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Evening star., 1942-03-08
Jops Facing Allied Offensive
That May Turn Tide of War
Eliot Believes Anti-Axis Drive Will Show
Toxic Paid Too Dearly for early Victories

planes Of this type is $50 to 300 a
month. This is not enough to main
tain force of more than 1000
planes in action, probably rather
less. The japanese have lost heav-
i'y in planes and will continue to
60 so as long as they are compelled
to keep on fighting.
AS to the Navy. the Japanese
losses have been particularly heavy
in the cruiser class, although they
have lost ships Of other types as
well. They probably have at present
available for service less than half
the cruisers with which they began
the war. Their merchant shipping
losses have also been very great
Immediate Objectives.
The objectives of any immediate
offensive against the Japanese would
now be to relieve the pressure on
Burma, to prevent the japanese
from consolidating their positions
in the captured islands and from
| exploiting the resources thereof
especially oil. Above all in immediate
Importance would be to keep the
japanese SO busy and inf1ict on
them such further losses as might
prevent them from undertaking on
any considerable scale raids against
| the allied communications In the
Indian Ocean.
All this might give time for a great
land offensive to be mounted against
them from India, China and Burma.
and success in this direction might
bring about change in the position
OF our exceedingly realistic and
practical allies, the Russians.
The weaknesses of the Japanese
position at home, on their extended
lines OF communication and in their
widely scattered outposts along the
front facing Australia and the Pa
clflc, are, of course. well known to
/ the strategists of Toxic.
/ They knew they were taking an
immense gamble when they de-
clared war on the United States
and Great Britain. They used every
means within their power to di-
minish the odds against them.
Considering their means, they
have made the best use possible of
the time at their disposal. In so
| doing, however, they have cut
down the one factor of superiority
which they possessed, Immediately
available fighting power in the
theater of operations. Though they
have accomplished so much, they
may have paid a price for it greater
than they could afford.
1t seems likely that this question
is about to be put to the test of
battle, test which will determine
whether the japanese will be able to
cash in on all their reckless ex-
penditures, or whether, their ex-
plosive violence having spent its
force, the tide of battle wilr now
begin to recede for them.
(Copyrisht, 1912. New York Tribune. Inc)
Evening star., 1942-03-08

have Immediately, but which can
not be purchased due to lack of
money.
Unions Buy Defense Bonds.
The c. L. U. president said ap-
proximately $4,000 of the donations
received is in cash and the re-
mainder in pledges
Besides raising this fund, C. L. U.
workers are making special efforts
on behalf of the Defense bond drive,
and unions already have purchased
$474,l25 in bonds. Purchases by
individual locals have been as high
as 0,000, Mr.. Locher said
The c. L. U. has a membership
of about 10000. The fund drive
is being managed by a committee
under direction of the executive
board of the C. L. u, headed by
Charles B. McClosky. business agent
for the Bakers Union.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Tire Crisis Inspires Inventors
To Keep 'Em Rolling Devices
Old Ideas Compete With Strange New
Ones, but Solution Still Is Elusive

the real solution lies in a combina-
ton OF many ideas.
May Curtail Speed.
The fact remains that the farmer
got locomotion, if not comfort, out
of jalopy equipped with tires filled
with oats which he had dampened
to make them swell. Speed also was
lacking. and this may well be the
case with more elaborate substi-
tutes, many of which are noisy.
Yet by the large. automobiles,
given gasoline. still will get to their
destinations with as much speed
comfort and silence as they did 20
or Is years ago. Improved high
ways and improved springs will go
long way toward compensating for
the loss of tire efficiency. The
safety factor should improve, too,
with reduction of speed.
Hundreds of inventors suggested
formulas for synthetic rubbers-a
Evening star., 1942-03-08

were to be made Of hard fibers, such
as jute, sisal or hemp-material
almost as scarce as rubber. One
correspondent suggested the reviva.
Of an old patent-a metal-studded
jacket which farmers once laced
over their tires to protect them from
rough going.
This type Of boot has proved its
practical worth, it was said. Con-
siderable rubber, however, went into
its manufacture.
Some forms of Jackets are de-
signed to be cemented to the casing
since friction wears down tire treads
Other inventors suggested that
knobs or strips of leather and fabric
be cemented on the tires to take
most Of the wear off the treads.
The wartime automobile may be
slow, rough riding and noisy" sale
a spokesman for the Inventors
Council, but 1t will get there, with
or without rubber tires!"
Evening star., 1942-03-08
BY MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.


