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Show Three-Nation Agreement Essential to World Peace Evidence Points to Existence of Conciliatory Atmosphere Between U. $., Russia, England; Eng-land; Common Sense Pact Necessary. By BAUKIIAGE Netvi Analyst end Commentator. WNU Service, "Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Through the past days, Washington Washing-ton has been anxiously watching a verv trvine. very delicate and dif ficult operation the attempt to break in a stubborn three-norse team which has never pulled togeth-. togeth-. er before.' The difficult journey toward an un derstanding to be reached by per sonal conversations across the table between Britain, the United States and Russia has begun. Following perhaps secret tripartite conferences between representatives of the three cations Is the planned meeting of the heads of the three foreign of fices. Questions frankly discussed with unsolved problems left open (if plans don't go amiss) will then be taken up between Koosevelt, Stalin and Cfourchill personally. It is a tremendous undertaking. This three-horse team has never run In harness together before. America has never been harnessed at all; Soviet Russia has had only one short and . violent experience that with Germany which ended to disaster; and as for Britain, she Is accustomed accus-tomed to being Iead-horse; therefore, there-fore, a lot cf patience will be needed to hitch all three abreast There Is a whole library of documentation docu-mentation to prove that an all-for-one, one-for-all agreement among these three nations is impossible. But it must be remembered that there were 13 powerful reasons once why a United States of America was impossible too. The present goal is not the formation forma-tion of a triple alliance. The present problem Is simply to get a common sense agreement between three nations na-tions without which a post-war situation situa-tion is bound to arise which Prime Minister , Churchill described as "confusion." And when he used that word, he made a new high for English Eng-lish understatement. Few doubt that he meant war. Argument i Against As I said, there are plenty of reasons rea-sons which can be cited why the United States and, Britain and Russia Rus-sia cannot possibly agree but there are other reasons why they can. There are two things which stand cut in most people's minds as evidences evi-dences that Stalin is not playing ball now and doesn't want to. One is the recurrent complaint in the official Russian press and earlier statements by Stalin himself to the effect that Russia is decidedly displeased with the Allies for not having built a second front by invading Europe from the British Isles. The other is the Moscow sponsorship1 of a Free Germany committee which appears to hold out better terms to Germany than unconditional surrender which the Allies demand. ' Recently, I talked with a military man who suggested that perhaps the call for a second front after the invasion in-vasion of Italy was part cf an agreement agree-ment with the Allies to confuse Germany. Ger-many. Churchill has said that he was assured by Stalin, when the Russian Rus-sian drive began this summer, that the Russians were confident that they could withstand German attack. at-tack. As things have turned out, the Germans have not been able to counterattack. They have ordered a general retreat It was admitted by military experts at first that this is a planned and orderly retreat After the invasion of Italy, the Germans Ger-mans admitted that it was a general retreat Now it looks like a rout In other words, the creation of the "third front" in the Mediterranean has forced the Germans to give up the idea of attempting a counter-offensive. counter-offensive. But since the slender hope of Hitler lies in dissension among the United Nations, why should Russia let him know that she was satisfied with any Allied action? Free Germany Committee As to the Free Germany committee, commit-tee, Russia itself has not made any direct official statement concerning it, has not officially backed up its program. It is composed of German prisoners in Russia who demand of their fellow-countrymen that Germany Ger-many get rid of her present rulers and surrender. That in Itself is something everyone wants to see. Eow much shert of unconditional surrender that is, certainly is open to friendly discussion. We know that BRIEFS .. The record made by Victory gardeners gar-deners this season 20 million gardens, gar-dens, four million acres under cultivation, culti-vation, and a total yield of about eight million tons of food. Five thousand people would have to buy $100 war bonds (at the subscription sub-scription price of $?5) to pay for the gasoline used on the 1,000 Flying Fortress' raid over the Rhineland. Lrl A it worked in regard to the Italian surrender terms. Now, what are the main propositions proposi-tions which Britain, America and Russia do not see eye to eye? In the first place, there is the question ques-tion of "spheres of influence" the Balkans, the Middle East, the Mediterranean. Medi-terranean. I have been told by persons presuming pre-suming to speak with authority, that Russia suggested the creation of the Mediterranean commission, a body made up of representatives from Moscow, London and Washington, meeting on equal terms. That commission, com-mission, whoever thought it up, was agreed upon. Historically, Britain