either until say 10 o'clock at night. There is another element which makes the whole issue a hot potato. Government inter-ference would be bitterly resent-ed in certain cities where the paper, which might reasonably contend that it was hurt by the restriction, is branded as an paper. But there is another complication both in these cities and in the great-er number of cities where there is only one morning newspaper, but keen competition between the morn-ing and afternoon newspapers for circulation and advertising. This is that at present the morning paper gets a certain additional amount of circulation by reason of very early editions. As a matter three newspaper men out of four the writers, not the despise early editions only read them, or rather glance at them, because it is a part of their job. But the men who write the news-papers and the men who edit them and make them up have very little to say about how many editions should be printed, and at what times. But if any formula can be worked out in any city there would prob-ably have to be different plans for different towns which would result in maintaining the status quo with regard to competition and yet re-duce the number of editions, every-body involved ought to be happy, even if the delivery truck drivers had a shorter day. Aerial freight Trains The aerial freight train cargo-carryin- g gliders pmlfd airplane, is predicted as next major developing aviation, says Collier's, r ments have shown that a which can carry four lor,; freight may easily.tow three . ers carrying two tons each or crease the shipment by 155 cent, with an increase of cent in power. ' ft. (V. (V. fw, O O" - ft- C-- " 0-- (v ft P" ; ASK ME I ANOTHER I A General Quiz ? t- - - o-- r-- o-- r-- o- - o- - o- - o- - cv. rv. - r-- --' The Questions 1. The symbol IHS represents what? 2. What is the meaning of al fresco? 3. How does a meter compare with a yard in length? 4. Where was the legendary island of Atlantis supposed to be? 5. Didactic writing is intended chiefly to what? 6. Which of the following is a mammal barracuda, porpoise 01 shark? 7. Who made the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence? 8. Approximately how long is the Suez canal? The Answers 1. A contraction of the name Jesus. 2. In the open air. 3. Longer (39.37 inches). 4. West of Europe. 5. To teach. 6. Porpoise. 7. Citizens of North Carolina. 8. One hundred miles. jysT Bring in the Crow! The examination of the witness had been long, and attorney, wit-ness and judge were all tired. "And about how far is it between these two towns?" the attorney asked. "About six miles as the flow cries," replied the witness. "You mean as the cry flows, I suppose," interjected the attorney. "No, no," interrupted the judge. "He means as the fly crows." FOREWARNED "Give me just one week to think it over." "You'll have lots of time to think it over after we're married." "So all the married women tell ne. Strayed Off in ( tUSt !0. at Nodds- - He's lost thought." L'7e' Pr chap' Ifs not easy paths "ne S Way in unacc"stomed Lost PPortunity erSSX " that E"e W' Resourceful Fellow Jones seems to be a successful Sthe sSunPPshSoeneh" let grow uSer8" saytSJ ha-- eir their way Wives have Chinese Cannot Wsr" A whispered conversa::." not be carried on in a i' guage, one of which is C because variations of pitch, are used to fc' words of different mca' s otherwise would sound a- - |