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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEIII. UTAH Senate Setup Promises Postwar Treaty Approval Defeat of Ardent Isolationists Assures Smoother Sailing on Program for Cooperative World Organization. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building-Washington, Building-Washington, D. C. Washington, in these weeks of preparation for the forthcoming meeting of the Big Three, has gradually gradu-ally begun to realize that the result of the November election, whatever its effect on domestic politics may be, placed America face to face with the greatest problem in the field of foreign affairs that this country has ever attempted to solve. And regardless of how effective the efforts of our statesmen may be there is no question that the people have placed behind them a pledge of harmonious support. The President will sit down at the meeting, probably somewhere in the Middle East, with Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin, with the most specific mandate as to foreign for-eign policy ever given a President by the people of the United States. America's representatives at the United Nations' conference, which , will probably take up the unfinished business started at Dumbarton Oaks, 1 will enter discussions with the greatest great-est military force and international prestige that any of this country's diplomatists have ever enjoyed before. be-fore. When the United States senate starts deliberations on the agreements agree-ments which grow out of the parleys par-leys of the Big Three (or Big Four), and the later meetings of the United Nations' representatives, that body will have what now appears to be the necessary two-thirds majority of senators whose constituencies have expressed themselves in favor of broad international cooperation. The people have spoken. It now depends on the wisdom and the ability abil-ity of their servants to produce the kind of a plan for the postwar world which will be at once thoroughly American in principle, acceptable to our friends and effective against our enemies. A brief review of the new complexion com-plexion of the senate reveals how strikingly the people spoke in favor of international cooperation. Trend Evident Before Election The trend became evident before the election in four primary contests, and bipartisan support for the pol icy of international forces was achieved and cooperation has been reinforced by other circumstances as well. Beginning with the defeat of "Cotten Ed" Smith of South Carolina Car-olina in the primaries we find in his place the senator-elect Johnston who, in his campaign, pledged his support of the administration's foreign for-eign policy. Another defeat in the primaries was that of Senator Worth Clark of Idaho, whose opponent (now senator-elect Taylor) campaigned on a strong internationalist platform, the first to win on such a program in this state so strong in the Borah tradition. tra-dition. Another ardent' isolationist to fail renomination in spite of his splendid record as a skilled legislator was Bennett Champ Clark, His fall was a mighty blow to the isolationist cause since he was a member of the Nye munitions committee, composed of Senator Nye of North Dakota, Clark and Senator Bone of Washington, Washing-ton, a group which for years has been the well-spring of emphatic anti-internationalistic speech and action. ac-tion. The other two members of this group have departed likewise: Senator Sena-tor Bone was appointed to a Judge-chip Judge-chip in his home state; Senator Nye went down to defeat before the three times governor of North Dakota elected on a clear-cut international platform. Another breach was made in the nationalistic front by the withdrawal of Senator Reynolds of North Carolina Caro-lina who, like Senator Bone, left voluntarily. There were two other defeats in final senatorial contests to be rioted. Senator Holman of Washington mentioned men-tioned in the famous book, "Under Cover," for his alleged ultra-nationalistic leanings, was replaced by Wayne Morse, a Republican who leans well toward international cooperation, co-operation, and the well-liked Senator Danaher of Massachusetts who went down before the aggressive campaign of Brien McMahon, one of BRIEFS... 