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Show POST-WAR: Study Peace Policy Reportedly believing that other nations might take the Fulbright WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS German Forces Hurled Back to Rome As Yankees Take Italian Port City; Russian Troops Near Polish Border; Senate Studies Dad Draft Problems (EDITOR'S NOTE : When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ' Released by Western Newspaper Union. resolution as an indication in-dication of America's Ameri-ca's unlimited indulgence in-dulgence in world politics after the war, the senate foreign for-eign relations subcommittee sub-committee moved to kili the bill. The senate moved to write a bill of its own. broadly ex- 1 V U I F A C T AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGES (MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, MARCH 1943) AIRCRAFT & PARTS o CHEMICALS ?J TOBACCO pressing America's gen. Tom post-war peace pol- Connally icy. It was thought that to so doing, support could be rallied for Sen. Arthur Vandenberg's provision assuring America of independence inde-pendence in determining her action in any program. As chairman of the senate's foreign for-eign relations committee. Sen. Tom Connally led in the move to kill the Fulbright resolution. Connally has indicated America should await further fur-ther development in world politics growing out of the war before committing com-mitting itself to any course. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Fight to Last Stubborn Japanese fought to the death as the Allies closed in on their base at Finschafen. But the Allies were able to bring superior forces to bear from the north, west and south, and the Japs lacked the numbers num-bers to shift to meet the attacks. While the Allied air force continued contin-ued to pound Jap bases throughout the entire Southwest Pacific area, U. S. airmen reported the appearance appear-ance of a "super-Zero" enemy fighter fight-er plane. Not only can this new plane outdive our P-38, it was said, but also affords the pilot better protection than the old Zero because of heavier armor. ITALY: Take Big Base The once beautiful port of Naples smoked in ruins as Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth army clattered through its streets. To the north of the city, long German columns made their way toward Rome, 135 miles away, where they were expected to make their next stand in the hills. Before giving up Naples, the Germans Ger-mans destroyed the elaborate docks and warehouses and other installations installa-tions that had made the port one of Europe's finest. As a result, time will be required to reopen the port for Allied use in supplying the armies marching northward. The German retreat at Naples also was influenced by Gen. Bernard Montgomery's flanking movement along the Adriatic sea coast to the East. By working its way northward, north-ward, Montgomery's army had pushed behind the Germans, threatening threat-ening to cut them off from the rear by crossing the mountains to the west, WORLD AVIATION: Seek U. S. Share Returning from a 40,000-mile tour of the battle fronts, Senators James Mead, N. Y., Richard Russell, Ga., and Ralph Brewster, Maine, declared de-clared TJ. S. commercial aviation companies would be denied use of airports built in foreign countries by America. The senators called upon congress to make provisions now for U. S. use of the airdromes by inchtding agreements in lend-lease assistance. The senators also declared that Cavalry Rides Again As a result of the mountainous terrain of Sicily and Italy, cavalry caval-ry has come Into its own again In . this war. Former cowboys and rodeo performers per-formers are astride the horses that are being ridden over rocky and craggy country where motor vehicles cannot be driven, to deliver de-liver food, water and other supplies sup-plies to troops. Sometimes they escort mule packs. Perched atop their mounts, the cavalrymen are often in position to detect machine gunners hidden hid-den under natural cover, and when they do, they pepper them with the small, yellow grenades. GAS: Neiv Rations Because the Midwest and Southwest South-west were exceeding their gasoline allotments by 75,000 barrels a day, the OPA reduced their "B" and "C" coupon rations from three to two gallons. gal-lons. Similar reductions were made in the Southeast. At the same time, "B" and "C" coupon rations in the Northeast were cut from 2V to 2 gallons, while "A" coupons in the East were boosted from 1 to 2 gallons. In announcing the new rations, OPA declared that it was intended to force the use of at least one gallon gal-lon out of the three gallons on the "A" coupon for occupational driving. FARM: Guarantee Payments Appearing before a congressional committee, War Food Administrator Marvin Jones asked for an additional addition-al 500 million dollars for the Commodity Com-modity Credit corporation to provide farmers with guarantee payments in the 1944 production program. The CCC now has a fund of 500 million dollars. It is intended to use this money for loans on major crops like wheat, cotton, corn, wool, tobacco to-bacco and potatoes. With the extra 500 million dollars, guarantee payments pay-ments would be advanced on vegetable vege-table oil crops, dry beans and peas, sugar beets, fresh truck and fruit crops, and canning crops. Jones sought authority to buy surplus sur-plus crops and absorb loss through resale at lower ceiling prices. He also asked power to resell perishable perish-able commodities like fruits and vegetables which the government