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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Axis Key Industrial Cities Hammered As Italy Evacuates Strategic Areas; Nation’s Taxpayers on Current Basis; Huge Nazis Losses Disclosed by Russia (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinion* arc expressed In these columns they are those el Western Newspaper Union's aews analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) _____________ Released by Western Newspaper Union. -— Engineers from the amphibian command at Camp Edwards, Mass., are shown operating the 2'i-ton truck which is at home In water as it is on land. Officially known as the DCKW. the army has affectionately dubbed the truck the “Duck.” It proved Its worth during the North African campaign. TRUCE: In Coal Mines Under an agreement reached by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and John L, Lewis, the na tion's 500,000 coal miners returned to the pits to work under a new truce expiring October 31. Accord ing ta the announcement, produc tion will be resumed under the terms of the old contract, which presumably include concessions granted by the War Labor board amounting to 23 cents a day. The agreement followed Lewis’ contention that the miners would return to work for the government only, which took over the supervi sion of the pits as a result of the first strike threat Under arrange ments, however, the government named the operators to run the mines and receive the profits. Termination of the latest strike left the “portal-to-portal” pay issue up in the air. Lewis has argued for such pay, which represents com pensation to the miners for time spent traveling to and from their working stations. The WLB declared it had no authority to pass on the question, suggesting court action or decision by the fair labor standards bureau of the government Possibility that Lewis might fol low some such course was hinted in the miners' statement announc ing their return to work. PAY-AS-YOU-GO: New Experience July 1, 1943, will long be remem bered in the United States. For, history will show that on that date, millions of American taxpayers will have begun paying their income taxes as they go instead of waiting till March 15 of the following year to settle their accounts with Uncle Sam. Under the new pay-as-you-go sys tem, employers will deduct 30 per cent from employees’ wages or sal aries. Farmers and others who ob tain income from sources other than wages or salaries must estimate their yearly earnings and then make quarterly payments. In all cases, payments will be made after legal exemptions. The pay-as-you-go law forgives all taxes for 1942 er 1943, whichever is lower, up to $50, and 75 per cent of all taxes above that figure. Al though a person may not have to pay an income tax, the 3 per cent victory tax will be deducted from his check. GERMANY: ^ Industries Hit Eight hundred RAF bombers clouded the sky in a heavy raid on the German industrial center of Kre feld even as British bombers re turned from an assault on Fried richshafen farther to the south. First used at Krefeld last fall, block-busters again were poured on the German city, center of special steel and parachute textile produc tion. Site of hard coal mining, Kre feld also is known for its sulphur output The British admitted the loss of 44 planes. In attacking Friedrichshafen, the RAF blasted the former Zeppelin works housing a factory producing radio location equipment similar to the U. S. "radar ” Hits were ob served on all main buildings, in cluding a huge hangar. MEDITERRANEAN: Warn Italy of Bombings As Lieut.-Gen. Carl A. Spaatz stated that the Allies now could ob tain air supremacy in the Mediterra nean by concentrating their superior forces in any given locale, the Italian people were warned that their indus trial centers would continue to be pounded as long as they produced goods for the Axis. Commander of the North African air forces, General Spaatz said that any barrier before Allied troops could be reduced by the proper use of full air power. Urging Italian workers to move with their families from factory areas. Allied radio broadcasts de clared “Our airmen will bomb your war industries and communications as relentlessly as they have bombed your ports and ships during the Af rican campaign.” Continuing their aerial assault, Al lied planes, paced by British Wel lingtons, plastered Sicily. Block busters were dropped on Messina, the terminal point for the ferry from Italy, and Sicilian airdromes. Mean while, the Italians were reported evacuating the civilian population from both Sicily and Sardinia. RUSSIA: Second Anniversary On the eve of the second anniver sary of the German invasion of Rus sia. the Reds called on the Allies to open up a second front in the west and claimed that 6,400,000 Nazis had fallen in action against them. Declaring that delay in opening up a second front would only protract the war, the Reds said this would mean "a colossal increase in vic tims.” The Reds also stated that they had reinforced their war econ omy with the erection of hundreds of new factories behind the lines. In addition to Nazi losses in per sonnel, the Reds claimed they had knocked out 42,400 tanks; 43.000 planes, and 56,500 guns. They placed their own losses at 30,000 tanks; 23,000 planes, and 36,000 guns. In discussing international rela tions, the Reds praised their coali tion with Britain and the United States, adding "The Hitlerites’ aim to split this coalition failed." CORN: Seek Stocks In an effort to get corn moving to processors and manufacturers, Food Administrator Chester Davis named a committee representing all branches of the Industry to work with him in breaking up the bottle neck. Producers, traders and millers