-WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS-r Yanks Set Pace in Paris Drive; New Pacific Blows Loom as U. S. Bombers Strike at Philippines __________ Rolaasad by Waatf rn No wapaper Union (EDITOR'S NOTE- Wbr> opinion# nr* tiprentl la thoaa rolomna. th»r aro Ihon* of Wcatcra Nrwapaprr Union'# nowo analjrata and nat noreaaarllr of thla nowapaper.) Pacific-Top picture shows U. S. 5th air force bomber at right •truck by Jap anti-aircraft fire above Kokai, Dutch New Guinea, while bottom photo depict* its crash into the sea while accompanying plane flies back home alone. EUROPE: Fronts A fire The whole French battlefront quivered to the clap and clatter of gunfire as U. S. and British forces pressed their twin offensives against the German lines, with American troops reported approximately 50 miles from Paris. While mechanized columns speed ed the U. S. advance upon the for mer French capital from the west British and Canadian forces were making slower progress to the north below Caen, where strong enemy armored formations hacked away to contain the onslaught while still other large concentrations de fended their exposed flank. As the Allied drive on Paris rolled on through good tank country, U. S. forces in Brittany threw in all the weight of their superior gun and tank fire to reduce the coastal ports of Brest, Lorient and St. Nazaire, which would open up important sup ply lines from the Atlantic ocean. With every man, woman and child in East Prussia mustered for civil ian war service, and Russian forces Tough German paratroopers, who faced the American on daught at St. I,o, developed a deep respect for U. S. fighting qualities. According to one of their re ’ports, which fell Into American hands, they declared: "Enemy artillery Is distinguished by the accuracy of Its (ire and ma neuverability. Employment in depth, changes of positions, self propelled guns—during Infantry attacks close to the front lines —Is the doctrine followed. A great number of observation planes makes It possible ... to fire effectively even on small tar gets." Speaking of D. 8. fire and phos phorus bombs and high explosive ammunition, the report revealed: "They cause stomach trouble and headaches. .. lurching on the threshold of their "holy soQ," Nazi armies fought bit terly to hold off the Red forces ad vancing on that Baltic province of Germany. Farther to the south, the Nazis countered Russian advances upon the former Polish capital of War saw with equal stubbornness, with the Reds seeking to relieve the stale mate by switching their attack from the front of the city to the northeast tn an encirclement at tempt On the southern end of the long eastern battlefront, the Russians pushed within 75 miles of the Ger man industrial province of Silesia, while other Red forces moved with in 27 miles of the Czecho-Slovak bor der in the towering Carpathian mountains, where the rugged ter rain was suitable to Nazi defense. As U. S. and British troops poised for their assault on the enemy's "Gothic Line" in the hills north of the Amo river in Italy, Polish and Italian units harassed the Germans on the eastern or Adriatic end of the battlefront With the Allies girding for an all out drive on the latest enemy moun tain fortifications, their problems of supply over earthy, choky roads in the rugged country were relieved by the restoration of the seaports of Livorno, Civitavecchia and Piom bino. PACIFIC: Hattie Plans "It’s good to see you, Doug,” said the President upon greeting General MacArthur at Pearl Harbor, and on that note did the nation's chief executive open a three-day war con ference with Pacific military and naval leaders on the development of new offensives for the uncondi tional surrender of the Japanese. Heralding things to come in the Pacific theater, American Libera tors raided the Philippines for the first time in 27 months, striking at airfields on Mindanao island, while giant B-29s flew over Japan itself to rain fire-bombs on the shipbuilding center of Nagasaki, and attacked oil refineries at Palembang in the East Indies. Completely restored ufter the at tack of December 7, 1941, Pearl Har bor was bristling with acres of planes, tanks and other battle equip ment as Mr. Roosevelt Inspected in stallations during the conferences. As a result of these developments, the President said, Hawaii was no longer an outpost of U. S. defense, but "one of our rear areas." WEATHER: Rain Needed As another heat wave struck parts of the Middle West, drought con ditions were intensified east of the Mississippi river, with crop growth faltering in many sections. According to the weather bureau, Kentucky may harvest only 50 per cent of a com crop, while condition of the grain was spotty in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, due to heat and moisture deficiency. In southern Illinois, soybean growth was poor to good, while extensive failures of potatoes, pastures and gardens were reported in Ohio. West of the Mississippi, however, com prospects were excellent, with promise of a banner crop in Iowa where the drought was broken in the south, and a record harvest in Nebraska, with one more good rain. OIL: Allied Accord The withholding of raw materials from prospective aggressor coun tries to contribute to postwar peace loomed as a result of an oil pact signed between the U. S. and Great Britain, which conditioned future distribution of the product on super vision of an international organiza tion to maintain world security. Calling for availability of oil to all peaceable countries at fair prices and the orderly development of re U. 8.