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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS FDR, Churchill Seek Italy's Surrender As Allies Smash at Sicily Resistance; MacArthur Forces Gain in New Guinea; Farmers Get First Call on Gas Stocks m s wfORw? NOTE: y,h" opln'oni are expressed In these columns, they are those of western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ' Released by Western Newspaper Union. CABINET: FDR Restores Order Hereafter, if any administrative heads in Washington are in conflict over fact or policy, they must resolve re-solve their differences quietly or else turn in their resignations. That, in short, was the ultimatum President Presi-dent Roosevelt laid down after Henry Hen-ry Wallace had charged Jesse Jones with interfering with the operations of the Board of Economic Warfare, which Wallace headed. The President solved the Wallace-Jones Wallace-Jones fracas by abolishing the BEW and establishing the Office of Economic Eco-nomic Warfare and then appointing as its director Leo T. Crowley, alien property custodian and chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation. cor-poration. The action relieved both Wallace and Jones of direction in the gov- Kis k t J' - -'w"'tfr.y - j 4 K. ; i-juxs, f !x , - ft t ' "v. , I ernment's purchase of foreign materials. ma-terials. Previously, the two agencies agen-cies had shared in the program, with the Reconstruction Finance corporation, which Jones heads, supplying sup-plying the funds for the buying. OPA: Raps 'Bright Boys' Declaring the best thing that could happen to the Office of Price Administration Admin-istration would be a reduction of 50 per cent in its staff of 2,700 attorneys, attor-neys, Lou R. Maxon, deputy administrator ad-ministrator of OPA, turned in his resignation. Maxon's withdrawal came at a time when he was being prominently prominent-ly mentioned as a general manager for the OPA, a job later given to Chester Bowles, a New York advertising adver-tising executive. He complained of the government's failure to establish estab-lish a definite food program, charging charg-ing that instead nf wnrkinff nut a - . -.".- iWiB Seabees are shown about to board a transport somewhere in Australia for duty in a combat zone. A naval band gives the men a lively sendoff. Although performing construction work, Seabees are also trained to protect pro-tect themselves against attack. SICILY: 'The Hour Has Come' Axis resistance on Sicily stiffened as Gen. Bernard Montgomery's Brit ish 8th army moved on the big port of Catania, which is 55 miles from the terminus of Messina, where but two miles of water separate the island is-land from the Italian mainland. As the battle of Sicily raged. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Min-ister Churchill told the Italian people peo-ple the hour had come to honorably PACIFIC: New Guinea Victory With the fall of Mubo, the big Japanese base of Salamaua in New Guinea lay in peril of capture by Australian and American forces operating op-erating from all sides. Mubo fell about two weeks after the start of General MacArthur's Pacific offensive. American troops had landed on Nassau bay to the east of the town, and then marched into the interior to cut off Japanese set policy, the administration was meeting each crisis with a makeshift make-shift compromise, thus creating the basis of another crisis. Price Administrator Ad-ministrator Brown replied that OPA had a definite policy in "roll-backs" to reduce retail costs to September, Septem-ber, 1942, levels. A Detroit, Mich., advertising executive, ex-ecutive, Maxon flailed OPA "theorists" "theo-rists" and "professors" for attempting attempt-ing to institute a grade labeling program pro-gram for goods, which would eliminate elim-inate all trade marks and brands and have the effect of eliminating competitive merchandising. While British troops clattered toward the great plains which roll around Catania, Gen. George S. Pat-ton's Pat-ton's 7th American army fought its way into the area of Vizzini, from which the British flank can be covered cov-ered or an assault sprung toward the Axis rear. Hundreds of Allied paratroopers continued to be dropped behind the enemy's lines near Catania. To the front, the 8th army recovered from A hMVT Avic Mniir nnfV. n.l...U 1 forces from the rear and effect a : junction with the Australians. At i the same time, Allied soldiers at- ' tacked the enemy's main lines, and thus, completely enveloped on all 1 sides, Mubo was overrun. The Allied success at Mubo came as American troops pressed closer ( to the Japanese air base of Munda ( on New Georgia island. Approach- ing the stronghold from the north . and east doughboys worked cautiously cau-tiously through jungle foliage to gain CATTLE: g Marketing Increases Marketing of cattle increased in the face of talk in Washington that the OPA was considering establishing establish-ing ceilings on livestock to break the speculative angle of growers and spur liquidation of herds. Plans also called for modifying the government's govern-ment's support price of $13.75 for hogs, to , discourage feeding for heavy porkers. Although cattle marketing increased in-creased over recent abnormally low levels, supplies still were well below last year's runs. Calves remained tviui WIUI11 UlCJf had driven into Montgomery's base at Augusta before being repelled. FUEL: Gas for Farmers Predicting a tightening of the supply sup-ply of crude oil in the West, the Petroleum Administration for War took steps to provide sufficient gasoline gaso-line for farmers