| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS nazi forces retreat toward rumania As russians regain rich farm lands allied affied troops drive new wedge into germans main defense line in ita italy y EDITORS NOTE when opinions are arc expressed irk in these columns they are those hour of western newspaper unions news analysts and not necessarily ot of this newspaper I 1 released by western newspaper union vy eat e M ar italy row on row these little white crosses croe in mount soprano cemetery mark the graves grave of fallen american Dough doughboy boys in italy OPA renewal Hene ival sought claiming that OPA has held wartime price increases to half the level of world war I 1 price administrator chester bowles appeared before the senate banking committee to te testify for continuation of the agency for another year following early in creases to iron out prewar depression chester prices the cost of liv bowles ing S has been bee held ab sol stable during the last 11 months bowles said asking for retention of present pres e nt powers bowles said OPA would continue with present techniques for keeping down prices including subsidies which he called essential cattle subsidy to bring cattle off the range and prevent a market glut in the fall OPA considered increasing packers subsidies by 30 cents to enable them to offer higher prices for the stock during spring and summer at the same time government officials considered placing a floor under medium and lower grade cattle whose quality may be affected by the tight feed situation with floors for the spring and summer above those for the fall while increased subsidies were being considered for cattle lower subsidies were being studied f for or hogs in line with government policy for decreased pig production now a hundred pounds the hog su subsidy may be cut by 30 cents SOLDIER VOTE president gets bill passed by congress the compromise soldier vote bill allow allowing ing use of the short federal ballot if certified by the governor and state ballots are unobtainable found foun d its way to president Roosevel ts desk for signature or veto once outspoken in his opposition to a bill limiting soldier voting to state ballots alone the president took up the compromise measure with caution before acting wiring all 48 governors to report to him whether they would permit use of the short federal ballot which only lists the presidential and congressional offices without including the names of the candidates if the governors OK the short federal ballot servicemen will only be able to use it if their states have no absentee voting laws or if they have applied for state ballots but have not received them RUSSIA free ukraine germanys germanas Germ anys remaining foothold in the ukraine was loosened as russian troops smashed into nazi lines along the bug river and as the en forces fell back toward rumania the reds regained the rich farm and mineral land As russia scored its military success in the south finland in the north turned down Mos cows armistice offer based on restoration aaion of the 1940 borders and internment of german troops entrenched in the little country 1 russia Rus sias southern drive carried red troops to within 30 miles of the prewar rumanian border while farther to the northwest they were within miles of the old czech and hungarian frontiers EUROPE drive wedge in italy having driven a wedge into the germans main defense line by leveling cassino with a devastating aerial attack by heavy bombers allied forces fought hard to advance up the road to rome and get at the rear of the enemy hemming in U S and british troops troop s on the anzio beachhead although the thunderous leveling of cassino left that once fortified village standing directly on the road to rome a pile of jumbled mortar nazi guns established in the surrounding hills continued to rake al lied troops making progress slow preliminary to the big showdown in the west allied bombers continued to roar over axis europe ripping al nazi channel defenses frances network of rails over which the enemy plans to shuttle troops to meet invasion armies and german industries turning out the weapons of war to counter the raids the nazis sent up swarms of fighter planes and great sky battles raged PACIFIC troubled war lords As U S army and naval forces kept kep t up a running fire over the entire pacific area japans jumpy little war lords had this to worry about continued allied bombings of wee wak new guinea and new britain feeder bases for jap troops in those regions U S control of the admiralty islands lying along the supply route to general macarthurs Mac Arthurs increasing isolation of the jap troops hemmed in on bougainville bougainvillea Bou gainville island in the solomons with the U S fleet and air force in control to prevent major reinforcement or general withdrawal navy and army bombers contin continuing U attacks on the jap ia fleets beets b big 1 9 outpost of guarding the entrance e n into the waters of the ene M mys Ys south pacific empire DRAFT tighten TZ deferments in order to meet the services demands for men by july to bring military strength to local draft boards have been directed to tighten up on all deferments particularly V for those in the 18 25 age 1 group under the new 3 1 1 directives issued by selective service chief lewis B gen hershey hershey only indispensable employees regardless of family status are to be deferred and only the state draft head or national headquarters is to pass on any deferments for the 18 to 25 year age group only farm workers producing 16 units will be eligible for deferment and careful consideration will be given to the cases of farm workers u under 26 while selective service pressed for more men general hershey said few of the will be four found d acceptable cep table for military service only about 11 per cent of those with dependents pen dents inc including 1 ud 1 ng fathers have been taken thus far he be sai said d and only about 1 in 10 will pass physicals IRELAND faces isolation traditionally strained Ir elands relations with great britain have again tensed this time over lon dons threat to completely isolate the emerald isle from the outside world if german and japanese officials are permitted to remain in dublin and carry on alleged espilo es plo nage activities detrimental to allied invasion forces massed in the united kingdom anxious to maintain its neutrality one reason being given that its cities were open to destructive bombings ireland replied that it could not banish axis diplomats without inviting war and insisted that it had clamped down on any suspicious enemy activity As the U S refused to sell ireland ships for carrying needed imports and britain closed all travel between the two countries eire grimly awaited events its economy already hard hit by unemployment caused by a scarcity of imported raw materials COLD STORAGE more meat produce with cooler space 73 per cent occupied and freezer capacity 92 per cent filled U S storage holdings as of march I 1 were at record levels with only apples at a low mark beef stocks aggregated pounds pork pounds trimmings pounds lard and rendered pork fat of which war food administration held frozen fruit stocks were 29 per cent over those of a year ago frozen vegetables per cent creamery butter per cent cheese 85 per cent frozen eggs 75 per cent and poultry per cent knitting vet ninety two year old mrs christine lorenzen of clinton iowa is an old hand at af knitting for the boys having first made mittens for civil war soldiers and other apparel for fo r vets of the spanish american and world war I 1 conflicts now mrs lorenzen knits for the red cross for world war heroes declaring that americans are suffering little deprivations compared with civil war days mrs lorenzen said we had no coffee at all and sometimes little to eat but cornbread WAGES control attacked labors efforts to revise the war labor boards stabilization formula limiting wage increases to 15 per cent over january 1941 were thwarted by the publics and indus arys representatives on the board who advised holding off consideration until congress goes over the whole question of price control in an effort to revise the stabilization formula labor asked that the president be requested to modify the wage ceiling to reflect actual living costs and the war labor board hold public hearings to bring out facts which might justify higher pay steelworkers Steel workers pressed for public hearings on their demands for a 17 cents an hour raise MONEY SYSTEM shaped for world long in consideration the th e united nations plan for an international money system after the war is taking shape with gold to play an important part as a result of dussias Rus sias support based on a plan drawn by the U S treas monetary eap exp expert ert harry D whites white the new money system would require each country to contribute a certain percentage of gold and its own currency to a stabilization fund which would then operate to prevent any nations exchange from rising or fa falling g whites plan differs from brit ains which considered h having each nation contribute to an international stabilization fund on the basis of its prewar trade thus tending to favor countries which had heavy foreign commerce with a comparatively small prewar trade russia found the U S plan more acceptable thus swinging the balance in its favor |
