Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18

/ ment necessary to carry out the
: program, the power to order civil
/ ian rationing of foods through OPA
J the determination of policies and
procedures for the feeding of peo-
pie in foreign countries, the issu-
ance of directives relating to the
importation of food, and the issu-
ance of priority schedules for do
mestic transportation of food.
The functions, personnel, and
property of certain agricultural
bureaus and divisions concerned
primarily with the PRODUCTION
of food will be consolidated into a
Food Production Administration,
with Herbert w. Parisius, Associ-
ate Director of the Office of Agri-
cultural War Relations, as Direc-
tor, and the functions, personnel,
and property of certain agricul-
tural bureaus concerned primarily
with the DISTRIBUTION of food
will be consolidated into a Food
Distribution Administration, with
Roy Hendrickson, present ANA Ad-
ministrator, as Director.
Secretary Wickard said prospects
are good for meeting 1943 food re-
quirements, but in order to meet
those requirements the U. S. must
use fully and economically it's pro-
duction facilities and distribution
system and exert economy in the
consumption of foods. Some foods
may be scarce, he said, but mo one
will need to go hungry" The. Exec
utive Order will enable the Agri-
culture Department to set up a
national assembly line" in the pro-
duction and distribution of food vi
tally needed to win the war and
the peace.
Lend-Lease deliveries of Ameri-
can foodstuffs for shipment to
other United Nations, as reported
by the Department, increased 93,-
100000 pounds during October,
bringing the months deliveries to
645, 100000 pounds and the total
since the program was started to
nearly 5000, 100000 pounds. The
ANA delivery report showed in
creased deliveries of eggs, dairy
products, moats, grains, and other
products.
The War Front
President Roosevelt told Con-
gress that American forces over
seas will number more than 1,000,-
900 by the end of this month, and
said ''the Axis powers have, tenn
porarily at least, lost the initiative"
The OWL reported that from De-
cember Z, 1941, to December Z,
1912, the U. S. armed forces suffer-
ed 5S,3O7 casualties 7,67S in the
Army and 22,629 in the Navy. Major
General A. A. Vandergrift, Marine
Commander, stated that in the A.,
months campaign on Guadalcanal
1000 Japanese troops have been
killed and 450 Japanese planes de-
stroyed, with enemy losses exceed
ing U. S. losses by 10 to 1. During
the first year of war December
to December y, U. S. communicates
have announced the sinking in the
Pacific and Far East of 906 Japan
ese ships and S5 U. S. ships.
The Navy announced the $4,000
ton U. S. liner President Coolidge,
transporting approximately 1000
Army troops, struck a mine in the
South Pacific and sank with a loss
of only four men, and also reported
the loss through enemy action of
the USS Alchiba, an auxiliary cargo
ship.
General MacArthur's headquar-
ters announced the complete oc- !
cupation of the Coma area in New
Guinea, with Allied forces advanc-
ing against the remaining Japan
ese forces in the Buna-Sanananda .
area. According to communiques,
at least 95 Japanese have been kill
ed and captured in attempts to
escape from their surrounded po-
sitions. On December and z,
U. S. planes destroyed 21 Japan
ese aircraft, IS of them in the
Buna-Gona area.
Lieutenant-General Henry H. Ar
mold, Commanding General of the
Army Air Forces, said that in the
air struggle over Tunisia American
planes and personnel are for the
first time in this war going up
against first-class air power, en-
gaging the best planes the Ger
mans possess. If the U. S. can con-
tinue to destroy the enemy plane
for plane, we will come out ahead,
he stated, as U. S. production is at
least twice that of the Axis.
Production
WPB Chairman Nelson described
October arms output as "disaP9
pointing, as it was up only 8 per
cent over September, the smallest
monthly increase this year. He
gave the October box score for ma
jor .categories of war production: