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Forces Rip Jap Pacific Defenses; Complete Organization of New Agency To Supervise Surplus War Goods Sale; Heaviest Aerial Attacks Blast Nazis (KDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those Western Newspaper Linton's news analysts and not neoeasanly of this newspaper.) ' Released by Western Newspaper Union. I M .1 I I J Z i f 4 - ' ; In 1 ff RUSSIA Army Anniversary Celebrating the 26th anniversary of the creation of the Red army with "Molotov cocktails," Russian forces continued bending back Ger-man lines at both ends of the 800 mile front. Meantime, it was also indicated that peace negotiations with the Finns progressed. As the Nazis announced retirement movements on the eastern Estonian border, the Reds drove on the im-portant rail and highway hub of Pskov, communication gateway to the Baltic states. At the southern extremity of the front, the Russ kept chewing off chunks of the German wedge ex-tending far to the rear of their lines in Poland, with the iron, copper and coal center of Krivoi Rog falling into their hands after almost 2Vt years ol enemy occupation. Stub in the Finnish peace moves was the presence of 175,000 Nazi troops in the country's mineral-ric- h north. WORLD AIRWAYS: Blimps in Picture Forgotten recently because of the spectacular action of the airplane in the present war, the huge, sleek dirigible has slipped quietly back into the picture, with the U. N. Air-ships Incorporated' s application for five routes from Washington, D. C, to large cities in all parts of the world. Using noninflammable helium, the U. N. Airships Inc., would operate passenger and cargo dirigibles over 41,633 miles of world routes to Cal-cutta, India, via Dakar, French West Africa; Buenos Aires, Argentina, via Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Capetown, South Africa, via Zanzibar, British East Africa; Brisbane, Australia, via Los Angeles, Honolulu, Chungking, China, and Darwin, Australia; arid finally to Moscow via Glasgow, Scot-land. Although the dirigible's speed is limited to 75 to 100 miles per hour as compared with the airplane's 150 to 200, blimp enthusiasts say the huge lighter-than-a- ir craft can cruise greater distances and provide pas-sengers with more luxurious quar-ters. New Guinea Following a itrict medical examination. New Guinea natives receive training equipment for military police duty in Papuan foothills against bandits and tribesmen. CONGRESS: Democratic Revolt Reelected by the senate's Demo-cratic majority as its floor leader after breaking with President Roose-velt on the tax veto, burly Sen. Alben Barkley v(Ky.) took back the reins of a balky party, but not without an eye on restoring harmony in its ranks with its principles. Barkley's break with F.D.R. came as a result of the President's rasp-ing attack on the $2,300,000,000 tax bill, which he said was an "inedible crust" offering relief to "the greedy instead of the needy." It was not the question of the increased taxes but rather of the size and nature of the new levies which promoted the differences between the Chief Exec-utive and congress, and Barkley's position indicated stiffening congres-sional independence in formulating legislation, rather than an all-o-repudiation of Democratic princi-ples. The same attitude prevailed in the house, where Rep. Robert Doughton's declaration that he "parted company" with F.D.R. on the tax veto set the stage for congressional overriding of the veto. WAR GOODS: Sell Surplus With the U. S. treasury preparing to sell 20,000 horses, 10,000 motor trucks and 4,600 mo-- torcycles released by the army, the f I Surplus War ' Prop-- 4 erty administrator, , I William L. Clayton, t I ' i was completing or- - 1 ganization of the s " newly created agen-- X jtJi cy t0 suPervise dis-- t posal of all such W. L. goods. Clayton Uea. ury already has disposed of 100 mil-lion dollars worth of surplus materi-al chiefly to lend-leas- e and other U. S. agencies, the new unit was estab-lished by the President upon recom-mendation of the Baruch postwar planning committee to supervise sale of excess government goods so as not to glut and disrupt ordinary markets. Principal task of Clayton's agency will be to determine selling and dis-tribution policies and insist on mini-mum prices, leaving actual sale of material to the various government departments which originally pro-cured the goods. EXTEND CCC: Subsidies Included With consumer subsidy foes un-able to override a presidential veto, the senate passed a bill extending the life of the Commodity Credit corporation until June, 1945, and per-mitting its use of from 750 to 900 million dollars for payments to hold down retail food costs. Headed for acceptance in the house, whose banking committee ap-proved similar legislation, the bill also calls for continuation of price-suppo- rt programs to