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Show Peope m fie ie!(s ! On March 8, 1942, Wiley M. ( Creps of Chicago was killed in j action In the North Atlantic. Just ) recently, his father revealed that ( Creps was only 15 years old, hav- j ing altered the date on his birth ) certificate to enter the service, j Seventeen-year-old Richard La- ) jeskie of Passaic, N. J., got off f to a good start in the baseball J ' world. The New York Giants paid j WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Italy's Industrial Belt Feels Weight Of Continued Allied Bombing Attacks; Grain Crop Production Shows Decline; U. S. Airmen Hit Both Ends of Pacific (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinion! are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) 1 - - . Released by Western Newspaper Union. ITALY: Toe and Thigh As the bulk of the German forces streamed across Messina straits from Sicily to the big toe of the Italian boot, Allied bombers struck at Italy's industrial belt high on the thigh of the leg-like peninsula. As the final curtain was being drawn on the Sicilian campaign, suicidal German rearguards planted themselves in the craggy island's hill tops and mountain sides, and with mortar and machine gun fought 1 From left to rlctat, Dick Lajcski, , Mel Ott and Mr. Charles Lajeskl. j the youthful shortstop 510,000 to f sign a contract, then shipped him ( to Jersey City in the Internation- j al league for seasoning. , ( After 67-year-old Frank A. Wil-) Wil-) helmi, Tacoma, Wash., paper ex-f ex-f ecutive, had sunk an eight foot putt in a golf match, he swung J his arms over his head in joy. j Then he dropped dead of a heart attack. ' AGRICULTURE: Below '42 Total production of the five leading lead-ing grain crops was set at 5,282,000,-000 5,282,000,-000 bushels for 1943, 700,000,000 less than harvested last year, on the basis of estimates of the department depart-ment of agriculture. Because of favorable growing conditions con-ditions in July, the department looked for a corn crop of 2,874,711,-000 2,874,711,-000 bushels against last year's harvest har-vest of 3,175,154,000; a wheat crop of 834,894,000 against 981,327,000; an oats crop of 1,189,546,000 against 1,-244,255,000; 1,-244,255,000; a barley crop of 348,-848,000 348,-848,000 against 426,150,000, and a rye crop of 33,314,000 against 57,341,000. Combined production of the four feed grains corn, oats, rye and barleywas bar-leywas estimated at 111,000,000 tons below last year's yield. Soybean Soy-bean harvest was set at 200,328,000 bushels. Milk production held close to last year's level and egg output was at a peak, except in the West. PACIFIC: Hit Both Ends While American troops hemmed in the last surviving band of Japanese Japa-nese on New Georgia island in the Solomons, U. S. airmen lifted their Liberator bombers off of the Aleutian Aleu-tian runways and headed them for the northern-most chain of islands of the Japanese empire. As the Liberators rumbled over these islands, known as the Kuriles, 40 enemy fighter planes rose up in defense. But the Americans opened their bomb bays and death and destruction de-struction tumbled on the designated target areas. Two Liberators were shot down, but the others swung their noses homeward to complete the 1,000-mile trek. Bad weather made the jungle on New Georgia a stew, but neverthe- GAS: Ration Change Reduction in the gas ration in the Midwest and Southwest was planned ! A v- i ; If V.' ' - I- i, v ?j 1 L . If : ' K-y-r." Ax by the Office of Price Administration Adminis-tration following Petroleum Administrator Ad-ministrator Harold Har-old L. Ickes' report re-port of a critical fuel shortage. Formerly, rationing ration-ing had been imposed im-posed in the area to limit driving and conserve tires. According to the V" 1 rV " - rf. , its?! plan, A, B and C . , ... . Harold Ickes coupons will be cut from four to three gallons. Many holders of C cards will find their gas allowances trimmed from a maximum of 720 miles per month to 480. Preferred motorists like doctors, doc-tors, ministers and certain war workers will continue to receive unlimited un-limited supplies according to need. It was said increased movement of oil to the East through the newly completed "big-inch" pipe line would draw from the affected area's supplies, contributing to any reduction reduc-tion in the gas ration there. TAXES: Who Pays Of the total of 22 billion dollars collected by the U. S. treasury for the fiscal year 1943 which ended June 30, the states of New York and Illinois contributed almost 28 per cent. The treasury's figure showed that the people in eight highly industrialized industrial-ized states paid 59 per cent of the government's total revenue. Besides New York and Illinois, these states were Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. By contrast, the treasury said North and South Dakota, each with a small population, paid about .08 of the total revenue. Of the revenue collected, more than 10 billion dollars was in the form of individual and corporation income taxes. Entering Palermo with American troops, Private Joseph Mole of Jamestown, N, Y., found a 14-month-old abandoned waif named Josephine, seen in his arms. Relief authorities took over her care. Allied advances fiercely, as the bulk of their forces were evacuated. In those last hours, the German rearguards' position became more precarious as daring units from Gen. George S. Patton's