-British oil rontrrees Included (left to rl»ht) Interior Secretary Ickea. Undersecretary ot State Stettlnlus, and Lord Beaverbroolc. sources without competitive wastes, the pact envisions the future organi zation of an International oil com mission to advise governments on how they should pi educe and sell the product. Other provisions of the pact seek to assure the recognition of the principle of equal opportunity in ob taining concessions. HIGHLIGHTS •• • in lfc« ieeek't newt CANNED FRUIT PRICES: Gov ernment support prices on canned peaches, pears, apricots, fruit cock tail and fruit mix packed in 1944 will be set at 86 4 per cent of the area average ceiling prices for the in dustry. or 86.4 per cent of the oan ners’ gross civilian ceiling prices, whichever is lower, according to an announcement of the War Food ad ministration. APPLES: An average crop of ap ples ts predicted for the year by members of the International Apple association. About 123 million bush els will be harvested, according to the association. Of these, 10 million bushels will go to the armed forces, and 36 million will be sent out as lend-lease food. Maximum prices have been set for the 1944 crop. RATIONING: New Values In an effort to control consump tion, OPA removed utility grades of beef and lamb' from rationing, re stored pork loins, hams and canned fish to the lists, and increased the point values of cheese. OPA's removal of utility grades of beef from rationing was prompted by the large movement of such classes of cattle to market, while the elimination of points on lamb was intended to spur the consump tion of such meat. Restoration of pork loins and ham to rationing, on the other hand, re sulted from a seasonal decline in hog marketing. Canned fish was put back on the lists because of short supplies throughout the country. Increases in point values of such cheeses as Cheddar, colby, cream, neufchatel, creamed cottage. Swiss, Italian, Munster and limburger were necessary to slow down their movement into consumer channels. WAR PRODUCTION: Big Speedup Army officials continued to stress the need for an increase in the pro duction of tanks, trucks, big guns and ammunition in view of greater demands from the flaming battle fronts. Latest army bigwig to call for more production was Maj. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, director of mate rial for the army service forces, who declared that schedules for the last half of 1944 called for a 77 per cent boost in output of aircraft bombs over the first six months. Production programs for heavy artillery ammunition will be up 110 per cent; heavy artillery weapons, 23 per cent; light-heavy and heavy weight trucks, 40 per cent; heavy heavyweight trucks. 123 per cent, and tanks, 50 per cent. New Oddities Hirlh of quadrupled to the second wife of a 7S-year-old artisan of Amalfi, Colombia, brought the number of his children to 47. lie had 30 by his first wife and now has hud 17 by the second. Craving excitement, 19-year old Mary Phillips of 7 rimsaran, Wales, stowed away on a landing barge which took her to the bus tling Normundy beach head. After spending two iveeks on the beach head amid the rumble and roar of guns and bombs. Miss Phillips returned to Hritain, M ary Phillips none the worse for wear. V hen Sheriff Claude Sullivan of Murphy, Idaho, derided to close his store after suffering injuries in an autre mobile accident, the tou>n which serves as seat of Owyhee county was left with only a billiard parlor as a place of busi ness. POSTWAR RELIEF: Hot Issue While the nation's production hummed at top peak in the fevered war effort, senators wrangled over measures designed to afford relief to millions of workers who may be left unemployed in a postwar eco nomic relapse. Joined by southern Democrats, the Republican minority waged a successful fight against the Kilgore Murray bill’s delegation of authority to a federal work administrator, who could deny the unemployed compen sation if they refused to accept posi tions offered them, which might in volve moving their families to other regions in some cases. While the administration forces gave way before the onslaught on this provision, they put up a stiffer fight for the payment of unemploy ment compensation ranging up to $35 a week, while the opposing coali tion stuck by the George bill, which would leave these disbursements up to the individual states, where they run from $15 to $22 a week. The George bill also would place all fed eral shipyard, arsenal and other workers under state unemployment compensation systems. TIRE OUTPUT: More Sought In seeking to speed up the manu facture of heavy tires to keep essen tial military and civilian transporta tion rolling, the War Production board revealed that it would strive to have CIO workers shift from pas senger to truck tire production, and also persuade them to go over their own self-imposed quotas of output. In attempting to arrange for a ; shift of workers from one depart ment to another, the WPB sought to assure their seniority privileges to protect them against later layoffs, while the WPB proposed propor- j tional pay boosts for increased out put to counteract the employees’ alleged policy of limiting their work to avoid rate cuts for more pro duction. land sales Sales of farm land acquired by the government should be limited to those who need it for a home and living, with first preference for for mer owners, and second for war veterans. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard told the house. Surplus land, he said, should be sold on the basis of its long time earning capacity and not at current inflated prices. Some 6,500.000 acres have been acquired by the govern ment, only 3,500,000 acres of which is considered suitable for farming. Washington Digest; Capital Answers Urgent Appeal for Farm Help Political Bigwigs, War Workers, Service ■ Folk, Pitch In to Aid in Production of j Orchard and Field Crops. I By BAUKHAGE Nmm AnalyU and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington. D. C. Washington, the town of bureau crats, of desk-soldiers and sailors, the place that tells you what to do and "don’t do nothin' " itself but *')es’ keeps rollin’ along.” I know that's what you say about us. But when It comes to volunteering for the emergency farm labor pro gram-how about your national capital? Believe me, Washington is in there pitching. I use the figure of speech advised ly for the man who rallied a corps of volunteer farm help which will probably amount to fifteen thousand citizens of the District of Columbia by the time the peach and apple harvest is at its height, is an old ball-player. Not so old at that for Johnny Jones, formerly of the Phila delphia Athletics, farm boy from Coatsville, Pa., and now of the de partment of agriculture extension service, is practically fresh off the diamond. He quit baseball in 1936 and is now back as near to the call ing of his fathers as he could get. Jones’ job is dealing with the farm-help shortage and I interrupt ed him while he was in batting for a Woman marine digs postholes. missing mimeographer because of his own private manpower shortage. He had just rolled off several thou sand forms inviting government offi cials, war-workers, simple citizens and others in the District, to attend his vacation camps which are al ready rapidly filling. We aren’t allowed to tell names of the higher-ups who volunteer but Jones has helpers who give their Sundays, or longer periods, from the White House staff, the offices of cabinet members, senators and con gressmen. If it weren’t an election year he thinks he'd have quite a showing of the senators themselves. But what he takes most pride in is the service folk. This includes the girls, the WACs and the WAVES, and the Marines and the SPARS, as well as the sailors and soldiers on duty here or convalescing Telia It to Marinea With Good Results The other day a tobacco farmer over the district line in Virginia (Jones’ territory doesn’t run more than 125 miles from the White House) wanted to clear an acre of thick timber needed for firewood—it takes a lot of smoke to cure the tobacco for your smokes. He couldn't hire help locally. Jones “told it to the Marines” (female) and some 50 answered with action. They cut the timber (trees of about 28 inches), sawed it into eight-foot lengths, piled it up. And soldiers and sailors seem glad to take a week’s furlough to go out and pitch hay, get in the wheat and tobacco crops, or turn a hand to any other little chore. They say they consider it a great relief from loafing around a hospital or guard ing government buildings or doing any other of the strictly military jobs they have. Even among the groups of girls, Jones says you’ll find enough who can run a tractor or hitch and drive a team of horses. One group cleared five and a half acres, cut the trees, sawed them up, burned the brush. And there is no shortage of civil Jan help either. As elsewhere there are the boys’ and girls’ camps which, run all summer; there are other vacation camps where grown-ups stay a week, get a dollar and a half a day expenses, and earn 35 cents an hour, or at peach-picking as much or more than $3.50 a day at 10 cents a basket, if they are handy. Some earn $10 a day at that rate but they are old hands. • • • Postwar German Underground Seen There is nothing new to Europeans about an "underground monument” which might be defined as a group of persons, united by an idea, which persists as an opposition to a partic ular government with the purpose of eventually overthrowing that gov ernment. With the defeat of Germany it can be taken for granted that two German movements will begin to burrow, perhaps retiring to "pre viously prepared positions’’ in the language of the communiques of a retreating army. They are the Junk ers and the Nazis. At the present writing, for the first time in history, military con trol of Germany has been wrested from the hands of the junker-gen erals. They did their best to act on their ancient adage: "We as a caste, must always live to fight another day.” A lost war to them is an incident and considered merely a temporary set-back on the road to eventual world-domination. To that end they planned a peace before their ranks were too greatly weak ened or their resources exhausted. But the Nazis stepped in, wrecked their plans. As a caste they will probably be completely destroyed, their estates and therefore their means of livelihood removed. What many people do not know is that the German high command had their own private funds, voted by the government, which they managed themselves for the benefit of the army. Whether the Nazis have obtained this, remains to be seen. But in any case, you may be sure the burn ing patriotism of those junkers who survive will keep an underground organization alive. And then comes the Nazis, with a younger but equally fanatical loyal ty to national socialism. Their un derground organizations we know are already prepared. Meanwhile there is a strong sus picion on the part of many persons in Washington that a third breeding place for totalitarian militarism is being cultivated right