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_WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS__ Japan Begins to Feel Full Weight Of Allied Air, Sea, Land Blows; Europe Warned of Food Shortage —. ■ . ■ ■„ Released by Western Newspaper Union. ..... _ (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Juicy sides of beef, whole hogs, veal and lamb hang in the aging room of a quick freeze and food locker plant in Towson, Md., near Baltimore, while OPA investigators question locker holders about their i meat supplies. The OPA reported that it was not satisfied with the ex f planations of holdings given by half of the group questioned to date. : JAPAN: O O t Target for Onslaught * Japan’s dwindling empire was 1 given a thorough going over with bombs, warship strikes and offen sives by American and Australian land forces. In an attack that carried Amer 'ican naval power almost within sight of Russian Siberia, a U. S. battle fleet made a surprise bombardment of the Japanese-held southern half 1 of Sakhalin island in the Sea of Okhotsk. The Tokyo radio reported that American surface units had broken through the Kurile barrier and steamed more than 500 miles (westward to attack Sakhalin. Tokyo likewise reported an American bat tle fleet threatening the northern '.coast of Japan. Meanwhile the relentless air of fensive snuffing out Japanese war production cities continued unabat ed. Climaxed by an hour-long radio challenge of American fighter planes circling three Tokyo airfields for the Japanese air force to come up fn« battle, approximately 800 planes si 'off the latest fires and explosions in Japan. Fires in four Japanese cities burned so brightly they could be seen simultaneously by returning ‘B-29 pilots. Everything from power 'houses to light houses was strafed. Six Tokyo air fields were riddled ’with bombs. Two Japanese destroy ers were hit in the Yellow Sea. Borneo Oil On Borneo the coveted oil fields held by the Japs since early 1942 came closer into Allied hands. De struction of well facilities by the Japs had been widespread, but en gineers were prepared to work on repairs. Australian and American forces were co-operating in the lib eration of this former Dutch hold ing. With Australian infantrymen battering at the last Jap footholds in Balikpapan, this major oil port was in Allied hands. Across the bay from the city, artillery had shelled strongly placed enemy guns. Mean while engineers had rushed recon o struction of the captured Sepingang air strip. RUSS AID: For China Foreseen To Japan the dread question of ■possible Russian participation in the Pacific war was heightened by the cordial reception Chinese Premier T. V. Soong received in Moscow on his official visit to the Soviet Union. Foreign diplomats ir. the Red cap ital reported that the Japanese mis sion there were highly nervous over the friendly relations evident be tween the Chinese and Russians. The Japs were the only diplomats who did not attend a sumptuous re ception that Vacheslav Molotov, so viet foreign commissar, gave for Premier Soong. Whether the Russ-Chinese meet ings presaged future action by the soviets against Japan continued to be a moot question, but reports were current that Soong might at least negotiate a mutual aid pact where by Russia would undertake to sup tply Chinese armies without lending 'them direct military aid. In return fit was assumed that China would .make certain concessions to Russia .—possibly granting a warm water naval base in the Liaotung penin isula of Manchuria and certain rail >way transportation rights through -Manchuria. CABINET CHANGES: Morgenthau No. 6 The resignation of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau marked the sixth member of Presi dent Truman’s official family who has severed his ties with the cabi net. The five who preceded him were Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Postfnaster General Frank Walker, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wicard, Attorney-General Francis Biddle and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius. Successors to all five have assumed their of fices. Secretary Morgenthau’s resigna tion was accompanied almost simultaneously by the resignation of Associate Justice Owen D. Roberts from the Supreme court. This was the first resignation from the high tribunal in President Truman’s term, but unlike those of the cabi net, it was not expected to set a precedent for others. Justice Roberts, appointed by Pres ident Hoover had served 15 years on the Supreme court. One of his most notable public services was performed as head of the commit tee that investigated the Pearl Har bor disaster. PHILIPPINES: Springboard for Tokyo In one of the proudest moments of his thrill-studded career, Gen. Douglas MacArthur proclaimed that the Philippine Islands had been won back “in the greatest disaster ever sustained by Japanese arms.” The doughty American command er announced that the islands’ 115, 600 square miles are being trans formed into bases “comparable to the British Islands” to pace the march on Tokyo. The saga of the Philippines tri umph disclosed that in 250 days of campaigning. 