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International Unity Aided
By Moscow Conference
Results of Famed Tripartite Meeting Continue
To Grow; Spirit of Compromise
Achieved in Moscow.
By BAUKHAGE
Neps Analyst and Commentator,

monarch, Britain; one with a COM
munistic form of government, Rus
STA; and one, democratic republic,
the United States.
The test came in Italy. After the
parleys at Moscow, the AMG was
limited in its functions, taking over
only the districts nearest the front.
An Allied military commission was
formed which is making maximum
use of the local native civilian Off
Gals.
Italian Government
But what about the government
which the Allies would accept as
satisfactorily representing the will
of the italian people? Surely Britain
would demand that monarchy be
given chance to remain in power.
Surely Russia would have no traf-
fic with kings and would instead de-
mand strong left-wing set-up.
The supposed American compro-
mise was temporary regency, that
is, a liberal regent such as Count
Carlo Sforza who was in exile from
the Fascist regime and who left
America shortly after the surrender
of Italy. The little son of the crown
prince would remain the symbolic
head of the state. Many said that
neither Russia nor Britain would &C.
cept this suggestion.
However, although no definite step
has been taken, semi-official sources
have indicated that when Rome is
recaptured and Marshal Badoglio,
now premier, steps out, there will
be virtual agreement on the part of
the three victor nations on the Amer
lean compromise. All that remains
will be an agreement on the part of
the italian people. Even if the lat
ter is not achieved, there is evil
dence enough already of tripartite
compromise and unity to seem to
confirm the success of the Mission to
Moscow.
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German Foreign Minister Won
Ribbentrop lat right greets Bulgari-
an regent, Prince Kyrill lat left =,
while Hitler looks on in background.
key. The moves closely followed the
Nazis' recapture of the strategic
Aegean islands of Kos, Leros and
Samos, from where they could threat
en- Turkeys western coast.
The Germans movements appeared
to be their answer to Allied pressure
on Turkey to cast her lot with the
U. S., British and Russian cause. I'm
der terms of the Turkish-British alli-
anee of 1899, each country promises
to come to the assistance of the other
If attacked.
In Italy, Britain's 9th army occu-
pied lowlands along the Adriatic coast,
in preparation for an assault against
the Nazis' mountain positions imme.
diately to the north. U. S. casualties
in Italy since September were placed
at 1913 killed; 2,6s5 missing, and
6,361 wounded.
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FARM MACHINERY:
Doubling Output

Rationing of farm machinery will
be reduced to 81 types next year as
increased raw material allotments
will allow the manufacture of almost
twice as much equipment as was
made in 1912 and about 80 per cent
of the 1910 total. Production of re-
pair parts will be unrestricted.
With sufficient carbon steel avail
able, only uncertainty of supplies
of anti-friction bearings, malleable
castings and forgings is ruffling
farm machinery manufacture. AS
in all mechanical production, bear
ings are the chief bottleneck.
Despite the improved outlook for
farm machinery, difficulties may
arise from the scarcity of hauling
vehicles, including trucks, and in ac-
quiring replacement tires for trucks
now in operation.
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LIVING COSTS:
Up % Per Cent

While the War Labor board S
Little Steel formula restricted
wage increases to Is per cent over
the January, l94l, level, living costs
have risen 23.4 per cent since then,
according to figures of the depart
ment of labor.
Originally, WLB awards were
based on Is per cent increase in
living costs from January, 1941, to
September, 1912. Since September,
1912, however, there has been an
other SIS per cent rise, with labor
demanding a corresponding reduc-
ton in living costs or higher wages
to equalize the present condition.
Further, labor charged that the
government figures on living costs
were inaccurate, and the President
appointed special committee to
look into the subject.
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olIleT nations, "a
tioning will not only
continue but also
may be more Sc
we're after the war,
Secretary of Agri-
culture Claude Wick
ard told a senate
committee.
Declaring that the
time needed to feed
other people will de-
termine how long
rationing will go on
in this country,
Wickard said the
severity of the con-
troll will deDend IN
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B K E F S by Baukhage

