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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM. UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS- - Fire Bombs Raze Jap Cities; Unemployment Expected to Rise Soon as War Production Tapers Released by Western Newspaper Union. (EDITORS NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Unions news analysts and not necessarily or this newspaper.) SUGAR: Press Conservation Pray on Board Ship Declaring that the present sugar shortage had been aggravated by illegal use of supplies originally obtained for home canning, the OPA took steps to tighten allocations for such purposes and prevent further drainage of shrinking stocks. In addition to having special investigators check into the diversion of home canning sugar into bootleg liquor or illicit bottling, OPA announced that pledges must now be signed assuring that use of home canning rations will not be used for other purposes and reports made later as to food put up; district offices will suspend allocations until fruits and vegetables become available for preservation, and review all applications so as to spread supplies over coming months. Partly because of of sugar for food preservation last year, OPA said, average table rations have been cut 37 per cent and housewives allocations for home canning have been trimmed 40 per cent. In addition, the short sugar stocks have resulted in a squeeze on bakers and industrial users, with further reductions in their allotments threatening to seriously hamper continued operations. over-issuan- CONGRESS: Fistic Debate sixth division marines recline behind protecting wall Well in the tradition of the good on Okinawa. old days when the U. S. took its politics hot and heavy. for such skilled help as electricians, PACIFIC: Reps. John Taber sheet metal workers and machinists, (N. Y.) and Clarcommission War and the Cities Burn Manpower Cannon (Mo.) ence One by one, Japans great indus- gave the yards No. 1 priority in hirin the; secengaged and ing. housing Transportation trial centers are being razed by huge ond fistic engagecoast were also guaranteed Fast fleets of Flying Superfortresses, with ment of the present the firing of Osaka and Yokohama workers desiring to shift to the west. session following laAs an example of the critical cutting further into the enemys poheated debate over tential to produce weapons needed bor shortage in the West coast yards, the proposed tax the famed aircraft carrier Franklin for the expanding Pacific front. free $2,500 a year Considered the Orients greatest had to be hauled all the way to the expense account for industrial center, Osaka smouldered Brooklyn navy yard for repairs. congressmen in adafter heavy Super-Fostrikes at dition to their $10,-00- 0 its iron, steel, copper, cotton, hemp NEAR EAST: salaries. and wire plants. Oil Oasis Previously, Reps. John Rankin (Miss.) Japans second biggest port, YokoBehind all the trouble in the Near hama was left in flames by hundreds and Frank Hook of with strong winds helping East lies the specter of oil the great (Mich.) went to it to a resource natural indispensable to spread the destruction block by hammers and tongs block. Approximately 60,000 houses modem machine economy. on the floor of the While fighting flared in Syria, the were said to have been wiped out house after Hook what French that appeared charged after the first assault, leaving 250,000 had called Rankin a to a and be mixup between them homeless, and communication and "liar. the natives really was an incident to transportation lines disrupted. Taber . Reps. According to British cooked jeop-by up agents In explaining strategy in laywhite-haire- d husky, Cannon and ardize the French pipeline carrying ' ing down the greatest number of Tabers story, he bombs in the shortest time over ' oil across the embattled country had called upon Cannon at the latMosul from the fields in Iraq.' Japanese targets, 21st Bomber ters request, only to move to leave At the same time, French com- the room when the latter became Commander Curtis Le May de- -' mentators sharply pointed out that abusive over remarks he had made clared: If yon lay them down any Arab uprising in Syria could during the course of debate on the like that the city bnrns down. very well lead to similar disturb- proposed expense account. ReturnIf yon dont, they put it out. With raising havoc with Jap- ances throughout the whole Arabic ing when Cannon asked him if he anese industrial centers, the enemy bloc of states, where both Britain was running away, Taber said he continued to chiefly center his aerial and the U. S. have substantial oil stopped a left or a right to