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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION " Nation to Be Active Factor In Post-W- ar Peace Plans Majority of American People Ask Participa-tion in International Organization To Maintain Harmony. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. r - 1 . 1 &usd&.. ..; WNU Service, TJnton Trust Building Washington, p. C. Slowly the pattern of America's post-wa- r plans are taking shape, but I only the pattern, When congress returned, it was evident that no matter how much disagreement there might be as to the details of the role the United States will play in the post-wa- r world, the people have registered one idea: they want to take part in some kind of an international or-ganization to maintain peace. The same opinion turned up in the conversation of three members of congress of widely differing political sentiments with whom I talked shortly after they returned. Speaker Sam Rayburn told me that the one phrase which received the most ap- - plause in the speeches he made in the Southwest was when he said that the United States must do a man's job for peace. Two leading Republican senators expressed the same Idea, namely, that "the people seem to be of one mind" that America must join in some kind of international effort aft-er the war to maintain peace. The disagreements in congress are chiefly a difference in degree and represent a discussion, for the most part, over details that nobody expects congress to decide in ad-- vance anyhow. Of course, there are two things which make for lack of harmony; one is the natural desire of each political party to criticize the other In a campaign year; the other is the effort of small groups to get over their own particular ideas. Secretary of State Hull, in his speech of SsJJtember 12, made it plain that the administration was in favor of an international organi-zation which would agree to use force to maintain peace implying that the United States would offer its armed forces in collaboration with other nations to stop aggres-sion. He went further on the sub-ject than any official so far but there has been a feeling on the part of many members of congress that the people would support such a policy. Pooling of Resources Meanwhile, the public has gradu-ally come to the realization that Winston Churchill, as the king's first minister with plenary powers, , and President Roosevelt, as commander- - and, therefore, with similar authority, have agreed ..that the United States and Britain will pool their military resources not only un-til the fighting ends, but until the emergency is ended. They will do this merely by continuing the com-mittee of joint chiefs of staff. They have made it plain that they consider the emergency, or as an official spokesman for the United States described it, "a period of transition," will not end until the last peace treaties are signed. In other words, the United States and Great Britain intend, as long as the emergency exists, to take part in an organization to establish and main-tain the peace by means of what amounts to a military alliance be-tween the two nations. Prime Minister Churchill was ready to sign a written agreement which would include Britain's pledge to remain our ally and continue the war with us until Japan was beaten that much he told the newsmen and he added, the President had said it was not necessary, that his word was good enough. Presum-ably, the written agreement would have included the continuation of the joint committee of the chiefs of staff, too. But written or unwritten, such a pact now exists. It is, therefore, clear that the President intends, if he remains in office, to maintain an interim ar-- rangement which will keep this coun- - try an active factor in world af fairs to the point where its policies will be supported by military action, This will be of indefinite length, as Churchill put it, until it can be shown that a better arrangement, including all nations, can be found to sup- - plant it. In one sense, therefore, It is less Important what decision the con--l gress or the .administration makes Tight now as to its foreign policy since there will be plenty of time for the people to become fully ac- - quainted with the whole situation during the "transition period" when two of the strongest nations remain united. The important thing, of course, is to obtain the of the third most powerful nation, Russia. And that is what is on the fire right now. Until we know, a little more about Russia's views and in-tentions, it will be impossible to make a detailed plan for the post-war world. Battle of Italy Beginning of End As I write these lines, the startled moon has just slipped behind a jag-ged curtain of clouds, like a trans-port sliding under the protecting cloak of a smoke screen. That comparison leaps to my mind because all day I have been follow-ing, as you have and as closely as either of us could, the progress of the greatest military undertaking which an American army has at-tempted in this war the battle of Italy. For the battle of Italy is the storming of the very portals of the Reich, the outer rim, it is true, but nonetheless, the first breastworks of Hitler's inner fortress. Here, for the first time, American soldiers, hardened on the harsh sands of Africa and the