Show PACIFIC to the last man ilan entrenched in caves well equipped with light and heavy guns and ordered to fight YA to the last man ja pan pans s defenders of tiny iwo jima island put up a fanatical F na though hopeless fight for this tiny steppingstone stepping stone to tokyo in the face of an overpowering marine assault the thun mgt roy E dering bombard heinecke ment of U S naval marine vessels and airon iwo craft far to the south U S army troops mopping up remnants of japanese opposition op p position in manila encountered equally fanatical resistance in bitter close quarter fighting typified by the wild action inside the manila hotel where yanks shot it out up stairways through corridors and I 1 in in rooms to clean the enemy from the top floors iwo jimas airfields from which the japs threatened the advance U S base in tho the marianas mariakas Mari anas miles away were the prize objectives of the marine assault which carried clear across the southern end of the island in the early fighting holed up in the rolling country and wiped out only after intensive fire the japs exacted a heavy toll of the invaders with losses far above those suffered at tarawa carawa inside japan from inside japan came reports of a lowering wartime living standard of a country noted for frugal accommodations in peace and of a rigid civilian discipline with 20 per cent less food than before the war each jap has been restricted to monthly allotments of a half pound of sugar four pounds of vegetables and 20 pounds of rice rice matches medicine gasoline fuel and clothing are rationed and the nations women are asked to cut off their kimona sleeves and wear overalls to ease the apparel pinch all men between 12 and 60 and unmarried women between 12 and 40 must register for compulsory labor and employees must report for work in war plants despite air raids WAGE BOOSTS held up inter governmental wrangling complicated recent war labor board decisions boosting worker incomes within the framework of the stabilization program pegging general wage increases to 15 per cent of january 1941 levels in the cases invy involving 6 eving 1 packing house and textile workers grants were held up until settlement of dispute with office of economic stabilizer director vinson over necessity of OPA to determine whether any pay boosts would require a markup in distributors costs thus affecting the price control program in passing on the packing house workers case called upon the companies to bear the cost of employees plo clothing tools and upkeep of implements and also directed that the guaranteed work week must be extended from 32 to 36 hours in the case of the textile workers the increased the i minimum wage from 50 to 55 cents i la an n hour and granted a flat 5 cents an hour boost to preserve present geographical and job differentials LEND LEASE over 35 billion with lend lease reaching an all time high in the first half of 1944 due to preparations for D day and the great soviet winter offensive such aid for the whole year reached almost 15 and a grand total of over 35 billion dollars since going into effect in recounting lend lease aid foreign economic administrator leo crowley poi pointed out that the U S has shipped motor vehicles alone to russia and that on some parts of the eastern front american trucks are carrying more than one half the supplies for red troa troops ps in addition crowley said russia has received planes compared with russia britain has received vehicles and 8 planes crowley revealed but other shipments have made the united kingdom the largest recipient of lend lease with 43 per cent of the total with the opening of the new supply road from india to china the U S expects to materially boost deliveries to the latter with plans calling for shipment of trucks mentioning that it took only ii per cent of cigarette production and less than 1 per cent of the beef supply crowley said that lend lease was not hot a determining factor in civilian shortages EUROPE air help massing almost their entire strength allied air chieftains threw upwards of fighters and bombers at nazi targets on both the western and eastern fronts in support of ground troops hacking forward against stubborn opposition disruption of enemy communications feeding their embattled forces in the west and italy was the objective of the planes the U S and british sent out with the heavies cascading tons of explosives on rail yards and the fighters swooping down out of the skies to shoot up locomotives freight cars and motor vehicles fortifications as well as communications were the targets of some 2000 russian planes in the east concentrated against the enemy in east prussia where the nazis put up a stiff fight to hold open the baltic port of above besieged koenigsberg in the ground fighting in the west the whole front was aflame as the U S oth and part of the 3rd ard armies drove for the rhineland with its