Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS red admit grave peril As new flank attacks harass nazis CIO president proposes peace plan cargo planes get qualified approval EDITORS NOTE when opinions opinion are expressed in these thee columns eol mn they are re those thoe of 0 western newspaper New paper unions news new analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper poper released by western newspaper union ji s T R M I 1 S 1 I 1 Z M 2004 k w aw jt FP 0 k T one of uncle sams newest weapons for the armored force the tank is shown on on special demonstration at fort knox ky here the 28 ton tank plows through a barn to demonstrate its ability to negotiate obstacles it has a 75 mm cannon in a revolving turret and a completely welded hull RUSSIA flank tactics while Mos cows official radio was telling the germans in their own language that the united states and russia had come to their agreement on the creation of the second front in 1942 soviet troops were busy with hank flank attacks on the nazi forces all along the mile don river front german drives had pushed far beyond toward the caucasus but the russians were claiming that their new flank attacks were netting a terrific toll of nazi tanks and men at northern anchor of the don front the russians had been holding out doggedly while their columns were being pushed back in the daher sectors if germans in the homeland had been listening to the russian radio tell of the coming of the second front they heard too that their country would be confronted with men tanks guns and airplanes but this was brave talk for even the official russian admitted the gravity of their nations peril most feared eared was a nazi break thrush in the center of the caucasus front this would more than likely mean that the so far orderly russian retreat would stand a chance of being turned into a rout a result that would be disastrous for the cause of the united nations soviet officials had other brou trou troubles bles too there were reports out of the don valley that large rings of fifth columnists had been uncovered many of the spies in these groups were quickly executed as they were caught trying to operate cooperate co e w with ith nazi parachute troops who were dropping behind the soviet main main lines meanwhile through england and the united states the cry was getting louder for military officials to establish the much discussed second front from widely diversified groups and sections came the arg ing ng there was considerable agitation for this move for many people feared the united nations would suffer er a most severe blow should ru russia fail to last the year on the european s side ide of the ural mountains ALEUTIANS japs breaking an official silence a navy spokesman officially estimated that the japanese have succeeded in putting not more than 10 alro troops aps ops into the aleutian island area and at the same time announced there was no evidence that the bilof island to the north had been occupied by the nipponese the statement came in answer to a report made by the alaskan delegate to congress anthony J dimond that between and jap troops were on the aleu fians and that the had been 0 occupied questioned about diamonds Di monds re ports the spokesman said that we believe that not more than j japanese japanese are in the aleutians Aleut ians I 1 one and one half afloat the japs gained a foothold in the aleutians Aleut ians on june 3 so far the navy has confirmed the presence of japs only on three of the islands attu aatu agatto and kiska at the western end of the chain the are in the bering sea and cons consist of four islands st paul st george otter and maldrus Wal drus the latter two are small and uninhabited PETRILLO SAYS NO to davis plea 1 1 I cannot grant your request to cancel the notice that the members will not play for transcriptions or records with those words james C petrillo president of the american federation of music musicians ians refused a request by elmer davis director of the office of war information to rescind his ban against the making of new phonograph records or radio t transcriptions r for commercial purposes by union members PEACE PLAN for corcio CIO A proposal that the congress for industrial organization and the american federation of labor initiate discussions regarding possible establishment of organic unity was made by philip murray CIO president in a letter to william green chief peace proposals between the two organizations have been discussed for several months as a step toward speeding war production in his letter murray proposed the establishment lish ment of a committee composed of representatives of both organizations with an impartial arbitrator to settle all jurisdictional disputes between the two groups murray named a committee of three to discuss the problem of organic unity he named himself R J thomas president of the CIO united automobile workers and julius emspak secretary of the united radio and machine workers union BEEF tivo tiro varieties in butcher shops from the bronx to boise there was considerable beefing about beef beef was high beef was hard to get what was the trouble president roosevelt told his press conference there were three main reasons for the current meat shortage 1 this is the off season for beef beef 2 people have more purchasing power now with which to buy better cuts of meat and 3 around men under arms are now eating much more meat than they ever ate on their own dinner tables at home meanwhile agriculture secretary claude reported that there may be some relief in the temporary beef shortage this fall when more cattle are brought in off of the range but other sources looked with disfavor on what effect this would have on the normal spring beef market GIANT PLANES from shipyards there was a new answer to the shipping problems of the united nations looming on the horizon it was as an unofficial agre agreement emen t from the war production board boar d to give the green light to plans of henry K kaiser west coast shipbuilder to build giant cargo and troop transport planes in nine of the nations shipyards first hitch to be overcome in the suggested setup set setu up u P was the granting of authority by military officials to release engines and other parts needed in the building of aircraft for the army and navy nelson head appeared to be willing to proceed with th the plan if these materials material S could ca uld be obtained without hampering the war effort this came as a surprise as first voiced skepticism on the plan kaisers keisers Kai sers idea calls for the conversion of three shipyards on each coast to produce flying boats a year the the ships would be of ton design fashioned after the 70 ton flying boat mars now in active use support of glenn martin baltimore bomber builder tom girdler ste steel el magnate and all others with knowledge of production problems of plane building would be sought according to kaiser after kaiser had bad discussed the idea with nelson he appeared before a senate military subcommittee to testify and nelson later issued a statement stating that the was willing to operate cooperate co to the limit in any practical way for increasing the effectiveness of our transportation sy systems sterns at the same time james H R cromwell former U S minister to canada was proposing that kaiser be made czar of air transportation ile he said if we cant get supplies to the fronts by air transport we are going to lose this war tl AIR MONSTERS things to come reading like a tale from the pen of jules verne the story of 0 two super gigantic cargo planes was unfolded in washington by aviation engineers gi senate committees heard the stories details of a huge plywood plane were disclosed by dr W W christmas technical aviation engineer the plywood carrier weighing pounds would be both a cargo and battle plane it would bl be a horsepower two hull plane with foot wingspread and with wings 16 feet thick with a speed of about miles an hour it would carry men it would carry a rack of torpedoes weighing pounds dr christmas pointed out that the torpedoes would have a striking force of pounds when dropped A battleship deck would be like wet paper when one of these bombs hit it he said the second plane was a revolutionary type of amphibian flying cargo plane which would be lifted and propelled by a combination of engines helium gas and air tunnels the engineers are horace chapman young you hg and eric langlands of the aerodynamics research corporation A single wing combination cargo fighter c carrier airier the plane would have a flying deck of approximately feet from which 12 fighter planes could take off it would carry enough helium gas to lift 36 tons and with its engines could lift 70 tons four tunnels would run through the wing engineers in these tunnels would create a semi vacuum whose suction would supply pulling power while the propellers gave it thrusting power its speed would be about miles an hour LADIES of the navy waves is not a new word to U S navy men but in the future sailors will have to think twice before using it for this is the name being given to the navys womans comans auxiliary counterpart counter part of the ardys now officially organized the waves plan to enlist first call was for 1000 women preferably bachelor girls to volunteer as officer candidates I 1 miss mildred mcafee 42 president of wellesley college wellesley mass is being chosen head of the feminine navy unit and will hold the rank of lieutenant commander while there appeared to be a preference for single girls married women are not prohibited from volunteering ering unmarried women will have to agree not to marry while in training a one month period I 1 waves will be assigned to desbor administrative jobs to release men for or active sea duty rationing student aie jr f jr P al 11 john leigh gas station attendant in washington is pictured studying rationing rules when price administrator leon henderson ran out of gas leigh refused to fill a can for him henderson enderson II later proved that such an act would not be a violation of the regulations but his proof came too late lie ile already had been forced to take a taxi |