| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS I 1 T Act to Defer Stock and Southwestern Pacific Control at Stake In U. S.-Jap Struggle for Wage Ceiling Sets Limit on Pay When opinions are expressed In these they are those of Western Newspaper Union's newa analysts and not necessarily of this Released by Western Newspaper A cigarette was the first thing this wounded Australian asked for and when the medical corps got him safely behind the New Guinea fighting- Fighting In the Port Moresby the Australian army succeeded in pushing the Japs back in the jungles beyond the Owen Stanley mountain Nip and Tuck It had become increasingly evident that the Japs had massed a more powerful naval force in the Solomons than the United States could assemble from a navy divided between two the enemy had concentrated superior land and air forces in its supreme effort to knock out the United States Outnumbered on three sides by Jap forces with heavy tanks and American marines and army units on Island fought doggedly to hold a small strip of land six miles long and three miles deep and to retain control of Henderson air Whether the embattled Yanks faced another was dependent on how soon heavy weapons and supplies could be brought to That the Japs were paying dearly for every effort to dislodge the Americans from the airfield was evident from a navy which declared that losses in men and equipment in troop actions on the island have been very heavy as compared to our Jap onslaughts were repeatedly thrown One attack pierced American lines south of the but prompt counterattacks recaptured the lost The critical nature of the situation was revealed by mass landing of Jap troops indicating control of the sea in the Guadalcanal With the sinking of the aircraft carrier Wasp reported in a navy losses in Uie Solomons fighting were brought to 14 including three heavy six destroyers and four transport NORTH Mediterranean at American-made and American-manned planes and tanks continued to play a prominent part in the British armored offensive against Marshal Rommel's Africa corps along the El front an offensive which might decide the control of the Britain's cosmopolitan eighth comprising South New Fighting Greek and American smashed at Axis troop and supply In the forward crack infantrymen picked their way gingerly through tricky land mines and Fighting on both sides had a feeling-out character in the early stages as Allied and Axis forces tested their strength for decisive Allied troops showed their mettle in beating back counterattacks by Rommel's tank Meanwhile American and British airmen continued their assaults on key Axis supply bombing destroying enemy planes and Elsewhere in evidence had been mounting for weeks that action was The Vichy eminent had concentrated most of its available ships and men at while American troops were reported in Freetown and south of FARM Deferment at Last Steadily worse had become the farm labor Drastic action was necessary prevent a breakdown in the all-out wa Paul V. chairman of the War Manpower supplied that action when he ordered into immediate operation a far-reaching plan calling for occupational deferment of livestock and poultry Under the draft boards are to reclassify from to all such workers already deferred on grounds of Local boards were likewise requested to grant occupational deferment to other farm hands who are and for whom replacements arc not A further step toward keeping essential workers on the farm was the army and navy's agreement to refrain from recruiting key farm including war were instructed to cease hiring skilled farm The department of agriculture moved to stabilize wages on livestock and poultry while the U. S. employment service undertook to recruit farm workers from less critical occupations and shift them back to agricultural SALARY Limit From fabulous-salaried Hollywood stars to low paid shop every American wage earner would feel the impact of Economic Stabilization Director Byrnes' order putting a ceiling of on individual freezing all other wages at September 15 Purpose of the new regulation was to combat inflation and increase federal tax revenue on Control of all wages and salaries up to yearly was given to the War Labor Under the regulations salary increases could be granted only in cases of individual individual merit length of service or under the operation of employee trainee Jurisdiction over all salaries above was assumed by the treasury After the order was President Roosevelt Instructed Secretary of Treasury to make future payments of his a year salary conform to the The wage ceiling covers salaries only and does not affect income from bonds or other Reservoir Leaking American radio listeners who may have expected a table-thumping tirade from Wendell L. Willkie when he reported on his recent globe-circling air got Instead a solemn But there was no mistaking the urgency of action he Appealing for second fronts in Europe and Willkie urged that we give our Allies more than and broken before the great reservoir of good will toward this country throughout the world turns a gulf of Winter Stalemate In battered Stalingrad children and men worked ceaselessly amid the crash of shells and bombs to turn out more weapons and ammunition and repair equipment damaged at tho In tough Red soldiers held off repeated Nazi frontal Northwest of the city Marshal relief army hammered at the German The weather was beginning to break in favor of the Moscow reported snows on the Stalingrad front and German ports admitted was impeding their Southward in the Caucasus the Germans kept up a three-months' effort to pierce the Russ defenses guarding tho oil Failing in their attempt to reach the coveted oil by a drive through the Terek the Nazis had turned toward ATLANTIC Clarifies Renewed assurances that the Atlantic Charter applies all were given by President Thc President's statement followed Wendell L. assertion that millions of people in Asia and eastern Europe were bewildered and anxious about America's war aims and were about a Pacific What about a world Roosevelt pointed out that the Atlantic Charter declares among other things that the signatory including Russia and China and all the other United Nations thc right of all people to choose the form of government under which they will and they wish to sec sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of No Presidential Bee answering reports that he be a candidate for Douglas MacArthur announced from his Australian headquarters that he had political ambitions and added that only hope and ambition I have In the world is for victory for our cause in the suggestion to the contrary must be regarded merely as amiable gestures of goodwill dictated DOUGLAS MacARTHUR no political by he started as a soldier and shall finish as The Southwest Pacific commander's assertions were contained in a statement in which he praised Australia's war nation in the world is making a more supreme war effort than he NAZI Tells Sabotage Plot Unfolded in detail for the first time was the dramatic story of how eight Nazi saboteurs planned a campaign destruction against key American industries to cripple the nation's war The story was told by one of the saboteurs Ernst Peter Burger who with another of the spies escaped the electric chair by informing on the other The occasion was the treason trial in Chicago in which Burger against Erna and Max parents of Herbert Hans young Chicagoan executed as a member of the Nazi his and Walter and Lucille and two Otto and Kate All were charged with harboring and aiding young Summoned from his Washington jail Burger described in detail the sabotage Included in the Nazis' equipment were boxes of TNT bombs disguised as incendiary Infernal machines and landed on the East coast from two German U-boats which had brought the conspirators to America from Planes Funds were provided for the construction of naval planes and tons of aircraft carriers when President Roosevelt signed a 15 billion dollar appropriations The bill likewise contained contractual authority for tons of was estimated that the provision for half a million tons of aircraft would provide approximately 25 |
