WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Italians Feel Power of United Nations
As Sicily Topples and Rome Is Bombed;
Navy Blasts Japs in Battle Off Munda;
U. S. Civilians Get Rationing Forecasts
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FOOD: ' |
Maintain Meat Ration
Maintenance of the present meat
ration at “about the present level”
was predicted by the War Food ad
ministration following the allocation
of estimated supplies among civil
ians, the services and other users
for the next 12 months.
Total allocable meat supplies were
put at 23 Mi billion pounds. Civilians
will receive 63 out of every 100
pounds produced, the services will
be given 17 pounds, the Allies will
get 14 pounds, and allotments for re
serves, the Red Cross and exports
will amount to 6 pounds.
Of the total supply of beef expect
ed, civilians will obtain 66 out of
every 100 pounds, and the services
23 pounds. Other claimants will get
2 pounds. Of the pork production,
the civilians* share will amount to
59 out of every 100 pounds, the serv
ices’ portion will be 12Vh pounds,
and lend-lease’s allotment will ap
proximate 25 pounds.
Total supplies of lamb and mut
ton are expected to drop sharply
from the 939 million pounds of 1942
to 539 million. This compares with
the 1935-'39 average of 863 million
pounds.
Cheese, Butter
Decrease of government pur
chases through August, September
s.nd October will make available
527 million pounds of butter and
cheese for civilians, the WFA said.
Of the total, approximately 400 mil
lion pounds will be of butter; 92 mil
lion pounds of cheddar cheese, and
85 million pounds of other cheese.
WFA also announced that plans
were made for about 7 million addi
tional cases of canned baby foods,
condensed milk, other milk products
and certain canned vegetables and
fruits by an increase in canners’
tin quotas. However, it was pointed
out that shortage in fruit crops may
offset the extra tin allotments.
Increased production will allow
civilians 388 eggs apiece during the
next 12 months, WFA said, 18 more
than in 1942.
The Office of Price Administration
also stepped into the food picture
and announced prices of cabbage
and lettuce will be rolled back 25 to
50 per cent
SICILY:
First Resistance
History will record that the first
real Axis resistance in Sicily was
put up at Catania. Here, in the
midst of the broad rolling plains
which are criss-crossed by several
rivers. German armored forces met
the full shock of Gen. Bernard
Montgomery’s British Eighth army,
charging forward after easy capture
of the ports of Syracuse and
Augusta.
Adept at tank warfare, the Ger
mans took no chances on exposing
their mechanized ranks to the big
Montgomery on Sicilian front.
Berthas of British warships plying
along the narrow eastern coast of
the island, and to the Allies heavy
artillery, which could be concentrat
ed in the tight coastal corridor. In
stead, they determined to take their
jchances in the sprawling Catania
plains, where they could maneuver
tnore comfortably.
History will show that as the Ger
mans and British locked horns on
these plains, with the enemy holding
his flexible lines in the early days
of the fighting, Gen. George S. Pat
ton’s American Seventh army rolled
30 miles inland to Enna, which is
situated on high ground and com
mands important roads running east
and west across the island.
SOUTH PACIFIC:
1. Planes blast Jap shipping try
ing to supply beleaguered garrison
at Munda.
2. Navy sees six more years of
war in Pacific.
Air Power Scores Again.
The devastating striking power of
land-based aircraft against surface
vessels was again amply demonstrat
ed in the Solomons offensive when
American Liberator. Mitchell and
Avenger bombers attacked a strong
Japanese concentration of 11 war
ships and transports in Vella gulf,
sinking a cruiser and two destroyers
and scattering the others.
Sailing in the dead of night, the
Japs were making another try at
reinforcing their entrapped troops at
Munda airfield, on New Georgia
island, where U. S. dive bombers
also were in action supporting the
ground units’ creeping attack on the
stronghold's jungle defenses.
The attack in Vella gulf followed
others made upon Jap vessels in
8gt. Thomas Gacieot kneels at
grave of fallen buddy on Rendova
island.
Kula gulf and brought to 24 the num
ber of different enemy ships sent to
the bottom since the Solomons of
fensive started.
Sees Long War.