throughout the country by giving them first call on available stocks. According to WAP, farmers are using about 100,000 barrels of motor mo-tor fuel daily, 90 per cent of which is being consumed outside of the East. About 70,000 barrels are required re-quired in the Middlewest. ground. Squeezed, the .enemy launched one counterattack, but withdrew Are after being stopped. CANNED GOODS: Cut Civilians' Share Already rationed, canned fruits, vegetables and soup supplies for civilians will be cut another 15 per cent in the next 12 months, the War Food administration announced. Of the prospective pack of vegetables and soups, domestic consumers will get 70 per cent, and of canned fruits and juices, they will receive 53 per cent. The total supply of canned vegetables vege-tables and soups in the next year is expected to total 262.000.000 cases I I ' As the WAP made its announcement, announce-ment, the big-inch pipe line running from Norris, 111., to the East was opened. Eventually the line will pump 300,000 barrels of crude daily, thus draining the West of supplies that had previously abounded because be-cause of a lack of transportation facilities. Meanwhile, the oil industry continued con-tinued alarmed by the drop in oil reserves, partly caused, spokesmen said, because of a virtual cessation of exploratory drillinc as -w uuu,w vaaca. Of this amount, civilians will be allotted approximately 180,000,000. The War Services will obtain practically prac-tically all of the remainder, with about 4 per cent going to the Allies and other purposes. About 61,000,000 cases of canned fruits and juices, excluding citrus, will be produced, WFA estimated, and of this supply, civilians will be allowed approximately 31,000,000 cases. Approximately 24,000,000 cases will be allotted to the serv- Calves scarce in market. exceptionally scarce. Continued heavy shipments of hogs and sheep however, bolstered the over-all meat production. OPA's plans for livestock ceilings have been bitterly contested by congressional con-gressional farm spokesmen, meat packers and cattle raisers. Under the present system of setting wholesale whole-sale ceilings, small packers have found difficulty operating since no bar has been set on prices paid for stock. BANKING: Deposits Rise , The extent to which banks are financing the war was illustrated in the announcement that the investment invest-ment in government securities by 20 of the nation's largest banks ap-proximated ap-proximated 18 billion dollars on June 30, an increase of 7 billion dollars dol-lars from a year earlier. The announcement also revealed that the 20 Institutions had total deposits de-posits of 31 billion dollars on June ?oV ' SiX bUUon d0 over of prices for crude. Between 50 to 60 billion barrels of new oil will have to be discovered within the next 20 years, it is said, to maintain present production. RUSSIA: Giants Locked Rain drenched the sprawling Ukrainian plains around Belgorod, hindering mechanized activity on the south end of the flaming' Russian front, but Red armies attacked in force above the northern pivot of Orel, extending the battlefield to 225 miles. Both the Germans and the Russians Rus-sians were agreed on one thing: the great number of men being used on both sides. Around Orel, the Nazis admitted that the Reds had broken their lines at two points, but had been driven back in counter-attacks. Heavy ground action at Orel was supplemented by strong Russian aerial action. Red bombers blasted the principal railway installations of the town, from which the Russian lines bend southward in a great arc thus offering the Germans a pivot for encirclement from the rear. ices, with the remainder marked for the Allies and export. FOREIGN DEBTS: Mexico, Canada Pay An improvement in financial conditions con-ditions arising from the stimulation of the war was noted in the action of the Mexican and Canadian governments gov-ernments in announcing plans for the discharge of their debt obligations. obliga-tions. For the first time in years, Mexico Mex-ico resumed payment on 15 issues of national debt, excluding all railroad rail-road bonds except the Tehuantepec National railway 5 and 4 per cents. Annual distributions on the issues will amount to only $2,050,-000, $2,050,-000, however, on a total Mexican debt of 1 billion 200 million dollars, including back interest Last December, the Mexican congress con-gress ratified an agreement to pay 40 million dollars in settlement of all U. S. claims except for expropriated expropri-ated oil property. Canada's improved financial condition con-dition was reflected in its redemp-tion redemp-tion and prior payment on 106 million mil-lion dollars of bonds. K1i, TtreSources amounted to 33 billion 700 million dollars. GREAT BRITAIN: Discuss Post-War Growing American seapower and the administration of neutral colc mes after the war were subject, lengthy discussion in Great Britain' Labonte Emanuel ShinweU sairt that the end of the war will ld tte M 'i,W merchat marine of 30 million tons against Britain's 8 million tons. He proposed Z J ganization of an Anglo-American board to regulate shipping in the post-war world. me Refusing to be drawn out on the subject, government spokesm contented themselves with the elation that American sZg w spared Great Britain fronffe Emphasizing that Great n,.- intended to administer s owl omes after the war Lv co1' said mat the govTrn sidering a plan whereby certafn onies would be adnTstered hi' mixed commissions consist. y. representatives from n g of territories and nfons whfch"8 financial interests tovolved ! |