6y Baukhage Labor - management production committees are now operating in more than 5,000 war plants. Geographically isolated from the rest if the country by the Rockies, California before the war had more than enough oil for domestic markets mar-kets to the West Coast stales. In consequence, it developed a substan' tial export market in the Far East 4 I r lfn lilf II T ' t former Attorney General Homer Cummings' assistant AGs. There are certain other points worth noting. On the Foreign Relations committee com-mittee whence must come approval for international commitments, Senator Sen-ator Reynolds and Senator Bennett Clark and Nye are removed. In any case, however,, the removal of Senator Nye, who was chairman of the powerful committee on committees, com-mittees, means that such new appointments ap-pointments as are made will not be influenced by the North Dakotan's extreme views. . Other factors make for support of the administration. The election has greatly strengthened the prestige of Senator Ball of Minnesota who was most active in the fight to get the original resolution favoring an inter national peace organization before the congress and the people. Simi lar increased influence in the senate will be exerted by former Representative Repre-sentative Fulbright who fathered a like resolution in the house. A look at the Republican leadership leader-ship in the upper house is worth while in this connection, too. GOP Minority Promises' Moderation At present a quartet of leaders with Senator White as their nominal nomi-nal head are at the helm. Of these Senator Taft, although usually rated as strongly nationalist, is after all on record as favoring the old League of Nations in principle, criticizing only the fact that its members failed to carry out their promises. An-other An-other of large influence, Senator Vandenberg, has done a great deal to interpret the trend of popular sentiment in ue middlewest.away from a rigid nationalist viewpoint. He worked to that end in the Mackinac Mack-inac conference, and at the Republican Repub-lican convention last summer. He did yeoman's service in cooperation with Secretary of State Hull in obtaining ob-taining senate support for UNRAA. Without the help of these Republicans Repub-licans and their colleagues, and of course Senator Austin and Senator White, the administration could hardly get a two-thirds vote. This more conservative element will also furnish a valuable check against ef forts toward extreme internationalism international-ism on the part of the administration administra-tion which might turn the people against the administration and thus defeat its own purpose. Perhaps the task of checking aggression ag-gression is too great for human hands and human minds to achieve. But never before in our history has America had such an opportunity to lead the world toward the goal of good-will and peace among nations. see'" ' In all the various discussions concerning con-cerning the restoration of sound currency cur-rency conditions in the postwar period, pe-riod, the British balance of payments pay-ments appears as one of the chief stumbling blocks, the Alexander Hamilton institute points out. As a result of the war, the balance of payments of Great Britain has witnessed wit-nessed a material deterioration. The foreign trade of the country coun-try has shown a large excess of imports im-ports over exports which, before the institution of lend-lease, was met primarily through the shipment of gold and the liquidation of British-owned British-owned foreign assets. It is estimated that, during the war. Great Britain has lost approximately $4,000,000,000 of some of the best foreign assets held by British nationals. The loss of income from these foreign for-eign investments has naturally had an adverse effect on Great Britain's balance of payments and, unless it is counteracted in other ways, it will reduce her ability to buy merchandise mer-chandise abroad. In normal times. Great Britain received about $800,-000.000 $800,-000.000 from her foreign investments. invest-ments. An additional $400,000,000 per annum was received from British shipping. Substantial sums were also earned each year by British insurance in-surance companies operating all over the world and by the financial operations of the city of London. Since the poorer foreign investments invest-ments remain in British hands, it is difficult to determine with any degree de-gree of accuracy what the returns on these investments will be in the postwar period. A nation-wide contest for a popu lar song that will "stir up the peo pie's fighting spirit" has been announced an-nounced by the Japanese Information Informa-tion board. Fruit juices will tie available tn concentrated form, " like t-andv after the war, when it is expei 'ed there will be an oversnpnlv nf "i. .. prod