| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS strong allied drive in south pacific threatens main jap base in solomons nazis make new bid to cripple russia through attack on orel belgorod line EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these column 8 they are those of western newspaper unions news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper union 4 I 1 A pa I 1 I 1 1 1 4 A Z V 1 11 af A taking oath as colonel oveta culp hobby assumes command of the new army corps which replaces the pictured with colonel hobby from left to right are brig gen H B lefis acting adjutant general odthe of the army gen george C marshall and gen brehon somervell Somer veU NAVY STRIKES jap fleet hit the battle in the southwest pacific grew in in intensity with the japs throwing the full weight of their air and sea power against the advancing allied forces drawn out by the U S navys shelling of the jap anchorage of Ba through which supplies have been carried to the big enemy air base of munda on new georgia island formations of the japanese fleet engaged the american ships in the kula gulf coming off a poor second best according to a from general macarthurs Mac Arthurs headquarters no less than six enemy vessels probably were sunk and four damaged we lost one cruiser which with a destroyer sunk in the bombardment bar dment and a triin transport sport knocked out in the earlier landings brought our own known losses to three all along the mile front the japs hurled their aircraft at american positions enemy fighters and bombers flew over newly occupied rendora Ren dova struck at general macar thurs beachhead below Sala maua in new guinea and attacked darwin in northwestern australia in force at Sala maua allied forces had worked their way through jungle to the northwest so that with general macarthurs Mac Arthurs position that jap base was now ringed from three sides JAPAN parcels out territory in development of the great east asia co prosperity sphere japan ceded four malay and two burmese states to the kingdom of thailand north of malaya and east of burma thailand by its alliance with japan at the start of the war provided the nipponese with a backdoor into these british possessions the cession of the malay states gave thailand rich rice tin and rubber producing territories the population includes more than a million natives the two burmese states constitute square miles the cession was made on occasion of premier hedike tojos visit to the thai capital of bangkok tojo later went to shanghai where chandra bose exiled hindu nationalist leader called for the organization of all rebels for the defeat of the british in india WAR production up and down declaring that we are on the verge of one of the greatest trials of our national history war production chairman donald nelson revealed that the nations arms output for may had gained for aircraft and naval vessels but fallen in other lines on a weight basis airplane production jumped 10 per cent in may nelson said with bomber del deliveries ivories up but fighter manufacture unsteady A total of tons of naval vessels were completed in other lines ground ordnance such as tanks artillery etc was down 3 per cent merchant vessels were down 4 per cent and miscellaneous munitions were down 7 per cent for the first half of the year nelson said the estimated output fell below the goals marked out merchant shipping was 44 per cent of the years year s objective army ordnance and naval vessels 40 per cent and aircraft 35 per cent SUBSIDIES would limit expenditures if president dept Roosevel ts subsidy program to rollback roll back the price of retail food was to become the administrations bulwark in its anti inflationary program congress indicated that it would retain a voice in such a policy by limiting the governments expenditure of money in its operation in considering a new commodity credit corporation bill which would allow subsidies the senate banking and currency committee heard sen robert taft propose an appropriation of million dollars to daroll rollback prices to january 1 1944 unless such a limitation were made taft said the government could borrow any amount from the reconstruction finance corporation president roosevelt declared it was necessary to rollback roll back food prices to equalize the stabilization of wages subsidy opponents contend that such payments win will only increase the public debt and wages generally have risen to a level at which consumers can well afford to buy food at present prices RUSSIA nazis gain big guns thundered airplanes whined in endless swoops huge tanks rumbled over barren plains action had come again on the russian front while the nazis insisted the action was of a local minor character in segments segment of the ukrainian and bursk provinces in russian hands the reds claimed the germans had launched a major offensive although announcing that they had stopped the advance generally along the mile front the reds ad admitted itin the nazis had breached their defenses in the belgorod see sector tor red reports indicated the nazis had massed large armored formations in the battle zone the 1271 tanks the russians said they knocked out would be sufficient to outfit four nazi panzer