Show WEEKLY MEWS ANALYSIS Italy's Unconditional Surrender Marks Real of the End for GOP Outlines Foreign Relations Reds Recapture Ukraine Farm Lands When opinions r expressed In these they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this by Western ITALY One Two to Go Fire days after British and Cana-I dian troops stormed across the Messina straits to land on the Italian Italy surrendered unconditionally to Dwight When Marshal Pictro Badoglio's government gave it marked the first split in the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo First indications of the Italian collapse came with the ouster of Benito Loft to hold Hitler s vaunted European fortress were German themselves engaged in a major retreat in and the Nazis' smaller Balkan While capitulation of Italy exposed central Europe to heavy bomber the Alpine district presented a ble obstacle to an Allied ground ad- vance into southern Hundreds of thousands of her troops killed or captured in North her elaborate railroad tern torn to her fair cities j in and lacking i the natural resources to carry on i Italy sought the easiest way 1 out of the SOUTHWEST I Isolate Japs Australian troops were hacking their way through jungle brush to floating to earth to assist in the Jap sol- 1 Australian units under George Blarney surprised the Japs by landing in force to the east of Moving they advanced on the big enemy base even while the and U. S. paratroopers were sealing off Lae to the General MacArthurs trigger action not only cut off the Lae garri-son from reinforcement from the but it also was designed to choke off stubborn Jap troops resisting an Allied advance before farther to the Holding Up Well Civilians arc maintaining a better level of health than federal authorities despite food longer work and fewer doctors and nurses the Office of War Information While mortality and sickness rates are slightly the statement comments that the rise is not more than could be considering wartime The only serious epidemic condition is the increase in infantile paralysis and spinal More than cases of infantile paralysis have been reported throughout the nation this the largest number since Spinal meningitis cases total the greatest number since when records Marshall Reports Of men in the army July were George C. Marsh- U. S. chief of than men are servin m j tons of George Marshall are necessary to transport a soldier and his accessories and his supply requires one ton a General Marshall At the time the Japs attacked the General Marshall six troop ships and nine cargo vessels were en route to the Most of the officers of the Women's Army Auxiliary corps have taken the oath in the new Women's Army corps the war department Of have transferred to the new organization without change of Of the women who have not been given the 41 may yet but their cases are pending The others have dropped out for failure to meet physical requirements or other reasons it was Control Coast Labor With more persons required for shipyards and for aircraft factories on the West War Mobilization Director James F Byrnes an- that the received ol of the su-per vision of labor in that L. j A copy of a pro- ML gram already dc- Mm in the N. James F. Byrnes the West coast plan Determination of necessary production schedules in various Shift of labor to essential employment from less essential work or Allotment of manpower to the more important industries in the Distribution of farm help wherever most needed throughout the West Time to Switch Along with adoption of the West coast the selective service bureau sought to co-ordinate its draft program with industrial the bureau ordered that all non-deferrable workers seeking to switch to essential production be given 30 or till October in which to find such employment through registration with the U. S. Employment The previously ruled that essential and not be the basis for draft deferment the bureau instructed local boards that before they induct any workers skilled in critical they must submit the names of such men to the U S. Employment The service will then determine whether these men are more urgently needed by another Keep Sovereignty Co-operation in the preservation of peace without the loss of U. S. sov- m M the basis of the Republican party's post-war i advisory commit- tee's H j dation for future Chairman Harn- Spangler the GOP committee struck the theme for its 1944 plank on foreign While declaring that must do our full share in a program for permanent peace among the GOP committee members must preserve and protect all our own national If any proposed international co-operation should conflict with our best the committee the United States should adhere to the policy which will preserve its constitutionalism as expressed in the Declaration of Independence For conquered the committee recommended disarmament and destruction of war Regaining Wealth Under the weight of massed Red German troops slowly fell back to the broad banks of the river in southern With many of the rich coal and iron deposits of the Donetz basin in Russian hands advancing Red armies also reclaimed much of the fertile farm land of the famed for its black earth and wheat and cotton Slicing into the heart of this the Reds severed the Nazis' main rail connections to the With the natural Russian troops also recovered many former industrial like But having been wracked by warfare and their manufacturing facilities demolished by the reconstruction will be necessary to restore them to In the north-central Red troops pounded at the gateway into White adjacent to the former state of OCTANE High octane gasoline that will give motorists 50 to 70 miles to the gallon is predicted as a post-war development of the oil industries by William a research chemist for a large refining The new automobiles using this 90 to 95 octane gasoline will have smaller motors and lighter made of alloys or it is U. S. Seeks Billions High finance has come to the forefront with the treasury's efforts to raise billion dollars for war expenditures during the present fiscal year ending June Approximately 50 million bonds valued at 15 billion dollars are expected to be sold 9 during the treas- ury's present bond selling campaign fg All of the money will ho f r and v. I h banks of- M a a limited M number of b fl ties after the close of the pub- he DoUghton the treasury has been obtaining million dollars weekly through short term bill sales to With congress Representative Robert Doughton's house ways and means committee was looking forward to consideration of new tax legislation to raise an additional 12 billion dollars requested by President Present levies will yield 38 billion RAIL High Toll Crowded with passengers returning to New the Pennsylvania railroad's mighty Congressional Limited streaked through the North Philadelphia On it whizzed to Frankfort a burned journal on the seventh car of the train throwing the coach high into the Hurtling against a steel girder of a signal the upper section of the coach was sheared right off Careening the car behind smashed into the wrecked and the rest of the train left the rails and plowed along the right of Fire broke out in some of the More than 50 dead and injured were removed from the Several hours the New York Central's Century Limited was roaring near N. when its locomotive derailing nine of the 15 passenger The first four cars lunged down an the others were strewn all over the steel rails were plowed up and twisted into fantastic Three crewmen were approximately seven passengers U. Tongue Common Bond Speaking at Harvard Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared the United States and Great Britain must march together those realms of thought which are consecrated to the rights and dignity of would be a most foolish and improvident act on the part of our two governments to break up this smooth running and immensely powerful machinery the moment the war is Churchill Commenting on studies being made by a special commission to construct a basic English language for use by all Churchill said such a common tongue offers far better opportunity for understanding between people than away provinces and land or grinding them down in Stating that a common speech had drawn the United States and Great Britain close together in Churchill said that it may well prove the foundation for a common ECONOMIC Appointed for Italy Former assistant to Vice President Henry Wallace when he was secretary of and more recently head of the Farm Security Calvin B. Baldwin was named area director of economic operations in occupied As area Baldwin will have the task of the various programs 1 I in wheat and Baldwin's Calvin Baldwin experience in farm administration undoubtedly determined his Joining attacks on Baldwin's political Senator Harry F. Byrd charged him with admitting to a joint committee on nonessential expenditure that tives had formulated a long-range plan of using the government's power of eminent domain for break-Ing up large land properties into smaller JEFFERS M. director of the wartime rubber has resigned his stating that he believes that his main task is and that he wishes to return to the railroad of which he is About tons of synthetic rubber will be turned out this in contrast to the tons which is the goal of the Jeffers explaining that difficulties have been encountered in expanding factory |