Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS allied bombers concentrate attacks on enemy airfields communications japs continue retreat in new guinea civilians to get 75 of food supply EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns column they hey are those of W western newspaper unions news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper union V 0 n v ap pp P killed in action against the japanese an american soldier is being borne back from the front lines by these new guinea natives nati yes chaplain owen monahan of the division folli follows follies ws the body natives are serving U S forces as stretcher bearers and supply carriers EUROPE hell on high As allied troops poised for the leap into southern europe waves of american and british bombers whirled over the foot of the italian boot smashing at enemy airfields and communication lines in the effort to paralyze axis troop movements to invasion points principal concentration has been on foggia 80 miles northeast of the once colorful now heavily bombed port of naples besides the main airdrome at foggia 10 smaller auxiliary airfields were the targets for low level bombing and machine gunning attacks spear headed by fast U S lockheed throughout the foggia ar area ea railroads over which trains were carrying enemy troops were shot up As a result of heavy concentrated RAF raids on berlin it was reported that epopee might have been killed wounded and made homeless LEND LEASE repaid with Victory victor 9 victory and a secure peace are the only coin in which we can be repaid for lend lease assistance thus far amounting to 14 billion dollars president roosevelt reported to congress of the total in armament and food distributed through lend lease great britain received billion allars dollars russia billion dollars and africa the middle east and mediterranean countries one billion million dollars china india australia and new zealand have obtained lend lease also to the amount of one billion million dollars the congress in passing and extending the lend lease act made mad it plain that the united states wants no new war debts to jeopardize the coming peace the president said SOUTH PACIFIC smash supplies using the airplane as an instrument for weakening the enemy by disrupting his supply gen douglas macarthur sent scores of bombers along the northeastern ne new guinea coast to blast at the small barges with which the japanese have been replenishing their beleaguered beleaguer ed forces in the Sala maua area As the allied airmen swooped low to bomb and machine gun the tiny cratt craft darting through the coastal shoals or streaking for cover in the many coves along the shore U S and australian forces fought up to the gates of Sala maua itself having fallen back through the jungle under pressure of allied infiltration tactics the enemy girded for a last stand at his big new guinea base in a tokyo broadcast the japanese claimed to have sunk nine american cruisers and 11 destroyers and knocked out planes since june 30 in addition the broadcast declared four cruisers and eight destroyers were damaged the japanese claims were without con in allied circles FOOD 4 less than 1942 43 americans will have less to eat during the next 10 months than in but on the average they will get as much food as they did from the government declared of the total food supply civilians will receive 75 per cent it was reported the army will be allotted 13 per cent lend lease 10 per cent and united states territories and special needs 2 per cent in commenting on the army allocation the government pointed out that a serviceman eats about 5 pounds of food daily to the civilians 3 pounds this is equivalent to adding approximately 42 million people to the population it was said WHEAT feed sales high since the initiation of the governments government I 1 s program for the sale of wheat for feed at the start of july the commodity credit corporation corporation has disposed of more than bushels or an average of monthly at the same time government purchases to replenish stocks approximate only bushels per month it was reported much of the new grain has been coming in by rail from canada through the dakotas and arrangements have been made for shipment through the pacific northwest should the demand for feed wheat continue and sales outstrip purchases the government can draw on the bushels of the 1942 crop held on farms under loans which could be called before maturity MINERS no travel pay eight public and employer members ers of the war labor board joined in in voting against approval of a wage contract between illinois coal operators and the 1 united mine workers granting the latter daily for time spent traveling underground to and from their work headed by matthew vice president of the american federation of labor the four labor members of the opposed the uan decision although voting against underground travel compensation the agreed to payment of time and a half to miners for all work over 35 hours a week also approved increased vacation payments and provision for certain free equipment and services amounting to 25 cents daily the declared the miners would have to go to court to collect any claims they hold against the coal companies for underground payment under the wages and hour law FIGHTING FRENCH made alade administrators un until til the people of france are able to choose a government the fr french ench committee of national liberation era tion operating from algiers north africa will be recognized merely as an administrative agency of those parts of the french empire over which it has succeeded in obtaining control this recognition was made by the united states great britain and russia it followed months of wrangling between the factions of gen charles de who has had strong british backing and gen henri giraud who represented the pro vichy darlan darian group which arranged for american landings in north africa with gen dwight eisenhower recently these factions combined with de securing political leadership and giraud military direction the liberation committees administrative authority however will be subject to the requirements of the allied military command in such zones of operation as north africa and the near east RUSSIA drive for coal iron with kharlov Khar kov the pittsburgh of russia again in their hands red forces hurled their might against the nazis farther to the south in the donetz basin source of much coal and iron giving way under the full weight of massed russian artillery tank and infantry attack the germans fell back slowly in severe defensive fighting but with the reds driving forward frontally instead dinst ead of slicing to the nazis rear the germans retained their freedom to move back and evade being surrounded to the north of kharlov Khar kov russian troops surged into benkov thus passing the farthest point they reached during their winter offensive but in front of Bryan sk stiff nazi defenses had slowed the russian advance to a crawl WORLD PROGRESS seen by declaring that the war was proving what could be accomplished through the operative cooperative co action of nations president roosevelt told canadians at ottawa that great councils were held on the free and honored soil of canada which look to building a new progress for mankind there is a longing in the air the president said it is not a AW prime minister mackenzie king left and president roosevelt at ottawa longing to go back to what they call the good old days surely we can make strides toward a greater freedom from want than the world has yet enjoyed 1 I am everlastingly angry only at those who assert vociferously that the four freedoms and the atlantic charter are nonsense because t they are unattainable the president t said but I 1 would rather be a builder than a wrecker hoping always that the structure of life is growing not dying ARMY RULE judge general clash D demanding em anding respect for the full dignity of the judicial branch of the federal government a U S judge clashed with the military governor of hawaii over the release of two naturalized citizens of german ancestry picked up shortly after pearl harbor when army rule was established over hawaii the two cithens citi ens sens have been held without hearings certain court functions were restored by proclamation in march 1942 and then the citizens attempted to obtain their release from custody by securing a writ of habeas corpus when the military governor gen robert richardson jr failed to produce the two citizens after judge delbert metzger had issued writs for them the judge summoned him on contempt charges and then fined him for agnor ignoring the order general richardson countered by forbidding further habeas corpus proceedings either by a court or applicants on grounds of military security the general said the march 1942 proclamation excluded issuance of habeas corpus writs but judge I 1 metzger said that the constitution required the full and free and not just the partial operation of the courts |