17 American divisions defeated 23 Jap divisions in “one of the rare instances when ... a ground force superior in numbers was entirely destroyed by a numer ically inferior opponent.” It was estimated that 420,000 Jap anese were slaughtered, including such hated outfits as the 16th Im perial division which had tortured American and Filipino prisoners in the “Death March” of 1942 follow ing the fall of Bataan. FOOD: Europe Must Speed Output A blunt warning to the liberated nations of Western Europe to speed up their own food production be cause relief shipments from abroad may fall short of expectation has been delivered, according to Dennis A. Fitzgerald, United States deputy on the combined food board. Officials of the nations involved have been told that “they’d better start pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps and use every conceivable device to increase their production,” Fitzgerald disclosed. Liberated countries have been as sured that vigorous efforts are be ing made to give them all assist ance possible, he said, but they have also been reminded that the United States “still has a full-sized war in the Pacific” which will get first call on our own food stocks. By far the largest share of re lief shipments to Europe will be composed of wheat and flour, Fitz gerald reported. Approximately 650,000 bushels of wheat are ex pected to go out from the U. S. and Canada. HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week’a news \ • COPENHAGEN: For the first time in 53 years the death sentence :was passed in Denmark when au thorities announced Terben Wulff, accused informer for the German Gestapo, was sentenced in a nation al purge of Danish traitors. Wulff was accused of disclosing informa tion to the enemy resulting in the murder of a Danish patriot, Arboe Rasmussen. Lake Superior The largest body of fresh water j in the world is Lake Superior. It is 400 miles long and 180 miles wide. Its area in square miles is 32,000 which is greater than the whole of New England, excluding the state of Maine. MUNICH: The famed Munich beer hall where Adolf Hitler made his first bid for power shortly will become a G.L club and American soldiers will munch doughnuts in the fuehrer’s “eagle nest" overlooking Berchtesgaden. Frederick Carroll. American Red Cross commissioner, reported that repair work on the bomb-damaged hall would start soon. Milk Production The record high numbers of milk cows in farm herds in 1944, produc ing at the lowest rate per cow in half a dozen years, turned out the second largest volume of milk in the nation’s history, the Extension Serv ice reports. UNIVERS AL TR AINING: Governors Hear Plans Pleas for support of a system of universal military training after the war were made to the 37th annual governors’ conference at Mackinac island by Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, and Adm. Er nest King, chief of the U. S. fleet. Meeting with the state executives to report on the progress of the war on Japan, the top leaders of the army and navy pictured universal military training as essential to the future safety of the United States. The two chieftains warned that if there should be another world war, it would come swiftly, without time or opportunity to train a large army. Maintenance of a strong national guard with a large reserve main tained through universal training would keep the United States pre pared, they declared, without the ne cessity of a large standing army. ATLANTIC AIR: O. K’d for Three Lines Certificates authorizing the opera tion of air transportation routes across the North Atlantic were is sued to three United States air car riers by the Civil Aeronautics board. The companies are Pan-American Airways, Inc., Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., and the American Air Lines, Inc. Terminal points des ignated by the board include New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Wash ington, Chicago and Detroit. The certificates authorizing the new services were limited to a term of seven years “in order that the operations thereunder, after a rea sonable period, may be reviewed.” The action of the Civil Aeronau tics board was approved by Presi dent Truman. BERLIN: G.I.S Take Over Area As Maj. Gen. Nikolai N. Barinov, soviet commander in Berlin, formal ly turned the American occupation zone in the German capital over to Gen. Omar N. Bradley, the Amer ican flag was raised over the Adolf Hitler barracks. A 4,000 vehicle convoy brought the American forces from Halle to the Zehlendorf area of war battered Berlin which will comprise the U. S. zone of occupation. American vet erans of World War II entered the former Nazi stronghold as conquer rors, returning the smart salutes of Red army traffic police. For the duration of the occupation of the Reich by Allied armies, Ber lin was to be jointly in the hands of the Russians, the Americans and the British. The British generally will control the northwest area of the city, including the localities of Char lottenburg and Wilmersdorf. WAR PRODUCTION: 96,359 Planes A forecast of the enormous Amer ican industrial capacity for postwar years was given by J. A. Krug, War Production board chairman, in a re view of production results by war plants since the summer of 1943. The United States produced 45 per