Declaring that the German regime
in Austria is opposed by practically
everybody, the Swedish newspaper
Nya Dagligt Allehanda reports that
Austrians are now greeting each 9TH
er with the salute TX D F." pun
on the German expression KRAFT
Durch Freude" ("Strength Through
Joy'). "K D F." the paper said,
stands for "Kaputt Durch Fuehrer"
("Defeat Through the Fuehrer").
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EUROPE:
Fortress Shoulders

With its home front rocked by Ber-
Inns devastation by 1000 Raj bomb
ers, Germany sought to bolster the
southeastern flank of her smouldering
Fortress Europe by turning to military
maneuvers to influence wavering, neu-
trail Turkey.
While Berlin's populace dug out of
its ruins, Germany was reported NOV
ing troops through Sofia, Bulgaria, to
the Grecian frontier, fronting Tur-
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CABLES: The navy will make it
possible for naval personnel to re-
ceive cablegrams at most shore in
stallations outside continental Unit
ed States. Service will be expanded
shortly after the first of the year.
The army has forbidden fixed text
holiday greetings to be transmitted
to soldiers overseas between Decem-
Der 6 and Is, to prevent overtaxing
Of facilities
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Giant Airport

New York city's new Idlewild
airport, now under construction on
the shore of Jamaica bay in the
borough of Queens, will be five
times as large as the present mu-
nicipal airfield. 1t will have an
area of four square miles and
contain 13 miles of runways, S
miles of taxiways and miles of
seaplane landing space.
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WPB has directed manufacturers
of fashlight batteries to distribute
approximately 20 per cent of their
fourth-quarter production to farmers
to assist them in the care of young
stock during the winter months.
Even under point rationing, Amer
lean kitchens will use enough tin
cans in one year to provide steel for
almost $4,000 medium tanks or 900
destroyers.
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WORKING WOMEN:
More Needed

With 1871 million women already
at work, another million are needed
to round out war production de-
mands.
AS of October, only 100000 people
remained unemployed, and with this
sharp reduction in the number idle,
it has been found necessary to call
on women to fill in many jobs, espe-
cially in busy war production CEN
tiers.
The extent to which women have
been recruited for industry since
the armament program got under
way can be glimpsed by the fact that
only 10000, 900 were working in Octo-
Der, 1910.
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SOUTH PACIFIC:
Outposts Crumbling

Less than a week after U. S. forces
under Maj. Gen. Holland Smith
swarmed onto the shores of the Gil.
bert islands of Maxim, Tarawa and
Apamama, the stars and stripes float.
ed bravely over them and most of
their 5000 Japanese defenders lay
dead.
Even as U. S. forces were hopping
up the Gilberts, from which the enc.
my once menaced Allied supply lines
to the southwest Pacific, American
airmen struck another heavy blow at
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postwar era, the U.
S. treasury has pro-
posed a world bank
and laid details be-
fore congressional
mittees for
study.
Announced by the
treasury's financial
wizard, Harry D.
White, the bank not
only would help in
advancing long term
credit for rebuilding
the shattered econo-
mics of nations, but
in some cases it
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Fl TIC Fl &c IT'S .. in the week. new,

SHIPS: Shipyards under manage
ment Of Henry J. Kaiser have
launched 1,087 vessels since Janu-
airy 1, 1941, Mr.. Kaiser told the
New York Economic club. OF these,
985 are Liberty ships, 40 or more
are tank-landing ships, 40 are fast
tankers, and IL are aircraft car
riers. 1.-TWO or three" he said,
"are troop transports with seven
decks, carrying 1000 passengers"
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Jap naval forces serving their embat-
tied troops on their last Solomons'
holding of Bougainville island. OF a
force of six Jap destroyers, two were
sunk by torpedoes and two more by
gun6re by a smaller squadron of U. S.
warships.
In ground fighting on BougainviIle,
U. S. forces expanded their base of
operations under support of heavy ar
tillery barrage and bombing attacks
of Mitchells and Ventures.
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great degree on the supplies we
have on hand when the war ends.
All tillable land out of the 100000
900 acres owned by the government
should be returned to farming by
sale or lease after the war, Wickard
said.
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WORLD RELIEF:
Big 4 to Cooperate