has always refused Russia any hand in Mediterranean affairs. That would seem to be a step forward and even before the commission could start functioning, Russia was allowed to have her say concerning the terms of the Italian surrender. Agreement was reached as to the terms. , -That would seem to indicate that a conciliatory atmosphere has been created in advance. . Unless Russia is absolutely unwilling to make compromises, com-promises, we can expect reciprocation reciproca-tion when the questions of the Balkans Bal-kans and the Middle East arise, where there have always been similar simi-lar conflict of interests. The Baltic States Another very sensitive question Is the difference of opinion as to the treatment of the small nations which lie on Russia's western frontiers, notably the Baltic states. It is said that Russia feels that as soon as the German armies are driven back into the Reich, these border states, especially Lithuania and Estonia, a part of Poland and perhaps a part of Rumania (we leave the others aside for the moment including Finland) Fin-land) are an Integral part of Russia. The United States on the other hand, has always stood for the rights of small nations, for self-determination. , Of course, Russia argues that plebiscites which indicate a desire to join the Soviet Republics have already al-ready been taken in part of the territory and if they were taken again, they would show t the same results. That they express the will of the '' Nationals is denied by rep resentatives of these countries in Washington. Great Britain leans toward an acceptance ac-ceptance of Russia's views however. how-ever. The point has yet to be settled with the United States. An additional point, which is really real-ly the one which has always caused suspicion on the part of Britain and America, is the question of communist commu-nist propaganda spread , by Russia for the purpose of overthrowing all capitalist governments. This is balanced bal-anced by the fear on the part of Russia that capitalist governments are bent on destroying her as a communist com-munist state. - This is a tough one admittedly but not beyond the solution by honest men. Nor do honest men despair of its settlement ' Post -War Russia From a purely cynical and material materi-al standpoint, it can be argued that post-war Russians will not attempt any move against Britain or America, Amer-ica, either from within by propagan-da propagan-da and intrigue or from without by military attack because they will be an exhausted nation when the war is over. Competent observers believe it will take several generations for Russia to recover.i Therefore, Russia's Rus-sia's chief advantage will be gained by co-operation with other nations rather than by threats of aggression. To some degree, that also applies to Britain. Unquestionably, the United States will emerge from the war the greatest military power in the world. Only a combination of powers could defeat her. ; There rests, then, the moral responsibility on America of wise and generous use of her power noblesse oblige. This, I admit is the bright side of the medal. But until the attempts toward tripartite discussion and agreement have utterly failed, there is no reason why the medal should not be presented, shiny side up. When I hear you and others say that men of 30 and 40 years are poor fighting material I wonder U the white race is not going into decay de-cay or that civilization does not do more harm to men than good. New York. . by Bauhhage A law passed in 1789 forbids the secretary of the treasury and the treasurer of the United States from buying war bonds. - The school bus has become a war wagon as important a link in the nation's transportation system as the subway, streetcar or local transit bus, according to the Office of Defense De-fense Transportation. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Steady Allied Drives in All Sectors Continue to Keep Axis on Defensive; Congress Studies Higher Tax Levies; AFL Sets Postwar Goals for Unions (FDITOK'S NOTE! Whn .pinion. r preie4 In the.. 'h VtaMt Wtra N.wpp' Union', newt analy.U ana not neeeuariiy ! tnfa newspaper.) - Released by Western Newspaper Union. TEtEFACT BRITAIN'S HIDDEN TAXES 0 OKEPT BY RETAII.ES oooooooo tot VHISI WHISK (V CIGARETTES Eoch symbol British taxes on some items are Interesting in the light of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau's request for 1CH billion dollars of new revenue, part of which would be raised by taxation of goods. FORTRESS EUROPE: Allies at Walls With the big battle yet to come, Allied forces sparred with the Nazis all along the outer wall of Fortress For-tress Europe. In Italy, the Americans and British Brit-ish moved slowly northward toward Rome through stubborn Nazi rearguard rear-guard action. Entrenched in the rugged rug-ged terrain, the Germans held back Allied troops with mortar and machine-gun fire, only giving up their ground to move to new positions when Clark and Montgomery brought up superior concentrations of artillery artil-lery and men. f In an attempt to draw out the German fleet for a fight, British and American naval units raided the Nazis' shipping center of Bodoe in northern Norway. But the German fleet refused to ' be lured into the trap..- . In the Aegean sea, the Nazis recaptured re-captured the islands! of Kos and Le-ros,' Le-ros,' which serve as bases from which an invasion fleet moving into Greece can be shelled and bombed. