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ing northward from the toe of the
Italian boot. Together, the two ar
mics prepared to swing against the
series of mountainous defenses
erected by the Nazis to wear down
the Allies before they reach the main
enemy lines in the Pc valley.
Although the Allies were first
pounded by 88-nm. guns when they
landed on the sandy beach, and har-
assed by German armored units be-
fore they could organize strongly for
attack, their position was gradually
strengthened by constant stream of
reinforcements. Clouds of Allied
planes roared overhead to break
German battle formations, and 16-
inch naval guns poured explosives
into the hills fir ON which enemy bat
teries caused such havoc on the
beaches earlier.
Losses in Sicily
Despite the Allies whirlwind 49,
day campaign in Sicily, they suf-
fered material losses ranging up to
81 per cent, Secretary of the Treas
ury Henry Morgenthau declared In
support of the current IS billion
dollar bond drive.
According to Morgenthau, opera
tons in Sicily cost 10 per cent of
all 155-mm. howitzers landed; 46
per cent of all 57-mm. guns; ID per
cent of all guns employed; 8 per
cent of all medium tanks and per
cent of all light tanks; 54 per cent
of the carriages for the 37-mm.
guns; SO per cent of the carriages
for the 75-mm. guns, and % per cent
of the carriages for the 105-mm.
guns.
"In Sicily we met only small
fraction of the opposition we are
getting from the Germans now in
Italy," he said.
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SldllS Will lAASAAAs
According to diplomatic advices,
the program has had its effect.
With the assistance of the natives,
the Japs are getting bauxite for alu-
minum from Burma; iron from
North China and Manchuria; oil
from Java and Borneo; copper, tin
and manganese from the Philippines
and foodstuffs from Thailand. In
addition, the willy Japs are installing
factories in the conquered countries.
Under Tojo's leadership, it was
said, the Japs are ready to sacrifice
five million men to beat the Allies.
They expect the war to be long, but
consider present action in the South
Pacific as merely outpost Skin
misheS.
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This Excuses Everybody

As chairman of the house ways
and means committee, Rep. Rob-
ert Doughton presided over con-
gress' shaping of the present in
come tax.
Recently, Doughton summoned
the committee to a night session
to see whether something couldn't
be done to simplify the filing of
returns.
DOughton, it seems, had to get
a "tax expert to make out his
own form!
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RUSSIA:
Oil Hopes Blasted

Once set up as the cornerstone of
the NaZis' drive for the Caucasus
oil, Novorossisk was abandoned by
them as the Germans pulled back to
the Dnieper river for a last ditch
stand in Russia.
The German withdrawal along the
whole front to the Dnieper was regu-
lar, with the Nazis within 100 miles
of the broad, curving river, from
Bryansk in the north to Lozovaya in
the south. Only along the coast of
the Sea of Azov we're the Germans
any distance from the Dnieper, and
here it was believed they were hold
ing deeper defenses to permit their
troops in the Crimea to pull out.
Every indication pointed to the
Germans use of the Dnieper as
their last strong natural defense in
Russia. If the Reds cracked the
Dnieper, the Germans would have
no suitable defensive terrain left, but
would have to fall back on the
Dniester river, in Europe itself.
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week; meats, fruits, vegetables,
fish and bread to three times, and
dry groceries, laundry and dry
cleaning to two times. Permission
was given for delivery of ice every
day.
Wholesale deliveries will be cut to
six times weekly for bread, bakery
products, cream, milk, dairy prod
ucts and repair parts; five times
for meats, eggs, fruits, vegetables,
fish, live plants, laundry, dry clean
ing and cut flowers; and once for
alcoholic beverages, wines and bot
tied malt beverages.
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the U. S. at the end
of 1914, Senator Bur-
ton K. w h e eler
pressed for congress
sional consideration
of his bill for the de-
ferment of fathers.
Insisting that the
army's program re-
quires the induction
of 100000 men or
WACs by the end of
this year, Lieut..
Gen. Joseph T. Nc
rrn1, occoi1oJ A.
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proposed deferment of dads. The
general said that each month $4,000
men are needed to replace casualties
or discharges.
Declaring that voluntary methods
for bringing men into war industries
have not filled needs, Undersecre-
tary of War Robert Patterson ia
vored a labor draft, to give an ef-
feet, as he said, to an obligation on
everyone of working age to render
necessary national service.
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HIG HLIG rs in the weeks ne,os
"PAY DAY.: Farm soils work.