In accordance with the principles
of the Big Four pact of Moscow, the
U. S., Britain, China and Russia will
work together in the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation admins
tration for obtaining supplies for the
postwar's needy countries.
The U. S., Britain and Russia will
cooperate in estimating the require
ments of the different European
peoples. To get the necessary sup
plies as speedily as possible, it was
suggested that raw materials be
especially allocated to pre-war in
dustrial nations with available ma
chinery for manufacturing goods.
United Nations not invaded are
to contribute l per cent of their ma
tional income toward a fund for
financing relief and rehabilitation
operations.
Rationing after Var
Because of prospective demands
on U. S. food supplies for feeding
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War Inventions

OF the 100000 war inventions
submitted to the National Inven-
tors council since 1910, about so
have been adopted and are in pro-
duction, while more than a thou
sand others are being tested.
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WORLD BANK:
For Reconstruction

To join with private capital in re-
construction and rehabilitation in the
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LICHTINC:

A new type of electric light that
requires no wires, but obtains its
current from a beam of high-fre-
quency radio energy, was demon
strated recently in New York. Ex-
perts said that this will be the light
ing of the future. Also shown were
radiant heat lamps that gave off
enough heat to cook food, and a mer-
curry vapor lamp, the most brilliant
known. 1t uses 10000 watts, and
produces a light one-fifth as bright
as the surface of the sun, it was re-
ported.
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
u. S. Forces Advance in South Pacific
AS New Air, Sea, Land Blows Hit Japs;
1914 Farm Machinery Output Doubled;
Germany Stunned by Bombing of Berlin

EDITORS NOTE In of
by Union
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tee repayment of loans made by pri-
vate capitalists.
U. S. contribution to the bank
would amount to 700 million dollars
at the start, and possibly 3k billion
dollars in all. Great Britain would
advance less than a billion dollars,
Soviet Russias share would be sub
Stantially less.
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CONGRESS-:
Ban Subsidies

To the senate for approval went
a house bill prohibiting payment of
subsidies to reduce or maintain re-
tail food prices and only allowing
their use to stimulate agricultural
production.
Championed by the administration
as a means of keeping living costs
down, retail subsidies were attacked
in the house as inf1ationary, in that
such savings to consumers only add
ed to their purchasing power, and
money borrowed for the purpose in
creased the national debt.
The administration is now spend
ing approximately 800 million dol
lars annually on retail subsidies for
meat, butter, milk, and other prod
ucts. Under the house bill, subsi-
dies would be continued only for
domestic vegetable oils, fats and oil
seeds.
In approving subsidy payments to
stimulate production, the house vot-
ed to extend the life of the Commod-
ity Credit corporation to June 30,
anu llo bOl
power at three billion dollars. CCC
also was given permission to re-
sell at loss perishable fruits and
vegetables bought to support prices.
Vote for Higher Taxes
Also to the senate went a house
bill providing for 2ls billion dollars
in additional taxes, far below the
10h billion dollars requested by
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgen-
THAI.
Largest source of new revenue in
the bill would be obtained from
taxes on goods, such as beer, liquor,
jewelry, luggage, bulbs and cosmet-
les, and from services such as tele-
phones and telegraphs, amusements,
transportation and club dues.
Adjustments in individual and cor
porate income taxes would provide
substantial revenues, with approx
mately 600 million dollars being OBJ
tanned from additional levies on
business.
\ Local postal rates would be in
creased to three cents and charges
would be raised on money orders
and special deliveries.
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RUSSIA:
Commentaries


