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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Department of Agriculture Forecasts
Tightened Civilian Rationing Orders;
Losses Alter Nazi Military Strategy;
Lend-Lease Reaches 10 Billion Yearly
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Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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Weary from siege and bitter fighting and wasted away from starva
tion, these are some of the Japanese soldiers raptured by U. S. army
forces when they overcame resistance on Guadalcanal. They have been
marched down to the beach and are waiting for a barge which will trans
port them to a prison camp for the duration.
FOOD OUTLOOK:
And Rationing
As the American housewife began
to learn the details of the new point
rationing system the department of
agriculture took a look around at the
1943 food supply and forecast an ex
tension of civilian rationing which
might even reduce dinner table
loads to depression era levels.
Tip off on the situation came after
a house appropriations subcommit
tee slapped its disapproval on the
administration's food production
subsidy program by rejecting to ap
prove a request for $100,000,000 for
incentive payments to growers of
potatoes, beans, sorghum, flax and
certain vegetables.
Farm bloc members of congress
are against the incentive payments
because they have their own plan for
raising the farmer's income—by in
cluding farm labor costs in the
parity formula.
After the subcommittee’s action.
Secretary Wickard called on farm
ers to ignore the action and go ahead
with their production plans anyway.
The department of agriculture point
ed out that the most severe pinch on
many foods is yet to come but care
ful rationing and intelligent use of
food supplies will help.
FORETASTE:
Of Rattle for Africa
The first big armament battle of
North Africa gave a foretaste of the
severe nature of the fighting which
lies ahead of the Allies before the
Axis can be cleared out of that front.
Allied communiques told of heavy
fighting in which German tanks
swept into the Allied forward base
at Gafsa, 75 miles west of the Gulf
of Gabes, in the southernmost part
of the Tunisian line.
American troops, which had been
holding the place, were understood
to have retired before the German
advance and to have withdrawn ac
cording to plan. The retirement
from Gafsa was not completely un
expected and was expected to
strengthen the Allied line in the dis
tricts where strength has been too
thinly spread for safety.
However, better news came when
American tank combat teams
smashed back at Marshal Rommel’s
experienced armored troops and
forced the Nazis back six miles in
the Faid area of central Tunisia.
This was the biggest armament bat
tle of the North African front, and
conducted under an umbrella of
American fighter planes.
SOUTH PACIFIC:
Score: 15—2
The early-February rumors of a
| major fleet engagement in the Solo
mon Islands turned out to be no
more than rumors—but only be
cause the Jap fleet decided against
j u
A navy communique announced
that 15 Japanese ships, including 12
destroyers, were sunk or damaged,
; and two American warships were
lost in a week of furious fighting in
the area—but the fighting was all
of air attacks on surface vessels
TTiere were no reported incidents of
warship battling against warship.
Reports indicated that the Jap fleet
preferred not to risk another large
scale naval battle
ALTERATIONS:
In Nazi Strategy
There were definite signs in Ber
lin that German military strategy
with respect to the war in Russia
was undergoing some rather vital
alterations. Some sources indicated
that Hitler himself was no longer
making the important strategic de
cisions. Rather, said these reports,
the German general staff had taken
over.
If true, there was reason aplenty
for the change. For now the Rus
sians have regained virtually all of
the territory they lost to the Nazis
when the latter began their 1942
spring offensive. Spring, summer
and fall last year had seen the Rus
sians fall back from a line running
roughly from Leningrad dowm
through Kursk, Kharkov and Rostov
to as far eastward as Stalingrad on
the banks of the river Volga. And
almost to the Caspian sea.
All this was now lost. For the
Russians had in turn encircled the
Nazi troops before Stalingrad and
then retook that city; the siege of
Leningrad was lifted; Kursk fell,
then Rostov and last to be retaken
was the anchor city of the German
lines—Kharkov. Most experts pre
dicted that the German generals had
convinced the political leaders that
a retreat to the Dneiper river was
in order. Here, they reasoned, it
would be simpler to stop the Rus
sians. Moscow sources could not
agree. The Red army fought on.
MEDITERRANEAN:
Ship Losses Small
Adm. Andrew B. Cunningham,
commander in chief of the Allied
Mediterranean naval forces, has an
nounced that American and British
shipping losses had been less than
2 per cent in bringing 780 ships
totaling 6,500,000 tons to North Af
rica since November 8. At the same
time the admiral reported the Ger
mans and Italians in January lost
nearly one-third of their ships in
trying to supply their Tunisian
forces.
When asked if the Axis could mo
bilize enough ships to get their
forces out of North Africa, Admiral
Cunningham said:
"Yes, but I wouldn’t like to say
what would happen to them.”
LEND-LEASE:
Still Growing
The United States is spending at
the rate of $10,000,000,000 annually
to supply its Allies with food, im
plements of war and necessary in
dustrial products, Edward R. Stet
tinius Jr., lend-lease administrator,
told a senate appropriations sub
committee.
