The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-20
Nv the As.ocIated Pre,s

by the Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 20 -
Admiral Nimitz and General
Macarthur may be summoned
to Washington for conferences
with President Truman on the
best strategy to defeat Japan.
Moving into Franklin D..
Roosevelt's seat on the council
of highest Allied military STRAIT
egg, Mar. Truman may be called
upon to review the strategy for
bludgeoning Japan into SUBJ
mission. If the military leaders
disagree over methods, the
President will have to make the
choice.
Consequently observers be-
lieve he may want to have the
views Of Nimitz and Macarthur,
named to share command for the
on-to-Tokyo drive, as we'll as
those If the Allied high COM
mand members here.
One school of thought fire.
quently heard in Washington
favors a direct, about assault
on the Japanese islands. The
other plan apparently calls for
landing on the China coast,
starving Nippon by blockade
and destroying its cities and
plants by bombing.
Mr.. Truman is likely to play q
part in deciding which strategy
to employ-if the decision has
not already been made.
CUT-BACK PRICES
The government meanwhile
directed a cutback of about six
per cent in retail prices of ap-
parel and accessories. Purpose:
To help hold down the cost of
living. The OPA order was de-
scribed by Price Administrator
Bowles as zone of the last ma
jor steps" in the governments
program to increase production
of moderate and loWApriced
clothing while simultaneously
reducing retail prices. Operative
in June, Bowles said the order
should bring a better supply of
inexpensive clothing by late
summer.
BOOST WAGES
At the same time higher
wages were decreed for work.
ers who loom the cloth. Eco
nomic Stabilizer Davis approved
a 55-cent wage floor and a
general five-cent-an-hour wage
increase for $4,000 textile work.
ers in 81 northern and southern
mills. In allowing the wage hike
Davis said he recognized the i'm
portance of increased textile
output for the armed services
and the home front.
CONFERENCE ISSUES
Preliminaries to the S a n
Francisco United Nations con-
ference continued to make news.
The latest development is a
drive among smaller nations to
write boundary guarantees into
an peace-keeping organization
taking form. One of the Latin
American states or a British do
minion, probably New Zealand,
will submit the proposal at the
Golden Gate conclave. The de-
mand for territorial guarantees
would include a definition of
aggression and 60 hand in hand
with the expected United States
proposal to empower the assem-
bly, of the projected peace agen-
cy to review treaties.
PROBE -OOD COSTS
A House food investigating
committee wants to know why
the operations of several indie
pendent p C kers skyrocketed
when big packing companies
contend they are forced by OPA
price ceilings to operate at a
loss. Returning from a two
week search with his commit
tee for black marketeers, Chair
man Anderson (D-NM) asked
OPA to check on this. The bust
ness of one independent Ohio
hacker, Anderson said. has in
creased 10-fold.
COAL PROBLEM
If the War Labor Board can
not approve the entire new soft
coal contract, 1t should reject
the whole agreement, contends
John L. Lewis. The United Mine
Workers president has told
the board that each Of the points
was agreed upon in relation to
the whole contract so the board
should approve all or nothing.
Signed April II after Al days Of