The Archer County Times (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Act to Defer Stock and Dairy Farmers;
Southwestern Pacific Control at Stake
In U. S.-Jap Struggle for Guadalcanal;
Wage Ceiling Sets $25,000 Limit on Pay
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GUADALCANAL:
Nip and Tuck
It had become increasingly evi-
dent that the Japs had massed a
more powerful naval force in the
Solomons than the United States
could assemble from a navy divided
between two oceans. Moreover, the
enemy had concentrated superior
land and air forces in its supreme
effort to knock out the United States
defenders.
Outnumbered on three sides by
Jap forces with heavy artillery,
tanks and supplies, American ma-
rines and army units on Guadalca-
nal Island fought doggedly to hold
a small strip of land six miles long
and three miles deep and to re-
tain control of Henderson air field.
Whether the embattled Yanks
faced another “Bataan” was de-
pendent on how soon planes, heavy
weapons and supplies could be
brought to Guadalcanal. That the
Japs were paying dearly for every
teffort ♦- dislodge the Americans
field was evident from a
unique
equipment TfSop actions, on the
island have been very heavy as com-
pared to our own.”
Jap onslaughts were repeatedly
thrown back. One attack pierced
American lines south of the airfield,
but prompt counterattacks recap-
tured the lost positions.
The critical nature of the situation
was revealed by mass landing of
Jap troops indicating control of the
sea in the Guadalcanal area.
, With the sinking of the aircraft
carrier Wasp reported in a commu-
nique, navy losses in the Solomons
fighting were brought to 14 ships,
•including three heavy cruisers, six
[destroyers and four transport ves-
sels.
NORTH AFRICA:
Mediterranean at Stake
American-made and American-
manned planes and tanks continued
to play a prominent part in the
British armored offensive against
Marshal Rommel’s Africa corps
along the El Alamein front—an of-
fensive which might decide the con-
trol of the Mediterranean.
Britain’s cosmopolitan eighth
army, comprising English, Polish,
South African, Australian, New Zea-
land, Fighting French, Greek and
'American detachments, smashed at
■Axis troop and supply concentra-
tions. In the forward areas, crack
infantrymen picked their way gin-
gerly through tricky land mines and
fortifications.
Fighting on both sides had a cau-
tious, feeling-out character in the
early stages as Allied and Axis
forces tested their strength for de-
cisive blows.
Allied troops showed their mettle
in beating back counterattacks by
Rommel’s tank corps. Meanwhile
American and British airmen con-
tinued their assaults on key Axis sup-
ply ports, bombing Tobruk repeated-
ly, destroying enemy planes and
shipping.
Elsewhere in Africa, evidence had
been mounting for weeks that ac-
tion was imminent. The Vichy gov-
ernment had concentrated most of
its available ships and men at
Dakar, while American troops were
reported in Freetown and Monrovia,
Liberia, south of Dakar.
New South Pacific Navy Chief and CINPAC
FARM LABOR:
Deferment at Last
Steadily worse had become the
farm labor shortage. Drastic action
was necessary to prevent a break-
down in the all-out war program.
Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the
War Manpower commission, sup-
plied that .action when he ordered
into immediate operation a far-
reaching plan calling for occupa-
tional deferment of 3,000,000 “neces-
sary” dairy, livestock and poultry
farmers.
Under the program, draft boards
are to reclassify from 3A to 3B all
such workers already deferred on
grounds of dependency. Local
boards were likewise requested to
grant occupational deferment to oth-
er farm hands who are “necessary
men” and for whom replacements
are not available.
A further step toward keeping es-
sential workers on the farm was the
army and navy’s agreement to re-
frain from recruiting key farm em-
ployees.
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_;iiled farm workers. The depart-
ment of agriculture moved to sta-
bilize wages on dairy, livestock and
poultry farms, while the U. S. em-
ployment service undertook to re-
cruit farm workers from less crit-
ical occupations and shift them back
to agricultural jobs.
