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i WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Coal Rationing Looms as FDR Asks 65 Induction Limit as Strike Curb; Allies* Mediterranean ‘Guessing Game* Factor in Keeping Axis Oft Balance (EDITOR'S NOTE: When •pinions are expressed In these eolnmns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ____________ Released by Western Newspaper Union. —. An American soldier in a Southwest Pacific outpost has a look-see at the interior of a shattered Jap vehicular water tank after the enemy had been driven off. The shell holes in the tank give the answer to Its interior. COAL: Draft for Strikers Coal rationing for both Industrial and domestic consumers loomed as Fuel Administrator Harold L. Ickes expressed doubt that production losses incurred by three strikes in less than two months could be made up. Mr. Ickes had announced that he was preparing to “undertake active participation in the supervision of management and operation’’ of coal mines including possible changes in operating personnel. Previously, President Roosevelt had warned coal miners and other workers in government-operated in dustries that those who walk out on strike in future would be inducted Into the nation's armed forces. The President announced that he would ask congress for authority to draft men up to the age of 65 for non combatant service! In a statement bitterly denouncing the action of the United Mine Work ers leadership as "intolerable,” Mr. Roosevelt had declared that for the time being “mines would continue under operation of Fuel Administra tor Ickes.” The terms, he said, would be those laid down by the War Labor board. FOOD: Czar After All? Food had continued to hold the Washington limelight as the house agricultural committee had report ed on a bill designed to take all food rationing and pricing powers from the Office of Price Adminis tration and transfer of them to War Food Administrator Chester C. Da vis. | Congressional sentiment for creat ing a food "czar" had increased in spite of the opposition of President Roosevelt to such a measure. Dis satisfied over home front war op erations. proponents of the new bill wanted to vest complete authority over food production, transporta tion, distribution, pricing and ration ing of foods under Mr. Davis who hitherto has had charge only of pro duction and distributor As congressional temperatures rose in debate over the proposals, reports of improved weather and crop conditions helped ease official tension over 1943 food producton prospects. Particular improvements were reported in midwestem grain, livestock and dairy regions. SMALL BUSINESS: Reserves for Peace The National Association of Small Business men through its president, DeWitt Emery, urged congress to permit plants engaged in war con tracts to set aside tax-free reserves for easing postwar transition back to peacetime production. Unless such provisions are forth coming, Emery told the house naval committee studying war contracts, “thousands of businesses will be shut down after the war, awaiting the whim of some bureaucrat” as to whether they can remain in busi ness. Emery suggested an allowable tax free reserve of 3 per cent of all ■ales up to $1,000,000 and recom mended that reserves above that fig ure be scaled down to one-half of 1 per cent. MEDITERRANEAN: Axis Kept Guessing Two events in the eastern Medi terranean had given some observers support for their view that this theater would be the scene of deci sive Allied military activity. One event was the bombing for the first time by Allied fliers of the strategic Axis-held city of Salonika, Greece. The other was the evacu ation by Italy of Castelross, eastern most island in the Dodecanese group, lying between Greece and Turkey. Strategists saw the possi bilities inherent in an Allied move via Egypt and Syria on mainland Greece and the Balkans. Meanwhile steady attention to the task of softening up Italy proper and its neighboring island satellites was given by the RAF and U. S. air forces. One of the most spectacular Allied feats was the inauguration of "shut tle” bombing service. This was ac complished by British Lancasters which had bombed Fyiedrichshafen in Germany, flown 6n to African bases and returned home to Eng land, blasting Italian naval bases at La Spezia along the way. The tenseness of the Axis over impending Allied threats was reflect ed in the action of Italian secret police in arresting more than 11,000 persons in a search for possible fifth columnists. GERMANY: Raids Devastating While military strategists had de bated whether aerial warfare could completely knock out the enemy, evidence of some of the results of Allied bombings were dramatically forthcoming in reports from the Ruhr valley area, where British and American airmen had dropped 10,000 tons of bombs within a month. One report disclosed that Ger many had ordered the evacuation of 3,000,000 nonessential civilians from the bomb-gutted Ruhr. Another re vealed that the Nazis had massed more than 1,000 fighter planes in western Europe to combat the never-ending Allied raids and had mounted 30,000 anti-aircraft guns along a belt 200 miles long by 20 to 50 miles deep. Under a new policy of fully pub licizing air raid damage, German propaganda broadcasts said the Royal Air force had •'practically erased” the city of Krefeld on the western fringe of the Ruhr and had subjected the populations of both the Ruhr and the Rhineland to "unbe lievable raids.” MARATHON: ^anks HU Macassar Forecasting what wiU be routine assignments in months to come. Liberator bombers made a 2.000 mile round trip raid from Australia to the Japanese air and sea bases at Macassar on Celebes island, where Allied airmen dropped 28 tons of bombs on enemy objectives, dam aging shipping Installations and hit ting a Jap cruiser and merchant man. The raid marked the first retalia tion on the Japs in the Celebes sec tor since the enemy seized Macas sar early in 1942 when the Nipponese seized the Dutch East Indies. HIGHLIGHTS • • • *n the week’t newt CANADA: Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian minister of labor, an nounced that all youths of 18 to 18 are now subject to compulsory labor transfer. • • • LOSS: Fuel administration statis ticians estimated that recent coal strikes had cut coal production in the United States more than 20,000, 000 tons. REPAIRS: The house flood con trol committee approved legislation authorizing the expenditure of $10. 