WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Increased Activity in Pacific Sector
Marked by U. S. Blows on Jap Bases
And Heavy Fighting in Burma, India;
4-Fs Get Study in Manpower Crisis
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Italy-Again.t * background of war’s ruin at Cattino, an Allied
medical unit move* to the front to attend the wounded.
RATIONING:
Announce Changes
More gas, freer use of fuel oil and
food coupons and ration changes in
vegetables, fruits, meats and oils
were announced by OfA.
To maintain the distribution busi
ness, it was announced drivers hold
ing "B” cards will be allowed an
additional 100 miles a month, while
expiration dates for fuel oil coupons
will be eliminated before the fall
season of heavy consumption gets
underway.
Because many shoppers cashed in
their red and blue food coupons for
tokens at expiration dates, OPA took
off all time limits on the stamps.
While all frozen fruits and vege
tables were taken off rationing, beef
flank meat, pork liver, lamb and
mutton hearts, liver, sweetbreads
and tongue, beef tongue, cooked and
barbecued pork spareribs and pork
tongue were cut 1 point. Shortening,
salad and cooking oil were slashed
1 point. Points on canned carrots
and tomato juice also were reduced.
DRAFT:
Eye 4-Fs
To All up the Industrial and agri
cultural ranks left vacant by the
drafting of all men except key work
ers under 26, the government called
for the induction of all 4-Fs not en
gaged in essential occupations and
a congressional committee moved
to shape special legislation for such
a program.
At the same time, it was revealed
Selective Service was scrapping its
unit system of deferring agricultural
workers, only giving consideration
to a man’s regular employment on a
farm and the problem of replacing
him.
Under the government’s proposal.
4-Fs doing nonessential work would
be enlisted as reserves and directed
to essential occupations at regular
civilian pay. or they would be en
rolled in labor battalions for em
ployment at army pay if they re
fused to accept the assignments.
Of the nation's 3,500,000 4-Fs it was
estimated that about 1,000,000 were
engaged in non-essential work.
PACIFIC:
Threaten India
As bold Japanese forces thrust to
ward the highway hub of Imphal in
Admiral
Monntbattcn
India, Adm. Louis
Mountbatten rallied
Allied forces to a
stand to hold this
key to land commu
nications ail along
the 600 - mile Bur
mese front.
In the Southwest
Pacific area, strong
U. S. naval forces
again challenged the
Japanese fleet to
come out and fight
by attacking the en
enmys sea base of Palau, 460 miles
from the Philippines, but the Nips
once more withdrew. On New
Guinea, New Britain and Bougain
ville. Allied ground forces continued
to press the Japs, as U. S. airmen
Impeded reinforcement of their bat
tered troops by shooting up shipping
and bases.
Seeking to capitalize on their sur
prise of the Allies in India when
they burst from the Burmese Jun
gle from three points to converge
on Imphal. the Japs maintained
heavy pressure in the face of stiffen
ing British resistance. Beyond Im
phal lay the Bengal-Assam railroad,
supplying Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stil
well’s U. S. and Chinese troops push
ing the Japs down the Mogaung val
ley in far northern Burma.
AGRICULTURE:
Food Subsidies
To peg consumer costs, War Food
Administrator Marvin Jones ordered
the $3,000,000,000 Commodity Credit
corporation to use its powers and
funds for subsidizing food prices.
In addition, the CCC was ordered
to purchase, sell, store and trans
port food and farm products Involved
in the WFA's price-support and lend
lease programs.
Strongly bucked by the farm bloc
in congressional debate but upheld
by administration forces, the food
subsidy program will cost the CCC
between $650,000,000 and $800,000,000.
it was estimated.
Farm Prices
Increases in returns on meat ani
mals, feed grains, hay and oil bear
ing and fruit crops resulted in a one
point advance in the general level
of farm prices from mid-February
to mid-March, the agriculture de
partment reported.
Boosts in the above commodities
more than offset declines in food
grains, truck crops, and milk and
egg prices, and brought the general
Income level to 196 of the 1909-’14
plane. A rise of one point brought
prices paid by farmers to 176 of
the 1909-' 14 standard.