SALARY CEILING:
$25,000 Limit
From fabulous-salaried Hollywood
stars to low paid shop girls, every
American wage earner would feel
the impact of Economic Stabiliza-
tion Director Byrnes’ order putting
a ceiling of $25,000 on individual
salaries and freezing all other wages
at September 15 levels.
Purpose of the new regulation was
to combat inflation and increase fed-
eral tax revenue on corporations.
Control of all wages and salaries
up to $5,000 yearly was given to
the War Labor board. Under the
regulations salary increases could
be granted only in cases of individu-
al promotions, individual merit
raises, length of service raises, or
under the operation of employee
trainee systems.
Jurisdiction over all salaries
above $5,000 was assumed by the
treasury department After the or-
der was issued, President Roosevelt
instructed Secretary of Treasury
Morgenthau to make future pay-
ments of his $75,000 a year salary
conform to the regulations. The
wage ceiling covers salaries only
and does not affect income from
stocks, bonds or other sources.
WILLKIE:
Reservoir Leaking
American radio listeners who may
have expected a rousing, table-
thumping tirade from Wendell L.
Willkie when he reported on his re-
cent globe-circling air tour, got m
stead a quiet, solemn discour
But there was no mistaking the u.
gency of action he advocated.
Appealing for second fronts in
Europe and Burma, Willkie urged
that we give our Allies more than
“boasts and broken promises” be-
fore the great reservoir of good will
toward this country throughout the
world turns into a gulf of resent-
ment.
HIGHLIGHTS
in the week’s news
BOSTON: Dr. Victor Heiser, med-
al consultant and author said that
,000 American war production
jrkers had been killed, either on
off the job since Pearl Harbor,
n spite of industry’s best efforts
forestall accidents. Approximate-
121,000,000 man days will be lost
vital war work this year because
absences from the job from all
LONDON: The United States ma-
rine corps announced that additional
units of marines have landed in the
British Isles. Col. William T. Cle-
ment, Navy Cross veteran of Ba-
taan and Corregidor, commanded
the troops. He will serve on the
staff of Adm. Harold Stark, com-
mander of United States naval
forces in the European war theater
with headquarters in London
Talks Cargo Planes
Vire Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., famed task force commander
who carried out the smashing attacks on the Jap-held Gilbert and Marshall
Inlands is shown (left) with his chief, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz,
comunand'er-te-chief of the U. S. Pacific fleet (CINPAC). The navy ap-
pointed Admiral Halsey as successor to v!ce p0^* ‘ Admiral
lev as commander of U. S. naval forces in the South Pacific. Admiral
Ghormley, who has been in command of the US.forces during the
present Solomons campaign, was relieved of his command.
First Lady Visits London’s Air Wardens
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Andrew J. Higgins, New Orleans
ship builder, enters a taxi as he
leaves the White House after a 40-
minute visit with the President. He
said he was encouraged over the
prospects of carrying out his pro-
posal to build huge cargo planes.
For Liquor Ban
Sen. Josh Lee (D.) of Oklahoma,
who asked for a record vote on an
amendment to ban sale of liquors
near military posts. The amend-
—•--—- 49 to 25, to act on the measure.
by
Eleanor Roosevelt
TREASURY PROGRAM
WAOHXNGTON.—One afternoon F
Jpcn, !c make a recording which is
to be part of one of the treasury
programs. It .will be an interesting
program with messages from ye”*
ous women in different parts of the
world. Most of them, however,,
were not available to speak for
themselves.
I like to make recordings and hear
the results played back, because I
discover things I do incorrectly. In
the first place, I learn exactly where
I take a breath when I shouldn t.
In the second place, I have a curi-
ously artificial way of speaking,
which annoys me terribly when I
hear it afterwards. Still, I can not
find out exactly what I do that is-
wrong.
I think I found that one of my
troubles is pitching my voice too
high at the start, and talking too
slowly. Problems like this always-
interest me and each time I try to
speak a little differently, in the hope
that eventually it will all turn out
better than it has before.
On my return to the White House
I had a few people come*in to tea.