For some weeks now, it has been
clear that preparations for an AL
lied offensive against Japan have
been going forward The factors of
time and distance. as so often point
ed out in these articles, have held
back these preparations.
The Japanese stroke at Pearl Har-
bor purchased for Japan a Consid-
cradle initial delay. which the Japa-
nese have exploited with great
energy and no small measure of
success in attempting to deprive the
United Nations of any bases from
which an offensive could be sue
cessfully launched.
It would be idle to deny that the
Japanese have made 1t much more
difficult to attack them than would
hayv been the case had we and not
the japanese struck the first blows
on December 7.
But neither should we disregard
the fact that the japanese. fighting
in desperate haste, racing against
time and reckless Of losses. have
suffered very heavily. Stratcgically
their position has greatly improved,
hut the fighting strength to imple-
diminished.
Tension and Expectancy.
There are now signs that offensive
operations against Japan, on a
larger scale than anything hitherto
attempted, are about to begin. The
chief of staff of the Army and the
commander in chief of the fleet
have made public statements which
point in that direction.
In the press and in Congress there
Is much talk of the coming offensive.
It is in the air, one feels it rather
than knows it-there is a tension
and a sense of expectancy which,
es my esteemed colleague, Gen.
johnson, puts it. frequently pre-
cedes great events.
This is hardly the moment for
speculation as to just where and
how and in what force the blows
will fall. 1t may, however be worth
while to examine the conditions
which make them possible.
When Japan began this war, her
general staff had to consider two
military commitments which al
ready existed. One was the war In
China and the other was the neces-
sity for maintaining strong forces
on the Manchurian and Korean
frontiers to watch the Russians.
Although Japan has a population
almost as large as that of Germany,
she has never been able to equip or
even to enlist an army as large as
the Germans. Only about 80 per
cent of her annual class of recruits
are found physically fit for active
military service.
Total of 70 Divisions.
Her total mobilizable strength is
somewhere in the neighborhood of
10 divisions. Of these, about a
third are stationed on the Manchu-
rian and Korean frontiers and any
reduction might be dangerous if the
Soviet policy should change. An
other third, more or less. are in
China and here again any reduc-
ton will certainly result in Chinese
advances.
Already the forces in China at
the outset of the war have been
sharply reduced. About Is divisions
are engaged in heavy fighting in
Burma, Luzon, Java and the other
Dutch islands. In Japan itself
there are few, If any, first-line
troops, or even second line.
The Japanese air forces, army and
navy had at the beginning of the
war about $500 combat-type planes
which were fit for service and
reasonably modern in design. The
japanese aircraft production in
Evening star., 1942-03-08

The wheels of wartime automo-
biles may clank, clatter, wheeze and
groan, but American ingenuity will
keep 'em rolling with or without
rubber.
Since tire rationing began, inven-
tors have rushed to the rescue OF
the motorist with thousand ideas,
old and new, good. indifferent and
pretty whacky.
In this time of national danger,
however, Federal authorities are
disposed to give everybody a hear
ing-the farmer who bounces to
town on oats in his castings, no less
than the engineer with an elaborate
system Of springs within a steel rim.
officials of the Inventors Council
clearing house for ideas useful to
the war effort, are encouraged by
the great outpouring OF suggestions
while admitting that no single one
seems to have the answer. Perhaps
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Union Funds Made Available
For Civilian Defense Needs
G. L. U. Head Plans
Conference on
Use of Gift