Prices received by farmers aver
aged 115 of parity, with only wheat,
rye, flaxseed, cotton, hay, peanuts,
cotton, lemon and oranges below the
fair exchange value established by
congress.
EUROPE:
In Balkans
While their lines held in northern
Russia, German troops fell back to
the Carpathian mountains in the
south, where they were looked upon
to make a stand with Hungarian
and Rumanian fori. recently In*
corporated into the Nazi armies.
As the Germans drew back in the
east, Allied bombe- headed over
western Europe to drop their ex
plosives over the expected invasion
routes and hammer at Nazi produc
tion centers. In Italy, both sides
traded punches at Anzio below
Rome, while action tapered at Cas
sino, where Germans clung to their
defensive posts.
In pushing the Germans back to
the Carpathians, the Russians ad
vanced to within 30 miles from the
old Czecho-Slovak border, while far
ther to the southeast, they crossed
the Prut river to lunge into Ru
mania.
Occupation Plans
From London last week came re
ports indicating Allied plans for
postwar Europe shaped by the U. S.,
Russia and Britain.
With the reich’s collapse, the au
thoritative London Sunday Observer
said plans called for British occupa
tion of western and north central
Germany, U. S. control of the south
ern and south-central parts, and
Russia of the eastern section. Sym
bol of Germany, Berlin would be oc
cupied by all three powers.
Before establishment of stable gov
ernment, the Big Three would also
occupy Austria, and any movement
for that country’s union with Ger
many would be discouraged, with
closer economic ties with the Bal
kans suggested.
Looking toward eastern Europe,
information leaking from . sources
consulted on perfecting details of
the Teheran agreements indicate
Moscow will annex the Baltic states
and eastern Poland and Balkan ter
ritory considered traditionally Rus
sian, and exercise influence ovetf
Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary.
HIGHLIGHTS
... in the week’s
news
DAIRY SUBSIDIES: Charles Hol
man, secretary of the National Co
operative Milk Producers federation,
told a senate committee that sub
sidies on dairy products would have
to be increased by $200,000,000 a year
to give farmers a fair return. This
would raise the total paid to milk
producers from $550,000,000 to $750.
000,000. Holman is opposed to the
whole dairy subsidy program.
SAVINGS: In the first two years
of war, savings of the American peo
ple have increased by more than 50
per cent, represented by war bonds,
bank deposits and life insurance. The
total of these three items on Janu
ary 1 of this year was 91 billion
dollars. About 12 per cent of in
dividual income goes into these
forms of savings, according to the
Institute of Life Insurance.
SURPLUS GOODS:
Consult Business
To prevent a disruption of ordi
nary business channels, U. S. agen
cies entrusted with the disposal of
surplus war goods for civilian use
have been instructed to confer with
the War Production board's 750 in
dustry advisory committees on dis
tribution of material through estab
lished outlets.
Although most members of the
Industry advisory committees are
manufacturers, some wholesalers
and retailers have been included in
the groups, and it will be their task
to help determine normal outlets for
certain goods, the amount of ma
terial to be released, and whether
distributors should bid for the mer
chandise, negotiate for its purchase
or buy It at auction.
While the new procedure was an
nounced, Rep. Wright Patman (Tex
as) pressed for enactment of a bill
under which retailers would be given
equal voice in the disposal of surplus
war goods along with the bigger
manufacturers and wholesalers.
GERMANY:
Production Efficiency
Striving to stretch their human
and material resources to maxi
mum, Germany’s production czars
have reached into industrial and do
mestic activity alike.
In industry, the Nazis have spared
men and metal by reducing locomo
tive models from 119 to 13, and they
have economized on shipping space
by extensive dehydration of foods.
More efficient methods reportedly
increased steel, copper and alumi
num output while decreasing man
hours.
To keep working women from per
forming house tasks at home, the
Nazis have organized groups to
mend their stockings and attend to
other domestic functions. Persons
from 65 to 70 have been enlisted to
assist service men at railway de
pots.
