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Show WEEKLY -NEWS ANALYSIS Allies Prepare Heavy Blows in Italy; Jugo-Slav Guerrillas Threaten Nazis Despite Outbreaks of Factional War; New Cattle Subsidy Plan Is Announced (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union'B news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.; Released by Western Newspaper Union. 1 VETS:' Schooling 'Asked Following recommendations of a committee of educators, President Roosevelt asked congress to appropriate appro-priate one billion dollars for schooling school-ing of vets with six months service after the war. Any qualified man or woman would be eligible for one year of study in a college or other educational educa-tional institution, with the government govern-ment paying the tuition and $50 living liv-ing expenses for every single person. per-son. A married man would receive $75, with $10 extra for each child. For persons with special aptitudes, it was proposed that the government finance their education up to three years States would be in control of the program, certifying vets for assistance. About 8 per cent of the personnel of the armed services would take advantage of the educational educa-tional opportunity, it was said. People Make News i Vs'. "-" v" &3: - 1 Decorated for meritorious merito-rious service as a gunner gun-ner in a .bombing raid over France, Capt. Clark Gable returned to the U. S. with 50,000 feet of colored film of army combat missions mrAt. fiiiomw territory. Gable was to return to Gabe Hollywood to touch up Riding in jeep, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (left) and Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark pause during front line tour to chat with British soldiers on Bren gun carrier. the pictures. , One of the youngest gobs ever to see action , with the V. S. fleet, j Walter ("Fuzzy") Cad- J walader was discharged from service when his true age was discov- ; ered to be 15. Young CATTLE: New Subsidy To stabilize livestock prices at present market levels, the government govern-ment announced a new subsidy plan for processors and slaughterers. Under the program, subsidies of 50 cents will be paid on common cattle selling between $10 and $11 per hundredweight, and for cutter and canner classes ranging from $7.45 to $8.45 per hundredweight. For good grade cattle selling between be-tween $14.25 to $15.25 per hundredweight, hundred-weight, a $1.45 subsidy will be paid, while for medium class stock bringing bring-ing from $12 to $13, a 90 per cent grant will be made. To discourage production of choice to prime beef, a subsidy of $1 will be paid on grades from $15 to $16 per hundredweight. To slaughterers who do not process by-products, a new subsidy of 80 cents per hundredweight was established. estab-lished. Slaughterers buying cattle below or above the stated prices will have their subsidies reduced by a similar amount PACIFIC: Neiv Blows While Lieut. Gen. George C. Ken-ney's Ken-ney's air force continued pounding Cadwalader had gone off to the wars at 14. Cadwalader RUSSIA: Reds Tighten Noose German armies fought desperately desperate-ly to draw themselves from the noose Russia's surging forces were attempting to pull tight in the great bend of the Dnieper river. To the south, the Reds spilled over the flat steppes west of fallen Melitopol, Melito-pol, and raced to thwart Germany's withdrawal of its forces from the Crimea. Action' along the whole southern . front centered around the Russians' I attempts to surround and smash the German armies threatened with encirclement en-circlement from the rear, and the Nazis' desperate efforts to hold off the Reds with heavy counter-attacks while the bulk of their troops dropped back to the west, on the edge of the 1941 European border, FOOD: Japanese outposts out-posts inthe Southwest Eacif-ic, Eacif-ic, Admiral Chester W. Nim-itz Nim-itz promised the seizure of islands which would give the U. S. fleet control of the enemy's en-emy's home waters. wa-ters. No sooner had s Admiral Nimitz, ' as commander in chief of the EUROPE: Prepare Attack in Italy Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth army edged into position for a grand assault upon the Germans' new defenses de-fenses along the 2,500-foot high Mas-sico Mas-sico ridge in southern Italy, while the Nazis prepared to 'meet the charge by massing artillery and mortars mor-tars on the front. On the Adriatic side of the battle-line battle-line to the east, Gen. Bernard Montgomery's Mont-gomery's Eighth' army also drew up into position for the next big blow by crossing the short Trigno river at several points. Meanwhile there were indications that the Germans might be planning a strong counter-offensive of their own somewhere in central Italy. Allied reconnaissance reported the steady flow of Nazi troops and materiel ma-teriel from the north toward the battle bat-tle zone. No such counter-offensive was expected, however, unless the Germans' defense weakened Allied attackers and drew them into open country where Tank Specialist Er-win Er-win Rommel could maneuver armor. ar-mor. Nazis Fight Guerrillas , Pesky guerrilla activity in Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia commanded the attention of the Germans, with Marshal Rommel Rom-mel dispatching strong mechanized forces to quell the armed bands disrupting dis-rupting communications and destroying de-stroying industrial plants. But the effectiveness of Jugo-Slav guerrillas was threatened by another anoth-er outbreak of factional dissension between the forces of King Peter's government and the new so-called "freedom army" of Tito Broz, which recently was organized and has fought independently. While