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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS _
Red Army Drives Toward Baltic Sea;
Partisan Forces Ban Jugoslav Ruler;
Allied Heavy Bombers Smash German
Gun Installations in Northern France
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PACIFIC JITTERBUG:-Doughboy* on captured Makin island
in the Central Pacific watch somber little native hula dance.
EUROPE:
Blast Rocket Guns
While U. S. and British troops bat
tled the Nazis at close quarters in
southern Italy, waves of Allied
bombers rumbled over northern
France to smash at German rocket
gun installations.
Both on the U. S. Fifth and Brit
ish Eighth army fronts in southern
Italy, doughboys and Tommies en
gaged the Germans in hand-to-hand
fighting, Lieut, Gen. Mark Clark’s
men fighting for mountain peaks
flanking the road to Rome, and Gen.
Bernard Montgomery's warriors
striving to clear the path to the
highway hub of Pescara.
As reports continued to seep into
Britain and the U. S. of the Ger
mans’ new rocket gun capable of
hurling an explosive charge of from
7 to 21 tons about 20 miles, Allied
bombers combed the French chan
nel coast around Calais to blast at
the installations for the new weapon.
Ban h ing
Charging that the war minister
of the Jugoslav government-in-exile
had made a ‘ lasting
deal with the Germans
and organized civil
•trite against patriotic
elements, Josip (Tito)
Broz's communist
backed Partisan forces
forbade King Peter's
return to the country
until after the war.
Broz’s action followed
the attachment of U.
S.( British and Russian
King I’eter
officers to his staff, as
a result of the Allies’ preference for
the Partisan forces over King Pe
ter's Chetniks because they have
been offering the Germans more re
sistance.
Further, Broz’s political council
canceled all treaties and interna
tional obligations of King Peter's
government, on the supposition it no
longer was representative of the
people.
VETS:
Discharge Pay
To every vet discharged after 18
months of service overseas would go
$500 under provisions of a bill passed
by the senate and sent to the house
for consideration.
Vets serving abroad for IS to 18
months would be paid $400 and those
less than 12 months. $300. Vets with
12 months or more service in the
U. S. would get $300, and those with
less than 12 months, $200.
In the house, 44 representatives
have organized for higher discharge
payments, favoring Rep. William
Lemke’s bill providing $100 on re
lease and up to a year's pay.
MJSSIA:
**Match Wits
Russian and German generals
matched wits along an 800 mile front
as winter fighting flared to major
proportions in the east.
While the Reds surged Into Ger
man lines guarding the Baltic re
gion, the Nazis threw strong tank
forces against the Russians on a
400-mile stretch further to the south.
Thus did one attack act as a lever
•gainst the other.
The Russian drive was concentrat
ed on reaching the shores of the Bal
tic sea: (1) to cut off Nazi armies
In the Leningrad region from those
to the south, and (2) to cut off ship
ping at present helping supply them
over Baltic lanes.
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RAIL STRIKE:
FDR Intervenes
Seeking to avert a strike of 1,450,
000 railroad workers which threat
ened to tie up the nation’s whole
transportation system, President
Roosevelt acted to bring the unions
and owners together, while orders
were drawn for U. S. operation of
the lines in case negotiations failed.
Following a suggestion of FDR,
the basis for compromise seemingly
lay in pnyment of overtime to the
rail workers after 40 hours, instead
of after 48 hours as has been the
case.
For the 350,000 operating employ
ees of the roads, the overtime pay
coupled with a flat four cents an
hour wage increase, would result
in on average hourly boost of eight
cents.
Besides the eight cents an hour
for which they threatened to strike,
the 1,100.000 non-operating rail em
ployees also proposed overtime pay
over 40 hours. Under their terms,
their average hourly increase would
exceed eight cents.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
i rungs to Lome
A thorn in the Allies’ shipping
lanes to the Southwest Pacific, Ja
pan's Marshall islands took heavy
poundings from U. S. army and
navy planes, while off to the New
Britain area, Yankee airmen blast
ed the enemy's supply centers of
Wewak and Cape Gloucester.