"PAY DAY.: Farm soils working
overtime to meet the wars vast pro-
duction quotas can be restored
if farmers will earmark part of their
present war bond purchases for
peacetime soil rebuilding projects,
including the use Of nitrogen, phos-
phorus and potash, according to a
statement by the Middle West Soil
Improvement committee made re-
Gently
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B K | E f S by Baukhage

Japanese occupation authorities
who still haven't succeeded in paci-
flying the Philippines have decided
to send out rowing teams of public
speakers in an attempt to explain
Japan's true mission" to misguid-
ed Filipinos, Manila radio disclosed.
Bus lines in Washington, D. c.,
and Los Angeles, Calf, are running
their "help wanted" ads on buses.
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ITALIAN CROPS: Italy is be-
lieved to have harvested more wheat
this year than she ever did, even
before the war, but most of it will
probably fall to the German army,
say department of agriculture
spokesman. They think the crop
may have amounted to $50 million
bushels. Indicating that looting Of
food supplies is taking place, is a
report by way of Stockholm.
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It is estimated that enough waste
fats are salvaged in army camps
within the continental U. S. to make
1,5O0, 900 pounds of dynamite each
month, and still leave residue Of
rendered grease for soap stock.
Christmas gifts to naval and ma
rine personnel overseas should be
sent between September Is and No
vember l.
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shortages of fuel,
replacement parts,
equipm emit, tires
and manpower, Di-
rector of Defense
Transportation Jo-
seph B. Eastman
ordered curtailment
of retail and whole
sale merchandise
deliveries.
Effective October
II, milk deliveries
to homes will be
limited tn four fir,es
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days of bloody bat
tie, Lieut.. Gen.
Mark .Clark's Fifth
army went onto the
offensive and drove
Nazi panzer units
back into the hills
rising inland.
AS the Germans
retreated, General
Clark's Doughboys
made contact with
Gen. Bernard Mont
omery's Brit ish
Eighth army charp-
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Already unQer ner
heel, Japan has
promised them self
government, taken
scrupulous care to
respect their reli-
gions, invited their
young students and
leaders to Tokyo,
where they have
been entertained by
the emperor, and
exchanged techni-
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MEXICO:
Tourist Boon,

"American tourists are crowding
Mexico and buying up everything
from gin and electrical appliances to
bobby pins and elastics," it is re-
ported.
The people of Mexico are not feel
ing the war as acutely as are the
people of the United States as ra-
tioning has not gone into effect
there. There is plenty of every
thing, it is said, but Americans are
buying much Of the surplus goods.
American money is welcome.
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JAPS:
Woo Subjects

In an effort to enlist the active
support of the 700 million Asiatics
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DADS DRAFT:
Army Insists

Pointing to the army's admission
that 100000 troops will still be in
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ITALY:
Yanks OF, Ofense

Their bases firmly established on
the beaches of Salerno after eight
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Allied Armies Start Drive to North
Against Fortified Na1 Lines in Italy;
Jap Key Base at Rabaul Is Encircled;
Farm Groups Dissent on Subsidy Plans

In
Released =
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HOME DELIVERIES:
Cut Oct. II