assure farm production, a feature endorsed by those who opposed consumer subsi-dies or government payments to processors and others to cut retail prices. A recent check by CCC showed that only one billion of its three bil-lion dollar funds have been obligat-ed and the remainder are available for extended operations. War Food Administrator Marvin Jones' re-quest for an additional $500,000,000 postwar fund was turned down. AIR WARFARE: Hit London Stung by Allied bombers' destruc-tion of their cities, Germany's once-vaunt- Luftwaffe appeared in force over London again after a two-ye-lapse, blasting the British capital with block-buster- s that ripped up residential and factory areas. As the Luftwaffe struck at London, big Allied bombers continued their attack on Nazi war-plan- e plants throughout Germany, seeking to cripple fighter production and- re-duce aerial resistance to U. S. and British forces when they open the second front. From January, 1943, to the same month in 1944, the RAF and AAF lost 3,835 bombers in operations over western Europe, it was announced, with 2,688 of the craft being Brit-ish and 1,147 American. Open Fighting With their lines lying exposed in the broad Roman plains, both Ger-man and Allied forces alike came under the heavy fire of artillery and aircraft around the Anzio beach-head, and the enemy's armored moves met stubborn resistance from U. S. and British troops. - - To the southeast, wet weather muddied the mountain-side- s and slowed up Allied advances against the Germans around Cassino. So bitter was the fighting In Cassino it-self where the Nazis clung to part of the town that a U. S. Doughboy with Yankee wit reported to his commanding officer that "... To-day, we captured a parlor, bedroom and kitchen . . ." PACIFIC: Closer to Tokyo Surging beyond Japan's crumbling outer Pacific defenses, U. S. carrier forces struck within 1,400 miles of Tokyo to blast at the Mariana is-lands, so called gateway to the ene-my homeland. While planes from the carrier force ripped Jap defenses in the Marianas, other U. S. air and naval units continued hammering down enemy resistance in the New Britain area, blasting shipping centers used as feeder points for barges supply-ing e'mbattled Nipponese troops in South Pacific outposts. As U. S. naval and air forces tore up the Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas, the enemy's vaunted navy and aerial auxiliary still showed no face to scrap, with the Tokyo radio telling its listeners that the Jap chiefs will order a fight only after drawing the U. S. from its bases. ARMY BEEF: Small Plants Tapped To assure the military services of needed supplies, the War Food ad-ministration prepared to order 3,000 small packing and slaughter plants and local butchers to set aside 50 per cent of their "army style" beef beginning April 1. At the same time, WFA announced manufacturers of cheddar cheese will be required to reserve 45 per cent of their March and 55 per cent of their April production, compared with 35 per cent for January and February. Since the small packers and butch-ers sold their entire output to civil-ians, their reservation for the serv-ices is expected to cut into domes-tic supplies. Previously, the govern-ment obtained its beef from about 425 federally inspected plants, but de-cided to tap the other sources upon the belief that more than normal numbers of cattle were being mar-keted in the smaller centers. BREAK STRIKE: Army in Los Angeles With a strike of its AFL electrical workers tying up repair of damaged power lines feeding war plants and pri-va- te homes and v business houses, Los 1 Angeles called upon ' I - the army to take 'L , 'fi over the city's mu-- s ; nicipal water and power department I ' and restore stricken L .J facilities. Power lines were W. Beery downed during one of southern California's severest storms on record, 7.3 inches of rain flooding homes and chasing small water craft into coastal ports. Glanc-ing over the drenched countryside, rough and tumbly film actor Wallace Beery groused: "One advantage in the South Pacific is that down there they've got islands." When the army moved in on presi-dential order, the strikers who walked off the job In a wage dispute, went back to their work after a y layoff. ARGENTINA: New Chief Having drawn the displeasure of Argentina's celebrated "Colonel's Club" which stands as the dominat-ing force in Argentine politics, Gen: Pedro Ramirez turned over his pres-idency to Gen. Edelmiro J. Farrell, army favorite. Ramirez' action climaxed the cri-sis created when his foreign min-ister stood for declaring war oh the Axis and subsequently was fired on the insistence of the ultra-neutr- "Colonel's Club." Although Ramirez' foreign minis-ter left his cabinet, he evidently lost the confidence of the "Colonel's Club," which then promoted Far-rell to the high position. Take Out OUCH! Long the