Red armies launched heavy at
tack on the northern sector of the
1900 mile Russian front as German
Marshal Fritz Won Mannstein's
troops pecked out new gains in the
vicinity of important railroad juno
tons to the west of Kiev.
In their drive in the north, the
Reds took another step closer to the
pre-war Polish border, and pressed
against the upper section of the rail-
road system constituting the Nazis'
last north-south rail link in Russia.
After recapturing the rail hub OF
Zhitomir in whirlwind comeback,
the Nazi attack lost some of its i'm
petus against stiffening Red resist
ance, and although the Germans
beat forward for further gains and
spread the scope of their drive north
ward to take in still another section
of the rail line previously cut, their
pace was slowed by concentrated
Russian artillery fire.
U. S. SPENDING:
Sees Need
Special advisor to the board of
governors of the Federal Reserve
bank, Economist Alvin H. Hansen
proposed annual government ex-
penditures at the rate of Is to 10
billion dollars to prevent postwar de-
preston.
Declaring that the last great de-
preston was the result of a drop of
Is billion dollars in private invest
ment between 1929 and 1882, Hansen
said it was necessary for the govern
ment to develop a program for meet
ing such crisis, so as to halt big dips
in consumer buying and attract
capital back into business.
The present war will be followed
by period in which people will
spend money for accumulated
needs, Hansen said. But unless gov
eminent stands by with some kind
of program to take up the slack in
employment that will follow the fill
ing of all these orders, we might we'll
run into another depression, Hansen
asserted.
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Rationi1g after Var

Because of prospective demands
on U. S. food supplies for feeding
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FEATHERS WANTED

FEATHERS WANTED, NEW OR OLD
Ship or write to Sterling Feather Company,
900 N. Broadway. St. Louis. Missouri.
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and now some are ct rest, one which
they rightly earned, with the men
who made the same glorious sacrifice
as did your boy. God grant you
strength In your loss and be assured
that ------ will ever be remem-
bered by me at the altar"
Temper Slipped. .
The padres temper slipped its
traces on one occasion on Guadal-
canal. The island had been secured,
the enemy crushed, and the padre
was polishing up q sermon for the
Sabbath services the next morning.
In a nearby tent group of leather
necks had gotten into a heated dis
cussion, marked by flow Of exple-
tives that might have brought a
blush to the cheeks of Beelzebub.
The argument was interrupted by
the padre. who stuck his head
through the tent flaps and let the
boys have It," Then he concluded:
II can take an awful lot. How
about break for me? I'm trying
to collect spiritual thoughts for Sum
day service, and how can in an
atmosphere like this. Now knock it
of before I run you into the Meta
nakau"
In the sermon the next day the
boys knew the padre was still an
moved when he told them:
Il hope your religious fervor,
motivated to some extent no doubt
by the whistling of 75-millimeter
shell, will not evaporate now. The
Lord you called on then expects the
same fidelity from you now"
After the unit left Guadalcanal
for a rest in a South Pacific port,
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Priest Visits EoxhoIes to Hear
Confessions in SoIonons
(Bv Staf Serot. Samuel Sha fer