cent of the world’s munitions in 1944, Mr. Krug's report disclosed. “In 1944 the country produced 96, 359 airplanes, including 16,048 heavy bombers, built 30,889 ships, 17,565 tanks, 595,330 army trucks, and pro duced 3,284 heavy field guns and howitzers and 7,454 light ones, 152, 000 army aircraft rocket launchers, 215,177 bazookas and 1,146,774 tons of ground artillery ammunition,” the report declared. STARVATION STATION: Discovered in Bavaria The grisly discovery of a frazi “scientific starvation” station which was claiming children and adult victims until recently was re ported by two public health officials of the American Military govern ment in Bavaria. The arrest of 4 German doctors and 3 hospital attendants at the sta tion in the Kadfbeuren area, 45 miles southeast of Munich, preceded the announcement. One woman con fessed killing 211 children for which ihe drew extra compensation, the announcement said. LEGION: Backs U. N. Charter Full support of the 1,600,000 mem bers of the American Legion, includ ing veterans of both World wars was pledged to the United Nations char ter v hen National Commander Ed ward Schieberling urged the senate to ratify the pact. Schieberling set forth his views in a letter to all members of the sen ate. “The American Legion feels that the San Francisco charter is an honest and able attempt to create a workable association of free and sovereign nations,” the letter de clared, “implemented with force to maintain peace and prevent recur rence of war. It is obvious that it is the best and only charter that ran be produced at this time.” NAVAL LOSSES The loss of two American destroy ers and one submarine was reported by the navy department. The destroyers were the William D. Porter and the Twiggs. Jap aer ial attacks sank the destroyers off Okinawa six days apart, the navy reported. Casualties totaled 244. Of these. 183 were suffered by the Twiggs in a surprise attack that blew off the ship's bow. Sixty-one wounded comprised the entire casu alty list of the Porter, hit by ar enemy suicide dive bomber Quality Window Shades Quality in window shades is deter mined in part by how closely the 1 fabric is woven. The more closely woven the fabric, the less “filler" is needed to make the shade hang straight. Fabric that requires little ! or no filler will wear best. \ ; CONGRESS: I Back Bretton W oods | Having voted to extend the rectp i rocal trade treaty act for three years and grant the President power to cut tariffs 50 per cent under ex I isting levels, the house also ap | proved the Bretton Woods monetary i agreements as part of the adminis tration’s program for participation in world economic stabilization. Passed by a large vote against the opposition of a handful of Re publicans, the agreements include: IAn 8,800,000,000 dollar fund of currencies of 44 or more United Nations upon which any member country could draw to ob tain foreign exchange at a stable rate for conducting business; 2 A 9,100,000,000 dollar world bank for reconstruction and develop ment, with the various governments either loaning money directly or guaranteeing any private loans made. As has been the case ever since the announcement of the agree ments, chief opposition centered around the 8,800,000,000 dollar cur rency fund, designed to prevent up ward or downward fluctations in the value of different currencies. According to opponents of the plan, sound currencies would be drawn from the fund, leaving only the un stable money of countries not ade quately required to straighten out their economic affairs. BERLIN: Dead City Entering Berlin over a month after its capture, U. S. newspa per correspondents found a city of death, strangely quiet with piles of brick and masonry and steel heaped along the streets; seared and gaunt walls sticking up like jagged teeth amidst the ruins, and all about the sweetly sickening odor of death. Though the Russians have pressed for the clearance of some streets for motor and pedestrian traffic, and installed emergency surface water piping in some sections, Berlin re mains the terrifying example of the fate of present-day cities subjected to the fire of modern warfare. As Americans motored through this fantasy of destruction, some of the 2,000,000 of surviving Ber liners living in cellars or pum meled lower stories of burned out buildings emerged from their hapless shelters, dazed and unkempt. They are living on meager rations and have no fuel. The only men seen were old and unshaven. FARM MACHINERY: Production Problems Despite easing of manufacturers restrictions in June and the sched uled removal of all quotas in July, farm machinery companies are run ning up against a shortage of parts and manpower in producing sorely needed implements. Of the parts, the most serious shortage is in gray and malleable castings, including cylinder blocks for tractor engines and rear axle housings. Because of the pinch, ! output of mowers, binders and some types of harrows, plows, hay rakes and manure spreaders may be restricted. Though the manpower shortage is general in the industry, the scarcity is particularly felt in the foundries producing castings. Throughout the entire war, foundries have experi enced difficulties obtaining the necessary