Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Plans Nationwide Gas Rationing With Speed Limit for U. Double-Time Pay Banned for British Renew Madagascar Occupation When opinions are expressed In these they an thoe of Western Newspaper Union's news analysis and not necessarily of this Released by Western Newspaper I x When the U. S. marines accomplished their history-making offensive in the Solomon amphibian tractors churned South Seas water to carry them to their first attack to win back Jap-held territory since the start of the The tractor is in the background as these marines dug in at the beach soon after the battle's The area was soon cleared of the GAS President Acts For weeks silvery-haired Bernard M. Baruch and co-members of the President's special rubber committee had labored over the problem of what to do about the nation's steadily diminishing rubber When the committee handed Roosevelt its the President was ready for he announced that rap idly as arrangements can be he would put into effect a set of recommendations submitted by the including nation-wide gasoline rationing and drastic restrictions on civilian Made public in the President's announcement were additional steps recommended by the committee which A speed limit for passenger cars and an average annual mileage of miles per permitted only for release of more rubber to the public for recapping old tires to maintain necessary civilian imposition of gasoline rationing nationally on the basis of miles per year per compulsory periodic tire voluntary tire conservation pending establishment of gas m Submitted with the committee's il recommendations was the blunt dec- that rubber conservation was now a matter of or U V Even as revealed that the British had opened a offensive against the west coast of Vichy-held the state department in Washington announced that Great Britain with the full approval of the United States had decided to undertake military in the Madagascar British action was taken to eliminate reported refueling of Jap submarines in secret harbors and Nazi I espionage in connivance with Vichy Significant of the close military collaboration between Britain and the United States and their indifference to Vichy France the state department announcement full military occupation of Madagascar by British forces not only contribute to the successful conduct of the war against the Axis but will be interest of the DOUBLE-TIME Curbed by double pay for millions of industrial workers was abolished for the duration of the v. war when President Roosevelt v signed an executive order banning the practice for Saturdays and The President's action thus contracts in employers were required to pay workers double time for work on Saturdays or even though these days fell within the regular five-day work Roosevelt said he had taken-the step In line with an understand- ing previously arrived at with William president of the American Federation of and Phillip president of the The order was signed at almost the final hour of n deadline set by the United Automobile Workers of the The which had voluntarily surrendered such v double time had protested that rival organizations had not made the same Enactment of the order thus eliminated a possible labor RUSSIAN Nazis Rule Air The gloom of Russia's military predicament was darkened when correspondents In Moscow were permitted to cable the news that the German air force had secured virtually undisputed sway over the beleaguered city of key industrial and communications center of the Volga Added to this pessimistic report was the news that additional adjacent to Stalingrad had been lost by the With Nazi Marshal Fedor von Bock hurling massive armored and infantry forces into a frontal drive against the it was only by the that the Reds were able to continue their formula of back and keep The only comforting aspect was that the Nazis were paying costly prices in men and equipment for every foot In the Caucasus area the news had likewise been for the Russian high command acknowledged that fighting had reached the of last remaining naval stronghold on the Black For Armed Forces Wherever they are serving Uncle Sam on the far-flung war more than men and women in the nation's land and naval forces were given the right to vote in the coming November elections and in subsequent elections until the end of the when the house of representatives approved legislation extending the ballot to absentee members of the army and The house's action set a new for never before in time of war had the armed forces been able to vote away from their home Affected by the new law was every citizen serving in the army or including members of the Army Nurse the Navy Nurse the Women's Navy and the Women's Army Auxiliary SOUTH Japs Persistent Australia felt again the chilling threat of a Japanese as Nipponese and Allied armies had fought for control of the Port Moresby area only miles from the northeast tip of the Australian continents In a drive which had started late in August from the Kadoka north of the Owen Stanley the Japs by and flanking methods against the Australian defenders had pushed southward through the highest pass in the range toward their coveted in answer to General MacArthur's plea that each American kill one Japanese Yankee forces resumed the offensive in the Solomon A indicated that the positions originally seized by the American marines had become so well established that they could now be used as a springboard for delivering further hard blows at the Defies the Nazis Plucky gave the lie to Nazi propaganda that they were voluntarily acquiring German citizenship and entering the enemy armed by staging a general strike the first in a German-occupied The pint-sized which has a population of but is nevertheless one of the world's most important steel producing The exiled Luxembourg ministry in London reported that German authorities had declared a state of emergency and threatened striking workers with Repressive measures were posed throughout Luxembourg when the strike which started at spread to other Sabotage against railroads in the tiny country was reported with workers putting equipment out of TRUCKS AND Face U. 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Control The operation of commercial motor busses and taxi will be placed under government control by November 15 as a measure to conserve transportation facilities for war it was announced by Joseph B. director of the Office of Defense Passenger cars and motorcycles were exempted from the new The order directed operators of commercial vehicles to obtain a of war to obtain tubes and Eastman said the certificates for commercial vehicles would require a tire check every or every GO whichever occurs to assure proper inflation and he will be issued to all types of vehicles built primarily for transporting property and passengers and others available for public such as ambulances and The he is to limit their use to operations necessary to the war or to the essential domestic Petain Is Warned Edouard Herriot is one Frenchman not afraid to raise his voice in blunt opposition to Jules is Both command respect in Unoccupied for Herriot is mayor of Lyons and a former premier and a former cabinet Both were leaders of the last parliament of the Third Thus Frenchmen everywhere listened when these two delivered a solemn warning to Marshal Petain and Pierre Laval that France may suffer if the Vichy EDOUARD HERRIOT Convulsions will government attempts to draw the nation war against our In an unprecedented letter Indicting the present Herriot and implied that despite the French defeat in and the armistice with Germany and despite the rise of Petain and they still consider France bound by the treaties of alliance with which she entered the TANKS V. S. Passes Axis Robert P. undersecretary of had good news for the nation when he announced in Cleveland that American tank production had reached impressive and that Uncle Sam was now turning out more planes than Japan and Italy Answering criticism of American war Patterson said that in toughness of armor and hitting the U. S. medium either the or the superior to the best German as in combat in Combat he also had proved the Curtiss better than the Jap Zero SEA Wakefield Rescue A grim drama of the abound ing in tales of heroism was unfolded when survivors of the burned naval transport Wakefield were landed at an Atlantic coast Formerly known as the liner one-time queen of the U. S. merchant the Wakefield had been severely damaged by but more than passengers and crew members had been removed without loss of |