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Show THE LEW SUN. LEII1. UTAH 'Over There' - -TVawv.t aw . IUI WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Japanese Lose Heavily at Macassar When Dutch and U..S. Forces Unite; Compromise Price Control Passes; Additional Food Rationing Forecast (EDITOR'S NOTE Wasa pinions ara sxprassaa' la this sslamns, thsy arc tbosa f tha news analyst aa4 not nasassarily al this nswspapsr.) 'p-'- ' by Western Nawsojper Union.) 6w There was no sightseeing for these Axis evacuees from South America as they went through the Panama Canal Zone to the United States. Part of the group of 111 persons, Including seven German and seven Italian Ital-ian diplomats, are pictured debarking from the special train which carried car-ried them across the Isthmus. Uncle Sam took no chances of any Axis sightseeing, which would have been possible had the passage been made by boat. MACASSAR: First Victory Americans had hailed the Battle of Macassar straits as the first definite def-inite American victory over the Japanese, Jap-anese, worked out in conjunction with the indomitable Dutch. The action amounted to the virtual virtu-al trapping of a large Jap convoy in the straits, probably heading for a frontal assault on Java or Sumatra, Sumat-ra, and its virtual decimation with heavy losses in men and ships for the Nippon forces. The fight lasted several days, and a number of Japanese warships were engaged by light American naval vessels including destroyers and submarines, and by considerable consider-able forces of airplanes. One of the earliest ships sent to the bottom in the engagement was a Jap aircraft carrier, and if she was not sunk she was immobilized by a direct torpedo hit, and that meant she was useless as a carrier. This meant instant air supremacy for the American-Dutch forces, and they went to- work without mercy. One vessel after ; another was", destroyed de-stroyed and as others were damaged dam-aged and the Japs attempted to keep their convoy intact by slowing their pace to that of the slowest vessel, they were hopelessly trapped. It apparently took more than six days for the Japs to negotiate the less than 500-mile journey through the straits, and the toll was upward of 81 vessels. The engagement showed several things that strong air reinforcements reinforce-ments had arrived from the United States into the area; that they were being deployed effectively to prevent a further southward Japanese Japa-nese invasion of the East Indies; that American- naval units, once at grips with the Japs, could give a good account of themselves; that the early toll of two ships a day could easily be enlarged to a deadly amount of shipping, an amount which the Japanese could not lose and continue their pace in the South Pacific. PRICES: Bill Passed The passage of the compromise price control bill, setting ceilings on 74 commodities, brought to a head a situation which now was in the hands of the government, namely inflation of commodity prices. From this point on it would be a criminal offense to sell anything above the ceiling price. The senate vote had been at a higher ratio than the house, 65 to 14. President Roosevelt had been expected ex-pected to name Leon Henderson to the post of price administrator, set up in the bill. Henderson had been doing what he could along this line from his OPACS office, and had been placed in the War Productions board under Nelson. All Henderson's previous work, wherever it did not conflict with the ceilings in the bill, immediately was validated, and became the law of the land. Just as though congress it-self it-self had announced the ceilings. Maximum penalties were one year in prison and a $5,000 fine for willful violations of the law. A fight had been expected against Henderson on the grounds that the former administrator had been close to the President, who himself had been chief critic of the bilL U-BOATS: Active in Atlantic A constant succession of sinkings of American and allied vessels in the north Atlantic, many of them close to the coastline, had revealed that U-boat activity was being pressed to the utmost. The U. S, navy reports from the eastern ocean had been that their efforts were being redoubled, and that certain successes had been scored. The policy of not announcing announc-ing U-boat sinkings was being followed, fol-lowed, however. LUZON: MacArthurs Fight Though MacArthur's men were admittedly in a desperate position, it had become evident that be was getting at least some reinforcement, as his latest communiques had told of American "fighter