| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Japanese Lose Heavily at When Dutch and U. S. Forces Compromise Price Control I Additional Food Rationing Forecast NOTE When opinions expressed In these they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this 4 hv Western I There was no sightseeing for these Axis evacuees from South America as they went through the Panama Canal Zone to the United Part of the group of including seven German and seven Italian arc pictured debarking from the special train which carried them across the Uncle Sam took no chances of any Axis which would have been possible had the passage boen made by First Victory Americans had hailed the Battle of straits as the first definite American victory over the Jap- worked out in conjunction I with the indomitable The action amounted to the virtu-j al trapping of a large Jap convoy in the probably heading for a frontal assault on Java or and its virtual decimation with heavy losses in men and ships for the Nippon The fight lasted several and a number of Japanese warships were engaged by light American naval vessels including destroyers and and by considerable forces of One of the earliest ships sent to J the bottom in the engagement was a Jap aircraft and if she was not sunk she was immobilized by a direct torpedo and that meant she was useless as a This meant instant air supremacy for the American-Dutch and they went to work without mercy One vessel after another was destroyed and as others were damaged and the Japs attempted to keep their convoy intact by slowing their pace to that of the slowest they were hopelessly It apparently took more than six days for the Japs to negotiate the less than journey through the and the toll was upward of 31 vessels The engagement showed several things that strong air reinforcements had arrived from the United States into the that they were being deployed effectively to prevent a further southward Japanese invasion of the East that American naval once at grips with the could give a good account of that the early toll of two ships a day could easily be enlarged to a deadly amount of an amount which the Japanese could not lose and continue their pace in the South Bill Passed The passage of the compromise price control setting ceilings on 74 brought to a head a situation which now was in the hands of the namely inflation of commodity From this point on it would be a criminal offense to sell anything above the ceiling The senate vote had been at a higher ratio than the 65 to President Roosevelt had been expected to name Leon Henderson to the post of price set up in the Henderson had been doing what he could along this line from his and had been placed in the War Productions board under All Henderson's previous wherever it did not conflict with the ceilings in the immediately was and became the law of the just as though congress itself had announced the Maximum penalties were one year in prison and a fine for willful violations of the A fight had been expected against Henderson on the grounds that the former administrator had been close to the who himself had been chief critic of the Active in Atlantic A constant succession of of American and allied vessels in the north many of them close to the had revealed that U-boat activity was being pressed to the The U. S. navy reports from the eastern ocean had been that their efforts were being and that certain successes had been scored The policy of not announcing U-boat was being Mac Arthur's Fight Though MacArthur's men were admittedly in a desperate it had become evident that he was getting at least some as his latest had told of American and also of the work of PT boat squadrons in bay and at other probably near But it had not been believed that MacArthur's army had any airplanes therefore his report that Curtis fighters had downed a number of Jap bombers led many to think that they might have been flown in there from a distant How many of the Japanese estimated Luzon army of was able to get at MacArthur's men in their tiny front on Bataan peninsula was a as many of them naturally would have to be holding the rear and supply lines against constant harassment of guerrilla bands of To Increase Additional rationing was deemed a with the placing of sugar on a pound-a-week In it was known that those who controlled the priorities were frowning even on some of the civilian defense Among these were the knitting of which was said to have a bearing on a possible shortage of Another was the selling of commodities in tin cans when they could be otherwise packaged or sold in Among the list was baking cereals and chocolate and dog petroleum spices and condiments and Shipbuilders were being asked so to design their ships that they could use steel of the type milled for automobiles somewhat narrower Leon Henderson would be in charge of retail and James S Knowlson in charge of that which occurred in industrial it was announced Find Going Tougher As the Russians announced that the live had been removed from Moscow and that the invaders in the area were trapped and and as they swarmed ever closer to they reported that the Nazi resistance was growing the Red high command was to be but they drew much cheer from the fact that one victory was following another and that the general tactical campaign was shaping up v. One expert in Red tactics said much credit was being given to a new Russian system of pulling fairly heavy artillery into the front line with the he was a bold but one which the with nothing heavier than trench mortars in the front were finding it difficult to The Russians have 46 guns and some in the front and though they are not so they are even being handled by manpower when horses cannot be found to draw These guns fire at point-blank and were given much credit in winning the battle of a heavily fortified The death toll is terrific ui warfare at 40 below Correspondents at the state that wounded die within 10 or 15 minutes unless kept immediately as their wounds instantly The being adept at life under such conditions are reportedly suffering much less than ill-equipped and prepared For 10 Areas The arrival of a considerable force of American troops in northern Ireland had been an exciting bit of news which the press leaped on with and which brought from the White House the statement that this was but one of eight or ten areas to which reinforcements had been sent Pressing the President for more newsmen succeeded in getting the revelation that help is being rushed with all possible speed Into the Pacific war Nothing was said officially about the identity of the Northern Ireland but the fact that a major general was named commander and that his staff included brigadiers led many to believe it was at least a News dispatches from passed by used the words their training ground in and the fact that they had come mid western but this was as close to identification as the war department would President DeValera criticized the said his government should have been but though President Roosevelt recalled that DeValera was a warm personal he expressed no sympathy with his The soldiers were reportedly eager for a at the and getting accustomed to British living conditions and The President was positive in stating that aid of the strongest sort was being poured into the Pacific theater of the and war department estimates of the total manpower of the Japanese in that area was Drive Halted The counter-drive by Erwin Rommel's troops in which had hurled the British back over considerable ground to a former battleground near had apparently been halted with a terrific blast of air causing the Germans huge As Churchill told the house of commons that the German-Italian casualties had been three times that of the his cohorts in North Africa had just finished a devastating blow to the which many believed had halted them in their The advance from to near had found the Ger-mans forced to halt for a time to organize their supply and the British took advantage of this respite to do the But the moved forward to attack the supply and reported the destruction of literally of vehicles including and that they had reduced the German rear to and hopeless i 1 |