terror of even the brav-est of heart, dental drilling may soon be relieved of much of its pain by general adoption of a new technique used by the army. The new technique is simple in it-self, the dentist pouring cold water into the patient's mouth at the rate of eight ounces a minute, while drill-ing, and draining the same amount out through another tube. By circu-lating about the mouth, the water cools the drilled tooth, the pain of which is caused by heat generated by friction of the drill. Because of the relief of the pain and the greater rotation of the drill in the reduced temperature, the den-tist can do a better job on the tooth and perform almost 40 per cent more work, army dental technicians say. FEEDING WORKERS About 6 million of the 20 million war workers in the nation are eat-ing in their factories. Expansion of facilities is expected this year to take care of 5 million more. The other 8 million work under condi-tions in which it is difficult or im-possible to provide for their needs. Many plants contain cafeterias for employees. In others, "snack wag- ons" travel around with sandwiches cake and coffee, often at the ex-pense of the management. This free food is an inducement to production. TAXES For the-fir- time in the history of the income tax, the federal treas-ury is receiving more money from individual taxpayers than from cor-porations. It is estimated that in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944 dividuals will have paid in 19M'bil" lion doUars, and corporations about 14 billions. Experts believe that this reversal in the sources of government income will be permanent. For the dura tion and for years afterward, tax rates unit remain hiffh. Allied Command Aided By French Underground Quarter of Million Men in France Said to Be L A I Ready, Anxious and Able to Bear f . Arms Against Germans. 1 1 '"i By BAUKHAGE TVeitfj Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trnst Building Washington, D. C. "Arms are what we want, arms, arms, arms!" My companion leaned across the table and pounded it with Gallic fervor, his black eyes flashing. It was our first meeting for more than a year, and I knew that those eyes fixed on me so earnestly had met the light of the desert sun, for he had fought with the Free French forces under De Gaulle in Africa and had had many an adventure serving his country abroad before he returned for this visit to his tem-porary home. "We have a quarter of a million men in the French underground ready, willing, able and anxious to bear arms only one out of 20 of those has a single firearm, and that means that while 12 men can har-ra-the German forces, as they are doing every day and every night, despite their inadequate help from the outside, 228 others must sit, twiddling their thumbs. They are getting very tired of waiting but their ennui would leave them if fire-arms could be put in their hands. If America will provide them, we will guarantee to get them into France, we will guarantee to transport them and distribute them." It is very difficult to write of that shadowy world, the European under-ground, for even the few scraps of Information which one might piece together make a dangerous pat-tern which might bring swift enemy reprisal. There is no question about the efficiency and the effectiveness of this silent army in France, In all the occupied countries for that mat-ter. There is no question about the fact that through it flows a steady stream of information out of the heart of the enemy territory right back to the Allied high commands. . Today two-thir- of the Creusot factories, once the makers of the famous French 75s, long a vital source of the German arms supply, have been put out of commission by a group of loyal Frenchmen, ac-cording to a story that is now cur-rent in Washington. Few Involved They did it at very little expense, few men were involved, and not a single civilian life was lost. They did it by blowing up a key dam and thus cutting ofl the electric power from the plant. At least three ex-pensive Allied air raids, long and carefully planned, had failed to de-stroy this dam. Not long ago, word came to an-other group of these French guer-rillas that a German munition train was about to move over a certain stretch of track. The bolts were re-moved and the rails spread. Then came the word that ahead of the munition train was a passenger train. Immediately men were sent out to flag the passenger train and order it to slow down while other men worked feverishly to yut back the bolts. The passenger train went on safely. Once more, the bolts were withdrawn and before long, the munition train was a wrecked and smoking mass. No French ci-vilian had been injured. Less dramatic is the thankless and difficult task which the French National Committee of Liberation has before it, attempting to work out with the provisional assembly, the