Part Of the $4,000 donated for
civilian defense by affiliated units of
the Central Labor Union may be
used to purchase ladders, flashlights
and other equipment needed by
community defense units, John
Locher, president of the c. l.. u,
said yesterday.
Mr.. Locher said he planned to
confer with Chief Air Raid Warden
Clement Murphy tomorrow night
to discuss what equipment is most
urgently needed by AFRAID warden
staffs and other defense units.
Mr.. Locher emphasized that the
decision on how the money is to be
spent will be in the hands of civilian
defense authorities, and that the
donations, which now total more
than $4,000, although the original
goal was only $4,000, will be turned
over to the Commissioners without
any strings attached.
Blood Banks Needed.
Although no uses have been de-
termined for the bulk of the fund,
Commissioner John Russell Young,
co-ordinator of civilian defense for
the Metropolitan Area, plans to use
about $4,000 to establish or build
up blood banks at eight District
hospitals. and at hospitals in Alex
andria, Va, and Sandy Spring, Md
Mr.. Locher also agreed with Com
n1iSSinnar VnlInp thot ~ h1
funds could be used to buy equip
ment for feeding units throughout
the city.
Any equipment purchased for the
civilian defense services will be dis
tributed equitably among the de-
fense areas. MI Locher said 1t
was his thought, he explained, that
the funds might be used to obtain
articles which defense units should
Evening star., 1942-03-08
AirpIones Are Barred
From Hyde Park Area
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt signed an ex-
ecutive order yesterday establishing
an air space reservation over certain
portions of Dutchess and Ulster
Counties of New York embracing
his family home at Hyde Park.
Under the order commercial air
craft, to fly over that area, would
have to obtain permission from the
Federal administrator of civil aero
nautics. Planes have been barred
from flying over the White House
here for many months.
What makes Sammy run? He's In
a hurry to buy Defense bonds.
Evening star., 1942-03-08

theory they did not need Licenses
since the area was Federally owned.
Corporation Counsel Richmond B.
Keech ruled licenses were required
In any case where charges were
made for using of parking spaces.
Evening star., 1942-03-08

builders have cleared the land for
sites for new construction, the Com
missioners ruled yesterday.
In the past the wreckers or build
ers have made a practice of renting
such space on a commercial basis
without obtaining a permit, on the
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Parking on U. 5. Property
To Be Licensed by District

Licenses must be obtained from
the District government if parking
spaces are rented on Federal prop
erty where wrecking companies or
Evening star., 1942-03-08

Beautiful reproductions
of famous designs. Heavy
quality, choice Of pat
terms and cOlOrs, com l.
plete with rug cushion.
Pay Only Soc a Week!
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-01
UNCLE SAM MEANS BUSINESS

There is q fairly general idea that great deal Of
chsen9 is going against price and rotonine re-
eulotions Probably there is some. But Leon Hender-
sons office wants it understood that there penal
ties attached, and judges have made it clear that
those penalties will be applied.
!. An ndionon who broke rotionne regulation was
sent to ol for Is months and fined $780, A CoIifor-
mia tire bootIeeeer was fined $1,000 and given years
suspended joiI sentence A Mnnesoton who lied about
the sugar he had on hand was sent to joiI for six
months and fined $780, Three Texos price-cene
viootors we're fined $1,000 and sent to joiI for 20
months each.
1t does not pay to try Uncle Sons patience too for.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-01
BY PETER EDISON

Every morning of the week,
Mai. Gen. Alexander d. Surles,
chief of the Army Bureau of
Public Relations; Capt. Leland
p. Lovette, chief of Navy Or
flee of Public Relations, and Ell
mer Davis, director of the Of
flee of War Information, get to-
gether in Mr.. Davis office in
Washington's new Social Secur-
ity building. Sometimes one OF
the men from the services may
get tide up and send a subordi-
nate, but by and large, over the
past two months, attendance OF
the top men themselves has been
regular.
There are probably hundreds
of offices in Washington where
two gents in uniform and a guy
in civies, or vice versa, get to-
gether every day. But this meet
ing of Surles, Lovette and Davis
is of more Importance to news
paper readers than other three
cornered conferences because, at
these meetings, the war infor-
mation-the military and naval
parts of it to be given to the
public-is here reviewed, cut
down, elaborated and finally de-
cided upon. When communicates
are issued later in the day, the
services call up Owl and read
off their pieces before they are
released. State Department does
the same thing with its releases.
1T CAN HAPPEN HERE
There are people lin Washing
ton who never thought the day
would come when they would
see such procedure. 1t wasn't
thought possible that the armed
services or the State Department
would ever listen to suggestions
from anyone on how they hand
led their public relations. But
that day has come to pass and
while it shouldn't be misinter-
preted as any knuckling under
of the older departments nor as
any great victory for Mr.. Davis,
it does indicate that the Office
of War Information has made
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-01
SOLDIERS EXAMPLE

