Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS nazis dri drive ve into D don on k river iver sector 0 7 Endangers Rich caucasus oil 01 if fields jones warns U S of inflation peril says tire seizure Is possible I 1 EDITORS NOTH avien opinions are expressed in these column colum ni th they are those ol of the news new analyst and not necessarily ol of vils pel U Re Il elded leaked by western newspaper union 14 gm LI A 0 Z F R 14 1 4 aa T j k 4 mh M fk at 0 4 IF 00 4 p nl field marshal erwin rommel left receives report from general commander of italian forces supporting the nazi armies in ili egypt the picture made after the german victories in libya was received from a neutral source RUSSIA ni nazi menace br breaking baking through the russian front east cast ov bursk and kharlov Khar kov a nazi armored assault had driven miles into the upper basin of the donniver Don river and given adolf hitler his first significant success in his summer offensive against theres the reds with both sides throwing in all available nian manpower poWer and equipment the greatest armored battle in history raged to 16 hard pressed marshal it must have seemed that ho he faced more disastrous threats than he could meet although coun attacking ter gallantly and fighting grimly the red forces had been forced steadily bacat bac z violent Vl combat had centered around nezi key link between dussias Rus sias slab centra k find and south southern trill armies i and the goal as before was waa the rich oilfields oil fields of the caucasus Caucis us to the sou southeast theas lios possession session orthis of this prize would ta mean ava unlimited fuel for hit HI t lers regions legions two immediate amm edito targets of the nazi offensive were the don river one of russia Rus sias chief transportation arteries artelle s and the moscow railway which ith paral parallels lell the don ind and feeds fedi much af t the soviets industrial and military machine meanwhile lil in egypt marshal brommels Rom mels headlong drive had bad been stopped by ha U british under general auchinleck refusing to babot be bottled up in Ip stationery fortresses the auk had chosen his own battleground when he turned on the nazi army the site was a narrow tun nel shaped front between el on the seacoast and the Quat tera marshes 40 miles inland here aided by reinforcements fresh equipment and slashing blows by the RAP RAF and their american 11 ying hying allies ho he had brought to a halt the nazi steamroller steam roller headed for alexandria and the suez sues canal INFLATION perils revealed like liike a stern pedagogue pounding the ali three Rs its into the skulls of his scholars gray haired joise jesse jones secretary of of commerce read the american people a lecture on the ABCs of 0 f economics ills his theme the dangers of inflation fla tion mr jones said that the Amer american icah people will have over more in comein 1943 than the value of the things for which the money will be spent spen tand and termed this thid a potential inflationary Inflation axy gap greater than any tho the world has ever known the secre remarks followed hard on press conference warning by president roosevelt that it would be necessary for americans to adopt a national economic policy which would control inflation among maxims mr jones laid down were no business man or industrialist can expect higher prices for his products without paying higher prices for having them made AIR TRANSPORT saga ol of service the answer to what had become of civil civilian lall luxury airliners taken over by the array army after pearl harbor came when it was announced that thai these were among craft crait that ahad flown I 1 ra miles iles during the past bast five months rushing war equipment and personnel to strategic po points ts in the he Paci pacific the saga of this bold a erial aerial venture included chapters highlighting the heroism ot of hundreds of pilots RUBBER tire confiscation the administrations nation nationwide wide rubber hunt had produced disappointing results only apportion a mitlon of the hoped for scrap rubber stock pile had been turned in and mean while american motorists continued to roll along on steadily thinning tires hence it was not a surprise when president roosevelt declared at a press conference that if war condl condi eions grew worse the go government might be bel forced to 6 confiscate every automobile tire ta ln the country the president tempered his lils warning with the cautious hope that nationwide nation nathon wide gasoline rationing could be avoided bubp but be emphasized pot t wad was trying to bave beave the nation not gas gasoline oline and rubber I 1 mr Roosevel ts review odthe of the situ atnori came came after the arm army athe the navy and petroleum gm coordinator co ickes OM ce had noi appealed p PC kled to east bast coast motorists to discontinue immediately all anne unnecessary cussary use of f gasoline regardless of what their ration cards entitled thim them to A joint statement said joyriding in the gili gas rationed area was y preventing wa war r workers from getting enough rn motor ator fu fuel elto to ge get i t t to 0 work and back and was was threatening to hamper seriously the war production program I 1 fortunate were congressmen members of state legislatures other government officials and candidates for public office for under regulations promulgated by the theopa OPA for permanent east coast rationing such persons were given preferred mileage ratings providing them with gasoline ifor for transportation needs