machinery for administering the areas of France as they are liberat-ed by the Allied armies. The com-mittee must labor in an atmosphere of deliberation and enforced delay which the mood of the underground finds it hard to grasp. The members of the French Na-tional Committee of Liberation, with headquarters in Algiers, have grad-ually achieved more and more au-thority under the Allies. There have been many obstacles to overcome and the French, of course, feel that they have not been given the free hand which they desired' and de served. However,-- within recent weeks, it has been evident that the Allies are changing their ultra-con- - servative policy and it is now taken for granted that representatives of this committee, and later the pro- - visional assembly, which meets in Africa, and which is made up of persons representing various groups in France, will be given the respon-sibilities of administering the re-- occupied French territory as it is lib-erated, piece by piece; also of cre-ating the machinery for the final plebescite which will decide the per-manent government. Great Difficulties The committee itself works under great difficulties. Many of the mem-bers are utterly inexperienced in politics and they have responsibili-ties much greater than a normal governmental body would have. They must serve as an administra-tive agency, they must serve as a quasi - legislative body, and they must likewise plan regulations gov-erning procedure in the interim be-tween liberation of France and the time when a free election is held. The recent meeting of the assem-bly (February 29) began the long and complicated consideration of the plans for the provisional govern-ment. One typical plan suggested can now be described in some detail although, of course, it is likely to be modified as a result of the discus-sion in the coming weeks and months, and in its application there-after. It covers, roughly, two phases. First, is partial liberation. Just as soon as the Allies have taken over a portion of France and the military organization moves for-ward, the French committee would be placed in charge under this plan. Immediately municipal officers would be selected, councils for each mu-nicipality. When an entire province has been taken over, each munici-pal council already functioning would select delegates to the assembly now existing in Algiers. There are, at present, about 110 members of this assembly, composed of Frenchmen who have been selected by the un-derground organizations, by politi-cal organizations and by labor and other groups, and have been smug-gled into Africa. They would be joined, or perhaps substituted by, the newly elected delegates chosen by the municipal groups of each province. There would be approxi-mately one for each 100,000 inhabi-tants. Finally, the day comes when Al-lied troops march down the Champs Elysees and across the Seine to the Place du Palais Bourbon. Then the ancient building, which housed the chamber of deputies of the Third Republic, will open its doors to the new assembly. By this time, it will probably represent at least s of France. Second Step Now the second step of the plan, now considered, will be taken. The assembly will have reached, depending on the populations liber-ated, some 400 members. Then the provisional government (I use the word "government" in the European sense; we would call it the "cabinet" with an executive head) would be chosen by the as-sembly. The national committee would cease to be the executive body but would assist the assembly, un-der this chosen government, to work out the plan for the general elec-tion which would decide upon the form of government which France would have. However, this election could not be held at once for the thousands' upon thousands of Frenchmen taken from their homes for forced labor in Germany and elsewhere would have to be repatriated first. Every attempt is now being made to carry out the preliminary plans for procedures in the spirit, if not exactly in accordance with the let-ter of the French constitution and law. There are, however, many practical difficulties which arise. Take the question of woman suf-frage. Under the French constitu-tion, women are not permitted to vote. However, at present, with, most of the men away in the army or as deportees in Germany, the women make up the majority of the population. Therefore, it would be desirable for them to cast the ballot in order to get a true representative opinion of any locality. ' Meanwhile, the cry of the loyal Frenchman, in and out of his coun-try, is for arms and ammunition, dynamite and the other tools of sabotage and demolition with which they believe they can vitally dis-rupt communications and assist the invasion. 