cruel hills of Sicily, meet the guardsmen of the Nazi citadel. Not a army, diluted by a d ally, Italy, but dogged German fighters defend-ing the gateway to their own, their native land. ' The end of the beginning has end-ed, the beginning of the end has be-gun. And we who have watched every sign and every signal as the curtain between what we thought and what we knew was lifted, realize how little we and the world can guess of the inner and complicated workings of this great war machine. As the armies of the Allies attack the enemy citadel the leaders of the Allies, Roosevelt and Churchill, plan a new edifice. The invasion of Sicily and the in-vasion of Italy were planned at Casablanca where, for 24 hours, the few newsmen who were permitted to know, kept the secret of the meet-ing itself. Beside the historic wa-ters of the St. Lawrence, in the citadel at Quebec, the marching orders were sealed while we news-men waited, blinded and deafened to all but the most general ideas. What are those marching orders? Some other startled moon will tell. Civilian Defense Proves. Its Worth As Germany begins the defense of her inner fortress and the once-feare- d Luftwaffe has been converted from an offensive to a defensive ma-chine the problem of keeping up the morale of Civilian Defense in this country is a difficult one. It would be foolhardy to lie down on the job now for history has shown that fre-quently fierce and bitter conflicts grow out of victories and until the last shot is fired and after that, it isn't safe to desert the ramparts. Recently the value of civilian de-fense training was proved in a man-ner which received very little rec-ognition outside of the immediate vicinity. When the Congressional Limited, the crack train that runs between New York and Washington, was wrecked in Philadelphia, when the Twentieth Century Limited, an-other crack train between Chicago and New York, was wrecked, and when a hotel burned in Houston, Texas, the civilian defense organi-zation proved its mettle. On all three occasions, invaluable service was rendered by these unselfish men and women who have so long an-swered mock alarms and gone on duty for practice drills. It was definitely shown that in the case of the wreck of the Congres-sional Limited and in the Houston fire lives were actually saved by the defense workers. In Philadelphia a group of air raid wardens meeting near the scene of the wreck were the first to arrive on the scene. In a short time 7,500 trained work-ers were at work assisting police and helping the rescue. So effectively did they handle the traffic that in spite of the great crowds, lanes were kept open so that all injured persons not actually pinned in the wreck had been removed to hospitals within 35 or 40 minutes. JAPS: Woo Subjects In an effort to enlist the active snnnnrt of the 700 million Asiatics "I WEEKLY MEWS ANALYSIS Allied Armies Start Drive to North Against Fortified Nazi Lines in Italy; Jap Key Base at Rabaul Is Encircled; Farm Groups Dissent on Subsidy Plans (EDITOR'S NOTE : When opinions are expressed in these columns, th ey are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper. Released by Western Newspaper Union. . already under her heel, Japan has promised them taken , scrupulous care to respect their reli- - i gions, invited their , young students and leaders to Tokyo, , where they have j hppn entertained by i -.; "v 5ppia i 111s i v5 ... is::p:: iwai ..,..; the emperor, and exchanged techni- - PremierTojo cians with them. According to diplomatic advices, the program has had its effect. With the assistance of the natives, the Japs are getting bauxite for alu-minum from Burma; iron from North China and Manchuria; oil from Java and Borneo; copper, tin and manganese from the Philippines and foodstuffs from Thailand. In addition, the wily Japs are installing factories in the conquered countries. Under Tojo's leadership, it was said, the' Japs are ready to sacrifice five million men to beat the Allies. They expect the war to be long, but consider present action in the South Pacific as merely outpost skir-mishes. WHISKY: No Production Because of a boost of 20 per cent in the estimated requirements of in-dustrial alcohol for the newly estab-lished synthetic rubber industry, dis-tilleries will not be allowed to switch to whisky production for the rest of the year. Previously, distilleries nourished hopes of being given two weeks to build up dwindling stocks of whisky and blends. The decision to place greater re-liance on alcohol for synthetic rub-ber than on petroleum resulted from conclusions that use of the latter would interfere with the aviation gasoline program. Furthermore, it was said, the government objected to the diversion of grain to whisky at a time when it was trying to main-tain the nation's food standards. Shown scanning skies for of strafing Messerschmitts, this American ft crew aided in valiant defense of beachheads established by U. S. troops at Salerno In bloody fighting. ITALY: Yanks on Offense Their bases firmly established on the beaches of Salerno after eight days of bloody bat-tle, Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth army went onto the offensive and drove Nazi panzer units back into the hills rising inland. As the Germans retreated, General Clark's Doughboys made contact with This