| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS RAF reich blitz forecast of invasion hoover urges greater power for soviets push ahead on kharlov fro front nt Us S outlines pay Dp deduction tax plan NOTE lvin evin opinion leam aro are ei prid in these the columnas column ss ah hoy are r the choie of at the news new an arst and nd not not 1 IT of this ha news by western newspaper union 1 1 ak 14 4 A Ws V V t r ij ox 3 rf TV tho the thanks of a grateful nation and the congressional medal of flonor pinned on his breast by president roosevelt were tho the rewards received by b brig rig gen james doolittle for his valor in leading the bombing raid on the mainland of japan including tokyo a few weeks ago above left to right are re oen gen 11 II 11 II arnold chief of air forces mrs airs doolittle doollittle and president nt roosevelt congratulating americas newest hero general doolittle DOOLITTLE secrets well kept three questions remained unanswered when president roosevelt pinned the congressional medal of honor on the breast of brigadier general doolittle Dool lUle in an unheralded white house ceremony commemorating the recent history making american bor bombers fibers raid on the japanese mainland where did daredevil jimmy Doo doolittles littles squadron take oft off from where did the yank fliers land after they bombed tokyo and sowed bowed a whirlwind of ore fire death and destruction in their wake by what route did dolittle boo reach washington while the mystery remained a well kept secret doolittle who had won international renown as a peacetime speed flier filer before his latest exploit made him americas no 1 hero revealed some significant facts the yanks outflow and outfought japanese planes and retired without losing a single plane they hedge hopped over tokyo low enough to see ii d ball game in progress yankee bombers played havoc with vital japanese industrial areas 40 miles long and 5 to 20 miles wide they scored direct hits on a battleship or cruiser under construction near tokyo and scattered incendiary bombs over airplane factories in nagoya in extending doolittle tho the nations thanks president roosevelt roosevell announced the award of 79 9 distinguished service crosses for tile the 79 volunteers pilots machine gunners bombardier bombar diers and radiomen tilen who participated in tile the raid speaking over the radio following his decoration general doolittle declared that the april raid over tokyo was only the beginning of many more HOOVER E 4 it URGES more alore power for former president herbert hoover urged that president roosevelt be given additional dictatorial economic powers as a means of winning the total war there must be no hesitation in giving them to president roosevelt and upholding him in them mr hoover said in an address before the assembly of the national industrial conference board economic dictatorship however must not encroach on civil liberties he declared from a philosophical viewpoint he said he would like to see the sixth columnists given a little more liberty criticism of the conduct of the war Is necessary it if we are to win the war he added we want the war conducted right democracy can call correct mistakes only through public exposure and opposition to them mr hoover did not define specifically the now new dictatorial powers he advocated for president roosevelt eft lie ho said however we must start our thinking with a cold hard tact fact that the economic measures to win total war are just plain fascist economics STEEL WORKERS to be missionaries As his conflict with john L lewis tor for control of millions of Ameri american call workers tightened philip murray president of the CIO urged delegates who attended the steel workers organizing committee convention at cleveland ohio to become missionaries of national unity 1 I do not want internal strife in this union nor in the CIO murray said mens minds must rise above internal bickering when the nation is embroiled in a world war INVASION PRELUDE RAF blitzes reich while royal air force bombers blasted war factories and chemical plants in germany and blitzed blitzen nazi submarine bases in france and enemy airdromes aird romes in holland the churchill government announced that the heavy air offensive was a prelude to an ultimate inva slon of continental europe sir stafford cripps lord lard privy seal and government spokesman in commons said these bombings are in out our view of material assistance to russian resistance and the best way in which we can give as distance st si stance until such time as wo we are able to make a carefully planned attack on OB the cont continent inept of europe which wo we intend to do the accelerated tempo of brit ains air offensive was seen in the performance of one detachment of bombers which unloaded fire bombs over the city of mannheim to in southwest germany second largest inland port of germany and the site of a number of important chemical armament and engineering factories 0 NEW TAX PLAN collect at source to help americans pay heavy income taxes that would affect millions of workers in the small income group tor for the first time and to combat inflation the treasury department outlined to the house ways and means committee a collection at source program under the new plan employers would withhold on behalf of the government part of the pay of single workers making more than 11 a week and childless married persons making more than 26 the amount deducted would be used as a credit against income taxes increased individual income sur ur taxes ta aes ranging from 12 per cent on the first 2000 to 80 per cent on taxable earnings exceeding yearly were written into the pending war revenue bill the ways and means committees plan did not incorporate president Roosevel ts suggestion that no americans income should exceed a year after payment of all taxes REDS VS NAZIS soviets still ahead stubborn battles on which the decision of world war II 11 appeared to hinge still persisted on the kharlov and kerch fronts on the kharlov front the russian armies under marshal continued their advances in the lite face of stiffened Gern german iian resistance aud and sharp counterattacks counter attacks on the kerch front the russians denied nazi nail claims of a clean sweep to tile the gateway of the precious caucasus oil fields that the red army was keeping alive its offensive in the kharlov sector at a swiftly rising cost to the nazis in men heavy weapons and supplies was indicated by the latest war bulletins on one sector near kharlov Khar kov slid said a report our troops annihilated 1650 german officers and men and destroyed 27 tanks tank an 1111 ammunition dump and a gas gasoline inc dump booty captured included 37 guns 57 mortars shells rounds of a ammunition mm three wireless stations and other material in 1 I commenting ommett ting on the situation on the kerch peninsula in the crimea a said russian forces were barring the way to the caucasus in a way that resembled the long american defense of the bataan peninsula in the s |
