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Show . 1 r- WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Egypt Defenders Turn on Axis Armies In Struggle for Middle East Control; Nazi Spy Ring Smashed in Canal Zone; Allies' Wheat Pool Aids Famine Areas fEDITOR'S VOTE When opinion are expressed In these columns, they , are those of the newt analyst and not necessarily ol UjU newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union, mmm EGYPT: Defenders Hit Hard Even as parliament by a 475 to 25 majority voted its connaenco in Prime Minister Winston Churchill after- m nrnlnntfed debate over the Libyan defeat, reports from Egypt revealed that British Imperials, heavily reinfereed from the Middle East, had struck fiercely at the flank and rear of Marshal Rommel Axis army to counter its assault on the main British positions. At the same time it was disclosed that United States army air force and Royal air force planes had unleashed un-leashed a terrific air offensive throughout the eastern Mediterranean Mediterran-ean area. In one assault on Marshal Mar-shal Rommel's supply port of Bengasi, Ben-gasi, hundreds of bombers rained destruction down on munition dumps and equipment concentrations. Reinforcements of both men and material had strengthened the British Brit-ish Egyptian position In the battles on which rested the fate of Allied power in the Mediterranean and Middle East. Crucial battle area was the 40-mile wide strip of desert lying between the Impassable Quat-tera Quat-tera salt marshes and the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean shore. Few observers had doubted that Prime Minister Churchill'a position WWW "Mi r tfMEsa PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL would be sustained. Facing his critics in the most critical period since the fall of France, Churchill had admitted that Marshal Rommel's Rom-mel's victorious drive from Libya into Egypt had placed Britain In "mortal peril," Meanwhile on the Riissian front, the Nazis had opened a new drive north of Kharkov, while hand to hand fighting In the ruins of Sevastopol, Sevas-topol, Russia's last stronghold in the Crimea, had highlighted what the Reds termed "an extremely grave situation." SHIPBUILDING: Yanks Break Records Hope that American shipyards would soon equal and then exceed the total sunk by Axis , submarines was seen in a report issued by Vice Chairman Howard L. Vickery of the maritime commission which disclosed that 68 vessels totaling 731.900 tons deadweight had been delivered in June and that production produc-tion was speeding ahead toward a level of 900,000 deadweight tons a month. - Admiral Vickery reported that 288 ships of approximately 2,544,000 deadweight tons had been delivered by American shipyards in the first six months of 1942. v SECRET SPENDING: F. D. R. Accounts How President Roosevelt spent $239,500,000 in secret emergency funds since the war crisis became acute in June, 1940, was revealed in an accounting which the Chief Executive Ex-ecutive presented to congress. Eighty-seven per cent of the total was allocated to the army, the navy, maritime commission and Federal Loan agency, the President said. Large sums were spent to sup-press sup-press subversive radio activities in connection with the German submarine subma-rine campaign. Important ' among expenditures was $52,000.000 , tor secret naval bases in the Western hemisphere, $12,000,000 for purchase of Austral-ian Austral-ian wool for uniforms, $3,000,000 for development of air, rail and highway transportation in Latin America and $36,500,000 tor construction con-struction of merchant ships. NEW NAVAL BASE: Mystery Explained Why hundreds of American workers work-ers embarked for Northern Ireland last summer to toil on a mysterious construction project long before the United States entry into the world war, was explained when the navy department announced formal completion com-pletion of a giant operating base at Londonderry, guarding the western approaches of Britain. Capt. William Wil-liam J. Larson, was placed in command com-mand of tb- strategic new post. NAZI SPIES: Rival Fiction ; In a series of dramatic moves matching the thrills of a mystery best-seller, the United States Caribbean Carib-bean defense command arrested 20 alleged Axis agents and broke up what was believed to be a Nazi spy ring refueling submarines and supplying sup-plying them with vital Information on United States shipping. Nineteen of the enemy agents were rounded up in a trap in Belize, British Honduras. The twentieth a trusted employee of a labor recruiting re-cruiting office for the Panama canal had been seized a few days earlier ear-lier in the Canal Zone. The army disclosed that the leader