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Show WEEKLY MEWS ANALYSIS . Unending Allied Air Offensive Blasts Nazi's Western Defenses, Railroads; Lag Seen in Farm Machinery Output; Dutch East Indies Bombed by British (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed fn these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) '- Released by Western Newspaper Union. GOP: Keynoter Named Selection of Gov. Earl Warren a California as opening speaker, 01 keynoter, at the Republican nationa convention in Chicago, June 24, hai served to modulate the extreme na tionalist and internationalist elements ele-ments in the party. Brawny, 6-foot Governor Warren who erst jumped into the politica' spotlight on the west coast througt his racket-busting, stands by th GOP's Mackinac declaration on for eign policy, stressing internationa. cooperation with other nations with out impairing U. S. sovereignty. Said Warren: "As Republicans we must avoid discord that woulc interfere with our displacing thi White House palace guard with ar administration more competent t win the war and solve our postwai problems, domestic and foreign." LEND-LEASE: Extension Debated With congress considering extension exten-sion of lend-lease until June 30, 1945. debate centered around subjectinj the President's final settlement! with foreign recipients to legislativ scrutiny. Under terms of the lend-lease measure, the President had sole authority to make final settlements, but in extending the act to 1945, thi house wrote in an amendment which prohibits him from negotiating final settlements involving international committments without congressional congression-al approval. During the course of house debate de-bate on the new measure which was sent to the senate by a 334 to 21 vote, the majority killed Republican Republi-can efforts to compel foreign nations na-tions to return lend-lease munition to the U. S. after the war. pmmm mmm:mmmm:i m-::, r-'-WA Camp Gordon, Fla. Newspaper men touring southeastern camps ride amphibious tank at Camp Gordon, Johnston, Fla. EUROPE: Unending Raids An unending procession of U. S. and British bombers soared over western Europe blasting the invasion inva-sion path, while in the Balkans to the southeast, Axis forces went over to the attack to shore up the Russians' Rus-sians' drive on Rumania and Hungary. Hun-gary. Big bombers, medium bombers and strafing fighter planes all participated par-ticipated in the Allied aerial attacks on France, the Lowlands and Germany, Ger-many, with rail communications leading to the invasion coast and airports and aircraft factories the principal targets. In one 36-hour period pe-riod alone, Allied aviators made no less than 6,000 individual flights over the west. Axis counterattacks in the Balkans Bal-kans took form as the Russians advanced ad-vanced on Carpathian mountain passes leading into the rolling Hungarian Hun-garian plains, and other Red forces threatened the rich Rumanian oil fields around Ploesti. In the Crimean peninsula jutting into the Black sea, Russian forces laid siege to the big naval base of Sevastopol, where Axis troops flocked after a lengthy retreat. " Demand Loyalty As western Europe crackled under the Allies' savage bombing offensive I TEUFACT OUTPUT PER -U. S. WORKER DOUBLES BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS 1917 f)P WORIO '- TV WAR II 1943 Each symbol represents 20 per cent of 1817 produotion per worker. PLAY BALL: Majors Open More than 123,000 fans were on hand to witness the opening of the 1944 major league baseball season, with the largest crowd of 30,154 watching the Chicago Cubs spank the Cincinnati Reds, 3 to 0, a1 Cincinnati, and the smallest of 4,030 watching the St. Louis Cardinals blank the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2 to 0, at St. Louis. The New York Yankees' Johnny Lindell drove out the majors' first home run against the Boston Red So'x to lead his team to a 3 to 0 victory, and the Philadelphia Athletics Athlet-ics and Washington Senators played the first extra inning game, with the A's winning in the 12th, 3 to 2, when Rookie Erwin Hall doubled home Babe Siebert. STRIKES: In U. S., Canada Strikes at Montgomery Ward and company and the Ford Motor company com-pany of Canada crowded the labor spotlight. At Ward's, the nation's No. 2 mail order house, the company resumed shipment of freight and parcel pos1 after railroad and teamster unions had tied up deliveries in sympathy with the CIO's United Mail Order, Warehouse and Retail Employees union, which struck over the firm's refusal to extend a bargaining contract con-tract upon order of the War Labor board. About 14,000 employees of the Ford company's Canadian plants remained re-mained idle after a walkout in protest pro-test over the firm's discharge of CIO stewards for investigating members' grievances during working hours, and the company's subsequent cancellation can-cellation of the union's contract. to clear the invasion inva-sion path, Nazi No. 2 Hermann Goer-ing Goer-ing and Nazi No. 3 Joseph Goebbels used Hitler's 55th birthday to loudly appeal to the German Ger-man people for unquestioned un-questioned loyalty during the hectic rjeriod to follow. MANPOWER: Biggest Problem During 1944, manpower and not material will constitute the biggest obstacles to resumption of the production pro-duction of civilian goods, the War Production board's planning and statistical chief, Stacy May, revealed. re-vealed. Although reductions in certain munitions programs may reach considerable con-siderable