Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Navy Reveals Damage to Jap Senate Again Acts on Price LaGuardia Landis OCD Normandie Creates Problem for Navy NOTE When opinions Are expressed In these they are those of the news analyst and nut of this I by Western Newspaper Union i i J j I I I j On Japs After two of censorship the l Pacific fleet command allowed news j men to disclose the amount of dam-I age inflicted by the U. S. navy in their spectacular attack on the Japanese Marshall and Gilbert These reports indicated that with the loss of only 11 U. S. plus a minor bomb hit on one and with a small loss of life units of the American fleet accomplished the i Destroyed four military air Destroyed two military Destroyed four radio Sank at least 16 Jap including a modern two and a I Damaged at least eight other Jap 1 In addition to an undetermined number destroyed on the the Japs lost 38 including fighters and Described as almost perfect tim-I ing and executed with speed and daring the raid was the first big an- to the often asked is the Face Living Costs It was apparent that the price control which had prevented inflation of certain farm was going to be subject to changes that might bring a big rise in the cost of some The senate agriculture committee had unanimously approved a bill CLAUDE R. Making use of surpluses which sought to prevent Secretary of Agriculture from using surpluses to keep certain prices Passage of this bill had been and it would prevent from taking action with surpluses unless the price of cotton and corn had reached 10 per cent above It had been the President's plan to hold these prices down to encourage livestock The bill sought to prevent this OCD LANDIS Result of Protest The resignation of LaGuardia as head of OCD and the succession to the high command of civilian defense of James M. onetime dean of Harvard law school and former head of the Securities and Exchange had closely followed nation-wide criticism of in the Focal point of the objections to the OCD management had been rather centered on the division headed by Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt than on LaGuardia's civilian defense but the resignation of the had long been LaGuardia was supposed to have plenty to do organizing the defense of New York let alone saddling himself with the problems of an entire nation He announced that he would devote his full time to these problems in the as Landis took charge of continued chiefly leveled at the entertainment and social uplift activities of the It had crystallized into the adoption by the house of an amendment specifically forbidding the spending of government funds for street theatrical or other public entertainment in the program of civilian The amendment had been tacked onto a bill passed which provided for the purchase of auxiliary fire-fighting equipment and other protective goods to be used in the protection of the population against air The senate had been expected to go along with the house in its effort JAMES M. LANDIS Succeeding Little Flower to weed the and out of the Senator keynoted this move by demanding that the OCD send his committee a list of all OCD employees getting over a and outlining their specific Planes Continued efforts by the Japanese to land on Bataan had been turned back by General MacArthur's highly mobile artillery forces in the general's fight to keep the American flag flying over the The anti-aircraft fire of MacArthur's men had continued the bag of seven planes in one day comparing favorably with other fronts where the United Nations had many more serviceable aircraft than did the defenders of Captured prisoners and other methods of gaining information revealed that five Japanese divisions had been identified as taking part in the which would bring the estimated strength of the Japs actually on the front battle-line at close to Other divisions were on the keeping communications and it had been reported that reinforcements for the Japs were constantly thus steadily increasing the pressure on the American-Filipino Job Whether sabotage or Fate was the former luxury liner and now the naval auxiliary lay on her enormous beam-ends in 40 feet of water and 12 feet of mud at her dock in New an salvage job for the S. Twenty-two hundred men were at work inside of changing her over from peacetime to wartime uses when a welder's torch started a Within minutes it was out of Water-Pincers A new tactic in the utilized by the Japanese in had brought Singapore to her spreading gloom in and making the defense of the East Indies a nearly superhuman General commander of the Jap forces in had won the Order of the Golden Kite and the Order of the Rising Sun for his success in driving the defenders out of for smashing into the island of first time in history that the historic port had been tested in The narrow peninsula of difficult had apparently presented enormous invasion The Japs had solved these by using small many of them commandeered or and sending small well-armed and highly mobile first clown the east then down the making landings by and infiltrating behind the Each time the British were able to make a swift and to salvage their main but each time they lost until they were finally driven back across the causeway onto Singapore Literally scores of had been taken out of each coastline by this Japanese technique during their advance At the same tune the Japs had sent another large-force to drive westward from the top of the peninsula in an effort to cut olf the Burma more to protect their own |