Among them was Mr. Kingsley Mar-
tin, who is one of the people who-
has long been active in the British
labor movement.
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MISLEADING PICTURES
That evening we had a party
which we planned primarily for the-
children—an early supper and a
movie, the title of which sounded as-
though they would enjoy it. Unfor-
tunately, it turned out to be the-
type of song and dance affair which
I imagined was pr^luced and sent
very largely to other countries be-
fore the war. It depicts life in
this country as it was never lived
by any people I know.
My diplomatic friends tell me that
this is one of the things which-
have helped to create strange im-
pressions of life in the United States
of America. Such stories never
have had much basis in reality and
will have less and less as the war
goes on. Every day life has
changed for peoplp all over the
world—It has changed for us in that
everything we buy for our families^
and homes costs more, but I doubt
if we have yet felt the complete ex-
tent of the change which will take
place as the years of war continue.
BRITISH WOMEN IN WAR J
Ambulance Corps Gejs in Tomato Crop Ranger Training
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Capt. Betty Yohalem (right) checks to the tomatoes picked by mem-
bers of the Women’s Ambulance Defense corps of Van Nuys, Calif.~ The
WADC stepped into the breach to save crops left to rot because of the
labor shortage.
Greeks Seek Vengeance Against Axis
The Greeks are in action on the desert
front, seeking vengeance against the Axis
forces that conquered their native land.
, Here we see Father Tanosiades holding a
cross while performing an orthodox service
for Greek troops, near Cairo.
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The Ranger unit of the University
of Wisconsin’s Reserve Officer Train-
ing corps is patterned after that of
American Rangers now in foreign
service. It is the only one at any
American college or university.
With gas masks covering their faces,
the Badger cadets carry Garands
and Tommy-guns as they forge over
a 400-yard obstacle.
Wins British Award
Corp. Franklin Koons, of Iowa,
first U. 8. soldier to win a British
army decoration in this war, who
was cited for “admirable leader-
ship” during the big raid on Dieppe.
British woman, who tells >ne she
thinks in sojrie ways they managed!
their employment of women rather
baifly at first. They did not make
it clear that women with young chil-
dren should stay in their homes as
long as possible, since they were
more important there until all other
manpower needed for general serv-
ices was exhausted.
This woman warned me that it
had meant a rather indiscriminate
rushing into different war services,
when communities were inadequate-
ly organized to take care of home
needs.
Of course, the alternative is
to employ older women first,
married women without chil-
dren, and people who are handi-
capped in various ways but who
are usable for special activities.
Really to do a good job of plac-
ing people, not only in the
places where they should be, but
in the order in which they should
enter new services, it seems to
me that we shall find it neces-
sary to register all women.
They will have to fill out rather
complete questionnaires, so that it
will be possible to recognize their
skills and capacities, to know their
backgrounds and experience and the
present conditions in which they and
their families live.
I was told some time ago it would
be quite unwise to register women,
because, if that were done, they
would immediately expect to obtain
jobs when they were not available.
I think it could be made quite
clear that this was being done en-
tirely for efficiency in the future,
not because any particular woman
may obtain a job tomorrow.
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EMPLOYMENT REGISTRATION
I still receive letters from older
men and women, some of whom are
actually in need of jobs and do not
seem to be able to find them. Oth-
ers are simply tremendously anxious
to make a contribution to the coun-
try’s welfare at this time and can
not find a place where they can be
really useful.
In either case, it seems to me
that registration and then co-ordi-
nation of the information, so that dif-
ferent parts of the country would be
made cognizant of supply and de-
mand, would mean a great deal at
the present time.
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RUSSIAN YOUTH
I was very sojrry not to be able
to go to the metting sponsored by
the Youth division of the Russian
War Relief, at which the young Rus-
sians, who came over here as dele-
gates to the International Student
assembly, were tendered a final
farewell. They came down to my
apartment in New York when the
meeting was over, however, to say
good-by, and sat around for a few
minutes drinking coffee and eating
coffee cake.
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