Because the war in the Pacific
must be fought over great distances
and bases must be built from the
ground up, Vice Admiral Frederick
J. Horne, assistant chief of naval
operations, declared the navy was
figuring on at least six years of fight
ing.
Horne cautioned against optimism
that the war would be over in a
hurry, asserting that every slight
success fills the people with unwar
ranted hope and invariably results
in a drop of war production. To de
feat Japan, he said, we will need a
fleet and air force twice as big as
the enemy’s, and he claimed that
the present building program will
bring a seven-fold expansion in our
navy by 1947.
Neither should we look for a col
lapse in Germany such as occurred
during the last war, Horne said.
Clever indoctrination of Nazi princi
ples in the German people has giv
en the nation a firm will to fight the
war to the finish, he explained.
ROME:
Raid Momentous
One of the greatest stirs of the
war was caused by the Allied bomb
ing of Rome. Both here and abroad,
no effort was made to minimize
the import of the action.
The Allies maintained that Rome
constitutes a legitimate military ob
jective, as best illustrated by the
railway yards through which all
north and south bound traffic in Italy
is routed. Demolition of these yards,
the Allies say, would severely crip
ple Axis communication on the
mainland.
Besides the important railway
yards, Rome also harbors other in
dustrial installations, it is pointed
out. In the raid in which 500 Amer
ican Flying Fortresses participated,
the Allies said a steel plant and a
large chemical works were dam
aged.
The Italian government’s belief
that Rome would not be bombed
because of the cultural and religious
landmarks which abound throughout
the entire area, was indicated by
the lack of strong preparation made
against attack. Anti-aircraft fire
was weak, few planes rose to inter
cept the Allied squadrons and 166
persons were killed and 1,659 in
jured.
HIGHLIGHTS • • • the week’t newt
BOX CARS: Plywood is being used
In the construction of 750 new box
cars for the Canadian Pacific rail
way, thereby saving 850 tons of
steel.
• • •
NAZI AGENT: George Viereck
was found guilty on six counts of
violations of the Foreign Agents
Registration act., in a federal court
ia Washington, D. C.
JAPS: According to a dispatch
from the Tokyo radio, Lieut. Gen.
Prince Gin Li has been appointed
commander of the Japanese air
force, succeeding Lieut. Gen. Tera
moto.
• • •
CHERRIES: Hundreds of city
boys and girls are leaving Chicago
U. help pick the Wisconsin cherry
crop.
I
Son Decorated
Whenever the Flying Forts
roar over the channel of Eu
rope, Mrs. Mary Smith of De
troit, Mich., sticks close to her
radio to learn the results.
Her son, Maynard, a Fortress
cretv member, became the first
living serviceman overseas to
receive the congressional med
al of honor for saving the lives
of six mates on a recent flight
over the continent.
LABOR:
Wants Cheaper Food
Declaring “profiteers and specula
tors are sapping the strength of the
nation’s army of workers," William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, said that un
less prices of food were brought
down “to a reasonable level,” or
ganized labor would demand wage
increases.
At present, wage increases have
been restricted to 15 per cent over
the January, 1941, scales. Leveling
his attack on food. Green said that
AFL surveys in principal cities had
shown costs in labor's market bas
ket had risen from 50 to 200 per
cent since the war started.
Criticizing the Office of Price Ad
ministration and War Food admin
istration for failing to halt the in
crease in food prices. Green de
manded “intelligent and orderly ac
tion to assure workers and their
families of a decent place to live in
and enough nourishing food to eat
within their incomes.”
Green's statement followed one by
CIO chieftain William Murray, who
similarly threatened that organized
labor would seek wage increases
unless food prices were rolled back.
The administration is committed to
a roll-back program.
HOGS:
Ceiling $14.75
With a "floor” or minimum price
of $13 75 per hundred pounds prom
ised for hogs, the government es
tablished a "ceiling” or maximum
price of $14.75. At the same time
the “floor” was extended to all pork
ers between 200 and 270 pounds.
Despite the government’s promise,
however, hogs were selling for less
than the "floor" in some big mar
kets. In the Chicago yards, heavy
runs recently drove the average
price down to $13.35, with tops aver
aging $13.85 and others bringing
$12.85.
