The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1943 Page: 2 of 16
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THE JACKRBORO GAZETTE
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Steady Progress Marks Allied Drive
In Italy; Repulse Nazi Counter Blows;
Steel Producers Open Wage Parleys
As CIO Asks 17c an Hour Pay Boost
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CONGRESS:
Surplus Funds
Government agencies with un-
spent appropriations would have to
turn their surpluses over to the U. S.
treasury under an amendment
adopted by the U. S. senate.
Sponsored by Sen. Kenneth Mc-
Keller (Tenn.) the amendment was
part of a $308,000,000 deficiency ap-
propriations bill later sent to a joint
senate-house committee for settle-
ment of differences between the two
(congressional branches.
| The amendment was directly
[aimed against the budget bureau,
which recently took control over
$13,000,000,000 saved by the army out
of its $71,000,000,000 appropriation.
The amendment also prohibited the
army from transferring 10 per cent
of appropriations to other funds.
Said Senator McKeller: “. ,
We (congress) don’t want to sur-
render our power to appropriate and
designate the purpose for which . . .
money shall be spent.”
Remove Feed Duties
To encourage additional feed im-
ports for shortage areas, the house
passed a resolution
removing duties on
wheat, corn, oats,
barley, rye, flax,
cottonseed and hay
for a 90-day period.
Although approved
by a 255 to 55 vote, ®L
the resolution was „
bitterly contested by
many middlewest-
ern congressmen,
spearheaded by Rep-
resentative Frank
Carlson (Kan.) who Frank Carlson
said: “. . . It will
set a dangerous precedent by re-
moving tariffs. It places the Amer-
ican farmer in competition with
farmers of every nation of the world
that produces these crops.” Fur-
thermore, they contended the action
would not increase present imports,
already hampered by shipping dif-
ficulties.
In advocating passage of the reso-
lution, proponents declared current
feed shortages are causing a loss
of millions of pounds of milk and
poultry production.
LABOR:
Open Steel Parley
With the United States Steel com-
pany leading the way, more than 150
steel producers agreed to enter into
wage negotiations with the CIO, rep-
resenting 500,000 workers in the in-
dustry.
Employing 166,000 workers, the
United States Steel company is the
nation’s greatest producer, operat-
ing through five subsidiaries which
turned out 21,064,000 tons last year.
CIO demands a 17 cents an hour
pay boost to offset rises in living
costs which have allegedly increased
23 per cent singe January, 1941,
while wage raises have been limited
to 15 per cent. Present hiring rates
are 78 cents an hour.
In the meantime, the independent
union of the National Steel company
asked a minimum wage of $1 an
hour for 20,000 employees, who
thrice previously had been granted
wage increases while CIO and other
steel producers haggled over terms.
■» Senate Votes Boost
An eight cents an hour raise for
1,100,000 non-operating rail workers
was approved by the senate by a
vote of 74 to 4 and sent on to the
house for consideration.
Composed of clerks, machinists,
and cleaners, the unions originally
asked for a 20 cent increase. A spe-
cial board appointed by the Presi-
dent recommended an over-all eight
cent raise, but Economic Stabilizer
Vinson opposed it, proposing a sub-
stitute plan embracing a sliding
scale ranging from four to ten cents
more per hour. This latter schedule
would cost the railroads 18 million
dollars a year less than the flat eight
cent raise.
Opposition to the raise in congress
was based on the anti-inflation policy
of the administration, Vinson stating
that in his opinion, the eight cent
increase is a violation of the “Little
Steel” formula, limiting wage in-
creases to 15 per cent over January,
1941, levels.
Sen. Clyde Reed (Kan.) said
that if the senate rejected the plan
the workers would set a strike date,
and then the government would have
to seize the railroads “within four
or five weeks.”
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Battleship Wisconsin
As more than 30,000 cheered, the
navy’s 52,600 ton super-battleship,
Wisconsin, was launched at Phila-
delphia, Pa.
In the making for 33 months, the
Wisconsin cost $90,000,000. With a
speed of 33 knots, the huge war-
horse will pack nine 16-inch guns,
and carry as many antiaircraft
fighters in an area less than one-
tenth the size of an average city
block as an entire antiaircraft regi-
ment.
With a bow towering higher than
a five-story building, the Wisconsin
is one of the navy’s three super-
battleships, the others being the New
Jersey and the Iowa.
ITALY:
Overlook Rome Road
Having fought their way to the
crest of mountain ridges overlooking
the road to Rome, doughboys from
Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark’s Fifth army
slowly pushed down the slopes
toward the flatlands around the en-
emy’s key bastion of Cassino.