by Stat Serot. Samuel S1,a1er,
1909 H street NV, a United
States Marine Corps combat cor
respondent.)
NEW ZEALAND.-The Rev. Will
liam Richard O'Neill, 6 feet 3, and
as Irish as his name, is our Catholic
priest.
This understanding son of the
church has been through many of
the tense and bloody battles of the
Marine Corps campaign in the Sol
onions. He has held services in
many places besides the permanent
altar Of church. differing in locales
from aboard a troop transport to a
hastily constructed altar in fox
hole.
Father ONeill, who now holds the
rank of lieutenant Is. g. In the
Navy, was born in New York 81
years ago. AS a boy he decided to
spend his life in the service of
the church and seven years ago was
ordained in st. Patrick's Cathedral
in New York. He went into the
Navy in April, 1912
II chose the Navy instead OF the
Army" the padre remarked once
on Guadalcanal, because I thought
would like life aboard ship. In
stead I was transferred to the Ma
rine Corps and muddy foxhole."
big Joe" to Everybody.
Father O'Neill denies he acquired
any part of his colorful speech from
the prisoners at Sing Sing Peni-
Tertiary, where he helped out the
resident priest with confessions and
occasional sermons. The streets of
Manhattan, he insists, have an in
comparable curriculum for the en-
richment of the vocabulary.
The padre isn't always referred TO
as Father O'Neill by the men in the
regiment. To Jewish, Protestant and
Catholic alike he is known affec-
tionately as big joe" There isn't
a man in the regiment who wouldn't
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padres ample bulk was . tempting
target for Jap Shippers and where
a shell hole or q shelter-half thrown
over water cans served IS con-
fessionals.
big Joe's" tent was set up near
the regimental sick bay" where he
could be close by when the wounded
were brought in. Those fatally
wounded received extreme JUNCTION.
Others could always count on. the
padre to be there to put lighted
cigarette between their lips and
hearten them with words Of good
cheer.
Wrote to Parents.
When the dead we're brought in,
the padres first task was to check
the records to determine whether
the boys were Catholic, to make
sure of their being buried accord
ing to the rites of the church. AL
ways the most difficult job was the
letter he must write to the bereaved
parents. This is sample OF one
of the letters he wrote:
"As the Catholic priest connected
with the unit to which your son
was attached, may I add my few
words of coincidence in this, your
great hour of trial. I know too we'll
that there aren't any words of
mine which can tighten even in
the smallest way the sorrow and
heartache which is yours.
GOD in His mercy called him to
Himself, and I believe firmly that
all our brave boys lost in this war
have special place close to Him
in the great beyond.
Your boy gave his all for the
glorious democratic principles OF
our country-as Christ, Himelf, once
said, Greater love than this no
man hath than man lay down his
life for his friends How like
the martyrs, the saints of the
church, has been the sacrifice of
your son.
ut will be only a small consola-
ton to you to know that all the
rites which his church could give to
him were given. The men all at
tended mass and went to the sacra-
ments before they went into combat,
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lay down his life for big joe" He
talks their own language, whether
in the chapel or In a foxhole.
The padre one day heard confess
sion while the penitent was pulling
a heavy machine gun in a cart
across a ridge on the front lines.
When the path was too steep the
padre lent a hand and went right
on listening to the confession. Often
he heard confession while sitting
behind the wheel of a jeep with the
leatherneck occupying the other scat
in front.
On some occasions the padre
would improvise a confessional out
of ammunition boxes, but If these
weren't available he would sit in
a large foxhole. 1t had to be large
to accommodate both him and the
penitent.
Used Improvised Altar.
In the jungles of Guadalcanal the
padre soon grew adept at improvis-
ing affairs. Ammunition boxes served
purpose never dreamed of by
the manufacturers. More often the
tailboard of a ton-and-a-half truck
was called into service. But the
PADRES favorite was the hood of a
jeep.
After fighting for days, the ma
rines might enjoy brief rest while
another unit took their places on
the lines. But there was no respite
for the padre as long as the enemy
was active. On the eve of push
he would be up at the front holding
mass. hearing confessions and dis
tributing holy communion. When
the task was finished he was happy.
Everything had been squared
away between my boys and God"
he said.
When a battalion was compelled
to be on the line for long time,
the padre would go from company
to company hearing confessions.
Those were occasions when the
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q serious problem arose. Some Of
the boys were falling In love With
the girls In the city near the camp
and, despite official disbursement,
were asking for permission to marry
them.
Actress Picture Serves.
To meet this situation the padre
put a photograph Of a movie actress
on the bulletin board outside his
tent. The actress never looked
lovelier than she did in this pose.
At the bottom Of the picture the
padre put this note:
Unless the girl you want to marry
is as good looking as this, don't see
me-"
The suggestion worked
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War Eroses Mony
Of EngIond's Footpoths

Many footpaths In London and
elsewhere In Britain have been lost
to the pedestrian because they have
been let by the Ministry Of Agricul-
ture for the production of food.
Now the Footpaths Preservation
Society is getting worried.
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Domestic help Is hard to find
but you may find 1t through q
want Ad" in The Star.