were brought together in the com mittee as Davis determined to at tack the problem from all angles instead of considering it piece-meal. According to reports, the confer ees were studying a variety of pro posals, chief among which was a plan that would limit the feeding of hogs to certain weights, and put the 1943 com crop on an allocation basis, assuring processors’ and manufacturers' needs first. Other proposals studied included the cancellation of ceiling prices on com; subsidizing farmers to release their farm stocks, and the requisi tion of terminal elevator supplies and allocation of such supplies among hard-pressed milling and mixing firms. B IGBLIGBTS . . , in the week’s news WORMS: The worst plague of army worms in 20 years has struck the northern counties of Illinois as a result of heavy rains. • * • PRISONERS: The war depart ment released a statement that more than 300 American soldiers have died in Japanese prison camps since the end of the Philippine cam paign. SUBMARINES: German naval commentators admit that sinkings of Allied ships by German subma rines have dropped during 1943. • • • MEXICO: The Mexican govern ment is seeking a loan of $60,000,000 to complete lines of the Kansas City. Mexico and Orient railroad to the Pacific coast, according to Col. Pau lino Eontes, manager. PACIFIC: Supremacy on Guadalcanal Braced by the arrival of Lock heed Lightnings and Vought Corsair fighter planes manned by experi enced pilots, the Allies have achieved air superiority In the Solomons. Work has been completed on the big air base of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, and except for repair facilities, it is said to compare with the largest in the U. S. Mean while, the Japs have been bombed out of their forward aerial positions of Munda and Vila, 200 miles to the northwest. Although the Jap Zero remains a formidable weapon, the Lockheed, with a climb over 30,000 feet, and the Vought, with a maximum effi ciency between 20,000 and 30,000 feet, are not only proving better in performance but are also more heavily armored and gunned. RACE RIOTS: Spread to Detroit With its attention to race riots first attracted by the “zoot-suit" up risings in California, the federal government was forced to step in to quell outbreaks between blacks and whites which threw Detroit into an uproar. Before 2,300 soldiers arrived in Jeeps, trucks and armored cars to restore order, 23 people had died and 600 had been injured. Hundreds had been arrested and confined in the city’s jails. The trouble started after an alter cation between whites and Negroes at the Belle Isle beach, then was fanned into flames with the spread of the erroneous rumor through the colored district that a Nt ;ro wom an and child had been killed. Ra cial groups gathered quickly, ston ing private cars and public trams and then beating the occupants. When Detroit police could no long er control the situation, Gov. Harry Kelly of Michigan appealed to Presi dent Roosevelt for federal interven tion. The President ordered the dis patch of the troops. FREE FRENCH: Agreement Reached American and British insistence on settlement of the Free French wrangle resulted in the establish ment of Gen. Henri Giraud as com mander-in-chief of all French forces in North and West Africa. Gen. Charles DeGaulle was named lead er of the forces in other French pos sessions in Syria and East Africa. The appointment represented a victory for the Giraud faction, since the territories put under his wing are among the richest and most strategic of French possessions and contain the bulk of the French army. Furthermore, Giraud's lead ership in the territory allows him a free hand in the disposition of many military commanders to whom De Gaulle was hostile. At the time it announced the dual arrangement, the French national committee also revealed it had set up a military delegation composed of both Giraud and DeGaulle and their chiefs-of-stafT to work out an eventual unification of both com mands. GOVERNORS’ PARLEY Marshall Sees Victory Addressing the 35th annual gov ernors’ conference, Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. chief of staff, pre dicted certain victory, but not with out great effort and heavy losses. "What we need now is a stoic de termination to do everything in our power to overwhelm the enemy, cost GEN. GEORGE C. MARSHALL IT e need stoic determination. what it may. to reduce him to a supplicant under the impact of aroused and determined democra cies,” General Marshall said. Although Tunisia gave the Allies an invaluable pattern for future op erations. General Marshall said, the coming battle of Europe will not be a setup Water-borne movements always produce complications, he declared, and they are merely a prelude to the heavy fighting re maining once the land has been reached. JAP CURFEW: Uphold by Supreme Court In unanimous decision, the Su preme court affirmed the right of a military commander in imposing a curfew on Japanese residents of the Pacific coast in March, 1942. Two American citizens of Japa nese ancestry contested the army’s action as applying against them as well as aliens Of the 110.000 Japa nese affected, 70,000 were citizens. The court iwled the army had no time to make distinctions. iflViTH *\ 1M M i \ f» H _ 1 Governments Philosophy Set Forth in New Fantasy Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s Delightful Fairy Story, “The Little Prince,” Holds More Than Artistry for Adult and Child Alike. _ By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. On s June day, when a gentle breeze brought the scent of new mown grass in through the White House windows, President Roosevelt sat at his desk and read slowly to a group of correspondents from a typewritten sheet. It wasn’t a for