Overhauling its present system of
slaughter control to provide for
record receipts, the government an
nounced that packers will be li
censed to operate if they pay not
less than the “floor” nor more than
the “ceiling” price for hogs, and if
they make appropriate division of
meat supplies among civilian, mili
tary and lend-lease groups.
It was also revealed that the gov
ernment intended to extend federal
inspection to plants now without the
facilities. Under present regula
tions, the government cannot pur
chase meat from any packers with
out such inspection. The new ar
rangement promises a more equit
able distribution of meat in the coun
try.
RUSSIA:
Front Aflame
On the offensive for the first sum
mer in three years, the Red army
hacked at German lines along much
of the vast 1.200 mile front.
The main drive remained direct
ed at the Nazi salient of Orel, with
Russian forces bearing down upon
that hub from north and south. A
junction of the two spearheads be
hind Orel would seal off thousands
of German troops now fighting
around the city and also sever the
railroad from Bryansk carrying sup
plies to the embattled base.
While fighting raged around Orel,
the Reds pressed home three other
attacks. Preceded by heavy artil
lery and air bombardment, they
assaulted Nazi lines below Lenin
grad, near Smolensk and around the
German Caucasian base of Novoros
sisk. where they had been beaten off
this spring.
MANPOWER:
Unfreeze Jobs
Workers frozen into their jobs in
war or essential industries by an or
der of the War Manpower commis
sion April 17, now will be allowed
to accept the same positions at
higher pay in other plants.
Workers formerly could transfer
to other jobs only if laid off for sev
en days or more, if discharged or if
able to show that their skill would
be employed to better advantage
elsewhere.
'Food Will Win the War'
—And Maybe an Election
Washington Politicians Awaken to Fact
That Voting Public, Like an Army,
‘Moves on Its Stomach/
By BAUKHAGE
New* Analyst and Commentator.
WNIT Servire, TTnlon Trust Building
Washington, D. C.
Wars and rumors of war, war pro
duction, man power, post-war plans,
race riots, roll-backs, gas rationing,
strikes, floods, offensives—you can
think of a lot more probably. All
right, pour them all into the hopper.
Grind them up. This is a pretty
dish to set before a voter In 1944!
Don’t worry, he can take it. But
take away his bread-basket, and he
is a different animal.
Food will win the war.
Lack of it can postpone victory if
It doesn’t spell defeat.
And food, or lack of it, can lose
an election, that is what you are
hearing in Washington these days.
An electorate, like an army,
moves on its stomach. On an empty
stomach, it moves away from the
"ins,” hollers for the "outs” to
bring back the bacon. And when
you get a customer with both an
empty stomach and a full pocket
book hammering on the table and
demanding service, you have a hard
customer to please.
Slowly, the Washington politicians
are beginning to awaken to that fact
—that food is going to be the big
issue in the next election.
President Saw It First
The President and his keen-eyed,
ears-to-the-ground political scouts
recognized it first, and when Phil
Murray, head of the CIO, and Wil
liam Green of the AFL began to
call for the roll-back of prices, the
administration was quick to prom
ise that they would be served "right
away.” Meanwhile, some of the oth
er guests are beginning to feel neg
lected.
But before roll-backs au gratin
could be served, congress stuck its
foot out and tried to spill the tray.
For a while, it looked as if there
was going to be embarrassment in
the political kitchen.
Even if the administration is able
to silence the (Jpmands and threats
of labor, there are a lot of other
Oliver Twists who “want some
more” and who will twist out of
their straight-ticket voting and start
looking for "a better ’ole” unless
this food question is solved before
the ides of November MCMXLIV.
Through the days when congress
was first trying to fold its tent and
steal away from the banks of the
Potomac, one thing was clear: un
less the administration pulled a
nice, fat and succulent rabbit out of
the hat which could be served up
to the electorate with enough bas
ketsfull left over for the fighting
forces and the hungry Allies and
other pospective clients, the Gallup
poll vaulters which had re-re-re
elected the New Deal in advance
would have to start their polling all
over again.
The enemies of the administration
are building up a barrage to the ef
fect that Mr. Roosevelt has babied
labor and has left his old friends,
the farmers, in the lurch. They say
that because he was afraid to of
fend labor, he listened to their de
mands for lower prices and turned a
deaf ear to the fanners’ troubles.