To assure continuation of motor
transportation against wartime
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scatter single-engined ship with
Observation-Disclosures metal enclos-
ing the radiator and the flyers.
L is equipped with a pair of huge
screaming sirens fastened to the
undercarriage.
So serious is the problem of ma
laria among our armed forces in
the Pacific and in Africa that the
Rockefeller Foundation, which nor
mally devotes its millions to the
long-range study and prevention
of disease, is now concentrating
the efforts Of its laboratories. and
financing research in several eoun-
tries, in an attempt to find a drug
which will cure the sickness.
Quinine and its substitutes help
stay the ravages of the plague
but they do not eradicate the in
lection and cannot be relied upon
to stop the development of the
ailment once a soldier or sailor is
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Two Sides to Argument Over Railroad Wage Increase

him q total of 16 hours at some
terminal at the other end of the
run. subject to call at any mo-
ment, without paying a cent for
the time SO spent Railroad men
say that for every hour a train
man is paid, he spends two hours
waiting without pay for a return
run.
At the suggestion of the Office
Of Defense transportation, rail-
road operators and representatives
of the brotherhoods sat down in
Chicago at the end of March to
see what could be done about re-
leving manpower shortage on the
roads. According to Whitney, the
conference quickly resolved itself
into a demand from California and
New York operators for an in
vestigation of extra manpower
wastage in those two states, which
have full crew laws.
This Chicago conference was a
follow-up on railroad labor and
management conferences held in
Washington during the past winter
at which was drawn up an elabor-
ate 13-point program to meet an
estimated requirement for over
$4,000 new railroad workers in
1913.
To the general public, which
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BY PETER EDISON

There are two sides to every
thing. as the pancake turner sage
" remarked, and that would apply
TO the current controversy over
the efficiency of wartime railroad
operation.
This entire dispute Is merely
backdrop for the more fundament-
al issue Of the big five railroad
brotherhoods demands for So
per day wage increase. In the
face OF this, the railroad operators
have been pointing out some of
the wasteful practices they are
forced to follow, such as feather
bedding"
All this looks and sounds bad.
II is pictured as exploitation by
the railway labor brotherhoods
who demand that their members
be paid for doing nothing.
But there is another side of the
pancake. A. F. Whitney, big,
battling white-haired president of
the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, has just released in Wash
ington a blast against some of
the wasteful practices of the rail-
road operators. He mentions, for
instance. that a railroad can call
man for run which will give
him a full days pay. then hold
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Congress and Treaties

There Senator Ball agrees little objection TO
making it clear in the Ball resolution that in going
for world organization the senate gives the executive
"blank check"
II not the purpose of the resolution to waive whit
the senates of advice American
foreign relations but rather initiative which the
President himself should long since have taken to align the
senate with the executive behind foreign policy which will
squarely represent the NATION just admins
traton.
Probably the making of American foreign policy would
be put sounder democratic basis the
stituton amended that treaty be ratified
not by twohds majority of the senate alone but by simple
majorities in the senate and the house.
That would maintain the checks executive
templaed In the constitution yet would get from the
absurd undemocratc fact that present 80
out of total membership of 531 members of congress
block any formal step in American foreign policy.
This column has urged such a constitutional amendment
before and The New York Times and others
costing its ultimate necessity 1t would take long pull to
get such amendment through the itself where
would have to have thirds would resisted
by the very group senator's which wants keep veto
American foreign policy the hands
ity But it would be step toward genuinely representa-
tive ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS star-Journa-
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Mr.. Kuiser Leads OFT

It has been miserable situation under which by
of the Wagner labor relations act employers have been
MED the right discuss union membership other related
labor problems with their employees Granted that in the
uncontrolled past discussion frequently into
coercion but what has that to do with the when
advantage has been thrown the side of labor? 1t
would be enough to rewrte the Wagner such
way that the employer would have right to talk to
his employees and would be powerless this right
for coercve purposes.
And hat is off to Henry J. Kaiser for his wire to
Senator Harry F. Truman asking amendment the
Wagner act. Most of the big ndustrasts being timid
about the matter evidently the theory that anything
which doesn't be today should be off until
tomorrowan attitude made possible by the false wartime
quiet.
But the reality is that the employers must enjoy fun
partnership the trumvrate government
poyers If system to continue the continuance
their present humiliation poweressness would
disaster-Oreg onlan.
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merely tries TO ride on the rail-
roads or ship things on its freight
trains, all this is pretty discon-
certing. The fact that the brother
hoods and the operators should be
throwing stones at each others
trains of thought, as they whiz
by, can be understood at this time
as part of the inevitable prelimin-
aries to new wage negotiation.
II these charges and counter
charges were only that, they could
be discounted accordingly.
But the general public does
know that trains are late.
trains are crowded, mail Ia
slow, freight and express serv-
ice are worse than they have
been, and II the disruption of
the nations food distribution
system is In any way a trans
portatiOn problem, things are In
n mess.
1t is easy to explain and pos
sible to take all this as a war
necessity but that apparently is
not the complete answer.
Fact is. the railroads have done
whale of a job. Freight hauled
IN 1912 was 630 billion ton-miles.
or 80 per cent more than in 1941.
Passenger traffic was So billion
passenger miles, or so per cent
above 1871.
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BY ALBERT LEMAN

