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THE JArKSBORO GAZETTE
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Nazi Steamroller Pushes Soviets Back
In Struggle for Control of Caucasus;
Government Wheat Sells for 83 Cents;
Wage Pattern Set by Ruling on Steel
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Coast Guardsman Jack Cullen, 21-year-old hero who confronted the
Nazi saboteurs who landed on American soil from a submarine, is shown
as he was congratulated by Vice Admiral Russel R. Waesche, com-
mandant of the II. S. coast guard, for his devotion to duty and outstanding
performance that led to the capture and trial of the spy ring. Cullen was
advanced from seaman to coxswain in recognition of his service.
RUSSIA:
Nazi Steamroller
Adolf Hitler had" demonstrated
that the long delay before he
launched his monster offensive
against the Soviet Union had not
been wasted and that despite ter-
rific losses his tank forces had lost
none of their striking power.
For the mighty thrusts which
started originally in the Kursk and
Kharkov areas had steadily gained
in weight and momentum, forcing
their way through the Don basin.
The attack developed, three spear-
heads aimed to split the armies of
Marshal Timoshenko in the Ukraine
and those of Marshal Zhukov in the
Moscow area. The northern objec-
tive was Voronezh on the Moscow-
Rostov railway; the central thrust
was aimed at Kuibyshev; and the
southern had Stalingrad as its goal.
Moscow made no effort to mini-
mize the danger of a broad break-
through. For once holding a line
from Rostov to Stalingrad, the Nazis
would be in position to swing south-
ward to Astrakhan on the Caspian
sea and into the Caucasus itself,
where waited their supreme prize
—the fabulous oil pools of Tifiis
and Baku. Moreover, such a move
would pave the way for a junction
by Nazi Marshal Von Bock with the
armies of Japan poised on the bor-
ders of India far to the east and
those of Field Marshal Rommel, on
the shores of the Mediterranean.
EGYPT:
Collision of Tanks
Air-borne from Crete came Rom-
mel’s long-awaited reinforcements.
Tough and battle-seasoned were
they and expert at storming de-
fenses such as the British were man-
ning against them in Egypt’s crucial
El Alamein sector.
Tricky Marshal Rommel employed
a battle device that had won for him
on many a previous occasion—that
of beginning his attack at dusk when
the sun was in his opponents’ eyes.
Bringing up heavy tank reinforce-
ments, both sides battered each oth-
er in battles on which the fate of
Alexandria and Suez depended.
The Nazis’ immediate goal was a
desert coastal ridge five miles west
of El Alamein which the British had
won from him days before. In the
fiercely contested struggle, the RAF
was actively engaged, with fighter
bombers and light bombers scoring
many direct hits on tanks and rang-
ing far to the rear to harass Rom-
mel’s thinned-out supply and com-
munication lines.
WAGES:
Raise for Steelmen
In a decision regarded as a yard-
stick for future wage disputes, the
War Labor board laid down the
principle that workers were entitled
to a 15 per cent increase, based on
higher living costs between Janu-
ary, 1941, and May, 1942.
The ruling was made when the
board approved a daily wage in-
crease of 44 cents for workers em-
ployed by the so-called “Little Steel”
companies: Bethlehem, Republic,
Inland and Youngstown Sheet and
Tube. Directly affected were 157,000
men. Indirectly the decision was
expected to affect more than a mil-
lion workers, including 600,000
throughout the steel industry gener-
ally and 400,000 automobile plant
workers.
The CIO United Steel Workers
originally had asked for a $1 a day
increase. The WLB voted the com-
promise wage increase 8 to 4, tha
labor members dissenting.
SURPLUS WHEAT:
To Sell at 83c
News bulletins had carried the
bare announcement that the house
of representatives had concurred
with a senate proposal to convert
government owned surplus wheat
into United Nations war needs by
feeding it to livestock to produce
meat, milk and eggs.
But back of that announcement
was the story of the breakup of a
six-months’ legislative log-jam, a
victory for the administration’s anti-
inflation program and acknowledge-
ment by the farm bloc that it must
accept less than a parity rate for
the sale of this grain.
