Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne president sketches world strategy australia Is periled perilea by japanese army invasion of its key island outposts nelson speeds upu production EDITORS NOTE NOT EWhen when opinions opinion are expressed in these colam columns ns they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this a newspaper released by western newspaper union A w 4 4 11 1 1 1 A A f sumner welles undersecretary of 0 state and head ot of the U S delegation to the pan american conference at rio de janeiro brazil is cheered by spectators as he waves his hat from the tiradentes Tira dentes palace scene of the historic meeting BLUEPRINT of world battle while the nation girded itself for victory production on a scale never hitherto dreamed of and while american soldiers were arriving on foreign fields ready to do battle until victory while still others were filling the news with their heroic exploits president roosevelt gave newsmen a hint of the blueprint of battle the president following the close of the churchill conferences and the safe return of the british premier to london by airplane from bermuda had told little to newsmen save that there was a complete accord among amone the united nations now he ld had begun to give them the picture a portrait of battle carried on simultaneously in every part of the globe by the soldiers of all nationals working in concert with each other thus were found american aviators fighting in the singapore area with the dutch in the east indies in in the philippines over the seven seas and most lately arriving in britain and other points for service the president said one could look at the map of the world and assume that the anti axis group was doing something at almost every strategic point he said that joint technical committees were busy covering the subjects of production of transportation of produced supplies to every part of the globe also to the assignment of fighting men and machines to points where they were most needed while all of his information had been of a general nature the nearest he came to giving out details was when he said that excellent progress was being made in strengthening the allied forces in the pacific this latter statement was taken by the press to be an attempt by the president to allay chinese fears that the allies were not going to make a vigorous enough ba battle t ta e against the japs the president had finished a conference with dr hubertus van mook lieutenant governor general of the netherlands indies dr van mook came out of the confere conference Ace room beaming JAPS extend fronts the japs far from being licked or even stopped were constantly extending their front and with reports of their continued advances spreading out with attacks on all fronts came dispatches telling of two new ventures these were the invasion of new guinea and the solomon island area and an invasion of burma by the siamese as a measure to aid japan indicating a threat to australia itself the new guinea invasion was paced by air attacks and a movement of naval forces the solomon islands lie in a chain northeast of australia and east of new guinea the burma invasion had started at Mya addie waddie on the burma thai frontier this lies at the northern end of the burmese panhandle bordering the puppet country it had not been unexpected and general wavelle Wavel ls headquarters some time before had told of chinese reinforcements to the burmese troops apparently sent there for just such a contingency the invaders also seized the port of davoy which bisects the panhandle and gave the jap assisters a good advantage in opening the fighting jap fliers were reported to have occupied a flying field at davoy and roared out to attack with bombs the important cities and ports of moul mein and rangoon production finally dies the over which william S knudsen and sidney hillman had presided as twin genii for many hardworking hard working hard fighting months prior to american entry into the war finally died production chief donald nelson supplanting it entirely with his new war production board probably to be known as mr nelson however had portfolios in his new ew series of divisions for most of the key men in for it was not so much a junking of an old organization as a revamping of it on a streamlined basis the placing of one man nelson nelso n at the head of the war production effort also necessarily called for a change in organization this was undertaken fearlessly b by Y nelson who created five primary divisions most of them utilizing as heads former members of the organization of and other groups leon henderson still was in charge of civilian supply hillman still had the labor job stacy may was progress reporter ard and so on down the line probably the first and most vital job almost coincidental with the naming of nelson himself went to knudsen the big motor man became a lieutenant general in direct charge of the speeding up 0 of f factory production in general that 1 is s as far as army procurement was concerned but the man who was to be most in in the public eye for the next few weeks was ernest kanzler a new figure in the picture who was named automobile production czar not of automobiles but of