Show RATIONING more hore tires more alore gas because of the increased quota ot of tires for civilians OPA has amended its gas rationing regulations outside of the 17 eastern seaboard states and the district of columbia following rubber administrator william jeffers announcement that more grade A tires would be available for essential use the OPA boosted the maximum allotment of gas for occupational driving from to gallons per month the figure is based on an average of 15 miles per gallon of gas formerly only doctors ministers and some classes of salesmen received the cherished C card allowing miles for occupational irv driving average allotments ull on B cards approximated miles now C cards will be available on application showing all traveling will be done on jobs or the car is being used to transport three or more persons to war industry the OPA also ruled that rationing certificates for replacing tires on farm tractors may be issued by local boards in areas where recapping facilities are inadequate SHIPPING allied losses the allies suffered a net loss ot of one million tons of merchant shipping in in 1942 the navy department reported the net figure was arrived at after deducting losses from existing fleets and new construction during the year the navy declared however that figures were incomplete since building records were not received from some of the allied nations in announcing the losses the navy pointed out that they included submarine sin kings mines airplanes capture and otherwise according according t to secretary of the navy frank knox submarines accounted for 50 per cent of the losses the navys statement followed a report by the truman defenso defense investigating vesti gating committee that 12 million tons of allied merchant shipping had been sunk during the year CHINA fight in mountains forty thousand japanese assaulted the chinese ardys positions in in the mountain range flanking the jieping bankow railroad both sides suffered heavy losses as the chinese resisted fiercely in the passes and on the heights the chinese also reported throwing back two japanese attempts to land along the china sea coast the first attempt found troops trying to reach the beach under cover of a lone warships fire but when chinese cannon forced a withdrawal the japs returned the next day with four warships again heavy fire frustrated a landing meanwhile american airmen were active over china com batting japanese fighter planes from an advanced allied base in hunan province NEW HORIZON old capitalism dead the capitalism of complete lais aez faire which thrived on low wages and maximum profits for minimum turnover which rejected collective bargaining and fought against justified public regulation of the competitive peti tive process is a thing of the past no words of a soapbox soap box orator these but rather the keynote of an address made by eric A johnston president of the chamber of commerce of the united states at the initial session of the chambers annual meeting continuing johnston said political and economic freedom are integrated and that what impairs one also hampers the other in like measure the horizons of opportunity being opened up are larger than ever before SHELTER IN TL TUNISIA TN ISIA 1 17 11 V tj 1 1 X protected from the burning sun SUB by a solar helmet commandeered from an axis prisoner this american corporal relaxes in his foxhole in central tunisia his dog keeps him from getting too lonely |