Show weekly news analysis allied aed air blows take heavy toll of jap held heij bases in new guinea EDITORS NOT EWhen when opinions ar are e expressed in these columns they ar are a those t iose of western newspaper union news analysts and not necessarily of i 4 tin this s newspaper RUSSIA RUSSIA nazi advance while nazi troops besieging sta battled for a decision the german air force was reported to be concentrating its attack on volga shipping rail and highway communications as far southeast as astrakhan where the volga flows into the caspian sea the russian high command announced that re enforced german troops 7 had made a further adv advance ance southwest of stalingrad Stal ingrad german broadcasts told of nazi troops entering the southern part of the c city ty after capturing additional fortifications however the russians claimed they were holding firm to the west the red reported a new enemy drive on the western bank of the don river south of employing an entire infantry division and tanks the germans were said to have lost 2000 officers and men in the sector rector east of leningrad the germans were reported battling for a 12 mile stretch of the important len ingrad volonda railway brighter reports came from the deep caucasus german troops in in the mountainous region around moz dok were said to be withdrawing withdraw ing northward observers noted that recent snows in the caucasus may have caused the withdrawal and said that the axis may have re languished hope of reaching the caspian sea in that area before winter RAIDS ON BRITAIN from the stratosphere germanys germanas Germ anys third new weapon for daylight bombing raids against england was revealed in london with a disclosure that nazi bombers equipped with supercharged diesel motors have made several daylight attacks on great britain the first of these bombing raids on britain were made from altitudes of approximately feet the bombers were modified junkers 86 Ps equipped with experimental pressure cabins others used were four motor heinkel carrying eight tons of bombs equalling the capacity of britaina Brit ains biggest bombers and the bomb carrying focke wulf the latter planes are primarily fighters and they are able to speed low over coastal targets getting away before the fast british spitfires Spit fires can get at them production CUT faced by industry in a straight to the point speech donald M nelson chairman of the war production board warned the nation that we are not winning the war and that although the nations pra production diction 1 is i s not what it should be tsip st be made in material al ediab irwill enforce layoffs and r w 7 H he aut av athert ats in materials te bals f for vaian i 11 n us use erand and I 1 shifts in materials a erial 4 war product to another would be made to balance war production mid aid said such cuts and assignments would result in enforced layoffs for men and women intent on production for victory PACIFIC FRONT action continues allied bombing attacks against japanese buses betses in new guinea continued with smashing blows taking ar a heavy tou toll in the battle area lae and Sala maua were targets for the main attacks two bombers were destroyed on the ground at the lae airdrome where 17 tons of bombs were dropped on installations R IA 4 a if the e above picture appeared in the japanese propaganda magaz magazine inep freedom and was brought back bach to this country by an american re patria ted in the recent diplomatic exchange of nationals the japs describe this picture as showing a part of the 1330 1300 americans captured at wake island on their way to a prison camp in kagawa province the black uniformed officer is identified as commander winfield scott cunningham ning ham ex garrison chief at wake the picture is being used by the enemy as propaganda the stated that ground action in the owen stanley mountain range where the japs were halted about 40 miles north ot of the port moresby base was confined to patrol activity meanwhile the battle of the solomons seemed to have settled down to a battle of supply lines the united states and australia have poured planes and supplies in to the marines on guadalcanal Guadal canal and taulagi against japanese sea and air opposition the japs have not attacked in force since the major battle on august 24 and 25 when U S forces defeated an enemy invasion force of more than 40 ships they have continued their occasional bombing forays and attacks with light naval craft recently the japanese have bombed from high altitudes using delayed action bombs transportation U S control before the operators of trucks busses and taxicabs can obtain gasoline tires or parts after november 15 they will be forced to show certificates of war necessity government control of these vehicles as a conservation measure was announced by joseph B eastman director of the office of defense transportation eastman said the certificates for commercial vehicles would require a tire check every miles or every 60 days whichever occurs first certificates he indicated would be issued to all types of trucks and vehicles built primarily for transporting property and passengers the control measure was inaugurated to limit the use of vehicles to operations necessary to the war effort or to the essential domestic economy lauds bond sales it flatly denying that he regards th thea abond bond sales m failures failure faff urel 1 t secretary of the treasury ryd mo q declared in i e 0 the war savings sta staff th a V e el treasury will continue to rel rely on voluntary lending for a large p part rt of our financing the secre statement was made following a recent press conference he said the impression seems to have spread that I 1 regard the voluntary war bond program as a failure this is not only a distortion of anything