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Madang Next Holding the initiative, Allied forces moved swiftly up the northeastern coast of New Guinea, to clean out remaining Jap air and sea bases in this area of Australasia. Latest Allied goal was Madang, another of the strong points which the Japanese established to harass any force attempting to move northward north-ward by sea or land. Driving forward for-ward through tropica? country, the Allies neared the first ring of Ma-clang's Ma-clang's defenses, apparently manned by a medium-sized garrison, of the type being sacrificed by the enemy command in brief holding engagements. engage-ments. Pressed in by superior -Allied forces in the central Solomons, the Japs were evacuating the island of Kolambangara and ' moving their troops to the north by barge. Although Al-though the Japs moved the barges by night, concentrations were discovered dis-covered along the shores by day. and these were peppered by Allied fliers. LABOR: . AFL Meets Labor's goal after the war will be the establishment of free, democratic democrat-ic trade unions in all countries, AFL f xresiueiii vvimuiu p. Green declared in opening the 83rd annual an-nual convention of the American Fed- erauon ol Liaoor in mr, Boston. K.. survival or the s free enterprise system sys-tem in the U. S. will depend upon Amer- William fireen ican business ability abil-ity to provide employment after the war, Green said. Unless production is stimulated, the people will lose confidence in business leadership, he declared, and turn to government. The need for 15 million homes after aft-er the war will afford one means of providing employment for seven million mil-lion workers for many years, Green said. Chief interest of the convention was the AFL's action on John L. Lewis' application for re-entrance of the United Mine Workers into the organization. or-ganization. Although bitterly opposed by some factions, there were indications indica-tions the path might be cleared for accepting Lewis through further negotiations. HIGHLIGHTS SPENDING: Higher individual incomes in-comes resulting from the war boom have boosted sales of various luxuries, lux-uries, a survey by the Northwestern National " Life Insurance company shows. The figures reveal that sales of "quality" women's dresses have risen 60 per cent above a year ago, furs 68 per cent, jewelry 35 per cent, playing cards, 56 per cent, and cigarettes 17 per cent -MS- 1 &ir..J.:i:iSiyJil TAKEN BY GOVERNMENT &o represents 10 ol 'eloil price TAXES: Ask for More To add to present collections of 38 billion dollars, Secretary of the Treasury" Henry Morgenthau asked congress to raise an additional 10 billion bil-lion dollars in new taxes. Morgenthau proposed pro-posed raising 6 billioft dollars by increasing in-creasing personal income taxes and cutting exemptions for dependents. To bring in another 1 Henry Morgenthau billion, 100 million dollars, corporation corpora-tion taxes would be boosted. The remainder of the money would be raised by sharply increasing increas-ing taxes on tobacco, liquor, amusements amuse-ments and luxuries. New taxes would be placed on candy, chewing gum, soft drinks and greeting cards. Morgenthau also recommended broadening of the social security program to include practically all workers and provide temporary disability dis-ability and hospitalization benefits. ; On hearing Morgenthau's proposals. propos-als. Rep. Robert Dough ton said: "I do not see at this time how we can make the full increases requested." DRAFT 1 Senate Acts With Sen. Burton Wheeler's bill to defer the drafting of fathers until January 1 doomed, the senate acted on a substitute measure of Sen. Jo-siah Jo-siah Bailey, designed to tighten grounds fori deferment of government govern-ment employees, and providing for the appointment of a commission to re-examine physical standards so as to permit use of many present 4F's. Senator Bailey's bill also included a proposal of Sen. Robert Taft, under un-der which no deferment could be granted unless the appeals board of the district where the employer makes the request gives its approv-al. approv-al. ; Although the majority of the draft boards held off the induction of fathers fa-thers until congress acted on the issue, dads J were being called in some instances. All told, 446,000 were supposed to be drafted by January Jan-uary 1 under the services' ; announced an-nounced plans. However, the senate debate revealed that many more may be drafted because" of navy demands. de-mands. WHEAT:' Restrict Peed Commodity, Credit corporation sales of wheat to feed mixers must be used for dairy cows and laying hens only, the Wa?