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Show FLARE-UP- WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS : In France See Saw Offensives Rage on Red Front As Nazis Hurl New Divisions Into Drive; Battle Lines Drawn for Skip-YeTaxes; Aerial Action Paces Activity in Tunisia -- ar Released by Western Newspaper Union. Hopeful eyes turned for several days on the high mountain passes near the French-Swis- s frontier Empty Tubes a U. S. Tin Mine By exchanging an old tube for a new tube we are helping to win the war. Through a salvage program devised by the government a plant for reclaiming tin from squeezed-ou- t tubes is now recovering several tons of pure tin daily. where large numbers of French patriots had mobilized to launch guerrilla warfare against Italian and German troops. For the most these forces consisted of young Frenchmen who were being recruited for forced labor inside Germany. First reports from Zurich and Berne, Switzerland, indicated that British RAF planes were dropping guns and ammunition to the men waiting in the Alps. German sources soon claimed that many of the men were deserting because of the lack of such supplies. This claim was substantiated by neutral reports. Much support and advice to the movement was given by the Algiers radio. This source claimed that Italian troops in the area were refusing to help pry the patriots loose from their positions. An ultimatum had been issued by the Germans before the fighting began but the French declined it saying that they were ready to fight through to the end. While nations were cheered by the news of the resistance there was little hope that the uprising could spread far. Millions of empty tubes which once contained tooth paste, shaving cream, ointments, shoe polish, etc., go through the furnaces of the Salvage Institute at Newark, organizaJ., a tion operating under the N. d, ear-muff- ed GIVE AND TAKE: In Russia SKIP YEAR TAX: Battle Lines Drawn Kharkov had fallen once more to the Nazis and still they pushed eastward. This was the story from the Ukraine sector of the broad Russian front. In another important sector, further to the north, the Russians were having the better of it as their offensive swept swiftarea around Smothe ly through lensk. This and the fighting around the anchor point of Orel were more immediately important to the Russian cause than what happened at Kharkov. For Orel serves as the turning point between the southern and central fronts. Hitler could ill afford to lose this base. While Russian sources admitted that Kharkov was important they also pointed out that a strong defense line had been established beyond the city and further claimed that Hitlers troops found nothing but dead Germans on the citys streets when they took it. Military experts reasoned that Hitler had thrust about 25 fresh divisions into his drive for that point. Moscow said that the reason Germany wanted the city was to atone for the great losses suffered by the Nazis at Stalingrad in midwinter. When House Democratic leaders decided to support a tax collection system, without abatement, as approved by the ways and means committee, their action presaged a tax battle which may reverberate in the 1944 political campaign. Party lines in the house were well defined, for the most part. Republican leaders were lined up for and Democrats against the Ruml plan to skip an entire income tax year. However, there was some cause for worry among opponents of the proposal. In addition to the powerful Republican membership which had lined up for abatement, some Democrats indicated they would vote with the Republicans. -- four-prong-ed pay-as-you-- go skip-a-ye- ar THUNDER: Over Germany Since the RAF staged its first colossal 1,000 plane bombing of Cologne last spring, Nazi industrial and communications centers in both Germany and the occupied countries have been subjected to concentrated pounding from the air. Out of 500 bombers, 475 returned after the last shattering attack on Essen. Railroad lines and the big automotive center of Rouen have been TUNISIA: the principal targets in France. The Aerial Action extensive system of canals has been Bad weather which has slowed bombed in Holland and Belgium. ground activity in Tunisia has been And in Germany, the great naval no barrier to the growing Allied base at Wilhelmshaven, the big port of Hamburg, the steel industries of Air force. the Ruhr, and the engine factories As a prelude to General Montgomof Dusseldorf and Nuremberg have erys expected push against Marshal been steadily plastered. Rommel, Allied planes have been In flights into the interior, the RAF pounding the Mareth line. An elaborate system of fortifications hewed has been using giant Lancasters, into the mountains, this line stands Halifaxes and Stirlings, which carry between the bulk of the opposing the devastating block busters in their bomb racks. Wellingtons have armies. in the bombing and strafheadlined After a month of offensive operations against the American and Brit- ing attacks on communications cenish lines in central and north Tu- ters. The great raids, with hundreds of nisia, Rommel has pulled in his wings. Although the Allies restored planes participating on a daily much of their original position, they schedule, are believed to have have concentrated their effort on caused considerable damage to comsoftening up the enemy from the munications which the Nazis will need to shift troops, and supplies to air. Allied air operations have- been meet an Allied invasion.