This, of course, since it comes
from hardly non-partisan quarters,
has to be taken with a grain of salt,
but whatever the working man says,
when he sees the cost of living eat
ing up his former "raises" if he has
had them, the record will show that
despite John Lewis’ polysyllabic at
tacks on the President, labor has
not been treated exactly as a step
child.
But what has the farmer been
getting meanwhile?
A couple of assists, at least, which
have benefited him and the war ef
fort at the same time.
FCA Head Reports
Let me report to you what I
learned from Governor Black of the
Farm Credit administration, an in
stitution which has managed to es
cape the attacks which most of the
government agencies have had to
weather. Governor Black was in
Washington the other day—the head
quarters of the Farm Credit admin
istration were moved to Kansas City
a year ago, you know, in the inter
est of decentralization and with the
idea that after all, Kansas is nearer
the center of American agriculture
than the Atlantic seaboard.
The governor tells me that the
FCA has been used heavily since
the first of the year to see that farm
ers are getting the credit they need
to achieve all-out production. He ad
mits that the 50 million dollars
loaned to farmers and stockmen !
isn’t much compared with the total
amount of production financing
which the farmers use in a year but
it’s something even in these days of
astronomical lending, leasing and
spending.
The loans are made through the
Regional Agricultural Credit corpo
ration.
Here are just a few of the facts
Black produced from his briefcase.
Take flax—flax is as important in
its way as tanks are in theirs. The
automobile manufacturers have had
it made worth their while to manu
facture tanks instead of autos. The
farmers up in—take North Dakota,
for instance—have “shared the risk”
as Black puts it, with the RACC
(Regional Agricultural Credit corpo
ration) which extended them credit
to "change over” to flax. Instead of
one million three hundred thousand
acres of this valuable crop that was
harvested last year, a million
EIGHT hundred and forty thousand
acres were seeded this year (41.4
per cent government financed).
Take dry beans in Montana: 50,
000 acres seeded this year, double
last year’s planting, 84.5 per cent of
the crop government financed. I
could go down the list with peanuts
in South Carolina, sweet potatoes in
Louisiana and Mississippi, ad infini
tum.
Simple Machinery
The way this share-the-risk thing
works is simple. The farmer puts
up his land and labor, the RACC
puts up the out-of-pocket costs after
the county war board and its own
representatives have approved the
deal.
If the crop comes out all right,
the farmer pays the loan. If it is
wiped out by bugs, drouth or dis
aster (and when Ol’ Man River went
hog-wild this spring, there was a lot
of wiping out) his liability isn’t
wiped out, too, because his liability
is limited to what he took in from
the crop and the incentiva payments
or insurance on it.
“It wasn’t so much a matter of
how much money was loaned,” Gov
ernor Black said to me, “as where
it was loaned and what it was loaned
for. In the past few months, the
country has awakened to the neces
sity of producing the vital crops to
the limit, and that’s where we con
centrated our financing.”
Well, that is one agency that has
been able to go ahead without hav
ing to duck the political brickbats.
Other government agencies, not so
lucky, had to take a lot of punish
ment that wouldn't have been di
rected at them if it weren’t for poli
tics. The poor Commodity Credit
corporation, which everybody seems
to love for itself alone, got into an
unpleasant jam with the subsidies,
and had a tight squeeze partly
through pure politics, partly because
congress and the President didn’t
see eye-to-eye on the anti-inflation
program.
What most people fail to realize is
this: even now with all the splendid
effort the farmers have made, agri
culture has not yet been entirely
“converted”—I don’t mean convert
ed to the “all-out” idea but convert
ed in the sense that civilian industry
was converted to war production—
autos to tanks and planes, sewing
machines to machine guns. In
dustry had plenty of “incentive.”
The farmers have had some help,
will have more.
And the consumer (who is really
everybody) and the farmer and the
worker, haven’t gotten it through
their heads yet that unless they all
hang together, they’ll hang sepa
rately.
If we don’t get the food, we won’t
be able to eat the dollars, no mat
ter how many we may have in our
sock.
• • •
The per capita use of eggs in 1942
was 316 Prospects for this year
are about 324 per capita. The army
and lend-Iease need about 3 eggs
out of every 10 produced, which
leaves 7 out of every 10 for civilians.
j
B R I E F S . . . by Bciukhage
More than a million dollars’ worth
of schools are destroyed by fire per
[ month.