'Banks' on Elevators and Cranes Serve Naval M,.E In the naval clothing der-- i Brooklyn, a New York k cashes checks and receives 7 posits on pay days through tef who work in portable cages 'f up in the elevators to facip. f going from floor to floor, says'r lier's. '' In the navy yard near by 0tH. tellers likewise serve wibr,' from movable offices that are ca ried by cranes to the varwi "banking locations" around V yard. (V. V. (V. f. fk. (V. fV. X. (V. fl. (V. I. fk-- ft. - - ffc. - ASK ME f ? ANOTHER I A General Quiz 1. The inscription on the Liberty Bell, "Proclaim liberty through-out all the land," was taken from where? 2. The territory of China is how much larger than that of Conti-nental U. S.? 3. An obsequious man has a manner that is what? 4. The ancient city of Pompeii was destroyed by what? 5. What is the most used of all textiles? 6. What city guards the en-trance to the Strait of Melacca? 7. The German long range gun "Big Bertha" shelled Paris dur-ing World War I at a range of how many miles? 8. The city of Istanbul, Turkey, is said to lie on what? 9. The distance between San Francisco and Gibraltar has been reduced by the use of the Panama canal from 12,571 statute miles to how many miles? 10. What is the cause of The Answers 1. The Bible (Leviticus 25:10). 2. One-thir- d larger. 3. Servile. 4. Volcanic eruption in 79 A. D. (Mt. Vesuvius). 5. Cotton. 6. Singapore. 7. Seventy-six- . 8. The Golden Horn. 9. To 8,726 miles. 10. While the exact cause of is still unknown, he-redity seems to be a contributing Eactor. Surveys show that about 12 per cent of children use the left land when one parent is d, and about 45 per cent when ioth are HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week' news I BUGLE: Plastic materials have solved another problem this time in the brass musical instrument field. The army has been short of bugles because of a scarcity of brass. A plastic bugle has been developed that sounds as sweet as the metal ones. Besides that, it is only half as heavy, needs no warming up on cold mornings, and costs less to make. MOURNING: Although he has long been training himself against any display of emotion, Mohandas Ghandi wept silently over the casket containing his wife's body. The woman had shared the ups and downs of Gandhi's turbulent po-litical life for many years. GERMAN FOOD: The food situa-tion in Germany is considerably bet-ter than it was at this time last year, the British minister of eco-nomic warfare reported recently. Unless the 1944 harvest is distinctly poor, the "food front" shows no sign of cracking, he said. MARS PLANES: The naval air transport service will put 20 of the new model Mars planes into service as soon as they are finished. The new JRM-l- s are primarily designed for cargo carrying, but are quickly convertible to use as hospital ships or troop transports. They can carry 145,000 pounds of cargo, such as field guns, jeeps or engines, or 132 men, as transports. STOCKS: A wave of buying swept the New York and other stock mar-kets in response to Sen. Alben Bark-ley's resignation speech. The ma-jority leader's, outburst was taken as confirmation that a rift had de-veloped between congress and the President, a situation considered fa-vorable to business. Prime Minis- ter Churchill's statement that the European phase of the war very pos-sibly would continue into 1945 was also a bullish factor. Prices rose from fractions to three points, with aircraft and railroad shares in the lead. Bonds were carried alnn BRIEFS . . . 6y Baukhage There are 1,700,000 rural boys and girls 10 to 21 years old who are now members of clubs. They live in every county in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The war department has revealed that the army air forces have de-stroyed 40 per cent of Germany's capacity to produce fighter planes. Fewer package wrappings will be available for retail shoppers this year, according to WPB. There will be enough bags for assorted grocers If housewives save these bags and take them back to stores for their own Intensive training in g enabled American merchant seamen of the SS Monterey to rescue 1,675 survivors of a torpedoed troop trans-port in the Mediterranean, accord-ing to the War Shipping administra-tion. Production of prewar models of domestic ice refrigerators will not be resumed in the near fu-ture, the WPB reports, mainly be-cause reversion would involve a long change-ove- r period. Civilians in the U. S. will have more frozen vegetables during the next five months, as a result of an expected record high production. Spices were tin can and refrigera-tor until 1755. Not until the middle of the 18th century, when the theory of refrigeration was discovered, did a new method for preserving and preparing meat and other foods de-velop. However, in China and North Africa, where there are no facilities for refrigerator operation, spices are still used as a preservative. The Japanese war ministry has been experimenting with packed snow in the construction of air raid shelter,, |