But in this sector, as well as the
British sector along the Adriatic
coast to the east, the Nazis bitterly
counter-attacked, throwing in strong
armored forces against Gen. Ber-
nard Montgomery’s men in an ef-
fort to slow his march toward the
important center of Pescara, with
its highway leading eastward to
Rome.
As General Clark’s doughboys
edged forward, they left scattered
points of resistance behind them,
necessitating further action to re-
move these hot-beds and secure their
lines. Continuing action, the Allies’
air force pounded Nazi supply de-
pots above Rome, which were be-
ing used to stock the enemy in his
winter line.
Mihailovitch vs. Broz
While it was reported that Jugo-
slavia’s Chetnik leader Gen. Draga
Mihailovitch in-
tended to throw
his forces against
his fellow - coun-
tryman Gen. Tito
Broz’s Partisan
guerrillas for set-
ting up a state in
opposition to King
Peter's govern-
ment-in-exile, it
was revealed that
the British were
favoring Broz be-
cause he alleged-
was offering
Mihailovitch
greater resistance
to the Germans.
Thus did the
garbled Jugoslav
situation take a
new twist. Brit-
ain’s support of
the communist-
backed Broz came
after its formal
recognition of
King Peter’s gov-
ernment, but in
explaining its
about-face, Brit-
ain said iis policy
was to let the
people 'of occupied countries select
their own leadership, and late re-
ports indicated Broz had 300,000 be-
hind him compared with Mihailo-
vitch's 30,000.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
Pound Marshalls
With Old Glory fluttering over the
Gilbert islands, the U. S. navy went
to work on the Marshalls, lying to
the west along our communications
lines to Australasia.
Taking off from aircraft carriers,
planes roared over the Marshalls to
drop explosives, while warships hov-
ered 15 miles offshore to pump heavy
shells into the islands’ strong! olds.
Primarily air bases, the Gilberts
and Marshalls not only were a thorn
in the U. S. supply lines, but they
also flanked any Allied movement
toward the South Pacific war thea-
ter. Their presence posed a double
threat to our forces.
As U. S. airmen softened up the
Marshalls, the country was saddened
by the navy’s announcement that one
of its No. 1 aces, Lieut. Comdr. !
Edward O’Hnre, was missing in !
action. During the battle of the
Coral sea, O'Hare singly covered an
aircraft carrier menaced by a Jap
aerial squadron, shooting down five
enemy planes.
MEAT SUPPLIES:
More to Civilians
Civilians as well as the services
will share the increased meat supply
under a plan outlined by the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics.
The BAE also predicted a smaller
spring pig crop in 1944, with great-
est reductions outside of the corn
belt because of feed shortages. While
western cattle inventories have not
been cut sharply, BAE said, there
will be fewer long range stock in
the next eight months, and less ani-
mals will be fed near beet factories
because of the cut in sugar beet feed
production.
As a step toward increasing civil-
ian meat supplies, the OPA recent-
ly slashed ration point values on
veal and lamb, mutton and pork
shoulder and loins, and War Food
administration lifted restrictions on
deliveries of farm slaughtered pork.
The services will get a big chunk of
increased beef production, partly
through acceptance of utility grades.
PRODUCTION:
Sees Long War
Declaring 1944 munitions output
should ri?e to a peak of 3Q per cent
over this year, War
Production board’s
executive vice chair-
man Charles E. Wil-
son said the nation
would have to make
full use of its eco-
nomic muscle to
beat Germany and
Japan.
A long, hard strug-
gle lies ahead be-
fore Germany will
fall, Wilson said,
adding: “If anyone
still clings to the
silly delusion that
the Japanese will be a pushover for
us . . . let him talk to some of the
officers and men who have come
back from the Pacific theater . . . ”
In 1944, aircraft production should
reach a rate of 100 per cent above
1943, Wilson said. Naval construc-
tion should hold around this year’s
level of 75 per cent over 1942. Mer-
chant ship construction should rise
slightly. Reductions are planned in
ordnance, signal equipment and tank
output.
DADS’DRAFT:
Million to Co
Because the services will require
2,000,000 men to build up the armed
forces to 11,300,000 by July, 1944,
approximately 1,000,000 fathers face
induction, Selective Service Director
: Lewis B. Hershey declared.
The other 1,000,000 men will be
obtained by recruiting 100,000 17- (
year-olds for the navy or marines, 1
and drafting 400,000 18-year-olds, 1
300,000 formerly deferred because of
occupations, and 200,000 reclassified
4F’s and farm-exempts. |
Deferments will be more difficult
to obtain and older workers will be
favored, Hershey said. Once the
services have attained their goal,
only about 100,000 men will be draft-
ed a month, he added.