• • •
The number of women applying
for admission to medical schools in
1942 was the largest in the history
of the schools, and was greater than
In the preceding year by 25 per
cent. In 1941, 636 women applied
■ for admission; in 1942, 810 applied.
The hog population is liable to
outrun the feed supply.
• • •
A scientific “detective force” of
six dermatologists and a chemist
has tracked down causes of skin
diseases, and prevented further out
breaks, among workers in more than
50 government and privately owned
arsenals and war plants, U. S. Pub
lic Health Service officials announce.
Cows Should Be Fed
On Basis of Milk Given
Feed Cannot Be Spared
For Low Producers
Nobody knows yet how the crop
yields of corn, wheat, barley, soy
beans, cottonseed and linseed will
compare with past averages, E. J.
Perry of Rutgers U. points out. And
feed dealers cannot get deliveries
very far in advance or in so large
amounts as formerly. This makes
it especially important to waste no
concentrates in feeding, but to feed
every cow strictly according to her
milk yield in order to meet 1943
goals.
If there’s no time to mark
down daily milk yields, Perry
urges dairymen to do it every
week or 10 days and readjust
grain feeding accordingly.
On pasture, the rate oi concentrate
feeding will depend upon how good
the pasture is. Early grass up to
July usually has more digestible pro*
tein than the later, so much less,
grain is then required than in the
winter months.
Pasture is the most natural feed
for cows and with plenty of it they
will “shine” at the pail, and be in
condition to .,tart a good job in the
barn this coming fall. It is not un
common for a cow only medium in
size to eat 100 pounds of pasture
daily. Neglect of pastures and of
cows on pasture is one of the big
gest problems facing the dairymen
today.
For cows giving 35 to 40 pounds
of milk a day, a feed ratio of one :
pound of grain a day for every seven
pounds of milk is about right.
To help herd owners provide con
ditions favorable to high yields dur
ing the pasture season, Perry offers
the following reminders:
Fertilize permanent pastures
and provide special summer
supplementary pastures accord
ing to the recommendations of
the county agricultural agent.
Practice rotation grazing from
one plot to another.
Avoid too early and too close
grazing. For regular pasture,
four to six inches is a good
height.
Adapt the kind and amount of
grain to the kind and amount of
pasture. Early pasture is high in
digestible protein and the grain mix
ture used can have 3 or 4 per cent
less protein than is usually needed
for winter feeding.
For the higher testing breeds, a
good trial starting rate for a cow
which gives 30 pounds of milk a
day is one pound of grain for five
pounds of milk, and for the lower
testing breeds, those giving 35 to 40
pounds a day, a good rate is one
pound of grain for every seven
pounds of milk. Perry says. Using
and watching the scales carefully
will tell the story and yield ^divi
dends for the owner and the country.
In hot weather, the herd will be
better off in the barn during the lat
ter half of the afternoon, especially
if the barn is cool and the flies are
partially controlled.
Prevent Farm Fires
Fifty per cent of our farm fires
are preventable, states F. W. Nie
meyer, general agent of the Farm
Credit administration of St. Louis.
Every farmer should take extra pre
cautions to see that fires are not
caused by defective flues, sparks on
the roof, smoking, spontaneous com
bustion and improper handling of
gasoline and kerosene.
For the duration it will be ex
tremely difficult to obtain the lum
ber, hardware, roofing and labor to
rebuild. The WLB has limited con
struction to that which, regardless
of cost, (a) is essential to meet
production goals, (b) is consistent
with sound agriculfrral practices,
I (c) uses a minimum of scarce ma
terials, and (d) does not interfere
' with labor essential to war indus
j tries.
Agricultural Notes
The “hack to the farm movement"
Is gaining force right along.
• • •
If oats are grown as a companion
crop in the seeding of legumes, a
variety which matures early and
produces a minimum amount of
straw should be used. Kanota and
Vicland are best suited for this pur
pose In addition to giving excellent
grain yields.
Funny what ten years will do. At ten
• youngster knows all the questions, and
at twenty he knows all the answers.
It you can’t make light of your
troubles—keep them dark.
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