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Show r WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSB5- n Nazis Fall Back Toward Border Under Attack of Allied Columns; 'Big Four Shape Postwar World ) Released by Western Ncifppnper Union. (EDITOR'8 NOTE! When opinions are expressed In these column, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news Analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) I TEtEFACT 1 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DEBT, U. S. A. in biuion dollars FEDERAL AND OTHER fcCKPORATONllNDIVIDUAI GOVERNMENT , 1929 -)(!D 35.4 919 68.1 1939 CD(D 69 9 76.7 J 47.4 ' . 3157 77.6 47.5 EUROPE: Clearing France With swift Allied columns hacking at their hard-pressed flanks in the north, remnants of German Mar-I Mar-I shal von Kluge's Seventh army I straggled across the Seine toward j the borders of their homeland, while ! to the south, other Allied mechanized mechan-ized forces swept forward before weak resistance. I Having pulled the bulk of his Seventh Sev-enth army out of the Falaise-Ar-gentan trap in Normandy, von Kluge confronted another immediate immedi-ate threat'when dashing Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton raced his armored columns to the retreating Germans' rear along the Seine river and harassed har-assed their crossing. With Patton's men slashing the enemy's flanking rearguards near the Seine. British and Canadian troops pressed against the Nazis from the north of this pocket, and all the while swarms of Allied planes roared overhead, bombing the Germans' frantic withdrawal eastward. As the Allies by-passed Paris to concentrate on the crumbling German Ger-man defenses in the north, that famed French capital fell to Patriot Pa-triot forces after brisk skirmishing Aided by mobile surgery and reconditioning treatment, 9G per cent of the wounded American soldiers have recovered, with about two-thirds returning to duty, du-ty, the war department said. From figures compiled between June 25 and July 25, the department depart-ment said 23 per cent of the men released from hospitals with serious se-rious physical limitations elected elect-ed to remain in service. inside the city with Nazi rearguards. rear-guards. Armed patriots also were rising throughout all of southern France as Allied armies drove northward i from beachhead positions along the Riviera and around Bordeaux. Meeting slight German resistance in the scenic mountain country, the U. S. and Free French columns fanned out in all directions, while big cities like Marseilles, Grenoble and Lyon came within their grasp. The French political picture took another quick turn, with Gen. Charles de Gaulle established firmly firm-ly on home soil, and the Collaborationist Collabora-tionist government of Pierre Laval in exile. Having refused to leave French soil, 88-year-old Chief of State Marshal Petain reportedly was taken prisoner by the Germans. Ger-mans. EASTERN FRONT: Fighting Stiffens With the Germans standing their ground and beginning to fight back after deep withdrawals into central Europe, the war increased in intensity inten-sity on the eastern front, with the Russians still knocking hard at the door to East Prussia. While bitter fighting raged on the East Prussian border, Nazi troops to the north cleared a corridor cor-ridor to their Baltic armies previously pre-viously shut off by a quick Russian Rus-sian thrust to the Gulf of Riga. In the flaming fight for Warsaw, Russian troops gained ground to the northeast of the city in bitter tank and infantry battles, while south of the city, the Reds brought up additional addi-tional forces west of the Vistula river to menace the flat, plains country coun-try leading to the border of the Silesian Industrial province of Germany. Ger-many. Equally stubborn fighting flared on the northern Romanian border, where the Russians drove for the rich Ploesti oil fields. Early fighting was marked by the Germans' abandonment aban-donment of the big industrial city of Iassi, hub of the Nazis' successful defense of the region last spring. MISCELLANY BLOOD BY AIR; Transport of whole blood to combat zones by airplane air-plane has been inaugurated. For some purposes it has been found that whole blood containing red corpuscles, cor-puscles, is more successful than blood plasma. The Red Cross office announces that 1,000 more pints of blood from donors will be needed dally as a result of the new shipments. POSTWAR PEACE: Powers Confer With representatives of the U. S., Great Britain and Russia sitting down to discuss postwar peace plans at the quaint Dumbarton Oaks estate es-tate in Washington. D. C, favor was shown the U. S. proposal for organization organi-zation of a world assembly under leadership of the big powers, which would use force, if necessary, to suppress aggression. Because Russia Rus-sia is not at war with Japan, China was not to join in the conference until the Reds left. As the meeting got under way, American participation promised to be of a non-partisan, non-political Postwar peace conferees Include (left to right) Andrei Gromjko of Russia, E. It. Stcttinius of the 17. S., and Alexander Alex-ander Cadogan of Great Britain. nature, with John Foster Dulles, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's advisor on foreign affairs, consulting with Secretary Sec-retary of State Cordell Hull on the course of the conferences. Hull extended ex-tended an invitation to Dewey to participate in the discussions following follow-ing the latter's apprehensions that the interests of smaller nations might be overlooked. Before force would be employed under plans discussed by the conferees, con-ferees, attempts would be made to settle disputes peaceably, with a world court provided for adjudication. adjudica-tion. Promotion of world prosperity was recognized as an important factor fac-tor in the maintenance of stability. DEMOBILIZATION: Gradual Process Although from one to two million American soldiers may be released upon the defeat of Germany, their discharge will not be accomplished "in one day," Selective Service Director Di-rector Lewis B. Hershey declared. "If we let out 1,000 an hour," General Gen-eral Hershey said, "It will still take 10 months to get rid of 2,000,000 to 2.500,000 men." Although endorsing the system of gradual demobilization when the war ends, General Hershey admitted its unpopularity. Said he: '. . . When the war is over, .people want their boys