I 1 have said on the subject but it is also an injustice to the hundreds of thousands of devoted volunteers in all parts of the country LAVAL PROTESTS madagascar occupation even as the british advanced on inland capital ol of madagascar pro axis frenchmen were demanding a blow for blow reprisal against england in retaliation for the invasion britaina Brit ains reasons tor for the occupation of madagascar were speedily set forth they charged that the island had supplied japanese submarines for raids in the indian ocean and the mozambique channel that german spies had operated there with the help of vichy french officials and that jap planes had made reconnaissance flights over the southern end of the island the state department in washington was quick to endorse the british campaign to take the french possession out of the sphere of axis influence fluence in pierre laval in vichy was equally quick to protest the american endorsement ile he said that defending forces were very insufficient and I 1 regret it he admitted that the french on the island were putting up mere token resistance as a matter of honor that england and the united states are indifferent to vichy france opposition was made clear with the state departments announcement no that the full military operation of madagascar by british forces will not only contribute to the successful conduct of the war against against the axis forces but will wih be in in the interest of the united nations and as usual little attention was paid to the almost chronic complaints of laval GAS RATIONING discomfort not defeat approximately motorists throughout the nat me a ve made drastic changes ir ing habits a n a c a dmn va t of discomfort aroe a re preparing for flo i er r ze I 1 afe Toen BeaT a d M barucho Ba special rubber committee handed its h ara hitting report to mr roosevelt the th e president was ready to act his opening gun was an announcement that as rapidly as arrangements can be made he would put into effect a set of recommendations submitted by the committee these included nationwide nation wide gasoline rationing and severe restrictions on civilian motoring besides appointment of a rubber administrator and nationwide nation wide gas rationing the recommendations included a universal 35 mile an hour bour speed limit compulsory periodic tire inspection mileage restrictions the baruch committee recommend ed that each car be restricted to miles a year which does not mean that nonessential cars would be allowed that much mileage a voluntary tire conservation program to be in effect until machinery is set up for gas rationing expansion of synthetic rubber production to tons a year by 1944 and allocation of more rubber than is now going to the public to maintain essential civilian driving ENFORCED LABOR in france passing one of the most drastic laws in french history the petain government established the principle of forced labor and total dictatorship over employment the law originated by pierre laval states that every frenchman between the ages of 18 and 50 and every french woman between 21 and 35 are subject to be called up to effect all labors which the government will judge useful in the highest interests of the nation the law contains no limitations as to where the laborers could be shipped every man must prove to the government that he is engaged in work useful to the count rys needs or be subject to assignment elsewhere employers may not hire workers unless they are provided by the government labor service strategists i se maj gen russell maxwell left head of the U S forces in the egyptian battle zone works out a tactical problem with sir allan brooke chief of the british imperials imperiali Impe rials general staff this picture was made at middle east headquarters in cairo INDIAS PROBLEM more alore complex the indian problem appeared more complex than ever with the statement by mohammed all ali jinnah leader of indias andias moslem league that the moslems wo aou be prepared to enter a pr government unless their demand for pakistan or the establishment of a separate mohammedan state was met the demands made doubly difficult britaina Brit ains job of placating indian factions long at odds with each other the moslem leader declared that we do not want to be stampeded into forming a provisional government under the stress of the war emergency which would be of such character and composition that it would prejudge or militate against the existing moslem demand for pakistan this is not a scheme but our birthright according to our latest resolution it means that three quarters of india goes to the hindus and one quarter to the Moslems fi even that the hindus want to out of an indian proposal that president roosevelt be invited to mediate the troublesome problem found an adherent in britain we should swallow our pride and invite the president to arbitrate on india lord the labor peer declared i he recognized chur chills statement that a japanese fifth column might be working in india by telling labor party members that 1 I fear a repetition of what happened in burma where important elements turned to the japanese after being rebuffed in london 3 A DRAFT inevitable it hitler landed on the beach now this afternoon there would be no question in the minds of wives in sparing their husbands with that statement maj gen lewis B hershey national draft director made it clear to the nation that the need for man power in the armed services has made inevitable the drafting of now deferred husbands with dependents and war production workers we will have to come to the realization that there are not enough single men that there are not enough married men without dependents pen dents for the mobilization of say between 10 million and 13 million in the united states hershey said |