divisions in two days the reds claimed they shot planes out of the sky for their part the nazis said their 1 infantry had initiated a local attack and then fighting had flared all alone along the front CANNED GOODS increase prices to absorb higher labor and material costs canners of vegetables and processors of frozen berries were authorized to increase prices of the 1943 pack by the office offic e of price administration prices of canned tomatoes corn snap beans and peas however will remain at the 1942 level seeking to stabilize the prices of these essential commodities the government will pay subsidies to canners to make up for increased costs the OPA also acted to place specific increases on spinach asparagus mustard and turnip greens to reflect wage boosts canners of spinach were allowed a per cent boost price of the no 2 can of asparagus was raised 4 cents and mustard and turnip greens were increased 1 cents increases ranging up to 3 cents a pound were allowed to processors of blueberries cranberries currants dewberries dew berries elderberries elder berries ries johnson berries and olympic berries DADS 0 K draft delay 1 by a vote of 11 to 5 the senate military affairs committee voted to delay the induction of fathers until af after ter jan january uary 1 1944 i al action on the bill will not be taken until sessions are resumed in september however one month before the drafting of fathers is scheduled introduced by senator burton wheeler the bill provides that any man married before pearl harbor who has maintained bona fide family relationships since that date and has children under 18 years of age would be exempt from induction until the first of next year As the wheeler bill was being approved by the committee the war manpower commission announced that an additional persons will have to be placed in the services and munitions industries within the next 12 months of the total men and women will be needed in uniform by december 31 materialization of the plans will mean that half of the population will either be fighting or working will be in the services in war industries in agriculture and in other non farm work POSTWAR POST WAR WORLD what labor thinks how one great union feels about the postwar post war world was ably ex pressed press edby by the united automobile workers CIO in a seven point program for peace time among other things the called for government ownership and operation of industries whose monopoly gives them dictation in their fields the 30 hour week and a vast public works program calling for construction of schools highways and power projects of private industry the said our industries can no longer be operated to serve private interests where those private interests conflict with the public need initiative can find its most useful outlet greatest recognition and highest reward when exerted in the public service service 91 the also proposed each soldier be given a 2500 bonus upon his discharge from the service CABINET FEUD jones answers wallace fur continued to fly in the heated cabinet feud between vice president henry wallace and secretary of commerce jesse jones over wallaces charges that jones had throttled activities of the board of economic warfare and failed to build up an adequate stockpile of tin rubber quinine etc before pearl harbor as directed by congress repeating his previous statement that the reconstruction finance corporation which he heads has committed itself to purchase 31 billion dollars of foreign material jones said the BEW initiated only 10 per cent of this business then he declared that the cannot sign blank checks for the use of any government agency and charged wallace with amending president Roosevel ts original order setting up the BEW to permit approval of BEW transactions without inspection in the matter of stockpiles stock piles jones said our supply of quinine was ample and BEWs program for obtaining the drug in south america failed to take account of that continents unfamiliarity with producing the bark BEW accused jones of overestimating our inventory by 50 per cent and delaying the BEWs production program mediterranean adolf comes to rescue increasing opposition to allied air raids on italy and her neighboring islands by swarms of axis planes many of them german indicate that the nazi air force is being employed in strength in the critical mediterranean area despite the stiffening resistance however allied planes broke through to pound palermo to such an extent that the italian radio admitted that sicilian air and naval base was of no further use allied reconnaissance also disclosed that the italians had destroyed shipping installations at the harbor of trapani according to american fliers the axis met the strong allied formations with new tactics approaching the rear echelons of the allied squads the enemy planes flew in a single line dropping incendiaries that burst into strings of small explosives plo official axis circles awaited an attack on sicily or sardinia or corsica capture of sicily would be necessary for an attack on the italian mainland or protecting allied convoys bound for the balkans they said while occupation of corsica and sardinia would be necessary ry for an invasion of the french coast |
