Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Stiffening Axis Resistance Holds Up Allied Drive on African U. S. Navy Scores Again on Jap House Moves to Increase Farm Parity When opinions expressed In these are of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts And not necessarily of this I Released by Western Newspaper Lesley J. commanding general of the U. S. army ground congratulates army officers to whom he has awarded the Order of the Purple The decorated heroes who were wounded In action against the Axis forces in Africa seated left to Darrel G. Leslie Ward and Ford Standing in background is Floyd L. chief of staff for General FARM Parity Rate Farm parity prices would have to be revised upward 12 per cent if a bill passed by the house of representatives is eventually enacted into The measure passed by unanimous vote would require the department of agriculture to raise parity prices for all agricultural to include all costs of including aired hands and farmers That such action would be strongly opposed by President Roosevelt in ais anti-inflation efforts was indicated by the fact that a similar provision included in the price act amendment last fall was bitterly by the administration and anally Explaining the provisions of their house agricultural committee members explained that the existing setup no allowance is now given farmers for their labor in fixing price In spite of the fact that wage rates were going up The farmers ask no more than the committee know that every manufacturer is permitted to include his cost in figuring his costs of Naval Phases Disclosed Naval guns of the British fleet added their power to the arms of Allied forces pressing hard on the Axis defenders of by sinking four supply transport ships and two destroyers in a convoy supplies and reinforcements to North Announcement of the victory came soon after the admiralty and U. S. navy department disclosed that the Allies had lost 16 vessels during the original landings In North The toll was described as considerably smaller than originally Included in the United Nations' losses were the British small aircraft carrier three destroyers and five lighter vessels as well as five U. S. naval As the stage was set for the final showdown for control of the German-controlled Paris radio admitted that a British-American column had penetrated to the east coast of Tunis and had advanced between and With opposing forces concentrating in a coastal area between the cities of Tunis and Allied advances had slowed down in the face of strengthening German Despite continuing vigilance of Allied sea and air the Axis had admittedly gained In certain areas they achieved local Moreover the fierceness of their attempted counterattacks and the presence of considerable Axis mechanized equipment in the area indicated the enemy's unexpected AFRICA People Will Decide As evidence mounted that Admiral Jean Darlan intended to make his leadership in North Africa official Washington reiterated its declaration that the French people ultimately will be the ones to decide who is to Spokesman for the administration was Secretary of State Cordell who said laconically that the United States was too busy winning the war in North Africa to worry about reports that Darlan had taken U. S. Strength Grows Offensive actions undertaken by Allied forces in the Pacific war theater had continued to gain U. S. naval forces decisively beat off another Jap attempt to regain control of the southern Solomons by sinking nine more enemy including six warships in an engagement north of Jap losses included two large destroyers or four two transports and one cargo The Americans lost a cruiser and reported other ships Meanwhile American land forces continued their mopping up operations around Henderson Indicative of the growing strength of the Allies was the report from New of the safe arrival of an American expeditionary force so large that it took hours for the dee-laden transports to disgorge their cargoes of men and Lean gray warships of the U. S. navy had safely convoyed the transports through In New Guinea the tempo of the allied offense against the narrow Jap-held beach-heads bordering Buna was stepped Allied airmen beat off a Jap naval force attempting to land reinforcements and supplies for the hard-pressed Nipponese and shot down 23 Jap American and Australian troops meanwhile had infiltrated to the outskirts of Buna and had driven down the beach from Gona toward five miles above INVESTMENT Even as salary freezing regulations were made public throughout the congress was invited by President Roosevelt to put a ceiling on net investment income to ceiling imposed on net salaries by James F. director of economic Under the existing Individuals are restricted to gross income from salaries of a or net income after federal income taxes of Income from other sources is not now Pointing out that there has been widespread criticism against inequalities in the present Roosevelt proposed that identical limitations be put on income from Such a procedure would mean that an individual's total income from from investments or from both could not exceed net or gross in any one LABOR Decreed by For the first time since the CIO split from the American Federation of Labor in the two organizations entered into an agreement that opened the way for permanent peace and possible full reunion of the two Meeting in Washington special committees of the two labor unions agreed to establish a joint commission to resolve all differences between To this they added a proviso that all unsettled issues should be referred to President Roosevelt had long urged the two groups to submerge their differences for the national Presidents William Green of the and Phillip Murray of the CIO had publicly stated their desire for Whistles in Dark With powerful American and British armies only a few hundred miles across the Mediterranean from with northern Industrial cities rocked by RAF bombing and with Prime Minister Churchill's grim warning of future disaster still ringing in his Benito Mussolini an harangue to the Fascist In the duce's speech was a in the performance designed to whip up the Italian people's lagging war spirit His prescription for national to hate and to cease spreading silly stories and Reading extracts from Churchill's speech warning that Italy would be placed under scientific and shattering air Mussolini said the English leader hoped to undermine the Italian people's He promised that Germany would reinforce Italy with and said joint Italian-German defenses will give the raiders a hot II Duce revealed that Italy had lost warships and more than sailors and airmen in the 30 months of Headaches for Hitler Russian strategists concentrated doggedly on the task of rolling out the twin bulges at and 1 ma on the far-flung line from Lenin- grad to Stalingrad as the Red's spectacular offensive continued to push the Nazis back and threaten the entire structure of their winter Hitler well knew the danger poised by the Russian thrusts at If this key point were his troops In the Leningrad sector to the north would be in And should these forces be trapped or forced to retire to avoid Finland would be left high and dry to make such terms as she could with the victorious But Hitler's headaches were not confined to the At Stalingrad the Reds captured a strategic hilltop southwest of the city that had dominated the approaches from this direction and had been used for weeks by the Germans for artillery and observation Southward in the the Nazis faced the threat of for the steadily mounting strength of the Russ placed his control of wheat and coal lands in Make M. 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Hurtling through the air faster than any human beings had ever traveled two army lieutenants dived their fighter planes at the of miles an hour in twin tests of Republic The two airmen were Harold Comstock and Roger Starting their dive at the Roger Dyar Harold Comstock pilots reported the terrific speed froze their control causing them to resort to emergency cranks to pull the ships out of the Reporting his Lieutenant Dyar had a feeling that any second the plane was going to pull away from me and leave me stranded right five miles above the STOCK for International The war had long before intervened to cancel the International Livestock but in outdoor pens in Chicago's farm animals from 19 states and two Canadian provinces competed for prizes in the Chicago Market Fat Stock show an exhibition organized to bridge over period until the International could be held It was a one-way ride for the barnyard for war-time transportation regulations decreed that the hogs and sheep must be moved to the slaughter-house after the Gone for the duration was the traditional pageantry attending the exposition since the International amphitheater was taken over by the army last No admission fee was required for the substitute |