to come home ..." Even after Germany is defeated, General Hershey said, the present induction of between 70,000 to 100,000 men a month will continue to remain re-main in force. PACIFIC: Soften Foe As U. S. ground troops prepared for further assaults on the strategic outer defense system of the enemy, American bombers ranged over the whole western Pacific, softening up the Japs' military installations. While the Americans girded for new blows, they tightened their grip on the Mariana islands, where 44.956 Japanese fell in the conquest of Sai-pan, Sai-pan, Tinian and Guam, with a U. S. loss of 4,470 killed, 721 missing and 20.345 wounded. In ranging the Pacific, American bombers walloped Paramushiro in the north and the Carolines and Marshalls to the south, while still other wingmen under General Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's command blasted enemy Islands leading to the Philippines and shipping plying in nearby waters. wa-ters. GI SPORTS Servicemen overseas will soon get the benefit of an expanded entertainment enter-tainment and sports program. Lieut. Col. Henry Clark, head of the athletic branch of the special services division, plans to organize championship contests between various units to stimulate competition competi-tion and interest. Most popular games. Colonel Clark found, are softball, volleyball,' boxing and horseshoes. These require less room and equipment than baseball or football. COTTON: Wants Parity Advising cotton growers to keep their product off the market to boost prices, Sen. John H.Bankhead (Ala.) declared his willingness to fight to Christmas to bring returns up to parity. Sponsor of an amendment to the price control bill ordering increases In textile prices to reflect parity, Bankhead conferred with manufacturers, manufac-turers, shippers and government officials of-ficials on means of raising cotton returns, with consideration given loans from 95 to 97 A per cent of parity as a last resort if other methods meth-ods fail. In advocating withholding of cotton cot-ton from the market. Bankhead clashed with famed Georgian Agrarian Agra-rian Tom Linder, who said such action ac-tion would result in the government dumping its stocks to further aggravate aggra-vate the price situation. Countering Linder's statement, Bankhead said that with prices now depressed because be-cause of insufficient demand, farmers farm-ers should put their cotton in loan until a profitable marketing program was developed. FUEL: Supplies Cut With demands exceeding production, produc-tion, civilian stores of industrial fuel oils, heating oils and gasoline declined de-clined 32 per cent from the fall of 1941, Deputy Petroleum Administrator Administra-tor Ralph K. Davies reported. Next to industrial fuel, stocks of gas showed the biggest decrease, being be-ing 63 per cent of 1941 supplies. From July 1 to August 5, Davics said, shipments ship-ments exceeded production by 95,000 barrels a day, with stock totalling 43,036,000 barrels as of the latter date. Reserves of heating oils showed the smallest dip, being 88 per cent of the 1941 figure. VETERINARIANS: Report Progress Approximately 100.000 dairy cows in New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin Wis-consin received artificial insemination insemina-tion in 1943, Dr. C. S. Bryan of East Lansing, Mich., told the American Veterinary Medical association convention con-vention in Chicago. Delegates also were told of plans to provide for equal distribution of veterinarians throughout the country coun-try after the war, and of the current practice of promoting preventive medicine through proper nutrition, breeding, management and sanitation. sanita-tion. Speaking of artificial insemination, Dr. Bryan declared: "The advantages advan-tages of the method, such as extending ex-tending the usefulness of outstanding sires and providing thousands of dairy herds with the services of prize bulls which would otherwise not be available to them, are obvious." ob-vious." News Briefs As a product of Japan's current de-liberations de-liberations .on postwar problems, the Tokyo radio said, Nipponese statesmen have conceived the development of a co-prosperity sphere bused upon division di-vision of the world into three spheres of influence East Asiatic, North and South American, and European with leader nations in each one promoting neighborliness, joint defense and business. busi-ness. Back from a tour of Soviet Russia, Eric Johnston, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, declared: "In my travels I have rediscovered America. Amer-ica. Never before did I realize the importance im-portance of our freedom, our standard of living, our right of habeas corpus, our bill of rights. . . plans materialize, the Erie railroad's rail-road's 4 per cent first mortgage bonds issued in 1847 will be retired. Due in 1947, the bonds arc the oldest railroad securities outstanding. JAP RELOCATION: Seek Return to Coast Three American citizens of Japanese Japa-nese descent one the widow of a Japanese-American soldier killed in action, and another a discharged U. S. vet filed a writ in federal court In San Francisco, Calif., seeking seek-ing the right to reestablish residence resi-dence on the Pacific coast. Although the complainants did not challenge the validity of the original exclusion order, they said that grounds for its further enforcement no longer existed, in view of the fact that there was no apparent danger of a Japanese invasion and the army itself has recognized this by taking such steps as cancellation of dim-out regulations on the west coast. Of 112,000 Japanese - Americans evacuated from the Pacific coast, some 70.000 of loyal character scattered scat-tered throughout relocation camps in the west would be affected by the decision. Another 27,000 have been relocated in jobs elsewhere in the country, while 18,000 disloyal Japanese-Americans have been segregated seg-regated at Tule Lake. Calif. LIVING COSTS A slight rise in the cost of living took place in July, the National Industrial In-dustrial Conference board reports. For the country as a whole the in. crease was .00 per cent as compared with June. Sixty-three industrial cities cit-ies are included in the monthly survey. sur-vey. In all but six the cost items advanced. The largest rise was in Trenton. N. J., where a jump of 2.2 per cent was noted. Declines were few and small, the greatest being only .04 1 per cent in Spokane, Wash. |