of the ring was George Cough, a British citizen, citi-zen, who was a shipping executive !n Belize. Details of the seizure of the spies were disclosed by Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, chief of the Caribbean defense command. WHEAT POOL: To Balk Famine With famine stalking many nations na-tions and wheat surpluses taxing the storage capacities of others, an agreement of historic Importance to the future of the world's bread supply sup-ply became effective when five nations na-tions signed a pact creating a vast international wheat pool. Signers of the agreement were the United States, -Great Britain, Canada, Can-ada, Australia and Argentina. The agreement, initiated at a Washington Washing-ton meeting last April, created a wheat pool of not less than 100,000,- 000 bushels for the relief of famine in war-stricken areas. It forecast international action toward control of prices, production and export of bread grains after the war. The United States is to provide 50,000,000 bushels of wheat or flour to the relief pool and Canada and the United Kingdom 25,000,000. These nations, with Argentina would furnish additional supplies as need ed on a basis to be worked out by their respective governments. Agriculture . department officials pointed out that benefits to American wheat farmers would be of a long-term long-term rather than Immediate nature. The agreement will have no effect on the 1943 farm program calling for a planted area of not more than 55,000,000 acres of wheat and assuring farmers of parity returns. PRICE CEILINGS: First Hole First hole in the universal price celling Instituted by the OPA was made when Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced that he was "compelled to take measures that will raise retail prices of the 1942 pack of canned and dried fruits by as much as 15 per cent and possibly pos-sibly more." Henderson indicated that congress was to blame for this, because of .WMB " TV f LEON HENDERSON special price concessions it granted to farm products and its failure to vote government subsidies to maintain main-tain price ceilings. Throwing down the battle gage to congress, the fiery price official issued is-sued a statement in which he said that the $75,000,000 appropriation contemplated for the OPA in a bill passed by the house, or any amount below the $161,000,000 he originally requested, would cripple his agency and mean "in short that price, rent and rationing controls are all placed in jeopardy." Mr. Henderson termed the canned fruit price situation "inflationary" and said it constituted "a serious threat in the battle being fought to maintain stability in the cost of living." liv-ing." "This is not a satisfactory solution." solu-tion." his statement continued: "It is inflationary. It translates into retail re-tail price increases a burden that the government might properly assume as a charge connected with the war This burden will fall heaviest on large families, especially in the low income groups who can least afford the added expense." Rubber Hunter L w.'i- h:l i , ry : f . ' i i ' ; j 4 r fr: ! K f, aii i iti i ilimmtfi i iWr" i r 1 His eyes as alert for rubber as a hawk's are for chickens, Petroleum Petro-leum Co-ordlnator Harold Ickes was happy when he spied this 75-pound rubber mat inside the door of the White House. He told his chauffeur to take it to the nearest gaa station to contribute con-tribute to the rubber drive. When asked for a comment, a White House spokesman declared, "There's no complaint." COMMANDOS: Strike at Japs Serving notice on Tokyo that the Australians, the Yanks and the Dutch were ready for hit-and-run thrusts preparatory to the general land offensive which Gen. Douglas MacArthur has promised eventually, eventual-ly, Allied Commandos swept down on the big Japanese base at Sala- maua, New Guinea. Using the elements of surprise and terror which have made Com mando raids on Europe so spectacular, spec-tacular, the United Nations' raiders slashed through the defense screen and carried away prisoners, booty and Information about the layout of one of the most important Nipponese bases in the Southwest Pacific. Salamaua, on the Huon gulf, lies 170 miles north across New Guinea from Port Moresby, last Allied outpost north of Australia. It was captured by the Japs early in March and ever since the enemy has been attempting to use it as a base for widening their occupation of New Guinea. It has served as one of the principal air bases for attacks against Port Moresby. SCRAP: U. S. Wants More A "new and greatly intensified" program that will reach into every American home and industrial plant and increase the flow of vital scrap materials to the nation's war plants was announced by War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson and Lessing J. Rosenwald, chief of the bureau of industrial conservation of WPB. The new program has a threefold objective: 1 To collect metals, and rubber and other waste materials which will flow through regular channels of trade. 