mal document but it was an historic one—its purpose was to remind the Italian people that the military cam paign against them which had just scored another Allied victory, Pan telleria, was the result of the mis conduct of their rulers. The message has been variously interpreted since, but to me, it con tained one significant point—the re minder of the coming birth of a new nation; the new Italy which will emerge when the chains of arro gance and brute aggression which bind her are broken. There has been much talk about post-war po licing of the re-made world; little thought of the philosophy which will underlie the forms which the reborn governments must follow. To me, such a philosophy is set forth in a work of pure fantasy. A hopeful note for nations and men is sounded in this delightful fairy tale by an author who found spiritual rebirth in the tragedy of the fall of his own ■ation. I refer to Antoine de Saint-Ex upery and his latest work, “The Lit tle Prince.” Those who have read his "Night Flight,” “Wind, Sand and Stars” and “Flight to Arras” are not sur prised that he could create a fairy tale as delicate as this. Reviewers have disagreed as to whether it is for children or for adults. I believe it is for both, like “Alice in Wonder land.” But the adult will find in “The Little Prince” something more than artistry and the children will sense that, too, I think. Saint-Exupery is a brilliant avia tor who built up night flying for the French airlines in South America. He fought against the Germans— “Flight to Arras” is the remarkable book which tells at that experience. He is now back with the French army in Africa, scene of the open ing of “The Little Prince.” The Prince's Story “Six years ago,” the author says, “I made a forced landing in the Sahara alone, a thousand miles from help, and faced the necessity of re pairing my motor by myself within the number of days my drinking water would last The first morn ing, I was awakened by a deter mined but gentle voica which said: 'If you please, draw me a sheep.’ ” So Exupery learned the story of how the Little Prince had found out what is really important in life. The Little Prince is at once a deli cate wisp of fancy, something so 6heer that at moments he seems to float like a piece of thistledown be fore your imagination—again, he has all the reality of truth itself, he is eternal childhood, all that is gen tle, and confiding and lovable, with the faint shadow of sorrow on his winsome face, he is the tug at your heartstrings that comes when youth looks at you in wide-eyed confi dence, reaches up to take your hand —the same reminiscent tug when you look back and see the surprised and longing sorrow in the eyes of your dwn lost youth. The Little Prince lived far away, it seems, on a tiny planet with three volcanoes so small that he cooked his breakfast on one of them. A flower came to his planet and the Little Prince loved her and cared for her but he couldn't understand her and so he left to try to find out why. He finally reached the earth, and here the fox taught him. j The Little Prince had never seen a fox—"Come and play with me,” he said, “I am so unhappy.” "I cannot play with you,” the fox said, “I am not tamed.” The Little Prince did not understand. He told the fox that he was looking for friends and asked him what tame meant. Philosophy of a Fox “It is an act too often neglected,” said the fox, “it means to estab lish ties ... to me. you are still nothing but a little boy who is just like a hundred other little boys. And I have no need of you. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other little foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in the whole world. To you, I shall be unique in the whole world.” "I am beginning to understand,” said the Little Prince, “there is a flower ... I think she has tamed me.” “If you tame me," the fox went on, "it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be dif ferent from all others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me like music out of my burrow. And then look: y«u see the grain fields down yonder. I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The grain fields say nothing to me and that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me. The grain which is also golden will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat ..." The fox gazed at the Little Prince for a long time. “Please—tame me,” he said. “I want to very much,” said the Little Prince, “but I haven’t much time, I have friends to dis cover and a great many things to understand.” "One only understands the things one tames,” said the fox, “men have no more time to understand any thing. They buy things already made at the shops but there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me ...” And so the Little Prince did, and another day when he came back, the fox said: “It would have been better if you had come back at the same hour. If, for example, you come at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be wor rying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am. But if you come just anytime, I shall nev er know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.” But finally, the Little Prince had to go. “Ah,” said the fox, “I shall cry.” Source of Comfort “It is your own fault,” said the Little Prince, "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you.” “Yes, that is so,” said the fox. “Then it has done you no good at all.” “It has done me good,” said the fox, “be cause of the color of the wheat fields.” And there, I think, perhaps some of you may find comfort—in the memories that come from the wheat fields, for the common and the beau tiful things that remind you of some one from whom, perhaps this war has parted you. That