Excuses Everybody As chairman of the house ways and means committee, Rep. Rob-ert Doughton presided over con-gress' shaping of the present in-come tax. Recently, Doughton summoned the committee to a night session to see whether something couldn't be done to simplify the filing of returns. Doughton, it seems, had to get a "tax expert" to make out bis own form! HOME DELIVERIES: Cut Oct. 11 p To assure continuation of motor transportation against wartime SUBSIDIES: Farm Groups Dissent Declaring that maximum produc-tion was the best guarantee against inflation, leaders from national farm organizations met with President Roosevelt to protest against general food subsidies to consumers. To assure highest production, the organization spokesmen suggested the government support "floor" prices for farm commodities at lev-els assuring fair returns. In the case of meat and butter, it was said, subsidies failed to halt price reac-tions to supply and demand at the markets. Bucking the subsidy idea on which organized labor has pressed the gov-ernment to spend two billion dollars, were Albert S. Goss of the National Grange; Edward A. O'Neal, Amer-ican Farm Bureau federation; and Ezra T. Benson, National Council of Farm Representing the National Farmers Union, James G. Patton differed with the major-ity, favoring subsidies. See Large Crops Despite an unfavorable combina-tion of low rainfall and high tem-peratures in a huge irregular area extending from southern New Eng-land to central North Carolina, from northern Georgia to central New Mexico, from central Illinois to southwestern Mississippi, and from central South Dakota to the Rio Grande, crop production was expect-ed to be 4 per cent above any pre-vious year, excepting 1942. Estimating a yield of 31.7 bushels per acre, the department of agricul-ture forecast a corn crop of 2,985,-267,0- bushels. At 16.7 bushels per acre, 834,957,000 bushels of wheat were expected. And at 30.2 bushels per acre, 1,145,060,000 bushels of oats were anticipated. Yielding 668 pounds per acre, the peanut crop was set at 2,801,515,000 pounds. On 136.9 bushels per acre, 460,512,000 bushels of potatoes were expected. At 46.9 bushels per acre, 71,217,000 bushels of rice were fore-cast. Combined with meat and poultry production, the crops were expected to boost food supplies over present levels. DADS' DRAFT: Army Insists Pointing to the army's admission that 2,700,000 troops will still be in . shortages of fuel, replacement parts, equipment, tires and manpower, Di-rector of Defense Transportation Jo-seph B. Eastman ordered curtailment of retail and whole-sale merchandise deliveries. Effective October Lieut. Gen. Gen. Bernard Mont-Mar- k Clark gomery's British Eighth army, charg-ing northward from the toe of the Italian boot Together, the two ar-mies prepared to swing against the series of mountainous defenses erected by the Nazis to wear down the Allies before they reach the main enemy lines in the Po valley. Although the Allies were first pounded by guns when they landed on the sandy beach, and har-assed by German armored units be-fore they could organize strongly for attack, their position was gradually strengthened by a constant stream of reinforcements. Clouds of Allied planes roared overhead to break German battle formations, and naval guns poured explosives into the hills from which enemy bat-teries caused such havoc on the beaches earlier. Losses in Sicily Despite the Allies' whirlwind y campaign in Sicily, they suf-fered material losses ranging up to 54 per cent, Secretary of the Treas-ury Henry Morgenthau declared in support of the current 15 billion dollar bond drive; According to Morgenthau, opera-tions in Sicily cost 13 per cent of all 155-m- howitzers landed; 46 per cent of all guns; 13 per cent of all guns employed; 8 per cent of all medium tanks and 7 per cent of all light tanks; 54 per cent of the carriages for the guns; 36 per cent of the carriages for the guns, and 22 per cent of the carriages for the 105-m-guns. "In Sicily we met only a small fraction of the opposition we are getting from the Germans now in Italy," he said. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Big Base Encircled With Allied troops in command of the Solomons and firmly closing their grip on New Guinea, the great Japanese naval and air base of Ra-baul has been encircled and neu-tralized as an advance post for ac-tion in the Southwest Pacific. Hardly had General MacArthur's troops closed the noose before a big naval battle was reported in the area between New Guinea and the Solomons, thus indicating that the Allies were moving swiftly to capi-talize on their position. With Allied bombers faced with shorter runs and therefore enabled to carry heavier loads to the big base, and with the U. S. fleet ready to spring Into action from neighbor-ing waters, the encirclement of Ra-baul removes the Japs' immediate threat to Australasia. At one time the Japs threatened to overrun the entire region. Joseph B. n- - miUc deliveries Eastman to homes will be limited to four times a week; meats, fruits, vegetables, fish and bread to three times, and dry groceries, laundry and dry cleaning to two times. Permission was given for delivery of ice every day. Wholesale deliveries will be cut to six times weekly for bread, bakery products, cream, milk, dairy