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Show WEEKLY MEWS ANALYSIS Axis Key Industrial Cities Hammered As Italy Evacuates Strategic Areas; Nation's Taxpayers on Current Basis; Huge Nazis Losses Disclosed by Russia 'fvTIITOH'H N'OTF: Whfn opinions mre expressed In th-e column, they are those of VVenlern Newspaper Lnlon'ii news anulyl and nut necessarily of this newspaper.) Heleaaed by Western Newspaper Union. f . .... . . . .. , . . fir - ' ' r . . "... -,. - , J E - " - ' ' - 1 I I . ? ' "' , " ' ' ' ' ' . , ' I Engineers from the amphibian command at Camp Edwards, Mass., are shown operating the 2'i-ton truck which Is at home in water as it is on land. Olllcially known as the DCKVV, the army has affectionately dubbed the truck the "Duck." It proved its worth during the North African campaign. TRUCE: In Coal Mines Under an agreement reached by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and John L. Lewis, the nation's na-tion's 500.000 coal miners returned to the pits to work under a new truce expiring October 31. According Accord-ing to the announcement, production produc-tion will be resumed under the terms of the old contract, which presumably include concessions granted by the War Labor board amounting to 23 cents a day. The agreement followed Lewis' contention that the miners would return to work for the government only, which took over the supervision supervi-sion of the pits as a result of the first strike threat Under arrangements, arrange-ments, however, the government named the operators to run the mines and receive the profits. Termination of the latest strike left the "portal-to-portal" pay issue up in the air. Lewis has argued for such pay, which represents compensation com-pensation to the miners for time spent traveling to and from their working stations. The WLB declared it had no authority to pass on the question, suggesting court action or decision by the fair labor standards bureau of the government. Possibility that Lewis might follow fol-low some such course was hinted in the miners' statement announcing announc-ing their return to work. PAY-AS-YOU-GO: Netv Experience July 1, 1943, will long be remembered remem-bered in the United States. For, history will show that on that date, millions of American taxpayers will have begun paying their income taxes as they go instead of waiting till March 15 of the following year to settle their accounts with Uncle Sam. Under the new pay-as-you-go system, sys-tem, employers will deduct 20 per cent from employees' wages or salaries. sal-aries. Farmers and others who obtain ob-tain income from sources other than wages or salaries must estimate their yearly earnings and then make quarterly payments. In all cases, payments will be made after legal exemptions. ' The pay-as-you-go law forgives all taxes for 1942 or 1943, whichever is lower, up to $50, and 75 per cent of all taxes above that figure. Although Al-though a person may not have to pay an income tax, the 3 per cent victory tax will be deducted from his check. GERMANY: Industries Hit Eight hundred RAF bombers clouded the sky in a heavy raid on the German industrial center of Kre-feld Kre-feld even as British bombers returned re-turned from an assault on Fried-richshafen Fried-richshafen farther to the south. First used at Krefeld last fall, block-busters again were poured on the German city, center of special steel and parachute textile production. produc-tion. Site of hard coal mining, Krefeld Kre-feld also is known for its sulphur output The British admitted the loss of 44 planes. In attacking Friedrichshafen, the RAF blasted the former Zeppelin works housing a factory producing radio location equipment similar to the U. S. "radar." Hits were observed ob-served on all main buildings, including in-cluding a huge hangar. MEDITERRANEAN: Warn Italy of Bombings As Lieut. -Gen. Carl A. Spaatz stated that the Allies now could obtain ob-tain air supremacy in the Mediterranean Mediterra-nean by concentrating their superior forces in any given locale, the Italian people were warned that their industrial indus-trial centers would continue to be pounded as long as they produced goods for the Axis. Commander of the North African air forces, General Spaatz said that any barrier before Allied troops could be reduced by the proper use of full air power. Urging Italian workers to move with their families from factory areas, Allied radio broadcasts declared de-clared "Our airmen will bomb your war industries and communications as relentlessly as they have bombed your ports and ships during the African Af-rican campaign." Continuing their aerial assault, Allied Al-lied planes, paced by British Wellingtons, Wel-lingtons, plastered Sicily. Block busters were dropped on Messina, the terminal point for the ferry from Italy, and Sicilian airdromes. Meanwhile, Mean-while, the Italians were reported evacuating the civilian population from both Sicily and Sardinia. RUSSIA: Second Anniversary On the eve of the second anniversary anniver-sary of the German invasion of Russia, Rus-sia, the Reds caUed on the Allies to open up a second front in the west and claimed that 6,400,000 Nazis had fallen in action against them. ' Declaring that delay in opening up a second front would only protract the war, the Reds said this would mean "a colossal increase in victims." vic-tims." The Reds also stated that they had reinforced their war economy econ-omy with the erection of hundreds of new factories behind the lines. In addition to Nazi losses in personnel, per-sonnel, the Reds claimed they