ucts WEEKLY NEWS Allied Power Drive Forces Foe To Fall Back Toward Rhineland; Wartime Wage Policy Under Fire Released by Western (EDITOR'S NOTE: Whem (pinions ara expressed la Una nulumm. thay are those ef Western Newspaper Union's sews analysts I) t & , ft N i A. fr f f 6i ft. As U. S. forces rumbled forward on western front, Doughboys picked way through battered German village of Schalfenberg. EUROPE: Allied Weight As the full weight of the Allied armies was brought to bear on the western front, the once proud, now harassed, German high command was sorely pressed to shore up its lines and prevent a break-through to the vital industrial belts of the Reich. Greatest battles of the mighty Allied Al-lied November offensive centered in the Aachen area, gateway to both the vital Ruhr and Rhineland valleys, val-leys, and it was here that the German Ger-man chieftains concentrated the bulk of their strength to meet the full force of the U. S. 9th army's drive under Lieut. Gen. William Hood Simpson, and the U. S. lst's push under Lieut. Gen. Courtney Hodges. With the Germans massing their thinning strength in the Aachen area, sunerior Al lied forces punched pwTT3 enemy's line, with ljJ: Lieut, uen. ueorge Patton's U. S. 3rd mmm army driving into the approaches of the Saar basin beyond be-yond Metz; and Lieut. Gen. Alex ander Patch's U. S. Gen. Simpson 7th army pressing into the Vosges mountain barrier to Bavaria, and the French 1st army reaching the Rhine at the far end of the 460-mile front. Whereas the Germans followed Adolf Hitler's orders to the letter and fought to the death from their prepared positions in the Siegfried line about Aachen, fell back to stronger positions in the South. Although murky weather impeded operations, Allied battle - planes roared oyer the Germans retreating retreat-ing columns in this sector, bombing and strafing the long columns of supply sup-ply trucks and transports. General Patton's advance on the Saar followed the 3rd army's investment in-vestment of the ancient French fortress city of Metz, where the Germans Ger-mans first began to pull out after the heavier weight of the ,U. S. forces ground through their lines. Although some 25 miles from the Siegfried fortifications in this sector, the Nazis made good use of Metz's fortresses and the rolling terrain in the vicinity to delay General Patton's Pat-ton's drive on the vital coal and steel industry of the Saar. Preceded by the greatest artillery and airplane bombardment of the war, the U. S. 9th ryytn and 1st armies slug- I "'- doggedly to- I Vi,- I ward the vital Ruhr I wf I and Rhineland past .,xktM Aachen, with Ger- man dispatches admitting ad-mitting that 200,000 American troops spearheaded by 1,000 tanks had beaten halfway through the Siegfried Sieg-fried line. Despite the strong Gen. Hodges artillery and air support, the battle in the Aachen area was still an infantry in-fantry duel, with begrimed American Amer-ican doughboys the "Doggies" of this war pushing forward through a maze of elaborate enemy pillboxes, pill-boxes, mine-fields and barbed wire entanglements, and slugging it out, house to house, in small, embattled Tillages. While German commanders in the west were hard pressed, their compatriots com-patriots in the east were no better off, as the anticipated grand Russian Rus-sian winter offensive started with a large scale assault on 300,000 Nazis pocketed in Latvia. Roll on Mountains Soviet armies sweeping westward over Hungary's broad plains near i Budapest approached a loosely-i loosely-i linked chain of mountains angling j roughly 225 n.Ues across the eoun? i try from southwest to northeast ! These mountains screen the gently j rolling northwest corner region ex- tending to the border of German-1 German-1 annexed Austria known as the Kis- AlfnM rtr T.itfl Hnnoarian Plain The mountains offer breaks through which roads and rails pass. ANALYSIS Newspaper Union. . end set aeaesaarlly ef this newspaper.) ( ? '-? ; PACIFIC: Mixed News . 