DIES MONIES, IA.-Private
Albert B. Bushta of Fredericks-
town, Pa, stationed at the Fort
Des Moines army post, bid Sl,500
for a good used tire offered at an
auction in a War Bond selling
program.
81 don't want tire" he ex-
planned, but | wanted to show
YOU people how 10 bid. y
Buying the bonds, he turned
back the tire which was sold
twice more for 81 500 and for
$1,000.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-01

this is the second time she has
won this title. She is not only
one of the outstanding woman
players, but is also the outstand-
ing woman bridge teacher of the
country.
Here is hand that helped her
win the team championship. Mrs.
Peterson won the opening lead
and cashed the top clubs. When
they failed to break, she switch
ed to hearts, East topping dunn
mys queen with the ace.
East returned the diamond and
Mrs. Peterson won with the ace.
Dummy was next put in with the
heart king to cash the ace and
jack of spades, Mrs. Peterson dis
carding clubs. A heart then put
West in, forcing him to set up
Mrs. Peterson's jack of diamonds
as the ninth trick,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-01
NEW HOPE FOR CRIPPLES

The Wor-bred nonpower shortage has given to the
physically handicapped an opportunity Of which many
Of them had despoired and they ore making good.
Evidences Of this come from many cities, and most
recently from the University Of Southern CoIfornios
Psychology Clinic.
Since PeorI Horbor this one agency has placed
1879 persons with physical hondioops in productive
Jobs. One-orned men have become weIders One-eg-
ned men operote drill presses. Deforned persons ore
E3heet-metoI workers. Midgets rivet orcroft. Deaf
Efnttes ore mochinists.
X The lessons thot ore being learned will be Of
EHalue LONG otter the war is ended
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-01
more likely, the heroine will
st-ni on a box.

more likely, the heroine will
st-ni on box.
I've seen Joan Crawford, Ros-
alind Russell and other tall ac-
tresses married in their stock
ing feet-in three-quarter shots
in which their feet didn't show.
But today at Warmers, in scene
for The Princess O'Rourke, y
the camera drew back and re-
vealed, full-length, a completely
shoeless ceremony In which Bob
Cummings and Olivia de Havil-
land were married by Justice OF
the Supreme Court Harry Dav-
export. 1t was whispered cere-
mony, too. They were being
quite because the girls uncle,
Charles Coburn, was asleep in
the next room and would have
put quick stop to the marriage
if he'd been disturbed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-01
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY the Associated Press
VANISHING BACHELORS

CARTERSBURG, IND. - The
girls in this town of $40 popula-
ton are finding the "pickings'
slim because there are only four
single men in town and they're
awaiting calls from draft boards.
Twenty-Five Cartersburg men
already are in the armed forces.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-01
SHORT BY NECESSITY

FARGO, N. D.-Mayor Fred
Olsen. attending the North Da-
kota water conservation meet
ing, was called upon to make a
speech.
MY remarks TO this water
conservation group will ncces-
sarily be brief" the Mayor said,
explaining that he had to get
home to pump out his flooded
basement.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-01
HUSH-HUSH

You've probably noticed that
love scenes often effect amazing
changes in the stature of actors
and actresses. If the girl and the
hero are pretty much the same
height, she'll kick off her shoes
before going before the camera
for a clinch closeup. If the man
is so much taller that an en-
brace looks bit awkward, he
NAV take off his shoes or,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-01
RuMl TAX PLAN


