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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS . Nazi Front Cracks Under Weight Of Allied Drives Across Reich; Truman Charts Liberal Course Released by Western Newspuper Union. (EDITOR'S NOTEs When opinions art expressed In these columns, they are those ot Western Newspuper Union's news analysts And not necessarily or this newspaper. I Standing on balcony of their palace In Nordklrchen, Germany, Princess Prin-cess Valerie Marie Schleswlg-Holstein and her husband, Prince Arenberg (right), greatly resent Yank Lt. William C. Gibson's order for them to vacate their 300-room residence. Area was overrun by U. S. 9th army. EUROPE: Broken Front "With the enemy breakthrough break-through from the west and another an-other from the east, and with wedges pointing from both directions di-rections toward Berlin, the organic or-ganic structure of the German front has ceased to exist." Thus spoke Nazi Radio Commentator Commen-tator Max Krull, summing up the Germans' plight as mighty Allied armies rolled upon Berlin from two sides, threatening to split the Reich in half at that point, and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's forces already had cut the country in two for all practical purposes by driving to the Czechoslovak border in the area of Delsnitz. With their western armies all but battered to pieces by General Eisenhower's Eisen-hower's U. S. and British drive eastward from the Rhine, the tottering totter-ing wehrmacht, of rag-tag makeup at many points, suffered still other heavy blows as the Russians opened up their all-out assault on Berlin, and also launched another major offensive of-fensive to the south in an effort to link up with American forces smashing smash-ing eastward in Saxony. ' As the U. S.'"drives slowed' up In the face of stiff last-ditch Nazi resistance re-sistance along the Elbe river and the lengthening supply lines, the spotlight shifted to the eastern front, where the Russian steam-roller crunched forward in sharp fighting. Though the Russians threw their full weight against the Germans before Berlin, the going go-ing remained hard through the strong and intricate defensive fortifications the Nazis had set up for such an assault. Moving behind massed artillery fire, the Russians were compelled to pick their way through a maze of pillboxes and bunkers, with their tanks encountering heavy armored ar-mored opposition when breaking into open areas. As the U. S. 9th army built up strength for a thrust eastward beyond be-yond the Elbe to Berlin, and the U. S, 1st and 3rd moved toward a junction junc-tion with the Russians in Saxony below be-low the German capital, the U. S. 7th edged on the Bavarian mountain moun-tain fastnesses in the south where, the Nazi hierarchy is expected to make a last death-stand, and British Brit-ish troops closed on the enemy's great North sea ports of Bremen and "Hamburg. V-E Day So long as fanatical German resistance re-sistance prevails in any sizable degree de-gree in the Reich, V-E Day may be formally delayed, supreme Allied Al-lied headquarters announced, scotching scotch-ing hopes for a proclamation upon juncture of U. S., British and Russian Rus-sian forces. , With millions of Germans under arms and capable of offering stiff resistance re-sistance along the North and Baltic sea coasts and the mountain fastnesses fast-nesses in the south even after the rupture of a continuous front, it is felt that any announcement of V-E Day while the enemy still was able to inflict heavy losses might lead to a weakening of soldier and civilian morale. Nazi plans for a fanatical resistance resist-ance along organized and guerrilla warfare lines have as their objective the dissolution of allied determination determina-tion to occupy the country in the face of heavy losses from unending opposition. Upon that extremely long shot does Adolf Hitler still hope to save the Reich. PACIFIC: Suicide Corps Her great cities aflame, with American forces edging closer and closer to the homeland, Japan has decided upon the organization of a civilian suicide corps to help counter coun-ter an invasion of the country, it was reported. Announcement of the creation of the corps came as 27 miles of the 65-mile industrial district of Tokyo lay smouldering as a result of super-fort super-fort attacks, and as carrier planes Having long written of the fortunes of war, famed 4-Uyear-old War Cor-respondent Cor-respondent Ernie I'yle himself fell victim to its tragic twists, when a Jap machine gunner singled him out as target while he was talking to an offi' cer at a command post on le Shima island off of Okinawa and killed him instantly. Covering the Pacific war after writing from the European and North African theaters since the London Lon-don blitz of 1940, Pyle was considered consid-ered a soldier's newspaperman be-cause be-cause of his genius for portraying military life in simple, homey terms. from Vice Adm. Marc Mitscher's fame'd task force ranged over the southern 'portion of the homeland and whittled down Jap aerial strength. At . the same time, American ground forces continued their steady advances on Okinawa in the Ryu-kyus Ryu-kyus after beating off numerous Jap counterattacks, and slashed deeper into the enemy's northern mountain stronghold on Luzon in the Philippines. As an indication of the continued ferocity of the fighting, most Jap casualties were killed, with few prisoners taken. 