Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS american leet fleet planes strike major japanese naval base in pacific tighten deferment of farm workers allies nazis trade blows at anzio EDITORS NOTE when opinions art are expressed in these columns they are those of western newspaper unions news analysts and not necessarily of at this newspaper nei released cased by western newspaper union 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 4 1 I 1 na 1 1 X tk A 4 10 italy the nazis are throwing everything but the kitchen sink at th the e allies in italy A at t left pat edward gazler michigan city ind is ia shown with concrete ball that the germans roll down hills at allied troops and at right is big U S tank crippled by heavy enemy gunfire gun fire PACIFIC strike JF West ivard two years and two months after the japs assault on pearl harbor U S air and sea forces struck b back ack at the own big pacific base of in the caroline islands central hub of jap naval operations for their extended empire reaching into the philippines and indies preceding the attack on by s several everal hundred planes operating from carriers shielded by a strong armada of battleships cruisers and destroyers long range liberator bombers plastered the other big jap bastion of in the carolines centrally located in japans pacific empire both and serve as a radiating point for enemy naval and air forces to operate against an attacking force while close to home stations loss of the carolines to the japs would mean loss of their advantage of operating close to defensive bases and vice versa give the allies the advantage As the liberators took to their wings to plaster the carolines U S ground forces were putting the finishing touches to fighting in the mar where small islet garrisons were being rooted out and in the solomons where allied landings to the north trapped japs holding out on bougainville bougainvillea Bou gainville buka and choiseul FARM WORKERS draft shakeup only those farmers who can produce 16 war units a year will be eligible for agricultural deferment and the farmers now in 3 C for dependency as well as occupational reasons also will be reclassified and put into 2 C only if their work is essential more than farmers are in ic i 1 C of which are said to be single and under 22 years of age with the presently in 3 C farmers considered essential will be put into 2 C and given six month deferments with their cases again reopened at the end of that time action on farm workers cases followed general tightening up of draft regulations in the face of military demands for about more men by july 1 with city dads po no longer deferrable for dependencies and industrial deferments subject to stricter standards RUSSIA finns talk peace russian troops made further gains along the estonian border on the north end of the mile eastern front while reports indicated that the finns were sounding out moscow for peace terms As the russ continued to chew into nazi defenses below le leningrad nin grad the germans fell back to ahoi avoid d encirclement cir from the rear and each step backward found them closer to E estonia s tonia and the other baltic st states ates of latvia and lithuania russo finnish peace reportedly hung on terms moscow might with the finns receptive to proposals based on the 1940 border but opposed to occupation of their military and naval strongholds strong holds by the reds with the russ again in possession of much of the mining region of the southern ukraine finland remained one of the last sources of nickel for the germans and hitler reportedly so sought aught to prevent Fin lands desertion of the axis to protect these deposits EUROPE beachhead battle with the sea at their backs U S and british troops traded heavy blows with the germans on the anzio beachhead below rome as the big battle for the eternal city raged while other allied troops crawled forward up rugged mountain slopes about cassino the forces at anzio fought with tanks on leveler terrain countering the full weight of the famed panzer units in assaulting the beachhead the germans concentrated on the northern sector 10 miles above the port of anzio through which supplies were streaming to allied forces with the area under fire of enemy artillery and bombers allied troops fought hard to keep the port open bloody fighting continued on the cassino front with doughboys dough boys taking one by one concrete houses made into fortified pillboxes pill boxes by the germans and other yanks struggling up monastery hill to gain command over nazi positions and the supply road leading to rome which lay below CONGRESS ban subsidies with congress voting against continuance ti nuance of subsidy payments to reduce retail prices of meat butter milk and other food items GOP house members served notice that if the president vetoed th the e bill they would attempt to make it part of the measure to extend price control after june 30 thus forcing the president to accept it or kill his whole anti inflation program to assure continued existence of the commodity credit corporation in the event of a presidential veto of the subsidy