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and Burke which is also written
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For every tree is known by
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men do not gather figs, nor of
a bramble bush gather they
grapes.—Luke 6:44.
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Jap Defensive Positions in Pacific
Crumble Under New Allied Invasion;
Senate Studies Revised Tax Measure;
Government Acts to Halt Rail Tie-Up
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those at
Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ot this newspaper.)
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Goin* Back—Brought to the Ukraine following it* capture in 1941,
these German farmers left with their possessions when Nazi armies fell
back before the Reds’ 1943 offensive.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
New Landing
One day after U. S. bombers had
dumped 350 tons of explosives on
Arawe on New Britain island, U. S.
warships moved shoreward to the
enemy base and pumped big shells
into the defenses, even as planes
returned to assist in the bombard
ment.
After this terrific crescendo, U. S.
doughboys swarmed ashore to es
tablish a beachhead on this strate
gic island, center of Japanese ship
ping for supplying its embattled
forces on New Guinea and Bougain
ville.
By landing on Arawe, U. S. forces
drove a wedge into Jap positions on
Cape Gloucester to the west and
Gasmata to the east, where the ene
my has established airfields to help
cover the barge operations with
which he feeds supplies to his troops
in this area by traveling along the
jungle shorelines by night.
While the U. S. stormed Arawe,
heavy bombers continued to smack
the Marshalls, small Jap island hold
ings in the central Pacific.
RAILROADS:
Strike Called
With 97.7 per cent of the operat
ing railroad union members voting
to strike to enforce their demands
for higher wages and with the walk
out date set for December 30, the
government acted quickly to pre
vent transportation interruption.
Said spokesmen for the 350,000
trainmen, firemen, enginemen, en
gineers, conductors and switchmen
who have demanded a 30 per cent
wage increase with a minimum
boost of $3 daily: “It is a strike
against inflation for the privileged
few and deflation for the many.”
To meet the crisis which was pro
voked by the unions' rejection of an
emergency board’s award of a 32
cents a day increase, the govern
ment’s national mediation board
summoned both union and rail offi
cials to meet to settle differences.
Meanwhile, over 1,000,000 non-op
erating rail union members awaited
final congressional action on a reso
lution granting them an eight-cents
an-hour pay boost over the U. S.
stabilization director’s objection.
BRITAIN:
Miners Ask Raise
Seeking to boost average weekly
earnings from $16.60 for under
ground employees to $24, and from
$13.40 for surface employees to $22,
Britain’s Mine Workers federation
planned to take their case to a gov
ernment panel if employers rejected
their demands.
Because of possible coal shortages,
the government recently cut home
rations for the fuel by 20 per cent,
and it was anticipated that any
strike by the 690,000 miners might
result in further reductions.
Child Delinquency
Like the U. S., Britain has its Ju
venile delinquency, and most of it
is attributed to lack of adequate su
pervision because of parental occu
pation in the war effort.
Juvenile delinquency has in
creased from the prewar rate of 4
per 1,000 to 9 per 1,000, principally
because thousands of fathers are in
the armed forces, one out of four
mothers are holding full time jobs,
and inadequate rations compel fam
ilies to eat at least one meal away
from home.
ITALY:
Action in Air
Connecting link between Germany
and Italy, Europe’s historic Bren
ner pass was pounded by waves of
U. S. bombers, seeking to disrupt
#the rail lines feeding Nazi armies
to the south.
By striking at the pass, the bomb
ers countered a successful Nazi air
raid on the southeastern Italian port
of Bari, in which 30 German planes
whizzed in at low level and sank
17 Allied cargo vessels lying at an
chor in the harbor.
On the ground, U. S. and British
troops clambered forward over
mountainous country toward Rome
in sleety weather. Fighting bitterly
from strong defenses in the hills,
and throwing armored formations
into action on the level plains, the
Nazis succeeded in slowing Allied
advances.
CONGRESS:
Tax Bill
Tacking on an additional 144 mil
lion dollars, the senate finance com
mittee approved a
new 2 billion, 281
million dollar iax
bill which, if passed
by congress, will
boost U. S. reve
nues to 43 billion
dollars yearly.
Written under Sen
Walter George’s
chairmanship, the
senate bill requires
payment of the 3
per cent Victory tax
by everybody with
Sen. George
income over a year, and raises
levies on amusements, travel, al
coholic beverages, cosmetics, furs,
luggage, toilet articles and other
luxuries.
Also included in the bill was a
provision requiring labor organiza
tions and farm co-operatives to file
financial statements annually.
W hisky
As the senate’s liquor investigat
ing committee charged that big dis
tilleries “. . . are using the war
emergency to get control of the wine
and beer industry,” a federal grand
jury called on Hiram Walker & Sons,
Seagram & Sons, National Distillers
Products Corp. and Schenley to
present records of the companies’
stock organizations, including their
wineries and breweries, and their
distribution and merchandising prac
tices.
Subsidies
Action in the senate on the tan
gled subsidy question became fur
Sen. Taft
ther tangled with
the banking com
mittee's recommen
dation that consid
eration of subsidies
be postponed for 60
days.
Previously, the
banking committee
had turned down
the proposal of Sen
John Bankhead
<A!a.) to abolish
subsidies under
which the govern
ment reduces consumers’ retail
prices by paying processors the dif
ference for their charges, and had
also tabooed the suggestion of Sen.
