Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne i U. S. Heartened by Naval Offensive 5 Against Jap Bases in South Air Attacks on Port Darwin Continue As Allies Strike Back in New Guinea i NOTE When opinions are expressed In these they are those of the news analyst not of this J by Western Newspaper 1 Herbert Australian minister for external being greeted by Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Richard G. British minister of state in the Middle at the Washington The selection of former Australian minister to to serve In the British raised a controversy between Australian Prime Minister John Curtin and Winston The Australian government disavowed Casey as Australian Navy Strikes Twice A attack by a navy task the same which had struck with devastating force on the Marshall and Gilbert had been delivered on Wake island and Marcus the latter only miles from The latter attack scared Tokyo so badly that the city ordered blackouts for several days it was The delay in announcing these attacks apparently occurred in the first the navy force was on the way from Wake to and didn't want to its on the latter As to the second the need for delay was probably one of two cither that the navy force was moving on or else it was on its way back to Pearl Harbor for refueling and probably the as the dispatches came from Considerable credit for the four as the latter two must be considered part of the general onslaught which included the Marshall and Gilbert was given to the commander of the Vice Admiral W. 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In the first two the navy had lost a number of but in the latter two the only losses were two both shot down by antiaircraft Surprise had been an important factor in both because at Wake Island three four-motored seaplanes had been found and destroyed before they got into the and at Marcus island no air strength of any kind was It began to explain the need for censorship for the Japs had a nearly completed airfield on the and certainly would have had planes there if they'd known our forces were on the Ringside View One riding on an aircraft reported that its planes dumped 12 tons of high explosives on Marcus island His ringside view of the significance of the battle was that it had shattered an important link in Japan's chain of island bases connecting the country with its southwest Pacific theater of Marcus also had been referred to in dispatches as being a base not only potentially great for but for ships as The Wake island was not completed a as the navy surface ships encountered a Jap gunboat seven miles off the and before she was sunk with one she was able to flash word to the shore that the were The Marcus island attack was in the but the Wake island battle was in full the shelling starting at a m. Just how little good a blackout does was shown at Marcus where a flight of bombing planes was sent over the island with lighting their and the first few hits started such huge fires that the other bombing flights needed no Shortly after the attack on Marcus started the radio station went off the air It had been struck by a demolition bomb and shot into the Senators Argue The plus Senators and continued its attacks on the NYA and the though President Roosevelt said that they both had their places in the war scheme and that he favored their The senators argued that the primary reason for the creation of the two agencies was to do something for youth d the depression and unemployment years They are not needed they See Turning Point Whether the Japs were going to turn aside from Australia and concentrate on India had considerable of a but certainly their attack on Australia's outposts had been slowed to a point where the began to see the point right around the Australian and American airmen were carrying out almost non-stop raids on New the New Britain and other objectives north of the and their daily reports of planes destroyed showed that they were biting a considerable piece out of the Nipponese strength in the The Japs continued their bombing attacks on Port also on but the effectiveness was showing a downward Apparently the main Japanese objective was Port on the southern end of New a perfect hop-off point for air attacks on northeast By through a big valley on the they were approaching the Australians' defense positions around the while through the from and they had been raining bombs on the attempting to soften it up for attack by It was at these two and Lae that the Australian and American bombers had been concentrating their And the results had been Co-operates in War It was felt that organized labor had made an important contribution to winning the also to peace in industry during the war by a decision reached simultaneously by the A. F. of L. and the 1 to yield their demand for extra pay for The executive board of the recommended to all its unions that they forego all overtime pay for Sundays and holidays when such work was done within the boundaries of the William Green of the A. F. of L. at the same time issued a statement that his organization had the that it would waive the double time payment for Sunday and holiday work In all war industries for the duration of the Philip said he wanted it clear that the unions would not relinquish their demand for overtime for work done on the sixth or seventh days of the ordinary regardless of what days they fell The union men had been made by President Roosevelt and War Production Board Chief Donald M. Get 40 Planes The initials American Volunteer or the of the United still held the spotlight of attention when it came to knocking out Japanese Their latest exploit had been to fly over the main Jap airdrome in with such a perfectly timed offensive that they were able to shoot to pieces 40 enemy aircraft on the before the Japs could get the motors warmed enough to get into the The victory so had its tragic for the only plane lost to the Americans in this attack had brought to the squadron Jack of N. The pilots returning to base in Burma from the fray reported that most of the Japanese pilots of the grounded planes were as instead of seeking they ran to their ships and tried to get thern The diving machine gunned the planes at close destroying most of New Losses Reported In Battle of Java The battle of the Indies was but not for in the daily news came some some telling-more about it for had raised the toll of the Battle of Java Sea for the United States by admitting the loss of two more That they had partially escaped had been when the announcement said that they had last been heard from in the waters south of The Battle of Java Sea had been fought almost entirely north of Favorable were the dispatches which had begun to filter through showing that Bataan was not the only point in the southwest Pacific where land resistance was for the Japs were reported being forced to retreat from some of their positions in That the were cognizant of this fact had been seen in Prime Minister Curtin's message to the Dutch to hang that aid was coming to them in the form of an Australian and American It was of the same tone as Mac-Arthur's words to his men at fighting under General that came through the Jap and I'm coming back Strange Case One of the strangest cases in the annals of war work and organized labor had occurred in where a girl had been accused by her This young Genevieve had a war job in a Detroit and the charge was that she had been guilty of unbecoming a union Technically she had been the union of causing trouble by disparaging the efforts of her fellow Members of the union had said if she was those bringing the charges would face The girl said this was what She had had the job of packing in boxes certain gadgets which came down a series of chutes from automatic inspection machines The other girls were handling two chutes she and one other girl were handling three Miss Samp said girl squawked about me being a job-killer She said she told the girl it was easy to handle three Wise-cracks went back and she and she was And Profits An aircraft parts the Jack and Heintz makers of airplane which held in government contracts Sw WILLIAM S. JACK A silver-lined after being organized in 1940 with capital had furnished the nation's readers a brief then a silver-lined Testimony before a congressional investigating committee revealed that the concern distributed to workers last and that Jack's secretary was paid last year and for the first ten weeks of this year Some of this Washington could but they questioned payment to the company's a young man who came to work for and 46 days later was handed a bonus of and a few weeks later given another bonus and a salary The partners came back from announced a voluntary cut of their profits to 6 per and that their own salaries would be cut to a year Their employees welcomed their return from Washington with loud and the banging of their tools on their benches when the partners said the bonus system to employees for heavy production would be |