For the home front, the War Man-
power commission trimmed esti-
mates for new workers by 900,000,
to 1,100,000.
Partisans in Jugoslavia Salute British Officers
When British naval officers recently visited a Jugoslavian village held by patriot partisan forces they were
taken to meet the commander (top left). At his right is his interpreter. Bottom left: Using the partisan
army’s clenched fist communist salute, Jugoslavian children greet the British officers. They wear the star-
marked caps of their organization. Right: She doesn’t look it, but this young woman has the reputation of
being an outstanding sniper and anti-Nazi saboteur. Women like her comprise 25 per cent of the partisan
army. No names are given to shield friends and relatives from possible Nazi reprisals.
3 of 610 Outstanding Women in America’
Charles E.
Wilson
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A “jury” of well-known women recently gathered in New York to select the “10 outstanding women of
America in as many fields of. endeavor.” Pictured above are three of their choices. Left: Dorothy Thomp-
non, journalism; center. Dr. Katherine Blodgett, science; and right, Nancy Harkness Love, aviation. The other
reven are: Mrs. Hortense Odium, business; Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, labor; Marion Anderson, music; Vivian
Kellems, industry; Rosalind Russell, motion pictures; Kate Smith, radio; and Pearl Buck, literature.
Sea Ceremony for Dead Marines
Broz
HIGHLIGHTS • • • *n the tveek’t newt
SUITOR: A 95-year-old war work-
er in St. Louis says that after the
war he is going to seek another wife.
He has been married five times so
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DRUGS: The Re* Cross has ar-
ranged for shipment of drugs worth
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whence they will be trans-shipped
to Holland for distribution by Red
Cross units,
CHEWING GUM: A cud of chew-
ing gum is credited with averting a
bomber crash over Italy. Flak punc-
tured the gas tank of an A-26 medi-
nm boir.bcr, snd the crew prepared
for a risky belly landing, as the
precious fue) drained away. But
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Chewing gum, adhesive tape, and
gauze Dandages, and the plane land-
ed safely at its home port.
RUSSIA:
See-Sai v
Fighting see-sawed in Russia, with
the two giants clawing at each other
along 600 miles of snowy, wintry
front.
To the west of the Ukraine’s capi-
tal of Kiev, the Russ fell back under
the heavy pressure of the Germans,
while farther to the south, the Reds
chewed deep into Nazi lines above
the iron center of Krivoi Rog.
Russian positions along the front
disrupted German use of north-south
railways. In the Kiev region, the
Reds blocked the line to Leningrad
and the north, while in the Krivoi
Rog area they snapped a railroad
running along the whole German de-
fense system.
METAL SALVAGE
Stock piles of strategic metals are
now1 considered sufficient for any
foreseeable needs, apparently, as
the Steel Recovery corporation has
just been dissolved, its task ful-
filled. Only a week earlier, the Cop-
per Recovery corporation began dis-
solution. Similar action has been
taken by the aluminum organization.
There are huge supplies in the
Jn a# thniioonrlo of rloolor* 4oh-
bers, retailers and customers, it is
stated. The metal stocks were un-
covered by questionnaires.
Xmas a Year Late
Flag-draped caskets of three U. S. marines who died at Tarawa rest
on a hatch aboard a transport as a burial service is conducted. Comrades
of the dead stand by with bowed heads. Marines were assigned to
take Tarawa island because it was known to be the most heavily
fortified of the Gilbert group. Marine losses after 76 hours of fighting
on Tarawa approximately equalled losses on Guadalcanal after six months.
Military Hitchhiking in Middle East
Hitchhiking is now organized on a military basis in the Middle East.
A group of hikers is pictured at a “bus stop” in Cairo near the Suez canal.
iQese sneiiers nave ueen uum at points on me main tuau uaiuii i»«w
in the desert and here servicemen may rest until they find a military
vehicle going their way.
Those cards and packages were
mailed to reach Private P. C. Han-
lon for Christmas, 1942. But they
didn’t catch up with this fast moving
marine until a year later. He was
on Guadalcanal when they were
mailed. But when they arrived he
had left.
Dog Hikes 470 Miles
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From Norfolk, Va., to Patchogue,
N. i.—470 miics—tiiat'n iiio walk
“Pete,” this Pomeranian, took to find
his mistress, Barbara Ann Staud,
Ao, vx nuiium, outs w»» vioouift
Patchogue but when Pete found the
right house, she had left.
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