prod-ucts and repair parts; five times for meats, eggs, fruits, vegetables, fish, live plants, laundry, dry clean-ing and cut flowers; and once for alcoholic beverages, wines and bot-tled malt beverages. RUSSIA: Oil Hopes Blasted Once set up as the cornerstone of the Nazis' drive for the Caucasus oil, Novorossisk was abandoned by them as the Germans pulled back to the Dnieper river for a last ditch stand in Russia. The German withdrawal along the whole front to the Dnieper was regu-lar, with the Nazis within 100 miles of the broad, curving river, from Bryansk in the north to Lozovaya in the south. Only along the coast of the Sea of Azov were the Germans any distance from the Dnieper, and tne u. s. at the end of 1944, Senator Bur-to- n K. Wheeler pressed for congres-sional consideration of his bill for the de-ferment of fathers. Insisting that the army's program re-quires the induction of 700,000 men or WACs by the end of Lieut. Gen. this year, Lieut. McNarney Gen. Joseph T. assailed the proposed deferment of dads. The general said that each month 75,000 men are needed to replace casualties or discharges. Declaring that voluntary methods for bringing men into war industries have not filled needs, Undersecre-tary of War Robert Patterson fa-vored a labor draft, to give an ef-fect, as he said, to an obligation on everyone of working age to render necessary national service. here it was believed they were hold-ing deeper defenses to permit their troops in the Crimea to pull out Every indication pointed to the Germans' use of the Dnieper as their last strong natural defense in Russia. If the Reds cracked the Dnieper, the Germans would have no suitable defensive terrain left, but would have to fall back on the Dniester river, in Europe itself MEXICO: Tourist Boom "American tourists are crowding Mexico and buying up everything from gin and electrical appliances to bobby pins and elastics," it is re-ported. The people of Mexico are not feel-ing the war as acutely as are the people of the United States as ra-tioning has not gone into effect there. There is plenty of every-thing, it is said, but Americans are buying much of the surplus goods American money is welcome. WAR BABIES: Federal Aid Needed "The number of babies born to men in the armed forces has ex- ceeded all expectations," declared Representative Cannon in connec tion with the bill to provide an ad ditional 20 million dollars of federal funds for maternity and child care. 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Elliott & Co. 40 N. 3rd West St. Salt Lake City, Utah- - Protecting Game FU An electronic screen is ing used to repel game fish!1-th-danger areas around the fl""1 gates of irrigation ditches and droelectric plants, in which lions of fish are killed each Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Release. Consolidated Features.-W- NU YORK.-M- ost of the Allied NEW in China and Burma and India are being struck from the air. continue to be a Lots of them will fact which Gen. Oliver Busy steps up the Readying Forces por- t-e For Push on Japs Mr Service command in that region and of Brig. Gen. Robert C. Oliver, its direct-in- g head. Oliver's job is to muster the supplies and men and equip-ment needed to maintain the Tenth and Chennault's swash-buckling Fourteenth, and all the other air forces now in the area or due there when the big push starts against the Japs. A year ago he had a half dozen men, a warehouse or so, a couple of trucks. Now his warehouses are all about, his trucks run in bat-talions and he counts his men in hundreds, even thousands. Oliver is a thin,' confident West Pointer, 41 years old. He weighs a scant 145 pounds, works 11 hours a day, seven days a week and is disarmingly friendly. When he no-tices a strange private he is likely to stroll over, ask the man's name, give his own and shake hands heart-vily. Army-bor- with a father who served in the medical corps dur-ing the Spanish-America- n war, he went first with the infantry after West Point, but finally set- - . tied down in the air force. His pilot score-she- et shows 3,600 hours in the air. Some of these were piled up early last year in ' North Africa, but he didn't down any Germans. His wife and son are living in Montgomery, Ala. It is a fine, quiet town to serve out the duration and the cocoa- - nut cake sold in tne communny market will certainly please Robert Jr. THE game of musical chairs Hitler has been playing with his war chiefs through a series of setbacks in Africa and Russia, V, now sends Can Haider Hold Qen- - Franz AH Comers Along Haider to the Po?-.$6- 4 Question say that he is chief of staff again. He was tossed out last Christmas-tid- e for Kurt Zeitzler, the Nazi plug-ugl-a switch which would be paral-leled here if General Marshall were ousted for a modern QuantrelL But now he is back, just in time to plug, if he can, the hole left by Italy's collapse. Haider has a cheery smile and this, along with thick glasses, gives him a scboolmasterish air. But he is a soldier with 40 years training, the son of a general, and in his own right a sound strategist and a bold tactician. Hitler turned him out with a curt, "You may go," after failures in Russia, but it was Hitler's plan that failed, not Haider's. Some people who toured pre-w- Germany are fond of saying that the kindly Bavarians should not be counted among the toughest Nazis. But Haider is a Bavarian and though he was not tough enough for Hitler he left bitter memories all through the Ukraine. The big question is whether he is tough enough to hold the re-gion around the River Po in Northern Italy against the Allies. That is where he is expected to stand, although once again the plan Is Hitler's, not his. On his own plan he would refuse battle until the lofty barrier of the Alps stood as his first line of defense instead of worrisome-l- y at his back. 