had knocked out 42,400 tanks; 43.000 planes, and 56,500 guns. They placed their own losses at 30,000 tanks; 23,000 planes, and 35,000 guns. In discussing international relations, rela-tions, the Reds praised their coalition coali-tion with Britain and the United States, adding "The Hitlerites' aim to split this cpalitiorf failed." CORN: Seek Stocks In an effort to get corn moving to processors and manufacturers. Food Administrator Chester Davis named a committee representing all branches of the industry to work with him in breaking up the bottleneck. bottle-neck. Producers, traders and millers were brought together in the committee com-mittee as Davis determined to attack at-tack the problem from all angles instead of considering it piece-meal. According to reports, the conferees confer-ees were studying a variety of proposals, pro-posals, chief among which was a plan that would limit the feeding of hogs to certain weights, and put the 1)43 corn crop on an allocation basis, assuring processors' and manufacturers' needs first. Other proposals studied included the cancellation of ceiling prices on corn; subsidizing farmers to release their farm stocks, and the requisition requisi-tion of terminal elevator supplies and allocation of such supplies among hard-pressed milling and mixing firms. PACIFIC: Supremacy on Guadalcanal Braced by the arrival of Lockheed Lock-heed Lightnings and Vought Corsair fighter planes manned by experienced experi-enced pilots, the Allies have achieved air superiority in the Solomons. Work has been completed on the big air base of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, and except for repair facilities, it is said to compare with the largest in the U. S. Meanwhile, Mean-while, the Japs have been bombed out of their forward aerial positions of Munda and Vila, 200 miles to the northwest. Although the Jap Zero remains a formidable weapon, the Lockheed, with a climb over 30,000 feet, and the Vought, with a maximum efficiency effi-ciency between 20,000 and 30,000 feet, are not only proving better in performance but are also more heavily armored and gunned. RACE RIOTS: Spread to Detroit With its attention to race riots first attracted by the "zoot-suit" uprisings up-risings in California, the federal government was forced to step in to quell outbreaks between blacks and whites which threw Detroit into an uproar. Before 2,300 soldiers arrived in jeeps, trucks and armored cars to restore order, 23 people had died and 600 had been injured. Hundreds had been arrested and confined in i the city's jails. The trouble started after an alter- I cation between whites and Negroes at the Belle Isle beach, then was fanned into flames with the spread of the erroneous rumor through the colored district that a Negro woman wom-an and child had been killed. Racial Ra-cial groups gathered quickly, stoning ston-ing private cars and public trams and then beating the occupants. When Detroit police could no longer long-er control the situation. Gov. Harry Kelly of Michigan appealed to President Presi-dent Roosevelt for federal intervention. interven-tion. The President ordered the dispatch dis-patch of the troops. FREE FRENCH: Agreement Reached American and British insistence on settlement of the Free French wrangle resulted in the establishment establish-ment of Gen. Henri Giraud as commander-in-chief of all French forces in North and West Africa. Gen. Charles DeGaulle was named leader lead-er of the forces in other French possessions pos-sessions in Syria and East Africa. The appointment represented a victory for the Giraud faction, since the territories put under his wing are among the richest and most strategic of French possessions and contain the bulk of the French army. Furthermore, Giraud's leadership lead-ership in the territory allows him a free hand in the disposition of many military commanders to whom De-Gaulle De-Gaulle was hostile. At the time it announced the dual arrangement, the French national committee also revealed it had set up a military delegation composed of both Giraud and DeGaulle and their chiefs-of-staff to work out an eventual unification of both commands. com-mands. GOVERNORS' PARLEY Marshall Sees Victory Addressing the 35th annual governors' gov-ernors' conference, Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. chief of staff, predicted pre-dicted certain victory, but not without with-out great effort and heavy losses. "What we need now is a stoic determination de-termination to do everything in our power to overwhelm the enemy, cost If ' V - ' V :! t s s " T 1 - 1 ' " GEN'. GEORGE C. MARSHALL JT'e need stoic determination. what it may, to reduce him to a supplicant under the impact of aroused and determined democracies," democra-cies," General MarshaD saii Although Tunisia gave the Allies an invaluable pattern for future operations. op-erations. General Marshall said, the coming battle of Europe will not be a setup. Water-borne movements always produce complications, he declared, and they are merely a prelude to the heavy fighting remaining re-maining or;e the land has been ; reached. JAP CURFEW: Upheld by Supreme Court In unanimous decision, the Supreme Su-preme court affirmed the right of a military commander in imposing a curfew on Japanese residents of the Pacific coast in March, 1942. Two American citizens of Japanese Japa-nese ancestry contested the army's action as applying against them as well as aliens. Of the 110,000 Japanese Japa-nese affected, 70.000 were citizens. The court ruled the army had no time to make distinctions. |