in pursuit of legislative business SABOTEURS history recalled once before a military commission had sat in washington deliberating era ting over evidence that was to send a bandoff band of conspirators to their death that was 77 years ago when eight defendants wore were tried in the dingy old penitentiary building for the assassination of abraham lincoln now again a military commis slon sat eat in washington this time it was to pass sentence on eight bazi saboteurs sabot eurs who had landed on the east coast to launch a campaign of destruction against american arms plants the trial this time was held in the new department of justice building in proceedings marked with tile the same secrecy that characterized the former trial the prisoners learned whether they were to meet a firing squad or go to the gallows iring for death was the penalty they faced observers who noted the coincidence between the two famous trials eight defendants in each case remembered that only five of the lincoln conspirators including a woman mary were put to death miscellany ANY SYDNEY A highway capable of maintaining heavy military traffic has been completed across 3 the trackless northern territory of aus in blittle a little more than a year a government report revealed the highway is so designed that army vehicles vehicle swill will not be halted during the rainy season civilian road workers including several united states en ginders gi worked work edon on the project reds r Foil Plans on the loose again from hor her norwegian fjord fiord refuge the powerful nazi nai battles battleship hb I 1 had ha d harried allied d convoy son the U S abrl supply upp ly route to northern russia until two well almed aimed torpedoes fr from om a soviet submarine damaged the raider ailder and drove her to cover A red revealed that the action a big allied convoy and let the merchantmen merchantman merchant men through to russia rusia intact the reported that thata a perman naval squadron in which three heavy c cruisers r bisers and eight destroyers accompanied c compa nied the hi had adalinea ada aimed lined to intercept the convoy carry carrying ini arms to russia athe the trip crippling pling attack on the however was said to have disrupted their operation eril tIon and permitted all snipe ships lo ito reach the safet safety off a dortht prussian lRus R sian port 1 1 I deeded one out of every six americans Aine ricans faced the prospect of being inducted Induct dd into war activities military and industrial du during 1942 and 1943 at least that was the forecast of BrIg gen frank J mcsherry odthe the war ma manpower anpo commission who declared that thal persons would be required 0 of f this staggering ering total tofil he said men meil and women must be put to works work in war industries this year arid and rit more orein in 1943 of the remal remaining ning mcsherry estimated will be inducted into alie th e armed corp forces es during 1942 and next net year WA WAR R production nelson kelson realigns realign with the headache livada coe of an organ bation shakeup happily out of the way war production chief donald M nelson turned with obvious relief to a contemplation of the future activities the chairman said th atthe had now reach edthe end of the tooling up period andeas going ahead with the task of conversion espe cial lyof the nations smaller plants he said sald there was little 11 fi the civilian economy ec but bua stressed the tact fact that i vital civilian civili an heads heids aig ds must betker taken be I 1 care because of bec aj the economy although 1 l ti thin ait bikel Jt heal healthy thi forecast F tor for some time the i program bra brought doht wliam K B batata tt f i as s vice I 1 chaiem chairman i an or chief lp leaving nelson devote ohis time to essential policies llad previously sly been chair manof the requirements quire ments james jamea S tr ayer t n e 0 th er vice JP 41 cli cha ilion CHI CHiyA NA WAR sad A anniversary i As chinas cainas war atwith japan entered its sixth year generalissimo chiang kai shek bravely assured his s countrymen that japans collapse aai was only a question of t time pe chia hg d declared I 1 d that the united states is b todeal ideal her arst rr st an d mastt 9 enemy japan ja an and 1 is I beginning tig 1 to t CHIANG KAI matter latter A of time discharge her supremely important import ni duty in the pacific meanwhile chiang chiangi Chi angs i s peasant army was ivas heartened by the trip ammer states blows lows struck recently by byll United states air forces against the jap invaders summing up the price nippon has already paid for its attempt to sival low china an army spokesman re ported that japs had been killed and wounded in fai years yearn of war ili spite of braye words the stark fact regained that china cainas chinas wn despe ratAy ely grave jil japan an was steadily stia dlly severing her bioni with all but airborne air borne sup plies fron from her allies cut off china had to depend on her own slender material mate ilal resources and her under armed to carlyon carryon carry car ryon on the fight against the Mi strong forces CANADA jar TV 1 transformation iima from a placid agricultural coun try canada has been beca transformed into a klant giant war W ar factory from which men men planes tanks guns and anC foodstuffs are pouring across the atlantic to britain and the other fighting fronts 4 this picture of the wars f P impact on ouri neighbor of the north was pain an official report which told a vivid tale of the dominions dominion industrial progress 01 |