33RD PRESIDENT: Starts Tenure Wished well on every hand, and with congress showing a warm disposition dis-position to cooperate cooper-ate with him. Har- ii-yfZ ry S. Truman, for-mer for-mer Missouri farm f -boy who rose to the - ' KA nation's highest of- . flee in one of the 'TjA4 gravest periods of A 'XXf'-ffJ history, started his f'TifCyt presidential tenure i'f-sJ with a dedication to if' i the principles of his predecessor. Mr. Truman Lacking both the magnetism and political genius of F.D.R.,'Mr. Truman's methods may be different, but in his first address to congress and the nation, he left no doubt that he stands four-square behind the late President's program for unconditional surrender, postwar international cooperation to preserve pre-serve peace, and intends to maintain the liberalism of the last 12 years. Though i pledging himself to the continuation of such liberalism, it was generally felt that Mr. Truman would temper it with a more sympathetic sym-pathetic attitude toward business, and strive to bring capital and labor la-bor closer together. Speaking in advance of the United Nations' postwar peace parley in San Francisco, Mr. Truman's address ad-dress was mainly devoted to foreign for-eign affairs, with strong emphasis upon the close working of peace-loving peace-loving countries to outlaw war, by force if necessary, and the need for the U. S. to assist stricken people and increase overseas trade to raise general living standards. Heartening has been the new President's continued desire to work closely with congress. CHAIN STORES: , Monopoly Suit The oft-disputed question of the chain store was brought before Judge Walter C. Lindley in federal district court at Danville, 111., with the government accusing the New York Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company (the A. & P.) of being a repressive monopoly, and the firm asserting it Is merely a highly efficient ef-ficient organization passing savings to consumers. In presenting the government's case, Prosecutor Horace Flurry charged that the A. & P.'s combined com-bined operations permitted it to undersell un-dersell in certain areas and drive out competition, and the volume of its business enabled, it to put pressure pres-sure on individual manufacturers for its benefit by threatening to withdraw with-draw its orders. Countering the government's arguments, argu-ments, A. & P. attorney W. M. Acton Ac-ton of Danville, 111., challenged the prosecution to show when the company com-pany had never passed a saving to consumers. Declaring that A. & P. sought no monopoly, Acton said the courts have established "you can sell at any price you please even give merchandise away if it is not for the sole purpose of eliminating competition." com-petition." TE1EFACT URGENT NEIO FOR HOSPITALS IN RURAL AREAS, (MATUNITT CAM) lit. DELIVERIES nOME JRF IN IIOSriTAUS .DELIVERIES MUX Each iTmlxl f,prnl K ! loul blrtM, 1M4 FOOD STORAGE: At Low j Standing at 519,929,000 pounds, total to-tal stocks of beef, pork, lamb and mutton in cold storage on April 1 were lowest on record for that date, while the government held substantial substan-tial amounts of smaller dairy and poultry supplies. At 791,867,000 pounds on the same date a year ago, pork holdings had dipped to 326,399,000 pounds, of which the government owned a fourth. Beef stocks dropped to 151,-990,000 151,-990,000 pounds and lamb and mutton mut-ton to 15,254,000. At 432,339,000 pounds a year ago, lard inventories were down to 50,579,000, of which the Dairy Products Marketing association associa-tion and government agencies owned 21,189,000. Of smaller butter stocks of 29,639,-000, 29,639,-000, the U. S. held about half; of 98.922,000 pounds of cheese, it owned about 40 per cent, and government holdings of dried eggs included 87,-649,000 87,-649,000 pounds of 99,881.000; 703,000 cases of shell eggs of 1,777,000, and 25,937.000 pounds of frozen eggs of 115.344,000. At 141,759,000 pounds, total poultry stocks were down from a year ago. FARM LABOR: More POWs Unless an early end to the European Euro-pean war occurs, taxing shipping facilities for retransport of men and materials and raising employment problems here, the army plans to bring in an additional 125,000 German Ger-man war prisoners before harvest time to relieve the farm labor shortage. short-age. Working under international regulations, regu-lations, war prisoners have performed per-formed valuable services in this country, with 150,000 employed in army camps; 43,000 in agriculture, pulpwood and food processing, and 35,000 Italians in war industry. Having Hav-ing used 20,000 war prisoners last year, canners have asked for 32,000 this season, it was said. As of April 1, there were 311,630 German war prisoners in this country, coun-try, along with 50,549 Italians and 3,258 Japanese. F.D.R.: Will Disclosed Having previously conveyed the residence and surrounding grounds of his picturesque Hyde Park, N. Y. estate to the government for a memorial, me-morial, the late President Roosevelt sought to preserve its character for posterity by asking his family in his will not to remove any belongings essentially a part of the property. Mr. Roosevelt's request was contained con-tained in the will which also bequeathed be-queathed all of his real estate and personal property in Meriwether county, Georgia, to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation for Infantile Infan-tile Paralysis. Filed in Dutchess county, New York, the late President's will provided pro-vided that Mrs. Roosevelt is to receive re-ceive the income from a trust fund set up from his estate, with half of the principal and accumulations going to his children or their heirs upon her death. The remainder would rest in trust for the children and grandchildren. Each servant and employee whose salary was paid by Mr. Roosevelt is to receive $100. ARMY FARE- Monthly overseas shipments of perishable foods Increased during 1944 to more than 2 times the quantity of these items supplied to overseas troops during the previous pre-vious year in refrigerated ships and deliveries will be maintained at high rates, the war department said. Even with the larger troop strength now in foreign theaters of operation the supply of fresh foods per man overseas is the largest it has been at any time, army officials snid |