Twice before the house had voted
to bar the sale of surplus wheat un-
less it was made at the full parity
price of $1.35 a bushel. Now it
agreed to go along with the senate
and allow the sale of 125,000,000
bushels of government-owned wheat
at 85 per cent of the parity price of
corn—or about 83 cents a bushel—
for feeding cattle and hogs. The
house also agreed that any amount
of government-owned grain might
be sold below parity prices for the
manufacture of alcohol for rubber or
munitions.
MIDWAY SAGA:
Better Than Expected
DRAFT:
War Effort’
“Contributing to the war effort”
will be an important factor in de-
termining the draft status of mar-
ried as well as single men.
In defining what constitutes “con-
tributing to the war effort,” selec-
tive service headquarters outlined
34 different types of jobs which
would place a man in that category
and thus delay his induction. Draft
officials emphasized that the supply
of single men of all classes would
have to be exhausted first.
Trends were clarified in the re-
vised policies announced by Maj.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director
of selective service. While reiter-
ating that “bona fide family rela-
tionships will be protected as long
aa 'nnosiVile ” fjenprnl W»roti»y in-
structed local draft boards that
when the time comes for calling
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those who are .not contributing to
the war effort should be called
first. Last cln^s to,be inducted would
:be married, men with1 children who
are contributing to the war effort
When a naval communique re-
leased the first official detailed ac-
count of the Battle of Midway, the
steadily growing conviction that the
United States had won a victory of
major importance was confirmed.
The communique revealed for the
first time that Japan had sent an
armada of 80 ships to assault Mid-
way as a prelude to the conquest of
Hawaii.
Final score of the battle was 20
Jap ships sunk or damaged, includ-
ing four aircraft carriers sunk and
three battleships hit; 275 planes de-
stroyed, and 4,300 men killed or
drowned. American losses included
the destroyer Hammann sunk, the
aircraft carrier Yorktown put out of
action and 307 officers and enlisted
men lost.
SUBMARINES:
Menace Grows
Official acknowledgement that
something drastic must be done to
counteract the Axis unrelenting sub-
marine attacks on Unifpd Notiono
shipping was seen in Secretary of
the Navy Frank Knox’s announce-
ment that a ennvov svotem hn/t
set up in the Caribbean area and
would be established in the Gulf of
Mexico.
Coastwise convoys, however, would
have to get along without the help
of destroyers, it was indicated.
CHINA FRONT:
Doolittle Sequel
Ever since the attack on Tokyo by
Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle and
his squadron of American bombers,
Japanese objectives in China have
been the seizure of areas from which
United States bombers might strike
again.
Thus when Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek’s battered armies acknowl-
edged the loss of Wenchow and Ju-
ian, seaports in southern Chekiang
province, after steady withdrawals
from strategic points in the Kiangsi-
Fukien-Chekiang area, another air
threat to Tokyo had been removed.
Bravely, however, a Chinese offi-
cial spokesman pledged that with in-,
creasing air support from the Unit-
ed States, the Chinese army would
intensify its counterattacks and
would immobilize more Japanese
troops in China than ever before.
Elaborating on China’s view of
the war and her role of tying up
large numbers of Japanese, the
spokesman said both Germany and
Japan were “now making desperate
bids, as they must score certain
successes this summer in order to
sustain a long war against the Unit
ed Nations.”
U. S. Bond Purchases Are
Better Than Forced Savings
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Federal Taxes Unable to Cover Total of
Present War Expenses; Transport
Planes’ Importance Growing.
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1 ‘FIGHTING FRENCH’:
U. S. Encourages
More effective co-operation be-
tween the followers of Gen. Charles
De Gaulle and the governments of
the United Nations was forecast as
a result of several steps which co-
incided with the celebration of Bas-
tille day.
First of all, the De Gaullist move-
ment acquired a new name—“Fight-
ing France” instead of “Free
France.” At the same time the
French National committee became
an administrative central body.
To symbolize the new relationship
the United States announced the ap-
pointment of Admiral Harold R.
Stark, commander of U. S. naval
forces in Europe, and Brig. Gen.