American 7th army landed behind their lines, and aided by naval batteries and dive bombers slashed their way through bayonets to firmly entrench themselves on shore. Despite heavy anti-aircraft fire which was said to have thrown up a wall of steel, waves of Allied bombers hit the important industrial center of Milan. Terrific detonations detona-tions could be heard on the Swiss border miles away as the bombers pushed their way through the flak to drop their incendiaries and blockbusters. block-busters. DRAFT: Induction Order Now that Selective Service officials of-ficials have authorized the drafting of fathers October 1, plans have been drawn for induction aceording to the importance of a man's occupation. occu-pation. Under the new plan,' a new classification classi-fication known as "super-eligibility" would be created, under which certain cer-tain skilled jobs in direct war production pro-duction would place the employee last in the draft list. The plan also would extend the list of non-essential jobs, holders of which would be eligible for immediate immedi-ate call regardless of number of children. In this case, such men would be given the opportunity to switch to more essential industries. Thus, those in non-essential occupations oc-cupations would be called first, before be-fore essential and "super-eligible" employees. About 300,000 fathers are to be drafted this year. Latest addition to the V. S. fleet is this new aircraft carrier, Bataan. less U. S. Doughboys slogged through the mire to complete encirclement en-circlement of the remnants of the Japanese force on the northwest coast of the island. ALLIED MEETING: Politics and War With Allied forces at the gates of the European fortress, with Marshal Pietro Badoglio's military government govern-ment of Italy reportedly receptive to peace terms, and with Bussia having hav-ing indicated willingness to negotiate nego-tiate with a "democratic" Germany purged of Naziism, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Eoosevelt came togeth- LABOR: Shun Lewis Big, burly John L. Lewis found the road back to the American Fed- fas erauon of Labor, La-bor, from which he once bolted to form the CIO, blocked. Headed by AFL President William Green, the union's executive ex-ecutive committee commit-tee officially refused re-fused to accept the United Mine er for their sixth personal meeting of the war. Flying to the North American continent con-tinent with Churchill was a staff of military and naval chieftains, and joining them for discussion were ranking U. S. army and navy officers. of-ficers. The combination of these RUSSIA: Fighting Unsurpassed Russia's resurging manpower rolled like a tidal wave over the endless Russian plains, and Germany's Germa-ny's stubborn armies gave under the weight. To the north, the Reds drove on Smolensk from two sides, leaving the Nazis a 140-mile gap in which to retreat along the corridor Napoleon Na-poleon Bonaparte used over a hundred hun-dred years ago to pull his ragged and beaten army out of the country. To the south, the Reds bore down on Kharkov, like they bore down on Orel, from three fronts, the north, east and south. Possessed with no natural fortifications, battered Kharkov, Khar-kov, once the mighty "Pittsburgh" of Russia, lay exposed on the barren bar-ren plains to the Reds' massed fire power and troops. BUSINESS: Biggest Merger Originally incoroorated in New staffs indicated further operations of joint character, such as those in North Africa and Sicily, where the services of the two nations teamed for effective action. As Churchill and Roosevelt met, Russia threw a bombshell into the diplomatic picture by declaring that Premier Joseph Stalin had not been invited to the conference, and therefore there-fore neither he nor an accredited Soviet representative would attend. Russia's diplomatic jockeying to share in the dominion of Europe after the war will be one of the Allied leaders' chief considerations. William Green Workers' appli-cation appli-cation for re-entrance. re-entrance. Instead, the council said that the matter would be referred to the AFL annual convention. In rejecting Lewis' application, the council showed no disposition to bargain with him. Whereas Lewis had insisted that the UMW be accepted ac-cepted as presently composed, the council called for dissolution of UMW's District 50, which has been unionizing various branches of labor. la-bor. Otherwise, the council said, District 50' s activities might interfere inter-fere with established AFL unions. MINERS: Seven weeks after passage of the Smith-Connally anti-strike bill, 30 coal miners, including officials of various United Mine Workers locals, stepped into federal court and asked that the case be thrown out on constitutional con-stitutional grounds. The miners' counsel declared that the anti-strike law was in opposition to the first amendment of the Constitution Con-stitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, and the 13th amendment to the Constitution against involuntary servitude. York state in 1851, the Western Union Un-ion Telegraph company, with a capital capi-tal of $170,000, almost immediately established a policy of purchasing or consolidating with less formidable competitors. Biggest step in the policy loomed recently when stockholders of the Postal Telegraph company voted to merge with Western Union, now more than a $340,000,000 enterprise, world-wide in operation. |