might obtain through price-supporting purchases, at less than parity. DRAFT: Asks Neiv System Tightening up of deferments of men under 30 years of age and the draft of dads by age groups was pro-I pro-I posed by Senator Robert A. Taft during debate on Senator Burton Wheeler's bill for postponing the induction in-duction of fathers until January 1. Taft's proposal would grant defers ments of men under 30 only if the deferment were approved by the men's own draft board and the draft board having jurisdiction in the territory ter-ritory where the deferment would be granted. Fathers under 25 would be called into service before those over 25 but under 30. Those over 30 would be called last Taft also proposed that the President Presi-dent establish a medical commission to study the possibility of lowering physical standards to draw more single 4F's into the service. For Higher Allowances Higher allowances for children of service men provided for in a senate bill, were supported by the army. The bill would raise the monthly payment for one child from $12 to $18, and for every child thereafter from $10 to $11. The present payment pay-ment of $50 to wives would be continued, con-tinued, with the government contributing contrib-uting $28 and the service man $22. An army spokesman also advocated advocat-ed higher allowances for other dependents. de-pendents. Where a service man is not supporting a wife or child, it was recommended allowances to one parent be boosted from $37 to $50 monthly, and for two parents from $47 to $68. In cases where the service serv-ice man is supporting a wife and child, allowances for a parent would be raised from $20 to $27, and for two parents from $30 to $68. The army said it was in no position posi-tion to withhold payments to financially finan-cially independent or unfaithful wives. r v L I A f 'Jk o LA WHEAT: Canadian Purchases With sales of wheat as feed running run-ning about one million bushels a day, the Commodity Credit corporation corpora-tion has gone into Canadian markets mar-kets to bolster its stocks, recently estimated at 129 million bushels. Total purchases from Canada have reached 30 million bushels, of which 22,500,000 bushels have been shipped into the country. Of the unshipped total, 3,500,000 bushels are waiting to be moved over water from northwestern ports. Since July 1, CCC wheat sales principally for feed have approximated approxi-mated 111,500,000 bushels. MEXICO: , Settle Oil Claims In final settlement for oil properties proper-ties which it took away from American Ameri-can nationals In 1933, Mexico agreed to pay a total of $29,137,700, of which $5,141,709 represents interest at 3 per cent During negotiations for the settlement, settle-ment, the American nationals had claimed the seized properties had a valuation of hundreds of millions of dollars. But a commission of experts ex-perts trimmed this claim to $23,. 995,991. Under terms of the agreement the present balance of payments will be made in four annual installments. U. S. WAR PLANTS: 13 Billion Stake Speaking before a congressional committee, Secretary of Commerce Senators Russell. Brewster and Mead. while the U. S. was supplying the Allies with 65 per cent of their oil. Great Britain was not fully exploiting exploit-ing her tremendous petroleum reserves re-serves in Persia. At the present rate of consumption, they1 said, our oil will be used up in 11 years. Any attempt to reduce the importance impor-tance of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's command in the South Pacific by placing him under the supreme di-, di-, rection of Lord Mountbatten would be bitterly resisted by Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, the senators sen-ators said. RUSSIA: Near Poland Russian troops drove within 100 miles of the old Polish border in the northern sector of the long front, while other Red forces assaulted prepared German positions on the west bank of the broad Dnieper river riv-er to the south. Failing to hold their new line, the Germans would be pushed out of Estonia, Es-tonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and they would lose substantial control of their Baltic sea route to Finland. Stiffening German resistance and appearance of massed artillery along the west bank of the Dnieper, indicated that the Nazis were determined de-termined to make use of the. broad river as one of their last natural defense de-fense lines along 750 miles. Russian crossings to the west bank in some sectors were met by prompt German Ger-man counterattacks in an effort to prevent the organization of sizeable Red forces for continuation of their j drive. Jesse Jones advocated advocat-ed the sale of the government's 13 billion bil-lion dollars worth of war plants and other property to local interests in-terests after the ending of hostilities. The government now controls 50 per cent of aluminum production; 92 per cent of magnesium; Jesse Jones 10 per cent of steel; 100 per cent of synthetic rubber and high octane gasoline; 50 per cent of machine tools, and 90 per cent of aircraft. In addition, it owns 47,000 square miles of land, the area of six New England states. TIRES: Quota Reduced Motorists will have to get along with fewer tires in October than in September. The Office of Price Administration Ad-ministration has reduced the quota from 829,000 to 645,000 for this month. Under the new ruling, only motorists motor-ists who drive 601 or more miles per month can qualify for new tires. By another change, used tractor and other farm vehicle tires were removed re-moved from the ration list |