Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by award iward C wayne U S heartened by naval offensive against jap bases in south pac pacific fic air attacks on port darwin continue As allies S strike back in new guinea EDITORS NOTE when opinions mo 11 pressed in the chec p tum nl they are or those thor of the news new analyst and oot not nei aft arlly if of this newspaper i nelen eased Md by western newspaper union I 1 1 0 4 jr 5 1 r if N P A Y az A N V 11 I 1 Z AN W f 1 I jy A r WV 2 0 A dr herbert vero evatt left aus australian ballan minister for external Rf affairs lairs being greeted by acting secretary of state sumner welles and richard 0 casey british minister of state in the middle east at the washington airport the selection of casey cancy former australian minister to washington to serve in the be british cabinet raised a controversy between australian prime minister john curtin and winston churchill the australian government disavowed casey cancy its as australian representative ATTACK navy strikes twice A double attack by a navy task force the some same which had struck with devastating force on the marshall and gilbert islands had been delivered on wake Wak asland eIsland and marcus island the latter only miles from tokyo the latter attack scared tokyo so badly that the city ordered blackouts for several days afterward it was announced the delay in announcing these attacks apparently occurred because in the first instance the navy force was on oil the way from wake to marcus and want to telegraph its punch on the latter island As to the second attack the need tor for delay was probably one of two factors either cither that the navy force was moving on elsewhere or else it was on its way back to pearl harbor tor for refueling and probably the latter as the dispatches camo came from there considerable credit tor for the four attacks as the latter two must bo be considered part of the general onslaught which included the marshall and gilbert islands was given to the commander of the force vice admiral W F halsey in the first two the navy had lost a number of planes but in the latter two battles the only losses were two planes both shot down by antiaircraft fire surprise had been an important factor in both attacks because at wake island three four motored sea planes had been found and destroyed before they got into the air and at marcus island no air strength of any kind was found it began to explain the need tor for censorship for the japs had a nearly completed airfield on oil the island and certainly would have had planes there if known our forces were on the way ringside view one reporter riding on an hir aircraft craft carrier reported that its planes dumped 12 tons ot of high explosives on M marcus arcus island alone ills his ringside view of the significance of the battle was that it had shattered an important link in ja pans chain of island bases connecting the country with its southwest pacific theater of war marcus also had been referred to in dispatches as japanese hawell being a base not only potentially great tor for planes but for ships as well the wake island attack was vas not completely a surprise as as the navy surface ships encountered a jap i gunboat seven miles ot off the island and before she was sunk with one broadside she eho was able to flash word to the shore that the yanks were co the marcus island attack was in the darkness but the wake island battle was in full daylight the shelling starting at a in just how little good a black blackout oitt does docs was shown at marcus island where a flight of bombing planes was sent over the island with flares lighting their objectives and the first few hits started such huge fires that the other bombing flights needed no flares shortly after the attack on marcus started the radio station went oil off the air abruptly it had been struck by a demolition bomb and shot into the sky NYA sena senators ors argue the press plus senators mckellar and byrd continued its attacks on the NYA and the though president roosevelt Ruo sevelt said that they both had their places in the war scheme and that he favored their retention the senators argued that the primary reason tor for the creation of the two agencies was to do something tor for youth during the depression and unemployment years they are not nee needed ded now they said see sec turning point whether the japs were going to turn aside from australia and concentrate concen cen on india had remained considerable sid erable of a mystery but certainly their attack on alias outposts had been slowed to a point where the began to see the turn ing point right around the corner australian and american airmen were carrying out almost nonstop non stop raids on new guinea the solomons now new britain and other objectives north of the continent and their dally daily reports of planes destroyed showed that they were biting a considerable sid erable piece out of the nipponese strength in the air the japs continued their bombing attacks on port darwin also on katerine but the effectiveness was showing a downward curve apparently the main japanese objective was port moresby on the southern i end of new guinea a perfect hop oft off point for air attacks on northeast australia by land through a big valley on the island they were approaching the australians defense positions around the port while through the air from Sa lamaun Sala maua and lae they had been raining bombs on the town attempting to soften it up for attack by land it was at these two