Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Battle of Egypt Gains New Momentum As U. S. Planes Blast Jap War Minister Given New Total Farm Crop Reaches Record High When opinions are expressed In these they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this I Released by Western Newspaper V ALASKA SOVIET CHINA S- yf o w fj arS 0 lM Japan's great which was aimed at appeared to be effective until the United States marines took Jap bases in the thus breaking the lower This failure has been emphasized further by Japanese defeats in Milne on the tip of New DESERT With Planes As British and German tanks continued their bitter struggle on a desert front in American bombers joined the Royal Air force in carrying out almost continuous operations against Nazi Reinforced and rested after a two months Marshal Erwin Rommel's army started its advance in the rocky area between the ridge in the center and on the southern wing near the Rommel's major effort was at the southern hinge of the British where troops were taking the brunt of the War bulletins issued jointly by the headquarters and the U. S. army air force planes participated in extensive operations over the entire area where the Nazis were trying to smash toward the Nile and the Suez Dispatches from the front noted that the moon was favorable for night fighting and that the weather was much cooler than the degree temperature during the early TOGO TO TO Fourth Portfolio When Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo resigned his position for the Japanese cabinet virtually eliminated the one strong man regarded as being opposed to hostilities against Togo negotiated the Moscow-Tokyo neutrality Togo's post was taken over by Eiki who now holds four portfolios in the cabinet war minister of home affairs and foreign The of Tojo was a Premier Tojo Minister Togo staunch advocate of the Axis pact and of Japan's in the His present four posts concentrate in one man almost absolute powers over his Anticipating close scrutiny by official Russian Tojo declared that his assumption of the foreign ministry not result in any way in an alteration cf Japan's foreign policy Togo's plus Tojo's decision to take over the foreign was widely interpreted as presaging a sneak attack on Information reaching Chunking said that Japanese five been sent north from the China theater of Supporting this Joseph W. United Stales commander in chief in China and announced that there is a the Japs would attack HOT In South Pacific Frustrated by hard-hitting United Nations forces at Milne the Jap busied himself by pounding away elsewhere on the island of New vital stepping stone to Port Moresby via was the Jap Though the tempo of the fighting had increased there were strong indications that the trap set by General MacArthur's forces at Milne bay had effected huge losses on the enemy's air Particularly was the Jap fighter plane force At least 30 of the Zero fighters had been destroyed in the Milne bay encounter and while the Japs could ferry additional planes through a chain of islands it appeared that the United Nations had won the first round in the lacked reports of Zero bombing and strafing expeditions but the United Nations were not assuming that Japan's air power had been permanently NAZIS In Caucasus Gloomy news came from the Russian front as the unexpected Red offensive northwest of Moscow failed for the most part in bringing relief to beleaguered Despite Soviet counterattacks on the the Nazis still were able to pour large scale reserves of tanks and aircraft into the advance on Hungarian and Rumanian divisions joined the assault on the vital Volga river German troops had reached a zone in the Caucasus northwest of Soviet Black sea naval a Russian The Red army had withstood a constant hammering northwest of Stalingrad and had delivered strong blows against the enemy's South of in the the Russians said their troops were annihilating a trapped NATION'S Reach Record High The greatest supply of food in history will come from nation's farms this Department of agriculture reports indicate that crops are the greatest on record for this time of America is producing the biggest corn crop in 10 the largest wheat crop since 1915 and the greatest oat crop since Corn crop estimates place the total at bushels as compared with bushels in Oats are expected to reach bushels as compared with last The department estimates wheat production at bushels as compared with bushels in Sugar cane production is estimated at sugar beet soy WHERE'S OUR Secretary Knox Reports In his first press conference in almost five months Secretary of the Navy Frank came up with some information on activities in the U. S. He pointed out that all officers over 57 years of age were being subjected to a rigid physical examination as part the navy's effort to weed out all officers except those in perfect While he doesn't believe the submarine menace off the Atlantic coast to be solved he did say that he believed the decline in could partly be credited to the fact that made it tough for he have shifted their activity to other Other naval developments of interest revealed at the conference were the ship-building program is ahead of schedule in all naval air officers will be promoted faster than others to criticism that the air arm of the navy has not been getting a good break in important high command the on the Solomons was the operation wc ever and was successful in obtaining all immediate in the Aleutian the record for Secretary Knox was no doubt referring to the record of 19 enemy ships sunk or damaged since the Japs seized the westernmost tip of the Island MEXICAN WAR Cardenas Gets Job Mexico's increased participation in the war effort was emphasized when President Manuel Avila Ca-macho appointed his predecessor in the Lazaro as minister of national The appointment of who succeeds Pablo was looked upon as the initial move toward expansion of the navy and air Early reports predicted that the navy as well as the army and air would be LAZARO CARDENAS Minister of National put under the defense thus making him second in In his annual message to President Camacho declared that Mexico is in the war until peace worthy of our living has been He added that Mexico will not make a separate armistice or Puzzle Selective Service Director Lewis had informed state draft officials to regulate quotas to individual boards so that married men would not be drafted in one locality before those in Then came the next When would married men be When would it be necessary to take youths of 18 and 19 years of age into the Efforts were being made to force a congressional vote on the latter t issue before the November elections but most observers thought this That such a vote would come soon after these elections appeared certain Andrew Jackson May of the house military affairs committee declared that when and if men with children are called the war would be about 18 months or they might be taken at He released figures which he said were furnished by the national selective service headquarters indicating a nine million man pool available in advance of drafting registrants with dependent wives and FUEL To Be Rationed Fears of midwest petroleum distributors were realized when Donald M. chairman of the War Production confirmed reports that fuel oil will be rationed and that rationing may be imposed upon some midwestern states as well as the Rationing would be extended to the Midwest in order to make additional railroad tank cars available to supply the eastern At his press conference President Roosevelt mentioned 25 per cent asi the likely amount of curtailment in some Those areas were not Initial reports indicated that a basic ration would permit heating to an average temperature of approximately 08 additional rations to be on the basis of details of the plan will be I ironed out by |