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Show I . WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Red Army Forges Deeper Into Poland, Southwest Drive Perils Nazi Troops; Allied Bombers Blast Western Europe; Strikes Show Marked Increase in 1943 (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these e'"m"Vit,ne.MDer') Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ol mis newspapc Released by Western Newspaper Union. PROHIBITION: Before Congress Prohibitionists lined up in support of Rep. Joseph R. Bryson's bill forbidding for-bidding sale or manufacture of au beverages containing more than Vz of 1 per cent of alcohol for the duration as a congressional committee commit-tee prepared for hearings on the measure. . As prohibitionists organized support, sup-port, Rep. Emmanuel Celler said it was rumored that they had raised $10,000,000 for lobbying in Washington. Washing-ton. , , Meanwhile, it was reported that the Anti-Saloon league would remain on the sidelines during consideration of the bill, devoting its efforts to persuading President Roosevelt to declare prohibition as a war measure meas-ure under his present vast powers. COLLEGE FOOTBALL: No Deaths For the second time in the 12 years he has compiled statistics on college football deaths, Dr. Floyd R. Eastwood of Purdue U. announced no fatalities due to football in 1943. Possibly because of a lack of sufficient suf-ficient amounts and quaUty of equipment, equip-ment, nine deaths were recorded in high school football, Dr. Eastwood said. Fatalities in the sport have gradually gradu-ally decreased since he started his survey in 1931, when 31 deaths were announced, Dr.- Eastwood said. Since most deaths have been due to head injuries, he suggested that grid leaders look into possible use of new crash helmets designed for military use during the present war. '44 CONVENTIONS: Chicago Bids With 10,000 visitors expected at both the Democratic and Republican national conventions this year. Big Business in Chicago bid to have the conclaves held there, with New York also reportedly interested. In Chicago alone, representatives of hotels, restaurants, realty and financial concerns, banks and utili- in i miuum.ijiuiiji" 1 . ' ir-.. :-K If -T4:V 4w "War Is Hell" Nowhere better is this expression indicated than in this Italian town of Castel Di Sangro, lying in rubble. AGRICULTURE: Hogs Pour In Shipment of 476,500 hogs within a 3-day span recently in comparison with 278,400 for the same period a year ago, reflected crowded conditions condi-tions in 12 leading middlewestern markets, with only choice 200 to 300 pound pigs attracting $13.75 per hundredweight. Many hogs were left unsold as daily trading closed, and fearful that animals might contract pneumonia with snow and colder weather, some packers urged farmers to curtail shipments, while embargoes were imposed at other centers. Tight labor conditions restricted packers' capacities, and in Chicago, at least 200 soldiers from the labor pool of a nearby camp were sent into the packing houses to help out. RUSSIA: Tangle in Poland Russian armies forged deeper into pre-war Poland in flaming action on the eastern front, overrunning territory terri-tory the Reds claimed as their own, but the Polish government-in-exile insisted must remain part of the country. As the Russ surged forward into pre-war Poland, Gen. Nicholas Va-tutin Va-tutin threw out a spearhead to the southwest, aiming toward the entrapment en-trapment of 500,000 Nazis from the rear in the big Dnieper river bend. The Reds entered pre-war Poland at a time of heightening tension over their claims that the White Russian and Ukrainian provinces of the old state were racially related to Russia. Rus-sia. Reportedly headed for Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, to seek U. S. support for the Polish government in exile's case for retention of the territory was Premier Pre-mier Stanislaw Mikolajzyk. WAR PROFITS: Want Strict Control Recommendations to change the present government procedure of recapturing re-capturing excessive profits on war material by rewriting old contracts, were bitterly opposed by Senators Walsh (Mass.), LaFollette (Wis.), Lucas (111.) and Connally (Texas). Two recommendations particularly particular-ly opposed would exempt from pres- SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Jungle Fighting Like the story of every other island is-land in ' the South Pacific, U. S. troops have had to fight for every inch of ground on tropical New Guinea, where landings have placed doughboys in possession of the air strip on Cape Gloucester and a beachhead at Arawe. With the enemy dug well in the jungle, U. S. dive bombers and artillery ar-tillery helped clear the way for. the infantry as it edged forward through the dense brush about Cape Gloucester. Glou-cester. In similar terrain at Arawe, the enemy also fell back grudgingly. While doughboys clawed forward in New Britain, other elements of the U. S. Sixth army beat southeastward south-eastward along the New Guinea coastline toward a juncture with' Australian troops driving northward. north-ward. In this sector, the Allies aimed for the big Jap shipping base of Madang, supply point for their coastal positions. Ace Lost Only hours after a dispatch from Guadalcanal had announced that pudgy, 30-year-old Maj. Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington had shot down his 26th Jap to enter the selective list of U. S. air aces, his mother received word in Okanogan, Wash., that he was missing. With a mother's faith she said: "I am confident he is all right and he will show up somehow, somewhere." some-where." Called "Pappy" because of his comparatively older age among the younger marine fliers, Boyington was a picturesque daredevil. Once, "Pappy" purposely led a squadron over a Jap airdrome, circling the field slowly and daring the enemy to come up and fight. When they did, "Pappy" nailed three. STRIKES: Increase in '43 Almost 14 million working days were lost through strikes In 1943 compared with 4 million In 1942, records of the .bureau of labor statistics sta-tistics indicated. Approximately 3,337,091 workers were involved in the estimated 3,737 walkouts, which topped the 1942 total to-tal of 839,961 men idle because of 2,968 strikes. Last year's strikes doubled the 1927-'41 average of 1,945, but it was pointed out that the depression prevailed pre-vailed during that period, and because be-cause of scarce employment walkouts walk-outs were less frequent. EUROPE: Plaster Defenses Flying over an 800-mile front, Allied Al-lied bombers rapped hard at German Ger-man defenses and industries in western west-ern Europe preparatory to the heralded her-alded invasion. But in Italy, bad weather restricted restrict-ed Allied progress over the mountainous moun-tainous terrain, and equally bitter resistance in the future loomed with the discovery that the Germans were constructing another "Siegfried line" of concrete and steel several miles in depth, and just to the north of their present positions. Continuing the softening up process proc-ess .f western Europe, swarms of . U. S. and British bombers and fighters fight-ers lashed at German factories, the important naval base of Kiel, air fields strung over northern, and the I channel coast, along which the Nazis reportedly have erected rocket guns. Chairmen Spangler and Walker ties agreed to raise $75,000 to help defray hall expenses, etc., for either party, or $150,000 for both, if they met in the Windy City. As the national committees under Frank Walker of the Democrats and Harrison Spangler of the Republicans Republi-cans studied convention sites, the Office of Defense Transportation declared de-clared Chicago was the city least likely to upset train schedules, since regular line sleeping cars with 11,368 beds terminate there, compared to 7,129 In New York. CANADIAN WHEAT: To Increase Imports With approximately 350,000,000 bushels of U. S. wheat expected to be fed to livestock during the current cur-rent feeding season, an. additional 100,000,000 to 150,000,000 bushels will be brought in from Canada, according accord-ing to government sources. Because U. S. railroad cars will be sent into the interior of Canada this winter, from 25,000,000 to 50,-000,000 50,-000,000 more bushels of wheat will be imported than otherwise possible, possi-ble, due to the freezing of the Great Lakes. Although the fteavy dairy and poultry producing areas of the Northeast have bettered their feed situation, feed grains are needed in the drouthy south central regions, and protein meals are scarce in the southwest range districts. The total to-tal supply of feed concentrates was estimated at 169,000,000 tons. SOLDIERS' VOTE: Urge Uniformity While congress wrangled over whether the federal government or the individual states should control soldier voting in 1944, the war and navy departments recommended that applications for absentee ballots bal-lots bedistributed by the services and local officials accept such applications appli-cations any time before election. Other recommendations made by the army and navy were that voting material be designed for air carriage, car-riage, and that a serviceman's vote be acknowledged by an officer no lower in rank than sergeant. Ballots must be distributed to the servicemen by mail, the departments depart-ments said, and although it is the army and navy policy to assist soldiers sol-diers and sailors in voting, "nothing must interfere with the . . . primary obligation to wage a victorious war." RAIL TRAFFIC LAM-JL ' riflWiVt. RvMKMrBtonflltft fettHHiKiri ' mt iTfhTftfi 'n TV ' ' ii'l liili ll Senators LaFollette and Walsh ent repricing all contracts for standard stand-ard commercial articles, and products prod-ucts not actually a part of goods delivered. In the first case, the senators said, one company with orders for a standard commercial article did six times the business of the 1935-'39 period, yet would be exempt from repricing. In the second case, the senators said, one machine tool company whose product, of course, does not actually appear in finished war goods, did six times its normal business, busi-ness, yet would not be forced to reprice re-price its contracts. The nation's railroads broke all transportation .records last year, both for passengers and freight. Voll ume of -freight hauled was 14 per cent above 1942, the previous high and passenger traffic shot up 58 per cent over the preceding year Average load of freight per train was 1,116 tons, another record Per car load was 41 tons. Average volume vol-ume of passengers per car was greater than ever before. An in-crease in-crease of about 20 per cent In gross revenue is expected. STEEL Within six months production of steel should return to nearly normal conditions, it is said. "Output of steel ingots will be lower during 1944 than the record set last year of 89 million tons." While the invasion barge program is in progress, demand for flat-rolled steel will continue high, it is Dr " dieted. Also needed are steel strips for landing mats. On the domestic oi rans'r Prn of rails and pipes will be substan-tially substan-tially mcreased- |
