| Show WEEKLY MEWS ANALYSIS See-Saw Offensives Rage on Red Front As Nazis Hurl New Divisions Into Battle Lines Drawn for Skip-Year Aerial Action Paces Activity in Tunisia When opinions are expressed In thee they ure those of Newspaper news not necessarily of this Released by Western Newspaper Union With snow these car-muffed members of the New York Giant pitching staff are going through their paces in one of the most unusual spring training seasons in baseball Their camp is located at N. J. Left to Cliff Van Mungo and Carl Southernmost of all major league training camps is that of the World Champion St. Louis at GIVE AND In Russia had fallen once more to the Nazis and still they pushed Tins was the story from the Ukraine sector of the broad Russian In another important further to the the Russians were having the better of it as their four-pronged offensive swept swiftly through the area around This and the fighting around the anchor of Orel were more immediately important to the Russian cause than what happened For Orel serves as the turning point between the southern and central fronts Hitler could ill afford to lose this While Russian sources admitted that was important they also pointed out that a strong defense line had been established beyond the city and further claimed that Hitler's troops found nothing but dead Germans on the city's streets when they took Military experts reasoned that Hitler had thrust about 25 fresh divisions into his drie for that Moscow said that the reason Germany wanted the city was to atone for the great losses suffered by the Nazis at Stalingrad in Aerial Action Bad weather which has slowed ground activity in Tunisia has been no barrier to the growing Allied Air As a prelude to General Montgomery's expected push against Marshal Allied planes have been pounding the Mareth An elaborate system of fortifications hewed into the this line stands between the bulk of the opposing After a month of offensive operations against the American and British lines in central and north Rommel has pulled in his Although the Allies restored much of their original they have concentrated their effort on softening up the enemy from the Allied air operations have been particularly extensive over American and British bombers have been pounding the great Axis base at Palermo and were the latest Sicilian centers MORE On April 1 Liberalizing tire rationing for the second Price Administrator Prentiss Brown expressed the belief that all motorists would be able to keep their cars on the road as the result of the release of additional tires by Rubber Administrator William Effective April grade 2 tires will be available to drivers with gasoline milt-age allowances exceeding miles a This includes most C and T card Motorists eligible for or more miles will be allowed a limited number of grade 1 the highest grade all must be obtained with certificates issued by local ration These changes do not affect A card who are eligible for used or recapped Most of the rationing formalities on recapped tires have been removed by SKIP Battle Lines Drawn When House Democratic leaders decided to support a tax collection without as approved by the ways and means their action presaged a pay-as-you-go tax battle which may reverberate in the 1944 political Party lines in the house were well for the most Republican leaders were lined up for and Democrats against the Ruml plan to skip an entire income tax there was some cause for worry among opponents of the skip-a-year proposal In addition to the powerful Republican membership which had lined up for some Democrats indicated they would vote with the Over Germany Since the RAF staged its first colossal plane bombing of Cologne last Nazi industrial and communications centers in both Germany and the occupied countries have been subjected to concentrated pounding from the air Out of returned after the last shattering attack on Railroad lines and the big automotive center of Rouen have been principal targets in The extensive system of canals has been bombed in Holland and And in the great naval base at the big port of the steel industries of the and the engine factories of Dusseldorf and Nuremberg have been steadily In flights into the the RAF has been using giant and which carry the devastating block busters in their bomb have headlined in the bombing and strafing attacks on communications The great with hundreds of planes participating on a daily are believed to have caused considerable damage to communications which the Nazis will need to shift troops and supplies to meet an Allied German war industry appears to have been badly crippled But with the American air force joining in the attacks in increasing raids to date may have been only a good beginning FARM From The importance of a strong home front especially in the food sector-was when officials of 12 states concluded a series of meetings to offset what former President Herbert Hoover calls of a dangerously degenerating agriculture Governors of eight states and high ranking officials of four others drafted a series of recommendations among other Recognize farming as an essential war release immediately all present stock of farm machinery now in the hands of leaders or distributors and provide material for completion of other units not now grant selective service deferment for experienced labor essential to farm and the present unsatisfactory which sends farm machinery where is not In France Hopeful eyes turned for several days on the high mountain passes near the French-Swiss frontier where large numbers of French patriots had mobilized to launch guerrilla warfare against Italian and German For the most these forces consisted of young Frenchmen who were being recruit ed for forced labor inside First reports from Zurich and indicated that British RAF planes were dropping guns and ammunition to the men waiting in the German sources soon claimed that many of the men were deserting because of the lack of such This claim was substantiated by neutral Much support and advice to the movement was given by the Algiers This source claimed that Italian troops in the area were refusing to help pry the patriots loose from their An ultimatum had been issued by the Germans before the fighting began but the French declined it saying that they were ready to fight through to the While non-Axis nations were cheered by the news of the resistance there was hope that the uprising could spread DINNER And Points While American housewives were studying what the effects of the rationing of canned cheese and edible fats would be on their family the Office of Price Administration announced thai April points for processed foods would be same as in March a total of 48 per These would be the points on the blue stamps lct- I I i DATES March First da for rationing of canned edible fats and March 31 Final date for first in- of passenger car tires for card holders and last day on which B ami C stamps in war ration book 2 mav be of second ration period may be used from March April 12 Expiration date for Period 4 fuel-oil May 31 Last day for use of stamp good for five pounds of June 15 Last valid date for stamp good for one pair of September 30 Expiration date for Period 5 fuel-oil E and F in war ration book In announcing the meat government officials were careful to out dial while the total amount to be consumed by the nation would be cut 12 to 15 per there would still be enough meat to allow healthy diets for 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Meanwhile the department of labor reported that the average increase in food costs throughout the nation during the past month had been per SECRET Held Dutch Harbor The story behind Japan's failure to seize Dutch the navy's Alaskan is due largely to the of two imaginary salmon packing The facts have just been revealed The two packing firms were no more than covers for one of the Alaska defense command's most remarkable jobs the secret construction of two airfields to guard Dutch When the Japs approached the naval base last June 3 two three eight destroyers and four transports perhaps as strong as the forces which struck at Pearl they understood there was no airfield within miles of Dutch Harbor In the midst of their assault the Japs found themselves hit from behind by land based planes and bombed and torpedoed by land based Their spy work so successful at Pearl Harbor had LITTLE Formula Fades A source of comfort to almost every labor union official is the fact that the Little Steel formula is fast disappearing as a factor in wage increases approved by the War Labor The bulk of wage adjustments now is based on I Reason for the disappearance of the much-debated formula is that a majority of employees already have received the 15 per cent general increase permitted by the formula as i a cost-of-living officials state that scarcely any important branches of industry have raised wages at least thai much since January JAP Above Australia Word from Allied headquarters in the South Pacific indicated that Japan's invasion forces appeared shifting to the ring of islands north of This new menace was emphasized when 48 enemy planes 25 bombers and 24 fighters attacked Port Darwin in It was one of the raids in although the Japs were driven off with only slight damage and |