Finds Long Way Back
Taken to St. Petersburg, Fla., by
his master and then given to a real*
dent there, an Irish setter, Duke, so
longed for his old home that he trav
eled 1,200 miles back to It at Roann,
Ind., where an did friend. Rev. Rob
ert Collins, found him bloody-footed
and exhausted.
Informed of Duke's plight, his
master wired Rev. Collins funds to
care for the dog until he should re
turn.
ARMY AND NAVY:
Furloughs
Because of shipping difficulties
and preparations for campaigns, the
army will continue to grant fur
loughs on an individual basis rather
than to whole units. Sen. Guy Gil
lette (Iowa) was advised by the war
department.
With other midwestern senators,
Gillette had queried the war depart
ment about the possibilities of fur
loughing the 34th division, which has
been overseas for more than two
years and is made up of men from
Minnesota. South Dakota. North Da
kota. Nebraska and Iowa.
While the war department admit
ted many empty cargo ships were
returning to the U. S., it added that
there was a problem of shore han
dling once the vessels reached here.
New Construction
Heralding an intensification of the
war against the Japanese, the U. S.
navy asked for lVi billion dollars for
the construction of shore facilities,
principally on the West coast.
Plans call for the building of fleet
and cargo piers, supply depots, avi
ation training bases, harbor im
provements and repair depots.
Expansion of present hospital fa
cilities from 60,000 to 80,000 beds
and provision for malaria recupera
tion centers also were included in
the plans.
WITHOUT COUNTRY
A bill has been passed by the
house which would make men who
fled the United States to avoid the
draft "men without a country.”
These expatriates would be forever
barred from reentering the United
States. The bill was sent to the
senate for action.
The house immigration committee
reported that many men have gone
into Mexico to avoid induction. In
the vicinity of El Paso, Texas, alone,
more than 800 evaders are known to
have crossed the border.
Washington D*i9es1j
Difficult Job Confronts
New Democratic Leaders
Chairman Hannegan, Publicist Porter, Must
Rebuild Party Machine; Answer GOP
Attacks on Bureaucracy.
By BAUKHAGE
New* Analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
Bombs one day wiU cease burst
ing, ships wiU p*fl the seas undis
turbed by torpedoes, and cities will
no longer be levelled, but politics
knows no armistice.
The political forces are already
laying down their preliminary bar
rages.
Two weeks ago, I reported a visit
to Republican headquarters up on
Connecticut avenue and I attempted
to outline the job that Chairman of
the Republican National committee,
Harrison Spangler, has laid out for
himself.
Since then, I have been admitted
into the front lines in the Demo
cratic sector and now that I am
back safe in limb and, I hope, sound
in mind, I shall attempt to report
the strategy that Field Marshal
Hannegan's cohorts seem to be em
ploying. Democratic Chairman Han
negan is a young man, who has
served in the ranks and worked his
way up from ward politics to City
Chairman for St. Louis whence he
leapt to the national chairmanship.
Just to give you a little of the
atmosphere in which the Democrat
ic GHQ operates, let me say a word
about a gathering held recently in
the Mayflower Hotel (which also
houses the Democratic headquar
ters) just a few blocks down Con
necticut avenue from the old resi
dence that the GOP has taken over.
This gathering was the occasion
of the retirement of Charley Michel
son and the assumption of his duties
as Number One publicity man for
the Democratic committee by tall
and personable Paul Porter, who
said he felt as if somebody had put
him down in Carnegie Hall, handed
him Kriesler’s violin, and said:
“Now play.”
That was a pat remark. We all
know Charley Michelson. We all
know Porter, who has been around
Washington in one important job or
another ever since the New Deal
began dealing. And we know the
typewriter of Chjjjley Michelson is
as hard for anyone but its possessor
to play upon as Kreisler’s Addle
would be. However, when I was up
at Democratic headquarters a few
days later, there was Charley ap
parently giving such aid and com
fort and encouragement as might
be needed from the wings.
One thing that makes it hard for
the Democrats is that the .Republi
cans are in a position to lift their
copyright.
As one Democrat explained it to
me, it is like this:
"Nobody will have a chance to do
the job that Charley Michelson did
for us from 1922 on until the elec
tion of FDR. The trouble is the
Republicans are in a position to use
his theme song adapted, of course,
to suit their needs.