9 Allied fortunes varied in the far Pacific, with U. S. forces still providing pro-viding the best news, and the Chinese Chi-nese the soberest. . Leyte in the Philippines remained the focal point of U. S. ground fighting fight-ing in the Far East, with General MacArthur's . forces continuing to press down on Japanese troops squeezed into the northwestern portion por-tion of the island, with encircling attacks designed to nip off the enemy en-emy from the rear. Slugging forward against stiffening stiffen-ing enemy resistance well entrenched en-trenched in the rugged Leyte jungle country, Doughboys' difficulties were accentuated by another sweeping hurricane with its heavy downpours washing out bridges and flooding streams and highways. In China, where Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek shook up his government gov-ernment to revitalize its war effort, ef-fort, Japanese forces numbering 250,000 met below Liuchow and thus sealed of! the entire eastern coast of the country. The juncture gave the enemy command'of a long corridor cor-ridor all the way up to Manchuria and wiped out some advanced U. S. air bases situated in that section of the country. Continuing to fly from bases farther far-ther inland, however, B-29 Superfortresses Super-fortresses again struck at the Japanese Japa-nese homeland island of Kyushu, on which the big aircraft center of Omura is located. WAGES: Revisions Loom With a special committee of the National War Labor board finding that living costs have risen about 30 per cent since January, 1941, organized or-ganized labor's demand for an upward up-ward revision in wartime wages was strengthened. Previously, the NWLB had stood by the bureau of labor statistics' figures fig-ures of a 24 per cent increase in prices, which, it was felt, was overcome over-come by a permissible wage boost of 15 per cent over January, 1941, levels under the "Little Steel" formula, for-mula, plus overtime earnings. In finding that living costs had risen 30 per cent within the past four years, the NWLB took issue with organized labor's contention that prices have gone up about 45 per cent. Although estimating that living costs had jumped 25 per cent, the NWLB said another 5 per cent could be added because' some cheaper goods was selling at higher prices. Hint Clianges . One day after the NWLB'a report, re-port, Stabilization Director Vinson Vin-son called for continuation of the government's present price and wage policies, but hinted of upward pay boosts with Germany's Ger-many's defeat to counter-balance shorter working hours. Prospects for a revision of the "Little Steel" formula met with mixed reactions in the capital. Georgia's Geor-gia's Sen. Richard Russell said that although some workers may be entitled to pay increases, the overall over-all line should be held. Vermont's Sen. George Aiken declared he never nev-er thought "Little Steel" wage standards were fair because of their inability to include depreciation in the quality of merchandise. Meanwhile, Florida's Sen. Claude Pepper pressed for congressional acceptance of a proposal to establish estab-lish a minimum wage of 65 cent3 an hour under the wartime price control con-trol act instead of the present limit of 50 cents. Accidents Up Fatalities resulting from highway-railroad grade-crossing accidents ac-cidents in the first nine months of 1944 totaled 1,235, an Increase of 68 compared with the corresponding corre-sponding period in 1943, the Bureau Bu-reau of Transport Economics Statistics of the Interstate Com-' Com-' merce Commission points oat. In the first three quarters of this year, 2,742 persons were injured in-jured in such accidents compared com-pared with 2,739 in the same months of 1943. ARMY SUPPLY: Huge Problem With nearly 9,000,000 U. S. troops overseas, and the requirements of modern mechanized warfare calling for vastly increased supply, 1,500 vessels carried 40,000,000 tons of cargo to distant fronts in the year ending last June, Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell of the army service forces revealed. Great as was the tonnage carried, car-ried, needs are increasing, General Somervell declared, stating that demands de-mands grew as the Allies stepped up the "fury and tempo" of their attacks on all fronts. As a result, he said, our troops abroad are now short of heavy artillery, heavy ammunition, am-munition, heavy trucks, heavy duty tires and heavy tractors. Pointing up the huge problem of supply, General Somervell disclosed that today's modern soldier requires five tons of materials to start with, and one ton of maintenance monthly: Vital Statistics General Somervell also revealed: Sixty per cent of the cargo shipped during the last year went to Europe and the remaining 40 per cent to the Pacific. About 70 per cent of all soldiers were carried to European theaters of war and 30 per cent to the Pacific. On lend-lease, U. S. shipments to Russia during the past year included in-cluded 115,000 trucks and 8,000 combat com-bat vehicles, including 2,000 tanks. Twenty-two thousand personnel were tried by courts-martial through the year, the lowest number since the last war. 