- German been particularly extensive over Sicily. war industry appears to haveAmerAmerican and British bombers have badly crippled. But with the been pounding the great Axis base ican air force joining in the attacks at Palermo. Prosinone and Pozzal-l-o in increasing numbers, raids to date were the latest Sicilian centers may have been only a good begin- hit. MORE TIRES: On April j 1 Liberalizing tire rationing for the second time, Price Administrator Prentiss Brown expressed the belief that all motorists would be able to keep their cars on the road as the result of the release of additional tires by Rubber Administrator Wi- lliam Jeffers. Effective April 1, grade 2 tires will be available to drivers with gasoline mileage allowances exceeding 240 miles a month. This includes most B, C and T card holders. Motorists eligible for 560 or more miles will be allowed a limited number of grade 1 tires, the highest grade casing. However, all must be obtained with certificates issued by local ration boards. These changes do not affect A card holders, who are eligible for used or recapped casings. Most of the rationing formalities on recapped tires have been removed by Brown. - - it Metals Reserve company of the Reconstruction Finance corporation. Recovery of tin from metal tubes begins at drug and other stores, under the tube-for-a-tu- exchange plan, as shown in picture at top. non-Ax- is With snow underfoot, these muffler-bounmembers of the New York Giant pitching staff are going through their paces in one of the most unusual spring training seasons in baseball history. Their camp is located at Lakewood, N. J. Left to right: Cliff Melton, Van Mungo and Carl Hubbell. Southernmost of all major league training camps is that of the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals, at Cairo, 111. non-prof- DINNER TABLE: And Points While American housewives were studying what the effects of the rationing of meat, canned fish, butter, cheese and edible fats would be on their family diets, the Office of Price Administration announced that April points for processed foods Mrs. Madge Lewis , would be same as in March a total of 48 per person. These would be (above), tests old tooth paste and the points on the blue stamps let- - other tubes for metal content. Shown at right are some of the RATION DATES March 29 First day for rationing of meats, canned fish, batter, cheese, edible fats and oils. March 31 Final date for first inspection of passenger car tires for A card holders and motorcycles; last day on which A, B and C stamps in war ration book 2 may be used. (Stamps of second ration period may be millions of old tooth paste, shaving cream and other metal tubes received at the reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. used from March 25.) 12 Expiration date for Period 4 fuel-o- il coupons. May 31 Last day for use of stamp No. 12, good for five ' "r pounds of sugar. June 15 Last valid date for stamp No. 17, good for one pair April of shoes. September 30 Expiration date for Period 5 fuel-ocoupons. il tered D, E and F in war ration book No. 2. In announcing the meat rationing, government officials were careful to point out that while the total amount to be consumed by the nation would be cut 12 to 15 per cent, there would still be enough meat to allow healthy diets, for U. S. citizens. Meanwhile the department of labor reported that the average increase in food costs throughout the Three housewives with husbands in the service sort empty metal tubes that will be melted down. These workers separate tin and lead tubes from containers made of other metals. nation during the past month had been 0.5 per cent. SECRET AIRFIELDS: Held Dutch Harbor The story behind Japans failure to seize Dutch Harbor, the navys Alaskan stronghold, is due largely to the existence of two imaginary salmon packing companies. The facts have just been revealed. The two packing firms were no more than covers for one of the Alaska defense commands most remarkable jobs the secret construction of two airfields to guard Dutch Harbor." When the Jap$ approached the naval base last June 3 (with two carriers, three cruisers, eight destroyers and four transports perhaps as strong as the forces which struck at Pearl Harbor) they understood there was no airfield within ning. 800 miles of Dutch Harbor. FARM PLAN: In the midst of their assault the found themselves hit from beJaps From Cornbelt hind by land based planes and The importance of a strong home bombed and torpedoed by land based front especially in the food sector planes. Their spy work so successwhen officials of ful at Pearl Harbor had failed. was 12 cornbelt states concluded a series of meetings to offset what former LITTLE STEEL: President Herbert Hoover calls Formula Fades symptoms of a dangerously degenA source of comfort to almost everating agriculture. Governors of eight states and high ery labor union official is the fact formula is fast ranking officials of four others draft- that the LittleasSteel a factor in wage ined a series of recommendations that, disappearing creases approved by the War Labor among other things, would: board. The bulk of wage adjustessential an as Recognize farming based on inequaliwar industry; release immediately ments now is ties. all present stock of farm machinery Reason for the disappearance of now in the hands of leaders or disd formula is that a tributors and provide sufficient ma- the of of units other employees already have majority terial for completion not now finished; grant selective received the 15 per cent general inas service deferment for all experi- crease permitted by the formula ofadjustment. WLB enced labor essential to farm pro- a duction and terminate the present ficials state that scarcely any imindustry have unsatisfactory system which sends portant branches atofleast that much not raised is not where it wages farm machinery since January 1, 1941. adapted. much-debate- cost-of-livi- Following sorting and testing, Pouring molten tin into molds. the tubes are fed to the furnace. The first nine months of During e the plan 700,000 metal in these tubes, assaying pounds of tin were recovered for about 95 pure tin, molded into use by war industries. pigs of about 100 pounds each. tube-for-tub- Joseph Schott, age 18, is tending a remelting furnace. |