Stettinius’ lend-lease table showed
that $6,823,000,000 worth of material
had been sent to Great Britain and
its territories while only $160,000,000
worth was sent to China.
The 1943 requirements of the va
rious lend-lease countries have been
submitted, he said. "On the basis
of our best present estimate . . .
1943 requirements for food will ap
proximately double 1942 require
ments.” (Food reouirements up to
January 31 totaled $1,115,000,000.) It
is expected that lend-lease require
ments for other materials will ex
ceed those foi 1942
HIGHLIGHTS • • • »» the week's news
RETREAT: Usually reliable re
ports from Turkey declare that the
j Nazis are fortifying the Carpathian
; mountains in the northeastern ex
tremity of former Czechoslovakia
Other reports say that the Germans
have constructed a series of defense
lines in the eastern section of Po
land. All of which would indicate
that the Nazis are preparing for a
broad retreat into western Europe.
ALEUTIANS: Weather stations oil
Siberia allow Jap air and naval units
to follow fog and storm eastward to
the Aleutians for military action
The elements which move eastward
in this region, give the Japs per
fect cover.
INDIA: Prominent Hindu busi
ness men joined in the plea to th>
Indian government to release M
handas Ghandi.
FINLAND:
Ryti Again
The attention of three strong na
tions—the United States, Russia and
Germany — centered on Finland
when that small nation re-elected
Risto Ryti president, thus extending
his tenure in office to March 1, 1945.
Germany hailed Ryti’s re-election
as a ‘‘plebiscite of the people" ap
proving Finland’s foreign policy.
Transocean News Agency reporting
from Helsinki said: "This election
was a demonstration for Ryti and
his foreign policy, and thus against
the Anglo-American war of nerves."
America's attention was drawn a
short time after the balloting by the
college of electors when the domi
nant Social Democratic party council
in a manifesto urged friendlier rela
tions between Finland and the United
States. It was hoped in many
sources that relations between the
two nations, troubled for some time,
might be smoothed.
Russia looked with sardonic eye
upon the Finnish press which em
phasized that Finland was independ
ent of Germany. One newspaper
noted that "Finland is fighting a
purely defensive war. Our alliance
with Germany is purely accidental.”
Peace Proposal?
Authoritative reports that the Fin
nish government has requested Swe
den to sound out London and Wash
ington on the prospect of a separate
peace between Finland and Russia
have been received by the Allied
governments.
Finland’s conditions for peace
stipulated Finnish independence, a
frontier compatible with Finnish
honor and interests, and that the
United States and Sweden should
guarantee that independence and
territorial integrity.
Although Britain is at war with
Finland, it was natural that the
Finns’ separation from the Axis
would be welcomed. The view pre
vailed in London that Finland should
enter into discussions direct with
Russia.
WPB SHAKEUP:
And More Rumors
When Donald M. Nelson, chair
man of the War Production board,
dismissed Ferdinand Eberstadt as
vice chairman of the WPB, informed
observers immediately forecast a
widening of the already gaping
breach between the WPB and the
army and navy.
Eberstadt, New York investment
banker and chairman of the army
and navy munitions board before
he came to WPB. has been looked
upon as the top authoritative liaison
in co-ordinating military and civil
DONALD M. NELSON
A widened breach.
ian economy programs. Eberstadt’s
duties were transferred to Charles
E. Wilson, WPB vice chairman.
The move was thought in Wash
ington quarters to foreshadow more
important changes in the WPB
structure. With Eberstadt's dis
missal came rumors that Nelson’s
tenure of office was strictly limited.
As the rumors spread, Bernard M
Baruch. 72-year-old chief of the War
Industries board of World War I,
was the most prominently men
tioned as Nelson’s successor.
FIRST CROP:
Of Natural Rubber
Harvesting of the first natural rub
ber to be produced in the United
States was announced by the de
partment of agriculture less than a
year after the nation's guayule rub
ber program was begun.
The harvest, in the Salinas valley
of California, amounted to about
600 tons of raw rubber. It was grown
on 550 acres. The source was a
small desert shrub, which must be
planted annually.
The department of agriculture re
port disclosed that the army made
an investigation 13 years ago into
the possibilities of the guayule plant
as a rubber resource in the event of
war. One of the two officers mak
ing the report was Maj Dwight D.
Eisenhower, now a general and com
mander in chief in the North Afri
j can theater of war.
PRICE CEILINGS:
*•
Here to Stay
The Office of Price Administra
tion is committed to a policy of
firm price control and. contrary to
reports, does not intend to permit
a gradual increase in the cost of
living.
That was the statement of Price
Administrator Prentiss M Brown,
who asserted that it was the intent
of congress under the emergency
price control act to hold prices to
he general level of September 15.