'Bond-Fire' Feeling that victory Itself was value received for their investment in war bonds, 27 employees of the Consolidated Vultee corporation in Miami, Fla., threw $675 worth of securities into a "bond-fire.'' "bond-fire.'' -. : . Both men and women were included among the 27 employees, making up the first "bond-fire club" in the U. S. According to the treasury department, there is no legal prohibition against the burning of securities. TRANSPORT: More Material Resumption of production of light trucks in January after suspension early in 1942 should be good news to U. S. farmers, who ordinarily purchase pur-chase one-half of such vehicles. Thirty thousand will be built during dur-ing the first three months of 1945. In moving to bolster America's humming transportation system, which has been carrying record wartime loads, the government also increased the allotment of carbon steel and other materials for use in the first quarter of next year. Approximately 155,000 tons of car-boa car-boa steel will be available for production pro-duction of automotive parts; 507,000 tons for the replacement of rails, and enough material for 2,300 box cars and 105 passenger trains. WAR HOUSING: British Bungalows British families left homeless by the German aerial blitz will be provided pro-vided with snug, little temporary bungalows until the time that permanent per-manent housing can be erected. Meant to be occupied for 10 years at a rental of $2 a week plus taxes, the bungalows will consist of a living liv-ing room, a kitchen, two bedrooms, a bath and an outside shed. There will be electric or gas heaters and hot water. Although erected by the government, govern-ment, which will put up two-thirds of the cost, the bungalows will be managed by local authorities, who will provide the remainder of the money. To the latter will go the responsibility of selecting tenants, collecting rents and keeping the buildings in repair. . Seeking to guard against the possibility pos-sibility of groups of the bungalows degenerating into "shanty towns," the government cautioned that such buildings should be considered only temporary, and plans should go forward for-ward for the development of permanent perma-nent postwar housing. FARM INCOME Farm cash income from marketings market-ings and government benefit payments pay-ments in the first nine months of this year rose to $14,574,000,000 from $13,607,000,000 in the corresponding period last year. On the basis of these returns, the prospect is that total farm income for the full year of 1944 will be the largest in history. The department of agriculture estimates es-timates total farm income in 1944 will amount to $20,600,000,000 as compared com-pared with the previous record high of $19,764,000,000 in 1943. ? v 'V.4 Tales of the Town: This story has nevei' been printed before, we are told. . . . How Vice President Henry Wallace scared his staff during the Chicago convention. ... He left word that he was not to be awakened until 8 a. m. , . . His secretary rapped on the connecting door and, getting no answer, opened it and looked in. ... He was alarmed to see two boys asleep in the twin beds. . . .The secretary hastened to spread the alarm. . He finally located the Vice President in the lobby reading a book. . . . Wallace explained. . . . At 3 in the morning two soldiers had knocked on his door while looking for someone some-one else. . . . He learned they had no accommodations. ... He insisted insist-ed they take his room. . . . Then he dressed, went downstairs, and sat up all night reading. Lieut. Col. James Roosevelt is supposed to have told this to friends. . . . He had 'just returned re-turned after considerable action in the South Pacific when he was stuck on a coast highway. He started to walk back to his camp. ... Along came an army truck. . . . Colonel Roosevelt, Roose-velt, using the hitch-hiker's thumb sign, stopped It. . . . The Sergeant driving it welcomed him for a lift. . . . He didn't recognize rec-ognize the President's son and started griping about his luck. ... "Colonel," he said, "it sure is tough that two fighting men like us can't get into the Big Show, instead of motoring along a peaceful highway like this." "Yes, it is," said Roosevelt's boy, "but orders is orders!" "Yeah," said the Sarge, "the trouble with men like us, Colonel, Colo-nel, is that we don't know the right people." ; Most of Wall Street has been keeping keep-ing a watchful eye lately on the Fisher Brothers, who are prominent in the automobile industry. .. , One of the Fishers was motoring