-Food administration adminis-tration announced. At the same time, the WFA said "an effort is being made to discourage the feeding feed-ing of market hogs to weights in excess ex-cess of 200 pounds, or of beef cattle beyond fair to good finish." To aid in relieving the eastern feed shortage, CCC revealed it was seeking to import wheat from South America, jith the amount to be brought in determined by the shipping ship-ping available. No corn could be imported, CCC said, because drouth has crippled the crop. To encourage the accumulation of a larger country corn inventory by butyl alcohol and butyl acetate producers, pro-ducers, OPA redefined a bushel of corn as of 56 pounds weight and 15.5 per cent moisture. Since the price of the chemicals had been tied to a base cost of a bushel of corn, high moisture content failed to reflect true margins. in the week's neves AUTOS: Dealers in new automobiles automo-biles will have to sell to customers holding certificates on a "first-come-first-served basis" hereafter, according accord-ing to an Office of Price Administration Administra-tion ruling. FAMINE: Great Britain will send part of its scanty grain supply to India to relieve a famine in the Bengal Ben-gal region, Lord Woolton, British minister of food, stated recently. r t v. f i Sees City' End Because the automobile, airplane air-plane and helicopter will reduce travel time, more and more people will abandon congested con-gested cities and move to outlying districts, says Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the foremost leaders In the de-velepment de-velepment ef modern architecture. architec-ture. The home of Frank Lloyd Wright the future will contain much glass to permit sunshine sun-shine and light, Wright says, and each one will have a little farm. Smoke will be eliminated through the development of modern mod-ern heating systems, Wright predicts, pre-dicts, and the entire country will be electrified. HOGS: Reach Ceiling On the first day price ceilings on live hogs went into effect in the Chicago Chi-cago stocKyards, virtually all classes of pigs brought producers the $14.75 a hundred pounds top. Buyers paid $14.75 for good 170 to 500 pounders and good sows from 300 to 450 pounds. Good 140 to 160 pounders pound-ers and 475 to 709 pound sows brought from $14.50 to $14.75. In all, 20 major markets received 87.000 hogs on the first day of the price ceiling, 51,000 below the pre ceding week. In Chicago, the iigni-er iigni-er receipts were reflected in a general gen-eral price rise, resulting in almost the same return for all grades. ; , RUSSIA: 'Hold Line Hitler Flying to the Nazis' Dnieper river defense line; Adolf Hitler addressed his generals' in these words: "Here I am, and here I shall stand." , As Hitler spoke, the last of the German rear-guards were falling back to the new lines, and the Russians Rus-sians encountered stiff resistance as they approached the Nazis' main positions. po-sitions. Driving rain further impeded imped-ed the Reds march. Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Lith-uania were included in the Nazis' new defense line. Except for a stretch in the north and one in the south, the new line was anchored.on the west bank of the Dnieper river. Broad along most of its course, with steep western banks, the Dnieper Dnie-per offers strong means of resistance. resist-ance. The Germans have massed artillery on these western banks to shell Russians concentrating for attack. at-tack. BRITISH NAVY: -Aei; Chief To v tough, 59-year-old Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham went Great Britain's most responsible fighting assignment, first sea lord and chief of naval staff. Cunningham's appointment ap-pointment followed the Italian fleet's surrender to the Allies Al-lies after it had been driven to cover cov-er bysuperior British Brit-ish forces under his command. An old navy man, Cunning If Hi pill lip Sir A. B. Cunningham ham served in the Mediterranean during the First World war, and in the South Atlantic waters during the Boer war. To Cunningham will fall the responsibility re-sponsibility for operating the great naval armada upon which Britain depends for keeping its supply lines open, in war and peace. Cunningham succeeds Adm. Dudley Dud-ley Pound, often called the "father" of the British navy's modern aggressive ag-gressive tactics. BOMB EUROPE: Hit Nazi Industry Continuing to hammer the German Ger-man industrial machine, American Flying Fortresses struck Frankfort in a daylight raid, using high level precision methods to pick out and destroy production areas. Twelve hours later, a huge British force followed fol-lowed up the attack, dropping 500 tons of bombs, and leaving many sections of the big city burning. Motors, Mo-tors, chemicals and tires are manufactured manu-factured there. Other targets in western and .northern Germany were also assaulted as-saulted by Fortresses and Liberators, Libera-tors, one force disrupting installations installa-tions at the Nazi-held air base at St. Dizier, France. All flights were escorted by P-47 Thunderbolts, and all reported meeting violent opposition. opposi-tion. Because the Germans have massed anti-aircraft guns around industrial in-dustrial installations and concentrated concen-trated on fighter plane production, bombings of Europe have become more difficult, it has been revealed. OIL: More From Others , Nations with surplus stocks of petroleum pe-troleum should be encouraged to increase in-crease production and thereby forestall fore-stall the depletion of the United States reserves, a group of west ern senators and representatives whose states are facing reductions in gasoline rations declared. Mexico Mexi-co and Venezuela in particular were mentioned as countries that could increase their outputs of crude oil substantially. I Jfxi tl Washington, D. C. TURKEYS AND THE ARMY The army is beginning to wonder If it hasn't over-extended itself on the business of turkeys. It has ruled that civilians may not buy tuWceys for their Thanksgiving or Christmas Christ-mas dinners or for next Sunday's dinner, for that matter until the army