In both cases the destructive aeri
al bombardment presaged ground
action. As a springboard for future
ground operations, U. S. troops stood
on the Gilberts, to the south of the
Marshalls, and in New Britain,
doughboys recently landed at Arawe
consolidated their positions and
poised to the north, looking toward
the Cape Gloucester region from
which the enemy has been supply
ing its embattled troops on New
Guinea to the east.
To meet the Allies’ challenge to
their whole defensive system in the
Southwest Pacific, the Japs strength
ened their air forces throughout the
area, and poured in supplies for
their troops.
Stays on Job
“MacArthur for President!”
A rallying cry for some politicians,
a popular topic for the man on the
General
MacArthur
street, these three big
words have tended to
color the 1944 presiden
tial picture.
Recently MacArthur
talk received two strong
stimulants:
First, there was the
war department's rul
ing that there was no
bar to any officer ac
cepting a political nom
ination.
Second, the rumor
gained currency that
uie cut-Ksure cmeitain or the South
west Pacific was preparing to return
to the U. S. for conferences in Wash
ington, D. C.
It was pointed out that MacAr
thur’s reigning goal is to lead Allied
armies back into the Philippines.
However, from General MacAr
thur’s advanced headquarters in
New Guinea's jungles, a spokesman
for the general said: "There is no
foundation whatsoever for the state
ment that General MacArthur ex
pects to go to Washington in the near
future for conferences."
HIGHLIGHTS • • • in the week's news
RICE: This year rice production
reached the highest level in history
at more than 70 million bushels, 48
per cent above the ten-year aver
age, 1932-42.
BOMBER: A new "super” bomb
ing plane that is called better than
the B-29, itself a new wonder, is now
in production, according to the
chairman of the house military af
fairs committee.
EGGS: So splendidly have Amer
ican hens responded to the call for
! more production that eggs are com
ing into wholesale markets in great
er volume than they can be sold or
s.ored, dealers report. They attrib
ute the increased supplies partly to
the fact that last spring's pullets are
; now beginning to lay. Another fac
tor is the lack of a government pro
gram for dried eggs.
BOLIVIA:
New Government
First order of business on the new
Bolivian revolutionary government’s
calendar was compensating survi
vors of the 19 striking tin miners
shot by troops under direction of
the ousted Gen. Enrique Penaianda
last December.
As calm was restored in the coun
try, U. S. withheld recognition of
the new government, to determine
whether it was a successful pro-Axis
coup in view of the fact that the
guiding light of the movement, Paz
Estenssoro, was once locked up in
connection with pro-Nazi activities.
U. S. interest in Bolivia centers
around its rich tii; and quinine re
sources, among the last left to the
Allies following Japan's occupation
of Malaya and the Indies. The revo
lutionists have expressed a desire
to continue favorable business rela
tions with the Allies, a matter on
which General Penaranda himself
had hedged.
STORAGE:
Seek to Ease Glut
With U. S. food storage facilities
crammed, many meat packers have
been selling pork products below
ceiling prices or in carload lots at a
discount. At the same time, it was
revealed that the War Food admin
istration prepared an order restrict
ing storage of such meat special
ties as hogs’ heads, bones, ox tails,
tripe, hearts and liver to 10 days
without permit.
Meanwhile, WFA extended its
price support of $13.75 per hundred
weight to 270 to 300 pound hogs,
because, (1) packers have been buy
ing bargains outside of the 200 to
270 pound support range and guar
anteed weights have been piling up
in the yards; (2) farmers have been
sending 200 to 270 pounders off to
market to get the $13.75 top.
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CORN BORER:
New Treatment
Irked by the corn borer's dam
age, 29-year-old John Bell of Wat
seka, 111., hit on the idea of curbing
the pests by making the stalk of the
plant distasteful.
A soil expert for a fertilizer con
cern, Bell worked for three years on
his project, reaching the point where
he planned to submit his product to
the University of Illinois' agrono
mists for testing.
Mixing commercial fertilizer with
combinations of minor plant food es
sentials, Bell spread his product over
1V4 acres of a 42-acre corn plot in
fested by borers. Shortly after, It
was seen that the borers began leav
ing the treated tract, which yielded
22 bushels more than the other
acres.
Although the compound absorbed
by the stalk is unpalatable to the
borers, it is not toxic to livestock,
tests showed.