all important industry while the other part of the 3rd ard and the ath armies clamped a tightening vise on the basin with its rich coal and iron deposits As the yanks slugged forward in stiff fighting british and canadian dian tommies commies continued t to 0 make slow but steady progress at the far northern end of the siegfried line ne en enveloping v el op ing the vital road hub of f calcar upon up which german defenses defense turned tr ed for preventing a sweep to the rear of their whole rhine land front in the east german women in furs fu rs and plain clothes were pui put to work building barricades in berlin as marshal ivan kanevs first ukrainian Uk ranian army drew up from the south on a line with marshal gregory Zhu kovs first white russian force for the grand assault on the nazi Za capital pital meanwhile the reds red s continued to press their attacks atta acks against german forces ahrea threatening bening the flanks of armies kanevs and Zhu kovs LABOR DRAFT weaken bill with compulsory work legi legislation bitterly opposed by labor and a nd industry alike a weakened labor Jabor draft bill received careful senate consideration after hasty house passage of a sterner measure with the senate discarding the house measure under which chic h local draft boards could order registrants from 18 to 45 into essential war jobs at the risk of induction or fine and imprisonment in case of refusal 1 it took up a substitute empowering the war manpower commission to limit employment in establishments and channel excess workers into war industry though milder in form than the house measure even the substitute bill ran into strong opposition because e of the stiff fines and imprisonment provided for violation of the rulings in helping draw up the bill for whole senate consideration Kentucky Kentuck ys si senator happy chandler said he favored the incorporation of stiff punishment so any senator would be justified in voting against any manpower bin bill before the committee nurses F face ace call with recent recruitments recruit ments falling below needs the house moved to draft unmarried nurses from 20 to 44 years of age with some members seeking to provide sufficient safeguards to maintain essential hospital services at home under the bills provisions drafted nurses would be commissioned second lieutenants in the army and given comparable rank in other services but they would be subject to duty in whatever kind of nursing most needed of the nations registered nurses approximately are now in the services there was recent need for an additional to help meet needs occasioned by mounting casualty lists late delivery ak 1 three hundred and seventy five days after conception 25 year old mrs airs beulah hunter unter oj of los angeles calif gave birth to 6 pounds 15 ounce baby daughter in one of the most unusual cases in medical annals the average period of gestation is clays days countering sc offers dr daniel beltz belts the attending physician declared that careful examination had first indicated birth by last november I 1 I 1 am convinced there definitely was a stoppage of growth between the third and sixth month of pregnancy lie he said closest approach ap preach to the case in his records dr beltz belts said was a pregnancy of days CURB NIGH TERIES seek revision As war mobilization Direct director oi james F byrnes order closing night clubs saloons road houses theaters dance halls and other places of entertainment to conserve fuel went into effect operators planned a counterproposal counter proposal under which they would shut down on sundays and keep open to 2 a in weekdays in pushing the proposal operators claimed that it would not only accomplish com the purpose of saving 25 hours a week of fuel use but also permit them to keep their doors open by appealing to the late theater crowds and the merry makers who sart spending money around midnight in anticipation of the shorter hours hour and smaller crowds new york night clubs released of their employees as the order went into effect and the famed diamond horseshoe proprietor billy rose wailed the way it stands now this will put us all in bankruptcy OM U 5 reserves while taking over idt 1 billion barrels of oil out of the ground in 1944 the U S discovered reserves of 2 billion barrels during the year the american petroleum institute reported to bring the count rys known surplus pools of this vital mineral to over 20 billion barrels in discussing the reserve situation the institute cautioned against trying to estimate the period of time known surplus pools would last explaining pla ining known oil can be recovered only over a period 0 of I 1 many years and at gradually declining rates leader in 1944 production estimated with an barrels aex xex texas also I 1 leads in reser reserves ves with I 1 I 1 48 0 or half the total lin line 1 is s california next in with output ol 01 barrels and reserves ol 01 |