"They have already started to do
to the administration just what
Michelson did to Hoover. They have
started to attack the war agencies
and all of the administration depart
ments and activities, exposing ev
ery blunder, playing up failures and
trying to show that everything the
people think are burdens and annoy
ances can be traced directly to the
administration.
"And you know," this wise old
veteran added, "what you write and
say about how bad the other guy is
makes a lot better reading than
what you say about how good you
think YOU are."
That is one obstacle Chairman
Hannegan is up against although the
real responsibility falls on the shoul
ders of Michelson’s successor, Paul
Porter, and they are broad shoul
ders with a very good newspaper
head between them.
But Hannegan has another, bigger
problem. It is a job for a master
mechanic. It is a repair job on the
Democratic machine which is
euphemistically designated in the
language of party politics as the "or
ganization.”
Broken Machine
Hannegan is a young, energetic,
open-faced Irishman, and it is a good
thing he is young and energetic and
optimistic because he has had to
start his job of organization at
scratch. Anyone at Democratic
headquarters will admit that.
The reason is revealed in this sim
ple chronology:
Jim Farley took over a pretty
well running machine built up by
Raskob. Farley did a splendid job
of keeping it spinning until 1936. It
was a hundred-per-cent-Roosevelt
for-President machine that far.
Then Farley got other ideas—one,
that two terms was enough for
Roosevelt, and the other was that
the next term, it would be Farley.
The machine changed to a one
man dog which, for four years,
would only come when its master
spoke and its master was Farley.
After the historic split, it fell apart
except as the states kept their seg
ments intact.
So all Mr. Hannegan has to do is
to put it together again if he can
find all the parts.
That is the first job as far as the
Democratic offensive goes.
As to the defense, they feel they
already have a pretty clear picture
of the Republican war plans as re
vealed in activities to date.
They point to the campaign that
won the Republicans another seat
in the House of Representatives
from the first Congressional district
of Colorado. The Democratic candi
date was a young war hero. His
Republican opponent was a business
man. He had a very simple line
of attack. He hammered bureauc
racy, he placed the present ills of
the community squarely on the head
of the administration—gas rationing,
for instance.
The OP A Fight
The Democrats say this pattern—
damning the administration’s ad
ministering—has been revealed in
congress too. The fight over the
OPA is a current example. Minority
Leader Joe Martin announced at the
beginning that nobody wanted to do
away with price regulation but that
present regulation must be im
proved. What the Democrats expect
is that the Republicans will drag
out the hearings as long as possible,
parade what they call "a chamber
of horrors” before the people, at
tempting to associate all the irrita
tions, limitations and restrictions
which are annoying the public, on
the administration.
There are other obstacles which
are a product of the time which the
Democrats have to meet. They are
realistic about them.
One is the fourth term, of course.
That may partially be offset by the
"don’t change horses in the middle
of a stream” argument which is
counted upon to influence a great
number of people who think it might
be disastrous to shift leadership,
whether you like it or not, while
the war is going on.
Another situation which the Demo
crats face and about which there is
little or nothing to do is the great
migration of voters who have failed
to establish residence in their new
homes or who are in the armed
forces and will not be able to vote.
As one Democrat put it to me: "We
know we are going to suffer more
than the Republicans from this
change of residence business. It
isn't the man and woman who lives
in a Park Avenue penthouse who
moves to San Diego to work in an
airplane plant; it is the hill billy
who has voted Democratic all his
life who moves to a war boom town
and forgets to register.”
Campaign Weapons
"And,” he added, “it is the soldier
son of families which have been re
electing Roosevelt who isn’t going
to get his ballot in from Kwajalein
atoll or Middlesex-on-sticks, Wangle
shire, Hereford, England.”
Here are two main dishes the
Democrats probably will offer the
voter!
The first, I have already men
tioned. Don’t change horses . . .
The second can be encompassed in
one word—work! You can call it
security, or any other name that
smells as sweet. But the Democrats
count on the fact that the average
American fears another depression,
or at least temporary unemploy
ment when the boys come home.