GREAT BRITAIN:
Migrations Planned
Actual contacts of many Britons
with the many parts of the king
dom's far-flung empire have aroused
their interest to resettle in Australia,
Canada, New Zealand and South Af
rica after the war.
Circulating among the population,
numbers of soldiers from the domin
ions have acquainted Britons with
opportunities existent in their coun
tries, and British youth now being
trained in South Africa have inter
ested folks about its wealth and cli
mate in letters home.
But while dominion representa
tives in London have been besieged
by inquiries as to taxes, education
and resettlement financing in their
countries, the dominion governments
themselves were said to be chiefly
concerned with reemployment of re
turning war vets before immigra
tion.
TAX REFUNDS:
Cash refunds will go to about 16
million taxpayers on their 1943 pay
ments, when March 15 arrives, gov
ernment experts figure. The rebates
will be made to wage earners who
have paid in more than they owe un
der the “pay-as-you-go" collection
system.
On the other hand, it is pointed
out that many of the other 35 mil
lion taxpayers will wind up the year
owing the government, and will have
to make additional payments. Many
refunds, it was said, will be small.
Wa$hii\9ton Dipestj
’Realistic' Attitude Marks
Change in Allied Diplomacy
New Journey Into International Cooperation
Combines Idealism and Realism; Step
Away From Old Style Power Alliances.
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
What kind of a man is Stalin?
That question was put to President
Roosevelt at the White House press
and radio conference on the day of
his return to Washington from Eu
rope. He was tanned, alert, cheer
ful, still pulsing with the conscious
ness of achievement. His answer,
which came without a second’s hesi
tation, 1 thought, vas significant.
Stalin, he said, was a realist, Just
like himsel*'.
I am not particularly interested in
the accuracy of that answer, either
as an analysis of Stalin or self
analysis of the President. But to me
the fact that the President chose
realism as the outstanding and com
mon characteristic of himself and
the man on whose word and deed
so much of the future depends, was,
I think, significant.
On the whole, in the light of later
pronouncements, use of that term
seems a good omen rather than a
bad one.
Mr. Roosevelt is committed to a
plan for the postwar world which
leans toward the ideal, rather than
toward the old style diplomatic
"realism” which is nothing but tooth
and-claw tactics behind a laundered
facade of protocol. I think the
American people have shown plainly
that they are more interested in
stopping -or at least postponing—
wars than they are in the slogans of
the isolationists or the imperialists.
Granted that, the fact that Roose
velt emphasizes the "realist” side
when he speaks, gives one a feeling
that he and Stalin and Churchill
have been able to reach some rough
agreements that are practical
enough to work, and yet are a little
less earthy than the old power alli
ances, which always end in wars
and always will.
The Conference
I recall very well that crowded
news conference for which friend
and foe alike turned out to see what
the President looked like after his
trip. One hundred and seventy-nine
working press and radio correspond
ents were there, not counting offi
cials. The innocent expected some
hot, inside stuff; the cynical hoped
the President would reveal errors
by concealing them; the average re
porter knew it was going to be a
good story one way or the other.
Everyone was satisfied. Those who
yearned for the dramatic got the
story of the German plot which
didn’t come off. Those who were
looking for trouble were gratified
that he revealed no new concrete de
velopments. The objective reporter
got his quota of news, for everything
a President says is that.
But the two remarks of the Presi
dent stood out in my mind—the one
I mentioned (realism) and another,
made almost as soon as the last of
us had squeezed into the crowded
oval office, and they were, I be
lieve, most revealing as far as our
future foreign policy goes.
Those in the first row had time to
take in the President’s cheerful and
informal appearance—the colored
shirt and the pull-over sweater
J which he had worn on his trip—and
! which, because of one meeting fol
! lowing another from the moment he
arrived at the White House, he still
wore. He had been on the job since
9:30 a. m.—it was then after four.
As soon as the signal that the
last reporter was in the room was
given, the President began to speak
of the success of the trip, and he
said that those who shared with him
in the hopes of a durable peace (he
referred to Russia, Britain, China)
were motivated by the determina
tion that there would not be another
war while this generation lives.