Charles L. Bolte, chief of staff of
the army’s European headquarters,
as military representatives to Gen-
eral De Gaulle’s headquarters in
London.
This step did not affect United
States relations with Vichy, already
badly strained by Pierre Laval’s re-
fusal to accede to President Roose-
velt’s request that French naval ves-
sels interned at Alexandria, Egypt,
be removed from the danger of Axis
capture.
SECOND FRONT:
Dress Rehearsal?
From London came two signifi-
cant reports indicating that plans
for the long-heralded Anglo-Ameri-
can second front in Europe were
going steadily forward. Just when
such a front would be possible, how-
ever, no military observer would
hazard a guess.
Described as a “prelude to what
may be major military operations
on the European coast,” powerful
American and Canadian forces plus
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GEN. DWIGHT EISENHOWER .
units of the Royal navy and ma-
rines carried on the greatest raid
and invasion maneuvers ever held in
European waters.
At the same time, Lieut. Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander-
in-chief of American forces in the
European theater, continued me-
thodically the job of setting up the
organization that will carry on the
offensive. Giving attention to land,
air and supply forces, he announced
that Maj. Gen. M. W. Clark would
command all ground forces, Maj.
Gen. Carl Spaatz would command
air forces and Maj. Gen. J. C. H.
Lee would be responsible for sup-
plies.
OPA:
*Politics Out’
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son has won many an enemy among
professional politicians for his blunt
disregard of partisan tactics. Hence
his latest warning to OPA em-
ployees that any political activity
would result in instant dismissal,
was not calculated to gain him any
new friends among the politicos. But
observers believed it would step up
the OPA’s efficiency.
“No one in the OPA organization
is going to be permitted to play
politics with the war effort,” Mr.
Henderson said, in an administrative
order reminding workers of their
status under the Hatch act.
"I have said from the beginning
ihai OF A is going io be run on non-
partisan lines. I do not want any-
one to have the slightest doubt about
the consequences that will result
from failing to comply with the law.
As I have said in the past, if the
Hatch act doesn’t get them, the Hen-
derson axe will.”
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Washington, which never hesi
tates more at offending the elec-
torate than in election year, today
is faced with doing that most of-
fensive thing of all—taking away the
people’s money.
The President’s anti-inflation -pro-
gram has not been carried out and
nobody dares take the first cruel
step to put it into force.
The love of money may be the
root of all evil, but the presence of
too much money in too many pock-
ets has become an evil, too. The
two methods of rooting out this evil
are to stop the money coming into
all these pockets and to take it away
after it gets there. I have had an
interesting glimpse into plans for
the taking away process through the
eyes of some of the men who have
some very decided views on that
subject.
My story begins in a very ornate
corner of the Capitol building just
off the senate floor.
Senator Z was opposite me. I al-
ways call on him when I want an
idea in a couple of pungent para-
graphs. He was once a newspaper
man himself, and as a timid repre-
sentative of a news syndicate many
years ago I used to beard him in
his news den.
“Senator,” I said, “what are
you going to do about taxes?”
Senator Z’s eyes lighted up. He
shifted his cigar. “Baukhage,” he
said and slapped my adjacent knee,
“I am not going to do anything—
now. When the time comes I am
going to do a lot. Let me tell you
something. Last January Secretary
Morgenthau came and talked to
some of us. He said: ‘I know it’s
hard for you folks to vote for a
big tax bill in election year. But
it’s got to be done. And I’ll tell
you what I want. I want the country
to pay for the war two-thirds of the
way as we go. I want you men here
to make a team and agree to that.
Taxes to equal two-thirds of ex-
penditures.’
“So we agreed. But in the five
months since then the expenditures
have increased so that the balance
has been thrown completely out. In-
stead of paying with taxes two-
thirds of current expenses we will
be lucky if we can pay one-third.
“And let me tell you this: It is
a lot better to make the taxes lower,
to leave some money in the taxpay-
ers pocket and force him to buy
bonds. I’m not coming out for
compulsory savings now for that
would defeat itself. 1 am going to
wait until Joe Doaks begins to real-
ize what is happening.
