Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS fighting see seesaws saws in southern ital italy As nazis prepare for allied landing reds capture important rail lines food subsidy war continues to rage EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns they bey are those of western newspaper unions news analysts and not necessarily ol of this newspaper released He leased by western newspaper union Z R I 1 4 Z A 7 0 A south pacific this picture shows some of the devastation U S bombers bomber ha have caused in japans big shipping and air base of feeder point for enemy forces operating in new guinea and the solomons in a recent attack fighter planes from aircraft carriers protected land based bombers in their assaults on their footing on the southwest shore of bougainville bougainvillea Bou gainville secure U S troops were being re enforced for their push inland against the japs reportedly clinging to their last major stronghold in the solomons the U S brought fighter planes into the action to bomb and machine gun enemy positions hew hewn into the jungle since pearl harbor a naval spokesman reported 67 U S warships sunk one battleship four aircraft carriers nine cruisers 39 destroyers and 14 submarines ITALY fighting seesaws see saws daivs fighting in the mountains seesawed in southern italy as the germans cleared sections of the west coast to the north in anticipation of allied landings from fleets which they reported were massed in naples bitter fighting marked the mountain warfare in the mignano region where the germans were guarding the pass leading into the level plain stretching approximately 80 miles to the north to rome one U S company alone used hand grenades in the close rough encounters along the rocky slopes anchored in six foot deep tunnels securely thatched with heavy timbers and sand bags the nazis held strong positions relatively secure from dive bombings or artillery fire but sometimes open to attacks fro from the side or rear SUBSIDIES fight ott on with other branches of agriculture representatives of the livestock trade spearheaded spear headed the attack against the administrations subsidy program before the senate agriculture committee on november 1 president roosevelt had called on congress to continue government payments to encourage production and reduce consumer costs through retail price reductions announcing the program now runs the U S million dollars annually frank boice of the american livestock association told the senate committee subsidies for reducing ra retail meat prices will save the consumer barely 2 annually P 0 wilson of the joint livestock committee declared cattle producers were never consulted on establishment of meat price ceilings opposition to subsidies also was registered by the grocery manufacturers of america representative of 85 per cent of the nations processed food producers the organization stated that price control of its products on a subsidy basis was unsound because the cost would have to be repaid in taxation plus administration expense of the program RUSSIA near poland slowly russian troops were bending the center of the nazi battle line back to the prewar pre war polish border with the reds no less than 50 miles distant from the old boundary at two points west of kiev in addition the russ were snapping important rail lines hooking up nazi forces in the north and south to the south the germans reported russ attacking at krivoa rog big mine center where the nazis stopped the reds surge through the ukraine when it threatened to trap huge forces in the river bend in washington D C it was announced russian armies had been aided by the lend lease of planes and more than tanks in the two years ended september 30 WHISKY BUSINESS senate to investigate charged with hoarding whisky stocks to evade taxation and raise prices big distillers were to be called to washington D C before a senate subcommittee to explain alleged shortages despite reported inventories of five or six years A said senator frederick van nuys indiana we know that some of the big corporations which have been buying up little distilleries are keeping liquor in the frederick warehouses eight or van nuys ten years when most liquor does not age percept perceptibly after four years senator van nuys said other phases of the investigation will concern the practice of distilleries selling inventories to stockholders and the alleged mixture of straight whisky with 70 per cent neutral spirits for sale under strange brand names to evade price ceilings agriculture assured of fertilizer As manufacturers the army and tennessee valley authority have entered into an agreement with the war production board to supply tons of nitrogen for agriculture for the season under the agreement the army will realize per ton on the nitrogen on an fob basis with TVA selling the tha fertilizer in certain southern states associated cooperatives inc will act as distributors and in all other states east of the rocky mountains TVA will sell the product through brokers designated by to manufacture the nitrogen the army will operate its marginal facilities cili ties for ammonium nitrate and TVA will furnish specifications for the conditioning materials necessary for a fertilizer nitrate hog marketing with a 1943 spring pig crop of the government is making every effort to assure an orderly marketing of hogs and prevent heavy runs in december and january to achieve this end industry representatives have banded into committees at 14 key terminal centers to advise brodu producers cers on shipments As a further aid the war food administration will release marketing instructions through press and radio complicating the marketing situation is the fact that the record pig chop crop must be handled in the face of strained transportation facilities and manpower shortages storage of the e pork and byproducts by products tor for civilian military and lend lease use also will tax refrigerator capacity it is pointed out that orderly marketing will assure producers of to pound weights of the minimum government support price of 1375 chicago basis farm speculation destructive sp speculation ecula to prevent iowa senator guy gillette has introduced legislation under which a seller would pay a 10 per cent resale transfer tax on the purchase price ot of farm land when the property has been acquired after the passage of the act and resold within a year the legislation would expire two years after the war under another plan gillette said profit proul on a transaction guy gillette would be absorbed to pe per r cent by a tax ranging up NATIONAL GRANGE goss reelected re elected meeting in 11 grand rapids mich for its annual convention conventi on the national gr grange ange reelected re elected albert goss washington D C as master goss h highlighted the convention by calling for congressional revision of the present parity formula which he asserted falls fails to include farm labor c costs wrongly assumes that farm income for the base period of was in proper proportion to non farm income is based upon price rather than income and is obsolete because the relative value of commodities has changed greatly in recent years also elected were david agans three bridges N H overseer W G armstrong niles mich treasurer harry b C caton coshocton Cosh octon ohio secretary and mrs bessie seebert chicharo chichako Chi chako chakov okla mrs blanche D newsom columbus ind mrs alice pearson miami fla and eugene A eckert mas boutah ill national committeemen WORLD RELIEF study financing while president roosevelt called upon congress to authorize appropriations to finance americas share of the united nations relief belief and rehabilitation administration the considered various proposals for raising funds to carry out the program during its meetings in atlantic city N J saying it is hoped a small fraction of the national income of the contributing member nations of the will be sufficient for its work president roosevelt defined the organizations purpose as an endeavor to help the liberated peoples to help themselves so that they may have the strength to undertake the task of rebuilding their destroyed homes their ruined factories and their plundered farms studied three proposals for raising funds 1 assessment of member nations on the basis of per capita income 2 member nations contributions of 1 per cent of their national income 3 assessments against foreign trade figures of the member nations U S PLANES wings on guns so well are U S fighting planes armed armed that it can be said american r engineers are designing guns and putting wings on them with that statement army air force technician col frank C wolfe listed 19 reasons for U S planes tremendous firepower among the reasons were hydraulic and electrically operated gun turrets with multiple gun installations increased firepower for nose and tail positions of all types of bombers improved computing sights for all gun positions fighter gun sights which extend present sighting ranges improvements in armor plate and bullet resistant glass remote control and fire control systems no less than 70 types of aircraft are being tested at army fields colo nel wolfe said with approved types sent to battle zones for additional tryouts before being finally put into production hat in ring three times governor of ohio john W bricker formally announced announce ed his candidacy for the republican nom mation for president during his tenure as chief executive the states debt has been cut 23 22 million dollars and a 24 million doll dollar ar postwar building and highway fund has been set up from surplus announcing his candidacy brick er said we must john bricker keep on ourselves strong liberty loving ing self governing and use that I 1 and influence fluence ln throughout ghost the world to bring about better in interns terna dional relations and to pre prevent v ent the deadly destruction of war 11 |