the two political organizations organiza-tions reportedly have been harassing harass-ing the Germans from one end of Jugoslavia to the other, they also have been accusing one another of collaborating with the Nazis. Broz' faction sentenced 17 persons to death for such collaboration, including a former Jugo-Slav general. In attempting to wipe out the two guerrilla armies, the German armored ar-mored columns drove into the hilly country to which Jugo-Slav riflemen retire for cover. TAXES: Plan 2 Billion More Opposed to any form of sales tax, the house ways and means committee commit-tee was prepared to report a new tax bill for congressional approval, yielding only two billion dollars of revenue instead of the WA billion dollars asked by the treasury. Of the two billion dollars, 600 million mil-lion would be raised by new liquor taxes. Levies on spirits would be boosted to $10 a gallon, on beer to $8 per barrel, and on wine from five cents to $1 a gallon. Other revenue would be obtained by increasing postal rates to three cents on local mail, air-mail to 10 cents an ounce, money orders 10 to 37 cents, insured mail 10 to 70 cents, and COD mail 24 cents to $2.40. General Gen-eral admissions would be raised to three cents for every 10 cents; electric elec-tric light bulbs and tubes would be taxed to 13 per cent of the retail price, and there would be a levy of 20 per cent of the charge on bowling, bowl-ing, and $20 yer billiard table. If a salej tax were enacted, the CIO had warned that it would demand de-mand wage increases to cover additional addi-tional purchase costs. Adm. Nimitz Margarine Tax Because of growing opposition j from the dairy bloc, a stiff fight loomed in congress over the proposal pro-posal to eliminate federal taxes and restrictions on margarine. While mpre consumption of whole milk was N advocated, with "good" margarine substituted for butter, Representative August Andresen (Minn.) declared additional feed would supply sufficient milk for all purposes. Consultant to the food and drug administration, Dr. A. J. Carlson of the University of Chicago, stated that present "good" margarine has nutritional nu-tritional values equal to butter, and tax laws strike at the poorer classes in most need of adequate nutrition. When the margarine tax was first enacted, he said, there was occasional occa-sional fraud in the sale of the product prod-uct and there was less information on nutrition. Because cottonseed oil is an ingredient in-gredient of margarine, there were charges that the congressional cotton cot-ton bloc was interested in repealing the tax and restrictions. INSURANCE: Monopoly Question With the controversy of whether or not the insurance business consti- f l Pacific fleet, made his statement state-ment than it was reported that U. S. forces opened a drive on the Japs' last important impor-tant stronghold of Bougainville in the Solomons by landing on Mono island to the south of the big base. tutes a monopoly brought up again with the Supreme court scheduled to pass on the question, ques-tion, Attorney General Gen-eral Francis Biddle urged congress to defeat a bill designed de-signed to exempt insurance in-surance companies from provisions of Gen. Kenney Aiming at ieea-er ieea-er points which have been supplying Jap positions in the Southwest Pacific, Lieutenant General Kenney' s airmen have pulverized pul-verized such strategic shipping centers cen-ters as Rabaul on New Britain islam., is-lam., on which 500 tons of bombs were dumped in a five-day period. PAY BOOST: Offered Miners With 48,000 miners out on wildcat strikes, the United Mine Workers policy committee was summoned to meet for consideration of the War Labor board's proposal for granting the nation's 550,000 miners a $1.12 daily wage boost. The WLB's proposal differed from the contract drawn between the Illinois Illi-nois Coal Operators and the UMW under which the miners would receive re-ceive a $1.50 daily pay increase, with compensation for underground travel trav-el time. Acceptance 'of the WLB-proposal would result in wage increases of as much as $10 per week for 46 hours, it was said, while it was feared rejection would lead to a general gen-eral mine strike with presidential intervention. Atty. Gen. e anti-trust laws. Biddle Under terms of the bill, the antitrust anti-trust laws would not be construed as regulating insurance, or as impairing im-pairing state regulation of that business. busi-ness. "It would establish a dangerous precedent," 'Biddle said, "under which other groups of special Interests Inter-ests might apply for and receive immunity from the anti-trust laws-thus laws-thus by a process of attrition, whittling whit-tling away the gains made toward preserving and strengthening the system of free enterprise " LIFT BLACKOUT: Coasts Affected Coastal cities can turn their light on again. The war and navy de partments have withdrawn the order requiring a partial blackout along the waterfronts, to prevent our shins being silhouetted against the skv Such clearly outlined ships were an easy target for prowling submarines Because the submarine peril much reduced, the military officia l believe the blackout no longer nece! sary, it was announced. The orrir was effective November 1 FARM INCOME: Trim Debts More Prudent than in the last war farmers are applying much of their greatly increased incomes to reduc mg their mortgages and other7b,i gallons, a department of agriculhir " official said recently. Abo l lion dollars in mortgage debt vT" been paid off since 1, htdded This, he commented, is in TiT contrast with the First Wodd "P period when farm mortgage 1,," instead of declining, jumned f S' $4,700,000,000 to $7,10O,0oTo0O. m |
