| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS RAF Reich Blitz Forecast of Hoover Urges Greater Power for Soviets Push Ahead on U. S. Outlines Pay Deduction Tax Plan NOTE When opinions are expressed In these they are those of the news analyst and not of this Released by Western Newspaper The thanks Of a grateful nation and the Congressional Medal of Honor pinned on his breast by President Roosevelt were the rewards received by James for his valor in leading the bombing raid on the mainland of including a few weeks left to are H. chief of air Doolittle and President Roosevelt congratulating America's newest General Secrets Well Kept Three questions remained unanswered when President Roosevelt pinned the Congressional Medal of Honor on the breast of Brigadier General Doolittle in an unheralded White House ceremony commemorating the recent history-making American bombers' raid on the Japanese Where did daredevil Jimmy Doolittle's squadron take off Where did the Yank fliers land after they bombed Tokyo and sowed a whirlwind of death and destruction in their By what route did Doolittle reach While the mystery remained a well-kept who had won international renown as a peacetime speed before his latest exploit made him America's 1 revealed some significant The Yanks and outfought Japanese planes and retired without losing a single They over Tokyo low enough to see a ball game in Yankee bombers played havoc with vital Japanese industrial areas 40 miles long and 5 to 20 miles They scored direct hits on a battleship or cruiser under construction near Tokyo and scattered incendiary bombs over airplane factories in In extending Doolittle the nation's President Roosevelt announced the award of 70 Distinguished Service Crosses for the 79 volunteers machine bombardiers and radiomen who participated in the Speaking over the radio following his General Doolittle declared that the April raid over Tokyo was only the beginning of many HOOVER More Power for Former President Herbert Hoover urged that President Roosevelt be given additional economic as a means of winning the total must be no hesitation in giving them to President Roosevelt aud upholding him in Hoover said in an address before the assembly of the National Industrial Conference Economic must not encroach on civil he a philosophical he said he would like to see the columnists given a little more of the conduct of the war is necessary if wc are to win the he want the war conducted right Democracy can correct mistakes only through public exposure and opposition to Hoover did not define the new dictatorial powers he advocated for President He must start our thinking with a hard that the economic measures to win total war are just plain Fascist STEEL To He As his conflict with John L. is for control of millions of American workers Philip president of the urged delegates who attended the Steel Workers' Organizing committee convention at to of national do not want internal strife in this union nor in the Murray minds must rise above internal bickering when the nation is embroiled in a world INVASION RAF Blitzes Reich While Royal Air force bombers blasted war factories and chemical plants in Germany and blitzed Nazi submarine bases In France and enemy airdromes in the Churchill government announced that the RAF's heavy air offensive was a prelude to an ultimate invasion of continental Sir Stafford lord privy seal and government spokesman in commons bombings in our of material assistance to Russian resistance and the best way in which we can give assistance until such time as we are able to make a carefully planned attack on the continent of which wc intend to The accelerated tempo of Britain's air offensive was seen in the performance of one detachment of bombers which unloaded fire bombs over the city of Mannheim in southwest second largest inland port of Germany and the site of a number of important armament and engineering NEW TAX Collect nt Source To help Americans pay heavy income taxes that would affect millions of workers in the small-income group for the first time and to combat the treasury department outlined to the House ways and means committee a Under the new employers would withhold on behalf of the government part of the pay of single workers making more than a week and childless married persons making more than The amount deducted would be used as a credit against income Increased individual income surtaxes ranging from 12 per cent on the first to 80 per cent on taxable earnings exceeding yearly were into the pending war revenue The ways and means committee's plan did not incorporate President Roosevelt's suggestion that no American's income should exceed a year after payment of all REDS Soviets Still Ahead Stubborn battles on which the decision of World War II appeared to hinge still persisted on the and Kerch On the front the Russian armies under Marshal continued their advances in the face of stiffened German resistance aud sharp On the Kerch the Russians denied Nazi claims of a clean sweep to the gateway of the precious Caucasus oil That the Red army was keeping alive its offensive in the sector at a swiftly rising cost to the in heavy weapons and supplies was indicated by the latest war one sector near said a troops annihilated German officers and men and destroyed 27 an ammunition dump and a gasoline Booty captured included 37 57 rounds of three wireless stations and other In commenting on the situation on the Kerch peninsula in the a said Russian forces were barring the way to the Caucasus in a way that resembled the long American defense of the Bataan peninsula in the NAZI FOOD To Be Smaller MARSHAL GOERING a hard Following stories of conditions in Axis countries by diplomats and newspaper men released from internment in Germany and Italy came an announcement by Reich Marshal Herman war time Nazi economic that temporary reduction in the food of Germany would be necessary because of an unfavorable crop Addressing war workers assembled at the chancellery in Berlin to be awarded service crosses for the first time in Goering said extremely hard winters are behind The elements have not been kind to Last year's harvest was however much we enjoy the warm we are longing for rain to bring what the farmer Goering termed the present war hardest Germany has had to winter campaign has been terrible The Fuehrer suffered deeply for his but he knew he must not yield There was no question of giving up our front positions because behind us there was only a heap of ruins EARLIER Says Hall Secretary of State Cordell Hull's cautious indication that increase of United Nations' striking power might bring victory sooner than was formerly brought comfort to many an American family and generated new optimism over the war effort in official Mr Hull had been asked at a press conference whether developments in recent weeks on the home and foreign fronts encouraged him to believe in an early victory In reply he pointed out that the powers and facilities of the United States have been developing on a more and more massive not only for offensive-defensive but for outright offensive Making no effort to disguise the fact that he was increasingly impressed by America's growing the white-haired secretary suggested it was only natural that calculations as to the duration of the war should be made iu the light of this Observers pointed out that a number of factors re-enforced Secretary Hull's Among these were the steady rise in armed unprecedented increases in production from factory production growing air and naval strength and the uninterrupted How of men and materials GAS Looms for All U. S. Restriction of gasoline consumption by the car owners outside the East and the Pacific Northwest to a point where pleasure driving would be almost completely banned before the end of the summer was predicted as a result of conferences between Defense Transportation Director Joseph B Eastman and Price Administrator Leon New emphasis to seriousness of the nation's rubber shortage was lent by Mr Eastman's disclosure that the United States may not have a sufficient supply of synthetic rubber short of three years and perhaps not Disclosure of impending steps toward universal gas limitation followed an indication by President Roosevelt that rationing might be extended to other parts of the country outside the East and the Pacific Northwest where it is already op-I |