here in the Western hemisphere. In the past weeks I have received several letters and one telephone call protesting against the action of the state department in breaking re lations with Argentina. So far as I could tell the persons who communi cated with me we' e perfectly honest. They all stressed the known fact that the chief characteristic of the Argentina attitude is traditionally “pro-Argentine,” nationalists. The inference was that the government was not anti-North American or pro nazi-fascist, and should be let alone. As a matter of fact, aside from Argentine’s own aims there seems to be evidence that the German Nazis and perhaps some of the Ger man Junkers are transferring their wealth to Argentina. There is not the slightest doubt that the Buenos Aires government has aided and abetted in the spread of nazi-fascist propaganda and is that, at this very moment looking sympathetically on the activities of Nazi agents within its borders. The army has long been indoctrinated with Prussian militarism through its officers who have been trained in Germany. Unless the United States takes the lead in applying sanctions in the form of a strict embargo on Argen tina, we may find ourselves with a full-fledged war of aggression on our hands right here in our own hemi- ■ sphere. In the case of Argentina we may be witnessing not only the growth of a powerful military dictatorship but one which will be used to nourish and sustain the very forces which we have spent our blood and wealth to suppress in Europe—an "over I ground” underground. BRIEFS. . . by Baukhage A German soldier captured tn France had written the following in his notebook: “Blessed are those who retreat for they will see their homeland again." Production of 12.732 electric ranges in the third quarter of 1944 has been authorized to three manu facturers without interfering with war work. A new simple method for detecting slow leaks in tires of automotive vehicles so as to minimize the possi bility of “flats” along the highway is outlined in detail in a pamphlet just issued by Office of Defense Transportation. • • • German dentists have been or- j dered to restrict their care of pa tients "to urgent measures.” A S ONE of the first, possibly the ** first, young couple to return from active service on the fighting fronts, Hollywood's Director Leslie Fenton and his actress wife, Ann Dvorak, are providing a pattern for thousands of other couples who will shortly be returning to pick up the threads of their personal and profes sional lives which they dropped when they heard the call to duty. Fenton and his wife departed for England early in 1939. He served as commander of a British PT boat patrolling the English channel and waters off tiie coast of Scotland, Ann Dvorak and Leslie Fenton. was wounded in the now historic commando raid on the port of St. Nazaire. He holds the distinguished service cross, presented to him by King George personally at Buck ingham palace. When Fenton departed for Eng land he was directing at M-G-M. He i had just finished production on “Arouse and Beware,” starring Wal lace Beery. His wife was playing in a Warner’s picture. She could not ac company him, but followed on the next boat. She made arrangements ' for relatives to take over the run- j ning and management of their pros- I perous 40-acre San Fernando valley walnut ranch, which they purchased shortly after their marriage in 1931. On arriving in England she enlisted in the M. T. C., Britain’s mechanized transport corps, and drove an ambu lance under bomb fire during the Nazi blitz. Good Job Well Done When Fenton was invalided out of the service and ordered home, Ann, j her patriotic duty in that phase of the war effort ended, accompanied him as nurse. Producer Lester Cowan was about j to film the Broadway stage success i "Tomorrow the World,” with Fred ric March and Betty Field. A story Fenton understood and warmed to. ' Fenton signed to direct this produc- i i tion. Ann, her home in order and her garden growing, signed with Repub lic and is currently doing a starring role in "Flame of the Barbary Coast.” Full Appreciation “It’s almost like the war’s over, coming back here,” they say, "after living in England, and we don’t mean this as any criticism, merely observation. The war is so close in England. For a long time it was right overhead and at your front door. No one knew what would hap pen next.” When Fenton first came to the screen from the legitimate stage, he played the neurotic young soldier who went berserk in "What Price Glory.” From this he gravitated into sinister roles through the gang ster era, which began with "Pub lic Enemy No. 1,” with James Cag ney; "The Hatchet Man,” with Ed ward G. Robinson, and similar underworld films. He was given a part in "The Strange Case of Molly Louvain,” op posite Ann Dvorak, whom he’d never met. They fell in love, and in 1931 they were married. Change of Character He and Ann went to Europe on their honeymoon. There he played romantic roles for a year in Euro pean productions in London and Ber lin. When Fenton returned from this trip he decided to forsake acting and try directing. Ann meanwhile went back to Warner’s and resumed her contract. Fenton retired to the obscurity of a shorts director at M-G-M and after a two-year apprenticeship was given a contract to direct features, i - "Stronger Than Desire,” with Wal- * V ter Pidgcon, and “The Golden Fleec- 1 ing,” with Lew Ayres, were among the productions he made. He’ll continue directing and Ann will continue acting. 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