I must admit that the words at
first struck me a little coldly—
"while this generation lives.’’ Not
much long-range optimism there, I
thought. But afterward and since
his later pronouncements, general
though they have been, I feel a lit
tle better about it. It seems to me
that perhaps we are at last em
barked upon an adventure in inter
national cooperation with enough
idealism to keep our eyes on the
heavens and enough realism to keep
i our feet on the ground. That is my
New Year's hope and wish.
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Analysis of a
Reporter’s Job
As I sit down to my typewriter,
I sometimes try to visualize the
people who will read what I write—
just as I try to visualize the little
groups gathered about the loud
speaker when I talk to them.
Sometimes I shudder lest they ex
aggerate the importance of the
things we reporters report.
I am not a bit different from the
anxious anonymous reporter who,
after the last war, still clad in his
khaki shirt, wearing the OD (it’s
“GI” now) tie and trench coat, who
came down to work and stumbled
around the various offices and meet
ings getting his stories and writing
them under the eagle eye of the
copy desk.
The reason I am worried now is
because I hear so many people talk
about the things “the Washington
correspondent” writes—or says on
the radio—as gospel. Well, most of
us try to report what we see and
hear. We don't always know wheth
er it is true or false. We just try
to tell you about it. Most of us label
what we know and what we think.
Some do not.
Sometimes when we talk with peo
ple we think really ought to know,
we report what they say with a lit
tle more confidence. If we can’t
quote the “Brass Hat” or the cabi
net officer or the senator who told
us this or that we say “authoritative
quoters.” We are supposed to know
from experience whether what we
hear is sound fac* or just wishful
thinking.
The longer we live, the better we
are able to judge between the real
people and the phonies. Most old
timers in the government don’t try
to fool reporters because they know
they can only do that once. Maybe
twice.
You know the old Scotch proverb:
“If he cheats you once, shame on
him; if he cheats you twice, shame
on you.”
Many people think that unless we
attack the party in power, we must
be in favor of it. That isn’t true.
We know, as the old bull said, “One
cow is much as another.” We know
that despite the different party re
galia politicians display, they are
really pretty much alike once they
get into office—not as good as they
might be for the most part, seldom
as bad as the opposition paints them.
The Active Element
But the party in power is the ac
tive element, it makes news because
it does things. The minority merely
objects. We report what is done.
Not because we approve or disap
prove of what is done but because
that is a concrete act. The opposi
tion can do little more than oppose.
That is negative. We know that if
the opposition were in power, it
might do the same thing, and the
party in power, which would then
be the minority, would object.
That is hard for the partisan lay
man to understand. We know that.
We have ideas, too, and the party in
power usually has some pretty good
ones which the minority has to ob
ject to, merely on party grounds.
Not being of either party we, the
reporters, may also become parti
sans not really of the party but of
some of the party’s ideas.
It is hard to make some people
believe that we are not partisan
when we are objective, easy to make
others believe we are not when we
are.
I have covered Republican and
Democratic regimes. I have cov
ered one Democratic regime a long
time. I certainly hope, for the good
of the state, that I shall be able to
cover a regime of the Republican
party, not because I think it is per
se better or worse than the Demo
cratic regime but because I think
a change is good for the republic.
When the next administration
comes in, I shall report what it does.
I shall lean, in spite of myself, to
ward the constructive issues it pro
mulgates. But that won’t, I hope,
make me a Republican any more
than my leanings toward the con
structive side in this regime make
me a Democrat. I am neither. I
am, and hope to remain, a reporter.
But, as beauty lies in the eye of the
beholder, so truth often lies in the
ear of the listener.
B R I E F S • . . by Baukhage
Best seller in Britain today is a
booklet on how to stretch a clothes
coupon. Called “Make Do and
Mend," the booklet offers the Brit
ish housewife a wealth of informa
tion cm how to utilize her old clothes
and household linen to the last
thread—by methods which would
have made her shudder in peace
time. The booklet is one of the most
I popular publications.
Two hundred Australian girls re
cently attended the first meeting In
Melbourne of a club whose mem
bership is limited to Australian girls
either married to or engaged to
American servicemen. The object is
to enable girls who may later be
come neighbors in America to be
come acquainted in Australia. They
feel they can be of mutual assist
ance in solving new problems.