2 To gather up waste kitchen fats, such as bacon drippings from households via meat dealers. 3 To collect tin cans in specified areas. , "The immensity of our task," said Mr. Nelson, "makes It absolutely necessary to step up the tempo of our national salvage program." REPATRIATION: Nazis Break Pact Termination of the exchange agreement by which more than 1,400 American nationals were brought home from Axis territory in Europe resulted when Germany withdrew the safe conduct granted the Swedish Swed-ish liner Drottnlngholm which had docked at New York with 800 re patriated Americans and alien refugees. refu-gees. The agreement for exchange of nationals held by the respective belligerent bel-ligerent governments had provided for continued voyages of the Drottnlngholm Drott-nlngholm under safe conduct until all Americans held in Europe and Germans held here were repatriated. repatri-ated. No reason was assigned for Germany's Ger-many's withdrawal of the safe conduct, con-duct, but it was understood the Nazis cancelled the agreement to emphasize its "paper blockade" of America. Suspicion that the Axis powers might be attempting to get saboteurs sabo-teurs or spies into this country in the guise of friendly aliens, caused the government to institute the most rigid scrutiny of passenger credentials creden-tials ever conducted in any eastern east-ern harbor. MISCELLANY: MINNEAPOLIS: The American worker's pay check is now 34 per cent above 1939 levels while his living expenses are up only 13 per cent net gain of 21 per cent. it was revealed in a family income study by Northwestern National Life Insurance company. Figured in terms of the family pocketbook. a typical wage earner's family has $50 a month more now than in 1939. Prnrluction Lane Helns 'Keep Em Flyi I M-MaW--" I H - c . "r v r! ill I tJ il M S" U If 1 1 4 ,i m is - r-l'Ji k.J.;. ri!l n III 1 1 v I'l. mi 1 . h . V l 1 fill? I ? L-iii- it a ! X i 1 : i ! 1 i t . Wnmm are vlavine a vital v . t . 7 - - AffnPl Tl-I Tim II UJ M'Vn cipally in the great aircraft 114Tri, factories. Some of these at- be carving out a career for themselves in the movies, but they are content to star on the production line. The pretty worker at the Curtiss -Wright propellor plant shown above stands at the apex of a V formed by two lines of propellors. S-:hiii-- -U These girls wear various types of protective headgear while they produce the tools to whittle down the Axis. The girl at the right provides the touch of the eternal feminine with a flower in her hair. (Photos approved by war department.) r ,si '--0-' ll llhl ll I IIIWI IWM li 1 1 l in I nil. : a I J Marge has her luncheon on the fob in a big aircraft plant, where she is one of hundreds of women who are keeping 'em flying. An office worker before the wart this girl now works a milling ma-chine ma-chine on a bronze nut-line in the Curtiss-Wright propellor plant. pcw .rJ cm ! 11 Mr XJJX1 1 '4 n And here is an ex-laundry girl doing an important bit to help wash up the Axis. She is proud to be helping Uncle Sam. This plastic -masked worker now operates a lathe on a nut-line as expertly as any male machinist. machin-ist. She was once a stenographer. mi Notes of an Innocent Bystander! The Wireless: Elmer Davis will be missed on the networks. His dry tones had a debunking magic that ruined Nazi lies with merely an inflection in-flection . . . Radio Rome needs an editor and a rehearsal H. Denny, the Times man, has been back writing writ-ing pieces about the Italian situation situa-tion for over , six weeks, but the Rome short-wavers announced the other day that he is a prisoner of Italy . . . It ls comforting to notice no-tice that the fright note gets more and more apparent in the Berlin broadcasts. They had three versions of American fliers over Rumania, which is the sort of stuttering that tips off a worried mind .... Bing Crosby's appeal for 10 per cent of your salary for bonds was a corker. To wit: "It's not much to ask, a mere dime on a buck Isn't giving till it hurts because you can't give enough money to hurt I mean hurt the way some guys are getting hurt Pay your way. Pick up your share of the check. Tunny thing. Freedom Free-dom ain't free. But whatever you pay for it, it's worth it" , The Front Pages: The Times editorial, edi-torial, "Lidice The Immortal." on the murder of a Bohemian village, will live among the masterpieces inspired in-spired by the war . . . A Christian