The argument is, “They (the Demo
crats) did it before, they can do it
again . . . the Republicans brought
you panic, the New Deal got you
through it."
Circumstances alter the best laid
plans of mice, men and national
committees, but that seems to be
what they are shouting at along
Connecticut avenue today.
B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage
Ohio's six State universities,
through their Inter-University Coun
cil, have asked the director of edu
cation of Ohio, Kenneth S. Ray, to
call a state conference on problems
relating to the rehabilitation of re
turning servicemen.
• • *
U. S. civilian supplies of sugar
will be 6 per cent less than 1943 con
aumption, according to WFA.
Under existing legislation all vet
erans of World War II who were
citizens of Illinois when they en
tered military service are eligible
for University of Illinois scholar
ships.
• • •
Berlin radio told Latin America
that the German tourist movement
in 1943 was only 8 per cent lower
than in years before the war.
Cattle Ills Result
Of Vitamin Lack
Many Ailments Traced
To Deficiencies
There is something for farmers to
think about in the recent report that
veterinarians are encountering more
and more cases of ‘‘deficiency” dis
eases in cattle, under today’s war
time feeding conditions.
It is generally hard for the cattle
producer to recognize such deficien
cy symptoms himself. Some are ob
scure, and some become complicat
ed with other conditions involving
diseases or parasites. However, the
average farmer can profit by tak
ing note of some of the more out
standing symptoms, and thus be
able to adopt corrective measures
promptly if similar conditions should
appear in his herd.
Common Abnormal Conditions.
Here are some of the conditions
brought on by vitamin deficiencies:
Deficiency of vitamin A may I
cause abortion, weak calves, calf
Protruding: tongue, slobbering,
weakness of limbs indicate a vita
min D deficiency. This steer was
restored to health by supplying the
missing element.
scour, blindness, or swellings In the
legs and brisket. The colostrum or
first milk is especially rich in vita
min A, and this is one of the rea
sons why calves should have as
much colostrum milk as possible.
Vitamin B is not needed in ma
ture cattle, but a shortage of this
vitamin can cause scours and stom
ach trouble in calves.
Under certain conditions breeding
cattle may have low blood levels of
vitamin C, with resultant impotency i
or sterility.
Vitamin D (the sunlight vitamin)
deficiency occurs quite frequently in j
cattle. Symptoms of D vitamin
shortage are swollen joints, lame
ness, soreness, lack of appetite, and
rickets in calves.
Vitamin E seems to be no prob
lem with cattle, as they apparently
get plenty of it by normal feeding.
Mineral deficiencies are also be
coming more common, as farm soils
become more and more mineral-de
pleted. Some of the mineral defi
clency symptoms which occur in cat
tle are:
Calcium deficiency is indicated by |
nervousness and fragile bones.
When cattle chew the inside of
the barn, fence posts, and other
wood objects, this may indicate lack
of phosphorus.
Shortage of iron In the diet some
times causes anemia.
Rough hair, depraved appetite,
are common indications of lack of
cobalt.
Resemble Diseases.
The greatest trouble about these
deficiency symptoms is that many
of them are similar to symptoms
caused by common germborne or
parasitic diseases. The result may
be that the farmer will try to treat
his stock for some ordinary disease,
whereas the condition may be due
entirely to a vitamin or mineral
shortage. That is why authorities,
today, suggest that the first step
when such symptoms appear is to
obtain an accurate diagnosis by a
qualified veterinarian, and then take
appropriate steps once the real
cause of the trouble has been de
termined. As long as the war lasts,
these deficiency problems are likely
to be more and more common.
TELEFACT
FARM INCOME REACHES NEW PEAK
Six-Week Dry Period
"A mature cow should be allowed
a dry period of six to eight weeks
before freshening, during which time
she should be given all of the hay
and silage she will eat,” Dr. Tay
lor of Rutgers U. advises. Most .
good cows need about six to eight
pounds of grain daily for the first
four to six weeks of the dry period.
The grain ration can be made up of
a mixture of cereal grains. Heavy
grain feeding should be discontinued
a week before calving.
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