the upopposition against American naval concessions. per lip, and then pinned his oppovessels in the Ryukyus, with KamiOddly located nearby the Suez ca- nent to a couch until he cooled down. kaze (suicide) pilots continuing to nal, providing Britain with a conClaiming on his own account that score hits on light units. Indicative venient gateway to her oriental em- Taber had hied it to his office when of the ferocity of the Japanese atd pire, the Arabic states are said to the going got hot, the tacks, the naVy reported the great- possess oil deposits the equal of Cannon declared that the fracas re-- J est casualty toll in all the Pacific those in the U. S., with the English suited from Tabers insulting refighting off of Okinawa. holding 40 per cent of all conces- marks on the floor of the house. On land, U. S. forces herded the sions in the area and America 60 APPAREL: enemy onto the southern corner of per cent. Okinawa following the collapse of his Pinch to Persist U. S. interest in the near eastShuri line after some of the bitterest ern oil situation was pointed np With military requirements at a ground fighting in the war, with the governments proposal to by level and labor short because high troops compelled to dig the Japs erect a $150,000,000 pipeline of the attraction of workers to highfrom deep cave positions in rugged across Arabia and join in a parter paying industries, textiles will reterrain. main in tight supply through 1945, nership with the Arabian-Amer-ica- n Oil company and Gulf Exthe War Production board revealed. UNEMPLOYMENT : ploration company for its operaDeclaring that a substantial To Rise tion. Shelved in the face of bitamount of clothing materials will be ter opposition, the plan called for With another large stepdown in needed to provide a continuous flow the private companies creation of apparel for adaptability to the military orders anticipated, War of a billion barrel petroleum Production Board Chairman J. A. climatic conditions of the varying pool for the army and navy, and Krug predicted 4,800,000 persons will Pacific, WPB said the military will repayment for the pipeline over no longer be needed for war productake 85 per cent of the cotton duck a period. tion six months from now and unsupply in employment can be expected to Oil also prominently figures in re- along with 20 per cent of carded and reach 1,300,000 by then. lations between the U. S. and Britain 50 per cent of combed goods. During the next three months and Russia, what with the Arabic In addition, WPB said, the milialone, Krug said, an estimated 2,900,-00- 0 states situated virtually at the Reds tary will take 60 per cent of the war workers will be released, back door and Moscow having alsupply of wool woven goods during with unemployment jumping 1,100,-00- 0 ready put in a bid for development the same period, and virtually all from the present level of 800,000 of the Persian fields, monopolized by worsteds, along with substantial to 1,900,000. Because of withdrawthe English. stocks of knit goods. As a result, als from the labor force and the it may be necessary to restrict civilreemployment of 4,100,000 persons EUROPE: ian sales of heavy underwear to such by the rapidly expanding civilian outdoor workers as loggers and Persons Displaced unthe total of economy, however, farmers. One of the most difficult of postemployed will drop about 600,000 a war problems in Europe, the return CATTLE: half year from now. Though unemployment promises to of displaced nationals to their homemount in comparison with present land has become even harder with For Europe g the reluctance of many to leave the indusIn a program designed to replace conditions, such tries as lumber and textiles may exoccupied zone of 1 per cent of the 5,000,000 animals perience difficulty obtaining work- Germany, it was revealed. destroyed during the war in Greece, Though some 600,000 Poles are Albania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia ers, Krug said. Wage increases within the bounds of stabilization pol- showing the greatest antipathy to be- and Poland, UNRRA (United Naicy would probably help remedy ing sent east, Latvians and Lithu- tions Relief and Rehabilitation adanians also are not eager to return. ministration) will ship about 50,000 such a situation, Krug indicated. Even substantial numbers of the dairy and draft animals to those 1.500.000 Shipyard Problem Russians in the countries in the next 18 months. zone do not wish to be In the face of rising layoffs in war With funds for the project to come production industries, West coast repatriated, but though the other na- from UNRRA, about half of the shipyards are experiencing