NEW YORk-The two-pronged
Anglo-American aerial offensive
against Europe in the north and
the Mediterranean littoral in the
south has met with such slight
resistance from Goering's falcons
that the question is again being
asked concerning the whereabouts
of the Luftwaffe. An aeronauticsl
engineer, after some time at the
front, gives these fresh clues to
the mystery.
He points out that the German
U-boats are carrying the heavy
end of the log and are not getting
their customary support from
Nazi planes. The RAF coastal
command is apparently keeping
enemy bombardiers away from the
shipping lines which approach the
British Isles.
The Luftwaffe perhaps is torn
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Germany Planning Uncomfortable Welcome for Invaders

to tatters, as many aviators be-
lieve-or hope. Unfortunately, evil
dence is coming to light which in
dicates that the Germans are
manufacturing new types designed
especially to repel an Allied in
vasion.
Anglo-American Intelligence
has discovered that Hitler has
I'm production a Henschel HIS
1879 ground attack model fash
Toned TO strafe infantrymen.
IL Is two-engined bird of
prey with welded steel bands
supporting heavy armor. Half
inch-thick plates protect the
motors and three-ineh bullet
proof glass screens the cock
pit which Is covered by metal
shields.
Goerings technicians have also
developed an entirely new kind
OF dive bomber for use against
landing party barges. II is a two
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As Other Editors See It
The Farm Bill Veto

Coming events will do much to evaluate properly the
presidents veto Of the Bankhead bill which
cluded incentive payments computing parity price
be paid for farm production
On the surface the written n order
efforts John l. Lewiss demand for higher
coal fields be resisted president
little steel" formula for scales IL 10
and the initiation spiral checked this price
can become law Future events said
set. will disclose whether this pattern followed
There is not now the affinity between Lewis the
white house that formerly existed There
tween Lewis and the other major labor leaders spur
ring the coal miners head efforts higher wages
to his followers while William Green of A. p. L. and
Philip Murray OF c. l. o. look II
campaign then the little steel" formula is standing
and the whole price structure whether not
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Morried Teachers

The decision of the Spokane school board to employ
retain married teachers
system the duration should be greeted with approval
The traditional regulation against employing along
with Misses probably adopted originally matter of
employment protection single possible
because Of 1t Spokane schools have suffered II often
been pointed out that married with children
better position because their experience train young
sters than single women.
The has offered justification for breaking down this
tradition and II should prove to be happy adjustment
Spokane Chronicle.
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BY LOU SCHNEIDER