has acquired 12 million pounds for the armed forces overseas. That sounded all right, until somebody some-body in the quartermaster corps began be-gan figuring out what you could do with 12 million pounds of turkeys. For generous portions, you can figure fig-ure that 100 pounds of undressed turkey will feed 100 men. The number of men In the armed forces overseas, including army, navy, na-vy, and marines, is around two million-Allow each man a pound of turkey for Thanksgiving and another anoth-er for Christmas, and you reach the total of four million pounds. But the amount reserved for this purpose is three times four million, or 12 million pounds. When certain food experts In the quartermaster corps realized this, they started to do some fast telephoning. tele-phoning. When last heard from, they still didn't know what two million mil-lion men would do with 12 million pounds of turkey except eat 'em. . NAZI PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE Beware of false rumors about Germany. The Germans, masters of psychological warfare, are watching watch-ing every opportunity to take advantage advan-tage of American credulity. They know that Americans are optimistic by nature "and that we are prone to believe any story about miraculous victories or fortunate events. Apparently it was this method of psychological warfare which prompted the reports that Hitler had been deposed in favor of military mili-tary authorities. It has now been definitely established estab-lished that no such event took place. State department officials now say flatly that the whole thing was a false report, from beginning to end. It was so generally reported, however, how-ever, that they believe it must have been prompted by Germany. The motive in such a case would have been to make Americans rush to the conclusion that Germany was tottering and the war was not far from finished. This would have the effect of weakening our bond drives and similar efforts. 1 Note: The Nazi news report of Hitler's ousting came via Spain. ARMY'S FAVORITE FOODS Since the Truman committee's investigation in-vestigation of food waste in the army, the quartermaster corps has been as frugal as a Dutch housewife. house-wife. Elaborate studies have been made of what the soldiers eat and what they leave on the plate, wfth the idea of cutting down the percentage per-centage of garbage. After watching the eating habits of 16,000 soldiers at Chanute Field, 111., the quartermaster corps gave each dish a rating, according to its popularity. Roast chicken and apple pie rated 100. So did roast duck and roast ham. But creamed ham rated only 55. (QMC dietician Mary I, Barber Bar-ber explains: "Not many men like messed up food. Artemus Ward said: "When I eat hash, I like to know what I'm eating.' ") No matter what you may do to butter up spinach, it renuins spinach spin-ach and the soldiers gave it a rating of 41. It was just about the lowest of alL NO TIRES FOR RUBBER CZAR CoL Bradley Dewey, who succeeded succeed-ed Big Bill Jeffers as rubber director, direc-tor, says he wishes he could get his hands on a set of synthetic tires. He is now in charge of the program which promises to produce 30 million synthetic tires by the end of next year, but he is not able to try synthetic tires on his own car. "I wish," says Colonel Dewey, "that OPA would let me have a set of the new tires. I'd like to try them out. I understand they skid less than natural rubber. Not that I drive at skidding speeds, mind you, but Fd like to see what they would do. "Some of the taxi drivers out in Akron have new synthetic tires, and they swear by them. But Fd like to see what they would do for roe." Reason for Dewey's inability to get tires is that though he is in charge of the entire program, he is obliged to apply for tires through OPA, like any other citizen. And since his present tires are reasonably reason-ably good, he can't get any new vnthetic tires. MERRY GO ROUND ' C,A high, air-minded war department depart-ment official says the length of the war depends on the weather this winter. If the weather is favorable for flying, the war in Europe might be over before nexi summer. C Brig. Gen. Glen C. Jamison; of the Thirteenth air force, South Pacific, Pa-cific, pays high tribute to Negro engineers who built roads, airfields, and living quarters in the Solomons and New Hebrides, using native con-itruction con-itruction materials and thus saving shipping from U. S. """1 "ua likely in Z'U various cuaser38 B FitWellta Bornen j lt . m Indie, 1 oil .... v.l , u w tu - ana 30 wna yielded about and group. 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Japanese Beetle The time and circumstaud actual introduction into this o are not known but it is probsbl it was accidentally intrm the grub stage in soil am bulbs or ornamental plants here from Japan, it was not nized as an introduced specie! 1916 when it was town a ton county, New Jersey, Cot Juvenile Crime denartmentofSt m., reports that since M when it began senawB j ffrcetine cards city's children, the juvemte this community of 3.100 n creased 90 per cent Get wei are also maiiea regi sters confined to their to-j cause of ulness. Rrpad From I' Three billion loaves rfW be protected against ta . K ... u this Tear, U tag irom Hi"" , ivj fcTJrST. bread changing its tional value or appeara Swedish Forests More than half of Sw ered with forests. Tour tf&iU There JtW WNU-W V |