Robert Taft (Ohio) to limit subsidies
to a half billion annually instead of
one billion
HIGHLIGHTS... in the week',
newa
FLU: Almost a thousand people
died ot influenza in Great Britain
last week, the highest since the epi
demic began. In the previous week
709 succumbed.
NURSES: Plans to conscript
registered nurses for service with
the armed forces have been dropped,
Representative Bolton said, after a
conference with war department of
ficials.
HONESTY: A 43-year-old Briton
of American descent has been sen
tenced by -a London court to nine
months' imprisonment for receiving
stolen goods. His name is Abraham
Lincoln, and he claims to be a grand
nephew of "Honest Abe.” Lincoln
was charged with receiving a calcu
lating machine which he knew was
stolen from U. S. army headquar
ters.
RUSSIA:
Drive in North
While Russian and German troops
slugged at each other in the central
and southern sectors, the Nazis re
ported 100.000 Reds attacked to the
north, in what they said was a pre
liminary move to a major winter
drive for the Baltic sea.
By driving to the Baltic, the Reds
would split the Germans’ northern
armies from those of the south, and
also give them a base from which
to attack enemy shipping making use
of the sea to supply its armies in
the area.
In the Ukraine, both sides gave
ground grudgingly under heavy
blows. The Nazis pressed forward
toward picturesque and domed
Kiev, while the Reds pounded out
gains farther to the south in the
Dnieper bend.
• • •
As of December 1, 176,045.000
pounds of butter were in cold stor
age, and other storks included 177,
110.000 pounds of American cheese;
197.382.000 pounds of poultry; 376,
072.000 pounds of pork; 183,096,000
pounds of beef; 31,074,000 pounds of
lamb and mutton, and 1,762,000
cases of eggs.
TRANSPORTATION:
Parts Needed
Trucks, railroad equipment, buses
and tires are wearing out and re
placements must be made if the na
tion’s transportation system is to
carry record loads in 1944, the Tru
man investigating committee as
serted.
Particularly acute is the reduced
stock of truck parts, especially in
view of the longer use of vehicles
and greater demand for repairs, the
committee said. Low inventories
further were aggravated by the gov
ernment’s scrap drive, in which
many cars were junked from which
parts might have been salvaged.
Railroads have been hampered by
lack of enough new rails and slow
downs in locomotive production be
cause of priority regulations, the
committee declared. Because of the
critical situation in lumber brought
about by military purchases, price
controls affecting operations and la
bor shortages, ties available for rail
roads will fall below needs in 1944,
the committee said.
# *
On September 30, 2,960,026 civil
ians were on the government pay
roll, a drop of 32,121 from the pre
vious month. It also was revealed
that 263,637 persons were serving
without compensation or as $l-a-year
men.
CIVILIAN GOODS:
Study Output
Following the War Production
board’s initial announcement that 15
per cent more civilian goods would
be manufactured during the first
three months of 1944 than in the last
quarter of this year, it was later re
vealed that WPB was changing cer
tain aspects of its program after a
survey of needs of 7,000 homes.
Studies have been made to de
termine what quantity of electric
irons, washing machines, refrigera
tors, trucks and automobiles can be
made, and what plants will be able
to produce the goods.
It was also revealed that the civil
ian requirements agency of the WPB
will play an important role in deter
mining policy when industry is faced
with reconversion. Although recon
version is expected to create unem
ployment, much hardship should be
relieved because the shift will be
gradual, and consumers’ demands
should result in quick rehiring by
reconverted plants.
• • •
Taking advantage of the lowest
level of prices for the year, corn
belt buyers purchased an almost
record volume of stockers and feed
ers during November. In eight
states, in-shlpmcnts totaled 383,000
compared with the ail-high of 391,000
In 1942.
ARMS OUTPUT:
Keeps Soaring
Despite a reduction in output of
ammunition, U. S. war production
in November soared above the pre
vious record month of October, with
the present rate 550 per cent over
1841.
Declaring problems of manpower,
design changes and material short
ages have been largely overcome,
the War Production board said gains
in terms of dollar value were record
ed for aircraft, communication and
electronic equipment, shipbuilding,
guns and combat motor vehicles.
Ammunition output was down 2 per
cent, chiefly reflecting a 13 per cent
drop for small arms
Indicative of the emphasis on pro
duction of heavy bombers, average
air frame weight per plane in No
vember was 8,130 pounds, compared
with 7.560 pounds during preceding
months Output of aerial bombs in
creased 11 per cent, reflecting the
intensification of the Allies’ bomb
ing operations on the world fronts.
INFLUENZA:
Cases of influenza in the nation
increased 500 per cent in the week
ended December 11, according to
U. S Public Health figures. Reports
for the week from every state de
partment excepting Maine’s shewed j
a total of 23,724 cases, five times as
many as in the week before.
Federal health service officials
stated that there was no particular
cause for concern, as the new cases
are of the same mild type of the
disease that has been prevalent since 1
the epidemic began in the fall.
5650
T'HE cull around the top may be
emphasized by an edging of
contrasting color—with the button
matching, the smartness of these
slippers is assured. The sole may
be crocheted with rug yarn. These
slippers are pretty in rose with
black soles and edging.
‘Fogie' Means Increase
"Fogie” in army language
means the 5 per cent increase in
pay which all army personnel get
for each three years of service.
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ly. "I bit 'im to death!"
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