'TpHE United Nations commission to draw up true bills against Axis war criminals will, beyond any doubt, let go with both barrels Will Make Legal - The Indictment of and,bthat Axis War Culprits mieht be pretty soon. But now that Sir Cecil Hurst has been named Britain's accuser the culprits will,, at least, have the cold comfort of knowing that the shoot-ing is entirelv Wni Sir Cecil has been a lawyer for 50 years, just. For a long while he was legal advisor of the Brit- ish foreign office and since 1929 has had a seat in The Hague court, succeeding Charles Evan Hughes; he was elected its pres- ident in 1933. But he is no Awhile back he was over here for some distin-guished goings-o- n at Princeton. A few Americans present were a mite squeamish about mentioning the remote but remembered trouble centering around the year 1776 Sir Cecil wasn't. He eased a ticklish moment by declaring cheerfully that Britain m that distant year, or abouts, had got a mighty good les-son, one which had helped her ever since with other colonies Seventy-thre- e now, Sir Cecil SUn ports the popular notion teat an sUy ""He" 1 He still has W.asbrn in Hham. his home there, though not the same one. He lives a short hour from London In Rusper NuLe 1 name marking Horsha' Burmese Alphabet There are but 19 letters in ft. Burmese alphabet. M BRIEFS ... 6y Baukhage Although more than 1,500 chap-lains now serve in the navy, the coast guard and the marine corps, more must be added. Emblem of the government war food program is a market basket carried by an arm and hand obvi-ously belonging to Uncle Sam. Over the basket is the theme "Food fights for freedom." The average American before the war ate about a pound and a third of tree nut meats a year. This year, he will eat only about a pound be-cause nut supplies are smaller, ac- - cording to department of agricul- - ture estimates. A Wisconsin farmer, whose two marine sons gave their lives in the war against Japan, is now a marine private doing guard duty somewhere with his compan-ion sentry, a powerful Doberman-Pinsche- r dog. Reversing the usual procedure of asking German civilians to write only cheerful letters to front line troops, Nazi officials have appealed to German soldiers to make cer-tain letters to their families are in a "humorous vein." The armed forces are using feath-ers for camouflage equipment, sleep-ing bags and aviators' jackets. Crickets on the hearth this fall may lead to holes in curtains, rugs and other household fabrics as well as in clothes and even leather shoes, according to entomologists of the department of agriculture. As fall comes on and outdoor food supplies become scarce, field crickets may enter houses in great numbers and become serious pests. Gasoline sold in the United States last winter decreased slightly in quality because of wartime condi-tions, says the bureau of mines. HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week's news ITALIAN CROPS: Italy is be-lieved to have harvested more wheat this year than she ever did, even before the war, but most of it will probably fall to the German army, say department of agriculture spokesmen. They think the crop may have amounted to 280 million bushels. Indicating that looting of food supplies is taking place, is a report by way of Stockholm. TOUR: The war department has approved the projected tour of the Facflo war theater by two teams of big league baseball stars who will play for the servicemen. There will probably be 18 men on each squad, one from each major league team. MUSEUM: The Field Museum of Natural History In Chicago marked its 50th anniversary recently. It is considered one of the three greatest in the United States. The institu-tion was renamed the "Chicago Mu-seum of Natural History" at the ceremonies. "PAT DAT": Farm soils working overtime to meet the war's vast pro-duction quotas can be restored if farmers will earmark part of then-prese-war bond purchases for peacetime soil rebuilding projects, including the use of nitrogen, phos-phorus and potash, according to a statement by the Middle West Soil Improvement committee made re-cently. SPARS: "Women will lose no part of their femininity by serving in the military forces during the war," Lieut. Com. Dorothy Stratton, na-tional director of the SPARS, or coast guard auxiliary, said recently. She believes most SPARS will be "Desirous of a home after the war." INSURANCE: Life insurance writ-ten up during August was 21.8 per cent more than in August of 1942, the Association of Life Insurance Presidents reveals. For the first eight months of the year, sales were 3.6 per cent more than the same period last year. ' . Pnr BCUy nce Russian Women In Steel Indus W s. In the British iron and s dustry, 64,000 women, or J d) cent of the industry's emP 950 different jobs. |