Thrifty Practices
Save Feed in Winter
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Hay and Silage Can Be
Substituted for Grain
Much has been said this year
about how to save dairy feed con
centrates. E. J. Perry, extension
dairyman at Rutgers university,
suggests checking up on manage
ment methods once more to see that
no valuable feed is wasted.
During the barn feeding period,
he says, feed little or no grain to
high testing breeds producing less
than 15 pounds and to low testing
breeds producing less than 10 pounds
of milk daily, but feed all the hay
and silage the animals will eat.
Limit the grain for dry cows, de
pending upon condition and fleshing
of the individual. Prior to freshen
ing* however, condition cows by
feeding some grain if necessary.
Utilize supplemental pasture such
as barley, rye, wheat, second growth
clover, or second and third growth
alfalfa for late fall or early spring
pasture.
Grind or crush corn and cereal
grains used in the grain mixture. A
coarse to medium grind is preferred
to finely ground material, especially
where wheat is concerned.
Utilize miscellaneous forages, such
as pumpkins or turnips, to replace
roughages or grain for cows and
growing heifers. One ton of pump
kins equals 400 pounds of mixed hay
or 800 pounds of corn silage; one
ton of turnips equals 500 pounds of
mixed hay or 250 pounds of oats.
Changing Kind of Hay.
The choice of hay, and the man
ner of feeding are also important
considerations. Even if your rough
age is the best, it may not be doing
a 100 per cent efficient job if your
cows grow tired of it. When this
happens, there should be changes
made, a hay of a different plant
source fed, if possible. Even chang
ing the hay to an inferior quality
will often cause production to pick
up because the animals will eat
more of it for a time. When con
sumption again decreases, another
change can be made. With hay of
poor quality, enough of it should be
allowed so that the cows may have
opportunity to pick over it.
Smaller amounts fed at more fre
quent intervals is also a good hay
feeding policy. Some dairymen who
have the highest producing herds
feed hay four or five times a day.
Calves Need Vitamins.
Calf feeding hay should be bright,
free from dust and leafy. One of the
best calf hays is early cut clover—
timothy mixed hay. The calves
need the vitamins A and D that are
in it to build strong healthy bodies.
Too many farmers call their poor
est hay “bull hay.” In light of the
most recent information, bulls should
get hay of equal quality with the
milking herd. The production man
agement of the herd, as far as fresh
ening dates of the cattle are con
cerned, depends upon the bull.
So. American Livestock
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Creosoting Posts Will
Lengthen Their Service
Creosote treatment gives a much
longer life to nondurable woods, re
cent tests of the durability of fence
posts under Mississippi Delta con
ditions show. They were conducted
by J. E. Davis of the U. of Illinois.
Creosote - treated posts were
classed after years as either
"sound" or “partly decayed but still
serviceable.” Among untreated
posts, Osage orange was definitely
superior to other varieties, but black
locust and red mulberry had fairly
satisfactory scores.
Second-growth bald cypress, honey
locust and overcup oak showed seri
ous decay, with from less than a
half to less than one-fourth of the
posts serviceable. An “unservice
able” post would break off.
Hill-grown black locust proved
more durable than posts from trees
that grew more rapidly in fertile Del
ta soil. There was little difference
between posts cut in summer and
in winter. The treated posts—in
cluding loblolly pine, shortleaf pine,
southern cottonwood and sweet gum
—were not considered worth test
ing without creosote treatment.
Rural Briefs
When a cow is bred to freshen
every 12 months, she can be milked
for 10 months and then given a dry
period of six to eight weeks.
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It is reported that a concentrated
protein product, similar to dehydrat- I
ed egg white, may be derived as
a by-product of a new alcohol proc
ess in sufficient amount to supply
20 million adults.
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WHEN CONSTIPATION makes yon feel
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COLDS
Relieve Distress
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— 2 vays at once, as illustrated
above-to relieve coughing
spasms, help clear congestion in
upper bronchial tubes, and invite
restful, comforting sleep. Often
by morning most of the misery
of the cold is gone.,
When a cold strikes,'
try time-tested
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