| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS House Conference Committee Stops Roll-Back of Retail Food Revised Bill Approves Funds for Heavy Aerial Action Marks Pacific War When opinions are expressed In these they are those of Western Newspaper Union's analysts and not necessarily of this Released by Western Newspaper I i i To test new rubber life rafts and six men were cast adrift off Cape N. In the The men were equipped with a new lightweight life preserver which also holds rations and other solution for purifying salt water for drinking and oars out of which a mast and boom can be erected by linking them together in a right PRICE Doomed by Committee revision of the administration's subsidy program was indicated by action of a senate and house conference which prohibited use of funds for the of retail food The committee's move would kill the present of butter and only permitting payments to processors for commitments to June the committee did authorize the payment of million dollars in subsidies to offset increased transportation and stimulate the production of scarce metals and essential food Congressional would be required for expenditures over million The conference committee's action ignored an appeal by the War Labor board for the adoption of the administration's Citing its policy of limiting wage increases to 15 per cent over the January 1941 the declared that the cost of living has spiralled up 6 per cent since last with food alone rising 12 9 per The conference committee increased the Commodity Credit corporation lending authority million dollars to an aggregate of 3 billion million Under the terms of the bill which also extended the life of the for two the war food administrator would be allowed to buy food from farmers and resell it at a loss to stimulate CHEERS Major Blow Invasion talk quickened with the statement of Malcolm British high commissioner to that the Allies would soon assault Hitler's European In predicting the Mac-Donald said a series of small forays could be expected to feel out the enemy before a major blow would be saw further cheer in the Allies' operations against U-boats in the North Even as he revealed that one submarine had been sunk each day during the preceding two Goering's Es-sener National confessed that the Allies had surprised the Nazi U-boat force by the use of aircraft carriers in As invasion talk Allied bombers continued to pound New Trials in Chicago Basing part of its decision on a recent Supreme court the United States Circuit Court of Appeals voided the conviction of six defendants for treason in Chicago and ordered the case It was pointed out that the Supreme court had held arraignment before a magistrate necessary before a suspect could be In the treason statements had been taken before such although the government claimed the suspects had waived the right of appearance before a judicial The appeals court also held that the individuals were entitled to separate trials which the court and Judge William J. Campbell had erroneously instructed the Approve Funds Final congressional action on the million dollar farm bill was further delayed with the senate's return of the bill to a conference committee for adoption of provisions for crop insurance and incentive Before returning the the senate approved conference recommendations for the farm security Twenty million dollars was appropriated for the administration of the agency and it was authorized to borrow 60 millions for rehabilitation Transfer of the functions to the War Food administration also was In sending the bill back to the the senate insisted on acceptance of its provisions for continuing wheat and crop and on removal of restrictions against use of million dollars of soil conservation payments for incentive awards to The conference version had recommended an appropriation of 30 million dollars for loans to tenants for farm It also permitted the to use as much of its funds as necessary during the first four months of the fiscal year before passage of legislation in congress over the future of the The senate approved both sections CABINET Wallace Jones Differences in the presidential flared into the open when Vice President Henry A. Wallace accused Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones of hamstringing operations of the Board of Economic As chairman of the Wallace directs the agency's program for the purchase of material and development of strategic natural resources in foreign As chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Jones is responsible for furnishing the funds for the BEW Wallace claimed that the was lax in building up a stockpile of strategic material before Pearl although expressly authorized to do Jones countered with the assertion that of Hi billion dollars of precious material bought by this the BEW initiated only 5 per cent of the Action in Air While American aviators bombed Kiska seven times in one day in the North the deliverance of heavy blows at Japan in the Southwest Pacific was promised by Claire Chennault upon his return to China from conferences at As the soupy Aleutian weather cleared enough to warrant medium bombers hammered at blowing up anti-aircraft emplacement and The raids brought to 16 the number staged by American airmen in three In predicting an offensive against the Japs in the General Chennault said conferences in Washington had convinced him that the U. S was concentrating most of its naval action in the Pacific and that Allied leaders were making a most judicious use of resources for global CHESTER Resigns Food Job As support grew in congress foi his appointment as Food Ches ter Davis resigned from his position as War Food Lack of sufficient authority and opposition to the government's subsidy program were the reasons Davis gave for his President Roosevelt accepted the resignation and immediately named Marvin a former Texas congressman and chairman of the United Nations' recent food as his Roosevelt also relieved Davis of responsibility for plotting the 1944 food saying It would not be proper to tie another administrator to somebody else's In his letter of Davis declared that subsidies would not tend to halt Inflation in this country unless accompanied by current tax and savings Roosevelt replied with the statement that congress had failed to enact the added tax legislation he had In answer to Davis' assertion that authority over broad food policy and the day-to-day decisions were being exercised Roosevelt said he had named a War Mobilization director for the purpose of all functions of the war Blast Axis From Air the Axis continued to report Allied concentrations in North U. S. airmen struck at Nazi aerial installations in further diverting attention to the Strong formations of Liberator bombers raided Axis airdromes near the ancient Greek capital of Although enemy planes arose in number to the hits were reported on fuel dumps and aircraft spread over the In announcing the the ninth U. S air force also revealed that the Axis continued their novel attacks on our planes by attempting to drop bombs on them from fighters British Wellington bombers dropped incendiaries and block busters on Naples as direct attacks were continued on Docks and industrial installations were reported struck and the Italians admitted COAL U S. Names Director While miners stayed out of the Carl Elbridge president of the Chesapeake and Ohio was appointed to direct the operations of the nation's mines now under government The selection of Newton was announced as Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes told a congressional committee that there was no hope for an early return of the properties to the Although many locals voted to resume thousands of soft and hard coal miners insisted they would not go back without a new Pits of several steel companies in Pennsylvania were but in Illinois where the union and operators had come to an agreement before the War Labor board refused to recognize the all of the 25 miners were on the Formerly an assistant United Slates attorney in New York and special assistant state attorney general in New Newton was named president of the Chesapeake and Ohio last December he had been connected with railroad matters since In his Newton is answerable only to although he will have the services in Ickes' U. S. BACKS Support President Roosevelt's approval of General Eisenhower's support of Henri Giraud's French command in North Africa was seen in an invitation extended to Giraud to visit the U S. Although Giraud he is not expected to make the trip until cessation of General Eisenhower came to Gi- I raud's side during the recent conferences of the French National committee at Charles had boldly sought to subordinate Giraud to a military commission and replace certain of his General Eisenhower then stepped in and insisted on the reten- i tion of Giraud's Back of the maze of political com- one could see General Eisenhower's firm respect for the honor so strongly cast in military It was General Eisenhower who negotiated with Admiral Jean j Darlan for French North Africa's collaboration with the Allies at the time of the U. S. landings in 1 When Darlan was General Giraud inherited his 1 tion as high commissioner and with Darlan's NAZI Trial for espionage with death or prison facing him if convicted loomed before Ernest I Staten N. air j raid following his confes- J sion to the FBI that he had informed the German government of American troop convoys and arms Lehmitz had communicated with i the Nazi intelligence by using invisible ink to write between the lines of apparently harmless letters to ac- in |