proportions toward the end of 1944, the question of converting facilities to the manufacture of civilian civil-ian goods will revolve around the army's call for manpower for casualty casu-alty replacements, May said. Because Be-cause of declines in construction employment em-ployment and increasing efficiency in factories, however, more workers work-ers may be made available for consumer con-sumer goods, May declared. Sufficient steel, aluminum and copper probably could be obtained for civilian production later in the year, May said, but shortages of necessary parts or accessories might form serious bottlenecks. PACIFIC: Raid Treasure-House Storehouse for Japanese oil, tin and rubber, the Dutch East Indies were hit by British bombers for the first time in nearly a year and a half, with docks, warehouses and shipping left in flames in the northern north-ern end of the islands. While the bombers whacked at this treasure-house of natural resources re-sources which have fed the Japs' industrial sinews of war, British and Indian troops continued their desperate des-perate defense of the Bengal-Assam railroad in eastern India, feeding U. S. and Chinese forces hacking out a supply road to China in northern north-ern Burma. In the South Pacific area, U. S. army and navy bombers teamed up to plaster the Japs' Caroline islands, gateway to the inner approaches of the enemy's principal Asiatic holdings. AGRICULTURE: Machinery Because of the necessity of stepping step-ping up production of landing barges and other invasion craft demanding critical' material, farm machinery output this year may not reach expected ex-pected levels, War Food Administrator Adminis-trator Marvin Jones revealed. Although too early to make predictions, pre-dictions, Jones said, machinery output out-put should exceed 1940 figures. None has been allocated to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation administration or for export, he said. As of April 1, Jones revealed, machinery ma-chinery production totaled 36,000 combines, 9,000 balers, 23,000 side rakes, 44,000 spreaders, 121,000 tractors trac-tors and 15,000 cornpickers. Labor At a time when Selective Service was tightening up on farm deferments, defer-ments, the U. S. department of agriculture agri-culture reported that farm workers as of Aprfi 1 totaled 9,080,000, or about 228,000 less than a year ago. With a better organized farm labor la-bor program and seasonal help from volunteer workers, however, the USDA expected rural America to meet this year's expanded food goals despite the inroads into help. Although only 2 per cent lower than April, 1943, the farm labor supply was 54 per cent of the prewar pre-war average, the USDA declared. Said Goering: "A Hermann thousand dangers Goering may lie ahead ... New anxieties and burdens may prove inevitable ... No sacrifice and no privation should be too great to make for Germany . . . Our gift to the fuehrer is our vow not to lay down arms until we have assured the Reich's future." Said Goebbels: "... Even the greatest leaders of history will be faced with occasional setbacks and defeats ... It will not be possible to form an accurate and just idea of the individual war events and factors which have been decisive in the war until the war is over ... So to serve our1 aims means to be loyal to the fuehrer and to follow him through all the storms of war. . . " FOREIGN HOLDINGS: U. S. Stake After a canvass of more than 200,000 individuals, estates and trusts, and 16,000 business firms, the U. S. Treasury established American Ameri-can holdings in more than 50 foreign countries at $13,300,000,000. Although two-thirds of the holdings hold-ings of household goods, bonds and factories are in Allied or friendly nations, U. S. national's stake in Axis or occupied countries totals $3,775,000,000, of which $1,290,000,000 is in Germany, $265,000,000 in Italy, $90,000,000 in Japan, $65,000,000 in Rumania and $55,000,000 in Hungary. Hun-gary. By far the largest U. S. investments invest-ments are in Canada, aggregating $4,375,000,000 and holdings in Great Britain total $1,030,000,000. Investments Invest-ments in Cuba amount to $785,000,-000; $785,000,-000; Mexico, $420,000,000; Argentina, $355,000,000, and Brazil, $330,000,000. SOLDIERS' WIVES: Arrive in U. S. Anxious to look over their new homeland, 90 Australian brides or fiancees of American soldiers arrived ar-rived in the U. S. from "Down Under," with one expressing the belief be-lief that if they got good Irish stew now and then, they should learn to get along. Wife of a marine corporal from Shinnston, W. Va., Mrs. Doris Jean Lebash, said: "The American boys . . . bluntly told some of us, we in Australia were 10 years behind the times. They told us we couldn't wear American clothes, and that we'd never see such beautiful girls as we'd see in this country." Australian wives of U. S. soldiers may apply for citizenship after two years. Any of their children born overseas automatically become citizens citi-zens with five years residence under the U. S. flag. G. I. BOARD It is costing the government less this year to provide "board and room" for the millions of enlisted men in the army. Economies have trimmed the annual expenditure to an estimated $465.06 this year. The estimated figures include $215.35 for food, $173.70 for clothing, $44.70 "for individual equipment (excepting (ex-cepting arms and ammunition), and $31.31 for barracks equipment. Pro duction costs on many items supplied sup-plied by contractors have been re-. re-. duced. |
