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Show VEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS , Yanks Set Pace in Paris Drive; New Pacific Blows Loom as U. S. Bombers Strike at Philippines ' - Released by Western Newspaper TTnion (FDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysis and not necessarily of this newspaper.) RATIONING : New Values In an effort to control consumption, consump-tion, OPA removed utility grades of beef and lamb from rationing, restored re-stored pork loins, hams and canned fish to the lists, and increased the point values of cheese. OPA's removal of utility grades of beef from rationing was prompted by the large movement of such classes of cattle to market, while the elimination of points on lamb was intended to spur the consumption consump-tion of such meat. Restoration of pork loins and ham to rationing, on the other hand, resulted re-sulted from a seasonal decline in hog marketing. Canned fish was put back on the lists because of short supplies throughout the country. Increases in point values of such cheeses as cheddar, colby, cream, neufchatel, creamed cottage, Swiss, Italian, Munster and limburger were necessary to slow down their movement into consumer channels. WAR PRODUCTION: Big Speedup Army officials continued to stress the need for an increase in the production pro-duction of tanks, trucks, big guns and ammunition in view of greater demands from the flaming battle-fronts, battle-fronts, i Latest army bigwig to call for more production was Maj. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, director of material mate-rial for the army service forces, who declared that schedules for the last half of 1944 called for a 77 per cent boost in output of aircraft bombs over the first six months. Production programs for heavy artillery ammunition will be up 110 per cent; heavy artillery weapons, 23 per cent; light-heavy and heavyweight heavy-weight trucks, 40 per cent; heavy-heavyweight heavy-heavyweight trucks, 123 per cent, and tanks, 50 per cent Pacific Top picture shows U. S. 5th air force bomber at right struck by Jap anti-aircraft fire above Kokas, Dutch New Guinea, while bottom photo depicts its crash into the sea while accompanying plane flies back home alone. New Oddities i Birth of quadruplets to the second wife of a 75-year-old artisan of Amalfi, Colombia, brought the number of his children to 47. He had 30 by his first wife and now has had 17 by the second. Craving excitement, 19-year-old Mary r hi tups of 1 rimsaran, Wales, stowed away on a landing barge which took her to the bustling bus-tling Normandy beachhead. beach-head. After spending two weeks on the beachhead beach-head amid the rumble and roar of guns and bombs, Miss Phillips returned to Britain, PACIFIC: Battle Plans "It's good to see you, Doug," said the President upon greeting General MacArthur at Pearl Harbor, and on that note did the nation's chief executive open a three-day war conference con-ference with Pacific military and naval leaders on the development of new offensives for the unconditional uncondi-tional surrender of the Japanese. Heralding things to come in the Pacific theater, American Liberators Libera-tors raided the Philippines for the first time in 27 months, striking at airfields on Mindanao island, while giant B-29s flew over Japan itself to rain fire-bombs on the shipbuilding center of Nagasaki, and attacked oil refineries at Palembang in the East Indies. Completely restored after the attack at-tack of December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor Har-bor was bristling with acres of planes, tanks and other battle equipment equip-ment as Mr. Roosevelt inspected installations in-stallations during the conferences. As a result of these developments, the President said, Hawaii was no longer an outpost of U. S. ' defense, but "one of our rear areas." WEATHER: Rain Needed As another heat wave struck parts of the Middle West, drought conditions con-ditions were intensified east of the Mississippi river, with crop growth faltering in many sections. According to the weather bureau, Kentucky may harvest only 50 per cent of a corn crop, while condition of the grain was spotty in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, due to heat and moisture deficiency. In southern Illinois, soybean growth was poor to good, while extensive failures of potatoes, pastures and gardens were reported in Ohio. West of the Mississippi, however, corn prospects were excellent, with promise of a banner crop in Iowa where the drought was broken in the south, and a record harvest in Nebraska, with one more good rain. OIL: Allied Accord The withholding of raw materials from prospective aggressor countries coun-tries to contribute to postwar peace loomed as a result of an oil pact signed between the U. S. and Great Britain, which conditioned future distribution of the product on supervision super-vision of an international organization organiza-tion to maintain world security. Calling for availability of oil to all peaceable countries at fair prices and the orderly development of re- EUROPE : Fronts Afire The whole French battlefront quivered to the clap and clatter of gunfire as U. S. and British forces pressed their twin offensives against the German lines, with American troops reported approximately 50 miles from Paris. While mechanized columns speeded speed-ed the U. S. advance upon the former for-mer French capital from the west British and Canadian forces were making slower progress to the north below Caen, where strong enemy armored formations hacked away to contain the onslaught while still other large concentrations defended de-fended their