“And let me tell you this!”
“When this war is over, unless
the money to fund the war debt
is still in Joe Doak’s pocket,
Joe is going to lose it and the
whole economic framework of
the country will go to pot. Joe
doesn’t know that. He thinks
the money in the bank is still
his. It isn’t. It’s the bank’s.
Now Joe won’t keep the actual
money in his pocket. He’ll spend
it. Eventually the bank will get
it if he does. But if he buys a
government bond and puts that
in his pocket, he will be safe.
So will the country.”
“Well,” I asked the senator,
“when are you going to do some-
thing about this, are you going to
come out for compulsory savings?”
“No,” he said, “but I have a
plan, and when Joe Doaks realizes
that Henry Morgenthau’s voluntary
purchase of bonds has fallen down
I’ll be ready.”
Americans Show
they Can Do It
Nobody dislikes anything compul-
sory more than red-blooded Ameri-
cans, but when an emergency arises,
if they feel it is a real, national
emergency, they will do what they
are told and do it willingly. Three
million men did it willingly in the
last war when they were told they
had to go and fight. Millions are
preparing to do it in this war.
Now saving is something that
Americans talk about but never
have done so much about. In the
piping times of peace the insurance
agents used to tell me that 80 per
cent of the American people (lad no
estate at all when they died and
were utterly dependent when they
quit work.
Working men and farmers are two
of the most independent thinking
classes in America today. But
strangely enough, the same day that
I talked with Senator X in the over-
stuffc ', chair in the senate anteroom
I x-an into P. P is a great friend
of the oppressed. He is also a great
friend of the laboring man, op-
pressed or otherwise.
After an exchange of greetings I
said to him:
“How do you fellows expect
the farmer to be willing to let
farm prices be curtailed in any
way when wages aren’t frozen?”
“I don’t,” he said, “but I have a
great idea. I have been working on
Phil Murray about it. It is simple.
Let all wage raises from now on
be paid in non-negotiable war-bonds.
That will stop inflation, for it will
keep the money out of circulation.”
Well, as I say, I’m no economist
but after those two experiences I
have begun to get ready to sign up
right now for so many bonds a
month.
Military Transport Planes
For Troop Movements
“Which would you rather try to
lick? One wild cat or a swarm of
hornets?”
Naturally, I chose, not too will-
ingly even for a purely mental
combat, the wildcat.
“So would the Germans;” My
lunch partner leaned across the frail
restaurant table and pounded it un-
til the tomato-juice cocktails leapt
into the air and frightened war-
workers looked at us apprehensively.
“You could take a million men
across the English channel in
ten days in small planes that
could be built in six months.
They would be as thick as hor-
nets. Those planes could be built
without the slightest strain on
our war effort.”
“That’s just an example,” my
friend went on, "of what we could
do with planes if we could get these
fossils to build them. Check my
figures with the Civil Bureau of
Aeronautics if you want to.
“What I am really getting at is
this—” my friend went on and then
stopped to absorb the agitated to-
mato juice. Soon he was off again
on a most interesting exposition
concerning air-power. I tried to
keep up with him.
It is hard for a layman to assay
these enthusiasts. What they say
is always studded with figures quot-
ed from official records. And they
usually can quote volumes to prove
that people who disagree with them
said the same things about Billy
Mitchell’s ideas .all of which have
been proved correct.
What my friend was getting at
was this: That military transport
has been woefully neglected. That
only now are we beginning to build
transport planes on a scale to meet
the demands.
Germany has 10,000 transport
planes in service. We only have
five plying between China and India.
But even a plane carrying 1% tons
could do the work of a hundred and
fifty trucks over the Burma road.
I had just heard the surprising
word from the lips of a Chinese
general that even before the Burma
road was destroyed, China was get-
ting very little more in the way of
supplies than she is today. Why
didn’t we begin plane transport
then? 1 thought of the couplet by
Pope:
Be not the first by whom the new 1s tried
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
1 thought we had gone a long way
in transport already. Our transports
or ferries are over every continent
except Antarctica. The Pan Amer-
ican Airlines, which established a
regular service across Africa, trans-
porting its own supplies and men
to equip the fields, is about to be
taken over by the army.