amount of employees, leading to wage increases in some instances to attract workers Because farm machinery manu facturers continued output during , the war, they stand in a favored position in the reconversion period, not only because of the mainte nance of their productive facilities but also because of the continuation of their contacts with the thousands of sub-contractors turning out nec essary small parts. U. S. CASUALTIES: West Front Toll Topping a million for all branches of service since Pearl Harbor, U. S. casualties in the fighting against Germany alone sir.ce D-Day to talled 514,534 or an average of 1,527 a day. Of the 514,534, 89,477 were killed, 367,180 wounded and 57,877 missing. Against the 514,534 losses sus tained by the 60 U. S. combat divi sions opposing the Germans, 14 British and Canadian divisions in curred 184,512 casualties, including 39,599 killed, 126,145 wounded and 18,368 missing. Eleven French divi sions suffered 11,080 casualties and one Polish division 5,593. Of the 57,877 U. S. troops reported missing, 15,000 to 20,000 may be prisoners yet to be recovered, it was said. Many may have been taken as such in the closing months of the campaign, when the disorgan ization of the Nazis prevented the official listings of prisoners. WAR DEBTS Addressing a statement to a sen ate committee considering exten sion of the reciprocal trade act for three years, prominent U. S. busi ness men advocated passage of the measure and cancellation of all World Wars I and II debts if neces sary to promote speedy postwar economic recovery. The business men made their rec ommendations through the Commit tee for Economic Development headed by Paul G. Hoffman, preaH dent of the Studebaker corporation] Indian Horses The American Indians did not have horses before the arrival of Europeans upon this continent. Dogs were the only animals used by these North Americans. Some authorities believe that all the wild and Indian horses of the West sprang from a few which escaped from the troops of Coronado in 1541. ^ Pheasant Country South Dakota, long famed as j the country's outstanding pheasant state, had a pheasant population of approximately 16,700,000 birds early in the fall of 1944, according to the South Dakota Cooperative Crop and j Livestock Reporting service. This I is 44 per cent above the total popu- ^ lation of chickens in farm flocks of I the state. The figures, which are based on reports from more than 1,200 South Dakota farmers, indicate a statewide average of 34 pheasants for each 100 acres of land, or one pheasant for every three acres. Five counties—Spink, Clark, Beadle, Miner and Sanborn—show pheasant populations of more than one bird to the acre.' Postwar Highway Act To Benefit Farmers The federal aid highway act, re cently approved by the President, provides half a billion dollars a year for the first three postwar years, an equal amount to be matched by the states. The act provides for principal traffic arteries into and around the chief metropolitan areas, cities and industrial area, according to Charles M. Upham, director of the American Road Builders association. It fur ther provides for principal second ary and feeder r'oads, including farm-to-market roads, rural free de livery and school bus lines, either inside or outside municipalities of less than 5,000 population. Plans will not await the end of the war. Routes will be determined, right-of-way purchased and a com prehensive plan drawn up in the near future. Push and Pull While drawing a plow the horse’s hoofs push against the ground and the horse’s breast pushes against the breastband or collar to produce a pull on the plow. The situation is a complicated combination of pushes and pulls which illustrates Newton’s third law of motion: “Action and reaction are equal and opposite in direction.” Army Companies The letter “J” has never been used to designate a company in the regular army. It is believed the let ter was omitted to avoid confusion since in 1816 when the system was established the letters “I” and “J” were frequently written exactly alike. For the same reason there is no “J” street in Washington, D. C. Bible Translation Words printed in italics in the Bible are not necessarily meant to be emphasized. In writing early edi tions of the Scriptures translators were unable to find English words equivalent to those in the Hebrew, Greek and Latin texts. Extra words inserted to make the translation in telligible were put in italics. Pheasant Diet Analyses of crops show that the ringneck pheasant is a real friend of the hay fever sufferer. According to the Michigan department of con servation, ragweed has been found to be an important item in the pheasant diet. One crop contained 5,000 ragweed seeds, another 1,500. Window Shade Care When it is necessary to do a com plete cleaning job on window shades use soap and water for the following types of shades: hand painted, pyroxylin and machine painted cam bric shades. All other types are most satisfactorily cleaned with wall paper cleaner or art gum. Origin of Sphinx The Great Sphinx of Gizeh in Egypt is believed to have been built to protect neighboring tombs from evil spirits. 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