planes," and also of the work of PT boat squadrons squad-rons in Subic bay and at other points, probably near Corregidor. But it had not been believed that MacArthur's army had any airplanes air-planes left, therefore his report that Curtis P-40 fighters had downed a number of Jap bombers led many to think that they might have been flown in there from a distant base. How many of the Japanese estimated esti-mated Luzon army of 300,000 was able to get at MacArthur's men in their tiny front on Bataan peninsula was a problem, as many of them naturally would have to be holding the rear and supply lines against constant harassment of guerrilla bands of Filipinos. RATIONING: ,.r , ' To Increase Additional rationing was deemed a certainty, with the placing of sugar on a pound-a-week basis. In fact, it was known that those who controlled the priorities were frowning even on some of the civilian defense activities. Among these were the "indiscriminate "indiscrim-inate knitting of sweaters," which was said to have a bearing on a possible pos-sible shortage of wool. Another was the selling of commodities com-modities in tin cans when they could be otherwise packaged or sold in bulk. Among the list was baking powder, beer, biscuits, candy, confectionery, con-fectionery, cereals and flour, chocolate choco-late and cocoa, coffee, dog food, petroleum products, spices and condiments con-diments and tobacco. Shipbuilders were being asked so to design their ships that they could use steel of the type milled for automobilessomewhat auto-mobilessomewhat narrower plates. Leon Henderson would be in charge of retail rationing, and James S. Knowlson in charge of that which occurred in industrial quarters, it was announced. RUSSIANS:" Find Going Tougher As the Russians announced that the "last live German" had been removed re-moved from Moscow province, and that the invaders in the Rhzev area were trapped and doomed, and as they swarmed ever closer to Smolensk, Smo-lensk, they reported that the Nazi resistance was growing stiffer. This, the Red high command said, was to be expected, but they drew much cheer from the fact that one victory was following another still, and that the general tactical campaign cam-paign was shaping up well. One expert in Red tactics said much credit was being given to a new Russian system of putting fairly fair-ly heavy artillery into the front line with the infantry. This, he pointed out, was a bold procedure, but one which the Germans, Ger-mans, with nothing heavier than trench mortars in the front line, were finding it difficult to combat. The Russians have 48 mm. guns and some 76s in the front lines, and though they are not so mobile, they are even being handled by manpower man-power when horses cannot be found to draw them. " , These guns fire at point-blank range, and were given much credit in winning the battle of Mozhaisk, a heavily fortified point The death toll is terrific in warfare war-fare at 40 below zero. Correspondents Correspond-ents at the front state that wounded die within 10 or 15 minutes unless kept immediately warm, as their wounds instantly freeze. The Russians, however, being adept at life under such conditions are reportedly suffering much less than the ill-equipped and prepared Germans. ' SOMEWHERE IN IRELAND. IRE-LAND. Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney of the U. S. Air Corps, who has been made commanding command-ing general of the V. S. army forces in the British isles, is pictured above. He has a high rating as both a combat pilot and combat observer. His headquarters will be "somewhere "some-where on the British isles." REINFORCEMENTS: For 10 Areas The arrival of a considerable force of American troops in northern north-ern Ireland had been an exciting bit of news which the press leaped on with avidity, and which, brought from the White House the statement that this was but one of six, eight or ten areas to which reinforcements had been sent ' Pressing the President for more information, newsmen succeeded in getting the revelation that help is being rushed with all possible speed into the Pacific war theater. Nothing was said officially about the identity of the Northern Ireland Ire-land troops, but the fact that a major general was named commander and that his staff included brigadiers led many to believe it was at least a division. News dispatches from , Ireland, passed by censorship, used the words "from their training ground in Louisiana" and the fact that they had come "from midwestern homes," but this was as close to identification as the war department