John L. Lewis Leading
Anti-Wage Ceiling Fight
_ * <
‘Man Who Came Back’ Responsible for
Battle Against Little Steel Formula
Of Increases.
By BAUKHAGE
AWs Analyst and Commentator.
WXU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
There is a new candidate in Wash
ington for the title of the “man who
came back.”
He has come back before so it is
probably no great thrill for him but
it is a terrific pain in the neck for a
number of people who hoped this
tall, dark ghost had been laid away
for the duration, if not for longer.
I am speaking of John Lewis,
stripped of his robes as head of the
CIO which he hewed out of the rock
of AF of L opposition. But if his head
is bloody, it is bowed in no humility
whatever.
Lewis may not be all the way
back but it seems very much as if
Messrs. Green and Murray are going
through some preliminary shuffles
that may be a dance to Piper Lewis’
tune.
Lewis loudly sounded the keynote
for what he hopes to be the death
march for the Little SteeL formula
which held wage raises down to a
15 per cent maximum. When Murray
and Green heard of Lewis’ press con
ference, on the day he sounded his
threat, they hurried to the White
House where the President, who isn't
seeing just anybody, permitted the
visit and let the CIO and the AF of L
talk to reporters on the White House
steps—but they had nothing to say
which could drown the Lewis roar.
I talked with a man who has
fought labor’s cause for many a year
without affiliation with any group.
He said to me:
“There are only two things that
will keep from blowing the whole
price control system into the high
heavens. Either Murray and Green
can turn their backs on Lewis, put
aside their fears that he will win the
plaudits of labor away from them
by being the sole champion of wage
raises and say boldly to their fol
lowers:
“ ‘We’ll do what is best for you
and everybody. Inflation will be
worse in the end than the squeeze
you feel you are getting now.'
“If they don't, Lewis will have his
way.
“The alternative,” he went on, “is
to have the President call in both
the farm and the labor leaders and
say: ‘AH right. How much of an in
crease do you want? Twenty per
cent? Thirty? But then prices will
go up by just that much. You and
everybody else will be that much
worse off.’ ”
Of course, there is another alterna
tive—a cast-iron ceiling on prices
but the metal to withstand the up
ward pressure has not been found.
With this situation before him. al
most anyone would rather be right
—or left of center—than President.
• • •
Different Problem
Recently, to add to the troubles of
the labor leaders themselves as well
as the government, there was evi
dence of a different type of problem
In scattered hot-spots in the labor
world—undisciplined groups which
one man described as made up of
men “who wouldn’t even take orders
from Stalin.”
Some 300 workers in a zinc smelt
er in Moundsville, W. Va., gave
notice that they weren’t going to
work Saturday or Sunday without
overtime pay. This, in spite of the
fact that they worked only 36 hours
a week. The orders are clear that
double-time is only paid for a sev
enth day of consecutive work. But
these men said "orders or no or
ders” they weren’t going to work
Saturdays or Sundays without that
overtime. Zinc is one of the bottle
necks. The War Production board
was frantic.
These are only pin pricks and not
typical but they cause a near-crisis
every time they occur in industries
producing essential materials.
• • •
Quick Comeback
To McNutt Edict
There has seldom been a quicker
comeback in a Washington bout than
the smart jab to the chin that fol
lowed Paul McNutt’s haymaker de
livered at the boys in non-essential
industry.
The echoes of the “work or fight”
ukase of the Manpower commission
were still reverberating up and down
the corridors of the long list of in
dustries from bootblacking to win
dow-curtain manufacturing when the
house military committee arose with
its “no, no, a thousand times, no!”
Representative Kilday of Texas ob
tained a promise from Chairman
May of the Military Affairs commit
tee for immediate hearings on his
amendment to the Selective Service
act and the “block McNutt" move
was soon heavily under way.
As you know, Representative Kil
day’s bill is aimed to make depend
ency the basic cause of deferment
while McNutt’s move was to estab- ;
lish participation in the war effort j
in field, factory or the armed forces
as the principle governing the order
of induction.
McNutt’s order set the boys in the
non-essential businesses hammering
at the doors of the United States
Employment offices all over the
country and consternation and con
fusion reigned.
Then up spoke Mr. Kilday. The
attitude of those favoring the meas
ure to draft the single men first, ev
erywhere, before the married men
and the others with dependents go,
is this: They say they do not want
the Selective Service act made a
weapon to force men into essential
jobs. They claim the act was never
so intended.
Legislation, they say, must be
passed after careful study which will
lay down a manpower program;
military service is an honor as well
as a duty. It must not be used as a
threat.