clause congress wrote in an emergency provision extending its life until permanent legislation could be passed in voting against consumer subsidies congressional foes of such payments said they could only save the average family about 11 cents a day during a time when national income was at an all time level advocates of subsidies however said abolition of such payments would bring about a 7 per cent increase in in the price of the foods affected and a 3 per cent rise in the general cost of living leading to a clamor for higher wages bucks labor draft while congress was voting down consumer food subsidies president william green AV z told a senate military committee holding hearings on the austin wadsworth labor draft t that wage stabilization in the face of increasing living costs was the principal f cause of strikes sen austin said green the way to prevent strikes is through upward revision 0 of f wage rates or even more effectively by rigid reduction and control of prices of the necessities of life while senator austin vt contended that a labor draft would reduce turnover in war plants and an d allow the war manpower commission tighter control over job placements green said the act would would amount amount t to involuntary indol unitary servitude since civilian workers would have to take jobs in plants operating at private profit WAR COSTS cut by army because of indu speed m in developing efficiency and ve production iso also because of the ardys insistence that savings be reflected in in reduced prices costs of military goods have been cut by 20 per cent since 1941 brig gen albert J browning director of purchases declared in all savings have amounted to about and an additional will be saved in the first half of 1944 general browning said because the army has worked for lower costs through price analysts in the purchasing departments better ways have been found to produce goods more efficiently and with less material to assure profit margins general browning said in cases where costs were not trimmed there was no incentive on the part of management to cut prices the general revealed GOP candidate A 76 year old los angeles calif housemaid has filed formal declaration of intention to become a candidate tor for the republican presidential nomination though she has never held political office she said 1 I want to see the presidents job better done and I 1 can do it better FUEL gas F from rom coal with government officials warning of only a 14 year U S oil reserve at the present rate of cons consumption emption ump tion rep jennings randolph W va introduced a bill which the house speedily passed calling for an expenditure pend iture of on the construction st of experimental fuel plants plant s to obtain gas from coal oil shale and agricultural and forest products the U S bureau of mines laboratory at pittsburgh pa already has developed oil from coal through a chemical process utilizing hydrogen but costs have amounted to 16 cents a gallon compared with costs of only 5 cents for getting fuel from oil whereas U S oil reserves have been estimated as sufficient for 14 years the bureau of mines said U S coal resources could furnish material for gas for years ask foreign sources 1 americas allies should necip reciprocate ro for our heavy drain upon domestic oil resources for providing leum for the allied war machine by transferring a corresponding S volume of proven reserves from their fields to the U S after the war the truman investigating vesti gating committee declared although the corn COM sen truman cittee headed by senator harry truman mo said the development of foreign petroleum fields should be left to private interests it recommended that U S diplomacy be directed toward sup porting such a program bombings big job nearly men were in on the record 2800 ton bomb ing raid on shouldering ing berlin which matched the shattering aerial blow at hamburg september 22 1943 of the men were flying personnel about men were required to load the planes with bombs the 1000 planes used oooo gallons of gas and thousands of gallons of oil machine guns on the planes were loaded with rounds of ammunition about 43 planes were lost on the mission the heavy assault on the german catusi elf ca itil tUiI ARGENTINA political battleground having broken diplomatic relations with the axis president pedro ramirez of argentina moved slowly before declaring war on germany G ermany and japan since the count rys military caste opposed such action hints that ramirez foreign minister was considering a declaration of war against the axis inflamed the military caste known as the colonels lodge and forced the president pres I 1 to dismiss his foreign chief and reorganize his cabinet to hold the different elements together As argentinas Argen tinas internal situation boiled pro ally general arturo rawson who h led the revolt against axis pro president castillo last june watched developments from brazil where he was reported under surveillance veil lance of argentine age agents ants tor for expressing strong pro ally sympathies shies in in opposition to ramirez of strict nationalism polley policy |