But, according to my friend, we
would have been much further along
if it hadn’t been for “Brass hats who
think only in terms of text books
that don’t even contain the words
•dive-bomber,’ or ’glider’ or more
than passing mention of any air-
craft except balloons.”
I don’t know—perhaps it is time
“to lay the old aside.”
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American aircraft manufacturing
has increased its annual production
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built during 1942 than were manu-*
factured between the time the first
military plane was delivered to the
army in 1909 and the first of the
present year.
It looks now as if farmers will
send to market this fall and winter
SV* to Z million more hogs tnan ever
before marketed in the period from
October 1 through next April.
There’s a new mascot at the med-
ical department of the Orlando air
base in Florida—a cat, by the r
of_ Leukocyte Lymph Haemophilia
III, or “Here, Pussy” for short.
REER GARSON claims that
'-J Loretta Toomey is the good
luck stand-in of Hollywood. Miss.
Toomey was stand-in for Sonja
Henie, Ellen Drew and Joan:
Davis before going to Metro tty
be stand-in for Hedy Lamarr
and Ruth Hussey. All of them
did all right, you’ll remember.
Three years ago she became Miss
Garson’s stand-in—and how that1
young woman has forged ahead!
Now Miss Garson has lent her for
a second time (the first was when
Theresa Wright got her for some
scenes in “Mrs. Miniver”) to Susan
Peters, for scenes when Miss Gar-
son doesn’t need her in “Random-
Harvest”; they’re rivals for Ronald*
Colman’s affections, in the picture,
but never meet.
Incidentally, some exhibitors
thought so highly of “Mrs. Miniver”
that they advocated showing it at1
advanced prices. But the sugges-
tion was turned down, on the theory
that this swell picture really belongs
to the people, and that the greatest1
number should see it in the short-
est possible time. Nicholas M,
Schehck, president of Loew’s, Inc.r
Metro distributors, is responsible.
Jean Hersholt, the kindly "Dr.
Christian” of the CBS^ Wednesday
night series, has completed the firs®
of his two albums of children’s tale®
JEAN HERSHOLT
recordings. This is the first step
in a plan that he has had for many
years, to bring worthy translation®
of Hans Christian Anderson’s Danish
fairy tales to the American public.
Barbara Moffett, 18 year old
equestrienne, breaks into pictures-
playing the feminine lead opposite
Tim Holt in RKO’s “Red River Rob-
in Hood.” She was discovered while
doing trick riding, roping and shoot-
ing as the star of a rodeo troupe.
So this won’t be the ordinary West-
ern, since .the heroine will be given
a chance to do her stuff, instead of
just looking pretty.
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Joe Pasternak, who produced De-
anna Durbin’s films for so long, has
discovered a new singing star, Mary
Croft. He gave her a role in his
first Metro picture, “Tulip Time,”'
then sent- her to New York for a
year’s study before making more
pictures. So when you see the pic-
ture, look for her—you may have
the satisfaction of seeing a future
star’s first performance.
Warner Brothers bought screen
fights to “The Miracle,” the reli-
gious spectacle play, some years
ago as a vehicle for Bette Davis.
After several script writers had!
tried their hands at adapting it it
was shelved. Now we hear that it
may be screened.
Vox Pop begins its third year of
programs from military, naval and
armament establishments along
with its eighth of network broad-
casting. It was the first radio pro-
gram to adapt and contribute it»
facilities to national defense, the
first to present the voices of selectees
in training, the first and only one to
undertake a Good-Neighbor Latin
America tour.
Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Ev-
elyn Keyes and other members of
the cast got a real western recep-
tion when they .arrived in Utah for
“Desperadoes.” Local cowhands
held up the train and “kidnaped”
the stars. Miss Keyes is the first
Hollywood actress to make a hobby
of collecting military insignia rep-
resenting armed forces of all the
United Nations—has more than 3W
insignia buttons.
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Reed, young leading man discovered re-
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Scott and Anne Shirley in “Bombardier”
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