Kilday’s Views
I talked with Representative Kil
day before the hearings began. ,
He was optimistic over quick com
mittee acceptance of his bill though ,
he said he didn’t want to hurry the ,
hearings and he realized all sorts of
opposition might develop. He point
ed out that his measure would not <
alter the present deferments, that it j
doesn’t mean, as some seemed to ;
think, that single men, now deferred ,
under the present deferment rules,
will be yanked out of their jobs and
thrown into the army. Opponents
say, however, in some cases, this
will be the actual effect.
Whatever the effects on agricul- i
ture and industry may be if the bill ]
passes, it will sink the present Man- <
power commission program without ;
a trace and with all hands on board.
There is plenty of public appeal in
the Kilday measure—the argument
that it is more important to keep the
family together than to fill quotas
for industry or the army and the
navy, the argument that there is no
authority in the Selective Service act
to do what the Manpower commis
sion order is aimed to achieve,
namely, to state what job a man is
to hold. And that side of the argu
ment has particular appeal in a con
gress exceedingly jealous of its pre
rogatives, sworn to prevent usurpa
tion of its powers by the adminis
trative branch.
A Prediction
Last week, I reported the predic
tion by a keen observer of this whole
problem to the effect that one more ^
desperate measure would be at
tempted by the Manpower commis
sion before it would be forced to step
aside for some other agency McNutt
acted, and within 24 hours of that
prediction, the military affairs com
mittee announced hearings on the (
Kilday bill, looks very much like a
bird of ill omen echoing the second
part of the dire prediction—the end
of the Manpower commission as an
agency with any power of initiative ■
left. To many high army officials,1
there is grim satisfaction in what is
happening. Long ago, it was inti
mated that sooner or later the mili- i
tary would have to take over the
whip hand and settle the manpower
question in its own way. Some mili
tary men would be quite happy to
have the Kilday measure pass, ■
sweep everyone draftable into the
armed forces and then do its own re
allocation, screening out the men
necessary to industry and agricul
ture and furlough them back as mili
tary needs, first and the industry's,
second, demanded.
One can imagine, however, how
union labor would like to see khaki
and navy blue manning the stamp
ing machines and the lathes beside
the workingmen in civvies. Labor’s
objection to the bill was expected
from the first.
And so we have a four-way clash:
Legislators. Manpower commission,
Military, Labor.
Once more, a labor draft "looms”
as the. headlines say.
HIGHLIGHTS . . in the week’s news
Horse meat on sale in Washington
is being received very well. So did
the muskrat served to Secretary
Wickard and Vice President Wal
lace. Soon the order will be: "One
Porterhorse steak, well broken.”
• • •
Someone suggested "Marinettes”
for the marine corps girls auxiliary.
It didn't take. Even a she-devil dog
won't be a puppet.
Until it was announced that Gen
eral Eisenhower was to continue to
have full command in North Africa, ,
a string of stories kept coming out
of London to the effect that it might
go to a British general. It was con- !
sidered anti-Eisenhower propaganda. I
• • •
Newsmen returned from North
Africa are not enthusiastic over the
harems they claim they saw.
New Use for an Old
Phonograph Cabinet
CO MANY readers have written
° me to ask what could be made
from old phonograph cabinets, and
it is only recently that we have
found a really satisfactory answer.
This smart reading stand with
deep green leatherette top has
good proportions and is made from
an old oak cabinet rubbed down
with sandpaper and then waxed.
WICKER CHAIR WITH
PADDED COVER
TOP OF OLD '
PHONOGRAPH
CABINET
CUT OFF -
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DOORS jl
■F-'i-TOP
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V y WITH
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LEATHER
In the next article we will show
how the lid of the old cabinet
was used.
The new top of the reading stand
is made of old lumber and the
cover is tacked in place with brass
tacks to match the knobs of the
doors. The old sound box at the
top now houses a small radio and
the old record compartment keeps
current magazines neatly sepa
rated.
• • •
NOTE: Today’s article is one of more
than 30 conservation ideas in the new
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Love of Eternity
Love is the emblem of eternity;
it confounds all notion of time;
effaces all memory of a begin
ning, all fear of an end.—Madame
de Stael.
Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On
Creomulsion relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, In
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way It
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis
SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
RUBBER
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In Zambesi, Africa, cart* used by
the natives have tire* made of
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purpose of rubber.
In Bulgaria natives paint pictures of
their enemies on their tires so they
can be regularly splattered with
mud, at a gesture of contempt 1
Cart and truck* for transporta
tion account for 56 per cent of
the Army’s rubber requirements.
Cord tire construction, the type com- 0
non today, first made rapid inroads
on the cord-woven fabric tire in
191S. Low pressure balloon tire#
made their appearance in 1924.
Cryptostegie It a new word for
the rubber lexicon. To Floridian*
It It tho technical name for the
Mexican morning glory, which
ha* been recognised at one of
the most promising rubber-pro
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Use a' first |
sign of a SB I
■ ' NOSE^DROPS,
COUGH DROPS.
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