exposed ffank. As the Allied drive on Paris rolled on through good tank country, U. S. forces in Brittany threw in all the weight of their superior gun and tank fire to reduce the coastal ports of Brest, Lorient and St. Nazaire, which would open up important supply sup-ply lines from the Atlantic ocean. With every man, woman and child in East Prussia mustered for civilian civil-ian war service, and Russian forces Tough German paratroopers, who faced the American onslaught on-slaught at St. Lo, developed a deep respect for U. S; fighting qualities. According to one of their reports, re-ports, which fell into American hands, they declared: "Enemy artillery is distinguished by the accuracy of its fire and maneuverability. ma-neuverability. Employment in depth, changes of positions, self-propelled self-propelled guns during infantry attacks close to the front lines ih the doctrine followed. A great number of observation planes makes it possible ... to fire effectively even on small targets." tar-gets." Speaking of U. S. fire and phosphorus phos-phorus bombs and high explosive ammunition, the report revealed: "They cause stomach trouble and headaches. . . ." lurching on the threshold of their "holy soil," Nazi armies fought bitterly bit-terly to hold off the Red forces advancing ad-vancing on that Baltic province of Germany. Farther to the south, the Nazis countered Russian advances upon the former Polish capital of Warsaw War-saw with equal stubbornness, with the Reds seeking to relieve the stalemate stale-mate by switching their attack from the front of the city to the northeast in an encirclement attempt. at-tempt. On the southern end of the long eastern battlefront, the Russians pushed within 75 miles of the German Ger-man industrial province of Silesia, while other Red forces moved within with-in 27 miles of the Czecho-SIovak border bor-der in the towering Carpathian mountains, where the rugged terrain ter-rain was suitable to Nazi defense. As U. S. and British troops poised for their assault on the enemy's "Gothic Line" in the hills north of the Arno river in Italy, Polish and Italian units harassed the Germans on the eastern or Adriatic end of the battlefront. With the Allies girding for an all-out all-out drive on the latest enemy mountain moun-tain fortifications, their problems of supply over earthy, choky roads in the rugged country were relieved by the restoration of the seaports of Livorno, Civitavecchia and Piom-bino. none ine worse jor Mary Phillips weaTr When Sheriff Claude Sullivan of Murphy, Idaho, decided to close his store after suffering injuries in an auto-mobile auto-mobile accident, the town which serves as seat of Owyhee county was left with only a billiard parlor as a place of business. busi-ness. POSTWAR RELIEF: Hot Issue While the nation's production hummed at top peak in the fevered war effort, senators wrangled over measures designed to afford reliel to millions of workers who may be left unemployed in a postwar economic eco-nomic relapse. Joined by southern Democrats, the Republican minority waged a successful fight against the Kilgore-Murray Kilgore-Murray bill's delegation of authority to a federal work administrator, who could deny the unemployed compensation compen-sation if they refused to accept positions posi-tions offered them, which might involve in-volve moving their families to other regions in some cases. While the administration forces gave way before the onslaught on this provision, they pt up a stiffer fight for the payment of unemployment unemploy-ment compensation ranging up to $35 a week, while the opposing coalition coali-tion stuck by the George bill, which would leave these disbursements up to the individual states, where they run from $15 to $22 a week. The George bill also would place all federal fed-eral shipyard, arsenal and other workers under state unemployment compensation systems. TIRE OUTPUT: More Sought In seeking to speed up the manufacture manu-facture of heavy tires to keep essential essen-tial military and civilian transportation transporta-tion rolling, the War Production board revealed that it would strive to have CIO workers shift from passenger pas-senger to truck tire production, and also persuade them to go over their own self-imposed quotas of output. In attempting to arrange for a shift of workers from one department depart-ment to another, the WPB sought tc assure their seniority privileges tc protect them against later layoffs, while the WPB proposed proportional propor-tional pay boosts for increased output out-put to counteract the employees' alleged policy of limiting their work to avoid rate cuts for more production. pro-duction. LAND SALES Sales of farm land acquired by the government should be limited tc those who need it for a home and living, with first preference for former for-mer owners, and second for wai veterans, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard told the house. Surplus land, he said, should b( sold on the basis of its long-timf earning capacity and not at currenl inflated prices. Some 6,500,000 acres have been acquired by the government, govern-ment, only 3,500,000 acres of whict is considered suitable for farming. U. S. -British oil conferees included (left to right) Interior Secretary Ickes, Undersecretary of State Stettinius, and Lord Beaverbrook. sources without competitive wastes, the pact envisions the future organization organi-zation of an international oil commission com-mission to advise governments on how they should produce and sell the product. Other provisions of the pact seek to assure the recognition of the principle of equal opportunity in obtaining ob-taining concessions. |
