Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS essential work only deferment basis allied fliers pour more block busters austers on berlin and italian defense targets nation ponders possible labor draft EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns they are those of western newspaper unions news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper union Z 4 17 A k 45 k when american troops captured amnnda airfield on new georgia island in the central Solon tons after a bitter struggle they found these japanese fighter and bomber planes wrecked by the yanks heavy aerial bombardment EUROPE scarred and burned prime minister Chur chills vow to sear scar and burn hillers Hit lers european fortress was drawn in sharp focus with the plane raid on berlin and the bombardment of italian communication and industrial centers poised at three different points allied armies awaited the command command to spill over into europe one million men stood in in the near ea east st another million were concentrated in sicily and north africa and approximately aa 21 million were ready for action in england but as they waited allied bombers poured block busters austers on the axis industries turning out armaments for the enemy forces assaults continued on the railroads over which the axis could rush reinforcements to meet the allied invasion and airfields from which axis planes could rise to challenge the allies air cover for the oncoming troops were ripped up hitler first concentration on the defeat of hitler but consideration of means of speeding up the war in th pacific were the principal milita topics of the quebec conference conferee con ferenc feren between president roosevelt and prime minister churchill in the political field plans were laid to return friendly countries over to the provisional governments in exile ej enemy countries would remain suba subject to military government declaring that unification was needed to ordinate coordinate co the services of the combined allied armies navies and air forces the conferees said that additional meetings would be necessary and probably would be called at shorter intervals A tripartite tri partite conference with russia concerning the future disposition of europe will be sought it was stated PACIFIC at japs back door while the little sons of heaven fell back before the advancing allied armies in the southwest pacific american forces under vice adm thomas C kinkaid stole through the misty swirling aleutian fog to retake kiska island and plant their battle standards ak within vice admiral miles of the thomas kinkaid Itin kaid northern point of the japanese empire on this northern point at karamu shiro stands the great military base guarding the back door to tokyo already american heavy bombers have made two raids on karamu shiro but since the fogs which shroud the north pacific assemble here and then move eastward toward the aleutians Aleut ians the japs still possess an advantage in weather in the southwest allied troops bore down on Sala maua new guinea as the japs fell back for a last stand before the town in the central solomons the enemy were penned in their last holding on island MANPOWER dads to go to meet the armed services call for men during the last half of 1943 it will be necessary to induct IC about fathers selective service director lewis B hershey declared out of every dads 7 wl will 11 be drafted and perhaps 13 rejected according to hershey le is of the 1566 isey he S e IA I 1 A men of rec ec ord july 1 will be called to the colors before the end of the year another will be obtained from reexamination examination re of the physically unfit in 4 F and those hitherto deferred because of essential occupation exhaustion of this pool will result in the induction of fathers to meet the armed services goals fathers employed in essential war work may obtain deferment hershey said particularly if they are employed in areas with labor shortages of the exempt because of agricultural activities none are expected to be called to prevent interference with food output labor draft director Her statement followed reports that the government was shaping a national labor draft to meet a need for new workers for essential industry war manpower commissioner paul V mcnutt declared that the would continue to resort to voluntary efforts to obtain the necessary help recently the made essential occupation the sole basis for draft deferment even for fathers after october 1 with most of the 18 year olds scheduled for the services with many workers loath to switch to war work from nonessential non essential occupations pat ions and with the supply of working women about drained attention was focused on a labor draft for so solution of the manpower problem INCOME TAX estimate returns fifteen million taxpayers will be required to file estimates of their 1943 income taxes september 15 but the nations farmers will have the choice of making their declarations on that date or december 15 all married men with gross incomes of or more and single persons earning 2700 or over must file figures showing how much they owe the government in excess of the 20 per cent being deducted from the wages through the current withholding tax at the same time a 50 per cent payment of the estimated excess liability must be made if farmers file a return of their estimated tax september 15 they also must make a 50 per cent payment it if they choose to file december 15 they must make full payment in the case of the average taxpayer he will be allowed allowed a 20 per cent error in margin farmers are granted a 33 per cent margin all taxpayers will have to file a final return on their tax liability next march 15 it at which time any bal ances will be settled RUSSIA seeks iron the coal and iron of the donetz basin lay before the massed might of the russian armies as they surged forward on the southern front in one sector where the nazis claimed more than reds were concentrated their lines were slowly pushed back under the heavy russian artillery and tank fire and rolling waves of infantry farther to the north the reds pressed westward after re taking the blackened ruin of kharlov Khar kov the great industrial city whose foundries and mills shaped the donetz iron into steel here the russians threw out a column that bore down on the big railroad line running into the far southeastern corner of the donetz basin where the nazis were fighting the latest red break As fighting mounted in the south it was lepor reported ted that a finnish labor leader had met a british union representative in sweden and given him proposals for settling the russo finnish war these called for respect for traditional finnish territory and all allied aed economic assistance TIRES to release seventeen million automobile tires will be released for essential civilian use in 1943 and plans are being made for the distribution of 30 million more next year rubber director william jeffers reported distribution of 30 million tires next year however will depend upon the war production boards approval of an expansion in the synthetic rubber manufacturing facilities since most of the tires would be synthetic and more time is required for their fabrication additional equipment will be needed to meet the distribution goal declaring that only holders of B and C gas ration cards could be expected to obtain new tires jeffers said that the rubber on the wheels of americas automobiles remained the greatest assurance for future driving every effort should be made to retain these tires in in use by recapping jeffers declared worlds steel center two giant battleships and more than 1000 four motored bombers can be built every 24 hours hour with the daily output of the american steel mills annual capacity of the industry now totals tons about more tons than in 1940 by 1944 capacity is expected to reach tons record ore shipments and scrap supplies have enabled the mills to operate at close to per cent of ak M U S worlds steel center capacity blast furnaces which melt the ore into metallic iron from which steel then is made have been increased to handle tons of raw material annually because it has been previously refined scrap can be mixed with the molten iron from the blast furnaces for production of steel thus conserving the need for add additional ore and speeding the manufacturing fac turing process FOOD PRICES blames middlemen charging the existence of an ever widening gap between prices received by farmers and those paid by consumers rep hampton P fulmer S C declared money mad middlemen making war profits up to per cent are responsible for shortages and price increases of foodstuffs fulmer is leader of the houses farm bloc office of price administration figures show that a majority of large wholesalers made at least pr per cent greater profits in 1942 than in in 1939 fulmer said while one fifth of all wholesalers received profits of per cent to remedy the alleged profiteering fulmer said he would press tor for establishment of set prices for basic farm commodities with percentage markups markuis allowed for distributors and retailers |