a short- tionals cannot be forced to go against stock will come from the U. S. and age of help at a time when the de- their wishes, an agreement reached the remainder from other nations in mand for repairs is increasing as a at Yalta makes the return of the the Western hemisphere. The U. S. of UNRRAs result of the damage to U. S. ves- Russians compulsory. subscribes to Besides the nationals mentioned cost. sels in the quickened Pacific naval warfare. there still are 1,200,000 Because of her extreme need, above, area along Greece will receive the first shipTwenty thousand workers below French in the U. their labor ceilings, three West coast with 350,000 Italians, 200,000 Bel- ment of 300 dairy heifers and 900 shipyards lost an average of 600 gians, 200,000 Dutch, 100,000 Yugo- draft animals, it was announced. In employees last month. In an effort slavs, 60,000 Czechs, 10,000 Greeks, addition, another 300 bred heifers to solve the problem, selective serv- 10.000 Danes, 10,000 Norwegians and and 300 mares are scheduled for earice f announced blanket deferments 10.000 from Luxembourg. ly delivery to Yugoslavia. Battle-wear- y, near Naha after bitter fight for city Church flag Is raised above the Stars and Stripes as prayers are offered on coast guard manned ships before landing operations. The only time any flag is raised above the Stars and Stripes is the church flag during regular services. Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of the U. S. 10th army, is shown (left) on a rocky observation post on Okinawa as he watched progress of his troops moving up on Naha, capital of the islani With General Buckner are Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, commander it the 6th marine division, center, and Brig. Gen. William P. Clement. Drum Spelt Doom for Germany . rt s, B-2- Here is one of the huge drums on which lengths of welded pipe were rolled to be laid along the bottom of the English channel to bring fuel for the tanks and planes of the Allies in the battle of Europe. The laying of the pipeline, under Germanys nose, is called one of the most resecret. markable engineering feats of the war and a best-ke- Roger Michael Golden, South River, N. J., is called aeronautically-precociou- s by veteran airmen. At the Westover identification - recognition classroom, Roger identified 121 different U. S., British, Jap and German airplanes. Three-year-o- ld pt Ask for Okinawas Independence slight-of-buil- Lighthouse Keeper . ar low-payin- Anglo-Americ- Anglo-Americ- The only woman lighthouse keeper in the United States coast guard service is Mrs. Fanny May Salter, who has been keeper of the Turkey Point lighthouse, Maryland, since 1925. Knudsen Resigns Emaciated and despondent, these ancient natives symbolize the age old submission of the conquered. Upper, incredulous that the Americans had no intention of killing them or torturing them, their first request was for cigarettes. Lower, right, young mother and child symbolical of new day. Circle, Takara Sensei, who expects to lead a ft Okinawa. Fighting Marine at Death Valley two-thir- FOOD PRICES Mexico Now One Big Schoolhouse In compliance with the second phase of Mexicos program for the eradication of illiteracy, teaching of illiterates to read and write has gotten well underway, with both individual as well as collective instruction throughout the country. Part of President Avila Camachos progressive program for the modernization of Mexican life, the decree requiring educated adults 18 n In World Wars I and wholesale food prices showed less of a rise than prices received by farmers while retail food prices showed the smallest rise of all, surveys rein has teeth it. Citizens lectively, vealed. not complying with the decree will As compared with the respective be forced to do so. No haphazard project, Mexicos prewar levels, wholesale food prices department of education keeps a in 1944 showed an increase of 42.5 Lt. Gen. William S. Knudsen, who close check on each student accord- per cent as against an increase of recently was given the Oak Leaf ing to age, occupation and sex. So 85.5 per cent in 1918; retail food cluster to the Distinguished Service far, 12,000,000 free readers have prices in 1944 were up 39.2 per cent medal, has resigned from the army been issued. as against 68.2 per cent in 1918. ts return to civilian life. to 60 to teach simple reading or writing to one illiterate, or to teach col- One of the Leathernecks, driving through Japanese machine go while crossing a draw, later called Death Valley by the men, from cover for a quick dash forward to another position. The mn sustained more than 125 casualties in eight hours of fighting. |