Apparently Congress is giving some consdero-
tion to the revolutionary income tox plan suggested
bv BeordsIey Run treasurer Of large New York de-
pertinent store chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank
Of New York and adviser to the National Resources
Planning Board
In that event, the IT millions who will pay on in
come tax next year should get busy and let Congress
know what they think of the ideo.=
Whot do they think Of it2 We don't know. But we
believe that the more the public considers the plan,
the stronger will be the pressure Congress to accept
Mr. RunnFs SUGGESTION
What this experienced fnoncer proposes, in
brief, is that the Treasury discard the fiction that
toxes paid in any year are on the earnings OF the
previous year.
. In HYPOTHETICAL oose, here is how it would work:
Mr. John O. Public in 1912 will earn toto OF
$780, Under the present system, next March IS he
must trv to poy an income tax on that salary. But
next year he will be in the Army, drawing $50 month
or totoI Of $500.
Unless he is one Of q small minority, he has not
saved this year the money with which to pay the tax
next March, He intended to pay it out OF 943 earn
ings Obviously he will not be able to do thot.
So Mr. Ruml proposes that the tax paid by Mr..
Public next March be considered as on his 1884 in
come. He will have to pay q tax measured by the
$500 he eorned this year. But, knowing that he will
be in line for refund at the end Of the year, at worst
he can borrow the necessary sum.
On the other hand, consider Mr.. j. P. Rich, whose
company is doing big business and, unlike most
such, increasing its profit Mr. Rich this year will
make only SIS, OOO Next March ! 5 he will pay tax
on thot amount The next year, l943, he is going to
make S5OOOO If Mr.. RumIs plan is adopted, Rich
won't escape with the tax on S35 90 in year in Which
he made $5O,OOO
When Rich pays on March IS, 1914, he will fork
over the amount established by the $50, 900 he made
in l943 plus tax the extra Sis 900 on which
he did not pay in l943.
in other words, the tax each year would be meas
ured tentatively by the past years earnings.
If with this is combined withholding tax otter
next JAM ], then nobody in the working Gloss brackets
would have to worry about where to find the money
to pay his income tax Most Of it already would have
been paid out Of earnings
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-01
. SO THEY SAY

We should not be content to
sit behind concrete fortifica-
tons. We should take every
chance to strike, especially
where the enemy is least expect
ing us.-Gen. Sir Harold r. l..
G.. Alexander, new commander,
British Middle East forces.
We must form here Tin Eng
land) the best army the United
States has ever put into the field
if we are to perform our future
tasks successfully.-Lieut.-G Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, comman-
der u. S. Army forces in Euro
pean theater.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-01
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTONe
some Roadway in doing the Jobs

some Roadway in doing the jobs
to which it was assigned.
When Elmer Davis was NAM
ed director of war information
IN mid-June, he got more free
advice on how TO run his job
than anyone who ever came to
Washington. He was warned
about the high-handed Army
ard Navy. His failure was pre-
dicted. In the two months or
more since Mr.. Davis set up
shop, he has been saving con-
siderable wood.
His self-appointed advisers
have in this interval laid off,
and for that Mr.. Davis is CRATE
full. But no one in any govern
ment job is immune to criticism
for long.
Already there have appeared
the first blasts of criticism
against Office of War Informa-
ton for not telling everything
it knew. There will be more
criticism.
But to give Davis his due, let
him make his own progress re-
port.
HOW'S ELMER DOM?
He reaches in a desk drawer
and pulls out the executive or
der creating his organization,
listing the things it is supposed
to do:
IA to facilitate the de-
velopment of an informed and
intelligent understanding Of the
progress of war effort and war
policies -"
Mr.. Davis thinks he is making
a little progress at that. The Sol
ONION Island story was cleared
much faster than were the re-
ports from Coral Sea and Mid
way. The recent statement from
OWL declaring that the United
States was in this war only IAN
klc deep" was revelation that
the government could issue a
statement criticiZing its own eff
forts.
(B) ". to coordinate the
war information activities of all
federal departments ="
Just getting started on that.
The government handouts to 100
representative newspapers for
one week have been saved, col
iected and are being analysed.
CO. 90. to issue directives
concerning war in formation
which shall be binding upon
federal departments =.
Nothing has as yet been done
about this. The Davis formula
has been to get information de-
partments with conflicting in
lcTcSlS W lIOIl OII 'iiSii uiii'No "a
ties before sounding off, to re-
form them by persuasion instead
of by orders.
CD &c. to advise . agen'
cies =. as to the most effective
means of keeping the public
accurately informed"
Mr.. Davis hopes you viii
agree that something has beer
done in that direction. He point:
out that lot of people thini
there is no news unless two de
partments of the government
ere fighting each other.
Palace politics and backstair'
intrigue are new to Elmer Davis
but he's in the thick of it now
If he can finish his job Withou
having to issue directives ant
without having people runninj
to the White House to have hi
directives overridden, he vii
: have passed miracle.