would permit -- President DeValera criticized the sending, said bis government should have been consulted, ' but though President Roosevelt recalled that DeValera was a "warm personal friend," he expressed no sympathy with his viewpoint The soldiers were there, reportedly reported-ly eager for a "crack at the Nazis," and getting accustomed to British fare, living conditions and surroundings. surround-ings. The President was positive in stating that aid of the strongest sort was being poured into the Pacific theater of the war, and war department depart-ment estimates of the total manpower manpow-er of the Japanese in that area was 1,000,000 men. ROMMEL: Drive Halted The counter-drive by Gen. Erwin Rommel's troops in Libya, which had hurled the British back over considerable ground to a former battleground bat-tleground near Bengasi, had apparently appar-ently been halted with a terrific blast of air power, causing the Germans Ger-mans huge losses. As Churchill told the house of commons that the German-Italian casualties had been three times that of the British, his cohorts in North Africa had just finished a devastating devastat-ing blow to the Germans, which many believed had halted them in their tracks. The advance from Agedabia to near Bengasi had found the Germans Ger-mans forced to halt for a time to organize their supply services, and the British took advantage of this respite to do the same., But the R.A.F. moved forward to attack the supply lines, and reported report-ed the destruction of literally "hundreds "hun-dreds of vehicles including tanks" and that they had reduced the German Ger-man rear to "utter and hopeless confusion." MISCELLANY: New York: Joseph Lash, friend of Mrs. Roosevelt and one of her proteges, pro-teges, for whom a naval commission had been sought and refused, had been changed from 1-H to 1-A and had not claimed or asked deferment Washington: The justice department depart-ment has ordered the removal of all enemy aliens from vital defense areas throughout the nation. New York: Discovery of a gigantic plot on the part of the Germans to dispose of diamonds looted in Belgium Bel-gium and Holland in 1940 was made when the government reported a list of indictments against members of several New York corporations. More than $100,000 worth of diamonds dia-monds already had been disposed of. it was believed. London: President Roosevelt has received an ornament as a present from the British government It is of glass, and is composed of fragments frag-ments of the stained glass windows of parliament broken by an air raid. Within the last six yean more than one million persons cut their last ties with the "old country" and became citizens of the United States. And now, with America at war, there is a rush to be American. Nor is there anything difficult about attaining atf zenship in the U. S. The following series of photos shows you some of the steps taken by the foreign-born in becoming American. So i ! Mil ? -if 1 m 0 t vi W j3 ill y Awaiting their turn to file first papers in one of the ante rooms of the naturalization bureau. Many of these applicants have known oppression and are eager to cut ties with the past. RSVPThis huge pile of applications ap-plications is only a small part of the year's total. The girl is sorting sort-ing them for further action. Here are clerks checking applications ap-plications for citizenship against an index containing confidential information. A courtroom scene during the naturalization of a group of applicants. ap-plicants. The judge (back to camera) is administering the oath of allegiance to the United States of America, p E&l? 4- fell 5 Last step. Accompanied by two witnesses, an applicant for naturalization is shown taking the oath at time of filing petition for citizenship. This is the application for the final papers. ,, E fcaw.-; . jjaiwlpy -iMammm-----j A veritable tower of babel is this room of a naturalization bureau, where skilled linguists question the applicants. JiWNU Sn,c) L New York Heartbeat: Sallies in Our Alley: The strict new parking regulations inspired this one . . . Jimmy Dorsey's drum- mer came late for rehearsals with the excuse that he got a summons for passing a traffic light . . . "WelL" said Dorsey. "tnavs a poor excuse. Why didn't you stop for It?" . . . "What!" exclaimed the drummer, "and take a chance on getting a parking ticket?" . . . The other night several scribes were wondering won-dering about a green-with-envy col-yumist's col-yumist's war record . . . "He was with Herbert Hoover s iooa commission," com-mission," explained a