is only a flash I have given you of the story of “The Little Prince” which is not written for children only but for those who have the faith of little children and the understanding to see how tragedy can bring forth something which can light the long shadows which it leaves—out of the tragedy of his nation and the searchings of his own soul came this charmina fantasy from the pen of the sol "er-writer with the secret he learned from the I Little Prince who learned it from the fox— “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” • • • Diary of a Broadcaster A postcard signed by a fictitious name, dated the day Pantelleria fell, contained this statement; “Italy so far has got the best ter ritory of the world: most of France; the richest prize of the war: Jugo slavia; the greatest strategical area in the world: Greace and her is lands. Italy will dictate the peace, save the U.S.A. and get two-thirds of Africa, meanwhile Mussolini is Supreme everywhere. Italy got all and lost least, can fight 1,000 years.” • • • Some 7,000,000 pounds of bombs were dropped on Pantelleria island from June 1 to June 11 when it capitulated. B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage Soldiers make an average of eight moves by railroad between induc tion and embarkation for service overseas. • • • Radio France, General Henri Giraud’s station at Algiers, has re ported that because "young Ger man students are getting stirred up” • Gestapo agent has been stationed i in "every” German university. The Nazi "Gauleiter” for the Bal tic States has ordered the removal of all church bells as a total mobili zation measure. f • • • Because many types of air raid shelters now in use are scant protec tion against Allied heavy bombs, the German people have been told to hurry the construction of new under ground shelters. FIRST-AID to the AIUNG HOUSE •y ROGER ». WHITMAN Roger B. Whitman—WNU Features. Too may not be able to replace worn or broken household equipment. This is war. Government priorities come first. So take care of what you have ... as well aj you possibly can. This column by the home owner’s friend tells you how. STORING PAINT A reader has sent in the follow ing: ‘‘When preparing a partially empty can of paint for storage, first clean all paint from the sealing sur faces of the can and lid to insure an airtight closing of the lid. To prevent the trapped air in the can from evaporating the paint solvent, shake the can vigorously for a few seconds to saturate the trapped air thoroughly with the solvent. Thus, when the can is stored the air can not absorb any more solvent and film cannot form. Stand the can upside down for storage, so that the joint around the lid will be sealed. Condensation on Walls Question: Some time ago my stuc co house was brick-veneered. No air space was left between the walls. During rainy or humid weather the walls sweat and stain the wallpaper. Is there a preparation which can be applied over the plaster to pre vent sweating? If so, can the walls be painted or papered over this so-, lution? Answer: No kind of paint will stop the condensation. The answer to your problem is insulating board ap plied over furring strips to provide the air space that now is lacking and to minimize differences in tem perature. It will help to dry out the air of the house if you leave the fireplace damper open during rainy weather. Additional ventilation also would help. Turning Circle for Cars Question: What is the minimum diameter necessary for a turning circle in front of our house to ac commodate any type of car? We plan to make an island in the cen ter containing an old millstone. Answer: For large passenger cars the radius of the outside curb should be 28 feet, and the radius of the in side curb 16 feet. This will accom modate small trucks. Finish for Shingles Question: The wood shingles on the walls of our house were put on ten years ago and now are in need of attention. One painter advises re staining, another suggests painting. Which do you recommend? Answer: After ten years the stain undoubtedly is weathered out of the wood, and the shingles cither can be painted or stained. The choice of the finish is up to yourself. Fireplace Plans Question: Where can I get plans for building a stone fireplace for a frame cottage? Answer: I do not know of any pub lication for this. But you can get ideas by looking over back issues of Better Homes and Gardens, Ameri can Home, and similar publications, which have many illustrations of fireplaces. You can see back issues at your public library. Oil in Fine Passages Question: I have heard that spray ing the flue passages of a boiler with oil will prevent rusting during the summer months. But won't this oil cause an explosion when the heat is turned on in the fall? Answer: Not unless the flue pas sages are soaked too heavily with oil. Running a low fire for a half hour or so will evaporate the sur plus oil. Remodeling Question: Where can I get leaflets on the remodeling of old houses? Answer: Send five cents to the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C, and ask for Farmers* Bulletin No. 1749, which ‘has the title “Modernizing Farm houses." You can also get informa tion from your local office of the Federal Housing administration. * Preparing to Paint Question: I wish to paint our win dow frames on the outside, and am rather pressed for time. The frames hre quite dirty. What is the quick est way of cleaning them so that I can paint them immediately after? Answer: It might be enough just to brush the dust off. If not, you could use a wire brush and wipe with turpentine. Cracked Boiler Question: Can a crack in a cast iron boiler be welded satisfactorily? Answer: Yes, it can be. 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