Science Monitor columnist pointed out this oddity in the news. That the kins of Greece cooled his heels1 in Washington while the gov't wel comed a tieasant Molotov . , . Rob ert Lasch described the war policy of "The World's Greatest Waste- naner" (in Chicago): 'St has en deavored to lodge the responsibility for the war with ourselves, rather than with our enemies" . . ."Two local editorialists are engaged in a feud. The first reported that the Atlantic Charter was never ratified by the Senate. The other pointed out that the Senate never ratified the Declaration of Independence . . . From the L. A. Evening Herald- Express: On the Noble sedition trial: "Noble's attorney asked the witness whether W. Winchell was mentioned at the meeting. ' 'It is likely,' said Ellis Jones, 'Winchell was attacking us week after week' " . , . With his gents' room journal, ism, huh? .... . . .Ralph Ingersoll asked the New York Post for a message on his paper's anniversary. The Post, which is over a century old, replied: "The first hundred years (see the N. Y, Post masthead) are the hardest" t , t-. -. jC . .-flit. . IF Typewriter Ribbons: John Ander son: It caused such a lifting of eyebrows eye-brows that some have not yet come down jO The N. Y. Mirror: IfJ you can t go over come across i . . . Jake Falstaff: Great buffalo clouds, roaming the blue sky prairie . . . Louise R. Peattie: A man's method of packing is to strangle his clothes and bury them . . . E. Buckler: Buck-ler: It is good to lie in bed and let sleep's drowsy wind blow out the candles of thought . . . R. L. Stevenson: Ste-venson: You don't really love freedom free-dom if you're not willing to protect it against those who hate it . . . N. F. (in a Letters to the Editor colyum): How come Hitler doesn't blame the Jews for Heydrich's assassination? as-sassination? Is it possible he doesn't want to give the Jews credit for a good deed? . . . Anon: Scared as an isolationist congressman when you mention his voting record . . . C. E. Heller: Lucky as a mosquito on Marlene Dietrich's legs . . . John Harrower: As primitively brutal as a sissy biting his own lip. New Yorkers Yon Won't See from a Sight-Seeing Bus: Shoestring Annieas An-nieas well-known as the mayor to the Lindy Restaurant set. Always wears one shoe sans a lace and asks for a nickel to buy some . . . Razor Phil soft-spoken, well-dressed, well-dressed, who sells tickets for testimonial testi-monial affairs (to himself) a well-groomed well-groomed Commodore Dutch. Carries Car-ries a barber's razor In the rear of his collar for protection ... Ted Lewis original Shadow now has a bar and grill on W. 44th Street which features a juke box with only Ted Lewis recordings. Still wears a broken bro-ken down high hat a la Ted . ; . Jerusalem Jake a Negro who wears artist's attire. Always, needs coin "to get back to Jerusalem." Speaks French, English, Spanish and Yiddish Yid-dish fluently . . . Morris the Dancer which he isn't A bookie , . . The Owl a giant Negro. Gets the name because he arises every 3 ayem, clocks the horses at the tracks until 8 and peddles his figures to handi-cappers handi-cappers . . . Swifty Morgan a necktie peddler (to celebrities only, if you please) who rides in a chauf- teured limousine. " PCDfA.... vJ DEAFNESS .iT--i JEasa u 2-T" Bow poa,' sx.&tiw Theffji n., TTl AccoHino. l.v Au Sif 6 w yuues rerijtJ nilfnnnVllu . ""'"Ill Chicago as new can ,oii Qualified Summer Theater Manager new actress is clumsy T, Crit c-WeU, maTbTfi she's trying to get into Ji company. m And Tw p... "My dad takes things a J ttPP vuhv tV,o Ju V H - ....j mtj, uuu ( g. "So what!" "You'd better go." . Gas on Stoma Ing ga.. 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Follow oo WORTH TRYING I Manhattan Murals: The windine garden path that leads to a sleepy little country chapel on West 69th Street . . . The pairs swapping goodnight good-night kisses in dimmed-out Times Square just as though it were a front porch . . . The topsy-turvy backstage set-up at "This Is the Army!" rehearsals. All the chorines chor-ines are boys and all the stage-door Johnnies are goils . . . The doorman door-man at the Waldorf with his pince-nez, pince-nez, white mustache and uniform more regal than all the monarchs who dwell there. SAVE YOUR SWi. TO HHP M I ICTOE on WNU W ctonf May Vara of ij Kidney AcJ Modem mSW. Irregular Zf! cl tb. kidneys- W nd other imp- J Woo gg aarP'gj time dux - Honey. r-r- , wast- They S3srf . I fivi a at dh lret V ;iat: w Lri Uth ID' A id who i Landi Elme rec e va teries Item, toil! Si If the loope 1 Bt be late Walh jadthe Me fcene I di retir an i ;!ury. cora For lii well Roberts flever won torn Bth en of. 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