000.000 for repair of damage in sec tions recently hit by floods. • • • PROMOTION: Rudy Vallee. now a band leader in the coast guard, has been promoted from chief petty officer to lieutenant, senior grade, an official announcement stated. RUSSIA: Jabs and Feints Feints and slashes had continued to characterize the action on the far-flung but relatively quiescent Russian front. With the long-heralded German of fensive still in the conversation stage and the Soviet forces still gath ering strength for decisive engage ments, the rival armies had content ed themselves with jabs at localized areas. Thus Russian communiques had reported a series of incidents on the Orel, Smolensk, Belgorod, Staraya Russa and Leningrad sec tors. Russian artillery was credited with blowing up the headquarters of an enemy battalion near Sevesk, in the Kursk salient. But nowhere along the front was large-scale fight ing reported. Observers who recalled that a year before the Nazis had already started their ill-fated expedition against Stalingrad and their offen sives for Caucasus oil believed the current inactivity was due to wan ing German air power, weakened on the Russ front to bolster bomb shattered areas in western Europe. POSTWAR: Problems Ahead Addressing 500 business leaders and army and navy officers in Chi cago, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., chairman of the General Motors corporation, declared that he is not worried about the immediate postwar era in the United States, but that he is con siderably concerned about the dis tant future. The nation, Mr. Sloan declared, faces a postwar period in which it will take at least five years to catch up with the accumulated consumer demand for goods. The letdown will come when this pent-up buying power has been ex hausted, unless private industry is successful in drawing blueprints for winning the peace, he predicted. Mr. Sloan particularly urged the gov ernment to make a frank state ment of policy now regarding its peacetime intentions to enable in dustry to plan intelligently. Gov ernment, he said, should allow in dustry to build up profitable reserves on a tax-free basis. RAIL PAY: Boost Is Vetoed In a move to hold the dikes against onrushlng inflation, Fred M. Vinson, stabilization director, disap proved wage increases of eight cents an hour for 1,100,000 non-operating railway employees. The proposed increases would have boosted wages paid by the railways by $200,000,000 annually. Indications that some solution for the railmen’s pay demands might be achieved were seen in official quarters, however. President Roose FRED M. VINSON “No" to a million. velt had indicated his approval of overtime pay for nonoperating rail workers. On such a basis time-and a-half pay would be applied to work ers putting in more than 40 hours weekly. Those putting in a 48 hour week would receive an average in crease of about six cents an hour on such a plan. The nonoperating railway workers include members of 15 organizations employed by Class I railways. PACIFIC: Burma Bombed Big scale land offensives against Japan were apparently not on the schedule until after the monsoon season made Burma operations pos sible, but Allied air forces showed no evidence of lessening their bomb ing forays against the foe. In China, American fliers support ed by ground forces of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek blasted two important Jap centers in the Tung Tink Lake area and wrought damage against enemy shipping on the Yangtze river. Flying in from bases in India, Liberator bombers of the U. S. air force strafed Jap installations at Monywa on the Chindwin river, 60 miles from Mandalay, Burma. Warehouses, railway tracks and highways were damaged. GOVERNORS: Bureaus Mushroom Turning from postwar interna tional planning to pressing domestic problems, the 35th annual governors conference adopted resolutions on adjournment urging the federal gov ernment to release corn and live stock feed and condemning strikes in wartime. The governors assailed steadily increasing encroachments on states' rights by the federal government. | and increases in the personnel of I federal bureaus. I Germany's'MaginotMind' May Hasten Nazi Collapse Axis Propagandists Fear Fortress Europa Concept May Backfire; If Allies Break ‘Impregnable’ Line Morale May Crack. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, 1>. C. Has Herr Goebbels created a "maginot mind" in his minions which will crumble and wreck Ger man morale just as the failure of the French defense smashed French morale? That is a question which the students of propaganda in Wash ington are studying with great in terest today. Both external evidence—newspa pers, broadcasts, public statements; and internal evidence—reports of spies and neutral •bservers; reveal two things: one, that the Axis peo ples are extremely invasion-con scious; and two, that they are suf fering from a severe case of war nerves. But a third more serious possibility is developing. As a result of the “maginot mind,” it is believed that a marked increase in the scope of the air raids, or even a minor success of a single invasion unit, might result in a complete breakdown of Axis mo rale. Realizing this, the German propaganda forces are working fran tically to change their previous verbal barrages based on the con cept of the Fortress Europa, an ut terly impregnable defense system, back to the original German con cept of the value and efficiency of a highly mobile, offensive force. Last year, when the second front talk reached its height, the German defense propaganda reached a high water mark too. Then when inva sion weather passed, the German defense talk died down to be re newed this past April. Everything was done by the Nazis to create the idea that Europe was ringed by an unbrcachable wall of steel, iron and concrete. Comparisons were made with the Maginot line; they said the guns in the Maginot line could traverse 180 degrees—in the new German wall, they can swing around the whole 360 degrees. They said that the steel used in the construc tion equals a bar which would reach from the earth to the moon—the concrete would build a road from Berlin to the Solomon islands. Those Six Months That was the kind of fare the Germans and the Italians were served. Immediately after the fall of Tunisia, for instance, there was an Axis chorus which tried to sound exceedingly jubilant when it de clared: “Halleluja, we have held back the enemy successfully for six months, long enough to complete our fortifications, it is too late for an attack on our fortress now!” In recent weeks, however, with the growing attacks on German cit ies, the surrender of the Italian is land fortress to forces utterly in different to walls of steel or con crete, the German propagandists have begun to realize that they went too far in building a faith in a wall— that their propaganda is in danger of back-firing. They realize that if that concept is held, and if the Al lies make a landing at any point and break the wall, the civilian mo rale will break with it. So the tune has suddenly changed. Now we hear that the shores of the Mediterranean are protected by a splendid mobile defense—there is no south wall to Europe—none is need ed. The European continent under German dominance is ideally equipped, far better equipped for offense against any invader who might get a foothold than the in vader could possibly be; the diffi culty of the Allied transportation across water Is stressed, the power of the submarine is emphasized. But this about-face, according to observers here, has come pretty late and can hardly create much con fidence on the part of a nation which has had the myth of the Fortress Europa pounded into it for over a year. About the Luftwaffe There is another factor, of course, which is working against enemy mp rale; that is, the fact that the hard est blows now struck come from the air with the weapon which Italy exalted and which Hitler forged and put into effect in the form of his one-time invincible Luftwaffe. Meanwhile, what has happened to the Luftwaffe—which some people have called the '‘vanished" Luft waffe? We have heard much about it dur ing past months, but very little has been of a definite nature. Well, the paper strength of Ger many’s air force has been pretty well plotted from data obtained in confidential reports to Allied head quarters here and abroad. This is what it looks like: A maximum overall, first-line Ger man force of between four and five thousand planes. (Even as 1 write, it is probably declining in num bers.) The whole is divided into five “Luftflotte” (airfleets) one of which, until the middle of June, was put ting up a considerable offensive ef fort on the northern Russian front. It is (or was) under General Keller and it may originally have been composed of 2,500 planes. That esti mate is questioned by some Ameri can observers. The second fleet under General Pesslering was in the Mediterrane an area. It was estimated shortly after Tunisia as 800 strong but prob ably soon thereafter was considera bly “wasted” and not very efficient because it was spread thinly over a long coast line with Italy as a weak link. The Remainder The third fleet was under Gen eral Sperle—perhaps fifteen hundred planes with the tremendous and growing task of guarding the Ger man industrial area, the submarine ports all the way to the bay of Bis cay—and also the duty of meeting an invasion at any point along that long coast line. Then there was General Richtho fen’s fleet in southern Russia and General Stumpf’s at the other end of the stick in Norway with what was left. Besides these fleets, or a part of them perhaps, were certain “Flieger korps”—mobile units which at tempted to come to the rescue when some area was in dire distress. But the whole force, the experts believe, is spread so thin that in case of simultaneous air attack, great gaps have to be left which would make (and already have made) Allied air invasion safe and. as a corollary, would do the same for land invasion beneath it. The Luftwaffe has not vanished. It is still a powerful weapon and the Germans are trying to maintain its strength by concentrating on the production of fighter planes. But the days when Hitler’s evil angels darkened the skies and fortunes of Europe are over. • • • Diary of a Broadcaster This “share-a-taxi” system is really working out very well, but it requires quick thinking. I heard a very charming but disappointed young lady telling her tale of woe today. ‘‘I had to get to my dentist this noon and I stopped a cab with some one in it. The driver said he had to go to the Mayflower hotel first. That was only a few blocks out of the way but I was in a hurry so I said ‘no.’ As the cab started off. I looked at the passenger. And was I sorry I said ‘no’—it was Wendell Willkie!” I thought: This "One World” isn’t so small after all! • • • We didn’t realize how prophetic we were when we used to sing: “Yes, we have no bananas." I stepped into a Connecticut ave nue drug store the other day and asked for a chocolate milk shake. “No chocolate,” said the clerk. An other customer ordered a bacon and tomato sandwich: “No tomatoes," said the clerk. Before anyone else could speak he said: “Now who’s going to be smart and ask for a banana split?” • • • Oh, we are learning to do with out. In Washington the “without” sometimes seems as if it would in clude shirts and sheets—clean ones, anyhow. I met a dignified lieuten ant colonel early the other morning carrying his laundry box. Did he wear a shame-faced look? He did not. He was beaming. Anyone beams who is able to get his laun dry in time in this town. B R I E F S • . . by Baukhage The R & S Pickle Works of Bos ton, Mass., wanted to help in the war effort. Within 72 hours, the fac tory was converted to war work, its pickling vats were filled with an acid that provides the necessary preservative coating for incendiary bombs, to meet requirements of the Chemical Warfare Service, Army Service Forces. Production was toon far ahead of schedule. Some 3 million seventh and eighth grade Russian students will be sent to help in the held work of state and collective farms for the summer va cation. • • • About 8 billion points on the red ration stamps and approximately 6 billion points on the blue stamps { are put into circulation monthly by consumers of rationed foods. Released by Western Newspaper Union. PIGMENTED SPOTS ON FACE One of the distressing ailments that comes usually toward middle age in women is coffee colored spots, usually on the face, about the eyes Dr. Barton and cheeks, on the arms and knees. The cause of these spots is unknown but phy sicians have found that after correcting any ailments of ovaries and uterus, these spots disap pear, quite often. Re moval of these spots and careful examina tion of them under the microscope show that they are not tne usual pigmented blood spots nor ex actly like the spots which occur so often at or during the menopause. In an extract from a medical jour nal published in Montevideo in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. F. Rocca reports a case of pigmented spots on the face cured by injection and local applica tion of ovary extract. Twice a week, for a period of sev eral months, 5,000 international units of ovary extract (estrone) was ad ministered by injection. These in jections regulated the monthly peri ods, the nervousness and shock be came less and the spots on the face began to clear up. An estrone oint ment was now applied to the facial spots for 20 days. It was observed that some spots disappeared and oth ers became lighter. The ointment treatment of the spots and the injections were con tinued for several months, when the pigmentation had decreased greatly on the face and in many parts of the body. One year after this ovary or gland treatment was stopped, small spots began to appear about the eyes. Now this is only one case, but when we remember that in some of these cases the spots disappear without treatment and that others disappear with the correction of genital ailments, it will certainly be much worth while for our women’s specialists and general practitioners also, to try this treatment on these coffee-colored spots. When we remember how ovary extract in the great majority of cases gives relief from the symp toms of the menopause, it is not too much to expect that at last a remedy has been found to remove these em barrassing coffee-colored spots. Insulin Injections Stimulate Appetite Just as most overweights have a large appetite and eat much more than they need, so most cases of underweight are rather “picky” about their food and have a small appetite. And just as the over weights choose the starches and fats (fat builders), so most underweights choose meats, leafy vegetables and fruits (which are not fat builders). There are exceptions to this, of course. I have spoken before of the use in Canada and the United States of in sulin in stimulating the appetite. In the American Journal of Sciences, Philadelphia, is a report from Brazil recording the results of using in sulin in underweight patients. Dr. J. B. Greer and his associates treat ed 30 underweight patients with in sulin with “most satisfactory re sults.” They injected insulin just once a day, beginning with eight units and increasing according to the patient's appetite on the previous day; never more than 30 units were injected. The injection was made about 45 minutes before the noon meal, but the patients were advised to eat when they began to get hungry. When the weight became normal for the patient's height and build, the injections of insulin were gradually discontinued. This injection of the insulin only once a day and stopping it gradual ly, protects the glands of the pan creas that manufacture the insulin. It removes the burden of work from them for the time being. “The unanimous statement of the patients was that they ate as never before in their lives.” There are, of course, many cases of underweight due to infection which ‘‘uses up” some of the food eaten. There are other cases of un derweight where too much play, not enough sleep, not enough outdoors are factors in preventing gain in weight. It is gratifying to know that the injection of insulin when stomach is empty will create an appetite in underweights. • • • QUESTION BOX Q.—Do X-rays show adhesions and tumors? 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