BY LOU SCHNEIDER
Absenteeism in industrial plants
through 1912 resulted in a loss
Of more than 422. zoo. 900 man
dsys-an increase of 1900, 600
man-days over that OF 1871. says
the national industrial conference
board.
Considering that the plants Of
the nation are on at least a 40
hour week. the absenteeism runs
10 the tune of 16, DOS, 600. 600 man
hours of war supply loss. Wonder
what the men in the armed forces
think?
The outlook for companies en-
gagged in war work and operating
at capacity is for lower earnings
than those of last year. This be-
cause of higher taxes, increased
wages and contract negotiations.
Outlook for companies engaged in
consumer lines is also for lower
earnings this year than last. This
because of considerably less ma
terials for production. In all, II
spells out that corporate earnings
for 1943 will average under those
of 1912. This is based on the
assumption that initiation will not
sweep the nation.
Wartime Industrial produc-
ton has lifted the normal de-
mand for commercial dia-
monds by six hundred per
cent. More than 10000
karsts-about ton-of these
stones were used In manu-
featuring plants last year.
This year the figures viii
jump another 100000 karats.
Industrial diamonds come from
the same mines as do quality gems.
About rs per cent of the stones
mined are too rough for jewelry
trade. Industrial diamonds, say
the trade, run at an average price
OF SO per karat. They are re-
quired in machine work on radios,
Jeeps, bombers, etc.
The Loose-Wiles Biscuit Com
pany developed a packaging ma
terial-for army rationing now but
commercial use in postwar days
that is lighter, cheaper and more
waterproof than tin containers.
On actual tests, package didn't
ship one drop of water after be-
ing subjected to a ten-inch head
of water for a full month.
The Pan-American Always
management is looking ahead. 1t
is after 'feeder-line" licenses in
foreign countries. Plan is to con-
meet these with main trunk routes.
Promise is that after American
personnel has the unit function
ing, it will be turned over to ma
tive management. Reception of
foreign governments has been
good.
The brewing industry, as a
step TO adjust itself to war
time conditions, Ia working
out plans to ration beer TO
dealers.
Recent "uninformed buying" of
the distilling securities was based
on expectations that the industry
would be allowed a vacation from
war work TO manufacture bev-
erages TO replenish a dwindling
supply. Don't you believe it
says the WPB. The industry will
continue to produce commercial
alcohol essential for the output of
synthetic rubber and explosives.
Moreover there Is more than
three years supply Of liquor on
hand-estimated on peacetime
needs. With some 1900 900 po-
tential buyers in the armed forces,
stocks on hand are good for four
or more years.
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bitten by the germ-bearing mos
quito. Doctors, spurred by the
knowledge that only two out OF
every ten persons in Bataan es-
capped the malady, are working
under tremendous strain 10 check
this most widespread Of all COM
plants suffered by our fighters.
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a Good Veto

The presidents veto Of the Bankhead bill is act of
craftsmanship justified essential the defense
against initiation. The purpose of this bill to exclude
In the determination of parity prices for
ducton for subsidy incentive" payments other
payments being made by the government The result
would have been To force farm prices already the high
Continued Page III
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-Four years after the Fuehrer set
the world on fire, there is talk Of
hurrying the Old hook-and-ladder
chaser, La Guardia, TO the scene.
In the military jargon. too.
there is a nice name for every-
thing. Thus when Rommel backs
into Van Amin and vice versa, a
Junction is effected"
Why dig up Lincoln and Wash
ington? We don't even follow the
preceptS of a Barney Baruch VINO
is still around
The Nazi process by which wood
is converted 10 food spells fur
tner destruction in the chaneellorv.
When the Fuehrer mas devoured
the rugs, ne can continue with
the floor.
II Is argued that II the bow is
CID enough 10 shoot ne is old
enough 10 vote. In Kentucky any,
way.
In weather. too, all mas beer con-
fusion with March gong out Ike
ss-point lamb, and April coming
in like unrsuonsd Lon.
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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for
'chen he Is tried he shall receive the crown Of life
1chch the Lord hath promised to them that lore him.
james I:f2
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Money Issue Complieaies
Posf-wer World Plan
Program Awaits Report
BY British Adviser
New Proposal TO
Prevent Wars
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WINDS

Absences Represent
Heavy Man-Hour Loss
War Taxes 70 Make
Lower Net Earnings
DistilIers Wondering
About Vacation"
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It's couple Of years now since
the Duce. that mildewed Caesar.
gave US the one about war being
natures way to keep the race from
going stale
Mother Hubbard's only thought
was for her poor dog. Concerning
old Mr.. Hubbard, that nebulous
character, the poet seyeth naught-
It rs not even known If he had n
ration book
a 60-piece hand appeared with
the Fuehrcr ON the occasion Of
the latest harangus. Though OUT
numbered, the hand gsnsly car
ried q.