vet . . . Yen." said another, as the crowd rocked with laughter, "he was the only casualty when a cnocoiate cream puff exploded in tus iace. Parole Lombard, one of the stars the 48 stars will always be proud of. died in active service selling de fense bonds. Actors and actresses, directors, producers, cameramen, electricians and members from all the allied theatrical professions, have enlisted in some branch of the service. Giving their energy, time and money to playing benefits, buying buy-ing tickets for them and entertaining entertain-ing Soldiers, Sailors, Marinesand the Coast Guard, etc. ' And it was only a few months ago when some Senators tried to stain the movie industry by alleging it was un-American! One thing we are sure of. There must have been a wreath sent by the Army to Carole inscribed with the highest compliment the Army can give a woman. To wit: "She was a Gentleman!" There's a Hollywood couple who want to get a divorce, but they oan't agree on who gets custody of the spare tire. Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: Sec. Knox's release to the newscasters, that it was stupid to bank on a crash in Germany, Ger-many, was good advice. Nobody is going to whip Hitler but his enemies, ene-mies, he reminded. Berlin wants us to imagine it is in trouble and uncover un-cover our chins . , . Just the same, it was nice to read in Anne O'Hare McCormick's Times spot that foreign for-eign broadcasts are reaching the ears of stay-at-home Heinies , Joe Louis at least got a laugh out of licking Buddy Baer. He told Eddie Ed-die Cantor why he donated bis share of the gate to the Navy. "When I go overseas," said Pivate Joe, "I want a boat under me" . . . "The Court of Missing Heirs" is hunting for a 79-year-old man to give him $2,700. "What fun can a man that old have with $2,700?" queried a listener lis-tener , . . "What fun can a man that old have?" corrected a blue penciler . . . Every week radio is full of shows helping this and that worthy cause. The theatrical profession pro-fession should be proud of its contributions. con-tributions. Actors are always first and anxious to help, although they were the first to suffer when the government gov-ernment started cutting relief expenses. ex-penses. Remember? The Story Tellers: H. Hoover played target for the book reviewers' review-ers' arrows. He made a book out of his recent Satevepost pieces, called "America's First Crusade," ignoring Pearl Harbor. The Stuff was penned in 1934-35 when the Roosevelt trouncing was smarting acutely. The critics were stunned to -discover that the Pacific battles apparently hadn't budged his opinions opin-ions . . . There is a timely article in Collier's called "Don't Believe a Word of It" It tells how the gul-lible gul-lible are needled into disunity tricks by shooting off their mouths on planted slanders against our defense de-fense . . . LA.R. Wylie spreads a nifty tale across the pages of Liberty. Lib-erty. It concerns people who believe that "it's better to have a broken neck than a bowed one." The Front Pages: The most cheering cheer-ing war story of the week told about the Chinese victory at Changsha. The Chinese teased the foe into a trap by feigning weakness, then turned and ruined them ... The Chinese press has grounds for squawking. China doesn't think Japan should be undersold. What does it matter what part of the world the Axis is trounced in, it Inquires, objecting to Germany taking tak-ing the first beating ... "From the Land of Silent People' a -war book by Robert St John, is getting big handclaps. He was an AP staffer staff-er in Yogoslavia when the wolves came, and it's all in the book . . . Edward Doherty, once of the dailies, now a Liberty writer, recalls his reporting days beguilingly in "Gall and Honey." The Big Parade: The Girl From Stockholm going into the Stanley Theater to see "The Girl From Len-ingrad"-Greta Garbo . . . Mrs. FDR, who originated the slogan, "Let's Grind Down the Axis" but is too modest to accept credit for it . . . Merle Oberon, being intro-troduced intro-troduced by that monicker and correcting: cor-recting: "Don't you mean Mrs. Alexander Al-exander Korda?" ... The D. Top-nings Top-nings (S. Henie) at all the sinful places hoping to run into (but hard!) the colyumers who had them dividing. IWHI a comomation oi lQi.rf'J'W dienu formulated ovW AetabN tot ggtonaW mm bis NomanisthTSJJ LShfe.-Owen MereditH XJftUK ASK Yfttro t.. "H ASK Yfttro t.. "TAKING THE COUNTRY BY Sn KNOWN FROM COAST TO 1 CUPPLES COMPANY . tT.LOWJ lAA maou''mm ? 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