through Manhattan's industrial area recently, recent-ly, when a tire on his car blew. . . . He stopped near a small factory where he went looking for a phone. . . .He went to several places looking look-ing for a booth and was recognized by the owners of small plants in the neighborhood. '. . , The eyes of these excited minor tycoons popped as they saw him. ... "He must." they reasoned, "be inspecting one of the factories!" ... And that is why the stock of a relatively minor company jumped 2 points. The epidemic of suicides (who have been "committing sidewalk") was stopped by a newspaper photographer. pho-tographer. ... A woman frantically telephoned a newspaper and said that her girl friend (who lived around the corner from the paper) had just phoned that she was going to jump from her window. . . "Please," she urged, "do something to stop her!" . . . The editor assigned as-signed a photographer to the scene. . . . Instead of phoning the police, this hard-boiled photogger (thinking only of getting a good picture) talked his way into an apartment across the street and got his big camera ready. . . . The would-be suicide climbed out on the ledge. . . . Just as she was about to jump, he yelled: "Make it good, lady. I gotta make a living! Go ahead!" . . . She was so furious at this "invasion "in-vasion of her privacy" she climbed back inside and changed her mind about the whole thing. And you think you have it tough, huh? ... Along Melody Lane he is rated as a kid with a real future. fu-ture. . . . Before he was drafted into the Army he was the conductor of the New York City Symphony. . . . And so the Brain Trusters in khaki made 'him a band leader. . . The last time he was home on leave he was guest conductor of that august au-gust group of long hairs when they held their concert at Carnegie Hall. ... When he returned to camp he was summoned by the CO. and handed hand-ed the bawling out of his life. . . Because he failed to make a satisfactory satis-factory marching arrangement of the waltz: "Carolina Moon." Intimates will tell yon that they are beyond hope of reconciliation. They no longer speak to each other or look at each other without glaring- ... He is well known in the theater and so is she. . . . They decided de-cided on an eventual divorce about a year ago. ... But because of the exasperating apartment shortage both refuse to move out for each other. . . . They are keeping their estranged interlude as much to themselves as possible just so they caa have a place to sleep! The Broadway Express: Col. Elliott El-liott Roosevelt will marry into a publishing clan which bitterly opposed op-posed bis pop's re-election. FDR's first public appearance (since the welcome home parade) will be in Washington within 4 weeks and not at the Gridirion Dinner. ' The buzz persists that Steve Early FDR's press chief, will resign after the Inaugural to make a decent Iiv tag. . . . James Wechsler. the bril Hant Washington newspaper man predicted Dewey's electoral vote closer than anyone. r llGSlOVE'n II w C0lD -JXAI!UTSj Fit EE ISOOEU) on ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATIC H you suffer from Arthritis, Nf,-.! BciaUca, Lumbago or any form of Sh matism ask your druggist for a Tk booklet on NUE-OVO. or write i tn v' Ovo, Inc., 412 S. Wells St., Chicago 1 if for YOUR FREE COPY. Successfully used tor over l$y(in U. S. Purchases Eighteen billion board feet jf lumber were purchased for the sen. ices between September 1, 1940, ani August 31, 1944, twelve billions g that in the period since Septen. ber, 1942. Government purchases i lumber during the whole of World : War I totaled 6,349,344,000 feet, a Hg. ure surpassed in a single year of this -war. Labeled Indians Before he came to America ini 1728, John Smibert, first colonial ' painter of importance, had paintej at the Russian court, and had seen Siberians who appeared there. When he saw the American Indians he, pronounced them Mongolians, and this was the accepted theory ever after. , ... . ! Place Names The map of Transylvania in 1 Romania is lightly peppered with place names that include ocna, meaning salt mine. These indicate? generous deposits of ( salt crystals, I almost 99 per cent pure sodium , chloride, which could supply all of Europe's demands and part of Africa's. Afri-ca's. Food Fish Mullet is the principal food fish of ; the South, yielding an annual catch of 35 to 40 million pounds. Largest i catches are made on the west coast I of Florida and in the vicinity of ' Beaufort, N. 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