what the auto factories are going to make MAC ARTHUR resistance As if to prove that the defeat of hi his S army had been prematurely predicted general macarthur sprang a distinct surprise on washington and the count rys newspapers when he reported that american filipino resistance si stance was continuing on the island of mindanao in the vicinity of dabao an all out japanese effort to turn the luzon defenders right flank had earlier been turned back with heaviest jap losses and yet the danger was far from over for the japanese were reported returning to the attack again with vigor it was reported that an entire japanese army estimated by some as rray many as men had been thrown into the battle for luzon and the whole bataan peninsula front blazed into action in a renewal of the japanese attempt to crush the defenders I 1 but the word from macarthurs Mac Arthurs headquarters that fighting was continuing in mindanao came long after official washington had given up mindanao for lost and simply showed how difficult communications were in the area it was believed possible that macarthur himself had thought mindanao gone until he received belated word from the southern island islan d that the battle was still in progress CRITIQUE A dual report on pro profiteering fitLe ring came before the ae legislative gisla tive bodies of the congress the trum truman an report and the vinson report named for their committee chairmen the former rushing into print and into the press a few days ahead of the latter that congress aware of the huge character of the hurling of 56 billions into war production in two short years and of what this might mean if profits were allowed to go beyond certain limits intended to clamp the lid down was evident SUB ATTACKS intensified submarines probably german U boats were pressing their attacks along the east coast of the united states but the navy department had reported that strong counter measures were being taken the whereabouts of the navys navy s chief strength was being kept a closely guarded secret but all authorities from the president down continued to insist that the navy was extremely active and was disposed in such a manner as best to meet present threats the sinking of a japanese cruiser by navy bombing planes was announced noun ced and there had been a number of sin kings of supply ships some of them close to japan most dramatic had been the exploit of PT boat division comman commander d lieutenant bulkeley who shot his own boat at 80 miles an hour into the bay of Olon sent cent a ton japanese vessel to the bottom and escaped unscathed Bulke leys boat a 77 foot speedster carries heavy machine guns and 18 inch torpedoes ile he was being hailed as a hero almost on a par with C colin kelly the cruiser sinking lacked details but the navy said it was sent to the bottom miles off the island of jolo one of the nearly isles of the philippine group where the american bombers which did this trick and achieved other victories were based was a closely guarded secret but there were many possible bases in territory within reach of the location where the sinking occurred PRICE CONTROL joker the price control bill sulking in in the house and senate conference under the baleful displeasure of the president continued to bog down as prices continued to soar the farm relief joker in the bill had met with condemnation not only from the white house but from many leading agricultural centers and this remained the main pom point t of controversy in the bill in the meantime secretary of agriculture came out with a statement that there probably Y woold wold wo ld be a shortage of sugar just after all the refinery men had gone out on a limb with the opposite prediction sugar hoarders boarders hoar ders and other purchasers of foodstuffs were continuing to storm grocery stores and cartoons were published under the caption this little pig went to market showing hoarders boarders hoar ders at their deadly work at the grocery counters administration circles were at their gloomiest gloo over th the e situation one source saying we had hoped to get an im improvement provement pro over the house bill bil I 1 when wh e n we got to the senate but the senate bill was worse than the house bill and now most of us would be calling it a victory if we could get the house bill enacted miscellany I 1 bern german rationing has cut men down from five ci cigarettes gazettes garettes gar ettes a day to three women are allowed no tobacco ration whatever vichy A german soldier was shot and killed outside a paris night club police were able to arrest a young youn 9 girl said to have been a witness S she was ca confronted raf with a dozen suspects an and d ordered to pick out the man who fired the shot batavia the dutch admitted adlitte d t the he loss of I 1 the he northern portion of the island of celebes it was the second severe loss of oil imbor tant islands in the NEI london already wor work k was in progress reviving the scorched areas of soviet russia retaken by the red army it t was announced that sir jo john hn russell had been named advisor to the board and would go 90 to russia with american cabadi canadian an and british russian help to pui put production back into being |