bases Sala Salar maua naua and lae that the australian and american bombers had been concentrating their attack and the results had beim been favorable LABOR cooperates co operates in war it was felt that organized labor had made an important contribution tu to winning the war also to peace in industry during the war effort by a decision reached simultaneously by the A F of L and the CIO to yield their demand for extra pay tor for holidays the executive board of the CIO recommended to all its unions that they forego all overtime pay for saturdays sundays and holidays when such work was done within the boundaries of the 40 hour week william green b bf the A F of L at the same time issued a statement that his organization had assured the government that it would waive the double time payment for sunday and holiday work ln all war industries for the duration of the war philip murray however said he wanted it clear that the unions would not relinquish their demand for overtime for work done on the sixth or seventh days of the ordinary 40 hour work week regardless of what days they fell on the request union men sald said had been made by president roosevelt and war production board chief donald M nelson volunteers get 40 planes the initials american vo vol gunteer group or the tiger fliers filers of the united states still held the spotlight of attention when it came to knocking out japanese planes their latest exploit had been to fly over the main jap airdrome in thailand with such a perfectly timed offensive that they were able to shoot to pieces peces 40 enemy aircraft on the ground before the japs could get the motors warmed enough to get into tho the air the victory like so many had its tragic side for the only plane lost to the americans in this attack had brought death to the squadron leader jack newkirk of scarsdale N Y tho the pilots returning to their base in burma from the fray reported that most of the japanese of the grounded planes were killed as instead of seeking cover they ran to their ships urd tried to get them started the americans diving low machine gunned the planes at close inge destroying most of ther their INDIES new losses reported in battle ot of java the battle of the indies was over but not dead in the dally daily neal came dispatches so some me good some bad telling more about it nil all one for instance had raised the toll of the battle of java sea for the united states by admitting the loss of two more four stacker destroyers that they had partially esc escaped aped had been learned when the announcement no said that they had lost last been heard from in the waters south of java the battle of java sea had been fought almost entirely north of java favorable were t the he dispatches which had begun to niter filter through showing that bataan was not the only point in the r southwest pacific where land resistance was continuing for the japs were ere reported ported being forced to retreat from i some of their positions in sumatra that the were cognizant of this fact had been seen in prime minister curtins message to the dutch to hang on oil that aid was corn com ing to them in the form of an australian and american offensive it was of the same tone toile as mac arthurs words to his men at bataan fighting under general wainwright that 1 I came through the jap lines and im coming back again CONDUCT strange union U case one of the strangest cases in the annals of war work and organized labor had occurred in detroit where a girl had been accused by her fellow workers this young woman genevieve samp 25 had a war lob job in a detroit plant and the charge was that she had been guilty of conduct unbecoming a union member technically she had been guilty the union said of causing trouble by disparaging the efforts of her fellow workers members of the union had said if she was absolved those bring bringing ipg the charges would face trial tho the girl said this was what occurred site she had had the job of packing in boxes certain gadgets which came down a series of chutes from automatic inspection machines the other girls were handling two chutes each she lind and one other girl were handling three each miss samp said one girl squawked about me being a job killer she said she told the girl it was easy to handle three chutes wise cracks went back and forth the he said and she was suspended PARTS and profits an aircraft parts concern the jack and heintz company makers of airplane starters which held in government cont contracts rants V I 1 J 6 D U 1 Z i 6 I 1 I 1 az WILLIAM S JACK A silver lined altermatt al after being organized in 1940 with capital had furnished the nations readers a brief scandal then a silver lined aftermath testimony before a congressional investigating committee revealed that the concern distributed to workers last christmas and that jacks secretary was paid last year and for the first ten weeks of this year some of this washington could understand but they questioned payment to the companas comp anys comptroller a young man who came to work for and 46 40 days later was handed a bonus of and a few weeks later given another 1200 bonus and a 1200 salary raise the partners came back from washington announced a voluntary cut of their profits to 6 per cent and that their own salaries would be cut to a year each their employees welcomed their return from washington with loud cheers and the banging of their tools on their benches when theeart the partners said the bonus system to employees for heavy production would be continued |